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Australia's new human rights commissioner, Tim Wilson, has called for the full repeal of the s18C offensive speech provisions of the Racial Discrimination Act and has flagged defamation, online speech and the film classification system as areas he would be considering in his new role.
Wilson was appointed by the federal government on Tuesday to the commission, leaving his role as policy director of the Institute of Public Affairs.
"Increasingly free speech has been pushed aside in favour of laws and regulations designed to stop people being offensive to each other, a steadily expanding corpus of anti-discrimination and defamation law, and the growing momentum towards restrictions on speech online," Wilson wrote in the Australian on Wednesday.
Wilson, who has also resigned from the Liberal party to take on the role, argued free speech was "being neglected" and he would be focusing on aspects of individual freedoms. He said he supports the full repeal of s18C of the Racial Discrimination Act which deals with offensive behaviour.
"The most obvious freedom of speech issue this parliament will face is the Coalition's promise to repeal section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act. Section 18C has recently been controversial because of the Andrew Bolt case but, as its supporters are first to say, it has been used against many other Australians."
But Stephen Blanks, the secretary of the NSW Council for Civil Liberties, said Wilson's focus overlooked more serious human rights breaches.
"They are issues which can be focused on, but they're not the most important issues a human rights commission should be addressing at this time. Australia has plenty of other breaches of fundamental human rights," he said.
"The arbitrary detention of people on national security grounds with adverse ASIO security assessments without any proper review process is obviously the most serious breach of fundamental freedom that could be imagined."
Blanks also questioned Wilson's commitment to pushing for the full repeal of s18C of the Racial Discrimination Act.
"Repealing the section altogether would be throwing the baby out with the bathwater. We need strong laws which prevent Holocaust deniers from going about their trade and other people that want to attack people on purely racial grounds and stir up racial violence," he said.
The federal opposition and the Greens have reacted with scepticism to the appointment. Shadow attorney general, Mark Dreyfus, said the appointment was part of the government's "political agenda".
"By appointing Mr Wilson, Senator Brandis has sent a strong signal about exactly the kind of blatant political agenda he wishes to pursue as Attorney-General."
"How can Mr Wilson possibly undertake the role of a Human Rights Commissioner when it's obvious he has such contempt for the commission itself," Dreyfus said.
Greens senator Penny Wright expressed similar concerns and said attorney general George Brandis "had already made it clear he thinks some human rights are more important than others, including that free speech ought to trump anti-discrimination laws."
Some concerns have also been raised over Wilson's commitment to freedom of speech in previous comments he has made. In a May 2011 tweet Wilson wrote: "walked past Occupy Melbourne protest, all people who think freedom of speech = freedom 2 b heard, time wasters … send in the water cannons."
The president of the commission, Gillian Triggs, speaking on ABC Radio, offered support for Wilson's appointment, but cautioned against playing party politics with the commission. "This is not the place for party-political rhetoric," she said.
In a later statement on Wednesday, Triggs welcomed Wilson's focus on freedom of speech. "Mr Wilson has seven years' experience as policy director at the Institute of Public Affairs and is particularly concerned to support Liberal approaches to freedom of speech," Triggs said.
"We look forward to having him join our team as we continue to meet the challenges of protecting human rights in Australia."


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Hip-Hop Rumors: New Video Nas! Lil' Wayne Mans Up In Philly! Who Shot Max B?
Hip-Hop Rumors: College Hill Chick Says Bow Wow's Gay? Jay-Z Disses Bush! Couple Alert: Rocsi & Floyd Mayweather?
Sean Levert found dead
R.I.P to Sean Levert of the R&B group Levert. He was found dead over the weekend in a Cleveland, OH jail. As you know he had some issues with child support and was being held for not paying some $80k in support to his three kids. Maybe there were larger issues at hand. The cause of death is not yet known. Sean was the son of O'Jays lead singer Eddie Levert and younger brother of Gerald Levert. He was a mere 39 and had recently completed an album with Marc Gordon, the third member of Levert. Sad.
Is it me or are people dying at an alarming rate for random reasons? Check out the dedication video at the bottom of the page.
Via the New York Daily News, Jay-Z and Beyonce are getting very serious:
Things are getting more serious for Jay-Z and Beyoncé. The couple of nearly six years have been slow to take that next step in their relationship, in part because her parents believe shes too young (26) to get married. But now that Beyoncés acting career is taking off, her folks are more open to the pair getting serious, says a pal of the Knowles clan.
While Beyoncé was on location filming Cadillac Records, Jay-Z met up with Knowles sibling Solange in the Florida Room of South Beachs Delano Hotel, where the pair sipped on Don Julio tequila and chatted about how the hip-hop mogul could move things to the next level.
I take this with a grain of salt, but they are saying that Jay-Z might be picked to the next spokesperson for Fendi. A number of sources say that Jay met with Karl Lagerfeld, the head of Fendi. Jay is apparently a model in the companys next photo shoot.
Here is what a concert goer said about the Lil Wayne show in Philly:
He was like an hour and a half late but he put on a sick ass show. After watching Dj touchtone dj for and hour and a half waitin for Weezy people started booing ..5 minutes later Weezy came out to Fireman. he looked mad fu**ed up but he def threw it down and rocked the crowd. Security gettin in was very rough though, there were like a million police officers outside and inside the event. Show was def sick though.
Here is another one from Rob G:
OMG .WEEZY WAS OFF THE CHAIN performance, songs, and swaggg ..by far he best Ive seen. He rocked the crowd for an hour he brought out Freeway and Chris unbelievable performance ..big up to WEEZY best rapper alive ..
I was reading gawker and they dissed The Roots saying that nobody was reading the Hip-Hop legends blog! Well, I am going to say that it clearly isnt getting a lot of commentary, but I say you should check it out. So, check it out! Click here to see their Blog!
Hip-Hop fans are getting a lil beside themselves! I heard that Cassidy is still doing his thing and made an appearance at Xavier University in New Orleans. People expected him around 10 pm and he didnt show up until about 11. People started leaving! Now an hour late and thats not bad for rapper time. Anyway, I heard the Hustler fared well with the people that were patient. Thanks Pounders!
Damn, yall voted him in and now you want to boo, son son. Well, he did jack the elections, but still. He got booed something terrible at the 2008 Nationals home opener. 294 DAYS until dude is gone!
Tone Loc is still drinking that funky cold medina, but a couple of bars are saying that he ripped them off. Peep this report that was on tmz.com:
Two small Michigan bars were scammed out of a total of $1,400 last summer after a man posing as Loc's manager promised the rapper would play their establishments. Why this con man didn't pose as the manager of a popular rapper -- one from the 21st century, perhaps? -- is a mystery.
Fast forward to this year, where Tone's real manager heard about the misfortune, and out of the kindness of his heart agreed that the rapper would play at both bars -- for Tone's regular fee.
Clearly Sir Mix-a-Lot, Young MC and Kid 'n Play were all too busy.
Now, you know this is comedy, but if you want to see it, check below. Also, click here if you want to read a story on the W Floyd amassed over the weekend. Also, 50 Cent didnt appear and neither did Fat Joe. Where does this stuff come from?
DJ KHALEDS IM SO HOOD THE ROCK REMIX -- FREE download link. This is a sneak download from illseed. Its going to appear on the rest of AllHipHop.com at a later time.
Streetz hit me up and made it clear that Pastor Manning is really Uncle Rukus from the Boondocks!
Pro baller Isaiah Rider was arrested over the weekend for grand theft auto when he was caught driving a stolen car. He was booked on $25,000 bail. He was also arrested this month for possession of narcotics and evading a cop, according to tmz.
"SNL" comic Kenan Thompson was stopped by police in NY after his boy was caught smoking weed. Kenan just got a ticket for careless driving, BOO!
Want to see something funny? Check out Sexual Infection, a parody of Snoops Sexual Eruption.
I dont know if you recall the rumor that Ice Cube might be playing BA Baracus (Mr. T.) in the new move adaptation of The A-Team. Cube is reportedly interested in the role.
If you or somebody you know is an ill animator, email me at email@example.com. Put ill animator in the subject heading so I can find it.
Tyra Banks isnt quitting her night job at Americas Next Top Model either. FYI.
I heard Twista is in the UK at Route club in Colchester, Essex and he performed for a mere 10 minutes and left. Well, he does rap fast! He probably condensed a 30 minute show in 10!
Syleena Johnson is coming back on her own Aneelys Records (Syleena spelled backwards). She is slated to drop a new album called Chapter 4: Labor Pains on September 2nd.
Told you it was a hoax! Pauly Shore basically punkd all of us with his video of him dissing Black comedians. More on this later.
50 Cent on why Curtis didnt sell better (MTV):
It was a blockbuster that I lit, and it didnt explode. I felt like it should have went a lot further than the results I received Publicly, I feel that 50 Cent fans dont believe it was a dud. It did have I Get Money, it did have Ayo Technology, Ill Still Kill, Follow My Lead with Robin Thicke. These records were hit records, but the timing they came out was wrong. If the first record you heard off Curtis was I Get Money, it would have shifted more millions in sales.
Beyonce on the leak of Beatutiful Nightmare:
Yesterday, Beautiful Nightmare, a demo Ive been working on for possible inclusion on my next album, leaked on some websites. I want to thank all my fans for the positive response to the song, but I want to tell you that this is just a work in progress. It is not my time to put out new music.
[Illseed note: Cassie is safe for now.]
Back in the day Black men and boys were killed just for looking at a White woman word to Emmett Till. Now, they are paying for sex with Black men as sex tourist?
Dudes generally do that for free!
Click here to see Signs the world is coming to an end Part 2: Man, caught on tape having sex with a picnic table.
I never seen stuff like this whenever I got to church. Peep this lil kid singing. Lil Buddy went off.
Toss Gerald in there too shout out to the homies for giving us classic music. Hold you head, Eddie.
They keep us talking, but if we stop talking about them then they should worry!
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Secret Knowledge: The Art Of Witchcraft
Lachlan Goudie
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My father Alexander Goudie (1933-2004) was an artist. He was well known for his paintings of landscapes, still lifes and portraits (which included Billy Connolly and the Queen).
However, the subject that fascinated him most was the character of a witch who features prominently in Robert Burns' poem Tam o'Shanter.
My father had loved the poem since childhood and in the last 20 years of his life he concentrated on painting pictures that illustrated the tale and particularly its witch Nannie Dee.
'It was so extreme even we thought he was mad' Lachlan on his father's obsession with Nannie Dee
I'm presenting The Art Of Witchcraft, part of BBC Four's Secret Knowledge series. The programme tells the story of my father's strange fascination but it also reveals how, for centuries, artists have regularly painted witches.
In many ways they are responsible for the image of a wrinkly old hag with a hooked nose and terrible warts which we are all familiar with today.
As a child I was always thrilled by my father's depictions of Nannie on canvas. His enthusiasm for his subject was infectious. He would often recite the poem as he painted and play classical music loudly on the stereo to get himself into the mood.
Coming home from school I was always excited to see what he would have created that day.
Occasionally we would go on research trips at the weekend into Ayrshire where the poem is set. We would hardly have left the driveway before my father would start to describe our route along the notorious A77, an apparently devastating stretch of tarmac stained with the blood of countless accidents.
Once in character he would employ the windshield like some great cinema screen of inspiration, looking left and right but rarely straight ahead!
Examining how representations of the witch shifted from the political to the theatrical in the 18th Century
On one Saturday afternoon jaunt we stopped to visit an old friend of my father's in his new cottage. The light was fading, the 'wizard hour', and I remember climbing the stairs to the bedroom by torchlight so we could inspect the shotgun pellets embedded in the ceiling – the mark of the previous occupant's suicide.
This grim experience highlights something important about my father's relationship with Nannie.
Although he enjoyed creating dramatic paintings he also wanted to terrify his audience with images of horror. As a child the poem had scared him and he wanted to communicate that essential part of Tam o'Shanter's power to the viewer.
He used every trick he could from corpses swinging in the trees to stewed babies piled up in a cauldron. He would often test out his paintings on his family to see if they had the desired, shocking effect!
It has been emotional revisiting my father's Tam o'Shanter legacy. His paintings and sketchbooks seem to bring him back to life for me.
I can still visualise him on one of those many trips to Ayrshire, clambering up to the windows of a ruined church with all the energy of an excited child and peering in. He was always searching for ideas and inspiration!
It is this same enthusiasm for the subject that I wanted to recapture in The Art Of Witchcraft: bringing witches to life with the help of some of history's greatest artists!
Lachlan Goudie is the presenter of Secret Knowledge: The Art Of Witchcraft.
Secret Knowledge: The Art Of Witchcraft is on Wednesday, 11 September at 10pm on BBC Four. For further programme times, please see the episode guide.
More on The Art Of Witchcraft
BBC News Scotland: In pictures - Witches and wicked bodies
BBC Arts: Alexander Goudie and the witch from Robert Burns' poem
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20 overs Delhi Daredevils 189 for 5 (de Villiers 105*, Dilshan 50, Balaji 3-19) beat Chennai Super Kings (Hayden 57, Raina 41, Sangwan 3-28) by nine runs
Scorecard and ball-by-ball details
How they were out
Delhi Daredevils, inspired by AB de Villiers' superbly-paced century, held their nerve in the field to beat Chennai Super Kings in the first close game of IPL 2. de Villiers' century, the first of the tournament, came after Delhi's innings started in catastrophe and powered them to the highest total this season. Matthew Hayden charged a stiff chase with another aggressive innings and Suresh Raina's cool head kept Chennai on par with the asking rate, but Delhi won the battle of the death overs to sneak a thriller. Leading, expectedly, was the parsimonious Daniel Vettori who, after striking after the seven-and-a-half minute tactical break, bowled a decisive penultimate over.
This was a win fashioned with the bat. Tillakaratne Dilshan and de Villiers added 68 at a frenetic clip after Delhi were struggling at 8 for 2 with Gautam Gambhir - out to the very economical L Balaji first ball - and Virender Sehwag - pulling needlessly - out early. Dilshan started like a man with a train to catch, slashing five fours and two sixes in his first 15 balls. Taking a cue from de Villiers, who pulled Manpreet Gony for an easy six over midwicket, Dilshan picked the same bowler off his pads for six. Then he welcomed Albie Morkel into the attack by thumping three successive boundaries in a 17-run over. Dilshan slashed Andrew Flintoff over slip and then pulled him for a flat six. Fourty-five had been crashed off three overs and Dilshan's fifty took 24 balls. He fell slapping a full toss to extra cover.
While Dilshan was going berserk, de Villiers looked briefly like he was at the wrong party, simply scurrying down the other end with open-faced steers behind square. But once Dilshan departed de Villiers had to play host. The pattern of scoring changed from boundaries to nudges, flicks and cuts to third man. It appeared, as Chennai sneaked in 29 boundary-less deliveries and Balaji returned to dismiss Dinesh Karthik, that Delhi may have squandered Dilshan's platform.
Then Morkel drop a sitter off de Villiers the ball after he had raised his half-century and all hell broke loose. Clearing his front leg and relying on amazing hand-eye contact de Villiers thumped three sixes and three fours before clipping his 51st delivery to raise an amazing century. His second fifty needed just 19 balls.
It was a power-packed innings, highlighted by de Villiers' stunning assault in the last four overs: nothing matched the 20 he smashed in four successive balls off Flintoff. The fifth-wicket stand between de Villiers and Manoj Tiwary was worth 74 in 5.5 overs, Tiwary's contribution being nine.
Chasing the highest target set this season, Chennai needed something special. Hayden sparked it, with ten in the first over of the chase. Ashish Nehra looked like a man who hadn't played international standard opposition in months, dragging the ball short to allow a pumped Hayden clip runs through midwicket. Avishkar Salvi struggled to locate his line - either serving full or dropping short - and Hayden merrily ransacked him to the leg side in a 24-run over. Hayden raised his fifty from 22 balls.
Domination led to his dismissal and gave the impressive Pradeep Sangwan his second wicket. Having got Parthiv Patel driving to de Villiers at cover with a full one, Sangwan opted for a shorter length and Hayden miscued a pull to the deep.
At the half-way mark Chennai were 106 for 2, well on track thanks to Hayden. Vettori varied his pace and length to stifle MS Dhoni and drew a nick through to Karthik. Suresh Raina kept the flame burning with another gem - finding the boundary every over - before he sent a Sangwan full toss down long-on's throat for a 27-ball 41. Sangwan bowled well and picked up three wickets.
It was still anyone's game with Flintoff at the crease, 42 needed and Nehra called back for the 16th over. Flintoff worked a single, Morkel clipped four, but when Flintoff got back on strike Nehra forced him to hole out to long-off.
Salvi returned to bowl a five-run 17th over but thanks to Chennai's good work the asking rate was under ten. It was nerve-racking as both teams battled for a decisive edge. Nehra kept it very full and straight, Karthik missed a run out, Morkel survived another tight over. With 24 needed from 12 Sehwag tossed the ball back to Vettori, who immediately dismissed a sluggish S Badrinath. Vettori's over included a six by Gony and a run out to set pulses soaring, but by then the match had been decided. David Warner may not have gotten a game yet but he made his presence felt with two catches in the deep and a direct hit in the last over. A chase that had started with power ended in a panic.
Three overseas stars showed there was more to Delhi than Sehwag and Gambhir, further indication that this is the team to beat in the IPL.


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Marvel Preview Presents No 7 - 1st Rocket Racoon/Satana I picked up a this great Marvel Preview Presents No 7 "Satana" with the first appearance of Rocket Racoon in great shape. Closer inspection revealed a repaired back cover tear about 2-1/2" long. Whoever did it, did a good job but how much will it take from the grade/value? Great white pages. Doesn't look like it was read.


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ADRIAN, Mich. – The women's tennis team (5-1) defeated Goshen (0-12), 6-3, Saturday, after falling behind, 2-1, and then rallying for a come from behind victory by taking all but one of the singles' matches. With the win, the team upped their win streak to five. Only Jordenne Ferenczi won both at singles and doubles play.
"After a slow start in doubles the ladies closed out the fall season with a nice win. Jordenne Ferenczi continues to be the senior leader of the team and pick up big victories in the singles and doubles lineup. Overall we played great singles matches and never let up after falling behind in doubles," said head women's tennis coach Adam Albertsen.
In singles play, Arielle Williams lost to Anika Baumgartner (0-6, 2-6) in first singles, Morgan Spencer defeated Lauren Stoltzfus (6-3, 6-2) in second singles, Ferenczi knocked off Nikita Zook (6-4, 6-4) in third singles, Justine Hanson defeated Maria Thomas (6-0, 6-4) in fourth singles, Jordyn Grant beat Mikayla Adamski (6-4, 6-4) in fifth singles, and Morgan Khem was victorious against Maddie Ruih (6-2, 6-3) in sixth singles play.
In doubles play, Williams and Spencer lost to Baumgartner and Thomas (3-8) in first doubles, Ferenczi and Kienitz defeated Zook and Adamski (8-6) in second doubles, and Hanson and Khem were defeated by Stoltzfus and Alvarez (2-8) in third doubles play.
"This first fall season really helped our five newcomers get their feet wet and prepare for the spring. This group has shown a ton of heart and they also have great potential to grow and improve on these matches," coach Albertsen added.
The women's tennis team will resume action in the spring with their next match on Sunday, February 17th at Heidelberg at 12:00 p.m.


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by Marijo Phelps
8/16/2010 / Pets
"Jo, ah, I don't know if I should tell you or not"
My husband's face looked terrible as I went out to the garage to see what was going on.
"Something dug Katy up and I don't know where she is, you don't have to come out"
"Oh, honey, let me get my boots and go with you!"
Katy was our 13 year old kitty who had died of kidney failure that past December. He had been hunting but got his deer and came home 5 hours before Katy passed away. We both were on the floor with her, one on either side, when she breathed her last. There were many, many tears shed over this blue eyed Birman looking rescue who had enlivened our lives for 12 years.
I was thinking right away about the scripture which says something about grief shared is halved as I pulled on my boots.
"This happened before the rains this week because there are no paw prints in the dirt. I found part of the towel we wrapped her in, Jo," my hubby of 25 years was trying to get me up to speed on what he had found.
We knew that she was failing last December before Mick went on his look awaited deer hunt. He had dug a grave in the frozen dirt so I wouldn't have to do that too in case he wasn't home in time. We buried her well and covered the whole area with rocks, stones and more rocks. She was put right next to our older kitty Mitzi, who'd died 5 years earlier of old age at 18 years of age.
We looked all over the 5 acres behind our place and found more of the towel she had been wrapped in but couldn't find our girl so as to bury her once more.
I was almost relieved that Mick and I returned empty handed. We both were remembering so much about our sweet, long haired Katy. She always was our number 1 hear butting kitty and purr? You haven't heard a "motor boat" like the one Katy had. We have had 4 cats for some time now. When Katy passed away, even though he was saying "read my lips, no more cats," He took me to get a kitten for Christmas. I guess that isn't a cat, is it?
We love living in our mountain meadow and wouldn't trade it for anywhere else. As I look out the window right now I am treated with seeing numbers of humming birds going hyperactive over the new, deep red mum I planted today. They are dipping and diving into the petunias and then stopping to play chase with each other. Pretty soon they will be draining my feeders and launching out for their migratory flight to Mexico. Seasons come and seasons go up here each with its own uniqueness and beauty.
We see bear, fox, coyote, badgers, bob cats and the neighbor a mile away has had a couple resident mountain lions on his place. I know that the deer, elk and prong horns were not the culprit. My only regret is that someone had to come and disturb our Katy kitty once she had been peacefully at rest for over 9 months.
I hate to think about "next time" but when another of our beloved kitties goes they will be places in a little "snap top" coffin before we bury them in the back yard of our mountain meadow home.
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Trigeminal Neuralgia
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Trigeminal Neuralgia is an uncommon condition associated with agonizing face pain that makes it difficult to talk or eat. Additional extreme discomfort may be associated with the fear that such pain may recur, often at unpredictable moments.
Much can be done to help patients who suffer from Trigeminal Neuralgia.
The best over-all medical care for patients with Trigeminal Neuralgia requires expertise in diagnosis, imaging (MRI scan), treatment with medicines and neurosurgical operations: Gamma Knife radiosurgery (GKRS), needle rhizotomies (radiofrequency electrocoagulation [RFE], glycerol and balloon micro-compression) and microvascular decompression (MVD).
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What are the symptoms associated with Trigeminal Neuralgia?
Pains are brief, lasting from seconds to a couple of minutes. Attacks of repeated brief bursts of severe pain may occur and last for an hour or more.
Pains are usually shooting, stabbing, sharp and electric-like.
Pains are usually triggered by light touch such as talking, eating or brushing the teeth.
Pains are located in the face, usually in the cheek, lips, jaw, palate, tongue, teeth, gums, side of the nose and, less often, about the eye and forehead.
Pain is usually on one side of the face, although infrequently, similar pains may develop at some other time on the other side of the face.
Pains usually respond, at least initially, to carbamazepine (Tegretol) or oxcarbazepine (Trileptal).
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What are the parts (divisions) of the Trigeminal Nerve?
There are three parts (divisions) of the TRIgeminal nerve. The first supplies feeling to the eye, forehead and bridge of the nose. The second supplies feeling to the upper lip, palate, upper teeth, gums, mid and inner cheek below the eye and front of the nose. The third provides sensation to the jaw, lower teeth, gums, lower lip and side of the tongue. Pain may involve any of these locations but usually involves the second or third divisions, either alone or in combination. Trigeminal neuralgia may involve the first division but usually in association with the second division. Pain in only the first division is often not trigeminal neuralgia.
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What causes Trigeminal Neuralgia?
The trigeminal nerve carries messages regarding sensation from the face to the brain. Patients with Trigeminal Neuralgia have a defect in the covering of the trigeminal nerve, which allows abnormal cross-talking between nerves that usually carry messages of normal non-painful sensation with nerves that carry painful messages. This defect in the covering of the nerve is often caused by a blood vessel that presses on the nerve close to where it leaves the brain. Occasionally,
multiple sclerosis
is the culprit. Infrequently, a brain tumor can cause Trigeminal Neuralgia. Sometimes, the exact cause cannot be determined.
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Is Trigeminal Neuralgia inherited?
Not usually. But in about 5 percent of patients, there is another family member who has Trigeminal Neuralgia. If you have Trigeminal Neuralgia, most likely your children or grandchildren will not develop it.
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How do you diagnose Trigeminal Neuralgia?
The most important diagnostic maneuver is to have a consultation with a physician who is experienced in the diagnosis and treatment of trigeminal neuralgia. He will listen very carefully to you and will perform an office examination. He will discuss treatment options.
MRI is helpful for diagnosing a brain tumor or
multiple sclerosis
. A special thin-section MRI (one mm thick slices) without and with dye injected into the vein will show the relationship between any blood vessels and the trigeminal nerve.
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How do you treat Trigeminal Neuralgia?
There are always three options for patients with Trigeminal Neuralgia: no treatment (sometimes the pains subside on their own), medicines or neurosurgical procedures.
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What medicines are helpful for patients with Trigeminal Neuralgia?
Most of the medicines that are helpful for treating Trigeminal Neuralgia are anti-seizure medicines, even though Trigeminal Neuralgia is not a seizure and is not epilepsy.
The most effective are carbamazepine (Tegretol) and oxcarbazepine (Trileptal). Also helpful are gabapentin (Neurontin), pregabalin (Lyrica) and lamotrigine (Lamictal).
Baclofen (Lioresal) is a muscle relaxer and not an anti-seizure medicine and it has also sometimes been helpful for patients with Trigeminal Neuralgia.
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Who is a candidate for a neurosurgical procedure?
A neurosurgical procedure is recommended for those who are bothered by either pain or side-effects of medicines.
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What are the neurosurgical procedures to treat Trigeminal Neuralgia?
Gamma Knife Radiosurgery (GKRS) [least invasive]
Needle rhizotomy (Radiofrequency, glycerol or balloon microcompression) [a little more invasive]
Microvascular decompression (MVD) [most invasive]
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What is Gamma Knife Radiosurgery (GKRS)?
This is a minimally invasive procedure that is done as an out-patient and requires a few hours in the hospital facility. The trigeminal nerve is treated with highly focused radiation (that does not affect other parts of the body). Special equipment (the Gamma Knife is the gold standard for such focused radiation treatment) includes a computer driven system that provides extremely precise delivery of radiation to the trigeminal nerve. Although many patients may obtain pain relief within the first two weeks of Gamma Knife Radiosurgery, most take about 4 to 6 weeks to get relief. A few get facial numbness, which is not usually bothersome. Recurrent pain may occasionally occur but can be treated by either a repeat Gamma Knife Radiosurgery or another procedure.
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What is Needle Rhizotomy?
This is an out-patient procedure that requires a few hours in the hospital facility and is a little more invasive than the GKRS. During needle rhizotomy, a specially designed needle is inserted through the cheek under x-ray control, and directed towards the trigeminal nerve close to where it enters the brain. The nerve is treated with either heat (Radiofrequency Electrocoagulation), a chemical (glycerol) or balloon microcompression. As balloon microcompression requires a bigger needle and has more complications than RFE or glycerol, I (Ronald Brisman, M.D.) usually favor needle rhizotomy with either RFE or glycerol. Facial numbness, although not usually bothersome, is more likely after needle rhizotomy than GKRS. Most patients get pain relief from needle rhizotomy. Recurrence may occasionally occur but can be treated by either a repeat needle rhizotomy or another procedure.
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What is Microvascular Decompression (MVD)?
This is the most invasive neurosurgical procedure for trigeminal neuralgia. It is a formal operation. The patient is admitted to the hospital and usually will stay for 2 or 3 days. General anesthesia is used and the patient is put to sleep for the operation. A cut is made in back of the ear, some bone is removed, the dura (covering of the brain is cut), the brain is gently moved out of the way, the trigeminal nerve is seen as well as any blood vessel impinging on it. The surgeon places some synthetic material (shredded Teflon felt) to separate the blood vessel from the nerve. Most patients get pain relief. Recurrence may occasionally develop but can be relieved by another procedure, usually a Gamma Knife radiosurgery or needle rhizotomy. Although the operation can usually be done safely, occasionally there are complications, which infrequently can be severe.
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What is the Minimally Invasive Alternative?
Many patients with medically intractable trigeminal neuralgia (those who are bothered by pain or side-effects of medicines) can be managed with minimally invasive techniques (either Gamma Knife radiosurgery or needle rhizotomy with RFE and/or glycerol). These can be repeated if necessary for recurrent pain that is not satisfactorily managed with medicines.
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|King Herod's Palace
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Who's that knocking on the window,
Who's that standing at the door,
What are all those presents
Lying on the kitchen floor?
Who is the smiling stranger
With hair as white as gin,
What is he doing with the children
And who could have let him in?
Why has he rubies on his fingers,
A cold, cold crown on his head,
Why, when he caws his carol,
Does the salty snow run red?
Why does he ferry my fireside
As a spider on a thread,
His fingers made of fuses
And his tongue of gingerbread?
Why does the world before him
Melt in a million suns,
Why do his yellow, yearning eyes
Burn like saffron buns?
Watch where he comes walking
Out of the Christmas flame,
Dancing, double-talking:
Herod is his name.
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I wrote this poem for a private Christmas card at the time of the Cold War when such phrases as 'the peaceful use of atomic energy' for me rang particularly thin. There is a clear reference to the Christian Feast of the Holy Innocents (28 December) or Childermass.


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The April issue of Chicago Innerview is now available online. My contribution this month was a feature piece on the band Wire.
One of my questions to guitarist Colin Newman couldn't make it in the final article, but I thought his response was great. It gave me a sense of the guy and his feelings towards the musical scene he grew up in.
Chris Castaneda: Having come from a music scene that produced bands like The Jam, Buzzcocks, The Clash and the Sex Pistols, what remains a driving force behind Wire still making music?
Colin Newman: Probably not being like any of the above (insert smiley face).
*Yes, he actually used a smiley face in his e-mail response.
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Test 02" which release in those countries is previewed for the 31st of
January 2009.
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kidnapped by the great amount of production work! We're writing,
arranging, remixing, mashuping, covering...in other words super active.
To sum to all this is the rehearsal for the live shows of the next few
days. We obviously expect to see you many of you for the shows to have some really loud fun
2009 begins on the Festival Show stage in Pordenone and with the
imminent release of the album and single in Germany, Austria and
Switzerland...seems we're starting with a bang! Anyway, we're
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