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My "brother from another mother" has bailed me out with an interest free loan for 6 months. *sigh of relief*
I now have enough funds to see me through until my house sells / the PPI refund comes through (the latter is still a work in progress ... I've just filled out and mailed in more forms - hopefully the last of them).
Knowing I have a cash-flow again has given me the energy to sort other stuff out ... I've found a buyer for Cliff's Kent Pegs, a buyer for his confederate notes, a reasonably priced storage facility for the boxes of stuff that will be shipped out to Spain when I've found a villa ... a dog kennel a couple of miles from my sister's for Barney (as I'm moving in with her when the house is packed up/emptied and she has two rag doll cats so Barney can't stay with me ... but at least I can walk him every day to make it up to him).
Fred (my other dog) has gone to a dog's charity and he will not be re-homed due to his behavioural issues. I just couldn't kill him.
I've learned to say "NO!" and actually done so on several occasions recently. I've confronted peeps on their treatment of me ... and boy did that shock some of them.
I've said, "sure I can give you a lift but I need the petrol money". I've not shared my cigarettes like they're going out of fashion.
I've pulled in favours. Yes, I'll pick them up (they don't have their own transport) but again, no fancy food, no free cigarettes, no bottles of vodka, no extra cash .... lean times.)
If peeps want stuff that I'm going to trash, they'll have to sort out the logistics of getting it to their homes ... or load my car and pay for fuel. The free bus stops here. Now.
I got so fucking bored of predicting peeps' next moves before they've even thought of it themselves. And then not being disappointed (typed with thick treacle-y sarcasm). So, now I take temptation out of the equation or spell shit out so damn CLEAR, that it's almost offensive, but somehow they are not offended.
Just don't want to do any more favours. Not till the balance is restored somewhat. It's hard ... to help peeps is hard-wired into my very genetic makeup. Live and learn, Mayhew. Live and learn. As Cliff always said to me, "you can't help anyone else if you've not sorted yourself out."
I miss his wisdom, his guidance and his mentoring. But I've learned that there are a handful of very smart peeps out there, who have my interests at heart and talk things through with me so that I see, with crystal clarity, what the good and bad catalysts are in my life, my behaviour ... (again, I owe gratitude to my "brother from another mother", as well as other old school friends.)
And, I've had an enormous clanging wake-up call. One of my tribe. One of my very own. One of the sweetest men I ever knew, who grew into a big bear of a man, and who gave bear hugs (almost) as good as Cliff's (I AM biased) has died. A few days ago, whilst on business in LA. We are all saddened and shocked. It's made me realise that if I don't look after myself, it could be me next ... so, I've been walking the dog, eating better food and I found a great muscle and energy building shake that is low in sugar ... and wow does it make me feel good. No more sleeping on the sofa for days on end, in denial.
Mrs Mayhew has finally pulled her finger out of her arse. Da, da, daaaaaaa.
The house has been purged. YAY.
Now my driveway looks like a landfill. BOOOOOO.
But my neighbour has offered to fill the car up and we'll take the whole lot to the tip on Monday.
House has had a healthy value put on it ... and when it sells, I'll be looking at a key-ready villa (something like this one - http://www.calidahomespropconsult.com/view-property/cla-767-resale-villa-in-arboleas) with a
low no-maintenance garden. Not taking furniture ... just ornaments, linen, clothes, books and sentimental stuff like cards and photos. And I have a helper to box it up :-)
There's a huge IKEA near where Barney and I are relocating to. Cheap, my taste, fresh start. My health is improving ... grief and illness has overlapped like a Venn diagram - I know I'll always miss and love Cliff ... however, taking the stress of an unfinished house and feeling so so ill out of the picture .... may prove to be the injection of motivation and relaxed lifestyle that is the real prescription required.
My virtual biz is 95% ready to launch - just need land and fax numbers ... then BOOOOOOM!!!! And, my property consultant, who's become a friend, has informed me that the local town hall is screaming out for TEFL tutors ... so even if I don't need the extra cash, I'm going to teach for 5 hours per week, just to build up my network locally, meet peeps ....
I'm just remembering that deep deep deep, somewhere there is that girl that a magic man built up to believe in herself. To believe that she could do anything she set her mind to. That she was smart enough to do more. Four years ago she was smug married. Happy and fulfilled at work. On a roll. Then the magic in that man had to go somewhere else, albeit part of it remained within her heart, soul and very being. She's beginning to remember. She's shovelling the shit aside, the magic is starting to show itself ... a pinprick in the darkness.
Peeps may have head-fucked me ... and this time my Baba was not here to manage me through it ... but the song remained the same ... and I can remember all his words ... and so I am listening to him again. I'm picking myself up. I'll let him heal me again ... and, he'd be so relieved ... once again, I've come through it ... without hatred or bitterness. But one thing is different this time ... I shan't give them another chance to shit down my throat again. I can't afford to ... for another bout of bringing me to my knees may result in me not standing up again.
They're all very fortunate ... if I was a power crazy bitter old hag, I could have torn a scar right through one town and left headless bodies in my wake. But it wouldn't have made me feel better. Just as well I have a conscience, huh? I don't care about their actions ... I care about my reaction to their actions.
But, they better be careful out there ... I've reached my tipping point. Don't mistake kindness as a weakness. Be grateful that I don't humiliate you when you talk down to me ... don't forget that I helped you. Just because I'm grieving and ill doesn't mean I'm suddenly stupid. I just have more grace in my pinky than you do. That's all. I swallow it ... but shake my head inwardly. Tread carefully, for you are no angels ... I have the benefit of a privileged education coupled with a very different education courtesy of my husband ... together - they make a lethal combo. Just as well I use it wisely.


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The shop is celebrating its first birthday, and staff and volunteers have been busy baking in preparation for the day. Visitors will be able to pick up delicious treats, there will be pet portraits and the chance to win a hamper for your cat or dog in the raffle.
Staff members will also be collecting sponsorship for a bid to spend 24 hours in a dog crate, in one-hour shifts, to raise money for Blue Cross animal hospitals and rehoming centres across the country.
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There's an article today on Philly.com about some activists who want to put barcodes on bullets. At first glance it sounds like a great idea — bullets could be tracked back to the person who bought them if they were used in a crime, and we could solve more murders. This sounds a bit familiar to another scheme we discussed, microstamping. And then you remember how bullets work and what this effort would take and the idea loses a little bit of its luster. And by "a little bit" I mean every last shred.
The first question to ask is "what is a barcode?" Wikipedia to the rescue:
A barcode is an optical machine-readable representation of data, which shows data about the object to which it attaches. Originally, barcodes represented data by varying the widths and spacings of parallel lines, and may be referred to as linear or 1 dimensional (1D). Later they evolved into rectangles, dots, hexagons and other geometric patterns in 2 dimensions (2D). Although 2D systems use a variety of symbols, they are generally referred to as barcodes as well. Barcodes originally were scanned by special optical scanners called barcode readers; later, scanners and interpretive software became available on devices including desktop printers and smartphones.
Okay, so a barcode is something that is machine readable, translates to a number or string of characters, and looks similar to this:
Even using the 2D "QR" style barcodes it comes down to black and white marks and the spaces between them being significant. Distort the proportions and the barcode can become unreadable.
So now we know what a barcode is and how it's used. The next question becomes how would you put it on a bullet? Microstamping cases is already a technology that's been created, but bullets (which were specifically indicated in the article) have never been done before.
The easiest and most cost effective way of putting a barcode on a bullet is right on the top of the projectile. Since each box of shells would need its own unique barcode standing all the rounds up and doing them in one go would save time and not drastically increase manufacturing costs. There is, however, a problem with that option.
Just a small problem. Even with full metal jacket ammunition the bullets will deform as soon as they hit something, obliterating the barcode.
Plan B would probably be to slap the barcode on the side of the bullet, either in one section or as circumferential rings. The same types of problems arise with this situation, as the distance between the rings will change and the barcode will become unreadable. Not to mention the effect the rifling in the barrel will have on the metal jacket. In short, it's guaranteed to be erased before the bullet has left the barrel.
That leaves only one place to put a barcode — the base of the bullet. Which would be great except for those pesky superheated gases and intense pressures. Anything stamped on the bottom of a bullet is likely to be extremely deformed and unreadable by the time it gets out of the barrel, and anything that makes it that far has a great chance of being completely obliterated upon impact.
Another reason that base stamping wouldn't be effective is that it would simply be extremely cost prohibitive. With the tip or the side, the barcode can be applied either by a stamp or by laser etching after the rounds are in the tray and ready for packaging. With base stamping, from the second the bullet is formed by the machinery it needs to be tracked and the factory must ensure that only the 50 rounds with the right barcode on the bases make it into the 50 round packs.
In most factories the ammunition is treated like any other bulk good being produced — another one of countless identical units. Bullets are stored in large hoppers and allowed to mix with other similarly finished rounds before packaging. Implementing this system would mean redesigning factories to accommodate the new requirements, and should any of the rounds in a set fail inspection the entire set must be destroyed or else risk contaminating a box with two barcodes.
With the expense required to reconfigure the factory it would probably make more financial sense for the companies to start manufacturing for export only or simply not selling to shops in that state rather than produce the expensive ammunition.
Like I said before, if there were a 100% foolproof way to have the identity of a shooter revealed when they fire a gun illegally I'd be the first person to support it. But with this effort, the probability of an intact bullet being found and successfully identified are so minuscule and the expense for the system to be implemented so astronomical that it doesn't make sense. And that's not even starting on jacketless bullets or unregistered or stolen ammunition being used.
In short, it sucks. Find something better and I'll get behind it.
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Just another back door effort to make firearms ownership prohibitive. This must be the real goal since firearms registration and ballistics finger-printing have never been successful in criminal investigations.
To think that criminals would somehow not use a straw buyer for ammunition, or steal it, or destroy markings on it, or manufacture it themselves is sheer stupidity.
I agree about doing something with the criminals. It's not like they are so sweet and nice and suddenly start shooting people. Usually they have a string of lesser charges culminating in rape, armed robbery, home invasion or even murder. How about we actually prosecute them aggressively early in their career? Stop with the minimum sentences and the plea bargaining away of multiple crimes to make things easy. Since only a small percentage of the population is the issue here, focus on them! Not on me and the millions of other law-abiding citizens.
"…firearms registration and ballistics finger-printing have never been successful in criminal investigations."
Hey, wait a minute, they do that all the time on the TV! Seriously, is ballistics finger-printing really useless? I'm not contradicting you, I just don't know.
California tried out the microstamping idea with a few hundred pistols that were bought by the Calif Highway Patrol. They collected the fired cases from the CHP firing range, then tried to use the microstamping marks to tie a specific case to a specific gun. Keep in mind that these were guns with known serial numbers, where the fired case "evidence" had not been contaminated by someone dumping a bunch of empties at the scene.
Their successful match rate was under 50%. Try getting a conviction in a court with that kind of "evidence".
A better, and equally useful suggestion for anti-gun legislators:
Pass a law that requires all criminals to leave their name, address and phone number at the scene of their crimes. The gummint will provided subsidized "business cards" for each criminal, or even potential criminal. They will be passed out to the kids in every class in schools, along with their free breakfast/lunch/dinner/weekend food backpack.
What's that? It wouldn't work? So what – it will make the legislators FEEEL as if they are doing something valuable! And hey, if we can save just one child it will be worth it.
Or we could pass a law making murder, armed robbery, and assault with a deadly weapon illegal! Oh wait – we already tried that, didn't we?
Bottom line – all of this techno-tracking crud is simply a way to make guns and ammo too expensive for the average citizen. What the President refers to as "gun control under the radar".
"Their successful match rate was under 50%. Try getting a conviction in a court with that kind of "evidence"."
— America is 'changing'. That might be a step they take in the future. The Obama Administration via the US Dept of Ed just pushed a new demand onto college campuses. The intent is to lower the burden of proof, using some college committee, to 51% for accusations of sexual harassment and rape. Basically it is a he said she said situation. No real evidence is needed; only the feelings of the committee to act if there is someone they believe a victim. The USG wants to skip the police investigating who kept finding far too many cases of false accusations. Students (males) found guilty will be kicked off campus and their transcripts marked for life why they were kicked off. If you know anyone who has a son in college he needs to be really careful not to piss off the wrong coed.
Hmm… I really don't have an original solution to this but…
lower taxes / less regulation = more jobs = less poverty = less crime.
Also, by keeping all the illegal drugs illegal, we are not only wasting money, but we are essentially keeping crime rates high. I know all of this makes too much sense, hence it will never change.
activists … want to put barcodes on bullets
Have they considered… RFID chips! ;->
More futuristic: imbed coded magnetic material in the bullet. When fired the high speed movement thought the Earth's magnetic field will generate a radio signal that can be monitored by spy satellites.
Can we put custom barcodes on the shells, 'cause that'd be cool. I'd love to print up a barcode the reads "If you can read this, you've got the wrong guy." on my reloaded brass.
If barcodes ring up the wrong price for my groceries, I can only imagine what barcoded bullets would do. Here's a note for all the pointy-headed geniuses out there: work on stopping crime by stopping criminals, instead of waiting for them to kill people so you can run their barcodes. Geez, what a bunch of morons.
How about a crystal micro-chip embedded in everyone's hand that when fired from a high-tech gun with a coder and licensed to that person will embed the bullet with a special message. That way the Courts can prove which gun the bullet came from and even come with the proof of who squeezed the trigger. The hand chip and gun should not fire unless the legal owner is pulling the trigger. Also, all guns must come with a chip that can be traced by satellite when stolen. The gun should have a 150 decibel alarm that actives when stolen to irritate the thief. If the thief still finds a way to still fire the gun an electric charge should zap the thief and stun that person sending him or her into cardiac arrest.
You are also forgetting that each batch would require it's own unique barcode. Multiply that by the number of 20, 25, 50 and 100 count boxes, just from one manufacturer and the numbers become too great to be generated into barcode form. Then, of course, there has to be a registration system. It currently is not mathematically possible.
sorry to go OT but If you have the time it would be very nice to see a more revealing review of this new holster system:
Someday someone is going to shoot their boobie pulling a handgun out from that new holster.
Without a comprehensive system of ammunition serialization *and* purchase registration (Big Brother, eat your heart out) these jackass schemes would have no chance of having any impact on the unlawful uses of firearms.
They would also be defeated simply by the astronomical number of unserialized cartridges (and components) already in circulation. How many brass cases, primers, bullets, and loaded rounds are already in the private hands of Americans? Lots. Carl Sagan numbers. Bigger than Carl Sagan numbers. Maybe hundreds of billions of rounds?
2.2 billion (yep, with a 'B') rounds of .22 rimfire are produced each year, just in the United States. Other countries produce a few billion more. And that doesn't count the hundreds of millions of rounds of military small-arms ammunition we make each year.
Bullet serial numbers? Not gonna happen.
They could implant a high-g, high-temperature, highly shock resistant, field programmable RFID chip into the base of each bullet, where it is most likely to survive firing, flight and impact. When the buyer goes up to the counter to purchase the ammunition, the clerk simply programs the all of the chips in the lot of ammunition being purchased, with all of the purchaser's personal data; name, address, phone, email, employer, most recent resume, SSN, vehicle info, bank account/credit card numbers, blood relatives, blood type, sequenced genome, and holographic image of the purchaser. It's so simple, I really can't see the problem here. We'll all be much safer and we'll be able to catch all of the bad guys. Win/Win!!
I'm human, so my memory could be imperfect. It is my recollection that where (was it in Massachusetts?) they have used a pre-sale ballistic finger-printing of a firearm (i.e. shot a round or two through to record the marks on a bullet) and database storage of this information it is a failure (I heard that it is usually not consulted). Subsequent use of this database with later attempts to match a shredded bullet with a specific firearm has not been used in a court case, let alone a conviction, is my (hopefully accurate) understanding.
Sorry for my lack of clarity since they can dig a bullet out of a wall to confirm the caliber and possibly suggestive bullet scratches to match to a firearm. That's at least reasonable. So, you are correct and my statement was too extreme. Sorry.
What I'm railing against is the intrusiveness and likely lack of effectiveness of a "database" set up before the sale of a firearm to record what a bullet might look like after fired from a specific gun. I suspect that if you fire 20 rounds through it the wear patterns would have changed. So, I believe it is a just a ruse for gun registration, that is all.
I think the MD and NY are the only two states that require so-called ballistic fingerprinting for firearms sold in those states.
Thanks for the clarification.
Continuing my apology for my poorly supported rant…I think I should have said that firearms registration and ballistics finger-printing are of dubious utility for reducing violent crime. I think I can stand behind that statement. It has enough wiggle-room that a lawyer could drive a truck through it.
Hanging my head in shame because I sound about as credible as one of the gun control freaks without citations for their "evidence".
Come on, why would we expect gun control advocates and legislators to understand the practicalities of firearm operation?
"With the expense required to reconfigure the factory it would probably make more financial sense for the companies to start manufacturing for export only or simply not selling to shops in that state rather than produce the expensive ammunition."
Ding ding ding ding ding! You've figured it out. As Noam Chomsky says, "Intent can be inferred from predictable outcome."


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With respect to the unconstitutionality, Mr. R. joined in opinion with the gentleman from New Jersey, (Mr. Henderson.) This law would tend to alienate the minds of the people of the Eastern States, whose militia were already well disciplined.
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Robert A. Casper, Sr., my father, received his draft notice to report for duty on June 10, 1942 at 7:20 a.m. at the North Ridgeville, Ohio Town Hall.
My father did not talk much about the time he spent in the Army, but he did tell my husband that he was one of the first Radar Technicians. He is as a Carpenter General 050, on his DD214 form, what ever that means.
He did see time overseas, as I have money from Budapest and some place I don't recognize, Nationale Bank Van Belgie. The back writing is VIJF Frank of EEN Belga, on the front CinQ Francs, sounds Spanish to me! There was also money from Germany & Japan also.
I do know that he received 5 medals, American Theater Ribbon; EAME Theater Ribbon; Asiatic Pacific Theater Ribbon; Good Conduct Ribbon & Victory Medal, I am trying to find out what they all mean.
I wish he would have talked more about his travels and what he did as a child. He was very closed lip about his younger years and I just don't know why?
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Litigation: Maryland court rules that jury must know identity of insurance carrier
Maryland's intermediate appellate court, the Court of Special Appeals, has ruled that that an insurance company's identity must be disclosed to a jury in a breach of contract case arising out of the uninsured motorist provisions of an insurance policy.
NY AG sues HSBC for violating foreclosure laws
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has sued HSBC for allegedly running afoul of state laws by preventing homeowners from negotiating loan modifications that might keep them from losing their homes.
Court expands Concepcion's reach in employment case
It's been more than two years since the Supreme Court handed down its landmark pro-arbitration ruling in Concepcion v. AT&T Mobility, but the case is still reverberating throughout the court system, as the 4th Circuit's recent decision in Muriithi v. Shuttle Express Inc. demonstrates.
5 of the strangest lawsuits making headlines
A quick-fading makeup, a cruel office prank and three more strange suits in the news
Labor: Has the standard for discrimination claims truly changed for NYC employers and employees?
In 2005, New York City passed the Civil Rights Restoration Act amendments to the New York City Human Rights Law.
California Supreme Court upholds local medical marijuana bans
A drug war is brewing in California.
Labor: New options for compelling arbitration in employment disputes
Thanks to a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court involving a consumer class action claim, employers now have more options for requiring arbitration as to most class action and single-party employment litigation.
Technology: What tech companies can learn from Coca-Cola
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The comedian said doctors found the condition in his system but none of his other family members has it.
Nick Cannon opens up more about his recent health scare which got him hospitalized for almost a week. The husband of Mariah Carey revealed that his kidney, blood clots and heart troubles are caused by a condition called "lupus-type" autoimmune that doctors found in his system.
"They kind of say [my] autoimmune [disease] is - like a lupus type of thing, but no one else in my family has it," he told People. The 31-year-old was particularly scared of his second hospitalization. "The blood clot thing was probably the scariest because...I've known people who have passed away from that. I thought I was getting better and then that happened, so that kind of came out of nowhere," he continued.
Although the disease is "something I'm going to be living with all my life," Cannon vowed to keep it under control by having at least six hours of sleep and treating his body right. "It's a lot of stuff, but it's all in order now," he said. "I feel blessed to be alive," he said.


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Hillary 2012: Democrats Find a New Target for Hope and Change
Why Democrats don't mean it when they say they've given up on the whole "hope-y change-y" thing.
The Daily Beast reports today that Democratic voters are abandoning the Obama "hope and change" boat in droves, and pining for what they perceive as the superior leadership potential of Hillary Clinton.
Bill Maher recently opined that in the wake the debt deal debacle and the accompanying US credit downgrade and stock market death spiral, that many Democrats might be experiencing a sense of buyer's remorse for having fallen for Obama's "hope and change" message in 2008.
Still dazed over the way Obama let his agenda get steamrolled by Republicans in both the Bush tax cut extensions and the latest disaster on the debt deal, Democrats are seeing the evidence in their bruised stock portfolios that their side was right all along, and wondering whether we've got the right guy on the job.
The Daily Beast cites Matthew Dickinson, political science professor at Middlebury, recalling Hillary's admonishing "3am" campaign ad: "If I heard it once this last week, I heard it a thousand times: You were duped by Obama's rhetoric—the whole 'hopey-changey' thing."
But Hillary 2012 advocates, disillusioned though they may be, are not actually disillusioned with hope and change. They're looking around at a situation that looks bleak, and imagining a better future. This is, in fact, the essence of "hope" and a belief in "change."
It's been widely pointed out that Hillary is almost guaranteed not to run in 2012. Challenging a party's own incumbent does incalculable damage to a party, as Ted Kennedy demonstrated when he challenged Jimmy Carter—a president Obama is starting to draw comparisons to. Plus, Clinton has said she won't run.
But to the extent that the whole "hope-y and change-y thing" begins to set its sights on Hillary in rather than Obama, the president should be nervous about 2012. Imagining a better future was woven into Obama's public identity. If he loses the market share on that inspiration, his voting base could likely grow apathetic or despondent, hoping for a savior who's not even running. And that would leave an opening for a Republican to squeeze out a victory.
In the end the Hillary Clinton threat isn't in whether she runs or not—it's in how fervent the demand for her to run. The stronger that demand grows, the thinner the ice on which Obama skates.
As of today the Hllary 2012 Facebook Page only has 1,400 fans. We'll have to keep an eye on the page to see how it grows as the market turmoil persists.


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Irinotecan/Thalidomide in Metastatic Colorectal Cancer
Irinotecan/Thalidomide in Metastatic Colorectal Cancer
Patients with metastatic colorectal cancer have a poor prognosismedian survival time is described as being 12 to 18 months. The definitive
therapy for colorectal cancer is surgery, which can be curative for disease
stages I, II, and III. Chemotherapy or radiation therapy has a limited role,
providing survival benefit in the adjuvant setting and palliation in the
metastatic setting. For nearly 40 years, fluorouracil (5-FU) has been the only
agent that has produced a response rate of approximately 20% in patients with
metastatic colorectal cancer.[1] However, complete responses with 5-FU are rare.
5-FU is associated with a modest survival benefit in metastatic colorectal
cancer patients in the adjuvant and metastatic settings. Various agents have
been combined with 5-FU in attempts to improve response rates. Such agents
include leucovorin, which binds to the ternary complex of 5-FU, and levamisole (Ergamisole),
an anthelminthic with immunomodulatory properties. 5-FU can be administered in
various wayson a weekly schedule, via continuous infusion, on a high-dose
weekly schedule, and as outlined by the popular Mayo Clinic regimen. Each
regimen induces different response rates, but none has demonstrated a survival
benefit over another.
Patients presenting with isolated hepatic metastases can be treated with
surgery. Surgical resection is appropriate only in selected cases and improves
5-year survival from 10% to 35%. Recently, an improvement in hepatic
disease-free survival and, possibly, overall survival time was demonstrated when
Kemeny and colleagues administered hepatic arterial floxuridine (FUDR) with
systemic 5-FU following resection of hepatic metastases.[2] Long-term benefits
of this therapy are not known. Furthermore, while patients with hepatic
metastases who are treated with chemotherapy consisting of hepatic arterial
infusion of FUDR have higher response rates than do those receiving systemic
5-FU,[3] no survival advantage of hepatic arterial FUDR over 5-FU infusion has
been demonstrated. Novel therapeutic approaches for unresectable hepatic
metastases include radiofrequency ablation and cryotherapy.
Irinotecan in Metastatic Colorectal Cancer
Irinotecan, a semisynthetic derivative of camptothecin, is a topoisomerase I
inhibitor associated with modest response rates of approximately 20% in
refractory metastatic colorectal cancer and rare complete responses (Table 1
and Table 2).[4-11] Irinotecan is a prodrug that is converted to SN-38, the primary
metabolite responsible for drug efficacy and toxicity. Irinotecan usually is
administered in one of two schedules. According to the European schedule, the
drug is given as 300 to 350 mg/m² every 3 weeks. The North American schedule is
125 mg/m² IV on a weekly basis × 4 followed by a 2-week rest. Response rates
and toxicities are comparable for both schedules. Diarrhea can be the
dose-limiting toxicity (Table 3).
Thalidomide as an Antiangiogenic Agent
in Colorectal Cancer
Thalidomide is a glutamic acid derivative, which initially was sold in
Germany as an over-the-counter sedative. The drug was withdrawn nearly half a
century ago due to effects including teratogenicity and peripheral neuropathy.
Subsequently, thalidomide was shown to be effective for the treatment of
erythema nodosum leprosum and chronic graft-vs-host disease. Furthermore, based
on its potent TNF-alpha inhibition, thalidomide has been useful in treating
refractory Crohn's disease.[12] More recently, the antiangiogenic properties
of thalidomide were recognized initially by D'Amato and colleagues.[13]
Angiogenesis plays a major role in malignant disorders, and the influence of
angiogenesis in colorectal cancer was demonstrated by Takahashi and
colleagues.[14] Thalidomide was used successfully to treat patients with
refractory multiple myeloma.[15] The mechanism of action of thalidomide in
multiple myeloma is not understood, although it may be based on immunomodulatory
rather than antiangiogenic properties.
Combined Thalidomide/Irinotecan Therapy
The efficacy of combined thalidomide and irinotecan therapy for metastatic
colorectal cancer was demonstrated in a pilot study conducted at the University
of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.[16] The data demonstrated good response rates
with fewer gastrointestinal side effects than seen with use of irinotecan alone,
which is associated with late-onset diarrhea as a dose-limiting toxicity. A
phase II study combining thalidomide and irinotecan as second-line therapy for
patients with metastatic colorectal cancer is being conducted at the same
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Tall. Still believe guys should hold the door. Sarcastic to the point of excess. Moderately proficient typist.
Punch line!
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But probably my butt. I've got a greaaaaat butt.
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TV: Walking Dead, Always Sunny, Arrested Development (thank you Netfix)
Music, Food: See "Books."
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Jessica Ly, Ceara Sumida and Patrick Lipscomb will represent the University of Redlands men's and women's tennis teams at the 2014 NCAA Division 3 Individual Championships.
The event is scheduled for May 22-24 at Claremont-Mudd-Scripps.
Ly will represent the Bulldogs in singles and will team with Sumida in the doubles category.
Lipscomb will play in the singles competition.
It will be the inaugural appearances at the NCAA individual championships for Ly and Sumida.
Ly secured the No. 1 spot in singles throughout her final campaign at Redlands, earning an 11-10 record amidst a challenging slate of foes. She prevailed over five opponents from top-30 teams, while all but one of her defeats came against counterparts from nationally-ranked squads.
Last season, Ly was named the Intercollegiate Tennis Association's (ITA) West Regional and National Player to Watch.
In doubles, she and Sumida have competed at the top of the Bulldogs' lineup throughout 2014, amassing a 13-9 record. They put together a five-match winning streak that covered most of the month of April.
As of the May 1 rankings, the Redlands duo sits second in the West Region.
Lipscomb has amassed an impressive 16-6 record during the spring as Redlands' No. 1 singles player. He rattled nine straight wins earlier this season and is currently on a five-match win streak.
Lipscomb advanced to the singles tournament in 2013, when he reached the quarterfinals to garner Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) All-America honors while equaling the Bulldogs men's tennis program's best individual singles finish under coach Geoff Roche since 2005.
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Bids to be let for OC highway work
By the middle of next year, Oconee motorists should be able to enjoy a smoother surface on which to maneuver through one of the county's busiest intersections. A DOT official tells 96.3/WGOG NEWS that the state's bid letting to re-surface a short section of 123 at Seneca will take place in January, with the expectation that the job will be started by March. The re-surfacing of 123 from Lindsey Roadto the Old Salem Road will pass through Seneca's east intersection: 130/E-N 1st Street. Josh Makison, resident construction engineer for the Department of Transportation, says because of high volumes of traffic the work will be done during off-peak hours. For everyone's safety—the public and the roadpavers—everyone should make a mental note to slow down and be careful in and around that work zone.


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Grab the popcorn – Redbox Instant by Verizon is now available for streaming.
Available to all customers in the U.S. with a Roku 3, Roku 2, Roku HD (model 2500) or Roku LT (models 2400 & 2450) player or the Roku Streaming Stick, the service offers:
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Surrey Police's £10m reserve funds have been made available as flooding continues across the county.
Kevin Hurley, police and crime commissioner for Surrey, said the chief constable would have access to the money to support the police force's work in the rescue and recovery effort.
The reserve funds will be used for whatever equipment or personnel resources the police decide is necessary for their role within the response to the floods.
Mr Hurley said: "I want to make sure that the chief constable has the resources she needs to support her officers and staff out there on the ground and help us to do as much as we can for the communities affected.
"I am in regular contact with the chief constable on this situation and will continue to closely monitor the level of financial support required.
"This is having a drastic impact on tens of thousands of Surrey residents. We maintain our financial reserves for just such times of emergency and we will do whatever it takes to help protect life and property in the flood areas, as well as helping these communities to get back on their feet when the waters have subsided."
The reserve money, which totals £10m, will be kept under close scrutiny and Mr Hurley said he would continue to communicate with the chief constable on the situation.


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As Australia's major retailers ramp up their online sales channels, pouring millions into their websites, new competition from China's booming e-commerce industry looms.
China's online retail market is now the world's second largest after the United States, with an estimated $210 billion in revenue last year, according to consultancy firm McKinsey & Company.
The push comes from websites such as Alibaba.com, which links manufacturers and suppliers in China to customers all around the world, delivering food, clothing, machinery and software mostly in bulk.
While analysts say new competition in the international space adds pressure to Australian retailers, the challenges for the industry remain the same: trying to match lower international prices, with weaker distribution networks.
Jason Pallant, a research fellow at Monash University's Australian Centre for Retail Studies, said local retailers were struggling to meet the high expectations of shoppers who are adapting to low prices and often free delivery.
"We used to have a really isolated market, but now there is a lot more retailers who are willing and focusing on shipping and selling to Australia, and a lot more competition," he said.
"The expectation on domestic retailers is not only to meet [low prices and fast delivery time], but to beat them."
He said China presented an opportunity to dominate the low-cost end of the market, given its ability to reduce costs by shipping products directly from the factory floor.
"[China] is known for really low-price products, and certainly some segments of shoppers put low cost first," he said.
"While there is a segment of shoppers that will find that really appealing, I don't think it's all of them."
Online retail sales in Australia slowed to 15 per cent growth in March, NAB's monthly online retail survey. This compared with 27 per cent growth in January.
But NAB chief economist Alan Oster said the slowdown in online sales reflected the general softness in the retail sector.
"People are scared and they are still paying off debt," he said.
According to NAB, about 75 per cent of online purchases in Australia still came from domestic retailers – a number that has decreased from about about 80 per cent in 2010.
"The international share has been growing, but it's still relatively small," he said.
Mr Oster said local retailers were responding to international competition.
"Initially [international sales] were growing much faster, now they are growing roughly at same rate [as domestic sales]," he said.
Mr Pallant said Australian retailers could benefit from sharing distribution networks with other suppliers.
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For companies that want to turn strategies into profits, Comshare, Incorporated (NASDAQ: CSRE) is sponsoring a free webcast with CFO.com to address how managers can connect their company�s strategic planning, budgeting and reporting processes to proactively manage, plan and control company resources to drive profitability through information technology. CFO.com, owned by The Economist Group and part of CFO Publishing, provides online tools and resources for financial executive. The broadcast, �Turning Strategies into Profits: The Role of Management Planning and Control Systems,� will take place on Thursday, November 29, 2001 at 11:00 a.m. EST. To register go to: www.comshare.com/profits
Driving Strategic Initiatives through Integrated Systems Discussed During the webcast, an impressive panel of experts will look at how innovative companies are using management planning and control (MPC) systems to drive strategic initiatives by integrating planning, budgeting, reporting and performance management processes. Moderated by CFO.com Product Manager, Vladimir Cole, panelists include Dr. Marc J. Epstein, distinguished author and research professor of management, Rice University; Brian Jarzynski, Vice President & CFO, Comshare, Incorporated; and Cary D. Wilson, Accounting Director, CTX Mortgage Company.
Epstein is a leading authority on corporate accountability and an award-winning author. In several recent articles, he shows how the use of new strategic management systems can help companies focus strategy, link to performance metrics, and drive improved performance in organizations. Epstein will discuss the findings of his research into the characteristics of the management planning and control processes and systems used by successful companies. He has extensive practical experience in the implementation of corporate strategies and the development of performance metrics to use in these implementations. Attendees will receive a free copy of the author�s bestseller, Counting What Counts: Turning Corporate Accountability to Competitive Advantage.
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Ace Hood has premiered a music video in support of Jazmine Sullivan-featuring single 'Champion' off forthcoming album 'Ruthless'.
Ace Hood has put out a music video which is filmed in Overtown to support his new single "Champion". He and his collaborator Jazmine Sullivan are seen singing to the song in a two stories rowhomes.
Beside featuring Jazmine Sullivan, "Champion" also has Rick Ross lending his vocal on the hook. The song produced by The Runners and Carvin & Ivan is scheduled to be inlcuded in Ace's sophomore set "Ruthless" which will be dropped in America on June 30. Other big stars who will collaborate with Ace in the new effort include Ludacris, Akon, T-Pain, The-Dream and Lloyd.
As for Jazmine Sullivan, she has released her debut album "Fearless" in September 2008. She also has penned songs for the likes of Jennifer Hudson, Fantasia Barrino and Christina Milian.
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When you mention garden this time of year, tomatoes usually come to mind, showy and anxiously awaited, when a tomato makes a ripe appearance in the Pacific Northwest it's cause for celebration. But the garden is so much more than ripe tomatoes.
Nose to tail eating is popular in foodie circles, and in the garden we can honor the plants in the same way. Stem to stern perhaps? A garden instantly becomes more productive when we use more of the edible (although not popular or well-known) parts of the plant.
If you plant hard neck garlic you get a flower stalk known as a scape well before you harvest the actual garlic. The scape is the flower stalk that should be removed anyway for a larger bulb, eating it is the icing on the cake and gives you more garlic type flavoring for dishes.
More common are kohlrabi and beets. Both stems and leaves in addition to the bulbs have a place on the menu.
Since I started growing celeriac, or celery root, I no longer bother with celery. The celeriac stems and leaves make excellent seasonings in the place of celery and I can harvest a stem here and there without slowing the growth of the plant. And as an added bonus it is cold hardy too compared to celery, many times poking through the snow making for easy winter harvest as needed.
And last, but not least, Swiss Chard. I like the stems sauteed with the greens, and as long as you add them first to cook a few minutes before the leaves are added, you're OK and don't end up with tough stems. If that doesn't sound good, chard stem pickles in place of any other vegetable you may pickle is a good way to use the stems too.
These are just a few vegetables that come to mind this time of year. What summer garden vegetables do you get more than one use out of?


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With 22,000 Granite Staters losing their insurance and major hospitals having issues due to Obamacare, Frank Guinta will launch a health care listening tour next week. During which, he'll visit hospitals excluded from Obamacare's insurance exchange, senior centers, businesses affected by Obamacare and more. He'll hear from them about the solutions needed to fix the broken health care system.
The first stop on the tour will be next Wednesday, February 5th from 2:00-3:00pm at Rochester's Frisbie Hospital. Frisbie is one of the 10 hospitals in New Hampshire not permitted to participate in the limited network of healthcare providers available to Granite Staters who purchase insurance through the Obamacare exchange. He will tour the hospital and meet with officials to discuss the impact this will have on resident's access to care.
Some of the other stops on Frank's tour include:
February Stops
The Londonderry Senior Center
Portsmouth Regional Hospital
The Dover Community Center
March Stops
With Core Physicians at Exeter Hospital
Parkland Hospital
(More stops to be added)
Frank Guinta released the following statement: "Obamacare offers New Hampshire residents plans they don't want, don't need and can't afford. Thousands of Granite Staters have lost their health insurance, access to hospitals in their backyard while their premiums skyrocket. It is long past time to focus on solutions to decrease costs and increase access to health care. Obamacare has failed NH. Frank looks forward to hearing from residents, business owners and those in the healthcare field about their needs."
"Granite Staters deserve a health care system that offers access to health insurance that won't bankrupt them, offers choice and easy access to health care services they need. Obamacare offers none of this. Solutions are within our grasp if Washington politicians would simply listen to those they represent and implement policies consistent with the needs of their constituents. "


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East Massapequa is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) located within the Town of Oyster Bay in Nassau County, New York, United States. The population was 19,069 at the 2010 census.
The hamlet lies in New York's 3rd congressional district. The most eastern third portion of East Massapequa (within the Amityville School District) was previously the hamlet of West Amityville and started utilizing a Massapequa mailing address in 1975.
Minnesota Timberwolves point guard A. J. Price grew up in East Massapequa, as did rapper Posdnuos from the hip hop group De La Soul.
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Clinical Impacts of Oral Gastrografin Follow Through in Adhesive Small Bowel Obstruction (SBO)
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Altogether 100 patients with 117 episodes of ASBO were randomized into control and gastrografin groups. Eight episodes in eight patients were excluded. Gastrografin group showed a significant decrease of both the time between admission and operation and that of hospital stay .The need for surgery was reduced but statistically insignificant.
|Small Bowel Obstruction
|Other: Oral Gastrografin Other: Nothing per os
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Double (Participant, Investigator)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Clinical Impacts of Oral Gastrografin Follow Through in Adhesive Small Bowel Obstruction (SBO).
- resolving [ Time Frame: 48 hours ]
- non resolving [ Time Frame: 48 hours ]
|Study Start Date:
|February 2006
|Study Completion Date:
|January 2008
|Primary Completion Date:
|January 2008 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Active Comparator: 1
Gastrografin group
Other: Oral Gastrografin
100 ml of the dye administered through a nasogastric tube
Other Name: oral contrast
Placebo Comparator: 2
Control group
Other: Nothing per os
A nasogastric tube
Other Name: no oral contrast
Detailed Description:
Many published studies have shown that Gastrografin can be used for diagnosis post operative acute small bowel obstruction (ASBO) and assessing the need for surgical intervention .However,the studies have reported conflicting results hence the aim of our study to test this hypothesis.
Patients and methods :
Altogether 100 patients with 117 episodes of ASBO were randomized into control and gastrografin groups in a double blinded fashion. Eight episodes in eight patients were excluded due to protocol violation. In Gastrografin group,100 ml of the dye administered through a nasogastric tube and complete obstruction has been considered if the contrast failed to reach the colon on the 24-hour film. Patients were operated on only if they developed signs of strangulation or failed to improve within 48 hours.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients admitted to our surgical department by postoperative SBO were considered for inclusion in this trial.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Age less than 18 years
- Large bowel obstruction
- Recent (within 4 weeks) abdominal surgery
- Ileus
- Cancer peritonitis
- Peritonitis
- Strangulation symptoms and signs
- Obstructed abdominal wall or groin hernia
- Subtotal or total colectomy
- All patients in whom the final diagnosis was not SBO
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00738855
|Mansoura University Hospital
|Mansoura, Egypt
|Principal Investigator:
|amir fikry, MD
|Mansoura university hospital
|Study Director:
|ayman mohamed, MD
|mansoura university hospital
|Responsible Party:
|Amir Fikry, Mansoura University
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00738855 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
oral gastrografin
follow through
adhesive SBO.
|Study First Received:
|August 19, 2008
|Last Updated:
|November 25, 2008
Keywords provided by Mansoura University:
Oral contrast
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Intestinal Obstruction
Intestinal Diseases
Gastrointestinal Diseases
Digestive System Diseases
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Geminoid-F Android Waits for a Friend in a Tokyo Department Store
If you go to the Takashimaya department store in Shinjuku, Tokyo, by Valentines Day, you will be able to see the Geminoid-F android casually sitting in a show window, looking as if it's waiting for a friend.
Geminoid-F has been programmed with basic emotions and behaviors. It uses them as models to create expressions and actions based on what's happening around it.
"We're always looking for places where androids could be utilized. Show windows normally use mannequins, but ideally, that wouldn't be the case. It would be better to have actual fashion models there because that would make the clothes look great. But in reality, a model can't spend all day in a show window. Mannequins though, don't really look like people. So we think androids are a great match for the purpose of show windows."
This android was developed by Professor Ishiguro. He previously created the Android Theater, where androids and human actors perform together. Now, by using androids in show windows, he's studying how people react to them, and whether using them like this is practical.
"A theater is a closed world, with androids playing roles in front of 200 to 300 people at a time. But now, tens of thousands of people are likely to see Geminoid-F on weekends. I'd like to test how far people accept the presence of androids in an open setting."
"The foundation of this android's actions are waves of emotion. On top of these waves of emotion, 65 different actions are triggered in line with its sensor data. So even if you watch it for a long time, the story you see will always be different. Here, the android doesn't speak, but it tells a story through the movements of its eyes, head, and face. So I think some people may really come to love it."
The android moves naturally, as if it's patiently waiting for someone. So it doesn't continually react to people. But sometimes, it will return your smile.
"Think of the android as an ordinary person. Treat it as if it's a person sitting there in the usual way. If you react as you normally would to a sitting person, the android will react. But if you pester it too much, it'll ignore you. I think it would be fun to imagine what the android might be feeling while you're watching it."
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NHL notebook: League won't suspend Grabovski
• The NHL will not suspend Maple Leafs forward Mikhail Grabovski for allegedly biting an opposing player in Saturday's game against Montreal. The league said Monday there was no conclusive evidence that Grabovski bit Canadiens forward Max Pacioretty. Pacioretty said he got a precautionary tetanus shot after the incident in Toronto's 6-0 victory. The forward emerged from the skirmish showing his arm to the officials and claiming that Grabovski bit him.
• The snowed-out game between the Lightning and Bruins has been rescheduled for Thursday, April 25. The new date means the Lightning will play at home against Toronto on Wednesday night, fly to Boston for a game Thursday night and return to Tampa Bay for the regular-season finale on Saturday.
• Maple Leafs goalie James Reimer left Monday's game against the Flyers with an injury to his left leg. Reimer was hurt during a scramble four minutes into the second period. Reimer, who is 5-3-0 this season, was replaced in the Toronto goal by Ben Scrivens.
• Brian Elliott was a surprise starter in goal for the Blues against the Kings even though Jaroslav Halak, activated a day earlier, was listed in goal on the pregame sheet. Elliott allowed 14 goals the previous three games while Halak was sidelined with a groin injury. Coach Ken Hitchcock said after Saturday's 6-5 shootout loss to the Ducks that he'd go with rookie Jake Allen if Halak wasn't ready to go. Halak came out first during the pregame skate Monday night, usually NHL protocol for the starter.


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CA Dept of Food and Agriculture starts blind guinea pig test over Santa Cruz
The CA Dept of Food and Agriculture sent me an e-mail at 8AM November 9 to tell me that Checkmate spraying over Santa Cruz had already occurred on Nov 8.
So much for being warned BEFORE the spray starts by the e-mail alert system:
On the evening of November 8 and in the early morning hours of November 9, CDFA applied Light Brown Apple Moth pheromone in Santa Cruz County. Treatment began at 8:01 p.m. and was completed after 4 a.m. The results are as follows:
Zone CASC 1 - 100 percent complete
Zone CASC 2 - 100 percent complete
Zone CASC 3 - 38 percent compete
Zone CASC 4 - 15 percent complete
Zone CASC 5 - 58 percent complete
Zone CASC 6 - 100 percent complete
Please click on the following link for a map with more detail.
Treatment Map of Santa Cruz :
The tentative plan for Friday evening, November 9, is to complete treatment in Santa Cruz County, weather permitting. Then, if time and weather permit, we would move to the Prunedale/Royal Oaks treatment area and then to the North Salinas/Boronda area. We will have additional details later today.
To reply to this message, email LBAM [at] cdfa.ca.gov
For more information call the toll-free LBAM Program hotline (1-800-491-1899) and visit the Program's web site.
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I did see a plane making overflights at a low altitude as I was leaving the Western Service Workers office on Mission st at about 9:30PM on Nov 8. I couldn't smell or taste anything at that moment.
I do have a copy of the intake form that WSW uses for their free medical services and I went through the admission process with a client at their office. However, WSW were unwilling to help me directly with screening people who may have health complaints about the Checkmate spray.
If you have experienced symptoms, visit the emergency room or your personal doctor if the symptoms are severe. Emergency rooms have to admit you even if you can't afford to pay. Doctors are required to report illnesses due to pesticide use within 24 hours of seeing the patient with symptoms.
If your symptoms are not severe but still troublesome and you feel you can't afford a doctor visit, then please call me at 408-924-0846 or 408-914-2751 or e-mail me at pagesincolor [at] aol.com and I will use your testimony in an effort to round up some doctors who might be willing to at least give you an exam for free.
This free medical exam concept will continue to be explored even if the results from this week's spraying don't pan out since the spraying will probably resume in the Spring and Summer months of 2008.
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* Afghan action follows unrest across Muslim world
* YouTube has declined to remove offending film clip
* Actions seen insulting to Islam have sparked riots in past (Adds detail, quotes)
By Hamid Shalizi
KABUL, Sept 13 (Reuters) - Authorities in Afghanistan have ordered that YouTube's website be blocked indefinitely to stop Afghans watching a U.S.-made film that insults the Prophet Mohammad which has sparked unrest elsewhere, government sources told Reuters on Thursday.
Four U.S. officials including the ambassador to Libya were killed in the east Libyan city of Benghazi on Tuesday night after anger over the film boiled over and there have also been protests against its content in Egypt and Yemen.
"I welcome any decision by the government because it badly affects the minds of young Afghans," a senior government official told Reuters on condition of anonymity.
Another government official, who also declined to be identified, confirmed the ministry had ordered all Afghan Internet providers to block YouTube's site.
Fears the video could provoke riots prompted at least one provider to act before the government's orders were received.
"We have not yet been told, but we blocked YouTube ... to avoid the blood of innocents spilling over. All it takes is one Mullah watching that video, and then he'll preach about it later on, causing chaos", said Farhad Fazi, the president of Internet provider AFSAT.
However, YouTube may remain accessible to some Internet users until Saturday as some of Afghanistan's major servers are based in India and the United Arab Emirates.
An official at the Ministry of Communications said on Wednesday that an order had been issued to block the site until the film was taken down.
YouTube was shut for several hours in Afghanistan but was then restored. Afghan Internet users were still able to view it on Thursday.
The film-related violence in the Muslim world prompted Afghan President Hamid Karzai to postpone a Friday trip to Oslo, the Norwegian Foreign Ministry said, adding that he wanted to remain at home at this time.
In the past, material and actions deemed insulting to Islam have sparked deadly riots in Afghanistan.
The accidental burning of Korans at a U.S. base near Kabul in February brought thousands of protesters onto the streets across Afghanistan for weeks. Dozens of people were killed.
YouTube, the video website owned by Google Inc, has declined to take the film down, saying it fell within their guidelines, but blocked access to the film in Egypt and Libya because of "special circumstances" in those countries.
An Afghan government official said a letter of complaint had been sent to YouTube asking the site to respect Muslim values.
Clips of the movie, posted on YouTube under several titles including "Innocence of Muslims", portrayed the Prophet engaged in crude and offensive behaviour.
Clips had been posted online for weeks before apparently triggering violent demonstrations. (Writing by Amie Ferris-Rotman and Jessica Donati; Editing by Robert Birsel and Andrew Osborn)


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A BIRD-lover claims to have brought a chaffinch back from the brink of death
with a mobile phone app.
Tree surgeon Leon Timms says using the software – which imitates bird calls –
revived the poorly animal.
Having watched the animal plunge to the ground through his living room window,
37-year-old Timms says he then brought it inside in a bid to revive it.
And as a last ditch resort he decided to turn to his smartphone for help.
He said: "I went to have a look and saw this chaffinch lying dazed on the
ground — it must have flown into the solar panels on the roof or one of the
upstairs windows," he said.
"The bird looked like it was about to die any second — it was panting and
struggling to breathe.
"I brought the chaffinch inside and starting stroking him on my lap and then I
came up with the idea of playing it the sound of another chaffinch on my
mobile phone app.
Leon from Marstson, Oxfordshire added: "I popped the app on and almost
immediately the bird's eyes opened and he seemed to become more alert.
"It had looked almost lifeless when I brought it into the house and looked on
his last legs but after I played the app it started to show signs of
"It definitely responded to the sound of another chaffinch — my wife was
impressed that I had had the idea of using my mobile."
Royal Society for the Protection of Birds spokesman Wendy Johnson said: "We
haven't heard of this happening before. It's a very creative use of an app.
"Our advice if people find birds that have flown into windows is to put them
in a quiet, sheltered place to give them a chance to recover."


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Claudia Schiffer has named her newborn daughter Cosima, her rep announced Tuesday.
The model, 39, and husband, filmmaker Matthew Vaughn, welcomed Cosima May 14 in London. "Both mother and baby are doing well," her rep said at the time.
The baby girl joins sibs Clementine, 5½, and Caspar, 7.
Schiffer recently posted au naturale for the June issue of her native Germany's Vogue.


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Man Who Prompted SWAT Situation, Worthington Schools Lockdowns Surrenders
Five Worthington City Schools were placed on lockdown on Thursday afternoon because of a man threatening suicide in the area.
According to Worthington Schools officials, Granby Elementary, McCord Middle School, Worthington Kilbourne High School, Liberty Elementary and Sutter Park Pre-K were placed on Level 1 lockdowns shortly after noon. Students were not allowed to leave the buildings.
Granby Elementary School officials said that all students were dismissed as normal except children who ride bus #39.
The high school and middle schools were let out as normal.
The northwest branch of the Worthington Library was closed because of the situation.
Police said they responded to a report of a man barricaded in his house threatening to shoot himself. The incident was reported along Foxboro Court near Hard Road shortly before noon.
Neighbors were forced to stay in their homes during the standoff.
"The gentleman's kind of quiet," said neighbor Kevin Barnes. "He doesn't speak much, but I'll say 'hi' or something, and he'll throw his hand up. You don't hear much."
The man came outside and ended the SWAT situation at about 2:45 p.m. The man was taken into custody after the three-hour standoff.
There were no immediate reports of injuries.
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In a recent column, Savage compiled a sampler of questions from students on his recent tour of universities. And among them was this question:
"I'm a lesbian, and my girlfriend is bisexual and wants to have a three-way with a man. This makes me nervous. What should I do?"
Savage's advice?
"Get yourself a refillable Xanax prescription, or get yourself an actual lesbian girlfriend."
This advice is so irresponsible it made my jaw drop. But because the advice is so terse — and because the snark- to- content ratio is so disproportionately high — it's a little hard to tease out its actual content, and the actual intent behind it. Near as I can tell, though, it seems to be one of the following three things. All of which suck.
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Is there any cure for Atrial Septal Defect in homeopathy? please let me know. i am now in bangalore.
It depends whether the patient is a child or an adult. Homeoapthy could help in the closure of an ASD in a child. But in an adult, only palliative treatment is possible. Surgical intervention may be necessary.
Usually if this is diagnosed early in life, surgery is done after the age of 7 years or so. Otherwise homeopathy can help palliate symptoms.
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Question: "Will it ever end?" Answer: "I hope not!" Like millions, I am captivated by the simplicity of the Duck Dynasty TV show, and it's cast members. I would much rather see the shelves lined with the bearded likes of Willie, Phil, Jase and Uncle Si, over that of some talentless boy band or bratty pop idol! With that, I give you, bearded chocolates! "MMmmm-mmmmmm-hhhcchhhhtttt!" – Duran