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Women in heaven
Move over Saint Peter, a woman can't get into heaven unless her husband lets her in and once there, she will get to be eternally pregnant with billions of spirit children.
By: rippinsteo
Move over Saint Peter, a woman can't get into heaven unless her husband lets her in and once there, she will get to be eternally pregnant with billions of spirit children.
By: rippinsteo
This is not what Mormons believe. Most of these posts are absolutely ridiculous. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints teaches no such thing and the members believe no such thing.
First. The only thing that can stop someone from getting into heaven are personal choices like accepting Jesus Christ as their Savior. No spouse or family member will decide where they will go.
Second. Where the heck did you get this non-sense about eternal pregnancy? This is not a doctrine that mormons believe in.
Untrue, a family member of mine was Mormon and that is EXACTLY what is taught. They left that Faith for that and 5 other 'laws' , 'teachings' … We reviewed that teaching and others while they made their decision, I have seen the teaching, stating it isn't true will not change the fact that it is still taught and believed!
Actually… I was raised Mormon and this is exactly what I was taught. We are born first as Spritial children of a God and his wife. We waited to be born here on Earth to obtain our fleshly bodies that will be resurrected in the end times. If we live a very good Mormon life, the man and his eternally married wife can become God/Godess of their own world and begin to have spiritual babies of their own to populate their own worlds. This IS the Mormon churches belief. They teach it little by little to its members slowly introducing their beliefs as you go. I was in about year 8 when I started learning about this.
Im a mormon and its not true that the we women cant go into heaven unless our husband lets us that is the biggest lie ever
I know. But we do believe that our husbands will have more than one wife in the heaven.
There's a specific temple ceremony relating directly to this. Bajehils is correct. Women need their husbands to gain access to the Celestial kingdom.
While I'm remaining deliberately vague, they have to tell their husbands something in order to gain entrance.
So your husband doesn't "let you in" but you can't get in without a husband. I understand that a man can't get in without being married as well though. I also understand that there are 3 celestial heavens and it is realy the highest one that only allows married people in, but this would not prevent them from entering the two lower heavens. So in my opinion, the original commentor is correct, but leaving out important information.
Why do people complain for things they are not concern of while they themselves do not carry to there life a little good that Mormons have? They speak of race, garments, funds, priesthood, temples, Godhood etc. every now and then, What do you anti-Mormons have instead?
Look here, What African leaders do to their people if not exploiting their own people?. Why aren't they being civilized if not that they are of low race? ( or rather cursed?) Why don't you Leave God accomplish his purpose on things he planed including your Owen selves? I myself am an African and feel good about the Mormon Doctrine. Remember without segregation there is no growth, and Agency is a law of Heaven, Without good there is no bad. God will chose amongst us who were real people and who were just a people.
What is bad about God being as Man? Was Jesus not a man? nor was his mother a woman? What is wrong with you people of low mind who can not reason along with life? Why do you think in your minds that God Just created us and he is so mindful of us and we do the very bad things you have ever head through all man-kinds life, and sill he dose not phase (wipe) us out of his face if we are not related to him? Who are you to judge GOD? Just be Good and ask God in sincerity about the Mormon Doctrine I know it is of God and Joseph Smith is and was His Prophet
Who did more that any body who lived on earth to the kingdom of God save Jesus only.And the church he organized is the only True kingdom of God on Earth today whether you like it or not. AntiMormons are dwindling in unbelief.
You keep popping up on every page spouting, verbatim, the same nonsensical stuff! I can't even make out but a small percentage of what you are trying to say here.
Fissoo, if you believe that you are "cursed" and a "lower race" then speak for yourself. I seldom have seen such BS comment. Only a simple minded person considers believing in something that puts him/her and his/her entire race down. Don't have any pride? Don't you have a mother and a father and don't you respect them for who they are? You are a sad individual indeed.
Mabe you need to change prophets. There is Always Mary Baker Eddy with her own holy book The Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, or Mohammed with his own holy book, the Koran; or the Zoroastrians with their holy book, the Avesta.
Of course Morman beliefs seem abnormal, but Why would wearing magic underwear be any wierder than Sikhs who carry a kirpan and never cut their hair? Any how much wierder is it that Joe Smith translated a bunch of golden plates which disappeared; than a god talking to us from a
burning bush?
In the church history, volume 6, pages 408-410, Joseph Smith said he did more than any man including Jesus Christ for the church. That to me is crazy. And as far as the comment about a leader in in Africa exploiting their own people and the lds church is: the church claims to be representing for God, the continent Africa didn't.
ewww. joe smith….greater than even Almighty God in the mormon cult.
….."the only thing that can stop someone from getting into heaven are personal choices like accepting Jesus Christ as their Savior." Ha! More proof Mormons aren't Christians if they think accepting Jesus Christ as their Savior STOPS them from getting into heaven. Either that or Britt's grammar is as poor as her grasp of the Mormon faith.
Um tht is sooo wrong in sooo many ways
This is exactly what Mormons believe but no longer talk about. Know your facts. Read D&C (before they removed parts of it, even as it is it's pretty clear.) Men right now are in polygamous marriages within the LDS church and these marriages are sanctioned. If a women dies or a man is divorced he can be sealed to more then one women. The LDS faith still practices spiritual polygamy in 2011.
These quotes are from mormonwiki.org
"From [Joseph Smith] I learned that the doctrine of plural and celestial marriage is the most holy and important doctrine ever revealed to man on the earth, and that without obedience to that principle, no man can ever attain to the fulness of exaltation in celestial glory." – William Clayton, Historical Record, Vol. 6, pp. 225-227
"Our exaltation depends on marriage…. Our Heavenly Father has given us the law of eternal marriage so that we can become Like him. We must live the law of eternal marriage to become as he is — able to have spirit children." (Gospel Principles, p. 231.)
How polygamy factors in to exaltation is commonly misunderstood, and it is in fact actively obfuscated by modern LDS leaders, teachers, and apologists (commonly discounted with a reference to Official Declaration 1).
LDS Church teachers in time since D&C 132, have demanded that polygamy be followed, and reinforce the damnation of not entering into polygamy:
". . . he that abideth not this law (polygamy) can in no wise enter into my glory, but shall be damned, saith the Lord." (D & C, 132:27)
"Go ye, therefore, and do the works of Abraham; enter ye into my law [polygamy] and ye shall be saved." (D & C, 132:32)
'"The only men who become Gods . . . are those who enter into polygamy." (Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, vol. 11, p. 269)
"I bear my solemn testimony that plural marriage is as true as any principle that has been revealed from the heavens. I bear my testimony that it is a necessity, and that the Church of Christ in its fullness never existed without it. Where you have the eternity of marriage you are bound to have plural marriage; bound to and it is one of the marks of the Church of Jesus Christ in its sealing ordinances." (George Teasdale, Journal of Discourses, vol. 25, p. 21)
'"The Lord has said, that those who reject this principle [polygamy] reject their salvation, they shall be damned, saith the Lord . . . they will finally go down to hell and be damned if they do not repent." (0rson Pratt, Journal of Discourses, vol. 17, pp. 224-225)
Your insertions of "polygamy" into the scriptural quotes from D&C 132 are incorrect – "this law" and "my law" refer to "the new and everlasting covenant" of eternal marriage, which can include polygamy but does not require it.
You need to get a copy of: The Changing World of Mormonism, written by Jerald and Sandra Tanner, great-great granddaughter of Brigham Young. It is written for Mormons and it contains all the original documents of the Mormon faith and the changes that were made to make the religion more palatable for its members and the public. Some historians of LDS have even been murdered because they discovered that there had been changes and threatened to make the original documents public. I even have newspaper clippings of one such incident.I studied with a bishop of the church and he told me I had learned things many members did not even know. I think you should do some investigating. I have a feeling it will surprise you to learn the truth, if you dare!
I find this most disturbing, after the massacre of Smith and his party, by Young, how does one reconcile this and tie it all to "good"?
Wonder what Mormons would say about polyandry which the Toda people practiced?
A Mormon women can only attain the "Celestial Kingdom" by having her husband call her secret name through the veil, and being sealed to him. It is commonly known, taught, and doctrine that they will then become as God is. He creates worlds without number with Billions of spirits. Who's going to create these "spirit children?" I don't think you get what "Heaven" you are working towards. Eternally pregnant. Sounds like fun to me. Mormon Doctrine clearly states that sealed/celestial married men and women "will live eternally in the family unit and have spirit children, thus becoming Eternal Fathers and Eternal Mothers"
This kind of falls under the heading of repeating a half-truth so as to make the actuality look odd or downright wrong. The true fact of the matter is this, that LDS doctrine is that nobody gets into the top level of the celestial kingdom without having been married "for time and all eternity", and they don't get in without their spouse accompanying them. As the Apostle Paul once said, "Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord." (1 Cor. 11:11)
The lower two levels of the celestial kingdom are for the single folks of either gender.
As to the "eternally pregnant" part of your assertion, that is just simply laughable. Pregnancy is a mortal condition required for humans to reproduce. In immortality it is completely unnecessary.
oh well since you put it like that….LMAO….dude like what you said is any better…single people will have a lower heaven automatically for NOT choosing an unfit earth mate…SEXISM at its best….the lower minds of men scare me more than the lower ranks of heaven…whew
Sasha! You rock!
No. If u dont get married because no will marry you then you get to have a chance in the spirit world. If u dont marry cuz u dont feel the need then ubdont go to heaven. If u dont feel the need to get married but dont know its wrong not to then u also get a chance.
Mormons claim god has a physical body. We were made in his image. He fathered Jesus just as a human fathers a son. They are fond of saying, "his only BEGOTTEN son", as reality, not metaphor.
Just where in the HOLY BIBLE (NOT The Book of Mormon) is there ANY description of LEVELS in Heaven. I've never seen any reference to this "concept", in fact this is the first time I've seen it. Sounds like MORE 130 year old fairy-tale to me!
Ummm, what about 1 Corinthians 15:41
Miriam is right. But you have to remember that there are Three degrees of heaven: Celestial, Terrestrial, and Telestial. And then there are three degrees within the Celestial. The only place where there are eternal families is in the very top degree of the Celestial Kingdom. So the vast majority of people in the degrees of heaven, and the Celestial kingdom will not have to be "eternally pregnant." Only those in the top third of the top third.
It's sort of an exclusive place, and many people won't want to be there. Then, as far as procreation in the top degree of the celestial kingdom, we don't know how it will happen. We believe we are the "spirit children" of God. So our spirits were created by God, through some kind of procreative process. But we don't know if that was through intercourse and pregnancy, like our mortal bodies.
So when gods make spirits, we don't know if pregnancy is involved in the traditional sense.
It doesn't sound like much fun to be "eternally pregnant," but Mormons don't really think this way when they think about heaven. We just don't know much about it, but we trust it is a nice place.
Three degrees of Heaven with three degrees in the top? Eternal families? Spirit children? I've never seen ANY of this mentioned in the NIV Holy Bible, also not in the KJV Holy Bible. Is this more of "The Book of Mormon" stuff? Joseph Smith must have gotten hold of some peyote, or something similar, when he wrote these things!
It's really hard to swallow this stuff, when all this comes from a KNOWN con-man. He just HAPPENED to find inscribed "gold plates" WITH a conveniently placed way to decipher them. Also,discovering Egyptian scrolls, with stuff supporting his writings. Then, he just so-happens to "lose" these "gold plates", and the deciphering tools. COME ON, who loses something supposedly so valuable? Baptizing the dead, by proxy, but up to the person in "the spirit-world" whether to accept, or not accept this. The Bible says you die, then there is the Judgement. No mention about any "spirit-world", baptism of the dead, anything resembling such utter nonsense. And, "archaeological proof" that Jesus visited North America? Show me non-Mormon PROOF! How reasonable, clear thinking, intelligent people can accept these 130 year-old "teachings" of a known con-man is beyond me!
1 Corinthians 15:40 discusses the 3 degrees of glory, 2 Corinthians 12:2 Paul mentions the third heaven. Even the prophet Daniel talks of it in the Old Testament (Daniel chapter 12).
This is totally ridiculous man. Read the content.. Are you that ignorant? The NIV talks about spiritual bodies and heavenly bodies. Meaning that our bodies are different when we go to heaven and the next worse talks about how the sun moon and stars are different. In no way doesn't it talk about levels and sub levels of heaven. That is ridiculous. There is absolutely no proof of any kind of reason of Mormon beliefs in the Christian bible. None. The bible says the only way to heaven (one and only heaven, with the Father aka God, not ruling your own planet or whatever) is through the acceptance of Jesus Christ. He was born of a virgin. God did not impregnate Mary like the Mormons believe. That would totally nullify the prophecy of the Old Testament and cause Jesus not to be the true Christ. Just crazy how Mormons can actually believe they are Christians.
This may seem goofy, but the Mayans had 19 hells and 11 heavens of different levels. Maybe Mormons should institute throwing people into Cenotes to obtain the higher levels.
Doug H.
To be clear about D&C 132 you have to understand what was the intent of what was written and then canonized scripture at the time. "Higher law," or "law of marriage," or in this reference to "law" within marriage, at that time, was the same thing as saying Polygamy. We have inserted our own more PC version into our minds to be okay with our polygamist past. The LDS church's correlated material have successfully spun this for you.
Many things have been altered in the BofM, D&C, and JSH. It's common knowledge among even Mormon Apologists that this is truth.
The latest change I'm aware of is a more PC version of why the Lamanites had dark skin in the BofM.
So Jesus will be in a lower heaven because He wasn't married???
Who says he wasn't? The Bible is unclear about it, but circumstances suggest He may have been married to Mary of Magdala at the wedding where He turned water into wine.
What circumstance suggests that? Maybe Jesus Christ Super Star? Mary Magdalene was among the elder of the women mentioned as companions of Jesus. Her name usually comes up first when a group of woman are gathered together, implying respect for elders. She was likely older than Jesus' mother, Mary. He 'may have been' sounds like an addition to the bible, to me. How about: He may have been allergic to walnuts. Or He may have been hyperactive. Or, He may have been the father of 17 children. It makes as much sense. I wish people would stop making things up. And where is the bible 'unclear' about His marital status? There are no hints at all about marriage. I'm so frustrated at people like you. Why don't you go start a new religion based on 'may have been's? Like, we need another point of view from people who can't think or read.
The bible is not the only source we have for info on Jesus and Mary. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Magdalene is a good place to start for you to correct the misconceptions you have.
ONLY source of info, that is true, on Jesus, and Mary Magdaline, is THE HOLY BIBLE! Anything else, including The Book of Mormon, is heretical!
Maybe maybe maybe. That's what interpretations tell us. Wonder about the recently discovered book of Mary Magdalene? Was it on golden tablets, too?
Pat I am a Christain I am curious about the beliefs of Mormon's. I am not here to be rude nor pertake in any ill will or be judgemental. I was wondering what scripture you was refurring to that suggested that Jesus may have been married to Mary of Magdala at the wedding where he turned water into wine? I have often felt as if there was a bond between them that exceded just friendship. Thank you for any refrences you could give me pretaining to this.
DO NOT ASK MORMON FOR SCRIPTURAL INFORMATION. They will give you their interpretation, and from The Book of Mormon (heretical). And, quit reading things into holy scripture! Dangerous ground. You need strong theological background to interpret original writings. There was NOTHING more than just friendship there! Please, leave it at that.
You are incorrect. It is every person's responsibility to interpret everything they read, especially from the Bible. Leaving the interpretation to those "educated" in theology leaves us at the mercy of the doctrine of those who came before us regardless of if they were right or wrong or relevant to modern society.
Actually some people think he was married I think he was. But it doesn't tell us in the Scriptures.
I think that if Jesus was married, it would have been mentioned in the Gospels. Also, there would have been children from such a union, they would have been mentioned. Thinking too much into thing folks!
There were 33 years of his life that weren't mentioned.
you Miss Carol, you claim that Jesus Christ is in the lowest Celestial heaven.
In truth, it is false. The absolute truth, He the Lord Jesus Christ is in the highest Degree of Celstial Glory, above all things, standing at the right hand of His Heavenly Father Elohim. If the patriarch of the Earth, Adam, known in premortality as Michael was married to mother Eve and I know that Adam and Eve are Exalted as a Celestial god and goddess because according to 1 corinthians 11:11, neither is the man without the woman, neither is the woman without the man in the Lord (Heavenly Father and Jesus-Christ), then Adam's Superior Officer in the Universe, the Lord Jehovah who is Christ is married because the Lord Jesus follows Heavenly Father's lifestyle of Eternal marriage, necessary for Eternal life, the bearing of spirit children.
We are children of Heavenly Parents and men and women were spirits born of an Eternal Father and Mother.
Heaveny Father, when He sent His Son to be our Redeemer, He sent three valiant women named Mary, Martha and Mary Magdalene to minister to the Lord. LDS Apostle Orson Pratt and Orson Hyde, who served under Brigham Young correctly said that these three women are the Celestial Wives of the Lord Jesus Christ. Our Redeemer is going to bear spirit children in heaven just as Our Father God did for us.
My name is Francis Vessigault, a convert to the Church and I respect to the uttermost the LDS Temple covenants found in the Endowment because I know that in the Eternities I will be exalted.
I was baptized on April 6, 1997, received the Melchizedek Priesthood on March 1, 1998and my Endowment on May 22, 1998 prior to my mission in France.
My daughter was born in the Covenant. I was married previously in the Temple of the Lord but my ex apostasized. I feel sorrow for her but forgave her. I know that Heavenly Father knows my heart and will not fail in seeing me succeed in staying faithful to my baptismal and especially my Temple Covenants as I love to study Heavenly Father's Universe. The Galaxy called the Milky Way contains at least 294 Billion stars and the Andromeda Galaxy contains 406 Billion stars. Our Sun is white yellow, shining at 10 800 Fahrenheit but the core is hot at over 28 million degrees.
I am urging Temple covenants keepers to study books regarding the Solar System and the Universe because knowledge of the Universe is a commandment from the Lord God as a condition to being Exalted. We as mortal beings do not have priesthood keys to organize universes but men who are faithful in all things will create universes and these exalted prophets are Adam, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses and modern ones like Joseph Smith, Brigham Young will create universes, under the leadership of the King of Kings, Jehovah/Jesus Christ.
The opening post has a glaring inaccuracy. Women, i.e. resurrected women that are being referred to, don't "have" spirit children anyway. A physical body cannot give birth to a spirit. The scriptures are clear that a being can only give birth to something that is like itself. No one would say that a spirit could give birth to a physical body, but for some reason, many people assume that a resurrected person will spit out spirits. Only a spirit body can give birth to a spirit body. Resurrected couples "have" spirit children in the sense that they help intelligences progress and enter spirit bodies. A resurrected, exalted woman will give birth to a physical body not a spirit. Where do you think Adam came from? Heavenly Father and Jehovah didn't just move dirt around to make Adam, they, as a family, helped raise the boy that Heavenly Mother gave birth to (after allowing Adam's spirit to enter it). Not complicated.
Heavenly Father, Jehovah. One, and the SAME! Different names for GOD.And, the other stuff? Heavenly Mother? NEVER mentioned in Old Testament, AT ALL! Get real people!
Didn't a spirit give a baby to Mary? " a being can only give birth to something like itself."
Ok that is not true so please don't say things about Mormons without you knowing the truth.
By the way i am a Mormon and that is not true
I would like to add something here, as a former Mormon myself, I know the D & C, now there are changes constantly in Mormon beliefs to prevent the government be is local, state, and federal from coming down on them like a ton of bricks. Here is what I know, the King James Version of the bible has been the same for hundreds of years and will remain the same for hundreds more. While some practices such as poly marriages are no longer practiced by most Christians, it wasn't removed from the bible to save face. The old D & C is correct, Abraham did have multiple wives, and God never changes so the logic would dictate multiple wives would be fine in God's eyes, while it is not ok in man's eyes. Abraham was not subject to a license to get married, but rather made vows before God, seeing as how God is the only one that matters anyways. A man may take a 100 wives if he can support them, but only one can be on paper. The rest can as they say today shack up
Referring back to your statement about the Bible never being changed. The Bible has been written and interpreted into many other languages that is unbelievable. Somebody could have switched around the whole story about Jesus Christ and how it came to be(excuse me if I am wrong I have never even touched a Bible.) You never know. Its kind of like that game telephone? You whisper something to the person next to you, that person whispers what you said to the person next to them and so on and so on and at the end of it all what you said could be completely different than what the last person says because somebody in the chain of people could have misunderstood the person they received the whisper from or they could have thought it was funny to change it up. Get what I mean?
There is a lot of misconception about the translations. There are many different translations of the bible. My pastor explained it to me like this, (assuming you were fluent in written and spoken English and Spanish)if you had a paragraph in English, could you write it in Spanish. Yes. Now assuming the next person could do the same. Now, could this person translate this English paragraph into Spanish. Yes. Now, comparing both, are they written Exactly the same way, No. Is the message coming through in both, yes. It is not like the telephone game where the Bible is translated from each version to the next. It is translated from its original source for the NIV and so on and so forth. There a many other historical books that reference Jesus' life on Earth and death and resurrection. It is heavily documented in non-religions books of the time. Go research and you will find that Jesus life on Earth is one of the most historically documented events out there, outside of the Bible. Now Mormonism, where is the proof in that? It is complete bogus and doesn't make any sense. It has no Biblical backing, historical proof in its teachings. It is so sad that these people who really love God, have no idea of His true nature.
You said Jesus' life is the most historically documented event out there, outside the bible – that is utter nonsense. Any secular person that wrote about the supposed historicity of Jesus (less than a handful to say the least and I'm being quite generous here) was not even alive when Jesus was supposedly walking the earth! In fact NO ONE who wrote the books of the bible itself were alive when Jesus was supposedly alive (on a sidenote, give a hard think on how the temptation of Jesus was written when he was all ALONE for 40 days and 40 nights). You call that reliable? No eyewitnesses for the entire story of Jesus? Josephus' accounts alone have been PROVEN to be tampered with so as to collude with christianity. There are no Roman records to speak of about the infamous census that was behind Joseph and pregnant Mary travelling with ghost-baby in womb; the Romans kept meticulous records about everything – we know about any census they legitimately had. Let's not forget that no document outside of the bible makes ANY mention of Jesus' supposed miracles. Which it wouldn't matter anyway because "miracle workers" were a dime a dozen back then and even mentioned other so called miracle workers in the bible itself. Lots of con-man wanna-be magicians. Lastly, even in your own bible, most of his life is not accounted for! He disappears after he's born (Bethlehem? Nazereth? Who knows. Btw, archeology proves there was no such city as Nazareth during the time of Jesus and it emerged BECAUSE the bible said it existed). He reappears at around age 33 where he preaches and then is stuck on a stake to take a 3 day nap (he's immortal remember, meaning it's impossible for him to die, making his scapegoating "sacrafice" totally null and void). Sorry to be the one to tell you, but it's all a big FAT lie.
OK. Mormons have pat answer supporting polygamy but, it's ONLY for benefit for MEN. Why does polygamy NOT allow women to have many husbands? Comes down to same thing. SEX! Man gets all the 'action" he can stand. Why can't the women? It's only fair! And, think about this, that one woman would be very well supported in comparison to her "sisters" in the one man, many women polygamous marriage where those poor women have to usually live poorly on public assistance with no help with their many progeny.
What about Matthew 19:4-6………. 4 "Haven't you read," he replied, "that at the beginning the Creator 'made them male and female,'[a] 5 and said, 'For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh'[b]? 6 So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate." These are Jesus's own words. No mention of wives. Clearly Jesus and God intended man to be united to one wife.
I find it astounding that the Mormon church keeps rewriting their own bible.
How convenient!
Mormanism is a Voo-doo religion started by a charleton who had questionable character, sudh a liking young women. The last book of the new testament, Revelation, warns about addiny ANYTHING to the Word of God …READ IT.
Basically the Bible says it is PROHIBITED to add, or take away from the word of God. The Bible is NOT an editable document! The Book of Mormon does just that, it adds to the word of god, done by a known con-man 130 years ago. Mixture of fairy tale, and science fiction.
all religion is bunk and only leads to hate and war or coerced conversions. Spend your time and money helping the less fortunate; heal the planet.
Why do any of you care? Why the need to "save" others from a belief you feel is wrong? Even if it is complete BS … what is it to you? Especially if those people are happy where they are? Why do you care where they spend their Sundays or why they spend it there? If they are not forcing you to believe the same thing then it's none of your business. This is what is wrong with the world … everybody out to inflict their ideas on everybody else. "OMG, I see you believe something that I don't! I have to dominate your thoughts and behavior to conform to mine!"
Get over yourselves!
I've heard Mormons say that everyone has free will and can get into heaven by the grace of God and their own works. That contradicts their other beliefs stated here that a man or woman cannot get to heaven without an eternal spouse. I don't see how they can read KJV or any other version and square the Truth with their beliefs. Getting to Heaven to be with God is the goal – not some made up goal of becoming a god to create your own universe. If your goal is to become your own god, that is saying you think you could do better than God. That is such blasphemy it hurts to type it.
ps: check out the Bible. there isn't even marriage in heaven. matthew 22:30. ol' joe trumps God again, i spose
EMC, read that verse with the word married as a verb. And concerned, it doesn't say heaven, remember the my fathers kingdom has many mansions? There are requirements that must be followed to enter into the different levels of heaven. If you want to be a ball player you must dress as they do, follow the rules they do, know the rules and follow them as they do. It is the same to be a part of an organization of doctors or pilots or what ever. Why do you think it so bad for God to say what is required of people to enter His "club", or His kingdom or what level? To be a karate (SIC), person you must follow the rules and be able to perform certain moves and dress as they do or you don't get in! Why cant you accept that the Creator of us all has set requirements for people to enter into His society and live with celestial beings that have all paid their dues? Look, if you want to be a part of it, follow its rules, act as they do, dress as they do and you can come in! THAT EASY. Otherwise, move on. I think you are just afraid that you cant measure up so you want the rules changed to include you, sorry, this isn't Obamas government, its Gods!


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I'm still dirt deep in my landscape project at Vivien's school. We are a designated Big Sunday school… the get out and volunteer day. As the head of the committee — um, there are two of us — I have been hoeing it up in such a different way from the late '90's. On prep day I was so engrossed in where the boulders and Mexican Sage should be placed, I lost the keys to Mark's catering van (sorry honey!) Felt like such a bimbo.
So, this vid is from a calmer time. In between volunteering for tasks that are really too much for me. I'm very proud of how well Vivien is reading, but she sees her older brother playing games on his iPad and is gravitating toward this, so a friend in Australia pointed me to this app as a way to bridge this.

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One hot topic in education policy here in California is the so-called "parent trigger," which allows parents to demand changes in failing schools if a majority of them sign petitions.
The trigger has been touted as a bid for education reform, allowing parents to change a school's administration or turn it into a charter.
The trouble with this as school policy is that no one knows if it work.
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Parents may be just as myopic and wrong-headed as teachers and administrators in a failing school.
The trigger is so new -- the law is two years old and it's been tried only in one place, Compton, where the courts ultimately threw out parent petition -- that there's no data to suggest whether the parent trigger will be effective, educationally.
But that may not be the parent trigger's real value, or purpose.
The parent trigger is most useful as a tool to give parents -- and the charter school operators who have backed the parent trigger -- a leverage point against the teachers' unions who totally dominate education policymaking in California.
A leading champion of the parent trigger, Ben Austin of the Los Angeles group Parent Revolution, said as much in a conference call this week.
Austin said on the call: "It has more to do with giving parents leverage to bargain."
The call was put together to criticize a national teacher's union after the union's written plan to fight the parent trigger -- and limit parent voices in school governance -- was mistakenly posted on the Internet.
Parent trigger advocates are using the union's mistake to bludgeon teachers' unions around the country for their opposition to the trigger -- and to spread the word about the trigger's possibilities.
Kathryn Baron, writing at the Silcon Valley Education Foundation blog, noted that parents had done something in the controversy that rarely happens: they outmanuevered the teachers' union.
Even if the parent trigger doesn't much change schools, it could help make the education wars a fairer fight.
Let us know what you think. Comment below, send us your thoughts via Twitter @PropZero or add your comment to our Facebook page.


text: Wednesday, November 14, 2012 New Podcast Series Focuses on Managing Patients With a Declining Functional Status Establishing appropriate and realistic goals and expected outcomes for patients with a declining functional status can be challenging – knowing that the ultimate trajectory of function is expected to be downward. A new APTA podcast series addresses the challenges of and suggests solutions for managing the care of these patients, who may have conditions such as Parkinson disease, muscular sclerosis, cystic fibrosis, or late-stage congestive heart failure. The first podcast begins with general functional status and safety examples. In upcoming podcasts physical therapists will share their experiences in applying these principles to specific patients with conditions that are characterized by a declining functional status.


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Contact AllStar Roundup. Signs that new islands are rising in the Pacific and Indian Oceans would be evident by 2008 was TimeStar's first prediction. The 9.1 magnitude earthquake near Sumatra on December 26, 2004 when a tectonic plate slipped signaled processes of change deep within the earth. New islands are rising and anciently emerged lands are sinking. Indonesia, Philippines, and Japan are sinking rapidly since the Indo-Australian tectonic plate fractured on April 11, 2012. Mu's first island, Sweta Dwipa, in the Indian Ocean sank 18 million years ago and migrants from Mu moved to new homes in the Indian and Pacific Oceans before going to the inner Earth. Mu is remembered as the mother culture of Native America, Polynesia, Indonesia, Japan, and others. She was the Great Mother, the Magna Mater, of Asia as well as Native America. In North America's oldest pyramids at Teotihuacan she is revered as the goddess of the city in union with the wind god, Mother Earth and Father Sky. Long sunken lands of Mu are rising anew in the present time, a rebirth of Earth's ancient heritage coming forward newly with a new generation
TimeStar seeks to understand and communicate with the intelligence of the Earth and her processes. It encourages each individual to understand and clarify his/her relationship with the physical and spiritual worlds and choose responses guided by personal truth. TimeStar claims no authorship of personal opinions, beliefs and realities of readers. Contents © 1993 - 2015 Krsanna Duran - All right reserved.


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Cloud Cover Episode 35 - Happy Birthday Windows Azure!
In this episode, Steve and Wade: Highlight the January 2011 Update to the Windows Azure Platform Training Kit & Course Celebrate the one year birthday of the Windows Azure Platform Talk about the history of the Windows Azure Platform with James Conard, a Senior Director at Microsoft Discuss a weak link between an establishment called the "Pink Poodle" and Windows Azure Receive a special tip of the week from Ryan Dunn


text: The emo-pop outfit Cute Is What We Aim For emerged from Buffalo, NY, in January 2005. Although originally formed as a quintet, the band ultimately stripped down to four members, with vocalist Shaant Hacikyan, guitarist/pianist Jeff Czum, drummer Tom Falcone, and bassist/guitarist Fred Cimato comprising the lineup. Wasting little time, the bandmates recorded a handful demos that landed them on Fueled by Ramen's roster before the year's end. Cute Is What We Aim For then hooked up with producer Matt Squire (Northstar, Panic at the Disco) for the group's debut full-length, The Same Old Blood Rush with a New Touch, which arrived in June 2006. The band hit the road in support of the album, sharing bills over the summer with such bands as Anberlin, Spitalfield, Forgive Durden, and June. That fall, bassist Cimato left the lineup to pursue academia, with Jack Marin (ex-October Fall) climbing aboard in his place. (Bass duties would eventually shift to Dave Melillo.) The band's second album, Rotation, was released in June 2008, and Cute Is What We Aim For returned to the road with replacement drummer Michael Lasaponara in tow. ~ Corey Apar


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By JOEL HANS, Managing Editor, Manufacturing.net
Enterprise software can be a major point of complexity for manufacturers, particularly in the way it seems to change at an incredible speed. In order to help work through some of those changes in product lifecycle management (PLM) software packages, Chem.Info's sister publication, Manufacturing.net, spoke with Richard Mizuno, a partner at Kalypso. He has over 25 years of consulting and business experience, serving the oil and gas, oilfield services, chemicals, manufacturing, and engineering and construction industries.
Q: Let's start with a basic history of PLM. Where did they start, and how has that changed in more recent years?
A: I think PLM really took off and probably became most popular originally in the sectors of manufacturing where there were complex systems involved, such as airplanes and cars. A lot of the bigger PLM vendors came out of the CAD or engineering space — because companies that are building these complex pieces of equipment are heavy CAD users, they had an environment where they had to manage all this data.
If you look at the different manufacturing sectors, aerospace, defense and automotive were probably on the early end, and they started making major investments in PLM as early as the '80s, for example. A number of things were driving it — one is the complexity of the product and the need to collaborate across their ecosystems and the need to manage CAD and all the other information related to the product.
They had complex products that got iterated upon and configured differently for various purposes, and as their ecosystems for manufacturing expanded, there was this need to collaborate with suppliers. All of that led to a need for PLM to help manage not only the core product data, but also to enable collaboration with their ecosystem partners and suppliers.
The next wave was in high-tech, like semiconductor manufacturers or PC manufacturers, and industrial machinery. Similarly, these are highly-configurable products with a fair amount of complexity. In these sectors you have the same business requirements, which is being able to manage the complexity and configuration of the variants, but the specific risk factors may not have been as high as with the complex systems-type products.
Q: Clearly, the industries that utilize PLM, and the use cases, have changed over time. What about the way companies implement and deploy these systems?
A: The nuts and bolts of it aren't materially different now versus 10 or 15 years ago. Because of the big ERP wave in the '90s and early 2000s, I think there's a lot more knowledge and comfort in implementing local systems. What's happened that is different is that PLM is really moving beyond the engineering function. As PLM has helped companies control and manage their product-related data over the lifecycle of their products, I think companies have realized that the data has value beyond engineering. Therefore the implementations of PLM have become larger, a little more complex and require the engagement of multiple functions, like quality, finance and supply chain, not just engineering and manufacturing.
Please tune into tomorrow's Chem Insider Daily for part two of this two-part piece!


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Ubi Dubium wrote:5 is just fast timing. Really frustrating if you have a slow mouse.
10 - when you click the switch, every so often there is a point where all the lines converge. Remember where that was, and click there.
Thank you! 5 still sux though. 7 is awsome.


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A congresswoman whose district stretches more than 100 miles alongside Lake Erie has criticized federal officials for not acting with enough urgency to keep harmful Asian carp out of the Great Lakes.
U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur, a Toledo Democrat, challenged the Army Corps of Engineers during a public meeting Thursday night in Cleveland, saying the corps "has done this region a disservice in failing to make a firm recommendation about the best course of action," The Plain Dealer reported.
"The two major threats to the ecosystem are harmful algal blooms and Asian carp," said Kaptur. "Preventing Asian carp from entering the Great Lakes system demands immediate attention and action, not waiting 25 years."
Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine agreed the issue needs faster action.
"I don't think there has been a sense of urgency," said DeWine. "The people (of Ohio) really get it, and understand the Great Lakes. We want complete separation, and must move quickly."
There was no immediate response to phone and email messages left at Corps headquarters on Friday by The Associated Press.
The corps last week sent Congress a list of alternatives for shielding the Great Lakes from Asian carp, which could devastate native fish. Two of the plans would place dams in the Chicago waterway system to seal off Lake Michigan from the carp-infested Mississippi River watershed.
About 100 people attended the meeting.
About a dozen people commenting on the report from the Great Lakes and Mississippi River Interbasin Study pressed for separation of the Great Lakes from the Mississippi River basin with infrastructure in the Chicago Waterway System.
The carp-infested Illinois River flows into the system, making it the most likely avenue for silver and bighead carp, the worst of a noxious bunch of aquatic nuisance species.
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Morenci has a lumberyard again with the opening last week of Morenci Building Supply. Customers will see some familiar faces behind the counter.
Todd Lacy, who was employed at the former Lenco Building Supply, has reopened the business with ownership shared by members of his family. Lenco owner Bob Axe closed the business and filed for bankruptcy earlier this year.
Lacy said he's been slowly working through legal roadblocks for about three months in an effort to get the business open again.
The Adrian native and Wauseon resident worked in sales for the Andersen window company for about 10 years before joining Lenco.
Jim Jarrell and Chuck Beck have returned to work for Lacy and there are two other former employees Lacy intends to bring back once the business becomes established again.
"I've been pleased with the response already," he said after only three days in operation. "It's busier than expected."
Lacy has concerns that contractors might have established new business relationships with other lumberyards since Lenco's closure, but Jarrell said so far that doesn't seem to be the case.
Lacy said the store is fairly well stocked, although he hasn't yet chosen all of his suppliers. He's planning a grand opening in late October.
"We have lots of experience and we'll be offering the same services as before," he said.
Hours will remain the same, also: 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday and 7:30 a.m. to noon on Saturdays.
Lacy looks forward to a hands-on approach to management with involvement in all aspects of the business.
"That's my mentality," he said.


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April 12, 1861 was the day hostilities commenced in the American Civil War. It also was the day William Lloyd Garrison published yet another issue of The Liberator, the most prominent and longest published abolitionist newspaper in the United States. Started in 1831 and published weekly, Garrison used The Liberator to push for the immediate abolition of slavery in the United States, and the newspaper became well-known for its blunt, uncompromising style.
Garrison, of course, no doubt had put the April 12 edition to type sometime before the Confederate artillery opened fire on Fort Sumter. However, when he composed this edition, it was clear that matters were rapidly moving toward war. So William Lloyd Garrison used the occasion to opine on the cause of the looming conflict, which he clearly attributed to slavery and not surprisingly blamed on the slave states.
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Within a few days at farthest, the cannon of the insurgents will be battering down the defences and slaughtering the defenders of the American Union.
Let us pause a moment and consider.
Slavery makes open war upon that Union which has so long been its protection and security.
For thirty years, the opponents of slavery have borne the imputation–which not one in a hundred of them deserved–of seeking their end through the dissolution of the Union.
In all this time, not a squadron has charged, not a platoon has fired, on the National flag and forces, under the inspiration of Anti-Slavery. Its advocates have been beaten at elections, hunted out of halls which they had hired and paid for, mobbed and maimed in the slave States, and generally proscribed and stigmatized in the free, without being goaded into hostilities. Only in Kansas, when compelled to choose between resistance and annihilation, have they been moved to repel force with force.
The Slave power, after enjoying undisturbed sway for half a century, has at length lost an election. Hereupon, it proceeds to treat hat election as a farce and a nullity, and defy those whom it invested with authority.
It has, while in power, loudly vaunted its fidelity and devotedness to the Federal Constitution. Losing power, it deliberately repudiates that charter, and adopts one radically different in its stead.
"The Union, the Union forever!" has been the vociferous cry of its servitors. Having lost an election, they treat that same Union as a hated curse, passing ordinances and raising armies for its overthrow.
"Let the laws be enforced!" it was thundered whenever the consciences of freemen revolted at the inhuman atrocities of slave-hunting in free States. But the moment the enforcement of the laws has devolved on Republicans, slavery denounces it as "coercion," and insists that it is inaugurating civil war!
And in fact to very many, North as well as South, slavery is above the Union, above the laws, above the Constitution. Rebellion, in their view, is opposition to slavery; while love of slavery and love of the Union are synonymous.
They plead for Peace, meaning that there be no further resistance to slavery. "National Unity," in their vocabulary, means a universal agreement that slavery is eminently right, and that it ought to be diffused universally and maintained forever. . . .
There is not even a pretence that the Federal Government has done or refused to do anything whereby this rebellion is justified. It has been pacific, forbearing, and most anxious to avoid a collision. It has allowed its troops to be disarmed, its arsenals to be robbed, its forts to be seized, its money to be stolen, and its revenues to be collected and appropriated by its open enemies. Through these high-handed villainies, a whole frontier has been open to savage incursion and massacre, until even Mexico threatens an invasion. It has seriously lost ground with its friends by vainly seeking to conciliate its implacable foes. At length the great slaveholding rebellion is ready to unmask its batteries and open fire on the most exposed and isolated of the National defences. The challenge of its opening cannonade will soon reverberate over the country. The Union flag on Fort Sumter is to be shot down by the rebel batteries unless speedily lowered by the devoted garrison. The American Republic now enters upon the gravest peril it has known since the treason of Arnold. God grant that it pass through them with undoubting reliance on the omnipotence of Justice, and emerge at length, however tried and tested, unwavering in its loyalty to Freedom and the Rights of Man!
So ironically, as the Civil War started, William Lloyd Garrison and the planters of the South were in agreement on a key point. At the heart of the conflict's cause lay slavery.


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N99-02: Melphalan and Buthionine Sulfoximine (BSO)
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00005835
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : January 27, 2003
Last Update Posted : August 30, 2016
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RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Combining chemotherapy with bone marrow or peripheral stem cell transplantation may allow the doctor to give higher doses of chemotherapy drugs and kill more tumor cells.
PURPOSE: Phase I trial to study the effectiveness of melphalan and buthionine sulfoximine followed by bone marrow or peripheral stem cell transplantation in treating children who have resistant or recurrent neuroblastoma.
|Condition or disease
|Drug: buthionine sulfoximine Drug: melphalan Procedure: Peripheral blood stem cell infusion Other: Filgrastim
|Phase 1
- Determine the maximum tolerated dose of melphalan when combined with buthionine sulfoximine and followed by autologous bone marrow or peripheral blood stem cell support in children with resistant or recurrent high-risk neuroblastoma.
- Assess the toxic effects of this regimen in these patients.
- Determine the pharmacokinetics of this regimen in these patients.
- Determine the response rate of patients treated with this regimen.
OUTLINE: This is a multicenter, dose-escalation study of melphalan.
Patients receive buthionine sulfoximine IV as a bolus over 30 minutes followed by a 72-hour continuous infusion beginning on day -4; melphalan IV over 15 minutes on days -3 and -2; autologous peripheral blood stem cells or bone marrow IV over 15-30 minutes on day 0; and filgrastim (G-CSF) subcutaneously or IV once daily beginning on day 0 and continuing until blood counts recover.
Cohorts of 3-6 patients receive escalating doses of melphalan until the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) is determined. The MTD is defined as the dose preceding that at which 2 of 3 or 2 of 6 patients experience dose-limiting toxicity.
Patients are followed at 84 days and then 2 months later if there is a complete and/or partial response. Patients who continue therapy on other protocols are followed before starting the new therapy. All patients are followed for life for any delayed toxic effects to protocol therapy and secondary malignancies.
PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 30 patients will be accrued for this study within 2-3 years.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Estimated Enrollment :
|30 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Single Group Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|Modulation of Intensive Melphalan (L-PAM) by Buthionine Sulfoximine (BSO) Autologous Stem Cell Support for Resistant or Recurrent High-Risk Neuroblastoma (IND 69-112)
|Study Start Date :
|August 2001
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|December 2014
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|April 2016
- Drug: buthionine sulfoximine
Dose fixed at a bolus of 3 gm/M2 given over 30 minutes followed by a continuous infusion of 1 gm/M2/hour for 72 hours (total 72.5 hours).Total daily infusion dose (minus the initial bolus)will be 24 gm/m2/day.Other Name: BSO
- Drug: melphalan
The dose level of melphalan will be assigned at study entry onto protocol. There will be 6 dose levels ranging from 20mg/m2/day x 2 days (dose level 1a) to 62.5 mg/m2/day x 2 days (dose level 6a). The starting dose level will be 1a, with a decrease to level 0a (15mg/m2/day x2 days) if there is unacceptable toxicity.Other Name: L-PAM
- Procedure: Peripheral blood stem cell infusion
Stem cells will be infused intravenously on day 0 , 24 hours after BSO continuous infusion is completed.Infused within 1.5 hours of thawing via a central venous catheter over 15-30 minutes.Other Names:
- Autologous Bone marrow Transplant
- Other: Filgrastim
5 microgram/kg/day , subcutaneous or intravenous, given daily beginning day 0. First dose to begin 4 hours after completion of stem cell infusion and then to continue till ANC >/= 1500 mm3 for three consecutive days.Other Name: G-CSF
- To determine the maximum tolerated dose(MTD) and the toxicities of Melphalan (L-PAM) escalated in the presence of Buthionine sulphoxamine (BSO) and followed by autologous stem cells rescue for pediatric patients with high-risk neuroblastoma. [ Time Frame: Within 4 weeks of completion of BSO/L-PAM therapy ]
- To determine the pharmacokinetics (PK) of BSO and L-PAM in pediatric patients. [ Time Frame: For BSO: just before start of therapy to 8 hours post end of 72 infusion. For L-PAM : just before start of 2nd dose to 4 hours post. ]Collection of blood samples for PK studies is optional and not required for study entry.
- To determine the response rate of recurrent high risk neuroblastoma to BSO/LPAM within the confines of a phase I study. [ Time Frame: 84 days after completion of therapy with BSO/L-PAM and Stem cell re-infusion. ]
- To determine the glutathione content of peripheral blood leucocytes in patients receiving BSO and L-PAM. [ Time Frame: For BSO: just before start of therapy to 8 hours post end of 72 infusion. For L-PAM : just before start of 2nd dose to 4 hours post. ]Collection of blood samples for biologic studies is optional and not required for study entry.
- To determine the number of days to ANC =/> 500 for three days and platelets =/> 20,000 for three days (without transfusion) for this regimen. [ Time Frame: Maximum 56 days after completion of therapy with BSO/L-PAM and Stem cell re-infusion. ]
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|up to 30 Years (Child, Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients have relapsed neuroblastoma and must have exhausted all other options for treatment before they can be considered for treatment on this study.
- Relapsed patients who are greater than 6 months since having a stem cell transplant can enter on this study.
- Patients must have stem cells collected and stored before starting treatment.
- Patients must have a double lumen central venous line in place.
- Patients must have adequate kidney and liver function measured by blood tests and test of renal function (creatinine clearance or glomerular filtration rate (GFR)).
- Patients must have normal heart and lung function measured by lack of physical evidence or clinical history of difficulties breathing and tests of cardiac function (Echocardiogram or MUGA evaluation).
- Patients must have an essentially normal neurological exam.
- Patients must have one entire kidney that has not had any radiation at treatment doses. (Xrays and scans are ok).
- Patients must have recovered from the effects of any prior treatment for their tumor.
Exclusion Criteria:
- They have had any radiation therapy to the brain.
- They have known history of or current tumor found in the brain or surrounding tissues.
- They have a history of seizures.
- They have a history of changes in a test of kidney function with antibiotic use in the 6 months immediately before entering on this study.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00005835
|United States, California
|Childrens Hospital Los Angeles
|Los Angeles, California, United States, 90027-0700
|UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
|San Francisco, California, United States, 94143
|United States, Illinois
|University of Chicago Comer Children's Hospital
|Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60637
|United States, Massachusetts
|Childrens Hospital Boston, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
|Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02115
|United States, Ohio
|Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
|Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, 45229-3039
|United States, Pennsylvania
|Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
|Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19104-4318
|United States, Texas
|Cook Children's Medical Center - Fort Worth
|Fort Worth, Texas, United States, 76104
|United States, Washington
|Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center - Seattle
|Seattle, Washington, United States, 98105
|Canada, Ontario
|Hospital for Sick Children
|Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5G 1X8
|Study Chair:
|Samuel Volchenboum, MD
|Comer Children's Hospital, University of Chicago
|Responsible Party:
|New Approaches to Neuroblastoma Therapy Consortium
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|Other Study ID Numbers:
P01CA081403 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
|First Posted:
|January 27, 2003 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|August 30, 2016
|Last Verified:
|June 2016
regional neuroblastoma
disseminated neuroblastoma
recurrent neuroblastoma
localized unresectable neuroblastoma
Buthionine Sulfoximine
Neuroectodermal Tumors, Primitive, Peripheral
Neuroectodermal Tumors, Primitive
Neoplasms, Neuroepithelial
Neuroectodermal Tumors
Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial
Neoplasms, Nerve Tissue
Immunologic Factors
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Antineoplastic Agents, Alkylating
Alkylating Agents
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Antineoplastic Agents
Myeloablative Agonists
Immunosuppressive Agents
Antimetabolites, Antineoplastic
Enzyme Inhibitors
Radiation-Protective Agents
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Early last week, The Social Network screenwriter Aaron Sorkin drew ire when, during a press conference for his suuuuuuuuper serious new HBO drama The Newsroom, he referred to Globe and Mail reporter Sarah Nicole Prickett as "Internet Girl," a diminutive as ignorant as it is demeaning — The Globe and Mail, for those of us south of the Canadian border, is a newspaper, like the kind of newspaper that gets printed on paper and delivered to your house by a kid on a bike or a weirdo in a van. Just in case you didn't anger-etch Sorkin's full quote on the inside of your eyelids, it goes a little something like this. HIT IT:
"Listen here, Internet girl. It wouldn't kill you to watch a film or pick up a newspaper once in a while."
Sorkin's brush-off is not only offensive to a professional journalist like Prickett, the world of media (which, by the way, Sorkin is writing about so he should know better) and womankind, but to those of us who actually are Internet Girls.
While he was wrong in his labeling of Sarah Nicole Prickett, Sorkin is right about one thing: Us Internet Girls are unarguably stupid and uninformed. The Gulf Oil Spill? What's that? Did it appear in the latest Maru video? Is there a Ryan Gosling meme about it? Me no know! Me dumb! Why aren't we talking about Girls? I'm a Jessa! Or maybe I'm a Hannah! Hahaha, LIPDUBZ.
Because Sorkin thinks of Internet Girls as a group of ignorant dummies who couldn't possibly understand his ratatat dialogue (ouch, our brains) or deep references (who is Don Quixote? Was he a Hunger Games tribute?) enough to give his dickish, middle-aged and very white male protagonists the respect they deserve, we've decided to demonstrate our reverence in our own silly, stupid Internet Girl way: By recapping The Newsroom without actually watching The Newsroom, using Internet sources like blogs, Twitter, Facebook and our own sparkly imaginations as our only guide through Sorkin's masculine, complex and vewy scawy world. Hopefully, Sorkin will like it so much that he'll give me my very own lesson in high-fiving.
The Newsroom [Full disclosure: I watched the pilot so that I would know who the characters are] takes us all the way back to 2010 when the news cycle was broken (Will McAvoy, head anchor of Sorkin's fictional News Night, has now fixed everything, which is why, in 2012, the news is perfect). Luckily, Will (played by Jeff Daniels) and crew, despite delivering years of neutered journalism, are back to fix it, but, roh-no, it is not going to be easy. Signing on as executive producer is the beautiful, worldly and smart (though not nearly as smart as Will) MacKenzie McHale. (If you are counting, that's three Macs: McAvoy, Mackenzie, McHale.) She and Will used to date until she broke his heart and became a war journalist — in fact, she is the reason that Will has been a shitty anchor and human being for the past several years. Don't mistake her as an Internet Girl, though, because she understands the web as much as she understands how to walk without knocking something over, which is to say not at all (but more on that later).
MacKenzie, or Mac, gets hired without Will's knowledge and, boy, is he steamed. So steamed, in fact, that he gives up $1 million from his yearly contract for the right to fire her basically whenever he wants. It goes without saying, Will is a very chill guy who makes good choices and deserves our respect. Anyway, Mac is back on the team and, despite being an all-over-the-place nutjob, she is a very good executive producer. In fact, she improves the ACN nightly news her very first time up at bat with the help of her producer — played by the guy who [SPOILER ALERT] kills himself in Spring Awakening — and Maggie, the recently promoted assistant producer who — tee hee — doesn't even know how to work a telephone. Dev Patel (of Slumdog Millionaire and Skins fame) is also there lending a hand, though he is certainly too brown for a producer credit or for his boss to even notice.
BUT THAT WAS THE PILOT. We will now begin recapping episode 2 (which I have not watched). Are you tired yet? Internet Girls are known for getting sleepy when reading things.
Last night's episode, from what I gather from my right-wing uncle's angry Facebook feed, talked a lot about the controversy surrounding Arizona's draconian immigration laws. Remember that? Probably not — it was a full two years ago, after all, and immigration has since been solved. Hot off of their sexy coverage of the BP oil spill, the News Night team is feeling pretty good about themselves — so good that Will, known in the past few years for his grumpiness, even orders them a party sub. "A party sub," says Don, Will's former EP, as he adjusts the puka shell necklace that's barely visible through his loosely buttoned shirt. "Cronkite used to buy his team party subs. It's a news tradition, but Will hasn't done it in three years. Not since..." His eyes trail to Mac and the rest goes unspoken. Not since Mac stomped on his heart. It's subtext, guys.
Unfortunately, the team's new confidence is unfounded and they totally bomb the broadcast. "AW, NOES," Mac yells, accidentally knocking a bunch of posters over. "IMA LOSE MY JOBZ AN GENIUZ WILL IS GONNA B MAD AT ME." (In the mind of an Internet Girl, Mac talks like a Lolcat.)
Mac wasn't the only one to fuck up, though. Maggie is also to blame, having bungled the pre-interview so badly that one of News Night's guests walks before the show airs. Good one, Maggie. Now, her boyfriend, who also happens to be the puka shell-wearing former EP, thinks she's a total fucking idiot and the guy who killed himself in Spring Awakening has to cover for her and also wants to have sex with her. Speaking of sex, Maggie tells a story about hiding under a bed while two people fucked to demonstrate her lack of courage. Lack of courage? Admit it, Maggie — you a freak and you know it.
Um, let's see. What else did Twitter have to say? Something about an email? Oh, I guess Mac, who is smart enough to have won a Peabody or two, is also too stupid to send an email to the proper recipient. When she tries to confront Will over the ol' electronic mail, writing something like, "Derp, remember when we boned? SOWWWWY," she ends up emailing the entire office. ADOYOYOYYY.
Last, but certainly not least, Mac brings another woman aboard the News Night deck (there are only so many men to clean up these women's messes, MacKenzie) in the form of Olivia Munn's Sloan Sabbith, a (according to Wikipedia) financial analyst. And why does Mac, a lady in her own right, hire Sloan over, say, a male financial analyst? Let's borrow her words: "The thing is, they're not going to have your legs." Cool sisterhood, Newsroom!
Does that cover the entire episode? Probably not, but what more could you and Aaron Sorkin expect from me? I am an Internet Girl — you're lucky this recap wasn't just a series of Severus Snape gifs.
HBO's 'The Newsroom': Aaron Sorkin's Woman Problem [The Daily Beast]


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28 June 1914 and 1919
The following are brief extracts from The History of the World: Sixth Edition by J.M. Roberts and O.A. Westad.
Serbia did well in the 'Balkan Wars' of 1912–13, in which the young Balkan nations first despoiled the Ottoman empire of most that was left of its European territory and then fell out over the spoils. Serbia might have got more had the Austrians not objected. Behind Serbia stood Russia, launched on a programme of rebuilding and expanding its forces which would take three or four years to bring to fruition. According to Austrian thinking, if the South Slavs were to be shown that the Dual Monarchy could humiliate Serbia so that they could not hope for her support, then the sooner the better. Given that Germany was the Dual Monarch's ally it, in turn, was unlikely to seek to avoid fighting Russia while there was still time to feel sure of winning.
The crisis came when an Austrian archduke was assassinated by a Bosnian terrorist at Sarajevo in June 1914. The Austrians believed that the Serbians were behind it. They decided that the moment had come to teach Serbia her lesson and kill forever the pan-Slav agitation, and the Germans supported them. The Austrians declared war on Serbia on 28 July.
A week later all the great powers were at war.[…]
The main concern of the [world] peace conference [after World War I] was the settlement with Germany, embodied in the Treaty of Versailles, signed in June 1919.
This was a punitive settlement and explicitly stated that the Germans were responsible for the outbreak of war. But most of the harshest terms arose not from this moral guilt but from the French wish, if possible, so to tie Germany down that any third German war was inconceivable. This was the purpose of economic reparations, which were the most unsatisfactory part of the settlement. They angered Germans and made acceptance of defeat even harder. Moreover they were economic nonsense. Nor was the penalizing of Germany supported by arrangements to ensure that Germany might not one day try to reverse the decision by force of arms, and this angered the French. Germany's territorial losses, it went without saying, included Alsace and Lorraine, but were otherwise greatest in the east, to Poland. In the west the French did not get much more reassurance than an undertaking that the German bank of the Rhine should be 'demilitarized.'
The most obvious non-European question concerned the disposition of the German colonies. Here there was an important innovation. Undisguised colonial greed was not acceptable to the United States; instead, tutelage for non-European peoples, formerly under German or Turkish rule, was provided by the device of trusteeship. 'Mandates' were given to the victorious powers (though the United States declined any) by a new 'League of Nations' to administer these territories while they were prepared for self-government; it was the most imaginative idea to emerge from the settlement, even though it was used to drape with respectability the last major conquests of European imperialism…
Huge hopes had been entertained of this settlement. They were often unrealistic, yet in spite of its manifest failures, the peace has been overcondemned, for it had many good points. When it failed, it was for reasons which were for the most part beyond the control of the men who made it. In the first place, the days of a European world hegemony in the narrow political sense were over. The peace treaties of 1919 could do little to secure the future beyond Europe. The old imperial policemen were now too weakened to do their job inside Europe, let alone outside; some had disappeared altogether. In the end the United States had been needed to ensure Germany's defeat but now she plunged into a period of artificial isolation. Nor did the Soviets wish to be involved in stabilizing the continent.
The isolationism of the one power and the sterilization of the other by ideology left Europe to its own inadequate devices.
Reprinted from THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD: Sixth Edition by J.M. Roberts and O.A. Westad with permission from Oxford University Press, Inc. Copyright © 2013 by O.A. Westad.
J. M. Roberts CBE died in 2003. He was Warden at Merton College, Oxford University, until his retirement and is widely considered one of the leading historians of his era. He is also renowned as the author and presenter of the BBC TV series 'The Triumph of the West' (1985). Odd Arne Westad edited the sixth edition of The History of the World. He is Professor of International History at the London School of Economics. He has published fifteen books on modern and contemporary international history, among them 'The Global Cold War,' which won the Bancroft Prize.
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The U.S. Coast Guard on Thursday medevaced a crewmember from the offshore support vessel RMS Citation approximately seven miles offshore Corpus Christi, Texas.Coast Guard Sector/Air Station Corpus Christi watchstanders received a request for medevac for a 45-year-old male who was experiencing arm pain and shortness of breath. Watchstanders consulted with the duty flight surgeon who recommended the medevac."We are grateful we were able to get the mariner to the medical attention he needed," said Lt. Jake Conrad, Sector/Air Station Corpus Christi MH-65 aircraft commander. "It was a team effort between both crews involved.
EU Approves Finnish Aid to Maritime Companies Impacted by COVID-19
The European Commission has approved a €600 million ($668.1 million) Finnish aid scheme to support maritime companies impacted by the coronavirus outbreak.The aid scheme will take the form of State guarantees on working capital loans and will be accessible to maritime operators that are essential for maintaining the security of supply to Finland during the coronavirus outbreak. The funds are intended to help these firms cover immediate working capital needs, maintain employment and have sufficient liquidity to continue their activities. The measure will be directly operated by the Finnish State Treasury.
COVID-19 Puts Copenhagen Cruise Terminal on Ice
With uncertainty surrounding business in general, and specifically the future shape and form of the cruise industry, it was announced the the establishment of the new cruise terminal in Copenhagen is postponed indefinitelyA very significantly changed cruise market, due to the crisis with the coronavirus pandemic, means that Copenhagen Malmö Port (CMP) will postpone the establishment of what was planned to be a new cruise terminal at Copenhagen's Oceankaj.With the prospects for healthy growth in the Copenhagen cruise market, CMP began the invitation for the tender process at the end of last year for the establishment of a new cruise terminal, which was scheduled to be completed in 2022.
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Norway's Westcon Yards says it entered into a new agreement with the Norwegian Armed Forces for the maintenance of Coast Guard vessels."This is an important agreement for us," says Georg Matre, ship repair officer at Westcon Yards, pointing out that the first maintenance agreement with the Armed Forces came into place in 2016. The latest agreement, now valid for an additional three years, concerns the maintenance of seven Coast Guard vessels."Our maintenance work for the Coast Guard mainly includes classing, which is docking and reviewing of machinery, valves, pipes, fittings and other equipment to ensure that the vessels meet the standard they are supposed to.


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Tickets for the performances are $17.00 for adults, $12 for students and seniors, and $14 for Illinois State faculty and staff. Tickets can be purchased at the College of Fine Arts Box Office, located in the Center for the Performing Arts, from 11:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday, or by calling (309) 438-2535. Tickets are also available through ticketmaster.com. Free parking is available in the School Street Parking deck for all performances.


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Advisors and broker-dealers should re-evaluate their IRA rollover business models and brush up on the differences and benefits of traditional IRAs and Roth IRAs now that the Department of Labor is mulling including IRAs in its reworked fiduciary rule.
Matrix Financial Solutions, a Broadridge company, is giving this advice to advisors and BDs in a newly released practice guide, IRAs & the ERISA Fiduciary Rules: Updates and Best Practices for a Changing Regulatory Environment, which outlines current DOL rules, what's included in DOL's fiduciary proposal, and steps advisors can take before the revamped rule to amend the definition of fiduciary under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act is released.
Among some of the questions Matrix's guide tackles include:
• Will advising a participant to make a rollover from an employer plan result in ERISA fiduciary status?
• Will investment advice provided to IRA holders be considered "investment advice for a fee" under the same definition as employer plans such as 401(k) plans?
• Will the rules apply both to broker-dealers and registered investment advisors?
"The proposed regulations may result in more broker-dealers and RIAs being classified as an ERISA duciary when they provide services to IRAs," warns Cindy Dash, Matrix's COO. "It's important that advisors and brokers understand this evolving issue and take the necessary steps to re-evaluate their business models and compensation structures in anticipation of any regulatory changes."
While Matrix concedes that it doesn't know what ultimately will be included in DOL's revamped fiduciary rule, Phyllis Borzi, assistant secretary of labor for DOL's Employee Benefits Security Administration, confirmed in early September that the reproposed rule would include IRAs — a move that advisors have vigorously oppposed.
"We will cover them," Borzi said at a conference held by the Financial Services Institute. "What this multiyear process has shown us is that there's an even greater need to protect those in IRAs…We are going to move forward on that."
Borzi also said at the FSI event that DOL would not meet its October deadline of releasing the revamped proposal. Matrix says in its guide, however, that it expects a released rule proposal "late" this year.
Matrix notes that "most industry commenters believe there will be a broader definition of advisor activities that will result in fiduciary status and that the regulations will clarify how that broader fiduciary standard applies to IRAs – particularly IRA rollovers."
Matrix says some possible changes in the way advisors work with IRAs as a result of DOL's repropsal include:
• Advisors may be considered a fiduciary for investment support activities relating to qualified plan sponsors and participants that today are considered nonfiduciary activities.
• Soliciting IRA rollovers may result in fiduciary status.
• Investment (advice) support to IRAs may be subject to the ERISA fiduciary standard. Ultimately, this means an advisor's business model and compensation structures may need to change if they work with IRAs – or they may be engaged in a prohibited transaction.
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There could be a few, final surprises as candidate filing comes to an end.
There could be a few, final surprises as candidate filing comes to an end Friday.
�(Thursday) we�ve had a person or two that we didn�t expect so (Friday) might be another day of unexpected people filing. We�ll see,� Board of Elections Director Rose Whitehurst said late Thursday afternoon.
Thursday brought four new candidates to the Board of Elections, one each for Richlands and Jacksonville and two for Holly Ridge.
A longtime Richlands resident has filed for a chance to serve as an alderman.
Michael Carpenter joined the race Thursday morning.
�I have lived in Richlands since I was a small boy, just have a love for the town and love for the people there,� Carpenter said, explaining that he�s also interested in the controlled growth of the town and protecting the integrity of the town and what it was meant to be.
Carpenter said he tried to run as a write-in candidate two years ago after missing the filing deadline but that the attempt didn�t gain much traction.
Richlands now has six candidates vying for five seats.
Holly Ridge added two candidates for the five council seats, including the fifth candidate who filed right as filing ended Thursday.
Rena J. Bragg filed before 1 p.m. to run for a council seat, while Bruce Helms filed right before 5 p.m.
�I just think we need to keep moving the town forward so I decided to throw my hat into the ring and see what I had to offer to the town,� said Helms, who said that he also ran two years ago.
Calls to Bragg were not immediately returned.
Alex Eatman filed shortly before 4 p.m. to run for an at-large seat on the Jacksonville City Council. He is the third candidate vying for the two seats.
Eatman, 22, said that he�s running in an effort to keep property taxes low.
�It�s not a question of if property taxes go up but how much if all incumbents are elected. I�m running to keep taxes low and to keep our government officials accountable to the people who put them in office,� he said.
North Topsail Beach Alderman candidate Richard Peters, who filed on Wednesday, told The Daily News on Thursday that he has served as an alderman previously and has been out of office for about three years but believes now is a good time to get back in.
The town has been improving in recent years, he said, and he would �not like to see things go backward with the progress they�ve made.�
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