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Summary of passage: The wise men leave Herod and continue their journey in search of Christ, using the star as their guide. They arrived at Jesus's house and bowed down and worshipped him. They gave the child gifts of gold, incense, and myrrh. Then they returned home a different way to avoid Herod.
An angel of the Lord warns Joseph to flee Bethlehem for Egypt because Herod is going to try to kill the child. So Mary, Joseph, and Jesus stayed in Egypt until Herod died, returning to fulfill another prophecy in Hosea 11:1.
When Herod realizes the magi have escaped him, he orders all boys in Bethlehem under the age of two killed, fulfilling Jeremiah's prophecy in Jeremiah 31:15.
5a) Naomi is from Bethlehem (Ruth 1:2, 19) and that is where they returned. Boaz married Ruth who are ancestors of David (Great-grandfather and mother of David). God sends Samuel to Bethlehem where David lives to anoint David as God's chosen king. All of this takes place in Bethlehem, where Jesus himself is born centuries later.
b) Hosea 11:1: "When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son."
Jeremiah 31:15: "This is what the Lord says: 'A voice is heard in Ramah, mourning and great weeping, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because her children are no more.'"
Rachel is weeping over the exiles and here over the babies slaughtered by Herod.
6a) The Pharisees are hostile towards Jesus, skeptical and jealous: Matthew 15, 16
The chief priests plot against Jesus: Matthew 26:3-5 They look for false evidence against him: Matthew 26:59
Judas betrays Jesus: Matthew 26:14-16; 49
Jesus is mocked: Matthew 27:27-31, 41-44 Jesus is insulted: Matthew 27:39-40
b) They are berated and even persecuted for their beliefs. They are looked down upon or snubbed by friends. They may even be plotted against or betrayed.
c) Personal Question. My answer: Nothing significant. I live in a bubble. I should probably get out more.
7a) Personal Question. My answer: The magi travel great distances in difficult times to worship the One, True King. They bring expensive gifts despite their lives being threatened by Herod. God provides them a safe way home.
b) Personal Question. My answer: The key for me is prayer. I need to spend more time throughout my day praying and worshipping and thanking God for everything in my life. Spending as much time as I can in the Word, wrestling with Truths and soaking up Him, is my goal.
Conclusions: I liked 5a the best. It had never dawned on me that the story of Ruth and Boaz takes place in Bethlehem where Jesus was born. My brain had never made that connection before. Nor had it dawned on me that David was from Bethlehem. The significance of this had to be pointed out to me. Great stuff!
Interesting Notes:
We can surmise the star reappeared for the Magi to follow again. Scholars believe the trip took some months. First, the Magi followed the star and then went to Jerusalem where they talked with Herod, and then continued under another star.
Jesus is called a child here, not a babe, placing him at toddler age.
The three gifts have led to the Three Magi myth when actually we are uncertain of the number of Magi.
These gifts were probably used to finance their flight to Egypt. God knows all and provides for all!
Note the persistence and dedication of the Magi. They pursued the sign. The sign vanished so they inquired and gathered more information of others who might know the Truth. Then the sign reappeared and they obediently followed. They worshipped and brought gifts. They followed without ever giving up and were rewarded for their obedience. As we all must do.
Egypt had been a place of refuge since Abraham's time. And as a result, a vibrant Jewish population flourished in Egypt. Hence, Joseph had no reason to doubt the angel.
The actual number of boys killed would have been small: a dozen or so maybe. We must remember Bethlehem was a tiny village. It's hard for us who live on a planet full of billions to NOT imagine a great number of kids killed (hundreds). But it would have been small in Roman times, which would explain why this event is not recorded in other histories. Herod committed many more atrocious acts that killed hundreds. So to historians of the time, it wasn't seen as a recordable act.


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Cumberland, Maryland duo, Michael Nau and Whitney McGraw have been making music together for what sounds and feels like lifetimes. Honestly, in this lifetime, it already seems to us like forever, which is exactly how long the tiny Appalachian city of 21,000 claims people have inhabited their tranquil digs. I suppose it's no wonder, then, that the intimate songs they sing transcend time. We were very happy to host them with their full touring band in the studio recently as Cotton Jones (formerly known as Cotton Jones Basket Ride). You may also be familiar with Nau and McGraw (they're sweet on each other) dressed down as Page France.
Cotton and Velvet, Some Strange Rain, and Blood Red Sentimental Blues can be found on their latest album, Paranoid Cocoon (Suicide Squeeze).
Clever and, at times, poignant lyrically, Cotton Jones deftly lulls, raining down a soft, enveloping trance, offering up fertile ground for contemplation and reflection.
Cotton Jones' album versions combine their effective simplicity with a healthy slathering of reverb to hazily emphasize the band's era-bending quality, if not throwing them back to the mid sixties with walking boots on.
These live studio versions, a bit more dry, sound like they could have been recorded in a quaint-yet-spacious, high-ceilinged, wood-floored town hall in the late 1800′s or early 1900′s, while ladies and gentlemen trotted past, decked for Sunday best, in horse-drawn carriages. This collection of songs is amazing. Some Strange Rain blends the feelings of flowing rivers with an awesome interlude of narration and rythmic bayonette drums. Cotton and Velvet somberly haunts, echoing dreams within dreams. While it's challenging to characterize any one of these tunes as better than the other, Home Is Where, the quietly sassy, traveling-truth-inspired duet, repeatedly grabs my active fancy.
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Current Law Students / Re: Going to class as a 1L.« on: October 08, 2007, 11:59:35 AM »
You go to class not to hear your classmates rattle on about irrelevant facts, but to catch those few gems of policy discussion where your professor discusses things NOT in the book. You also go in the hope that he'll say something about the exam.
Yes, it can be a lot of wasted time, but that's life.
I would agree with this. Even if the professor isn't explicit, you may be able to predict what may show up on the exam or better handle exam questions if you show up to class and listen to what the professor is focusing on. I'm not sure how to best explain this but as a 1L I would strongly recommend that you go to class. Your first year grades are really too important to jeopardize.


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R.I. P. Whitney Houston One of Dancing With The Stars Greatest Guests To Entertain
I am so shocked on this news as I'm sure all of you are. I don't know what to say? 🙁 🙁 According to MSNBC, Whitney Houston, one of the greatest singers of our time (and all time) has passed away…cause and location of death at this time is unknown.
At her peak, Houston the golden girl of the music industry. From the middle 1980s to the late 1990s, she was one of the world's best-selling artists. She wowed audiences with effortless, powerful, and peerless vocals that were rooted in the black church but made palatable to the masses with a pop sheen.
Her success carried her beyond music to movies, where she starred in hits like "The Bodyguard" and "Waiting to Exhale."
She had the he perfect voice, and the perfect image: a gorgeous singer who had sex appeal but was never overtly sexual, who maintained perfect poise.
She influenced a generation of younger singers, from Christina Aguilera to Mariah Carey, who when she first came out sounded so much like Houston that many thought it was Houston.
Below is of Whitney's most fun performances on Dancing With The Stars and doesn't this song just say it all for what the show is about?:
With all of our love, rest in peace Whitney! You'll never be forgotten! Thank you for your music! xxx


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Male survivors of rape while serving in the military say they are often deemed "liars and troublemakers" when they report abuse.
The Pentagon estimated about 13,000 of the 1.2 million men serving in the military suffered sexual assault last year, NBC News reported. About 12,100 of the 203,000 women in uniform were sexually assaulted on active duty last year.
The Defense Department has said men "report at much lower rates than female survivors."
Brian Lewis, a rape survivor who served in the Navy, said that is because male survivors are "still viewed as having wanted it."
"As a culture, we've somewhat moved past the idea that a female wanted this trauma to occur, but we haven't moved past that for male survivors," Lewis said. "In a lot of areas of the military, men are still viewed as having wanted it or of being homosexual. That's not correct at all. It's a crime of power and control."
"But also, you're instantly viewed as a liar and a troublemaker [when a man reports a sex crime], and there's the notion that you have abandoned your shipmates, that you took a crap all over your shipmates, that you misconstrued their horseplay," Lewis said.
"The biggest reasons men don't come forward [with sex assault reports] are the fear of retaliation [from fellow troops], the fear of being viewed in a weaker light and the fact there are very few, if any, services for male survivors," Lewis told NBC News.
President Obama said though the military is ashamed of the situation there's "no silver bullet" for solving the sexual assault problem.
Sex crimes in the military are "dangerous to our national security" and "not a sideshow," Obama said at the White House after meeting with Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Martin Dempsey and the leaders of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps, as well as senior enlisted advisers to discuss the rise in military sexual assaults.
Hagel and the senior uniformed officers told Obama at the meeting they were "angry" about the sexual-assault rise, Obama told reporters in the Cabinet Room. "And I heard directly from all of them that they're ashamed by some of what's happened," Obama said.
Newsweek reported two years ago women in the military were more likely to be assaulted by a fellow soldier than killed in combat.
Obama said Thursday he and the others at the meeting suggested a number of ideas to get at the longstanding problem, whose string of misconduct cases included the Army saying Tuesday a sergeant in charge of preventing sexual assaults at Fort Hood, Texas, was being criminally investigated for alleged "abusive sexual contact."
Ten days earlier, the Air Force's top sexual-assault-prevention officer was arrested on charges he drunkenly groped and battered a woman in a parking lot near the Pentagon.
With those as a backdrop, the military leaders suggested to Obama creating incentives so top military officers "understand this is as core to our mission as anything else," Obama said. They also suggested "empowering victims" so they can come forward and report the crimes with "no fear of retaliation" and know they'll get justice, Obama said.
Hagel will also look for "best practices" by seeing how other countries' militaries handle sex crimes, Obama said.
"There is no silver bullet to solving this problem," Obama cautioned. "This is going to require a sustained effort over a long period of time."
Before the meeting, several military commanders acknowledged their failure to get at the problem.


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Laputa Book Reader is an e-book reader which enables users to easily download and read thousands of books on Android devices.
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* '''Future plans:'''
** As a board member, i'll ensure that Fedora remains Fedora, it means a community-driven project that strives to lead and promote FOSS solutions. I won't tell you what to do but i'll listen and help to remove any impediments that bother our contributors and our broader community.
** As a board member, i'll ensure that Fedora remains Fedora, it means a community-driven project that strives to lead and promote FOSS solutions. I won't tell you what to do but i'll listen and help to remove any impediments that bother our contributors and our broader community.
Revision as of 06:24, 14 June 2013
The following elections will take place in May/June 2013:
- Fedora Project Board (three seats)
- FESCo (Engineering) (five seats)
- FAmSCo (Ambassadors) (four seats)
- Fedora 20 Name (separate schedule from the committee elections)
All dates and times noted are UTC time.
- 1 Fedora Board Elections May/June 2013
- 2 Candidates
Fedora Board Elections May/June 2013
For the last election, please look at NominationsNovDec2012
There are three seats up for elections this period:
- E3: currently held by Eric Christensen
- E4: currently held by Nick Bebout
- E5: currently held by Peter Robinson
More information on board seats history is available here
Candidate Template
- Goal statement:
- Past work summary:
- Future plans:
- Anything else you want to add:
Josh Boyer (jwb)
- Mission statement:
- To ensure Fedora remains a high quality, leading edge distribution with a variety of uses.
- Past work summary:
- I have been a Fedora user since its inception, and a Fedora contributor since around Fedora Core 4. In the past I've held positions on the Fedora Board and Fedora rel-eng teams. I was also part of the PowerPC secondary architecture effort. I've been on FESCo off and on since 2006. I am currently one of the three Fedora kernel maintainers.
- Future plans:
- Continue to let developers and contributors accomplish what they need with a minimum amount of process and overhead. Continue to look at the distro as a whole with an eye on improving the usability and function for a variety of targets.
Eric Christensen (sparks)
- Mission statement:
- To continue to make Fedora as open as possible for as many people and projects.
- Past work summary.
- Docs Project, packager, and current Board member.
- Future plans:
- Strive to bring transparency, openness, and community to the Fedora Project. I'd like to further the concept of the Fedora operating system as a platform as well as make Fedora an easier and better solution for our users when compared to other operating systems.
Matthew Garrett (mjg59)
- Mission statement:
- To encourage a Fedora that attracts a diverse community founded on mutual respect and a desire to produce a world-beating Linux distribution.
- Past work summary:
- I've been a Fedora user since 2008, and am active in various aspects of Fedora development including the kernel and Anaconda. I've served on FESCo and was a founding member of the Community Working Group, helping author the early drafts of our code of conduct and enforcement guidelines. I implemented significant portions of the Fedora UEFI Secure Boot support while at Red Hat, and continue to develop it since I left.
- Future plans:
- At a technical level, I'm going to continue working to improve Fedora's hardware support and make it as easy as possible for users to get Fedora onto their systems. At a social level, I want to be actively involved in the user base discussion. Fedora isn't just about satisfying the users we have, it's about the users we want - and it's important for us to identify what stands between us and achieving that goal. The hostile tone present on many of our project communication channels is a barrier to involvement and fits poorly with the inclusive focus of much of our publicity. This needs to change.
Dan Mashal (dan408)
- Mission statement:
- To make Fedora better in any way I possibly can.
- Past work summary:
- This is both current AND past work:Maintain MATE and Cinnamon desktops, part time end user IRC support in #fedora, QA for 3 Fedora releases: 17, 18 and 19. I am also an active ambassador and maintain a wide variety of packages.
- Future plans:
- Working on Enlightenment as a new feature coming in Fedora 20.
- Continue hard work on the QA team.
- Continue to be a very active participant in the Ambassadors group.
- Package reviewer/orphan adopter. List of packages I work on/own/maintain/watch:
- Plan to finish working on the MATE-Compiz spin for Fedora 19:
- As a board member I would like to offer a fresh set of opinions. Ones that may or may not be popular but should be expressed. Mainly I would like to solve the issues that recur daily in #fedora for the users. Make it easier for contributors to join Fedora, improving our design choices and our reputation for overall stability.
Haïkel Guémar (number80)
- Mission statement:
- Ensure that Fedora community grows steadily and in a healthy way.
- Past work summary:
- Package maintainer since 2006 (mostly python & gtkmm related stuff)
- Active Ambassador since 2006
- Fedora Community Member since 2004
- Future plans:
- As a board member, i'll ensure that Fedora remains Fedora, it means a community-driven project that strives to lead and promote FOSS solutions. I won't tell you what to do but i'll listen and help to remove any impediments that bother our contributors and our broader community.
- Help to redefine a shared vision and common goals, that's what we currently lacking.
- About Fedora as a Platform vs Fedora as a Product (aka FaaP FaaP): i'm clearly a platform proponent though I agree that we need a strong product (Desktop spin) to attract more users (and so on, more contributors). We're lacking in three areas to improve that situation: QA which is man-lacking, tools (we need to push copr, improve automated QA), stronger SIGs
- Fedora is a contributors driven project, contributors should have the last say in technical matters. We need to give more visibility to SIGs and find how we could make them more efficient.
- The board represent the larger community, it includes end users not contributors only, we have to find how we could voice their concern to the contributors (SIGs or Fesco) without interfering.
- The board is *servant leadership*, board members should spend more time meeting contributors and users, we can't voice them unless. All the candidates are active contributors but we have to get out of our comfort zone.
- Improve our recruiting process: make the new contributors feel welcome, push outreach programs, put the *Friends* back in how we handle relationships between contributors. That includes working more closely with the Ambassadors board to better promote Fedora and liven the outreach programs.


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Series: The Page Turners, Bk 1
Publisher: Cat & Bean Publishing
Publication Date: November 30, 201
Have you ever felt abandoned by your parents? Ignored by your teacher? Betrayed by your peers?
Do you feel more of a connection to the characters in the books you read than to people
in the real world?
in the real world?
Have you experienced the loneliness of being the only person in your little community who dreams of something bigger?
Nate Bourdain has
In The Page Turners: Blood, Nate and his friends are thrilled to discover an ancient book of magic hidden in the school library--they now have the means to stand up to villains that make high-school life such a battle.
But, when the book's dark magic releases a fictional killer into the real world, the teens must prove they have what it takes to be heroes, or fall as bloody victims in their own horror story turned real.
Kevin T. Johns grew up in a small Ontario town, reading comic books, watching horror movies, and playing guitar in punk rock bands. After studying film and English literature in university, he co-founded an arts and culture magazine, where he was a contributing writer and senior editor for several years. He lives in Ottawa with his wife and two daughters. The Page Turners is his debut novel. Look for books two and three of The Page Turners Trilogy.