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- Interventions for displaced radial head fractures: network meta-analysis of randomized trials. Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery. 28:578-586. 2019
- Subacromial decompression surgery for adults with shoulder pain: a clinical practice guideline. British Medical Journal BMJ (Clinical research ed.). 364:l294-l294. 2019
- Clinical Assessment of Physical Examination Maneuvers for Superior Labral Anterior to Posterior Lesions. Surg J (N Y). 03:e154-e162. 2017
- Diagnostic Validity of Patient-Reported History for Shoulder Pathology. Surg J (N Y). 03:e79-e87. 2017
- Psychophysical and Patient Factors as Determinants of Pain, Function and Health Status in Shoulder Disorders. Open Orthopaedics Journal. 10:466-480. 2016
- A Double-Blinded Placebo Randomized Controlled Trial Evaluating Short-term Efficacy of Platelet-Rich Plasma in Reducing Postoperative Pain After Arthroscopic Rotator Cuff Repair. Sports Health. 7:58-66. 2015
- Clinical Assessment of Physical Examination Maneuvers for Rotator Cuff Lesions. American Journal of Sports Medicine. 42:1911-1919. 2014
- Sonography of the Lateral Ulnar Collateral Ligament of the Elbow: Study of Cadavers and Healthy Volunteers. American Journal of Roentgenology. 193:1615-1619. 2009
- Imaging findings in posterior instability of the shoulder. Skeletal Radiology. 37:693-707. 2008
- Planning and executing orthopedic journal clubs. Indian Journal of Orthopaedics. 41:47-47. 2007
- Health-Related Quality of Life Following Operative Treatment of Unstable Ankle Fractures. Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma. 18:338-345. 2004
- Predictors of early and late instability following conservative treatment of extra-articular distal radius fractures. Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery Archives of Orthopaedic and Traumatic Surgery. 124:38-41. 2004
- A prospective cost analysis following operative treatment of unstable ankle fractures30 patients followed for 1 year. Acta Orthopaedica Scandinavica Acta Orthopaedica. 75:100-105. 2004
- Patient preferences of the timing, number and duration of surgeon in-hospital visits on orthopaedic surgery and neurosurgery wards. Journal of Orthopaedic Nursing. 7:77-81. 2003
- Arthroplasty with a Metal Radial Head for Unreconstructible Fractures of the Radial Head. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - Series A. 83:1201-1211. 2001
- Arthroplasty with a metal radial head for unreconstructible fractures of the radial head.. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - Series A. 83:1201-1211. 2001
- Total Elbow Arthroplasty in the Treatment of Posttraumatic Conditions of the Elbow. Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research. 370:102-114. 2000
- The Value of Facet Joint Blocks in Patient Selection For Lumbar Fusion. Spine. 18:185-190. 1993
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- Sonographic Assessment of the Lateral Ulnar Collateral Ligament of the Elbow in Cadavers and Asymptomatic Volunteers. American Journal of Roentgenology. 2009


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England coach Gareth Southgate said Wednesday his team was concentrated on winning matches, not plotting a particular route through the World Cup knockout stage, ahead of their Group G showdown with Belgium.
Both teams have already qualified for the last 16 and, with one of Colombia, Japan or Senegal lurking in the second round, there has even been some talk that England might have an easier route through the tournament if they lose in Kaliningrad on Thursday.
But on a day when holders Germany crashed out of the tournament with a shock 2-0 loss to South Korea, Southgate said his side were focused on Belgium alone.
"We need to keep winning football matches and we want to breed a mentality that everybody in our squad wants to constantly win," he told reporters.
"We've not won a knockout game since 2006, why we would be starting to plot which would be a better venue for our semi-final is beyond me really.
"We're trying to develop a winning mentality and I can't imagine a situation where I stand in front of the group of players I've got and start talking to them about anything else," said the former under-21s coach.
England impressed in their opening two World Cup games, albeit against weak opposition, beating Tunisia 2-1 in Volgograd then thrashing Panama 6-1 in Nizhny Novgorod.
But in Belgium they face the world's third-ranked side, and a squad loaded with world-class talent such as Eden Hazard and Kevin De Bruyne.
"We're going to face tougher challenges in the next few games and at the moment we can't consider ourselves a top team until we start to beat one of those teams," said Southgate.
"But we have a hunger to keep improving and we're playing with a lot of confidence."
In the form of captain Harry Kane, England have Russia's top goalscorer so far with five, and the Tottenham talisman is likely to start against Belgium.
But Southgate did concede he would probably make some changes for a clash that neither side needs to win.
"When you make changes and players come in they have a high level of motivation, they know it's a brilliant opportunity to play at the World Cup and they want to show what they can do," he said.
"One of the key things for me is that everyone is ready to come in, not only in tomorrow's games but the games beyond that."
- Lukaku out -
Opposite number Roberto Martinez is expected to make wholesale changes to his team, with Manchester United forward Romelu Lukaku almost certain to miss out after picking up an ankle knock in Belgium's 5-2 win over Tunisia.
"At the moment he's still in the recovery phase but tomorrow is probably one day too early for him," Martinez said.
Unlike Southgate, the former Everton and Wigan manager said he was approaching Thursday's game with one eye firmly on the knockout rounds.
"Tomorrow we want to perform well but I think the priority is not to win," he said.
"That's the reality. We wanted to qualify, we've done that. There are players who have been in very demanding games so its very important for us to protect and give every player the best opportunity to be in the best condition in the knockout games."
Germany's Group F exit has blown one side of the draw wide open, but Southgate said his side feared no one after making an encouraging start in Russia.
"We want to win the game and that would mean we top the group and we would go into whatever game we go into moving forward," he said.

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Categories : All, Case Study, Finance, Microsoft Development
The company wanted to streamline the process for its application development practices by adapting Application lifecycle management (ALM) solution to better coordinate the flow of release, build, processes and information in an iterative cycle of software delivery activities.
They wanted to define the process of branching and merging process in a Microsoft team foundation server (TFS).
Alongside defining the process for the build automation, the client required the implementation of build automation to get the better delivery management.
Plus, need an automated system to check and track how changes to the applications are documented to reduce the manual efforts.
The first challenge our team found difficulty in identifying current processes and configurations implanted at clients' premises.
The second emerged while configuration and implementation of new processes which the client can use across all projects and teams, and streamline its practices.
The third challenge popped up in the deployment of ALM in client premises and automation of software development activities.
The fourth challenge was in the creation of Build Architecture and setting up the process for build.


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Smartphone ownership has reached tipping point with last month's news that more than half of Britons now own a smartphone.
Almost 1 in 10 visits to a website now come from non-computer devices. And with two thirds of smartphone owners reading their emails on their phone, and time-poor users doing several things at once, now is the time to make sure you have a strong mobile strategy. Without one your content could lose its impact and your brand could suffer the consequences as mobile users think you're out of touch.
Here we outline the 6 key reasons you need to invest in mobile content.


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Harbin ethnography:
... And the play at actual Harbin can develop in multiple ways in virtual Harbin and between the two, giving new expressions to cybernetic theory.
Harbin's films which are shown 2-4 times a day, for decades now, probably contribute to Harbin residents and visitors' experience of actual Harbin's virtuality in unique ways, as another prehistory of virtual Harbin. In quieter, rainy, winter months, and during slow times for Harbin, for example, possibly at times in winter in the mid-1970, 80s and 90s (?), films in Harbin's great, pillow-strewn, stepped, 'hippy' theater probably offered an antidote to boredom. Fantastic narratives from science fiction and film, and science fiction in film, create far-reaching kinds of virtuality. And in the past few years, on the weekends, films that are spiritually oriented are shown; films, for example, focusing on the Dalai Lama or Pema Chodron and similar spiritual teachers, in the context of northern California, post 1960s. And all of these films are streamable into virtual Harbin, as well, so that as virtual Harbin develops, anyone around the world, may be able to go into the virtual Harbin theater in Second Life and watch a film being shown at actual Harbin, or watch a film of their own choosing. Films that are significant, for example, to the founder, Ishvara, and that may have influenced the Harbin vision include Frank Capra's film "Lost Horizon" (1937) and George Bailey's "It's a Wonderful Life" (1946). There are also a number of Harbin residents and visitors who read science fiction abundantly. And all of these expressions of Harbin virtuality as narratives – in science fiction and film, for example – take place in the context of a very relaxed way of life, where people seeing these films, are in and out of the Harbin pools a few times a day, hanging out here and there - on the sun deck, in the Fern community kitchen, in the health food store - then heading to the theater in the evening, after visiting the restaurant, all of which has gone on for decades, as well. These prehistories of virtual Harbin, in the form of narratives and imagination, are many and diverse.
Science fiction, fantasy and film have been important to the emergence of virtual worlds and the virtual, - at actual Harbin and virtual Harbin, particularly. ...
(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/08/west-virginia-wilderness-harbin.html - August 25, 2010)
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[Article I wrote to promote Kinfundi]
It is annual bonus time but with the current state of economic affairs in South Africa, some companies might not have performed as well as they'd hoped. This does not mean that employees have not been working extremely hard, and now it is possible to reward them in a very unique way.
Education means liberation. And the current education crisis has put a big spotlight on education affordability. The fact remains that South Africa's economy is not strong enough to offer free education and therefore the onus falls on parents, who more often than not cannot afford tertiary education for their children.
As a bonus to employees, companies can join Kinfundi, invest a small amount into this education savings benefit and continue with monthly contributions as part of their employee benefits offering.
Kinfundi is a new type of fringe benefit that employers can offer to their staff to help them save for their family's future education fees. It is important for employers to recognise the hard work done by their staff and by offering them a helping hand with education savings, they are rewarding their employees in an innovative and collaborative way. "Imagine the impact on morale, retention and staff engagement when you help staff not only with their development, but the education of their entire family?" asks Dakin Parker of Kinfundi.
"We are an educational affordability platform, not a financial service. This reduces barriers to access and allows for far lower costs. Employer contributions are tax deductible and qualify as both Skills Development and Socio-Economic Development spend on their B-BBEE scorecards", says Chris Nel, Managing Director of Trusted Education Group, the company bringing Kinfundi to market.
Staff members that join Kinfundi each get their own account, which is held in Edu-Time Points (ETPs) and not Rand (1 ETP = R1). Employers and members start saving through monthly contributions via payroll that need to be remitted by the employer to Kinfundi. The contributions get invested and account balances also grow through donor funding. Companies who are signed up with Kinfundi can even make Kinfundi—and therefore their own employees—the beneficiaries of their CSI spend.
"For the first time there is now a public product available that employers can use to create their own bursary scheme for staff, without having to incur the massive admin cost and headache of setting it up internally," said Dakin Parker.
By encouraging and helping their employees save for the education of their families, they are thinking further than just this Christmas. They are offering a substantial reward at a low cost to the company.
And what is in it for the employer?
Dakin Parker replies, "Our product has been developed and fine-tuned to ensure that all of its features meet market demands and that its benefits offer maximum tax friendliness and B-BBEE spend credits, while being compliant with legislation and market expectations."
All contributions made to Kinfundi will be spent on tuition fees at primary and high schools, colleges, universities and any other SAQA-recognised educational institutions. For the first time lower income and working family households are able to afford education for their families, which means children can fulfill their academic potential and become economically liberated.
Interested? Get in touch with Kinfundi on: firstname.lastname@example.com or 021-200-0430 or submit an inquiry through this page on their website.


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"Some sat in darkness, in utter darkness,
prisoners suffering . . .
Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble,
and he saved them from their distress.
He brought them out of darkness, the utter darkness,
and broke away their chains.
Let them give thanks to the Lord for his unfailing love
and his wonderful deeds . . .
for he breaks down gates of bronze
and cuts through bars of iron" (Psalm 107:10-16).
My dad volunteers his time to guide incarcerated people toward transformation. He visits the jail at least once a week, and courthouse staff know him by name. Those who complete the Transformations Program have such a marginal rate of reoffending, judges recommend and celebrate their work. Dad often expresses the immeasurable rewards he experiences through guiding those lost souls to a renewed life. Their freedom extends beyond the removal of bars. Liberty defines their healthy lifestyle, a victorious state of the soul.
Bars and cell walls make some types of imprisonment clear. Whether or not the bars can be touched, other strongholds bind the soul with tenacious chains. Destructive thought cycles. Emotional quicksand. Toxic relationship patterns. We can step inside various spiritual strongholds and feel unable to escape on our own.
All the while, the One Who loves us most stands at the cell door. He extends the key in His nail-scarred hand. Our first step to freedom is reaching out in prayer to accept His help.
Transformations graduates won't testify to an effortless escape. Anyone with a life story of empancipation recognizes the journey's challenges. Spiritual freedom requires us to change, which proves an intense challenge to habit-captives. Though we face tough work, Jesus Christ takes on the heaviest lifting. Soul liberation remains impossible without God's power.
As the psalmist proclaims, the Lord never ignores a heartfelt cry submitted to Him. When we lay ourselves out in surrender, acknowledging our need for Christ's transforming power, He shows up. Every time. Regardless of the circumstances, which might not change, Jesus renews, sustains, and frees each soul to the extent of its surrender to Him. The deep chains fall away, and His children celebrate inner victory.
What's holding you hostage today? Will you consider praying to surrender all before the One Who waits to set you free forever?
"Suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us" (Romans 5:3-5).
Magical characters reach from movie screens and beckon me into their world. Theme parks offer fresh visits to childlike wonder. Incredible masterpieces fill museum halls and garden paths. I relish each chance to drink in the inspiration of imagination.
The Father molded each of us in His image. He crafted unique works of art, kissing individual personalities with a different spritz of His creative sparkle. In a delightful chat with a 72 year old Christ-sister yesterday, we explored our different means of reflecting God's ingenuity. When I shared my work as a writer, she first defined herself as devoid of creativity. Yet, as we talked, her amazing talents with children shone (along with other strengths) as brilliant examples of imaginative gifts. The Lord engineered our differences to glimmer in harmonizing shades as part of His glorious design.
Imagination inspires, motivates, uplifts–a fantastic blessing. My coaching and writing professions require consistent supply of this priceless resource. I cannot inspire unless I drink copious doses of inspiration. My incessant thirst deems me ever thankful for each sip of creative fuel.
While magnificent, imagination fails to bless us as an end unto itself. Creativity must encourage the soul to seek something greater. Inspiration toward anything less than true hope leaves us empty. Our sparkling kisses of ingenuity must reflect the Father's love to others. Each imaginative work which honors His touch will transform others' souls.
In the midst of a bleak, discouraging world, we need splashes of inspiration more than ever. God designed us to "poke holes in the darkness until light bleeds through," as Margaret Feinberg so eloquently put it. Hope must radiate from the edges of all our creative endeavors. Imagination glimmers with us on earth for a season, a beautiful tool to point others toward eternal hope.
What creative works will God use from your spiritual and natural gifts to offer hope? Comment and share with all of us, so we can inspire one another to persevere in His work of providing hope.
Cakes, red meat, and fresh neckties fly off the shelves this week. I'm grateful for the ease with which I could choose a card for my wonderful dad. But many struggle with this weekend's holiday. I heard a comedian wish aloud for a card without overstated accolades, reading something like, "Well, Dad, I guess you did the best you could."
Others experience deeper strife than choosing an appropriate card. Father's Day torments the orphaned, abused, or widowed. A strong sense of loss comes with grieving a beloved man or aching over the empty hole never filled by a father's love.
God never designed fatherhood to hurt us. Nor did He intend for the role to fill a permanent need. Fathers were built into our life cycle design as a model to help us better understand significant aspects of our relationship to the Ultimate Father. A temporary model to help explain the source Who fulfills our needs forever. The Creator employs earthly dads to point their children toward relationship with a heavenly Father. Dads are meant to serve as imperfect place-holders to demonstrate the role of Our Perfect Father who will fulfill our needs forever. Where humans can only attempt to provide, God sustains us with a sufficiency beyond our expectations. Whether you have a good, hurtful, or missing one, Christ offers us all access to intimate, fulfilling relationship with a Perfect Father. No one needs to remain fatherless.
Mothers raise and nurture children, also conveying certain God-head characteristics when fulfilling their roles well. Some of the Lord's qualities can be modeled by both parents, in different ways. For the sake of Father's Day, let's focus on specific divine attributes reflected in the ideal design of a father's role. These include protection, provision, discipline, and fatherly love.
"The Lord your God carried you, as a father carries his son, all the way you went" (Deuteronomy 1:31).
In Deuteronomy, we see the Lord's provision and protection described in tandem. Earthly fathers are engineered for provision and protection, but cannot meet all physical or spiritual needs for a growing individual. Human insufficiency illuminates our need for God as the ultimate resource. Like a good dad, God doesn't indulge our every desire, but only He can sustain us by identifying and meeting our true needs. Responsible fathers try to protect their kids without insulating them from opportunities to grow. While we might experience hardship, the Lord can use our struggles toward increasing our strength. He alone can guard us against the forces of evil.
"My son, do not despise the Lord's discipline,
and do not resent his rebuke,
because the Lord disciplines those he loves,
as a father the son he delights in" (Proverbs 3:11-12).
Discipline wasn't fun when our parents delivered it. We often shrink from the notion of loving rebuke from God. Unlike the unreliable outcomes of human correction, our heavenly Father only sets boundaries which offer increasing benefit to us. His guidance prevents disaster and steers us toward glorious, abundant life. Sinful tendencies resemble nits in our hair, and the Lord removes them as often as we allow Him to comb them out.
"As a father has compassion on his children,
so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him" (Psalm 103:13).
Ideal dads show some compassion to their kids. Many never experienced this quality during childhood. Even those who had caring fathers didn't get selfless adoration at all times. People in this broken world love imperfectly. Why did Scripture offer this insufficient analogy? Because the ancients living in Old Testament period needed a relevant starting point for understanding their relationship with God. Before Christ set aside His glory to dwell among us in human form, nothing on earth came close to the love of God. Jesus alone offered exact representation of the Father's love.
"God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8).
Unconditional. Suffering when we hurt. Willing to suffer for us. Selfless. Unlimited. Over-the-top. Amazing. Beyond all our imagination can comprehend. Blowing all other concepts of love out of the water. THAT is the love our Father extends to us.
This weekend, while honoring those designed to point toward heaven, consider the gift of the cross. Christ's outstretched arms leave no one excluded from access to a perfect Father. If you've never accepted the ultimate love gift of eternal life, let this be your opportunity to respond to Jesus' scarred hands and receive His embrace. It only takes a simple but sincere prayer, like, "I need You, Jesus. I'm all yours."
Today could begin your endless Father's Day.
"See, I am sending an angel ahead of you to guard you along the way and to bring you to the place I have prepared" (Exodus 23:20).
I wiggled on the plastic seat and squinted toward the floor of the expo hall. Four hundred fifty-four square black caps huddled into rows of folding chairs. Red honor cords, white stoles, and baccalaureate medals flowed to the center of the black robed sea. One precious individual sat in the middle of the crowd awaiting his moment to cross the stage. Four years of excruciating work now hung as distinguished accouterments around his neck and lay as satin remnants over his shoulders. The moment of graduation hung within reach, with a few words to traverse on the way.
The principal delivered his congratulations and exhortations, followed by high-ranked students offering similar remarks. As the International Baccalaureate Valedictorian approached the podium to deliver the final speech, the expo hall went dark. No sound equipment. No lights. Shadows engulfed the commencement process.
The Valedictorian looked back for direction from the faculty, who turned to the school principal. The entire staff hesitated for a moment. The darkness caught us all off guard. Then, the IB administrator urged her top student to press on. As he proceeded to speak, the generator brought up a few stage lights. The sound system resumed. As the lead student offered his concluding words of encouragement to the graduating class, the house lights brightened. With minimized delay, light guided our commencement outward.
On the drive home, my son and I discussed future graduations. With college racing toward us in a couple of months, we anticipated undergraduate and graduate commencements to outshine the one we'd just completed. Before striving onward, we gathered for hugs and copious amounts of chocolate cake.
Diverse events comprise threshold moments of our lives. Certainly not limited to school achievements, many kinds of commencements spangle our timelines. Periods of intense trial come to a close. Good things end, too, such as cherished bonds or occupations we enjoyed.
At the end of one season, we can often experience a moment of uncertainty. The next steps toward our calling fall under shadows. We hesitate, taken off guard by our blindness.
In the shadows of commencement lies an opportunity to tighten our grip on faith. Turn back to consult the Lord's wisdom through prayer and Scripture. Even when we cannot see yet, the Spirit might exhort us to press onward. Persevere despite the dim lighting and poor sound reception. Take the next right step. The lights will return to guide us outward into fulfillment of our mission.
Commencement defines the growth stages of our spiritual journey. Challenges and suffering teach us volumes. Compassion and wisdom shimmer over our shoulders more brilliantly than a scholar's garb. With each threshold crossed, we have an opportunity to deepen our trust in God, develop more Christ-like love for others, and emerge well-equipped for the next level of our mission.
So, let's pause to pray for wisdom. Prepare with me through frequent meditation on God's Word. And even if we don't know it all yet, the Spirit will exhort us to commence. But, before we get going, let's not forget to celebrate with excessive chocolate.
Seriously, we have way too much cake here for one family. Any volunteers to help with that?
"Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds . . .encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching. So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded. You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised" (Hebrews 10:23-25, 35-36).
"Blessed is the one who perseveres under trial because, having stood the test, that person will receive the crown of life that the Lord has promised to those who love him" (James 1:12).
"suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us" (Romans 5:3-5).
"let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith" (Hebrews 12:1-2).
"go and make disciples of all nations,baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age" (Matthew 28:19-20).
"'You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.' After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight. They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them. 'Men of Galilee,' they said, 'why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven'" (Acts 1:8-11).
"Put on heartfelt compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience, accepting one another and forgiving one another if anyone has a complaint against another. Just as the Lord has forgiven you, so you must also forgive. Above all, put on love—the perfect bond of unity" (Colossians 3:12-14).
Genocide ravages our eastern neighbors. Oppression torments those to our south. At home, rioters crawl in under the shadows of corruption to raze cities. Power-crazed leaders clamor to bathe in the spotlight, spurring world citizens with rallies to "do something" against injustice. Armed with fresh rage, the masses rise to wreak destruction.
Thus humanity declares enmity with itself. War spreads like a cancer. In its wake, monuments erected by our creative souls lie in ruins. The earth reddens, awash in the blood of our brothers and sisters.
From the surface, many declare us a planet of incompatible nations and divergent races. Unique cultural shimmers harden into blade-like divisions. We reject a blend of spices which could enhance nourishment, and instead burn one another's food.
All people hunger. Regardless of our native continents, we thirst. In our many-faceted ways, we yearn to reflect the Creator's nature. And we all need togetherness. We are, in fact, more alike than different.
Fundamental sameness resounds in our design. First and foremost, we belong to the human race. All nations rest under the authority of One King. God's authority isn't dependent upon acknowledgement.
Christ rebuked division, yet stood against injustice with His Father's perfect resolution. He responded to poverty, imprisonment, and affliction with loving service. He declared war against evil and forged a path of mercy for people. Without His deliverance, we all remain in the clutches of darkness and death. Our true battle must be as His, against the enemy behind all this destruction and not waged against one another. Jesus' ministry rejected rioting in favor of healing, provision, and liberating souls. The King of Kings vanquished evil and remains Prince of Peace for humanity.
Let us follow in Christ's footsteps, viewing our brothers and sisters as precious to our Father. Let us strive to celebrate our divinely sculpted variety while embracing the unity of God's design. Will you join me in prayers and efforts toward peaceful healing? We cannot conquer the world's darkness on our own, but each of us can act as a candle to dispense a circle of it with His light.
"How good and pleasant it is
when God's people live together in unity!" (Psalm 133:1)
"With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you're too smart to go down any not-so-good street." – Dr. Seuss
"Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ" (Romans 5:1).
Refugees abandon homes in pursuit of it. Defendants empty bank accounts to negotiate it. Acquisition offers empty promises of it. Anesthesia poisons the flesh with temporary illusions of it. A mother of toddlers looks for it in the bathroom.
Peace lingers in the desperate pleas of souls worldwide. From those enduring brutal oppression to those overwhelmed with daily stress, a valid strain proves critical within each experience. Humanity cries for an end to war with one another, heart-breaking circumstances, and ourselves. We struggle to cope and survive. A greater need pervades and exceeds all others. And it has already been offered to us at the grantor's expense.
No change of address. No attorney fees. Debt-free and without side-effects. Not even confined to the powder room.
Peace with God provides hope beyond this heart-wrenching world. While refugees flee torment to dwell as outsiders in poverty, we leave behind a broken mortality and return home to the splendor for which we were created. Jesus, having paid our expenses with His suffering, also serves as our advocate to free us from judgment. We can trust His sufficient payment and negotiation has secured a brilliant future.
Our hope isn't limited to the future. Though salvation doesn't eliminate earthly challenges, peace with God equips us to cope with our current struggles. Acceptance of Christ into our hearts brings His presence into our daily lives. We can neither survive this mortal life nor cope with it on our own. Thanks to Jesus, we don't have to. His indwelling Spirit offers a constant resource of divine wisdom and strength, awaiting our requests for support.
Paul reminded early Christians of this, since they endured severe trials.
"Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus" (Philippians 4:6-7).
Will you take a moment today and thank God with me for His beautiful gift of peace?
Thank You, Jesus. For Your grace which secures our hope. For Your reliable presence that sustains us with precious, incomparable peace.
"children running and shouting through the Temple, 'Hosanna to David's Son!' . . . Jesus said, 'Yes, I hear them. And haven't you read in God's Word, 'From the mouths of children and babies I'll furnish a place of praise'?'" (Matthew 21:15-16).
Easter dawned on the horizon as Christ marched through formidable gates to redeem His house of worship. With every step across the courts of women and Gentiles He manifested God's presence among those furthest removed from the holy place. In strode the One Who would make all things new.
The resident authorities balked at change. The current state of worship served their lifestyle of disdain and exclusion. Sizable gifts impressed them, not whether men offered them from their hearts. The swindling of poor worshipers failed to prick their conscience. Priests and politicians shared the drink of corruption. The Temple rulers shrugged away such apostasies.
But, oh, those children.
Jesus foreknew the Temple purification would meet resistance. Sanctification always does. He took time to weave a whip, readying His physical instrument as He prepared for battle against unseen forces. While we don't know the inner details of this quiet time, Christ maintained perfect concordance with His Father throughout His life. That He prayed during these moments requires little conjecture.
God's maelstrom thundered across the Temple as He flipped wooden tables over onto the stone floors. Merchants pawed across the marble tiles to recover spilled coins. Christ's whip cracked over their heads and spurred them to flee the halls. His voice echoed off the smooth walls, declaring the purpose of His Father's House. And His task was not yet complete.
Sanctification requires more than cleansing filth away.
Enter those relentless little worshipers. As the children ran through the Temple, the Lord used their praises to help cleanse the Temple by renewing its divine purpose. It wasn't enough to stop doing wrong. The right type of worship had to fill God's house again. Worship like a child who loves the Lord.
Scripture defines Christians as "temples of the Holy Spirit" (1Corinthians 6:19). Just as the driving out of money changers represented something larger in need of removal from the place of worship, our lives tend to harbor elements that don't belong. Our sin nature clings to its corrupt old ways and resists change. Despite human and supernatural opposition, Christ's sanctification can renew our lives. If we submit to His ongoing work of transformation, He drives out residing powers that don't belong. Pride, selfishness, all manner of sinful strongholds flee out of the halls with a pathetic squeal.
A purged Temple isn't fully cleansed yet. After the Lord relieves my soul of a nasty attitude, renewed purpose must complete His work. I need to reorient my spirit and fill the cleansed spaces with the worship He desires. Whether He prescribes certain actions or a discipline of stillness, complete renewal means submitting to renewed purpose. I must worship Him with the relentless praise of a devoted child.
Not childish, but child like. Knowing my utter dependence upon Him, yet comfortable that He carries me. Filled with awe and wonder. Accepting the unexplained. Believing without seeing. Trusting with all my soul. Loving Him with all my heart.
Will you join me in worship today, accepting the royal status as His transformed child?
" Jesus said, 'Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.' When he had placed his hands on them, he went on from there" (Matthew 19:14-15).
"'Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, whoever takes the lowly position of this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. And whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me'" (Matthew 18:3-5).
Gravity sucks us to the earth. The weight of our flesh drags us through the grime of this world. We expend all the energy we consume in the effort to sustain ourselves. At the end of the day, we collapse with exhaustion with nothing more to look forward to than another day of survival. Breaking away from the dust attraction seems impossible. In the natural course of survival, tomorrow carries no more hope than today.
Sin imprisons the earth-bound in despair. An ever-loving God extends us a way to rise from captivity. Like all freedom, ours comes at great cost. Christ suffered torture and death to pay our way free from the spiritual forms of both. He rent His body to craft wings for our souls.
We need more than a "thing with feathers" to break the gravitational pull of sin. Christ offers us wings of divine hope, which lift us from the natural pull of our depravity. Why should we live any longer as if our only means of living is a trudging through slime dragging tons of baggage? He invests His Spirit in us to lift our souls away from earthly prisons. No longer mired in addictions, bitterness, or greed. No more snares of fear, rage, or ambivalence. We have a great deal more to look forward to than these dusty trails, today and in the eternal future. Let us set our focus higher, on things beyond this dirt at our feet. Let's take wing and live free.
"Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death" (Romans 8:1-2).
"It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery" (Galatians 5:1).
"So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed" (John 8:36).
"Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom" (2 Corinthians 3:17).
"in the day of salvation I will help you… to say to the captives, 'Come out,'
and to those in darkness, 'Be free!'" (Isaiah 49:8-9)
" Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might break the power of him who holds the power of death—that is, the devil— and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death" (Hebrews 2:14-15).
"They were put to death by stoning; they were sawed in two; they were killed by the sword. They went about in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, persecuted and mistreated— the world was not worthy of them. . .Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders . . .And let us run with perseverance. . .fixing our eyes on Jesus. . .so that you will not grow weary and lose heart." –Hebrews 11:35-12:3
Jack-o-lanterns and costumes lay waiting. Candy reserves mount inside each doorway. We muddle through the workweek amid the season's orange and black decor. The time nears, and we do our best to prepare against the horror of facing a princess with nothing sweet to offer.
Halloween stirs mixed responses of aversion, occult obsession, or ambivalence in the name of family fun. Although pagan rituals once took place during harvest season, early Christians promoted neither ambivalence nor aversion to the October 31st holiday. On All Hallow's Eve, shortened to Hallowe'en, Christ followers entered a two-day festival honoring those who paid the ultimate price for their faith.
This week offers an opportunity to celebrate those who persevere in faith by living their example. Join those Christians who observe All Saints Day by taking a moment to learn from the stories of martyrs. Support contemporary missionaries who risk their lives daily to share Jesus. Better still, take the step of becoming an ambassador to shine His hope wherever you go. Instead of joining the occult practices or condemning the lost, we can reach out in love and prayer.
Like the story of the jack-o-lantern, we carry the light of Christ so that it can shine into the darkness of the world. Carve a smile onto your face this Halloween, and let His hope and love gleam toward all the little princes and princesses who cross your path.
Pumpkin Parable (Original author unknown):
First, God picks a pumpkin from the pumpkin patch and brings it in from the field. He chooses you.
He then washes all the "dirt" off the outside. He cleans away the outside influences. Old things are passed away and all things are become new.
Then, God carefully removes all the tangled messes of lies and confusion, pain and fear, and the slime of sin. He cleans out all the icky stuff from the inside.
He replaces the seeds of doubt with the light of faith, hope and love. The Light of His Spirit warms and transforms us.
Then He carves a new smiling face. His powerful presence changes our life.
He shines through our life for all to see. "In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven" (Matthew 5:16)
Jesus, please cleanse me of fear, disdain, and sin. Fill me with Your brilliant presence and make my life shine powerfully for You. Amen.


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How appropriately I found out there is actually wood element in this process, the sawdust.
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Smoked duck, no joke.
Frog was there the whole time laughing at the smoking pieces rested there to be cooled off.
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These cloth seems to work to dampen the smoke condition.
A session of cleaning and washing some ashes off the pieces.
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Last Stand
E. Wesley Ely
The first time I saw Jessa, she lay crumpled in the ICU bed, paralyzed, expressionless and unable to speak. A military veteran, she had fought in Desert Storm, but she now was facing a deadlier and more inexorable foe: amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), aka Lou Gehrig's disease.
This disease causes progressive loss of muscle control, and Jessa was unable to speak, eat or breathe on her own. Her only means of communicating was through small facial movements--opening and closing her eyes or mouth, raising her eyebrows.
A dozen people made up her ICU team: three interns, three residents, a pharmacist, a nurse, a respiratory therapist, a social worker, a hospital chaplain and myself--the lead physician, or intensivist.
My intensivist mind, trained to seek solutions, skitters down a patient's problem list in search of answers. And Jessa's list was extensive: she needed a feeding tube, IV fluids, diapers and a special bed to prevent bed sores, antibiotics for a newly contracted pneumonia, intermittent sedation to ease anxiety and narcotics for chronic back pain.
But now, listening to the respirator pumping air into Jessa's lungs and felt her intense cobalt gaze on me, I saw one thing clearly: any concerns about antibiotics or nutrition took second place to a larger question.
"What do we know of Jessa's wishes about staying on a ventilator, now and in the coming weeks and months?" I asked the team when we stepped outside the room to confer.
"Her chart says that she wanted to be placed on a ventilator when she couldn't breathe on her own," said one resident.
"Look how long Stephen Hawking has lived that way," the nurse chimed in.
"I don't think we should look at someone else's life," another resident burst out, clearly frustrated. "She's suffering. I'd never want to live like this. She probably didn't know it would be this way when she requested life support."
I listened, having no strong opinion of my own as yet.
At that moment, Jessa's husband Zach walked into the ICU. We shared our concerns about Jessa's situation and asked him about her wishes.
Calmly, he replied, "Doctors, while it wouldn't necessarily be my choice, Jessa does want life support so that she can have as much time as possible with me and the people around her. She was raised to believe that all life, however frail, is sacred. It might seem paradoxical, but that was a key reason she joined the military--to defend life and freedom."
Later that morning, he shared his own wish: "Just make sure Jessa knows that she's not a burden, and that serving her is our privilege."
This conversation led to others over the next two weeks, and they sparked what I now see as a transformative period in my growth as a physician and in my understanding of patients like Jessa.
The next day, Zach told us more. "Jessa was born in Germany; she's bilingual. We've been married for twenty-seven years. We have no living children--we had several miscarriages. I'm all the family she has."
It had been Jessa's dream to serve as an American soldier. After they married, she enlisted and was deployed to Iraq as a diesel mechanic--one woman among over 1,000 men. "She got caught under a tank once and smashed her head getting out," Zach recounted. "They flew her to an army hospital in Germany, and she recovered and went back. She's tough as nails."
More than twenty years later, he said, she was diagnosed with ALS. "I've learned a ton from her about serving without concern for self," he added. "And now I'm learning even more. The amazing way she adjusts to whatever life throws at her....She's constantly recalibrating my vision of how to make the most of every moment. Like today, she's on that breathing machine, and she just smiled at me with her eyes."
In those few minutes, Zach revealed our silent, nearly motionless patient as a heroic person--someone I admired not only for her technological skills but for her pioneering attitude and resolve. I got an inkling of why she was fiercely holding onto the time she had left.
Still, some team members continued to see her quality of life (or QOL) as unacceptable. More than once, they called it "hellish."
When I told Zach this, he said, "Jessa once said she believes hell to be the absence of hope, just as cold is the absence of heat and darkness the absence of light. Now that you're getting to know her, can you see that she doesn't consider her illness hellish?" He whispered, "She's surrounded by love."
These discussions, as difficult as they were, marked a major shift in my understanding. I began to see how often I impose my own QOL standards onto patients--a fundamental clinical error.
Researching the empirical data, I learned that ALS and other "locked-in" patients often rate their QOL as acceptable despite their physical debility. Their focus shifts to less tangible qualities--transcendence, spirituality and security. Pondering this, I realized more and more clearly how, in this particular situation, it was Jessa's values and perceptions that mattered, not mine.
Our role, I saw, was to dive into the chaos of Jessa's life and offer her care and comfort despite our inability to cure her.
Over the next week, we worked with our palliative-care team to ease Jessa's pain, anxiety and delirium (which receded along with her pneumonia).
Every day, I made a point of remembering bioethicist Edmund Pellegrino's words: "Healing can occur when the patient is dying even when cure is impossible." With this in mind, I asked Zach if Jessa would enjoy being read to, as our team had done with other patients.
"Doc, she loves poems and the Psalms," he said immediately. We began to take turns reading to her every day.
On Jessa's last day with us before she was to leave for a long-term care facility, I chose Edna St. Vincent Millay's Sonnet XXX.
"Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath, nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone; yet many a man is making friends with death, even as I speak, for lack of love alone...."
As I read, Jessa's mouth opened wide, in a smile brighter than any we'd yet seen from her.
The medical student across the bed from me began to cry. "From joy and amazement," the student later said.
Seeing Jessa's smile and the student's tears, I felt my mind stop in its tracks. Time stood still.
Jessa had lifted us above the physical realities of our existence and into something mystical. I can't explain it, and I almost don't want to try. Let's just say that she gave us a private treasure, one that I will always savor as a gift I never expected or deserved.
I squeezed Jessa's hands, holding her eyes with mine. Finally she looked away and up to the ceiling, and I stood in thought beside her.
Although my team and I loomed over Jessa as she lay in her bed, I knew that in spirit she soared high above us.
About the author:
E. Wesley Ely is a professor of medicine at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and associate director of aging research for the Tennessee Valley VA Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Centers. He has authored more than 275 peer-reviewed articles. He and his wife, Kim Ely, a surgical pathologist at Vanderbilt, have three lovely daughters. His reflective writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, JAMA, Annals of Internal Medicine and elsewhere. "I got into writing as an outgrowth of being raised by a single mom, Diana Ely, who was an English teacher and director of Shakespeare. Without this form of reflective writing, I'd never be able to process the immense gift of being immersed in the lives of countless wonderful patients, each of whom has a unique story and path."
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It was possible for him to communicate a lot in this very limited way. He was a very loving man, and was loved by many, and I could feel his love. It was a privilege to care for him.
Ron Panzer
Pres., Hospice Patients Alliance
Member, Pro-life Healthcare Alliance
Thanks for the important reminder that we in medicine are often too eager to judge another person's life. Love and joy can exist in so many ways. Our role is to help people to have the "best possible" days as they judge them.
Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink
Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain;
Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink
And rise and sink and rise and sink again;
Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath,
Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone;
Yet many a man is making friends with death
Even as I speak, for lack of love alone.
It well may be that in a difficult hour,
Pinned down by pain and moaning for release,
Or nagged by want past resolution's power,
I might be driven to sell your love for peace,
Or trade the memory of this night for food.
It well may be. I do not think I would.
the similarity with The Death of Ivan Ilych. Both stories are extremely frightening to me and magnify my own dread and fear of death. Add the Last Stand and we have 3 dramas calculated to recreate the hyperventilatio n, profuse sweating, I felt as an adolescent when God didn't send me a sign that he exists.Yet as described by Dr. Ely , Jessa has defeated the anguish of facing the reality of death.
A fine example of a better way to face death.
But as mentioned by others, we never know what we will do when confronted with our own death, we only think we know. It is wrong to force our beliefs and values on others, and I fear that is what is happening in contemporary medicine.
That said, there is another side to the story, one where the suffering is horrible. Thus, we need balance, but in the end, it comes down to honoring a person's wishes.
Projecting our own wishes on another, as some of the students did in your story, is a risky business. Not only do we not know what others may want, as was true about the patient in your beautifully written and moving story, but we don't even know with certainty what WE will want when it's our turn to say yes or no to some proffered intervention, as my father's story illustrates.
We project our own healthy, comfortable selves into an imagined unhappy situation and think we'd never want that. And then one day we find that merely sensing the presence of a loved one is good enough. Talk about miracles,,,


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Everyone always seems to be telling you what you should do, and maybe you even seek their advice because you're not sure. And you can end up getting a million and one different opinions.
Which leaves you feeling confused.
What decision is the right decision? For you?
When you are so used to taking on everyone else's advice, it can feel exhausting, as your head is spinning from all the options and you don't really know which one is the right one. You don't want to make a mistake. Like, maybe you did in the past.
For example, I'm working with a client right now on a career change. And all the opinions outside are looking at opportunities, career prospects, money prospects. And they're all good arguments. But none of them are lighting her up really, and in her own head she's getting into justification and confusing. What to do!?
The thing is unless you truly listen to yourself you will end up actually living your life based on other people's opinions. And, do you know what?
You can never get it right.
It never feels good enough… As there's always someone who disapproves of your decision. And that can make you feel panicked.
"Oh no, I've done something wrong."
"I've made a mistake."
"It's all going to go wrong now."
Listening to yourself means you know what is right for you. It's not about what others want, trying to please them. It's about serving your heart and feeding your soul.
And once you listen to yourself, you know what you true deep values are and you live your life by those values, instead of other people's values.
Often I find my people-pleaser clients are the ones who have injected other people's values in them so deeply, that they are not sure who they really are anymore. And that is the definition of a lost soul…
So here's a quick starter guide on how to start listening to yourself:
Connect to yourself more deeply – not your head but start to embody your actual body – that's where your true wisdom lies.
Stop asking so many people's opinions and start to ask yourself a question and let it just sit with it and meditate on that question and see what comes up – it may come as a feeling, a knowing, a thought. It doesn't justify itself or come up with pros and cons, it just is and it is.
Find out what your true values are and live your life by these values, not other people's.
And remember:
This is your life.
You are the only one you should be living it for.
With so much love
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People across the world have started doubting if Nirav's real surname is Modi after finding out that he has traveled to only 3 countries in the last 6 months. According to CBI, Nirav has been to London, Paris and Brussels since January this year.
American President Donald Trump, tweeted in the morning, "CNN's news is fake news, Green tea is fake tea, Nirav Modi is fake Modi and Black Coffee is fake Covfefe"
Speaking to Faking News, opposition leader Rahul Gandhi said, "This morning when I woke up at night, I kept thinking about only one thing – Just like Coca Cola's manufacturer was initially a Shikanji seller, Nirav must be something else in his initial days, like Sharma or Gupta. But he can't be a Modi."
We tried to reach Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his views on this issue but he couldn't respond as he was busy in preparations of his next foreign trip.
Indian Modi Community (IMC) is planning to boycott Nirav after finding out his disappointing performance. The minimum eligibility for an adult to use Modi surname is 1 country per month on an average. Nirav is on the half way mark. Nirav may soon lose the right to be called a Modi.
According to sources, Nirav is most likely to choose "Mallya" as his new surname.


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Decidedly this evening I shall say nothing that is not false, I mean nothing that is not calculated to leave me in doubt as to my real intentions.
— Beckett, Malone Dies
Decidedly this evening I shall say nothing that is not false, I mean nothing that is not calculated to leave me in doubt as to my real intentions.
— Beckett, Malone Dies
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I am touching the house in which I was born, but my hand passes through the place, leaving a residue of fog where the house was. This is the place where I was born. A certain longing was conceived here. Muffled and croaking, it finds its expression in the body of the nostalgic. I am here, and my hand passed through the white wall, reaching into a lacuna in space, but comprised from the boundary of my hand. It is as though something outside of this place exceeds the material presence I face, as though this place resists the very act of being touched.
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For it if was really day again already, in some low distant quarter of the sky, it was not yet day again already in the kitchen. But that would come, Watt knew that would come, with patience it would come, little by little, whether he liked it or not, over the yard wall, and through the window, first the grey, then the brighter colours one by one, until getting on to nine a.m. all the gold and white and blue would fill the kitchen, all the unsoiled light of the new day, of the new day at last, the day without precedent at last.
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(a). Everything flows and nothing abides; everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.
1. Although this Logos is eternally valid, yet men are unable to understand it – not only before hearing it, but even after they have heard it for the first time. That is to say, although all things come to pass in accordance with this Logos, men seem to be quite without any experience of it […]
6. The sun is new each day.
16. How can anyone hide from that which never sets?
17. Most people do not take heed of the things they encounter, nor do they grasp them even when they have learned about them, although they think they do.
21. Whatever we see when awake is death; when asleep, dreams.
22. Seekers after gold dig up much earth and find little.
34. Fools, although they hear, are like the deaf: to them the adage applies that when present they are absent.
45. You could not discover the limits of soul, even if you traveled by every path in order to do so; such is the depth of its meaning.
47. Let us not make arbitrary conjectures about the greatest matters.
49a. Into the same rivers we step and do not step.
59. For the wool-carders the straight and the winding way are one and the same.
60. The way up and the way down are one and the same.
62. Immortals become mortals, mortals become immortals; they live in each other's death and die in each other's life.
72. Although intimately connected with the Logos, men keep setting themselves against it.
75. Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the universe.
84a. It is in changing that things find repose.
88. It is one and the same thing to be living and dead, awake or asleep, young or old. The former aspect in each case becomes the latter, and the latter becomes the former, by sudden unexpected reversal.
91. It throws apart and then brings together again; it advances and retires.
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In the evening they tramped out across a field trying to find a place where their fire would not be seen. Dragging the cart behind them over the ground. So little of promise in that country. Tomorrow they would find something to eat. Night overtook them on a muddy road. They crossed into a field and plodded on toward a distant stand of trees skylighted stark and black against the last of the visible world. By the time they got there it was dark of night. He held the boy's hand and kicked up limbs and brush and got a fire going. The wood was damp but he shaved the dead bark off with his knife and he stacked brush and sticks all about to dry in the heat. Then he spread the sheet of plastic on the ground and got the coats and blankets from the cart and he took off their damp and muddy shoes and they sat there in silence with their hands outheld to the flames. He tried to think of something to say but he could not. He'd had this feeling before, beyond the numbness and the dull despair. The world shrinking down about a raw core of parsible entities. The names of things slowly following those things into oblivion. Colors. The names of birds. Things to eat. Finally the names of things one believed to be true. More fragile than he would have thought. How much was gone already? The sacred idiom shorn of its referents and so of its reality. Drawing down like something trying to preserve heat. In time to wink out forever.
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I am lying in my bed five flights up, and my day, which nothing interrupts, is like a clock-face without hands. As something that has been lost for a long time reappears one morning in its old place, safe and sound, almost newer than when it vanished, just as if someone had been taking care of it–: so, here and there on my blanket, lost feelings out of my childhood lie and are like new. All the lost fears are there again.
I prayed to rediscover my childhood, and it has come back, and I feel that it is just as difficult as it used to be, and that growing older has served no purpose at all.
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The work is no longer innocent; it knows whence it comes. Or at least it knows how to seek, and in this seeking how to approach always nearer to the origin, and in this approach how to keep without fail to the path where possibility is gambled, where the risk is essential and failure threatens. This is what the work seems to ask, this is where it pushes the artist: away from itself and from its own realisation. This experience has become so grave that the artist pursues it endlessly. Despairing of success yet at the same time concerned for the essential, he produces this experience in the broad daylight. He seeks to express it directly or, in other words, to make of the work a road toward inspiration – that which protects and preserves the purity of inspiration – and not of inspiration a road toward the work.
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Thursday. The weeks go by strangely in the summertime, without the usual mad rush of user groups.
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" There are several various channels located on key points of the body through which energy can stream in and out in a consistent stream." by https://globalenlightenmentnetwork.com/blog/tag/female+heart+chakra
But are our physical entities? Are they actual little wheels spinning in the 7 crucial centers of our body? No. They are not comprised of matter; they are energetic. However like the whirring blades of a fan, even if you can't see them doesn't suggest they aren't there.
You may be wondering how we can know they exist if we can't really see them. It is a valid concern, and one that science has not yet found a difficult response for. It was a bit of a leap for me as a science-minded individual to make when I started finding out about chakra recovery. I'm a researcher, not a theorist is the resistance my ego threw at me as I started to explore what was a totally new frontier for me. Click now to determine what is best to do within the sacral chakra healing realm for affirmations.
However while the concept of energy was new for me (and still manages to avert clinical proof), it has existed for thousands of years and across cultures. It has been studied and shown time and once again in the Ayurvedic and yogic customs, along with through the Chinese concepts of qi and meridians, and it is something that I have "proven" to myself through my own experience and in my chakra recovery work with my patients.
It needs to come as not a surprise, then, that given the specialized nature of your body's energy, there are several different channels found on bottom lines of the body through which energy can flow in and out in a consistent stream.
https://chakrastoday.tumblr.com displays that the word heart chakra suggests "wheel" in Sanskrit, though these are not like any wheels we've ever seen. Energy spins in a clockwise direction as it moves the energy of our body out into the field around us, and it spins counterclockwise to pull energy from our external world (and individuals in it) into our body. It is the frequency state of our centers that identifies the direction our energy will flow as they either draw energy into our body or launch it outward.
The impact of our body's energy, the vital force that streams through us, and the power of the quantum field itself are things that our scientific abilities have yet to catch up with. I do think that we will arrive eventually, however till then we can only count on our experience and the teachings of others.
The word means "wheel" or "turning ring". The private system are positioned where energy channels participate the body, and work as transformers that manage the energies of the body.
The 3 most important energy channels are ida, pingala and sushumna. Ida starts from the left nostril and pingala from the right. They cross each other numerous times down along the spinal column which inner channel is called sushumna and belongs to fire. Sushumna symbolizes the intense energy that can blaze up inside of you.
Because various energies take part these centers, they can function as accumulators. If the system is out of balance, energy can be obstructed in the center, and it is important to attempt to prevent this by cleaning up the energy channels and to look after the body and mind through breath control, pranayama as indicated at: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6106753/
In our culture the heart as ever is the supreme sign of love. Today we know the fact that the heart not just functions as a pump but likewise produces hormonal agents, and considering the close relation it needs to the brain through the nerve system (link), it is quite natural to ascribe the traditional qualities such as delight, knowledge and soul to the heart. When the heart beats gently we feel that we are well.
This likewise applies for our breath and our thoughts. When our breathing is calm and restrained, the mind relaxes. It is this trinity of heart, brain and breath that you must remember, because it is the source of your wellness and health. The Roman physician, Claudius Galen, understood this and was the very first to explain the pulse as an indicator of an individual's health.
The openness and flow of energy through our centers identifies our state of health and balance. Knowledge of our more subtle energy system empowers us to maintain balance and harmony on the physical, psychological and spiritual level.
All meditation and yoga systems seek to balance out the energy by purifying the lower energies and directing them up-wards. Through the use of grounding, developing "internal space," and living knowingly with an awareness of how we acquire and spend our energy we become capable of balancing our life force with our mental, physical and spiritual selves.
A set of point sexists that are normally illustrated as having different colors, symbols or components, and each of these plays a particular function in the energy system of the body. Frequently 7 centers are described. It has been proposed that the chakras oscillate with various frequencies and hence emit light in different colors, and that sages of ancient India could notice and describe these oscillations. If you have actually not been working with yoga (link) and the line of thought that lies behind it, the idea of such structures residing in the body might appear abstract and even superstitious.
The main area is the "heart" that builds up favorable and joyful energy from prana throughout inhalation. Anahata is the center for unconditional love, helpfulness, empathy and selflessness. It is fascinating that the heart has been credited to so many various residential or commercial properties in different cultures. In ancient China the heart was thought about the seat of delight, the Egyptians ascribed emotion and intelligence to the heart, while the Greeks thought it housed the soul.
In order for us to become totally self-realized and in consistency with our physical and spiritual nature our denser lower energies require to be balanced with the lighter energies of the upper centers. This is to state our survival and base tendencies need to be raised to integrate a heart-felt spiritual focus expressed in all areas of our being.
Undoubtedly, each of the upper-level energies corresponds and improves a lower level equivalent: 7th with first, 6th with 2nd, 5th with 3rd. In the center of our being is complete integration into the heart.


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BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) - Amit Tamir scored 25 points and Joe Shipp added 22points and eight rebounds to lead California to its third straight win, an88-72 upset over No. 12 Oregon on Thursday night.
Brian Wethers added 16 points for the Golden Bears (9-2, 2-0 Pac-10), whowon at home for the 12th straight time.
Luke Jackson had 17 points, eight assists and five rebounds for Oregon. ThePac-10's top scoring team had only 38 points with 14:54 left, and the Duckshave been averaging nearly 90 per game. They had been doing just abouteverything right coming into this game.
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But the Ducks never got in sync against the aggressive and up-tempo Bears,who couldn't seem to miss when it mattered most. Oregon was sloppy with theball to fall behind early, and its top players struggled to score all game. TheDucks often rushed their shots as the 35-second clock was winding down.
At least four players had scored in double figures in all but two of theteam's previous 12 games this season. The Ducks had three this game, with LukeRidnour and Andre Joseph adding 14 and 12 points, respectively.
Cal built on its 10-point halftime lead with an impressive start in thesecond half. The Bears started the half with an 8-3 run and had an answerwhenever the Ducks made a threat.
Tamir and Shipp combined to shoot 5-for-10 from 3-point range and Cal was 53percent from the field to Oregon's 44 percent.
The Ducks will have to try to regroup and save their ranking Saturday atStanford, which will surely be another tough game.
Cal and Oregon split their series last season, with both games being decidedby four points. One of those was a 107-103 win in double-overtime. The Duckshaven't lost at home since - they're 7-0 this season and 12-0 overall at HaasPavilion dating back to Feb. 2, 2002.
The Ducks committed four turnovers in the first three minutes and started1-for-4 from the field to fall behind 9-2.
They trailed by as many as 11 in the first half, but went on an 9-0 to tiethe game at 27 at the 4:41 mark.
But Cal made two 3-pointers late in the half and shot 55 percent to take a43-33 halftime lead. Ridnour let a shot fly from the far free-throw line justafter the buzzer and it banked in.
Cal football coach Jeff Tedford and former basketball coaching great PeteNewell were in attendance and shown on the big screen as fans cheered madly. Itwas much different for another celebrity. Nike co-founder Phil Knight's picturewas never shown even though he was in a front-row seat. He's a huge Oregonsupporter.
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