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Aurelia Read Spencer Rogers
Peter Howard McBride
Question: What organization was created in the Church because Aurelia Read Spencer Rogers suggested the Church start an organization for children?
Answer: Aurelia Read Spencer was born on October 4, 1834 in Deep River, Middlesex, Connecticut to Orson Spencer and Catherine Curtis. The family moved to Saybrook, Connecticut where Orson started his ministry as a Baptist Minister. In a very short time he gained the respect and admiration of many as his ministry. He supported his family quite comfortably.
In the year 1840, a most unexpected turn in the lives of him and his family occurred when Orson's brother, Daniel, came to visit with astonishing news. He had found the one and only true gospel of salvation, had joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and was eager to share it. After much study and contemplation of what joining the Church would mean to them and their family, Orson and Catherine made the decision to be baptized. At this time Orson and Catherine had five living children, including six-year-old Aurelia.
Aurelia wrote, "The next consideration was how to gather with the Saints who were then settling in Nauvoo, Illinois. Father must give up his means of making a livelihood, meet the scorn and derision of old friends, etc. But once convinced that he was right nothing could turn him from his purpose.'
Consequently, Orson, Hyrum and Daniel, took the steps necessary to move their families to Nauvoo, Illinois, where they could gather with the Saints. They arrived there on Saturday, September 4, 1841. Here they lived for about five years, where Orson was involved in the many things occurring in Nauvoo at that time, including the building of the Nauvoo Temple. Here also, two more daughters, Lucy (1842) and Chloe (1844) were born. Chloe died in September 1845.
In February 1846, more than three thousand Latter-day Saints fled Nauvoo, crossing the Mississippi River into Iowa. One of those Saints was Aurelia Spencer. When her family had traveled only thirty miles, Aurelia's mother died. The grieving family returned to Nauvoo to bury her before continuing their journey west. She was buried by the side of her youngest child, Chloe, who had died about six months before. Her first child had died at age two in Connecticut.
Excerpts from Aurelia's Story from The Friend Magazine 2001)
Aurelia stood on the bank of the Mississippi River and looked back across it. Never before in her eleven-and-a-half years had she been west of the wide river, and now here she was in Iowa. She shivered in the February cold and tucked one hand into her coat. With the other, she held George's hand. He was only six and was her responsibility. Ellen, thirteen, and nine-year-old Catherine walked ahead with seven-year-old Howard; little Lucy rode in the wagon with Mama, who was still very sick. But Aurelia and George stood and looked back across the river to Nauvoo.
Nauvoo! How could they bear to leave their beautiful home? All was cold and gray across the river, but Aurelia remembered how the city had looked when she first saw it. It was already a bustling, growing city when the Spencer family arrived…Her family had rented a room until Papa could build a house for them. He had chosen a lot on a hill above the town, a little northeast of where the temple was being built. Their lot, like most in Nauvoo, was big enough to plant a large garden and some fruit trees…But the Prophet Joseph was dead, and soon his beautiful city would be deserted.
George had been too young to remember the first time he and Aurelia met the Prophet. Aurelia remembered it clearly. She had met a real, living prophet! He had come to their home to visit, and he limped very slightly when he walked, just like Papa! Papa told her later it was caused by the same illness that had caused his limp—typhus fever, which had settled in his leg.
Lucy was born there, and when Joseph saw her, he exclaimed, "Oh, what a little black head!' Even as a baby, Lucy's hair was thick and dark. Joseph had laid his hand on Lucy's head and blessed her. Aurelia had loved the Prophet from that moment. He was God's own prophet and the most important man in Nauvoo, yet he loved little children.
Aurelia shivered as she remembered the terrible day two years later, when Joseph and his brother Hyrum were killed by a mob in the nearby town of Carthage. Aurelia could scarcely believe that anyone could be so wicked as to kill a kind man like the Prophet. Aurelia's Papa had taken her to the Mansion House to see Joseph's body. A great crowd was there, all crying and crowding to look. Aurelia couldn't see, so Papa had lifted her up to the window from where she could see Brother Joseph one last time. That had been nearly two years ago.
Aurelia squeezed George's hand and pointed to show him the temple across the river. Even on this cold, gray day, the tall building seemed to shine on the hill…Just two months ago, Mama and Papa had gone to the temple to be sealed together. Mama said that was the hardest part of leaving Nauvoo—leaving the temple they'd worked so hard to build. Aurelia murmured, "Farewell, Nauvoo,' and turned with George to face the west. It would be a long journey to the Rockies, but she had her family and the true gospel. She was ready.
Aurelia's father, Orson, was called to preside over the Church in Great Britain, so Aurelia, her three sisters, and her two brothers spent the next winters in Winter Quarters with only kind neighbors to keep an eye on them. The children left for the Salt Lake Valley in May 1848 with President Brigham Young's company. In the Valley, they lived in a log room their uncle built for them, until their father's return.
In 1851 Aurelia married Thomas Rogers. They settled in Farmington, sixteen miles north of Salt Lake City. There Aurelia gave birth to twelve children, only seven of whom lived to adulthood.
In Farmington, Utah, many years ago, Bishop John W. Hess was concerned about the behavior of the children in his ward. He called the mothers of the ward together and talked about the importance of guiding the minds of young children. Aurelia Spencer Rogers listened, and then discussed it with Eliza R. Snow, who visited Farmington in 1878. Sister Snow in turn met with Church President John Taylor, who authorized Bishop Hess to form an organization for children in his ward. The Farmington Ward Primary Association was formally organized on August 11, 1878, with Sister Rogers as president.
Aurelia died at age 87 on August 25, 1922, in Farmington, Davis, Utah, and was buried in the Salt Lake City Cemetery.
Source: FamilySearch.org, Primary Celebrates 135 years; Friend Magazine, 2001; Orson Spencer (1802-1855), Written by Elaine Spencer Smith from Aurelia Spencer Rogers' "Life Sketches' and Seymour Spencer's "Life Summary of Orson Spencer;' FindAGrave.com.
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Now that you know some of the secrets of taking spectacular shots, it's time to amaze your family and friends with your new and improved talent. With a little bit of time and effort, you might soon become an expert in the field and be able to make a living taking photographs for other people!
Creating a breath-taking photograph of a person doesn't just mean taking a portrait of their face. The human body contains a lot of breathtaking parts that make great subjects for photographs.


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As a concrete therapist with acknowledgment to assorted cultural backgrounds, I abandoned accept alloyed animosity about medical cannabis. As a healthcare able however, it is absolutely an epiphany to attestant one of my patient's cogent change with medical cannabis use.
For over 5 years, Mr. J.L. has been advancing to me for concrete analysis analysis off and on for problems brought on by his Parkinson's disease. Alive the accelerating attributes of the disease, I watched this affable body accord with the furnishings of this debilitating affliction. His primary physician would accredit him for analysis if he starts to advance weakness, rigidity, tremors and a lot of of all, antithesis problems breadth he appear avalanche at home.
We would see him for a aeon of about six to eight weeks anniversary time. We formed on convalescent his coordination, strength, adaptability and antithesis for the primary purpose of befitting him safe and cocky acceptable at home as he lives alone. It is aswell to accumulate from falling which predisposes him to added astringent injuries and complications.
About a few weeks ago, he came to the appointment to agenda for Concrete Analysis as he was referred afresh by his doctor. Accepting formed with this accommodating through the years, I was aggravating to bulk out what afflicted in him. I looked, and empiric attentively as I did my antecedent evaluation. He may accept noticed the concern that was acrimonious me because he gave me a alive smile. No best able to accommodate my curiosity, I asked him: "Mr. J, what accept you been up to?" Mr. J just laughed and asked me why the curiosity!
Well, it assuredly dawned on me that Mr. J. about had no tremors on his adapted duke breadth he acclimated to display the archetypal pin-rolling tremors of this disease. His close was accumbent and was not confused appear the adapted side. Furthermore, his accent was clearer! Addition affair that addled me was that he was walking better. Not great, but he was able to about-face about afterwards accepting to annoyance which I accept apparent him do for years.
He assuredly aggregate with me that he started demography medical cannabis for over a ages as recommended by his neurologist. A acquaintance of his allegedly mentioned to him a video on Facebook about a man with astringent Parkinson's disease. This man accustomed a attack of medical cannabis and the change was arresting afterwards abandoned a few minutes. This allegedly prompted him to argue with his primary physician and afresh his neurologist.
The change I accept apparent with Mr. J afterwards abandoned over a ages of accepting on medical cannabis is significant. His accent improved. His articulation added and added audible. He had no abashed and he had added ascendancy of his adapted duke from about a non-existent tremor. He is aswell continuing straighter. His antithesis and allocation accept improved, even added so with the avant-garde antithesis retraining he is currently receiving.
During his analysis sessions, Mr. J could animation a brawl on the attic faster with bigger accuracy. We saw him bandy and bolt a brawl in continuing afterwards anyone captivation on to him. We acclimated to accept somebody angle abaft and authority him as he had apathetic reactions and automatic responses. His walking aswell improved. Just months ago, he would annoyance his adapted bottom and absolved with actual abbreviate ambiguity steps. He would lose his antithesis with the aboriginal attack to about-face about or lift his leg college to angle on one leg.
These acutely attenuate changes in him for just about over a ages of application medical cannabis has fabricated a aberration in his life. He aggregate that he feels added airy and is beneath afraid about falling. He can do simple abode affairs with added aplomb and he is able to abide added avant-garde ameliorative contest during his concrete analysis sessions. He does not feel as annoyed and is able to do added tasks throughout the day.
Mr. J is still on this adventure and capital to allotment this acquaintance and for me to acquaint his story. Alive him and his background, he is not the blazon of accepting who would yield marijuana indiscriminately for simple amusement and cocky indulgence.
Mr. J is originally from Central New York and has confused to Florida. He was diagnosed with Parkinson's Ache about seven (7) years ago. He acclimated to be a artist for a actual celebrated Syracuse China architect whose barter cover the White House, 5 brilliant hotels and celebrated restaurants. He aswell was a affiliate of a Barber Shop Quartet as a tenor for the SPEBSQSA (Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America) and has been on several abecedarian Broadway shows in New York. He was an art abecedary to average academy acceptance teaching drawing.
His activity afflicted if he was alleged to admiral ancient in 1986. He became complex with a healing admiral which he appear was mostly with humans who had tumors. He has catholic away to aggrandize his healing ministry. This has garnered so abundant absorption that even the media noticed and did several advantage on his ministry. He is now retired and lives in Palm Bay Florida.
It is a advantage to apperceive this adapted accepting who has done so abundant during his adolescent days. He has committed so abundant time and charge to allowance others. I acutely acknowledge the altruistic account Mr. J has rendered and how his admiral has afflicted so abounding lives. I accede him addition unsung hero of his time.
His alertness to accept me allotment a atom of his adventure is a privilege. Moreover, to be able to plan with him to added his advance and see his action and assurance through the years is a actual alarming experience.
Mr. J.L.'s claimed action with Parkinson's Disease.
Mr. J as he shared, was clearly diagnosed with Parkinson's Ache some seven years ago. He has been beneath the affliction of a doctor of Internal Anesthetic practicing in Palm Bay, Florida.
Subsequent furnishings of the ache cover the following: dead face aswell accepted as masked facies or hypomimia and abatement in accent superior that can be slurred, soft, even stuttering. These are actual accepted in patients I accept formed with. A patient's walking adeptness is aswell affected. There is accident of arm beat from block rigidity, acerbity and ambiguity accomplish from consistent incoordination.
Unfortunately, this ache is accelerating and accepted medications are aimed to advance the affection but not necessarily a cure.
There are currently abounding advancing researches for cure including anaplasty to adapt assertive regions of the academician and electrostimulation.
Still, there is no accepted analysis for cure at this time, as per the National Parkinson Foundation.
Additionally, medication, affairs modification, exercise and blow are recommended.
Deep Academician Stimulation (DBS) ia action breadth electrodes are built-in in specific areas of the academician with a architect built-in in the chest breadth abreast the collarbone which sends out impulses to the academician aimed at abbreviation the symptoms. It is not a cure about and there are abounding risks and ancillary furnishings involved. Both the medication and DBS will not arrest the progression of the disease.
Physical Therapists get to plan with these blazon of patients during the altered stages of the disease. This is primarily because of the anatomic abatement consistent from incoordination, dyskinesias (involuntary movements) and acerbity which makes bent and ad-lib movements actual tedious.
These problems can accomplish even the a lot of basal functions as feeding, admonishment and toileting actual difficult. Walking becomes actual unsteady. Ambiguity amble is actual accepted breadth it is difficult for them to accomplish the aboriginal footfall (because of bradykinesia – actual apathetic movement) but already they go, it is aswell actual difficult to stop. Abounding of these patients are at a top accident for falling and a ample bulk during the avant-garde stages become absolutely abased for care.
When referred to Concrete Therapy, accommodating apprenticeship apropos adapted exercises, movement strategies, assignment modification, amble training and abatement blockage strategies are a allotment of the all-embracing plan of affliction and anatomic intervention. They are aswell generally referred to Accent Analysis for accent and agriculture problems, and to Occupational Analysis for basal cocky affliction and duke or top acme functions.
I aboriginal formed with Mr. J about 5 years ago. Although he was not on the avant-garde stages of the ache at that time, he already embodied the primary arresting affection of the disease: Duke and close tremors, masked facies, acerbity and cogent incoordination. He absolved actual slow, was ambiguity and took a continued time walking even from allowance to allowance as he was clumsy to accomplish quick turns. If he does turn, he tends to lose his antithesis and fall. His reflexes were actual slow. He could hardly bolt a brawl or animation it. His accent was slurred, about aural and he had a stutter. He had adversity accepting up and down simple curbs and stairs. He had collapsed a few times from antithesis issues.
Mr. J persevered with the concrete analysis affairs and was consistently actual motivated. For anniversary of the episodes that he was referred to us through the years, he consistently showed advance and consistently followed through with the specific exercise affairs we prescribed. Due to the accelerating attributes of the ache however, he would accept a concrete abatement and we had to plan with him again.
He aggregate the adventure of how he aboriginal noticed the change in him from Parkinson's. Foremost he mentioned was if he was teaching cartoon to average academy acceptance in his art chic in New York. He said that he was progressively accepting adversity cartoon and application his adapted duke as he had developed tremors. The blow followed including a change in his facial expression, acerbity and activity annealed all the time.This became progressively worse through the years until his move to Florida.
Once beneath the affliction of an internist, he was assigned Sinemet and added medications which he had taken through the years.
The endure time I saw him for analysis was in aboriginal 2016 breadth he had cogent tremors on his adapted duke and an automatic twitching in his neck. His masked facies had progressed, his face about bent and he was walking with so abundant ambiguity and difficulty. He was about able to move one bottom in foreground of the other. He aswell appear of avalanche because of deepening antithesis problems.
This was why if I saw him in March of this year, I saw the cogent change in him which he attributed to medical cannabis.
He added aggregate his story. Upon audition about the abeyant allowances of medical cannabis for Parkinson's disease, he consulted with his primary physician who directed him for added argue with his neurologist. His neurologist recommended aggravating medical cannabis due to the advancing attributes of his Parkinson's disease.
Mr. J afresh got started on medical cannabis capsules breadth he said it absolute about 30 pieces of 25 mg capsules. This costed him about $80 or so including shipping. With his addition came a sample backpack of the gummies adaptation of about 5 gummies in a pack. The capsules were bitter, according to him and he took 1 abridged daily.
He added that afterwards demography the aboriginal abridged ever, he acquainted so airy and calm. He could move around, get in and out of bed easier, get in and out of his armchair better. He aswell noticed that his tremors were abundant bottom that aboriginal time.
Mr. J declared that he admired the cannabis gummies bigger as it tasted abundant like bonbon and was tastier than the capsules. Even added so, the aftereffect of the gummies seemed abundant faster than that of the capsules and was abundant cheaper. The capsules per section costed about $3 anniversary and the gummies would bulk to about $1 a section he added.
So as to actor the aftereffect of the gummies, Mr. J said he approved melting the abridged beneath his argot to yield off the bend of its bitterness. He aswell chewed approved adhering buck candy. This formed for him.
To date, Mr. J continues with concrete analysis breadth we see him bigger able to abide and assassinate top akin antithesis training tasks that he was clumsy to do so before. He has actual little to no agitation on his adapted hand, he no best exhibits the twitching on his neck, and his reflexes improved. I see this by his adeptness to accomplish a about-face and not lose his balance. We do not accept to authority him while he catches, throws or bounces a brawl to advance his careful alteration reflexes all-important for him not to fall. he can lift his anxiety college if walking and his ambiguity is so abundant lesser.
Still acquainted of the accelerating attributes of this disease, it is just alarming to see this actual soft-spoken, kind-hearted, able and accomplished alone affected simple circadian anatomic obstacles brought about by this debilitating and irreversible disease.
For the citizenry afflicted with debilitating diseases, a day to day achievement of accepting able to move about and accomplish tasks that assume so atomic to a lot of of us, is a blessing.
Legalizing medical marijuana currently is, and will be an advancing action in congress. We all accept capricious stands and able opinions about this issue. Researches are advancing about its pros and cons. I apprehend added acquaintance of its actuality as an another analysis to assorted diseases who do not acknowledge to accepted anesthetic and treatment.
As a medical able however, it is just accomplishing to be able to attestant the anatomic changes in Mr. J., how he is able to break absolute and cocky acceptable admitting his impairment.
I am currently alive on award an alone who can allotment with me the abrogating furnishings of medical marijuana as well. I would like to apprehend from you and be able to allotment your adventure and acquaintance as well, anonymously, of course.
Please ability out to me if you accept something to share.
My greetings for a admirable day and until my next article!


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This year the Northern Missouri District Council, the annual meeting of credentialed ministers, will be held at Northland Cathedral, April 22-24. The church family is invited to attend the services on Sunday, April 22 at 7:00 pm and Tuesday, April 24 at 9:30 am and 7:00 pm. We congratulate three of our members who will be ordained during the commissioning service on Tuesday evening, April 24: Yummy Pandolfi, Heather Sack, and Taurina Smith. Pastor Harrup will be speaking at the Communion Service on Tuesday at 9:30 am.


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Lebanon's Hezbollah claims it will begin importing fuel from Iran
Iranian-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah will begin to import gasoline and diesel from Iran, its leader said on Sunday.
Lebanon is experiencing a severe fuel shortage that has caused long lines at petrol stations and extended blackouts. Hospitals, bakeries and other essential facilities have said that dwindling stocks will cause them to shut down.
"I assure you, yes, God willing, we will definitely bring diesel and gasoline from Iran," Hassan Nasrallah said in a speech, saying the government was no longer able to provide.
In June, Nasrallah had said that all the logistics needed for such a step were ready, and that Hezbollah would be able to do so while bypassing the central bank in order to avoid violating US sanctions.
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Morrissey Says Critics Of Israel Are 'Jealous'
November 10, 2017 By Gabe Friedman
(JTA) — The British rocker and former Smiths frontman Morrissey has not one but two Jewish-themed songs on his forthcoming album, "Low in High School."
Perhaps the more notable one is simply called "Israel" and offers a blunt rebuke of critics of the Jewish state.
"In other climes they bitch and whine/Just because you are not like them — Israel, Israel," Morrissey sings on the album's six-minute closing track, according to the Jewish Chronicle.
"And they who rain abuse upon you — they are jealous of you as well," the 58-year-old Irish Catholic sings.
The song and its full lyrics have yet to be released.
"Low in High School," which will be Morrissey's 11th solo album, comes out Nov. 17. He has released a few singles from the record, including "Spent the Day in Bed."
The singer's love for Israel has been well documented over the years. Morrissey has performed in Tel Aviv several times, and received a key to the city at a concert in 2012 during which he draped himself in an Israeli flag. He has since pointed out that no other city — including his hometown of Manchester, England — has honored him in that way.
Nevertheless, it's rare to encounter an explicit defense of the Jewish state — or, for that matter, any take on Israel at all — from a mainstream pop artist. (For context, his previous album, 2014's "World Peace Is None of Your Business," entered the UK album chart at No. 2.)
In 1983, Bob Dylan released the song "Neighborhood Bully" on his album "Infidels" in which the folk legend points out that Israel is "outnumbered about a million to one" in the Middle East" and gets called a bully for defending itself against attackers.
Also on Morrissey's album is a tune called "The Girl From Tel Aviv Who Wouldn't Kneel." The title is likely a reference to Etty Hillesum, a Dutch-Jewish diarist who was killed in Auschwitz during the Holocaust. In her writings, she often referred to herself as the "girl who could not kneel."
As it happens, however, Morrissey isn't the only iconic British singer showing his love for Israel these days. Boy George just performed in the Jewish state wearing an outfit emblazoned with Stars of David.
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Peter Dunne stands down
United Future leader Peter Dunne is calling it quits because of last week's political poll result.
By Jason Walls
UPDATED: Prime Minister Bill English has thanked Mr Dunne for his contribution to the coalition government over the past nine years.
"Mr Dunne rang me earlier today to advise me of his decision to retire at this election," Mr English says.
He says he respects Mr Dunne's decision and has backed National candidate Brett Hudson to win the seat.
"In the past three elections, National has won the party vote in Ohariu by a significant margin. We will now fight hard to win the seat as well as maximising our party vote in the electorate."
But ACT leader David Seymour slammed Mr Dunne, saying "his back-and-forth tinkering on drugs left everyone unhappy."
"He has been swept out by the tidal change against do-nothing politics.
"He had more years as minister than anyone in living history but did little to advance meaningful principles. He was enjoying ministerial cars and perks when the housing crisis began under Helen Clark, and while it continued through the current government."
EARLIER: Veteran MP and United Future leader Peter Dunne is standing down after polling put him well behind Labour rival Greg O'Connor.
"I have concluded, based on recent polling, and other soundings I have been taking over the last few weeks, that, the volatility and uncertainty notwithstanding, there is now a mood amongst Ōhāriu voters for a change of MP, which is unlikely to alter," he said.
Mr Dunne says he will not stand and the political environment is "extremely volatile and unpredictable."
Last week, a Colmar Brunton poll revealed Mr Dunne in second place behind Labour's Greg O'Connor in Ohariu.
The poll puts Mr Dunne on 34% compared with Mr O'Connor's 48%.
The same poll showed National well in front of Labour on the list vote, at 45% versus 35%.
"This shift in voter sentiment is quite at variance with polling and other data I have seen throughout the year, upon which I had based my earlier decision to seek re-election for a 12th term as MP for Ōhāriu," he says.
Mr Dunne's shock departure will come as a huge blow to the government, who had been relying on Mr Dunne's support to form a government after the election.
He, and his party, United Future, have served as one of National's coalition partners for nine years.
Last month, Prime Minister Bill English sent a clear message to the people of Ohariu to vote for Mr Dunne and not the National candidate Brett Hudson.
After last week's Colmar Brunton poll revealed Mr Dunne was in trouble, an NBR poll showed that most readers thought National should have its candidate in Ohariu stand down to ensure Mr Dunne wins the seat.
In his statement, Mr Dunne backed Mr Hudson to win the seat, saying he "thanks and best wishes for the future go to Brett Hudson MP, National's List MP based in Ōhāriu, for the support he has shown me throughout this year."
"Ōhāriu has been a very large part of my life. I have lived continuously in the area for more than 40 years.
"But good things cannot last forever. Now it is time for me to put all that behind me, take the election hoardings down, say goodbye to Parliament without bitterness or regret, and get on with life."
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Embracing the Change: AKU Examination Board partners with Pakistan's leading education technology company Knowledge Platform
The innovative online platform will provide robust holistic digital teaching, learning, and assessment opportunities for AKU-EB-affiliated schools in Pakistan.
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The Aga Khan University Examination Board (AKU-EB) and Knowledge Platform (KP), a leading ed-tech organization in Pakistan, have developed a strategic alliance to find new ways to address the learning crisis and bring about a set of solutions previously considered difficult or impossible to implement.
The innovative online platform will provide robust holistic digital teaching, learning, and assessment opportunities for AKU-EB-affiliated schools in Pakistan. This platform offers high-quality digital learning systems that prepare students of grades 6 to 12 to continue their learning online with the flexibility of time, place, and pace of learning. Moreover, students will have access to high-quality assessment content enabling them to prepare for AKU-EB's high-stakes examinations. This would also facilitate students to be self-directed learners. Student learning will be independent of the varied teaching quality across affiliated schools and private tuitions, which is an additional cost for parents.
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Knowledge Platform is already working with 280,000+ students and 800+ schools across Pakistan. Mahboob Mahmood, the founder of Knowledge Platform noted: "We are honored and delighted to craft an alliance with AKU-EB. Their premier examination preparation content, when combined with our Grade 1-10 content library of videos, games, and assessments, provides a high-quality and extensive education program for national curriculum students. We are keen to collaborate with AKU-EB and their affiliated schools in their march towards responsive, intelligent 21st-century education. Cross-capability alliances such as the one between AKU-EB and Knowledge Platform are essential to leveraging the capabilities of education technology to transform education in Pakistan."
According to the director AKU-EB, Dr. Shehzad Jeeva, "Partnering with KP to provide an excellent solution to our schools will help to achieve our objectives of being school-centered. The COVID-19 crisis has further compelled the need for an online solution and the urgency for implementation to support affiliated schools and students for the upcoming academic year. Historically, AKU-EB has always supported its affiliated schools with a mission to eliminate the rote-learning culture and in these unprecedented times, schools expect similar support from us."
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Oh hi, April! I can't believe it's already April. Is it just me, or is this year flying by!? Currently it's 79 outside and I'm sitting inside writing this quarter goals post to you, because me being the stubborn genius that I am decided to walk barefoot on pavement and I'm now nursing 4 foot blisters! Ahhhh life haha! But, I am glad to be writing to you nonetheless.
Today we're talking bout them goals from January through March and I'm setting myself some new quarter goals for this next quarter of the year. I can't remember at all what the quarter goals from last time were, so I'm gonna do a recap and see if I happened to achieve any of them! Oh, I've gotta know friend, what goals do YOU have!? If you don't mind leaving me a comment and letting me know, I'd love to cheer you on as you aim to accomplish them!
Because I got a Cricut machine for Christmas, this part will become easier and I am pretty pumped about making products!
I have been wanting to do this for a little while, and so I'm gonna make it my goal to try and launch this month. If it doesn't happen, then that's okay cause I've got all year.
Taking your own blog photos can be somewhat challenging. Especially for someone like me who is B-A-D at posing herself and looking remotely natural lol. So, I am making it a goal to learn some more about how to do all that!
I've got a really bad habit of getting angry when things decide to not work properly. That's shameful to admit, but I did make it a previous goal to be more vulnerable. So, I am going to try to take more deep breaths and walk away in place of angry outbursts at things that are out of my control.
Anybody else have an overeating problem? I love food, but I need to learn how to control my portions. So, one of my goals is to eat less, even if my brain tells me I am still hungry. My husband always says my eyes are bigger than my stomach, so hopefully this shift will help with that!
Okay, I am such a hermit most of the time. I prefer staying home or by myself than out and about. So, I am gonna try to be less of a hermit and get out more. Even if that means going for a short walk, which wouldn't be so bad to do anyways.
Yes! I have been actively working on this one! While it's still a rather slow process, I have made progress so #progressoverperfection right!?
Erm, I have good days and bad days. #progressoverperfection though! I think my next step will be to place this reminder everywhere and maybe figure out if I can train my Apple watch to say "breathe, you're too stressed" lol.
2. BLOGGING: Launch a podcast!
All I have managed to do so far is create an intro for it, so that's progress! The launch will probably be moved to the Summer when I'm a little more flexible with my time!
I have definitely been researching this and learning some tips+tricks from friends and my sister who is a pro photographer! Check her out!
YES! I have my social butterfly husband to thank for this mostly, because he's been taking us to go walking on nice days and we've been home a lot less! Hopefully I can find a way to keep this trend going while I'm looking for a job lol.
1. Be consistent on Instagram!
You guys, I am a pretty awful Instagrammer. Mostly because I struggle with comparison a lot and let that discourage me from sharing because I feel I'm not "good enough". But, slowly I plan on changing that mindset and I'm not gonna let a silly app dictate how I feel about myself! So I am making it my goal this quarter to be consistent on Instagram even when I am feeling down. If you remember from quarter 4, I said I wanted to be more vulnerable. And it's gonna start in this space and continue on social media! Will you be my accountability partners in this?
2. Be consistent with my newsletter!
I'm gonna be honest. I struggle so hard with remembering to send out a newsletter to my email list. While it isn't a huge list, I have people who are on that list and I fail to send out newsletters sometimes! So, one of my quarter goals for these next few months is to try and be more consistent in sending out a newsletter.
3. Be consistently planning content!
Another area I sometimes struggle in, is planning out content in advance. I used to be so good at planning things when I was in school and kept everything in my planner, but I've kinda lost my footing in that department. So, I'm gonna make this another one of my quarter goals to try and consistently plan out content!
1. Have more confidence in myself!
This is a struggle for a lot of us. There's a mental war we engage in with ourselves a lot where we bounce between knowing we are great at something and still feeling inadequate because we fall trap to comparison. I may have mentioned this one before, but it's still a goal I want to work towards because it's something I struggle with daily.
2. Let go of the past!
I am pretty bad at letting it go. As much as I'd like to channel my inner Elsa and say I "let it go", I usually don't. In fact, I often dwell on the past so much that it affects how I react to certain things and situations and I can't move on. So, a goal of mine this quarter is to make a conscious effort to literally let it go and don't let things from the past keep me from moving forward.
3. Start keeping a journal!
When I was younger, I used to journal all the time. However, as I've gotten older and life has gotten busier, I have gotten out of the habit of it. Honestly journaling is such a good habit to have because it allows us to get out how we are feeling without letting our emotions build up to the point that we just burst from it. This quarter, I'm going to try and pick back up journaling.
And it looks to me like these next few months are gonna be jam packed. These quarter goals are intentional ones and I honestly look forward to working at them. These type posts are some of my favorite ones to do because they keep me on my toes and encourage me to keep striving toward goals I'm scared of in hopes of being better because of them.
I hope that you join me in working toward these quarter goals with your own unique set of goals! Know that I'll be here cheering you on along the way and whispering in your ear "you can do this!" when you feel down and discouraged. Hey, all of us have been there and we can't make progress without great people who encourage us along the way, and I want to be that for you. So, Happy April friends and happy Goal Setting!


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Legitimacy as a compass in post-war Sierra Leone
Protopapas, S.
This dissertation examines the issue of legitimacy in the post-war setting of Sierra Leone. This is done in order to ascertain who has the right to rule according to Sierra Leoneans and where this right comes from. In an attempt to be as accurate as possible, specific conceptual links of ... read more legitimacy, namely those of legitimate authority and institution, are deliberately defined and a novel but reasonable guideline concerning the measurement thereof is provided. The research was carried out in three regions, namely in an area in West Freetown, in the provincial town of Kenema and in a remote village. Explicating the methodology followed on the field in a somewhat mathematical way, particular authorities were selected and their legitimacy was examined. This work also undertakes the ambitious task of comparing the sources of legitimacy detected on the ground with those frequently given in literature. It ends by going a step further in investigating the outcomes of granted legitimacy over the diverse authorities for the state itself by taking the debate on fragile, failing and failed states into account. In other words, it explores the obscure link between 'state fragility' and the concept of legitimacy. Unexpected limitations of the concept of legitimacy as an analytical frame, as well as its indisputable value are unveiled. show less
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I'm quite excited about this new printer that just showed up in my office! The Epson SC-P400 was just released this past month and I can't wait to start printing. The P400 has some great new features including orange and red ink cartridges, dedicated matte and photo black channels and a high gloss optimizer which I'm looking forward to testing. It's small, high quality and is going to be great to work with. Safe to say what I'll be doing this weekend.


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Wednesday, December 1st, 2021 By News Release
Nonprofit Serving Homeless Gets Grant
Family Life Center News Release
Family Life Center, Inc., a nonprofit organization serving the homeless population on the islands of Maui, Molokai and Kauai, has been selected to receive a $2.5 million grant from the Bezos Day 1 Families Fund—the largest grant in Family Life Center's history. This is the second consecutive year that the organization has received a donation from the Day 1 Families Fund. Launched in 2018 by Amazon founder and executive chair Jeff Bezos, the Day 1 Families Fund issues annual leadership awards to organizations and civic groups doing compassionate, needle-moving work to provide shelter and hunger support to address the immediate needs of young families.
"Family Life Center is incredibly grateful for the Day 1 Families Fund, which has so generously supported our organization for the second year in a row," said Family Life Center Executive Director Maude Cumming. "Our 2020 Day 1 Families Fund grant enabled us to expand our reach beyond Maui and Kauai to reach Molokai as well. This year's donation will allow us to enhance and expand the services we are offering on all three islands."
This one-time grant will allow Family Life Center to continue to expand its services on the islands of Kauai and Molokai, where the homeless population is very underserved. The organization also plans to develop an adaptive shelter model for families, replicating an approach it pioneered during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Family Life Center was selected as a Day 1 Families Fund grant recipient by an independent advisory board comprised of homelessness experts with experience in policy, advocacy, racial equity, child welfare and housing and service delivery, as well as firsthand experience in homelessness.
This year, the Day 1 Families Fund issued a total of $96.2 million in grants to 32 organizations across the country.
"Without Family Life Center's support, my family and I might still be living in our car," said a former Family Life Center client. "I am so grateful to have a home for our son. We will never be homeless again."
The Bezos Day One Fund made a $2 billion commitment to focus on making meaningful and lasting impacts in two areas: funding existing nonprofits that help families experiencing homelessness, and creating a network of new, nonprofit tier-one preschools in low-income communities. The Day 1 Families Fund issues annual leadership awards to organizations and civic groups doing compassionate, needle-moving work to provide shelter and hunger support to address the immediate needs of young families. Since 2018, the Day 1 Families Fund has issued 130 grants totaling more than $398 million to organizations around the country working to combat homelessness and help families gain housing support and stability. The vision statement comes from the inspiring Mary's Place in Seattle: no child sleeps outside. For more information, visit BezosDayOneFund.org/Day1FamiliesFund.
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In our first head-to-head matchup in Round 2 of the Headbanger Region of March Metal Madness 2013, we've got an interesting pairing in this year's battle of metal's all-time greatest albums. Who will win this battle? The choice is all up to the fans!
Black Sabbath's legendary album 'Paranoid' and its classic tracks 'War Pigs,' 'Iron Man' and others beat out fellow genre-blueprinters Venom and their masterful record 'Black Metal.' The godfathers of heavy metal now move on to face one of the most unique and eclectic metal bands of all time.
In a much tighter race than Black Sabbath vs. Venom, System of a Down's 'Toxicity' was able to defeat the Cannibal Corpse classic 'Tomb of the Mutilated.' Unfortunately for Corpse, 'Hammer Smashed Face' was drowned by 'Chop Suey!' and now we've got a battle between Sabbath and System ready for the bell.
Black Sabbath's 'Paranoid' or System of a Down's 'Toxicity'? Vote for your favorite album in the poll below!


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'use strict';

const validate = require('../validation/valid');
const signature = require('../validation/signature');
const content = require('../validation/content');
const fetch = require('../validation/fetch');
const token = require('../validation/token');
const reject = require('../validation/methodNotAllowed');
const bad = require('../validation/badRequest');

const bodyParser = require('body-parser');

const HTTP_OK = 200;
const BAD_REQUEST = 400;

/**
 * Authenticate middleware
 * @param {Express} app
 * @param {Server} server
 * @constructor
 */
function Authenticate(app, server) {
  app.use(bodyParser.json());

  app.post('/v1/authenticate', (req, res, next) => {
    Log.log('DEBUG', 'authenticate request received');
    if (!Config.get('vault:token')) {
      return bad.request(res, ['Vault is sealed! Use the /v1/unseal API.']);
    }
    next();
  },
  validate.request,
  (req, res, next) => {
    signature.signatureValidate(req, res, next, server);
  },
  content.document,
  fetch.metadata,
  (req, res, next) => {
    token.create(req, res, next, Config.get('vault'));
  },
  (req, res, next) => { // eslint-disable-line no-unused-vars
    Log.log('DEBUG', 'Sending token data');
    res.status(HTTP_OK);
    res.send(req.auth);
  },
  (err, req, res, next) => { // eslint-disable-line no-unused-vars
    res.status(BAD_REQUEST);
    res.json({
      code: BAD_REQUEST,
      error: err,
      stack: err.stack,
      message: err.message
    });
  });

  // Reject anything else e.g. DELETE, TRACE, etc.
  app.all('/v1/authenticate', reject.methodNotAllowed('POST'));
}

exports.attach = Authenticate;

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Republican Congressional Candidate Martha McSally: "We Did Everything We Could To Get Our Message Out"
By Dan Desrochers
Jesse Webster
Martha McSally (R-Ariz.) thanks voters for their participation on Election Day 2014.
By Alison Dorf
At her election-night party Tuesday evening, Republican congressional candidate Martha McSally said she was proud of her campaign.
McSally was trailing Democratic incumbent Congressman Ron Barber by about 4 percentage points with an unknown number of votes left to count. McSally complained that she had faced a barrage of attack ads during her campaign that were ridiculous and inaccurate.
"The challenge has been again, countering the lying attack ads that are trying to turn me into something that I'm not in order to instill fear in the voters," McSally said. "So we've had to spend time to make sure that people know exactly who I am, correct the record, and you know, that'll take time and effort."
McSally said her campaign did everything possible to get her message out and election night was the time to celebrate the effort and the journey of the campaign.
"As a challenger, you're having to make a case as to why an incumbent should be replaced," McSally said. "I can look myself in the mirror and say we did that with integrity and we did everything we could to get our message out."
If she does not win the election, McSally said she does not yet know her next step.
"I can't even think about that right now," McSally said. "We'll see what happens."
Tom Is Done Listening to the Excuses of the Anti-Vax Crowd


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6. High-speed encoder ensures smooth conversion of video and audio data.7. preview the blu-ray movies while converting.8. Automatically shut down the computer when ripping finished.


Since I have a personal and professional interest in PC hardware (I have actually been accused by my friend Steve Jones of "loving hardware"), I like to find and talk about useful hardware utilities that are relevant for both personal machines and for PC-based servers.
One very interesting utility is HWiNFO64 from Martin Malík. This program does a pretty complete job of examining your system, from the details of the CPU, motherboard, chipset, BIOS version, GPU, memory, drives, and operating system. It also lets you drill into different components of your system to see even more details about your hardware and configuration status.
You might be wondering why this is relevant to a typical database professional? Well, first, I think DBAs should have some knowledge and interest in the hardware that their database servers are running on (whether it is a bare metal physical host, or a virtualization host), since this has a big effect on their performance and SQL Server licensing costs. Second, being aware of some of the seemingly trivial details of your hardware can have a huge positive benefit on performance.
For example, if you are using a hypervisor, such as VMware or Hyper-V, you want to make sure your hardware virtualization support is enabled in your BIOS/UEFI. This includes Intel VT-x (Intel Virtualization Technology) and VT-d (Intel Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O).
In HWiNFO64, the VMX (Virtual Machine Extensions) lettering in the Features box of the System Summary as shown in Figure 1, tells you whether VT-x is enabled or not. If it is grey, it is not supported. If it is green, it is supported and enabled. In my case, I have an Intel Core i7-6700K processor that supports VT-x, but I currently have it disabled in my BIOS/UEFI. In CPU-Z, VT-x is simply absent in the Instructions box, since it is disabled in the BIOS/UEFI, as shown in Figure 2.
Another example is Intel Speed Shift Technology (shown as SST in the Features box of the System Summary as shown in Figure 1). It shows up in red on my system, since I have a BIOS feature called multi-core enhancement (MCE) enabled, which runs all of my processor cores at full Turbo Boost speed all of the time.
Intel Speed Shift Technology is an interesting feature that is present in Intel Skylake and later processors, that also requires operating system support. Current builds of Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 support this feature, which I think will be beneficial for some SQL Server workloads.
Figure 3 shows part of the Sensor Status windows, which lets you see details about your memory usage, component voltage and speeds, component temperatures, etc..
Figure 4 shows details about the MSI Geforce GTX 1060 ARMOR OC video card that is in my workstation, which is a very nice mid-range video card.
If i download this utility and run it on prod, will we see performance issues.
I don't believe so. I have never seen it cause issues. If you are nervous about it, do it during a maintenance window.


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By Jackie April 22, 2022 April 29, 2022 W.G. Finlay
Written by W.G. Finlay
Posted, additional note and images added by Jackie
The author of the Third Gospel was, on his own admission, NOT "an eye-witness and minister of the word from the beginning" (Luke 1:2) and therefore dependent on others for the information contained in his Gospel. J. Patterson-Smyth in his book, A People's Life of Christ, indicates the identity of Luke's source of information that on page 31 of this book it is stated: "It was believed that St. Paul had chosen him, Luke, to do it." (i.e. write the Gospel); that St. Paul was his collaborator; that it was St. Paul's teaching; that the early Church called it St. Paul's Gospel. Here are two fathers of the Second Century Irenaeus, in Gaul, says: "Luke put down in a book the Gospel preached by Paul"; Tertullian in Africa says: "Luke's digest was usually ascribed to Paul. If one follows the history of Luke, Patterson-Smyth's above contention will be seen as a logical outcome of the close friendship which existed between Luke and Paul.
According to Tertullian, Luke, who was in Antioch, in Syria (Eusebius, Hist. 3:4) was converted by Paul "Lucas non apostolus, sed apostolicus; non magister, sed discipulus, utique magistro minor, certe tanto posterior quanto posterioris Apostoli sectator Pauli sine dubio" – and the balance of probability is in his side, as the author of The Acts, records that he accompanied Paul on several of his journeys and that when Paul went to Rome, he also accompanied and remained by his side when he was put in prison (Acts 27:1). The first person, plural which characterises the account in the Acts from the 10th to the 16th chapter, is a clear indication of Luke's association with Paul's band and from this may be ascertained when he either left or rejoined whatever enterprise was undertaken Dr. William Smith in his Dictionary of the Bible makes this remarkable statement when recording the life of Luke:"…. We only know him whilst he stands by the side if his beloved Paul: when the master departs, the history of the follower becomes confusion and fable" – from which may one deduce that Luke was totally committed to serve whatever cause Paul stood for.
This being so, it would be natural to find traces of Paul's doctrines in Luke's Gospel as well as in The Acts – the latter bearing unmistakable traces of this. Luke as far as is known had no contact with Peter and being known as Paul's disciple, any denigration of Peter as evident in Mark's account would have been too obvious a ploy and clearly recognised as such. Luke therefore softens Mark's harsh criticism and very pointedly deletes reference to the rebuke which the Lord delivered against Peter after the confession,
"He said unto them, But whom say ye that I am? Peter answering said, The Christ of God.And he straitly charged them, and commanded them to tell no man that thing;" (Luke 9:20,21)
Throughout Luke's Gospel one may trace a very delicate handling of the Peter story recorded in the other Gospels which are advantageous to Peter – one of which is the exclusive post-Resurrection appearance to Peter, Luke 24:34.
Remember, that Yahshua Christ named Simon, Peter
However, and notwithstanding the softening of Mark's attitude, one finds as was stated at the outset, the subtle use of Peter's name "Simon" before he was renamed by the Lord. In Luke's last reference to Peter – which has to do with the contention that he was the first to see the Risen Lord – the use of Peter's earlier name is most blatant.
"And they rose up the same hour, and returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together, and them that were with them, Saying, The Lord is risen indeed, and hath appeared to Simon. And they told what things were done in the way, and how he was known of them in breaking of bread". (Luke 24:33-35).
So then Peter is merely "Simon" unchanged and still the same man who was pre-occupied with fishing rather than with being "fishers of men".
There are, however, several inconsistencies in this account, and it would serve to note them. In the first instance, there is absolutely no reference to Peter in the discourse which the Resurrected Lord had with the two on the Road to Emmaus which makes one wonder where they obtained their information. In the second instance, Luke states specifically that "the Eleven" were gathered together among whom Peter was obviously numbered – Judas, for obvious reasons, was absent. If "Simon" had already seen the Risen Lord, as Leader of the Apostles why had he not told them about the wonderful event, and why was he, in common with the Eleven, so terrified when the Lord appeared to them? This silence by Peter and the terror of the Eleven carried a strong indictment against "Simon" who, according to Luke, did not believe the evidence of his own eyes. Paul's gentile church, would be a further evidence of Peter's inadequacy as leader of the Christian Evangel.
Before passing on to John's Gospel, one should note that the Apostle did not rush in to record the events in the Life of the Lord, but waited until Jerusalem was destroyed and the little band of Apostles had been scattered, and their work largely replaced by Paul's gentile church. John was at Ephesus when he prevailed upon by the bishops to write the Divinity of Christ, and it was because of this that he wrote the Gospel which bears his name. He was, of course, not free to write as he would have liked because, as seen in his Epistles, that men were denying the Truth on which his faith rested.
"Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world" (1st John 1:4}
(As you can see, the chapters in the writings are not mentioned. The Bible verses, are. However, I am pretty sure that the following chapters, I added, are the intended chapters. John is, of course, addressing his epistles to the dispersed Israelites, as did. Peter, James and Jude, Jackie)
"For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist" (2nd John 2:7)
"I wrote unto the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the preeminence among them, receiveth us not.Therefore, if I come, I will remember his deeds which he doeth, prating against us with malicious words: and not content therewith, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and forbiddeth them that would, and casteth them out of the church". (3rd John 1:9,10)
He nevertheless wrote this Gospel, and notwithstanding the fact that he attempted to couch his history in terms which would make it difficult for his detractors to pervert, there are evidences that this was done. Several students of John's work have commented on the fact that there is no evidence, from the style and theology of his Gospel, that more than one hand was involved – a contention which is borne out when the subject, Peter, is considered.
It should, of course, be remembered that John was one of the original Twelve and that, with Peter and James, he had been singled out for a deeper education than the others. It appears quite unreasonable that he should castigate Peter and yet as done reads his Gospel, this is precisely what he is purported to have done. If one considers the account of the arrest of the Lord in the Garden of Gethsemane with particular reference to the crowd which came to apprehend Him, the identity of the one who cut off the ear of the servant of the high priest is not mentioned by either Matthew, Mark, or Luke, but John not only identifies the culprit as Peter, he also names the servant Malchus (John 18:10). Following this, one is introduced to an enigmatical "another disciple" whom most theologians identify as John himself, but which identification is ambiguous in the extreme.
"And Simon Peter followed Jesus, and so did another disciple: that disciple was known unto the high priest, and went in with Jesus into the palace of the high priest". (John 18:15)
There is absolutely no evidence to support the contention that this "disciple" was John, as there is nothing in his background which suggests that he had contact with the high priest, nor that his association with him was such as to follow him free access into the palace. After all, John was known to be one of three Apostles especially selected by the Lord, and it is hardly reasonable to assume that one of those three was on friendly terms with the high priest. However, in reading John's Gospel, it would appear that this other "disciple" had a greater influence than Peter for while Peter stood at the door without the other disciple passed in, and it was apparently only after the mediation of that other disciple, that Peter, was allowed in. Strangely enough, in John's record of the interrogation by the high priest, no further mention is made of the "other disciple" and one wonders who it was and why he was introduced in to the record. It could, of course, be that John, writing in cryptic terms, was endavouring to convey the idea that someone in the playing a deep Pharisaic game with them. Be that as it may, there is certainly no way in which, in this instance, that "other disciple" could be identified with John himself.
Another occasion where the same cryptic "other disciple" is used found in John's narration of the open tomb", when, after Mary Magdalene saw the moved sealing stone and the empty sepulchre and had told Peter and the "other disciple" whom Jesus loved".
Peter therefore went forth, and that other disciple, and came to the sepulchre. So they ran both together: and the other disciple did outrun Peter, and came first to the sepulchre. And he stooping down, and looking in, saw the linen clothes lying; yet went he not in. Then cometh Simon Peter following him, and went into the sepulchre, and seeth the linen clothes lie. And the napkin, that was about his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself. (Editor's note: What price the shroud of Turin?) Then went in also that other disciple, which came first to the sepulchre, and he saw, and believed. (John 20:4-8)
The significant part about this is that, while it is not stated what that other disciple believed, nothing is said about Peter who, from the record, believed not. The following verse is a contradiction.
"For as yet they knew not the scripture, that he must rise again from the dead". (John 20:9)
The Lord had, on several occasions, told His disciples that He would be killed and be raised again in the Third Day, therefore this statement cannot be true.
"From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day." (Matthew 16:21)
"And he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again." (Mark 8:31)
"The Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be slain, and be raised the third day." (Luke 9:22)
As one looks at the Gospel accounts – all four of them – there can be very little doubt that they all show a very strong Pauline influence, which, bearing in mind when that were written, is not surprising. It is of course, impossible to tell the exact date on which each of the accounts was written just as it is impossible to support the theological claim that Mark or some other document which ambiguously designated simply as Q was the source from which all the accounts were written. It popularly thought that Mark was indeed the first to write an account of the Life of the Lord and that Matthew copied his account from this and that the others wrote their versions of Mark's Gospel. However, to most people, Matthew's Gospel is a bit of enigma for while all the early historians express the view that he originally Hebrew, none of them speak of ever having seen that original – only Greek copies of it. When the translation was made is therefore unknown and one can be reasonably sure that in the translation, anything contrary to what Mark and later Luke had written would be amended to bring to into line.
There is, however, one point which was overlooked and that has to do with the statement by the Lord in which, He declared that the Purpose of His Advent was within the context "the lost sheep of the house of Israel." (Matthew 15:24). The story of the Syrophenician woman in which the Lord's statement of Purpose occurs is only briefly referred to in Mark's Gospel and in this, all reference to "the lost sheep of the house of Israel: has been removed (Mark 7:24-30), As must be obvious to anyone indoctrinated by Paul's "gentile" persuasion, this statement would be anathema as would be the Lord's last commission to Peter "Feed My sheep" which is a direct commission to be involved exclusively with Israel, the true Covenant People of the LORD. For the success of Paul's gentile church, Peter had to be discredited and this is precisely what was done as Peter recedes in importance and Paul asserts both himself and his doctrines, one can truly appreciate the expression:
ROBBING PETER TO PAY PAUL
Additional note by Jackie:
In other of His writings, Dr. Finlay quotes Paul. However, this may very well be BEFORE he realized that Paul in his epistles is many times contradicting the Teachings of Yahshua Christ.
This post, and the previous five posts on this topic are under the category W.G. Finlay.
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"He Is Not Here"


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You voted for them. Here they are!
A poacher has to watch Bambi once a month while he's in jail.
A driver deliberately ran over someone's lawn ornaments.
A town in Germany has traffic signals that resemble Elvis.
High school students found a rat in their vending machine.
Officers in Florida chased a lemur after it hopped out of a trailer during a traffic stop.
A 500-old-skeleton was discovered still wearing boots.
Store owners used swords to fight off robbers.
A bear walking on two legs strolled into a police station.
The Leaning Tower of Pisa is slowly straightening.
Brides competed in a 3K race in their wedding gowns.
An ATM dispensed $100 bills instead of $10 bills.


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/**
  * Created by ashiqimran on 3/6/17.
  */
import org.apache.spark.SparkContext
import org.apache.spark.SparkConf
import scala.annotation.tailrec
import scala.reflect.ClassTag
import scala.util._
import org.apache.spark.internal.Logging
import org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD

object Test {
  val RMATa = 0.45
  val RMATb = 0.15
  val RMATd = 0.25
  val RMATc = 0.15

  def main(args: Array[ String ]): Unit = {
    val conf = new SparkConf().setAppName("GraphGenerator")
    val sc = new SparkContext(conf)
    val V = Integer.parseInt(args(0))
    val E = Integer.parseInt(args(1))
    val output_file = args(2)
    val result = rmatGraph(sc,V,E)
    result.map{case (src, dst) => src+","+dst}.saveAsTextFile(output_file)
  }

  def rmatGraph(sc: SparkContext, requestedNumVertices: Int, numEdges: Int): RDD[(Int,Int)] = {
    // let N = requestedNumVertices
    // the number of vertices is 2^n where n=ceil(log2[N])
    // This ensures that the 4 quadrants are the same size at all recursion levels
    val numVertices = math.round(
      math.pow(2.0, math.ceil(math.log(requestedNumVertices) / math.log(2.0)))).toInt
    val numEdgesUpperBound =
      math.pow(2.0, 2 * ((math.log(numVertices) / math.log(2.0)) - 1)).toInt
    if (numEdgesUpperBound < numEdges) {
      throw new IllegalArgumentException(
        s"numEdges must be <= $numEdgesUpperBound but was $numEdges")
    }
    sc.parallelize(1 to numEdges).map( _ => addEdge(numVertices) )
  }

  private def addEdge(numVertices: Int): (Int,Int) = {
    val v = math.round(numVertices.toFloat/2.0).toInt
    chooseCell(v, v, v)
  }

  @tailrec
  private def chooseCell(x: Int, y: Int, t: Int): (Int, Int) = {
    if (t <= 1) {
      (x, y)
    } else {
      val newT = math.round(t.toFloat/2.0).toInt
      pickQuadrant(RMATa, RMATb, RMATc, RMATd) match {
        case 0 => chooseCell(x, y, newT)
        case 1 => chooseCell(x + newT, y, newT)
        case 2 => chooseCell(x, y + newT, newT)
        case 3 => chooseCell(x + newT, y + newT, newT)
      }
    }
  }

  private def pickQuadrant(a: Double, b: Double, c: Double, d: Double): Int = {
    if (a + b + c + d != 1.0) {
      throw new IllegalArgumentException("R-MAT probability parameters sum to " + (a + b + c + d)
        + ", should sum to 1.0")
    }
    val rand = new Random()
    val result = rand.nextDouble()
    result match {
      case x if x < a => 0 // 0 corresponds to quadrant a
      case x if (x >= a && x < a + b) => 1 // 1 corresponds to b
      case x if (x >= a + b && x < a + b + c) => 2 // 2 corresponds to c
      case _ => 3 // 3 corresponds to d
    }
  }
}