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I want you to look with me at Colossians, Chapter 3 tonight, and we're going to look at some practical things here in the third chapter beginning with the 9th Verse. We've entitled this particular section, "Putting on the New Man." This is such a practical section I don't want you to get too bogged down in theology. I want you to just enjoy the practicality of it and see if there aren't some very basic things here that are going to make a difference in your life when you respond to them.
You know, if you were a soldier or a bus driver or a baseball player or a football player or a market clerk or a policeman or whatever, you have to dress the part. You notice that in all of those professions the people wear a certain kind of uniform. If you happen to be a mailman or whatever, you have to have that kind of uniform. If youhappen to be a banker you have a pin-striped suit and a button-down collar and a briefcase. You could even get away with not being very adequate if you look the part in many cases. But looking the part is an important area in our society. We are a uniform society. Maybe not like Red China where everybody looks exactly the same, but we have managed to sort of separate people and they dress according to their role in life. You can just about tell a person by the kind of clothes he wears on a daily basis. You see him going out to work and you get a pretty good idea of what he does. What we wear is important relative to what we are. This is precisely Paul's point in Colossians, Chapter 3. In the spiritual sense you need to dress yourself spiritually to meet your identity spiritually. That's his point right here. It's pretty simple. If you're a Christi an, you ought to dress the part. A new man should wear new clothes. It's nottalking about a Christine uniform. It's not talking about a certain kind of tee-shirt that says, "Jesus Saves" on the back or bumper stickers. That isn't the idea. He's talking about the spiritual garb that you wear, the style of life, how to accommodate your identity. If you're a new creature in Christ, there are some clothes that go along with that. We used to live in Downy when I was a kid. My dad was the pastor of the First Baptist Church of Downy. Downy in those days was still developing. It wasn't all built up like it is now. There were a lot of orchards in some areas, but there was one man who pretty well owned the city. He had subdivided his property and sold it all off in bits and pieces and he made a lot of money. He was extremely wealthy. He owned the country club in town where folks played golf. One day he was out at his country club and he had on some pretty scruffy looking clothes, some pretty shabby things, and one of the guards on the golf course came out and took him and put him in a car and hauled him down to the police and they put him in jail for vagrancy. I'll never forget that, because it was a big deal in that town. He owned the place! (Laughter) But because of the way he was dressed, they assumed that he was a vagrant just meandering around the golf course. Well, needless to say, that guard moved to another town and another job. His career was over. This man owned the country club but he didn't dress the part. It was very difficult to tell.
I'm afraid in the Christian life that there are a lot of people who might get arrested for impersonating a Christian or for trespassing on Christian property because they really don't dress the part. Even that old favorite garment of the old life that you want to hang onto so much has got to go. From the spiritual standpoint, it kind of goes like this: when you were saved, when you gave your life to Jesus Christ, when you believed and He redeemed you, your old man died. Your old man died, and you were born again, a new man. The new man doesn't want to wear the old man's clothes. You don't want to put on the filthy rags that you used to wear. You want to put on the new robe. Do you remember that I told you that when a believer was baptized in the early church, it was customary that he was baptized, his old clothes were-thrown away, and he was given as a gift from the believing community a new white robe as a symbol of his new identity. That kind of carries over here in Paul's thinking as he sees us dying with Christ and rising in new life. He sees the discarding of the old clothes and the old garment and the putting on' of a brand new kind of wardrobe, a brand new lifestyle to accommodate our new life.
Now we need to define some terms here, because it's very important. You'll notice in Verse 9 the term "the old man." In Verse 10 there is the term "the new man." Now these have provided a theological discussion that has run through the ages. What is the old man and what is the new man? Do we still have the old man or do we just have the new man? Are we a combination of the old man and the new man and fighting along with each other, trying to give the more acquiescence to the new man? Just exactly how do these things come together in a simple theological sense? Well, let me see if I can help you to understand this. When you became a Christian, you ceased to be an old man and you became a new man. If any man be in Christ he is a new creation. You aren't an old man any more. You don't have an old man any more. You are a new man. There aren't two of you. There is only one of you. That's the one new man. The practices which were normal to the old man are all of a sudden abnormal to the new man. They just don't fit. They're incongruous. They are out of sink. So this section of Colossians is simply saying this: since you are a new man, dress like one. I've called this section the Spiritual Put-on. Because that's really what it is. You're putting on clothes for a lifestyle to match the life that is in you. If you have the risen life as indicated in Verses 1 to 4, if you possess eternal life, then there ought to be an outward manifestation. There ought to be a style of life that accommodates the reality of that internal life. Now you're seen new men in old clothes, haven't you? You've seen Christian people who are new men but who wear the rags of their former life, who go around doing the things they used to do and those things are abnormal. Those things are to be put aside. Those things are to be discarded. When you died, and by that I mean the moment you believed in Christ by a divine miracle, your old life dies, and you rise to new life and you become a new man. You then respond by throwing away the old clothes and putting on the new ones. So you can see that there is a negative and a positive.
The negative is "get rid of the old" and the positive is "put on the new." That's exactly what Paul is saying here. Get rid of the old is what we saw in our last study in Verses 5 to 9A. Killthe members that are on the Earth such as fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil desire, covetousness, and he goes on to talk about these kinds of things that characterize your former life. Put away Verse 8, anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, dirty talk out of your mouth and stop lying to each other. In other words, as a new man there are some things you throw away. Some things you junk. Some things you kill. Some things you discard. Then in the positive, beginning in Verse 9, there are some things you put on. Seeing that you have put off the old man, and put on the new man, then do this: Verse 12 "Put on therefore," and he starts to list the things you need to put on. So Paul is really calling the Christian, in particular in Colossians here, to sever their allegiance to the old order of life.
We don't need to say too much about this really, because you understand that. You know that as a Christian that is exactly what is asked of you. The old life is condemned. The old life has been crucified. The old life has been done away with. The old life is gone. It isn't there any more. It isn't around any more. In fact, in Romans 6:6 you have this statement: "Knowing this: that our old man is crucified with Him. That the body of sin which is synonymous with the old man might be destroyed. In other words, that old man is dead, destroyed, gone, removed, it isn't around. It's gone. In Romans 7 he says, "A woman who has a husband is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives, but if the husband dies she is free." The idea is that your former husband, the former thing you served, your former marriage partner's sin and the old man has died, and you're a new man. You're wed to a new life, a new energy which is divine.
So he is saying, "Since you are a new man, act like it. Since you have entered a new world, act like it. Since you're members of a new humanity alive to God, act like it. Leave the old habits, the old selfishness that belonged to the old man, the old adamant nature if you will. Take on the new habits of selflessness, which belong to the new Adam who is Christ. What we're seeing here then is that same old story of a divine and dramatic transformation that takes place in the life of a believer. A tremendous transformation occurs. You die. "I am," said Paul, "crucified with Christ. Nevertheless, I live." In other words, one eye dies and another eye lives. A new man substituting for the old man. So every Christian is a new man. You're a new man. You're a new creation. Second Corinthians 5:17 as I mentioned. 'The old is crucified. The new demands a new lifestyle. First we said it is negative and second it's positive.
Now as we look at the positive, we're going to look at Verses 9 through 17. We'll cover this, not all tonight, but 9 through 17 gives you the basic principles for putting on the clothes that belong to the new man. If you want a synonym for the clothes, it's lifestyle. It's lifestyle. If you want another one, it's behavior. A new man demands new clothes or a new lifestyle or a new kind of behavior. Now let's look at this. There are several thoughts here and I don't want to give them all to you tonight or you'll just get boggled in them, but there are some areas of truth in which this new lifestyle really has to be defined, and Paul does that. But let me begin by giving you the first one. Paul starts in Verses 9 and 10 with the position of the new man. Now, the whole idea of putting on the new man is predicated on who the new man is. If you are a Christian, dress like one. Well, you've got to start with the identity of the believer. Look at Verse 9, starting with the second phrase there. We stopped at the end of that first phrase last time. You could put a period after another and start a sentence here. "Seeing that you have put off the old man with his deeds and have put on the new man," now stop there. Seeing that you have put off the old man and you have put on the new man, do this... that's his point. So the first thing he does is describe this tremendous transformation as the basis for the exhortation that will begin in Verse 12. It is essential that a Christian understands that the reason he is to change his lifestyle is because God has changed his life. God has changed it and transformed it. A new life demands a new lifestyle.
Now you could translate Verse 9 this way: Since you have put off the old man with his deeds and have put on the new man. It's a stated fact. It has been done. You're just a brand new man, and since you are there ought to be a change in the lifestyle. Now just to give you a little contextual connection here, he gives the negative aspects of what you put off in Verses 5 to 9, the positive aspects of what you put on in Verses 9 to 17, and in Verses 9 and 10 1 just read you, there is a little bridge. In other words, the first 5 puts this off and this and this and this, since you are a new man. The second comes like this: Since you are a new man, put on this and this and this. So that this little section becomes a bridge between the put off and the put on. It ties the old with the new. It gives a way from the old life to the new life across a chasm that could never be crossed except that Jesus has made you a new creature. Since you are new, since you are redeemed, since you are a new creature, since you are a new man, put this off and put this on.
Now let me look again at that term "the old man" in Verse 9. What do you mean "put off the old man with his deeds"? You have already done it? Since you've done it? Since you've put on the new man? What is this old man? Well, let me describe him to you. Romans 6:6 1 just read. The old man is crucified. The old man is crucified. Let me give you a second one. Look at Ephesians 4:22. I'm going to show you what the old man is by giving you some Scripture here. Ephesians 4:22 "That you put off concerning the former lifestyle, the old man which is corrupt. Alright. Now we have learned two things about the old man. The old man is crucified. Secondly, the old man is corrupt. So whatever this old man is, it's crucified and corrupt. You say, "Well what is it that was corrupt in us? It was our adamnic nature, wasn't it? It was our sin nature. It was our inherited, unregenerate self. And at conversion it was killed. It is dead. It is gone. People say to me so very often, "Don't you believe that a Christian has a new man and an old man?" I always say, "No. Because the old man that was corrupt has been crucified and is dead and you are a new man." The old man is the unregenerated self. The old man is that which was replaced by the regenerated self. If you have a new man and an old man, then you have a regenerated part and an unregenerated part. In other words, you're half saved and half lost. That doesn't make it, does it? Because it says in Colossians 2:10, "Christ, you are complete." Is salvation whole? Is it total? Are you a new creation? Yes. So you're not half regenerated and half unregenerated. You're not a new regenerate man and an old unregenerate man warring against each other. There is a war in there, but it isn't between the old creature and the new creature. You're just a new creature. We don't have a new man and an old man. You can't be regenerated and unregenerated at the same time. The old man, then, is the ungenerated self.
Now what is the new man? The new man is the regenerated self. The saved self. By regenerate we man "born again." The redeemed self, the new self that's been created in Christ Jesus. The converted identity. You're a brand new creature. That's the new man. Thomas Goodwin has a beautiful statement. He says this: "There are but two men seen standing before God Adam and Jesus Christ and these two men have all other men hanging at their belts." These two men have all other men hanging at their belts. You're either in Adam or you're in Christ. Right? You're either an old man or a new man. You're either unsaved or you're saved. The great contest is - look with me for a minute at Romans 5. We'll just have some wanderings here and enjoy ourselves. Romans 5:12 says this: "Wherefore as by one man sin entered the world." This is the one man being Adam. "And death by sin so death, spiritual death, passed on all men for all of sin." Here he says Adam brought sin. From one man came sin. He talks about this through Verse 14. Then he makes an interesting shift, but not as the offense is the free gift. He begins to turn away from Adam "for if through the offense of one many are dead, much more the grace of God and the gift by grace which is by one man Jesus Christ has abounded unto many." Now notice, just because of one man we're all dead and because of one other man we are all alive. This is the tremendous distinction between Adam and Christ. In Adam there is death and in Christ there is life. In Adam is the old man and in Christ is the new man. Verse 17 - "If by one man's offense," that is, Adam's sin, "death reigned by one much more they who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one Jesus Christ. You see, do you know what the question was that the Jew had? The question was, how can one man, Jesus Christ, even though He is the God-man, possibly redeem all men? Whatever one man does could never affect all humanity. No one man could do something to affect all humanity. It's impossible for one man to do something to affect all humanity. That was the Jewish argument. So Paul simply says, "Oh, what about Adam?" Adam was one man who did one thing and affected all humanity. Adam fell and we all went with him.
So he is pointing out the fact that one man's deed can affect all humanity. The first Adams did and so does the last Adam, who is Christ. Only the first Adam affected everybody by giving them an old corrupted sin nature, and Christ comes and gives them a new creation, a new nature, a new man. A tremendous transformation. So the old man is simply the adamnic nature with all its evil, with all of its terrible habits, with all of its deeds. I like what Linsky says, the great commentator. He says, "The old man is not converted. The old man is not converted." Listen to that. He can't be. He's not renewed. He can't be. He can only be replaced. That's good. He can only be replaced by the new man by a creative act of God and by no less. You don't renew an old, corrupt man. You don't convert an old, corrupt man. You replace him. That's why it says, "If any man be in Christ he is a new creation."
You know people, just think about it. I mean, you're something brand new and something eternal. It's incredible. A new man. This has always been God's plan, to make new people and not just to shape up the old ones, not just to dust you off and make you look better, but to make you all brand new. That's God's design and that's what Christ came to accomplish. Now the characteristics of the new man are all over the place in the New Testament. Let me give you an illustration. Look at Ephesians 4. Maybe I'll take the time to do this because it's important, but this is the characteristics of a new man. This is kind of exciting. What's it like to be a new man? Well, a lot of things. What is the lifestyle of a new man? Verse 17 of Ephesians 4 - "This I say therefore in testifying the Lord that you henceforth walk not as other heathen or walk not in the vanity of their mind." The first thing we learn about a new man is that he isn't like anybody else. He's different than the rest of the world. A new man different. Why? Because the rest of the world is all the old man, corrupt, the old nature. So the first great truth is that you're different.
Another thing we find out about the new man is that according to Chapter 5, Verse I - "And be therefore followers of God as dear children and walk in love as Christ loved us. "The new man is not only different, but he functions in the category of love. He operates in divine love. Verse 8 gives us something else. He says at the end of Verse 8 - "Since you are light in the Lord, walk as children of light." So the new man walks different. The new man walks in love. The new man walks in light, the light of God's truth. Look at Verse 15 - "See then that you walk circumspectly and not as fools but as wise." What is a new man? A new man walks differently. He walks in love, walks in light, walks in wisdom. Now that's just one little passage to give you insight into what the new man is like.
You say, "But John, (I've got a problem. My problem is that I may be a new man and there might not be any old man around and there might not be any old me around, but man, I got a lot of trouble because I keep sinning. Where is it coming from?" Basically it's coming because your new man is connected up with your flesh. You have to make a distinction between the flesh and the old man. Your flesh is just your humanness. It's still around and it bugs the new man. It just makes it difficult. You know what the flesh does? It always runs to the closet and drags out the cruddy old garment and says, "Put these on today." (Laughter) That's what the flesh does. It hangs on to the garbage. It says, "Wear these. You're the same new creature you're going to be forever, did you know that? The change is already made. You're the same new creature. You'regoing to be forever, but you've just got to watch it, because the flesh is going to try to drag out all that garbage and try to get it on you. No wonder Paul says, "I'd really like to get out of this vile body." Now wonder he says, "I have to beat my body to bring it into subjection." The body will run away from you. It just takes off.
We're new but it's possible that the flesh, which is still there because we are in the flesh, in human flesh, is going to hang up those clothes -in front of us and entice us. But basically, we're a new man. Now I'll go back to our passage in Colossians 3 and let's take it a step further. We see the position of the new man. The position of the new man is clearly indicated. You are a new man. You're not an old man. You have a marvelous identity. You're different. You walk in love. You walk in light. You walk in wisdom. You're a whole new creation. Old things have passed away and how man things have become new? All things have become new. It's a tremendous new identity.
So we see the position of the new man. Secondly, we see the progress of the new man. He moves from the position of the new man to the progress of the new man. The progress of the new man is in Verse 10 -"And have put on the new man that is renewed in knowledge after the image of Him that created Him." Now watch. "The new man is renewed in knowledge after the image of Him that created him." Now I want to take that verse apart a little bit and help you to see what it's saying. It's absolutely tremendous. Now listen. There is a progression here. Now you just became a Christian, right? You're a brand new creature. You're a new man and you've got your flesh running across the front all the time and hanging up the old garbage and saying, "Put it on. Put it on." You look funny in those new robes. Your friends are going to say, "Boy, that's a weird wardrobe you've got. You can't hang around us looking like that. You stick out too much." The flesh is going to hang that in front of your eyes. You're going to have to begin to conquer the flesh and little by little, day by day as you live there is a progression in the conquering of the flesh. There is a progress-ion. The new life and the new man begin to grow. It's like a child that's born. You have that little baby who looks maybe like its father or its mother, and you know it's yourchild, it has all of its parts in the right places, and it begins to grow and grow and grow. The same thing is true in the spiritual life. You were born again. You are a new life. You are a brand new creation, but there is to be progress. There is to be growing. There is to be a growing into the likeness of Christ. You see it in Verse 10 - "To the place where you are literally in the image of Him that made you." Where you become like Jesus Christ in every sense.
So the new nature is complete and yet it has capacity for growth, just like a baby is complete with all the parts and yet it has a capacity to grow. As the new birth is a recreation in God's image which was lost in the fall, so the subsequent life is a deepening of the image thus engraved. God day by day deepens that image, deepens that image. You see that, don't you, with a baby? "Well, I don't know who he looks like. Now you can begin to tell. He looks like his father." By the time they get a little older; somebody walks up and says to me about Matt, "Boy, he's a carbon copy of you." As they get a, little older it becomes more clear who they look like. Poor kid. (Laughter) But you see, that's the way it is spiritually. You were born and you've got all your parts and there. is a resemblance to Christ, but it matures and grows and you become more like Him and more like Him, and that's the deepening of the divine image that has been engraved in you. Becoming more and more like Christ is the progress of the new man
In First Corinthians 15:45 - "So it is written, the first man Adam was made a living soul. The last Adam was made a life-giving spirit.' However, that was not first which is spiritual but that which is natural and afterwards that which is spiritual. The first man is of the Earth earthy. The second man is the Lord from Heaven." That's comparing Adam to Christ. "As the earthy, such are they also that are earthy. As is the heavenlies, such are they also that are heavenly." In other words, we're not earthy, adamnic people any more. We're heavenly. Christlike. "And as we have born the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly." Now people, that is an astounding statement. That God is going to make us to be like Christ inevitably. I'll say it again - inevitably. Inescapably. If you're a believer you will be made like Christ. That is God's promise. Listen to Romans 8:28. "We know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose." Why? "For whom He did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His &on." If you are saved, it is God's plan to make you like the sun. It is God's plan to make you to be like Jesus Christ. That is the promised progress. That is God's fantastic, exciting, unbelievable, incomprehensible plan to make you like Christ. How does he do it? What does it say in Colossians? It says that you are renewed unto "epignosis," or deep and thorough and full and complete knowledge. There is a process of renewing, going on in you to bring you to full knowledge. Look at Second Corinthians 4:16 - "For which cause we faint not, but though our outward man perish," Paul says if I am persecuted and I get banged around on my outside, "my inward man is renewed day be day." You see, Paul knew that God was at work in His inner man day by day by day. The process of maturing you, of conforming you to Christ goes on day after day. You read Romans 8. I'd like to entitle Romans 8 "What God does for you, whether you like it or not." That's what it mans. What the Holy Spirit is doing in your life, whether you like it or not, He is conforming you to Christ. He is renewing you daily, and He is renewing you, watch this now in Verse 10 of Colossians 3, "unto knowledge." He wants to build you up to full knowledge. This is the progress of the spiritual life. This is the growth in the spiritual life. He's not saying, "Renew you by knowledge," although that is part of it. He's saying, "Renew you to the place where your knowledge is complete." It's the idea of the end of mine.
William Hendrickson says this: "When a man is led through the waters of salvation, they are ankle deep at first. But as he progresses they become knee deep, and they reach to the loins and are finally impassible except by swimming." It's all done unto knowledge. You might have figured that instead of knowledge he would say "good works." I mean, he might have said, "In contrast to the evil works of the old man, the new man is renewed unto good works." But he goes deeper than that, because behind those good works is knowledge. Deep, thorough, complete knowledge. The new man progresses to new knowledge. I'll promise you this: when you get to that mature knowledge, then the right kind of behavior comes from it. How does Paul say in Romans 12 that you're going to be transformed? By the renewing of your mind. That's how you'll I know what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God and do it. You've got to have your mind transformed. That's why in Second Timothy 3:16 there is no more important verse for the Christian than this. All Scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine, reproof, correction, instruction, and righteousness that the man of God may be mature, or perfect, thoroughly furnished to all good works. In other words, you reach maturity by the word of God and the good works result. Good works come out of total knowledge and total knowledge comes out of the progress of knowledge. Now, the new man then progresses to a thorough knowledge.
You say, "But how do you do that, John?" Well, from your standpoint it is this way. You have a little knowledge and you appropriate it. As you appropriate it, you make it a part of yourself and you grow. It's like food. You take in the word of God, and as you eat it and devour it it's transformed into energy that makes you grow. The more you grow the more you eat. It goes that way. You watch your children. They eat a little bit and then they eat more and they eat more and then they hit their teen years and they've got a hollow leg and it's going in like gangbusters and they're eating more than you and mom combined and they grow and they grow. You see, that's the way it is with the word of God. As you take in the word which you know, as you appropriate it, it turns into fuel. It feeds your body and you grow, until finally you reach the place of maturity of full knowledge. Out of that full knowledge will come righteousness. Out of that full knowledge will come the proper deeds. Out of that full knowledge will come right behavior. You know, this is kind of interesting. In Ephesians, Chapter 4 he says, "Put off concerning the former manner of life the old man, corrupt according to the deceitful lust." In other words, don't wear the clothes of the oldman. But watch this one now in Verse 23 - "But be renewed in the spirit of your mind." Now this is the key. How are you renewed? In the spirit of your mind. You are renewed unto knowledge. You are renewed unto full knowledge by accepting the knowledge that God gives to your mind appropriating it, turning it into fuel that feeds your body and creates growth. So you are renewed in the spirit of your mind and you put on the new man and then you see righteousness and true holiness. Then comes the deeds that God wants you to do.
Of course, this is a real blow to the heretics because there are heretics in Colossi here in Colossians. The heretics say, "You don't have the true knowledge. We have the true knowledge. We have the higher knowledge." Here the Apostle Paul says, "Look. You are daily being renewed in your mind by the truth of God to the place of full knowledge. The objective is that you might do God's will." When that knowledge is complete beloved, look at Verse 10 - "You will be after the image of Him that created Him." You will be Christlike. That's Romans 8:29. To conform to the image of His son. You say, "When will that happen?" Well, it won't happen in fullness until you see Jesus. First John 3:2 - "We shall be like him, for we shall see Him as He is." And you won't be like Him until you see Him as He is but you can grow more and more and more like Him. I'm not exactly like Jesus. But I'm a lot more like Him than I used to be. Is that true of you? I'm not exactly like Jesus, but I'm a lot more like him than I was six months ago. The rate of that progress toward full knowledge, the rate toward full knowledge and toward being like Christ will depend in great measure on how you appropriate what you have now. You say, "What do you mean by appropriate?" I mean you put into action the truth you know. You devour it and you let it energize your life. If the Bible says do this and do this and do this, then you accept that kind of knowledge and you do it, and that fuels your body and creates growth.
So if the mature man is to come rapidly, if maturity is to come rapidly then there must be spiritual suicide. You kill the old things. Verses 5 to 9, then you begin to put on the new. What does that mean? You take God's word, that which you know, you begin to devour it. As you begin to devour it it energizes your growth process. So Paul says there is the position of the new man and there is the progress.
Thirdly, and we'll stop with this one tonight. We've seen the position of the believer and the new man, and we've seen the progress. Thirdly I want to show you a fantastic, beautiful principle - the partnership of the new man. Verse 11. Look at this one. "Wherein there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, barbarian, sithian, bond, nor free, but Christ is all in it all." He says, "I not only want to talk about the position of the new man and the progress of the new man. I just want to let you in on a fantastic truth about the partnership of the new man." This is a fantastic dimension of your new life. It's fantastic. It's not just a matter of personal habits. It's not just a matter of a personal attitude to be a new man. Something else takes place. There is a new partnership. There is the abolishing of all the old barriers. There aren't any racial barriers any more. There's no place for racial bigotry. There's no place for chauvinism. There's no place for a cultural snobbery. There's no place for any of that. God has made us, and I love this and it ties in perfectly in Ephesians 2:50, God has made us one new man. We're al 1 new men, but composited we make one new man. No more barriers. I was sharing with somebody in the prayer room after the third service this morning and we were having a great time talking and she's Jewish. And Christ is just opening up her consciousness by the Holy Spirit and exciting things are happening in her life. It was just thrilling. Somebody suggested that since she was Jewish and since she was becoming a Christian, it would be good if she belonged to a Jewish people's organization of Jewish people who are becoming Christians. Basically she said, "I don't want to be a Jewish Christian. I just want to be a Christian." The thought was raised that perhaps she could go and reach her own people. "I just want to reach people. If this is the truth, I want everybody to know." That's exactly what Christianity is all about. It isn't "the Italians for Christ" and "the Polish for Christ" and "the Irish for Christ" and "the Chinese for Christ." We've got all those organizations, but that isn't Christianity. Christianity is all of us. We're one new man. There aren't any barriers any more. Praise the Lord. It's exciting. That's what he's trying to say.
Today we have "the Greeks for Christ" and "the Jews for Christ" and "the barbarians for Christ," "the sithians for Christ," "slaves for Christ," "free men for Christ," you know. That's what we would have today. We would have them all organized into separate groups. The point is that they are to be one. You know, in their world this was dynamite. You can't really project into it, but this was absolutely incredible for somebody to announce that all these groups could meet together. It would be like announcing to the cast system in India that none of it meant anything. It wouldn't make sense in their culture. They couldn't handle it. No iron curtain today and no caste system today, even in India, is any worse than what this was. They had racial barriers. That's the Jew and the gentile. They had religious barriers. That's the circumcised and the uncircumcised. They had cultural barriers. That's the barbarians and the sithians. They had social barriers. That's the slaves and the free men. They had barriers in all those levels in their society. Christianity comes walking in and says they are all irreverent. You're all one. One new man. They just said, "No, no. It can't happen." But before God we're all equal.
I want to show you these barriers for just a minute. The Jew and gentile have been at each other for centuries. There was not fellowship. Jews and gentiles didn't have anything to do with each other. A Jew was forbidden to ever enter a gentile house. Do you remember when we were studying John's gospel, I told you one of the reasons a Jew couldn't enter a gentile house was that the Jews believed that the gentiles aborted their children and just put them down the drain in the house, and to contact anything that had contacted a dead body is to get defiled. So they wouldn't go in a gentile house for fear an abortion had been put down the drain. Ridiculous. They wouldn't eat a meal with a gentile utensil. They wouldn't eat something cooked in a gentile pot. They wouldn't buy meat cut and butchered by gentile hands, and when they went to a gentile country and cam back to their own country they shook the dirt off their clothes and their feet because they didn't want to bring gentile dirt into Jewish territory. The gentiles were just as bad. They felt the same way about the Jewish people. There was just loggerheads. All of a sudden the gospel comes along and says, "You're one," and it was just an incredible statement. The church was one. Do you know what kept happening all over the world? Synagogues kept dissolving into churches. Secondly, there were cultural barriers. Look at this. It's interesting. Not only the circumcised and the uncircumcised and the Greek and the Jew, but there were the sithians and the barbarians. I don't know if you know anything about this, but it's fascinating. Those are not two different kinds of people. Those are two of the same kind. Both of them were barbaric. The sithians were worse than the barbarians. You think somebody is a barbarian. Well, if you really wanted to say something bad, say somebody is a sithian. Those people were the worst. They were the most uncultured barbarians that the world of that day knew. They had gone into the Fertile Crescent. Do you know where that is? The area where the Garden of Eden was originally, the area where Babylon was between the Tigress and Euphrates Rivers which now is not fertile any more. They went in there in the latter of the 7th Century Before Christ and there was a terrible invasion, just terrible kinds of slaughter. They did things that I'll mention in a minute.
In fact, by the 4th and 5th Century, sithians became the policemen in certain cultures, and they became the butt of cultural comedy because of their uncouth ways and their uncouth speech. They were the worst. Herodidus, an historian, gives an account of their invasion of the fertile crescent. Listen to a description of the sithians. They invaded Asia after they had driven the Samarians out of Europe. They made themselves masters of all Asia. From there they marched against Egypt, and when they were in that part of Syria which is called Palestine, Samaticus, King of Egypt, met them and with gifts and prayers persuaded them to come to farther. They ruled Asia for 28 years and all the land was wasted by reason of their violence and their arrogance. The greater number of them were entertained and made drunk and were then slain by Saxores and the Meads. In other words, when the Meads came in and took over, they just got them all drunk and slaughtered them.
Here is a description of how they operated. They drank the blood of the first enemy killed in battle. That's the sithians. They made napkins of the scalps and drinking bowls of the skulls of the slain. They had the most filthy habits and never washed with water, so says Tritellian. Marsian was born there more filthy than any sithian, Josefus states. If you are a sithian you are filthy, and if you are the most filthy sithian you must really be something. (Laughter) Josefus further says that the sithians delight in murdering people and are little better than wild beasts. In Second Macabes 4:47 which is part of the hypocripha, it says Minolaeus who was the cause of all the evil, sentenced to death those unfortunate men who had been set at liberty uncondemned if they had pleaded even against the sithians. In other words, all they had to do was say, "Oh, mercy," to the sithians and they sentenced them to death and this gentlemen released them. "That even against the sithians volumes are written and Origin speaks of sithian laws or more impious even than these if there could possibly be any such." In other words, Origin's comment is that there couldn't be any more barbaric people than sithians. So look what he says. "There is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision, uncircumcision, barbarian or sithian, bond of free, but Christ is all and in all." You see? You say, "I'm not going to church with a sithian unless we have a sithian section." (Laughter) But the point is that in Christ there is a new relationship. In Christ there is a new partnership. You see? It's fantastic. The rich, the poor, the slaves - look at the concept of the slave and the free man. The slave was thought of as a living tool. That's what Aristotle called the slave, a "living tool." I don't want to go into all the details about it, but do you know what-happened when a slave got saved? Instantly he became a brother in Christ. You might go to church on the Lord's Day and you'd walk in and a slave would get up and he's the elder. He would say to all of you land owners for whom he worked. "Now I'm going to teach you out of the word," and you would sit there and submit yourself to this slave because he had the gift of teaching.
There are many people who believe that the letter to Philemon from the Apostle Paul is the most astounding social document ever written, because you see, Paul says, "Look Philemon. You've got a runaway slave, Onesimus." Read Philemon sometime. It's only one chapter. You can handle it. (Laughter) He says, "Philemon, you know your slave Onesimus ran away to Rome and was a prisoner in Rome, and guess who he met? Me. And I led him to Christ and now I'm sending him back because he's not your slave any more.He's your brother." That's dramatic. You know something? I believe that the gospel made its deepest impression on the pagan world in the way that it destroyed the barriers that were build on religion and race and culture and social things. It was astounding what happened. A slave could become a teacher and a sithian could be the pastor of a church full of a bunch of educated Greeks. Incredible.
In the Arena of Carthage in 202 A.D., there was a profound impression made. This is recorded for us. As the spectators were watching the slaughtering of certain Christians, it says that they watched when the Roman matron, Perpetua (a very wealthy, high class person) stood holding the hand of her slave, Philicidus,as both women faced a common death for a common love of Jesus Christ. That illustrates what Christianity is, where slave and master died together for the love of the same Christ. You see, all the barriers cam down, because we are new men. As new men we make up one new man. Iron curtains, prison bars, color, sex, class distinction, national and cultural differences, don't mean anything. Grace just bridges the chasms. How does he sum it up? I love it. The end of Verse 11. "Christ is all and in all." If Christ is in us all then we're all equal. That's the key. Christ is all and in all. Christ, the all sufficient Lord and Savior, Christ the all sufficient King, indwells all believers. And because He indwells all believers, he erases the differences. He erases race, religion, culture, social levels, and He makes us one new man. A whole bunch of new men becoming one new man. He's the one who guarantees the creation. He's the one who guarantees the gradual perfection of that new man to a full knowledge that equals Christ likeness. This is Paul's great statement throughout the book of Colossians. Christ is all. Christ is the one who gives you this new position, who brings about this new progress to be like him, who give you a new partnership.
Now as we've come to Verse 11 , we've been talking about what God has done in putting on the new man. Next time we're going to talk about what we're to do in response, and it all starts in Verse 12. "Put on therefore. That will be our subject next time.
Let's pray. Thank you, Lord, for a good time of fellowship tonight. Thank you for what you have done in each of us that you've made us new creations in Christ, new men. The old is gone and we're brand new, and there just has to be a new lifestyle to go with that new man. There has to be a whole new kind of living. Father, help us to make that commitment, that we're going to live that new life, that we're going to be that new man with new clothes and that we're going to do all that we can to make the progress to Christ likeness as rapid as possible. We're going to take the word you have given and the knowledge we do have and we're going to apply it and we're going to eat it and turn it into energy that brings growth. We know we can't be exactly like Jesus until we see Him face to face, but we want to be a close as we can, Father. Help us to appropriate our resources. Help us to move in that direction. Help us to do those things which will bring us so close to you that your personality rubs off on us and we find ourselves becoming like you.
While your heads are bowed, we have just a moment before we close, and I would just encourage you. If some of you don't know Christ, and I'm sure that's true, and if you have never met Jesus Christ, you're nota new man. You're the same old person, the old adamnic nature, sin nature, and you really aren't going to be able to do anything about it'. You can't put on any new clothes but you don't own any. But maybe tonight you'd like to say, "Lord Jesus, I want to be a new man. I want to be a brand new creation. I want to be something completely different than I have ever been before." If that's the case, why don't you just tell the Lord that in your heart? He'll hear it. If your heart is sincere and you really mean it, he'll make you that new creature in a split second. There's no reason for you to be the old man. You can be born again and your life can begin tonight.
There are others of you as Christians who are new men. The old man is dead, but you have the problem of the flesh hanging up in front of your eyes the old clothes. You keep putting them on and marching out into the world and wearing them and the world doesn't know the difference. It can't see the new man underneath. He's hidden. You're not really enjoying the walk that He wants you to have. If that's the case, why don't you tell the Lord that? Admit it, but don't go away until everything is right. Don't go away until you are a new creature in Christ. And if you need help we'll help you. We'd love to. Don't go away if you're a new creature but wear old clothes. Get it settled tonight. Discard that. Put if off. Put on the things that God wants on you. Righteousness and holiness. Take the truths you know and devour them, turn them into energy to build yourself, and grow to the full knowledge that makes for Christ's likeness. Amen.
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To the over 40,000 blog readers , my sincere thanks. Thank you for your gracious comments and reviews on my recently released memoir titled " The Rebel and the Rabbi's Son" . Thank you
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The closed world of ultra-Orthodox Jews in America is a subject of much curiosity and intrigue as they coexist, just barely, with the outside world in day-to-day business dealings. Bonded by history, culture, and sacrifice, they will do whatever is necessary to protect their own kind, even if that means squashing the spirit of a young man or woman who doesn't "fit in" or choose to practice this very spiritually and physically demanding way of life.
This is my story , I was born into a Chasidic dynasty and expected to carry on the traditions of my forefathers and virtually all the male elders of my extended family,in becoming a spiritual leader. This is also a story of my spiritual birth into a family who had high expectations for me that I could never meet.
With their long beards, side curls, high black hats and long black coats, the Chasidic Jews of America have always kept their lives separate from modern-day American life. Living in a way that closely mirrors their seventeenth-century founders in Eastern Europe, TV watching and going to movies are forbidden, listening to the sound of a woman singing is a sin, as is mixing with outsiders beyond their closed communities. While m home life was not quite this vigilant, the rest of my family were entirely comfortable living within these strict religious confines.
In The Rebel and the Rabbi's Son, I take the reader on a journey inside the sacred world of the ultra-orthodox Chasidic community, off-limits to not only those of other religions, but also to other Jews who are not considered "religious enough" or "worthy" of entrance. It is a world where rites, rituals, and absolute adherence to religious scripture dominate every move and every decision one makes, and those who do not comply are subject to punitive actions including "shunning."
For me religious expectations came with the territory: On my father's side, he was one of the grandsons of Rabbi Y. Eichenstein, the leader of Chicago's Ziditshov Chasidic dynasty, while on his mother's side, he was a direct descendant of the equally imposing Novominsk Chasidic dynasty, originally from Mińsk Mazowiecki, Poland. From early on, I straddled two worlds: that of my family and the world outside and the divide widened with his growing awareness of the difference.
In my book, I chronicle the challenges I faced in order to find my own path, starting early on in life in childhood where my love for baseball overpowered my interest in religious and academic studies. Trying to please my idealistic father and devout mother, I learned that love was not unconditional, but rather, based on my achieving a long list of expectations and goals that came with my birthright.
In my yearning to please my family, I decided to fall into line. I attend one highly acclaimed yeshiva after another, with its intensive schooling and prayer, starting with the modern yeshiva in his hometown of Chicago, later to the ultra-Orthodox, black-hat-only yeshiva in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and finally, at an eminent yeshiva in Israel. But despite all his efforts, I remained torn. I was more enlivened by the pop culture of the 1960s and sports than by the promise of leadership as a rabbi carrying on his family's tradition.
With my constant spiritual battle raging inside of me , I reached out to an outsider for help. That man turns out to be the illustrious counter-culture icon, Jewish songwriter and recording artist the late Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, who invited me to join him on a whirlwind journey that changes my life. In the process, I gained a foothold into building a religious identity of my own. While it does not resemble that of his family's, it carries forward Izzy's respect and love for Judaism, and adds a new layer of depth.
In the years that follow, I become Shlomo's manager and booking agent. I meet and hang out with world-changing recording artist Bob Dylan, with whom he cements a friendship that lasts for years. As he travels the world with Rabbi Carlebach, I discovered that I had a talent for negotiating business contracts, a skill that will serve me well in the years to come.
When life on the road takes its toll, I returned to my parents' home to recover my health. There, in my hometown of Chicago, I meet the woman of my dreams. With her, I found a soul mate who understands the religious demands of my family, coming from a similar background herself, with roots to pre-World War II Chasidic royalty in Warsaw, Poland. The two make a pact to forge forward, leaving their families to start a new life in Los Angeles.
However, Los Angeles brings a new level of culture shock as we find ourselves outsiders, again, in a city where "who you know"and "where you live" appear to matter more than who you are. Over the years, as I build a successful career in the world of industrial real estate, and have a family of my own. But while I am now now free to choose how to raise my children and to make religious choices that are integral to who they are, the chains to my past continue to confuse and haunt me.
Finally, it is a school teacher at my son's secular high school who boldly challenges me to choose: either bring up my children with the same constraints that shadowed my life—and win the love of his large, extended family— or choose to honor my children's interests and cut off his family forever. This painful choice allows me to find my soul beyond the sacred tribe. It is a heart-rending moment of decision for me that encapsulates my very essence as a member of what some might call a fundamentalist upbringing.
In this straightforward memoir, readers can see that there are many ways, not just one way, to love one's religion. Also, as one of the remaining members of a family torn apart by the Holocaust, this book challenges the way children of survivors think about carrying on their heritage; that they can carry it forward while still respecting their own belief systems.
This story is a must-read for anyone who has experienced the bondage of fundamentalist religion, whether it be Chaidic Jews, fundamentalist Mormons, Amish, Born Again Christians, Scientologists, or any other movement that claims to have the "only answer." Most importantly, it tells the story of how the spirit can survive untold hardship and remain strong and true.

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When the United States Olympic Men's Soccer Team needed a place to practice during its Nashville stay for Olympic Qualifying, the Lipscomb Soccer Complex was used. When the team needed players to practice against, Lipscomb soccer was also of service.
Senior Ethan Summers, freshman Omar Djabi and freshman Zander El-Hindi practiced against the National team last week in the run-up to the United States' matches at LP Field. The trio participated in drills and scrimmages with the under-23 squad, taking in a handful of practices with some of the best players in the world.
Djabi, an Atlantic Sun All-Freshman selection in 2011, and El-Hindi joined the team for multiple practices, while Summers was able to make only one due to class requirements.
The practices were intense. In addition to drills against some of the best players in the world, the Lipscomb athletes competed in full-contact scrimmages with the National Team.
All three expressed astonishment at how fast the National Team played.
"The ball moves really fast," said Djabi, a Franklin native. "Once you step on the field with them, you get in a rhythm and you can keep playing with them."
"It was a great experience just to be on the field with them. We showed we can play with them, and that if we play like that we can advance to the next level."
Summers was impressed not only by the speed but the intellect displayed by the under-23 squad.
"One thing you notice from level to level is the elevated pace," Summers said. "Those guys know what they're doing two or three passes ahead at all times. Combined with their skill and just how fast the ball is moving, it's amazing to watch."
Summers, a native of Ogden, Utah had trained with Real Salt Lake of the MLS in the past but was struck by the talent on the National Team.
"Training with an MLS team helped me, but this was still a humbling experience," Summers said. "A lot of those guys are All-Stars or great players in Europe."
The learning experience was great for Djabi and El-Hindi. As freshmen with aspirations of playing professionally after college, training with the National Team was invaluable.
"Their touch is so perfect," said El-Hindi, a native of Fayetteville, N.Y. "They know where they're going before they get the ball. It makes it feel like the game is so fast. Being on the field, you worry about keeping up."
"It was one of the best experiences of my life, but definitely nerve-wracking. Those guys are the best of the best."
Playing with the National Team was not only a big step in the future of each player, but a learning experience. Even in the limited time spent in training, each felt the knowledge they gained would be invaluable.
The Bison athletes have returned to the training field for Lipscomb, but will never forget the lessons learned those brief days they practiced with the National Team. Each expressed gratitude for the opportunity not only to take the field, but to study the techniques of the United States' best soccer athletes.
"It was great to watch and learn from them," El-Hindi said. "The coaches came and talked to us afterwards, and told us we were good players."
Djabi concurred with his teammate.
"As a freshman, I can take a lot and learn," Djabi said. "They have more experience than we do. It was great they chose us at Lipscomb so we could watch them and learn."
As the elder statesman of the group, Summers saw the long-term benefits for the entire Lipscomb squad.
"Our guys took it as an opportunity to be fans as well as students," Summers said. "For those of us that got to practice with them, we can bring back that experience to the team and show them how those guys go about their business.
"Overall, it was an amazing, one-of-a-kind experience. Just having them here and getting to watch was great; getting on the field was even better."


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Before endorsing a vote in favor of congressional authorization of military action against Syria, Elliott Abrams outlines a devastating indictment of President Obama's treatment of the related issues in the Politico column "How not to run a foreign policy." Abrams indicts Obama both for dishonesty and incompetence. He also proves his case beyond a reasonable doubt.
Among other things, President Obama's conduct has hung a remarkable number of prominent supporters out to dry. Among them I count Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey (military action against Syria is just so damn complicated), Secretary of State Kerry (hey, he didn't use the word "quick") and French President François Hollande (he didn't use the word "quick" either, but he was thinking it and now he's thinking something else). Have we ever seen a performance by an American president quite like it?


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Edinburgh's Festivals
Edinburgh is best-known for its August festival: a huge, month-long arts extravaganza that actually includes several festivals running at the same time. But there are festivals taking place in Edinburgh throughout the year - from the Edinburgh Science Festival in April to Edinburgh's Hogmanay celebrations at New Year's Eve. Below are the major Edinburgh Festivals in the city's events calendar.
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Beltane Fire Festival
|30 Apr 2019 - 8:00pm
|1 May 2019 - 1:30am
|On the last night of April and first day of May up to 12,000 people take to Calton Hill for a... Read more
Burns Night in Edinburgh
|25 Jan 2019 - 6:00pm
|25 Jan 2019 - 11:59pm
|Various Burns Suppers, ceilidhs and similar celebrations take place around the city to celebrate... Read more
Edinburgh Art Festival
|26 Jul 2018 - 12:00pm
|26 Aug 2018 - 11:59pm
|Established in 2004, the Edinburgh Art Festival is the newest major addition to Edinburgh's... Read more
Edinburgh Fringe 2018
|3 Aug 2018 (All day)
|27 Aug 2018 (All day)
|The Edinburgh International Festival may have come first, but generally it's the Fringe that... Read more
Edinburgh International Book Festival
|11 Aug 2018 (All day)
|27 Aug 2018 (All day)
|The temporary, tented village at Charlotte Square's Georgian garden, in the heart of Edinburgh's... Read more
Edinburgh International Festival
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The Motorola V9 Ferrari, for the Moto-loving Ferrari driver in your lifeWritten by JOJY on May 9, 2008 – 2:44 pm -
Moto was trying its hand at reworking the Z8 into a phone befitting some of the world's most exotic cars — an effort that we believe failed spectacularly, for the record — and this time around it looks like the RAZR 2 V9 will be the unwitting target. Technologically, the phone's a dead ringer for its less-flashy cousin, but in terms of appearance… well, that's a whole different story, thanks to a checkered pattern on the phone's metal surface, red trim, and if we had to guess, a full range of Ferrari-themed pictures and sounds. Oh, and they've also managed to throw in a lambskin case embossed with the hallowed badge. No word on pricing, but it seems that it'll only be available in Asia and Latin America.
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One-in-nine U.S. children ages 4-17 were diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder in 2011-12, and 6 percent were on medication, officials say.
Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found 2 million more U.S. children were diagnosed with ADHD and 1 million more U.S. children were taking medication for it over an eight-year period (2003-04 to 2011-12).
Half of children found to have ADHD were diagnosed by age 6, but children with more severe ADHD tend to be diagnosed earlier -- about half of them by the age of 4, the study said.
ADHD is one of the most common chronic conditions of childhood, but often persists into adulthood. Children with ADHD may have trouble paying attention and/or controlling impulsive behaviors.
Effective treatments for ADHD include medication, mental health treatment, or a combination of the two. When children diagnosed with ADHD receive proper treatment, they have the best chance of thriving at home, doing well at school, and making and keeping friends, the researchers said.
States vary widely in terms of the percentage of their child population diagnosed and treated with medication for ADHD. The percentage of children with a history of an ADHD diagnosis ranges from 15 percent in Arkansas and Kentucky to 4 percent in Nevada, the study said.
Nearly 1-in-5 U.S. high school boys and 1-in-11 high school girls were reported by their parents as having been diagnosed with ADHD by a healthcare provider.
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Annual to tree
Leaves generally compound, alternate, stipuled; leaflets generally entire
Inflorescence: generally raceme, spike, umbel or head; flowers sometime 12 in axils
Flowers generally bisexual, generally bilateral; hypanthium generally flat or cup-like; sepals generally 5, fused; petals generally 5, free, or the 2 lower ± fused; stamens 1many, often 10 with 9 filaments at least partly fused, 1 (uppermost) free; pistil 1, ovary superior, generally 1-chambered, ovules 1many, style, stigma 1
Fruit: legume, sometimes including a stalk-like base above receptacle, dehiscent, or indehiscent and breaking into 1-seeded segments, or indehiscent, 1-seeded, and achene-like
Seeds 1several, often ± reniform, generally hard, smooth
Genera in family: ± 650 genera, 18,000 species: worldwide; with grasses, requisite in agriculture and most natural ecosystems. Many cultivated, most importantly Arachis , peanut; Glycine , soybean; Phaseolus , beans; Medicago ; Trifolium ; and many orns
Reference: [Polhill & Raven (eds) 1981 Advances in legume systematics; Allen & Allen 1981 Leguminosae]
Family description and key to genera by Duane Isely.
Annual or perennial herb from crown, glabrous to hairy; hairs sometimes forked at base, branches parallel with leaf surface, sometimes very unequal
Stem 0 or prostrate to erect
Leaves odd-1-pinnate; leaflets generally jointed to midrib; stipules membranous, sometimes fused around stem at stem base
Inflorescence: raceme, axillary, sometimes head- or umbel-like; flowers 2many
Flower bilateral; calyx 5-lobed; banner outside wings in bud, keel blades with small protrusion at base locking into pit on adjacent wing; 9 filaments fused, 1 free; ovary (and fruit) generally sessile, style slender, stigma minute
Fruit generally 1- or ± 2-chambered, often mottled, generally becoming ± dry; placenta on upper suture
Seeds 2many, smooth, compressed, ± notched at attachment scar
Species in genus: > 2000 species: ± worldwide (380 in North America, 94 in CA including many rare taxa)
Etymology: (Greek: ankle-bone or dice, perhaps from rattling of seeds within fruit)
Reference: [Barneby 1964 Mem NY Bot Gard 20:11188; Isely 1986 Iowa State J Res 61:157289]
Very difficult; both flower and fruit needed for identification; many good species appear similar; some species complexes need study. Taxa near province boundaries may appear in > 1 key. Varieties keyed under species for simplicity; species with vars. so identified in key. Fr length includes beak and any stalk-like base unless fruit body specified.
Annual, minutely, thinly strigose; hairs often blackish above
Stem decumbent to erect, 430 cm, generally slender
Leaf 1.55 cm; leaflets 513, 212 mm, narrowly to widely ± obovate, tips generally blunt or notched
Inflorescence head-like; flowers 210, spreading
Flower: petals pink-purple, wing tips paler, banner 7.212 mm, recurved ± 40°, keel 3.88.1 mm
Fruit ascending, 1557 mm, 23 mm wide, narrowly linear, ± round in X -section, tapered to a narrow, sharp beak, papery, finely strigose; chambers ± 2; immature seeds 820
Seeds pitted
Ecology: Open grassy or gravelly areas
Elevation: 50750 m.
Bioregional distribution: c&s North Coast Ranges.


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Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Stopping by Goofs on an October Evening
3 comments:
- Comicbookrehab said...
There are about a dozen episodes of this show that I do enjoy: The "Untouchables" spoof with "Eliot Goof", "Unreal Estate", "Axed By Addition", "Major Goof", "O-R-V-I-N-V-U", "Gunfight at the Okey-Doke Corral" anda few others, with the only pattern being that they didn't focus too much on Pete's stress level (which I found disturbing)or Goofy's ineptitude (which drove me up the wall) or other things. Peg's hourglass figure was VERY interesting, anticipating the popularity of Jennifer Lopez, Salma Hayek Nicki Minaj, Christina Hendricks and Kim Kardashian by a decade, at a time when the trend was the skinny waif or blonde bikini babe. :)
- October 22, 2012 at 11:17 AM
- Chris Barat said...
I liked the Mammoth RV ep, and a handful of others, but not many others stand out. It's amusing to note that, while traces of the show itself are few and far between on the net, there appears to be a fair amount of porn featuring Peg!
- October 24, 2012 at 9:07 PM
- Comicbookrehab said...
I'm not really surprised - not after two or three episodes that highlighted her physique by offering different costume changes. And there is that one episode where she tries to sneak into a mansion to curry favor with a wealthy dowager by sliding through a gate - and her posterior gets stuck for a few long seconds..
- October 26, 2012 at 10:23 AM


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Wagon Deals: August 2013
Searching for a station wagon isn't always easy. Many automakers have stopped making them, and several models are high-end luxury cars. But we've listed a few of today's top wagons -- and the best wagon deals -- for shoppers looking to get a new station wagon for a good price.
Acura TSX Sport Wagon
The 2013 Acura TSX Sport Wagon is a front-wheel-drive luxury model that offers the sedan's fuel-efficient 4-cylinder engine and extra practicality. In August, the TSX Sport Wagon is available with three incentives. For qualified shoppers looking to finance a TSX Sport Wagon, Acura is offering 0.9-percent interest for up to 36 months. For those who would rather lease, Acura has two offers available: a 35-month lease with nothing down and payments from $360 per month, or a 36-month lease with $1,999 down and monthly payments starting at $309.
Cadillac CTS Sport Wagon
The 2013 Cadillac CTS Sport Wagon offers a little extra practicality beyond what the already-sporty CTS sedan can provide. While the cargo area isn't cavernous, the model boasts fold-flat rear seats that can give the car exceptional carrying capabilities. In August, it's also available with a strong incentive. Through the end of the month, shoppers interested in financing a 2013 CTS Sport Wagon can get 0-percent interest for up to 60 months -- a good deal that also extends to the muscular CTS-V Sport Wagon.
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The Subaru Outback is a midsize wagon with SUV styling and standard all-wheel drive. In August, it's available with several strong incentives. For qualified drivers looking to finance their next car, Subaru is offering the Outback with two deals: 2013 models get 0-percent interest for 36 months, while 2014 models get 0.9 percent over the same term. Lease shoppers also get a good deal, as Subaru is offering the 2013 Outback with a 42-month lease term and payments starting at $265 per month after $1,965 down at lease signing.
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The 2013 Toyota Prius v offers a larger, wagon-like take on the highly efficient traditional Prius model. Through the end of the month, the 5-door Prius v is offered with two incentives -- one for shoppers looking to lease and the other for drivers who would rather finance their next car. For lease shoppers, the Prius v is offered with a 36-month term and payments from $279 per month after $2,678 down at lease signing. Qualified drivers who would rather finance can get a Prius v with 0-percent interest for up to 48 months.
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Pet gators cause headaches for Missouri town
ST. LOUIS - The 50 baby alligators were cute little critters, each roughly the size of a pencil, when a Colorado man sold them out of a trailer in the parking lot of the Kennett Eagles Club in southeast Missouri.
Fourteen months later, Kennett authorities are worried about what's become of those animals.
"Now they've grown and they're not cute anymore," Humane Department officer Tina Petix said. "They're trying to bite people."
So Petix is on a gator hunt, hoping to convince any owners that small-town Missouri life is neither good for the reptile nor the people and pets it may encounter.
3 recovered so far
So far, three alligators have been located and removed. One woman was keeping two as pets, often in a backyard next to a home where 3-year-old twins live. The other nearly snapped off its owner's hand.
Petix has no idea how many gators Ken Henderson sold in January and February 2011, when he set up a makeshift shop and sold exotic creatures out of his trailer.
A nearly catastrophic fire in February 2011 ended his stay. Police believe one of the animals kicked over a heat lamp, setting the trailer ablaze. Henderson and rescuers scurried to save the creatures, including iguanas, alligators and a 13-foot python.
"It was like Noah's Ark," Petix recalled.
Henderson was treated for burns and some of the animals were injured and turned over to animal rescue groups.
But the extended fallout from the sale of the alligators is less certain. Petix also doesn't know how many survived or are even still in Kennett, a town with laws governing exotic pets, including a ban on alligators.
American alligators are native to Florida, Louisiana and other Southern states, and the closest they come to Missouri in the wild is Arkansas. Winters are too cold, said Jeff Ettling, curator of herpetology and aquatics at the St. Louis Zoo.
Experts say alligators also are not suited to be pets, in part because they're expensive to feed. A 1-year-old gator needs several pounds of meat each day.
Ettling said gators often have a nasty attitude.
"As they grow in size, their disposition changes," Ettling said. "Like a lion cub as it gets big, it's got wild instincts."
Petix's alligator amnesty yielded immediate results last week when a woman brought in a 34-inch gator that her father had purchased from Henderson for her teenage son.
"He thought it would be a cute pet," Petix said. "When she went to feed it the last couple of times, it jumped and just about bit her arm. That's when she said, 'We can't do this anymore.' "
3 feet long
The alligator was turned over to volunteers with the St. Louis Herpetological Society. It wasn't clear what happened to the animal after that.
Two children, one in elementary school, lived in the home with the woman who owned two alligators, Petix said. She kept them inside most of the time, but did allow them in the backyard. In addition to the toddler twins next door, other children live in the neighborhood.
The woman had been known to take the gators - now roughly 3 feet long - for walks on leashes.
After repeated conversations with Petix, the woman gave up the alligators, though she refused to tell city officials what she did with them. Petix declined to identify the owners.
Henderson, in his late 60s, travels parts of the country showing and selling exotic animals. He had stopped in Kennett before, in 2009, and earned the nickname "The Alligator Man." Henderson did not respond to interview requests.
He doesn't face charges in Kennett related to selling gators, though police quickly told him to move on after the fire.
But Henderson was arrested last summer in Columbia, Mo., after bringing his animals to a fair. He is scheduled to stand trial there on seven misdemeanor counts of keeping a dangerous wild animal without registering with police next month.
Petix said she may never know if all of the alligators will be turned in, but she'll be glad when her job returns to normal.
"I'm used to dealing with cats and dogs, not alligators," she said.


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Minnesota Confirms First Two Cases Of Influenza This Season
ST. PAUL (AP) - Minnesota has confirmed its first two influenza cases for the 2012-13 season.
The Minnesota Department of Health says its lab confirmed flu infections in a 25-year-old Olmsted County woman and a 12-year old Hennepin County child. Neither patient was hospitalized.
The department's official monitoring for the season began Oct. 1. The flu season in Minnesota typically runs from October through April, and peaks in February, but the department says cases can occur sporadically throughout the year, including summer.
Kris Ehresmann, the department's infectious disease director, says these first cases show that the seasonal flu is beginning to circulate in the community.
Health officials recommend annual influenza vaccinations for everyone six months and older unless they cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons.
Ehresmann says ample vaccine is available this year.


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Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Ann M. Veneman on International Womens Day 2009
This year, International Women's Day addresses an issue which shames the world.
Every day, around the world, women and girls face domestic violence, sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and trafficking. Too often, these crimes go unpunished. Rape and sexual violence are increasingly used as a weapon of war in conflict situations.
In places like the Democratic Republic of Congo, where five million people have died in the conflict, sexual violence leaves many survivors with horrific injuries, emotional wounds, HIV and AIDS and unwanted pregnancies. It can inflict devastating long-term consequences on the lives of the affected women and girls, and on entire societies.
Mothers who survive violence are often less able to meet the physical and psychological needs of their children. This, in turn, adversely impacts the development of their childrens social skills and emotional welfare.
Men and boys have a significant role to play in ending violence against women. One important way to make this happen is to institute programs and activities that educate men and boys to take responsibility and to abandon the attitudes and practices that perpetuate violence.
Throughout my travels, I have met many women and girls who are victims of violence, including sexual violence. The pain in their eyes is unforgettable. There is no doubt their lives have changed forever.
It is both an obligation and a moral imperative that people everywhere work together to end violence against women and children.


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pardon my obsessiveness for a minute. non-photo geeks might want to tune out.
on the left is the original in-camera auto white balance. in the middle it's set in lightroom off the blacks in the jersey. on the right it's set off the whites in the jersey. anyone care to offer an opinion of which they prefer?
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
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- gmr2048 said...
I think option 2 is my fave. Option 1 seems too cool, and option 3 is just a teeny bit too warm/pink. I think 2 is a good middle-ground.
- April 22, 2009 10:48 AM
- gmr2048 said...
I should say that option 3 only seems a bit more red when compared side by side with option 2. On its own, it looks perfectly good too.
- April 22, 2009 10:49 AM
- JB said...
i like the orig best - it's the grayest, and goes with the theme of the pic
- April 23, 2009 10:12 AM
Joe your project is turning out really cool. I think your onto something.
- April 23, 2009 1:07 PM
Tough call. Two and three look very similar. Skin tones might be slightly truer in option 3. Did you try the eye dropper on the gray in his glove?
- May 04, 2009 9:29 PM
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Taylor Swift Offered Role in 'Les Miserables' Movie
Taylor Swift has beaten Hollywood stars like Lea Michele and Scarlett Johansson for the role of Eponine in the film adaptation of 'Les Miserables.' According to Twitch, director Tom Hooper also auditioned Evan Rachel Wood for the pivotal roll in the legendary musical, but it's the 22-year-old country star who's received the offer.
Broadway World reports that the film is set for a Dec. 7, 2012 release and that all cast members will be singing live on film. Hugh Jackman and Russell Crowe have the lead roles, playing Jean Valjean and Inspector Javert respectively. Amanda Seyfried, Anne Hathaway and Helena Bonham Carter have also agreed to take roles when filming begins in March.
'Les Miserables' opened in London in 1985 and is the world's longest running musical, surpassing 10,000 performances in January 2010. The story is based on Victor Hugo's classic novel, in which a paroled prisoner (Valjean) seeks redemption. It's set in early 19th century France and includes scenes set around the bloody 1832 Paris uprising.
Swift's character is the daughter of an unscrupulous innkeeper. and her heartbreaking love story provides a few of the more memorable moments from this saga.
Additionally, Swift is set to star as Audrey in the animated film 'The Lorax' when it opens in March.


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There's just under one month to go before Microsoft puts Windows 8 on sale, and as most already know, it's a dramatic change over previous editions of the PC operating system.
Radical changes to such an established product will inevitably divide fans, but one would expect Microsoft to still win over its dedicated, hardcore early adopters without too much trouble. This may not be the case though, and what's more, it may not even want to.
A survey taken by Forumswindows8.com, a large online community offering support for Windows 8 users, shows that out of 50,000 people, 53-percent rank Windows 7 as their favorite Windows OS, while just 25-percent choosing Windows 8. Windows XP followed closely, as it took 20-percent of the vote.
Windows 7's success was always going to be a thorn in Windows 8's side, and it's going to be difficult to lure everyone away from the best-selling version of Windows yet.
So what's wrong with Windows 8, according to the survey? Strangely, it's price at the top of the list, with 35-percent saying it's Windows 8's biggest weakness. A downloaded Windows 8 upgrade has been given a promotional price of $39 until January 2013, which is reasonable, and no other price has been confirmed yet. Microsoft's Surface tablets are also price-less, as are many other Windows 8 devices.
The list continues with system requirements, incompatibility and instability all hovering around the 20-percent mark. This is a little concerning, because three of the major complaints leveled at Vista were incompatible software, bugs and hardware not being powerful enough to support it.
Is there any good news? Yes, at least half of those surveyed rank Windows 8's easy installation and quick startup and shutdown times as major benefits, but Microsoft's new Metro interface only gains 22-percent approval.
Changing customer base
What's not clear though is how many are using Windows 8 on a touchscreen, which is not only where Microsoft appear to think the software is at its best, but also the focus of a high percentage of third-party manufacturers hardware. Also, only 26-percent of the 50,000 say they've actually used Windows 8, well behind Windows 7 and XP, at 75-percent and 58-percent respectively.
Does Forumswindows8.com's survey show the effect of Microsoft shifting focus away from the established Windows way of doing things, to the more consumer-friendly approach offered by iOS and Android? Possibly so, as when asked, 35-percent of the surveyed members would buy a Surface tablet, 33-percent an Android and only 26-percent an iPad.
So how much weight does this survey carry? Well, judging by many of the posts, these are knowledgeable and tech-savvy folk, and you get the distinct impression that the respondents represent some of the most dedicated and valued members of Microsoft's current customer base; but the definition of Microsoft's most valued customer could change with the introduction of Windows 8, almost as drastically as the software itself.


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