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Thai champions Muang Thong United are sweating on the fitness of midfielder Lee Ho ahead of next week's AFC Champions League (ACL) clash with his former club Ulsan Hyundai.
Lee limped off in the second half of Wednesday's 3-0 victory over Pattaya United in the Thai League (T1) as the Kirins stayed ahead of the chasing pack with their fifth win on the trot.
The former South Korean international was brought to the Kirins for his ACL winning experience with Ulsan in 2012. Following last week's historic ACL victory over Kashima Antlers in Bangkok, the Thai side will now be desperately hoping that the injury will not rule him out of next Tuesday's clash..
The scoreline flattered the league leaders in Pattaya as the hosts threatened on several occasions, only to be denied by goalkeeper Kawin Thamsatchanan's brilliance in goal.
It was a fifth consecutive clean sheet in the league for Kawin, but the Thai national keeper had to be at his best on several occasions to deny Pattaya's Chaiyawat Buran in particular.
Head coach Totchtawan Sripan shuffled his pack in order to maintain freshness in a hectic period. Right-back Tristan Do was rested, Xisco Jimenez was left on the bench and centre-back Celio Santos was again given the chance to build up match fitness, with Naoaki Aoyama making way.
The league leaders went ahead after just 11 minutes when Adisak Kraison was naively brought down by Kim Taeyon as he cut across the edge of the box. The Thai international striker stroked home the spot-kick for his third goal in three T1 games.
The Kirins were then forced into a change before the hour mark as Lee limped off to be replaced by Wattana Playnum.
But the visitors went 2-0 up in the 59th minute when Teerasil Dangda added the second with his 99th league goal for the club. Chanathip Songkrasin played a beautiful through ball to split the defence and Teerasil instinctively lobbed over Somporn Yos from the edge of the box.
Mongol Tossakrai put a very flattering look on the scoreline when he tapped in to make it 3-0 in the 88th minute.
Muang Thong's winning run continues and their goal remains intact, but the contenders kept up the pressure with impressive wins.
Buriram United made it nine goals in two games as they dismissed Nakhon Ratchasima's challenge with a 4-0 victory in the "Isaan" derby to stay just two points off the pace. The three players who scored five between them at Thai Honda on Saturday were on target again, as Jaja Coelho hit a brace and Supachok Sarachat and Diogo Luis Santo added the others.
Chiang Rai United also remain two points off Muang Thong after an impressive 3-0 win at Bangkok United, spoiling Mano Polking's 100th game as head coach of the Bangkok Angels. Alexandre Gama's side scored three second-half goals through Thossawat Limwannasathian, Tanaboon Kesarat and a Rafael Coelho penalty.
Early pace-setters Ubon UMT United dropped more points at Navy FC. It looked good for Ubon when two goals from Victor Cardozo had them leading 2-1 at half-time. But an inspired second-half performance from the hosts turned it around and goals from Adefolarin Durosinmi and Chusana Numkanitsorn gave Navy a 3-2 win.
Ratchaburi relieved the pressure on head coach Pacheta as they earned their first win of the season, thrashing Sukhothai 3-0 away from home, with goals from Takafumi Akahoshi, Sompong Soleb and Alharbi El Jadeyaoui.
Chonburi were also relieved to take all three points in a 3-1 home win over bottom side Super Power Samut Prakan. Suphanburi -- another struggling side -- will be happy to have stopped the rot after three straight defeats, earning a point in a 1-1 home draw with Bangkok Glass.
Thai Honda bounced back from Saturday's 5-1 thumping at home to Buriram by beating visiting Port FC by the same scoreline. And BEC Tero Sasana kept up their impressive form by beating Sisaket 1-0 at home.
All eyes will now turn to Muang Thong's game at home to Nakhon Ratchasima this Saturday as Teerasil goes for a century of Thai League goals for the Kirins.


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Remnants of Gideon draws the curtains on National Theatre Arts Festival
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This was just one of the questions the drama group the Remnants of Gideon had spectators asking themselves as they brought the curtains down on the Bank of St. Vincent and Grenadines and Ministry of Culture National Theater Arts Festival.
The group, which made its debut in the Festival this year, is a branch of the Exalt Him Worship Ministries. They presented "The Price of Happiness" on December 2, 3 and 4 at the Peace Memorial Hall.
Their presentation featured a family: the patriarch Andrew St. Hill played by Christopher Peters, a controlling and abusive politician; the mother and wife Carol St. Hill played by Shennika Shallow, a former prostitute saved from a 'destitute' life by the graces of Andrew; and Carol's daughter Macy played by Seretha Mckie who is being abused physically and sexually by Andrew.
The play was complemented by a strong and protective Kay, Carol's sister; Quia, (Amanda Beach) Macy's quirky friend, who Andrew also became involved with; Kal (Gerard Caine), Macy's boyfriend, a compassionate Christian partner; and Pastor Maya played by Randy Boucher.
The audience was given a glimpse into the life of the St. Hill's where Carol, Andrew's wife, is being ignored and abused by him. She is also ignorant to the fact that her husband was not only cheating on her, but was abusing her child, his step daughter, sexually.
Macy, in efforts to help her mother see Andrew's abusive ways towards her, became withdrawn and was dismissed as a rebellious teen. Carol, on the other hand, was dealing with unforgiveness after getting pregnant as an active church member, and dealing with the harsh criticism of church folks.
When Macy became pregnant with her stepfather's child, with the support of her boyfriend Kal, she ran away to Trinidad to start a new life.
According to writer and director of the piece, Sheree Edward, the main message behind the play is the importance of forgiveness.
"The main message of the play is forgiveness and genuine love. It's because of unforgiveness Carol lost sight of what was important. Andrew succumbed to his abusive ways because of forgiveness Kal gave Macy a chance to start over," Edward said.
"I was inspired by a book I was reading at the time. It was about forgiveness and the effects of unforgiveness. Also, a song I heard by Jaci Valasquez "Love will find you". I realized how dangerous it is to be full of nothing," she continued.
The undoubtable ability of God to solve life's problems was also captured in the play as the Pastor Maya, Kal and Kay characters testified to finding strength in God's unfailing love. The play ended with encouragement from the actors who urged viewers to report cases of child abuse, that true love persists despite of faults and challenges and to trust in God and abide in his love, which gives strength.
Edward added that the group received positive feedback on the production.
"The feedback was mostly all positive. People enjoyed it to the max! They felt the message was clear and to the point. One lady said it was her story and she was amazed at how well we captured it, and as a result came back the following night."
"Some people measure the success of a show by the gate receipts, but for me it could have been 10 people. I am satisfied that that the actors, actresses and production crew delivered nothing but excellence," Edward stated.
Edward on behalf of the group Remnants thanked Kevin Rodrigues, Veronica Charles, Ruthlyn Alves, Grace Peters, Courts and Aeropost for their contribution to their production.
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Startup Corner: www.ecordonline.com launched as private companies fail to maintain statutory registers
Companies are often failing to maintain a company statutory register with potentially criminal consequences, says the founder of startup www.ecordonline.com, which allows private companies to store their essential records online.
Diana Redding (pictured), also the founder and head of legal consultancy Reddings Corporate Law, started to realise around six years ago that there was a decline in statutory registers, in which companies are legally required to provide up to date information of their members, directors, secretaries and charges.
Despite the fact that the government has in the last few years tightened up legislation governing statutory records, Redding says there has been a deterioration in record keeping thanks to low cost online incorporation services and a general lack of awareness of the potential consequences of not keeping a register.
Redding says: "If a company fails to keep registers properly, multiple criminal offences are being committed.
"A person may think that they own a company, or a share in a company, but they don't if they are not recorded in the statutory register."
According to Redding, a dividend can only legally be paid to a member of a company registered in its company register. "There is a massive untapped source of income for HMRC, if HMRC were to check whether the vast numbers of dividend payments made over the last 10 years were properly declared to members recorded in statutory registers," she adds.
Formerly statutory records were manually entered in leather bound books; a practice that has become outdated. However Redding says she could find little in the way of an affordable alternative, leading to the creation of www.ecordonline.com.
The new portal can also be used as a deal room to share files securely during the due diligence process at a minimal cost, with the data hosted and backed up in the UK by Red Rooster.
Redding says: "It has taken nearly three years, thousands of hours and considerable financial investment to bring www.ecordonline.com to the point of launch.
"It will only take one high profile case – where, for example, accountants are found liable for advising clients to pay themselves dividends, when Statutory Registers have not been properly kept – and good practice will resume. I see no prospect of company law being changed to remove the need to keep Statutory Registers."


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Is the Pro-Life Movement on a Collision Course with the Coronavirus?
Weighing ethical concerns about the use of fetal-derived tissue to develop medicines against the public health risk of refusing vaccines.
Andrew Egger Oct 28, 2020 40
Amid the news explosion that followed President Trump's COVID-19 diagnosis and brief convalescence earlier this month, there was a nugget you might have missed: The antibody treatment from biotech company Regeneron the president took—seemingly to great effect—had been developed in part by means of cells derived from fetal tissue.
Most of the discussion around this revelation concerned whether it showed the president to be a hypocrite—either personally because of his stated pro-life beliefs, or as a matter of policy because his administration has suspended federal funding for scientific research involving fetal tissue. (Both claims were dubious: There was no reason to believe the president knew the provenance of the Regeneron cocktail when he was treated with it, and the kind of fetal-derived cells used to develop the drug were not included in the administration's funding freeze.)
But the news portended a larger problem that may prove important in months to come: the ethical objections other pro-life people may have to new COVID treatments—including vaccines—with similar issues in their development history.
"I think it's going to test our convictions about these things," said Dr. C. Ben Mitchell, a professor of moral philosophy at evangelical Union University and senior fellow at the Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity. "Whether or not we are going to be consistent with our convictions."
Beyond the central aim of ending legal abortion, no issue has so united the pro-life movement over the last few decades as the push to prevent fetal and embryonic remains from being used in medical research. In the 2000s, the battle involved embryonic stem cell research: President Bush prohibited federal funding for research involving new embryonic stem cell lines in 2001, a policy President Obama reversed in 2009. More recently, the issue has been researchers' use of "fresh" tissue from recent abortions, following activist David Daleiden's 2015 exposé on Planned Parenthood's practice of selling organs from aborted fetuses to medical research companies.
But while pushing for public policy changes and supply chain reforms to make researchers less reliant on ongoing abortions, pro-lifers have also struggled with a parallel issue on a more personal level: whether it's permissible to make use of treatments developed via the use of fetal tissue that already exist. If abortion is evil, they ask themselves, then can I in good conscience allow myself to benefit from medicines that rely on the practice?
Such questions are complicated by the fact that, unlike the tissue research that has dominated pro-life policy space in recent years, many medical products in current use, including a number of childhood vaccines, have a connection to abortion that is distant and tenuous. The cell cultures used in developing such medicines are most accurately described not as fetal cells themselves, but as cells that are fetal-derived: Cells originally taken from an aborted fetus that have been cultivated to multiply freely ever since.
The most widely used of these cell lines date back to just a handful of abortions in Europe in the 1960s. The WI-38 cell line, which has been used to develop vaccines for rubella, rabies, measles, mumps, and various other diseases, is derived from the lung tissue of a fetus aborted in Sweden in 1962; The MRC-5 line, used to produce vaccines for Hepatitis A and polio, dates back to 1966. Other lines are used for other purposes: HEK293 cells, which are derived from fetal kidney cells isolated in the Netherlands in the early 1970s, can be used to create virus-like cells that aren't able to infect humans. Researchers use these pseudoviruses to test new therapeutics without having to handle live virus themselves, reducing the need for extreme biosafety precautions in laboratory settings. (The aforementioned Regeneron made use of HEK293 cells in this way.)
These cell cultures won't reproduce infinitely, but saying so almost feels like a technicality: Descendants of the WI-38 and MRC-5 lines have been used to create hundreds of millions of doses of vaccines over the past half-century.
Going by any sort of cost–benefit analysis, the use of these cell lines has been a force for good in the world. By making use of the remains of a bare handful of elective abortions—abortions that would have taken place whether or not researchers decided to use them—a staggering number of people around the world have been spared the miseries of a whole host of wretched and deadly diseases.
But for those who advocate for decoupling from such practices, simply to use the language of cost and benefit in the first place is to give away the game. If that's the measure, they argue, it's hard to see how you could oppose any promising medical research, even the most depraved: How can you weigh the suffering of a few unfortunates against the ongoing benefits to all humanity of curing a deadly disease?
These sorts of ethical questions aren't the exclusive domain of the pro-life movement. What posture we ought to take toward ill-gotten medical research is a question that has long occupied bioethicists, given how much of the science underpinning our current understanding and practice of medicine was conducted in unethical ways—often even by the standards of their own time, and even more so by the more exacting standards of the present.
The classic example, of course, is the gruesome human experimentation carried out by Nazi doctors in concentration camps, but there are examples closer to home, too: black men in Alabama whose untreated syphilis was allowed to fester for decades so government researchers could observe the progress of the disease, all the while assuring the subjects they were being treated; developmentally disabled children in New York given chocolate milk laced with feces to deliberately infect them with hepatitis as part of an effort to develop a vaccine.
Other ethical issues involve the origin of immortalized cell cultures in particular. The longevity of these cell lines is such that many of them predate modern medical standards on ethical human research, which weren't truly codified until the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavior Research, established by Congress for the purpose in 1974, published its Belmont Report in 1979. The oldest such cell line in existence is a culture of cervical cancer cells taken from a woman named Henrietta Lacks in 1951, who died of the disease that same year. Lacks never consented to having her cells cultured; nor did the women who obtained the abortions that resulted in the WI-38 or MRC-5 cells.
These fraught ethical issues are not a thing of the past. After decades of lobbying, the Lacks family finally won a partial concession from the National Institutes of Health in 2013 to place some restrictions on medical access to information about their relative's cells. Pro-life organizations continually push for researchers to divest from and seek alternatives to fetal cell cultures as well.
For some pro-life bioethicists, the vast distance between the harm of the original abortion and the use of the modern treatment in which it resulted means that, while policymakers and biotech firms still have a moral obligation to work toward developing ethically unproblematic alternatives, individuals don't necessarily have a moral duty to abstain from such treatments themselves. "Medical ethics are complicated and a matter of conscience," said Tiffany Manor, who directs the Life Ministry of the conservative Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. "Some modern medical procedures result from past research that was conducted unethically. That doesn't mean that we ought to throw out all of the beneficial procedures."
But others argue that individuals retain a moral duty to keep pressure on the medical research industry by declining the use of such treatments when possible without creating grave risks to public health. The Catholic Church's Pontifical Academy for Life tried to strike such a balance when it considered the question in 2005:
On a cultural level, the use of such vaccines contributes in the creation of a generalized social consensus to the operation of the pharmaceutical industries which produce them in an immoral way. Therefore, doctors and fathers of families have a duty to take recourse to alternative vaccines (if they exist), putting pressure on the political authorities and health systems so that other vaccines without moral problems become available. They should take recourse, if necessary, to the use of conscientious objection with regard to the use of vaccines produced by means of cell lines of aborted human foetal origin.
The document goes on:
As regards the diseases against which there are no alternative vaccines which are available and ethically acceptable, it is right to abstain from using these vaccines if it can be done without causing children, and indirectly the population as a whole, to undergo significant risks to their health.
You can see the precarious moral tightrope here: It is good, in the mind of pro-life ethicists, to attempt as much as possible not to participate, however indirectly, in the evil act of a long-ago abortion. But one ought not strain so hard to avoid that participation that one thoughtlessly commits another evil act: allowing oneself or one's children to become vectors of otherwise preventable disease, spreading suffering and even death to those around them.
All this, remember, is just the moral calculus that surrounds such vaccine under normal medical circumstances. Throw in a global pandemic and an unprecedented race to treat and cure it, and you begin to get a sense of the scale of the ethical headaches involved.
Take the issue of Regeneron. Since his own positive experience with the company's antibody cocktail, REGN-COV2, President Trump has become its biggest cheerleader; pushing for it to play a major role in COVID treatment going forward. "We have hundreds of thousands of doses that are just about ready. I have emergency use authorization all set," he said on October 7. "You're gonna get better, and you're gonna get better really fast."
But both Regeneron's drug and a similar antibody treatment currently being developed by Eli Lilly made use of fetal tissue in their development—not in the actual manufacture of the drug, as mentioned above, but in creating neutered "pseudoviruses" to test its effectiveness.
Imagine a person whose doctor has recommended such a drug trying to make a decision in the light of the moral principles suggested by the Pontifical Academy for Life. On the one hand, the drug is a product of fetal tissue research in only the most remote possible way. But the possibility of endangering others by abstaining does not bear considering here, as the cocktail is a treatment, not a vaccine. Further, it is unclear how a person recommended such a treatment by a doctor ought to think about the question of whether there are ethically acceptable "alternatives." Other drugs can help manage COVID, of course, but generally speaking their effect is cumulative: Dexamethasone and remdesivir are not replacements for antibody therapy.
To cap the dilemma off, it isn't as though a pro-life person could start off with unproblematic treatments and work up to REGN-COV2 as a matter of last resort: Patients aren't prescribed antivirals or steroids for COVID unless they're already seriously sick, while antibody treatments like Regeneron's have been shown to be helpful only if they're given very early in the course of the disease, before the body's own immune response has had a chance to kick in.
COVID vaccines in development present further difficulties. First, we don't actually know which of the many vaccines currently being developed will end up the first to pass muster as a safe, effective, and mass-producible weapon against the pandemic. Many of the candidates do not make use of fetal-derived cells in any capacity. Others use such cells only in confirmatory tests, as with Regeneron. Still others use them in the production of the vaccines themselves.
Of the four vaccines seemingly closest to release in America, two—those being developed by Pfizer and Moderna—were merely tested on fetal-derived cells. Two others, from Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca, are made with them. The latter vaccines' Phase III clinical trials were placed on hold earlier this month, but were resumed last week.
Under ordinary circumstances, this would be a no-brainer: Many pro-life people would simply wait for one of the less objectionable vaccines to become available. But during the coronavirus pandemic, where every day that goes by without a vaccine is critical, what happens if Johnson & Johnson or AstraZeneca's product is first past the post, and the federal government invests heavily in its development and distribution?
It's unclear whether such a situation would provoke a legal clash. The federal government doesn't have the constitutional authority to mandate vaccines, but states and cities can; all 50 states require children to receive a battery of vaccines before attending public school, although all offer various exemptions for religious, philosophical, and/or other reasons. Whether citizens have a right to such exemptions, however, is less clear: the Supreme Court has upheld mandatory vaccination programs in the past and has separately ruled that "the right to practice religion freely does not include liberty to expose the community or the child to communicable disease."
There's no reason to believe yet that states will choose to go that route. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, whose state was racked by the coronavirus this spring and who last year signed a state law ending religious exemptions for childhood vaccines, is thus far messaging that an eventual COVID vaccine will be available "to all New York residents who want one."
The likelier scenario may be that such a clash will instead simply play out in the court of public opinion.
"One of the nightmare scenarios I've been thinking about is, say we get a safe and effective vaccine, and it comes from what many would regard as tainted sources," said Mitchell. "And so pro-lifers decide not to use the vaccine—they won't be vaccinated. My guess is that there would be a huge uprising in the society saying, 'Well, you're posing now a public health risk. We now have a vaccine, but you're choosing not to use it. You're exposing others to it by not taking the vaccine, or you're going to cost our health care system huge amounts of money in treating you when we have a vaccine that could prevent getting COVID-19, but you choose not to.' So I think those are going to be an important test of our convictions."
Photograph by Paul Hennessy/NurPhoto/Getty Images.
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JoeOct 28, 2020
I would rather die than survive by killing another human to use their parts so I can live here longer.
But I suppose that is because I am a Christian and believe that my purpose in life is something more than just extending my life here.
Paul BrittonOct 28, 2020
The Dispatch fact-checker did a piece on this issue several weeks ago in response (I think) to a meme floating around the internet accusing Trump of hypocrisy for letting himself be treated with a drug derived from fetal cells. I saw the meme on Facebook and posted a link to the Dispatch fact check and noted the meme had been debunked (the only time I've ever posted such a link on Facebook -- that'll teach me!). My link immediately got pushback from the original poster and others; it was apparent that the issue was not as black and white as the fact checker had suggested. Andrew's well-written and thoroughly researched piece confirms this.
I think "fact check" features are fraught with peril. We all know how the Washington Post's "fact checker" often does little more than opine that left-wingers are "right" and conservatives or Trumpers are "wrong" on issues that are in fact (a) hotly contested and (b) not subject to "true" or "false" evaluations. But in fact I think it's easy for a fact checker to slip into saying something is "true" or "false" simply by weighing one side's arguments against another's.
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In celebration of July 4, 2015, I would like to share this information that you may or may not known. It has given me a greater appreciation of our flag and I hope to you as well. Long may she wave.
(copied from the web site http://amhistory.si.edu/starspangledbanner/.
"On September 14, 1814, U.S. soldiers at Baltimore's Fort McHenry raised a huge American flag to celebrate a crucial victory over British forces during the War of 1812. The sight of those "broad stripes and bright stars" inspired Francis Scott Key to write a song that eventually became the United States national anthem. Key's words gave new significance to a national symbol and started a tradition through which generations of Americans have invested the flag with their own meanings and memories.
Portrait of Francis Scott Key, attributed to Joseph Wood, about 1825. Walters Art Gallery.
Mary Pickersgill, nearly forty years after she made the flag. Courtesy of Pickersgill Retirement Community.
The commander of Fort McHenry during the 1814 bombardment, Armistead became an instant hero after the battle. Portrait by Rembrandt Peale, 1816. Courtesy of Maryland Historical Society.
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Love's Delays – George W. Truett (historic sermon 1867-1944)
Jun 20, 2017 George W. Truett, sermons
Sources: Abundant Love painting courtesy Jane Small (jane-small.pixels.com)
"When He had heard therefore that Lazarus was sick, He abode two days still in the same place where He was." -John 11:6
The lapse of years made it possible for the beloved evangelist to draw aside the veil which curtained the happy intercourse of our Lord with the home at Bethany. We are thus furnished with a conception of the one green oasis in the rugged wilderness through which He passed to his cross; and are able to think of the pure and holy love that broke in upon his loneliness, and with true affection softened the bitterness of his last days, so far at least as human love could.
There were marked diversities in that home. Martha, practical, business-like, and thoughtful of all that could affect the comfort and well-being of those she loved ; Mary, clinging, spiritual, gifted with all a woman's delicacy of insight and tender sympathy; Lazarus, a man of few words, quiet and unobtrusive. But Jesus loved them each. In the forefront of this marvelous chapter stands the affirmation, "Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus"; as if to teach us that at the very heart and foundation of all God's dealings with us, however dark and mysterious they may be, we must dare to believe in and assert the infinite, unmerited, and unchanging love of God. Whom the Lord loves He rebukes; the sons whom He receives He chastens; the boughs that are capable of bearing fruit are rigorously pruned. This is not joyous, but grievous; nevertheless, in the golden Afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness to them that are exercised thereby.
I. Love Permits Pain. To that hidden retreat in Perea there came one day a breathless messenger with the tidings of the illness of Christ's friend. The sisters never doubted that He would speed at all hazards to his side, and stay him from death. And if He had done as they expected, He would not only have saved his life, but have spared the sisters the anguish of long suspense, the flickering out of hope, the agony of the death scene, the grave, and the desolate, darkened home. How different were his love and their thoughts of it! "When He had heard therefore that he was sick, He abode two days still in the same place where He was."
What a startling therefore! He abstained from going, not because He did not love them, but because He did love them. His love alone kept Him back from hasting at once to the dear and stricken home. Anything less than an infinite love must have rushed instantly to the relief of those loved and troubled hearts, to stay their grief, and to have the luxury (which only love can appreciate) of wiping and stanching their tears and causing their sorrow and sighing to flee away. Divine love could alone hold back the impetuosity of the Savior's tender-heartedness until the Angel of Pain had done her work.
Who can estimate how much we owe to suffering and pain? But for them we should have little scope for many of the chief virtues of the Christian life. Where were faith, without trial to test it; or patience, with nothing to bear; or experience, without tribulation to develop it? These qualities could not be perfected in our Lord without suffering. "He learned obedience by the things that He suffered." And we can only secure the fruit of the autumn by paying the price of wintry frosts and equinoctial hurricanes. Suffering robs us of proud self-reliance, and casts us in an agony at the feet of God. Suffering prunes away the leaves in which we rejoiced, that the sap may find its way into fruit. Suffering isolates the soul, shutting it away from all creature aid, and surrounding it by a wall of fire. The leaves of the aromatic plant must be crushed ere they will emit their fragrance; the ore must be plunged in the furnace ere the gold is set free; the pebble must be polished on the lapidary's wheel ere its brilliant colors are apparent.
This leaf, this stone- it is thy heart:
It must be crushed by pain and smart,
It must be cleansed by sorrow's art,
Ere it will yield a fragrance sweet;
Ere it will shine a jewel meet
To lay before the Savior's feet.
How soon does pain drive us to the Savior! Whilst Lazarus was in health, no messenger hasted to bring the Savior to Bethany. But when death hovered over the little group, they summoned Him with all speed. This is an illustration of how pain, like a surge of the ocean, lifts us up and flings us down at the feet of the Savior. The dark moaning waters drive the dove to the Ark; the dreary winter sends the swallows south j the sharp pruning knife compels the sap into the leafy crown or ripening branch; tempest roar makes the timid nurslings nestle close to their mother's side. Pain makes God a necessity. It is in the valley that we exchange the word "He" for "Thou." "Thou art with me."
Pain often reveals some unrealized side of our Savior's character. The sisters had never known Him as the Resurrection and the Life, if Lazarus had not died. David had never known God as his Rock, and Fortress, and Deliverer, if he had not been hunted on the hills of Engedi. Israel had never known God as a Man of War if the nation had not endured the horrors of Egyptian captivity. Thus our very necessities read us lessons of the variety and fullness of the resources of our God. Every stormy wind in its rush whispers some new name for Christ. Every wave that dashes at our feet flings there some message from the ocean fullness of his nature. Every crucifixion rends some impenetrable veil that had hung before his heart.
And pain is often suggestive of the noblest acts of sacrifice and self-devotion. It was after Lazarus had suffered that Mary broke her alabaster box over the head of Christ, not only viewing Him as the Resurrection, but preparing his incorruptible body for its brief sojourn in the grave. Many of the masterpieces of literature and art owe their existence to the strange touch of pain, giving a fire, a passion, and an intensity to the brain and heart of genius. If the Master is about to use thee largely in ministering to others, do not be surprised if He puts thee to serve an apprenticeship in the school of pain. Poets learn in suffering what they teach in song. Blood and water flowed from a pierced side. Pearls must be dived for by those whose feet are heavily weighted to make them sink.
And there is this further thought. The Lord permitted those sisters to suffer because of the benefit which would accrue to others. Speaking to his disciples shortly afterwards, He said: "I am glad for your sakes that I was not there." The sisters suffered because their pain offered a platform on which Jesus could erect one of his greatest miracles, to stand as a beacon to weary hearts of all ages. This idea is not foreign to even heathen philosophers. "Accept," says the Emperor Marcus Aurelius, "everything that happens to thee, even if it seem disagreeable, because it leads to the health of the universe ; for God would not lay on any man that which he suffers, if it were not useful for the continuance and perfection of the whole." It is probable that no one suffers nobly without in some degree ministering to the glory of God in the well-being of others. Let those who live to suffer, who lie all day in pain, and all night in utter weariness, take heart! In some way that passes our thought they too are fulfilling a useful and blessed office to the entire family of man.
Such are some of the results of Pain; and as we count them over we cannot wonder that God's love allows us to suffer, and is even eager to stand aside to let her do her work. For the time in which Pain can perfect her work is short. She needs to make haste, because the morning cometh in which she will not be able to work.
II. God's Love sometimes leaves our Prayers unanswered. What has become of so many thousands of our prayers? They were not deficient in earnestness; we uttered them with strong crying and tears. They were not deficient in perseverance; we offered them three times a day for years. They were not deficient in faith; for they have originated in hearts that have never for a moment doubted that God was, and that He was the rewarder of them that diligently sought Him. Still no answer has come. The argosies went forth to sea, but, like some ill-fated vessel, have never been heard of since. There was no voice, nor any to answer, nor, apparently, any to regard.
What is the history of these unanswered prayers? Some may say that they sought things which were not good-and this may explain some of the perplexity; but a better clue is given here: this was a prayer touchingly pathetic and earnest, for something which was prompted by natural affection; for something which it was in the scope of Gods love to give, for it was given; and yet the prayer was apparently unanswered. The answer was postponed and delayed.
When prayer is unanswered it may be that it has been mistaken in its object, and the mistake will be indicated by inability to continue praying, and by the dying down of the desire in the soul. In other cases, especially when desire and faith remain buoyant and elastic, and still the answer comes not, God's intention is that in the delay the soul may be led to take up a position which it had never assumed before, but from which it will never be again dislodged. No praying breath is ever spent in vain. If you can believe for the blessings you ask, they are certainly yours. The goods are consigned, though not delivered ; the blessing is labeled with your name, but not sent. The vision is yet for an appointed time; it will come and will not tarry. The black head may have become white, the bright eye dim, the loving heart impaired in its beating; but the answer must come at length. God will give it at the earliest moment consistent with the true well-being of the one He loves.
III. God's Love comes at Length. To the sisters He must have appeared neglectful; but He was not really so. Notice, that after two days, though no fresh message had reached Him, "He said to his disciples, Lazarus is dead." How carefully He must have watched all that transpired in that much-loved home! He saw the messenger's return; the momentary joy his tidings gave; the gradual waning of life; the anguish of the watchers as they beheld the slackening of the silver cords of life. He had followed in thought the funeral train to the rocky tomb. The whole situation was constantly present to Him, till He saw that He could interpose with the best possible result.
So is it ever. His step may linger ; but his watchful interest never falters. There is not a sigh, a pang, a tea^, that escapes his notice. There is not a fluttering pulse which He does not feel, noticing its tremulous anxiety. He sits as a refiner of silver. He knows our sorrows. He is acquainted with our grief. He slumbers not, nor sleeps.
And when He comes He does more than we asked or thought. He raises not the sick, but the dead. He makes the darkness of the tomb the background against which to set forth the luster of Resurrection glory. He does much more than the wildest fancy could have dreamed. Prayer is seen to be answered in a sweeter, deeper, diviner form than could have been hoped for. The benefit gained by the long delay is evident; and the wisdom of the Divine patience is acknowledged. "Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God; how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!"
In after days the three would not have wished it otherwise. They would review it all, as we shall review things from the hill-summits of glory. And as the whole marvelous story passed before them in after years, they would anticipate the cry with which the Redeemed Church shall hail the unfolding of the Divine purposes in relation to our race, "Amen! Hallelujah! Amen! so be it!" – the reverent assent of the understanding, the acquiescence of the soul. "Hallelujah!" – the glad, long outburst of adoration and praise, of worship and love.
Christmas Then and Now – Robert G. Lee (historic sermon 1886-1974)
The Cure For a Troubled Heart – George W. Truett (historic sermon 1867-1944)
The Deity of Christ – C.I. Scofield (historical sermon 1860-1937)
Is Life Worth Living? – C.I. Scofield (historical sermon 1842-1921)
The Demon of Worry – C.I. Scofield (historical sermon 1842-1921)


Will Wi-Fi mess with my ICD?
Wi-Fi shouldn't be a problem as long as you keep your ICD at least 6 inches away from the wireless router and the receiver on your computer.
I like to fall asleep reading my Kindle and it usually ends up on my chest. Will this interfere with my ICD?
Can I play video games?
Will a printer affect my device?
Should I say I have an ICD at a job interview?
Can I have electroconvulsive therapy?
Is there a way I can have my workplace tested for potential electromagnetic interference with my ICD?


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Q: How to extract email message body, without signature or quoted text What software can I use to process raw email text to remove the signature, quoted thread text, etc...
For example, here is an email. I would like to get just the "Thanks guys." text or more if there was more text there. I do not want the HTML signature (in the first red block) or the old emails that the person was replying to (in the second red block)

A: You can try Message.get_payload from email message handling package.
import email

with open('test.txt', 'r') as myfile:
    data=myfile.read()

body = email.message_from_string(data)
if body.is_multipart():
    for payload in body.get_payload():
        print(payload.get_payload().strip())
else:
    print(body.get_payload().strip())

It outputs:
this is the body text
this is the attachment text

The test.txt file contains the following.
From: John Doe <example@example.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
        boundary="XXXXboundary text"

This is a multipart message in MIME format.

--XXXXboundary text
Content-Type: text/plain

this is the body text

--XXXXboundary text
Content-Type: text/plain;
Content-Disposition: attachment;
        filename="test.txt"

this is the attachment text

--XXXXboundary text--

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


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package mockroute53

import (
	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws"
	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/service/route53"
	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/service/route53/route53iface"
	"strings"
)

type zoneInfo struct {
	ID         string
	hostedZone *route53.HostedZone
	records    []*route53.ResourceRecordSet
}

type MockRoute53 struct {
	Zones []*zoneInfo
}

var _ route53iface.Route53API = &MockRoute53{}

func (m *MockRoute53) findZone(hostedZoneId string) *zoneInfo {
	if !strings.Contains(hostedZoneId, "/") {
		hostedZoneId = "/hostedzone/" + hostedZoneId
	}

	for _, z := range m.Zones {
		if z.ID == hostedZoneId {
			return z
		}
	}
	return nil
}

func (m *MockRoute53) MockCreateZone(z *route53.HostedZone) {
	zi := &zoneInfo{
		ID:         aws.StringValue(z.Id),
		hostedZone: z,
	}
	m.Zones = append(m.Zones, zi)
}


Section 92(1) of the Companies Act, 2013 and rule 11(1) of the Companies (Management and Administration) Rules, 2014.
x. Shareholding pattern of the company; and such other matters as required in the form.
(1) Every company shall prepare its annual return in Form No. MGT.7.
(2) The annual return, filed by a listed company or a company having paid-up share capital of ten crore rupees or more or turnover of fifty crore rupees or more, shall be certified by a Company Secretary in practice and the certificate shall be in Form No. MGT.8.
Allowed only for the financial years starting on or after 1st April 2014.
• Separate sheets to attach in case comprehensive details are being provided under attachments.
Enter the total turnover of the company. The turnover can be zero unless specified previously in the field– Principal business activities of the company.
Enter the net worth of the company. Refer the clause 57 of section 2 of the Companies Act, 2013.
• Percentage of shares by them.
• Copy of MGT-8; shall be enabled and mandatory in case anything entered in field XIV.
• Optional Attachment(s), if any shall be mandatory in case 'Yes' selected in field 4(iii) 'Separate sheet attached for details of transfers'.
Fees payable is subject to changes in pursuance of the Act or any rule or regulation made or notification issued there under.
Other things in the form are self explanatory.
NOTE: ALWAYS CHECK ONCE THE UPDATED VERSION OF FORMS UPLOADED BY MCA BEFORE FILING IT.
Please note that actual date of AGM entered in form AOC-4/AOC-4 XBRL (30.09.15) is different from date entered in already prescrutinised form MGT-7 (31.10.2015). Hence if you proceed and prescrutinize Form AOC-4/AOC-4 XBRL, the pre scrutiny of Form MGT-7 will be rejected as it contains different AGM date compared to date entered in the form being prescrutinised.
You will have to prescrutinise form MGT-7 again with the correct date (As mentioned in Form AOC-4/AOC-4 XBRL) for the same financial year.
System shall prompt you for discrepancy with a message that the AGM Date/Due AGM Date/Extended AGM Date filled in the form is different from that of filled in earlier uploaded annual filing form. Please do a revised filing of the same in order to file this form. Therefore, in this case you have to first do the revised filing of Form MGT-7 with the correct date (As entered in Form AOC-4/AOC-4 XBRL).
SIR, THANKS FOR SHARING THIS INFO WITH US, I HAVE A QUESTION.
SHOULD WE PROVIDE THE NUMBER OF BOARD MEETINGS TILL 31ST DECEMBER FOR MGT FILING OR 31 ST MARCH IN MGT 7?
I have a Pvt.Ltd company registered in the year of 2006. ROC was never followed due to lack of awareness.The registered office was left in the year of 2007. Current address was not sent to Registrar office. Now, company was struck off. How it revives.
Note, Income tax has been filled all the years.
Whether MGT-7 should be filed for One Person Company??
Whether Form MGT 7 should be filed for One Person company??
Short term borrowings to be shown under Indebtness column of MGT-7 or not?
Can we show the entire holding in public category as according to the definition of promoter, any person who has control over the company is a promoter. In case the same is a director and does not hold any shares then what should be written in MGT 9?
MY COMPANY IS HAVING PAID UP CAPITAL OF RS. 1,20,000.00 & TURNOVER OF RS 1,75,00,000.00 IN FY 2014-2015, WELL I AM REQUIRED GET MGT 7 SIGNED BY A CS(PRACTICING) OR NOT.
How can I file a revised MGT 7, is there any other form for revising MGT 7 ?
Form MGT7-PARA XI- Relates with compliance or non-compliance. Form MGT8 is relating to compliance of events with or without adverse remark/s and no need to cover the matters not required to report.But in MGT7,the Annual Return being a report to stakeholders, requires the details of non-compliance.Both can not be blindly signed.It requires professional home work and has value for the same. one must understand this clearly.
Respected sir,i am Rajendar reddy .i have a problem arised in filling of form MGT-7 about date of the incorporation not enabled .please help me out.


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The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) rejects further requests for interim measures filed by PFC CSKA Sofia
The Court of Arbitration of Sport (CAS) has rejected two further requests for interim measures filed by the Bulgarian football club PFC CSKA Sofia EAD (CSKA-Sofia) in the course of its appeals against decisions issued by the Union Européenne de Football Association (UEFA) on 29 May 2017 and 19 June 2017.
In the First Decision of 29 May 2017, UEFA rejected CSKA-Sofia's application for an exception to the "three-year rule", i.e. the rule providing that a licence applicant must be a registered member of a UEFA member association for at least three consecutive years. As a consequence, UEFA indicated that CSKA-Sofia would not be able to apply for a UEFA licence for the UEFA club competitions in connection with seasons 2017/18 and 2018/19.
On 16 June 2017, CAS rejected the club's request to stay the execution of the First Decision as the UEFA authorities had not overturned the decision which was subsequently made by the Bulgarian Football Union (BFU) to grant a licence to CSKA-Sofia to participate in the UEFA Europa League 2017/2018. As a result, at that time, the Bulgarian club remained eligible to participate in the UEFA Europa League 2017/2018 and did not suffer any risk of irreparable harm.
However, on 19 June 2017, UEFA wrote to the BFU informing it that CSKA-Sofia could not be admitted to the UEFA Club Competitions 2017/2018 due to the "three-year rule" (the Second Decision).
On 19 June 2017 CSKA–Sofia filed a second request for interim measures, seeking a stay of execution of the Second Decision pending the outcome of the CAS proceedings. This request was dismissed by the CAS today.
On 23 June 2017, CSKA Sofia filed a further appeal at the CAS, against the Second Decision, but this time against both UEFA and Dunav Ruse, the Bulgarian club admitted by UEFA in the Europa League 2017/18 in place of CSKA-Sofia. The appeal was accompanied by a third request for interim measures requesting a stay of the execution of the Second Decision pending the outcome of the CAS proceedings. This request was also dismissed by the CAS today.
As a consequence and for the time being, CSKA-Sofia remains ineligible to participate in the UEFA Europa League 2017/18.
The two CAS arbitration procedures will continue and a final decision will be issued at a later date.
Tags: Anti-Doping | Arbitration | Bulgaria | Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) | Dispute Resolution | Football | Union of European Football Associations (UEFA)
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) rejects request for interim measures in the arbitration PFC CSKA Sofia / UEFA
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The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) registers an appeal filed by the Palestine Football Association
CAS overrules FIFA and allows registration of minor Nikolas Nartey on appeal by the German Football Federation (DFB) and 1. FC Köln


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Prada Resort 2020
May 3, 2019 By Kourosh Maheri No Comments Posted in Shows
"Simplicity is rebellion."
So said Miuccia Prada during a preview of the resort collection she showed on Thursday night. Prada referred specifically to the clothes, which she described as "naïve, cotton, simple," but the thought extended to the event itself. At a moment when, in the luxury sweepstakes for sales and social media attention, her primary competition rents out major world monuments and airline terminals, Prada preferred to show at home. Or at one of her homes. In this case, her brand's New York headquarters on 52nd Street overlooking the Hudson River. "I like to do the shows in my own spaces," she said.
Yet while Prada may reject (for now at least) the kind of extravagant wanderlust of her competitors, this was no quiet little soiree. A star-studded guest list including Elle Fanning, Shailene Woodley, Uma Thurman, Naomi Watts, Joel Edgerton, Anderson Paak, Hailee Steinfeld, Marc Jacobs, Char Defrancesco and Sofia Coppola turned out, many reveling through four stages of festivities: boisterous pre-show cocktail, show, post-show informal dinner, after party.
Simple in its open concept and egalitarian flow — OK. Low-key — definitely not, offering an Instagrammable someone or something at every turn. Within that framework, Prada presented a lineup she characterized as simple
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For the later Merovingian kingdom, see Neustria.
The Kingdom of Soissons was a rump state of the Western Roman Empire in northern Gaul (present day France) for some twenty-five years during Late Antiquity.
The emergence of the Kingdom of Soissons began when Emperor Majorian (457–461) appointed Aegidius as magister militum of Roman Gaul. When Majorian was killed on the orders of Ricimer in 461, Aegidius maintained his own rule in much of his province, creating a Roman remnant state that came to be known as the Kingdom of Soissons. In the chaos of contemporary Gaul, he maintained his power against Franks to his east and Visigoths to his south; his relations to the Romano-British of Brittany may have been friendly. Aegidius died in 464 or 465. His son Syagrius succeeded to the rule. In 486 Syagrius lost the Battle of Soissons to the Frankish king Clovis I and the domain was thereafter under the control of the Franks.
The Kingdom of Soissons originated in the reign of the Western Emperor Majorian (457–461). Majorian appointed Aegidius to be magister militum of the Gallic provinces. The remaining Roman territory in Gaul in the northwest was connected with the Roman possessions in the Auvergne, Provence and Languedoc which connected these to Italy. During Majorian's reign, that corridor was annexed by the Germanic tribes now occupying Gaul, thus effectively cutting off Aegidius and his citizens from the Empire. Majorian and Aegidius had recovered the Roman position in most of Gaul, but with the death of Majorian in 461 the Roman position in the center and south deteriorated. These provinces were annexed by the Visigoths and Burgundians in the years 462-477, which left the remaining 'Roman' Kingdom of Syagrius isolated.
Aegidius was allied to Childeric I, king of the Salian Franks of Tournai, and helped him defeat the Visigoths at Orléans in 463. According to Gregory of Tours, Aegidius even ruled the Franks during Childeric's banishment, but Childeric later returned from exile. It is possible that the Groans of the Britons, referring to a Romano-British request for military assistance after the Roman departure from Britain, may have been addressed to Aegidius.
Aegidius continued to govern until his death on the Loire in 464, either by poison or by violence. He may have been murdered at the orders of one of Childeric's enemies. His Comes Paulus of Angers was killed shortly afterwards, possibly on the same campaign. At that point Aegidius's son, Syagrius, took his place as ruler. Syagrius governed using the title of dux (a provincial military commander), but the neighboring Germanic tribes referred to him as "King of the Romans"; hence the name of his enclave. In 476, under the rule of Syagrius, the Kingdom of Soissons failed to accept the new rule of Odoacer who had dethroned the last Western Emperor earlier that year. While both Syagrius and Odoacer sent messengers to the Eastern Roman Empire, the Eastern emperor Zeno chose to offer legitimacy to Odoacer instead of Syagrius. The Kingdom of Soissons cut all ties with Italy and had no further recorded contact with the Eastern Roman Empire. Even after 476, Syagrius continued to maintain that he was merely governing a Roman province. The Kingdom of Soissons was in fact an independent region.
Childeric died about 481, and his son Clovis I became the Frankish king. Clovis made continual war against Syagrius, and in the end took over all his territory. Syagrius lost the final battle of Soissons in 486; many historians consider this Clovis' greatest victory. Syagrius fled to the Visigothic king Alaric II, but the Franks threatened war if Syagrius were not surrendered to them. Syagrius was sent back to Clovis, who had him executed in 486/7.
The Kingdom of Soissons was a remnant of the Roman Empire within Gaul surrounded by newly established Germanic kingdoms.
Clovis I ruled the Franks until his death in 511. When he died, the Frankish realm was divided into four kingdoms, one for each of his sons. Clotaire I received the area formerly ruled by Syagrius. (Clotaire himself had been born in Soissons a decade after Syagrius' death.) By skillful diplomacy, warmongering, and murder of his relatives, Clotaire became the king of all Gaul by 555.
When Clotaire died in 561, the Frankish realm was divided into three kingdoms, one for each son. The western kingdom of Neustria continued to be governed from Soissons until all Franks were once more unified under the Neustrian king Clotaire II in 613. Except for the period of 639-673, when a division between Neustria and Austrasia occurred, the Franks remained unified until the Treaty of Verdun in 843.
When Aegidius was appointed magister militum of Gaul by Emperor Majorian, he took control of the remaining Roman troops in Gaul. According to Eastern Roman writer Priscus, Aegidius and Syagrius both commanded "large forces". At one point, Aegidius and/or Syagrius even threatened the Western Roman Empire with an invasion of Italy if the empire did not grant their requests. Their forces also offered effective resistance to the power of the Visigoth Kingdom, to the south and west of Soissons. There are however no figures available that make it possible to come to a judgement on the total strength of their troops.
↑ MacGeorge, Penny (2002). Late Roman Warlords. Oxford University Press. pp. 111–113. ISBN 0-19-925244-0. Retrieved September 23, 2013.
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1 2 3 George Muir Bussey, Thomas Gaspey and Théodose Burette. A History of France and of the French People. Google Books. Retrieved 2009-04-20.
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John Richard "Jackie" Lomax (* 10. Mai 1944 in Wallasey, Vereinigtes Königreich; † 15. September 2013 auf der Halbinsel Wirral) war ein englischer Gitarrist und Singer-Songwriter. Er wurde bekannt durch seine Zusammenarbeit mit George Harrison und Eric Clapton.

Lomax war Mitglied der Bands Dee and the Dynamites, The Undertakers, The Lomax Alliance, Heavy Jelly und Badger. Er arbeitete mit The Tea Bags, George Harrison, Eric Clapton, Gene Clark, John Stewart, P. F. Sloan, Lucinda Williams, Jeff Beck, Leon Russell und Nicky Hopkins.

Leben und Karriere

Geboren in Wallasey in der englischen Grafschaft Cheshire, lebte er später zusammen mit seiner Frau Annie (eigentlich: Norma Richardson), der Mutter des Modefotografen Terry Richardson, in Ojai (Kalifornien).

1962–1970

Im Januar 1962 verließ Jackie Lomax Dee and the Dynamites, um bei der Merseybeat-Band The Undertakers mitzuspielen. Sie folgten den Beatles auf deren Tour durch die lokalen Veranstaltungsorte, bevor sie in Hamburg auftraten und sich einen Plattenvertrag sichern konnten. Sie unterzeichneten bei Pye Records und veröffentlichten insgesamt vier Singles, aber nur eine schaffte es in die UK Top 40. Im Jahr 1965 beschlossen sie, ihr Glück in den USA zu versuchen.

Lomax verbrachte zwei Jahre in den USA mit The Undertakers und einigen anderen Gruppen. Im Jahr 1967 nahm Brian Epstein seine neueste Band, The Lomax Alliance, zurück mit nach England, um sie im Londoner Saville Theatre zu präsentieren. Epstein arrangierte die Aufnahme einer Single und eines Albums und erreichte einen Plattenvertrag bei CBS vor seinem Tod. Während dieser Zeit wurden von CBS zwei Singles der Lomax Alliance und eine Jackie-Lomax Solo-Single veröffentlicht. Es wurden weitere Aufnahmen gemacht, aber sie wurden nie veröffentlicht.

Nach Epsteins Tod übernahm das neue Beatles-Plattenlabel Apple Records die Verantwortung für Lomax-Plattenkarriere, und George Harrison engagierte sich für die Produktion. Obwohl drei der vier Beatles zuzüglich Eric Clapton und Nicky Hopkins auf dem Album Is This What You Want? mitspielten, war Lomax Debütsingle bei Apple, die Harrison-Komposition Sour Milk Sea, kommerziell erfolglos. Lomax und Harrison machten den Rest der Aufnahmen des Albums in Los Angeles, gemeinsam mit Hal Blaine und anderen Mitgliedern der The Wrecking Crew, aber wie bei der gleichzeitigen einzigen, von Lomax produzierten Single New Day, blieb der Erfolg aus, nachdem das Album Anfang 1969 veröffentlicht worden war. Als seine letzte Apple-Single folgte eine Coverversion von How the Web Was Woven featuring Leon Russell. Als sich 1970 die Beatles trennten, waren alle Künstler des Plattenlabels Apple Records in unsicherer Schwebe und konnten nicht für die Zukunft planen.

1970–1977
Nach dem Verlassen von Apple Records, gründete Lomax eine Band namens Heavy Jelly gemeinsam mit dem Bassisten Alex Dmochowski, dem Gitarristen John Moorshead und dem Schlagzeuger Carlo Wenig. Sie veröffentlichten eine Single bei Heard Records namens Chewn In / Time Out (Head HDS4001, 1969). Während dieser Zeit wurde ein Heavy-Jelly-Album aufgenommen, das komplett aus Lomax-Songs bestand, wurde aber nur zu Werbezwecken herausgegeben und nie kommerziell veröffentlicht.

1971 kehrte Lomax in die USA zurück, um dort zu leben und in Woodstock (New York) zu arbeiten. Er unterzeichnete bei Warner Bros. Records und wiedervereinigte sich mit den Mitgliedern der Lomax Alliance und den The Undertakers, um die Alben Start in My Head und Three aufzunehmen, die sich ebenfalls als kommerziell erfolglos erwiesen.

Enttäuscht über seine Erfolglosigkeit, kehrte Lomax gegen Ende des Jahres 1973 nach Großbritannien zurück. Er trat der Band Badger bei, einer progressiven Rockband, ursprünglich von Ex-Yes-Keyboarder Tony Kaye gegründet, und sorgte für einen Stilwandel in Richtung Rhythm and Blues und Soul. Die Band wurde ein Transportmittel für Lomax' Lieder und seinen Gesang, war aber nur von kurzer Dauer, es reichte gerade für ein Album, das von Allen Toussaint produzierte White Lady auf Epic Records.

Lomax wechselte wieder über den Atlantik, um sich seiner Solo-Karriere zu widmen und konnte bei Capitol Records 1975 einen Plattenvertrag unterzeichnen. Er veröffentlichte zwei Alben bei Capitol, Livin' for Lovin' sowie Did You Ever Have That Feeling? bevor er das Label im Jahr 1977 wieder verließ. Die letztere Aufnahme wurde nur in Großbritannien veröffentlicht.

1978–2000
Die 1980er Jahre waren eine ruhige Zeit in Lomax Karriere. In der Mitte der 1980er Jahre spielte er Gitarre und sang Backing Vocals auf Demos für verschiedene Künstler, die von seinem Freund Patrick Landreville produziert wurden. Er spielte kurz mit der Band The Tea Bag, einer in Los Angeles ansässigen Gruppe, gemeinsam mit Ian Wallace, Kim Gardner, Mick Taylor, Brian Auger, Terry Reid, Peter Banks, Graham Bell und David Mansfield unter anderem. In den 1990er Jahren verbrachte er die Zeit meist mit anderen britischen Künstlern an der amerikanischen Westküste, und er tourte als Bassist für The Drifters, The Diamonds und The Coasters. In Kalifornien, insbesondere im Ventura County spielte Lomax live mit einer Reihe von Künstlern, darunter Tom Petty, dem Schlagzeuger Randall Marsh, Jim Calire, Patrick Landreville und Mitch Kashmar.

Im Jahr 1990 nahm Lomax den Tim-Buckley-Song Devil Eyes für das Album True Voices auf. Andere, auf dem Album enthaltene Musiker waren Gene Clark, John Stewart, P. F. Sloan und Lucinda Williams.

2001–2013
Im Jahr 2001 schloss Lomax die Arbeiten an seinem ersten Soloalbum seit 1977, The Ballad of Liverpool Slim ab. Im Jahr 2002 sah man ihn weiterhin an der Westküste von Amerika spielen. Im Jahr 2003 kehrte er in den Liverpooler  Cavern Club zurück, wo seine Karriere mehr als 40 Jahre vorher begonnen hatte. Im Jahr 2004 war Lomax Gast der Peter-Dicks-BeatlesandBeyond-Radiosendung in Walsall. Dicks organisierte später die britische Veröffentlichung von Lomax' The Ballad of Liverpool Slim… and Others-Album. Lomax kehrte bei mehreren Gelegenheiten zurück um in einem Liverpooler Pub in der James Street zu spielen.

Percy Sledge nahm Lomax' Komposition Fall Inside Your Eyes, für sein 2004er Album Shining Through the Rain auf.

Am 13. April 2012 spielte Lomax zum 50. Jahrestag des Hamburger Star-Clubs im Kaiserkeller, zusammen mit der Star Club All-Star-Band sowie Brian Griffiths (von The Big Three), Bobby Thompson (von den Dominoes) und Joe Fagin (von den Strangers) und mit The Undertakers.

Am 15. September 2013 starb Jackie Lomax auf der englischen Halbinsel Wirral, auf der er sich anlässlich der Hochzeit eines seiner Kinder aufhielt.

Diskografie
 The Undertakers Unearthed 1963–65
 The Lomax Alliance and CBS Recordings 1966–1967
 Is This What You Want? 1969 No. 145 US
 Heavy Jelly 1970
 Home Is in My Head 1971
 Three 1972
 White Lady / Badger 1974
 Livin' for Lovin' 1976
 Did You Ever Have That Feeling? 1977
 True Voices (Various Artists) 1991
 The Ballad of Liverpool Slim 2001 & 2004
 The Ballad of Liverpool Slim… and Others (Angel Air Records)

Einzelnachweise

Weblinks
 Offizielle Homepage

 Jackie Lomax at artistdirect.com
 Los Angeles Times Obituary

Gitarrist
Singer-Songwriter
Engländer
Geboren 1944
Gestorben 2013
Mann

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Gleneagles Secondary College » What about Select Entry High Schools?
Gleneagles SEAL program is designed to cater for our students through to Year 12 but some families like to consider a possible enrolment for their child at a Select Entry High School.
Nossal High School is the closest Select Entry High School and Gleneagles students have had great success in meeting the entrance requirements. Indeed only one school in Victoria had more students accepted into Nossal for 2014. This speaks volumes about the quality of the Gleneagles SEAL program and its ability to challenge and prepare highly academically able students for their future pathways.
Some students thrive in the pressure cooker of a select entry school while others find it quite challenging. It is important to consider your child's personality when considering a school where every student is assessed as being of high academic ability. This can create a highly competitive environment. Some student's cope well or even thrive while others find the pressure overwhelming. We suggest you consider carefully how your child will cope with externally and internal pressure that comes with an enrolment at a Select Entry High School. It is a very different environment to Gleneagles and we often have students return and tell us how much they miss our school, indeed, some have re-enrolled at our College.
Highly able student will be able to achieve great results at Gleneagles. Our students develop excellent academic skills while remaining part of their local community. They are able to remain part of a school community and have the support of teachers and peers that know them well. Our SEAL students achieve excellent ATARs and are able to pursue their dreams through their chosen tertiary studies.
Gleneagles SC has special arrangements with several universities which support all our students gaining extra credits on their ATAR, sometimes as much as 20 points. These arrangements will never be available through the Select Entry Highs. This can make all the difference in gaining access to their preferred tertiary course. Please ask our Careers Coordinator for more information.
Whether our SEAL students stay at Gleneagles or go on to a Select Entry High School, we are confident their learning needs can be met through a quality Government school program.


Starting a blog is not a difficult task. But writing an effective and powerful blog post is quite tricky. Now a day, the trend of having a blog has been increased. But have you ever think that some blogs are at the top of the list. While some are very down in the list that no one reaches them.
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As Cleveland city officials, underwriters and lawyers huddle to raise $130 million next month to build a new football stadium, they are consulting a little-used page in the city's municipal finance playbook. Instead of selling bonds -- the typicalmethod used by municipalities to raise so much cash -- Cleveland will issue debt instruments known as certificates of participation to finance the largest share of the stadium's cost. The city has been forced to be more creative than usual as it finances the stadium because it doesn't have the authority tosell $130 million of bonds. 'That (amount) would have certainly exceeded our debt limit,' said Cleveland finance director Martin Carmody. Under limits set by the Ohio Constitution, the city only can issue about $50 million in additional bond debt without asking for voter approval, Mr. Carmody said. The city's bond debt currently stands at $272 million. Rather than subject the fast-track stadium project to a voter referendum, the city's financial planners opted to rely on certificates of participation, which act and look a lot like traditional bond debt but don't count against the city's debt limit. In municipal finance parlance, the certificates of participation are not backed up by the full faith and credit of the city, as are general obligation bonds. Instead, the certificates are paid off by a separate, designated revenue stream. The revenue to retire the stadium debt would come from the city's 8% parking tax and the county's excise tax on tobacco and alcohol. The bond markets like certificates of participation less than bond debt because the payment of the interest and principal on the certificates requires an annual vote by the governing body of the government that issued the bonds. In the case of the stadium debt, the governing body involved would be Cleveland City Council. Since payment of the debt is dependent on an annual appropriation, potential buyers of the certificates likely would insist on a slightly higher interest rate than a traditional bond. One way to lower the interest rate is to buy an insurance policy that would cover payment of the certificates in case the city refused to pay them off. Mr. Carmody said the city is seeking such insurance if it does not prove too costly. He said he couldn't estimate how much it would cost. Without such an insurance policy, a government issuing certificates of deposit could expect to pay an interest rate that's about 15 basis points higher than what would be placed on a general obligation bond, said Gordon Reis III, managing partner of Seasongood & Mayer, a public finance underwriting firm in Cincinnati. A basis point is equal to one hundredth of a percentage point. Based on a 30-year, $130 million issue, the higher interest rate would cost the city about $150,000 a year, or $4.5 million over the life of the issue. Last week, Moody's Investor Service gave the proposed issuance of certificates a Baa1 rating, which it assigns to medium grade investments that lack outstanding investment characteristics. The Moody's report notes that the credit rating assigned the football issue was lower than the A2 rating awarded the city's general obligation bonds because the lease payments are subject to annual appropriations and the stadium serves a 'limited city purpose.' The city and its financing team expect the interest rate on the issue will be set around April 1. They hope to market the issue by mid-April, Mr. Carmody said. While certificates of participation issues aren't commonplace, Mr. Reis said the state of Ohio uses a similar debt vehicle to avoid restrictions on the state's debt limit.


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When my cousin Curt forwarded a virtual copy of the Tool Dictionary, I appreciated the humor and irony in the definitions. In case you haven't seen the list, it takes common tools from the shop and applies twisted definitions to them.
Of course, the reality is that with many tools, they can have multiple uses. As the old saying goes, "To a hammer, all the world is a nail." When we don't have the right tool, the next best thing often has to do … and it does. That's one reason I keep a spike (extra large nail) in my chisel and miscellaneous cutting tools drawer. I also keep a railroad spike in there. It's amazing how often both have proven useful.
Utility Knife: Used to open and slice through the content of cardboard cartons; works particularly well on contents such as seats, liquids in plastic bottles or plastic parts.
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Q: Laravel migration from nullable to not null with null data in database my code below is working fine. Problem is when i got data in database which is null in user_id field. Migration rollback will not pass successfully. What is good approach to solve this problem?
Should i change every null in column user_id to empty string before i change nullable to false in rollback?
    public function up()
    {
        Schema::table('classes', function (Blueprint $table) {
            $table->text('user_id')->nullable()->change();
        });
    }

    /**
     * Reverse the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function down()
    {
        Schema::table('classes', function (Blueprint $table) {
            $table->text('user_id')->nullable(false)->change();
        });
    }

A: This problem has been seem before, I couldn't find other solution than update the values to empty string before changing the column, the database engine will always complaint.

Updated:
You could do this like this and should work:
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\DB;

/*
*
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*
*/

public function up()
{
    DB::table('classes')->whereNull('user_id')->update(['user_id'=>'']);
    Schema::table('classes', function (Blueprint $table) {
        $table->text('user_id')->nullable()->change();
    });
}