Sunday, June 30, 2013

That's my boy

Cuomo gal Sandra Lee tours Vatican despite 'pressure' from Catholic church

  • Last Updated: 10:48 AM, June 25, 2013
  • Posted: 12:03 AM, June 25, 2013
Sandra Lee, who has been criticized by the Catholic Church for “living in sin” with Gov. Andrew Cuomo, toured the Vatican yesterday. Lee, who fled her hotel room, where previous guest James Gandolfini had a fatal heart attack, was given the Vatican tour before ending her trip to Rome. Sources tell us that Cuomo, who is Catholic, and Lee, who is not Catholic, are “under constant daily pressure” from church officials in New York to cease “living in sin.” The source would not say which church official was putting the high-profile couple under pressure, other than to say it was a “daily struggle.” In 2011, Dr. Edward Peters, a consultant to the highest court at the Vatican, said Cuomo should not be allowed to receive communion because he and Lee are “publicly acting in violation of a fundamental moral expectation of the church.” But we’re told that Lee, who was brought up first as a Seventh Day Adventist and later became a Jehovah’s Witness, isn’t about to convert. “Her visit to the Vatican is about understanding Catholicism better,” the source added.



 Sandra Lee studies NY Const. Art. 1, Sec. 3 in Rome  and plans travel to churches in Greece.




Letter: Why close racetrack on Palm Sunday?

In this photo provided by New York Racing
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 ...

OTB FACES HAND SLAP OVER PALM - NY Daily News

www.nydailynews.com/.../otb-faces-hand-slap-palm-article-1.667233
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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Home > LI Confidential > Stop scratching on holidays

Stop scratching on holidays
Published: June 1, 2012



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.




Schumer made in Brazil



Fired for not ringing the doorbells for Tom Suozzi, she sues and collects and buries the radioactive documents under a "Protective Order" that counsel for the newspapers of NY have not yet been ordered to review and challenge. 

Butler v. Nassau Regional Off-Track Betting Corporation et al ...

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Apr 9, 2007 – Nassau Regional Off-Track Betting Corporation et al - Justia Federal Dockets and ... Plaintiff: Teresa Butler ... Search for this case: Butler v.
 
 

Schumer endorses Suozzi for Nassau exec

Nassau County Executive candidate Tom Suozzi speaks during
Photo credit: Ana Maria Rico | Nassau County Executive candidate Tom Suozzi speaks during the Nassau County Democrats Annual Spring dinner fundraiser at the Crest Hollow Country Club. Nassau’s Working Families Party has endorsed Suozzi for executive. (April 15, 2013)
Nassau County executive candidate Thomas Suozzi received his highest-profile endorsement to date Saturday as Sen. Charles Schumer announced he was backing the Glen Cove Democrat as he attempts to regain his old job.
"Tom Suozzi was a first-rate county executive who turned Nassau County's finances around," Schumer (D-N.Y.) said. " . . . He has the skills, experience and vision to address the county's fiscal challenges and create a better future for middle-class New Yorkers."
Suozzi, who served two terms as county executive from 2002 to 2009, is facing East Hills businessman Adam Haber in the Democratic primary. The winner will challenge Republican County Executive Edward Mangano in November.
Suozzi said he was "deeply humbled" to receive the backing of New York's senior senator, who does not typically endorse candidates in Democratic primaries.
"Senator Schumer is a fantastic and dedicated public servant and a wonderful representative for New York State," Suozzi said. "I am proud to have his support."
Suozzi has also received the endorsement of Reps. Carolyn McCarthy (D-Mineola) and Steve Israel (D-Huntington), state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, Nassau legislators and a host of labor unions.
 

He just needs to read the holy book of the


laws of NY State and realize he is not God and cannot tell Nassau OTB when the "Easter Sunday" and "Palm Sunday" are. See NY PML Sec 109 and NY Const. Art. 1, Sec. 3. Anyone knows you can buy a NY Lottery ticket 365 days of the year (except at Nassau OTB) and that you can play the slot machines 365 days of the year (except at Nassau OTB).  You must be able to bet the horses at Nassau OTB every day of the year tracks are running all across the US (NY Racing is not the only racing in the US).

O'Reilly: Does Andrew Cuomo need a priest or a psychiatrist?

Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks during a news conference
Photo credit: AP | Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks during a news conference in the Red Room at the Capitol in Albany, N.Y. (June 11, 2013)

William F. B. O'Reilly

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There's no middle ground for Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo. Not on abortion anyway. That was the clearest take-away from this year's legislative session in Albany.
You're either pro-choice or pro-life in the eyes of our ostensibly Catholic governor; there's no in between. He said it over and over again in the final weeks of the session.
The black or white rigidity of Cuomo's thinking actually sent me to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual this week -- that's a reference book for psychologists -- to check what he might have. My amateur diagnosis is that he's either totally nuts (a nonscientific term) or just plain strident. There's a third possibility, too, of course. He may be -- just may be -- manipulating the electorate for political gain.
God forbid.
The problem with the governor's assessment is that it's factually incorrect -- that, or a vast plurality of New Yorkers just became pro-lifers. Because while a significant majority of New Yorkers consider themselves pro-choice, very few of them want unrestricted abortions allowed up until the ninth month of pregnancy, according to polls, which is pretty much what the governor's failed abortion bill would have permitted. Object to that -- and what rational person wouldn't? -- and you are stamped a pro-lifer, like it or not, by our resolute governor.
It must be tempting for a New York chief executive with national ambitions to dive head first into the neo abortion wars popping up around the country. The political currency is lucrative. Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis just became a national hero in the Democratic Party for sensationally filibustering a bill that would have restricted abortions after 20 weeks and imposed stricter regulatory standards on clinics, many of which would not have been up to snuff.
But according to polls, restrictions are exactly what most Americans prefer as they begin to learn more from science about the stages of early human development. Eighty percent of Americans think that unrestricted abortion should be outlawed in the third trimester, according to Gallup, and 64 percent think it should be outlawed in the second trimester, always with exceptions for life-threatening medical emergencies.
But what Cuomo and Davis realize is that the abortion debate is never rational; it is intensely emotional and political. They understand that voters who care deeply about abortion rights may want further restrictions in an ideal world, but they don't trust legislators who would make changes in the law. The process is seen as a slippery slope.
New York is one of the most strongly pro-choice states in the country. It legalized abortion in 1970 -- three years before Roe -- with a sitting Republican governor and a Republican-led State Senate and Assembly. No way the right to an abortion is being rolled backed here, even if Roe were to be struck down. But 43 years later, what do we end up arguing about most at the end of the legislative session? Who is really pro-choice and who isn't.
Albany watchers expect the next session to kick off exactly where this one left off, with Democrats accusing Republicans of being extremist for not wanting to pass legislation that eight in 10 Americans would oppose. It is expected to be used as a battering ram against the State Senate majority that refused to act on Cuomo's bill in 2013.
That may be a good political strategy in the short term, but Cuomo's position, upon close inspection, will almost certainly make him the extremist in the broader historical view. It will unquestionably render him manipulative and doctrinaire.
William F. B. O'Reilly is a Newsday columnist and a Republican political consultant. 


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Home > LI Confidential > Stop scratching on holidays

Stop scratching on holidays
Published: June 1, 2012



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.



Letter: Why close racetrack on Palm Sunday?

In this photo provided by New York Racing
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

www.nydailynews.com/.../open-1st-palm-sunday-otb-rakes-2m-articl...
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 ...

OTB FACES HAND SLAP OVER PALM - NY Daily News

www.nydailynews.com/.../otb-faces-hand-slap-palm-article-1.667233
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.



Friday, June 28, 2013

utica

State legislators pass gaming bill; includes Nation agreement
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Legislators late Friday night passed Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s plan to expand gaming in the state on the last day of the 2013 legislative session.
The state casino bill contains the agreement with the Oneida Indian Nation, which grants the Nation exclusive gaming rights in a 10-county swath of Central New York in exchange for a share of slot machine profits. The Nation, the state and Oneida and Madison counties signed the agreement in mid-May.

Oneida Nation Representative Ray Halbritter released the following statement Friday night:

“The Oneida Nation commends the New York State Legislature for joining the Madison County Board of Supervisors and the Oneida County Legislature in approving this unprecedented agreement.  By working hard and selflessly together, the State, both counties and the Oneida Nation have resolved all of the legal disputes between our peoples, once and for all.  As we begin this next chapter, we  do so as partners working to  build shared prosperity for future generations, and a new trust to address any new issues that may arise. The unwavering commitment of Governor Andrew Cuomo, Oneida County Executive Anthony Picente, and Madison County Board of Supervisors Chairman John Becker played an essential role in making this moment possible."
A federal judge still must sign off on it, as must the federal Department of the Interior.
The gaming legislation also must go before voters for approval this fall as a referendum, but the agreement with the Oneidas will remain in place even if it is voted down.
Assemblyman Anthony Brindisi, D-Utica, released the following statement:
“By ending years of litigation and establishing a revenue sharing agreement, we will be better suited to hold the line on property taxes,” he said in a statement. “In addition, the Oneida Nation will retain exclusive gaming rights in the region, which will prevent an oversaturation of gambling facilities in our area. Now we can look toward the future together – finding ways to grow tourism and expand our economy.”

Sen. James L. Seward, R-Milford, said in a news release Saturday that "the public will make the final call, something I have advocated for throughout the discussion.  Should full-scale casinos come to New York, upstate communities that welcome the economic tool will be first in line."

The gaming bill includes the following details, which were previously agreed upon among the Oneida Indian Nation and local officials.
* The Oneida Nation, with its Turning Stone Resort Casino, gets exclusive gaming rights in the region.
* The state will get 25 percent of the slot machine revenue. Cuomo estimated that would amount to $50 million a year.
* The state will share 25 percent of that, or $12.5 million a year, with Oneida County. Madison County will get a one-time payment of $11 million to compensate for past tax claims.
* A permanent cap of 25,000 acres of land - 8,000 in Madison County and 17,000 in Oneida County - will be placed on the Nation’s ability to put land into federal Indian trust.
* The Nation will levy its own sales tax equal to that at non-Indian businesses, to make it easier for non-Indian businesses to compete.

Dear Rev. Helmut Schuller, we need your





opinion to be heard. NY State closes Nassau OTB, a public benefit corporation, on Roman Catholic Palm Sunday in preference to Greek Orthodox Palm Sunday and Roman Catholic Easter Sunday in preference to Greek Orthodox Easter Sunday. We believe that NY PML Sec 109 is unconstitutional and/or violates the rights of NY State Bettors secured by NY Const. Art. 1, Sec. 3. People should be free to do as they wish. Some wish to work and/or bet and some wish to pray.

What is your opinion?

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Home > LI Confidential > Stop scratching on holidays

Stop scratching on holidays
Published: June 1, 2012



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.









National Briefing | New England

Massachusetts: Cardinal Bars a Priest’s Speech

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Cardinal Sean O’Malley has barred a prominent Austrian priest from speaking in a Roman Catholic parish in the Archdiocese of Boston because the priest advocates the ordination of women and married men as one solution to the priest shortage. The appearance by the priest, the Rev. Helmut Schüller in Boston on July 17  is part of a cross-country speaking tour sponsored by 10  liberal Catholic groups that are pressing the church for change. The Archdiocese of Boston said that its policy, like the practice in other dioceses, is to prohibit individuals who promote “positions that are contrary to Catholic teachings” from speaking in Catholic parishes and at church events. Father Schüller helped lead an “Appeal to Disobedience” backed by about 400 priests and deacons in 2011, and was later stripped of his formal title of monsignor. His talk in Boston has been moved to a Unitarian Universalist church, but he is scheduled to speak at a Catholic parish in Detroit and a Catholic college in Pennsylvania.



Helmut Schuller – Speaking Tour across America

Fr. Helmut Schüller, founder of the Austrian Priests’ Initiative, a movement organized in 2006 to address an increasing shortage of priests, will be on a national speaking tour this summer.
Helmut Schuller2His “Call to Disobedience,” signed by a majority of Austrian priests, has brought worldwide
attention and momentum to addressing the crises in the Catholic Church. Today, he leads a practical movement that recognizes the Holy Spirit among the laity and the necessity of reforming church governance. Join Helmut Schüller and Catholics across the country to begin a new season of dialogue.
Jim and I are already planning a trip to Seattle in August to hear what Fr. Schüller has to say – Rosemary

Here is the schedule of his cross-country tour:

Tuesday 7/16/13 – NYC – National media kick off
Judson Memorial Church
55 Washington Square South, New York
7:00 PM
Contacts:
Francis X. Piderit – francis@piderit.com – C: 917.916.7575, T: 212.826.3118
Art McGrath – artmcgrath@aol.com
Rita Houlihan – ritahoulihan@yahoo.com – (C) 914-319-1979,
(H) 212-316-0682
Wednesday 7/17/13 – Boston – Hosted by Voice of the Faithful
St. Susannah’s
262 Needham St.
Dedham MA 7:00 PM
Contacts:
Ron DuBois – 781-843-1676 – debber@beld.net
Friday 7/19/13 – Philadelphia – Hosted by Women’s Ordination Conference and S.E. Pennsylvania Women’s Ordination Conference
Chestnut Hill College
7:00-9:00 PM
Contacts:
Regina Bannan – 215-545-9649 – reginab317@gmail.com
Joe Boyle – josephboyleoil@comcast.net
Saturday 7/20/13 – Baltimore –                                                                                          Hosted by New Ways Ministry and Quixote Center
Site and time pending
Contacts:
Sr. Jeannine Gramick 301-277-5674 – gramick@verizon.net
Dolly Pomerleau – dollywood20722@hotmail.com
Monday 7/22/13 – District of Columbia -
Hosted by Women’s Ordination Conference and New Ways Ministry
National Press Club
Public event:
Site and Time Pending
Contacts:
Ben Palumbo – 202-957-2416 – bpalumbo@covad.net
Erin Hanna – 401-588-0457 – ehanna@womensordination.org
Sr. Jeannine Gramick – 301-277-5674 – gramick@verizon.net
Dolly Pomerleau – dollywood20722@hotmail.com
Wednesday 7/24/13 – Chicago – Hosted by Call To Action
Site and time pending
Contacts:
Bob Heineman – bob@cta-usa.org – 847.682.1056
Thursday 7/25/13 – Cleveland – Hosted by Future Church
Independence Middle School
6111 Archwood
Independence, OH 44131
7:00 PM
Contacts:
Liz England – liz@futurechurch.org
Sr. Christine Schenk – 216-513-3647 – chris@futurechurch.org
Friday 7/26/13 – Cleveland – Hosted by Future Church
Cleveland City Club
850 Euclid Ave # 200
Luncheon: (Phone ahead for reservations) (216) 621-0082
Contacts:
Sr. Christine Schenk – 216-513-3647 – chris@futurechurch.org
Friday 7/26/13 – Detroit Hosted by Elephants in the Living Room                                                         and Detroit Association of US Priests
SS Simon and Jude
32500 Palmer Rd., Westland, MI 48186
7:30 PM
Contacts:
Fr Gerry Bechard – pastor@stssimonandjude.com – 734-722-1343
Saturday 7/27/13 – Cincinnati – Hosted by Voices Speaking
Fairview-Clifton German Language School
3689 Clifton Ave.
Cincinnati, OH 45220
2-4 PM
Contacts:
Deborah Rose Milavec – 513.673.1401 (mobile) – rosemilavec@fuse.net
Monday 7/29/13 – Denver – Hosted by Dignity USA
Capitol Heights Presbyterian
1100 Fillmore Street
7:00 PM
Contacts:
Brad Cameron – bwillcameron@comcast.net – 303/832-4282
Wednesday 7/31/13 – San Diego – Hosted by Call To Action
The First Unitarian Universalist Church, Bard Hall
4190 Front Street, San Diego, CA 92103
7:00 PM
Contacts:
Michael Crowley (as of June 12) – 858-748-3801 – mikecrowley@cox.net
David Glassner – dglass123@hotmail.com – (858) 864-2708
Friday 8/2/13 – Los Angeles – Hosted by Los Angeles Dignity USA
Westminister Presbyterian Church
Morrison Hall
1757 North Lake Ave.
Pasadena, CA 91104
7:30 PM
Contacts:
Fr. Kevin Steen – 323-258-2916
Frank Miller – framil1939@yahoo.com
Sunday 8/4/13 – Portland – Hosted by CORPUS
Central Lutheran Church 1820 NE 21st. Ave, Portland, OR 97212
2-4 PM
Contacts:
Nancy Dennehy – ndbdpdx@comcast.net – 503.238.1942
Monday 8/5/13 – Seattle Hosted by CORPUS
United Methodist Church
180 Denny Way,
Seattle, WA 98109
7:00 PM
Contacts:
Patrick Callahan, Secretary, CALL TO ACTION WESTERN WASHINGTON
928 33rd Ave. S.Seattle, WA 98144
206.329.1234 revcall@aol.com
Wednesday 8/7/13 – Manhasset, Long Island –
Hosted by Voice of the Faithful                                                                                                              Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Shelter Rock,
48 Shelter Rock Rd.,
Manhasset, NY 01103
Social Hall: 7:00 PM (coffee @ 6:30)
Contacts:
Phil Megna – pmegna@mattonegroup.com
Pat Paone – paongael@optonline.net – 516-627-2438

Wednesday, June 26, 2013

If homosexuals must be treated equally


so must religious people. Nassau OTB can't close on Roman Catholic EAster Sunday in preference to Greek Orthodox Easter Sunday and Roman Catholic Palm Sunday in preference to Greek Orthodox Palm Sunday. See eg NY Const. Art. 1, Sec. 3. NY Bettors do not concede that NY PML Sec 109 even applies to Nassau OTB.

Mulvihill should help us see that Nassau OTB is open when tracks are running that bettors want to bet.




Jim Mulvihill, the former communications and parimutuel marketing manager at Fair Grounds in New Orleans, has been hired as the director of media and industry relations for the National Thoroughbred Racing Association, the NTRA announced Monday.
Mulvihill will fill the position left open when Eric Wing resigned several months ago to take a position as the director of communications for the New York Racing Association. Mulvihill will start at the NTRA on July 15 and be based in New York, the NTRA said.
Prior to being hired at Fair Grounds in 2009, Mulvihill worked in public-relations positions for several Texas businesses, including Lone Star Park.




Monday, June 24, 2013

can he read and think?

 

and does he know that the patient in The Lancet p.106 Jan. 14, 1978 was Mrs. J Edward Spike Jr, that the operation took place in Boston and that the patient's personal physician was Mark Altschule of Harvard? Certainly the ability to treat the cause of idiopathic pain is quite valuable.

 

We will contact him and inquire and report back.

 

He might also be asked why he has not helped see that BCG is easily and widely available in the US. Perhaps he is not familiar with the work of Dr. Denise L Faustman. See faustmanlab.org and pubmed.org faustman dl.

 

Samuel R. Nussbaum, M.D.

Samuel R. Nussbaum, M.D.Samuel R. Nussbaum, M.D.
Executive Vice President, Clinical Health Policy;
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Dr. Samuel Nussbaum is Executive Vice President, Clinical Health Policy, and Chief Medical Officer for WellPoint, Inc. He is the key spokesperson and policy advocate for WellPoint and is responsible for the company’s public health policy programs. He oversees corporate medical and pharmacy policy and clinical quality programs to ensure the provision of proven effective care. Dr. Nussbaum collaborates with industry leaders, physicians, hospitals and national policy and health care organizations to shape an agenda for quality, safety and clinical outcomes and to improve patient care for WellPoint’s 36 million medical members nationwide. In addition, Dr. Nussbaum works closely with WellPoint business units to advance innovative health care services strategies.
 
In the decade that Dr. Nussbaum has served as Chief Medical Officer at WellPoint, he has led business units focused on care and disease management and health improvement, and provider networks and contracting with accountability for over $100B in health care expenditures. He has been the architect of models that improve quality, safety and affordability. Nussbaum was instrumental in developing innovative contracting approaches linking hospital reimbursement to quality, safety and clinical performance, for patient-centered medical homes and for accountable care organizations. In addition, he guided an extensive set of public and private sector partnerships which have improved community health. Under his leadership, WellPoint’s HealthCore subsidiary has built partnerships with Federal agencies, including the CDC and FDA, and with academic institutions to advance drug safety, comparative effectiveness and outcomes research. 
 
Dr. Nussbaum currently serves on the Boards of the National Quality Forum (NQF), the OASIS Institute, NEHI, and BioCrossroads, an Indiana-based public-private collaboration that advances and invests in the life sciences, and has participated in numerous Institute of Medicine activities, including serving on the Roundtable on Value & Science-Driven Health Care. Dr. Nussbaum is a Professor of Clinical Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine and serves as adjunct professor at the Olin School of Business, Washington University.
 
Dr. Nussbaum has served as President of the Disease Management Association of America, Chairman of the National Committee for Quality Health Care, as Chair of America's Health Insurance Plan's (AHIP) Chief Medical Officer Leadership Council, as a member of the AHIP Board, and on the Secretary of Health and Human Services’ Advisory Committee on Genetics, Health, and Society. Dr. Nussbaum received the 2004 Physician Executive Award of Excellence from the American College of Physician Executives and Modern Physician magazine and has been recognized by Modern Healthcare as one of the “50 Most Influential Physician Executives in Healthcare” in 2010 and 2011. 
 
Prior to joining WellPoint, Dr. Nussbaum served as executive vice president, Medical Affairs and System Integration, of BJC Health Care, where he led integrated clinical services across the health system and served as President of its medical group. He earned his medical degree from Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He trained in internal medicine at Stanford University Medical Center and Massachusetts General Hospital and in endocrinology and metabolism at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, where he directed the Endocrine Clinical Group. As a professor at Harvard Medical School, Dr. Nussbaum’s research led to new therapies to treat skeletal disorders and new technologies to measure hormones in blood.

BCG should be available OTC and/or in

pharmacies. Even homosexuals may have autoimmune diseases for which the work of Dr. Denise L Faustman might be consulted. see eg faustmanlab.org and pubmed.org faustman dl.
In the meantime let's hope the CIA is not testing  multi drug resistant TB in the NYC subways?

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Legislature Approves Bill Allowing Pharmacists to Give Meningitis Vaccination

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The State Legislature has passed a bill permitting pharmacists to give meningitis vaccinations, a measure aimed at a deadly outbreak among gay and bisexual men in New York City.

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The bill, which lawmakers approved Thursday, would add the meningitis vaccination to a short list of vaccinations that pharmacists in the state may administer. Others include vaccinations for the flu, pneumonia and acute herpes zoster.
A new strain of bacterial meningitis has been infecting gay and bisexual men in recent years. Its fatality rate — one in three people, compared with the one in five who succumb to other strains — has alarmed health officials and led to a higher than usual demand for vaccinations.
The city health commissioner, Dr. Thomas A. Farley, was among those pushing for the legislation.
State Senator Brad Hoylman, a Democrat who represents Chelsea, Greenwich Village and Clinton, which have significant numbers of gay residents, said he had introduced the bill after hearing of gay men who had not been able to easily get the vaccine.
“Doctors don’t routinely stock the meningitis vaccine,” Mr. Hoylman said Friday.
Demetrios Papanakios, a staff pharmacist at New London Pharmacy in Chelsea, said about three or four gay men a day were coming in with prescriptions for the vaccine and taking it back to their doctors to be administered.
“Before that we got one every 10 months,” Mr. Papanakios said.
Without insurance, the cost of the vaccine, $165, can be prohibitive, Mr. Papanakios said. After some men reported difficulty getting vaccinations covered by insurance, the state superintendent of financial services, Benjamin M. Lawsky, sent out a letter in April telling health providers that under New York law, “health insurance plans must cover such immunizations.”
Mr. Hoylman, who is gay, said he also was trying to reach men who did not have regular medical providers or who did not want to tell their doctors that they were gay. Black men in Brooklyn who frequent gay clubs, parties and online meeting sites but who are not openly gay have been most affected by the outbreak, according to the city health department.
There have been 22 known cases of bacterial meningitis among gay men in New York City since 2010, seven of them fatal, and the rate of infection seemed to rise last fall and early this year, according to department data.
There have been no new confirmed cases since February. But city health officials are worried that there could be a further outbreak during the annual Gay Pride celebration in New York City over three days starting Friday, which as many as one million people are expected to attend.
Still, if signed by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, the law will take effect 90 days later, too late for Gay Pride this year. As of June 17, an estimated 13,574 people had been vaccinated as a result of the current outbreak, according to the health department.
The bacteria are carried in the nose and mouth and can be spread through close contact like kissing and sharing a glass. People have mistaken the symptoms for the flu and died without seeking medical care.
This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:
Correction: June 23, 2013
An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated the age at which people will be able to receive the meningitis vaccine in pharmacies. It is 18, not 11 or 12.




PLoS One. 2012;7(8):e41756. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041756. Epub 2012 Aug 8.

Proof-of-concept, randomized, controlled clinical trial of Bacillus-Calmette-Guerin for treatment of long-term type 1 diabetes.

Source

The Immunobiology Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America. faustman@helix.mgh.harvard.edu

Abstract

BACKGROUND:

No targeted immunotherapies reverse type 1 diabetes in humans. However, in a rodent model of type 1 diabetes, Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) reverses disease by restoring insulin secretion. Specifically, it stimulates innate immunity by inducing the host to produce tumor necrosis factor (TNF), which, in turn, kills disease-causing autoimmune cells and restores pancreatic beta-cell function through regeneration.

METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS:

Translating these findings to humans, we administered BCG, a generic vaccine, in a proof-of-principle, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of adults with long-term type 1 diabetes (mean: 15.3 years) at one clinical center in North America. Six subjects were randomly assigned to BCG or placebo and compared to self, healthy paired controls (n = 6) or reference subjects with (n = 57) or without (n = 16) type 1 diabetes, depending upon the outcome measure. We monitored weekly blood samples for 20 weeks for insulin-autoreactive T cells, regulatory T cells (Tregs), glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD) and other autoantibodies, and C-peptide, a marker of insulin secretion. BCG-treated patients and one placebo-treated patient who, after enrollment, unexpectedly developed acute Epstein-Barr virus infection, a known TNF inducer, exclusively showed increases in dead insulin-autoreactive T cells and induction of Tregs. C-peptide levels (pmol/L) significantly rose transiently in two BCG-treated subjects (means: 3.49 pmol/L [95% CI 2.95-3.8], 2.57 [95% CI 1.65-3.49]) and the EBV-infected subject (3.16 [95% CI 2.54-3.69]) vs.1.65 [95% CI 1.55-3.2] in reference diabetic subjects. BCG-treated subjects each had more than 50% of their C-peptide values above the 95(th) percentile of the reference subjects. The EBV-infected subject had 18% of C-peptide values above this level.

CONCLUSIONS/SIGNIFICANCE:

We conclude that BCG treatment or EBV infection transiently modified the autoimmunity that underlies type 1 diabetes by stimulating the host innate immune response. This suggests that BCG or other stimulators of host innate immunity may have value in the treatment of long-term diabetes.

TRIAL REGISTRATION:

ClinicalTrials.gov NCT00607230.
PMID:
22905105
[PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

PMCID:
PMC3414482

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BCG is used all over the world as a childhood vaccine. New York has much to learn from Faustman and other countries.



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