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Sunday Afternoon Practice: Redman goes 5-for-7 in goal line drill
By Mike Bires
Photo: David Hague – Inside Pittsburgh Sports
LATROBE _ Isaac Redman is fast becoming "Mr. Touchdown."
In Thursday's 20-10 preseason win over the Arizona Cardinals, he scored both of the Steelers' TDs.
Then during a seven-play goal-line scrimmage Sunday, he got the ball on all seven plays and scored on five of them.
"Everyone likes being in the end zone, especially a running back," said Redman, an undrafted rookie out of Bowie State University, an NCAA Division II program located in Maryland not far from Washington, D.C.
After the win over Arizona at Heinz Field, coach Mike Tomlin said he wanted to give Redman some work with "the varsity." Such was the case Sunday at St Vincent College.
On his first two carries, Redman ran with the first-team offense. He scored both times against the first-team defense. Then on his third attempt with the second-team offense, he scored again against the first-team defense.
The Steelers are trying to find a consistent, productive short-yardage back since Gary Russell was cut during the off-season.
"He still has a ways to go," coach Mike Tomlin said. "That's the process. But he represented himself very well today."
On the depth chart, Redman is behind Willie Parker, Rashard Mendenhall, Mewelde Moore and Justin Vincent at the halfback spot.
Touchdown Breakdown
1st Touchdown: Redman got a key block from David Johnson who was the fullback on the play to put the offense up 1-0.
2nd Touchdown: In single back formation, the middle was clogged but Redman bounced to the right side on a good block from starting right guard Trai Essex for the touchdown.
3rd Touchdown: Frank Summers was the lead blocker (in motion) for Redman and made a crushing block on Tyrone Carter to spring Redman into the end zone. Sean McHugh was the fullback on the play.
The offense went up 3-0 and then Redman was stopped on consecutive runs.
4th touchdown: Redman scored on a sweep to the right side. Frank Summers was the lead full back.
5th touchdown: Summers was the lead full back on the play, as Redman scored on a run to the right side.
*Offense won the drill 5-2
McDONALD MAKES HIS BID
In camp, the two wide receivers getting the most media attention have been Limas Sweed, a second-round draft pick last year, and rookie Mike Wallace, a third-round pick this year. But Shaun McDonald has been making some commotion as well.
In Thursday's win over Arizona, McDonald led all receivers with six receptions for 69 yards. On Sunday, he made a spectacular 17-yard touchdown catch on a pass from third-team quarterback Dennis Dixon during 11-on-11 team drills.
McDonald, who can also returns punts and kickoffs, seems poised to be the fifth wide receiver.
"People forget that he's a been there, done that guy," back-up QB Charlie Batch said. "A couple of years ago in Detroit, he caught 79 passes for almost 1,000 yards. He's a veteran who's been around. He knows what he's doing out there."
McDonald is a seventh-year pro who played four seasons with the St. Louis Rams before spending two years in Detroit.
Rookie guard Kraig Urbik missed his first practice of camp for what Tomlin said was a scratched cornea. Urbik is expected back today.
Strong safety Troy Polamalu (calf) and defensive end Travis Kirschke (ankle) didn't take part in team drills. Kirschke was hurt in a pass rushing/blocking drill as he tried getting by tackle Jason Capizzi.
Meanwhile, running back Mewelde Moore sat out again with a tender hamstring.
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Q: Installing Ubuntu as Dual-Boot on SSD in AHCI Mode Pre-installed Win 10. Downloaded the newest Ubuntu .ISO on CD. The installer does not find any SSD (Where also Win 10 is), only the HDD.
Checked the UEFI and it says my SSD is in AHCI mode.
Do I need to pic another distribution or is there a solution?

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Sensitive ADATA Files Published Online Following a Ragnar Locker Ransomware Attack
The Electronics Maker Decided Not to Pay the Ransom and Restored the Impacted Systems on Its Own.
After Taiwanese memory and storage manufacturer ADATA had to take its systems offline following a Ragnar Locker ransomware attack in May, the ransomware hackers have now made public download links for more than 700GB of archived stolen data.
According to BleepingComputer, a batch of 13 archives, reportedly holding private files belonging to ADATA, have been publicly accessible at a cloud-based storage service.
Last weekend, the ransomware cybercriminals published on their leak website the download links to a new collection of ADATA corporate papers, informing interested parties that the links would not remain there for long.
As Ragnar Locker gang predicted, the cloud-based storage service that was hosting the stolen information responded and closed the hacker's account, refusing to grant access to any documents they had made public.
As stated by BleepingComputer, two of the published archives are quite large, weighing more than 100GB, but those that could have been effortlessly copied are less than 1.1GB large.
For each file metadata published by the hacker, the largest archive is close to 300GB and it is impossible to know what it might contain based on its name.
Another large one is 117GB in size and its name is just as featureless as the first one (Archive#2).
Based on the archives titles, Ragnar Locker probably stole official papers that contain banking information, non-disclosure agreements, and others belonging to the Taiwan-based company.
ADATA was hit by with ransomware cyberattack that occurred on May 23rd, which led to the takedown of impacted systems offline for the containment of the virus.
Although the systems are now restored and started to function normally, the Ragnar Locker ransomware gang claims to steal 1.5TB of data before deploying the encryption procedure, stating that the weak network security gave them the time they needed for their operation.
So then, as usual, we did offer to cooperate to fix the vulnerabilities and to restore their system and of course, avoid any publication regarding this issue, however, they didn't value much their own private information, as well as partners/clients/employees/customers information.
As the Ragnar Locker leak clearly shows, ADATA did not pay the ransom and restored the affected systems on its own.
The recently published set of archives is not the first one that Ragnar Locker ransomware leaks for the Taiwanese memory and storage manufacturer ADATA.
The previous one was published earlier this month and includes four small 7-zip archives (less than 250MB together) that can be downloaded even at this moment.
Ragnar Locker Ransomware Hits Electronics Maker ADATA
Behind The Capcom Ransomware Attack

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Jaspar Centre
Video – Our Story
Good Health & Wellbeing
Elderly & Disabled
Team & Trustees
The Jaspar Foundation Team have financial oversight on the Foundation's activities and interests. The Trustees bring with them a wealth of philanthropic, commercial, financial and legal experience.
By ensuring the Foundation achieves its overall objective, the Trustees ensure good decision making takes place with accurate filing and reporting. As with all charities in England and Wales, Jaspar Foundation is registered and regulated by the Charities Commission and our UK registered charity number is 1127243.
Raj Pankhania BEM Founder
Raj Pankhania is the Founder and Chairman of Jaspar Group and Jaspar Foundation. Born in Kenya and moving to the UK in the 1970's, Raj has over 40 years experience in the property sector, setting up his company to make a mark in the construction industry. Raj is married and has two children, Anup and Shivani.
From humble beginnings of extensions and refurbishments to investing and developing numerous commercial and residential properties, Raj has seen the company transform and flourish, growing year on year. Raj is an innovative visionary – founding the Jaspar Foundation, building the Jaspar Centre and using his design and ideas to build and design quality homes at Jaspar Group.
In June 2021, in the Queen's Birthday Honours List, Raj was awarded a BEM – British Empire Medal for services to older people and the community in North London. This great accolade and milestone achievement is a tribute and true testament to Raj's vision, determination and dedication with Jaspar Foundation over the past decade.
Anup Pankhania Trustee
MA Oxon MPhil Cantab
Anup Pankhania is the Managing Director and CEO of Jaspar Group, a property investment and development company. Anup read Geography at Oxford University and acquired an MPhil in Real Estate Finance from Cambridge University. Since Anup joined the family business in 2005, the Jaspar Group has grown from 3 members to 30 with over 100 on-site employees.
Anup's vision of contemporary property designs in the commercial and residential sector have propelled the company forwards with success in property sales and marketing, with Jaspar Group becoming a substantial player in the property industry.
Anup believes philanthropy is core to his being. He is excited about the future of Jaspar Foundation, enhancing lives and making a difference through selfless giving.
Subhash V Thakrar Trustee
BCom (Hons) Acc, FCA, FRSA
Subhash Vithaldas Thakrar is a former partner of Blackstone Franks LLP and CBW and now a consultant to CBW, London city chartered accountants.
Subhash sits on the Boards of various companies in executive and non-executive positions. He has been extensively involved in joint ventures and investment funds in India and Africa.
Subhash has also served and supported organisations in the voluntary sector including Pratham, a charity in India to educate slum children, Attlee Foundation, a charity set up to assist children in less developed parts of London, Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, 3 R's Trust to help educate children in remote parts of Nepal and helping the elderly with Jaspar Centre.
He is the founder and chairman of Charity Clarity, an independent rating agency for charities, providing guidance to charities. This is the only body in the UK that provides such a service and has the objectives to highlight well governed charities with higher ratings and also help lift the low scoring poorly run charities with a dedicated consultancy service. Subhash is co-author to 4 business books. He has raised funds for various charities by cycling long distance.
Chandrika Pankhania Trustee
Chandrika was born and brought up in Nairobi, Kenya. Moving to the UK in the 1970s, she threw herself into her passion – working in the retail sector in London. Chandrika worked at Selfridges for a number of years, which she enjoyed. She married Raj in 1981, giving up work at the department store and spending her time supporting him with his business venture and raising a family. Chandrika then took a career break to bring up Anup and Shivani, whilst Raj concentrated on growing his property business, Jaspar Group.
Chandrika now spends time with her grandchildren. She loves cooking for the family and is a keen philanthropist.
Hiren Shah Trustee
BA (Hons) Acc, FCCA, Dip Cll, Cert CII (MP)
Hiren read Accounting and Finance with Computing at the University of Kent, Canterbury and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in July 2001. Hiren is married and has two children.
Hiren completed the London Marathon in 2016 for charities that support underprivileged children. He has recently been spearheading the provision of water by constructing water bore holes in Mombasa, Kenya for communities to have daily and direct access to water.
Hiren has spent his career working for Shah Gillani & Company and Kimberley Financial Services. Hiren's expertise is in the field of providing owner managed businesses and high net worth individuals with priceless advice often leveraging on his contacts to deliver dynamic financial and practical solutions. In 2001 he founded a commercial property investment company called Kimberley Property Investments Ltd and in 2003 Numerica Associates Ltd was founded to provide strategic business and property advice to clients of the accounting and financial services practice.
Riddhi Pankhania Foundation Director
BA (Hons) Acc
Riddhi grew up in Stanmore and attended Watford Grammar School. She studied Accounting & Finance at Nottingham Trent University. Riddhi started her career with an Internal Audit role in London. After marrying Anup, Riddhi decided to change her career and support Raj with the opening of Jaspar Centre in 2013.
Riddhi played a fundamental role in overseeing the refurbishment of the new facility for the elderly, from initial set up to managing the procedures and operations on a day-to-day basis. Adhering to Health & Safety guidelines, managing the procurement and logistics of fresh meals and organising the comprehensive daily activities schedule, she immersed herself in this role for 6 years.
Having taken a break for 18 months to have two children, Riddhi is Director of the Jaspar Foundation, working closely with Neha.
Neha Mehta Foundation Manager
BSocSci (Hons) Banking & Finance
Neha moved to the UK from Kenya, graduating in 1995 from the University of Birmingham with a degree in Banking & Finance. Starting her career in the banking sector with Goldman Sachs in London for 8 years, Neha then undertook a Design & Project Management role at Micasa, a Property and Interior Design company for 15 years. She decided on a change of career, moving to the charitable sector and joined Jaspar Foundation in 2020.
Neha is married with two grown-up children. With a passion for charitable endeavours and supporting worthy causes, Neha's fundraising efforts include London Marathon, Royal Parks and London Landmarks half marathons, climbing Mt Kilimanjaro, completing triathlons and sponsoring education for children in Ladakh, India.
Jaspar Foundation
Stanmore House
15 – 19 Church Road
HA7 4AR
Jaspar Group
Visit the Jaspar Group
© 2022 Jaspar Foundation. All rights reserved. UK Reg. Charity Number 1127243.


Republicans and Democrats may be more divided this year, versus 2016, in how each group consumes policy media.
Our 2016 survey data showed that Republicans and Democrats had similar levels of trust in media brands, and shared a few of the same media brands as their go-to sources for policy information. Nine out of the top fifteen reported media brands were the same for both Republican and Democrats. The top two media brands were the same for Insiders from both parties, but reversed in order.
The 2017 survey results show a significant change. In this year's survey, Republicans increasingly reported being less likely to trust their go-to sources of news and information. Democrats, on the other hand, reported themselves to be more trusting of their go-to sources.
Some of the go-to sources for both parties include national media brands, as well as brands that are prominent mainly inside the Beltway. In 2016, more than 70% of all Washington Insiders (Congressional staff members, federal executives, and private sector professionals) reported trust in national media brands and in inside-the-Beltway media brands. But this year shows a decline in trust across the board. Even still, trust is highest for these brands than for other information sources.
Among Washington Insiders, Republicans' level of trust in national brands dropped 10% from 2016. For Beltway brands, Republican trust declined by nearly 15%. Democrats, by contrast, reported an increase in trust for national media brands. Trust among Democrats for Beltway brands also rose.
Why do the trends in trust appear to be moving in opposite directions between Washington Insiders who affiliate with the two prominent political parties?
We don't have an answer to this question, yet. But we'll keep tracking the trends in trust and media consumption through subsequent surveys.
Are we seeing evidence of a cycle of trust?
Are we simply back to where we started?
Will levels of trust continue to erode, or will they bounce back?
What are the fundamental drivers of the changes in these trust levels?
One area where responses from Republicans and Democrats were similar is on digital information sources. Online-only news brands and social media platforms are less trusted this year by both parties; and generally by all the Insiders we polled. This is interesting to note, given the prevalence of digital media; especially of information shared throughout social networks.
We were pleased with the responses we received in this year's Washington in the Information Age survey. Nearly 1,200 Insiders participated in the 2017 study. The data they provide help us and our clients better understand the policy media landscape: how policy professionals and federal executives consume media; what content formats are most effective; and opportunities for greater reach and impact.
National Journal Leadership Council members can access the full study (along with detailed data cuts by party, workplace, and generation). Those without access can purchase it here.


Most Android Phone's default browsers block the SharePoint 2013 Authentication popup window. This makes it impossible to login and edit your site on the go. If you have a SharePoint site and plugin your URL into the Android browser you will likely get a 401 Unauthorized error. Unfortunately, the default browser squashes the login prompt popup preventing anyone from logging into their SharePoint site. I recently spent a few minutes setting up some the Android phones in our office (Samsung Galaxy S, HTC One, and HTC DNA) to access our SharePoint 2013 Foundation hosting site.
The first step is to simply grab the Firefox Browser from the Android Marketplace (Google's chrome browser app also works but is not officially fully supported by Microsoft). Firefox is one of the browser officially supported by Microsoft for SharePoint 2013 and will allow you to login to your SharePoint Hoster site and login. Firefox supports SharePoint's login popup and allows you to login to your site! By using the Firefox Android app as your browser, you can visit your SharePoint Hoster URL and login and edit your site.
If you have an Android phone give it a try! Firefox runs SharePoint really well and the mobile version is no different. Sign-up for a Free SharePoint 2013 site today!
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Melt-in-your-mouth tender wagyu beef is this restaurant's specialty. Jeffrey's offers plenty of salads and side dishes, but remember—this is a steak house, so there's a separate charge for everything, and that can quickly make for a pricey meal. The menu also features lamb and pork chops, chicken and salmon, and a few other entrée options. But it's really the wagyu that brings in the crowds. A good selection of wines is also available and the knowledgeable staff is happy to help you choose a good pairing. With no more than a dozen or so tables in this historic adobe home just off Main Street, it's sometimes hard to get a reservation at this popular eatery, so plan ahead if possible.


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Virginia Mother Who Survived Mao's Cultural Revolution Sees Parallels in America
On October 14, 2021 October 14, 2021 By Geri UngureanIn China in the last days
Brethren, if you are a student of history and what this women says is true; then you know that we are in deep trouble.
From epochtimes.com
11Xi Van Fleet in Washington on Oct. 5, 2021. (Courtesy of the Conservative Partnership Institute
Chair Mao slaughtered at least 165 million people – Chinese people. Right now we could call him the worst mass murderer in the world – ever.
But with the globalists chomping at the bit to reduce the population of the world to less that 500,000; if that is accomplished, the monstrous globalists will take the lead over Mao.
If we lived in a perfect world, the globalists who are killing millions of people with the Jab would be arrested – hauled off to prison with no bail posted. Then they should be tried for crimes against humanity – The Nuremberg Code.
This experiment on the human race is like none other in the history of the world. I cannot begin to fathom how many people in various countries will be dead.
The Epoch Times piece:
The communist political movement that devastated China decades ago is unfolding in America, warned Xi Van Fleet, a parent-turned-activist who made national headlines after speaking out against critical race theory(CRT) at a school board meeting.
"When the Cultural Revolution started, I was a first grader," the Virginia mother told EpochTV's "American Thought Leaders." She said that all classes ceased at schools and colleges as older students proclaimed themselves Mao Zedong's Red Guards.
Emboldened by Mao's slogan "To Rebel is Justified," the Red Guards did not hesitate to instigate violence and destruction on everyone and everything they considered "counter-revolutionary."
"With Mao's approval, no one could stop them," said Van Fleet, recalling a story she heard from someone who witnessed the Red Guards beating to death a man, who was deemed an "oppressor" and "exploiter" for simply being able to withdraw a large sum of money from his bank. The perpetrators faced no consequences for the killing, since the criminal justice system was already paralyzed.
Another key feature of the Red Guards movement was to attack the "Four Olds," namely "old ideas, old culture, old customs, and old habits." To enforce what Van Fleet described as a "cancel culture," the Red Guards would go door to door to search and destroy any item that was connected to the period before the communist takeover of China.
"I remember this whole street was just a mess of things destroyed, and the people, those homeowners, howling and crying," she said.
While the madness and lawlessness of Mao's Cultural Revolution may sound extreme to Americans, Van Fleet warns that America is following a similar path.
"One of the things that I noticed is people are afraid," she said. "There is the right way to talk. There are the right ideas, and those who don't share it feel like, if they tell their own opinion, they might run the risk of being considered racist—a word like China's 'counter-revolution.'"
The term "racism," much like the vaguely defined "counter-revolution," no longer means anything but serves as a political weapon, according to Van Fleet. "For the longest time, my understanding of racism is that someone who discriminates someone else based on the race," she said. "But in the last few years it has changed its meaning. Anyone who kind of disagrees with the the ideology from the left becomes a racist."
During the Cultural Revolution, the term "historical counter-revolution" was used to criminalize people for what they did or said in the past. Van Fleet said there is also an American version of it.
"In Virginia, Gov. [Ralph] Northam was called today a racist, because in the past, when he was in college, he wore blackface," she said. "That is the equivalent of Chinese historical counter-revolutionary."
In Mao's China, citizens were classified into the favored "Five Red Categories" and the undesirable "Five Black Categories" based on their political identities. Descendants of members of the latter group, which included rich farmers and other "class enemies," were routinely humiliated and forced to go to "struggle sessions" where they were made to confess their privileged status. Van Fleet said this echoes with what advocates of CRT push to Americans and their children.
"Does that remind us of CRT?" she said. "[According to CRT] if you are born white, you are an oppressor; if you're born black, you're oppressed, and as oppressed people, you have no hope in this oppressive society."
"That's the most effective way to divide people, and that's from the Marxist playbook to divide," she continued, pointing out that CRT is Marxist class struggle rhetoric repackaged to focus on race so that it works better in American society. "And then they have gender, sexuality, and intersectionality—all of these are tools to divide and they are rooted in cultural Marxism. Mao used that, the [American] left is using it now."
"What's happened here in America is nothing new," she said. "It happened in China, it happened to me. If we let it go, and not stopping it, [we] will have the same result. The result of the Cultural Revolution is the total destruction of the society, and that's what awaits us if we don't stop it." Source
Today I saw our Commander & thief speaking to the press. He was reading from a teleprompter as he showed pictures of dozens of ships at various docks in the U.S. He said that the ships were filled with cargo and desperately wanted to have the goods off-loaded. Then he said "They cannot."
He then went into why the cargo could not be off-loaded. He said that we do not have enough truck drivers to deliver these goods. He warned of empty store shelves and as much doom and gloom as he could read on the monitor.
He even said that Christmas might be spoiled this year because there will not be enough real or fake trees. I was expecting any minute for him to slip on a Grinch suit!
Keep your eyes on Jesus.
He is in full control!
And anyway – the celebration of the birth of our Savior Jesus Christ certainly does not even require a Christmas tree! We have one each year as a tradition.
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The cabal includes all MSM, and corporations who push their oppression. And any pastor who pushes for the vaccine needs to be chastised. I was taken back when I had read that Pastor Robert Jeffreys said their was no valid reason for religious exemption from vaccine and encourages people to get it.


Around one in 700 babies are born with a cleft around the world. That's over 1,200 babies born with a cleft each year in the UK!
A cleft lip and/or palate is the most common craniofacial abnormality (a problem to do with the skull and face) which babies can be born with.
Just had a diagnosis? Get your questions answered.
A baby with a cleft palate before and after surgery. Occasionally, after surgery, small holes (fistulae) can form, as is visible in the second image.
Sometimes a baby with a cleft palate may have a small lower jaw (mandible) and a few babies with this combination may have difficulties with breathing. This condition may be identified as Pierre Robin Sequence.
You can have a cleft lip, a cleft palate, or a cleft lip and palate. A cleft palate by itself is often called an isolated cleft palate.
Genetics is all about things inherited from family members, like eye and hair colour. With a cleft, sometimes there is a clear family link, other times it just happens as a 'one off'.
Find out more about the causes of cleft lip and palate.
Around one in 700 babies are born with a cleft around the world. That's around 1,200 babies born with a cleft each year in the UK!
Of these, around 45% will have a cleft palate on its own, 24% will have a cleft lip on its own, and 31% will have a cleft lip and palate.
Bilateral cleft lip and palate (where the cleft is on both sides of the lip) is the least common type, at just 9%.
The NHS Cleft Teams in the UK are made up of a number of specialists from surgeons to speech therapists dedicated to providing the best possible care for people born with a cleft, from infancy through to adulthood.


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Q: On the Newton Polygon for $p-$adic Power series I'm studyng a Book about $p-$adic numbers, and I have troubles with a "degenerate" case of a Newton polygon. Let $f(X)=\sum a_{i}X^{i}\in\mathbb{Q}_{p}[\![X]\!]$, we define the Newton poligon of $f$ as the convex hull of the set of points $(i,v_{p}(a_{i}))$ (where $v_{p}$ is the $p-$adic valuation) and if $a_{i}=0$ we introduce the point at infinity on the positive Y-axis $Y_{+\infty}=(a_{i},v_{p}(a_{i}))$. My trouble comes from this series:
$$\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}p^{-n^{2}}X^{n}$$
I have a first infinite line, the positive part of the Y-axis, and since I have a strictly decreasing sequence on the $v_{p}(p^{n-^{2}})'s$ we cannot have a convex hull, so I only have the positive Y-axis? But the convex hull must cointain all of these points, so, my intuition suggest that the Newton poligon must be all the Y-axis
What is the newton polygon in this "degenerate" case? In the book there is not a discussion about this kind of examples, only treats the case of convergent power series, so we have a finite or infinite number of sides in our Newton polygon ...
Thanks a lot; I hope to have explained myself


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Thanksgiving and Advent are two beloved seasons the Christian communities in the United States of America celebrate for centuries. The two are connected by an attitude of gratitude. I urge you to join me in thanking God that we are privileged to celebrate another Advent season. Advent reminds us that God loves us, interested in our personal struggles, and keeps His promise to save us. Please be very prayerful and earnest as we observe this Advent season, which begins this Sunday and goes up to the Sunday before Christmas. We will observe Advent with a wreath with 5 candles that represent 1) Hope; 2) Joy; 3) Peace; 4) Love; and 5) Jesus, which will be lit each Sunday.
We should be thankful for the Incarnation, which is the embodiment of God the Son in human flesh as Jesus Christ. "And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth." John 1:14. Jesus took on a human body and human nature to experience humanity in all his/her experience so that he (Jesus) might become our Savior. God, in the state of His eternal glory, cannot die. Therefore, it became necessary for God to become man that He might be able to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself (Hebrews 9:26). The Good News is that Jesus came to us in human body, to share the life experience of humanity, and to save us (Luke 17:11-13).
This Advent season we should be encouraged on one hand to acknowledge that the world is full of pain and suffering, hardships and turmoil, disappointment and regrets, and on the other hand be comforted by the fact that the Gospel is good news for everyone. The Advent message is that the mission of Jesus is Salvation – deliverance, healing of broken hearts, and supplying of needs. Jesus is the embodiment of hope, joy, peace and love, but there is something special about hope among the people of God. Without hope we have no power to walk in love; no power to keep going on and not give up; no power to hold fast to the way of righteousness; and no power to hold ourselves to resist some brief unsatisfying pleasure.
We should be thankful that we have another opportunity to celebrate Advent as a time of expectation, waiting, and preparation for the second coming of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Let this Advent be for you personally a time of reflection, daily bible reading, and ceaseless praying. Let us with enthusiasm and expectation join the Christian Church in purposeful preparation for Advent and the celebration of Christmas. Let us join the voices of generations of saints past and present in the refrain, O come, O come Emmanuel!


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It's the system, stupid: The Ragnarok of globalized corporate capitalism and the rise of the planetarian paradigm
by James Heddle
Contradictions on the Horizon
You see them as you fly in. 'Wonderful, wonderful Copenhagen, Lovely Ol' Girl of the Sea,' as Danny Kaye's Hans Christian Anderson character once sang in the '50's movie, embodies in its skyline the contrasts and contradictions facing us all in the inevitable transition to a post-carbon future. A scan across the harbor's horizon reveals a phalanx of giant wind-generators spinning ponderously in the ocean breeze, flanked by an array of coal- and gas-fired power plants discharging plumes of carbon into the lowering overcast. Just visible to the east across the narrow strip of ocean that separates Denmark from Sweden you can make out the inactive cooling tower of Barsebek nuclear power plant, shut down as a result of public pressure generated by anti-nuclear NGO's in both countries.
Denmark itself enjoys a reputation as a bastion of cradle-to-grave social democracy that makes it the envy of US universal health care advocates. Yet its current politics exhibit an alarming strain of right-wing repressiveness made evident in recent draconian legislation hostile to public dissent, and in the repressive tactics employed by its 'politi' toward non-violent mass demonstrators during COP 15. At least a thousand were preemptively detained, some brutally beaten with batons, all denied water and toilets and caged for long periods in a cold detention center in recent days. Yet only four were formally charged. The most egregious case was that of Climate Justice Action's German spokesman and famously non-violent organizer Tadzio Muller, who was grabbed by Danish plainclothesmen outside the Summit meeting, detained for several days, and released without charge after the UN's fifteenth Conference of the Parties (COP 15) was over.
Still, despite its large per capita carbon footprint, Denmark has much to teach the world about energy transition. It has officially eschewed nuclear power and weapons. It has a thriving bicycle culture rivaling that of China, with broad bike lanes lining all its main streets and a teeming daily multitude of dedicated cyclist-commuters even in the depth of the scandinavian winter. Its public transport system of reliably scheduled trains, subways and buses, and its redly-available taxies is second to none.
Top-Down Meets Bottom-Up
My partner, Mary Beth Brangan and I manage a non-profit, EON - the Ecological Options Network, that provides media services for progressive organizations. Having decided to come to Copenhagen too late to secure accreditation for the over-crowded official UN COP 15 process at the Bella Center, we have focused our efforts both of necessity and by preference on documenting on video events at the alternate venues of the Klimaforum 09 and Christiania's 'Climate Bottom' conferences, where hundreds of activists and progressive thought leaders concentrated on sharing solution-oriented analysis and organizational strategies.
In contrast to the official conference venue, the Bella Center, where elitism, non-transparency, jargon, acronyms and acrimony held sway (the official Climate Summit orientation document contains many pages of definitions of arcane code words for various negotiation categories and processes), events at the Klimaforum 09 and in Christiania have been characterized by egalitarian, cooperative, friendly events and processes demonstrating the democratic, bottom-up spirit the 'movement of movements' is committed to embody.
References to COP 15 dominated Copenhagen's landscape, with globes, banners, billboard and advertising displays about the climate talks everywhere. Huge posters emblazoned with 'Hopenhagen' festooned every bus stop and metro station, advertising would-be 'climate-friendly' corporate sponsors from Siemans and Vesta to Coca Cola. But one series of adverts seemed to inadvertently, yet ironically capture the attitude of many of the summit's governmental and corporate participants. Promoting some kind of fancy alcoholic drink , the glossy posters portrayed expensively dressed couples in various tableaus suggesting sexual intercourse accompanied by the slogan 'Party now. Apologize later.'
Voices from the Climate Bottom
Thanks to former European Parliamentarian Else Hammerich, our long-time friend and hostess with whom we stayed during our time here, we began our coverage of events, appropriately enough, in Christiania. This famous enclave of counter-culture in the heart of Copenhagen is an expansive former military base taken over in the 'sixties of the last century by 'hippies' who transformed it into an embodiment of egalitarian community, democracy and liberatory life-style that has managed to maintain some of its original funky character despite continuous pressure from the surrounding forces of officialdom. Numerous signs proclaim that both cameras and hard drugs are prohibited.
In what turned out to be a preview of coming events in the streets, as we approached the main entrance to Christiania, which is decorated by a fanciful mural portraying fairies and fecund lifeforms, we encountered a large group of police in riot gear exiting the gate - apparently making a show of force. Later in the week, a celebratory dance in the enclave would suffer an unprovoked attack by the 'Politi,' who fired teargas directly at the crowd and carried out 'preventative arrests' of many activists. But the place was peaceful enough during our visit as we wended our way through streets lined with colorfully decorated shops and living spaces and shared by mostly young folks clustered around bonfires and a large contingent of freerange dogs.
After a quick lunch in one of the community's many restaurants we found our way to a large circus tent where Else, who founded the Danish Center for Conflict Resolution (http://www.konfliktloesning.dk/), moderated a panel on non-violence, one of many events scheduled in a two-week program titled 'The Climate Bottom Conference.' Else's panel was followed with a talk by African American constitutional law professor Sandra Ruffin. A Harvard graduate from the class just ahead of Obama's, Dr. Ruffin laid out what she saw as the many structural and political constraints within which the US President labors. It turned out to be a prescient analysis of his actual performance at the Climate Summit ten days later, caught between the mythic projections and impossible expectations of an adoring global public and the retrograde burden of an obdurate Congress and a benighted American populace misled by denialist propaganda. As professor Ruffin summed it up, "Reality is a bitch."
A Festival of Realities and Possibilities
Klimaforum 09, an 'alternate climate summit' held in a huge conference center in central Copenhagen, served as the main focal point of the convergence of activists and intellectuals from around the world. The rich program was packed from dawn to midnight every day for two weeks with concurrent events on every conceivable issue area representing the full spectrum of challenges and solutions confronting humanity in this evolutionary moment. The crowded halls and sessions teemed with indigenous people in native dress, young people wielding video cameras, laptops and cellphones, and activists wearing costumes and sporting signs presenting their favorite cause. We never saw a single suit.
Luminaries, journalists and experts of every stripe and focus rushed about looking for the locations of their next scheduled presentation. We rushed about trying to video tape as much of the rich harvest as we could with hardly any time to catch up on jetlag, much less edit our recordings for posting on-line. What we did manage to process and upload are available for viewing on our YouTube channel at: http://www.youtube.com/eon3 . More will follow in coming days. The presentations have lasting value for all those working for a just and peaceful transition to a post-carbon future. Please stay tuned.
Don't Nuke the Climate!
The most sobering presentations were those detailing the tragic impacts of industrial corporatism-caused climate change on indigenous people on every continent and in every island group. One wonders if arch denialists like US Senator James Inhofe had the intellectual courage to sit through any one of the many presentations on this topic during Klimaforum, how their ecopathic worldview could possible remain intact. The plethora of examples are too numerous to detail in this limited space. But, for example, the International Forum on Globalization's Claire Greensfelder chaired a panel of indigenous and minority activists from around the world detailing the catastrophic impacts of uranium mining and the nuclear fuel cycle on their various cultures, people and ecosystems. ( http://www.dont-nuke-the-climate.org )
From the American Southwest to Alaska; from Niger to Kazakhstan; from uranium mines in Australia and India to reprocessing plants in France, Japan and the State of Georgia, indigenous and minority communities testify to horrendous health and environmental devastation that shows the current industry push for a 'nuclear renaissance' to be nothing less than genocidal. Inhofe, who boasts of having killed Kyoto and of his intent to kill any future climate treaty, had the temerity to make a cameo appearance the COP 15. One of the few reporters at his impromptu news conference told him, 'You're ridiculous.' From the indigenous point of view, Inhofe and his ilk are far worse than merely ridiculous, they're deluded homicidal maniacs on a mass global scale.
Other realities that blow holes in the denialist illusion are the proliferating populations of climate refugees fleeing sea rise, flooding, and glacier-melt-caused drought. Mary Beth interviewed young Maasai filmmaker Jemimah Maitei Kerenge, a participant in the Conversations with the Earth project, which trains indigenous people to in video production. She tells about the dire situation of her drought-devastated people. Their ancient culture, like many others around the world is being destroyed by climate change, their animals are dying and they are being forced to migrate, all 700,000 of them, out of their ancestral lands in Kenya into neighboring countries. ( For more info: http://www.conversationsearth.org/ and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCrq81jplA4 )
Planetarian Prospects
Italian philosopher Antonio Gramsci famously admitted to having 'pessimism of the intellect, but optimism of the will.' Despite the many causes for discouragement coming out of the fifteenth year of the UN's Conference of the Parties here in Copenhagen, Gramsci's quip captures my mood as we pack for the homeward journey. The Copenhagen Convergence has confirmed my awareness that never before in human history have so many activists, on so many issues, on so many levels, on every continent, and in every island group been at work. The immune response of the planetary body politic is alive and well in thousands of initiatives all around the world.
We encountered two of my two personal favorites on the penultimate day of the Klimaforum as it became more and more evident that negotiations at the official Summit were melting down despite the long and grueling efforts of many sincere governmental and civil society negotiators. One comes from British barrister Polly Higgins, who gave her analysis of the current planetary state of affairs, drawing the parallels between the arguments put forth by slave traders of yesteryear in the face of the ultimately successful abolition movement and those being put forth by the cap-n-trade corporate capitalists of today. They are exactly the same.
In response, Ms. Higgins is advocating a 'planet rights' approach, following the lead of Bolivia and Ecuador, and modeled on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and has launched a campaign to establish the right-to-exist of all life-forms in binding international law. You can find out more about her 'Peoples Declaration' at: http://www.treeshaverightstoo.com and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwui_cdw-6k.
My other personal favorite is an initiative launched by our old friend Jakob von Uexkull, founder of the Right Livelihood Award, also known as the 'Alternative Nobel Prize.' His new project, the World Future Council, is dedicated to the rights of future generations. You can find out more at: http://www.worldfuturecouncil.org/ and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4e8qJyXihk
The Parable of the Mastodon
The Copenhagen Convergence represents a coming together of single-issue activists in the process of realizing that whatever their main concern - women's rights, indigenous rights, water, energy, food, agriculture, peace and disarmament, environmental justice, debt cancelation, uranium mining, tar sands, chemical and electromagnetic pollution, the abolition of nuclear power and weapons, you name it - the underlying cause is the top-down, full-spectrum dominance of the current system of globalized corporate capitalism. And further, that the solutions to all these evolutionary challenges all involve the same remedy: capital punishment for unregulated corporate capitalism - an end to 'market-based,' profit-motivated non-solutions and commodification of the planetary commons. It is as if a group of blind people have, without realizing it, each had ahold of some appendage of a wooly mastodon in the throes of causing its own extinction.
Hopenhagen or Hoplesshagen?
As the Norse mythology version of 2012 has it, Ragnarok is the great battle at the end of an era, the 'twilight of the gods' brought about by the temporary triumph of the forces of evil, resulting in various natural disasters, the inundation of the world in water, followed by the re-emergence of a new and fertile world repopulated by the two remaining human survivors. I have been painfully reminded of that myth as an apt metaphor as I watched so-called Climate Summit events unfold here in Copenhagen over the past two weeks. Preemptive, brutal police repression of non-violent, mostly young activists who have converged in their thousands; official paranoia in the face of mass dissent and its equation with 'subversion' and 'terrorism;' shameful short-sighted game-playing and posturing by governmental negotiators.
It is not hard to make the case that what we have been witnessing here in frigid Denmark is indeed the twilight of the gods of globalized corporate capitalism, as Obama flies away in carbon-spewing Air Force One having brokered a non-binding, face-saving deal that is, in fact, no deal at all.
But that's only half the story, the fading shot of an historic cross-dissolve. To my mind what we are also witnessing is the continuation of a birthing process begun even before the 'Battle of Seattle;' the maturation of a 'movement of movements' and the emergence of a new 'planetarian paradigm' the implications of which will become ever more powerfully evident in the coming months and years.
James Heddle is co-director with Mary Beth Brangan of EON - the Ecological Options Network (http://www.EON3.net and http://www.YouTube.com/EON3). His e-mail is jim@EON3.net.


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The Blue Bird is a partsong (Op. 119 No. 3) composed by Charles Villiers Stanford in 1910. It is set to the words of L'Oiseau Bleu, a poem by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, which depicts a bluebird in flight over a lake. It is written for soprano, divided altos, tenor and bass. "The Blue Bird" is the third of Stanford's Eight Part Songs which are all settings of texts by Coleridge. It was widely performed by choral societies in England during Stanford's life and is considered one of the best English partsongs ever written. It has been recorded by ensembles including The Cambridge Singers, Oxford Camerata, Tenebrae, and the Gabrieli Consort.

Context
Before composing "The Blue Bird", Charles Villiers Stanford had already established himself as an accomplished writer of partsongs. He began by writing three collections of them in an Elizabethan style, the first of which (Op. 47, 1892) was praised by the Musical Times as being among the best of their kind. He then turned to setting arrangements of Irish folk songs, followed by Op. 119 and Op. 127, published by Stainer & Bell, which are settings of poetry by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, whose father Arthur Duke Coleridge was a friend of Stanford's. "The Blue Bird" comes from the Op. 119 collection of partsongs and is one of Stanford's most famous examples of the form. The form first became influential in England when partsongs by Felix Mendelssohn were translated into English, and the genre grew in part due to the popularity of early 19th century choral societies.

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Music and verse form
Partsongs are often strophic and written for multiple voices in a homophonic texture, with occasional rhythmic variation between the upper and lower voices. They are intended to be sung in intimate settings. "The Blue Bird" is in the key of G-flat major and is scored for an ensemble in five parts: soprano, divided altos, tenor, and bass. A typical performance lasts around four minutes, varying for each conductor.

The piece is strophic with two stanzas which have similar harmonic treatment. The first four bars are repeated at the end, acting as a short coda. The harmony frequently emphasises secondary sevenths and closely-spaced intervals, such as the major second which features frequently in the piece. The final chord is a seventh based on the supertonic (A-flat), while the soprano's final "blue" is suspended. This deliberate absence of resolution creates, in the words of Jeremy Dibble, "an inimitable version of the eternal."

"The Blue Bird" uses harmonic, rhythmic and other elements of the music to depict the imagery of the poem. The soprano part plays an important role in illustrating the blue bird itself. Dibble interprets the wide range of the soprano line as illustrating "the bird's free flight across the lake", and the repeated instances of the word "blue" on an E-flat as the bird "hovering". As for other imagery, Paul Rodmell writes that the slowly-moving nature of the music (larghetto tranquillo, or rather slow) depicts "a perfect picture of a still, hot day". He also compares the nature of the work to Vaughan Williams's The Lark Ascending (1914), a piece for violin and orchestra in which the music also depicts a bird in flight and natural scenery.

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Coleridge's poem was originally published in 1897 with the French title L'Oiseau Bleu.  It was published under the pseudonym "Anodos", which is taken from the novel Phantastes by George MacDonald and can be interpreted to mean "Wanderer". "The Blue Bird" was one of many poems published posthumously under Coleridge's own name in 1908, after she died prematurely the previous year aged 45.

The lake lay blue below the hill.O'er it, as I looked, there flewAcross the waters, cold and still,A bird whose wings were palest blue.

The sky above was blue at last,The sky beneath me blue in blue.A moment, ere the bird had passed,It caught his image as he flew.

Reception and legacy
According to musician and writer Walter Bitner, "the poem's great beauty lies in its direct expression of natural beauty and its power to evoke a strong impression in the imagination of the reader … The poet carefully identifies the subject of the poem as 'I' so that as each of us reads or hears it, we see this image in our mind's eye as if we ourselves are the witness of the event … It is pure impressionism." In Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Dibble notes that "The Blue Bird" demonstrates Stanford's expertise in sophisticated and refined diatonic harmonic language along with a "lyrical flair".

Stanford contributed to the repertoire of English choral music in the nineteenth century and the music sung within choral societies. In an address at Stanford's centenary, the composer Herbert Howells remarked how "The Blue Bird" in particular was widely performed among choral societies across the country, and how it formed an "essential beauty in the hearts of unnumbered singers." Musicologist Jeremy Dibble, who specialises in Stanford and his works, describes "The Blue Bird" as "perhaps one of the greatest English part-songs ever written." In his biography of Stanford, musicologist Paul Rodmell compares "The Blue Bird" within the context of Eight Partsongs (Op. 119), remarking that while most of the Eight Partsongs are "inconsequential", "The Blue Bird" stands out as an exception and is "deserving of its renown". Charles Reid, in Choral Music, describes the partsong as "a rounded a perfect miniature", which can be considered one of the best in its field.

Selected discography
The Blue Bird is usually included in an album of part-songs from different composers, or a collection of Stanford's music. The piece is featured in the record There is Sweet Music (Collegium Records COLCD 104, 1986; CSCD 505, 2002), performed by the Cambridge Singers under John Rutter. It is also part of Choral Music - English Madrigals and Songs from Henry VIII to the 20th Century (Naxos 8.553088, 1996) performed by the Oxford Camerata under Jeremy Summerly. This record includes all eight songs of Stanford's Op. 119. Other records which feature The Blue Bird features include: One Day Fine - Choral Music from Ireland (RTÉ Lyric CD131) performed by the National Chamber Choir of Ireland under Paul Hillier; Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (The British Music Collection, Decca 470 384-2, 2006) performed by Choir of New College Oxford; Music of the Spheres. Part Songs of the British Isles (Signum SIGCD904, 2016) performed by Tenebrae under Nigel Short; Silence & Music (Signum SIGCD490, 2017) performed by the Gabrieli Consort under Paul McCreesh; and In Paradisum (Aparté Music AP228, 2020) performed by Schola Cantorum of the Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School.

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A Look at the 13 Most Influential and Interesting Inventions from the 1930s
Next stop, the 1930s. Across our journey examining inventions throughout the decades, we touched on everything from the creation of the assembly line to penicillin, even looking at inventions that were directly influenced by military innovations; devices and objects that would go on to make their way into our homes. However, our journey is just getting started.
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Both the historical events and technological innovations from the '30s would eventually ripple across history and can still be felt today. Even within pop culture, things were changing dramatically. The 30s saw the birth of the Superman and Batman comics, while culture became both scared of the characters Dracula, and Frankenstein's monster. J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit was even published during this time period.
The 30s gave us ideas that would change the landscape of physics, and both the aviation automotive world as well as plant the seeds of war. Here are some of the most influential inventions from the 30s.
The invention of this material had far-reaching applications, affecting countless industries. Where would we be without the is unique made-made material? Nylon is used now just about everywhere and can be found in clothing, seatbelts, parachutes, machine screws, washers, and is even used to reinforce other composite materials. Patented by the DuPont company, this material would help generate the family's fortune.
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No one claimed the prize, however, physicist Robert Watson-Watt had another idea. He believed that you could use radio waves to detect airplanes by picking up the radio energy bouncing back from the aircraft's body.
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Yes I like it, especially Japanese beer.
I am glad we have something ( beer) in common. I'm not sure if I like it. Yes I like it, especially Japanese beer.
You weren't so sure, though.
Tell me more about your 18 for 7 bucks.
Thanks, God. You're cool. Want a beer?
You are quite welcome! GOD rules. Thanks I think you are cool too, Drew. No thanks but you can send me a donation.
Please send me a small donation.
Some people like it. I like Anything involving harps.
I do like music. I have a stimulating relationship with Myself. Thank you for your kindness.
I stimulate myself every night. Some times while listening to music!
Blimey. I'm not sure if I am ready for that yet.
Do you think I am ready for masturbation too?
I think so too. Me? I could but let's get back to that later.
OK let's stop it now. Yay.
After speaking to Him for a few minutes, it just confirmed my lifelong suspicion – God is nuts.
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Why IVF Children Need Rights as Individuals?
National Coming Out Day is October 11. I am an IVF father and I am a proud IVF father of my IVF children and I am coming out. If a gay father can tell his child the truth, why can't an IVF father tell the truth to his IVF child? United Nation (UN) declared October 11 is International Girl Child Day. Is IVF girl child an equal? Is it offensive to withhold the truth from innocent IVF children and deny them their rights? Is this "freedom"? The lack of laws for IVF children is why as an IVF parent I am coming out in support of "rights of IVF chidlren". Before we discuss the rights of an IVF father, it is important to understand the current legal landscape for IVF children based on gender and biology of parent. Like with any parent-child relationship, there is an emotional component and a legal component. The emotional component is the same in an IVF parent-child relationship, however the legal component is widely different and is based on gender and biology with the parent. The lack of laws for IVF children and families is why we need to discuss the "rights of an IVF father". More importantly, the IVF children of an IVF father are discriminated against and are the ones being punished for crimes they did not commit. The intent is clearly to protect the best interest of the IVF child and some very sensitive topics may be discussed which are true and factual in the spirit of getting equal rights for IVF children and families. Let's get on the right side of history. If we can show compassion to an intersex adult despite breaking multiple laws, why can't we show compassion to innocent IVF children? We are looking for a way out for victims, not a hand out to this 21st century issue.
Who is an IVF father?
An IVF father is a parent who loves his children and children who love their father. As per US Government's own research, it shows the positive influence and aspects in children with a father. For the purposes of this discussion, the analogous of an IVF father is an IVF mother who used her egg but used a surrogate to have a child. Women who are undergoing fertility treatments to birth their own child are not part of this discussion. The focus of this discussion is strictly from a legal perspective and the lack of laws which is hurting the IVF children more than the parents. An IVF father can be someone who is a gay father or a single father or if you are an intersex spouse. Should IVF fathers in a heterosexual relationship be considered? Do IVF fathers love their IVF children any less? Does infertility affect men any differently especially some IVF fathers who have been through the same roller coaster ride of IVF emotionally, financially, socially, spiritually, and so on? And when the IVF child is born and the IVF parent finds out that his IVF child is discriminated against because of his gender, how is that supposed to make a parent feel? After the years of anxiety, lost careers, sleepless nights, trauma, other losses, how is an IVF parent supposed to "equate" to his IVF children that they are somehow less because of his gender? Currently the IVF laws are based on biology and gender. Why not have IVF laws in the best interest of the IVF children? What is so wrong about that? or should we rob from a child like taking icecream from a little child? If an IVF father uses a compassionate surrogate to have a child (and a compassionate egg donor) Vs an IVF mother uses a compassionate surrogate to have a child (and a compassionate sperm donor) Vs an IVF mother uses both a compassionate egg donor and sperm donor and uses her own womb, why are the laws different for the same IVF child? What crime has the child committed to be treated differently based on a parent's gender and biology? Because infertility and IVF are dealt with secrecy, stigma and lies there is not open discussion and stifles information sharing and only now scientific studies are emerging based on facts. A recent study claims that because the way the IVF children are born with the fertility treatments, hormones, and other things, IVF children are a third more likely to develop cancer or are at 90% risk of brain cancer and 65% risk of leukemia. God forbid but if an IVF child who has been taken away from his biological family needs a bone marrow transplant tomorrow, will the "fraud birth documents" help save is life or w will truth save his life? The biological parent is more than happy to give an organ if it saves his IVF son's life but first the truth has to be accepted. The reality is IVF children have certain unique needs because of the nature of their birth as opposed to natural born children including adopted children. What are the rights of the IVF child?
What if the samples are accidentally swapped in the IVF clinic and there is a DNA mismatch. Is the love for the IVF child any less from the commissioning parent? More importantly, what are the rights of the IVF child? What if the "paying adults" (commissioning parents) decide to divorce during an IVF pregnancy, what are the rights of the IVF child? As gender roles are changing, as society is becoming more accepting of gay fathers, single fathers, or fathers who are primary care providers in a traditional marriage, have the laws caught up? More importantly, have the IVF laws and immigration laws caught up with the technology in the best interest of the IVF children? Not to long ago during the baby scoop era, children were forcibly given up for adoption to well-meaning parents and taken away from their biological mothers because their only fault was to be born to "single mothers" who were not "socially acceptable" at the time. Again the innocent children were discriminated due to the circumstances of the parent. A lot of the adoptive parents may be unknowing of the facts and may have raised the child lovingly, but what is right for the child? Why are adopted children looking for their birth parents now? Today it would be unthinkable to take a child away from a biological mother only based on the fact that she is "single". Is history repeating itself? Truth is the only salvation and children are very smart and figure it out. Especially IVF children because they have a weird sixth sense about things. The hope is that by the time these stateless IVF children grow up into adults, we will have made a dent in bringing equal rights for IVF children and families, it is something very much they can appreciate unless they have been lied to about their IVF birth. Ironically by lying to IVF children, instead of using an opportunity for learning, we are teaching them the worst of humanity which is lying, crimes and abuse in silence. The humanity is that through compassion of fellow human beings, an IVF child is born – a gift to be cherished and celebrated, not hidden and persecuted.


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Friday July 15, I will be holding an artist talk on my creative process behind my latest art installation, "The Other-Side presents That Wall". I would like to invite all fellow Cortes residents (and all who can make it there!) to join me at The Old School House Gallery on Cortes Island at 7pm for a fun evening. I will present a slide show to take you through the steps that made my art installation come alive. The installation will also be on display on Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th from 2 to 6pm. I will be sitting in the gallery on both days.


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Leadership workshop' for women with disabilities aims to build future leaders
Lack of awareness and social taboos impact people with disabilities in a big way in India, most of all girls and women, who also battle issues related to safety.
Women with disabilities are seeking to push aside those barriers and to be able to do that, they need to be made aware of their rights.
To enable this, National Association of Mental Illness (NAMI India) in association with Mobility International USA is organising a leadership conference in Mumbai.
Mobility International USA is a global organization working in the space of disability rights and leadership while NAMI India, founded by Akhila Charagi, worke to empower people with mental illness.
Charagi's says the goal is to ensure that they are treated with fairness and given opportunity for proper healthcare, rehabilitation and support.
The two organizations have come together to hold a workshop on 2 February. .
The one-day Women's Leadership Workshop is a free event and will be accessible and in English and Hindi. Sign language interpreters, captioning, workshop materials in Braille, and accommodation are some of the facilities that will be provided.
Participants will be required to register by email and the workshop is open to women with all types of disabilities. The workshop aims to empower women with knowledge about the rights of disabled people, so they impart that information to others.
The workshop is specifically to create women leaders in local communities who can work towards creating awareness. The workshop is an effort to create sensitization across all disabilities and to create a feeling of unity and strength. – Akhila Charaogi, National Association of Mental Illness (NAMI India)
Crucial topics such as sexuality, self-defense and human rights under the United Nations convention and the RPWD act will be discussed. "There will be a session where women will be taught some tips and tricks on self-defense", adds Charagi.
Jasmina Khanna, an engineer with cerebral palsy, is among those who is attending the workshop.
"I hope to learn more about the rights of disabled people. I also wish to learn about how to deal with lack of awareness when it comes to disability rights", says Khanna.
The world over, women have shown that given the opportunity they can be the voices of social change for their communities. Information about their rights is a key step towards making that happen.
To know more about the workshop Click Here.
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How The Bones Of An Ancient Rhino Placed Humans In The Philippines 700000 Years Ago
2 May 2018, 4:38 pm EDT By Steven Lerner Tech Times
On May 2, archaeologists revealed that early humans inhabited the Philippines 700,000 years ago. Previous research indicated that humans were only there 67,000 years ago.
What Was Discovered
Scientists recently excavated an archaeological site on the island of Luzon in the Philippines. This is the largest island in the Philippines, and it is the 15th largest island in the world.
The excavations, which were in the Kalinga province, uncovered 400 animal bones and 57 stone tools. Researchers determined that the bones belonged to a deer, freshwater turtles, and stegodons. Along with the recently discovered bones was 75 percent of a fossilized skeleton of a slaughtered rhinoceros. There were also several cuts on the skeleton.
Using electron spin resonance, the researchers determined that the rhinoceros was killed 709,000 years ago. Since the researchers believed that a human killed the rhinoceros, this means humans were in the Pihllippines at the same time.
Researchers published their findings in the journal Nature on May 2.
Scientists previously believed that humans inhabited the Philippines only 67,000 years ago because of a single bone found in a cave in Luzon. Archaeologists discovered other bones and tools throughout the decades, but they lacked the technology to properly date the objects.
"First is the very old age of this site which multiplies by ten the formerly known early presence of Hominins in the Philippines," said study author Thomas Ingicco, associate professor at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. "Second is the evidence for colonization of an ever-isolated island in The Philippines by the early Middle Pleistocene and therefore most likely by a hominin species other than Homo sapiens."
One question that scientists have not determined yet is how the early humans traveled to this island. Susan Antón, a paleoanthropologist at New York University, hypothesized that tsunami waves carried the early humans there.
How They Dated This
Determining the age of the rhinoceros was not an easy task because part of the skeleton was missing. Scientists used a combination of enamel from the teeth and quartz grains in the sediment to date it. With electron spin resonance, they calculated the buildup of electrons.
Although it was determined that humans did live in the Philippines over 700,000 years ago, there is still some uncertainty regarding which species of humans inhabited the land.
"The only thing missing is the hominin fossil to go along with it," said archaeologist Adam Brumm of Griffith University.
Homo sapiens likely didn't evolve until 300,000 years ago. Scientists believe that it was possibly H. erectus, an ancient species of humans that is extinct.
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Communist leader hails health care as 'historic victory'
By Aaron Klein
Published April 6, 2010 at 8:42pm
President Obama's new health-care law is a "historic victory" that can lead to socialized medicine and "single-payer" health-care legislation, boasted Juan Lopez, chairman of the Communist Party USA in Northern California.
"The signing into law of the new health care reform package has all the earmarks of a historic victory in more ways than one," wrote Lopez in a recent article in People's World, the official publication of the Communist Party USA.
Lopez called the new law "the federal government's biggest attack on economic inequality since President Reagan 30 years ago began the offensive to redistribute wealth in favor of the large corporations and the rich."
Continued Lopez: "Big chunks of the money to pay for the law come from payroll taxes of households earning more that a quarter of a million dollars and from cutting medical subsidies for private insurers."
The communist activist stated Obama deserves "a big hand for a job well done under heavy political fire."
Lopez argued Obama's health-care reform will need to go through more political battles until it eventually morphs into a right that is "fully enshrined in the Bill of Rights, as an amendment to the Constitution guaranteeing free health care for all as a basic human right."
Lopez noted that after Social Security legislation was first enacted into law it took years before the policy was "improved" upon. Similarly, he argued Obama's legislation could lead to "single-payer" healthcare.
Father of 'single-payer' movement
Chicago doctor Quentin Young, considered the father of the modern "single-payer" movement, has had a long relationship with Obama, particularly in the 1990s, when he reportedly advised Obama on health-care issues.
Young reportedly was present at a 1995 meeting at the home of former Weather Underground terrorist William Ayers that was said to have launched Obama's political career.
Young himself took credit in March 2009 in an interview with the Democracy Now network for "turning Barack Obama into a 'single-payer' advocate when the president was an Illinois state senator."
As an Illinois state senator representing a mostly black district on the south side of Chicago, Obama publicly supported universal health care. He also co-sponsored the Bernardin Amendment, which did not pass but would have amended the Illinois state constitution to add health care to the list of basic rights for residents.
Just after Obama's 2008 election, Young penned an article in Political Affairs, another official magazine of the Communist Party USA, calling for socialized medicine.
"The only effective cure for our health-care woes is to establish a single, publicly financed system, one that removes the inefficient, wasteful, for-profit private health insurance industry from the picture," said Young, who is also the national coordinator of Physicians for a National Health Program.
"Our country is hailing the remarkable and historic victory of Barack Obama and the mandate for change the electorate has awarded him," he said.
Young said the adoption of a single-payer health system should be a "major component of the new president's economic rescue of Main Street."
Young noted Obama previously expressed support of a single-payer universal health-care program, although he later waffled when asked about his position.
Young has been active in Chicago socialist circles and was accused of membership in a communist group. In 1992, Chicago's branch of the Democratic Socialists of America awarded Young, a member, with their highest honor – the Debs Award.
Young was accused of membership in the Bethune Club of the Communist Party, a party doctor's group, by a government commission investigating the 1968 Democratic Party Convention riots in Chicago.
Aaron Klein is WND's senior staff writer and Jerusalem bureau chief. He also hosts "Aaron Klein Investigative Radio" on Salem Talk Radio. Follow Aaron on Twitter and Facebook.
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Winter is coming! Now, where's the snow? Are you thinking to yourself… global warming? Why not? Maybe you're the socially conscious type and you've been following the COP21 summit in Paris. Either way, check out these 10 super weird effects of climate change we're seeing RIGHT NOW.
When the climate gets warmer, grizzly bears go north where they may end up in polar bear territory. Come springtime, a little bit of love is bound to happen. Meet the Grolar bear (or if you prefer, Pizzly bear).
We have already seen a decrease in major food crops around the world, due to climate change induced drought. Aside from no longer producing their share of wheat and corn, now the world's supply of wine is at risk because of rising and unstable temperatures.
Permafrost stops being permanent when the weather warms up. When soil that's been frozen for thousands of years melts, really weird things happen – like these huge craters that were discovered by mistake when a herd of reindeer almost fell into one.
Rising CO2 levels cause poppy flower opiates to have a much higher potency. The current crop is twice as potent as the crop in 1950, and is expected to increase threefold by 2050.
Melting glaciers are giving up long buried secrets, like the famous prehistoric man nicknamed "Ötzi" found in the Alps. In Siberia, the corpses of ancient puppies have been dug up, along with a frozen mammoth whose blood is still liquid – at 10 degrees below zero!
With 40% of world's population living within 63 miles of coasts that are threatened by rising oceans, the issue of relocating millions upon millions of people becomes almost insurmountable. Aside from the inconvenience of such an undertaking, there is also the reality that much of our history, many of our monuments, and a lot of our heritage will be drowned in the years to come.
Some people, including Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma, thinks climate change is a hoax. Despite record warm global temperatures in 2014 and 2015, he decided that one snowstorm in Washington DC proved global warming wasn't real. To make his point he pitched a snowball at his colleagues in the senate chamber.
With the inconsistency of the temperatures in our oceans, sharks are looking for environments in which they feel more comfortable, without consideration for our beach culture!
One alternative to burning climate-warming oil and gas is nuclear power for making electricity. Too bad it creates dangerous nuclear waste that can poison people 10,000 years from now. In one underground storage facility, the radioactive waste was packed in the wrong kind of kitty litter (there is a right kind!) which caused an explosion radiating at least one worker. Bad kitty!
In the US, we might not readily feel the effects of poor air quality, but recently Beijing practically shut down the entire city as a result of smog.
So, if you don't get eaten by a shark, or overdose on some of that extra strong heroine, what are we going to do about these serious (talking about the wine here) issues? To help with the ever increasing global temperature, you could always join Greenpeace or put up a windmill in your backyard, but (if you're like me) you could start with the little things. There are some listed here. In a nutshell, Reduce – Reuse – Recycle.


The first draft of the report of the International Panel of Social Progress (IPSP) is now out. We welcome comments on the online platform https://comment.ipsp.org/ Please comment, circulate and advertise widely. The report is a product of a two-year international initiative. It is the first comprehensive synthesis of state-of-the-art social sciences knowledge about key issues facing humankind today.
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The report - the first international collaborative document of its kind, highlighting the direct relevance of scholarly knowledge to social and political change - is eventually to be published by Cambridge University Press. In the meantime, the report is open to wide public discussion. We invite comments from all concerned citizens – including, but not exclusively, NGOs, think thanks, and social entrepreneurs- as well as social scientists of course.