By bluerasberry on March 25, 2012
Peggy Porter spoke representing the Consortium Biospecimen Resource (CRS), which is a biobank housed at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. She said that the organization has good procedures in place to conduct informed consent, collect specimens, and manage the sharing of specimens to researchers, but in her organization and in the industry in general there [...]
Posted in biobanks, clinical research, education, health, presentation, research, rights, Seattle | Tagged net generation, social media
By bluerasberry on March 12, 2012
On three of us members of the HIV Vaccine Research Unit Community Advisory Board made a video to inform potential new members about what it would mean for them to join our group. The video was to have two purposes – to introduce HIV vaccine research and to introduce the concept of layman meeting in [...]
Posted in biobanks, clinical research, drug, education, non-profit, research, rights, Seattle | Tagged HIV vaccine, videography
By bluerasberry on December 31, 2011
Brian Glanz is one of the organizers of Open Science Federation. The OSF is a nonprofit organization which has the goal of making science information more accessible, and historically it has done that by connecting scientists with online technology. There is a core team involved including Brian which has been together since 1999, and they [...]
Posted in non-profit, Open access, rights, Seattle | Tagged NWABR, Open Science Federation
By bluerasberry on February 16, 2011
On February 13 Nandan and I visited the Taj Mahal. The architecture and the building’s history are very interesting and many people have produced media about these things. I want to write about four problems I saw during that visit: Monument entry Boy beating Queue control Filthy grounds I want to preface my stories by [...]
Posted in India, legal, rights, service industry, tour | Tagged filth, police, violence
By bluerasberry on March 14, 2010
I always try to get involved in any drama I see on the street. Today I had business in International District and at 5th and Jackson, a busy place near Uwajimaya grocery store, a girl got mugged. I did not actually see it; I was nearby and I heard a scream. A girl was on [...]
Posted in encounter, legal, rights, Seattle | Tagged crime, police
By bluerasberry on March 9, 2010
Hanford sent some people to Seattle Monday March 8 to give a short presentation about some future plans and especially to collect public comment. I went to this hearing. I am not sure that their web description of the event will exist forever, so here is the title and a list of the topics about [...]
Posted in education, presentation, rights | Tagged environment, toxic waste
By bluerasberry on October 16, 2009
There was this article that made national news about a justice of the peace who refused to grant a marriage license to a couple because they were interracial. The Associated Press got an interview with this guy and he says things that show his ignorance and thoroughly establish his reasoning as illegal. So here it [...]
Posted in legal, rights | Tagged civil rights, gay rights, morality, social status
By bluerasberry on October 9, 2009
I went to a conference on eugenics organized by the University of Washington’s department of disability studies. The focus of the conference was the history of eugenics as applied to Washington state law and state-funded projects. The structure of the lecture was that about 8 historians were present on two panels. Each panel was introduced [...]
Posted in health, rights, Seattle | Tagged delerium, prison, women's rights
By bluerasberry on September 18, 2009
On Tuesday September 16 from 9-10am immediately before opening I toured Insite’s facility in Vancouver. Insite is an organization which provides a location and equipment for persons wishing to inject themselves with illegal drugs such as heroin, cocaine, or methamphetamine. Insite philosophy incorporates harm reduction models with both humanitarian and economical objectives. Insite for Community [...]
Posted in drug, health, HIV, non-profit, research, rights, Vancouver | Tagged civil rights, cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine
By bluerasberry on September 17, 2009
Lee and I stayed in the St. Clair Hostel on Richard and Dunsmuir in Vancouver. I am not sure what to call the neighborhood but I can say that it was an ideal location both for staying in the area of our room or traveling to the other places we intended to go. The room [...]
Posted in museum, non-profit, rights, Vancouver | Tagged travel