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May 13th 2009 Page 4  Features, Weather, Sports, Exchange
Mexico Turns Its Back on South America
Jack Bell - New York Times
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Hector Reynoso threatens a player of Everton (Chile) with the swine flu
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The latest victims of the outbreak of swine flu are two of the most-revered things in Mexico — soccer and the country’s international reputation. One is tangible, the other a sensitive state of mind.

On Friday, Jorge Compean, the president of the Mexican federation (link in Spanish), said the country, which is technically part of Concacaf (the North, Central American and Caribbean confederation), would withdraw from participation in three competitions in South America overseen by Conmebol.

The decision came after the two Mexican clubs remaining in the 50th edition of the Copa Libertadores — Chivas Guadalajara and Santos Luis — were treated like (medical) pariahs and denied a chance to play Round of 16 games in Mexico against their Brazilian (São Paulo) and Uruguayan (Nacional) opponents because of the visiting clubs’ (legitimate) fears of being exposed to infection and perhaps carrying it back to their countries. Nacional was to play San Luis.

Mexican and Conmebol officials had originally postponed the matches in an effort to find neutral ground to play the games. Their efforts to place the games in Colombia and Chile, however, failed.

Compean said that Mexican participation in Copa América, Copa Sudaméricana and Copa Libertadores had been canceled and that the two clubs in the Copa Liberatdores had withdrawn. Next year, Mexico would have had five of its club teams entered in the top South American club championship (three were entered this year).

One additional casualty of the Mexican decision could be the annual InterLiga tournament (link in Spanish), which is organized by Major League Soccer and Soccer United Marketing, its commercial unit, and played at stadiums in the southern and western United States. The InterLiga began in 2004 and sends two teams to the preliminary stage of the Copa Libertadores after the eight-team tournament.

“At the moment, S.U.M. has not communicated with F.M.F. regarding their Friday announcement,” Marisabel Munoz, a S.U.M. spokeswoman, said in an e-mail message on Saturday. “InterLiga is an official F.M.F. competition, and we await further news from F.M.F. regarding its future.”

Compean, and indeed all Mexicans, have been stung by what they perceive to be worldwide condemnation after the country and its people were ostracized during the swine flu outbreak. Some countries canceled all air travel to Mexico while other quarantined visiting Mexicans.

“If we participate again, great, but if not, there’s plenty of activity in Mexican football,” Compean told The Associated Press. “The ball is in their court now. For us, the game is over. There is more to Mexico than what happens in the Southern Hemisphere.”

This weekend’s final round of games in the Mexican leagues will be the first in several weeks in which fans will be allowed into stadiums across the country, but with stadiums limited to 50 percent of capacity. (Early Saturday, two clubs, Atlas and San Luis, said they would not open their stadiums to fans for their games, according to Goal.com.) The lifting of the ban applies everywhere in Mexico, except at Chivas’s stadium because of the recent death of three people from the flu in Guadalajara.

The decision by Mexico seemingly brings to an end weeks of bad health, bad feelings and bad behavior.

By most estimates, the H1N1 flu has caused at least 40 deaths in Mexico.

On the soccer field, the Chivas player Hector Reynoso did nothing to help his country’s or club’s reputation when he spit on a player for Everton during a Copa match in Viña del Mar, Chile, on April 29. Reynoso then launched what are indelicately called snot rockets from each nostril at Sebastián Penco, while saying, “now you have swine flu.” What could Reynoso been thinking? Then again, he clearly wasn’t. He was suspended for the rest of the competition, a suspension that is now moot.

Because of the withdrawals of the Mexican teams, São Paulo and Nacional advance to the tournament’s quarterfinals. The home-and-away final round is scheduled to be played July 1 and July 8.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Veterans and Traumatic Brain Injury
David Lord - PVNN

 

 
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I recently made a trip to the US for the annual National Service Officer Training. Each year the required training to maintain the accreditation by the V.A. is a great opportunity to receive the latest information on what is happening in every state and V.A. regional office across the country.

Traumatic Brain Injury was one of the most interesting areas of this year's training. I had the opportunity to ask a V.A. representative, a Decision Review Officer of the Phoenix Veterans Service Center, a question that connects the wartime combat service of all Veterans to this new area of research.

You Veterans and families have read or heard about the new investigative studies generated by using the latest technologies such as CAT scan to reveal the changes to the brain after I.U.D. explosion in our Iraq and Afghanistan theaters of war. It is said by Doctors that exposure to explosive devices causes permanent disability until now undisclosed, these never before recorded medical conditions are left out and never compensated for.

My question was simple and natural in the light of my combat service, the response was expected to be clear and definitive, it was instead slow and cautious, like he was opening Pandora's Box. I asked, "forty years ago Marines were defending the Khe Sahn Combat Base and the Hilltop Outpost like 881 North and South, we endured what has been documented as one of the heaviest bombardments in the History of warfare, over a hundred thousand tons of explosives during a seventy seven day bombing and rocket blitz. Do all Veterans that were exposed to multiple explosive blasts have the right to file a claim and receive diagnostic testing for T.B.I.?"

"Yes," came the answer. What this means is one more chance for all those who served in Combat to establish a connection to compensation that has never been offered until now.

Diagnostic Code 8045, Residuals of TBI, Change effective October 23, 2008. 38 CFR;4.124a (the section of the Rating Schedule related to Neurological and Convulsive Disorders) was amended to further address residuals of traumatic brain injury. The title of the diagnostic code 8045has been revised from "Brain disease due to trauma" to "Residuals of traumatic brain injury (TBI)."

The revisions are affective October 23, 2008. The new regulation discusses the three main areas of dysfunction/impairment that may result from TBI: 1) Cognitive, 2) Emotional/Behavioral, and 3) Physical. Each of these areas may require evaluation.

Subjective symptoms may sometimes also be the main residual of TBI. All of these residuals are addressed in the new rule and specific guidance on evaluation the most commonly seen residuals is also provided.

Prior to October 10, 2008 a veteran would most likely be evaluated at 10% under diagnostic code 8045. Effective October 10, 2008, we can now rate a traumatic brain injury under the three categories, if applicable, Cognitive; Emotional/Behavioral, and Physical.

There is an Evaluation of Impairment that is very long and detailed, used by the V.A. rating specialist after they receive the doctors report on the Veterans. I will brief you on the areas that will be included in an exam but not explain each as it is far too much to go into here.

Level of Impairment Criteria include the following: memory, attention, concentration, executive functions. Judgment is another category that goes in detail from mildly impaired judgment to severely impaired judgment, which means even routine and familiar decisions are not possible. For example, if a Veteran is unable to determine appropriate clothing for current weather conditions or judge when to avoid dangerous situations or activities.

Social Interaction is also reviewed, from appropriate behavior to interaction that is mostly inappropriate (whatever that means) tough to tell sometimes in Puerto Vallarta! Orientation, from always orientated to person, time, place and situation, to consistently disorientated to two or more aspects (person, time, place, situation.)

Then we move on to Motor Activity, Visual Spatial Orientation, Subjective Symptoms (that interfere with work), Neurobehavioral Effects,(irritability, impulsivity, lack of motivation, verbal aggression, physical aggression, moodiness, lack of cooperation and more.)

Communication is the final category, ranging from normal to none. What this means in the world of Veterans service work is that each combat veteran is probably eligible to receive a permanent Service Connected compensation check for the participation in explosive warfare when it was at close proximity.

Classified as "Dangerous Veterans" those who have shed their blood for America are being called TERRORISTS! We all have been insulted by the Department of Homeland Security this week when their secret memo revealed a warning to police agencies across America that Veterans may be recruited into terrorist organizations and attack "The Homeland."

It sounded to me like the "Fatherland of Hitler" and his grandchildren are running "Homeland Security." These little Nazis fear American Veterans, they know from history that we American Veterans are Patriots who will defend America against all enemies, both foreign and domestic!
David Lord has been a National Veterans Service Officer doing veteran's benefits in Mexico for over a decade. David is a combat veteran, wounded by gunshot in Viet Nam 1968 and is a retired Marine. The Veterans Administration has played a critical role in his life, by his having both medical and compensation benefits. He uses his personal experience in the claims process along with having legal and credentialed Accreditation by the Department of Veterans Affairs. His use of Congressional approved Veterans Organizations, to steer veterans and dependants through the maze of regulations and entitlements due them from military service is outstanding. For more information, email him at david.lord(at)yahoo.com.

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