Thank you Leon Peek for sharing this story. This fight with the FDA over their approval process is not new and we must honor Kyle and so many others by picking up the battle where they left off. by Terry Frank – November 23, 1999 The painfully disturbing picture “The Scream” painted by Edvard Munch […]
By the time another kangaroo trial is over, 15,000 pALS will be dead. Conditional approval of GM6, giving supervised access to thousands of pALS is the only way the FDA and Genervon will know if GM6 is effective. People with ALS may not have voices but we deserve to be heard. In October 2014, biomedical
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Thank you to Pastor Tim Mech and the congregation at Trinity Lutheran Church in Sheboygan WI for inviting me and my family to lead a Bible study on the disciplines of discipleship as presented in Shells January 4th. Your hospitality and care were tremendous God’s grace and peace I leave you.
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ALS eventually will paralyze all vontary muscles as the nerves activating them die. When people with ALS become unable to speak or use their hands to write, our thoughts, songs, joys, concerns and needs are locked up within our perfectly normal minds. We are said to be in a shell.There are also ways of living
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Production on 2001: A Space Odyssey began in 1965 when Stanley Kubrick contacted author (and legitimate scientist) Arthur C. Clarke with the idea of collaborating to create “the proverbial good science fiction movie”. Using Clarke’s short story “The Sentinel” as a foundation, the idea was to release film and a novelization in tandem. The collaboration
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This is a movie that just makes me happy. We discovered it just last year and watched it over and over. It’s a movie that has been neglected for far too long, lost among the heavy hitters among Christmas movies like Miracle on 34th Street, It’s a Wonderful Life” and “White Christmas”.
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“Where are you supposed to be? was the first thing an angry policeman said to me, It was Homecoming weekend at Valparaiso University and some of the guys participating in an overseas study program decided to ditch our tour guide and play football in a park, using a hairbrush for a ball.“Where are you supposed
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Shells is a collection of short meditations. I hope it becomes a book you can come back to in times of need and quickly find something that resonates with you and brings light to the dark.
The Symphony emerged from the Baroque period as a grand form of composition suited for wealthy courts that could gather and afford to pay a large number and variety of musicians. It was developed and standardized during the classical period, particularly with Mozart, who wrote more than 40 symphonies, and Hayden, who wrote more than
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Shells has been some 5 years in the making, beginning with a “You should write a book” comment from my wife, Suzanne. I felt that was a good idea if for no other reason than to give my children a lasting resource to remember what kind of man their father was after my ALS ran its