Are You a Practicing Priest?
As I listen to the cultural voices, there are many things to bemoan. Christianity is no longer a cultural force in the West. People don't care what the Bible says. Church attendance seems antiquated if not unhelpful for people interested in spiritual things. I could go on.
But there are a few things our culture seems to respect that should characterize us as Christians. Things like being positive, helping the poor – both financially and with service – and being genuine. Obviously our culture may have different definitions of exactly how these virtues should play themselves out, but that shouldn't stop us from leading the kind of lives that are honoring to the Lord and will attract others to him.
"But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light" (1 Pet. 2:9). If you have turned from your sin to God by simply putting all of your confidence in Jesus Christ to deliver you from your sin, then you are a royal priest to God. In other words, you are a representative of God.
God tells us that we are priests and this obviously means that there is a lot of similarity between our service to God and the Old Testament priests. Of course this is not a one to one comparison since the Old Testament priesthood was only "a shadow of the good things to come" (Heb. 10:1). Christ is the High Priest of a new and better covenant which "has made the first obsolete" (Heb. 8:13). But we can find New Testament applications for many of the activities of the priests under the law.
In Exodus 28-29 the consecration, or setting apart, of a priest is described. There are seven things that happened to the priest as he became set apart to God. Here is the first step in becoming a priest. As believer priests we can see clear similarities to our priesthood in this practice.
He was taken from the people (Exodus 28:1). We are set apart from our former lives the moment we are saved (Ephesians 2:1-10).
He was brought to the door of the tabernacle (Exodus 29:4). We enter salvation through Christ alone who is the door to acceptance with God (John 10:7-9).
He was washed with water (Exodus 29:4). We are washed by the Holy Spirit when we are born again (Titus 3:5).
He was clothed with special garments (Exodus 29:5). We are clothed with the righteousness of God when we believe in Christ (Romans 3:21-22; Isaiah 61:10).
He was anointed with blood and oil (Exodus 29:21). The blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all sin (1 John 1:7) and we are sealed with Holy Spirit (Ephesians 4:30).
His hands were filled with a sacrifice (Exodus 29:22-25). We are given sacrifices to offer to God (Romans 12:1; Philippians 4:18; Hebrews 13:15-16).
He was sanctified (Exodus 29:44). We are set apart to please God (1 Peter 2:9).
Notice that all the things we need to qualify to be a priest were given to us at the moment of conversion. No more special ceremony needs to take place. During the Reformation the truth of the priesthood of all believers was recovered and the Reformers broke with the tradition of the Roman Catholic Church.
These Bible students saw that every Christian had a special service and place before God and did not need a man or institution to represent them before God. But it wasn't until the Brethren Movement in the 1800's that the practical side of this doctrine was considered. Bible teachers associated with this movement like John Nelson Darby and J. G. Bellet saw that it wasn't enough to simply not have a special class of priests, but that according to the Scripture every believer should be worshiping the Lord.
This line of biblical thinking led to the practice of the open breaking of bread, in which every saved man is encouraged to audibly participate in worship.
As wonderful as that time of remembrance is at the Lord's Supper, there is no need to stop the practical outworking of our priesthood there. From point six we see that there are at least four types of sacrifices we are given that we can offer back to God. The Old Testament counterpart of these sacrifices can be seen in the free-will offerings of Leviticus 1-3.
In a culture where we are encouraged to give our opinion and comments every time we check the internet for something, we can practice our priesthood of offering everything we say as a sacrifice to God (Hebrews 13:15). We can do good to all people in order to attract them to our Savior (Matthew 5:16).
We can give to the Lord by helping the poor and so be a good witness (Luke 16:9). And of course we should offer up everything we do and all that we are as a sacrifice to God, just as the Lord Jesus showed us (1 Peter 2:21).
4 Responses to Are You a Practicing Priest?
I forgot to mention that believing ladies are equally royal priests and can participate in the worship meetings (just not audibly). They can offer up the four spiritual sacrifices to the Lord as well as any man can.
Excellent and vital message for believers! Just one additional thought: Exodus 19:6 indicates that this was/is God's Plan from the beginning. Because of Israel 'failure', He has created a 'holy nation' of whom all are 'holy and royal priests made of all nations. 1 Peter 2. It is a wonderful privilege to actively be a priest to God through the Lord Jesus Christ.
Amen brother Frank. "But Moses replied, 'Are you jealous for my sake? I wish that all the LORD's people were prophets and that the LORD would put his Spirit on them!'" (Numbers 11:29).


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Game Day Live: Patriots shut out in second half…
Game Day Live: Patriots shut out in second half of Wild Card loss
FOXBORO, MA. – JANUARY 4: Benjamin Watson #84 of the New England Patriots jumps up and celebrates with Tom Brady #12 before the Wild Card game against the Tennessee Titans at Gillette Stadium on January 4, 2020 in Foxboro, Massachusetts. (Staff Photo By Matt Stone/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald)
By Andrew Callahan | acallahan@bostonherald.com |
PUBLISHED: January 4, 2020 at 6:46 p.m. | UPDATED: January 5, 2020 at 12:47 a.m.
A play-by-play recap of Saturday's playoff game between the Patriots and Titans at Gillette Stadium:
Tennessee got the ball on their 13 with 3:10 to play. The Titans made two first downs and forced the Patriots to burn three time outs before punting with 25 seconds remaining. The ball was downed on the Patriots 1-yard line.
Titans defensive back Logan Ryan intercepted a Tom Brady pass and returned it nine yards for a touchdown. The score made it 20-13 with nine seconds remaining.
Neither team scored in the quarter.
The Patriots went up 10-7 on a 75-yard, 10-play drive. Wide receiver Julian Edelman scored on a 5-yard jet sweep on the first play of the quarter.
The Patriots had a first and goal from the one but were stuffed on three straight runs. Nick Folk made it 13-7 with a 21-yard field goal with 2:16 remaining.
The Titans went up 14-13 on a 75-yard, seven play drive. Tailback Derrick Henry scored on a 1-yard dive through the line with 35 seconds to play.
The Patriots went up 3-0 on the opening possession of the game. Nick Folk kicked a 36 yard field goal with 12:37 to play.
The Titans responded with a 75-yard, 12-play drive to take a 7-3 lead. Tight end Anthony Firkser caught a 12 yard touchdown pass from Ryan Tannehill with 5:39 to play
FOXBORO — It's playoff time.
The Patriots and Titans will kick off at 8:15 p.m. in the first Wild Card game at Gillette Stadium in 10 years. Both teams are relatively healthy, with Tennessee wide receiver Adam Humphries being the only player who was downgraded to out before kickoff between the two teams. The Pats are slated as 5-point favorites.
Should the Patriots win, they will travel to Kansas City for a divisional-round game on Sunday, Jan. 12. If the Titans win, they will visit Baltimore the day before in the divisional round.
Both teams' inactives are below.
CB Jason McCourty
DL Byron Cowart
TE Ryan Izzo
QB Cody Kessler
RB Damien Harris
OL Jermaine Eluemunor
OL Korey Cunningham
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WR Cody Hollister
WR Kalif Raymond
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DT Joey Ivie
DE Reggie Gilbert
OG Kevin Pamphile
Mike Vrabel
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Sol Eytinge, Jr.
Dickens's The Adventures of Oliver Twist
Edward Leeford, acting under his criminal alias "Monks," appears by himself rather than, as in James Mahoney's Household Edition sequence, with Fagin, his confederate in his scheme to defraud Oliver. A shadowy figure out of Gothic fiction and the demonic species of early nineteenth-century melodrama, Monks wears a cloak rather than a topcoat; however, his silk hat is a class-marker, for he is a gentleman gone bad.
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"Come in!" he cried impatiently, stamping his foot upon the ground. "Don't keep me here!"
The woman, who had hesitated at first, walked boldly in, without any other invitation. Mr. Bumble, who was ashamed or afraid to lag behind, followed: obviously very ill at ease and with scarcely any of that remarkable dignity which was usually his chief characteristic.
"What the devil made you stand lingering there, in the wet?" said Monks, turning round, and addressing Bumble, after he had bolted the door behind them. "We — we were only cooling ourselves," stammered Bumble, looking apprehensively about him.
"Cooling yourselves!" retorted Monks. "Not all the rain that ever fell, or ever will fall, will put as much of hell's fire out, as a man can carry about with him. You won't cool yourselves so easily; don't think it!"
With this agreeable speech, Monks turned short upon the matron, and bent his gaze upon her, till even she, who was not easily cowed, was fain to withdraw her eyes, and turn them towards the ground.
"This is the woman, is it?" demanded Monks.
"Hem! That is the woman," replied Mr. Bumble, mindful of his wife's caution.
"You think women never can keep secrets, I suppose?" said the matron, interposing, and returning, as she spoke, the searching look of Monks.
"I know they will always keep one till it's found out," said Monks.
"And what may that be?" asked the matron.
"The loss of their own good name," replied Monks. "So, by the same rule, if a woman's a party to a secret that might hang or transport her, I'm not afraid of her telling it to anybody; not I! Do you understand, mistress?"
"No," rejoined the matron, slightly colouring as she spoke.
"Of course you don't!" said Monks. "How should you?"
Bestowing something half-way between a smile and a frown upon his two companions, and again beckoning them to follow him, the man hastened across the apartment, which was of considerable extent, but low in the roof. He was preparing to ascend a steep staircase, or rather ladder, leading to another floor of warehouses above: when a bright flash of lightning streamed down the aperture, and a peal of thunder followed, which shook the crazy building to its centre.
"Hear it!" he cried, shrinking back. "Hear it! Rolling and crashing on as if it echoed through a thousand caverns where the devils were hiding from it. I hate the sound!" He remained silent for a few moments; and then, removing his hands suddenly from his face, showed, to the unspeakable discomposure of Mr. Bumble, that it was much distorted, and discoloured.
"These fits come over me, now and then," said Monks, observing his alarm; "and thunder sometimes brings them on. Don't mind me now; it's all over for this once."
Thus speaking, he led the way up the ladder; and hastily closing the window-shutter of the room into which it led, lowered a lantern which hung at the end of a rope and pulley passed through one of the heavy beams in the ceiling: and which cast a dim tight upon an old table and three chairs that were placed beneath it. [Chapter 38, "Containing an account of what passed between Mr. and Mrs. Bumble, and Mr. Monks, at their nocturnal interview," p. 162]
Commentary: Maintaining Monks's Air of Mystery
The picture derives considerable meaning from its context, the chapter in which Monks destroys the evidence of the marriage of Oliver's mother, evidence that he has just acquired from the Bumbles. The arrival of the shadowy figure of "Monks," the alias of Edward Leeford, Oliver's half-brother, transforms the narrative from a Newgate Novel and a possible bildungsroman into a mystery. Now the narrative begins to reveal Fagin's true motives in training the boy to become a thief, for Oliver will either vanish from middle-class eyes into the murky criminal underworld of London, or be incarcerated, or transported — or executed as a felon, and therefore never realise that he is the legitimate heir of Edwin Leeford. This shadowy figure of the evil, plotting step-brother who covets Oliver's portion of the patrimony — a Cain to Oliver's Abel — is the subject of Sol Eytinge, Junior's character study Monks in the 1867 Diamond Edition of the novel. As is consistent with the accompanying text, Eytinge shows the "steep staircase" (about which Dickens corrects himself in order to specify instead a "ladder") and shattered window of the abandoned factory (the industrial age equivalent of the ruinous mediaeval castle of Gothic fiction and melodrama), but not the pathetic fallacy of thunder and lightning against which the scene plays out, or Monks's lantern, the heavy beams, the pulley, the chairs, or — significantly — the chute down to the river.
Whereas most Eytinge studies in this edition are of a pair of associated characters, such as Bill Sikes and Nancy, here the American illustrator, well aware chapters earlier than was George Cruikshank of Monks's importance to the inheritance plot, shows the egocentric, malevolent villain by himself, alienated, and brooding, the moody child of privilege who considers nobody's welfare but his own. As Juliet John stipulates, Monks puts his own wounded feelings, exacerbated by a jealous and vindictive mother, "before law, family, or community" (51). The cape in which the various illustrators clothe him is the outward and visible sign of his attempt to act in secret, so that he works with his underworld associates under an assumed identity and under cover of darkness. His manner and speech, however, betray his true background. His association with Fagin in Cruikshank's June 1838 illustration Monks and the Jew shows that he is prepared to violate the barriers of class and propriety in order to advance his fortunes, even at the cost of Oliver's life. Eytinge, like Cruikshank, depicts the venomous older brother as "a tall man wrapped in a cloak" (Ch. 34, p. 142), his height consistently exaggerated by his hat. In Eytinge's illustration, Monks acquires and destroys the evidence of Oliver's legitimacy, so that the reader believes erroneously that Monks will succeed in his plot with Fagin to have Oliver sucked into the criminal underworld, never again to be seen or heard of in middle-class society.
The August 1838 Cruikshank illustration The Evidence Destroyed is surely the basis for the later interpretations of Mahoney and Furniss, although Sol Eytinge has deviated with respect to setting from Cruikshank's precedent. While Eytinge's Monks lurks inside a building near a shattered window illuminated by lightning, on a darkened interior stair — an interpretation that accords well with the Gothic figure's clandestine and surreptitious nature, James Mahoney in the Household Edition volume's frontispiece has lowered and enlarged the lantern somewhat, thereby darkening the scene which in Eytinge's plate receives only the fitful illumination of the lightning storm without. Such Gothic associations are highly appropriate for a character whose name associates him with the anguished protagonist of Matthew G. Lewis 1795 Gothic potboiler The Monk.
Harry Furniss's much later rendering of the same scene heightens its drama by the artist's sharpened contrast of the black-and-white shading, the terror on the faces of the Bumbles, and the emphatic gesture of Monks, whose facial expression the viewer cannot discern. That Furniss gave the black-cloaked figure of Monks holding the lantern a place of prominence (the lower left-hand corner) in Characters in the Story suggests that the later artist felt this was a pivotal moment in the narrative, even if he felt it necessary to depict Monks with his signature hat on in both the vignette and the full-page lithograph, which we encounter immediately after Dickens's economical but telling description in the text.
With his moody, angry disposition, his inky cloak, his fits of epilepsy, and his inexplicable antipathy to Oliver, Monks is a fearful force combining features of antagonists from the early nineteenth-century monster and the demonic melodramas. His assumed name — that is, the pseudonym that he has chosen for himself, is the signifier of his being a social isolate, like the monk Ambrosio in Lewis's novel. The stage effects associated with the Gothic villain, lightning and trapdoors, make Monks a "sensational" character in the sense of "the violent emotional excitement of the literary fashion known as 'the romantic and the terrible'" (John, p. 51). Dramatists such as George Almar and C. Z. Barnett rightly recognized that bringing Monks on stage much earlier than in the novel would help the audience to make sense of the death of Oliver's middle-class mother in the workhouse, and moreover would prepare them for the resolution of the "lost heir" plot, even if Monks' alliance with the disreputable Fagin seems somewhat improbable. In his first appearance in the November 1838 Almar adaptation, in Act One, Scene One, Monks is overhearing conversations, cursing, and speaking in quasi-romantic verse; in other words, as compared with the naturalistic, street-flavoured speech of Fagin and Sikes, Monks speaks in the drawing-room language of an aristocratic villain in a contemporary melodrama:
The Gothic villain is invariably defined by expressive emotional excess; what distinguishes this excess from that of the 'good' characters in this excessive genre is that it does not respect social rules and boundaries. The Gothic villain puts personal feeling before law, family, or community and thus violates communal ethos. His disregard of the social world creates the impression of transcendence often associated with the 'real melodramatic' villain. Violent feeling is the hallmark of the Gothic villain and the intensity with which his feelings are expressed can create the impression that the villain is not human but super-human. [John, p. 51]
In his intelligence and cunning (as evidenced in his ability to appear and disappear at will in the murky world of Whitechapel governed by Fagin and Sikes) Monks seems to possess supernatural powers, and is governed not by a plausible love of money (which motivates Sikes, Crackit, and Fagin), but by a violent emotion which incapacitates him when he gives it free rein. Because Monks has his origins in theatre and the Gothic novels of Anne Radcliffe and Matthew G. "Monk" Lewis (from whence perhaps Dickens has derived his criminal alias) rather than realistic fiction, his passionate excesses are jarring in the novel, but acceptable in the nineteenth-century melodramatic adaptations of the novel. Monks' passion-freighted speeches towards the end of the novel are unconvincing because, as Juliet John points out:
they have no connection with the poetics of the novel or with any knowledge we have of a character who has remained stagily enigmatic throughout. These failures can be read as perfect instances of the novelist practising what he preaches — of taking literally the idea of the novel as theatre by making characters do the work that more fittingly belongs to the narrator. Alternatively, they can be seen as examples of characters attempting a kind of self-analysis which is ill at ease with the melodramatic mode of Dickens's early novels. [115]
Working on his illustrations for Oliver Twist in 1866-67, Sol Eytinge had considerable advantages over George Cruikshank in having read the entire novel in advance in volume form, and moreover in having (in all probability) seen one or more stage adaptations in Boston and New York (notably that Almar adaptation at New York City's Wintergarden Theatre in February 1860 in which Monks would have been present from the opening scene) that would have clarified for him both the melodramatic traditions embodied in the enigmatic figure of "Monks" and this character's importance in the novel's inheritance plot. He remains in the illustrations true to his Radcliffian origins, "foreign in flavour and atmosphere" (John, p. 50) as we see here in Eytinge's portrait of a diabolical, enigmatic figure who instantly arouses fear in the beholder.
Illustrations from the initial serial edition (1837-39), Household Edition (1871), and Charles Dickens Library Edition (1910)
Left: George Cruikshank's The Evidence Destroyed. Right: James Mahoney's The Evidence Destroyed (Frontispiece). [Click on images to enlarge them.]
Left: Harry Furniss's "Monks and Fagin watching Oliver asleep" (1910). Right: Harry Furniss's "The Evidence destroyed" (1910). [Click on images to enlarge them.]
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Reconsidering the Idea of 'Sustainability'
Commentary on Sustainability, Social Impact, Management and Organizations featuring Andy Hoffman
Professor Andy Hoffman discusses the need for a fundamental shift in thinking.
Although the concept of sustainability gets a lot of attention in the public debate, Michigan Ross Professor Andy Hoffman argues that it's time to think bigger. In a new interview on the "Investigating Knowledge" blog, Hoffman builds on his work with John Ehrenfeld to explain why the world needs a major change in how we frame the issue.
"Today the environment, and sustainability more broadly, has really gone mainstream. We have chief sustainability officers, environmental annual reports, socially responsible investing. It's all there, but the problems continue to get worse," Hoffman says in the article. "So it's now time to discover 'Sustainability 2.0': where we have to go next. There's been change to a certain point, but the problems continue to get worse, and even more radical shifts are called for."
He also explains how forward-thinking business schools like Michigan Ross can play a key role in creating the necessary change.
"I tell my students that business is the most powerful institution on earth. If business isn't developing solutions for our social and environmental problems, they will not be developed," he says.
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Shakira Just Reached a Huge YouTube Milestone
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Shakira photographed on April 2, 2018 at Torre Bellesguard Antoni Gaudi in Barcelona, Spain. Ruven Afanador
Only a select group of artists have surpassed the 30 million subscribers on YouTube, and Shakira just became one of them.
Achieving a new milestone in her fruitful career, the Colombian superstar reached 30 million subscribers on her official artist channel, joining a group of only 15 artists, which includes fellow Latin superstar Daddy Yankee, to do so as she rises on YouTube's Global Top Artists chart.
With music videos surpassing the one billion videos, including the Maluma-assisted "Chantaje," "Can't Remember to Forget You" ft. Rihanna and "Waka Waka," Shakira arrives at No. 55 on the tally trailing behind fellow hitmaker Nicky Jam who arrives at No. 49.
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The choice fell on the most recent instrument from SPM, Leonova Diamond, which has a complete range of useful features, including a unique combination of shock pulse measurement with SPM HD and advanced yet easy to use vibration analysis. Parallel execution of multiple measuring assignments streamlines measuring routes with time savings of up to fifty percent. Tri-axial vibration measurement, sophisticated tools for gearbox analysis and the possibility to measure process parameters are other practical functions in Leonova Diamond.
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2. Cooking - I can't get it right.
3. Politics - I know nothing about it.
4. Alcohol Beverages - Because I do not like the taste of most alcohols, I do not know the differences or its varieties. LOL.
5. Martial Arts - I always wish I knew at least one technique and until now it is still a part of my bucket list that remains undone.
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Amy Schumer to write, star in Judd Apatow film
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It's documented that Amy Schumer and director/producer Judd Apatow are fans of each other's work. Now it appears that they're going to be working together. While onstage at the Stress Factory in New Brunswick, NJ last night, Schumer told the crowd that on Monday, she would officially announce that she wrote and will be starring in a movie for Apatow. Deadline confirmed earlier today that it's indeed happening, and will be produced by Apatow for Universal, via his Apatow Productions.
While it had been known that the two were working on a script together, the specifics, including that Schumer will be starring in the film, had not been known. While Schumer has been doing stand-up for nine years, having appeared on Last Comic Standing in 2007, her career really took off in 2011, when she appeared on Comedy Central's Charlie Sheen roast. That led to a special on the network, and her own show, Inside Amy Schumer, that premiered earlier this year. According to Deadline, Apatow will be working on Schumer to develop the story and shape the script.
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Thirty Gustavus Adolphus College first-year students are starting the school year a week early and learning in novel ways – by camping in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area or participating in service projects.
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"Three years after 9/11, America remains in a cultural haze, with more confusion than clarity about how to respond to terrorism-either foreign or domestic," says Karen Larson, professor of anthropology and interdisciplinary studies.
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Decimus Valerius Asiaticus (* um 5 v. Chr.; † 47 n. Chr.) war ein römischer Politiker und Senator.

Asiaticus stammte aus Vienna in der Gallia Narbonensis und arbeitete sich als homo novus nach oben. Als erster Römer aus Vienna wurde er im Jahr 35 Suffektkonsul. Asiaticus war mit Caligula befreundet. 39 beleidigte ihn der Kaiser aber bei einem Gelage, nachdem er bereits Asiaticus' Frau Lollia Saturnina, die Schwester von Lollia Paulina, die 38/39 kurzfristig Caligulas Ehefrau gewesen war, zu seiner Geliebten gemacht hatte. Asiaticus soll deshalb den Hauptanstoß zu Caligulas Ermordung gegeben haben. Sein Mitverschwörer Lucius Annius Vinicianus verhinderte jedoch, dass Asiaticus die Herrschaft an sich riss. Der neue Kaiser Claudius war Asiaticus gegenüber erst vorsichtig, nahm ihn aber bei seinem Britannienfeldzug im Jahr 43 als comes in seinem Führungsstab auf.

Im Jahr 46 wurde Asiaticus zum zweiten Mal Konsul. Seine starke Persönlichkeit und seine Beziehungen zur gallischen Oberschicht machten ihn verdächtig. Vor allem seine ursprünglich von Lucullus angelegten Gärten auf dem Pincio in Rom erregten die Habgier der Messalina, die ihn der Aufwiegelung der Soldaten und des Ehebruchs mit Poppaea Sabina beschuldigen ließ. Von dem berüchtigten Ankläger Publius Suillius Rufus angeklagt und vom Kaisergericht in einem Geheimprozess verurteilt, öffnete sich Asiaticus im Jahr 47 die Adern. Er hinterließ seine Ehefrau Lollia Saturnina und einen Sohn namens Decimus Valerius Asiaticus. Sein Enkel war Decimus Valerius Asiaticus Saturninus.

Literatur
 Prosopographia Imperii Romani (PIR) ² V 44

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Konsul (Römische Kaiserzeit)
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What are you babbling about.
Again, do you have actual evidence of WTC columns being cut to induce collapse.
The video in the opening post made claims of explosives. What does molten copper, lead, aluminum, solder, mixed with burning plastics and have to do with explosives?
Again. The below would be actual evidence of explosives working on the steel.
Please cite evidence the WTC was ever hot enough to support molten steel.
I think the terrorists were perfectly capable of bringing down the buildings with bombs. I don't understand why people are so committed to the government's explanation. People in this country are whacked!
Same is true with pigeons. If you have enough pigeons sitting on a building they can bring it down.
Gravity has nothing to do with it. The buildings falling at the rate of acceleration is impossible because the columns simple do not lose their ability to support weight by magic.
I'm not inventing anything. I did not invent the video evidence. All I am saying is there is no way the buildings fell they way they did without controlled demolition. Talking about gravity the way you are doing is irrelevant. It's too bad you are not smart enough understand physics.
Gravity has nothing to do with it? Is it magic that makes buidings fall to the ground?
All I know is the video evidence can only be explained by controlled demolition because there's no way the building fell and near free-fall speed. Newton's third law of motion would not allow it. The only way all the potential energy of the building collapsing can ALL go into the acceleration of gravity is by having zero resistance from the column supports.
I think the terrorists were perfectly capable of bringing down the buildings with bombs. I don't understand why people are so committed to the government's explanation. What difference does it make how the buildings were brought down by the terrorists. "IT HAS TO BE JET AIRPLANES" "IT HAS TO BE JETS" Who cares ??????
So you think the government is competent. Got it.
You are incapable of understand Newtonian physics. Just move along.
You have no idea what you are talking about. I said I have no idea who planted the demolitions.
I have an idea about what I am talking about.
Its OK, but no need to bring other down to your level if you don't know.
I think the terrorists were perfectly capable of bringing down the buildings with bombs.
Do you just copy and paste your sentences or is the programming really that good that your thoughts that have been imprinted in your mind by God knows who are that good that when you speak your nonsense its always word for word the exact same words you spoke earlier?
What difference does it make how the buildings were brought down by the terrorists.
I'm am not making claims that the government is lying about the collapse only addressing those that do.
Why don't you answer your own question, repeatedly posting the same videos and exact same words accompanying the videos like a programmed bot.
"IT HAS TO BE JET AIRPLANES" "IT HAS TO BE JETS" Who cares ??????
so you are saying I claim this?
I will take that as a yes to my above question seeing as you need make up nonsense to cover how nonsensical your repeated copy and pasting is.
What a joke you make yourself out be, you can stop but you keep replying while blatantly making things up about what has never been said.
the absolute and I mean absolute ignorance displayed in the last few days by a few posters is astounding and makes me wonder whats causing it and if it could be something external and not just their own ignorance.


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Gearbox Teases PAX South Details
Kerwin Tsang January 6th, 2015 - 2:01 AM
Gearbox Software, known for their lively and fan-friendly PAX panels, have confirmed their appearance at the upcoming PAX South in San Antonio, Texas.
The panel, titled 'Inside Gearbox Software,' will take place on January 25, 10:30 am at the Main Theater. The panel description reads:
This is your opportunity to get a behind-the-scenes look at Gearbox Software and get the latest news and updates on Borderlands and upcoming Gearbox titles. We will have never-before-seen reveals, exclusives and surprises, so don't miss out!
The 'upcoming Gearbox titles' part is likely alluding to Battleborn, a DOTA-styled first person multiplayer shooter. So far what little Gearbox has revealed of the game has gotten lukewarm reception, with some comparing it to a free-to-play reskin of Borderlands, so it's likely that Gearbox will be pouring out more information on the game.
Another possibility is a new IP based on the Brothers in Arms series. An Inglourious Basterds-styled sequel, titled Furious Four, was originally envisioned, but was later scrapped in favor of reimagining it as a completely new IP. According to their announcement at Pax Prime in 2013, Gearbox are also working on another, currently unknown IP.
And as far as Borderlands is concerned, we're likely to get more news on the second episode of Tales from the Borderlands, Telltale Games' point and click adventure interpretation of the beloved franchise. The first episode was released last November to critical acclaim, and the second one is due sometime this year. There's also the possibility that Borderlands 3 could be announced. In 2012, Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford denied that a third Borderlands was in development, but added that he "expects that to change at some point."
It's a lot of work for one studio to tackle, as Gearbox themselves found out when they tried to work on both Borderlands 2 and Aliens: Colonial Marines at the same time. The latter was later released in an unfinished state to abysmal reviews, and resulted in a class action lawsuit against publisher Sega. Most recently, Colonial Marines was removed from Steam over an expired license. Let's hope Gearbox have learned their lesson to not bite off more than they can chew.
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Wright - Blues need to 'dig in and stick together' to get result at Dons
Midfielder discusses MK Dons, penalty taking and more
Josh Wright says everyone is raring to go for tonight's clash away at MK Dons.
Wright believes the game against the Dons is just what is needed following Saturday's setback at Portsmouth.
He told southendunited.co.uk that the squad is determined to put things right against Robbie Neilson's side.
"The best thing in football is when you have another game coming up very quickly [after a defeat], as we do tonight.
"It was disappointing to go to Portsmouth and not get anything on Saturday and we're all feeling it, but we have to lift ourselves, dig in, stick together and go and get a positive result.
"We knew it was going to be a big week and Portsmouth was the first of the three games. Now we've left ourselves with a bit more to do and we need to dig in.
"We'll go in with a positive attitude with a good mindset to go and get a positive result."
One of the main talking points from the weekend was penalty takers, after Nile Ranger missed one to put Blues in front at Fratton Park.
And Wright said he will be putting his name forward next time one comes along.
"I want to take them," he added. "I would like to take the next one.
"Things have been said before and since Saturday, but Theo [Robinson] had the ball at first and obviously Ranger's got the ball off him and I'm not one for causing a bit of a situation on the pitch because there is a lot of pressure when you're taking a penalty.
"In my first game for the club, Ranger took a penalty and scored it so in fairness to him, he deserved to take it.
"Obviously Coxy missed his last one and if it's the right thing or not, he's let someone else take it.
"Ranger stepped up and he did miss, so I'm putting my name forward for the next one.
"I would like to take it, but when it comes, we'll obviously have to wait and see who is on the pitch at the time and we'll go from there.
"But of course I would like to take a penalty, I feel confident in taking them."
Wright has faced MK Dons already this season, which happened to be his last outing for Gillingham back in August.
"They've always been a side over the years that like to play and they were similar to that when I played them earlier on in the season," said Wright.
"But like any side in this division, they're there for the taking.
"It's going to be who turns up, who puts in the graft.
"We're ready to go and want to kick-off now because of what happened on Saturday. We're chomping at the bit to get out there and put things right, because we know if we can get a positive result tomorrow night, that puts us into a home game on Saturday where we've been good.
"We're up for it, we're ready and it's going to be up to us to go there with a gameplay and mindset to get the right result."
MK Dons vs Southend United on 21 Nov 17
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Trump's F-35 criticisms quashed
An Australian F-35 Joint Strike Fighter
strike & air combat | 31 July 2017 | Reporter
Quickstep chief executive Mark Burgess has refuted US President Donald Trump's criticisms of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) project, praising the program's affordability and capabilities.
Speaking to Defence Connect, Burgess, who is CEO of one Australia's strongest contributing F-35 companies, said those involved in the F-35 supply chain strongly disagreed with the President's comments last December, when he tweeted "The F-35 program and cost is out of control".
"I think almost everybody in this supply chain and F-35, and most importantly the war fighters, would disagree with President Trump," said Burgess.
"I think the ability to acquire a fifth generation fighter for $85 million when you consider its competitors is remarkable. It's remarkable and it's gonna get cheaper, which is even more remarkable. [Because] defence escalation usually only goes one direction and that's up.
"Obviously it's a huge important program to my company, but we're really bullish about the program, and the price is gonna come down through genuine cost takeout. That is a really attractive sticker price for an aircraft of that type."
Although he praised the decreasing costs of the aircraft, Burgess did not shy away from the difficulties faced in the development phase of the program.
"It's a truly capable aircraft, it's had a very long gestation period, and it's had lots of trouble in the development phase," explained Burgess.
"That's kinda powerful of course in any major defence acquisition and this is the biggest ever. So, it's no surprise that there's been bumps along the way, but it's really good to see positive news flow around that program now because it is a truly unique capability."
But, like many of the aircraft's proponents, Burgess maintained the fighter plane is taking to the skies at just the right time.
"When you consider the threat environment that we are facing in the world today, it's come the right time and with a price tag frankly for the level of capability," said Burgess.
And achieving financial benefits for the company and its shareholders is just another bonus for the advanced composite manufacturing company.
"I don't wanna hand price over to the customer in its entirety," Burgess stated. "I want some for myself and my shareholders. So, it's about margin improvement as well as [generating] genuine cost down that we can get benefits to the program with."
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