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But Sydney's lord mayor Clover Moore said the fireworks would go ahead. Ms Moore said she shared the "deep sympathies" of those who had signed the petition, but the fireworks were planned 15 months in advance and most of the budget had already been spent. "We can't cancel the fireworks and even if we could, doing so would have little practical benefit," the lord mayor wrote on the petition's website. However, Australians who signed the Change.org petition said a firework display would be an "insult".

WASHINGTON, June 10, 2009 – When Army Col. (Dr.) Kenneth Lee began evaluating more than 3,000 Wisconsin Army National Guardsmen called to duty last fall in the state’s largest operational deployment since World War II to ensure their medical readiness, he approached the task with unique and personal insights. Army Col. (Dr.) Ken Lee applies his own experience with a traumatic brain injury to his work as the Wisconsin National Guard’s state surgeon and as chief of spinal cord injury division at the Zablocki Veterans Administration Medical Center in Milwaukee. DoD photo by Donna Miles  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28, 2008 – Army Col. (Dr.) Loree Sutton is a woman on a mission. Army Col. (Dr.) Loree Sutton, chief of the newly created Defense Center of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury, sits in her temporary Rosslyn, Va., office suite. The Defense Department created the center in its effort to step up the quality of care for wounded warriors and their families. Photo by Fred W. Baker III  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. The military psychiatrist has, for the last month, ricocheted across the Capital Beltway landscape and beyond, setting up a Defense...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - Hillary Rodham Clinton said Sunday that calling the families of the campaign staffers taken hostage at her Rochester, N.H., office last week was the most difficult part of the ordeal. "Those were the most emotional moments, I have to tell you, calling them in the first instants to tell them what had happened," she told reporters after a campaign stop in eastern Iowa. Clinton said that while it was a traumatic experience for her staffers, "they performed magnificently under pressure." "They were cool, they looked out for one another," the Democratic presidential candidate said. "They kept...

WASHINGTON, June 27, 2007 – A former 82nd Airborne Division soldier who has been living with traumatic brain injury for the past seven years is reaching out to recently wounded veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan to help them learn to live with the disease. Retired Army Pfc. Chris Lynch uses his own experience with traumatic brain injury to help inspire others. The former 82nd Airborne Division soldier is pursuing his education, runs marathons and competed in the National Disabled Veterans Winter Sports Clinic in April. Photo by Donna Miles  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. Pfc. Chris Lynch was...

First post-therapy Kerry supporter speaks out publicly Published Sunday, November 14, 2004 at 1:00 am by Sean Salai A post-therapy John Kerry supporter spoke out about her trauma treatment for the first time this weekend, saying Florida psychologist Douglas Schooler took her from the depths of despair over President Bush’s victory to a new lease on life. Forty-four year old Karen of Boca Raton, a divorced mother of one who didn’t want her last name in print, called the trauma specialist’s intensive election therapy “profoundly effective” and described his hypnosis technique as “a healing process.” “I wasn’t sleeping,” Karen told...

<p>When Mayor Willie Brown becomes "Citizen Brown'' at noon Thursday for the first time in four decades, the shift into his new life, he said, "is going to be traumatic -- but not disabling.''</p> <p>After a groundbreaking 31-year career in the state Assembly followed by two terms as San Francisco's 41st mayor, Brown already is hatching his next moves: TV commentator, consultant, lawyer and head of a new public policy institute he's creating to train the next crop of politicians.</p>