The Utah Jazz is on a roll, playing some of the most exciting basketball in the NBA. Young, hungry and deep, the team includes rising stars Carlos Boozer, Deron Williams, Mehmet Okur and Andrei Kirilenko.
Head coach Jerry Sloan has one of the best records in the NBA and he is building a team for the future – the Jazz are serious contenders in the NBA Western Conference.
The Jazz has a winning tradition, built by some of best players ever, including the now-retired hall-of-fame duo of point guard John Stockton and power forward Karl Malone.
Utah fans are noisy. They get into the game and make each contest a memorable event.
The team was born in 1974 as the New Orleans Jazz before moving to Salt Lake City in 1980. They struggled through a decade at the bottom, before emerging as perennial contenders in the late 1980s, reaching the NBA Finals in 1997 and 1998, losing both times to the Michael Jordan-led Chicago Bulls.
Throughout its history, the Jazz roster has included notable players including high-scoring Hall of Famer "Pistol Pete" Maravich, one of the most entertaining players in NBA history. In its later incarnation as the Utah Jazz, the team’s main drawing cards have been scoring machine Adrian Dantley, and Darrell Griffith, basketball’s "Dr. Dunkenstein." The team enjoyed an era of near invincibility under the leadership of Stockton and Malone. Stockton is the NBA’s all-time assists leader, whom many consider the best passer ever to play the game. Malone is a two-time NBA Most Valuable Player who averaged 25.0 points per game during his 19-year career.
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What are the pros and cons of both? I was raised in a denomination known as Marthoma which carries many rituals, traditions, and canons based on St. Thomas (disciple of Jesus) and of course Jesus.
As I grew older I attended more liberal and less structured churches such as Sugar Creek Baptist and/or Lakewood Church which is more non-denomination. I enjoyed the very contemporary service in worship.
The issue here is while I enjoy non-denom I believe it is important in raising my kids with the traditions of a denom church and then later on expose them to non-denom. I believe by giving them tradition, building character, understanding history, exposing them to the christian faith of our descendants offers them the foundations critical in building character, ethics, and values in life. Armed with this I believe as adults they can pair their religions advents by attending non-denomination. I believe non-denom is a great method in coupling or complementing a traditional church.
What is your take or views on this? What are the pros and cons? Some can argue that having all this man-made traditions that exist in denominational churches really skew up the intent in worship and that for some its nothing but rubbish.
What’s your take?
You pretty much summed it up. Man-made traditions vs. God’s will.
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A buddy of mine got a FCCLA t-shirt and I was wanting to know where I could get one like his. He says he got it at Columbia, MO for state for FCCLA.
It’s a black t-shirt with a white FCCLA t-shirt logo on front. On the back it has a bar graph with the saying I believe it said something like building a tradition. Something tradition.
Level up your leadership is what it says on the back of the shirt.
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Down with the WEST! Down with Liberals! Down with Western values! Down with Western behaviors! How dare you liberals try to pull the rug out on 3000 years of built up traditions for your love of MONEY! Westerners, have no hearts, and they are slaves to their jobs and money! Long live the East and we will never ever ever ever join you and your foolish ways! Confirm?
Where I live, lawyers are never needed. And, sure, I may have to bribe the police for a national ID in my country or to send my son to school, but I don’t have to pay no where close to the taxes you pay. My life is 10 times more filled with joy than a Western mans life!
And, another thing, USA – you say, you have freedom to speak, but then someone speaks out at some University and he is tazered by the police.. ( YOU TUBE video ) What is up with this?
Adam, I’d rather have poor people than Sad people or Sad case people. The west has big drug addict problem and many many very depressed people! Here in my country, you can be hung for using drugs. This is the best way! You folks waffle on everything!
Furthermore, how can I take the word of a man serious when he doesn’t even know how to use a common shovel to grow a common crop? Down with America and its BS ideology!
Who cares about 3000 years of traditions? People usually only keep up tradition because "it’s always been that way," not because the traditions have any inherent value. The great thing about the modern world is that we get to decide what practices are valuable and what practices aren’t.
For most of history, most people in the Eastern world have been impoverished, brutish, and miserable. Western liberal values invented all of the technology and most of the great art and music in the world. I’ll take them any day.
It’s seems like the fireworks have not only bring joy to the Chinese people on Lunar new year, but also bring down a whole building on fire.
Acording to the tradition of the Spring festival, people light fireworks to stop the bad luck of the past year, I truthly don’t think that the people that was in or around that building got any luckier that night.
Still not news on the TV or radio, so there is not much information about what happens, it’s seems like some fireworks burn the roof of the building and then the whole building got into flames.
The fire started around 8PM of the 9th of Febraury, and the fire end about 12AM, but I’m not sure about this information, we’ll have to wait for the news on TV.
The name of the building is TVCC and is the one located next to CCTV tower, world trade center, and the SOHO building, there is a hotel a shoping mall and a teather in that building
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…nice, rather than hypocrites? Don’t all traditions build on earlier traditions? Is there anything wrong with sharing? In other words, can we just call a Wah!mbulance for those grinches on the both sides, the ones shouting "Aren’t atheists hypocrites for celebrating Christmas" AND the ones who keep saying "Aren’t Christians hypocrites for celebrating a pagan solstice holiday"?
Absolutely! Couldn’t agree more!
I’m a Buddhist. I may not believe in the miraculous birth of Christ but I most certainly believe in "good will to all men" and I’m a great believer in bright lights to cheer dark days and love and laughter and families and all the good stuff that Christmas represents to the many people who are non-christians.
I wish Christians joy of one of their special days. But don’t let anyone say to another, "You may not join in my joy because you profess a different faith from me."
I can’t stand this electric stovetop! I can’t figure out how to get eggs cooked right. Is the burner supposed to be very hot before I put the eggs in? But then how do I keep them from burning up? Two thousand years of cooking tradition was built on the premise of fire, not of electrical currents, induction, microwaves or what have you!
electric takes some geting use to
set on number 3 to 4 –put in your oil or butter let is get hot then put your eggs in then use your spatgla to scrambel till done soft scramble or hard scramble