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Islamabad [Pakistan], December 29 (ANI): Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is likely to leave for Saudi Arabia to meet the dignitaries and perform Umrah.
Sharif, who may depart within next 48 hours, will meet the officials in the kingdom to discuss various gamut of bilateral relationship. The two sides will talk about the cooperation in various fields, reported Dunya News.
On December 17, the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) head along with his daughter Maryam Nawaz reached Lahore.
Meanwhile, the chief minister of Pakistan's Punjab province, Shahbaz Sharif, who is already in Saudi Arabia met the Turkey's Prime Minister Binali Yildirim outside the entrance of Masjid-e-Nabwi in Medina.
In reference to the United States' unilateral declaration of Jerusalem as Israel's capital, Shahbaz Sharif told the Turkish PM, "Muslims united against the US decision and opposed it. The role of Turkish President Erdogan was exemplary in the matter," the report said.
On that note, the Sharifs did share good relations with the Saudis who had rescued them from former President General Pervez Musharraf (retd) in 2000. The family was hosted by the kingdom during their seven-year exile in Jeddah.
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Last week I installed Ubuntu Jaunty UNR on my Asus eee 1000HE. I followed the tutorial at ubuntu.com with a 1GB usb stick.
I inserted the USB with the Live-System. It started without any problems. During the live session the WLAN did not work (It worked after the complete install). I partitioned manually and used only sda1 as root (/) with ext4 as filesystem.
Drive d:\
After the complete install and reboot I did not found my drive d:\. It was not mounted automatically. To mount the drive permanently do the following:
sudo mkdir /media/data
Now append the following line to your /etc/fstab (You have to edit with sudo)
/dev/sda2 /media/data/ ntfs defaults 0 2
Now you have to refresh your mount:
sudo mount -a
Using Ubuntu Jaunty on my Asus eee 1000he netbook
Universe was activated (uncommented) in /etc/apt/sources.list but the apt-cache was not refreshed yet. I needed Universe for gparted. You can easily refresh your apt-cache and get Universe by:
sudo apt-get upddate
Most of the time I keep the brightness at the minimum. Sometimes (I do not know why) the brightness increases unexpected.
The Mouse works fine. I can use three fingers to right click and two fingers to simulate the mouse wheel – perfect :-).
If you want to get your normal Ubuntu Desktop you can switch to that mode easily by Preferences ->Desktop Switcher. This tool seems to be buggy at the moment. I got troubles with Ubuntu, but I do not know if they were caused by the desktop.switcher.
If you want to install deb-packages in firefox there is no preconfigurred action. The best way ist to open the .deb with /usr/bin/gdebi-gtk.
Especially for eee there are the eee-tools.You can enable and disable WLAN, bluetooth, the camera and card reader, set some Hotkeys and set the performance level.To start the tools restart your computer or start eee-control-tray with <Alt>+<F2>.
Because the battery life was about two hours shorter than with windows (about 7 insteat of 9.5 hours) i wanted back to Windows. I also destroyed my desktop and do not know why, so the alternative was to reinstall Ubuntu.
Back to Windows
The 1000he has a nice "Quick Recovery System". You can enter if you press <F9> three times after the boot (Normally I press it as long as the Screen showes up). After installing Ubuntu (and therefore Grub) you can enter the Quick Recovery System as the other operationg Systems (Windows XP) in your grub loader. The reinstall took about 20 Minutes (Did I say it is a really nice tool?). After rebooting Windows did not start anymore and Ubuntu was erased. I knew, that fixmbr was the key to get it running again, but the 1000he has no optical drive. So I searched for an alternative for fixmbr.
I found a pretty cool tool called Super Grub Disk (SGD). I booted the Ubuntu with my live USB-Stick and downloaded the SGD for USB.I followed the tutorial to get SGD on my USB-Stick. The 1GB Stick was to small, so I had to take another one. You can see your mounted USB-Sticks with
My Live USB-Stick with Ubuntu was /dev/sdb1 and the new one was /dev/sdc1. I think I did the following: Downloaded SGD for USB, extracted it to the root of my new USB stick and executed the following: (You should close your new USB-Stick window and read the tutorial mentioned above):
cd /media/disk (your new usb-stick)
sudo -s
In Grub now execute the following:
device (hd0) /dev/sdc
root (hd0,1) (Maybe it was hd0,0)
setup (hd0)
If you get a Grub Error 18 your USB-Stick is probably too small.
No you can restart your computer with only the SGD-Stick in your laptop. I do not know what I clicked but maybe I followed Howto Boot Windows without problems. You can search samples for Boot problems or just try to navigate through the menu. For me that worked.


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Areté and Selection
12 January 2012
In several posts I have written about the Aristotelian conception of excellence, i.e., Areté (ἀρετή in the original Greek, and sometimes translated as "virtue," just like Machiavelli's Virtù). Throughout Aristotle's ethics there is a clear implication that human beings take pleasure in achieving excellence, and in so doing experience a proper sense of pride in their accomplishment. Here is Aristotle's take on this:
"…the Good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue, or if there be several human excellences or virtues, in conformity with the best and most perfect among them…"
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Rackham translation of I.7.1098a
Excellence is not only a virtue, and the good for man, but is also desirable:
"…the activities of the part of the soul that is by nature superior must be preferable for those persons who are capable of attaining either all the soul's activities or two out of the three; since that thing is always most desirable for each person which is the highest to which it is possible for him to attain."
In regard to the "two out of three" reference in the above, the Aristotle text at Perseus Digital Library has this footnote:
i.e. the two lower ones, the three being the activities of the theoretic reason, of the practical reason, and of the passions that although irrational are amenable to reason.
Aristotle, Politics, Book 7, 1333a
This has been called Aristotle's principle of perfection by Fred Miller, who cites a different translation of this same passage. Fred Miller in his Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article on Aristotle's Political Theory, includes a list of Presuppositions of Aristotle's Politics, which names the Principle of teleology as the first of Aristotle's presuppositions:
Principle of teleology Aristotle begins the Politics by invoking the concept of nature (see Political Naturalism). In the Physics Aristotle identifies the nature of a thing above all with its end or final cause (Physics II.2.194a28–9, 8.199b15–18). The end of a thing is also its function (Eudemian Ethics II.1.1219a8), which is its defining principle (Meteorology IV.12.390a10–11). On Aristotle's view plants and animals are paradigm cases of natural existents, because they have a nature in the sense of an internal causal principle which explains how it comes into being and behaves (Phys. II.1.192b32–3). For example, an acorn has an inherent tendency to grow into an oak tree, so that the tree exists by nature rather than by craft or by chance. The thesis that human beings have a natural function has a fundamental place in the Eudemian Ethics II.1, Nicomachean Ethics I.7, and Politics I.2. The Politics further argues that it is part of the nature of human beings that they are political or adapted for life in the city-state. Thus teleology is crucial for the political naturalism which is at the foundation of Aristotle's political philosophy. (For discussion of teleology see the entry on Aristotle's biology.)
Now, there is no question that Aristotle was as Greek as any other Greek, and was very much a man of his time, even while being one of the greatest philosophers who ever lived. I make this obvious statement only because I must follow it with the observation that Aristotle's very Greek philosophy was eventually appropriated by medieval European philosophers, and there it took on a second life, providing the theoretical framework for Scholasticism.
When we consider the role of Aristotle in medieval scholastic theology, and the ongoing role of medieval civilization in the constitution of our own industrial-technological civilization, we can see how hard it has been for us to overcome teleological thinking. Medieval civilization is the direct ancestor to our civilization; there was no catastrophic break between the Middle Ages and Modernity, but rather a smooth and continuous tradition that left many aspects of medievalism intact well into modern times.
Because of Aristotle's pervasive teleology, he formulated his ethics and his politics teleologically, and transmitted them into this form to posterity, and it was in this form that medieval philosophers received them. In a Greek context I don't think that Aristotle's teleology had quite the meaning that it came to have, and indeed scholastic philosopher's developed Aristotle's distinction between potency and act into an entire metaphysics in its own right. In the context of a civilization almost entirely constructed upon an eschatological basis, Aristotle's teleology and his conception of potential take on a meaning that they did not have for Ancient Greeks.
Medieval philosophers more or less ran wild with Aristotle, and I think it is this potent admixture of Aristotelian teleology and medieval eschatology that gives us that Arthur Lovejoy famously called the Great Chain of Being — the metaphysical idea of an exhaustive hierarchy in which there is a place for everything, and everything is to be found in its proper place. Linnaeus eventually naturalized the great chain of being as a system of taxonomy, and the Linnaean system continues to be used today, with evolutionary phylogeny only gradually forcing revisions to cladistic systematics.
There was no need for Aristotle to look for any alternative formulation for this ethical and political views, and his metaphysics were adequate to the scientific knowledge of his time. But since Aristotle's time we have learned a lot, and one of the most important things we have learned is how to explain the natural world, and our place within it, without recourse to teleology. Now, I really believe that if Aristotle himself could see the naturalistic account of the world produced by contemporary science he would be enthusiastic beyond words. But the Aristotle read through Scholastic spectacles might well be horrified. There is nothing in Aristotle that suggests to me that he was committed to any anti-naturatlistic mode of thought, but Aristotelian doctrines do become anti-naturalistic in the hands of the Schoolmen.
Thus it is no surprise that Aristotle did not recognize that his conception of Areté has strongly selective connotations. If human beings find it desirable to engage in activities that are, "the highest to which it is possible for him to attain," I think you will find that people truly enjoy doing these things. You will also find that people generally don't much enjoy doing things that they are not at all good at doing (acknowledging important recreational exceptions — I enjoy swimming but am in no sense good at it). On the whole, then, individuals will be attracted to activities at which they excel, while they will be indifferent to, or perhaps even distance themselves from, activities at which they do not excel.
Moreover, when you become highly competent in some activity, you want to engage in this activity with others who are also highly competent. For example, if you are really good at tennis, you will want to find other really good tennis players in order to play a really satisfying game. You would not be able to have a really good game with someone who knew nothing about tennis. And so there is an elaborate system of rating tennis players that can be used to pair players of a similar skill level. I once read a quote from an institutionalized philosopher (I think it was Richard Cartwright, but I'm not certain; I'll look up the quote later) saying that he did not like to discuss philosophy with those who had not studied the subject. Same idea as the tennis ratings. An institutionalized philosopher is a like a seeded tennis player.
The preference of the individual for activities at which the individual excels, further escalated by the preference of groups of individuals for others who have attained a similar level of excellence, produces a strong selective effect in human communities. This is one source — one source among many — of what has been called "the great sort." People sort themselves into communities by temperament and inclination. Individual temperament and inclination tend to lead a person toward a particular community. One of the characteristics of a community is that it tends to be good at something, like Switzerland is good at clock and watch making. Something as large as a nation-state will contain considerable diversity, so there are probably many Swiss who have never assembled a watch in their life, but something as small as an academic or sports clique can be aggressively exclusive to a particular interest or talent.
There is something essentially anti-democratic — or, at least, non-egalitarian — about cliques, and, by extension, Aristotelian Areté. In its best exemplification it produces most of what is valuable in human civilization; in its worst exemplification it is insufferably aristocratic in the worst sense: ossified and unimaginative. Thus it has become one of the great problems of the age of popular sovereignty to understand and to cultivate excellence for its own sake. Popular culture is littered with failed examples of the cultivation of excellence in democratic societies. There are pathetic attempts to identify the talented when they are young, but this is almost always distorted by family connections and prejudice. And there are the monetary rewards that have created the contemporary "culture industry" and its "commodity music" (as well as "commodity painting" and commodity arts of all kinds), which is without any true cultural value. And there is the population culture fascination with fame. The potent mixture of fame of money has meant that people become involved in cinema because wnat to be rich and famous, and not because they can make great movies.
This is a problem, and it is an admittedly unresolved problem. Egalitarianism subordinates excellence to the lowest common denominator, and leaves us with the civilization not worthy of the name; aristocracy at times manages to advance excellence, but much more often it declines into mere inherited privilege, as bereft of cultural value as civilization today.
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The paper, Glas Javnosti, quoted Ljiljana Colic as saying that in future Charles Darwin's theory would only be taught alongside creationism.
Ms Colic said the two theories were equally dogmatic.
Correspondents say the move shocked educators in a republic where religion only recently began to be taught.
Ms Colic said current material on evolution would remain in textbooks but would not be taught.
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Biologist Nikola Tucic described the ruling as "outrageous", and showed Serbia's Orthodox Church was interfering in politics.
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The Dangers of Dreaming
29 January 2017, 09:13
Genesis 37:1-36
© Stacey Steck
I suppose it takes the right combination of personal characteristics to qualify as a real dreamer. Martin Luther King, Jr. of course comes to mind, what with his oft-quoted speech invoking his dream. You need to think big, always be optimistic, and be able to persevere, all of them attributes of that great dreamer. Perhaps in light of our story from Genesis, we might add the phrase, "blissfully (or youthfully) ignorant, to that list of characteristics, for Joseph surely exhibited one or both of those forms of ignorance. I would like to give him credit for simply being genuinely enthusiastic and apolitical, but I think he really was ignorant of the response he would receive from his brothers, especially as far as he was down the pecking order in the family. Yes, his father loved him most of all, but he was still number twelve of twelve, a position the early church might assign to a kind of fulfillment of God's purposes, but which in Joseph's day meant if he inherited anything, it would be very little. Maybe his subconscious knew he had very little coming his way, and that the only way he'd be on top was by tattling on his brothers, or putting them in their place in his dreams. And so, in a manner of speaking, using his ignorance like a shovel, he digs his own grave, so that his brothers may toss him in. Dreaming can be dangerous.
The twelfth chapter of Genesis turns a corner in the first book of the Bible, moving from the account of creation and the genealogies of people who lived to be eight hundred years old, to the beginning of the more focused story of God's relationship with a certain people. God tells Abraham to pack up all his belongings and head out of the adventure of a lifetime, and from there, a whole series of twists and turns unfold and we see a few themes emerge: the faithfulness of God's promise of land, and family, and blessing that was made to Joseph's great-grandfather, Abraham; the continuing peril of that promise, through sterility, questionable choices, and dysfunctional family dynamics. In these stories of the patriarchs, we see the promise kept alive by God whose grace overcomes all these obstacles, despite the unworthiness of the major characters, and who chooses the promise bearers we probably would not have chosen, either for being born in the wrong position, or for their bad behavior. We have even seen God exclude threats to the promise, putting Lot, Ishmael, and Esau on the margins. In this great story, you get the simultaneous feeling that of course God can make the promise come true, but also that you don't know how long God can hold out, with all the ways the people in the story try to screw it up.
And so, once again today, God's promise lurks in the background: there are now twelve sons, a movement toward the promised great nation; there is a threat to the promise: the brothers taking matters into their own hands and the first-born Reuben's failure to save his brother, putting his inheritance status with his father at risk; and finally an ambiguity about Joseph, on one hand that like all his ancestors, he will be chosen despite not being the likely candidate, but also another possible case of God's expulsion of a threat to the promise. Today's story ends on a note of uncertainty, and it takes a long time for the story to reach its conclusion. It is as if those who put together the story in Genesis want us to feel the years of unresolved stuff that Jacob felt, before he will be reunited with his beloved son. Perhaps it was a reminder of just how tenuous was life in the desert back in the day, and how blessed by God they were to make it out alive when the tension finally gets resolved.
The backdrop to the whole story, of course, is the fulfillment of God's dream, not the ones Joseph dreamed, but the one which God dreamed way back in the beginning, a dream of shalom, of peace and human well-being originally planned for the Garden of Eden, but relocated under Plan B to the promised land of milk and honey, and under plan C to Jerusalem, and under plan D to the new Jerusalem with its streets of gold and rivers of life. Behind the whole biblical story is God's dream for us of safety and security, of vineyards and houses, of laughter and authentic community. Unfortunately for us, it often seems to be a dream deferred, a dream of which we catch but glimpses, but a dream with such power that it keeps us striving for it. It is a dream that frequently gets mixed up with our own competing dreams, but a dream that exists independently of us, even if we are its main characters. Joseph's dreams may have been part of God's dream, but it is on that larger dream we must keep our attention fixed, just as did those who chronicled the story of that dreamer Joseph and his scheming brothers.
There is a curious aspect of Joseph's dreams that should give us pause, and that is that the story doesn't actually tell us they come from God. Usually, the Bible says something like, "And God came to so and so in a dream, and said…" Or, "An angel of the Lord visited so and so in a dream, and said…." Here, all we are told is that Joseph had these dreams, and it is only because we know how the story ends that we know that Joseph's dreams coincide with God's dreams. Perhaps Joseph's father Jacob didn't tell the family story very well or very often, so that his sons would recognize that it seemed to be God's preference that the youngest would be the promise-bearer, or perhaps he did tell it well, which is why they wanted to kill him. In either case, the ambiguity of the text leaves us to wonder if Joseph's dreams are, in fact, in harmony with God's dream, and it is the same ambiguity that lingers with us today as we dream a future for Thyatira, as we seek to discern God's vision, God's dream for us. It took many, many years before his family saw that Joseph's dreams were in synch with God's, that they came from God and not their brother's insecurities about being the twelfth of twelve, and it took one of the longest tales in the Bible to reach that same conclusion. In the meantime, like Joseph in his pit, and later on his way to Egypt, we must live on faith that even if our dreams don't come in a voice that sounds like God's, that God's dream will be the one that is realized.
It is that ambiguity which makes moving forward with our dreams a dangerous proposition, both in announcing them, but also in living them. You see, just as it took Joseph's family quite a while to become convinced that his dreams were aligned with God's dream, it may be quite some time before we receive confirmation that we have indeed discerned well, and that we are on the right path. I have only the slightest doubt that we could choose some wrong path, and it probably wouldn't be long before God corrected us. But I have greater confidence in the possibility that we will choose the right path, but be diverted because of our ignorance and the interpretations by others of the dreams we announce. Will we have the stamina, like Joseph, to survive the pit, to survive slavery, to survive prison, to rise to a position of confidence and trust, all long enough to be the blessing God wants us to be? Remember how the Joseph story ends: He goes to Egypt, dreams a few more dreams, becomes Pharaoh's chief economic advisor, and ends up being responsible for staving off starvation for thousands of people, not only in Egypt, but in his hometown as well.
All of this is to say that when the time comes for us to name the dream God has dreamed for us, to speak it out loud, to shout it from the rooftops, there will be some danger that will accompany us. It may be that we will ruffle feathers by seeming to place ourselves above others. But so be it. It may be that we will incur the animosity of others, even fellow Christians, by the audacity of our dreams. But so be it. It may be that we will be thrown into a pit, naked and hopeless, by those who feel threatened by what God has asked us to do. But so be it. We will face opposition if our dreams are in harmony with God's dreams, but those are not the most dangerous threats. More likely, the more challenging threats will come from within. You see, it may also be that we will lose our nerve, and abandon the plans we will have made. May that not be so. It may be that we will derail our dreams with a house divided, as Jacob's house almost succeeded in doing. May that not be so. It may be that we never climb out of the pit, but abandon hope and the dream of shalom for the safety of the what we can easily see and touch. May that not be so. But perhaps most perilous of all is being afraid to dream at all, for fear of all these threats, for fear of failure, for fear of conflict. May that not be so, for when we can no longer dream, we will have truly lost something, for we will have lost sight of God's dream, the dream upon which millions upon millions of people depend, and the dream upon which our ministry with them rests. When we can no longer dream, it will be because we have forgotten that despite Joseph's blissful and youthful ignorance of the danger of sharing his dreams, or maybe even because of it, those dreams came true, and the story of God's dream continues in the world and in our lives. May God bless our ignorance and help us to have the courage and faith to persevere in seeing God's dream come alive in our community. Amen.
Wiping the Mud From Our Eyes
22 January 2017, 21:07
John 9:1-41
© Stacey Steck
It wasn't exactly a day at the spa, was it? The mud on that blind man's face wasn't applied by a well-manicured, Swedish massage therapist to treat some newly formed wrinkles. It wasn't made from the bottom of a river especially known for its curative powers. It wasn't washed off with sparkling mineral water and a clean white towel. No, this mud came from street and spit, smeared on by calloused hands. It stayed on, growing dry and crusty, while the blind man made his last stumbling and careful journey in darkness to the communal pool of Siloam, probably enduring some mocking along the way for looking so silly, where he himself would wash it off in water dirtied by countless other citizens. No white towels in Jerusalem that day. No, it wasn't exactly a day at the spa, but oh how refreshing!
We wonder, of course, at the things this man must have seen for the first time, how he would even have been able to find his way back home, so different now was his view of the world. He had, after all, been born blind, and never seen Jerusalem's streets, its faces and markets, its dirt or its water. He wouldn't even have known his parents if they came walking up to him in the street. Sure, he had familiar touchstones, smells and sounds, habits and traditions to guide him, but he was now in a completely new world full of new opportunities. He would need teachers and friends to help him make sense of his suddenly wide-open community. He would need the people in his life to adjust to the new man in their midst. He would need to reassess the direction of his life and to make decisions for himself that he'd never made before. It would all be a process, to be sure, but one he was glad to be undertaking, for not only did he have his sight, but he also had the beginning of his vision.
One of my favorite sources of wisdom is National Geographic photographer DeWitt Jones who says that a key component in vision is our perception of the world. "When I believe it, then I'll see it," is his point of view, distinguishing himself from the more skeptical whose perception is limited by the belief that "I'll believe it when I see it." That's worth thinking about in light of this morning's text which deals with believing and seeing and indeed vision. There is, of course, a great deal of difference between sight and vision, even if we often use the words interchangeably. Sight refers to the biological processes of the eyes and brain interpreting the reflection of rays of light bouncing off of objects. Sight has to do with color temperatures and wavelengths and corneas and optic nerves. Vision, on the other hand, refers to the capacity to see things both for the way they truly are and the way they could be. Vision is about seeing patterns and possibilities, and things the eye can't see, like hope, grace, and love. Sure, we can see with our eyes concrete expressions of those abstract things, but it takes vision to integrate them into our lives. It takes the light of the world illuminating them for us to see them, but there they are in plain sight.
If you've watched any of those forensic police shows on just about every night on television, CSI or the others, you've seen the investigators with their special ultraviolet instruments that reveal what cannot be seen under normal light. In a similar way, it is Christ's light that gives us vision to see what cannot be perceived with even the best set of eyes. At our awakening to Christ's presence in our lives, we are fitted with a kind of Christ-o-vision goggles that allow us to see what went unnoticed before – the Spirit's movement, the power of prayer, the need for spiritual discipline. This is the vision the man born blind began to develop even as his eyes were taking in all they could handle.
This distinction between sight and vision is of course, the content of the great debate which follows the man's trip to the Pool of Siloam. The Jewish leaders are stuck on the man's sight, while Jesus is focused on his vision. Even the man himself took a little while to come around to knowing the difference, although surely he must have begun to be aware from the beginning. We are told that in the end he believes that Jesus is the Son of Man, and that he worshipped Jesus, an act of response as much to vision as to sight. The Jewish leaders on the other hand, never catch the vision and remain, in the words of the story, blind. They are without the vision of the Kingdom even though they think they control it. We can't always keep our eyes on the prize either, when we are a little self-absorbed, or pigheaded, or pursuing our own ends, but their lack of vision is a chronic, rather than acute, condition. And it is with chronic lack of vision that Jesus is concerned.
Over the last several weeks, you have probably heard the word vision used more frequently at Thyatira, as in, "we are seeking God's vision for Thyatira." We have embarked on a process of careful listening to God that we might discern more specifically how we are to be in the future, as we have been in the past, "a living legacy of love, faith, service, and patient endurance." This morning's story is one of those Biblical texts which gives inspiration to our understanding of our mission. It has something to say to our efforts to discern God's vision for our congregation, an effort in which I hope you will all participate, and it is on that subject that I would like to say a few more words, words which I hope you will see also apply to our individual lives as well as our life together.
First, I think it will be important for us going forward to keep in mind the distinction the Gospel story makes between sight and vision. As we seek a directed use of this congregation's abundant resources, it is tempting to take a look around us at the needs which exist and simply choose one to address, perhaps the closest one, perhaps the most pressing one, perhaps even the one most people agree upon. There is no lack of need in any corner of Rowan County. There are families living in poverty, and children caught up in human trafficking, and gangs shooting into homes in the middle of the night, and all the rest of the needs which could fill a very long list. And we could make a significant impact on all of those needs if we put our minds to it. But I would submit to you that if we stop at assessing the needs and then choosing, we will have only exercised the power of our sight, and failed to apply our vision. For even though the choice we could make might be a worthy one, it may not be the one God wants us to choose, or the one which best uses our gifts, or the one which glorifies God to the greatest degree. It will require our vision, in addition to our sight, to discern the vision God has for us.
You see, vision is being able to see things through the eyes of faith, to see beyond the everyday into the eternal. When I speak of God's vision for our church, I am referring to something of the same species, but understanding God's vision as that destination to which we are being called to journey together, the dream of God realized for our church. It will take our eyes of faith to perceive God's vision for us, and we will need our sight to help us along the way, but we journey together towards God's vision for God's people. The same is true for each of our individual lives, that God has a dream for each of us according to the purposes for which we were called into the Kingdom. It is the journey of a lifetime to live into that dream, and a journey which cannot be undertaken without both sight and vision.
Unlike many of the other healing stories about Jesus, there is a period of time between Jesus' action and its results. Frequently, we read the stories of those upon whom Jesus lays his hands as being healed immediately. Jesus touches a leper in Luke 5 and "immediately the leprosy left him." A hemorrhaging woman touches Jesus garment in Luke 8 and not only does Jesus feel just then power being drawn from him, but "immediately her hemorrhage stopped." Something different takes place in our story tonight, something I think applies importantly to our efforts at discernment. Once Jesus has spat upon the ground, and mixed up the mud, and applied it to his eyes, the work is not finished. The man does not yet have either sight or vision. First he must go and wash the mud from his eyes in the Pool of Siloam, and then he will have both. Jesus does his part and asks the man to do his. John is clear that the man does not receive his sight until he washes. Something is required of him to complete what God, through Christ, has begun.
This is not so much different than Thyatira's process of Vision Discernment. It is not like God couldn't simply and suddenly impart to us the vision, the dream, and relieve us instantly of our blindness, and maybe it will happen more quickly than any of us think. But I believe that we will be like the man born blind who needed to do his part too, and we are at the point where God has smeared mud on our eyes, and we are making our way to the pool at Siloam. When we get there, when we wash the mud away, we will begin to see clearly how to live our common life together, just as the man was able to see how to live his life in a new way, both practically and spiritually.
We can only speculate why Jesus sent the man off to the Pool of Siloam to do his part, instead of healing him on the spot. The story doesn't say. But I like to think it was Jesus giving the man a little transition time, a chance to look forward to the possibility of a life transformed, a taste of hope, so to speak. You see, it wasn't a day at the spa. It was a life changing experience, in more ways than one. In our case, I like to think that God is giving us the time and the space to come to terms with what it will mean to be more focused in our ministry, to give us a taste of hope. There is value in the waiting between the alpha and the omega. If we could absorb all there was to know about God in an instant, I daresay our hearts and brains would explode. But God's grace gives us both sight and vision at the rate we can accept it. May this time of wiping the mud from our eyes be the blessing God intends it to be. Amen.
Bringing the Bread
15 January 2017, 15:44
Luke 24:13-35
© Stacey Steck
I'll never forget the first time I purchased bread and juice for a communion service. I was guest preaching at a church where it made sense for me to wear one of those black shirts with the little white tab clerical collar, like Roman Catholic priests often do. And I get this call to pick up the elements on my way to church because the regular person can't do it. And so there I am at the grocery store walking down the aisle with a loaf of bread in one hand, and a jar of grape juice in the other, and getting a range of looks from the other customers somewhere between "Something is just not right here" to "What kind of Messiah does he think he is anyway?" I guess for some people, the elements just grow on trees and magically appear on the Communion Table on Sunday.
Actually, of course, someone buys them and prepares them, whether on the little trays and in the little cups, or some other way. But even before that happens, the reality is that someone grows the wheat and the grape, and someone harvests it, and someone else works in the factory that produces the final product, and someone else drives the truck to bring it to my store, and someone else takes my money and puts it in a bag at the store, but all of that process, and whether it is done justly or not, well, that is another sermon entirely. What I want to focus on this morning is just who brings the bread to the table, and what that means for us as we enter a season of trying to discern just what God has in mind for us here in Mill Bridge.
This morning's story from the Gospel of Luke will hopefully be instructive in that regard. Here we have probably the most famous of the post-resurrection, pre-ascension appearances of Jesus, on the road to a village called Emmaus. There is a lot of interesting and spiritually enriching stuff in the first part of the story, about how the two despondent disciples are joined by Jesus on their journey, how they experienced what happened in his life and crucifixion, how Jesus "interpreted to them the things about himself in all the Scriptures" as they walked along together, but I want to focus on the second part of the story, what happened when they arrived at their destination. You see, that is where many of us are, perhaps not all of us here this morning, but many of us have heard the story, read the Bible, been to Sunday school, in a sense we've had the experience those two disciples had on the road, and we've arrived at our destination. Not that our journey is complete, mind you, not that we are perfected, but that the walking phase has landed us somewhere and what happens next is really important too.
So Cleopas and the other unnamed disciple and Jesus arrive at Emmaus, and Jesus acts like he is going to continue on his journey. Somehow I doubt that, but that is what it says. To me, it seems more like he is fishing for an invitation to dinner, seeking to plumb the depths of these two disciples' understanding of hospitality and grace. You see, in those days, it was pretty much expected that you would invite a traveler to join you for a meal after dark, that you would even give them a place to stay for the night. And so we could even imagine Jesus heading right through the door, but he plays it cool and they take the bait and invite him in. And so they sit down at the table together, and Jesus takes the bread he finds there, blesses it, breaks it, and gives it to them. Maybe you've heard that series of words before. Took, blessed, broke, gave. It is the formula Jesus always uses for these types of meals. Feeding of the four thousand? Took, blessed, broke, gave. Feeding of the five thousand? Took, blessed, broke, gave. Last Supper? Took, blessed, broke, gave. Our last celebration of the Sacrament here at Thyatira? Took, blessed, broke, gave. Later this morning? Yes, you guessed it, Took, blessed, broke, gave. You'll hear that formula each and every time you come to the table because its pattern is not only what Jesus actually did at meals, but because it is the pattern of his own life. You see, God took him from heaven, blessed him, broke him on the cross, and gave him to us. And that must be the pattern of our own lives as disciples, because the meal, and the life of Jesus, and our lives together are bound up in bread, in wine, in God.
"Then their eyes were opened and they recognized him." You've heard those words before too. I use them almost every time we celebrate the Sacrament, not because there aren't any other options, but because I think it is the very point of the whole exercise, that in the experience of this sacrament we meet Christ again, he is made known to us again, we experience his grace anew, our eyes are opened yet one more time to the mystery and the glory and the joy of the Lord. How does our story this morning conclude? "Then they told what had happened on the road, and how he had been made known to them in the breaking of the bread." Jesus reveals himself not only as the "bread of life," but in the midst of the bread itself, the stuff on the table, the wheat turned into loaf, the staple food for all humanity. Thanks be to God!
But how did the bread get there? Did Jesus, like a good guest invited to a dinner party, stop at a bakery on the way, and pick up something that complemented the rest of the menu? No, it was there waiting for him in that house at Emmaus. This is an interesting feature of all the feeding stories in the Gospels except at the end of the Gospel of John at the breakfast on the beach, that in none of them does Jesus bring the bread. In this story? Someone else brought it. Feeding of the four thousand? The disciples had it with them. Feeding of the five thousand? A little boy had five loaves and two fish. Last Supper? Made ready by someone else in the Upper Room. Our last celebration of the Sacrament here at Thyatira? I'm pretty sure it wasn't Jesus getting the table ready for us. Later this morning? Yes, you guessed it, no Jesus there either. You see, someone else always brings the bread that Jesus takes, blesses, breaks, and gives. Jesus never brings the bread. That is our job, our contribution to the feast, our part in having our eyes opened that we might recognize him.
Now, that is not an open invitation for everyone to bring a loaf of bread to church the next time we have communion, although if you would like to contribute that some month, please come talk to me. But it should tell us something about how we approach the table, how we approach God, how we approach one another, with a gift to share, with something to contribute, with something that will play a part in helping us recognize Jesus or make Jesus known, recognizable, present. If it is not a nice loaf of sourdough bread, what is it? Well, we already brought our confession. That's a start. We've prayed and sung and we'll make an offering. That's all good. But of course what we are called to give is more than what we come to church once a week to give. We are called to give our whole lives to be taken by God, blessed by God, broken by God, and given by God to a hungry world whose eyes need to be opened. And so the bread we are called to bring to the table is really nothing more or less than our generosity, our willingness to give every minute of our lives, every ounce of our strength, every stray thought, every idle moment, every material good.
Or we can just bring real bread.
A few years ago, a member of my church in Minnesota, Chad Ruble, died, and in the months following his death, his wife Mary shared with their friends her journey through the grief process. And I remembered that she had posted on Facebook something she had found on an internet support group, a sort of open letter from a widow to those who might be wondering what it was like in the first days and months following the death of a spouse. One of the sections of this letter acknowledges the very common experience of dealing with people who are eager in some fashion to help. And so, this is what one young widow writes, in the section called "Practical Things You Can Do":
"I understand that a lot of you find it hard to cope with my emotional pain. Hate to see me hurting so. If you can't help me emotionally, you can help me practically.
Don't ask me what you can do to help. I have no idea, I am overwhelmed.
If you are an organized person offer to manage my bills. Collect the bills as they come in and let me know when they need to be paid, and make sure I do. Time has no meaning for me right now. It's only when the cut-off notices come that I realize I need to do something.
Get copies of photos I don't have from family and friends and put them in an album for me. It will be one of the most precious gifts you could give me.
Bring me some meals that I can just put in the microwave.
Find out what sort of bread, milk, toilet paper, etc. I use and bring me them to me. I have no idea I need them until I run out, so don't bother asking me if I need anything.
"Don't ask me what you can do to help. Find out what sort of bread I use and bring it to me." It is that simple. Christ will take that bread and bless it and break it and give it and your eyes will be opened and you will recognize him.
As you come to the table this morning, I invite you to do some reflecting on what God is calling you to offer that will allow you to recognize Jesus Christ as we commune together. It doesn't have to be much, because God doesn't really need very much. Sometimes all it takes is a loaf of bread. Amen.


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The Breeze Journal
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Here is an interview with our director
Frankie Andreu
. By the sound of it we will be racing our bicycles very hard this year, and aggressively. No better way to race. I'm really looking forward to it.
Remember Frankie and I will be at the
MMBA annual meeting
in East Lansing, Michigan this Sunday. Hope to see you there.
Breeze On
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Time Flys
Boy has the past couple of weeks flown by. The weather turned ridable and so I took complete advantage of that and got some good riding in. With also having the new baby at home, and spending more time on the bike, time certainly flew by the past two weeks. Other then riding Madelyn's and I schedule was pretty much the same: eat, sleep, and poop.
I was also able to finally get some good quality time in with teammates Rob and of course Birdman. It's just not the same riding without Chad right behind me talking trash. They are both riding so good right now, and from what I hear about the rest of our guys it's going to be an awesome year.
Training camp is fast approaching now. It's only a month away. I'm looking forward to meeting my new teammates, reacquainting with the old ones, and of course receiving all the awesome sponsor products we get. We get the best products available. Be sure to
check them out.
The biggest news so far would be that we are 47 days till the Tour of Taiwan, of which the Kenda Pro Cycling Team p/b GearGrinders has announced their roster.
Chad Hartley (USA), Jake Rytlewski (USA), Jonny Sundt (USA), Phil Gaimon (USA) and Stefano Barberi (BRA).
It's going to be a killer squad. One of, if not the biggest race of the year for Kenda is the first. We are going there to win, and will give it our all.
Look for a lot more info soon. Such as more on training, videos, and sponsor products as they come in.
Breeze On
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010
The Longest Week
This past week was the longest week I've ever down, or at least it felt like it. Here is an arial shot of the monotonous route ridden every day. It was the only route that was cleared of snow and over 20 degrees Fahrenheit.
I can't remember a week as bad as the one we just had. It was pretty much the same for everyone everywhere.
Ok enough with the bad week because I'm moving forward. Today was the first day of the new year that I rode my bicycle outside. What a concept, and how much more fun it is to ride outside. Still it wasn't glamorous or above freezing, but the next few weeks look like they should be. Birdman and I will be able to continue are friendly rivalry this week. Although I'd have to admit I'm a bit nervous as he showed up the other day with cycling tan lines. He clearly wasn't riding where I was riding.
Our team camp is approaching fast and so is our first race, Tour of Taiwan. Hopefully the bad weather will stay away.
Breeze On
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Thursday, January 07, 2010
MMBA Annual Meeting
The Michigan Mountain Biking Association is having their
annual meeting
January 31st in Lansing, Michigan. There will be a lot going on these year at the annual event. Some of the highlights include
• RIDE Indoors- there will be an indoor riding arena
• Guest Speaker
Dave Wiens
, 6-time Leadville 100 winner
• Awards for CPS, First Across Finish Line & Volunteers of the year
• Learn what your chapter is doing at the yearly review talks
• Pre-expo Blizzard race
• Swap Meet
• Michigan Youth Cycling Junior Rider of the Year Scholarship Presentation.
Also this year their will be two more special guest appearances, they include yours truly and the actual special guest Frankie Andreu of the Kenda Pro Cycling Team p/b GEARGRINDER. We have been talking with Joe Lekovish, currently the most passionate guy about Michigan Cycling, and he invited Frankie and I up to do somethings at this years meeting. We will be doing a Q&A, presenting the award for the Michigan Youth Cycling, and just general chit chatting afterwards. Also depending on the weather maybe going for a ride afterwards. Maybe we could also sign a Kenda jersey and or skinsuit and action it off giving the proceeds to the scholarship award for next year.
Hope to see you there.
Breeze On
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Tuesday, January 05, 2010
Not Yet
I have yet to ride my bike outdoors this year! Some brutally cold weather has settled in and seems to be making itself rather comfortable. I'm not in the only area dealing with the cold as much of the nation is, but cold in the south would relate to seasonal in the north. I've been just hoping for temperatures to reach 25 so I could get out, but they've been barely flirting with 20. Tomorrow seems like a decent day and might hit 25, so I think I'll finally get out for a ride. Of course that night we are expecting snow to start falling and could receive any where between 4-7 inches. Go ahead pile it on winter.
So I've been sweating like a old man in a sauna just trying to keep some fitness I had put in before Christmas. Luckily for me I'm fortunate enough to own a set of TruTrainer rollers. Thanks for giving me a set Jeff. I've had them for a few years and they do make riding indoors a lot better then regular rollers or trainers. If I'm going to be stuck inside much longer I might have to ask about their new set that has even more resistance for higher wattage intervals.
This season is sure creeping up fast. I don't know whether it's the fact I had a few winter races to focus on, the baby, or the fact that Kenda Pro Cycling has a countdown to the Tour of Taiwan posted on their twitter everyday. The number keeps getting smaller and the weather just seems to get worse. I believe we are almost under 70 days now. I'd better get sweating.
Breeze On
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Saturday, January 02, 2010
New Year
I have yet to ride my bike outside this year, and it's looking like it could be a few more days. A winter cold blast has settled in the area. If there every was good time I guess it would be now as the birth my daughter came last weekend, and there is so much that goes into that, I've put cycling on the back burner for a few days.
We came home from the hospital on Tuesday and my parents came down for a few days to visit. We have had relatives over just about everyday. Most of them have brought over dinner which has been really awesome. Yesterday Katies mom visited for a few hours, and Katie and I both did the same thing, took a nap. We are just starting to get into the groove now of taking turns getting up, and sharing the work load.
Come Monday it's all back to business as it will be only 70 some days till Taiwan. (You can check Kendaprocycling on Twitter for the official count) I've been really happy with my offseason training so far and the last week has been a nice little break before it's full on once again. Also Chad is back from Florida. Yeah Boy!
Breeze On
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Warn Winch - 16.5ti Thermometric
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- Your new WARN 16.5ti Thermometric Self-Recovery Winch has 16500lbs. of pulling power for heavy-weight vehicles
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- Driven by a 4.6hp Gen II Series Wound motor that runs off your truck or SUV's 12-volt battery
- The WARN 16.5ti Thermometric Self-Recovery Winch uses a proven 3-stage planetary gear train, which optimizes power transfer
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When your colossal rig gets bogged down in a muddy ditch, no scrawny winch will get you moving again. Rely on the WARN 16.5ti Thermometric Self-Recovery Winch's 16500lbs. of shoulder strength to get your plus-sized truck or SUV out of sticky situations.
Since the WARN 16.5ti Thermometric Self-Recovery Winch was made for heavy hauling, it comes with built in sensors to monitor the temperature in your winch. The LCD screen on your remote switch displays the readings, so you'll never smoke the 4.6hp Gen II Series Wound motor with an long pull.
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Warn Winch - 16.5ti Thermometric Customer Reviews
3 Customer Reviews
Reviewed by David T (Beeville, TX) — Aug 10, 2011 5:47 AM
Does what it says it will do and more! Have been using these winches for over 25 years and have always been satisfied. Will continue to purchase and use Warn Winches. We use them for our hydraulic trailers to set-up deer blinds that we manufacture. We also use them for winching heavy loads onto flat bed trailers.
Reviewed by Angie Z (Chugiak, AK) Reviewed for a 2004 Ford F-250 — Jul 06, 2009 2:58 PM
I purchased the Warn winch along with the complete bumper replacement. I had a body shop install the bumper and winch and they said they will NEVER do another one. Not for a layman and difficult to install for someone who actually knew what he was doing! That being said, the end result is BEAUTIFUL!
Reviewed by Mark N (Sacramento, CA) Reviewed for a 2005 Dodge Ram — May 01, 2006 2:07 PM
I installed the whole system myself. Push Guard, Brush Guard, Winch mount etc. I didn't have one bit of trouble. Had to drill 9 holes in the frame but other than that, it went real smooth. The winch is a beast, the price was great in comparison to others, I love it.


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For several decades, scientists studying the population dynamics of migratory birds have debated the relative importance of events in summer breeding areas versus tropical wintering grounds. Now, in a Dartmouth study reported in the Dec. 4 issue of the journal Science, Peter Marra and colleagues provide evidence that what happens in the tropical forests where migrant warblers spend their winters and what happens in the Northern woods where they spend the next summer are inextricably linked.
Research on the population dynamics of migratory birds has been hampered by the difficulty of tracking individual birds throughout their annual cycle across thousands of miles. By using carbon isotopes as a habitat signature, the investigators in this study were able to link American redstarts at Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest in the White Mountains of New Hampshire with the habitats they occupied the preceding winter. "We've found that the quality of the winter habitat affects not only when birds fly north to the breeding grounds but what condition they're in upon arrival. Both are crucial factors in how well the birds do on their summer breeding grounds," says Marra, who is now Postdoctoral Fellow at the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center in Washington, D.C. "Clearly, natural selection is acting on these birds year-round."
Marra conducted this research as a graduate student with Richard Holmes, Harris Professor of Environmental Biology at Dartmouth, and their colleague, Keith Hobson, Research Scientist at the Prairie and Northern Wildlife Research Center in Saskatoon, Canada.
Previous studies have found that males in many migratory species arrive at the
North American breeding grounds before females and that males in the best
condition arrive earlier. These earlier arriving individuals have a competitive
edge in reproducing: first choice of prime nesting sites and mates and an
opportunity to replace eggs
Contact: Nancy Serrell
Dartmouth College


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The revenue from telecom services, called adjusted gross revenue, of all companies in the same period a year ago was Rs 53,383.55 crore.
The government's earnings through telecom levies also declined both on a quarterly and yearly basis.
"The License Fee declined from Rs 3,361 crore for the quarter ended March 2017 to Rs 3,261 crore for the quarter ended June 2017. The quarterly and the Y-o-Y growth rates of license fee are (-)2.99 per cent and (-)24.42 per cent, respectively in this quarter," the report said.
The gross revenue of service providers also dipped by 11.53 per cent to Rs 64,889.47 crore in the April-June 2017 period from Rs 73,344.66 crore in the corresponding quarter last year, according to Trai's performance indicator report dated September 28.
However, on a quarterly basis, the gross revenue increased by 2.49 per cent but Adjusted Gross Revenue (AGR) declined 2.58 per cent.


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Very true… Love freedom
We should rise in love and not fall in love… 😊 U rock
Sumeet | February 14, 2018
Love can be a trap
The kind of love, right now prevailing in market is the Movies Love-
"Dear, we must not hide anything from each other"
"Dear, you can keep all your secrets and passwords safe with me"
"Dear, this love is complete and endless with stamp of almighty."
"Dear, will you sacrifice your freedom for me"
What extend or how correct are these statements to be made or promises to be kept. Let's see.
Love today is like a trade between the two people to kill the personal identity and get love in return. We are trying to become something that we are not, we are trying to portray or project ourselves, as expected by the lover (only initially, because this doesn't sustain much). We try to kill the space of them by ogling into the passwords, their friends, their whereabouts in our absence and wanting an update of every moment from one other.
Firstly, the husband on name of LOVE makes the wife totally dependent over him- for taking to shopping, to relatives, to gatherings, to weekend's hangouts and ending up becoming the only peephole to the world for her. Now she waits every day for husband's arrival, only when he is at home she could plan something for herself. This wait starts from the time he leaves for the day. And by any chance if at all he is late, it induces anxiety frustration in the spouse. Because one hour of delay is almost equivalent to five hour of waiting. The pile on starts, anxiety, frustration, insecurity, possessiveness, everything boils down to ANGER, as of course there is fear of losing the peephole.
Eventually the husband thinks that he has dug his own grave, as this frustration doesn't remain with wife, it comes to the husband through various channels, without realizing that he is the sole creator of that handicapped love. He has given her a life devoid of profession, devoid of her own friends, devoid of her own hangouts.
But why the husband did so! Was it a deliberate act! I believe even some where even he was insecure of leaving her independent to the world. Again that possessiveness has played its card, that if she becomes on her own, why would she need him or may be later why love him.
LOVE today is an illusion, just like an Indian Madari, we chain ourselves to the owner in exchange of love, we dance to his tune because he fulfils our need. We might get something to some extent but have to sacrifice the individuality and freedom.
Guys remember one thing, everything comes with an expiry. Something born has to die one day. If not end then has to follow the ONLY law of nature i.e. to CHANGE. Naturally the love has come to you, can go as well. We must respect and not destroy the privacy independence individuality of the other person. And give freedom for getting in or out of relationship without cheating or being cheated.
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Very true… Love freedom


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However, if a person has slow stomach emptying, they should probably steer clear of many condiments, marinades, and salad dressings due to the vinegar they contain:
Abstract Background: Previous studies on healthy people show that vinegar delays gastric emptying and lowers postprandial blood glucose and insulin levels. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of apple cider vinegar on delayed gastric emptying rate on diabetes mellitus patients.
Methods: Ten patients with type 1 diabetes and diabetic gastroparesis, including one patient who had undergone vagotomy, were included and completed the investigator blinded crossover trial. The gastric emptying rate (GER) was measured using standardized real-time ultrasonography. The GER was calculated as the percentage change in the antral cross-sectional area 15 and 90 minutes after ingestion of 300 g rice pudding and 200 ml water (GER1), or 300 g rice pudding and 200 ml water with 30 ml apple cider vinegar (GER2). The subjects drank 200 ml water daily before breakfast one week before the measurement of GER1. The same subjects drank 200 ml water with 30 ml vinegar daily before breakfast for two weeks before the measurement of GER2.
Results: The median values of GER1 and GER2 were 27% and 17%, respectively. The effect of vinegar on the rate of gastric emptying was statistically significant (p < 0.05).
Conclusion: This study shows that vinegar affects insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus patients with diabetic gastroparesis by reducing the gastric emptying rate even further, and this might be a disadvantage regarding to their glycaemic control.
If I'm fortunate enough to become pregnant again, I'll know now to avoid vinegar-containing condiments when experiencing symptoms of delayed stomach emptying. But otherwise, send that yummy BBQ sauce my way!


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