MOMSAVER PETS by gary-2
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Friday, September 16, 2011
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Friday, August 12, 2011
I'm Going To Jail In 5 Days...Can You Help?
Jerry's Kids (Muscular Dystrophy Association) have arrested me & will put me behind bars in just a few days if I don't raise 2400 dollars for Jerry's Kids.
Can you help me stay out of Jail by donating even 5 bucks here?
Thank you so much. It's Tax Deductible. And you're helping little kids. God Bless.
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Philipians 2:3 - Consider Others Better Than You
Some days I act like an Un-Christlike idiot.
I don't act very much like Jesus sometimes.
I read this today:
3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, 4 not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.
I don't act very much like Jesus sometimes.
I read this today:
3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, 4 not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.
5 In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:
6 Who, being in very nature[a] God,
did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;
7 rather, he made himself nothing
by taking the very nature[b] of a servant,
being made in human likeness.
8 And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself
by becoming obedient to death—
even death on a cross!
Recently I had a time when I felt someone was criticizing me. And I felt their motive was impure for it. So I responded with my own criticism of them.
Turns out that I was wrong. Their motives WERE pure. But I did two things wrong.
1. I judged their heart without really knowing their heart. (Judge not, lest ye be judged)
2. I broke the golden rule (Do unto others as you would have done unto you) by responding with a retaliation. Would Christ have responded like this? Nah.
I made myself look like a petty fool in front of this person.
So the verse: "Rather, in humility value others above yourselves..." Is designed not only to protect the people around you from YOUR wrath; but it's designed to protect YOU from looking like an Un-Christlike idiot.
You'll never come off looking bad when you treat others as better than yourself...even in those instances when you're pretty sure that you're the one who's right.
Monday, August 1, 2011
Being Lazy
God's been dealing with me on laziness recently.
Proverbs 26 says:
A sluggard says, “There’s a lion in the road,
a fierce lion roaming the streets!”
I can't tell you how many times I've known I had something I needed to do. But I came up with an excuse NOT to get up & do it by crafting a "legitimate sounding" excuse based on a "supposed fear."
For instance: I know I need to mow the lawn. But it's so hot out, I might get heat stroke. REALLY? Seriously? Let's be honest and say that I just don't want to mow the lawn.
Or...
I know I need to change that light bulb. But climbing that ladder is dangerous. I might fall, and THEN where would I be? I couldn't support my family if I broke my back.
Sheesh. Time to man up!
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Friday, July 22, 2011
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Who Wants To Live Forever?
LONDON (Reuters) - If Aubrey de Grey's predictions are right, the first person who will live to see their 150th birthday has already been born. And the first person to live for 1,000 years could be less than 20 years younger.
A biomedical gerontologist and chief scientist of a foundation dedicated to longevity research, de Grey reckons that within his own lifetime doctors could have all the tools they need to "cure" aging -- banishing diseases that come with it and extending life indefinitely.
"I'd say we have a 50/50 chance of bringing aging under what I'd call a decisive level of medical control within the next 25 years or so," de Grey said in an interview before delivering a lecture at Britain's Royal Institution academy of science.
"And what I mean by decisive is the same sort of medical control that we have over most infectious diseases today."
De Grey sees a time when people will go to their doctors for regular "maintenance," which by then will include gene therapies, stem cell therapies, immune stimulation and a range of other advanced medical techniques to keep them in good shape.
De Grey lives near Cambridge University where he won his doctorate in 2000 and is chief scientific officer of the non-profit California-based SENS (Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence) Foundation, which he co-founded in 2009.
He describes aging as the lifelong accumulation of various types of molecular and cellular damage throughout the body.
"The idea is to engage in what you might call preventative geriatrics, where you go in to periodically repair that molecular and cellular damage before it gets to the level of abundance that is pathogenic," he explained.
CHALLENGE
Exactly how far and how fast life expectancy will increase in the future is a subject of some debate, but the trend is clear. An average of three months is being added to life expectancy every year at the moment and experts estimate there could be a million centenarians across the world by 2030.
To date, the world's longest-living person on record lived to 122 and in Japan alone there were more than 44,000 centenarians in 2010.
Some researchers say, however, that the trend toward longer lifespan may falter due to an epidemic of obesity now spilling over from rich nations into the developing world.
De Grey's ideas may seem far-fetched, but $20,000 offered in 2005 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Technology Review journal for any molecular biologist who showed that de Grey's SENS theory was "so wrong that it was unworthy of learned debate" was never won.
The judges on that panel were prompted into action by an angry put-down of de Grey from a group of nine leading scientists who dismissed his work as "pseudo science."
They concluded that this label was not fair, arguing instead that SENS "exists in a middle ground of yet-to-be-tested ideas that some people may find intriguing but which others are free to doubt."
CELL THERAPY
For some, the prospect of living for hundreds of years is not particularly attractive, either, as it conjures up an image of generations of sick, weak old people and societies increasingly less able to cope.
But de Grey says that's not what he's working for. Keeping the killer diseases of old age at bay is the primary focus.
"This is absolutely not a matter of keeping people alive in a bad state of health," he told Reuters. "This is about preventing people from getting sick as a result of old age. The particular therapies that we are working on will only deliver long life as a side effect of delivering better health."
De Grey divides the damage caused by aging into seven main categories for which repair techniques need to be developed if his prediction for continual maintenance is to come true.
He notes that while for some categories, the science is still in its earliest stages, there are others where it's already almost there.
"Stem cell therapy is a big part of this. It's designed to reverse one type of damage, namely the loss of cells when cells die and are not automatically replaced, and it's already in clinical trials (in humans)," he said.
Stem cell therapies are currently being trialed in people with spinal cord injuries, and de Grey and others say they may one day be used to find ways to repair disease-damaged brains and hearts.
NO AGE LIMIT
Cardiovascular diseases are the world's biggest age-related killers and de Grey says there is a long way to go on these though researchers have figured out the path to follow.
Heart diseases that cause heart failure, heart attacks and strokes are brought about by the accumulation of certain types of what de Grey calls "molecular garbage" -- byproducts of the body's metabolic processes -- which our bodies are not able to break down or excrete.
"The garbage accumulates inside the cell, and eventually it gets in the way of the cell's workings," he said.
De Grey is working with colleagues in the United States to identify enzymes in other species that can break down the garbage and clean out the cells -- and the aim then is to devise genetic therapies to give this capability to humans.
"If we could do that in the case of certain modified forms of cholesterol which accumulate in cells of the artery wall, then we simply would not get cardiovascular disease," he said.
De Grey is reluctant to make firm predictions about how long people will be able to live in future, but he does say that with each major advance in longevity, scientists will buy more time to make yet more scientific progress.
In his view, this means that the first person who will live to 1,000 is likely to be born less than 20 years after the first person to reach 150.
"I call it longevity escape velocity -- where we have a sufficiently comprehensive panel of therapies to enable us to push back the ill health of old age faster than time is passing. And that way, we buy ourselves enough time to develop more therapies further as time goes on," he said.
"What we can actually predict in terms of how long people will live is absolutely nothing, because it will be determined by the risk of death from other causes like accidents," he said.
"But there really shouldn't be any limit imposed by how long ago you were born. The whole point of maintenance is that it works indefinitely."
Friday, July 1, 2011
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Friday, June 24, 2011
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Monday, June 13, 2011
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Funny Man Michael Jr. On SOS!
Christian comedian Michael Jr. (seen on the Tonight Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live...etc) was on with Gary & Amy Thursday afternoon to make you laugh! Listen here if you missed it!
Here's his website
Here's the interview:
MICHAEL JR ON SOS by gary-2
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Friday, May 27, 2011
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Monday, May 23, 2011
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Monday, May 9, 2011
Friday, May 6, 2011
Mom's Titles!
Got some requests for this cute piece about all the hats mom wears!
Enjoy!
Titles for Mom (Mothers Day Weekend) --mp3 by gary-2
Enjoy!
Titles for Mom (Mothers Day Weekend) --mp3 by gary-2
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
A prom Dress From Starburst Wrappers?
A Girl in Wisconson has created a prom dress out of Starburst Wrappers. It took her 6 years to make!
Friday, April 15, 2011
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Know Anyone Who's Had An Abortion?
Carol Everett Did. And she became wealthy selling abortions. Then God transformed her life. She's speaking on the 18th at Women's Resource Medical Center's yearly banquet. Hear the interview below.
WRMC INTERVIEW by gary-2
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
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