听力 第一节(共5小题:每小题1.5分.满分7.5分) 请听下面5段对话.每段对话后有一个小题.从题中所给出的A.B.C三个选项最佳选项.听完每段对话后.你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题.每段对话读一遍. 例:How much is the shirt? A．￡19.15 B．￡9.15 C．￡9.18 答案是B. 1．Who is the woman 题目和参考答案——精英家教网——
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听力(共三节，满分30分)
第一节(共5小题：每小题1.5分，满分7.5分)
请听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给出的A、B、C三个选项最佳选项。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话读一遍。
例：How much is the shirt?
A．￡19.15
1．Who is the woman?
B．Mary’s sister
C．Mary’s friend
2．How much are the polatoes?
A．6 cents a pound．
B．16cents a pound．
C．60 cents a pound．
3．Where does the conversation most probably take place?
A．In a restaurant．
B．On a farm．
C．At home．
4．What does the woman ask the man to do ?
A．Have his hair cut．
B．Go to the library．
C．Buy some food．
5．What is the conversation mainly about?
A．Vacation plan
B．Summer trip
C．Part-time job
第二节(共12小题；每小题1.5分你，满分18分)
请听下面4段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。
6．Why did the woman go to a small town ?
A．To meet a neighbor
B．To visit her friends
C．To go horse-riding
7．What did the woman do on Saturday?
A．She went to a party
B．She went to a farm
C．She went to a concert
8．What are the two speakers mainly talking about?
A．An interesting party．
B．A beautiful farm．
C．A wonderful weekend．
请听第7段材料，回答第9至11题。
9．What are the two speakers mainly talking about?
A．The course of painting．
B．The meaning of a painting．
C．The color of a painting．
10．How does the man know much about painting?
A．He has taken painting courses．
B．He has worked for an artist．
C．He has learned it from his father．
11．What does the man invite the woman to do?
A．Meet his father．
B．Have a cup of coffee．
C．Go to an exhibition．
请听第8段材料，回答第12至14题。
12．Why does the man call the woman?
A．To tell her about his doctor’s advice．
B．To discuss his health plan with her．
C．To ask for information about a health club．
13．What does the woman usually do in the club?
A．Dancing．
B．Playing tennis．
C．Swimming．
14．Where are the two speakers going to meet tonight?
A．In front of a health club．
B．In front of the woman’s house．
C．In front of a hospital．
请听第9段材料，回答第15至17题。
15．What was Einstein’s first job in Switzerland?
A．Teaching in a school．
B．Working for the government．
C．Doing research in a job．
16．When did Einstein move to the United States?
A．In 1905．
B．In 1933．
C．In 1955．
17．What is the talk mainly about?
A．Einstein ’s life experience
B．Einstein’s scienfic research
C．Einstein’s musical ability
第三节(共3小题；每小题1.5分，满分4.5分)
请听下面一段独白，用所听到的独白中的词或数填空，每空限填一个词或一个数。在听本段独白前，你将有时间阅读各小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。本段独白读两遍。
请听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。
答案：解析：
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科目：高中英语
来源：天利38套《2008全国各省市高考模拟试题汇编　精华大字版》、英语
听力理解(共三节，满分30分)
第一节　(共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分)
听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。每段对话仅读一遍。
1．Where do you think the talk probably takes place?
A．In a post office．
B．In a bookstore．
C．In a department store．
2．Whom did the man speak to?
A．Mrs Green．
B．Dr．Brown．
3．What's the name of the book?
A．A Tale of Two Cities．
B．My Twenties．
C．Our Cities．
4．What are they talking about?
A．A bout the examinations．
B．A bout English papers．
C．About mathematics questions．
5．What is the weather like in Greece?
A．It is rainy．
B．It's pleasant．
C．It's windy．
第二节　(共12小题；每小题1.5分，满分18分)
听下面4段对话。每段对话后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。每段对话读两遍。
听下面一段对话，回答第6和第7两个小题。
6．What does the teacher ask his students to call him?
A．James．
B．Mr．Black．
7．What does the man think about studying chemistry?
A．It's good to have a chemistry teacher．
B．It's important to watch carefully．
C．It's interesting to study chemistry．
听下面一段对话，回答第8至第10三个小题。
8．What is the mother going to do tomorrow?
A．To watch TV．
B．To plant trees．
C．To cut down some trees．
9．What does the mother want her son to know most of all?
A．Tree-planting Day is important to man．
B．Cutting down trees is necessary to man．
C．Trees are very important to man．
10．What do you think of the boy?
A．He likes to ask questions．
B．He enjoys planting trees．
C．He knows much about planting trees．
听下面一段对话，回答第11至第13三个小题。
11．How old is Mary's mother?
12．What will she receive for her birthday?
A．Some chocolate．
B．Some cakes．
C．Some flowers．
13．Who will cook the special dinner?
A．Mary's Chinese friend．
C．Mary's father．
听下面一段对话，回答第14至第17四个小题。
14．Why hasn't there port been typed?
A．The typewriter doesn't work．
B．Barbara is too busy．
C．Jane forgot it．
15．Who posted the letters?
A．Mr．Smith．
C．Barbara．
16．What's the relationship between the two speakers?
A．A boss and a secretary．
B．A teacher and a student．
C．A father and a daughter．
17．What is the man going to do this afternoon?
A．Have a meeting．
B．Meet Mr．Hunter．
C．Give a speech．
第三节　(共3小题；每小题1.5分，满分4.5分)
听下面一段材料，将第18至第20三个小题的信息补充完整，每小题不超过三个单词。本段材料读两遍。
Some Details of the Trip
Destinations：Dallas, Rouge, and Atlanta
Departure Time at Dallas：at 　　18　　 this afternoon
Arrival Time in Atlanta：at 1∶15 tomorrow morning
Dos：smoking of cigarettes in the last 　　19　　 drinking of water
Don't s：smoking of cigarettes in the front smoking of 　　20　　 drinking of wine
科目：高中英语
来源：北京市重点中学学年高二上学期期中考试英语试题
听力理解(共三节，满分20分)
第一节(共5小题；每小题1分，共5分)
听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一道小题，从每题所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听完每段对话后，你将有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话你将听一遍。
例：What is the man going to read?
A．A newspaper．
B．A magazine．
C．A book．
1．Where does the woman want to go?
A．To a hospital
B．To a bank．
C．To a hotel．
2．What does the man mean?
A．He will go to Mr．Black’s office after half past two．
B．He won't meet Mr．Black in his office today．
C．He just came back from Mr．Black’s office．
3．What does the man think of his performance?
A．Not so good．
C．Terrible．
4．How is the man feeling now?
A．Sleepy．
B．Angry．
C．Thirsty．
5．What’s the weather like today?
第二节(共10小题；每小题1分，共10分)
听下面4段对话。每段对话有几道小题，从每题所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听每段对话前，你将有5秒钟时间阅读每小题。听完后，每小题将给出5秒钟的做答时间。每段对话你将听两遍。
听第6段材料，回答第6至7题。
6．When will the speaker’s mother come back?
A．At 10∶00．
B．At 10∶30．
C．At 11∶00．
7．What gift does the woman want to receive?
A．An iPhone 4．
B．A camera．
C．A pair of shoes．
听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。
8．What do we know about Lucy?
A．She’s popular with others．
B．She doesn’t behave well．
C．She isn't very pretty．
9．What does Mary have to do tomorrow?
A．Finish her school paper．
B．Hand in her school paper．
C．Take an exam．
听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10．What did the man do yesterday?
A．He went downtown．
B．He bought books online．
C．He hung out with his friends．
11．What does the man think of the Chinese language?
B．Strange．
C．Difficult．
12．Why does the man’s nephew want to learn Chinese?
A．He is interested in it．
B．His parents ask him to do it．
C．He will study in China．
听第9段材料，回答第13至15题。
13．When does this class begin?
A．At 8∶00．
B．At 9∶00．
C．At 10∶00．
14．What happens if a student misses three classes?
A．He can make up for the classes at weekends．
B．He need pay more money for the classes．
C．He will be dropped from the classes．
15．Which of the following about safety is mentioned in the talk?
A．Keeping long hair tied back．
B．Wearing gloves before the class．
C．Changing shoes before the class．
第三节(共5小题；每小题1分，共5分)
听下面一段独白，完成第16题至20题，每小题仅填写一个词。听独白前，你将有20秒钟的时间阅读试题，听完后你将有60秒钟的作答时间。这段独白你将连续听两遍。
科目：高中英语
来源：湖南省师大附中2009届炎德英才大联考高三月考试卷英语
听力理解(共三节，满分30分)
第一节(共5小题;每小题1.5分，满分7.5分)
听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一题。每段对话仅读一遍。
1．Where could the man find Stella?
A．In the conference room．
B．In the library．
C．In her office
2．what's the relationship between the two speakers?
A．Good friends．
B．Next-door neighbors
C．New colleagues
3．What happened to the man?
A．He didn't have breakfast．
B．His alarm clock went off too early．
C．He was late again for his work
4．When does the train to Leeds leave?
A．At 3∶00．
B．At 3∶15．
C．At 5∶00
5．Why does the woman feel nervous?
A．Because she couldn't go to the interview
B．Because she will have an interview．
C．Because she hasn't the interview experience
第二节(共12小题;每小题1.5分，满分18分)
听下面4段对话。每段对话后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、c三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟;听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话读两遍。
听下面一段对话，回答第6至第7题两个小题。
6．Where is the woman going now?
A．To London．
B．To Birmingham．
C．To South Wales．
7．How much does the woman pay for the single ticket?
A．16 pounds．
B．40 pounds．
C．64 pounds．
听下面一段对话，回答第8至第10三个小题。
8．What's going on between Colin and Gary?
A．They had a fight．
B．Colin was angry with Gary．
C．Gary taught Colin a lesson．
9．How did Gary react to Colin's advice?
A．Grateful．
B．Angry．
C．Patient．
10．What will Colin do when talking about giving advice to Gary?
A．He won't give any advice to Gary．
B．He will continue giving advice to Gary．
C．He will give advice to Gary in a proper way．
听下面一段对话，回答第11至第13三个小题。
11．HOW long will the woman be away?
A．For 30 minutes．
B．For one hour．
C．For two hours．
12．What will Billy do after the woman comes back?
A．He will also be away．
B．He will visit his mother．
C．He will meet the boss．
13．Who will buy a gift on Mother's Day?
A．Only the woman．
B．Neither of them．
C．Both of them．
听下面一段对话，回答第14至第17四个小题。
14．Why can't the woman eat the ice-cream?
A．Because she's on a diet．
B．Because she doesn't like the kind．
C．Because she's eating something else．
15．What kind of person is the woman?
A．She's fond of eating．
B．She's easy to persuade．
C．She's strong-mindeD．
16．How many people are mentioned in this dialogue?
B．Three．
17．With whom will the man probably have ice．cream?
C．Peter．
第三节(共3小题;每小题1.5分，满分4.5分)
听下面一段材料，将第18至第20三个小题的信息补充完整，每小题不超过三个单词。听材料前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟;听完后，各小题将给出15秒钟的作答时间。本段材料读两遍。
科目：高中英语
来源：河南省焦作市学年高二上学期期末考试英语试卷
听力理解(共三节，满分20分)
第一节(共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分)
听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。
1．What kind of music does Henry like?
A．Pop music
B．Classical music
C．Folk music
2．How will Mary and Michael get to the theatre?
A．By taxi．
B．By bus．
C．In Michael's car．
3．Where are the two speakers?
A．At an airport．
B．At a train station．
C．At a bus station．
4．When will the man probably arrive in New York?
A．At 3∶30 pm．
B．At 6∶13 pm．
C．At 6∶30 pm．
5．What are they talking about?
A．The environmental problem．
B．The health problem．
C．The educational problem．
第二节(共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分)?
听下面4段对话。每段对话后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听每段对话前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话读两遍。
听第6段材料，回答第6至7题。?
6．What color suit does the man like?
B．Black．
C．Brown．
7．Why does the man want to buy a suit?
A．Because he will attend a job interview．
B．Because he will attend an evening party．
C．Because he will attend a wedding ceremony．
听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。?
8．Who answers the telephone?
B．Susan's husband．
C．Susan．
9．Where are they going to meet?
A．At Susan's．
B．At Tom's．
C．In New Zealand．
听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。?
10．Why does the woman change the first overcoat?
A．It's too expensive．
B．It's large for her．
C．It's a little small for her．
11．What does the woman want to buy?
A．An overcoat．
B．Silver and wool．
C．An overcoat and a jacket．
12．How much does the woman pay for what she bought?
A．＄170．
B．＄220．
C．＄390．
听第9段材料，回答第13至15题。?
13．Where does the man live?
A．17 Mallett Street．
B．70 Mallett Street．
C．l7 Marrett Street．
14．Which house is on fire?
A．Number 16．
B．Number 18．
C．Number 20．
15．Why is there nobody in the house on fire?
A．They went shopping．
B．They went to work．
C．They went abroad on holiday．
第三节短文填空(共5个空；每空1分，满分5分)
听下面一篇短文。根据短文内容填空，每空一词。短文读两遍。
Do you know about the president Obama? Have you heard his speech in China?
“The main 　　1　　 of my trip is to deepen my understanding of China and its vision of the future,”Obama told an audience of more than 500 local youths, many of whom students from Fudan University and Tongji University．“For while China is an 　　2　　 nation, you are also clearly looking ahead with 　　3　　, ambition, and a commitment to see that tomorrow's generation can do better than today's．” “The jobs we do, the prosperity we build, the environment we 　　4　　 , the security that we seek-all of these things are 　　5　　．”
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Good for him.
But we, as a nation, still love to celebrate.
So after he undoes a few thousand of his departed predecessor’s executive orders, he ought to &
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What the heck’s with Francis Beckwith?
Ah, the importance of presuppositions.
With that I should first disclose my own. While I have this restraint that I am supposed to conduct myself with charity, it is a restraint for me most of the time. My internal tension comes from my deep seated belief that the ridiculous should get but one thing: Ridicule. So Justice should be tempered with M Ridicule should be tempered . . . sometimes. No sense being a fanatic about it.
But since he’s a fellow convert from the denizens of protestantism to the One, Catholic, Holy, and Apostolic Church and a Pro life stalwart, I summon all the contents of the shallow, tepid well of my charity in his favor.
Second, I have a deep-seated suspicion of anyone who uses the first name of Francis which I acquired circa March, 2013. I shall exempt Professor Beckwith from suspicion since his use of the name was a) presumably imposed on him by his parents, rather than selected by and, b) his use of the otherwise venerable name predates my relatively recent acquisition of the previously mentioned suspicion.
I should also note that I have acquired an even more recent predilection to consider anyone name “Andy” a heretic. .
Now to the point.
Professor Beckwith maintains a position that “” He does this without a scintilla (I love that word, scintilla) of evidence – in either history or in Scripture. He does rely on references to statements made in a Church document. But first, the presupposition.
Professor Beckwith presupposes – that is, takes as a fact without inquiry – that Islam is a religion at all. I submit, that it is not. It is instead a political system. Not just any political system but one founded by a pedophile. A political system that encourages sexual perversion of every variety, both speakable and unspeakable. (Hint: think sodomy, necrophilia, incest, bestiality.)
It is a political system that, like so-called Liberation Theology, wraps itself in some religious-sounding terminology. Kinda like abortophile, Christ-hating, America-hating Barack Obama saying “God Bless America”, doesn’t make America a Christian nation.
You want another analogy! Great, I gotta whole file-cabinet full of them: the U.S. Supreme Court calling one dude sticking his stuff into the poop chute of another “marriage” doesn’t make it so. OK. I just crossed a line.
But Professor Beckwith’s erroneous presupposition has consequences, as all presuppositions do. One of those consequences is that one can not effectively deal with an enemy if one doesn’t even acknowledge the enemy exists. This is true in the
as well as the theological/ecclesiastical one on which Professor Beckwith opines.
If either Professor Beckwith’s presupposition or his conclusion are accurate, is it wrong for me to offer my daily prayers (which I do) for the eradication of Islam from the face of the Earth? If they worship the same God, should I not at the very least view them as separated brethren? I mean, who’s next? Lutherans!
Because his presupposition (Islam is a religion) is improvidently held, his conclusion (they worship the true God) is wrong.
One Scintilla por favor
Professor Beckwith is an academic with some legal training.
Some basics there are examining evidence and drawing inferences and conclusions from that evidence. Never mind all that. “They worship the same God.”
Two words. First one: bull.
Islam is a murderous regime. Always have been. Who (or what) has been behind the murder of several thousand US citizens on US soil over the last two decades? What group has beheaded and otherwise barbarically executed Christians (and others) around the world? What group has specifically targeted the Catholic Church for attack and destruction? OK, that last one includes Presbyterians, but you get my point.
But what about the “peaceful Muslims”? Inconsistent. Irrelevant.
Inconsistent with their own political system which promises paradise for those who die while killing infidels. (Note to Professor Beckwith: that includes you and me, brother.) Irrelevant because by definition they don’t matter. Peaceful Germans didn’ they were irrelevant. Nice Japanese didn’t stop the barbarities of the E they, too, were irrelevant. There have been, throughout history, lots of bad things done in the name of God and of religion. But what other “religion” has as one of its core tenets the murder of other faiths?
Going back a few years, C.S. Lewis posited a trichotomy. Jesus could not have been just a good man. He couldn’t have been just a prophet (as Islamists assert). Jesus Christ was one of three things: He was either a) b) or, c) He is Lord. Theologically, Islam is in la-la land. Or, as the used to call it, hell.
And before C.S. Lewis there are the creeds. We could look at them all, but just a glance at the Apostles and Nicene make the good Professor’s conclusions just a wee bit on the ridiculous side. No?
Then there’s the nagging little thing . . . what’s it called again. Oh yeah, I know: Holy Scripture. And just because Professor Beckwith has repudiated the notion of Sola Scriptura (as have I) doesn’t mean that Nolo Scriptura is the only alternative. Not coincidentally, many of the Scripture readings in the Church this month come from the epistle of I John. Some wonderful little nuggets of evidence found therein include:
Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son. Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: (but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also.(2:22-23)
Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard and even now already is it in the world. (4:3-4)
Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him. . . . He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God
because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son. (5:1, 10)
And, from the Gospel of John (4:24), “God is a spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.” So a two-member Trinity doesn’t exist. Neither does a four-sided triangle. Islam is a political system built on lawlessness and lies. They don’t worship God in “spirit and in truth.”
Or in any other way for that matter.
Michael R. Hirsh is an attorney in Atlanta, Georgia. He is also a convert to the Roman Catholic Church. He and his wife of 38 years have thirteen children and thirteen grandchildren. He regularly writes on Church and cultural matters at .
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Glad we have General Mattis coming as Secretary of Defense!
H/T to RBachert
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And make ISIS pay for it!
CC: Mike Flynn, National Security Advisor Designate
President Elect Trump has stated that he’s scaling way back on the inaugural festivities.
Good for him.
But we, as a nation, still love to celebrate.
So after he undoes a few thousand of his departed predecessor’s executive orders, he ought to put a wee little exclamation point on the end of the inaugural day.
First, we divert some of the seized ISIS money to pay for the biggest drone that can be made.
Second, we fly that bad boy into Mecca (with a couple of extra, full fuel tanks on board or the optional nuclear payload).
Third, we do a little pinpoint landing in the middle to town as pictured below:
Fourth, we send a Tweet to @ISIS with something like “Screw with us any more and we’re going to get serious.”
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The Royal Order of the Snowflake.
This Snowflake’s for you.
H/T to R. Bachert
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Pope Andy has spoken.
So glad we have him to tell us what we have to and don’t have to believe. Meet the author of Selective Scripture: My life on the theological cafeteria plan.
December has apparently proven to be an interesting month for the Rev. Andy Stanley, son of a former president of the Southern Baptist Convention and lead pastor of North Point Community Church in Alpharetta — one of the largest congregations in the country.
Though it is only now breaking in to the open, the Baptist world has been rocked byin which the son of famed TV evangelist Charles Stanley discounted the importance of believing in the virgin birth of Jesus.
The rest of the pathetic piece .
He’s too smart to call a moron. Wait. I know. Heretic.
Words mean things.
The implications of his statements are far-reaching:
he renders all the prophets false.
Pope Andy should remember that false prophets were stoned.
He might have been stoned when he spewed this heresy, but that’s a different post.
In fact, that is probably the most charitable assumption that could be made in Pope Andy’s favor.
He dismisses two thousand years of Church history.
But he answers to no man, so screw history.
You may recall the early Creeds that were a summary of the necessary beliefs to be considered a Christian.
Right in there is “born of a virgin.”
C.S. Lewis once presented a trichotomy:
“Jesus could not just be a good man.
He was either a liar, a lunatic, or [exactly who he said he was] Lord.”
Pope Andy makes Christ one of the first two.
Yesterday, January 1st, was the Solemnity of Mary, the Mother of God.
Pope Andy makes the Mother of God, just mom.
Her humility, her obedience, her example: no big whoop to Pope Andy.
Since he makes our Lord, just an ordinary guy, Pope Andy has more in common with the pseudo religion of Islam than he does with Christianity.
Islam i Pope Andy is a multi-millionaire charlatan.
It may be 2017, but I’m kinda missing 1017, when heretics were more . . . expeditiously dealt with.
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Hilarious.
And well done.
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Especially considering the patient was just a blob of tissue.
According to:
A first-of-its-kind surgery at UC Davis Children’s Hospital had a happy ending just in time for the holidays.
Doctors are celebrating a successful fetal surgery on a baby boy while he was still growing inside the womb.
Bobby Angeles and Khae Saetern named their little boy Matthew, which means “a gift from God.” It’s a fitting name when you consider the loss they’ve experienced and the loss they almost faced.
In the last three years, they’ve dealt with infertility, miscarriages, a baby girl who was stillborn. Then their unborn son had a serious condition that threatened his life. “Every moment, I am thinking when I’m driving, ‘Please God. Just take care of my son. Please God,’” Angeles said.
Matthew Tobias Saetern-Angeles was not expected to make it. But now two months later, he’s sporting a hearty head of hair and sleeping like a champ. “We just wanted to scream down the hallways, we’re going home! we’re going home! In the car, we took a picture of each other with the baby. We’re on our way home, this is really happening,” Angeles said.
While still developing in the womb, Matthew was diagnosed with hydrops, which creates excess fluid in the chest. The options for the soon-to-be-born baby boy seemed to be beyond the scope of modern medicine.
That’s when doctors at UC Davis Children’s Hospital stepped in with a suggestion that was both high risk and high reward.
“Everything happened so fast, so you really don’t have time to digest everything,” Saetern said. “We had our concerns and we had our questions, but ultimately, we left it to the doctor to decide what was in the best interest of the baby and my health.”
At 32 weeks, doctors made a small incision in Saetern’s stomach and used a catheter to drain the fluid from Matthew’s chest, completing the hospital’s first successful fetal surgery.
“Without that procedure, who knows where we’d be right now?” Angeles said.
The couple says the best part of bringing Matthew home is being able to put him in his crib. They’ve had a nursery decorated and ready to go for quite a few years and now they can finally use it.
In case we needed it, this medical breakthrough reminds us that the recently passed law in Ohio that prohibits abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected is long, long overdue.
And I can’t wait to hear how , gets all intellectual sounding (you know, cuz we need to be able to measure brain waves and little non-science stuff like heartbeats shouldn’t be the basis.) Idiot.
Abortophile.
Buy, hey Chrissy, if we require brain waves, who’s going to fill your slot on the news?
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It helps when they are cowardly liars in the first place.
A small retinue of celebrities made some promises, others just silly.
If Donald Trump wins the White House (which was a preposterous thought, said they) they would move to Canada.
It kinda made me wonder which side they were on.
I mean, it was like a buy one, get one free deal.
Get the Dems out of the White House and get a few morons out of the country!
One such bloviator, I should have pursued before the election: Barry Diller.
The media billionaire promised to “move out of the country or join the resistance.”
He went on to say that he “would take any bet” that he would have to do neither.
Man, I wish I had bet him a few million bucks.
Ironically, his bashing of Trump was that he (like Diller himself) was nothing more than a media figure.
Having lost the bet and having decided to neither move nor resist, Diller sings a
Diller said it appears the president-elect will bring about “almost undiluted change.”
One of the changes the United States will see is that Trump “is a better negotiator than someone who has trained in government,” Diller said. He added that he’s hopeful that Trump will actually be “really good across the table” and not “manhandle people” or “do one-off things that just sound good.”
As Trump pressures companies to keep jobs in America while threatening to slap them with tariffs for moving jobs, Diller said he has a feeling he won’t be getting one of those calls. When asked about his opinions on Trump’s recent dealings with
and , Diller said that “it’s interesting stuff” and that “it’s never happened before.”
I could go on and on as to why, but I think Diller is nothing short of being a hypocrite (do you think he got to be a billionaire by not manhandling people?) and a weenie.
Let’s see, the election was about a month ago.
Let’s do a little look back shall we?
Russia has said that like to be our friends now, Jeff Sessions is named Attorney General, Mattis is going to be Secretary of Defense, Carrier has decided to stay in the US, and .
I won’t say that’s impressive, but I haven’t had a month like that in, like, ever.
And Trump’s not even President yet.
Pardon me if I seem a little hopeful.
If Trump keeps this up, he’ll keep making converts.
Heck, even the weenies are signing on.
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