Stop Running And Receive Christ

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Are you running from God?

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 A UPMC Presbyterian Hospital trial starting this month which brings us one step closer to suspended animation. "The researchers behind it don't want to call it suspended animation, but it's the most conventional way to explain it. 

The world's first humans trials will start at the UPMC Presbyterian Hospital in Pittsburgh, with 10 patients whose injuries would otherwise be fatal to operate on.

 A team of surgeons will remove the patient's blood, replacing it with a chilled saline solution that would cool the body, slowing down bodily functions and delaying death from blood loss.

 According to Dr. Samuel Tisherman, talking to New Scientist: 'We are suspending life, but we don't like to call it suspended animation because it sounds like science fiction... we call it emergency preservation and resuscitation.'"

 "Knife-wound or gunshot victims will be cooled down and placed in suspended animation later this month. The technique involves replacing all of a patient's blood with a cold saline solution, which rapidly cools the body and stops almost all cellular activity.

 'If a patient comes to us two hours after dying you can't bring them back to life. But if they're dying and you suspend them, you have a chance to bring them back after their structural problems have been fixed,' says surgeon Peter Rheeat from the University of Arizona in Tucson, who helped develop the technique.

 10 gunshot and stabbing victims will take part in the trials."

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"Over at Forbes, Kashmir Hill examines the disturbing Internet footprint of Santa Barbara shooter Elliot Rodger.

 'A decade ago,' observes TechCrunch's John Biggs in The Internet Is Now Part Of The Crime Scene, 'a crime scene was a photo and a report.

 Now it is a sea of interconnected tracings, the murderer bobbing loosely in social media and the forums. We can watch him make his way through these straits, we can watch the madness growing, and we can watch his terrible end, all through murk of media.

 We are quick to judge and we are quick to look at his wake and say, definitively, that he was this or he was that. He was frustrated. The frustration grew.

 He went to a place he thought would help. It didn't.'"

Here is where he might have found some much needed help had he known:

  Blah Therapy - Online listening service. "Experience the rewards of venting to a stranger or lending an ear."

7 Cups of Tea - Free online counseling service

Thrive On - Not completely free, but aims to bring affordable online mental health programs to those who would otherwise go without.

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Still running windows XP and have no plans of ditching it? Want to get updates even though they have been discontinued?

  "A registry workaround, which tricks Windows Update into thinking you are running Windows Embedded POSReady 2009, allows you to get free security updates until 2019.

 All you need is a simple 32bit or 64bit registry entry in order to make this work. 

POSReady 2009 is slated to receive security updates for another five years. Microsoft ended support for Windows XP on April 8th of 2014."

Get a geek to run it for you if you don't understand.

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The world's largest paper airplane.

The plane sort of comes apart a bit in mid flight, but this is a great idea and an even better video.