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A 2-year-old girl born without a windpipe now has a new one grown from her own stem cells, the youngest patient in the world to benefit from the experimental treatment.
Hannah Warren has been unable to breathe, eat, drink or swallow on her own since she was born in South Korea in 2010. Until the operation at a central Illinois hospital, she had spent her entire life in a hospital in Seoul. Doctors there told her parents there was no hope and they expected her to die.
The stem cells came from Hannah's bone marrow, extracted with a special needle inserted into her hip bone. They were seeded in a lab onto a plastic scaffold, where it took less than a week for them to multiply and create a new windpipe.
About the size of a 3-inch tube of penne pasta, it was implanted April 9 in a nine-hour procedure.
Early signs indicate the windpipe is working, Hannah's doctors announced Tuesday, although she is still on a ventilator. They believe she will eventually be able to live at home and lead a normal life.
"We feel like she's reborn," said Hannah's father, Darryl Warren.
"They hope that she can do everything that a normal child can do but it's going to take time. This is a brand new road that all of us are on," he said in a telephone interview. "This is her only chance but she's got a fantastic one and an unbelievable one."
Warren choked up and his wife, Lee Young-mi, was teary-eyed at a hospital news conference Tuesday. Hannah did not attend because she is still recovering from the surgery. She developed an infection after the operation but now is acting like a healthy 2-year-old, her doctors said.
Warren said he hopes the family can bring Hannah home for the first time in a month or so. Hannah turns 3 in August.
"It's going to be amazing for us to finally be together as a family of four," he said. The couple has an older daughter.
Only about one in 50,000 children worldwide are born with the windpipe defect. The stem-cell technique has been used to make other body parts besides windpipes and holds promise for treating other birth defects and childhood diseases, her doctors said.
The operation brought together an Italian surgeon based in Sweden who pioneered the technique, a pediatric surgeon at Children's Hospital of Illinois in Peoria who met Hannah's family while on a business trip to South Korea, and Hannah - born to a Newfoundland man and Korean woman who married after he moved to that country to teach English.
Hannah's parents had read about Dr. Paolo Macchiarini's success using stem-cell based tracheas but couldn't afford to pay for the operation at his center, the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. So Dr. Mark Holterman helped the family arrange to have the procedure at his Peoria hospital, bringing in Macchiarini to lead the operation. Children's Hospital waived the cost, likely hundreds of thousands of dollars, Holterman said.
Part of OSF Saint Francis Medical Center, the Roman Catholic hospital considers the operation part of their mission to provide charity care, but also views it as a way to champion a type of stem-cell therapy that doesn't involve human embryos, the surgeons said. The Catholic church opposes using stem cells derived from human embryos in research or treatment.
Macchiarini has been involved in 14 previous windpipe operations using patients' own stem cells - five using man-made scaffolds like Hannah's but in adults; and nine using scaffolds made from cadaver windpipes, including one in a 10-year-old British boy.
He said only one patient died, a 30-year-old man from Abingdon, Md., who had the operation in November 2011 to treat late-stage cancer of the windpipe. He died about four months later of uncertain causes, Macchiarini said.
Similar methods have been used to grow bladders, urethras and last year a girl in Sweden got a lab-made vein using her own stem cells and a cadaver vein.
Scientists hope to eventually use the method to create solid organs, including kidneys and livers, said Dr. Anthony Atala, director of Wake Forest University's Institute for Regenerative Medicine. He said the operation on Hannah Warren "is really showing that the technique is workable."
Hannah had breathing difficulties at birth and Korean doctors soon discovered the missing windpipe. They reconfigured her esophagus so that a breathing tube could go down it from her mouth to her lungs. The esophagus normally runs behind the windpipe and carries food to the stomach.
Korean doctors said she couldn't live long with the tube and told her parents there was nothing more they could do.
Hannah outlived their expectations and has thrived despite the grim prognosis and other abnormalities including an undeveloped voice box that prevented her from speaking. Now that she has a windpipe and can breathe more normally, doctors expect the larynx to grow and function normally. She will work with speech therapists to help her learn to talk.
Holterman said Hannah will likely need a new windpipe in about five years, as she grows.
She breathes with help from a ventilator but no longer has a tube in her mouth that she'd lived with since shortly after birth, Holterman said. She's not yet able to eat normally, but doctors let her have her first taste ever of food - a few licks on a lollipop. Her father said she already has discriminating taste and prefers chocolate Korean lollipops to the American kind.
"I asked her, `Is it good?'" he said, "and she immediately nodded her head."


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Bipolar Disorder
Topic Overview
Is this topic for you?
This topic discusses bipolar disorder in adults. If you are concerned that your child or teen may have bipolar disorder, see the topic Bipolar Disorder in Children and Teens.
What is bipolar disorder?
Bipolar disorder is an illness that causes extreme mood changes from manic episodes of very high energy to the extreme lows of depression. It is also called manic-depressive disorder.
This illness can cause behavior so extreme that you cannot function at work, in family or social situations, or in relationships with others. Some people with bipolar disorder become suicidal.
Over 3 million Americans—about 1% of the population, or 1 out of 100 people—have bipolar disorder, and rates are similar in other countries.footnote 1
It's important to know that you're not alone. Talking with others who suffer from bipolar disorder may help you learn that there is hope for a better life. And treatment can help you get back in control.
What causes bipolar disorder?
The cause of bipolar disorder isn't well understood. But experts believe many factors may be involved. It tends to run in families. You are at greater risk of having bipolar disorder if a close family member has it.
What are the symptoms?
The symptoms depend on your mood swings, or "highs" and "lows." During a manic high, you may feel:
- Very happy, energetic, or on edge.
- Like you need very little sleep.
- Overly self-confident.
Some people spend a lot of money or get involved in dangerous activities when they are manic. After a manic episode, you may return to normal. Or your mood may swing in the opposite direction to feelings of sadness, depression, and hopelessness. During a depressive episode, or low, you may have:
- Trouble thinking and making decisions.
- Memory problems.
- Less interest in things you have enjoyed in the past.
- Thoughts about killing yourself.
The mood swings of bipolar disorder can be mild or extreme. They may come on slowly over several days or weeks or suddenly over a few minutes or hours. These mood swings may last for a few hours or for several months.
How is bipolar disorder diagnosed?
Bipolar disorder is hard to diagnose. First, your doctor or therapist will ask detailed questions about what kind of symptoms you have and how long they last. Your urine and blood may be tested to rule out other problems that could be causing your symptoms.
There are two types of bipolar disorder: I and II.
To be diagnosed with bipolar I disorder, you must have had:
- A manic episode lasting at least a week (or less, if you had to be hospitalized).
- During that time, three or more symptoms of mania, such as needing less sleep or feeling as if your thoughts are racing.
For bipolar II disorder, your doctor will look for the same symptoms, but the manic high may be less severe and shorter.
How is it treated?
Bipolar disorder is treatable. With treatment, which includes medicines and counseling, you can feel better.
You may need to try several medicines to find the combination that works for you.
- Most people with bipolar disorder need to take a medicine called a mood stabilizer every day.
- Medicines called antipsychotics can help get a manic phase under control.
- Antidepressants are used carefully for episodes of depression, because they cause some people to move into a manic phase.
Counseling for you and your family is also an important treatment. It can help you cope with some of the work and relationship issues that the illness may cause.
You can do a few things on your own to help deal with bipolar disorder. These include regular activity, getting enough sleep, and learning to recognize early signs of highs and lows.
People often stop taking their medicines during a manic phase because they feel good. But this is a mistake. You must take your medicines regularly, even if you are feeling better.
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Health Tools help you make wise health decisions or take action to improve your health.
The cause of bipolar disorder is not well understood. But experts believe many factors may be involved. It tends to run in families. You are at greater risk of having bipolar disorder if a close family member has it.
Antidepressant medicines can trigger a manic episode in a person who has bipolar disorder. But this may occur before the person is diagnosed, while he or she is seeking treatment for an episode of depression.
Sleep deprivation or substance use, including caffeine, can cause a person with bipolar disorder to have a manic episode.
Bipolar disorder causes extreme mood swings, from feeling overly energetic (mania) to feeling very sad or having low energy (depression).footnote 2
Mania may make you:
- Feel extremely happy or very irritable.
- Not need as much sleep as usual. (You may feel rested after 3 hours of sleep.)
- Talk more than usual.
- Be more active than usual.
- Have trouble concentrating because of having too many thoughts at the same time (racing thoughts).
- Act impulsively or do reckless things, such as go on shopping sprees, drive recklessly, or get into foolish business ventures. Or you may have frequent, indiscriminate, or unsafe sex.
Depression may make you:
- Feel sad or anxious for a significant period of time.
- Have slowed thoughts and speech because of low energy.
- Have trouble concentrating, remembering, and making decisions.
- Have changes in eating and sleeping habits. You may eat or sleep too much or too little.
- Have less interest in your usual activities, including sex.
- Have suicidal thoughts.
Types of bipolar disorder
- Bipolar I. This is the classic form of the illness. It causes episodes of mania and depression that keep coming back. The depression may last for a short time or for months. You may then go back to feeling normal for a time, or you may go right into a manic high.
- Bipolar II. With this form, you will have depression just as in bipolar I. But the manic highs are less severe (hypomania). People with bipolar II have more depressive lows than hypomanic highs.
Some people may have bipolar disorder with mixed symptoms. Their highs and lows of mania and depression occur together. This makes the disorder challenging to treat and very frustrating for you and for those around you. It can also lead to hospitalization if your daily functioning becomes impaired.
If you have rapid-cycling bipolar disorder, you may have at least four episodes of depression, mania, or both within a 12-month period. You may go directly from a low to a high. Or you may have a short time lapse between the two extreme moods.
In addition to changes in mood, some people with bipolar disorder also have symptoms of anxiety, panic attacks, or symptoms of psychosis.
What Happens
With bipolar disorder, you go back and forth between highs and lows of mania and depression. In between, you may return completely to normal or have some remaining symptoms. The extreme mood changes may come on suddenly or appear more slowly.
During a manic episode, you may go from feeling abnormally happy and productive to behaving irresponsibly and sleeping very little. After this manic high, your mood may return to normal. Or it may swing in the opposite direction. You may feel useless and extremely sad. And you may lose interest in things you've enjoyed in the past.
Men tend to have more manic highs, and women tend to have more lows of depression.footnote 3
At first, stress may trigger depression or mania. But as the illness progresses, mood swings may not be caused by any specific event. Without treatment, your bipolar disorder may get worse. This can cause you to move more often between mania and depression.
Other health problems
People with bipolar disorder—men more often than women—may have substance use disorder, especially during manic episodes.footnote 4 A substance use disorder may affect treatment and interfere with taking medicines as prescribed. Other disorders that may occur along with this disorder include:footnote 5
These illnesses need to be treated along with bipolar disorder.
What Increases Your Risk
Bipolar disorder can be passed down through families. If anyone in your family has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, your risk of having it is higher.
Some things can increase your risk of a manic episode or depression. These include:
- Changes in sleep or daily routines.
- Antidepressant medicine. This can happen if you haven't been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and are seeking treatment for depression.
- Stressful events.
- Quitting your medicine for bipolar disorder. Even if you're feeling better, it's important to take your medicines as prescribed.
Alcohol or drug use or abuse puts you at a high risk for having a relapse of mood disturbances.footnote 6
When should you call your doctor?
Call 911, the national suicide hotline at 1-800-273-TALK (1-800-273-8255), or other emergency services right away if:
- You or someone you know is thinking seriously of suicide or has recently tried suicide. Serious signs include these thoughts:
- You have decided how to kill yourself, such as with a weapon or medicines.
- You have set a time and place to do it.
- You think there is no other way to solve the problem or end the pain.
- You feel you cannot stop from hurting yourself or someone else.
Call a doctor right away if:
- You hear voices.
- You have been thinking about death or suicide a lot, but you do not have a plan for suicide.
- You are worried that your feelings of depression or thoughts of suicide aren't going away.
Seek care soon if:
- You have symptoms of depression, such as:
- Feeling sad or hopeless.
- Not enjoying anything.
- Having trouble with sleep.
- Feeling guilty.
- Feeling anxious or worried.
- You have been treated for depression for more than 3 weeks, but you aren't getting better.
Who to see
Bipolar disorder is complex and hard to diagnose, because it has many phases and symptoms. Sometimes it is misdiagnosed as only depression, because people are more likely to seek treatment during a period of depression.
After you are diagnosed with bipolar disorder, you'll need to keep a long-term relationship with your doctor or therapist. It can help you make sure that your treatment is consistent and that your medicines can be adjusted as needed.
Although other health professionals can diagnose bipolar disorder, you will probably be referred to a psychiatrist who specializes in treating such disorders. He or she can prescribe medicines and provide counseling. Other health professionals who can diagnose bipolar disorder include:
Counseling can help you deal with mood changes and the impact bipolar disorder can have on your work and family relationships. In addition to psychiatrists, others who can provide counseling include:
Exams and Tests
To find out if you have bipolar disorder, your doctor will ask detailed questions about your symptoms. You will be asked how long your symptoms last and how often you have them. Your doctor will ask about your family history and may do a mental health assessment.
Blood and urine tests, such as a test of your thyroid, may be done to make sure another problem isn't causing your symptoms. A toxicology screen looks at blood, urine, or hair for the presence of drugs.
The earlier the disease is confirmed, the sooner you can get treatment, feel better, and improve the quality of your life. This can also reduce your risk of other health problems, such as substance use disorder.
Treatment Overview
Bipolar disorder is treated with a combination of medicines and counseling. It's important to take your medicines exactly as prescribed, even when you feel well. Your doctor may have you try different combinations of medicines to find what's right for you.
Your family doctor can prescribe medicines to treat bipolar disorder. But you will probably be referred to a psychiatrist, who is trained specifically to treat mental disorders.
Many people don't get help for bipolar disorder. You may not seek treatment because you think the symptoms aren't bad enough or that you can work things out on your own. But treatment can help you manage the highs and lows.
If you need help deciding whether to see your doctor, see some reasons why people don't get help and how to overcome them.
Your treatment plan
Treatment often starts with helping you through an "acute" phase or manic episode. You may be suicidal or psychotic or using such poor judgment that you are in danger of harming yourself. Your doctor may decide that you should be hospitalized for your own safety, especially if he or she thinks you are suicidal.
Medicines that may be used include mood stabilizers and antipsychotics. Over time, these medicines will be adjusted with the goal of preventing manic and depressive episodes. It may take months for your symptoms to go away and for you to be able to maintain a normal routine of work and activity. To learn more, see Medications.
Counseling is also an important part of treatment. It can help you cope with problems that may come up in your work or relationships because of bipolar disorder. To learn more, see Other Treatment.
You can also do some things on your own to help manage your symptoms and maintain a normal routine. Joining a support group to talk with others who have bipolar disorder can help. To learn more, see Home Treatment.
Bipolar disorder cannot be prevented. But often the mood swings can be controlled with medicines. And there are many things you can do for yourself to help manage highs and lows. To learn more, see Home Treatment.
Home Treatment
Home treatment is important in bipolar disorder. There are many things you can do to help control mood swings. You don't have to do them all at once. Try to do one thing, such as eating a healthy diet, then add another when you can.
Watch what you eat
Try to eat a healthy, balanced diet. A balanced diet includes foods from different food groups, such as whole grains, dairy, fruits and vegetables, and protein. Eat a variety of foods from each group. (For example, eat different fruits from the fruit group instead of only apples.) A varied diet helps you get all the nutrients you need. No single food provides every nutrient.
Keep good habits
- Take your medicine every day as prescribed.
- Get enough exercise. Try moderate activity for at least 30 minutes a day, every day, if possible. A brisk walk is an example of moderate activity.
- Avoid alcohol and illegal drugs.
- Limit caffeine and nicotine.
Reduce stress, get rest
- Try to control the amount of stress in your life. Techniques to relieve stress include physical activity and exercise, breathing exercises, muscle relaxation, and counseling and support groups.
- Get enough sleep. Keep your room dark and quiet, and try to go to bed at the same time every night. If you plan to travel into other time zones, ask your doctor if you should make any changes in your medicines. And ask what to do if you have a manic or depressive episode while you are away.
Ask for help
- Learn to recognize the early warning signs of your manic and depressive episodes.
- Ask for help from friends and family when needed. You may need help with daily activities if you are depressed. Or you may need support to control high energy levels if you have a manic high.
How family and friends can help
Family members often feel helpless when a loved one is depressed or manic. But you can help.
- Encourage the person to take prescribed medicines regularly, even when he or she is feeling good.
- If family therapy is available, it is important for everyone in the family to attend the sessions.
- Recognize a lapse into a manic or depressive episode. Help the person cope and get treatment.
- Allow your loved one to take enough time to feel better and get back into daily activities.
- Learn the difference between hypomania and when your loved one is just having a good day. Hypomania is an elevated or irritable mood that is clearly different from a regular nondepressed mood. It can last for a week or more.
Know the signs
- Learn the warning signs for suicide. They include:
- Drinking alcohol heavily or taking illegal drugs.
- Talking, writing, or drawing about death, such as writing suicide notes.
- Talking about things that can cause harm, such as pills, guns, or knives.
- Spending long periods of time alone.
- Giving away possessions.
- Acting aggressive or suddenly appearing calm.
Get help for you
If a loved one has bipolar disorder, it may be helpful for you to get counseling to deal with its impact on your own life. Manic episodes can be particularly hard. Talk with a psychiatrist, a psychologist, a social worker, or a licensed professional counselor for your own therapy.
Counseling can also be helpful for a child who has a bipolar parent. The parent's mood swings may negatively affect the child. This can cause tearfulness, anger, depression, or rebellious behavior.
Find out how to help a person during a manic episode.
To learn more about how you can help your loved one with depression, see:
Medicines, when taken as prescribed, can help control bipolar mood swings. Your doctor will vary the amounts and combinations of your medicines according to your symptoms, which type of bipolar disorder you have, and how you respond to the medicines.
About 1 out of 3 people will be completely free of symptoms of bipolar disorder by taking mood stabilizer medicine, such as carbamazepine or lithium, for life.footnote 6
Taking medicines during pregnancy for bipolar disorder may increase the risk of birth defects. If you are pregnant or thinking of becoming pregnant, talk to your doctor. You may need to keep taking medicine if your bipolar disorder is severe. Your doctor can help weigh the risks of treatment against the risk of harm to your pregnancy.
Medicine choices
Several medicines are used to treat bipolar disorder. It may take time to find the treatment that works best for you. The most common medicines used are:
- Mood stabilizers, such as lithium (Lithobid). Experts believe that lithium may affect certain brain chemicals (neurotransmitters) that cause mood changes. A mood stabilizer and an antipsychotic are recommended as the first medicines for acute manic episodes.
- Anticonvulsants, such as carbamazepine (such as Equetro and Tegretol), divalproex (Depakote), and valproate (Depakene). They are also considered mood stabilizers. Divalproex and valproate are used to treat manic episodes. The anticonvulsant lamotrigine (Lamictal) may be helpful for bipolar depression.
- Antipsychotics, such as aripiprazole (Abilify), olanzapine (Zyprexa), quetiapine (Seroquel), risperidone (Risperdal), and ziprasidone (Geodon). Antipsychotics improve manic episodes. Olanzapine may be used in combination with other medicines.
- Benzodiazepines, such as diazepam (Valium). These may be used instead of antipsychotics or as an additional medicine during a manic phase.
Medicines and your lifestyle
When you and your doctor are discussing your medicines, think about whether your lifestyle allows you to take medicines on time every day. A medicine you only take once a day may work best for you if you have a hard time remembering to take your medicines.
During your doctor's appointment, ask about:
- The side effects of each medicine.
- How often you will need to take the medicines.
- How the medicines may interact with other medicines you are taking.
- Whether it's important to take the medicines at the same time every day.
Monitoring medicines
You'll need to check in with your doctor regularly when taking medicines for bipolar disorder.
If you are prescribed carbamazepine, lithium, or valproate, you will need regular blood tests to monitor the amount of medicine in your blood. Too much lithium in your bloodstream may lead to serious side effects. Blood tests can also help show how medicines are affecting your liver, kidneys, and thyroid gland or to measure the number of blood cells in your body.
The use of antidepressants alone has been linked to an increase in manic episodes. Antidepressant treatment needs to be monitored closely to avoid causing a manic episode.
FDA advisories
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued an advisory on antidepressant and anticonvulsant medicines and the risk of suicide. The FDA does not recommend that people stop using these medicines. Instead, a person taking antidepressants should be watched for warning signs of suicide, such as threatening to harm himself or herself and being preoccupied with death or suicide. This is especially important at the beginning of treatment or when doses are changed.
Other Treatment
Almost all people who have bipolar disorder need medicine. But counseling is also important to help you cope with work and relationship struggles related to your illness.
Counseling choices
- Cognitive-behavioral therapy is a type of counseling aimed at teaching you how to become healthier by modifying certain thought and behavior patterns. It is based on the theory that thought and behavior can affect a person's symptoms and can slow or prevent recovery.
- Interpersonal therapy focuses on social and personal relationships and related problems. You and your counselor discuss grief and loss, role disputes in relationships, and relationship transitions.
- Problem solving is a brief, focused form of cognitive therapy used to treat depression. It focuses on specific problems and how you can solve them.
- Family therapy is a type of counseling used to help families deal with a stressful situation or a life-changing event. In family therapy, each person can express any concerns and fears about how the problem affects the person who has bipolar disorder and the family as a whole.
No matter which type of counseling you choose, establish a long-term relationship with a counselor you like. The counselor will help you recognize personality changes that show when you are moving into a mood swing. Getting early treatment can reduce the length of the high or low. See some tips for finding a counselor or therapist.
ECT therapy
In some cases, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) may be an option. In this procedure, brief electrical stimulation to the brain is given through electrodes placed on the head. The stimulation produces a short seizure that is thought to balance brain chemicals.
Alternative therapy
A few studies suggest that adding omega-3 fatty acids to medicine (such as lithium) can help reduce the depressive symptoms of bipolar disorder in some people. Omega-3 fatty acids don't seem to have an effect on the manic symptoms of bipolar disorder. And omega-3 fatty acids alone are not a good treatment for bipolar disorder. They are not a replacement for medicine or other therapy used to treat bipolar disorder.footnote 7, footnote 8
Related Information
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- American Psychiatric Association (2013). Bipolar and related disorders. In Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th ed., pp. 123–154. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association.
- Akiskal HS (2009). Mood disorders: Clinical features. In BJ Sadock et al., eds., Kaplan and Sadock's Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, 9th ed., vol. 1, pp. 1693–1733. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.
- American Psychiatric Association (2002). Practice guideline for the treatment of patients with bipolar disorder (revision). American Journal of Psychiatry, 159(4, Suppl): 1–50.
- Keck PE, et al. (2004). Expert consensus guideline series: Treatment of bipolar disorder 2004. Postgraduate Medicine Special Report. Available online: http://www.psychguides.com/content/treatment-bipolar-disorder-2004.
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- Sarris J, et al. (2012). Omega-3 for bipolar disorder: Meta-analyses of use in mania and bipolar depression. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 73(1): 81–86.
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CARACAS, Venezuela — The death toll has risen to 61 following fierce gunbattles between inmates and National Guard troops at a Venezuelan prison, a hospital director said Saturday. About 120 more people were wounded in one of the deadliest prison riots in the nation's recent history.
Penitentiary Service Minister Iris Varela said Saturday that officials had begun evacuating inmates from the Uribana prison in Barquisimeto and transferring them to other facilities, but she did not provide an official death toll.
However, Dr. Ruy Medina, director of Central Hospital in the city of Barquisimeto, told The Associated Press that the number of dead had risen to 61. He initially told Venezuelan news media after the Friday uprising that about 50 were killed.
Medina said that nearly all of the injuries were from gunshots and that 45 of the estimated 120 people who were wounded remained hospitalized. Some underwent surgeries for their wounds.
Relatives wept outside the prison during the violence, and cried at the morgue Saturday as they waited to identify bodies.
Nayibe Mendez, the mother of a 22-year-old inmate in the prison, told the AP that she was able to talk by phone with her son and he was uninjured.
"What they say is that there were shots all over the place, and they don't know where they came from," Mendez said. "It was a massacre. A full list hasn't come out of the dead and injured."
Mendez spoke by telephone from the morgue, where she said she went out of solidarity. "We're all hurt. No matter what, a prisoner has a right to live," she said, demanding that the authorities fully investigate what happened.
Varela said during a news conference that officials decided to evacuate all inmates from the prison in order to "close this chapter of violence." She did not provide any estimates of the numbers killed and injured, and instead criticized Venezuelan news media at length for their coverage of the violence.
Vice President Nicolas Maduro called the bloodshed tragic and said Prosecutor General Luisa Ortega Diaz and National Assembly President Diosdado Cabello would lead the investigation.
"The prisons have to be governed by law," Maduro said on television early Saturday.
The riot was the deadliest in nearly two decades. In 1994, more than 100 inmates died in the country's bloodiest prison on record, at a prison in the western city of Maracaibo. In 1994, about 60 inmates were killed in a riot in a Caracas prison.
Varela said that the violence erupted at Uribana prison on Friday when groups of inmates attacked National Guard troops who were attempting to carry out an inspection.
She said the government decided to send troops to search the prison after receiving reports of clashes between groups of inmates during the past two days.
Douglas Briceno said his nephew, who is held at the prison, was wounded in the foot during the shooting. "I think he's out of danger," Briceno told the AP. "I haven't been able to communicate with him because they don't let me pass to the prison."
Opposition leader Henrique Capriles condemned the government's handling of what he and many other critics call a growing crisis in the country's prisons.
"Our country's prisons are an example of the incapacity of this government and its leaders. They never solved the problem," Capriles said on his Twitter account. "How many more deaths do there have to be in the prisons for the government to acknowledge its failure and make changes?"
The riot at Uribana prison was the latest in a series of bloody clashes in the country's severely overcrowded prisons, where inmates often freely obtain weapons and drugs with the help of corrupt guards. Venezuela currently has 33 prisons built to hold about 12,000 inmates, but officials have said the prisons' population is about 47,000.
The Venezuelan Prisons Observatory, a watchdog group, said in a statement that in 2007 the Costa Rica-based Inter-American Court of Human Rights had ordered the government to seize weapons that inmates had in their possession at Uribana prison and to take measures to avoid deaths in the facility. The group called for the government to release a list with the names of the dead and wounded in Friday's violence, as well as details about weapons seized in the search.
"No one doubts that inspections are necessary procedures to guarantee prison conditions in line with international standards, but they can't be carried out with the warlike attitude as (authorities) have done it," said Humberto Prado, an activist who leads the prison watchdog group.
"It's clear that the inspection wasn't coordinated or put into practice as it should have been. It was evidently a disproportionate use of force," Prado told the AP.
His group says Uribana prison was built to hold up to 850 inmates but currently has about 1,400.
Similar though less deadly clashes have flared repeatedly during the past few years.
In April and May, a prison uprising in La Planta prison in Caracas blocked authorities from going inside for nearly three weeks. One prisoner was killed and five people were wounded, including two National Guard soldiers and three inmates.
Two months later, another riot broke out at a penitentiary in Merida, and the Venezuelan Prisons Observatory reported 30 killed.
In August, 25 people were killed and 43 wounded when two groups of inmates fought a gunbattle inside Yare I prison south of Caracas.
President Hugo Chavez's government has previous pledged improvements to the prison system, but opponents and activists say the government hasn't made progress.
Varela, the prisons minister, said news media including Globovision and a local newspaper had run reports on the inspection by authorities, which she said had in fact been a "trigger for the violence."
Prado denied that, saying: "The problem isn't the work of the media. The problem is that the government hasn't disarmed the prison population."
Associated Press writers Vivian Sequera and Camilo Hernandez in Bogota, Colombia, and Fabiola Sanchez in Caracas contributed to this report.


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If information is power, then there's no hero mightier than a librarian. Librarians are superheroes, adventurers, explorers and invaluable guides to other heroes. Here are 20 amazing librarians who save the world every day!
As Spider Robinson writes in The Callahan Touch, "Mary Kay is one of the hidden masters of the world — a librarian. They control information. Don't ever piss one off." So here are 20 librarians who you shouldn't ever piss off — but who might be a lot of help if you're in a tight corner.
Flynn Carsen in The Librarian movies on TNT
Noah Wyle, star of the upcoming Falling Skies series, also starred in these awesome TV movies. Flynn Carsen gets hired by the Metropolitan Public Library to work as a librarian — but he doesn't realize the Library has been around for centuries, and it actually protects a ton of magical artifacts. (Similar to Syfy's Warehouse 13 series and Friday the 13th: The Series.) With the help of the amazing powers of Bob Newhart and Jane Curtin, he tracks down missing artifacts and keeps the world safe from their power.
The Librarian of Unseen University Library, in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels
A wave of magic transformed the librarian into an orangutan, and he discovered he liked being one — so he's resisted all efforts to turn him back into a human. It's rumored he was once known as Dr. Horace Worblehat, but since he's systematically destroyed all images and documentation of his former human identity, it's hard to know. The only sounds he ever utters are "ook" or "eek," but by now Rincewind and the other wizards are so used to this that they can understand him perfectly.
Lirael in the Abhorsen novels by Garth Nix
Lirael is the first of the Clayr not to inherit the gift of the Sight, in hundreds of years. With her raven-colored hair, pale complexion, pointy face and unknown parentage, she looks nothing like the fair-haired, tanned seers around her. She's horribly depressed about being so different, until she gets an appointment to the Clayr's Library on her fourteenth birthday. There, she starts to do research in forgotten corners, uncovering clues to an adventure of immense importance. She discovers a soapstone carving of a dog and accidentally sets free a powerful magic creature in the library, called a Stilken, which she finally vanquishes using the Chief Librarian's sword. She later summons the Disreputable Dog, who helps her on her quest to bind the evil Orannis once again and save the land.
Rex Libris in the Rex Libris comics
Rex Libris is the "tough-as-nails Head Librarian at Middleton Public Library," who strikes fear into recalcitrant borrowers — and also battles "loitering zombies" and alien warlords who refuse to pay their late fees. His teleportation crystals let him travel to any corner of the universe to battle evil. "With fists of steel and mind as sharp as a tack, Rex is a true guardian of knowledge, foe of the foolish, defender of the Dewey Decimal System, and the best hope for the future of civilization."
Iku Kasahara in Toshokan Sensou (Library War)
In an alternate 1989, the Japanese government passed a law allowing for the censorship of information or ideas that might be harmful to Japanese society. Now, it's 2019, and the Media Betterment Committee sends soldiers to the library to destroy works they want to censor. It's up to the militia defending the libraries, including new recruit Iku Kasahara, to save knowledge from those who would destroy it. As one person puts it, "going to library school means basic training and learning how to use a rifle to protect books." This manga series was also turned into a 12-episode anime.
Margarita Staples and other librarians in Un Lun Dun by China Mieville
This book gave us the classic line:
"I'm Margarita Staples." She bowed in her harness. "Extreme librarian. Bookaneer."
All bookshelves lead to the Wordhoard Pit, a kind of nexus of libraries, in Mieville's imaginative YA novel about a distorted alternate London. The Extreme Librarians risk their lives in this universe of towering bookshelves to retrieve volumes, with picks in hand, sometimes having to battle shelf-monkeys. As Margarita says, "There are risks. Hunters, animals, and accidents. Ropes that snap. Sometimes someone gets separated."
Evelyn "Evie" Carnahan in The Mummy and The Mummy Returns
Rachel Weisz's character tells Rick:
I may not be an explorer, or an adventurer, or a treasure-seeker, or a gunfighter, Mr. O'Connell, but I am proud of what I am... I am a librarian.
She travels all around the world to seek the lost Book of Amun-Ra, and finally finds the Book of the Dead. And she turns out to be pretty handy with a gun and fights against Anak-Su-Namun.
Lara in the Superman comics
Superman's biological mother was the archivist and librarian in the capital city's archives on Krypton. She "possessed a vast knowledge of Kryptonian history and culture," perhaps allowing her to include more useful information in the rocket ship that sent her son to Earth. And if you want to watch a compilation of great librarians in comics, click here. (Plus here's a great listing.)
Barbara Gordon in Birds of Prey and other comics
No mention of heroic librarians would be complete without including the former Batgirl — who worked as a librarian in Gotham City for many years (and probably had to deal with all sorts of strange reference volume requests.) Eventually, her librarian skills went fully digital and she's now the super-hacker known only as Oracle. (She also was a member of Congress for a few years, although I guess that's been retconned at this point.) If you ever doubted that information was power, you'd only have to mess with Barbara G. and you'd learn your mistake. (Batman also has a keen grasp of library science, as proved in the Peter Milligan storyline where he copes with a serial killer who is murdering people and placing their bodies according to a modified Dewey Decimal system.)
Zoe Heriot in Doctor Who
She's not just the smartest companion ever to rock a sparkly catsuit — Zoe also has an incredible brain, including total recall. Which is why, when we first meet her in "The Wheel In Space," she's working as the librarian aboard a space station, specializing in parapsychology. Of course, she needs the Doctor to explain to her that "logic, my dear, merely allows one to be wrong with authority." It also allows her to make a computer have a brain seizure just by talking to it, though. Don't mess with a librarian who's seeking information.
The virtual Librarian in Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
As Tim Blackmore from the University of Western Ontario writes in his essay on this librarian (PDF) Hiro Protagonist's "indispensible guide and companion" is a virtual librarian, given to him by Juanita, along with half the library worth of information. Writes Stephenson:
Hiro can see a large, dimly lit room that wasn't there before . . . . A man walks into his office. The Librarian daemon looks like a pleasant, fiftyish, silver-haired, bearded man with bright blue eyes, wearing a V-neck sweater over a workshirt . . . . Even though he's just a piece of software, he has reason to be cheerful; he can move through the nearly infinite stacks of information in the Library with the agility of a spider dancing across a vast web of cross-references. The Librarian is the only piece of CIC software that costs even more than Earth [a geopolitics program]; the only thing he can't do is think.
The Librarian gets great lines like, "Sorry-but due to my internal structure, I'm a sucker for non-sequiturs," and due to his learning capacity, he's mostly programmed himself.
Luna Moth in the Escapist by Michael Chabon, Brian K. Vaughn, et al.
The other superhero created by Kavalier and Clay, creators of The Escapist, is the mistress of the night, Luna Moth. Her alter ego is Judy Dark, a quiet librarian who works in the basement of the New York City Public Library. One day, she sees a couple of criminals trying to steal a rare and magical book, and confronts them — but after a gun gets fired, a wire falls into a puddle of water, causing a surge of energy to run from the book's golden cover into Judy Dark. She's transformed into a warrior goddess who goes around zapping criminals with her green energy rays, while never quite being able to control the force of her imagination.
Elijah Bradley, The Patriot, in the Young Avengers
While working at the New York Public Library, Eli also becomes a member of the Young Avengers, following in the footsteps of his grandfather, Isaiah Bradley. He has all the powers of a super-soldier, like Captain America. Another superhero who's a librarian in his spare time is Captain Comet, who explores the stacks of his local library when he's not out exploring the universe and fighting ultimate evil.
Lucien in Neil Gaiman's Sandman
Lucien is the trusted librarian of the Library of Dreams, which contains all the books that have been written, as well as those that were only dreamt of. And he watches over Morpheus' crib while he's gone. Another librarian who watches over a library of all the books that were, and all the books that could have been is Henry Cecil, in David Henry Keller's 1949 novel The Eternal Conflict.
The Cheshire Cat in Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next series
Renamed "the Unitary Authority of Warrington Cat" due to changing boundaries, this cat is the overseer in the Great Library, a library within the book world, which contains every book ever written. The Unitary Authority cat turns out to be quite helpful to Thursday in her quest.
Giles in Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Rupert Giles is the school librarian at Sunnydale High, but he's also got a secret — he's a Watcher, who guides Buffy on her journey to become the savior of the world. And he sometimes rolls up his sleeves and goes out to save the world on his own. Not to mention, Giles has another secret on top of that one — he's also Ripper, a ruthless, maybe slightly psycho, former wizard who's not afraid to get his hands a bit dirty. When there are nasty things that need to be done to keep us all safe, you won't have to look further than the book stacks at the high school to find the man to do them. (Thanks to WitnessAria for reminding me of this one.)
Wraith (Jennifer Maloy) in the Wild Cards universe
Jennifer Maloy is a shy, introverted librarian — until she discovers she's an Ace, with the ability to become insubstantial. Unfortunately, she can only carry a small amount of matter through walls, so her uniform as Wraith consists of a mask and a bikini. She steals from the rich and gives to the poor, and winds up battling crime lords and helping to solve the murder of Chrysalis. Art by Adam deKraker.
Haly in Libyrinth by Pearl North
In the distant future, the Libyrinth is a library so massive, people get lost in it and never come out, because it contains all the precious human knowledge saved from Earth. Haly is a clerk to the Libyrarian Selene, but she alone hears the books talking to her. She learns of a plot by the book-hating Eradicants to destroy the Libyrinth, and journeys with her friends to the Queen of Ilysies for help. But they get attacked, and Haly is forced to save the Libyrinth on her own.
The Psykers in Warhammer 40,000
The Psykers have powerful psychic abilities, which make them valuable allies but also leave them open to demonic possession or insanity. The most powerful and physically able psykers are chosen to serve as Librarians in the Space Marines, where they keep the records of the Chapter they belong to. They also help out in battle using their formidable abilities, and help to divide dangerous mutants from ones which might be useful to the Imperium. (Thanks to NinjaCyborg for suggesting this one.)
Karma in The X-Men
And finally, one more superhero librarian! Karma, a member of the New Mutants, works as a librarian at the University of Chicago, where she helps Kitty Pryde battle the anti-mutant hate group, Purity. Later, she goes back to Charles Xavier's Xavier Institute and works as the librarian there, also helping to mentor the students who are under 15 years old. She eventually starts teaching French and also serving advisor to the Alpha Squadron and the Lower School.
Additional reporting by Katharine Trendacosta. Thanks also to everyone who commented on this post.


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Hey, thanks, Chuck. You saved my butt w/your advice. How lucky there are people like you. If we had to depend on Blogger for help we'd all be up the proverbial tree & they wouldn't be where they are today. It's guys like you that keep it going! (I'm an old guy too!--female)ReplyDelete
Hi Chuck,ReplyDelete
I have two blogs and a regular website and I want the lastest posts on my blog to appear on the front page of my website. I can do that, but I can'm make those blog entries that appear on my website link to the permalink for the post. The titles only appear and you have to go to the blog to read the entries. Also, they give a default number and then ie says it doesn't support this version. When I do it in firefox, I get all of the html from the permalink. What I want to do it get linked to the blogfeed in the blog. Is that so strange? Any ideas?
Hey Art,ReplyDelete
Have you posted already in GBH: How Do I?, and I missed the post? If so, my apologies. But the online forums are much easier to use, then Blogger Blog Commenting, for interactive problem solving.
Hi Chuck- I am hoping you can help me. You are smart. Me? Not so much. At least in the world of blogging.ReplyDelete
My problem:
I saved the html of my blog because I was fed up with certain issues and wanted to delete it, yet save the html "just in case".
I changed my mind. Shocking, I know.
Now I try to paste the html into a template and I keep getting error messages about the xml. I have searched all over the net for what I am doing wrong.
My blog's name is www.outside-thelines.blogspot.com
I have the entire html if it helps.
Im not a spammer :)
Can you help a girl out? Please ?
Hey Kelly,ReplyDelete
Have you posted yet in GBH: Something Is Broken? If I missed the post, my apologies. The online forums are much easier to use, then Blogger Blog Commenting, for interactive problem solving.
Here's a comment. Check out The Real Blogger Status.ReplyDelete
Who or what is "sister2brother"? Is he a spammer, or just a dumb ass?ReplyDelete
p.s. I can't comment on your spammer blog, so I'm posting here.
The jury is still out on that question, and on whether "he" is he or she.
I just can't believe that "he" is A Blog Consultant, let alone "The Blog Consultant". He must have some real maroons for customers.
Well, "Philadelphia" is another country in some respects.
You've left some very helpful comments and advice on a couple of my blogs and I do appreciate it.ReplyDelete
I'm scared to try to change anything in the html area since I have managed to delete all sorts of things on my computer when trying to do so.
BTW, am also one of the female "old guys"...70 and still mobile.
Hi Jeane,ReplyDelete
The great thing about blogs and computers is when they break, you can just fix them, generally from the comfort of your own home.
If you work on your car yourself, and it breaks, you could end up dead, or minimally inconvenienced, and generally not at home when it happens.
My personal philosophy is if I don't break my blog or my computer at least every month, then I only have a blog and a computer. If you're going to use your blog or your computer, expect for it to break.
That's not to say that I don't cuss a blue streak when it does break, of course. ;-)
Hey...I just want to rant and maybe you can help me understand...why when I click the box to get follow-up comments do I immediately get my own comment? I know what I just wrote, and it clogs up my email (on my blackberry). As a rabid commenter, this really bugs. Shed some light?ReplyDelete
hi i have an issue that i need some help with... when i go to create new post my customize things aren't there like changing the color of my fonts and changing the fonts as well. i don't know what happened but i would like to fix it! lol it's been driving me nutz! your help would be much appreciated!ReplyDelete
Long years ago, when paper was used for sending memos to one another, you'd write a memo and cc yourself for your files. When you send a comment, you cc yourself by sending a copy of the comment to your Inbox.
Star Child,
You need to enable Compose mode, I bet.
hew Chuck, quick question.ReplyDelete
If i iframe my blog into my business website, will search engines be able to "read" the contents on my blog and give credit to my website for it?
I posted this on the How do I section but no replies.
Thanks for your help.
From what I've been reading, a plain IFrame will show content that will be invisible to search engines. If you want the target to be indexed, you add a link to it inside the "<noframes> ... </noframes>" section.
I found your blog while looking for custom domain problems in blogger. I see you have throughly reviewed the issue and after many erratic attempts to fix my particular problem, I really wish you could take a look at what's going on; being a lawyer I am not quite tech savvy.
I have posted in the google groups but got no answer so far. ¿What would be the right place to tell you about my issues in case you'd be kind enought to help me out?
Thanks in advance,
Hi Silvi,ReplyDelete
I'm not having any luck searching the forums for "Silvi". Got URL of your post? Or which forum, and what exact Subject?
Hi my name is Margie and I am very new at this blogging stuff............only three days. I have no idea what I am doing or why I am doing it. I only know that I feel dumber than a rock. I thought I was just filling out forms and submitting them to companaies. Oh my I'm blogging. I don't know if I'm selling something or telling a story. HELP!!!!!!!ReplyDelete
To get your questions about Blogging answered, ask at GBH: How Do I?. That's community peer help.
Hi Chuck,ReplyDelete
I hope you can help or guide me.
I am trying to ask the ProjectAskGod.com a couple questions. I go to their site directly and they have tons of questions and answers. When I sighn in to ask a question it throws me over to a blog. I have never blogged before, but I pretty know what they are, I just don't know how they work. Anyway, I have my questions posted on the blog now I need to know how to get it published, answered, and over to the ProjectAskGod site. None of this is very intuitive, plus I'm not the brightest lite on the Christmas tree.
Thanks much,
This would be a good question for GBH: How Do I?. Why not post there, and get community support?
- AnonymousJanuary 12, 2009 at 5:30 AM
Hello Chuck, I'm Max First sorry for my english..ReplyDelete
I ask You to help solve a technical problem.
I purchased a domain via bloggers because I had been told that it was possible to move the blog to the existing domain.
This happened several days ago.
Once confirmed everything I went to the domain settings and I clicked on "create new site." I think I have been wrong because now I go on bloggers trying to transfer the address (..there's a specific option) but it says that the site is occupied by another blogs. How do I go back? I have to clear the site? Should I've to buy another?
I tried the FAQ but there is nothing.
Can You help me?
Yhsanks in advance!
Best, Max
Hi there. I've been trawling around Blogger, trying to find an answer until my head's spinning! I think blogger Help is no help at all. I've written a blog and my profile, but I don't think it's getting out there for anyone to read. Can you please tell me what it is I may have missed?ReplyDelete
hi, chuck. i might need ur help. i faced this problem for a few days, it is really killing me. when i try to create new post or edit my previous post, the page is in error. i dont have all the buttoms that i can click on to change my font, colour, and to upload picture or video. i tried to refresh the page for many time, but still the same problem. but when i use other computer, there is no such problem. i m wondering is it my computer's problem??? what can i do to fix this problem???ReplyDelete
Have you posted yet in GBH: Something Is Broken, or in Nitecruzr Dot Net - Blogging? The online forums are much easier to use, then Blogger Blog Commenting, for interactive problem solving.
Hey, I am new to blogging and you are literally a God to me i was just wondering how do you get yourself heard i would really like people who are interested in computing to view my blog but i dont know how if you could get back to me please it would be a big helpReplyDelete
Your fellow blogger and worshiper lol
Joe Williams
Hi Joe,ReplyDelete
I like alliterative answers, so this one fits here:
Publish and Publicise.
Hello. I wanted to create a blog but the name i choose was already taken. I went to see the blog and it's not beeing used (the page appears blank). I wanted to know how i can get in touch with the blog owner or blogger site to ask him to delete the blog, leaving the name available. The blog name is www.safira.blogspot.comReplyDelete
Thank you
Hi, I'm having a similar problem to Filha. Just that the url is having a blank page, with nothing at all. Is there really no way for me to get that url?ReplyDelete
Have you posted yet in GBH: Something Is Broken, or in Nitecruzr Dot Net - Blogging? The online forums are much easier to use, then Blogger Blog Commenting, for interactive problem solving.
do you know how to fix a broken profile views counter? a number of other people are having this problem and blogger hasn't stepped in.
any tips you can give would be greatly appreciated!
LOL. Profile View Counters are not broken. So says Blogger Support.ReplyDelete
Help! I couldn't find my blog tonight, so I created my page all over again and wrote a new post tonight. Then, via a bookmark, I found the old one with my previous posts from 2 yrs. ago. So I pasted my new posting onto it and made it complete. Now I need to remove the brand-new one I made tonight, since I no longer need it. How do I get rid of it? Thanks for your help.ReplyDelete
Delete it, or dispose of it carefully. Note the choices in the cited post, and consider them carefully!
What, colors?! And stars in the firmament. I thought I'd landed on another planet.ReplyDelete
I need some help. Something has happened to my blog (andyinamsterdam.blogspot.com). I went to it on Saturday and I saw a screen that said that it had been Reported as an Attack Site. When I clicked on the "Why is this site blocked?" button, I was taken to a page that gave possible reasons for the blockage. One that was possibly the reason was that I think I have a counter from goodcounter.org.ReplyDelete
I would be happy to take the counter off, but I can't see my blog. It's gone. All of the options given seem contingent on changing something in the blog – to verify that it's mine or to take off the offending gadget. How do I change it if I can't see it? I wish I could contact Blogger and get hold of a human. This seems to have been done by a computer and I'm dealing with computers to try to fix it. Do you have any suggestions?
Andy Baker
I have been receiving the following message for the past 2 1/2 weeks or so when trying to manage blogs I follow, and can't seem to find any info anywhere as to how to fix it.ReplyDelete
Any ideas?
Sky (and anybody else asking about bX codes),ReplyDelete
Please spend some time reading about what bX codes really are!
I'm still not finding any info on HOW TO GET RID OF IT. Again, my code is bX-ftj54u. No one seems to know anything about this specific code. I find various forums and blogs where people mention the same problem I'm having, but no one can seems to know HOW TO GET RID OF IT. If anyone knows HOW TO GET RID OF IT, please let me know.ReplyDelete
The "bX-ftj54u" code, like all bX codes, is simply a diagnostic tool. You don't get rid of it - Blogger has to diagnose and fix the problem which it represents.
Anybody who tells you about a "secret" way to solve the bX code is either an idiot or a troll. You don't get rid of a bX code, just as you don't get rid of your blood pressure. Blogger has to fix the problem.
Have you reported your bX code?
You have a great resource here. I was wondering if you could point me in the right direction...ReplyDelete
I have been blogging for awhile and recently my blogger photo site has become inoperable... The web address is http://www.misawadailyphoto.com. I found all this out when I tried to post new photo's to the site and they didn't show up. I thought maybe is was a template issue so I tried changing the template and was unable to change anything on the site (widgets/links/previous posts).
I did a little background research and found this site http://hnstartups.com/ with a link to my site-http://www.misawadailyphoto.com/2009/05/hi.html
that I never created and have no access to change. I have tried to
contact google through there support site and they keep responding
with an email to change my password. I really don't think that the
issue is my password and in any case that was the first thing I did.
If anyone can assist me in fixing this issue I will be eternally
P.S. The kid who decided to start the hacker site is named Mark Bao.
I hope I don't run into him in a dark alley :)
I am trying to "subscribe to this comment feed" and stay abreast of whatever can be done to restore my blog, inner-squirrel.blogspot.com to its pristine glory.ReplyDelete
I would really appreciate the help of a techno-nerd, especially one who looks the part, with the bald head and glasses (your photo isn't wide-angle enough to show the pen-guard in the breast pocket.) I am hoping that I can get my blog back, because I use it as an introduction to people that I meet whom I may have only a few minutes to talk to; they can (or could) learn so much about me by reading my journal of the past three years. I never put spam on my site. I don't even like spam, it reminds me of sea-rations...
I'm just reiterating my interest in restoring my blog, and if anything happens in favor of those with legitamate sites, with no green eggs and ham on them, I hope to be able to be "reviewed," or considered for "appeal," or to just log on and see my blog again. I have tried to start another one, but it is like being at the bottom of Mt. Everest, in the foliage where you can't even see the mountain...
Thank you for helping me to find my dashboard again. I appreciate your input. DBReplyDelete
Hi, I am a blogger newbie. As you can see by the blog above I have mastered a custom header but now I want to have the photos (this is a for sale by owner site, by the way) arranged in two or three horizonal rows not randomly scattered the way they are now. I uploaded 4 and they apeared this way because I clicked on left, right, center and right. Is there a way I can upload photos and have them arranged neatly across the page? Thank you for your help. Could you please reply to firstname.lastname@example.com and let me know how I might view your response? Thank you very much for your time solving this, probably, very easy and elementary query. Faith
- AnonymousAugust 26, 2009 at 9:44 AM
Hi ChuckReplyDelete
I just wanted to pop in to say thank you for everything you do to help the rest of us.
so Thank you and
Stay Safe
- AnonymousAugust 29, 2009 at 5:50 PM
Hey There Chuck,ReplyDelete
I hope all is well.
I have a question for you on commenting ethics:
I think as bloggers it is safe to say that we all collectively appreciate real comments from other bloggers or any readers for that matter, on the other hand how disapointing is it when you see you have 7 new comments and then you realize that six are simply bot spam. When I comment I try to give a genuine comment, like this one for example. but at the same time I want to be able to leave my link at the bottom to one of my blog or sites. Is that ethical commenting?
thank you for the scolding today i deserved it, kind of spazzzzzed outReplyDelete
I wish to say thank you for your assistance in trying to help resolve the situation. THis is truly greatly appreciated. I see we are almost neighbors since I live in El Sobrante. I just hope to resolve this problem. EgmontReplyDelete
Thanks Chuck!ReplyDelete
Hi sir Chuck!ReplyDelete
I really want to thanks to you! Cause of your help in a blog help forum,i'm available to make my own subdomain to my domain name using enom.com.
Just for your knowledge,i've tried it myself before but its not working,so i asked the technical support from my hosting to give a guide.
After 4 tutorials from 2 technical support from enom,they offer me to the updates!i m willing and after 4 days,i still cant view my blog..i asked them again what happen but no reply at all.I guess something wrong is happen cause they promised me not up than 48 hours.So i try to googles the problem till i found your reply to one question facing same problem with me. I apply what u recommend and less than a minute
i already got what i want! You are a truly genious here! Thank you again sir Chuck!
I know you've probably been asked this question a million times, last April I had an account, Altered for him and I deleted the account and the email, the name is still not available, do you know when it will or ever will be? Is there a way to get this name back? I have altered-for-him but I would like my alteredforhim back. Thanks!ReplyDelete
If you deleted the owning account, the blog (and the URL) is locked to the owning account, probably for eternity.ReplyDelete
f you deleted the owning account, the blog (and the URL) is locked to the owning account, probably for eternity. You have to use "Delete blog" and wait 90 days, or rename the current URL, to make a URL available to another Blogger account.ReplyDelete
Hi Chuck thanks for all the good work you have been doing and helping others, I always believed god will help those who help others and hope that is true in your case. I need your help to restore my blogger blog, please reply to my threadReplyDelete
Thank you and god bless you.
Chuck hello again from Morocco. Though my blogger issue seems to have been resolved with your patient help, I have another computer question and am wondering where to ask it? Thanks, Lisa email@example.com
Hi Chuck,ReplyDelete
I've seen you answer several people's questions on forums and I really need help. I disabled "sites" on Google Apps and went to blogger and did the "switch to domain" I inputted www.downtomarsgirl.com and for 5 minutes or so it worked. Now all of a sudden when I try to access that page I get this on Google Chrome
the tab says "404 Error"
And the page says
Not Found
The requested URL / was not found on this server."
I have no idea what to do because I'm not tech savvy. I see all this stuff about changing DNS this and that but I'm so confused. I bought my Domain through blogger and I think it's hosted at eNOM. That's all I know. Right now I've gone back to using blogspot so the address is dtomg.blogspot.com.
If you could help me out I would GREATLY appreciate it.
Hey Girl,ReplyDelete
Custom Domain issues are one of my favourite subjects to troubleshoot. They are waaay easier to do that, when you ask for help in Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken, where we can have a dialogue.
Click here to check out an example of the new, Designer templates.ReplyDelete
Thank you for helping me fix my blog PaintSplatters! It had been hijacked by a widget! I removed it and all seems well. Thank you!!ReplyDelete
Ps. It was my hit counter widget.
Hi Chuck, is there a way to know who or if someone is reading my RSS feed?ReplyDelete
Not immediately - newsfeed clients are anonymous. If you publish a feed, anybody can read the feed.ReplyDelete
If you make your feeds short, anybody who wants to read a full post will have to read it in the browser. Then, you can check out the visitor log traffic, including the referer URL. That might give you a clue.
Nitecruzr/Chuck, Thank you for your helpful replies to my questions about blogging. Working on the computer freaks me out cuz I am afraid to make a mistake I won't know how to fix. I don't always understand your words in your replys but they give me a place to start and feeling secure that if I mess up I can ask you for help again. Thanks, Linda www.lindaingalls.blogspot.com. email@example.com
Hi, you helped me with an issue a few months ago and were a spectacular help. I am having a serious issue with my blog/website right not to the point that GoDaddy was unable to help and I may have to resort to upgrading to the premier account just so I can speak to a human at Google. Do you have an email address I could contact you at to discuss my issue further?ReplyDelete
Thanks, Tayler
hi chuck ,ReplyDelete
i am a very new blogger and quite slow in understanding the coding etc etc.i wud want a very simple answer please on how to (my terminology might b wrong too) make different pages with multiple posts about different topics on my blog.i have read ur answers that its not possible with static pages. i wud like to put it this way that how should i do some thing similar to ths NITECRUZR dot net with all pages looking different and having same nav tab and yet having different topics.pls cud u help me and mail me the right way to do this? my blog link is www.justwhattheheartsaid.blogspot.com and i want to add "history revisited" tab which leads to the page with all history topics and my email is email@example.com
Hi Shoma,ReplyDelete
I really think we'll best address your questions, if you'll kindly post in BHF: How Do I?.
Hi Chuck,ReplyDelete
I followed your guide, "Static Pages, And A Custom Pages Part I and 2" and it worked out just fine by me. I was able to take off the "Pages Gadget" and successfully replaced it with the "Link List" which is more functional. By posting posts instead of stand alone pages, I was able to add 'Jump Breaks' which concise the otherwise long, and quite boring sometimes, content that I have on my blog. However I am having trouble doing what I really needed the most to accomplish: to have different posts in a single custom page, like in a home page. I'm having a hard time understanding how you do it.
And also chuck, if I may add some more inqueries...
How do I remove the 'timestamp' or 'posted on' date on top of each and every post?
How can I hide/organize previous posts on my blog's Home page?
I would greatly appreciate it if you could help me out. I mean, really, thanks so much in advance, as I know that you're that kind of guy who doesn't hesitate to help out those in need. :)
Some details that you might need:
My blog URL: theonlineclickers.blogspot.com
What I want, exactly, is to have a certain page dedicated to a certain topic, so that I can post multiple posts related to that particular topic only. For example, I have a page titled "Links/Banners". I would like it to contain posts for my links, with a post that is for a significant group of links only. Right now, it contains all of my links in a single post. But if its, possible, I would like to single out each different type of links to different posts, hence, dividing it into three, namely:
Page: Links/Banners
1.Online Payment Processors Links
2.PTC Links
3.GPT Links
This is just an example. I would like to know how to do it in all of my pages. Thanks so much in advance!
My email:
You graciously posted a Comment on my blog (www.adultclubfeet.blogspot.com) about Comments not showing. My 3rd party cookie setting has been already set to allow. Your Comment appeared on the post-specific page, but not on the Home page for the blog, not have two I attempted to place this morning. I have tried to decipher my html (I am not proficient, merely observant) and could discern nothing in sections pertaining to Comments. What else should I be doing? Would it help to forward the html to you?
It's normal for comments to only appear on the post=specific pages. The problem is in your computer, as since I was able to leave a comment, the blog itself is fine. You are going to have to check the browser and the computer that you're using, for any cookie or script filters - in any anti-virus, firewall, or "security suite". Something is being inappropriately filtered, on your computer.
Hi, leaving a post here too, regarding the counting of one's own visits in the stats, despite choosing not to and having cookies enabled; and 'white-listing' blogger.comReplyDelete
Check to see whether I can comment re google statsReplyDelete
Hey Chuk,ReplyDelete
I am trying to create a subdomain like you did on your web site (http://www.nitecruzr.net)on my website (www.easyminds.net).
How do I create the subdomain.
My problem, as we have discussed, is with blogger identifying me. You posted a comment on my blog and it was fine. I had to step out of this page and identify myself and then returned here.ReplyDelete
Respected sir,ReplyDelete
How can I make a specific static page @ bloggermy homepage!!.
I mean I want to make 'How to Use my blog' static page as my homepage??
Yours sincerely
Usama Khan
Chem EnGG
Sunday, February 27, 2011
You do as instructed:
1. Set "Show" to "0 posts".
2. Add an HTML gadget, positioned above the "Blog Posts" gadget.
3. Tweak the template, to make your new HTML gadget only display on the "Home" page.
You create a blog domain cluster. Your "home" blog (similar to this one), you setup and publish to "easyminds.net" / "www.easyminds.net". You then setup and publish a second blog, say to "second.easyminds.net".
Hi Chuck! Please give me some direction.ReplyDelete
I am trying to transfer my domain that I have owned for four years on my blogspot site. The website company logged out on their part and is pointing it at google they said but Google is not retrieving it. I keep getting "Another blog is already hosted at this address." I have tried this process 3 other times and have waited for days. Nothing has worked and now I am getting penalized by Google. I had 1,000 hits per day and now 100. Please help me. Tamara (at) TeachingwithTLC (dot) com Here is my site- Teaching with TLC THANK YOU!
i came to ur site while wanting to add a forum to my blog. u`ve got quite a unique design here. i`ll be browsing through your tutorials now.ReplyDelete
Thank you very much, Chuck~ the comments issue seems to have been a very temporary glitch, and now all is well.ReplyDelete
Without it, I'd never have stumbled into your site, so it was a good glitch, not a bad glitch. ;o}
I too have been getting alot of bogus traffic to my site (from your site)ReplyDelete
this name appears
form this site
hello just testing commentingReplyDelete
Just leaving a comment per your request. I really think/hope my browser cookie settings are okay, however. Thanks for trying to help.ReplyDelete
Test commentReplyDelete
I do think the new word verification sucks ass though.ReplyDelete
Thanks a bunch for your comments to help me transfer my blogger account. Being a noob at blogging, your post helped a great deal.ReplyDelete
Testing testing (props to you, NiteCruzr...)ReplyDelete
Test, Test.....hopes this works! :))ReplyDelete


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WASHINGTON — As the manhunt for the Boston bombers reached its climactic conclusion, Americans of all hues and backgrounds heaved a sigh of relief. Thank goodness it wasn't … fill in the blank:
A white Christian from the South;
A dark-skinned Muslim foreigner;
An illegal Latino immigrant.
Thank goodness.
The marathon terrorists it turns out were of a Chechen background. Huh? Is that, like, in Czechoslovakia or something?
If many Americans had forgotten or never known where Chechnya is — or that Czechoslovakia is now the Czech Republic — they were not confused when it came to the Muslim connection. The mere fact that the brothers, Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, were connected to Islam was sufficient for some to justify holding all Muslims in suspicion.
The relief, meanwhile, was that "our" demographic group wouldn't this time be blamed. Even darker-skinned Muslims, familiar with group demonization following 9/11, reportedly were relieved.
As police pursued the bombers, a friend asked me which I would prefer: A domestic or foreign terrorist? Putting aside the unfortunate nature of the question (obviously one prefers neither), I answered foreign, explaining: "Foreign enemies unite us; domestic enemies further divide us."
This blurted observation has been proved true enough times in the past to qualify as a reasonably defensible proposition. But even domestic terror now divides us. Us-Them has become far more complicated as we have become far more diverse. The Tsarnaev brothers have shuffled our templates into something that eludes easy characterization and denies us the unifying enemy that at least provides a sense of something that can be fixed.
Whom do we hate when the enemy is a composite of our own diverse ecosystem? When "them" is "us?"
Our Boston (alleged) mass murderers were foreign-born but the younger brother is an American citizen. (The older brother, who died in a police shootout, was a permanent resident.) Given the fact that one in eight U.S. residents is foreign born according to the Census Bureau, it is difficult to infer that being foreign-born makes one more likely to become an anti-American terrorist.
The brothers also were Muslim, but so are 2.75 million others living in the U.S., 63 percent of whom are foreign-born, according to the Pew Research Center. Again, it isn't possible to characterize an entire religious group by the actions of two individuals who claim to belong to a certain religion. Most Christians don't wish to be identified with the random Bible-quoting ranter (think Westboro Baptist Church's crusader) any more than a majority of Muslims want to be grouped with radicals who also claim Allah as their guide.
That said, there can be no denying that radical Muslims vastly outnumber those in Christian or other religious groups who believe that killing infidels is a ticket to eternity. It isn't easy to get from "turn the other cheek" to jihad, notwithstanding the Crusades or the Gainesville, Fla., "preacher" who burned a Koran, proving only that followers of the Christian faith have no monopoly on intelligence. Even a tiny percentage of 1.5 billion Muslims, or 21 percent of the world's population, who have embraced jihad is enough to give pause. Moderate Muslims share that pause.
Alas, this is not a comparative religion seminar but an examination of the difficulties ahead as we wrestle acquired biases into submission and resist the urge to demonize groups of people. Discrimination is a life-saving tool in the jungle — steer clear of the hyenas — but it has no place in American jurisprudence. An American citizen gets the full slate of equal rights and responsibilities, including a presumption of innocence, no matter which God he invokes.
Thus, though it is tempting to declare the surviving Boston bomber an "enemy combatant," as suggested by Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., it is essentially a means to deny rights accorded any other American citizen who commits a crime. The only justification now would be that the Boston bomber is believed to be Muslim, which isn't a crime, or that he and his brother may have found inspiration among others of like intent.
Once we begin to discriminate in the assignment of rights to citizens and legal residents based on their thoughts, religious affiliation, assemblage — or our own assumptions — we risk becoming our own worst enemy.
At this juncture, the light-skinned, foreign-born, Muslim-leaning brothers who reigned terror on Boston fit neatly into no category we can define with certainty other than evil, which is, sadly, the unique provenance of the human race. Rooting it out will require more than tighter security or better immigration laws.
Kathleen Parker is a Washington Post columnist. Her email address is firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Canon EOS Rebel T3i / 600D: The Creative Zone
Taking Your Photography to the Next Level
The Creative zone is the name given by Canon to the shooting modes that offer you the greatest amount of control over your photography. To anyone who has been involved with photography for any period of time, these modes are known as the backbones of photography. They allow you to influence two of the most important factors for taking great photographs: aperture and shutter speed. To access these modes, you simply turn the Mode dial to the Creative mode of your choice and begin shooting. But wouldn't it be nice to know exactly what those modes control and how to make them do our bidding? Well, if you really want to take that next step in controlling your photography, it is essential that you understand not only how to control these modes, but why and when to adjust them so that you get the results you want. So let's move that Mode dial to the first of our Creative modes: Program mode.