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1 Corinthians and Work
Introduction to 1 Corinthians All are called (1 Cor 1:1-3) Spiritual Resources Available (1 Cor 1:4-9) The Need for a Common Vision (1 Cor 1:10-17) Friends in Low Places (1 Cor 1:18-31) It Takes All Sorts (1 Cor 3:1-9) Do Good Work (1 Cor 3:10-17) Leadership as Service (1 Cor 4:1-4) Working with Nonbelievers (1 Cor 5:9-10) Bloom Where You are Planted (1 Cor 7:20-24) Maintain the Proper Perspective (1 Cor 7:29-31) Everyone Gets Their Fair Share (1 Cor 9:7-10) God\u27s Glory is the Ultimate Goal (1 Cor 8 & 10) Gifted Communities (1 Cor 12:1-14:40) Our Work is Not in Vain (1 Cor 15:58) We Share Our Resources with Those in Hardship (1 Cor 16:1-3) Summary to 1 Corinthians Key Verses and Themes in 1 Corinthian
2 Corinthians and Work
Introduction to 2 Corinthians Thank God for Relationships (2 Corinthians 1:1-11) Transparency (2 Corinthians 1:12-23) Working for the Joy of Others (2 Corinthians 1:24) The Priority of Relationships (2 Corinthians 2:12-16) Sincerity (2 Corinthians 2:17) A Genuine Reputation (2 Corinthians 3) Leading and Serving (2 Corinthians 4) Performance and Accountability (2 Corinthians 5:1-15) Reconciling the Whole World (2 Corinthians 5:16-21) Transparency Revisited (2 Corinthians 6:11) Working with Nonbelievers (2 Corinthians 6:14-18) The Encouragement of Praise (2 Corinthians 7) Generosity Is Not Optional (2 Corinthians 8:1-9) Timely Fulfillment of Obligations (2 Corinthians 8:10-12) Sharing the Wealth (2 Corinthians 8:13-15) You Can\u27t Out-Give God (2 Corinthians 9) Assessing Performance (2 Corinthians 10-13) Conclusion to 2 Corinthians Key Verses and Themes in 2 Corinthian
Johnâs Baptism as a Symbolic Enactment of the Return from Exile
Johnâs baptism continues to be the subject of much discussion among biblical scholars. Attempts to trace its origin to Essene ritual washings or proselyte baptism have proven unconvincing as are recent arguments against the traditional site on the lower reaches of the Jordan River. It is likely that Johnâs baptism was his own invention and that he intended it to be a symbolic depiction of the return from exile, which was by no means viewed as complete in the first century CE. The baptism itself involved crossing the Jordan River from East to West, not just being immersed in it
Cluster Cores, Gravitational Lensing, and Cosmology
Many multiply--imaged quasars have been found over the years, but none so far
with image separation in excess of 8\arcsec. The absence of such large
splittings has been used as a test of cosmological models: the standard Cold
Dark Matter model has been excluded on the basis that it predicts far too many
large--separation double images. These studies assume that the lensing
structure has the mass profile of a singular isothermal sphere. However, such
large splittings would be produced by very massive systems such as clusters of
galaxies, for which other gravitational lensing data suggest less singular mass
profiles. Here we analyze two cases of mass profiles for lenses: an isothermal
sphere with a finite core radius (density , and a Hernquist profile (). We find that small core radii
kpc, as suggested by the cluster data, or large a \gsim 300 h^{-1} kpc, as
needed for compatibility with gravitational distortion data, would reduce the
number of large--angle splittings by an order of magnitude or more. Thus, it
appears that these tests are sensitive both to the cosmological model (number
density of lenses) and to the inner lens structure, which is unlikely to depend
sensitively on the cosmology, making it difficult to test the cosmological
models by large--separation quasar lensing until we reliably know the structure
of the lenses themselves.Comment: 17 pages, uuencoded compressed tarred postscript file including text
and 1 figure. To appear in January 20, 1996 issue of ApJ Letter
Measuring Molecular, Neutral Atomic, and Warm Ionized Galactic Gas Through X-Ray Absorption
We study the column densities of neutral atomic, molecular, and warm ionized
Galactic gas through their continuous absorption of extragalactic X-ray spectra
at |b| > 25 degrees. For N(H,21cm) < 5x10^20 cm^-2 there is an extremely tight
relationship between N(H,21cm) and the X-ray absorption column, N(xray), with a
mean ratio along 26 lines of sight of N(xray)/N(H,21cm) = 0.972 +- 0.022. This
is significantly less than the anticpated ratio of 1.23, which would occur if
He were half He I and half He II in the warm ionized component. We suggest that
the ionized component out of the plane is highly ionized, with He being mainly
He II and He III. In the limiting case that H is entirely HI, we place an upper
limit on the He abundance in the ISM of He/H <= 0.103.
At column densities N(xray) > 5x10^20 cm^-2, which occurs at our lower
latitudes, the X-ray absorption column N(xray) is nearly double N(H,21cm). This
excess column cannot be due to the warm ionized component, even if He were
entirely He I, so it must be due to a molecular component. This result implies
that for lines of sight out of the plane with |b| ~ 30 degrees, molecular gas
is common and with a column density comprable to N(H,21cm).
This work bears upon the far infrared background, since a warm ionized
component, anticorrelated with N(H,21cm), might produce such a background. Not
only is such an anticorrelation absent, but if the dust is destroyed in the
warm ionized gas, the far infrared background may be slightly larger than that
deduced by Puget et al. (1996).Comment: 1 AASTeX file, 14 PostScript figure files which are linked within the
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Valuation Of The Embedded Option In A Non-Cancelable Lease: Theory And Application
This paper applies a “real” option literature based model to valuing the option element of a non-cancelable lease without an early exercise provision. The model is applied to a common lease type – the closed-end automobile lease. The findings show that the value of the option inherent in an automobile lease is approximately two to six percent of the original asset cost. The analysis discusses ways in which the option value can be captured through the lease contract terms. Management decision makers can use these concepts in evaluating lease/purchase decisions
On the Lack of a Soft X-Ray Excess from Clusters of Galaxies
A soft X-ray excess has been claimed to exist in and around a number of
galaxy clusters and this emission has been attributed to the warm-hot
intergalactic medium that may constitute most of the baryons in the local
universe. We have re-examined a study of the XMM-Newton observations on this
topic by Kaastra et al. (2003) and find that the X-ray excess (or deficit)
depends upon Galactic latitude and appears to be most closely related to the
surface brightness of the 1/4 keV emission, which is largely due to emission
from the Local hot bubble and the halo of the Milky Way. We suggest that the
presence of the soft X-ray excess is due to incorrect subtraction of the soft
X-ray background. An analysis is performed where we choose a 1/4 keV background
that is similar to the background near the cluster (and for similar HI column).
We find that the soft X-ray excess largely disappears using our background
subtraction and conclude that these soft X-ray excesses are not associated with
the target clusters. We also show that the detections of "redshifted" O VII
lines claimed by Kaastra et al. (2003) are correlated with solar system charge
exchange emission suggesting that they are not extragalactic either.Comment: 8 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in Ap
Perspectives of Social Justice Activists: Advocating Against Native-themed Mascots, Nicknames, and Logos
This study investigated perspectives of social justice activists who directly advocate for the elimination of Native-themed mascots, nicknames, and logos. Using Consensual Qualitative Research methodology, the research team analyzed transcripts of interviews conducted with eleven social justice activists to generate themes, categories, and domains within the data. Five domains emerged: (a) deleterious impact of Native-themed mascots, nicknames, and logos; (b) components of identity preservation among supporters; (c) reasons why some American Indians might support Native-themed mascots, nicknames, logos; (d) frontline advocacy efforts; and (e) coping strategies for advocates. Results provided insights into the sociopsychological processes which operateâamong both non-Indians and Indiansâto allow the misappropriation of American Indian culture, symbols, and imagery in sport to continue to exist in society. Findings can help counseling psychologists better understand the lived experience of social justice activists, while also highlighting ways that our field can support efforts to eliminate race-based mascots, nicknames, and logos
Detection of Bulk Motions in the ICM of the Centaurus Cluster
Several recent numerical simulations of off-center cluster mergers predict
that significant angular momentum with associated velocities of a few x 10^{3}
km/s can be imparted to the resulting cluster. Such gas bulk velocities can be
detected by the Doppler shift of X-ray spectral lines with ASCA spectrometers.
Using two ASCA observations of the Centaurus cluster, we produced a velocity
map for the gas in the cluster's central regions. We also detected radial and
azimuthal gradients in temperature and metal abundance distributions, which
seem to be associated with the infalling sub-group centered at NGC 4709 (Cen
45). More importantly, we found a significant (>99.8% confidence level)
velocity gradient along a line near-perpendicular to the direction of the
incoming sub-group and with a maximum velocity difference of ~3.4+-1.1 x 10^{3}
km/s. It is unlikely (P < 0.002) that the observed velocity gradient is
generated by gain fluctuations across the detectors. While the observed
azimuthal temperature and abundance variations can be attributed to the
interaction with Cen 45, we argue that the intracluster gas velocity gradient
is more likely due to a previous off-center merging event in the main body of
the Centaurus cluster.Comment: 13 pages in emulateapj5 style, 8 postscript figures; Accepted by ApJ;
Revised version with minor change
PS212. Evaluation of Porcine Dermal Collagen (Permacol) as an Alternative Vascular Conduit for Interposition Grafting in the Presence of Bacterial Contamination in a Rabbit Model
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