uWink to Host Charity Event for Juvenile Diabetes

Yahoo ^ | Monday November 13, 1:27 pm ET | uWink, Inc.

[IslandJeff]

uWink to Host Charity Event for Juvenile Diabetes at Grand Opening Celebration for New Restaurant
Monday November 13, 1:27 pm ET

Special Guests will be Treated to uWink's Unique Combination of Food, Drinks and Digital Media

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--uWink, Inc. (OTCBB: UWNK - News), a publicly held digital entertainment company, will host a charity Grand Opening event benefiting the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) on November 30, 2006. The celebration will be held at uWink's newly opened Woodland Hills location from 6:00pm - 10:00pm.

The invitation-only event will offer guests the opportunity to experience uWink's innovative combination of food, drinks and media first-hand while helping raise awareness and funds for the JDRF, the leading charitable funder and advocate of type 1 (juvenile) diabetes research worldwide.

"We are so excited to be able to leverage the buzz and excitement around the opening of the first uWink restaurant to help fight a disease that has personally touched so many families, including my own," said Mr. Bushnell, chief executive officer at uWink, Inc. "So many children who suffer from juvenile diabetes are robbed of a normal childhood and are unable to experience all the activities that come so easily to healthy children. We understand that longing for fun, entertainment and social connectivity; our restaurant was built on that exact premise. We hope that by joining with the JDRF we're able to help these kids get one step closer to a cure."

[IslandJeff]

My first thread. 4-odd years is long enough to wait.

[IslandJeff]

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[austinmark]

Thank's For the *ping*

To All in & around the Las Angeles area, 'click the Yahoo story link- ....the e-mail address to get your invite(s) are there

Living in the Great State of Texas, I'll have to sit this one out....

[durasell]

Nolan Bushnell -- the genius carney who invented Atari and then had the brainstorm of launching a chain of restaurants that paired vermin with food!

[IslandJeff]

chain of restaurants that paired vermin with food

You mean hyperactive, screaming children?

[durasell]

I believe the Chuck E. Cheese mascot is a giant mouse -- the thing that most patrons tend to avoid in their choice of dining establishments.

[IslandJeff]

I know - I was pulling your leg, referring to vermin as children. It was THE place to avoid, as all I ever heard were horror stories about the food and staffing, not to mention fights and various kid-based accidents.

[Coleus]

the jdrf is pro abortion.

[IslandJeff]

http://www.jdrf.org/index.cfm?page_id=102111

Is this of which you speak? Of course they're going to be in favor of embryonic stem cell research (as loathsome as it is) - why would they unilaterally disarm? As an advocacy group, their job is to keep all research avenues open and funded. There are only (thank you, President Bush) a limited number of EXISTING embryonic research lines currently open. Usage of existing embryonic life (W's Solomonic decision) is not the equivalent of creating new life just to destroy it.

Don't confuse the message with the messenger. I'd like to think few of us would accept treatment based upon the sacrifice of innocent human life, as a matter of conscience.

Pro-abort lefties get the disease, too, however.

[BlessedBeGod]

the jdrf is pro abortion.

And pro-cloning, to get additional embryos to experiment with. I refuse to participate in the JDRF fund-raising at work even though it's one of our company's two major charities.

[IslandJeff]

Respectfully, from the source cited in my #9:

There is a difference between reproductive cloning (use of SCNT technology for the purpose of creating a human being) and therapeutic cloning (use of SCNT technology to derive stem cells in order to develop therapies to help cure various diseases). JDRF strongly opposes reproductive cloning. JDRF also opposes a permanent ban on therapeutic cloning research. Instead, JDRF proposes that Congress and the Administration ensure that all research adheres to appropriate scientific and ethical guidelines. Currently, JDRF is not funding therapeutic cloning research and will do so only when a strong case, based on sound science, can be made.

[Coleus]

Embryonic stem cell research is immoral and those with diseases should not advocate such research, the end does NOT justify the means. Adult stem cells work, embryonic stem cells do not. ESCR in animals started in 1981 and in humans in 1998, there has been no human clinical trials since this research started while there are presently 72 disease treated or cured by ethical and moral use of adult stem cells.

Usage of existing embryonic life (W's Solomonic decision) is not the equivalent of creating new life just to destroy it. >>>>

Usage of existing embryonic life is barbaric and proven useless. So why do it?

[Coleus]

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