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Utah Jazz "Signs" 5-Year-Old Fan With Leukemia
By Denisse Moreno	• Published October 7, 2014 • Updated on October 7, 2014 at 7:54 pm
JP Gibson, a 5-year-old basketball lover, had his dream come true when he got a one-day contract to play for the Utah Jazz on Monday.
To give something back to their little but loyal fan who was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia in 2012, the Jazz also let Gibson join them during their open scrimmage at EnergySolutions Arena Monday night.
His parents Josh and Megan, along with his 2-year-old-sister Elsie, accompanied free agent guard JP as he stood up on the table holding his official Utah Jazz jersey for photographs after signing his deal with Jazz president Randy Rigby.
"When he was just over a year old, he would sit with my husband Josh watching games," JP's mother Megan Gibson told NBA.com. "He started insisting on shooting hoops for an hour each night before bedtime when he was just 15 months old. He knows he has to be six before he can play Junior Jazz, and he reminds us all the time that he can't wait until he's six."
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And he didn't. Wearing a No.1 jersey, Gibson went straight to the Utah Jazz to dribble and dodge NBA pros. He even dunked the ball, with a little help from center Rudy Gobert.
The Gibson family, who reside in Layton, Utah, was hosted by the Jazz team and "Anything Can Be." The project is part of the Millie's Princess Foundation that provides financial support, awareness and hope to families affected by childhood cancer. For the project, photographer Jon Diaz asks children suffering from cancer what their dream is and makes it a reality through a photographic storybook. JP Gibson's Utah Jazz dream is one of them.
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Remember when the Tea Party people got elected, and soon after, placed themselves as the opposition party to, well… pretty much everything? And remember when that caused Moody's to drop America's credit rating from AAA to AA+ because we could no longer be counted on to pay the bills we owe (a.k.a. 'the debt ceiling')?
And remember when Donald Trump was elected President and upon his inauguration he promised to put America First when he made any decision as it related to us and the world? And then, soon after, he handed Angela Merkel a bill for what he felt Germany owes us for their NATO membership?
And remember when economists began to talk about how all this, when combined, could destabilize the dollar to the point that it may no longer be considered the world's currency because America has become too unpredictable, and that China would undoubtedly try to take advantage of that with the yuan?
And finally, remember when Donald Trump got elected on a platform of restoring America's standing as a world leader because "they're all laughing at us"?


We are created in such a way that we are in the spiritual world and the earthly world at one and the same time. The spiritual world is where angels are and the earthly world is where we are. And since that is how we are created, we are given an inner nature and an outer nature—an inner nature that allows us to be in the spiritual world, and an outer nature that allows us to be in the earthly world. Our inner nature is what we refer to as the inner self, and our outer nature is what we refer to as the outer self.
Each one of us has an inner level and an outer level, but they are not the same for good people as they are for evil ones. For good people, their inner level is in heaven and in its light, while their outer level is in the world and in its light. Further, for good people this latter light is brightened by heaven's light, so their inner and outer levels act in unison like an efficient cause and its effect, or like what is prior and what is subsequent. For evil people, though, their inner level is in this world and its light, and the same holds true for their outer level as well. This means that they cannot see anything in heaven's light, only in this world's light, which they call "the light of nature." That is why heavenly matters are in darkness for them and worldly matters are in the light.
We can see from this that good people have an inner self and an outer self, while [in effect] evil people have no inner self, only an outer one.


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Describe "user/service encryption works" {

    # The Supervisors for this test have started up with `--org=e2e`,
    # but because of how we check for the service being up via the
    # HTTP gateway, we have to pass the name of the organization name
    # here. It is not actually an argument to `hab svc load`.
    Load-SupervisorService "core/redis" -Remote "alpha.habitat.dev" -Org "e2e"
    Load-SupervisorService "core/redis" -Remote "beta.habitat.dev" -Org "e2e"
    Load-SupervisorService "core/redis" -Remote "gamma.habitat.dev" -Org "e2e"

    Context "uploading without using user encryption" {
        $message = "Hello from Habitat!"
        Set-Content message.txt -Value $message
        hab file upload `
            redis.default@e2e `
        ([DateTime]::Now.Ticks) `
            message.txt `
            --remote-sup=bastion.habitat.dev
        Start-Sleep 5

        # This is somewhat surprising, as it implies that running a
        # Supervisor with an organization is *not* a signal that
        # config and file uploads *must* be encrypted when sent into
        # the network. Encryption is apparently optional.

        It "you actually can get the file on alpha" {
            $uploadedMessage = docker exec "${env:COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME}_alpha_1" cat /hab/svc/redis/files/message.txt
            $uploadedMessage | Should -Be $message
        }

        It "you actually can get the file on beta" {
            $uploadedMessage = docker exec "${env:COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME}_beta_1" cat /hab/svc/redis/files/message.txt
            $uploadedMessage | Should -Be $message
        }

        It "you actually can get the file on gamma" {
            $uploadedMessage = docker exec "${env:COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME}_gamma_1" cat /hab/svc/redis/files/message.txt
            $uploadedMessage | Should -Be $message
        }

    }

    Context "uploading with user encryption" {
        $new_message = "Hello from an ENCRYPTED Habitat!"
        Set-Content encrypted_message.txt -Value $new_message
        hab file upload `
            redis.default@e2e `
        ([DateTime]::Now.Ticks) `
            encrypted_message.txt `
            --remote-sup=bastion.habitat.dev `
            --user=mctesterson
        Start-Sleep 5

        # Note that files are only encrypted in transit, and not on disk.

        It "should upload the file to alpha" {
            $uploadedMessage = docker exec "${env:COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME}_alpha_1" cat /hab/svc/redis/files/encrypted_message.txt
            $uploadedMessage | Should -Be $new_message
        }

        It "should upload the file to beta" {
            $uploadedMessage = docker exec "${env:COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME}_beta_1" cat /hab/svc/redis/files/encrypted_message.txt
            $uploadedMessage | Should -Be $new_message
        }

        # This does make sense, because the supervisor does not have
        # access to the key material needed to decrypt the encrypted
        # message.
        It "should NOT upload the file to gamma, because it's missing the user key" {
            $uploadedMessage = docker exec "${env:COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME}_gamma_1" cat /hab/svc/redis/files/encrypted_message.txt
            $uploadedMessage | Should -Be $null
        }
    }
}

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Yesterday was another hanging day at Kirstenbosch! Constantiaberg Art Society is growing in leaps and bounds as this latest echibition shows. Some beautiful work! Well done all and good luck - may there be many sales!!!
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BREE is a Seattle native who lived abroad before moving to D.C. in 2015. She spends her lunch breaks walking through D.C. neighborhoods picking out her favorite house on each block (Victorian row homes are her favorite). When she's not guiding walking tours in town she spends her weekends exploring the region's many national and state parks.
Where would you take an out-of-town visitor and why? "I always enjoy taking people to the Botanical Gardens. It's one spot along the National Mall that a lot of tourists don't take time to visit, but it's a living plant museum and the oldest operating botanical garden in the U.S. No matter what time of year you visit it's a refreshing break from the hustle and bustle of sightseeing on the mall."
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Customer service is an area ripe for the marriage of traditional business practices and modern, Web-enabled capabilities. Organizations need to adapt their customer service process to combine their current approach -- primarily focused around the use of experts -- with the ability to tap into the "wisdom of crowds" enabled by the Web. Organizations that make this transition the fastest will be the first to reap the benefits of delivering a superior user experience, increasing customer satisfaction and decreasing support costs.
There is a lot of talk in the industry about the SaaS model being the future of business software, but Web 2.0 is a lot more than simple SaaS. It is characterized by the social computing movement, where people interact with other likeminded individuals to get things done. What is often taken for granted, however, is the use of SaaS as a platform to deliver new Web capabilities. For example, before the Web and SaaS, it was difficult for an on-premise software solution to easily form -- and take advantage of -- a user community. It is this social computing context at the heart of Web 2.0 that makes SaaS applications take off and spread like wildfire.
The use of the Web as a platform and the emergence of Web 2.0 trends like social networking and user-generated content have changed the mindset of users by providing them the ability to interact with one another. So where does that leave the corporation when it comes to providing customer self-service? Does it mean that customers will abandon corporate branded sites in favor of third-party sites such as FixYa.com and GetSatisfaction.com? The Web is all about getting it now, and it's open for business 24 x 7 x 365. So post the question, get the answer and move on -- it's fast, easy and inexpensive. What's the down side? None really, at least not for the customer. But for the company, plenty: There is the risk of losing the customer franchise, the risk of losing brand loyalty, and the risk of losing the chance for the up-sell or getting the drop on the competition.
Historically, customer service processes have been dependent on the use of experts, whether they were answering phone calls and email inquiries as agents, or developing knowledge base articles for self-service purposes. The old paradigm was to have departments of subject matter experts (SMEs) feverishly trying to publish enough content to keep pace with user demand. But they could never scale in pace with the Web no matter how hard they tried. Add to that the friction caused by mandated compliance reviews and publishing release processes, and you see why SMEs are doomed to be behind the proverbial eight ball forever.
Providing great service for Web savvy customers requires publishing at Web speed, and communities and forums are a great way to get this done. The point is to get the community to participate in the development of the very content they want and need; the best way to do this is for corporate sponsors to provide engaging community authoring and collaboration tools as an integral part of their Web self-service portals.
Crowdsourcing gets coverage at Web speed like nothing ever before. Most of the time, if a problem exists, it's been had -- and has probably been solved -- in the user community. The new value in self-service is harvesting this vast community to keep self-service content evergreen, up to speed with the problem du jour and readily available as part of the self-service help stream.
Then again, being a mile wide and an inch deep may not work well in all situations. There are times when going deep is important -- and what about the customer that tries to self-serve but can't? Do third party sites provide any means of escalation other than iterative complaining? Probably not; that's why it's so important to have community and subject matter expertise combined on a corporate branded site. It means that customers can come home to somebody who really cares if their problems get solved. That's why combining traditional SME-based content and knowledge sources together with community generated content and a means of escalation is the new best practice for Web self-service.
Anthony Nemelka is president and CEO of HelpStream. His extensive experience with a large variety of enterprise, workgroup, and personal productivity solutions is the driving force behind HelpStream's emergence as a leader in collaborative, next-generation customer service and help desk solutions.
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John Magaldi is a world class jazz sax and clarinet player.
Here he is with his great jazz quintet with their wonderful interpretations of jazz classics.
The quintet is: John Magaldi – sax and clarinet, Al Gomez – trumpet and flugelhorn, George Prado – bass, Aaron Prado – piano and Chuck Glave – drums.
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With greater recognition and scientific understanding of the body's functionality in relation to nutrition, the number of accompanying diet trends also increases. One recent fad diet is the Blood Type Diet, which caters to nutrition and balance based on the blood types you possess. Though there is not yet empirical research to support the benefits of this diet, many do believe in its naturopathic benefits and adhere to its restrictions. But where did the Blood Type Diet come from?
Peter J. D'Adamo, a naturopath and physician, and the founder of the Blood Type Diet, developed the framework in the mid-1990s. D'Adamo argues that your blood type is a key component in the functionality of your body, including the digestive system and metabolism. He claims blood type can determine your reaction to stress, processing of food with gut bacteria, and the likelihood of contracting certain diseases. His diet, therefore, attempts to mitigate risks he claims stem from your particular blood type.


In an article about Franz Mesmer, the Austrian physiologist who claimed he could cure ailments through channelling "animal magnetism," writer Christopher Turner says that "The Lyonnais Mesmerists purported that their patients could see their own insides when in somnambulistic trances, and thereby make uncannily accurate self-diagnoses." Likewise, challenging the unidirectionality of vision towards the outside by turning it into the inside, seems to be running through June Crespo (Pamplona, 1982)'s recent work.
The sculptures that form Ser dos [To Be Two], Crespo's second exhibition at CarrerasMugica, manifest to a great degree as surfaces that have neither inside nor outside, or as entry points, orifices of two kinds: architectural (drainage, sewer) and bodily. The latter are suggested roughly through a human scale, and have a wretched character, something that features consistently in Crespo's evocations of the body here and in previous works. The wax vessels that lend their mouth to these aspiring bodies form a sort of perineum; they are cheaply dressed in synthetic fabric: come and meet Gioni Feroli's Lady Line. These same shapes appear also made of metal, strapped to the columns of the gallery space. Their openings almost secreting the leftovers of their fabrication. The word "orifice" comes from the Latin orificium which in its turn is formed by os, or, 'mouth', and facere, 'to make'. It is an active hole.
Crespo always makes sense of her work after the fact. It is a methodological strategy by which she produces forms and combines them, revealing a tension between the elements manifested in their friction, amalgamation or slight distance. This is the case of the pieces Architecture dismembered that produce a landscapes of some sort, a decaying industrial horizon, a ghostly accumulation. Crespo hints at a series of references to popular material culture but intentionally cuts them short before they can enunciate something. They are present but somewhat hollow.
There is a dialectical relationship between the fortuitous, timid forms that result from experimentation with new techniques and the memory embedded in the accumulation of practice. Craftsmanship serves to divert intentionality and point at the importance of the incidental that appears in the production process and finds its place once it has been born as form, as in the "defective" metal vessels, or the "broken" concrete surfaces whose holes allow to see through different layers of materials as they connect through the structure. This methodology flattens any hierarchical relationship between the elements that are combined in her works to become plinth, frame and sculpture at the same time.
Crespo's work is the result of a series of conscious and unconscious decisions, a translation of the intuitive to the sensuous, of the latent to the visible, without giving into narrative – even if this can emerge later. There is a persistent transgression of form and recombination of elements through constant material transformation, especially in the pieces Instruments and Fetishes created by assembling wax objects made out of moulds of everyday things (vinyl records, markers, etc.) that once casted in metal are cut and welded again.
Ser dos [To Be Two] timidly quotes Luce Irigaray's oeuvre of the same title, honouring indetermination and escaping identification.
June Crespo (1982 Pamplona) obtained her BFA from the Universidad del País Vasco and she had a residency at De Ateliers (Amsterdam). Her solo shows include Chance Album Nº1 (etHALL gallery, Barcelona, 2016); Kanala (MARCO, Vigo, Pontevedra, 2016); and Cosa y tú (CarrerasMugica, Bilbao, 2015). Her work has also been shown in collective exhibitions such as: Deep State (De Ateliers, Amsterdam 2017) Generación2017 (La Casa Encendida, Madrid 2017); HYPERCONNECTED (Moscow Museum of Modern Art 2016); fluxesfeverfuturesfiction (Azkuna Zentroa, Bilbao 2016); Wild Things (The Green Parrot, Barcelona 2014); Hittingit off (P-exclamation, New York, 2014); Pop Politics (CA2M, Madrid 2012);Antes que todo (CA2M, Madrid, 2010).
Christopher Turner, "Mesmeromania, or, the Tale of theTub," in Cabinet, Issue 21- Electricity, Spring 2006. http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/21/turner.php . Last accessed 19 December 2017.


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Application by an issuer for a revocation of a cease trade order issued by the Commission – cease trade order issued because the issuer failed to file certain continuous disclosure materials required by Ontario securities law – defaults subsequently remedied by bringing continuous disclosure filings up-to-date – Issuer has provided an undertaking to the Commission that it will not complete (a) a restructuring transaction involving, directly or indirectly, an existing or proposed, material underlying business which is not located in Canada, (b) a reverse takeover with a reverse takeover acquiror that has a direct or indirect, existing or proposed, material underlying business which is not located in Canada, or (c) a significant acquisition involving, directly or indirectly, an existing or proposed, material underlying business which is not located in Canada, unless the issuer files a preliminary prospectus and a final prospectus with the Ontario Securities Commission and obtains receipts for the preliminary prospectus and the final prospectus from the Director under the Act.
Securities Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. S.5, as am., s. 144.
1. The Applicant was incorporated on December 22, 2010 under the Business Corporations Act (British Columbia) and continued to the laws of the British Virgin Islands, under the BVI Business Companies Act, 2004, on December 18, 2013.
2. The Applicant's registered and records office is located at Sea Meadow House, P.O. Box 116, Road Town, Tortola, VG 1110.
3. The Applicant is a reporting issuer under the securities legislation (the Legislation) of the province of Ontario and is not a reporting issuer in any other jurisdiction in Canada.
4. The Applicant's authorized capital consists of an unlimited number of common shares without par value (the Common Shares), of which 65,302,351 Common Shares are currently issued and outstanding.
5. Other than the outstanding and issued Common Shares disclosed above and 150,000 incentive stock options expiring December 31, 2017, 1,950,000 incentive stock options expiring January 8, 2019, 775,000 incentive stock options expiring December 3, 2020 and the Loans (as defined below), the Applicant does not have any other securities, including debt securities, outstanding.
6. The Common Shares are listed and posted for trading on the Canadian Securities Exchange (the CSE), however, trading in such shares was halted on May 5, 2017, because of the Cease Trade Order. In addition, the Common Shares are verified for trading on the OTCQB Venture Marketplace but trading in the Common Shares is currently halted.
7. Other than the CSE and the OTCQB Venture Marketplace, the securities of the Applicant are not currently listed or quoted on any exchange or market in Canada or elsewhere.
9. The Applicant subsequently failed to file other continuous disclosure documents with the Commission within the prescribed timeframe in accordance with the requirements of securities law, including its interim financial statements, related MD&A and 52-109 Certificates for the interim periods ended March 31, 2017, June 30, 2017 and September 30, 2017.
11. The Applicant called an annual general and special shareholders meeting (the Shareholders Meeting) to be held on September 19, 2017, in order to present its annual audited financial statements for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2016, and to obtain shareholder approval for: (a) the election of directors; (b) the appointment of auditors; (c) adoption of an incentive stock option plan; (d) a change of business; (e) a share consolidation on the basis of one post-consolidated common share for every ten pre-consolidated common shares; and (f) a change of name.
12. The Applicant has adjourned the Shareholders Meeting and will amend and re-send the Circular and file a listing statement in accordance with applicable policies of the CSE, including with respect to its proposed change of business.
13. The Applicant has paid all outstanding filing fees, participation fees and late filing fees that are required to be paid to the Commission and has filed all forms associated with such payments.
14. The Applicant (i) is up-to-date with all of its other continuous disclosure obligations; (ii) except as provided in paragraph 15, is not in default of any of its obligations under the Cease Trade Order; and (iii) is not in default of any requirements under the Act or the rules and regulations made pursuant thereto.
15. From the date of the Cease Trade Order, the Company issued US$366,679.12 in loans (the Loans), which accrue interest at a rate of 8% per annum, with the accrued interest to be paid at the time of the repayment of the Loans. The Loans were convertible into Common Shares at a price of $0.01 per Common Share, however they were thereafter amended to remove this convertibility feature. The Applicant is of the view that the Loans may have constituted the distribution of a security by the Applicant in contravention of the Cease Trade Order.
16. Other than the Cease Trade Orders, the Applicant has not previously been subject to a Cease Trade Order issued by any securities regulatory authority.
17. The Applicant is not considering, nor is it involved in any discussions relating to a reverse take-over, merger, amalgamation or other form of combination or transaction similar to any of the foregoing.
C. The preliminary prospectus and final prospectus contain the information required by applicable securities legislation, including the information required for a probable restructuring transaction, reverse takeover or significant acquisition (as applicable).
c. on January 24, 2018, the Applicant filed a material change report disclosing that it entered into loan agreements with various parties, including loan agreements with a director of the Applicant that constituted "related party transactions" as such term is defined in Multilateral Instrument 61-101 Protection of Minority Security Holders.
There have been no other material changes to the business, operations or affairs of the Applicant.
20. Upon the revocation of the Cease Trade Order, the Applicant will issue a news release and concurrently file a material change report on SEDAR announcing the revocation of the Cease Trade Order and outlining the Applicant's future plans, including its proposed change of business.
21. The Applicant's SEDAR and SEDI profiles are up-to-date.
IT IS ORDERED, pursuant to section 144 of the Act, that the Ontario Cease Trade Order is revoked.
DATED at Toronto this 1st day of February, 2018.


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When CNBC correspondent Ylan Mui, 39, was diagnosed with Covid-19, it wasn't long until her husband and her 7 year-old, 5 year-old, and 2 year-old were all sick, too (presumably with the virus, although the family wasn't able to get tests for everyone). Here's how the Fairfax County family made it through those difficult weeks, in Mui's words:
"I got sick on March 14. It was just as everything was starting to shut down. I felt great in the morning and then I remember feeling a little bit achy in the afternoon. I thought huh, maybe this morning my workout was just really hard. As the day progressed, I was like, oh, this isn't a normal achiness. By that evening, I knew that I was sick and it just kind of progressed from there.
"It was in the back of my mind [that I might have Covid-19] because as a reporter, we're dealing with all this stuff front and center and most of my time is spent on Capitol Hill—we all know that's a germy place. I didn't want to jump to conclusions. So I went into the doctor's office, I put on a mask, and the doctor at that point said well, you know, we gave you a flu test and it's negative, but you don't have a cough, so it's probably something else. [But] once I developed a cough, then they were like okay, you're getting a little bit worse. That's when my doctor finally recommended me to get a Covid test.
"It was a whole thing [getting a test]. It was really frustrating. By the time I got the test, it was almost too late, you know? My symptoms had already been in full effect, and if I hadn't decided to be super safe and isolate, then I could have spread it all over the place. [The test] was in Annandale or somewhere around there, and [you] drive into the back loading dock of an urgent care center and wait in your car. And someone comes out and swabs your throat. Then they walk away. It took me a week to get the results. They initially told me five-to-six days and then it was six-to-seven. I was kind of thinking are they ever going to get back to me?
"My husband got sick about five days after I got sick. His symptoms were a little bit different than mine. He didn't have the cough that I had, but certainly the fever, the achiness, the exhaustion. The kids were kind of intermittent. They'd come into our room and say, Mommy, I don't feel good, my stomach hurts. We'd take their temperature and they'd have a fever of 99.5 or 100 degrees.
"Once I got my positive test result, we called our doctor and asked whether my husband should get tested. Our doctor told us no, the tests were still a priority, but just to presume he had it. They were like, the chances of you having it are so strong that we don't need to test you. Which is kind of a crazy thing to say. Even when the public health department called to do a follow-up with us, the nurse told me they were just going to put him down as a positive even though he didn't have a test, because it was so likely that he had it. With the kids, we called the pediatrician and asked whether they should be tested, but again, they said it's not going to change the course of treatment, so just assume they have it and stay home. And while it's true that it doesn't change the course of treatment, it could certainly change what we do after.
"I don't even remember the days. They're all blurred together. It was miserable and hard. My husband and I, we never isolated from the kids—we knew [that] was basically impossible. We did initially separate, so I slept in our bedroom upstairs; my husband slept in our guest bedroom in the basement. I wouldn't let the kids onto my bed because it was disgusting and sweaty from waking up in the middle of the night with chills. The house was a disaster. My kids now have a new appreciation for Tombstone Pizza and Bagel Bites, and before [the pandemic], we had pretty successfully ended screen time in our home. But now that is over. It's all a fog, honestly, but somehow we just continued to keep them alive and keep ourselves alive in the process.
"We tried to explain to [the kids] this is what coronavirus is, this is why they weren't in school, this is why they can't see friends, this is why they have to stay away from other people. There was some fear, especially among my oldest. She asked me, are you going to die? Am I going to die? And I said, no that's not going to happen, I'm not going to let that happen. I was not worried that I wasn't going to get better, I was worried about how bad it was going to get. There was one moment where I really did get like, oh my god, am I going to have to go to the hospital?
"We do feel better. I feel really glad that all members of our family feel recovered and back to normal. After I got better, that was just sort of it in terms of any direct guidance from my doctor. The public health department.was sort of just like okay we're tracking you to know that you were sick and you've gotten better. But once you've gotten better, there's just not a whole lot of information on what to do. The other issue is that they can't regulate the hundreds of small decisions that we all have to make once this is over. There's not like a regulation on when is it safe to loan a book to your friend? There's not a regulation on should recovered people wear masks? Right now, we just don't have enough knowledge and confidence to even make those decisions.
"Now that we're on the other side of it, [what's] raising a lot of other questions for me [is] we never got those tests to begin with for the other members of the family. [If we had, I'd have that] comfort level, they have at least some level of immunity. If we could get an antibodies test, I would definitely load up the minivan and drive them out there. But I don't know how to do that. I don't know who's giving out the antibodies test, I don't know how I qualify for one. Is it going to be a process like it was to get tested for Covid? Are they going to give it to all of us if only I actually tested positive in the first place? Is my insurance going to cover it? Like, I have no idea."
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10 Minutes and 38 Seconds in This Strange World Reviews
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World
Category: General & Literary Fiction, Fiction
Imprint: Viking
Publication date: 6 Jun 2019
An intensely powerful new novel from the best-selling author of The Bastard of Istanbul and Honour - available for pre-order now 'One of the best writers in the world today' Hanif Kureishi 'Haunting, moving, beautifully written - and based by an extraordinary cast of characters who capture the diversity of modern Turkey.
2 Prizes for 10 Minutes and 38 Seconds in This Strange World
Booker Prize
Chair of the 2019 Booker Prize judges, Peter Florence, said:
"The common thread is our admiration for the extraordinary ambition of each of these books. There is an abundance of humour, of political and cultural engagement, of stylistic daring and astonishing beauty of language. Like all great literature, these books teem with life, with a profound and celebratory humanity. We have a shortlist of six extraordinary books and we could make a case for each of them as winner, but I want to toast all of them as "winners". Anyone who reads all six of these books would be enriched and delighted, would be awe-struck by the power of story, and encouraged by what literature can do to set our imaginations free."
2019 Longlist
"If you only read one book this year, make a leap. Read all 13 of these. There are Nobel candidates and debutants on this list. There are no favourites; they are all credible winners. They imagine our world, familiar from news cycle disaster and grievance, with wild humour, deep insight and a keen humanity. These writers offer joy and hope. They celebrate the rich complexity of English as a global language. They are exacting, enlightening and entertaining. Really – read all of them."
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"a bold novel addressing timely and controversial issues..."
" a gripping and thoughtful novel, taut with narrative suspense and brimming with emotional insight..."
Jane Shilling
"Shafak's novel chronicles the spirit"
Dead she may be, but her consciousness survives, and for the brief timespan of the title, her mind ranges over the events of her life, which will be summed up in a headline on the TV evening news: 'Prostitute found slain in city waste bin.'
Shafak's novel chronicles the spirit — downtrodden, debased, but irrepressible — of Leila, her eccentric group of friends and Istanbul, the brutal, beautiful city that offers them both persecution and refuge.
Ellen Peirson-Hagger
"stark, intimate and complex"
Shafak gives voices to those who are often left out of stories, but her characters are too crammed in and overlap too much to make any succinct political statement. A newspaper report of Leila's death read by a grocer – "the homicide rate for Istanbul's sex workers is eighteen times higher than for other women" – reinforces the importance of 10 Minutes. But while the first half of the novel presents a complex and emotionally intelligent Leila, in the second half her friends are mere caricatures of transgender people, immigrants and sex workers who deserve a more considered exploration...
Zoë Apostolides
"evoke[s] vivid memories"
[Leila's] last precious moments of consciousness form the novel's first half, as Leila's thoughts alight on tastes and sensations — lemon and sugar, cardamom coffee, sulphuric acid, single malt whisky and strawberry birthday cake — that evoke vivid memories. Her upbringing in distant Van, steeped in folklore and ritual, is marred by the conflicting parental claims of her father's two wives, abuse at the hands of her uncle, a longed-for brother's disability and a refusal to play the pliant, submissive daughter. Often her recollections are linear; sometimes not. After all, 'human memory resembles a late-night reveller who has had a few too many drinks: hard as it tries, it just cannot follow a straight line'.
Helena Mulkerns
"fuelled by a vivid, sensual passion"
Although the depth to which we can know each character is - perhaps inevitably -marred somewhat by its ambitious scope (six lives in 10 minutes), as with all of this author's works, it is fuelled by a vivid, sensual passion and enriched by her signature fusion of fact and fiction... More than in any of her works thus far, Istanbul itself is a powerful narrative force. The author uses the formidable city and its history like a lens through which to explore her recurring themes of women's rights, gender equality, political repression and the fate of migrants in an increasingly populist Europe. In this way, the early-seventies story of a prostitute and her band of renegade mates is at once that of Tequila Leila, but also a take on a contemporary Mediterranean metropolis experiencing a political and cultural crisis and challenged by the movement of 21st century populations. Shafak has said, "a conversation with the past is another way of talking to the present". It's the aspect of her work that draws most of her readers and which has made her one of Turkey's best selling novelists. With this latest title, she does not disappoint.
Johanna Thomas-Corr
"sensual but frustrating"
It's a novel with a powerful premise, good intentions and an ingenious framing device. What's more, Shafak is an inspiration to writers across the globe: a passionate feminist and champion of free speech who writes about political and sexual taboos... What a shame, then, that 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange Land is so flat and flavourless... The second half shifts focus to Leila's "water family" – the outcasts who provide a safety net when her blood relatives desert her... This group of oddballs are known as "the five", which makes them sound like a squad from a Marvel franchise. I don't think that's accidental – there's something a little gimmicky and schematic about the whole setup. What begins as an incisive investigation into violence against women becomes both preachy and hammy as the friends go to dig up her grave and the action descends into farce... Where Shafak does excel is in conjuring Istanbul, a "struggling, competing, clashing" place she can no longer visit. In many ways, the book is a love letter to the city and its most stirring passages bring alive its tensions.
Mirza Waheed
"a profound and unflinching look at sexual violence"
[It's] an extraordinary tale of a brutalised, broken but profoundly courageous woman who retains her humanity despite a world bent on crushing her at every turn. We see beautifully rendered, tender vignettes of her early lifeFor more than half the book... [T]he reader is guided by Leila's vibrant but soon to be extinguished memory, each reminiscence sparked by a smell or taste. It's a terrific device, taking us from the rubbish bin to a day in her childhood when she is banned by her pious father from playing with a hula hoop... Shafak takes a piercing, unflinching look at the trauma women's minds and bodies are subjected to in a social system defined by patriarchal codes. It's a brutal book, bleak and relentless in its portrayal of violence, heartbreak and grief, but ultimately life-affirming. Here, as in Shafak's previous work, we find the good old-fashioned art of intricate storytelling, something I miss sometimes in modern fiction.
Leaf Arbuthnot
"A powerful novel from a writer under fire from the Turkish authorities"
[Shafak] is drawn to people at the margins and writes with immense compassion about those too damaged, defiant or different to fit in... The novel is no masterpiece — its prose can feel functional and is sometimes too emphatic — but the story Shafak weaves is deeply moving. And it can often be surprisingly upbeat, as Leila, an outcast herself, assembles around her a merry band of misfits who love her better than her blood family ever could. The result is imaginative and admirably tight, a novel that paints a memorable and nuanced picture of life on the fringes of Turkish society.
Melissa Katsoulis
"teases beauty and humour from a grim tale"
The novels of the Turkish writer Elif Shafak are so beguiling that it's easy to forget she is a serious activist and academic. Yet beneath the lush scene-setting and romantic storytelling, her bestselling tales about modern Turkey and Islam (The Bastard of Istanbul; The Forty Rules of Love) are strident calls to challenge fundamentalism and misogyny in the Middle East... There is so much beauty in this book: the value of the "chosen family" to marginalised individuals; Istanbul itself, that "liquid city"; the grace of a Muslim father who would never strike his daughter, however much he feared her choices. And there's wisdom too, courtesy of Leila's fabulous trans friend Nalan: "No one should try to philosophise on the nature of humanity until they have worked in a public toilet for a couple of weeks." Thanks to Shafak, the voices of women like Nalan and Leila will no longer be silenced.
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"a vibrant evocation of a hidden Istanbul in the middle of the 20th century"
Turkey's most widely read female novelist, her latest work written in English, 10 Minutes and 38 Seconds in This Strange World, is everything we have come to expect from Shafak. Here is not only that exquisite compassion and trademark humanity but also a vibrant evocation of a hidden Istanbul in the middle of the 20th century; touching, idiosyncratic friendships and the complex inner lives of the female characters for which she has long been known... This is a novel that gives voice to the invisible, the untouchable, the abused and the damaged, weaving their painful songs into a thing of beauty.


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Geschichte
Die Partei entstand im Umfeld der polnischen Gewerkschaft ZZP. Deren Mitglieder vertraten unterschiedliche politische Positionen: Ein beträchtlicher Teil stand der nationalpolnischen Bewegung nahe, aber es gab auch solche, die deren Bestrebungen ablehnten oder gänzlich unpolitisch waren. Um sich im Sinne der nationalpolitischen Bewegung artikulieren zu können, wurde aus dem Umfeld der Gewerkschaft am 18. Oktober 1917 in Wanne-Eickel die NSR gegründet.

Demonstrativ bestimmte die Partei Posen als ein politisches polnisches Zentrum zum offiziellen Sitz der Partei. Im August 1918 hatte die Partei bereits über 10.000 und 1919 über 25.000 Mitglieder. Die Partei verstand sich als politische Vertretung der polnischen Arbeiter im Ruhrgebiet aber auch in den deutschen, österreichisch-ungarischen und russischen Teilungsgebieten des alten polnischen Staates. Sie beanspruchte auch die Interessenvertretung der Arbeiter in einem künftigen polnischen Staat. So forderte sie die Übernehme der im Deutschen Reich erkämpften Arbeiterrechte in einem neuen polnischen Staat. Schwerpunkt der Arbeit war die Möglichkeit zur Rückkehr in einen neuen polnischen Staat. Sie betrachtete den polnischen Nationalrat in Posen als zentrale politische Kraft der Polen in Deutschland.

Als einzige rechtmäßige Vertretung der Polen in Deutschland gegenüber Regierung und Gesellschaft sah sie die zusammengeschlossenen polnischen Fraktion im preußischen Landtag und im Reichstag.

In Deutschland unterstützte sie alle Anstrengungen, die auf die Ausweitung der Rechte des Volkes und die Verbesserung der materiellen Lebensbedingungen gerichtet waren. Zwar trug ihre Rhetorik klassenkämpferische Züge, sie lehnte aber den Sozialismus ab. Stattdessen plädierte sie für nationale Solidarität und gesellschaftlichen Ausgleich. Sie strebte die Förderung benachteiligter Schichten an. Ihr Ziel war es deren Bildungschancen zu vergrößern und ihren Lebensstandard zu verbessern. Um das nationale polnische Bewusstsein zu stärken und die polnischen Arbeiter auf die Rückkehr nach Polen vorzubereiten unterstützte die Partei wie die ZSR und die Zeitschrift Wiarus Polski die Gründung einer polnischen Volksuniversität bzw. Volkshochschule im Ruhrgebiet. Diese wurde im August 1919 in Bochum eröffnet.

Die Partei stand der Novemberrevolution positiv gegenüber, auch weil sie den "Bürgern fremder Nationalitäten in Deutschland Freiheit verschafft hat." Mit anderen Teilen der nationalpolnischen Bewegung im Ruhrgebiet warnte sie mit wenig Erfolg davor sich zu einem der deutschen politischen Lager zu bekennen oder sich an politischen Demonstrationen zu beteiligen. Daher nahm die Partei auch nicht an den Wahlen zur deutschen Nationalversammlung teil. Allerdings bekannte sie sich zur Loyalität zum deutschen Staat. Ihre Mitglieder traten in Arbeiterräte ein, beteiligten sich an den betrieblichen Vertretungen oder der Kommunalpolitik.

Im Zusammenhang mit der Radikalisierung vieler Arbeiter im Ruhrgebiet verlor die Partei beträchtlich an Rückhalt unter den polnischen Arbeitern. Ein beträchtlicher Teil der polnischen Arbeiter siedelte in den 1920er Jahren nach Polen über oder wanderte nach Belgien und Frankreich aus. Damit verloren die nationalpolitischen Organisationen im Ruhrgebiet ihre Basis.

Literatur
Wulf Schade: Die "Ruhrpolen" im Ersten Weltkrieg und ihr Verhältnis zur Revolution 1918 im Deutschen Reich. In: Frank Bischoff, Guido Hitze, Wilfried Reininghaus (Hrsg.): Aufbruch in die Demokratie. Die Revolution 1918/19 in Rheinland und Westfalen. Münster, 2020 S. 261–302

Polnische Minderheit in Deutschland
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Facebook was able to achieve this by combing through about 11.5 billion 64 x 64 pixels satellite images of the region to identify buildings. This would normally take a lot of time to do, however, employing artificial intelligence makes the process autonomous and expedient. Using this approach, it was able to identify buildings in the satellite images and compare them with census data to ascertain where the population is resident. High-resolution imagery already exists for the most part of the world and that provides a solid background for this type of project.
On your own, it is possible to pick out spots where localities are situated but that in itself will be a very rigorous task to undertake even on a small scale and will take a huge amount of time. Doing so on a continental stage which is as large as Africa would be even impossible to do manually but with the help of AI, things are very much easier. An ordinary population data would only give you the number of people living in a certain place with the uninhabited areas included. The new Facebook population density map solves that problem by giving you exactly where people are on the map with some precision to it. In fact, Facebook's AI team was able to confirm that 996 out of 1000 individual satellite images that were labeled to have a building actually did.
To guarantee the authenticity of the map, teams were periodically sent out to verify the accuracy of the map during the project. Also, the Columbia University's Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) at Columbia University and other partners like World Bank was able to confirm the work done. For Africa which has 1.2 billion people spread across about 16 million square miles, Facebook's AI was able to identify 110 million buildings from satellite images in few days.
In its quest to provide population density maps such as this for the world, Facebook will be dealing with approximately 1.5 billion petabytes of data in the form of high-resolution satellite image. It plans to cover the world in terms of providing population density maps in the coming years. However, the map is aimed to help humanitarian efforts in reaching more people. Organisations like Red cross, Bill and Melinda Gate's foundation, World Bank, and OpenStreetMap have all been able to benefit from the solution.
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THE McKITTRICK HOTEL, HOME OF SLEEP NO MORE, PRESENTS MIC DROP WITH MURRAY HILL
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THE McKITTRICK HOTEL, HOME OF SLEEP NO MORE, PRESENTSMIC DROP WITH MURRAY HILL
LEGENDARY LIP SYNC BATTLES EVERY MONTH IN MANDERLEY BAR
The McKittrick Hotel (530 West 27th Street, NYC), home of Sleep No More, announces Mic Drop with Murray Hill, a new party on select Thursdays in Manderley Bar. Upcoming dates are September 26, October 24, and November 21.
The McKittrick's velvet-draped cocktail lounge is home to a new monthly series of lip sync battles. Mic Drop, hosted by "Mr. Showbiz" himself Murray Hill, challenges audiences to duel live on stage for outrageous prizes and competitive glory. Guests compete for the chance to be crowned "Lip-Sync Champ of The Night," while resident DJ A-Ball spins dance and pop music hits.
Murray Hill is an NYC legend, comedian, host, and international entertainer. Dubbed "The King of Comedy" (Time Out), he is one of the most sought-after hosts in the biz. He currently also stars in The McKittrick's Bartschland Follies, a weekly burlesque cabaret hosted by NYC icon Susanne Bartsch, and has toured extensively with Dita Von Teese and alt-cabaret provocateur Bridget Everett.
Over his career, Murray has been recognized in "Best of New York" lists in Time Out, PAPER and New York Magazine; inducted into PAPER's "Nightlife Hall of Fame;" selected as one of OUT magazine's "Top 100" influential performers (twice!); and included in New York Magazine's "Fifty Most Iconic Gender Benders of All Time." He has performed at the top showrooms and festivals on the planet and headlined his own show at Caroline's on Broadway.
Mic Drop is the latest addition to Manderley Bar's repertoire, joining Friday residents, MK Groove Orchestra, and Saturday house band, Bassey and The Heathens.
Doors open after Sleep No More concludes for the night at 10pm. Tickets are required for entry and there is a full bar available.
General Admission tickets are $10 per guest.
To purchase tickets, visit https://mckittrickhotel.com/events/mic-drop and select the event date. A full calendar of live performances and tickets is available at https://mckittrickhotel.com/calendar.
The McKittrick Hotel is open seven days a week. Located in West Chelsea near The High Line, Hudson Yards, Hell's Kitchen and the Meatpacking District, the venue offers a plethora of entertainment options for tourists and locals alike. From the award-winning immersive spectacle Sleep No More and year-round rooftop hideaway Gallow Green to The Club Car – home of Bartschland Follies and Speakeasy Magick - there are many reasons to visit.
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Government announces £1.4bn devolution deal for North East
By Paul Root On Dec 28, 2022
he North East of England could become the latest region to have a directly elected mayor, as the Government announced a new £1.4 billion devolution deal for the region.
Hailed as a "significant step" by local politicians, Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove said a new devolution deal would bring fresh powers over skills, transport and housing to people across Northumberland, Newcastle, Sunderland and elsewhere.
The devolution plan would see the introduction of a new directly elected mayor, with proposals for elections to take place in May 2024 following a consultation process.
This latest devolution deal to be agreed by the Government would deliver a promised £1.4 billion over the next 30 years, with fresh powers over the adult education budget and a greater say over the local skills improvement plan.
The region has also been promised £17.4 million to support the building of new homes on brownfield land, as well as £20 million for regeneration projects.
Mr Gove said: "I'm proud to have agreed a historic new devolution deal with the North East that gives local leaders more power, more money, and an even greater say on how their areas are run.
"Devolution is all about letting leaders who live and breathe the region decide what is in their best interests, for their people and for their businesses.
"A new mayor will ensure local priorities in the North East are at the heart of decision-making, while our billion-pound funding boost will provide the financial certainty needed to level up the area right now and for years to come."
We are pleased that we have successfully negotiated a proposed deal which is a step towards reaching our ambition for this region. This is an important milestone in our journey
Under the new North East Mayoral Combined Authority, local leaders would also be given control of up to £563 million to improve local rail services, under the city region sustainable transport settlement.
In a joint statement, local leaders and mayors across the North East, including South Tyneside Council leader Tracey Dixon and Northumberland County Council leader Glen Sanderson, aid: "This is a significant step towards securing important decision-making powers and investment for our region.
"This would allow us to make decisions that reflect local needs and invest wisely into projects that will make a difference for all our residents, communities and local economy.
"There remains a process for all councils and combined authorities to consider the details and a public consultation before a final decision is made.
The development heralds new funding and decision-making powers that will unlock the creation of more and better jobs, allow us to seize new opportunities and address issues that are holding us back
"We are pleased that we have successfully negotiated a proposed deal which is a step towards reaching our ambition for this region. This is an important milestone in our journey and we will now engage with stakeholders to move the deal to the next stage."
Lucy Winskell, chair of the North East Local Enterprise Partnership, said: "The development heralds new funding and decision-making powers that will unlock the creation of more and better jobs, allow us to seize new opportunities, address issues that are holding us back and critically, to compete where we have strengths on a national, sectoral and global stage, and most importantly to do this in partnership."
But Alex Norris MP, the Labour shadow levelling up minister, accused the Government of lacking ambition.
"Many people in the North East will welcome some further say and control in their area. But it appears that ministers have already rowed back on the original promise of £3 billion in new funding as part of the deal for the North East.
"The huge potential of Britain is being held back by this Tory Government's lack of ambition for the country, cherry-picking the places for devolution deals, short-changing communities on past promises and holding back the real powers and investment at the centre.
"Labour will deliver the biggest ever transfer of power out from Westminster. Our plans will bring back good jobs, get the economy growing and give people real powers over the future for their communities in all parts of the country, not just some."
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The School of Physics, Trinity College Dublin, congratulates Mike Coey on the Max Born Medal and Prize. This is a prestigious award by the Institute of Physics and the German Physical Society (DPG) made on alternate years to a physicist working either in Germany or in Great Britain or Ireland. The 2019 medal was presented at a ceremony during the DRG Spring Meeting in Rostock, Germany on Monday, 10 March.
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Mike studied physics at Cambridge University and received his PhD from the University of Manitoba in Canada. After research positions in Grenoble, where he received his Diplome d'Habilitaiton, and with IBM in Yorktown, New York he joined the academic staff in Physics at Trinity College Dublin. In 1987 he was awarded an ScD from the University of Dublin and in 2007 he became the 21st Erasmus Smith's Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and the recipient of many awards and prizes. Mike is currently an Emeritus Professor in the School of Physics.
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President Barack Obama arrived in Nashville on Jan. 30, 2014 on the final leg of a post-State of the Union tour to promote his plan to expand early childhood education.
Members of the local tea party stood across the street from McGavock High School to protest the president's visit.
Members of the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition (TIRRC) urged the president not to separate their families.
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For many years before entering vocational ministry, I worked as a journalist in the dog-eat-dog world of secular media. While working as a reporter for a metropolitan daily newspaper in Georgia, one of my more progressive colleagues teased me good-naturedly about being a 'conservative boy' from a small town in the sticks of North Georgia. She said, 'You know what you are? You're a Puritan!' At the same time, I didn't really know what to make of this remark. Today, I would see it as a high compliment.
Over the past few decades, thanks in large part to the publishing efforts of Banner of Truth and the advocacy of Martyn Lloyd-Jones, the English and American Puritans have made a strong comeback among Reformed evangelicals. During my years in seminary, I fell in love with the puritans. Now, I delight in teaching about them, and during my time as pastor, men like John Bunyan, Thomas Watson, and John Owen were among my shepherds through their deeply devotional theological writing. Though dead, they certainly still speak and we need to hear them.
Granted, they could be maddeningly eccentric and sometimes ran to extremes. The Puritans never met a rule they didn't seem to relish. They had a decidedly underdeveloped view of recreation and leisure; their writing tended toward wordiness, often stating and then restating the same point several times; and their moralizing of life experiences and spiritual introspection often knew no bounds. For example, Cotton Mather once saw his sinful heart as the cause of a toothache, as he told his diary: 'Have I not sinned against my teeth? How? By sinful, graceless, excessive eating, and by sinful speeched?' Quoted in Leland Ryken, Worldly Saints). They were, after all, sinners saved by grace.
Still, for all their humanness, they represent a high point of (to borrow a favorite phrase from John Piper) Christ-centered, Scripture-saturated, God-entranced living.
In our snap-judgement, 140-character age, we need the Puritans perhaps more than ever. Here are eight reasons why.
1. Because they are mature in ways we are not.
Maturity is a compound of wisdom, goodwill, resilience, and creativity. The Puritans exemplified maturity; we don't. We are spiritual dwarfs. A much-travelled leader, a native American (be it said) has declared that he finds North American Protestantism, man-centred, manipulative, success-oriented, self-indulgent and sentimental, as it blatantly is, to be 3,000 miles wide and half an inch deep. The Puritans, by contrast, as a body were giants. They wre great souls serving a great God.
Would anyone deny the truthfulness of his assessment in much of modern evangelicalism today?
2. Because they understood the deep sinfulness of the human heart.
John Owen (1616-1683) called the human heart a hornet's nest of evil. He wrote The Mortification of Sin, the most famous treatment of sin among the Puritans. Because they understood the depravity of the human heart, the Puritans realized that only a unilateral work of sovereign grace can rescue fallen man. Thus, their keen understanding of the deadness of the human heart led them to plant their feet firmly upon a theology of grace as the sole catalyst that will draw dead hearts out of the grave.
3. Because they knew their best life was later.
Ease and luxury, such as our affluence brings us today, do not make for maturity; hardship and struggle, however, do, and the Puritans' battles against the spiritual and climatic wilderness in which God set them produced a virility of character, undaunted and unsinkable, rising above discouragement and fears, for which the true precedents and models are men like Moses, and Nehemiah, and Peter after Pentecost, and the apostle Paul.
4. Because they viewed the family as a little church.
Puritan fathers were deeply committed to catechizing their children and serving as shepherds in their homes. One of the great needs of our day is for God to raise up an army of lion-hearted and lamb-like husbands/fathers who will love their families by teaching them the Word of God, by modeling biblical headship and churchmanship.
5. Because they saw all of life as being lived coram deo — before the face of God.
For the Puritans in both old England and new, there was no sacred/secular divide. If they worked as blacksmiths, the calling was to blacksmith to the glory of God. If they farmed, they sowed and reaped in dependence upon God. The Puritans knew vividly that God is omnipresent, that there is not one square inch in all creation where he is not present or where he is not interested in radiating forth his glory. Hard work was for the Puritans a central part of Christian living, and what we call the Protestant work ethic is a gift passed down from them.
6. Because they were highly decorated soldiers on the spiritual battlefield.
They viewed spiritual conflict as central to the Christian's calling. As Packer memorably puts it, 'They never expected to advance a step without some sort of opposition.' This is evident in John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, where every step along the path to the Celestial City contends with fighting without, fears within. John Geree (1601-1649) write in The Character of an Old English Puritane or Nonconformist: 'His whole life he accounted a warfare, wherein Christ was his captain, his arms were prayers and tears. The Cross was his Banner and his [motto] was: he who suffers conquers.' William Gurnall (1617-1679) penned The Christian in Complete Armour, which endures as one of the most compelling books on spiritual warfare.
7. Because they were skilled physicians of souls.
Clearly, the Puritans rested their counseling approach on Scripture. In many ways the Puritans are an excellent laboratory for studying biblical couseling, because they are not influenced by any secular models of psychology. Many of those today claiming to be strictly biblical in their counselling approach still evidence the heavy influence of Maslow or Rogers or Skinner or Ellis. But the Puritans had the field of 'the cure of souls' virtually to themselves; they had no secular competition in the area of counseling. Thus we need to consider very seriously their counseling models.
8. Because they understood contentment in Christ as the key to genuine happiness.
Christ was enough for them. He had to be; with no modern medicine and at times precious little food available, life expectancy was around 30, particularly in the American colonies. If a family had four children, on average two would die in childbirth. Roughly half of the mothers died during childbirth. There was no aspirin, no penicillin, no surgery. Economic hardship was the norm. Yet the Puritans write often of contentment. Among the best works ever written on this topic were The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment by Jeremiah Burroughs and The Art of Divine Contentment by Thomas Watson. They lived with eternity stamped on their eyeballs.
My own experience is that no one comes close to the skill they have in taking the razor-like scalpel of Scripture, and lancing the boils of my corruption, cutting out the cancers of my God-belittling habits of mind, and amputating the limbs of my disobedience. They are simply in a class by themselves.
Amen. Go, and read the Puritans.


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I was beyond happy to spot him slugging his way through the sand at 5pm after an overnight bus ride from Bangkok.
I greeted him with good news too. I had paid for a bungalow that had opened up that morning so he'd have his own place.
As he settled into his new pad, I used the time to try and freshen up.
Having awoken at noon, I was still trying to shake off my hangover from the prior night, concerned I had peaked too soon with the partying.
No one told me every night is party night on Haad Rin, and it's a hard place to exercise restraint.
We met at the Mountain Bar for a beer. I was humored by the culture shock Steve was in the midst of experiencing.
Unlike me, he barely spent a day in Bangkok before heading straight to party island Kho Phangan.
Where were the cows? It's so clean! Why are the women all barely dressed!? I could relate to it all.
Food vendors set up stalls along the beach's perimeter in anticipation of the hungry, drunken hordes.
The bucket (liquor) vendors lit up and music began to boom from a few of the clubs.
Workers were still erecting the dance platform in front of Tommy Resort.
Following our stomachs, we went down to the beach and found ourselves ducking into The Cactus Bar when it started to rain.
Beneath the black lights, people were applying fluorescent paints on one and other.
Steve found it hilarious that a guy was painting abs on another guy.
He couldn't get over the vanity involved in such an act! I, on the other hand, was contemplating flames on my freshly shaven head.
Once the rain let up, we headed up the street in search of dinner. I had written off The Family Guy years ago after it first came out, however Steve was a fan so we ate in that restaurant.
After less than an episode, I was a convert. I vastly underestimated the mature (in a sophomoric kind of way) humor of the show.
We drank delicious coconut shakes, entranced by the cartoon, as party people continued to stream toward the beach on the street behind us.
Despite the continued rain, we left the shelter of the restaurant behind and braved the beach.
It was crowded…much more crowded than the prior night. Ferries were adrift offshore while people were being dropped off by the speedboat load.
The serene beach I arrived at by day had become the epicenter of Thailand's biggest party of the month.
Large lightning bolts flashed across the sky over the water, and judging by the masses, most people were unaffected by the rain. It was a bit chilly, however Steve and I were all too happy to take in the sights of a platform filled with dancing girls.
One in particular, clearly in search of attention (she was wearing quite a bathing suit), climbed to a very small, higher (say 15-foot) section.
There was just enough room for her, and she didn't last long before losing her balance and toppling over.
We stood there in the rain, aghast at this woman's violent fall from grace. Images of compound fractures filled my mind, while Steve figured someone should be told.
We turned around after a minute or two to see the girl (seemingly OK) by the road.
We moved on…somewhere. At this point, it may have been a pit stop back at the bungalows followed by another drink at The Mountain Bar.
Back on the beach, we ran into a couple Steve met in Nepal or India.
We joined forces and danced to some house music at the south end of the beach.
By now, the rain was again pouring. It was 1 or 2 am, and it felt great.
As usual, guys were using the shoreline as their personal urinals, though in a new twist on previous nights, women could be seen doing the same.
The gross truth is that by the time people are using the water as a toilet, people are also swimming and playing around in all too close a proximity.
Around 3 am, Steve was all but ready to head back to his bungalow for sleep.
We parted ways and I went back to the house music on the south end of the beach. I ended up dancing with an Irish girl in front of a big stack of speakers for an hour or so.
Despite the blaring music, we were able to talk a bit.
Meanwhile, Steve was witnessing a couple having sex on the beach, and an English guy beating up 3 other guys by making use of some Muay Thai boxing techniques.
As the Irish girl had to remain stationary so her friend could find her, and they could depart the island by boat at 7 am, I ventured up the beach to find a spot to watch the sunrise.
I rolled up to the drum 'n bass area and the music was booming. I loved the feeling that the music's energy could drive me into the gulf.
It was exactly how I wanted to feel at a dance club when I arrived in Bangkok.
I grabbed a seat and peered out over the water, occasionally taking in the sights of drunk people passed out (often face down) in the sand, and people going for swims.
I started talking to a Dutch girl who was much more lively at this early hour than her friend who was clearly in need of sleep.
The sun rose over the horizon, lighting up the hundreds, if not thousands of people, still dancing and mingling on the beach.
Sometime around 7 am, I waded through the water, took a quick shower, and amazingly drifted off to sleep despite the still-blaring trance music which always seemed to overpower all other noise.
Earlier in the week, I realized that if the party was begun by a bunch of drug-friendly ravers/backpackers/hippies back in the 90's, then its popularity combined with stricter Thai drug policy has long since morphed it into an alcohol-fueled Spring Break for an international contingent of 18-25-year-olds. That said, I found the overall vibe friendliest on Full Moon night.
Maybe it was all the compliments I received for those fluorescent flames on my head.
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Eve says
I read your "review" on the full moon party…
I'm planning to get down there this OCT.
did u stay in Koh Samui then travel to Koh Phangan for the party?
If yes, which hotel did u booked? thanks!
I spent a week on Koh Samui's Chaweng Beach, and then traveled to Koh Phangan a week before the party so I could ensure I got a bungalow/room. It turns out that was plenty of lead time, at least for this time of year. A few days before the party though, most places in Haad Rin were booked.
I didn't book a hotel on either island, I just showed up and found a bungalow that fit my price range. If you want to have more control over where you stay, such as at the seemingly popular Tommy Resort, then you may want to book ahead.
Suz says
Shall we blame the absence of a picture of your flaming head on your drunken stupor?
nope, just a desire not to break my camera.
Wow – it's still going down, huh?
Seems like it hasn't changed much either. The days before the Full Moon Party seem to be the craziest really. By the time the full moon comes around, you've usually already partied your head off, and it makes the day of a bit of a crazy trance. I went once on a boat from Koh Tao, arrived in the evening and went back on the boat in the morning — that made for a really different kinda experience.
Hey Philip, yea the Full Moon Parties are still a big draw around all of SE Asia. There's always a new class of graduates from around the world ready to hit the road and party on a beach.


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Songbook Review: Hope Endures
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Hope Endures
2013 / Autumn Music Productions
73 pages / 12 songs
Review by Kathy Parsons
Hope Endures is the companion sheet music book to Philip Wesley's 2012 solo piano album by the same name. All twelve original pieces and arrangements are included in the book, notated note-for-note to the recording to be as accurate as possible. I noticed as I was playing through the book that several pieces that are in the public domain show Wesley as the composer. Those should say "Arranged by Philip Wesley." Those songs are "Amazing Grace," "What a Friend (aka "What a Friend We Have in Jesus"), "Just as I Am," "Come Thou Fount," and "America the Beautiful." The book itself is spiral-bound and printed on a bright white medium-weight paper stock. Front and back covers are full-color reproductions of the artwork from the CD. Notation is clear and easy to read and is well-spaced. The last page of the book includes a short bio of Philip Wesley, notes about the music and a list of his other songbooks up to 2013. Most of the pieces are relatively easy to play, and pianists at an upper-intermediate to early-advanced playing level should have little trouble mastering them. "America the Beautiful" has several left hand reaches of more than an octave, but I was able to play most of the top notes of those chords with my right hand. Suggestions for pedaling, metronome settings, and expression and dynamics are all clearly marked. Hard copies and downloads of the book and downloads of the individual pieces are currently available exclusively from www.PhilipWesley.com. This is a very enjoyable songbook to play and those who enjoy having arrangements as well as original music should be very happy with it.
The song titles, the keys they are in, and the number of pages are:
The Unknown - Key of E minor (1 sharp) / A minor (0 sharps or flats) - 8 pages
Leaving the Darkness Behind - Key of G minor (2 flats) / F minor (4 flats) - 7 pages
Amazing Grace - Key of D (2 sharps) - 6 pages
Second Chances - Key of Gb (6 flats) - 6 pages
What a Friend - Key of F (1 flat) / Db (5 flats) - 7 1/2 pages
New Beginnings - Key of C (0 sharps or flats) - 6 pages
Just as I Am - Key of D - 8 pages
Hope Endures - Key of G (1 sharp) - 5 pages
Come Thou Fount - Key of D - 6 pages
In Reverence - Key of F major / G minor - 3 pages
Lead Me Home - Key of D - 4 pages
America the Beautiful - Key of G - 5 pages
More reviews of Philip Wesley songbooks
The Philip Wesley Solo Piano Collection, Volume 4
Solo Piano Collection, Volume 3


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