Don Everhart ll was born in York, Pennsylvania. He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting from Kutztown State University in 1972. The following year, Everhart joined the Franklin Mint as a designer where he held the staff sculptor position for five years.
In March 1980, Everhart left the Franklin Mint to pursue a freelance career. During this period, his work included figurines, plates, coins, and medals for Walt Disney, Tiffany, the Royal Norwegian Mint, and the British Royal Mint.
Everhart has received numerous commissions. Most notable of these is Georgetown University's Sports Hall of Fame, a 24-piece bronze installation.
He also received the prestigious American Numismatic Association's Sculptor of the Year Award in 1994. In 1997, his submission was chosen as the official inaugural medal for President Clinton's second term.
Everhart is a former president of the American Medallic Sculpture Association (1993-1994) and is a fellow member of the National Sculpture Society.
Since joining the Mint in 2004, Everhart has created designs for numerous coins and medals, notably the 2014 National Baseball Hall of Fame Commemorative Coins (selected 2016 Coin of the Year), designing the reverse and sculpting both sides of the first curved coins produced by the U.S. Mint.
He designed and sculpted the common reverse for the Presidential $1 Coin and 14 obverse portraits in the series. His designs appear on three of the 50 State Quarters coins honoring Nevada, New Mexico, and Hawaii and he sculpted three others, celebrating Idaho, Montana, and California. He also sculpted the design of the 2009 quarter that honored the District of Columbia.
Four of the designs in the America the Beautiful Quarters® Program are his, including Hot Springs National Park in Arkansas; Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming; Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial in Ohio, and Great Sand Dunes National Park in Colorado.
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Everhart has also designed many Congressional Gold Medals, including the 2005 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Coretta Scott King medal obverse; the 2005 Dalai Lama medal obverse, both sides of the 2006 Dr. Michael E. DeBakey medal; both sides of the 2008 Constantino Brumidi medal, and both sides of the 2007 Daw Aung San Suu Kyi medal.
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Don retired from The United States Mint in July of 2017, after over 13 years of service. In February of 2018, Don was awarded the prestigious "Lifetime Achievement Award" from World Coin News in Berlin, Germany.
Although retired from The United States Mint, Don still works on commissions from his home studio in West Chester, Pennsylvania.


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We all know that, at sea level, water starts to boil at 100 degrees Celsius (212 degrees Fahrenheit). And in very confined spaces, researchers have long observed that this boiling point can change, usually dropping by several degrees.
But now a team has shown for the first time that water confined in carbon nanotubes – some of the tiniest spaces on Earth – behaves in a completely unexpected way. Instead of boiling at lower temperatures, researchers have shown that water in these tubes can actually freeze solid at temperatures well above boiling point.
Phase behaviour describes the way that water changes between the solid, liquid, and gas phases we know so well.
Although it was expected that being confined inside a carbon nanotube would change these phase transitions, no one thought the effect would be so extreme, or that it would occur in the direction it did.
It was thought that the small space would lower, rather than raise, the freezing point, and only by about 10 degrees Celsius (18 degrees Fahrenheit) or so, which is what usually happens when water is trapped in small spaces.
But the opposite turned out to be true inside carbon nanotubes.
In one of the team's tests, the water froze at a temperature above 105 degrees Celsius (221 degrees Fahrenheit) – well above boiling point.
It was hard for the researchers to measure the exact temperature within the tube without interfering with results, but 105 degrees Celsius was the minimum value being tested, and the actual freezing point could have been as high as 151 degrees Celsius, or 305.6 degrees Fahrenheit.
The discovery shows that even though water is one of the most abundant substances on our planet, we still have so much to learn about how it works. Earlier this month, researchers found evidence that there are actually two liquid states of water, not just the one we learnt about in high school.
So what's going on inside the carbon nanotubes to mess with water's behaviour so much?
First of all, keep in mind that these tubes are really tiny. Structurally, they look like a straw, or a cylinder with openings on either side. But the diameter of the tubes themselves are so small, they need to be measured in nanometres, or billionths of a metre.
Once the water was inside these nanotubes, the researchers were able to use a technique called vibrational spectroscopy, which allowed them to track how the water was moving and determine whether it was in gas, liquid, or solid phase.
This is the first time anyone has used this technique, and it allowed the team to show that it's the diameter of the nanotubes that makes all the difference when it comes to freezing point.
The team found that even the difference between a nanotube with a 1.05 nanometre diameter and a 1.06 nanometre diameter had freezing points that varied by tens of degrees Celsius (more than 18 degrees Fahrenheit).
Earlier research trying to test how water behaved in these small spaces had provided contradictory results, but that's because past experiments haven't been able to measure the exact size of their nanotubes as precisely as the MIT team, and no one had ever thought that such small differences in diameter could produce such different outcomes.
In fact, there's still a lot the team doesn't understand – such as why water even enters the carbon nanotubes in the first place, seeing as they're thought to be hydrophobic, or water repelling.
The researchers also aren't willing to call the solid water inside the nanotubes 'ice', seeing as they haven't been able to conclusively show that the water has the specific crystalline structure required of ice.
"It's not necessarily ice, but it's an ice-like phase," said Strano.
His team is now going to continue researching the water inside these tubes to figure out what's going on.
And in addition to reminding us just how weird and unpredictable water really is, the research could lead to practical new applications.
Most promisingly, these carbon nanotubes could be used to develop 'ice wires' that remain stable at room temperature, but maintain the unique electrical and thermal properties of ice – such as being able to conduct protons at least 10 times better than other conductive materials.
"This gives us very stable water wires, at room temperature," said Strano.
The results have been published in Nature Nanotechnology.
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If you read photography websites these days it's hard to miss the compilation lists of tips and tricks. This got me thinking – what would my top tip list be like? I've been at this for a couple of years now so I've come up with a dozen for amateur photographer folks like me. Agree or disagree, be my guest!
1. Ignore the critics. Honestly, why bother with "critiques"? It's only other peoples opinions. Take photographs for yourself, not other people – you're not a pro, after all.
2. Exposure Compensation is your best friend. Always seems to be an afterthought in guides and manuals, but tremendously useful.
3. Try to be an artist first and foremost. The best photographers always seem to be artists.
4. Technical perfection is over-rated. Content or subject is what makes a photograph.
5. Don't bother carrying a camera around everywhere you go, because at some point it'll just get lost, stolen or damaged. And anyway, don't you have a smartphone?
6. Allocate yourself "photography time". An event, a location, or simply a couple of hours set aside. Pro's have to or they don't get paid, but the motivation is harder being an amateur.
7. Find out what genre of photography you like and study lots of photographers in that field. It's surprising how different the same kind of photos can look from one photographer to the next.
8. Go to art exibitions to learn. Artists have had it worked out for hundreds of years before photography came along.
9. Photography is a simple thing but digital cameras are too complex. Don't let that complexity get in the way of taking photographs.
10. The best learning tool is a digital camera, thanks to things like EXIF data and histograms.
11. The second best learning tool is a film camera. No instant gratification removes the advantages of digital and forces concentration on photographic technique.
12. And finally, be wary of the internet "expert". Ask yourself why they're spouting off so much on-line (like, er, making lists!), instead of taking photographs.
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Isabella was intrigued by this text that we had studied in class in relation to Paul's attitude to women and his community ethics within the Corinthian assembly. Why did Paul suddenly stop halfway through his teaching about marriage (7:1-16) to address circumcision and slavery, only to then pick up the theme of marriage once more (7:25-39)? Isabella was particularly interested in the references to slavery and manumission (the process through which a slave became a freedperson) and was not entirely convinced with my, rather off-hand, remark that this was just Paul, typically, getting side-tracked and his attempt to provide further examples of the principle he was attempting to present. Moreover, Isabella noted that the text relating to slavery and manumission was extremely ambiguous. Furthermore, she was struck by Paul's language in this section, not just his use of δοῦλος (doulos) , 'slave', but also his singular use of ἀπελεύθερος (apeleutheros) , 'freedman' in 7:22. Paul uses this term only once in his entire writings; why here and what would it have meant to his Corinthian readers? Isabella's interest in post-colonialism suggested to her that there might be a far deeper issue behind Paul's choice of topic and words. The question that Isabella wanted to explore was how would these words have been understood by Paul's readers? Why would someone who had 'fought' for their freedom want to then end up being a slave of Christ (7:22)? Was there anything specifically about the socio-political context of Corinth that would make these terms particularly pertinent and add to their rhetorical power?
Isabella combined historical and exegetical approaches to the text which was also informed by the experiences she gained from her time at the site of Corinth the previous summer. You can read more about her time at Corinth in her Theologian in Progress blog.
(Please note that all words and images – unless stated otherwise – are the property of Isabella Wray)
The following is an excerpt that provides the geopolitical context of Corinth, which highlights its rather singular nature and its relationship with Rome, as well as introducing the themes of 'status' 'slavery,' and 'freedpersons' that Isabella goes on to explore in greater depth.
1.2 Making of the Corinth colony (Colonia Laus Julia Corinthiensis)
The city of Corinth was re-established as a Roman colony in 44 BCE by Julius Caesar. Its location is on a narrow Isthmus between Athens and Sparta and is overlooked by an Acropolis which made it a natural trade centre linking the Asian East to the Roman West. This link created a land-bridge between Athens and Sparta and was littered with many natural springs making the land agriculturally rich. Strabo (2016, loc.16367) situates the city as "commanding two harbours", one, named Cenchrea, looks out towards Asia and the other, named Lechaio, looks out toward Italy.
Corinth had suffered a catastrophic invasion by the Romans in 146 BCE led by commanding officer Mummius, who in quick succession had destroyed Carthage and Corinth almost simultaneously (Beard, 2015, p.487). During the invasion, Corinth was burned, the men were killed, and "the women and children sold into slavery" (Adams and Horrell, 2004, p.3). The impressive conquest of these trade cities by Mummius marked a turning point for the Empire from one of military might to a sophisticatedly managed political Empire (Beard, 2015, p.487). Strabo (2015, loc.16454) illustrates how the re-population of Corinth in 44 BCE consisted of colonists from all over the Empire and states that the new inhabitants "consisted of, for the most part, the descendants of freemen". The population rapidly grew from this period as people were drawn to Corinth for its economic opportunities as the centre for trading activity (Adams and Horrell, 2004, p.3). By the middle of the Julio-Claudian period Corinth was "a fiercely competitive commercial centre" (Murphy O'Connor, 1999, p.799). By Paul's arrival, Corinth was a multicultural centre of activity surrounded by several agorae (markets), selling a vast array of goods including tents such as Paul sold (Murphy O'Connor, 2002, p.15). A mercantile centre such as this would have bought profit to the Roman senate through taxation and was applied in such a complex manner that even the briefest of visits to Corinth would entail some charge.
Alongside the exotic merchandise, slaves were also bought and sold and by 48CE Corinth was described as being the centre of the Roman slave trade (Bartchy, 2003). Paul's arrival in Corinth occurred when the polis was at its height of Roman sophisticated rule and had been awarded the Senatorial capital of Achaia. From Acts 18 we can estimate that Paul arrived in Corinth around 50CE and his ekklesia was established between his arrival and 52CE under the reign of Claudius (Dunn, 1995, p.10). Paul lived and worked among many traders at Corinth for approximately eighteen months. Paul's place of trade, among the agora, would have an open front and would mean he came into contact with a variety of people. It is possible that from his store front (as in the picture below which shows the remains of a typical Corinthian store) he preached the Gospel (Hock, 2007, p.67).
Example of a shop at Corinth. Image: Isabella Wray 2016
1.3 Corinthian Economy
The gradual yet violent conquering of the Greek polis by Rome's Emperors and their military generals over almost two centuries had by this point been typically masqueraded as an establishment of peace or Pax Romana. On this establishment, an elaborate judicial system had been implemented and was overseen by a burgeoning senatorial corporation only replicated elsewhere in Rome itself; Murphy O'Connor (2002, p.8) names Corinth "a miniature replica" of Rome. Thus, the imperialising of Corinth had put an end to its turbulent past and, at last, brought hope of a prosperous future; the Corinthians were apparently willing to overlook Rome's "military and economic domination" (Horrell, 1996, p.70) – the violent enemy had now become the business partner. Violent conquering was required to bring order and thereafter peace and the peace and order was welcomed by the displaced and traumatised inhabitants of Corinth. By the middle of the first century, Rome and its empire had "evolved into an intensely competitive state, one that glorified the military and acclaimed violence and killing" (Frankopan, 2016, p.12). This competitiveness was central to Corinth's success.
Competition underpinned Corinth society and is made evident through Paul's Corinthian correspondence in which he uses athletic games imagery to project his message to his hearers. For example: "Do you not know that in a race the runners all compete, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win it" (1 Cor 9:24-25). Murphy O'Connor (2002, p.74) portrays Corinth as dependent on its competitive commercial trade whereby "material gain was the one true God". Competition abounded among the high-status members of Corinth where not only wealth but, equally, honour would be vigorously fought for not just in the arena but throughout the polis (Engels, 1990, p.86). Rome had chosen Corinth as a site to be repopulated by 'aliens' from all over the Roman Empire who would find an unparalleled chance to be included in this economic success and this opportunity was repaid with "the loyalty and devotion of these groups" (Engels, 1990, p.17), to the Emperor through Imperial cult practices. The possibility of social mobility for Roman citizens would be visible for all inhabitants of the Empire, particularly for freed persons, where to join the elites a 'noble' heritage was usually required regardless of how much wealth a citizen had acquired (Horrell, 1996, p.65). However, unlike the rest of the Roman Empire, in Corinth, it was wealth and powerful referees (or patrons), and not status, that was the driving factor for the organization of its citizens (Millis, 2014, p.50). This meant that for the first time during the Empire, uniquely, Corinth was managed by freedmen who had succeeded in winning their own manumission and had in some cases amassed great wealth and had now succeeded in winning Roman high status.
The wealth accumulated at Corinth for Empire was derived from two main sources. The first of these sources was through the merchant trade taxes and duties which were sent to Rome by the municipal administrators of Corinth; possibly by the two duoviri (magistrates) or two aediles (city managers). These trading expenses were multifaceted and were applied through several avenues: harbour taxes, duty on cargo, expenses for hiring transit men and finally drivers or oxen to pull their goods over the dioklos (track) (Pettegrew, 2014, p.132). The second source of wealth came in the form of the ager republicus (the Roman owned land), where tenant farmers would pay taxes for the use of the now, Roman farmlands. In the mid-first century, around the time of Paul's mission in Corinth "international commerce was of major significance to the city" (Sanders, 2014, p.120) and the "ager republicus of Corinth was producing considerable revenue for Rome" (James, 2014, p.19). Equal to that, the games attracted many people from neighbouring cities who stayed in tents during their stay (Hock, 2007). This presented an economic opportunity for Paul and his co-workers, Pricilla and Aquila to find work in the polis. By the mid-first century extreme poverty was experienced by many Corinthians and the divide between the rich and the poor had reached a new height (Theissen, 1982). So much debt and poverty was enforced onto those who lived outside the polis that many had little option but to become a slave to a wealthier master.
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stephencwinter says:
I can only assume that you must have read this dissertation with delight and some satisfaction. It is such a privilege to have a student who listens carefully enough to understand a teacher and then to challenge them.
I have never noticed that interruption that takes place of Paul's reflections on marriage.
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Actually, I have never even recognised it as an interruption! I love the way that Isabella Wray moves to the essential issue which is that of economics. And, of course, she will also (I hope?) move to the essential issue of theology, of the way we speak about God. I have long been influenced by the work of Walter Hollenweger on the sociology and economics of the Corinthian church. Hollenweger taught just a mile or two down the road from Newman and was in Birmingham when I first arrived in the city in 1988. He showed that the controversy about the gifts of the Holy Spirit lay within the tension of the relationship between slaves and freedmen in the church and that Paul attempted to resolve this in the famous poem about love in 1 Corinthians 13. I think that he does something truly radical here. I also suspect that he failed. I doubt if the Corinthian church became the radically democratic community that the first letter points to but the letter remains a time bomb ticking away waiting for the moment when it will do its work in church and society.
And there is apparently Paul displaying a blind spot regarding the relationship between men and women. Thus the interruption during teaching on marriage. I look forward to reading Isabella Wray's reflection on this. It ought to be radically feminist in nature, not because it happens to
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Not because it happens to be a current fashion but because Paul's trajectory of thought is leading him towards this conclusion. He gets there in Galatians where he speaks of there being neither male nor female in Christ (I read recently that Paul uses the en Christo as a way of speaking about the relationship between the Son and the Father to which all humanity is invited). He seems to pull back in 1 Corinthians.
I look forward to reading more of this excellent work. Many thanks for posting it!
Richard Goode says:
Thank you Stephen for your comments. I was very spoilt this year with the dissertations I supervised. This one is really the most suitable for this site, but there was also another excellent one that I think you would have really liked on a theology that includes those with dementia.
Isabella's contention is that Paul (or would it be the church?) ultimately failed in this radical equality. Her interest in this area sprang from a session we did looking at 1 Clement – the Corinthian church further along its journey. I like the image of a ticking time bomb, it still packs a punch every time I teach it.
I am interested by your suggestion that Paul 'pulls back' a bit in 1 Corinthians. I would argue that the way chapter 7, for example, is structured suggests a rigidly imposed equity between both male and female – perhaps loaded towards the women in the socially radical implications.
I'll need to dig out Hollenweger – is this the one on Pentecostals or Pentecostalism?

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In times of tight credit, you can finance a new business or franchise by rolling your retirement funds into your new company. You pay no income taxes or early withdrawal penalties, avoid debt and have money available immediately to rent a space, hire employees, buy equipment and pay yourself a salary. And this is all sound, the firms that arrange these rollovers say, because they're "based on long-standing provisions of the Internal Revenue Code."
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Indeed, one of the early adopters, Gary Cote, used $60,000 from his 401(k) back in 2005 to start Sunray Technology Ventures, a California provider of high-speed internet access services for hotels (sadly, Mr. Cote passed away in 2012). "I didn't want to borrow money or mortgage our home to the hilt," Cote once said. "Using my retirement money gave me independence. We've been profitable since 2007. I can't say enough about the scenario that allowed us to provide for all these people."
Although the mechanism for rolling retirement funds into business startups has been available for decades, the practice began in earnest in 2000, when industry founders and former business associates Leonard Fischer, founder and chairman of the board of Benetrends Financial of North Wales, Penn., and Steven Cooper, president of SDCooper of Huntington Beach, Calif., introduced the concept at the annual convention of the International Franchise Association. "We were the hit of the show," Cooper says. Rollovers gained momentum during the early 2000s but fell out of favor during the boom years before the Great Recession, when credit was easily available.
Today, they're so popular that Rosen estimates 35 to 40 percent of all new franchisees recruited through his broker network last year tapped some or all of their retirement funds to get started. But if you're considering joining them, you should be aware that retirement rollovers aren't as simple as they sound. Obviously, you're putting your nest egg in jeopardy. Less obviously, you're also agreeing to pay a rollover plan provider an annual fee for the life of your business and, some tax experts warn, risking increased scrutiny from the Internal Revenue Service. Although not many rollover plans have been questioned until now, the IRS has signaled very strongly that it may begin looking at them more closely.
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The "long standing provision" behind these plans is ERISA, the extremely complicated and easy-to-violate Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, which enables employees to be responsible for their own retirement plans.
The three main administrators of rollover plans — SDCooper, Benetrends and Guidant Financial — have tweaked ERISA rules into a neat three-step program. You pay one of them a fee of about $5,000, and it'll do the rest: Move your current 401(k) or IRA (self-directed IRAs aren't eligible) into an ERISA profit-sharing plan, which then becomes the retirement plan for your new company. That plan buys up the stock of your new C corporation. Once the funds have transferred, they become tax-free capital for your business. In essence, you're spending the money on your own corporation instead of on stock in another company, such as General Electric or Goldman Sachs.
"You then open a corporate checking account," Cooper says, "and pay yourself back for whatever you've spent money on and pay our fees." Like the other providers, Cooper charges an annual fee — $800 to $1,440 a year — to file documents required by the IRS to make sure your new "retirement plan" remains safely qualified.
Because maintaining the plans is complicated and expensive, you may think that only people who have no other options for financing a business are using them. But a FRANdata survey of about 500 of Benetrends' 3,077 active clients shows that many of them are far from desperate. In fact, 89 percent of respondents have college or postgraduate degrees, and 60 percent of them used other sources in addition to retirement money to fund their businesses. Almost half of them were able to finance their investments by using only a portion of their retirement plans, and one-third tapped into only 10 to 30 percent of their assets.
Compliance is easy when starting out, when you're the only employee and the stock value is low. In the Benetrends survey, almost three-fourths of clients had only one to three employees. Of the rest, 14 percent employed seven or more, and 3 percent had 21 or more workers. Half of all clients' employees participated or planned to participate in their employers' retirement plans, and the IRS wants to make sure those plans are viable.
All the major plan promoters promise to help if you're audited; one even guarantees it will pay all fines and legal fees should the IRS rule against you. So far, the ROBS (Rollovers as Business Startups) in existence have drawn only a handful of IRS audits, and most of those ended well for the business owners, the plan providers say.
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Open Access Published by De Gruyter November 29, 2022
Functional genomics meets human genetics
Kerstin U. Ludwig and Malte Spielmann
From the journal Medizinische Genetik
https://doi.org/10.1515/medgen-2022-2160
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Functional genomics is a key emerging topic in human genetics. The aim of functional genomics is to identify the structure, properties, and function of genes and their regulatory elements, or that of any other genomic sequence with an intracellular functional role. The ultimate goal is to elucidate the function of all components of the (human) genome. Initially, functional genomics centered around efforts to (i) map genetic elements of different types, and (ii) functional "gene-by-gene" investigations. However, due to recent technological advances, in particular the introduction of array-based technologies and next-generation-sequencing (NGS), functional genomics has been extended towards the generation and integration of systematic data from genomic, epigenomic, and transcriptomic projects, with complementary expertise from the fields of computational data science and synthetic biology.
In parallel, the field of human genetics is also undergoing a fundamental transformation, since the identification of individual genetic variants has now become relatively routine, and can be performed on an unprecedented scale, with great speed and accuracy. Due to the ever decreasing cost of sequencing, within the context of human genetic research, the assessment of variants via whole genome sequencing (WGS) is increasing, and this is likely to transform the diagnostic process for genetic diseases in the foreseeable future. The challenge for the field is thus now shifting instead towards variant interpretation, a process which requires an understanding of the consequences of a given variant at the molecular, cellular, and organismal level. This is a challenging undertaking, since most candidate variants are rare and/or are located in regions whose molecular functions are poorly understood. To keep pace with the ever increasing number of identified variants, novel systematic high throughput functional approaches to interpretation are required. As outlined below, this issue describes the introduction of functional genomics into the field of human genetics in four key areas:
The majority of individual variants are located in non-coding regions of the human genome, which is unsurprising given that protein-coding gene sequences account for only a very small proportion of the total genomic space. In their article, Kircher & Ludwig provide insights into current efforts to annotate genetic variation in these non-coding regions, as well as strategies for functional follow-up. Increasingly, at-scale experimental and bioinformatic approaches are now being developed, not least as a result of the pressure to both understand the mechanisms of the large number of loci identified in genome-wide association studies of multifactorial diseases and to increase the diagnostic yield among patients with monogenic disease.
However, even in the case of a variant that resides in the coding region of a gene – a scenario in which interpretation is typically more straightforward – many variants are nonetheless classified as variants of uncertain significance (VUS), which limits both the diagnostic yield and the benefit to the patient. Typically, these variants have not been previously reported, are not listed in databases, and/or have conflicting data concerning their causative role. In their article, Dace and Findlay explain how saturation genome editing is a powerful tool for the generation of systematic variant-effect maps for all potential amino acid changes in established monogenic genes.
One major challenge in variant interpretation is the resolution at which phenotypic consequences can be monitored. The depth and type of the molecular read-outs are often insufficient in terms of capturing the functional effect of an individual variant. For example, the interpretability of expression data from bulk RNA-Seq is limited when the effect of a variant is subtle, or limited to a certain tissue or cell type. The introduction of single-cell sequencing now enables the detection of molecular consequences at an appropriate cellular resolution. In their article, Sreenivasan et al. provide an overview on this technology and its potential role in human genetics.
Finally, no man is an island, and this is particularly true for multicellular organisms, in which different cell types interact with one another during development, and in both normal and disease conditions. To capture the full phenotypic consequences of genetic variants, systematic studies must be performed within the context of complex cellular interactions, with the most systematic approach being the investigation of entire organisms. Using genetically mediated kidney disorders as an example, the article by Boettcher & Simons describes the opportunities and challenges of different model organisms in terms of the functional follow-up of causal variants, and in understanding their effect at the organismal level.
We hope that these four selected topics provide insights into how functional genomic approaches may influence human genetics in the years to come. Notably, this issue of the Medizinische Genetik complements a series of previous issues on the challenges and limitations of NGS (02/2019), the annotation of non-coding variants for clinical use (02/2021), and the modeling of genetic disorders in cellular systems (03/2021). We refer interested readers to those issues of the Medizinische Genetik for complementary information.
© 2022 the author(s), published by De Gruyter
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Ludwig, Kerstin U. and Spielmann, Malte. "Functional genomics meets human genetics" Medizinische Genetik, vol. 34, no. 4, 2022, pp. 259-260. https://doi.org/10.1515/medgen-2022-2160
Ludwig, K. & Spielmann, M. (2022). Functional genomics meets human genetics. Medizinische Genetik, 34(4), 259-260. https://doi.org/10.1515/medgen-2022-2160
Ludwig, K. and Spielmann, M. (2022) Functional genomics meets human genetics. Medizinische Genetik, Vol. 34 (Issue 4), pp. 259-260. https://doi.org/10.1515/medgen-2022-2160
Ludwig, Kerstin U. and Spielmann, Malte. "Functional genomics meets human genetics" Medizinische Genetik 34, no. 4 (2022): 259-260. https://doi.org/10.1515/medgen-2022-2160
Ludwig K, Spielmann M. Functional genomics meets human genetics. Medizinische Genetik. 2022;34(4): 259-260. https://doi.org/10.1515/medgen-2022-2160
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Finding snacks that are gluten free and paleo is always a challenge. Finding option when your on the go is always a hard but these bars do the trick. Wild Zora sent me a sample pack of their meat and veggie bars. Each bar was great!
The story with Wild Zora is that they wanted to make a product that lived up to their standard. Something substantial, savory and nutritious. If a complete meal contains meat and veggies they wanted a snack bar to do the same.
Bars come in three flavors including BBQ, Cheesy Parm and Spicy Cayenne Apricot. My favorite was the BBQ but they all are really good. You can buy them online in any quantify. Give them a try!
Have you ever walked down a city street and you pass a hot nut vendor? The smell fills the air with nutty sweet goodness and you crave a bag. Now imagine making it at home. I made the mistake of doing it at night in the slow cooker and kept getting out of bed to have a few more, the whole house smell amazing.
Star by heating butter and white sugar in a pot until melted. While butter is melting pre-heat slow cooker. Next, place nuts in slow cooker and pour butter mix on top. Stir together well then sprinkle in brown sugar,pumpkin spice and nutmeg. Stir well and cook on high for an hour leaving the lid partly open. Then add vanilla and cinnamon and stir again and continue to cook with no cover for about another 40 minutes. Remove mixture and pour onto large cookie sheet to cool over night. Store in air tight container.
I have to admit this recipe happened by accident but my cousin Leigh said that I had to post it so here it is.
2 Cans of Roasted and Salted Peanuts ( Each Can should be about 6 OZ and I found mine at the Dollar Store.
Crush Nuts in food processor. Place sugar and water in a pot and bring to a high simmer. You have to watch this not to boil over or burn. Simmer till it reduces by half and starts to brown. Please don't leave the stove while this is happening, it can take about 30 minutes. The liquid will be VERY HOT! Once liquid is thick and light brown pour in crushed peanuts. Stir fast trying mix it all together. Spread on a well oiled baking pan and break it up a bit. Once its cooled, break up into chunks by hand and place in large bowl.
Melt chocolate in double boiler or microwave. Pour melt chocolate in bowl with nut clusters and toss well. Spread back onto baking pan and cover with sprinkles. Let the tray cool in fridge for at least an hour and then enjoy :).


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Ever changing healthcare increasingly demands the medical community of more collaboration and teamwork to provide efficient and cost effective healthcare. Crescent cooperates with referral sources to provide quality healthcare through communication and education. We are your partner in the continuum of care for your patients who need post-acute care and chronic disease management. Upon referral, we facilitate the transition of patients for physicians, hospitals and skilled nursing & rehab facilities.
Effective communication with physicians and members of the patient's care team.
Ensuring accuracy of medical information during discharge from the facility.
Eliminating medication errors through medication reconciliation upon admission to home healthcare.
Crescent strives to reduce emergency room visits thru effective chronic disease management programs, thus improving patient satisfaction and outcomes and reduce staggering readmission costs. We work together across the care continuum to help manage chronically ill patients better at home and prevent unnecessary hospital readmissions.
We at Crescent understand the readmission penalties that hospitals are faced with. We want to be part of your post-acute care strategy. We are your advanced home healthcare ally in reducing preventable readmissions and making a difference for your patients and outcomes. We provide efficient transition, effective medication management and in-home multidisciplinary care to reduce hospital readmissions.


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Requesting Legacy Medical Records
All protected health information (PHI) requests must be received in writing at the Health Information Management (HIM) department at the hospital where the patient received care. You may request an Authorization for Release of PHI form from the individual hospital or you may simply make the request in a letter to the HIM department at the individual hospital by mail or fax; make sure to include a copy of your photo identification (ie, driver's license). Some of a patient's own test results are available through Health Records Online. The full records of deceased patients or full, legacy medical records of current or former patients, are available through a request to the Health Information Management department at one of our hospitals, below.
6900 North Durango Drive
Health Information Management department:
Note: We only except Continuity of Care and patient requests via fax. All other requests must be mailed.
Download the Authorization to Use and Disclose Protected Health Information Form >
2075 East Flamingo Road
1050 Galleria Drive
657 North Town Center Drive
620 Shadow Lane
Medical Records printed or photocopied for reasons other than continuity of care are subject to a copy fee (NRS 629.061). These include but are not limited to legal requests, investigative agencies, insurance companies, and patient personal use requests. If you have any questions, please contact the HIM Department of hospital where patient care was received.
In accordance with NRS 629.061.1, the following is the Valley Health System policy for requesting copies of medical records for a deceased patient:
HAND WRITTEN WILL: A hand written will is valid in Nevada if there is a sole beneficiary and it is signed and dated by the decedent. No witness or notary signature/stamp is required. It is assumed (and accepted) that the sole beneficiary is Executor. A non-interested third party must sign an affidavit stating that the signature of the decedent is authentic.
REGULAR WILL: This must state that the decedent was in sound mind, over 18 and not under duress at the time of the will's creating. It must be witnessed by two other people and notarized to be "self-proving" (i.e. valid).
SPECIAL LETTER OF ADMINISTRATION / ORDER FOR MEDICAL RECORDS: A special letter of administration can be issued by Probate specifically to authorize an individual to obtain the medical record of the decedent provided that there are no assets in the estate. This process has no cost and takes two days.
If there is no valid will, the petitioner must request a hearing with Probate to be named Executor. It generally takes 2-3 weeks from the time of the application to the actual hearing. You must contact the office of the Probate Court for additional information: District Court Probate Office, 601 North Pecos Road, Third Floor, Las Vegas, NV 89101. Phone: 702-455-2650, Fax: 702-455-5989.
Destruction of Health Care Records
Pursuant to Nevada Revised Statutes (NRS) 629.051:
The health care record of a person who is less than 23 years of age may not be destroyed.
The health care record of a person must be maintained for 5 years, after it has been received or created, unless federal law requires that it be retained for a longer period of time.
The health care record of a person who has reached the age of 23 years may be destroyed after 5 years from the date the record was received or created, unless federal law requires that it be retained for a longer period of time.


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Mount Sinai Launches Institute for Airway Sciences
Armand Butera
The newest venture from Mount Sinai is intended to build a pipeline of physician-scientists.
This week, Mount Sinai Health System and Icahn School of Medicine announced the launch of the Institute for Airway Sciences (IAS), a multidisciplinary institute intended to establish new therapies for patients with sinus, laryngotracheal airway, and lung diseases.
The institute is the first clinical and research collaborative of its kind in the US.
Under the guidance of Eric Genden, MD, MBA, Professor and System Chair of Otalaryngology, along with several clinical directors at Mount Sinai including Dr. Isidore Friesner and Dr. Charles Powell, the Institute for Airway Sciences will bring together a multidisciplinary group of researchers and clinicians to establish new goals for conquering airway diseases.
The institute will aid in the promotion of research and innovation of 4 resource cores including the Black Family Stem Cell Institute, the Department of Cell, Developmental and Regenerative Biology, the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, and the Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery.
To encourage innovative projects from medical students and residents in training as well as to build a pipeline of physician-scientists, the IAS will award pilot grants and user scholarships in addition to offering seminars and research-in-progress talks focused on airway science and various diseases that affect the airway.
"We wanted to develop a clinical and research hub solely dedicated to the airway—from the sinuses all the way down to the lungs," said Dennis S. Charney, MD, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Dean of Icahn Mount Sinai and President for Academic Affairs of the Mount Sinai Health System. "The researchers and clinicians involved in this collaboration bring profound expertise and talent in their respective areas and we look forward to bringing the Institute's mission and vision to life."
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Therapy Strategies for ILD in Rheumatoid Arthritis Shifted Over Time
Pneumonia Risk in Patients on DMARD, Glucocorticoid Therapy for Rheumatoid Arthritis


B09FC1F7-E367-4A66-B091-B2CAB190C4AE.jpegChronomat After reading lots of positive comments on rubber straps I thought I'd try mine.
Was at a christening today - perfect opportunity to wear this!
Still rockin the Bluesy, third consecutive day.
Nice beer and even nicer watch! Wish I could get Heady Topper down here, I've only ever had it once.
"The Secret of Life is to Enjoy It"


Follows the "Adventure" of a plantation owner in the Solomon islands. Be warned, quite a bit of racism, and it doesn't seem to have any underlying message about that being a bad thing. Definitely one of those books that is a product of its time.
He was a very sick white man. He rode pick-a-back on a woolly-headed, black-skinned savage, the lobes of whose ears had been pierced and stretched until one had torn out, while the other carried a circular block of carved wood three inches in diameter. The torn ear had been pierced again, but this time not so ambitiously, for the hole accommodated no more than a short clay pipe. The man-horse was greasy and dirty, and naked save for an exceedingly narrow and dirty loin-cloth; but the white man clung to him closely and desperately. At times, from weakness, his head drooped and rested on the woolly pate. At other times he lifted his head and stared with swimming eyes at the cocoanut palms that reeled and swung in the shimmering heat. He was clad in a thin undershirt and a strip of cotton cloth, that wrapped about his waist and descended to his knees. On his head was a battered Stetson, known to the trade as a Baden-Powell. About his middle was strapped a belt, which carried a large-calibred automatic pistol and several spare clips, loaded and ready for quick work. The rear was brought up by a black boy of fourteen or fifteen, who carried medicine bottles, a pail of hot water, and various other hospital appurtenances. They passed out of the compound through a small wicker gate, and went on under the blazing sun, winding about among new-planted cocoanuts that threw no shade. There was not a breath of wind, and the superheated, stagnant air was heavy with pestilence. From the direction they were going arose a wild clamour, as of lost souls wailing and of men in torment. A long, low shed showed ahead, grass-walled and grass-thatched, and it was from here that the noise proceeded. There were shrieks and screams, some unmistakably of grief, others unmistakably of unendurable pain. As the white man drew closer he could hear a low and continuous moaning and groaning. He shuddered at the thought of entering, and for a moment was quite certain that he was going to faint. For that most dreaded of Solomon Island scourges, dysentery, had struck Berande plantation, and he was all alone to cope with it. Also, he was afflicted himself.
By stooping close, still on man-back, he managed to pass through the low doorway. He took a small bottle from his follower, and sniffed strong ammonia to clear his senses for the ordeal. Then he shouted, "Shut up!" and the clamour stilled. A raised platform of forest slabs, six feet wide, with a slight pitch, extended the full length of the shed. Alongside of it was a yard-wide run-way. Stretched on the platform, side by side and crowded close, lay a score of blacks. That they were low in the order of human life was apparent at a glance. They were man-eaters. Their faces were asymmetrical, bestial; their bodies were ugly and ape-like. They wore nose-rings of clam-shell and turtle-shell, and from the ends of their noses which were also pierced, projected horns of beads strung on stiff wire. Their ears were pierced and distended to accommodate wooden plugs and sticks, pipes, and all manner of barbaric ornaments. Their faces and bodies were tattooed or scarred in hideous designs. In their sickness they wore no clothing, not even loin-cloths, though they retained their shell armlets, their bead necklaces, and their leather belts, between which and the skin were thrust naked knives. The bodies of many were covered with horrible sores. Swarms of flies rose and settled, or flew back and forth in clouds.
With the automatic swiftness of a wild animal the black gathered himself to spring. The anger of a wild animal was in his eyes; but he saw the white man's hand dropping to the pistol in his belt. The spring was never made. The tensed body relaxed, and the black, stooping over the corpse, helped carry it out. This time there was no muttering.
"Swine!" the white man gritted out through his teeth at the whole breed of Solomon Islanders.
He was very sick, this white man, as sick as the black men who lay helpless about him, and whom he attended. He never knew, each time he entered the festering shambles, whether or not he would be able to complete the round. But he did know in large degree of certainty that, if he ever fainted there in the midst of the blacks, those who were able would be at his throat like ravening wolves.


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Brian David Robinson, creator of Kid Kulinaire, and Jhon Benavides, founder of JB Studios, have teamed up to take Kid Kulinaire to the next step with our newest program, Kid Fun Fit™.
We are proud to announce that Kid Kulinaire is launching the first Kid Fun Fit™ children's fitness classes and Multicultural Martial Arts™ kids' classes at JB Dance and Fitness Studios in Orlando, Florida (http://www.jbdancefitness.com) starting November 4th at 5pm. Class times and dates will be updated monthly at both Kid Kulinaire and JB Studios. Our Kid Fun Fit™ program launch is the first of many to come as we continue to spread our brand throughout the nation. All children's programs include free memberships to KidKulinaire.com.
Brian David Robinson has trained in several styles of martial arts and has a Master ranking. He will be personally involved in the classes to ensure success with the program. The Multicultural Martial Arts™ kids' classes has the love and support of the Silent Dragon System with Grand Master Mike P. Glynn, Black Lotus Martial Arts Association, and Black Dragons with Shihan Don Miskel.
Jhon Benavides has been in the fitness industry for over 20 years and brings extensive experience in Latin dance and fitness training. Originally from Bogota, Columbia, Jhon believes in approaching the body as a whole; focusing not only on improving the physical condition of their members, but also the mental well-being. In addition, Jhon will provide the necessary tools to develop healthy lifestyles and strive to make a difference in kids' lives; enabling them to become happier and feel better about themselves.
JB Studios Dance and Fitness provides lifestyle coaching and was created to help improve both the physical and mental quality of life of their members through dance and exercise in a fun, educational, and professional environment. The focus is on youth development and a healthy family lifestyle, while encouraging a philosophy of honesty, respect, fairness, and passion.
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Brass Water Gauge Protectors, a matching pair recovered from ex LMS locomotives in Scotland in 1963. Together with a Locomotive Smokebox Door Self Cleaning Plate showing 'SC'. Cast iron construction, clean ex loco condition.


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Do Christians GO TO HEAVEN when they die? Are there really "MANSIONS IN THE SKY" waiting for you? Read the surprising PLAIN TRUTH about these vital questions in your own Bible!
"Going to be with the Lord," it is said of dead churchgoing people today. Is this literally true? Do people really GO TO HEAVEN when they die?
Men have puzzled over the perplexing question of what happens after death for many, many centuries!
It has been somehow inconceivable to man, from his earliest beginnings, that death should end everything. Today, the modem world is divided into many major religions, each in its own turn being divided into many hundreds and even thousands of lesser sects and denominations.
The ancestor-worshippers of the Oriental family believe in a life after death with one's own relatives. The Moslems visualize an eternity in beautiful desert oases, surrounded by babbling waters and dancing girls. Different schisms of Hinduism believe in attaining to a state of "great nothingness" in "Nirvana."
Professing Christianity believes in going to "heaven." Either immediately at death, during the millennium, or at some other time.
Everywhere, there is the HOPE of a life after death — of an eternal REWARD. But nowhere, it seems, is there any agreement on WHERE THAT LIFE WILL BE SPENT!
You don't need to be in confusion — you don't have to guess at the outcome of such a fantastically important question! There is an infallibly accurate, factual, thoroughly proved SOURCE to which you can go!
That source is YOUR OWN BIBLE! The Bible stands PROVED to be the inspired book of Almighty God — His written revelation to man. Paul wrote, "All scripture is given by inspiration of God [is God-breathed), and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness" (II Timothy 3:16). Peter wrote, "For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Spirit" (II Pet. 1:21).
You need to know you can rely on the Bible! You need to know you can TRUST it. You need to know you can put your FAITH in what it plainly says, and reject "feelings" of your own. You need to KNOW you can trust the Bible instead of the teachings of MEN, the assumptions of relatives, or a death-bed vision of a dying loved one!
If you are one who has always just assumed the Bible is true, but have never seen it infallibly demonstrated, then read our booklet The Proof Of The Bible!
Every error is based upon a false premise just carelessly TAKEN FOR GRANTED. Most professing Christians have just TAKEN FOR GRANTED "heaven" is the reward of the saved! They have never gotten around to PROVING whether or not this is so from the Bible — but have taken it for granted!
Think for a moment! How many sermons can you recall attempting to PROVE heaven is the destiny of Christians? Probably you can recall MANY where heaven was mentioned, was contrasted to a supposed ever-burning hell, or was described. Probably, you have heard many hundreds of references to heaven as the final reward! But did you ever hear a sermon that PROVED it from God's own Word, the Bible?
Because IT CAN'T BE PROVED!
This doctrine — just like perhaps many others people "hold dear" — is merely ASSUMED by most professing Christianity. It is "par for the course," it is a common, unquestioned, basic assumption that is carelessly taken for granted!
You need to quit assuming! You need to see it PROVED, one way or the other! You need to KNOW the truth — and to KNOW that you know, not just carelessly assume certain points to be true.
Surely you know you can't afford to let preconceived ideas, the concepts of others around you, bias or prejudice, keep you chained with bonds of ignorance.
Remember — the TRUTH of. God can be proved — it can stand on its own feet! God's precious TRUTH does not need lever "catch phrases" or plays upon words to sustain it. It alone stands the test of ALL searching of Scripture — of open-minded, earnest SEEKING for the truth! "SEEK, and ye shall find," promised your Savior!
Jesus talked, as recorded in the inspired Word of God, of a coming resurrection. He said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live" (John 5:25). He went on to talk of those who were still in their graves at the time of the second coming of Christ, "Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation ("judgment," margin)" (John 5:28-29).
Very PLAIN, isn't it? Jesus said the hour was coming — very plainly referring to a yet future GENERAL RESURRECTION. He also referred to the resurrection of Lazarus and others in the New Testament when He said, "and now is." Reading on into the 11th chapter, you read of this miraculous forerunner of the great resurrection at the end of the age.
Later, Jesus said, "... and every one which seeth the Son, and befieveth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day" (John 6:40). Read the exact TIME of the resurrection in your Bible! "No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I WILL RAISE HIM UP AT THE LAST DAY" (John 6:44).
But what a PERPLEXING DILEMMA!
If Christians GO TO HEAVEN IMMEDIATELY WHEN THEY DIE — IF they are ALREADY in heaven, where they have been living in beautiful mansions for hundreds or even thousands of years — WHY BOTHER WITH A RESURRECTION?
If they have been released from this sin-sick world, from their old, worn-out, disease-ridden, corruptible bodies, and if they have been WITH Jesus Christ IN heaven — why would Jesus take them OUT of heaven, bring them back to earth, plunge them BACK INTO their graves, and then go to the fantastic, laborious effort of RESURRECTING THEM?
Isn't this a little difficult to believe? Does it really make sense?
SHOCKING though it may sound — the Jesus Christ of your Bible never promised heaven as the reward of the saved! He promised something entirely different!
Let's notice, FIRST OF ALL, the most often-quoted scriptures used by deluded men to preach the ancient, pagan doctrine of "going to heaven."
Perhaps you, like hundreds of thou-'sands of others, have supposed Jesus said plainly, in the "sermon on the mount" that Christians go to heaven when they die. But He didn't!
Let's turn to this beautiful portion of the Bible, the very heart and core of REAL Christianity — and see just what Jesus did say.
"Blessed are the poor in spirit," said Jesus, "for theirs is the KINGDOM OF HEAVEN" (Matt. 5:3). "Why, doesn't that SAY He promised heaven?" you might ask. No, it doesn't!
What if Jesus had said, "for theirs is the Bank OF Morgan"? DOES THIS MEAN He promised the money, and the stocks, bonds, securities, the wealth of the bank which is IN — INSIDE OF — Morgan? Why, of course, this would be ridiculous! Notice the proof right in the same section. "Blessed are the MEEK," said Jesus two verses later, "for THEY shall INHERIT THE EARTH" (Matt. 5:5).
Does this mean the "poor in spirit" (which merely means those who are truly HUMBLE) are to go to HEAVEN, while those possessing a very similar attribute of Christian character, that of MEEKNESS, are to stay here on earth?
No! It means just what it says —that overcomers are to inherit the earth — the kingdom OF heaven — not the kingdom IN heaven!
But what about the time-honored songs, the hopes of millions, the cherished "Christian traditions" of the "homes above" that so many have talked about, sung about, written about, all down through these years?
Turn to this scripture. You read it in John, the 14th chapter. "In my Father's house are many mansions [margin, "abodes"): if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And IF I GO and prepare a PLACE for you, I WILL COME AGAIN, and receive you unto myself, that where I am, there YE MAY BE ALSO" (John 14:2-3).
Notice it — NOWHERE DID JESUS SAY SAINTS GO TO HEAVEN! He said, rather, there are PLACES, HABITATIONS, ABODES, MANSIONS, RESIDENCES which HE IS PREPARING. These "places" are NOW "IN" HEAVEN. But Jesus went on to say, "I will COME AGAIN." Come where? To THIS EARTH, as Jesus repeated so many times. He also said, "that where I AM, there ye may be also" (verse 3).
If Jesus COMES AGAIN TO THIS EARTH — then He will BE ON THIS EARTH! The EARTH, and a definite, specific location ON the earth, will be where Jesus said He is going to BE. If we are to BE WITH HIM where He is to BE — then we, also, are going to BE ON THIS EARTH!
What are the different "mansions" or places Jesus is now busily preparing? Read Luke 19! Jesus likened Himself to a young nobleman, who went on a long journey into a distant land to qualify to RULE A KINGDOM. At His return, He demanded an accounting from His servants. He then apportioned different responsibilities to them, according to how much they had overcome!
Jesus said Abraham, Isaac and Jacob will be in the Kingdom of God here on this earth, and revealed the twelve disciples will rule over the twelve tribes of Israel!
David referred to being a "doorkeeper" in God's Kingdom as being better than the highest offices here on this earth.
Jesus promises RULERSHIP over nations (Rev. 2:26) and offices of KINGS AND PRIESTS in His Kingdom!
There are different PLACES, different ABODES, different OFFICES and POSITIONS in God's soon-coming Kingdom, for which individuals must qualify! That is what Christ is doing NOW! He is, working through His Church, preparing individuals for official positions in God's Kingdom! He is putting certain humans through experiences which will better fit them for a certain PLACE in the Government of God!
How vastly misunderstood has been this important scripture!
Notice plain truth of your Bible. "Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee..." (Zech. 14:1). Then follows a graphic description of the accompanying SIGNS of the second coming of Jesus Christ! Be sure you read every word in your own Bible. Now notice verse four. "And his feet shall stand IN THAT DAY upon the mount of Olive?' (Zech. 14:4).
Yes — it is called the SECOND COMING of Christ. His second arrival. He is COMING again! And He will arrive HERE, on this earth!
The very first message God ever sent back to this earth after the departure of Jesus to heaven is recorded in Acts the first chapter. The disciples were looking up into the skies, where they saw Jesus disappear into a cloud (verse 9). "And, while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up FROM you into heaven, SHALL so COME [RETURN TO THIS EARTH] IN LIKE MANNER AS YE HAVE SEEN HIM GO INTO HEAVEN" (Acts 1:10-11).
Yes, Christ is to COME AGAIN to this EARTH!
Now, for another surprise, turn to the well-known scripture found in I Thessalonians the 4th chapter. "For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep [ARE DEAD — NOT OFF IN HEAVEN] in Jesus will God bring with him. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent [precede] them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall DESCEND [come DOWN OUT OF] from [which means "away out of heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ SHALL RISE FIRST."
No mention here of saints coming from heaven — but of DEAD saints RISING FIRST BEFORE THE LIVING ARE CHANGED!
"Then we which are alive and remain shall be CAUGHT UP together with them in the CLOUDS, to MEET the Lord IN THE AIR: and so shall we ever be WITH THE LORD" (I Thes. 4:14-17).
Jesus is returning from heaven. The dead and living saints are to be caught up — NOT TO HEAVEN — BUT INTO THE AIR, INTO THE CLOUDS! This earth is composed of three "spheres," according to the sciences. The "lithosphere" or the solid earth, the "hydrosphere" or all the water on earth, and the "atmosphere." Each is a PART OF THE EARTH. The AIR, or the atmosphere, is as much peculiar to THIS EARTH as is the water, the rocks, and everything else on it.
Simply scoffing at the real meaning of these plain scriptures will NOT CHANGE them. Not WANTING to 'believe' the precious, glorious, PLAIN TRUTH of the Bible will not do away with it!
What you are reading in this article is directly from the sacred Word of God. Perhaps it sounds NEW — different to you from what you may have always assumed or taken for granted!
You may have a natural, human tendency to want to cling to previous convictions — or what you have always heard.
Are you one who really zealously desires the TRUTH of God? If you are — you'll be looking up these scriptures IN YOUR BIBLE. You'll be reading the passages before and after them and any other related scriptures. You'll be striving to PROVE these things — however strange they may seem to you — and prove them from the Bible. Again we say — DON'T BELIEVE MEN. Don't believe this article UNLESS you check up and see it proved!
This article is not written to ridicule, or try to prejudice your mind against a doctrine. Rather, it is written to point out to you where you may find the TRUTH of God on this very important question! May God help you to remove bias, to get your ideas in subjection to God's truth — and to BELIEVE what you see clearly PROVED!
Remember, Jesus is coming to earth from heaven, as we have seen so plainly. He is returning after being away. He is coming back after a long absence.
If YOU had been away on a LONG JOURNEY, of many thousands of miles, into a foreign country, and were going to return — and you wanted your family to MEET you, what would they do?
Would your ship near the harbor, and then your family jump aboard the pilot boat, board your vessel, and all of you then GO BACK TO THE FOREIGN COUNTRY FROM WHICH YOU CAME?
We are to MEET Christ as He RETURNS! And NOWHERE DOES YOUR BIBLE SAY WE WILL THEN GO BACK TO HEAVEN WITH HIM!
Paul wrote to the Thessalonians, "... ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God; and to wait for his Son FROM heaven, whom he raised from the dead..." (I Thes. 1:9-10).
He is coming here, and we are to go part way — only as high as the clouds — to meet Him, and then to come right down to this earth with Him!
"So shall we ever be WITH THE LORD," says your Bible. But where will the Lord be? ON THIS EARTH!
"But didn't the thief on the cross go immediately with Jesus to heaven?" some might ask.
And it's a good question! What about the promise Jesus apparently made to one of the malefactors who was dying beside Him?
Notice! The very same ones who believe the thief on the cross WENT INTO PARADISE WITH JESUS IMMEDIATELY AFTER DEATH ALSO BELIEVE JESUS DID NOT GO TO PARADISE, BUT WENT IMMEDIATELY INTO HELL TO PREACH TO DEPARTED "SPIRITS"!
Many assume Jesus did not die on the cross!
He said He was DEAD (Rev. 1:18). Unless He DIED for our sins, we cannot be reconciled to God! And yet — many assume Jesus was alive during the time in the tomb, but alive down in HELL, supposedly busily "preaching" to some departed souls!
If Jesus promised immediate entry into PARADISE to the thief, and then spent time in HELL, AFTER which He appeared again on earth, and said to Mary, "TOUCH ME NOT, for I am not yet ascended to my Father..." (John 20:17) and did not have the thief with Him — then did Jesus LIE?
No, Jesus did not lie — neither did He go into a burning HELL — but into "hades" which NEVER, by the wildest stretch of the imagination, has anything whatsoever to do with infernal fires, but means, simply, "the GRAVE." Check ANY reliable concordance, commentary, or lexicon for proof of this.
Jesus was DEAD for THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS (Matt. 12:40). He DID NOT GO THAT VERY DAY TO PARADISE — as He, Himself, later said plainly! Then what happened?
Notice it! The Greek language never included separation of chapter, verse, or punctuation marks, as commonly used in the English language today. Rather, it was written without any paragraphing, or punctuation. It was not divided into verses and chapters, as it appears in our English Bibles today, until many hundreds of years after the New Testament was written!
Notice how the whole meaning of certain sentences in the English language can be changed by merely changing the punctuation marks!
John might ask, "What's that up in the road, ahead?" And it may sound as if he were asking if he saw a HEAD, the head of a human or an animal, in the road. But if you put the comma in the correct location, the sentence would read thusly: "What's that, up in the road ahead?" and it would make sense.
Now turn to Luke 23:43. Read it carefully. Jesus APPEARS to have said, by the placement of the comma in the English version, "TODAY SHALT THOU BE WITH ME IN PARADISE." And yet Jesus KNEW He was not going to enter into Paradise ON THAT DAY — or for the next THREE OR FOUR DAYS!
Now put the comma where it BELONGS, to preserve the sense of this scripture as proved by all other scriptures on the subject (remember, the Bible interprets itself). "And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto you today, THOU SHALT BE WITH ME IN PARADISE!" Jesus said it THAT DAY, and promised the thief WOULD BE in paradise — but He most certainly DID NOT promise paradise to the thief that very day!
If this could have been true, Jesus not only lied, but made an exception to all others, and became a respecter of persons. Also, He said He is the SAME through all ages (Heb. 13:8) and does not change!
"Paradise" is commonly assumed to mean "heaven"! But again simply because this is assumed, and carelessly taken for granted does not make it so! The "paradise" will be on this earth!
NOTICE WHAT THE THIEF ASKED!
"And he said unto Jesus, Lord remember me WHEN THOU COMEST [RETURNS TO THIS LITERAL EARTH HERE BELOW] INTO THY KINGDOM."
Notice some conclusive scriptures. In the mysterious vision seen by Nebuchadnezzar, and interpreted by God through Daniel, it is revealed the Kingdom of God will be ON EARTH!
Read the entire 2nd chapter of Daniel. "Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth" (verse 35).
Now notice the INTERPRETATION of the dream in verse 44. "And in the days of these kings [shown by the ten toes, which were smashed by the Stone from heaven) shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever."
God repeatedly uses the type of a mountain as a symbol of a nation or a kingdom. The Kingdom, or the Nation, of GOD will consume, destroy, supersede all these worldly kingdoms — and will RULE them ON THIS EARTH!
Describing the events surrounding Christ's return, and the setting up of His world rule, Isaiah was inspired to write, "And it shall come to pass, in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
"And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for OUT OF ZION [on this EARTH] shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from JERUSALEM [on THIS EARTH)" (Isa. 2:2-3). Micah was inspired to write the same thing in his 4th chapter.
Read each of these other vital scriptures! "... When the Lord of hosts shall reign IN MOUNT ZION, and IN JERUSALEM, and before his ancients gloriously" (Isa. 24:23). "Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will raise unto David a righteous BRANCH, and a KING shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice IN THE EARTH. In his days JUDAH shall be saved..." (Jer. 23:5-6). This PROVES this scripture is for the future, and refers directly to the SECOND coming of Christ, since it describes the salvation of the JEWS — a yet future event!
"The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining. The Lord also shall roar OUT OF ZION, and utter his voice FROM JERUSALEM... So shall ye know that I am the Lord your God, DWELLING IN ZION, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be HOLY" (Joel 3:15-17).
"... for the Lord dwelleth IN ZION" (Joel 3:21).
"And I will make her that halted a remnant, and her that was cast far off a strong nation: and the Lord shall reign Dyer them IN MOUNT ZION from henceforth, even FOR EVER" (Micah 4:7).
"Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion: for lo, I COME, and I will DWELL IN THE MIDST OF THEE, saith the Lord" (tech. 2:10).
Is this enough? God says OVER AND OVER AGAIN that Christ is coming TO THIS EARTH! David is to be resurrected (Ezek. 34:23; 37:24) to be KING over Israel, ruling under Christ.
Think of it! David, a man after God's own heart, "IS NOT ASCENDED INTO THE HEAVENS" (Acts 2:34) but is dead today — awaiting a glorious resurrection to RULERSHIP with His Lord!
These are only a few of the plain scriptures showing Christ is to reign on this earth!
You can only be saved by the LIFE of Christ (Rom. 5:10) after having been reconciled to God by His death (same verse). But after God's loving PARDON for your past sins — there is something you can EARN, believe it or not!
Jesus said, "To him that OVERCOMETH will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also OVERCAME, and am set down with my Father in his throne" (Rev. 3:21).
Overcoming means GROWING in grace and knowledge (II Peter 3:18). It means growing in ability, in stature and character — becoming more and more LIKE CHRIST! "Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ" (Eph. 4:13).
When we have clearly demonstrated Our OBEDIENCE to God — our FAITHFULNESS to His authority, His RULE, His GOVERNMENT in our lives — HE WILL THEN APPORTION POSITIONS OF GOVERNMENT TO US!
"Then came the first, saying, Lord, thy pound hath gained ten pounds. And he said unto him, Well, thou good servant: because thou hast been faithful in a very little, have thou AUTHORITY over ten cities" (Luke 19:16-17).
Yes, Jesus PROMISES A BUSY ETERNITY! He promises RULERSHIP over His world! He guarantees an active, busy, constructive, scintillating, interesting, absorbing, satisfying, happy eternity of RESPONSIBILITY — of worm!
Think of it! INSTEAD of a lazy, BORING, INTERMINABLE, EMPTY ETERNITY ON A CLOUD — NOTHING TO DO JESUS SAID, "And he that overcometh and keepeth MY WORKS unto the end, to him will I give POWER OVER THE NATIONS [ON THIS EARTH]: and he shall RULE them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father" (Rev. 2:26-27).
The saints are to REIGN ON THIS EARTH (Rev. 5:10). They are to be kings and priests of God for ONE THOUSAND YEARS — RIGHT HERE ON THIS EARTH (Rev. 20:4).
What a tremendous opportunity! What a GLORIOUS hope! Notice it WE ARE NOT GOING TO GOD IN HEAVEN — GOD IS COMING HERE!
"And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, COMING DOWN FROM GOD OUT of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is WITH MEN, and HE WILL DWELL WITH THEM and they shall be his people, and God himself shall Be WITH them, and be their God" (Rev. 21:1-3).
How PLAIN it is! No amount of "rationalization" or of arguing, or of merely "supposing" can change these plain, straightforward truths of YOUR OWN BIBLE!
You need to KNOW the wonderful reward God promises those truly living lives of overcoming — and you need to be STRIVING to enter into His glorious Kingdom that is going to be set up HERE ON THIS EARTH!


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Frank Moon - The Kingdom of Back
Frank Moon in the Sound Designer for the Northern Ballet's 'The Kingdom of Back'.
Celebrated choreographer Morgann Runacre-Temple presents an intimate and moving portrait of Nannerl Mozart, the talented yet overshadowed sister of Wolfgang Mozart, in her first work for Northern Ballet, The Kingdom of Back.
Nannerl began life as the apple of her father's eye - an accomplished musician in her own right but forced to give up on her dreams. Runacre-Temple's stirring new work is inspired by letters from the Mozart family. Funny, irreverent and sometimes shocking, they give us a unique glimpse into the passions and desires of a remarkable woman born ahead of her time.
This piece imagines a character in the shadows, stuck forever in her 'Kingdom of Back' - the imaginary childhood world of the Mozart siblings - as her brother begins his journey towards immortality.
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