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| Elder Abuse |
| I dedicate this page to Victims of Elder abuse.In the hope that other elders, their families, or perhaps yourself, can be spared the incredible suffering and devastation of elder abuse.Other Topics discussed:Ageism,Aging,Life extension,Cryonics. |
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| World's oldest person dies in Japan at 114: report |
| 2007-08-14 09:01:56 |
TOKYO (AFP) - The world's oldest person, a Japanese woman who counted eating well and getting rest as her hobbies, died Monday at age 114, a news report said. Yone Minagawa, a widow who lived in a nursing home but was still sprightly late in life, died "of old age" Monday evening, Kyodo News reported.There was no immediate answer to a telephone call placed to city hall in her town in southern Fukuoka prefecture.Born on January 4, 1893, Minagawa was already in her 50s when Japan surrendered in World War II.She had been certified as the world's oldest person by the Guinness Book of World Records after Emma Faust Tillman, the daughter of freed American slaves, died in January.Despite her advanced age, Minagawa was said to enjo...
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| Australian Aboriginal Elder Says Intervention a Betrayal |
| 2007-08-14 05:11:44 |
ABC Radio Australia An Aboriginal elder who has been helping the Australian government negotiate a 99-year lease on Elcho Island off the coast of Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory says its intervention on communities is a betrayal of trust.The Australian government is planning to take over Northern Territory Aboriginal communities to combat child sexual abuse.He does not believe the intervention will work, and says it will poison relations for a long time to come.Abridged >> ...
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| Brooke Astor , Grand Dame of New York Dies at 105 |
| 2007-08-14 05:01:32 |
BY ZACHARY R. DOWDY mailto:zachary.dowdy@newsday.com?subject=Newsday.comBrooke Astor's death Tuesday came amid a legal maelstrom that has fixated New Yorkers since charges of elder abuse were lobbed at her only son, Anthony Marshall, last year.Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau has for nearly a year been investigating some of Marshall's transfers of money and property to himself while his mother allegedly was living in poorly maintained quarters in ill health.Prosecutors over the past few months began to assemble a grand jury to look into the legality of the transfers and amendments to Astor's will, according to The New York Times.Abridged read entire article here >> ...
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| U.S. Life Expectancy Below That of 41 Other Nations |
| 2007-08-14 04:54:58 |
Life expectancy in the U.S. has reached its highest point ever, but it is exceeded by the rates in 41 other countries, the AP/Arizona Daily Star reports. The U.S. has been slipping for decades in international rankings of life expectancies as other countries are improving health care, nutrition and lifestyles, according to the AP/Daily Star. Countries that rank above the U.S. include Japan, most of Europe, Jordan and the Cayman Islands. A U.S. resident born in 2004 has a life expectancy of 77.9 years, placing the U.S. in 42nd place, down from 11th place two decades ago.Researchers say the lower U.S. ranking is attributed to the high uninsured rate among the population, in addition to rising obesity rates and racial disparities in life expectancy. Black U.S. residents have a shorter life s...
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| Latins Traditionally Prefer to take Care of Their Own |
| 2007-08-14 04:09:28 |
Latinos traditionally prefer to care for their older loved ones at home, says Conchy Bretos, a Miami-based housing consultant.But that's a challenge for low-income families who can't afford extra help for a frail elder. Because Medicaid pays only for nursing home care, not for every day assistance at home, many seniors in public housing are forced out of their homes prematurely."Most people need just a little help with dressing, meal preparation, bathing, and supervislon,"Bretos says." They don't need full-time doctors and nurses."Bretos, formerly Florida's secretary for Aging and Adult Services,came up with an innovative idea: get exemptions from Medicaid to bring assisted-living services to public housing.Now 40 public-housing proj-ects in 18 states help people like Luisa Montoto Quinone...
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| Domestic Terror Alive and Well in the USA |
| 2007-08-14 00:26:34 |
SAN FRANSCICO, CALIFORNIA -Matthai Chakko Kuruvila, Chronicle Religion WriterSunday, August 12, 2007 Yusuf Bey believed fish sandwiches and bean pies would lift up marginalized black people in Oakland.For more than three decades, his bakery was both pulpit and profit center, providing the money to start other nearby businesses, such as a hair salon and school, to bear witness to black self-empowerment.But the block of stores on San Pablo Avenue has withered since Bey's death four years ago. The final blow came this month, when police raided Your Black Muslim Bakery, smashing its windows and putting its leaders in jail.The empire's heir, Yusuf Bey IV, sits in jail facing charges of assault with a deadly weapon. Bey IV, his brother Joshua Bey and a bakery employee also have been charged wit...
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| Alone |
| 2007-08-14 00:25:24 |
Reflections of shattered memories that are long gone in the lapse of time we callEternityAloneWe spend each golden moment silently awaiting for that which must come.AloneWe are friends even thou I am AloneI learn to use each moment and to beAlone...
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| Elder 92 year Old Starved to Death After Paying Rent and Losing his Savings to Elder Financial Abuse |
| 2007-08-14 00:17:11 |
BY ERIN L. NISSLEY Staff Writer The Times Tribune - PA, USAThe 92-year-old had been paying $300 a month for a room and care from Helen and Walter Pestinikas. Instead, the couple starved Mr. Kly to death, keeping his family from him while they drained more than $30,000 from his bank account.When the couple, who operated a funeral home on North Main Avenue, were charged with third-degree murder in Mr. Kly’s death, they argued that they had no obligation to care for him. Prosecutors argued that they did, because they had a contract to do so.The Pestinikases’ convictions in February 1987 was precedent-setting — it was the first time anyone had been convicted of murder for failing to live up to the terms of a care contract, according to then-District Attor...
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| Senator Kohl Aims to Fight Elder Abuse |
| 2007-08-13 19:05:52 |
With the number of elder abuse cases on the rise, Wisconsin Senator Herb Kohl is taking action. Senator Kohl made a stop in La Crosse today, renewing his call for a nationwide system of background checks aimed at preventing elder abuse. Wisconsin is currently part of a seven-state pilot program responsible for doing background checks on applicants to senior care facilities. Kohl hopes taking the program to national level will prevent elder abuse nationwide, and strengthen the current efforts in Wisconsin.Last year in Wisconsin alone almost ten thousand applicants were screened before they were hired by long-term care facilities, two hundred sixty-five of those applicants were denied b...
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| 4 More Grandmothers Bludgeoned with Hammer |
| 2007-08-13 14:49:36 |
WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) - Police say a 41-year-old man stormed a Pennsylvania beauty salon and bludgeoned four grandmothers with a hammer, fracturing one's skull during a robbery.Witnesses say the women, aged 56 to 76, didn't resist but were beaten anyway. At least one required surgery.---------------------------------------Weekend's over we go back to telling you about Grandmothers being bludgeoned, elders being put in nursing homes so their houses can be sold to the highest bidder, attorneys smelling blood where there are family disagreements and making their bid to take over the elders estates, especially where there is money or real estate involved, regardless of the elder wishes and desires as set out in their will and estate planning documents.We also go back to begging our readers to...
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| Will this be the New Sport of The Future "Elder Figthing" |
| 2007-08-13 14:47:48 |
Mobile phone footage shot at a privately-run care home shows frail and elderly residents being goaded into shouting foul-mouthed obscenities at each other.The three-minute video appears to show a woman trying to incite a confrontation between a confused woman and a male resident in the lounge of the home.She repeatedly persuades the bewildered pensioners to trade offensive vulgarities.At one point, the fearful victim of the abuse pleads with her laughing tormentor, saying: "He will come after me", while a second resident tells the woman she is "making bother", but she then turns her attention to the male resident, trying to persuade him to retaliate."This is an example of elder abuse, and elder abuse destroys lives. But it's still a hidden issue and we just don't know how much goes on....
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| The Story of Elder Abuse that Needs to be Told ! |
| 2007-08-13 14:40:14 |
In this era of preposterous house prices, a lot of older people are sitting in goldmines. Never mind that these goldmines are their homes, have been their homes often for decades.And their greedy, evil, ungrateful offspring all too often are ushering their parents out of their homes and into institutions solely in order to get their greedy mitts on the goldmines left behind. Old people are often vulnerable. Their children are often their only lifeline. Like abused children, they feel conflicted loyalties to the very people abusing them. Abuse of elders is sometimes physical, but more often it's emotional neglect coupled with financial exploitation.That's why elder abuse so rarely is reported. But in order to get away w...
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| Just What does Ombudsman mean? |
| 2007-08-13 13:49:51 |
CHARLOTEE COUNTY,FLORIDA by PAM IRISHOmbudsman is a Swedish term for an advocate interested in justice in affairs between the government and its citizens. The meaning has expanded to include others who advocate.The Long Term Care Ombudsman Program was established in every state through the Older Americans Act of 1978. The mission of the program is to protect residents' rights and improve the quality of care and life for residents in long-term care facilities by providing access and advocacy services that assist residents in protecting their health, safety, welfare and rights.Q. What do you do as a Long Term Care Ombudsman? "I provide general information about long-term care issues. I receive and attempt to resolve complaints made by long-term care residents and other interested parties. I ...
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| The Revolving Door at Salt Lake County Jail |
| 2007-08-13 13:48:53 |
SALT LAKE,UTAH-You may be surprised to learn of the type of offenders who will be automatically released upon their arrest due to jail overcrowding. According to the current Salt Lake County jail overcrowding policy, all misdemeanor offenders not charged with domestic violence are booked and then released from jail. Class A misdemeanor offenses include: intentional child abuse, lewdness involving a child, sexual battery, assault causing substantial bodily injury, stalking, negligent homicide, DUI involving bodily injury, voyeurism with a recording device, reckless endangerment, elder abuse and vehicle burglary. This policy is carried out without any regard ...
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| Haiku |
| 2007-08-12 11:46:34 |
Starting this week you will see a new icon or button to our sidebar "Haiku" which is a Japanese lyric verse form having three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables, traditionally invoking an aspect of nature or the seasons.This has been an inspiration from Pam who just turned 65 and is coping with ALS She is an inspiration with her beautiful art and poetry and she served to remind me that along with all the ugliness and suffering life goes on and there is beauty to be found."The primary purpose of reading and writing haiku is sharing moments of our lives that have moved us, pieces of experience and perception that we offer or receive as gifts. At the deepest level this is the one great purpose of all art, and especially of literature."-William H...
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| Blogger of the Week "Happy Birthday Pam" |
| 2007-08-12 09:15:02 |
Today is my 65th birthday and although I know 65 is no longer old, it's time enough to have an endless stream of memories. Memories that, as anyone who is getting older knows, pop into your head at the strangest times and without provocation. Following, are a few of mine.I remember television when it was relatively new. I watched old black-and-white cartoons; one that comes to mind is Steamboat Willie starring the original Mickey Mouse. The next shows I remember watching are Roy Rogers, Fury, Hopalong Cassidy, Buck Rogers and in later years, the Mickey Mouse club. A special treat was watching the magic of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers tripping the light fantastic, and who could forget I Love Lucy?I recall clunky black phones with party lines; they have ...
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| Hate Mail to E.A. For Defending Our Elders |
| 2007-08-12 04:53:28 |
Letter of Commendation from the U.S. Dept. of Navy to Dr. A.J. Fernandez Please Click to enlargeToday we decided to do something a little bit different and publish hate mail that comes in to Elder Abuse for our attempts to speak up for those that have been denied a voice.Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Fraud is Closely Related With Undue Influence": This might just be the stupidest thing I've ever read. Get a life, kid--your dad is obviously a total loser. by Anonymous to Elder Abuse on August 10, 2007 2:48:00 PM -05:00-------------------------------------------------Yes obviously, you can do better ! ...
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| Cat Predicts Deaths |
| 2007-08-11 04:35:03 |
Oscar the cat seems to have an uncanny knack for predicting when nursing home patients are going to die, by curling up next to them during their final hours.His accuracy, observed in 25 cases, has led the staff to call family members once he has chosen someone. It usually means they have less than four hours to live. “He doesn’t make too many mistakes. He seems to understand when patients are about to die,” said Dr. David Dosa in an interview. The 2-year-old feline was adopted as a kitten and grew up in a third-floor dementia unit at the Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. The facility treats people with Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s disease and other illnesses. After about six months, the staff noticed Oscar would make his own rounds, just like the doctors and nurses. He...
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| Lao Tsu |
| 2007-08-11 04:33:11 |
“Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Watch your words, for they become actions.Watch your actions, for they become habits.Watch your habits, for they become character. Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.” ...
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| Grandson Takes Butcher Knife to Grandma |
| 2007-08-11 03:04:17 |
COVINA California -Police are expected to file assault and elder-abuse charges today against a paroled drug dealer who allegedly stabbed his grandmother Monday night at the Tumbling Waters Mobile Park.Jerry Guerro, 24, was arrested by Covina police on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon and elder abuse after he allegedly attacked his grandmother with a butcher knife in the 1300 block of North Citrus Avenue.---------------------------------------------Parents are sitting ducks. They can't imagine that their children would want to do them any harm. Maybe they just resent having been born....
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| Elder Woman Critical with Head Wound Abuse Suspected |
| 2007-08-10 19:57:30 |
Updated: Aug 10, 2007 06:18 AM EDTPORTAGE -Margaret Diamante is in critical condition suffering from a head injury Sunday at a residence on Woodbridge Lane, and medical personnel called police to investigate.The medical personnel responded to a rescue call in the Woodbridge Hills retirement community. They arrived and found Diamante, 87, semi-conscious and lying on the floor. They discovered she had been struck in the back of the head and had several bruises on her body.Doctors later found she had bleeding on the brain, and that led detectives to believe her injuries were elder abuse.No one has been arrested, but a suspect has been identified.Investigators have not revealed how the suspect knows Diamante, but said the person is not a danger to the community...
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| Elder Abuse Remains Underreported Crime |
| 2007-08-10 04:26:11 |
By Kelly EnosJack Parks was a 98-year-old survivor. He and his wife were married 74 years, and he was her sole caretaker before she passed away from Alzheimer's disease.Julia Spencer answered an ad in the local newspaper when Parks needed a caregiver. She beat him, she kicked him until he was black and blue, she tied him to a chair with a vacuum cleaner cord and tried to set him on fire.He died three weeks later of complications due to the injuries Spencer had caused."When you consider that people over the age of 65 will number about 52 million in the year 2020, crime and victimization against our seniors is not something we can ignore," Abridged read it all here >> ------------------------------------------Wow , married for 74 years and I thought Clara and...
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| Woman Sentenced In Elder Abuse Case |
| 2007-08-10 03:05:17 |
BURLINGTON, Ky. -- A Burlington woman was sentenced Wednesday on charges related to the death of an elderly person in her care. A judge sentenced Mary Allen to 225 days in jail and five years’ probation after she pleaded guilty to abusing Joe Daniels, a mentally disabled man for whom she was paid to provide care. Allen was indicted earlier this year on second-degree manslaughter and exploitation of an adult by a caregiver and two counts of abuse and neglect.The judge also ordered that Allen, whose husband, Brian Graham, faces charges related to the sexual abuse of an 18-month-old girl, may not work again as a caregiver.-----------------------------------Thanks Goodness this judge is tough on abuse and ordered Allen NOT to ...
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| Jailed Man Arrested For Abuse of Elderly |
| 2007-08-10 03:01:28 |
Auburn,California - An Auburn man was arrested Wednesday, while incarcerated in Placer County Jail on other charges, for suspicion of elder abuse and grand theft. Officials believe there may be more victims.Robert Henning, 56, had operated National Medical Services on Shale Ridge Lane in North Auburn, with his wife, Elizabeth Henning. Authorities contend that he was selling medical equipment, including motorized scooters, accepting payment for the products, but not delivering them. Detective Jim Hudson, of the Placer County Sheriff's Department, said three victims have come forward thus far saying they ordered motorized scooters and have been defrauded."Based on our investigation, we believe there are more victims regarding fraudulent sales tactics by Mr. ...
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| Tamara Dominado's Statement On The 100th Day of Her Mother's Abduction |
| 2007-08-01 14:30:00 |
When I learned that my mother was abducted, I felt like the Grim Reaper just ripped out a big chunk of my heart. I don’t know what to think. What goes through the mind of crazy people is only known to those who have the power to read minds or to those who are crazier. During the summer, my heart got stitched up, even for just a moment, when I had the chance to spend a lot of time with my friends. But unfortunately summer left, and I cannot forget.On the last day my mother and I were together, we went to Tigbauan to sort out matters regarding my boarding house for my summer internship. Afterwards, we went to South Park, a nearby restaurant where we ordered Tenderloin Tips and Chopsuey. We Had a long wait and I was surprised that she didn’t complain or wasn’t even annoyed.She was silen...
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| Hospital Bans Health Care Workers From Lighting Up |
| 2007-08-01 14:00:00 |
| Key West,Florida BY ANNE-MARGARET SOBOTA amsobota@keysnews.comA nurse takes a quick last puff off her cigarette outside Lower Keys Medical Center before hurrying back inside to take the medical history of her next patient — a lifelong smoker who's starting to show early signs of lung disease.The irony of the situation is not lost on hospital administrators, who realize the double standard that is set when patients heading into the building see health-care professionals outside smoking — the same doctors and nurses who are encouraging them to quit smoking.That's why they're taking the Stock Island facility and the dePoo Building on Kennedy Drive smoke-free."We need to set the example for
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| Much at Stake in Stopping Animal Cruelty |
| 2007-07-31 14:00:00 |
By LAURA SCOTT lascott@kcstar.com.The grand jury indictment of Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick has focused attention on the grisly underground activity of dog-fighting.The federal charges are a reminder that animal abuse of a horrific nature, even if prohibited by law, goes on all too often. Some people even call it “sport.” It attracts money, drugs, and gambling, all bathed in the blood of animals who have been trained, tortured and abused to get them to go after other dogs until the death.The Vick charges represent the extreme of animal cruelty. That’s why the details make us squirm uncomfortably. If the charges are true, the ways losing dogs were dispensed with indicate terribly sick individuals, one of ...
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| Elder Abuse Cases Expected to Grow With Aging Population |
| 2007-07-31 13:55:00 |
WA,United States By Andrew Binion (Contact)The police officer had the 84-year-old woman step outside so she could talk without fear of her live-in grandson overhearing what she had to say.She broke down and started crying and said that she had been menaced for months. She said that her grandson had forced her to write him checks, and he became violent when she refused, court documents said.A few weeks later, another grandmother reported that her 19-year-old grandson, wanted for deserting the military, had assaulted her during an argument and then threatened to kill her as she called the police, reports said.......as baby boomers age, more cases of exploitation, violence and neglect of adults and the elderly are expected."Any of us, if we have the inability to care for ourselves, can be vic...
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| Elder Justice "Gone Awfully Wrong!" |
| 2007-07-30 15:30:00 |
Florence, Alabama Elizabeth S. HillI read recently that in 2006 there were almost 500,000 cases of elder abuse reported in domestic settings. If there were this many cases in homes, how many cases were in institutions, and how many abuses were not reported?It's frightening to even think about it.In the past few years I have become aware of the lack of love and the excess of greed when an old person has Alzheimer's or some other debilitating disease, and can be manipulated.I witnessed a case when a friend with Alzheimer's had every legal document he had carefully made when he was well reversed and changed during the last six months of his life. They were changed so that people whom he had not intended to benefit were benefitted from his legacy. There was no one with legal or medical authori...
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| State Sen. Ronda Storms Wants To Hold Public Hearings Statewide to Ensure Mistakes Like Those in Courtney Clark's case Are Not Repeated. |
| 2007-07-30 15:27:00 |
By MELANIE AVE, Times Staff WriterSARASOTA - The downtown headquarters of the Sarasota Family YMCA is in a 10-story Spanish-style building flanked by stately palm trees. A chandelier lights the marble-floored lobby. Valet parking out front is free.The Sarasota YMCA, which entered the state's foster care business 10 years ago, is now one of the oldest and richest private child welfare agencies in Florida.Since 1998, its first full year of foster work, the Sarasota YMCA's annual revenue has grown 379 percent, from $19-million to $91-million.It receives $72-million to care for abused and neglected children in five counties, including Pinellas and Pasco. Last year its CEO, Carl Weinrich, made $254,000, far more than the man who oversees the state's entire child...
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| Florida Committee on Children, Families, and Elder Affairs |
| 2007-07-30 15:25:00 |
Location:520 Knott BuildingMailing Address:404 South Monroe Street Tallahassee, FL 32399-1100(850) 487-5340 / Senate VOIP 5340SunCom 277-5340 storms.ronda.web@flsenate.gov Chair: Senator Ronda Storms (R) (850) 487-5072Vice Chair: Senator Gwen Margolis (D) margolis.gwen.web@flsenate.gov(850) 487-5121 Senator Carey Baker baker.carey.web@flsenate.gov 850) 487-5014SenatorAnthony C. "Tony" Hill, Sr.hill.anthony.web@flsenate.gov(850) 487-5024SenatorEvelyn J. Lynn lynn.evelyn.web@flsenate.gov(850) 487-5033SenatorNan H. Rich rich.nan.web@flsenate.gov (850) 487-5103SenatorJ. Alex Villalobosvillalobos.alex.web@flsenate.gov (850) 487-5130------------------------------------------------Silence is Complicity Please we need your help!If It can happen to Dr. Fernandez and Clara it can happen to anyone! ...
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| The Letter - The Cover Up ! Why? No More Secrets! We Beg You Please ! We Need Closure. |
| 2007-07-30 14:05:00 |
click to enlargeThis letter was a legal document signed by Dr. Fernandez to Baptist hospital after he found out his wife had been sent there for emergency surgery. Dr. Fernandez asked that he be informed as to the release of his wife of 58 years, Clara G. Fernandez so that he could make arrangements to pick her up. Dr. Fernandez had not seen his wife for three months and was besides himself besides himself to know that his wife was in intensive care, he insisted on being driven to Miami to see his wife in Baptist Hospital and according to people there Clara attempted to get out of bed to come home with him right then and there , they hugged and did not want to leave each other, it was a very heart wrenching moment. Dr. Fernandez was not ever to see his wi...
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| A Sunday Not To Long Ago In Memory of Clara and AJ |
| 2007-07-29 21:30:00 |
"But at the beginning of creation God 'made them male and female.' For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.' So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate."Mark 10:5 ...
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| Noah´s Ark "Everything You Need to Know" |
| 2007-07-29 14:01:00 |
by Laurie, courtesy of Julio revised 7-29-07Noah's Ark Everything I need to know, I learned from Noah's Ark .ONE: Don't miss the boat.TWO: Remember that we are all in the same boatTHREE: Plan ahead. It wasn't raining when Noah built the Ark .FOUR: Stay fit. When you're 60 years old, someone may ask you to do something really big.FIVE: Don't listen to critics; just get on with the job that needs to be done.SIX: Build your future on high ground.SEVEN: For safety's sake, travel in pairs.EIGHT: Speed isn't always an advantage. The snails were on board with the cheetahs.NINE: When you're stressed, float awhile.TEN: Remember, the Ark was built by amateurs; the Titanic by professionals.ELEVEN: No matter the storm, when you are with God, there's always a rainbow wa...
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| Ben Franklin Spoke About the Future ! |
| 2007-07-28 15:05:00 |
Here at E.A. we like to talk about the past and the future, Ben Franklin a great visioner, who would have ever thought the things he envisioned would become commonplace in todays world. What about the things he envisioned for tommorrow's world could he also been right about those things becoming commonplace in the future? "... Ben Franklin was more responsible than any one else for creating the modern world .... No one did more too shape the physical/cultural makeup of present day civilization.... Accordingly, he was one of the most influential figure of the millennium...."- B. FRANKLIN. talks about the future ......"I wish it were possible... to invent a method of embalming drowned persons, in such a manner that they might be recalled to life at any perio...
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| More From Transvision 2007 |
| 2007-07-28 14:35:00 |
by Ronald BaileyRonald Bailey brings us another report from Transvision 2007 at Reason Online: "The Tuesday evening session was devoted to another sort of speculative revival technology, cryonics.Presentations were made by three members of the Alcor Life Extension Foundation. ... Alcor currently has 850 members with 78 patients who are cryonically suspended. The first talk was by nanotechnologist Ralph Merkle who gave the standard line that cryonics is an experimental technology for life extension. The question is do you want to be in the experimental group or in the control group? ... Alcor has a team that flies to the bedsides of clients whose hearts are about to stop.Once they do stop, the team begins immediately to try to limit damage to their brains. To do that Alcor technicians pump ...
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| A Peek at Developing Technologies of the Future |
| 2007-07-28 14:05:00 |
Andrew Rosenson, a doctor who heads up Chicago Heartscan, didn't peer so much into the future, but showed us the results of some remarkable recent advances in medical imaging. Combining various imaging technologies, CT scans with PET scans enable physicians and surgeons to precisely isolate areas of disease within a patient's body. Last year, given my family's history of heart disease, I decided to take advantage of this technology by having my heart scanned by a 64-slice CT scanner. Contrary to my critics' views, I do, in fact, have a heart:Later in the day, Sirius satellite radio founder, Martine Rothblatt, discussed "Cybernetic Biostasis." The idea is that people should be creating digital mindfiles throughout their lives that could be used to revive th...
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| TGIF |
| 2007-07-28 01:00:00 |
Thank G-d it's FridayEnded up better than Monday...
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