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Received September 17, 2003; revised April 27, 2004; accepted May 3, 2004. From the School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; and the Neuropsychiatric Institute, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick NSW 2031, Australia. Address correspondence toProfessor Sachdev, Neuropsychiatric Institute, Prince of Wales Hospital, Barker St., Randwick NSW 2031, Australia; firstname.lastname@example.com (E-mail).
Neuropsychiatry is a mature discipline, with origins that can be traced to the mid-nineteenth century or perhaps as early as the seventeenth century,1 long before the birth of modern psychiatry. For many decades, however, its growth was stunted as the fields of neurology and psychiatry devoured the landscape and carved out their respective territories. In its reemergence in the last two decades, neuropsychiatry's first impulse, almost by default, was to redefine itself in relation to neurology and psychiatry. Unfortunately, it has been forced to place itself in the border-zone—a no-man's land—a territory equally claimed or shunned by the two disciplines.2 This domain is forever changing, depending on the fortunes of the combatants on either side, creating an untenable position for neuropsychiatry. Twenty-first century commentators are calling for an integration of neurology, psychiatry, and the neurosciences,3 providing a new backdrop for the debate on the future of neuropsychiatry. It is in this context that many question whether there will be a need for neuropsychiatry, and if so, whether there will be a future for neurology and psychiatry as distinct disciplines. This editorial seeks to explore the key issues pertaining to the differentiation of these specialties and suggests a way forward for neuropsychiatry.
The advance of neuroscience is inexorable, and its footprint on psychiatry is ever increasing. Psychiatry has generally accepted the promise of neuroscience and has altered its practice whenever new developments have demanded that the field modify itself. It has even attempted to influence psychotherapy and psychoanalytic concepts such as dreaming with neuroscientific concepts.4 This embedding of neuroscience into psychiatry is the kind of rapprochement with neurology for which many commentators have recently argued.5,6 It makes neuroscience the grindstone on which the blades of both psychiatry and neurology are sharpened. However, neuroscientific progress is unlikely to unite the two disciplines into one super discipline of neuropsychiatry.
In the foreseeable future, psychiatry and neurology will continue as two distinct disciplines, with different skills and pathways of training, but the cross-talk will undoubtedly increase, and the frameworks will converge and create a need for greater cooperation. Despite their commonalities, psychiatry and neurology are distinct clinical disciplines that require separate expertise and have vastly different demands placed upon them. The strengths of psychiatry lie in the rich description of mental phenomena, well-developed interviewing skills, understanding of multiple causation of behavioral disturbance, appreciation of individual variation, ability to deal with ambiguity, interpersonal context, and the combination of biological with psychological and behavioral therapies. Equally, neurology prides itself in its rigorous clinical examination skills, its empiricism, and its objectivity. The training experiences necessary for both disciplines are separate, and an amalgamation runs the risk of diluting both.
Neurologists often demonstrate an anxious avoidance of psychiatric patients, and psychiatric practice is usually difficult to combine with rigorous physical examination and investigation. The rapid increase in scientific knowledge will continue to challenge clinicians' ability to maintain the skill and knowledge basis of their discipline, such that a neurologist, no matter how well-trained, will find it impossible to acquire sufficient psychiatric skills to achieve competence in this field and vice versa. Even, for example, if a genetic basis for schizophrenia is discovered and a "cure" found, psychiatric skills would still be necessary to manage the patients in the context of their family and social environment. Understanding psychotic phenomena, developing the skills to interview psychotic patients, establishing a rapport with them and dealing with treatment compliance are skills acquired by years of psychiatric training, which is unlikely to change despite scientific advance. For instance, the development of effective antidepressant drugs has not reduced the need for specialized psychiatric training in the diagnosis of affective disorders or the skillful use of the large number of antidepressants currently available. A contemporary example from neuropsychiatry is Alzheimer disease. Rapid advances have occurred in the last 15 years, yet much of the tertiary management of this disorder in many countries is in the domain of neuropsychiatry and psychogeriatrics rather than neurology, which will more than likely continue. A rapprochement does not entail an amalgamation. Psychiatry and neurology can therefore rest assured that their respective futures as individual disciplines are secure.
Should neuropsychiatry claim its own territory to have its own future? If so, how should this be delineated? Here, one can distinguish between neuropsychiatric "territory" and the neuropsychiatric "approach," although the need for the latter influences the former. As an example, the management of Tourette syndrome requires familiarity with movement disorders as well as obsessive-compulsive disorder, attention deficit disorder, conduct disorder, mood disorders, specific developmental disabilities, and sleep disorder and requires skills in pharmacotherapy, behavior therapy, family therapy, genetic counseling, and rehabilitation. A skilled neuropsychiatrist is capable of managing such a case far better than a combination of clinicians from different disciplines. The neuropsychiatrist brings the basic skills of psychiatry and neurology together and combines them with expertise in neuroimaging, neuropsychology and neurophysiology to bear upon the condition, thereby demonstrating the neuropsychiatric approach. This would appear to be the essence of neuropsychiatry. By its application, however, some disorders can be identified that are best dealt with using the neuropsychiatric approach, thereby delineating the "territory" of the discipline.
Is the neuropsychiatric approach sufficient to secure the discipline, or is a claim to a territory comprising certain disorders essential? There are disciplines within medicine that have a basis in sharing a particular approach, for example, radiology or nuclear medicine. These disciplines specialize in a particular set of techniques for diagnosis across all medical conditions and do not lay claim to the diagnosis and management of any definite set of disorders. In my opinion, this is unlikely to provide a secure basis for a discipline of neuropsychiatry. What characterizes neuropsychiatry is the skill of its proponents in a variety of methods and techniques rather than a monopoly over any one particular technique. As the skill base shifts and developments in neuroscience redefine the landscape of diagnostic methods, the neuropsychiatric approach will change and evolve and will constantly need to reinvent itself. A more secure basis can be found in certain disease entities and disorders than can be justifiably labeled as neuropsychiatric, that is, by fencing in a neuropsychiatric territory.
There are many disorders that currently fit the bill of being "neuropsychiatric." What characterizes them is that the principles of either psychiatry or neurology are unable to fully encapsulate these disorders, and the neuropsychiatric approach is needed for their diagnosis and management. The diagnoses that come to mind are neurocognitive disorders; drug-induced movement disorders; Tourette syndrome; psychiatric disorders associated with other movement disorders such as Parkinson's disease and dystonia; psychiatric disorders associated with epilepsy; cerebrovascular disease and head injury; chronic fatigue syndrome and other psychoneuroimmunological disorders; attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; and other conditions in which cognitive, behavioral, or affective disturbance results directly from brain insult. The cognitive disorders, which include the dementias, are a large group that currently falls into the territory of old-age psychiatry and geriatric medicine for specialized care, with the primary care physician retaining a major role. While these remain a legitimate interest of neuropsychiatry, the assessment and management of young onset dementia are currently neglected aspects of dementia that fall distinctly within the purview of neuropsychiatry. It is a field that neuropsychiatry can easily claim and develop to make a major contribution to the welfare of this relatively neglected group. The neurodevelopmental disorders, which include various syndromes associated with intellectual handicap, are neuropsychiatric disorders that warrant a pediatric subdivision. Moreover, upon graduating into adulthood, young patients are left without a specific division for treatment. Neuropsychiatry could fill this void, however. Together, these disorders comprise a body of clinical work that can underpin a robust discipline. Some neuropsychiatrists place territorial claims on schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, citing the studies supporting their biological basis. In my opinion, this is an erroneous inference, as the mere fact of a "biological" etiology does not place a disorder outside the domain of psychiatry.
The "biologization" of psychiatry is inevitable, and the mind-brain dichotomy is increasingly under threat. In this climate, the promise of neuropsychiatry should involve special skills, without which particular clinical disorders cannot be managed. Schizophrenia is unlikely to be one of them, although some aspects of schizophrenia such as drug-induced movement disorders, secondary schizophrenia or particular physical treatments (e.g., transcranial magnetic stimulation [TMS] for auditory hallucinations) will fall within the neuropsychiatric territory. The same can be said for bipolar disorder. Neuropsychiatry cannot afford to be expansive on the back of a neuroscientific juggernaut, as psychiatry and neurology have tickets for the same ride.
Territorial claims are dynamic processes that are resolved by historical developments and shifts in thinking. Chronic fatigue syndrome, said to be a neuropsychiatric disorder by some, is currently treated by general physicians, psychiatrists, neuropsychiatrists and immunologists. Since many neuropsychiatric disorders occur in the elderly, neuropsychiatry has considerable overlap with psychogeriatrics. Similarly, because neuropsychiatric disorders are commonly seen in the medical and neurological wards, liaison psychiatry and psychosomatics specialists are called upon to see them. This overlap notwithstanding, neuropsychiatry has special areas of strength that will help determine boundaries with psychogeriatrics and psychosomatic medicine. The latter disciplines have a broader range of coverage than the disorders mentioned previously, thereby diluting their expertise in neuropsychiatric disorders. For example, psychogeriatricians are trained to recognize and treat behavioral and psychiatric syndromes of dementia but not to investigate dementia associated with neurological disease or early onset dementia. Liaison psychiatrists are comfortable with dissociative disorders, but not with episodic dyscontrol or epileptic psychosis. The discipline of psychogeriatrics is defined by the age of its clients rather than any approach to management or a theoretical underpinning. Psychogeriatrics, therefore, should collaborate with neuropsychiatry in a tertiary role in order to complement the field in certain cases.
While pharmacotherapy will remain the central modality of treatment of the above disorders, there is major interest in the development of new physical treatments in psychiatry.7 Expertise in pharmacotherapy is likely to continue to reside securely within biological psychiatry, as there is strength in numbers, but neuropsychiatry should be free to draw on this resource. In addition, there is a promise of new physical treatments that neuropsychiatry is well positioned to lay claim to. For many decades, psychiatric neurosurgery formed a major component of neuropsychiatric practice in Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom, and some European countries. With its decline, there are novel treatments promising to supplant it. Transcranial magnetic stimulation has already established itself as an experimental tool par excellence and has made inroads into clinical practice as a neuropsychiatric treatment.8 Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) shows early promise as a treatment for depression,9 and deep brain stimulation (DBS) is now being investigated in psychiatric disorders, particularly obsessive-compulsive disorder.10 In the future, other psychiatric treatments such as gene therapy, stem cell use, and brain implants are likely to involve direct brain intervention and may be regarded as neuropsychiatric in nature. Future neuropsychiatrists will, therefore, be well served if they develop expertise in the existing and future techniques that are of potential use as treatments for psychiatric disorders. As a corollary, neuropsychological counseling and cognitive rehabilitation are nonbiological treatment modalities that neuropsychiatry should embrace. This field has yet to blossom, but it is self-evident that the current rehabilitative and counseling services will be inadequate if and when it does.
The neuropsychiatric investigation of patients relies on new technologies in neuroimaging and neurophysiology. For example, rapid advances in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) have taken it beyond the simple investigation of brain morphology. Diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) is currently being used to investigate the integrity of the blood-brain barrier,11 and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) is being used to investigate white matter tracts in vivo.12 Magnetic resonance imaging can be used to measure brain perfusion using exogenous contrast tracking or arterial spin labeling.13 Magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) is able to perform a limited chemical "biopsy" of the living brain.14 Functional MRI (fMRI) has become the preeminent technique to investigate brain function while the brain is actively engaged.15 Positron emission and single photon emission tomography are now well-established techniques used to investigate brain metabolism, blood flow, and neurochemistry.16 Neurophysiology offers excellent techniques to map the electrical activity of the brain, and such techniques can be combined with structural and functional imaging to offer a multimodal perspective of the brain.17 These new approaches are mainly research-oriented, but their clinical applications are emerging, and their widespread application is imminent. As these approaches become more complex, special knowledge will be necessary for their optimal use, and neuropsychiatry must place itself in pivotal position to exploit these and other developments as they occur.
In the process of defining its terrain, neuropsychiatry will inevitably spawn subspecialties. It may seem unwise to go so far as to discuss possible subspecialties when neuropsychiatry itself is just beginning to shed its adolescence of identity formation. However, this may be the best approach to attract and retain some neuropsychiatrists into the fold. The field of developmental disability or mental retardation deals with a range of disorders that warrant the diagnostic and treatment input of neuropsychiatry. Since the focus of intervention occurs during the time when patients are young, a pediatric neuropsychiatry is likely to emerge. This subspecialty will also have a keen interest in attentional disorders, epilepsy and Tourette syndrome. Cognitive neuropsychiatry has grown to become a specialized field, which is a "systematic and theoretically driven approach to explain clinical psychopathologies in terms of deficits to normal cognitive mechanisms,"18 thereby linking cognitive neuropsychology to clinical psychiatry. While cognitive neuropsychiatry remains a theoretical discipline, the multiple brain-behavior models it suggests may open avenues to future treatment research. One example is the application of TMS to treat auditory hallucinations, which benefits from cognitive neuropsychiatric models of hallucinations.19
The intent to claim clinical territory goes with a responsibility to provide high-quality services. Models for such services will need to be developed regionally, but the intent is to make neuropsychiatry a tertiary-level service with established referral patterns from psychiatry, neurology, geriatrics, and general medicine. The nature of the expertise required makes it necessary for the core services for neuropsychiatric diagnosis and assessment developed in academic centers to have access to high quality neuroimaging and neurophysiology and support from other specialties. Since many neuropsychiatric patients need medium- and long-term hospitalization for cognitive therapy or rehabilitation, the assessment services will need the support of medium- and long-term beds with appropriate models of care. Practical models for such services are urgently needed, and these will vary in detail from region to region, depending on local imperatives.
The future of a profession is secured by the quality of training of its newest members, and therefore neuropsychiatry must develop a training agenda. Training requirements have regional disparities, but a core curriculum would have wide application. Ideally, the International Neuropsychiatric Association should develop such a curriculum, but organizations such as the American Neuropsychiatric Association, with their vast intellectual resources, could take the initiative. Important decisions must be made in relation to the composition of the training deemed necessary. For example, what proportion of psychiatric, neurological, and specialist neuropsychiatric training should constitute the overall training? What levels of skills are needed in neuroimaging and clinical neurophysiology? How much neuropsychological expertise is required? What emphasis should there be on research as a component of training? Most of the current generation of neuropsychiatrists around the world is self-trained, but this situation cannot lead to a secure professional status for the future.
Finally, neuropsychiatry must develop its research agenda. An agreement on its territory will suggest a pathway for research, but the nature of the discipline makes it necessary that research be multidisciplinary and not constrained by narrow conceptualizations. Neuropsychiatry is a frontier discipline rooted in neuroscience, and it must use all the tools of neuroscience currently available in order to advance its knowledge base in both the etiology of disorders and their effective management. Collaboration with the disciplines of psychiatry and neurology is both inevitable and desirable. This should not be seen as threatening, since the future of neuropsychiatry cannot afford to be isolationist. It must then also establish collaborations with neuropsychology, genetics, psychopharmacology, diagnostic radiology, immunology, neurophysiology, rehabilitation, and many other disciplines. In this endeavor, neuropsychiatry must look beyond the traditional reaches of psychiatry and neurology.
"Forward, ho!" is the short answer to the question, "Whither neuropsychiatry?" However, as history has shown, this can sometimes result in a cyclical movement. To secure a future, current practitioners of neuropsychiatry, especially its leaders, must take the appropriate steps to develop the identity of the discipline, making it meaningful to its clientele and future professionals. In other words, the future is now, and the ensuing debate should be robust and vigorous but also culminate quickly in necessary action.
The author is grateful to Drs. Gin Malhi and Julian Trollor for their helpful comments and Angela Russell for manuscript preparation.
Dr. Sachdev is President of the International Neuropsychiatric Association.
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Book DescriptionInvestors are all too often lured by the prospect of instant millions and fall prey to the many fads of Wall Street. The myriad approaches they adopt offer little or no real prospect for long-term success and invariably run the risk of considerable economic loss - they resemble speculation or outright gambling, not a coherent investment program. But value investing - the strategy of investing in securities trading at an appreciable discount from underlying value - has a long history - has a long history of delivering excellent investment results with limited downside risk.
Taking its title from Benjamin Graham's often-repeated admonition to invest always with a margin of safety, Klarman's 'Margin of Safety' explains the philosophy of value investing, and perhaps more importantly, the logic behind it, demonstrating why it succeeds while other approaches fail. The blueprint that Klarman offers, if carefully followed, offers the investor the strong possibility of investment success with limited risk.
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Taxonomy: Ploceus castanops Shelley, 1888, Wadelai, close to Sudan border, north Uganda.
Has been thought to form a superspecies with P. xanthopterus, but such a relationship now considered unlikely. May hybridize with P. melanocephalus or P. jacksoni in Uganda; both sight records and specimens of probable hybrids exist, and hybrid was previously described as a separate species, P. victoriae. Monotypic.
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ATLANTA (June 6, 2013) – The Georgia Institute of Technology has named Sathya Gourisankar, Ph.D., as Director of the Master of Biomedical Innovation and Development (BioID) Degree Program. This new degree focuses education and clinical experience to transform unmet clinical needs into practical, usable technologies and products for improving patient care. The inaugural BioID class begins in Fall 2013 as part of the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering.
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Gourisankar earned a doctorate in biomaterials/chemical engineering from State University of New York (SUNY) in Buffalo, NY. His thesis focused on biomaterials, biocompatibility of implants, surface treatments and analysis. Prior to joining Georgia Tech, Gourisankar was a biomedical scientist and R&D manager at top medical device companies in the United States and abroad, including Alcon Laboratories, C.R. Bard and ITC in Bangalore, India.
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Along with loyalty and companionship, dogs are great to have fun with. Taking your dog to the park to play fetch is a fantastic way to spend a sunny afternoon. While teaching your dog to fetch, you will also teach it how to behave during playtime and train it to be an obedient dog. Read the tips listed below and learn about how you can teach your dog to fetch.
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On Tuesday, the House passed a bill to limit public access to crime scene photos.
Here's the take from today's Athens Banner-Herald:
With little debate, the House quickly approved House Bill 1332, legislation drafted in response to Hustler magazine's request for copies of crime scene photos from the 2008 murder of Meredith Emerson. The recent University of Georgia graduate was kidnapped while hiking with her dog two years ago; her nude and dismembered body was found several days later.
House Speaker David Ralston assigned Rep. Jill Chambers, R-Atlanta, to sponsor the legislation because in previous sessions she has championed giving the public more access to government documents.
The legislation has made the state's newspaper publishers slightly queasy. Not because they're eager to put readers off their Cheerios, but because measures like this can be interpreted very loosely once they become law.
But the Georgia Press Association might want to pay more attention HB 1386, sponsored by state Rep. Wendell Willard (R-Sandy Springs), which was given a second reading on Tuesday in the House.
The bill would allow local governments to close meetings "when an agency is discussing or deliberating a future or existing service delivery agreement between such agency and a private company."
Which could cover an entire range of shenanigans. Willard is the city attorney for Sandy Springs.
My AJC colleague James Salzer has this about a list of cost-cutting measures handed to Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle, who quickly disavowed many of the recommendations:
Among them: freezing longevity raises for the state's 150,000 teachers and making them pay more into their retirement system. New teachers also would be shifted to things like 401-K retirement plans rather than the current pension system. The task force report, released today, backs Gov. Sonny Perdue's recommendation to create a "merit pay" system for teacher raises.
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Another radioactive measure proposed "broadening the sales tax base to include additional selected services."
Said Cagle to reporters: "That sounds a little bit like something a former [House] speaker was proposing a year or so ago."
On the same topic, over at the Macon Telegraph, Travis Fain has this list of sales tax exemptions that are due to expire this year – and may not be renewed:
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2. Non-profit volunteer health clinics.
3. Liquified petroleum gas/other fuel used in structures where swine are raised.
4. Food and beverage to qualified food banks.
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6. Gas/fuel/coal costs (above those that existed during 2008 session) used to manufacture property for resale.
7. Qualified job training organizations.
8. Annual sales tax holiday.
9. Motor fuel exemption for public mass transit vehicles and vehicles operated by campus public transportation systems.
This bit of farm news comes from Hoosier Ag Daily, out of Indiana:
U.S. Senator Saxby Chambliss, Ranking Member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, and U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, a senior member of the Committee, have sent a letter to the President opposing budget cuts to farm programs in a tough economy. The letter was also signed by Senators Cochran, Thune, Risch, Graham, Crapo, Bailey-Hutchison and Vitter.
In their letter, the Senators wrote, "Cutting farm programs in the midst of an economic downturn sends the wrong signal to rural America. While we agree that fiscal restraint is necessary and spending in the Federal budget should be reduced, doing so in this manner places a disproportionate burden on the backs of farmers, ranchers and rural communities and fails to recognize the recent sacrifices these constituencies made to expand nutrition programs during the reauthorization of the 2008 farm bill."
Finally, on Tuesday, there was speculation in this space that, by becoming a regular political contributor (Fox News aficionados would say fellow traveler) on CNN, that Erick Erickson of Macon-based RedState.com would have to sacrifice his late-night dinners with Sean Hannity.
This morning, Erickson assured us that this was not so in this e-mail: "I'll still be doing my regular Hannity commitment once a month. Bring on the steak!"
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March 17th, 2010
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March 17th, 2010
11:03 am
We all know where Saxby's heart & lobbist are, hint it's not Georgia.
March 17th, 2010
11:10 am
Kill Farm Subsidies!!! Why is the GOP afraid of the free market?
March 17th, 2010
11:26 am
????, your comment is ignorant. Are you really complaining that Georgia is represented in senate committees that make decisions that affect Georgia? I can't possibly see where anything he said showed that he wasn't thinking about Georgia. He was speaking on behalf of rural America, and Georgia has plenty of rural areas. Agricultural concerns are big for Georgia and I'm glad to see that our senior senator is the ranking member on the committee.
I'm not a Republican and have plenty of issues with Chambliss, but remarks like your drips with blind partisan thinking that is neither constructive nor helpful.
March 17th, 2010
11:39 am
But we are all fiscally conservative. Why don't the rest of you cut your programs?
In their letter, the Senators wrote, "Cutting (Your Program Name Here) programs in the midst of an economic downturn sends the wrong signal to (Your Contributors/Constituents Name Here). While we agree that fiscal restraint is necessary and spending in the Federal budget should be reduced, doing so in this manner places a disproportionate burden on the backs of (Your Contributors/Constituents Name Here) and fails to recognize the recent sacrifices these constituencies made to expand (Something) during the (Recent Legislation-Pick One)."
March 17th, 2010
11:41 am
Why would fuel for hog farmers be exempted from sales tax in the first place?
March 17th, 2010
11:53 am
Somehow the hogs have to get to market for slaughtering so that we have pork chops, roasts, sausage etc. I am under the assumption that trucks still operate with fuel. In order for the farmer to get the hogs to market they have to be transported. So this would be why hog farmers would be exempted from the fule sales tax.
I am sure that dairy farms and chicken farms have the same exemption if you check – for the same reason.
March 17th, 2010
11:56 am
Oldfart… Fuel subsidies for hog farmers is just another in a long line of pork barrel projects.
March 17th, 2010
12:02 pm
Uh, Jane, it states: "Liquified petroleum gas/other fuel used in structures where swine are raised."
Nothing about trucks, etc. and chickens, goats, or other livestock are not named. I don't think they are transporting them in "structures", do you? Why do hog farmers get to heat their barns without paying sales tax on the fuel? It should be part of the cost of doing business just like the fuel used to heat say, the new KIA plant or any other industry.
March 17th, 2010
12:14 pm
Saxby Chambliss is always 1st in line when it comes to taking care of the Ag. Billionaire Welfare Queens. I understand that Saxby's Son is a lobbyist for the Ag. industry..
March 17th, 2010
12:16 pm
Legislators and Gubernatorial candidates… Put down the axe and look at what services are being provided by state employees. State services have not been a "jobs program" or welfare especially since Governor Zell Miller made us a "right to work" (aka right to fire) state employee system.
While Federal and Local Government salaries are higher in many cases than private industry, compensation for state employees is anywhere from 4% to 30% lower than equivalent jobs in private industry. How many of the most talented state employees do you suppose will stay once private industry starts hiring again if you use them like a savings account and threaten to balance the budget on their backs? You are out to kill the goose that lays the golden egg.
The "logic" that because the income is lower means we don't need state employees is either ignorant or cynical election year politicking. At the same time our budget goes down our demand for services goes up. Medicaid claims, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families claims, unemployment claims, mortgage assistance programs, property crime, consumer fraud, etc. These and more are all areas where the demand for state services suddenly skyrockets at the same time budgets are slashed. You depend on state employees to work harder for less. In some cases people are doing 2-3 jobs and working a lot of uncompensated time because they care about serving their customers.
By any number of measures (low spending per capita, low revenues per capita, low fees, low state taxes, low tuition…) Georgia is one of if not the most fiscally conservative state in the nation. If you want to gripe about big government then look to the Feds who don't know what a budget means. At the same time they have shifted the burden of many programs back on the state. We can be fiscally conservative and still have a reasonable expectation of what kind of revenue it takes to fund necessary services.
Can there be efficiencies gained and money saved in current budgets. Absolutely- but continue to do what employees are already doing, like the millions saved by Forestry by changing schedules and modifying travel plans, or the millions saved by DFCS by consolidating and updating their call centers, or the millions of hours and dollars saved by Driver Services by re-engineering their office procedures and making renewal available on line. All of these and more are employee led improvements that use the intelligence and pride state employees have in serving our citizens to the best of their ability. Don't slash the talent- put it to work finding better ways to serve.
This is the best approach for the long term health of Georgia and her citizens.
March 17th, 2010
12:18 pm
Saxby's son Bo is a Lobbyist for the Ethanol Industry and we all know what waste the taxpayer gets on Ethanol.
March 17th, 2010
12:20 pm
that should have been we all know what a taxpayer ripoff Ethanol is.
March 17th, 2010
12:24 pm
Its amazing seeing how everyone seems to justify one special priviledge by raising up another special priviledge. Jane, please explain why anyone should get an exemption for anything. More importantly you so-called conservatives, please explain why the government should get ANY taxes as a result of a private transaction of goods or services. Either there is equity or there is not. Either there is freedom or there is not. The fact that we try to please everyone is why our government spending is out of control and everyone in society resents everyone else.
March 17th, 2010
12:30 pm
As for the rest of the government shenanigans (a good Irish word for the day), that's just more par for the course and yet another reason why government power must be taken away and restored to the voluntary private and productive sector of society. We never worry about backroom deals in private industry unless our tax money is involved. That is the beauty of letting people keep all of their income, spend their money only in voluntary exchanges, and for services that they wish to use.
March 17th, 2010
12:31 pm
I think the problem is that tax exemption have no rhyme or reasons–For example, corporations get the biggest exempt but we have the highest unemployment. This is not going to change. The state legislature is full or well-to -do people. How else could you take off 40 days from what you are doing to make 20,000 dollars. These are the same people who write of their polaris as a business expense yet it is for pleasure, the same people who write off their John Deere riding mower for their businees expense, the same people who but a magnet sign on their personal care and write the depreciation off. Then working people are stuck because we can not find the loopholes they created. We cut the budget, and cut and cut, but continue to say run the state like a business. If that was true, business raise their prices to cover their expense, shouldn't the state do the same.
March 17th, 2010
12:32 pm
that should be car not care
March 17th, 2010
12:57 pm
DK 11:26 am
Did you know that Saxby's Farm Bill was vetoed by President Bush because of the waste in it and the large amount of subsidy $'s going to nonfarmers? Rather than making the small cuts that President Bush wanted Saxby turned coat and worked with Pelosi, Ried and his best friend Teddy Kennedy to over over ride W'S Veto.
Inspite of the fact that Chambliss is the ranking member of the Ag. committee, Georgia does not get our fair share of the farm bill's pork because Saxby is owned by the Corn & Sugar industry. Do a Google search on farm bill waste and you'll throw up at what's in it.
March 17th, 2010
1:15 pm
Did you see who is on the Task Force–Georgia Power, Atlanta Gas Light, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Georgia and Deloitte and Touche–Yeah like that is good group to get input from–All state regulated with the most money to spend on lobbying. Georgia power can say layoff the state becuase to keep their employees they just raise our rates with a the commission rubber stamping it. The same goes for Atlanta Gas light. BCBS just raised thier rates again and up the deduction–Have any of this people laid off anyone–NO–have any of these business raised our rates–YES.. What an idiot–to put a team like this together to come up with STATE recommedations when they are the ones that benefit the most.
March 17th, 2010
1:38 pm
d2 brings up some excellent points.
Just how does Georgia Power go from bragging about their "lowest rates in the country," to almost the highest rates in the country in just 7 years?
March 17th, 2010
1:57 pm
Republicans scream that Obama spending needs to reigned in, then they scream when some of those cuts adversely affect their constituency. I wonder how many other groups have borne a "disproportionate burden" when their funding was cut? Probably most in one way or another, I would think.
March 17th, 2010
2:00 pm
How about Delta Airlines? Here's a company that can be lampooned as much as marta. Yet to "protect jobs," and keep them alive the state government showers them with gifts. Including that nice fuel tax exemption.
You ever hear a state politician scream to Delta, "RAISE YOUR FARES!!!!"
Nope, the disrespect is a one-way street. In fact it would be easier to lampoon Delta Airlines these days. Suffering from previous bad management, billions in debt, flight attendant cat fights, pilots forgetting to land, drug scandals, still losing money, bad on time record, and low customer satisfaction ratings, recent bankruptcy.
The state wouldn't even allow marta to use an easy accounting fix to help them out a bind.
Delta gets a socialized government bail-out. Free market? LOL!
March 17th, 2010
2:05 pm
Why do newspapers want to print pictures of nekkid dead women? You are perverts
March 17th, 2010
2:50 pm
Regarding Chambliss support of farm programs:
I see that a little socialism for farmers and rural America is okay. Does he really believe in capitalism or just opporunism?


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Boxing promoter Dan Goossen dies of liver cancer at 64Story | Conversation | September 29, 2014
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A few notes from around the boxing world: • Mike Tyson's Iron Mike Productions announced that it is headed to the Mesquite Arena in Mesquite, Texas, for a show Sept. 26 that will be headlined by bantamweight titlist Anselmo Moreno of P...Blog | August 25, 2014
Mike Tyson to present Evander Holyfield at Nevada Hall of Fame in...Dan Rafael
Former heavyweight champions Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield have come a long way since 1997, when Tyson bit off a piece of Holyfield's ear in the third round and was disqualified in their infamous heavyweight championship rematch.Story | Conversation | July 21, 2014
Argenis Mendez to fight Rances Barthelemy in July 10 rematchDan Rafael
Junior lightweight titlist Argenis Mendez and mandatory challenger Rances Barthelemy, whose January fight ended in a storm of controversy, will meet in a rematch on July 10 at the American Airlines Arena in Miami, promoter Mike Tyson announced on WednesdaStory | Conversation | June 11, 2014
Tyson, Holmes take a look backDan Rafael
On Jan. 22, 1988, Mike Tyson, smack in his prime, defended the undisputed heavyweight championship against aging former champ Larry Holmes and blasted him out in the fourth round of a one-sided fight. Twenty-six years later, the former champions w...Blog | June 10, 2014
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NEW YORK -- There is plenty of opinion on who will win the fight between middleweight champ Sergio Martinez and Miguel Cotto on Saturday night (HBO PPV, 9 ET) at Madison Square Garden. How about some celebrity and athlete picks? Mike Tyson: "...Blog | June 06, 2014
Iron Mike signs Olympian KhytrovDan Rafael
Ievgen Khytrov, a 2012 Olympian from Ukraine, has signed a co-promotional deal with Mike Tyson's Iron Mike Productions and New York-based Fight Promotions. Khytrov (4-0, 4 KOs), 25, who now lives in Brooklyn, N.Y., turned pro in December (in a sch...Blog | May 29, 2014
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Mike Tyson returns to ShowtimeDan Rafael
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Tyson announces new fight seriesDan Rafael
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Picking Mayweather-AlvarezDan Rafael
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Democrats take over Virginia senate
Richmond, VA, United States (4E) – Democrats took control of the Virginia senate by voting 21-20 Tuesday to reorganize the chamber with Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam giving the tie-breaking vote.
After Sen. Lynwood W. Lewis Jr. (D-Accomack) was sworn in Tuesday to give his party the same 20 seats in the senate as Republicans, Northam's vote tilted the majority in favor of the Democrats, who then moved to change the chairs and membership of 11 committees previously led by Republicans.
The changes also include Sen. Charles J. Colgan (D-Prince William) replacing Sen. Walter A. Stosch (R-Henrico) as president pro tempore and Sen. Dick Saslaw (D-Fairfax) becoming new majority leader. Sen. John Edwards (D-Roanoke) became the chair of the powerful Rules Committee and Sen. Henry L. Marsh III (D-Richmond) became chair of the Courts of Justice Committee.
Democrats gave themselves majorities in the different committees as they took 94 seats to the Republicans' 75. Prior to the change, Republicans had 93 committee memberships to the Democrats' 74. The Democrats were minorities in only the Local Government and Rehabilitation and Social Services committees.
With the reorganization, Democrats will have the ability to decide which legislation advances through the committee process and makes it to the Senate floor. It also made the Senate a counterbalance to the Republican-dominated House of Delegates.
It was not the first time that the lieutenant governor's vote was used as tie-breaker to decide the majority bloc as Republicans used former Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling's vote to create the rules of the chamber in 2012 and gave the party control of crucial committees. But Republicans complained Tuesday that the rules of the Senate had never been changed midterm and the reorganization, by tradition, was not due until 2015 to coincide with the Senate election cycle.
Sen. Ryan T. McDougle (R-Hanover), chairman of the Senate Republican Caucus, said the precedent would allow his party to retake the majority if a Democrat is absent.
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IRVING, Texas –
The veteran defensive tackle leads the league in sacks and tackles for less among defensive tackles – though that was news to him. He took the opportunity post-practice to discuss a bevy of topics, from the team boycott at his old school, Grambling, to the Cowboys' much-discussed No-Name defensive line, and his newfound notoriety.
What's going on at Grambling?
Hatcher: "It's just a bunch of nonsense, man. I don't want to be negative about a situation that's so close to my heart. I wouldn't be here without Grambling, so I just hope the situation gets better. I heard the guys showed back up to practice. I'm just going to continue to pray for them."
Have you reached out to the school at all?
Hatcher: "I just try to stay out of it, man. I'm more proactive than anything -- I think it should have been handled way before it blew up. It's a really sensitive situation, man. It's really hurting -- it's kind of embarrassing, in a sense. It shouldn't happen, man. It shouldn't happen at all. I feel sorry for those kids, and hopefully it gets better."
Were the conditions better when you went there?
Hatcher: "It was pretty much brand new when I got there -- the facilities. But one thing you don't do is you don't fire Doug Williams. That's like Peyton Manning going to Tennessee and you fire him -- something you absolutely don't do. At least ask him to step down -- you don't fire the guy. That's the wrong thing to do at Grambling State University, because when you think of Grambling, you think of two people. And that's Eddie Robinson and Doug Williams. So it's just a bad situation."
In the defensive tackle stats, you're at the top in sacks and tackles for loss. Do you ever look back and think 'I wish I had been in this position five years ago?
Hatcher: "Well, well, well. I thank God for everything I went through. It kept the fire burning in me – I knew one day I was going to get my opportunity. But I didn't know it was going to be this damn long."
How well does this defense fit you and what you do?
Hatcher: "It's great, man. I just go out there and be the athlete that I am and just go out there and make plays, man, alongside a lot of guys I'm playing with. We've got a great no-name defense, and guys just want to play football. Sean (Lee) stepped in and studied while we partied on Thursday, so we're gelling together. I'm excited, taking it one day at a time and enjoying this journey."
Could you still be considered a no-name, after what you've done?
"Absolutely, I wish you guys would just call me nobody – just call me 97. I'll be good with it. What I do, how I've played thus far has kind of put me in the spotlight, but I don't like it, man. I just like to be a regular guy – I want to go out to the restaurant with my kids, my wife and just not be bothered. If I could live like that – but I doubt it, playing for the Cowboys."
Is it surprising having good chemistry despite the large number of contributors?
Hatcher: "We do a good job setting the tone and telling these guys how we play this defense, and they come in right away and they buy in. The scouting department and Coach Marinelli and whoever else, they did a great job of picking the right guys and bringing them in."
What do you see in Detroit quarterback Matthew Stafford so far?
Hatcher: "He's getting the ball out. I've timed like 50 percent of his plays, and he gets it out in like two seconds. So it's kind of hard getting to him. We've got a good gameplan. It's not of y'all's business, but we've got a gameplan. Hopefully it works."


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This is the 47th episode of the first season of Campus Nerds Shorties, a bunch of animated shorts that I make for my campus organization, the Campus Nerds. They get a kick out of these and I enjoy making them so I'm sharing them here with you. xD
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Comprehensive Immigration Reform: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
March 22, 2007
Washington, DC - Today, Representative Jeff Flake (R-AZ) and Representative Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) introduced the STRIVE Act (Security Through Regularized Immigration and a Vibrant Economy) of 2007, a bipartisan comprehensive immigration reform bill. The following is a statement by Frank Sharry, Executive Director of the National Immigration Forum, a pro-immigrant advocacy organization in Washington.
Thanks to the leadership and courage of Representatives Flake and Gutierrez, comprehensive immigration reform has left the station and has a full head of steam. The STRIVE Act is bipartisan, comprehensive, and workable. On an issue too often dominated by harsh rhetoric and vacuous proposals, the STRIVE Act charts a substantive and serious path towards an immigration system realistically designed and effectively enforced.
It's time for Congress and the President to roll up their sleeves and fix our nation's broken immigration system once and for all. It's time to transform a chaotic and disorderly system immersed in illegality into a controlled and realistic legal immigration system that reflects our traditions as both a nation of immigrants and a nation of laws. It's time for partisan posturing to give way to bipartisan problem-solving.
The Gutierrez-Flake bill is a great place to start. If enacted as proposed, it will be the toughest enforcement bill aimed at illegal immigration in American history. It will also be the most practical reform of our legal immigration system in American history. It will make our borders more secure, crack down on bad actor employers, and make it nearly impossible for those without proper papers to get hired. At the same time, it modernizes our legal immigration system by expanding controlled legal channels for those already here and those coming in the future.
It is telling that the House has taken this step first. The House of Representatives is the "People's House." Its members are closest to the electorate. They feel the frustration of local communities and state and local governments. They are well aware of the need for action and the price of inaction. We hope their initiative will spur the Senate into action soon.
Finally, we will be studying the STRIVE Act in the coming days. No bill is perfect, and after studying the language carefully, we expect we will take issue with specific provisions. But we are thrilled that the legislative starting gun has been fired, and we look forward to a vigorous debate that irons out differences and enacts into law a workable version of comprehensive immigration reform by the end of this year.