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Do I have a time limit to recover for injuries against other parties?
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Acupuncture is actually an alternative healthcare technique that will originated from China. This specific technique relies upon the existing Chinese assumption in which there are invisible energy point scattered across the human body. Theses energy points are called Meridians. in the actual program of an Chinese Medicine treatment, tiny needles are inserted to the Meridians, causing he power flow via these phones change. This specific principle is utilized regarding quit a few benefits:
In days gone by years, Ch inese Medicine has been used, amongst various other uses, to help people stop smoking. The Actual remedy included inserting the particular needles to be able to specific factors (among them, several factors in the outer ear). This kind of treatment method was supposed to lessen the cravings to another cigarette and aid those people in their particular method to quit smoking. Throughout the really first couple of years of using this method, it absolutely was quit well-liked as well as gained any lot of followers that will suggested it. In Which was mainly as the method is not invasive and is also extremely suitable for individuals who can't, as well as won't take medicine and other "strong stuff". But, for your last few years, the employment regarding Traditional Chinese Medicine in smoking cessation features reduced significantly. This specific happens since in the following reasons:
Acupuncture Therapy In Order To Quit Smoking - Will It Really Work?
To conclude, The idea is actually distinct that will Traditional Chinese Medicine features it's place as an alternative method, and several people record obtaining results using it. In case you need to give it a go inside your efforts to prevent smoking, it is suggested that you find a therapist using a proven again record associated with achievement using helping folks stop smoking. However, I would claim that as a means to assist smoking cessation, you can find significantly much better options out there, therefore Traditional Chinese Medicine will be within my opinion certainly not your best choice.
Acupuncture is an alternative medical approach in which originated from China. This technique relies upon the existing Chinese assumption that you will find invisible power point scattered across the human body. Theses power factors are called Meridians. durin g an acupuncture treatment, tiny needles are generally inserted in in order to the Meridians, causing he energy flow through them to change. This principle can end up being used regarding quit a few benefits:
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Israel's 3 steps to the Kingdom: Each step a major crisis by a world dictator worse than the one before. One step is past, second is before the rapture, third after. Because of 3 Covenants God confirmed with Jews concerning the promised land (Abraham), obedience (Moses), Messiah(David), their are 3 major steps to the Kingdom of Israel being fully restored by Christ's return. Each step has both a major crisis for Jews forced upon them by an evil world dictator. First dictator was Hitler; second is Antichrist the man before the rapture; third is Satan himself incarnated in the body of Antichrist after the rapture. This happens after Antichrist comes back to a life after a mysterious death immediately after the rapture. When this change takes in Antichrist Rev 13:3,8 calls him - 'the beast' and Apostle Paul in 2 Thessalonians 2:3,4 calls him 'Man of sin'. Paul says he will show himself in the rebuilt temple in Jerusalem(built in timeframe 3 - see chart below) that he is God.. Rev13:3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast. A Rev 13:8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast. 2Thess 2:3,4 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; 4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.rapture timeframe 3
First crisis and Hitler World history since time of Abraham has always been subservient to God's Covenants (Abrahamic, Mosaic, Davidic) with the Jews, their land, their nation, and Jerusalem. Since time of Abraham God as given specific time prophecies such as 400 yrs of bondage, 70 yrs captivity, Daniel's 70 wks and others (see Ezek 4 for review of these). One of the most powerful time prophecies God gave was 2,520 year 'time of iniquity' found in Ezek 4. This time prophecy was addressed to the Jews that did not return when Jeremiah's 70 year exile. Ezekiel told us an additional punishment of exactly 2520 years would pass before both Israel and Jerusalem be freed from Gentile control. The nation of Israel was birthed Israel May 14, 1948 and Jerusalem in 1967. The year 1967 A.D. officially ended 'time of iniquity' served for past transgressions but does not rule out Israel coming under Gentile dominion in the future for disobedience to God. When the 20th century started God was already at work in world events to bring about the end of this 2,520 yr 'time of iniquity' sentence He imposed. Their was already a Zionist movement which began on Europe by Theodore Herzel for a homeland for the Jews in Palestine. A direct result of WW1 was the Balfour Declaration of 1917 creating a homeland for the Jews. However, it took W.W.2 and a monster like Hitler to drive the Jews back to this homeland that was rock and waste for centuries resulting in the nation of Israel May 14, 1948. When Jerusalem was recaptured in 1967 the Jews took more land than they had before but have had continual warfare with surrounding Arab nations. Also,their holiest site where the first and second temple had been built is occupied by the Moslem shrine - Dome of the rock.Ezek 4
These wars and problems over who owns the land and the temple site will continue to get worse until the Jews repent and turn back to first - God of their fathers and then to Christ their Messiah. To accomplish this, two more major crises will have to pass each fulfilling a vast amount of prophecy. I believe 1967 TO 2007 is a 40 year period where God has been preparing the land of Israel that was rock and waste for centuries and a partial return of Jews. God allowed this partial return to work the land and prepare for the events of the mass return of all Jews from all nations early in the 21st century beginning around 2007-2008 A.D. in timeframe 2, timeframe 3 both quickly preceded by rise of Antichrist and his empire (timeframe 1) (see timechart below and notice these three timeframes are before the rapture.timeframe 2timeframe 3timeframe 1rapture
Second crisis and Antichrist the man before the rapture Ezekiel 35:5 5 Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end: Ezekiel 36:8 8 But ye, O mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my people of Israel; for they are at hand to come. However, It will take more than a Hitler to cause Jews to Return to God in the 21st century and a even greater crisis, it will take Antichrist rise and his empire before the rapture to accomplish this (timeframe1). Before the rapture in timeframe 2, God will use fury, and a stretched out hand to rule over Jews and bring them into the blessings of the bond of the Mosaic Covenant (Ezek 20:33-38). It will take a combination of Antichrist and foreign forces, Arabs, the wars of the 'Day of Calamity', the wilderness of Egypt, to bring Jews to repent and turn to God (Jehovah - God of their fathers not Christ at this time). Only then can the Ark of the Covenant reappear and be used in defeating their enemies - Golden Dome of the Rock being destroyed in the process. The rebuilding of their temple will now take place and all the pre-rapture prophecies of the mass return from all nations take place (click on timeframe1, timeframe 2, timeframe 3 in chart below for all related prophecies and read comments on Ezek 4 below).rapturetimeframe1 rapture timeframe 2Ezek 20:33-38Day of CalamityArk of the Covenant reappearrebuilding of their templetimeframe1timeframe 2timeframe 3commentsEzek 4
Third crisis and Antichrist as Satan incarnate after the rapture Rev 13:11,12 11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. 12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. Rev 19:19-21 19 And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army. 20 And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. After the rapture it will take more than Antichrist the man and yet a greater crisis to bring the Jews to Christ. God will allow Satan to become a man and persecute them personally with the vengeance of hell and death. Immediately after the rapture God will cast Satan down to earth along with his fallen angels. Antichrist dies a mysterious death about the same time. Satan takes over his body and Antichrist comes to life both as Antichrist the man and Satan incarnated. Antichrist (Satan incarnated) called the first beast in Revelations is exalted by the second beast - the false prophet. They first persecutes all post rapture Christians unto death for 3 1/2 years which ends with the resurrection of the tribulationrapture Antichrist dies a mysterious deathtribulation
martyrsmartyrs (see also timeframe 4). The beast then makes a 7 year peace treaty with Israel and invades Israel about halfway (known as Daniel's 70th week). Jews call upon Christ and Christ returns with His armies of saints and defeats the beast (Antichrist as Satan incarnate), the false prophet and his armies. Christ now rules the whole earth - Kingdom of Israel is restored. After the Milleniun (1000 years) the perfected Kingdom of God on earth will increase outward forever taking dominion over every planet, star. and galaxy in it's path (see Kingdom).timeframe 4Daniel's 70th weekKingdom
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activated partial thromboplastin time
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a measure of duration. See under adjectives for specific times, such as bleeding time.
activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT, aPTT) the period required for clot formation in recalcified blood plasma after contact activation and the addition of platelet substitutes such as brain cephalins or similar phospholipids; used to assess the coagulation pathways. A prolonged aPTT can indicate a deficiency of any of various coagulation factors, including factors XII, XI, IX, VIII, X, V, and II, and fibrinogen.
AEC minimal response time the shortest duration at which x-ray exposure can be terminated by automatic exposure control.
atrioventricular sequential time a fixed nonprogrammable interval that extends from the atrial stimulus to the ventricular stimulus.
bleeding time the time required for a standardized wound to stop bleeding; used as a test for platelet disorders; see also bleeding time.
circulation time the time required for blood to flow between two given points; see also circulation time.
clotting time (coagulation time) the time required for blood to clot in a glass tube; see also clotting.
cold ischemia time the time between the placement of a traumatically amputated body part in ice and the time of surgical replantation.
inertia time the time required to overcome the inertia of a muscle after reception of a stimulus.
ischemia time the total time between traumatic amputation of a limb or portion of a limb and its surgical reimplantation; it is the sum of warm and cold ischemia times.
minimal response time in radiology, the shortest possible exposure time for an x-ray film to be exposed automatically.
one-stage prothrombin time prothrombin time.
prothrombin time see prothrombin time.
real time a term used to describe a recording device that shows events simultaneously to their occurrence.
R peak time intrinsicoid deflection.
thrombin time the time required for plasma fibrinogen to form thrombin; see also thrombin time.
warm ischemia time the time interval between traumatic amputation of a limb or part and its placement on ice.
ac·ti·vat·ed par·tial throm·bo·plas·tin time (aPTT),
the time needed for plasma to form a fibrin clot after the addition of calcium and a phospholipid reagent; used to evaluate the intrinsic clotting system.
activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT)
activated partial thromboplastin timeA test that evaluates the clotting factors of the intrinsic pathway—except VII and XIII—by measuring the time required to form a fibrin clot. aPTT is used to screen for bleeding tendencies and to monitor heparin therapy; it is increased in coagulation factor deficiencies (factors V, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII), DIC, Hodgkin lymphoma, hypofibrinogenemia, leukaemia, cirrhosis, vitamin K deficiency, von Willebrand's disease, and in drug therapy—e.g., heparin and aspirin.
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activated partial thromboplastin timeaPTT Hematology A test that evaluates the clotting factors of the intrinsic pathway–except VII and XIII, by measuring the time required to form a fibrin clot; aPTT is used to screen for bleeding tendencies and to monitor heparin therapy; it is ↑ in coagulation factor deficiencies–factors V, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, DIC, Hodgkin's disease, hypofibrinogenemia, leukemia, cirrhosis, vitamin K deficiency, von Willebrand's disease, and in drug therapy–eg, heparin and aspirin Ref range 30-40 secs. See Prothrombin time.
ac·ti·vat·ed par·tial throm·bo·plas·tin time(aPTT) (ak'ti-vā-tĕd pahr'shăl throm-bō-plas'tin tīm)
The time needed for plasma to form a fibrin clot following the addition of calcium and a phospholipid reagent; used to evaluate the intrinsic clotting system.
activated partial thromboplastin timeA measurement of the time taken for the clotting system of the blood to produce the clot protein known as fibrin. The time is generally 25 to 39 seconds. This measurement is a general test of the system and is also used to assess the effectiveness of the anticoagulant drug HEPARIN. It may also be used as the basis of a test for ACTIVATED PROTEIN C RESISTANCE.
Activated partial thromboplastin time
Partial thromboplastin time test that uses activators to shorten the clotting time, making it more useful for heparin monitoring.
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a substance in blood and tissues which, in the presence of ionized calcium, aids in the conversion of prothrombin to thrombin. Extrinsic and intrinsic thromboplastin are formed as the result of the interaction of different clotting factors; the factors that combine to form extrinsic thromboplastin are not all derived from intravascular sources, whereas those that form intrinsic thromboplastin are.
activated partial thromboplastin time
see activated partial thromboplastin time.
extrinsic thromboplastin
the prothrombin activator formed as a result of interaction of coagulation factors III, VII, and X which, with factor IV, aids in the formation of thrombin.
thromboplastin generation time (TGT)
evaluates the first stage in blood coagulation by measuring the efficiency of prothrombinase formation.
intrinsic thromboplastin
the prothrombin activator formed as a result of interaction of coagulation factors V, VII, IX, X, XI and XII and platelet factor 3 (PF-3), which, with factor IV, aids in the conversion of prothrombin to thrombin.
plasma thromboplastin antecedent (PTA)
clotting factor XI; deficiency occurs in cattle and dogs, causing mild to severe bleeding tendencies called hemophilia C.
plasma thromboplastin component (PTC)
clotting factor IX; deficiency causes christmas disease. Called also Christmas factor, antihemophilic factor B, autoprothrombin II.
thromboplastin time
see activated partial thromboplastin time.
tissue thromboplastin
factor III, a material derived from several sources in the body (e.g. brain, lung), and is important in the formation of extrinsic prothrombin converting principle in the extrinsic pathway of blood coagulation. Called also tissue factor.


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"Chained to the Rhythm" is Katy's new single and fans got the first taste of it when the starlet shared a clip on social media of a rolling chained disco ball and about five full seconds of audio. It seems like our girl is going for a disco-tinged reggae sound that would certainly mark new sonic territory for Perry. Take a listen below:
A since-deleted report from Billboard indicated that the new song includes heavy involvement from Skip Marley, one of Bob Marley's grandsons. As well, production credits say the track was written by Katy, Sia and super-pop producer Max Martin.
Fans around the world are getting an early listen to the song too thanks to random, chained disco balls that are playing the song in full. A great way to hype up listeners and ensure the song won't leak—it's literally chained!
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And initial fan reviews are very positive, calling it a "banger" and a "bop."
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Adding YouTube videos to your iMovie project
[UPDATE, FEB 2010: THESE INSTRUCTIONS APPLY TO iMOVIE HD/06. FOR INSTRUCTIONS ON USING YOUTUBE CLIPS IN iMOVIE 09, see http://wic.library.upenn.edu/multimedia/tutorials/youtube_imovie09.pdf]
We've received many many questions about adding clips from YouTube to iMovie projects. And until now, we haven't been able to do that in the lab. But today we've started to add that functionality to the lab workstations thanks to a free, open-source plugin for QuickTime Pro called Perian. Basically, the steps are:
1. Download the YouTube FLV file to your workstation using a service like keepvid.com
2. Export the FLV file to a QuickTime file with QuickTime Pro and Perian
3. Import the resulting QuickTime file into iMovie.
Keep in mind that YouTube video is notoriously low quality, but when you don't have a source of high-quality video, this method will do in a pinch.
Right now, Perian is installed only on the lab consultant's machine, so if you need to use a YouTube clip in your iMovie project, just ask the lab consultant on duty for help. We'll be installing Perian on the remaining lab workstation in the coming days. We'll also post a step-by-step tutorial so you'll be able to do it all without the help of a lab consultant.
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- March 15, 2009 at 9:11 AM
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- Jenna Marie Starkey said...
Thank you! I hope I can do this. Sounds simple enough
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I hope everybody had a great Labour Day Weekend. Whether the kids are back in school or you are just getting back to your regular schedule, it is always a good time to add some books to your To Be Read pile. Here are a few I found over the summer and enjoyed.
THE COPPER KING by Vivian Arend. This novella is actually a prequel to her Tahkini Wolves series (which I also enjoyed). Werebears, Las Vegas, and runaway brides. Do I really need to say more?
LOVE IN THE TIME OF ZOMBIES by Cassandra Gannon. I am not a zombie fan. Vampires, werewolves, aliens – all good. But zombies freak me out. Since this is not a zombie romance (yes, there is such a thing) but a paranormal one where the zombies are the monsters and are thus destroyed viciously, I read it. And I'm glad. It was absolutely hilarious. Coincidentally, also set in Las Vegas.
ACROSS THE LINE by Kate Willoughby – This is Kate's second hockey romance and I loved it (and you know how I feel about sports). Fortunately, most of the action takes place off the ice and I can handle that. Kate wrote a lovely couple and created some excellent secondary characters. Try it, you'll like it. She's a great writer and friend.
THE ALL-GIRL FILLING STATION'S LAST REUNION by Fannie Flagg. If you haven't read a Fannie Flagg book, you are missing a joyful read. She has a wonderful voice and living, breathing characters spring from her pages (in no way like zombies). This time she splits the narrative between a current-day 60-year-old woman and a 1940s female war-time pilot, and shows how we can still have an effect on people we have never met.
CRY NO MORE by Linda Howard. Howard is a very popular romantic suspense writer and this is the first book of hers that I read. It is about a woman trying to find her son who'd been kidnapped ten years earlier. Heartbreaking story.
IMITATION IN DEATH by JD Robb. One of the first true crime books I ever read was about Ted Bundy and to find him in again in a book set in 2059 gave me a chill. As always, Lieutenant Eve Dallas hunts down a killer (in this case, killers – someone is mimicking the greatest serial killers in history) with the help of her bazillionaire husband, Roarke.


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Death is really the oddest thing. It's inevitable, we all will experience it one day, yet it's the most common thing to be afraid of. Experiencing the death of a loved one changes us, sometimes causing us to go down dark corridors that we seldom experience. I found myself in that place over the last few years, having a string of deaths happening to the people closest to me. A father to a close friend of mine passed first, then my step father, and then my step brother to suicide. I found myself traveling down into the murky waters that can consume your thoughts, one that can be very dicult to see out of. I would look forward to the nights that I could talk to one close friend of mine, one who felt the same strain of isolation but both of us careening towards something only one of us would walk away from.
The morning after his passing I was numb. My comrade in this pain was gone, and where was I leading myself ? This self imposed isolation I had created as a defence mechanism over the years led me to this junction and it was then that I realised what hell is; loneliness and isolation. All we long for is to know that we are not companionless, that there is someone out there feeling like we do, that comrade that we can see eye to eye with. The past years of shame and guilt build up to the present. Whatever those experiences are, we compound them through the years, like nailing a board to seal o a door, until no light can come in, and we are surrounded by darkness.
My thoughts were focused on these ideas, and as I performed his funeral, I found myself taking down each board I had nailed up. It was a cool autumn day and a small group of us were gathered at his graveside. As I looked around, I saw eyes that were connecting. I told stories about how my life was forever changed by him, and those eyes, the grins and laughter reminded me that I am not alone, we are not alone, he was not alone. With every bit of contact, I felt myself taking down a board, and the light coming through. Hope was there that day.
Today I still tell stories for the same reason, to keep taking down boards and making sure that I don't put them back up. Isolation will creep back up, and my job now is to share that feeling with others, and make sure that loneliness can't win. The truth is, in everything we do, we want to know that someone is there, the door is open, and we can make a connection. My clients are my daily reminder of this, especially with Ryan's story. After reading the email he sent me in regard to his tattoo experience we were going to write about, I found myself connecting in an unanticipated way, one that needs to be heard.
I first started tattooing Ryan almost a decade ago. Our interaction was nothing too deep, more on the surface, but definitely enjoyable. He was a nice guy, quiet, and I could tell he was going through something that was consuming more of his life than I could have imagined. It wasn't until later that I learned what Ryan had come out of, making me more proud of the man he is today. Ryan is one of the reasons I love being a tattooer, you get to watch people grow and become someone greater than they could have imagined. Ryan pulled himself out of a dark place, with the help of loved ones surrounding him, and has built a life where he is changing the technology industry that he is a part of. He gives so much hope and inspiration for those that may be in a dark place right now.
In this story, Ryan will mention a man named 'Brandon'. Without knowing their connection, I also tattooed 'Brandon' a decade ago. He too was a kind man, a man who was also working his way through the murky waters of isolation, to come out the other side as someone who would save lives. I won't give too much away at this point. Instead, here is Ryan's story.
"It's funny how a tattoos meaning can change to the owner over time. When I first decided I wanted Alan Turing tattooed on me, it was just to honour/represent his brilliance, that his mind and discoveries paved the way to make my career possible. I also found it pretty cool that he was responsible for cracking the German enigma cipher during WWII. I read an article on Turing and was fascinated that someone's mind could extrapolate concepts to the capacity that his could. The more I read about Turing, the more I identified with him. I was never talented at anything. Seriously, I sucked at everything I tried. I was always told growing up that my talent was my mind and that I didn't think like everyone else. Fair enough, early on in school I found that I did pick up concepts more quickly than my classmates and that something about me was dierent. "I quickly discovered around 4th or 5th grade that I'm gay, and that rural Georgia frowns upon such a thing. So I spent the majority of my childhood and teen years feeling trapped and alone. I worried every day that someone was going to find out and expose me to my classmates or even worse, my parents. I spent most of my time trying to avoid people, I guess my thought process was 'they can't figure me out if I don't let them close enough to see who I really am'. "When I first began reading about Turing, I only knew what he'd accomplished, I didn't know he was gay. When I read that he was gay, I finally felt a sense of connection to someone. At that point in my life, I had clearly met gay people, seen gay people on TV, etc. But I never identified with any of them because gay people were portrayed on TV as flamboyant, ignorant sissies. This was the first time I was being exposed to an intellectual gay man that made a life changing contribution to a field of study, who wasn't flamboyant and was highly respected. By the time I actually had the session with Sean to get the tattoo, the above is everything the piece represented to me. Someone who was intelligent, gay and knew the pain associated with both af- flictions. Plus, he was kind of hot so that was a bonus.
"The tattoo's meaning didn't change much for me for the first year, it was really just a hat tip to someone I'd never met that I feel aected every living persons life in some capacity, whether anyone else appreciated that or not. After the war ended (due to Alan's ability to crack the cipher) it was discovered that Alan was gay in a time when it was unlawful. He stood trial for 'gross indecency' and was found guilty. He was given two options at his sentencing; jail or chemical castration. He couldn't imagine losing time working on expanding his research so he chose chemical castration. I knew this when Sean tattooed me, but I didn't relate it to my life directly at that time. Alan committed suicide shortly after his castration by eating an apple laced with cyanide.
I attempted suicide many times in my teens, but I didn't really want to die. I just wanted the noise in my head to shut up, or to finally meet someone that would make the pain go away.
"I met 'Brandon' (as we shall call him) in the spring of 2006. He was everything I expected him to be. Intelligent, gorgeous and by some fluke of nature he wanted me. While we were together, Brandon encouraged me to pursue a career in some variety of technology. I was only concerned with spending as much time with him as possible, but I took his advice and started my degree in January of 2007. I finished my Masters in 2012 in applied computer science, and even though Brandon and I didn't work out, I feel like he tied into my passion for technology and my drive to pursue it as my career even without being there to see it all happen. He encouraged me to do great things because he loved me, and I believed that I could accomplish those things because I loved him. Brandon passed away a couple of weeks ago and in his passing I've found those old feelings of anguish and loss have resurfaced. Brandon was changing lives as an RN, much like Turing was changing lives with his technology. Turing's concepts evolved into what is the modern computer which spans all industries, and those concepts made my relationship with Brandon possible.
"As I've worn this portrait of Alan for nearly two years, he's evolved from just representing a gay man that made my career possible to representing my lack of enthusiasm toward the way homosexuals are treated and represented in society, to representing every intellectual homosexual in the world that knows what it feels like to be dierent and alone. He represents the possibility of Brandon-and the loss of him. He represents Brandon's husband who has to piece his life back together. He represents my gay roommate's brother who lost his life to HIV in the early 90's. He represents the growing awareness of homosexuals that are victims of hate crimes and discrimination in any capacity. He represents my passion for writing code. He represents gay marriage being legalised. He represents my jaded perception that 'no good deed goes unpunished'. He represents defeat, isolation, suicide and sacrifice. Most importantly, he represents change, progress and acceptance."
The SERPENTS of BIENVILLE
Death is really the oddest thing. It's inevitable, we all will experience it one day, yet it's the most common thing to be afraid of. Experiencing the death of a loved one changes us, sometimes causing us to go down dark corridors that we seldom experience. I found myself in that place over the last few years, having a string of deaths happening to the people closest to me. A father to a close friend of mine passed first, then my step father, and then my step brother to suicide. I found myself traveling down into the murky waters that can consume your thoughts, one that can be very dicult to see out of. I would look forward to the nights that I could talk to one close friend of mine, one who felt the same strain of isolation but both of us careening towards something only one of us would walk away from.


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We signed with a Producer's Rep, nice enough folks with a mixed reputation led by a real sharp lady. Sales and Marketing is the short end of the game. We're done with the content, and we are gaining traction in the Academic/Educational world which will be good for long-term.
Ran a double ad in Tuesday Nov. 8 Daily Variety, which looked great!
Had a great script meet with our scribe Peter Woodward, on Signal Hill. Some nice twists and turns ahead there.


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NARCO Analysis: Libya's 1mbpd Question (Part One)
The big question everyone is asking is now that Libyan production has hit the magic 1mbpd, how long can it stay there? A lot of analysts are spitballing, but it's really a question without an answer.
Here's why. Because there is no overarching strategy that brought production back, there is therefore no corresponding trajectory allowing us to project how long production will remain at these levels. At its root, the problem is not one of production analysis, but more of meta-analysis: if we can't identify a pattern that explains how we got to where we are, then we can't develop a pattern to tell us where we're going.
But here's the longer take. There have been a couple of structural developments in the last year that did allow for sizeable increases in production. First, the so-called Libyan National Army's capture of the Oil Crescent export terminals allowed for the resumption of exports and concomitant upstream activity. The second was the defeat of the Islamic State in Sirte that led to improved security in the upstream, which then permitted workers to return to the wellheads to make necessary repairs and restart fields. Combined, these two developments got us to around 680kbpd in JAN2017. All well and good.
From there things start to get hinky. To make up that gap between 680kbpd and 1mbpd, it appears that NOC chief Mustafa Sanalla has gone around the country stitching together a patchwork of deals entirely independent from one another. In every instance where production has come back he's allocated a cut to whomever is in control of that wellhead or field. So, if a well has a nameplate capacity of 12kbpd, revenue from 8kbpd may be going to the CBL and revenue from the remaining 4kbpd is going to local stakeholders. Proceeding in this manner, Sanalla is able to secure incremental increases in production, recognizing that if the trade-off is between 8kbpd and 0bpd, he ought to take the 8,000.
There are several problems with this approach. One analogy that came to mind is probably a little obscure (and completely ahistorical), but it may be helpful. Prior to French occupation of Morocco in 1912, the Sultan (he was Sultan then, not King) was always in the saddle. There was never a fixed concept of the monarchy's territory. The Sultan went around the country with his retinue – a harka – and subdued communities to compel them to pay taxes. Those that paid taxes constituted bilad al-makhzen, those that refused were outside the monarchy and were bilad al-siba, the so-called lawless territory. The problem was that the Sultan had to do this perpetually. In order to hold together his kingdom, he would ride and ride and ride, subduing one group here, and then returning to an earlier group to subdue them again lest they slip into bilad al-siba, and then back to another group and around and around. This is what Sanalla has to do, not on horseback, but in the NOC jet, and not through coercion, but through concessions.
You evaluate how sustainable this approach is.
But apart from the approach's inherent risks, there are other exogenous risks to production that make forecasts into next week, let alone through year-end, hooey. These risks range from the micro to the macro. Take for example when Sharara opened back in MAY2017 and then shut and then opened and then shut and then opened all in the space of two weeks. Or when Sharara opened again in JUNE2017 and then was shut down because a worker had drowned in the base camp swimming pool. That's 270kbpd taken offline because someone couldn't swim.
And then there are the macro risks. Self-styled Field Marshall Khalifa Haftar has just declared the complete pacification of Benghazi, sparking speculation that he will try to consolidate gains in the south around Sabha and then move westward to Misrata and eventually Tripoli. But rest assured Misratans and the different constituencies in Tripoli will not to go gentle into that good night. What then of Libya's production? What will Sanalla do? None of it augurs well.
Sure, Libyan production could hang around 1mbpd for the remainder of 2H17, but without a cogent explanation for how and why, that's not a forecast, it's a gamble. And given how wobbly Libya is, NARCO will happily take the under.


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Confucius Day
Confucius Day is held annually on Confucius' Birthday September 28 to pay homage to Confucius, China's 'First Teacher.'
Confucius (551-479 BC) was a sage, scholar and philosopher. Confucius passed on his passion for education by emphasizing the importance of education. A slew of accolades, including a posthumous award of "Supreme Teacher" in 1AD, an imperial decree deeming him a "Grand Master" in 581AD, and the bestowing of the title "Prince of Culture" in 739AD led to Confucius' continued popularity.
The Confucian ceremony has been traced to the Zhou Dynasty (1046BC-221BC). After Confucius' death, ceremonies to honor him were held by Confucius' family members. Emperor Lu Aigong converted Confucius' home in Qufu, in Shandong Province, to a temple so Confucius' descendants could honor him. It wasn't until after Han Emperor Gaozu Liu Bang paid his respects to Confucius that all emperors began to worship Confucius. Confucian Ceremonies have been held regularly since the Han dynasty (206BC-220AD).
During the Three Kingdoms Period (220AD-280AD), Emperor Cao Cao established the biyong, an institute for teaching the emperor how to conduct the Confucius ceremony.
The modern Confucian ceremony is 60-minutes long and is celebrated at Qufu (Shandong), the birthplace of Confucius, the Confucius Temple in Taipei, Taiwan, and at temples throughout China. The Confucius ceremony is held at day break each Sept. 28 on Confucius' birthday. The modern Confucian Ceremony consists of 37 parts which are each precisely choreographed.
The ceremony starts with three drum rolls and a procession of attendants, musicians, dancers and participants who include political leaders, school principals and students, musicians in Ming Dynasty style red robes and black hats and 64 dancers dressed in Soong and Ming Dynasty style yellow silk robes with dark blue waistbands and black hats. Each person must stop every five steps and pause before continuing to his designated spot where each person remains standing for the entire ceremony.
The next portion of the ceremony involves opening the gates of the temple, which are only opened during the Confucian ceremony. A sacrifice is buried and the spirit of Confucius is welcomed into the temple. After three bows, food and drink, which traditionally included a pig, a cow, and a goat, is offered as a sacrifice to Confucius. Nowadays, livestock have been replaced with fruit and other offerings at some ceremonies including the one at the Confucius Temple in Taiwan.
After the food offering, "The Song of Peace" is played with traditional Chinese instruments while the dancers, who are all students, perform the Ba Yi dance, an ancient dance that started in the Zhou Dynasty as a way to pay respect to people of different social positions. Yi means 'row' and the number of dancers depends on who is being honored: eight-rows for an emperor, six-rows for a duke or princess, four-rows for high ranking government officials, and two-rows for lower ranking officials. Eight rows of eight dancers are used for the Confucian Ceremony. Each dancer holds a short bamboo flute, which symbolizes balance, in the left hand and a long pheasant tail feather, which symbolizes integrity, in the right hand.
Incense is offered and after a few moments of chanting, there is another round of three bows. Next, each official group makes a presentation and, in Taiwan, the president offers incense before chanting a blessing and giving a short address. Some years the president of Taiwan is unable to attend so another high ranking political person delivers the speech on his behalf. When the president finishes chanting, there is another round of triple bows.
The sacrificial feast is removed to symbolize it has been eaten by the spirit of Confucius. His spirit is then escorted out of the temple. A final round of three bows precedes the burning of spirit money and prayers. The participants move from their appointed places to watch the pile of money and prayers burn. They return to their places before the gates of the temple are closed.
Once the gates are locked, the participants exit and the ceremony concludes with the participants and observers feasting on a 'wisdom cake'. It is said eating the special rice cake will bring luck with one's studies so hundreds of students line up each year hoping a bite of this cake will make them as smart as Confucius or at least garner better academic performance.
International Coffee Day
International Coffee Day takes place on September 29. International Coffee Day is an annual event observed in a handful of countries for the celebration and enjoyment of the popular beverage coffee. This day is also used to promote fair trade coffee and to raise awareness for the plight of the coffee growers.
On this day, many businesses around the world offer free or discounted cups of coffee. Some businesses share coupons and special deals with their loyal followers via social networking. Some greeting card companies sell National Coffee Day greeting cards, as well as free e-cards to help celebrate the occasion. While the exact origin of International Coffee Day is unknown, many countries around the world participate in this event.
The global spread of coffee growing and drinking began in the Horn of Africa, where, according to legend, coffee trees originated in the Ethiopian province of Kaffa. It is recorded that the fruit of the plant, known as coffee cherries, was eaten by slaves taken from present day Sudan into Yemen and Arabia through the great port of its day, Mocha. Coffee was certainly being cultivated in Yemen by the 15th century and probably much earlier. In an attempt to prevent its cultivation elsewhere, the Arabs imposed a ban on the export of fertile coffee beans, a restriction that was eventually circumvented in 1616 by the Dutch, who brought live coffee plants back to the Netherlands to be grown in greenhouses.
Initially, the authorities in Yemen actively encouraged coffee drinking. The first coffeehouses or kaveh kanes opened in Mecca and quickly spread throughout the Arab world, thriving as places where chess was played, gossip was exchanged and singing, dancing and music were enjoyed. Nothing quite like this had existed before: a place where social and business life could be conducted in comfortable surroundings and where - for the price of a cup of coffee - anyone could venture. Perhaps predictably, the Arabian coffeehouse soon became a centre of political activity and was suppressed. Over the next few decades coffee and coffeehouses were banned numerous times but kept reappearing until eventually an acceptable way out was found when a tax was introduced on both.
By the late 1600's the Dutch were growing coffee at Malabar in India and in 1699 took some plants to Batavia in Java, in what is now Indonesia. Within a few years the Dutch colonies had become the main suppliers of coffee to Europe, where coffee had first been brought by Venetian traders in 1615. This was a period when the two other globally significant hot beverages also appeared in Europe. Hot chocolate was the first, brought by the Spanish from the Americas to Spain in 1528; and tea, which was first sold in Europe in 1610. At first coffee was mainly sold by lemonade vendors and was believed to have medicinal qualities. The first European coffeehouse opened in Venice in 1683, with the most famous, Caffe Florian in Piazza San Marco, opening in 1720. It is still open for business today. The largest insurance market in the world, Lloyd's of London, began life as a coffeehouse. It was started in 1688 by Edward Lloyd, who prepared lists of the ships that his customers had insured.
The first literary reference to coffee being drunk in North America is from 1668 and, soon after, coffee houses were established in New York, Philadelphia, Boston and other towns. The Boston Tea Party Of 1773 was planned in a coffee house, the Green Dragon. Both the New York Stock Exchange and the Bank of New York started in coffeehouses in what is today known as Wall Street.
In 1720 a French naval officer named Gabriel Mathieu de Clieu, while on leave in Paris from his post in Martinique, acquired a coffee tree with the intention of taking it with him on the return voyage. With the plant secured in a glass case on deck to keep it warm and prevent damage from salt water, the journey proved eventful. As recorded in de Clieu's own journal, the ship was threatened by Tunisian pirates. There was a violent storm, during which the plant had to be tied down. A jealous fellow officer tried to sabotage the plant, resulting in a branch being torn off. When the ship was becalmed and drinking water rationed, De Clieu ensured the plant's survival by giving it most of his precious water. Finally, the ship arrived in Martinique and the coffee tree was re-planted at Preebear. It grew, and multiplied, and by 1726 the first harvest was ready. It is recorded that, by 1777, there were between 18 and 19 million coffee trees on Martinique, and the model for a new cash crop that could be grown in the New World was in place.
But it was the Dutch who first started the spread of the coffee plant in Central and South America, where today it reigns supreme as the main continental cash crop. Coffee first arrived in the Dutch colony of Surinam in 1718, to be followed by plantations in French Guyana and the first of many in Brazil in the state of Pará. In 1730 the British introduced coffee to Jamaica, where today the most famous and expensive coffee in the world is grown in the Blue Mountains.
The 17th and 18th centuries saw the establishment across Brazil of vast sugar plantations or fazendas, owned by the country's elite. As sugar prices weakened in the 1820's, capital and labour migrated to the southeast in response to the expansion of coffee growing in the Paraiba Valley, where it had been introduced in 1774. By the beginning of the 1830's Brazil was the world's largest producer with some 600,000 bags a year, followed by Cuba, Java and Haiti, each with annual production of 350 to 450,000 bags. World production amounted to some 2.5 million bags per year.
The rapid expansion of production in Brazil and Java, among others, caused a significant decline in world prices. These bottomed out in the late 1840's, from which point a strong upward movement occurred, reaching its peak in the 1890's. During this latter period, due mainly to a lack of inland transport and manpower, Brazilian expansion slowed considerably. Meanwhile, the upward movement of prices encouraged the growth of coffee cultivation in other producing regions in the Americas such as Guatemala, Mexico, El Salvador and Colombia.
In Colombia, where coffee had been introduced by the Jesuits as early as 1723, civil strife and the inaccessibility of the best coffee-growing regions had hampered the growth of a coffee industry. Following the "Thousand Days War" of 1899 to 1903, the new peace saw Colombians turn to coffee as their salvation. While larger plantations, or haciendas, dominated the upper Magdalena river regions of Cundinamarca and Tolima, determined peasants staked new claims in the mountainous regions to the west, in Antioquia and Caldas. New railways, relying on coffee for profit, allowed more coffee to be grown and transported. The opening of the Panama Canal in 1914 permitted exports from Colombia's previously unreachable Pacific coast, with the port of Buenaventura assuming increasing importance.
In 1905 Colombia exported five hundred thousand bags of coffee; by 1915 exports had doubled. While Brazil desperately tried to control its overproduction, Colombian coffee became increasingly popular with American and European consumers. In 1914 Brazil supplied three-quarters of U.S. imports with 5.6 million bags, but by 1919 that figure had fallen to 4.3 million, while Colombia's share had risen from 687,000 to 915,000 bags. During the same period Central American exports to the U.S. had risen from 302,000 to 1.2 million bags.
In spite of political turmoil, social upheaval and economic vicissitude, the 20th century saw an essentially continuous rise in demand for coffee. U.S. consumption continued to grow reaching a peak in 1946, when annual per capita consumption was 19.8 pounds, twice the figure in 1900. Especially during periods of high global prices, this steadily increasing demand lead to an expansion in production throughout the coffee-growing regions of the world. With the process of decolonisation that began in the years following the Second World War, many newly independent nations in Africa, notably Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda and Burundi, found themselves in varying degrees dependent on coffee export revenue.
For US coffee drinkers, the country's wettest city, Seattle, has become synonymous with a new type of café culture, which, from its birth in the 1970s, swept the continent, dramatically improving the general quality of the beverage. This new found 'evangelism' for coffee has spread to the rest of the world, even to countries with great coffee traditions of their own, such as Italy, Germany, and Scandinavia, adding new converts to the pleasures of good coffee. Today it is possible to find good coffee in every major city of the world, from London to Sydney to Tokyo; we are drinking more and, more importantly, better coffee.
The importance of coffee to the world economy cannot be overstated. It is one of the most valuable primary products in world trade, in many years second in value only to oil as a source of foreign exchange to producing countries. Its cultivation, processing, trading, transportation and marketing provide employment for hundreds of millions of people worldwide. Coffee is crucial to the economies and politics of many developing countries; for many of the world's Least Developed Countries, exports of coffee account for more than 50 percent of their foreign exchange earnings. Coffee is a traded commodity on major futures and commodity exchanges, most importantly in London and New York.
Many studies have examined the health effects of coffee, and whether the overall effects of coffee consumption are positive or negative has been widely disputed. The majority of recent research suggests that moderate coffee consumption is benign or mildly beneficial in healthy adults. However, coffee can worsen the symptoms of some conditions, such as anxiety.
National Attend Your Grandchild's Birthday Day
Beginning in 2002, September 28 has been designated as "National Attend Your Grandchild's Birth Day." It is being set aside each year to encourage grandparents participate in their grandchild's birth as well as his or her life.
Have you been invited to attend the birth of your grandchild? Are you reluctant to go or are you looking forward to it?
With the ease in hospital regulations and the exploding senior population, many grandparents are now present during the delivery of their grandchildren. Attending the birth is a way to begin the lifelong love affair with your grandchild.
When you attend the birth of your grandchild, the birth event becomes a "rite of passage" where everyone celebrates the addition of a new generation to the family. Your children become parents and you become grandparents. You all move up a branch on the family tree. It is an emotional and spiritual event that touches everyone in attendance. Sharing your grandchild's birth provides unforgettable memories.
"A new baby can cement and affirm family bonds," says Dr. Arthur Kornhaber, President and Founder of The Foundation for Grandparenting, who has long advocated the attendance of grandparents at the birth of their grandchildren. "But many grandparents are hesitant about attending their grandchild's birth. They ask many questions about the "how", "why" and "when" of getting involved."
If it has been over twenty years since you were in a maternity ward, you probably realize that things have changed a lot. Perhaps you were sedated during the birth of your children and have never actually seen a baby being born. Or if you had your children during the 70′s, you may have had natural childbirth. But today's hospital birth is very mechanized and a delivering woman can look like she is in intensive care. Despite all the propaganda about new pain relieving procedures, women still have some degree of pain at some time during most deliveries. Watching your daughter give birth is a very different experience than giving birth yourself and watching her in pain can be overwhelming if you don't understand what is taking place.
It is no wonder some grandparents are hesitant. Many often feel that birthing is a private event and they shouldn't intrude. But if you are invited to be there, don't pass up the opportunity. This is your child who is having a child. It is an important event. A little preparation will assuage any fears that linger.
Preparation makes the event more comfortable for everyone present: the doctor, the expecting couple, the hospital staff, and the grandparents, and preparation begins with the first announcement that a baby is expected.
Here are ten tips to enhance your expectant grandparent experience:
- Be informed. Read about how pregnancy is managed today and about birthing practices and how they have changed. Know the tools and terminology.
- Be positive. Keep a positive attitude. Refrain from scary talk even when you are worried. Tell only positive birth stories.
- Be attentive. Be ready to help when asked, listen to a daughter or son's pregnancy updates with enthusiasm, and recognize this milestone in their life.
- Be available. Go shopping together, attend a doctor's visit, take a hospital tour, and help fix up the nursery, stay in touch.
- Be prepared. Have your camera in good working condition; keep yourself healthy, study up on baby care, childproof your home, get your own baby equipment for future visits.
- Be available. Postpone a vacation or cancel a function if it means you might miss the birth. This day will not come again.
- Be supporting. Even if you don't agree with plans your children make, try to support them. This is their birth and their baby. You don't want family disputes now.
- Be Proud. Let everyone know you are looking forward to this grandchild and to being a grandparent; least you hurt your children's feelings.
- Be Patient. Have a thick skin, as pregnant and laboring women aren't always in a good mood. Don't take things personal.
- Be kind. Don't forget other grandchildren. Think of everyone else's needs before your own during this time.
Whether you are in the room or waiting nearby, being there when your grandchild is born is an exciting experience and one you shouldn't miss. Your children will appreciate your help and support during this milestone in their life.
National Mocha Day
September 29 is National Mocha Day!
Mocha lovers from all over – today is the day to indulge in the rich, delicious mocha flavored beverage of your choosing. If you like your coffee plain, maybe branch out today and try something with a mocha twist.
Mocha, also spelled Mokha, is used to describe a varietal of coffee bean. Smaller and rounder than most other varieties, these beans are derived from the coffee species Coffea Arabica (Arabica coffee) which is native to the Middle East country of Yemen. Although, the beans originally shipped from the port of Mocha, Yemen were thought to have had a chocolate-like taste, current mocha beans from Yemen usually do not.
It is commonly believed that the coffee bean that originated in the port city of Mocha (Mokha), Yemen and was first encountered by Marco Polo on his trip through the Arab World. After the month and a half into Polo's troubled journey, his party was forced to go ashore, into what is now modern day Lebanon, to resupply their stocks, because their captain had provided insufficient room for food storage. In the marketplace, Polo found a salesman, from Yemen, who had brought coffee beans from Mocha. He purchased some and ultimately returned with them to Europe. However, the bean was not widely known throughout Europe until the 17th century.
"Mocha coffee" can refer either to coffee brewed with mocha beans, which were originally cultivated in Yemen and exported through the port of Mocha or to a popular, yet bastardized, drink made of coffee infused with chocolate.
The term "mocha" in relation to chocolate and coffee–chocolate blends is strictly a result of European influence. Chocolate is not cultivated at Mocha nor imported into it. Mocha Java refers to a blend of beans from both Mocha, Yemen and the island of Java in Indonesia. Now you know.
National Poisoned Blackberries Day
So just what the heck is Poisoned Blackberry Day anyway?
The reason for the day actually has a couple of theories behind it. The first, English, legend says that after the Devil was kicked out of Heaven on September 29, he sought revenge by spitting – and some other, ickier legends even say peeing - on the blackberries! This made them unfit to eat and therefore, they were known to be poisoned blackberries.
There is another, perhaps more reasonable, explanation as to what Poisoned Blackberry Day is all about. This one dates back to the 1700s and it doesn't have anything to do with the Devil or his bathroom functions. This theory states that during that time, blackberries were thought to cause more deaths than any other fruit that comes off a vine or a bush. Ever since, dozens of people have gone roaming the countryside on Poisoned Blackberry Day to hunt for the lethal blackberries that kill immediately upon consumption.
I have no idea whether there's any merit to be given to either of these theories. But I do know that it's Poisoned Blackberry Day. And that's one more reason to take some berries out of the freezer, and figure out something new to do with them!
VFW Day
Each year on September 29th VFW Day is celebrated at Posts and in communities around the world. It's a day devoted to the organization and its dedicated members who are so deeply committed to serving those who bravely serve this nation.
This year marks the 115th year since the VFW was established. On this date in 1899, a small group of Spanish-America war veterans joined together to form what would become the nation's largest and most dedicated group of combat veterans.
For 115 years the VFW has been unwavering in its devotion "to honor the dead by helping the living." VFW and its Auxiliary members carry out this mission by promoting good will, patriotism and youth scholarship. Their commitment is demonstrated through national veterans and legislative services, military assistance and community service programs, youth activities and scholarship programs, as well as millions of volunteer hours in their local communities each year.
Show your support by honoring all members and veterans in your community. Today everyone is invited to celebrate the tradition of continuous service and steadfast devotion that defines the VFW.


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after coming back from the most tedious temp job concievable I have a new found urgency about sorting a proper job out, so want to build a comprehensive list of websites to check, places to upload cv's etc, with some idea of which ones are more sucessful, so where did you find your job? thanks
Morgan Hunt recruitment agency
(I think it's just London based). Basically I phoned them, sent them a CV, kept phoning them and they sent me a form for my really good permanent job. I never even met the recruitment agency!
thanks, I think i've seen them advertise for jobs I want on the guardian online
but for some reason I havent pursued them, thanks i'll send them my cv
I wish ucas were responsible for sorting out jobs
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Matthew 27:57-61 Devotional
Matthew 27:57 When it was evening, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who also was a disciple of Jesus. 58 He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate ordered it to be given to him. 59 And Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a clean linen shroud 60 and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had cut in the rock. And he rolled a great stone to the entrance of the tomb and went away. 61 Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were there, sitting opposite the tomb.
Who?, a series of persons, is a question that gives us understanding when answered. Pilot is a person to be noticed and learned from in our text. As we look at the fifty-four times that Pilate is mentioned in the New Testament, we can learn some vital lessons. I'll list statements that help us know Pilate.
Pilate was the Roman governor appointed over Israel by Caesar (Matthew 27:2). Jesus points out that Pilate's authority came from God (John 19:10-11). The Apostle Paul instructs us that God-given authority is to be used to protect people from the wrong-doer (Romans 13:1-5). Pilate found no charge against Jesus (Luke 23:4, 14, 22) and tried to wash his hands of Jesus' crucifixion (Matthew 27:24) because he didn't want to be responsible for Jesus' death. Pilate gave into the crowd because he saw a riot might occur and because the Jews were accusing him of opposing Caesar, the one who appointed him and the one who could remove him (Matthew 27:24; John 19:12-13). Pilate showed his authority when Joseph of Arimathea had to come to him to have Jesus' body released to him for burial (Matthew 27:58).
What can we learn from Pilot? The threat of riot and what he would have to do to quell the riot made using his authority to protect from the wrong-doer personally distasteful. He decided to authorize an injustice rather than rightly using his God-given authority. He feared being accused of opposing Caesar, his boss, and again chose to rule unjustly for selfish motives. Selfishness will cause us to act unjustly and not fulfill our God-given authority justly. When we have such people ruling over us, people who forget that God, not man, gave them their authority, we will have unjust decisions occur. When we are more concerned about our own comfort and benefits, we will not make just decisions in our area of authority as a parent, boss, political office holder, policeman, teacher, doctor, etc. People in authority cannot wash their hands of their sinful decisions (John 19:11).
We need to learn what not to do from Pilate. We are not to compromise our use of authority for selfish reasons. We are not to forget that God has given us the authority we wield and use it unjustly. We cannot blame our decisions on another and wash our hands of sinful decisions. We will still be responsible before the Lord. We are to do the opposite of Pilate and make just use of our authority as God, our Provider, Protector, and Judge desires.
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50 years ago I wrote my first essay, and my first exploration into the nature of religion. I was 13 years old and was in Grade 8 at a school that contained grades 1 through 8. It was a semi-rural school board outside Windsor, Ontario and did not have the money to establish 'middle schools' or 'senior public schools'. I was approaching the end of two years of a hellish experience of being an outsider and bullied by the other denizens of this place. But there were two points of light for me then. One was my confirmation in the Anglican Church of Canada, and the other was a teacher at this school.
This teacher, Norton Mansfield was also the school principal (Head Teacher to Brits). He was a tall, spare Englishman with a loud (when needed) and precise (always) voice and manner of speaking. The year before we all had heard his loud form as that was a year with a coterie of violent and angry young boys in the school. Corporal punishment was normal then, but only in extreme cases and only administered by the Principal, which in this instance he did so and with gusto. Anyway, I was a bit nervous as I entered Grade 8 as my teacher - this school still placed all students into a single room with a single teacher for the academic year by grade - had been the second in command for discipline. The teacher, George Hinch, turned out to be a wonderfully kind and gentle man. Norton Mansfield was the same. But, what mattered here was Mr. Mansfield's love of the English language. He taught us English literature every Tuesday morning from 9 to noon. From him I learned of my own passion for writing. Writing is two things to me: it is thinking in an organized and permanent fashion and it is also and now mostly for me, a feeling/experiencing in a way to communicate either ideas or feelings. We read poetry, a novel, short stories and essays under Mr. Mansfield's tutelage and he made them live and breathe for me. I was a reader already, but he opened new worlds of creativity and profound thought in my heart and in my mind.
Because of him I wrote this first essay. Its genesis was in my local Anglican parish church. After confirmation at age 13 that winter, I began to attend church services rather than Sunday School. This was St. Matthew's Anglican church in South Windsor. As I sat in the pew with my family, I began to argue mentally with the sermon. Many times I wanted to jump up and shout NO, WHAT ABOUT .... X or Y.....
As this was rather frowned upon, I began writing passionately after my family came home from church. I had a desk and I had a pad of yellow, lined paper and a pencil in my bedroom. While my mother made 'our Sunday egg' as she called it (eggs in those days made me mildly nauseous, but I was always a good son, or at least I was rarely caught). I would sit for the half hour or so until called up to eat lunch, furiously writing my essay on the relationship between religion and society, for such it was. I focussed my 13 year old mind on science and religion. I came to the conclusion that as science advanced, religion would decline. I have seen this opinion again many times in student discussions in the university courses I teach in the History of Religions, especially the one that focusses on religion and society. My wiser (I hope) and more mature (less likely) self has mostly rejected this early conclusion as clearly religion is not going anywhere, though its form and practice are altering profoundly.
The next year I entered High School in Grade 9 (for my American friends, we do not use the terms 'freshman, or junior or senior and so on, but the grade you are in - and for my British friends, although we used American 'grade' terminology the Ontario High School system was modelled on the British 'forms' - High School went either to 12 - 5th form for those not going on to university, or Grade 13 - 6th form for those going to university). I polished and worked on my essay, but was in an agony of wanting someone else to read it. I did not want to show it to my parents as they had the habit of finding anything I did worthy of great praise, whether it was worthy or not. That Fall I had made a friendship of sorts with another student, whose elder brother was the school genius and also President of the Student Council. My friend and I used to do homework together in a spare room - much of that time was spent fooling around, but we did some work. I knew also that my friend often had his brother help him with his homework. So I hatched the plan of slipping my pencil written document 'accidentally' into my friend's homework at a time when I knew he was going to get help from his brother.
This happened on a Friday and I waited over the weekend hoping, wondering. On Monday, we met as usual in this room and my friend looked rather oddly at me, as though he had never seen me before. He pulled out my essay and handed it back and said, 'This got mixed up with my homework. 'My brother read it while helping me and said "This would get an A grade in Grade 13". I had my answer. I was a writer and a thinker from that time on in my life. This was the Fall of 1964, 50 years ago.


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Chesterfield's preparations for the two play-off games against Preston have begun.
Paul Cook's managerial opponent, Simon Grayson, has known success in the play-offs on four occasions.
The North End boss twice won promotion to the Premier League via the play-offs – both times with Leicester City – while as a manager he's achieved success at Wembley with Blackpool and Huddersfield Town.
Spireites central defender Ian Evatt was a player of his during the Blackpool success while Gary Roberts scored in the successful Huddersfield Town penalty shoot-out in 2012.
So whole Preston as a club has failed to win promotion in all of its nine play-off attempts, Grayson – who saw his side drop out of the top two after two months in pole position following the loss at Colchester on Sunday – knows exactly what it takes.
The Lilywhites' manager said: "We've got to pick ourselves up very quickly.
"We've emphasised to the players that we've now got a second opportunity to get promoted to the Championship.
"Preparations start on Tuesday, the games are on Thursday and then Sunday, so we know we haven't got any time to wallow in self-pity or anything.
"We've got to be positive, we've got to be bright to go at Chesterfield, which will be a difficult game.
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Chesterfield have twice been in the play-offs and on both occasions won through to Wembley, losing against Cambridge United in 1990 in the first ever such final underneath the Twin Towers and beating Bury in 1995.
Spireites have also made it through to the newly developed Wembley twice in the JPT, beating potential play-off finalists Swindon Town in 2012 and losing to Peterborough United in 2014.
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