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Feasibility of externalized peritoneovenous shunt (EPVS) for malignant ascites
© Tokue et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2011
- Received: 30 April 2011
- Accepted: 21 July 2011
- Published: 21 July 2011
To evaluate a new modified peritoneovenous shunt therapy, the externalized peritoneovenous shunt (EPVS) system placement, used to treat patients with malignant ascites.
We retrospectively reviewed 10 patients, who were not suited for conventional peritoneovenous shunts (PVS), with malignant ascites, which was refractory to medical therapies. Patient characteristics, technical success, efficacy, duration of EPVS placement, adverse events, and outcome were evaluated. Clinical efficacy of the EPVS was evaluated by the change in subjective symptoms.
The primary reasons for applying EPVS were severe anasarca in 4 patients, potential PVS dysfunction in 3 patients, poor performance status in 2 patients, and a history of PVS occlusion in 1 patient. EPVS was successfully placed in all patients, and it provided clinical efficacy in 8 patients (80%). Early death occurred within 7 days after EPVS placement in 2 patients because of renal failure. The median duration of EPVS placement was 10.4 days (range, 2-28 days). In 6 patients (60%), the EPVS was exchanged to conventional PVS sequentially, since the initial EPVS placement resulted in an improvement of the subjective symptoms of the patients, without serious complications.
EPVS placement may be an option for patients with malignant ascites who may not be appropriate for conventional PVS placement.
- Denver shunt
- peritoneovenous shunt (PVS)
- externalized peritoneovenous shunt (EPVS)
- malignant ascites
- palliative therapy
A peritoneovenous shunt (PVS), which is also known as a Denver shunt, may be effective for palliating symptoms in patients with malignant ascites, which contribute to a deterioration of the patient's quality of life (QOL) and which are refractory to conservative nonsurgical therapies. Various shunts have been designed to use as peritoneovenous shunting [1, 2], and radiological insertion of the Denver shunt may be the most widely used technique for nonsurgical PVS implantation in our country. However, the mortality rate of PVS implantation has been reported to be rather high, and indications are limited [3–6]. Possible contraindications for PVS implantation include ascites that is infected, hemorrhagic, chylous, or with loculated malignant effusion, advanced cardiac or renal failure, elevated serum bilirubin levels (6 mg/dL), portal hypertension, massive pleural effusion, coagulation disorders, and poor performance status (PS).
In addition, since a long subcutaneous tunnel should be constructed in the implantation of a PVS, a PVS once implanted in the subcutaneous tissue cannot be readily modified, even when the system may get infected or occluded [7], particularly in patients with severe anasarca. Furthermore, postoperative incisional separation of wound is considered to be main inappropriate reason for PVS in patients with sever anasarca.
We applied an externalized peritoneovenous shunt (EPVS) in 10 patients in whom conventional PVS was considered to be inappropriate due to various reasons and evaluated the feasibility of this new alternative method. And EPVS was inserted to estimate the patients whether they can tolerate subsequent PVS placement.
Patients and methods
We retrospectively reviewed 10 patients with refractory malignant ascites who underwent EPVS placement between January 2005 and December 2010. There were 32 cases of conventional PVS during the same period. Inclusion criteria of EPVS were as follows: (1) malignant ascites was confirmed cytologically or clinically, (2) ascites was refractory to conservative nonsurgical therapies, (3) there was no evidence of infection of the ascites, (4) QOL was deteriorated because of the ascites, and (5) conventional PVS was considered to inappropriate because of severe anasarca, potential PVS dysfunction, history of PVS occlusion or poor PS.
Potential PVS dysfunction was defined as possible shunt dysfunction due to particular characteristics of ascites such as bloody or chylous. Poor PS was defined as a life expectancy that was considered to be less than a month. These patients did not have liver dysfunction, portal hypertension, massive pleural effusion, or coagulation disorders. Refractory ascites was diagnosed when the ascites failed to respond to conservative therapy (fluid restriction to 1000 mL/day, 100 mg/day of spironolactone, or 40 mg/day of furosemide for 4 weeks), or when the patients had intolerance to these conservative therapies because of azotemia [8–10].
Technical success was defined as the creation of the shunt and catheter insertions into both the abdominal cavity and superior vena cava. Immediately after the procedures, 500 mg of hydrocortisone sodium succinate and 20 mg of furosemide were administered intravenously to reduce acute biochemical reactions related to the shunting and strain on hemodynamics. For the patients with normal renal function (n = 8), 2 g/day of cefazolin (CEZ) was given intravenously for 3 days. In all patients (n = 10), 3 μg/kg/min of catecholamines was administered in order to maintain more than 1000 ml/day of urine volume for 3 days. In the patients who had less than 10 × 103 cells/mm3 of blood platelets (n = 2), 100 mg/day of gabexate was administered for 7 days. Central venous pressure was continuously monitored in order to minimize fluid overload, and chest X-ray pictures were checked in order to detect pulmonary edema.
Patient characteristics, technical success, efficacy, the duration of EPVS placement, adverse events, and outcome were retrospectively evaluated. Technical success was defined as the creation of the shunt with catheter insertions into both the abdominal cavity and the superior vena cava. We also evaluated hematological parameters, abdominal girth, and diuresis before and after EPVS placement. Improvement of anasarca was evaluated as a decrease of abdominal girth.
We asked patients about subjective symptoms before and after the EPVS procedures. Clinical efficacy of the EPVS was evaluated by the change in subjective symptoms. Each EPVS procedure was classified into 2 groups: effective, in which the duration of the improvement of at least one of 3 subjective symptoms from the ascites (abdominal distention, anorexia, and nausea/vomiting) was 7 days or more; ineffective, in which there was no subjective improvement, or the duration of symptom improvement was less than 7 days. If EPVS was exchanged to PVS within 7 days, EPVS was judged effective when at least one of 3 subjective symptoms from the ascites was improved before EPVS was exchanged to PVS.
PS was evaluated by the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group Performance Status (ECOGPS) [11]. Adverse events (AEs) were categorized according to the clinical practice guidelines of the Society of Interventional Radiology. Major AEs were defined as those necessitating an increased level of care, major therapy, or prolonged hospitalization, and those resulting in permanent sequelae or death. Minor AEs were defined as those necessitating nominal therapy or observation only [12].
When conventional PVS therapy was followed by EPVS implantation, a subcutaneous tunnel was created first, and the center part of the device was placed. The abdominal catheter was exchanged by injecting saline solution into the abdominal cavity in order to prevent damage to the adjacent organs. The venous side catheter was also exchanged using a guidewire.
Informed consent was obtained from each patient before EPVS implantation was performed, and the institutional review board of our institution approved this technique. This study was conducted in accordance with the amended Helsinki Declaration.
Patient characteristics for 10 patients who received EPVS
primary disease
nature of ascites
indication for EPVS
EPVS duration, days
survival duration, days
synovial sarcoma
poor PS
not effective
renal failure**
potential PVS dysfunction
anasarca, poor PS
pulmonary edema**, diarrhea
ovary cancer
history of PVS occlusion
colon cancer
anasarca, potential PVS dysfunction
potential PVS dysfunction
breast cancer
potential PVS dysfunction
lung cancer
anasarca, history of PVS occlusion
diarrhea, anemia
anasarca, poor PS
poor PS
not effective
renal failure**
Hematological parameters, abdominal girth, and diuresis, before and after EPVS placement
Cr, mg/dL
1.1 (0.6)
1.2 (0.7)
1.1 (0.8)
1.1 (0.9)
BUN, mg/dL
21.2 (10.6)
22.6 (13.7)
23.5 (13.7)
27.8 (15.8)
Albumin, g/dL
2.3 (0.3)
2.4 (0.4)
2.6 (0.5)
2.5 (0.6)
70.1 (13.8)
60.8 (12.5)
68.6 (13.10)
67.6 (10.4)
Platelets, 103 cells/mm3
35.8 (9.1)
26.7 (10.6)
25.3 (8.7)
29.3 (6.8)
Largest abdominal girth, cm
87.5 (9.6)
84.1 (10.6)
81.7 (5.1)
80.2 (4.8)
Diuresis, 24 h, mL
978 (466)
1723 (560)
1612 (416)
1334 (506)
The median duration of EPVS placement was 10.4 days (range, 2-28 days). The EPVS was exchanged to conventional PVS sequentially in 6 patients (60%), since the initial EPVS placements resulted in improvement of subjective symptoms without major AEs, and the patients' life expectancies were suspected to be more than a month. In these 6 patients, the EPVS system was removed and exchanged to conventional PVS on the same day. There were no cases of EPVS and PVS dysfunction on the follow-up period. Patency period of EPVS and PVS were 10.4 days (range 2-28 days) and 106 days (9-196 days).
The median survival duration was 74.0 days (range, 2-200 days). The survival durations of the patients with poor PS (PS 3 or 4; n = 4) were less than 1 month (range, 2-24 days).
Three patients (30%) had major AEs. Acute death occurred within 7 days after EPVS placement in 2 patients (No. 1 and No.10) because of renal failure which had been occurred by hypovolemia since preoperative days. Before EPVS placement, these patients had renal dysfunction and low serum albumin levels. As one patient (No. 3) experienced pulmonary edema just after the EPVS placement, we clumped the catheter to avoid hyperperfusion on the 3rd postoperative day until the pulmonary edema was resolved on the 5th postoperative day.
Minor AEs were observed at 30% (diarrhea in three patients and anemia in one patient) and were resolved conservatively.
Our results suggest that EPVS placement for refractory ascites is effective and can be adopted even for patients who were not suitable for a conventional PVS implantation because of anasarca, poor PS, potential PVS dysfunction, or history of PVS occlusion. However, EPVS placement resulted in a 20% procedure-related early death. We suggest that careful assessment of the procedure-related risks and close monitoring after EPVS implantation are essential.
Malignant ascites in patients with advanced cancer is often resistant to treatment. Troublesome symptoms from ascites result in progressive deterioration of the patients' QOL. Diuretics and paracentesis have been traditionally employed to relieve the symptoms associated with ascites. However, their use has been inconsistent among physicians. It is sometimes difficult for patients or caregivers to bring patients to the place where paracentesis is performed. Repeated paracentesis requires frequent trips to the hospital with risks of hypovolemia, hypotension, and hypoproteinemia from ascites removal [6].
Although paracentesis can provide immediate relief, the effects may be temporary, and complications, such as bleeding, hypotension, secondary peritonitis, and loss of protein and electrolytes, may occur [13, 14]. Since the first report by LeVeen et al. [1], the Denver PVS has been considered as one of the most common procedures used to treat intractable malignant ascites, in which other conservative medical therapies may not be effective [1–7].
Although PVS is simple and an about 70% clinical effectiveness is expected, AEs, such as pulmonary edema, pulmonary arterial embolism, and disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC), following PVS implantation may frequently occur. In addition, shunt replacement (removal) is often warranted due to shunt infection or occlusion of the system [3–7]. Efficacy of PVS would not be superior to that of paracentesis in short period, therefore PVS implantation has been considered to be a contraindication in patients with malignant ascites due to gastrointestinal malignant tumors, and a shunt should only be used when the life expectancy of the patients expected to derive a benefit from it is more than 2 or 3 months ([3–5, 15]).
Bieligk et al. [7] reported that preoperative impaired renal function was a predictive factor of poor prognosis after PVS insertion. Thus, careful consideration should be taken in deciding on placement in patients with insufficient urine volume, who may be unable to tolerate the rapid increase in plasma volume immediately after PVS insertion [5, 7]. In fact, in our study, early death occurred within 7 days after EPVS placement in 2 patients because of progressive renal failure. Before EPVS placement, these patients had renal dysfunction and low serum albumin levels. After EPVS placement, ascites volume was decreased in these patients, although they had impaired production of sufficient urine volume. A possible explanation is that the low colloid osmotic pressure of these conditions may lead to extravascular transudation of water, resulting in renal failure due to hypovolemia [5, 7, 16, 17].
Our EPVS procedure has some advantages over conventional (PVS) implantation. Not only EPVS is placement technically simpler, but EPVS may be less invasive for patients. A subcutaneous long tunnel is not need for EPVS. We can easily maintain the system, and the flow control is easily performed at any time. This is a very important advantage of EPVS placement, since PVS insertion may result in rapid changes in circulatory dynamics, as well as rapid introduction of various agents present in ascites into the circulation. For example, when severe complications, such as pulmonary edema or dyspnea, occur, we can readily occlude the shunt system by clamping the catheter. Conversely, pumping the chamber is easily performed. Thus, we can educate the patients and their family members on how to control the flow. It is easy to explain the mechanism of the PVS to patients and their families. Besides device maintenance, replacement and removal of the EPVS system are also far easier than conventional PVS [6, 18]. We suspect that an EPVS placement can also be a preparatory step for standard conventional PVS implantation. In our series, in six patients, EPVS has been successfully exchanged to a conventional PVS system.
The development of a PVS that can be turned on or off would be a useful development, even though this would not really get around the anasarca problem. If a flow control valve could be incorporated into the circuit (like a ventriculoperitoneal shunt for hydrocephalus), this might solve some of the problems that can occur with PVS implantation.
There are a number of possible limitations with EPVS implantation. First, there are no consistent preoperative indicators associated with poor patient survival after EPVS placement, and it is difficult to know which patients will achieve a high rate of palliation with a low morbidity and mortality rate [3–6]. In cases of anasarca, it may be adequate to exchange EPVS so that abdominal distension will resolve. However, in other cases, it is difficult to seize a favorable occasion to convert from EPVS to conventional PVS. In our small cohort, a conversion to PVS depends upon the condition of the patients, and we could not but have tentative period or factors to decide when EPVS is exchanged to PVS. An improvement in nutritional status can improve the chance of a successful conversion to PVS. However, it is not easy to improve nutritional status in a patient at the end of life. We suspect the success of the conversion can occur if the major AEs are avoided after EPVS placement because EPVS placement is a temporary system that is used temporarily in place of conventional PVS. Previous studies have emphasized meticulous postprocedural management for 48 hours in order to detect major AEs [4, 19]. Therefore, we suspect that increased attention should be given for more than 48 hours after the procedure. Second, EPVS placement may have a higher risk for system infection and migration, although we did not have any such cases in our series. However, the duration of the EPVS placements in this study is considerably short to define infection risks for any tunneled catheter, such as that used for pleural effusion, dialysis, central lines, etc. [6, 18]. Third, there is an economical issue: when patients were able to get the favorable clinical course associated with EPVS placement, they had to pay for another Denver shunt kit in order to convert the EPVS system to PVS.
Additional limitations of the study include the following: the study was retrospectively performed, there were a small number of patients, and the follow-up period was very short. No consensus on how to evaluate the efficacy of PVS or EPVS has been established [20, 21]. Our subjective procedure for determining the efficacy 7 days after EPVS insertion is controversial. Additionally, if ascites was removed with the PVS implantation procedure itself, it can palliate symptoms separately from an effect of the EPVS. We evaluated the improvement of anasarca as a decrease of abdominal girth, and there was no weight data in all patients. No consensus on how to evaluate anasarca in patients with malignant ascites. Abdominal girth may not an appropriate index of anasarca because abdominal girth may also represent decrease of ascites after PVS insertion.
A previous study recommended measuring body weight in order to evaluate PVS efficacy, but it may be occasionally difficult to measure body weight in patients at the end of life. In addition, patients with advanced malignancies may deteriorate rapidly due to the primary disease and other pathophysiologies that further confound evaluation. We attempted to minimize fluid overload. However, flow control is a regular and needed issue for percutaneous shunts, and it is difficult to assess circulatory dynamics [10]. In future studies, we need to assemble a larger cohort that we will follow over a longer term in order to evaluate efficacy and complications.
In conclusion, EPVS placement may be an option method for patients with malignant ascites, who may not be appropriate for conventional PVS implantations. Our preliminary experience encourages further studies into the efficacy of EPVS placement.
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Calvary and the manger.
Solid Joys, John Piper And while they were there, the time came for her to give birth. And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling cloths and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn. (Luke 2:6–7) Now you would think […]Read More
God's Sovereignty
Solid Joys, John Piper In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. This was the first registration when Quirinius was governor of Syria. And all went to be registered, each to his own town. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the town of Nazareth, […]Read More
God's promise.
Solid Joys from John Piper "Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for he has visited and redeemed his people and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David, as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets from of old, that we should be saved […]Read More
From John Piper's "SOlid Joy" Advent reading "My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, for he has looked on the humble estate of his servant. For behold, from now on all generations will call me blessed; for he who is mighty has done great things for me, and holy […]Read More


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Kingdom of God System vs
The World System
There are two systems the Kingdom of God's (kog) system and the system known as the world's way of doing things
Here is the beginning of the kog system repent and change your mind, regret sin (Matt 3:2 amp, The root of sin is not believing God John 16:9 amp) and move to the next and most important step which is to believe God, or do it the worlds way, which is your own way (Prov 14:12).
This is the kingdom of the King who is God and who has a way of doing what he does
Let's compare the worlds system of operation vs the kog system of operation
When you were born into this world, you were trained and taught in the operation of the worlds system or the worlds way of doing things.
The world has a system of running it's economy, health system, marriage system. The world has a way of doing things, the Bible says in proverbs that this way is the way that seems right to a man or right to the world
But Jesus says in John 15:19 You are no longer of the world, which doesn't mean you no longer talk to anyone who is not a Christian, it means that you have chosen to switch over to the kog way, or to begin to live your life the way God operates in his system
Even though we are still in the world we can choose to live in the world, but as born again Christians we should no longer be a part of the worlds way of doing things, the system of this world
So God says now that you are born again you should come out of the worlds way of doing things and come over to the kog way of doing things
Click below for more about God's way of doing things.
The Kingdom of God's system operates in the law of seedtime and Harvest, to learn more, see the section on 'Seedtime and Harvest'
He says I have some miracles I want to happen and you will most likely never see them unless you come out of the worlds way of trying to get a miracle through science and magic
And come over to the kog way of doing things where miracles happen on a regular basis, because they operate by God who is a miracle working God.
And the Bible is the instruction manual that will teach us how to operate in the miraculous based in God's system
This is our text book showing us how to operate in miracles in the kog system, how to deal with your finances marriage, raising your children, deal with sickness, how to deal with lack, walking in miracles in all areas of life
In any area this Bible will show you the kog system and how God's system will set you free in all areas of life.
What most people do is they get born again, never educate themselves in kog system, so then we are born again Christians still stuck in the worlds way of doing things.
Or at worst live their lives in a mixture of both!.
You are not going to be successful straggling the fence like that
But most of the church is operating in the worlds system, or a mixture of both, trying to bring the world's into Christian living.
Divorce for example is higher in the church than it is in the world
The reason way is they are loving based on the worlds system, trying to run marriages according to the world running where everything is based on their emotions because that's how the world does it and trying to bring running by emotions into the body of Christ.
I know that might shock you
But they don't know about the kog system and not even the faith people are preaching faith anymore, preaching seeker sensitive sermons that appeal to the emotions
So how can God's people operate in his system if they are not hearing how Gods system operates.
And participation through relationship with Christ and him crucified, in his kingdom and God's system of operation, God's way of doing things which is everything through Jesus Christ and his cross. Operation in his system can only be achieved through relying totally on the Holy Spirit working in our lives through minds and hearts changed back to the cross.
The Worlds system and the roots of Rejection.
He wants to plant it deep so it will develop into a root that will go way down and have other little rootlets attached to it.
Eventually these roots and rootlets will become a tree.
Whatever you are rooted in will determine the fruit in your life-good or bad.
It you are rooted in rejection,abuse, shame, guilt, or a poor self-image-if you are rooted in thinking, something is wrong with me! Your "tree" Will bear depression, negativism,a lack of confidence, anger, hostility,a controlling spirit, judgmental,a chip on the shoulder, hatred,and self-pity.
It leads you to say to yourself, "well, the real me is not acceptable, so I need to produce a pretend me!"
We spend most of our lives trying to produce a pretend me
Yet a cat does not have a pretend me
But if you train it will produce one,a lady said to me my cat only eats succulent chicken
I asked what do you feed it on? succulent chicken she answered.
The cat or the dog then can think it is a person and try to rule the roost
All the areas of your life that are out of order can be reconciled through Jesus and the work that he has done on the cross.
God can do it for you. Begin to believe it!
Don't settle for bondage, but be determined to be free!
Here is the good news-you can be delivered from the power of rejection!
God's word for you
God's love has been poured out in our hearts through the holy spirit who has been given to us.
Romans 5:5 Godly self-love
We all need to ask ourselves what we are doing with the love of God that has been freely given to us.
Are we rejecting it because we don't think we are valuable enough to be loved? Do we believe God is like other people who have rejected and hurt us?
Or are we receiving his love by faith, believing that he is greater than our failures and weaknesses?
We should love ourselves-not in a selfish, self-centered way that produces a lifestyle of self-indulgence, but in a balanced, Godly way,a way that simply affirms God's creation as essentially good and right.
God's plan is this: He wants us to receive his love, love ourselves in a Godly way, generously love him in return,and finally love all the people who come into our lives.
When God reaches out to love us, he is attempting to start a cycle that will bless not only us but also many others.
Psalms 1:3 He shall be like a tree
Planted by the rivers of water,
That brings forth its fruit in its season,
Whose leaf also shall not wither;
And whatever he does shall prosper.
Psalms 52:8 But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God;
I trust in the mercy of God forever and ever.
Psalms 92:12 The righteous shall flourish like a palm tree,
Proverbs 3:18 Wisdom, She is a tree of life to those who take hold of her,
And happy are all who retain her.
Romans 8:2 Says For the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.
The law of the spirit of life turns on and activates the life cycle, the law of sin and death, turns on and activates the death cycle
Proverbs 18:21 death and life are in the power of the tongue,
So our words are connected to our life or death, how we use our mouth has something to do with turning laws on
Words of fear, words that don't line up with God's word will turn on or activate the law of sin and death, which will continue until interrupted by words of life.
In the Bible spiritual laws are mentioned, there is a law of kindness, a law of the Anointed one and his Anointing, the law of Christ
These laws will work for anybody who will get involved, the Bible calls anybody, whosoever
On the good side or the bad side, negatively or positively, the law will work for whoever gets involved
It is so important for us to connect the seed that we have been talking about (See the section on 'Seedtime and Harvest'), with the actions that we take, not merely consider it as information, but see it operating as a law in our life.
When we talk about the seed of the word of God, we need to understand that the type of seed will determine the type of harvest.
So if I am being healed, it is the particular scripture on healing, sown in the ground of my heart that will grow into the healing that I am believing for.
To merely believe God without obtaining God's seed for the need is to ignore the laws that God has placed into existence
And yet many people do that and expect the result or the harvest to mysteriously come, by God's sovereignty and without their participation
But scripture tells us that God has laid up the mysteries for us, not from us
He answered and said to them, "Because it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, (Matt 13:11)
The beginnings of everything that we are seeking to accomplish begins with the word
God uses the same method himself, in John chapter 1 it tells us in the beginning was the word
So if God had to begin with the word, you and I have to begin with the word
So anything in our life that we are beginning whether it is healing or deliverance in a certain area, we cannot begin it without the word
The word is the essential thing the principal thing, it is the seed that will produce the harvest that we are after
So apple seed contains the apple or the harvest that we are after
So whatever we are after, say a successful marriage, if we are going to begin it God's way, we have to get the seed, or the word of God, by going and getting the scripture that we are standing on
Say we get the scripture 'call those things that be not as though they were', then that is your faith seed, the scripture you are standing on
The life cycle now begins because you got the seed, but it doesn't stop there, that is the beginning of our faith.
The seed contains faith words, so when planted in the ground of our heart, it will grow, now faith comes by hearing, the entrance for the seed and hearing by the word, (mouth gate or entrance), of God, the seed of faith produces a harvest of faith.
Now satan cannot create anything so instead he perverts what God says. He takes seed and fills it with fear, so fear comes by hearing and hearing by the words of satan, his seed of fear produces a harvest of fear.
If things are coming out of our heart, and you don't know why they are coming out, that is the reason
One Bible translation says a man's harvest in life is based solely on the seeds planted in his heart, we are harvesting right now the result of the seeds sown
If we can come to accept that our life is a result of seeds sown, then we are ready for God to take us into where he wants us to be
But if we can never accept that reasoning, then we will always go around looking for other excuses to explain what we are like.
Any harvest is going to be based upon the diligence or the laziness of the farmer who planted it
If we are not ready to pull up the weeds and ready to handle the insects and intruders that are trying to stop the seed growing,
If we are not ready to guard our heart with all diligence, then the harvest we get back won't be a hundred fold, it may be 60, 30 or something less.
God wants us to have the 100 fold, by using our bag of seed our Bible, seeds it will provide for us in every area of our life
The word says in Mark 4 verse 6 that many temptations will come as a result of the seed being planted. The life of faith has started, it says get ready for many temptations
Somebody may have told you that once you became a Christian, that all your problems will pass away, that is a lie
The Bible says that when faith, the seed starts to grow, many temptations will start
So what are temptations or trials, they are really, types of pressure applied to your mind and body, the Bible calls our mind and body, our flesh
They are trying to get you to go against the harvest that is starting to grow
They are trying to get you to contradict what you have started
Pressure applied to your eyes, the lust of the eyes, pressure applied to your ears
Pressure applied to your mouth, we say 'i am not going to say those things any more' and the pressure comes on to say those things you said you were not going to say
Pressure to look at what you said you wouldn't look at
Pressure to hear what you said you wouldn't hear.
All pressuring the harvest to stop it coming up into full fruit.
Satan doesn't want us to ever discover that this is how God system works
If we stay in the kingdom of God's system, then satan is unable to change our mind from operating with God.
Because now we will know on purpose, how to overcome all of his evil tricks and schemes, through seed time and harvest
We can not let it happen, we can not let him steal the word any more, by feeding us with his corrupt seed filled with lies
The Bible says our faith is going to be put on trial, what we have been hearing, seeing and speaking is going to be tried by fire to stop the seed being harvested.
But the trying, or the attempts to prevent the seed growing, will produce the end of our faith or the physical manifestation of what started in the seed from the word of God
Though now you do not see him, yet believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory, 9 receiving the end of your faith-(1 Pet 1:8-9)
Now why is so important to get the seed through your eyes, ears, mouth, why is it so important to maintain our focus
As for you, my son Solomon, know the God of your father, and serve him with a loyal heart and with a willing mind; for the lord searches all hearts and understands all the intent of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever. (1 Chron 28:9)
Words produce thoughts, thoughts produce images, God is looking in your heart for words, thoughts, images
O lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, our fathers, keep this forever in the intent of the thoughts of the heart of your people, and fix their heart toward you. (1 Chron 29:18)
Thoughts and images, are responsible for a prepared or fixed heart
A fixed heart with a fixed image, is the step that occurs before the image becomes reality, manifestation
Have you ever seen one of those instant cameras, when you take the picture, pull out the paper, you can watch the image materialise before your very eyes. The image becomes fixed to the paper, by light acting on the material on the paper.
This is similar to what happens in our spirit, when the seed goes in, we water it with more word and plant more seed.
The seed grows and produces an image, which gets clearer and clearer, until it becomes reality in your body as healing
What I can see in my spirit, I will have, image is the final stage of my faith, my embryo, before birth of the harvest
It's time to pull out the spiritual erasers and erase the wrong images we have been developing
Because if the seed fails to develop the full image, then all we do is walk around with all this head knowledge. Wanting things to happen, but never walking in the reality of it
If we never spend enough time being focused enough to draw out the image, or the blueprint, we will never have what we say
God takes the images we have, formed by his word and causes manifestation to come. That is why no time spent in the word of God is ever wasted
Before image can come, seed must be there, before the reality or the manifestation can come, there must be clear image in our spirit
Now let's look at the word in detail to see this working
From mark 4:13 the sower sows the word, here are five things that will come to challenge the formation of the image
1. Affliction
3. Cares of this world – (cares or worry, worry is a negative form of meditation)
4. Deceitfulness of riches, the spirit of greed – a man who does not have knowledge and understanding of God's real purpose for money
5. Lust or appetite of the flesh (i.e. Having eyes of lust)
And he said to them, "Is a lamp brought to be put under a basket or under a bed? Is it not to be set on a lamp stand? (Mark 4:21)
Here's the light looking for the seed in our reborn spirit, the spirit of a man is the candle of the lord (Prov 20:27)
For there is nothing hidden which will not be revealed, nor has anything been kept secret but that it should come to light. (Mark 4:22)
The image will be made manifest when the image is clear enough God will come down to see what they have built and cause it to be manifest
But the lord came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built.(Gen 11:5)
If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.(Mark 4:23)
Take care what goes in your ears, for it will come out of your mouth, out of the abundance of the heart
Then he said to them, "Take heed what you hear. With the same measure you use, it will be measured to you; and to you who hear, more will be given. (Mark 4:24)
Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; (2 Cor 10:5)
Casting down imaginations or every image and make them obey the word of God, to the obedience of Christ, to the obedience of his image, our true image of who we are.
If the image is never fully formed, we will never see the true image of Jesus in our soul area, our mind, it will always be some other image of who we think we are
More faith will come to those that hear the word, because more word will be given, faith comes by hearing the word.
For whoever has, to him more will be given; but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him." (Mark 4:25)
If you don't have the right image of the word, even the small amount of right image you have already stored (the good treasure) you will lose to be overtaken by the weeds, the corrupt seed.
So now the small image you had will be lost and you won't get the harvest, the manifestation
He that has not, he doesn't even have an image of what he's got – he's not interested in going any further in God
How do we see ourselves? What is our hope, our blueprint. If we don't have the image or the hope, there is very little that God can do, with a hopeless man or woman.
A man without an inner image of where he is going, has no inner vision to guide him
So you can go no further, for there is nothing on the inside that is ready to be manifested.
Whatever you have on the inside, so is the kingdom of God, seed-time and harvest, it will produce.
Satan's vision produces nothing, his vision is of nothing
God's vision produces our inheritance, manifest as the abundant life in us and in others.
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Beauty is the flowers of the jacaranda
Which lay a purple carpet on my veranda
So for a time I walk on softness like a bride –
With the promise of happy-ever-after by her side –
But such beauty is not meant to last
Because seasons pass ever too fast.
Beauty is the sparkling of a snow flake
Which falls slowly, sunlight on its wake,
And warmth cuts through the snowy cold
until soon the waters cannot hold
Melting to quench the ground's thirst
Because such beauty is not meant to last.
Beauty is the innocence of childhood
During our ignorance of bad and good
Before we learn all sweet things are forbidden
And pursuit of pleasure keeps us from heaven.
What to do with our innate greed and lust,
Knowing that innocence is not meant to last?
Beauty is the sunset's manifold hues.
And oh! What a masterpiece of views!
Perhaps God in his infinite wisdom realized
That such beauty could get a man hypnotized
Therefore after a handful of moments it must
Fade away as it is also not meant to last.
Beauty is the dazzling shine of a nova
Lasting but a few moments before it's over
Leaving only an afterimage when it's gone
From its owner forcefully torn
And by age scattered like dust
To prove that it is not meant to last.
Beauty can in many places be found
As a taste, smell, sight, touch or sound
And much beauty is on earth as in heaven
But that on earth has long been proven
To be spread all over, existing in parts,
And can only last in the purest of hearts.


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Since their humble beginning in 1903, cherished numbers have continued to increase in popularity often adding the finishing touch to our prized possessions and very often prove to be a valuable investment.
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A1 assigned in 1903
The Motor Car Act 1903, which came into force on 1 January 1904, required all motor vehicles to be entered on an official vehicle register, and to carry number plates. The Act was passed in order that vehicles could be easily traced in the event of an accident or contravention of the law. Vehicle registration number plates in the UK are rectangular or square in shape, with the exact permitted dimensions of the plate and its lettering set down in law.
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Most of the time, the agency successfully eradicates any plates that may shock or offend the British public.
But every now and then, one slips through the net.
While they may possess the largest number plate database in the UK with millions of conventional registrations, the website also holds some of the most hilarious and outrageous licence plates DVLA-approved to roam Britain's roads.
And considering their comical value, some of the best plates carry with them an unbelievable price tag – close to half a million pounds in one instance.
Naturally, the Sun Online Motors team sifted through their archives to compile a list of the top 10 most outrageous number plates in the UK – but don't be surprised if your favourite shocking plate has an equally outrageous asking price.
ormerly the most outrageous number plate in Britain, the infamous CUII NNT registration has been banned.
Despite resembling one of the most explicit words in the English language, the licence plate slipped through the DVLA prohibited list in 2016, and was given a value of £6,000.
Some of the country's rudest number plates have been revealed - and could be yours for the cool price of £495,000.
Outrageous plates such as TTII TTS, F4 KKA and PEN 15 are available to buy online for those inclined to splash out on an expensive joke.
Each year, new plates are approved by the DVLA, with a cheeky handful slipping under the invigilators' noses and finding themselves onto Britain's streets.
The list will normally include personalised plates spelling out rude words or potentially offensive messages, as well as religious or homophobic terms.
The list of personalised plates the DVLA believes to be in poor taste runs into many pages.
For the 2016 registration year, the DVLA's censors refused a large number of plates, including B16 COX, CR16 PLE, PR16 CK and BU16 ERY.
Some of the more vulgar terms to be outlawed by the licensing agency include B16 NOB, FA16 OTS and TT16 TTY.
But plenty of new number plate combinations will be allowed, and names are expected to be a high seller.
The private number plate market in the UK is worth around £2.3billion a year, and some number plates can sell for astonishing amounts of money.
In 2014, the plate '25 O' sold for a record-breaking £518,000 at a DVLA agency auction, beating the previous record by nearly £100,000.
A publicly-funded committee meets twice a year to decide which number plates are unsuitable for Britain's roads.
The Minister of Transport, Kwaku Ofori Asiamah, says the Ghanaian public is increasingly becoming intolerant of perceived corruption and poor service delivery at the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA).
According to him, many of the authority's clients consider it to be the worst in terms of service delivery, thereby creating avenues for middle men, popularly known as 'goro boys,' to take advantage of the stifling bureaucratic system at the place.
He has therefore asked management of the DVLA to quickly deal with the 'goro boys' syndrome at their various offices.
2010 Car Number Plates
We're now just over a month away from the introduction of the 2010 number plate on all new cars hitting the road after the beginning of March.
While the excitement surrounding the introduction of new number plates may go over some people's heads, during the past few years a real demand has grown for personalised plates, with some selling for an absolute fortune at auction.
Music legend Elton John's former number plate ELT 70N recently went up for auction for just under £1,000, but that's nothing compared to the £113,815 one crazy person (in the nicest sense) shelled out on a 1 HRH number plate auctioned by the DVLA at the beginning of 2009. And even that has some way to go to surpass £254,000 paid to take ownership of the 51 NGH plate.
For those residents wishing to secure their vehicle registration plates, and so preventing them from being stolen, the Kirwans Bridge Neighbourhood Watch is holding a Safe Plate Day at the next Nagambie market.
The group will be setting up in Blayney Lane on Saturday.
For just a gold coin donation, get your number plates secured with the one-way safety screws.
● Another crime prevention initiative being held this weekend will be at the Tallarook market on Sunday.
Police will be there with engraving equipment to put identifying numbers on residents pushbikes, scooters and any other similar equipment.
Bring your property down, with your drivers licence and that number will be engraved on the item.
This helps to prevent theft and also greatly assists police to find owners if property does get stolen or lost.
Number Plates as an alternative investment
Investing in car registration plates may seem like an unorthodox way of making money and a considerable statement in the process. Nevertheless, hundreds of investors and drivers now choose to purchase car registration plates with significant future returns available. The most obvious reason for purchasing car registration plates is to personalise your vehicle, to make you stand out from the crowd.
Even a mere decade ago, drivers with personalised registration plates were seen as wealthy and successful. In the present day, car registration plates are now more accessible and economical for the everyday working man to purchase. Drivers looking for a potential investment must keep in mind that the registration plate they purchase must be easy to sell on in the future.
It was 1980 when legislation was passed to allow Illinois drivers to order vanity and personalized license plates. As defined then, vanity plates contained up to six letters or the numbers 1 to 999. Personalized plates had a combination of desired letters and numbers. In the very first year, 24,000 state residents decided they wanted to pay extra to show off their vanity to fellow motorists.
Drivers were displaying personalized plates long before 1980 however.
There was no law that he could find before 1980 authorizing such plates. Instead, he figures it likely was a typical case of not what you knew being important, but who you knew.
There's no question, however, that it was 1907 when the Motor Vehicle Act, which required motorists to register with the secretary of state's office, became law. For a one-time $2 fee per vehicle, motorists received a round aluminum disk with a registration number to affix to their vehicles. (Drivers had to furnish their own plates until 1911. The disks were dropped in 1917.) From July 1, 1907, to June 30, 1909, the state registered 20,224 vehicles. Sidney S. Gorham, of LaGrange, was issued license plate number 1.
As you might guess, that "one-time fee" didn't last long. Probably realizing they had a cash cow on their hands, the state began charging an annual fee in 1909 and re-registered all vehicles.
More interesting plate trivia: In 1912, front plates were perforated so more air could flow through a car's radiator. Aluminum license plates were issued for the first time in 1950. The slogan "Land of Lincoln" debuted in 1954, although a requirement for showing Lincoln's image was dropped because it was deemed impractical at the time.
Purple and white plates were issued in 1964 to honor both McKendree College and Rockford College (as they were known then). In 1966, for the first time in 30 years, fees were increased 50 cents to pay for a new reflective coating. In 1977, drivers were able to complain about lousy photos on their licenses for the first time. The discontinuation of annual plates in 1979 ended a 67-year run, the longest in the United States. In 1985, all vehicles were charged the same fee ($48) rather than one based on horsepower.
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DJ Forrest "War" Perkins, a partner in Roy Milton's Miltone label, acquired the Mosby & Spikes record shop, perhaps L.A.'s oldest black-owned retail outlet, which had been at 4011 S. Central Ave. since 1929. Perkins also ran a pressing plant, and record dealer John Dolphin bought directly from him, instead of dealing with distributors. When Perkins moved to the Philippines in about 1948, he sold the shop to John Dolphin.In 1948, John Dolphin's shop was located at 4105 S. Central Ave., across from the Elks on the east side of Central. Dolphin then moved to the old DWP building on Vernon west of Central, and the Muslims bought Dolphin's old property there. Dolphin then opened his world famous Dolphin's Of Hollywood Records at 1065 E. Vernon Ave., next door to the existing site of the Murray Record Shop at 1055 E. Vernon Ave., known to be just west of S. Central Ave. in 1947.At the time, War Perkins ran a pressing plant, which had pressed the Roy Milton/Miltone series of labels, and according to Andy Williamson, he and Dolphin would buy directly from Perkins, instead of dealing with distributors. There was also the Modern pressing plant at 37th near Main where Dolphin would buy 78s or 45s for a dime. After Dolphin moved in 1950, his Central Ave. site was acquired by the Nation Of Islam. Even later, a nearby property was occupied by the Black Panthers.
The Recorded In Hollywood (RIH) label was begun in 1950 by John Dolphin, owner of the Dolphin's Of Hollywood record shop at Vernon ("20 magic steps west of Central Ave.") to both promote his shop and to make money on the occasional hit, of which he had several. A few of these early RIH releases were by jazz cocktail-hour pianist Errol Garner, but most were of the rhythm and blues, blues and harder jazz genres. In two years (1950 and 1951), close to a total of 200 RIH 78s were issued.The first few RIH 78s (no 45s were issued in these earliest years), which were generally available only at the store, were credited to gospel groups like the Heavenly Bound Gospel Singers, the Roberta Martin Singers and the WMA Soul Stirrers Of Houston Texas. Though on a very early RIH pressing, Roberta Martin's "Only A Look" was released in 1951.
The debut of Scat Man Crothers on RIH was in 1951 under the name Scat Man Carothers with Riff Charles. "Elaine" used deathless rhymes like "Elaine, get off that train" and sounding for all the world like "Brown Gal" the Brown Dots, later much better known as "Bad Boy" by the Jive Bombers. The flipside, "Man, Have I Got Troubles" had much more prominent guitar, but with a novelty-style vocal. Scat Man's next, "I Like Your Mother Better" b/w "I'd Rather Stay In The House With The Mouse" by the Jackson Trio. In 1953, he was Scat Man Caruthers on "Waiting For My Baby" b/w "Easy Money," a pari-mutuel adventure with a racetrack fan fare opening.After "Easy Money," things get confusing. On the earliest RIH release to be issued on 45 rpm at the point of release, Scat Man Crothers was spelled correctly. Backed by the Red Callender Sextet, "Papa (I Don't Treat That Little Girl Mean)" was an "answer" record to Ruth Brown's 1953 Atlantic label mega-hit, "Mama, He Treats Your Daughter Mean," even though the catalog issue number placed it immediately after "Elaine." Trusting the issue number would have meant it was released in about 1951, or a year and a half prior to the record it answered.Most likely what happened was that the RIH label had label paper left-over from the Callender-backed Imogene Meyers 78rpm flop, "Tonight Of All Nights" b/w "How Come, Baby," an earlier example of RIH 142 issued in 1951. Alternatively, was Dolphin deviously using old label paper in an ill-advised attempt to establish his version of the material as the original, about a year and a half before Brown's release?As Callender was featured name on many sequential 78s, it's not out of the question that Callender's name would have been pre-printed on many labels with only the vocal artist and title remaining to be added, thus forever confusing discographers. The flipside of the Crothers' disc was Red Callender's "Till I Waltz Again With You," probably on labels printed up at the same time as that rash of Callender issues from 1951. All of that indicates that another side like the Meyers was removed as the Crothers disc was considered a sure fire hit. Didn't hit, mattered little to Dolphin. The pairing of Crothers and Callender moonlighted on the new Aladdin subsidiary, Intro on "A-Gruntin' And A-Groanin'," combining R&B with professional wrestling, which was just getting some high profile popularity on TV out of the Olympic Auditorium in L.A. After Crothers next, "King Berman's Stomp" b/w "Just Like Two Drops Of Water," the Intro label became an outlet for a weird mixture of mainly western and pop music. J
Red Callender also backed the first RIH artist to chart nationally. Jimmy Grissom (B: Leland, Ms ) hit with "Once There Lived A Fool" in late Feb. 1951, apparently selling more than twenty thousand copies during the first week of release. Though it wasn't a chart burner, "Once There Lived A Fool" was covered by Dusty Brooks & His Tones on Columbia, Charles Brown on Aladdin, Big John Greer on RCA, Savannah Churchill & the Striders on Regal, Anita O'Day on London, Jimmy Witherspoon on Modern, Tommy Edwards on MGM and Tony Bennett on Columbia. Only Grissom's original charted, at #7 R&B on the national level.Witherspoon recalled that Grissom original. He had a hit record and we covered it on Modern Records with the same instrumentation, Maxwell Davis on both of them. Modern had distribution, Dolphin didn't. The Bihari brothers hired Maxwell Davis as musical director. He couldn't record with John Lee Hooker, because John Lee made 36 bars or 8 bars or 4 bars." Grissom's next, "I Lost My Inspiration" b/w "Once In Love Blues" was twice issued on RIH, then the b-side came out on the Federal label, b/w "I'll Still Keep Loving You," originally the b-side of Grissom's only "Once There Lived A Fool," Grissom's only RIH hit, one of about 40 recordings King/Federal acquired from RIH. However King/Federal issued only a handful.Grissom's recorded "The Hole In The Wall" b/w "Walkin' Blues" and "So Help Me I Love You" before going to a more major role with the Duke Ellington Orch., In April 1955 Grissom returned to Dolphin's newly formed Cash label with "I Had To Find Out For Myself," a Leon Rene composition and a remake of the Drifters release from 1950 b/w "Listen Pretty Baby."
"Homesick Blues" was the first record by Alvin Smith (B: Monroe, La., Aug. 1926) & His Clouds Of Rhythm with Que Martyn, tenor sax. Martyn was the credited artist on the flipside, "Calypso Jump." Smith went on to record for Music City out of Berkeley in 1954 and with the Angels on Irma out of Oakland in 1957, Gedinson's and Art-Tone in 1962. Smith returned to L.A. in the late 1960s to record for Modern and Kent labels.
Gene Forrest with the Eddie Beale Fourtet Gene Forrest (b: San Antonio, TX; Sept. 3, 1931) arrived in L.A. in early 1940s, went to school at St. Patrick's. First recorded.with the Eddie Beale Fourtet on "It Was You" b/w "Everybody's Got Money," a rather ordinary urban blues."That was the thing for singers at the time," said Forrest. "I started as a single. I was just walking down the street one day and I went in John Dolphin's office. I asked him if he'd record me. He cut me. I was scouting around at the time. I didn't know the business too much. First record I did pretty well. That was the only songs, just whatever came to mind." The session was conducted by pianist Monroe Tucker, who Forrest described as "a cripple, very deformed. He couldn't walk, you had to carry him when you'd go." According to Forrest, Tucker played the introduction, but Forrest backed himself on piano.Other artists would wait their turn during sessions. "A lot of us were in line. I didn't have no business with them." Forrest recalled that Dolphin "took advantage of you. He wouldn't want to do business. He would outtalk the devil, if the devil would listen. He was fast-talking before you could tie your shoes. He was so arrogant, he would treat you like dirt, try to ride you in the background, stick that cigar in your face for emphasis. He usually worked out of any back alley he could find. I did my session at Jefferson and Main, right over an iron company."Forrest was also the first local act to perform at the brand new 5/4 Ballroom at 54th and Broadway in South L.A. Forrest next recorded with the Freddy Simmons Quintet on the slightly more riveting "Thrill Your Soul" b/w a Freddy Simon instrumental, "Hollywood Bound." As the Gene Forrest Combo, he recorded "Picture On The Wall" b/w "Little Children," about Forrest's children. "They were little enough to have me sing, 'come to your mama and papa.'"After Dolphin, Forrest left RIH "Aching and Crying" at RPM. "It was a random thing. You go to one company, they'll cut something. No special contract. They liked the song, I'll cut it, a hustle and bustle thing. I played at that time with Chuck Higgins, so he was probably on it, blowing tenor sax.Higgins backed Forrest with the Four Feathers on Aladdin, then Forrest hooked up with Eunice Levy as half of Gene & Eunice, whose "Ko Ko Mo" went straight to the top in 1955.
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Indian Standard Time (IST) is the time observed throughout India, with a time offset of Universal Time +05:30 (abbreviated as UTC and sometimes written as Universal Time Coordinated, formerly and still widely called GMT). India does not observe Daylight Saving Time (DST) or other seasonal adjustments. Indian Standard Time is calculated on the basis of 82.5° E longitude, from a clock tower in Mirzapur (25.15°N 82.58°E) (near Allahabad in the state of Uttar Pradesh) which is nearly on the corresponding longitude reference line. The IST longitude divides India into two parts, the eastern (comprising the seven states of the northeast, Sikkim, Bihar, West Bengal, Orissa and Jharkhand ) and the western part (rest of the country). Since India is following a single time zone format no need to turn your watch wherever you go in India. Don't be worry by seeing sun becomes darker while travelling north-east around 4pm or sun remains brighter while in northern gujarat around 8 pm. All transporation,Banking facilities in Country are operating on the basis of IST.
Why India's Single Time Zone is Confusing?
The time difference between the eastern-most and western-most borders of the country is more than two hours. The country's east–west distance of more than 2,000 km (1,200 mi) covers over 28 degrees of longitude, resulting in the sun rising and setting almost two hours earlier on India's eastern border than in the Rann of Kutch in the far west Gujarat. Inhabitants of the north–eastern states of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura have to advance their clocks with the early sunrise and avoid the extra consumption of energy after daylight hours. If Sunrise at 4 am in Kohima, mumbai get Sunrise only by 6.00 am. Despite of the large difference, normal activities like working and sleeping hours and meal timing more or less remain the same across the country as it has a single time zone. Moreover Time in Countries Bordering North Eastern States also vary. If it is 4 AM in India look at time in our borders-Bangladesh and Bhutan time should be 4.30 AM, Nepal time should be 4.15 AM, Burma(Myanmar) time should be 5 AM, Tibet time should be 6.30 AM. People in North-East are demanding to allow a seprate time zone for East or to change Indian Standard Time from present +05:30 GMT to +06:00 GMT. But this demand should not be practical since it arise lot of confusion in railway network. Moreover northern parts closer to Pakistan get sun rise only later. +05:00 GMT is the time in Pakistan & Maladives. Anyway people in Southern states are happy becuase they can arise or go sleep in normal time. Srilanka also have same time zone of India. Time in Indonesia & Thailand bordering Indian Island of Andaman & Nicobar is +7.00 GMT.