1. Concerns continue to surface about the welfare of today's children and the problems surrounding them. Special attention is being paid to and questions are being asked about parental care and its absence across a wide spectrum with regard to developmental problems. If the professionals get it deliberately wrong, what can the community at large do?

BBC News24 Monday, 18 September 2006, 10:17 GMT 11:17 UK

Archbishop warns of child crisis

Dr Williams has concerns over the state of modern childhood

Children today face too much "pressure to achieve", says the Archbishop of Canterbury, who has called for more help with parenting skills.

Dr Rowan Williams was talking ahead of the launch of an inquiry into the state of childhood by the Children's Society.

He pointed to statistics suggesting one in ten children had been shown to have measurable mental health problems.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5354998.stm

The Archbishop of Canterbury Monday 18th September 2006

Archbishop's interview on The Good Childhood Inquiry

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams appeared on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme this morning to talk about the Children's Society's The Good Childhood Inquiry which is being launched today. He was interviewed by James Naughtie; a transcript of the interview appears below.

http://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/releases/060918.htm

2. In light of the now existing technology for the electromagnetic transmission of sound the whole problem of hearing voices must be re-evaluated with a great deal of care and consideration since this technology is being used as a weapon to fake mental health problems for the purpose of social control and engineering. This neurological technology itself can be used to assess this condition if it is used honestly.

BBC News24 Monday, 18 September 2006, 00:46 GMT 01:46 UK

'I learned to live with voices'

Brian began to hear voices in his head when he was six

Brian, 38 and from Manchester, hears voices in his head.

Sometimes they tell him that he is dirty. At other times they taunt him, calling him worthless and evil.

When he hears them, he knows there is nobody there, but they sound as clear as you or I speaking to him.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/5350430.stm

3. Management structures, Hewlett-Packard and relative high crimes and misdemeanours assessed in Fortune magazine.

CNNMoney.com/Fortune September 18 2006: 10:54 AM EDT/2nd October 2006 Issue

Board games: A battlefield guide: Five lessons to be learned from the astonishing corporate soap opera at HP.

By Justin Fox, Fortune editor-at-large

(Fortune Magazine) -- There are three flavors of publicly held corporation, Warren Buffett wrote in 1993. In one, the controlling owner is the manager, which is how things worked at Hewlett-Packard for the first two decades after its 1957 IPO, as founders Dave Packard and Bill Hewlett ran the show.

Then there are companies in which the controlling owner is not a manager. Buffett called this setup "logically ... the most effective in ensuring first-class management," and indeed, the years when Packard and Hewlett controlled but did not manage HP - 1978 through 1993 - were mostly glorious ones for the company.

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/10/2/8387405/?postversion=2006091810

One problem gnaws at me: Tom Perkins portrayal as an infantile adult fixated on his toys: a remote controlled helicopter flying around the house and his 287 foot, $100 million sailing yacht. He demonstrated the disposition not to allow other people to be themselves and chose to interfere symbolised by his buzzing of Patricia Dunn at a dinner party with his radio-controlled helicopter as described in Newsweek while she was engaged in HP Board discussions with new CEO Mark Hurd. Did this reflect his male efforts to dominate and control a woman? Would he have treated a male Chairman of the Board who was talking with the recently hired CEO like that? At the very least it showed little regard for another who was busy with something else regardless of what it might be.

Then last summer he launched this "ostentatious" display of yachting wealth in Turkey, a Muslim country in the Middle East where the Israeli/Hezbollah conflict was soon to erupt with these obvious problems between the West and Middle East boiling over in Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran and, let us not forget, Turkey which experienced a couple terrorist bombings this summer. It's not so much a lack of sensitivity to the terrorist's opinion that the West is decadent, but that he would flaunt his wealth in such a manner that appeared to thumb his nose at all and sundry which has since come to be associated with Hewlett-Packard.

Speaking for myself only, it makes Hewlett-Packard's Chairwoman look like she did the right thing in seeking the source of the leaks. How could such a board member have so little regard for others and the rest of the world then expect to be looked upon favourably? Although he was not the source of the leaks for the period investigated, he stormed out of the Board meeting in May declaring that he quit when the investigation information was revealed. This behaviour is subject to more thought and analysis as more information becomes available, but it looks like Hewlett-Packard is no longer associated with the biggest and most expensive sailing yacht ever built however obtuse that association might have been.

Tom Perkins displayed his character with the radio-controlled helicopter episode which was followed by his storming out of the Board meeting when he could not control and dominate the resolution of the investigation which can be viewed as his demanding a cover up. He next became a "whistleblower," but in what way did he perform a service? He didn't get the cover up he wanted, so he went after the person who had blocked him by complaining about the investigation itself. This is not exactly "whistleblowing." I wait for a full denouement of this saga. In the meantime I've started reading Peter Burrows' Backfire today for background information. In my estimation this is far beyond a soap opera.

All of this hit on the fifth anniversary of 9/11 while I was sitting in London watching continuous coverage of the ceremonies in the US on BBC News24. After reading about Tom Perkins it was as if some of those in Silicon Valley lived on a different planet. What struck me was the fact of the Chairwoman of Hewlett-Packard's Board trying to manage to the best of her ability while some infant adult was playing games with his toys and the management process. That $100 million spent on a sailing yacht could have gone a long way in this world toward helping people everywhere. I write this as the possibility of genocide emerges in Darfur. The eruption of this problem at Hewlett-Packard might give Silicon Valley the opportunity to rejoin planet Earth. The first page of Backfire describes an historical plaque near the garage where Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard began in 1938 as having the inscription "The Birthplace of Silicon Valley." (Peter Burrows, Backfire, John Wiley & Sons Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey, 2003, p 1)

4. The rogues emerge with more revelations of surveillance carried out by Hewlett-Packard contractors. Who knew what when?

The New York Times Monday 18th September 2006

Deeper Spying Is Seen in Hewlett Review

By Damon Darlin

A secret investigation of news leaks at Hewlett-Packard was more elaborate than previously reported, and almost from the start involved the illicit gathering of private phone records and direct surveillance of board members and journalists, according to people briefed on the company’s review of the operation.

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Those briefed on the company’s review of the operation say detectives tried to plant software on at least one journalist’s computer that would enable messages to be traced, and also followed directors and possibly a journalist in an attempt to identify a leaker on the board.

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The account of those briefed on Hewlett-Packard’s review of the matter sheds new light on the scope and timing of the investigative methods, establishing that invasive and possibly illegal techniques were used far earlier than previously known and that the company’s chief ethics officer was among those providing supervision.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/18/technology/18hp.html Free access will last only about a week.