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What I do:
I am a project engineer for the development of hardware for the space
shuttle and space station to support life science research in space. I
am currently working on the development of new capabilities for a rodent
cage which flies in the space shuttle middeck. In 1998 I will be leading
a project which will begin development of the first rodent cages to be
flown in the space station.
I am responsible for having hardware designed and built which meets
all the researchers' and astronauts' requirements. This involves getting
all the requirements together and understanding what is needed to meet
these requirements, working with designers who make up the drawings to
make sure they design and draw up what is required. It also involves having
test (prototype) hardware built and tested to ensure it will work correctly,
having the final "flight" hardware fabricated (the hardware which will
actually fly in space) and put through additional testing to make sure
it will operate correctly in space, and then to have the hardware prepared
for delivery to Kennedy Space Center for launch on the space shuttle.
My Career Journey
When man first landed on the moon I was 11 years old, and I remember
watching Neil Armstrong walk on the moon, and from that day on I always
wanted to work on the U.S. space program. There are so many things that
a person can do that I had to make a choice. When I went to high school
I took a lot of drafting and design classes and decided I wanted to be
an engineer. I went to college at U. C. Berkeley and majored in mechanical
engineering. Because of my interests in space, I was the president of
the U. C. Berkeley Space Club.
I worked for one year at McDonnell Douglas Aircraft company before I
was able to get a job at NASA Ames Research Center. But I still did not
work on space projects. I worked 6 1/2 years first as a test engineer
on helicopters before I was able to transfer into the space group.
Preparation for Career
Believe it or not, I used to build huge rat cages from smaller cages.
They were multi-leveled and had all kinds of passageways. It's funny that
I now develop rat cages that fly in space. I also read every book I can
on space and watched space movies and documentaries.
My dad was handicapped and has walked on crutches all my life. But he
had a lot of responsibility working for the State of California. Seeing
what he can do with his life, basically anything he wanted, always inspired
me to believe that I could do what I dreamed, too. Also a lot of my teachers
throughout my life helped me make the right decisions to get to where
I am now.
Likes/Dislikes about career
I really like my job a lot and I tell everyone I know that. I get to
work on equipment which flies in space, work with the astronauts, and
make decisions that directly affect the type of hardware that flies in
space. I also am responsible for the safety of the crew that is using
my hardware. It's the kind of work I always dreamed of doing.
It's also hard because there is so much work to do to prepare for a
shuttle flight, but still enjoyable.
Study hard, work hard at whatever you do and don't give up on pursuing
your dream. You really can do in life what you want if you try hard enough.
Just ask any astronaut. I have.
Personal Information
I have lots of outside activities, like rock and ice climbing, surfing,
skate boarding and scuba diving. If you have a job that requires a lot
of work you need an active life away from work to balance your life. I
have climbed both the rock faces of Half Dome and El Capitan in Yosemite
National Park, which takes the same type of commitment and perseverance
that my job does sometimes, but it's more fun.


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SIFMA has issued a Memorandum intended to provide broker-dealers and advisers with guidance regarding procedures for investor verification in connection with offerings made pursuant to Rule 506(c). Morrison & Foerster has signed on to support the procedures, which are useful examples of possible approaches to verification. The white paper and forms may be viewed here…. Continue Reading
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Hearing on Proposed JOBS Act Related BillsPosted in JOBS Act News, Regulation A+
On May 1st, the House Financial Services Committee will hold a hearing (see: http://financialservices.house.gov/calendar/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=377434) on various proposed bills related to the JOBS Act. One of the bills addresses the crowdfunding framework and would have the effect of striking Title III of the JOBS Act and reverting to the House version of the crowdfunding title in… Continue Reading
Reg D and Private Placements Boot CampPosted in Events, Private Placements, Rule 506
On March 13-15, 2014, Morrison & Foerster partner Marty Dunn will participate on the faculty of an ALI CLE course called "Regulation D Offerings and Private Placements." The course will focus on private placements and the new regulatory environment as a result of the JOBS Act. The course will be held in Paradise Valley, AZ,… Continue Reading
Regulation D/Form D Proposed AmendmentsPosted in Rule 506
On the same day that the SEC adopted changes to Rule 506 and Rule 144A in order to relax the prohibition against general solicitation, the SEC proposed for comment amendments to Form D, Regulation D and Rule 156. These proposed rules were met with an extraordinary number of comments given that many felt that the… Continue Reading
Update on Private Offering Rulemaking ProgressPosted in SEC News
During the American Bar Association's Business Law Section Fall Meeting, the Federal Regulation of Securities Committee hosted a dialogue with the Director of the SEC's Division of Corporation Finance, Keith Higgins. Mr. Higgins noted that the SEC Staff is tracking Rule 506 offerings, and thus far, there have been slightly over 300 offerings made using… Continue Reading
SEC Issues 11 C&DIs On Rule 144A and Rule 506(c)Posted in SEC News
On November 13, 2013, the SEC issued 11 new Compliance & Disclosure Interpretations regarding Rule 144A and Rule 506(c). For our readers' convenience, we have put the 11 new C&DIs in their own document [http://www.mofo.com/files/Uploads/Images/131113-SEC-CDIs-re-Rule-506c-and-Rule-144A.pdf]. As with previous C&DIs, many of the new ones confirm positions that the SEC has already taken in other statements,… Continue Reading
De Minimis Exemption Inhibiting FundsPosted in Rule 506
Quite a number of collective investment vehicles, including funds, and other entities that may not be viewed by the CFTC as "operating companies" may, in the absence of specific relief or an available exemption, be a "commodity pool." Many entities rely on the CFTC's Rule 4.13 de minimis exemption (given their limited use of swaps… Continue Reading
Bloomberg BNA JOBS Act EventPosted in Events, Rule 506
On Thursday, October 3, 2013, Morrison & Foerster partner Anna Pinedo will participate in a complimentary Bloomberg Law Event entitled "Outlook on Securities—The JOBS Act". The seminar will focus on the latest developments in JOBS Act rulemaking by the Securities and Exchange Commission. For more information about the event, and to register, please visit: http://about.bloomberglaw.com/events/outlook-on-securities-the-jobs-act/.
How do the SEC "Bad Actor" Disqualifying Events Fit with FINRA Forms U4 and U5?Posted in Rule 506, SEC News
The new SEC "bad actor" provisions of Rule 506(d) become effective on September 23, 2013. Investment banks, which monitor FINRA compliance by their professionals, must ensure that their compliance systems capture all the potentially new requirements of Rule 506(d). The FINRA disclosure obligations of Forms U4 and U5 are more extensive than the Rule 506(d)… Continue Reading
News You Can UsePosted in JOBS Act News, Private Placements, Rule 506
Morrison & Foerster lawyers Anna Pinedo, David Lynn, Nilene Evans and Bradley Berman have prepared several standard representations, warranties and covenants relating to the use of general solicitation under Rule 506(c) offerings and to the bad actor disqualification provision of Rule 506(d). To view the resources, please visit: General Solicitation (Rule 506(c)) Representations and Covenants… Continue Reading
New JOBS Act-related Broker-Dealer FAQs PublishedPosted in Broker-Dealer Registration
The Staff of the SEC's Division of Trading and Markets recently published a series of FAQs addressing certain broker-dealer matters arising in connection with Title II of the JOBS Act. The FAQs are available here: http://www.sec.gov/divisions/marketreg/exemption-broker-dealer-registration-jobs-act-faq.htm. Title II of the JOBS Act formalizes the guidance that has been provided by the SEC in various no-action… Continue Reading
Section 3(b)(2) Exemption and Capital-Raising by BanksPosted in Regulation A+
Many banks have taken advantage of the provisions of the JOBS Act regarding the holder-of-record threshold to deregister and terminate their registration. Banks may want to consider their capital-raising alternatives going forward. A community or small bank that is no longer subject to Exchange Act filing requirements may consider a Rule 506 offering. A Rule… Continue Reading
Integration Disintegration?Posted in Rule 506
One of the thorniest issues for securities lawyers always has been addressing potential integration questions. We have been trained to recognize that there are heightened concerns associated with offerings occurring in close proximity to one another, or changes in offering format (from private to public or public to private offering). Over time, the SEC has… Continue Reading
Trust, and VerifyPosted in Rule 506
In considering the relaxation of the prohibition against general solicitation and general advertising that was incorporated into the JOBS Act, Congressional attention seemed to focus on some quid pro quo arrangement that demands verification of accredited investor status. This leads us to wonder why it takes a "trade" of this sort to justify removing the… Continue Reading


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The horizon is a better spot than the other photo, the door of the stone house is a bit lower and the black line across the photo is a bit lower than center. It makes a very different impression. I'm surprised!
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The top of the door in the stone house is right in the center vertically, and the horizon is really high. By changing my position just slightly, the other shot was more compelling than this one, I think.
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Cooper, 35, and Zellweger, 40, arrived separately, and the couple have kept a relatively low profile since getting into town.
Cooper flew solo Sunday and started off his morning with a quick trip to the USANA/Kari Feinstein Style Lounge.
"He arrived super early," says a source. "He wakes up early every morning and wanted to get his day started like usual. He was in a great mood, and he was excited to pick up his hometown Eagles stuff from Retro Sport Gear."
Saturday night also saw Cooper by himself hitting pal Hill's Cyrus premiere at the Eccles Theatre. The casual twosome laughed throughout the night, and Hill, 26, thanked Cooper for coming.
Bartha's movie at Sundance is Holy Rollers, based on a true story about drug smugglers.
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Lee Jenkins of SI.com: "Memphis actually led by three points with 1:08 left when an inbounds pass slid through the hands of Oklahoma City center Kendrick Perkins and was recovered by the Grizzlies. They had a chance to seal the outcome, but Prince missed a running jumper, then Fisher swiped Conley, and finally Gasol threw an off-balance pass that Conley couldn't corral. The Grizz failed to score in all three of those last-minute possessions, and in two of them they didn't even muster a shot. The Oklahoma City defense, weakened without Westbrook, has apparently rediscovered its bearings. The offense has not, but the Thunder can endure, because they happen to employ one of the most prolific scorers alive."
Kevin Arnovitz of ESPN.com: "For the Thunder to prevail in a rugged seven-game series, they'll have to morph from a team reliant on individual exploits into one that makes the most of its fourth-ranked defense. Decision-making, which has always been an issue for the turnover-prone Thunder, will have to be refined. They'll need production from Kevin Martin, who poured in 25 points of his own on Sunday. Durant may have locked up the office, but Martin was the guy who worked through lunch. Resourcefulness has always been Memphis' thing, as it usually is for a team with obvious holes in its collective skill set. But it has been a long while since the Thunder were anything other than a large-scale operation that churned out offense in high volume. With Westbrook out of action, the enterprise has been downsized. The Thunder will still produce — especially with Durant at the controls — but as Game 1 demonstrated, their profit margins will be squeezed."
ESPN Stats and Info: "With 3:57 remaining in the 4th quarter Sunday, the Thunder trailed 84-82. Kevin Durant took 5 of the final 6 shots for the Thunder, going 4-of-5 for 8 points. All 5 of his shots were attempted from touches that started in the backcourt. Overall in the 4th quarter, Durant had 15 touches, 11 of which started in the backcourt as the primary ball handler."
ESPN Stats and Info again: "Kevin Durant made a jumper with 11.1 seconds remaining in the 4th quarter Sunday to give the Thunder the lead, which they never relinquished. It was Durant's 4th game-tying or go-ahead shot in the final 24 seconds of a playoff game in the last five postseasons, tied for the most in the league. Durant is 4-of-10 on game-tying or go-ahead shots in the final 24 seconds of games in his playoff career, but has made three of his last six such shots. Ray Allen has the best shooting percentage in such situations in the last five postseasons (minimum 3 FGA)."
Marc Stein of ESPN.com in a 5-on-5 on who is under the most pressure: "I suppose you could nominate Reggie Jackson because he's now starting in Russell Westbrook's place. Or Kevin Durant just by virtue of the humongous load KD has to carry now that Westbrook is out for the playoffs. But I truly feel as though the pressure is off the Thunder after they survived that Houston scare. It's the only benefit of Life After Russ: No one expects much out of OKC anymore."
Darnell Mayberry: "The Thunder could have done a better job on Gasol. He finished with 20 points and nine rebounds. Kendrick Perkins got the bulk of the assignment against Gasol. And most of Gasol's damage came from outside, which you can live with. But I'd like to see Perk press up on Gasol more. Ten of Gasol's 14 shot attempts were beyond eight feet. He made six of them. That's a percentage that's past the point of something you live with. That's something you've got to shut off. It's not like Gasol's going to blow by you. Might as well press up on him and take away that jumper."
On KD and how Game 1 was really important.
Jenni Carlson: "Happy? He should be doing cartwheels. For the boys in blue to have any chance in this series against the Grizzlies and their stingy defense, Martin has got to be effective on the offensive end. He's got to shoot and score and do exactly what he did Sunday. Otherwise, the Grizzlies can focus on Kevin Durant and make the Thunder superstar's life miserable. From that last series against the Rockets, we know how hard that can be to watch. And the Rockets weren't even all that good defensively. Martin is key to this series."
Bill Simmons brilliantly summarizing Westbrook's absence: "Now that he's gone, the Thunder don't have the same intensity. They don't get nearly as many easy baskets, especially in transition. It's much easier to double-team Durant and deny him the ball — if anything, Durant's 10 percent (his inability to post up and his struggles just to get the ball sometimes) has been much more noticeable since Westbrook disappeared. And over everything else, they miss Westbrook's swagger. Westbrook approached every game the same way: We're gonna kick your ass. They don't have that guy anymore. Down the stretch of Game 5 against Houston, the Thunder simply melted — they had to resort to that Hack-A-Sik crap, they were playing "hot potato" offensively, and Durant's body language was the worst it's been since P.J. Carlesimo was stupidly playing him as a shooting guard five years ago. This round made everyone stop looking at Russell Westbrook's 10 percent and start seeing his 90 percent. Small consolation for Thunder fans, but still. He's really, really good."
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Skip to comments.Bobby Schindler: The Presidents Torturous Dilemma
Posted on 05/31/2009 9:33:51 AM PDT by wagglebee
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It's chaos at my place right now. Great if you could post it. I just found out about the "happy suicide" last evening from a guest, and I was so outraged - after I check to see it was really true - that I had mention it right away.
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The organization has been running ads in Washington, DC, claiming that 90 percent of its services are preventive and primary care, just like going to a doctor's office. Jim Sedlak of American Life League disagrees. With Obama's healthcare program, Sedlak contends Planned Parenthood is just trying to position itself to be in the mainstream of healthcare.
"The problem is that according to its last annual report, Planned Parenthood...primary care patients account for only seven-tenths of one percent of its total number of customers," he says.
Sedlak was asked if Planned Parenthood's recent report was designed to get more government money.
"Absolutely! They're trying to set the stage so that they get recognized as an entry point into the healthcare system, and that people don't have to go to another primary care physician, and they can get referenced to Planned Parenthood, that they can just walk in the door at Planned Parenthood and that will result in millions of more dollars to Planned Parenthood," he points out.
According to Sedlak, abortion accounts for about one-third of Planned Parenthood's income -- and government-funded abortion is likely to be a part of the Obama healthcare plan.
Great job Lesforlife!
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Colorado Right to Life and Personhood Colorado are joining forces to gather the signatures for the 2010 Colorado Personhood Initiative. Right to Life spokeswoman Leslie Hanks says they are energized for the campaign.
"People are really beginning to see that the God-given right to life of the preborn child is something exciting to fight for," she explains, "and we've really stood idly by for too long, allowing horrible human rights abuses to go unchallenged in so many ways in this country."
In 2008, Colorado's Personhood Amendment garnered less than 30 percent of the vote. Hanks was asked why a major campaign is being launched again so soon after the defeat.
"With women's suffrage, they took about a 12-year hiatus," she notes, "and when they came back, they were further behind than when they first started -- so we don't want to let that happen. And we know that the civil rights movement didn't sit down and say we're not going to fight any longer because of one election shortfall."
If the petition drive is successful, the measure will be on the 2010 ballot. Pro-lifers in Montana have started a similar campaign.
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There was a one-sided vote in both the Tennessee house and senate that removed Planned Parenthoods decades long stranglehold on family planning funds in the Volunteer State.
Susan Allen of Tennessee Right to Life is thankful that Planned Parenthood will no longer receive the annual automatic nod from the state. She commented that, "For approximately 40 years, Planned Parenthood was given preferential treatment in the Tennessee state law for getting family planning funds that are under Title X from the federal government."
About $1.1 million that has been set aside for family planning in Tennessee, will now be distributed mostly to local health organizations and not the taxpayer-supported abortion provider, Planned Parenthood. . .
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A California mom says her public school administrators violated her daughter's First Amendment rights when they ordered the seventh-grader to take off her pro-life T-shirt.
Anna Amador has gone to court on behalf of her daughter, who she says was ordered by her principal to change her shirt on "National Pro-Life T-Shirt Day." The shirt the girl was wearing displays two graphic pictures of a fetus growing in the womb.
The incident occurred in April 2008 at McSwain Elementary School, a K-8 school in Merced, Calif. Amador alleges in her legal complaint that school Principal Terrie Rohrer, Assistant Principal C.W. Smith and office clerk Martha Hernandez mistreated her daughter and denied the girl her First Amendment rights when they ordered her to leave the cafeteria and change her shirt.
"Before Plaintiff could eat [breakfast] she was ordered by a school staff member to throw her food out and report immediately to Defendant Smith's office, located in the main office of McSwain Elementary School," the complaint reads.
"Upon arriving at the main office, Defendant Hernandez, intentionally and without Plaintiff's consent, grabbed Plaintiff's arm and forcibly escorted her toward Smith's office, at all times maintaining a vice-like grip on Plaintiff's arm. Hernandez only released Plaintiff's arm after physically locating her in front of Smith and Defendant Rohrer...
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uly 6, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A new review of studies examining various types of prenatal loss and the effects on subsequent parenting has concluded that abortion may be "particularly damaging to the parenting process."
The article, published in Current Women's Health Reviews, looks at already published studies on miscarriage, induced abortion and adoption. The author, Priscilla Coleman of Bowling Green State University, focuses on psychological reactions to these various types of loss and discusses how they might affect a mother's relationship with children born after the pregnancy loss.
It is now known that women usually begin feeling maternal attachment in the early stages of pregnancy. The paper notes that despite the increased responsibilities and stress involved in raising children, "numerous studies have documented positive psychological characteristics associated with motherhood including increases in life satisfaction, self-esteem, empathy, restraint, flexibility and resourcefulness in coping, and assertiveness." Losing a child before or at birth, for any reason, however, "can be a profound source of suffering."
While all forms of pregnancy loss can cause emotional distress that can impact future parenting, the available research indicates that emotional responses after induced abortion are more likely to go unresolved and to persist for a longer time period.
Coleman writes that "society understands that women who miscarry or relinquish a child through adoption may experience sadness and grief." However, she continues, grief after abortion is "socially sanctioned because abortion is not acknowledged by our culture as a human death experience." Consequently help to deal with the experience is usually not offered. . .
What happened to "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness," Mr. Obortion Obama?
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WASHINGTON, D.C., July 6, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In a meeting with several members of the Catholic media Thursday, President Obama insisted that pro-life Catholics' fears over the new administration's abortion agenda was "not based on anything I've said or done." The president also said he embraces the so-called "seamless garment" moral theory of Cardinal Joseph Bernardin of Chicago, which he said he feels has been "buried under the abortion debate" in recent decades.
The president called for the brief round-table meeting with Catholic media to discuss his upcoming meeting with Pope Benedict XVI July 10, but addressed the rift between his stance on abortion and the Catholic Church's moral teaching in response to questions.
The meeting was attended by representatives of the Catholic News Service, the National Catholic Reporter, America magazine, Commonweal magazine, Catholic Digest, Vatican Radio, and a Washington Post religion writer.
According to the Catholic Digest report, one member asked for more information on President Obama's stance on conscience protection for doctors objecting to abortion.
President Obama said that the expectation of heavily pro-abortion policy from his administration "is not based on anything I've said or done, but is rather just a perception somehow that we have some hard-line agenda that we're seeking to push." . . .
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The White House is saying that pro-abortion President Barack Obama and Pope Benedict XVI, the head of the Catholic Church, will have a "frank' talk on abortion when they meet on Friday. Obama is currently in Italy for the Group of Eight summit and the two will meet after the conference concludes.
"I think there will be a frank discussion [about abortion]," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters aboard Air Force One, according to an AP report.
On subject like abortion where Obama is out of step with the pro-life teachings of the Catholic faith, Gibbs said "even if we don't see eye to eye on everything, there are steps that can be taken on a number of issues that will show progress, whether it's on something like unintended pregnancy or adoption."
Gibbs said the pontiff is "somebody that gets to see a lot of the world, and I think getting his continued support for these efforts is obviously important." . . .
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ROCKFORD, Illinois, July 7, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The pattern of abuse at a Rockford abortion facility has continued after an employee allegedly struck with his car a homeless man praying with pro-life protesters, and drove away, according to witnesses at the scene.
The vehicle reportedly struck Scott Griffin on Wednesday as it drove into the driveway of the abortion facility, where pro-lifers say workers frequently drive recklessly in an apparent attempt to intimidate those praying and handing out pro-life literature.
"The dark colored SUV the clinic worker was driving hit Scott Griffin with the mirror on the passenger side so hard the mirror was slammed back into the vehicle and Mr. Griffin was stunned and bruised," Rockford pro-life veteran Kevin Rilott said.
"After the clinic worker hit him she didn't slow down or stop to see how he was - she just kept going."
Another witness, George Lambert, said the female clinic worker "really nailed the guy hard - I couldn't believe she didn't even stop to see how he was."
City Attorney Kerry Partridge refused to comment on whether any suspects had been questioned or charged, saying only that the case is still under investigation. . .
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MONTGOMERY, Alabama, July 7, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Alabama Attorney General Troy King has called a new undercover video released last week showing Planned Parenthood of Alabama apparently breaking state mandatory reporting laws for sexual abuse "extremely troubling" and requested the full recordings. The student-led nonprofit responsible for the recordings, Live Action, immediately sent the full footage, which the Attorney General's office received yesterday.
The video shows a Planned Parenthood staffer, identified as "Tanisha," telling a purportedly 14-year-old girl with a 31-year-old "boyfriend" that Planned Parenthood "does sometimes bend the rules a little bit" when it comes to reporting statutory rape to state authorities. Despite strong parental consent laws in Alabama, "Tanisha" also explains that a person with the "same last name" as the 14-year-old would suffice as a guardian or parent to sign off for the minor's abortion. In an interview last week, King said, "If that tape is an accurate depiction of what's happening, that's very troubling," and "if that video is true and accurate and correct, it's extremely troubling from a legal and moral point of view."
The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office has also expressed concern about the contents of the video and warned of potential repercussions for Planned Parenthood. Lt. Randy Christian said: "Anyone who sees that should be disturbed by it, and I hope they're disturbed by it. For a 31 year old to have sex with a 14 year old, that is rape in the second degree. I think they are not only morally obligated to report it - the law requires them to report it, and there could be some serious consequences otherwise."
Lila Rose, president of Live Action and the UCLA student who went undercover posing as the 14-year- old in the video, called for a thorough state investigation of Planned Parenthood. "Attorney General King should use this evidence to subpoena records and witness testimony from Planned Parenthood of Alabama and the state Department of Human Resources," she said.
Rose notes that in 2006, three Alabama abortion clinics were placed on probation after an investigation found them operating outside state regulations. King said of the current allegations, "We have knowledge that the law may have been broken and I think we're compelled at that point to see if it has or not."
"Attorney General King is absolutely correct," says Rose. "How many other rapes has this single clinic covered up? When mandatory reporters at Planned Parenthood can 'bend the rules a little bit' in service of their abortion-first mentality and put vulnerable young girls at risk, someone needs to stand up and put a stop to it."
(To view the undercover video click here)
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WESTMINSTER, July 8, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Pro-life campaigners in Britain yesterday welcomed a reprieve in the battle against euthanasia as a bill that would have legalised assisted suicide was defeated in the House of Lords. In a vote of 194 to 141, an amendment to the government's Coroners and Justice Bill was defeated last night that would have sanctioned assisted suicide in the UK and facilitated Britons going overseas to commit suicide.
The amendment had been put forward by Charles Falconer, a former Lord Chancellor and major figure in Tony Blair's New Labour and part of a cadre of euthanasia campaigners at Westminster. Under current UK law, it is illegal for someone to assist another to commit suicide, even if done out of the country. The chief prosecutor, however, has instructed police to turn a blind eye to violations in the latter case.
Paul Tully, general secretary of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children called the defeat of the bill a "significant victory for the right to life."
"Time and again Parliament has blocked attempts to undermine the protective ban on assisted suicide," he said. Tully called upon euthanasia campaigners to drop their parliamentary effort that is "offensive to very many people who live with, or care for those with, disability or terminal illness."
Peter Saunders of the Care Not Killing Alliance, in an email to supporters, congratulated them for their lobbying efforts and called the vote a "fantastic result." He said, "We have fought them off for another year."
In the debate in the House, Baroness Campbell, a disability rights advocate who has spinal muscular atrophy, said that the amendment would send "a signal of despair" to the disabled and the terminally-ill. Lord Falconer's amendment would be a major change in the way our culture regards people who are disabled, she said.
She warned the House, "Legalising premature death as a treatment option plants a seed of doubt about one's right to demand help to live with dignity and undermines the state's responsibility to ensure that all citizens can live with dignity."
"If this amendment were to succeed, it would place a new and invidious pressure on disabled and terminally ill people who think that they are close to the end of their lives." She noted that no major disability organisation supported the amendment and only a minority of vocal disabled individuals supported it. . .
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Unfortunately the death mongers will just bring it back every year until they get their way.
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The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has told a non-profit coalition of pro-life groups in Iowa to promise that it would not organize protests at Planned Parenthood abortion facilities before it is granted tax exempt status.
Pro-life lawyers say the organization has steadily kept within the guidelines for non-profit religious, educational and charitable groups. However, several months after the group applied for tax-exempt status, an IRS agent contacted Coalition for Life Iowa president Sue Martinek to inquire as to whether the group engages in any "picketing" or protesting at Planned Parenthood, and questioned the group's prayer activity outside Planned Parenthood facilities. . .
"We will not be silent.
We are your bad conscience.
The White Rose will give you no rest."
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.- Pope Benedict XVI received President Barack Obama this afternoon in his private library, and after 36 minutes of private conversation, the pair emerged without providing any details about their topics of conversation. Nevertheless, the Holy See revealed that the Pope gave Obama an unannounced gift--a Vatican document on bioethics and the right to life.
"The G8 has been very productive, 20 billion dollars have been allocated [to poor countries]; that's something concrete," President Obama told the Pope when he asked about the summit, as photographers and journalists were ushered out of the Papal library.
The meeting between the Pope and the U.S. President started at 4:25 p.m. local time, after an unusually short meeting of ten minutes with the Secretary of State, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone.
After the private conversation, and again in front of the cameras, President Obama gave the Pontiff a stole that was drapped upon the body of St. John Neumann from 1988 to 2007. The Pope instead presented the president with a mosaic portraying St. Peter's Square and the Vatican Basilica, and an autographed copy of his latest social encyclical Caritas in Veritate.
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SAN DIEGO, California, July 9, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The general counsel for the National Education Association (NEA), America's largest teacher's union, complained last week of the "conservative and right-wing bastards" that are "after" the NEA. At the same meeting, the NEA rejected a proposal that would have ceased their abortion advocacy, and went on record in support of same-sex "marriage."
"We are not paranoid, someone really is after us," said General Counsel Bob Chanin in an address to NEA affiliates on the occasion of his retirement.
"Why are these conservative and right-wing bastards picking on NEA and its affiliates? I will tell you why: it is the price we pay for success. NEA and its affiliates have been singled out because they are the most effective unions in the U.S."
Chanin also noted that, in his opinion, NEA's advocacy is "effective" "not because of our creative ideas, it is not because of the merit of our positions, it is not because we care about children, and it is not because we have a vision of a great public school for every child. NEA and its affiliates are effective advocates because we have power." . . .
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The more that the American public learns that Sonia Sotomayor may supports unlimited abortions throughout pregnancy if she is confirmed for the Supreme Court, the more they oppose her nomination. A new Rasmussen Report poll finds a plurality now oppose the Senate confirming her.
The finding comes as more information is revealed about her involvement with a pro-abortion Hispanic group that filed numerous legal briefs promoting unlimited abortions.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey find a small 37 percent believe Sotomayor should be confirmed while a larger 39 percent say she should not. The rest of those polled are undecided on her nomination.
Two weeks ago, the numbers were much brighter for President Barack Obama's first Supreme Court pick. At that time, 42% favored confirmation, and 34% were opposed, according to the Rasmussen poll.
Democrats now favor confirmation by a four-to-one margin while Republicans are opposed by a three-to-one margin. Among those not affiliated with either major party, 23% favor confirmation, and 49% are opposed. . .
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Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Jul 10, 2009 / 01:33 pm (CNA).- A new poll commissioned by the Knights of Columbus supports other reports that say Americans are increasing becoming pro-life. About 49 percent of Americans now describe themselves as pro-life, while 60 percent think abortion should be legal only in a few circumstances or not at all.
The poll, undertaken in partnership with the Marist Institute for Public Opinion at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York, conducted a telephone survey of 1,223 Americans in May 2009 and claims a margin of error of plus or minus three percent.
An October 2008 Knights of Columbus/Marist Institute poll showed 44 percent of Americans considered themselves to be pro-life. This figure increased to 49 percent among the May 2009 respondents. Men and women were about evenly split on abortion but were still slightly more pro-life than those polled in 2008. . .
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July 10, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In 2006, research done by Dr. Gerald Buckberg, a cardio-thoracic surgeon and UCLA expert, demonstrated that a person can survive cardiac arrest for an average of 72 minutes if they are given the following treatment: cardio-pulmonary resuscitation, the use of a heart-lung machine to keep blood and oxygen circulating, and gradual restoration of blood and oxygen flow.
This research was done at hospitals in Alabama and Ann Arbor, Michigan and also in Germany. Of 34 patients, seven died, only two had permanent neurological changes and 25 recovered completely. One patient had been in cardiac arrest for two and a half days. Similar results were obtained by research in Japan, Taiwan, and elsewhere in Asia. . .
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No need to apologize. I've been scanning instead of posting and bttt. I'll be bk when Charlie Crist does something stupid again. Gee, that would probably be sooner rather than later.
Speaking of judicial empathy, where was the empathy for the helpless Terri Schiavo as she was dehydrated to death by judicial order, without even the simple kindness of allowing the grieving parents to wet her blistering lips as she was being tortured to death?
Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.
"We will not be silent.
We are your bad conscience.
The White Rose will give you no rest."
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One of Britain's most respected conductors, Sir Edward Downes, and his wife, Joan, a choreographer and TV producer, have died at an assisted suicide clinic in Switzerland, their family said today.
Downes, 85, was almost blind when he and his 74-year-old wife, who had become his full-time carer, travelled to Switzerland to end their lives, a family statement released to the BBC said.
Born in Birmingham, Downes had a long and distinguished career, including conducting the first performance at the Sydney Opera House. He worked with the BBC Philharmonic and the Royal Opera House in London.
The statement from the couple's son and daughter, Caractacus and Boudicca, said they "died peacefully, and under circumstances of their own choosing".
The statement continued: "After 54 happy years together, they decided to end their own lives rather than continue to struggle with serious health problems."
The couple died at a clinic run by Dignitas, the Swiss organisation that operates a specialist euthanasia service. . .
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Here's what Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said in Sunday's New York Times Magazine: "Frankly I had thought that at the time (Roe v. Wade) was decided," Ginsburg told her interviewer, Emily Bazelon, "there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of."
The comment, which bizarrely elicited no follow-up from Bazelon or any further coverage from the New York Times or any other major news outlet was in the context of Medicaid funding for abortion. Ginsburg was surprised when the Supreme Court in 1980 barred taxpayer support for abortions for poor women. After all, if poverty partly described the population you had "too many of," you would want to subsidize it in order to expedite the reduction of unwanted populations.
Left unclear is whether Ginsburg endorses the eugenic motivation she ascribed to the passage of Roe v. Wade or whether she was merely objectively describing it. One senses that if Antonin Scalia had offered such a comment, a Times interviewer would have sought more clarity, particularly on the racial characteristics of these supposedly unwanted populations.
Regardless, Ginsburg's certainly right that abortion has deep roots in the historic effort to "weed out" undesired groups. For instance, Margaret Sanger, the revered feminist and founder of Planned Parenthood, was a racist eugenicist of the first order. Even more perplexing: She's become a champion of "reproductive freedom" even though she proposed a "Code to Stop Overproduction of Children," under which "no woman shall have a legal right to bear a child without a permit." (Poor blacks would have had a particularly hard time getting such licenses from Sanger.) . . .
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They weigh less than 3 pounds, usually, and are perhaps 15 inches long. But they can remember.
The unborn have memories, according to medical researchers who used sound and vibration stimulation, combined with sonography, to reveal that the human fetus displays short-term memory from at least 30 weeks gestation - or about two months before they are born. . .
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WASHINGTON, D.C., July 15, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A White House spokesman appears to have settled confusion on the position of Surgeon General nominee Dr. Regina Benjamin by saying that the doctor, though widely considered a devout Roman Catholic, supports President Obama's agenda on abortion.
White House spokesman Reid Cherlin said in a Miami Herald report yesterday that Benjamin "supports the president's position on reproductive health issues." Earlier this year Secretary of State Hillary Clinton explicitly confirmed that for the Obama administration the term "reproductive health" includes abortion.
Cherlin added that Benjamin also aligns with Obama's position on seeking "common ground" on abortion "to try and reduce the number of unintended pregnancies."
The New York Times also recently reported that an associate of Benjamin's said the Catholic doctor regularly distributes contraception, despite the Catholic Church's teaching against contraception.
Benjamin's reputation for being a devout Catholic stems in part from the fact that she is a past recipient of the "Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice" award from Pope Benedict XVI for her humanitarian work. She has also received the National Caring Award, an honor which was inspired by Mother Teresa. When Benjamin's nomination was announced, Catholic League president Bill Donohue welcomed the doctor as an "excellent choice" for surgeon general. Donohue has not yet commented since the White House commented on Benjamin's position on abortion.
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July 16, 2009 (InsideCatholic.com) - In the late afternoon of July 10, President Obama met privately with Pope Benedict XVI for just over 30 minutes. According to official Vatican spokesman Rev. Federico Lombardi, S.J., "The president explicitly expressed his commitment to reducing the numbers of abortions and to listen to the church's concern on moral issues."
On July 13 in a Senate committee hearing, Sen. Barbara Mikulski was forced to admit under persistent questioning by Sen. Orrin Hatch that the new health-care bill includes abortion coverage. Planned Parenthood's Guttmacher Institute estimates government funding of abortion increases abortion by 20 to 35 percent.
There were 1,206,200 abortions in 2006, according to National Right Life (the last annual results available). The math is easy: If the heath-care package currently being pushed by Obama is passed, the result will be 240,000 to 420,000 more abortions in the first year alone.
Did President Obama know these abortion provisions were in the Senate health-care bill when he met with the Holy Father? There is no reason to think he didn't. He certainly knew he had gone on the record supporting federal funding for abortion in the District of Columbia.
If President Obama is honest with himself, he must admit to misleading Benedict at their meeting. . .
Is there no end to this evil parade of charlatans, who worship
the father of lies?
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The Long Road of Eugenics: From Rockefeller to Roe v. Wade (abortion, eugenics)
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|Obama Health Bill: Those on Social Security - Mandatory Counseling on Asst. Suicide
On Page 425 of Obamas health care bill, the Federal Government will require EVERYONE who is on Social Security to undergo a counseling session every 5 years with the objective being that they will explain to them just how to end their own life earlier. Yes...They are going to push SUICIDE to cut medicare spending!!! And no, I am NOT SHing YOU! So those of you who voted for Obama have now put your own parents in dire straights...Congratulations!
Also, planned denial of medical care for seniors.
I was about to go to bed and just logged on for a minute and saw this; I knew it was coming, but it's still shocking to see it verified.
The "upside" to all of this is that nobody seems to think that I'm paranoid when I say that it won't be long before this supposed "right" to die mutates into an actual duty.
Indeed, a human life will be reduced to dollars-and-cents.
If Obama"care" gets passed, we will see eugenics like we never have before.
Thread by Salvation.
On July 15, 2009, H. R. 3200 passed a Senate Committee and is being rushed through the U.S. House and Senate to install a nationalized health plan. This bill would repeal the ban on using federal funds for abortion and would instead require abortion to be part of any national health plan.
This bill would:
It is IMPORTANT that you call your Congressman and Senators to tell them that abortion is not health care.
Ask them to vote NO on any health plan that does not specifically exclude abortion from being covered as health care.
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Washington, DC -- One of the nation's largest pro-abortions groups announced today that it is supporting the nomination of appeals court judge Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court. NARAL said that the hearings the Senate Judiciary Committee held last week show Sotomayor will support unlimited abortions. . .
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Obama's Science Czar Considered Forced Abortions, Sterilization as Population Growth Solutions John Holdren, director of the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy, considered compulsory abortions and other Draconian measures to shrink the human population in a 1977 science textbook.
President Obama's "science czar," Paul Holdren, once floated the idea of forced abortions, "compulsory sterilization," and the creation of a "Planetary Regime" that would oversee human population levels and control all natural resources as a means of protecting the planet -- controversial ideas his critics say should have been brought up in his Senate confirmation hearings.
Holdren, who has degrees from MIT and Stanford and headed a science policy program at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government for the past 13 years, won the unanimous approval of the Senate as the president's chief science adviser. . .
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July 21, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Famed CBS news anchor Walter Cronkite has been lauded in the media since his death on Friday, at the age of 92, with tributes paid not only from secular media, but even Vatican Radio and other Christian news sources.
But while remembered by many as "the most trusted man in America," many of Cronkite's more radical, but lesser known views, would be considered repugnant even to many of his greatest fans.
For instance, up until his death Cronkite served as honorary chair of the Interfaith Alliance, an organization dedicated to countering the influence of conservative Christianity on federal politics. In 2007, the Alliance initiated a campaign to force Christianity out of the public sphere by promoting policies that would silence the Christian voice. They recommended that churches be prohibited from endorsing political candidates, that research and health policies should not be based on "religious doctrine," and that faith-based schools should be banned, among other things.
Part and parcel with Cronkite's campaign against religion in public life was his outspoken vocal support of abortion and same-sex marriage. In 2003-2004, for example, Cronkite wrote a column for King Features Syndicate, which was published in about 180 newspapers throughout the U.S. In the column he discussed 'Marriage and Abortion', expressing disregard for "conservatives" who oppose abortion and same-sex "marriage."
"It certainly is the right of the anti-abortionists and those who oppose gay marriages to defend, express and even propagandize their beliefs," he says, "but is it their right to impose their definition of morality on those who hold opposing views? The answer is a resounding 'no'. ... This columnist believes that among conservatives and liberals alike there is a majority who would put the sanctity of individual rights even above the sanctity with which some would endow the banning of abortion and gay marriage."
Cronkite served as anchor of CBS Evening News from 1962 to 1981, a time of great change in America. His tenure included the JFK assassination, the moon landing, the Vietnam War, and he helped to shape American sentiment on these landmark events. But his time as anchor also included the most devastating of landmarks in American history, as many American pro-life activists would see it - the legalization of abortion. . .
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NEW YORK Alliance Defense Fund attorneys filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Mount Sinai Hospital on behalf of a Catholic nurse who was forced to participate in a late-term abortion under the threat of disciplinary action, including possible termination and loss of her license. The hospital has known of her religious objections to abortion since 2004.
Hospital administrators told the nurse that the scheduled abortion was an "emergency," though evidence shows otherwise, and insisted moments before the procedure that she assist doctors despite her repeated objections to the procedure, which dismembered a preborn child in the 22nd week of gestation. By federal law, hospitals that receive federal funds cannot force employees to participate in abortion procedures under any circumstances.
"Pro-life nurses shouldnt be forced to assist in abortions against their beliefs," said ADF Legal Counsel Matt Bowman. "Requiring a devout, Catholic nurse to participate in a late-term abortion in order to remain employed is illegal, unethical, and violates her rights of conscience. Federal law requires that employers who receive funding from tax dollars must not compel employees to violate their sincerely held religious beliefs, but this nurses objections fell on deaf ears."
"Chasing away workers from the health care field is disastrous health care policy," said Bowman. "An individuals conscience is likely what brought them to the health care field. Denying or coercing their conscience will likely drive them right out."
Administrators at Mount Sinai Hospital threatened senior nurse Cathy Cenzon-DeCarlo with disciplinary measures if she did not honor a last-minute summons to assist in a scheduled late-term abortion. Despite the fact that the patient was not in crisis at the time of the surgery, the hospital insisted on her participation in the procedure on the grounds that it was an "emergency" even though the procedure was not classified as such. . .
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Let me begin by telling you that two of 50 million children taken away by abortionists since 1973 were mine. I can still see them in my mind's eye.
Like many black women, I once believed the doctor who told me my babies were no more than "a blob of tissue." I wanted to believe it. Eventually, I realized I was wrong, that I was a secondary victim of abortion. I repented and found healing through God. Today, I work in the civil rights movement of our century -- the right of every one of every race to live.
I am asking you to join me. Let me tell you why. Abortion and racism are evil twins, born of the same lie. Where racism now hides its face in public, abortion is accomplishing the goals of which racism only once dreamed. Together, abortionists are destroying humanity at large and the black community in particular.
Abortion has taken a gruesome toll on the black community, killing more than AIDS and crime combined. Some 14 million black babies have been aborted since the 1973 US Supreme Court Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion in all stages in all 50 states. That's equal to one-third of the number of blacks living today. . .
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Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The popular video sharing web site YouTube has again censored a video exposing Planned Parenthood hiding a potential case of sexual abuse of a teenager. The video also shows the Planned Parenthood employee telling a woman posing as a teenager how she can evade the state's parental consent abortion law.
The undercover video, taken by Lila Rose of Live Action, shows a staffer at a Birmingham, Alabama Planned Parenthood abortion center telling a woman who appears to be a victim of statutory rape that "we bend the rules."
The video has triggered an investigation by the state Attorney General's Office into the nation's largest abortion business.
Rose tells LifeNews.com that YouTube is engaging in censorship that "appears politically motivated."
She indicated YouTube offered no prior warning or specific explanation for removing the video, which she says contains no apparent violations of YouTube's "community guidelines."
After remaining up for ten days, the video had several thousand views and had been linked to by many news organizations, including LifeNews.com.
YouTube has previously censored Live Action videos, and the latest removal casts further doubt on the video-sharing site's professed regard for free speech and political neutrality," Rose said. . .
By now you're likely one of 1.5 million people who have seen the graphic video of Neda Soltan dying after being shot in the chest on June 20, 2009, during protests in Iran following the presidential election.
The video shows Neda collapsing into the arms of two men, who try to stop her bleeding with their bare hands. Suddenly, Neda's eyes roll up and to the right, almost as if they are looking at the cell phone video camera chronicling her death. Blood begins pouring from her mouth and nose, into one eye and down her face. Cries erupt from the crowd, and you know Neda is dead.
I don't know how the tragic video of Neda's death is any less graphic than a video by the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform showing the tragic, graphic deaths of children by abortion, but it is according to YouTube, which removed this video.
There's something about showing abortion that sets it apart from all other videos in the Big Brother eyes of YouTube.
YouTube allows almost any surgery video imaginable, like gastric bypass, gallbladder removal, toe amputation, appendectomy and brain tumor removal, and gross-out body parts videos like a buttock fecal fistula or peritoneal cancer but not abortion.
Neither does YouTube have a problem with videos pertaining to the female anatomy like mastectomies, breast augmentations, hysterectomies or even baby deliveries but not abortion, unless it is in the form of bloodless illustrations.
YouTube also seems to go out of its way to protect the abortion industry, particularly Planned Parenthood. . .
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.- Though Mayra Sandoval died of cancer on July 8, her son Samuel is alive and healthy thanks to her insistence on choosing life, against the advice of doctors who urged her to abort. Now, Mayras husband and friends remember her as a powerful witness to the immeasurable value of life.
In an interview with the Denver Catholic Register, Mayras husband, Ricardo Flores, recalled the battle of faith and trust that the couple underwent in the months leading up to her death.
Both Ricardo and Mayra were born in Mexico. They moved to U.S., where they met three years ago, began to date, and eventually moved in together. At the time, neither had a strong faith, but they were nevertheless overjoyed when, in October 2008, Mayra became pregnant.
Months later, doctors detected a cancerous tumor in Mayras lungs that was already in an advanced stage and was still continuing to grow. Mayra was advised to abort the baby on the spot, so that she could start a treatment to halt the cancer growth.
But Ricardo and Mayra chose life. Although it was difficult, Ricardo said he never had any second thoughts in the decision to choose life. When the option of abortion was presented, "We always said no. We couldnt do that," he explained. "God gave life and God takes it away."
"And we can trust in God and let His will be done," he continued, explaining the peace that the couple found in abandoning themselves to the Lords will. "We can accept whatever God sends us, good or bad." . . .
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Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Two Republican leaders in the House of Representatives are confirming reports that the health care restructuring bill the House is currently considering promotes euthanasia. A leading patients rights advocate is worried about the effects of the legislation.
Betsy McCaughey, the former New York lieutenant government who is now a patient's rights advocate, notes that the government-run health care plan would require "end of life" counseling for seniors.
The counseling, she says, would be focused on telling seniors how to end their lives sooner.
In a statement sent to LifeNews.com House Republican Leader John Boehner Republican Policy Committee Chairman Thaddeus McCotter confirm those fears.
"Section 1233 of the House-drafted legislation encourages health care providers to provide their Medicare patients with counseling on the use of artificially administered nutrition and hydration and other end of life treatments,'" the pair say.
That section "may place seniors in situations where they feel pressured to sign end of life directives they would not otherwise sign."
"This provision may start us down a treacherous path toward government-encouraged euthanasia if enacted into law. At a minimum this legislative language deserves a full and open public debate the sort of debate that is impossible to have under the politically-driven deadlines Democratic leaders have arbitrarily set for enactment of a health care bill," they state. . .
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National week of prayer for HIV/AIDS awareness
Community prayer breakfast, HIV/AIDS forum and gospel concert among activities
Gigi Tinsley | 3/6/2014, 9 a.m.
March 2nd-9th is recognized as the National Week of Prayer for the Healing of AIDS (NWPHA). The National Week of Prayer for the healing of AIDS is an annual HIV awareness campaign designed to mobilize faith communities everywhere and highlight the contributions and impact congregations are making in the area of
HIV prevention, testing, direct service, advocacy and community engagement.
"As a person that has been affected and infected with HIV and Hepatitis C, I can attest to the fact that
individuals from all walks of life need to get involved with helping to eradicate this disease," said Chief Apostle Dr. Leroy Smith, the Founder and Pastor of More Than Conquerors Outreach Church Ministries, Inc. On Sept. 19, 2009 Smith founded the Community Hope Health and Human Services Corp. that provides HIV testing for the Central Miami area.
"Being tested is crucial. Pastors must tell their members that until they are absolutely, positively, sure that they are not infected, they need to be tested. God has given us doctors and technicians for a reason. When this disease is caught in time, it can be controlled and brought into submission. There is no cure as of yet, but with good care one can live a very long time." Smith added.
Last Sunday, March 2nd, was the beginning of NWPHA. Every worship center, synagogue, mosque, and other faith-based organizations was asked to pause a moment and pray for the healing of HIV/AIDS during their worship service.
According to Daryl Baxter, an associate pastor of Bethel Apostolic Temple, president of The Family Foundation, Inc. and the Churches United Conference chairperson, "This is a national campaign to call men and women of faith to pray and take aggressive action in dismantling the AIDS stigma. To model unconditional love and compassion to all persons living with and affected by HIV; to disseminate factual HIV information and to engage communities in HIV testing and treatment services."
These weeklong activities include a community prayer; a prayer breakfast with a press conference, an HIV/AIDS forum and a Gospel Concert.
In Miami-Dade County, Churches United for HIV/AIDS Prevention presented its annual Pastoral/Ministerial Breakfast and News Conference on Tuesday, March 4th at Bethel Apostolic Temple from 9-11 a.m. Rev. Carol Nash-Lester is the pastor and Rev. Marvin Charles Lue, Jr. of Trinity CME Church was the keynote speaker.
Sing for A Cure Concert will be held Friday, March 7th at 7 p.m. at Ebenezer United Methodist Church, 2001 NW 35th St. where Rev. Dr. Joreatha Capers is the pastor.
Confidential Rapid HIV testing will be available at all venues.
All events are free and open to the public.


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If a rendering was only a momentary image that showed up on screen, it wouldn't be very helpful. Fortunately, AutoCAD allows us to save our rendered images such that we can display, print or share them with others. In this lesson we are going to learn how to save our finished rendering as an image. As you see I am still working on our assembly drawing. I have just rendered my composite model. So we are picking up right where we left off in the last session. If we look down here you can see that the size of my rendered image is 320 by 240, that's the pixel resolution, and this resolution is about the same size as the screen on an iPod or a cell phone.
So this image is quite small. In fact, if I click on this and then roll my scroll wheel forward, we can zoom in, and you can see just how low quality the image is. Let's back up little bit. I would like to save this image. You may be wondering why I want to do that. Well the next rendering I create is going to be time consuming. In fact, depending on the speed of your computer, it might take as long as half-an-hour. The process for saving a small image is the same as saving a large one.
So I will show how to save this small image now, so when your final rendering finishes, you'll know how to save it to your computer. To save the render I am going to the File button and I'll select Save. I am going to save this inside the Chapter 7 folder, insider our Exercise Files directory. I am going to call this thumbnail_image. If I click the flyout here under Files of type, you can see that we can save our renderings as several standard image formats. I am going to select JPEG.
I'll Save and then I can adjust my slider to determine the quality. I am going to drag this up to best and click OK. So that's how we can save our rendered image. Let's close the render window and we'll talk about how we can create a high quality, high resolution rendering. First I want to talk about a system variable. I am going to click down here on my command line and type facetres and I'll hit Enter. This system variable controls the smoothness of your solid geometry.
The default setting for this variable is 0.5. We can set it anywhere from 0.1 all the way up to 10. The higher you set the value, the smoother your geometry appears in the rendering but the longer the rendering takes. Now I am not going to change the value. I am going to leave this at 4 but if you are working on your own drawing, you may want to increase your facetres from the default of 0.5. I am going to hit Escape to cancel. Let's move up and open the Render panel. I can use this flyout to set my render output size.
Now I have several resolutions I can choose from. these represent standard monitor sizes. If I click Specify Image Size, I can set whatever resolution I want. The higher you set the resolution, the longer it's going to take to render. Now the native screen resolution on the monitor that I am using is 1680 by 1050. So I am going to enter that and click OK. Let's open up the Render panel again. Notice there is another slider here we can use to adjust Render quality.
I am going to leave that at 2 for right now. Take a look at this menu. If I open this up, we have a choice of Draft, Low, Medium, High or Presentation. The settings we are going to be using are little bit higher than Presentation. I have made some modifications. If you want to get in the nuts and bolts of renders settings, click Manage Render Presets and you can see and adjust your settings here. Now if you have any questions about what these settings do, you can hover over the option and AutoCAD will give you more information.
This is just another opportunity for experimentation. Let's click Cancel. I am now ready to create my final rendering. Like I said, this is going to take some time so as soon I click Render and the Render window pops up, I am not going to have you sit and watch the entire render process. We'll just cut to the final image. The image on screen is an example of the final rendering. Even though our comprehensive project is now finished, you don't have to stop here. Try experimenting with different colors and textures, try different camera angles and views.
A good rendering is never truly finished. There's always some small nuance you can change to enhance the appearance of your 3D model.
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- Streamlining hatch creation
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- Exploring the updated 3D workspace
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I wonder if anybody else had similar problem with
ubuntu-8.04.1-dvd-i386.iso image.
I downloaded it from two different mirrors:
I run md5sum against images and get positive results in both cases.
After the image burned, when inserted in DVD ROM, Windows XP Pro SP3
on an attempt to Auto Play DVD throws and error:"Invalid CD detected,"
and gives up.
The DVD is then can be open in Windows Explorer and browsed. The same
DVD is OK under Hardy. It is detected and auto played. The DVD is
also bootable.
I tried burning the image on 2 different Hardy and Windows XP Pro SP3
boxes (both dual boot) with different hardware and burning software
set with the same poor result under Windows.
In addition verifying burned DVD integrity (for image downloaded from
the first of the sources above) with 3 different apps (Nero and
DvdInfoPro under Windows, cdck under Hardy) produces Input/Output
errors at the very end of a session in 2 out of 3 test cases with out
any verification app specific pattern.
The same set of the DVD verification test for image downloaded from
the second source above gave positive results in all 3 apps.
I find it odd since I do not have any of the problems described with
ubuntu-8.04-dvd-i386.iso image (previous release).
I do not care much about Windows problems. I just wonder if
ubuntu-8.04.1-dvd-i386.iso image is reliable and should be used for
installation/re-installation if need.
Any suggestions please?


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Tomorrow morning I am running a half-marathon with a goal of finishing in 90 minutes.
First off, training for this race sucks. I have started to eat sweet potatoes and although I have felt that it helps with long runs, my arms have gotten smaller and my abs are slowly dissapearing. This will be my last race for a while.
However, I was wondering what I should consume today. I plan on drinking a lot of water, then tonight for dinner I will have chicken breast and 2 sweet potatoes. Tomorrow morning I will have black coffee and a sweet potato 2 hours before the race, then maybe a banana an hour before.
I was wondering if anyone has found other food items that have helped with their time on long races. If anyone has any suggestions/tips they would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you in advance!!! and wish me luck!!
Electrolytes are more a concern in warmer weather than now but consider your intake if you are upping fluids more than usual this evening. I think it would be better just to drink according to your thirst rather than to excess. You'll sleep better if you don't have to get up during the night and unless you lose a lot during your daily activity you should'nt be dehydrated anyway. Your food choices look great. Sweet potatoes may take longer to digest if you eat the skin but regardless they should be available during the race when your muscles could use them eating at least two hours pre race. Post race some white rice with a little protein mixed in will help you replenish your liver and muscles with glycogen. Ninety minutes is beyond the ability of most runners including me, looks like you are prepared for an awesome run!


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Normally I try to be a good boy on week nights. I try to get home and get to sleep at a reasonable hour.
Then, I realized that I completely suck at sleep, and if I'm not actually missing sleep, why not get out? So, this led to me going to ideaBoost at the SteamWhistle Roundhouse.
I also saw this adorable video from a startup called Ramen Party:
Ramen Party Music Video from Ramen Party on Vimeo.
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The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essaysby Caryl Emerson Mikhail M. Bakhtin Michael Holquist
These essays reveal Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975), known in the West largely through his studies of Rabelais and Dostoevsky as a philosopher of language, a cultural historian, and a major theoretician of the novel. The Dialogic Imagination presents, in superb English translation, four selections from Voprosy literatury i estetiki (Problems of literature and esthetics), published in Moscow in 1975. The volume also contains a lengthy introduction to Bakhtin and his thought and a glossary of terminology. Bakhtin uses the category "novel" in a highly idiosyncratic way, claiming for it vastly larger territory than has been traditionally accepted. For him, the novel is not so much a genre as it is a force, "novelness," which he discusses in "From the Prehistory of Novelistic Discourse. " Two essays, "Epic and Novel" and "Forms of Time and of the Chronotope in the Novel," deal with literary history in Bakhtin's own unorthodox way. In the final essay, he discusses literature and language in general, which he sees as stratified, constantly changing systems of subgenres, dialects, and fragmented "languages" in battle with one another.
Problems of Dostoevsky's Poeticsby Mikhail M. Bakhtin Wayne Booth
This English-language edition of Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics offers three levels of explanatory apparatus. They are (1) Bakhtin's own footnotes, which are numbered, are reproduced at the end of each chapter. (2) Translator's notes, which are lettered, appear at the bottom of the relevant page and cover such problems as critical or generic terminology, puns, untranslatable terms, and the occasional identification of important literary contexts. (3) An asterisk (*) after a proper name or work indicates that biographical information or an explanatory note can be found in the "Glossary of Proper Names and Works" at the end of the volume.
Rabelais and His Worldby Mikhail M. Bakhtin Helene Iswolsky
This classic work by the Russian philosopher and literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) examines popular humor and folk culture in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. One of the essential texts of a theorist who is rapidly becoming a major reference in contemporary thought, Rabelais and His World is essential reading for anyone interested in problems of language and text and in cultural interpretation.
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In my next series of posts I would like to examine the role of banks and financial institutions in the United States. I hope to show that the since the beginning of proliferating finance capital (finalization) around 1980 the distinctions between the two institutions, which have always been somewhat blurry, have collapsed. I would also like to demonstrate that the merging and blurring of these two institutions is especially revealing of our current economic situation. I will begin with banks in this post and eventually situate these developments historically within the hegemonic rise of finance capital.
The intention of banks ("financial intermediaries" in economics parlance) is to channel funds from people who, if they had the knowledge required to grasp if an investment was worth risking losing their money on, would turn down loaning their money to the people (entrepreneurs/capitalists) who are leading such projects. Banks accept money (deposits) from people who are unwilling to support individual projects and lend money to people leading those projects. Depositors are promised compensation for allowing banks to manage and allocate their money (interest), and entrepreneurs/capitalists are expected to pay a certain percentage of the profits they make on their project back to the bank which loaned them the funds again, in the form of interest). The more money banks get, the more and likely to succeed projects they are able to fund - ensuring depositors can withdraw their money at their whim.
Another implication of the necessity of banks is that a certain volume of business ventures must be in progress to keep the economy growing, and, to fund these individual projects, a certain volume of money must be in the right place and the right time. Marx's circuit of the accumulation of [money] capital is especially helpful in understanding the reason for this necessity:
In order to the grow the economy, accumulate capital, and remain capitalists, entrepreneurs/capitalists must possess a certain amount of money (M), lay that money out on the correct mixture of the two classes commodities needed for production (labor power and means of production, C), put that mixture through the production process (P), which generates a new set of commodities (C') that may be sold for the original money laid out plus a profit (M'). This circuit, which is also very helpful in understanding how crises develop, begs some questions: where does the original money laid out come from? How can it possibly be at the right place and the right time to fund a specific project? The answer to both questions is: banks.
So, what qualities must banks possess to capably handle and make available extremely large stocks of money and capital assets? Economists would say that they must be able to bear risk, but I would like to clarify their role by using slightly different language. Banks must be able to "bear knowledge" - they must be capable of making decisions by knowing extensively about how their reserves of money are being routed between the two economic "genders:" borrowers and savers. Banks are able to garner and ensure the safety of deposits, and maintain their raison d'etre, by "spreading risk:" by accumulating, managing and bearing the vast body of knowledge required to correctly manage and distribute funds. Banks best at spreading risk and handling knowledge will fund the most profitable ventures and accumulate the most capital and additional knowledge.
Where individuals cannot procure the amount of information - or the amount of money - needed to know if a business investment is safe, banks take their place. I would like to demonstrate how important banks, and with financialization, financial institutions are in growing the economy by bearing knowledge and creating grids of trust in their institutional nexus. By establishing hegemonic trust in their knowledge-bearing ability they are allowed to function opaquely and circuitously accumulate money and knowledge. Opacity is the transference of economic knowledge from individuals to banks and financial institutions. Formerly a necessity to get people to invest in projects that they normally wouldn't, increasing opacity becomes required to the functioning and growth of the economy. I will explore the implication of banking and financial institution opacity in the next post, but, as banks became more engaged in financial markets and strayed from the "real economy" opacity intensified with catastrophic circumstances.


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As the title suggests, InVisible Culture problematizes the unquestioned alliance between culture and visibility, specifically visual culture and vision. Cultural practices and materials emerge not solely in the visible world, but also in the social, temporal, and theoretical relations that define the invisible. Our understanding of cultural studies, finally, maintains that culture is fugitive and is constantly renegotiated.
InVisible Culture was founded in 1998 under the editorship of Mario Caro, and has since been edited by Reni Celeste, Margot Bouman, Lucy Curzon, T'ai Smith, Catherine Zuromskis, Aviva Dove-Viebahn, Cynthia Foo, Gloria Kim, Godfre Leung, Genevieve Waller, Iskandar Zulkarnain, Zainab Saleh, and Ryan Conrath.
InVisible Culture was made possible through the generous support of the Office of the University of Rochester Provost, Charles E. Phelps and is maintained with support from the Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies.
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