dungbeetle
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80 Questions From The Elders.
by Englishman injust seen this on paul blizzards site at: http://www.geocities.com/heartland/2919/main2.html.
"before baptism, one must answer over 80 questions in front of a panel of elders.".
enlightenment would be much appreciated!.
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Help Needed in Calgary re Blood Issue
by Defender injust read this from another forum.
http://www.channelc.org/cgi-bin/eboard30/index2.cgi?frames=yes&board=main&mode=current&message=1647
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dungbeetle
Great minds think alike Scully!!!
I went under Yahoo and looked up 'McCarthy & Tetrault'. It came right up. They have a great webpage.
by the way, scully do you know anything about this?
______________________________________________________________________Targeted Therapy for Leukemia May Prove a Breakthrough
Cindy Littrell of Salem, Ore., has leukemia -- chronic myeloid leukemia, or CML, to be exact.
By Alison PalkhivalaTargeted Therapy for Leukemia May Prove a Breakthrough
Early Results Remarkably Positive
By Alison Palkhivala
WebMD Medical NewsReviewed By Dr. Charlotte E. Grayson
Editor's note: On May 10, 2001, the FDA approved Gleevec for the treatment of chronic myleoid leukemia. The drug also has been known as Glivec, ST1-571, and its generic name imatinib mesylate.
April 4, 2001 -- Cindy Littrell of Salem, Ore., has leukemia -- chronic myeloid leukemia, or CML, to be exact. Diagnosed in February 1993 at age 45 by a blood test taken during a routine physical exam, she later endured a bone marrow transplant in an attempt to rid her body of the disease.
After the bone marrow transplant, she was hospitalized and treated with full-body radiation and chemotherapy.
"I was in a 'bubble room,'" she tells WebMD. "I could not have anyone come in the room unless they were totally sanitized and properly attired. I was alone. It was a very lonely feeling. I was in there for 30 days. You're exhausted from the chemotherapy and radiation. [The treatment] destroys your taste buds for a while, and you don't feel like eating, although they want you to eat. You're fed protein and that sort of thing intravenously. You try and exercise and move to build your strength up."
Littrell was back at work in a record six months, but five years later the leukemia was back, discovered again through a routine blood test. Standard treatments either didn't work or made her too sick. Her doctors considered giving her a second bone marrow transplant, even though they knew it would be even harder on her this time and less likely to work. While making plans for a second transplant, they found that Littrell had moved from the early or chronic stage of the disease to the more aggressive, accelerated phase called the blastic phase.
Until recently, a diagnosis of accelerated or acute CML was practically a death sentence, but for Littrell this was good news. It meant she was eligible to participate in a clinical trial of an experimental drug being conducted by Brian Druker, MD, a professor of medicine at Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland. Druker helped develop the drug called STI571.
STI571 represents the latest phase in cancer research and therapy where drugs are designed to target the specific molecular abnormalities that cause disease, and it is being hailed as a breakthrough for CML.
CML, a cancer of the blood cells, accounts for 15-20% of all leukemia cases. An estimated 5,000 new cases of CML are diagnosed in the U.S. every year. The disease is usually first detected in individuals aged 50-60 and is relatively mild in its early stages. Late-stage CML, however, is deadly.
Current treatments of CML are not adequate. Bone marrow transplantation, the most effective therapy, is feasible in only about one-third of patients and is so toxic that some people die from the procedure itself. Other drugs for CML include interferon and hydroxyurea, both of which make patients very ill and are not very effective in all cases.
Based on earlier research, Druker and his team knew that the molecular pathway that leads to CML is based on an enzyme called BCR-ABL found in cancer cells. They tested several potential blockers of this enzyme and found the most promising is STI571, which will be called Glivec if it is approved by the FDA and marketed later this year by Novartis.
Just over two years ago, Druker and his team started testing this new drug on CML patients who had not responded to other therapy.
The results so far have been dramatic. Not only is the drug safe (side effects include only mild cases of nausea, muscle cramps, and eye puffiness), but it is also extremely effective, especially when first given during the early stage of the disease.
So far, relapse rates have only been high in those starting the drug later in the disease process, but there is some hope that combining STI571 with other therapies will control these relapses. Druker presented his award-winning findings last week in New Orleans at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research.
"For CML, this is a major breakthrough, and it validates the paradigm in cancer research of targeting the specific abnormalities that drive the course of cancer instead of [using] chemotherapy, which kills normal cells as well as the [cancer] cells," Druker tells WebMD. "Therapies coming in the future are just going to attack the cancer cells."
STI571 also blocks molecular pathways known to be involved in other cancers, and other research teams are currently testing its effectiveness in these other cancers. Druker has tried the drug in another form of leukemia that typically affects children and adolescents, called acute lymphoblastic leukemia, or ALL, with good results.
A team of Finnish researchers led by Heikki Joensuu, MD, PhD, a specialist in oncology and head of the department of oncology at Helsinki University Central Hospital in Finland, has shown the drug is effective in a woman with a gastrointestinal tumor that had started to spread to the liver. STI571 shrank the tumors even though this patient had not responded to any other therapy. Studies on STI571 for CML, ALL, and stomach cancer are published in the April 5 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine.
John M. Goldman, MD, co-wrote an editorial that accompanied these studies. He considers STI571 a real breakthrough in the treatment of CML because it is far more effective than currently available therapy and has far fewer side effects, at least in the short term.
Because the drug has only been used for a couple of years, however, there is no proof that its positive effects are long lasting or that it really lengthens people's lives. Researchers, therefore, must continue to compare STI571 to available therapies for CML, says Goldman. And, he notes, younger, healthier patients might do best with a more radical therapy, like bone marrow transplantation, that is more dangerous but is also known to cure CML when it is successful. Goldman is from the Imperial College School of Medicine in London.
According to Goldman, STI571 is now being tested for patients with lung, prostate, and brain tumors.
And how is Littrell doing? "I got on the [STI571] pills in December [1999]," she says. "I didn't have to have the [second] transplant. I didn't miss any work -- I continued my life in normal fashion. We go snowmobiling in the winter and boating in the summer. ... This drug has just been a miracle. ... It's literally given me a future. My prognosis with a second transplant was 20% chance of survival in the first year." Currently, her long-term prognosis is unclear, but Littrell and her doctor are very optimistic.
Novartis, maker of STI571, requested approval of the drug in February. The FDA put the drug on priority review, a status reserved for treatments that promise to offer a significant improvement over currently available treatments. If STI571 is approved, it will be sold as Glivec later this year.
___________________________________________________________________I'm assuming the girl has the acute form.
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Help Needed in Calgary re Blood Issue
by Defender injust read this from another forum.
http://www.channelc.org/cgi-bin/eboard30/index2.cgi?frames=yes&board=main&mode=current&message=1647
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dungbeetle
Mr. Robert Calvert
McCarthy & Tetrault
3300, 421-7 Ave SW
Calgary, Alberta T2P 4K9
CanadaTel: 403 260-3500
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PRIVATE VIEWS PUBLICLY EXPOSED
by Derrick ina regular poster revealed how an elder confided in an ex-jehovah's witness from norway who in the past has always insisted he is trustworthy.
i even recall him becoming outraged on h2o a year or two ago at the mere suggestion that he would turn a trusted private email correspondence into public fodder, or "out" any jehovah's witness who confided in him.. .
alanf | greg stafford's new book has shipped | apr 7, 2002 05:28. http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.asp?id=25201&site=3.
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dungbeetle
Yeah, I confess I'm one of the 444 viewers.
But I have to say, when I think of all the people I've met off this board, and who have my phone number and address and what not--yet here I am still safe and secure.
The world is not the place Watchtower says it is.
I think (((KrazyKent))) has mellowed just a litle, and possibly so too JanH, going by their last few postings here and the last couple of times I was with them in chat. I'm just guessing they went through so much with the Watchcowards they needed time and space to work things out for themself. I rather miss them around the board sometimes. It sure does get quiet around here.
<raises glass> here's to all the ones who have moved on and left us here <sniff sniff>
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In case you missed it...
by mikepence inthe murderer at your door has been read *thousands* of times (probably > 10,000) on the prominent web site, kuro5hin.org.. check it out: http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/4/1/1515/18246.
some articles on jw's and sexual abuse are coming (if only work wasn't so much...work!)..
peace,.
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dungbeetle
Confessions has nothing to do with it. You didn't read the whole thing through obviously.
In one case I know, four girls came forward to accuse one elder of molestation. He should have been reported, on the basis of the first or second girl's accusation; it would have saved the other two. As it was, he went on to molest the other two and it wasn't untill the police came for him---finally--that the church even took action against them.
The elders were practicing medicine without a license. That's what it boils down to. They were 'treating' a known pedophile with nonmedical treatment, not under a licensed professional. It cost some children their childhood.
By nature and definition, pedophiles rarely confess, so it's not an issue. And if a murderer did not go to the authorities and turn himself in for a murder, then how can this person be accepted for baptism? For appointment as an elder? To go door to door?
When a woman who was raped did not scream, she is considered a danger to the spirtuality of the congregation, expelled and shunned, and it is considered inappropriate to even pray for such a one. She certainly would not be considered suitable for the door-to-door work; but a 'confessed' pedophile/murderer would?
Beware that person at your door....
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gravedancer has gots to be a jehovah Witness.
by Tallyman ini've gotten strange vibes from this joker, ever since it appeared here.. first, the moniker, "gravedancer"-.
what the hell kind of weirdo hangs around graveyards .
in order to dance on graves?.
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dungbeetle
Gravedancer, I'm pissed at you.
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Good News from Calgary
by Kismet inthe appeal court backed the decision of the lower court judge.. i am not rejoicing that the girl is necessarily getting the blood, tho i certainly like her chances for survival far better this way than with the 'alternative' treatment.
i have long been of the opinion that people have the right to chose medical treatment as long as it is an informed decision .
the court in their ruling support the fact that this girl did not make an inofrmed choice and was under intense pressure from the church, not her own belief.
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dungbeetle
while I'm doing a bttt:
to help this family:
Cheques can be made out to " SAVE MY DAUGHTER "
Mail can be made out to " SHUNNED FATHER "
P.O. Box 20161, Calgary Place R.P.O.,
Calgary Alberta T2P 4J2The attorney for the father is:
Mr. Robert Calvert
McCarthy & Tetrault
3300, 421-7 Ave SW
Calgary, Alberta T2P 4K9
CanadaTel: 403 260-3500
Fax: 403 260-3501And thanks Kizzy!!! I've been online the whole day waiting for this.
oh and a thought: what form of contribution is recommended? money orders I suppose?
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Can any Witness possibly anwser this question?
by jerome inhello all... i came across this line of questioning many months on the inet so i decided that i would submit just this once to peer pressure and make a usefull contribution to the board.. here is the question... is jesus just "a god?".
many of the regular inet surfers would have come across this line of questioning before so if you have you could just sit back and relax and read the replys.. <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>.
me: so is he a 'lesser true god' or a 'lesser false god?'.
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helpothers, YoYoMama, SexyTeen, HenryP, humble, EWeig, EWeig2, GodRules, Mario_Kempes, ArgCampeon,.
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.asp?id=22437&site=3#285814
Thank you Simon!!!
UADNA-US (Unseen Apostate Directorate of North America-United States)
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An old JW friend of mine contacted me...
by MrMoe indear board-.
an old jw friend of mine called me a week ago.
we talked, she has doubts.
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dungbeetle
The first-century Christians stated that they would face torture, imprisonment and execution rather than stop speaking of what they had seen and heard.
If Eve had simply stuck with what SHE had seen and heard, the world might be a different place right now.
Yardfart, you should stick with what you have SEEN and HEARD, not what a bunch of angry and dysfunctional old men in Brooklyn have told you.
What MOE did was fabulous...she will not stop talking about the things she has seen and heard.
((((Moe))))
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newsflash!! WTBS CD-ROM 2001
by greven inyesterday an announcement was made at my local con.
and i thought i`d share it.. the watchtower announced that work on the new cd-rom is in progress and we can expect it at the end of this year.. unlike the other versions you can`t get away with win 3.1, you`ll now need at least win95.. available languages: the one already available + tjech and japanese.. some of it`s features:.
- one window (instead of several).
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dungbeetle
books on the 1999 cd-rom:
58 Your Will
63 Babylon
63, 1983, 1990All Scriptures
68, 81 Truth
71 Great Teacher
71 Know Jehovah
71, 92 School Guidebook
72 Paradise Restored
73 God’s Kingdom
73 Peace and Security
74 Eternal Purpose
74 This Life
76 Good News
76 Holy Spirit
76 Youth
77 Life
77 World Government
78 Bible Stories
78 Family Life
79 Choosing
79 Commentary James
80 Happiness
81 Kingdom Come
82, 89 Live Forever
83 United in Worship
84 Sing Praises
84 Survival
85 Creation
85,89 Reasoning
86 True Peace
86 Worlwide Security
88 Revelation
89 God’s Word
89 Young People Ask
90 Mankind’s Search for God
91 Greatest Man
93 Proclaimers
95 Knowledge
96 Family Happiness
98 Creator
99 Daniel
00 IsaiahWatchtowers from 1950 - 1999
Awakes from 1970 - 1999
Yearbooks from 1970 - 2000
Kingdom Ministries from 1970 - 1999A whole bunch of tracts and brochures and booklets
Kingdom News 1973 - 1997
Something about a Centenary (1984)
UADNA-US (Unseen Apostate Directorate of North America-United States)