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- Action, Animation, Anime, Foreign, Neo Noir, Sci-Fi, Thriller , produced in 2001 Japan, USA
- Actors: Steven Jay Blum, Beau Billingslea
- Directed by: Shinichiro Watanabe
- Rating: 7.7 out of 10
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What Christmas cartoon or movie do you watch every year to get into the holiday spirit?
Well.. the tradition for me is to watch all the home alone movies <3
Can't go one Christmas without watching them xD
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I have to watch Elf. That movie is a classic and no movie will be able to compare to that in how awesome it is.
my familly usually watches Elf, but i go on a major anime movie marathon with Howls Moving Castle, Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, Nausicaa Valley of the Wind, Castle in the Sky and a few other movies(i forgot the names lol)
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Okay it's Christmas time once again, and as with every other X-mas season, it just doesn't feel complete without watching certain holiday specials. A friend somewhat sheepishly admitted to me today that he had bought the "Charlie Brown Christmas" on DVD because it's his favorite. So be honest, what is your holiday guilty pleasure?
I did the same thing. I also got a couple of DVDs of the claymation, stop motion animation Christmas shows from way back when. I'm trying a lot of other things this year; music, videos, going to see lights, going to every Christmas party....just to try and feel something.....like I used to.....so far it's not working, and I think I'm getting depressed .......my last hope is Midnight Mass. It's something that I have done since a kid and Christmas isn't Christmas without it......Midnight is special. I've been to Christmas Mass at other times, but it just isn't the same.
Oh.... "Elf" is my favorite Christmas movie.
I forgot all about the claymations. It isn't Christmas w/o Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer or a Year w/o a Santa Claus. I've got to confess I love X-mas movies/show. Like "White Christmas", I still laugh every time I see it remembering my son watching it w/ me when he was 17, the next day he cursed me the entire day because he kept humming the songs at school.
I understand your mental state, sometimes feel a little blue as well, found mimosas work wonders But seriously you have the right idea create some new traditions for yourself. I always feel better decorating a beautiful tree (usually 8 ft. w/ 1200 +/- lights), if you have a task that you can focus on and conquer it usually gives you a sense of purpose which defeats depression every time. There is always helping other people, mind you I'm not a bleeding heart liberal but years ago had a acquaintance stuck in the hospital on Christmas and it cheered him immensely to have a quick visit and it didn't cost me too much effort but it felt great. Hope you find something to inspire you!!!
Grandma got run over by a reindeer on cartoon network
watch it every time it comes on :D
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Jingle All The Way
"Charlie Brown Christmas", "Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer", "Joyeux Noel", "A Christmas Carol" (both the George C. Scott , and Patrick Stewart performances), "Blackadder's Christmas", "Ghost of Christmas Eve", "The Nativity Story", and, of course: "How the Grinch Stole Christmas".
Nightmare Before Christmas, Haruhi Movie and Angel Beats.
I think Angel Beats fits the theme of Christmas nicely. The scene on Ep 7 is incredible.
None of them.
A Christmas Carol with Patrick Stewart as Scrooge
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I watch the movie "Elf".
Only one comes to mind...
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Okay it's Christmas time once again, and as with every other X-mas season, it just doesn't feel complete without watching certain holiday specials. A friend somewhat sheepishly admitted to me today that he had bought the "Charlie Brown Christmas" on DVD because it's his favorite. So be honest, what is your holiday guilty pleasure?
Mine is Scrooge w/ Albert Finney.
Mine would have to be "A Christmas Story" (1983) If you have not seen it I highly commend it, it's one of the most iconic American Christmas films.


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On Monday, Dave Furukawa, who is visually impaired, was walking his young son to school along with Simon. As the trio crossed Brownwood Avenue, witnesses saw a car run a stop sign and strike the 80-pound boxer, then Furukawa.
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LYNCHBURG, Va. (Jan. 29, 2010) - Junior Ben Ronoh (Sotik, Kenya) and freshman Max Lee (Knoxville, Tenn.) paced the ETSU track and field team on day one of the Liberty Open on Friday evening inside the Tolsma Indoor Track.
Ronoh, who was competing in the 5000m for the first time this season, finished second behind Davidson's Tom Divinnie with a time of 15:03.79.
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Lee, who scored 2652 points on Friday night, is currently 146 points behind Kyle Steiner for first; while Chernikow is 309 points behind the leader. Lee claimed 750 points after finishing first in the long jump with a personal best leap of 22-01 (6.73m). The Knoxville, Tenn. native also bagged 765 points in the 60m (7.34).
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Bob J. Eastes, born Aug. 16, 1931, retired from this life Saturday, Jan. 26, 2013. He attended Pratt High School, Pratt Junior College, Emporia State University, and Northwestern Oklahoma State University, finishing with a Masters in Education.
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January 16, 2006, 04:42:27 AM »
Only 58% of African American matriculants to law school complete law school and pass the bar exam, compared to 86% of white matriculants. TRANSCRIPT OF THE BOSTON BAR ASSOCIATION DIVERSITY COMMITTEE CONFERENCE: RECRUITING, HIRING AND RETAINING LAWYERS OF COLOR, Boston Bar Journal, May/June 2000 (available on Westlaw). Of the 42% who never become lawyers, about half don't make it through law school, while the other half never pass the bar exam.
At the top third of law schools, 91% of African Americans graduate, and 84% of them pass the bar. These statistics suggest that once one gets to the bottom half of American law schools, well less than half of African American matriculants ever become attorneys. This is all, of course, a result of admissions policies pursued in the name of "racial justice."
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January 16, 2006, 05:20:43 AM »
Good example of why affirmative action admission policies are counterproductive. When you have underqualified people gaining admission solely on the basis of race, you are basically setting someone up to fail.
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January 16, 2006, 05:50:47 AM »
But you're also setting people up to succeed.
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March 21, 2006, 08:16:01 PM »
While it may be true in several cases that an unqualified URM would not be able to complete law school and pass the bar, esp. if they were at a top university, its also possible for other factors to contribute to 91% at top schools to succeed.
First off, the top schools have endowments in the billions. If I recall correctly, Harvard has enough $ in theirs to pay everyone's education. The point is, if one attends a top school, they may qualify for need-based grants and scholarships that will help them focus solely on school. Whereas others may have to work, and therefore, are less focused on school.
Also, when you attend a top school they groom you to succeed. They will probably do whatever they can to keep you from dropping out to keep their attrition rate low. They let you know that once you're admitted, you're almost guaranteed a decent job, so they just need to bide their time. Whereas in other schools, they aren't given any assurances and perhaps they are unable to find a legal job for their 2L summer.
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March 22, 2006, 09:17:00 AM »
It's economics and drive, not race. How about a study that shows what percentage of student from lower and lower middle class families, black OR white, make it all the way through. then look at the black people that made it all the way through and how much money their families have. economics, not race
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March 22, 2006, 02:22:52 PM »
What's the problem with this? Law schools don't guarantee that you become a lawyer. They also do not guarantee that they won't graduate more whites than blacks. I oppose affirmative action, but this result is hardly evidence of inequity. Over HALF of black students become lawyers. Where's the inequity here?
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March 27, 2006, 06:16:25 PM »
BREACH OF CONTRACT is what they can sue law schools for.
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May 01, 2006, 04:01:41 PM »
Every year tens of thousands of wannabe lawyers enter law school. The majority will be extremely disappointed by their career opportunities. Law school is a big lie. People enter law school with the idea that a law degree is their ticket to a comfortable upper middle class lifestyle. In fact, just the opposite, law school for most is a ticket to a worse financial state than if they had not attended at all.
This news is hard for people to accept, because "everyone knows" that lawyers make a lot of money. Right? Well look at the salaries for government lawyers in your area. They probably start in the 30s. Why would anyone take a job paying in the 30s if law jobs pay six figures? They wouldn't. After a decade or more of service to the state, you salary will most likely max out in the five figures. That's a pretty lousy salary for a job that requires 3 years of graduate school education filed out with inordiante amounts of stress. There are plenty of people without any graduate education earning six figures, and they don't have to pay back the student loans that lawyers have to take out in order to pay for law school. Bill Gates is the richest man in the world and he doesn't even have an undergraduate degree.
There are some lawyers who start out with a good salary. They work for what they call "BIGLAW" on the internet message boards. Big law firms pay their associates a starting salary in the six figures. But here's the sad news: only a tiny percentage of law school graduates will ever get these six figure jobs at big law firms. Unless you go to a top law school, the six figure big law firm job will most likely not be yours. There are only 14 top law schools. That's right. Not 10, not 15, but 14. They are, in descending order of prestige: Yale, Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, NYU, Chicago, University of Pennsylvania, University of Michigan, University of Virginia, Duke, Northwestern, Cornell, UC Berkeley, and Georgetown. And that's it. Go to any other law school, and your chances of getting a big law firm job will be slim to none. There are also distinct levels of prestige within the top 14. Yale, Harvard, and Stanford are head and shoulders above the rest. Then Columbia, NYU and maybe Chicago round out the top 6. Attending one of these top top law schools will vastly improve your odds. The guy graduating at the bottom of the class at Harvard will have better career opportunities than the guy graduating at the top of the class at an ordinary law school.
Outside of the top law schools, the only law school graduates having decent job opportunities will be those who graduated in the top 10% of the class and who made law review. Law review and top 10% are usually the same people because at most law schools the law review members are selected from those whose grades are in the top 10% at the end of the first year. If like me, your grades weren't in the top 10% at the end of the first year, but you managed to graduate in the top 10%, you are screwed because you weren't on law review. Furthermore, most big law firms make offers to their summer associates, who get interviewed and hired during the second half of the second year, thus it's mostly your grades during the first three semesters of law school that determine your entire legal future. If you are reading this, and you're a law student who already received your first semester grades, and they aren't top 10%, then my advice is to drop out now instead of throwing more money down the law school black hole.
Despite being warned that the only way to get a decent job in law if one attends a non-top 14 school is to make law review and the top 10%, tens of thousands of suckers will enroll anyway. They think "I will be the one who makes the top 10%" or "even if I don't make the top 10%, things will work out." Let's state the odds clearly: 90% of the class will not make the top 10%. You are not the only person in law school thinking they are going to bust their ass to make the top 10%. 80% of the people start out thinking they are going to bust their ass. And some people from the 20% who are slackers are going to wind up in the top 10% too, because law school grades have a huge random element. One of the biggest slacker/party girls in my first year law school class made the top 10%. She wound up getting a high paying job at a big law firm because the law school gods decided to randomly grace her during her first semester.
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May 01, 2006, 04:01:53 PM »
The law schools will trick prospective students with bogus statistics about the great career opportunities available to graduates. Don't believe everything you read. First of all, there are the documented lies, like the admissions brochure for my law school alma mater, Arizona State University College of Law (ASU), which listed the average starting salary for graduates with job offers at graduation from private law firms. But what percentage of the class graduates with a job offer in hand from a private law firm? About 10%? Trumpeting the average salary for 10% of the class is damned deceptive. I further suspect that some law schools outright lie on their reported career placement statistics. Think about public companies. They have a strong incentive to lie on their financial statements, so that is why they have to prepare their statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and the accounting has to be audited by an independent public accounting firm. Despite these safeguards, companies like Enron are still caught lying on their financial statements.
Law school career placement statistics do not have to be prepared in accordance with generally accepted principles, and they arent audited by independent public accountants. Therefore they can't be trusted. Don't be fooled into thinking that because they are "non-profit" they can be trusted, or that they are run only for the benefit of the public. There's no such thing as no one making a profit. "Non-profit" only means that no one owns the residual profits from the law school, there are plenty of stakeholders making out like bandits. Law schools are run for the benefit of the law professors who have cushy six figure jobs, and the money for their salaries comes from the gullible suckers called law students. How cushy is a job as a law professor? Law professors earn six figures and only have to work six hours a week. And they get summers off too. How much better can it get? That's right, law professors are only allowed to teach six hours of classes a week. If they taught more than six hours a week, the law school would lose its accreditation. Maybe some of the new law professors have to spend some time preparing for class, but by the time the law professor has a few years under his belt, he knows the material cold. Some of the older law professors were able to recite the entire textbook without ever even looking at it. In class one day, all the students looked quizzically at the law professor while he recited the exact details of a case that wasn't in the textbook. Finally this was brought to his attention. It turns out that he was reciting from the last edition of the book. He didn't even bother to look at the textbook in front of him to see that the case wasn't in there.
The only time that law professors have to do any real work is when they grade exams. And law school exams are only given once at the end of the semester. So we are talking about two weeks of real work at the end of each semester. And in one case, a law professor at ASU, Dale Furnish, was apparently too lazy to even put in his two weeks of work and he made up fake grades for the students in his class. When his deception was discovered, all he got was a temporary suspension, and a short time later he was back at law school teaching law. So we see, law professors have cushy jobs, therefore they have a strong incentive to lie on the career placement statistics because those are equivalent to a for-profit company's financial statements, and it's what the prospective law students look at to decide if they want to "invest" in the law school education.
Another fallacy that prospective law students hold onto is that the law degree has some kind of value outside of law. They think, "if I dont practice law, at least it's a prestigious degree that will help my non-law career." This is completely false. Having a law degree hurts your chances of getting non-law jobs. No one wants to hire you if you have a law degree. Because "everyone knows" that lawyers make so much money, they can't understand why someone with a law degree would want to do anything else but practice law. If you say "I couldn't find a job practicing law." which is probably the truth, they will think "this person is a loser because everyone know how easy it is to find a job practicing law, and we don't hire losers around here." If you say "I was just exploring my options but decided I didn't want to practice law," then they will think "this person has no idea what he wants to do, we want to hire people who know where their career is going." There is absolutely no way to spin the law degree in a way that it helps you get a non-law job. Hiring managers are looking for cookie cutter resumes, not resumes where people have education unrelated to the job. From their perspective, they're not hiring a lawyer so they don't give a crap if you know how to synthesize appellate cases (assuming they even know what "synthesize appellate cases" means, which is unlikely). The only way I have been able to find any jobs outside of law is to
leave the law degree off my resume
. Whenever the law degree has been on my resume, it has been the kiss of death that prevents me from finding a job.
Finally, this would be incomplete if it didn't discuss the burden of student loans. Whatever salary you make after graduating from law school has to be discounted by the cost of your student loan repayments. The student loan payments are not tax deductible (except to a very limited extent which will likely not apply to you). Your marginal tax rate will probably be around 45%, which means that for every $100/month in student loan payments, you need to have a stated additional salary of $182/month to cover the student loan payments. This means that if your law school education adds $500/month in student loan payments, you are paying $6,000/year in student loans and you need to earn an extra $10,910/year to cover the payments. This means that a $40,000/year job as a law school graduate gives you the equivalent disposable income of a $29,090/year job if you didn't have a law degree. And it's a lot easier to find a $29,000/year job with a bachelor's degree than it is to find a $40,000/year job with a law degree.
Even if you are one of the rare and lucky law school graduates who can obtain a six figure job at a big law firm, those jobs are rumored to suck. I can't say much about this because I never worked at a big law firm, but according to what I've been told, a large percentage of the partners at big law firms are assholes who treat their associates like crap and make them work ridiculously long hours. Some of this may be unjustified whining, because I was treated like crap at a job where I was making $9/hour. Nevertheless, one needs to consider that the ultimate goal of law school, a big law firm job, attained by only a small percentage of law school graduates, may not be the great reward it's supposed to be. I predict that some prospective law students will find this essay, read it, and not believe it. Because no matter how much you try to tell a prospective law student the truth about law, they don't believe it. "Everyone knows" that lawyers make a lot of money, how can this be true? Believe me, it's true, and if you attend law school you will learn this the hard way. Don't waste three years of your life and go into tens of thousands of dollars of debt that can never be discharged in bankruptcy to find out that your career opportunities suck after all that. Learn the truth now.
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I just joined this forum as I am working on re-using the motors and batteries I purchased from a destroyed nissan leaf in a motor-less truck that I have. I appreciate everybody's help as I progress along this journey!
Today, I am hoping that somebody would be so kind as to help me identify what sort of connectors these are that go from the battery to the motor (the generic name would be the best like how they have EC3 for small batteries). The orange one specifically.
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In the previous section of his autobiography (1:17-24) Paul has been describing the nature of his relationship with the original apostles in Jerusalem to show that he had been commissioned directly by God, not by the apostles, to preach the gospel to the Gentiles. He has worked independently from them; he is not their messenger boy. In fact his contact with them has been minimal. He did not visit them until three years after his conversion; and then he spent only two weeks with Peter in Jerusalem in order to get acquainted with him. On that trip to Jerusalem, the only other apostle he saw was James. After that time he remained unknown to the churches in Judea except for the good reports they heard about his evangelistic work in the provinces of Syria and Cilicia. It was a long time before Paul met again with the apostles in Jerusalem, not until fourteen years after his conversion, or about eleven years after his first visit (2:1).
With these facts Paul has sharpened his rebuke for turning to a different gospel. It is ludicrous for the Galatians to discard Paul's gospel as if it were a secondhand, abbreviated version that needed to be supplemented with additional instructions from the Jerusalem apostles. Paul did not spend enough time with the original apostles in Jerusalem to get his gospel secondhand from them. Since Paul's gospel was given by revelation from God, the Galatian believers should have maintained unswerving loyalty to it.
So the direct revelation of the gospel to Paul has been established. But it appears from the next episode of his autobiography that Paul also wants to defend his gospel against another possible misunderstanding. Although it is true that he got his gospel by direct revelation, this does not mean that he preached his gospel without the approval and support of the original apostles and the rest of the church. Paul is not a visionary who simply wants to protect his claim to private revelations rather than building the unity of the church. Nor is he a pioneer missionary who works in isolation from the rest of the church.
Disruptive mystics and lone rangers have often split and splintered the church. People with exceptional gifts and strengths are sometimes prone to exercise their gifts in divisive ways. But Paul saw that the unity of the church was necessary for the success of his mission. So he worked hard to build unity on the basis of the gospel. In fact, his whole argument leads to the conclusion that his gospel to the Gentiles is the only sure foundation for the unity of the church (see 3:28). But that is jumping ahead. Our attention must be focused now on Paul's account of the Jerusalem conference that led to the church leaders' full support for Paul's gospel to the Gentiles (2:1-10). The agreement reached at the conference in Jerusalem demonstrated the power of the gospel Paul preached to unite the church. As we follow Paul's participation in this conference, we will observe eight steps in the process which concluded with the giving of the right hand of fellowship (v. 9). We also can be agents of reconciliation in the church as we take these steps to unite the church to support God's mission to all nations.
First, we observe that Paul attended this conference with a team: he went with Barnabas and took Titus along also (v. 1). The unity of Jews and Gentiles in the church was demonstrated by the composition of Paul's team.
Barnabas was a highly respected Jewish Christian. According to Acts, his given name was Joseph, but the apostles gave him the nickname Barnabas ("Son of Encouragement") because of his gift of encouraging the early church (Acts 4:36). When Paul was excluded from the church in Jerusalem after his conversion, Barnabas was the only one willing to reach out to this dangerous former persecutor of the church, bring him into the circle of the apostles and believe in God's work of grace in his life (Acts 9:27). Later the Jerusalem church sent Barnabas to Antioch to supervise the mission to the Gentiles. Again, Barnabas was big enough to accept the radically new practice of including Gentile converts in the church, because his focus was the grace of God (Acts 11:22). Barnabas selected Paul to join him in that ministry in Antioch (Acts 11:25). The Christians in Antioch sent Barnabas and Paul with a famine relief gift back to the poverty-stricken church in Jerusalem (Acts 11:27-30). Sometime after their return from Jerusalem, the church of Antioch sent Barnabas and Paul on a missionary trip to Cyprus and southern Galatia (Acts 13:1--14:28). After their return from that trip, they were sent back to Jerusalem to work out the problem of Jew-Gentile relations in the church (Acts 15:1-35). This brief review of the account of Barnabas in Acts brings us up to the conference in Jerusalem, which is the subject of this section of Paul's autobiography. It is important for us to see from this account that one member of Paul's team was an outstanding Jewish Christian leader in the early church who was noted for his ability to be a bridge-builder between diverse factions of the church.
Titus, the other member of Paul's team, was a Greek Christian (2:3). Paul's inclusion of Titus on his team boldly expressed his conviction that it was not necessary for Greek Christians to change their ethnic identity by becoming Jews in order to be included in the church. The presence of Titus forced the conference to resolve the issue of discrimination against Gentile Christians. The conference could not remain neutral about the key issue. If Titus was forced to be circumcised in order to be accepted by the Jerusalem church, then it would be clear that Gentiles must become Jews in order to be accepted in the church. But if Titus was accepted by the Jerusalem church as a Gentile, then it would be clear that Gentiles were regarded as equal members.
Paul's team was a living illustration of the new freedom in Christ for Jews and Gentiles to build close friendships. His team was a microcosmic expression of the power of the gospel to break down the barriers that had separated Jews and Gentiles and to create a new unity in Christ--a unity that transcends the ethnic, cultural and social divisions in the world.
The best place to start building unity in the church is to start working with a team of diverse people who are united by their common faith in Christ and their mission. Finding the right people to serve on such a team is often difficult, but it's worth the effort, because it offers the opportunity to show the unifying power of the gospel.
Second, we observe that Paul went to the conference in response to a revelation (v. 2). None of the attempts to harmonize this reference to revelation with other references in Paul's letters and in Acts can claim to be more than a guess. But we must not miss Paul's point in making this reference to revelation. Here again we see his insistence that he was taking orders directly from God, not from human beings. Neither the Jerusalem apostles nor any other pressure group summoned Paul to Jerusalem for cross-examination. He went because God told him to go. Paul was not outward-directed, pushed and shoved by the changing whims of public opinion. Nor was he only inward-directed, driven by his own needs and ambitions. He was God-directed, led by the Spirit of God (see 5:18). When it comes to making peace in a church torn by conflict, we need peacemakers who are called children of God because they are sensitive and obedient to the voice of their Father (see Mt 5:9).
Third, Paul went to the conference in order to have his gospel evaluated. He set before the leaders in Jerusalem the gospel that he preached among the Gentiles (v. 2). The verb set before indicates that Paul was willing to present his ministry and message at the conference for discussion and debate. The fact that he had been given a revelation did not lead him to think that he was above evaluation.
Some people seem to think that when they deliver their word from the Lord, all discussion should stop. They do not allow any questions or debate about their message. They feel they have delivered the last and final word. But Paul did not approach this conference in that spirit. After all, he had nothing to fear from an evaluation of his gospel, and he had everything to gain. So he placed himself in the vulnerable position of facing a full review of his work by the senior leadership of the church. That must have been a humbling experience for Paul. But he did it to gain the Jerusalem leaders' approval of his Gentile mission. Those who are convinced of the truth of their message should not fear evaluation. They should welcome it.
When Paul says that he presented his gospel for fear that I was running or had run my race in vain, he does not mean that he had secret doubts about the validity of his Gentile mission and needed the apostles' assurance that he was running in the right direction. His confidence in God's call (1:1, 15-16) rules out such an interpretation. But Paul did recognize that his divine commission could not be effectively fulfilled if there was a division between his Gentile mission and the leaders of the church in Jerusalem. His God-given mission did not need to be authorized by them, but it would have been rendered fruitless (in vain) if it lacked their support. It was evident to Paul that if the mother church denounced and disowned his Gentile mission, his work of evangelizing the Gentile world would be frustrated. If the unity of all believers in the church was denied, the gospel for the Gentiles would be undermined. It was because Paul desired this unity that he presented his gospel to the leaders in Jerusalem, hoping that they would give their wholehearted support to his mission. In fact, that is just what they did.
Fourth, Paul strongly resisted those who challenged the essentials of the gospel. His willingness to present his gospel for evaluation did not mean that he was willing to compromise the truth of the gospel. For Paul, the truth of the gospel included his Gentile mission. And his Gentile mission presupposed the unity and equality of Gentile and Jewish believers in Christ. This basic presupposition was challenged at the Jerusalem conference when some false brothers tried to require that Titus be circumcised--in other words, become a Jew--in order to be included in the church. But since such a requirement denied the equality and unity of Gentiles and Jews in the church, Paul did not give in to them. As a result he is able to report to the Galatians that not even Titus, who was with me, was compelled to be circumcised, even though he was a Greek (v. 3). Titus was accepted as a Gentile believer; he did not have to become a Jew to be included. Paul's firm resistance to pressure protected the unity of the church.
Those who tried to get Titus circumcised were called false brothers by Paul because they were unwilling to accept Titus as a true brother. They would allow him to be included in the Christian family only if he became a Jew. The basis of unity in the church for them was race rather than grace. According to Paul, they had infiltrated our ranks to spy on the freedom we have in Christ Jesus and to make us slaves (v. 4). To accuse them of being intruders and spies in the Jerusalem church implies that their primary loyalty was not to the gospel of Christ or the church. Rather than upholding the freedom we have in Christ Jesus to be accepted before God and by one another simply on the basis of God's grace, they required adherence to Jewish customs as the basis of acceptance.
The parallel between these intruders and the intruders in the Galatian churches is clear. In both cases their requirement to maintain a distinctive Jewish lifestyle denied the freedom of all believers to be included in God's family regardless of racial, cultural or social status. In both cases their message led to slavery--slavery to the values of the world.
But, Paul informs the Galatian churches, we did not give in to them for a moment, so that the truth of the gospel might remain with you (v. 5). Paul's refusal to give in to the demands of the intruders in the Jerusalem church protected the truth of the gospel for the Galatian Christians. If he had given in, they would also have been required to become Jews to be included in the church. As a result the truth of the gospel--that they were accepted by God as Gentile believers in Christ--would have been lost.
Unity in the church can be secure only when there is no compromise of the essentials of the gospel. Working toward unity does not mean a passive submission to misguided zealots. The truth of the gospel is nonnegotiable. Paul's account of his defense of the truth of the gospel against intruders in Jerusalem presents a challenge to his readers to do the same in Galatia. His purpose for recording this episode in his autobiography is to provide an example for the Galatian Christians in their own struggle against the demands of the intruders in their churches. The Galatians should not give in to them for a moment; the truth of the gospel must be preserved.
Fifth, Paul built the unity of the church on the truth of God's impartiality. Although he respected the leaders of the church in Jerusalem, he was not intimidated by them, because he knew that God does not judge by external appearance (v. 6). Paul recognized that the men he met with at the conference in Jerusalem were regarded as the spiritual giants in the church, those who seemed to be important (v. 6). Most people who met them were probably awestruck by the stories they had heard about their relationship with the Master, Jesus himself. It was well known that Peter and John were the disciples closest to Jesus; James was the brother of Jesus. But Paul subtly calls into question the original apostles' basis of authority. His repetition of a qualifying phrase to describe them (those who seemed to be leaders [v. 2]; those who seemed to be important [v. 6]; those reputed to be pillars [v. 9]) connotes a "mild irony." Paul was not impressed by their credentials: whatever they were makes no difference to me (v. 6). For God's assessment is not based on such external factors as temporal priority or temporary popularity: God does not judge by external appearance (v. 6). But God does judge; he judges on the basis of response to the gospel, Paul's message. Paul draws attention to the fact that those who were highly respected in the church agreed with his message (those men added nothing to my message [v. 6]). The authority of these leaders is relativized by Paul, subordinated to the standard of the gospel. Though they were reputed to be pillars (v. 9), their authority did not rest on their reputation but on their faithfulness to the truth of the gospel (v. 5).
Our attempts to build the unity of the church will fail if we are overawed by the impressive reputation of church leaders. We must remember that God does not measure persons by their public reputation, but by their response to the gospel. We must not be afraid to do the same. I once heard an artist say, "Great works of art, `the originals,' are not judged by us; we are judged by them." Similarly, the gospel is not judged by great leaders; great leaders are judged by it.
We need to remember this as well when we are tempted to seek such a reputation for ourselves. Ultimately, we will be judged by our faithfulness to the gospel.
Sixth, unity is maintained in the church by keeping the focus on God's work. Paul says that when the leaders saw something (vv. 7-8) and recognized something (v. 9), they gave the right hand of fellowship to Paul and Barnabas and agreed that they should continue their ministry to the Gentiles. What they saw was God at work in Paul's ministry (v. 8). What they recognized was the grace given to him (v. 9). Just as the miraculous work of God in Peter's ministry validated his call to preach the gospel to the Jews, so also the miraculous work of God in Paul's ministry was irrefutable evidence that God had given him the task of preaching the gospel to the Gentiles (vv. 7-8).
It was precisely because these leaders were preoccupied with God's work, rather than human traditions and prejudice, that they were able to reach an agreement. Unfortunately, the reverse is too often true. A church is divided because the elders accuse the pastor of breaking with denominational traditions. It does not seem to matter to them that the church has doubled because God has saved many through the pastor's ministry. Another church is divided because some like contemporary choruses and others prefer traditional hymns. While they argue over their tastes in music, they lose sight of God's work in their midst. If only we could keep our eyes on what God is doing in our midst, we would be able to transcend the things that divide us and accomplish the tasks that God has given to us.
Seventh, unity at the conference in Jerusalem was based on a delineation of different spheres of responsibility. The leaders in Jerusalem agreed that Paul and Barnabas should go to the Gentiles, while they would be responsible for the evangelization of the Jews (v. 9). The people groups to be evangelized were simply divided into two different spheres: the Jews and the Gentiles. We know from Paul's other letters and from Acts that he always had a burden for his own people, the Jews, and when he began his evangelistic work in a city, he always began in a synagogue. But he was clear about his primary calling to be the apostle to the Gentiles. We also know from Acts that Peter was the first apostle to evangelize Gentiles, when he went to the house of Cornelius. So the agreement reached at the conference cannot be viewed as a strict geographical or even ethnographical division of labor.
Nor did the agreement include resolutions about the extent to which Gentiles were free from the requirements of the law of Moses. The incident in Antioch described in 2:11-14 is sufficient evidence that such boundaries and definitions were lacking in the general agreement reached at the Jerusalem conference. It simply recognized and approved the different tasks that God had given to leading evangelists in the church. Paul's mission to the Gentiles was confirmed, and he was not required to change his message; uncircumcised Gentile believers in Jesus Christ were to be received as full members in the church.
No one of us can fulfill the Great Commission to disciple all the nations on our own. Laboring under the misconception that the Great Commission is the sole responsibility of any one person or any one organization leads only to competition and conflict. Harmony in the mission of the church must be built on the willingness of each of us to accept and fulfill the particular assignment given to us by God and confirmed by the leadership of the church.
Eighth, the unity of the church was maintained by practical service. The practical outworking of the basic agreement regarding Paul's mission to the Gentiles included the Jerusalem apostles' request that Paul and his team should continue to remember the poor (v. 10). Probably the poor meant, as Paul says in Romans 15:26, "the poor among the saints in Jerusalem." Most commentators have interpreted this request as an appeal for money to support the poverty-stricken church in Jerusalem. While financial help was needed by the Jerusalem church, the request may have had a broader reference to the special relationship between Paul's missionary outreach to the Gentiles and the Jewish church in Jerusalem. The leaders of the Jerusalem church supported Paul's mission to the Gentiles, but at the same time they asked Paul to keep the needs and welfare of the Jewish church in mind. His Gentile mission should support, not harm, the Jewish church.
Paul affirmed his eager desire to express the unity of the church by his practical support of the Jerusalem church (v. 10). We know from his letters to the churches in Corinth and Rome that a major theme of his teaching to his Gentile churches was their obligation to support the Jerusalem church. Paul saw the collection that he took from his Gentile churches for the Jewish believers in Jerusalem as an indispensable expression of the unity of the church. "For if the Gentiles have shared in the Jews' spiritual blessings, they owe it to the Jews to share with them their material blessings" (Rom 15:27).
From Paul's account of the Jerusalem conference we learn how to maintain the unity of the church so that the preaching of the gospel to different audiences in different cultures will be effective.
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DeRozan, Johnson lift Raptors past Suns, 98-71
PHOENIX (AP) — Sebastian Telfair had some extra incentive in his return to Phoenix for the first time since the Suns traded him to Toronto last month.
Telfair, who had played in only one game with the Raptors, scored 13 points to help Toronto cruise to a 98-71 win over Phoenix on Wednesday night.
"I love playing in Phoenix," Telfair said. "I love the city, the fans. I learned a lot here and grew as a person. But I had to leave my kids. My kids are back here in school so, yeah, it is personal."
Sent to the Raptors on Feb. 21 in a deal for Hamed Haddadi and a second-round pick, Telfair had played only seven-plus minutes, had remained on the bench as a coach's decision four times and had yet to attempt a basket, much less score any points.
Against his former team, Telfair entered the game to light applause with 2:38 left in the first quarter and played the remainder of the half. He scored his first points for Toronto on a driving layup, sprinting past Goran Dragic with 35.1 seconds left in the quarter and finished the first half with a team-high 10 points on 4-of-7 shooting as the Raptors opened a 54-40 halftime lead.
"I was expecting to get some minutes but I didn't know how many," Telfair said. "Anytime your spot is taken or given away you want to come out there and show you are a player. I do this for my family and my kids. I've got to do this."
DeMar DeRozan scored 15 points and Amir Johnson added 14 to lead the Raptors, who ended a five-game losing streak.
"I thought it was one of our most focused efforts of the year defensively," Raptors coach Dwayne Casey said. "Everyone that went into the game had a big time effort, a good defensive focus, and I thought they stayed to the task."
Marcus Morris scored 12 points and was the only player in double figures for the Suns, who committed a season-high 29 turnovers and snapped a three-game winning streak.
"I do not see one bright spot to take from that game other than it is over," Suns coach Lindsey Hunter said. "Back to the drawing board."
The Raptors led 25-22 late in the first quarter when Suns center Marcin Gortat came down with a rebound and stepped on Johnson's foot. He crumpled to the floor and held his right foot before being helped off the floor.
"I don't know what happened," Gortat said. "I just heard a pop. I'll be able to play. Well, I say yeah but the doctors say no, I'm out for a few days, maybe weeks."
Gortat did not return and Phoenix, already without backup Jermaine O'Neal, was left with Haddadi as the only true center available.
As a result, the Suns spent the bulk of the game with a smaller lineup that was dominated by the speedy Raptors' guards, led by DeRozan and Telfair.
"The movement stopped working and everything," said P.J. Tucker, one of three Suns with eight points. "We went small, had threes at the four, fours at the five. In live games, to be able to make plays, make it work is hard when you're small like that."
Toronto opened the second half on a 7-0 run to make it 61-40 with 9:49 left in the third quarter and led by at least 15 the rest of the way.
"We were desperate and tired of losing, being on that five-game losing streak," DeRozan said. "We had to continue to keep stepping on their necks. We tend to give up leads tonight and tonight we stayed focused, especially on defense."
NOTES: Morris kept the Suns from matching the 32-year-old franchise record for fewest points with a 3-pointer with 23 seconds left. ... X-rays on Gortat's foot were negative. He's schedule for an MRI exam on Thursday. Gortat has started 138 consecutive games for the Suns and 182 straight overall. ... Telfair had his highest scoring total since getting for the Suns on Jan. 14 against Oklahoma City. ... Gortat finished with eight points, tied for third-highest on the team. ... Haddadi played just over nine minutes, his first game action since coming to the Suns, and had two rebounds and four fouls. . O'Neal left the team to be with his 13-year-old daughter, who is undergoing surgery to repair a leaking heart valve. . The Suns' 29 turnovers were a team high at US Airways Center.


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That's a picture of Clay.
The ransom note has been bothering me since the When Pigs Fly challenge so I thought to take a look back at it. The one word that jumped out at me was "baby." With all the OBGYN thoughts flying around, it really stood out. Anyway, might be worth going back and watching the eppies while focusing on the final three. Some things might really start to make sense.
Does Any one have the text clue for week nine??? Also any ideas about this weeks abc clue: 7..26..52???So far no light bulbs for me but I am still working on it.
Quote from: Molecule on August 04, 2008, 07:06:24 PMI may be blind but I don't see "baby", I do see "bapy" Where is the second "B'
here is the map with nicole's position added - - mark is the best mole ever
Im Tlling you . I know i was wrong about Paul but theres no wayy Mark is the mole. There are two journal entries that would contradict that
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Saturday, August 22, 2009
Grandma Peterson and the Recycled Christmas Card
Margaret (McCain) Peterson was Peggy's paternal grandmother. Born in January 1868 in Pennsylvania she was the child or grandchild of Irish immigrants. US Federal Census records show conflicting information regarding the places of her parents' births. About 1892 Margaret married Edwin Lewis Peterson. They had at least three children: Cora born in 1893, Lyda born in 1896 and Peggy's father, Edwin Jr., born in 1902.
You might think a recycled Christmas card would be a strange thing to send someone when they have a baby. But something more is going on here. Peggy was born in June 1940. The Christmas card was sent from Germany in 1928. Clearly the card was important enough to save for those 12 years. Why did Peggy's Grandmother choose to send it at her birth?
The front of the Christmas/birth card shows an etching of Pension Daheim, Haus Anton Lang, No. 19 in Oberammergau. The etching is of a beautiful home with a turret on one side and Crosses in numerous places, including the roof. The inside of the card presents a lengthy poem/ Christmas greeting in English from Anton and Mathilde Lang of Pension Daheim, Oberammergau.
Grandma Peterson tells "my darling little granddaughter" that "Lyda and I had spent six weeks in their Pension Daheim. Found them delightful."
What was so special about Pension Daheim and the Langs that Grandma wanted to share with her granddaughter? Well, it turns out Anton Lang was very special indeed. Anton was born in Oberammergau in 1877, the son of Rochus Lang, a potter.
Obergammergau is the site of a passion play peformed every ten years. According to Wikipedia, "The town vowed that if God were to spare them from the effects of the bubonic plague ravaging the region, they would perform a play every ten years depicting the life and death of Jesus." In 1633 the village believed they were spared from the plague and performed their first play in 1634. According to the same source, the "most recent performance took place in 2000 and the next will be…in 2010."
Anton Lang was selected in 1900 to play the role of Christ. He would serve three times for a span of almost 25 years. Anton married Mathilda Rutz, daughter of Jacob Rutz, leader of the chorus in the Passion Play. Mrs. Lang was fluent in English having spent time in England prior to their marriage. While Mr. Lang became a potter like his father, Mrs. Lang established a boarding house and had "a gift of making every one feel at home."
In a 1922 article in The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine (Volume 104) an article describes Anton at the time of his last performance. The author said, "When I took my leave he [Lang] spoke particularly of his many friends in America, and expressed gratitude for the kindness they have shown him, and for the appreciation they have brought to the life-work of Obergammergau and its people."
Anton Lang was even featured in a May 12, 1930 article "Religion: In Oberammergau" in Time Magazine. An August 7, 1969 article in the Mouse River Farmers Press mentions a visit by some Americans to Obergammergau: "One of their most memorable experiences was meeting and visiting with the widow of Anton Lang, the man who played the part of Christ in the Passion Play three sesasons. Mrs. Lang, now over 80, lives in a pension at Daheim."
Perhaps Grandma Peterson had seen one of the Passion Plays herself or perhaps she was taken by the kindness of the Langs. Either way the event impacted her life in such a way that she wanted to share it right away with her new granddaughter.
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- AnonymousJanuary 29, 2012 at 9:34 AM
Nice story. I just ran across your blog, trying to figure out where a picture was taken of my mother and brothers when I was a boy. I knew it was in Germany, because that's where my father was stationed in the Army in 1958. And it says "Pension Daheim" on the building. And it just happens to be that exact building in the postcard! Thanks!ReplyDelete
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My husband's father: John Bischof (later changed to Bishop) had an extended stay at Pension Daheim in the late 1920's/early 30's. Tante Anna (?) was the widow of Anton Lang. The family virtually adopted John Bishop, Sr. When Jack (John, Jr.) and I visited first in 1968, we were welcomed as family by the extended Lang family...beautiful people. John Sr.'s daughter Teresa was named after the Lang daughter. In 1985 we returned with our daughters to Oberammergau. We plan to return again in April...can't wait. Sadly, Pension Daheim is no long a 'pension'.ReplyDelete
Thanks for your comment! What wonderful memories for your family!ReplyDelete


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Smartphone apps are inching onto the turf of doctors and medical-device makers, promising to measure heart rates, display X-ray images and detect skin cancer. But how effective are they? WSJ's Christoper Weaver reports. Photo: Apple Inc.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Ken Siebert tallied 12 kills, five aces, four digs, and two blocks in MIT's 25-9, 25-8, 25-10 victory over Regis College in a North East Collegiate Volleyball Association (NECVA) New England Division match on Wednesday. With the win, the nationally-ranked No. 13 Engineers improved to 27-6 on the year and 14-1 in conference play while the Pride's ledger dipped to 0-15 overall and 0-12 in the New England Division.
In the opening set, Regis stayed close as a blocking error trimmed its deficit to three (7-4). MIT strung together six straight points, but miscues by the Engineers helped the Pride narrow its margin to 14-7. Back-to-back kills from Siebert sparked an 11-2 run that closed out the game.
The Cardinal and Gray quickly built a 7-2 lead in the second set, however a block and ace by Si Pan Leong in addition to an MIT error brought Regis within two (7-5) and forced a timeout by the hosts. The Engineers responded by scoring 18 of the next 21 points to capture the win.
MIT raced out to an 8-1 advantage in the final frame, but the Pride capitalized on a trio of errors and closed the gap to five (9-4). The Engineers went on to record multiple three-point spurts to gain some breathing room and eventually wrap up the match.
Garrett Winther posted nine kills and two blocks as Evan Wang compiled 14 assists, five kills, and two blocks. David Thomas added five kills while Benson George chipped in three aces and two blocks. Jeremy Velazquez led the defense with six digs as Caine Jette notched four aces and four digs. Tim Lee rounded out the Engineers with 14 assists, six digs, and two aces.
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Northshore Yachting Appointed as Builder of Melges 24 for Asia Pacific Rim
11 October 2006
Sydney, Australia - It was announced today that Northshore Yachting have signed an exclusive license agreement with Melges Performance Sailboats (Zenda, Wi., USA) to build and distribute the Melges 24 — the world's premiere high performance, one design sportboat throughout the Asia Pacific market.
Designed by Reichel Pugh Yacht Design (San Diego, Ca., USA), the Melges 24 is undoubtedly the most popular racing yacht in the world. Making this class of boat more accessible to the Asia Pacific sailor has been a long-held desire of Harry Melges, president of Melges Performance Sailboats.
"In choosing our Asia Pacific partner, we wanted to work with a company that not only shared our commitment to quality and craftsmanship when building the Melges 24 to the strict one design formula, but also shared our passion for sailing with and developing strong fleets — locally and internationally," commented Melges. "Quite clearly we have found such a partner with the team at Northshore."
Since its introduction in 1993, the excitement generated by this America's Cup inspired boat has been phenomenal. Today, over 650 boats are sailed around globe, primarily in the United States and Europe. More than 120 Melges 24s recently lined up for the start at the 2006 Melges 24 World Championship in Hyeres, France.
Heath Walters, managing director of Northshore Yachting, a company best known for building the Northshore range of yachts, believes that one of the key attractions of the Melges 24 class is its international appeal.
"The Asia Pacific sailing scene has always been keen on sportboats, but no single design has been able to gain class size beyond their own countries," said Walters. "The Melges 24 is a class that has established a strong presence within the United States and Europe, which in turn will allow sailors within our local market to enjoy such a boat, simultaneously racing them on the international circuit."
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The Melges 24 is the ultimate, the maximum in high performance, one design racing. Manufactured by Melges Performance Sailboats (melges.com) in Zenda, Wi., USA and Devoti Sailing (devotisailing.com) in Europe, it is also designed by world-renown Reichel/Pugh Yacht Design, Inc. (reichel-pugh.com) in San Diego, California.
The Melges 24 measures 24 feet in length, sports a 670 sq. foot asymmetrical spinnaker and possesses high-tech, cutting-edge America's Cup inspired features such as a carbon fiber spar, rudder, bowsprit and vertical keel fin. It entices some of the world's greatest and most well-known sailors to compete against one another including multiple Olympic Medallists, Sailing World Champions, Volvo Ocean Race and America's Cup sailors and helmsmen.
To date, over 650 boats are sailed competitively around the world. Half of the entire fleet exists in the United States while the remaining national classes are spread out over 18 European and Asian countries proving that it demands an international audience.
The Melges 24 is supported globally by the International Melges 24 Class Association (IMCA). The Association is made up of Melges 24 owners from all over the world and claims ownership to one of the most admired and visited class web sites in the sailing industry — www.melges24.com.
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