Hand Scanning for FECAL MATTER on FOOD HANDLERS' hands!
(THIS ONE is not a bad idea! (in and of itself)--"Cheyenne Cin")
From: WC Douglass reala@...> Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 Subject: Hand scanning
Daily Dose
June 1, 2004
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June 1, 2004
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Washing your hands of food poisoning
I'm not for anything that smacks of "Big Brother" meddling
in our daily lives...
But I'll say this, too: If there were some high-tech way to
make sure people wash their hands EVERY TIME after using the
bathroom, I'd give it my vote in a heartbeat.
Why? Because the widespread failure to execute this one
simple staple of good hygiene results in the spread of
infectious disease more often than just about anything short
of biological warfare. In fact, research shows that a
leading cause of food poisoning in the U.S. is residual
fecal matter on the hands of restaurant employees who forget
to scrub after, well... you know. Tens of millions get sick
every year for this reason alone.
Unpleasant to think about, yes, but true nonetheless.
And here's what's really mind-numbing about that factoid:
Restaurant employees are often required BY LAW to wash up
after using the bathroom, and there's usually a sign posted
to tell them so. If these people still aren't washing with
enough regularity or thoroughness to stop from causing
millions of cases of food poisoning, think of how widespread
non-washing must be among the general populace - who aren't
confronted with a big, red warning sign on the bathroom door
reminding them to wash up.
But in the near future, there may be a solution to this
unsanitary dilemma. According to a recent Associated Press
story, a company that designs and markets blue-light
scanners to the meat industry for contamination control at
packing and handling plants may soon market a compact
version of the device designed to detect even minute amounts
of fecal matter on human hands.
If the restaurant industry - not to mention nursing homes,
hospitals, day-care centers, etc. - were to embrace this
technology en masse (or be required by legislation to do
so), the problem as we know it might nearly be eradicated...
Now, if we could just link these units up to the door
latches in public restrooms, we'd be onto something. Think
about it: If people couldn't leave the lavatory until they'd
scrubbed and scanned their hands, they'd do it every time.
What choice would they have?
Obviously, I like the idea of this kind of technology.
Unless, of course, it gets adopted for all the wrong
reasons - like if some paternalistic government agency
starts using it to sniff out cigarette smokers...
It could happen.
I'm not for anything that smacks of "Big Brother" meddling
in our daily lives...
But I'll say this, too: If there were some high-tech way to
make sure people wash their hands EVERY TIME after using the
bathroom, I'd give it my vote in a heartbeat.
Why? Because the widespread failure to execute this one
simple staple of good hygiene results in the spread of
infectious disease more often than just about anything short
of biological warfare. In fact, research shows that a
leading cause of food poisoning in the U.S. is residual
fecal matter on the hands of restaurant employees who forget
to scrub after, well... you know. Tens of millions get sick
every year for this reason alone.
Unpleasant to think about, yes, but true nonetheless.
And here's what's really mind-numbing about that factoid:
Restaurant employees are often required BY LAW to wash up
after using the bathroom, and there's usually a sign posted
to tell them so. If these people still aren't washing with
enough regularity or thoroughness to stop from causing
millions of cases of food poisoning, think of how widespread
non-washing must be among the general populace - who aren't
confronted with a big, red warning sign on the bathroom door
reminding them to wash up.
But in the near future, there may be a solution to this
unsanitary dilemma. According to a recent Associated Press
story, a company that designs and markets blue-light
scanners to the meat industry for contamination control at
packing and handling plants may soon market a compact
version of the device designed to detect even minute amounts
of fecal matter on human hands.
If the restaurant industry - not to mention nursing homes,
hospitals, day-care centers, etc. - were to embrace this
technology en masse (or be required by legislation to do
so), the problem as we know it might nearly be eradicated...
Now, if we could just link these units up to the door
latches in public restrooms, we'd be onto something. Think
about it: If people couldn't leave the lavatory until they'd
scrubbed and scanned their hands, they'd do it every time.
What choice would they have?
Obviously, I like the idea of this kind of technology.
Unless, of course, it gets adopted for all the wrong
reasons - like if some paternalistic government agency
starts using it to sniff out cigarette smokers...
It could happen.
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Killing killer bugs - with killer bugs? (That end up killing humans?)
It's almost summertime, and it's once again time for the
policy-makers and do-gooders to grapple with what has shaped
up to be a question for the ages: To spray, or not to spray -
with pesticides, I mean.
But this time, the stakes are higher than just damaged crops
or de-foliated oak trees.
In the last few years, a species of caterpillar that's
potentially DEADLY to humans has begun to spread rapidly
beyond its few isolated pockets in and around New England.
Called the browntail moth, this creeping critter closely
resembles the gypsy moth and has caused the deaths of at
least two researchers. Merely touching the little bugger
causes skin welts and severe rashes, along with debilitating
respiratory attacks in some cases.
Yet instead of breaking out the ultimate weapon against
these killer 'pillars (pesticides like harmless and
effective DDT), the environMENTAL wackos have instead
developed what could only be considered a huge question
mark - an ecological experiment the risks and long-term
effects of which are completely unknown.
They've created a VIRUS that infects and kills only the
browntail moth. They hope.
Preliminary trials of this killer "bug" show promise at
killing the bugs. But what's not known is whether the birds
that eat the moths, the cats that eat the birds, the
children the cats scratch, and the parents the kids kiss are
vulnerable to this virus as well. Seems they didn't bother
to study this before unleashing their "frankenvirus" into
the ecosystem.
My point is this: Is it realistic to believe that test-tube
terrors like this one WON'T come back to haunt (or hunt) us
in the future? You can't test everything, you know...
Why can't we just break out the DDT and be done with it?
Washing my hands of the pesticide pessimism,
William Campbell Douglass II, MD
Killing killer bugs - with killer bugs? (That end up killing humans?)
It's almost summertime, and it's once again time for the
policy-makers and do-gooders to grapple with what has shaped
up to be a question for the ages: To spray, or not to spray -
with pesticides, I mean.
But this time, the stakes are higher than just damaged crops
or de-foliated oak trees.
In the last few years, a species of caterpillar that's
potentially DEADLY to humans has begun to spread rapidly
beyond its few isolated pockets in and around New England.
Called the browntail moth, this creeping critter closely
resembles the gypsy moth and has caused the deaths of at
least two researchers. Merely touching the little bugger
causes skin welts and severe rashes, along with debilitating
respiratory attacks in some cases.
Yet instead of breaking out the ultimate weapon against
these killer 'pillars (pesticides like harmless and
effective DDT), the environMENTAL wackos have instead
developed what could only be considered a huge question
mark - an ecological experiment the risks and long-term
effects of which are completely unknown.
They've created a VIRUS that infects and kills only the
browntail moth. They hope.
Preliminary trials of this killer "bug" show promise at
killing the bugs. But what's not known is whether the birds
that eat the moths, the cats that eat the birds, the
children the cats scratch, and the parents the kids kiss are
vulnerable to this virus as well. Seems they didn't bother
to study this before unleashing their "frankenvirus" into
the ecosystem.
My point is this: Is it realistic to believe that test-tube
terrors like this one WON'T come back to haunt (or hunt) us
in the future? You can't test everything, you know...
Why can't we just break out the DDT and be done with it?
Washing my hands of the pesticide pessimism,
William Campbell Douglass II, MD
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Jesus' Sacrifice For You
Long before Jesus ever died on a cross, He made a tremendous
sacrifice for you. Most have heard how Jesus died on a cross and how
His death pays the penalty for our sins, but did you know that long
before He breathed the last breath before His death, He gave up who
He was for you and me?
John 1 tells us that "in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was
with God, and the Word was God… and the Word became flesh and dwelt
among us" (verses 1, 14). The Word who was with God and who was God
is the One we know as Jesus the Christ. He is the One who made all
things and nothing was made without Him (John 1:3). He is the One
who created all things "that are in heaven and that are on earth,
visible and invisible" (Colossians 1:16). He is the One who is
before all things and who makes all things consist (Colossians 1:17).
The life of Jesus started well before He was known as the man Jesus
on the earth. He was the One who spoke to Moses in the burning bush
and said, "I AM that I AM". He declared Himself as this same I AM
when He said, "Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I
AM" (John 8:58). I Corinthians 10 tells us that the Spiritual Rock
that followed the Israelites in the desert when they wandered was the
same Christ (I Corinthians 10:1-4).
Long before Jesus died He made a great sacrifice for us; He gave up
who He was as God with all His power and might. Philippians 2:5-8
tell us,
Jesus, who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery [or
something to be held onto] to be equal with God, but made Himself of
no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the
likeness of men. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled
Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of
the cross.
Jesus loves you so much that He was willing to give up all His power
and reputation as God to come in the form of a servant and to be
clothed with flesh as a man, just like you and me. He made himself
like a part of His own creation. He humbled himself to become like
us for the purpose of giving us eternal life. He gave up His eternal
life so that we could have it. He gave up being with God so that we
could live with God forever.
Imagine that the Word, now God in the flesh, Emanuel, Jesus, was for
the first time in his life separated from the Father by flesh. He
was no longer in the Spirit dwelling with God the Father, but He was
on earth where He had to eat and sleep, where He felt pain and got
tired, where he could be injured and die. Jesus made a tremendous
sacrifice to simply become a man.
It was in this part of His great sacrifice that Jesus was made
perfect or complete, being identified with the sufferings of mankind
(Hebrews 2:9-18; 4:14-16). He is now able to minister on our behalf
in Heaven with understanding and compassion because He lived in the
flesh as a man and was tempted by sins as a man is. Jesus made
Himself like us so that He could better serve us.
Having the power of God and having made this creation, including all
of us, Jesus made Himself a servant of His own creation. Think of
the sacrifice of that alone. You make something. It doesn't do what
you tell it to do. It hurts itself and suffers as a result. You
made it to share life and love and happiness with it, but it wants no
part of it. It turns its back on you and doesn't love you even
though you gave it life and give it all kinds of gifts to support its
life. But instead of destroying it, you decide to become a part of
it. Then you don't make yourself like Superman; you make yourself an
ordinary human being. You're not the best looking or the strongest,
just a regular guy. As a man you teach the truth about life and why
mankind is alive and what we should do to please our Creator and to
make a world that lives at peace. You get mocked and threatened and
then finally whipped, beaten and killed for what you said. And you
did it all knowing that this was what your own creation would do to
you. They wouldn't love you; they would kill you. Would you do it?
Jesus loves you so much that He did this. How can you keep yourself
from loving Him for what He has done for you? No one has given more
to you than Jesus and God the Father. No one cares for you more, no
one wants to give you more, no one wants you to succeed more than
they do. How blessed are you that God loves you so much? God
humbled Himself to become a man like you and to die for you so that
you could know the joy of living an abundant eternal life not in the
flesh, but in the spirit, not in the midst of sin but in the kingdom
where every tear will be wiped away and there will be no more pain or
sorrow or death (Revelation 21).
Jesus became the perfect sacrifice to pay for your sins. He
accomplished many purposes in His coming and the first was to learn
what it was like to be human. He was human without sinning. He
became a living sacrifice for mankind. Then he became an offering
for all sin when He had the sins of mankind laid on Him through a
terrible beating (Isaiah 53). And finally, He was put to death on
the cross, paying the death penalty for sin.
The offer of Christ's sacrifice to you is this: Jesus says, let Me
take your sins for you and I will give you my righteousness. That is
a deal you can't pass up. Make Jesus the Savior of your life. Allow
him to take all your sins and impute to you His own righteousness
(Romans 4:5-8). Make Him the Lord of your life. Follow His
teachings and live by His ways so that your life can be a blessing
both to God and to others. Only when all who live turn and live
God's way will there be peace and righteousness, goodness and mercy,
prosperity and blessing for every member of society. God wants you
to be a part of His family. Jesus gave it all up for you. Accept
His offer. You're won't find a better one your whole life.
- Written by David Liesenfelt Copyright © 2004
http://www.abundantliving.org/Articles/jesussacrifice.htm
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Why Did Jesus Have to Suffer?
Long before Jesus ever died on a cross, He made a tremendous
sacrifice for you. Most have heard how Jesus died on a cross and how
His death pays the penalty for our sins, but did you know that long
before He breathed the last breath before His death, He gave up who
He was for you and me?
John 1 tells us that "in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was
with God, and the Word was God… and the Word became flesh and dwelt
among us" (verses 1, 14). The Word who was with God and who was God
is the One we know as Jesus the Christ. He is the One who made all
things and nothing was made without Him (John 1:3). He is the One
who created all things "that are in heaven and that are on earth,
visible and invisible" (Colossians 1:16). He is the One who is
before all things and who makes all things consist (Colossians 1:17).
The life of Jesus started well before He was known as the man Jesus
on the earth. He was the One who spoke to Moses in the burning bush
and said, "I AM that I AM". He declared Himself as this same I AM
when He said, "Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I
AM" (John 8:58). I Corinthians 10 tells us that the Spiritual Rock
that followed the Israelites in the desert when they wandered was the
same Christ (I Corinthians 10:1-4).
Long before Jesus died He made a great sacrifice for us; He gave up
who He was as God with all His power and might. Philippians 2:5-8
tell us,
Jesus, who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery [or
something to be held onto] to be equal with God, but made Himself of
no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the
likeness of men. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled
Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of
the cross.
Jesus loves you so much that He was willing to give up all His power
and reputation as God to come in the form of a servant and to be
clothed with flesh as a man, just like you and me. He made himself
like a part of His own creation. He humbled himself to become like
us for the purpose of giving us eternal life. He gave up His eternal
life so that we could have it. He gave up being with God so that we
could live with God forever.
Imagine that the Word, now God in the flesh, Emanuel, Jesus, was for
the first time in his life separated from the Father by flesh. He
was no longer in the Spirit dwelling with God the Father, but He was
on earth where He had to eat and sleep, where He felt pain and got
tired, where he could be injured and die. Jesus made a tremendous
sacrifice to simply become a man.
It was in this part of His great sacrifice that Jesus was made
perfect or complete, being identified with the sufferings of mankind
(Hebrews 2:9-18; 4:14-16). He is now able to minister on our behalf
in Heaven with understanding and compassion because He lived in the
flesh as a man and was tempted by sins as a man is. Jesus made
Himself like us so that He could better serve us.
Having the power of God and having made this creation, including all
of us, Jesus made Himself a servant of His own creation. Think of
the sacrifice of that alone. You make something. It doesn't do what
you tell it to do. It hurts itself and suffers as a result. You
made it to share life and love and happiness with it, but it wants no
part of it. It turns its back on you and doesn't love you even
though you gave it life and give it all kinds of gifts to support its
life. But instead of destroying it, you decide to become a part of
it. Then you don't make yourself like Superman; you make yourself an
ordinary human being. You're not the best looking or the strongest,
just a regular guy. As a man you teach the truth about life and why
mankind is alive and what we should do to please our Creator and to
make a world that lives at peace. You get mocked and threatened and
then finally whipped, beaten and killed for what you said. And you
did it all knowing that this was what your own creation would do to
you. They wouldn't love you; they would kill you. Would you do it?
Jesus loves you so much that He did this. How can you keep yourself
from loving Him for what He has done for you? No one has given more
to you than Jesus and God the Father. No one cares for you more, no
one wants to give you more, no one wants you to succeed more than
they do. How blessed are you that God loves you so much? God
humbled Himself to become a man like you and to die for you so that
you could know the joy of living an abundant eternal life not in the
flesh, but in the spirit, not in the midst of sin but in the kingdom
where every tear will be wiped away and there will be no more pain or
sorrow or death (Revelation 21).
Jesus became the perfect sacrifice to pay for your sins. He
accomplished many purposes in His coming and the first was to learn
what it was like to be human. He was human without sinning. He
became a living sacrifice for mankind. Then he became an offering
for all sin when He had the sins of mankind laid on Him through a
terrible beating (Isaiah 53). And finally, He was put to death on
the cross, paying the death penalty for sin.
The offer of Christ's sacrifice to you is this: Jesus says, let Me
take your sins for you and I will give you my righteousness. That is
a deal you can't pass up. Make Jesus the Savior of your life. Allow
him to take all your sins and impute to you His own righteousness
(Romans 4:5-8). Make Him the Lord of your life. Follow His
teachings and live by His ways so that your life can be a blessing
both to God and to others. Only when all who live turn and live
God's way will there be peace and righteousness, goodness and mercy,
prosperity and blessing for every member of society. God wants you
to be a part of His family. Jesus gave it all up for you. Accept
His offer. You're won't find a better one your whole life.
- Written by David Liesenfelt Copyright © 2004
http://www.abundantliving.org/Articles/jesussacrifice.htm
======
Why Did Jesus Have to Suffer?
Looking at the final hours of Jesus' life before His crucifixion and
death, we see the utter brutality and violence of man. It raises the
question, why did Jesus have to suffer? Why would God allow His Son
to be beaten and tortured so viciously before His death? Why not
just let Him die peacefully; why not make it quick with a beheading
or a stone thrown to the temple? Why not make it easy?
It is through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ that we really begin to
comprehend the magnitude of both sin in our lives and God's love for
us. Jesus was sent to live as a perfect human being, apart from
sin. Yet He was born with sinful flesh, subject to the pulls and
temptations common to all of us. Though He was tried and tempted in
all points, He did not sin (Hebrews 4:15).
If Jesus was sent just to prove you could live a sinless life in the
flesh, He would have accomplished His goal. He could have just
suffered some painless death and been given eternal life. However,
it was eternal life that He gave up so that He could give eternal
life to people like you and me.
God the Father laid our sins upon Jesus through the beating he
suffered (Isaiah 53). In Israel, the practice of sacrificing
innocent animals for one's sins was part of the law. When a person
acknowledged his sin or trespass, he would bring a clean animal such
as a lamb, bull or goat to be sacrificed on his behalf (Leviticus 4-
5). However, before offering the animal, the person would lay his
hands on it and confess his sins, laying his sins upon the animal so
that it could serve as a sacrifice to pay for his sins.
In the sacrifice of Jesus, men were not coming to confess their
sins. Rather, sinners were laying their sins upon Jesus by whipping,
beating, bruising and piercing His body. God's truly unsearchable
love for us is revealed in that Jesus' was willing, and God the
Father was willing, to allow our sins to be laid upon Him. The Bible
prophesied this event throughout the Old Testament. One account in
Isaiah records,
"Surely He has borne our sicknesses and carried our pains; yet we
esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But He was
pierced through for our transgressions, He was bruised for our
iniquities; the chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by His
stripes [blows that cut into His flesh] we are healed. All we like
sheep have gone astray; we have turned, every one, to his own way;
and the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all" (Isaiah 53:4-6).
The punches, the beating, the thorns in the head, the mocking, the
spitting upon, the whipping and scourging, the rejection, the cries
for His death and all the horror of His final hours were necessary to
lay upon Him all our sins. We see in this the violence of our own
sins upon the life of one who was innocent.
It is easy to see the violence of sins such as murder or rape. But
the violence is just as real when it comes to the dishonoring God or
our parents, lying, stealing, cheating, committing adultery or any
other number of sins we commit in our lives. Sin reeks violence upon
the innocent. It always will and always does. The violence may not
always be seen in the body, but it decimates the heart, spirit, mind,
character and emotions of people just the same. The beating and
scourging of Jesus Christ represents the true nature and violence of
all our sins.
Amazingly, not only do we see the true, violent nature of our sins
through the torturing of Jesus, we see the amazing love of God in His
willingness to bear our sins. Though He was completely innocent and
faithful to God and though He deserved no punishment, Jesus took the
violence of our own sins upon Himself. As the Apostle Paul
writes, "Scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a
good man someone would even dare to die. But God demonstrates His
own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died
for us" (Romans 5:7-8).
Jesus was beaten to take our sins upon Himself. With every stroke of
violence that was laid upon Him there is a reminder to us of the
violent nature of our sin. And with every stroke of violence there
remains a constant reminder of His unfailing love for us. By bearing
our sins, He made it possible for us to be free from sin, guilt,
shame and fear. By taking upon Himself the violence of our sins, He
freed us from the effects of sin which ultimately result in death
(Romans 6:23).
Sacrifice comes with a price; it is never easy. Bearing our sins
came with a terrible price. Yet knowing that "information" is not
enough. God sent His Son to die for us so that we could know real
life, abundant life, eternal life. Let us not waste such an effort,
such an utter sacrifice made on our behalf and for our own good.
Jesus laid down His life and endured the cross for the joy set before
Him of having you live a better life. He died so that you could grow
and prosper and become the person that God made you to be, free from
fear and ungodliness and immersed in righteousness and goodness.
Why did Jesus have to suffer? He had to suffer to make you whole.
He had to be broken down so you could be built up. He had to be
slain so you could have eternal life. He took upon Himself all the
devastating effects of sin with all its violence so that you could
know the peace of forgiveness and the joy of salvation. His
sacrifice for you is proof of how truly valuable you are to Him. It
is a testimony to how much your Creator and your God really cares
about you. Embrace the gift of eternal life, know the healing and
righteousness, the joy and peace found only in Him. He suffered all
just for you.
- Written by David Liesenfelt Copyright © 2004
http://www.abundantliving.org/Articles/jesussuffer.htm
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