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The new destinations offered by Alitalia in summer 2012 will include: Rome-Tbilisi, twice a week beginning in May (Alitalia is the first to connect Italy and Georgia with direct flights) and Rome-Riyadh starting in June, four times a week. Air One flies from Milano Malpensa, Pisa and Venice to 31 destinations in Italy and abroad with a groundbreaking Smart Carrier service, combining extremely agreeable prices with high quality amenities. The Alitalia fleet, one of the most modern and sophisticated in Europe, this year will introduce five new A330 AirBus' for long range flights and 15 new Embraers for national and European flights. The new planes will enable Alitalia to expand its direct connections, and to consolidate its fleet structure through the reduction of the plane groups employed and to increase efficiency levels from a financial as well as an environmental stand point. In 2012, the B777 fleet will be totally reconfigured into three different classes: "Magnifica," which will be designed with fully reclining seats and high quality in-flight service; "Classica Plus," which will be the new premium economy class, and "Classica," which will provide Alitalia's standard economy coach service. Alitalia offers in-flight personalized entertainment with individual screens allowing passengers to select from their favorite programs. Menus will include Italian specialties as well as general offerings. Alitalia is a member of the Sky Team global alliance and since 2010 has been a member of the Air France–KLM Delta Group as part of the main Transatlantic Joint Venture existing in the air transportation sector. Thanks to the agreement among these four companies, today's passengers can enjoy privileged access to the largest transatlantic network in the world.
One of the new highlights of the 2012 LA Italia Film Festival, has been a private lounge at the Italian restaurant Trastevere, located in Hollywood & Highland Center. Sponsored by the Caprinel Mondo Institute and Alitalia, this meeting point has been used as a meeting place for select audience members and holders of the coveted "Freccia Alata" cards, issued by the Italian airline to its VIP clients. Here, high profile guests was gathered to share information and meet and mingle with celebrities as they enjoy cocktails and performances. The lounge design has featured replicas of the Oscar statue provided by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, to help celebrate cinema's most legendary awards night.
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Nursing home checklist: Keeping your loved ones safe?
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By: Lynette Adams | WHEC.com
Is there anything you can do to protect your loved one before you move them into a long-term facility or once they're in one?
News10NBC is asking this question in light of the accusations against a former nurse's aid charged with endangering the welfare of an elderly woman.
According to investigators video from the Park Ridge Living Center shows an elderly woman throw napkins at an aid back in early November. Then officials say it shows the aid, Groven Glenn, throwing a chicken bone at the 83-year-old and pushing her wheelchair hard into a door.
The Attorney General says it was the facility itself that reported this incident and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid rate it one of the best in the country.
"Well I'm very delighted to let you know that we are a five-star living center," said Patricia Rubien, the Vice President and Administrator Park Ridge Living Center.
It is a source of pride for the people who work at Park Ridge Living Center. It's like the hotel rating system. Five stars is the highest rating. That rating is given by the Medicaid and Medicare website.
Rubien says that website should be the first step if you are looking for a facility for a loved one.
"You can actually look up any living center in the nation and what their last three Department of Health Inspections look like, what their staff looks like, and probably most importantly, what their quality measures look like," said Rubien.
Park Ridge Living Center is a skilled nursing facility. About 80 residents live there in the four cottages on the Unity Campus in Greece.
Rubien says this cottage configuration is the only one in the state. It provides a homey atmosphere where she says residents help with chores like choosing and cooking the meals and laundry.
She says your next step should be to take a visit.
"You can ask all about quality, but I think it's so very valuable just to take a look at what the elders are doing, do they look engaged in their environment, are the staff engaged with the elders, are their families feeling comfortable with the living center," Rubien said.
News10NBC also wanted to know about hiring practices and staff background checks.
"There is the very standard type of background check that most employers would do. as far as experience and training. But also the government and healthcare has new regulations and they kind of dictate what does that criminal background check looks like," said Rubien.
The most recent figures compiled by Lifespan, an advocacy agency for the elderly show every year about 260,000 elderly New Yorkers are abused. Less than one-percent of that abuse happens in a living center.
Lifespan President and CEO Anne Marie Cook says you can protect your loved ones by not only visiting, but talking to the people who live there.
"Look around, talk to staff, make sure your eyes are always open," said Cook.
News10NBC didn't ask Rubien any questions about the specific case involving Glenn. Unity Hospital will not comment on this case.
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Quincy Jones: The Fresh Air Interview
May 27, 2013 Legendary music producer, arranger, composer and media mogul Quincy Jones was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on May 18. In 2001, Fresh Air spoke with him about his career and working with the likes of Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Frank Sinatra and Michael Jackson.
After WWII, A Letter Of Appreciation That Still Rings True
May 27, 2013 Recently, Fresh Air contributor Maureen Corrigan found a letter from then-Secretary of War James Forrestal that had been sent to her father after he had been honorably discharged from the U.S. Navy in 1945. In that letter, she found an expression of gratitude that could serve us well today.
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Fresh Air Weekend: Soderbergh, Sarah Vaughan, Julianne Moore
May 25, 2013 The acclaimed director examines the five-year relationship between Liberace and his young lover. A new box set of Vaughan's music shows her range. In What Maisie Knew, Moore plays a troubled rock star who might initially seem like a rotten person, but Moore's performance humanizes the character.
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Two New Stories With A New-Wave Vibe
May 24, 2013 The Truffaut borrowings are explicit in Noah Baumbach's Frances Ha, while Richard Linklater's Before Midnight takes its cues from Eric Rohmer's gentle but expansive talkfests. In both films, conversation is a centerpiece as characters navigate relationships.
Remembering Ray Manzarek, Keyboardist For The Doors
May 24, 2013 The mythology surrounding The Doors generally centers on its lead singer, Jim Morrison. Morrison is still considered one of rock's tortured poets, but The Doors' sound was based largely on Ray Manzarek's keyboard playing. His are the riffs immortalized in songs like "Riders on the Storm."
Marcus Samuelsson: On Becoming A Top Chef
May 24, 2013 The James Beard award-winning chef was the youngest ever to receive a three-star review from The New York Times. His memoir, Yes, Chef, explains what it takes to be a master chef — and describes his journey from Ethiopia to Sweden to some of America's finest restaurants.
Movie Interviews
Julianne Moore, Relishing Complicated Characters
May 23, 2013 In What Maisie Knew, Moore plays a troubled rock star who might initially seem like a rotten person, but Moore's performance humanizes the character, highlighting her human frailties — something Moore has done in many parts.
Douglas, Damon Illuminate HBO's 'Candelabra'
May 23, 2013 Steven Soderbergh's latest film is a showbiz story about Vegas icon Liberace and his secret lover — played, respectively, by Michael Douglas and Matt Damon, both terrific in their roles. It premieres Sunday on HBO.
Author Interviews
Fictional 'Mothers' Reveal Facts Of A Painful Adoption Process
May 22, 2013 After years trying to conceive, novelist Jennifer Gilmore and her husband decided to adopt. What they thought would be a relatively simple process was instead a long and painful one. In her latest novel, Gilmore channels these autobiographical experiences into fiction.
Music Reviews
Daft Punk: Accessing Electronic Music's Humanity
May 22, 2013 Random Access Memories finds the French duo changing its music-making process in an effort to make its songs sound more human. To that end, Daft Punk enlists guest stars such as Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers.
Movie Interviews
Soderbergh's Liberace, 'Behind The Candelabra'
May 21, 2013 In his new HBO film, the acclaimed director examines the five-year relationship between the flamboyant entertainer and Scott Thorson, who was 40 years Liberace's junior and still a teenager when they met. Michael Douglas plays Liberace and Matt Damon plays Thorson.
Mel Brooks: 'I'm An EGOT; I Don't Need Any More'
May 20, 2013 The screenwriter, producer, director and actor, whose name has become synonymous with American comedy, talks about his penchant for spoofs and his decades-long friendship with Carl Reiner. Brooks, who is among a handful of people who've won Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony awards, is the subject of a new documentary on PBS.
Music Reviews
Sarah Vaughan: A New Box Set Revels In Glorious Imperfections
May 20, 2013 Divine: The Jazz Albums, 1954-1958 packs four CDs with Vaughan's music, recorded live or in the studio with bands big and small. Two live albums from Chicago nightclubs are standouts, partly when a performance threatens to slide off the rails.


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The Shelter Home of Caldwell County is sponsoring a Conceptual Art Show of Journey and Hope. Various artists will display work of visual art and poetry in honor of survivors. For more information visit the website or contact Lily Moody.
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~~Vampiric Rebellion~
[Blood and Lust]
Vampires have existed among the mankind for thousands of years, living peacefully in the shadows. Or well, they weren't always that peaceful. 300 years ago, some aristocrat vampires started to change humans into vampires just for fun, to get eternal/immortal servants, which lead into a huge raise in the amount of vampires. Because of this, the Vampire Council was formed. They took care of destroying every single vampire, who had been a human before, and every single vampire who had changed those humans into vampires. Ever since this so called "Mass-Murder"-incident, the vampires have lived in the darkness of night, the humans left unknown of their existence. Of course there were lots of reckless myths about those creatures who lived in the shadows, but no-one really believed in them. Or at least no-one sane. Humans thought of them as mere fiction-characters who were allergic to garlic and burned in sunlight (which is obviously not true), to humans they were just a result of good imagination. But...
After living for hundreds of years in the shadows, the vampires are finally starting to get furious. The low human race has put them to the corner, like if they were weak and filthy. No, the humans were. Because of the Vampire Council, we can't show our powers, and take the world from those mere pitiful humans who know nothing about us. They're boasting with meaningless things and thinking that they're the best, not knowing about the darkness of this world. But that's going to change. We'll show them the darkness.
There is a group of rebels among the vampires, who're planning on starting a revolt. They're going to change the humans into their slaves, and show the whole world the power of the night-race. And it has already started. Vampire Council's members are suddenly murdered, and none of the other objectors will be left alive either. In just one night, the whole world is painted in the color of crimson. Will the rebels succeed in their plans, or will someone stop them? What about the humans? Will they surrender and change into slaves by will, or will they fight against the revolution until death? That's something what you can take part in, and have an impact on. Will you join the humans, rebels, or the vampires who want to stay hidden? That's all up to you.
Vampire classes:
A very long time ago, when the human race was on the verge of extinction the first vampires emerged. These first vampires, known as Purebloods, appeared. Purebloods are those who have not bred with humans, thus keeping their vampire blood pure. Some Purebloods breed with Humans producing weaker vampires which have came to be known as the Noble vampires. Most vampires have some human blood in them, but a Pureblood vampire does not. There is no human blood within the Pureblood blood line.
They are the strongest type of vampire and have the most significant powers, and can destroy any lower vampire with ease. However, despite the fact Purebloods are very powerful, they make up for it due making up only a very small portion of the vampire population. The Vampire Council holds Purebloods in extremely high regard, to the point where it is taboo to kill or even harm a Pureblood. As a result, they are treated like royalty.
They've got many amazing powers, for example, controlling an element or animals. They can also control minds, erase memory, and kill someone by just moving their finger. The full extent of their powers, however, are only known amongst their Pureblood companions. Their true powers remain a mystery. They have timeless beauty; they stop aging around their early 20s and maintain their youthful appearance regardless of time. They are immortal, meaning they live forever unless an anti-vampire weapon is used to cut off their heads or pierce their hearts. Any other injury is healable, including having one's head cut off or blown to pieces, if a Pureblood uses the blood of another Pureblood to heal them.
They are very powerful vampires, but not to such and extent as the Purebloods, due to having a small amount of human blood in their ancestry. They have super strength and speed, as well as specialized powers such as mind control or element control. Their powers are still far weaker than the pureblood's. These noble vampires are still able to be compelled by Purebloods, but enjoy a much more independent lifestyle in general. The Vampire Council is made up from their ranks.
These are average vampires with no significant powers. They only have super speed, strength and they heal faster than a normal human, but other than that, they haven't got any supernatural powers like element-control or anything. They are ordered around by nobles and purebloods, though they are allowed to live their lives just normally otherwise.
Human Vampires
Then there are also the "dogs". They were once humans, but got turned into vampires. This "class" was born in the early 1500's, before the "Mass-Murder"-incident and the birth of Vampire Council. they're just servants of the higher vampire classes, and for some reason, some of them have their tongues cut off or eyes pierced. Probably because in the upperclass's vampires' points of views they're too filthy to see or talk to the higher classes.
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Picture of your character: (not links, put the IMAGE HERE)
Appearance: (You can give a description as a text also, but you still also have to give an image!)
Age: (Note: Vampires can be 200 years old, but they can seem like 30 years old)
Sexuality: (Bi, gay or hetero)
Vampire Rank: (If a vampire, is your character a pureblood, noble etc. NOTE: If your character is a pureblood, you have to write about his/her family's history into the BIO-section in the end of this character sheet, and tell how much of power do they hold among the purebloods.)
Weapons: (If any. Can be a normal gun, knife etc. or an anti-vampire weapon, like a sword, staff, gun or anything. Use your imagination here.)
Bio: (History, Personality etc. NOTE: Pureblood's family history.)
You can add some other stuff too, if you want to. These are the only things that I require from you.
To prove me that you've read everything so far, write "CALIMI" as the first thing in your reply.
- No +18 stuff, though some kind of sexual-content can be included.
- Ask for me the permission to be a pureblood or something which is not so "normal". Do this by PM preferably.
- Do not kill anyone's character without his/her permission.
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A 14-year-old girl is safe after at least two armed males broke into her Ellenton home.
According to Manatee County Sheriff's Office reports, at about 11:51 p.m., Aug. 11, deputies responded to the home in the 5900 block of Willows Bridge Loop, in Covered Bridge Estates, after receiving a 911 call from the victim stating that someone was in the house.
Responding deputies saw two to three males fleeing from the rear of the residence. The suspects got into a maroon Dodge Neon. One of the deputies ran toward the vehicle and ordered the occupants to show their hands. At that time, the driver started the vehicle and fled in reverse at a high rate of speed. The vehicle continued driving backward for about 75 feet before losing control and driving between two houses. The driver struck the utility meter and the side of one of the homes before coming to rest on top of the A/C condenser.
The occupants fled the vehicle. K-9 and the watch unit were utilized but yielded negative results. In plain view on the driver's side floor board was what appeared to be a Mac-11 firearm, the report said.
The residence where the robbery took place was ransacked, and it appeared entry was made by prying the rear bathroom door open. After conducting an interview with the victim, it was determined she was inside of the residence when she heard someone trying to get into the house. She got her phone, hid in the bathroom and called 911. She then heard the suspects inside the residence. One of the suspects was able to get into the locked bathroom and locate her hiding in the shower. He asked her where the money was and also asked her who she called. She told him that she called her mom. Shortly after both suspects fled the house. The victim was not injured during the incident.
The first suspect is described as a light skinned black male, 5-foot-8, 140 pounds. He wore a black ski mask,camouflage clothes and what was described as a ballistic vest and was armed with an AK-47. The second suspect is a dark-skinned black male, 5-foot-10, 195 pounds. He also work a ski mask and dark clothing and was armed with an unknown handgun.
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- Pretty frightening and, unfortunately, the first of many we will see as the economy starts to deteriorate.
What we DON'T know is if the parents had any drug ties that would have lead the men to the house in the first place. It seems unlikely that they would have gone "armed for bear" on a normal home invasion UNLESS they suspected the owner would resist.
Just a thought
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NEW YORK, NY (NEWS1130) – As Superstorm Sandy churned slowly inland, millions along the US East Coast are still without power or mass transit, and huge swaths of New York City were unusually dark and abandoned.
Forty-eight people in the US have been killed in seven states, many from falling trees.
There are reports the damage could top $20 billion US and people have started to come out of their homes and are assessing the damage, trying to help wherever they can.
The storm that made landfall in New Jersey Monday night with 130 kph sustained winds cut power to more than six-million homes and businesses from the Carolinas to Ohio.
New York was among the hardest hit, with its financial heart closed for a second day and seawater cascading into the still-gaping construction pit at the World Trade Centre.
The storm caused the worst damage in the 108-year history of New York's extensive subway system, according to Joseph Lhota, the chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
CityTV Breakfast Television's Dawn Chubai is in New York City and says people are out and about on the streets there, but it's quite chaotic.
"Some of the biggest concerns right now are people getting supplies. That was probably my biggest surprise — walking through some of these convenience stores and seeing that a lot of shelves are starting to really empty out," explains Chubai.
She adds for the most part, people are letting the crews do their work, but some are getting in the way. "We have witnessed families, little kids making their way with their parents or grandparents or whoever through these parks and at this point you still don't really know where the damage."oba
Trading at the New York Stock Exchange was cancelled Monday and Tuesday — the first time the exchange suspended operations for two consecutive days due to weather since a blizzard in 1888. The NYSE is expected to reopen tomorrow.
In Queens, a flooded neighbourhood has lost between 80 and 100 houses in a fire.
President Obama has declared a major disaster in New York and Long Island, making federal funding available to residents of the area. Tomorrow, Obama will tour hard-hit New Jersey to see the damage first-hand.
New York City's three major airports remain closed. Overall, more than 13,500 flights had been cancelled, almost all related to the storm.
An unprecedented 3.9-meter surge of seawater — 90 centimetres above the previous record — gushed into lower Manhattan, inundating tunnels, subway stations and the electrical system that powers Wall Street and sent hospital patients and tourists scrambling for safety.
Skyscrapers swayed and creaked in winds that partially toppled a crane 74 stories above Midtown.
In New Jersey, where the superstorm came ashore, hundreds of people were being evacuated in rising water this morning. Officials were using boats to try to rescue about 800 people living in a trailer park in Moonachie. There were no reports of injuries or deaths. Local authorities initially reported a levee had broken, but Gov. Chris Christie said a berm overflowed.
The massive storm reached well into the Midwest. Chicago officials warned residents to stay away from the Lake Michigan shore as the city prepared for winds of up to 96 kph and waves exceeding 7.2 metres.
As Hurricane Sandy closed in on the Northeast, it converged with a cold-weather system that turned it into a monstrous hybrid of rain and high winds — even bringing snow in West Virginia and other mountainous areas inland.
President Obama scrapped campaign events to stay at the White House to oversee the government's response to the superstorm. Mitt Romney went ahead with a planned event in Ohio, but his campaign said its focus would be on storm relief.
Canada's public safety minister says the coast guard and military services are on standby in case they are needed but so far they haven't been called upon.
Train Service is US Northeast suspended
Amtrak says most train service in the US Northeast remains suspended, and a decision will be made on restoring limited service north and south of New York today.
The railroad said in a statement that Amtrak crews are inspecting tunnels, tracks, equipment and stations to assess damage from Hurricane Sandy and are beginning to make repairs to sections of Amtrak-owned track.
Most Amtrak service on the East Coast as far north as Boston and as far south as Raleigh, North Carolina, remains suspended, and stations along those routes are closed.
Power outages, one GTA death due to Sandy
Superstorm Sandy has left tens of thousands of people without power in Ontario and Quebec, though experts say the worst appears to be over.
Environment Canada says the massive weather system dwindled overnight and should continue to weaken as the day goes on, but the province is still in for some wet, windy weather.
Parts of Toronto are without electricity today and the outages have led to the closure of more than a dozen schools. Toronto Hydro says it expects "lengthy delays" in restoring power to some 45,000 customers.
A total of about 150,000 customers are without power throughout the province while Hydro Quebec was also reporting outages to about 50,000 customers.
The fierce weather has caused the cancellations of dozens of flights from Montreal's Trudeau Airport to several American cities including New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Detroit and Chicago. Roughly a quarter of flights into and out of Toronto's Pearson airport have also been cancelled, while downed trees and hydro wires have disrupted a handful of Toronto Transit Commission bus and streetcar routes.
Powerful winds are also being blamed for a death after a woman was struck and killed by a falling sign on a west-end Toronto street.
Death toll from Superstorm Sandy continues to rise
Forty-eight people have been killed in the US, many from falling trees
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text: post-gazette.com -- A PennEnvironment Re-search & Policy Center report has identified more than a dozen categories of hidden costs -- including aquifer contamination, human health problems and damage to roadways, home values and natural resources -- linked to Marcellus Shale gas development in Pennsylvania.The report, released Thursday in Pittsburgh as Gov. Tom Corbett was welcoming the industry at the Marcellus Shale Coalition's second annual conference in Philadelphia, also stated that bonding amounts required by the state will be inadequate to cover long-term future costs of plugging abandoned wells."There are a staggering array of threats to the environment posed by Marcellus Shale gas development and myriad costs," said Erika Staaf of PennEnvironment, a statewide advocacy organization. "We're a Read the Full Article


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LG's 'Chocolate' laptop
LG seems determined to repeat the success of its "Chocolate" branding beyond its mobile phones, extending it to home theaters and other equipment. The latest object of this confection affection, according to PClaunches, is the "Z1" laptop.
The computer is notable for the type of dual LCD screens (12.1 and 2.5 inches) seen in other laptops designed to use the "SideShow" feature in Windows Vista PCs. The rest of the specs aren't too shabby either, including a 1.83GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 1GB of memory, a 120GB hard drive, … Read more


text: Brisbane: Clijsters vs. Benesova Kim Clijsters takes on Iveta Benesova in the quarterfinals of the Brisbane International. Published January 05, 2012 03:07 Topics: 2012, tournaments, singles, photos or videos, kim clijsters, iveta benesova, brisbane Share this page! Print Email Related videos Brisbane: Saturday Highlights January 05, 2013 Highlights from final action at the Brisbane International. Brisbane: Shot Of The Day (Saturday) January 05, 2013 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova has Saturday's shot of the day at the Brisbane International. Brisbane: Williams Interview January 05, 2013 An interview with Serena Williams after her win in the final of the Brisbane International. To The Top 3


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Advocates For Paid Internships Say Condé Nast Just Proved Their Point
"They've been caught out behaving badly, so they're having a tantrum. Today, Condé Nast threw their toys out of the pram," Fair Pay Campaign founder Mikey Franklin says.
"They've been caught out behaving badly, so they're having a tantrum. Today, Condé Nast threw their toys out of the pram," Fair Pay Campaign founder Mikey Franklin says.
Model of the moment Delevingne fronts a dance-heavy ad for Japanese e-tailer La Boo. Marvel at her best moves.
An analyst at Jefferies LLC says Pink, which accounts for 25% of Victoria's Secret's sales, may be peaking and primed for a Juicy Couture-esque decline.
Damn, she's looking fierce.
That's according to long-suffering shareholder and hedge fund manager Whitney Tilson, who told BuzzFeed the teen retailer's turnaround under its new CEO — recruited from J.Crew — will be different from the Ron Johnson–J.C. Penney situation that burned him last year.
Almost half a million girls have uploaded videos onto YouTube, inviting internet trolls to validate their appearances.
An epic sauce runway show filled with RuPaul's Drag Race alumnae, hot guys in skintight leggings and LINDSAY LOHAN. It will be giving you life, guaranteed.
A statement from the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque says she was asked to leave after posing for photos outside the prominent place of worship.
The guys bare all. Don Benjamin, Chris Schellenger, Mike Scocozza, and Marvin Cortes visited BuzzFeed to give us the behind-the-scenes dirt on filming this season.
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Human Rights Watch, standard bearers of what Michael Roberts has characterised as HRE - Human Rights Extremism - seems to have decided that it has a special relationship with me. I am the only person quoted by name in the presentation made by their Senior Researcher Dr. Anna Neistat to the US Senate Foreign Relations Sub-Committee that dealt with Sri Lanka. Sadly, this anxiety to use my name in an attempt to shore up her case against the Sri Lankan government was not accompanied by any attempt to check with me as to my views on the matters on which they were pronouncing. This is of a piece with their previous dodging of any engagement with me. Eighteen months ago, HRW failed to respond when I proved, from their own report, that their sensationalistic release about the Sri Lankan forces indiscriminately targeting civilians was totally false. Even more tellingly, they cancelled a discussion on Sri Lanka that they had arranged in the British House of Commons, when they heard that the Foreign Minister had asked me to attend. The official from our High Commission who had been liaising with them, and found first Sir Nigel Rodley dropping out, and then Human Rights Watch abandoning the event, thought they feared I would be excessively critical. Dr Neistat then claims that Sri Lankan forces 'have committed numerous indiscriminate and perhaps disproportionate attacks consisting of artillery bombardment and aerial bombing. These include attacks on the government-proclaimed 'safe zones' and on clearly marked hospitals. Statements by senior officials indicating that civilians who do not leave LTTE-controlled areas are subject to attack are indicative of an intent to commit war crimes,' which is rich even for her. If she can name me, why can she not name these 'senior officials', and perhaps cite what they said to prove her point? Does she not see that talking of 'perhaps disproportionate attacks' reveals her prejudices? She does try to substantiate her claim regarding 'clearly marked hospitals' with a long list, dating only from December, which was after we had pointed out how careful the government had been in the preceding six months, since TamilNet had alleged hardly any collateral damage. And whilst it cannot be asserted that there has been no collateral damage since, there was only one allegation of a civilian death until January 22nd, when it was claimed that 30 people had died in an attack on Vallipuram hospital. When the doctor cited initially denied this, the claim was brought down to 5, while it is ignored by Dr Neistat that this was not a hospital marked by coordinates but a medical centre set up suddenly. Indeed, even the TamilNet claims about this, and the Udaiyaarkadu hospital, refer to them as 'makeshift' hospitals. It is therefore disingenuous of Dr Neistat to assert that 'Deliberately attacking a hospital is a war crime,' and use these instances to bolster her case. With regard to violations by the LTTE, HRW quotes eyewitness accounts of particulars and, though there are no names, there is some description at least of the alleged eyewitnesses. Contrariwise, claims about excesses by the Sri Lankan forces are usually generalised and full of whims and wise sayings. What are claimed to be eyewitness accounts are sometimes at odds with the earlier TamilNet claims, as when an incident on January 24th is said to have taken place in a playground, whereas TamilNet mentioned a hospital. The number of deaths alleged is the same, 7, while HRW has 15 persons injured where TamilNet has 87. Whatever the number, these deaths and injuries are too many, but as the Bishop of Jaffna put it, the LTTE had positioned its guns amidst civilians, which HRW grants, though helpfully noting that they were 'about two to four kilometers north of the playground' and also that the 'SLA was also not prohibited from attacking LTTE forces inside a safe zone.'Though obviously the obligations of a government are greater than those of terrorists, this incident, assuming the HRW account is accurate, does not justify the claim of 'serious violations of international humanitarian law' which 'led to high civilian casualties'. Dr Neistat then goes on to talk of what she calls lack of humanitarian access after September 2008, and repeats her charge of 'shortages of water, food, medical supplies and other necessities', none of which have been reported by others, with the UN indeed informing the Consultative Committee on Humanitarian Assistance after a monitoring visit in December that it was pleasantly surprised at the satisfactory levels of health (and also of education, with the government conducting the General Certificate of Education Ordinary Level Public Examination). Though things have got more difficult since then, this has finally prompted people who seemed to be hedging their bets before to categorically call upon the LTTE to let go of the civilians whom it was holding against their will. With the support of the Church, 35,000 did make their way out in February, and if there is no ambiguity about criticism of the LTTE for keeping the rest, it is likely that they too will soon be set free. Then Dr Neistat, ignoring the fact that, despite the propaganda of both the LTTE and HRW, 35,000 people chose to make their way to what those two organisations described as internment camps, continues with the usual HRW diatribe about these. She sets up a Manichean dichotomy in claiming that 'Instead of providing the internally displaced with the assistance and protection they are entitled to under international law, the Sri Lankan government continues to violate their fundamental rights', forgetting that not only have physical needs been provided, but that education and vocational training have also commenced. Dr Neistat talks of arbitrary detention during screening procedures as though she is the sole arbiter of the reasons the Sri Lankan government might have for particular security precautions. However, given that the government has only placed in judicial custody 32 of the 250 or so youngsters who confessed to being fighting cadres, and has allowed the others to remain with their families, its conduct can scarcely be described as arbitrary. Dr Neistat then goes on to complain of conditions in the camps as well as the hospitals, obviously not aware that the UN had actually said it could not assist at the level the government had prescribed because it was beyond UN standards. The ICRC has consistently praised the efforts of the Sri Lanka Ministry of Health. Dr Neistat may have different ideas of a public health system, given her own experience, but she should read the plaudits the Sri Lankan system has received from international observers, and also register the comparative efficiency with which it has dealt with such a large influx of patients. And though she complains of security precautions, and that humanitarian assistance from outsiders is forbidden, she must recognise first the need to limit access given the reach and intensity of Tiger terrorism, and secondly the fact that many humanitarian workers, including indefatigable nuns, have been assisting the Ministry in its work. Besides, government has made arrangements for relations to accompany those being treated, even though that makes security precautions all the more difficult. Dr Neistat cites some cases of what she claims are disappearances, but is extraordinarily coy about these. She may claim that she is silent because of fear for her informants, but since government has had cases of families who were separated in the trek to safety brought to its notice, and has sought and in many cases already achieved reunification, Dr Neistat should get over this particular neurosis if she is really anxious to help. She should also avoid sweeping generalisations such as 'some detainees are children' since government has been waiting anxiously for such victims of the Tigers, but has so far found none, though some of those who confessed to being cadres were former child recruits, though now over eighteen. Dr Neistat claims that 'Several sources reported to Human Rights Watch the presence of plainclothes military intelligence and paramilitaries in the camps. A UN official in Vavuniya told Human Rights Watch that she and colleagues have seen members of paramilitary groups in different camps.'It is astonishing that this has not been conveyed to government, since the forces, who are present in uniform too to help as necessary, have made it a point to prevent any such incursion. Indeed, when I checked a claim that the USAID sponsored agency Internews had reported something of the sort, they denied it - but clearly HRW has its own special sources, none of which will actually make any clear allegation. HRW also goes on at length about restrictions, without any recognition that, with 35,000 people arriving suddenly and the Tiger practice of deathly infiltration, security precautions are essential, at least until the Tiger command structure is dismantled. HRW also ignores that restrictions on outside access were intended to prevent exploitation of those who had been previously exploited by the Tigers, and that aid agencies, once they had committed to particular acts of assistance, have been granted access. Journalists too now visit, though the salacious reporting of HRW makes one realise why some precautions are still necessary, since the Tiger propaganda wing is now its most efficient component and will take ruthless advantage of anything critical of the government. Sadly, so systematic has HRW been in its critiques of the Sri Lankan government, that one begins to wonder whether it thinks such grist to the terrorist mill to be no bad thing. Certainly its reliance on simply one-sided information and its refusal to even attempt to engage with government, indicates a deviousness that does no credit to the ideals it professes. Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha Secretary General Secretariat for Coordinating the Peace Process Courtesy: SCOPP |
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A number of men approached the driver of a white Mercedes lorry, which was carrying cash, while he was parked up and having a break in the lorry park of the M42 services yesterday (Thursday) about 1.15pm.
He was bundled into another vehicle while one of the offenders got into the lorry and drove it away in a convoy with a white Ford Transit van and a black Audi estate.
The van was left at Alvechurch railway station and the two other vehicles were driven a short distance to Sandhills Green, where the contents of the lorry were unloaded.
Officers were alerted to the incident and quickly traced the lorry and transit van. They found the kidnapped driver who was not injured.
A driver of a fourth vehicle, a white Volkswagen Transporter, which was located on the Birmingham Road near Alvechurch , was linked to the incident and a 49-year-old man was arrested.
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. A story of the France before and during the French Revolution by Charles Dickens published in 1859 is my favorite Dickens right now. The two cities are London and Paris. The French peasantry had been abused by the aristocracy and revolution broke and the lives of aristocrats was in danger of the guillotine. The story follows several protagonist as is the usual with Dickens. Charles Darnay, a former French aristocrat who gave it up because he detested the way the aristocrats were behaving. He goes to London. Upon return to France because of a letter requesting his help. Charles is taken prisoner by the revolution and sentenced to die. Charles is married to Lucy Manette and has a young daughter. Syndey Carton is a dissipated English barrister who endeavours to redeem his ill-spent life out of his unrequited love for Darnay's wife. This book is a story of love and redemption. The DeFarges operate a wine shop and are revolutionaries. Madame DeFarge is constantly knitting but is very deadly character. This was a audio/whispernet kindle book. The narrator did a superb job. It has been more than ten years since I've read this and in truth I cam to re-reading it in the strangest way - it was referenced in a YA novel and I was reading that and I remembered how much I had loved this book and decided it was past time I read it again and saw if it was as good as I remembered. As it was - it was every bit as good as my teenage memories led me to believe and if anything it just got more tragic as I aged. I am the first to admit that I find Dickens extremely hit and miss as an author, which I know is bordering on blasphemous in some circles, but it is really true for me. His prose is often too flowery, his characters too unsympathetic and the novels too bleak to warrant the attention they require. This, based on the subject, should be in that category yet somehow it rises above the potential traps. We have a dark subject, a truly tragic hero, a rather unsympathetic and/or unlucky counter hero who gets bailed out, along with a rather bland heroine yet despite all that the book and the story rises above it all. The opening and closing lines are two of the most perfect lines in literature and everything in between just works. There are faults, yet somehow they don't really detract from the story. Maybe I'm biased, but even some of the irritating moments (Lucie is just one of those characters you roll your eyes at and deep down you want to know how she can justify sending another man to his death when her husband had knowingly endangered his own life in the first place) yet I find myself willing to overlook it. There are also parts of the book that are driven by plot other than characterisation and that jars a little. When Charles abandons his wife and child to go on a suicide mission I know we are supposed to be sympathetic of his goodness, but you just want to strangle him for his martyr complex and other moments that in a lesser story I would have judged more harshly. As it was, I overlook the flaws and concentrate on the good stuff and the good stuff is very, very good. This is a book I would recommend to anyone, and even if Dickens intimidates you, give it a try. It is a beautiful book with a wonderful story and one of those characters you will grow to love and will stay with you long after you finish. The ending was the best!!! Of course it was a little predictable, but nevertheless beautifully written. However, the language doesn't have true a realism, I feel it is more a tale than a novel, hence the title. I have never been an exceptionally "current" person. I often see movies way after they've come out on DVD, wear last season's trends, and eat at restaurants that were posh in the nineties, but this is especially true with literature. With a few notable exceptions, I have trouble keeping pace with contemporary literature. I am constantly reading blogs talking about incredible new novels where I enthusiastically write down the names of ones that sound intriguing on my ever-growing "to read" list, but there they sit, and for many of them, there they stay. I don't think that classic literature is necessarily better than modern. In fact, they are so different that comparison is futile. But I do know that my favorite stories, the ones that I return to over and over again, tend to have been written in or before the first half of the twentieth century. But to say that I enjoy all the designated "classics" would be presumptive and silly and there are some authors in whom I have relatively no interest, sometimes without reason. So to be honest, I wasn't really looking forward to the subject of this entry, Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities. I haven't read any other Dickens books since The Cricket on the Hearth in about 6th grade, so in my head were random words that I attributed to him: "musty, verbose, Wilkie Collins, bah humbug." These were, for the most part, assumptions and associations that had little to do with his actual writing. So I was very pleasantly surprised to find that I was hooked from the beginning, as doesn't often happen with novels from this period, that I became caught up in the action and romance of the story, and that I was almost (which for me is really something) brought to tears. But the thing that gets me, really deep down grab-me-by-the-heartstrings gets me, is the fact that, in essence, it is not a book about another time and place. It is about here and now. This is what makes classics classics, why the majority of people (in the Western world at least) know who Charles Dickens is even if they've never read a word: the conflicts in this novel, the characters he created, they haven't died out or evolved. In both a sad and sometimes beautiful way, you realize how very little some things have changed. Let me explain. The overarching conflict in A Tale of Two Cities is the French Revolution and the unrestrained monstrosities that resulted from it. Exacerbated by the ever-expanding gap between rich and poor, where the wealthy are painted as "exquisite gentlemen of the finest breeding… known by its fruits of indifference to every natural subject of human interest" (131), and the poor as broken, ignorant, and miserable, the latter's boiling point is finally reached. This eruption is seen in the storming of the Bastille, a symbol of the corrupt elite power structure. Led to a degree by the fearsome Madame Defarge, a woman with a personal vendetta against the aristocracy, the people take over the city, throw every aristocrat they can get their hands on in jail without recourse to a fair trial, and then roll out that sinister symbol of the revolutionary slogan "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, or Death": La Guillotine. What happens then is chaos. Starting, as so many revolutions do, as a downtrodden people revolting against the boundless waste and apathy of the rich, it quickly devolves into a bloodbath in which blind revenge parades as justice, mob rule disguises itself as order, and all compassion and human empathy is washed away like blood in the gutter. In this environment, the good and honorable, like Charles Darnay née Evrémonde, who comes back to France to save a friend from being executed in his name (an aristocratic one which he gave up willingly), are presumed guilty simply because of their name and despite their actions, while the most savage and bloodthirsty of the "revolutionaries" are elevated. What makes this novel interesting is that it is a warning, but not in the way you would think. It is not propaganda to promote or demoralize one side or the other. It warns against the upper classes (that incorrigible one percent!) sinking into wanton decadence and luxury while ignoring or displacing responsibility for the burdens on the middle and poor classes (you guessed it, the ninety-nine) that grow heavier and heavier. But the "bad guys" in A Tale of Two Cities are not the rich, not exclusively. The story also warns against the mob mentality that can easily become reality once the idealistic fervor of revolution wanes a bit. To put it into a modern setting, it begins when a class of people can no longer look the other way while their rights are stolen from them. Consider this context: a nation of people is guaranteed Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness and yet finds the tools needed to ensure these things taken away, such as the right to choose what happens to one's body, the right to be paid the same as everyone else regardless of class, color, or gender, the right to be paid a living wage and provide for one's family, among others. When diplomacy fails, when the democratic system fails, what path is left to the common populace but revolution? Charles Dickens wrote about a dark time in European history, when the poor rose up and swallowed the rich, and yet the system they implanted was at least as corrupt, bloody, and inhumane as the monarchy that kept them in poverty. I think it possible that History will label this, the first decades of the twenty-first century, a dark time in American history. In the world I live in, where American cities go bankrupt and its people suffer while the rest of the country turns a blind eye instead of extending their hand, where the reticence to infringe on the right to bear arms overrides a school room of children's right to life, where a young man is put on trial for his own murder because of the color of his skin, I sense a revolution coming. Like Jacques Defarge, I don't know if I will see it in my own lifetime, but I know that the seeds have been planted and the fertilizer of mistreatment and unequal representation has been laid. The way this world is turning, I don't think it is a remote possibility anymore, nor do I hope that it does not happen. I like the comparison Madame Defarge makes of revolutions to natural disasters: "'It does not take a long time,' said madame, 'for an earthquake to swallow a town. Eh well! Tell me how long it takes to prepare the earthquake?…. But when it is ready, it takes place, and grinds to pieces everything before it. In the meantime, it is always preparing, though it is not seen or heard…. I tell thee… that although it is a long time on the road, it is on the road and coming. I tell thee it never retreats and never stops. I tell thee it is always advancing. Look around and consider the lives of all the world that we know, consider the faces of all the world that we know, consider the rage and discontent to which the Jacquerie addresses itself with more and more of certainty every hour. Can such things last? Bah! I mock you" (221-2). Things need to change. We need to start taking responsibility, not just for our own well-being, but for the overall well-being of our country, and our world. All I can hope for is that we learn from our mistakes, that we remember the blood in the streets of the French and American and Mexican and countless other revolutions. Rights are not won, not truly and not for long, with violence and hatred and vengeance. The Madame Defarges of the world cannot be the paragons of our revolutionary ideals, but neither can the laconic and apathetic Monseigneurs. It must be the people, but the people must maintain in their hearts the knowledge of their equal humanity and their capability for compassion and empathy. That is the only way that there can be hope for a better future. For more book reviews (err... book musings?), visit my blog For Love and Allegory at http://www.forloveandallegory.wordpress.com/ My favourite Dickens novel as a teenager; haven't revisited it so as not to spoil the memories. (I'm sure now that Bleak House is a far better book.) My main reason for preferring it to the others was simply a huge crush on Sidney Carton: brilliant, drunk, yet noble and self-sacrificing. A template... (The other - earlier - notable male literary crushes I remember from c.10-14 were Sherlock Holmes and Percy Blakeney. 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I have a great respect for Rothbard, and, to be sure, his writings were the ones to truly push me out of minarchy and into anarchy, and I will always regret never being able to thank him personally for the lessons he has taught me posthumously. That being said, today I was a bit disappointed in him. On the Mises homepage today, a work of his entitled Do You Hate the State? can be found. In it, Rothbard complains that some of his AnCap contemporaries do not appear to harbor the same utter hatred for the state that he possesses, but Rothbard admits that at least they still propose that market anarchy would be the best possible solution to the problem of running an efficient society.
One thing i have always loved about the libertarian ideal (and one of the most persuasive points about it) is its massive inclusion. Sure, it has a few (I guess one really [NAP]) strict principles, but for the most part it is pretty inclusive. For example, in our ideal society, If one wanted to form their own micro-society in a socialist fashion, they would be free to do so. Another example of Libertarian inclusion can be found in other, less obvious circumstances.
For example, as many of you probably know by now, I am a Christian. There are a few others here that I know of that share my "faith" or whatever you want to call it. But I will also say that I have many libertarian friends (both online and off) that are strict atheists, deists, and even a couple buddhists and muslims (I have yet to meet a hindu Libertarian but I hope to meet one some day). In all my time reading these forums as well as my as-of-now short stent of writing on them, I have never encountered any real contempt among us on the grounds of religion. Just the other day, on this thread in fact, I was questioned on a comment I had made about my faith by what I would later find out to be an atheist. Not once did I pick up even the slightest hint of superiority from this person, nor did they attack me in any way (let alone any of my more religious comments.
I think the major reason for this is two fold. First, most of us know we can't afford to make enemies, at this point, over topics such as religion. Second, we recognize that, for the most part, such a personal aspect of someone's life, such as religion, does not hinder their ability to think rationally in economics, regardless of however irrational we believe their spiritual belief to be. Most of the time, any questions we may pose to someone of a different belief, I have found to be mostly for the educational purposes of the asker. They just want to understand further the religion they are asking about. Their mission has rarely been to poke holes in another's belief. The few times I have witnessed this have been at first provoked by the other party. Perhaps we take the NAP to the extreme: "I will not attack your belief until you first attack mine or ask for my opinion."
So, now I get to the point of my post and then to my question. In my opinion, if there is one thing Rothbard is good at, it is splitting hairs. Usually this is for a good, constructive reason or in a case where the splitting of the hairs is like splitting an atom; it makes for an explosive difference when we really think about the topic. However, in the case of this essay by Rothbard, I do not think he is doing anyone a service. I will be the first to say that I practice a very public, very flagrant hatred of the state, oftentimes to my own detriment (you can thank me later...tee hee). Conversely, I think it is counterproductive to the cause of Liberty to take someone like David Friedman or Eric Mack, and publicly ridicule them solely for the reason that in their writings they don't "hate the state enough."
For one, prose heavy in "state-hate" is probably not the best way to reach initial audiences who have not been exposed to austrian/libertarian writings. State-hate is great for riling up the choir (forum members of Mises.org), but for the average joe, it sounds pretty fringe and, to some, even downright mad, indeed. I think there is a place for this kind of writing just as there is for Rothbards. If there had only been Keynes and Rothbard, I probably would have ended up a Keynesian. I consider having someone like Milton Friedman around to be paramount to my journey; someone to nudge me in gently.
Second, why take authors who agree with you "in the end". Sure, they might not say that the state is inherently evil, but they still agree with and support your theory of market anarchy as the best way to "organize" society. Attacking them will do little to no good for your message.
"If men are not angels, then who shall run the state?"
In the spirit of constructive hairsplitting I must ask, where are you getting 'ridicule' from?
When we boil down your complaint does it come out to the fact that you aren't too cool on radicalism and so you dont want to read texts that promote it?
Where there is no property there is no justice; a proposition as certain as any demonstration in Euclid
Fools! not to see that what they madly desire would be a calamity to them as no hands but their own could bring
If I had come to Mises and read something like "Hate the State" the first time I might have been at least a bit turned off.
nirgrahamUK:In the spirit of constructive hairsplitting I must ask, where are you getting 'ridicule' from?
Fine, perhaps the term 'ridicule' was a bit misplaced. I'll call it poorly constructed 'constructive criticism'. I think his point in the piece is halfway off. I'll explain...
Rothbard writes,
"To carry our analysis further, radical anti-statists are extremely valuable even if they could scarcely be considered libertarians in any comprehensive sense. Thus, many people admire the work of columnists Mike Royko and Nick von Hoffman because they consider these men libertarian sympathizers and fellow-travelers. That they are, but this does not begin to comprehend their true importance. For throughout the writings of Royko and von Hoffman, as inconsistent as they undoubtedly are, there runs an all-pervasive hatred of the State, of all politicians, bureaucrats, and their clients which, in its genuine radicalism, is far truer to the underlying spirit of liberty than someone who will coolly go along with the letter of every syllogism and every lemma down to the "model" of competing courts."
Ok, if hatred for the state is really more important than proper theory, why not just forget David Friedman and Eric Mack and call Noam Chomsky our brother. He does after all "hate the state", at least eventually he will once it has smashed capitalism.
nirgrahamUK:When we boil down your complaint does it come out to the fact that you aren't too cool on radicalism and so you dont want to read texts that promote it?
I don't know what I said that prompted you to draw this conclusion, as I tried to make it abundantly clear that I think there is a place for that kind of writing, and I also made it clear that Rothbard is a hero of mine. But, shame on me for questioning someone, especially when that someone is a hero of mine. I'll explain...
There is another part of Rothbard's wish for general radicalism that doesn't sit well with me, and it actually lies, ironically, in his pandering to the less radical.
He writes, "What divides the movement now, the true division, is not anarchist vs. minarchist, but radical vs. conservative. Lord, give us radicals, be they anarchists or no."
So again, if being 'radical' is so important, then apparently that fervor only applies to the intensity of one's hatred for the state and not for how strict one follows his principles. Well, as a radical AnCap both in my strict belief in anarchy and my hatred for the state, I will look to any modern minarchist and tell them they are libertarian-lite; they are just a white-washed contradiction. I am talking even to Ayn Rand who had a pretty nasty bark when it came to 'hating the state', but the bite let us down when pressed on Intellectual Property. Mises was another of these. I usually give him a pass because without him and the invaluable work he contributed and then formulated into the study of praxeology, we wouldn't have Rothbards. Even Mises, though, in all of his brilliance, couldn't quite get there, despite his utter hatred for the state.
Of course hatred for the state is a nice trait. But no one but anarchists really hate it. This is why I think Rothbard's remark above is ironic. Even minarchists don't really hate the state; they just hate it in certain quantities. Hoppe talks about this in his General Theory of Socialism and Capitalism , where he basically states that we have two choices: market anarchy or some varying level of socialism.
i wonder if Rothbard wrote this out of some need to justify his heroes minarchy. I wonder if you, NirgrahamUK, responded to me the way you did because you can't question your idols. I don't know. I just think it is silly to let radicalism trump proper theory in importance. You can find radicalsim is all sorts of different shades, even if you're just looking for "state-hating". But just because you are a state-hater doesn't necessarily mean I would ever call you comrade.
The Texas Trigger:[. I wonder if you, NirgrahamUK, responded to me the way you did because you can't question your idols
How would you characterise the way I responded to you that would map to me being unable to question my 'idols' ?
but this is beside the point. This is just a matter of preference. Rothbard stated a particular preference at a point in time and put it in writing. We can agree and disagree. We can have interesting discussion about it, but lets not get crazy personal and over-invested.
Personally, I have stricter requirements than Rothbard, as I prefer my state-haters to also be free-marketers, whilst I certainly prefer free-marketer's who 'arent radical' to leftists that are. But so what.
nirgrahamUK: but this is beside the point. This is just a matter of preference. Rothbard stated a particular preference at a point in time and put it in writing. We can agree and disagree. We can have interesting discussion about it, but lets not get crazy personal and over-invested.
You are right. I am probably just getting a little wound up. I just don't understand him on this one.


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- Non-cancerous Breast Conditions
- What is normal breast tissue and what does it do?
- Finding benign breast conditions
- American Cancer Society recommendations for early breast cancer detection
- Diagnosing benign breast changes
- Imaging tests for breast disease
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- Biopsy
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During a biopsy the doctor removes a sample of the abnormal area to be looked at under a microscope. A biopsy may be done when mammograms, other imaging tests, or the physical exam finds a breast change that may be cancer. A biopsy is the only way to tell if cancer is really present.
There are several types of biopsy procedures, and each type has its own pros and cons. The choice of which to use depends on your situation. Some of the factors your doctor will take into account include:
- How suspicious the lesion looks
- How large it is
- Where it is in the breast
- How many lesions there are
- Other medical problems you may have
- Your personal preferences
If you need a biopsy, you might want to talk about the different biopsy types with your doctor.
Fine needle aspiration (FNA) biopsy
In FNA biopsy, the doctor uses a very thin, hollow needle attached to a syringe to withdraw (aspirate) a small amount of fluid or tissue from a suspicious area. The biopsy sample is then looked at under a microscope. The needle used for FNA is thinner than the ones used for blood tests.
If the area to be biopsied can be felt, the needle can be guided into that area of the breast as the doctor is feeling it.
If the lump can't be felt easily, the doctor might use ultrasound to watch the needle on a screen as it moves toward and into the mass.
A local anesthetic (numbing medicine) might or might not be used. Because such a thin needle is used for the biopsy, the shot to numb the breast may hurt more than the biopsy itself.
Once the needle is in place, either fluid or tissue from the mass is drawn out. Clear fluid means that the lump is most likely a benign cyst. Bloody or cloudy fluid can mean either a benign cyst or, very rarely, a cancer. If the lump is solid, small pieces of tissue are drawn out. A doctor will look at the biopsy tissue or fluid under a microscope to see if it contains cancer cells.
An FNA biopsy is easier to have done than other types of biopsy procedures, but it can sometimes miss a cancer if the needle is not put into the right spot. And even if cancer cells are found, it is usually not possible to know if the cancer is invasive (the kind that can spread). In some cases of cancer, there may not be enough cells to do some of the other routine lab tests. If the FNA biopsy does not provide a clear diagnosis or if more information is needed, a second FNA or a different type of biopsy may need to be done.
Core needle biopsy
A core needle biopsy is much like an FNA biopsy, but it uses a slightly larger, hollow needle to withdraw small cylinders (or cores) of tissue from the abnormal area in the breast. The procedure is most often done with local anesthesia (you are awake but your breast is numbed) in the doctor's office or clinic.
The needle is put into the abnormal area several times to get the samples, or cores, which are about 1/16 inch to 1/8 inch in width and about half an inch long. If the doctor is biopsying a lump that can be felt, he or she can guide the needle into the abnormal area while feeling the lump. If the abnormal area is too small to be felt, the doctor may use ultrasound or mammograms to guide the needle to the target area. (When mammograms taken from different angles are used to pinpoint the biopsy site, this is known as a stereotactic core needle biopsy.) In some centers, the biopsy can be guided by an MRI scan.
The core needle biopsy is slightly more complex and takes longer than an FNA biopsy, but it is also more likely to give a definite result because more tissue is taken to be studied. This type of biopsy can cause some bruising, but it usually does not leave scars.
Vacuum-assisted biopsies: Vacuum-assisted biopsies can be done with systems such as the Mammotome® or ATEC® (Automated Tissue Excision and Collection). For these procedures the breast skin is numbed and a small cut (about ¼ inch) is made. A hollow probe is put into the cut and into the abnormal area of breast tissue. The probe can be guided into place using x-rays or ultrasound (or MRI in the case of the ATEC system). A cylinder of tissue is then sucked in through a hole in the side of the probe, and a rotating knife within the probe cuts the tissue sample from the rest of the breast. Many samples can be taken from the same cut in the skin. Vacuum-assisted biopsies are done as an outpatient procedure. No stitches are needed, and there is little scarring. This method usually removes more tissue than core needle biopsies.
Surgical (open) biopsy
Doctors usually prefer to do needle biopsies to determine if a suspicious area is breast cancer, but in rare cases surgery is needed to take out all or part of the lump for a biopsy. This is called a surgical biopsy or an open biopsy. Usually this is an excisional biopsy, where the surgeon removes the entire mass or abnormal area, often with some of the normal tissue around it. If the mass is too large to be removed easily, an incisional biopsy may be done, where only part of the mass is removed (although a core needle of FNA biopsy is more likely to be done instead).
In rare cases, this type of biopsy can be done in the doctor's office, but it is more often done in the hospital outpatient department. Depending on the extent of the biopsy, you may be given a local anesthetic to numb your breast and possibly a sedative to make you drowsy. Or the biopsy can be done under general anesthesia, where you are asleep.
If there is a small lump that is hard to find by touch or if an area looks suspicious on the mammogram but cannot be felt, the surgeon may use a procedure called stereotactic wire localization. First the area is numbed with a local anesthetic. Then a thin, hollow needle is put into the breast and x-ray views are used to guide the needle to the suspicious area. Once the needle tip is in the right spot, a thin wire is put through the center of the needle. A small hook at the end of the wire keeps it in place. The hollow needle is then removed, and the surgeon uses the wire to find the abnormal tissue that is to be removed.
The surgical specimen is sent to the lab to be looked at under a microscope. Further treatment is based on what is found.
This type of biopsy is more involved than an FNA biopsy or a core needle biopsy. It often requires several stitches, and may leave a scar. The more tissue removed, the more likely it is that you will notice a change in the shape of your breast afterward. A core needle biopsy usually gets enough tissue to be sure what the abnormal area is. But sometimes an open biopsy may be needed depending on where the abnormality is, or if the core biopsy doesn't get enough tissue to be sure.
Biopsy accuracy
FNA, core needle, and surgical biopsies are all very good at finding cancer. Less data is available on the newer vacuum-assisted core biopsy techniques. The accuracy of each method depends to a great degree on the doctor's experience with that method. This is especially true with methods that remove smaller amounts of tissue, like the FNA and core needle biopsy. A very precise needle placement is needed so that these methods can give accurate results.
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