"However, the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia has warned the two parishes that they do not own their church property"I find this interesting as one would assume that any true Christian would respect those whom we might disagree with, but clearly in this case the episcopal church is thinking of money. Possibly revealing their true colours. Makes one think!
Some 10,000 US researchers have signed a statement protesting about political interference in the scientific process.
The Union said is was hopeful that the new Congress taking office in January would show a greater commitment to protecting the integrity of the scientific process.
"One can suspect there were moral scruples behind the tax authorities' claim since all forms of stage dance are free of value-added tax," Reuters news agency quoted the club owners' lawyer as saying.
I think this is obvious.
By Pallab Ghosh BBC News, science correspondent A UK company is applying for permission to transplant stem cells made from human foetal tissue into the brains of stroke patients.
Guildford-based ReNeuron has told the BBC it has convincing lab evidence that the cells could potentially regenerate brain cells damaged by a stroke.
It has applied to the US Food and Drug Administration to carry out human trials on 12 stroke patients.
However, opponents have said it is a "sick proposal".
We can provide a renewable source of cells in order to treat a large patient population Dr Eric Miljan
The ReNeuron team have successfully extracted stem cells from the developing brain area of a 12 week old aborted foetus.
These cells have begun to specialise into brain cells and have the ability to rapidly generate brain tissue.
According to Dr Eric Miljan, Reneuron's head of stem cell discovery, when the foetal stem cells were injected into the brains of rats in which a stroke had been induced their movement recovered.
Tests showed that blood flow and brain activity were restored in the damaged area.
Dr Miljan said: "We're very excited. There have been a battery of tests. There have been a series of animal safety experiments. And they work.
" We feel that we are ready to go into patient trials."
The company is to submit its research results to the FDA, and if the human trial is approved it could begin early next year.
Safety concerns
But the regulators will want to be satisfied that the trials will be safe and hold out a realistic chance of doing some good.
In particular they will want to look closely at a crucial part of the treatment which involves genetically modifying the foetal brain cells.
The researchers incorporate a gene called c-myc which is associated with normal cell division.
However, when there are abnormalities with cells the gene can be involved in the uncontrollable replication of cells and lead to cancer.
ReNeuron say they have safely harnessed this property by modifying this gene to make its action fully controllable.
They add the modified version of the gene so that it can cause a small number of foetal stem cells to multiply when a chemical is added. In effect, this provides a biochemical way of photocopying the cells.
The replication stops once the chemical is taken away.
Ethics case
Michael Hunt, ReNeuron's CEO, said: "We have proven with reams of experimental data that the system is fully controllable.
It's a sick proposal. It involves cannibalising an unborn child John Smeeton Society for the Protection of Unborn Children
"We have also shown that the cells we grow using this system show absolutely no abnormalities throughout the growth process.
"It is very important for us to be able to demonstrate these safety characteristics before moving our therapy forward into stroke patients."
Reneuron's idea is to produce unlimited quantities of stem cells from just one foetal tissue sample.
According to Dr Miljan, this makes their treatment potentially commercially viable and ethically more acceptable.
"We only take one single piece of tissue and for that we can grow up enough cells to potentially treat all eligible patients.
"And we never have to go back to that tissue again. We can provide a renewable source of cells in order to treat a large patient population."
Holy grail
Joe Corner, of the UK's stroke Association, said the research was "very interesting".
He said: "The Holy grail for stroke research has been to find a way of regenerating the damaged part of the brain.
"Until now its been thought that the damage was irreversible.
"Most treatments and therapies have relied on teaching the patient to use different parts of their brain through physiotherapy.
"But we are beginning to see some promising signs in potential stem cell treatments and ReNeuron's approach does seem very exciting."
However, John Smeaton, director of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, was completely opposed to the research.
He said: "It's a sick proposal. It involves cannibalising an unborn child.
"It's an unethical in every way - killing one member of the human race to help another. We are totally opposed to this."
Now what using an aborted child as is unacceptanble, as there is no need for continued cell recovery a child that misscaried seems that it could work as well, with little ethical dilemas as that would be a donation like a heart donation.
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English Church Census figures show that half of priests ordained in recent years were women. There were 1,262 serving women priests in 2002.
University of Manchester researchers say that, without women priests, pulpits would become "depopulated". Is that necessarily a bad thing if the church might be teaching wrongly
The findings follow the Archbishop of Canterbury's suggestion that they had failed to transform the church. On the contrary I believe that the whole issue of women as prelates in the church have led many to expect homosexuals, by its very nature many woman who are motivated to become part of the establishment are coming with an agenda to change the situation and are also likely to be on the liberal side. Without the woman the CofE would be decidedly evangelical in nature!
Rowan Williams, in an interview with the Catholic Herald newspaper earlier this month, said he did not think women priests - first ordained in 1994 - had "transformed or renewed the Church in spectacular ways" nor had they "corrupted or ruined it". They corrupted or ruined it, NO but they and Mr Williams himself have given it a good try, but this is nothing that the King of Kings did not allow from the beginning of time.
Census findings
The University of Manchester's David Voas said: "Close to a quarter of male parish priests are 60 or older and their average age is 54.
"Without women, the pulpits would become as depopulated as the pews in the years to come." That will be fine, a church is not a building it is anywhere where Gods people meet. In fact the depopulation might be a good thing. The British church is in a great condition now, by and large where older generations thought they were followers of Christ because they were baptized and went to the church maybe on easter now, no one is under that delusion.
It was not surprising women clergy seemed not to have made an impact because the Church was "far from being an equal opportunity employer", he added. The "True" church is not one of hierarchy, glory and appearance, it is one of service. The Archbishop is supposed to be the chief servant, though one could not tell that.
"Women are not yet allowed to become bishops and they are far more likely to be 'second class' clergy. again this is not about class nd recognition from man but from God.
"Most of the men who became priests in 2005 went into paid 'stipendiary' ministry, while most of the women are in voluntary posts."
Other denominations were also more likely to favour male ministers over their female counterparts, he said.
The census found there were no women at all in churches which had congregations of 330 or more on a typical Sunday. Could it be that these were all Evangelical?
"Well over half of women ministers in all denominations serve in rural areas with very few found in the flagship city centre churches," Mr Voas said.
"The larger the church, the more likely it is that a man will be put in charge."
Babies born at or before 22 weeks should not be resuscitated or given intensive care, a report says....However, research shows that many of these babies do not live very long, or go on to develop severe disability.
Earlier this month the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists said it wanted a discussion over whether "deliberate intervention" to cause death in severely disabled babies should be legalised.
But the report recommends the active ending of the life of newborn babies should not be allowed, no matter how serious their condition.
However, research shows that many of these babies do not live very
long, or go on to develop severe disability.
Showjumper killer given life term
"Miss Moore was beaten by a gang wielding baseball bats and robbed in an
attack in June 2003 planned by Dyche"
Miss Moore's mother Stella said she believed Dyche should not leave prison until he was dead.
The nature of language is change. I accept that but recently I have started to think about just how the use of language actually effects our every day existence. now I use the word effects verses affect, because from my take effects is a continuing result that will compound. now the thought is that language is only a byproduct of society and culture, but I actually believe that language actually is not merely a sign of culture but can and is a cultural change agent. In this light I will start to blog on words I believe that are being changed in society and having an impact as a change agent to present my case.
I find this one of those interesting and intensly sad markers. Maybe its because I have a son, but I don't think so.
Society has let this boy off, so as to let itself off, by saying its merely a phsycolgical disorder, not because there is anything wrong with what it is doing to promote child rearing. Its just accepted as the way things are not asking if there ae obviouse choices that are being made that lend itself to this crime.
Ultimately the problem lies not with the government, but with the church for not promoting christian values in society and abdicating that to the government.
Teenager admits schoolboy murder And A lot moreA 15-year-old boy has been detained at Her Majesty's Pleasure for murdering a boy who rebuffed his sexual advances.
Joe Geeling, 11, was beaten, repeatedly stabbed and dumped in a park in Bury, Greater Manchester, on 1 March 2006.
Michael Hamer, who was 14 at the time of the attack, pleaded guilty to murder at the start of his trial at Manchester Crown Court.
Hamer was told that he would serve a minimum of 12 years before being eligible for parole.
On 1 March a massive search was launched for Joe, a cystic fibrosis sufferer, after he failed to return home from school.
His body was found hidden under debris in a gulley in Whitehead Park the next day.
Mr Justice McCombe said Joe had done absolutely nothing to encourage Hamer's sexual advance, the rejection of which triggered the attack.
We submit he [Hamer] simply did not feel able to admit that his motive was a sexual one
Imposing a minimum tariff of 12 years, the judge said doctors had found that Hamer was suffering from an "adjustment disorder" at the time of the murder.
He also said the killing itself was not thought of in advance but triggered by Joe's rejection of the defendant's sexual advance.
Earlier Alistair Webster QC outlined the prosecution's case against Michael Hamer.
He told the court Joe was reported missing by his mother at 1724 GMT.
'Lured to house'
Mr Webster said Hamer had written Joe a letter - purportedly from the deputy head at his school - to lure him to his house.
The court was told a second letter found at Hamer's home showed a clear sexual interest in Joe by Hamer. A total of four drafts of the letter were found by police.
Hamer claimed Joe came to his house to charge his mobile phone, but this explanation did not "stand up to examination", Mr Webster said.
Parents 'agonising' wait
Joe was beaten repeatedly with a frying pan, which left him with multiple bruises to the head and a fractured eye socket, the court heard.
Hamer told police he had got the frying pan because Joe had been looking at a photograph of his dead step-brother, which he refused to put down.
But Mr Webster said Hamer's account "lacked credibility" because no photo was found.
Hamer then went and took two knives from the kitchen and stabbed Joe 16 times, puncturing his windpipe in two places and cutting a major artery.
Mr Webster told the court Joe was the victim of a "sustained and savage attack".
Although there was no evidence to indicate a sexual assault the evidence did not exclude one, he said.
After the attack, Hamer dragged Joe's body downstairs, put it in a wheelie bin and took the bin to Whitehead Park, where he hid it.
'A wind-up'
When he returned to the house he began cleaning Joe's blood and told his mother the stains on the carpet were caused by a leaking red pen.
Later, he admitted his responsibility for the death but told police he had set up the meeting with Joe as "a wind-up" - so Joe would go to meet him but no-one would be there.
But David Steer QC, mitigating for the defendant, said Hamer killed Joe after an "adolescent sexual approach" was rejected.
Mr Steer described Hamer as "maladapted" - an isolated and psychologically flawed teenager.
Hamer felt rejected and isolated, which was exacerbated because he never knew his older half-brother, Mark, who died from cancer and did not have much contact with his father. He had also been bullied at school.
"This previous background to the commission of the offence leads both psychologists to conclude he was a young man suffering from a abnormality of mind in the form of an adjustment disorder," Mr Steer added.
I've been asked specifically by him [Hamer] and his mother to express their sorrow and deep regret for what happened in this case
David Steer QC
Hamer told psychologists he lured Joe to his home to scare him and make the victim feel what it was like to be "isolated and scared" as he was when he was bullied.
But Mr Steer told the court: "We submit he simply did not feel able to admit that his motive was a sexual one. He found it easier to give these other accounts."
He said Hamer had only admitted the real reason for the murder in the last few days.
"He made a sexual advance towards Joe who responded to him as 'gay' and threatened to tell others about what he had tried to do," Mr Steer told the court.
"He then tragically responded in the way he did."
Mr Steer said: "I've been asked specifically by him and his mother to express their sorrow and deep regret for what happened in this case."
Eddie Robinson, headteacher of St Gabriel's Roman Catholic School in Bury, where Joe and his killer were pupils, said the school did all it could to ensure the care and safety of all its pupils.
"I'm confident that our policies and procedures are robust and any incidents of bullying are resolved quickly and effectively.
He added: "The outcome of today's proceedings should allow the school to begin to begin to work towards closure, and attempt to get back to some degree of normality."
The female Australopithecus afarensis bones are from the same species as an adult skeleton found in 1974 which was nicknamed "Lucy".
Scientists are thrilled with the find, reported in the journal Nature.
They believe the near-complete remains offer a remarkable opportunity to study growth and development in an important extinct human ancestor.
The juvenile Australopithecus afarensis remains vanishingly rare.
The skeleton was first identified in 2000, locked inside a block of sandstone. It has taken five years of painstaking work to free the bones.
"The Dikika fossil is now revealing many secrets about Australopithecus afarensis and other early hominins, because the fossil evidence was not there," said dig leader Zeresenay Alemseged, of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.
Delicate bones
The find consists of the whole skull, the entire torso and important parts of the upper and lower limbs. CT scans reveal unerupted teeth still in the jaw, a detail that makes scientists think the individual may have been about three years old when she died.
Remarkably, some quite delicate bones not normally preserved in the fossilisation process are also present, such as the hyoid, or tongue, bone. The hyoid bone reflects how the voice box is built and perhaps what sounds a species can produce.
Judging by how well it was preserved, the skeleton may have come from a body that was quickly buried by sediment in a flood, the researchers said.
"In my opinion, afarensis is a very good transitional species for what was before four million years ago and what came after three million years," Dr Alemseged told BBC science correspondent Pallab Ghosh.
"[The species had] a mixture of ape-like and human-like features. This puts afarensis in a special position to play a pivotal role in the story of what we are and where we come from."
Climbing ability
This early ancestor possessed primitive teeth and a small brain but it stood upright and walked on two feet.
There is considerable argument about whether the Dikika girl could also climb trees like an ape.
This climbing ability would require anatomical equipment like long arms, and the "Lucy" species had arms that dangled down to just above the knees. It also had gorilla-like shoulder blades which suggest it could have been skilled at swinging through trees.
But the question is whether such features indicate climbing ability or are just "evolutionary baggage".
The Dikika girl had an estimated brain size of 330 cubic centimetres when she died, which is not very different from that of a similarly aged chimpanzee. However, when compared to the adult afarensis values, it forms 63 - 88% of the adult brain size.
This is lower than that of an adult chimp, where by the age of three, over 90% of the brain is formed. This relatively slow brain growth in the Dikika girl appears to be slightly closer to that of humans.
Slow, gradual development in an extended childhood is regarded as a very human trait - probably to enable our higher functions to develop.
Professor Fred Spoor of University College London said the find would give scientists a "detailed insight into how our distant relatives grew up and behaved... at a time of human evolution when they looked a good deal more like bipedal chimpanzees than like us."
Dr Jonathan Wynn of the University of St Andrews, UK, and colleagues at the University of South Florida dated the sediments surrounding the remains and came up with an age of 3.3 million years.
The "Lucy" skeleton, discovered in Hadar, Ethiopia, in 1974 belongs to the same species as the Dikika girl. For more than 20 years it was the oldest human ancestor known to science.
Apart from any moral and ethical reasons, can you find some missing cases of logic. They all sound like politicians to me
Now the Question naturally should come to mind on this one question. Why. Has the culture communicated not merely by the morning after pill that one can "play" with no real consequences. Obviously this is true. The problem is there are consequences. Why did they not mention Abstinence as the only proven option? Is it because its there work and there social agenda?
Making emergency contraception more available has failed to reduce abortion rates, a family planning expert says.The government said the emergency pill was not targeted at cutting abortions. (So what was it for?)
However, Professor Glasier, who is director of family planning at the Lothian Primary Care NHS Trust, disagreed, saying emergency contraception had been heralded as the solution to rising abortion rates by many experts.
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About 6% of women use it each year, although the numbers buying it from chemists has almost doubled in the last year.
In the US, authors have claimed that 43% of the reported drop in abortions between 1994 and 2000 was down to emergency contraception, and that around 51,000 pregnancies were prevented by it in 2000/01.
But Professor Glasier, who was an advocate of emergency contraception in the 1990s, said: "Despite the clear increase in the use of emergency contraception, abortion rates have not fallen in the UK."
Contraception
In 1984, 11 women per 1,000 aged 15 to 44 had abortions, compared with 17.8 in 2004.
She said research had shown that women did not always use the contraception at the right moments because they were unaware they had put themselves at risk and as a result it had no impact on pregnancy or abortion rates.
She also questioned whether it was as clinically effective as it was claimed to be.
Professor Glasier added: "If you are looking for an intervention that will reduce abortion rates, emergency contraception may not be the solution, and perhaps you should concentrate most on encouraging people to use contraception before or during sex, not after it."
But Val Buxton, acting chief executive of Brook, a sexual health charity for young people, said: "Easy access to emergency contraception is an essential part of the picture, and abortion rates might be higher if it weren't for the fact that emergency contraception is more easily available than in the past."
Toni Belfield, of the fpa, formerly the Family Planning Association, said: "Emergency contraception is no substitute for correct, regular use of contraception. It is not, and was never intended to be, a panacea for abortion."
And a spokeswoman for the Department of Health said emergency contraception had never been heralded as the answer to rising abortion rates in the UK.
"Our policy has always been that safe sex, using reliable contraception on a regular basis, is the best way for women to protect against unwanted pregnancy."
Three girls who sexually assaulted a teenage boy during a three-and-a-half hour "happy slapping" ordeal have been given detention orders.
The first World Outgames have ended in Montreal, where 12,000 lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) athletes came together for a celebration of sport, culture and human rights.
The motto of the games was "We play for real". For the organisers, they have been about fostering tolerance in sport to enable gay and lesbian athletes to compete openly, free from discrimination and exclusion.
Martina Navratilova said the Outgames were important to "let the heterosexual community know who we are and what we're all about". In Montreal it's certainly a case of "mission accomplished".
I want to bring out a few points before you get into this article and the issue. The ultimate question is really, is homosexuality approved of in the Bible, no, in the Old Testament (Hebrew) and New Testament. God is the same and does not change. Homosexuals can be believers and even cared for and loved by the church as any other person, but that does not mean we should in any fashion sanction there actions; so once the church identifies there sin they are bound to call them on there sin, as an adulterer would have to be reproved. Having that clear lets look at some of the quotes
"I am not an abomination before God - please, I beg you, let's say our prayers and stand up for right
Gene Robinson
Bishop of New Hampshire
He is not an abomination, this is true, but his lifestyle and what he teaches by his actions and words are.Gene Robinson said the Episcopal Church should "stand up for right", adding that Anglicans should not be swayed by fear of deepening rifts over the issue.
Isn't it evident that all the parties are standing up for what they believe is right? But evidently some have different views of that "right".
Tom Wright, the Bishop of Durham in the UK, warned that a moratorium was needed on creating any bishops living with a same-sex partner until there was consensus in the church.NT Wright is a well respected author and church man and obviously he is here trying to bring reconciliation, and on first glance it might appear that is what he is saying, but on second and ever after one has to bring to light the truth. He is saying the same as the Archbishop of Canterbury indicated a while back, when everyone comes around to the correct way of thinking than we will be able to accept homosexuals, until than maybe we should just work at picking apart the opposition.
A political party with a paedophile agenda has been registered in The Netherlands, prompting outrage among many parts of society.
Does not there argument contradict evolution, or am I mistaken on this one. I eoulf noy lkr to propose that this is an argument against evolution, that would be rather strong, but I would like to say yet again that the arguments for evolution are not lock solid there actually very tenuous. These crabs have had many, many years and generations to evolve to the effect system, yet they have not. This is especially amazing as its not an isolated location, but prevalent.
Dr Vivienne Nathanson, head of ethics at the British Medical Association, said: "For doctors, the decisions are extraordinarily difficult because they have to have at the centre of their sights the child and the welfare of the child, and not putting the child through a burdensome treatment where there is no hope of any future improvement."
Baby MB, who cannot be named, has spinal muscular atrophy - a genetic condition which leads to almost total paralysis - and cannot breathe unaided.
His family are fighting a hospital's bid for permission to withdraw ventilation from the 17-month-old.
Doctors say it would be better to let him die as his life is "intolerable".
But the child's father told the court he did not think it was right for anyone to decide if the baby should live or die.
He said: "As a Muslim I believe that no one knows exactly when people will die.
"It was God who gave us life and God will take it whatever the situation, good condition, sad, or whatever your condition.
"You've got a certain time to die - that's what I believe."
Counsel for the hospital Huw Lloyd cross-examining said if it was not for modern technology and ventilator support his son would be dead.
….. She argued if he was given an operation which might allow him to breathe alone - a tracheotomy - his life would improve.
…And while he is not believed to be mentally impaired, he can only move his eyebrows. ……
Medics from the hospital caring for him have told the court they believe the invasive ventilation method they use to keep him alive caused him discomfort.
One unnamed doctor said he believed Baby MB had an "intolerable life", and that he was troubled by the life-sustaining treatment he had been obliged to give to the child for some time.
Free will I have often heard of, but I have never seen it. I have met with will... But has either been led captive by sin or held in blessed bonds of grace." C.H. Spurgeon TABLETALK January 2000
No doctrine in the whole word of God has excited the hatred of mankind more than that truth of the absolute sovereignty of God. ? C.H. Spurgeon TABLETALK January 2000
Where a god who is totally purposive and totally foreseeingacts upon a nature which is totally interlocked, there can be no accidents or loose ends, nothing whatever of which we can safely use the word "merely." Nothing is "merely a byof anything else. C.S. Lewis; TableTalk January 2000
CH Spurgeon; Election, Evangelical Press
"The Bible must be first and God=s minister must lie underneah it. We must not stand on the Bible to preach, but we must preach with the Bible above our heads. After all we have preached, we are well aware that the mountain of truth is higher than our eyes can discern; clouds and darkness are round about it summit, and we can not discern its topmost pinnacle; yet we will try to preach it as well as we can. But since we are mortal and liable to err, exercise your jugement, Atry the spirites whether they are of God;" and if on mature reflection on your bended knees, you are led to disregard election a thing which I consider to be utterly impossible B then forsake it, do not hear it preached, but believe and confess whatever you see to be God's word. I can say no more than that by way of exodium."
"AAh, but say some, 'I thought it meant that God elected some to heaven and some to hell.' that is a very different matter from the gospel doctrine. he has elected men to holiness and to righteousness, and through that to heaven. You must not say that he has elected them simply to heaven, and others only to hell. He has elected you to be saved. If any of you desire to have salvation, you are elected to have it, if you desire it sincerely and earnestly. But, if yu don=t desire it, why on earth should you be so preposterously foolish as to grumble because God gives that which you do not like to other people?"
In dealing with a broker-recommending mortgage on whether to disclose the best offer for the customer or the agent. Is it best to tell the buyer the best one available for them or is it best to tell the one from which the agent makes the most. The name has now in some instances become introducer rather than advisor so that people assuage there guilt about telling something that they may know or at least suspect is less than the best product for the client.
"...if the best product available is recommended, then that client, via his or own research, will endorse the introducer=s recommendation and not only come back and do the deal but also have the confidence to bring his or her friends along as well. I am, therefore, convinced that a policy of putting the customer first, even if that means a low (or even nonexistent) procreation fee is the right strategy..."
Any time that it becomes common in society to destroy that which is beautiful, and it to be overlooked the society will self destruct. There can be nothing more beautiful than a woman who is bearing a child or has recently. This is Gods work in action to kill and injure the mother is a direct attack on the God of Heaven.
One of Twin Babies Awaiting Heart Transplant Receives Donor Organ; Infant Was Listed in Critical Condition at Mattel Childrens Hospital at UCLA
Nick Draper, who with his identical twin brother Nate had been awaiting a heart transplant since their birth seven months ago, received a donor heart today during a five-hour surgery at Mattel Children's Hospital at UCLA.
Nick was listed in critical condition at 4 p.m. PST on Feb. 16 in the intensive care unit. His new heart was being supported by a miniature heart-and-lung machine called extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO).
"We deeply appreciate all of the good wishes we have received during the past seven months," said Nicole and Michael Draper, the twins' parents. "It's a comfort knowing that our children are in the prayers of so many people."
Nate remains on the waiting list for a donor organ at Mattel Children's Hospital at UCLA. His brother received a new heart first because his name was added to the waiting list earlier. Medical complications prevented Nate from being listed until two weeks later.
Born July 11, 2005, in Phoenix, Ariz., Nick and Nate suffer from dilated cardiomyopathy, a condition in which the heart muscle is too weak to pump efficiently. Doctors say the condition is very rare in newborns and extremely unusual in twin infants.
-UCLA-
Recently it seems that the abortion debate has risen its head yet again, if it had ever disappeared. I ran across these captivating articles about the draper children. I thought it brought up some of the salient points.
The UCLA article is very matter of the fact and to the point while the LA Times article puts a face on the situation. There are many out there in the abortion debate as a matter of blindness who wont recognize that the un-born child is a child, but some recognize it and deny its importance, as the will of the mother is more important than that of the child. This will cause enormous problems from now on, and has very strong relationships to Hitlers Germany, who said for the convenience of the majority the minority need to be exterminated.
We need to have patience with those who blindly don't recognize the baby as a child, and point out the arrogance and hate of those who will choose the mothers rights over the rights of the child. The mother generally had a right to sex or not, but even when she did not does that make it right to destroy someone who had no choice in the decision at all.
Twin's Transplant Hits Trouble
New heart fails to beat properly, so it is hooked up to a machine. Doctors are unsure what the problem is. Parents stay hopeful.
By Kurt Streeter, Times Staff Writer
February 17 2006
Nick Draper, a 7-month-old twin whose struggle to beat a fatal heart condition has been the focus of a series of Times articles, was in critical condition Thursday after undergoing transplant surgery at UCLA Medical Center, hospital officials said.
During an arduous, nearly seven-hour operation that started when he was anesthetized at 3:30 a.m., surgeons opened up Nick's chest, took out his heart and replaced it with a donor heart that the doctors assumed would work efficiently right away.
Instead, Dr. Mark Plunkett, surgical director of UCLA's pediatric transplant program, implanted the new organ and then watched as it failed to beat strongly enough to keep Nick alive on its own. Concerned that the boy's bodymight be rejecting the new organ, Plunkett connected the heart to a machine that should temporarily make it beat efficiently.
"We can't be sure what's going on right now," the doctor said. "Right now we're going to provide the power, we're going to give his heart a rest. His heart doesn't have to do the work."
Plunkett added that the sophisticated machine can help keep Nick's new heart beating for more than a month but not much longer. The original heart is now unusable.
Over the next two to three days, Plunkett said, his team will probably be able to figure out what is going wrong.
Nick's body might be rejecting the new organ.The heart could also simply be warming up, taking a while to beat the way it should because it took an unusually long time, about seven hours, to transport the organ from its donor to UCLA. Citing confidentiality laws, transplant officials did not provide details such as the donor's age, gender and hometown or how the donor died.
The options for Nick appear limited. The gray-eyed baby, who has never lived outside a hospital, could get better soon if his heart starts working properly, either on its own or with new doses of medicine. Doctors might put him back on the heart transplant list. If he doesn't improve, he would need a new organ within the next several weeks or he would probably die.
The unexpected struggle Thursday was another blow for Nick's parents, Michael and Nicole Draper, who have battled since July to keep their twins alive. Soon after the boys were born in Phoenix, where the family lives, the twins were diagnosed with dilated cardiomyopathy, a rare condition that caused their hearts to swell and barely pump. The twins were so close to dying that they were airlifted to UCLA Medical Center, known for its heart care and transplant program.
The Drapers followed Nick and Nate to Los Angeles, bringing along their three other children. The family lived for months in a $15-a-night, one-bedroom apartment at Hollywood's Ronald McDonald House, an hour's drive in traffic from UCLA. After a recent story in The Times focused on the family's plight, the Drapers moved to Tiverton House, a hotel across the street from the hospital that offered them two rooms at cut rates.
All along, they believed that their boys would live, if they could just get transplants. Nick received a heart first because he was put on the transplant list ahead of his brother. At the time of their birth, Nick's health was better than Nate's.
In the hours before Thursday's surgery, the Drapers felt sure that they were soon to clear at least one hurdle. Both parents knew the risks, but hours before the operation they noted how they were confident because of their strong Mormon faith and because of statistics: About 95% of infant heart transplant operations are initially successful.
But then the surgery dragged on, an hour and then two hours longer than they had expected. Kept from the operating room by hospital rules, they stayed with Nate in the third-floor room he has long shared with Nick. They struggled through the morning as they received updates from doctors and nurses that the surgery was not going well. At one point, hit with thefact that Nick might not make it, they rushed from the hospital for fresh air and to clear their thoughts.
In midafternoon their son out of surgery but in critical condition in the intensive care unit the Drapers sat in the third-floor room. Nicole, 32, held Nate, who still needs a new heart. She was numb, but spoke of their journey.
"From the moment they were born, we've been faced with the unthinkable, with the prospect of them not making it," she said. "Then, today, it seemed like there was finallysome light at the end of the tunnel. We were feeling great. These operations are usually a sure thing.... And we get this fluke."
Yet she remained optimistic. They both were. Michael, 33, interrupted, finishing her thought.
"Dr. Plunkett said there are still things that can be done," he said. "And Dr. Plunkett came in here after the operation and said, 'We are not dead in the water.' Well, we take that to be very encouraging. We figure, why not? There's no reason why Nick can't make it. No reason."
This might be old but as Mrs Clinton is still running for office it has a perspective
"A Cultist is one who has a strong belief in the Bible and second coming of Christ; who frequently attends bible studies who has a high level of financial giving to a Christian cause; who home schools their children; who has accumulated survival foods and has a strong belie in the second amendment; and who distrusts big government. Any of these may qualify (a person as a cultist] but certainly more than one [of these] would cause us to look at this person as a threat, and his family as being in a risk situation that qualified for government interference."
Attorney General Janet Reno, Interview on 60 minutes, June 26, 1994
Author: Jane Goldman
Date: 1996
Source: Sex: How? Why? What? The Teenagers Guide
Publisher: Penguin Books
City: London
Subjects:
Pg 37C I think about sex all the time?
You bet! You see, the homones that cause all the physical changes in your body during puberty don=t just make you sprout hairs and suchlike. They also get working on your brain YQuite apart from that, sex is jolly interesting, and thinking about it can be a very nice, exciting thing to do with your spare time! Even if you can believe that you=re perfectly healthy and normal, thinking about sex all the time can still make you feel uneasy, because you can feel that you=relosing cotrol of your brain.
Subjects: fantasy
Pg 39C I often imagine having sex whith people I know, or famous people. I really enjoy it. Is it okay?
Its called fanasising. It=s more than okay, and nearly everybody does it at some time in their life. It=s just like daydreaming, only its main purpose is to make you feel excited in a sexual way.
Y Fantasising is a fantastically healthy way to discover more about your own sexual feelings, so you should never feel guilty about doing it.
Subjects: intolerance, masturbation(on)
Pg 51C others with strong religious beliefs that sex and the sexual organs only existed in order for married people to make babies, and that using the genitals for any kind of sexual pleasure B especially outside of marriage B was Asinful@. There are still people about who think the same way. Of course, everyone is entitled to their won beliefs, but people also have a right to know the truth. Facts are facts, and the plain truth is that masturbations is not harmful.
Subjects:
Pg 59C Some parentes have very strong views that young people shouldn=t have sex at all, or that sex should be saved for marriage. Changing their minds is likely to be impossible. In cases like this, you=re best off keeping some things secret, but that doesn=t mean you should sneak around and go against what they say.
Subjects: Sex, underage, Love, Promiscuity, children, teenage,
Pg 78&9C If you=re considering taking a relationship furtherC i.e. Having sexB not just for the first time but any time, you should always ask yourself these questions
Some might think that this is a great thing, which surely it is the problem is that this all to common a state and he might be released back to the public. Something is screwed up when this individual has a chance to walk again outside of a prison wall when clearly he could care less about any individual.
He said there was forensic and eyewitness evidence against the defendant
adding: "Nelson blames almost everyone and almost everything for his predicament
...but if you convict Nelson, as we invite you to do, he will have no-one to
blame but himself."
On 17 February the jury found him guilty of both
murders.
He faces another two life sentences and could be given a natural
life tariff by the home secretary, meaning he would never be released from jail.
Betty Friedan Dies - Founder of Now Dies - Now from the BBC
Betty Friedan from The Tribune
After reading the short biographies of Betty Friedan I am continually saddened. I had always viewed her as an eggresive anti male but it would appear as though she was more for moderation. Not complete and I am sure the articles are not completely accurate yet it would appear that she might have slowed down the completely anti male milatency prevelant in the Womens Liberation Movement, which was also anti christian values camp.
These organizations might have lost steam, but thats only because the message preached has now converted the quire to a large extent. The real problem is there was a small problem in the 50's. Rather than fix the small problem though they would rather start over, the problem is ths tends to push you in the complete other direction and so now we have the complete utter destruction of society. Thats ok some of the earlier feminist wanted that so that they could recreate it in the demented image. It has to happen and many peoples lives are destroyed in the process but we know that Christ and His kingdom will reign eternally.
