Afghan Northern Alliance fighters in 2001. Almost two decades later, the war continues.
Afghan protesters hold a banner that reads 'ISI clear enemy,' during a demonstration in Kabul in 2011. ISI stands for Inter-Services Intelligence, part of the Pakistani Army.
Of course, just stating that there is a new strategy does not necessarily mean the strategy is working. In mid-January 2018, America's U.N. ambassador, Nikki Haley, stated that Afghanistan peace talks are closer than ever before.
Days later, the Haqqani network attacked the Kabul Intercontinental Hotel, killing at least 30 people. Less than a week later, the Haqqani network murdered more than 100 people by detonating an explosive-laden ambulance in a crowded section of Kabul. Two more complex suicide attacks followed in April. And in early May, Islamist militants attacked a voter registration site in Khost Province, killing over 17 and wounding more than 30. Khost is next to the Haqqani sanctuary in Pakistan.


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Pseudarthria viscida
(L.) Wight & Arn.
Desmodium leschenaultia DC.
Desmodium timorense DC.
Desmodium viscidum auct.
Glycine viscida (L.) Willd.
Hedysarum viscidum L.
Pseudarthria gyroides Zoll. & Moritzi
Pseudarthria timoriensis (DC.) Z. & M.
Rhynchosia viscida (L.) DC.
Common Name: Salaparni
Pseudarthria viscida is an ascending, much branched perennial plant with stems that become more or less woody and persist; it can grow from 60 - 120cm tall often clothed with hooked hairs[
Plant Resources of Southeast Asia
http://proseanet.org/
Lots of information on the uses of the plants of SE Asia.
The plant is very commonly used in Ayurvedic medicine, being harvested from the wild and traded. It has potential for use as a green manure.
A Handbook to the Flora of Ceylon
Trimen H.; continued by Hooker J.D.
Dulau and Co; London.
Very dated, but still a useful work. It can be downloaded from the Internet.
E. Asia - southern India, Sri Lanka
Growing in dry regions in grassy fields, roadsides and thickets; at elevations up to 1,200 metres[
]. Moist low country in Sri Lanka, where it is a common weed[464[.
Habit Shrub
This species has not yet been evaluated for the IUCN Red List, but its excessive collection from the wild has resulted in a gradual disappearance of the plant from its natural habitat, and at present its number is highly reduced in the wild[
An efficient plant regeneration system through callus for Pseudarthria viscida (L.) Wright and Arn., a rare ethnomed
Physiol Mol Biol Plants (October-December 2011) 17(4):395-401
Cheruvathur M.K. & Thomas T.D.
http://10.1007/s12298-011-0089-z
The flat viscid seedpods attach themselves to clothing or animals, and are thus transferred to other places[
The Leguminosae; A Source Book of Characteristics, Uses and Nodulation
Allen O.N.; Allen E.K.
An amazing and comprehensive work, giving a brief guide to the many genera of the family Fabaceae and also the principle uses of the genus.
Pseudarthria viscida is widely used and valued in Ayurvedic medicine, where its roots are considered to be useful in the treatment of a wide variety of ailments[
]. It is one among the 'Dasamoola' (10 roots) of Ayurveda, mentioned in most of the ancient scriptures, and is a major component in many Ayurvedic preparations[
The root is considered to be anthelmintic, antifungal, antiinflammatory, antioxidant, antitumor, aphrodisiac, astringent, bitter, cardiotonic, digestive, diuretic, emollient , febrifuge, hypotensive, rejuvenating and tonic[
Pharmacognostical Evaluation of the Roots of Pseudarthria viscida (Linn.)
Natural Product Sciences 13(3) : 214-219 (2007)
Rajendran K.; Srinivasan K.K. & Shirwaikar A.
]. It is used in the treatment of a wide range of conditions such as bronchial asthma, cough, bronchitis, and tuberculosis; biliousness, dyspepsis, vomitting, food poisoning and diarrhoea; nervous dysfunction, heart conditions, diabetes mellitus, general debility, fevers, worms, haemorrhoids and rheumatism[
Glossary of Indian Medicinal Plants (Including the Supplement).
Chopra. R. N., Nayar. S. L. and Chopra. I. C.
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi.
Very terse details of medicinal uses of plants with a wide range of references and details of research into the plants chemistry. Not for the casual reader.
]. It is also used in the treatment of insect bites and is used against inflammations[
Since it effectively arrests bleeding and alleviates oedema, it is considered a valuable panacea for heart diseases and blood disorders[
The root juice is given as a nasal drop in case of headache and hemicranias[
The herb is seldom used externally[
The root of the plant has been reported to contain leucopelargonidin, flavonoids and proteins[
Agroforestry Uses:
A potential green manure[
Cite as: Tropical Plants Database, Ken Fern. tropical.theferns.info. 2021-01-19. <tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Pseudarthria+viscida>

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Effects of Single-Dose and Fractionated Cranial Irradiation on Rat Brain Accumulation of Methotrexate
Barton A. Kamen, John S. Holcenberg, Barbara J. Ring, Susan M. Adams, Larry E. Kun, Brian L. Fish, John E. Moulder
Radiation Oncology - Administration
The effects of single-dose and fractionated whole-brain irradiation on brain methotrexate (MTX) has been studied in a rat model. The amount of MTX present in the brain 24 hr after a single i.p. dose (100 mg/kg) was the same whether animals were sham irradiated or given a single dose of 2000 rads 6 or 48 hr prior to the drug (6.9, 8.3, and 6.8 pmol MTX/g, wet weight, respectively). Animals sham irradiated or given 2000 rads in 10 fractions over 11 days and treated with an average dose of 1.2 mg MTX/kg i.p. twice a week for 24 weeks did not differ significantly in their brain MTX concentration (7.9 and 8.3 pmol MTX/g, wet weight, respectively). Chronically MTX-treated animals became folate deficient whether they were irradiated or not (450 and 670 pmol folate/g, wet weight, brain in MTX-treated and control animals). Thus, MTX accumulates in the brain with acute or chronic administration, and this accumulation is not altered by this amount of brain irradiation.
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Kamen, B. A., Holcenberg, J. S., Ring, B. J., Adams, S. M., Kun, L. E., Fish, B. L., & Moulder, J. E. (1984). Effects of Single-Dose and Fractionated Cranial Irradiation on Rat Brain Accumulation of Methotrexate. Cancer research, 44(11), 5092-5094.
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In: Cancer research, Vol. 44, No. 11, 01.11.1984, p. 5092-5094.
Kamen, BA, Holcenberg, JS, Ring, BJ, Adams, SM, Kun, LE, Fish, BL & Moulder, JE 1984, 'Effects of Single-Dose and Fractionated Cranial Irradiation on Rat Brain Accumulation of Methotrexate', Cancer research, vol. 44, no. 11, pp. 5092-5094.
Kamen BA, Holcenberg JS, Ring BJ, Adams SM, Kun LE, Fish BL et al. Effects of Single-Dose and Fractionated Cranial Irradiation on Rat Brain Accumulation of Methotrexate. Cancer research. 1984 Nov 1;44(11):5092-5094.
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Anacalypsis
"Anacalypsis" is the short title of a lengthy two-volume treatise written by religious historian Godfrey Higgins, and published upon his death in 1833. The book was published in two quarto volumes numbering 1,436 pages, and contains meticulous references to hundreds of books. Initially printed as a limited edition of 200 copies, it was partially reprinted in 1878, and completely reprinted in a limited edition of 350 copies in 1927. In 1965, University Books, Inc. published 500 sets for the United States and 500 sets for the British Commonwealth with Publisher's Note and a Postface. The full title of this work is "Anacalypsis: An Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil of the Saitic Isis or an Inquiry into the Origin of Languages, Nations and Religions."
The book is densely written, in language that in places appears cryptic. Higgins hints that there may be additional layers of meaning in his word choice, stating in the preface to Vol. I:: [T] here are more passages than one in the book, which are of that nature, which will be perfectly understood by my Masonic friends, but which my engagements prevent me explaining to the world at large.
The work is the product of more than twenty years of research, during which Higgins tried to uncover "a most ancient and universal religion from which all later creeds and doctrines sprang." [http://www.mandaeanworld.com/mandaean_bibliography_book_11] It includes several maps and lithographic plates of Druidical Monuments. The book itself details many of Higgins' beliefs and observations about the development of religion. Among these was his theory that a secret religious order, which he labeled Pandeism (from Pans- or Pandu- referring to a family of Gods, appending with -ism), had continued from ancient times to the present day, stretching at least from Greece to India, and possibly having once covered the entire world:
:"All this seems to confirm the very close connexion which there must have been in some former time, between Siam, Afghanistan, Western Syria, and Ireland. Indeed I cannot doubt that there has been really one grand empire, or one Universal, one Pandæan, or one Catholic religion, with one language, which has extended over the whole of the world; uniting or governing at the same time..."
Among the many unusual theories presented in this book is that both the Celtic Druids and the Jews originated in India - and that the name of the Biblical Abraham is really a variation of the word Brahma, created by shifting the last letter to the beginning: Abrahma.
Higgins died before he was able to complete the final chapter on Christianity.
Later references
Kersey Graves, author of the 1875 book "The World's 16 Crucified Saviours," derived "many of the most important facts collated in this work" from the Anacalypsis. [http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/kersey_graves/16/]
V. S. Solovyoff, author of the 1895 book, "A Modern Priestess of Isis", was alleged to have plagiarized extensively from Higgins, among others. The same investigator also alleged similar plagiarism in Madame Blavatsky's 1888, work, "The Secret Doctrine". [ [http://www.theohistory.org/thcovers/thscan103.html#Anchor-of-47942] ]
* "Anacalypsis" (ISBN 1-56459-273-1)
* [http://www.mandaeanworld.com/mandaean_bibliography_book_11 Mandaean Bibliography: The Anacalypsis]
* [http://www.theohistory.org/thcovers/thscan103.html#Anchor-of-47942 "The Anacalypsis of Godfrey Higgins — Precursor of Isis Unveiled and The Secret Doctrine"] ( [http://www.theohistory.org/ Theosophical History] : Volume 1, Issue 3; 1983)
** [http://thenewageobserver.nexuswebs.net/na_timeline_godfrey_higgins.shtml "Timeline of Godfrey Higgins"] ("The New Age Observer"; same information as above)
* [http://www.awitness.org/essays/bkup/16_crucified_saviors/chap16.html The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors] (Chapter 16, Kersey Graves)
* [http://www.theosophy-nw.org/theosnw/ctg/ctg-hp.htm Collation of Theosophical Glossaries]
* [http://burghwallis.com/village/articles/higgins.htm "Godfrey Higgins"] (Burghwallis.com)
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I rejoice in the privilege of presenting to the young and rising generation some basic concepts about the deepest and most profound doctrine of the gospel.
It is the first principle of revealed religion, the great cornerstone upon which all else rests, the foundation for all of the doctrines of salvation.
I shall speak of what the revealed word calls the mystery of godliness.
If our vision is blurred where this doctrine and these concepts are concerned, or, if knowingly or unknowingly we have fallen prey to any of the false sectarian notions that abound with reference to them, our progress toward eternal life will be slow indeed.
How apt this illustration is! If there was ever something beyond human comprehension, it is the sectarian doctrine of the Trinity.
This doctrine defines God and the Godhead as a three-in-one spirit essence that fills the immensity of space; it teaches that it and they are without body, parts, or passions; it acclaims that it and they are unknown, unknowable, and uncreated, and specifies, in the creeds, that unless we believe all these things we cannot be saved.
It is true that finite man cannot comprehend his Infinite Maker in the full sense of the word. We cannot tell how gods began to be or from whence existent matter came.
But we are duty-bound to learn all that God has revealed about himself and his everlasting gospel. If we are to gain eternal life we must come to know the Great God and his Only Begotten, whom he sent into the world. And this probationary estate is the appointed time to begin to know God, and to learn his laws, and thereby to start the process of becoming like him. If we do not so begin we shall never receive the promised reward.
Because God stands revealed or remains forever unknown, and because the things of God are known only by the power of the Spirit, perhaps we should redefine a mystery. In the gospel sense, a mystery is something beyond carnal comprehension.
The saints are in a position to comprehend all mysteries, to understand all doctrine, and eventually to know all things. These high levels of intelligence are reached only through faith and obedience and righteousness. A person who relies on the intellect alone and who does not keep the commandments can never, worlds without end, comprehend the mystery of godliness.
There is probably more ignorance and confusion as to the mystery of godliness than there is about any other doctrine. As set forth in the three creeds of Christendom—the Nicene, the Apostles', and the Athanasian, which God himself said were an abomination in his sight—and as defined in the articles of religion of the various denominations, this doctrine is a mass of confusion and a mountain of falsity.
Even in the Church, thanks to a lack of knowledge and to intellectuality and the worldly enticement to conform to the general beliefs of an apostate Christendom, there are those who have fallen prey to many false delusions about deity. By way of illustration let us note some of the problems.
Is there a God? If so, who or what is he? Is he the laws and forces of nature? Or an image of mud or gold? Or is he Baal, the resurrected son of El to whom the Canaanites offered human sacrifices? Is he Allah or Buddha or the confusing and contradictory nothingness described in the creeds of Christendom?
Is there such a thing as the Trinity in which the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost are three gods, and, yet one god, a god who neither hears, nor speaks, nor appears, as did the one worshipped by the ancients?
Is God omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent, or are these descriptive designations part of the legends of sectarianism?
Are there three gods or one? Why does Jesus say his Father is greater than he, and Paul say Jesus is equal with the Father? Why the great scriptural emphasis on proclaiming that three gods are one, and that the Lord our God is one Lord?
What of the mystery of our Lord's birth? Indeed, why should God even have a son? Is Jesus the Son of Man, or the Son of God, or is there a difference? Was it necessary to have a Savior and Redeemer, or is the Koran correct in teaching that God had no need for a son because Allah has but to speak and a thing is done?
By what power could Jesus atone for the sins of the world, or rise from death's dark tomb, or ascend physically into heaven? Is the atonement truly infinite and eternal, applying to all worlds and all created things?
Why does an angel say to John, "I am Alpha and Omega," and when John falls at his feet to worship him, say: "See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God" (Revelations 1:8, 19:10)?
Why does Jesus say: I am the Son of God, and I said such and such unto mine Only Begotten, when in fact the Only Begotten is the offspring, not of the Son, but of the Father?
Why does Christ say: I am the Father and the Son and I created man in mine own image—when in fact Christ is the Son and not the Father, and when man was created, not by the Son, but by the Father?
What relationship do we have with the Lord? Do we worship the Father and him only, or do we also worship the Son? Should we seek for some special relationship with Christ, or does the plan of salvation call for us to seek the Spirit and thereby gain a oneness with both the Father and the Son?
All these are but sample questions, questions that raise some of the issues relative to the mystery of godliness.
It is our friend Paul who tells us: "Without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory" (1 Timothy 3:16).
We agree. But all these things are beyond carnal comprehension. God dwelling in the flesh! How can anyone understand such a pronouncement unless quickened by the power of the Spirit?
The revealed word to Joseph Smith announces that endless torment does not last forever, and that eternal damnation is of limited duration. In spite of the plain meaning of words, the divine word is that eternal punishment and endless punishment do in fact have an end.
"For, behold, the mystery of godliness, how great is it," the Lord says, as he gives to these words a special scriptural definition. As he says, this is done so that the concepts involved "might work upon the hearts of the children of men, altogether for my name's glory" (D&C 19:6–12).
As it is with such a mystery as God dwelling in the flesh, or as eternal punishment having no reference to the duration, but rather to the kind of punishment, so it is with all else embraced within the designation the mystery of godliness.
The doctrine is what the doctrine is, and the concepts are what the concepts are. It is of no moment whatever that they spread confusion among uninspired worshippers at divers shrines, or among intellectuals whose interest in religion is purely academic and who rely on the power of the mind rather than the power of the Spirit for understanding.
Gospel truths are known and understood only by the power of the Spirit. Eternal life—which is to know God—is such an infinitely great reward that men must study, ponder, and pray, with all their hearts, to gain the needed knowledge.
The Lord gives his truths line upon line and precept upon precept to those who believe and obey. Saving truths come by revelation to prophets, not by reason to false priests or doctors of debate, dissension, and divisiveness.
Let us, then, consider the mystery of godliness from the Lord's standpoint, setting forth correct principles, which will enable all who are spiritually enlightened to keep themselves on the proper path.
Let us do so with courage and without fear, but in reverence and with an open mind. If we are contrite and receptive, if we truly desire truth, and if we are guided by the Spirit in our search, we shall come off triumphant. We shall embrace every true principle and shunt every false doctrine back into the enveloping darkness from whence it came.
As we walk the razor's edge—the razor that divides truth from near truths, which sometimes have a pleasing attraction—let us be mindful of these words of the Prophet Joseph Smith: "The Savior has the words of eternal life. Nothing else can profit us. . . . I advise all to go on to perfection, and search deeper and deeper into the mysteries of Godliness"(Teachings, p. 364).
1. God is the Supreme Being. He is the only supreme and independent being in whom all fulness and perfection dwells. He is the Creator, Preserver, and Upholder of the universe and all that in it is. He is without beginning of days or end of life, and by him all things are. He is the object of all proper worship and from him all good gifts flow. He presides over and governs all things and therefore has no equal. That there is and can be only one supreme being is axiomatic. There can be three equal beings who possess the same character, perfections, and attributes, but there is and can be only one who is supreme, who is the head, and to whom all others are subject.
2. He is a holy man and has a body of flesh and bones. It is written: "No unclean thing can dwell . . . in his presence; for, in the language of Adam, Man of Holiness is his name, and the name of his Only Begotten is the Son of Man, even Jesus Christ" (Moses 6:57). That is, he is Ahman, and the name of his Only Begotten is Son Ahman.
And as it was with Jesus, the Son, who came forth in the resurrection with a glorified, immortal, resurrected body of flesh and bones, so it was with his Father before him. Joseph Smith said: "God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted man, and sits enthroned in yonder heavens!" (Teachings, p. 345). Truly, truly, it is written: "The Father has a body of flesh and bones as tangible as man's" (D&C 130:22).
3. He is the Eternal Father, the Father of Spirits. God lives in the family unit and is the Father of Spirits, of spirit men and spirit women, hosts of whom are now being born as mortal beings. He is, "Our Father which art in heaven" (Matthew 6:9). We are his children, and we are governed by his laws and are subject to his chastisement, all of which caused Paul to say: "We have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?" (Hebrews 12:9).
4. He is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent. Let there be no mistake about this. God has all power; he is the Almighty. He knows all things, and there is nothing in all eternity, in universe upon universe, that he does not know. Joseph Smith so taught, and all our scriptures, ancient and modern, bear a concordant testimony. He is not a student god, and he is not progressing in knowledge or learning new truths. If he knows how to create and govern worlds without number, and all that on them is, what is there left for him to learn? Also, he is omnipresent, meaning that by the power of his spirit he is in all things, and through all things, and round about all things.
5. What is the nature of God's life? The name of the kind of life that God lives is eternal life. One of his names, speaking in the noun sense, is Eternal, and he simply uses that name to describe the kind of life he lives. Eternal life consists of two things: (1) life in the family unit and (2) having the fulness of the Father, which is all power in heaven and on earth. It is because God has eternal life that he became the Father of Spirits as well as the creator and governor of all things.
6. Whence came the plan of salvation? It is simply the laws and ordinances by obedience to which men may gain eternal life and thus become as God is and be gods in their own right. Joseph Smith said: "God himself, finding he was in the midst of spirits and glory, because he was more intelligent, saw proper to institute laws whereby the rest could have a privilege to advance like himself. . . . He has power to institute laws to instruct the weaker intelligences, that they may be exalted with himself, so that they might have one glory upon another, and all that knowledge, power, glory, and intelligence, which is requisite in order to save them in the world of spirits" (Teachings, p. 354).
7. Who are Elohim and Jehovah? They are the Father and the Son. The Everlasting Elohim is the Great God by whom all things are; the Eternal Jehovah is his Firstborn in the spirit and his Only Begotten in the flesh. Jehovah is thus our Elder Brother, and as such was subject to the same plan of salvation, the plan given of Elohim for the salvation of all his children.
While yet in the premortal existence, Jehovah advanced and progressed until he became like unto God. Under the direction of the Father he became the Creator of worlds without number, and thus was himself the Lord Omnipotent.
8. Christ was chosen in the premortal existence as the Savior and Redeemer. After the Father had presented his plan of salvation to all his spirit children, after it had been taught so that all understood that what Elohim proposed would enable his spirit children to gain eternal life, after all the hosts of heaven had been taught what they must do in connection with their coming mortal probation—after all this the Father of us all called a Grand Council. We were all present to hear his voice and to accept or reject the proposal he then made.
In that council he said: "Whom shall I send to be my Son, to work out the infinite and eternal atonement, to put into full operation all of the terms and conditions of my plan to save my children." There were two volunteers—a conforming and obedient Jehovah and a rebellious and disobedient Lucifer.
The choice was made and the decree sent forth. The Father named his Beloved and Chosen One; he chose the Lord Jehovah who was the Creator of all things, and who was then the Lord Omnipotent. He would be the one born as the Lord Jesus Christ. And this Chosen One was then foreordained and acclaimed as the Lamb slain from the foundation of the earth.
9. Man was created and commanded to serve the Father. It is written: "He created man, male and female, after his own image and in his own likeness, created he them; And gave unto them commandments that they should love and serve him, the only living and true God, and that he should be the only being whom they should worship" (D&C 20:18–19).
Please let these words of scripture sink into your heart and do not be confused about them. In order to gain salvation, we worship the Father and him only. He created us, he provided the plan of salvation, he called Christ to be the Savior and Redeemer, and he is the one that we and Christ shall be like if we are true and faithful in all things. We shall refer hereafter to the sense in which we worship Christ.
10. Man fell, became mortal, and entered a probationary estate. Created in a paradisiacal state in which there was no disease nor sorrow nor death—a state of innocence in which he could have no joy for he knew no misery, in which he could do no good, for he knew no sin—man, in conformity with the divine purpose, fell.
Temporal and spiritual death entered the world. Man became mortal. For the first time he could procreate and provide bodies for the spirits yet in the premortal existence. Truly, "Adam fell that men might be" (2 Nephi 2:22–25). We entered a probationary estate in which we are tried and tested to see if we will do all things whatsoever the Lord our God shall command us.
11. The Father provided a Savior and Redeemer. The eternal plan of salvation consists of the Creation, the Fall, and the Atonement. The Father having created man in his own image, and Adam having fallen that mortal man might enter his probationary estate, it but remained for the Father to provide a Savior and Redeemer. This he did in the person of his Only Begotten.
Thus Christ came into the world to ransom men from the temporal and spiritual death brought about by the fall of Adam. Thus all men are redeemed from the temporal death through the resurrection. All became immortal. "As in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive" (1 Corinthians 15:22). And thus all men may be redeemed from spiritual death if they believe and obey, if they are true and faithful, if they keep the commandments.
12. Christ is the Mediator. Man in his fallen state is forever lost unless he rises from the Fall and regains the spiritual life that once was his. He must return to that God from whose presence he departed when he left the paradisiacal confines of Eden. Christ's mission is to bring to pass this reunion. He mediates the cause of the children of men so they can once again be in harmony with their Maker.
Then our ancient apostolic friend makes this great declaration: "For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; Who gave himself a ransom for all" (JST, 1 Timothy 2:3–6).
Ponder this concept: There is one God, one Supreme Being, one above all who dwells in heaven. He appointed a man—Christ Jesus, Paul calls him—to be a mediator between the Father and his fallen children. And this mediator, though serving as a man when he atoned for the sins of the world, has now become as his Father and reigns with him in everlasting glory.
13. The gospel is the plan of reconciliation. Through the mediation of Jesus Christ it is within the power of fallen man to be reconciled with the Father. Christ's ministry is one of reconciliation; as he is a mediator, so he is a reconciler. And we as his servants are appointed to labor in a like manner.
Paul tells us that God "hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation." This doctrine is, he continues, "that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them," on conditions of faith and repentance. And he "hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation," making us, thus, "ambassadors for Christ," and enabling us to say to all men: "We pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God" (2 Corinthians 5:18–20).
14. Christ is our advocate. We have an advocate, eternal in the heavens, one who knows our infirmities, our sufferings, and our sorrows, because he too was subject to the flesh, and suffered beyond our comprehension while he dwelt as a man. Indeed, he was "a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief," and he bore "our griefs, and carried our sorrows" (Isaiah 53:3–4).
These are his words as he now pleads our cause in the courts above: "Father, behold the sufferings and death of him who did no sin, in whom thou wast well pleased; behold the blood of thy Son which was shed, the blood of him whom thou gavest that thyself might be glorified; Wherefore, Father, spare these my brethren that believe on my name, that they may come unto me and have everlasting life" (D&C 45:4–5).
We knew of Christ, and we had a hope of his glory many hundred years before his coming; and not only we ourselves had a hope of his glory, but also all the holy prophets which were before us.
Thus all of the ancient saints—all those from Adam to Noah, and from Noah to Abraham, and from Abraham to Moses, and from Moses to the coming of Jesus in the flesh—all of the truly faithful ones of old had the gospel. They were baptized and received the gift of the Holy Ghost; they were endowed with power from on high; they received the blessings of celestial marriage. The gospel is everlasting, and all men in all ages are saved by obedience to the same laws and the same ordinances.
16. Christ is the Promised Messiah. For 4,000 years—from Adam to John the son of Zacharias—all of the prophets foretold the coming of the Messiah, the Deliverer, the Holy One who would deliver his people, redeem the faithful, and ransom all men from death, hell, the devil, and endless torment. All of the ancient saints testified of a Christ who would come to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man, even as we testify of a Risen Lord who has taken captivity captive and opened the gates of heaven to all who believe and obey.
17. The mystery of the birth of our Lord. To those with spiritual insight and understanding there is no mystery. The Lord Jehovah, the Firstborn spirit, Son of the Father, was born as the Lord Jesus. God was his Father and Mary was his mother. He was the Only Begotten in the flesh. From his Father, who is a holy man, he inherited the power of immortality, which is the power to live everlastingly; from his mother, a choice and chosen vessel of the lineage of David, he inherited the power of mortality, which is the power to die.
Thus, being dual in nature, he was able to lay down his life and to take it again. Thus he gave up the ghost at Golgotha, and three days later took up his partially embalmed and anointed body as it lay lifeless in an Arimathean's tomb.
18. Christ ministered among mortals. Though our Blessed Lord came into the world to die upon the cross for the sins of the world, though that was the chief intent and purpose of his mortal ministry, though his assigned ministry was to atone for the sins of the world—yet, while he was here, he restored the fulness of the gospel to the earth and taught its doctrines through all Judea and Galilee and beyond.
But, be it remembered, the gospel he taught originated with God his Father. "My doctrine is not mine," he said, "but his that sent me. If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself" (John 7:16–17).
19. Christ worked out his own salvation. This is something of which uninspired men have no comprehension. Truly, he was the Lord Omnipotent before the world was; truly, he was like unto the Father in the premortal life; truly, he was the Son of God here on earth—and yet, with it all, as with all the spirit children of the same Father, he too was subject to all of the terms and conditions of the Father's plan.
20. Christ worshipped the Father. This also is something that is seemingly unknown in the sectarian world. Of course our Blessed Lord, the Lord Jesus himself, the one who is our Savior and Redeemer, of course he worshipped the Father. How else could he (not having received the fulness at the first, as John tells us) go from grace to grace until he received the fulness of the glory of the Father?
Why else would he say to Mary Magdalene as she bowed before him on the resurrection morning: "Go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God" (John 20:17)? Note it and note it well—Elohim is the God of Jehovah as truly and as fully as he is our God. And as Christ worshipped the Father, so must it be with us if we are to go where Christ is and be like him, according to the promises.
21. Christ—the Atoning One and the Crucified One. That which happened in Gethsemane and at Golgotha constitutes a mystery we cannot comprehend. We do not know how a God could bear the sins of all men on conditions of repentance. We cannot fathom the agony involved when Jesus, suffering both body and spirit, sweat great drops of blood from every pore. We only know that it was part of the plan of the Father and that our Lord drank to the full the cup that was his.
In Gethsemane, perhaps for three hours or more, and then again during the final three hours on the cross of Calvary, in agony beyond comprehension or compare, Jesus worked out the infinite and eternal atonement. For our purposes it suffices to know that this ordeal, plus his rising in glorious immortality, has brought to pass the immortality of all men and made eternal life available to all the obedient.
22. Christ—the Resurrected One and the Ascended One. As the sun crowns the day and banishes the darkness of the night, so the resurrection crowns the Atonement and forever abolishes the death that otherwise would have been eternal. Out of the agonies of the one came the glory of the other.
Christ our Lord rose in glorious immortality, the firstfruits of them that sleep, and then, ascending to his Father, he received all power in heaven and on earth. And in a way incomprehensible to us, the effects of his resurrection shall pass upon us all, and we too shall have power, if true and faithful in all things, to ascend to heights beyond the stars.
Now, if time and circumstances permitted, we might continue our presentation and add another score or a hundred headings to those so far named—all shedding light upon that which is mysterious to the carnal mind.
How the Holy Ghost can be a personage of spirit and yet convey his gifts to millions of mortals at one and the same time.
What eternal covenant was made relative to man—by God the First, and God the Second, and God the Third—before the foundations of the earth.
How and in what manner we worship Christ when the revealed word decrees that we should worship and pray to the Father and to him only and to none other.
How and in what manner the Lord Jesus both worships the Father and is an equal to him.
What is meant by the numerous scriptures that say Christ is the Father as well as the Son.
Why angels sometimes speak in the first person as though they were Christ, and why Christ himself often speaks in the first person as though he were the Father.
Why our great goal in life should be to gain the Spirit of the Lord as our companion, and what results will flow from such an attained eventuality.
The scriptures are in our hands. The door to investigation and research and learning is never closed. We are all expected to learn the same truths, live the same laws, and open the same door to the same mysteries.
Now this work in which we are engaged is true. And the doctrines which we proclaim are God's eternal truth. And as the Lord lives, they will endure in time and in eternity. He has placed us here in a mortal circumstance and commanded us to seek him and to strive to be like him. He has given us an abundant amount of revealed truth in the holy scriptures. They are before us; they are available to each of us on the same basis. The prophet said that God has not revealed anything to Joseph that he will not reveal to the Twelve and to the least and last Saint as soon as he is able to bear it.
My prayer is that we, the rising and young generation in whose hands the future and destiny of the Church lies for the decades and ages that are ahead before the second coming of the Son of Man, will take the challenge and search deeply and learn the mysteries of godliness and let them be the standard around which we rally and be the guide that directs our lives in all that we do. If this be our course, we will surely have peace and joy and happiness in this life, and be inheritors of eternal life in the world to come, which may God grant for all of us, in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
Bruce R. McConkie was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints when this fireside address was given at Brigham Young University on 6 January 1985.


The wisdom of the Native American medicine wheel teaches us about the cycles of life. It honours the four main directions but also above, below and within. It takes us on a journey saluting one cardinal point at a time.
Each direction pays homage to a life cycle from birth to death and the life lessons associated with it. They also have an element, a colour, a season and animal totems associated with it.
In the end we are reminded that just like the wheel itself there is no beginning or end. We simply are energy taking various shapes and form throughout time, spiritual beings having human experiences.
I enjoy infusing ancient wisdom from different cultures in class so come move to the rhythm of your breath in creative power vinyasa flow sequences to groovy beats with me where the intent is to find centre within, build internal heat, push boundaries and let go of daily tensions. All levels welcome.
Prana offers a classe in English with Eddy Toyonaga. Eddy teaches a strong Power Vinyasa to the sound of music. The class is for "all-levels".
In Prana Tel Aviv– Monday at 10:15 and on Friday at 13:45.
In Prana Givattayim– on Thursday at 08:15, Wednesday at 20:30 and Friday at 08:30.
Beyond that, you are welcome to all of the classes in our time table, and integrate them with the help of our teachers, who would love to make the classes accessible for English speakers.


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The Mosaic covenant (named after Moses), also known as the Sinaitic covenant (after the biblical Mount Sinai), refers to a covenant between God and the Israelites, including their proselytes, not limited to the ten commandments, nor the event when they were given, but including the entirety of laws that Moses delivered from God in the five books of Torah.

Historical-critical scholarship

The concept of a covenant began long before the biblical era, specifically the beginnings of Israel. According to George E. Mendenhall, covenants were originally established as legal customs and then later were replicated in the field of religion. These covenants were created on the basis of an oath, a promise between two parties followed by performance. Engaging in an oath implied that the more powerful party would ensure that the other received proper punishment if it were to default. In the case of religion, the god(s) would be carrying out punishment. Such covenants assured that either blessings or curses be enacted in response to the circumstances.

The covenant of the pieces between God and Abraham follows the form of the suzerain covenant; what is significant is that Israel has no duties to uphold; the covenant is not conditional. Future covenants between Israel and God would be conditional. This is clearly expressed in , recited twice-daily as part of the foundational prayer, the Shema. This passage declares that as long as Israel is faithful to God it will be blessed with ample crops but should it follow other gods the land will not support it. The cost of not following this covenant is hard.

Mendenhall also addresses the theory behind blood ties and their significance to the concept of a covenant. As stated in the Bible, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are the ancestors of Israel and because of their shared blood, they consequently form a bond. This blood tie is compared to the tie that is established by a covenant, and implies that without their shared blood, covenants would be the only way to ensure such unification of a religious group. Furthermore, Mendenhall notes two additional theories noting how covenants may have begun with the work of Moses, or are even thought to have been established during a true historical event with a valid setting. Regardless of the theories, the creation of covenants may be a mystery to scholars for centuries to come, however, the use of covenants evidenced throughout the biblical sources is an undeniable fact.

According to Mendenhall, the covenant was not just an idea, but actually a historical event. This event was the formation of the covenant community. Wandering the desert, the clans left Egypt following Moses. These people were all of different backgrounds, containing no status in any social community. With all these circumstances they formed their own community by a covenant whose texts turned into the Decalogue (Ten Commandments). The Israelites did not bind themselves to Moses as their leader though and Moses was not a part of the covenant. Moses was just seen as a historical figure of some type sent as a messenger. The Israelites followed the form of the suzerainty treaty, a particular type of covenant common in the Near East and were bound to obey stipulations that were set by Yahweh, not Moses.

In addition to Mendenhall's input and perspective, Weinfeld argues that there are two forms of covenants to have occurred throughout the Hebrew Bible: 1.) the obligatory type & 2.) the promissory type. These translate to a "political treaty" as evidenced by the Hittite Empire, and a "royal grant" as shown through the covenants tied to Abraham and David. A treaty entails a promise to the master by the vassal and ultimately protects the rights of the master. This consequently works in a manner that promotes future loyalty of the vassal since the suzerain had previously done favors for them. A grant on the other hand pertains to an obligation from the master to his servant thus ensuring protection of the servant's rights.

This method of covenant emphasizes focus on rewarding loyalty and good deeds that have already been done. Weinfeld supports his characterization of a treaty by identifying the parallels exposed through the covenant between Yahweh and Israel. Similarly, he utilizes the Abrahamic and Davidic covenant to reveal its correspondence with a royal grant. In spite of the numerous theories revolving covenants in the ancient Near East, Weinfeld ensures his readers that the covenants exposed in the Old Testament fall beneath one of the two plausible types he has identified, either an obligatory type or a promissory type.

In an article comparing covenants and forms of treaties common at the time, Mendenhall focuses on Hittite suzerainty treaties. These treaties, established between an emperor (suzerain) and inferior king (vassal), were defined by several important elements. The treaties were based on past aid or good fortune that the suzerain had previously delivered to the vassal and the obligations that the vassal, therefore, had to the suzerain. This foundation for a treaty relationship is similar to the foundation for the Mosaic covenant and the Decalogue, according to Mendenhall. God had delivered the Israelites from Egypt in the Exodus, and they therefore are obligated to follow the commandments in the Decalogue. As the suzerain, God has no further obligations towards the Israelites—but it is implied that God will continue to protect them as a result of the covenant.

Judaism

In the Hebrew Bible, God established the Mosaic covenant with the Israelites after he saved them from slavery in Egypt in the story of the Exodus. Moses led the Israelites to the promised land known as Canaan after which Joshua led them to its possession.

The Mosaic covenant played a role in defining the Kingdom of Israel (c. 1220-c. 930 BCE), and subsequently the southern Kingdom of Judah (c. 930-c. 587 BCE) and northern Kingdom of Israel (c. 930-c. 720 BCE), and Yehud Medinata (c.539-c.333 BCE), and the Hasmonean Kingdom (140-37 BCE), and the Bar Kokhba revolt (132-136 CE), and Rabbinic Judaism c. 2nd century to the present.

Rabbinic Judaism asserts that the Mosaic covenant was presented to the Jewish people and converts to Judaism (which includes the biblical proselytes) and does not apply to Gentiles, with the notable exception of the Seven Laws of Noah which apply to all people.

Christianity

The Mosaic covenant or Law of Moses, which Christians generally call the "Old Covenant" in contrast to the New Covenant, has played an important role in the shaping of Christianity. It has been the source of serious dispute and contention seen in Jesus' expounding of the Law during his Sermon on the Mount, the circumcision controversy in early Christianity, and the Incident at Antioch which has led scholars to dispute the relationship between Paul of Tarsus and Judaism. The Book of Acts says that after the ascension of Jesus, Stephen, the first Christian martyr, was killed when he was accused of speaking against the Jerusalem Temple and the Mosaic Law. Later, in , the Council of Jerusalem addressed the circumcision controversy in early Christianity.

See also
 Christianity and Judaism
 Christian views on the Old Covenant
 Covenant theology
 Covenantal nomism
 Ten Commandments

References

External links
 Catholic Encyclopedia: Mosaic Legislation

Jewish law
Commandments
Torah
Jewish theology
Mosaic law in Christian theology
Covenants in the Hebrew Bible

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With the successful IFMAR worlds completed, the current champion Hein Kotze, the 4-time champion Jason Hillcoat and other top drivers from the host club KMR changed chassis brand with many drivers racing the new Awesomatix. The controlled practise and previous practise events showed that reaching the A mains was destined for the fast and consistent drivers. The current champion and the 2018 series leader Hein Kotze dominated the practise and qualification rounds securing a great TQ for Sunday. He was closely followed by his Awesomatix team mate Anderton Smith and Xray driver Shaun Schutte securing 3rd and 2nd on the grid respectively. Hein dominated all three finals with Shaun Schutte holding his own in the second position. Anderton Smith had some troubles in A1 and A3 and Conrad Liebenberg drove good finals from 7th on the grid to grab the remaining podium spot. This great win gave Hein Kotze his second national championship in a row.
The Pro-stock class promised for a great battle between the championship leader Gunther Cornelius who also changed to Awesomatix and his rival Jonathan Wilken running a new WRC. Gunther had some troubles during the qualification rounds and it was Deon Gove who took TQ followed by Anthony Smith and Jonathan Wilken starting form 3rd. Gunther Cornelius decided not the race the finals which opened up the podium. Deon Gove had great A1 and A2 finals which gave him the overall win. It was the young driver Kevin Hatting starting from 4th on the grid who took 2nd place and Anthony Smith finished 3rd for the weekend. Kevin's podium also gave him the 2018 championship by 1 point over Gunther Cornelius.
The F1 championship was in the hands of Xray driver Pedro de Gouveia with full points in the first two national rounds. In the qualification rounds it was Jonathan Wilken who managed to secure TQ with his new WRC F1. Both of the drivers made some mistakes on the curbs during the finals, but it was Pedro de Gouveia who managed to win all three finals and Jonathan finishing second. Tyronne Wilken managed to secure the last podium spot with some consistent driving. The win gave Pedro his third national title in a row.
In the small FWD class it was the 'older' generation dominating the proceedings after young Tyron Vavatzanidis took the TQ. Tyron struggled to get of the line in the finals which allowed Andre Marias to win two of the finals and Paul van der Westhuizen the third.


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Capping Coinsurance on Pricey Meds -- Is This the Future of Health Insurance in America?
By Todd CampbellFool.com
Covered California's decision to limit the amount of money that Californians pay for expensive medicines -- including cancer treatment -- shifts costs back to insurers, further forcing them to either negotiate lower prices with drugmakers, or take a hit to their bottom lines.The decision by this agency, which regulates California's state health insurance marketplace, limits a patient's coinsurance level to a fixed amount of money per prescription and could have wide-ranging implications for patients, insurers, and, ultimately, drugmakers.
A broken system?In a bid to protect profit margin and reduce annual insurance rate increases amid the approval of a flurry of ultra-expensive new medicines, health insurers have been steadily increasing coinsurance levels. That surge in coinsurance, or the percentage of care that must be paid for by the patient, is pressuring cash-strapped patients, such as seniors who are struggling to afford healthcare for common diseases.
For example, hepatitis C affects roughly 3 million Americans, and newly-launched drugs that offer cure rates north of 90% have been priced at more than $1,000 per pill. Additionally, the Sloan-Kettering Memorial Cancer Center reports that a bevy of newly-approved cancer treatments have been priced at $10,000 per month, or more, in the past year.
The rising cost of new drugs is a big reason why nearly half a million Americans are paying coinsurance of at least $50,000 annually for their medication, according to pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts.
Given the impact of the rising cost of drugs on a patient's income and savings, it's not surprising to learn that many Americans are cutting corners, such as splitting pills, or skipping treatments, in order to make ends meet. However, those money-saving decisions can reduce how effective a medicine can be, and lead to a host of other medical complications that can ultimately be life threatening, not to mention even more costly.
Changing the gameAlthough Covered California can't demand that drugmakers charge less for their medicines, the agency can mandate the rules that apply to insurers offering healthcare insurance through the state's exchange. The agency hopes that by capping coinsurance for patients at $150 or $250 per prescription, per month, it can significantly reduce the burden of pricey medicines.
The new coinsurnace price cap will begin with plans covering patients next year, and those coinsurance cap levels will only apply to silver or gold medal plans offered through California's health-insurance exchange. Patients with bronze level plans will have a higher coinsurance cap on these medicines of $500.
Overall, California's decision will only apply to the 2.2 million Californians who buy their coverage through the Covered California website; however, legislation has been introduced in California that would expand this coinsurance cap to include employer-based plans, too.
Digesting the impactCalifornia's coinsurance limits could be a big boon for patients, given that medical costs are the leading reason behind personal bankruptcy. However, coinsurance limits do present a problem for insurers because most of them operate on single-digit profit margins. For example, the nation's largest insurer, UnitedHealth Group, provides insurance to tens of millions of Americans, and its operating profit margin was just 8.07% during the past 12 months.
If coinsurance limits are embraced in more states, then insurers may end up increasing monthly premiums to make up for the shortfall. A margin squeeze resulting from coinsurance limits could also lead to consolidation among insurers hoping to eliminate overlapping costs, or it could lead to a standoff between insurers and drugmakers that might result in more hurdles being put in place to limit access to expensive medicines.
Drugmakers may also feel the sting if coinsurance limits result in legislation that directly impacts industry pricing, or if drug rationing shrinks prescription volume. Regardless, the creation of coinsurance limits for medicine is something that warrants watching because it could end up significantly altering how Americans get -- and pay for -- their medicines.
The article Capping Coinsurance on Pricey Meds -- Is This the Future of Health Insurance in America? originally appeared on Fool.com.
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Q: Trying to print res.locals variabe in view page(.hbs) My controllers looks like this in usermains.js
var header = function (req, res, next) {
res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/html'});
res.locals.title="helloooo";
res.write(loadView('headerpage'));
console.log(res.title);
next();
};
app.get('/log',header,values,renderBody);

Here is my loadview function
var loadView = function(name, locals) {
if(name=='main'){
console.log(path.join('views/layouts/'+name + '.hbs'));
var template = fs.readFileSync(path.join('views/layouts/'+name +'.hbs')).toString();
 }else{
console.log(path.join('views/'+name + '.hbs'));
var template = fs.readFileSync(path.join('views/'+name +  '.hbs')).toString();
}
return template;
};

And i am calling this on view page.
{{title}}

It is giving output as {{title}} on browser. How to get res.locals.title value on view page. Thanks!

A: Use Handlebars in order to first compile, and then execute the template, passing the appropriate data that you wish. Simply reading/loading the template will give you the raw data. Use something like (tweak it for your needs, this is only a sample):
var handlebars = require('handlebars');
var rawTemplate = fs.readFileSync(path.join('views/'+name +  '.hbs')).toString();
var compiledTemplate = handlebars.compile(rawTemplate);
var result = compiledTemplate(dataPassedToTemplate);

res.write(result);


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package net.jonp.sorm.codegen.model;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.LinkedList;
import java.util.List;

/**
 * Structure containing the entire Sorm code-generation configuration.
 */
public class Sorm
{
    private String pkg;
    private String accessor = "public";
    private String name;
    private String orm_accessor = "public";
    private String superClass = null;

    private final List<Field> fields = new LinkedList<Field>();
    private final Query create = new Query();
    private final Query pk = new Query();
    private final Query read = new Query();
    private final Query update = new Query();
    private final Query delete = new Query();
    private final List<NamedQuery> queries = new LinkedList<NamedQuery>();

    public Sorm()
    {
        // Nothing to do
    }

    public String getPkg()
    {
        return pkg;
    }

    public void setPkg(final String pkg)
    {
        this.pkg = pkg;
    }

    public String getAccessor()
    {
        return accessor;
    }

    public void setAccessor(final String accessor)
    {
        this.accessor = accessor;
    }

    public String getName()
    {
        return name;
    }

    public void setName(final String name)
    {
        this.name = name;
    }

    public String getOrm_accessor()
    {
        return orm_accessor;
    }

    public void setOrm_accessor(final String ormAccessor)
    {
        orm_accessor = ormAccessor;
    }

    public String getSuper()
    {
        return superClass;
    }

    public void setSuper(final String superClass)
    {
        this.superClass = superClass;
    }

    public List<Field> getFields()
    {
        return fields;
    }

    public Query getCreate()
    {
        return create;
    }

    public Query getPk()
    {
        return pk;
    }

    public Query getRead()
    {
        return read;
    }

    public Query getUpdate()
    {
        return update;
    }

    public Query getDelete()
    {
        return delete;
    }

    public List<NamedQuery> getQueries()
    {
        return queries;
    }

    /**
     * If there is a primary field, get it.
     *
     * @return The primary field, or null if there is none.
     * @throws IllegalStateException If there are multiple.
     */
    public Field getPrimaryField()
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        final List<Field> primary = new ArrayList<Field>(1);
        for (final Field f : getFields()) {
            if (f.isPrimary()) {
                primary.add(f);
            }
        }

        if (primary.isEmpty()) {
            return null;
        }
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            return primary.get(0);
        }
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        }
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}

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Manitoba chief currently on trip to Israel facing federal scrutiny of band's books
KPMG preparing for a possible forensic audit of Norway House's books
(Norway House Chief Ron Evans. APTN/File)
Jorge Barrera
A Manitoba First Nation chief currently visiting Israel is facing a probe back home of his community's books by the federal Indigenous Affairs department.
Indigenous Affairs has asked auditing firm KPMG to sift through the books of Norway House Cree Nation, according to a statement from the department. The review is meant to establish the "scope of a possible forensic audit," said the statement.
The department said the "financial review" of the community was launched after its audit and evaluation sector received allegations concerning suspected financial irregularities related to Norway House and Chief Ron Evans.
"It is not possible at this stage to determine the completion date of this financial review as it will be based on what is found during the review process," said the statement.
Evans is currently in Israel this week as part of a "youth leadership development mission," according to an article published by the Canadian Jewish News.
Evans, who has visited Israel three times in the last five years, is expected to remain in Israel with the youth delegation until March 2, the article said.
During an interview with APTN Friday, Evans did not mention his impending trip to Israel. APTN only learned of the trip late Sunday.
Evans said during the interview that KPMG auditors recently contacted the band's director of finance requesting information.
"(KPMG) was provided with whatever information they requested," said Evans.
Evans said he believed the financial review was triggered by a complaint over "salaries and travel." He said the band council had nothing to hide.
"All our information is posted," said Evans. "They are all on the website."
Larson Anderson, the former general manager for Norway House's property management department, filed a complaint with Indigenous Affairs' audit and evaluation branch in November concerning Evans' per diems and travel expenses.
Anderson said he was pleased to hear the department was now investigating the band's books.
"I feel very pleased that (Indigenous Affairs) listened to our pleas of accountability and transparency for our First Nation," said Anderson. "I am hoping that justice will prevail."
This is not the first time Evans has come under scrutiny over his handling of finances. In 2013, APTN obtained an internal report from the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs that alleged Evans, while grand chief of the organization, used an education charity as a piggy bank to cover the organization's debts.
@JorgeBarrera
Tags: Chief Ron Evans, Indigenous Affairs, KPMG, Manitoba, Norway House, spending
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Don`t like him buddying up with Israel.


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Q: Import all schtasks .xml files inside the current directory via batch I know it's possible to import multiple tasks like this:
schtasks.exe /create /TN "Task 1 Name" /XML "Full_Path_of_Backup_XML_File"
schtasks.exe /create /TN "Task 2 Name" /XML "Full_Path_of_Backup_XML_File"
schtasks.exe /create /TN "Task 3 Name" /XML "Full_Path_of_Backup_XML_File"

But I'd prefer a more dynamic way to import all schtasks .xml files inside the current directory. Much like this batch here (.xml instead of .reg):
rem @echo off
cls
SET folder=%~dp0
for %%i in ("%folder%*.reg") do (regedit /s "%%i")
echo done
pause
EXIT

Can someone guide me to the right direction? :)

A: Do you mean that you want to iterate through every XML file that is located in the same directory as the batch-file script? And then create a scheduled task with every XML file that was found? If that is the case you could try something like this (assuming the XML files are valid to create scheduled tasks with):
@echo off

setlocal enabledelayedexpansion

for %%e in ("%~dp0*.xml") do (
  set /a "count+=1"
  schtasks /create /tn "Task !count! Name" /xml "%%~e"
)

If you need to be able to pass XML file names that contain exclamation marks to the schtasks command-line tool, use the following code instead:
@echo off

setlocal disabledelayedexpansion
set "count=1"

for %%e in ("%~dp0*.xml") do (
  set "file=%%~e"
  setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
  schtasks /create /tn "Task !count! Name" /xml "!file!"
  endlocal & set /a "count+=1"
)

Still one question, how to name the tasks like their .xml filenames?

This will actually simplify things because there is no need to expand a separate variable within the for-loop body during execution time:
@echo off

setlocal disabledelayedexpansion

for %%e in ("%~dp0*.xml") do (
  schtasks /create /tn "%%~ne" /xml "%%~e"
)


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The Hieromartyr Blaise (Blasius), Bishop of Sebaste, was known for his righteous and devout life. Unanimously chosen by the people, he was consecrated Bishop of Sebaste. This occurred during the reign of the Roman emperors Diocletian (284-305) and Licinius (307-324), fierce persecutors of Christians. Saint Blaise encouraged his flock, visited the imprisoned, and gave support to the martyrs.
Many hid themselves from the persecutors by going off to desolate and solitary places. Saint Blaise also hid himself away on Mount Argeos, where he lived in a cave. Wild beasts came up to him and meekly waited until the saint finished his prayer and blessed them. The saint also healed sick animals by laying his hands upon them.
The refuge of the saint was discovered by servants of the governor Agrilaus, who had come to capture wild beasts to loose on the Christian martyrs. The servants reported to their master that Christians were hiding on the mountain, and he gave orders to arrest them. But those sent out found there only the Bishop of Sebaste. Glorifying God Who had summoned him to this exploit, Saint Blaise followed the soldiers.
Along the way the saint healed the sick and worked other miracles. Thus, a destitute widow complained to him of her misfortune. A wolf had carried off a small pig, her only possession. The bishop smiled and said to her, "Do not weep, your pig will be returned to you..." To the astonishment of everyone, the wolf came running back and returned his prey unharmed.
Agrilaus, greeting the bishop with words of deceit, called him a companion of the gods. The saint answered the greeting, but he called the gods devils. Then they beat him and led him off to prison.
On the next day, they subjected the saint to tortures again. When they led him back to the prison, seven women followed behind and gathered up the drops of blood. They arrested them and tried to compel them to worship the idols. The women pretended to consent to this and said that first they needed to wash the idols in the waters of a lake. They took the idols and threw them in a very deep part of the lake, and after this the Christians were fiercely tortured. The saints stoically endured the torments, strengthened by the grace of God, their bodies were transformed and became white as snow. One of the women had two young sons, who implored their mother to help them attain the Kingdom of Heaven, and she entrusted them to the care of Saint Blaise. The seven holy women were beheaded.
Saint Blaise was again brought before Agrilaus, and again he unflinchingly confessed his faith in Christ. The governor ordered that the martyr be thrown into a lake. The saint, going down to the water, signed himself with the Sign of the Cross, and he walked on it as though on dry land.
Addressing the pagans standing about on shore, he challenged them to come to him while calling on the help of their gods. Sixty-eight men of the governor's retinue entered the water, and immediately drowned. The saint, however, heeding the angel who had appeared to him, returned to shore.
Agrilaus was in a rage over losing his finest servants, and he gave orders to behead Saint Blaise, and the two boys entrusted to him, the sons of the martyr. Before his death, the martyr prayed for the whole world, and especially for those honoring his memory. This occurred in about the year 316.
The relics of the Hieromartyr Blaise were brought to the West during the time of the Crusades, and portions of the relics are preserved in many of the lands of Europe [and his memory traditionally honored there on February 3].
We pray to Saint Blaise for the health of domestic animals, and for protection from wild beasts.
Not far from Vologda, at the bend of a river in an isolated spot, Saint Demetrius decided to form the first of the cenobitic monasteries of the Russian North. The people of Vologda and the surrounding gladly consented to help the saint. The owners of the land intended for the monastery, Elias and Isidore, even trampled down a grain field, so that a temple might be built immediately. In 1371 the wooden Savior cathedral was built, and brethren began to gather.
Holy Prince Vsevolod of Pskov, in Baptism Gabriel, a grandson of Vladimir Monomakh, was born at Novgorod, where in the years 1088-1093 and 1095-1117 his father ruled as prince. His father was the holy prince Saint Mstislav-Theodore the Great (April 15). In the year 1117, when Great Prince Vladimir Monomakh gave Mstislav Kievan Belgorod as his "udel" (land-holding), practically making him co-ruler, young Vsevolod remained as his father's vicar in the Novgorod principality.
Holy Prince Vsevolod did much good for Novgorod. Together with the Archbishop of Novgorod, Saint Niphon (April 8), he raised up many churches, among which were the cathedral of the Great Martyr George at the Yuriev monastery, and the church of Saint John the Forerunner at Opokakh, built in honor of the "angel" (i.e. patron saint) of his first-born son John, who had died in infancy (+ 1128).
In his Ustav (Law code) the prince granted a special charter of lands and privileges to the cathedral of Holy Wisdom (Hagia Sophia) and other churches. During a terrible famine, he exhausted his entire treasury to save people from perishing. Prince Vsevolod was a valiant warrior, he marched victoriously against the Yam and Chud peoples, but he never took up the sword for lucre or power.
Striving to restore good relations with Novgorod, the prince undertook a victorious campaign against the Chud people in 1133, and he annexed Yuriev to the Novgorod domain. But a harsh winter campaign in 1135-1136 against Suzdal was unsuccessful. The stubborn people of Novgorod would not heed their chastisement by God, and they could not forgive the prince for their defeat. The assembly decided to summon a prince from the hostile Monomakh line of the Olgovichi, and they condemned Saint Vsevolod to banishment. "You suffered exile at the hands of your own people," we sing in the troparion to the saint. For a month and a half they held the prince and his family under guard at the archbishop's palace. When Prince Svyatoslav Olgovich arrived on July 15, 1136, Vsevolod was released from his captivity.
Vsevolod went again to Kiev, and his uncle Yaropolk gave him the Vyshgorod district near Kiev, the place where Saint Olga (July 11) had lived in the tenth century during the rule of her son Svyatoslav, "preferring the cities of Kiev and Pskov." Saint Olga came to the defense of her descendant in 1137 when the people of Pskov, recalling the campaigns of the Novgorod-Pskov army led by the prince, invited him to the Pskov principality, the native region of Saint Olga. He was the first Pskov prince, chosen by the will of the Pskov people.
Among the glorious works of Saint Vsevolod-Gabriel at Pskov was the construction of the first stone church dedicated to the Life-Creating Trinity, replacing a wooden church from the time of Saint Olga. On the icons of the saint, he is often depicted holding the church of the Holy Trinity.
Saint Vsevolod ruled as prince at Pskov for only a year. He died on February 11, 1138 at the age of forty-six. All of Pskov gathered at the funeral of the beloved prince, and the chanting of the choir could scarcely be heard over the people's wailing.
On November 27, 1192, the relics of holy Prince Vsevolod were uncovered and transferred into the Trinity cathedral, in which a chapel was consecrated in his honor.
The deep spiritual bond of the city of Saint Olga with the holy Prince Vsevolod was never broken. He always remained a Pskov wonderworker. At the siege of Pskov by Stephen Bathory in 1581, when the walls of the fortress were already breached and the Poles were ready to rush into the city, they brought the holy relics of Prince Vsevolod from the Trinity cathedral to the place of battle, and the enemy withdrew.
On April 22, 1834, on the first day of Pascha, the saint's holy relics were solemnly transferred to a new shrine in the main church of the cathedral.
At the appearance of the wonderworking Pskov-Protection Icon (October 1), holy Prince Vsevolod-Gabriel stood among the heavenly defenders of Pskov.
Holy Empress Theodora was the wife of the Byzantine emperor Theophilus the Iconoclast (829-842), but she did not share in the heresy of her husband and secretly venerated the holy icons. After the death of her husband, Saint Theodora governed the realm because her son Michael was a minor.
She convened a Council, at which the Iconoclasts were anathematized, and the veneration of icons was reinstated. Saint Theodora established the annual celebration of this event, the Triumph of Orthodoxy, on the first Sunday of the Great Fast. Saint Theodora did much for Holy Church and fostered a firm devotion to Orthodoxy in her son Michael.
When Michael came of age, she was retired from governing and spent eight years in the monastery of Saint Euphrosyne, where she devoted herself to ascetic struggles, and reading books that nourished her soul.
A copy of the Gospels, copied in her own hand, is known to exist. She died peacefully around the year 867.
In 1460, her relics were given by the Turks to the people of Kerkyra (Corfu).
The Holy Martyr George the New was born into an illustrious Bulgarian family, living in the capital city of Bulgaria, Sredets (now the city of Sofia). Saint George's childless parents, John and Mary, in their declining years entreated the Lord to send them a child. Their prayer was answered, and they baptized the infant with the name of the holy Great Martyr George (April 23).
Young George received a fine upbringing, he attentively studied the Holy Scriptures, and he was pious and chaste. His parents died when George was twenty-five. At that time Bulgaria found itself under the rule of the Turks, who forcibly converted Christians to Islam.
Once, several Moslems tried to convert George. They put a fez on the saint's head. This is a red circular hat which Moslems wear to enter their house of prayer. But George threw the fez on the ground. The Turks brought the martyr to their governor with beatings and abuse.
The governor was impressed with Saint George's appearance and bearing, and he urged him to accept Islam, promising honors and wealth from Sultan Selim (1512-1520). The saint boldly and steadfastly confessed his faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, and reproached the errors of Islam. The governor in a rage gave orders to beat Saint George with rods, but the saint persevered in his confession of faith in Christ.
The governor ordered the tortures to be increased. The passion-bearer bore all his sufferings, calling on the Lord Jesus Christ for help. Then they led the martyr through the city to the beat of a drum and shouts: "Do not insult Mohammed nor abase the Moslem faith".
Finally, a large fire was lit in the city, to burn Saint George. Weakened by his wounds, the saint fell to the ground. They threw him into the fire still alive, and they threw corpses of dogs on top of him so that Christians would not be able to find the relics of the martyr.
Suddenly, a heavy rain fell and extinguished the fire. With the onset of darkness, the place where the body of the martyr was thrown was illumined with a bright light. They gave permission to a certain Christian priest to take the venerable relics of the martyr for burial. Informed about the occurrence, Metropolitan Jeremiah and his clergy went to the place of execution. In the ashes of the fire they located the body of the holy Martyr George and carried it to the church of Saint George the Great Martyr in the city of Sredets.
On May 26, 1515 the holy relics of Saint George were removed from the grave, placed in a coffin, and then brought into the church, where they have remained ever since. The Church honors Saint George twice during the year: on February 11, the day of his martyrdom, and on May 26, the uncovering of his holy relics.
Saint Gobnata was born in Co.Clare at the end of the fifth, or the beginning of the sixth century. Later she fled to the Aran Islands to escape from some enemy. An angel appeared to her one day and told her to leave that place and to keep walking until she found nine white deer. She saw three white deer at Clondrohid, Co. Cork, and decided to follow them. Then at Ballymakeera, she saw six white deer. Finally, at Ballyvourney she came upon nine white deer grazing in a wood. There she was given land for a women's monastery by her spiritual Father Saint Abban of Kilabban, Co. Laois (March 16), and he installed her as abbess. Excavations in 1951 proved that indeed there had been an early Christian settlement on the site.
Saint Gobnata was renowned for her gift of healing, and there is a story of how she kept the plague from Ballyvourney. She is also famous for her skill as a bee-keeper.
One day, Saint Gobnata was watching from a hill overlooking a valley as an invading chieftain and his army came through, destroying crops and driving off cattle. She sent the bees to attack them, and they were thrown into such confusion that they left without their plunder.
The holy virgin Saint Gobnata fell asleep in the Lord on February 11. The exact year of her death is not known, but it probably occurred in the sixth century. Although she is regarded as the patron saint of Ballyvourney, she is venerated throughout southern Ireland. There are churches dedicated to her in Waterford and Kerry, for example, and she is also revered in Scotland.


The Underground Railroad: Pacifist or Warlike?
Rust: Like Calvinists of old and the modern rationalist-philosopher Thomas Hobbes, we warn the Court of Quaker Opinion of the inherent selfishness of human nature.
Abrasive: Whether the "amicable collision" of Shaftesbury's England or the pranksters on the American frontier, basic human incivility is a natural abrasive.
Rust: Without a social contract, mayhem rules as anarchy.
Much of our culture defines people by their gifts and talents – what you're "good" at. But, what about the things we're not good at, or the list a list of the things I am not: not gifted in, have no desire to do, or have no interest in whatsoever.
Below is an excerpt from Earlham School of Religion Geraldine Leatherock Professor of Quaker Studies Stephen W. Angell May 9, 2014 ESR Baccalaureate Address.
The search image unconditioned and unmediated.
Does nature mirror God or does God mirror nature? Even before the saving cross, there was the killing tree. Even before the muck and mire of human existence, there was the dense forest. Even before the sugar daddy or supermom to exploit, there was the giant sequoia trees.
PLEASE COMMENT / PARTICIPATE - CALENDAR OF VIRTUES - April 20 - May 20 - "Inner Balance Becoes Progress"
PLEASE POST YOUR COMMENT / PARTICIPATE - CALENDAR OF VIRTUES - April 20 - May 20 - "Inner Balance Becomes Progress"
The Calendar of Virtues is a year-round listing of "Virtues in Transformation" which is linked with a calendar of the natural year.
and some seed fell on good ground.
The eternal Seed thrives in any condition and under any circumstances.
Foundation: Need we point out to the Court of Quaker Opinion the essential foundation of Quakerism?
Skylight: Would that be faith and practice, reason or the Bible?
Foundation: All of the above.
Skylight: Nolo contendere - all known by, and with, the Church's one foundation, who is above your foundation(s).
Foundation: So what's the purpose of the skylight?
Living in and knowing the sufficency of the thing itself.


Formerly known as Sandy Institute, Sandy Leksana Institute (SLI) is specialised in preparing candidates for international standardised tests, such as GMAT, GRE, SAT, IELTS and some other tests.
SLI (first under the name Sandy Institute) was established on the 4th of August 2009. Our courses were initially carried out at the founder's residence in Menteng area, Central Jakarta, but because of the growing number of students, we moved to Gedung Sentral Cikini, Jalan Cikini Raya, Jakarta Pusat in September 2012. Now, we also run courses in Gedung Jalan RP Soeroso 25, Jakarta Pusat.
the primary language of instruction, i.e. Bahasa Indonesia for GMAT/GRE classes.
The Graduate Management Admission Test is a computer adaptive test (CAT) intended to assess certain analytical, writing, quantitative, verbal, and reading skills in written English for use in admission to a graduate management program, such as an MBA. It requires knowledge of certain grammar and knowledge of certain algebra, geometry, and arithmetic.
IELTS, the International English Language Testing System, is intended for those who wish either to study or to work in a country where English is used as the language of communication. Hence, it tests a person's level of proficiency in English.
There are two versions of the test, i.e. IELTS Academic required for university admissions or IELTS General Training for work and/or permanent residence.


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Business	 May 17, 2017 July 4, 2017
"Daily report is important for both of us"
Why fintechs partner up with Eastern European companies? In only a couple of years Eastern Europe has become an outsourcing walhalla for fintechs. The New York Times even called Bulgaria the Silicon Valley of Europe. FinanceInnovation spoke to two fintech companies that have outsourced some of their activities. What makes that part of Europe so attractive?
The London-based fintech company Currency Cloud works with N-iX, a Ukraine-based technology company. How did this collaboration come about? Finance Innovation interviewed Currency Cloud to get that answer and more. Currency Cloud is the first company we're interviewing to find out what it's like to cooperate with a company from Eastern Europe. Currency Cloud has recently been nominated for a FinTech Innovation Award 2015, as fintech startup of the year. Rachel Nienaber, VP of Engineering at Currency Cloud, is responsible for the technology team and she shared her experience of working with N-iX with us. Currency Cloud makes it possible to make international payments across the whole world, "we want to make payments easier for customers," Nienaber explains.
The N-iX partnership is fundamental to Currency Cloud. "We try very hard to ensure that there is as little difference as possible between them and us. The only difference is that they are situated in Ukraine and we are in London". Nienaber explains why her company collaborates with N-iX: "They are an excellent nearshoring partner. After assessing many suppliers in many countries, we found that N-iX best understood our needs and was the best company to work with".
The most important aspect of the collaboration is that both parties have to communicate clearly with each other. "When we started this collaboration both sides had to put in a lot of time and effort, which was only to be expected for a joint venture like this. The main reason it is working so well now is because we talk every day about what is happening at both locations", this means that the team leaders in England and Ukraine begin every day with a conference call or Skype session so that everyone is up-to-date.
The cooperation between the two companies is a success, although there are still some differences that the companies have to deal with, for example "people from England and Ukraine have a different sense of humour; it's no big deal of course, but we had to get used to each other", Nienaber explained.
Currency Cloud deliberately chose a company in almost the same time zone. The difference between England and Ukraine is only two hours, "otherwise it would be very difficult to communicate with them".
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Kate Veli


I've always had an interest for photography since my late teens. I've owned an Olympus film camera since 1990. About two years ago I purchased my 1st digital camera, a Canon P & S. Recently, I decided to upgrade to a digital SLR and in March I purchased the Nikon D40. Well, it didn't take long before my ambitious love of photography lead me to upgrade this weekend to the Nikon D200. Yay! This is definitely a blessing. I can't wait to begin shooting and uploading photos from my new gear.
I've learned much from the forums as well as DT members. I am looking forward to continue learning and improving my work flow. I hope to be able to provide quality images that will suit the requirements of DT clients.
"To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor".
Nikon D200 18-135mm, 50mm 1.8, Tamron macro 90mm, set of AB800, and a few light modifiers.