Mermaid711

Ya thats true you. You do get aids in the organ transplant. If this happens you have full right to case on the hospiatl and clain for compensation too as it is the responsibilty of the hospital to check for any viral infection before transplant. So much carelesness is not appriaciated from the hospitals.

WOULD IT KILL YOU TO TYPE PROPERLY???!?!?!?!?!!!!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!!

And you don't "catch" AIDS. You catch the virus (HIV) that causes AIDS. AIDS is the last stage of HIV. Get your facts right.

Anywhoo, this is a stupid mistake that could have easily been avoided, and, well, I do think that the doctor(s) are responsible. The fact of the matter is that they should test people for HIV before allowing them to donate an organ and should screen the organs before giving them to a patient, because like someone said, antiretroviral drugs are not good for the kidneys- especially not transplats.

If you ask me I think the hospital should provide her with her antiretroviral medication free of charge. This is just flat out irresponsibillity.

Sheesh.

They might have found a weakness in that paticular strain of HIV. But the problem is that HIV can under go as much genetic change as humans can in a couple million years in a decade. So the HIV that doctors were fighting HIV years ago are fighting a different virus today.But are these mutations bad? Not always. Sometimes when the virus mutates it can be bad for the virus. . . but do be aware that the mutations can benifit the virus.And your body does make antibodies for HIV. But it can only attack certian types of it. So your body can keep HIV at bay for a while, but if you are found positive for the virus, it is in your best interest to start ant-retrovial drugs ASAP.Of course, there have been- and always will be- people who claim that they have the cure. About a year ago, the president of Gambia claimed he had the cure for AIDS, which required people to stop their anti-retrovial drugs. The treatment consisted of rubbing a thick green paste on the chest of a patient, and the having the patient drink a bitter yellow liquid, and then eat some banannas. But as FolkRockFan stated, right now, we REALLY need to worry about preventing the spread of HIV because right now we don't have a for-sure cure and so it makes more sense to educate people about the disease right now and tell them how you can- and can't- get it.

Well, most viruses are more deadly than the AIDS virus, seeing as how the virus itself doesn't kill you, it's the opportunistic infections that come along while you have the virus.And yes, the strain of Staff that you are refering to is the MRSA strain also known as "Merca" and it is very deadly and can paralyze you or even lead to death.

Well, I can say that if you're going to typ lyk dis then I won't want to take you seriously on your post. If you really are a biologist, then type like a biologist, use proper grammer like a biologist, and spell things correctly.

 

Anyway, now that I have chewed you out, lets take a look at your topic.

 

If transfer of the AIDS virus through use of a needle or syrenge is the second leading cause of the transfer of the HIV virus (you don't catch AIDS like you would another virus, it's just the most advanced form of it) then obviously there is a greater chance then one in a million. While yes, a virus cannot survive a long time outside of an organism, it wouldn't take just two seconds after the removal of the needle for the virus to die. And I'm not totally sure, but I think that some viruses go into a dormant stage when outside of the body. . . not so sure on that one. . . I should do a little more reading. . .

 

Anyway, here are some facts about AIDS:

 

How you can get the virus that causes AIDS:

Unprotected sexuall intercourse in which the male ejaculates or he comes in contact with the female's vaginal fluids.

Sharing of needles from syrenges that could have possibly held drugs.

Having yourself be deeply punctured-or stabbed- with a piece of HIV infected equipment (such as a knife)

Or if you got a blood transfusion in the 80's

You cannot get AIDS from kissing or contacting someone (i.e. sharing a drink or shaking a hand or hugging someone-even sharing the seat on a public toilet.)

 

And AIDS itself doesn't kill you. It's the infections that you get when you have the virus that kill you.

 

So yes, you can and probibly will get the HIV virus through sharing of an infected needle. So kids, don't do drugs

 

Sources: Teenwire.com

Moderator of the Year (New Category)-

Jlhaslip.

 

Most Improve Member of the Year-

Is it okay if I nominate myself here?

 

GFXtrap GFX Elite-

Saint_Michael

 

1337 Programmer-

Alex7h3pr0gr4m3r

 

Shoutboxer of the Year-

Ha. This sounds a lot like me. It's a good thing that my dad's pda has internet on it so I can get on trap and shout but never post =D

 

Lives at Xisto-

No comment =D

 

Tech Geek (New Category)-

Alex. No offence, bud.

So as the title sates, I've changed alot. I am no longer the over sensitive fanjaya feminist. As a matter of fact, I am none of those things.

So here are some things that you should know about me:

I'm still blonde
I've turned 13
I'm no longer concerned about how the boys at our school behave towards me. I've reallized that with a body like mine I can have anything that I want.
I hate Sanjaya, and I'm not a huge American Idol fan anymore, because they screwed over my friend Alisan (Check out her music profile at https://myspace.com/browser )
Acting is still my great love.
I've reallized that there are some things that women need a man's help in. But that doesn't stop me from telling you that the two races are equal and it doesn't stop me from letting you know that you are a chauvinist pig.
I still play tennis.
I still live in the middle of no where.
I'm not much of a computer geek anymore. I've forgotten how to do most of this stuff beyond myspace programing.
I don't give a crap if you make fun of me because I'm polish. You're just jealous.

Oh and about the one before the last one, I will still come on Xisto, but don't expect me to be on here as much as I used to be. I'm going to devote most of my time to chasing my dreams and figuring out what I want to do in life. So that means not as much time for this stuff. But that doesn't mean that you'll never hear from me again. Oh no.

Baha, That happened at our school district a couple of years ago. We went on lockdown. Coincidentally this was on the same day when the "March for La Migra," as my friend kenady said, was going on. But might I ask why this is in the vent?Anywho, our school has gone to hell in a handbasket over the past couple of years. About a month a go we had to go into lockdown for about 2 and a half hours at school.Kids these days. . .

So I figured that it might be better if I sent you all a picture of my eyes

 

 

Okay, so now that we are clear on what my eyes look like, I have olive skin (hard to tell because of the flash) and blonde hair.

 

I want my eyes to look as big as possible. And I want them to look as amber as possible.

 

Please tell me, because in the last topic like this I posted, I didn't get much feed back.

 

Thanks.

Before I pull a Galinda (musical theatre reference) let me tell you the consiquences of being popular.Not everyone adores the popular crowd. And if you abandon those "dorks" who, quote, "bring you down on the social scale," you can and probably will get labeled something bad that I'm not allowed to say on the forums :)And why do you crave popularity? Like I said above, a whole hoard of people at our school HATE the "popular" or the "preppy" kids. And how good of friends are you with the popular kids? Could you invite a group of them to the movies or do you only talk to them at school? Before you dump your dork friends, figure out who your friends are. . . Well, I can't find a way to phrase that where it might be easy to understand, I'm sorry.And there isn't a way to get popular quick. It kind of just happens. What I mean is that kids who are complete dorks/nerds/[insert derogatory term for a loser here ] have ascended up the social totem pole with little explination of why or how.The best way to get a lot of friends (if that is what you mean by popular) is to join a lot of clubs, get involved, and just be NICE! Also practice your body language, look nice, or even get a make over

Introduction:

I have always had a theory on what is outside the universe where we have never been and telescopes cannot see. I actually saw a variation of this in the beginning intro to a Simpsons episode where they zoomed out until you could see all of the galaxies and then kept zooming out until there were lots of galaxies and that turned into molecules which turned back into Homers forhead where at that point he says "woahhhh" in a stupid sort of way which makes me laugh.

Hmmmm you saw this on the Simpsons. . . wow should I even bother reading this?

 

My Theory:

We don't know whats smaller than a quork (think i spelled that wrong) and we do not know whats larger than a galaxy. So my theory is that if we zoom out passed all of the galaxies the galaxies become the next smallest thing to quorks which as you continue to zoom out you see molecules and so on until it forms a shape which could be anything since everything is made of atoms (except light... and energy..). This works the same way vice versa where if you zoom in you start seeing things that resemble galaxies if you zoom in and eventually you start seeing universes and more detailed things such as other worlds.

Ummm, yes we do. There is only one universe as far as man knows. (Hince the term UNIverse.)

 

So can you explain to me something? Do I have little people floating around inside of me? Do I have planets, stars, and nebulas in my body? Didn't think so. . .

 

If you didn't understand this brief explanation of the universe don't feel stupid because this is one of the hardest things to explain and this is just my theory which could be completely wrong but since we don't know all we can read about is the theories.

I like the disclaimer "If you don't understand this, don't feel stupid." . . .

Well, I'm not going to disclose the name of my school or the town it's located in, for those of you who already know, more power to you. And for those of you who don't know, I'm terribly sorry.Anyway (edit), we had to go into lock down (edit) today, for two hours and fifteen minutes. We were held after the dismissal bell for a class and after the bell to go home.What happened is a kid brought a remote control race car controller to school. No big deal right?Wrong.He was joking around about having a gun.And if you looked at the controller at a glance, it really did look like a gun.They had to search EVERY SINGLE room for this kid. He was described as a Caucasian (edit) male with a light blue polo and khaki (edit) shorts on. No middle schooler in the middle of America would wear that to school in his right mind, right?Wrong again.At our school, we have this thing called standardized (edit) dress. It's essentially (edit) uniforms, but the people who are in charge of the school district don't call it that so they don't have to buy the poor people clothes. It was rather ironic because I was trying to convince my algebra teacher that uniforms were a bad idea. . . for a reason JUST LIKE THIS.Well, just to give you an idea of what trying to find this kid was like, our school district is a AAAA (four-A), the second largest ranking a school district can be. Our middle school however is a CCC (three-C) which is the largest ranking a middle school can get.We have roughly 850 kids in our middle school. So try finding that kid in a class.Yeah. Well, I was in one of my favorite classes. But the teacher started to get stressed out. . . and he's not on his meds. :)So today was rather interesting. . .yeah (edit).And just to clear up any confusion, WE DID NOT HAVE A GUN AT ALL!!What a waste of two hours and fifteen minutes at least nobody was hurt

Thanks. It's purdyfull.

( so noone steals my theroy dated 11/26/07 I THOUGHT THIS UP, at least i am sure i have)

Ummm, no. The discovery chanel guys thought this up. I've seen these theories many times before.

 

*religious fanatics, GO AWAY! I don't want flaming for my idea*

 

First of all, may I correct your grammar? It would be religion fanactics. Not religious fanatics.

 

And second of all, that is just BEGGING to be flamed. Don't tell someone to go away, there's nothing wrong with constructive critism. And anyways, flaming here is strictly forbidden. . .

 

And since when is this your idea? I could of sworn I saw it on the discovery chanel a month ago

 

1. Everything started and ended with a Black Hole. As the Universe Expands, its held together by a Inter-Galactic Black Hole ( The size of a galaxy) and when it begins to contract, it merely means the Inter-Galactic Black Hole has overpowered the universe

What? Sense makes none. . . can you please rephrase that?

 

2. Black Holes Keep all things together, like the Inter-Galactic Black Hole, Galactic Black Holes, hold Galaxies together, some are only strong enough to hold the galaxy together, while others suck parts of it within itself

 

I can see this. There is a black hole in the center of our galaxy, but it is currently being nice to us at the moment (HAHA saint_michael ) And it's not even strong enough to hold the galaxy together, seeing as how the milky way is slowly expanding outwords of it.

 

3. Everything ends and starts over from this Black Hole

As the Blackhole begins to contract the Universe, Galaxies, dust, nebulas, etc are sucked in, and because by the laws of physics, being that no matter is created or destroyed, the Matter in the galaxies/nebulas etc is compressed and is teleported like a wormhole to the end of the contracting galaxy, just to be pushed back in line,

As the Universe gets smaller and smaller, literally the matter is flying in and out beyond the speed of light, this could go on for eons in our time. This phase is a lot like the Big Crunch, where everything is a massive looping black hole

Well, the only black hole in the entire universe that might even come close to this is some billion light years away, and 18 times the size of the Sun. But that isn't big enough to pull things on the outer edges of the universe in to it. And it has never been proven that there are warmholes on the other sides of black holes, seeing as how all that goes in is never ever seen again. And isn't there only one universe? I am pretty sure there is, unless all that gets sucked into is transfered into another universe.

The General Ignorance of People.

By myself.

 

What bugs me is the fact that people are getting dumber by the minute.

 

"Class, along with common sense are dead, darling. They traded white wine, pearls, and a private education, for a Corona, a myspace, and a tax-payed government schooling."

 

It bothers me that people are just getting so darn dumb. People who can type properly can't even spell things out right on the internet.

 

"LYK OMG MY MYSPACE iiS PiiMPiiER DAN YOURZ HOEZ!"

 

That just SCREAMS, "hey look at me, I'M STUPID!" or as the avarage person spells it, "H3Y L00K @ M3 iiM ST00PiiD!!!"

 

Sheesh.

 

And as for the stupid people who have adopted a false sense of intelectual supierority over others, they too, are in fact, stupid.

 

I hate the "Holier than thou" tone from stupid people.

 

Again, sheesh.

 

And the people who act like they know what they are talking about when they really don't.

 

And the people who refuse to go to school to avoid ignorance the best they can on the government funded schooling program provided. Sure I hate my algebra teacher and my band director just as much as the next guy, but your hatered for schooling and horrible teachers is not a reason why you get to slack off, and inturn, essentially live off of my budget when we are legal adults.

 

People are getting dumber by the day,

 

and how I wish it would stop.

Hi peoples.My super close friend is having some relationship issues. She is now really jealous of me. And I can't get him to dump her, because he doesn't want to hurt her, but 4 of his friends (myself included) want them to break up. He sorta wants to do it, but he's not so sure.Comments?

Hahahaha thanks.I like the way it turned out alot. I had some freetime today because I am sick. So I got industrious.Just keep in mind I am a 13 year old and I do have limits

http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/404.png

 

^^^That is the link to a big 1024x768 spacescape I made.

 

I like the way it turned out for one of my first space scapes.

 

Also, thankyou to Saint_Michael for the planet renders. . . although I did mess with them some

 

This is probably one of my favorite large pieces I have made. I like the high contrast on the planets.

 

But my mom was mad when I added the black. She said something about losing the detail of the planets. . . hahaa.

 

Comments?

Well, with the invention of the wingsuit (I do believe someone made a post about it here named "flying humans") and my compulsive listening to the song, "Defying Gravity" from the musical "Wicked," I was wondering. . . What would it be like defying gravity?What would I do if I could fly?I would love to be able to flyhow bout you?

Well, the topic explains it all, I am trying to learn some of the songs from wicked, and I have been singing alot. I have never had formal training, so I don't know if I know proper technique.I have probably strained my vocal cords, seeing as how those songs were made to be sung in soprano, and I happen to be an alto-mezzosoprano-2nd sopranno singer.How do I make my voice box stop hurting?Serious answers please, don't leave some asinine comment saying, "stop singing, DUH!" That's not an option for me at this point.

5"6 isn't even that tall for a 12 year old. Chill your beans kid. My buddy was 5"8 when he was 12. He was fine with it. Being tall is a gift not a curse. And if you can't get a girl because your tall. Then find some girl that isn't a stuck up b*tch. Yes they may very well be mythological beings to most men but I'm sure they do exist. I will find one one day.

OH MY FREAKING GOSH FOR THE LAST TIME PEOPLE, I AM A GIRL. Get it right.

 

And don't call me buddy. Call me princess Or on second thought, don't call me anything.

 

And not all girls are stuck up *BLEEP*es, I wouldn't say that in a community forum that is used by BOTH men AND women.

 

Some girls would be offended by that. I'm not because quite frankly, I know that I am a stuck up *BLEEP*, and I am PROUD of it.

 

ANYWAYS, back on topic. . . I am about 5'7 now and when I came back to school last fall, the guys were NEAR, not up to, but NEAR my height, and they are less intimidated by my height.

 

So why am I worried about my height compared to the guys when I am a female? Because guys in america, well, maybe not in all of america, but the guys in my school these days were raised on the wrong values. They feel that they must be superior to the woman in every way- it's gotten so asinine now that they can't handle tall women.

The problem with Ashley's site is, infact, it has too many graphics and takes a longggggg time to load on a slower internet connection. . . I have DSL and it takes like 5 minutes to load completely without freezing the browser window. . . she needs to take some of those graphics off, or she will end up losing business and visitors.Otherwise, I don't think that girl has much of a social life, but hell, the girl made one-million dollars off of that site and I guess that makes up for it. . .

Heres what I have to say to everybody who thinks or says that all abercrombie shoppers are all clones:

 

You're not any less conformist than us. It is almost impossible to buy a shirt, or other form of clothing that somebody else won't buy. And you think you're so great because you dress like the living dead? At least 123423 other people dress exactly the same way.

 

You're a clone, you're not as unique as you may think, GET OVER YOURSELF!

 

The only way to dress unique is to go to a sewing store, buy a pattern and some fabric, and make your own shirt. But whose to say that someone else won't go to the store, and buy that same fabric and pattern?

 

And we might be clones, but just keep in mind we don't look like freaks. At least we look human.

 

GET OVER YOURSELF!

 

How does that line from that song go again?

 

Oh yeah!

 

I'm an emo kid, non-conformist as could be, you'd be non-conformist too if you looked just like me.

As Kasm said, the reason why we celebrate 'Christmas' is because of the birth of Jesus Christ. And as for the Santa Claus statement: The business people may or may not have invented it, but it is the parents who carry it on.Anywayssss, I think I know what I am getting. Maybe that's because I watched my dad order it off of the internet. But I am getting an iPod, phone minutes, iTunes giftcards, and a whole bunch of girftcards to my favorite stores.This year, Christmas will be a little bit different. This is because my Uncle Jon, who produced for the Dallas Cowboys will be out on Christmas eve. That is when we celebrate that side of my family's Christmas.On my other side of the family, the Catholic side. . . things should be. . . ermm. . . interesting.

I was so upset when I heard he passed.I loved his song, "Same Old Lang Syne.""We drank a toast to innocence"

Yes, as you all know, I am an artsy-theater-photography geek. Yeah so what


Here are some of my photos on my website.

http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

They are under 'stock photos'

tell me what you think

mmkay?