Task Force To Distribute Penn State USD 60m fine
A 10-member board has been appointed to decide how the cumulative USD $60million fine ($12m per year for five years) will be distributed. The Guardian has the agency story here.
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The NY Times has published another interesting article, this time about the level of detail people tend to reveal or conceal when either blogging or social networking, and how this level may differ among the generations. The long comment role is also insightful. Read the article here. – CBG
“For months, Erin Hagerty tried to get the young boy to open up about his traumatic past. Instead, he spent entire sessions avoiding eye contact, staring at the wall and refusing to speak. But Hagerty, a clinical psychologist with the Advocate Childhood Trauma Treatment Program didn’t give up on the child, who had been abandoned…
In a more recent English court case, two adoptive parents from Manchester who allowed the abuse of their daughters by paedophiles in return for money and a car were jailed following their conviction over the summer. The adoptive father also took part in the abuse of one of the girls and so received the longer…
This was the follow-up from a story regarding a sex offender who had fled to Spain and whose wife was later accused of murdering their two children. He has since committed suicide following his re-extradition back to the UK. You can read about it at the Daily Mail here. – CBG
They are correct in adding that it exists on a spectrum, and while it may serve us when things are very stressful beyond our control, it can also become debilitating in its own way. Still, I think we all dissociate from time to time, and in our current social climate, it might not be the worst thing. We need to buffer ourselves and set boundaries that allow us to continue with our lives, even as things are messy around us.
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