Wednesday 10-05-11

The perverts are still at it, when will they learn.

Breast Cancer Survivor Lori Dorn Says She Endured ‘Humiliating’ Pat-Down At JFK

Although October is Breast Cancer Awareness month, it seems some Transportation Security Administration agents aren’t very aware when it comes to compassion.

Breast cancer survivor Lori Dorn says she was subjected to a humiliating public pat-down at John F. Kennedy airport even though she offered to produce documentation about her medical implants.

Dorn wrote in her blog that the patdown at JFK added “insult to injury and caused me a great deal of humiliation.”

Dorn was heading to San Francisco last week when a full-body scanner detected her prostheses. Dorn said she explained she had recently undergone bilateral mastectomy and had tissue expanders implanted for future breast reconstruction. A TSA agent refused to let her retrieve documentation from her wallet “that explains the type of expanders, serial numbers and my doctor’s information,” she said.

“I had no choice but to allow an agent to touch my breasts in front of other passengers,” Dorn said.

In a tweet on her Twitter account Monday, Dorn said she received an apology from a JFK official “who agreed that proper policy wasn’t followed.”

In its own blog, the TSA said it regretted the incident and apologized. “We do our best to treat passengers with the dignity and respect they deserve, but in Lori Dorn’s case, it looks like we missed our mark,” it said.

The TSA said the security director at JFK has reached out to Dorn to learn more about what happened.

The agency said medical cards “are a great way for passengers to discreetly let us know about a medical situation or disability,” and in Dorn’s case TSA agents should have “been more empathetic to her situation.”

It added that private screenings can be requested by anyone for any reason and said the agency recently rolled out a four-part in-service training course focused on screening prosthetics. Training is expected to be completed across the country in over a year.

Dorn said that while she understood the need for safety, airport security agents needed to show compassion and sensitivity.

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/10/04/breast-cancer-survivor-lori-dorn-says-she-endured-humiliating-patdown-at-jfk/

What do you think will happen in your neighborhood if that happened, be honest.

Mob takes emergency water supplies during Banbury shortages

People in the Bretch Hill area of Banbury were supplied with bottled water A water delivery driver in Oxfordshire was forced to abandon his supply of emergency bottles after he was threatened by a group of residents.

The incident took place on Sunday after two Thames Water pumps at the Bretch Hill Reservoir in Banbury failed.

About 4,000 homes were cut off for 24 hours.

The company responded by supplying 68,000 bottles of water to the area. It said some residents had behaved aggressively and prevented deliveries.

'Tough situation'

A spokesman for Thames Water said it was disappointed by a "minority for their selfish behaviour".

The contractor concerned was outnumbered by a group who verbally abused him and refused to allow him to take his delivery to another part of the estate - physically removing the bottles from his truck.

The spokesman added they were grateful to the majority of affected customers for their patience and understanding but the behaviour of a few residents had "made a tough situation more difficult for everyone".

The William Morris School, in Bretch Hill, was closed to pupils as a result of the water shortage which was fixed by about 18:00 BST on Monday.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-15165479

Thought this was interesting, was thinking of raising Tilapia , but i guess i will raise bluegill now.

Tilapia: The fish that is as bad for you as bacon

If fish don't eat well, they won't be healthy for you to eat. And when tilapia are fed on corn and soy pellets, they have higher levels of unhealthful omega-6 fatty acids than doughnuts, hamburgers and pork bacon.

Tilapia also have very low levels of beneficial omega-3s, and a 2008 study by researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine warns that this combination could be dangerous for cardiac patients and people with other medical conditions.

Since many people who don't like fishy tasting food prefer tilapia, Seafood Watch recommends eating fish raised in environmentally friendly systems in the U.S.

Tilapia that is farmed in Central and South America is the next best choice.

Changing the kind of fish you eat is another option, and some experts recommend omega-3 rich salmon or trout as more healthful alternatives.

The American Academy of Family Physicians lists how many ounces of fish among different types that is required to provide the beneficial omega-3 fatty acids recommended by the American Heart Association.

Among the best are salmon, sardines, fresh and canned white tuna and halibut.

http://wtop.com/?nid=267&sid=2576414


Hunker Down to Weather the Next 10 Years

Meteorologists look into the future every day. While this afternoon's weather is usually an easy call to make, things get a little dodgier with a 10-day forecast, much less the 10-year forecast.

But veteran Iowa State Univ. meteorologist Elwynn Taylor didn't flinch when Farm Equipment tasked him with providing a weather outlook for the next 10 years.

"There are indications that the climate will become increasingly volatile over the next 20 years. Dry years will be drier and wet years will be wetter. Volatility may not be permanent, but it will be a fixture for the next 10-20 years," Taylor says.

Current volatile conditions are no surprise to Taylor. He says they're classic La Niña weather patterns. The past four winters have been snowier and the springs wetter, causing flooding. But Taylor believes climate change may cause the La Niña and El Niño weather cycles to become stronger.

"This is a more volatile cycle than we expected 10 years ago when we went through the

last 10-year La Niña-El Niño cycle. But when we look back, it lines up with the 89-year natural climate cycle, repeating the extremely volatile weather we saw in the early 1900s as we approach the cycle again," Taylor says.

He anticipates in the coming decade that the Corn Belt will become increasingly wet, slightly warmer in the summer and considerably warmer in the winter.

Higher temperatures — whether caused by natural weather cycles or human impact — will feed higher precipitation in the Midwest. Taylor explains that air moving from the Gulf of Mexico at 100% humidity will carry 17% more water with a 5-degree temperature increase over today's norm. Seventeen percent more water in the air equates to 17% more precipitation.

The Midwest has seen approximately a 10% increase in annual rainfall since the 1950s, pushing rivers out of their banks more frequently than ever before.

"A 10% increase in precipitation doubles the stream flow of local rivers, putting them out of their banks six times more often," Taylor says.

The result is "100-year floods" occurring about every 17 years, as evidenced by serious flooding in 1993, 2008 and now, a little earlier than projected, 2011," Taylor says.

Farmers in the future hurt by multiple floods may be reevaluating what acres get planted to high-value crops.

"Lands that flood will do so more frequently, so producers may have to switch to planting a lower-value crop on those at-risk acres," Taylor says.

Another pressing decision will be what machinery to use and how to use it.

"When weather becomes more erratic, it's because the winds are stronger. We will see stronger winds and more precipitation, which will make protecting the soil from erosion a more challenging job," Taylor says.

http://www.farm-equipment.com/pages/Spre/Farming-in-2021.php