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If this case goes to trial, I should wonder what her reply would be if the judge asks her, "What should the doctor have said to you about your weight, in your opinion?"

Who's gonna pay for this...?? Shoplifters focus of Riverdale hunt Thursday, August 18, 2005 By Shane Farver Standard-Examiner staff RIVERDALE -- It was a show of force worthy of hunting down a gang of the most-hardened criminals. Twelve officers, some carrying automatic weapons, from five Top of Utah police agencies, two dogs and a helicopter combed the woods near the river parkway in Riverdale Wednesday afternoon. Their quarry? Teenage shoplifters. "We were giving chase and decided to use the resources available," said Riverdale Lt. Dave Hansen in explaining the heavy turnout of law enforcement. Four teenage boys shoplifted three controllers for a Sony PlayStation and some video games from Media Play shortly after noon Wednesday, Hansen said. Store employees followed the teens after an alarm was set off, he said. Once outside the store, the suspects ran but left the merchandise behind. One 18-year-old suspect stopped after a police officer arrived and was arrested, Hansen said. The officers from Riverdale, Utah Highway Patrol, South Ogden, Roy and Weber County fanned out across the river parkway to search for the remaining suspects. Several witnesses indicated the suspects crossed the river, Hansen said. An area east of the border of Washington Terrace and south to westbound Interstate 84 was cordoned off during the search. Officers also stood watch on hills and from the nearby Schneiter's Riverside golf course. While the search was under way, a Riverdale detective used the cell phone of the suspect who had been arrested to call another suspect's cell phone. "He (the suspect) had a hushed voice and said, 'What's up?' " Hansen said. "He thought that it was his friend calling him." The detective identified himself and told the 17-year-old suspect to turn himself in, Hansen said. The suspect walked out of the woods and was arrested at 1:27 p.m. One man, who was along the river at the time of the search, was mistakenly taken into custody. The man threw his arms up when the helicopter spotted him and was taken to the police station. However, he was soon released after officers interviewed him, Hansen said. The dogs were used along the railroad tracks east of the parkway and discovered the suspects' shirts. Two 15-year-old suspects escaped police during the search. However, their freedom may be short lived. "We know who the other two are," Hansen said, adding they would be arrested soon. Copyright

Woman Files Complaint After Doctor Tells Her She's Obese New Hampshire Doctor Outraged By Complaint POSTED: 5:29 pm EDT August 22, 2005 UPDATED: 6:08 pm EDT August 22, 2005 ROCHESTER, N.H. -- The New Hampshire attorney general is investigating a Rochester doctor because a patient complained that he bluntly told her she needed to lose weight. Dr. Terry Bennett said that he's outraged by what he calls a baseless complaint. A patient was apparently insulted when Bennett told her that she was obese and could only get healthier by losing weight. [cannot reprint whole article due to copyright] [click here or on title to read it in its entirety]

Just don't sit too close- you might just get a football in your face!

Analog TV --> Digital TV --> HDTV --> 3DTV! *ahem* provided Jesus doesn't come back by then- I think I would rather see, hear, smell, and touch Him! Imagine touching, smelling objects on TV projected from the floor AUGUST 19, 2005 (REUTERS) - TOKYO -- Imagine watching a football match on a TV that not only shows the players in three dimensions but also lets you experience the smells of the stadium and maybe even pat a goal scorer on the back. Japan plans to make this futuristic television a commercial reality by 2020 as part of a broad national project that will bring together researchers from the government, technology companies and academia. The virtual-reality television would allow people to view high-definition images in 3-D from any angle, in addition to being able to touch and smell the objects being projected upward from a screen parallel to the floor. "Can you imagine hovering over your TV to watch Japan vs. Brazil in the finals of the World Cup as if you are really there?" asked Yoshiaki Takeuchi, director of research and development at Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. While companies, universities and research institutes around the world have made some progress on reproducing 3-D images suitable for TV, developing the technologies to create the sensations of touch and smell could prove the most challenging, Takeuchi said. Researchers are looking into ultrasound, electric stimulation and wind pressure as potential technologies for touch. Such a TV would have a wide range of potential uses. It could be used in home-shopping programs, allowing viewers to "feel" a handbag before placing their order, or in the medical industry, enabling doctors to view or even perform simulated surgery on 3-D images of a patient's heart. The future TV is part of a larger national project under which Japan aims to promote "universal communication," a concept whereby information is shared smoothly and intelligently regardless of location or language. Takeuchi said an open forum covering a broad range of technologies related to universal communication, such as language translation and advanced Web search techniques, could be established by the end of this year. Researchers from several companies, including Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. and Sony Corp., are members of a committee that published an interim report on the project last month. The ministry plans to request a budget of more than $9 million to help fund the project in the next fiscal year, which starts in April 2006.

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Another sad part of this is that the children of those Palestinians, like the boy crying in the picture on that page, will more likely than not be recruited by the terrorists. They will be taught to focus their pain and bitterness toward all of Israel, ignoring the fact that the one who killed their fathers was roundly condemned and punished by Israel (the assumption is he will be). Thankfully there has been control over suicide bombings lately otherwise I would expect some new walking bombs next week.

Agreed. But as far as 'majority' rules, that's the point Johnson was making with the ACLU. In their case minority rules, as all they have to do is find one party to be the complaintant and one sympathetic judge to rule in their favor. And then the true majority must play along with this decision.

I agree that forgetting is probably the best thing to do, assuming that's still a possibility. I have to wonder how big this news has gotten over there? If everyone knows then it will be a wee bit harder to forget, sadly. Also, if incestuous marriages are illegal, and the government knows, they may wind up having their marriage annulled against their will.

What's the worst news a couple can receive? Tragic accident in family? Death of extended family member? Terminal illness in family? Cancer? Death of child? How about... Husband and wife discover they are siblings August 06 2005 at 04:26PM Phnom Penh - A Cambodian man's joy turned to dismay after he discovered that his long-lost mother, who had survived the bloody Khmer Rouge regime, is also the mother of his wife. Tep Song, 35, and his wife Tep Ly, 38, had been removed from their village in the southern province of Svay Rieng and separated by Khmer Rouge troops in 1975 when they were five and eight, respectively. The pair told aid workers they met again when Song was 17 and extremely ill in hospital in neighbouring Takeo province and Ly was assigned as his nurse. They fell in love and married soon afterwards, unaware that they had any more in common than having been born in the same province. The couple had believed that the rest of their families had been wiped out. But Song, an itinerant worker, saved everything they had to make a trip to his home village to search for any surviving family - where he discovered his mother, Thit Sohn, 77. "At first, of course, they were overjoyed, but then the son and mother began naming other relatives who had been murdered," Prom Bopha of the Collect Safe of People (CSP) aid agency said in a telephone interview. "Ly was surprised, and told them these were also her relatives' names, and then they discovered they shared the same childhood memories, and before long they realised that they had the same father and mother," said Prom Bopha, whose group is caring for the family. "It should have been a time of great joy, but now the mother cries all day and all night," Prom Bopha said. "They are surprised and very upset and all three are now very ill." The couple has four children, aged between 14 years and 14 months. The ultra-Maoist Khmer Rouge ruled Cambodia between 1975 to 1979. Up to two million Cambodians died during the regime's drive to turn the nation into an agrarian utopia, free of class systems, markets and money. The regime emptied the cities and often removed children from parents to more easily indoctrinate them. Thousands of Cambodians are still searching for family members. - Sapa-dpa

...and when you drive by a security place and it doesn't register a camera will take a picture of the driver and the license number and men in black will pay a visit to your house..... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Depends how serious they are about the ID of course, but I hear ya! That would then be a way of getting revenge on someone (I don't go for revenge, I'm just saying, mind you!). Just snip their ID and let them try to explain it to the "men in black." I have a toll transponder myself, but ATM it's sitting in my house. I used to use the toll roads every day but not anymore except on occasion.

Sounds like the PETA we all know and, erm... sounds like the PETA we all know! PETAthetic I must say how they are always comparing animals to people. Especially when it undermines historic plights like the Blacks or the Jews. It's a wonder that people even listen to them anymore. You know, I seem to remember them out at KFC restaurants protesting against them based on urban legend! Sad. By the way, one quote in the article caught my eye...

So... If I buy this perogi I will have Jesus- right? I mean, I don't have to confess Him as my savior or anything, just buy this perogi and I'm set, right?? Ridiculous I know, but I have to wonder if the bidders are thinking anything like this...

I expect within days or weeks there will be instructions on the web on how to disable it. You know, make a little incision on the plate and oops, there goes the transmitted ID... Hackers just love these things.

Umm... There are many churches that recreate the Passion on Good Friday on the streets of their locality. Jesus did have to die before He could be resurrected after all. And He commands us to remember this part too. You know, "this is my body, broken for you" and "this is my blood, shed for you"...

Well, we could take it to mean just that they believe he is not the Christian he claims to be, hence the next words calling him a hypocrite.

And remember, they use the term anti-abortion to describe us, while we choose pro-life because anti- sounds worse. It's called spin. But like was said, pro-choice and pro-abortion amount to the same thing.

Driver Chases Car After Falling Out Jul 30, 11:11 PM (ET) KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Opening up your door while driving isn't a good idea, especially on a busy highway. Robbin Doolin, 31, of the Kansas City suburb of Grandview, learned that Friday morning when she leaned out her fast-moving car to spit. She went tumbling out onto U.S. 71 in Kansas City, and to the amazement of other drivers, she hopped up and chased her car as it careened down an embankment toward a construction site. Doolin was recovering Friday night at a hospital, where she was treated for injuries to her leg, arm and head. "It's certainly not prudent to open your car door on a highway, especially when you're not wearing a seat belt," said Capt. Rich Lockhart, a police spokesman. Lockhart said the woman was embarrassed about the accident. Her explanation to officers: "I leaned out to spit and I leaned too far." --- Information from: The Kansas City Star, http://www.kcstar.com

I unfortunately voted for Science/Technology, though I don't actually come here for that news. Unfortunately, because I really should be more interested in Christian or Israel news. Israel news is really depressing though, as is the latest in persecution... But God is in science and technology too! He created both after all.

Praise the Lord!

Won't it be given a name after a Roman god like all the rest?

Interesting. It seems this discovery was made two years ago. They did not intend to release the news yet, but hackers forced them to: Hacker forced new planet discovery out of the closet 10th planet found two years ago By Nick Farrell: Monday 01 August 2005, 07:39 BOFFINS WHO discovered that there was a 10th planet in our solar system, had been sitting on the news for years until a hacker turned over their servers. Michael Brown, a planetary scientist at the California Institute of Technology, announced the discovery over the weekend. But according to the South African Sunday Telegraph, here, the briefing was hastily arranged after Brown received word that his secure website containing the discovery had been hacked. The unnamed hacker was threatening to release the information. It transpired that Brown and his friends had been sitting on the information since 2003 when they snapped it with a 122cm telescope at the Palomar Observatory. However they couldn

They are not all like that Keith. Even though my church has over 2000 attendees per week (the criteria listed to be a mega-church), not including children, it doesn't feel anything like a little city. I can say though with certainty that it delivers the truth in each message, calling us, as James would say, to be doers of the word rather than hearers only. It has its hands in ministries both inside and outside the church walls, including one that serves the local (mostly Hispanic) workers at the nearby racetrack and one that serves in jails, and it sponsors many missionaries as well. Students from Junior High on up, as well as adults, are encouraged to go on short-term mission trips. This church is serving Christ, no worries there.

By the way, did you guys notice this part? Arrogance at its best. Shows what his position on embryonic life is...

Just read this in the paper today, so I did a search so I could post it here, and found this article was a week old! Still, very interesting info: A solution to the stem cell debate? Mona Charen July 20, 2005 Medical science may be able to settle a contentious and damaging fight between Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives, and yet few have taken any notice. Appearing before the Senate Labor, Health, and Human Services subcommittee last week, Dr. William Hurlbut, a professor in the Human Biology program at Stanford and a member of the President's Council on Bioethics, outlined a number of scientific methods for obtaining embryonic stem cells that would not involve destroying developing human embryos. This is big news. Yet Democratic Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, displaying a prodigious capacity for missing the point, brushed it off, declaring that "We already know how to derive stem cells." Well, yes, but the argument we are engaged in concerns whether it is moral or ethical to use normal, fully functioning human embryos as mere research material. If we can produce embryonic stem cells some other way, we will be able to obtain the full benefits of medical research using these cells (bearing in mind that the potential for cures has been wildly oversold by advocates) without transgressing important moral boundaries. Not so very long ago, Democrats expressed moral qualms about harvesting human embryos for research. In 1999, President Clinton's National Bioethics Advisory Commission issued a report on "Ethical Issues in Human Stem Cell Research" and cautioned that "In our judgment, the derivation of stem cells from embryos remaining following infertility treatments is justifiable only if no less morally problematic alternatives are available for advancing the research." Yet today, only six years later, those who raise ethical objections to unrestricted embryonic stem cell research are dismissed as troglodytes. And those who propound alternatives to destroying human embryos must struggle to get a hearing. The President's Council on Bioethics has outlined the possible alternatives to destroying live embryos, and the advantages and disadvantages of each. There are at least four different possibilities, including one introduced by Dr. Hurlbut called "altered nuclear transfer." Essentially a variant of cloning technology, ANT would transfer the nucleus of an adult cell into an enucleated egg and electrically stimulate it to induce cell division. Unlike traditional cloning however, ANT would first alter the adult nucleus or the receiving cell, or both, to ensure that an embryo would not grow. Stem cells, however, would grow, and these could then be used for medical research without any ethical concerns at all since a human embryo will not have been destroyed in order to obtain them. It would be the moral equivalent of tissue cultures. Advocates of unrestricted embryo destruction make two principal arguments; first, that 400,000 embryos left over from fertility treatments are going to be thrown away anyway, and second, that an embryo is not a human being because it is extremely tiny. As to the first argument, the RAND Law and Health Initiative examined the matter and found that while nearly 400,000 embryos remain frozen in fertility clinics around the nation, only about 11,000 of these have been designated for medical research. The vast majority are held for future family building. Of those 11,000, only about 65 percent would survive the thawing process, resulting in 7,334 embryos. Only about 25 percent of those would likely develop to the blastocyst stage, and even fewer would be able to produce stem cells. Honest proponents of embryonic research admit that cloning of embryos would probably be necessary to obtain the optimum number of stem cell lines. As to the second objection: Is size morally relevant? Is a 21-year-old man three times as precious as a 7-year-old boy? We can barely see an embryo with the naked eye, yet, as Dr. Hurlbut points out, from the vantage point of space, no human is visible on the Earth's surface. He quotes philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal, who noted more than 300 years ago that "human existence is located between infinities -- between the infinitely large and the infinitely small." Pascal continued, "By space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like a dot -- by thought I encompass the universe." And by seeking to do the moral thing, we find our proper place in the universe.