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19.01.06 - Peter McDonagh is leaving no stone unturned in preparations for his Irish title fight with Michael Gomez in Dublin on January 28th. The Galway man has turned to world famous paranormalist Uri Geller for assistance as he bids to score the win of his career against Gomez.. A chance meeting between the two men on a flight to London has led to Gellers involvement throughout McDonaghs preparations and he will accompany McDonagh to Dublin for the fight.
"Peter approached me on the flight and we had a good conversation," explained Geller. "He is a very interesting and talented young man and he told me all about his fight with Gomez."
"I explained to him how I had helped Muhammad Ali decades ago and told him I could help do the same for him. What I do is to help motivate and inspire people like Peter and give them the self belief they need."
"Its all about mental attitude. I told Peter that I believe in him but he also has to believe in himself."
"After our conversation I became involved with Peters training for this fight. I have brainstormed with him and he is very open minded. He believes in positive thinking and has been able to absorb things very quickly."
Geller has been focusing on helping McDonagh achieve what he calls his "human potential".
"Its all about developing the energy of the mind and getting Peter to realise his human potential. Thats what I help people to do."
Gellers work will undoubtedly draw comparisons with Steve Collins use of a hypnotist prior to his upset win over Chris Eubank in 1995 but Geller rejects that.
"What I am doing with Peter is far more powerful than hypnosis. Its about getting Peter to become completely positive so that he knows its a case of when instead of if he wins this fight."
"Many athletes use hypnotherapy and sport psychologists but my work is different. I will be able to enhance Peters mental abilities and powers to make him faster, stronger and more powerful. Ive worked with boxers like Muhammad Ali and numerous other athletes over the years to help them improve their performance and my work with Peter is no different."
"Im looking forward to travelling to Dublin with Peter and I will be involved with him just like any other coach. The only difference is that I am training his mind, not his body."
McDonaghs opponent, Michael Gomez says he isnt losing any sleep over Gellers involvement. "All I have to say is good luck to him because hes going to need all the help he can get!"
"Im not sure Uri Geller will be of much use to him though because there wont be any spoons in that ring for him to bend. The only thing I plan on bending is some of McDonaghs ribs with my body punches!"
"If he was looking for someone to help him in the ring then he should have got someone like Mike Tyson to come in with him and give him a hand. I think it just shows that he doesnt have the mental strength to take me on and he obviously needs Uri Geller to help him with that. I just see that as a bonus for me really."
I dont need any of that stuff, I believe in myself 100%, Ive overcome all sorts of obstacles in my life, being on a life support machine, car crashes, everything. Getting in the ring and fighting is easy compared to that."
"Im so fired up for this, Ive had so many people asking me about this fight and had so much interest from the papers and T.V. particularly in Ireland. Ive missed being in the limelight and I know a win over McDonagh will put me right back in the mix again. I just cant wait for the fight to happen."
The Gomez V McDonagh fight at the National Stadium on January 28th is the chief support bout on an excellent night of boxing in Dublin. Headlining the bill is local hero Bernard Dunne as he faces the biggest test of his career against former European, British and IBO World Champion Noel Wilders.
Also featured on the card is some of the finest talent Irish Boxing has to offer including Brian Magee, Colin Kenna, Kevin O Hara and Stephen Haughian.
A limited number of tickets are still available from Ticketmaster on the web at TicketMaster.ie or over the phone on 0818 719300.
You can find out more about Uri Gellers work with some of the Worlds leading athletes at: http://www.uri-geller.com/uri-sports-page.htm
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They can benchmark about the same, but in real world applications synchronous are significantly faster. The synchronous version of this drive would be the Enchanced Chronos Dexluxe ($200).
You are better off paying $140 for a Crucial M4.
Initially it sounds like they are confirming your statement: "The reality is one of these products is excellent, the fastest SSD currently available on the market. The other is much slower in nearly all real world tasks." They are saying that the async is much much slower in real life, even though the specs say they should be similar.
They even posted charts that look impressive:
According to that chart, in real life the boot up in the async was garbage! But look closer. Look at the actual boot times - the faster drive getting 18.2 second boot time, while the "slower" drive booted in 18.4 seconds.
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Woah! it looks so much faster! But notice the charts don't start at zero?
In real life, the drives will be within a few percent of each other. The only place where you will see a true difference is if you copy, without decompression, encryption, install routines, or anything else that has CPU interaction. In those rare cases you'll see 10% difference (in real life).
Remember, you are going to pay 40% more for the same drive with sync.
Do the math on what the cost difference is vs actual performance gains. There are studies that confirm this. If you must have the absolute best performance regardless of price, then get the sync. For most people, getting 1-2% lower performance for 40% savings is worthwhile.
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One thing I don't follow you on. How did you arrive at "actual boot times" of 18.2 vs 18.4 seconds?
You can run the test yourself to confirm though. It will be within 1-3%.
Try looking up a benchmark from the current generation Vertex 3 vs Agility 3 both using the Sandforce 2281 controller that this drive uses. The differences are extremely substantial.
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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- While humans may pride themselves on being highly evolved, most still behave like the stereotypical Neanderthals when it comes to choosing a mate, according to research by Indiana University cognitive scientist Peter Todd. In a new study, Todd and colleagues found that though individuals may claim otherwise, beauty is the key ingredient for men while women, the much choosier of the sexes, leverage their looks for security and commitment.
This formula has served humans throughout time, with the model of choosy females reflected in most mammals, Todd and his coauthors write in "Different cognitive processes underlie human mate choices and mate preferences," which will be published the week of Sept. 4-7 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
"Evolutionary theories in psychology suggest that men and women should trade off different traits in each other, and when we look at the actual mate choices people make, this is what we find evidence for," Todd said. "Ancestral individuals who made their mate choices in this way -- women trading off their attractiveness for higher quality men and men looking for any attractive women who will accept them -- would have had an evolutionary advantage in greater numbers of successful offspring."
Not exactly politically correct" Participants in Todd's study might verbally agree, though their actions said something different.
The study used a speed-dating session in Germany to compare what people say they want in a mate with whom they actually choose. Speed dating, an increasingly popular way for singles to meet, involves sessions in which men and women have numerous "mini dates" with up to 30 different people, each date lasting anywhere from three to five minutes. After every date, the men and women checked a box on a card noting whether they would like to see the other person again. Todd and his colleagues describe such speed-dating events as a "microcosm whe
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A quick re-up before Sunday's premiere.
Thank you, Comic-Con. Thank you!!
Can't wait to see what Gimple has in store.
Save something for the show guys!
February 10th. It's back on.
An eye for an eye.
Will Walt get his happy ending?
AMC is up to their old tricks.
We're all infected… with holiday spirit.
We don't kill the living.
This kid is way better than Carl.
Just imagine what he'd turn down in favor of 'Game of Thrones'.
All the clues are there.
Cute. In a flesh-rotting, repulsive way.
I think I'm in love.
Aren't we the one in charge?
His throne sucks compared to the Iron Throne.
Heavy is the head that wears the porkpie.
This website will not. Article is spoiler-free.
Your vote counts.
The budget negotiations are going to be brutal.
Or go get drunk and kiss people. Choice is yours.
If he hadn't worn such vibrant shirts, he wouldn't have noticed at all.
This show is totally disgusting. And I'm looking forward to more.
I see what they did there.
Sixteen more. That's all you get!
Keep your mouth shut or you're Zombie Chow.
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Longview Regional Medical Center (LRMC) has released its 14th list of local women the hospital has selected as its 2014 Stars Over Longview. During the two months when women were being nominated the LRMC Advisory Council meticulously evaluated 12 outstanding ladies to be recognized as stars for their dedication to the city and their contributions to …
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Another major development in this year's numbers is China's transition from weapons importer to exporter. The volume of its exports grew 95 percent between 2002-2006 and 2007-2011, making it the world's sixth largest arms exporter after Britain.
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Koalas can often be seen lazily wrapped around a tree branch on a hot summer's day and a new report in the journal Biology Letters revealed that this behavior helps to cool the marsupials down.
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"They'd just flop over the (lower) tree trunks," study author Michael Kearney, from the University of Queensland, told Victoria Gill of BBC News. "It looked like they were spread-eagled and uncomfortable; it seemed like the wrong thing to do."
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Critical Essay by Eric P. Levy
SOURCE: "'Through Soundproof Glass': The Prison of Self-Consciousness in The Glass Menagerie, in Modern Drama, Vol. 36, No. 4, December, 1993, pp. 529-37.
In the following essay, Levy explores the significance of mirrors as a symbol for superficial appearances and fragile self-image in The Glass Menagerie.
In his production notes introducing The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams refers to nostalgia as "the first condition of the play." This appraisal at first seems accurate, for the drama disposes the past in a series of receding planes by which the very notion of nostalgia is progressively deepened. From the perspective of Tom, the narrator and a chief character, the past when he started "to boil inside" with the urge to leave home becomes a haunting memory from which his present struggles vainly to flee. But the confining power of that past derives from his mother's nostalgic attachment to her own more distant past and the desperate need to exploit motherhood as a means of reviving "the legend of her youth."
Yet once we analyse how Amanda manipulates maternity, a factor in the play more fundamental than nostalgia will begin to emerge. This principle is self-consciousness—a term which, as we shall see, the text supplies and in its own way defines. Each character is hampéred in relating to others by the need to inhabit a private world where the fundamental concern is with self-image. Some characters (Amanda and Jim) use others as mirrors to reflect the self-image with which they themselves wish to identify. Other characters (Laura and Tom) fear that through relation to others they will be reduced to mere reflections, trapped in the mirror of the other's judgment. In virtue of this preoccupation with self-image and the psychological mirrors sustaining it, the world of the play is aptly named after glass. Indeed, Laura's remark ironically becomes the motto of the play: "My glass collection takes up a good deal of time. Glass is something you have to take good care of."
Let us begin by examining Amanda's influence on Laura. Unwittingly, Amanda exploits her maternal concern about Laura's lack of marital prospects as a means of identifying with her own past when she herself was visited one Sunday afternoon in Blue Mountain by "seventeen!—gentlemencallers." In effect, she turns her daughter into a mirror in which her own flattering self-image is reflected, but to do so she must first turn herself or, more precisely, her parental judgment, into a mirror reflecting Laura's limitations. The play itself suggests this seminal image. After helping Laura dress and groom herself, Amanda instructs her to stand in front of a real mirror: "Now look at yourself, young lady. This is the prettiest you will ever be!… I've got to fix myself now! You're going to be surprised by your mother's appearance!" Then "Laura moves slowly to the long mirror and stares solemnly at herself."
Look closely at what is happening here. Amanda slights Laura's appearance even as she praises it. Laura is told that she has reached her peak at this moment: she will never again be as attractive. But Laura's limitation only enhances Amanda's excitement about her own "spectacular appearance!" The literal mirror in which Laura beholds her own image ultimately symbolizes her mother's judgment of her. Yet the fundamental purpose of that judgment is to provide, by contrast, a flattering self-image for Amanda. Though on this occasion Amanda's judgment seems benign, it participates in a subtle pattern of comparison by which Laura is made to identify with the sense of her own "Inferiority" to her mother. Indeed, at one point she alludes explicitly to this fact: "I'm just not popular like you were in Blue Mountain." Laura is, in her own words, "crippled." But her primary handicap concerns, not the limp caused by a slight inequality in the length of her legs, but the negative self-consciousness instilled by her mother. In fact Jim, the gentleman caller, approaches this very diagnosis. When Laura recalls how in high school she "had to go clumping all the way up the aisle with everyone watching," Jim advises: "You shouldn't have been self-conscious."
The effect of Laura's self-consciousness is to make her intensely protective of her self-image, and to shield it from exposure to anyone outside the home. Whenever she is forced to interact or perform in public, she becomes suddenly ill with nausea and must withdraw. The most extreme example of this syndrome is her brief attendance at Rubicam's Business College where, according to the typing instructor, Laura "broke down completely—was sick at the stomach and almost had to be carried into the wash room." She has a similar reaction after the arrival of Jim at the Wingfield home, and reclines alone on her couch while the others dine in another room. As a result of this withdrawal reflex, Laura has no life outside preoccupation with her own vulnerability.
But paradoxically, the very intensity of this preoccupation changes the meaning of the vulnerability it concerns. By focusing on the fear of humiliating exposure, Laura eventually identifies, not with the shame evoked by her self-image, but with the desperate need to avoid suffering it. In this context, the playwright's commentary on Laura gains greater profundity: "Laura's separation increases till she is like a piece of her own glass collection, too exquisitely fragile to move from the shelf." At bottom, the purpose of Laura's withdrawal is to heighten her "fragility"; for, through belief in the damaging effect of exposure, she exchanges a negative self-image for one more flattering. Sensitivity to shame allows Laura to identify with her worthiness, not of ridicule, but of delicate care and compassion. Yet instead of leading to "confidence," this escape from shame depends on increasing her insecurity. She is safe from exposure to shame only if she identifies with her inability to endure it. But lack of confidence is Laura's secret wish, for it protects from confronting anything more threatening in life than her own familiar anxiety. Indeed, whenever she is encouraged to go beyond this anxiety, her reflex is to pick up one of her "little glass ornaments." She does this when Amanda reminds her of the need for eventual marriage and during the conversation with Jim.
The significance of these ornaments can be clarified by closer consideration of the glass from which they are made. In the play, glass is associated not just with the "lovely fragility" already noted, but also with the mirror prominently visible in the Wingfield apartment. Earlier we encountered one example where Amanda instructs Laura to observe her reflection in the mirror, but we shall examine several other allusions to this literal mirror; it becomes a vital symbol of the act of self-consciousness by which a character apprehends his or her self-image. Yet, in Laura's case, this analogy between the literal mirror and the act of self-consciousness extends further. Just as with a real mirror the reflection perceived is an image in glass, so in the play, as we have seen, Laura's own self-image is represented by ornaments of glass. Hence, in virtue of the glass which is their substance, these ornaments suggest that the fragility with which she identifies is no more than a self-image, dependent on the mirror of self-consciousness reflecting it.
But whereas Laura's recourse is to emphasize the mirror of negative self-consciousness, Tom's impulse is to shatter it, in order thereby to achieve his freedom. Like Laura, he too is exposed to the mirror of parental judgment held up by his mother, Amanda. But, unlike his sister, Tom refuses to identify with the negative self-image it reflects. His consuming wish is to leave home and explore his manhood: "I'm tired of the movies and I am about to move!" But Amanda insists that his desire to leave home is simply a manifestation of selfishness, and further proof that he will end up as faithless and irresponsible as his father, an example of the kind of man he should never become. In fact, a photograph of that father, hanging "on the wall of the living room," functions as a kind of mirror displaying the very self-image with which Tom is identified: "More and more you remind me of your father! He was out all hours without explanation!—Then left! Goodbye! And me with the bag to hold." Yet, with increasing passion, Tom protests his right to be a person and not merely a reflection defined by his mother's way of seeing him. Ultimately, he refuses to let the image she holds up to him restrain him; for if he identifies with it, he will never be free.
The process of this repudiation is repeatedly linked with the breakage of glass, symbol of the reflected self-image with which a character is made to identify. In the first great confrontation with his mother, Tom disowns the self-image with which she tries to control him: "For sixty-five dollars a month I give up all that I dream of doing and being ever! And you say self—self's all I ever think of. Why, listen, if self is what I thought of, Mother, I'd be where he is—GONE!" Then, in an enraged effort to don his overcoat and leave the house, he becomes entangled in "the bulky garment" and heaves it "across the room." The result is devastating: "It strikes against the shelf of Laura's glass collection, and there is a tinkle of shattering glass. Laura cries out as if wounded." On the surface, Tom's fury here seems purely destructive, damaging the possession which his sister most prizes. But, more profoundly, Tom's action represents the only way of claiming his own identity. If he allows his mother to restrain him by guilt and convince him that to act on his own is to become like his father, he will be no more self-reliant than Laura, hampered in life by a negative self-image, symbolized in Laura's case by the glass menagerie. For Laura, that self-image concerns fragility; for Tom, guilt. But each image is equally restricting.
Tom's second confrontation with his mother is even more explosive. Once again, she imposes a negative image upon him: "Go to the movies, go! Don't think about us, a mother deserted, an unmarried sister who's crippled and has no job! Don't let anything interfere with your selfish pleasure!" In rage, "Tom smashes his glass on the floor" and then "plunges out on the fire escape, slamming the door." The act of breaking glass (in this instance, a drinking vessel) obviously recalls the earlier shattering of an item in Laura's glass menagerie. Again, in the struggle to affirm and fulfil his own identity, Tom is forced to repudiate the negative image reflected in the mirror of parental judgment. What he says in the first encounter also explains his reaction in the second: "It seems unimportant to you, what I'm doing—what I want to do."
But even after leaving the house to explore life on his own, Tom is still haunted by the mirror of parental judgment. His "closing speech," immediately after the second glass smashing episode, is extremely revealing in this regard. In describing his itinerant life after breaking away from home, Tom admits that, at bottom, his freedom is no more than a flight in which he feels "pursued by something" that turns out to be the image of his sister. He recounts an obsession that overwhelms him each time he arrives in a new town: "Perhaps I am walking along a street at night, in some strange city, before I have found companions. I pass the lighted window of a shop where perfume is sold. The window is filled with pieces of colored glass, tiny transparent bottles in delicate colors, like bits of a shattered rainbow. Then all at once my sister touches my shoulder. I turn around and look in to her eyes."
This is one of the most poignant passages in the play, but understanding its full meaning requires some analysis. On the surface, Tom seems obsessed with guilt for having abandoned the sister who depended on him. But his preoccupation with Laura involves much more than the sense of duty denied. Or, more precisely, his remorse is motivated by a concern deeper than shirked obligation. The context confirms this. Her apparition usually appears after Tom sees some "tiny transparent bottles" through a shop window. The delicate ornaments, of course, remind him of Laura's glass menagerie. Ironically, however, in his futile flight from the memory of Laura, he is trying to escape an insecurity analogous to one symbolized by that glass menagerie. Whereas Laura reacts to insecurity by withdrawing into "a world of her own—a world of little glass ornaments," Tom responds by plunging compulsively into a world of strangers: "I cross the street, I run into the movies or a bar, I buy a drink, I speak to the nearest stranger—anything that can blow your candles out!" In fact, in his restless flight after leaving home, when cities whirl past him "like dead leaves," Tom travels perpetually through a world of strangers, never staying still long enough to find a new place he can call home.
The nature of this insecurity becomes clearer when we consider the scene with which its description is synchronized. As the author notes, "Tom's closing speech is timed with what is happening inside the house. We see, as though through soundproof glass, that Amanda appears to be making a comforting speech to Laura, who is huddled upon the sofa." The emphasis on "soundproof glass" is crucial here. To live in that home is to live behind a pane of imaginary glass: namely, the mirror of parental judgment created by Amanda in order to flatter her own self-image. To live inside that home is to be defined by the mirror it contains, as we have seen extensively with regard to Laura and Tom. Now that he is outside the home, Tom can see through that soundproof glass, as if it were a one-way mirror, transparent to the viewer or audience on one side, but a reflecting surface to those trapped on the other side of it.
The great pathos of the play is that Tom remains just as much a prisoner of the mirror as Laura. His attempt to flee merely confirms its influence. The ultimate cause of his restless movement is the fear of finding himself trapped on the wrong side of the mirror again—in other words, enclosed in an intimacy founded on love. For to love, as Tom has learned through the relation with his mother, is to be exposed to a mirror of negative judgment on which one becomes dependent for the sense of one's own worth. In that position. Tom is as vulnerable to insecurity as Laura. Hence, though his need for companionship is great, his need for loneliness is greater; for only loneliness can protect him from the vulnerability to love (or, more precisely, to the mirror of judgment which love creates) epitomized by his sister. But paradoxically, by shielding him from the same vulnerability to love suffered by Laura, loneliness increases his identification with her; for in that state he inhabits a world of his own, just as she does through preoccupation with the glass menagerie. The instability of this condition is vividly represented by Tom's obsession with Laura. Her image always appears in his moments of greatest loneliness—when he has just entered a new town at night but has not yet "found companions." He recoils from her and compulsively seeks strangers, but soon after meeting them he is once again on his lonely way. Thus the cycle of his life continues.
An even more profound pessimism about the influence of the mirror emerges when we examine Jim, the gentleman caller, who, according to Tom, "is the most realistic character in the play, being an emissary from a world of reality that we were somehow set apart from." It soon becomes apparent, however, that Jim is as much defined by mirrors and the self-consciousness which they symbolize as anyone else in the drama. Jim does show a genuine interest in Laura and tries to help her: "You don't have the proper amount of faith in yourself." Nevertheless, his concern is tainted with self-interest. Ultimately, like Amanda, he exploits Laura as a mirror in which to reflect a flattering image of himself.
The play is explicit in this regard. Note how, when encouraging Laura to conquer her "Inferiority complex," Jim "unconsciously glances at himself in the mirror" as he tells her that "Everybody excels in some one thing. Some in many!" A moment later, he "adjusts his tie at the mirror." In effect, he uses her need for self-confidence as an opportunity to admire his own attributes: "I guess you think I think a lot of myself!" His parting gesture sums up the meaning of his interest in Laura: "He stops at the oval mirror to put on his hat. He carefully shapes the brim and the crown to give a discreetly dashing effect." While Jim's reunion with Laura has aroused sincere affection for her, his deepest love is reserved for his own self-image. Consistently, he uses her sense of inadequacy as a means of magnifying his own positive attributes: "Look how big my shadow is when I stretch!" At bottom, what appears to be compassion—and what to Jim feels like honest compassion—is nothing more than narcissism, where awareness of Laura's emotional need leaves Jim "enrapt in his own comfortable being." This selfishness is most apparent when he kisses her. Jim yields to his attraction to Laura, but in doing so reveals its deepest motive. As soon as he kisses her he must reject her, because he already has a girlfriend, Betty. His sudden reversal makes Laura suffer an "almost infinite desolation," but reinforces Jim's own complacent satisfaction with himself: "Being in love has made a new man of me!" Once again, he turns Laura's helplessness into a mirror in which his own self-assurance is reflected.
Laura's situation is made more devastating by the positive effect he initially has on her. When the unicorn's horn breaks during her brief dance with Jim, Laura is not upset: "It's no tragedy, Freckles. Glass breaks so easily." In fact, she seems on the brink of transcending the image of herself which the unicorn represents: "The horn was removed to make him feel less—freakish!" Before he leaves, Laura gives Jim the unicorn as a "souvenir," then "rises unsteadily and crouches beside the Victrola to wind it up." These gestures are supremely significant. Giving away the unicorn suggests that the release from negative self-consciousness with which she has just identified the ornament in its newly damaged state has already ended. This suggestion is corroborated by the movement which follows her surrender of the unicorn: winding up the gramophone. Earlier, in a passage we have already quoted, Tom connected Laura's preoccupation with the Victrola with her withdrawal from reality: "She lives in a world of her own—a world of little glass ornaments, Mother. […] She plays old phonograph records and—that's about all."
Laura's offering of the unicorn has further implications. For, through preoccupation with his own self-image, Jim—like Laura—inhabits a world of his own which no true intimacy can violate. The only difference is that, while Laura identifies as the victim of self-consciousness, Jim identifies as its beneficiary. The fundamental function of his love for another is to enhance his love for himself.
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God Tests the Hearts of People
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- God wants us to love Him with our hearts
- God wants more than obedience. Not only does He want us to obey the letter of the law, He wants us to agree with the spirit of the law in our hearts
- God knows all things, including what is in our heart
- God knows what is in our heart and thoughts
- Jesus, who is God, knows what is in our heart and thoughts
- Actions done with bad motives are despised by God
- Actions done with good motives are pleasing to God
- God tests us to display what the intent of our heart is and if we really love Him
- God saves those who are pure in heart
- God gives to those with an upright heart
God wants us to love Him with our hearts:
- "But from there you will seek the LORD your God, and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul." (Deuteronomy 4:29)
- "Know therefore today, and take it to your heart, that the LORD, He is God in heaven above and on the earth below; there is no other." (Deuteronomy 4:39)
- "And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might." (Deuteronomy 6:5)
- "And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require from you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways and love Him, and to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul." (Deuteronomy 10:12)
- "And it shall come about, if you listen obediently to my commandments which I am commanding you today, to love the LORD your God and to serve Him with all your heart and all your soul." (Deuteronomy 11:13)
- `And I will give them a heart to know Me, for I am the LORD; and they will be My people, and I will be their God, for they will return to Me with their whole heart.' (Jeremiah 24:7)
God wants more than obedience. Not only does He want us to obey the letter of the law, He wants us to agree with the spirit of the law in our hearts:
- "And these words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart." (Deuteronomy 6:6)
- "This day the LORD your God commands you to do these statutes and ordinances. You shall therefore be careful to do them with all your heart and with all your soul." (Deuteronomy 26:16)
- My son, do not forget my teaching, But let your heart keep my commandments; (Proverbs 3:1)
God knows all things, including what is in our heart:
- in whatever our heart condemns us; for God is greater than our heart, and knows all things. (1 John 3:20)
God knows what is in our heart and thoughts:
- But the LORD said to Samuel, "Do not look at his appearance or at the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for God sees not as man sees, for man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart." (1 Samuel 16:7)
- then hear Thou in heaven Thy dwelling place, and forgive and act and render to each according to all his ways, whose heart Thou knowest, for Thou alone dost know the hearts of all the sons of men. (1 Kings 8:39)
- "As for you, my son Solomon, know the God of your father, and serve Him with a whole heart and a willing mind; for the LORD searches all hearts, and understands every intent of the thoughts. If you seek Him, He will let you find Him; but if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever. (1 Chronicles 28:9)
- then hear Thou from heaven Thy dwelling place, and forgive, and render to each according to all his ways, whose heart Thou knowest for Thou alone dost know the hearts of the sons of men. (2 Chronicles 6:30)
- Would not God find this out? For He knows the secrets of the heart. (Psalm 44:21)
- The LORD knows the thoughts of man, That they are a mere breath. (Psalm 94:11)
- O LORD, Thou hast searched me and known me. Thou dost know when I sit down and when I rise up; Thou dost understand my thought from afar. (Psalm 139:1-2)
- "For I know their works and their thoughts; the time is coming to gather all nations and tongues. And they shall come and see My glory. (Isaiah 66:18)
- Then the Spirit of the LORD fell upon me, and He said to me, "Say, `Thus says the LORD, "So you think, house of Israel, for I know your thoughts. (Ezekiel 11:5)
- For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart. (Hebrews 4:12)
Jesus, who is God, knows what is in our heart and thoughts:
- And Jesus knowing their thoughts said, "Why are you thinking evil in your hearts? (Matthew 9:4)
- And knowing their thoughts He said to them, "Any kingdom divided against itself is laid waste; and any city or house divided against itself shall not stand. (Matthew 12:25)
- But Jesus, knowing what they were thinking in their heart, took a child and stood him by His side, (Luke 9:47)
- `And I will kill her children with pestilence; and all the churches will know that I am He who searches the minds and hearts; and I will give to each one of you according to your deeds. (Revelation 2:23)
- God knows what is in our heart, no matter what the external actions may look like. Those who do bad things unintentionally and unknowingly are not condemned by God.
- Then God said to him in the dream, "Yes, I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also kept you from sinning against Me; therefore I did not let you touch her." (Genesis 20:6)
Actions done with bad motives are despised by God:
- Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the LORD was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. (Genesis 6:5-6)
- `You shall not hate your fellow countryman in your heart; you may surely reprove your neighbor, but shall not incur sin because of him.' (Leviticus 19:17)
- "For forty years I loathed that generation, And said they are a people who err in their heart, And they do not know My ways. (Psalm 95:10)
- The perverse in heart are an abomination to the LORD, But the blameless in their walk are His delight. (Proverbs 11:20)
- Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD; Assuredly, he will not be unpunished. (Proverbs 16:5)
- but I say to you, that everyone who looks on a woman to lust for her has committed adultery with her already in his heart. (Matthew 5:28)
- for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. (Matthew 6:21)
- "But the things that proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and those defile the man." (Matthew 15:18)
Actions done with good motives are pleasing to God:
- "Since I know, O my God, that Thou triest the heart and delightest in uprightness, I, in the integrity of my heart, have willingly offered all these things; so now with joy I have seen Thy people, who are present here, make their offerings willingly to Thee. (1 Chronicles 29:17)
- The perverse in heart are an abomination to the LORD, But the blameless in their walk are His delight. (Proverbs 11:20)
- The Lord judges us based upon our motives, not just our actions:
- But, O LORD of hosts, who judges righteously, Who tries the feelings and the heart, Let me see Thy vengeance on them, For to Thee have I committed my cause. (Jeremiah 11:20)
- But Thou knowest me, O LORD; Thou seest me; And Thou dost examine my heart's attitude toward Thee. Drag them off like sheep for the slaughter And set them apart for a day of carnage! (Jeremiah 12:3)
- All the ways of a man are clean in his own sight, But the LORD weighs the motives. (Proverbs 16:2)
- Who can say, "I have cleansed my heart, I am pure from my sin?" (Proverbs 20:9)
- Every man's way is right in his own eyes, But the LORD weighs the hearts. (Proverbs 21:2)
- Therefore do not go on passing judgment before the time, but wait until the Lord comes who will both bring to light the things hidden in the darkness and disclose the motives of men's hearts; and then each man's praise will come to him from God. (1 Corinthians 4:5)
- the former proclaim Christ out of selfish ambition, rather than from pure motives, thinking to cause me distress in my imprisonment. (Philippians 1:17)
- You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures. (James 4:3)
- `And I will kill her children with pestilence; and all the churches will know that I am He who searches the minds and hearts; and I will give to each one of you according to your deeds. (Revelation 2:23)
God tests us to display what the intent of our heart is and if we really love Him:
- "And you shall remember all the way which the LORD your God has led you in the wilderness these forty years, that He might humble you, testing you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not." (Deuteronomy 8:2)
- ...you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams; for the LORD your God is testing you to find out if you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul. (Deuteronomy 13:3)
- And even in the matter of the envoys of the rulers of Babylon, who sent to him to inquire of the wonder that had happened in the land, God left him alone only to test him, that He might know all that was in his heart. (2 Chronicles 32:31)
- Thou hast tried my heart; Thou hast visited me by night; Thou hast tested me and dost find nothing; I have purposed that my mouth will not transgress. (Psalm 17:3)
- Examine me, O LORD, and try me; Test my mind and my heart. (Psalm 26:2)
- Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me and know my anxious thoughts; (Psalm 139:23)
- The refining pot is for silver and the furnace for gold, But the LORD tests hearts. (Proverbs 17:3)
- "I, the LORD, search the heart, I test the mind, Even to give to each man according to his ways, According to the results of his deeds. (Jeremiah 17:10)
- Yet, O LORD of hosts, Thou who dost test the righteous, Who seest the mind and the heart; Let me see Thy vengeance on them; For to Thee I have set forth my cause. (Jeremiah 20:12)
God saves those who are pure in heart:
- "Moreover the LORD your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, to love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, in order that you may live. (Deuteronomy 30:6)
- My shield is with God, Who saves the upright in heart. (Psalm 7:10)
- Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart Be acceptable in Thy sight, O LORD, my rock and my Redeemer. (Psalm 19:14)
- O continue Thy lovingkindness to those who know Thee, And Thy righteousness to the upright in heart. (Psalm 36:10)
- Watch over your heart with all diligence, For from it flow the springs of life. (Proverbs 4:23)
- "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." (Matthew 5:8)
God gives to those with an upright heart:
- He who has clean hands and a pure heart, Who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, And has not sworn deceitfully. He shall receive a blessing from the LORD And righteousness from the God of his salvation. (Psalm 24:4-5)
- (A Psalm of Asaph.) Surely God is good to Israel, To those who are pure in heart! (Psalm 73:1)
- Do good, O LORD, to those who are good, And to those who are upright in their hearts. (Psalm 125:4)
- "And God, who knows the heart, bore witness to them, giving them the Holy Spirit, just as He also did to us." (Acts 15:8)
- You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures. (James 4:3)
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It's not a question of whether or not you know how to do them. A quality PT should be assessing the intrinsic mobility of the joint, the position of the joint, and taking the joint through passive ROM under their manipulation to gauge restriction and movement capacity, then watching you do prescribed exercises to ensure not just that you're doing them correctly but that your shoulder is exhibiting a fundamentally sound movement pattern that is constructive and not destructive.
Honestly, after a shoulder surgery, I think it's extremely irresponsible for a physician to have a patient begin rehab exercises without first having them evaluated by a physical therapist, and then having them do the exercises initially under direct supervision and evaluation.
the answer to your question is impossible for any of us to answer because we don't know WHY you are having the pain you are having. Is it because you are experiencing normal post operative pain? Perhaps. Is it because the shoulder is not moving functionally and you are overstressing the repaired areas? Perhaps. Is it because you are doing an exercise your shoulder is not genuinely prepared to do at this time? Perhaps.
Only one way to make that determination, and that's to utilize a physical therapist to evaluate and advise you.
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David & Amanda's Wedding
September 1, 2006
by Photographs by André Wright
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Published August 30, 2014
Jeorge & Erin Goebel Wedding
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