23 building and fire code changes were approved by the International Code Council (ICC) based on recommendations from the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

Changes included the widening of exit stairways and the hardening of stairwells and elevator hoistways, improved fireproofing and sprinklers, and the establishment of emergency elevators for evacuation and firefighter access.

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"I defy any architect or engineer to look at the evidence with an open mind and not be moved into seriously reconsidering what happened on 9/11."

As he sits in a lawn chair on his patio with a glass of iced tea in his hand, Richard Gage, AIA, looks reflective. He just gave his 51st public talk about the evidence that explosives, not the jet impacts and ensuing fires, brought down the World Trade Center seven years ago.

He's just returned to his home in an undisclosed Northern California location after an electrifying four-day visit to Denver and neighboring Boulder, Colorado. His outreach included roving hand-held laptop presentations to conventioneers at the Architectural Engineering Institute (AEI)'s annual conference at the Hyatt Regency, an updated 2-1/2-hour speech before 320 people at the Marriott, and promising visits with four academic leaders at two major local universities.

Respondents include architect Richard Gage, AIA; mechanical engineer Anthony Szamboti; structural engineer Kamal Obeid, S.E.; remodel contractor and WTC 7 researcher Chris Sarns; and chemist and certified quality engineer Kevin Ryan.

Audio Archive:  News Conference Audio (~13MB MP3 Audio)
— Courtesy of NoLiesRadio.com

For the first time in history, normal office fires have created a total progressive collapse if the report from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) can be believed, said Richard Gage, AIA. Office fires can not melt steel, Gage claims, and NIST has neither explained the mystery of molten iron at the World Trade Center site nor considered other evidence that also suggests the use of thermate incendiary charges to cut the steel framework of 47-story Building 7.

Richard Gage, AIA spoke in the Panhandle of Golden Gate Park at Ashbury and Fell at a rally organized by the Northern California 9/11 Truth Alliance. 60 people then marched two miles to the 10th Annual Power to the Peaceful Festival to join 50,000 dancing to Michael Franti and Spearhead, the amazing hip-hop-jazz-rock group.

Blair Gadsby's hunger strike lasted for 17 days. 

Senator John McCain was able to tough it out, and did not succumb to the urge to meet with a constituent.

Blair Gadsby, a religious history professor who has been involved in 9/11 truth for about a year, decided to do something about his frustrations in trying to approach U.S. Senator John McCain. McCain, the leading Republican presidential hopeful is also the author of the preface to the Popular Mechanics book "Debunking 9/11 Myths", which ignores most of the evidence for controlled demolition at the WTC.

Richard Gage, AIA, presented evidence today on the explosive demolition of the 3 World Trade Center buildings to engineers from a prominent Oakland structural engineering firm. Prior to Gage's lunchtime presentation, most of the 11 attendees expressed the belief that fires brought the buildings down; only one still held to that version of events after the talk.