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The Heidelberg Disputation Series Part 12, Theses 22 and 23: The Vital Union, Ritual, and Law
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So, I was over at my mom's house minding my own business watching a little Fox News when I noticed a little booklet on the table beside the easy chair. I picked it up and observed the title: Devotions and Prayers of Martin Luther. Of course, I thought that would be interesting. When I opened it, I observed that my dad bought it for mom in 1962. That would be when her three boys, of which I am one would have been 6, 4, and 2. That's three boys, 6, 4, and 2 which means she would have been needing a lot of prayers during that time. So this gift makes perfect sense. Anyway, I just indiscriminately cracked the thing open roughly in the middle to see what was there. Here is the prayer that I read:
Almighty God, great that we and all Christians may receive the holy sacrament savingly by thy grace. Give us our daily bread that Christ may abide in us and we in him, and that we may worthily bear the name Christians which we have received from him. Amen.
Welcome truth lovers to Blog Talk radio .com/False Reformation, this is your host Paul Dohse. Tonight, part 12 of "The Magnum Opus of the Reformation: Martin Luther's Heidelberg Disputation – Theses 22 and 23: The Vital Union, Ritual, and Law."
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Tonight, we continue in our sentence by sentence evaluation of the HD with thesis 22. This is where we get into the true heart of the Protestant Reformation which concerned philosophy, or state of being.
Anything to do with justification or soteriology was grounded in philosophical or metaphysical presuppositions. I opened tonight with an example of that. Notice that Luther prayed that salvation would be imparted to believers through participation in the Lord's Table. Whether Protestants know it or not, that's why the Lord's Table is such a solemn ceremony in the church—it's imparting salvation. The solemn examination of self while droopy faced deacons or elders pass around the holy plastic thimbles filled with either grape juice or real wine depending on the outcome of the Baptist civil war in your neck of the woods is the mortification part of the ceremony, and one should expect a joyful demeanor following, ie., vivification.
The Lord's Table is one of the big five that you do to run the Protestant race of faith alone on the way to the one big final "tribunal" where you find out if you lived by faith alone well enough to make it into heaven. The other four are church membership, sitting under elder preaching, prayer (primarily confession of "present sin"), and the baptism of the holy spirit through mortification and vilification. These all result in the vital union also mentioned in the same prayer: "that Christ may abide in us and we in him." So, in regard to the initial baptism signified by water baptism which also initiates one into membership, this same baptism is lived out through self deprivation of some sort leading to resurrection experiences of one sort or another—usually incited by praise and worship music.
The Lord's Table was never some solemn ceremony in the Christian assemblies, but rather an informal remembrance of Christ's death during the fellowship meal. As Rome began to take over the home fellowships and assert authority over them, the paganization of Christian traditions took place; not least of which is this idea of perpetual union, or becoming one with some god through some sort of ritual. I would like you to observe the black chart on the slide show. Remember, this is not our chart, this is a visual illustration of the vital union, a formal Protestant doctrine.
Notice that in this case, the union takes place through the "deep repentance" process noted on the left. Obviously, if the process on the left is not a onetime event, nether is the right side of the chart. Notice the title of the chart: fundamentally, Protestantism is a returning to the same gospel that saved you in order to relive the baptism of the Spirit over and over again. In other words, the "new birth" is not a onetime event that makes you part of God's family. The goal of the so-called Christian life is new birth experiences in which the works of Christ are manifested in our realm or through us (double imputation). The Reformers draw from a number of different metaphysical theories to explain this like Idealism philosophy. That is the idea that reality only exists in the perception of the mind, and God is in control of the perceptions. But that is only one angle among many.
But let's take that example as a way to explain how this all works. Protestantism is about justification by faith…ALONE throughout the whole course of our life. So, it begs the question: how does one live, which assumes human activity prompted by cranium activity, by faith alone? How does one work meditatively? Well, if the work you are doing is really nothing more than perception placed there by God, you aren't really doing the work, right? You are only EXPERIENCING what Christ accomplished when He was living on earth. He lived out a perfect life for us (double imputation) which is now experienced through the vital union ("I'm in him, He's in me"). This is also known as Christ for us, or Christ 100% for us. But you say, "But look at the top part of the chart! It says "heart changed." Ok, let's go to another Reformed illustration.
What does the downward trajectory represent? Right, the left side of the other chart. What does the upward trajectory represent? Right, the right side of the chart. What does the cross represent? Right, the cross on the other chart. Now, what changes, you or the cross? Right, you don't change, and in fact, if you fail to see how sinful you are the bottom trajectory goes up and the cross gets smaller. So, what is the authentic Protestant definition of "heart change"? Right, a mere perception or experience. I have at times likened this to standing in the rain. You experience the rain, you feel the rain, but you have no control over the rain. You are not doing the rain. Sanctification is being done to you, not by you. But you do something—you merely participate in the experience of salvation—it's experiential only. This is how you supposedly live by faith alone.
This idea of being unified or becoming one with a god through some ritual is expressly pagan. Of course, what immediately comes to mind is the Aphrodite cults throughout history. This idea of union with a god through sexual intercourse with a temple prostitute even crept into the first century home assemblies:
1Corinthians 6:14 – And God raised the Lord and will also raise us up by his power.15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never!16 Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, "The two will become one flesh."17 But he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him. 18 Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sine a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body. 19Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, 20 for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
From the historian Herodotus we learn:
The foulest Babylonian custom is that which compels every woman of the land to sit in the temple of Aphrodite and have intercourse with some stranger at least once in her life. Many women who are rich and proud and disdain to mingle with the rest, drive to the temple in covered carriages drawn by teams, and stand there with a great retinue of attendants. But most sit down in the sacred plot of Aphrodite, with crowns of cord on their heads; there is a great multitude of women coming and going; passages marked by line run every way through the crowd, by which the men pass and make their choice. Once a woman has taken her place there, she does not go away to her home before some stranger has cast money into her lap, and had intercourse with her outside the temple; but while he casts the money, he must say, "I invite you in the name of Mylitta" (that is the Assyrian name for Aphrodite). It does not matter what sum the money is; the woman will never refuse, for that would be a sin, the money being by this act made sacred. So she follows the first man who casts it and rejects no one. After their intercourse, having discharged her sacred duty to the goddess, she goes away to her home; and thereafter there is no bribe however great that will get her. So then the women that are fair and tall are soon free to depart, but the uncomely have long to wait because they cannot fulfil the law; for some of them remain for three years, or four. There is a custom like this in some parts of Cyprus (Herodotus, The Histories 1.199, tr A.D. Godley 1920).
What is our major concluding point here? That authentic Protestantism traded the biblical definition of the new birth, a onetime event that makes us a permanent part of God's literal family, for the ongoing experience of so-called vital union, and that Protestantism's way of obtaining that experience is just one among many not excluding the ritual of temple prostitution. It's the same idea; temporary experiential union in contrast to a permanent new birth and onetime Spirit baptism.
Also, and more to the point regarding this area of the HD, is that these rituals necessarily take the place of knowledge because of the authentic Protestant worldview. More on that shortly, but let me now address a comment received this week on PPT.com because it's a good example of the waters of confusion that Protestants swim in as a result of historical ignorance.
This honestly saddens me… I just finished reading Platt's "Radical", and I don't feel that he deserves this. My understanding of his book is "if you truly love Jesus, it will change your life". Platt is living out John 14:21 by obeying God's commands to take care of the poor and needy, and living out Matthew 28:18-20 in bringing the gospel to all nations. This book (and Platt's life) is designed to get the church on board with the mission of God, and is built on passages like 1 John 3:16-18. I'd much rather be like Platt, trying to get the church involved in the mission of God, instead of sitting in the pews screaming at anyone who doesn't agree with what they think. Honestly, how can we call ourselves followers of a God (who IS love), and then unlovingly thrash another human being? Maybe we should read 1 John 4:21 before we start hating on a brother? Just a thought… lest we be condemned before God for not loving him.
More than likely, the individual who wrote this comment doesn't understand how authentic Protestantism interprets the reality that Platt appears to be calling people to. More than likely, a more careful examination of the sentences in the book would paint a different picture. Platt is a Neo-Calvinist purist and would hold to almost everything in the HD, so let us consider thesis 24 in comparison to the reader's comment:
He, however, who has emptied himself (cf. Phil. 2:7) through suffering no longer does works but knows that God works and does all things in him. For this reason, whether God does works or not, it is all the same to him. He neither boasts if he does good works, nor is he disturbed if God does not do good works through him. He knows that it is sufficient if he suffers and is brought low by the cross in order to be annihilated all the more. It is this that Christ says in John 3:7, »You must be born anew.« To be born anew, one must consequently first die and then be raised up with the Son of Man. To die, I say, means to feel death at hand.
Platt is therefore not "living out" anything nor is he calling others to do so. Platt isn't really talking about good works in the book, but rather manifestations of Christ's imputed righteousness. It is VERY unlikely that Platt does not hold to double imputation.
Again, this soteriology is necessarily the application of the Reformed world philosophy of choice integrated with Scripture.
Thesis 22: That wisdom which sees the invisible things of God in works as perceived by man is completely puffed up, blinded, and hardened.
This has already been said. Because men do not know the cross and hate it, they necessarily love the opposite, namely, wisdom, glory, power, and so on. Therefore they become increasingly blinded and hardened by such love, for desire cannot be satisfied by the acquisition of those things which it desires. Just as the love of money grows in proportion to the increase of the money itself, so the dropsy of the soul becomes thirstier the more it drinks, as the poet says: »The more water they drink, the more they thirst for it.«The same thought is expressed in Eccles. 1:8: »The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.« This holds true of all desires.
Thus also the desire for knowledge is not satisfied by the acquisition of wisdom but is stimulated that much more. Likewise the desire for glory is not satisfied by the acquisition of glory, nor is the desire to rule satisfied by power and authority, nor is the desire for praise satisfied by praise, and so on, as Christ shows in John 4:13, where he says, »Every one who drinks of this water will thirst again.«
The remedy for curing desire does not lie in satisfying it, but in extinguishing it. In other words, he who wishes to become wise does not seek wisdom by progressing toward it but becomes a fool by retrogressing into seeking»folly«. Likewise he who wishes to have much power, honor, pleasure, satisfaction in all things must flee rather than seek power, honor, pleasure, and satisfaction in all things. This is the wisdom which is folly to the world.
Therefore, the Reformation called for the eradication of all knowledge as an evil lust that cannot be satisfied. Consequently, the Bible only has ONE use:
Thesis 23: The »law brings the wrath« of God (Rom. 4:15), kills, reviles, accuses, judges, and condemns everything that is not in Christ.
Thus Gal. 3:13 states, »Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law«; and:»For all who rely on works of the law are under the curse« (Gal. 3:10); and Rom. 4:15: »For the law brings wrath«; and Rom. 7:10: »The very commandment which promised life proved to be the death of me«; Rom. 2:12: »All who have sinned without the law will also perish without law.«Therefore he who boasts that he is wise and learned in the law boasts in his confusion, his damnation, the wrath of God, in death. As Rom. 2:23 puts it:»You who boast in the law.«
Hence, the Bible only aids us in self condemnation in regard to the downward trajectory on the cross chart and the process of vital union. The Bible is not to be used to gain any kind of knowledge, but is only a tool for self-condemnation, or "death at hand" in order to experience the vivification of what Reformed soteriology defines as the new birth. As seen in the summary of the 22nd thesis, any notion that objective conclusions can be drawn from that which is seen is utter wickedness according to this view.
That concludes tonight's lesson, let's go to the phones.
The Nature of God
I believe incredibly exciting times await God's people as they break free from the Protestant Orthodoxy Dark Ages. The key will be the realization that God wrote the Bible for the average individual. We have an example of this regarding the nature of God; a subject thought to be too deep for the average disciple.
Our only head is Christ who teaches all, and the idea of being taught assumes the ability to understand. God's people need to simply let the words in the Bible say what they plainly say, and we are individually responsible for doing so. One must free their minds from the tyranny of orthodoxy and journey into the Bible with their own God-given mind, and they will be responsible to God alone for doing so.
What then does the Bible teach us about God's nature? The Bible states that God is love:
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.
Obtaining God's Love
Protestant orthodoxy has a peculiar teaching known as the "vital union." According to Reformed tradition, we maintain this vital union of "Christ in us and us in Christ" by "preaching the gospel to ourselves." This is done by searching for sin in our lives so that we can return to the cross for forgiveness resulting in increased salvation. The following chart publicized by several Reformed organizations illustrates the process:
In case you think this is a "biblical" process for best results in growing as a disciple expressed in the illustration by "Heart Changed," think again as illustrated by another chart published by several Reformed organizations as well:
In this chart, what is growing? Us, or our "salvation"? Many Reformed teachers in our day are fond of telling us how to "keep ourselves in the love of God" by "preaching the gospel to ourselves every day." In fact, if we change, the following chart from the same camp shows the consequences:
…our salvation gets smaller! In contrast, we obtain God's love once, and for all time, by believing in His Son, and experience assurance of that love but walking according to our new being.
Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth. By this we shall know that we are of the truth and reassure our heart before him…
But according to Protestant orthodoxy, if we make every effort to love God and others instead making every effort to find more and more sin in our lives, the gospel effect in our lives is diminished.
The Nature of God
How we obtain the love of God as prescribed by Protestant orthodoxy flows from its tenets regarding the nature of God. Primarily, God is defined as sovereign. Rather than sovereignty being an aspect of God's nature, it is made to be the primary organizing principle—not love. This is an important distinction for those who take part in the exodus from Protestant darkness; will God's nature be defined by a grammatical and exegetical interpretation of Scripture, or an interpretation based on orthodoxy?
Clearly, the Bible states that God is love. So, how does the Bible define love? Let's see:
1Corinthians 13:1 – If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. 12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.
13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
The so-called Reformed gospel of sovereignty calls for the total inability of man to love God even after their definition of conversion. One well known Reformed theologian wrote a book titled One Way Love. This staple Protestant belief is defined in the doctrine of double imputation which calls for the imputation of Christ's alien righteousness to be imputed to our lives apart from anything we do other than preaching the gospel to ourselves. Much is made of living the Christian life by faith alone in order to maintain our "just standing."
What it boils down to is God creating evil for His own glory. Whether you consider the teachings of Martin Luther or John Calvin, the founding fathers of Protestantism, this is an irrefutable fact. Luther taught that God created mankind with a passive will; in other words, a will that can only act if acted upon from an outside source. This testifies to God's nature as defined by sovereignty. Hence, certain people are predetermined to suffer for eternity. In regard to this, John Calvin stated,
[God] arranges all things by his sovereign counsel, in such a way that individuals are born, who are doomed from the womb to certain death, and are to glorify him by their destruction.
~Institutes 3.23.6
I again ask how is it that the fall of Adam involves so many nations with their infant children in eternal death without remedy, unless it so seemed meet to God?…The decree, I admit, is dreadful; and yet it is impossible to deny that God foreknew what the end of man was to be before he made him, and foreknew, because he had so ordained by his decree.
~Institutes 3.23.7
This is contrary to love which is the true nature of God, being "kind," and "Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law." The Reformed even make it a point to say that God did no wrong by creating man in an evil state because the end cause is God's glory. If God brings good out of something evil, in the final analysis it is good because the end is good. It is also said that God created evil to make good better. However, that still does not dispose of the kindness issue. Love CANNOT be unkind to ANYONE.
Furthermore, it does not seek its own way, and you can insert "its own glory" in that list as well. Moreover, love does not rejoice in evil for any outcome, and always rejoices in truth and not the temporary demise of truth for some kind of better outcome. That notion is absurd.
In the final analysis, one of God's attributes is sovereignty, but sovereignty is not the organizing principle of his nature because his nature is love.


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Today the jobs bill got sent to the House.
Obama wants taxes on the wealthy, He wants increased taxes on corporate profits to help pay for his jobs bill…
As one reads the bill, one remembers that these same ideas, these same concepts were in last November's finance bills, which passed the House, and got stalled in the Senate…..
One remembers these same ideas, these same concepts, were in the $4 Trillion Deficit Reduction Act, and all parties were excited that finally something good was coming out of Congress, ….. that is until the Eric Cantor contingent stormed out of the meetings because of higher taxes, and the votes fell short…
Metaphorically speaking it is like Obama (truth) keeps running into a brick wall(stupidity)… and we, keep blaming Obama for not being tough enough….
We should be focused on tearing down that wall…..
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Instead, in our frustration (exactly what it is) we blame the very one person on the attack….. ????
I remember a story told here once before, of a charge across "no man's land" in WWI, where everyone was mowed down except one lucky person… as he stormed the trench, he looked around and noticed he was the only one facing a trench full of weaponry. In disgust, the threw down his weapon and walked away back to his own lines… In the strange code of soldiers honor, no one fired a shot…..
The wall has never been weaker. It is time to chip away at the Republican base, just like we did in 2006… We have facts.. they have Eric Cantor extolling them to remain firm… Our way gets America back on its feet; their way lets them keep their extra 5%. It would be wise to remember, that even Hitler had his dedicated youth during the last days… They have their Young Republicans… blindly following directives that make little if any sense.
Everyone needs to call them on it…
Now is the time to pull out every chart showing that Republicans ruin everything they put their hands on.. Whether it be the United States, the State of Delaware, or Sussex and Kent Counties… Republicans do no good at all..
Which is why they are so well funded….
If you were doing something obscenely illegal, wouldn't you be paying off the law as well?
So look into yourselves and decide whether you want to be part of the problem… or solution…
The solution is to turn Republicans into a joke. And to do it publicly… The battle is independent voters. And they get hit with shit from both sides… Our shit, simply has to smell a little better….
Focusing on our frustration, only strengthens the other side; that other side which created the deficit, destroyed the global economy, lost 1 out of 10 American jobs, cost you 30% more in insurance premiums, Increased your gas prices 3 times, cost you 60% more for your electrical power, raised the cost of your prescriptions 450%….
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330 GT Registry
The only 330 America advertisement I've ever seen
Press Release February 1967
330 GT Series 1 Advertisement from L'Automobile, illustrated by Claude Roche
"The fastest comfort in the world ... the thoroughbred ... but flexible and comfortable.
The joy of driving in the most absolute relaxation and safety."
From a French magazine
From a 1964 French magazine
From Moteurs 1964 March/April issue
Franco Britannic - Autos ad
Another early Advertisement
Old picture in a modern ad
Ferodo ad
In 1964, Automobile Quarterly held a sweepstakes where the first prize was a new 330 GT.
From a 1965 Swiss publication
|Pininfarina and Connolly Ad from Autocar, May 22, 1964
|From TIME International, Aug. 19, 1966 - SN 6597
These are pictures from Pininfarina's annual #7 from 1966
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330 GT Series 2 Post Card
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Japanese NTT Telephone Card
Green 330 GT Poster
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Goodaye all, finally made it home yesterday, two weeks living in the truck nothing to those who do Perth etc or as in the USA, go away for months at a time, but they either have a house for a sleeper, or far better truckstops and facilities than we mostly do! Now a couple of blokes had a go at me for stopping in the roadhouse parking area. Seems I can't win. Yes I had to have a 24 hour break, so where can you do your washing, get food and have a toilet and shower available. Many want such things when on a break, why can't I?
Whilst I was there on a Saturday/Sunday, I never saw trucks have to leave because there was nowhere to park, but it was chockers when I went back Tuesday night to fuel, on my way out again. It has been an interesting week, lousy roads up that way, both the highways and into mine sites, some good rest areas, some useless and some big spaces between either.
Had to do a changeover at Moree Thursday night, been in Qld for nearly ten days and two hours into NSW and back, only stepped foot in the parking bay and spoke with one driver, but had to wait at the border for my test result to get back into Qld. Seems Victoria do not require any tests now, but a different pass, so we will see what Qld end up doing. Again, why seven sets of rules?
One thing I have noticed is a proliferation of STOPPING Bays, yet most of them are useless and of course, the authorities will say, we have provided them for you, so why whinge. It is like parking bays, it is all well and good to build something so they can say they have, it is another to actually get what you need and the third part is value for money. No matter what it has cost, whose idea, plan or scheme it is, if it does not provide for those it is intended to serve, then it is at the least a waste of money and at the worst, a completely missed opportunity.
Many months ago during a phone call to one of the serious government agencies who look into roads and their uses, I raised this issue. Do we have national guideline s for Stopping Bays, is it legal to sleep in them, who designs them and what are they actually intended to do and or provide? I was told there would have to be a study, but why? Why can't someone simply see what is currently being done and propose a national set of standards, design principles and guidelines? Who are they for, what do they intend to provide and then why are there ten in a row (one place I saw, the next was within sight of the last, what a ridiculous waste of money) then nothing for hundreds of kilometres!
This is why we need a national rest area strategy. Why then will none of the other industry associations support this as part of the NRFA 6 point plan? Natroad have come out saying there should be money for rest areas, absolutely, but where, what style etc? Will any of the Natroad board ever sleep in one, I doubt it, so how will they use this money if it ever gets allocated. Will we again see stuff done with good intent and lousy delivery? I am very frustrated with roads and rest areas, the money spent badly, the money not spent at all and yet we are not only expected to manage our fatigue and comply, we are severely punished if we don't. How can you win? When you have the answer, let me know. Safe Travelling, Rod Hannifey.


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Sunday, August 23, 2009
New England Summer: 1 Crazy Runner: 0
Now I am wicked (can you hear my Boston come out?) nervous that I am going to bonk in the 1/2 too! Does anyone have any suggestions on how to make up for lost mileage? On my schedule I was only down for 10 miles so I missed 4 but how can I make up for this. Should I do a long run some time this week or just continue with my regularly scheduled runs? I can't wait for Fall!!
Thanks Jill for being such an understanding running buddy! I owe you big time!
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Don't try to make it up - just pick up on the schedule where you left off. Good luck and have fun!!ReplyDelete
- miles make smilesAugust 24, 2009 at 8:40 PM
I agree with Charisa, but I would also try a double run day...low mileage however, maybe 5 and 5 split. According to my "running coach", wait at least 4 hours before running the second time AND don't make it a speed work out!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 26, 2009 at 6:17 PM
I am going to try to run the Wicked 1/2 but I am TREMENDOUSLY behind in the training schedule. At this point I will be happy just to finish the race at all, even with walking! It will be fun to see you there on race day. You might need to wait a long time for me to finish though! Good job on your diet and running - I am getting inspired!ReplyDelete
Yay Val! I'm so glad you are doing it too! Any time you want to run let me know! You will do great and I will wait as long as it takes at the finish!!!ReplyDelete


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A combination of ombitasvir/paritaprevir/ritonavir and dasabuvir (3D) with sofosbuvir (SOF) and ribavirin (RBV) is highly efficacious for the retreatment of patients with hepatitis C virus (HCV) subtype 1b infection, with or without cirrhosis, who did not experience therapeutic success with previous direct-acting antiviral (DAA) treatment, according to a retrospective study published in the Journal of Viral Hepatitis.
Although the use of DAAs in patients with chronic HCV genotype 1 infection results in sustained virologic response (SVR) rates of 95% to 97%, a sizable percentage of patients still experience virologic failure. The recommendations for retreatment indicate the use of drugs from other classes that do not have cross-resistance with the drugs that have been used previously, and prolonging the earlier retreatment regimens, with or without the addition of RBV.
Researchers observed 17 patients with HCV subtype 1b in whom previous DAA treatment failed, including 13 patients (76.5%) with liver cirrhosis, 12 patients (70.6%) who previously received first-generation DAAs (ledipasvir or daclatasvir), and 5 patients (29.4%) who required 3 rounds of treatment using both first- and second-generation (velpatasvir) DAAs.
All patients were retreated with 3D+SOF+RBV, and the observed sustained virologic response at 12 weeks after treatment (SVR12) rate was 94.1% (16/17 patients) overall. Although retreatment with 3D+SOF+RBV was highly effective and safe in these patients, fibrosis stage, baseline presence of NS5A resistance-associated substitutions mutations, and the generation of previously used NS5A inhibitors may have affected the probability of achieving SVRat 12 weeks post-treatment.
Results demonstrated that F0-F2 fibrosis, single mutations, and failure of first-generation treatments only were associated with 100% SVR at 12 weeks post-treatment; higher grades of fibrosis, double mutations, and second-generation treatment failure SVR at 12 weeks post-treatment ranged from 80% to 92.3%.
The study authors concluded, "we have demonstrated high efficacy of 3D+SOF+RBV for retreatment of patients with HCV subtype 1b infection, with or without cirrhosis, who failed previous DAA treatment." However, further studies in a larger population are warranted to further confirm and investigate the predictive value of these baseline factors.
Fedorchenko SV, Martynovych T, Klimenko Z, Yanchenko V, Solianyk I. Retreatment of patients with chronic hepatitis C, subtype 1b and cirrhosis, who failed previous direct acting antiviral therapy including first- and second-generation NS5A inhibitors with ombitasvir/ paritaprevir/ ritonavir, dasabuvir + sofosbuvir + ribavirin [published online January 2, 2020]. J Viral Hepat. doi:10.1111/jvh.13254.


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Almost befitting of the upheaval to begin the season at the position, Pittsburgh's 2015 season could come down to the performance of their kicker in Week 4.
Josh Scobee is the third kicker to sport a Pittsburgh Steelers uniform this season after injuries to the ever-steady Shaun Suisham and initial replacement Garrett Hartley forced Pittsburgh to wager a small part of their future on Scobee's veteran kicking foot.
Four games and five missed kicks later, his tenure could be coming to a close.
In fact, while we're looking to the future, let's examine another fact; Pittsburgh's 23-20 loss to the Ravens on Thursday hurts. It hurts more than watching a pair of Suisham gimmies sail to the left of the goal post, and it hurts worse than losing a home game to a hated division rival.
The Ravens have life.
Scobee came 41-yards away from all but ending Baltimore's playoff hopes. With just over a minute remaining in regulation and a stagnant Ravens offense who only twice even threatened to score touchdowns set to take the field, the six-point lead Scobee's kick would have provided would have been the nail in the proverbial coffin. Steelers win 23-17, move to 3-1 overall and enjoy a comfy four game division lead over the 0-4 Ravens before it's even cold enough to need a jacket.
Instead, the Ravens and their kicker Justin Tucker nail a game-winning 52-yarder in overtime, notch their first win of the season and send the Steelers back to .500 for the first time since Week 7 of last season.
With Ben Roethlisberger still out for the foreseeable future, the Ravens are in position to make a move and became the third team in history to make a playoff run despite an 0-3 start.
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Astorino starts 'Stop Common Core' ballot line
ALBANY – Republican gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino on Tuesday launched an effort for a new ballot line called "Stop Common Core," aiming to turn anger about the tougher school-testing standards into votes in November.
Astorino will look to get 15,000 petition signatures to get the third-party line on the November ballot. It would give the Westchester County executive three lines on the November ballot, along with the Republican and Conservative parties' lines.
He said the line would help his candidacy, but also give voters an opportunity to protest the testing standards at the ballot box. He has until Aug. 19 to file the petition signatures.
"This is an opportunity for people to either make a statement or to truly vote for me — either one," Astorino said at a news conference in Albany.
Astorino has sought to capitalize on the concerns of parents, teachers and students over the Common Core testing standards, which were put into place in New York in 2012. He's tried to link his opponent, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, to the troubled exams and announced last spring that his school-aged children would opt out of the exams.
Astorino has labeled the teaching measures as "Cuomo's Common Core."
Astorino said he supports tough school standards, but the current ones were poorly implemented. If he is elected governor, he would halt the state's participation in the national initiative. He said he would unveil his education platform in September.
"To say that if you're against Common Core, you're against high standards is an argument that has no basis in fact, and it's meant to cover up what has been a disaster in Common Core," Astorino said.
For his part, Cuomo and the state Legislature this year criticized the rollout of the Common Core exams, and they agreed during this year's legislative session to delay using the test results to determine students' performance. They also delayed using the test results to evaluate poor-performing teachers.
"I'm sort of where the parent is, standing outside with the sign," Cuomo told reporters Feb. 20 in Rochester. "And by the way, I would hold the same basic sign that the parent is holding. I think the way they have implemented Common Core has failed utterly. There is massive confusion, massive anxiety and massive chaos all through."
Cuomo's campaign spokesman Peter Kauffmann defended the governor's steps on Common Core and blasted Astorino.
"The Common Core has been adopted by 45 states and will serve as the basis for the new SAT. These more rigorous standards will be used to help New York students better prepare for college and career," Kauffmann said in a statement. "Rob Astorino's pathetic pandering will do nothing more than make New York students less competitive than their peers nationally."


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Russia's parliament voted 380-3 on Friday to decriminalize domestic violence. According to the bill, in cases where domestic violence does not cause "substantial bodily harm" and does not occur more than once a year it is considered an administrative offense.
The move, which eliminates criminal liability in such cases, makes a violation punishable by a fine of $500. According to the bill, the person, who commits such an act twice, will be criminally prosecuted.
"The proposed legislation is a massive setback to efforts to eradicate domestic violence, domestically and internationally," said Russian expert Yulia Gorbunova of Human Rights Watch. "Rather than weakening existing laws, Russia should adopt tougher ones to prevent domestic violence, protect victims, and hold abusers to account."
According to her, official statistics show that around 40 percent of all violent crimes in Russia are committed within the family.
Russia is one of three countries in Europe and Central Asia that do not have laws specifically targeting domestic violence.
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Faces in the Fire, and Other Fancies
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Kerala church rape case: Two accused priests of Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church surrender in court
Last week, the Supreme Court ordered Father Sony Verghese and Father Jaise K George to surrender by August 13.
Two priests in Kerala accused of raping and blackmailing a woman surrendered before a court in Thiruvalla town on Monday, NDTV reported. Father Sony Verghese and Father Jaise K George surrendered a week after the Supreme Court ordered them to do so by August 13 and cancelled their interim protection from arrest.
On July 27, the court asked the Kerala Police to file within two weeks a status report of the investigation into the charges of sexual abuse against four Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church priests. The priests are accused of raping and molesting a 34-year-old woman for three years by using a statement she made during confession before one of them. Confession – also known as the sacrament of reconciliation – is a church practice that is considered a form of penance.
In a letter to the church in June, the woman's husband, who hails from Thiruvalla in Pathanamthitta district, claimed that the priests had used his wife's confession to blackmail her. He named eight people in the letter and sought action against them. Following the allegations, the church sent the priests on leave.
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The UK's Acid Jazz label celebrates its 30th anniversary this year and one of its key releases for 2018 is a compilation devised by the label's co-founder, DJ and tastemaker, Eddie Piller, together with actor/occasional DJ, Martin Freeman (of The Office, Sherlock and The Hobbit fame). The project is dubbed 'Jazz Around The Corner' and features 2CDs/LPs comprised of tracks selected by Messrs Piller and Freeman. The latter, who put together a CD called 'Made To Measure' in 2006 for Motown, has compiled the first disc, which blends vintage old school instrumentals (including hard boppers Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, Eddie Harris, Lee Morgan, and organist Jimmy Smith ) with classic vocal cuts (Mose Allison, Blossom Dearie) and more recent material from neo-spiritual jazz avatar, Kamasi Washington. The second disc was conceived by Eddie Piller and its selections include cult vocal sides from Eugene McDaniels ('Cherrystones'), Marlena Shaw ('Look At Me, Look At You'), and Leon Thomas ('Just In Time To See The Sun'), plus cool grooves from Blue Mitchell, Norman Connors, the UK's own Brand New Heavies, and Les McCann. It all adds up to a head-nodding, toe-tapping, groove-heavy set that will please diehard jazz fans and newies alike.
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Raise your hand if you're a beautyholic like me!🙋🏻♀
Today, I am going to share my current situation at home. I mean my beauty/ makeup situation💄😂 of course… I don't know why but I always loved pics and videos of people sharing their home stations and beauty products. It is kind of exciting to see a piece of privacy in this insta- oriented (only show the great stuff) world.
Let's start with all the organizers and decor. From left to right: black sandal wood candle Primark, white bird key holder (used for bracelets) John Lewis, marble treys Primark, white flower pots Ikea, transparent makeup holders Amazon, personalized profile from Croatia💁🏻♀, picture frame Ikea, vanity mirror Ikea and last but not least black jewellery organizer Ikea.
I wanted to keep it minimalistic (black and white). To be honest, I use this table for studying or working on PC as well so it is not just a makeup vanity.
I'd like to have my favourite parfumes here so I can just grab them any time. La vie est belle by Lancome, Miss Cherie by Dior and Daisy by Marc Jacobs have been my loves since I was a teenager💁🏻♀. Their fresh floral and feminine smell is what makes them so unique.Brushes, eyeliners and all the other tools have their own place in the pretty pots. I have Zoewa, Makeup revolution, Essence, NYX, etc.
When it comes to lipsticks, OH YEAH!!! I do have an obsession but how could I not? Kylie cosmetics, NYX, Pupa, Maybelline, Mark by Avon and many more belong to my precious collection. I also have some mascaras (Pupa, Dr. Belter, Maybelline, Chanel, Bourjois, L'oreal). Concealers and setting spray are also part of my vanity. I like when it's all organized cause you know how messy can the makeup get sometimes😩. I try to keep it tidy and throw things I don't use regularly. However, the problem is that there is way too much in the shops and you want to buy new and new stuff all the time. But we only have one face😱😏☹ so let's reduce the waste and only buy what we actually need! I'll try to do it as well, promise😉!I hope you enjoyed this beauty post cause I really did. Talking about makeup and all that good stuff is one of the things I am very passionate about and I guess it is not just me. I am planning to write more and more so come back soon, ok? Till then…
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JESSICA CHOU Has A YouTube Channel Teaching Women About Basic Vehicle Maintenance
This is quite an interesting YouTube channel concept, and it shows that … Asian chicks kick ass! JESSICA CHOU is a young Asian American woman who has a YouTube channel which basically teaches other girls and women about how to fix their car.
"I think we don't see as many female mechanics because the industry is still so heavily dominated by men. When we think of a mechanic, we think of men. When we see ads or posters of mechanics, we see men. When we see shows about cars, we see men. It will take a long time to change all of this, but in the 10 short months that I've been on this journey, I've met so many incredible people who are out to change the game."
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Holly Willoughby has stepped back from her role in beloved ITV show which put her name on the map.
The TV presenter quit Celebrity Juice after 12 years on the panel.
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She has been a team captain on the award-winning show for over a decade. But this era will come to an end when the current series wraps up.
Her resignation comes shortly after her husband Dan Baldwin, one of Celebrity Juice's creators, stopped producing the ITV2 show.
Her decision to leave now put the whole show's future in jeopardy as the show's host, Keith Lemon, revealed if Holly left it would be the end of Celebrity Juice.
A source told The Mail on Sunday that Holly wanted to spend more time with her family and that filming Celebrity Juice takes up a lot of time in the evening. Adding that Holly is one of the 'busiest women in showbiz'.
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Research Fellow @ NUS Medicine BSL-3 Core Facility
The National University of Singapore invites applications for Research Fellow (RF) in the Biosafety Level 3 (BSL-3) Core Facility, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. The RF aims to implement the research projects of risk group 3 (RG3) pathogens including SARS-CoV-2 within BSL-3 Facility. The successful RF will have the opportunity to manage a research project with career development.
The BSL-3 Core Facility is the largest research-focused biocontainment facility in Singapore. The facility supports research and diagnostic work involving risk group 3 (RG3) pathogens is equipped with a range of laboratory equipment with advanced technologies (including mouse biocontainment units, flow cytometers, aerosol inhalation machine, PET/CT imaging, etc.). Currently, the facility is open to researchers from NUS and other non-NUS institutions to conduct their research on RG3 biological agents. It also supports the Singapore National Public Health Laboratory activities such as RG3 pathogen surveillance and national preparedness for effective disease outbreak management programme.
- Provide scientific manpower supports towards scientific research (in vitro and in vivo) on SARS-CoV-2 and other RG3 pathogens within the NUS Medicine BSL-3 Core Facility.
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- Planning and conducting work/training activities, and ensuring adequate staffing levels, time, space and equipment are available.
- Assist the BSL-3 management with any ad-hoc projects whenever necessary.
- PhD in Medical/Clinical Laboratory Science, Biomedical Sciences, Virology, Bioinformatics or equivalent degree
- Minimum 2 years' research experience in BSL-2 or BSL-3 laboratory with very good knowledge, skills and expertise, and demonstrated creativity and promise in research excellence.
- Good publication record in international peer-reviewed journals.
- Self-motivated, able to work independently and in a team and able to work well in a diverse team environment.
- Must be able to communicate and write well in English.
- Prior experience in virology and molecular biology is required.
- Prior experience in small animal experimentation is preferred.
- Prior experience in NGS analysis will be an added advantage.
- Working experience in BSL-3 or animal BSL-3 laboratory/laboratories will be an added advantage.
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In 1827 the first friction match was invented in England by John Walker. Walker's matches were sticks tipped with a mixture of chemicals that burst into flame when scratched against a rough surface.
Walker found that when the mixture dried, he could ignite the stick by drawing the head through a piece of sandpaper. Other people began making such matches, but they presented many problems. They were hard to ignite, they didn't always light properly, and the heads often came off.
In 1830 the walker matches were improved by substituting white phosphorus for one of the ingredients. This type of match was first made in the United States in 1836.
Sulfur was used to help the match-head flame light the wooden splint. The sulfur was later replaced with paraffin, and fire retardants were added to the wooden match splint to make it burn more slowly.
In 1911 an American match company perfected a formula that used a nonpoisonous compound of phosphorus and sulfur, and thus eliminated white phosphorous, which is poisonous.
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Feeder, Pigeon Detectives, The Rifles, Reef and more announced. Find out how to get Leestock tickets.
Amelia Ward
Date published: 17th Jan 2018
Image: The Pigeon Detectives (source)
The organisers behind Leestock Music Festival have confirmed some of indie's most recognised artists will play this years event.
The likes of Welsh trio Feeder, Leeds indie outfit The Pigeon Detectives and The Rifles, join the Leestock line up. The charity festival, which will take place on Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th May 2018 also sees 90s icons Republica and Reef join the weekender.
Set in the grounds of Melford Hall in Suffolk, the festival celebrated its 10th birthday last year and heads into 2018 with one of its strongest line ups yet.
Alongside the music, a selection of gourmet street food traders, craft beer stalls and other activities will ensure all tastes are catered for.
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So, I was in Asda's the other day. This sounds like the set up to a joke, but I can assure, this was no joke. Why would you joke about going to Asda? As I type this, I have an internal monologue imagining a mid-90s observational comedian riffing about going to Asda, and I gotta tell you, it's pretty awful. "Have you ever noticed, right, like, when you're in Asda, you can get clothes in there? And they all come with a name label, you know, like at school! But here's the thing! You only get one choice of name, and it's "George". What do you do if your name's NOT GEORGE? Huh? You're screwed, that's what."
Back to reality for a moment, as I was saying, I was in Asda's the other day, not clothes shopping (they don't have any clothes with my name on the tag), but general grocery shopping, bin bags, mouthwash, Capri Suns, y'know, that sort of thing. One thing I wasn't expecting to see, let alone buy on a general shopping trip, was this thing:
"Slow Cooked Chicken Shawarma with a Garlic Yog(h)urt Drizzle" – 2 for £7!
Now, I had no idea this existed until I walked past it, and a cursory look on Bing (it's like Google, but with a sillier name) suggests that the general internet doesn't know it exists either, so it is my PLEASURE to bring you yet another supermarket kebab review, which according to the stats on this page, remain inexplicably popular.
The small(er) print underneath reads "Boneless Chicken Thighs SLOW COOKED FOR 2 HOURS For Extra Tenderness, Perfect for Shredding". Sounds delightful. So what does that look like, then? This.
I neglected to take any photos of what this looked like prior to being baked for half an hour, but it's basically a meat-brick made of fused together chicken thighs, in a strong shawarma marinade, vacuum packed inside a plastic inner bag, but basically, there's the end result. "Perfect for shredding" – indeed! I can't imagine you'd want to eat that as-is, but I suspect at some point I'll try anyway.
In order to get above chick-brick into something vaguely resembling the photo on the box, you need to shove some forks into it, and repeatedly pull this apart until you're left with a bunch of pulled chicken, which – let's face it – is exactly what this is. After 5 minutes of solid pullin' – this is what you get…
Now, the instructions, brief as they are, suggest draining off the liquid. I completely disregarded this advice, and do not regret that in the slightest – ok, it meant that this was an unnecessarily messy eat when it came to it, but I wasn't going to sacrifice taste at the alter of having to finish off the kitchen roll. That being said, and as tasty as it was, it was missing a certain something – bite. Sure, it tasted great – the cumin heavy spice this was cooked in was pretty top notch, but it fell apart in my mouth a bit too easily. Ideal for some – denture wearers, I imagine – but not me.
So far, I've only mentioned the larger of the two plastic packets inside the box – I've completely neglected the "garlic yoghurt drizzle". I'll come straight to the point – this was excellent stuff, though I don't imagine the following photo will necessarily convey that:
Forgive the weirdly folded wrap – it came like that out of the packet and I wasn't about to iron it flat – but there's your garlic drizzle (and other stuff – more on that later) – really top notch stuff. "Drizzle" makes me think watery – like a salad dressing, or supermarket brand 3% bitter. This was not watery, this was a thick, gooey enjoyment. Best be careful not to stray into innuendo territory at this point, but this was a delight – full on yoghurt with just enough garlic to complement the kebab, and not so much that it ruins it.
You may well wonder "hey, what's that orange stuff?" – well, the beauty of these home made endeavours is that you can add whatever the hell you like, and I'm pleased to say I totally went to town with additional sauces with this. The orange stuff – and I will concede it's pretty niche, but it works – that was a tub of Burger King's "Spicy Mayo" that they give out as a dip with their Chicken Fries. Had a couple left over, so in it went. As did pretty much everything else I could find – Sriracha, Rose Harissa paste, and some mint sauce on the salad alongside the garlic drizzle – and it worked!
So there's your final product – Asda's Chicken Shawarma + sauces + salad wrap = this. Pleased to say – because there were two servings in this, and I am but one mouthed, I had another go later with the leftovers, which required reheating. A radical thought occurred – to make it a bit crisper, and to give it a bit more bite, I thought rather than reheat in the microwave, I'd shallow fry it instead with a small amount of oil. I won't pretend this radically improved the texture, but it did make it a little bit more like eating a shop-bought kebab, so something to consider if you end up buying this.
Overall – a good effort!
Asda Chicken Shawarma
£ – No idea how much individually, I got this and another item in the 2 for £7 range. (UPDATE: £4.50 for one according to Asda's website. Probably should have checked that earlier. Soz!)


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In some cases when installing some software in Linux you might need to change the hard limit for "maximum open file descriptors". There are two levels of control on Linux maximum number of open files (or file descriptors), system limit and per-user/group/process limit. /etc/sysctl.conf is to set system-wide amount for kernel, /etc/security/limits.conf is to assign specific limits on per-user/group or process.
You may make changes by either issuing commands online or modifying the configuration files. Please bear in mind, online modification is usually temporary (the settings will be gone after reboot of system), change by modifying the configuration files is permanent.
Each user has per-user file descriptor limits. It includes soft and hard limits. hard limit is the absolute limit, user can set its soft limit freely to any value up to hard limit (use command: ulimit -n xxxx). Per-user limit defaults to 1024. Only root can increase the hard limit.
To change this you can add a line like the one below to your /etc/security/limits.conf
jolouwer hard nofile 65536
In this case I changed the hard limit for the user jolouwer
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In the Chinese city of Shanghai, a fleet of buses equipped with artificial intelligence technology have started trial operations.
These buses have been co-developed by Chinese search engine giant Baidu and a Shanghai-based tourism company.
The double-deck tour bus aims to make travel more convenient for tourists through AI technology.
Tourists are allowed to get on the bus through facial recognition no tickets required.
Meanwhile, the wireless translators on the bus are able to provide diverse services for tourists, including translation, answering questions and audio guides.
The buses will start official operation from January 2019.
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Say No to the destroyers of good deeds
2:266 Would any of you wish to have a garden with date-palms and vines, with rivers flowing underneath, and all kinds of fruits for him therein, while he is stricken with old age, and his children are weak (not able to look after themselves), then it is struck with a fiery whirlwind, so that it is burnt? Thus does Allâh make clear His Ayât (proofs, evidence, verses) to you that you may give thought. Ibn Abbas said, "This is an example set for a deed."
In the tafsir of Ibn Kathir, we see a hadith in which, Ibn Abbas may Allah be pleased with him said that this ayah is referring to, "a wealthy man who works in Allah's pleasure and then Allah sends Shaytan to him, and he works in disobedience, until he annuls his good works." Ibn Kathir states that this Hadith suffices as an explanation for the Ayah:
أَيَوَدُّ أَحَدُكُمْ أَن تَكُونَ لَهُۥ جَنَّةٌ مِّن نَّخِيلٍ وَأَعْنَابٍ تَجْرِى مِن تَحْتِهَا ٱلْأَنْهَـٰرُ لَهُۥ فِيهَا مِن كُلِّ ٱلثَّمَرَٰتِ وَأَصَابَهُ ٱلْكِبَرُ وَلَهُۥ ذُرِّيَّةٌ ضُعَفَآءُ فَأَصَابَهَآ إِعْصَارٌ فِيهِ نَارٌ فَٱحْتَرَقَتْ ۗ كَذَٰلِكَ يُبَيِّنُ ٱللَّهُ لَكُمُ ٱلْـَٔايَـٰتِ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَتَفَكَّرُونَ
… for it explains the example it sets by a person who does good first and then follows it with evil, may Allah save us from this end. So, this man annulled his previous good works with his latter evil works. When he desperately needed the deeds of the former type, there were none.😱
This is such a powerful ayah! May Allah save us from cancelling our good deeds. Aameen.
As seekers of knowledge, students of Qur'an, we really need to guard our deeds, our efforts on this journey of seeking knowledge. Let's say NO to anything that could destroy what we are learning.
Let's make du'a that the knowledge benefits us, witnesses for us and leads us to Jannah. 🤲🏽Let's make du'a that the knowledge we acquire never makes us arrogant and that Allah preserve our niyyah and our Ikhlas (our sincere intentions) for His sake ALONE.🤲🏽
Let's remember that Shaytan had a lot of knowledge and that knowledge did not benefit him. On the contrary, it led him to be arrogant and cursed.
This is why constantly pausing to think, to remind ourselves of our whys and making du'as will help us to say NO to the things that could destroy our efforts.
Allah Azza Wajal is even calling us to give the above example in ayah 266 some thought.
…Thus does Allâh make clear His Ayât (proofs, evidence, verses) to you that you may give thought.
Say NO to frequent interruptions/context switching
Build some discipline to focus and study by having a few systems in place. In her book, author Juliet Funt mentions a 'yellow list', which is a page you can keep on a side so you can jot thoughts/requests that are not time sensitive. The yellow list helps you to be less impulsive and helps you to reduce the ongoing back and forth emails that are distracting. Once your list is full, you can now meet with the person and go over it and save time. Interruption and context switching are so costly. You may think 'oh I will just message her for one minute,' but in reality that interruption is costing you far more than one minute because according to some research, it takes about twenty minutes to get back to the 'flow' after context switching!
She also gives a few tips on verifying the urgency of an action. We tend to think everything is urgent and because it's so easy to reach someone with the internet, we don't take the time to think and ask ourselves 'is it really urgent?'.
In her book, she also shares a few questions that really helps us be less impulsive and more intentional, here are some that truly resonated with me:
"What really deserves my attention?"
"When is good enough, good enough?"
"Is there anything I can let go of?"
and my favorite one "what meaningful work am I not making time for?". This last one made me pause! Literally!
Answering these questions for ourselves can, bi idhnillah, help us say no to low value actions.
Say NO to low value actions
Just taking the time to define what are the low value actions you tend to be consumed with and working to minimize it will help you make space for high value actions such as studying your Qur'an.
So dear sis' what will you say no to this week, so you could say yes to what will truly benefit you in this life and the next?
Go ahead and do some good by sharing this post with anyone you think might benefit. 🤩
Binta Umm Yahya is the owner of Al An 4 U Online Coaching which is an online platform for Qur'an lessons, Islamic studies and Lifecoaching for Muslimas and women interested in Islam. She has an ijazah in teaching Qur'an with Tajwid and has been teaching Qur'an for over 7 years now and is an ongoing student of Qur'an with her husband imam Ahmed Abu Suhailah. She loves reciting, teaching and reflecting on the Qur'an. She is a Certified Master Lifecoach and a NLP Practitioner who absolutely enjoys coaching her sisters in faith to help them gain clarity, focus and understanding of their religion so they live their best life and connect to their Maker. Whenever she is not teaching or coaching, you can find her staring at the sky, reading or journaling with a big cup of tea. 🙂


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Century-old downtown Sinclair Building to get $15 million facelift after Ross Group purchase
30 Apr 2021
A revitalization is planned for a long underused and more than a century-old building in the heart of downtown Tulsa.
Locally based Ross Group has purchased the Sinclair Building, which was among Tulsa's first skyscrapers when it opened in 1919. The company plans to invest at least $15 million into a refurbishing that will include apartments and commercial space, Ross Group's Dave Friedland, project leader, said Thursday by phone.
"Frankly, it's been vacant for so long," he said. "The vacancy, you can feel it on Bartlett Square. It's sad because there is so much public infrastructure there. The ability to kind of revitalize that space and have people walking around there again makes me excited to come to work every day."
Ross Group, which, according to property records, bought the Sinclair Building for $4.7 million, has devoted itself to historic preservation for years.


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Welcome back! We got a full house today, with recaps of The Flash, Supergirl, Black Lightning, and Batwoman! So let's not waste any more time with preamble and let's get to it…
"Dead Man Running"
Barry and Iris break to the rest of the Team that bad news about that oncoming Crisis, but leave out that little detail that in order to save them, The Flash is going to have to die.But we got a more pressing issue to deal with besides something about seven weeks away: that reanimated man Ramsey killed with his new blood powers! This zombie is not interested in brains though, rather dark matter, which makes it more powerful. Killer Frost puts the puzzle together rather quickly that Ramsey knows about this, although Barry is not so sure. However, having a celebrated blood analyst might be helpful on this case, so Ramsey is brought on to find our dark matter zombie. Only thing is that zombie is looking for dark matter and finds it and Ramsey in the one place you'd count on for quality security: STAR Labs!
Ramsey learns something important, mainly that he can control the zombie because it was infected with his blood powers (and can call that blood back into himself), just before Frost figures out OD'ing the zombie on dark matter will stop it (or at least, blow it up!). This experience helps Frost deal with her own anger over the likelihood of her attempt at life being cut short by the Crisis, and leads to Barry telling everyone about that whole "him dying to save their Earth" part. Meantime, we get a new Harrison Wells named Nash, and he's looking for some substance called Eternium in town. Plus, Ralph learns some things about his mom that puts a temporary strain on their relationship. But look, you really want to see exploded dark matter zombie, so here you go…
–Barry finally learns not to leave strangers alone in the lab, and catches Ramsey trying to steal some dark matter for himself. That conversation turns out to be an interesting one, as Ramsey admits he is terminally ill with his mother's disease (maybe not anymore thanks to his new powers), and figures out Barry is on borrowed time too. You'd think that would bring Ramsey back from evil, but nope.
–Nash seems to be some kind of collector of things, an Indiana Jones type, of you will. Also, he's not being discreet about his quest as the only reason Iris and Cisco even knew about him was because he was caught on security footage that was brought to them from new intern Allegra.
–Speaking of Allegra, she has no clue about the multiverse because she reminds us that not only does this Earth think Harrison Wells is a criminal, but that he's been dead for quite some time. This is gonna be an awkward talk for Iris to have.
–Ralph's mom issues are interesting as a comedic distraction, but also contend with the very real thing of a single mother wanting to connect with someone new and pushing them away out of fear of replacing Ralph's dad.
–Cisco's reaction to the new Wells: "Oh great. Another angry one."
–"Great. I'll go mark my calendar."
"Blurred Lines"
J'onn learns a truly horrible thing or two this time out, as he wants to find out why his brother was hidden from his memory. He discovers with Nia's help the terrifying answer: J'onn's brother was an outcast in Martian society because he had the power to control minds but not link psychically with other Martians, and his aligning with the white Martians was due to neglect by their father. M'yrnn was almost driven to madness, and in order to cure him… J'onn wiped his and his father's memory of their outcast family member! Yeah, that's REALLY messed up. So that rattles J'onn to the core, and he still has his brother out there, only now he has a new target: Kelly Olsen!
In disguise as an old friend of Kelly, Malefic (that's what I'll call our evil Martian) gets her help to unlock his mind control powers, and by accident, she is somehow able to see the evil Martian even in disguise. So Kelly and James are going into hiding until Kara and company can track down Malefic. Oh, and Kara fights an assassin who has deadly alien spider tattoos, until she doesn't, because a smoke person kills said assassin. Also, Kara's reporter rival William may have something to do with it. That happened, and some other stuff, such as…
–Lena uses Kara rather slyly to get some diaries from Lex, which may have information that will help Lena's mind control, ahem, stopping people from being evil project. It apparently does, too.
–Brainy going 100% on treating Nia right turns out to be a bit too much for Nia (maybe it's all the poems about her body parts, like her left earlobe) and when she asks him to take it down a few percentage points, he feels rejected. Awww, just let one relationship go well this season, show!
–On the same matter of relationships, Kara goes globe trotting to get some snacks for Lena and does a rather longing flyby Lena's office. Are we going where I think we're going? No, we're probably not.
–Yeah, I buried the lead in the episode as Sean Astin appears as Kelly's friend, Pete/Malefic, which makes me wonder where the real guy is.
–J'onn asking Nia to lie about what he did to his father and himself is going to be a problem, right?
–"I have really been missing out on the perks of having Supergirl as a friend!"
"The Book of Occupation, Chapter Three: Agent Odell's Pipe-Dream"
So we got an outbreak on our hands! The Markovians have introduced a deadly virus into the metahuman containment facility, and it's making the need to find a cure of extreme importance for Lynn, especially with the possibility of the virus spreading out into Freeland. With Agent Odell needing help taking down a Markovian staging post and recover the still missing Dr. Jace, Jefferson uses this opportunity to negotiate his and Lynn's release from containment. The staging area is squashed, no Dr. Jace found, but at least Jefferson gets a new supersuit and to go back to Freeland, so you take the good with the bad.
Speaking of the machinations of Odell, he convinces Jennifer to use her powers to blow up a Markovian computer server farm, and sends Khalil/Painkiller to mop up things in his own way. Anissa finds an exhausted Grace waiting for her, and Anissa offers to help her with her condition of shape shifting. So with the Pierce family back under the same roof, things are looking up. Except the ASA is still occupying Freeland, the Markovians are still out there, there's that metahuman virus that needs to be cured, but yeah…things are looking up.
–This show's soundtrack often delivers some quality tunes, and this week brings us Black Lightning back in action in his new suit with the music of Howlin' Wolf's "Smokestack Lightnin'". A blues classic if there ever was one.
–We check in on Tobias, who is in withdrawal from his serum and getting super old now. He declines Odell's offer to retrieve that missing briefcase to get a rather nasty sunburn as punishment. Plus, is he hallucinating Black Lightning taunting him now, or is this more of Odell's tricks?
–Jennifer giving that new student at Garfield the school tour was quite something, as you realize a lot of horrible stuff has happened to her in a pretty contained block of the school since the series started. She's taking it as well as someone would.
–Henderson has a lot to deal with, besides that old lady who spits on him about how ineffectual he is as the Deputy Chief. But he does bother to deliver stolen money to the husband of a dead detective we saw last episode who died from the metahuman virus.
–Khalil/Painkiller is getting way too confident for his own good. I can't help but think he's due for another horrible fall before long, but at least it can't be worse than having a spinal implant ripped out, huh?
–"You are quoting someone who killed 10 percent of the population of Cambodia." "25 percent."
–"I owe you some…time in the sun."
"Down Down Down"
It was only a matter of time before Kate's dressing up in her cousin's Bat-suit was going to attract some unwanted attention, and it does this episode. Someone is ripping off guns that can cut through Bat-armor, dressing up dead people as Batman, taunting the missing hero to show up to stop the carnage. Of course, we know Bruce Wayne is still AWOL, so this poses a problem only Kate can solve. And she should hurry, because the next people threatened with death are Kate's family!
Kate finds out one of Bruce's old friends, Tommy Elliott, is the one behind all this, and oh yeah, knows Bruce is Batman. He doesn't know Bruce won't show up for his big plan to start killing off Kate's family, so Kate puts on the Bat-suit again, but makes sure it's clear there's a woman in it now (it involves a red wig). She saves her family, and is helped by Alice in stopping Tommy. Oh yeah, Alice is still alive, and it seems less likely Kate is going to bring her sister back from the dark side now.
–Kate wants Alice to not kill anyone for a whole day and…she fails that. I mean, stupid thing to ask in retrospect, but hey, you try.
–Looks like Kate might be moving on from Sophie with that lady bartender she runs into, but Sophie herself is discovered to have not told her husband about her and Kate's relationship at all. And now he knows she didn't bring it up. Uh oh.
–Alice's little trip to the Kane loft was interesting, especially for the present she left Catherine: three poker cards, a two of hearts, an eight of clubs, and a three of diamonds. Catherine is definitely the key to this whole mystery of what happened to Beth/Alice.
–Mary is silently becoming one of my favorite characters, and now she has to contend with Sophie being assigned to be her bodyguard. Might put a crimp into her running that clinic.
–So Tommy makes a reference to how he learned Bruce's secret, and that he inferred the Riddler told him. Also his reason for wanting Batman dead? He saved his gold digging mother as a kid, who he hated, and grew up with her. If you read the Hush storyline in the Batman books, yeah, it's that nuts.
–"She's probably dating? Because she's gorgeous? Single? Emotionally available?"
NEXT TIME: James and Kelly find themselves hunted by J'onn's brother on Supergirl, Jefferson adjusts to life back in occupied Freeland in Black Lightning, and Kate faces a jewel thief on Batwoman!