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August 15th, 2004
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due to hurricane charley we where without power for 48 hours and im going to rest a bit before putting my mind on sprocket says so please stay tuned and we will e-mail you for updates i hope all of you who have crossed paths with charley are safe and well.
KRiSSy and SPrOckET
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August 11th, 2004
01:10 am
Eph 2:8-9 For by grace are you saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: [it is] the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.
lets say you get a gift, you got a choice, you can keep it forever its a great gift! best you could ever get! you could keep it. or you can toss it aside now that you know you have this gift. there's now something you also know. if you get rid of it and throw it away. you know that that gift is also not just something thats given to you, its growth, it will be part of you forever, its also a key. this key is one of two doors. now would you go to a crappy place that IS LIVING HELL, no key needed here folks you go there if you don't have a key guaranteed! or would you go to to the other door with your key and be happy FOREVER. ... you can't handle hell, the devil doesn't want to handle hell. why do you think he wants to pick on us all the time. remember those kids who would pick on you at school cause it made them feel better for that second...but they always felt like crud,well... yeah same with the devil here. once you have this key and throw it out...what if you die tomarrow? now? in a few years? ...uh i go to hell....
Psa 9:17 The wicked shall be turned into hell, [and] all the nations that forget God.
ok yeah u still think you can handle hell...well heres another verse for ya...
Mat 13:42 And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
not just hearing it, you'll be the one doing it... i've heard-
"nah man the devil and me are gonna hang out"...
...how about you threw away your key...you go to hell your in pain always and for ever no stopping no breaks here...
heres how i picture it... the people i care about who also went there if i didn't care enough to keep my gift, watching them being tortured and this hurts so bad cause i love them and i myself being tortured...my worst fears i think i can close my eyes and can't they rip my eyelids off so i have to watch so i have to see everything and the pain is so bad i grind my teeth i can't even open my mouth to scream its just a teeth covered wail...so no i'm not going there. i love Jesus for dieing on the cross, he didn't have to... he did cause he loves us, his blood was perfect God excepted it as a sacrifice to wash our sins, he didn't deserve it.
so with this in note and more to come i hope my readers will join me on my new journey, to hold and charish our gifts from God the father and hi son Jesus Christ and be closer to him. i hope even if this isn't your thing i hope you reply so i can learn what you belive and have to say.
KRiSSy and SpRoCKet
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August 5th, 2004
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Boy Raised by Dog Found in South Siberia
Created: 03.08.2004 10:46 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 13:03 MSK
MosNews
Regional authorities in the Siberian Altai region have discovered a seven-year-old boy who has been raised by a guard dog since he was three months old, the Newsru.com site reports, citing regional papers.
When authorities discovered the boy, Andrei, in the care of a guard dog three weeks ago, he did not know how to speak, and behaved much like a dog: he walks on all fours, bites, and first smells the food he is given. He was taken to a shelter in the Kalman district.
It turned out that Andrei’s mother abandoned him when he was three months old. His father, who was an alcoholic, also left him. The family had been living in a house in an unpopulated area, and the only other living thing that was able to care for the boy was the guard dog that lived outside.
Since he has been living at the shelter, Andrei has learned to walk upright and make his own bed, as well as eat with a spoon and play ball. He still cannot talk, and has only made friends with a girl. The other children are still frightened of him.
Doctors and psychologists are out to determine whether the boy can be taught human behavior so that he can lead a normal life.
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tell iams there animal testing stinks send them poop
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Above: Chris Bird views the man holding his own skin at Body Worlds
I am standing next to a man with no skin. Or, to be more accurate, he has skin but it is draped over his outstretched arm like a coat on the arm of a chair. Is this art or science, education or just a ghoulish freak show, I ask myself. At the time I don't have a clear answer but I do know it is fascinating and I want to see the rest of Professor Gunthard Von Hagen's exhibition.
Body Worlds opened for six months at the Atlantis Gallery in Brick Lane after overcoming calls for it to be banned and investigations by the Department of Health. The exhibition arrived in Britain after appearances in Japan and Europe, visited by eight-and-a-half million people. Whether you love it or loath it, it is almost certain that you will have a strong response to this exhibition.
German Professor of Anatomy, Gunthard Von Hagens' exhibition of 30 flayed and dissected human corpses, along with hundreds of smaller exhibits of organs and body systems, artfully exploits the technique of plastination that he developed nearly 30 years ago. For the first time, dissected bodies and organs can be displayed without the limitations of conventional preservation in jars or the odours of formalin or decay. This is anatomy sanitised.
What lies beneath the skin?
The exhibition introduces people gradually to 'what lies beneath the skin'. The first exhibits are bones, sometimes whole, elsewhere sectioned to show the structure of joints - normal or abnormal, such as the severely deformed spine. In this section and later in the main display room there are examples of orthopaedic intervention such as artificial hips and knees and repaired fractures.
Entering the main display you are greeted by a flayed man with his skin draped over his arm. The commentary explains that 'this demonstrates on the one hand how vulnerable man looks without skin to protect him, and on the other the nature of the skin as an independent organ'. It is in fact our largest and heaviest organ with important functions far beyond a mere covering. This display makes this point in a striking manner!
Explaining the point
Other whole body 'plastinations' are dissected and displayed to show various organs and systems or to illustrate particular points. Bodies are sliced and fragmented, displayed like an exploded diagram so all parts are visible. Each exhibit makes a point - how organ systems are packed together, the relationship between muscles and skeleton, the complexity of circulatory and nervous systems. Many bodies are posed: the swordsman, the thrower, the swimmer, the runner, the chessplayer, the lassoer. All simulating actions from life rather than the inaction of death. It may be this posing of bodies that attracts so much criticism, but Von Hagens follows a long tradition of combining anatomical display and artful poses. The effect is fascinating.
Health and disease are an integral part of the exhibition and there are many displays showing diseased and healthy organs alongside each other. The blackened lungs of a smoker are placed next to the clear lungs of a non-smoker, livers with alcoholic cirrhosis, and fatty degeneration accompany healthy versions. Dissected aortas display aneurysms and arteriosclerosis while another shows an inserted prosthesis. Nearby sits a heart with an artificial valve.
Unfortunately the plastination process removes body fat so all the displays are excessively lean. A few obese bodies might help to encourage a healthier diet and better attitude to exercise.
In a separate room so that visitors may avoid the displays if they wish is a range of preserved foetuses showing the complete spectrum of development. There are also babies with anencephaly, hydrocephalus, hare lip and even conjoined twins. Posed like a reclining nude is a woman who died when eight months pregnant, dissected to show her unborn child.
Healthy result
The exhibition is clearly educational. Of the eight-and-half million visitors, many have been school children and students. Surveys of visitors suggest that people are more likely to look after their bodies, take regular exercise, eat healthily and give up smoking after visiting the exhibition. Furthermore, this is a lasting effect with some visitors pursuing a healthier lifestyle six months later.
Encouraging donors
Visitors are also more likely to become organ donors after seeing the displays. Thirty-six per cent said they were more likely to donate organs after their death, with only ten per cent less likely to do so. And for many there is a real attraction to being preserved as a plastinate: Von Hagens has now over 4500 volunteers in line to become displays of the future after their death.
So, it is scientific and it is educational. But is it also art? Many of the displays clearly emulate art from the past but I am not sure they are claimed as art in the way Damien Hirst claims his sliced cows and sheep as art. However, the displays do provoke an emotional response in a way that models would not, even if they were identical to the dissected specimens. This reaction is to do with authenticity.
As a child I remember queuing for hours to see a space capsule at the Science Museum. This was something that had actually been in space. It was authentic. It produced a feeling among visitors that a replica could not have produced. Our desire for authenticity explains some of the power and fascination of the Body Worlds exhibition. These are real bodies. They were once people with friends and family, they were like you and me. They were alive.
The opening page of the catalogue to the exhibition pays tribute to 'those who have donated their bodies'. Without them the exhibition could not have taken place, despite the fact that medical schools and museums all over the world are full of body parts displayed without permission. Although individual displays are not identified, statements from body donors are available. Michael Steyer, professor of gynaecology and a friend of Von Hagens, said 'The thought that my mortal remains could in some way be useful to the university and medical research brings me great joy'. Another joked, 'I just like the idea of cross-sections of my body travelling around. It's got to be more fun than being buried. And it's cheaper.'
The plastination process
Plastination involves replacing the water and fat in tissues with a reaction plastic such as silicon rubber, epoxy resin or polyester. The choice of plastic will determine the character of the preserved object. Different plastics can be flexible or hard, transparent or opaque.
After embalming and dissection, specimens are immersed in a solvent such as acetone which removes body fat. The acetone is then removed under a vacuum and is continuously sucked away. The resulting volume deficit in the specimen allows plastic to slowly permeate every cell. It is this 'forced impregnation' by liquid plastic that is at the heart of plastination.
Depending on the plastic used, it can be hardened by heat, light or gas. Samples are positioned to best effect and then hardened so they retain their shape. Von Hagens suggests that specimens preserved in this way can last a thousand years.
By plastinating slices of organs - or even whole body sections between sheets of glass - a permanent new teaching aid for cross-sectional anatomy can be prepared.
Plastination is protected by patents but its use for non-commercial purposes such as medical instruction or museum exhibits is not subject to such limitations. The Institute for Plastination, established by Von Hagens, holds regular courses and conferences on plastination and there are now more than 250 plastination laboratories in 34 countries preparing specimens for academic study.
http://www.bodyworlds.com/
http://www.plastination.com/english/plastination.htm
This aticle is taken from Volume 3 Issue 2 (June 2002) of Pathology in Practice - a free quarterly supplement with Biomedical Scientist.
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July 3rd, 2004
04:02 pm
Mark Billington, 35, of Halifax , west Yorkshire , died when he suffered an epileptic fit, fell out of bed and got his head stuck in a wastepaper basket. He was found with a duvet wrapped around him and his head securely wedged in the 10in (25cm) deep basket. D.Express, 21 December 2002
Kieran Duggal, 53, lent forward to unlock his front door with a key tied round his neck. He slipped and became tangled, accidentally throttling himself. Jobless Mr Duggal was found dead outside his home in Balham, southwest London . D.Express, 19 February 2003
Sheila Creighton, 61, of Liversedge, Yorkshire , died from Tetanus after falling over in her garden and cutting her face on a bush. Doctors failed to recognise the disease because it is now so rare. Sun, 28 February 2003
A man walking his dog was run down and killed by his own car on 23 march. His Nissan Primara hurtled down Portsdown Hill, near Portsmouth , and hit him after he had left it in a car park. Police believe the handbrake had slipped. ”it appears as if he tried to stop the car by standing in front of it,” said a spokesman. D.Mirror, 24 March 2003
Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing, 46, the pop singer and actor famous for playing a gay opera singer who commits suicide in the oscar-nominated film Farewell My Concubine, died after leaping from the 24 th floor of the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Hong Kong on 31 March. A note on his body said he was plagued by “emotional problems”. Melbourne Age, 03 April 2003
Gary Collins died instantly when his four-wheel motorcycle collided with a school bus on Livingstone Gully road at Big Springs, near Wagga Wagga , New South Wales , on 3 April while he was moving cattle. His dog was also killed. Only the night before he had appeared on local television warning of the dangers of that stretch of road, saying it was only a matter of time before there would be a fatal accident. Sydney Daily Telegraph, 04 April 2003
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June 30th, 2004
04:31 pm
Man tosses undies
http://www.boston.com/news/odd/articles/2004/06/28/man_tosses_undies_in_reservoir_fined/
The trough from the New York Marathon...pee?
http://www.urinal.net/ny_marathon/
http://www.kfccruelty.com/
kfc does chicken wrong! and say no to kfc!
like kfc so much??? heres there recipe...or fakes no difference just no
"blood buckets"
http://www.recipesource.com/misc/copycat/kfc/
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June 29th, 2004
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02:57 pm - thank you kc
http://www.bananaguard.com/
I've shrunk two inches in old age
http://www.esquire.com/brutal/
"With everything completed i shut down the PC and took the tray off the heatsink and promptly removed the egg and put it onto my bread with a little Brown Sauce and WooHoo, Food time "
http://www.phys.ncku.edu.tw/~htsu/humor/fry_egg.html
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June 9th, 2004
09:29 pm - ....ode to odd people...
A thief died trying to flee an art museum in Bonn. Peter Grüber panicked after being surprised by a security guard at the Klausmann Museum of Art and when he raced around a corner, impaled himself upon a 4ft (1.2m)-long sword held by a statue of a blindfolded soldier. The exhibit is called "The Weapon of Justice". Guardian - 29 June 2000.
Salesman Emmanuel Broust, 42, from Los Angeles was due to meet buyers in Tokyo, but suffered a heart attack and died in bed in the Ichi Haisin Hotel before making the appointment. For four months, staff continued to obey the "Do not disturb" sign on the door. His body was eventually found by a maid who had just started in the job and thought the room was empty. Initially, she wanted to resign in shame for having disturbed a guest. Metro - 30 June 2000.
Joshua Thomas Burchette, 23, of Ocean City, Maryland, complained of hiccoughs after a couple of beers on 1 July and asked a friend to punch him in the chest to try to get rid of them. When his friend reluctantly obliged, he collapsed on the sidewalk and died. Burchette's mother, Jeri Ann Fisyer, said her family has a history of heart problems and her son often complained of chest pains, but had never been hospitalized or placed on medication. Associated Press - 3 July 2000.
Three young park concession employees jumped into a 178 degree F (81 degree C) hot spring, thinking it was an ordinary cold-water pond. The three were burned on 21 August in the Cavern Spring, a 10ft (3m) deep pool in the Lower Geyser Basin, seven miles (11km) north of Old Faithful in the middle of Yellowstone National Park. Sarah Hulphers, 30, of Oroville, Washington, was burned over her entire body and died a few hours later in a Salt Lake City hospital. The other two - Tyler Montague, 18, and Lance Buchi, 18 - were in critical condition. Associated Press - 24 August 2000.
A Romanian man who wanted to kill himself had a heart attack before being able to hang himself from a rope he had tied to the ceiling. Iosif Capota wrote farewell notes, then locked himself in a Calimanesti hotel room. The rope was hanging nearby. Evening Standard - 13 September 2000.
Jenny Rider, 41, poured petrol over her clothes and set it alight. As it flared, she changed her mind and plunged into a river in New Norfolk, Tasmania, to douse the flames. She then knocked herself unconscious on a rock and drowned. News of the World - 24 September 2000.
Lesley Hovvells, 39, of Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, known as Red Sonia because of her flaming red hair, had 118 body piercings - 28 ear studs, 13 earings, 11 belly bars through her navel, 18 other bars, six lip rings, six nose studs, and 36 body rings. She is believed to have had over 40 piercings in the year before her death. She eventually died of septicaemia and bacteria in the bloodstream when her body was "overwhelmed" by infection. She went to her local pub with friends to celebrate the Millenium Eve and collapsed at 1:30am. She died in hospital 11 days later. The Times, Daily Telegraph - 29 September 2000.
Antonio Mazelli, 24, whose friend Ricardo Lestrada handed him a mobile phone with a superglued handgrip - as a joke - to answer while driving along Milan's main highway, lost control of his vehicle and struck a crash barrier while trying to dislodge the unit from his right palm where it had stuck. He suffered minor injuries in the crash, while Lestrada died from internal injuries at the scene. Media Milano - 5 December 2000.
Thomasina Thomasa, 27, constructed a home-made bazooka out of an old piece of iron piping which he loaded with an empty beer can filled with gravel, using as propellant a teaspon of petrol vapour ignited by a car sparkplug screwed in the pipe base. The can knocked the TV aerial off his own near Buenos Aires in Argentina. The structure fell on him, causing multiple injuries from which he subsequently died. Correpondio Argentina - 18 December 2000.
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