Gamaliel urges careful deliberation before acting. It may be that they are worthy of death, but one must think about what the ramifications of another execution of a messianic pretender. He refers to two other "messianic pretenders" which gathered some following but eventually came to nothing. Each of these men are known from Josephus as rebels against Rome who had humble origins, developed a bit of a following, and were eventually killed.
Theudas is known from Josephus (Antiq. 20.5.1 §97-98). In this passage, Theudas led a revolt during the reign of Fadus, A.D. 44-46. This is obviously a problem, since Gamaliel is giving this speech at least ten years before Theudas rebelled. For someone like Bruce Chilton, this makes the account in Acts anachronistic and unreliable, despite the fact that Gamaliel's standing in the Council is consistent with other sources (ABD 2:904).
This problem is usually explained by noting that the name Theudas is a common name in first century inscriptions. In addition, the period after the death of Herod the Great saw many rebellions, so it is likely that Gamaliel refers to a leader of one of these earlier rebellions. Judas the Galilean lead a tax-revolt about A.D. 6, described by Josephus (Antiq 18.1.6, §23). Like Theudas, he died and his followers dispersed.
Gamaliel's point here is to argue that recent history shows that if God was really behind any of these messianic movements, then their leaders would not have been executed. Perhaps there is a also a warning to Peter and his followers as well: If your leader is really dead, maybe you ought to stop this preaching. Christians tend to read this warning as directed at the Sadducees in the Sanhedrin: if you are wrong about this, you will be fighting God! To a certain extent, Gamaliel's advice is "shrewd popular politics" which endorses neither side's view of who Jesus was (Dunn, Beginning in Jerusalem, 174, n. 14).
Gamaliel's conclusion is that a messianic movement which is from human origin is doomed to fail; but if it is of divine origin it is destined to succeed. It would be better to let the disciples of Jesus do as they please rather than to "fight against God." The examples given came to nothing, in both cases the leader was dead. If Jesus is dead, then his followers will disappear as well – but only if they are no longer persecuted. If the Sanhedrin continues to persecute and these men turn out to be from God, then they will be fighting against God.
Why does Gamaliel give this advice to the Council? Is this, as Dunn says, simply "shrewd politics"? Or is there more to this story?
I believe Gamaliel gave the advice to the council to say that if the council was right, if the council did not kill the Messiah, then the disciples were following Jesus falsely and will fail. So why not just let them continue?
I believe that it was not shrewd politics, that Gamaliel recognized somehow that the disciples would succeed, that the council would be fighting God if they intervened by killing them–so he stopped it from happening. Some might argue that it is only a coincidence that Gamaliel stood up to defend them, under the appearance of being neutral and following "shrewd politics", but I believe it was no coincidence. If Gamaliel stood up and defended the other false prophets he mentioned that have come before them, then I could see this as a regular occurrence. But the bible does not indicate that. I believe God used Gamaliel to fulfill part of his plan and to get the disciples out of that situation.
There was a reason that Gamaliel was "honored by all the people." (Acts 5:34) He seemed to be a very rational and level-headed man and also fair with the people. When Gamaliel spoke in the Sanhedrin in defense of the disciples, he may have been voicing more than "shrewd politics" but a desire for nonviolence. When the leaders in the Sanhedrin began to stir with anger, Gamaliel stepped in to calm the people down. Although his message was quite good, his original intentions may have been to simply distract the Sadducees and give them something to think about to divert their anger from the disciples. His choice to have the disciples put outside for a time, (Acts 5:34) was also a good decision that helped the leaders in the Sanhedrin calm down and think more clearly about the situation.
In Acts 5:38, Gamaliel advices the counsel to leave the disciples alone. He tells them that, because the disciples are speaking the truth, the counsel is fighting against God, not the the disciples. I think Gamaliel gave his advice in effort to save the disciples lives. In verses 33 it says "they were furious, and wanted to put them to death".
Some interesting points are brought up in this blog. Although it is an interesting perspective, I don't think what Gamaliel said was addressed at all to the disciples. They were specifically put outside before he spoke this defense to the Sanhedrin. Nevertheless it could have been just a political statement for the council to hear. But I like to think he was inspired by the Hold Spirit and spoke not of his own accord. This same thing happened to Annas, the father of the high priest, when they were going to crucify Jesus (John 11:49-51). It also sounds like he may have sincerely wanted the will of God to be done, knowing what was said of him after he died and his influence in keeping the word of God at such a high place in the lives of the people of his time.
Whatever the case, it does seem that Gamaliel shrewdly placed himself into the conversation enough to make the council look bad if they ignored him, or look good from his reasoning. From his presence here in Acts 5:34, I would tend to believe that he believed that the apostles and disciples would not fail. It is duly noted on my part that the council listened to Gamaliel – which they likely would not have done if he had chosen to stand up for the two previous examples as well. It appears to me that God used Gamaliel well, and he was well rewarded by being remembered in Scripture, as part of how the Gospel began to spread.
I also would argue that this is where people and churches can be very apathetic in our day and age – by arguing that things will succeed if they are from God, or fail if they are of man. Specifically I think of divorce, abortion, LGBT discussions, and the gradual loss of free speech. Would that then suggest that Christianity is then false, because it does not appear to be winning? Gamaliel's reasoning should not be used then to defend apathy, but rather to use the time instead to act on discovering God's will.
Maybe Gamaliel was simply a politician, I would say we really do not know one way or the either. But God still used him. The same way God can use us, if we willing listen and obey – even if it is simply shrewd thinking to the world.
I think it is important to note that Gamaliel was a respected teacher of the Law, which would have been both a religious and political role. While we as 21st century Christians may tend to think of that position in a negative light, in second-temple Judaism Gamaliel's position would give credence to his opinion. But I don't think that Gamaliel gave his opinion here lightly. It seems that, regardless of his own thoughts on who Jesus was, he had a desire for the truth to be known. If the truth was that Jesus was just another messianic pretender, then so be it. But if Jesus was indeed who He said He was, then Gamaliel thought it important not to try to hide that.
As a teacher of the Law, it is fitting that Gamaliel would have a high enough view of God that he thought God capable of preserving truth, even in the light of a would-be Messiah. This is along the same lines of how we think of Scripture today, being preserved and passed down for two thousand years and yet we are confident that God's inspired Word is still just as infallible now as it was when it was written.
If the disciples of Jesus were right, Gamaliel wisely advised that no Jewish leader should dare fight against them. But if the disciples were wrong, they would dissolve on their own. Either way, Gamaliel understood that *someone* was right in their view, and the other group could be guilty of blasphemy for rejecting His messengers, so it was best for everyone if the religious leaders just took a step back and let the Jesus movement run its course. To fight against the plan of God is a sure fire way to fail.
There are a number of fascinating points about this reported incident. Bruce Chilton would be just one of a great many scholars and commentators who point out many similar points that are often not just questionable as to even general accuracy, but evidence of purposeful manipulation of events and situations. Some in which it makes a real difference in our understanding of critical things are the contradictions between his accounts and Paul's of the same situations.
When one looks carefully at such instances in Acts, it is not at all a stretch to doubt if Gamaliel said most of what "Luke" puts in his mouth here (cf. the several well-crafted supposedly spontaneous speeches by Peter, Paul, Stephen). What else comes immediately to mind if we put minds in Jerusalem at this time, with the background of what the Gospels (including Luke's) say had just recently happened… all the miraculous, powerful signs of earthquake, tombs broken with saints risen, thick temple veil torn fully in two, supposedly bodily appearances by Jesus, etc…. something is out of sync….
Why does Gamaliel even make such a speech, suggesting ongoing observation to see if the movement is of God? If anyone would have been "up on" the various events surrounding the crucifixion and resurrection claims it would be him! Yet he doesn't even address all this Gospel-claimed evidence that many Christians claim has historical weight and validity. In a city as geographically small as Jerusalem and as centered on the Temple, on Jewish religion, prophesy, etc. as it was, all these events (if they occurred as described) should have been all the talk as to what God was doing. Apparently, per Gamaliel, they hadn't happened or didn't even speak to the issue of what God was doing through the claimed messiah, Jesus.
As he had said in Acts 5: 35 and 38-39 "Men of Israel, consider carefully what you intend to do to these men." "Therefore, in the present case I advise you: Leave these men alone! Let them go! For if their purpose or activity is of human origin, it will fail. But if it is from God, you will not be able to stop these men; you will only find yourselves fighting against God." I think that is was both shrewd politics and experience that Gamaliel used to save these men lives. People don't often did people back then see miracles happen. He must have seen something in Peter and James to have stopped the other Rabbis. That is my guess.
Nobody here has addressed my points of Feb. 3, and I suppose that's understandable. I don't like to be overly forceful, and the implications of the point there, whomever it's made by, are significant for all believers in traditional views of the Resurrection and first weeks and months of "the Church" (or following Jesus as Messiah, after his death). However, it IS important to face what the NT texts present us… not just isolate highlights.
According to Luke's own crucifixion / resurrection accounts (his Gospel), plus the others', if one takes the "sign" events and resurrection appearances literally (as almost all Evangelicals, etc. do), it seems impossible to also take this Gamaliel account literally (along with many other things in Acts).
6) multiple individual and group appearances by Jesus to disciples/Apostles over a 40-day period (or even if shorter, 40 being a symbolic #).
Had not God (according to Luke, et al) made it more than clear that Jesus had God's unequivocal approval and had changed everything?
Nor could Gamaliel have said what he did without at least offering a decent explanation, before going blithely on to suggest a wait-and-see posture!
Howard, sorry I did not address your concerns! I do think it is remarkable you would (likely) say the signs surrounding the Crucifixion were created by the evangelists, but also then expect Peter to cite them as evidence for the resurrection. To a certain extent this is wanting to have your cake and eat it too!
You do however bring up a serious problem, since Peter does not (in the story Luke is telling) refer to the spectacular events you list above nor does Gamalliel seem to know them (or care about them). If Luke were creating the story himself, perhaps he would have worked harder to connect the two parts of the book. I suppose this could be some evidence for two different authors, but most people who have tried to make that argument cannot sustain it against the overwhelming evidence of a single author for Luke/Acts.
Part of the answer is Luke's use of speeches as examples of the types of sermons evangelists preached in various situations, so that Acts 2 and 3 are examples of the types of sermons Peter and the Twelve typically preached in Jerusalem, while Acts 7 is a Hellenistic Synagogue sermon, as is Paul's sermon in Acts 13. Since they are short extracts used as models, a great deal is left aside, and not everything said two months after the resurrection would have been wholly relevant two years later, let along twenty years later when Luke writes. The sermons are evangelistic and apologetic, with a heavy emphasis on explaining what Jesus' death means in salvation history. I think I would have mentioned the apocalyptic events – but was Peter a witness to all of those things? Who knew the Veil of the Temple was torn? While he might have witnessed the earthquake, the disciples were more or less in hiding by the time Jesus was on the Cross, so being "eye witnesses" may not apply to them!
Imagine if Peter did mention the earthquake or the darkness, the High Priest could simply remind Peter he was not a witness at all of the events, he was hiding for fear of being arrested himself.
In addition, it does not seem to me Peter (or anyone in Acts) attempts to "prove the resurrection" via signs, they simply state "we witnessed everything." There is no modern, rationalistic apologetic strategy in Peter's sermon or in his defense before the Sanhedrin.
Perhaps Acts 2:22 indicates Peter and the others could supplement a sermon with examples, God commended Jesus to Israel through "mighty works, wonders and signs," the same sorts of things the Apostles continued to do in Jerusalem in the first few chapters of Acts.
Still, the non-allusion to the events of the crucifixion in Acts is something I had not considered before…I need to think more about this.
And as you say, who would have actually seen the torn veil? If my understanding of its location and the ritual observances is right, perhaps only the priests… but if that's the case, at least one or more of them obviously passed along the story, or else it was made up totally, after the fact. I think the latter is much more credible and likely. However, Luke's point, with the other Evangelists, was exactly the claim that things were in plain view, publicly. Jesus' special, divinely ordained role and at least "exaltation" to the right hand of God (if not full divinity) was plain and evident to anyone not in rebellion against God and truth. That was the main point of the superfluous "miracles" reported as surrounding the Passion/resurrection: divine exhibition and validation of who/what Jesus had been and was.
I think Gamaliel was seeing a trend in the deaths of leaders. He figured the apostles leader was already dead so they would not have as much motivation to continue to teach for much longer. In Acts 5:36-37 Gamaliel brings up other leaders that had been greatly esteemed and once they died their followers dispersed. This post talks about the wisdom of Gamaliel. The post also brings up how if the apostles were being truthful God would have his way no matter what. I think Gamaliel realized this and was not going to encourage punishment from God. Part of this could be politics in the fact that he knew how to quickly appease the Sanhedrin without too much dispute. It says in Acts 5:34 that he was "honored by all." It is clear that he had some influence in the decisions made and I think he used his power wisely in giving advice.
This question is not specifically on topic, and may have been answered elsewhere, but why was Gamaliel not present at the interrogation of Stephen? Just one chapter before Gamaliel had taken control of the Sanhedrin and prevented Peter and the Apostles from being killed. Stephen's arrest and interrogation were eerily similar to that of Peter and the Apostles, but Gamaliel is conspicuously absent. Anyone have any thoughts on that?
That is a good question, and I am not sure I have really considered it before. My first thought is that the controversy with Stephen took place in the Synagogue of the Freedmen (Acts 6:9) and the accusations came from diaspora Jews (men of Cilicia and Asia). Although Acts says he was brought before the Sanhedrin, that does not necessarily mean every member was present. Perhaps the accusers were able to limit the invitation for the interrogation to exclude people who might sympathize with Stephen. They used false witnesses, and will execute Stephen in an act of mob violence (it is really a lynching). I see no reason why they would make much of an effort to make sure Gamaliel knew about the meeting!
Another possibility is Gamaliel was less inclined to defend Greek-speaking Christians who were attacking the Temple in a diaspora synagogue. Aramaic speaking messianic sects are OK, but not diaspora Jews getting too bold in their condemnation of the Temple!
I am more inclined toward the first possibility, FWIW.
It would seem that Gamaliel thought the disciples would rise. It is possible that he might have thought they would be the next great political party, or that they would take over leadership among the council. His statements could be challenging the council, this coming from the fact that he made them look bad. That being said he realizes that this Messiah or God that the disciples believe in have been protecting them and growing their numbers. He had obviously spent time learning and thinking about the Christian movement and what the apostles are accomplishing.
I believe that Gamaliel gave this advice because he had seen from two past similar instances that if the movement is led by humans and not by God, it will fail all on its own. However, he knew that if it was led by God, it would succeed no matter what. I believe that he gave this advice because he knew that if this movement was led by God persecuting the disciples would only place the Sanhedrin against God. Someone earlier made a good point that if Gamaliel had been standing up making this argument at every instance of a movement, then he would be doing this for shrewd politics. However, this is the only time recorded in the Bible that Gamaliel spoke out to the Sanhedrin. Because this only happens one time, I believe that God used Gamaliel to speak to the Sanhedrin about the position they would be in if they persecuted the disciples. He is trying to tell them that if they persecute His disciples, the movement would still continue on because it is led by God and not by man.
I believe that Gamaliel gave this advice to the council because of the fact that he had witnessed two other situations like this. He had experience with this sort of thing, and he wanted to warn the others what would happen if it was truly led by humans and not by God. I think that Gamaliel knew the power of God and that he was not willing to test that out. He gave them two examples of failing people who led up a "revolt" because they were led by humans. He then goes on to state that "but if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow them" (Acts 5:39). Because of his standing with the people, he was able to warn them about the power that God has. He basically was telling them not to worry because if it is run by humans it would eventually fail and that there are more important things to worry about. Like someone else mentioned in a comment above, this is the only time that Gamaliel speaks up to the Sanhedrin. He was able to use his position to help out the Sanhedrin because they were feeling threatened by what the disciples were doing. Because "the authorities cannot control or stand against the continuing activity or the resurrected and enthroned Messiah," they were becoming very angry and wanted to even kill the disciples. (Jipp 58). Without Gamaliel standing up and proclaiming what he did, the Sanhedrin would be against God.
I think Gamaliel gave this advice because he had experienced two other situations where a messianic movement from human origin had failed. He knew what would happen if man tried to go against God and he wanted to warn the church leaders what would happen. Gamaliel brings up two men by the names of Theudas and Judas who tried to revolt and failed because their attempts were of men and not of God. He even warned them by saying that if the revolt was of men, it would fail and go away, but if it was of God then they will not be able to overthrow them and that they might even be accused of going against God (Acts 5:38-39). There is more to the story than that of "shrewd" politics. Gamaliel is warning the council what will happen if they go against the disciples and even possibly going against God.
I think that the advice from Gamaliel comes from a place of fear. He saw what it was like when there were these clouds that came and he was coming from a place of experience seeing how he has gotten himself into some sticky situations of the past. I also feel that it can come from a place from a fear of God (5:39).Overall, I think the advice comes from an ultimate place of fear and paranoia, and whether the force that would give them trouble would be God or a group of people, I think overall he doesn't want to deal with that force.
I personally really like this story because it gives an example of thinking before you speak, or in this case act. I wish we could examine Gamaliel's life from a closer lens, but unfortunately we do not have much more information that what we find in Scripture. Others texts dated to that time state the renown of Gamaliel, but we do not get a lot of back story. Thus far, many of the religious leaders have acted from emotion and pride rather than addressing the issue respectfully. Gamaliel takes a stance that allows for God to work. Not that God needs his permission, but it seems that Gamaliel shows some faith, or at least trust in God's divine power. This is not to say that he believes the apostles, but it does show that his heart is not completely turned off or hardened. I would like to think Gamaliel says this because he might have had doubts as to whether or not Jesus was the messiah. And in addressing the crowd he did not want to make the same mistake twice. This is speculation, but in light of what has happened in the region the past few months, Gamaliel must be curious to see what happens to these Jesus followers.
Gamaliel is an interesting figure. He appears to be very well respected and heeded in Jewish circles. He is a devoted follower of God and seems to have something that the other religious teachers don't. I think that factor may be the Fear of the Lord and open-mindedness (Prov. 2:1-6, 9:10, Acts 17:11).
In a previous post you had mentioned that the religious teachers were filled with jealously and envy (Matt. 27:18, Luke 6:11, Acts 5:17, 13:45 etc.). Gamaliel does not appear to carry this kind of jealously or envy, rather he seems to be prudent, slow-tempered and weighty with his words. Interestingly, you can make the point that this is almost how we perceive Jesus to be when we read His narrative. Regardless, Gamaliel displays a reverence to God and others acknowledge that.
"Gamaliel's advice was sound and yet also a bit ironical. Already his counsel was finding fulfillment—in the growing Christian community, in their signs and wonders, in their escape from jail just the night before. It had become obvious whose side God was on. Already the Council were finding themselves fighters against God " (Polhill Acts pp. 173-174).
Maybe Gamaliel secretly knew this was of God and just didn't make that known. It should have been plainly obvious that the signs and wonders these apostles were doing were witnessing the Lord's will.
Just a chapter later, Jews from Cyrene, Alexandria, Cilicia, and the province of Asia debated with Stephen (Acts 6:9). They could not beat Stephen in this debate and therefore made up lies of him and found himself getting stoned in chapter 7. Was Gamaliel's advice ignored? The jealousy and envy in these Jews supersede the truth (Rom. 1:18-32). Gamaliel's could have blatantly stated It was God's will for these Jews to leave the followers of Jesus alone and they still would have kept persecuting them. Yet, Gamaliel knows that would be the case and uses good wisdom to have them think for themselves.
Ultimately, Gamaliel knew that God accomplishes His purposes (Isa. 46:10). He knew that God knows the future before it even happens, everything that God has planned will come to pass so why fight God?
Gamaliel is a very interesting character in the Biblical account. It seems that he was not just a Pharisee, but a well known leader in the community (Acts 5:34). He is held in high honor, and has considerable influence. This can be deduced from the fact that the Sanhedrin was predominately Sadducees, and Gamaliel was a minority Pharisee who was able to persuade the majority toward the release of the apostles. Gamaliel's response to the Sanhedrin to allow the apostles to go free is most definitely an interesting remark considering that so many were opposed to Peter and the other followers of Christ at the time. However, there is more to this statement than simply shrew political maneuvers by Gamaliel. We know from later accounts in the works of Luke that Gamaliel was the instructor who raised Paul (then Saul) and taught him probably all that he knew (Acts 22:3). As a side, the excellence and honorable standing of Gamaliel probably transferred in some extent to Paul later in life and may be part of why Paul was such a great thinker and debater.
We know that the entirety of the Sanhedrin seemed to be enraged by Peter's preaching initially (Acts 5:17), and that Saul/Paul would later be persecuting Christians and killing them "to serve the Lord" supposedly (Acts 8:1). Both of these situations paired with the fact that Gamaliel was held in high honor seem to indicate that Gamaliel was not in favor of political compromise, but rather that he actually had a spiritual motive for not persecuting Peter and others.
His reasoning that the Sanhedrin might not accidentally "oppose God" is a legitimate concern. The other two messianic pretenders mentioned (Acts 5:35-39) are just a couple of many who had tried to rise up against Greek and Roman rule but had been dispersed. Gamaliel actually seems to be offering great advice to the other council members that God's will will be done regardless of their own actions against Peter, and that they would not want to find themselves opposed to God. It seems to me to appear as legitimate wisdom from Gamaliel (though he may have still opposed the disciples in principle), and not political statements to appease his fellow council members.
I think Gamaliel was speaking to the Sanhedrin council. Gamaliel was a Pharisee so that means he was a teacher of the law, and probably knew everything about the law. So here Gamaliel is sitting in this council after either watching what happened or was told about it. He is sitting in on this council in (Acts 5:28) the High Priest says to Peter "we gave you strict orders not to teach in this name". Then he goes on to say something like Hey you've been teaching that the messiah came, and we killed him. And now you're trying to say we killed the messiah, and make us guilty for killing this Jesus guy. And then Peter speaks up and says "We must obey God rather than men (v.29)." Peter goes on to say how God raised Jesus to life after the High Priests killed him on a tree. God not only raised Jesus from the dead but exalted him as Prince and Savior that way he can give forgive sins. Now scripture says that the Sanhedrin upon hearing this became furious (v.33), and wanted the apostles killed. That's when Gamaliel stood up and ordered the apostles to leave for a little while (v.34). In the last chapter Peter was speaking boldly to the Sanhedrin (Acts 4:13), and scripture says that when the Sanhedrin saw that Peter and John were unschooled, ordinary men they took note that they were with Jesus. So after the apostles leave the room Gamaliel gives a small speech. He pretty much tells them think about what you are going to do to them. He then goes on to talk about other people came forward claiming to be the messiah, but were just fakes. Even though they had a large group of people with them when the leaders were killed their followers scattered and nothing happened (v.36-37).
"Therefore, in the present case I advise you: Leave these men alone (Acts 5:38)." He then goes on to say Let them go! and that if what they are saying is true then they cannot be stopped, because the Sanhedrin would be going against God. But if these guys are claiming something that isn't true then it too will fail like those before them. "His speech persuaded them (5:40)." So the Sanhedrin flogged the apostles and told them not to teach in that name again. Now after all of this, it brings me back to my opinion, about Gamaliel talking to the Sanhedrin and not the apostles. First off he couldn't have been talking to the apostles because they were not even in the room when he gave his speech. The second reason I think this is because the way Peter spoke in the last chapter and in this chapter shows he has the courage to stand in front of the religious leaders of his day and debate with them theology, a subject he was never formally taught like the religious leaders were, taught by Rabbis themselves. I think Gamaliel knowing the scripture might have been thinking to himself that what Peter was saying might be true, because if not, then why would an unschooled fisherman get into a theological debate about something he would not have any formal training in? Especially against the leaders who could have them killed for heresy and blasphemy.
The first thought that I remember having about the character Gamaliel that he was reflecting the idea of being quick to listen and slow to speak. His advice was to take a step back from the immediate situation and really think things through before a rash decision had been made. I never thought much about how the fact that he brought up other people who claimed to be someone played into how the point that there might just be something real behind what they were saying and why it was spreading. But, also the fact that his statement was not just for the Sadducees but also for Peter and his followers that if they are wrong it will be God that they have to face in judgement of what they are doing. But, I liked what the point behind what he had to say was: that if God has really ordained it then even if the council was to execute Peter and John, that preaching about who Jesus is would not stop with them. God would just use another person or find another way to share the word about who Jesus is, because no matter how much they wanted to, they would not be able to find anything within their power to bring an end to what they were preaching.
I must say, I am one of those Christians that tended to think of Gamaliel's words as a warning to the Sadducees. In all of reality, it was probably directed at both sides. However, the apostles knew that Jesus was risen. They had faith in God that what they were doing was right. On the flip side of this warning though, the Sadducees had to have been shaking in their boots, or whatever footwear they wore during that time. IF they were right, and this Jesus was some rebel guy that had a following and died, there would be no problem. The apostles would eventually dwindle down and die off. Eventually the Sadducees would be proven right, end of story. But, if they were wrong, it means they were really wrong! As you said, they would essentially be fighting God. Granted, it was a part of his plan for Jesus to die on the cross so that had to be done. However, they heard, and therefore that the opportunities, to repent of that once the apostles started preaching the good news. Gamaliel might not have publicly announced faith in Jesus, but it seems likely from this warning that there was at least some inkling of him not wanting the other Sadducees to be right.
The man was wise—and the faith in Christ DID NOT FAIL! May I reblog this and other posts of yours?
Sure, I do not mind.
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Scorned wife sells Lotus for 75 cents
DJ Tim Shaw said he would leave his wife and children for Jodie Marsh
A Birmingham radio DJ discovered hell hath no fury like a woman scorned after his wife sold his £25,000 luxury sports car on the internet for 75 cent.
Tim Shaw's wife, Hayley, put the Lotus Espirit Turbo on eBay after her husband propositioned glamour model Jodie Marsh live on-air on his Kerrang! FM show.
Mrs Shaw, 27, said the flirtatious interview had been the "last straw" in their relationship.
The car sold within minutes of it being posted on the internet site.
Mr Shaw upset his wife when he announced over the air that he would leave her and their two young children for Ms Marsh.
The item description for the car on eBay read: "I need to get rid of this car immediately - ideally in the next two to three hours before my husband gets home to find it gone and all his belongings in the street."
Mrs Shaw, who admitted she had sold the car after a few drinks, said: "When he said he would leave me and the kids for Jodie Marsh, that was it for me.
"I am sick of him disrespecting me and this family for the sake of his art. I didn't care about the money, I just wanted to get him back."
She added: "There is no hope for a reconciliation. There have been a few things but this was the last straw."
The controversial DJ was suspended from the Birmingham-based Kerrang station after he broke into programme director Andrew Jeffries house during a live prank in which he caused damage to the property.
On another occasion at the station he choked on a sausage while simulating a sex act and he has been investigated in the past for pretending he was doing a live mercy dash to rescue a suicidal listener while working at Birmingham's BRMB station.
Mr Shaw was unavailable for comment but a spokesperson said: "We are not going to make any comment on what happened as this is a personal issue and not work-related."
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Re: Scorned wife sells Lotus for 75 cents
****ing rich people
set tire pressures to winning!
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Yea but she should have just burnt the thing, she isn't doing anyone a favor by letting the car live look at the rims and I think the noob even put an aftermarket kit on the car .
Ozzy Newgate.
Thats my porn name :)
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2001 Jetta Wolfsburg 1.8T
Getting home before the ice cream melts since 2001.
Mike Basden
I dunno. From the pic, I'm suspicious that it's even a real Lotus. To me it looks like a replicar of some kind.
for 75 cents would you complain?
2005 F-Super Stock National Champion
2005 F-Super Stock Regional Champion
We Don't inherit the world from our Parents, We borrow it from our Children
Looked real to me. The car that is. Not sure if the auction really happened the way it appeared to, though.
I live my life a quarter pounder at a time.
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Thats in Britain so that would work out toooooooooooooooooo 500. Canadian just kidding

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Canada urges avoiding non-essential travel to Ukraine due to 'Russian aggression'
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A new poll suggests support may have slipped for a key element of Quebec's secularism law, known as Bill 21.
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Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly heading to Ukraine over Russian troop concerns
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To watch the multi-levelled goings-on, as the Omicron noose was tightened symbolically by the federal government, and with Ontario going aggressive on boosters, large crowd bans and rapid testing, was to see signs of hope for a common sense evolution in coping with COVID-19 in Canada, writes Don Martin in an exclusive column for CTVNews.ca.
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It's been five months since Justin Trudeau declared the fall election to be a critical referendum on new political directions for Canada at 'a pivotal moment in our history.' But since that unconvincing win, the only discernable pivot has been to dither on Justin Time, writes Don Martin in an exclusive column for CTVNews.ca.
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The CarterCopter is an experimental compound autogyro developed by Carter Aviation Technologies in the United States to demonstrate slowed rotor technology. On 17 June 2005, the CarterCopter became the first rotorcraft to achieve mu-1 (μ=1), an equal ratio of airspeed to rotor tip speed, but crashed on the next flight and has been inoperable since. It is being replaced by the Carter Personal Air Vehicle.

Design and development

The CarterCopter is a pusher configuration autogyro with wings and a twin boom tail, intended as a prototype and a technology demonstrator. The rotor is a two-bladed design weighted with  depleted uranium at each tip, and it is mounted on a tilting mast, allowing the wing to stay at optimum wing efficiency at all speeds.
It is an all-composite design with a hull pressurized up to
0.69 bar.

The tricycle undercarriage is retractable, and has a large travel to allow for landing at up to 20 ft/sec without bounce. The aircraft had been modified and rebuilt after an accident (a gear-up landing) in 2003.
NASA had funded $1 million of the development using three research grants, and the aircraft managed to accomplish at least one of NASA's five goals.

Concept
The CarterCopter concept is a gyrocopter with an unusually stiff, relatively heavy rotor, supplemented with conventional wings. At low speed, the vehicle flies as a gyrocopter, and can pre-spin the rotor for a vertical takeoff and very brief hover (about 5 seconds), and can land more or less vertically. Several technical challenges make flying a slow rotor difficult, but rotor stability is achieved through the combination of the rotor tip weights' location ahead of the blade center line (forward center of gravity) and the center of lift aft of the blade center line.
At high speed (above about 100 mph) the aircraft flies mostly using the fixed wings, with the rotor simply windmilling. The rotor spins with a tip speed below airspeed, which means that the retreating blade flies completely stalled. On a helicopter this would cause massive lift dissymmetry and insoluble control issues but the fixed wings keep the aircraft in the air and stable.

The low rotation speed and flat feathering of the rotor means that it causes little drag, and the company claims that the aircraft would be potentially able to leverage the advantages of fixed wings as well as gyrocopters, giving almost all the capabilities of helicopters (except hovering) but with a relatively simple mechanical system. Carter Aviation also claims the system is safer than a typical fixed-wing aircraft, and others have remarked that the design is much safer, much less complex and less expensive than a helicopter, a tilt-rotor or the Boeing X-50 Dragonfly Canard Rotor/Wing.  The CarterCopter should be capable of higher airspeeds now only achievable by fixed-wing aircraft, but also able to land like an autogyro in any small area in an emergency.

Takeoff
At takeoff the pilot angles the top rotor flat (zero angle of attack) and spins it to very high speed (between 365 and 425 rpm).  The rotor is then disconnected from the engine and the angle of attack of the main rotor blades is increased suddenly so that the vehicle leaps into the air. The aircraft's main rotor has enough momentum due to heavy counterweights in the tips that it can hover for a short time safely. The pilot then applies full power to the rear pusher propeller and the vehicle starts to move forwards. As it does so, air is forced through the main rotor, spinning it faster and generating more lift. The vehicle climbs into the air, flying as an autogyro.

Cruising
Once the CarterCopter gets up to a forward speed of about , its stubby, lightweight wings provide most of the lift. The pilot can then flatten the angle of attack of the main rotor so it produces very little lift, dramatically reducing the amount of induced drag created by the rotor. Although the rotor is unused at high speed, the rotor is kept spinning at about 80 RPM as the rotation keeps the rotor stretched, preventing excessive flapping.

Normally a helicopter or gyrocopter cannot fly forward at the same speed as or faster than its rotor tip speed. This is because the low airspeed of the retreating rotor blade would cause retreating blade stall, whilst the advancing rotor blade would be traveling at twice the speed of the aircraft, producing uncontrollable flight due to dissymmetry of lift.

However, with the CarterCopter, the fixed wings provide the lift required to remain aloft. Since the rotor is unloaded, the aerodynamic forces on the rotor are very minor. This means that a CarterCopter can theoretically fly much faster than the tip speed of the rotor. The rotors would still experience flapping as they rotate due to dissymmetry of lift between the two sides of the vehicle, but Carter Aviation claims this is manageable.

The claimed theoretical maximum speed of a CarterCopter type aircraft is around 500 mph (800 km/h), which would be about twice as  fast as the helicopter flight airspeed record.

Achievements

The prototype's engine was normally aspirated, and hence limited to just 320 hp (240 kW) and the aircraft went about 173 mph (270 km/h); which is still ~40% faster than a conventional autogyro but slower than gyrodynes of the 1950s. A custom gyroplane can go 168.29 km/h (104.6 mph), and Carter says the Carter Personal Air Vehicle goes .

At 4,000 lbs weight, the CCTD can climb 750 fpm.

From 1999 to 2001 there were 4 recorded instances of non-fatal crashes, while Carter claims 10 accidents over 7 years, all non-fatal.

Test pilot Larry Neal claimed that the CarterCopter is a challenge to fly because it is a combination of helicopter, autogyro and fixed-wing aircraft.

The CarterCopter achieved its maximum mu (mu is the ratio of airspeed to rotor tip speed) of 1.0 for a brief moment on June 17, 2005, the first time any rotary aircraft has reached this level. CarterCopter's pilot claimed that there was no great drama, and mu 1 was reached accidentally due to normal variations in rotor RPM (at 107 rpm) and vehicle airspeed; the pilot described it as 'smooth' with no significant vibration. The tests were performed under a US Army contract. Carter says they repeated mu-1 with the PAV in 2013.

However, on the next test flight the same day in 2005, the CarterCopter made a hard landing (crashed), causing significant damage, but the pilots were unhurt. The crash was caused by failing propeller bolts which damaged wires controlling the rotor. The propeller was designed by Carter, and was an 8 ft scimitar controllable-pitch propeller weighing 15 lbs and had a thrust of 1850 lbf. It was initially believed that the CarterCopter was unrepairable; later inspection showed that it could be repaired, but the company chose to work on a small open wingless autogyro demonstrator instead. Also later in 2005 and using lessons learned from the CarterCopter, design began on the subsequent compound aircraft, the Carter PAV, which flew in 2011.

The company claims that the testing indicated
that the vehicle architecture could potentially outperform helicopters on every dimension except sustained hover, and should be much cheaper to buy and maintain. The company also claims that it also very nearly matches the L/D of fixed wing General Aviation aeroplanes at cruise speed - but with near-vertical takeoff and landing. However, jump take-off ability using the stored rotor energy has never been shown to more than about 16 feet with the wing attached.

NASA has made computer models of the CarterCopter rotor above mu=1 and up to 400 knots airspeed.

Specifications

See also

References

External links
 Official website Carter Aviation Technologies
 PilotBug article
 Flight Journal article from 2002
 Fan site

2000s United States experimental aircraft
Autogyros
Wichita Falls, Texas
Pusher aircraft
Slowed rotor
Aircraft first flown in 1998

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Top College Football Bowls Third Round Betting Picks
Written by Eric Williams on December 27, 2016
Okay college football betting enthusiasts, if you're looking to strike pay dirt on this week's slate of intriguing bowl games, then you're going to have a great chance to do just that thanks to the trio of expert picks that you're about to get.
Let's get started at Bank of America Stadium where the Belk Bowl will take place.
A Closer Look At The Top College Football Bowls Third Round Betting Picks
2016 Belk Bowl
Who: Arkansas Razorbacks (7-5) at Virginia Tech Hokies (9-4) When: Thursday, Dec. 29, 2016
Where: Bank of America Stadium, Charlotte, NC
Time: 5:30 PM ET
TV: ESPN
NCAAF Odds: Virginia Tech -6 / Total: 62
Arkansas (7-5 SU, 5-7 ATS) lost two of their final three games and comes into this matchup off a humbling 28-24 loss to Missouri in their regular season finale as quarterback Austin Allen passed for 348 yards and one touchdown but tossed two costly interceptions. The Arkansas Razorbacks have put up a slid 30.8 points per game to rank a respectable 55th in scoring nationally as Allen has passed for 3,152 yards with 23 touchdowns and 12 interceptions. Defensively, Arkansas has given up a generous 30.7 points per game to rank an uninspiring 84th in points allowed.
Virginia Tech (9-4 SU, 7-6 ATS) had their modest two-game winning streak snapped in their 42-35 loss to No. 2 Clemson in their ACC Championship game loss as quarterback Jerod Evans passed for 264 yards and one score but tossed two costly interceptions in the loss. The Hokies have put up 35.0 points per game as Evans has passed for a stellar 3,309 yards with 27 touchdowns while also leading the Hokies in rushing with 759 yards and 10 scores. Defensively, Virginia Tech has limited the opposition to 22.6 points per game to rank an encouraging 30th in points allowed nationally.
While 53 percent of public bettors like Arkansas to cover the spread, I don't see it happening after watching the Razorbacks get pounded by Auburn 56-3 and LSU, 38-10 over their final five games, not to mention their season-ending loss against a really mediocre Missouri team. Virginia Tech has gone 4-1 ATS in their last five games following an SU loss and 7-3 ATS in their last 10 games in the month of December.
While Arkansas has gone 6-1 ATS in their last seven games following an SU loss, the Razorbacks are also just 3-8 ATS in their last 11 neutral-site games and 3-6 ATS in their last nine games overall. Virginia Tech quarterback Jerod Evans is extremely difficult to contain with his dual-threat ability and I believe he will be the difference-maker in this contest as the Hokies win and narrowly cover the spread!
Pick:
Virginia Tech 35 Arkansas 27
2016 Nova Home Loans Arizona Bowl
Who: South Alabama Jaguars (6-6) at Air Force Falcons (9-3)
When: Friday, Dec. 30, 2016 at 5:30 PM ET
Where: Arizona Stadium, Tucson, AZ
TV: ASN/CI
NCAAF Odds: Air Force -14 / Total: 57.5
South Alabama (6-6 SU, 3-8-1 ATS) has alternated SU wins and losses over their last five games and come into the Arizona Bowl off a hard-fought 35-28 win over New Mexico in their regular season finale.
The Jaguars average a modest 25.7 points per game to rank 89th in scoring nationally s quarterback Dallas Davis has completed a modest 58.0 percent of his passes for 2,461 yards with 10 TD passes, but 11 costly interceptions. Defensively, South Alabama allows 25.5 points per contest to rank 50th in points allowed nationally.
The Air Force Falcons (9-3 SU, 5-7 ATS) won their final five games and come into this matchup off a hard-fought 27-20 win over Boise State in their regular season finale. Former starting quarterback Nate Romine (10 TDs, 4 INTs) has taken a back seat to dual-threat signal-caller Arion Worthman (3 TDs, 2 INTs). On the season, Air Force averaged a solid 34.3 points per game to rank an impressive 36th in scoring nationally.
Defensively, the Falcons allowed 26.7 points per game to rank a respectable 53rd in points allowed. Air Force forced their opponents into 20 turnovers to finish the season at +3 in turnover differential. Maybe it's me, but I'm trying to figure out why 35 percent of the betting public likes South Alabama to cover the spread in this contest.
I'm going to urge you to roll with the convincing 65 percent of public bettors that like Air Force to get the job done, seeing as how they have the far more explosive offense in this affair and a nearly identical kind of defense. The Jaguars are 3-9 ATS in their last dozen games against a team with a winning record and 8-24 ATS in their last 32 games overall.
Conversely, Air Force has gone 9-3 ATS in their last 12 non-conference games and 15-6 ATS in their last 21 games following an SU win. The Falcons roll to a big win and easy ATS cover.
Air Force 42 South Alabama 24
2016 Valero Alamo Bowl
Who: Oklahoma State Cowboys (9-3) at Colorado Buffaloes (10-2)
When: Thursday, Dec. 29, 2016 at 9:00 PM ET
Where: Alamodome, San Antonio, TX
NCAAAF Odds: Colorado -3 / Total: 64
The Cowboys (9-3 SU, 7-5 ATS) had their four-game winning streak snapped by falling to Oklahoma 38-20 in their finale while failing to cover the spread as a 12-point underdog.
Oklahoma State is averaging an impressive 38.6 points per game to rank 20th nationally in scoring as quarterback Mason Rudolph passed for 3,777 yards with 25 TD passes and just four interceptions while completing an impressive 63.0 percent of his passes. Unfortunately, the Cowboys were mediocre at best defensively as they allowed 28.0 to rank a mediocre 65th in points allowed nationally.
Colorado (10-2 SU, 10-2 ATS) had a fantastic season despite losing to No. 4 Washington 41-10 in the Pac-12 Championship game and never coming close to covering the spread as an 8-point underdog. Colorado averages an impressive 32.8 to rank 43rd in scoring nationally as quarterback Sefo Liufau passed for 2,171 yards with 11 TD passes and six interceptions while rushing for 494 yards and seven scores. Liufau injured his ankle and is questionable for this contest. Defensively, the Buffaloes limited the opposition to just 20.4 to rank a stellar 18th in points allowed nationally.
A narrow 53 percent of public bettors like Oklahoma State to cover the college football betting line as a 3-point underdog, but I don't, mostly because I believe the Buffaloes have a big edge on defense and more motivation to show they can play with anyone. I know Oklahoma State is 4-0 ATS in their last four games following an ATS loss, but the Cowboys are also 2-4 ATS in their last six meeting against Colorado and will face a Buffaloes team that has gone 8-1 ATS in their last nine games after rushing for more than 200 yards rushing in their previous game.
This game will ultimately boil down to Colorado's defense versus Oklahoma State's offense and since defense wins championships, I say the Buffaloes narrowly cover in a thriller.
Colorado 28 Oklahoma State 24


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Q: How do wordpress plugins add content? This may be a weird question. When I add plugins like the Facebook Like Button and Gigpress, they offer options to insert content before or after each single-page blog post. For example, I have both Gigpress and the FB Like button set to add content below the text in my posts, and that is working, be it imperfectly. The like button shows up below the post text.
So how is this accomplished on the back end? It doesn't look like the templates or other php files are being altered by the plugins, but there also doesn't seem to be any obvious php code that would be pulling in the data. Is this type of functionality somehow built into the "framework"?
The reason I'm asking is for formatting reasons...the content that is added by the two plugins  conflicts and looks bad. I'm trying to figure out how to modify the css.
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In your case - with the_content filter ..
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A simpler to understand example :
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 function add_something_to_content_filter( $content ) {

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to see this example in action , put it in your functions.php
This is actually the single most important step to understanding wordpress, and starting to write plugins. If you really are interested , read the links above.
Also , Open the plugin files you have just mentioned and look for the
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Windows 10 Redstone recently introduced us to a new feature that allows you to see a history of the items you copied to the clipboard, pin them and access them on connected PCs. This feature is exclusively available for the Windows insider users.
This is another feature that shows history, the another is a timeline which already made into the Windows 10 April 2018 update.
How to enable Clipboard Cloud Sync.
This setting should be waived from the System Setting > System > Clipboard. Well if you don't see Clipboard option, you missed out that we stated it's only available in Windows 10 insider preview.
In order to sync your clipboard data across devices running on Redstone 5, set Sync Across devices to On.
But not everything you'd like to sync can be password sensitive data, in that case, choose manually sync data by pressing the Windows key + V button.
Since this is a function that concern end-user Microsoft made it off by default. To access history also turn on Multiple Items to ON.
Press Windows + V key combination, will display a clipboard panel (see the first image). This will have all the data that is synced to the cloud.
The sync can save Images, text from clipboard. in starting Microsoft says it only allow data less than 100KB to be sent to cloud to access it later.
The technology behind it is called graph technology, something that allows powers the Timeline feature, which made into the last Windows 10 update in Q2 2018.
There is two option that you can choose from Clipboard settings.
Automatically sync text that I copy: Will automatically sync anything you copy to clipboard, this works in all applications when you press Windows + C or Copy option. This is something you should not worry about because unless you don't want other connected PCs (user) to see the data.
Never automatically sync text that I copy: This option, however, gives you a chance to manually select and send clipboard data to the cloud.
If you want to remove clipboard history, simply go to Windows setting > System > Clipboard. The option at last Clear clipboard data will do that with exception of pinned items.
Note: These are an experimental feature which only makes to stable release once they have received positive feedback. This feature in one of the features that users may want on their computer, so yes we'll be seeing this in future Windows 10 stable build.


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Hometown News / Politics / US News | By Kaye Wonderhouse
Utah college student leads Ben Shapiro protest, Constitution not 'a relevant document'
A student leader leading the protest against the speech by conservative commentator Ben Shapiro says that the First Amendment right to free speech is not relevant to modern times, adding that the U.S. Constitution is not "a relevant document right now."
In an interview with ABC News, a University of Utah student and organizer of the anti-Shapiro demonstration said that the conservative pundit should not speak on campus.
"I don't think he should speak," the unnamed student said. When the interviewer pointed out that such a position is not in line with the First Amendment, the protester replied, "I don't care."
"I don't care…I don't think that's, like, a relevant document right now," the student demonstrator added.
Shapiro has been a target of numerous protests in recent months, with college students frequently accusing the Jewish commentator of fueling fascist rhetoric, discrimination, and systematic racism.
The so-called "Antifa" movement also frequently opposes the First Amendment right to free expression, arguing that the fascist rhetoric ought to be prohibited.
"At the heart of the anti-fascist outlook is a rejection of the classical liberal phrase incorrectly ascribed to Voltaire that 'I disapprove of what you have to say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it,'" Dartmouth College Professor Mark Bray writes in the "Anti-Fascist Handbook."
"After Auschwitz and Treblinka, anti-fascists committed themselves to fighting to the death the ability of organized Nazis to say anything," he maintains.
Shapiro, however, remains optimistic about the future, telling ABC that he expects a public backlash against those who oppose freedom of speech.
"I think there is going to be a backlash," he said. "I think there is going to be a strong backlash for people who are tired of it and want to stand up for basic right that we can all agree on."
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Yesterday, the ANC Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee for Trade & Industry, through a Parliamentary statement, confirmed it will not lift a finger to hold a special portfolio committee meeting for it to decisively intervene in the impending collapse of the sugar cane industry, after I formally wrote a letter requesting it to do so.
The ANC believe it is better to rather make mention of the imbedding crisis in its Legacy Report and outsource this problem to the 6th Parliament after the elections in May.
The ANC believe that the 350 000 workers who stand to lose their jobs, should rather wait until uncaring ANC MP's can be bothered to find time to meet.
Today's development is not surprising. For far too long, the failing ANC Government have dragged its feet on offering real assistance and tariff protection to sugar cane farmers against devastating droughts in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) and 500 000 tons of dumped sugar which landed on our shores last year.
The fact is, the International Trade Administration Commission (ITAC) refused to accede to farmer, large and small scale for a Dollar Based Reference Price of $856 per ton which would have at least allowed sugar farmers in South Africa to match the below cost of production of imported sugar. Instead, ITAC granted a measly $680 per ton. This continued situation is simply not sustainable for the industry.
In addition to this, R200 million for drought relief has disappeared in the KZN Provincial Government.
In the end, If this is not enough to rock the ANC from its slumber, then South Africa should vote them out. In a country where 9.4 million South Africans are unemployed, every effort should be made to save jobs.
President Ramaphosa has no hope of ever creating 275 000 jobs per year as outlined in the ANC's manifesto when 350 000 jobs could be lost because uncaring ANC MP's refuse to meet and find solutions to this crisis.


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What we need in the Defense Department is not Donald Rumsfeld but Donald Trump.
What happened recently was that one Washington institution quoted another to ask a third about accountability. The questioner was PBS's Jim Lehrer, who cited the late James Reston of The New York Times to ask Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld why no one in Washington ever resigns for just being wrong. Rumsfeld, oozing cockiness, turned the personal into the theoretical and waltzed away from the question. I don't blame him. If, say, a Japanese government had performed as badly as the Bush administration has, there would be no one left to turn out the lights.
In his questioning of Rumsfeld, the nimble Lehrer brought up Lord Carrington, the British defense minister at the time Argentina seized the Falkland Islands. Carrington admitted that he had underestimated the threat, and his resignation was therefore in order. If Rumsfeld had applied that rule to himself, he would be thrice gone — once for Sept. 11, once for the absence of WMD in Iraq and once more for not having enough troops in Iraq. If he were his own subordinate, he would fire himself.
But from the president on down, no one in the Bush administration ever admits a mistake or concedes having been wrong. Vice President Dick Cheney, whose slogan should be "Wrong Where It Matters," nonetheless takes to the stump to lambaste John Kerry. After all, Cheney is the very man who warned us, assured us, promised us that we must go to war with Iraq because, among other things, that nation had an ongoing nuclear-weapons program. None has yet been found — and no apology from Cheney has yet been issued. He was mistaken, or dishonest. We await his choice.
In his interview with Lehrer, Rumsfeld made the point that the United States does not have the British cabinet system or the Japanese culture regarding shame and accountability. For all the talk about the buck stopping "here," it usually never stops at all — the only example in physics of perpetual motion. But demanding resignations begs the question. It is not heads the American people want; it is humility.
That is what's so lacking in the Bush administration. The real reason — the terribly secret reason — why the administration was oh-so-slow to recognize the terrorist threat was precisely the quality so abundant in Rumsfeld: smugness. The Bushies knew it all. The very fact that the Clinton team told them to make terrorism their job No. 1 led them to denigrate it: What did those Clinton jerks know?
Instead, the Bush team had its eye on the ball — missile defense and, of course, China and Russia. Missile defense was considered crucial, and opposition to this Reagan-era program was deemed both ideological and shortsighted. But it turned out that the "missiles" that struck the United States had the logos of American Airlines and United Airlines on their fuselages, and no Star Wars system could have stopped them. It would have taken hard spy work and, as they say, boots on the ground in Afghanistan. It would have taken a little humility.
That quality is precisely what commended the not-terribly-humble Richard Clarke to many of the 9/11 families: He apologized. He was sorry for what happened and sorry that, somehow, his efforts had not managed to avert a calamity. Lehrer cited Clarke's example to Rumsfeld, who just didn't get it.
In fact, he recited all the reasons why 9/11 was really not his fault — or anyone else's in the Bush administration. In spirit, he echoed President Bush, who once said, "Had I known that the enemy was going to use airplanes to kill on that fateful morning, I would have done everything in my power to protect the American people." Yes, and had Custer known that he was attacking so many Indians, he might have chosen to wash his hair that day instead.
What is so perturbing about this administration is not that no one of note has resigned or been fired — and some of them certainty deserve the ax — but that there is not the slightest hint that anyone (except Powell) appreciates that mistakes were made not out of sheer bad luck, but because the assumptions, driven by ideology, were so bad.
Terrorism, not missile defense, should have been the top priority. Al Qaeda, not Iraq, was and remains the threat. (That explains why Hussein is in jail while bin Laden is still on the loose, having slipped the noose in Afghanistan because the Pentagon left the job to locals.)
Iraq was going to be a cakewalk — the Middle Eastern version of the liberation of Paris — and somehow that has not happened. In another country, some officials would quit in shame. In the United States, they can't even quit being smug. [Richard Cohen]
All it takes is "You're fired."
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A RAID (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, and Dependencies) log is a risk management activity used to generate a list of concerns that could impact the organization's success. A RAID log is a simple and effective tool that analyses an organization's initiatives, strategies, or objectives as a part of a risk management process. It gives appropriate attention to the areas of risk management that are commonly overlooked, such as assumptions and dependencies, and helps organizations create mitigation plans before the initiative can be affected.
This model can be used by project managers, risk managers, department directors, and managers.
In today's world, risks are becoming inevitable, and those faced by an initiative or strategy can impact the entire organization. "Almost 90 percent of the companies suffering the greatest losses in value were exposed to more than one type of risk." (Deloitte, 2012) Effectively addressing these obstacles at an early stage can save your organization from a major crisis.
The tiles can then be sorted into each of the four categories to create a mitigation plan specific to each obstacle.
Risk Identification & Assessment: This process includes classification of risks, rating based on impact and likelihood, prioritizing for management attention, and creating an action plan.
Assumptions Identification & Validation: This process includes classification of assumptions, validating and ranking them based on confidence and impact, and creating an action plan.
Issues Identification & Prioritization: This process includes classification of issues, ranking based on impact and urgency, and assigning ownership.
Dependencies Identification & Monitoring: This process includes classification of dependencies, validating and ranking them based on impact, and creating a monitoring action plan.
Prioritized list of risks to receive management attention.
Action plan to validate each assumption made about the initiative.
List of issues that need to be resolved.
Stakeholder clarity about responsibilities and dependencies on others.
Quality – Gain critical insight into your initiative's risks and risk factors, so they can be resolved to maximize outcomes and goals.
Efficiency – Develop a shared understanding of your stakeholders' key concerns.
Engagement – Engage a wide range of stakeholders by providing a platform for candid and thoughtful discussion.
Agility – Addresses concerns so your team can act and react faster.
Deloitte. (2012). The value killers revisited – A risk management study.
Lavanya, N. & Malarvizhi, T. (2008). Risk analysis and management—a vital key to effective project management.


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A unique, challenging and bold conference programme
This year's EAGC will address the stark new realities facing the industry and tackles the challenges confidently, openly and honestly.
Roles of key stakeholders across the value chain will be included and the needs of producers & suppliers, traders & investors, end-users & utilities, plus policy makers & regulators, will all form part of our group of enthusiastic professionals willing to undertake a holistic and thorough examination of the state of our industry in Europe today.
Emerging Pathways for Gas & LNG in the Decarbonising European Energy Landscape
The European gas industry has long argued that gas has a significant role to play as a bridging fuel in making the transition towards decarbonised energy markets. But policymakers and environmental groups in Europe remain sceptical, and over the course of the next decade, the gas industry faces its greatest existential crisis as major policy decisions will be taken that could permanently impact on the industry's future.
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"Gas will need to decarbonise and yet remain cost-competitive with other fuel sources"
A new level of urgency now underpins discussions around the medium and longer-term outlook for the European gas industry, as recognition grows that a new level of ambition will be required to decarbonise and transform the energy and power sectors. As a result, gas will need to adopt a major new stance in order to survive and thrive:
The decarbonisation of the industrial and heavy energy user sectors, especially for heating and for transportation, coupled with the rapid development of new technologies such as carbon capture and storage (CCS) and other low-emissions fuels such as hydrogen, synthetic gas from power, or biogas, will become new battlegrounds for Europe's policy makers and pressure groups.
Key themes include
The 2019 EAGC will place the energy customer and end-user experience at the heart of its agenda.
There will be a focus on the diversifying, alternative uses for gas - "green" and "blue" gas - across industry and a comparison on how it can compete in future against other sources of fuel (both fossil and renewable).
The new EAGC will boldly address the decarbonisation of gas and the EU's energy policies, and examine the differences between policy makers on gas and future gas roles.
The EAGC will bring senior leaders together to explore how the gas industry can survive and thrive in a low-carbon, low-emissions Union post-2040.
The EAGC will revive the popular Champagne Roundtable sessions, addressing 4 issues impacting Europe: Renewable & Decarbonised "Green Gas" Strategies; AI Automation and New Technology Platforms; Lower Gas Prices; Energy Market Design.
The future for gas as a transportation fuel is covered by many conferences, but at the EAGC the role for gas in transport will be examined within the context of senior end-users and transportation organisations and customers.
Meet decision makers – hear the very latest insights from thought-leaders in Europe's gas, LNG and energy sector.
Gain new perspectives – hear from inspiring business minds outside of energy, and gain fresh and inspiring new perspectives.
Hear from thought-leaders – learn from the sharpest minds in the industry; gain a competitive edge on your competition in a rapidly evolving energy landscape.
Address business-critical issues – discuss and debate the very latest critical issues, from geopolitics and environment, to market dynamics and major shifts in business strategy.
Take advantage of a focused, strategic networking platform
Engage with your peers, meet new industry partners, and expand your industry connections


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