Finally, Some Good News For a Change

We all know those in such situations.

Pray that this approach will be successful, that there will be a meaningful breakthrough.

And thank you -- yes, thank you -- to the rats for their contributions.

Maybe there is hope.

Regenerative Medicine, grown out of Stem Cell Research .......
 
Glad for all the Good ....... but the Harvesting is still Buggin' me a lot .......
 
Been Praying over this,  ... for years .......

God speed the work of those clever people.
On first sight of the Reuters article, I thought "Aaaaww! Poor Ratty!", but the little fella seems to be enjoying himself. 
 

Another promising application for stem cell therapy is
repair/ regeneration of human retinas.

Ivan, as you know, there are many sources for stem cells,
not just intentionally aborted fetuses. I believe it's G-d's will that humanity
do GOOD ...this is a good thing. I'm alarmed to hear of the closing of the U.S.
research facility; we are rapidly headed to the rank of second rate  nation.

Xoxo to all...

Hazel....Happy Birthday, a few days early.

 IVAN ~ I can't say that I ever fully understood the arguments about harvesting stem cells.  It was once explained to me that the cells are harvested from embryos that were created in vitro and then frozen.  These embryos would be discarded if not used.  Rather than discard them, the couples who created them donated them for research.  I have yet to find a logical argument against using cells obtained this way.  Maybe I'm missing something.  This is a short but informative article from 2008 that explains later developments from private research.  The research will continue whether it is federally funded or not.  There are certainly less productive ways to waste our tax dollars.                                                                                                                        

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=embryos-survive-stem-cell-harvest

It is a beautiful spring day here in midwest Georgia, I think I will take our host's advice and head out to the north 1/2 acre and do a little hard physical labor, forget about the rest of the world.

Miss Blue ~ It's good to see you out and about.  Are you taking a study break?  A tip of the hat to you Miss Hazel!  Maybe we can hold  a birthday week celebration on theSepia train.  We can start early to make up the time difference.

Hooray for all research that improves humans' lives!

Think of all the people who may be helped by regeneration of vital cells.

As Miss Blue states, we were given brains and intelligence to solve problems and use our wits to improve our human condition. I don't think we should count on angels or magic, but rather, the smarts of those who have the inclination to find out new things about the body and how it works. You go, scientists!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MULCH4-lvEE

Happy almost-birthday, Hazel!!

( As you finish this year, remember the day after, you are starting the next number on the calendar. As in "I just finished my 67th year, so tomorrow I begin accumulating my 68th year!" Birthdays are waaay better than the alternative! )

Enjoy your day!

Well, hello Miss Blue Thanks for your Birthday wishes. I had to count on my fingers to work out how old I am and that my birthday is on Tuesday.

Coffee. Cats. Conversation. Congregating @ the Confluence of mind, body, & soul in a commonplace called Front Porch in a time called Sunday Morning. Since the Pioneers discovered the power of the electron moving invisibly with unlimited power. And they can heal. As Von Braun thought- "Can a physicist visualize an electron? The electron is materially inconceivable and yet, it is so perfectly known through its effects that we use it to illuminate our cities, guide our airlines through the night skies and take the most accurate measurements. What strange rationale makes some physicists accept the inconceivable electrons as real while refusing to accept the reality of a Designer on the ground that they cannot conceive Him?"

After reading the article and thinking about electric stimulation along with surgical implantation, I can't help but remember Mary Shelly's Frankenstein scene and lightning jump-starting the 're-animation'.....'Jus sayin'..

MOOSELOOP:
That means today is you birthday?
Have a happy birthday.

HAZEL:
I'll be wishing you a happy birthday on Tuesday.

I also hope that the research is fruitful.  Imagine the paralyzed walking again.  I know that the whole issue of disgarded in vitrio fetuses is a confusion for some and I would join you in prayer.  That whole arena is in an unfortunate state with each side screaming at each other rather than trying to figure out what to do.  The demagogues have prevailed on both sides.  I also have a June birthday, but am a year ahead, completing my 68th and starting my 69th.  Yes, it beats the alternative.  Life is sweet.

Hazel- Cheers...your presence here @ Eyeville and on earth in general is the Birthday Gift that keeps on giving to those of us who know you and the billions who are in wait. Blessings and as Wet Willie sings Keep on Smiling. It becomes you and blesses us. Woo Hoo!
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Off to The Nashville Dog and then to "American Pickers" show's Mike Wolfe's store Antique Archeology before doing a can opener at the Pool and firing up the Green Egg and tossing in a Pork Tenderloin.

Hazel--I am glued to the BBC watching the incredible pageant on the Thames!

Birthday dinner for daughter later....she wants Short Ribs in spite of hot weather and of course her annual Chocolate MochaButtercream Birthday cake.

Eat hearty...Long live the Queen!

Dr. Frankenstein's fatal flaws (aside from his tremendous
ego) were not his attempts to unravel the secret of life. It was his inability
to take responsibility for his actions, abandonment of his creation, labeling
it a failure i.e. monster and his unwillingness to deal with the consequences
of his work.

Happy Birthday Mooseloop!

Yep Paolos, a short break from the books...very short.

LYNN:
On what day do we send you cake and candle wishes?

One man's rodent is ANOTHER man's (or woman's) researcher......

Many happy returns of your natal day,all you old EyEsters.....wish well as you blow out all the candals....and remember what Smokey says about forest fires....

Many happy returns of your natal day,all you old EyEsters.....wish well as you blow out all the candals....and remember what Smokey says about forest fires....

New blackberry-still learning--

I'm confused...its not Hazel's birthday, but it IS MooseloopS and possibly Lynn's?
Well Birthday Felicitations to all, including me who had one a week or so back!

To Whom it May Concern: Personal  Happy Birthday  Greeings from the bottom of my cotton-picking heart you all!

To ChefDeb and Lynn belated wishes.  Moosloop, have a wonderful apecial day and a great year ahead, and to Hazel a little ahead of time wish for a perfect day on Tuesday.

I'm right there with you, Miss Blue, and so good to see you back for a while.  To use any of our abilities for good is what should be done.  Since we are all interrealated good is the gift we give the world.  How wonderful it would be if everyone remembered the the fluttering wings of the butterfyl (flutterbys as my family calls them) in their yard effects the entire world in some way. 

Happy Birthday, Mooseloop!  Enjoy your day!  And Hazel, I'm saving my birthday wishes for you until Tuesday, but the "Enjoy the day!" goes to you as well - and to all, of course!  I'm watching "Annie" on TCM, and pretty soon, she's going to belt out 'Tomorrow' in true Annie style, and I guess the point of Tomorrow is that if today's rotten, there's always tomorrow, only a day away?   I say let's have a good today, and let tomorrow take care of itself...no worries, be happy...

ChefDeb?  You too?  Well Happy B-Day to you, and to Lynn as well, belatedly alas.  Hope it was excellent, as days go!

Haze:

"Happy birthday to you.

"Happy birthday to you.

"Happy birthday, dear haze,

Happy birthday to you."

(TO BE SUNG TO THE TUNE OF "HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU."

Ohhh, so sorry to confuse the birthday issues....My birthday is Jan. 23 (1-23-45), but I was giving that example of how we calculate how old we are, as if most folks think you are just the number for a whole year, however, you are completing the number when you get a birthday, like a child has to live a whole year to get his first birthday, so when one turns , say, 70, he has been in his 70th yr. for 11 mo. already, and is actually starting his 71st yr. the next day..

...Overly-long explanation, but meant to dispel the idea that we are younger than we are.....No, Hazel and Lynn deserve the June felicitations, but mine come around in January. Thanks for the good wishes, anyway! We all like to lift a toast for just being here, and for the camaraderie of the Eye every day!!

I am celebrating having 4 daylilies blooming, in spite of the ravenous deer!! I have been spraying Liquid Fence (smelly stuff) around the bloom buds and tryng to protect them from our herds, and now some are blooming!..Yea!

Since my neighbor across the road has installed a large industrial size deer corn feeder, the herds congregate just a few feet from my front yard, and I can see them eyeing the daylilies as if for dessert!! It is my stinky spray VS Nature!

Lotlot~you now owe the writer of that songs family $0.02 royalty

and don't forget to account for it on your income tax.    Life sure gets complicated easily, doesn't it, lotlot? ;)

forget what I just wrote. Forget what I wrote about income tax.  I was talking about income tax with someone here and I wrote what I was going to say to him - to you.  I'm giving up multi-tasking for the rest of my life.

I do hope and pray that they are succesful treating paralysis in humans. It would be like Forrest Gump running out of his braces..... That scene always bring a tear.

Happy Birthday wishes to Mooseloop, ChefDeb and Hazel!

Now I'm really confused - Happy Birthday to whoever it may concern. Oddly, several of my very best friends (haha! I typod that as beast fiends) have the same birthday as me or a day or two on either side.
Today's topic - How marvellous it would be to restore mobility to paralysed people. In the course of my work, I met plenty of them and they talked to me about how undignified it is having to wear nappies, to be spoon-fed like a baby - or even worse tube fed through a hole in your abdomen, to spend hours in bed staring at the ceiling or get bum sores from hours sitting in a wheelchair - and those were the ones who were capable of speech, to be bathed like a baby, to be unable to take part in family activities, or even worse to end up in a 'care' home. Goodness, some of them were so thankful for me to come in (a stranger) hold their hand, listen, brush their hair and give them a hands and face wash to cool them down. What a lousy life. A visit I'd got pencilled in as one hour would end up being two - what the hell! How did Jesus manage that 'Thake up thy bed and walk' miracle? I often wished I knew.

My birthday is on the 28th.  To all of you other June babies, a huge piece of cake (my favorite is spice cake with cinnamon frosting) with a candle on it.  My wife and I went out for tea at a place in Falls Church called Natalia's Elegant Creations.  Wonderful.  I had a sandwich and one of her elegant and delicious desserts - a chocolate truffle bar.  Yum!  May all of you have a wonderful spring day.  I have a son-in-law who is almost immobile from muscular dystrophy.  I wonder if they will ever be able to do something for folks like him without the strength to pick his legs up and almost no strength to lift an arm.  For folks like him or those paralyzed the fear and frustration must be infinite.  I don't know where he gets the courage just to wake up each day.

My birthday is on the 28th.  To all of you other June babies, a huge piece of cake (my favorite is spice cake with cinnamon frosting) with a candle on it.  My wife and I went out for tea at a place in Falls Church called Natalia's Elegant Creations.  Wonderful.  I had a sandwich and one of her elegant and delicious desserts - a chocolate truffle bar.  Yum!  May all of you have a wonderful spring day.  I have a son-in-law who is almost immobile from muscular dystrophy.  I wonder if they will ever be able to do something for folks like him without the strength to pick his legs up and almost no strength to lift an arm.  For folks like him or those paralyzed the fear and frustration must be infinite.  I don't know where he gets the courage just to wake up each day.

Oh Lynn~ you just look at people like that and wish something could be done, I'm all for medical research into such conditions.
Those desserts were so good you said them twice!

RoadYacht, suppose it would be all right for me to pay those royalties in installments?

Watching New Hemingway and Gellhorn movie in between grilling, catching up on my travel journal and knocking back a couple of Dos Equis XX. Always love a good Papa movie or book. The Spanish Civil War footage has me digging out my beret. Salud!!!

Way past amser gwely (bed time) in Wales. Nos da, dear people. x

Or the other Welsh one is 'Fiddyl yn yr to' - put the violin in the rafters to keep it from the damp and the kids.

Me all showered and tooth cleaned and very thankful I can do it for myself.
Should explain that 'Fiddyl yn yr to' comes from the days before television or radio, when families would tell stories, recite poems and sing. If there was somebody who owned a fiddle (violin) other people would gather in the house for a good sing-song. The Mrs of the house would announce 'Fiddyl yn yr to' as a big hint that the party for that night was over.

Puttin' my fiddle in the rafters early now at 10 pm and hitting the pillows....So Sad how keeping a 10 yr. old granddaughter takes the starch our of an elder granny! I had her for 9 days and go again Tues. to keep her the rest of the week at her own house so she can attend fencing camp! What was I thinking when I agreed to that!? Night all! Good health, good dreams, and good digestion to all!

That was OUT, of course....Oh, Lordy, when will we learn to proofread before hitting SEND?!