In a highly-anticipated world-first, the Texas Heart Institute has successfully implanted an artificial titanium heart that uses the same technology as bullet trains to pump blood mechanically throughout the body.

Called the Total Artificial Heart (TAH), the feat is seen as a major step in keeping people alive for longer and longer periods while they wait for heart transplants.

Texas Heart partnered with the medical tech company BiVACOR to create the TAH. It’s a titanium-constructed biventricular rotary blood pump with a single moving part that utilizes a magnetically levitated rotor that pumps the blood and replaces both ventricles of a failing heart.

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As most of the country expressed outrage that a shooter could come within an inch of killing a former president and current GOP nominee, left-wing corners of the internet rushed to watch old video of Donald Trump making appearances at pro wrestling matches.

The theory was that Mr. Trump staged the shooting, cut his own ear to draw blood, then emerged with a raised fist to savor unwarranted adulation.

Never mind the emergency room doctors, the former White House physician, photos capturing a bullet in midair, and even The New York Times’ analysis of audio and video footage concluding that Mr. Trump suffered a gunshot wound.

Stanley Renshon, a political scientist and psychoanalyst at the City University of New York’s Lehman College, said it’s all fueled by a Trump obsession that has consumed so many voters for nearly a decade.

“It’s all a part of the same psychology, which is Trump hatred, which will leave no stone unturned to blacken his name,” said Mr. Renshon.

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Looking at the inflation rate throughout Presidents Trump and Biden shows a picture that bears out what Trump has said and discredits Biden's saying that he inherited high inflation from Trump.

The first bolded date in April, 2020 was when the CARES act started making payments to individuals and businesses for Covid relief. Watching the months after this largest in history (to that time) economic stimulus package was spent sees that the effect on inflation was minimal.

The second bolded date in April, 2021 was when the American Rescue Plan payments kicked in (starting in March, 2021). The Republicans that voted against this even larger economic stimulus package (1.9 trillion versus the Republican counter bill of 600 billion) said that it would overheat the economy and lead to inflation. Looking at the sudden rise in inflation rates after the payments started shows that that is exactly what happened.

Finally the top bolded date of February, 2022 is when Russia invaded Ukraine. As can be seen, the inflation rate was already 7.9 percent before the invasion. So blaming the spike in inflation rates on the invasion is revisionist. It might have had some effect on where the peak of 9.1 percent finally fell; but inflation actually started going down and has continued going down throughout the war in Ukraine (mainly due to increased Fed rates that spurred increasing borrowing rates on nearly all credit).

The Italian, Angela Carini, stopped fighting only 46 seconds into her matchup against Imane Khelif of Algeria, who had been barred from a women’s event last year.

Carini declined to shake Khelif’s hand after her defeat was announced, then fell to her knees in the ring and began to cry.

“I am heartbroken,” she told reporters afterward. “I went to the ring to honor my father. I was told a lot of times that I was a warrior but I preferred to stop for my health. I have never felt a punch like this.”

She added: “I got into the ring to fight. I didn’t give up. But one punch hurt too much and so I said, ‘Enough.’ I’m going out with my head held high.”

misogyny /mĭ-sŏj′ə-nē/

noun​

1. Hatred or mistrust of women.
2. Hatred of women. Contrast misandry.
3. Hatred of, contempt for, or prejudice against women.

Work your whole life - train - compete pay the price and rise to one of the top performers in your sport - Earn the spot in the World Olympics to compete with the best of the best. To have all your work and sacrifice ended by a biological male.

This is horrible and one of the worst attack's on woman I have ever seen and Harris supports it.

Know what you are voting for.

Algerian male boxer Imane Khelif (in red) punches Italy's Angela Carini in the women's 66kg preliminaries round of 16 boxing match during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the North Paris Arena, in Villepinte on August 1, 2024. | MOHD RASFAN/AFP via Getty Images


An Italian female boxer quit 46 seconds into a fight against an opponent with XY chromosomes at the Olympics on Thursday after getting punched twice in the face, prompting renewed backlash to the hot-button issue of men competing in women's sports.

Angela Carini, who told reporters she was fighting in honor of her late father, was reduced to tears after abandoning the fight against her Algerian opponent Imane Khelif.

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My response is incredulity. Think bout it. These are the people calling them Weird





VS someone like JD Vance who grew up in poverty in Appalachia, served in Iraq as a Marine - graduated top of his class from Yale and is married with two biracial children.

to them - this is a picture of weird

Why Trump Suddenly Thinks Picking J.D. Vance Was a Mistake​

Joe Biden’s decision to drop out and endorse Kamala Harris to succeed him on the Democratic ticket has Donald Trump’s team scrambling​

Why Trump Suddenly Thinks Picking J.D. Vance Was a Mistake

Joe Biden’s decision to drop out and endorse Kamala Harris to succeed him on the Democratic ticket has Donald Trump’s team scrambling.

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Not sure why Trump thought Vance was a good idea when Biden was still running.

Grateful for your hard work in getting our hostages home. Well done.

Latest prisoner exchange between US and Russia

Looking back at articles posted during the campaign to get Joe Biden elected as president, and Harris as VP, it appears she did identify as Indian rather than black.

Now that a woman with Indian roots, Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., is running in the 2020 presidential race, Dass, a Democrat, will have some decisions to make.

“I am proud that she is Indian, but I will not support her because she is Indian,” Dass, who immigrated to the United States in 1966, said. “I will support her if she is good for us, good for the country.”

Harris, 54, is the first Indian-origin Senator in the US. Her mother Shyamala Gopalan Harris immigrated to the US for studies at the age of 19 from Tamil Nadu. She married Donald Harris an African American born in Jamaica in 1938.

Harris’ crowd-pleasing response—she threw up her hands and loudly exclaimed, “Yes!”—convinced Kapur of her Indian-American bona fides, he says. This year, he plans to raise $10 million from Indian-American donors for Harris’ 2020 presidential campaign.

Trump has been the plan for some time, it's all theater.
There is a video from behind the stage, moments before the shots happened.
A secret service agent walks up and escorts a group of photographers to the front of the stage,
about 20 seconds before the shooting happened. The guy who took the now famous picture of Trump with his fist up,
was one of the photographers ushered to the front of the stage, mere moments before it happened.
There is no way that is a coincidence, here is a link to a video of it.

bit chute . com/video/oyZgRYVCQGyj

Also the snipers behind Trump were already facing the way of the shooter.
Also people saw and reported and filmed a person on the other roof before the shooting happened.
The whole thing is a staged event, to pull at your heart strings, and to have you believe that God spared Trump.
Because they want you to believe in Trump, but instead we should simply focus on Jesus.

Trump is an actor, having been special featured on television and film since the 1980's.
The country has been literally brainwashed with Trump, leading up to these times.
It's a planned deception, for what ultimate purpose I am not sure,
one thing is sure our hearts focus should be Jesus and His words.

The Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich has been freed from Russian custody as part of a major exchange that also involved the freeing of several other foreign citizens held in Russia and numerous Russian political prisoners.

In the exchange, which took place at Ankara airport on Thursday afternoon, eight Russians held in the west returned to Russia. Among them was the Russian assassin Vadim Krasikov, who has been held in a German prison since 2019 for the murder of a Chechen exile in Berlin.

Additionally, deep-cover Russian “illegal” spies arrested in Norway and Slovenia were swapped, along with Russians held on criminal charges in US jails. Two minors were also returned to Russia, believed to be the children of the spies jailed in Slovenia.

Among those freed by Russia were Gershkovich, the former US marine Paul Whelan and the Russian opposition politician Ilya Yashin, the Turkish presidency said.

The Kremlin, commenting on the prisoner exchange, said it hoped those who had left Russian jails, whom it described as “enemies”, would stay away, the state-run Tass reported.

A possible exchange had been mooted for months, with long discussions behind closed doors involving numerous governments, and few details seeping into the public domain. Until the final moment, the governments involved tried to keep the location and details of Thursday’s exchange under wraps, fearful of last-minute hitches.

Several Russian political prisoners were freed in the swap, including Yashin, one of Russia’s most prominent opposition leaders, who was sentenced to eight and a half years in prison in late 2022 for denouncing Russian war crimes in Ukraine. Vladimir Kara-Murza, a dual Russian-British citizen and longstanding opposition voice, who was sentenced to 25 years for high treason, has also been released.

The Biden administration will be pleased to have finally secured the release of Gershkovich, whose case had threatened to become a political football. In a June presidential debate, Donald Trump claimed he would instantly free the journalist if he won the US election. “I will have him out very quickly, as soon as I take office, before I take office,” Trump said.

Some people ( conspiracy theorists ) say he is JFK jr , and you can check that out online for yourselves guys.
And because of this conspiracy , I decided to watch him very carefully at Trumps attempted assassination , he's behind Trump on our left.


Now I don't know if he's JFK jr or not and I couldn't care less.
But what I found interesting with this guy is his response while bullets are flying around and Trump hits the dirt and so on.
He seems unfazed by what's going on , check it out for yourselves guys and let me know what you think. Don't take your eyes off him.

After he sees Trump shot , he just shakes his head and sit's down , like his football teem just missed a goal....lol

This is the most moving thing you will see

This new Facebook Group has been created to showcase what God is doing, feel free to join the Facebook group or enjoy the images and videos I will post here.Spectacular2024
Latest Post Psalm 8 The heavens declare
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Beneath the canopy of celestial fire, Where silent whispers breathe the night, A thousand eyes in the heavens conspire, To weave a tapestry of holy light.
The stars, like ancient scribes, recount, The tale of creation, vast and deep, In their glittering chorus, we surmount, The earthly bounds where shadows creep.
Eternal silence speaks in hushed tones, Of worlds beyond our mortal grasp, In every glint, a mystery known, To Him whose hand we cannot clasp.
The night, a velvet shroud of wonder, Unfolds the secrets of the skies, In awe, we stand, hearts torn asunder, By the beauty of God's endless ties.
In this sacred, luminescent sphere, The cosmos sings a hymn divine, A testament to love sincere, In every star, His presence shines.
We walk beneath this holy vault, Lost in the reverence of the night, Our souls uplifted, free from fault, Bathed in the Creator’s radiant light.
So, let us marvel, let us dream, In the quiet of this stellar sea, For in each flicker, in each beam, God’s boundless glory we shall see. [Inspired by TS Eliot]
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2 Thessalonians 2:13,14 But we ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God chose you as the firstfruits to be saved, through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth. To this he called you through our gospel, so that you may obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthians 15:20 But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.

1 Corinthians 15:23 But each in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, (then at his coming those who belong to Christ)

Romans 8:11 If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.

Colossians 1:18 And He is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent.

Ephesians 6:17 Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.

So, here comes the genuine question. God equipped the Sainted Sinners on this earth with HOPE so strong that it was promised to prevail against the very Gates of Hell. (The system of death and the realm of the dead.) Do you believe that the Saints believed that they would be "asleep" in the earth, bodies dead and decayed to dust, their souls completely unconscious, OR that they would never die, but merely transcend their Mortal coils upon death, to be with Jesus, that very day? How strong do you believe their HELMET OF SALVATION had to be, to face being sawn in two? Most Western doctrine is written from the perspective of complacency. Do you believe that Christians are Death Defiers or captive by death?

I'm looking for some advice on how to maintain my physical health while managing a very busy schedule. Between work, family commitments, and other responsibilities, I find it challenging to make time for regular exercise and healthy eating.

What are some practical tips or routines that have worked for you in staying healthy despite a hectic lifestyle? I can say now that this job the one which I am doing is affecting my mental health as well because I have to sit in front of a computer screen all the time like 15 hours a day! Any specific exercises, meal prep strategies, or time management techniques would be greatly appreciated.

Shadows of the Messiah – Passover Introduction​

march 29, 2010 by heather, posted in bible study, shadows of the messiah

John 5:39 Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. (KJV)

These words were spoken by Jesus just after the healing of the man at Bethesda. The Jews wanted to kill him for healing on the Sabbath. But, He was informing them that the Father had sent Him, and that the scriptures they diligently searched were telling them about Him. They were trying so hard to find their Messiah, but He was standing there in front of them, and they didn’t realize it!

Likewise, if we search the Old Testament scriptures, we will find Jesus in the pages. God is so orderly and detailed, it’s like hunting for a treasure. When we find Him, we learn to love Him even more than we did before.

This teaching is an introduction to Passover, which starts this evening at sundown, and how we can find Jesus woven all through it. The Christian church has been under the impression that we don’t need to concern ourselves with the “Jewish holidays”, because they’re in the Old Testament, and they don’t apply to us. No, we’re not required to celebrate these feasts as part of our salvation. However, learning about them gives us great insight into Jesus and His work in our lives. There are also many Christians these days that do celebrate them…not as a legalistic work, but in remembrance of the awesome things our God has done to redeem us.

Leviticus 23:1-2 The LORD said to Moses, “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘These are MY appointed feasts, the appointed feasts of the LORD, which you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies’. (Emphasis mine)

The first error we’ve made is to decide that the feasts the Jews keep are “Jewish holidays”. However, this scripture in Leviticus easily refutes that idea. The Lord calls these feasts His feasts. They are appointed times that God chose to meet with His people in a special way. The word ‘feast’ is the Hebrew ‘moed’ (singular), or ‘moedim’ (plural). It means just that; a set, appointed time. The feasts happen at set times each year. Several times throughout Leviticus 23, we are reminded that these are the Lord’s feasts, not the Jewish feasts. The feasts are also called ‘sacred assemblies’, meaning they are a time set apart from the rest of the year as holy to the Lord.

Passover is the first of the appointed feasts. One interesting thing to note is that in Acts 12:4, the word translated ‘Easter’ in the King James Version is the Greek ‘pascha’, which is ‘Pesach’ in Hebrew. Pesach is the Hebrew word for Passover. So, the events of Acts 12:4 actually took place at the time of Passover. ‘Easter’ wasn’t celebrated or named until several hundred years after the Biblical events took place, but it was well known by the time King James ruled (when the KJV was written). Easter and Passover do not always fall during the same week of the year, although this year (2010) they do.

The feasts are celebrated by the Jews annually. They are celebrated as ‘rehearsals’ or ‘anniversaries’. The easiest way to explain this is to think of a wedding. Before we get married, we rehearse the ceremony. Then, the actual event takes place, and every year thereafter, we celebrate an anniversary. It’s the same way with the feasts. For some of them, the major events have already taken place, and now they are celebrated as an ‘anniversary’ every year. For others, the annual ‘rehearsal’ is still taking place, because the actual event hasn’t occurred yet.

Passover is actually part of a set of feasts that occur in the spring. Basically, there is a set of 3 feasts celebrated in the spring, one single feast in the summer, and another set of 3 in the fall. Passover is part of the spring feasts, which also includes the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and the Feast of Firstfruits. For ease, it’s often called just Passover, but Passover is simply the first feast in the set of three that occur at the same time. The first day of the set is Passover, immediately followed the next day by the Feast of Unleavened Bread (which lasts 7 days). The Feast of Firstfruits occurs within the week of the Feast of Unleavened Bread.

Throughout this week, I’d like to discuss various aspects of the spring feasts that will point to Jesus Christ as our redeemer. Easter Sunday is very important to the Christian church. I truly believe that this set of messages will help give you a new perspective on how great Resurrection Sunday really is. God’s order and detail are so incredible. I think you’ll be as amazed as I was to see how it all fits together.

May God bless you today, and the entire week. Walk with the Lord, and rejoice in His provision for you!

Well hello there,

I'm so thankful to be a part of this form. I was looking for a way to connect with others and thought this form would be a great way to do so.

I'm currently working in patient registration in the ED and since I work every weekend I find it extremely difficult to attend church. I'm hoping that by joining this form could help me connect with others who also share my faith and Love in the Lord Jesus Christ.

Thanks for taking the time to read my post. May God bless you

2 Corinthians 5:17 (NKJV)
Therefore, if anyone [is] in Christ, [he is] a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

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What are these new things and how is one to bring them in real time into one’s life…?

‘In my walk with God I have been my biggest problem, if it wasn’t for me and my desires after the this or the that, I could walk in perfect righteousness, for Christ Jesus proved that it could be done, it just matters who’s doing the living in the body….. The new things that have come are because, I, me, my very self died when Christ died on the cross…. For it is coming to the realization that I was without strength to bring forth the new, yet the new must be brought forth if I was to experience the salvation that was offered in Christ, it was this realization that brings forth the new, which truth I have applied to myself yet is true for all believer’s……’

It is faith to believe this very fact that is the faith the believer is called to…. For the ‘just shall live by faith’, this faith is an ever present faith to be ever acting in one’s life, to actually be the only thing one holds on to, to give up all to this faith, for this faith will do all…. For Christ really did die on the cross, He really did come to make His abode in the believing one…. For the believing one is to be just that, one who believes that when Christ died on the cross that one died with Him and even the more that when Christ was raised to a new life this also became true in the believing one’s life….

For this new thing is not made by the hand of the believer, but is made through the hand of the believer’s faith…. For Christ said there are many things He would like to show but ‘you are not capable of receiving them at the present time’….. This statement is true in the believing one’s life, for Christ can only reveal to one what that one is capable of receiving otherwise it would be dismissed as a fancy…..

But then how is one to know they are following the real God and not some fancy of one’s own imaginations….?

Righteousness is the benchmark, for if one’s righteousness is not growing and increasing, that one is missing the mark and not where God would have them be, for righteousness, being the fruit of faith is the end all to the one that believes….


Blessings, joy and peace to the one that believes, a fellow believer, Not me

Hey all, just lookin' for some people to fellowship and study with between things.

When I took my son to the Immigration Museum in Melbourne, we were told that all non-Aboriginal Australians were immigrants. However, I personally have never felt like an immigrant, I have no personal connection to any family members who migrated to the colonies, as they all were dead at least 50 years before I was born.

From my perspective:

Australia was founded on 1 Jan 1901.
All my ancestors had arrived before that, arriving to the various colonies by 1857. (167 years ago)
Therefore, none of ancestors immigrated to Australia.

Be aware that this tool is far from being politically neutral.

It is shaping up to be very influential and essentially a major opponent to Christian World View.

CHICAGO - Republican 2024 presidential nominee Donald Trump in a controversial and combative appearance at the National Association of Black Journalists Annual Convention took swipes on Wednesday at Vice President Kamala Harris's racial identity — a move that comes as excitement swells for the Democratic contender.

"I didn't know she was Black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn Black, and now she wants to be known as Black," the former president said of Harris, who is on track to face Trump as the Democratic presidential nominee. “Is she Indian or is she Black? Because she was Indian all the way and then all of a sudden she made a turn and she went she became a Black person.”
Trump questions Kamala Harris' racial identity at NABJ, says she 'happened to turn Black'

Or maybe he really didn't know. Which is possible, but it's an unnecessary error. Someone should have been watching him to stop that kind of thing.