My dad came across this invention on youtube and spent an hour investigating videos (I was busy making invitations for the wedding and I got to hear ALL about this). It is nice to know that people are working on alternative forms of energy. This makes me hopeful!
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Showing posts with label News. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Thursday, July 5, 2007
“What happened to our respect for life?”
Wichita, Kansas—On June 23rd, as stabbing victim LaShanda Calloway lay dying on the floor of a convenience store, five shoppers, including one who stopped to take a picture of her with a cell phone, stepped over the woman, police said.
The June 23 situation, captured on the store's surveillance video, got scant news coverage until a columnist for The Wichita Eagle disclosed the existence of the video and its contents Tuesday.
"It was tragic to watch," police spokesman Gordon Bassham said Tuesday. "The fact that people were more interested in taking a picture with a cell phone and shopping for snacks rather than helping this innocent young woman is, frankly, revolting."
…It took about two minutes for someone to call 911, he said.
Calloway, 27, died later at a hospital.
…The district attorney's office will have to decide whether any of the shoppers could be charged, Bassham said.
It was uncertain what law, if any, would be applicable. A state statute for failure to render aid refers only to victims of a car accident.
Wichita Police Chief Norman Williams told the newspaper…"This is just appalling, I could continue shopping and not render aid and then take time out to take a picture? That's crazy. What happened to our respect for life?"
SEE FULL STORY
Frankly, though this is very sad—I am not too surprised that the shoppers stepped over her—this is the kind of world that we live in today. People do not value life anymore. Just look at how our mainstream culture has found it a woman’s “right” to abort her innocent unborn child—and the rest of us just stand by in silence as 400 humans are sucked from their mother’s womb everyday in the USA-land of the free, home of the brave. It sounds graphic but it is true. We should all be ashamed.
"But I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child - a direct killing of the innocent child - murder by the mother herself. And if we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another? How do we persuade a woman not to have an abortion? As always, we must persuade her with love, and we remind ourselves that love means to be willing to give until it hurts. Jesus gave even his life to love us. So the mother who is thinking of abortion, should be helped to love - that is, to give until it hurts her plans, or her free time, to respect the life of her child. The father of that child, whoever he is, must also give until it hurts. By abortion, the mother does not learn to love, but kills even her own child to solve her problems. And by abortion, the father is told that he does not have to take any responsibility at all for the child he has brought into the world. That father is likely to put other women into the same trouble. So abortion just leads to more abortion. Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching the people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want. That is why the greatest destroyer of love and peace is abortion. "
~ Mother Teresa
The June 23 situation, captured on the store's surveillance video, got scant news coverage until a columnist for The Wichita Eagle disclosed the existence of the video and its contents Tuesday.
"It was tragic to watch," police spokesman Gordon Bassham said Tuesday. "The fact that people were more interested in taking a picture with a cell phone and shopping for snacks rather than helping this innocent young woman is, frankly, revolting."
…It took about two minutes for someone to call 911, he said.
Calloway, 27, died later at a hospital.
…The district attorney's office will have to decide whether any of the shoppers could be charged, Bassham said.
It was uncertain what law, if any, would be applicable. A state statute for failure to render aid refers only to victims of a car accident.
Wichita Police Chief Norman Williams told the newspaper…"This is just appalling, I could continue shopping and not render aid and then take time out to take a picture? That's crazy. What happened to our respect for life?"
SEE FULL STORY
Frankly, though this is very sad—I am not too surprised that the shoppers stepped over her—this is the kind of world that we live in today. People do not value life anymore. Just look at how our mainstream culture has found it a woman’s “right” to abort her innocent unborn child—and the rest of us just stand by in silence as 400 humans are sucked from their mother’s womb everyday in the USA-land of the free, home of the brave. It sounds graphic but it is true. We should all be ashamed.
"But I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child - a direct killing of the innocent child - murder by the mother herself. And if we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another? How do we persuade a woman not to have an abortion? As always, we must persuade her with love, and we remind ourselves that love means to be willing to give until it hurts. Jesus gave even his life to love us. So the mother who is thinking of abortion, should be helped to love - that is, to give until it hurts her plans, or her free time, to respect the life of her child. The father of that child, whoever he is, must also give until it hurts. By abortion, the mother does not learn to love, but kills even her own child to solve her problems. And by abortion, the father is told that he does not have to take any responsibility at all for the child he has brought into the world. That father is likely to put other women into the same trouble. So abortion just leads to more abortion. Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching the people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want. That is why the greatest destroyer of love and peace is abortion. "
~ Mother Teresa
Sunday, March 4, 2007
Finally... some good media attention!!
Hello, I know I said that I wouldn't be on here until after Easter, but I just thought I'd peek in (After all, it is Sunday~ a day of rest!).
Plus, I couldn't help but share some exciting news: The following is an article that was published today in the Bremerton Sun... it is an article about the "40 Days for Life" that my parents are involved in---It's about time the local media awknowledged some work of the pro-life movement. The title is kind of odd, but I think the content is great.
Anti-Abortion Vigil May Spur Giving to Planned Parenthood
Plus, I couldn't help but share some exciting news: The following is an article that was published today in the Bremerton Sun... it is an article about the "40 Days for Life" that my parents are involved in---It's about time the local media awknowledged some work of the pro-life movement. The title is kind of odd, but I think the content is great.
Anti-Abortion Vigil May Spur Giving to Planned Parenthood
Those representing both sides of the abortion debate are divided over the impact of vigil protests as well.
March 4, 2007
BREMERTONAmid sporadic honks of support and an occasional middle finger of disagreement, almost two dozen people stood Saturday afternoon off Riddell Road, holding anti-abortion signs.
It was the second week into a 40-day vigil outside of the Planned Parenthood of Western Washington office, slated to run from Feb. 21 through April 7, every day.
Jack McGowan, president of Kitsap Human Life, a hub for religious and non-religious anti-abortion groups and activists, said the demonstrations are meant to coincide with Lent and raise awareness about the reproductive health care provider.
"People don’t know what Planned Parenthood stands for," McGowan said. "They don’t have any parenting classes at Planned Parenthood."
McGowan estimated that 150 people would stand shifts.
"We’re standing for those who can’t stand for themselves," McGowan said.
McGowan compares the group’s work to overturn federal and state laws and court rulings allowing abortion rights to the anti-slavery and civil rights movements. Life is, McGowan said, the most fundamental right. It’s a position, he added, that’s not a matter of personal perspective.
"It’s similar to saying, ‘I don’t believe in slavery, but you can believe in slavery,’" McGowan said.
Nina Mays, a data analyst from Bellevue, heard about the vigil on the Internet and made the trip to Bremerton last weekend as well. She said she will keep coming on Saturdays until the vigil ends.
"When people get an abortion it’s because they feel trapped, not because they are truly choosing it," she said.
Mays took the middle fingers in stride, but the honks of support concerned McGowan.
"Some people in the neighborhood are getting disturbed," he said.
Mendy Droke, a Planned Parenthood field organizer for Kitsap County, said the organization does more to prevent unwanted pregnancies than anti-abortion groups.
And Kristen Glundberg-Prossor, a spokeswoman for Planned Parenthood of Western Washington, said that abortions account for about 2 percent of the patients seen. She said that the organization does cancer screenings, testing for sexually transmitted diseases, hepatitis testing and provides birth control as well.
Droke also noted that fund raising sees an uptick when there are protesters outside their offices, saying that the outrage supporters feel at the sight of picketers makes them open their wallets and checkbooks.
"Every one of the protesters out there will be raising money," Droke said.
Countered McGowan: "If enough people stand vigil, they will run out of contributors."
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