The Adrian Report on Cochlear Implants, 1996-2008

reproduced APRIL 11, 2000 "Sound & Fury" Bryan Adrian REVIEW

"Sound & Fury," a pseudo-documentary film screened by the Double Take Documentary Film Festival in Durham, North Carolina, just recently, and this past Sunday night in Manhattan's Ron Lauder-controlled Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), which is currently being "reconfigured" into several dozen partitions, failed to interest deeply the more than 40 percent deaf audience who were in attendance.

Presented by the Film Society of Lincoln Center, the director of the "docu-fantasy," Josh Aronson, and the Artinian family [featured in the film], were present at MOMA for a Question & Answers session after the screening. Many questioners were crude PR firm "plants," often so easy to spot that the audience was at times laughing at such shameless transparency.

When, half way through the Q&A, a handsome deaf late twenty-something gentleman asked why the "documentary" featured a family commingled of hearing and non-hearing members -- which was not even obliquely objective in the most rudimentary sense of the word -- he was told to PLEASE BE SEATED and discuss this with the Artinian family on his own free time, AFTER the Q&A, thank you. The eloquence of the deaf man was in clear evidence, for I understood him much more clearly than the director, and his "co-perpetrator," as his production partner called himself in his opening introduction. The deaf questioner, before this rude dismissal, said that his own mother had taught him very well how to speak and be well understood by hearing people. He added that he had no clue, nor insight, into why the documentary film, heavily financed by

PBS, WNET, and CPB

[which are funded by medical device companies & pharmaceuticals/chemicals mega-giants, esp. Pfizer & Corning] in a triumvarate, made such a ONE-SIDED positive portrayal of the bulky brain/bone implant that fills the hole left from the drilling. The director, Josh Aronson, quickly avoided this candid and relevant question and moved onto the next questioner, in this kangaroo court of "fairness, objectivity, and impartiality".

The MOMA theatre "circus" provided only one other questioner during the night's screening who didn't go along with the clumsy (yet propogandistically slick) PBS promotions gag titled "Sound & Fury"

The film droned on and on about a huge conspiracy of deaf people who are hidebound and reactionary and abusive to their 18-month year old deaf babies] because they want to hang on to their

AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE (ASL)**

[please scroll down to read of unfortunate death of William Stokoe Jr., author of the ASL Dictionary]
... as if hanging on to their ASL culture of hand expressions and silence was sinister, even just hanging on yet a WEE BIT longer, and not throw caution to the wind, in opening sizable HOLES in their skulls to welcome the electronics' warehouse implants and the ensuing DIGIT-IZATION schematas stuffed into their brain tissue. It was never brought up in the film how an infant could change his/her own battery every 80 hours, or less, or how a child could really comfortably remove their forbidding cochlear walkie-talkie unit from their skull, for showers or baths. Teenagers with the device implanted will have a very difficult time, it is clearly evident, when "kissing" becomes a school extracurricular activity of the highest order, which includes ear kisses.

The second and only other "disagreeable" questioner, in the very final minutes of the evening, asked WHO manufactured the cochlear implant, HOW MUCH it cost, how much the accompanying SURGERY costs, and ... will UNINSURED deaf Americans be issued a FREE DEVICE, Gratis, since it is SO CRITICALLY NEEDED by all deaf people now, by the "OH- SO-CONCERNED" manufacturer(s), or even by loving and caring PBS/NPR, no longer a truly non-commercial tv/radio joint empire.

The software technician who had been featured in her saintly role in the 80-minute film was also on stage to field questions after the screening. She didn't say how much the implant device will cost the consumer, but she did quickly remark that the SURGERY ALONE would cost a minimum of $35,000. She said also that there were two main manufacturers of the device, but she "couldn't remember well their names." [we here at this cyberzine will look in the film's credits to look for the manufacturers' contribution to production costs, and ask an accounting firm to look into the legal aspects of NOT reporting such contributions -- we already learned from AP Wire on-line service that the DEVICE ALONE costs $40,000, for little more than a glorified Walkman, in that it has a transmitting coil that sends code as radio waves, thus making it as easily received by external auditors as a car radio or a police radio].

We here at this webmagazine ALSO offer you now, below, a little bit deeper revelation --- the important details this "objective" documentary completely avoided.

**NOTE:

from the April 11th, 2000 THE NEW YORK TIMES:

"William C. Stokoe Jr., an iconoclastic linguistics professor whose championing of sign language helped change the way deaf people are educated around the world, died on April 4 at his home in Chevy Chase, Md. He was 80.

Dr. Stokoe was credited with winning recognition of AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE as a genuine language, overcoming the contentions of linguists that it was little more than a rudimentary imitation of the spoken word. Eventually, Dr. Stokoe's work helped end a CENTURY-LONG BANISHMENT of signing from the classroom and won him a hero's status among many deaf students.

[...] When Dr. Stokoe arrived in 1955 at GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY, the only university for the hearing-impaired in the United States, he knew little about sign language or even about deafness.

[...] Since the 1880s, when a movement against signing began at an international conference in MILAN, schools for the deaf had insisted that their students communicate orally, an often unsuccessful practice that involves lip-reading and trying to produce understandable sounds.

[...] Five years after he arrived at Gallaudet, Dr. Stokoe published the groundbreaking "Sign Language Structure." Four years later, he was the co-author of "A Dictionary of American Sign Language on Linguistic Principles."

[...] Dr. Stokoe's work made him highly respected among deaf students, especially as some became radicalized in recent years.

[...] Although he was not active in the effort, Dr. Stokoe, many people believe, was a driving force behind the student demonstrations in the 1980s that forced Gallaudet to choose its FIRST deaf president."

summarized from FORTUNE MAGAZINE --

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1) Stryker prosthetic devices [which started in WW2 with a cozy relationship between the military and today's mutual funds]-- artificial legs and arms and other body parts due to all the U.S. air strikes worldwide and due to mines set by resistance movements to get US imperial troops out of their lands.

2) Zimmer Holdings -- grew up around 1927 during the Great Depression and has since merged with a big mean Swiss multinational -- medical devices and spinal replacements -- titanium polluters.

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IMS Health -- the "dominant" provider of sales and marketing information to the drug industry, with an unrivaled database that TRACKS 75% of all drugs consumed in the world today, ALREADY !!!!!!!!! Bet you didn't know that!! Their database and software "tabulates the exact number of pills each doctor is doling out."

This company started 50 years ago by one of the founding fathers of the drug marketing business, Ludwig Wilhelm Frohlich. Pharmaceutical supply databases were just 15 years ago rinky dink syndicated publications in hard copy, and now such electronic extensive databases have exploded into the $470 billion pharaceutical industry colossus that it is today! IMS Health's CEO is a former IBM manager. IMS is "strictly" a data vendor in this behemoth market that your Congress is making as easy as duck soup out of all of us!!

4) Cerner -- founded in the early 1990s by a former ARTHUR ANDERSON [hooray for ENRON!] consultant, Neal Patterson, born in Oklahoma, who sees bioterrorism everywhere!! Bio-Terror will be a hip new lucrative growth industry and Patterson chastised all his employees with a corporate wide email because he found out that the parking lot after 6pm at the plant was nearly empty thus not many workers were putting out free overtime!!! Nice guy!!!!!!!!!!! All the large drug companies depend on his type of global database connected to medical records to hawk their pills and goods!

5) Teva Pharmaceuticals -- An Israeli generic drug powerhouse is the largest pill supplier here in the US -- do you think they are on your side?

6) American Healthways (AMHC) -- a Nashville, TN company that has ties to the board members of THE NEW YORK TIMES -- Cigna, Oxford, Anthem are clients!! They call themselves "disease management" specialists in which anyone connected to their system must be policed by computer and by their physician and insurance companies -- ie. a diabetic must check his/her cholesterol once a year when the computer tells them to or they lose their benefits -- an asthmatic must check their lung capacity and switch to the new inhaler of the moment at their physicians command once a year, etc.]

7) Omnicare -- specializes in nursing homes, i.e., "long term care", a no-holds-barred profit crunching market with little oversight built into our laws! Kentucky-based. This company spun off of the notorius W.R. Grace company which saturated the USA with asbestos fibers!!! Omnicare has had a contract since 1994 with the largest nursing home operator in the world, HEALTH CARE & RETIREMENT CORP [HCRC].

COCHLEAR IMPLANTS BREED DEADLY MENINGITIS

Ken Auletta, THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE

"WHY REPUBLICANS LOVE PBS" -- aka, "Big Bird Flies to the Right Wing"

In this issue, Ken Auletta investigates the obvious swing of "Raytheon" funded PBS to the neo-con right extreme. Did you know that the following individuals are members of the elitist and secretive Council of Foreign Relations [CFR], which only allows 4000 members and they must be over 35? Here are some of the 4000 members: C. Hunter-Gault (PBS); Robert McNeil; Diane Sawyer; Tom Brokaw; George Stephanopolous; Dan Rather; Colin Powell; Newt Gingrich; John Kerry; Jesse Jackson; John Oakes Jr.; Richard Cheney; Alan Greenspan; Henry Kissinger; Bill Moyers; Daniel Schorr, et al.

... scroll down for more on PBS!

Rush Limbaugh had a big hole drilled into his skull and a two way radio implanted against his brain ... he uses SYNTHETIC HEARING now via electrodes embedded into his very own brain cortex tissue ... careful he does not hear police radio calls and mistake them for conversations with God!

Questions have risen about the autoimmune inner ear disease that caused Limbaugh profound deafness between October of 2001 and January of 2002. The radio host subsequently regained hearing through the use of cochlear implants.

Research has shown that the drugs seem to sabotage the workings of the inner ear, causing permanent damage. But the drugs do not appear to affect the cochlear nerve, which brings sound into the brain.

Limbaugh's cochlear implant doctor, Dr. Jennifer Derebery, an otolaryngologist at the House Ear Clinic in Los Angeles, says it is possible that there is a connection between Limbaugh's sudden hearing loss and pill abuse, but she said there is no way to know for sure.

"We don't know why some people, but apparently not most, who take large doses may lose their hearing," Derebery said on ABCNEWS' Good Morning America. "The reason we don't know is that because we ultimately have to have biopsy specimens of the inner ear to tell that."

In June 2002, Rush Limbaugh told his former housekeeper he was going to New York for detox a second time, after coercing her for too long to give him illicit stocks of her husband's prescription pain killers.

After he returned, "I went to talk to him, and he cried a little bit," his housekeeper said. "He told me that if it ever got out, he would be ruined."

She claimed that a lawyer for Limbaugh gave her a payoff - $80,000 he owed her, plus another $120,000 - and asked her to destroy the computer that contained the E-mail records.

Soon after, Cline and her husband retained Shohat and contacted prosecutors.

Feeling no pain

The drugs Rush Limbaugh is accused of abusing are legal only with a doctor's prescription. All are habit-forming....

Hydrocodone

Anti-cough agent and painkiller similar to morphine. Side effects include anxiety, poor mental performance, emotional dependence, drowsiness, mood changes, difficulty breathing and itchiness.

Lorcet

Brand name for the combination of Tylenol and hydrocodone, prescribed for moderate to severe pain. Side effects include dry mouth, nausea, vomiting, decreased appetite, dizziness, tiredness, muscle twitches, sweating and itching.

OxyContin

Potent time-release medication for relief of moderate to severe pain, known as hillbilly heroin because of black-market popularity in some rural areas. Side effects include drowsiness, dizziness, sweating, muscle twitches and decreased sex drive. A large dose can be fatal.

Ken Auletta, June 6, 2004 THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE

"WHY REPUBLICANS LOVE PBS" -- aka, "Big Bird Flies to the Right Wing"

In this issue, Ken Auletta investigates the obvious swing of "Raytheon" funded PBS to the neo-con right extreme. Did you know that the following individuals are members of the elitist and secretive Council of Foreign Relations [CFR], which only allows 4000 members and they must be over 35? Here are some of the 4000 members: C. Hunter-Gault (PBS); Robert McNeil; Diane Sawyer; Tom Brokaw; George Stephanopolous; Dan Rather; Colin Powell; Newt Gingrich; John Kerry; Jesse Jackson; John Oakes Jr.; Richard Cheney; Alan Greenspan; Henry Kissinger; Bill Moyers; Daniel Schorr, et al.

Dick Cheney throws dinner parties for current PBS director Pat Mitchell, 61. She also once ran CNN as President for a while. She is close to Newt Gingrich and is now "skillfully solicitous of the Republicans". Today the federal government and Raytheon military missles and aerospace companies are PBS's biggest patrons. [see below for a complete list of funders].

The CPB [Corporation for Public Broadcast] gets $2 billion a year from Congress and also funds PBS. Gingrich denounced PBS in 1995 of being sinfully "left" and egregiously "liberal" and stripped most of its funding. Now he and Pat Mitchell virtually run PBS.

Kevin Klose now runs NPR, under the watch and funding of CPB also.

Under this right wing sneaky influence, the contamination of America goes more than skin deep when you think that Newt Gingrich had lots to do with the start of Rush Limbaugh's long sought success in radio [after decades of failure], and now he is indelibly influential at PBS behind the scenes which means NPR radio also. NPR's audience in radio has jumped up 60% in the last 5 years.

Only 10% of Americans polled trust Congress; 17% trust network television; but 50% trust PBS !!!!

Kenneth Tomlinson, Chairman of CPC, is a former Exec. Editor of READER'S DIGEST, often a CIA cover publishing arm. Kenneth Tomlinson is a Georgian, knows Gingrich well, and is a close friend of Karl Rove. Does this seem right to you?

In 2003, Cheryl Halpern, a former Member of the Voice of America Parent Body [CIA cover], also known as the VOA, became a Board Member of CPB.

Bill Moyers warns that many Gingrich "ideological warriors" have been appointed in the last two years to the PBS board.

Ms. Pat Michell may leave the helm of PBS soon, however, to replace Jack Valenti as head of the MPPA.

Implant Surgery is never a pretty sight ... September 2003

"DEAF CULTURE CONVULSES OVER FRAUDULENT PBS FILM"

 

 

"Life's not easier with the implant." "It requires intense therapy and it's not the same as hearing. It's like an electric buzzing." The cochlear implant is a powerful hearing aid that is placed in the inner ear of an individual with nerve deafness. The system includes a processor worn on clothes [like a Walkman, in that it has a transmitting coil that sends code as radio waves, thus making it as easily received by external auditors as a car radio or a police radio] that is linked by a cable to a transmitter worn behind the ear. The transmitter is held in place by a magnet that is drawn to the implant under the skin.

The cochlear implant does not, however, take away a person's deafness. "

SOME REASONS TO FEAR JUMPING TO THE CONCLUSION THAT AN IMPLANT IS GOOD FOR YOU.

$$ Cochlear trauma from insertion
$$ Deep invasive surgery and bone sawing
$$ Electrode-to-nerve coupling
$$ Threshold levels for electrical stimulation
$$ Significant intrasubject variability in temporal integration
$$ INADEQUATE understanding of how the auditory nerve fibres and brain respond to the electrical stimulation of the cochlear implant

AccuWeather AP Archives

 

"DEAF CULTURE CONVULSES OVER FRAUDULENT PBS FILM on Cochlear Implant"

 

CLARION --- Who are they??

The Clarion cochlear implant is the result of many years of research and development, first at the University of California, San Francisco and the Research Triangle Institute of North Carolina, and then at Advanced Bionics Corporation in Sylmar, California. Approved by the US Food and Drug Administration [FDA] after much lobbying and exchanges of monies. Clarion's device uses a CERAMIC casing design.

CLARION HiFocus Electrode allows direct coupling between a cochlear implant and a patient's auditory nerve. U.S. clinical trials with the system began in August 1999. The primary design objective of the HiFocus Electrode is to provide advanced DIGITAL CODING schemes which deliver maximum sound information at up to 16 sites at the same time.
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COCHLEAR CORP. -- who are they???

They are a subsidiary of an Australian international conglomerate with major offices in Israel, Basel, Colorado, and Hannover, called NUCLEUS24. They use a titanium casing design with a silicone capsule covering in their cochlear implant.

For more information call:

ISRAEL Bezea 1-800-94-94-949
Israel Golden Lines 1-800-92-22-222
Israel Barak 1-800-93-33-333

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Here is just the short list of PBS CORPORATE & POLITICAL SPONSORS, who virtually own and control the content of Public television and radio, now that Congress has denied public funding:

Fiscal 1999 Underwriters of the PBS National Program Service $1,000,000 and above A.G. Edwards & Sons, Inc. / Ace Hardware Corporation / Alfred P. Sloan Foundation / Ameritech Corporation / Archer-Daniels-Midland Company / The Bankers Trust Company Foundation / Barnes & Noble, Inc. / Chef Jr. / Chubb Group of Insurance Companies / Fannie Mae Foundation / Fidelity Investments / First Union National Bank / The Ford Foundation / Ford Motor Company / GTE Corporation / Iomega Corporation / The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation / Kellogg Company / The Lilly Endowment, Inc. / Metropolitan Life Insurance Company / Mobil Corporation / National Endowment for the Arts / National Endowment for the Humanities / National Park Service / National Science Foundation / Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance / Oppenheimer Funds / Park Foundation / Prudential Securities, Inc. / Robert Wood Johnson Foundation / Salomon Smith Barney Inc. / SBC Communications, Inc. / State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company / The Thompson-Minwax Company / The Travelers Insurance Companies / W.K. Kellogg Foundation $500,000-$999,999 babyGap / The Boeing Company / Canon U.S.A., Inc. / Charles E. Culpeper Foundation / The Chase Manhattan Corporation / The Chase Manhattan Private Bank / Chuck E. Cheese's / Conseco, Inc. / DLJdirect / ERA Franchise Systems, Inc. / General Motors Corporation / Howard Heinz Endowment / Joseph S. and Diana H. Steinberg Charitable Trust / The Kaufmann Fund / Libby's Juicy Juice / Liberty Mutual Insurance Company / Mutual of America ... and zillions more!!!

 

The website with this information from 1999, formerly http://www.pbs.org/insidepbs/annualreport/Underwriters/index.htm, has been replaced by a pathetic little rah rah rah PR webpage, touting only about 1/10th of corporate sponsorship. The original underwriters list has been "decommissioned". Sorry.

go to HOMEPAGE here ... click now

DID YOU SEE ANYBODY YOU KNOW IN THAT RATPACK OF SPONSORS ABOVE???

first CLICK HERE to read about the HMO PATIENT SELF-DEFENSE KIT

NOTE: "PEOPLE" magazine quite recently [mid Dec. 2000] ran a long feature story [by Bill Hewitt, Susan Gray Gose, and Matt Birkbeck] on the cochlear implant's effect on the ARTINIAN family, which is also highlighted in the documentary film reviewed below. [12/11/2000 issue]. The Artinian family is now, as a result of the surgery, terribly divided and full of inner dissent, due to the forcefulness of the manufacturing companies blitzkrieg to get their product implanted surgically into as many heads as they can, to turn a buck, and to advocate it endlessly.

Peter Artinian wishes the whole cochlear mania would just go away, he is happy with ASL, and so is his daughter.

We here at this web publication think that all CELL PHONE owners should have their cell phone drilled and surgically implanted into their skull and brain, just like the cochlear device, since it is such a swell concept and "good for all".

Those who don't like cell phones can then watch their implanted cell phone users talking to god ... without us having to hear the obnoxious ringing and the unsightly presence of a cell phone held in hand as their owners jockey down sidewalks like Klingons -- aiming a phaser like in Star Trek at everyone else trying to use the sidewalk also.

Pick up the back issue of PEOPLE today, and read it for yourself!

reproduced APRIL 11, 2000 "Sound & Fury" REVIEW

"Sound & Fury," a pseudo-documentary film screened by the Double Take Documentary Film Festival in Durham, North Carolina, just recently, and this past Sunday night in Manhattan's Ron Lauder-controlled Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), which is currently being "reconfigured" into several dozen partitions, failed to interest deeply the more than 40 percent deaf audience who were in attendance.

Presented by the Film Society of Lincoln Center, the director of the "docu-fantasy," Josh Aronson, and the Artinian family [featured in the film], were present at MOMA for a Question & Answers session after the screening. Many questioners were crude PR firm "plants," often so easy to spot that the audience was at times laughing at such shameless transparency.

When, half way through the Q&A, a handsome deaf late twenty-something gentleman asked why the "documentary" featured a family commingled of hearing and non-hearing members -- which was not even obliquely objective in the most rudimentary sense of the word -- he was told to PLEASE BE SEATED and discuss this with the Artinian family on his own free time, AFTER the Q&A, thank you. The eloquence of the deaf man was in clear evidence, for I understood him much more clearly than the director, and his "co-perpetrator," as his production partner called himself in his opening introduction. The deaf questioner, before this rude dismissal, said that his own mother had taught him very well how to speak and be well understood by hearing people. He added that he had no clue, nor insight, into why the documentary film, heavily financed by

PBS, WNET, and CPB

[which are funded by medical device companies & pharmaceuticals/chemicals mega-giants, esp. Pfizer & Corning] in a triumvarate, made such a ONE-SIDED positive portrayal of the bulky brain/bone implant that fills the hole left from the drilling. The director, Josh Aronson, quickly avoided this candid and relevant question and moved onto the next questioner, in this kangaroo court of "fairness, objectivity, and impartiality".

The MOMA theatre "circus" provided only one other questioner during the night's screening who didn't go along with the clumsy (yet propogandistically slick) PBS promotions gag titled "Sound & Fury"

The film droned on and on about a huge conspiracy of deaf people who are hidebound and reactionary and abusive to their 18-month year old deaf babies] because they want to hang on to their

AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE (ASL)**

[please scroll down to read of unfortunate death of William Stokoe Jr., author of the ASL Dictionary]
... as if hanging on to their ASL culture of hand expressions and silence was sinister, even just hanging on yet a WEE BIT longer, and not throw caution to the wind, in opening sizable HOLES in their skulls to welcome the electronics' warehouse implants and the ensuing DIGIT-IZATION schematas stuffed into their brain tissue. It was never brought up in the film how an infant could change his/her own battery every 80 hours, or less, or how a child could really comfortably remove their forbidding cochlear walkie-talkie unit from their skull, for showers or baths. Teenagers with the device implanted will have a very difficult time, it is clearly evident, when "kissing" becomes a school extracurricular activity of the highest order, which includes ear kisses.

The second and only other "disagreeable" questioner, in the very final minutes of the evening, asked WHO manufactured the cochlear implant, HOW MUCH it cost, how much the accompanying SURGERY costs, and ... will UNINSURED deaf Americans be issued a FREE DEVICE, Gratis, since it is SO CRITICALLY NEEDED by all deaf people now, by the "OH- SO-CONCERNED" manufacturer(s), or even by loving and caring PBS/NPR, no longer a truly non-commercial tv/radio joint empire.

The software technician who had been featured in her saintly role in the 80-minute film was also on stage to field questions after the screening. She didn't say how much the implant device will cost the consumer, but she did quickly remark that the SURGERY ALONE would cost a minimum of $35,000. She said also that there were two main manufacturers of the device, but she "couldn't remember well their names." [we here at this cyberzine will look in the film's credits to look for the manufacturers' contribution to production costs, and ask an accounting firm to look into the legal aspects of NOT reporting such contributions -- we already learned from AP Wire on-line service that the DEVICE ALONE costs $40,000, for little more than a glorified Walkman, in that it has a transmitting coil that sends code as radio waves, thus making it as easily received by external auditors as a car radio or a police radio].

We here at this webmagazine ALSO offer you now, below, a little bit deeper revelation --- the important details this "objective" documentary completely avoided.

**NOTE:

from the April 11th, 2000 THE NEW YORK TIMES:

"William C. Stokoe Jr., an iconoclastic linguistics professor whose championing of sign language helped change the way deaf people are educated around the world, died on April 4 at his home in Chevy Chase, Md. He was 80.

Dr. Stokoe was credited with winning recognition of AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE as a genuine language, overcoming the contentions of linguists that it was little more than a rudimentary imitation of the spoken word. Eventually, Dr. Stokoe's work helped end a CENTURY-LONG BANISHMENT of signing from the classroom and won him a hero's status among many deaf students.

[...] When Dr. Stokoe arrived in 1955 at GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY, the only university for the hearing-impaired in the United States, he knew little about sign language or even about deafness.

[...] Since the 1880s, when a movement against signing began at an international conference in MILAN, schools for the deaf had insisted that their students communicate orally, an often unsuccessful practice that involves lip-reading and trying to produce understandable sounds.

[...] Five years after he arrived at Gallaudet, Dr. Stokoe published the groundbreaking "Sign Language Structure." Four years later, he was the co-author of "A Dictionary of American Sign Language on Linguistic Principles."

[...] Dr. Stokoe's work made him highly respected among deaf students, especially as some became radicalized in recent years.

[...] Although he was not active in the effort, Dr. Stokoe, many people believe, was a driving force behind the student demonstrations in the 1980s that forced Gallaudet to choose its FIRST deaf president."



from the:

http://deafworldweb.org/pub/c/ci.html
CLICK HERE

toronto by-line

from the AccuWeather AP Archives

 

"Life's not easier with the implant."

"It requires intense therapy and it's not the same as hearing. It's like an electric buzzing." The cochlear implant is a powerful hearing aid that is placed in the inner ear of an individual with nerve deafness. The system includes a processor worn on clothes [like a Walkman, in that it has a transmitting coil that sends code as radio waves, thus making it as easily received by external auditors as a car radio or a police radio] that is linked by a cable to a transmitter worn behind the ear. The transmitter is held in place by a magnet that is drawn to the implant under the skin.

The cochlear implant does not, however, take away a person's deafness.

When the processor is on, the implant stimulates hearing. When it's turned off, the hearing is gone.

Four years after Snoddon was implanted, she turned it off for good.

"I was angry. I couldn't understand why my parents were not proud of me for who I was," she explains.

Two years later, Snoddon developed an infectious mass inside her skull which she attributes to the cochlear implant, despite a variety of medical opinions. In December 1996, she underwent surgery at Toronto General Hospital to remove the implant. She has since immersed herself in "deaf culture" by learning to sign, developing relationships with other deaf people, joining interest groups and becoming actively involved in speaking out against cochlear implants.

Ninety percent of deaf children are born to hearing parents, many of whom have never known a deaf person.

Because hearing parents "can't find a place of acceptance" for their deaf children, they opt for the cochlear implant WITHOUT EXPLORING the possibilities of immersing them in the "deaf culture," signs Gary Malkowski, former MPP and vice-president of the CAD. "They try to fix them," he signs.

SOME REASONS TO FEAR JUMPING TO THE CONCLUSION THAT AN IMPLANT IS GOOD FOR YOU.

$$ Cochlear trauma from insertion
$$ Deep invasive surgery and bone sawing
$$ Electrode-to-nerve coupling
$$ Threshold levels for electrical stimulation
$$ Significant intrasubject variability in temporal integration
$$ INADEQUATE understanding of how the auditory nerve fibres and brain respond to the electrical stimulation of the cochlear implant

BRAVE NEW MACHINE WORLD: FOURIER, the mathematician, showed that complex wave patterns can be REDUCED into a number of simple, digital component wave patterns. This is called Fourier analysis, and is a vital tool in mathematics and MECHANICAL ENGINEERING. It is the foundation and essence of the Cochlear Implant technology. The speech processor used in the BIONIC EAR is essentially a Fourier analyser, converting sounds into 22 different components. Signals are then sent to the electrodes distributed along YOUR membrane.

CLARION --- Who are they??

The Clarion cochlear implant is the result of many years of research and development, first at the University of California, San Francisco and the Research Triangle Institute of North Carolina, and then at Advanced Bionics Corporation in Sylmar, California. Approved by the US Food and Drug Administration [FDA] after much lobbying and exchanges of monies. Clarion's device uses a CERAMIC casing design.

CLARION HiFocus Electrode allows direct coupling between a cochlear implant and a patient's auditory nerve. U.S. clinical trials with the system began in August 1999. The primary design objective of the HiFocus Electrode is to provide advanced DIGITAL CODING schemes which deliver maximum sound information at up to 16 sites at the same time.
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COCHLEAR CORP. -- who are they???

They are a subsidiary of an Australian international conglomerate with major offices in Israel, Basel, Colorado, and Hannover, called NUCLEUS24. They use a titanium casing design with a silicone capsule covering in their cochlear implant.

For more information call:

ISRAEL Bezea 1-800-94-94-949
Israel Golden Lines 1-800-92-22-222
Israel Barak 1-800-93-33-333


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click here for PART ONE

click here for PART TWO

 

PART THREE on HMOs and MCOs: "Cassandra Crossing's"
Insider Survey:

Which Medical Insurance Providers are most represented by claims from a cross section of insured/uninsured patients on the Atlantic Seaboard, (and adjoining States, at a MAJOR walk-in East Coast urban HEALTH CLINIC????"

In order of representation [1999 survey]---

 

BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD (appx. 23%)
UNINSURED (appx. 11%)
KAISER PERMANENTE (appx, 9%)
NYLCare (formerly Healthcare Plus) (appx 6%)
Aetna (appx. 6%)
Cigna (apprx. 5%)
MAPSI (apprx. 4%)
Alliance (apprx. 4%)
Capital Care (apprx. 3%
MEDICARE (appx. 2%)
Prudential Healthcare (approx. 2%)
United Health Care/Metropolitan Life (appx. 1.7%)
GEHA/Government Employees Health Association (appx. 1.6%)
MAMSI (appx. 1.4%)
MEDICAID (appx. 1.25%)
VA/Veterans Administration (appx. 1.0%)
Local Union Insurance (0.4%)

Excerpts from the WASHINGTON POST

"RICO Law Can apply to Insurer, Court Rules"

by David S. Hilzenrath and Joan Biskupic

"Consumers can sue insurers for fraud under a federal racketeering law that provides for triple damages, the Supreme Court ruled yesterday in a unanimous decision.

The court decided that tens of thousands of Nevada residents can invoke the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, designed to combat organized crime, in a lawsuit alleging that HUMANA INC., a health insurer, systematically cheated them out of millions of dollars.

The ruling would allow insurers and regulators to use the same powerful WEAPON to combat fraud against health plans, legal experts said.

[...] The decision means HUMANA beneficiaries can pursue triple damages. Along with interest and legal fees, the stakes could reach $20 million to $30 million in the decade-old case, plaintiffs' attorney Will Kemp said.

[...] Franklin Burt ... called the decision "very bad for the insurance industry".

[...] HUMANA had said use of the law would infringe on states' authority to regulate the insurance industry under the McCarran-Gerguson Act. The court disagreed, saying, "We reject any suggestion that Congress intended to cede the field of insurance regulation to the states, saving only instances in which Congress expressly orders otherwise." Lower courts had split on the issue."

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Excerpts from the LOS ANGELES TIMES re. AETNA:

"Widow's Lawsuit Against HMO Ends With $120 Million Verdict"

By Julie Marquis

"In the nation's largest verdict ever against an HMO, a San Bernardino jury today awarded $116 million in punitive damages to a woman whose husband fought fruitlessly until his death against AETNA U.S. Health Care of California for coverage of an experimental cancer treatment.

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KILLER HMOS!!!!!

First, let us take a look at the partner-in-crime of today's HMOs, the

global pharmaceutical industry

 

From "Positively Aware", a Chicago publication; a recent issue:

"Editors Note: --- GREED AND HIV --- A lot of people are getting rich off HIV. The money is so big that it puts a lot of people and companies in a questionable position ethically and morally. And you can be certain that this lure of easy cash dirties more than a few hands. While many activists draw attention to corporate greed by pointing to the high-price of many drugs (most recently Sustiva --- ACT UP Philadelphia), the root of the problem goes much deeper. The price of a drug is merely a symptom of a much more vast formal and informal network of perks and pay-offs.

Some doctors and some pharmaceutical companies are profiteering from one of the most lucrative illnesses ever to hit humankind

[Cassandra Crossing Editor's note: Zovirax, generic acyclovir, Valtrex, etc., different names for the same drug that suppresses genital herpes, are all criminally profitable too; costing less than a few dollars a pound to manufacture, the price today averages $1.50-$5.50 per 400 mgs, i.e., 1 tablet -- this kind of price fixing is endemic to the marketing strategies of U.S. and now international pharmaceutical concerns -- the generic brands follow suit in maximizing prices as soon as they can!]

Poised to pounce on this pandemic, the global costs of HIV make it one of the largest pharmaceutical "cash cows" in history. For instance, the treatment costs of HIV would exceed the entire GNP (gross national product) of many African and Asian countries if they were to offer the "cocktail" to everyone positive for the virus.

With big money comes temptation --- and not everyone can resist taking a bite out of this apple. Through various informal schemes, some doctors get free trips to exotic places at fancy resorts. You see, pharmaceutical companies have lists that tell them which doctors are prescribing their drugs. All drug companies monitor doctors who push a lot of a particular med are rewarded with a nice vacation; keep in mind that these trips are usually called seminars or workshops, but no one cares if you attend the meetings or not. Much like a "frequent prescriber" club.

[...] ... The pharmaceutical industry is also guilty of blurring ethical lines. While we can be certain that most drug companies engage in questionable activities, in order to gain "market share" for their medicine, one recent example demonstrates the moral depths to which they will descend. On 22 September 1998, INVESTOR?S BUSINESS DAILY accurately predicts the protease trend: "A report indicates that Agouron should take away market share from Merck?s Crixivan because of Viracept?s twice-a-day dosing. Agouron may also benefit from recently announced manufacturing problems at Abbott Laboratories, which makes Norvir." Further, the aggressiveness of Agouron?s tactics are well known in the pharmaceutical industry as reported by the SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE (9/16/98): "Instead of celebrating the drug?s success, Agouron President Peter Johnson has struggled to preserve momentum and to keep Wall Street interested." This prediction did not fall on deaf ears a Agouron.

Even though Agouron?s profits grew 90% during the first quarter (SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE, 10/2198), AND EVEN THOUGH "Viracept is now the most widely prescribed protease inhibitor" (PR NEWSWIRE, 10/20/98), an ethically dubious move was made to capture even more market share by rewarding doctors if they switched their patients from Norvir to Viracept. [...] Agouron would give doctors $1,000 if they switched a patient from Norvir to Viracept.

Scott McCallister, who is a leading HIV specialist in Chicago told POSITIVELY AWARE that "Agouron was quick to react when the problem with Abbott?s Norvir appeared. They came to us and offered a quote-unquote 'trial' using nelfinavir (Viracept). They brought a form with them that first day and offered us a $1,000 dollars a patient to switch them." Dr. McCallister summarizes his reaction to Agouron?s approach: "I think any reasonable physician would question Agouron?s ethics. It is reprehensible to me that they would offer us quote-unquote 'bribe' in order to change drugs."

Agouron?s side of the story is a little different. They angrily responded that such speculations were untrue and that Agouron has worked hard to help the HIV community. In fact, the money given to the doctors was to be used for research and was not a pay-off.

[...] ... From these few examples we see how MONEY corrupts some individuals in the treatment and study of HIV. While Agouron's behavior probably represents more a lapse in ethical judgment than a pattern of practices, such conduct should be brought to light and made public so as to maintain our system of checks and balances with drug companies.

by STEVE WHITSON, PHD
EDITOR
POSITIVELY AWARE

Here are some highly recommended sites:



Here are some highly recommended sites:

" Who Will Drive a Stake Through the God of War?"

"Strike Workers of America, STRIKE!"

B.Traven & His Circle of Friends

KAL007 TRAINER

Adrian Report on Ducks Unlimited being used as a patsy by Republican developers [and Democrats too], under the guise of restoring our wetlands, a caper as colossal as FEMA!

The Adrian Report on Healthcare Abuses -- even those Approved by the Senate/Congress!!

PROTEUS, the Human Fish of Slovenia, and Darwin's Intelligent Design, by Bryan Adrian

Scalar Haarp-Gwen wars....

Satellites

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Temp Slavery in Our Outsourced Labor Lowdown

MOLDOVA MONASTARIES and related history:

MOLDOVA & Satan

	Literary Read Out at DORIAN'S, NYC
	Review of Neil Labute's first plays
	THE RABBI WHO KNEW TOO MUCH
	A new drama, 'Druids In Deep Space' in progress--a play in suspension
	EYES WIDE SHUT -- What was Kubrick saying in cryptic symbols before Spielberg had him ....
	BAD DAD IN BAGHDAD
	Bill Gates and Permanent Temps [PERMATEMPS] and his role in GLOBAL OUTSOURCING
	"Why we have more Lice than Properly Counted Votes in the USA," by Bryan Adrian
	THE HOLLYWOOD TATTLER !!!
	Hot young actress from Bulgaria ... what a career!!

Ground Zero

http://ground_zero_fake.tripod.com/BOVIS.html  

http://www.geocities.com/our4horsemen/cassandrasky.html  

MONICA LEWINSKY'S PRISON NOTEBOOKS!

http://monicalewinskysthigh.tripod.com/munchable.html  

"GOODBYE and GOOD RIDDANCE, Rudy Giuliani !!!"

 http://www.geocities.com/antarii_rescue/malachias.html  

"FEDERAL RESERVE: Alan Greenspan's Bedside Tales & EZRA

http://www.geocities.com/chemosh_of_ammon/NGC1987A.html  

"TIME TRAVEL: Cosmic Unicorns"

http://www.geocities.com/antarii_rescue/index.html  

"CARBON STARS, Stonehedge, and The Parker Spiral"

http://www.geocities.com/antarii_rescue/index2.html

"KRAKENS: Commandos Against the Cigar Galaxy

http://www.geocities.com/our4horsemen/krakenwarriors.html  

"Blood-Stained ANDROMEDA GALAXY: Cannibalism--Strains"

http://www.geocities.com/chemosh_of_ammon/NGC1987A.html  

"Satellite GYROSCOPE Failures and Bytes of .666"

http://www.geocities.com/antarii_rescue/TOMBShistory.html  

"ALL SYSTEMS GO-GO-GO: COMET LINEAR C 1999 S4, Still Intact"

http://www.angelfire.com/scifi/krakenwarriors/scout.html  

"THE METEOR KRONIKLES: GALLED in ISRAEL"

http://www.geocities.com/antarii_rescue/banyanfig.html  

"ASTEROID REPLICANTS: Polymer Clones

http://www.geocities.com/antarii_rescue/banyanfig2.html  

"NEMATODES, Icelandic VOLCANOES, and Tasty ATP Hemoglobin

http://www.geocities.com/antarii_rescue/antares.html  

"Killer Wasps and Rabies: ... METEORIC Mummy

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