The post on facebook or twitter. If you want to send a text include your name and city 202 7488003 is the text number and we will be reading those later in our live coverage from miami. Joining us now the author of unfollow an mri leaving the westborough active Baptist Church burka where did you grow up and how quex. I grew up in kansas at the westborough Baptist Church started by my grandfather and almost my entire extended family at westborough we had a normal life in some ways. Public school, video games, made cookies with my parents with all wonderful memories but then our lives were organized around a picketing ministry from the age of five i would protest gay people originally and then from there to everyone outside of the church was headed for hell and we had a duty to go with them of the consequences of their sins and our whole lives were organized around the ministry. Host how does that begin if you talk about this loving family that you have and a normal childhood when did th
This week the communicators goes to the university of michigan near detroit where Car Companies are using and it test site called mcity to tryout new technology. Carmakers art spearman did with technology that allows cars to talk to each other and talk to roads and traffic lights so there will be fewer traffic accidents. We spoke with a transportation analyst who studies this technology and with the director of the university of michigans Mobility Transformation Center. Host Debra Bezzina where are we right now . Guest we are at the university of michigan in what we call mcity. Mcity was built specifically to test, develop connected and Automated Vehicles. Host and this is a store in your background. Guest this is a storefront. Basically you can create different scenarios for connected and Automated Vehicles and trying to target the ones are difficult. You want to test and be able to repeat so when you are out on the street its hard to be able to repeat consistently so if youre behind
Of sexual abuse victims. Vatican officials told a u. N. Committee today that the church can do a better job dealing with the global priest sex abuse scandal but denied accusations of a cover up. Al jazerras same inning mcgregorwood has more now from geneva. Reporter for many this was a chance to display a new at thate and it was a very public form em. It opened with a statement from the vatican delegation. The results of the combined action taken by local churches and by the holy see presents a framework that when properly applied, will help eliminate the occurrence of child sexual abuse by clergy and other church personnel. Reporter an attempt to reassure but didnt convince many. The questions came thick and fast. What is the holy see doing with regard to article 39 of our convention, which refers to reparations both psychological and financial to children who have been victims of sexual abuse . Despite the extensive protests, what steps have been taken with regard to sakes an spankse
They are less harmful because of no tabacco but more because we nont know what they are made of. They are feeling weird and giving me headaches. Also a question of whether or not they are a gateway to marijuana or regular smoking. Good questions, dont miss that the vapors deliver life saving chemicals. The same regulations for natural tabacco should be in place for the ecigarettes. Well the sales doubled in the past year to an a billion and a half dollars and for many the exploding popularity is a major cause of concern. Ecigarettes are blamed for 161 increase in calls to poison control country. The cartridges come in a number of flavors and enticing to kids. They are not child proof. They are popular among the teens with a survey finding that the number of High School Students using them nearly doubled in just a year. So what exactly are the risks soe associated with the ecigarettes them. Ray story is ceo of the association and drochlt George Rogers from the Childrens Hospital and the
Known as deepbrain stimulation, the author of gorqy park relies n electrodes. I talked to them both. Bill, you were diagnosed with parkinsons since 1995 and kept it private. Why is that . Just a sense that there was a weakness in the public persense of who i was. I didnt american men dont like being weak. We regard anything that suggested that we are not on top of our game will be will work against us. The idea that to some degree to have a hidden and public figure exacerbated that. What was life like in 1995 otherwise for you . I was a superb athlete. [ laughs ] bow hunting. No, i had what we would say about as good a life as one could have, with this one hiccup which i was starting to shake. That was the first sense you had of it. Is that how you found out . The first sense i had was i was going to thanksgiving dinner at a friends house, and as i was walking headed down there with another friend, also a doctor, he said, why are you why arent you swinging your arm . Why arent you swin