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However in June 2017, Pakistan became one of the first countries in the world to issue the marginalised transgender community its first passport with a transgender category as an important milestone in the struggle against discrimination. The South Asian nation, last week issued a passport to prominent transgender activist Farzana Riaz with an X to symbolise the third sex printed under the gender category of the travel document. The transgender community in Pakistan welcomed and praised the government's decision, saying it was a forward step in Pakistan's history and for the global transgender community to finally be given an identity. Incidently, Pakistan also has an active transgender representation in Parliament.
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Help us protect the Fiordland National Park and the visitors to Lake Manapouri by supporting our Environment Court appeal.
Fiordland Sewerage Options Incorporated is a group who is attempting to offer a more financial and environmentally friendly solution to the Southland District Council (SDC) proposed Te Anau sewerage scheme. The group registered as an official non-profit organization: 18th Aug 2014.
We believe that the proposed solution from the Southland District Council to build and maintain a 19km pipe to pump sewage from Te Anau to the Manapouri Airport and disperse the sewage on land just above Lake Manapouri is a disaster waiting to happen and could endanger the health of residents and tourists alike. There is also a potential risk of losing the World Heritage listing for the park due to river and lake pollution. This could result in millions of dollars lost from tourism as well as Public Health concerns.
We have independent expert reports confirming that there are better financial and environmental solutions.
These solutions have been presented to the Southland District Council through mediation without success.
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- "Mind's Eye: A Pre-Reading Strategy" from The Cult of Pedagogy: "The teacher chooses 20-30 important words from the text. Before students do any reading at all, the teacher reads the words aloud to students — slowly, pausing in between words. As they listen, students form mental pictures, predicting what the text will be about. Then they read the text and compare it to their predictions."According to blog author Melissa Gonzalez, the strategy "grabs students' attention before they ever read a single word and creates a mystery that can only be solved by reading the text." (Find more reading strategies here.)
- "Miming, Freeze-Framing, Body Sculptures," from teacher genius Russell Tarr at Tarr's Toolbox. "Freeze Framing involves getting students, working usually in small groups, to construct a scene which is then photographed and explained. This should represent a key action moment 'frozen in time' to capture energy. ... Body sculpture is similar, except in this case there is a group leader responsible (sometimes silently) for 'moulding' the rest of the group into place.... Miming / Charades is another useful strategy. In silence, different students have to act out a key concept, event or scene. Other students gain points if they guess these correctly. (He gives all the students the concepts ahead of time.)
- Glenn Wiebe, author of one of my other favorite blogs, HistoryTech, provides alternatives to lecturing in his post "It puts kids to sleep. And just so ya know ... that's a bad thing. (Plus 18 ways to make it better)". Among the strategies he lists are "Word Sorts" and "Crop It" (one of my all-time favorites).
Do you have a strategy that you think works particularly well? Email me about it and I'll share it with the group.


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Sterling silver birthstone necklace with gemstone
Pretty sterling silver birthstone necklace with a sterling silver hoop which I have hammered by hand.
The hoop is 1.2cm and has a 3-4mm gemstone of your choice. Please ask if you would like to see a picture and can't find it!
I can also make these in gold, rose gold or with a double hoop. You can also add several birthstones to the circle on request - please ask for customised options.
This would make a lovely birthday or bridesmaid gift. It comes in a pretty recycled gift box.
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I'm a graduate teaching assistant and a musician who is passionate about learning and creativity.
I am an experienced teaching assistant who over the last four years have worked across the school, from EYFS through to KS2. In addition as a speech and language assistant i am experienced in assessing children who have additional needs that is hindering their learning. I am also confident and experienced in supporting mainstream children in literacy and maths at all levels.
My approach to tutoring is about creating fun and engaging sessions that suit each child's learning style. As a tutor my philosophy is that every child can learn and everything is figure-out able! If one way doesn't work, let's try another and another and another! Over the years working with children i have learnt three important things: to be innovative, curious and positive. To be innovative not just because children disengage easily (get bored!) but because one size doesn't fit all. To be curious about the child interests, triggers likes and dislikes. Finally to be positive because it provides the child with hope and self esteem which is pivotal for learning. It is also important that there is communication with the school so i am tutoring relevant topics. I provide a form with my details so the class teacher can contact me about what is being taught each term.
In regards to teaching the guitar my philosophy is along the same lines. Each person learns differently and it is important to create fun and engaging lessons. A lot of the people want to see immediate results with guitar so i teach simple techniques to achieve this.
What sets me be apart from other tutors?
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Cloud computing is a new accounting software that deploys information in the "clouds". This helps a business save space as they no longer need many computers to store data and information. The data are stored in a data center and web servers provide the information.
However, much as it is considered advantageous, there are users still who fail even after they have used an online accounting software. In order for a successful cloud accounting operation to happen, then the following factors have to be considered.


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Flint was most recently the head coach of Drexel, a post at which he served for 15 seasons before getting fired after the 2015-16 campaign. Flint got his coaching start as an assistant at Coppin State before joining John Calipari's staff as an assistant at UMass in 1989. He was promoted to head coach after Calipari left UMass for the NBA. Flint has a career 331-289 record as a head coach — a .534 winning percentage.
Since his firing at Drexel, Flint has been what philly.com's Mike Jensen termed a "basketball tourist," traveling and learning from other coaches.
This report comes a week after Indiana's hiring of Miller as its new head coach, replacing the fired Tom Crean after the Hoosiers missed the NCAA Tournament for the fifth time in Crean's nine seasons leading the program.


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Where to start? I thought last year's FEI General Assembly was a sizzler, but compared to last week's pow-wow in Copenhagen, 2008 was a snooze fest. Top of the shit list this year: the Clean Sport Commission's decision to allow the presence of things like bute and banamine in horses at FEI competitions, and the 'yay' vote from 53 national federations (there were 48 'nays') to usher in this controversial new era in doping and medication. I'm sure I haven't adequately learned all the details, but already I fail to see what the ruckus is over. Plenty of fans and colleagues rallied behind Isabell for giving her horse a human anti-psychotic that is near the top of the banned list. Are these the same people now crying 'shame' over the FEI's sensible decision to avoid penalties to riders who give their horses legitimate medication in the days before competing? Is there ANYONE out there who has NEVER given a horse bute? Other than a few woo-woo alternative-therapy-instead-of-the-vet types?
Here are my thoughts on NSAIDs. I once had a wonderful event horse named Snap. He was only 15.1 hands, moved like the Quarter Horse he was, but also carried me to team gold at the NAYRC some time back in the last century (1985 to be exact). Snap had another QH characteristic – a predisposition to navicular bone degeneration. I was able to enjoy one final year of eventing Snap in my early 20's at the Preliminary level – which helped me survive the often crushing boredom of being an Arts major at university. Snap was permitted to have trace amounts of bute in his system if he was tested at a Canadian competition, and since he didn't need bute all the time or a lot of it, through careful management I was able to keep him sound, happy and doing the job he loved. If there had been a zero tolerance policy in Canada at that time, I would not have been able to enjoy that final year of eventing with Snap.
Fast forward to the 21st century, and the inclusion of Para-dressage as an FEI discipline. Being part of the FEI family has been wonderful for para-equestrian sport, but it has brought one big pitfall: zero tolerance on NSAIDs. Many competitive Para-dressage horses are schoolmaster types – safe, well trained, and good quality enough to be competitive on the world stage. Many of them have age-related soundness management issues, which has meant more than a few of these wonderful older horses have been sidelined from FEI competition because they need a little bute or isoxuprine to stay comfortable. Did you hear me? Comfortable, I said. That's what these NSAIDs do. I can't live without my ibuprofen when my back hurts, which is often. Why should there be a hue and cry with the Clean Sport Commission's decision to treat horses more like human athletes? Banamine is given to horses with colic. Horses that have suffered a mild colic are often perfectly fit to compete a couple of days afterward, and now that a certain amount of banamine is going to be permitted, riders, owners and vets will no longer have to face the agonizing dilemma of whether to give a horse something to reduce pain and distress at the cost of not being able to compete.
According to a Chronicle of the Horse article (http://www.chronofhorse.com/article/shocking-vote-legalizes-bute-fei-competition) FEI veep Sven Holmberg said: "What you have just done has cut the legs off the clean sport campaign. If you thought recent media attention against rollkur has been tough, just wait to see what happens with this." Bad puns aside, I am wondering if Mr. Holmberg understands the difference between doping substances and legitimate medications. I've no doubt the CoTH dribblers are off and running with their new ball, and I fully expect some flack for my position, which I will reiterate here:
It is my belief that anyone who thinks the FEI's progressive medication (not doping) list is evil has something in common with those woefully unenlightened Sarah Palin fans who call Obama a fascist and a Leninist in the same breath. And am I the only one who sees the irony in the Americans' 'hell no' position? The USEF has arguably the most leniant NSAID rules of any country, and they even allow the odd cocktail (I'm not talking daiquiris here – I mean when a horse is given more than one NSAID in combination). And how about those Germans? And Irish? And British? Or are they just trying to deflect attention from the fact that it's their own athletes' use of banned substances that created the need for the Clean Sport Commission in the first place?
Frank Kemperman, the newly minted FEI Dressage Committee chair, called the progressive list absurd because some national federations have zero tolerance rules for NSAIDs. I have a lot of respect for Frank and I hope that by publicly disagreeing with him he won't punish me by refusing to talk to me when I have questions for him. I don't know about other countries, but in Canada the rules are crystal clear: if there is a discrepency in the rules between the national federation and FEI rules at an FEI sanctioned competition, the FEI rules have precedence. Doesn't sound absurd to me. Frank also thinks the progressive list is a step back, and I don't agree with that either. Aspirin makes a poor scapegoat alongside capsaicin and fluphenazine.
In other news, I have made my video correspondent debut, much to my great mortification. I have not yet been able to bring myself to watch myself on the pilot episode of DNN, but if you are intrigued to see my report from the GDF, click here: www.DressageNewsNetwork.com
I am hoping and assuming that they chose the best of my many, many takes of the little intro I was told to give. How can a person be nervous while filming herself alone with a video camera, you ask? The out-takes would be longer than the useable footage…and I really, really hope they took out the bit where I accidentally asked Steffen about his experience in Germany when I should have said Holland, and then said the 'f' word not quite under my breath. I haven't felt so incompetent at something since I tried out for the highschool volleyball team and was told by the coach that she might put me on the floor if we were winning 14 to 1. Either I'll get better at it or this will have been a very, very short career in video journalism.
A bit more housekeeping: many of you have expressed frustration at not finding more regular blog postings from me when I'm not at things like the GDF or Olympics. From now on, except here and there such as over Christmas, I will make Wednesday my official posting day – even if I don't have much to say that week. Who am I kidding? I always have plenty to say. Talk to you Wednesday.


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2nd Echigo-Tsumari Triennial20 July - 7 September 2003
Echigo-Tsumari / 2003
Overview of Dates and Facts
20 July - 7 September 2003
Echigo-Tsumari Region
An area of 762 km² in Niigata Prefecture. Included are the city of Tokamachi, the towns of Kawanishi, Tsunan, Matsudai and Matsunoyama, as well as the village of Nakasato.
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See the text by Fram Kitagawa and our introduction.
General Director:
Fram Kitagawa
Born in Takada, Niigata Prefecture. Artistic Director, President of the Art Front Gallery in Tokyo. General Coordinator of the Echigo-Tsumari Art Necklace Project (since 1997) and the Triennial from the beginning.
Art Advisors:
Hou Hanru (curator
from China, lives in France)
Rosa Martinez (curator, Spain)
Tom Finkelpearl (curator, USA)
Yusuke Nakahara (art critic, Japan)
157 artists and groups from 23 countries.See the List of participants.
Short Video Festival: 28 participants from 11 countries and regions.
Diverse events and parallel shows - see the Information on the official website.
Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial Executive Committee
Contact and further details, see Start page.
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They'll provide a 2nd LMG for my Fanatic (Stalingrad selector allows almost all your troop choices to add "Fanatic" to your units.) regs, making the squad rather nasty on the table at range AND in close combats.
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Next up the only other oustanding units from my army list, two Anti-tank Rifle teams. No Panzerfausts in Stalingrad, so my poor boys are going to have to try to tackle and German armour with these things. They'll also double up as psuedo-snipers too, which will be extra annoying, I'm betting. :)
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Driffield to Bridlington
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This ride takes you along National Cycle route 1 to the Yorkshire coast. This is a fairly easy route taking place mainly on quiet roads and passing through the villages of Nafferton and Burton Agnes where you can see the impressive Burton Agnes Manor House. The ride finishes on the coast at Bridlington tourist information centre.


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Being a big fan of Primal Scream's mix of electronic grooves and old-school punkrock, I was so happy to go see their show last night at the "Train" club in Aarhus, Denmark. This was their only show in Denmark on the current tour supporting their excellent album "More Light". Usually our nation's capital Copenhagen gets to host the good shows on account of the size of our country/market, but not this time.
The band had some sound problems at the beginning, causing song number two to break down. That notwithstanding, the show was a prime slice of dirty big city rock'n'roll. Even though they got off to a slow start, the band got better and better as the show progressed. Neither too short nor too long – at the end of the show me and my mates didn't want it to end. Great gig by the Scream!


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Lessons learned in the furnace of affliction often get etched deeply into our hearts and lives.
David learned a lesson in his hard times. That lesson was that life must be lived on purpose for God. Coasting, going along with the flow and living carelessly always leads to wasted life. David wanted to place and keep his trust in the Lord.
Don't Waste Precious Life; Live Life Deliberately
Living life intentionally, on purpose and deliberately for God became the theme of Psalm 31 as David drew inspired lessons from three eras of his life: the times of his "running" from Saul years; the times of his "not running" from sin years; and the years of "again running" from Absalom. These eras are reflected by divisions of Psalm 31:
- Psalm 31:1-8 reflects lessons David learned in his running-from-Saul years. As a fugitive David wrote twenty-three different Psalms, many of which we have studied and others we know well: Psalms 4, 7, 11, 13, 16-17, 31, 34-36, 39-40, 52-54, 56-57, 59, 63-64, 70, and 141-142.
- Psalm 31:9-11 reflects lessons David learned in his not-running-from-Bathsheba year. These are the years that Psalm 32, 38, and 51 are written.
- Psalm 31:12-22 reflects lessons David learned in his running-from-Absalom years. These are Psalms 3, 63, and now 31.
What we see through David is that God has placed each of us on earth, in a specific time: for a specific purpose. When we know that and live accordingly, we have a life lived deliberately for God. God then measures whether we accomplished what He desired in that time period.
As we begin our look at Psalm 31, we find David's personal resolve, which captures why God thought so highly of him:
Living deliberately for God Means choosing to live-
This concept we will see in Psalm 31 is also reinforced in the New Testament.
- Living deliberately involves: Carefully counting the cost, as Jesus said in Luke 14:28;
Luke 14:28 (New King James Version) For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not sit down first and count the cost, whether he has enough to finish it-
- Living deliberately involves: Circumspectly walking through life, as Paul said in Ephesians 5:15;
Ephesians 5:15 (New King James Version) See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise,
- Living deliberately involves: Not hastily or rashly saying or doing anything, as James warned inJames 1:19.
James 1:19 (New King James Version) So then,my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath;
- Living deliberately involves: Warily watching out for the devil, our prowling adversary, as Peter said in 1 Peter 5:8;
1 Peter 5:8 (New King James Version) Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
Each of those four elements of deliberate living are small choices we make in daily living.
Let's now walk through this wonderful psalm section by section to see the lessons David learned from his troubles that helped him walk the rest of his days for the glory and purpose of the Lord his God.
Lessons From David's Running-From-Saul Years v. 1-8
In You, O Lord, I put my trust; let me never be ashamed; deliver me in Your righteousness. Bow down Your ear to me, deliver me speedily; be my rock of refuge, a fortress of defense to save me. For You are my rock and my fortress; therefore, for Your name's sake, lead me and guide me. Pull me out of the net which they have secretly laid for me, for You are my strength (Psalm 31:1-4).
David seems to have started this Psalm by reflecting upon all his years on the run from King Saul, fleeing from one cave to another, from one wilderness fort to another.
This period is when David discovered that only God was the place where we could safely rest. In verse one David said, ... "I put my trust ... [v. 1 chacah #2620 'to seek refuge; to trust']; then he used four different nouns to describe how he found the Lord as his place of safety.
Only God Gives True Security
His security in God is seen in his usage of:
- rock/strength [vv. 2,4 maowz #4581 "fortress, stronghold, strong"].
- refuge [v.2 tsuwr #6697 "cliff, rock wall"].
- fortress of defense/fortress [vv.2-3 matsuwd #4686 "fortress"]. (Note: For any of you who have gone to the Land of the Book and seen that majestic refuge, this is also a word for Masada in today's Israel.)
- rock (different Hebrew word) [v. 3 sehlah #5553 "rock, stronghold," as in Psalm 18].
David used every word in the Hebrew language he could find to sing of the security he found in his great God during his years of running from King Saul. Such graphic pictures symbolized both comfort and help in a time of desperation. Saul's vast superiority in both numbers and strength were blunted by David's God-given ability to hide in and out of the many caves, canyons and rocks of the wilderness.
As David looked back, he drew lessons from that period of intense fear on the run from Saul. Because his hope now rested more firmly in the Lord, rather than run from his problems with Absalom, he purposed to walk forward in the strength of the Lord.
This is very clear even in the word order David used: the "In You, O Lord" precedes the "I put my trust." God was being put first as the source, the target, and the point of all David intended to do from then on. Before, when David had stepped out on his own, he fell deep into sin with Bathsheba. But no more-serving his beloved Lord faithfully was now his heart's greatest desire.
God wanted David to learn that as those natural outcroppings gave him a safe haven all those years, so the supernatural Presence of the Lord, who was always there and always able to protect, was his real Rock, Refuge and Fortress. So David often referred to God this way, as his rock fortress, in Psalms 18-19; 28; 61-62; and 71.
Next we can see that David filled Psalm 31 with statements to the Lord that "You are ..." Then he applied them to his need by saying to himself by faith-"then be ...."
Applying God to My Daily Life
This practice is well worth developing: each time you're in the Word, stop when you find a truth about the Lord; repeat the truth back to Him in the "You are ..." form.
Next, pause and by faith say, "Then be ..." For example, you could say to the Lord:
- God, You are a Rock-then be my Rock.
- God, You are Strength-then be my Strength.
- God, You are a Refuge-then be my Refuge.
- God, You are a Fortress of Defense-then be my Fortress of Defense.
Forming such a habit is how we can derive the greatest comfort and strength from God's Word as we learn to apply what He is to our lives!
This next verse contains another treasure. See if you recognize it.
Into Your hand I commit my spirit; You have redeemed me, O Lord God of truth (Psalm 31:5).
After three-and-one-half years of public ministry, after six long hours of horrific suffering on the cross, Jesus lifted His head one last time, pulled Himself up on the spikes, and cried out David's initial words inPsalm 31:5 as His final words on earth (Luke 23:46)!
Those same words also found their way into the hearts and lips of many notable saints of the past. For example, those who stood at the bedside of the following great saints as they died have reported that, like Christ, they spoke Psalm 31:5a as their last words on earth:
- Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153), author of the words to the now famous song entitled "Jesus the Very Thought of Thee," died quoting this verse.
- John Hus (1369-1415) was burnt at the stake in Constance by the Roman Catholic Church for believing and preaching justification by faith alone. At the end of the ceremony condemning Hus to death by fire, the presiding bishop uttered this chilling condemnation, "And now we commit thy soul to the devil."
To which John Hus calmly was heard to say by those who loved him and stood by him to the end, "I commit my spirit into Thy Hands, Lord Jesus Christ; unto Thee I commend my spirit, which Thou hast redeemed!"
- Martin Luther (1483-1546), who wrote "Blessed are those who die not only for the Lord as martyrs; not only in the Lord as all believers; but likewise with the Lord, as breathing forth their lives in these words: 'Into Thy Hands I commend my spirit.'
And so on his death bed in February 18th 1546 that great reformer confidently left this world faintly uttering those words of triumph![1]
In this next passage David expressed his trust in the Lord by affirming truths he held on to in dangerous times:
I have hated those who regard useless idols; but I trust in the Lord. I will be glad and rejoice in Your mercy, for You have considered my trouble; You have known my soul in adversities, and have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy; You have set my feet in a wide place (Psalm 31:6-8).
Lessons in How to Trust God
Four truths in verses 6-8 gave David special strength:
- David trusted in the fact that God was well aware of all his trouble (31.7a "I will be glad and rejoice in Your mercy, For You have considered my trouble"). God was aware and close by in every bit of his agony.
- David trusted in the fact that God responded to his anguishing soul (31.7b "You have known my soul in adversities"). When God sees something we are struggling with it is not merely that He just notices it, He also responds and comes to help us in our time of need.
- David trusted in the fact that God did not hand him over to his enemies (31.8a "And have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy"). God will keep us from falling and is very near to us in time of need. He promises that we are more than conquerors through Him who loves us.
- David trusted in the fact that God set his feet in a wide place (31.8b "You have set my feet in a wide place"). Since God is faithful, always had been, David knew that all he needed to do was trust in Him! The memory of a past deliverance can bear the fruit of a present confidence.[2]
Next we see the second section: Psalm 31:9-11 reflects what David learned as:
Lessons From David's Not-Running-From Bathsheba Year v. 9-11
Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am in trouble; my eye wastes away with grief, Yes, my soul and my body! For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing; my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones waste away. I am a reproach among all my enemies, but especially among my neighbors, and am repulsive to my acquaintances; those who see me outside flee from me(Psalm 31:9-11).
David moaned in these verses that his sin with Bathsheba was just not worth it! His moment of stolen pleasure was repaid with months of unbearable tortures.
Look at how many ways David described all he went through: "trouble," "wasting with grief," "years of sighing," "strength fails," "bones waste away," "reproach," "repulsive," "fled from."
None of those woes can be found recorded in either 2 Samuel or 1 Chronicles where David's biography was written by God. They appear only in the Psalms he wrote-his personal diary. In the Psalms God allows us to pull back the curtain and see what was going on inside. That is why the Psalms are so valuable.
Because David was excruciatingly aware of sin's high cost, he now purposed to avoid headlong plunges into sin.
Finally, in Psalm 31:12-22 we see reflected:
Lessons From David's Running-From-Absalom Years v. 12-22
I am forgotten like a dead man, out of mind; I am like a broken vessel. For I hear the slander of many; fear is on every side; while they take counsel together against me, they scheme to take away my life. But as for me, I trust in You, O Lord; I say, "You are my God" (Psalm 31:12-14).
Lesson #1: Fear is real and part of life. The fearsome times of being chased and hunted to the death is described by David using a curious word in Hebrew. In verse 13 he said "fear is on every side," which is the translation of the Hebrew words magor mishaviv.
Jeremiah used this same phrase six times to describe those final days as Judah was besieged and destroyed by the relentless Babylonian armies (6:25; 20:3-4, 10; 46:5; 49:29; Lam. 2:22).
My times are in Your hand; deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute me. Make Your face shine upon Your servant; save me for Your mercies' sake. Do not let me be ashamed, O Lord, for I have called upon You; let the wicked be ashamed; let them be silent in the grave. Let the lying lips be put to silence, which speak insolent things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous (Psalm 31:15-18).
I want to you to particularly pay attention to the beginning of verse 15: My times are in your hand .... Why? Because David was confident every part of his life was held by God.
Lesson # 2: My Life is in God's Hands. Today, wherever we are on the path of life, we should affirm this same truth with David:
Our Times Are in God's Hands
- We can trust God that times of our youth, when others make decisions for us, are in God's hands. He guides, directs, protects, and works all things together for our good.
- We can trust God that times of our career are in God's hands-every choice, every victory, every defeat, all our accomplishments, all our possessions, all our troubles and triumphs. He is guiding them, and if we will just let Him, He will fashion all our life for His glory.
- We can trust God that times of our decline are in God's hands-when our days run out, and our starting of new projects ceases, even then God holds those days and wants to bless them with His presence and power. He cares for us and wants to make those final years the best of all (Psalm 92).
Remember that God is never surprised; nothing gets past the boundaries of His good, acceptable, and perfect will (Romans 12:2).
Because God is working for our good in all things (Romans 8:28), He wants us to be content in what He allows to come our way (Philippians 4:11).
The third lesson David learned is that God is good all the time. This means that we can be sure that:
Whatever God Does Is Good v. 19-22
Oh, how great is Your goodness, which You have laid up for those who fear You, which You have prepared for those who trust in You in the presence of the sons of men! You shall hide them in the secret place of Your presence from the plots of man; You shall keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues. Blessed be the Lord, for He has shown me His marvelous kindness in a strong city! For I said in my haste, "I am cut off from before Your eyes"; nevertheless You heard the voice of my supplications when I cried out to You (Psalm 31:19-22).
George Gallup once found in his research that "highly religiously motivated" people had a much higher quality of life-fewer divorces, less strife with others and more involvement helping out. But all those factors only present a tiny perspective of what God's goodness brings to the lives of His children.
Most of what God does is unseen by outsiders. His constant comfort in time of need is unknown to them. So is the indescribable rapture we find in those moments we truly connect with God in worship and praise.
Those outside Christ can never know the assuring strength of His Presence felt in the darkest of times and places. They have never felt the strength of seeing immediate, as well as long-awaited, answers to prayer-when we are struck with the fact our awesome God heard us and has responded.
But all of this, great as it may seem, is nothing compared to what the Lord is preparing for His children in eternity! As David said early on in life (Psalm 23:5-6), what we have now is wonderful, but what is yet to come is the best.
Five Challenges from David To Apply This Truth
Now note that the last two verses of Psalm 31 are different than verses 1-22 where David addressed the Lord. He concluded by challenging all who will listen to learn from his lessons in life's unending struggles:
Oh, love the Lord, all you His saints! For the Lord preserves the faithful, and fully repays the proud person. Be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart, all you who hope in the Lord (Psalm 31:23-24).
- David challenged us-Love the Lord like I do: Oh, love the Lord, all you His saints! ... (31:23). The Lord knows our deepest desires and responds to them.
- David challenged us-Trust the Lord like I do: ... For the Lord preserves the faithful ... (31:23b). God always looks at our hearts.
- David challenged us-Fear the Lord like I do: For God ... fully repays the proud person (31:23c). Don't mess with the Lord! Never forget that He has built into this universe the inescapable laws of the consequence engine.
- David challenged us-Wait for the Lord like I am: Be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart ... (31:24a). "Fear not" is the most repeated negative prohibition in God's Word, and He means it. Fear is the devil's playground. Fear disables us, debilitates us, and robs us of joy and peace. Whenever you're tempted to fear, ask for and receive God's heart-strengthening treatments. As much as you would seek a cardiologist for blockages, seek the Great Physician for His all-sufficient strength (2 Corinthians 12:9).
- David challenged us-Hope in the Lord like I will: ... All you who hope in the Lord (31.24b). Here David uses that great Hebrew word (yachal) which denotes "trusting hope."
In light of God's exceeding great goodness, have you said in your heart and at the center of your will-"Lord, You are first"?
In light of the fact that all your times are in Almighty God's loving hands, whose plans for you are perfect, have you said in your heart and at the center of your will-"Lord, You come ahead of me, my plans, my desires, my way"?
If you've been coasting spiritually by feeding your soul on yesterday's blessings, last week's devotions, and last month's ministry, I exhort you, like David, to choose a new focus for your spiritual life. Live deliberately for God-no coasting allowed!
As an aid to renew your longing for God, these words by Saint Bernard of Clairvaux provide precious truths to meditate upon for just such a moment:
Jesus, the Very Thought of Thee
Jesus, the very thought of Thee
With sweetness fills my breast;
But sweeter far Thy face to see,
And in Thy presence rest.
No voice can sing, no heart can frame,
Nor can the memory find
A sweeter sound than Jesus' name
O Savior of mankind!
O Hope of every contrite heart!
O joy of all the meek!
To those who fail, how kind Thou art!
How good to those who seek!
But what to those who find? Ah! this,
No tongue or pen can show
The love of Jesus, what it is
None but His loved ones know.
-Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153)
[1] J. J. Stewart Perowne, in loc.
[2] James Boice, Psalms-Vol. 1 (Grand Rapids: Baker Books), p. 271.


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There are so many amazing things that you can do with the internet it's mind-blowing. It's easy to take the internet for granted and forget how incredible it is.
Aside from the fact you can order your weekly shop from sat on your sofa, you can watch almost any show on the planet anywhere the best thing about the internet in my opinion, is the ability to connect and engage with other people.
As with almost anything in the world, a lot of our thoughts, feelings and decisions are all based on our perception of things put in front of us. I've seen many posts online around the fact that social media has in fact created a society of less social people. Some perceptions are that it's done the reverse of it supposed purpose.
I disagree, my perception is entirely different. I'm not saying my way is correct because I'm open minded enough to realise that the differences of opinion on this are all down to perception not facts. I mean, how could you even measure whether social media has made us more social or not? If you could you'd then have to speak with every person on the planet to deem your findings a fact.
I believe social media has made me even more social! I speak with lots of people on a daily basis online and have even met a few in 'real life' and become 'actual friends'. The confidence I've grown through connecting, engaging and speaking with people online has increased my confidence with being more social in day to day life offline too. I've certainly become more social through using social media.
I've highlighted 'real life' and 'actual friends' in the previous paragraph because I again have a different perception to life in 2018 from what I've seen many speak about online. I do believe that you can meet actual friends online and build a relationship exclusively online with other like-minded people. I speak with a few people mainly via Instagram that in reality I'm not likely to meet with. However we still speak regularly and think of each other as friends would. I think it's the current, modern way some friendships have gone in recent years.
I speak with some people I'd consider friends online more than I do my actual friends I've had for years, since childhood! Social media and building relationships online I believe IS REAL LIFE in today's world.
My childhood friends and ex-work colleague friends aren't always into the same things as I am, Blogging, Instagram and YouTube etc. Online I have made so many friends that are into these things and we have loads of things in common that help to build a friendship just as relevant as those built offline. I think it's healthy to have different types of friends in different areas of your life. This doesn't make my friends I've known most of my life any less important by the way, they simply occupy a different section of my life.
Then there's people that aren't lucky enough to have many or any friends from their day to day life. Their internet tribe of friends are their only friends. It would be ridiculous to think that those relationships would be meaningless merely because they were made via social media. I referred to some of my 'real friends' as ex-work colleagues too. Well now I work purely online! So people I meet online within my industry do and can become friends just as those in an actual office or warehouse or shop floor would.
Maybe some of those with the perception that social media makes us less social are referring to the fact not many people speak with strangers out and about in public, have we ever? Gone are the days when everyone in the local community knew each others business all through word of mouth. There are very few little villages of that sort left now. That's nothing to do with social media though, that's due to the way the country has been run into the ground over the last 30-40 years, slowly ripping the sense of community from communities.
Or is it because when 'friends' are on a night out they spend most of the evening looking at their phones and tagging each other on Instagram as opposed to having an actual conversation? This for me again isn't down to social media, it's pure ignorance and lack of manners. Sure, take a snap and share it on social media, that's part of what it's for, to create and save memories to look back on later. I do that and have no problem with that. If your friend only looks up from their phone every 25 minutes to offer one word answers then I have news for you… You need new friends.
I can 100% see how people consume those memes and social study videos on Facebook and buy into the fact that the very platform you're consuming this information on is the problem why it appears there are so many ignorant people nowadays. They show very relatable scenarios that have you believing we're all now socially inept because of social media and smartphones.
However, give your eyes a rub and look at your own lives before making your decision on this. We've been to visit friends on many occasions, even friends that Vlog, Instagram and share much of their lives online… On every occasion there was less social media and smartphone activity than usual! This was because we don't get to see each other often or because it was the first ever meeting I find it bad manners to spend that time on my phone. In fact I didn't even think about it, I was enjoying their company and we had so much to chat about I didn't think twice about grabbing selfies every five minutes and constantly trying to convince others online that I was having such a blast! We all know those doing that are only trying to convince themselves.
So the facts about myself and the situations I experience in my life give me a different perception to that of many on the internet about social media making us less social.
I think that's a load of shite, let me know your thoughts in the comments…


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There have been a lot of reports about the effectiveness of mangosteen to treat different diseases, including: (1) breast cancer, (2) prostate cancer, (3) lung cancer, (4) stomach cancer, and a lot more.
Mangosteen juice has now been recommended by renowned medical doctors, worldwide. Because of the medicinal values of mangosteen, not just the juice but the entire fruit, this is now used to help reduce the risk of cardiovascular diseases and diabetes, combat against cancer, et cetera.
Mangosteen is undoubtedly a delicious fruit. But I don't want to take mangosteen herbal supplements sold over the counter. It is better to eat the fresh fruit... at least in my opinion.
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04 May 2018
Gladstone Ports Corporation (GPC) is now inviting applications from community organisations for the 2018 Botanic to Bridge major beneficiary.
The ninth annual running event will be held on Sunday 19 August and will again include a 3km and 8km course.
All registration funds from the event are redirected back to the community via the major beneficiary and local schools.
The major community beneficiary is eligible to receive up to $20,000.00 to support a program or initiative which will provide value to the community.
Previous successful applicants have included St Vincent de Paul Society, Roseberry Community Services, Exodus Tutorial Centre and Rosella Park school.
Over $350,000.00 has been invested into the community through the major community beneficiary and local schools.
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Awake and out of bed by about 6:30 this morning. Yes, of my own volition. Spouse and I had agreed to make a go of beginning weekend days with walks. And the only way to get any real enjoyment out of things like that is to do it before the sane people get out of bed. I grumbled and snarled but did it anyway, put on my new walking/running shoes and off we went. We walked three miles. In the rain. Not a single human was sighted until we were just about half way through the return trip.
I did this without coffee.
Still dripping wet, we got the grocery shopping done, came home, had breakfast (yes, that included coffee), watched Dr. Who, and it was still fairly early. I haven't known what to do with myself today. Some reading, some writing, some trying to nap. Watched, finally, the first two episodes of The Count of Monte Cristo. Damn. It's so fucking pretty.
I failed to do much writing this past week. Most of that was because of being in Charlotte for three days. Once I'd get back to the hotel after dinner, I only wanted to shower and read. So I was hoping to step it up this weekend, but the story continues to be extremely difficult to write. For a lot of reasons. The end is the worst part. I keep thinking I want to change it, telling myself it doesn't have to end the way I've been planning it to end for the last five years, trying to convince myself that there are logical ways out of the end. I keep envisioning alternate endings. They still aren't very nice. But no. There's no mercy here. Sorry. I'm acquiescing on at least one point already. Not this.
So back to it. But first a hot bath for my painfully throbbing foot and the twisted steel cable of my back.


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It's not exactly the Hulk, X-Men, Superman or the Justice League, but Alan Oirich, a 50-year-old New York entrepreneur, Jewish educator and comic book illustrator this week cracked BusinessWeek's Top-5 list of small businesses with the success of his six-year-old, Jewish Superhero funny pages strip – The Jewish Hero Corps.
He's got five part-time staffers and has a yearly revenue of $119,000 US.
Oirich founded his company, Electric Comics, back in 2001. As reported in the article, Oirich says his comic books are dedicated to using "the American cultural mythology of superheroes to teach kids about their Jewish identity and values."
Here's what Oirich told BusinessWeek about the endeavour:
"The Jewish Hero Corps, our first book, has seven main characters including Menorah Man, who grows eight arms and shoots flames; Dreidel Maidel, who can spin at incredibly high speeds; and Kipa Kid, who has a belt of trick yarmulkes. They fight against the bad guys, Fobots, who are robots that do whatever they can to make people forget about Jewish traditions. I have been a Jewish educator for a long time, and I was using these characters in my teachings when a publisher approached me in 1997 about doing more with them. I bounced around to a couple of different publishers before founding Electric Comics. Now I also license the characters to Jewish camps and to some kosher brands, and sell kids' costumes."I think it's a great idea. But wouldn't it also be nice if this concept was fleshed out a bit and brought into the more adult and/or adolescent realm? Because heroes with names like Dreidel Maidel and the Kipa Kid, while probably catchy and fun for 5 to 8-year-olds, probably won't (ahem)
Personally, I think it'd be cool to see what Alan Moore, Frank Miller or Neil Gaiman could do with the concept.
And for all the current, once and future comic geeks who are interested in this sort of thing, there's a fantastic site that compiles comic book heroes by their religion. You can find all the Jewish heroes in popular comics at the Religious Affiliation of Comic Book Characters site. Check out all the heroes you might not have known were secretly "of the tribe." It may surprise you.


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In Japan, Makoto Aida is a well-known hammersmith. Under his brand SHINZAN, which freely translated means "Deep Mountain", he produces carefully crafted hammers with heads that feature a so-called "tsuchime" pattern. With delicate blows of a hammer he creates a surface texture that is then polished. This results in a compelling finish with a usually brownish and sometimes bluish tinge. Selective hardening of the striking surfaces means that part of the recoil energy is absorbed by the somewhat softer core of the steel. You feel you're working more effectively, also because less of the recoil energy makes its way back to the wrist joint.
These hammer heads have one flat and one slightly convex striking face. Use one or the other face, depending on the job at hand. The flat face, for instance, is used for tapping chisels or for driving in nails close to the inside edge of a workpiece. The cheeks of the hammer head glide over the surface of the workpiece, so you can be sure that the striking face is exactly at right angles to it. This provides you with the best chance of knocking in small nails dead straight even in an inconvenient location. For setting nails you use the convex face of the hammer to minimise the risk of damaging the surrounding wooden surface.
The hammer is supplied with a handle made of white oak. Note that the hammer handles are fitted in the more humid climatic conditions of Japan. Our comparatively dryer climate can cause the wooden handle to shrink slightly and become loose. If this is the case, you need to refit the handle and possibly readjust the hammer head. The best way to do this is to knock the end of the handle onto a firm surface. Keep checking that the hammer head is at right angles to the handle and correct as necessary. Finally, drive the wedge at the top a bit further in with a hammer, if necessary. These hammers are hand-forged, so you may notice slight deviations in weight and dimensions.
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Friday, July 20, 2012
|9:05 p.m.
|Foxy Brown
Jack Hill (U.S., 1974)
Pam Grier is a force of nature, an unrelenting and assertive id igniter. As the lone female action star of her time, she was driven by a fleshy physicality, nonstop aggression, and a wanky wardrobe of seventies kinked-out couture. In Foxy Brown, Grier is an angel of death out to bring down a crime syndicate operating in her 'hood. She gives better than she receives, blazing her way past pushers and punks. When her brother is brought down (Antonio Fargas, the Steve Buscemi of blaxploitation), Foxy's anger turns from revenge to full-blown oblivion. Murder and mayhem? Director Hill knows that Foxy is too busy lookin' good to even notice.
—Steve Seid
• Written by Hill. Photographed by Brick Marquard. With Pam Grier, Antonio Fargas, Peter Brown. (94 mins, Color, 35mm, From Park Circus)


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Have you ever written a guest post before?
"Just write a guest post," they say.
"It's great for growing an email list," they say.
I have a confession to make.
I am 4 months behind on writing guest posts.
Every time I go to write a post, I freeze up. Writer's block. Procrastination. Call it whatever you want. But if you've ever TRIED to guest post regularly, you know exactly what I mean.
The last two guest posts I've written have generated over 1,000 new email subscribers to this site, but for some unknown reason it's incredibly hard for me to produce them on a regular basis.
Writing for my site is easy. But writing for someone else is terrifying.
- What should I write about?
- How detailed should the article be?
- Can I backlink to my site from the article?
…you know the drill.
Well, recently I stumbled upon an interesting little hack that's helped me get back on track and avoid all of these paralyzing questions.
Whether you are a guest-posting pro or have never written one in your life, use this to come up with killer ideas for your next article.
Here it is…
Next time you go to write a guest post, ask yourself this question:
So, if the person whose site you are writing for were hosting a conference and you were invited to speak to the audience, what would your speech be about?
Asking this question removes writing from the equation and forces you to focus on the audience you are "speaking" to.
Let's workshop a quick example.
Imagine you are a food blogger invited to speak at a marketing conference that Noah Kagan is putting on. Those are two seemingly unrelated industries. Food and marketing.
What would you talk about?
Could you still teach the audience something that would be interesting and relevant? You bet!
Here are a few different headlines you could use:
Headline 1: How to market your business like a restaurant
Headline 2: How I used incredible pictures to 5x my sales and how you can do the same thing
Headline 3: I work 80 hours a week. How about you?
Headline 4: Why I hate my job and how you can avoid the same trap
Headline 5: Time management for restaurants
Combine your industry of expertise with the topics that your audience is there to hear about.
Make sense?
Quit thinking about writing and start thinking about speaking.
A few days ago I had a coaching call with my friend Tony.
He was struggling with coming up with topics to guest post on, so we spent 45 minutes going over exactly how he could use this method.
In the call we covered:
- How to brainstorm a list of ideas to write about on other people's blogs
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By Marcello Newall, August 2014
1. Introduction
In our interpretation of the Bible we should always take into account that the Scriptures represent a complete narrative that begins in Genesis and ends in Revelation. When Christians or others attempt to surgically remove isolated passages from their context and from the entire scriptural story they are opening themselves up to false and sometimes even bizarre interpretations that go against the authors' message. Taking into account the entirety of Scripture it becomes evident that God's original plan and his ultimate goal for creation are total Shalom(1), or peace, in which mankind made in his image are supposed to enjoy Him, the source of all beauty, and rejoice in his creation benevolently looking after the animal kingdom. All violence and death are in reality inherently antithetical to God's gracious character and far from his ideal, and represent the negative effects of human and angelic rebellion. That entire segments of the Christian faith should miss this fundamental aspect of the gospel is absolutely astounding and is telling of how even Christians can be blinded to foundational trajectories present in the Bible. Entire books have and could be written on this subject and I will try to briefly summarize my understanding of the matter and answer the main objections to vegetarianism.
2. In the Beginning
In Genesis 1, the opening chapter of the Bible, we are told:
Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food." And it was so(2).
Whereas in modern societies we tend in general to value that which is "new", or recent, in the ancient world what was older or had a longer history had more prestige and therefore was more authoritative. In this context when asked about remarriage by the Pharisees, who wanted to send away their wives simply with a divorce certificate, Jesus answered:
"Why then," they asked, "did Moses command that a man give his wife a certificate of divorce and send her away?" Jesus replied, "Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because your hearts were hard. But it was not this way from the beginning(3)."
In this passage Jesus introduces a very important hermeneutical key to understanding Scripture: the principle of accommodation. According to this concept God is willing to lower his standards in order to meet people where they are, much like what a missionary might do in a very primitive tribe. The Law of Moses, like much of the Old Testament, represents in this sense many aspects that are in fact inferior to God's ideal and simply concessions made to the culture and the hardness of people's hearts. Often these themes can be discerned through a careful reading of Scripture, for example notice the striking similarities between these two passages found in Deuteronomy:
When the Lord your God has enlarged your territory as he promised you, and you crave meat and say, "I would like some meat," then you may eat as much of it as you want(4).
When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you and have taken possession of it and settled in it, and you say, "Let us set a king over us like all the nations around us," be sure to appoint over you a king the Lord your God chooses(5).
And now relate them to how the Lord considered Israel's request to have a King:
So all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah. They said to him, "You are old, and your sons do not follow your ways; now appoint a king to lead us, such as all the other nations have." But when they said, "Give us a king to lead us," this displeased Samuel; so he prayed to the Lord. And the Lord told him: "Listen to all that the people are saying to you; it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected me as their king. As they have done from the day I brought them up out of Egypt until this day, forsaking me and serving other gods, so they are doing to you. Now listen to them; but warn them solemnly and let them know what the king who will reign over them will claim as his rights(6)."
These passages clearly show how God actually gives to the Israelites what they desire even though this does not reflect his perfect will: God often tolerates certain cultural aspects for a time in view of their eventual elimination. We see that the concession to eat meat was made not after the Fall of man but subsequent to the Flood(7): some interpreters believe this may have been due to a scarcity of plant food after the devastation that occurred and because of spiritual weakness (8).
3. Animal Sacrifice
One argument that is often mustered against vegetarianism is the difficult topic of animal sacrifice: why does God issue commandments in regard to this practice, sometimes almost seeming to encourage it? As discussed previously animal sacrifice represents a concession made to fallen man, that the Lord, taking into consideration the ignorance of human beings, accepted for a time as a form of worship. The Bible itself actually ends up rejecting the practice of animal sacrifice as a possible form of atonement or even as something pleasing to God:
I have no need of a bull from your stall
or of goats from your pens,
for every animal of the forest is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills. I know every bird in the mountains, and the insects in the fields are mine. If I were hungry I would not tell you, for the world is mine, and all that is in it. Do I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of goats(9)?
"The multitude of your sacrifices, what are they to me?" says the Lord. "I have more than enough of burnt offerings, of rams and the fat of fattened animals; I have no pleasure in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats(10).
Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but my ears you have opened,
burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not require.
Then I said, "Here I am, I have come it is written about me in the scroll.
I desire to do your will, my God; your law is within my heart(11)."
In light of Christ's ultimate sacrifice of himself, the fact that animals prefigured spiritually his torment and death should actually lead us to consider their innocence and value in God's eyes. The suffering of an innocent animal symbolizes no less than the death of Jesus himself: this alone should bring a greater respect to their plight. Animal suffering and pain is in reality symptomatic of a world gone horribly wrong and practically the first sign of a broken relationship with God in Genesis is animal death. We are specifically told in Scripture that God cares for every creature he has made and that their pain and suffering grieve him(12). Both in the Old and New Testaments a cruel disposition towards animals is actually considered a moral defect that does not reflect God's benevolence and compassion(13).
In Isaiah's vision, echoed by Hosea(14) and by the authors of the New Testament(15), one of the signs of the coming of the kingdom of God will be the elimination of predation amongst animals and the restoration of complete harmony within creation. The reason given is that in the future Age there will be a new and greater understanding of who God really is: 'They will neither harm or destroy on all my holy mountain, for the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the LORD as the waters cover the sea' (16).
4. The Teaching and Example of Christ
But what about the teaching of Jesus himself? For many Christ's teaching that it is not what enters the mouth that defiles man is an explicit rejection of vegetarianism(17), which would therefore be considered sub-Christian. In reality Jesus' teaching of holiness(18) of the heart in no way precludes this choice but simply bases it on the inner motivations of the individual or what is defined as the 'heart' as opposed to external laws or ritual purity. For me it is quite surprising how this teaching has been twisted to mean that a Christian's food choices are wholly indifferent when in reality Jesus simply internalized God's law to an inner personal dimension of faith.
The example of Jesus himself is at times cited as evidence that Christians should indeed eat meat. The fact that Jesus ate fish and participated in the Passover meal can be explained by his role as the fulfillment of the Law of Moses(19) and by the concept of God's gracious lowering of himself in order to meet his human creatures where they were culturally. Jesus entered a fallen world and moved within the ignorance and limitations of the Israelite culture of the time(20) and as a Jew Jesus had to fulfill the Law of Moses(21) which was in and of itself a concession to human weakness: Jesus' own teaching accepted the inspiration of the Law but pointed beyond it towards the higher ethic of God's ideal and towards love as the essence of God's being(22). In Jesus we find a form of continuity with the Law but also a transcending of the Law, which is seen as anticipatory and typological: 'for the Law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ'(23). In reality the teaching of Jesus far from basing itself on ritual purity or a series of laws and prohibitions is a radical ethic of agapé love lived in personal fellowship with the Father that finds its ultimate manifestation in the cross(24).
(1)Genesis 1-2, Isaiah 55:12, John 16:33, Revelation 21:1-5.
(2)Genesis 1:29-30
(3)Matthew 19:7-8
(4)Deuteronomy 12:20.
(5)Deuteronomy 17:14-15.
(6)1 Samuel 8:4-8.
(7)Genesis 9:3.
(8)ANDREW LINZEY, DAN COHN-SHERBOK, After Noah, Mowbray 1997, Great Britain, p. 57.
(9)Psalm 50:9-13.
(10)Isaiah 1:11.
(11)Psalm 40:6-7.
(12)Luke 12:6, Deuteronomy 22:6.
(13)Proverbs 12:10, Luke 14:5.
(14)Hosea 2:18.
(15)Isaiah 65:25, Revelation 21:4-5.
(16)Isaiah 11:8-9.
(17)Matthew 15:10-11.
(18)The entirety of Scripture teaches the concept of heart holiness: Dt 10:16, Ps 51:10, Mt 5:8.
(19)Romans 10:4, Galatians 4:4.
(20)Galatians 4:4 says Jesus was «born under the law».
(21)Luke 24:44.
(22)Matthew 5:17-48, Matthew 22:36.
(24)Romans 5:8.
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It appears that the size of the right orbito frontal cortex (OFC), an area of the brain that is involved in regulating emotional processing and impulsive behavior, is smaller in teenagers and young adults who have several relatives that are alcohol dependent.
In the research, which was published this week in the early online version of Biological Psychiatry, Dr. Shirley Hill, Ph.D., professor of psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and her team imaged the brains of 107 teens and young adults using magnetic resonance imaging.
They also examined variation in certain genes of the participants and administered a well-validated questionnaire to measure the youngsters' tendency to be impulsive.
The participants included 63 individuals who were selected for the study because they had multiple alcohol-dependent family members, suggesting a genetic predisposition, and 44 who had no close relatives dependent on drugs or alcohol. Those with several alcohol-dependent relatives were more likely to have reduced volume of the OFC.
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"We are beginning to understand how genetic factors can lead to structural brain changes that may make people more vulnerable to alcoholism," Dr. Hill said.
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The sea was angry that day, my friend
The shops sold this $40 surf board that seemed fairly substantial and would have been a lot of fun to try had the weather not been so rainy.
Our long planned trip arrived with Maine's first hurricane in 17 years.
One of the many wind swept trees along the trail.
One of the many benches along the way to take in the views
And some more interesting places to rest.
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