"Event-Driven Motion Compensation in Positron Emission Tomography: Development of a Clinically Applicable Method", Ph.D. thesis, Faculty of Medicine Carl Gustav Carus, University of Technology Dresden, Germany, November 2008.
Yesterday we were at Smiths amazingly gorgeous Moss Mountain Farm for a whole day learning all about the benefits of the soy bean, which is a staple product of Arkansas farming. But the Wonders of Soy is just the tip of the iceberg.
Having Alison to carpool and pal around with made the day that much more fun. We have not been able to visit for more than a few moments here and there in far too long and getting to spend a whole day with her was fantastic, uplifting and good for the soul.
And yes, that is an amazing soaking tub on P. Allen’s Sleeping Porch. Can you imagine? It was dreamy.
I know the whole Bean2Blog experience would have been delightful no matter what, but like most everything, Bean2Blog was better because I was with a good friend.
So stay tuned…. you won’t believe the house, the boots, the soy milk maker, the lunch, more about the sleeping porch, the kids room, the chickens, the gardens…. I promise you won’t want to miss it!
Thanks a million for your kind words and for getting us there and back. (I would have been driving for days trying to find it!)
Believe me, I’m all for the well-placed bit of flatulence, but this is Dr. Seuss, for Pete’s sake, and the onslaught of burps, farts, pee, puke, and almost-bad words is stunningly miscalculated. —Ty Burr —Kitty Litter: Coarse `Cat in the Hat’ is another case of Seuss abuse (Boston.com)
This movie sounds awful, but I haven’t read more entertaining reviews in a long time. Here’s another priceless quote: “If the producers had dug up Ted Geisel’s body and hung it from a tree, they couldn’t have desecrated the man more.”
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I finished reading Restore Me by Tahereh Mafi. Restore Me is the fourth book of The Shatter Me book series. I read the first three books. Like I said earlier I have written a story that is similar.
In this book, Juliette is made supreme commander after she killed Warner’s father. She fastly finds out that it is a tough job, and she is overwhelmed. But she is determined to have the job even though people told her Warner would be better suited for the job. Warner flatly refuses to take the job. When she meets one of the supreme commander’s daughter, she learns that Warner is keeping secrets. She finds out she has a sister and her parents are alive. She also finds out the Restablishment wants her back.
Even though I wrote a similar story, I really like this book series. There is a fifth book coming out next year. And I heard they are making a tv series of the show too. Here is a song that I think should a theme song for the book series:
I watched Blade Runner 2049 yesterday. I taped it when HBO was a free preview. It has Ryan Gosling, Dave Bautista, Robin Wright, Ana de Armas, Jared Leto, and Harrison Ford in it.
In this movie, a blade runner (cop) named Joe kills a replicant (human clone/robot) and doing so undercovers a secret that was buried. The secret was a replicant (human clone/robot) had a baby. He (and I) thought the baby was him. He finds Deckard (the blade runner in the first movie) and he lets Deckard meet his daughter.
I did like this movie. Today I’m watching Murder on the Orient Express (1974) version since I’m listening to the book. I will be finishing the book today. Tomorrow I’m watching the 2001 version and Thursday I’m watching the 2017 version. Next Monday I’m watching Hidden Figures.
I watched Terminator Genisys on Sunday. I taped it when it was on FX. It has Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jason Clarke, Emilia Clarke, Jai Courtney, J.K. Simmons, and Byung-Hun Lee in it.
In this movie, Kyle Reese agrees to go back in time to 1984 to save Sarah Connor. The problem is that Sarah doesn’t need saving because of the previous time travels (which makes my brain hurt thinking about it). So in this timeline, Sarah has a friend in old terminator who saves her. Kyle suggests going forward in time to 2017 to get rid of Genisys which becomes Skynet. It is revealed that John Connor becomes Skynet too. So they do succeed in getting rid of Genisys, but Kyle and Sarah are stuck in 2017 and there is another Kyle Reese.
I thought this movie would suck, but it was actually really good. Next Monday I’m watching Blade Runner 2049.
Yesterday would have been my aunt’s birthday. She would have been 60 years old. I listened to some music to celebrate.
Monday I have my doctor’s appointment. It’s an annual exam. I should be getting the calendars soon too.
I finished reading The Chalk Man by C J Tudor. I heard about this book on a book blogger’s website and it sounded really good.
Warning: it goes back and forward in time so if you don’t like that, this book is not for you. Warning 2: there is some violence, gross parts, some sad parts, and one big twist near the end
Before I begin my summary, I should say this book is a combination of Stand by Me (The Body by Stephen King) and the Sixth Sense (I see dead people).
In this book, a man named Eddie Adams tells the story of what happened to him and his friends during one summer when they were younger. Eddie and his friends develop a messaging system of chalk stick men. Then suddenly they find a dead body in the woods. Eddie likes to collect things and steal the ring off the dead body. The town thinks a teacher killed the girl. Eddie takes the ring to the teacher which leads the police to believe the teacher killed her. Case closed, right? But Eddie finds out who really killed the girl.
I really liked this book. Now I’m reading Restore me by Tahereh Mafi. It is the fourth book of the Shatter me book series.
Tomorrow is Lily’s day since she’s all black cat. Today I gave her some treats and I will tomorrow too. I’m going to help my uncle hand out candy at his church tomorrow. I’m going to wear a Halloween shirt and black lipstick.
I’m supposed to get a charm bracelet soon from Arm and Hammer. It has a cute cat charm. And today I should be able to order my calendar and my best friend’s calendar. This year I’m getting a fantasy cat calendar for myself and the usual Marilyn Monroe calendar for my best friend.
I watched Invitation to a Gunfighter yesterday. I had taped it when Starz was a free preview. It has Yul Brynner, Janice Rule, George Segal, Clifford David, and Pat Hingle in it.
In this movie, A man named Matt Weaver was coming back home from the Civil War. He finds out that the town boss Sam Brewster sold his house. He also finds out his fiancee had married another man. He wants his property back so he makes threats to get it back. Brewster ends up hiring a gunfighter to fight Matt. Then the gunfighter gets out of control and Brewster makes a deal with Matt that he can get his property back if he will kill the gunfighter.
I didn’t like the ending, but I liked the rest of the movie. Next week I’m watching Terminator Genisys.
This essay contains three hypotheses. The primary thesis is: Contrary to what most people have been taught by church and government leaders, Jesus did not condone taxation nor endorse the concept of nation-states with human rulers when he said “render unto Caesar therefore the things which are Caesar’s.” If we succeed in persuading readers of that one point, and we are confident all who come with an open mind will be persuaded, our research, writing and prayers will be vindicated.
The second hypothesis is this: Jesus taught and lived by principles diametrically opposed to government and taxes. If that is true, then those who would live their lives according to the principles Jesus taught will neither levy, collect, receive, consume, nor voluntarily pay taxes, nor be involved with the tax-funded state in any way they can possibly avoid.
Finally, although Jesus died of his own volition in compliance with his Father’s will in order to save us from the consequences of sins, our third hypothesis holds: It is most likely Pontius Pilate crucified Jesus because he had been “forbidding the payment of taxes to Caesar,” as the Gospel of Luke puts it, and teaching his disciples taxation violates God’s Commandment, “Thou shall not steal.” Pilate didn’t kill Jesus to save mankind from sin, although Jesus died for that purpose. Did he die to save us from taxes? If taxes are sinful because they violate God’s Commandment, it follows as night follows day that indeed he did…
When Jesus was brought before Pontius Pilate by high-ranking Jews who wanted him crucified, the Gospel of Luke records the event as follows: Then the assembly rose as a body and brought Jesus before Pilate. They began to accuse him, saying, ‘We found this man perverting our nation, forbidding us to pay taxes to the emperor, and saying he himself is the Messiah, a king…He stirs up the people by teaching throughout all Judea, from Galilee where he began even to this place.’”
Was Jesus guilty of these charges? Most exegetes believe he was not. However, we intend to show the Gospels themselves as well as other evidence prove the scholars wrong. The record is clear. On the count of forbidding the payment of taxes to Caesar, Jesus was guilty! Thus, pursuant to Roman law, he was a dangerous criminal who warranted the sentence handed down by Pilate. Of course the fault wasn’t in Jesus; it was in Rome’s man-made law.
The criminal cause of action preferred against Jesus before Pilate of “perverting our nation” must be interpreted to mean the Roman nation, not Israel. Israel at the time was not a nation but part of an imperial province of the Roman Empire. Moreover, the charge could hardly refer to the Jewish nation because perverting the then-extinct Jewish nation would be of no concern to a haughty Roman magistrate administering Roman law. The specification, “forbidding us to pay taxes to the emperor,” was brought not only because it was likely to incite Pilate’s wrath against Jesus, but also because it could readily be supported by solid evidence. Furthermore, regarding the tax charge, Jesus’ accusers were justifiably confident based on experience he would not deny the many things he had said and done, which implicated him as a tax resister. Resisting the emperor’s tax augured harm to Pilate and to Rome, not Israel…
From Darrell Anderson’s compelling essay: “Jesus did not declare that people should pay taxes. Jesus declared that if something rightfully belongs to Caesar then return the property to Caesar. When read from a property rights perspective, there is no mystery with the text. Caesar’s picture was a sign or seal that the coin might belong to Caesar.”
The first sentence is right on; the second tentatively implies (might belong to) that Caesar puss on the coin indicated ownership. Not true, of course, as AE teaches. The coin, a denarius, has been discovered by archeologist throughout what was the Roman empire and beyond, indicating the coin circulated freely. Of course a coin that was presumed to belong to the maker as opposed to the party in possession of it–the bearer–would not be used in commerce and would not circulate. Who would accept a coin belonging to a third party, and subject to recall at any time, in exchange for one’s goat free and clear. The answer is no one, and the coin would not circulate but remain in the Roman treasury. No one in the Roman empire at the time of Jesus who used Roman coins believed their coins belonged to Caesar. They all–every one of them–knew the money in their possession belonged to them. This is an important point because Christian Church exegetes, writing when the Church had been subsumed by Rome and begun sharing in its taxes, have posited that at the time all Roman coins “legally” belonged to the Emperor, and in paying taxes one was only restoring one’s coins to their rightful owners. HOGWASH! Even if such a law existed, no one believed it and no one considered their Roman money as Caesar’s.
@ Darrell: ” These simple understandings and observations teach that Jesus did not advocate paying taxes. Jesus likely never would answer such a question, but if he did, he likely would answer that taxes are owed only if entered into voluntarily. Otherwise such payments are extortion and theft.”
Obviously absolutely true. However, I contend Jesus explicitly answered the question, “Give Caesar whatever you have in your possession belonging to him, otherwise give him nothing.” And to drive the point home he added, “Give God what is God’s,” demanding we know what belongs to God and Caesar respectively in Jesus’ judgement. And we can rest assured that Jesus’ judgement didn’t vary by even a jot from the division of property found in at least six places in Hebrew Scripture, and succinctly in Psalm 24:1, “The earth is the Lords and everything in it,” again leaving nothing for poor old Caesar. Jesus’ immortal response was a resounding call to tax resistance.