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A New Zealand Crop and Food Research geneticist has discovered a gene that controls sugar levels in onions,but can't guarantee to sweeten up onion breath.

What it could do is give growers the opportunity to develop better tasting and better storing onions.

Although its too early to assess how much the research was commercially, it was likely to boost New Zealand's $61.6 million in onion exports.

The new research is likely to be highly sought after by growers interested in consistent characteristics.

By controlling the sweetness level in onions, it may encourage more people to eat them raw; after all they are are packed full of nutrients.

The same gene could dictate storage time as well. The research which took 5 years to complete was funded by the Foundation for Research, Sciences and Technology, and involved collaboration with researchers in the US, Japan and the Netherlands.

Huttriver doesn't need any sweetening up - but you?

A Trali of death - acute lung injury fatalities - concern for world medical authorities.

A blood transfusion - related acute lung injury , called Trali, is a life threatening immune reaction following blood transfusions that have caused hundreds of deaths around the world each year.Healthcare workers often do not recognize the symptoms and experts claim the actual death rates to be higher.

While the cause is not apparently clear, it appears to affect primarily those people who have had previously been exposed to a variety of blood groups in the past...such as people who have had multiple transfusions.

One report claimed Trali is now one of the leading causes of blood transfusion- related deaths in the US and the UK - creating further problems for blood banks than high profile diseases such as HIV- Aids.

Recently I visited an Islamic website and found evidence of an official Church of Satan.Who are they and how are they connected with Islam?

I'll just discuss what I read, how I see any connection and leave it up to you to decide for yourselves.

There is an official Church of Satan.Followers of Satan, the fallen angel,existed long before Christ.Modern Satanists bear more resemblance to pagans and atheists than the baby mutilating goblins of popular yore.

Satanists did not exist as a modern religion before 1966 when Anton La Vey and associates organised a religion based on the principles expressed in the many stories of Satan,God's nemesis. In 1967 LaVey produced a book that has become known as th Satanic Bible, and the Church of Satan was born!

Modern Satanism is a broad term to describe all the sects of Satanism - many churches and philosophies all at odds with
themselves - The Church of Satan and The Temple of Set are apparently
the largest two of the main branches.

Their main beliefs are outlined in the Nine Satanic Statements from the Satanic Bible and the Eleven Rules of the Earth!

So much for the Satanists themselves.The combined teachings of Jesus Christ and the prophet Muhammed dispel these Satanic rules!

Lets look at a few comments from Islam to get some idea of where they come from?

Holy Qur'ran 16:126
" And if you take your turn, retaliate with the like of that with which you were afflicted:But if you endure patiently, verily itis better for the patient."

However, this supercedes the code of Satan which promotes a merciless vengeance, while Islam teaches to only attack with the same amount you were attacked with, for example, you don't kill somebody for scratching your hand.

Kindness and Vengeance do not mix,only if you are kind to yourself; because everyone who intentially or unintentionally wrongs you, so Satan is advocating revenge on everybody while Islam completed the teachings of Jesus by clarifying that when you are being attacked,it is best to have patience and forgiveness against the attack, but then if the attack continues, then you're given permission to retaliate only with the equal amount of force that was used.

It may be a little difficult to understand but I believe it says if you are attacked, have a little patience because the attack may stop; if it doesn't you can defend yourself to the degree suffered.

Of course we all know that Jesus said,turn the other cheek!

It is the Satanists who advocate and demand vengeance, and that is the attitude and policies of the fundamentalist Muslims, who are responsible for the call to Jihad and the encouragement of suicide bombings in recent times! Just what credibility can Islam maintain if they do no publicly rebuke these fundamentalists who defile the teachings of the prophet,Muhammed and Islam! Islam's jihad with Islam!

Well there we are and now it's up to you to make up your own minds about the contents of this posting? Have a happy day! Tomorrow is the first day of the rest of your life!

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Controversy is my middle name. It can be fun to learn the truth.I hope one of our members,Ahmed, reads this post some time. He thinks Islam is innocent! I'm beginning to wonder about the real Islam?

A Satanist claims its a benign religion.Really?

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There may still not be a cancer cure - but hopes are raised for a new generation of cancer treatments.

A new trial in the US has provided the first direct evidence that normal immune system cells can actually be altered in such a way to become tumour-hunters - raising hopes for a new generation of cancer treatments.

Two men who were apparently dying of the most viralent form of skin - melanoma, have been saved after their white blood cells were genetically engineered to fight their tumours.

Although the new treatment has been tried on the most viralent form of skin cancer - malignant melanoma which kills over two hundred people a year in New Zealand alone, scientists are convinced that it should eventually work on other tumours in the breast,lung and liver.

At the US National Cancer Institute a team has reportedly tailored human white cells to recognize and destroy other cancers in the lab - the researchers said it wouldn't yet work on every patient, and wasn't a silver bullet cure - but it was a promising breakthrough!

During tests on 17 melanoma patients who received tailored cells, only two responded effectively - but these two cases proved the principle that adapted cells can survive and shrink tumours.

This was the first time that gene manipulations have been shown to regress tumours in humans.It clearly was just the first step, but caution suggested that hopes should not be raised too much - it is however an exciting prospect and proved that this type of approach could be successful in the long term.

The two patients who are now apparently cured and originally had advanced skin cancer, had not been helped by standard therapies; they had also been given 3-6 mths to live.The tumours disappeared and they have now been completely disease free 18 mths later. Scientists have not yet given a longterm prognosis for the two men, although one was pronounced completely free of cancer when last examined.Time will tell!