not too long ago this thread was started: http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/108750/1894427/post.ashx#1894427.
it started me thinking about what it must have been like for him being raised as a gb member's only child at bethel.
now i had a father that was at the forefront of the society's activites, and i know about some of the "perks" that come with that.
Once Albert Schroeder dies, which let's face it will be pretty soon given his age and health, I don't believe Judah Ben will have anymore clout than anyone else with the GB. I can't imagine that Ted J. will be handing the reigns over to Judah Ben anytime in the near future.
I thought, from reading through this thread, that it was his FIL not the WTS sending him to law school. Perhaps his law school degree will be used to private practice and not for the WTS.
archived story from http://www.detnews.com
wednesday, june 15, 2005
blood of the lowly horseshoe crab helps save humans
Excerpt taken from: http://www.horseshoecrab.org/med/med.html
How is an LAL test performed?
To use the commercial product, a laboratory reconstitutes the vial of freeze-dried LAL with endotoxin-free water. An equal amount of reconstituted LAL, usually 0.1 ml, is then added to the sample solution in a small, glass, endotoxin-free test tube. The mixture is then incubated at 37C for one hour. At the end of this time, the mixture is examined for gel formation by gently inverting the tube. If sufficient endotoxin was present in the sample, a firm gel, one that can withstand inversion of the tube, is formed. Knowing the sensitivity of the LAL then allows the investigator to determine the quantity of endotoxin in the sample. If the sample is found to contain an amount that exceeds the limit set by the FDA, the sample fails and the lot of pharmaceutical product must be rejected. The US FDA currently requires the LAL test to be performed on all human and animal injectables as well as medical devices used to deliver these injectables. In addition, many implantable devices and artificial kidneys used for renal dialysis also require an LAL test.
Are there other uses for LAL?
Since LAL detects endotoxin, a component of Gram-negative bacteria, the test can also be used to detect the presence of these bacteria. However, there are two major drawbacks:
1. LAL cannot discriminate between living and dead bacteria, and
2. LAL cannot differentiate species of bacteria-endotoxin, which cause a similar reaction with LAL.
Even with these drawbacks, the LAL test has been used to rapidly diagnose urinary tract infections and spinal meningitis. In these cases, the presence of endotoxin is almost always indicative of living bacteria, i.e., an infection, and the types of bacteria causing these infections are few and quite similar. The LAL test has also been used to assess food spoilage (fish, milk, ground beef), air and water quality, and (in experiments) to determine the ability of new drugs to neutralize the toxic effects of endotoxin.
Are there other compounds in the horseshoe crab that are of biomedical interest?
Besides LAL, a number of reagents and medically useful compounds have been discovered in the blood of the horseshoe crab. These include:
Written for ERDG by: Thomas J. Novitsky, Ph.D.
Edited by: Lisa Smith
archived story from http://www.detnews.com
wednesday, june 15, 2005
blood of the lowly horseshoe crab helps save humans
aha!!
I found a website that states that lobsters can in fact take in air to live. That is what makes shipping live lobsters possible.
http://www.chilipaper.com/FWharf/Lobster/Lobster_Handling/lobster_handling.htm
"Lobsters have a limited ability to take in oxygen while in air, a fact that makes shipping live lobsters in air possible. However, for the lobster to be able to extract as much oxygen as is required to remain strong and healthy, they must be kept cool and their air moist at all times."
And from another webiste that white stuff covering the lobster meat (which if you've eaten lobster you've seen) is in fact blood!!!(I can't believe I never knew this):
http://www.maine-lobster.com/lobfacts.htm#blood
What is the white substance covering my lobsters meat
Lobsters have a primitive circulatory system and blood. When they are alive, their blood appears clear, but once they have been cooked, the blood congeals and turns white. You will often see it on the claws in particular. The cooked blood has no taste and is harmless. You can easily scrape it off if you wish. Sometimes you will see some blood in your pot as you boil your lobsters. Once again it is perfectly harmless and quite normal.
archived story from http://www.detnews.com
wednesday, june 15, 2005
blood of the lowly horseshoe crab helps save humans
I think this is incredible.
Whether or not the animal is "a breather" the WT clearly says(thanks mj for the quote):
*** w73 4/1 p. 224 Questions From Readers ***Fish that were suitable for food according to the terms of the Mosaic law did not contain a quantity of blood sufficient to be poured out and covered with dust. Evidently for this reason the Law set forth no precise statement about bleeding fish.
There being no Scriptural stipulation to squeeze or soak meat to remove blood, no one is under obligation to take extreme measures to extract blood from fish. Of course, the blood of every sort of creature represents its life and is therefore sacred. So, if, on cutting a fish open, a person sees an accumulation of blood, he should remove it.
Therefore it would be wrong by WTS standards to suck the blood from the animal and use it in medical practices. It's not like you're eating one crab and incidentally running across blood - no, you're specifically getting the blood only and not even using the meat of the animal - and for medical purposes at that!
Let's see if we can find out how much of the stuff they use in IVs.
i'm not really out to give this guy free ads, but this collection is massive!
i just couldn't get over it.
i would love for somebody to get these, scan them in, and sell them on cd-rom.. link to ebay
ooooohhhh that is tempting.
ok, here's how you prepare for the watchtower study.
come on, it's fun!
an unmarked copy of the watchtower for thewt study that week.
I liked the multiple highlighters too. It really showed how much you studied. hehehehe.
Lots of notes in the margins (even if it was the grocery list) looked real good too.
thank you to all who have welcomed me to the forum.
i can't believe it.
i never was welcomed like this in the cong.
Welcome Hawkeye. Glad to see you made it out. Nice to hear so many leaving at once. What a blow to the faith of those left, eh?
Good luck on your journey.
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we plan to get married in the kh in the autumn.
will the elders quiz us as to whether we have had sex beforehand?.
They may or may not ask. They are supposed to ask. Not specifically if you had sex or not, but like a previous poster said they should ask generically about your relationship and if you've maintained a clean courtship. They may bluntly ask you if there is any reason you know of that would prohibit you from getting married in the KH.
Your answer is between you and God. The brother being lied to will in no way have his relationship with God affected. imho.
However, if your mate is a serious dub then perhaps someone will spill the beans due to conscience issues.
we went to lunch at our local cafe on saturday, and there were two families - still jws, also dining there, (in different parts of the cafe).
we expected the usual shunning treatment, but surprisingly they initiated the "hellos and how are you" and seemed genuinely pleased to see us (we have been out of the org for over 3 yrs now and we are always shunned whenever we see former jw friends) it was such a surprise to us and we couldn't help wondering if the governing body have issued "new light" on the treatment of disassociated ones.
especially as these two families have completely avoided us for a long time, even though we personally wrote to them to explain our reasons for leaving (un involvement etc+) .
Inactive ones are not officially shunned. Only DF and DA are officially shunned.
If you've faded and are considered inactive some may shun you out of fear or anger but that would be a personal choice.
If you're DF or DA then the shunning isn't a personal choice but a requirement to remain clean in the congregation's eyes.
page 453 (vol 1) of the printed books states:
a babylonian clay tablet is helpful for connecting babylonian chronology with biblical chronology.
tebet, night of the 14th, two and a half double hours [five hours] at night before morning [in the latter part of the night], the disc of the moon was eclipsed; the whole course visible; over the southern and northern part the eclipse reached.
I will check my hard copy tonight.
I will also check each version of the CD rom that I have installed.
