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Jesus and the End of an Age
Scripture: Mark 13:1-37
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Sermon for Maundy Thursday, April 17, 2003.
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Sermon for Maundy Thursday, April 17, 2003
"Jesus and the End of an Age"
(Mark 13: 1 - 37)
G. Charles Sackett
Well, I'm sure you've seen it on somebody's name tag around here somewhere. It says, Ever Ready, our motto, our name. It's that class that Bill Gross teaches over here in the choir room. It's kind of an interesting title and motto, is it not? "Ever- Ready" - always ready - that's true of them, by the way, if you had been around this week and last when our week of e-people ?? were here and then later this week, you'd have seen a number of "Ever-Ready" class members here helping around the building, doing stuff, "Ever-Ready" - Just give �em a call. I'm gonna post their phone numbers for you, so if you need your lawn mowed or anything, you can get a hold of them, cause their "Ever-Ready." Sometimes I'm glad that - well, let me rephrase that - I kinda wish sometimes that technology was like that, don't you? "Ever-Ready!" Oh, it catches up with us eventually. And the second coming is not contingent on whether we can get our Power Point Program to work! He won't need it in order to tell us that He's coming.
I think Mark Chapter 13 is captured by that thought of being "Ever-Ready". Ah, if you have your Bibles, we're going to look at the latter part of that Chapter first, and then we'll go back to the beginning.
When we come down to this part of Jesus life, page after page after page we're in the last week, we're spending time listening to what he has to say to his disciples, as the last week of his life closes in. And this particular speech, this statement that he makes in Mark, is the longest statement he makes in the entire Gospel. Mark chooses to give this more attention than any other single thing that he records. The end of the Chapter starting in Verse 32 says this: Jesus is closing this discussion and says. "No one knows about that day, or hour, not even the angels in heaven, not the Son, but only the Father. Be on guard; (that's the fourth time, by the way, he will have said in this text, Be on guard, be prepared, be ready. Watch is technically the word. Be alert!) You don't know when that time will come. It is like a man going away, he leaves his house and puts his servants in charge, each with his assigned tasks, and he tells the one at the door to keep watch. Therefore, keep watch - because you do not know when the owner of the house will come back, whether in the evening or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or at dawn - if he comes suddenly does not find you sleeping. What I say to you I say to everyone: Watch."
He closes this text the same way he opens it in Verse 5, pay attention! Watch. Be looking. Be aware! It seems to me that the simple message of the text is, that if we're going to be disciples, uncommon disciples if you will, we are going to be people who are always ready. That we will never be caught off guard because we will have listened carefully to what Jesus said and we will be paying attention to the times and the seasons - oh I don't think to the point that we're trying to set the date for it - that's one of the fascinating things that I observe in American culture. It's not just true in America, but has been in recent years in American culture. We're always trying to figure out when Jesus is coming. I just decided, that, frankly, if he didn't know when he was coming, there wasn't any sense in me trying to figure it out. I wasn't even going to worry about it. I figure he'll be coming up one of these days and we'll all know it when he gets here.
But there are some things in this text he tells us to be ready for. And I find that to be of great interest. It's really a simple discussion. If you look at the first four verses of this text he says (and the text says). As He was leaving the temple, one of his disciples said to him, "Look, Teacher, what massive stones, what magnificent buildings!" Jesus replied, "Do you see all these great buildings? Not one stone here will be left on another, everyone will be thrown down."
As Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter, James, John and Andrew asked him privately, "Tell us, when will these things happen, and what will be the sign that they are all about to be fulfilled?"
It's just a simple discussion about those magnificent buildings, those big rocks. It's a magnificent temple, frankly. It covered a lot of ground. It had been expanded numerous times under Herod's reign, in order to make it large enough for everybody that was traveling, to come to Jerusalem during those special occasions to be there. It really was a magnificent building. It would have gotten your attention. These are good Jewish men. And I remind you that in Mark's gospel, most of the time these good Jewish men have no clue what they're doing. They just don't ever seem to get it. They don't seem to catch on. You remember what he said, just - well, we talked about it very recently. Back up a chapter or two and he said, by the way, if you say to this mountain, be cast into the sea, it'll happen. I mean, he's already told them - this temple is not going to last - this era is not going to go on forever. It's just not going to be here. He came in and cleansed the temple, he talked about the fig tree, he withered the fig tree in the context of cleansing of the temple and they're still saying - WOW - look at this building - Isn't this building cool?! They just don't quite figure it out.
And so he warns them. There are some things that they ought to be aware of. If you look at Verse 5, you get the first of the warnings. Jesus said to them, "Watch out that no one deceives you. Many will come in my name, claiming, �I am he!' and will deceive many. When you hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not be alarmed; such things must happen, but the end is still to come. Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; there will be earthquakes in various places, and famines; these are the beginning of birth-pangs."
"You must be on your guard; you will be handed over to the local councils; and flogged in synagogues; and on account of me you will stand before governors and kings as witnesses to them, and the gospel must be preached to all nations. Whenever you are arrested and brought to trial, do not worry before hand about what to say; just say whatever is given you at the time, for it is not you speaking, but the Holy Spirit.
Don't be deceived he says. Don't be intimidated and whatever you do, don't be silent. I think what he's suggesting is that we're ready to speak in spite of our circumstances. There are some things that are going to happen. You ought to be warned about it now. There are some things that are going to occur, don't be deceived. People are going to come along and they're going to try to convince you that they are really ME, having already returned. They're NOT! And you're going to be in trouble! But don't worry about it, just be ready to speak. There's a word that needs to be said. The last thing that Jesus tells his disciples (of course Mark doesn't tell us this). Forgive me, I'm about to borrow from another gospel rather than Mark, because Mark ends with nothing happening. We'll discover that on Sunday. But the other writers remind us that Jesus last words to the disciples were, Go and tell. Go and talk. Go and make disciples. Go and announce the word and the early disciples did.
In spite of their circumstances, those early disciples kept that command. You read the opening chapters of the book of Acts and all of a sudden you realize, these people paid a great price. You remember Acts, Chapter 4? They are arrested because they are preaching. They're told to quit. They say NO! They're arrested again - they are beaten - and they say; you tell us, are we supposed to obey God or you? Thanks very much - they obey God - they go out and start preaching again! In fact, what they do is, they go home and they go to God and they say, by the way God, we've been told we're not supposed to say anything for you so if you don't mind, give us a little boldness. Now that's not the kind of prayer that I'm gonna pray. Frankly, if they tell me to be quiet, I'm going to pray, probably, that they leave me alone, not that God will give me more boldness to say more. They pray for boldness and God shakes the house.
The early church did it, everywhere they went. You remember Acts, Chapter 8, the first four verses? They were scattered all across the world. And it says in Verse 4 of Chapter 8; Everywhere they went, they preached about Jesus. They knew what to do. In fact, it's interesting, if you want to look at it, Colossians, Chapter 1, (we'll be back to Mark 13 in just a second) but, Colossians 1 has a fascinating remark directly related to this statement that Jesus makes in Mark 13.
See, a lot of people want to tell you that Mark, Chapter 13, the entire thing is about the second coming of Jesus. That's not true. I don't think! I think the first half of this Chapter is primarily about the destruction of Jerusalem. But the people who argue against that will tell you that he says, that the gospel has to be preached to the whole world before this thing happens, and obviously, the whole world hadn't heard the gospel, therefore there couldn't be the destruction of Jerusalem. Well, look at Paul's remark in Colossians, Chapter 1. It's a rather simple statement, Verse 6, all over the world this gospel is bearing fruit and growing - just as it has been doing among you, since the day you heard it and understood it. Paul understood, in his day, that the whole known world, as he understood it, had already heard the gospel. As far as they knew, under the inspiration of the spirit, this prophesy had been fulfilled. The whole world had heard the gospel. At least it had been preached among them.
I suspect that command still applies to "Go and Tell," to be ready to preach no matter what your circumstances. My only question is, will we? Will we have the courage of those early disciples to be people who speak, who are not intimidated by our world, but will have a voice, one that is willing to be heard. Oh, it's going to be difficult - you heard it in the text - Be on your guard - you're gonna get in trouble! But, go ahead and speak - say it anyway.
I don't know this lady's name - I, I looked and couldn't find it - it dates back to 1573. She was a young mother, who had been exposed to the first English translations of scripture, and had begun preaching this word that she had discovered - she was going about preaching the gospel in the streets of England, in the vernacular of the people, something basically, that just wasn't done, in fact, it just wasn't allowed. She, and several others had been arrested and had been put on trial. They had been condemned to be burned at the stake and one of the things that was said about her, particularly her, of the six that were arrested on that occasion, about her alone, it said, they screwed her tongue to the roof of her mouth because she wouldn't stop speaking about Jesus. Her son and his little brother were there the day that she was burned at the stake. The boy fainted at the site of his mother going up in flames. Later, he went through the ashes until he could find the screw that they used to seal his mother's tongue and he was never silent about Jesus, his entire life.
I find myself wondering. Do I have that kind of courage to speak no matter the circumstances? Am I willing to pay that price? Because normally, I'm quieted fairly easily. Well, here's the age-old question of course, that comes out of a text that has to do with the final coming of Jesus or the destruction of Jerusalem, which depends on where you put this. What would you do if you knew that Jesus was coming back tomorrow, or that, in this case, that the temple would be destroyed and the Jewish religion would be no more? Is there somebody that you'd like to talk to, if you just knew that tomorrow it was all over, is there somebody you'd call tonight? Well, all of us are thinking, yeah, sure would.
You know, I did some research here not too long ago about the demographics of Illinois, just kind of getting a feel for, you know, who lives here and all that stuff. You know, one of the amazing statistics I discovered is that the death rate in Illinois is 100%
I don't know when Jesus is coming, but I know this. Everybody in this town and this community is going to die eventually. I don't mean that to be morbid. I just mean, whether he comes or not, you're still going to meet HIM. And that impetus that you have to call them tomorrow, if you knew that Jesus was returning, shouldn't lesson just because you know, that you don't know that he is. It might change the way you approach them, but it shouldn't change the fact that you do approach them. Because the message is the same, we're not to be silent. Disciples are always ready to speak.
Well, when you come a little further in this text, you get to Verse 12, he picks this up again and says, Brothers will betray brothers to death, and a father will betray his child, children will rebel against their parents and have them put to death; all men will hate you because of me. But he who stands firm to the end will be saved.
When you see the abomination that causes desolation standing where it does not belong (let the reader understand), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains; let no one on the roof of his house go down and enter the house, to take anything out; let no one who is in the field go back in to get his cloak. How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers! Pray that this will not take place in winter. Because those will be days of distress unequaled from the beginning when God created the world until now, and never to be equaled again. If the Lord had not cut short those days, no one would survive; but for the sake of the elect, whom he has chosen, he has shortened them. At that time if anyone says to you, �Look, here is the Christ!' or �Look, there he is!' do not believe it. For false Christs and false prophets will appear and perform signs and miracles to deceive the elect, if that were possible.
Here's the third warning! Be on your guard; Watch he says, I have told you everything ahead of time. Here is the announcement of the destruction of Jerusalem. That there will be this abomination that causes desolation. Israel had seen that before. If you go back and read in the Maccabees, they had slaughtered pigs on the altar already. There's a lot of debate about what this particular desolation happens to be. What it is, is a little hard to figure. Maybe it's when the Romans, who eventually under Titus, took over Jerusalem in 68 A.D. and sacked the temple by 70 A.D. and totally destroyed it. Maybe it's the time that they placed their standards there in the temple grounds, and they began to offer sacrifices to them - I'm not sure, I doubt it, in part because this is a warning to get out of town before that happens. But when you see this abomination coming, make sure you leave town. That is such an amazing warning, because I think it's so opposite of what, the way we usually look at it. I mean, if you knew that Jerusalem was going to be destroyed, wouldn't you leave town now - instead of waiting until you see the tanks outside the city gates? Just leave now. Here's, I think, the point. Disciples are ready to suffer for the sake of the lost. Have you thought about this? If the disciples believed Jesus, that the City of Jerusalem is going to be destroyed, why not just leave now? I think the answer is because their family was there and their friends were there and there were non-Christians there and as long as that temple stood, they understood that there was an entire nation of people, their own Jewish heritage, that would not know Christ and had not yet responded to the gospel. And they had no other responsibility that they could think of, except to stay there and hang in there with those people until those people had an opportunity to hear the gospel. And so they stayed!
And Jesus says, when you see these certain signs, that's the time to leave and hope that it's not in winter, and hope that you're not pregnant. But when you leave, don't take time to go back for your coat because it will be too late by then. Get out when the getting's good. But it's interesting - they stayed as long as they could before they left.
There is a passion in the early church about reaching a lost world that is absolutely undeniable. And when you come to grips with who Jesus is in your life, you become willing to suffer for the sake of Christ in order to reach people that you care about.
Read the history of missions and all of a sudden, you are confronted with people who lost their entire family. Who went through (if you'll forgive me for saying it that way) two or three wives in order to be in a mission field. You hear the story of Helen Rosavere (??) who went to, what was known then as the Belgian Congo, who when it was taken over, found herself captive to the rebels, repeatedly tortured and raped, sent home to England long enough to heal, turned around and went back and established a mission hospital and converted the very people that were responsible for her torture.
You read the story through Gates of Spender and you hear the story of Elizabeth Elliott and those other missionary families to the Inca (??) Indians of Ecuador. Every husband in that group was killed and Elizabeth Elliott came home long enough to retrain and then go back to Ecuador and she reached the very man who killed her husband. In fact one of them has been touring the United States in recent months giving his testimony. What is it that makes people so care about lost people, that they're willing to suffer? And does that kind of thing still apply? Have you thought about this text recently in 2Peter. You know I don't think about this text a lot cause I confess to you, I don't think about the second coming a great deal. It's not fresh on my mind. Is it fresh on your mind? Do you get up every day wondering if today's going to be the day? I just have to admit to you that it's just not the first thought that I have. My life has been going along, you know, pretty much the same for the last several years. I don't get up thinking today could be it. I know people who do. I'm not one of them.
2Peter, Chapter 3 has this interesting comment in it. Down here in Verse 3. He says, First of all you must understand, that in the last days scoffers will come scoffing, following their own evil desires. They are going to say, "Where is this coming that he promised? Forever since our fathers died, everything goes on since the beginning of creation."
Boy, if they can say that - in the late sixties/early seventies A.D. - don't you suppose we'd be saying the same thing here in the 21st century. I mean, if he's gonna come, don't ya think he'd be coming here pretty soon?
Come down just a few verses later to Verse 8. Do not forget this one thing, friends, with the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years is like a day. The Lord is not slow keeping his promise as some understand slowness, he's patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.
Why has the Lord not returned yet? Because there are still people who don't know Jesus, that's why. And he's patient enough to give them one more chance.
Two weeks ago, my daughter's first college roommate went out to visit her in New Jersey. They spent that week, or so, together. Laurie is from southern Illinois. She won't be from southern - well, I guess she'll always be from southern Illinois. She won't be in southern Illinois much longer, she's going to Afghanistan. Her mother's a little, well I don't know, hesitant (would be a good word I suppose) reticent, frightened might be another word. Laurie's going because the door's open and there are people there who need to know Jesus. And I'm just guessing - I don't know this - I'm no prophet, but I'm guessing that it won't be very long until Team Expansion or some other mission agency, will be sending missionaries to Iraq because the door will be open for the first time. And, why will people go? Because the Lord is patient and he doesn't want anybody to not have an opportunity. So Christian people, disciples like you and me . . . . . suffer for the sake of the gospel. Suffer for the sake of lost people, if that's what it takes and so we stay with it as long as we possibly can before we get out.
Now there's a transition that occurs in this text. It seems to me that the first half of this text is clearly the destruction of Jerusalem and there are a lot of reasons for thinking that. At Verse 24, however, there is a very clear shift to the second coming of Jesus, the return of Christ. "In those days, following that distress, the sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its light, the stars will fall from the sky and the heavenly bodies will be shaken. At that time, men will see the Son of man coming in the clouds with great power and glory. And he will send his angels, and gather his elect from the four winds from the ends of the earth to the ends of the heavens."
"Now learn this lesson from the fig tree; as soon as its twigs get tender and its leaves come out, you know that summer is near. Even so, when you see these things happening, you know that it is near, right at the door. I tell you the truth, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened. Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away."
Now, that's the interesting thing, Verses 28 through 30 appear to have slipped back to the destruction of Jerusalem. It's an intriguing sort of thing. Maybe it has dual application, I'm not sure. Maybe generation means something other than that particular generation. Maybe he simply means the Christian era will not be over. But most of that is certainly in reference to the second coming of Jesus and it says, I think, so clearly, that disciples are ready to celebrate when the Lord returns cause we look for his coming. We want him to return. We live in the anticipation of his returning. By the way, this text makes it pretty clear - there won't be anything hidden about it. No offense to those of you who are in love with the La Hayes(??) Series. I just really think they're wrong. You know the trumpet sound and the voice of the angel - when he returns, everybody's going to know it. It's not going to be hidden. He's not hiding anything. He's going to come in his full glory and everything and everybody is going to stop in his tracks and their going to know he's here.
And once he's here, it's a little too late to do anything about it. All the prep time will have been over. That's why these chapters are here, so you'll prepare now for what's to come. I don't know when it will happen. I don't even want to know. What I do know, it's going to happen.
See. The gospel of Mark has already prepared us for that. It's asked this question. What has to happen before you return? Well, Elijah has to come before Jesus returns - that's already been done. What has to happen? Well, the Son has to suffer before he can return. Well, that's been done. The temple has to be destroyed. Well, that's been accomplished. The church has to face persecution. Yep, that ones out of the way too! The gospel has to be preached to the world. Yep, that ones all accomplished too! Which means, he could come any time he wants, cause everything is ready. He could come today. He could come tomorrow. What we do know is, HE COULD COME! And we live in the anticipation of that and we begin the process of learning how to celebrate that already. I assume, at least, you want to celebrate his coming, that it doesn't trouble you that he's coming. But if you read the opening parts of Revelations, some folks aren't really looking forward to it - in fact, when you read the book of Revelation some people will hear that trumpet, some people will hear the voice, they'll look up and see who's coming and here's what they are going to say; fall on us - oh, by the way, they'll be talking to the mountains, not to him, because they think they're gonna be able to hide. I suspect that if you're thinking that you don't want him to come, for any other reason that you have somebody you love that needs yet to become a Christian, you probably ought to think about listening to what he says; BE READY! Cause your heart ought to be at peace at the thought of that celebration.
See, unlike watching for the fall of Jerusalem, in which the warning is, when you see it start to happen, run for your life - when you see this one start to happen - just gladly fall to your knees and raise your hands because he's here. And that's what you've been looking forward to all your Christian life. Because at that point, the suffering is over and so we start now to celebrate which is why I am such an advocate of celebrative worship, so that we get in the habit of doing what we're going to spend eternity doing. You know, I'm not very good at stuff the first time I try it. I need a little training. Training I can get down here to get me ready for up there is welcome. So when I celebrate here, I realize that all I'm doing is getting ready to do what I'm gonna have the privilege of doing for all of eternity - celebrating the presence of Jesus - living in the shadow of God himself - knowing the real presence. Well, there's an awful lot of stuff we don't know. We don't know when he's coming. We don't even know how he's coming. But there is enough that we do know. We know that we need to know him and we know that we need to listen to this text and be ready.
Now, it's a little unusual for us to offer any kind of an invitation in the middle of the week. I mean, after all, nobody can respond to Jesus except on Sunday morning. So, we'll pray that, okay, you know that I'm kidding. We're going to sing. Now we're not going to technically offer an invitation but you know, whether you know who he is and you know whether you're ready for his coming and if you want to do something about it, we'd let you do something really silly, like disrupt the service and come up here. It would only embarrass you. You wouldn't embarrass God and wouldn't trouble anybody in this room and I'd rather be embarrassed tonight than should he return tomorrow and wished I had. So if you don't know who Jesus is, and you want to know, let us introduce him to you. He's the one who said, I'm coming back! I'm coming back for you. I'll wait, I'll wait just long enough to give you a chance.
We'll just remain seated. I'm just gonna sit up here. If you want to just come sit beside me and talk, then, please feel free to come. After we've sung these songs, I'm going to come back and lead us in a communion time and then we'll share together in the Lord's supper.
It's amazing to me what difference a little perspective makes. I doubt if on Thursday you would have thought it was a wonderful cross. Three days later, that ugly, blood stained, horrid piece of execution equipment suddenly became a wonderful cross. It was a marvelous thing that Jesus did for you and me in giving his life. Here's what he said just after he had shared this 13th chapter. Mark says, that the Passover and the feast of unleaven bread were only two days away. The chief priests and the teachers of the law were looking for some sly way to arrest Jesus. Not during the feast, they said, the people may riot. He's sitting here at this house of the leper and there's this woman who anoints him, whom we'll talk about tomorrow night, and prepares him for burial; and as she prepares him for what's to come, he now prepares them and us for what we can expect. On that first day of the feast of unleaven bread, it was customary to sacrifice a Passover lamb. Jesus disciples asked him, where do you want us to go and make preparations for you to eat the Passover and so he sent the two of his disciples, go into the city. A man carrying a jar of water will meet you, follow him. Say to the owner of the house he enters, "The Teacher asks, where is my guest room where I can eat the Passover with my disciples? He'll show you a large upper room, furnished and ready. Make preparations there. Disciples left, went into the city and found things just as Jesus told them and they prepared the Passover. When evening came, Jesus arrived with the twelve and while they were reclining at the table said, "Somebody is going to betray me, one who is here eating with me." They were sad, they wanted to know, "Is it I?" "It's one of the twelve he said, one who dips his bread into the bowl. The Son of man will go, just as it is written about him but woe to that man who betrays the Son. It would have been better if he had not been born. While they were eating, Jesus took bread and he gave thanks and he broke it. He gave it to his disciples and said, "Take it, this is my body," and then he took the cup and he gave thanks and he offered it to them and they all drank from it. "This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many. I tell you the truth, I will not drink again of the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God."
At that meal, he held up bread, he held up a cup and he says, your going to do this and it's going to be me and your going to think of me and your going to remember me and your going to remember what I've done for you on this night. Twenty years later, the apostle Paul gave that an interesting turn. He quotes this text and he says, we're going to do this in remembrance of him but we're going to do it in a way that proclaims his death until he comes.
This table we have set around this room tonight in various places for you to participate in, is both a backward and a forward look. It certainly does look back 2000 years to that event that marks this season, that marks the opportunity for our transformation. It reminds us of what God has done on our behalf. But it is always a proclamation of his death until he comes and every time we gather at this table we're reminded - I am going to return - I am coming for you - and I am reminded that I am to be ready for that return.


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NEW DELHI: After the BJP emerged victorious in the assembly elections by defeating the Congress in both Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat, the party is now mulling decision on chief ministers for these states. As the party's presumptive state chief for Himachal Pradesh, PK Dhumal lost his seat in the polls, speculations are rife as to who the next chief minister of the state would be. During the Gujarat election campaign, Amit Shah had said that incumbent chief minister Vijay Rupani was the party's face in the state. The BJP has decided to send two teams headed by Arun Jaitley and Nirmala Sitharaman to Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat as observers.
BJP could opt for a Thakur leader in Himachal Pradesh, say party sources.
Although JP Nadda and five-term MLA Jairam Thakur are being seen as frontrunners for the chief minister's post on Himachal Pradesh, BJP sources have said that the party could also opt for a Thakur leader, the dominant community in the hill state. Mr Nadda is a Brahmin.
The BJP could also opt for a Patel or Patidar chief minister like outgoing deputy CM Nitin Patel, to assuage the influential community.
Vijay Rupani is considered a stable, caste neutral choice for the party. Mr Rupani is known to have a clean image and is also seen as close to party chief Amit Shah who had said while campaigning that Mr Rupani was the party's choice for CM.
Vijay Rupani, outgoing Gujarat chief minister is seen as the favourite for the top post, but the BJP's performance in the assembly elections has thrown open the possibility of the party opting for someone else. As the state BJP waits for the arrival from Delhi of union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, who will oversee the selection of the next chief minister, the only consensus is that it is anyone's guess.
Nadda's proximity to the party top brass is seen as a big plus for him. However, some party leaders believe that the BJP's central leadership may finally choose the chief minister from among lawmakers.
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July 10, 2018 (JUBA) - As discussions over the governance chapter are stalled in Khartoum, the main armed opposition SPLM-IO Tuesday accused the South Sudanese government army of attacking its positions in Yei River State.
"This morning the 10/07/2018, over 200 regime's soldiers went out of Morobo Town and attacked the SPLA IO base at Isebi in Lujulo Payam of Morobo County, Yei River State," said SPLM-IO military spokesperson Lam Paul Gabriel.
In a second statement, Gabriel further said Yei River Governor Emmanuel Adil is preparing to launch an attack SPLA IO bases in Kajo Keji county.
The warring parties committed themselves in an agreement signed on 27 June to implement a permanent ceasefire in the country starting from the 1 July.
However, they had accused each other of breaching the deal twice in the Northern Upper Nile and Yei River State.
The SPLA IO spokesperson called on the ceasefire monitoring mechanism, CTSAMM, and UNMISS peacekeepers to investigate into these attacks and to hold Governor Adil responsible for the alleged violations.
Gabriel further went to say that the South Sudanese army Chief of staff Gen. Jok Riek, recently travelled to China to acquiring new weapons to continue with their military campaign despite the ongoing peace process.
"This is a blatant violation of the signed permanent ceasefire," he added.
Lam, you need to cease from posting nonsense here, your thugs are the one looting civilians in morobo county and you're trying to twisted around. Who is really still don't know your dirty little secret of propagating everything? Just be frank, if you're blocked from entering civilians village by the government troops!
97% of ceasefires violation are reportedly to be committed by your undisciplined Dinka militia. We IO are known for reporting the facts and not harassment the civilians.


Vice Rector for Innovation and Partnership hands over the plants result of Unhas innovation for animal feed to the Regent of Bantaeng, to be given to local farmers.
On behalf of the 61st Dies Natalis, Universitas Hasanuddin conducted the launching of the Integrated Community Service Program, taking place in the yard of the Seruni Beach, Bantaeng Regency, Sunday (3/9/2017), since 10.30 WITA. The event that is coupled with the Innovation and Product Exhibition Unhas was participated by the Bantaeng Regent, Prof. Dr. Nurdin Abdullah, M.Agr, Vice Rector for Innovation and Partnership, Prof. dr. Budu, Ph.D., Sp.M(K), M.Ed, and Head of the Research and Community Service Institution (LP2M), Prof. Dr. Ir. La Ode Asrul, MA. Other Head Officials that was present includes Heads of Faculties, Board of Trustees, Academic Senate, Unhas academic elements, along with the Head SKPD of the Bantaeng Regent Government.
During the start of the event, Head of the Unhas LP2M, Prof. La Ode Asrul stated his high appreciation to the partnership and willingness of the Bantaeng Regency. "We attained a marvelous greeting. Not only are we facilitated for the success of this event, but we were also escorted from Makassar to Bantaeng. It is like we were picked up," stated Prof. La Ode, greeted with laughs by the crowd.
Meanwhile, the Bantaeng Regent Prof. Nurdin Abdullah stated of his blissfulness with the conduct of community service at his region. He confessed how since the beginning when he was the Head of Village, Unhas had been his primary consultation destination in seeking solutions. On the other hand, Unhas has also given support to solve numerous development issues.
"I remember when I was inaugurated as the Regent, I was summoned by Prof. Akil, and he stated that: Unhas is your kitchen, never forget your kitchen. And that is what I have done. Every time I faced problems, I would always go back to Unhas. So, If anyone says that Nurdin has succeeded as a Regent, that is also the success of Unhas," stated Nurdin Abdullah, greeted with cheers.
In his speech representing the Unhas Rector, the Vice Rector for Innovation and Partnership, Prof. Budu, admitted how the Bantaeng Regent has a positive image in numerous stakeholders. "If we submit a research or community service proposal with the Bantaeng Regency Government as the partnering institution, a positive response will always be expected," enthusiastically addressed by Prof. Budu.
The partnership between Unhas and Bantaeng Regency is one among the many implemented partnerships developed by Unhas. "As a higher education institution that is in the first cluster based on the Ministry of Research, Technology, and Higher Education, the partnership orientation is founded on the principles of Academic, Business, Community, and Government. Therefore, we also have multi stakeholder partnerships, for example between Unhas, Bantaeng Regency Government, and BPPT," elaborated Prof. Budu.
During this event, the Unhas products displayed is the result of innovation and ready to be mainstreamed, or given to industries. Besides agricultural commodities, Unhas innovation in the form of fishing boats was also presented, an innovation which contains significant advantages with flat plate technology making it flexible and easy to reach rural areas.
The Bantaeng Regent, accompanied by the Heads of Unhas, then visited the Unhas innovation stand. On this opportunity, the Bantaeng Regent and Unhas Rector (represented by the Vice Rector for Innovation and Partnership), also produced the innovation product of "dodol markisa." This product is produced by the Community Business Group that is supervised by the Entrepreneurship and Business Incubator, Agribusiness Study Program, Faculty of Agriculture, Universitas Hasanuddin, in partnership with the Department of Food Security Bantaeng Regency.


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Triumph Trident and BSA Rocket 3
Peter Henshaw
The 3-cylinder Triumph Trident and BSA Rocket 3 were developed to compete with Honda's forthcoming 750cc motorcycle. Initially they did not compare well – although very fast, they lacked sophistication and their quirky styling was offputting – and the decision was made to suspend production. This was not the most auspicious start, but a fightback was initiated and in 1971 the factory race team had a triumphant year including placing 1st, 2nd and 3rd at the Daytona 200. With over 250 photographs, the full rollercoaster-ride history of these bikes is described, including: how the bikes came to be, including a timeline of significant events; a year-by-year account of the evolution of the bikes, through the T150, T160 and Rocket 3; the story of the Hurricane; the full racing history and, finally, the Triumph 3-cylinder bikes today.
Triumph Trident and BSA Rocket 3 by Peter Henshaw
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Submarine Builders Go on Strike
Published on February 13, 1997 by Igor Kudrik
Shipbuilders at Russia's largest nuclear submarine yard, in the town of Severodvinsk, went on strike at the end of last week. They complain the government is months behind in salary payments. Several workers have not received wages for up to eight months, while about 12.000 umemployed former shipyard workers haven't got any state benefits for more than a year. The strike is supported by most of the residents and the mayor of Severodvinsk.
Located west of Archangelsk, the closed town of Severodvinsk hosts the only shipyard constructing new nuclear submarines in Russia, in addition to three other yards. The chairman of the Russian Trade Union of Shipbuilding Workers, Vladimir Makavchik, told Interfax the shipbuilders no longer will work "for free."
–The government is still failing to pay for its own defence orders, Makavchik said. –The creators of state-of-the-art military equipment have not seen cash for many months, he added. Mayor Alexandr Belyayev said the government has been unable to pay 1 trillon rubles ($177 million) worth of government contracts, including shipyard works carried out in 1995. To Interfax he described the situation as "close to disastrous." On February 11 the city received 30 billion roubles. Another 30 billion are expected from Moscow soon, but this will cover only 10% of the debt. Currently the state owes each worker at the four Severodvinsk ship yards from 5 to 9 million roubles.
Besides demanding that overdue wages, pensions and benefits are cashed out, the strikers in Severodvinsk demand that the government be dismissed and Russia's president step down for health reasons. Instead of wages, submarine builders have received bread every day, Itar-Tass reported. The pensioners haven't recived benefits since November last year, and 15.000 public workers received their September salaries at the end of January. Severodvinsk mayor Belyayev said: "In these circumstances, people are capable of taking extreme measures."
Igor Kudrik
igor@bellona.no
Strike in Severodvinsk is temporary stopped


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Úriz (Uritz en euskera de forma cooficial) es una localidad española y un concejo de la Comunidad Foral de Navarra perteneciente al municipio de  Arce. Está situado en la Merindad de Sangüesa, en la comarca de Auñamendi y a 42 km de la capital de la comunidad, Pamplona. Su población en  fue de  habitantes (INE).

Geografía física

Situación

Demografía

Evolución de la población

Véase también

Arce
Lista de concejos de Navarra

Referencias

Enlaces externos

Datos de Úriz - Gobierno de Navarra - Información y datos de entidades locales de Navarra.
INEbase / Nomenclátor. Relación de unidades poblacionales - Úriz/Uritz - Instituto Nacional de Estadística (España).

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Sink your teeth into Bram Stoker's vampire saga in "The Trail of Dracula: From Folklore to Screen"
By Bryan Thomas on October 14, 2019
David Mitchell and Jamie Lockhart's 2006 documentary The Trail of Dracula: From Folklore to Screen (2016) is a brief but in-depth look at unquestionably the most popular of all the horror movie characters and iconic figures of folklore, Count Dracula, giving us a peek at how he's been portrayed in books, movies, TV and video games since 1897, the year that Irish novelist Bram Stoker's novel Dracula was first published.
You'll find plenty to sink your teeth into in The Trail of Dracula — it's chock-full of archival materials like historical drawings and photographs, as well as film clips and interviews with Bela Lugosi, John Carradine and Christopher Lee, among many others — now streaming in our "Horror Month: Vampires and Psycho Killers" section on Night Flight Plus.
As Severin Films tells us, "Vampires have been an icon of evil in folklore and popular culture for more than three centuries, yet only one name still personifies the ultimate aristocrat of bloodlust," Count Dracula, who "has been a looming figure in countless books, films and television series, but his twisted path from literary protagonist to pop culture mainstay is still largely unknown to many."
Stoker set his famous Gothic tale of horror in Transylvania, a real region of the world located in the country Romania.
Transylvania can still be found in a shadow-filled valley plateau in northwestern central part of that country, bordered on its eastern and southern borders by the Carpathian Mountains, and on its western side by the Apuseni Mountains.
It's interesting to note right from the start, however, that the people who live in this particular region of Romania had a very seriously negative reaction to Stoker's 1897 novel, Dracula.
The book was unofficially banned in Transylvania until just recently, the mid-1990s, one hundred years later (Bram Stoker died penniless, by the way).
This was due, no doubt, to the fact that Stoker's fictional character of "Count Dracula" was based in part on an infamously real Transylvanian person, Vlad III, or Vlad Tepes, or Vlad Dracul, the Prince of Wallachia, who is probably better known by his nasty nickname, "Vlad the Impaler."
A Romanian folk hero, Vlad III is nevertheless someone, simply by being a real person, who deserves to have his own story told, even if there are parts to his story which involved the deaths of others.
It turns out that the two Draculas — Vlad III and Count Dracula — have very little in common with each other.
Vlad III — born in 1431 in Târgovişte, the royal seat of the principality of Wallachia — never owned any property in Transylvania, for instance, although the spooky old Bran Castle in modern-day Transylvania is today a tourist attraction where visitors are told is similar to the castle where the fictional Count lived at one time.
Vlad III's father, Vlad II — who was a "voivode," or ruler of the region — did own a residence in Sighişoara, Transylvania, a city on the Târnava Mare River about one hundred fifty miles to the north of Vlad III's birthplace (more than a day's journey by horse-driven coach in the late 1800s).
Today the old walled-in, well-preserved town is listed UNESCO as a World Heritage Site due to it's infamous fictional resident.
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David Mitchell and Jamie Lockhart's documentary — which feels too short at 63-minutes long, it could have easily been twice that length, in fact, and still leave out so much — explores the myth and legend of Dracula, from his literary roots to his larger than life film history.
The film is largely chronological, so we learn a little bit about Dracula's Romanian background and indeed about Stoker's story of an undead count who feasts upon the blood of the living — a story told via folkloric stories in Middle Europe for centuries — before we're moving into the saga of modern-age vampires.
We learn that the novel was the launching-off point for what followed which we really know more about in the modern-era due to the popularity of the movies based on the novel, beginning with F.W. Murnau's silent film Nosferatu, starring Max Shreck as the mysterious "Count Orlok."
Next, of course, was Tod Browning's 1931 film Dracula, the Universal horror classic starring Romanian-born actor Bela Lugosi.
Their documentary film relies on "the world's foremost experts" on Dracula — including academics, authors, horror historians, film critics and other enthusiasts — to tell us how the legend of Count Dracula developed over the rest of the 20th Century to become the iconic character we know and love today.
We also hear from people like actor Christopher Lee, who agreed to appear in the Hammer Films sequels to Terence Fisher's The Horror of Dracula (1958) simply because he knew it could become a franchise that would keep everyone involved in the films, including himself, employed.
Mentioned here are also films like Dracula's Daughter, Son of Dracula, Return of the Vampire, House of Frankenstein and House of Dracula — both with the great John Carradine as the Count — The Return of Dracula (starring Francis Lederer), Old Dracula (starring David Niven), Andy Warhol's Blood for Dracula, Dracula A.D. 1972, The Vampire Lovers (with lovely Ingrid Pitt), Zoltan: Hound of Dracula, Al Adamson's Dracula vs. Frankenstein, Billy the Kid vs. Dracula, Blacula, Seven Brothers Meet Dracula, Lady Dracula, Jess Franco's Vampyros Lesbos, and many, many more.
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Attempts to prevent pests adapting to Bt crops may fail - study
1. Multi-toxin biotech crops not silver bullets, UA scientists warn
2. Potential shortfall of pyramided transgenic cotton for insect resistance management - study abstract
NOTE: Pest resistance to Bt toxin in single-trait Bt crops has led the GM industry to stack multiple types of Bt toxin in one crop, in an attempt to kill off the pests that have evolved resistance to one toxin. But new experiments suggest that the assumptions underlying this model are false and doomed to fail.
As more and more research dollars are burned up in an attempt to shore up an intrinsically unsustainable approach to pest management, we can't help but wish that our money were used to explore genuinely sustainable solutions.
By Daniel Stolte
University of Arizona News
http://www.uanews.org/story/multi-toxin-biotech-crops-not-silver-bullets-ua-scientists-warn
A strategy widely used to prevent pests from quickly adapting to crop-protecting toxins may fail in some cases unless better preventive actions are taken, suggests new research by University of Arizona entomologists published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Corn and cotton have been genetically modified to produce pest-killing proteins from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis, or Bt for short. Compared with typical insecticide sprays, the Bt toxins produced by genetically engineered crops are much safer for people and the environment, explained Yves Carriere, a professor of entomology in the UA College of Agriculture and Life Sciences who led the study.
Although Bt crops have helped to reduce insecticide sprays, boost crop yields and increase farmer profits, their benefits will be short-lived if pests adapt rapidly, said Bruce Tabashnik, a co-author of the study and head of the UA department of entomology. "Our goal is to understand how insects evolve resistance so we can develop and implement more sustainable, environmentally friendly pest management," he said. Tabashnik and Carriere are both members of the UA's BIO5 Institute.
Bt crops were first grown widely in 1996, and several pests have already become resistant to plants that produce a single Bt toxin. To thwart further evolution of pest resistance to Bt crops, farmers have recently shifted to the "pyramid" strategy: each plant produces two or more toxins that kill the same pest. As reported in the study, the pyramid strategy has been adopted extensively, with two-toxin Bt cotton completely replacing one-toxin Bt cotton since 2011 in the U.S.
Most scientists agree that two-toxin plants will be more durable than one-toxin plants. The extent of the advantage of the pyramid strategy, however, rests on assumptions that are not always met, the study reports. Using lab experiments, computer simulations and analysis of published experimental data, the new results help explain why one major pest has started to become resistant faster than anticipated.
"The pyramid strategy has been touted mostly on the basis of simulation models," said Carrière. "We tested the underlying assumptions of the models in lab experiments with a major pest of corn and cotton. The results provide empirical data that can help to improve the models and make the crops more durable."
One critical assumption of the pyramid strategy is that the crops provide redundant killing, Carrière explained. "Redundant killing can be achieved by plants producing two toxins that act in different ways to kill the same pest," he said, "so, if an individual pest has resistance to one toxin, the other toxin will kill it."
In the real world, things are a bit more complicated, Carriere's team found out. Thierry Brevault, a visiting scientist from France, led the lab experiments at the UA. His home institution, the Center for Agricultural Research for Development, or CIRAD, is keenly interested in factors that could affect pest resistance to Bt crops in Africa.
"We obviously can't release resistant insects into the field, so we breed them in the lab and bring in the crop plants to do feeding experiments," Carriere said. For their experiments, the group collected cotton bollworm – also known as corn earworm or Helicoverpa zea – a species of moth that is a major agricultural pest, and selected it for resistance against one of the Bt toxins, Cry1Ac.
As expected, the resistant caterpillars survived after munching on cotton plants producing only that toxin. The surprise came when Carriere's team put them on pyramided Bt cotton containing Cry2Ab in addition to Cry1Ac.
If the assumption of redundant killing is correct, caterpillars resistant to the first toxin should survive on one-toxin plants, but not on two-toxin plants, because the second toxin should kill them, Carriere explained.
"But on the two-toxin plants, the caterpillars selected for resistance to one toxin survived significantly better than caterpillars from a susceptible strain."
These findings show that the crucial assumption of redundant killing does not apply in this case and may also explain the reports indicating some field populations of cotton bollworm rapidly evolved resistance to both toxins.
Moreover, the team's analysis of published data from eight species of pests reveals that some degree of cross-resistance between Cry1 and Cry2 toxins occurred in 19 of 21 experiments. Contradicting the concept of redundant killing, cross-resistance means that selection with one toxin increases resistance to the other toxin.
According to the study's authors, even low levels of cross-resistance can reduce redundant killing and undermine the pyramid strategy. Carriere explained that this is especially problematic with cotton bollworm and some other pests that are not highly susceptible to Bt toxins to begin with.
The team found violations of other assumptions required for optimal success of the pyramid strategy. In particular, inheritance of resistance to plants producing only Bt toxin Cry1Ac was dominant, which is expected to reduce the ability of refuges to delay resistance.
Refuges consist of standard plants that do not make Bt toxins and thus allow survival of susceptible pests. Under ideal conditions, inheritance of resistance is not dominant and the susceptible pests emerging from refuges greatly outnumber the resistant pests. If so, the matings between two resistant pests needed to produce resistant offspring are unlikely. But if inheritance of resistance is dominant, as seen with cotton bollworm, matings between a resistant moth and a susceptible moth can produce resistant offspring, which hastens resistance.
According to Tabashnik, overly optimistic assumptions have led the EPA to greatly reduce requirements for planting refuges to slow evolution of pest resistance to two-toxin Bt crops.
The new results should come as a wakeup call to consider larger refuges to push resistance further into the future, Carriere pointed out. "Our simulations tell us that with 10 percent of acreage set aside for refuges, resistance evolves quite fast, but if you put 30 or 40 percent aside, you can substantially delay it."
"Our main message is to be more cautious, especially with a pest like the cotton bollworm," Carrière said. "We need more empirical data to refine our simulation models, optimize our strategies and really know how much refuge area is required. Meanwhile, let's not assume that the pyramid strategy is a silver bullet."
2. Study abstract
Potential shortfall of pyramided transgenic cotton for insect resistance management
Thierry Brevaulta, Shannon Heuberger, Min Zhang, Christa Ellers-Kirk, Xinzhi Ni, Luke Masson, Xianchiun Li, Bruce E. Tabashnik, and Yves Carriere
PNAS, March 25, 2013
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/03/22/1216719110.abstract
To delay evolution of pest resistance to transgenic crops producing insecticidal proteins from Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt), the "pyramid" strategy uses plants that produce two or more toxins that kill the same pest. In the United States, this strategy has been adopted widely, with two-toxin Bt cotton replacing one-toxin Bt cotton. Although two-toxin plants are likely to be more durable than one-toxin plants, the extent of this advantage depends on several conditions. One key assumption favoring success of two-toxin plants is that they kill insects selected for resistance to one toxin, which is called "redundant killing". Here we tested this assumption for a major pest, Helicoverpa zea, on transgenic cotton producing Bt toxins Cry1Ac and Cry2Ab. Selection with Cry1Ac increased survival on two-toxin cotton, which contradicts the assumption. The concentration of Cry1Ac and Cry2Ab declined during the growing season, which would tend to exacerbate this problem.
Furthermore, analysis of results from 21 selection experiments with eight species of lepidopteran pests indicates that some cross-resistance typically occurs between Cry1A and Cry2A toxins. Incorporation of empirical data into simulation models shows that the observed deviations from ideal conditions could greatly reduce the benefits of the pyramid strategy for pests like H. zea, which have inherently low susceptibility to Bt toxins and have been exposed extensively to one of the toxins in the pyramid before two-toxin plants are adopted. For such pests, the pyramid strategy could be improved by incorporating empirical data on deviations from ideal assumptions about redundant killing and cross-resistance.


Nail Art with China Glaze Full Spectrum, Essie Foot Loose, and Striping Tape!
Ever I bought my China Glaze Prismatic Collection polishes, I've been experimenting with these babies, and boy, are they awesome! Even if you don't like how they look on their own (and how can you not?), I love how they really add that extra zing to any mani.
As proof, here's my NOTD (Nail of the day)!
This was a base of Essie Footloose, and then jazzed up with China Glaze Full Spectrum. Essie Footloose is a creme pinky-purple shade that's just perfect for Spring/Summer (which I've featured before), while China Glaze Full Spectrum, as one of the much-hyped Prismatic Collection polishes, needs no introduction. I've swatched Full Spectrum before (together with other Prismatic polishes), but I thought it would still be cool to share my mani with you guys!
I really like this mani - it's girly, but still fun and eye catching, and has just the right bit of glitter for those who are glitter shy. And I have to say, I think the Prismatic polishes look fantastic layered - the different sizes and colours of glitter really add a bit more dimension to the nail. I'm definitely glad I got these, and I'm still looking for more ways to experiment with them!
I..didn't know they made striping tape at all so I can't laugh at you!
i think it's modern and girly - love it!


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Collected papers of Hans Rademacher.
Encyklopädie der mathematischen Wissenschaften mit Einschluss ihrer Anwendungen.
Mathematical talent: discovery, description, and development; : proceedings.
Mathematics in the secondary school classroom; : selected readings.
Paul Erdös: the art of counting. : Selected writings.
Soviet studies in the psychology of learning and teaching mathematics.
The collected mathematical papers of Leonard Eugene Dickson.
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The forest night frog (Nyctibatrachus sylvaticus) is a species of frog in the family Nyctibatrachidae endemic to India. Its natural habitats are tropical moist lowland forests and rivers.

Taxonomy
This species was discovered by C. R. Narayan Rao in 1937, and was thought to have gone extinct after remaining unsighted for 74 years. Its rediscovery in 2011 coincided with the discovery of Nyctibatrachus poocha and others of the genus Nyctibatrachus by herpetologist Sathyabhama Das Biju.

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Frogs of India
Endemic fauna of the Western Ghats
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Electron tomograms of intact frozen-hydrated cells are essentially three-dimensional images of the entire proteome of the cell, and they depict the whole network of macromolecular interactions. However, this information is not easily accessible because of the poor signal-to-noise ratio of the tomograms and the crowded nature of the cytoplasm. Here, we describe a template matching algorithm that is capable of detecting and identifying macromolecules in tomographic volumes in a fully automated manner. The algorithm is based on nonlinear cross correlation and incorporates elements of multivariate statistical analysis. Phantom cells, i.e., lipid vesicles filled with macromolecules, provide a realistic experimental scenario for an assessment of the fidelity of this approach. At the current resolution of approximately 4 nm, macromolecules in the size range of 0.5-1 MDa can be identified with good fidelity.
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Two Medicaid beneficiaries have filed a lawsuit against the state Department of Health for denying coverage of replacement dentures and dental implants.
The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, claimed the state's reasons for denying that coverage violate federal law concerning the Medicaid program.
The plaintiffs are being represented by Mary Eaton, a partner at Willkie Farr & Gallagher in Manhattan, and attorneys at the Legal Aid Society, including Belkys Garcia from the Law Reform Unit, Rebecca Novick from the Health Law Unit, and others. The Department of Health, as a state agency, is represented by the state Attorney General's Office.
The state Department of Health defended the Medicaid program in a statement on Friday, saying the program is constantly being evaluated for ways it can be improved. Spokesman Gary Holmes said the agency is committed to evaluating each case individually to determine if coverage is warranted.
Plaintiffs Frank Ciaramella and Richard Palazzolo are Medicaid recipients who live in New York City and Suffolk County respectively. According to the complaint, both Ciaramella and Palazzolo were both approved for dentures by the state Medicaid program.
Both men either lost their dentures or weren't able to use them because of events out of their control, according to the complaint. Ciaramella's bottom dentures were so ill-fitting that he once choked on them, and his upper dentures were run over by a car after they fell out of his mouth. Palazzolo, who had partial lower dentures, came home one day to his room in a supportive housing facility to find his dentures had been stolen.
An oral surgeon told Ciaramella that he would need dental implants before he was given new dentures because he needed more bone support for the replacements, the lawsuit said. He was denied coverage of the implants because the service was not billable after placement of dentures, according to the complaint.
Both men were denied new dentures because a rule from New York's Medicaid program requires eight years to pass before a new set is covered, the plaintiffs said.
Attorneys claim in the complaint that the state's denial of coverage violated provisions of the federal Medicaid Act, including the comparability provision. That part of the law essentially said coverage for a service under Medicaid can not be denied for some individuals but allowed for others.
They argued that since other Medicaid recipients in New York are approved for dental implants, Ciaramella should be as well.
Attorneys also claimed the state's Medicaid rules violate the availability provision of the Medicaid Act, which in part mandates that if a state chooses to cover dental services, that should include the treatment of "disease, injury or impairment that may affect the oral or general health of the beneficiary," according to the complaint.
Both men, the lawsuit said, need new dentures to maintain their overall health. Ciaramella suffers from end-stage renal disease, diabetes, and was diagnosed as protein malnourished. Attorneys argued the state is making his condition worse by not providing coverage for dentures that would allow him to eat food with more protein. His renal condition prevents him from drinking protein shakes, they said.
Palazzolo also suffers from diabetes and has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and depression, the complaint said. He's had a hard time chewing since he lost his dentures, which has limited his diet, and also said his physical appearance without dentures has worsened his mental health.
Attorneys argued the overall health of both plaintiffs has been threatened without dentures, and that the state should be mandated to cover replacements to improve their well-being.
Similar arguments were used in Cruz v. Zucker, a case brought against the state Department of Health over Medicaid coverage for the treatment of gender dysphoria. Willkie Farr and the Legal Aid Society also worked on that case.
They argued in Cruz that the state was violating federal law by denying Medicaid coverage for transgender-related health services because those treatments were medically necessary. The state eventually promulgated and expanded rules allowing Medicaid coverage for gender dysphoria.
The plaintiffs also claimed the state is violating the Americans with Disabilities Act by denying coverage to Ciaramella and Palazzolo, who both live with disabilities.
Attorneys are seeking a class action lawsuit in the case. U.S. District Judge J. Paul Oetken of the Southern District of New York is presiding over the case, according to filings.


Amen Sheila! Competence is essential. Another important factor in treating mental illness is Coordination of Care. It seems simple enough; but all too often fragmented systems of care leave the most vulnerable patients falling between the cracks when the system is not equipped to share essential treatment information, schedule and track referrals, and provide the proper follow-up care. The fact that David's doctors didn't even know of his death is the tragic evidence of a lack of some basic coordination.
With today's technological advances, a fully coordinated system of care is possible, and is even being practiced is some parts of the country with very good outcomes.
Thank you, Sheila, your advocacy, and that of other powerful voices like yours, will make a difference!
Omg. I have been pushing this same thing with my husband now for two years. He had a major trigger and started drinking. A lot ! He has moved away from me and our children. This seems to have started back 5 years ago with a gastric bypass which altered his absorbsion rate. So none of his meds work. He has thyroid condition and he has gained a lot of the weight back. He has bipolar disorder and he needs coordination between all of his Drs to even start to have any hopes of recovery. His liver was so enlarged at the time of gastric bypass and I'm sure with all the alcohol it's worse. My suggestion to him was to go to a place like Mayo clinic where there many specialists. I am sure that is the only way he can get coordination of treatment. It is imperative that people with mental illness have a support system in place. My husband has so much memory loss that he goes to the dr and doesn't remember any of the important information to give the Drs. So no one can really help him. Laws keep me from getting him help. I am so frustrated. Thanks for working to help this situation.


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People Around the World Pose With Everything They Eat in a Day
Author: Doug BierendDoug Bierend
Cao Xiaoli, a professional acrobat, balances on one hand with her day's worth of food at Shanghai Circus World in Shanghai, China. The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a typical day in June was 1700 kcals.
Saada Haidar, a housewife, with her typical day's worth of food at her home in the city of Sanaa, Yemen. The caloric value of her day's worth of food in the month of April was 2700 kcals. She is 27 years of age; 4 feet, 11 inches tall; and 98 pounds.
Mariel Booth, a professional model and New York University student, at the Ten Ton Studio in Brooklyn with her typical day's worth of food. The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a day in the month of October was 2400 kcals. She is 23 years of age; 5 feet, 9.5 inches tall; and 135 pounds.
Xu Zhipeng, a freelance computer graphics artist and Internet gamer, with his typical day's worth of food in his rented chair at the Ming Wang Internet Café in Shanghai, China. The caloric value of his day's worth of food in June was 1600 kcals. He is 23 years of age; 6 feet, 2 inches and 157 pounds.
Shashi Kanth, a call center worker, with his day's worth of food in his office at the AOL call center in Bangalore, India. He is 23 years of age; 5 feet, 7 inches; and 123 pounds.
Jun Yajima, 26, a bike messenger, at a busy intersection in the Shibuya district of Tokyo during rush hour with his typical day's worth of food totaling 4800 kcals. At 6 feet, and 180 pounds he often rides 80 or 100 kms a day.
Imagine what a picture of all the food you eat in a day would tell you about your eating habits. What about when you compare it to that of a neighbor, a person in another state, another part of the world?
That's the idea behind Peter Menzel's photo book, What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets. After seeing the diets and accompanying lifestyles of cultures across the globe, Menzel and his wife and partner Faith D'Aluisio hope Americans will think twice before going for seconds.
"Every time we'd come back to this country we'd see our fellow Americans getting bigger and bigger," says Menzel. "There's a report in the newspaper every other day about obesity rates and how it's impacting everyone's bottom line with healthcare. Healthcare is so extremely expensive in this country because we're treating the problem after the fact, rather than trying to do something about it before."
The U.S. has attempted a few legislative obesity solutions, like the ban on large sugary drinks in New York City, or the FDA's recent proposal of a new nutritional labeling system. But the root cause, arguably, is conceptual. It's hard for people to get their heads around it in a way that changes unhealthy behavior. Menzel's book attempts to tackle that problem head-on.
The photos run the gamut. A child in a Chad refugee camp still skinny after eating 2,300 calories a day, a seal hunter in Greenland who appeared healthy eating 6,500 calories a day, a British woman binging on more than 12,000 calories a day, an Indian homeopathist whose Shivambu diet includes daily drinking of her own urine. Each photo is accompanied with detailed information about the subjects' physical activity, weight, and other factors, along with explanatory text exploring their dietary and cultural contexts penned by D'Aluisio. It's all there to make the relationship between diet, activity and health clear to readers.
"We tried to choose people that were very physically active and then people that are pretty much desk jockeys," says Menzel. The book isn't meant to be proscriptive, but a tool. "Learn from other people the good the bad and the ugly, use rational thought and the idea of eclecticism, and figure out what other people are doing that makes sense and maybe fix some of our own habits – especially the bad habits."
Following the success of Menzel and D'Aluisio's previous book Hungry Planet, which focused on the economic disparities between families by comparing their week's worth of groceries, the pair set out this time to illustrate nutritional differences. Running down a long list of contacts, friends, and people they met in their travels, the pair began extensive interviews of potential subjects while gathering data on their diets. The food displayed in the photos reflects the subjects' common eating habits – a day's meal that they'd had within the previous week.
Between interviews, shooting, researching online and in the field, and fact-checking with nutritionists before finally laying out the book, the process took about four years to finish. Nutritional information was researched in various ways depending on the nature of the meal – a candy bar bought in the U.S. lists its nutritional values on the wrapper, but there's no such information provided for the corn mush fed to a refugee in Sudan.
"It took a lot of investigative challenging of people's recounting of their daily diet, but I think that in the end we came up with something pretty accurate," says Menzel.
It's too early to tell if the book has inspired any broad dietary improvements, but there have been a few updates from the subjects of the photos. A truck driver consuming 5,400 calories and at least a pack of cigarettes a day had already suffered two heart attacks, and is now laid up with gout. A Chicago steel worker came to an exhibition of the series, where he overheard viewers commenting on how much soda his photo showed him drinking. As a result, he's completely quit drinking the stuff.
What I Eat isn't just about diet. The workplaces of a wind farmer in California and an oil platform worker in Venezuela touch upon themes of energy, and the portrait of an Indian call center operator introduces the context of globalization. These undercurrents reflect Menzel and D'Aluisio's desire for their their work to inspire readers to ask questions, and hopefully effect some degree of positive change.
"We thought that this was something we could do as individuals, in the larger context of some of the larger problems that we see all over the world," Menzel says. "You can't really tell people what to think or what to deal with, you've got to let them figure it out themselves."
All photos by Peter Menzel
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