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'Debulked Woman': Ovarian Cancer's Grim Reality
This is TALK OF THE NATION. I'm Neal Conan in Washington. If you don't recognize the cause represented by the teal ribbon; if you've never attended a fundraiser for ovarian cancer research, signed up for a run or a walk-a-thon, it may be because, as Susan Gubar writes in her new book, most women diagnosed with ovarian cancer don't live long enough to become activists, fundraisers, educators about their disease.
Susan Gubar got her diagnosis nearly four years ago. The cancer had already spread through her abdomen. To slow the disease, she underwent what some doctors call the mother of all surgeries: She was debulked. Her ovaries, uterus, fallopian tubes, parts of her intestine were all removed. In her memoir, she details with brutal honesty the pain, treatments, changes and disasters that followed.
If this is your story, give us a call, 800-989-8255. Email us, firstname.lastname@example.com. You can also join the conversation on our website. That's at npr.org; click on TALK OF THE NATION. Later in the program, Chicago Tribune reporter Bonnie Miller Rubin on a message from her former self. But first, enduring ovarian cancer. Susan Gubar joins us now from member station WFIU in Bloomington, Indiana, where she's professor emeritus of English at Indiana University; co-author of "The Madwoman in the Attic"; and her latest book is "Memoir of a Debulked Woman." It's good to have you with us today.
SUSAN GUBAR: Thank you very much.
CONAN: And I guess - how are you doing?
GUBAR: I'm doing well. I'm in a remission, I'm happy to say.
CONAN: I have to ask you, when you got this diagnosis, back - November 5, 2008, one day after the election, you describe lying on a gurney in a hospital hallway and feeling a sense of relief.
GUBAR: Well, I had been troubled, you know, by seeing how debilitating old age is in my mother, and I had suffered as a child when my father committed suicide at the age of 56; I was 15. So I thought, well, I'm in my 60s. Better me than my children. And I'll deal with this. You know, I know many people who have cancer, and I figured I would deal with it.
CONAN: And you determined on a course of action - among other things, saying: I'm not going to go off and just do treatment just for the sake of treatments, if they're not getting anywhere.
GUBAR: Right, I felt strongly then that I wanted to do what I could to sort of save the preciousness of life. But I felt I would not go beyond that. I did not want to extend life at the expense of the quality of life.
CONAN: Because you understood that a diagnosis of advanced ovarian cancer - well, the prognosis simply isn't good, is it?
GUBAR: Well, I understood that the prognosis for the 23,000 American women who are diagnosed every year is very poor. I didn't know then that 70 percent of those women would die within a few years of diagnosis.
CONAN: In fact, you're four years out - on the outside of the survival rates.
GUBAR: Well yes, I am.
CONAN: The determination not to undergo life-extending operations - well, did you manage to keep that up?
GUBAR: No, I did not. I found myself changing. As my end grew closer, it seemed more distant. I felt that I did have to keep on taking chemotherapy, to try to beat the disease - although I believe it is unbeatable, given the current protocols of medicine. We're still - I feel as if the treatments are, in a sense - even with wonderful doctors; and I had excellent surgeons, and excellent oncologists - I think the treatments are very debilitating. The protocols extend life, but they also harm and hurt lives.
CONAN: You use the word - in fact - barbaric.
GUBAR: Yes, yes.
CONAN: Is that too strong a word?
GUBAR: I don't mean this as a criticism of my excellent physicians, who are extremely well-meaning. But I call it locanocology(ph) in the book because there's a way in which the physicians and the patients face a Catch-22. That is, the cancer is going to kill the woman - ovarian cancer is lethal - and it's sort of a little bit like paranoia's dream come true. I mean, there's something in there that's trying to kill you. And you don't know what it is, and you can't imagine it, and you can't visualize it, and you can't see it.
On the other hand, the treatments are very debilitating for this particular disease. Part of the biggest problem with this disease is the lack of a detection tool, so that many women are diagnosed - most of the women who are diagnosed, are diagnosed in stage 3 or 4. So if there were a detection tool, if there was research put into finding a detection tool, as well as for better treatments, American women - women all over the world would be much better off.
CONAN: And that brings us to a question you return to, again and again, in the book. Were you listening to what's called the silent killer? Were you in a state of denial, pretending that those gastric problems, those intestinal problems were something else?
GUBAR: I think that is definitely true of me. But I do want to say that I've read many, many books about other women - there aren't many books; I shouldn't put it that way. I've read the few books I could find by women who have self-published or published, you know, memoirs about their cancer.
And with ovarian cancer, the signs are very subtle. They're very muted, and they're easily misunderstood - not only by doctors but by the patient herself, because many women experience fatigue or bloating or indigestion, and these are just symptoms you put up with. You feel you don't want to whine about them. And they're often misdiagnosed as irritable bowel syndrome; or possibly as menopausal or depression or hernia.
So I think it is easy to sort of not register these signs, to not really - to hear them as the noise of the midlife body, and not to really understand what they signify. But yes, in my case, I think I simply repressed it.
CONAN: Well, OK then.
GUBAR: I have to admit that.
CONAN: You thought you had irritable bowel syndrome.
GUBAR: Yes, I did. I was convinced that if I did a lot of stretching and yoga and breathing, and I ate the proper foods and enough fiber - and some prune juice, maybe - all would be well, and all manner of things would be well.
CONAN: You are also defying the sort of cultural place that we've put cancer - I know you say you're confused yourself; victims, survivors, whatever the term is - that you must always fight the disease, you must never give in to the - what you seem to have accepted as the fact that you're going to die with ovarian cancer.
GUBAR: Yes. I think that some of this idea that you have to be fighting the disease till the very end makes people feel culpable for being discouraged, and for knowing at a certain point that the quality of their life will be hurt by the treatments that might extend their life. And I think we have to be more sensitive to people's decisions. They're very personal decisions, and they're very difficult to make.
CONAN: I wanted to read you this email that we got from Hayley(ph) in Portland: I'm 38 and underwent a hysterectomy for ovarian cancer eight months ago. My ovaries and uterus have been removed. What are some of the most surprising things you learned about the cultural perceptions about womanhood, as a feminist, after undergoing your debulking surgery? I, myself, never planned on having kids, but I still heard socking comments about how my surgery was not a big deal since I was never going to use my uterus anyway. I am still reeling from such comments.
GUBAR: Well, I think that's really - I really feel for this person because it is a big deal. Debulking - which tries to take out as much cancerous material, and all the organs that have been affected by it, as possible - often leaves visible and invisible seeds of cancer in the body. Most debulking operations in America actually are called sub-optimal, which means that there is some visible evidence of cancer left in the body, and that means it will recur. So this is a devastating diagnosis.
CONAN: It is also one of those moments - you write in the book that patients, before surgery, normally have conversations with their surgeons about what's going to happen, and what's going to happen afterwards. Debulking - you don't know what's going to happen.
GUBAR: And it's really not malevolence on the part of the surgeons. I mean, they don't know. The tests don't tell them what's happened inside the body. And even scans, even CT scans sometimes are completely inaccurate, in terms of what's going on inside the body. So until they slit the body open - excuse my explicit language - from the belly button to the pubic bone, they don't really know what they're going to find, and what they're going to have to do.
CONAN: And therefore, they decide after they've taken a look.
GUBAR: Right, which means that the woman has no volition or agency, and no decision-making role in this. She's anesthetized at that point.
CONAN: There was - you write of some nostalgia, I guess, for previous procedures called peek and shriek.
GUBAR: Yeah, that's what they used to do in the old days. They would open up a woman and if the cancer was very bad, they would just stitch her up again. And they called it peek and shriek.
CONAN: Which was, I guess, a resolution of sorts, but...
GUBAR: Yes.
CONAN: Why is it that this disease has not - treatments and, as you say, detection for this disease, have not improved so much over the past - what, 20, 30 years?
GUBAR: I think one of the problems is, it doesn't receive enough federal funding. It's been historically underfunded. It turns out that in the past 20 years, no new drugs have been approved by the FDA for ovarian cancer. This is the not the case with other forms of cancer. So more money has to be put in there.
I think also because it's 23,000 women, American woman a year, it's not a lucrative pharmaceutical adventure for drug companies. So they have been tentative in their response to ovarian cancer.
CONAN: In fact, you write that there has been one - at least one drug that has been developed, but it's on hold.
GUBAR: Yes, many drugs are on hold and have not been approved by the FDA.
CONAN: Isn't that always somehow the case, though - that whatever it is you've got, there's something coming down the pipeline, but not in time?
GUBAR: Not in time, right, right. But when you think that so little has improved, statistically, since the '70s; and you compare it, for example, to treatment of prostate cancer or breast cancer; it's clear that something needs to be done. Gilda Radner was very young when she was stricken with this disease, and not much has changed since then.
CONAN: Susan Gubar is our guest; she's the author of "Memoir of a Debulked Woman: Enduring Ovarian Cancer." If this is your story, give us a call, 800-989-8255. Email us, firstname.lastname@example.com. Stay with us. I'm Neal Conan. It's the TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News.
CONAN: This is TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News. I'm Neal Conan. Susan Gubar describes, in her new book, her reaction to the news after her diagnosis with advanced ovarian cancer: The resolute acceptance tangled with dismay, snarled with depression - she writes - as I descended into deeper circles of an inferno in which I suffered less from the disease, more from grotesque surgeries and procedures performed by the most enlightened and proficient practitioners of contemporary medicine.
Enduring ovarian cancer mires patients in treatments more patently hideous than the symptoms originally produced by the disease, while ovarian cancer itself endures - as it has for centuries - unchecked in any significant way by the new findings of contemporary science.
Surely at this point, I should have been ready to relinquish the proactive advice of physicians, bow to the consequences of the incurable nature of the disease, and embrace my imminent fate - of course, she didn't - early on felt a sudden sense of relief.
You can read more about that in an excerpt from "Memoir of a Debulked Woman" at our webpage. Go to npr.org. Click on TALK OF THE NATION. If this is also your story, give us a call, 800-989-8255. Email firstname.lastname@example.com. We'll start with Ruth(ph), and Ruth's on the line with us from Franklin, Tennessee.
RUTH: Hi, how are you all?
CONAN: Good, thanks.
RUTH: I wanted to say, I went through a lot of that horrible surgery. They kept doing surgery like, a year after I had my original surgery but - because they kept finding other things. But I had all of that done nine years ago. So I was able to get through it.
GUBAR: That's fantastic. I'm - I congratulate you. I think that's wonderful.
RUTH: Well, thank you. So it was important for me to hear from people while I was going through it, other people who had survived it and made it through to the other side. I wanted people to know that you can get through it.
GUBAR: I think you're making a very important point. And there are ovarian cancer listservs, where women write to each other while they're in treatment. And some of these women have had five and six and seven recurrences, and yet they manage to continue living their lives. This is - it's amazing, the kind of courage that some women are capable of.
CONAN: Ruth, what's been the effect on your life, and your family?
RUTH: Well, it kind of tore my family apart, going through all of this. You know, I ended up getting divorced after everything was over with. You know, we had a son. He was 2. He and I are very, very close. He can still remember - even though he was 2 - he remembers me going through all of that. He remembers me not having any hair and not being able to pick him up. But he called my bald head the ball - you know, he always wanted to play with the ball.
GUBAR: Again, I think you're making a very important point, which is that cancer doesn't just hit the patient. It's a really tough burden for partners, and for children. I think there's no question that it's - the fallout, the consequences for the entire family can be catastrophic.
RUTH: Yeah, it really can.
CONAN: Ruth, continued good luck; thanks very much for the call.
RUTH: Thank you so much.
CONAN: Let's see if we can go next to - this is Ann(ph), Ann with us from Portland.
ANN: Hi, Neal, yeah, I am facing this situation right now. It's not ovarian cancer. I have bladder cancer; was diagnosed in December, had a biopsy, an operation done in January - the 11th, had chemo afterwards and just last Friday, went back for another checkup and was told that the cancer is back. And most likely, will be - is cancerous, and this is just - I'm not getting the result until tomorrow, but she - the doctor told me yeah, she's pretty sure.
And I'm facing exactly those questions that your author is writing about, and I'm going to get her book because I really do not want to go through this. This was only four and a half weeks ago, and do I have to do this every five months? I'm not prepared. I am 75 years old, and my thing is quantity over - no, quality over quantity. So I'm really, really right now - in the throes of some depression, of course.
GUBAR: Oh, it's a very difficult problem. There are women who continue to exist with what they call maintenance therapy; that is, they know they're going to be on chemotherapy for the rest of their lives.
ANN: I'm not going to do that.
GUBAR: But there are quite a few women who just feel that the quality of life is so limited and curtailed by the chemotherapy, that the toxins are so debilitating, that they just cannot do that. And they won't do it.
ANN: Mm-hmm. That's my stance right now. No, it's very difficult to face.
CONAN: So...
GUBAR: Very difficult.
CONAN: So is the alternative.
GUBAR: Yes, exactly. That's the problem.
ANN: Well, I - like I said, this is just very - so very recent, and I basically was not surprised by what the doctor told me. But it still comes as a shock, and what do I do now?
GUBAR: Yeah, I think it will depend so much on the kind of chemicals they're going to prescribe and your - you know, your reaction to them. There have been - there has been some headway in relieving side-effects of some chemos. So perhaps they can come up with a protocol that you can take. Perhaps not. It's a very complicated decision, and I feel for you.
ANN: Thank you.
CONAN: Thank you. Good luck, Ann.
ANN: Thank you.
CONAN: And Susan Gubar, I have to say - after reading your book - I'm not sure that there are treatments that make the chemo more acceptable.
GUBAR: Well, I have to say, I took this anti-nausea drug that was just fantastic. I never threw up once. And I'm sure that 10 or 15 years ago, I would have thrown up every day. So I think they have made some strides. Everybody has a different reaction to the toxins that they're - the toxic chemicals they're given, and everybody is given a different kind of cocktail - we should not call it.
I found that with the first chemo that I discuss in the book, that the symptoms that were most difficult for me were psychological rather than physical; which is that I felt as if my subjectivity had been evacuated. I had no self. I wasn't me. I wasn't Susan. I wasn't, you know, the kind of partner I feel I want to be, the kind of mother I want to be, the kind of teacher, the kind of mentor or friend.
I just felt like a kind of zombie. And those were psychological consequences that not everybody suffers, but that I did encounter.
CONAN: This from Catherine(ph): I'm one of the 23,000 and currently undergoing a second round of chemo for a recurrence. I'm game for this round, but I wonder how many more I'm good for. Treatment is no walk in the park.
GUBAR: That's perfectly put.
CONAN: Yeah. This from Teddy(ph) in Modesto: I've lost a close friend and my mother-in-law to ovarian cancer. Both were put off for more than a year by the same physician. They'd gone in complaining of pain and discomfort and - was put off many times before they finally put their foot down and insisted he run some tests. By that time, it was too late.
GUBAR: You know, what interests me about that email is that very often, I will meet people who will say to me: My mother or my grandmother or my, you know, my sister had this disease. And yet it's one of the world's best-kept secrets. There's so little written about it. I had a lot of trouble finding the few memoirs that - the self-published or out-of-print. And I think part of the problem is that the story is not a happy - a happily-ever-after story.
I mean, it's hard to read a story that's not going to have a good ending. It's hard to write a story like that. I also think that the stories ovarian cancer patients have to tell address taboo subjects. They deal with bowel problems and blockages, and it's difficult. It's very difficult to overcome one's modesty or reticence with just sense of decorum, and address these issues.
CONAN: And how - it's got to be uncomfortable writing a book that exposes all of those...
GUBAR: It's terribly - it's terribly uncomfortable.
GUBAR: The only thing...
CONAN: Perfect strangers are going to know all this stuff.
GUBAR: It's grotesque, actually.
CONAN: Let me ask you another question, though, which is sort of a professional writers' question: As you lay on that gurney, one of the things you asked yourself was, you know, maybe I have come to the end of my professional accomplishments. I've written the books that I've wanted to write - you wrote a pioneering book I mentioned, "The Madwoman in the Attic"; you've edited anthologies of women's literature; you wrote a biography of Judas Iscariot - but were having a hard time coming up with a new project.
GUBAR: No, that's true. And I think that, you know, I dealt with this the way I've been trained to deal as a scholar with anything that happens in my life. And I started reading. And I started finding out how little first-person accounts there were, how few memoirs there were, and how difficult it was to understand the scientific work that was being published.
And it became a project. And it was - writing the book was, in a sense - this is an answer to something implicit in your earlier question; how can I stand, you know, revealing these things about myself, this sort of self-exposure - but writing the book was a kind of lifeline for me. Working on sentences and paragraphs, and thinking about the poems that came to my mind that helped me to express what I was feeling, or the paintings by Frida Kahlo - that, for me, was - I don't think I could have survived without writing the book.
CONAN: Let's go next to Keith, and Keith is with us from Gainesville.
KEITH: I lost my mom to ovarian cancer in 2010. Your bravery in discussing this is refreshing. As family members, we had to make those hard decisions. My mother was a 40-year nurse. She was 71 when she was diagnosed. She had wonderful team of physicians. I'm in an academic research community - we have all the technology and specialists you could want, and more, here.
She had no symptoms. We had no idea until finally, she got so ill and had a mass, and she had to have the debulking surgery, which - she was not a large woman. She was, at her peak, 105 pounds, and she was 89 pounds at the end of her surgery. But then we had to make - her only request - as a nurse - was, I don't want to die in the hospital. And she'd also been a hospice nurse.
GUBAR: Mm-huh.
KEITH: That year of treatment, as difficult as it was, she - and she tolerated most things well - it gave all of us as family members all kinds of opportunities. And she found strength - she was a very strong woman, but she found even more strengths, strengths she didn't know she had. When she washed her hair, my brother, who is a fine-art photographer, took these beautiful pictures of her slick, domed head and her huge smile, with her two grandchildren - my sons.
We still miss her greatly. It was an incredibly brave decision on her part. And as a family, she kept saying, just let me go. I don't want to burden you. And all we could say is, there's no burden that they can put you through that we can't handle together as a family. And would - you know, looking back, would I say, gee, I don't want her to go through all that suffering, I'd rather just lose her a year earlier? Absolutely not...
GUBAR: Right, right.
KEITH: ...because I know that that's not what she'd have wanted, either. And I'd love to thank my surgeons, but I can't say their names on the air. But - or her surgeons.
GUBAR: I want to say that the experience of your mom - about not having any symptoms at all - is something that I have read about with a number of other women who have this disease, which is one of the reasons why it's so important to get some kind of a detection device. The CA-125 blood test does not work for many women. It produces false positives. And many women have absolutely no signals from their body that there is this mortal threat.
KEITH: And she was well aware of her body, and took good care of herself as a nurse...
GUBAR: Exactly. Exactly.
KEITH: And there was just nothing there until it went out of control and her CA-125 went off the scale. But everything was off the scale, at that point.
GUBAR: Exactly.
CONAN: Keith, thanks very much. We're talking with Susan Gubar, author of "Memoir of a Debulked Woman: Enduring Ovarian Cancer." You're listening to TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News.
Ayanti(ph) is on the line, with us from Santa Rosa.
AYANTI: Hi, Susan.
GUBAR: Yes.
AYANTI: I wanted to first of all, thank you so much for writing about this. I'm an ovarian cancer survivor. I was diagnosed almost to the exact time you were. What I wanted to ask you is - and I'm alive because I was very fortunate to go to a surgical oncologist the first go-round. I had no symptoms.
What I have run into is, you are saying - yeah, I'm so glad that you wrote this memoir. However, my concern is this: 30 years ago, breast cancer - women were terrified. Nobody would talk about it because women died. Right now, nobody wants to talk about ovarian cancer. And I'm worried at the end of this show, everybody is going to put their heads in the sand because the stats are so terrifying. (technical difficulty) And I feel like you're expected to not live.
How do we give - and so I'm saying, I'm giving ovarian cancer survivors hope. You can survive this. However, we need everything that you've been saying - federal funding; we need more attention. How do we do this? I'm finding it so difficult. It's a very difficult road. So what advice - how do we get the attention paid so that women don't have to go through this? I don't want anyone to have to go through what I went through, or what you went through.
GUBAR: I completely agree. I think you will - I'm listening to your voice and the cadences of your voice, and I think you will find your way to make a difference. I mean, I think we all have to do it in a different way. There are women who are working for various ovarian cancer alliances. There are people working - there are many oncologists, you know, applying for research grants. There are - and now - I mean, I tried to - write this book. I'm sure you'll find your way. But I think we do have to make the disease speakable.
CONAN: Here's an email from Jay in Ann Arbor: My wife went through ovarian cancer in 1995. Her story is one of serendipity. She listened to her body, asked her aerobics instructor to work on abs because of her bloating. Fortunately, that instructor had just been to a seminar where she heard this was a symptom of ovarian cancer. Luckily, an OB-GYN came to the class. My wife asked her about it. Three days later, she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. One week after that, she had surgery - again, luckily, stage 1 cancer. She still went through six months of very difficult chemo. She's been cancer-free ever since.
GUBAR: I am really glad that you read that because I think it's very important not to frighten women. Ovarian cancer can be cured if it is found in stage 1. It can be cured. This is - it's extraordinary. Unfortunately, 70 percent of the people who have it are in stage 3 or 4. But it is something that if we were to find a detection tool, could be cured.
CONAN: This, from Scott in Denver: As a former student of Susan's, now in my mid-50s, I remain impressed with Susan's intelligence, wit and grace throughout life. My very best wishes.
But I wanted to end with this email from Julie in St. Louis: I've dragged my feet on making my women's health appointment. I'm a mother with a business. Your guest scared me into picking up the phone and making my very overdue appointment. If you have symptoms similar to what your guest has talked about, what can a person do? What test is there to ask for? Where can we go to get more educated?
GUBAR: Well, I think you can ask for the CA-125 test. It's just that it's not a solution for all women. It does track, for some women, the existence of cancer. And there are other various scanning devices that can be used and - that she can find on any webpage at a major hospital site.
CONAN: She could do worse than read "Memoir of a Debulked Woman," too, by Susan Gubar. Thank you very much for your time today, and we appreciate your coming on to talk about a very difficult subject.
GUBAR: Thank you very much for inviting me.
CONAN: Susan Gubar joined us from member station WFIU in Bloomington, Indiana. She's professor emeritus of English at Indiana University, Bloomington. Up next: Bonnie Miller Rubin, once to introduced as Davenport, Iowa's first gal sports reporter. She recently stumbled on that 1973 article. She joins us next. If you've come across a message from an earlier self and time, give us a call: 800-989-8255. Email us: firstname.lastname@example.com. Stay with us. TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News.
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University of Texas Houston sued for alleged retaliation against porn investigator
It was reported in today's Austin-American Statesman that Cynthia Davis continues to pursue litigation relating to her firing as University of Texas-Houston technology auditor who had investigated the pornography usage of university computers by faculty and other employees of the UT Health Science Center at Houston.
Based on her 2003 investigative findings, "officials of the health center fired one employee and placed a written reprimand in the personnel files of nine others. The officials never ordered a thorough investigation of as many as 300 other employees whose computer records suggested that they also had spent time viewing X-rated Web sites on the job. What's more, officials acknowledged that the true number of employees viewing pornography could have been far greater." As a result of her efforts, Davis claimed that she was fired.
The Austin-American Statesman reviewed the details from court records in a lawsuit that Davis "filed in federal court in 2005 against two prominent higher education officials whom she accuses of largely brushing aside the problem and retaliating against her for raising concerns in 2003."
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A federal appeals court ruled last month that Davis can proceed with her suit against Mike McKinney, who left his position as senior executive vice president and chief operating officer at the Houston center in 2006 to become chancellor of the Texas A&M University System, and Charles Chaffin, the UT System's director of audits. McKinney, a physician and former state representative, has also served as Gov. Rick Perry's chief of staff, vice chancellor for health affairs at the UT System and commissioner of the Texas Health and Human Services Commission.
Davis filed the suit against McKinney and Chaffin, the Houston health science center, the UT System and the UT Board of Regents. A district judge dismissed the case against all but McKinney and Chaffin, who declined through representatives to comment, citing the ongoing litigation.
Davis contends that she was pressured to quit her job in late 2003 in the wake of her investigation into the viewing of pornography by faculty members, staff members and students. She is seeking reinstatement, back pay and other damages.
Davis said the lax response by UT officials shocked her. "I thought, people are going to be outraged when they see this," said Davis, now a computer and accounting consultant in Houston. She said McKinney "handled it the worst of all of them" by narrowing the scope of any investigation from the start.
McKinney said in a deposition supplied by Davis' lawyer that when he was told how many people were possibly viewing porn, "My immediate reaction was I can't fire 300 people."
Davis said McKinney told her, "Bring me the top 10 abusers."
Davis said she discovered that one pediatric dentist regularly viewed X-rated Web sites in the early morning before seeing patients. She said another employee posted to the Internet pornographic material he had videotaped in his own office.
Davis said officials refused to meet with her to discuss her concerns, even after she wrote a memorandum to James Willerson, president of the Houston center, and sent a copy to Mark Yudof, chancellor of the UT System.
Yudof is expected to be named president of the University of California System next week. A spokesman for Yudof said the chancellor was not available for comment Friday, and Willerson did not respond to a request for comment submitted to a spokesman.
No child pornography, the presence of which would constitute a violation of federal law, was found in the examination of the Houston center computers by UT System police. After being contacted by Davis, the FBI concluded in 2004 that none of the content on the computers constituted child porn.
It's not clear whether employees who viewed pornographic material broke any state laws. No law specifically bars computer users from visiting pornographic Web sites, said Thomas Johnson, a spokesman for the Texas Department of Information Resources.
However, the Texas Administrative Code, which has the force of law, says information resources "shall be used only for intended purposes as defined by the state agency and consistent with applicable laws."
…in the deposition, McKinney defended the decision to reprimand all but one of the employees. And he acknowledged that he did not order investigators to examine the computers of as many as 300 other employees to determine the extent of the problem.
Instead, he said, he notified all center employees that viewing pornography was prohibited, on the assumption that the problem was even wider.
"I can tell you that we took an approach that would address the issue for all 4,500 employees, not just those 10, not just the hundred that – they came up with 300, whatever the number was," McKinney said.
In his deposition, Chaffin testified that Yudof never contacted him about the Houston pornography investigation. Yudof said in an affidavit that Willerson responded to Davis' memo because this was "an institutional matter."
Chaffin also said he expressed concern about Davis' ethics to her supervisor, Sharon Corum, but did not tell Corum to fire Davis. That contrasts with Davis' and Corum's views of the matter. In a 2006 deposition, Corum testified that no one directly told her that Davis should be terminated. But, Corum said, Chaffin asked her "on several occasions" whether Davis had been fired.
"I felt under pressure because he repeatedly kept asking me what the status was, and I knew that Charlie did not like it that I had not yet terminated her," Corum said.
When asked by Shellist, Davis' lawyer, whether Chaffin's high-ranking position in the UT System caused her to feel pressure to fire Davis, Corum answered, "Yes, yes."
"Because I believe he had the authority to impact my career and whether or not I had my job," Corum testified.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld most of a January 2007 ruling by U.S. District Judge Vanessa Gilmore of Houston that said Davis could pursue a wide range of free speech claims. The appellate ruling turned on whether Davis' complaints were made as an employee or as a citizen who was raising issues of public concern. Davis' claims could proceed only if she made them as a citizen, a three-judge panel of the 5th Circuit ruled.
The appeals court rejected two of Davis' claims – both based on her concern about officials' inadequate response to the disclosure of pornography viewing – and allowed four others to be heard in the trial court. Gilmore has scheduled a September trial.
The claims that were allowed to proceed were made either to outside entities or ones that didn't relate directly to her job duties. They include complaints about excessive pay for UT-Houston officials, racial discrimination in hiring and firing, and concerns about the presence of pornography on health science center computers.
Davis filed a complaint with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission about discriminatory hiring practices at the Houston center, but the agency didn't issue any finding, Shellist said.
In the dankprofessor's opinion, this case provides further evidence that pornography has become an everyday part of American life, including Americans' working life. It would be fair to state that pornography has become normalized or, if you will, significantly de-stigmatized. Attempts to combat pornography has its limits.
Attempts to penalize or fire employees who have viewed pornography on the university's or health center's computers becomes a threat in itself, such could very well disrupt the functioning of the organization. Apparently, such even occurs at institutions that are committed to the health and well being of its citizen-patients. And what is ironic in the current investigation is that many of those who are anti-pornography invoke a health medical framework in articulating their opposition to pornography. Invoking a health rhetoric becomes increasingly difficult when as this case reveals that many health professionals are viewing porn at work, so many that efforts to limit pornography at work must be limited.
So when it comes to limiting porn availability, one can talk the talk, but if one really tries to walk the walk, one can end up walking the plank. This case reaffirms for the dankprofessor that the war on pornography is over. Advocates against porn are on the defensive since there is no defense; so-called filtering is obviously a stopgap measure, the effectiveness of which is severely limited. How to limit access to porn by children still remains a hard issue to resolve, but attempts to limit the access to porn by willing adults is a non-starter. And this is as it should be- adults having the freedom to choose what they view and read and where they view it as long as they do not force it upon the unwilling.
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We drove around the city today looking for Halloween decorations - the plastic kind... the nostalgic kind. Bean was armed with her instant cameras.
I should have knocked on each house's door and thanked them for making Halloween the coolest holiday on earth.
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We drove around the city today looking for Halloween decorations - the plastic kind... the nostalgic kind. Bean was armed with her instant cameras.
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- Jay's Shadow said...
There is a house I pass on the way to work that has plastic light up halloween decorations out in their yard. They look old school from the road, not sure. I'll have to get a better look and snap some pics.
- October 24, 2010 at 3:27 PM
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Wearing or not wearing the Michael Myers mask? LOL
- October 24, 2010 at 3:43 PM
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- Anonymous said...
The guy who lived across from us did a yard full of fading plastic decos, recently added huge Inflatable ghosts galore on his garage roof. He turned 86 & went to live with his son earlier this year. I miss his Halloween yard. A lot. New owners do NaDa.
- October 24, 2010 at 4:15 PM
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I was going out to get dinner tonight and saw a dad and two kids working together to place some tombstones in their yard -
I wanted to get out and give them some kind of award for keeping up the spirit of halloween - you just don't see halloween yard deco. around here anymore beyond a pumpkin on the porch
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Hooray for Halloween decorations! I really wish that people in my neighborhood decorated for Halloween. We're the only house that does. Out of about 60-70 houses. Booooooo.
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Zap2IT labs used to use a "repeat=true" attribute to flag repeats.
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SP* episode IDs (Sports) seldom have the "new" attribute set. (consider them all "new")
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TV_GRAB_NA_DD sets <previously-shown> if the episode-id is a "EP" or "SH" type and the "new" attribute is not set.
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TV_GRAB_NA_DD removes <previously-shown> if the "new" attribute is set (OAD can be obtained from <date> if needed) This helps applications function well without code changes.
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A total of seven players, four from Etiwanda and three from Upland, have been issued suspensions by the CIF-SS as a result of a situation that occurred in last week's game between those schools, according to Etiwanda Athletic Director Dave Masucci.
Masucci said he was notified Thursday morning. There is no appeal process, so the suspensions will stand. As is normally the case, the names of the players who will sit out have not been disclosed.
"It's too bad because we both have big games," Masucci said. "Ours are all starters and theirs are significant too."
In the second half of last week's game between the teams, an Etiwanda player was forced out of bounds by an Upland defender who was flagged for a late hit. The play spilled over onto the track.
An Upland player was ejected, but the game went on without further incident.
Upland appealed the original ejection and subsequent suspension of that one player, and the matter was referred to the Foothill-Citrus Officials Association.
When the tape was reviewed, the additional players were singled out.
Masucci said the suspensions on the Etiwanda side were for players leaving the bench area, which has been the case with suspensions dealt in several other Southern Section games this season.
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The suspensions come at a bad time for both teams. Upland (6-3, 3-1) will be squaring off against Rancho Cucamonga (9-0, 4-0) with a chance to earn a share of the Baseline League title. The Highlanders have already secured a playoff berth, unlike Etiwanda (5-4, 2-2), which will be playing Los Osos (5-4, 2-2) for sole possession of third place.


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Everyone involved with the White Sox organization has their opinions on what's wrong with Alex Rios. From manager Ozzie Guillen insisting that the outfielder had never been moved to a different team before so tried donning a cape and playing Superman when he came over, to hitting coach Greg Walker talking about a guy that has now become overwhelmed with mechanical problems.
Mechanical problems? Let's see what Walker does. Ozzie Guillen doesn't sound thrilled:
"This year has been a very unusual situation. Every time we're in a slump, it's everybody. You're not going to take anything away from the pitching staffs that we've faced, but we've been facing some pitchers this year, it's like, 'Who the [hell] is this guy? They don't even belong in the [expletive] big leagues, and they just kicked our ass.' I'm not going to lie. I know who beat us, and I know who should beat us. We've faced some guys where they've called him up, faced us and get him back to [expletive] Double-A, get the [hell] out of here. That's how bad we've been."
And with six of their final nine games against the Tigers, manager Ozzie Guillen believes the White Sox can still compete for the division title if his four veteran hitters heat up down the stretch. "We got Carlos [Quentin], we have [Alex] Rios, PK [Paul Konerko] and JD [Jermaine Dye], almost in the same way," Guillen said. "I think if two out of those four guys get hot, I think it's going be interesting. Because if we play the way we play right now with those guys hot, that means we can do some damage."


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As the battle between rebels and the Syrian government rages on, information is one of the most powerful weapons used. Accordingly, when a Syrian military helicopter crashed yesterday, two explanations emerged.
Rebels claimed it as a tick mark for kills scored. Syria's government, however, attributed the crash to a mid-air collision with a passenger airliner carrying 200 people. But is claiming your helicopter pilots nearly accidentally killed 200 people a victory?
The Syrian government has been caught in a lie before. Rebels shot down a couple of MiG fighter jets last month and the state's propaganda machine immediately brushed it off as the result of mechanical failure. But the excuse they cooked up for this warbird loss was more elaborate. The liner the government claims the chopper hit allegedly landed safely, although officials said it had lost a piece of its tail section in the collision.
On the other hand, it's possible that rebel force may have scored a hit. Someone who was in the neighborhood at the time told the Associated Press that he heard explosions and gunfire just before receiving a report that the helo was down.
Gunfire doesn't sound like a mishap. Gunfire sounds like someone who doesn't like the government had pretty good aim.
Or, you know, the Syrian military is just full of murderously incompetent people instead of the incompetent murders the world thinks they are.
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Timoteo Barcenilla-Petrona Alcordo House
(of Leon Kilat notoriety; also known as Dodoy Jaen's House)
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present owner: Leto E. Sato
Hands down the biggest and architecturally the grandest house in Carcar. A microcosm of the interweaving of Carcar genealogy can be viewed through this house–that is, for people with the eye and stomach for byzantine intricacies. And if there's to be a historical heritage structure in Carcar that should be preserved, this house is it–with particular emphasis on the very room the hero was did in. The others have to be the ruins of the original church at Tuyom (or Sialo), the various watch towers and the present church. No other Carcar spot comes close. Many other homes and landmarks are specimens and beautification projects at best, but these sites I mentioned (maybe together with the Ocaña-Napo archaeological-subject hills) are the ones with real historical bearing.
[Addendum (20-Oct-2009): Ang kalimot wa'y gahom (Forgetting is no excuse). Another house with potential historical value is the family home of Archbishop Teofilo Camomot who died in 1988, and for whom a cause for sainthood had been advanced. Once the beloved monsignor makes even beatification, forget the so-called So-and-So ancestral houses, the Camomot House is going to crowd the "Leon Kilat" as the most important house in Carcar. Along with his transplanted grave at the DST convent in Valladolid.]
When Leon Kilat was killed in the house in 1898, the spacious azotea was not yet there I was told. But it was since that single incident that the house won its hundred years of fame in Cebu history.
At the time of Kilat's assassination, the owner of the house was Don Timoteo Barcia Barcenilla (Kapitan Tiyoy) and his wife Doña Petrona Alcorisa Alcordo. Petrona's brother, Doroteo, was himself another gobernadorcillo of the town but had died two years previously. The tailor called to measure Kilat for a uniform, Segundo Alcoseba Alcordo, was a son of another brother of Petrona, Lucio.
Segundo Alcordo's son became one of the more famous products of the town: engineering professor and Dean, Amancio Alesna Alcordo.
Capitan Tiyoy Barcenilla and Petrona Alcordo's only child, Felipa, married Segundo Alcoseba (first cousin of Segundo Alcordo) in 1881. The union's descendants include the two grandchildren–the brother generals Emilio and Alfonso Alcoseba–and the Sandiegos. Felipa and Segundo Alcoseba's son Vicente wrote the saga of Leon Kilat's death in Carcar, Ang Kamatayon. It is a gripping story, especially since Vicente himself was present in the house when Leon Kilat was killed. Kapitan Tiyoy died in 1907.
But how and when ownership of the house was transferred, probably the respective families would know, but it did change hands to Don Leocadio Jaen (Kapitan Kadyo), also a major player in the Leon Kilat story. Leocadio's wife was Anacleta Noel and his sister Victoria was the mother of Filomena Jaen, wife of Florencio (Kapitan Insyong) Noel.
In any event, Leocadio died in 1906 and his son and only surviving direct heir, Vicente (Dodoy) Jaen, inherited the house, but since he and his wife Francisca Alegado Mercado had no children of their own, after their deaths, the house was assumed by the daughters of Dodoy's older half-sister, Josefa Regis (daughter of his mother Anacleta Noel by the latter's first husband). Josefa's younger brother, Antonio, is the forefather of the Regis families of Gen. Luna st.
Josefa Regis was married to Nicanor Ocaña Enriquez by whom she had three daughters Andrea, Soledad (Sofia in Baptismal) and Antonina (Antonia in Baptismal). Antonina's son Leto Sato now runs the house. Talk of the town is how also keenly interested are other collateral heirs. All kinds of rumors about deals and sales are passed around town. The naughtier of the gossips (and most of them are naughty) all concur Leto, a lawyer, will not take these claims lying down–lying maybe, but not lying down, the quip goes.


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Those of you who've read my novel Ventus may recognize "The Successor to Science" as the title of a fictional paper referred to in that book. The paper introduces the reader to the concept of thalience. As originally intended, thalience was an attempt to look past science to see what discipline would come after it–hence the title "A Successor to Science."
You're forgiven if you're bewildered–after science? How does that make sense? Am I saying that science is just a cultural phenomenon, a fashion? No. But it is something that exists in a particular historical context, and the question I was asking with thalience was whether science might produce some new kind of activity that, while not replacing it, could be viewed as an offspring of equal value to us.
Let's back up a bit. In Ventus I invented a new word, and gave several definitions for it–quite deliberately, because I believe that ambiguity is the life-force of words. The word is acutally defined now on Wikipedia, but the two definitions given there are only half-right. Vinge asked me whether the word has to do with distributed sensor nets–because the Winds of Ventus are a system of massively parallel nanotech AIs–and I said yes at the time, but didn't expand on what that implied. If your eyes haven't glazed over yet, bear with me; you may find what follows interesting.
What if you could separate the activity of science from the human researchers who conduct it?Automate it, in fact? Imagine creating a bot that does physics experiments and builds an internal model of the world based on those experiments. It could start out as something simple that stacked blocks and knocked them over again. Later models could get quite sophisticated; and let's say we combine this ability with the technology of self-reproducing machines (von Neumann machines). Seed the moon with our pocket-protector-brandishing AIs and let them go nuts. Let them share their findings and refine their models.
So far so good. Here's the question that leads to the notion of thalience: if they were allowed to freely invent their own semantics, would their physical model of the universe end up resembling ours? –I don't mean would it produce the same results given the same inputs, because it would. But would it be a humanly-accessible theory?
This is a better question than it might at first appear, because even we can produce mutually irreconcilable theories that successfully describe the same things: quantum mechanics and relativity, for instance. Their worldviews are incompatible, despite the fact that together they appear to accurately describe the real world. So it's at least possible that non-human intelligences would come to different conclusions about what the universe was like, even if their theory produced results compatible with our models.
This little thought-experiment asks whether we can turn metaphysics into a hard science; and this becomes the first interesting meaning of the world thalience: it is an attempt to give the physical world itself a voice so that rather than us asking what reality is, reality itself can tell us. It is possible that thalient systems will always converge on a model of the universe that is comprehensible to humans; if so, then we will actually have a means of solving what were once considered philosophically imponderable questions–such as, what is the world really made of? How much of our understanding of the universe is subjective, and is truely objective knowledge even possible? A thalient system could tell us.
In Ventus, of course, the thalient system has lost the ability to communicate with humans; but the end of the novel holds out the hope that some sort of bridge can be constructed. Strangely, this bridge appears in the form of politics, rather than as a meeting of minds through Reason or Mathematics.
But there's a further meaning to the term. If you were to automate science, and reap the rewards, what would you be left doing? Twiddling your thumbs while the AIs solve all the big problems? Well, not necessarily. The last definition of thalience involves the exciting possibility that, yes, multiple equally valid physical models of the universe are possible. Not one true "theory of everything" but many, perhaps an endless number of them. In this case, the conclusions we reach about our place in the universe when we understand quantum mechanics and relativity–or, for that matter, Newtonian physics–are accidental, by-products of the subjective side of objective research. So here is the grandest definition of thalience: it is the discipline that chooses among multiple successful scientific models based on which ones best satisfy our human, aesthetic/moral/personal needs. In other words, given two or more equally valid models of the universe, thalience is the art of choosing the one with the most human face. It is the recovery of the natural in our understanding of the Natural.
The ability to create non-human intelligences that can ask the same questions we ask leads to the possibility not just of answering ancient questions, but of turning science into the precursor of a new human activity. If thalient entities can create accurate models of the world that are different from our own, you may no longer be faced with the dilemma of taking either a religious, comforting view of the universe, or an objective and scientific–but not humanly satisfying–view. Thalience would consist in taking science's results as raw material for building new mythologies–and possibly religions–which would differ from all previous ones in that they would all be scientifically, objectively true.
Now maybe you can see how science could have a successor: thalience would use objective truth as an artistic medium and merge subjectivity and objectivity in a creative activity whose purpose is the re-sanctification of the natural world. To believe in an uplifting and satisfying vision of your place in the universe, and to know that this vision is true (or as true as anything can be) would be sublime. Thalience would be an activity worthy of post-scientific humanity, or our own biological or post-biological successors.


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Vacation Locations: Knowledge is Fun Too!
by Amy Lignor
Most children (and adults, too) will either roll their eyes or sigh when, while speaking about vacation locations, the word "learning" just happens to be mentioned. Yes, it is a fact that school trips take all of us during our younger years to everything from museums to libraries to historic locations in order to teach us things we should know. But when thinking about your vacation, you should know that by considering journeying to a particular place that just happens to register high on the historical or educational meter, you could have even more fun.
One of the greatest trips this writer ever had as a child was to Washington, D.C. From the Smithsonian to the monuments…the place was buzzing with activity, cool things to look at, and was so much fun you didn't even notice all that learning that was being soaked up by your brain as you were having a good time.
So make sure that if you're looking up beach getaways, you also take the time to look up some truly awesome areas of the U.S. that you and the family can head to, have fun at, and even learn a few things as a bonus to the cool trip.
For those interested in historical battles, taking the family to Fort McHenry (located in Baltimore Harbor) is a whole lot of fun and education rolled into one. This star-shaped Fort has seen it all since its creation in 1794-1805. Famous for the crucial battles it held up against, it also played as the backdrop for an American named Francis Scott Key as he composed what would become the national anthem of the United States: "The Star Spangled Banner."
In South Dakota, Mount Rushmore is there in all its glory, with a ton of things to do for those who love nature, hiking, sightseeing and more. Those glorious faces of Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt, and Lincoln are certainly a sight to see. Meticulously chiseled, these were four men who not only created the U.S. but changed it under their reigns in government and should not be missed by anyone.
Coming to my favorite, D.C., that Smithsonian Institution is one of the biggest and most amazing creations in the world. Everything from Lincoln's car where he stood and delivered his famous "Four-Score" speech, to the history of flight, to the technology and amazing inventions that only this country can claim, there is something for everyone to gape at as they learn. But, of course, D.C. has far more for both adults and children in the way of learning and fun.
The massive marble temple that houses the stunning likeness of America's 16th President, the Lincoln Memorial, is dedicated to one of America's most beloved presidents and humans. Opened in 1922, this is one that cannot be missed by anyone's gaze.
From the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier to the JeffersonMemorial to the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial – there is a list of 'must-sees' that only America's capital can boast. And when it comes to tall structures that mean something to every citizen of this country, The Washington Monument, erected for the first President of the United States, is something to be seen up close and not only on the Internet. Although construction began on this stunning obelisk in 1848, the structure was not actually completed until 1884, due in large part to the years in which the country was fighting the Civil War (1861 – 1865). Today, the 554-foot tall structure (the world's tallest structure made of stone) stands within Washington D.C.'s National Mall.
Last, but certainly not least (for this article) is that lady that stands for everything this country (once) stood for and should stand for to this day. Given as a gift by the French in 1886, the Statue of Liberty stands 151 feet tall and is considered by most to be the epitome of freedom. Located off the southern tip of Manhattan, with Ellis Island yet another sight to see close by, Lady Liberty to this day greets all ships and vessels entering New York City. Some passengers still have dreams in their minds and hope for better lives in their hearts. Let us hope that remains for a good long time to come.
There are thousands of memorials, structures, forts, and cities that bring about awe – such as Gettysburg, Pennsylvania – that all families should venture to on their summer vacations. Not only will you have fun and make lasting memories, but that extra knowledge never hurts either. Enjoy!
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