Suicidal man removed from Walkway after spending night on the span
August 16, 2023
2:53 pm


The Washington Street stairs were taped off while police negotiated with the subject.
POUGHKEEPSIE – An emotionally disturbed man who was stopped from committing suicide by jumping from the Walkway Over the Hudson in July was stopped again on Wednesday. Poughkeepsie city police and firefighters responded to the Walkway on Tuesday night at approximately 8 p.m. for a man threatening suicide. Emergency personnel stayed with the subject throughout the night because he refused to surrender. The incident continued for much of Wednesday.

The Walkway was closed down while first responders attempted to negotiate with the man, who was located on the Walkway, immediately west of Washington Street. It is the same location, above the businesses on Washington Street that the man was rescued from during his last attempt. The same person previously stopped rush hour traffic on the Mid-Hudson Bridge in June, when he threatened to jump to his death and was thwarted by City of Poughkeepsie Police.

According to Police Captain Rich Wilson, negotiators spent all night Tuesday and much of the day on Wednesday negotiating with the man who was threatening to jump approximately 30 feet to the ground below. “Our trained negotiators used several different techniques which finally resulted in the subject surrendering, but he was combative and needed to be restrained.”He surrendered to police just before 2 p.m. on Wednesday, August 16, Wilson said.

The man was transported to a local hospital for evaluation and possible treatment.

?? so he was not evaluated and aided after the first attempt? Well done, gentlemen.

Gene-edited pig kidney transplanted into brain-dead patient 1 month ago is still functioning, doctors say
Doctors say it could lead to more animal-human transplants in the future.

ByMary Kekatos
August 16, 2023, 3:35 PM





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Pig kidney works in a donated body for over a month, doctors said

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Doctors at NYU Langone in New York City announced Wednesday that they have successfully transplanted a genetically engineered pig kidney into a human who was declared brain dead, in what they called "a landmark step forward."

A surgical team removed the kidneys of the human recipient in July 2023 and transplanted the pig kidney, as well as the thymus. Before the transplant, the pig kidney was modified to remove alpha-gal, a sugar molecule on the surface of pig cells that triggers a rare allergy to red meat, as well as organ rejection.

Dr. Robert Montgomery, a professor and chair of the department of surgery at NYU Langone Health and director of the NYU Langone Transplant Institute, said the recipient's kidney has functioned properly for a month and that its function will be monitored for a total of two months.

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"The one-month kidney biopsies and kidney tests show no evidence of rejection, and normal renal function," Dr. Montgomery said during Wednesday's press conference. "The pig kidney appears to replace all of the important tasks that the human kidney manages."

Dr. Adam Griesemer, a transplant surgeon at NYU Langone Health, explained during the press conference that the thymus was also transplanted, embedded beneath the kidney's outer layer, because it has been shown to help protect the transplanted kidney from being attacked by the human immune system.

PHOTO: Maurice Miller, who was declared brain-dead, had a genetically-engineered pig kidney transplanted into him. His kidney function continued for a month and will be monitored for two months.
Maurice Miller, who was declared brain-dead, had a genetically-engineered pig kidney transplanted into him. His kidney function continued for a month and will be monitored for two months.
Courtesy of The Miller Family
"The thymus gland is the tissue in our neck and chest where our immune system matures and where it learns to recognize the proteins in our body and learns to reject proteins that are not part of our own body," Dr. Griesemer explained. "So, transplanting the thymus from the pig allows new developing cells in the recipient's body to learn to recognize the pig antigens as their own, and it can potentially lead to a decreased immune response and decreased risk of rejection."

The transplant recipient was 57-year-old Maurice Miller. His sister, Mary Miller-Duff, expressed pride in her brother being involved in the historic transplant.

"Mo, as I like to call him, was a kind, giving brother who loved life, and always lent a helping hand," Miller-Duff said at the press conference. "It is only fitting that in his final act, he will be helping so many in the need through this innovative medical advancement."

Miller-Duff said her brother came home from work one day with a headache and feeling as if he had vertigo. His partner later found him passed out in the bathroom.

Scans revealed Miller had an eight-centimeter-wide tumor on the right side of his brain. Doctors performed a biopsy, but Miller didn't wake up after the procedure.

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"So, the doctors did a head scan and they found that there was bleeding on the brain and that's why he wasn't waking up," Miller-Duff said. "They went in to try to relieve that, but he just didn't wake up."

Tests revealed that the tumor was a glioblastoma, one of the most aggressive forms of brain cancer.

PHOTO: Dr. Jeffrey Stern, left, and Dr. Robert Montgomery prepare to implant a genetically engineered pig kidney into the recipient's abdomen.
Dr. Jeffrey Stern, left, and Dr. Robert Montgomery prepare to implant a genetically engineered pig kidney into the recipient's abdomen.
Joe Carrotta/NYU Langone Health
The pig-to-human transplant is a hopeful sign that xenotransplantation – the process of transplanting non-human cells and organs into humans – may be viable after years of failures.

Last year, the University of Maryland School of Medicine transplanted a genetically modified pig heart into a 57-year-old man who was experiencing end-stage heart failure and did not qualify for a traditional transplant. Two months later, the organ failed suddenly, and the recipient passed away.

Dr. Montgomery said concerns about potential infection of the pig heart in the University of Maryland case, which may have contributed to the transplant's ultimate failure, was mitigated for the current transplant with a new test that he said "is much more sensitive at detecting viruses that aren't present in the blood that that are more difficult to detect."

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has not allowed living human xenotransplantation clinical trials due to the risk of transmission of viruses, but Montgomery said he hopes that fact that Miller has not developed any infections helps the agency reconsider their current policy.

In a separate procedure, a team at the University of Alabama at Birmingham published a study Wednesday that found two gene-edited pig kidneys functioned for seven days in a brain-dead recipient, compared to the 60 days in the NYU Langone recipient, while using "current standard-of-care immunosuppression drugs," according to the university.

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You know if u go to those so called conspiracy sites, many of us read that this was a goal being worked on. they are saying victim decedent has a bloot clot/brain injury and would have awoken but for that.

And it is one reason they really want some to die. They wanted to use their organs for their gruesome research. it is worse than faux ci on crack.

my car insurance company just notified me that LE is checking people for proof they have insured their vehicle during these hard times.

u can download proof or have it sent via US mail to your home.

My houseshare drives my car. He knows I take care of all this. He would not freak out. But God help me if i put braces on my legs to be sure i can walk without a cane. to run to a store. and a cop wants proof i paid insurance.

Man, i would freak out cuz no i don't download crap to my cell phone. don't trust them.

But i would be freaked out. I have never been stopped by LE nor been in trouble with LE. Still, with my health or lack thereof I am a nervous nellie. Being nervous would make LE think i have done wrong.

I don't have my attorney card as my eldest sister stole that the day it was delivered. She played an attorney with a famous woman lawyer in my area. Using my name.

So, Geico has warned me that LE is checking vehicles by stopping cars to see if you can produce proof of being insured.

If you can downoad the proof to your phone do it. Fast

I shall await the mail. It must be treacherous out there for LE to be doing this now. sighs. *I aint got no problems with LE. They were my uncles. And i was engaged to LE guy in Scarsdale during law school.


But make sure u can produce evidence of having your car insured.

a glorious book from my youth.

disclaimer: this is from the news. I have never read 1984 nor would i do so now. I have an entire Bible awaiting me. So please don't ask me questions about this Book. Yes, I loved reading but in my years of college and then law school, I was never drawn to that book. Methinks I was an optimist!



I just reread George Orwell's '1984' and the novel is scarier than ever
If novelist George Orwell were alive today I wonder what he would tell us


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I told you so.

That’s what George Orwell would say if he could visit our world, 75 years after he wrote his final novel, "1984."

Orwell sought to demonstrate the dangers not just of totalitarianism but of a world where words lose their meaning. Many of the terms he coined for the novel have since entered common discourse -- "thought police," "Big Brother," "doublethink," and the "memory hole," to name a few. And of course the adjective "Orwellian" comes to us because of this book. All of them point to the loss of our most precious freedom -- freedom of thought. And unfortunately, that’s where we as a society appear to be headed today.

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The setting for "1984" is a dysfunctional, decaying London torn apart after the "atomic wars" of the 1950s and 1960s reshaped the planet into just three primary nation-states. Oceania (London and the West) remains in a permanent state of war, sometimes with Eastasia, sometimes with Eurasia. It doesn’t really matter, as long as there’s an external enemy to hate.

Author George Orwell
"1984" author George Orwell (ullstein bild via Getty Images)

War is a constant in the novel, although the enemy changes at the whim of the rulers. Same thing in our world. During the 1980s, we armed the Mujahadeen to weaken the Soviet Union and turn Afghanistan into Moscow’s Vietnam. Then came 9/11, and the "freedom fighters" who had helped topple Communism were now our enemy. In the West, everyone applauded the switch without a second thought. Orwell was right -- as long as we’re at war somewhere, the citizenry doesn’t seem to mind. We even like it!

Today’s version of Big Brother, of course, propagated and strengthened by social media, is cancel culture.

Even the name Department of Defense sounds like something out of "1984." Formerly the more accurately named Department of War, the DoD received its new title in 1949, just a year after the publication of "1984." What exactly we were "defending" for two decades in Afghanistan is anyone’s guess, aside from possibly the stock prices of Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, and Halliburton.

Winston Smith, the reluctant hero of "1984," has a job rewriting newspaper articles and editorials after their subjects have been tortured and killed by the government. Then every trace of them in print disappears, courtesy of the efforts of Smith and his co-workers.

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Today’s version of Big Brother, of course, propagated and strengthened by social media, is cancel culture. Say or do the wrong thing at work, on campus, or online just once and you risk being erased, losing your job, and disappearing down the memory hole, just like Smith’s ill-fated colleagues in "1984." Orwell would have recognized cancel culture for what it was -- a tyranny of thought. He probably would have fallen victim to it himself for protesting against it.

The first step toward totalitarianism is allowing other people to think for us or to redefine words so that their real meanings are lost. If we aren’t careful, freedom itself, as Orwell would have said, will slide right down the memory hole.

In the novel, Big Brother’s regime has three main divisions -- the Ministry of Peace, which ironically wages the above-referenced constant war; the Ministry of Plenty, which oversees never-ending famine; and the Ministry of Love, which houses the government’s extensive torture apparatus. In Room 101 of the Ministry of Love, enemies of the state undergo torture individually crafted to break their spirits and make them love Big Brother.

Today, we don’t torture people (I hope). Instead, like Big Brother’s government, we torture the meaning of words, so that they mean whatever we want them to mean, in order to advance our own political agendas. Today, words mean something that was never part of their original definitions. But nobody complains.

Orwell saw that one coming, too.

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The regime in Orwell’s novel maintained its grip on society by manipulating emotions, with daily "Two Minute Hate" sessions and the occasional "Hate Week." Today, as our social media and Facebook feeds polarize us, we no longer "agree to disagree" as in the past. People on the other side of an argument aren’t just wrong; they’re evil. These days, we spend a lot more than two minutes hating others.

"Telescreens," ubiquitous in "1984," are two-way TV screens that monitor behavior and give orders to people, in their homes and offices, even during mandatory exercise sessions ("Bend down further, Smith! Touch your toes!"). Orwell might not have imagined the Internet, but these days, screens are everywhere. While the government may not be monitoring your behavior (although who knows?), advertisers certainly are. Big Brother may not be watching you, but Big Business is.


LILLE, FRANCE - NOVEMBER 21: Protestor holds a sign readin "Big brother is watching you" in reference to Orwell's book "1984" as they demonstrate at Republique Square of Lille in protest to the French Government's proposed global security law bill on November 21, 2020 in Lille, France. ((Photo by Sylvain Lefevre/Getty Images))

In the novel, Winston rents a bedroom without a telescreen where he trysts with a young woman, a member in name only of the "Anti-Sex League." Smith is ratted out when he foolishly assumes a colleague is a member of the (anti-Big Brother) Brotherhood. Smith is tortured and brainwashed into giving up his rebellious nature and his freedom of thought. Ultimately, to his everlasting shame, or at least to ours, he comes to love Big Brother.



Put it all together and today we have a society that’s...dare I say it...downright Orwellian. You and I may not consciously love Big Brother. But the first step toward totalitarianism is allowing other people to think for us or to redefine words so that their real meanings are lost.

If we aren’t careful, freedom itself, as Orwell would have said, will slide right down the memory hole. We won’t even remember what we meant when we used to say let freedom ring.

The people have been refusing to allow developers to take over hawaii for years. Now, they have no choice.

Rumor is that people were, in effect, vaporized in their beds. By a new fangled weapon.

My Lord, I pray this is not how they plan on dealing with all of us.

Thankfully NY is not high on demand now. they showed little skinny legs, all white, on the beach again. and OUr President said No Comment.

That is how communists work.

Hello. I am the Marmite Warrior.

It's been some time since my last post, still as a relative newbie on the site I think around Christmas last year. A lot happened in that time, someone besmirched the name of Marmite in a bar, I was forced to enact a 36 second period of pain based education to the offender, and before I knew it I was enjoying the hospitality of His Majesty. Still feels weird saying His instead of Her.

I had much time to reflect, much time to think upon being let back into the world. It honestly took me a while to even remember I had participated here, but remember I did. I'd be interested to hear how those who welcomed me initially last year are doing, Charon I've seen posts with updates, I do hope you are ok Sir, Ice Wizard you were kind to me on my initial posts.

Posted here as I consider myself starting again, as I am with so many other things.

What I can say coming back in to the madness is, I thought the world couldn't get any crazier, but it has.

But at least Yeast Extract is still just under average inflation.

This is the Marmite Warrior.

Signing Off.

ACLJ Life & Liberty Drive
EILEEN,

Biden has been secretly waging a war against Christians.

The FBI lied about the widespread targeting of what it called "radical traditionalist" Christians in churches. It's outrageous, but worse, it has empowered anti-Christian attacks nationwide.

A senior living center banned Bible studies. Students have had Bibles and even crosses ripped from their hands. A realtor was barred from saying, "Jesus loves you." A pastor was threatened by Biden's Secret Service for praying. And now Biden's FBI is spying on Christians, like you are "terrorists."

We are fighting every one of these battles, and we're filing in court in our lawsuit against Biden's FBI targeting of Christians in TWO DAYS.

But we face a major challenge. We're up against Biden's unlimited (taxpayer-funded) resources. Our Life & Liberty Drive is off to a great start, but we're going to need each of you to stand with us to defeat this avalanche against our Christian faith. Double your impact today.

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As we take on this devastating attack on our faith in court, we need you to take action NOW.

Sign Our Petition: Stop Biden's War on Christians.

Update: Biden's FBI Lied About Targeting Christians.

SHOCKING: Senior Center Bans Bible Studies.

Biden is working in the courts to expand abortion in devastating ways. In just two days, we'll be filing a major amicus brief in federal appeals court to stop him. We must defend life. We also just filed critical legal reports at the U.N. to defend the lives of unborn babies in several key countries. Take action with us.

Sign Petition: Defeat Abortion. Defend Babies Today.

Read: ACLJ Demands UN Defend Unborn Babies.

Biden is demanding social media companies censor your feeds. A judge blocked this clear constitutional violation, but Biden appealed. We just filed a critical amicus brief in federal appeals court this week to put an end to Biden's "Orwellian" attack on conservatives. This should outrage everyone.

Update: Demanding Court End Biden's Lawlessness.

Finally, our Life & Liberty Drive is off to a tremendous start, but we can only continue these battles with your support. Have your gift DOUBLED today.

God Bless,
The ACLJ Team

https://www.angel.com/watch/the-chosen

yes, it is about Jesus and his disciples. They have it in plain english and it is cool. A glorious way to see Our Savior. Laughing, playing. As He will be in Heaven when i get there.

Just saying. I watch it daily now that I find myself so sick.

*it helps me*