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Video on their return to Italy.
 
https://www.news18.com/videos/italian-jehovah-s-witnesses-seized-by-jihadists-in-mali-freed-italy-news-english-news-n18v-8795725.html

Video on their return to Italy.
 
https://www.news18.com/videos/italian-jehovah-s-witnesses-seized-by-jihadists-in-mali-freed-italy-news-english-news-n18v-8795725.html

Video on their return to Italy.
 
https://www.news18.com/videos/italian-jehovah-s-witnesses-seized-by-jihadists-in-mali-freed-italy-news-english-news-n18v-8795725.html

Video on their return to Italy.
 
https://www.news18.com/videos/italian-jehovah-s-witnesses-seized-by-jihadists-in-mali-freed-italy-news-english-news-n18v-8795725.html

Video on their return to Italy.
 
https://www.news18.com/videos/italian-jehovah-s-witnesses-seized-by-jihadists-in-mali-freed-italy-news-english-news-n18v-8795725.html

I once received a text from my closest brother:
 
I just won tickets to the World Cup final, and I can take 9 other gueats with me, as all the flights, accomodation for 6 nights in a luxury resort, meals and luxury travel to and from the stadium for the final, premium seating on the halfway line, access to the players change rooms after the match as well! Can you take out the rubbish bins whilst I'm away?

Researchers have found that 90% of bald people still own a comb. They just cannot part with it.

A mate’s wife said to him the other day: “You’ve just yawned six times in the last 10 minutes that I’ve been talking to you. Am I boring you?”
He replied: “They weren’t yawns. It was my attempts to speak”.
So I’m off to see my mate. Visiting hours at the hospital are 2pm til 4pm.

After eight years in the world my youngest son is making a determined and serious effort to return to Jehovah, so this Broadcast is much appreciated food at the right time.

from NewScientist.com Feb 19, 2024
 
The surprising discovery that your brain has its own microbiome is raising an intriguing possibility – that some dementias might be reversible

It SEEMED like a classic case of Alzheimer’s disease. For three years, a man in his 70s had experienced serious cognitive decline: he frequently forgot the names of family members and was no longer able to drive or leave home by himself. Further deterioration seemed inevitable. But then his doctors checked a sample of his cerebrospinal fluid and noticed a fungus called Cryptococcus neoformans. When they put him on a course of antifungal medication, the results were startling. Within two years, he had regained his driving licence and returned to work as a gardener.
Neuroscientists have long suspected that certain infections can increase the risk of dementia. For instance, both Porphyromonas gingivalis, the bacteria behind gum disease, and the herpes simplex virus, which causes cold sores, have been linked with Alzheimer’s. But cases of “reversible dementia” are starting to inspire enormous interest in the idea that our brains are teeming with microorganisms – and that an imbalance in this “brain microbiome” may predispose people to neurodegenerative disease.
 
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We may finally know how cognitive reserve protects against Alzheimer's
 
Until recently, the brain was thought to be devoid of microbes, not least because of the blood-brain barrier, a specialised membrane that keeps pathogens and toxins in the blood out of the brain. So the idea of a brain microbiome was controversial. However, a new study seems to clinch the case. Richard Lathe at the University of Edinburgh, UK, and his colleagues analysed data from post-mortem brains stored in four brain banks in the UK and US. They found a wide variety of microbes, with different types and amounts in different brain regions. Lathe estimates that this brain microbiome contains some 100,000 species, comprising a subset of around one-fifth the gut microbiome. Roughly 1000 “core” species make up 90 per cent of the population.
The researchers also found that, in people with Alzheimer’s disease, certain microbes were over-represented. These included species of Cryptococcusand Candida fungi, Streptococcus and Bacillusbacteria, as well as a currently unidentified alga. Although the study hasn’t yet been published in a peer-reviewed journal, it chimes with research by Jeffrey Lapides and his colleagues at Drexel University College of Medicine in Pennsylvania. They examined post-mortem brain tissue from 32 individuals and found three distinctive microbial species that were associated with the development of Alzheimer’s.
Such findings are intriguing, but there are many unanswered questions. Is a healthy microbiome essential for a healthy brain, as is the case in the gut? Do particular microbes cause neural degeneration or are they a consequence of it? And, if they are to blame, how: do certain species cause harm, is it the overall balance of species that tips someone into illness or do our brains suffer from the crossfire between two competing species, as Lapides suspects? “It could be that the chemical results of that fight are toxic,” he says. We don’t even know how microbes get into neural tissue, given the blood-brain barrier.
 
   

After eight years in the world my youngest son is making a determined and serious effort to return to Jehovah, so this Broadcast is much appreciated food at the right time.

If you see anything like this at all, call your doctor immediately!
- Bob

Maybe she went to this church as well.
 
A new priest at his first mass was so nervous he could hardly speak. After mass he asked the monsignor how he had done. The monsignor replied, “When I am worried about getting nervous on the pulpit, I put a glass of gin next to the water glass. If I start to get nervous, I take a sip.”
So next Sunday he took the monsignors advice. At the beginning of the sermon, he got nervous and took a drink. He proceeded to talk up a storm. Upon his return to his office after mass, he found the following note on the door:
 
Sip the gin, don't gulp. There are 10 commandments, not 12. There are 12 disciples, not 10. Jesus was consecrated, not constipated. Moses parted the waters, he not pass water. We do not refer to Jesus Christ as the late J.C. The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost are not referred to as Daddy, Junior and the Spook. David slew Goliath, he did not kick the crap out of him. We do not refer to the cross as the "Big T". When Jesus broke the bread at the Last Supper he said, "Take this and eat it for it is my body." He did not say "Eat me." The recommended grace before a meal is not: Rub-A-Dub-Dub thanks for the grub, yeah God

After eight years in the world my youngest son is making a determined and serious effort to return to Jehovah, so this Broadcast is much appreciated food at the right time.

Well you know it all just evolved, probably because  the earth couldn't keeps it's pants up. 
 
Good find Musky!

Our SAD is Sat. Oct. 8 and we (Congregation) have a softball game and BBQ set up for Sunday. We had the same a few weeks ago and it was a blast. We alternated between little kids and adults up to bat. You were "dead meet" if you put a little kid out so we played like the 3 Stooges and they all got to hit and get home runs. Looking forward to that much fun again.

After eight years in the world my youngest son is making a determined and serious effort to return to Jehovah, so this Broadcast is much appreciated food at the right time.

After eight years in the world my youngest son is making a determined and serious effort to return to Jehovah, so this Broadcast is much appreciated food at the right time.

The Beetles crossing Abbey Road
 

After eight years in the world my youngest son is making a determined and serious effort to return to Jehovah, so this Broadcast is much appreciated food at the right time.