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Ratification of Parliament's 18 additional MEPs completed
With the vote of Belgium's Joint Community Commission (CoCom), the process of ratifying the protocol allowing 18 additional Members to join the European Parliament has been successfully completed. The 27 national ratification procedures started on September 2010, following a decision by national governments in June 2010 to adopt a proposal modifying the EP composition.
All ratified protocols have now been brought together in Rome, where the treaty change has been signed, thus allowing the text to enter into force on 1 December. The next and final step is for national authorities to notify the European Parliament of their decisions as to who the new MEPs will be. Once this is done, the 18 will be able to start working as fully-fledged MEPs.
The European Council decided on 17 June 2010 to launch an Intergovernmental Conference to handle a treaty change proposed by Spain to allow for the 18 additional MEPs. This short IGC was dealt with at Coreper II, the meeting of the permanent representatives of the Member States in Brussels on 23 June 2010.
Size and composition of the Parliament before and after the Lisbon Treaty
The Lisbon Treaty states that the European Parliament is composed of representatives of the Union's citizens and that there can only be 750 members, plus the President, bringing the maximum number up to 751 MEPs. The allocation of seats follows the principle of degressive proportionality, with a minimum threshold of 6 members per member state. No member state can have more than 96 seats.
The Treaty says a decision on the composition of Parliament is to be adopted unanimously by the European Council, on the initiative of Parliament and with its consent. This means in practice that these two institutions decide how many seats are allocated to each country.
The Lisbon Treaty includes also a protocol (number 36) on transitional provisions, defining transitional changes to be made in each institution after the expected entry into force of the Treaty (initially expected 1 January 2009). Concerning Parliament, the protocol says the European Council should have adopted a decision determining the composition of Parliament in good time before the 2009 European Parliament elections.
The last European Parliament elections took place in June 2009, when the Nice Treaty was still in force. In line with the latter, 736 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) were elected and are now in office. However, the new Lisbon Treaty entered into force 1 December 2009, allowing 751 seats in Parliament. The Treaty gives the 18 additional seats to 12 Member States, while Germany loses 3 seats due to the new thresholds in the treaty.
As the 3 German MEPs elected in the last elections may continue to the end of the current legislature, the arrival of the 18 additional members would temporarily raise the total number of seats to 754 (736 + 18). A transitional change in the Lisbon Treaty was therefore required to allow a temporary increase in the total number of seats from 751 to 754 and to enable the 18 new MEPs to take their seats.
European Council decisions on the EP composition
Since the Lisbon Treaty did not enter into force before the 2009 elections, the European Council never took a formal decision on Parliament's composition. Nevertheless, the conclusions of the European Councils of December 2008 and June 2009 set out the conditions under which the 18 additional members could join Parliament, provided the Lisbon Treaty entered into force during the 2009–2014 legislature. These conclusions emphasized a swift timetable and defined the seat allocation, as well as how the new MEPs could be designated.
In December 2008, the European Council decided that once the new Treaty enters into force, transitional measures would be adopted as soon as possible to increase, until the end of the 2009–2014 legislature, the number of MEPs of the 12 member states for which the number of MEPs was set to increase. Therefore, the total number of MEPs would rise from 736 to 754 until the end of this legislature. They also added that this modification should enter into force, if possible, during 2010.
In June 2009 the European Council reaffirmed this decision and added more detailed measures concerning the 18 future MEPs. The decision also included an annex which reconfirmed the distribution of the new seats already negotiated in the Intergovernmental Conference preceding the Lisbon Treaty on the basis of a proposal by Parliament adopted in October 2007 (Lamassoure–Severin report).
The distribution of the 18 seats among the 12 member states is as follows:
Austria: 2
Bulgaria: 1
France: 2
Italy: 1
Latvia: 1
Malta: 1
Netherlands: 1
Poland: 1
Slovenia: 1
Spain: 4
Sweden: 2
United Kingdom: 1
The only country to have fewer MEPs in the new Lisbon allocation of seats is Germany. According to the Nice Treaty, Germany had 99 members and, according to the new thresholds defined in the Lisbon Treaty, 96. As the June 2009 Parliament elections took place under the Nice Treaty, there are currently 99 German MEPs. All of them will continue until the end of the 2009–2014 legislature. This explains why the total number of MEPs will not be 751 as laid down in the Lisbon Treaty, but 754, as there are still 3 "Nice Treaty" German MEPs in Parliament.
The European Council also defined how these seats could be filled, or more precisely, by which method the 18 new members could be designated. The member states concerned should designate persons, first of all, in accordance with their national law and on the condition that they have been elected through direct universal suffrage. Once this overriding criterion has been fulfilled, the European Council laid down three different methods for the member states to designate the MEPs:
a. an ad hoc election,
b. by reference to the results of the European elections of June 2009, or
c. by having their national parliament appoint, from its midst, the requisite number of members.
Lisbon Treaty change needed for the 18 to be able to take their seats
To proceed in filling the 18 seats, it was necessary to amend the Lisbon Treaty, more specifically its protocol 36 on the transitional provisions. A new annex in the protocol lays down the allocation of seats and the methods of designating the new MEPs.
The treaty amendment followed a procedure laid down in the Lisbon Treaty itself, in article 48. According to this procedure, a member state government may make a proposal to the Council to change a treaty. The proposal is then forwarded to the European Council, which has to consult Parliament and the Commission.
A Convention should be convened, unless the change is so small that this is deemed unnecessary. The Convention's duty would be to examine the proposals for amendments and adopt by consensus a recommendation to an Intergovernmental Conference (IGC) of representatives of the governments of the member states.
Should the European Council propose not to convene a Convention, Parliament has to give its consent. If a Convention is convened, Parliament is also represented in it, along with representatives of national parliaments, of the Heads of State or Government of the member states, and of the Commission.
In either case, an Intergovernmental Conference is needed to make any treaty changes. It is convened by the President of the European Council for the purpose of determining by common accord the amendments to be made to the treaties. The amendments enter into force only after being ratified by all the member states in accordance with their respective constitutional requirements.
Spain suggested a treaty change
The government of Spain proposed a treaty amendment to the Council at the start of December 2009. This proposal was placed on the General Affairs Council agenda during the same month. The Council forwarded the proposal to the European Council that took place on 10–11 December 2009 in Brussels.
The Spanish proposal amended the protocol 36 of the Lisbon Treaty. It listed the countries to get more seats as well as how many seats each country would get. It also repeated the decision of the European Council on how the persons filling the additional seats should be designated. Furthermore, it set a target timetable: the change should be in force 1 December 2010, provided all member states have ratified it by then.
The European Council decided on 11 December to proceed with the Spanish proposal and accordingly sent a letter to Parliament and the Commission informing them of the suggested treaty amendment. The letter from the European Council President to Parliament's President arrived in Parliament at the start of January 2010.
This letter included the two requirements set out in the Lisbon Treaty for treaty amendments:
the European Council consulted the European Parliament on the suggested treaty changes
it also requested the consent of Parliament to not convening a Convention.
What are the next steps?
The 12 Member States concerned by the modified composition have to designate the new MEPs in accordance with their national laws and on the condition that they have been elected by direct universal suffrage and in accordance with one of the three different methods approved by the European Council (see previous chapter).
Once the decisions are taken and the names notified to the EP, the newly-designated MEPs will be announced by Parliament's President at a plenary meeting and can take office.
Further information :
- The Treaty on European Union (first part of Treaty of Lisbon)
- Protocols of the Treaty of Lisbon
- Spanish proposal on amending the treaty
- Letter from European Council President to European Parliament President
- Conclusions of the European Council December 2009
- Conclusions of the European Council June 2009
- Conclusions of the European Council December 2008
- Parliament resolution of 11 October 2007 on the composition of the European Parliament
- Decision of 25 November 2009 on the adaptation of EP Rules of Procedure to the Lisbon Treaty
- Procedure file of the report on the Treaty change
- Procedure file of the recommendation on not to convene a convention
- EP committee backs treaty change to allow 18 additional MEPs
- Parliament backs treaty change to allow 18 additional MEPs (06.05.2010)


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Houston McBay of Lincoln County, Tennessee
Houston McBay, b. abt 1782 in SC. "Early East Tennessee Marriages, 1783-1868", Vol. 1 Grooms, page 237: On October 2, 1809, Hugh McBay married Peggy Phann, by Phillip Phann, sig. Hugh Houston McBay. (Houston was born in 1782. He would have been 27 years of age at the time of the marriage.); From the military Records of the Tennessee Soldiers from the War of 1812:
McBay, Hugh- was drafted into the military and served at the rank of Corporal in the War of 1812 under Colonel Ewen Allison and Captain Thomas Wilson. (Houston was 30 years of age at this time)
We know from court records that Houston purchased 50 acres of land in Lincoln County, Tennessee, on August 31, 1839, from Charles Lynch.
We also know from his will dated August 5, 1856, that his wife was named Margaret and that Elizabeth Snow was his daughter. The Will was proven in court on October 5, 1856 in Lincoln County.
In the 1850 Lincoln County, Tennessee Census shows Houston McBay and wife as shown below:
1850 Lincoln County Tennessee Census
Transcribed by Miss Deane Porch 1970
Route 2, River Road
Nashville, Tennessee 37209
(Lincoln County Library)
household 1140
Houston McBay 68 M Farmer 800 S.C.
Margaret 59 F Tenn12
Phillip 37 M Tenn12
Elizabeth Snow 30 F Tenn12
Margaret McBay 22 F Tenn12
James K. 21 M none (dumb) Tenn12 (meaning can't read or write)
Sarah A. Snow 13 F Tenn
Phillip M. 11 M Tenn11
Wiley 9 M Tenn11
Margaret E. 7 F Tenn
Jonathan Bice 17 M none S.C.
no clue as to who Jonathan Bice is, farm hand supposibly
Phillip age 37, is the son of Houston and Margaret, divorced and living at home w/ parents again
Elizabeth Snow, age 30, is his daughter, she is listed in his 1856 will as his daughter. She and her 4 children, Sarah A., Phillip M., Wiley, Margaret E., are living with Houston and Margaret. It is not known the given name of her SNOW husband. However, given the age of the last Snow child was 7 years old he would have had to died or left Elizabeth sometime between 1843 and 1850 where she is found living w/ parents in 1850 census.
After the death of Houston, we find Margaret in Census Reports up to 1880, see below:
Margaret McBay found in 1860 Census as head of household with Elizabeth and 3 of her 4 children found in 1850
Found in the 1870 Census of Lincoln County, Tennessee
Margaret McBay
born abt 1791
Found in the 1870 Lincoln County, Tennessee United States Federal Census, living with Mary McBay Eslick, husband James B. and son James M. Eslick. Mary McBay is an older daughter of Houston and Margaret McBay who was found in Lincoln County, Tn already living with husband James B. Eslick in 1850.
District Post Office Roll Page Image Age Real Estate
2 Lynchburg M593-1544 168 51 79 $500.00
Found in 1880 Moore County, Tennessee Census
Mary Eslick, 70, widowed TN VA VA
Marg McBay, 92, mother, widowed, broken leg
Mandy Eslie- niece, 23
(Marg; this would be Margaret Peggy Phann McBay)
Jacob Moyer, the immigrant
The spelling of Moyers varied from Meyer, Myers, whatever, depending on the spelling given it by whoever was recording the information.
Jacob Meyer age 24 from Berg, Switzerland (b ca 1715) arrived 7 Feb 1739 on Ship Jamaica Galley (per the Immigrant per Baughman History) Dorothea Moyers, daughter of Jacob Moyers, married John Baughman. These families arrived on the same ship.
Jacob, the immigrant has at least one child, of coarse named none other than, Jacob Moyer. This Jacob was born abt. 1753 and died abt. 1795 in Botetcourt County, Virginia. He first married Barbara Miller who supposibly was the daughter of Jacob Miller. Second he marred Saloma/Sarah Miller, also a daughter of Jacob Miller. He married Barbara abt 1772 and had some children, not sure who or how many but do know that my great great great great grandfather, Mathias was b. in 1779 so he would have been the son of Barbara, she must have died and then Jacob married Saloma(Sarah) on November 6, 1781 in Strasburg Lutheran Chruch, Strasburg, Shenandoah county,Virgina. Therewere children to this marriage as well. The children from both marriages were John abt 1773, Mathias abt 1779, Susanna abt 1781, Peter abt 1783, Sarah abt 1785 and Dorothea (Dolly) December 25, 1787.
Jacob's health failing appointed Peter Deisher as guardian of his underage children and after his death there is a marriage of Sarah Moyer to Peter Deisher on January 28, 1797.
Later when Doretha Moyer, daughter of Jacob and Sarah wanted to marry John Baughman one Daniel Disher signed an oath at the county clerk's office of Botetcourt County, Virginia stating that Doretha Moyer was over the age of 21. Seems that this Daniel Disher was the son of Peter Disher making him either the brother or half brother to Doretha.
My gggggrandfather, Mathias b. abt 1779 Va. and died April 1812 in Jefferson County, Tennessee married on May 23, 1797 Mary Polly Collins, daughter of John and Catherine Critcher Collins. Polly was born on September 8, 1779 and died January 26, 1850. Mathias was about 33 years old at the time of his death. When he died his estate was in a mess.
For more notes on Mathias Moyers read info in genealogy.com's Descendants of John Collins, generation No. 9
Sources show that the Bible of Mathias Moyers shows his children: one child, Wyley was my great great great grandfather, Wyley's name is spelled Wagley but think that was a mis-spelling of his real name that was pronounced Wyley.
After Mathias died Polly remarried Andrew Powell Gass, a man much younger than herself. Andrew was born in 1792. The two had 5 children plus Andrew became the father of some of Mathias' youngest children that he left behind including my ggggrandfather. There were 7 children from the marriage of Mathias and Polly.
Wyley married Sarah Jane Jones in Rhea County, Tennessee in 1832. I don't know who her parents were.
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Nevada Patient Busing
Families question safety of Nevada's busing of mental patients
LA PLATA, Md. – If you happened to be riding an eastbound Greyhound bus in late February, you might have encountered Nicholas Attilio Caroleo.
You probably would remember him.
Caroleo, a former light-heavyweight professional boxer with a nose that is slightly off-kilter, had just been released from Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital in Las Vegas, one of hundreds of mentally ill people the facility has discharged to buses headed out of Nevada in recent years.
With a history of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, a long rap sheet of misdemeanor offenses and a roiling anger in his gut, Caroleo had a one-way ticket to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., courtesy of Nevada's largest state psychiatric hospital.
It is unclear whether Caroleo, 32, ever made it to his destination, where relatives said he had no family or friends but has lived on the streets.
Before he left Las Vegas, he let a former girlfriend know he was on the move, sending a text message and photo of himself sitting at the Greyhound station. Shaggy and bearded, he is showing off his bus schedule and discharge papers from Southern Nevada Adult Mental Health Services, the state agency that oversees Rawson-Neal.
"You will repent!!!" his text warns. "I gotta ticket."
Alarmed, the girlfriend forwarded the message to Caroleo's parents, Pat and Robert, in Maryland. Within hours, they sought a court order barring their son from contacting them.
"Nicholas has threatened to kill myself, my husband, himself and my grandchildren," Pat Caroleo told the court in a written statement. "He is en route from Las Vegas by bus."
Asked whether he had access to a firearm, she answered, "Do not have any idea."
The Charles County court granted the protective order.
A few days later Nicholas' parents, who live in a quaint southern Maryland town of about 9,000 people, got a call from an Atlanta mental hospital where he had been admitted. Later, they received a series of chilling phone and text messages from him. "You'll be dead by summer," one of them said.
Now, with summer upon them and armed only with court papers, the Caroleos are not letting down their guard.
Every day, his mother said in a recent interview, she braces for the possibility of Nicholas showing up at the family's pristine colonial-style home, which is perched on a street of towering oaks and manicured lawns studded with American flags.
"They put people like him on a bus?" asked Pat Caroleo, a petite, no-nonsense retired schoolteacher.
"He is 200-percent unstable. He's angry. He's psychotic. He's a boxer. His fists are weapons."
Nicholas Caroleo is one of about 1,500 patients in the past five years who were discharged from the Nevada state mental hospital to Greyhound buses bound for cities across the country, according to a Bee review of receipts for bus tickets purchased by the state. The patients traveled alone, typically with a small supply of psychiatric medications and liquid nutritional supplements for their journeys.
Between July 2008 and March this year, according to The Bee's review, the hospital shipped patients to every state in the continental United States, at a pace that steadily increased and last year hit more than one patient per day. About a third of the patients were sent to California.
Since mid-February, when Rawson-Neal bused a mentally ill homeless man to Sacramento without making arrangements for his treatment or housing, officials in California and across the nation have questioned whether Nevada has been "dumping" mentally ill patients into other states. Earlier this month, Sacramento civil rights lawyer Mark Merin filed a lawsuit seeking class-action status against Nevada and Rawson-Neal, contending the busing policy violated patients' constitutional rights.
Following a series of Bee reports, Rawson-Neal revised its policy and no longer discharges people to buses without an escort.
But questions still loom about the fate of the hundreds of mentally ill patients sent off alone over the past five years.
Administrators defend the hospital's long-standing policy as safe and humane, arguing that the vast majority of patients transported out of state were mentally stable and wanted to leave. They insist that in all but a handful of cases, staff members confirmed before discharge that patients had relatives and treatment arrangements waiting for them at the other end of their bus trips.
They acknowledge, however, that they have done no follow-up checks to determine whether patients actually made it to their destinations.
During the past two months, through a painstaking process of tracking down former patients whose records are protected by privacy laws, The Bee sought first-hand accounts of patient treatment at Rawson-Neal and how the aggressive cross-state busing policy played out. The newspaper was able to identify and obtain the stories of eight people placed on buses by the hospital in recent years.
In none of those cases, according to the patients and their families, did staff members fully adhere to the discharge policies outlined by administrators.
Only one passenger completed his bus journey at the scheduled time, with a friend or relative waiting at the bus station. None of the patients had firm treatment plans in place at their destinations. At least two were bused to cities where, according to family, they had no personal ties.
Only three of the eight described their mental and housing situations today as healthy and stable.
One of the patients was a vacationer who had a mental breakdown while in Las Vegas. The others were living in the city, in some cases for years, and without jobs or stable housing. They were drawn by the balmy weather and the promise of a better life.
All ended up at Rawson-Neal in despair.
'Let's send him home'
"People are trying to kill me," Joshua Soules told a social worker after he arrived at Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital in May 2011. "I see invisible people that you can't see."
Two weeks later, Soules was discharged via Greyhound to Sacramento, near the home of his mother, Sharon, in Elk Grove. The trip should have taken about 15 hours. Instead, it turned into a three-day odyssey.
Contrary to Rawson-Neal's stated policy, Soules' mother said she never received a call from staffers prior to his bus trip. If she had, she said, she would have advised against allowing Joshua to take a long bus ride alone.
"He's got a heart of gold when he's stable and sober, but how do you know that he's going to stay that way?" she said. "It's absolutely not safe."
Instead, it was Joshua who called his mother in early June and asked her to meet him at the bus station the next day. But he was nowhere to be found when she arrived to pick him up at the Greyhound depot in downtown Sacramento.
More than two days later, he showed up on her doorstep, dirty, disheveled and soaked with perspiration.
Soules, in a recent interview, said he is unsure why he and his mother never connected at the bus station. But once he realized he had missed her, he said, he started walking to her home in Elk Grove, a journey of more than 20 miles.
"I had no money or ID or phone," he said, standing in the backyard of the dingy boarding home where he now lives. "I left the hospital with nothing but the clothes on my back."
Joshua, 25, was adopted by Sharon Soules as a toddler and diagnosed in his teens as bipolar. In the winter of 2010, he drove to Las Vegas with a girlfriend on a whim, and spent about eight months drifting around the city.
Unemployed, homeless and off his medication, Soules entered Rawson–Neal voluntarily in May 2011, he said. He was in the throes of a romantic breakup, and recently had been mugged in the streets. "I knew I needed help."
His medical records, which The Bee reviewed with his permission, show Soules was admitted to Rawson-Neal with "active paranoia" and auditory and visual hallucinations of people following him and wanting to kill him.
After two weeks of treatment, according to the records, he was discharged in "stable but guarded" condition. "They offered me a bus ticket, and I grabbed it," he said. "I'm a Cali boy, and I wanted to go home."
The staff offered him the name and number of a "recovery house" where they said he could seek care when he got home. But Soules said he never had an appointment and had no intention of going there.
Once released from Rawson-Neal, Soules got into a waiting taxi and headed to the bus station. He had no cash, no identification other than his Medicare card, and none of the liquid nourishment that hospital policy mandates for such trips, he said. He did have a supply of anti-psychotic medications, but "I threw them away," Soules said, believing they were spiked with heroin.
The bus ride, Soules recalled, "was strange. I remember someone in the back of the bus staring at me, trying to mess with me." But he said he made it to Sacramento without incident.
Sharon Soules said she was reluctant to take her son into her home, on a quiet street where she lives with her disabled adult daughter. She agreed, she said, after he promised for the umpteenth time to stay away from drugs and alcohol and take his medications.
Instead, she said, he resumed his drug habit and started getting into trouble.
"He was flailing around, not making sense, yelling and screaming," she said. "He broke furniture, he broke the door. He was sweet one minute, and out of control the next."
Since returning from Las Vegas, Soules has been detained by Elk Grove police at least eight times for minor offenses ranging from public intoxication to disorderly conduct, records show.
In the most recent case, on April 30, officers took him in after reports that he was "yelling and cursing at people in the streets" in Old Town, said police spokesman Christopher Trim. "Officers determined he was off of his meds and unable to care for himself," Trim said.
He ended up at Heritage Oaks, a private psychiatric hospital, and now lives in a boarding home in south Sacramento where he is struggling to remain sober and stay on his psychiatric medications.
Sharon Soules speaks with her son by phone almost every day, but has taken out a restraining order that bars him from coming to her home.
Tall and solidly built, with piercing blue eyes, elaborate tattoos on both biceps and a black loop earring in his left lobe, Joshua spoke of his life in a recent interview at the sparsely furnished boarding home he shares with four other people.
During a rambling, disjointed discussion, he ranted about crooked police officers and others he believes have wronged him. He disclosed that people on TV spy on him, and that the wind whispers messages. In the course of a 90-minute interview, he rapped and danced to an Eminem tune, burst into tears over the loss of a friend, and laughed hysterically at the absurdity of his situation.
Still, he said, he is happy to be back in Sacramento and believes the hospital treated him fairly.
"What are they going to do with me?" he asked. "They can't keep me forever. So they said, 'Let's get this guy out of here. Let's send him home.' I was fine with that."
Dazed and disoriented
Matt Hartford barely remembers his Greyhound trip from Las Vegas to Portland, Maine, a distance of 2,411 miles.
When he boarded the bus, he said, he was "completely disoriented" by medications for a mental illness he insists he does not have.
"I was so doped up when I left there that I was drooling on myself," said Hartford, 26. "It was scary."
Hartford wound up at Rawson-Neal in November 2011 following an altercation with a police officer, he said.
He had moved to Las Vegas about 18 months earlier, with high hopes of finding a job and living with a cousin. "But Vegas wasn't what I thought it would be," he said.
One day he was "walking down the street asking people for change" when an officer confronted him. "The next thing I knew I was in the mental hospital with a needle of Haldol in my arm, being told I had a severe illness and that I was hearing voices," he said.
After a few days, he said, staffers asked him whether he wanted to leave Las Vegas, and he opted for a bus ticket to Maine, where his parents live. He said he got no referrals for counseling or treatment.
He remembers asking if he could stay in the hospital another day "to get the drugs out of my system," he said, but he got a Greyhound ticket instead.
"They wanted to kick me out because I didn't have money," Hartford said. "They doped me up with meds, gave me a big plastic bag of Ensure and some saltines and they put me on a bus."
Hartford's cross-country trip "is a blur," he said. He remembers little about it other than "waking up in places like Pittsburgh and Ohio and Boston" for transfers.
Although a Rawson-Neal social worker told him that his father would be waiting at the bus station, he said, his dad never got a call and no one was there when he arrived.
Nevertheless, Hartford said, he made it and now is healthy and stable.
"I was so out of it when I left," he said. "I can't believe I made it home."
Ryan Weatherman said he received neither medications nor therapy when he found himself at Rawson-Neal last year following an episode of severe depression while he was visiting the city.
After a brief stay, "a doctor asked me if I wanted to go home" to Indiana, he said. He did. He endured a "long, boring" ride, and his mother was waiting for him upon his return.
But he is bitter, he said, that the hospital seemed more concerned with "passing me off to someone else" than offering him treatment.
"I was in full despair and misery," he said, and had threatened suicide.
"All they did was give me a place to sleep for the night," he said. "No food, no medicine, no psychiatry, no referrals, no follow-up. Just four bottles of Ensure" and a hefty bill.
Weatherman, 34, said he sought help after arriving home and is doing well.
Life is more precarious for another former Rawson-Neal patient, Tommy Veith of Lake County.
Veith, 34, who has a history of disabling depression, moved to Las Vegas in 2000 hoping to become a musician. But it never worked out, he said.
He said he worked odd jobs, and mostly lived with his father. Earlier this year, he wound up at Rawson-Neal after a fight with his dad.
Veith was at the hospital for "three or four days," he said, and received medication for his depression but no counseling. When the hospital was ready to discharge him, he told doctors that he wanted to move back in with his dad.
Within minutes, he said, a staffer took him outside and pointed him to a Metro bus stop.
"I was in flip-flops from the hospital," said Veith. "I didn't have a cellphone or wallet or anything. But I wanted out of there. So I walked across Vegas for 24 miles."
After a short stay with his dad, he said he ended up in a low-rent motel, where he lived until relatives from Long Beach found him in late April. Shortly after that, Veith decided to move in with a sister in Lake County.
"I'm never going back to Vegas," he said.
'Of course I am afraid'
By the time she learned that her son Nicholas had been dispatched out of Las Vegas by bus in early February, Pat Caroleo had lost track of him.
She had not seen him in years, she said, since he had adopted a transient lifestyle and begun lashing out at his family for his failures and disappointments.
"This mental illness, it's terrible," Caroleo said. "We tried everything to help him, but nothing worked.
"I've cried and cried and cried for 12 years," she said, shaking her head. "I don't cry anymore."
Since she learned of her son's discharge from Rawson-Neal, Caroleo said, she and her family have been living on a razor's edge.
The simple act of picking up the phone is a source of stress. Bills from mental facilities across the country arrive on a regular basis. Collection agencies call morning and night. Pat Caroleo cannot step outside without a pang of worry that Nicholas might be waiting.
"Of course I am afraid," she said during a lengthy interview in an elegant home decorated with photos of children and grandchildren. "I believe that he wants to hurt us."
Nicholas Caroleo was "a sweet kid" with athletic potential, his mother said. Family photos show him romping with his sisters on the beach, riding ponies, posing in a Superman costume. He was a standout pitcher in youth baseball. A quarterback. A boxer who turned pro and has three technical knockouts to his credit.
"He was a natural athlete like you wouldn't believe," Pat Caroleo said, "and we went to every one of his games and practices."
But somewhere along the line, Nicholas' mind began to falter. After he attempted suicide at 16, Pat said, her son entered a mental facility for the first time. He has been diagnosed by various doctors as having bipolar disorder, depression and schizophrenia, she said.
Between periods of stability, Nicholas Caroleo has been in and out of jails and hospitals, his mother said. He had been living off and on in Las Vegas, where he hoped to make a living as a boxer, for the past seven years.
In February, Nicholas was arrested for ignoring traffic signals as he wandered around the city, according to police records. He was sent to Rawson-Neal.
On Feb. 27, unknown to his family, the hospital discharged him with a Greyhound ticket to Fort Lauderdale, where he once lived on the streets but where his mother said he has no family or friends.
Pat Caroleo learned of his bus trip when she received the text message from Nicholas' former girlfriend. The news sent a shudder of fear through her, she said, both for her son and the people he might encounter on his trip.
"Nicholas thinks he's the son of God, the prince of peace," she said. "We don't know what he might be capable of."
After reading her son's text message, the Caroleos contacted a relative who is a police officer, filed for a protection order and discussed exit routes from the house should Nicholas show up without warning.
The last time they heard from him, about three weeks ago in a phone call from somewhere in Florida, Nicholas ranted at his father and demanded money.
The next day, Robert Caroleo suffered a heart attack.
"I can't say that Nick's call was the reason," Pat said. "But it sure didn't help."
Policy called humane
The man whose story sparked the recent scrutiny of Nevada's state psychiatric hospital was homeless and psychotic when he landed in the facility earlier this year.
Seventy-two hours later, James Flavy Coy Brown was discharged via Greyhound to Sacramento. He arrived 15 hours later, on a cold February morning, at the downtown bus station.
Brown, 48, who has schizophrenia, said he had never been to California, and had not a single friend or relative in the capital city. After police delivered him to a homeless services complex in an industrial section of the city, he told a social worker he was terrified and was thinking about killing himself.
According to his records from the Nevada hospital, Brown wanted to go to California. But he told The Bee that it was his doctors who suggested he travel to "sunny California," and that he had no ties to the state. "They put me on a bus and sent me to a place I didn't know anything about," he said.
After spending time in the UC Davis Medical Center emergency room and a Sacramento boarding home, Brown was reunited with his daughter in North Carolina. He now lives in her family's home and is faring well, she said recently.
Brown's case prompted The Bee's investigation of Rawson-Neal's busing practices, as well as internal reviews by the state of Nevada, ongoing probes by the cities of San Francisco and Los Angeles, and investigations by the independent agency that accredits hospitals nationwide.
Two staff members were fired in response to the controversy, and the hospital has added a layer of oversight to oversee files of patients to be bused to other cities. Under the new policy, any patients bused out are to be accompanied by a chaperone.
Officials have admitted that they "blew it" by sending Brown to Sacramento, but say a limited review of patient files found only a few cases in which discharge policies were clearly violated.
"That means the essence of the policy was followed, and the real difficulty in a small number of cases was a lack of documentation," said Nevada's state health officer, Dr. Tracey Green.
Green and other state officials have explained the busing policy in part by noting Las Vegas is a destination city that draws people from around the globe, including transients and mentally ill people.
"If they want to go back to their home cities," Green said, "we think it is humane to send them home. We really believe this is a compassionate program."
Green would speak specifically only about Brown and Soules, both of whom signed off on release of their records.
Brown's treatment was unacceptable, she said.
As for Soules, "I don't see any problems," said Green. "He was stabilized and on medication. He wanted to go to California. When treated, people who are mentally ill do have resolution of their symptoms and can perform normal functions, including taking a bus ride."
John Kurtz, a professor of psychology at Vanderbilt University in Pennsylvania and a specialist in assessing mentally ill people, agreed with her general philosophy, as long as proper arrangements for treatment and care are made on the other end.
"If that person is OK to be discharged and is not a danger to themselves or others, putting them on a bus is better than just turning them loose in Las Vegas," he said. "On the face of it, it's not a bad idea."
But the large number of patients who received bus tickets from Rawson-Neal give reason for pause, he said.
"I suspect that a lot of these people had no place to go in Las Vegas and the hospital wanted to send them as far away as possible so they didn't come back."
Merin, the attorney suing Nevada over the busing policy, said he is convinced that the state, in the midst of a budget crisis, sacrificed the care of mentally ill people to save money.
"Rawson-Neal's policy was, 'Get 'em out as soon as possible, and send them as far away as possible,' " Merin said. "That's why the busing program works for them. If you get sent to Maine or Michigan, it's not likely you're going to end up back in a hospital in Las Vegas."
Call The Bee's Cynthia Hubert, (916) 321-1082. Follow her on Twitter @cynthia_hubert. Bee researcher Pete Basofin contributed to this report.


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Now that the Hornets finally have an owner who isn't every other NBA owner, it's time for the association to pay up. The 2014 All-Star Game will be held in New Orleans, which hasn't hosted it since all the way back in 2008.
While NO getting yet another ASG is part of Tom Benson's deal (along with offseason renovations to the New Orleans Arena), the NBA has settled into a nice little Florida-New Orleans-Texas-Arizona-California rotation. It looks a lot like the Super Bowl roll call—warm weather party cities. And that's cool. No one cares about the actual All-Star Game. It's all about All-Star Weekend, and the accompanying nightlife. Let the NHL spend their Februaries in Ottawa or Columbus, celebrating the heritage of pond hockey and fucking miserable winters that just make you want to stab yourself in the gut just to stay warm. The NBA's keeping "Black Thanksgiving" in places people actually want to be.


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I wrote a list. I checked it twice. I wrote one naughty. I wrote one nice. But dang it, I just could not get it all done in a single sitting, now could I? So here I go, singing low. Swing on sweet chariot... Carry me home. There's more good in this world than I can see in a single glance. I have six more reasons I found to celebrate (bringing us up to 22); maybe you can add further to the list?
- Megan Ellison. I don't know this savior to our world, but I thank her. She makes complicated movies with ambition and no easy answers. I have no idea about whom she is as a person, but in terms of the work she has made, she is one without fear. She is steel in a world of noodles; everyone else bends but she is the structural support that allows giants to reach even higher. She made THE MASTER and that alone is enough in my book. A year that holds that film is a blessed one, but to add on another bit of truly impressive work, ZERO DARK THIRTY, wow! That's nothing short of astounding. But then she's also distributing Harmony Korine and Wong Kar Wai. Film lovers should all be asking "How do we make sure she is here to stay? What can we do to support her?". It's awesome she's in our world; or that we are in hers .
- Technology keeps advancing, and with it so do our tools. Each day shows me a new say to distribute films. Each day introduces me to a new way to try to organize my life. We can make our films more better in more ways than ever before.
- Successful people left producing or executive producing and chose to focus on building a better world for all of us. Okay, so Keri Putnam and Joana Vicente have both been in their jobs for over two years, but they were my inspiration to have the courage to quit the project focus and put on a wide angle lens.
- 2012 Was The Year Of The Entire Film In Just One Link (aka The Time We Stopped Sending DVDS All Around). Filmmakers reduced sending DVDs around and instead started sharing links. This saves everyone money, and seems to reduce unauthorized duplication. And it's easy. And about time. Glad it caught on.
- The JOBS Creation Act was extended in the "Fiscal Cliff" Deal. Section 181 survives!
- It is The Era Of The $100M "Indie" (not so sure I think this is a good thing, but I love that directors are getting bucket loads to pursue wild visions) -- and granted this is close to my note on list #1 "Hollywood is taking more creative risks", but here I am speaking of the projects that are more fully artist controlled. (note: this was pointed out to me via Adam Leipzig here).
- Films made with ambition, vision, and not focused on the market not only deliver green but garner accolades galore. BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD got four Oscar Nominations.
- Films do not get penalized for making the world a better place, but actually praised and awarded. Two days before THE INVISIBLE WAR got nominated for a Best Documentary Academy Award, Congress announced it would hold hearings on sexual abuse in the military.
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-Nine U.S. counties in five states saw their minority populations across all age groups surpass 50 percent last year. They were Sutter and Yolo in California; Quitman in Georgia; Cumberland in New Jersey; Colfax in New Mexico; and Lynn, Mitchell, Schleicher and Swisher in Texas.
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Speaking in an interview with Reuters, Rice rejected Cheney's contention that she misled President George W. Bush about nuclear diplomacy with North Korea.
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Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Mitt Romney... hepcat!
Look at how down and with it and funky-fresh he is with the young'uns. Like when he says, "Who let the dogs out? Hoo, hoo!"
Watch out, Barack. Somebody else wants to be America's Second Black President!
At one point, Romney is pressing the flesh while a marching band in the background plays "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing." I wish someone would've asked him, "Yo, Mitt... can you name that tune?"
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- Schottzie03 said...
I couldn't find it on YouTube, but I remember seeing a clip on the old "Not Necessarily the News" show of Ron and Nancy Reagan at an African American church.
Nancy was clapping along in time to the music, but the Gipper was completely lost, and kept having to look at her hands to try and sync up....good stuff.
- January 22, 2008 at 4:48 PM
- justjudith said...
seriously, why did he even mention who let the dogs out? maybe i missed it but it seemed to come out of nowhere. could it be the only "black" song he knows. lol. ok, when around black people i'll sing who let the dogs out or getting jiggy with it.
- January 22, 2008 at 5:36 PM
- Undercover Black Man said...
^ Let's be grateful, justjudith. Mitt could've come out with, "I like big butts and I cannot lie..."
- January 22, 2008 at 5:48 PM
- dj said...
Too funny!
Both the clip and UBM's alternate version.
I had a good giggle with the vision of him doing,"I'm Rick James Bitch!".
- January 22, 2008 at 6:07 PM
- Naomi Jones said...
Every time I see this cat I think "Does he have his magic undies on today?"
I'm sick of all of them.
- January 22, 2008 at 6:19 PM
- memomachine said...
White man has no rhythm, news at 11.
Seriously. This is news to you guys?
- January 23, 2008 at 9:13 AM
- memomachine said...
"^ Let's be grateful, justjudith. Mitt could've come out with, "I like big butts and I cannot lie...""
Ok that's just wrong.
Now not only can I not get that song out of my head, I've got images of Mitt doing that dance along with it.
I think vodka is the only cure for this.
- January 23, 2008 at 9:15 AM
- Wanda said...
aw come on! Give Mitt a break. I thought he was being pretty sweet and relaxed. He a corny/not hip guy and he knows it, so he played it up a bit. As far as I've seen, he's the only Republican candidate to even go a black anything.
- January 23, 2008 at 12:30 PM
- Undercover Black Man said...
^ Wait a minute... you think Mr. Romney was poking fun at himself? You're a nice person, Wanda. You see the good side of people.
- January 23, 2008 at 1:03 PM
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I haven't watched this video. I just know it'll make me cringe.
- January 23, 2008 at 1:41 PM
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Well, Bklyn6... you only need to watch the first 18 seconds. A good cringe can do us all good every now and then.
- January 23, 2008 at 1:53 PM
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what can i say david, im a optimist at heart. :)
- January 23, 2008 at 6:30 PM
- justjudith said...
^wanda, really? i mean, i am sure you're good-hearted, as am i -- but he was uncomfortable and he blurted out something silly. let me ask you this -- would he have been there if he wasn't running for president?
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Named the Sibilo, news of the bike has come as a surprise to many given that Pinarello only launched a new time trial bike last month, with the Bolide at the Giro d'Italia. It's quite a shock.
The first question has to be: why on earth are they launching a second WorldTour-level race bike? And the only logical conclusion is that the Bolide, which Team Sky use, was made as an exclusive bike for the team with British Cycling's help and knowledge, meaning that Pinarello couldn't just roll that bike out to Movistar, its second professional squad.
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First and most obvious difference is the brakes. Whilst the Bolide has the front brake integrated into the nose cone and crown of the fork, the Sibilo has taken this a stage further and tucked them behind a cover and brought the front of the fork up to match. This suggests a more conventional Campagnolo brake may have been used, whilst the pictures don't show the 'airbrakes' of the Bolide.
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I was really doing better there for awhile. I was putting in at least 2 hours a day drawing the Lexi stuff. I was two, almost three weeks ahead. The pages were looking about how i wanted.....then...BOOM!
They triple my hours at work, up my work load 200% so there is not free time to sketch at work. Then I have to be there from 9 am till 6, 6 days a week so I hardly have time in the evening to do more then catch up on the things that Have to be done. It is 9pm by the time i get to sit down to draw and i am so mind drained by then that I just can't do a decent job of it.
So I have drawn nothing all week. I am at the end of my already drawn comics and have to hussle like heck to get tonights up and ready by upload time tonight. Damn it all....work is not going to keep me from doing this comic and doing it well!!!!!
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Okay. I feel better now.
In case you can't tell by the above rant....I have been way busy this week and will continue to be way busy for a couple more weeks yet. I will endevor to keep the comic going but theremay be a few late updates and slightly less then grand artwork over the next month.
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It's been a fun time over here at Haikasoru HQ as Battle Royale: The Novel has been getting a ton of ink from the mainstream news, thanks to the hype for The Hunger Games film. That's been a common conversation in the online nerdosphere for a while, but the last week saw articles in the Wall Street Journal, on National Public Radio, and many other venues. Of course, the film is now finally available legally in the US on DVD and Blu-Ray, and is getting reviewed in major newspapers as well. The film naturally leads back to the novel. If you've been to Target or Hudson Booksellers (in many airports and transport hubs), you've likely seen Battle Royale on the shelves in great numbers recently, often next to signs suggesting it for fans of The Hunger Games.
Don't feel bad for else—we're doing very well. I can think of no better promotion for Battle Royale than the success of The Hunger Games. (Well, except for an American remake of the film, but such a remake could also just end up being awful…)
On the question of the link between Battle Royale and The Hunger Games, author Suzanne Collins says she was unfamiliar with the former when writing the latter. Of course there is absolutely no reason to doubt her, but Collins was working in television around the time of the initial Battle Royale controversies—the media trade followed that story pretty closely. It's certainly easy enough to have heard of something, then forget about it, only to have it emerge in one's mind a few years later as a "new" idea. But again, there's no evidence of even that. (How could there be?)
There are plenty of similarities between books: teens given weapons and forced into a death match, a pair working together to undermine the game with the help of an older mentor who had previously won the game, and even bits and pieces like using signal fires and bird calls. The Hunger Games also includes a "reality show" premise, but that premise can be found in the US-version of the Battle Royale manga as well. (Then there are claims that the ancient Greek story of the minotaur and the tribute sacrifice of children is a common root for both stories—hard to believe given that the central theme is the children being compelled to kill one another, rather than being sacrificed to some outside force.)
Then there is a fact that the mere use of a premise doesn't always or necessarily rise to the level of plagiarism. One is reminded of the controversy around author Yann Martel's famed Life of Pi; Martel had allegedly read about the unusual premise of a man on a raft with a big cat in a review of an earlier book and created his own novel from it. Then there's Osamu Tezuka's manga Metropolis, which rather than being based on the Fritz Lang film of the same name was actually inspired by seeing a single still from the film. Older books such as The Long Walk, Logan's Run and others are clear antecedents of both titles. So even if Collins had heard of Battle Royale and had later forgotten, she's not necessarily plagiarizing.
And naturally there are differences: The Hunger Games is in the first person, Battle Royale uses roving third-person point of view. The former has many more science fiction elements than the latter. Female versus male leads, triumphalism versus an open ending. We can go on. For fans of Battle Royale who feel a little put off by the success of The Hunger Games I can only suggest taking the opportunity to share your enthusiasm for Battle Royale with your friends and others who may not have seen the book yet, rather than getting angry at the success of the other book. We're doing just fine! Reading is not a death match!


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