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In the wake of the Bangalore blast, Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde today pushed for setting up the NCTC to strengthen intelligence gathering.
Making a statement in the Lok Sabha on the blast outside BJP office in Bangalore, Shinde said the Home Ministry was also working towards putting in place an explosive tracking system.
"We also need to strengthen the intelligence set up of the states. We have been advising the states on this, but we have not seen much progress," he said.
Shinde said the government was also trying to strengthen human intelligence component of intelligence agencies, which is expected to start yielding results.
"We also need to quickly put the NCTC in place. We have now a revised formulation of NCTC which takes care of the objections of the states," he said.
The setting up of the National Counter-Terrorism Centre (NCTC) has been a bone of contention with several states contending that it affected the federal structure of the Constitution.
Underscoring the need for tighter checks on explosives, Shinde said the Home Ministry was working with the Department of Industrial Policy and Planning, and the National Institute of Smart Government to put an explosives tracking system in place.
"But the problems will remain till the District Magistrates and Superintendents of Police have the stocks and consumption of the licensed explosive users checked more often and more stringently," he said.
On the Bangalore blasts, Shinde said preliminary investigations revealed that an IED on a parked motor cycle caused the explosion near BJP office at 10:15 AM on April 17.
"No casualty was reported in the blast. However, 16 persons were injured including 11 police personnel," he said.
He said forensic experts opined that explosive materials used in the blast could be nitrate compounds.
"Around 50 eye-witnesses' statements have been recorded and nearly 80 material objects processed from the crime scene to gather evidence," Shinde said.


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oneworld is best alliance for on-time flights for fourth year running10 January 2017
oneworld® is the best alliance for on-time flights, according to FlightStats, Inc., the leading airline industry data services and solutions technology company, which has honoured oneworld with its Airline Alliance On-Time Performance Service Award for 2016.
It is the fourth time running that oneworld has been confirmed by FlightStats as the most punctual global airline alliance – which means oneworld has retained this premier on-time status since FlightStats started tracking alliance punctuality.
This latest honour means that oneworld is now the current holder of six "best airline alliance" awards internationally, confirming its position as the world's most highly prized alliance.
The FlightStats' award is based on its analysis of tens of million flights operated by hundreds of airlines globally in the past year – which showed that oneworld members collectively maintained a more punctual operation across the 12 months than their counterparts in the other global airline groups.
FlightStats' study of the 4,8 million oneworld flights in 2016 - operated by the alliance's 14 member airlines and their 30 affiliated carriers, serving more than 1 000 destinations in 150 plus countries - showed 81,19 per cent of them arrived within 15 minutes of schedule.
oneworld members also took top honours FlightStats' 2016 awards for individual airlines.
Iberia was ranked the most punctual mainline international airline, with 87,79 per cent of its 84 022 flights arriving on time – narrowly ahead of 2015's winner Japan Airlines, with 87,33 per cent of its 206 806 flights landing on schedule.
Three other oneworld members also made it to the world's Top 10 – Qatar Airways, TAM (now flying as LATAM Airlines Brazil) and Qantas – giving oneworld five of the world's 10 most punctual mainline airlines.
Iberia topped the rankings for European mainline and network carriers, with Japan Airlines leading the list of Asia-Pacific airlines and Qatar Airways for the Middle East and Africa region.
Iberia Express, the Spanish airline's regional subsidiary, which is a oneworld affiliate member, was the world's most punctual low-cost carrier.
FlightStats says its awards are "designed to recognise those airlines and airports that demonstrate consistently high performance and deliver on their promise to get passengers to their destinations in a timely manner". Its aggregates data from global sources including civil aviation authorities, airlines, airports and major airline reservations systems. For full details, see flightstats.com
Other "best airline alliance" awards currently held by oneworld include:
- Global Traveler magazine's 2016 GT Tested Reader Survey – for the seventh year in a row.
- Business Traveller's 2016 Best Airline Alliance for the fourth year running.
- Business Traveler North America's 2016 Best in Business Travel Awards, for the second consecutive year.
- World Travel Awards' World's Leading Airline Alliance 2016 for the 14th year running.
- Premier Traveler's Best of 2015 Awards – for the third year running.
About oneworld
oneworld is an alliance of some of the world's leading airlines, committed to providing the highest level of service and convenience to frequent international travellers. They include airberlin, American Airlines, British Airways, Cathay Pacific, Finnair, Iberia, Japan Airlines, LATAM Airlines, Malaysia Airlines, Qantas, Qatar Airways, Royal Jordanian, S7 Airlines and SriLankan Airlines, and around 30 affiliates. As part of oneworld, these airlines:
- Serve more than a thousand airports in 150 plus countries, with 14 000 daily departures.
- Carry some 550 million passengers a year on a combined fleet of 3 500 aircraft.
- Generate US$ 130 billion annual revenues.
oneworld member airlines work together to deliver consistently a superior, seamless travel experience, with special privileges and rewards for frequent flyers, including earning and redeeming miles and points across the entire alliance network. Top tier cardholders (Emerald and Sapphire) enjoy access to more than 650 airport lounges and are offered extra baggage allowances. The most regular travellers (Emerald) can also use fast track security lanes at select airports.

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In unveiling his $3.8 trillion spending plan for the U.S. government on Wednesday, President Barack Obama revived his longstanding attack on oil industry tax breaks and formally launched a plan to pay for alternative vehicle research with drilling dollars.
While the tax plans are dead on arrival on Capitol Hill — where lawmakers have rejected similar proposals many times before — they drew outrage from oil and gas industry leaders who said Obama was seeking to use the sector as a piggy bank.
The fiscal 2014 budget proposal aims to raise $2.5 billion over the next decade by raising the royalty rates for oil and gas produced on federal lands and waters, with the revenue steered toward a new Energy Security Trust for research in alternative fuels and vehicles.
American Petroleum Institute President Jack Gerard said the move is shortsighted, especially since a single sale of offshore drilling leases can net more than $1 billion just in bids to buy drilling rights — even before the royalty payments from oil and gas that might be produced on the acreage.
"What we're seeing come out of the president again is the same old tired approach that he's taken before," Gerard said. "The president is talking about jobs and revenue, yet the proposals related to energy hurt job creation and limit revenue by discouraging the very activity that generates revenue."
Fighting back: API mounts new campaign against oil industry taxes
The administration says Obama's budget would save $39 billion over the next 10 years by eliminating "fossil fuel tax preferences" geared toward oil, gas and coal. Items on the chopping block include the oil industry's ability to claim a domestic manufacturing deduction broadly available to other sectors, and write off "intangible drilling costs" such as site preparation, hauling supplies and fluids used in the process.
Virginia Lazenby, chairwoman of the Independent Petroleum Association of America, said the proposed tax changes would pare the capital oil and gas companies can invest in new wells.
""Independent oil and natural gas producers currently reinvest 150 percent of their capital budgets into new energy projects, and by doing so, they keep the economy moving," said Lazenby, who is also the CEO of Nashville-based Bretagne LLC. "The tax treatment is crucial to the business decisions of these companies."
And Rep. Gene Green, D-Houston, insisted it was unfair to single "out the oil and gas industry for tax hikes (that) would only stifle job creation and drive up imports of crude oil from foreign nations that are hostile to us."
But advocates of the president's proposal say the oil and gas tax incentives — some nearly 100 years old — have outlived their usefulness.
"These companies earned billions of dollars in recent years due to high oil and gasoline prices and do not need additional support from taxpayers," said Daniel J. Weiss, the director of climate strategy at the Center for American Progress. "Now that the oil and gas industry is fully developed and mature, President Obama's budget would end this center of largess."
Texas debate: Oil-rich area may not get tax windfall
The administration also proposed establishing new "use-it-or-lose-it" style fees on undeveloped oil and gas leases, while shortening the duration of those contracts.
A separate proposal for new user fees on federal oil and gas leases is designed to offset some $40 million in federal inspection of work on those tracts.
Under Obama's proposal, $672 million would be devoted to oil and gas programs at the Interior Department, including $169 million for the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and $222 million for the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement — the two agencies that oversee offshoree leases and development.
At the Bureau of Land Management, a proposed increase of roughly 20 percent, "will expand inspection and enforcement capabilities, enhance oversight, streamline permitting and support implementation of the BLM's leasing reforms," said Deputy Interior Secretary David Hayes.
Hayes said the money especially would help accelerate a conversion to electronic permitting, which could eliminate "the slow back and forth between companies and BLM." Roughly three quarters of the permitting processing time is attributed to that paper-based interaction, so a computerized process would go a long way to speeding the work up, Hayes said.
Across the president's proposal, the administration is making plans for research on climate change and programs to help adapt to the phenomenon. For instance, at Interior, Obama is seeking $71 million — a $13 million increase — in climate change research, mostly done by the U.S. Geological Survey. The Interior Department also would get $64 million — a $5 million increase — to enable land and wildlife managers to adapt to changes.
Uncertainty: ConocoPhillips puts Arctic drilling plans on ice
At the Environmental Protection Agency, funding would be used "to support local community efforts to improve resilience to extreme weather and other climate change impacts."
"These efforts are consistent with a broader administration commitment to help communities improve their resilience to climate change through direct technical assistance, useful data and tools on projected impacts," the administration said in its budget plan.
Obama also is asking Congress to require that effective in 2014, energy companies pay a penny a barrel more than the 8 cents they pay now into a trust fund set aside for tackling oil spills. The 2010 Gulf of Mexico spill sparked similar calls that never advanced on Capitol Hill.
And the administration's budget proposal asks for a more expansive definition of what types of crude production require payments into the trust fund, since the fee isn't charged now on deposits extracted from kerogen-rich rock or from oil sands bitumen now harvested in Canada.
The definition has drawn attention as the State Department considers whether to issue a permit for TransCanada Corp.'s proposed Keystone XL pipeline that would carry oil sands products to Gulf Coast refineries.
The recent spill from Exxon Mobil's Pegasus Pipeline in Mayflower, Ark., which carried tar sands crude, has drawn further attention to that issue.


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FreshDirect Suffers Web Outage
Online grocer FreshDirect's Web site was unavailable Wednesday, an embarrassing outage over the renewal of its domain name that frustrated customers.
Visitors to the company's Web site on Tuesday and Wednesday were greeted with a generic Web page for domain registrar Network Solutions, saying the address needed to be renewed. FreshDirect directed customers to call its service line, and a representative said the company hoped to get its Web site back up later Wednesday.


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90 children in state die from neglect, abuse
Neglect and abuse killed 90 children across the state last year, the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services said Thursday, and almost half were infants who died in unsafe sleeping conditions.
The total could rise, department spokesman Dave Clarkin said, as more than 60 death investigations from 2012 are still pending.
Forty of the children were infants who suffocated while sleeping with parents, with blankets or on their stomachs, Clarkin said. All of those practices are considered dangerous and advised against by the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Clarkin says the department has worked hard to warn young mothers about the dangers, but now needs to try to reach grandmothers.
"We really need to do a better job of reaching maternal grandmothers. Young mothers in particular turn heavily to their own mothers for advice," he said.
Homicides were the second-largest category of deaths with 22. In many cases, the department's investigations found that warning signs, such as physical abuse and domestic violence, before the deaths were never reported.
The department wasn't sure how many of those homicides have resulted in successful prosecutions.
The department doesn't have calendar totals for deaths from neglect and abuse from previous years for comparison to 2012, Clarkin said, but the total for the 2011 state fiscal year was also 90.


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A procedure was previously posted on using IFW boot recovery USB to accomplish this, but I cannot locate it.
Kindly outline the steps for me, in simple terms. I assume that the PC will boot from the Linux recovery USB, then allow access to the external hard drive where the back up is located.


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WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 (UPI) -- Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., a conservative firebrand in Washington, announced Thursday he will leave the U.S. Senate to head The Heritage Foundation.
"It's been an honor to serve the people of South Carolina in United States Senate for the past eight years, but now it's time for me to pass the torch to someone else and take on a new role in the fight for America's future," DeMint said in a statement posted on his website.
While he said he was leaving the Senate, he was not "leaving the fight."
"I've decided to join The Heritage Foundation at a time when the conservative movement needs strong leadership in the battle of ideas," DeMint said. "No organization is better equipped to lead this fight and I believe my experience in public office as well as in the private sector as a business owner will help Heritage become even more effective in the years to come."
DeMint, who will leave the Senate in January, takes over for Edwin J. Feulner, who announced Thursday he will step down in April as president of the well-respected conservative think tank he envisioned then founded.
DeMint said he was "humbled" to succeed Feulner, "who built the most important conservative institution in the nation. He has been a friend and mentor for years and I am honored to carry on his legacy of fighting for freedom."
"This is a crucial moment for America and for the conservative movement, and we are seizing it," said Heritage Chairman of the Board Thomas A. Saunders. "Ed Feulner has made Heritage not just a permanent institution on Capitol Hill, but the flagship organization of the entire conservative movement."
DeMint, Saunders said, "has shown that principled conservatism remains a winning political philosophy. His passion for rigorous research, his dedication to the principles of our nation's founding and his ability to translate policy ideas into action make him an ideal choice to lead Heritage to even greater success."
His conservative stance made him beloved among the party's grassroots members. DeMint exercised influence through his Senate Conservatives Fund, which supported more ideologically "pure" candidates over candidates preferred by the GOP establishment.
DeMint also authored legislation concerning balancing the budget, banning earmarks, revising the tax code and reforming entitlement programs.
DeMint was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1998, leaving after a three terms. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2004 and re-elected in 2010.
Feulner will remain at the foundation as its chancellor and chairman of its Asian Studies Center, Saunders said.


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The original thread is Mfs_Ftp: extract, archive, restore & transfer recordings
This is for the specific discussion about MFS_FTP for Series 2 units.
It is important to understand that files/programs/binaries are compiled scripts for a certain platform. Most of the files in the tivo community are compiled for series 1 units, or PPC processors. Since series 2 units are powered by MIPS processors, we can only use files/programs/binaries compiled for the MIPS platform. Knowing that, we have to have MIPS versions of the MFS_FTP support binaries.
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2)Transfer that file to your S2 unit, in /var/hack or a subdirectory in there of your choice, and uncompress it.
3) Next chmod +x the 5 files you uncompressed (mfs_export, mfs_ftp.tcl, mfs_stdinsert, mfs_stream, mfs_tarstream)
4) Now, we need to make sure the following is in your hackinit
export PATH TIVO_ROOT MFS_DEVICE IGNOREEOF
(of course make sure hda10 is the correct mfs_device for your setup)
If the above is somewhere in your hackinit, you are ready for the next step.
If the above is not in your hackinit, add it and then restart your tivo.
5) Finally, launch mfs_ftp.tcl by typing ./mfs_ftp.tcl in the path where you originally uploaded the files.
6) You are ready to use MFS-FTP. Read the readme included in the tarfile.
Note.. I can download files around ~500KB/s via a Belkin 10/100 USB Ethernet adapter from my HDVR2 using mfs-ftp.
Thanks again for a great util rc3105, and thanks to omnius for porting it to MIPS.
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This year, the California State Senate will vote on the CA Domestic Workers Bill of Rights, a bill that will provide previously unprotected domestic workers with overtime pay, an appropriate amount of breaks and safer living conditions (i.e. basic workers' rights). Among those voicing their support is actor, comedian and Jezebel favorite Amy Poehler who now appears in a PSA supporting the bill. In the video, Poehler admits that she would never have been able to achieve all that she has without the hard work of the domestic workers who have helped to raise her family and keep her home.
A worthy lady for a more than worthy cause.
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You don't need to leave users puzzled. You can simply put the CPAN modules in with your build environment, and have make files install them. That's what I do at $work (see IT department reluctance in my original node). Our make files run a script that goes and untars the modules and runs the install process. If they're pure-perl modules, you may even be able to get away with pre-installing them (i.e., just placing their files in your tree). Of course, since you're then distributing the result, you'll want to consult with the lawyers about proper attribution and licensing, but that should cost a fraction of what developing some of the modules from scratch would be anyway.
The only thing I can see where you can't just install or upgrade willy-nilly might be perl itself, or other external dependencies (such as Oracle if you want to use DBD::Oracle, or expat for XML::Parser). Most modules, however, should not have such a limitation. With a little thought, most other issues should be easily worked around, and even external dependencies can sometimes be worked around, too.
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This afternoon's statement from Octopus Investments was very professionally written piece. It was designed to give investors a sense that the business has taken appropriate steps to secure money spent with Rangers.
For a start, we now know their company, Ticketus, "purchased tickets for Glasgow Rangers games for a number of seasons". This clarifies one matter, money received by Craig Whyte's solicitors back in May last year was a straightforward purchase, not a loan, so VAT was applicable, and should have been declared and paid. We can assume this VAT was not paid, whether it was declared or not will determine future consequences.
Octopus explain their investments are "designed with capital preservation in mind", with "appropriate security being available" and "extensive due diligence".
A reasonable interpretation of this is that the company have sufficient security to ensure that they have rights to sell Rangers tickets for parts or all of the stadium in years to come, although, the company stop short of making a firm statement on what is, after all, a private commercial matter. They add that "no trading activity is risk free", no one can assume there will be a Rangers in the future, and while their statement mentions Glasgow Rangers, it does not specifically mention a legal entity.
A floating charge exists over the stadium in Craig Whyte's favour. This would see the stadium revert to Whyte in the event of the club being liquidated. Octopus may, or may not, have a claim on this floating charge.
Armed with this information, the administrators and Strathclyde Police will be keen to learn why none of the money for Rangers tickets went into the club. Perhaps more importantly for any potential phoenix, questions remain over exactly who owns what claims on the stadium.
There could be a lot of sentimental photos being taken at Ibrox tomorrow.
All levity aside, this club is enduring a seemingly unending trauma.
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And Im starting to see it!
Those from the past!
As I get better, Im seeing what I blocked off! Im seeing Satan! Im seeing the devil! Im seeing the devil in my best friend and his family! No ######6 wonder God was humorous about the whole thing! He was laughing at me or with me! He was trying to explain to me; " I do not know those people, they are not in my book of life"! I did not understand how this could be! Now I know! As I get better, and better within his realm; now I see it!
Ive seen psychopaths like wolves within the meetings I attend! And I see it! The family system I thought were my friends! They are the same way! They are like wolves with fangs! All animals! All animal, no human! Nothing human! Complete demonic!
And I see different forms of Satan in many people that have approached me! Or that I have approached!
It's my job to figure out what really happened when I was young! It's no game! I was genicided out of my life very young! It was deliberate! It's my job to look at it; figure it out, fix what I can and move on!
The idea is to get my life back and let go of those from the past! Im not a sociopath! So it's not easy for me! Im a sensitive human being! It makes things impossible!
You have to keep working at this; over n over n over!
Its about my addiction to mom and dad! To my mom and dad! A child wants to feel proud of something! All they have is their mom and dad! Take that away, and they are crushed!
And I was crushed! Now Im looking for solutions to be uncrushed!
Im slowly working on this! It's slowly happening! When and as I work through the issues with my mother and father, all other issues get better!
Im still living a double life and have not began to change!
I attract women; my fair share; but I cant feel comfortable with them until I can tell them the truth!~
I live in an apartment and don't have much in the way of money! I certainly don't tell them bluntly at the top! However, its about being afraid to approach them because of my economic insecurities
Live learned that I have to quit living a double life and learn to tell people the truth!
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Yankees designate Soriano for assignment
Minneapolis, MN (SportsNetwork.com) - The New York Yankees have decided to part ways with the struggling Alfonso Soriano, designating the outfielder for assignment on Sunday.
Soriano had just one hit in his last 14 at-bats and was 0-for-4 in Saturday's game against Minnesota. He was batting just .221 with six homers and 23 runs batted in through 67 games this season.
The Yankees re-acquired Soriano last July from the Cubs and he slugged 17 homers while driving in 50 runs in just 58 games for New York. He finished with a combined 34 homers and 101 RBI in 151 games for the 2013 season.
With an overcrowded outfield and Carlos Beltran filling the designated hitter role because of an elbow issue, Soriano became expendable. The move will allow Ichiro Suzuki to play more in right field.
"It's extremely difficult because he's been a great Yankee and a great player," said Yankees manager Joe Girardi about the move.
Soriano broke into the majors with the Yankees in 1999 and spent the first five years of his career with New York before being dealt to the Texas Rangers for Alex Rodriguez. After two years with the Rangers, he was shipped to the Washington Nationals before signing a massive free-agent deal with the Cubs in November of 2006.
In 1,975 games, the seven-time All-Star has 412 homers and 1,159 RBI to go along with a .270 batting average.
The Yankees, who also acquired pitcher Brandon McCarthy from the Arizona Diamondbacks earlier Sunday, filled Soriano's roster spot with pitcher Bruce Billings.


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In this work an air-based sensor network for the localization of persons at extensive areas is presented. The developed network consists of a localization device which the person is wearing (BodyGuard-System), a mobile relay station in the air, and a base station. All three parts communicate with the same radio chip. The BodyGuard-System is an inertial navigation system which was developed for localization in difficult environments with high accuracy and low measurement uncertainty. To increase the range of the system, a multi-hop network was built up. The measured data of the BodyGuard-System and the mobile relay station is visualized on a PC in the base station. This multi-hop network is necessary for example for fire department missions.


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Like most of the readers here at OilersNation, I read Dmitry Chesnokov's piece on Puck Daddy yesterday with interest. After quoting Rafik Yakubov, the director with Nail Yakupov's KHL club (Nizhnekamsk Neftekhimik) as saying "The IIHF is not allowing Yakupov to play," Chesnokov went on to speculate that the IIHF might be waiting for official NHL permission before issuing transfer cards.
According to IIHF communications director Szymon Szemberg, that speculation is "entirely incorrect, false and fabricated."
After some brief opening comments, Szemberg replied to me at length with what the IIHF sees as inaccuracies in the story.
The IIHF Response
On Neftekhimik director Rafik Yakubov's comments: "The IIHF is not even in a position not allowing him to play (unless he is serving a severe disciplinary sentence or is under a doping suspension). As soon as the ITC has the three necessary signatures – the player's, the old federation's and the new federation's – the IIHF by default approves a transfer."
On Chesnokov's comment that IIHF delays could prevent Yakupov from dressing for Neftekhimik's next game: "Everyone who knows the ITC process is aware that the "old" federation (in this case Hockey Canada) has seven days to approve a transfer. All clubs in the KHL, who transfer many players throughout the season, are aware of this. This is also exactly the same right that Neftekhimik had when Yakupov transferred to Sarnia two years ago. Chesnokov's reasoning can be compared with someone saying: 'I have scheduled my trip to Russia this afternoon, the Russian embassy in Washington better get me a visa immediately otherwise I will miss my flight.'"
On the IIHF waiting for official permission from the NHL before issuing a transfer card: "Yes, and this is exactly how it works from all sides. If a player last played in the NHL, Hockey Canada or USA Hockey must get the NHL's clearance to have the player transferred. The same right is with every national federation/league all over the world. If the transfer goes the other way, the Russian hockey federation in behalf of the KHL and its club gives their clearance. Where is the controversy?"
On the possibility of the NHL blocking players from dressing for games via pressure n the IIHF: "The NHL has never stopped any player from transferring unless there is a valid reason like a conflicting contract or unfulfilled obligations. No league or federation can stop a transfer unless they present a valid reason in accordance to the IIHF transfer regulations and they have seven days to present their case. If there is no answer within seven days, or if the IIHF finds the reasoning for not approving not in accordance to the regulations, the IIHF would still approve the transfer."
Further Thoughts
Szemberg also took issue with the reference to Radulov's transfer to Russia while still under contract to Nashville, pointing out that the situation involving that player led to modifications of the transfer card process. He also updated the situation with regard to the Czech players mentioned in Chesnokov's report, saying that the IIHF "expeditiously" approved transfer cards for Jaromir Jagr, Marek Zidlicky, Jiri Tlusty and Vladimir Sobotka specifically so that none of those players would miss any games.
From my point of view, all of this goes back to Yakubov's comments. His statement that "the transfer card has not been sent from Switzerland" would seem to be accurate, but the surrounding speculation by both Yakubov and Chesnokov is at odds with the IIHF position. Szemberg makes the case – and makes it well, in my opinion – that the IIHF isn't dragging its heels out of deference to the NHL, but is just sticking to the same process that it always has, and waiting for approved signatures from all parties before putting the paperwork through.
Yakupov was returned to Sarnia on September 15. He's in Russia now, sitting as his team plays Torpedo (they're in the second intermission as of this writing). It's only been four days, and there's a seven-day window. Given that, this really sounds like something that's going to be a) cleared up shortly and b) will have no lasting impact on Yakupov's season.
Also, while Szemberg specifically hammered Puck Daddy for the report – he told me that he would rather not have responded in such fashion, but that the Puck Daddy headline and story left him "with no other choice" – it does feel like the root problem here are the comments by Yakubov. Yakubov's statement implied political maneuvering without stating it explicitly, and Chesnokov followed that statement with speculation along those lines. On the other hand, Chesnokov's description of "the large scale of the IIHF's ineptness" does seem rather unfair given that a) there's a seven-day window and the lockout only started four days ago and b) there's been absolutely no concrete evidence to suggest that the delay is at the IIHF head office rather than at the local federation level. The fact that transfers have gone through for Czech players rather suggests that the delay is in fact at the local federation level, and given the span of time involved it's not even a particularly lengthy delay.
Bottom line: I see no compelling reason to hold the IIHF's feet to the fire on this, and better still I have every reason to believe that Nail Yakupov will be playing hockey again in the very near future.
(Full disclosure – I'm not a close friend to Chesnokov, Greg Wyshynski or any of the other Puck Daddy staff, but I have interacted with them on occasion, once writing a piece for the site, and do generally have a good relationship with the site and the individuals behind it.)
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Noticing a slight crack on Tobi's mask, Guy and Naruto thought that Naruto's last attack had actually hit the mask; however Kakashi disagrees, noting that the type of crack was not consistent with a punch, but a sharper object. Kakashi then remembers the lightning-imbued kunai he had thrown earlier at Tobi and had warped away with Kamui. B takes the opportunity to strike the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path as it continues to transform into the Ten-Tails, but the attack is deflected when Tobi erected a barrier, rendering the team powerless to strike the statue until they defeated him. After he had finished formulating his strategy, Kakashi then tells the group to aid him in testing his hypothesis. They then leapt unto B's hand, who launched them directly at Tobi, commencing the plan. Guy starts off using his Sōshūga only for Tobi to avoid it using his dematerialisation ability, predicting Guy's moves with his Sharingan. Jeering Tobi, Guy gets the masked man to absorb his nunchaku rendering him tangible. This allows Naruto to follow up quickly by launching a Rasengan, which Tobi phases through, insisting on the futileness of the strategy. However, the Rasengan seemingly dispersed before passing through Tobi, continued by a sudden explosion that inflicted his right arm and hurled him away, having him to get on his feet again thanks to his weapon. Tobi then realised that the attack was transported to the other dimension using Kamui, just as he was about to materialise. Realising Tobi's ability now, Kakashi notes that Tobi was not using two separate techniques to dematerialise and warp things away, but a single technique.


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The highly-coveted back took a West Coast swing last week, which proved fruitful for the Bears coaching staff. After visiting Cal, he went down the coast to UCLA, but it was the Bears that won out.
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Cardani® was founded in 2011 by Danielle Yates, in honor of her mother Carol, a breast cancer survivor. But Cardani's roots go all the way back to 1990 when Carol was first diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 40. She lost all of her hair due to treatments and was unable to find anything that looked remotely attractive to cover her head. Wigs didn't look natural and she found them uncomfortable. The few hats that she could find provoked stares and looks of pity.
When Carol woke up from her first breast surgery in 1991, she realized that the doctors had left the surgical cap on her head because she was bald. This was one of the lowest moments in her life. She vowed that if she survived, no other cancer patient would have to go through the same experience. Carol began designing hats and founded Headcovers Unlimited in 1994. Danielle was alongside her throughout this journey and even made the first company website on her home computer back in 1994. It was a lot more primitive than it is today! It's hard to believe now, but this was a time when most people had never even heard of the Internet.
Carol lived for 20 years with metastic breast cancer. She passed away in 2009, defying her doctor's predictions by almost 15 years. Danielle witnessed her mother's embarrassment and shame over her hair loss first hand. She promised to continue and honor her mother's legacy. The Cardani® brand is symbollic of a mother and daughter's bond during struggles. The eternal love that actively remains even in death. Carol is still at the heart of the brand. The name Cardani® is a combination of Carol and Danielle's names. The first 3 letters of Cardani are the first three letters in Carol's name. The next 4 letters are the first 4 letters in Danielle's name.


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According to general manager Tom Larson, Paul Binder and Michael Christensen began performing as street jugglers in Europe in 1977. After being recruited for a circus and getting a taste of performing under the big tent, they returned to the United States.
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There are 30 artists performing at the circus. Artistic director Guillaume Dufresony visits festivals and competitions all over the world to find the perfect cast.
The theme of the show changes annually, so Dufresony has to find new artists each year. New costumes, music acts and sets have to be found as well.
The 2013 show is called Legendarium, and explores the history of the circus with, jugglers, acrobats and a contortionist, to name a few of the performers.
Larson believes it is the community service and not-for-profit angle that has kept the Big Apple Circus popular over the years.
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Big Apple Circus has many outreach programs to interact with the local community in whatever city it sets up tent.
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This is the second in a series of blogs meant to take a new look at how advisors build portfolios for clients. In the first posting, we argued that advisors must use a consistent and measurable "risk-based approach" when analyzing portfolios and investment strategies and making any specific security recommendations to clients.
In this posting, we argue that developing successful investment strategies and competing for investment capital depends on the advisor's ability to demonstrate to prospective clients that they have a clear and rational method for developing and implementing investment plans. There are three distinct steps for doing so.
Step 1: Establishing the Risk Profile
The first step is to determine the prospect's Risk Profile, to determine how much downside risk is acceptable.
A review of the current portfolio's risk characteristics with the client should give you and the investor a good idea of how much risk he is willing to take. Do not be generic in specifying this risk (i.e., growth and income, or aggressive): risk is a function of how much loss of principal (real or nominal) the client is willing to accept in any 12-month period. In general, assuming a balanced portfolio, risk levels should never exceed -12.50% (minimum ROR) in any twelve-month period.
It is imperative that you have a quantitative answer to this risk profile since it is intrinsically tied to any investment solution you will develop. For example, you might establish a set of reasonable investment objectives and the range of risk associated with each as follows.
Investment Objective
Risk Tolerance Range
Default Risk Value
Capital Preservation
risk tolerance range of 0.00% … -1.75% (default of 1.00%)
risk tolerance range of -1.75% … -4.25% (default of -3.00%)
Growth & Income
risk tolerance range of -4.25% … -6.75% (default of –5.25%)
risk tolerance range of -6.75% … -10.25% (default of –8.50%)
Aggressive Growth
risk tolerance range of -10.25% … -12.75% (default of –11.50%)
From a marketing stand point, there are very few investors who would not pay to know how much risk they are currently taking with their portfolio and what kind of performance might be expected. Managing the investor's risk and expected performance are critical in providing sound financial advice.
Some years ago I was working with an $86 million pension fund in Chicago that wanted to know what level of risk and return they might expect from their current mix of investments. The analysis demonstrated that, within the 90% probability range, they had a risk of losing 9.6% of their principal in any twelve-month period. Clearly, this was much greater risk than they were comfortable with from an actuarial and funding perspective. Understanding this, we were able to then design a portfolio that was more compatible with their risk profile.
Step 2: Analyzing Current Investments
Once the Risk Profile has been established, the next step is to review and analyze the risk and performance characteristics of existing investments to determine if they exhibit more or less risk and performance than expected.
It is virtually impossible to know how to achieve your objectives unless you know where you're starting from.
The process begins by using a sophisticated analytical tool to determine the portfolio's return, standard deviation (a measure of volatility), diversification (correlation matrix) and probable range of returns (upper and lower boundaries). Other metrics of value for consideration include: Sharpe Ratio, Treynor Ratio, Sterling Ratio, cumulative rate of return, alpha, beta, R-square, maximum drawdown, up and down market capture, overlap analysis, equity and fixed income properties. These metrics will help you and the client better understand the true performance of the portfolio and its constituent parts.
The lower boundary of acceptable risk (the investor's risk tolerance) is determined by first calculating the historical mean or annualized rate of return and standard deviation of the portfolio. Using that information we can easily determine the upper and lower boundaries of return at any specified probability level. In most cases you will use the 90% probability value. A lower boundary that is greater than the prospect's Risk Profile (i.e., 12.5% compared to a Risk Profile of -5.0%) indicates that the portfolio is riskier than desired.
At the 90% level:
Upper boundary = 1.654 * STD + Mean ROR
Lower boundary = 1.654 * STD – Mean ROR
The lower the asset standard deviations and the greater the degree of negative correlation, the lower the portfolio risk will be.
Metrics indicating that the current portfolio exhibits excessive risk and is underperforming:
- Downside risk/Lower Boundary is greater than established in the investor's Risk Profile indicates that the portfolio is too risky.
- Maximum Drawdown is high indicating excessive volatility.
- Sharpe Ratio is low (under 0.80) indicates that the portfolio is very inefficient (poor asset allocation).
- Correlations are low indicating poor asset/security selection.
Metrics alone will not tell you if a portfolio is too volatile or underperforming. An asset with a higher standard deviation may not indicate greater volatility since a higher rate of return might reflect greater incremental return per unit of change in standard deviation. Establish a set of metrics that you can consistently use to review the risk/return characteristics of the portfolio and its relationship to the investor's Risk Profile.
Step 3: Financial Objectives (Goal Setting)
In general, the primary objective for any investment portfolio is to provide sufficient capital and income for the investor to live "comfortably" in post-retirement years. Evaluating the success of your scenario could include Monte Carlo simulations and/or straight-line cash flow analysis using estimated returns and standard deviations. While it is not necessary to have a detailed estate plan in place for most investors, nonetheless it is important that some objectives are clearly set out and that the probability of achieving those goals is evaluated by your portfolio analytical tools. You will require a sophisticated analytical tool that will establish clear financial objectives and quickly determine if the current or proposed portfolios are likely to achieve those objectives.
- What financial goals does the investor want to achieve (retirement, college, major purchases, etc.)?
- What is the start and end date of each goal?
- How much risk is the investor willing to accept to achieve each goal?
- How much money can he invest towards the goals now and in the future?
- How much money will be needed to achieve the goals based on expected return?
Begin Date
End Date
Summing Up
Most individual investors acquire assets without much, if any, consideration given to their financial objectives, expected portfolio rates of return, risk, and the inter-relationship or balance of the assets involved.They generally end up with a mix of unrelated investments which, as a whole, can never fulfill the investor's policies and objectives. Advisors need to design portfolios that will achieve financial objectives by matching assets according to risk/return trade-offs. If capital is allocated efficiently, portfolio returns will generally be higher over the long-term, and portfolio volatility will be lower.
In the third and final installment, we will discuss portfolio construction and asset class suitability; designing the proposed portfolio including forecasting performance and optimizing portfolios; finding appropriate investment vehicles; and achieving established financial goals.


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I was hit by an uninsured driver. Can I still file a claim?
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I have been offered a settlement for my accident. Should I accept the offer?
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If your case does not result in financial compensation, you are not responsible for any charges or fees whatsoever.
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Scioto, OH car accident statistics reveal how often collisions happen in the local area – and what the most common causes (and impacts) of these crashes are.
According to the latest data from authorities at the Department of Transportation:
- 632 people were killed in deadly car crashes in 2018.
- 209 fatalities caused by impaired drivers in 2018
- Since 2014, deadly car accidents in Scioto, Ohio have surged more than 20 percent.
- About 33 percent of all fatal car crashes in Scioto involve at least one drunk driver.
- Drivers' mistakes and/or reckless actions are the number one cause of car accidents (both in Scioto and across the nation).
- Distracted driving, speeding and impaired driving are the top three motorist errors that cause auto collisions in Scioto.
- Driver inexperience contributes to about 1 in every 5 car crashes in Ohio.
For more findings about the rates, causes and outcomes of car accidents in Scioto, OH, check out more statistics here.
These grim facts about Scioto car crashes are distressing (especially considering many motorist mistakes are completely preventable).
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"Mies ampui seurakuntansa pastorin maryvilleläisessä kirkossa. Teon syynä oli borreliabakteerin aiheuttama neuropsykiatrinen sairaus. Nuori mies ja hänen perheensä olivat sairastuneet borrelioosiin 1990-luvun alussa. Bakteeri oli aiheuttanut heille neuroborrelioosin ja esim. muutoksia aivokudokseen. Maaliskuun 9. 2009 27-vuotias Terry J. Sedlacek sai murhasyytteen. Hän puukotti myös itseään ja kahta apuun tullutta seurakunnan jäsentä.
Ei ole epäilystäkän siitä etteikö borreliabakteeri aiheuttaisi neurologisia sairauksia. Asiasta on esitetty tutkimuksia jo vuosikymmenten ajan.
(Sivulla olevista linkeistä löytyy aihetta käsitteleviä tutkimuksia.)
Borrelioosissa esiintyy samanlaisia aivomuutoksia joita tavataan esim. MS-taudissa (oireistossa). Vauriot saattavat korjautua antibioottihoidolla mutta eivät välttämättä. Joillekin jää vaurioita loppuelämän ajaksi. Voiko borreliabakteeri aiheuttaa hallitsemattomia vihanpurkauksia? Monien lääkäreiden/psykiatrien mukaan kyllä voi. Erittäin vihamielinen, murhanhimoinen käyttäytyminen on kuitenkin erittäin harvinaista. Neuropsyykkiset oireet ovat moninaisia, esim. itsemurhia esiintyy sairastuneiden kohdalla.
Neuroborrelioosin tavallisimmat oireet ovat neuropatia, esim. puutumista, pistelyä, hermokipua, muistihäiriöitä, voimakasta uupumusta jne. Psyykkisinä oireina esiintyy esim. masennus, ahdistus, paniikkikohtaus, harhaisuus, hallusinaatio, voimakas vihanpurkaus jne. Voimakasoireista neurologista borrelioosia sairastava saattaa eksyä maantiellä tai hänellä on vaikeuksia lukea ja ymmärtää lukemaansa tekstiä.
Mikäli lääkärisi epäilee sinun sairastavan neuroborrelioosia, oireinasi saattaa esiintyä esim. päänsärky, kasvohermohalvaus, aivokalvontulehdus, raajojen heikotus, puutuminen, ristiselkäkipu (iskias), kognitiiviset häiriöt kuten ongelmia ajattelussa, järkeilyssä, muistissa jne."
Viestin lopussa esitetään tutkimuksia joiden mukaan borreliabakteeri kykenee aiheuttamaan erilaisia psyykkisiä oireita. Artikkelissa ihmetellään CDC:n ja IDSA:n, Gary Wormserin, kannanottoja joissa kyseenalaistetaan borreliabakteerin aiheuttamat neuropsykiatriset oireet. Kannanotto liittynee IDSA:n systemaattisiin pyrkimyksiin kieltää borrelioosin kroonistuminen.
Aiheesta kerrottiin myös TV-uutisissa, News Channel 5. Videolla lääkäri Schaffner väittää ettei borreliabakteeri aiheuta psykooseja eikä tauti edes ole kovin yleinen. Ohjelmassa esiintynyt borrelioosia sairastava nainen kehottaa Schaffneria päivittämään tietonsa borrelioosista. Hänen mukaansa tauti on vaarallinen ja sitä sairastavia on runsaasti.
VIDEO: http://www.newschannel5.com/Global/story.asp?S=9984100
Illinois Shooting Renews Lyme Disease Debate
Posted: March 11, 2009 06:38 AM
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - A crowded sanctuary, a loaded gun, and a man with enough ammunition to kill 30 people. Sunday's murder of a church pastor in Illinois has investigators looking into the medical history of the suspected shooter.
The incident has renewed the debate on an illness that has cropped-up in Middle Tennessee.
The question remains, was the illness a factor in the murder of Pastor Fred Winters? Could Lyme disease push a person to kill?
Vanderbilt Infectious Disease Specialist Dr. Bill Schaffner never treated church shooting suspect Terry Joe Sedlacek, but he is treating the growing suspicion that a tick-borne illness might have made Sedlacek homicidal.
"There is no evidence in the medical literature that Lyme disease, in whatever form - and that's also debatable - could pre-dispose one to violent, psychotic and evil behavior," sayd Schaffner.
Some patients who live with the disease would refute the doctor's claims.
"I don't think anybody can say that," says Mary Ann Pickard.
Pickard suffers from Lyme disease. She loves the outdoors, but loathes the lifelong illness she says nature inflicted on her.
Pickard says the disease has been debilitating, but on her worst day, she has never felt violent.
"I would suggest that he get up to date on current information, because there are now more cases of Lyme Disease than AIDS in the United States," says Pickard.
Schaffner insists Tennessee physicians base their findings, not on a feeling, but on fact. Cold, hard numbers that show the Volunteer State has a very low occurrence of the illness.
The latest numbers from the state health department reflect just one case so far this year.
One case is likely not cause for alarm, but Lyme Disease patients have long maintained the reporting method is flawed, saying that Lyme is under-diagnosed.
Pastor killing: Another act of violence attributed to Lyme disease
By Pamela Weintraub on March 9, 2009 - 6:30am in Emerging Diseases
http://blogs.psychologytoday.com/blog/e ... me-disease
On the heels of the rage-filled chimp story comes a human version: This weekend a man opened fire on a pastor in a church in Maryville, Illinois, murdering him with a rain of gunfire. Here, too, the explanation for the attack has been given as psychiatric illness caused by Lyme disease. Infected by a tick on the family farm in the early 1990's, the young man was, his family said, left with lesions on his brain.
There's no question that Lyme disease is a neurological illness. It has been associated with neurological disease for decades in rigorous peer review in the top medical journals in the world
For a quick review of neurological Lyme disease and its psychiatric links, check out the blog posts:
part one, part two, part three, and a psychiatrist gets Lyme disease.
Lyme disease may certainly form brain lesions much like those seen in multiple scleroisis. These lesions are often reversible with antibiotic therapy, but are sometimes irreversible and seen in patient brain scans for life.
Can Lyme disease provoke rage? Many psychiatrists and doctors working in the trenches with some of the sickest patients say the answer is yes, as do reports in the peer review. But murderous violent crime is not the typical M.O. for a patient with Lyme. Mental illness exists apart from Lyme disease and even adverse reactions to antidepressants and other antipsychotic drugs could provoke outsized rage. Once psychiatric symptoms emerge from Lyme disease, outcomes may include everything from suicide to severe adverse reactions to psychoactive drugs.
The most common symptoms of neurological Lyme disease include neuropathies that involve buzzing and tingling, nerve pain, memory loss, confusion, and fatigue. Psychiatric problems like depression, anxiety, OCD, and ADD can be triggered by Lyme or other tick-borne infections, according to studies. Panic attacks, hallucinations, delusions, and extreme rage have all been reported in Lyme patients but compared to memory loss and confusion, these presentations are rare. A patient with severe neurological Lyme disease is far more likely to get lost on the road or have trouble reading than shoot up a Church.
While Lyme disease is not known for triggering killing sprees, the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) appears to have taken a bizarre stance by apparently dismissing most presentations of neurological Lyme disease at all. "In some rare cases, people may have neurologic problems such as facial paralysis," the group concedes in a press release on the situation, listing this single symptom and no others. The group cites a 95% cure rate for Lyme disease, failing to mention that the statistic refers only to early disease; that number has been called into question by some academic heavyweights due to new findings on Lyme strains. But more disturbing, IDSA fails, in its release, to mention the late-diagnosed Lyme cases (and due to flawed tests, there are many of these) that give rise to the lion's share of neurological forms of the disease.
What is especially misleading is that the IDSA statement fails to take note of the true mainstream authority on neurological Lyme disease, the American Academy of Neurology. That group, whose practice guidelines hold sway in mainstream circles on this painful and sometimes-devastating condition, says this:
If you or a family member have been told by a doctor that you have nervous system Lyme disease, regardless of age, your symptoms may include headache, facial nerve palsy (Bell?s palsy), and meningitis (swelling and pain in the membrane surrounding the brain). Rarely the brain or spinal cord may become inflamed, causing weakness or changes to the nerve impulses in parts of the body, or other symptoms. Patients with nervous system Lyme disease may also have one or more of these symptoms: radicular (sciatica-like nerve) pain, weakness or numbness due to nerve damage, or changes in cognitive function (thinking, reasoning, remembering, imagining).
Shame on you IDSA! In a situation where balance is required, extremism, including exaggeration or diminishment of a real situation, only muddies the waters and leaves everyone confused.
On Monday, March 9, the Associated Press reported that that attacker, Terry J. Sedlacek, 27, of Troy, was charged with two counts each of first-degree murder and aggravated battery, for gunning down the pastor and then stabbing himself and two worshippers who tried to tackle him down.
Scientific evidence for ?Lyme Rage?
March 11th, 2009 | Category: Controversy, Patient Stories, Science
Posted by: Kris
In light of the tragic shooting in Illinois, we?d like weigh in on the issue of whether the shooter?s case of late-stage Lyme disease could have caused violent behavior. First, during our four years of research for the film, UNDER OUR SKIN, we interviewed a number of patients who had bouts of ?Lyme Rage? before appropriate treatment. While it doesn?t seem that common, it does seem possible. In addition, many of the physicians we interviewed, specifically the ones who treat a large number of Lyme patients, acknowledge that they have had patients with Lyme Rage. And finally, there are over 100 peer-reviewed medical journal articles linking tick-borne diseases to mental symptoms and quite a few that document Lyme-induced rages. For your convenience, I?ve cited some of these articles at the bottom of this post.
In this morning?s press, the IDSA and CDC came out with guns blazing, denying the possibility of Lyme Rage.
Dr. Gary Wormser, the lead author of the controversial Infectious Disease Society of Americe (IDSA) Lyme guidelines, said, on WebMD:
?I don?t know of any convincing evidence that Lyme disease can cause violence or psychosis.?
Paul Mead, a medical epidemiologist with the CDC, said in an article by Roger Schlueter of the News-Democrat:
?So the spirochete certainly can, in the lab, attach to nerve cells, and it certainly causes acute inflammation of nervous tissue,? Mead said. ?But whether that would cause psychiatric illness is, as far as I know, impossible to say.?
While I personally find their Lyme denialism baffling, I encourage those of you interested in the science to read the peer-reviewed journal articles listed below, and decide for yourself.
The News-Democrat also cites the Prague study, which says:
?In 2002, a study at the Prague Psychiatric Center involving 1,900 people found that people with psychiatric illness had about a 30 percent increased incidence of Lyme disease antibodies in their blood compared to other study participants.?
Isn?t it worth keeping our minds open to the emerging evidence that the Lyme bacteria ? a neurologically invasive spirochete just like syphilis ? could be the root cause of a myriad of psychiatric disorders that are currently considered incurable? How costly to our society and inhumane to medicate and lock up thousands of supposedly mentally ill people, when they may have a treatable bacterial infection.
Lyme-Induced Psychiatric Disorders
Peer-Reviewed Literature from Around the World
Lyme disease: a neuropsychiatric illness.
Fallon BA, Nields JA. Am J Psychiatry. 1994 Nov;151(11):1571-83.
?A broad range of psychiatric reactions have been associated with Lyme disease including paranoia, dementia, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, panic attacks, major depression, anorexia nervosa, and obsessive-compulsive disorder.?
Late-stage neuropsychiatric Lyme borreliosis. Differential diagnosis and treatment.
Fallon BA, Schwartzberg M, Bransfield R, Zimmerman B, Scotti A, Weber CA, Liebowitz MR. Psychosomatics. 1995 May-Jun;36(3):295-300.
?Although dermatologic, articular, cardiac, ophthalmologic, and neurologic manifestations are well known, it is less well known that psychiatric disorders may also arise. Depression, panic attacks, schizophrenia-like psychotic state, bipolar disorder, and dementia have been attributed to Lyme borreliosis.?
Functional brain imaging and neuropsychological testing in Lyme disease.
Fallon BA, Das S, Plutchok JJ, Tager F, Liegner K, Van Heertum R.
Clin Infect Dis. 1997 Jul;25 Suppl 1:S57-63. Review.
?Patients with Lyme disease may experience short-term memory loss, severe depression, panic attacks, unrelenting anxiety, impulsivity, paranoia, obsessive compulsive disorder, personality changes marked by irritability and mood swings, and rarely, manic episodes or psychotic states.?
The underdiagnosis of neuropsychiatric Lyme disease in children and adults.
Fallon BA, Kochevar JM, Gaito A, Nields JA.
Psychiatr Clin North Am. 1998 Sep;21(3):693-703, viii.
?In addition to the disorders listed by Kohler and Omasitis, Lyme disease appears to be capable of causing syndromes that manifest as personality change, depersonalization, mania, hallucinations, (auditory, visual, and olfactory), paranoia, cataonia with stupor and mutism, somatization disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, violent outbursts, panic attacks and disorientation.?
The neuropsychiatric manifestations of Lyme borreliosis.
Fallon BA, Nields JA, Burrascano JJ, Liegner K, DelBene D, Liebowitz MR.
Psychiatr Q. 1992 Spring;63(1):95-117. Review.
?Lyme disease is aptly called the ?new great imitator,? and it can imitate psychiatric disorders no less than medical ones. Psychiatrists working in endemic areas are well advised, then, to keep Lyme disease in mind as part of their differential diagnosis for a broad range of disorders including, for instance, panic attacks, somatization disorder, depression, and dementia.?
A 25-year-old woman with hallucinations, hypersexuality, nightmares, and a rash.
Stein SL, Solvason HB, Biggart E, Spiegel D.
Am J Psychiatry. 1996 Apr;153(4):545-51.
?The [Lyme] patient expressed a delusional belief that she was controlled by an attractive popular male former high school teacher who had put a curse on her family before her birth and was now sexually obsessed with her.?
Germany: Neurologische Klinik mit Poliklinik, Universität Freiburg.
Lyme borreliosis in neurology and psychiatry
Kohler J. Fortschr Med. 1990 Apr 10;108(10):191-3, 197.
?Involvements of the CNS are expressed not so much in focal deficits, as in diffuse psychopathological disorders? The clinical symptomatology may be dominated by severe psychiatric syndromes.?
Czechoslovakia: Prague Psychiatric Center
T. Hajek: firstname.lastname@example.com
Higher prevalence of antibodies to Borrelia burgdorferi in psychiatric patients than in healthy subjects.
Hájek T, Pasková B, Janovská D, Bahbouh R, Hájek P, Libiger J, Höschl C. Am J Psychiatry. 2002 Feb;159(2):297-301.
?These findings support the hypothesis that there is an association between Borrelia burgdorferi infection and psychiatric morbidity. In countries where this infection is endemic, a proportion of psychiatric inpatients may be suffering from neuropathogenic effects of Borrelia burgdorferi.?
Poland: Klinika Psychiatrii, Białymstoku.
Rudnik I, Konarzewska B, Zajkowska J, Juchnowicz D, Markowski T, Pancewicz SA.
Pol Merkur Lekarski. 2004 Apr;16(94):328-31.
?Mental state examinations and psychometric testing revealed in majority of the patients, mainly in those suffered from neuroborreliosis and erythrema migrans evidence of various psychiatric symptomatology. The range of psychiatric presentations included: mild cognitive deficits, organic mood disorders, mild dementias, depressive and anxiety episodes with non organic etiology.?
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Governor Cuomo Announces Legislation to Bring Consistency and Fairness to the States Penal Law and Save Thousands of New Yorkers from Unnecessary Misdemeanor Charges
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today, joined by legislators, district attorneys, and law enforcement officials, announced legislation that would make the penalties for private and public possession of small amounts of marijuana the same, thereby bringing consistency and fairness to New York State's Penal Law. This new law will save thousands of New Yorkers, who are disproportionately Black and Hispanic youth, from unnecessary misdemeanor charges.
"Todays announcement is about creating fairness and consistency in our laws since there is a blatant inconsistency in the way we deal with small amounts of marijuana possession," said Governor Cuomo. "This is an issue that disproportionately affects young people they wind up with a permanent stain on their record for something that would otherwise be a violation. The charge makes it more difficult for them to find a job. Together, we are making New York fairer and safer, and ensuring that every New Yorker has access to justice system that doesnt discriminate based on age or color."
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said, "What Governor Cuomo is proposing, is a logical and, unfortunately, necessary clarification of the law as it exists today. It has become clear that marijuana possession is being used, regrettably, to permanently scar and taint the records of thousands of young citizens, predominantly people of color, who have no record of prior criminal conviction. It is excessive on its face and we need to address the issue thoughtfully and swiftly."
Assemblymember Karim Camara, Chair of the New York State Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic and Asian Legislative Caucus, said, "We commend Governor Cuomo for working to bring fairness to our justice system. This legislation will ensure that possession of a small amount of marijuana, whether public or private, is treated as a violation and not as a misdemeanor. This minor offense has dragged down the future of too many New Yorkers, particularly minority youth, leading to the deterioration of communities across the state. By properly updating the law, the Governor is helping to create a safer and stronger state for all New Yorkers."
Assemblymember Hakeem Jeffries said, "Today, Governor Andrew Cuomo is advancing legislation to standardize penalties associated with marijuana possession, in order to end existing practices, which needlessly scars thousands of lives and waste millions of dollars in law enforcement resources, while detracting from the prosecution of serious crime. For years, thousands of New Yorkers, who are disproportionately Black and Latino youth, have been charged with unnecessary misdemeanors, thereby creating barriers for future employment and intensifying tensions between law enforcement and communities. This legislation will ensure that individuals who possess small amounts of marijuana are sanctioned appropriately while avoiding permanent damage on their records. I thank the Governor for treating all New Yorkers justly under New York State law."
Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said, "The proposed legislation takes a balanced approach and comports with the spirit of the NYPD operations order issued on the subject last year. Further, the department's ongoing quality of life enforcement is supported by preserving the penalties for smoking marijuana in public."
Under the current New York State Penal Law individuals in possession of 25 grams or less of marijuana, open to public view, can be charged with a Class B misdemeanor. Private possession of the same amount of marijuana is a finable violation. This legislation would make all possession of small amounts of marijuana, public or private, a finable offense. Burning marijuana in a public place will remain a misdemeanor.
The Marijuana Reform Act, signed by Governor Hugh Carey in 1977, made private possession of a small amount of marijuana a violation punishable by a maximum fine of $100 for first time drug offenders. Marijuana in public view remained a misdemeanor.
In the years since the passage of that law, arrests for possession of small amounts of marijuana have jumped from approximately 2,000 in 1990 to over 50,000 today mainly in New York City, where 94% of the arrests occur each year.
The increasing emphasis on minor marijuana arrests has a disproportionate impact on minority youth. Of the individuals who were arrested in New York State last year, over 50% were under 25 years old and 82% were either Black or Hispanic. Of those 53,124 arrests, less than 10% were ever convicted of a crime. For those arrested, as well as for the small number convicted, that blemish on their records remains a barrier to future employment.
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr. said, "Safety and fairness are the twin pillars of our criminal justice system. That is why I support Governor Cuomo's proposed changes to the law governing possession of marijuana. This simple and fair change will help us redirect significant resources to the most violent criminals and serious crime problems, and, frankly, it is the right thing to do."
Brooklyn District Attorney Charles J. Hynes said, "I fully support Governor Cuomos change in the marijuana law. This legislation will go a long way toward a more balanced approach to drug related offenses and complement other progressive initiatives already serving our community. It will lead to a more efficient use of law enforcement resources. I applaud Governor Cuomos leadership on this matter."
Queens County District Attorney Richard A. Brown said, "The proposed legislation strikes the appropriate balance between the needs of law enforcement and the concerns of the community. We join our colleagues in law enforcement in supporting the governor's legislation which will enhance the fair operation of our criminal justice system."
Bronx District Attorney Robert T. Johnson said, "Simply put, there is no need for the "public view" portion of this law. The legislature has already decided that possession of small amounts of marijuana is of minimal concern to our society. Governor Cuomo's proposal would make the law consistent and obviate the need for many arrests which erode the trust between the community and law enforcement."
Staten Island District Attorney Daniel M. Donovan Jr. said, "The Governor was prudent to address some of the concerns that I and other prosecutors had when these changes were first proposed. The law will continue to address the disturbance caused by people who openly smoke marijuana in public, and does not prevent officers from requiring identification from a violator, thus ensuring that someone wanted for a serious crime does not get away with just a ticket. On the other hand, I am hopeful the NYPD will be able to reallocate some of its resources to address more serious crimes, and to continue to keep this city the safest big city in America."
Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice said, "Through this common sense reform of the penal code, which encourages fairness and consistency in the law, Governor Cuomo is enhancing community relationships with law enforcement. As a prosecutor, I know our relationship with the community is the most important tool we have in keeping neighborhoods safe. This reform will enable police officers to continue making our streets safer while focusing on more serious crimes. I applaud his efforts and I look forward to implementing these necessary changes."
New York City Patrolmen's Benevolent Association President Patrick J. Lynch said, "The Governors call for the changes in police response to contraband discovered pursuant to a properly conducted stop, question and frisk make sense and runs parallel with a recent policy change issued by the Police Commissioner. The NYC PBA is very supportive of clear and precise directions to its members regarding their police responsibilities in specific instances."
Gabriel Sayegh, New York State Director for the Drug Policy Alliance, said, "Overly punitive charges have a harmful effect on our justice system. They can ruin lives, waste taxpayer money on unneeded trials, and breed distrust between communities and law enforcement. Currently, this is the case with public possession of small amounts of marijuana, particularly for communities of color, but with Governor Cuomo's legislation, this injustice can soon be a thing of the past. The Governor should be commended for his leadership and for his continued efforts to make our justice system fairer for all New Yorkers."
Donna Lieberman, Executive Director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, said, "Communities and law enforcement must work together as partners in order to keep our state safe. However, unreasonably harsh charges for small offenses erode the trust that is necessary for this partnership to succeed. That is why Governor Cuomo's legislation is so important. By making the penalty for public and private possession of minor amounts of marijuana a violation, this legislation will help restore trust between communities and law enforcement. In the end, New York will be a safer state because of this legislation."
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