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Delta DC-33 parallel thickness issue11/20
I have recently purchased a used Delta/Invicta DC-33 planer (model 22660) and am having problems getting a consistent planing thickness across the entire knife. I"m not talking about a huge amount, but .010 across an 8" board is enough to be a problem, and thats what i've got.
First off, the blades should be parallel with the head. Then start checking table to blade clearance from the table. It can be as simple as a block of material on one side, bring the table up until it just touches the blade (machine off of course) slide it over to the other side to check how parallel you are.
Ken, thanks for this.
First, use the Delta 3 leg gauge to set your knives in the head. This will put them all in the right place, correct projections, etc.If you don't have the gauge, you can get a dial indicator mount that will straddle the knife and help you set it correctly.
Secondly, you need to indicate from the bed to the knife. Jigging to go up and over, etc is a path to insanity. Again, a dial indicator with base can do this just fine. This is a direct measurement and will help out immensely if you do the first thing correctly.
Third, when setting the posts and chain, take out all the lash in the chain and then in the threads of the height adjusters.
Fourth, when setting the thickness on these types of machines, it is important to always come up on the dimension. That is, to go from 3/4" to 11/16", you need to go below 11/16" and then crank up to 11/16". This is similar to tuning a stringed instrument, if you are familiar with that.
If you do not learn to set the height correctly each and every time you will easily see about .010 or more variations. The considerable weight of the machine head is on those posts/sprockets/chain, and the head is designed to be set only on the up tension, not the down. If cranking down, the weight is unbalanced and not on the threads as it is designed to be.
If you need to hold such close dimensions, I suggest looking at a better planer, with moving bed on 4 posts, and using a digital readout. I have an older Powermatic 18" with and Accurate Co readout on it that gets lots of use and routinely holds within about .002 or .003 between sharpenings.
By the way, I also set the thickness on the "up" on this machine also - again with the threads..... As well as the shapers, the molder, the mortiser, the tenoner.....
OK Andrew, I just threw that out there with my planer in mind which is a Rockwell wedge bed where the table moves up & down. Looking at the diagram ( http://www.ereplacementparts.com/images/delta/22-660_TYPE_2.pdf ) on the DC-33 I can see where you're limited to the sprocket tooth spacing since the sprocket is keyed on the lifting screw ( parts 22, 26, 29). My thoughts and I can't tell exactly by the diagram, is how is the bearing (#24) seated? If it's sitting in the base then determine the difference in height one side to the other and possibly shim the bearings to raise it up?? Again just guessing looking at the diagram.
Andrew - I will add that when I had that planer, it worked well once I learned how to keep it accurate. However, the feedworks started to get noisy, and I found the gears were severely worn. I sat down to order parts only to find out that Delta no longer made parts for the machine, and if it went down, it was likely down for good. A machine shop could make the 3 gears it needed, but it would be 3 weeks and unknown expense - one hypoid gear was bronze. This would have made life extremely difficult, and even if I made it through that, anything else could fail, and I'd be back at the mercy of unknowns.
That is when I found my beloved Powermatic. I did get $32.00 at the recycling center for the Delta......
This is the best indicator for jointer knives and all planer adjustments. The button tip is far superior to the stock tip. For setting planer knives it straddles the. Easily sets feed rolls, bed rolls, adjusting the head to the table. I can set a four knife 20" jointer in a leisurely 20 minutes within .0005. I had to chuckle when I saw your jig.
Thanks everyone- Rick, David, Ken, for weighing in on this. Reading all of your comments has been really helpful.
I've been setting machinery professionally for over 35 years. You always go down not up when doing this. If you go up then you are introducing backlash which will easily introduce 0.010 to 0.015" error. Always set the knives to the head. Not quite sure of your procedure but when I see the gauges you made I cringe in disbelief. The gauge I posted is the ultimate planer jointer gauge but I get impression you don't get it.
Well i guess there is some disagreement on the "up to" - vs - "down to" for a finished dimension planing operation. I just hope we're all talking about the same type of planer.. dc-33 (rc-33 would be the same) where the weight of the moving component (head, gearing, motor, etc) is not a balanced or symmetrical assembly.
It's never up, it's always down because thats how you use the planer to thickness the wood. Set the knives to the head. You need to focus on setting the head itself to the table. Undo the chain for the posts and zero the head to the table then hook up the chain. You are bound to have some backlash such a .005". Other table systems such a wedge beds can be more accurate but in woodworking .005 is more than acceptable. On my Oliver 16" jointer the manufacturer allowed .010" for flatness of the tables. Mine was .015" so I had it ground and got it within .005". Powermatic allowed .015" for flatness of the 66 Table saw.
I've worked on more machines in 30 something years than you can imagine. I did warranty service on Delta and SCMI. Also did work on every other brand from old iron like Crescent, Northfield, etc and Modern imports and the adjustment procedures are all the same steps in a certain sequence.
The gauge was purchased 30 years ago for $250 and is designed to straddle heads 4" or bigger. I have made one with 2" channel for straddling smaller heads that cost me some scrap and drilling and tapping. Your jigs would be useless to any professional machine set up person...
My first planer was a 1919 Fay & Eagan with babbitt bearings. It had almost 1/32" of wear in the center of the table. Not knowing anything else, or being able to afford a jig, I always indicated up from the table to the knives when setting them.
Those who say this is wrong, why? Shaper heads used to be set this way before corrugations held the knives in rigid angular alignment. If you needed a small taper, you set the knife at a small angle. Why not adjust the angle according to the angle of the table?
Andrew R, I wonder if you have play in the castings around the bearings. Ball bearings themselves are generally much much tighter than that. How about putting an indicator under the head and levering on different things to try to determine what is moving?
All my planers have jacked the bed into the knives, so I never lowered the table for a final pass. The screws were always tightened with successive passes, so backlash was never an issue like it would be on, say, the jointer. If your screws are jacking the head, then it will be every time.
Just thinking about this machine's mechanical design VS traditional raise the bed machines. Gravity and the force of the knives on a raise the bed machine are always working in the same direction, Down. On the move the head machines, gravity is working to hold the head down, but the force of the knives is working to push it up. There will always be some slack in any mechanical system of the adjustment type you have. Seems like 2 things could occur. 1. when a board is run to one side, the force of the knives pushing the head up will be greater on that side. 2. if there is a difference in "slack" between the two sides it will make the problem worse. This will make it nearly impossible to correct the differences. Even if you manage to get the knives set dead-on to the head the problem of a less than ideal design won't be overcome. Anyone understand where I'm coming from? I had also thought that this design may increase the ripple on the board but the amount of head bounce during each move to the next knife cut would be very small. By the way, in calculating the effective knife cuts per inch of board you have to assume a one knife finish cut. Not the 3 or 4 knives in the head.
You are talking about the cutterhead being out about 1/64"over its width. Can you shim the bearings? Can you shim the table against its jacking nuts? Keep in mind you are talking a pretty fine tolerance for woodworking. Yes, the machine should hold it, but do you really truly need it?
I'd be more concerned if there was that much play than if the head was out of parallel. Look at another issue when you made the auxiliary table, how beefy was it? Planers compress with a good bit of force. Are you absolutely sure the shimmed table didn't yield? even 1" plywood could compress .010" at the 8" mark, if it was only supported at the edges.
Try putting your indicator on the auxiliary table, then stand on it. Does it move? The planer no doubt presses with several times that much force.
Rick L- My gauges are useless and they make you cringe. Got it. Thanks so much.
Andrew L
Much as it surprised me, when I tried a paten made the same way it didn't work at all. Just too much compression from the planer, it flattened the platen out.
Three possibilities: is your bed flat? Try working a feeler gauge under a straightedge, laid in different positions on the bed. It would throw off your indicator readings, especially if you use the long arm in your picture.
Is the cutterhead a cylinder or does it taper? It would be weird, but possible.
More likely: have you checked out the bed rollers for evenness and roundness? They are often made so they can be shimmed or jacked with screws. Seems obvious enough that you'd have done it, but you don't mention it.
Tracking down the issue with the geometry will tell you how to compensate. It can be frustrating, but keep at it. Have you checked the amount of projection of the knives? When you indicate them and the head, is the jump the same on both sides?
Another possibility is that the knives are dull on one side or are so badly sharpened that they cut differently at different places.
If the cutterhead is parallel to the table like you say, the saddle type gauge described above might well be your best bet. Amazon has them for about $60.
First off I think your gauges are first rate and 30 years of setting machines up evidently doesn't get you thirty years of class.
I would say it's fair to assume when you have a moving head and a fixed table, slop is going to be there. You are lowering the head as you reduce thickness so backlash in the screws is an issue and not sure it can be completely overcome. Not to mention this machine is used.
I helped a friend setup a 20" grizzly planer (piece of crap) once of similar design. The instructions basically walked you through the entire process of systematically leveling and dialing in the head and table because of course the factory doesn't do that for you. You can download those manuals online and might help.
Brovo JB!!
Also my gears wore out and I used the ones from a Grizzly and it works perfectly. Since Delta doesn't make them what choice do you have? LOL Machine does feed a little slower but now the finish is nicer too!
The RC-33 is a great machine when it is running correctly. I bought mine in 1984.
Perhaps machine is gummed up with sawdust caked grease. Checkout video for cleaning, lubrication and adjustments. Video includes replacing head with a Shelix but you can just skip those parts.
More ideas....
Use a steel straight edge to check if the cutting edges of the knives are straight. A light behind the blade and ruler makes it easy to see.
Lower the bed rollers to be below the table to ensure that they are not a factor. Wood that has been jointed does not need rollers. Spray table with Teflon table saw spray if wood does not want go through machine without rollers.
As has already been mentioned, raise the carriage (rather than lowering it) so that the carriage registers on all 4 posts. Also tighten both carriage locking knobs.
As already mentioned make sure knives are set parallel to cutter head. Perhaps the knife setting jig needs a tune up.
Turning a sprocket under table, by just one tooth, changes the height of that corner of carriage by 0.016 inch. In a worst case situation that could mean 0.008 inch variation from one post to another even after making optimal adjustment with chain and sprockets underneath. Typically it would be less than that. You got 0.006 so can't do any better by adjusting chain and sprockets. Check height casting at each corner of carriage with a wood block that rests on table. This is the method recommended in instruction book.
Final step would be to adjust one end of cutter head by loosening the 4 bolts on top of casting that hold the gearbox in place, and slipping brass shim stock between the cast gearbox and the cast carriage, then tighten bolts. If adding shims makes taper worse, then underneath sprockets need to be adjusted on one side of machine.
RC-33 lubrication and adjustment video
As always do as you feel is best. Be reminded that the four posts are held in by pointed set screws, if by chance the screws aren't properly seated they can affect the post/posts height, which will transfer +/- to the spindle and spindle nuts. Insure that spindle bearings and snap rings are completely seated. Just my .02
Link to RC-33 documents: Instruction book, parts diagram, and more
Steve, good video on installing the Shelix head. Regarding oiling the in/out feed rollers, I use saxophone bumper felts in the springs to act as a wick to store and feed oil and 6mm plastic plugs in the adjustment plugs.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Alto-Tenor-Sax-Saxophone-Bumper-Felts-for-Wind- https://www.ebay.com/itm/8-Pack-NEW- came across this RC-33 pictorial tear down and restoration by Ed Hollingsworth
Ed Hollingsworth RC-33
As always do as you feel is best. Be reminded that the four posts are held in by pointed set screws, if by chance the screws aren't properly seated they can affect the post/posts height, which will transfer +/- to the spindle and spindle nuts. Insure that spindle bearings and snap rings are completely seated. Just my .02
Link to RC-33 documents: Instruction book, parts diagram, and more
Steve, good video on installing the Shelix head. Regarding oiling the in/out feed rollers, I use saxophone bumper felts in the springs to act as a wick to store and feed oil and 6mm plastic plugs in the adjustment plugs.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Alto-Tenor-Sax-Saxophone-Bumper-Felts-for-Wind- https://www.ebay.com/itm/8-Pack-NEW- came across this RC-33 pictorial tear down and restoration by Ed Hollingsworth
Ed Hollingsworth RC-33
Steve, good video on installing the Shelix head. Regarding oiling the in/out feed rollers, I use saxophone bumper felts in the springs to act as a wick to store and feed oil and 6mm plastic plugs in the adjustment plugs.
came across this RC-33 pictorial tear down and restoration by Ed Hollingsworth
Ed Hollingsworth RC-33


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Budinger's Layup Lifts Wolves Over Pacers
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Chase Budinger converted a layup on a feed from Andrei Kirilenko with 0.8 seconds to go, lifting the Minnesota Timberwolves to a 96-94 victory over the Indiana Pacers on Friday night.
Budinger scored 18 points while subbing for the injured Brandon Roy. Alexey Shved had 11 points and seven assists and Nikola Pekovic added 13 points and eight rebounds for the Timberwolves.
Roy left the game at halftime with a sore right knee. The former three-time All-Star is attempting a comeback after chronic knee issues forced him to retire from Portland before last season.
George Hill had 29 points, seven assists and five rebounds and David West had 19 points and 13 boards for the Pacers.
Shved, a rookie from Russia, ran the pick-and-roll like a seasoned veteran against Indiana's stout defense, creating scoring chances for himself and his teammates.
His layup gave the Wolves a 78-69 lead with eight minutes to go in the game. But he also picked up his first American technical foul during a 7-0 run by the Pacers that pulled them within two points. West's putback two minutes later tied it at 86.
Shved followed with a tough drive and another layup off a steal from Kirilenko, and the Wolves used an 8-2 spurt to open a 94-88 lead with under a minute to play.
But Hill converted a three-point play, then made a tying 3-pointer from the top of the arc with 3.8 seconds remaining.
The inbounds pass came to Kirilenko, who looked frantically for an open teammate, then calmly took two dribbles and fed a cutting Budinger for the game winner, sending the Target Center crowd into a euphoric roar.
Derrick Williams scored 15 points and Dante Cunningham had 11 for the Wolves, who at 4-1 are three games over .500 for the first time since they were 20-17 in 2006-07.
Both teams are spending the early portion of this season trying to figure out how to play without star players.
Kevin Love (broken hand) and Ricky Rubio (left knee) will miss at least the first month of the season. The Wolves also were missing JJ Barea with a sprained left foot and didn't have Roy for the entire second half after his knee issues flared up.
Roy scored six points on 3-of-5 shooting, but couldn't answer the bell for the second half, a troublesome sign this early in the season.
Roy sat out all of last season, but felt rejuvenated this summer after receiving an experimental treatment to try to address the lack of cartilage in both knees. In need of a veteran shooting guard who could get his own shot late in games, the Wolves signed him to a two-year deal. He played at least 21 minutes in each of the first four games this season, issuing no complaints.
The Pacers have some serious injury problems of their own. They found out this week they are going to have to play without leading scorer Danny Granger for the next three months because of an issue with his left knee, dealing a big blow to a scrappy team that gave the Miami Heat all they could handle in the playoffs last season. They've struggled to replace his offense, only topping 90 points twice this season.
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Today I have gathered not just ideas. I have brought all the little gizmos and gadgets that would diversify any children's party in the general list. In principle, all these baby shower games ideas will be useful for educators and counsellors, and teachers. And for active moms and dads who are in search of entertainment for children's birthday, my article will be useful.
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They are comfortable to wear in "the box", since they can be awkward, but at least you can spend one games. It is a peaceful option, when the children are asked to fold the pyramid of inverted cups.
A piece of lining fabric – 4 m
Any fabric will suit, but if you find blue, it will be a real wave. Two adults make sudden movements, inflating the fabric. Children can quickly run under the wave, the kids love baby shower games ideas with fabric. One child can be placed in the center of the fabric and adults will close the petals. So we play the game for attentiveness. If there are more than 10 children, one child is put back and choose one from other children and hide him in the fabric. The leader should quickly remember who hid.
Finger puppets and dolls-gloves, thick fabric 150×150 cm
In principle, children of 3-6 years are ready to play a tale in the classic version. Give them the dolls and assign roles, speaking as a storyteller. Improvised theatre is great fun.
A clothesline
There are several options, it is too good props.
- Limbaugh. It is always fun in a group of children of any age. Two people pull the rope parallel to the floor at the level of the neck, then 10-15 cm below, and even lower still. All participants of the event, cheered by the music must pass under the rope, caving in the back.
- Rope (5-7 meters) can be laid out on the floor as the track for the relay. Children are running as on a rope winding path at speed. You can also invent a great number of baby shower games ideas with a clothesline yourself.
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Well, it's actually a win-win situation. You can use them at the time of the filming of the video for a fun children's song. It looks beautiful, fun, very cool on video.
If the children's festival takes place in winter when it gets dark early, turn off the light in the room, and hand out flashlights for all children. Announce a contest for the funniest Ghost. Children need to turn on the flashlight, light up the bottom of the chin and make a face. It is very funny!!!
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Stephen Crosby's blog post earlier today To Lead or Not to Lead? That is the Question not only blessed me (How much longer before we "get" this?), but inspired me to dig into some old files for a research paper I delivered over a decade ago at a theological seminary in Cape Town. I found it, and thought I'll add my voice to Stephen's.
The Difference Between Christian and Secular Leadership
I know of few Christians who would question the implied proposition above. The church of Jesus Christ is generally in agreement that there is a marked difference between Christian and non-Christian methods of leadership. Yet, when questioned, many believers struggle to explain what these differences are. Christian leaders themselves don't fare much better, a fact which becomes especially evident when we survey much of the so-called Christian leadership literature doing the rounds in evangelical circles today. Oftentimes these are little more than a rehash of conventional secular wisdom, sprinkled with Bible verses so as to sanctify and legitimise their use.
If there is a difference between secular and Christian leadership styles, then what is it? Furthermore, how big is this difference? Is Christian leadership complimentary to secular leadership, or does it present an alternative to secular leadership? To put it in picture form: Is it the roofrack of the vehicle, or is it another vehicle altogether?
It is my conviction, and the thesis of this paper, that the difference between secular and Christian leadership is the very difference separating the Kingdom of God from the fallen empires of this world. It is, in other words, that difference that contrasts light and darkness, life and death, Christ and Satan. To put the two together as though they are variants of the same species won't do. They stand unalterably antithetical, and so they will remain until the day of the Lord.
The Worldliness of Secular Leadership
If the above sounds like an unnecessary harsh assessment, let us consider for a moment the adjective we employ to describe the type of leadership that is not 'Christian'. The word 'secular' is derived from the Latin saeculum, which is one of the Latin words for world. It refers to our existence as material beings in the material cosmos. Secular leadership is really nothing but worldly leadership. As such it is not merely practiced by 'worldly' people, but it has the world as both its beginning and end. Its philosophical premises and presuppositions are thoroughly worldly and so also their logical conclusions. Ideas have consequences, or 'legs' as Francis Schaeffer used to say, which means that ideas go places. And the places they go are more often than not determined by the places they come from. Ideas that begin with the world are doomed to end with the world, both in the philosophical and eschatological sense.
Christian leadership, on the other hand, is a leadership away from the world. It is not utopian, has no business with social engineering, and certainly does not believe that politics presents the answer to the ailments of society, the worldview expressed in Jean-Jacques Rousseau's maxim 'the state is the agency of emancipation' (Cited in Colson 1999: 171). Rather, it longs for a better country – a heavenly one, and it does so in true Hebrews 11 fashion. This type of non-secular leadership is best exemplified by the image of Moses leading the Israelites away from Egypt in search of a land promised and ruled by God.
The Influence Leadership Vision has on Leadership Style
One might wonder what this has to with the actual how-to of leading. Do the different visions of the church and the world influence their leadership methodology, ultimately necessitating different leadership styles? In other words, has leadership anything to do with the particular policies of the leader, or is it purely neutral? And if it has, to what extent?
We have all heard it said that Hitler was an excellent leader. By this it is usually meant that he had great charisma and even greater powers of conviction. He managed to lead thousands, and so we conclude that he was a great leader. The fact that he led them to destruction is besides the point. It makes him a poor theorist, perhaps, but not a poor leader. He could get people to follow him, and this is the litmus test of leadership. As I once heard a Christian leadership guru put it: "If no one is following, you are not leading, but merely taking a walk." We could turn that around to mean that as long as people are following, you are definitely leading.
Of course not everyone is comfortable with such a pragmatic view of leadership. Stephen Covey's 'Principle Centered Leadership' (1992) is a case in point. According to this school leadership is more than the sum of certain morally neutral traits that are both inborn and acquired, and have produced military and political leaders stretching from before Alexander the Great through Napoleon and Hitler to modern leaders like Bill Clinton. "We need to place character back in leadership", its proponents say; "we need to live by the compass rather than the map." In spite of the inward focus and oftentimes spiritual emphasis of this school (Covey is a Mormon), we are not offered any insight into the difference between Christian and secular leadership, due to a lack of any religious homogeneity amongst its advocates. Furthermore, we are offered no answer to the question of whether the different visions of the church and the world have any bearing on their leadership methodology and style.
In order to answer this question, we need to turn to the communication sciences, and to one person in particular: Marshall McLuhan, the Canadian professor who became famous for his aphorism, "the medium is the message". According to McLuhan, any chosen medium selected for the purposes of communication serves not only as a carrier for such communication, but actually dictates the content of the communication. Neil Postman illustrates this by his story of American Indians communicating via smoke signals, yet finding it impossible to discuss deep philosophy this way. 'Its form excludes the content', Postman points out. (Postman 1985: 7).
In the same way styles of leadership, which are forms of discourse, regulate the content issuing from such styles. The leadership style of Scottish freedom fighter William Wallace made it possible for him to convey a message to the masses that many of his contemporaries could not convey. It is no coincidence that the Hollywood version of his life was dubbed Braveheart, for in this title we find the reason behind his uncanny ability to call his people to bravery. Perhaps the best shorthand summary of this principle is to be found in a statement attributed to Oscar Wilde: "Who you are speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say."
Particular forms of leadership, in other words, favour particular kinds of content, or, to change McCluhan's adage slightly: The leader is the message. This is true in any context, even where the message is of such a nature that it makes little demands on the medium of leadership, for instance in the case of the Senior Bookkeeper whose expertise is limited to the world of accountancy. Her subordinates expect no bravery from her, knowing full well that even great cowards can make great bookkeepers. Her authority is derived from what is called 'expert power' (Lund & Henderson 1994: 12), and rightly so, for this is what her particular environment demands. However, in the political arena expert power is not sufficient to rise to a position of leadership. Here 'personal power' becomes a requirement, namely that 'mystical combination of attributes that marks some people as born leaders'. (Lund & Henderson 1994: 13). Different settings demand different forms of communication, which in turn demand different leadership styles.
With this in mind, it becomes clear that the radically different message of Christianity demands and necessitates a radically different leadership style in order to be conveyed. Where we are heading will therefore determine how we lead, and it is this truism that disengages Christian from secular leadership.
The Strangeness of Christian Leadership
When we turn to Scripture we find that the God of the Bible assumed a connection between the medium and the message long before McCluhan did. This is evident from the gospel of John, where we read that a particular message from God, simply called "the Word", demanded a particular medium for its effective conveyance, simply called "the flesh". The "Word became flesh" means that the message became the medium, and that the two are inseparably linked. Reading further into the gospels we are struck by God's condemnation of people who ignored this principle by preaching the gospel without living it (Matt 23:1-4). Believers are referred to as living epistles, and one can only wonder why John wrote "I have much to write to you, but I do not want to use paper and ink." Did the spiritual nature of his message perhaps demand a different medium of discourse, namely talking 'face to face'? (3 John 13-14).
Christianity, in other words, is to be lived in order to be proclaimed. The word must become flesh, and the formation of that flesh must be determined by the content of the word. This is especially true in the case of Christian leadership, which is nothing but an extension and disclosure of the Christian message. True Christian leadership can only be so if it embodies and exemplifies the profound gap between the Christian and secular worldviews.
With this in mind, it becomes apparent that Christianity turns the worldly concept of leadership upside down. The stark contrast between Christian and secular leadership is drawn by Christ himself in Matt. 20:25-28, in response to his followers who seemingly noted no distinction between the two: "You know that the rulers of the gentiles lord it over them, and their high officials exercise authority over them. Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be your slave…" It cannot be stated clearer than this. Christian leadership is not an exercise of authority, but an abdication of it. In this it stands opposed to 'gentile' forms of leadership and authority.
Yet not only secular, but also religious forms of authority are challenged by the Christian paradigm of leadership. The era of the Spirit, according to Jeremiah, signifies not only the end of the law but also the end of human mediation: "No longer will a man teach his neighbour…", the prophet says, "because they will all know me, from the least to the greatest." (Jer 31:34). In 1John 2:27 we read: "…the anointing you received from him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you." (1 John 2: 27). The Christian message implies that with the advent of the Holy Spirit came a subjective authority hitherto unknown to humanity, resulting in an independence from traditional forms of authority, both secular and religious.
Christian leadership, therefore, is in reality a form of anti-leadership. It's aim is not to gather a following, but to challenge the herd mentality so basic to human nature. Christian leadership is never the emperor parading before the masses, but always the little boy crying out "The emperor is naked!" It is strangely subversive and radically countercultural. It is a leadership of liberation, freeing the captives and prisoners from their enslavement to the ideologies of this world, and setting them on a narrow road where no one has gone before, for which no maps are available, and where progress is only possible by following the guidance of God's Spirit.
This means that Christian leadership is ultimately self destructive. Once it has challenged the status quo, it points to another power and authority altogether and removes itself from the platform. Nowhere is this strange type of leadership better illustrated than in the ministry of John the Baptist, and nowhere better put than in his own words: 'He must become greater; I must become less.' (John 3:30) Ministers and Christian leaders would do well to look in the mirror from time to time and say out loud with the prophet: 'I am not the Christ but am send ahead of him.' (John 3:27). Indeed, preparing the way for Christ is what Christian leadership is all about.
Some Practical Considerations
How does the above work itself out in practice? Much can be said about this, but for the purposes of this paper I will restrict myself to a few remarks made by Christ and Paul, and some more recent comments of Eugene Peterson.
Christ washed feet (John 13:1-17) and spoke about children (Matt 18:15) and servants (Matt 20:26, Matt 23:11) in order to illustrate what greatness means in the Kingdom of God. Like Jeremiah he challenged the notion of human mediation (See Matt 23:8-10), which is in reality nothing but a worldly model of leadership that subjects and enslaves the masses to an elite inner circle of spiritually enlightened pundits. As Os Guinness has noted: "…the dominance of the expert means the dependency of the client." (Guinness 1993: 71). Indeed, religious punditocracy came to an end the day that the new covenant came into effect and all believers were made kings and priests. Titles reserved for traditional religious leaders were now bestowed on the laity, and for no other reason than the fact that external forms of authority were internalised through the indwelling of God's Spirit.
The apostle Paul calls the Christian church to humility, and instructs them to have the same attitude as Christ, who "did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant."(Phil 2:-7). His famous statement "Be ye followers of me, even as I also am Of Christ." (1 Cor 11:1 in the KJV), can easily be interpreted as "Do not follow me, but follow Christ", an interpretation that seems to be confirmed by his earlier rebuke of the Corinthians for their "I follow Paul…I follow Apollos." (1 Cor 3:4). This particular rebuke he concludes with the assertion that both he and Apollos are mere "servants through whom you came to believe." (v5). Indeed, his argument reminds strongly of John the Baptist's. It is a leadership that says: "I am only here to point you to Christ." In his second letter to the Corinthians he actually states this conviction: "For we do not preach ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake." (2 Cor 4:5).
In line with this thinking, Paul presents the Christian church with a list of leadership traits that totally contradicts conventional secular wisdom. In the place of intelligence, initiative, self-assurance, determination, visionary capacity, ability to influence, ability to see the big picture and so on, he lists traits like humility, holiness, hospitality, and being free from the love of money, as conditions for Christian leadership (See 1 Tim 3 and Tit 1).
Eugene Peterson has pointed out that Paul's list is "clearly more a matter of character than of skill" (Dawn & Peterson 2000: 202), and anyone would be foolish to disagree. He quotes Henri Nouwen in this regard: "I am deeply convinced that the Christian leader of the future is called to be completely irrelevant and to stand in this world with nothing to offer but his or her own vulnerable self. That is the way Jesus came to reveal God's love." (p 190). Peterson goes on to say: "What we call the ability to lead has almost nothing to do with it. If we want to develop community in Christ, we have to scrap most of what we are told today about leadership." (p 203). He concludes his remarks by saying that we should recognise the sphere of leadership among the "poor in Spirit" (p 203), and that it is "almost always a mistake to recruit exceptional people for leadership" (p 204).
I could not agree more. CEO leadership is the worst imaginable model of leadership that the Christian church can choose to follow.
The thesis of this paper is that a spiritual message cannot be conveyed by an unspiritual medium anymore than deep philosophical ideas can be conveyed by smoke signals. The form of secular leadership excludes the spiritual content of the gospel message, and is therefore an unfit medium of conveyance. True spiritual leadership is the servant leadership of Jesus Christ and Paul. It has as its source not expert power or personal power, nor resource power or positional power (See Lund & Henderson 1994: 6), but spiritual power. This power favours no particular personality types and more often than not displays itself in weakness, leaving no doubt as to where it comes from. (We are offered a vast array of testimonies throughout both Bible and church history of highly unlikely characters who were greatly used of God in leading capacities.)
With the above in mind it is clear that the church would do well to rethink the issue of Christian leadership. Ours is a situation not unlike that of Israel who demanded a king at a time where God was to be their King, and perhaps we should ask ourselves if we have not fallen into the same trap through our over-reliance on human leadership.
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I write fantasy that's based in the real world. For example, here's the basic plot of TEXTING THE UNDERWORLD::
Perpetual scaredy-cat Conor O'Neill has the fright of his life when a banshee named Ashling shows up in his bedroom. Ashling is—as all banshees are—a harbinger of death, and she's sure someone in Conor's family is about to require her services. But she's new at this banshee business, and first she insists on going to middle school.
Even as Conor desperately tries to hide her identity from his classmates and teachers, he realizes there's no way to avoid paying a visit to the underworld if he wants to keep his family safe.
Poor Conor. I did enjoy torturing him.
Back to that school-bussy river now. Let me know if you have questions.
*The Goatman painting and the header are by Robert Shillady. The Goatman is featured in my first novel, THE UNNAMEABLES.


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When one thinks of the early 1950's, things that often come to mind are fries and milkshake, muscle cars, Little Richard, and greased hair. Things that rarely come to mind are that the US and China were openly at war over a little piece of land called Korea, that the Treasury market did not exist, that short and long end rates were "fixed" by the Fed at 0.125% and 2.5% respectively, even as inflation was at the highest it has ever been in the post war period at over 20%. What absolutely never comes to mind, is that on March 3, 1951, the world as we know it changed forever, after a little noted event known as the Fed-Treasury Accord of March 3, 1951 took place, and mutated the role of the Federal Reserve, which set off on a path that would ultimately lead to the disastrous economic state the world finds itself in today.
Oh and another thing that never comes to mind, is that while the current iteration of the Fed, various recent voodoo economic theories, and assorted blogs, all claim that excess bank reserves are never an inflationary threat, it is precisely two Federal Reserve chairmen's heretic claims that reserves will light an inflationary conflagration, that forced then president Truman to eliminate not one but two Fed Chairmen, and nearly result in the "independent" Federal Reserve being subsumed by the Treasury to do its monetization and market manipulation/intervention bidding. Which then begs the question: who is telling the truth about the linkage of reserve accumulation to inflation - the Fed of 1951, or every other Fed since, now firmly under the control of the Treasury-banker syndicate. Because they can not both be right.
Why is March 3, 1951 such an important date? Because, more than anything, the confluence of events that led to the "Accord" signed on this day have extensive parallels to our current situation, as the attached paper by the Federal Reserve of Richmond shows in exquisite detail, yet 100% in reverse.
In a nutshell what happened in the late 1940s and early 1950s was that in the aftermath of WWII, and the outbreak of the Korean war, America found itself in a very odd situation... one never really encountered until today. The country had soaring inflation - as in real inflation, not just core inflation measured by hedonic adjustments and excluding all those thing that actually do go up in price. More importantly, it had the 1950's version of ZIRP - only then it was called a peg, in this case of 0.375%, and subsequently 0.125% on short end Treasurys, and 2.5% on long-dated paper. In other words, the monetary situation in 1951 was one where both the short and long end of the curve were artificially boosted (think ZIRP and Twist), just so holders of Treasury paper (at that time only insurance companies as banks were not allowed to invest in TSYs) did not experience losses and get further "demoralized" in addition to the war that Truman was currently waging.
In fact, the following quote from none other than Truman is as idiotic, yet as valid today, as it was 61 years ago:
[T]he Federal Reserve Board should make it perfectly plain. . . to the New York Bankers that the peg is stabilized....I hope the Board will...not allow the bottom to drop from under our securities. If that happens that is exactly what Mr. Stalin wants. (FOMC Minutes, 1/31/51, p. 9)
And this:
The FOMC met with President Truman late in the afternoon of Wednes- day, January 31.17 Truman began by stating that "the present emergency is greatest this country has ever faced, including the two World Wars and all the preceding wars.. . . [W]e must combat Communist influence on many fronts.. . . [I]f the people lose confidence in government securities all we hope to gain from our military mobilization, and war if need be, might be jeopardized."
This is arguably the earliest recorded iteration in modern history of a "the world will come to an end unless you don't do what I tell you" type of threat uttered by a member of the administration (ahem Hank Paulson) to a governing body. We will skip commenting on the supreme irony that according to Truman, Stalin would win if the US did not engage in the same central planning that ultimately brought the Soviet empire down.
Yet what is so very different about this date in history, is that while it was the Treasury pushing tooth and nail for endless bond pegging by the Fed (apparently nobody had thought of QE back then yet, because it would have been all the rage), the body warning about the potential threat of runaway inflation from a surge in reserves, as well as the dangers associated with central planning was... The Federal Reserve.
Huh !!??
The same Fed that can not withhold its exuberance in encouraging ZIRP, Twist, LSAP, selling of Treasury Puts, and every other form of market intervention known to man, warning the president these very same actions would lead to ruin? And not only that but Truman being forced to get rid of not just Fed veteran Marriner Eccles (after whom the building in which centrally planned schemes are hatched every single day in yet another supreme irony), but also his successor Thomas McCabe who also refused to follow the precepts of central planning... who in turn was replaced by a Treasury muppet, or someone who will gladly monetize US debt whenever needed, at which point the scene for the final outcome was set.
That is impossible you say. Oh, not only is it impossible but it gets much better.
Because not only did the two veteran Fed chairmen warn against the state's incursion into central planning, but they explicitly said something which the Fed, or at least its modern versions, have rejected over and over, especially during congressional committees: that a build of bank reserves is the surest way to spark hyperinflation.
But....but....but.... this is what fringe tin-foil hat blogs allege.... not Fed chairmen who between them have over 20 years of tenure.
Well, here are the facts:
"We have marched up the hill several times and then marched down again. This time I think we should act on the basis of our unwillingness to continue to supply reserves to the market by supporting the existing rate structure and should advise the Treasury that this is what we intend to do—not seek instructions" (FOMC Minutes, 8/18/50, p. 137).
[Fed member] Sproul would state the idea that a central bank controls inflation through the monetary control made possible by allowing market determination of the interest rate: "[T]he Committee did not in its operations drive securities to any price or yield....[M]arket forces had been the determining factor, and that only in resisting the creation of reserves had the committee been a party to an increase in interest rates. That...was the result of market forces, and not the action of the Committee. (FOMC Minutes, 3/1/51, pp. 125–26)"
In response to Truman's ceaseless demands for pegging interest rates even as inflation was spiking over 20%, NY Fed president Sproul said that...
...this "would make the Federal Reserve System a bureau of the Treasury and, in light of the responsibilities placed in the System by the Congress, would be both impossible and improper" (FOMC Minutes, 1/31/51, p. 23).
In other words, pegging (i.e., ZIRP, Twist, LSAP)... is "impossible and improper"... is unconstitutional another word for it?
In retrospect perhaps we were a little too rought on Mr. Martin, who despite being a Treasury puppet, had these words to say:
In his speech accepting an appointment to the Board of Governors, Martin (1951, p. 377) said:
"Unless inflation is controlled, it could prove to be an even more serious threat to the vitality of our country than the more spectacular aggressions of enemies outside our borders. I pledge myself to support all reasonable measures to preserve the purchasing power of the dollar."
There are those who claim the Fed has become the bankers' puppet. It was not always so. In fact, the bankers loathed the Fed... Until the "Accord"
The banking community contributed to the Fed's isolation by refusing to support its position. On February 2, the Board had met with the Federal Advisory Council, which represents the views of large banks. At that meeting, Eccles accused bankers of a lack of "courage and realistic leadership" (Board Minutes, 2/20/51, p. 389).
The Executive Committee refused to withdraw the FOMC's letter to the President. Furthermore, it wrote a defiant letter to Senator O'Mahoney. The initial substantive paragraph began with the famous quote from John Maynard Keynes: "[T]hat the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency" (FOMC Minutes, 2/14/51, p. 87).
It just gets better, as Marriner Eccles puts it into overdrive:
"We favor the lowest rate of interest on government securities that will cause true investors to buy and hold these securities. Today's inflation. ... is due to mounting civilian expenditures largely financed directly or indirectly by sale of Government securities to the Federal Reserve.. . . The inevitable result is more and more money and cheaper and cheaper dollars." (FOMC Minutes, 2/7/51, p. 60)
Yet punchline #1:
[We are making] it possible for the public to convert Government securities into money to expand the money supply....We are almost solely responsible for this inflation. It is not deficit financing that is responsible because there has been surplus in the Treasury right along; the whole question of having rationing and price controls is due to the fact that we have this monetary inflation, and this committee is the only agency in existence that can curb and stop the growth of money.. . . [W]e should tell the Treasury, the President, and the Congress these facts, and do something about it....We have not only the power but the responsibility....If Congress does not like what we are doing, then they can change the rules. (FOMC Minutes, 2/6/51, pp. 50–51)
And #2 and final:
Governor Eccles and Representative Wright Patman, who was a populist congressman from Texarkana, Texas, went head-to-head:
Patman: Don't you think there is some obligation of the Federal Reserve System to protect the public against excessive interest rates?
Eccles: I think there is a greater obligation to the American public to protect them against the deterioration of the dollar.
Patman: Who is master, the Federal Reserve or the Treasury? You know, the Treasury came here first.
Eccles: How do you reconcile the Treasury's position of saying they want the interest rate low, with the Federal Reserve standing ready to peg the market, and at the same time expect to stop inflation?
Patman: Will the Federal Reserve System support the Secretary of the Treasury in that effort [to retain the 2 1/2 percent rate] or will it refuse?. . . You are sabotaging the Treasury. I think it ought to be stopped.
Eccles: [E]ither the Federal Reserve should be recognized as having some independent status, or it should be considered as simply an agency or a bureau of the Treasury. (U.S. Congress 1951, pp. 172–76)
And there you have it folks, clear as daylight, every aspect of the tension of the "independent" Fed brought to the surface. Because the few men who dared to stand up against Truman, the doctrine of central planning, "pegging" Treasury prices, and the banking cartel whose sole prerogative has always and only been cheap and easy money, all got their just deserts:
Fed president #1:
Eccles also reported in his memoirs that shortly before this event he had completed a letter of resignation to the President. He then decided to postpone his resignation. Eccles had been Chairman of the FOMC from its creation in 1935 until 1948. He did not intend to leave Washington with the Federal Reserve under the control of the Treasury. According to a Truman staff member, Truman had failed to reappoint Eccles as Board Chairman in 1948 to show him "who's boss" (Donovan 1982, p. 331).
And Fed president #2...
While in the hospital, Snyder conveyed to Truman the message that he felt he could no longer work with McCabe. Without a working relationship with the Treasury, McCabe could not function as Chairman of the Board of Governors. McCabe sent in a bitter letter of resignation, but resubmitted a bland version when asked to do so by the White House. McCabe, however, conditioned his resignation on the requirement that his successor be acceptable to the Fed.
As a reminder Snyder was the Secretary of the Treasury.
And whom did Truman replace McCabe with?
On March 15, the President appointed William McChesney Martin to replace McCabe.
Martin was undersecretary of the Treasury: the same institution that wanted all objectors to central planning scrapped. His position? Quote the Fed:
Truman and Snyder were populists who believed that banks, not the market forces of supply and demand, set interest rates. Truman felt that government had a moral obligation to protect the market value of the war bonds purchased by patriotic citizens. He talked about how in World War I he had purchased Liberty Bonds, only to see their value fall after the war.
Yet by keeping bonds pegged at ridiculously low prices during the late 1940s, and early 1950s, inflation exploded.
And that is what marked the beginning of the end, as while the Fed may have gained its independence, the US presidency, acting on behalf of the banks and populism (to keep capital losses to a minimum) made it all too clear anyone who steps out of line would be fired.
Call it a Stalinist putsch.
Actually hold on, did we say Stalin lost? Perhaps we may need to revise that. And while we got closure on that, we are still confused: is the real seed of inflation in reserves?
"Forced by the rate peg issue to make a stand on the role of a central bank in creating inflation, Eccles expressed the nature of a central bank in a fiat money regime. It was not private speculation or government deficits that caused inflation, but rather reserves and money creation by the central bank." [The Treasury-Fed Accord: A New Narrative Account, Richmond Fed, Robert L. Hetzel and Ralph F. Leach]
Ok, now we get it.
And should we listen to the Fed or the... Fed?
Read the full absolutely must read Rchmond Fed narrative of the 1951 accord here. We can only hope someone in Congress can ask Bernanke for his take on the allegations made by the man responsible for the name of the current Fed headquarters.


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This is the third of a four-part series on the DRDO, which has instituted fundamental changes in the way it will approach equipment development.
Part I: New DRDO: An engagement with the military
Part II: New DRDO: Technology first, weapons later
The so-called "war on terror" since 2001 has debunked much of the conventional wisdom about what military equipment a country needs to protect its citizens.
But one piece of equipment that has repeatedly proved its relevance is the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, a remotely piloted aircraft that circles several thousand feet over a target area, continuously relaying high-definition pictures to a monitor, far away.
The UAV has shown, in counter-insurgency and in anti-terrorist operations as much as in war, the critical importance of an 'eye in the sky'.
Unsurprisingly then, India's Defence R&D Organisation -- despite having radically curbed its traditional eagerness to develop even non-essential systems -- is going ahead with developing UAVs.
The DRDO has sent out expressions of interest to several private sector companies, including the Tata Group, L&T and Godrej & Boyce, for manufacturing Medium Altitude Long Endurance UAVs, which will be developed by the DRDO. These MALE UAVs will fly at tens of thousands of feet, watching targets for more than 24 hours continuously.
There are several firsts in the MALE UAV programme. It will be the first aeronautical programme in which the DRDO will partner a private company; since independence, public sector giant, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, has monopolised this sector.
This will also be the first time a production agency (the private company that wins the contract to manufacture the UAVs) will work with the DRDO right through the development process, so that the production run can begin without any hitches.
Significant as those landmarks are, the most interesting part of the MALE UAV programme is the decision-making process, which the DRDO has adopted, in consultation with the military. This was revealed to Business Standard in a series of interviews with top DRDO scientists.
In deciding on India's fleet of unmanned aircraft, the DRDO and the military first zeroed in on UAVs that no country would sell. They agreed to develop micro-UAVs, which a soldier can carry on his back and quickly launch; and also complex Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicles, which carry full weapon-loads to strike aerial and ground targets.
A greater dilemma was over mid-sized UAVs; countries like Israel are eager to sell India MALE UAVs. But eventually, says DRDO chief controller of aeronautics and materials sciences, Dipankar Banerjee, it was decided to develop, rather than buy, MALE UAVs for two main reasons.
Firstly, the large number of UAVs the military requires creates a powerful commercial logic for a private company to manufacture them. And secondly, the DRDO feared that import of MALE UAVs might be blocked.
Banerjee explains, "We have to see what is possible under the Missile Technology Control Regime, which bans the transfer of technology and products with more than 300 kilometres range and 500 kilograms payload. And so, there may be MTCR controls that prevent us from acquiring MALE UAVs. We also recognise that the technology that we develop for the MALE UAV will go into the UCAV."
Notwithstanding the fears of technology sanctions, the DRDO knows that India's growing leverage as a major arms buyer is making sensitive technologies easier to access.
Technology planners in the DRDO say they are increasingly relying on components assembled from COTS (commercially available off-the-shelf) equipment; the DRDO will develop only strategically vital components and carry out the technologically challenging task of "systems integration", i.e. assembling a multitude of components into a functioning military system.
Before the end of June, request for proposals will be floated for the MALE UAVs. This project will be an important test for the DRDO's new thinking, it will, equally be a test for the concept of bringing a private sector company into a major project as the DRDO's industry partner.
Part IV: DRDO's secret technology wish list


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Update: As Jake pointed out in the comments you obviously need zero MQ installed for this example to work. Just 'brew install zeromq' or 'port install zmq' on OS X, or use your Linux package manager.
I couldn't find may examples of zeroMQ usage in Ruby so here is a basic sender/consumer I made to test it. First install the 'zmq' gem:
gem install zmq --no-ri --no-rdoc
Now start a worker, you can start as many as you want:
Now stick some messages on the queue:
You should get messages distributed to all the worker processes you started up. Pretty simple!