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I saw a picture of ex-JW Barbara Anderson in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania from several months ago, apparently with some other ex-JWs who helped to get this publicized. It was from a political rally about changing the laws to help more victims of child sexual abuse.
It seems they, along with Catholics and others, have been working with the politicians and lawmakers in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA (the State capitol), to get more publicity and exposure about child sexual abuse, and changes to the law regarding the statute of limitations, child protection awareness, etc. Some of that work and pressure recently helped move politicians to push for exposing the 300 Catholic priests publicly in Pennsylvania just weeks ago. One of those associated with Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York priests, Theodore McCarrick, had been demoted as a cardinal but promoted to be the archbishop of Washington DC, with the knowledge of the Vatican.
I have read that Barbara Anderson had already been invited to the Vatican a few years ago to share her expertise about dealing with the issue in a religious institution. I'd be interested if anyone else has drawn a connection between exJWs and this exposure.

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THIS MAN IS FROM THE COUNTRY WHICH MUST BE DENOUNCED FOR FRAUDULENT ACTIVITY WE ARE NOT SELLERS OF BOOKS WE GIVE THEM FREE OF CHARGE TO PEOPLE THOSE BOOKS HE HAS GRABBED ON THE EXPORTERS. perhaps a bit more detail and such would make it make sense.
 

Before I retired (90% pay cut ... ) I used to cash my paycheck and offer it ALL to God.
I would toss the whole wad of cash into the air, and whatever God needed ... he took.
Whatever fell back to Earth, was MINE!

Cuál es la araña de rincón y cuán mortal es su picadura
Cómo es la araña de rincón y cuán mortal es su picadura
Luego de la muerte del adolescente en Misiones, por una picadura de una araña Loxosceles o araña de rincón, vale preguntarse cómo se reconoce al arácnido y qué hacer una vez que ataca.
Si bien su nombre genérico es Loxosceles laeta, se la conoce como araña de los rincones porque suele ubicarse entre piedras, detrás de cuadros, lugares con poca higiene, zócalos, cajones o armarios. También se la llama araña violinista, debido a sus marcas dorsales, una línea negra que parte de ahí con forma del instrumento de cuerdas. Su presencia puede advertirse por su particular tela en forma de embudo que construye en hendiduras. Suelen picar cuando se las ataca y las hembras son más peligrosas.
 
Su color oscila entre el marrón al gris claro, no mide más de 3 centímetros, suele aparecer más en épocas de temperaturas elevadas y en lugares con poca luz. El cuadro que deriva de la toxina de su picadura se denomina Loxoscelismo, puede generar desde lesiones en la piel hasta en los órganos. Es mortal en alrededor del 30% de los casos y su veneno se torna más peligroso por su poder de penetración en el hígado y en vías biliares.
Tras su ataque, en la zona afectada, aparece una pequeña roncha de color rojizo que puede evolucionar en un tono más intenso y luego violáceo. Al principio, tras la picadura, no suelen presentarse síntomas. Aunque al cabo de transcurridas entre 4 y 8 horas aparece mucho dolor en la zona afectada.
Para evitar mayores peligros después de su ataque, es fundamental acudir rápidamente a un centro asistencial de salud. Los especialistas recomiendan realizar análisis clínicos para descartar que su potente veneno ingrese en las vísceras. En el caso de que el arácnido ya lo haya inoculado, debe aplicarse el antídoto en las doce horas posteriores a la picadura para que resulte efectivo.
La araña de los rincones es nativa de América del Sur. Es muy común en Chile y también vive en Guatemala, Perú, Ecuador, Argentina, Uruguay, y el sur y este de Brasil. En rigor, se introdujo en América del Norte y varios países de América Central, pero no prospera naturalmente en toda esa zona.
 

Jellyfish have lived for over 300 million years ... with no brain whatsoever.
Perhaps there is hope for us.

Wednesday's headline-making announcement from Italian scientists about a possible lake underneath the Martian south pole adds to a growing list of other worlds we believe have liquid water. But it also adds to a deepening mystery about what it all means – especially to us on this lonely Blue Planet teeming with life and strife.
About 70 percent of Earth’s surface is covered by water, most of it in oceans. The rest is found in rivers, lakes, frozen in glaciers, and inside the bodies of every known plant, animal, and micro-creature on the planet.
Life, it appears, is not possible without H2O – and for good reason. Among its many unique properties, water is an extraordinary solvent that greases the wheels of life’s biological machinery.
  It’s exciting, therefore, whenever we discover evidence for liquid water “out there” somewhere. For instance, beneath the surfaces of Jupiter’s moon Europa or Saturn’s moon Enceladus, whose phenomenal geysers shoot more than 100 miles into the air. Some research suggests even lowly Pluto – demoted in 2006 to the status of a dwarf planet – harbors subterranean pockets of water, kept fluid by tidal forces from its five nearby moons.
Above all, there’s our storied neighbor Mars. It has polar caps – both north and south – made of regular and dry ice (i.e., frozen carbon dioxide). It also has surface features that look a lot like dry river beds, suggesting the elixir of life once flowed abundantly and freely there.
And now this latest headline: bright reflections detected by the European Space Agency’s Mars Express, a ground-penetrating-radar-equipped spacecraft that’s been orbiting the Red Planet since 2003. The Italian scientists interpret the signals to mean there’s a twelve-mile-wide lake of salty water several feet deep sloshing around one mile beneath the Martian surface.
Surely, this now raises the possibility that, at the very least, Little Green Microorganisms dwell there. After all, exotic, insanely hardy, methane-eating bacteria live in sub-glacial lakes in our own Antarctic.
Ah, if only it were that simple.
For starters, the inferred lake beneath the Martian south pole might be nothing more than an aquiver of sludge. Both brine and sludge produce bright radar signatures.
It’s also possible the reputed lake is just an optical illusion. NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which is also equipped with ground-penetrating radar, has been circling Mars since 2006 and sees no reflections implying the existence of a subterranean lake.
Even if the announcement is substantiated by future missions – and I personally hope it is – water is not a smoking gun. Where there’s water, there’s not necessarily life.
Still, every alleged discovery of water on other worlds represents an invaluable experiment that tests the veracity of biology’s current notions about how life came about on Earth. If we keep racking up evidence for water out there, but no life, it will deal a serious blow to the belief in abiogenesis – that life arose from scratch in a primordial soup of ordinary, inorganic chemicals. That would be a big headline.
If, however, we do find life inhabiting far-flung, water-borne venues, it will strengthen the abiogenesis thesis. That, too, would be a huge headline.
It’d also be a very sobering one. Why? Because, if water and life do prove to be abundant throughout the cosmos, then we’ll be forced to ask: “Where, then, is everyone??”
It’s a question I addressed in a recent opinion piece and that leads to many disquieting possibilities. One of them is this: simple water-borne organisms that develop into complex, intelligent life forms inevitably self-destruct.
The late writer and futurist Sir Arthur C. Clark had that possibility in mind when he stated, “It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.”
With every passing year in our search for extraterrestrial water and life, we are getting closer to finding, if not outright proof, then a resolution to Clark’s assertion.
Shortly following a transmission sent by the Mars Express spacecraft verifying that its instruments had detected a subglacial lake a mile below the planet’s surface, the European Space Agency confirmed Thursday that the orbiter’s surface-penetrating radar had disturbed the eternal and unspeakable dreaming of an aeons-old, world-ravaging malevolence, waking it from its 500-million-year slumber in the underground Martian reservoir.
The abhorrent trans-dimensional beast then rose from the stygian depths of its lightless subaquatic lair, unleashing a hideous ululation that caused the red planet to fissure and burst into billions of molten fragments, an event recorded as a magnitude 18.5 quake by ESA scientists. The terror-struck astronauts of the International Space Station, evidently drained of their sanity by the sight of the accursed, star-spawned abomination, managed to inform ground control through increasingly incomprehensible transmissions that Earth’s moon had been devoured by the ravening behemoth before all communication with the crew was cut off suddenly and completely.
ESA administrators, initially optimistic about the discovery of liquid water on Mars and its positive implications for future colonization, changed their message to one of warning earlier today, shrieking barely comprehensible messages of doom as they clawed their living eyes from their sockets in a vain effort to escape contemplation of the vast horror descending upon the world at this very moment to drink our insignificant lives as it will one day drink the light of the stars.
Is intelligence ultimately a blessing or a curse? Surely, the answer will make for the biggest headline of all.

What was the username? I will block him

He emailed me directly ... no username.

@James Thomas Rook Jr.  Basically everything runs well until one day it doesn't. ;-)  Oops.

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