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When I first read that Britney "dined and dashed" I knew there had to be an explanation. I mean surely she wouldn't do that on purpose, right?
Well as it turns out I was right. It's the whole "I thought he paid thing". Read More HERE.
That actually happened to my hubby and I at a gas station. I thought he paid for the gas and he thought I paid.
We left and was pulled over by the police a few minutes later. Luckily he believed us and just asked us to go back and pay.


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i'm very interested in fanfics and of course...i adore harry potter. I havent submitted any fics yet but ive been writing my own stories since i was 11. I start with little ones...the kinds only dreams are made of, and then moved on to more complicated (in my opinion) my family was in the middle of the war in europe in 1992-1996 so ive writting a lot of short and long stories on experiences then.
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In this article, I'll detail the pre-production
techniques I use to guarantee that keeper
tracks will be built on a strong foundation. I
always begin with the singer in mind.
Find the Right Key If someone other
than you will sing the song, listen to other
recordings on which they've performed.
Determine the highest note the vocalist can
sing with strength, and then transpose your
song so that the top note of your melody is the
same note. We'll call this your initial target key.
If your melody hits its highest note many times
in succession, you'll probably need to lower
the initial target key a major 2nd in order for
your songbird to be able to nail it repeatedly
without sounding strained or pitchy.
Now find the lowest note of the melody
in your newly transposed key. Is it too low
for your singer's range? If so, and if using a
different singer is not an option, consider
changing the melody slightly. An isolated
bottom note that drops a 5th below the second
lowest note can sometimes be moved higher,
so that it drops only a 3rd, without hurting the
melody. If that change falls within the singer's
range, the key is good to go.
Set a Pace Once you've found the song's
optimal key, record a guitar/vocal or keyboard/
vocal dummy take of one verse and chorus,
using a metronome set to what you think is
probably the best tempo for the song. This
needn't be a great performance free of clams
and bad singing, but it's important that it's
locked to the metronome's tempo.
Record additional dummy takes at tempi
two, four, and six bpm faster and slower than
your first scratch recording. For example, if your
original tempo was 130 bpm, record additional
takes at 124, 126, 128, 132, 134, and 136 bpm.
Listen back—without playing an instrument—to
all seven takes (including the original), and pick
the tempo that sounds best (for example, 134
bpm). Then record two more dummy takes that
are 1 bpm slower and faster (133 and 135 bpm), to
zero in on the absolute best tempo.
Don't be surprised if the tempo you
ultimately choose is faster than that of the first
scratch take. When we play a relatively new and
unpracticed song, we tend to do so at a tempo
at which it's comfortable for us to perform—not
necessarily at a tempo a listener would most
enjoy. If you bypass this exercise, you're more
likely to end up with keeper tracks recorded at
a plodding tempo that bores.
Record your click track at your preferred
tempo—or tempi. You might find that the chorus
needs to be one or two bpm faster than the verse,
to fan the flames. If that's the case, program tempo
changes in a conductor track throughout the song
and record your click track to that.
Tune Twice If you record any guitar tracks
in pre-production, beware: A guitar can sound
perfectly in tune with itself while being a few
cents off from concert pitch. It's only later,
when keyboards and other properly tuned
instruments are added to the production,
that the guitar will sound sour. You can use a
polyphonic pitch-shifter to move the guitar's
tuning to concert pitch, but it's far better to
avoid the problem in the first place.
The solution is to tune twice: first using
an accurate tuner, and then to a musical
reference. I typically record several bars of
sampled grand piano, playing chords for the
song in whole notes, to a scratch track. I use that piano track as my musical
reference against which I double-check my
guitar's tuning. If the guitar's intonation
sounds sweet alongside the piano track, I
know it'll sound in-tune with any keeper
tracks I subsequently lay down.
Examine the Melody and Harmony
Structure Ferret out clashes between your
melody and harmony (chords) before sending
your song to a hired singer or tracking basics.
Play and sing the song at half-tempo or slower to
spotlight any dissonance that was too fleeting to
notice when played at full speed. Change either
the melody or harmony to remedy any clash.
Record guitar/vocal or keyboard/vocal
scratch tracks, and then listen back intently for
any unwanted dissonance. You'll sometimes
hear problems that went unnoticed when you
were distracted by playing an instrument.
Get it Right From the Start If you forego
pre-production, you might be able to rescue
lame tracks using pitch- and time-shifting. But
they'll almost never sound as good as if you
fine-tuned your key, tempo, tuning, melody, and
harmony at the starting line. Pre-production is
the foundation for stellar tracks.
Michael Cooper (myspace.com/michaelcooperrecording) is a producer,
audio engineer, and contributing editor for
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- "[A] few key Sunnydale alum have been tracking down the recently chosen... uh, guiding them, training them... giving them the full X-Men, minus the crappy third act."
- ―Andrew Wells[src]
The Slayer Organization was an institution founded by the Scooby Gang to gather and train the newly-activated Slayers following the Battle at the Hellmouth. Led by Buffy Summers, the organization included approximately five hundred Slayers out of the approximately eighteen hundred known to exist worldwide, split across ten separate squads, as well as mystics and other vampire hunters.
Buffy led the organization from a command center in Scotland. It later disbanded after the Twilight crisis and the resulting end of magic.
The organization was founded in the aftermath of the Battle at the Hellmouth, during which Willow Rosenberg used the power of the Scythe to activate every Potential Slayer across the world. Buffy Summers had decided to share her power with the Potentials in order to defeat The First Evil. Following their victory at the Hellmouth and the destruction of Sunnydale, she and her friends spread out around the world to locate and train the Slayers they were now responsible for. Newly located Slayers are not forced to join the organization if they don't want to, but are nonetheless told the score about Slayers and vampires.
This organization's formation is also the first time that there have been more confirmed Slayers than Watchers, as the only known Council-trained Watcher in the organization is Rupert Giles, with de facto Watchers including Xander Harris (due to his rank and experience), Andrew Wells (who was trained by Giles) and Robin Wood (whose mother was a Slayer, whose Watcher took him in and trained him), and thus each Watcher is responsible for a squad of Slayers dispatched over a wide area as opposed to the 1 Slayer, 1 Watcher dynamic of the past. Other squads are led by experienced Slayers such as Rona, Vi, and Satsu.
In addition to more traditional Watchers and Slayers, the organization also employs Wiccan witches who use their powers to defend its bases and assist the Slayers during battles.
Some funding of the organization comes from the Slayers' robbery of a Swiss bank,[1] though Buffy insists that some of the funding comes from anonymous contributors.
Organized enemies of the organization include the Twilight Group.
After Buffy broke the Seed of Wonder and brought the End of magic, the other Slayers lost their faith in her leadership and the organization disbanded. However, some aspects of the organization remained: Andrew gathered several of his former Slayer squads to start a disaster relief organization,[2] while Faith Lehane still runs a London-based squad.[3]
- Buffy Summers (squad leader)
- Xander Harris (Watcher)
- Dawn Summers
- Leah
- Rowena
- Satsu (formerly)
- Renee (deceased)
- Andrew Wells (Watcher)
- unidentified leader (Squad leader)
- Buffy Summers (Rome decoy)
- Simone Doffler (went rogue)
- Posey (deceased)
St. Petersburg
- Rupert Giles (deceased)
- Courtney
- Robin Wood (squad leader)
- Violet (squad leader)
- Rona (squad leader)
- Rupert Giles (deceased)
- Buffy Summers (underground decoy) (deceased)
- Simone Doffler (formerly)
- Anaheed (formerly)
- Tessa Freer (formerly)
- Nadira (squad leader)
Miscellaneous Slayers
- Dana (incapacitated due to mentall illness)
- Nisha (went rogue)
- Kira
- Various others
Willow Rosenberg and Kennedy were members of the organization, but had no permanent base of operations. Rupert Giles was also a member, travelling between squads to teach the young Slayers about their legacy. Faith Lehane was a loose associate, performing black op-style missions at the behest of Wood and Giles. Giles and Faith eventually founded their own splinter group dedicated to finding and rehabilitating Slayers who had made bad choices.


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Ok, this is something I have to believe somebody else has thought of, but I haven't seen it, so I thought I would ask readers if they have, and if not, to put it forward.
Everybody has a socket wrench set. The wrench heads tend to come with a square hole in the top, typically 1/2" or 3/8" square, into which the square drive from the ratchet inserts. There are sometimes spring-locks to keep it in place.
However, when you have a nut that's going on a long bolt, you can't use a standard socket as the bolt won't fit inside. So you need to get a "deep socket" head, which may be able to handle the long bolt. Yes, you shouldn't have such long bolts, and perhaps should saw off the end, but in reality this happens in places where that's not easy or worthwhile. You can't have just a deep socket set, because that's bigger and heavier to carry around, and may not fit in various confined spaces.
The problem is that the drive is a solid square pin inside the wrench head. If the drive were able to grasp the wrench head from the outside, like a standard nut, then you could have an "extender" which could make any of your sockets a deep socket. To do this, the top of the wrench head would not be round, as it typically is, but hexagonal. In fact, your "extender" could simply be another, larger wrench from the set which fits around this hex head. Or you could have a small number of extenders in various sizes, and in extreme cases, multiple extenders. The extenders might do well to also have spring locks like the current drives do, to hold elements in place for you.
One could also have a thin hex shell embedded in the socket, the way lockable lug-nuts do, but that would not be as strong. Of course, one could try to do a whole new type of driver which is hollow, but the existing drivers are so well standardized now (there are not even metric versions) that I doubt it would get much adoption.
While we're on this topic, here's another idea. Organizing socket wrenches in a case is a pain. They often fall out and it's hard to put them all back in the right place. I've seen colour coded sockets (fairly good) and laser etched numbers that are easier to read, and cases that try to bind the wrenches so they won't fall out as easily. Realizing that the outside does not have to be round, I wonder if we could have patterns at the nut-end of the wrench that make it easy to slot how they go into their case. Perhaps just a couple of bumps or notches, so that no wrench can go in the wrong slot, even a slot for the wrench that is just a bit bigger.


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Presents data on birth registrations in the UK by area of usual residence of mother. The tables contain summary data for live births for local authorities and local health boards (within Wales) including figures by age of mother.
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In 2015 the total fertility rate (TFR) in the UK was 1.82 children per woman, unchanged from 2014.
Northern Ireland had the highest TFR of all UK countries in 2015, with 1.96 children per woman, in England and Wales the TFRs were 1.82 and 1.77 respectively; Scotland had the lowest TFR with 1.56 children per woman.
The East was the region of England with the highest TFR in 2015 with 1.92 children per woman, while the North East had the lowest with 1.71 children per woman.
Among the local authorities in England in 2015, Barking and Dagenham had the highest TFR with 2.42 children per woman while City of London had the lowest with 1.00 children per woman.
Among the local authorities in Wales in 2015, Denbighshire had the highest TFR with 2.16 children per woman while Cardiff had the lowest with 1.64 children per woman.
In England in 2015, there were 6.3 births per 1,000 women aged under 18, in Wales the figure was 8.0.
London was the region of England with the lowest birth rate for women aged under 18 (4.4 births per 1,000 women) while the North East had the highest (10.5 births per 1,000 women).
In England in 2015 there were 1.1 births per 1,000 women aged 45 and over, in Wales the figure was 0.5.
The North East was the region of England with the lowest birth rate for women aged 45 and over (0.4 births per 1,000 women) while London had the highest (2.8 births per 1,000 women).
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Dexter Strickland is an excellent defender, ultra-quick, with or without the ball, while running the floor on offense, but the area Carolina is going to miss him the most is as the backup to starting point guard Kendall Marshall.
"I'll have to do a good job of taking care of my body and play more minutes," Marshall said.
Strickland tore the right anterior cruciate ligament in his knee during UNC's victory at Virginia Tech and will miss the remainder of the 2011-12 season.
He started every game this season for the Tar Heels. The best perimeter defender on the team, Strickland's 25 steals tied for first on the team, and he was second in assists with 39.
Now he is gone.
He will be missed, but as always, one man's misfortunate is another's opportunity. In this case, sophomore Reggie Bullock came to Carolina from Kinston hoping to play shooting guard at 6 feet 7. Bullock has worked hard at getting in a defensive stance that will allow him to slide his feet and keep his opponent in front of him.
P.J. Hairston, a freshman from Greensboro, will get his share of time as the backup to Bullock. Hairston possesses a combination of strength, size (6-5) and quickness that should help him when he's on the court.
Nonetheless, the task will not be easy for either Bullock or Hairston. Some of the quickest athletes on the floor in college basketball player play the two-guard position.
In an even broader scheme, Strickland's absence will hurt the Tar Heels' team defense in that he will no longer be available to take the quickest player on the floor. More often than not, the quickest position to guard is the opposing point guard.
Marshall is an extraordinary point guard in many ways, but he is not the quickest. Strickland's presence enabled Coach Roy Williams to use Strickland to guard the point and have Marshall slide to two guard on defense.
This was by no means an automatic move. Williams let Marshall guard the point many nights, and use his length and strength to keep the opposing point from hurting the Tar Heels by penetrating and tossing the ball to open shooters.
Marshall said the key for the entire team is to not get ahead of itself and build on the second half of its 82-68 victory at Virginia Tech, in which the Tar Heels played their finest basketball of the season. They did this in spite of Strickland getting hurt.
"Effort and energy for 40 minutes," Marshall said. "What we're trying to do as a team is live in the here and now, not look to the future, not focus on the past. We want to focus on the task at hand. So that is the main focus of our team right now: living in the here and now."
There is another area in which the Tar Heels must compensate for Strickland's absence: his competitiveness. Strickland brought a toughness and competitive nature to the team that many of his teammates sometimes appear to lack.
Carolina (16-3, 3-1 in the ACC) no longer has the luxury of leaning on Strickland in this area.
Who knows, an embarrassing 90-57 loss at Florida State in the game prior to playing at Virginia Tech may be the hidden benefit in all of this.
Williams said the team had its best practices of the year between FSU and traveling to Virginia Tech. The players said that was one way to put it.
"One day I'll be talking to my kids and I'll tell them I got to meet Coach Roy Williams -- the real one," Marshall said. "He's a lot of smiles [with outsiders], but you don't want to get on his bad side."
The key, Marshall said, is avoid reverting to the bad habits created during a ho-hum non-conference schedule and using the second half against Virginia Tech as the foundation on which to build. UNC held the Hokies to 33 percent shooting in that second half, while shooting 51.7 percent from the floor.
Both teams had shot 40 percent from the floor in the first half.
"We should take it as a learning experience and try not to revert back," Marshall said.
Senior forward Tyler Zeller has seen every end of the spectrum during his career at Carolina. He's won a national championship and been relegated to the postseason NIT.
There cannot be anymore lethargic performances such as the one in Tallahassee, he said, especially now that a key component of the team will no longer be available.
"[Against FSU], we really didn't have the greatest effort," Zeller said. "We weren't really there. We weren't pushing it. In the first half [against Virginia Tech], we had the effort.
"We just weren't hitting shots. We knew we just had to pick it up a little bit. In the second half, we did."


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August 4, 2001 - 11:47 AM
Hello World!
Yes, we're really gripped with Goodwill Games fever here in Brisbane - or that's what the advertisers would like to believe, anyway.
Today, walking through the city, I discovered that the Myer Centre has been designated the "official shopping centre" of the games. But what does this mean, exactly? Are the athletes forced to do all their shopping there?
The shopping centre is now decked out with corny posters saying "The Gods Of Sport In Our Own Backyard." But surely immortals don't need to shop?
Trek BBS Today
Below are some of the topics currently being discussed at the Trek BBS:
- Has 'Skin Of Evil' improved with age?
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More topics can be found at the Trek BBS!
Trek Two Years Ago
These were some of the major news headlines on August 4th, 1999:
- 'Alice' Episode Rumour
The first spoilers for the Voyager episode 'Alice' emerged. "An Alien Spacecraft that is possesed tries to manipulate Paris," read the report. "Paris dumps B'Elanna to go deal with this spaceship. However, this is not the end of the Paris/Torres relationship!" 'Alice' did indeed turn out to be about a spacecraft (played in human form by Claire Rankin) that takes control of Paris's life.
- 'Men Cry Bullets' Interview
Honey Lauren, star of the film 'Men Cry Bullets' talked to Michelle Erica Green about the movie, including her work with Jeri Ryan (Seven of Nine). "Jeri Ryan is completely different in this film than in anything she's ever done," she said, "too much of Hollywood is about breasts, or the big blonde thing. Lynn - her name is Jeri Lynn, I always called her Lynn - is really a great actress. I was blown away by her work. We had a real mutual respect for each other, and we got along really well. She's so funny in this film, I had nothing but a good time talking to her and I think we helped each other."
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- In Canada, Space! will be showing the Original Series' 'Who Mourns For Adonais?' at 10:00am Eastern Time, TNG's 'Realm of Fear' at 11:00am, DS9's 'Hippocratic Oath' at 12:00pm and Voyager's 'Latent Image' at 1:00pm.
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Warren County Local History by Dallas Bogan
|Dallas Bogan on 13 September 2004
|original article by Dallas Bogan
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While searching the files in the Warren County Museum, the writer discovered a list of Revolutionary War soldiers buried in assorted cemeteries in Warren County. Many of the names will be recognizable to the many descendants in the county. The cemeteries as well as the participants will be organized alphabetically.
The following are miscellaneous soldiers buried in Warren County cemeteries.
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars The Complete Season Two is coming to DVD and high-definition Blu-ray Disc October 26 from Lucasfilm Ltd. and Warner Home Video.
Relive all 22 Season Two episodes – featuring bounty hunters, space pirates, giant monsters, mind-controlling brain worms and the return of Boba Fett – and then dig deeper with the ultimate look behind the scenes of the hit TV series. Bonus features include a look inside the Lucasfilm vaults, with featurette interviews along with Director and Artist commentaries on each disc. In addition, The Complete Season Two will include a 64-page production journal with concept designs, original sketches and notes from Supervising Director Dave Filoni. And exclusive to the Blu-ray disc, The Jedi Temple Archives provides in-depth access to an extensive database of creative materials.
Star Wars: The Clone Wars The Complete Season Two will be available October 26 for the suggested retail price of $44.98 for DVD and $59.99 for Blu-ray.
Special Features:
Star Wars: The Clone Wars The Complete Season Two is presented in widescreen with English, Spanish and French 5.1 DTS audio and English, French and Spanish subtitles. Bonus features include:
* Behind-The-Scenes Featurettes on each disc
- Attack of the Zillo Beast
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* 64 page production journal that includes early sketches, artist notes and concept art from Season Two of Star Wars: The Clone Wars
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A Regular Meeting of the Governing Board of Mid-State Education District was held Wednesday, February 12, 2014, beginning at 4:00 PM at MSED Clover Glen Lane, Little Falls, MN.
Board members present: Dale Lenz, Patty Stangl, Sharon Ballou, Jeff Opelia, Ray Gove and Bill Krivanek. Superintendents present: Gene Harthan, Jon Ellerbusch, George Weber, and John Varner. Others present were: MSED Director Suzanne Busacker, Accountant DeAnn Peterson, and Accountant Support Lori Thieschafer. Staff/Guest speakers present were Cec Krystosek and Brenda Fedor.
1. The meeting was called to order at 4:00 p.m. by Board Chair Lois Metcalf followed by the Pledge of Allegiance.
2. On motion by Dale Lenz, seconded by Jeff Opelia, the minutes for January 8, 2014 were approved. Motion carried.
3. The agenda was approved as presented.
4. On motion by Jeff Opelia, seconded by Bill Krivanek, the Mid-State Bills for January in the amount of $54,454.30 (check numbers 44,619-44,678 and wires (18) in the amount of $67,824.73, and reimbursements (21) in the amount of $3,164.65 were approved. Motion carried.
5. Staff/ Guests Speakers
Cec Krystosek and Brenda Fedor will present information regarding their positions within MSED.
6. Governing Board Action Items
A. On motion by Sharon Stangl, seconded by Dale Lenz, the ESY Dates for 2014 were approved as follows,
Mid-State North: July 7- July 23 M-T-W
MCLC: July 7- July 23 M-T-W
Success: July 7- July 30 M-T-W
Royalton: July 7- July 30 M-T-W
Pierz: TBD
Swanville/Upsala: TBD
These will align with the individual school district. Motion carried.
B. Member Jeff Opelia introduced the following resolution and moved its adoption:
*WHEREAS, the financial condition of the education district dictates that the governing board must reduce expenditures immediately, and
WHEREAS, this reduction in expenditure must include discontinuance of positions and discontinuance or curtailment of programs, and
WHEREAS, a determination must be made as to which teachers contracts must be terminated and not renewed and which teachers may be placed on unrequested leave of absence without pay or fringe benefits in effecting discontinuance of positions,
BE IT RESOLVED, by the Governing Board of Education District No. 6979, as follows:
That the Governing Board hereby directs the Director of Special Education and administration to consider the discontinuance of programs or positions (to effectuate economies in the school district and reduce expenditures*) and, (as a result of a reduction in enrollment**), make recommendations to the school board for the discontinuance of programs, curtailment of programs, discontinuance of positions or curtailment of positions.
The motion for the adoption of the foregoing resolution was duly seconded by Member Dale Lenz and upon vote being taken thereon, the following voted in favor thereof:
Dale Lenz
Bill Krivanek
Sharon Ballou
Ray Gove
Jeff Opelia
Patty Stangl
And the following voted against the same:
Where upon said resolution was declared duly passed and adopted.Motion carried.
C. On motion by Dale Lenz, seconded by Bill Krivanek, the calendar changes due to Snow days for MCLC and STEPS were approved. Motion carried.
7. Technology
8. Personnel Items
A. On motion by Bill Krivanek, seconded by Jeff Opelia, to approve Seniority Lists for FY 14
1) Certified
2) Probationary
3) Non-Certified
The lists have been posted since November. Motion carried.
On motion by Dale Lenz, seconded by Jeff Opelia, Personnel Items B, C, D, & E were approved. Motion carried.
B. Approve the Postings for the following positions for the school year 2014-15
1. Speech Clinician
2. Occupational Therapist
C. Approve the Hiring of a One-to-One Para for MCLC
The interviewing committee recommends Sara Hennen for the position, at Paraprofessional Step 0 for $13.45 per hour.
D. Approve Posting for 2013-14 ESY Teaching Positions
Mid-State North Teacher Position
Mid-State North Social Worker
2 MCLC Teacher Positions
Success Teacher
STEPS Transition Teacher
Royalton ECSE Teacher
Royalton ECSE SLP
MLEE ECSE Teacher
Pierz ECSE Teacher
Swanville/ Upsala ECSE ESY Teacher
These positions will be posted internally, if not filled they will then be posted externally.
E. Approve Posting for 2013-14 ESY Paraprofessional Positions
Mid-State North-2 Paraprofessionals
MCLC-4 Paraprofessionals, 1 Mental Health Practitioner
Success-2 Paraprofessional Position, 1 Health Assistant
STEPS -1 Job Coach
9. On motion by Jeff Opelia, seconded by Patty Stangl, the Second Read of Policy Revisions and New Policies were approved.
Policy Numbers: 202, 203.2, 203.5, 205, 206, 208, 210, 212, 305, 402, 403, 408, 417, 418, 418A, 419, 421, 422, 424, 449.6, 449.7, 449.8, 501, 502, 504, 505, 506, 507, 508, 510, 511, 512, 513, 515, 515A, 516, 517, 518, 519, 520, 521, 523, 525, 528, 529, 529A, 530, 530A, 531, 532 and 533.
New Policies: 711 and 712. Motion carried.
10. Discussion (Non-action) Items
A. Extended Medical Leave
Michelle Young – 2 weeks beyond original dates
B. Health and Safety Review of Facilities
C. Continued Policy Review
11. Informational Items
12. Cash Flow Report for period ending December 31, 2013
13. On motion by Dale Lenz, seconded by Sharon Ballou, to adjourn meeting at 4:15PM.
14. Next Governing Board Meeting: Wednesday, March 12, 2014. Next Executive Board Meeting: Tuesday, March 11, 2014, Mid-State Education District Clover Glen Lane, Little Falls, MN.
Jeff Opelia
Mid-State Governing Board
Vice Chairperson
PUBLISH: March 23, 2014 (193416)


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Reds have to decide on Baker after playoff exit
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Saturday, October 13, 2012 5:00 AM
CINCINNATI - Manager Dusty Baker has trouble even thinking about next year.
"I don't know, man," he said, after the Cincinnati Reds' season ended with a collapse. "I'm kinda numb in this situation."
Pretty much summed up the season. A team that had been able to overcome so many setbacks couldn't get that one last comeback to make it something really special.
A 6-4 loss to the San Francisco Giants on Thursday knocked the NL Central champions out of the playoffs far earlier than expected. The Reds won 97 games and their second division title in three years, but couldn't get that elusive home playoff victory to move on.
Make it 17 years now since the Reds have won a postseason game at home.
"It was disheartening to have my club go through this," the 63-year-old manager said.
The Reds went through a lot, and handled all of it well until the final three home games in the playoffs. They became the first NL team to win the first two in a best-of-five division series and fail to move on.
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His two-year contract ends after this season. Owner Bob Castellini is fond of Baker and talked last February about giving him an extension. Baker feels he's healthy enough to keep managing.
The Reds have won 269 games under Baker in the last three seasons, their best such stretch in 30 years. Their two division titles in three years is the best such run since Sparky Anderson managed the Big Red Machine to World Series championships in 1975-76.
The question is whether the front office is ready to make a commitment to Baker after Reds lost in the opening round of the playoffs again.
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The Reds were prepared to have hard-throwing Aroldis Chapman move back into the rotation until closer Ryan Madson blew out his elbow in spring training. Chapman was eased into the closer's spot and was one of baseball's best, converting 38 of 43 save opportunities and a club-record 27 straight.
Do they simply entrust the job to Chapman? Or do they try to make him a starter again? Madson has a mutual option for 2013 at $11 million - too pricey for someone coming off major elbow surgery - with a $2.5 million buyout.
Third baseman Scott Rolen had another injury-filled season in his final year under contract, slowed by a bad back and a chronic shoulder problem. Rolen turns 38 next April and has to decide whether he wants to keep playing. Todd Frazier could take over at third.
Then there's left fielder Ryan Ludwick, who helped carry the team in the second half after Joey Votto hurt his left knee. Ludwick batted .313 in his last 80 games of the season with 18 homers. He led the Reds with three homers in their playoff series. Ludwick has a mutual option for next season at $5 million with a $500,000 buyout.
Votto is the Reds' best hitter, acknowledged by the 10-year, $225 million extension he got before opening day. The Reds went 36-12 when he was out in the second half of the season with torn knee cartilage.
The leg wasn't at full strength when he returned, affecting his power. Votto didn't hit a homer after June 24. He had seven singles during the playoffs. The Reds expect their 2010 National League MVP to be back to normal next season.
The rotation returns intact, including 19-game winner Johnny Cueto and Homer Bailey, who pitched the 15th no-hitter in franchise history. Bronson Arroyo and Mat Latos give the Reds one of the best foursomes in the majors.
The Reds will be considered a favorite to win the division again next year and beyond.
"I envisioned sustained success, and I think that's what people may tend to overlook - ownership's commitment to being better not just for a year but for years," right fielder Jay Bruce said. "I think these days, the way that contracts and free agencies have gotten, you have to do it the right way or it's tough to sustain success over a period of time.
"I think that the Reds' ownership has done that, and I'm happy to be part of it."
The pitching staff was the club's strength in 2012. The bullpen led the majors with a 2.65 earned run average and 56 saves. For the first time in franchise history, none of the five starters missed a game because of injury - until the playoffs.
Only eight pitches into the opener in San Francisco, Cueto strained a muscle in his right side and was done. The Reds had to juggle their rotation and won the first two games, but missed Cueto when they had a chance to wrap it up back home.
That left it up to an offense that had depended upon the big inning all season. It ended with Rolen striking out with two runners aboard.
"We hadn't lost three games in a row at home all year," Ludwick said. "This team lived and died all year with the big hit."
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Was There Legalism in First Century Judaism
Or: Was Jesus and Paul Shooting at Phantoms?
C. W. Powell
[Paper prepared for the Committee to Study Justification for the Reformed Church in the U.S.]
This study was not incorporated into the final report, but some of the content was used.
My assignment was to consider whether or not it is valid to say that Judaism had no legalism. There is no question that E. P. Sanders has delivered a body of scholarship on this subject, which work has sent ripples through the American perception of the Christian's justification. Such things often occur in academia and pass away, having left only a minimal effect on the brothers and sisters in the pew. Such has not been the case with Sanders' work.
The reason that there has been an effect on the brothers and sisters in the pew is because the affirmation that Judaism had no legalism would require us to re-examine the theology of Paul the Apostle, for it appears that his main contention with Judaism is exactly at this point. For instance,
"Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God." Romans 10:1-3
If there were no legalism Israel in the days of Christ and the apostles, then it is necessary to think very critically about statements like this and others in the writings of the Apostle Paul. Either the words do not mean what they appear to say, or Paul was wrong, deceived by his own personal vendetta against the Jews, influenced, no doubt, by his persecutions at their hands.
Sanders takes the latter view. He is very critical of the Apostle Paul. He is patronizing, sarcastic, and often infantile in his treatment of the Apostle. A few examples should suffice. These are all taken from Sanders book Paul, A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press. 1991. There is an impressive body of scholarship from Sanders, but we have used the Introduction because it was written for the purpose of summarizing Sanders' view of Paul. Most men and women in the pew have only a cursory knowledge, if any, of Sanders, but they may have been influenced by some of the new ideas about Paul's views based upon the body of Sanders' works. This article is for them.
We may sometimes suspect Paul of rhetorical exaggeration, 'countless beatings' is an instance: he promptly counts them. We can, however, accept the count as accurate. p. 6
This is more worthy of a schoolboy in a high school debate. Paul doesn't say that the ones he counted were all he had. It was nice of Sanders to take Paul's count as accurate, but the point is puerile. Such things might get a few polite guffaws in polite American and English academia, but they are little more than pigeon droppings on the Washington Monument, saying more about the pigeons than the monument.
Paul in many ways remained the same [after his conversion]. Paul the apostle shared many of the characteristics of Paul the Pharisee. One of the principal ones was that he was a zealot fully and totally committed to the course to which he felt called by God. Further, in both careers he was, by his own modest estimate, the best there was: [here follows quotations from the Apostle, magnifying his office] …
He added, to be sure, that 'it was not I, but the grace of God' (cf. Also Phil 4:13), but he thought that God had chosen at least one of his apostles well. p. 15
After a quoting 2 Cor. 11:5, 21-23, in which Paul affirms what he had been as a Pharisee, Sanders says,
Thus, as Pharisee and as apostle, Paul could say that he was among the best, and there is no reason to doubt his word. p. 16
Again, the smell of the high school debating club: "Brutus is an honorable man. So are they all, all honorable men." There is a titter among the tea-drinkers.
Sanders says that Paul was adept in turning aside the attacks made upon him:
He countered these attacks in two ways. First, he claimed that, though he did not preach with eloquence and wisdom, as did Apollos, he was in fact not deficient, for he spoke the 'wisdom of God', which is foolishness to humans: 'Jesus Christ and him crucified': and by the Spirit he spoke 'the mind of Christ' (1 Cor. 1:2:16). His second ploy [!] to defend himself despite his personal deficiency was more effective and shows even better his quickness and resourcefulness: he turned his defects into virtues, and his weakness became his strength. p. 16.
Once in a while, Sanders does throw a bone to Paul, but he takes away with the left hand what he gives with the right. He contends that the author of Acts masked the differences between the Apostles, and that some wrote new epistles, like 1 Timothy and attributed them to Paul. "Such efforts 'saved' Paul for mainstream Christianity, and his letters became a central part of the New Testament as it developed between the third and sixth centuries. His passionate embrace of faith in Christ and the force of his writing have always made him one of Christianity's foremost spokesmen and by far its most exciting and vigorous theologian-though he is still difficult to understand." p. 22.
But the point is made. Sanders seems to be blind to his own arrogance and is nothing loath to find arrogance and defect in the apostle. The pigeons come back to mind. Sanders ought to be grateful that Paul lived, for if there had been no Paul, there would have been no career for Sanders.
We have spent very little time studying those who follow Sanders in his view that Paul was arrogant and mistaken. This paper is addressed to those who believe that the Bible is the word of God, and that Paul and the apostles spoke by the Spirit of God, believing that the words are not the words of men, but the very words of God. Thus, Paul's evaluation of himself in his writings is true, being inspired of God. As the Belgic Confession puts it in Article Three:
We confess that this Word of God was not sent nor delivered by the will of man, but that men spake from God, being moved by the Holy Spirit, as the apostle Peter says; and that afterwards God, from a special care which He has for us and our salvation, commanded His servants, the prophets and apostles, to commit His revealed word to writing; and He Himself wrote with His own finger the two tables of the law. Therefore we call such writings holy and divine Scriptures.
The danger to the brothers and sisters in the pew does not come from the curved pinkie set of elitist academia, whose tenured professors so often have engaged in sophistry concerning the Scriptures and look with disdain upon the unwashed masses and feel it is their duty to deliver the ignorant from superstitious credulity with respect to the Bible.
The danger comes from those who accept Sanders position with respect to legalism in Judaism, but are very reluctant to deny the inspiration of Paul's writings. Because they want to take Paul seriously, but are influenced by the position adopted by Sanders and his followers, they find it necessary to re-interpret Paul's writing. They think that Augustine, Luther, Calvin and the Reformed Churches in particular have been one-sided in their interpretation of Paul's works and over-emphasized justification as forensic. We are told that this misunderstanding of Paul has caused no end of harm in the Christian community and divided Protestantism from Rome, so we are told. This misunderstanding has also led to "easy believism" in Protestantism for faith alone is not sufficient, for to faith must be added good works to make it lively, for faith without works is dead being alone. Besides these, there are other reasons for reexamining Paul, not the least of which will give us a new appreciation for Roman Catholicism and its doctrine of infused righteousness, perhaps even leading to a re-uniting of Protestants with the Church of Rome. It will also give us a renewed appreciation for Judaism and their faith. So it goes.
It is not necessary in this paper to treat the large body of writing and the many authors who are engaged in reinterpreting the Apostle Paul. It will be enough for us to consider the question: Did Israel seek salvation by the works of the law, or by faith? Was legalism systemic in the religion of the Jews at the time of Christ? If there was legalism, was it legitimate for the Jews to seek salvation thereby?
Our method will be this: we will examine inspired Scriptures, other than those written by the Apostle Paul, to see if the doctrines concerning legalism are found in them. We believe that Sanders' method is seriously flawed. His assumptions appear to include the idea that Paul must be judged by first century Judaism, not Judaism judged by Paul's writings. This might be valid except for the doctrine of inspiration noted above, as expressed in the Belgic Confession. Although certainly Augustine, Luther, Calvin, Zwingli and others were men of their times, yet their interpretation of Scripture was not driven by the religious and philosophic fads of their day. Instead, they rebuked the religious fantasies of their ages by the Scriptures. The Spirit that lived in them and moved them was that the Scriptures judged their age, not the other way around. Those who believe that Paul was so moved by his age will take the same shallow view of the Reformers. Those who have no clear view of Scripture become cynical in tyranny or neurotic in their self-absorption and guilt.
It is the assumption of this writer that the Scriptures do not contradict themselves. If the Holy Spirit spoke through the Apostle Paul, the doctrines that he expressed concerning Judaism will be found in the other inspired writings. Any modification necessary to our understanding of Paul's writings will not be found in searching the writings of first century Judaism, but in the writings of Matthew, John, and the other apostles and prophets, including the writer of Hebrews. In this paper we will look at some pertinent passages in Matthew and in John. We will find that what is found in these apostles is also in the other writers of the New Testament. Of course, those who believe, like Sanders, that books like 1 Timothy were written by those seeking to defend Paul in his prejudice will not be persuaded by this paper. It is sufficient for us to address those who believe the Bible, as we stated before.
Before we begin our examination, it is necessary that we try to have a definition of legalism. We do not desire to slay one or two straw men, but a living and breathing heresy that afflicts the brothers and sisters in the pew.
We will derive a biblical definition of legalism from the Apostle Peter. This writer chooses not to use Paul's very clear definitions, because it is Paul's doctrine that is being elasticized.. 1 Peter 1:18-20 will suffice:
Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you…."
Legalism is any empty way of life that relies upon the corruptible things of this world to satisfy for sins. Silver and gold are used as illustrations because they are esteemed most valuable by the men of the world. The traditions of former generations teach men to rely upon these corruptible things and to turn away from the redemption that was eternally arranged in God before the foundation of the world, even the bloody offering of the Lord Jesus Christ. As Calvin says in his commentary on I Peter 1:18: "When, therefore, Peter condemned the doctrine of the fathers, he viewed it as unconnected with Christ, who is the soul and the truth of the Law."
It is also true that the offering of Christ was not made on any earthly altar or in any human temple, but He appeared in the presence of God for us. Its application is wholly spiritual: He was offered to God the Father of all Spirits and He was made an offering for sins to purge our consciences from dead works to serve the living God [Heb. 9:14].
Peter is repeating the warning of the Lord Jesus about following the traditions of the elders [Mark 7:3] in thinking that men can be cleansed by the washing of water after the vain ceremonies of the Pharisees. The words of Christ are pertinent [Matthew 15-20].
Matthew 15:1-20
Then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees, which were of Jerusalem, saying, Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.
But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition? For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death. But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; And honor not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.
Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying, This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoreth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
And he called the multitude, and said unto them, Hear, and understand: Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man. Then came his disciples, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended, after they heard this saying?
But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up. Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
Then answered Peter and said unto him, Declare unto us this parable. And Jesus said, Are ye also yet without understanding? Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught? But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.
There are several important things to be observed about this parable that are relevant to the issue of whether or not there was legalism among the Jews.
1. Jesus said that the Pharisees set aside the law of God by their tradition. They made the "commandment of God of none effect." It was a religion of vanity.
2. The result was an externalism that left them unclean and defiled before God in spite of all their washings and ceremonies. It is not that which enters into the man [corruptible things] that defiles the man, but that which comes out of him. Sin does not lie in the external act but in the wickedness of the heart, the stew from which all sins arise. Pr 4:23 "Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it [are] the issues of life." This matches the description of Christ in Mt 23:27 "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness."
3. In dispensing with the "washings" that the Pharisees demanded, Christ was striking at the very root of their externalism and "vain traditions." If external things can defile a man, then external rites and ceremonies can cleanse the man. By affirming that nothing that enters into a man can defile the man, Christ is affirming that nothing external can cleanse him, exactly what Peter says about corruptible things such as silver and gold. Jesus was not shooting blanks, but was aiming at a very real and vain externalism and legalism according to our definition above.
4. The effect of their legalism was to make the "commandment of God of none effect." The law was robbed of its force and its purpose by their vanities. Instead of seeing the law in its holiness and grandeur, they stripped it of its glory, using all sorts of devices to justify themselves. Christ gives one illustration of the sophistry they used to justify not caring for their aged parents.
5. One of the purposes of the law is to make sin "exceeding sinful." Because they reduced the law to ceremony, keeping it could no longer fulfill this purpose, for their hearts were shut against it's true spiritual meaning. They were content with appearing righteous before men.
Luke 18:9-14
And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others: Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican.
The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.
And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner. I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
Several things can be said about this parable of our Lord Jesus as it pertains to the question of whether or not there was legalism in Israel.
1. Again, Jesus was aiming at a real target, not some abstraction. He certainly knew what was in man and His words penetrated to the core of things. His words in this place were directed towards those who "trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others." Presumably there were those who smarted under His arrows.
2. He thanks God that he is not like other men. He does not claim any merit of his own, but gives God glory for everything that he is. There is no humility here, and certainly not brokenness nor a sense of unworthiness. But he does give God credit for it all. He also prayed in the inner man—he did not pray out loud: he spoke from his mind and spirit. His error was not that of outward pretense. His error went much deeper than that. He was blind to his own arrogance and the horror of his own condition. The lie was in his own heart. He only deceived others because he was deceived himself.
3. The critical point for our purpose is the fact that he feels himself righteous before God on the basis of God's gifts to him. He does not take credit for his virtues, but thanks God for them. He is punctiliously correct: his virtues come from God; he is supposed to be thankful; he goes to the place of worship and thanks God for these virtues; what more could God want?
4. He then catalogues all the virtues that he is thankful for. He isn't an extortioner, unjust, an adulterer, and certainly not like the publican who was at the place of worship the same time he was. For our purpose it is important that he only speaks of things of the body, of external things. He speaks in his heart before God and no doubt thinks himself truly thankful. But he seems to be unaware of the plague of his own heart. [1 Kings 8:38] He seems to be unconscious that only men in the image of God can be extortioners, unjust, and adulterers. Pigs and dogs and possums cannot commit these things, for they arise from the soul, the image of God, not from the "corruptible things." He seems to be unaware of the sins of his soul, for he only names sins that can be seen of men. He is thankful to God for what he does; the publican is sorry for what he is.
5. The Pharisee's frame of reference is interesting: he is focused on his own virtues [the gifts of God] and the publican. He was not focused on God or even on the sacrifice.
6. He speaks of the ceremonies that he performs which are even more than the law commanded: he fasted twice on the Sabbath [see the Greek] and gave tithes of all. We may presume this included the mint, the anise, and the cumin.
7. It is a good prayer in his eyes. We can imagine his thoughts of the sweet aroma that would permeate the courts of the heavenly temple and nostrils of God. This writer suspects that there is no stench in heaven, but that this prayer would have been one, if such were possible.
8. What was the man's fault? He illustrated Christ's point: the Pharisee flattered himself in God's eyes and despised others. He no doubt fancied himself very humble and faithful to God, but he couldn't see his own arrogance. He couldn't truly worship God, because he had his eyes on himself and on others who were not worthy.
9. His abominable externalism was not because he worshipped in the eyes of men, or did things to be seen of men, but because he trusted in externals. Externalism is not hypocrisy in itself, for it can be very sincere in trusting in ceremonies and "corruptible things." It is hypocrisy only in the sense that the emphasis on ceremonies and the deeds of the body hide the corruption of the heart.
10. True worship is in spirit and in truth, not in externals. For the Christian, the true communion in the body and blood of Christ is the recognition that Jesus Christ is the true Bread of Life and that the life of the Christian is tied up in the death and resurrection of Christ. In this communion with Christ, the believer is crucified with Christ and yet lives. He lives not in himself or even in the gifts that God gives, but Christ lives in Him. This life is "by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me" as Paul put it. The first and most basic affection that must grip our hearts in the Lord's Supper is the fact of our natural guilt before the Lord; we are unworthy of such a feast, but we trust in Christ's broken body and shed blood alone for the forgiveness of our sins. What we chew and sip and swallow can never commend us to God. It is what is going on in the heart of the worshipper that is vital. Our unworthiness is not primarily involved in what we have committed sin, but that we are sinners.
11. We are not worthy; we have done no works that are worthy; we have nothing in ourselves even as the people of God to justify us before the Lord; rather, our very life comes out of death. We are worthy of death, but no life can even come out of our own death. Though we richly deserve to die our own death cannot give us life, but only the wrath of God forever and ever. Our life is wrapped up in the death of Jesus Christ
12. The kingdom of God belongs to those who are poor in spirit, according to our Lord. The Pharisee certainly did not come in poverty to God. It is true that he offered to God some wonderful gifts that God had given him, and he was thankful for them. But he forgot the most important, as his own scriptures declared: "Thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise." [Psalm 51:16,17] Again, "Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest? For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word. He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations." (Isa 66:1-3) The very sacrifices that God had ordained became abominable because of the externalism and the alienation of the hearts of the worshipper!
13. The parable was spoken by our Lord against "trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others." It is opposed to anyone who trusts in anything in themselves, included the works of God that they can be thankful for. No matter how commendable and admirable internal righteous affections might be, and though they be the work of God, they cannot be the basis of any trust concerning righteousness. What could be plainer? The publican did not even offer his contrition and poorness of spirit to God as a ground of righteousness, but simply called upon the mercy of God.
14. The Pharisee was not justified, according to Christ. The publican was. The publican was not justified for his prayer and the Pharisee was not lost because of his prayer. Jesus is not telling us how to be saved, or what prayer to pray to be saved. Jesus is rather telling us how those who are saved pray. They pray out of a sense of contrition and brokenness, not despising others, but standing alone before God. The Pharisee was not alone before God; he had the publican in his mind and he had a bundle of good works on his mind. He thought he was thankful, but the stink of his arrogance made his thanksgiving stink before God. It was no sweet savor that ascended from the Pharisee to God. It was quite the contrary. The sweetness came from the publican, but not because he was a publican. [As an aside, the modern publican would probably not be justified either, because he would be up front along side the Pharisee, thanking God he was not a Pharisee.]
And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape. And ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him ye believe not. Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life. I receive not honor from men. But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you. I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive. How can ye believe, which receive honor one of another, and seek not the honor that cometh from God only? Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuseth you, even Moses, in whom ye trust. For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me. But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?
Jesus had greatly offended the rulers because He had healed a man on the Sabbath and had told him to take up his bed and walk. This was in violation of the tradition of the elders. The practice of the Jews in keeping the Sabbath days was well known and the Jews were often accused of laziness because of it. They considered it a badge of honor and a sign of their loyalty to Moses. In response to their complaint that Jesus had broken the Sabbath, He replied that He worked on the Sabbath just as His Father worked on the Sabbath. This was even a greater offense to them because in claiming God to be His Father, He was making Himself equal to God. [John 5:18].
Again, in response to their charge of blasphemy, Jesus makes a number of claims concerning His equality with God. He then attacks their fundamental claim that in doing the word of God given by Moses they had eternal life. "Search the scriptures;" He says, "for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me."
Their very claim that that were obeying the words of Moses was refuted by the fact that they did not believe in Christ. They "thought" they had eternal life, but this was a false and vain hope because they misunderstood the meaning of the word that was given by Moses. Their boast that they had God's word "abiding in them" was refuted by their unbelief concerning Christ. [John 5:38]. They did not have the true source of life because they did not come to Christ, who is that Source. [John 5:40] Their whole life was empty and vain because they did not have faith in Christ.
Thus, they stood accused of the very thing that Peter was later to describe, a "vain conversation" received by tradition from their fathers. Their entire observance of the law, including their fastidiousness concerning the Sabbath was rendered void because they did not believe in Christ.
Their faith was not in Christ, but in their observance of Moses, for this was the ground of their persuasion that they had eternal life [John 5:39]. It was therefore a vain faith, an empty faith. Faith is validated not by its intensity or by works done in terms of it, but by its object, Jesus Christ. Jesus declares null and void the faith that the Jew placed in the Scriptures given by Moses and his [the Jew's] observance of the commandments given by Moses—for this is the meaning of "think ye have eternal life." This faith was declared null and void, not because it was not followed zealously nor with great sincerity, but simply because it was directed toward the wrong object. Faith in Moses and his words could never bring life, if the life-giving element was missing. The life-giving element was the promise concerning Jesus Christ, without which all observance of commandments and days and ceremonies were vain indeed.
Because of this, Moses himself would become their judge, not because of any lack of zealousness to the law, but because of their lack of faith in Christ. This means that every "Israelite indeed" who had faith in the promises of Moses concerning the coming of Christ would believe and trust in Christ when He came. "If ye had believed Moses, ye would have believed me," Jesus said. [John 5:46].
If legalism is "any empty way of life that relies upon the corruptible things of this world to satisfy for sins," then the disease was present in Israel with a vengeance, for they did not trust in Him who had come in His father's name, but in the things that they did of the law of Moses to be seen of men. "How can ye believe, which receive honor one of another, and seek not the honor that cometh from God only?" They knew nothing of the "rest of God" in their hearts in ceasing from their own works, but contended constantly for the observance of the ceremonies of Sabbath-keeping.
The Apostle Paul, then, is not adding new content to the teachings of Jesus as set forth by the writers of the Gospels, when he affirms that Israel did not find the righteousness of God because they did not seek it by faith. [Romans 9:31-33: "But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness. Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumbling stone; As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumbling stone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed."]
Paul's meaning is not that Israel did not have faith absolutely, but that their confidence in seeking righteousness by the works of the law was misdirected and vain. It is exactly what Jesus said in John 5: your firm persuasion that you are the people of God and have eternal life is rendered null and void because you are seeking righteousness in the wrong way, by the "works of the law,' and not by trust in Christ. These works can never form the ground of any assurance of eternal life for this is a misdirecting of faith to a different object than the Lord Jesus. What Jesus declared null and void, the Apostle Paul declared null and void.
Jesus also affirmed that faith in Him was all they needed for eternal life. "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life" [John 5:24] As John would write in his first epistle: "He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life" [1 John 5:24]. Paul affirms the same thing: "For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God" [Col 3:3].
Paul did not invent a new disease in Israel, nor did the Reformers and their followers invent a new disease when they said that Israel vainly followed the law, persuaded that they would inherit eternal life by doing so. Paul and the Reformers were simply affirming what Jesus Himself had said. No works can form the ground of righteousness, not even those commendable things that the Pharisee could thank God for and attribute to the works of God in him. Faith in keeping the commandments of Moses, no matter how intense, can never bring eternal life. That would make expectations of the law beyond its power to perform. Life is in Christ alone. The true Israelite" believed in Christ when He came.
The corruptible things of the world cannot defile the already-corrupt soul and neither can they cleanse the soul. The man is defiled by what comes from him, not by what goes into him. No man can offer to God any thing of either his body or soul that can redeem him from his sins, for his body and soul belong to those corruptible things that cannot rise to heaven. If man is to be cleansed from his sins, the offering for sin must be one than can rise to heaven, to the temple in heaven not seen by the eyes of men, into the very presence of God Himself. It is the blood of Christ, not offered upon earthly altars nor offered before the eyes of men, but offered to God His Father in the horror of darkness that covered the earth in the hour of His passion. His offering was not before the eyes of men, but in the presence of God Himself and directed to Him. [Psalm 22 and Hebrews 9:24]
Peter contrasts all the vain offerings that men offer up to God, including those works which the Pharisee can attribute to God working in him, with the offering of Christ which is precious beyond any price. He includes even those works offered in faith, if the faith be in the works. We are born of corruptible seed and are like the grass and all the glory of man is like the flower of grass. It withers and blows away. Only Christ is born of incorruptible seed for He is the life of men. It is He who was "foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you, Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God." [I Peter 1:20-25].
So the Reformers did not misinterpret Paul. Paul did not invent something new and strange in terms of his egoism and vindictiveness against Israel; he simply unpacked what was already there in the teachings of Christ and the other apostles.


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Peripheral Blood and/or Bone Marrow, Including Detection of Occult Metastases, in Patients With Melanoma
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The purpose of this study is to determine if tumor cells can be detected in the peripheral blood and/or bone marrow of patients with melanoma.
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Princess Mary, visited the Hebrew University on Mount Scopus. In her reply to the message of greeting sent by the Zionist Executive, the Princess expressed her desire to see something of the Jewish work in the country.
The Princess made a visit to the pioneer colony, Dilb where she was presented with gifts of milk and honey and flowers. The address of welcome in Hebrew was translated by Norman Bentwich, Palestine attorney general.
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Buffalo's top human resources post has a history of trouble, turnover
In Buffalo City Hall, the human resources commissioner gets a six-year term – two years longer than the mayor.
But those who hold the post usually don't last that long.
Patricia P. Folts, who left last month, worked for the Brown administration for just more than two years.
Karla L. Thomas lasted from September 2008 to January 2011 when revelations that the city paid nearly $840,000 in improper benefits led to her firing.
Leonard A. Matarese, appointed by then-Mayor Anthony M. Masiello in December 2002, almost made it through a full term, but he left the post under a different mayor.
While Mayor Byron W. Brown has stripped the human resources post of some powers, the person who holds the job still plays an important role in city government: making sure city departments follow civil service and affirmative action laws along with Americans with Disabilities Act provisions, administering employee benefits, accepting discrimination complaints from employees, making sure city workers comply with residency requirements, training employees, and evaluating the costs of each new collective-bargaining agreement.
So the turnover, particularly Folts' departure, concerns some Common Council members.
"It's supposed to be long-term so you can get in there and do your job and not be influenced by any political activity or pressure from various political factions in City Hall," said Council Member Michael J. LoCurto of the Delaware District.
Folts, praised by union leaders and Council members for her independence, held the post from September 2011 to January 2014. Her term would have expired in 2017.
Staffing difficulties
Folts declined to say why she left. But last year, she said a "severe staffing shortage" hampered her department. She also refused to certify the city's payroll after she determined that the administration's staffing practices violated state civil service law.
"Working for them has got to be a heavy burden," said Fillmore Council Member David A. Franczyk.
Brown said he is "not concerned" by the department's turnover. "As I indicated, we have very talented people working in city government," the mayor said. "From time to time, they have other offers, other options."
His administration did not pressure Folts to leave, Brown said.
So now Brown must search for a commissioner again. The City Charter requires the mayor to convene a search committee, Brown's third such committee.
In the meantime, the administration has appointed Gladys Herndon-Hill, director of personnel, as acting commissioner.
The commissioner's position was created as part of City Charter changes following a 1999 referendum.
The current job pays a $91,374 salary. And it comes with protections. Besides the six-year term, the human resources chief does not work at the pleasure of the mayor. The commissioner can be removed only for cause, which is what happened to Thomas.
When Brown was elected in 2005, he wanted Matarese to reapply for his job, even though Matarese had a six-year term that expired in 2008. Matarese, who at the time said he was "stunned" by the request, stayed on the job until February 2008 but resigned with nine months left on a six-year appointment when he left for a new job.
The protections in state law are designed to shield human resources commissioners from political pressure when dealing with hiring and firing, following state civil service laws and dealing with a workforce with patronage jobs and those represented by labor unions.
After Thomas was fired following revelations that the city was still providing health benefits to dead workers, she accused the Brown administration of being far too involved in hiring and firing at the expense of civil service laws.
The office has fewer powers in the Brown administration. The Law Department now negotiates labor contracts and handles union grievances. Recent commissioners have had fewer employees to do the work.
"Who would want that job now?" asked Prasad Balkundi, associate professor of organization and human resources in the University at Buffalo School of Management, speaking generally about management principles.
"A person who is good at this job – they're basically made perfunctory," Balkundi said. "Their own skills are eroding so rapidly. Why would they want to remain in this job?"
High turnover not new
Indeed, past commissioners have found better-paying jobs elsewhere.
High turnover in the human resources commissioner's post, or its predecessor position, isn't new, said former Council President George K. Arthur.
A similar post that predated the Charter change also had near-constant turnover. Matarese was Masiello's sixth chief labor negotiator in eight years.
"They were gone every few years," said Arthur, who served on the Council in the 1970s, '80s and '90s.
"It's a position with no real longevity," even with state laws intended to protect commissioners from political pressure, he said.
Elsewhere in City Hall, the Brown administration has maintained a group of experienced department heads. Even the mayor's most vocal critics on the Council praised his appointees during a recent confirmation hearing. All were reconfirmed for Brown's third term, which began Jan. 1.
Independence at issue
City Hall personnel disputes are not confined to the human resources commissioners. In 2012, Civil Service Director Olivia A. Licata decided to leave her appointed post and return to a union-protected position after a disagreement with First Deputy Mayor Steven M. Casey.
The disagreement centered on how he defined the start date of some new hires, a determination that could have affected their pensions. After a long career in City Hall, Licata retired last year.
The city's hiring practices are also the subject of a 2009 federal lawsuit filed by a Public Works Department employee who contends that the city passed him over for promotion as retaliation for his refusal to contribute money to Brown's re-election campaigns. A federal magistrate judge ruled recently that the case can go to trial.
The firefighters union has an r interest in who fills the post next.
The next commissioner should follow civil service law, take any complaints about harassment in the workplace seriously, and competently administer employee benefits, said Thomas P. Barrett, vice president of Local 282, Buffalo Professional Firefighters Association.
"To us, it's important to have a human resources commissioner who is independent and is not in line with whoever the mayor will be," Barrett said.
UB's Balkundi said the successful candidate must negotiate so that he or she has operational control over the department.
"The problem," he said, "is the mayor has access to the resources."
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