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WHAT: Meeting of the New York Racing Fan Advisory Council

WHEN: June 4, 2013 at 3 p.m.

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WHAT: Meeting of the New York Racing Fan Advisory Council

WHEN: June 4, 2013 at 3 p.m.

WHERE: New York State Gaming Commission Headquarters

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This meeting is open to the public.

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Wednesday, May 29, 2013

slot machines shall not operate while

Andrew Cuomo prays on Roman Catholic Easter Sunday and Roman Catholic Palm Sunday.
You can't buy a bet or a lottery ticket at Nassau OTB on these days.
Perhaps these guys should find another line of work besides skimming?

Long Island OTBs Might Get VLT Betting

By Tom Precious

Updated: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 12:58 PM
Posted: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 8:20 PM

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The New York Legislature's top Republican said there are talks to permit the off-track betting corporations on Long Island to offer video lottery terminal betting.

Senate co-leader Dean Skelos, a Nassau County Republican, said "one of the suggestions that's out there'' is to permit the Nassau and Suffolk OTB corporations to each manage a VLT operation on Long Island. Precisely where or how many VLT devices would be allowed was not disclosed.

The plan comes as Gov. Andrew Cuomo is pushing an initial casino expansion phase that would site three casinos in upstate New York, not New York City or on Long Island. Cuomo on May 21 struck a deal with the St. Regis Mohawk Indian tribe to restrict any new commercial casinos in a large section of northern New York. Last week, he made a casino exclusivity deal for a big part of central New York with the Oneida Indian Nation to protect its existing Turning Stone casino.

With those two deals, Cuomo's plan calls for letting casinos locate in three of four regions of upstate. Where the remaining four casinos called for in a proposed constitutional amendment might go in the years ahead is uncertain. The idea still needs legislative approval and backing by voters as soon as this November in a statewide referendum.

"Certainly, the governor is very affirmative about three casinos upstate. We need that for economic development there, but we're going to look at all regions of the state and how everybody can benefit,'' Skelos said.

Asked about opposition from Aqueduct Race Track's successful casino to a VLT facility being located in nearby Nassau County, Skelos said, "I don't think there's any way that competes with Aqueduct.''

Skelos made his comments following a closed-door meeting with Cuomo and other legislative leaders at the Capitol tonight. Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, a Manhattan Democrat, said he did not know anything about the Skelos Long Island OTB plan because Skelos did not raise the issue in the May 21 negotiations.

Currently, only one OTB in the state—Western Regional Off-Track Betting Corp.—is allowed to offer VLTs. It does so at Batavia Downs harness track; the OTB is the only one in the state to own a racetrack.

Silver, Skelos and Cuomo have no sense

of what is important.

The cause of causalgia was once treated in NY . The program that produced The Lancet p.106 Jan. 14, 1978 at Fort Hamilton had the ability to revolutionize healthcare including the treatment of the cause of idiopathic pain. I would suggest that these gentlemen see that the first named author of the above paper is put in touch with the President to discuss same.

NY and the US need good science and art and not simply VLT's.

Federal records of all sorts will support the above assertions.

East Germany offered the NY native a laboratory based upon the merit of his work.

Long Island OTBs Might Get VLT Betting

By Tom Precious

Updated: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 12:58 PM
Posted: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 8:20 PM

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It's also how much work and of what quality

etc is done with what is spent.

NYC OTB, bankrupt
Suffolk OTB, in bankruptcy
Nassau OTB employees saddled with Teamsters Local 707 whose pension plan is in critical status and whose Business Agent is Barry Yomtov former President of Teamsters Local 707 which represented NYC OTB Managers and Nassau OTB employees\
NY Public Authorities

CUNY Research Foundation
NYC School Construction Authority
SUNY Research Foundation

OPINION
May 28, 2013, 6:52 p.m. ET

Track Government Spending With Your Phone

A new app allows taxpayers to search spending by ZIP code.

By ADAM ANDRZEJEWSKI

With the United States drowning in runaway spending and debt now nearing $17 trillion, Americans might like to know where Uncle Sam is stashing their cash. Now they can. As long as you have the Web or a smartphone, you can track federal spending down to your own neighborhood. Be prepared, though, because the results aren't pretty.
I've lived in Illinois since I was born, and I've watched as politicians from both parties wasted taxpayer money and profited from public largess. In 2010, I even ran for governor in the Republican primary on a platform of "Every dime, online, in real time." I lost—but I didn't give up on my goal.
I started a nonprofit focused on government transparency, and this March we released our transparency app, Open the Books. It's free on Apple and Droid platforms and can be accessed on the Web at www.openthebooks.com. The app gives every taxpayer access to 12 years of federal spending.

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Our work was made possible by the 2006 Google GOOG -1.47% Your Government Act, sponsored by Sen. Tom Coburn (R., Okla.) and then-Sen. Barack Obama. Before this legislation, federal government spending was staggeringly difficult to track. The law posted the line-by-line transactions of federal spending since 2000 online at usaspending.gov. We built our app by taking the federal government's unwieldy text file of 100 million rows, reorganizing it and uploading it to a searchable database that allows citizens to see the ballooning federal spending and debt right in their backyards.
Here are just three tidbits I found out using the new app:
• The brother of a former state director of agriculture under former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich has received nine federally guaranteed loans totaling $1.67 million since 2006. He has also received hundreds of thousands in direct payments and subsidies from the federal government, all based on his ownership of a single hog farm in Teutopolis, Ill.
• In Bradley, a small town 60 miles south of Chicago, a beauty school with 105 students and based in a shopping mall charges $20,000 for tuition and supplies. Yet the school has received over $8.2 million in federal Pell grants and federal student loans. Thanks to the taxpayer subsidy, the college of cosmetology has tuition that exceeds tuition payments at some Big Ten universities.
• In my upscale suburb of Hinsdale—where the average home sells for nearly $900,000 and the median household income is over $150,000 per year—a nonprofit called Community House received a million-dollar grant for children's programming. In addition, taxpayers guaranteed a low-interest government loan for $1.5 million to the local Lamborghini dealership. That's spreading the wealth to the wealthy.
If you download the app and put in your ZIP Code, what "essential" spending will you find in your town and state? With 12 years of contracts, farm subsidies, grants, loans, insurance and direct payments, it's nearly certain you'll find some local business, citizen or organization receiving a piece of the federal pie.
As you use the app to review the federal checkbook, keep Mr. Coburn's recent question to taxpayers in mind: Is the spending in the national interest, or is it for a special interest? After all, it's your money.
Mr. Andrzejewski is an entrepreneur and founder of the nonprofit For the Good of Illinois.

A version of this article appeared May 29, 2013, on page A13 in the U.S. edition of The Wall Street Journal, with the headline: Track Government Spending With Your Phone.

Monday, May 27, 2013

The imitation Greek is ignorant or stupid?

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May 27, 2013, 9:36 p.m. ET

Republican Jabs at Rival as Mayoral Campaigns Rev Up

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By JOE JACKSON and MICHAEL HOWARD SAUL

New York City mayoral hopeful John Catsimatidis's name will be added to the long list of super-wealthy candidates who lose at the ballot box, Republican rival Joe Lhota predicted Monday as the major mayoral candidates hit the pavement in pursuit of voters at holiday parades.
"Money doesn't win elections," Mr. Lhota said at a Memorial Day parade in the Little Neck neighborhood of Queens, noting how billionaire Ron Lauder failed to win his mayoral bid in 1989 and billionaire Meg Whitman failed to win her campaign for California governor in 2010. "Money is not the sole determinant of who wins and who loses in political races."
On Monday, Mr. Catsimatidis, whose personal fortune is estimated at more than $3 billion, became the first mayoral candidate this year to launch a television ad. Mr. Lhota is expected to be on the airwaves with his own TV ad on Tuesday.
Mr. Catsimatidis was honored by organizers of the Little Neck-Douglaston Memorial Day Parade as "man of the year," and he rode the route in an open-top royal blue 1969 Pontiac Firebird.
"We're ramping it up," Mr. Catsimatidis said Monday.
Mr. Catsimatidis said last week he didn't think Mr. Lhota had the financial wherewithal to be competitive, an allegation Mr. Lhota's campaign rejected. Mr. Lhota had $859,742 in cash on hand, according to his latest filings with the city on May 15.
Asked how he would fare against Mr. Catsimatidis if both had the same amount of money to spend, Mr. Lhota, who walked the parade route, said: "Then I'd beat him even more."
The candidates seeking to replace Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a billionaire who self-funded his three campaigns for City Hall, crisscrossed the city, shaking hands and schmoozing with voters on the unofficial first day of summer. In Westchester County, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, both of whom are discussed as potential candidates for president in 2016, marched together in New Castle's Memorial Day parade.
Democratic mayoral candidate Christine Quinn said she visited five parades, including one in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn, where she posed with her father, Larry Quinn, 86 years old, a World War II veteran.
Bill Thompson said he visited three parades on Monday. "Then the speaker's been to a couple of places I haven't been," he said when he learned how many Ms. Quinn had attended.
Several of the candidates acknowledged that the campaign is moving into high gear.
"Up until now we've just been warming up," joked Comptroller John Liu, a Democratic mayoral candidate, who was spotted Monday shaking hands at a Dunkin' Donuts on Northern Boulevard in Little Neck. "Now more people are starting to pay attention and there are issues still to talk about."
Joanne Martell, a 65-year-old insurance adjuster who marched in the Little Neck parade with members of her church, Zion Episcopal Church, said she was starting to pay attention to the mayoral candidates.
"This is the place to be seen today," she said. "It's important to hear what each candidate has to say."
—Mara Gay contributed to this article. Write to Michael Howard Saul at michael.saul@wsj.com

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Off Track Betting in New York State has been racing into a crisis called shrinking revenue. Some people have spitballed a solution: Don’t close on holidays.
New York State Racing Law bars racing on Christmas, Easter and Palm Sunday, and the state has ruled OTBs can’t handle action on those days, even though they could easily broadcast races from out of state.
“You should be able to bet whenever you want,” said Jackson Leeds, a Nassau OTB employee who makes an occasional bet. He added some irrefutable logic: “How is the business going to make money if you’re not open to take people’s bets?”
Elias Tsekerides, president of the Federation of Hellenic Societies of Greater New York, said OTB is open on Greek Orthodox Easter and Palm Sunday.
“I don’t want discrimination,” Tsekerides said. “They close for the Catholics, but open for the Greek Orthodox? It’s either open for all or not open.”
OTB officials have said they lose millions by closing on Palm Sunday alone, with tracks such as Gulfstream, Santa Anita, Turf Paradise and Hawthorne running.
One option: OTBs could just stay open and face the consequences. New York City OTB did just that back in 2003. The handle was about $1.5 million – and OTB was fined $5,000.
Easy money.

NY Const. Art. 1, Sec. 3. John doesn't read the labels on the shelves and he surely has not read the NY Const. nor can he remember NYC OTB opening in 2003 on the other guy's holiday and making money.

What a billionaire? That's what errand boys are for.

Dear Venus Williams:

I commend to your attention the work of Dr. Denise L Faustman. See eg faustmanlab.org and pubmed.org faustman dl. Although I do not have Sjogren's syndrome, I have a blood relative who does and family members who suffer from autoimmune diseases. I have chosen to shoot BCG and see what good, if any, it does. You should study Faustman's work, determine your own questions to ask, and its relevance to your condition.

'Venus and Serena': From Tennis Court to Hospital Bed

A documentary about Venus and Serena Williams turned out to be something the filmmakers hadn't figured on at all

By RACHEL DODES

A new documentary about sibling tennis phenomenons Venus and Serena Williams reveals personal – and not always flattering – insight into their family. How are the sisters responding? John Edwards joins Lunch Break with details. Photo: Magnolia Pictures.

Maiken Baird and Michelle Major spent almost four years talking to Venus and Serena Williams's agents in an effort to convince the tennis stars to participate in the first-ever feature-length documentary about their lives.
They were asking for extraordinary access.
In 2010, at the time of the negotiations, the sisters were ranked No. 1 and No. 2 in the world. It was the first time they had occupied the top two spots in seven years. Although both had struggled with injuries that season, Serena won two Grand Slam titles, and as a doubles team the sisters swept the Australian Open and the French Open.
When the filmmakers finally got the green light to follow them during the 2011 season, the story line took a turn. They'd expected to be conducting interviews from the tennis court, not a hospital bed. In January 2011, just after Ms. Baird and Ms. Major started filming, Venus dropped out of the Australian Open in the third round because of a hip injury, marking the first time she had ever withdrawn from a Grand Slam competition. A couple of months later, Serena, who had been healing from a foot injury, found herself hospitalized because of a pulmonary embolism. By September, Venus announced that she had been diagnosed with Sjögren's syndrome, an autoimmune disease that can cause muscle pain, arthritis and fatigue.

Watch a clip from the film "Venus and Serena," a documentary on tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams. (Photo/Video: Magnolia Pictures)

"We were devastated," says Ms. Major. They had envisioned the documentary as a meditation on competition, "the story of the two of them playing each other in a great match and triumphing."
Venus and Serena, now 32 and 31, didn't play against each other that season. The resulting film turned out to be a rare, dramatic and personal look at girls from gang-ridden Compton, Calif., schooled by their father since they were three and four years old. The film includes little-seen footage from those early days shot by intrepid sports reporters who were intrigued by the story of the girls and their swashbuckling father, Richard Williams.
Mr. Williams, who makes frequent appearances in the documentary, had written a 78-page manifesto planning his daughters' careers before they were even born. (As Venus says in the film, "My parents told me I'd be No. 1 in the world. I was brainwashed.")

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Serena with codirector Michelle Major

Ms. Baird says that although the sisters were uncomfortable about the portrayal of their various health issues, they had agreed to be filmed no matter what. "They are very serious about their commitments," she says. As a result, a crew filmed them every week—when the sisters let them in— from January 2011 through the end of the season in September 2011. The fact that they were out of the game for most of that time, "ended up being a real advantage for us as filmmakers because we got to spend a lot of time with them outside of the courts, getting to know them in a way I am not sure we would have if they had been on tour the whole time," says Ms. Baird.
She and Ms. Major, who have known each other since the late 1990s—they both worked for Peter Jennings at ABC News—shot some 450 hours of footage of Venus and Serena, including relaxed at-home moments when they are singing a soulful karaoke version of "Hole Hearted" by Extreme, and joking with each other while cooking dinner in the West Palm Beach home they share. Ms. Baird says "there were lots of fights [about what to exclude], even with our wonderful editor," Sam Pollard, a frequent collaborator of director Spike Lee.
One of the most heavily debated issues: whether to include potentially controversial information about the Williams family, such as the fact that Mr. Williams has five (possibly six) other children, with whom Venus and Serena have had little to no contact. There's a scene in which Richard shows up to Serena's practice with a young man who was calling him "dad." When asked about the man in a filmed interview, Serena said, "I have no idea who that guy is." Their mother, Oracene Price, remarks in one scene that if she had one piece of advice for Richard's new wife it would be: "Run. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200." At another point, Richard yells at the camera operator to get out of his face. ("I was driving him crazy," admits Ms. Major.)
The filmmakers ultimately decided to keep the footage, "not because we wanted to be salacious, but more because it speaks to where [Venus and Serena] come from, and makes them relatable," says Ms. Major. "Otherwise you have this superhuman family with these superhuman girls." Ms. Baird adds: "We were trying to make a film that's real, not a commercial." (Nobody in the Williams family had final-edit powers.)
The sisters, however, were not happy when they saw the final cut. The filmmakers say they had "a long talk" with Venus, who as the eldest is particularly protective, before the film premiered last September at the Toronto Film Festival. But they haven't talked to either sister since. The sisters had been expected to attend the Toronto premiere, which came at a triumphant moment because Serena had just won the U.S. Open. But, to the chagrin of audiences, they were no-shows, although the filmmakers hasten to say they never made a guarantee they'd be there.
"We got a maybe, and somewhere down the line everyone thought they were going to be there," says Ms. Major. "Afterward we were like, 'That didn't work.' "
The sisters' attitudes seem to have softened in the past eight months, as "Venus and Serena" approaches its theatrical release May 10 (it's also available on demand). For a screening to be held in New York Thursday night hosted by Billie Jean King and John McEnroe, Serena, who is getting ready for the French Open, made a video introduction. In it, she says that 2011 was "one of the most difficult years of my whole entire life," adding that the documentary is "a really great film" and inviting people to tweet their thoughts about it to her at her personal account, @SerenaWilliams.
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Al Jazeera targets Andrew Cuomo for

blatant violation of NY Const. Art. 1, Sec 3 and advancing his religious preference over that of all others by closing Nassau OTB only on Roman Catholic Easter Sunday and Roman Catholic Palm Sunday in preference eg to Greek Orthodox Easter Sunday and Greek Orthodox Palm Sunday

Al Jazeera America Shifts Focus to U.S. News

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The Al Jazeera America studio in Manhattan. The channel plans to have about 800 employees when it begins.

By BRIAN STELTER

Published: May 26, 2013

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While it has a foreign name, the forthcoming Al Jazeera cable channel in the United States wants to be American through and through.

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Al Jazeera America employees at a meeting in the network’s Midtown Manhattan offices.

When Al Jazeera’s owners in Qatar acquired Al Gore’s Current TV in January, they said that Current would be replaced by Al Jazeera America, an international news channel with 60 percent new programming from the United States.

The remaining 40 percent, they said, would come from Al Jazeera English, their existing English-language news channel in Doha, Qatar, that is already available in much of the rest of the world.

That plan is no more. Now Al Jazeera America is aiming to have virtually all of its programming originate from the United States, according to staff members and others associated with the channel who were interviewed in recent weeks.

It will look inward, covering domestic affairs more often than foreign affairs. It will, in other words, operate much like CNN (though the employees say they won’t be as sensational) and Fox News (though they say they won’t be opinion-driven).

The programming strategy, more ambitious than previously understood, is partly a bid to gain acceptance and give Americans a reason to tune in. It may help explain why Al Jazeera America’s start date has been delayed once already, to August from July, and why some employees predict it will be delayed again.

Al Jazeera also has yet to hire a president or a slate of vice presidents to run the channel on a day-to-day basis, which has spurred uncomfortable questions about whether earlier controversies involving the pan-Arab news giant are creating difficulties for the new channel.

The Arabic-language Al Jazeera was condemned by the American government a decade ago for broadcasting videotapes from Osama bin Laden and other materials deemed to be terrorist propaganda. Others have criticized the Arabic and English channels for being a mouthpiece for Qatar, though the channel’s representatives insist that is not the case. Other questions about bias persist; as recently as last week, the Al Jazeera Web site was accused of publishing an anti-Semitic article by a guest columnist.

But Al Jazeera America employees profess confidence that they will be able to work free of interference. Some are already rehearsing with mock newscasts. Others are fanning out to report news stories from parts of the country rarely visited by camera crews. Still others are setting up new studios in New York, where the channel will have a home inside the New Yorker Hotel, and in Washington, where it will take over space previously occupied by ABC at the Newseum on Pennsylvania Avenue.

New employees are being added to the rolls every weekday from places like CNN, “Frontline” and Time magazine. “We expect to have approximately 800 employees when we launch,” said Ehab Al Shihabi, the Al Jazeera executive in charge of international operations, including the American channel. He declined to comment on the delays, but said the channel would start “later this summer.”

Since January, he and his colleagues’ overarching message to lawmakers, mayors, cable operators, and potential viewers has been that Al Jazeera is coming to America to supply old-fashioned, boots-on-the-ground news coverage to a country that doesn’t have enough of it.

A series of announcements about new hires like Ed Pound, an experienced investigative reporter, and new bureaus in cities like Detroit have bolstered that message. Public relations and marketing firms retained by Al Jazeera, like Qorvis Communications and Siegel & Gale, have worked to limit opposition to the channel and increase support for its arrival.

Al Jazeera representatives seem aware that they are confronting an enormous marketing challenge. But they benefit from the public perception that they have boundlessly deep pockets, thanks to the oil and gas wealth of Qatar. Al Jazeera America has been portrayed by some as a giant stimulus project for American journalism at a time when other news organizations are suffering cutbacks. “This is the first big journalism hiring binge that anyone’s been on for a long time,” said the business reporter and anchor Ali Velshi when he left CNN in April for a prime time spot on Al Jazeera America.

Roman Catholic Easter Sunday in preference to Greek Orthodox Easter Sunday. Is it any wonder that NY is bankrupt and its OTBs going bankrupt one after the other? See NY PML Sec 109 and NY Const. Art. 1, Sec. 3 etc. You might think that one as yet unidicted NY official with standing would avail themselves of a FREE formal or informal opinion from NY Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.
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Letter: Why close racetrack on Palm Sunday?

Published: April 1, 2013 5:44 PM

Photo credit: AP | In this photo provided by New York Racing Association, Stay Thirsty, left, with Ramon Dominguez aboard, captures The G1 Cigar Mile horse race at Aqueduct in New York. (Nov. 24, 2012)

To see what's wrong up in Albany, one only needs to look at the fact that the Aqueduct Racetrack was closed on Palm Sunday. On an average Sunday, The Big A has a total handle of between $6 million and $7 million, of which New York State takes a percentage.
Racing also injects money into the industry, paying jockeys, trainers, grooms, etc. Hundreds of employees -- pari-mutuel clerks and racing officials -- help put on the show, which the state gets a piece of in income taxes.
All of this, worth thousands upon thousands of dollars, was lost because on an antiquated law. Not being allowed to race on Christmas or Easter is OK, but Palm Sunday? The New York Racing Authority races on Thanksgiving, and that's a holiday that the vast majority of us celebrate.
Changing this law would be a slam-dunk revenue creator.
Gerard Bringmann, Patchogue
Editor's note: The writer is both a racing fan and a practicing Catholic.

OPEN ON 1ST PALM SUNDAY, OTB RAKES IN $2M - NY Daily News

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OPEN ON 1ST PALM SUNDAY, OTB RAKES IN $2M. By Jerry Bossert / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS. Monday, April 14, 2003, 12:00 AM. Print · Print; Comment ...

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Apr 16, 2003 – By Jerry Bossert / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS ... Aqueduct was also closed on Palm Sunday, but OTB thrived on action from around the country.

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Stop scratching on holidays
Published: June 1, 2012

Andrew Cuomo, Ignorant or Stupid?

The ultimate sacrifice is death.
Trigeminal neuralgia is also called the suicide disease. Veterans suffering from trigeminal neuralgia were treated at Fort Hamilton by the Veterans Administration program that produced, The Lancet p.106, Jan. 14, 1978. The first named author continues his work to this day in NY. He is also a Veteran. Both Obama and Cuomo have failed us all by not seeing that the progam/work done at Fort Hamilton that rendered those suffering from the suicide disease function is continued, applied, advanced and explicated.
We should not be complacent that people are all fungible and should repair those that we can while we can.

The Lancet p.106 Jan. 14, 1978 describes the treatment of causalgia, first described in the medical literature of the US Civil War.It was regarded as untreatable then and as untreatable now, when it is not.
Cuomo and Obama owe us all more than words.

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Sunday, May 26, 2013

The work of Dr. EJ Ratner

is worthy of the support of President Obama. He might start by reading The Lancet p. 106 Jan. 14, 1978.

May 26, 2013, 3:11 PM

Obama Visits Tornado-Torn Oklahoma

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By Sara Murray

: Reuters; President Barack Obama wipes away tears after hugging Plaza Tower Elementary School Principal Amy Simpson in Moore, Okla., Sunday, May 26, 2013. (Reuters/Jonathan Ernst)

It was a grim way to spend a Memorial Day weekend.
President Barack Obama landed in Oklahoma City Sunday morning, greeted by an overcast sky and a pending tour of the wreckage from a tornado that left two dozen dead, including 10 children.
Landing at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma City, Mr. Obama was greeted by Oklahoma officials and Air Force commanders. His first stop included meeting with military families whose off-base homes were destroyed or damaged in last week’s tornadoes.
Mr. Obama traveled to the Plaza Towers Elementary School, which was razed by the storm. As he walked near the school, he passed through piles of rubble 10 to 20 feet high and dotted with the remnants of a devastated community – a child’s pink parka, a plastic toy camcorder, a baby doll stroller. As flags on the buildings flew at half mast, someone had planted their own American flags amid the piles of rubble.
At a Moore, Okla., fire station, which was serving as a command center, the president met with the families of the children who died in the storm.
“The damage is pretty hard to comprehend,” Mr. Obama said Sunday afternoon.
Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin, a Republican, joined Mr. Obama on his tour, and described the scope of the damage the state is dealing with in a CNN interview earlier Sunday morning. “This is a massive debris field. It’s not just a couple of blocks, it’s miles, it’s 17 miles long, almost a mile-and-a-half wide,” she said. “So it’s not just a little area; there’s a lot to be done here. A lot of businesses are closed, a lot of people without jobs just because their businesses are closed.”
The journalist acting as the media pooler for the president Sunday described the scene near the school as “utter devastation.”
For residents whose homes were damaged or lost entirely, the challenge of getting what they need to get through everyday life was setting in.
“In a disaster like this, a lot of people lose their checkbooks. They lose their credit cards. They lose their driver’s license, their birth certificates, their insurance papers. They lose everything,” Ms. Fallin said in a CBS News interview.
FEMA’s efforts are already in the works in Oklahoma with more than 450 personnel on the ground. The agency has provided 43,000 meals and 150,000 liters of water, a White House spokesman said Sunday. The Red Cross and Salvation Army have stepped in to try to fill urgent needs.
“This is a strong community with strong character. There’s no doubt they will bounce back. But they need help,” Mr. Obama said Sunday, as he encouraged Americans to donate to the Red Cross. “We know Moore is going to come back stronger from this tragedy. We’re going to be with you every step of the way.”
For many Oklahoma families, the help they’ve received so far marks only the beginning. “There comes a time a month from now or whenever it might be that people really start having to crank out the money to get their homes built and get the things they really need to replace things they lost,” Ms. Fallin said on CBS.
So far 4,200 people have applied for $3.4 million in assistance, the White House spokesman said.
It remains to be seen whether the tragedy in Oklahoma will morph into a politically-charged battle over government spending. Earlier Sunday, Sen. Tom Coburn, an Oklahoma Republican, said too much responsibility is being shifted to the federal government instead of states in the wake of such disasters.
On Sunday, Mr. Obama appeared to take a different view.
“When I say that we’ve got your back, we keep our word,” he said.

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Sunday, May 26, 2013

Obama Visits Tornado-Torn Oklahoma

By Sara Murray

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