I got so wrapped up in your site and the accompanying spreadsheet that I think I forgot to thank you for the refund on the 'scope arm. I apologise. I'm sorry for that. I'm very grateful. I've made this arm something of a crusade now. The word is out to all my potential suppliers to come up with the gears necessary for its repair. One day it will be restored. I won't quit until it is. Once installed on the 'scope, it will carry with it the story of my chance meeting with Paul Golding and how he came to "gift" this arm to me. Everyone who will listen will know about you and your generosity.
Your private pages have filled much of my free time in the past few days. After going through your data and reading the correspondence between you, your doctors, testing labs and so-called certifiers I can sum up my thoughts in a single word: Infuriating! It's for cases like this that I wish I had unlimited funds to go after these quacks and put them out of business... if not in jail... for their reckless and irresponsible actions. I'm sure you must feel the same.
What always happens in a system based on accreditation is that those accredited cease responding to any but those who do the accrediting... who essentially respond to no-one. There are some strong take-away messages from all this:
1. These lab errors are but a snapshot of what is happening across the whole range of tests these labs perform. And when I say "labs", I mean world-wide, not just in Australia. The problem is that labs, while dismissive of patient's challenges... are never challenged by doctors, who are too often both clueless about and disinterested in taking the labs to task on their inconsistent and unreliable results. As my father always reminded me, "Why shoul...
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...gh to see how the medical profession uses the placebo effect as the baseline against which they measure pharmaceutical effectiveness... while ignoring the effectiveness of placebo itself! Why not instead work to improve the effectiveness of placebo alone? Why not study it to determine exactly how it does work? I've seen many examples of "will" and "intention" overcoming major ailments. I believe that one day the mind-body connection will be regularly incorporated into regenerative healing the way physical therapy is today.
The facts and the data surrounding your case will not change with time, Paul. You've already done a wonderful job of documenting your case. There's plenty of time to publish your paper after you are well. Wouldn't it be best for you to focus on regaining your health, knowing that you'll then have the energy to pursue the paper to maximum effect?
After his conversion to Christianity, Paul traveled throughout the Roman Empire and preached the Gospel, similar to Jesus’ own ministry across Galilee. Paul’s teachings were more focused on the community and the relationships of its members with each other and with non-Christians, whereas Jesus’ teachings were geared towards the individual and his/her personal relationship to God. Despite this discrepancy in their doctrines, Paul’s teachings remain consistent with those of Jesus. In his First Letter to the Corinthians, Paul’s teachings, such as unity in the community and love for others, echo the teachings of Jesus as depicted in the Gospel of Mark and Matthew. Paul essentially reiterates the teachings of Jesus, and applies them to the lives of the people he preaches to, so that they may understand Jesus’ teachings and embrace Christianity.
I have always seen scripture as the Apostle Paul stated in his letter to Timothy, “All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,” (2 Timothy 3:16 ESV). I see this statement of the Apostle Paul’s directed more to the OT, because the OT would have been readily available to most NT churches of that time period. The churches would have still been receiving portions of the NT scripture well after the Apostle Paul 's statement in 2 Timothy 3:16. For a person to truly understand the scripture we must be careful that our presuppositions do not hinder or distort the scripture and its original meaning. When studying scripture I always look to challenge my own personal
Accreditation has always been a lengthy problematic process for HBCUs. It is hard to imagine how a college would display without being accredited. There are many rumors saying that Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University lost their credibility back in 2013. That is a serious thing to loose. Most people do not know what it mean to lose credibility. When a school loose accreditation that mean the college or university is force to close its doors. This is because the school will no longer be eligible to receive federal and state financial aid. 98.9 schools significant source come from federal funding. It's not illegal for a school to operate without institutional accreditation but no students would like to attend one of those colleges. There are numerous reasons that could cause a school to lose accreditation, not all of which necessarily mean the school is poorly educating students. Since the passage in 1952 of the Readjustment Assistance Act accreditation has been tied to federal financial aid. Unaccredited institutions are not eligible to award federal and state student aid which are veterans’ benefits, loans, and different grants that the state offer. Most of the students could not attend college without these
Aquinas, St. Thomas. COMMENTARY on SAINT PAUL'S EPISTLE to the GALATIANS. Trans. F. R. Larcher. Albany: Magi Books, 1996.
At first glance, it may be considered difficult to give a feminist interpretation of "Paul's Case" by Willa Cather, because there is not much mention of women in the text. However, this fact alone gives good reason for a feminist reading of the story. The lack of the presence of females in this story supports the idea that women were not considered an important part of society during Willa Cather's lifetime.
Ask anyone “Do you know who Paul McCartney is?” and their response would most likely be “Yes.” Ask anyone “Did you know Paul McCartney died in a car accident on November 9th, 1966 and the “Paul” alive today is actually a replacement?” and their response would be to run in the opposite direction. As ridiculous as it sounds, there is a good number of people out there who would not run in the opposite direction. The rumor of McCartney's “death and replacement” began in 1969, and it is now widely known as a conspiracy theory called “Paul Is Dead”. “Paul Is Dead” theorists claim the other Beatles covered up McCartney's death by replacing him with a man who looks exactly like the deceased Beatle, but once the guilt got to them they began inserting clues of the cover-up into their songs and artwork.
One of the major thinkers from late antiquity is Saint Paul, a convert and leader of the early Christian Church. He was once known as Saul of Tarsus before his religious conversion, but afterwards Paul used his background as a Jew and Roman citizen to evangelize all Roman citizens. He ministered to church communities he formed in Europe and what was then Asia Minor by writing letters to these communities he formed, one of which is called Corinth. Corinth is a Southwestern Greek city located against a gulf, which infers its participation in trade and its immersion in many cultures. Corinth was rebuilt as a Roman colony after the Greeks rebelled years before Saint Paul formed a church there, and its citizens popularly worshiped the goddess of love, Aphrodite, which explains why Saint Paul addresses the topics of love and sexuality in his first letter. Corinth was also a disobedient city in the eyes of Saint Paul, as it had many communal problems that were so culturally engrained. The first letter to the church of Corinth, was written by
In continuance of Romans chapter 5 verse 20, the next sentence of this verse reads as follows: “But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound”, notice, the beginning portion of the sentence as stated just before the comma is implemented, it says, “But where sin abounded. What this means is, that where sin was exceedingly plentiful and beyond measure in the sense of it having dominion, it no longer abound having dominion over the lives of those who were born and shaped in iniquity, but instead are made free from this curse through Jesus Christ. Because of the grace of God, we were justified by faith unto redemption in salvation, praise God, sin is no longer present.
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Pauls's Case is the story of a young man who struggles with his identity. Paul feels that he knows where he belongs, but his family and teachers refuse to support his choices. In the middle of Paul's Case, there is a switch in narration. At this point, the reader can associate with Paul and his problems. Paul struggles with both internal and external conflicts, causing him to be quite a puzzling character. From tha perspective of his family and teachers, Paul seems abnormal. From his perspective, however, he seems misunderstood.
Outside of Jesus Christ, there may not be a more important figure in Christianity other than St. Paul the Apostle. Paul was at one point a persecutor of early Christians, however a revelation experience in the mid-30’s AD changed his view of the faith. He ultimately became the most prominent figure in the spread of early Christianity, as his many missions established Christian churches throughout the Roman Empire. During the time of his missions, Paul penned numerous letters to the various Christian communities that he had helped establish. Pauline writings were the earliest of the New Testament writings, and ultimately comprise a third of the New Testament. One letter of particular interest when studying the theology of Paul and the early
The setting of the short story “Paul’s Case” is clear and appropriate for the story. This is because Paul's feelings in the story happen to have a direct connection to the setting of the story. The East Coast of the United States is where the story takes place. From Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Newark, New Jersey, and then on to New York, New York, the exact setting differs throughout the story. “…the dull dawn was beginning to show grey when the engine whistled a mile out of Newark” (Cather). At this point in the story, the main character, Paul, is on board a train which has departed from his hometown of Pittsburgh en route to the Jersey City Station. From there, he plans to make his way to the glamorous New York City, a city that he has always dreamed about visiting. As Paul reads the Pittsburgh paper on the morning of his eighth day in New York, he figures out that his dad is coming for him. “The rumour had reached Pittsburgh that the boy had been seen in a New York hotel, and his father had gone East to find him and bring him home” (Cather). Paul’s father is pursuing him because Paul had left home over a week ago and his father, only now, knows where Paul has run off to. The setting has a direct correlation to the state of Paul’s mind. For example, in a gloomy Pittsburgh, Paul tries anything and everything to get out of the life he is living, and escapes to the glamour and high-class life of New York. “…the New York scenes are heavily ironic…as [Paul] luxuriates in the Waldorf” (Wasserman). He does this in an attempt to find a better life for himself and to make himself, ultimately, happy.
In the divine religion of Christianity, the life of Apostle Paul set a legendary example of devotion, loyalty, and commitment to the Holy Christ and the church. He was the true apostle of Jesus Christ who tried his level best to spread the Divine mission of peace and love to all civilizations and different cultures. Unlike other apostles he was the one who enlightened the Asia world with the great teachings of Jesus Christ through his ceaseless endeavor in the form of preaching. His mission was to bring humanity closer to the blessings of Christ by means of apostolic charity so as not to be confided to one race or culture but to the whole mankind (Feingold, 2009).
Paul, formerly a persecutor of Christians, was on the road to Damascus when suddenly God spoke to him. “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?” (Acts 9:4) God asked. Paul was then blinded and led by his friends to Damascus, where a disciple named Ananias was waiting for him. Ananias cured Paul’s blindness and baptized him. From then on, Paul was devoted to spreading the Good News all over the world.
When I returned home from a mission trip in April of 2012 things didn’t seem the same. My body felt as if it had been run over by a herd of elephants. I looked like a balloon with the swelling that had taken over my body. I went to school for a week and then I could not return, I was in so much pain, I didn't know it was possible to feel like this. Little did I know this would be the rest of my life. Months after my mission trip, in the month of August in 2012 I was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia and Rheumatoid Arthritis, two painful diseases that I will live with for the rest of my life.