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01 Aug Combining dasatinib with Tamoxifen, may overcome Tamoxifen resistance in breast cancer
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PHILADELPHIA—Taking a leukemia chemotherapy drug may help breast cancer patients who don't respond to tamoxifen overcome resistance to the widely-used drug, new research from the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson suggests.
Interestingly, researchers found that taxoxifen combined with dasatinib, a protein-tyrosine kinase inhibitor, reverses the chemo-resistance caused by cancer-associated fibroblasts in the surrounding tissue by normalizing glucose intake and reducing mitochondrial oxidative stress, the process that fuels the cancer cells.
Previous animal studies have confirmed that combining tyrosine kinase inhibitors with anti-estrogen therapies, like tamoxifen, can prevent drug resistance, but none have suggested that the target of the inhibitors is the cancer-associated fibroblasts.
The researchers report their findings in the August 1 issue of Cell Cycle.
About 70 percent of women diagnosed with breast cancer will have estrogen receptor positive (ER(+)) disease, which indicates that the tumor may respond to tamoxifen. However, a large percentage of these tumors—up to 35 percent—have little to no response to the drug or eventually develop resistance to it.
In this study, researchers sought to better understand drug resistance by looking at the metabolic basis in an ER (+) cell line and cancer-associated fibroblasts. The researchers have previously established a relationship between the two, where cancer cells induce aerobic glycolysis by secreting hydrogen peroxide in adjacent fibroblasts via oxidative stress. In turn, these fibroblasts provide nutrients to the cancer cells to proliferate, a process that ultimately makes tumors grow.
Here, they investigated and then demonstrated that this interaction was also the basis of tamoxifen resistance.
In a sense, the drug combination had an "antioxidant effect" in these types of cancer cells, according to Michael P. Lisanti, M.D., Ph.D., Professor and Chair of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University and a member of the Kimmel Cancer Center.
"The fibroblasts are what make ER (+) cancer cells resistant to the tamoxifen," said Dr. Lisanti. "But the tamoxifen plus dasatinib maintained both fibroblasts and cancer cells in a 'glycolytic state,' with minimal oxidative stress and more cell death, most likely because of an absence of metabolic coupling. The supply between the two was cut."
"This suggests resistance to chemotherapeutic agents is a metabolic and stromal phenomenal," he added.
Researchers showed that ER (+) cancer cells alone responded to tamoxifen but when co-cultured with human fibroblasts had little to no effect. Similarly, dasatinib, a chemotherapy drug used to treat leukemia patients who can no longer benefit from other medications, had no effect on fibroblasts alone or cancer cells. Together, however, the drugs prevented the cancer cells co-cultured with the fibroblasts from using high-energy nutrients from the fibroblasts.
This combination resulted in nearly 80 percent cell death, the team reported—a two to three fold increase when compared with tamoxifen alone.
"The drugs have no effect when they are used alone—it's in unison when they effectively kill the cancer cells in the presence of fibroblasts," said Dr. Lisanti. "This opens up the door for possible new treatment strategies. This 'synthetic lethality' may help patients overcome resistance in the clinic."


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Once again it's time to see how the teams fared at what race organizers call "The Ultimate Test Of Not-So-Bright Man And Shockingly Crappy Machine." Because this was the 24 Hours Of LeMons' first venture into the Northeast, there weren't as many cars as we've seen at previous events; that means we can show you all the finishers! When you're done here, be sure to check out the top finishers at LeMons SF October '07, LeMons Arse-Freeze-A-Pa-Looza December '07, LeMons SF May '08, and LeMons South July '08. Many thanks to UDMan, Drumhurrin, and TheEastBayKid for the photos!
#1: Endurance Karting, Mazda Miata
#2: Kielbasa Kids, Honda Civic
#3: Scuderia Limoni, Alfa Romeo Milano
#4: Keystone Cops, Volvo 244
#5: Scuderia Testa di Spillo, Alfa Romeo Milano
#6: Team Pro-Crass-Duh-Nation, Alfa Romeo Milano
#7: Schumacher Taxi Serice, Toyota Corolla FX16
#8: Detonators, Volkswagen Golf
#9: Schumacher Taxi Service, Audi 90
#10: Team Rob, His Two Loser Friends, And Stupid Brother, Volkswagen Golf
#11 Bean Counters Outback Racing, Subaru Outback
#12: Nut Job Racing, Honda Civic
#13: Go Green, Honda CRX
#14: Legion Of Doom, Chevrolet Malibu
#15: No Budget Racing, Pontiac Firebird
#16: Mostly Motorsports, Toyota Paseo/Mazda RX-7
#17: Team Elemonators, Toyota Camry
#18: Italian Job Racing, BMW E30
#19: Chard Beef Racing, Buick Regal
#20: Jungle Cat Racing, Jaguar XJ6
#21, La Grande Fromage, Volkswagen Jetta
#22: Vlad The Impala, Chevrolet Impala
#23: Freddie's Freakin' Fiends, Toyota Celica
#24: Stugots LeMons, Mercedes-Benz 300

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The ABS conducted a series of surveys of the sports and physical recreation industries in respect of 2000-01.
There is considerable variation in the nature of the industries. For example, while 44% of the private sector organisations were 'not for profit', these were mainly concentrated in the sports administration industry, in which all 756 organisations operated on a 'not for profit' basis, and in the sports clubs industry, in which 1,565 (81%) were not for profit. The sports administration and sports clubs industries were also responsible for the vast majority (94%) of the volunteers working for sports and physical recreation industries during the month of June. There were nine volunteers for each one employee in the sports administration industry in June 2001, and the ratio was 2.7 volunteers to 1 employee in the sports clubs industry. Employees outnumbered volunteers in each of the other industries.
At least 60% of the employees in the sports administration, sports clubs and the horse and dog racing industries were males. Health and fitness centres and gymnasia had the highest level of female employment, both in absolute terms (8,062) and as a percentage of persons employed (64%). Casual employment was a feature of all of the industries. The percentage of employees employed on a casual basis ranged from 52% in the sports clubs industry to 71% in health and fitness centres and gymnasia.
The main sources of income for each industry, excluding the income earned by the Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games and the Sydney Paralympic Organising Committee, were:
Additional information on sports and recreation activities can be found in Sports and physical recreation services - Services industries.


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I hope you have dropped by ShopRuche.com lately because we got some awesome new scarves! I had a lot of fun trying out the different ways I can tie the scarves. The possibilities are almost endless! How'd I do?
If only I found this site before I started: 25 Ways to Tie a Scarf. This was actually written in the 1960's by Sears! I think every girl needs a print out of this cheat sheet! Look at how many different ways you can tie a scarf! My fav and one that I'll probably be trying soon is #19. I guess the first three doesn't count but I wanted to include it because these are the basics to start you off. You can view the previous link for detailed tying directions.
These are actually only a few ways. Here are some links to more creative ways to tie a scarf.
How to Wear a Scarf with Style
Scarf Tying Guide
How to Make an Asset Out of an Accessory
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Thanks to everyone who entered for a chance to win the newest edition of Gun Digest Book of Shotguns Assembly/Disassembly. After reading the comments, it looks like shotgun cleaning activities are as much a part of this pasttime as actual shooting. And, it's nice to see I'm not alone in my fondness for the smell of hoppes no. 9 . . .
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Today is the day we announce the winner of one sheet of Alice in Wonderland stamps from our sponsor, Red Eowyn, but first a couple more design team projects!
Design Team Projects:
Amy Bowerman Stucki of Plucking Daisies is continuing with her Wonderland garden art projects! Isn't this flower bed going to be gorgeous when all the flowers come in? Today's additions include the Mad Hatter stake (to the left of the teapot), the flamingo and the hedgehog!
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Plucking Daisies and look around; its a pretty amazing place and you'll find plenty to comment on!
Savvy Sisters Studio), based on the Tim Burton Alice in Wonderland movie. I love the final battle scene where Alice is dodging the Jabberwocky and trying to gather her courage to slay this hideous monster. This does not follow the books, but I still love her six impossible things. This art journal spread took a detour from where I intended it to go, and I had some major difficulties with adding the text and line art; you can read about in the details on my blog.
I used the Jabberwocky and the champion Alice stamps. I LOVE these images and it is rare to find them in Alice stamp collections, but Red Eowyn has them! Please stop by my blog to read all the details and leave a comment if you can!
Random.org selected #7, so Blackdragon of Suffolk, UK, wins the Red Eowyn prize of one full Alice in Wonderland sheet of unmounted rubber! Contact me via the email link in the left column with your choice of Alice plate and mailing address!
She submitted this wonderful tag featuring an Alice in Wonderland paper doll! I just love all the detail, it's really lovely.
Honorable Mentions!
ALL of the entries were just fantastic this month. I hope you will cruise through the Linky list below and leave some comments for our fabulous entrants. EVERYONE who participated AND submitted a project featuring Alice in Wonderland is entitled to an honorable mention badge this month:
NOTE: I've noticed some of you have broken Alice badges on their blogs. If you load the picture from this URL, the image should work: http://i641.photobucket.com/albums/uu132/lynnephelps/AlteredAliceHonorableMentionBadge.png
If that does not work on your blog, I suggest saving the image to your computer and uploading it to your blog through your blogging software.
ALL of the entries are great, so I will just highlight a few that particularly caught my eye for some reason!
Ike's World really wowed me!
Artwolf2009 - look at all the layers of color and the fun quirky images. To top it all off, it has a wonderful verse: "Dreamers might not have a plan, but realists don´t have visions."
Izzwizz features a dapper March Hare and a great advertising jingle for butter! The tone on tone stamping over the background sponging is pretty special!
Scrap da Ana features realistic looking melted butter made from gel medium and some yellow oil paint! Amazing texture, and photographed amid vintage china butter dishes.
Dragonsweb to see all the closeup photos to see the details.
Bonnie McLain's art journal spread from Love Light and Peace is loaded with layers of stencils and textures; I love the way the various styles of harlequin diamonds unite the two pages!
Sue the Iron made me laugh with the psychologist asking us if we are dreaming of rabbits? Well, yes, hares too, LOL! The black ink spot border is a great finishing touch; what great stamps!
For those of you not specifically called out, it is only because I am out of time. You can see all the fabulous entries here:
Thanks again to Red Eowyn for supplying us with these fabulous stamps and prize! Please be sure to visit our wonderful sponsor, and please leave a comment before you go!


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- High non-price competitiveness
- High value-added industry (new technologies, finance, chemicals, pharmaceuticals)
- Major goods transport and trading hub (air and sea), financial centre
- Large FDI inflows thanks to the advantageous tax regime, political stability and excellent business climate
- Asia's leading exporter of capital through sovereign wealth funds
- Dependent on exports and imports (energy and food)
- Skilled labour and housing shortages, ageing population
- Vulnerable to the structural slowdown of the Chinese economy and U.S.-China geopolitical tensions
Solid growth expected in 2022
Singapore's economic recovery will broaden out as the country further treats COVID-19 as endemic and reopens its borders. While we expect the GDP growth rate to moderate in 2022 after a solid rebound in 2021, it is still likely to remain above trend. Still robust external demand will benefit the Singaporean economy given its heavy reliance on international trade, albeit less than previously expected. Although Singapore does not have strong economic ties with Ukraine and Russia, the war in Ukraine and subsequent sanctions affect global consumption and exacerbate already tight supply conditions, affecting international trade. Moreover, China's stringent COVID policy adds downside risks.
That being said, the dynamic demand for electronic products, as well as for machinery and transport equipment , which together account for almost half of all domestic exports (merchandise exports excluding re-exports), should support the manufacturing industry (>20% of GDP). The info-communications and financial sectors (nearly 20% of GDP) will also continue to grow robustly, alongside the pharmaceutical industry, in the COVID era. Construction should continue to face challenges related to higher material costs and labour shortages. Despite relaxation of border restrictions and domestic COVID-related containment measures, private investment (around 25% of GDP) may be constrained by an enfeebled business confidence in a context of geopolitical uncertainty, global economic slowdown and rising inflation affecting input costs.
In the first quarter of 2022, the unemployment rate was back to pre-pandemic level at 2.2% and job vacancies recorded all-time highs. While an improvement in the labour market will support household spending (33% of GDP), consumers' purchasing power is being eroded by rising inflation, which is a key concern for the authorities. The consumer price index growth rate hit over a decade-high in May 2022, driven by food, utilities and transport costs. Rising inflationary pressures was the key reason behind the Monetary Authority of Singapore's decision to tighten its monetary policy thrice within six months, including an off-schedule policy meeting in January 2022.
A move towards fiscal balance
The budget deficit has drastically narrowed from 15.4% in FY2020 to 0.9% in the fiscal year ending in March 2022. As the crisis subsided, the government's relief measures became more targeted in 2021, aiming at supporting businesses and workers in vulnerable sectors (e.g. retail, food & beverage, aviation), as export-facing sectors have mounted a strong recovery. With the continuation of the recovery, Singapore should get closer to fiscal balance in the current fiscal year. Although the government announced a new package of measures to help households and businesses to cope with rising inflation in June, the government continues to show efforts to minimize the public deficit as it plans to fund it by reallocating the existing budget. Despite a significant drawdown of SGD 42.9 billion in FY2020 and FY2021 (8% of 2021 GDP) in the reserves built-up in the past to fund a budget balance that turned into deficit, Singapore's fiscal reserves remain substantial, estimated at between 200% and 300% of GDP.
Singapore is a net creditor country, with a strong balance sheet and zero net debt. The seemingly high public debt (146% of GDP in 2021) comprises mainly long-term bonds and securities issued for reasons unrelated to the government's fiscal needs. However, the parliament passed the Significant Infrastructure Government Loan Act in May 2021, which allows the government to borrow up to SGD 90 billion to finance long-term and large infrastructure projects (costing at least SGD 4 billion each). The plan to increase the goods and services tax (GST) by 2 percentage points – by two one-point increases in 2023 and 2024 - will help raise SGD 3.0 to 3.6 billion of revenue each year. The government plans to dedicate this to healthcare amid aging population.
Singapore continues to enjoy a substantial current account surplus (18% of GDP in 2021), driven by a trade (goods and services) surplus exceeding 30% of GDP. Nevertheless, it is expected to decline in 2022, with the recovery in private consumption driving imports. The country is a net recipient of foreign direct investment (15-20% of GDP in recent years), which is more than offset by its outflows of portfolio investment, financial derivatives and other investments. In 2020, Singapore registered a net inflow in its financial account for the first time since 1993. This was explained by the combination of a reduction in net outflow of portfolio investment and the fact that financial derivatives and other investments turned into net inflows. In 2021, financial derivatives and other investments were back in net outflows, which led financial account to post a net outflow, albeit it was smaller than past years.
Political leadership succession
The People's Action Party (PAP) remains a dominant ruling party in Singapore's politics, although its 2020 general elections saw its popular vote drop to 61%, from 70% in 2015. In April 2021, Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat announced that he will step aside as the leader of the fourth-generation PAP leadership team, disrupting the plan for Singapore's leadership succession. A year later, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong finally named Finance Minister Lawrence Wong as leader of the PAP 4G (fourth generation) team. During his political career, Wong was appointed Minister for National Development, Minister of Education and co-shared the COVID-19 multi-ministerial taskforce, among other things. In June 2022, the presumptive next PM was promoted to Deputy Prime Minister. With the announcement of a roadmap for the next decade (Forward Singapore), as well as the 2022 budget, he has placed a particular emphasis on social policies amid growing inequality, rising healthcare costs and an ageing population.
Last updated: August 2022
Cheques, cash and bank transfers are all frequently-used means of payment within Singapore. Bank transfers, fast and secure, are widely used for international transactions. Standby Letters of Credits and Irrevocable Letters of Credit are often used in export transactions.
Debt collection
Amicable phase
The amicable phase begins with the seller contacting buyers in writing, by telephone and, where permissible, by visiting the buyer's business premises. If there is no response from the buyer, a site visit and online searches are conducted to ascertain the operating and legal status of the buyer. If the buyer does not make attempts to settle the matter amicably, legal proceedings can be used to recover payments for goods sold and delivered in Singapore. It is, however, prudent to ensure that the buyer has sufficient assets to satisfy the debt before proceedings are initiated.
Legal proceedings
Singapore is a common law jurisdiction. Its laws are principally governed by Supreme Court of Judicature Acts, State Court Acts, other statutes which have procedural application (or contain procedural provisions), the Rules of Court, practice directions, case law and the court's inherent powers.
Singapore's courts comprise State (Subordinate) Courts and the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court is composed of the High Court and the Court of Appeal (the final appellate court). The High Court is a court of first instance, generally used for claims beyond the jurisdiction of the State Courts (although the High Court is a court of unlimited jurisdiction and may hear any claim).
Default Judgment
If a defendant fails to enter an appearance or fails to file a defence within the time specified in the writ, the plaintiff may enter default judgment against him. This can be a final judgment or an interlocutory judgment, depending on the nature of the claim.
Summary Judgment
If the defendant has entered an appearance and filed a defence, but it is clear that the defendant has no real defence to the claim, the plaintiff can apply to court for summary judgment. To avoid summary judgment being entered, the defendant must show that the dispute concerns a triable issue, or that there is some other reason for trial. An application for summary judgment must be filed within 28 days of pleadings being concluded (unless the court orders otherwise).
Enforcement of a Legal Decision
Writs of Execution
A judgment can be enforced by a variety of writs of execution. These include a Writ of Seizure and Sale of movable and immovable property, a Writ of Delivery and a Writ of Distress. These writs authorise court officials to take appropriate measures to give effect to the judgment.
Garnishee Proceedings
This can be an appropriate solution when the debtor is owed a debt by a third party (the garnishee). When the creditor garnishes the debt, the garnishee must then make payments due to him, rather than to the debtor. To collect these debts, the creditor must first apply for a garnishee order nisi. This can be filed without the involvement of other parties and leads to "show cause" proceedings. If the garnishee confirms that there are monies due and owing to the judgment debtor at this stage, the Registrar may proceed to make the garnishee nisi absolute.
Registration of Judgment
If the creditor is not able to enforce his judgment in Singapore, he may be able to enforce it in a country where the debtor holds assets. This can be done by commencing fresh proceedings, or by registering the Singapore judgment in the foreign country (on the basis of reciprocity of enforcement between the two countries).
Insolvency Proceedings
Schemes of Arrangement
Schemes of arrangement begin with an application to court, for an order summoning one or more meetings of the creditors, members of the company, or shareholders of the company. If the court agrees to the order, a proposal must then be tabled before the relevant meetings and approved by the requisite majority (unless the court orders otherwise) of the creditors, class of creditors, members or class of members, shareholders, or class of shareholders.
Judicial Management
When a company is in financial difficulty but has reasonable prospects of being rehabilitated, or if preserving all or part of its business as a going concern (or even that the interests of creditors would be better served than by resorting to a winding up), the company or its creditors can apply to court for an order that the company be placed under the judicial management of a judicial manager.
If an insolvent company is unable to overcome its difficulties, it can be dissolved. This enables the liquidation of its assets, so that creditors can be repaid, at least in part. This process is known as winding up or liquidation. A healthy company can also be subject to winding up if its members no longer wish the business to continue. When a company is wound up, its assets or proceeds are first used to pay off any creditors. Following this, any balance remaining is distributed pro rata amongst shareholders.


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Coyote Ragtime Show (Dub)
Type: TV Series
Plot Summary: Mister is a "coyote" or space faring outlaw who has been sitting in prison for a year for a traffic offense. Ten days from release, he breaks out with the help of his old partners Bishop and Katana. He then seeks out Franka who has been left in his care by her dead father and takes her on a journey to find her father's treasure. On their heels are the federal investigators Angelica and Chelsea as well as the android assassins of the Criminal Guild, Madame Marciano's Twelve Sisters.
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Mecha, Sci-Fi, Shounen
Released: 2006
Status: Completed
Other name: コヨーテ ラグタイムショー


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If you find the look of a typical espresso maker, with all its dainty knobs and levers, lacking in character, you're not alone. Israeli design student Schmuel Linkski's concrete-encased Lavazza unit is a bold ode to refinement and durability.
Taylor Lorenz Talks "Extremely Online"
Why concrete? "I had a vision," Linkski explains. "Concrete in the kitchen, not only as a wall or decorative part, I wanted it to be a desirable consumer product." While the experience of hauling it home from the store might harm it's chances as a hit among consumers, Linkski's machine is truly gorgeous. [Dezeen]


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1. Whilst our Lord Jesus Christ was speaking among the Jews, and giving so many miraculous signs, some believed who were foreordained to eternal life, and whom He also called His sheep; but some did not believe, and could not believe, because that, by the mysterious yet not unrighteous judgment of God, they had been blinded and hardened, because forsaken of Him who resists the proud, but gives grace unto the humble. James 4:6 But of those who believed, there were some whose confession went so far, that they took branches of palm trees, and met Him as He approached, turning in their joy that very confession into a service of praise: while there were others, belonging to the chief rulers, who had not the boldness to confess their faith, lest they should be put out of the synagogue; and whom the evangelist has branded with the words, that they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God John 12:43. Of those also who did not believe, there were some who would afterwards believe, and whom He foresaw, when He said,
When you have lifted up the Son of man, then shall you acknowledge that I am He: but there were some who would remain in the same unbelief, and be imitated by the Jewish nation of the present day, which, being shortly afterwards crushed in war, according to the prophetic testimony which was written concerning Christ, has since been scattered almost through the whole world.
2. While matters were in this state, and His own passion was now at hand,
Jesus cried, and said, as our lesson today commences,
He that believes in me, believes not on me, but on Him that sent me; and he that sees me, sees Him that sent me. He had already said in a certain place,
My doctrine is not mine, but His that sent me. Where we understood that He called His doctrine just what He is Himself, the Word of the Father; and in saying,
My doctrine is not mine, but His that sent me, implied this, that He was not of Himself, but had His being from another. For He was God of God, the Son of the Father: but the Father is not God of God, but God, the Father of the Son. And now when He says,
He that believes in me, believes not on me, but on Him that sent me, how else are we to understand it, but that He appeared as man to men, while He remained invisible as God? And that none might think that He was no more than what they saw of Him, He indicated His wish to be believed on, as equal in character and rank with the Father, when He said,
He that believes in me, believes not on me, that is, merely on what he sees of me,
but on Him that sent me, that is, on the Father. But he that believes in the Father, must believe that He is the Father; and he that believes in Him as the Father, must believe that He has a Son; and in this way, he that believes in the Father, must believe in the Son. But let no one believe about the only-begotten Son just what they believe about those who are called the sons of God by grace and not by nature, as the evangelist says,
He gave them power to become the sons of God, and according to what the Lord Himself also mentioned, as declared in the law,
I said, You are gods; and all of you children of the Most High: because He said,
He that believes in me, believes not on me, to show that the whole extent of our faith in Christ should not be limited by His manhood. He therefore, He says, believes in me, who does not believe in me merely according to what he sees of me, but on Him that sent me: so that, believing thus on the Father, he may believe that He has a Son co-equal with Himself, and then attain to a true faith in me. For if one should think that He has sons only according to grace, who are certainly no more than His creatures, and not the Word, but those made by the Word, and that He has no Son co-equal and co-eternal with Himself, ever born, alike incommutable, in nothing dissimilar and inferior, then he believes not on the Father who sent Him, for the Father who sent Him is no such conception as this.
3. And, accordingly, after saying,
He that believes in me, believes not on me, but on Him that sent me, that it might not be thought that He would have the Father so understood, as if He were the Father only of many sons regenerated by grace, and not of the only-begotten Word, His own co-equal, He immediately added,
And he that sees me, sees Him that sent me. Does He say here, He that sees me, sees not me, but Him that sent me, as He had said,
He that believes me, believes not on me, but on Him that sent me? For He uttered the former of these words, that He might not be believed on merely as He then appeared, that is, as the Son of man; and the latter, that He might be believed on as the equal of the Father. He that believes in me, believes not merely on what He sees of me, but believes in Him that sent me. Or, when he believes in the Father, who begot me, His own co-equal, let him believe in me, not as he sees me, but as [he believes] on Him that sent me; for so far does the truth, that there is no distance between Him and me, reach, that He who sees me, sees Him that sent me. Certainly, Christ the Lord Himself sent His apostles, as their name implies: for as those who in Greek are called angeli are in Latin called nuntii [messengers], so the Greek apostoli [apostles] becomes the Latin missi [persons sent]. But never would any of the apostles have dared to say,
He that believes in me, believes not on me, but on Him that sent me; for in no sense whatever would he say,
He that believes in me. We believe an apostle, but we do not believe in him; for it is not an apostle that justifies the ungodly. But to him that believes in Him that justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. Romans 4:5 An apostle might say, He that receives me, receives Him that sent me; or, He that hears me, hears Him that sent me; for the Lord tells them so Himself:
He that receives you, receives me; and he that receives me, receives Him that sent me. Matthew 10:40 For the master is honored in the servant, and the father in the son: but then the father is as it were in the son, and the master as it were in the servant. But the only-begotten Son could rightly say,
Believe in God, and believe in me; as also what He says here,
He that believes in me, believes not on me, but on Him that sent me. He did not turn away the faith of the believer from Himself, but only would not have the believer continue in the form of a servant: because every one who believes in the Father that sent Him, straightway believes in the Son, without whom he knows that the Father has no existence as such, and thus reaches in his faith to the belief of His equality with the Father, in conformity with the words that follow,
And he that sees me, sees Him that sent me.
4. Attend to what follows:
I have come a light into the world, that whosoever believes in me should not abide in darkness. He said in a certain place to His disciples,
You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; that it may give light to all that are in the house: so let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven: Matthew 5:14-16 but He did not say to them, You have come a light into the world, that whosoever believes in you should not abide in darkness. Such a statement, I maintain, can nowhere be met with. All the saints, therefore, are lights, but they are illuminated by Him through faith; and every one that becomes separated from Him will be enveloped in darkness. But that Light, which enlightens them, cannot become separated from itself; for it is altogether beyond the reach of change. We believe, then, the light that has thus been lit, as the prophet or apostle: but we believe him for this end, that we may not believe in that which is itself enlightened, but, with him, on that Light which has given him light; so that we, too, may be enlightened, not by him, but, along with him, by the same Light as he. And when He says,
That whosoever believes in me may not abide in darkness, He makes it sufficiently manifest that all have been found by Him in a state of darkness: but that they may not abide in the darkness wherein they have been found, they ought to believe in that Light which has come into the world, for thereby was the world created.
And if any man, He says,
hear my words, and keep them not, I judge him not. Remember what I know you have heard in former lessons; and if any of you have forgotten, recall it: and those of you who were absent then, but are present now, hear how it is that the Son says,
I judge him not, while in another place He says,
The Father judges no man, but has committed all judgment unto the Son; namely, that thereby we are to understand, It is not now that I judge him. And why not now? Listen to the sequel:
For I am not come, He says,
to judge the world, but to save the world; that is, to bring the world into a state of salvation. Now, therefore, is the season of mercy, afterwards will be the time for judgment: for He says,
I will sing to You, O Lord, of mercy and judgment.
6. But see also what He says of that future judgment in the end:
He that despises me, and receives not my words, has one that judges him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day. He says not, He that despises me, and receives not my words, I judge him not at the last day; for had He said so, I do not see how it could have been else than contradictory of that other statement, when He says,
The Father judges no man, but has committed all judgment unto the Son. But when He said,
He that despises me, and receives not my words, has one to judge him, and, for the information of those who were waiting to hear who that one was, went on to add,
The word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day, He made it sufficiently manifest that He Himself would then be the judge. For it was of Himself He spoke, Himself He announced, and Himself He set forth as the gate whereby He entered as the Shepherd to His sheep. In one way, therefore, will those be judged who have never heard that word, in another way those who have heard and despised.
For as many as have sinned without law, says the apostle,
shall also perish without law; and as many as have sinned in the law, shall be judged by the law. Romans 2:12
For I have not, He says,
spoken of myself. He says that He has not spoken of Himself, because He is not of Himself. Of this we have frequently discoursed already; so that now, without any more instruction, we have simply to remind you of it as a truth with which you are familiar.
But the Father who sent me, He gave me a commandment what I should say, and what I should speak. We would not stay to elaborate this, did we know that we were now speaking with those with whom we have spoken on former occasions, and of these, not with all, but such only whose memories have retained what they heard: but because there are perhaps some now present who did not hear, and some in a similar condition who have forgotten what they heard, on their account let those who remember what they have heard bear with our delay. How gives the Father a commandment to His only Son? With what words does He speak to the Word, seeing that the Son Himself is the only-begotten Word? Could it be by an angel, seeing that by Him the angels were created? Was it by means of a cloud, which, when it gave forth its sound to the Son, gave it not on His account, as He Himself also tells us elsewhere, but for the sake of others who were needing to hear it John 12:29? Could it be by any sound issuing from the lips, where bodily form was wanting, and where there is no such local distance separating the Son from the Father as to admit of any intervening air, to give effect, by its percussion, to the voice, and render it audible? Let us put away all such unworthy notions of that incorporeal and ineffable subsistence. The only Son is the Word and the Wisdom of the Father, and therein are all the commandments of the Father. For there was no time that the Son knew not the Father's commandment, so as to make it necessary for Him to possess in course of time what He possessed not before. For what He has received from the Father, He received in being born, and was given it in being begotten. For the life He is, and life He certainly received in being born, while yet there was no antecedent time when life was wanting to His personal existence. For, on the one hand, the Father has life, and is what He has: and yet He received it not, because He is not of any one. But the Son received life as the Father's gift, of whom He is: and so He Himself is what He has; for He has life, and is the life. Listen to Himself when He says,
As the Father has life in Himself, so has He given to the Son to have life in Himself. Could He give it to one who was in being, and yet hitherto was destitute thereof? On the contrary, in the very begetting it was given by Him who begot the life, and so life begot the life. And to show that He begot the life equal, and not inferior to Himself, it was said,
As He has life in Himself, so has He also given to the Son to have life in Himself. He gave life; for in begetting the life, what was it He gave Him, save to be the life? And as His nativity is itself eternal, there never was a time without that Son who is the life, and never was there a time when the Son Himself was without the life; and as His nativity is eternal, so He, who was thus born, is eternal life. And so the Father gave not to the Son a commandment which He had not already; but, as I said, in the Wisdom of the Father, that is, in the word of the Father, are laid up all the Father's commandments. And yet the commandment is said to have been given Him, because He, to whom it is thus given, is not of Himself: and to give that to the Son which He never was without, is the same in meaning as to beget that Son who never was without existence.
8. There follow the words:
And I know that His commandment is life everlasting. If, then, the Son Himself is eternal life, and the Father's commandment the same, what else is expressed than this, I am the Father's commandment? And in like manner, in what He proceeds to say,
Whatsoever I speak, even as the Father said to me, so I speak, let us not be taking the
said to me as if the Father used words in speaking to the only Word, or that the Word of God needed words from God. The Father spoke to the Son in the same way as He gave life to the Son; not that He knew not the one, or had not the other, but just because He was the Son. What, then, do the words mean,
Even as He said to me, so I speak; but just, I speak the truth? So the former said as the Truthful One what the latter thus spoke as the Truth. The Truthful begot the Truth. What, then, could He now say to the Truth? For the Truth had no imperfection to be supplied by additional truth. He spoke, therefore, to the Truth, because He begot the Truth. And in like manner the Truth Himself speaks what has been said to Him; but only to those who have understanding, and who are taught by Him as the God-begotten Truth. But that men might believe what they had not yet capacity to understand, words that were audible issued from His human lips; sounds passing rapidly away broke on the ear, and speedily completed the little term of their duration: but the truths themselves, of which the sounds are but signs, passed, as it were, into the memory of those who heard them, and have come down to us also by means of written characters as signs addressed to the eye. But it is not thus that the Truth speaks; He speaks inwardly to the souls of the intelligent; He needs no sound to instruct, but floods the mind with the light of understanding. And he, then, who in that light is able to behold the eternity of His birth, himself hears in the same way the Truth speaking, as He heard the Father telling Him what He should speak. He has awakened in us a great longing for that sweet experience of His presence within; but it is by daily growth that we acquire it; it is by walking that we grow, and it is by forward efforts we walk, so as to be able at last to attain it.
Source. Translated by John Gibb. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. 7. Edited by Philip Schaff. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1888.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. <http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/1701054.htm>.
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An offbeat and refreshing one, different from the run of the mill travel tales.
Some of the lines you wrote made me ponder!
Thanks for the recognition, Saket! Being different for the sake of love!
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Makes me feel happy. I know the results are never in our hands!
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I feel blessed Rio with such nice words :) Who says you are speechless?! :)
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Perfect article....Even though i may not be married to qualify to talk abt love lasting across time...But being a romantic at heart...your words abt Amour as the french say have touched my heart...thank you for sharing the words!!
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Wetlands on holdings were reported by 2,543 agricultural businesses or 8.7% of all Queensland agricultural businesses with 42% of these businesses reporting that they had protected their wetlands for conservation purposes.
In 2007-08, 14,308 Queensland agricultural businesses reported that they had prepared land for crops and pastures. Most of these undertook one or two cultivation passes (53%) with 41% reporting three or more cultivations. Of agricultural businesses preparing land for crops or pastures 32% reported using zero-tillage.
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Europe's floods and fires snapped from space
All looks rather small
The Thames bursts its banks: ESA
The flooding in the UK is visible from space, and the European Space Agency (ESA) has the pictures to prove it. The agency's earth monitoring Envisat satellites have also snapped the fires raging across much of southern Europe.
The flooding in the UK is the worst to hit the country in 60 years, with hundreds of thousands of people being cut off from water and electricity supplies by the rising waters.
The effect on the nation has been dramatic, and the cost enormous: official estimates are that the damage will cost the insurance industry at least £2bn. The clean up is expected to take months.
But from space, the pictures of the Thames bursting its banks last Wednesday are oddly underwhelming, tiny on the scale of a planet.
Similarly, the lethal fires burning in Italy and Greece look like small puffs of smoke drifting over an otherwise serene Earth. The scale is hard to grasp.
The Abruzzo region in Italy (pictured) has been one of the hardest hit, according to the World Wildlife Foundation (WWF). The group says some 4,500 hectares of protected land have been ravaged by the flames in the last three weeks, with strong winds frustrating firefighting efforts.
Italy aflame: ESA
Satellite images like these are increasingly useful for co-ordinating emergency response, ESA says, because the images give officials the kind of overview of the extent of the flooding that is hard to get from the ground.
Back in 2000, it set up the International Charter on "Space and Major Disasters", along with French space agency CNES. The idea was to give free emergency response satellite data to those affected by natural disasters anywhere in the world. Last week, the UK asked for help from the charter. ®


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Texas Gov. Rick Perry took a swipe at Gov. Martin O'Malley and Maryland's business climate in radio ads aimed at luring companies and residents to the Lone Star state.
"When you grow tired of Maryland taxes squeezing every dime out of your business, think Texas," Perry said in the radio advertisement, set to air in the Baltimore-D.C. market this week and provided to the The Baltimore Sun by WTOP.
Perry, a Republican considered a possible presidential contender in 2016, has launched similar advertisements in Missouri, California, Chicago and New York since April. Earlier this year, Perry invited Beretta and other Maryland gun manufacturers to move to Texas after the General Assembly passed new gun laws here.
The new minute-long spot says O'Malley, a Democrat, "has made Maryland the Tax and Fee State, where businesses and families are paying some of the highest taxes in America."
O'Malley said Wednesday he hasn't seen the ads, adding "I know he does that tired old PR gimmick all around the country, though."
Perry announced earlier this year he would not run again for governor. This summer, top Perry supporters formed a new political action committee called Americans for Economic Freedom, reportedly designed "to help political and business leaders across the country emulate the successful framework for growth that has made states like Texas centers for entrepreneurship and economic development."
Perry's Austin press office did not return a phone call or email seeking comment on his Maryland ads, nor did one of the top supporters behind the PAC.
In the ad, Perry criticized tax and fee increases approved under the O'Malley administration, and said "He even passed a rain tax on some property owners - a tax even New York doesn't have."
The ads, paid for by the Texas Economic Development Corporation, direct listeners to a website promoting Texas' business climate, which also contains similar advertiseme nts aired in Missouri and features the tag line: "Texas is calling...Your opportunity awaits."
O'Malley's spokeswoman released a statement praising Maryland and listing accolades the governor routinely mentions at the public appearances - along with a little jab for Perry.
"Maryland has had the No. 1 public schools in the nation for five years in a row," the statement read. "Since 2007, we've done more than any other state to hold down the cost of college tuition. We're No. 1 in median income. And the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has named us the No. 1 state in the nation for innovation and entrepreneurship for two years in a row.
"Instead of engaging in PR stunts, Governor Perry should come to Maryland to see firsthand the better choices that have led to these better results."
Baltimore Sun reporter Michael Dresser contributed to this report.


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Hope everyone has a wonderful and safe weekend. Be sure to stop by Sunday for the reveal on July's sketch challenge. :-)
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We sat down with the lengendary Anne Rice to talk about the new graphic adaptation Interview With The Vampire: Claudia's Story, Lestat and Louis as same-sex parents, advice for aspiring writers, and how she feels about the vampire invasion.
Rice answered questions in a candid conversation with io9. At 71, she has sold more than a 100 million copies of her novels, which include The Vampire Chronicles and The Mayfair Witches series, and she is a spirited and gracious subject.
Interview With The Vampire: Claudia's Story is a graphic novel adaptation by Ashley Marie Witter of Rice's 1976 classic told from the perspective of Claudia, the child-turned-vampire. Rice prefers to be hands off when her work is licensed for adaptation, and once she approved of Witter's selection and depictions, she was content – and excited – to wait for the results, giving little feedback.
She is wholly enthusiastic about the results. We pored over the initial pages together: Witter's art is delicate, with a baroque manga feel. An evocative choice was made to print the book entirely in sepia, with the only color coming from scarlet blood (of which there is a lot).
Louis and Lestat's lovely faces come to life, collars are fluffed with detailed antique lace, and many bites are bitten. Most effectively drawn is young Claudia, flashing from innocent to monstrous by the panel. Ms. Rice commented that she thought the book "spectacular" and "there's never been anything quite like this."
io9: Why Claudia's story? Was Interview something you had wanted to explore from her perspective?
AR: They [Yen Press] suggested doing the adaptation. They wanted to do it from Claudia's point of view, and I thought that that was great. It's an adaptation just as a screenplay is an adaptation, or a play, or the script of a musical. Those are all adaptations, and I felt that it was completely legitimate for them to do that. And they've done a beautiful job. Just a beautiful job.
io9: What has the collaborative process been like? Did you write notes for her, were you working with her –
AR: No, not really. You know, I'm not a really good collaborator, and when I license something I usually stay out of it. Except the movie of Interview With The Vampire, I did write the script for that. But once they started changing and shooting it, I was out of the process. But I trusted Yen to do the right adaptation with this.
io9: What do you think about the graphic novel as a medium?
AR: I love the graphic novel. I wish all of my works were in this form. I love that they can be so much more than what they usually are. There were earlier adaptations of Interview With The Vampire and The Vampire Lestat – they were by companies that went out of business. I remember at one point, one of the artists bragged about the fact that he hadn't read the book. It was just a very wild kind of thing.
io9: How do you feel about the explosion in the popularity of vampires, even in just the last decade?
AR: I'm puzzled. You know, kind of puzzled. When I came up, it wasn't that way at all, of course. There was a lot of dismissal, whereas these days, there seems to be this unabashed market.
io9: I think there're a lot of properties that would not have existed without you blazing the trail, but now it seems like there's a different vampire movie each week. I was curious if you felt like a proud parent in terms of that, or of you were ready for something different supernaturally to —
AR: If I've been an influence, I'm happy. I think the vampire is such a wonderful concept, such a rich concept. I'm not surprised if other people who have mined that concept have come up with different characters, different cosmology, different mythology. That's bound to happen. I guess we'll have vampires with us now for a long time, kind of like the Western and the detective novel. It will be just sort of an unending story.
io9: Speaking of being a proud parent, your son Christopher is a writer. Did you encourage him in pursuing the family business, or did you warn him off from the lifestyle?
AR: Oh no, no, I would never warn him off. But actually he surprised me when he wrote his first novel. I didn't know he was working on it, and then he came out of the bedroom with this novel in his hands, and we were just blown away. He had always been into acting, and screenplay writing, things like that. In high school he was very much an actor, and so I thought he was going to go in that direction. But suddenly he came out of his bedroom with a novel. And I was happy that he had chosen my profession. I was thrilled.
io9: Did you have words of wisdom to give him for him, that we could extend to our readers? What is your advice for the young writers who ask for it?
AR: Well you know, I do give sort of the same standard advice over and over again. You have to go where the pain is, go where the pleasure is, and you can't be afraid. And you have to write the book that you can't find in the bookstore, the book that you really want to read. And you have to write a book that you yourself would love to read, and a book you want to live in, you want to be in. It has to be.
I don't think I ever had to tell him that, I think he just sort of did it. But I think that helps to focus. When you say that to yourself, I'm writing the book I want to write, the book I can't find, the book that hasn't been done yet the way that I would like to do it. And of course, we always have to remember that the world doesn't want someone who sounds just like somebody else, they want an original voice. The world is always crying for original voices.
You could go and and you could discourage any writer that ever wrote by saying, "Who needs another novel? What makes you think you can be writing more about that?" You've just got to just totally ignore it. The world always is hungry for a brand new way to look at something. Nobody could have predicted Interview With The Vampire would have been a hit. Nobody could have predicted Harry Potter would have been a hit. If you went and ran these ideas past an editor, they'd probably tell you to give up. You have to ignore people.
io9: That may be the key line.
AR: You have to ignore critics. Critics are a dime a dozen. Writers are unique.
io9: Lestat is one of your most well-known creations, and he looms large. How would Lestat feel about right now, today's world? Would he be moved? Detached? Has he seen it all?
AR: I think he would be dazzled by the technology. He always is dazzled by those things. He's always got one foot in the 18th century world, and he remembers what it was like living there, and I think he's always dazzled, enchanted, by what's going on. Going into an all-night drugstore and just looking at the colors of all the bottles of shampoo, and how beautiful they are, you know, that's very much what he does. And I think he would be even more dazzled, because the world gets more interesting and more exciting all the time. I know he would feel that way.
io9: He'd probably he on line for the latest iPhone.
AR: I don't know if he'd be on line, but he'd drift into the store and pick one up.
io9: We heard there might also be a graphic adaptation of The Wolf Gift. Is that a secret, or can we –
AR: No, Yen [Press] is going to going to do it. I don't know if the same artist is going to do it, whether it's going to be the same group, but Yen wants to do it, so I'm very thrilled.
io9: There's the concept of Louis and Lestat as Claudia's "parents," which we see in the novel, movie and now in the graphic novel. When you know the narrative, it's not quite the modern statement it could appear to be visually, in the adaptation. Are you okay with that as an idea for the new century?
AR: Sure! [Laughs] Sure! I never thought of it, they were the first vampire same-sex parents.
io9: I had wondered if that had been a thought on your mind before.
AR: No.
io9: That's the way that it seems to be shown, it's very much "she's our daughter now." So I can say, they're a same-sex couple with children?
AR: Absolutely! Claudia! She's their daughter.
[We discuss Anne writing the screenplay of the film version of Interview With The Vampire]
AR: I like to go on Amazon now and see people discovering now, what they're writing about it.
io9: So you do peek behind the curtain? You look at what fans and reviewers have to say?
AR: Oh, sure, I do. Yeah, I read everything once, at least. I don't recommend writers do that, though, some writers can't take that. It can be very painful to read some of the very unfair things that people say. I don't think that you should ever do anything that hurts your writing. I was talking to a best-selling author not too long ago, and she was said she never goes to Amazon, she never looks, and I understand. You can't do anything that hurts you. You have to do what's best for you.
io9: You've lived such an interesting life that has taken you to so many places. You told The New York Times, "I was known as my own square" when you lived in San Francisco in the Haight-Ashbury in its heyday when you were young.
AR: I was not a hippie. But I was in the very midst of it all.
io9: A witness to history.
AR: Yeah. It was kind of fun. But I was going to school, and sort of struggling to be a writer, and I really wasn't interested in dropping out. They were all dropping out around me.
io9: You've written under the pseudonyms Anne Rampling and A. N. Roquelaure. Do you ever feel like creating a new pseudonym and running wild with it?
AR: Sometimes. Sometimes, I'd like to break off and maybe write some new erotica where nobody knew it was me! That's what I did, the pseudonyms gave me this wonderful anonymity to just do what I wanted, because it wasn't Anne Rice doing it. And then of course, I acknowledged them immediately, and told everyone they were mine. But I was finished, I was done, and the freedom had been very helpful.
It was like if you were a rock singer and you were well known, and you were driving through the country in your limousine and you see a little tavern, and you think, "Well, I'll go in there," and you go in there and there's a stage and a mic a piano, and you just sit down and you sing for about four hours, whatever drifts in and out, it's kind of like that. And you don't have to be your rock-star self, you know. You can sing some old songs. And stuff you never get to sing onstage.
io9: Since we're at Comic Con, and you have so many ardent fans here, we have to ask: have you had experiences that have either dazzled you in a good way, or made you take a step back?
AR: No, they're always wonderful. There were a few people in line who had great fangs, and cat contacts, and they were lovely. I've always loved all that. I've always been honored by it, and I think it's wonderful.
Speaking with Ms. Rice was illuminating, and we're excited for the new graphic novel adaptations, as well as the potential Lestat movie she let the panel know was in progress from Imagine Entertainment. We also hope she also goes ahead with the erotica. Interview With The Vampire: Claudia's Story will be available from Orbit/Yen Press November 20th. Previews can be seen on Ms. Rice's Facebook page, which she frequents.