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Malignant mesothelioma is a lethal cancer that affects the lining of the lung, chest cavity, or abdominal cavity. The only known cause for mesothelioma, malignant and benign, is exposure to asbestos. It is the presence of microscopic asbestos fibers within the body that cause mesothelioma. The disease develops in the mesothelium, membrane found throughout the body that serves as a covering and protective surface for several of the body's internal organs, as well as lining for the chest cavity and the abdominal cavity. Cancer that develops in the mesothelium is called mesothelioma. Benign mesothelioma is usually a soft tumor that develops on either the membrane lining the chest cavity wall or on the abdominal cavity wall. It does not develop as a diffuse cancer, like malignant mesothelioma often does, and is relatively rare. Benign mesothelioma accounts for about 10% of all diagnosed mesothelioma cases.
Types of Mesothelioma
Asbestos Exposure
Mesothelioma Treatment Options
Three Types of Malignant Mesothelioma
Pleural Mesothelioma develops in the section of the mesothelium that provides the outer lining of the lungs and that lines the chest cavity wall. This section of the mesothelium is called the pleura; the area between the two membranes is called the pleural space or pleural cavity. This form of the disease is by far the most common, constituting seventy percent or more of all diagnosed cases of malignant mesothelioma. The reason this form of the disease is predominant is that the asbestos fibers that cause it most often are internalized by breathing. They are tough microscopic fibers that can be inhaled unknowingly in any location where an old or torn asbestos product may release them; they are invisible and light enough to float on a cloud of dust.
Peritoneal Mesothelioma is located in the membrane that lines the wall of the abdominal cavity. This form of the disease accounts for fifteen to twenty percent of all diagnoses. It begins by thickening and inflaming the peritoneal mesothelium, or peritoneum, which often causes the development of excess fluid in the area. Pressure develops on the intestines and other nearby organs, resulting in a number of symptoms that are often read as intestinal blockage, kidney problems, or liver disease.
Pericardial Mesothelioma is the most unusual diagnosis, occurring in five percent or less of all malignant mesothelioma cases. This portion of the mesothelium forms a sac around the heart. When the disease becomes active it causes the membrane – known as the pericardium – to thicken, harden and put pressure on the heart. The result is often heart palpitations, arrhythmia, chest pain that is commonly associated with heart disease, and if the pericardium becomes too thick, heart failure.
Cell Types of Malignant Mesothelioma
Mesothelioma is also broken down into cell types; there are two distinct types of cancer cells that may be part of this malignancy. Epithelioid mesothelioma is caused by epithelial cells; about 50% to 60% of mesothelioma cancers are of this type. It tends to have a better prognosis than the other types. Sarcomatoid or fibrous cells cause 10% to 20% of malignant mesotheliomas. These cases are much more difficult to treat effectively. The third possibility is biphasic mesothelioma, which includes both types of cells. They make up about 30% to 40% of all cases.
Malignant Mesothelioma Risk
The most common cause of malignant mesothelioma is asbestos exposure. Workers in the steel, mining, plumbing, milling, insulation, and power generation industries, among hundreds of others who handle or manufacture asbestos products, are at the highest risk of developing malignant mesothelioma. Asbestos exposure in the workplace has resulted in tens of thousands of mesothelioma cases over the past half century, as asbestos was a widely used component of industrial, manufacturing and construction products.
While the risks of the disease increase depending on the frequency and intensity of asbestos exposure, there have been a number of malignant mesothelioma cases among people who have had only one or two months of exposure. One of the unusual aspects of the disease is the extraordinarily long period of latency that usually accompanies it. Mesothelioma symptoms generally begin to manifest themselves twenty to fifty years after the hazardous asbestos exposure has occurred. That means the average mesothelioma patient is well over fifty years old and in many cases retired. And, in too many cases, mesothelioma victims are also inflicted with some of the medical frailties that accompany old age, making diagnosis of this rare disease more difficult.
Asbestos fibers are sharp and easily cling to various surfaces such as hair, skin, clothes, and shoes of workers who may track the toxic fibers into their homes subjecting innocent family members to serious illnesses and disease. They may be contained in dust collected on clothing during the course of a workday. Family members of those who are regularly exposed asbestos brought into the home also are at risk of developing malignant mesothelioma.
Symptoms of Malignant Mesothelioma
Pleural mesothelioma being the most common form of the disease, the symptoms most often seen involve the chest. Those may include chest pain, a dry cough, shortness of breath and difficulty with physical exertion. Beyond these physical symptoms are the medical causes. Pleural effusion, a condition that causes the accumulation of fluid in the pleural space, is seen in a majority of pleural mesothelioma cases. Thickening of the pleura is brought on by inflammation and the development of small tumors across the membrane's surface.
Peritoneal mesothelioma is characterized by a swollen abdomen and abdominal pain, usually caused by a buildup of fluid. Bowel obstruction, edema in the legs, and thrombosis in the legs are also seen with this version of malignant mesothelioma. Anemia and loss of appetite may occur.
Pericardial mesothelioma causes chest pain similar to that felt with cardiovascular disease. It can also cause thrombosis in the veins and arteries around the heart, as well as the palpitations and arrhythmia mentioned above. Like pleural mesothelioma it will cause shortness of breath and lack of physical stamina. For all of these forms of malignant mesothelioma, fatigue, sweating, weight loss and difficulty sleeping may also become physical difficulties.
Malignant Mesothelioma Treatment
The nature of the treatment received by mesothelioma patients is directed by the degree to which the disease has advanced. That question is analyzed by medical personnel through the process of staging, a formal protocol that provides a series of benchmarks for the malignancy, the degree to which it has spread, its location(s) within the body and the types of malignant cells that make up the tumor development.
The key question for mesothelioma treatment is whether or not there is a surgical option to remove some or all of the malignant tissue. If the staging diagnosis determines that surgery is feasible, a resection procedure will remove the malignant portion of the mesothelium, or as much as can be removed, and often adjacent tissue that is diseased or threatened as well. With pleural mesothelioma, for example surgical intervention often involves a partial pneumonectomy, which means removing a portion of the lung next to the malignant mesothelium tissue. Surgery to remove portions of the peritoneum in the case of peritoneal mesothelioma may also involve removing portions of the stomach.
In cases where surgical intervention is warranted and performed, a program of chemotherapy combined with radiotherapy usually follows. Depending on the location of the malignancy and whether or not malignant tissue remains in the body, the chemotherapy may be administered via the standard intravenous method or may be applied directly to the targeted tissue during surgery. The two drugs that the FDA has approved for the treatment of mesothelioma are pemetrexed and cisplatin, usually used in combination because they attack different weaknesses in cancer cells.
Techniques have been developed to minimize the damage that radiation therapy does to healthy cells near the malignant areas being targeted, but limiting healthy cell damage remains an issue for both chemotherapy treatment and radiation. Sometimes radiotherapy is used during the course of surgery so that physicians can target precisely the diseased tissue remaining in the body while it is still exposed on the operating table.
Photodynamic therapy has been developed to allow for the targeting of radiological cancer treatment as well. Still in experimental stages, photodynamic therapy essentially uses photosensitive medications that are injected into the patient and activated by light when they reach the appropriate area to be treated. This promising technique is under study in several clinical trials, as is immunotherapy – another method of attacking cancer cells with specific molecules.
Mesothelioma Staging
There are three or more sets of guidelines for the staging of malignant mesothelioma cases. The most common is the TNM system, an acronym that references tumors, nodes and metastases. TNM is used to stage lung cancer, ovarian cancer and other types of the disease, and has been approved as a standard by the American Joint Committee on Cancer, an organization that counts the National Cancer Institute among its founding members.
Currently pleural mesothelioma is the only form of the disease that has a formal staging structure. It is the most common form of a relatively rare disease; accordingly physicians assess the spread of cancer in peritoneal mesothelioma or pericardial mesothelioma based on less form analyses of the presence of malignancy.
Briefly, the four TNM stages are as follows:
Stage I: Mesothelioma is present in the pleura covering either the right or left lung. It may have spread to the pericardium or the diaphragm or lung on the same side of the body. There is no evidence of cancer in the lymph nodes.
Stage II: Mesothelioma meets all of the conditions of stage I with the additional spread to lymph nodes near the malignant tissue in the pleura and on the same side of the body.
Stage III: Mesothelioma has advanced into the chest wall, the heart, the esophagus or possibly the ribs on the same side of the body as the original pleural malignancy. There may or may not be lymph node involvement.
Stage IV: Mesothelioma has moved to the opposite side of the body, impacting the pleura on the other lung as well as the opposite lung itself, and possibly extending to organs in the abdominal cavity. Metastases have occurred in several areas.
Malignant Mesothelioma Prognosis
Surgery to resect malignant tissue is generally a viable choice with stages one and two, and often with stage three. In the latter case, it depends on the location of the extended malignancy. In stage two and stage three cases, the surgery may involve only a partial removal of malignant tissue, a process referred to as "debulking." In all cases, a regimen of chemotherapy and usually radiotherapy follows the surgical procedure.
In cases where surgery has been performed and an aggressive chemotherapy program undertaken, the prognosis for mesothelioma patients who are otherwise healthy patients may extend to eighteen months or beyond. If the cancer was at stage one or stage two, the outlook for a reasonable survival period can be encouraging. Unfortunately, the median survival period for mesothelioma patients in general hovers at around one year. Some studies have shown the figure to be thirteen months; others closer to eleven months or less. But the value of a surgical intervention followed by chemotherapy seems to be well established; while most gains are in months some are in years.
Mesothelioma Clinical Trials
There is an excellent database of current clinical trials underway for mesothelioma treatment at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) website ClinicalTrials.gov. Most of them evolve around the use of various chemotherapy drugs in combination with one another. The two drugs that have proven to impact mesothelioma tumors with some success are pemetrexed and cisplatin; these are the only two approved by the FDA for mesothelioma treatment.
The drugs are effective against some forms of mesothelioma malignant cells and less so against others; effective with pleural mesothelioma, perhaps, but ineffective with the pericardium. The point is that these two drugs have proven the ability to successfully kill some of the cancer cells some of the time and so many of the clinical trials involve using other cancer chemotherapy drugs in conjunction with pemetrexed, cisplatin, or both.
All of the chemotherapy drugs used in mesothelioma clinical trials such as these have been approved for treatment of other types of tumors. For example some drugs such as Bortezomib act by stopping blood flow to a tumor, and by killing certain enzymes that allow malignant cells to proliferate. There is currently a clinical study using this drug in conjunction with cisplatin to test the success with malignant mesothelioma tumors.
Onconase is a drug that impacts the RNA in some cancer cells, causing them to die. Clinical trials using this chemotherapy drug in conjunction with other drugs that starve tumors by choking off blood supply or that somehow suppress the ability of malignant cells to multiply are underway in several locations. Some of these trials are sponsored by the National Cancer Institute, some are generated in foreign medical centers, and some are undertaken by cancer centers in the U.S. with the assistance of grants from the NIH.
There are also trials underway attempting to establish effective methods of using photodynamic therapy to target diseased cells, along with other methods that are meant to protect the healthy cells surrounding tumors. Destroying healthy cells has always been an issue with chemotherapy and radiotherapy; today researchers are using new technology and molecular knowledge to try and find healthier ways to treat post-operative malignant mesothelioma.
- Localized Benign Pleural Mesothelioma, Altin, et al, Zonguldak Karaelmas University, Department of Pulmonology, Turkey, 2003
- Detailed Guide: Malignant Mesothelioma, American Cancer Society, http://www.cancer.org/docroot/CRI/content/CRI_2_4_1X_What_is_malignant_mesothelioma_29.asp?sitearea=
- Malignant Mesothelioma Diagnosis, American Cancer Society, http://www.cancer.org/docroot/CRI/content/CRI_2_4_3X_How_is_malignant_mesothelioma_diagnosed_29.asp?sitearea=
- Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma, Boutin et al, European Respiratory Journal, p. 5, 1998
- What's New in Malignant Mesothelioma Research and Treatment, American Cancer Society, http://www.cancer.org/docroot/CRI/content/CRI_2_4_6X_Whats_new_in_malignant_mesothelioma_research_and_treatment_29.asp?sitearea=


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When Evgeni Malkin scored his hat trick last night, he owed a debt of gratitude to his former Penguins teammate, Phoenix Coyotes grit specialist/Twitter master Paul Bissonnette. If we didn't realize that, Biz reminded us. @BizNasty2point0
BTW, Biz...It's spelled "taught," not "tought."
Watching my old linemate on NBC. Such a good feeling knowing I basically tought him everything he knows. #Yoda #NHL pic.twitter.com/V3beQeg7yf
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CBC News Sep 14, 2011 A resistant form of tuberculosis is spreading at an "alarming rate" in Europe, the World Health Organization says. The UN health agency said it is set to endorse an action plan to fight drug-resistant tuberculosis by diagnosing 85 per cent of all patients and treating at least three-quarters by... »
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As China Prepares To Bail Out Europe, Who Is Preparing To Bail Out China?
by Tyler Durden ZeroHedge.com 09/14/2011 In the past week, any and every move higher in the market, which is a direct consequence of the EURUSD seeing an uptick, has been as a consequence of rumor or statement or outright innuendo that China may either buy European bonds or European assets, but generally bail out... »
What Happens When A Nation Goes Bankrupt
by Simon Black ZeroHedge.com 09/14/2011 Three years ago today, my best friend called me and told me to turn on my television. I remember the way he described it– "Lehman is finished." The TV showed guys packing up their desks on Sunday afternoon, moving out of their offices forever. That was the precipice from... »
Investors Daily Planning For Next 9/11 — A Nuclear One
The Next 9/11 — A Nuclear One? Investors.com National Security: The Sept. 11 commission stated that our biggest failure was one of imagination. Imagine an Iranian nuclear device detonating high over the American heartland. They're working on it. On the same day the 9/11 Commission issued its report, another commission issued a report on... »
The Banking-War Crisis Solved Or The Modern Revolutionary's Manifesto
VidRebel.com September 14, 2011 In the first essay in this two part series I said: The Fundamental Fact of Your Existence as a modern man or woman is that the bankers of New York and London want to reduce you to debt slavery. Accept that fact and move on to the solution. To solve... »
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TechDirt.com One of the politicians instrumental in creating the TSA, Rep. John Mica, who wrote the legislation that established the TSA, has apparently decided that the whole thing has been a failure and should be dismantled. He notes that "the whole program has been hijacked by bureaucrats." "It mushroomed into an army," Mica said.... »
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I'm buttin in again....<quoted text>
He's only been a member for a month Reebs...
In all honesty, I've only been an official member for a month myself and I've yet to post anything false about myself or my views on here. I guess I don't see why anyone would post something like this and lie about it. But then again, I've been told more than once I'm pretty naive.
I say give the guy a chance. He seems genuine.


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Occupy Oakland RIP (10/10/11-10/25/12)
Occupy Oakland RIP (10/10/11-10/25/12)
It would be fitting for the last action of Occupy Oakland to be a return to Oscar Grant Plaza and the planting of one tent. But the slogan on the side of the tent should mourn our dead friends and Occupy Oakland itself.
Movements come into existence and then recede or end. Somewhere in the U.S. there is undoubtedly an outpost of the Temperance Society, which was a world-wide movement for over a century, but is now meaningless . When a movement or organization doesn't recognize that it has reached its endpoint, it becomes as welcome as a rotting corpse. Smell one once and you would know what we mean.
The evidence of the end of Occupy Oakland is not this proclamation; others have already pronounced it dead before now. The evidence is that the real work of Occupy Oakland continues in spite of the public spectacle. The housing organizing, the labor solidarity group, the anti-repression group and others can no longer pretend to be under the control or direction of the General Assembly, because that body doesn't exist as a place where serious discussion or, more importantly, decision-making can occur.
Those of us who were at the last General Assembly on Sunday 10/21/12, ask yourself: What did that accomplish?
Name one decision, other than the resignation of the person who did most of the financial work. (And when you lose people like that, who do tedious but necessary work with little thanks for free, it should be a clear sign that something is wrong. That it was a woman who left because of threats by a man just makes it even more telling). Point to us something at that GA that would have drawn in any new person or grouping. Tell us why anyone should return to another GA, much less bring in others.
You can't.
If we cannot remove or ostracize one person who persists in being disruptive, disrespectful and threatening, what good is the group? If there is no place that decision-making can occur, then how can the group continue?
It doesn't.
When anyone can post to the world claiming to be a representative and spokesperson of Occupy Oakland and be taken seriously, not just by the mass media, but also by anarchist and insurgent news sources, then hasn't the time come to end?
To those who wish to return to the Plaza this Thursday to stake a tent or conduct one more FTP march, we pose these questions: What will you do if you succeed? Why is nostalgia more important than defense of the G-Spot or any of the other housing sites that will be fought over? Why should you risk arrest on that night rather than march in solidarity with the family of Alan Blueford and others on November 10th? Will you be there when picket lines go up at the Port in coming weeks? Have you volunteered for the anti-repression committee or People's Community Medics?
There is only one reason left to come to a GA: To officially dissolve Occupy Oakland in order to let there be no legitimate claim to speak or act on it's behalf. Also, to divide the funds among the remaining active committees or give the committees the autonomy to decide.
Occupy Oakland is dead. RIP. Let's honor its memory and not prop the corpse up to fool ourselves and others. Let us remember and learn from the experience – and the experiment – of the last year.
Beyond the Barricades, a group of folks who were there getting arrested, and risking arrests, breathing teargas, taking police beatings, and meeting people outside of jail, as well as feeding people, giving first aid, waking up at 4 AM to deal with freak outs, leading marches to the Port, putting glitter on folks and handing out flyers that other people wrote. In other words, people who were part of Occupy Oakland from beginning to end.
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Thursday Oct 25th, 2012 10:18 AM
Check out Occupy DC Action Alert at http://dc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/153763/index.php
Thursday Oct 25th, 2012 2:28 PM
People are directly engaging the community by stopping police from being able to kick out families of foreclosed homes. This is an activity that's going on repeatedly, and throughout the country, and meets a similar trajectory taken by places like Spain where this was the basically the main approach from the very beginning. Occupy everything!
Thursday Oct 25th, 2012 8:51 PM
Friday Oct 26th, 2012 6:50 AM
"Name one decision, other than the resignation of the person who did most of the financial work. (And when you lose people like that, who do tedious but necessary work with little thanks for free" WHO THE HELL WOULD THAT BE????? IS THIS A REFERENCE TO SHAKE??? LAUGHABLE IF SO! THE FC BOOKS ARE A MESS AND NO CPA WOULD TOUCH THEIR ACCOUNT SINCE THEY WOULDN'T KNOW WHERE TO START! ARC on the other hand have a totally spotless record of their finances!
Friday Oct 26th, 2012 7:40 AM
The writer of the article was referring to Lesley. She resigned from finance at the GA. She has worked hard for a full year on the committee. You're so rabid about defending your committee and throwing dirt on other people that it's getting in the way of your reading comprehension.


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Gail Rankin does not waste any time making connections. It was only this February that she was hired as administrator of Sonora, the health center at Splendido, an all-inclusive community in Tucson for those 55 and better. In her first months on the job, Rankin has implemented some groundbreaking initiatives that keep Sonora residents connected to family, medical advisers, and the world.
For example, Sonora residents can now use loaner iPads to Skype with distant family members. "The technology has allowed residents to remain in close contact with their families even if they are not in the area--and that is what healing looks like," says Rankin. The iPads, which were donated by a resident's family, also allow family members in multiple locations to "sit in" on medical care team meetings. And when not being used for communication connections, the tablets are employed in programming designed to boost cognition of residents, including current events, music activities, and word games.
Rankin also introduced a popular program for residents called Ask Mayo Clinic. Splendido residents who may be unsure whether they need medical attention or who are struggling to interpret symptoms can call the Ask Mayo Clinic telephone line. They'll speak with a Registered Nurse and receive a qualified medical consultation, or they can access online symptom assessment for medical advice, self-care tips, or even potentially lifesaving interventions.
"With Ask Mayo Clinic as a 24-hour resource, our residents can be proactive about their own health," Rankin says. "They are able to determine their medical treatment needs independently, effectively, and at any hour of the day."
Rankin has more than 30 years experience in long-term care management, acute care, home health, and community outreach. In addition to breaking new ground at Sonora, she manages all its day-to-day operations, including implementing quality assurance programs to ensure a high standard of care.
Rankin has deep roots in Arizona. She received her Master's degree in administration from Northern Arizona University. She was affiliated with the Arizona Health Care Association for many years, and previously served on the board of the Assisted Living Federation of America (AFLA) in Phoenix.
To hear Rankin and her team talk at a panel event, attend the health care options seminar at Splendido on Oct. 15 at 10 a.m. Rankin and her team will be addressing the latest regulations supporting quality care and services taking effect this month for both assisted living and skilled nursing in Arizona; technology in nursing care (including iPads); our "Gentle Moments" program, and taking questions from attendees. The event will take place at Splendido, 13500 N. Rancho Vistoso Blvd., Tucson.
Splendido's resort-style living offers a wide variety of activities and amenities for residents, including five dining venues, a 10,000-square-foot fitness center and spa with two saline swimming pools, a movie theater, an arts studio, and an 18-hole putting course. If health care needs arise, there is access to on-site health care at Sonora, a comprehensive health center which provides a range of services including short-term stays, assisted living, memory support and rehabilitation. Sonora at Splendido has been awarded the highest five-star rating by US News and World Report multiple times.


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Students Organize Surprise Birthday Party for Professor Emeritus Russell Roberson
Russell Roberson with 8 of the 13 graduate students who came to his birthday party. Front row: Henry Weller 1967, Colleen Fitzpatrick 1983, Russell Roberson, Steve King 1983. Back row: Bret Crawford 1997, Michael Wright 1983, Ron Nelson 1972, Doug Wagenaar 1985, Randy Ledford 1977.
On October 2, 2010, Professor Emeritus Russell Roberson was treated to a surprise 80th birthday party given by his former graduate students at the Millenium Hotel in Durham. Thirteen of the 23 doctoral students Roberson advised over his 35-year-career at Duke came to the party, from such far-flung places as Vermont, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, and California. Those who weren't able to come sent photographs and good wishes.
Four of Roberson's classmates from his days as an undergraduate at UNC-Chapel Hill were at the party, as well as two of his classmates from Johns Hopkins, where he earned his PhD. Other attendees included former post-doctoral students; current and retired faculty from Duke, UNC, and NC State; and family members. Colleen Fitzpatrick, who earned her PhD in 1983, came up with the idea for the party and planned it with the help of Roberson's wife, Ruth, and his first graduate student, Henry Weller, who has recently retired from the Duke faculty. After a sit-down dinner, each graduate student spoke a few words, beginning with Henry Weller, PhD 1967, and continuing chronologically to Bret Crawford, PhD 1997. The students earned their PhDs working with Roberson in the Triangle University Nuclear Laboratory (TUNL) run jointly by Duke, UNC, and NC State and located at Duke. Many of them mentioned two particularly valuable aspects of their education with Roberson at TUNL: the breadth of experience and education they gained in the lab, and the opportunity to work side-by-side with Roberson to design, build and operate lab equipment. They described how their experiences helped prepare them for careers as professors, researchers, designers of medical imaging equipment, air force officers, and entrepreneurs in technical fields.
Prof. Calvin Howell, the current director of TUNL, also spoke a few words, saying what a pleasure it was to hear how experiences at TUNL had affected the lives of the students.
Roberson, clearly moved, thanked everyone for coming and took a moment to remember Professor Henry Newson, the driving force behind the establishment of TUNL in the 1960s. Many of the attendees seemed to enjoy the reunion as much as Roberson did, whether reconnecting with former classmates or meeting new people who shared similar experiences and interests. Stories abounded—of antics in the lab and life-changing advice given or received at crucial moments. While in Durham, out-of-towners enjoyed visiting the Duke campus, Duke Gardens, and the Nasher Museum, and a group toured TUNL on Saturday afternoon. The Sunday morning after the party, the Roberson family hosted a brunch at the hotel. Afterwards, Roberson said the party was a "joy." Colleen Fitzpatrick said, "When I first had the idea for the party, I don't think I realized how meaningful the get-together would be for so many of us. This was meant as a birthday party, but it was much, much more than that." Doug Wagenaar, PhD 85, had to rent a flat-bed truck to get his rental car through flooded roads on Emerald Isle in order to make it to Durham in time for the party. Yet it was worth it. He said the event was a "magical experience. It was a lifetime of memories compacted into a few hours of perfect nostalgia."


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Find-a-Loo? Not yet
I have an opinion piece in The Age today [over the fold] about government information that remains hard to access and the stifling effects this has on entrepreneurial activity (in this case, my own). Hopefully, FuelWatch will not become another example of this.
Update: lots of interesting and related stuff: The New Yorker on blocking patents, a UK taskforce to free up public information and thanks to persistence, a breakthrough on Hansard.
Caught short: Information controls kills opportunities
Joshua Gans, The Age, 5th August, 2008
I HAD an idea a couple of months ago. It had to do with the iPhone and it was simple and compelling. For those who don't know, the iPhone has several qualities that are not present to the same degree in other mobile devices.
First, it is easy to program applications for it. The software development kit is easy enough for, well, an older child, to use. Second, it is easy to distribute those applications through the iTunes music store. Third, as a 3G device, it accesses the internet at lightning speed. Finally, it has GPS built in.
And the idea? As a parent, what is the first thing I might want in a mobile device? I would like to know, at the speed of light, the location of the nearest public toilet.
I would take out my phone, press a button and a map would come up with the closest facilities. I could get directions (whether it be driving or walking) and off we would go. This is not just of use to parents, but to anyone.
In developing an application that does all of this, the easy bit is taking data on the location of public toilets and building an iPhone application to do the rest. The hard bit is the data. Type "public toilets" into, say, Google Maps on your desktop and the results are disappointing. The information isn't there.
So this is something it seems you can't do from your desk; but, then again, who would want to. Why invest in the data?
It turns out this is an area in which the Australian Government is ahead of the game. Through the National Continence Management Strategy, it has established a website with the National Toilet Map (toiletmap.gov.au). Basically, it has all the data one would need.
My iPhone idea would be to free that data for users of the iPhone rather than have it confined to a computer where only the most fastidious planners could make use of it.
So I got together with an MBA graduate and contacted the department responsible for the data. Our proposal was to provide the application for free and perhaps make some money from add-ons like linking to opening times and providing information on quasi-public toilets such as McDonald's.
You would think that given that the data, in a not so usable form, was provided free, the Government would be happy to provide it to us and anyone else with entrepreneurial strategies related to continence. But no.
Citing "contractual arrangements" this publicly funded data-set was not available for free or even for purchase.
You might think that the social loss from this would be small. After all, couldn't you access the toilet map through the browser on your iPhone? You can, but it is poorly constructed for that.
Due to some programming issues, it fills a third of the screen and then you have to actually type in your exact location to make it work. This is something you may not know. Moreover, some websites that do appear to have access to the information, such as Telstra's whereis.com.au, are similarly handicapped. So if you are truly desperate, you could use the information, but not with the ease that we had in mind.
Another possibility is that we could get some extra programming muscle and literally scrape the data from the Government's site. The problem is that the legality of this is murky given the state of our copyright law. For instance, Ice TV wanted to get time and broadcast data for its electronic programming guide but the Federal Court recently held that even doing this violated copyright laws.
This means that our broadcast television companies — granted licences to broadcast by the Government — can determine who can compete in another market; the market that includes devices to make watching television easier.
In part, their concern is that it can make it easier to to skip ads. But then again, they had no problem providing that data to the part-Channel-Nine-owned Foxtel and to the part-Channel-Seven-owned Tivo. This is not a picture of non-discriminatory access. Surely, the information is an appropriate quid pro quo of having a licence to broadcast.
Both of these illustrate the innovation-dampening effects of restricting the flow of information in situations where that information is supposed (and in the case of toilets, designed) to flow freely. Something capricious or short-sighted is limiting openness and the result is a loss in entrepreneurial opportunity.
And these are not the only areas where, in particular, government information that is supposed to be public is straitjacketed. We do not have bus and train timetables freely available as they do in places like South Korea. And what is going to happen with FuelWatch? Will the Federal Government and Australian Competition and Consumer Commission bind us to a desk to access this information or allow it to be freely and innovatively distributed in other ways; say, when you are actually in a car?
One can only hope that Lindsay Tanner's review of regulatory constraints on innovation takes the notion of access to public information seriously and frees it from its current walls.
Only then can we see innovation flourish and immediate needs (literally) be met. In the meantime, if anyone can work out a way to make the FindaLoo idea work for the iPhone, please feel free to do so. I can't wait.
Joshua Gans is a professor of economics at Melbourne Business School. He blogs on these issues at economics.com.au.
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Well written! You'd appreciate the comments of William Patry about the depressing state of copyright law
I had this idea too, but never looked into it in as much depth as you have. I'm disappointed that it's not possible.
In the grand tradition of cute iPhone application names, I was going to call it iNeed2Go. Feel free to steal that name if you ever get it running. 🙂
I agree entirely. The move to give free access to ABS data was a rare gem in an otherwise gloomy landscape.
Government data should be free and unrestricted. Instead government and public servants restrict the flow of information, in part I think to make it harder to know what they are actually doing with our money.
Great article.
Recently I needed to replace some broken glass. In Aus we have rules covering things like the minimum thickness, toughening etc required for safe usage. But guess what — as a citizen I am not permitted to see the rules unless I pay Standards Australia a fee (in this case I could buy a licensed pdf version for $84). Is this a smart way to go? As a nation we have invested a lot in developing best-practices for all sorts of things, but then we seem to go out of our way to prevent their adoption!
Information assets should be viewed as having a value similar as the railway networks of the 19th Century.
Kryder's Law means that freeing up data for re-use is an increasing opportunity and thorny policy challenge for all governments.
When you want to take a 'comfort break' though, it is re-assuring to know that the UK leads the world:
The ACT Government has called for comments on their paper titled "Citizen Centred Governance" http://www.cmd.act.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/2659/citizen_centred_governance.pdf
I am writing a submission and this example will provide a good illustration of what can happen if we open up data collected by the government to the citizens. It would not only make the existing data useful you can easily allow the users of loos to suggest updates to the data when a new one was found and give comments on problems.
Now extend this to other information – including information about ourselves – and perhaps the Bureau of Stats may be able to have a "continuous" census.
Great article with some important points!
I wrote to Lindsay Tanner about the copyright status of the FuelWatch program, asking for assurances it will be free and available for "mashups", such as the one discussed above and earlier:
After three months or so, he wrote back assuring me it would indeed be made freely available. I'm still clarifying if he meant free as in "zero price" or as in "we won't come after you if you make a map with it".
So I was disappointed to see today that the ACCC has a clause on their GROCERYwatch site stating that:
"You may not alter, reproduce, re-transmit, distribute, display or commercialise the material in any way without written permission from the Director ACCC Publishing."
So no mashups there. I've written to the relevant minister, Chris Bowen, asking for this constraint to be lifted.
Hopefully this is the kind of issue that will be addressed soon in a (groan) "whole of government" fashion through inquiries like the one mentioned by Kevin Cox above (ACT) or Victoria's own inquiry into the use government data:
Lastly, on IceTV vs Nine and the absurd ruling that we can no longer "reverse engineer" TV guides by writing down what's being shown when … please sign the petition:
Well done on bringing these matters to a wider audience.
Regarding tram and train timetables in Melbourne on an iPhone – see mobile.itransit.com.au. Also love how they say in the splash screen that it may not work very well in Internet Explorer!
There was a recent article in Foreign Policy on the world's hardest places to find a loo that may be of interest: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/files/story4414.php
China has made great efforts to make its capital city�s commodes more hospitable for the Olympics. But in this International Year of Sanitation, 2.5 billion people around the world don�t have access to hygienic bathroom facilities. Here are some of the countries where you should be prepared to hold it.
It looks like someone has recently created a FuelWatch mashup app for the iPhone:
Let's hope that when FuelWatch goes national, so will FuelView. I'm still looking for a loo app!
Fully agreed with your well written comments. We also thought that it would be more or less easy to be granted a license for the toiletmap.gov.au data which turned out to be a wrong assumption.
Well, we did create a good iPhone app called 'Show the Loo' which is available as of now in the App store, even without the detailed data that we could have otherwise had for launch.
We will approach the Department of Health and Ageing in a more official manner this time, see blog posts here http://theandb.biz/talk/mobile_world/ .
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A general contractor in charge of construction of the Shaffers Crossing intersection at U.S. 285 and Elk Creek Road has been approved to remove fill dirt after been fined between $10,000 and $30,000 by the state in connection with working without a permit at a site near the Conifer Safeway.
Following the sanction, the company reapplied for and received approval to remove the material, which was being used to build the intersection at Shaffers Crossing.
Peter Eggers has decided not to run in 2012 for another term on the Evergreen Park and Recreation District board.
Elected in 2008 to a four-year term, Eggers previously served 12 years on the board from 1992 to 2004. Eggers was the chairperson of the Buchanan Park Improvement Executive Committee and spearheaded the creation of the 2008 Buchanan Park Master Plan.
It's a chocoholic's dream come true: an hour spent tasting chocolate — with a little bit of information about the health benefits of the confection thrown in for good measure.
About 30 teens participated in the chocolate-fest on July 10 sponsored by Julie Pech, author of "The Chocolate Therapist: A User's Guide to the Extraordinary Health Benefits of Chocolate."
A 34-year-old former Evergreen man has been sentenced to five years probation after pleading guilty to attempted sex assault after making arrangements on the Internet to meet someone he thought was a 14-year-old girl.
District Judge Lily Oeffler issued the sentence July 11 after hearing pleas for leniency from the defendant, Ryan Michael Lafferty, and his attorney. A charge of Internet luring had been dropped as part of the plea bargain.
Great barrier grief
Canines from the small to the tall, along with their owners, roamed Heritage Grove in Evergreen on Saturday as part of Pawfest, the Evergreen Animal Protective League's day dedicated to man's best friend.
The park was filled with booths promoting dog products, dog services and dog adoptions. An agility course was set up, and the stage was the site of a dog costume competition, as well as a dog-and-owner look-alike contest.
And there were dogs. Lots of dogs. St. Bernards and Great Danes mingled with pugs, Labs and golden retrievers.
The historic Evergreen Conference Center is on the market for the asking price of $636,000, down from $1.2 million four years ago.
In the last few weeks, a Wisconsin buyer has been negotiating to buy the property, but the deal has fallen through, said Bill Downes, real estate broker with Keller Williams Commercial of Evergreen on Monday, July 11.
It has become obvious to one Soda Creek resident that in some places around Evergreen and as far as certain dog owners were concerned, the "leave no trace" policy was being widely ignored.
Since then, Chris Sletten has found herself unofficially spearheading the Evergreen portion of the countywide campaign, "There is no poop fairy," which aims to encourage people to clean up after their dogs in local parks and open spaces.
AMC Theatres is selling the Bergen Park 7 movie theater building and property, and the buyer could shut down the theaters that have been part of Evergreen for 17 years.
Nearby business owners and the president of the Evergreen Area Chamber of Commerce are disappointed that Evergreen could soon be without a venue that provided entertainment for people of all ages without having to go down the hill.
Ryan Noonan, director of public relations for AMC Theatres, said the company is in the process of selling the property.
The teenager arrested last Wednesday in connection with the stabbing of his mother at their home on Red Fox Drive was being held in Mount View Detention Center in Denver as of Friday afternoon.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Following a win in the squad's first Conference USA contest, the UAB women's basketball team hosts Houston on Sunday at 2 p.m. CT.
The Blazers return to Bartow Arena after a dominating performance at UCF on Thursday when UAB held the Knights to just three made field goals in the first half in a 64-46 victory.
Houston enters the contest following a tight 77-74 win against Memphis. The Cougars are led by Porsche Landry, who averages 17.4 points per game - the only Houston player in double figures.
Following Sunday's matchup, UAB travels to El Paso, Texas to take on UTEP on Sunday, Jan. 20 at 2 p.m. MT.
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Series Tied 11-11
>> The Blazers clash with Houston for the 23rd time on Sunday with the series tied at 11-11. UAB won the last meeting between the two schools, 67-43, on Jan. 15, 2012.
>> In a series that dates back to 1989, the Blazers hold the longest winning streak after taking five games from 1998-2000. Sunday's meeting will be the lone contest between the two schools this season.
Scouting Houston...
>> Houston enters the game at 7-7 overall after picking up its first C-USA win over Memphis, 77-74, on Thursday.
>> Houston averages 66.9 points per contest and gives up 66.3 per game. The Cougars outscore opponents in the first half by an average of 3.8 per game, but are outscored in the second half by an average of 4.1 points per game.
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UAB Looks To Continue Strong Start
>> UAB won its first Conference USA game on Thursday, cruising past UCF, 64-46. The Blazers held the Knights to just a 3-for-31 clip from the floor in the first half before building as much as a 23-point cushion in the victory.
Grimes Makes The Difference
>> Following her career-high of 21 points scored against UCF on Thursday, junior Ashley Grimes now joins teammates Amber Jones and Karisma Chapman as the three Blazers who average in double figures. Grimes now averages 10.7 per contest, while Chapman scores 12.9 ppg and Jones leads the team with a 13.9 average.
Blazers Turn Up Heat On Defense
>> The Blazers held UCF to just 9-percent shooting in the first half (26.7 percent for the game) Thursday in another strong defensive effort. UAB is second in C-USA in scoring defense, allowing just 53.0 points per game and is No. 1 in the league in 3-point field goal percentage defense (23.9 percent).
Blazers Fire At The Line
>> UAB is one of the top free-throw shooting teams in Conference USA with a .696 percentage for the year. The Blazers have made 201 out of 289 attempts on the year at the charity stripe.
Leading In Losses
>> The Blazers have held leads in every loss this season. Against Vanderbilt, UAB had a one-point advantage (7-6) early in the game, while establishing a nine-point advantage at George Mason (Dec. 2) and a 13-point lead against Morehead State (Dec. 18). Most recently, UAB held a seven-point cushion on three different occasions in the loss to Chattanooga (Jan. 2).
30 Below
>> UAB set the school's single-game record by holding Arkansas-Pine Bluff to just 25 points. The previous low was a 31-point outing from South Alabama against the Blazers on Nov. 24, 1996.
Best Start Since The `90's
>> The Blazers jumped out to the program's best start since the 1994-95 season when this year's addition began the campaign at 7-1. The Blazers began 1994-95 at 8-1 and went on to finish 19-9 overall.
Chapman Approaching 1,000
>> Junior Karisma Chapman now has 817 points in her UAB career and needs just 183 to reach 1,000. She would be the 26th player in Blazer history to net 1,000 points.
Preseason All-C-USA
>> A second-team all-conference selection in 2011-12, Blazer junior forward Karisma Chapman has been tabbed a Preseason All-Conference USA performer. The Calumet City, Ill., native led the Blazers in scoring (13.8 ppg) and was third on the squad in rebounding (5.1 rpg) last season.
Jones Moves Up Career Records
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NAHA, OKINAWA PREF. – The U.S. government has yet to pay compensation to a 71-year-old former taxi driver diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder after he was robbed by two U.S. Marines while driving a taxi in Okinawa in 2006, the man's lawyer said Monday.
The lawyer, Tsutomu Arakaki, said such compensation is typically paid within a period of a year or a year and a half.
In July 2006, the marines robbed the driver of his wallet with ¥44,000 and some $320 after pulling him from his cab in the city of Okinawa. The man filed for damages in November 2008 and in April 2009, with the Defense Ministry serving as a point of contact for the U.S military, but the procedure has stalled on the U.S. side for unknown reasons, he said.
At a news conference in Naha, Arakaki said that his client "became incapable of driving and sustained a great deal of emotional distress."
The Naha District Court ruled in 2009 that the United States pay about ¥28 million in damages. The same court sentenced the marines to two years and 10 months in prison the previous year.
The bilateral agreement also stipulates that if damages paid by the U.S. government fall short of the amount finalized by the court, the Japanese side can pay the balance.
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Granted, Verizon was all about Android until recently, and Sprint not so much, although it does carry the latest and greatest handsets with the green robot, so the number might be even larger than this 6 million iPhones prediction.
Using this working number, though, the analyst also calculated that the iPhone appearance on Sprint's network would boost Apple's growth from 30 to 37%. Sprint was having issues this last quarter with customer churn and a wider loss, so the iPhone arrival might be just what the doctor ordered to keep subscribers happy.
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New Pope in Jesuit Order - A secret society older than the Illuminati or Templar Knights - Scripted Armagedon Looms Large
"Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves."
Behind the righteous front of the Jesuit order hides elements of the secret government commonly referd to by "conspiracy theorists", as the Illuminati
"The Society of Jesus (Latin: Societas Iesu, S.J., SJ or SI) is a Christian male religious order of the Roman Catholic Church. The members are called Jesuits and are also known colloquially as "God's Marines", these being references to founder Ignatius of Loyola's military background and members' willingness to accept orders anywhere in the world and live in extreme conditions. The society is engaged in evangelization and apostolic ministry in 112 nations on six continents. The society's founding principles are contained in the document Formula of the Institute, written by Ignatius of Loyola. Jesuits are known for their work in education (founding schools, colleges, universities and seminaries), intellectual research, and cultural pursuits, and for their missionary efforts. Jesuits also give retreats, minister in hospitals and parishes and promote social justice and ecumenical dialogue."
This may sound quite ridiculous but they have the perfect cover, afterall who would suspect Christs advocates of involvement in multi-generational conspiracies of destructive world wars and conquest to bring about a totalitarian New World Order .
Now that the Roman Catholic Church has throwned a Jesuit as the new Pope, the following text is esspecially relevant, and is a dire warning of the course we are on and the threat of staged Armaggedon
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] Includes full text of of the Jesuit Extreme Oath of Induction
Jorge Mario Bergoglio (Pope Francis) has taken this blood oath going back to the seventies when he was the "Provincial" of the Argentinian Jesuit Order
"Go ye, then, into all the world and take possession of all lands in the name of the Pope. He who will not accept him as the Vicar of Jesus and his Vice-Regent on earth, let him be accursed and exterminated."
Professor Arthur Noble
The text of the Jesuit Extreme Oath of Induction as recorded in the Journals of the 62nd Congress, 3rd Session, of the United States Congressional Record (House Calendar No. 397, Report No. 1523, 15 February, 1913, pp. 3215-3216), from which it was subsequently torn out. The Oath is also quoted by Charles Didier in his book Subterranean Rome (New York, 1843), translated from the French original. Dr. Alberto Rivera, who escaped from the Jesuit Order in 1967, confirms that the induction ceremony and the text of the Jesuit Oath is acurate.
When a Jesuit of the minor rank is to be elevated to command, he is conducted into the Chapel of the Convent of the Order, where there are only three others present, the principal or Superior (Black Pope) standing in front of the altar. On either side stands a monk, one of whom holds a banner of yellow and white, which are the Papal colours, and the other a black banner with a dagger and red cross above a skull and crossbones, with the word INRI, and below them the words IUSTUM NECAR REGES IMPIUS. The meaning of which is: It is just to exterminate or annihilate impious or heretical Kings, Governments, or Rulers.
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Definition of splice
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1a : to unite (two ropes or two parts of a rope) by interweaving the strandsb : to unite (two lengths of magnetic tape, photographic film, etc.) by overlapping and securing together two ends
2 : to unite, link, or insert as if by splicing
3 : to combine or insert (something) by genetic engineering spliced a human gene for insulin into a bacterium
Origin and Etymology of splice
obsolete Dutch splissen; akin to Middle Dutch splitten to split
First Known Use: circa 1525See Words from the same year
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: to join ropes, wires, etc., by weaving or twisting them together
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: to join together or insert (as segments of RNA or DNA) to form new genetic combinations spliced a human gene for insulin into a bacterium—see gene-splicing
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Buy a Chateau Epernay Corkscrew and you'll be able to open wine for people. What other gift could be better than THAT?
Fresh start, guys and gals. This is gonna be our big year. We're gonna cut out the sugar, start making our bed in the morning, and make a concerted effort to hide our prison tattoos. We're gonna reduce our soda intake and stop lighting fires in public restrooms. Yep, 2014 is gonna be great!


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OlexandrIgnatov said
'How to kill it with a few notes'.
Arguably, the 4 best(live) guitar players on one stage, playing one of the most popular blues songs. Yep, sucks.
BB King – the thrill is gone (2010 Crossroads blues festival), http://youtu.be/dfqHLX3hdcs
(I can't edit the previous post so i'm writing this one)
i played a bit with tags etc and found that a https://vimeo.com/tag:creativecommons/sort:likes/format:thumbnail is a better way to find good quality CC videos..
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Hey guys, if I understand well it's a matter of license. You can use vimeo works if they have the Creative Common license, even without permission from the author, but giving credit as the license says, for more info: https://vimeo.com/help/faq/legal-stuff/creative-commons Browse CC videos here: https://vimeo.com/creativecommons/by
Thing is, most of the CC videos are cr*p and Vimeo offers only "sort by date" option, so it's pretty damn hard to find anything decent. :/
Right, I guess i'll have to spam Vimeo authors. I just hope they're as friendly as Behance ones.
Thank you all for helping!
I'm currently collecting demo content for my new item, and i got an idea to use short (couple of seconds) cuts of videos from Vimeo. Could that be considered as 'fair use'?
I've noticed that couple of high selling themes used Vimeo videos in the past(self hosted; not embedded), not sure if they got the permissions form authors.
Thanks, Nikola.
Bx-slider. Great out of the box features and it's easy to customize.
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myjilson said
@FinalDestiny: yeah, I agree with you! But some people find it easy to get some inspiration from Movies and Games
Meh, movies are only good as working background noise or as an excuse to call your gf over(wink wink nudge nudge). And most of the games today are just chore fest "grind for 10 hours to be able to grind for 10 more; loop;".
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And why use "parallax" for a .psd template?
Coz they're hip and totally rad.


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Larry Kramer talked frankly about finding a cure for HIV as he accepted the first-ever Larry Kramer Activism Award from GMHC at the Spring Gala on March 23.
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Here's a list of 2014's top 15 HIV fundraisers. From Los Angeles to New York, see how these groups raise funds to help their clients living with HIV/AIDS.
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Yesterday, after more than 30 years, the Food and Drug Administration announced that it would recommend replacing their outdated lifetime blood donation ban on men who have sex with men, in favor of a one-year deferral period.
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As advocates fight for a change to the current lifetime ban on blood donations by men who have sex with men, many are disappointed that once again, the FDA has chosen not to replace its outdated and unscientific ban.
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(Meatless) Tuscan Soup
- 1 small onion, chopped
- 1 small carrot, sliced
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 2 (14½-ounce) cans chicken broth
- 1 cup water
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon pepper
- 1 (15- to 16-ounce) can kidney beans or great northern beans, rinsed and drained
- ⅔ cup uncooked small spiral pasta
- 3 cups thinly sliced fresh escarole or spinach
- In a 2-quart saucepan, sauté onion and carrot in oil until onion is tender.
- Add broth, water, salt and pepper; bring to a boil.
- Stir in beans and pasta; return to a boil.
- Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 15 minutes or until pasta and vegetables are tender, stirring occasionally.
- Add escarole or spinach and heat through.
Tips, Notes, and Variations[edit]
- Vegetarian: May substitute vegetable broth for chicken broth.


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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2336044328955501444.post5702225872368906637..comments2017-05-25T22:05:24.132-04:00Comments on The TSA Blog: Popsicle Makers and Potato firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2336044328955501444.post-25107706959394525962010-11-17T00:35:18.646-05:002010-11-17T00:35:18.646-05:00This is another one of those cases that makes me l...This is another one of those cases that makes me long for the day that the liquid algorithm is ready to go for our X-rays so we can allow liquids and end 3-1-1 as we know it."SEO Companyhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2336044328955501444.post-30239602285684348742010-11-02T00:18:04.397-04:002010-11-02T00:18:04.397-04:00Most of what TSA does is smoke and mirrors. Allow...Most of what TSA does is smoke and mirrors. Allow an empty 20 oz coffee mug but only 3.4 oz shampoo? So I get 10 of my bad guy buddies to carry 3.4 oz through the check point hidden on their body or in it. meet up once through screening and combine in the mug. TSA is a WASTE of money the way it is currently configured. Fix it or disband email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2336044328955501444.post-18373232313779888752010-08-02T17:29:21.089-04:002010-08-02T17:29:21.089-04:00The sign does indeed look confusing. Some might th...The sign does indeed look confusing. Some might think of it as a prank and may disregard it. As for the Popsicle makers and potato peelers, it would've been better if they posted pictures of what's allowed or not.Blaze Smithhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2336044328955501444.post-82728587573421877322010-07-07T08:03:38.912-04:002010-07-07T08:03:38.912-04:00AVXO, you are correct, we are permitted to make de...AVXO, you are correct, we are permitted to make decisions based on what we are presented with, the circumstances, the passenger, any suspicious behaviors, and taking into account what is in the SOP. We are permitted to go above the SOP when the situation warrants, but we are never permitted to go below the standards. Are bad decisions made? Maybe....and there are situations in which we have to TSO email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2336044328955501444.post-21463832776129236442010-07-07T07:54:54.434-04:002010-07-07T07:54:54.434-04:00RB said in part.... You know the serrations on a b...RB said in part....
You know the serrations on a butter knife or completely different than the serrations on say a steak knife.

But it is TSA we're talking about, and I guess making reasonable lists of banned items is just to hard for the TSA braintrust.
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RB, while I cannot say that I disagree with you on this particular topic, I TSO email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2336044328955501444.post-87883024708917247502010-07-05T18:08:56.306-04:002010-07-05T18:08:56.306-04:00TSO Tom said... Blogger Bob said in part: @Anonymo...TSO Tom said...
Blogger Bob said in part:
@Anonymous: Butter knives are allowed. I personally think that all knives up to a certain length should be permitted, but that's a decision for the folks on the hill. Plus, the airline unions are pretty sensitive to the subject.
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Bob, let's make it perfectly clear so they don't say we RBhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2336044328955501444.post-84505510354254326742010-07-05T15:38:14.837-04:002010-07-05T15:38:14.837-04:00I am not sure if the post I'm responding to is...I am not sure if the post I'm responding to is by someone who is just obnoxious-by-accident or someone who's simply being dishonest on purpose. But onwards...

Anonymous wrote: "AVXO, TSA never took a MOH away from anybody. Do your research."

I never said it confiscated it. I said: that they man-handled the Medal of Honor. Words have meaning firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2336044328955501444.post-50833198693079719432010-07-05T13:01:43.598-04:002010-07-05T13:01:43.598-04:00AVXO, TSA never took a MOH away from anybody. Do y...AVXO, TSA never took a MOH away from anybody. Do your research.

This is just another case of people talking of things they know nothing about.

And please, TSA has answered your questions. You just do not like the answers they give you and call them liars and keep asking the same questions over and firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2336044328955501444.post-46751730393905436912010-07-05T12:38:40.616-04:002010-07-05T12:38:40.616-04:00Our "anonymous" friend wrote: "If y...Our "anonymous" friend wrote: "If you used an ounce of intelligence and understood half of what TSO have been trying to tell you, you would understand that they can make decisions that don't violate the SOP."

I think you are the one who didn't understand. Either that, or you simply didn't the first sentence of my post. So let me reiterate:
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Anonymous said...

 AVXO Said in part
 All those incidents involved decisions -- decisions made by TSA personnel. So please, don't insult our intelligence by suggesting you aren't making the decisions.
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  If you used an ounce of intelligence and understood half of what TSO have been email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2336044328955501444.post-73238950787813360792010-07-04T21:43:48.380-04:002010-07-04T21:43:48.380-04:00AVXO Said in part All those incidents involved dec...AVXO Said in part
All those incidents involved decisions -- decisions made by TSA personnel. So please, don't insult our intelligence by suggesting you aren't making the decisions.
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If you used an ounce of intelligence and understood half of what TSO have been trying to tell you, you would understand that they can make decisions that firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2336044328955501444.post-62236296219749325382010-07-04T14:54:20.069-04:002010-07-04T14:54:20.069-04:00TSO Tom wrote: "Go figure, but again, it is n...TSO Tom wrote: "Go figure, but again, it is not us who make the decisions."

That's not accurate. You may not have had input into what goes on the list, but in your role as TSOs make decisions all day long, with TSA's blessing!

And that, is actually a big part of the problem. That you guys make are allowed to make 'decisions' without having firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2336044328955501444.post-27587642644262796452010-07-04T11:15:17.900-04:002010-07-04T11:15:17.900-04:00Blogger Bob said in part: @Anonymous: Butter knive...Blogger Bob said in part:
@Anonymous: Butter knives are allowed. I personally think that all knives up to a certain length should be permitted, but that's a decision for the folks on the hill. Plus, the airline unions are pretty sensitive to the subject.
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Bob, let's make it perfectly clear so they don't say we didn't tell them. TSO firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2336044328955501444.post-54904834549160196612010-07-04T11:07:34.708-04:002010-07-04T11:07:34.708-04:00Anonymous said... Beware the fries of March? One ...Anonymous said...
Beware the fries of March? One potato, two potato, three potatoe, Dan Quayle?

I figured everyone needed a laugh.

July 1, 2010 5:17 PM
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LOL anon, thanks I certainly needed thatTSO firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2336044328955501444.post-2170787625087403902010-07-01T17:26:37.473-04:002010-07-01T17:26:37.473-04:00People: Just because you speak 'Tpyo' does...People: Just because you speak 'Tpyo' does not mean others will read it without thinking you are illiterate. There is a reason there is a 'Preview' button right next to the 'Publish your comment' one. It is very easy to use. May I suggest you become familiar with firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2336044328955501444.post-55340038363285505812010-07-01T17:17:53.179-04:002010-07-01T17:17:53.179-04:00Beware the fries of March? One potato, two potato,...Beware the fries of March? One potato, two potato, three potatoe, Dan Quayle?

I figured everyone needed a firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2336044328955501444.post-13741393024285108372010-07-01T09:56:21.466-04:002010-07-01T09:56:21.466-04:00Forgot to mention... I don't have the ability...Forgot to mention...

I don't have the ability with Blogger to move an off topic comment to a related post or I would.

Thanks,

Blogger Bob
TSA Blog TeamBlogger Bobhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2336044328955501444.post-9670826222736671582010-07-01T09:54:31.001-04:002010-07-01T09:54:31.001-04:00Just a reminder to please keep on topic with the c...Just a reminder to please keep on topic with the content of the post. I'll be posting in the next few days with more of an explanation and an alternative for off topic comments.

Thanks!

Blogger Bob
TSA Blog TeamBlogger Bobhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2336044328955501444.post-9266918236278518662010-07-01T07:13:05.363-04:002010-07-01T07:13:05.363-04:00Anonymous at June 29, 2010 10:41 PM noted -- a yo...Anonymous at June 29, 2010 10:41 PM noted --

a young man who was literally doing nothing besides pacing back and forth with his hands on his hips, yelling, "DISPOSE OF LIQUIDS OVER 3.4 OUNCES OR WE WILL DISPOSE OF THEM FOR YOU" repeatedly.

And I thought "checkpoint evolution" was supposed to "calm the checkpoint". Anon's comment MarkVIIhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2336044328955501444.post-26106880785964823722010-07-01T04:02:23.949-04:002010-07-01T04:02:23.949-04:00Anonymus said:Check your Constitution, particularl...Anonymus said:Check your Constitution, particularly the 9th Amendment. The right of Americans to travel by their chosen means of conveyance, especially by plane, is a right.

Please reciew the Ninth ammendment recap attached nowhere does it state anything about transportation......

The Ninth Amendment bars denial of unenumerated rights if the denial is based on the firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2336044328955501444.post-38837406914800787182010-06-30T19:45:49.389-04:002010-06-30T19:45:49.389-04:00At this point, TSA is more focused on ending 3-1-1...At this point, TSA is more focused on ending 3-1-1 rather than spending a ton of time and money to replace signage and pamphlets for .4 oz.

All they need to do is end it. Nothing to 'focus' on. Just admit it was a useless overreaction, and end email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2336044328955501444.post-43361893603080752442010-06-30T12:40:38.040-04:002010-06-30T12:40:38.040-04:00Anonymous said... Flying is a privilege, not ...Anonymous said...

 Flying is a privilege, not a right. Driving is a privilege, not a right. why is it that you find the laws to air security more ignorant than those of the road, and why do you seem to assume that you have some right to flying, when you do not. Everyone called for federal security after 9/11, now everyone calls for the newspapers when something happens that they firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2336044328955501444.post-25994788249303405212010-06-30T11:37:30.825-04:002010-06-30T11:37:30.825-04:00@Gadfly: All of TSA's procedures are based on ...@Gadfly: All of TSA's procedures are based on current intel. Current intel tells us that liquids are still a threat and we currently don't have a better more efficient way to screen them other than 3-1-1.

@Anonymous: Butter knives are allowed. I personally think that all knives up to a certain length should be permitted, but that's a decision for the folks on the hill. Blogger Bobhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2336044328955501444.post-58044299502895750002010-06-30T09:39:29.634-04:002010-06-30T09:39:29.634-04:00Anonymous wrote: "Everyone called for federal...Anonymous wrote: "Everyone called for federal security after 9/11, now everyone calls for the newspapers when something happens that they assume is TSA's fault, when its most likely not."

Not everyone called for federal security in the wake of 9/11. So please don't exaggerate or lie. It doesn't further your argument

Still, the security email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2336044328955501444.post-11400329569522491912010-06-30T02:04:15.950-04:002010-06-30T02:04:15.950-04:00Of course this wasn't a TSA sign: It got the size ...Of course this wasn't a TSA sign: It got the size of the per-container liquid limit right. Whereas TSA's policy is to NOT update signs, or even cite the correct limit (3.4 oz rather than 3) on new signs.

Am I concerned that someone will confiscate my 3.4 oz shampoo and cite the 3 oz limit? No, I'm concerned because I want to do my part as a flier to cooperate with and advance bobhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com


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Penelope Cruz: Big Apple Beauty
Still situated in the Big Apple, Penelope Cruz stepped out of her hotel in New York City on Saturday afternoon (October 10).
Looking lovely, the 35-year-old Spanish actress seemed to be in a bit of a hurry as she quickly walked past awaiting paparazzi while continuing along with her "Broken Embraces" promotions.
Aside from "Broken Embraces," Miss Cruz is gearing up for the upcoming release of another film, as the Rob Marshall directed movie "Nine" will be making its way into theaters on December 25th.
Speaking about the toll-taking filming, Marshall told press: "She [Penelope] does all this work with ropes--she was swinging on them and it was scary, and she had formed calluses and her hands were bleeding. We had told her she should wear gloves, but she was like: 'No--I have to feel it.'"
He added: "There's this huge sheath of pink satin that she slides down on. When we finished the scene, she had disappeared behind the satin and was in tears."
While the whole scenario sounds quite unpleasant, Penelope said that she "loved every second. I want to install ropes in my bedroom, so I don't have to let go of it."
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No, you haven't lost your mind. Our family is down to one computer, and I was hoping to have mine fixed by now. Unfortunately, laptops are not too fond of mac & beef, so repair has been agonizingly slow. And when I only have a few minutes in an uncomfy chair right before bedtime, expounding upon the subject at hand is easily delayed/dismissed. I'm backdating the entries for the days they *should* have been published. Thanks for joining my time-travel team <3
I'm making a list of all the things I want to plant this year. And researching methods of automatic watering so the whole thing won't get krispy before the end of the season.
Oh wait. I can't do anything expensive or permanent ((Beltway coming through toward the end of the year. Hopefully at the end of growing season)). Crap. RETHINK!!!
And also? FOCUS!!! The list!!!
Carrots, cucumbers, tomatoes (mostly paste), beans (glorious beans), lettuces (Earthbox #1), garlic, corn, watermelon, canteloupe, beets, potatoes, radish, cilantro (maybe?), sugarsnaps, onions, and honestly. Who knows what else will tickle my fancy between now and then?
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In Rome, he has made his start as the mild-mannered, bus-riding, collegial pontiff who pays his own hotel bills and is known for washing the feet of stigmatized AIDS patients.
In Argentina, however, Pope Francis is known as a staunch ideological conservative with a long history of unusually public engagement with political life.
Both stories have been circulating since the new pontiff was elected on Wednesday. But to understand how they fit together, history is the best guide.
The leader of the Roman Catholic Church has always been a political figure. But Francis, the first non-European pope in 13 centuries, may be poised to bring a distinctly different, South American flavour of right-wing politics to the Vatican: It would include the familiar rigid defence of tradition, but also a newly expansionist and confrontational side – an insistent voice of overt conservatism.
This could win Catholic supporters away from the competing forces of Pentecostalism in culturally conservative Africa and Asia. But some observers fear it could also cause Rome to be aligned, as it has been in the past, with unsavoury regimes.
To see why, you have to step back 37 years and examine the dark political moment whose repercussions and ambiguities have come to define Pope Francis's career.
In the spring of 1976, Father Jorge Bergoglio, then 40 and the head of Argentina's Jesuits, found himself in the midst of a military coup that deposed the centre-left government of Isabel Peron.
What followed was an infamous reign of terror, as the military junta seized, tortured, killed and "disappeared" thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, of people suspected of being on the left.
Priests either sided with the military regime or became targets of its terror.
On one side was a sizable faction of priests who had joined the movement, then new, known broadly as liberation theology, which sees the gospel as a tool for societal transformation and progress. Some were explicit backers of the Peronist government; others, members of the Movement of Priests in the Third World, were more radical. Many of its members died, disappeared or were exiled, including at least one bishop, several priests and hundreds of lay people.
Though Father Bergoglio was known to care for the poor, he had always opposed these more radical movements. But, like a large number of colleagues, he was silent on the military junta.
"The bulk of the Argentine Catholic hierarchy was in the conservative wing – they were aligned with a conservative religious view and also a conservative political view that strongly backed the regime and the army and the coup," says Daniel Levine, the author of Politics, Religion and Society in Latin America. "But unlike other bishops who were actively allied with the dictatorship and complicit in the crimes, [Father Bergoglio] was silent. [He] was not directly complicit in that way."
Other Argentinian priests were far more active in the junta. Christian von Wernich, chaplain of the Buenos Aires police force, would use information gleaned from the confessional to turn people over to the police; he would then oversee their torture sessions. He was later extradited, tried and sentenced to life in prison.
Father Bergoglio, whether by choice or otherwise, soon found himself embroiled in the terror.
Two young Jesuit priests, Orlando Yorio and Francisco Jalics, were kidnapped by government forces on May 23, 1976, imprisoned for five months at a clandestine detention centre, tortured, and later found lying drugged and semi-naked in a field.
Days before their disappearance, according to memoirs and statements made later by the priests, they had been dismissed from the Jesuit order by Father Bergoglio for having ministered to residents of the slums, which were considered hotbeds of anti-regime agitation. Kicking the priests out of the order is seen by many Argentines as a move that, in the polarized climate of the Junta, may have served as a clear signal to the military dictatorship that they were to be targeted.
In a 1995 memoir, Father Jalics, who now lives in Germany, accused Father Bergoglio of betraying them.
"Many people who held far-right political beliefs frowned on our presence in the slums," the priest wrote. "They thought we were living there in support of the guerrillas, and set out to denounce us as terrorists. We knew which way the wind was blowing, and who was responsible for these slanders. So I went to [Father Bergoglio] and explained that they were playing with our lives. He promised that the military would be told that we were not terrorists. But from subsequent statements by an officer and 30 documents that we were able to access later, we saw without doubt that [Father Bergoglio] had not kept his promise but, on the contrary, had filed a false complaint with the military."
Cardinal Bergoglio has contested these accusations. In lengthy interviews transcribed in the 2010 book The Jesuit, and in testimony he gave during Argentine hearings into the Dirty War and the disappearances, he has argued that, in fact, he worked to free the kidnapped priests, including holding secret meetings with General Jorge Videla, Argentina's de facto military dictator of the time, to argue for their release.Report Typo/Error
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on the small press, part five: 'we invite anyone to come and hang out' April 30, 2014: The fifth and final in a series of posts featuring editors and publishers discussing their projects. Today: Patricia No and Giancarlo DiTrapano. Publication Studio was founded in 2009 in Portland, [...]
Commoning part II January 26, 2010: I am still wrapping my head around what happened at Lower Manhattan Cultural Counsel this past weekend. Clearly, it was one of those conversations that needed to happen because everyone had something [...]
Commoning With Rob Halpern and Robert Kocik January 20, 2010: This weekend I will be presenting with Rob Halpern and Robert Kocik at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Counsel about the histories and futures of commoning. The title of our presentation is "How [...]