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Is manganese bad for tics?
TessaKrista replied to guy123's topic in Tourette Syndrome and Tics
Yes...stay away from manganese. Wonder Bread has lots of manganese, and is really bad for kids with tics or any neurological things going on. Stay away from Wonder Bread, until they change their formula and remove manganese. That includes their hotdog buns and hamburger buns. Too much manganese. Manganese causes tics to go crazy in kids with tic disorders, even mild tic disorders. The manganese impacts on them really badly. Also, there are other brands of breads, even whole wheat bread, that lists 100% manganese for 1 slice, which is way too much. I only buy bread that lists zero percent manganese in it, or the natural bread from Ace Bakery, or the Whole Foods bread made in their bakery. I don't remember if it's Dempters or another brand, but it has way too much manganese, and I totally stay away from it. Also, there is a cereal called Bran Buds, that has way too much manganese in it. Whenever my child would take it, he would react horribly.
antibiotics tics candida?
TessaKrista replied to TessaKrista's topic in PANS / PANDAS (Lyme included)
There are many kids on this forum that are on prophylactic abx. My son is not on them prophylactically, but has been on them on and off...and on and off every month for fear of strep around us by other kids. Now I know that it is best to swab to confirm, but I was so worried about his second exaserbation of pandas when he was a different kid, that I didn't want that again. But... now I am dealing with a clear cut issue of throat clearing induced by abx. That has become obvious. What about all of the kids who are on abx prophylactically? Is it different then starting and stopping? what are some probs with staring and stopping and being on them once per month.?
Nystatin Yeast - (mangoes and tics?)
TessaKrista replied to a topic in Tourette Syndrome and Tics
Do regular family doctors or pediatricians put forth the candida test to Great Plains, or only alternative medical practitioners actually do that?
TessaKrista replied to starlygirl's topic in Tourette Syndrome and Tics
Do we know why many fish oils bring out more tics in many kids? What is the science behind it?
Does anybody know about cases where tics came after a head/neck injury
TessaKrista replied to deby's topic in Tourette Syndrome and Tics
What type of things do these chiropractors do? Are they available all over north america?
TessaKrista posted a topic in PANS / PANDAS (Lyme included)
I have now come to realize a very very strong connection between giving my child antibiotics, and the sudden onset of throat clearing / cough tics that immediately accompany the abx. I wondered about this before, and now it is totally confirmed. In fact, I went over my son's history on the calendar, and see that he has been on abx every month at least 5 to 10 days per month. Each time, something either continues or starts. I also realize that just because he has a sore throat or a fever and sore throat that his ped was right, it does not mean strep. I have been going to the walk in clinic that has given him abx without swabbing. The last time he was sick and I felt funny, the other walk in swabbed us, but gave us abx anyways. He had 9 days of azith at high doses and guess what... he started with this stupid throat clearing tic that is still there. In fact, now in bed at night, he also has a snort, that he wonders why he has it. I decided to go back to the place that swabbed us and everything was negative. Wow... I feel horrible. This kid has to be full of yeast. He was being medicated on and off and on and off perhaps for no reason, which sucks. *Funny that I made that connection way back in march or april i think it was, but wasn't sure. Now I see that it is correct. Biaxin made a head tic come out. But azith makes the throat clearing come out. Then, when he drinks juice or eats bread or pasta, it is worse. Bad news. What should i do?
antibiotics bring out tics?
TessaKrista replied to TessaKrista's topic in Tourette Syndrome and Tics
anxiety research
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/science-news/2011/light-switches-brain-pathway-on-and-off-to-dissect-how-anxiety-works.shtml
strep in mouth, on teeth, cavities.... http://theweek.com/article/index/230341/the-new-discovery-that-cavity-proofs-your-teeth http://www.freewebs.com/naguiar/
Dd positive strep today!
TessaKrista replied to mar's topic in PANS / PANDAS (Lyme included)
On last week Thursday, ds9 had no energy after his soccer game, had a huge headache, and a high fever of 40 celcius. He didn't have a sore throat. I gave advil. On Friday morning, high fever still there, 39.8 celcius plus headache, no energy, wanted to sleep, no hunger, so I brought him into a doctor who knows him, and she saw white stuff at the back of the throat and he had enlarged neck glands. He didn't have a sore throat. Doctor swabbed him, and gave him azith right away, because of his history,a nd because to her, it is consistent with strep. Don't have results of swab back though. Saw ds9's pediatrician on Monday after the weekend, who said he would never prescribe any abx even if he saw white spots and child has fever, only with the positive swab for strep. Interesting. Good to know that his office was full on Friday. This is the same ped who also did not prescribe abx when ds had a positive urine infection but no fever, during his second pandas episode back in March. I got more azith for ds9. I looked at Dr. Susan Shulman's videos about strep and pandas. She says that she prefers to treat first with pen v or amoxil, and then give the child azith afterwards, because they are the best strep treatment. Based on that...it looks like amoxil + clav (augmentin) would be the best choice then, because it has the extra stuff in it... I am guessing. Will ensure that ds is no longer reacting to penicillin via a test, to be able to give him as many of the right abx as possible. I have a question for you out there.... Ds felt a lot better approx 5 hours after starting the azith plus advil. He was still run down, but not like before. I thought that it was the advil plus azith, but his pediatrician said that there is no way that an antibiotic kicks in that quickly. Just wondering.... Now I am hoping that all of the crazy pandas symptoms dont come out in the next few weeks like last time. So far, the head tic thing has definitely gone down. I worry about all the worries/anxiety/fears, moods and depressive stuff...and all that stuff coming out in the next weeks. That is how it all played out last time. Do you find that it takes a few weeks after strep for the episode to come out, or are there times when we can halt it in its tracks with abx and advil?
My very sad story....In 2006 a crazy homeopath...
TessaKrista posted a topic in Tourette Syndrome and Tics
My story is one that is very sad to me, because it forever changed my son, and forever changed my life. I had a normal son, and then after seeing this homeopath, he was no longer the same. I repeatedly phoned her crying and crying, telling her that she should not have been greedy, wanting to sell me products just to make a profit at the expense of a child's life. I told her that I had a normal child, and he was disabled after her intervention. I told her that I only went to her because he had enlarged adenoids, and if she had no experience with this, then she should have been honest. Instead, she looked up in some book of hers, and tried to come up with some remedy, and then she prescribed stuff, and then told us to come back two months later, which is when she decided to sell even more stuff, that just did my little son in. When my little boy was 3 1/2, he had enlarged adenoids and sleep apnea (would snore loudly at night and stop breathing for 8 - 15 seconds every so often every night). I was very worried. A mother told me that this homeopath who was from the same culture as she was, cured her 14 year old boy from boils, by giving some remedy and telling her not to give him apple juice. She referred me to this homeopath, who looked professional with her white lab coat, but really, was a greedy person who just wanted to make money from selling products that were harmful to my little boy. So...I forever live with the fact that I gave my son products that this homeopath woman prescribed for him, and he started twitching like crazy when I gave him all of the products together like she directed. It was less than one hour later, and I knew something was very wrong with my little boy. I contacted her, and she told me to give him baking soda. I phoned poison control, who thought I was nuts to give him stuff that this homeopath had prescribed, and they told me to go to emerg. I phoned a health food store that is reputable, and they told me that my son had injested a toxic dose, and needed to be detoxed. I went to emerg, and by the time they saw him, he had stopped twitching like crazy. They looked at the products and said that I was nuts to give this stuff to a kid. It was weird stuff they said, especially the fact that this homeopath had put together a 'remedy" of various liquids into a bottle, and had not labelled what was in the bottle. So, for one and a half months, I was giving my son some liquid 'remedy' that she had put together in a dark bottle, in addition to these pills called IGA+, which she told me to open the capsules and put them in jam and give them to him twice per day. So, two pills per day, for a 3 1/2 year old child. I did that for the month and half or two months, and then went to see her again, and this time, she started saying that "every child should be on this stuff" and she was referring to the adult colloidal multiminerals, a berry fish oil, and neuropowder probiotic for adults. It was the combination of everything that set my son off within one hour of him getting everything one day, right after our second visit to the homeopath. My son's body or arm twitched like crazy and he had a blank stare. Now I suspect that he was having seizures, but at that time, I thought that seizures only looked like the ones that I had heard about, where someone falls to the ground and shakes and foams at the mouth. That wasn't the case for my son. Instead, he just started shaking and he turned grey. The ony new things I had given him were the things that she said that 'every child should be on this stuff"... She never asked me if my son was already taking anything, which he was. I was giving him genestra multivitamins for kids, some high end cod liver oil capsules, and probiotics for kids. The addtional stuff was just too much for his body it seems. From what I can tell, there is a lot of glutamic acid in these formulas, which is so weird considering that I used to be so so so careful not to give anything that had msg to my son, but here I blindly went along with what this crazy homeopath woman said. Also, there are amino acids in some of this stuff. I didn't know what they were back then, but now, after reading this forum, realize that people use amino acids to help with various things. But really .... my 3 1/2 year old son changed that day. He had these little twitches from that day forward. Half an hour after I gave him all of the stuff that she had told me to give him, we went to a child and mom program, and my typically quiet sweet child, suddenly screamed out really loudly in a loud scream that lasted for one minute. I knew something was off, because he had never done that before, and he was always really quiet and compliant and sweet. My brother who is into neurology thinks that my son's brain had a surge of something that caused him to suddenly react, like too much msg, causing his brain to be full of neurotoxins and have a bad reaction. Then, after leaving the play group and coming home, my son started twitching. From that day on, my son always twitches in his sleep. That has never changed. Small things like a bumper car ride that hurt his neck, would cause shoulder shrugs. I definitely did not vaccinate after that, worried that something else would set him off. He had his 18 month vaccine but at 24 months, so that we could spread things out. Also, he was always sick with some cold with his enlarged adenoids that we didn't do vaccines. Thank goodness. His toxic load was too great. So, I just wanted to share with everyone about my little boy's history. All of this toxic overdose changed him, and he was never the same again. From that day on, he had little twitchy things that would come and go, whereas before, he didn't. I videotaped him all the time, and was a stay at home mom with him at the time, so I knew his every little move, personality, and temperment. That whole thing changed my son. So...perhaps he was predisposed to getting tics, and overloading his little body with toxic doses of crazy stuff just overloaded his body, making him susceptible to twitching and having tics, and ts. Perhaps his story is like the kids who have autism whose bodies could not take the toxic load of vaccines, and ended up with autism. My son has tics, no autism. Yet...I would like you to know how the homeopath responded when I told her that she had turned my normal child into a child with a disability, all because she wanted to sell me products that were above what everyone was selling them for, and products that my son did not need. I reminded her that I came in to see about his adenoids, and she told me that every child should be on all of this stuff. She then told me that these products are good for kids with autism, and the company told her that the products are good for everyone! I got very upset with this crazy homeopath, saying that she was just spouting off rhetoric that the company was dishing out to make money. She had not grounds to give him the crazy stuff with glutamic acid and amino acids and all this crazy stuff. He was a little boy who had enlarged adenoids,that was all! He had no tics, and he had no asd issues. I cried and told her to never harm another child again because of her greed. I also told her that my son did not have autism going in to see her, so why would she prescribe something that she gives to kids who are autistic? She said that the company said that it is good for everyone! So weird! I cried and cried and cried so much for months on end. I ended up having my own health issues as a result of my guilt over my stupidity and ignorance. My brother found it so weird that I was always so careful what my little boy ate (always natural stuff) and then suddenly I just blindly followed this crazy homeopath's recommendation, and my son is harmed forever. You know, if I could turn back time, I totally would. So much would be different. I really wish I could. Now, I live with what exists, and I try to see what can help my little boy, who is a bigger boy now. My ds9 is living with tics because I followed what a greedy homeopath recommended. I stupidly followed what she prescribed, yet all the time before that, I would never allow anyone to give my kid anything with msg or any food additive. I hate myself for that. I wish that God would punish me directly, and not my little boy. I want to warn everyone to be careful. Don't blindly follow someone who tries to make a profit by selling you lots of stuff. This homeopath said that she is a naturopath in Quebec, but when I phoned the naturopath association, they said that anyone can be a naturopath in Quebec, it only takes a weekend course or a correspondence class, or a class that is a workshop. There are no standards. I am in Ontario, and there are no regulated homeopaths here. There is no governing body. She can continue to do her crazy stuff to others if greed takes over. We have regulated naturopaths here, that must study for 4 years. There is a governing body for Ontario naturopaths, but not homeopaths. Anyone can be a homeopath here, with very little training. Very scary. Here is the stuff that she gave my 3 1/2 year old son, in addition to her made up remedy that included belladonna and alcohol and some other stuff.... Wondering if anyone can figure out what could have caused his body to forever twitch in his sleep, and have tics every so often, as if he has ts. I suspect it was the glutamic acid, but I don't have a science background. After figuring it all out, now I have to see what can help him for the rest of his life. The colloidal multimins liquid for adults had these ingredients in them: Ingredients: Each Tablespoon (15 ml) Contains: Vitamin C (Ascorbic Acid) 30 mg Calcium (Carbonate) 3 mg Iron (Aspartic Acid Chelate) 300 mcg Iodine (Kelp) 50 mcg Magnesium (Aspartic Acid Chelate) 1500 mcg Zinc (Aspartic Acid Chelate) 300 mcg Potassium (Chloride) 2 mg Selenium (Selenomethionine) 25 mcg Copper (Aspartic Acid Chelate) 100 mcg Manganese (Aspartic Acid Chelate) 300 mcg Chromium (Aspartic Acid Chelate) 50 mcg Molybdenum (Aspartic Acid Chelate) 25 mcg Vanadium (Aspartic Acid Chelate) 25 mcg Colloidal Minerals: Antimony, Barium, Beryllium, Bismuth, Bromine, Carbon, Cerium, Cesium, Chlorine, Cobalt, Dysprosium, Erbium, Europium, Fluorine, Gadolinium, Gallium, Germanium, Gold, Hafnium, Holmium, Lithium, Niobium, Nitrogen, Osmium, Oxygen, Palladium, Phosphorus, Platinum, Praseodymium, Rhenium, Ruthenium, Samarium, Scandium, Silicon, Silver, Sodium, Strontium, Sulfur, Tantalum, Tellurium, Terbium, Thallium, Thorium, Thulium, Tin, Titanium, Tungsten, Ytterbium, Yttrium, Zirconium Natural Orange Flavor and Fructose The IGA+ had these ingredients in it: http://www.sednaproducts.com/Secure/ecommerce/details.asp?prdn=55 This advanced anti-oxidant formula contains a complement of synergistic nutrient precursors to intracellular glutathione synthesis. Available in bottles containing 60 capsules. Each capsule contains: N-acetyl-L-Cysteine .............. 300 mg Ornithine Alpha-Ketoglutaric Acid.................................. 50 mg Reduced Glutathione ......... 25 mg Glycine ............................ 25 mg Glutamic Acid .................... 25 mg Lipoic Acid ...................... 7.5 mg Glycylglutamine ............... 5 mg Inosine ........................... 5 mg L-Carnosine ..................... 2.5 mg Selenomethionin .............. 50 mcg SUGGESTED USE: Take 1 or 2 capsules daily, or as directed by a health professional. The probiotic/neuropowder had these ingredients in them: http://www.yourethecure.com/cart.php?target=product&product_id=78&category_id=328 Genestra Brands HMF Neuro Powder is a unique preparation containing various strains and species of Lactobacillus and Bifidobacteria along with prebiotics to specifically assist with autistic spectrum disorders (ASD) and attention deficit hyperactivity disorders (ADHD). The new Lactobacillus rhamnosus and Lactobacillus crispatus species have the capability of breaking down the exorphin peptides which can be produced in excess in the intestines of autistic children. In addition to possessing peptide-hydrolysing abilities, Bifidobacterium bifidum, Bifidobacterium lactis, and the two strains of L. acidophilus assist with mercury detoxification and helps to heal the mucosal barrier and restore the intestinal tract. The addition of the fructo-oligosaccharides allows for optimal microbial balance leading to proper immune function. Research shows that autistic children have significantly higher gastrointestinal tract disorders, and have increased intestinal permeability consequently leading to the accumulations of toxins such as heavy metals, in particular mercury, and undigested proteins in the lymph, circulatory and central nervous systems, triggering systemic abnormalities. Undigested proteins, from foods containing gluten and casein, can lead to the production of aberrant peptides with opioid activity or "exorphins" in the intestines. HMF Neuro Powder helps heal and maintain the integrity of the intestinal tract, and is indicated for ADHD and for all ASDs such as autism, Asperger's Syndrome, childhood disintegrative disorder, Rett Syndrome, and pervasive developmental disorder - not otherwise specified. EACH ¼ TEASPOON (1 g) CONTAINS LAB4 + LR Consortium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 billion CFU Lactobacillus acidophilus (CUL-60) Lactobacillus acidophilus (CUL-21) Bifidobacterium bifidum (CUL-20) Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. lactis (CUL-34) (formerly Bifidobacterium lactis) Lactobacillus rhamnosus (CUL-63) L-Glutamine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500 mg Fructooligosaccharides (FOS). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250 mg Formulated to contain 12.5 billion CFU/capsule (combined) at time of manufacture. Risk Information: If you are experiencing nausea, fever, vomiting, bloody diarrhoea or severe abdominal pain; or if you have an immune-compromised condition, do not use. If you are pregnant or breastfeeding; or if you are following a low protein diet, consult vyour healthcare practitioner prior to use. If symptoms of digestive upset occur, worsen or persist beyond three days, discontinue use and consult your healthcare practitioner. The berry fish oils had this in it: 300 ml (10.1 fl. oz.) Genestra Brands Berry EFA Plus is a great tasting, berry-flavored, water-soluble pharmaceutical grade fish oil combined with anthocyanidins, or potent antioxidants, specifically formulated to provide essential nutrients for optimal cardiovascular and neurological health. This complex manufacturing process eliminates environmental pollutants and allows for the absorption of high concentrations of eicosapenaenoic acid (EPA) and doco-sahexaenoic acid (DHA) without gastric distress. In addition, a patented lipid emulsification and micro-encapsulation process is used resulting in faster and greater absorption of long-chain fatty acids. Therefore, it is ideal for individuals who have difficulty absorbing fat or for those who have impaired digestive function. Sublingually-absorbed anthocyanidins help to enhance immune function and protect cells from oxidative stress and damage. Studies show EPA is important for the regulation of blood pressure, blood clotting, and immune and inflammatory responses. Increasing evidence indicates DHA is an important contributor to cardiovascular health by improving the overall blood lipid profile. Berry EFA Plus is indicated for all cardiovascular disorders, neurovegetative conditions, and for free radical damage, and premature aging. Berry EFA Plus is a unique mixed berry and fruit concentrate exclusively formulated for palatability making it ideal for children and adults who dislike fish odor, and emulsified for individuals who have difficulty absorbing fats due to digestive dysfunction. Each Teaspoon (5 ml) contains: Eicosapentenoic Acid (EPA) 250 mg Docosahexaenoic Acid (DHA) 187 mg Concentrated Pure Fish Oil 1280 mg From Wild Sardines and Anchovy Anthocyanidins 15 mg Vitamin E (Mixed Tocopherols) 13 mg Vitamin C (Ascorbic Acid) 25 mg I don't know what the amino acids can do to a little child's brain, but I suspect it caused his brain to have an overload of toxic chemicals, that caused him to have neurological issues (tics) that surface often. Now he is having huge issues with tics, after being hit in the back of the head....kicked by a school mate during soccer. Also, there were a lot of sick kids in his class. But the abx seemed to bring out the tics more. Anyone have any suggestions as to what is going on and who you recommend I go to see at this point in life? Ds is 9 years old now, no longer 3 1/2. I have lived with this pain for so long, and every time he tics and twiches, my heart dies and dies, knowing how it all started, wishing I could take it back, wishing I would have been smarter. MOthers are supposed to do what is best for their children. Unfortunately, I made a grave error, and my sweet little boy was harmed by the crazy stuff that this homeopath prescribed, and I gave him. I look back and think...he was so little... he was so little. HOw could anyone prescribe adult doses to a little child? How could I as the mom be so stupid, and blindly give it all to him, hoping it would help him? Stupid. You know...they say that we should follow our instincts, and my instinct was to wonder why she was suddenly prescribing all of this extra stuff, and charging tons of money not only for our visit, but for all of these products that "every child should be on" that really had nothing to do with his enlarged adenoids. My fear of having surgery, sent my son into the arms of a greedy homeopath. We would not have done surgery anyways, considering that the big children's hospital around here said that they wanted to wait until he was 7 years old to assess whether or not the adenoids shrunk....which they did. Huge mistake I made. My son and I live with it, but him moreso than me. I don't know how to rectify it, or make things better. Please help and guide me in the right direction. I hope it isn't too late to help my only child. I hope that I can guide him towards not having to always deal with having tics, and having kids ask him why he does those movements. It is sad, as you all know. It is sad to have a child who is different. It is sad for us, and sad for them. I wish that no child had tics, or ts, or pandas. I hope that God helps all children.
I'm not an expert, and I'm very confused too. This "tics" nightmare started for us 1 month ago and there is a lot of information about Pandas and nobody can say that they are sure 100% that Pandas is the cause of these behaviors/tics. What I am starting to think is in the case of my son, he had the neck injury, that was a real trauma for him (we call 911, the firefighters came , 2 huge trucks, the tied him from head to toe,and took him to the emergency room). That trauma together with stress (we put a lot of pressure on him regarding school and state tests) I believe lowered his immune system. Then probably he got some kind of strep (it didn't manifest, but we got really high titers). and then he got the tics. I started last week with a chiropractor that I really trust. He will go once a week for now. In the beginning none adjustments will be done, just more like a massage. The chiropractor said that he has like a ball of stiff muscles. First he need to make that muscles relaxed. I'm sure that muscle tense also cause him pain, so definitively we need to treat that. Then we will check if he will need other adjustment. In my next session I'll ask him what is the next step, if we need to do MRI or other test. I'll let you know what he says. I dug up this old post about head injuries and tics. Ds9 got kicked really hard in the back of the head in June during a soccer game when he was down getting the ball, and two days later he started with an intense neck stretching tic. Now he has that tic along with head tic. He has dormant tics that come out with infections and head injuries. Besides chiropracters, are there other things to consider looking into? There is some kind of MRI study being done at Toronto Western Hospital. Wonder if that would show any lesions in the brain. What would an MRI show anyways? I wonder if anyone else has had tics come out with head injuries from sports related activities or other things.
is olive leaf complex the same as olive leaf extract?
http://www.luckyvitamin.com/p-252213-barleans-fresh-pressed-olive-leaf-complex-full-spectrum-liquid-natural-flavor-8-oz This is the stuff we had been using. It seems a bit different from OLE, because it is called Olive Leaf complex... and it is minty, with a "natural flavour".... I never noticed before, but it doesn't say OLE. What OLE do you use, and which one was good? A long time ago, I used a pill one in a blue bottle that said that it was meant for volitile organisms, and it really helped whatever viral or bacterial thing I had at the time, that would not go away with abx. But that was a few years ago. This one that I am referring to now in the link, is the one my son used, and starting ticcing like crazy with it. It is in oil form. Thoughts? Can antifungals bring out tics? I still have to get him tested for lyme, in case that is what is going on. Perhaps it was the head injury that brought him over the edge, because 2 days after being kicked very hard in the back of the head, he started with the neck stretching thing.
tic gone after 6 years
TessaKrista replied to HelenJenn's topic in Tourette Syndrome and Tics
Could you explain the GAPS diet you used?


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High School Student Highlights NYC's Crime Data Cover-Up; Adds to Previous Bronx Reporting
In the Daily News last Friday, high school student Josh Waldman's letter to the editor tops the page with the headline: "Let us see all the crime numbers."
Waldman reports how the Police Department keeps all but the current week's crime statistics a secret. He points out, when the NYPD posts the current precinct-wide weekly data known as CompStat, it removes all prior stats off the site!
Congrats Josh for highlighting this critical issue that virtually no press is paying close attention to, save the Norwood News and City Limits, where I wrote this article almost two years ago.
It focused on the fact that it's critical to know how current precinct stats compare to past precinct data and, even more importantly, to know where in those precincts specific criminal activity is growing or consistently problematic. That's called sector stats, more material that the NYPD won't release. Precincts are the same size as the community districts they are in and many, serving 100,000 residents, are bigger than most American cities. That's why sector stats are so critical. They keep track of the same crime data — assaults, car thefts, robberies, burglary and murder — as CompStat data. But sector stats provide the data virtually neighborhood by neighborhood.
In the City Limits article, I reported on Bronx councilman Fernando Cabrera's bill that resulted in law. He was inspired by Norwood News coverage by me and Alex Kratz on the fact that the NYPD refuses to make sector data available. Norwood News did eventually acquire the info through FOIL (Freedom of Information Law) requests but that took more than a year. All media, community boards, community groups, and interested individuals should submit similar FOIL requests to pressure NYPD and city government in general to make the information regularly available.
Cabrera achieved some, but not all, of the change he sought, particularly the provision of sector stats. In maps where you can click on circles indicating some data, the city's Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications (DoITT) website does show generally what block crimes have been committed on but only on a monthly basis. And the site doesn't indicate sector or neighborhood crime totals. So forget about complete, clear neighborhood sector data. DoITT has kept that hidden as well.
When it became law, Greg Faulkner, Cabrera's chief of staff, said his office had a similar concern about the map. "It doesn't have enough details and our vision of it was there was going to be a lot more," said Greg Faulkner, Cabrera's chief of staff, in the City Limits article. "We need to hear whether there were specific security concerns about why they were left out." He added back then that the website was not shared with Council members before it was fully implemented. Had it been, Faulkner says, the city "would have been able to determine whether their implementation matched the Council's intent."
It clearly hasn't.
One more thing:
Waldman, the high school student, even created a NYC Shootings website that holds on to crime stat data that the NYPD removes. (It looks great but it's not functioning at the moment. Josh, let me know when it's up an running again.) If students at every high school in the city were keeping an eye on what was going on around them, and acting on it like Waldman, it would have an impact on city policy.
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Collins tells Barr to reverse course, defend ObamaCare
By Avery Anapol - 04/01/19 07:40 AM EDT
Republican Sen. Susan Collins Susan Margaret CollinsGOP put on the back foot by Trump's race storm GOP senator: 'Outrageous' to say Trump's tweets about Democratic congresswomen are racist Fox personalities blast Trump's remarks MORE (Maine) is urging Attorney General William Barr William Pelham BarrThe Hill's Morning Report - Presented by JUUL Labs - House to vote to condemn Trump tweet House poised to hold Barr, Ross in contempt Harris campaign accepts money from partners of law firm she criticized over Epstein case MORE to defend ObamaCare and reverse an earlier Justice Department decision.
In a letter, Collins expresses her "profound disagreement" with the department's decision to side with a district court ruling that found the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional.
"This surprising decision goes well beyond the position taken by the Department last June" and puts a number of "critical consumer provisions" of the law at risk, she writes.
The Justice Department's announcement marked a significant escalation of the administration's renewed efforts to eliminate the law, with President Trump Donald John TrumpEsper sidesteps question on whether he aligns more with Mattis or Trump Warren embraces Thiel label: 'Good' As tensions escalate, US must intensify pressure on Iran and the IAEA MORE seeking for the Republican Party to become "the party of great health care."
Collins told Barr that the administration should approach Congress with proposed changes to the law or seek to repeal it again.
"The Administration should not attempt to use the courts to bypass Congress," she writes.
Collins argues that while Congress struck down the individual mandate as part of its tax-reform law in 2017, it did not intend for protections for people with preexisting conditions to "stand or fall together with the individual mandate."
Republicans have yet to pass an alternative to ObamaCare, despite pushes to repeal and replace it. Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney John (Mick) Michael MulvaneyThe Hill's Morning Report - Presented by JUUL Labs - Trump attack on progressive Dems draws sharp rebuke Acosta out as Trump Labor secretary Pelosi reportedly told Trump deputy: 'What was your name, dear?' MORE claimed Sunday that he can guarantee that Americans would not lose coverage if ObamaCare is struck down.
Collins, who is up for reelection next year and voted to confirm Barr, said last week that she was "surprised" and "appalled" by his decision on the health care law.
"I think the Justice Department has a duty to defend the duly enacted laws … I was surprised and disappointed," she said. "If the president disagrees with a law, then he should ask Congress to repeal or change that law. He should not try to get rid of it through the courts."
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AIG Women's Open: An out-of-nowhere win that nearly became a devastating loss leaves Ashleigh Buhai feeling joy and relief
|August 8, 2022
By John Huggan
It's a fact of golf life. There have always been major championships where the runner-up rather than the winner is the story. Doug Sanders missing from three feet to win the 1970 Open at St Andrews is one example. Nick Price's sad deterioration over the last six holes at Royal Troon to lose the 1982 Open is another. A dozen shots clear during the third round of the 1990 US Women's Open at the Atlanta Athletic Club, Patty Sheehan somehow contrived to lose by one. And no one who saw the triple-bogey Jean Van de Velde made on the 72nd hole at Carnoustie in 1999 will ever forget that he did not win that Open.
There are others, but you get the picture.
Happily — at least for her — Ashleigh Buhai has avoided adding her name to that list. But only just.
The AIG Women's Open record book will tell us that the 33-year-old South African shot a closing round of 75 at Muirfield to tie In Gee Chun on 10-under 274, then made a par at the fourth extra hole to deny the South Korean what would have been a career Grand Slam.
But that rather pedestrian description doesn't begin to tell the tale that has to be told. Or the one that was nearly told. With four holes to play, all seemed to be proceeding to the plan just about everyone had in place. Armed with a five-shot overnight lead, Buhai wasn't exactly burning up the course as she had en route to 64 on Saturday. But she was doing enough. Still three shots clear, she appeared to have things well in hand.
Then she didn't.
Off the 15th tee, the South African made the error you just can't make at Muirfield — home of 147 bunkers, most of them deep. After blasting out into heavy rough with her second shot, Buhai mucked about for three more shots before finally making the putting surface on the par 4. It all added up to a triple-bogey 7 and the complete disappearance of the aforementioned lead.
It didn't get much better either. Not immediately. After Chun had failed to make birdie at the downwind 17th, Buhai did the same, missing from four feet or so. Two pars later we had our playoff, one that would only just beat the rapidly descending darkness and spare the championship organisers, the R&A, much embarrassment.
In the end, those bunkers decided things. Chun drove into sand on the now more than familiar 18th hole and was always making bogey; Buhai got up-and-down from the 'island' bunker right of the green for par to secure the biggest victory of her career.
"I can't really put this into words," Buhai said. "This is the result of many years of hard work. And I'm sure there are many people in South Africa right now with more grey hairs after watching me on that 15th hole. I love this course though. It's a true test. My caddie, Tanya, gave me the confidence for the bunker shot on the last hole. She told me to show everyone why I'm No. 1 in bunkers. And now I'm a major champion. It's life-changing."
Still, for all her heroics, Buhai must go down as something of an unlikely champion, albeit there were more than high hopes for her as a teenager.
Winner of her national Open at the age of only 14, one of four professional events the Johannesburg-native would win as an amateur, she was seen as the classic "can't miss kid". For long enough though, things didn't quite work out as widely predicted. Before this week in what is now a 15-year professional career Buhai had just three Ladies European Tour wins to her name and only one top-10 finish (alongside 20 missed cuts) in 42 major championship starts, a T-5 in the Women's Open Championship at Woburn three years ago.
This season too, Buhai had been struggling more than prospering. Prior to arriving at Muirfield for a 15th attempt to win the AIG Women's Open, Buhai had played well enough to finish in the top 10 only twice in 15 LPGA Tour starts. Seven times she failed to qualify for the weekend, most recently one week earlier at the Trust Golf Women's Scottish Open. A lowly 84th on the Rolex World Rankings, she was a relatively unheralded 50th on the LPGA's Race to CME Globe points list.
OK, enough.
Things are different now, of course. Today, Buhai is the AIG Women's Open champion, a first-time winner on the LPGA Tour and $1,095,000 richer after she followed her compatriots, Open champions Gary Player and Ernie Els, in claiming a major title over the peerless East Lothian links. She is also the first female South African to win a major since Sally Little claimed the LPGA Championship in 1980, nine years before Buhai was born.
That's a lot to take in. But four months into her work with a sports psychologist, Buhai stayed calm, even on the walk between 15th green and 16th tee.
"I wasn't thinking of too much there, to be honest," she said. "The drive on 15 was probably the worst swing I made all week. But it doesn't often happened that a ball pulls in a bunker off a drive. Then I compounded the mistake. But I didn't panic, which was huge. It would have been easy to panic and come home in an ambulance. I just tried to keep making good swings. Which I did in the play-off. I'm proud of the fact that I hit that fairway every time."
Indeed, on what at first appeared to be her metronomic way to victory, the smoothness of Buhai's technique (with one notable exception) was the most striking feature of her victory. Only once on that almost fateful 15th tee did she succumb to the fault strong wind most commonly causes — the shorter than normal backswing that leads to a loss of timing and less than satisfactory impact conditions.
"I have a couple of different thoughts," she explained. "I've kind of got it down to where if I swing 40 per cent up and I lock it in at the top, then my tempo is good. Or I count 'one, two, three.' All I'm trying to do is remind myself on every shot, '40 per cent up, 40 per cent up.' That's my only focus. After that, wherever the ball goes, it goes."
And this week, that was nearly always where she meant it to go.
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Q: What happed when we excute NSTimer invalidate? self.timer = [NSTimer scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval:0.5 target:self selector:@selector(timeCall:) userInfo:self.strong repeats:YES];
[self.timer invalidate];
NSLog(@"%p",[self.timer userInfo]);

Then app crashes because EXC_BAD_ACCESS.
Apple document says,
This method is the only way to remove a timer from an NSRunLoop object. The NSRunLoop object removes its strong reference to the timer, either just before the invalidate method returns or at some later point. If it was configured with target and user info objects, the receiver removes its strong references to those objects as well.
And Apple tells us not to use userInfo after a timer invalidate.But why?
The timer's refrence count is controlled by programmer,and also the userInfo(I tried use property as userInfo,instead of using constant string),the result is the same.
If we put a symbol breakpoint like -[NSTimer userinfo],we can get crash info like
CoreFoundation`-[__NSCFTimer userInfo]:
    0x7fff20384d32 <+0>:  pushq  %rbp
    0x7fff20384d33 <+1>:  movq   %rsp, %rbp
    0x7fff20384d36 <+4>:  pushq  %rbx
    0x7fff20384d37 <+5>:  subq   $0x38, %rsp
    0x7fff20384d3b <+9>:  movq   0x5fca7d6e(%rip), %rax    ; (void *)0x00007fff86d060e0: __stack_chk_guard
    0x7fff20384d42 <+16>: movq   (%rax), %rax
    0x7fff20384d45 <+19>: movq   %rax, -0x10(%rbp)
    0x7fff20384d49 <+23>: leaq   -0x38(%rbp), %rbx
    0x7fff20384d4d <+27>: movq   $0x0, (%rbx)
    0x7fff20384d54 <+34>: movq   %rbx, %rsi
    0x7fff20384d57 <+37>: callq  0x7fff203a6ff9            ; CFRunLoopTimerGetContext
    0x7fff20384d5c <+42>: movq   0x8(%rbx), %rax
->  0x7fff20384d60 <+46>: movq   0x18(%rax), %rax
    0x7fff20384d64 <+50>: movq   0x5fca7d45(%rip), %rcx    ; (void *)0x00007fff86d060e0: __stack_chk_guard
    0x7fff20384d6b <+57>: movq   (%rcx), %rcx
    0x7fff20384d6e <+60>: cmpq   -0x10(%rbp), %rcx
    0x7fff20384d72 <+64>: jne    0x7fff20384d7b            ; <+73>
    0x7fff20384d74 <+66>: addq   $0x38, %rsp
    0x7fff20384d78 <+70>: popq   %rbx
    0x7fff20384d79 <+71>: popq   %rbp
    0x7fff20384d7a <+72>: retq
    0x7fff20384d7b <+73>: callq  0x7fff204c318e            ; symbol stub for: __stack_chk_fail

I know the relationship between NSRunloop and NSTimer,but what about this userinfo property?Maybe it's for archiving the readonly keyword,I guess.How can we look into the internel implementation of NSTimer or is there a way to explore?

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Little boy and his mom get the surprise of a lifetime: tickets to the Eagles game
"I hate telling people no, especially when I can help."
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Little boy and his mom get surprised with tickets to Eagles game.
In today's world, it's easy to get caught up in all the negative news we're exposed to, but in reality, most good deeds are done away from a camera—just one person helping another without desire for fanfare. And for mom Bryanne McBride and her young son, Mason, that's exactly what they were doing when they got the surprise of a lifetime.
Bryanne was approached by a man in a parking lot asking for a dollar to catch the bus. The entire time, the mom scrounged around in her purse looking for spare change and revealed she felt bad because she thought she had some. Bryanne's desire to help was a simple act of kindness to another human in need without the expectation of something in return.
During the time it took for the unsuspecting mother to dig for loose change, the "stranded" stranger, Zach, introduced himself and asked if the duo were from Philly. Once they said they were from the area, he then inquired if they were Eagles fans...the football team, not the birds. "You ever been to an Eagles game?" Zach asked.
The two quickly said no but the mom was focused on retrieving some quarters for this stranger. Zach continued to question them about the Eagles game, asking, "Would you want to go one day?" The answer was an enthusiastic yes, though Bryanne never broke her gaze from the purse as she looked for change. When she finally relented that she had no money in her purse and would need to check her car, she came back to a surprise.
Zach asked why Bryanne was so willing to help him and her response was just more evidence that she's simply a kind person. "I hate telling people no, especially when I can help," she said. After she handed him the money, he gave it to Mason and said he didn't actually need it before handing the generous mom $500 in cash. But Zach wasn't done—he had tickets to the Eagles game that night and gave the mother and son the tickets.
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The notion of living without an internal monologue is a fairly new one. Until psychologist Russell Hurlburt's studies started coming out in the late 90s, it was widely accepted that everyone had a little voice narrating in their head. Now Hurlburt, who has been studying people's "inner experience" for 40 years, estimates that only 30-50% of the population frequently think this way.
So what about the other 50-70%? What exactly goes on inside their heads from day to day?
In a video interview originally posted in 2020, a woman named Kirsten Carlson gave some insight into this question, sharing how not having an inner dialogue affected her reading and writing, her interactions with others and how she navigates mental challenges like anxiety and depression. It was eye-opening and mind-blowing.
Reading isn't a particularly enjoyable activity, Carlson admitted, explaining that rather than seeing images of characters and landscapes, she only sees words.
"In my head, every sentence has a shape so you can see the shape of a sentence. Keywords will pop out and I can file those away into my concept map, so at the end of reading something I can have a concept map of the main topics that I read about. It's not images, it's just the words."
That said, she is apparently a "very fast" reader.
This concept alone was hard for viewers to grasp. As one person wrote, "She's broken my mind. I don't even understand what I'm not understanding. I've never visualized a sentence in my life."
While she "never daydreams," Carlson does dream at night. However, she doesn't recall any dialogue in those dreams. Carlson also shared that her alone time is always spent doing stuff like cleaning, cooking, watching Netflix and studying. I can only imagine the things I'd accomplish if I didn't get sidetracked with existential questions like "Is a hotdog a sandwich?" If only.
While Carlson's way of thinking might seem vastly different from the norm, there are several commonalities. Like most people, she has stores of information that she can pull up at any time. Thoughts still can keep her up at night, even if she does picture her endless to-do lists rather than hear them. And not having an inner monologue offers no protection against things like anxiety or depression, which Carlson explains manifest physically for her. Rather than feeling mental overload, her hands will start shaking, her stomach might get nauseated, and she'll feel physically fatigued or disinterested in life.
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Native Siberian shares what daily life entails in the coldest village on Earth
See how the people of Yakutia, Siberia take showers, do laundry, go to school and more in minus 58 degrees Fahrenheit.
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A man in the Yakutia region of Siberia takes an ice bath in minus 50 degrees Celsius.
For most of us, waking up to a temperature of minus 50 degrees would spell catastrophe. Normal life would come to a screeching halt, we'd be scrambling to deal with frozen pipes and power outages, school and work would be canceled and weather warnings would tell us not to venture outside due to frostbite risk.
But in the Yakutia region of Siberia, that's just an average winter day where life goes on as usual.
When you live in the coldest inhabited area on Earth, your entire life is arranged around dealing with ridiculously cold temperatures. Villages don't have running water because freezing pipes wouldn't allow for water treatment. Kids go to school unless the temp drops below minus 55 degrees Celsius (which is then considered dangerous). Showering involves spending hours stoking a fire in the bathhouse to create a steamy, warm room.
Native Siberian Kiun B. has created a series of documentary short films detailing what daily life is like in Yakutia's frigid winters. She was born and raised in Yakutsk, Siberia, widely recognized as the coldest city on Earth, where average winter temperatures hover around minus 30 degrees Fahrenheit. As seen in her videos, smaller villages in the Yakutia region regularly dip down into the negative 50s, with the lowest recorded temp in the Yakut village of Oymayakon reaching a mindblowing minus 96 degrees Fahrenheit.
The popularity of Kiun's YouTube channel demonstrates how curious people are about life in such harsh conditions, as her videos have been viewed by tens of millions of people in the past year alone.
Check out this video detailing a day in the life of a family in a Yakutia village.
Can you imagine going out to use an outhouse in minus 40 degrees? Oof.
Another of Kiun's videos goes into more detail about how people shower and do laundry in the region. You might assume they wouldn't line-dry their laundry outdoors, but they do.
What do people wear to protect themselves from the negative temperatures? Frostbite is a real risk, so it's important to have the right kinds of clothing and outdoor gear to stay safe and relatively comfortable.
Kiun shared some frigid fashion norms from Yakutsk, which include traditional fur hats and boots as well as lots of layers and down jackets.
However, there are some Yakut folks who see the cold as something to embrace. For instance, this man takes an ice bath out in the elements as a morning ritual. It's something he has worked up to—definitely not something to try on your own during a cold snap—but it still has to be painful.
(Seriously, please don't try this at home.)
The way humans have learned to adapt to drastically different environments, from the sweltering tropics to the Arctic tundra, is incredible, and it's fascinating to get a close-up look at how people make life work in those extremes. Thank you, Kiun B., for giving us a glimpse of what it's like to experience life in the dead of winter in the world's coldest inhabited places.
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The value of "poking the market" rather than winding up your business, even if you don't think your business is saleable.
What you need to do to put your business on the market.
How to attract the right buyers who will pay what your business is worth.
What's involved in a business sales transaction and are there any pitfalls we need to look out for.
How long it usually takes to sell a business.
The various options available to you if you can't find a buyer for your business.


People! We have some kind of news!
^ Does anyone know what language is that?
Hey, Tenzin has that badge thing. Is he back on the council?
Rough translation of what I could read.
No that's the leaf pin he was wearing in Book 2.
The link isn't working for me, could you please post your translation here?
Not so well, I'm afraid.
Going from what I've read it seems Bolin is referring to someone (a she) as marvellous or beautiful.
I guess this mean he is either referring to Korra or a new character. Perhaps another love interest?
1. ¿De verdad? ¡Es ma[ravillosa!] "She's wonderful" instead of "it's wonderful". Es is the 2nd person singular form of the verb ser (be). Verbs are gender neutral, so it's tricky to guess the gender of the noun; however, below you can find maravillosa (wonderful) which is a femenine adjective. In Spanish, nouns and adjectives must concord in gender and number.
2. Fire Rose beat me to it. I also inferred the word "impeccable" by the flirtatious context she suggested.
3. me vo[y] means "i'm going". It can also be translated to "i'm leaving", but from the context it sounds/reads like Bolin is embarrassed for what he just said and he's just going someplace else to avoid disturbance.
4. la difícil tarea de ser pa- If it's not parte de (part of), i'm sure it's padre (father), makes sense if you consider all his kids are benders.
5. Air? I'm 100% positive the whole thing reads Maestro Aire (airbender), but the first half is missing from the picture.
6. Pure context, could be take a rest, time out, a nap, etc.
7. los niños te ayud- Okay, if this sentence wants to make any sense, the full word should be ayudarán (will help).
9. demás (the rest), los demás (the others), además (also). The latter is unlikely, because it's hardly used at the end of a sentence, unless you're a poet from the XV century.
Bolin is most likely gushing to Korra or Asami (The name is cut off in the image) about a date he had with a girl. Although, it could just turn out that it was a spirit messing with him.
And I'm guessing Korra is talking with Tenzin about the airbending training the kids are going through (after all this is only two weeks after the end of Book 2, and it would be just like Tenzin to start up their training again as soon as they got home and everything calmed down).
And the final part is most likely a naval commander, possibly being given orders about the spirits now living in the waters around the world.
It seems like the the show is already being dubbed, first the Dutch trailer and now Spanish. What is Nick smoking?
It was in the first interview Bryke had after Book 2's finale aired. The season is about directly dealing with the aftermath of Harmonic Convergence, Vaatu's defeat and the rejoining of the two worlds.
They might be planning a general premiere in several regions instead of premiering first in the US and risk losing hype (and audience) of people living overseas to online streaming.
Isn't that what happened with book two? Why are we always the last ones to see the episodes?
Any one realize the lack of Mako stuff we've been getting this season? Seems like we've been getting more Bolin and less Mako, maybe roles will switch since it's supposed to be more about Earth?
We got stuff from the Latin American VA's last spring as well. Dubbing takes time, so they probably aren't going to get a premiere before the US. If anything, I'd say this points more towards a fall release, yet again. Doesn't LA air the show at the same time as the US?
Korra premiered on September 13 (last year) in the US, while it did on February 21 (this year) in LA. Also, the show already ended in the US, but the last two episodes haven't aired in LA yet. Since they're dubbing season 3 already, i doubt it's because they fell short of episodes. I think they'll air the last two episodes when they're done with season 3 so they can air it altogether.
Moved to the Korra Spoilers board.
According to a source, at last year's momocon, Sifu Kisu said there would be an advanced form of airbending revealed. That's the first thing that comes to mind speculating about the conversation between Korra and Tenzin.
I'm obsessed with Tenzin and the airbenders, so this would be my natural conclusion. How reasonable it is, though, I can't say.
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U.S., Europe tell Russia to free rights activist detained in Chechnya
Wednesday, 10 January 2018 16:50 GMT
* Police detain activist in Chechnya on suspected drug use
* Colleagues say it's a set-up to muzzle a critical voice
* U.S., Europe call for activist's immediate release (Recasts to add U.S., German reaction)
By Andrew Osborn
MOSCOW, Jan 10 (Reuters) - The United States and Europe called on Russia to release a human rights activist detained in Chechnya on suspicion of possessing illegal drugs after his colleagues said on Wednesday he was framed to silence his criticism.
Chechen police on Tuesday detained Oyub Titiev, who runs the office of the Memorial Human Rights Centre in Chechnya, saying they had found what looked like 180 grams (6.35 oz) of cannabis in Titiev's car after stopping him to check his documents.
The illegal possession of such a quantity of cannabis is punishable in Russia by a jail term of up to 10 years and a fine. Titiev says the drugs were planted.
Titiev, 60, leads a team that has reported disappearances, torture, and punitive house burnings in the majority-Muslim Russian internal republic. His predecessor, Natalia Estemirova, was kidnapped and shot dead in 2009. Nobody has been convicted for her murder.
Titiev continued Estemirova's work despite colleagues saying he received threats to desist.
The U.S. State Department said it was troubled by his detention, saying concerns he would be mistreated in custody were well founded.
"This is the latest in a string of reports of alarming recent human rights violations in Chechnya," Heather Nauert, a U.S. spokeswoman, said in a statement on Wednesday.
"We call on Chechen authorities to immediately release Mr. Titiev and allow independent civil society to operate free from harassment and intimidation."
Nils Muiznieks, the Council of Europe's commissioner for human rights, also called on Russia to free Titiev, saying he had been detained "under dubious charges that lack credibility". A spokeswoman for the German Foreign Ministry said Berlin was watching the case closely.
U.S. SANCTIONS
Critics have accused the Kremlin of turning a blind eye to rights abuses in Chechnya saying it values stability above the rule of law. Chechnya fought two wars against Russia after the 1991 Soviet collapse, but now, in return for generous subsidies and a wide degree of autonomy, pledges loyalty to Moscow.
A Kremlin spokesman on Wednesday referred a question about Titiev's case to the police, saying specific allegations against the activist had been made.
Katya Sokirianskaia, director at the Conflict Analysis and Prevention Centre, told Reuters Titiev's detention looked like an attempt to squeeze Memorial and "all remaining seeds of activism" out of Chechnya.
She said Chechen officials had stepped up their rhetoric against rights defenders after the United States in December sanctioned Ramzan Kadyrov, the Kremlin-backed head of Chechnya, for alleged rights abuses.
Kadyrov was removed from the Facebook and Instagram social networks as a result, platforms he used assiduously for public relations purposes.
"The Chechen authorities directly blamed human rights defenders for this," said Sokirianskaia.
Kadyrov, who calls himself a foot soldier of President Vladimir Putin, denies any abuses, casting his critics as being motivated by foreign grants and a desire to weaken Russia.
Tanya Lokshina, of New York-based Human Rights Watch, said framing people for drug crimes had "become an increasingly frequent tactic used by Chechnya's authorities" to punish and discredit their critics." (Additional reporting by David Alexander in Washington and Madeline Chambers in Berlin; Editing by Richard Balmforth)


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Tropical Storm Bret was the deadliest natural disaster in Venezuela since the 1967 Caracas earthquake. The third tropical cyclone of 1993 Atlantic hurricane season, Bret formed on August 4 from a westward-moving, African tropical wave. Bret would later peak as a  tropical storm as it neared Trinidad. It took an extremely southerly course through the Caribbean, passing over the coasts of Venezuela and Colombia. High terrain in the northern parts of those countries severely disrupted the circulation of the storm, and Bret had weakened to a tropical depression before emerging over the extreme southwestern Caribbean Sea. There, it restrengthened to a tropical storm and made landfall in Nicaragua on August 10, dissipating soon after. Bret's remnants reached the Pacific Ocean, where they ultimately became Hurricane Greg.

Though Bret was only a weak tropical storm, it caused extreme flooding and nearly 200 deaths as it moved through South America, mostly in Venezuela. The first tropical storm to strike the country in 100 years, Bret deluged northern regions with  of rainfall. The capital, Caracas, received  of rain over just seven hours, resulting in widespread mudslides in the hills around the city that buried houses, and carried away cars. There were 173 deaths in the country, and damage was estimated at US$25 million (1993 USD). Volunteers and firefighters helped storm victims cope with the damage, and workers cleared roads to restore transportation.

Outside of Venezuela, Bret first affected Trinidad and Tobago, causing minor flooding and power outages. It passed just south of Curaçao, where the storm damaged the coral reef and the roofs of 17 homes. The storm later brushed northern Colombia, killing one person there, before hitting Central America. In Nicaragua, Bret killed 31 people and left US$3 million in damage, with many coastal towns isolated by floods. There was one death in neighboring Costa Rica and seven in Honduras, all due to flooding. In Central America, damage was compounded by Hurricane Gert moving through the region in early September. Even though the storm caused a very high death toll and major damage, the name Bret was not retired following the season and was used again in the 1999 Atlantic hurricane season.

Meteorological history

Tropical Storm Bret originated from a tropical wave—a westward-tracking low-pressure area—that crossed the coast of Africa on August 1, 1993. Throughout its journey across the open Atlantic, the wave retained an impressive cloud structure with an area of deep convection. By August 4, the associated thunderstorm activity consolidated and organized into curved rainbands. The National Hurricane Center (NHC), noting the improving structure and sufficient support from Dvorak intensity estimates, reassessed the wave as a tropical depression at 12:00 UTC that day, the third such system of the annual hurricane season. At the time of its classification, it was located along the 10th parallel north over the central Atlantic, about  west-southwest of the Cape Verde Islands.

With a very resilient high-pressure area to its north, the depression continued moving due west at an unusually low latitude for most of its existence. The system gradually organized due to low wind shear. After the outflow increased and the circulation became better established, the NHC upgraded the depression to Tropical Storm Bret early on August 5. Initially, the agency expected the storm would attain hurricane status while moving west-northwestward through the Caribbean Sea, although the storm would maintain its westward track. Early on August 6, Bret attained peak winds of , fueled by warm waters and increased banding around a central dense overcast. The circulation became exposed late on August 6, but the thunderstorms soon refired over the center. At 07:00 UTC on the next day, Bret struck the island of Trinidad near Galera Point. The storm moved across the northern portion of the island, and later made landfall in northeastern Venezuela near Macuro.

After hitting northeastern Venezuela, Bret continued westward through the extreme northern portion of the country. Around 20:00 UTC on August 7, the circulation emerged into the southeastern Caribbean Sea. The circulation weakened and became poorly-defined, although the storm maintained stronger winds to the north. Despite the southerly inflow being disrupted by the mountainous terrain, Bret maintained its circulation while continuing westward, passing just north of Venezuela's capital Caracas. Around 08:00 UTC on August 8, the storm moved back onshore Venezuela near Morrocoy National Park in Falcón state. Later that day, the NHC noted that there was "little if any circulation left to this system", although the agency continued issuing advisory due to the storm's heavy rainfall. However, a circulation emerged into the Gulf of Venezuela, which soon crossed into northeastern Colombia. There, the circulation neared the Pico Cristóbal Colón, the tallest mountain in Colombia with a peak of . This caused the structure to deteriorate, and on August 9 Bret weakened to tropical depression status with the circulation "practically dissipated", according to the NHC. The Hurricane Hunters had difficulty finding a closed circulation, prompting the NHC to discontinue advisories at 15:00 UTC on August 9.

After moving through the southwestern Caribbean Sea, Bret began to re-develop convection as upper-level conditions became more favorable. By early on August 10, surface observations confirmed the presence of a low-level circulation, and the NHC re-issued advisories on the system. The convection continued to organize, prompting the NHC to upgrade Bret again to a tropical storm. The storm strengthened slightly further to a secondary peak of . Around 17:00 UTC on August 10, Bret made its final landfall in southern Nicaragua near Bahia Punta Gorda. The circulation moved through the country and turned more to the west-northwest. Operationally, it was believed that Bret survived after crossing Central America and entered the eastern Pacific, as the NHC designated it Tropical Depression Eight-E. Post-storm analysis determined otherwise that Bret dissipated over western Nicaragua, near the Pacific coast on August 11. The remnants continued to the west-northwest, eventually developing into a tropical depression on August 15 off the west coast of Mexico. The system eventually became Hurricane Greg with peak winds of , which lasted until August 28.

Preparations
In general, Bret was forecast to track farther north than it ultimately did. About 24 hours in advance of the storm, tropical cyclone warnings and watches were issued for the southern Lesser Antilles and Venezuela. The first tropical storm watch was posted late on August 5 from Dominica southward to Trinidad. On the next day, this was upgraded to a tropical storm warning and hurricane watch from Saint Lucia to Trinidad. Tropical storm warnings spread westward through Venezuela along the storm's path, as well as the ABC islands and northern Colombia along the Guajira Peninsula. Later when Bret began reorganizing in the southwestern Caribbean, portions of Nicaragua were under a tropical storm warning only nine hours before the storm struck. The warning covered from Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua through the entirety of the Costa Rican coastline, as well as San Andrés island offshore.

In Trinidad and Tobago, the government set up shelters and sent home non-essential oil workers. Officials canceled flights and shut the ports as a precaution. Stores and business closed early after locals had stocked up on life supplies. Army troops were deployed in Port of Spain to avert looting. The threat of the storm caused a rise in unleaded oil prices. In Venezuela, boats were ordered to remain at port, while flights were canceled to Isla Margarita and Puerto la Cruz. Rescue workers were mobilized in the capital city of Caracas to prepare in the event of landslides. Ahead of the storm, the head of Sucre state declared a state of emergency, and later Caracas was placed under the same state once the rains began. According to the governor of Venezuela's capital district, local weather media expected the storm to only brush Caracas and surrounding areas; as a result, not all precautions were made. On August 7, weather officials stated that the brunt of the storm had passed and that the storm was weakening; this was before the onslaught of the flooding rains. In neighboring Colombia, officials issued a wind and heavy rain warning in response to the storm. Towns shut off electricity along the coast and canceled flights. Later, about 1,000 people evacuated from eastern Costa Rica, and another 40,000 evacuated from portions of Nicaragua, Flights in the country were canceled due to the storm.

Impact

Southern Caribbean
The storm first struck northern Trinidad, producing peak wind gusts of  and  of rainfall. The winds knocked down trees while the rains caused flooding, resulting in power outages, which affected 35,000 people. The power cable connecting Trinidad with Tobago was cut during the storm, leaving the latter island briefly without power. Ten soldiers were burned while attempting to move a downed wire in Tobago. The storm damaged houses on southern Trinidad and central Tobago. Meanwhile, flood waters devastated local crops, resulting in losses of more than TT$4 million (US$730,000). Infrastructure damage due to inaccessible roads and bridges totaled TT$979,000 (US$179,000). On nearby Grenada, a weather station reported sustained winds of , with gusts to . A ship known as the Lady Elaine, reported winds of , while anchored at Hog Island on the south coast of Grenada.

Passing  to the south, Bret brushed Curaçao with tropical-storm-force winds and light precipitation. A peak wind of  was recorded at a local weather station, though strong onshore breeze averaged . The storm damaged the roofs of 17 homes and caused power outages to the island. Rough surf, with wave heights of , severely disrupted the coral reef along the south shore, breaking off 25–50% of the reef's branches. In particular, elkhorn (Acropora palmata) and fire coral (Millepora complanata) received extensive damage to their structures. Of the coral reefs, those in shallow waters were worst affected; considerable damage also occurred to pillar coral (Dendrogyra cylindrus), which typically grow at depths of less than  below water. The animals and plants there were affected as well. In addition, nearby Bonaire experienced gusts to gale force during the passage of the storm.

As a minimal tropical storm, Bret moved through northern Colombia. The storm downed a power line onto a house in the city of Maicao, killing one person and injuring another. An oil tanker rode out the storm at Coveñas port, with no effects to it or the nation's oil industry.

Venezuela

Striking eastern Venezuela, Bret produced wind gusts of  in Guiria, near where the storm moved ashore. Isla Margarita offshore reported wind gusts of , as well as high waves  in height. The capital city Caracas recorded wind gusts of around ; according to news reports, Bret was the first tropical storm to affect Caracas in 100 years. However, the storm's rainfall was more significant. Guanare in western Venezuela reported  of rainfall in just 10 hours. Quebrada Seca in Barinas state recorded  of rainfall over 24 hours, and in the capital Caracas,  of rainfall occurred over just seven hours. The capital ultimately was affected by 10 hours of heavy rainfall. One station in the country recorded  of precipitation in seven hours, setting a nationwide record for the 20th century for the heaviest rainfall over that duration.

The heavy rainfall was the most destructive aspect of Tropical Storm Bret in Venezuela. On the offshore Isla Margaria, the rains flooded the primary hospital, and rivers overflowed, although damage was minimal. On the mainland, heavy rainfall caused damaging mudslides and flooding, and entire houses buried in the middle of the night with little notice. Flooded rivers washed away cars and homes in the hills of Caracas, mostly along the flooded La Guarre River. Floodwaters mixed with raw sewage from damaged water lines across the region. Residents returned to damaged homes despite warnings. Damage was worst in Petare, La Vega, and El Valle, all surrounding Caracas on insecure mountainsides. One home was wrecked in Petare, killing four family members. At least 19 people perished in Miranda state, and another three deaths were reported in Aragua due to landslides. Residents requested assistance from the local fire company, although disrupted telephone service created an atmosphere of confusion. Strong winds also destroyed the roofs of other houses, and areas were left without power. Portions of the Pan-American Highway and a coastal road were disrupted by landslides, and the state of Barinas was largely isolated due to road blockages. Most roads west of Caracas were likewise blocked.

Overall, Tropical Storm Bret left over 11,000 people homeless, including 6,000 in Barinas state, and 3,500 in Caracas. Bret left US$25 million in damage and caused 173 deaths in the country, while at least 500 were injured. Most of the deceased were living in poorly built homes around Caracas, where at least 120 people were killed, mainly children. The storm was the deadliest natural disaster in Venezuela since the 1967 Caracas earthquake.

Central America
Upon making landfall in Nicaragua, Bret caused severe flooding along the coast that left 25 villages isolated. Rains continued following the storm, preventing areas from being reached, and Tropical Storm Gert brought additional rainfall to the area in early September. Throughout Nicaragua, Bret destroyed 12 bridges and disrupted the drainage systems along the regional road network. Heavy rainfall also caused rivers to overflow, causing heavy damage in adjacent fields that affected rice, cassava, and bananas; about  of rice fields were destroyed. Two villages of the Miskito people were washed away, leaving 500 residents homeless. The storm damaged at least 1,500 houses and destroyed another 850, leaving around 60,000 people temporarily homeless. Bret also destroyed ten churches and ten schools, as well as 25 medical centers. The storm killed nine people offshore when a boat sank in the Corn Islands, and there were 31 deaths overall in the country. The preliminary damage total was around US$3 million, although it did not include crop or infrastructure damage.

The storm brought heavy rainfall and high seas to the east coast of Costa Rica, as well as gusty winds. One death occurred in the country, as well as US$7.7 million in damage. Similarly heavy rain fell in the Mosquitia region of Honduras. Floodwaters reached  deep, isolating coastal towns. Overflown rivers and flooding forced about 1,700 people to evacuate by canoe, while some residents rode out the storm on the roofs of their homes. About 16,000 people were left homeless. The storm destroyed over  of various crops, and there were seven deaths in the country. In El Salvador, light winds were also experienced, with moderate rainfall reaching  in La Palma, Chalatenango. The storm knocked down trees near the capital San Salvador, temporarily leaving the city without power.

Aftermath
Venezuela's then-president Ramón José Velásquez held an emergency meeting to respond to the Bret's heavy damage. The president conveyed three days of national mourning due to the storm. About 1,400 workers and volunteers helped in rescue efforts after the mudslides struck Caracas and surrounding areas, assisted by Red Cross volunteers and 800 firefighters. Volunteers provided water and medicine to the affected, while workers emptied residual pools of water to mitigate the spread of disease. Storm victims were temporarily housed at the Fuerte Tiuna army base. Roads were quickly cleared of debris and mud, although many were not reopened initially due to the threat for additional mudslides. Within a week of the storm's passage, telephone service was largely repaired in Caracas and airline travel was restored. After the storm, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) provided US$50,000 in emergency spending, and UNICEF sent US$15,000 to buy oral rehydration salts. A Venezuelan radio station held a marathon to collect relief items, such as food or clothing.

After the storm, the Nicaraguan government declared a state of disaster in the North and South Caribbean Coast Autonomous Regions, as well as Tisma in the Masaya Department. The government sheltered those made homeless in Bluefields along the Atlantic coast. Relief efforts were coordinated by the Comité Nacional de Emergencia to provide aid to the affected storm victims. Officials sent medical crews to the hardest hit areas. This was due to an increased potential for the spread of water-born diseases, the result of ongoing floods and damaged sanitation facilities. Meanwhile, planes flew overhead to determine the extent of damage. On August 18, the government requested international assistance to cope from the disaster. In response, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and the UNDP sent US$70,000 in emergency aid, some of which to be used for fuel to transport medicine and food. The World Food Programme sent 72 tons of food and milk. The countries of Japan and the United States were the first to respond; the former provided $100,000, and the latter sent a Lockheed C-130 Hercules to distribute food. Switzerland later sent US$81,000 as a cash donation, while the European Economic Community sent US$227,000 worth of food and medicine. After Tropical Storm Gert struck in early September, various other countries sent additional money, food, medicine, and other goods.

The government of Honduras used one helicopter to deliver relief goods to stranded residents on roofs. Persistent rainfall following Bret caused additional flooding and damage, and the damage total between Bret and subsequent Tropical Storm Gert totaled US$60 million in Honduras. Despite Bret's excessive death toll, the name was not retired following the season and was used again in the 1999 season.

See also

Tropical Storm Alma (1974)
Hurricane Cesar–Douglas (1996)–Traveled with similar path to Bret
Hurricane Ernesto (2012)
Hurricane Joan–Miriam
Tropical Storm Bret (2017)
Hurricane Bonnie (2022)
Hurricane Julia (2022)
List of Atlantic–Pacific crossover hurricanes

Notes

References

External links
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