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Man charged for groping woman on plane
ninemsn staff
10:48am March 25, 2013

A man in the US who allegedly groped a woman while she was sleeping next to him on a plane later defended his actions by telling the victim, "It's not like I molested you".

Brett Zorse, 50, from New York City, was on a JetBlue flight from San Francisco to New York with his 12-year-old son last April when he assaulted the 32-year-old woman, The Smoking Gun reports.

It is alleged that Zorse put his hand underneath the woman's skirt while she was sleeping and massaged her thigh while his son was sitting next to him.

When the woman woke up, she demanded an explanation.

"It's not like I molested you," he reportedly said.

"It's not like I stuck my finger in your p---y or grabbed your tits."

The woman later reported the incident to JetBlue and police in New York.

When questioned by investigators, Zorse claimed that the woman had been "flirting with him, telling him he was attractive and he was a good father", the news site further reported.

He denied placing his hand up her skirt but said he may have made the rude remarks.

Zorse has been charged with simple assault and faces up to six months imprisonment if he is convicted.

Oh my goodness, what is this world coming to??????
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That's some weird ass shit
 
...here is some particularly good news in the fight for a cure for Cancer methinks...


Girl's 'cure' signals new cancer weapon

EMILY Whitehead is kind of a big deal. At age seven, she is the only child to have beaten back leukemia with the help of a new treatment that turned her own immune cells into targeted cancer killers.

She has been in remission for 11 months and is the first pediatric patient in a growing US trial that is showing signs of success after decades of research and now includes three other children and dozens of adults.

Her mother said Emily sometimes grapples with her newfound celebrity, which ballooned after the trial's results were first announced late last year.

"When we go to places where there are a lot of people, sometimes they want pictures with her, or sometimes just to touch her, so I think it gets a little overwhelming," Kari Whitehead told AFP.

For the most part though, Emily is happy to play with her dog, read, write and explore outdoors, thanks to an experimental treatment that saved her life after two relapses left doctors admitting they had no other options.


Now, the US researchers behind the method are expanding their quest for a next-generation cancer treatment that may require one dose in a lifetime, and may one day end the use of chemotherapy and bone marrow transplants.

While the word "cure" is something most experts would not whisper until a patient has lived at least five years illness-free, the field of research into targeted immune therapies is generating buzz.

Work at the University of Pennsylvania is supported by Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis, which last year announced an exclusive global deal to license chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) technologies for leukemia and other cancers.

Novartis is also funding a $20 million center for research at the University of Pennsylvania as part of the agreement.

The case studies that describe Emily's journey so far, and that of another 10-year-old girl who did not survive after trying the same adoptive T cell therapy, were detailed Monday in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Both girls suffered from acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), the most common form of childhood cancer. It is often curable, but theirs was a high-risk type that resists conventional treatments.

The new approach takes a patient's own white blood cells, called T cells, and genetically alters them with a receptor that allows them to recognize and kill cancer cells, according to Michael Kalos, who is part of the University of Pennsylvania team of researchers working on the project.

"The concept has been around for at least 50 years, and it has been tried in humans for about 20 years in different clinical trials, with limited success mostly because the T cells that were put into patients had a real hard time surviving in patients," Kalos told AFP.

Greater longevity was achieved when researchers began using a virus in the HIV family to serve as a vehicle for the gene that needs to enter the T cells, said Kalos.

The team, led by Carl June of the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania, first published its results in 2011 on three adults who suffered from chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL).

More than two years after treatment, two of the three are still living disease-free, and more than a dozen new patients have begun treatment.

A separate team of researchers at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Caner Center in New York also published a study last week in Science Translational Medicine detailing their work on five adult patients with ALL, the type Emily had.

Kalos said University of Pennsylvania researchers are seeing "very strong responses in most of the patients but in a small subset we are not seeing a response and we are trying to understand why that is the case.

"It could be the patient, it could be the product, it could be the tumors or it could be something totally different."

In the meantime, early trials on adult pancreatic cancer patients and people with mesothelioma have already begun. For now, they are only in the United States, but the team hopes to expand globally.

The terrain is brand new. Every patient would need his or her own specialized treatment, and patients need to get antibody treatments to boost their immune systems for years, perhaps indefinitely, to guard against illness.

But, if the recent success continues, a treatment could be on the market within a few years, Kalos said.

"In our case, the data is looking so promising that we are hoping we can devise a phase II study that is so dramatic that we can go to (authorities) and say, 'This is something we'd like you to consider for approval."
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...here is the link to the story... cheers.


http://www.theaustralian.com.au/new...ew-cancer-weapon/story-e6frg6so-1226606370733
 
Lanai said:
i come for the riveting conversations.
p.s: i'm not the one that's stressed out here.

anything you need to confess?
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Nothing to confess Lanai.
As for the conversations it all changes when Big Brother is on, that's when it becomes riveting!!

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Sooooo, stayed tuned Lanai! ;)
 
I can't work out if Lanai is 11, acting out and really into Miley Cyrus and My Little Pony; or if s/he is 57 and being ironic :confused:
 
Never mind Cyprus (which is but a tiny part of the current iceberged titanic called "Europa" or "The EU" that is ripe for the revealing of a certain "saviour" who is actually the anti-saviour) and the latest attempt by the undeserving to steal/confiscate that which does not belong to them.

Howz this for scary !

... in a country of just 22 million Australians, more than four million are living on welfare.

Almost two million more are public servants - federal, state and local.

That’s six million people living on some form of state income.

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Are you part of the problem or are you merely (either willingly or unwillingly) enabling it ?

Deem "... and the end shall come like a flood ..." included.

[ADIT] Also see: http://thoughts-junction.blogspot.com.au/2010/12/inherent-vice-of-capitalism-is-unequal.html

“The Inherent vice of Capitalism is unequal sharing of blessings and the inherent virtue of Socialism is equal sharing of misery.” These words of Winston Churchill clearly depicted the pros & cons of both capitalist & socialistic economies. Both the economic systems are not perfect & not incorruptible.

In capitalism resources & goods are privately owned whereas in socialism resources are owned by the government or public.

Distribution & earning of wealth is the main distinguishing element of both systems.

In capitalistic society, people earn wealth for themselves while in socialistic society the earned wealth is distributed among everyone.

In former system, government has no role to play other than ensuring that everyone is equal before the law but in latter government has a pivotal role of deciding that how the wealth is to be distributed in public.

Government doesn’t interfere in individual business in capitalism whereas government can interfere in individual business in socialism.

Capitalistic economy is highly influenced by demand & supply principle because such economies believe that competition brings best out of people & competition for wealth generation is essential element for the well being & progress of society. In socialistic economy, demand & supply principle has no role to play because such economies believe that cooperation among individual & care for everyone is the best theme which societies should imbibe for the well being of society.

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Too many words ?

Hmmm, perhaps our derkomai is on to something re: apparently only posting multimedia.

So, with that in mind ...

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regarDS
 
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derspatz said:
Never mind Cyprus (which is but a tiny part of the current iceberged titanic called "Europa" or "The EU" that is ripe for the revealing of a certain "saviour" who is actually the anti-saviour) and the latest attempt by the undeserving to steal/confiscate that which does not belong to them.

Howz this for scary !



Are you part of the problem or are you merely (either willingly or unwillingly) enabling it ?

Deem "... and the end shall come like a flood ..." included.

regarDS
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I don't follow, who are you and Bolt saying is the problem and what is being enabled?
 
eliza said:
I don't follow, who are you and Bolt saying is the problem and what is being enabled?
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After an article, comments are usually to be found. For example ...

My view has long been that only those people employed in the private sector paying taxes should be allowed to vote.....those that pay the piper call the tune. The ultimate problem with democracy (and the reason it breaks) is that voters have the ability to vote themselves the best package of government welfare, once the takers instead of the makers start deciding who should govern then we are all in deep trouble.

...

Yes, in principle I agree but add the retired persons that have worked all their life and paid taxes are entitled to vote as well.

...

It would seem a whole generation has forgotten the tyranny of Communist and Socialist ideology..... and it’s of little wonder when you look around and see the soft insidious welfare state and entitlement class sprouting like weeds amongst the neglect and intellectual laziness that is the hallmark of this modern era of politics.

When a Welsh immigrant brings echoes of her father’s communist class war to the highest office of Australian political life..... You know that we have been too polite for our own good.

Time to get a bit tougher and forthright with the Socialists in this society.

It’s definitely time to call a spade a spade and a hammer and sickle a political obscenity.

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Then there is this:

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years.
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Got a better idea now of the problem ?

[ADIT] Oooops, I forgot to include pictures. :)

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regarDS
 
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derspatz said:
After an article, comments are usually to be found. For example ...
Then there is this:

My view has long been that only those people employed in the private sector paying taxes should be allowed to vote.....those that pay the piper call the tune. The ultimate problem with democracy (and the reason it breaks) is that voters have the ability to vote themselves the best package of government welfare, once the takers instead of the makers start deciding who should govern then we are all in deep trouble.*

Yes, in principle I agree but add the retired persons that have worked all their life and paid taxes are entitled to vote as well.

It would seem a whole generation has forgotten the tyranny of Communist and Socialist ideology..... and it’s of little wonder when you look around and see the soft insidious welfare state and entitlement class sprouting like weeds amongst the neglect and intellectual laziness that is the hallmark of this modern era of politics.

When a Welsh immigrant brings echoes of her father’s communist class war to the highest office of Australian political life..... You know that we have been too polite for our own good.

Time to get a bit tougher and forthright with the Socialists in this society.

It’s definitely time to call a spade a spade and a hammer and sickle a political obscenity.*

Got a better idea now of the problem ?

[ADIT] Oooops, I forgot to include pictures. :)



regarDS
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So Wake up Australia of Pennant Hills and those that agree with him believe that some Doctors, Nurses, Fire fighters, Police, Teachers, Librarians, Kitchen Hands, Social Workers, Occupational Therapist, Dieticians, Secretaries, Clerks, Security Guards, Carers and anyone else paid from the public purse should not be allowed to vote, all righty
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I think that all nurses should get 6 months leave a year but I don't post it in the comment section of a newspaper website because it is just my unrealistic opinion and I am positive all non nurses are not interested in my wisdom on the subject.
 
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