This was taken on Easter at the Trinity River - right down the road from my parents house. I know, I know, they are getting SO big!
Bella 2, Katie 9, Card 3, Jack 6 months.
The Boytim Bunch
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Family Awarded $15 Million In Lawsuit on Immunization
My Mother-In-Law pointed me to this article
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE2DA173AF93BA25753C1A961948260
LEAD: The manufacturer of a vaccine used to immunize millions of children against diphtheria and two other diseases has been ordered to pay $15 million to the family of an 8-year-old girl who suffered permanent brain damage attributed to the serum.
The manufacturer of a vaccine used to immunize millions of children against diphtheria and two other diseases has been ordered to pay $15 million to the family of an 8-year-old girl who suffered permanent brain damage attributed to the serum.
Wyeth Laboratories, a Philadelphia company that is a division of the American Home Products Corporation, produced the vaccine used to immunize the girl, Michelle Graham of Beloit, Kan. Her family contended in a two-month Federal trial that the vaccine was defective and unsafe.
In reaching its verdict Wednesday, the seven-member jury rejected Wyeth's assertion that the child suffered a stroke before inoculation with the vaccine, which is used to prevent diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus.
Lawyers for the girl's family presented evidence that the she suffered severe damage to the right side of her brain when she had a reaction to an injection of the vaccine in 1980.
Attorneys for Wyeth declined to comment after the verdict.
Seems this is not the first time this company has been in trouble....
http://www.beasleyallen.com/news/Plaintiffs-Win-Hormone-Therapy-Lawsuit
Plaintiffs Win Hormone Therapy Lawsuitby -->
Published November 27, 2007 12:41 PM
In the trial of the latest Nevada state court hormone therapy case, the jury found against Wyeth on all of plaintiffs' claims and returned a verdict ordering Wyeth to pay a total of $35 million in compensatory damages and $99 million in punitive damages.
The jury found that Wyeth was negligent, Premarin and Prempro were defective, Wyeth concealed material facts about these products, and Wyeth acted with malice or fraud. The punitive damages award came in the second phase of the trial. The jury had found Wyeth's conduct to be "reprehensible," which led to the second phase of the trial and the awarding of punitive damages.
The three women alleged that the use of Premarin and Prempro had contributed to the development of their breast cancer, Wyeth had failed to properly warn about and concealed the risks of the drugs and Wyeth had sold a defective product.
During the trial, Wyeth argued that each of the women had other risk factors that contributed to the development of their cancer and that it provided adequate warnings. Wyeth also contended the company clearly warned users that there was a slightly increased risk of breast cancer from taking Prempro, which was first marketed in 1995.
This is the seventh hormone therapy case to go to a jury. There are still about 5,300 similar lawsuits around the country in state and federal courts. The verdict is the largest award to date against the Madison, New Jersey-based company.
All of the pending cases involve the drugs Premarin, an estrogen replacement, and Prempro, a combination of estrogen and progestin. As you know, these drugs are prescribed to women to ease symptoms of menopause. There is no telling how many women were hurt by Wyeth's conduct in this matter. Putting corporate profits over the health and welfare of these women is bad by any standard and can't be tolerated.
Sources: Wall Street Journal; New York Times
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE2DA173AF93BA25753C1A961948260
LEAD: The manufacturer of a vaccine used to immunize millions of children against diphtheria and two other diseases has been ordered to pay $15 million to the family of an 8-year-old girl who suffered permanent brain damage attributed to the serum.
The manufacturer of a vaccine used to immunize millions of children against diphtheria and two other diseases has been ordered to pay $15 million to the family of an 8-year-old girl who suffered permanent brain damage attributed to the serum.
Wyeth Laboratories, a Philadelphia company that is a division of the American Home Products Corporation, produced the vaccine used to immunize the girl, Michelle Graham of Beloit, Kan. Her family contended in a two-month Federal trial that the vaccine was defective and unsafe.
In reaching its verdict Wednesday, the seven-member jury rejected Wyeth's assertion that the child suffered a stroke before inoculation with the vaccine, which is used to prevent diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus.
Lawyers for the girl's family presented evidence that the she suffered severe damage to the right side of her brain when she had a reaction to an injection of the vaccine in 1980.
Attorneys for Wyeth declined to comment after the verdict.
Seems this is not the first time this company has been in trouble....
http://www.beasleyallen.com/news/Plaintiffs-Win-Hormone-Therapy-Lawsuit
Plaintiffs Win Hormone Therapy Lawsuitby -->
Published November 27, 2007 12:41 PM
In the trial of the latest Nevada state court hormone therapy case, the jury found against Wyeth on all of plaintiffs' claims and returned a verdict ordering Wyeth to pay a total of $35 million in compensatory damages and $99 million in punitive damages.
The jury found that Wyeth was negligent, Premarin and Prempro were defective, Wyeth concealed material facts about these products, and Wyeth acted with malice or fraud. The punitive damages award came in the second phase of the trial. The jury had found Wyeth's conduct to be "reprehensible," which led to the second phase of the trial and the awarding of punitive damages.
The three women alleged that the use of Premarin and Prempro had contributed to the development of their breast cancer, Wyeth had failed to properly warn about and concealed the risks of the drugs and Wyeth had sold a defective product.
During the trial, Wyeth argued that each of the women had other risk factors that contributed to the development of their cancer and that it provided adequate warnings. Wyeth also contended the company clearly warned users that there was a slightly increased risk of breast cancer from taking Prempro, which was first marketed in 1995.
This is the seventh hormone therapy case to go to a jury. There are still about 5,300 similar lawsuits around the country in state and federal courts. The verdict is the largest award to date against the Madison, New Jersey-based company.
All of the pending cases involve the drugs Premarin, an estrogen replacement, and Prempro, a combination of estrogen and progestin. As you know, these drugs are prescribed to women to ease symptoms of menopause. There is no telling how many women were hurt by Wyeth's conduct in this matter. Putting corporate profits over the health and welfare of these women is bad by any standard and can't be tolerated.
Sources: Wall Street Journal; New York Times
Congrats to Dad-Dad and Mom-Mom - Boytim Grandchild #5 on the way!!!
Yep thats right - Boytim Grandbaby #5 is on the way.......Congrats Ed and Julie Boytim.
HA - you thought it was me huh......
When I told Will, he got all excited thinking we were having #5.
CONGRATULATIONS EDWARD AND JULIE - We will be praying for a easy labor, healthy baby, and a calm daddy. Love you guys!
HA - you thought it was me huh......
When I told Will, he got all excited thinking we were having #5.
CONGRATULATIONS EDWARD AND JULIE - We will be praying for a easy labor, healthy baby, and a calm daddy. Love you guys!
Sunday, March 02, 2008
We Love Our Daddy
Daddy's Valentine pie-
raw cheesecake with a
raw chocolate icing.
Daddy's Valentine "Quilt"
God's Greatness.....
My Many Blessings....
A quick note from "Beverly's Brain..." - as I lay on the couch today listening to my girls read books - I kept thinking about all I needed to get done. For the most part "stuff" on the computer. I layed there and looked at the beautiful Magnolia tree blowing in the wind and thought on the Greatness of God. It crossed my mind during this time that I don't think on Him quite enough. I also don't spend enough time with the Blessings He has given me - I know you are thinking "But you are home all day! How can you not be with them enough? - let me tell ya, it is a constant battle to be a "homemaker" when there is so much to divert your time! A bit later as I nursed Jack and looked at the gorgeous Cardinal out my window (I really like this window!) I thought about all the "noise" in this world. You cannot even go to the grocery store for goodness sakes without a TV in your face! They are hanging in the aisle now!
Anyway - I thought on the fact that there is so much noise now - when do we really have a chance to think on the Greatness of God. I mean really think on Him- not just put Him on our "schedule" of things to do. I know I am guilty of scheduling "Bible Study" every morning - what is the first thing to go if we are in a hurry? What if God wants to say something to me - will I hear it if it is not that allotted time? Does all the noise just push out that little voice?
Well onto the reason I am writing (I am getting there!). That little voice told me today that my babies are growing up so fast and at times they are "Internet Orphans". I see it in their poor little faces when they come into the office and see mommy on the computer again - "Mommy are you almost done?" and "Mommy, would you please come play with us know" are heard often. So this is a quick (turning into a not so quick) post to tell you that (really this time) I will not be on this computer as much. I will send an email when I post a picture or new thing on the blog. I know, I know you will say I am "impossible" to get ahold of (some do now...) as I will not be answering email as often. This is your fair warning - if you have something time sensitive or important - CALL ME. I know, I know, I don't answer the phone much - CALL WILL. I turn the phone off sometimes during the day when we have some serious school to do or we are napping, sometimes I forget to even turn it back on - call Will, he always has his electronic leash. Please do not get grumpy with me if I do not return email ASAP - I might not have gotten it yet.
Ok - I think that is all. I posted the latest picture above and I have some beautiful baby shower pictures to post, but that will have to wait. I am busy being a helpmeet and a mommy! I want to get old and rejoice in all the time I spent investing in these little eternal beings. I don't think I will be ever so happy that I got all that email answered in a timely manner. What a time robber - I wonder if these things are meant to rob us of this precious time with our family and ultimately with our God. Radio, TV, internet..... what could we be doing instead. We have already turned down the radio and shut off the TV here, but the Internet is loud and clear - no more.
Hope to see everyone soon - will chat with ya when I can!
So you don't feel too put out - I have been boxing up pictures for about a year now - someday I will get around to scrap booking too! For now, in the box they go (date stamped)!
One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity; (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)--I Timothy 3:4, 5
Thursday, January 31, 2008
A day in the life of
First we do chores....
then we hang out...
eat lunch.....
nap.....
and do school.....
VOTE RON PAUL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWfIhFhelm8&feature=related
http://www.ronpaul2008.com/about
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG_HuFtP8w8&feature=related
He has never voted to raise taxes.
He has never voted for an unbalanced budget.
He has never voted for a federal restriction on gun ownership.
He has never voted to raise congressional pay.
He has never taken a government-paid junket.He has never voted to increase the power of the executive branch.
He voted against the Patriot Act.
He voted against regulating the Internet.
He voted against the Iraq war.
He does not participate in the lucrative congressional pension program.
He returns a portion of his annual congressional office budget to the U.S. treasury every year.
BEWARE OF MIKE HUCKABEE -
http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin411.htm
http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin414.htm
FROM WILL AND BEVERLY BOYTIM
http://www.ronpaul2008.com/about
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG_HuFtP8w8&feature=related
He has never voted to raise taxes.
He has never voted for an unbalanced budget.
He has never voted for a federal restriction on gun ownership.
He has never voted to raise congressional pay.
He has never taken a government-paid junket.He has never voted to increase the power of the executive branch.
He voted against the Patriot Act.
He voted against regulating the Internet.
He voted against the Iraq war.
He does not participate in the lucrative congressional pension program.
He returns a portion of his annual congressional office budget to the U.S. treasury every year.
BEWARE OF MIKE HUCKABEE -
http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin411.htm
http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin414.htm
FROM WILL AND BEVERLY BOYTIM
Wednesday, January 09, 2008
Sunday, January 06, 2008
Mama doesn't work here anymore
Thats right - Mama don't work here anymore!
She don't juice oranges,
apples,
and she don't do wardrobe consultations anymore!
Just thought you might get a laugh or two :)
She don't juice oranges,
apples,
and she don't do wardrobe consultations anymore!
Just thought you might get a laugh or two :)
Saturday, January 05, 2008
CHRISTmas #4
The kids favorite CHRISTmas. They got to open gifts and hang out with some of their favorite people - Grandparents!
Here is Will, Katie, Card, Will's mom Colleen, Will's grandmother (Colleen's mom) Maryellen, and Bella
Bella loved having Little Mom-Mom read to her. Thanks Uncle Edward and Aunt Julie for all the great new books!
Card with some of his favorites - big Tonka from Nanny and Tools from Mom-Mom and Dad-Dad
Katie and Bella in their matching prairie girl dresses from Mimi and Papa
And............Daddy built them an actual prairie log cabin right in our front yard. Well he built it in the barn and brought it down piece by piece!
CHRISTmas #2
Occured at the house with just us and the kids. I really like CHRISTmas #2 with just us. I think we were too busy opening gifts and enjoying each other to take pictures- I only found these 2!
Our Charlie Brown CHRISTmas tree.
Katie handed out the gifts. See Card's new train table - he was sure glad Gabriel and Harrison Barnes brought this to him. We still cannot explain to him that Gab and Harrison actually have their OWN table.......
Our Charlie Brown CHRISTmas tree.
Katie handed out the gifts. See Card's new train table - he was sure glad Gabriel and Harrison Barnes brought this to him. We still cannot explain to him that Gab and Harrison actually have their OWN table.......
Christmas # 1
CHRISTmas # 1 occured at the usual spot - Uncle Bobby's house......
Will and Jack
Barbara handing out the gifts - boy the kids sure do like her.....
The ride home was quiet....
Will and Jack
Barbara handing out the gifts - boy the kids sure do like her.....
The ride home was quiet....
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Be Resonable.....
It seems that when collectivists run out of other excuses for their anti-freedom agenda, they fall back on calling real limiting of government "unreasonable" or "impractical." For example, Mona Charen recently opined that doing away with the IRS (as Ron Paul
suggests) isn't a "serious" proposal. The underlying message is
clear: dramatic change--in fact, any change that is significant at all--is unreasonable, impractical, and so on, BECAUSE it would be a dramatic change.
What an odd concept. Suppose your morning ritual consisted of getting up, taking a shower, getting dressed, having breakfast, hammering a nail into your foot, and driving to work. And suppose you had been doing that for all of your working career, until some radical, wacko extremist suggested that perhaps you would be better off if you completely removed the sticking-a-nail-in-your-foot part of your morning routine. "Well, I can't just stop it entirely!
That's impractical! It's unreasonable! Perhaps I could use smaller nails, or hammer them in not quite as deep, but do away with the act altogether? Come on, be reasonable!"
Allow me to quote myself (from my book, "How to Be a Successful
Tyrant"):
- -----------<>----------------
Familiar Chains
Another huge way in which the peasants' lack of objectivity helps you is their relativistic view of life. If they grew up in slavery, they will think that slavery is inevitable and proper.
They will assume that whatever their rulers have always done (as far back as they can remember), rulers always should do. They will choose familiar tyranny over "upsetting the apple cart" every time.
Peasants fear change. Like animals that have been caged for too long, a group of peasants that has been enslaved for decades, if you offer to "let them out" (i.e., give them freedom), will beg to be let back into the cage. Peasants crave whatever is predictable and familiar, even if it happens to be tyranny. So train them to become accustomed to tyranny, and most of them won't even want to be free.
This cannot be overstated: the outlook of "that's just how things are" is the tyrant's best friend. If the peasants are accustomed to giving you a chunk of what they earn, they will think that's how things should be, and they will literally be afraid of not being extorted. If the "government" regulates everything, they will assume that that is necessary and good. If they grew up in a society in which all parents must surrender their children over to government-controlled indoctrination centers (euphemism: "public schools"), they will assume that it is how things should be.
Put another way, the peasants decide what things should be like from the starting point of what things are already like. They might want a little bit more of one thing, or a little bit less of another, but only very rarely will a peasant come to the realization that your entire regime, and everything it does, is insane, unnecessary, and destructive to society. This is because reaching such a conclusion requires both objective analysis (which in turn requires independent thought) and intellectual confidence.
- -----------<>----------------
Republican politicians, and 99% of their supporters in the media, don't have a shred of principle among the bunch of them. You see, a principle is a position you take because it is what is RIGHT, even if it's unpopular, or dangerous, or not politically expedient, or different from what is being done today. What does it mean when principles are outranked by what is "practical" or "reasonable"? It means those principles are worthless.
A little over a century ago, doing away with slavery seemed to be a pretty darn "impractical" and "unreasonable" thing to do. And it was, but it was also the RIGHT thing to do. For that matter, having a full-scale revolution against the British Empire was pretty darn impractical and unreasonable, but in retrospect we applaud it. So when did this nation become such a bunch of wimps that we won't get rid of evil, anti-American, tyrannical abominations like the IRS, because doing so would be "impractical"? When did "give me liberty or give me death" get changed into "don't make waves; just go with the flow"? Often one's choices are to make waves, or to drown. This country is about to do one or the other, by either "making waves"
with Ron Paul, or by sinking with the latest in a long line of "reasonable," "practical" tyrants at the helm.
Sincerely,
Larken Rose
http://www.larkenrose.com
suggests) isn't a "serious" proposal. The underlying message is
clear: dramatic change--in fact, any change that is significant at all--is unreasonable, impractical, and so on, BECAUSE it would be a dramatic change.
What an odd concept. Suppose your morning ritual consisted of getting up, taking a shower, getting dressed, having breakfast, hammering a nail into your foot, and driving to work. And suppose you had been doing that for all of your working career, until some radical, wacko extremist suggested that perhaps you would be better off if you completely removed the sticking-a-nail-in-your-foot part of your morning routine. "Well, I can't just stop it entirely!
That's impractical! It's unreasonable! Perhaps I could use smaller nails, or hammer them in not quite as deep, but do away with the act altogether? Come on, be reasonable!"
Allow me to quote myself (from my book, "How to Be a Successful
Tyrant"):
- -----------<>----------------
Familiar Chains
Another huge way in which the peasants' lack of objectivity helps you is their relativistic view of life. If they grew up in slavery, they will think that slavery is inevitable and proper.
They will assume that whatever their rulers have always done (as far back as they can remember), rulers always should do. They will choose familiar tyranny over "upsetting the apple cart" every time.
Peasants fear change. Like animals that have been caged for too long, a group of peasants that has been enslaved for decades, if you offer to "let them out" (i.e., give them freedom), will beg to be let back into the cage. Peasants crave whatever is predictable and familiar, even if it happens to be tyranny. So train them to become accustomed to tyranny, and most of them won't even want to be free.
This cannot be overstated: the outlook of "that's just how things are" is the tyrant's best friend. If the peasants are accustomed to giving you a chunk of what they earn, they will think that's how things should be, and they will literally be afraid of not being extorted. If the "government" regulates everything, they will assume that that is necessary and good. If they grew up in a society in which all parents must surrender their children over to government-controlled indoctrination centers (euphemism: "public schools"), they will assume that it is how things should be.
Put another way, the peasants decide what things should be like from the starting point of what things are already like. They might want a little bit more of one thing, or a little bit less of another, but only very rarely will a peasant come to the realization that your entire regime, and everything it does, is insane, unnecessary, and destructive to society. This is because reaching such a conclusion requires both objective analysis (which in turn requires independent thought) and intellectual confidence.
- -----------<>----------------
Republican politicians, and 99% of their supporters in the media, don't have a shred of principle among the bunch of them. You see, a principle is a position you take because it is what is RIGHT, even if it's unpopular, or dangerous, or not politically expedient, or different from what is being done today. What does it mean when principles are outranked by what is "practical" or "reasonable"? It means those principles are worthless.
A little over a century ago, doing away with slavery seemed to be a pretty darn "impractical" and "unreasonable" thing to do. And it was, but it was also the RIGHT thing to do. For that matter, having a full-scale revolution against the British Empire was pretty darn impractical and unreasonable, but in retrospect we applaud it. So when did this nation become such a bunch of wimps that we won't get rid of evil, anti-American, tyrannical abominations like the IRS, because doing so would be "impractical"? When did "give me liberty or give me death" get changed into "don't make waves; just go with the flow"? Often one's choices are to make waves, or to drown. This country is about to do one or the other, by either "making waves"
with Ron Paul, or by sinking with the latest in a long line of "reasonable," "practical" tyrants at the helm.
Sincerely,
Larken Rose
http://www.larkenrose.com
Sunday, December 16, 2007
Just Last Year??????
I cannot believe this was just last year - I did not even know I had a little Jack on the way when we took this! What sweet little ones...Thank you Lord!
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