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Oracle has released its Enterprise Pack for Eclipse 11gR1, a free plug-in to the core Eclipse platform. Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse 11gR1 introduces new features for Spring, JAX-WS Web services, Oracle Database development, and new enhancements for Oracle WebLogic Server deployment and management. Built on the latest Eclipse 3.5 Galileo release (and 3.4 for compatibility), Oracle is among the first enterprise vendors to release a commercial Eclipse product atop Eclipse 3.5.
Oracle Enterprise for Eclipse 11gR1 now supports both Eclipse 3.4 Ganymede SR1 and Eclipse 3.5 Galileo GA. It also introduces a new graphical JAX-WS Bindings Customization Editor. This editor supports new and existing JAX-WS bindings files allowing you to modify web service class and method names, method signatures (wrapper versus non-wrapper), add Javadoc, and attach handlers.
New code completion templates have been added for Web Service Client Proxy references. Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse 11gR1 provides a set of ready-to-use common code snippets that you can access through code completion templates and insert in your JAX-WS-enabled Web services Java code. This is useful when you instantiate a Web service client. Likewise, new wizards are included to create a JAX-WS Java Web Service from a Spring Bean. Users can select a Spring bean from the application context file to create and wire up a WebLogic Web Service class. The generated Web Service includes delegate service calls to the Spring bean implementation.
Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse 11gR1 includes a editors for the common Weblogic Server deployment descriptor, weblogic-ejb-jar.xml as well as JSR 88 Deployment Plans. These new editors include wizards, validation, and code completion to streamline application configuration. Context-sensitive help has been added for every field in the editors to help users understand the semantics of these descriptors.
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R&C's Second Editor Drove The Magazine Forward
He raced his '34 coupe at Bonneville during the third Speed Week.
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He was the second editor of Rod & Custom magazine.
Lynn Wineland passed away on February 24. He was born 81 years earlier to the day, the son of an auto mechanic and racer who passed along the gene for building cars and going fast. As a teenager in Long Beach, California, Lynn developed his hot rod chops by tearing apart and rebuilding his first car, a '29 Model A roadster. He further developed his skills in the Air Corps. He had enlisted in 1945, at the age of 17, intending to become a pilot, but the war had just ended, so he learned aircraft mechanics instead. He was stationed at Muroc, where he worked on military jets.
He was sent to Ohio, where he discovered that speed equipment was not as common in the midwest as it was in California, so Lynn started selling So-Cal Speed Shop products to Ohio hot rodders. After the service, he enrolled in the Dayton Art Institute. From there, it was on to Detroit to work for the Ford Motor company in the styling department. By this time, Lynn was also writing articles on automotive subjects for Hot Rod and Motor Trend. Eventually, he returned to California. After attending the prestigious Art Center, he got a job in the booming aerospace industry. He also started contributing artwork to Hop Up magazine, and was hired as the graphics editor at Hop Up's offspring publication, Rod & Custom. In 1959, he became R&C's second editor, a position he held until 1961.
During Lynn's time as editor, R&C grew in size from the "little pages" digest format into a full-sized magazine. The editorial focus expanded as well under his imaginative and forward-thinking direction. He ran a story on a speed-record-breaking train and another on skydiving (the cover blurb said "0-120 and Stop in 12 Seconds" and the story caused a big stink with company management). He expanded the magazine's coverage of scale-model cars and slot cars, and introduced readers to Go-Karts and Mini-Bikes (both terms were Lynn Wineland inventions). The unorthodox choice of topics and the irreverent tone Lynn brought to R&C might meet with disapproval from some readers today-just like it did 50 years ago-but his philosophy, expressed to us when we interviewed him in 2003, was that if you're not having fun with the magazine, "there's no reason to do it."


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Celebs in Baltimore and across the U.S. expressed their delight in the Ravens' 28-13 win over the New England Patriots in the AFC Championship game, which will send them to take on the San Francisco 49ers in the Super Bowl in New Orleans. Here are a few of their reactions. Also see: • Baltimore vs. San Francisco [Pictures] • Ravens fans' viral videos [Pictures] • 52 reasons the Ravens could win the Super Bowl [Pictures] • Ravens making funny faces [Pictures] •
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Another Argument on Mars HillOctober 20, 2011
UPDATE: The matter has been resolved…go to our link here for details
In ancient Athens, there was a place called the Areopagus where philosophers and theologians of all kinds met to discuss various ideas and movements. We know from history there was a certain decorum expected there, no matter how strange the ideas. Within the Areopagus, all people were allowed to present their ideas and could leave unscathed (except perhaps in reputation). The Areopagus was found at the top of Mars Hill and the debates there are sometimes referred to as Mars Hill discussions. I am calling all the parties I will refer to in this blog back to that founding principle of Mars Hill.
I don't know how many churches in America are called Mars Hill. I do know three of them; I have been assured there are many more. As far as I know, most of these churches have no connection with each other. Some of them belong to denominations, and some do not. The only ones who seem to be organically connected are those which have been "daughtered" off one of the other churches. But this short article is about the three Mars Hill churches I do know about.
The first of these to be started was Mars Hill Seattle, pastored by Mark Driscoll. He founded the church in 1996 and to this day it is one of the fastest growing churches in America and certainly one of the largest in Seattle. I am not exaggerating when I observe that Pastor Mark Driscoll has become one of the most controversial pastors in America. He regularly makes statements concerning the books, sermons and beliefs of other Christians. Many people consider his views on family, family life and procreation to be ultraconservative.
The second Mars Hill was founded in 1999 in the city of Grand Rapids, Michigan by Rob Bell. Pastor Rob Bell is known for his books and videos and is perhaps just as controversial as Mark Driscoll, though often for much different reasons. His latest book, "Love Wins" presents a much different view on hell than most other Evangelicals. I do not know if Driscoll and Bell know each other personally (I suspect they do), but I doubt there is much appreciation of one man for the other. Let's agree to say they do not line up with each other doctrinally.
The third Mars Hill I know seems caught in the middle. It is pastored in Sacramento, California by a friend of mine, Scott Hagan. Scott planted another church years ago in the Sacramento area, then moved to pastor a mega-church in Michigan and is now back leading at Mars Hill in Sactown. I have Pastor Scott's permission to share what I am going to write next. Several weeks ago, Scott and his Sacramento congregation received a "Cease and Desist" letter which came from attorneys representing the Seattle Mars Hill Church. They were told that the Seattle Mars Hill had copyrighted the name "Mars Hill" and they demanded that the California Mars Hill churches stop using the name and any logos with similar lettering.
I was flabbergasted. First, I could not believe that a church would try and copyright the name of their church. I suppose if you wanted to make some money on the side, you could lease the name out to others. (My friend Ken thought it would be smart to copyright the name "First Baptist" and stick franchise stickers on the name and concept…I applaud his entrepreneurial spirit). But to outright disallow others from using a name that is found in the Bible because you want a monicker and label that only recognizes YOU seems the very epitome of pride and arrogance.
Second, that a church would take legal action to require other churches to comply violates both the letter and the spirit of the Word of God. The Bible is explicit when we are told not to take other believers to court when the issues regard spiritual matters. The naming of a church is certainly a spiritual matter and it is hard to see how someone could theologically skirt around this.
This issue should have been placed before the Body of Christ. Since it wasn't, I decided to do that here. I am hoping word of this spreads quickly across the country. Why should we allow Mars Hill Seattle to do this without the rest of us voicing our opinion? If you are as outraged by this as I am, then I ask you to let friends on Twitter, Facebook, and Google Plus know about it. Reprint this openly on your blogs. Call Mars Hill Seattle and let them know how you feel about this. Perhaps if we try this case in the court of public opinion we can prevent this from making evangelicals a further laughing stock in the media.
Please hear my heart Pastor Driscoll….Mars Hill was a place where anyone could freely come and present their ideas. You called your church Mars Hill with at least some of that in mind. I call you back to that principle now and publicly call you to renounce this silly and ill-advised cease and desist order.
UPDATE: Several people from Mars Hill church in Seattle have contacted me and let me know the intention of the Cease and Desist letter is to have Mars Hill Sacramento change their logo. Pastor Hagan has not given me permission to post the letter from the lawyer: However, though I am not a lawyer, the first two paragraphs make it pretty plain they are to change the Name of the church, the Name of the website and the Logo and artwork. The next two pages explain the rationale in legalese. If the original intent was only to have Mars Hill Sacramento change the artwork, that should be communicated clearly by legal counsel. At this point, it clearly says they must change their name also. That is all I can say about this issue without being able to post a copy of the document.
A FINAL WORD: Some things are taking place between the two Mars Hill pastoral teams at the moment for which I am grateful. More power and prayers to them all. If anything is resolved, I will have Pastor Scott himself post the results here so everyone can see what can happen outside of the court system. Thank you everyone for wonderful comments and discussion. I have ended the discussion for now on this topic since we have covered just about every angle. I am overwhelmed by the response.


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As you know, last Lord's day I kind of opened my heart a little bit to you just to share a perspective that I think is essential to the life of our church as we enter the nineties. And that is to reiterate the foundation of our ministry as being the Word of God. It would seem that anybody who is a part of Grace Church or anybody who knows about Grace Church would understand if there's one thing characteristic of us, it is a commitment to the systematic teaching instruction of the Word of God. That's what we're really all about. And as I examine the Word of God and as I study the Scripture and as I look as deeply as I can into the things of God, I am continually affirmed and confident that this is indeed what the Scripture says the church is to be. In fact, the church could be very simply defined in terms as its function as a place where people go to worship God and in worshiping God, of course, they study carefully the revelation of God so that they know who they're worshiping, and where they are trained to evangelize the world. There's a sense in which that's really all we're all about. We gather that we might understand the Word of God and in response to that worship we scatter that we might evangelize and reach those who do not know Jesus Christ.
In our contemporary society, the church has become many things. Churches take on many shapes and forms and many emphases and focuses but we are committed to continuing the teaching of the Word of God because we believe that is our mandate. You remember the Apostle Paul said to Timothy, "Until I come, give your attention to the Word, to reading it, explaining it and applying it." Doctrine, exhortation. And so we're committed to that. And we believe that has a direct..direct impact on life. Sometimes, as I said last week, people will suggest that to be always teaching the Word of God is to be irrelevant. It is my conviction to be teaching the Word of God is relevant, it is to be imminently relevant. It is to hit proverbial the nail on the head. Because the Word of God reveals the wisdom of God. And the wisdom of God alone speaks to the spiritual needs of man.
So last Lord's day and today and probably one other time, I've been talking about the sufficiency of God's wisdom...the sufficiency of God's wisdom. It is a very simple, a very straightforward and a very basic concept and for many of you will be repetitious and I hope somewhat a rehearsal of what you already know, but for others it might be brand new. Nonetheless, it is essential for us to remind ourselves of the importance and the priority of the wisdom of God.
Now we have a simple issue to face and that is that in the world there is the wisdom of man and the wisdom of God. And they are mutually exclusive. That becomes very apparent in 1 Corinthians chapter 1 which I noted for you last time. Paul presents there the contrast between the wisdom of God which men think is foolish and the wisdom of men which God says is foolish. God does not need the wisdom of men, and men do not want the wisdom of God. God does not accept the wisdom of men, and men do not accept the wisdom of God. They are mutually exclusive.
The church then is a redeemed community of people who live according to the wisdom of God. Which wisdom is revealed through the Word of God and applied by the Spirit of God. That's the basic formula that I emphasized last time. We believe then that every spiritual need in life, every aspect of life spiritually speaking is covered comprehensively, completely and sufficiently by the wisdom of God.
Now let me just give you a little bit of general insight into God's wisdom, all right? In Psalm 147 verse 5 which we read earlier in the service this morning, the psalmist says, "God's wisdom is infinite." It knows no limitation. It has no boundaries. It has no end. It is infinite. In Psalm 139 verse 6 Scripture says, "God's wisdom is so awesome and so great that it is utterly beyond our grasp." We cannot embrace it all. It is beyond us. In Romans 11:33 Paul says, "The depths and the riches of God's wisdom are unsearchable and past finding out." God's wisdom then is infinite. God's wisdom is so awesome and so great that it is beyond our grasp, it is so deep and so rich that it is unsearchable. We cannot find it out. It is unfathomable, we cannot plumb to its depths.
In Isaiah chapter 40 and verse 28 the great prophet of God says, "God's wisdom is inscrutable." In other words, by the human mind, inexplicable, not comprehensible, too vast for man to grasp. Isaiah's words are matched by the words of Jeremiah in chapter 10 verses 6 and 7 where Jeremiah said, "There is none like Thee, O Lord. Thou art great and great is Thy name in might. Who would not fear Thee, O King of the nations? Indeed it is Thy do, for among all the wise men of the nations and in all their kingdoms there is none like Thee."
Now the sum of all of this is to show you how great God's wisdom is. It is infinite, it knows no limitations. It is awesome, it is beyond our grasp. It is unsearchable, unfathomable, past finding out, inscrutable. And there is no individual nor is there any collection of individuals who are as wise as God is.
Now all of that to say this. Looking at the church today you might assume that God's wisdom has limitations. It only goes so far. And then we've got to add to God's wisdom man's wisdom. And so we come along and say, "Well, that's fine as far as it goes, but God's wisdom doesn't go very far and so we have to add man's wisdom, we have to add human wisdom." Now that is absolutely contradictory to everything I just read you from Scripture which says God's wisdom is unlimited. God's wisdom goes beyond what we can even grasp or understand. God's wisdom is comprehensive, sufficient, infinite, unfathomable, unsearchable, inscrutable. To say then that we supplement the limited wisdom of God with the wisdom of man is ludicrous.
Now let me say it to you as simply as I can. All spiritual issues of life are resolved in the wisdom of God. That's as simply as I can say it. All spiritual issues of life are resolved in the wisdom of God. Now God's wisdom is on exhibit everywhere. In Psalm 104:24 it says, "O Lord, how many are Thy works? In wisdom Thou hast made them all." Everywhere you look you can see how wise God is. Everywhere you look you can see how infinitely wise He is. In an infinite universe perfectly balanced, the macrocosm of the universe in which we live speaks of the wisdom of God...all the way down to the atom, the microcosm of our universe which also speaks of the infinite wisdom of God. I don't know if you know this, but there is an infinity in the largeness of the universe, and there is an infinity in the smallness of the universe. It is all infinite and reflects the infinite wisdom of God.
Not only are the works of God the evidence of His wisdom, but the words of God are the evidence of His wisdom. Everything God says is so amazingly profound and wise. Isaiah 28:29 says, "The Lord of hosts who has made us, His counsel is wonderful and His wisdom great." To say it in the vernacular, His counsel is awesome and His wisdom super...beyond that of men. Awesome, super, stupendous, monumental, amazing wisdom of God is revealed in His works and revealed in His words.
His wisdom is also exhibited in His understanding of the human heart. God's wisdom is sufficient to understand the human heart perfectly. He is without question the truest diagnostician of your condition and mine. First Chronicles 28:9 says, "For the Lord searches all hearts and understands every intent of the thoughts." Did you hear that? He not only understands the thoughts but He understands the intent of the thoughts. He understands every single heart to the absolute consummate degree. He understands about you what you don't even understand about you. He can diagnose you when you can't. In Revelation 2:23 it says, "I am He who searches the minds and the hearts." And the psalmist in Psalm 139:2 said of God that He understands my thought from afar. God knows your thought. God knows your attitude. God knows your motives. God knows your intent. He knows your spiritual condition perfectly. Psalm 44:21 says, "He knows the secrets of the heart." In Proverbs 15:11 it says, "Sheol and Abaddon, the grave, lie open before the Lord." In other words, he sees into death. He sees into the place you can't see. Then it says, "How much more the hearts of men?" If the grave and hell are open to Him, then how much more are the hearts of men open to His understanding? Luke 16:15, "God knows your hearts," it says.
He understands the heart perfectly. He understands the heart infinitely. And because of that He can understand what we do and why we do it. In Psalm 139:3 it says, "Thou doest scrutinize my path and my lying down, and art intimately acquainted with all my ways." You not only know my thoughts but You knew everything I do. You know what I do when I'm lying down, You know what I do when I'm walking on the path. And the next verse is Psalm 139:4 says, "Even before there was a word on my tongue, behold, O Lord, Thou dost know it all." You knew everything I'd say even before I had a tongue to say it. You know everything about me...infinite wisdom. God knows everything about the human heart and about every human heart. And every diagnosis of the true condition of the human heart is bound up in the wisdom of God and every solution to that situation is bound up in the wisdom of God. And so, beloved, if we have infinite wisdom from God, then it doesn't need supplementation. It doesn't need assistance from the wisdom of men.
Nowhere is the wisdom of God more obvious than in the matter of salvation. For in the matter of salvation, the wisdom of God is on display. First Corinthians chapter 1 verse 24, if you go back to that verse for just a moment talks about the fact that salvation reveals not only the power of God but the wisdom of God. And in the work of Jesus Christ on the cross, you see God's infinite wisdom. You see how God dealt with sin. You see how God dealt with justice, His own requirement of justice. You see how God dealt with righteousness. You see how God provided a perfect sacrifice for sin and yet conquered death and sin and hell. All of the wisdom of God in its facets are revealed in salvation. That's why in Ephesians 3:10 it says that in redemption or salvation God has made known his manifold multi- colored wisdom. Every aspect of salvation goes back to the wisdom of God.
And may I remind you that salvation is a three-tense reality...past tense, present tense, future tense. We were saved from past sins. We are being kept saved from present defection. We will ultimately be saved when we are made like Jesus Christ in glorification. You have justification, sanctification, glorification. All of that is salvation. That's all redemption. And all of that is the wisdom of God. It is only the wisdom of God to know the human heart and to bring to the human heart justification. It is only the wisdom of God that can know the human heart and bring to the human heart sanctification. It is only the wisdom of God that can understand man's great need and the glorious reality of glorification and bring it to pass. It's all God's wisdom at work. That's why when you go through the book of Romans and you study every aspect of the Christian life from justification to glorification...actually from election to justification to sanctification to glorification, when you study all of that, you see that it is all God's work done in God's way with God's wisdom. And that's why in the end of Romans, chapter 16 verse 27, there is a doxology that says, "To the only wise God through Jesus Christ be glory forever, amen." Because all of our redemption is the work of the wisdom of God. Your salvation was by the wisdom of God. Your sanctification is being accomplished and only being accomplished through the wisdom of God. Your glorification will be accomplished through His wisdom as well.
So what I'm trying to say to you from a practical standpoint is that we live in a day when human philosophy and human wisdom is encroaching on all our thinking and diverting us away from the Word of God and trying to satisfy the deep needs of the human heart in another way is a false satisfaction. So, is this new? No. The Corinthian church had the same problem. The Corinthians were living in a world that was full of philosophy. And they had been deeply enmeshed in philosophical entanglements. And when they came to Christ, they still had all that philosophical baggage. And so Paul writes to them right off the launching pad in chapters 1 and 2 and says, "Look, the wisdom of man and the wisdom of God are not compatible. They are mutually exclusive. So you've got to drop the wisdom of man."
Now when I talk about the wisdom of man, and when Paul talked about it, we're not talking about man's ability wisely to use physical resources. A man can take the physical resources of this earth, study them, analyze them, categorize them, develop them and use them to benefit physical life. But that's where it ends. What man can't do is understand the wisdom of the spiritual dimension. Do you understand the difference? He cannot understand spiritual wisdom. He can't leave the earthly. He can accomplish much with the physical creation...science, technology, but he can't do anything about the heart of man, about the moral character of man, about the spiritual needs of man. He can't do anything redemptive. He cannot know God. And we're talking then about that spiritual dimension. I don't want to underestimate man's ability in the natural world, he's accomplished much. But I want you to know in the supernatural world, he has accomplished...what?...nothing, absolutely nothing. That's beyond him.
So, Paul is saying to the Corinthians, when it comes to the spiritual dimension, when it comes to sanctification, redemption, justification, any of those things, when it comes to understanding the human heart and resolving its great needs and issues, the wisdom of men makes no contribution, none. And it isn't as if it needs to make a contribution. Do you understand that? The first wrong assumption is that it needs to make a contribution. It does not need to make a contribution because God's wisdom is so rich and so deep and so infinite that it needs no supplement. Now, that's what's in Paul's heart as he comes into this section of 1 Corinthians. Let's look then at 1 Corinthians chapter 2.
And he has been laying before the Corinthian church the mutual exclusivity of the wisdom of God and the wisdom of man, and now he wants to get into a little deeper explanation of this, starting in chapter 2 verse 6. And he begins, and we'll review for a moment, by saying this, "Yet we do speak wisdom among those who are perfect."
Now why does he say that? Well, he has been saying the wisdom of man is foolishness, the wisdom of man can't know God, the wisdom of man we reject, the wisdom of man cannot deal with spiritual reality. And he's also been saying that the world looks at the wisdom of God and calls it foolishness. So on the one hand he is saying we say human wisdom is foolish, and the world says divine wisdom is foolish. But in spite of that, we do speak wisdom. It is wisdom. They may think it's foolish but it is wisdom. But it is only wisdom, notice verse 6, among those who are perfect. And we pointed out to you that that refers to Christians, those who have been perfected in the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, those who have become believers...made positionally perfect before God in Christ. Among Christians, we understand that God's truth is wisdom. The world looks at it and says it's stupidity, it's folly, nonsense, pointless. They mock it. They scoff at it. They jeer at it. Or they ignore it. But it is wisdom, it is wisdom.
Then he says this, "However, it is wisdom not of this age." Not of this world. Not of this society. Not of this culture. It is not wisdom like the wisdom of this world. It isn't like that. It isn't that kind of wisdom. It isn't that earthy sensual demonic wisdom that James spoke of. It's not that worldly wisdom. It's not the wisdom of the world, nor...look at that, verse 6...of the rulers of this age who are passing away. They are temporary and temporal, they're passing away. It's not that wisdom, not the wisdom taught by earthly philosophers, psychologists, sages and wise men. No. They're passing away and with them is passing their stuff, their teaching. It's not that kind of wisdom. It is a wisdom not of this world and not of the teachers of this world.
Now listen, folks, this is so very important because some people would tell us that we need to listen to the philosophers and the psychologists and the wise men and the elite of this world because they're going to tell us what we need to know. Not so. The wisdom of God is totally apart from the wisdom of this world or the leaders of this world. There is no connection. And if you understand what I said at the beginning, and I hope you didn't tune out when I was reading those verses, if you understand that God's wisdom is infinite, then you know it's comprehensive in the spiritual dimension. If it's unsearchable, unfathomable, inscrutable, all of that, awesome, great, it is so vast as to cover everything...then what do we need human wisdom for? So it is not only that it is comprehensive and doesn't need human wisdom, it is also that is of another kind, it is of another genre. It is not like the wisdom of this world, it is not like the wisdom of the teachers of this world who are passing away. Theirs is temporal, it comes and it goes.
Listen, I studied philosophy in college and I studied not only lower division philosophy but upper division philosophy, advance European philosophy, I wandered all the way through all of that philosophical stuff, all the way from Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, down through Haeckel, Kant and on and on up until contemporary time and I wandered through all of that. And the thing that sticks out in my mind after all of those studies of philosophy is that every time you have a new philosopher, you have a new philosophy. And every time you have a new philosophy, it replaces an old philosophy. And so you have this continual changing all the time as men and their ideas pass away. That's the wisdom of this world. It comes and it goes. Even in psychology they tell us today, psychology is the new philosophy, they tell us there are about 250 theories of human behavior. Why are there so many? Well there must be about 250 psychologists who are giving their theories. Everybody has a different view. It has no continuity. It has no lasting impact.
And so the wisdom of God is different. Verse 7, you remember we looked at verse 7 last time? God's wisdom, which was hidden and is now revealed, is not something passing away but something predestined before the ages to our glory. It was before time and it will come to pass after time in eternal glory. So you take your choice. You want to mess around with human wisdom taught by human leaders passing away, or the eternal wisdom of God predestined before the world to come to fruition after the world. Take your choice. The wisdom of God, so surpassing, so far reaching.
Then verse 8, he says it another way, "The wisdom which none," did you notice that word? None...you might want to underline that. "...None of the leaders of this age has understood." They don't understand it. They do not understand the wisdom of God. I don't care how educated they are, how erudite, how brilliant, how high their IQ, how clear their thinking processes, how wide their exposure to things, even if they study the Bible. It's amazing to me how many worldly minds study the Bible and come up with everything but the truth. Have you noticed that? Reminiscent of the little boy who was going to be spanked by his father and anticipating that loaded up the back of his pants with books. His father apparently somewhat near- sighted wailed on him for a rather extended time which wailing never touched him, the books having absorbed it all. That is much like modern scholarship. They've so loaded their britches with academia that when they get hit by God they can't feel it. They are absolutely insensible to the things of God. They're like blind men in an art gallery, or deaf people at a concert. They find their seat, they feel the frame of the painting, but they haven't got any idea what it looks like or sounds like. And so they come up with all kinds of ridiculous conclusions from Scripture.
You see, the only ones who know the wisdom of God are the ones who have been made perfect in Christ. You can take the finest scholar from a technical academic viewpoint, a guy who is really bright, got all of the earned doctorates and all of the mental capacities and you can set him loose on the Bible and leave him there for a year. And if he doesn't know Jesus Christ, his conclusions will all be wrong. And you can beside him some simple humble soul who has no education at all but who is converted to Jesus Christ and in whom dwells the Holy Spirit, give him the same amount of time with the Scripture and he'll come up with the truth. Because it is not a matter of capability. Human wisdom cannot know God.
Now that's a very sweeping statement. And it is really Paul's first point here. Let me just lay it down so you'll understand it. His first point and the thing that's really on his heart that he wants you to grasp is a simple point, the point is that God's wisdom is not humanly discoverable. God's wisdom is not humanly discoverable. That's really what he wants to say here. And that's what is his primary initial point. You don't know God's will by human discovery. True wisdom is not humanly discoverable. And that's what he's saying in verses 6 through 9. So he says, verse 8, "None of the rulers of this age understood." None of the leaders, none of them, not any of them. Why? Because it can't be known by them.
Well how do you know they didn't understand it? Well look what he says in verse 8. If they had understood it they wouldn't have crucified the Lord of glory. Boy, what a point that is. That is a tremendous point. What he's saying is this, look, if the current rulers of the world, of this age, had understood true wisdom, they never would have crucified the Lord of glory, right? Because the first truth of true wisdom is that Jesus Christ was the Lord of glory. And if they had understood true wisdom, they would have known He was the Lord of glory and they would never have killed the Lord of glory. Furthermore, moving off from that highest of all considerations, consider this, that Jesus when He spoke spoke only exclusively and always the pure wisdom of God. Is that not true? In fact they even said, "Never a man spake like this man." Every time He opened His mouth, the perfect wisdom of God came out.
Now if they had known the wisdom of God, they would have recognized it. If those people in the world in Palestine during the time of Christ had been able to discern the wisdom of God by human ability, they certainly would never have killed Jesus Christ. Why? Because they would have discerned that He was speaking the wisdom of God. He was the greatest communicator that ever lived. I don't question that. There would never be a preacher on the face of the earth who would have His skills in communication. Why? Because He had no sin. He must have been the most clear minded person that ever lived, the clearest thinker, the most perfect mind. He never sinned, He had no flaws, no weaknesses, no incapacities mentally. And when it came to verbalization, He had perfect uninterrupted, unfallen connection between His mind and His mouth and not all of us have that, believe me, that is a challenge to get it from here to here, it's a short distance but a long trip. So whatever He said was the purest reflection in the most profound way of the purest wisdom of God. And so the people who heard Him then would be hearing the purest declaration in the most profound dramatic understandable terms that had ever been heard on the face of the earth. And if they didn't know He was speaking for God, then that tells you how impossible it is for man to know the wisdom of God. They couldn't know it. And the end of it was, they killed HIm. And what did they say? "Release unto us Barabbas." Now if that doesn't tell you about human stupidity, I don't know what would. Barabbas, who is he? A criminal, a nobody who never made any contribution to human society. They want him and kill that Jesus. That's how utterly blind men are to the wisdom of God.
We don't expect the world to accept the wisdom of God. I'll tell you something else, it's pretty bad when you expect the church to accept the wisdom of men. Why is it that we listen to the world spewing out all of its wisdom and assume that somehow God needs help because He hasn't quite said what needs to be said? So the most monumental indication of man's inability to understand the wisdom of God is the fact that they killed Jesus Christ who was wisdom personified...who spoke the purest wisdom that had ever been spoken on the face of the earth. And by the way, I might add, anybody else who hears the words of Christ by reading the Scripture, anybody else who hears the words of Christ by listening to a preacher or whatever from the time of Christ on, anyone who heard the wisdom of God through Jesus Christ whether by reading Scripture or listening to a preacher or the testimony of a Christian or whatever and rejected it, stands with the crucifiers and also identifies again the fact that man by his own capability cannot understand the wisdom of God...can't. How do you explain the people who reject Christ?
That's nothing new. What did they do to all the prophets in the Old Testament? When the prophets came and spoke the wisdom of God, what did the people do to them? They killed them. Jesus said you killed all the prophets. Then God sends His Son, the purest propagator of wisdom the world had ever known, they killed Him. Then God sent the Apostles, what did they do to the Apostles? Killed them, exiled them, chopped their heads off, whatever, get rid of them. Then God sends the missionaries. What do they do to the missionaries? Boil them in oil, burn them at the stake. It's always been that way. And even in our contemporary world they're still killing the spokesmen for God in some parts of the world. And others are not so volatile but are rejecting it. It simply demonstrates to you that men can't discern the wisdom of God. At best, they ignore it. At worst, they kill the people who speak it. That's the human condition. The wisdom of God is not discoverable to the human mind by any intellectual process. Did you get that? By any intellectual process. Man is not wise enough. All he can do is perceive in his own dimension. He can't get into the supernatural spiritual dimension and perceive reality.
Look at verse 9. "But just as it is written," and here Paul borrows some thoughts from Isaiah 65:17 and maybe even 64:4, pulls them together in this statement, "Things which eye has not seen, and ear has not heard and which have not entered the heart of man all that God has prepared for those who love Him." Now let me start at the end of that, okay, that last statement. "All that God has prepared for those who love Him." "Those who love Him" is simply a way to describe a Christian. We love Christ. We love God. That's the bottom line definition of Christians. We love Him. John says we love Him because He...what?...first loved us. But we love Him. "If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ," 1 Corinthians 16 says, "let him be anathema." Christians love Christ. We love God. We love Him.
Now for all who love Him, all of us Christians, God has prepared all that we need...all that God has prepared for those who love Him. So God has prepared through His wisdom all that we need...all that we need. But I want you to know something about this. Back in the verse further. The eye doesn't see it, the ear doesn't hear it, and the heart doesn't understand it. That's the point. From a human viewpoint it is not perceivable. The world can't see it. They can't hear it. They can't understand it. This is so very basic. The salvation which God has provided, the sanctification which He has provided, the glorification which He has promised, all the things that He has provided for us are not perceivable to the human unregenerate mind.
Now here we have a very very interesting statement. Three things come out of that verse 9...three things indicating the channels for receiving knowledge. First is the eye. Second is the ear. Third is the reasoning of the mind. That's the way men come to conclusions. They see it and on the basis of what they see they conclude. They hear it, o the basis of what they hear they conclude. Or they think it, they reason it, the logical process and leading to conclusion. Now what he is saying is, man comes to all his understandings through seeing, hearing, reasoning. But, reasoning will never reveal what God's prepared for those that love Him. Seeing won't and neither will hearing. So man's only three channels for receiving truth do not penetrate the spiritual sphere. That's the bottom line.
Now in dealing with purely earthly things, those channels are fine. And we all do that every day. I mean, we see things and we make conclusions about it. We say because I've seen that I understand that, I conclude that that's true, that's wise, that's accurate, and so forth, about this physical world. Or because I heard it I understand it to be true. Or because it makes sense in my mind and I reasoned it, and in reasoning it I came to the conclusion that it was right. Remember, that's fine in dealing with purely earthly physical reality. But when it comes to divine truth, spiritual reality, that doesn't work. You can't see it. You can't hear it. And you can't reason it. The wisdom of God then is not discoverable to the human mind. It isn't. Even Peter when he said, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God," heard Jesus say to him, "Flesh and blood didn't reveal that to you." You didn't get that from any human source, "But My Father who is in heaven."
Well why is this true? Let me show you. Second Corinthians chapter 4 verse 3, "If our gospel is veiled," he says, or hidden, covered, "it is veiled to those who are perishing." They don't understand it. Why? Verse 4, 2 Corinthians 4:4, "In whose case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ who is the image of God." They're blinded. Satan has blinded their minds. You can't...you can't get into that dimension, your fallenness, your sinfulness, your involvement in the Satanic system precludes you from understanding God's wisdom. So we would expect, right, we would expect the world that can't know the wisdom of God to be running around thinking up its own solution. And when they try to figure out the deep problems of mankind, no wonder they come up with 250 different theories because they can't understand it. And they call them all theories because nobody knows whether any of them are right because they can't discern the spiritual. When they try to solve those deep hurts of the human heart, they don't know how to do that. When they try to change the moral character of a person, they don't know how to do that. They can't do that. It's beyond them.
So there is man trapped in a very very discouraging situation in which he can deal with physical earthly data but has no capability to understand the spiritual dimension. Do you understand that is why everyone is so fascinated with demons? Everyone is so fascinated with mediums and spirits and witchcraft and occult? Because people long to understand what they can't understand. They want some insight into a spiritual dimension, a spiritual reality. And they can't find it. And when they play around with it, they don't get to it. The best that men can do is come up with human wisdom and Satanic blindness. They can't know God's truth. It is absolutely impossible.
And so what do they do? They develop systems of human wisdom that purport to answer all of man's problems. They invent them. They spin them out of their own minds and offer them as solutions to the problems of men. Are they? Of course not because the only solutions to the issues of man's spiritual needs come from the wisdom of God. So they are false substitutes. We understand that. What I'll never understand is how the church can let some of that stuff come in and offer itself as if it were the true solution to the issues of men's hearts. How utterly ridiculous.
Beloved, it is a poor substitute for the proper means of gaining spiritual wisdom. What is that? The Word of God. Would you look at verse 10 and we'll stop right at the first part of verse 10? What can't be known by human wisdom is known by the wisdom of God. Just look at verse 10, "For to us God revealed it through the Spirit, for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God." That's Paul's second point. His first point is true wisdom is not humanly discoverable. His second point, true wisdom is revealed by the Holy Spirit to believers.
We have the true wisdom. It's revealed by the Spirit of God. It's revealed by the Spirit of God in the Word of God. Verse 13 says, "Not the words of human wisdom but the words of the wisdom of God." So, beloved, let me say it to you as simply as I can. You need to know the wisdom of God revealed in the Word of God. My role, my task and the task of any pastor, elder, teacher, is to disseminate to you the wisdom of God revealed in Scripture. That's step one. Step two is that you diligently, faithfully, regularly study the Word of God so that you continually are exposing yourself to this divine wisdom. Step three, the Spirit of God then who is the resident truth teacher in you takes that wisdom which is now not only spoken to you but poured through you in your own study and applies it to your life. That produces growth toward Christ-likeness.
But you have a generation of people in the church who want to be entertained. They don't want to be taught. They don't want to study. They want to rec-re-ate. And then when their life isn't going right, they want to run off to somebody who can fix it. There is no shortcut. Sitting under the systematic teaching of the Word of God, diligently and faithfully on your own studying the Word of God will result in the Spirit of the Lord applying the Word of God in direct ways in your life. Most people are content to gnaw the bark of Scripture without ever getting to the wood. Most people just never do what is necessary to get to divine wisdom. And then when their life is a mess, they run to worldly wisdom which is a tragic false substitute for the wisdom of God.
Well you understand what Paul is saying, I'm sure. And the reason I want to share this with you is just to reiterate what we're all about. I don't think there's any way we can change God's plan. We are here to teach the Word. Paul said to Timothy, "Preach the Word in season and out of season." There are always going to be those people who heap to themselves teachers having itching ears, they want to hear certain things and...but you be faithful, you preach the Word...reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long-suffering, just keep doing that. Why? Because this is the wisdom of God, infinite, inscrutable, unfathomable, great, awesome, comprehensive, sufficient.
And when the Word of God is preached and taught, and when the Word of God is studied in the individual life of the believer, the Spirit of God who is the resident truth teacher and applicator moves in and makes application of that truth in the life. That then leads the person toward the image of Jesus Christ, becoming more and more like Him. That's the spiritual process. There's no other process. There's no shortcut to it. None. And it demands a precise understanding of Scripture so that we understand the truth of God properly.
We talked last week about the Puritans, that seventeenth century group of English Christians who were so serious about the Scripture. And Lance Quinn gave me a quote by one of them this week, this Puritan was accused by someone...this was the accusation, "You are much too precise." To which he replied, "I serve a precise God." And that's a very accurate statement. God is very precise and He wants things done precisely. And a precise understanding of God's Word is essential to precise Christian living. And so we endeavor to teach it with some precision so that you can study it and apply that same precise approach in your own life. And out of the diligent study and the diligent hearing of the Word, the Spirit of God will then apply the Word and you will move more and more to be like Jesus Christ.
Now, beloved, if we were to change the teaching of the Word of God, put it aside and do something else, at that point we destroy the whole spiritual process. It's completely destroyed. For you cannot study the Word of God on your own without some framework. That's why we have to have teachers. And the Spirit of God cannot apply what you don't know. So typically the average Christian goes to a church where there's little if any precise teaching of the Word of God, so they don't really have much of a theology. They study the Scripture minimally if at all, now and then reading some devotional things about it. And consequently there's nothing there which the Spirit of God can directly apply. And then when their life goes bad, where do they go? Human wisdom...to get it fixed. There are no shortcuts, not in human wisdom, believe me. They may offer you one, but there isn't one there. It's the wisdom of God.
And so, beloved, what I'm submitting to you is that all spiritual issues in the life of a Christian are resolved in the wisdom of God...all spiritual issues. So we will teach the wisdom of God, you will study the wisdom of God and in all our lives the Spirit will apply the wisdom of God. And as we become more and more of those who live the wisdom of God, we become more and more like Christ who perfectly demonstrated the wisdom of God. Let's bow in prayer.
Father, thank You for our time this morning and the consideration of these truths. Thank You for the revelation in our hands, the mystery which was hidden but which is now revealed so that we might know the wisdom of God. We thank You that Jesus Christ is made unto us wisdom. We thank You that the Spirit of God dwells within us and we have an anointing from God who leads us into all truth. O God, help us to find satisfaction and sufficiency in Your wisdom and not the wisdom of men. You know the heart, You know its thoughts, its intents, its motives. You search it afar off. You know its problems and You know its solutions. Make us faithful students of divinely revealed wisdom that we might live and become more like Christ in whose name we pray. Amen.
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Pánfilo de Narváez and Nuñez de Cabeza de Vaca
- The students will be able to identify the route that Narváez and de Vaca sailed, and the mishaps that occurred during their exploration of Florida.
Sunshine State Standards Benchmarks:SS.A.1.2.1 - SS.A.2.2.3 - SS.A.3.2.4 - SS.A.4.2.1 - SS.A.6.2.3 - SS.B.1.2.1
peninsula harbor rations barges fragile capsize viceroy
Suggested Activities:
- Have the students illustrate each of the vocabulary words.
- Have the students create mini barges using sticks and cloth.
- Have the students complete a plot diagram based on the expedition of Pánfilo de Narváez.
- Have the students pretend that they are Pánfilo de Narváez. Make a journal with entries detailing his expedition through Florida. The journals should contain a mixture of facts, thoughts, and feelings.
- Have the students determine how many miles it is from Tallahassee to Mexico City (the route that de Vaca and the other few survivors walked).
- Complete and review FCAT questions.
(Note: Actual FCAT practice passages are wrtten at the students' independent reading level. These Florida History selections are written at the students' instructional reading level. Therefore, students should not be asked to complete the questions until after receiving class instruction on the vocabulary and content of the passage. Students should also read the Florida History selection independently before answering the FCAT questions and be permited to return to the selection for rereading as they answer.)
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These rolls also make an excellent sandwich filling for a late-night snack: put a whole rollatini in a hamburger bun, squish it a bit, and rock on! Be sure to use medium, not large, eggplants, so they won't be too seedy.–Mario Batali
LC No Grill? No Problem! Note
We imagine these would still be quite nice even if the eggplant were cooked in a grill pan or under a broiler rather than over an open flame.
Eggplant Rollatini with Goat Cheese
- Quick Glance
- Serves 6
- For the pesto
- 3 garlic cloves
- 2 cups lightly packed basil leaves
- 3 tablespoons pine nuts
- Generous pinch kosher salt
- 1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
- 1/4 cup freshly grated Parmigiano-Reggiano
- 3 tablespoons freshly grated pecorino Romano
- For the basic tomato sauce
- 1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
- 1 Spanish onion, cut into 1/4-inch dice
- 4 garlic cloves, thinly sliced
- 1/2 medium carrot, finely shredded
- 3 tablespoons chopped thyme leaves
- Two 28-ounce cans whole tomatoes
- Kosher salt
- For the eggplant
- 3 medium eggplants
- 1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil, plus about 1/3 cup for brushing
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 1 cup soft fresh goat cheese, such as Coach Farm
- 1/2 cup pesto (homemade or store-bought)
- 1/4 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
- 1 cup basic tomato sauce
- Generous 2 tablespoons marjoram leaves
- Make the pesto
- 1. With the motor running, drop the garlic into a food processor to chop it. Add the basil, pine nuts, and salt and pulse until the basil and nuts are coarsely chopped, then process until finely chopped. With the motor running, slowly drizzle in the oil. Transfer to a small bowl and stir in the Parmigiano and pecorino. (The pesto can be stored in a tightly sealed jar, topped with a thin layer of extra-virgin olive oil, for several weeks in the refrigerator.)
- Make the basic tomato sauce
- 2. In a large saucepan, heat the olive oil over medium heat. Add the onion and garlic and cook, stirring occasionally, until soft and light golden brown, 8 to 10 minutes. Add the carrot and thyme and cook, stirring, until the carrot is softened, about 5 minutes.
- 3. Add the tomatoes with their juices, breaking up the tomatoes with your hands, and bring to a boil, stirring often. Lower the heat and simmer until the sauce is as thick as hot cereal, about 30 minutes. Season with salt and remove from the heat. (Once cool, the sauce can be refrigerated, tightly covered, for up to 1 week or frozen for up to 6 months.)
- Make the eggplant
- 4. Preheat a gas grill or prepare a fire in a charcoal grill.
- 5. Trim the eggplants and cut each lengthwise into 1/3-inch-thick slices, discarding the first and last slices from each one; you should have about 18 slices. Place the slices on a baking sheet and brush the slices on both sides with 1/3 cup olive oil. Transfer the eggplant over the hottest part of the grill, in batches if necessary, and cook, turning once, until soft and golden brown, 3 to 5 minutes on each side. Return the slices to the baking sheet as they are done.
- 6. Season the eggplant slices on both sides with salt and pepper and arrange the slices on a work surface with a narrow end of each slice toward you. In a small bowl, mix the goat cheese, pesto, and nutmeg until smooth and well blended. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Place about 1 tablespoon on the narrow end of each slice of eggplant and roll up, not too tightly, like a jelly roll.
- 7. Put the tomato sauce in a medium bowl and whisk in the remaining 1/4 cup olive oil. Season with salt. Spoon the sauce onto a rimmed platter or small serving plates. Arrange the eggplant rolls, seam side down, in the sauce and sprinkle with the marjoram leaves.
- 8. You can serve the eggplant slices now or refrigerate them for at least 1 hour or up to overnight to allow the flavors to marry. If you chill the eggplant, remove it from the refrigerator 30 minutes before serving to come to room temperature.
Recipe Testers Reviews
These came together easier than I thought they would. My only complaint was that the garlic was too strong—I love garlic, but half of the amount called for would've sufficed. I may be biased because I love eggplant and grill it regularly in late-summer, but this dish will definitely enter my regular rotation.
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In the shadows of Washington powder magnet Mt. Baker is the small town of Glacier, the home town of Lucas DeBari, athlete for The North Face.
First strapping into a snowboard at the age of four, DeBari's undeniable talent was first noticed in his early teens. After several successful years competing in the halfpipe, he grew jaded and decided to cut back - preferring sessions with friends in the backcountry powder to the cutthroat competition circuit. His undeniable park talent had an obvious influence on his riding in the powder
2008 saw DeBari, receive the prestigious 'Rookie of the Year' award in Transworld Magazine Rider's Poll and it saw him fulfill a childhood dream by winning the Mt. Baker Legendary Banked Slalom.
Hometown: Glacier, Washington
Where's the Best Pow You've Ever Ridden: Mt. Baker
Words to Live By: If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much space.
Nickname: Pukas
Favorite Destination for Your Sport: AK and BC
Favorite Movie: Oceans Eleven
Favorite Magazine: Snowboard mag
Favorite Piece of Your Sports History: Craig Kelly switching from halfpipe to backcountry and changing the sport
3 TNF Products You Always Pack: thunder down jacket, blue kazoo sleeping bag, triumph anorak
Cause: POW—Protect Our Winters
Proudest Moment of Your Career: winning the Baker banked slalom
Theme Music: Iron Maiden
How do You Prepare for a Day in the Backcountry? black tea in my thermos, lots of exta food and warm clothing
What Advice do You Have for Staying Safe Out There? Don't be stupid, follow your gut feeling
Favorite Place to Travel: anywhere I have never been before. I love seeing new places and meeting new people whose lives are vastly different from mine


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This is a reblog of one of Nate's posts from January of 2011 in response to the Gabby Giffords shooting. I think it's germane to the present conversation. And for the record, this is not an endorsement of the NRA by any means, just an attempt to clarify what political science has to say about interest groups in general and their effects on the passage of legislation.
Following the horrific events in Tucson last Saturday, it is little surprise that Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY) and several other members of Congress are moving to re-instate several gun control measures. Meanwhile, gun sales went up dramatically this past week, in part due to paranoid anticipation that gun control measures will pass. So how likely is gun control reform? Not very. And don't go blaming interest groups, either.
The core part of Rep. McCarthy's proposal would ban high capacity clips for handguns (like the 33 bullet clip used in the attack by Loughner). This is not a new policy, but would re-instate one facet of the so-called Brady Bill, which Congress passed in 1994 (which was allowed to expire in 2004). And Rep. McCarthy's not the only one introducing changes to the current gun laws. Rep. Peter King (R-NY) bravely wants to leave the gun laws alone, he just doesn't want the damn things anywhere near him. In the Senate, both Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) and Richard Lugar (R-IN) have expressed interest in introducing similar bills in the Senate.
So, to recap: you've got bi-partisan support for some measure of gun control laws (however modest) in both chambers of Congress, and Sen. Lugar's status as an elder statesman in the Senate should really help forge a winning coalition. For gun control supporters, so far, so good, right?
Not so much. The Republican advantage in the House is certainly not helping anything, and John Boehner has expressed no interest in putting anything on the agenda. Moreover, Rep. McCarthy has found that few members of her own party are lining up behind her. According to her, the reason is:
The NRA. They have a lot of power down here, and a lot of members here are petrified of them, that they will basically go against them in an election and make that member lose.
As satisfying as it is to attribute blame to some nefarious, shadowy interest group, there's not a lot of evidence to validate Rep. McCarthy's explanation. Simply put, there's not support for her policy in Congress because there's not a lot of support in the country.
Despite popular conception, the capital interest groups wield most effectively isn't in the form of campaign contributions, but in information. Hall and Deardorff's model of lobbying as subsidy argues that by lending policy expertise to members of Congress, interest groups allow Congressional staff to focus on other issues. The kernel of the argument is that interest groups do not change any member's minds. Their resources are too scarce to lobby opponents of an issue. Rather, they focus their efforts on members of Congress who are 'on board' but may be otherwise unable to devote time to the issue. That is, interest groups do not change the things on a member's "to do list." They just let her get to more items on that list.
This is the important point (as if the italics didn't make it obvious): The NRA, though it is exceptionally powerful (and it is), would still not be able to suppress the interests of populace if there was considerable support for renewed gun control initiatives. The problem for Rep. McCarthy and her allies: there's very little public support for limiting access to guns.
Gallup shows pretty convincingly that support for gun control has waned substantially over the previous 20 years, even in the face of other violent shootings. Remember, this period includes the Jonesboro middle school shooting in 1998, the Columbine massacre in 1999, the Beltway Sniper Attacks in 2002, the Virginia Tech shooting of 2007 and the Northern Illinois shooting of 2008 (and I'm sure I'm leaving some out). The only attack that had an appreciable effect on public opinion was the Columbine massacre, and even it had little long term effect on popular support. It seems that we can add the Tucson shootings to the list of events we find terrifying and awful, but we won't use to to reconsider our policy stances on gun laws. As Ben Smith writes, nearly 70% of respondents to a CNN/ORC poll said that their gun control opinions were uneffected by the Arizona shootings.
Maybe Rep. McCarthy will be able to convince her colleagues to reform the gun laws, and reinstate some of the initaitives in the Brady Bill. To me, however, it looks like she's going to have to be in Congress for a long time before she is able to get the same traction on the issue that she did back in 1993.


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Every entrepreneur here in Silicon Valley has an elevator pitch, a 90-second spiel to lure a potential investor or customer. But few have one like Thomas Stehl's.
He talks about 17-month-old Rosalor, a child in Haiti who arrived at a hospital weighing just 11.9 pounds. She was fed Medika Mamba, a nutrient-packed peanut butter paste made by Mr. Stehl's organization, and in just over a month she gained five pounds and new vitality.
"Rosalor now has a second chance," says Stehl. "There's 120,000 kids just like Rosalor in Haiti. Imagine what's going to happen to the country if they don't [get this] treatment."
While his concern may sound more Sally Struthers than Steve Jobs, Stehl has traveled to Silicon Valley not to solicit donations but to get advice from business experts.
A two-week program at Santa Clara University called the Global Social Benefit Incubator (GSBI) teams up social entrepreneurs like Stehl with Silicon Valley leaders experienced in taking a new idea to mass production.
The program's results reflect the challenges facing nonprofit organizations that adopt business models to serve their social mission. GSBI has graduated some tremendous success stories. But there's also a keen tension between social and business goals, and the difficulty of cracking some developing country markets makes traditional entrepreneurs wince.
"We believe that it's possible to create value in these underserved areas and markets," says James Koch, director of the GSBI. "Large multinational companies have a tremendous myopia to these unmet needs. And they have standard ways of operating ... that would preclude them from the kind of patient, diligent, discovery-based learning that needs to happen."
Social entrepreneurs may need to spend "many, many years," he says, figuring out how to design products and services that work in places like Haiti.
Some past participants of the GSBI program have found that sweet spot. The founders of Thamel.com noticed that 18 percent of Nepal's GDP was coming from remittances, but intermediaries were taking a large cut of that. Their website set up a new way for expatriates to send money back home. Within five years it will be a $100 million social business in revenues, says Mr. Koch.
Another venture named Drishtee, which offers e-health and e-government service across India, successfully scaled up from 1,000 to 10,000 kiosks.
Stehl is the coordinator of operations for Meds & Food For Kids (MFK), which also wants to scale up.
In Haiti, MFK buys peanuts from local farmers, manufactures it into "Medika Mamba," and sells it to healthcare providers there – mainly international NGOs and visiting medical missions. But it wants to make more to bring the cost per unit down.
"A big 'aha' moment for me was hearing Tom [Stehl] say they were at 10 percent of their production capacity. There's this needed food and 90 percent of capacity is not being distributed. And the question is why?" says Michael Looney, one of Stehl's mentors.
Stehl first answered that demand was slowly ratcheting up, but then dived into the challenges. The French firm Nutriset now makes a similar product called Plumpy'nut in the nearby Dominican Republic, selling it at a slightly lower price.
Hearing this, Stehl's other mentor, Brad Mattson asks point blank: "Does anyone really need your product?"
Nutriset's profits leave the Haitian economy, says Stehl. He argues that economic development is a key goal of MFK.
Social entrepreneurs run the risk of figuring out a business model only to see a larger company swoop in with superior resources. It's long been argued that social entrepreneurs make excellent beta testers for corporations, says Nora Silver, director of the Center for Nonprofit and Public Leadership at the University of California Berkeley. "Social entrepreneurs can be closer to the ground ... have more trust," Dr. Silver says, adding that an advantage "they don't have is the money to invest to scale up."
Stehl's mentors speak frankly: Don't expect buyers to pay much extra for "made in Haiti."
Nonprofits are not oblivious to generating revenue. Some data shows that 51 percent of revenue across the nonprofit sector now comes from fees for services. Government and philanthropy make up the rest.
MFK's largely nonprofit customers seem to value social impact in their purchasing decisions. "We are willing to pay a slight premium in price to support a product using local commodities and local production," says Rebecca Heidkamp, a nutritionist with GHESKIO, a nonprofit health organization.
Stehl's mentors, accepting that social mission trumps obvious business logic, brainstorm ways to bring price to parity.
Using Haitian-grown peanuts adds cost because a large portion are infected and must be thrown out. But peanuts aren't the most expensive input – it's dry powdered milk. The mentors propose asking US dairies to donate free milk in exchange for publicity of their support to a worthy cause. That could get price parity long enough to ramp up production.
"Generally social entrepreneurs are passionate about an issue, and they are good at startups," says Silver. "But it's very hard to give birth to a new business while at the same time giving thought to scaling up."


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|Why can't strikefighters make an independent warp transit?
|by nelliott » Wed Aug 20, 2014 12:33 pm
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Every passage touching on this in the Starfire books that I've found just categorically states that fighters can't make an independent warp transit without stating why.
I'd always assumed it was because fighters were either a. too small or b. lacked some sort of needed warp drive. But after re-reading, neither of those explanations work. For the first, recon drones and courier drones are both smaller than fighters yet can make unassisted warp transits. For the second, everyone but the Orions discovered warp transit by accidentally stumbling through a warp point and finding themselves in a different star system, no special warp drive required.
While this question hasn't exactly been keeping me up at night, is anyone able to shed some light on this? Am I missing something really simple?
|Re: Why can't strikefighters make an independent warp transi
|by Duckk » Wed Aug 20, 2014 2:10 pm
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IIRC, it's because their drive fields were too weak to protect them from the stresses of transit. It took a quite a while to get RDs tough enough to be able to survive even a single transit, let alone a second one to get back.
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|Re: Why can't strikefighters make an independent warp transi
|by Roguevictory » Thu Aug 21, 2014 10:41 pm
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I thought s did one transit to reach the area they scan and one to return the data to the fleet that launched them?
Honestly I would be shocked if someone somewhere in the Starfire universe hasn't developed a warp capable Strikefighter but the known powers haven't encountered them yet AFAIK.
I personally thing that by the Exodus/Extermis era they probably could develop warp capable strikefighters if they wanted to put the resources into the project but given the way they are focused on building bigger and bigger warships plus the fact that if I remember correctly, and I'm almost certain that I do, strikefighters can't use the new more advanced sublight drive developed between Insurrection and Exodus I don't think anyone in the Alliance is seriously trying to make warp capable strikefighters.
|Re: Why can't strikefighters make an independent warp transi
|by nelliott » Fri Aug 22, 2014 9:45 am
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Courier drones were already warp capable at the beginning of In Death Ground, e.g. the survey ship Argive called for assistance in the Bug Home Hive after being ambushed by sending a drone through the warp point in the very beginning of the book. I'd expect that the drive field on a small drone wouldn't be near as strong as one on a (larger) fighter, especially given the performance expected out of a fighter in terms of acceleration and maneuverability.
Incidentally, this raises another question as to why you couldn't program one of these drones to just turn around after going through a warp point, returning with scans. This wouldn't work for new warp points, where the stresses and such haven't been mapped, but why wouldn't it work for known warp points?
If it's a question of drive field strength, is the drive field that protects a ship from warp transit the same as the one the original (accidental) discoverers of warp nodes had fitted? I remember a few sentences on the intertial compensators in fighters, but not one on drive fields.
Thanks for your thoughts!
|Re: Why can't strikefighters make an independent warp transi
|by coldsteel » Wed Dec 31, 2014 10:19 pm
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The reason strikefighters cannot make warp transit is because the 'intermediate' drive they have, while similar to the reactionless drive used by ships, is not powerful enough to survive transit. That's why external ordnance slows fighters down (remember the issue with catching gunboats in IDG?).
Courier Drones are vastly simpler devices. They transit, then reboot, reorient on a beacon, then keep going single-mindedly to deliver their mail. Recon Drones are advanced versions of CDs, and needed higher tech capability to transit, scan, then come back with a degree of success.
The ships that found warp points had a 'zeroth' version of the reactionless drives, which allowed transit, but nowhere near the speeds attained currently.
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|Re: Why can't strikefighters make an independent warp transi
|by DDHvi » Thu Jan 08, 2015 10:14 pm
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Speaking of games, there is one that started as a method of providing (simulation) practice in those financial seminars where you pay to improve your finances. The "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" series of books goes into basics that most of us should know, the game gets it into our mental reflexes. Our finances have improved, since it was learned and practiced.
PS, the game can be thought of as "Monopoly" after major weight lifting training, and is just as much fun.
PPS, at first the game was $195, I just got on Ebay and was low bidder for it over a few months until someone didn't outbid me. Current price is about a fourth of that.
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|Re: Why can't strikefighters make an independent warp transi
|by fallsfromtrees » Fri Jan 09, 2015 1:14 pm
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A little bit off topic, but I found that it tended to focus on real estate too much, and not on other forms of wealth management.
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|Re: Why can't strikefighters make an independent warp transi
|by HB of CJ » Fri Feb 20, 2015 5:04 pm
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Maybe it is because Fighters are too small? We never do learn what they mass, only that most fighters carry only one pilot and that command fighters carry two or three?
Also, are drones much bigger than fighters? Again, we never really learn how much bigger. Perhaps they mass 10x what a fighter does and therefore are stronger?
Thus being heavier and stronger perhaps thay have a much stronger and more powerful drive? We do know they have much more endurance/range than a strike fighter.
Bug/Gorn gunboats are many times larger than strike fighters. Big enough that some weapon systems can target them. We do know that Bug gunboats can make very long trips.
Finally, it is quite possible that such strike fighter limitations, (including the inability to transit) is because the Authors wanted it that way? This works for me.
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|Re: Why can't strikefighters make an independent warp transi
|by coldsteel » Fri Feb 20, 2015 7:56 pm
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Per info I have seen back in the day (when David worked with TFG on Starfire), CDs are not much bigger than 2 people. The limit on fighters was a gameplay limit, not authorial license; Strikefighters able to transit warp points were WAY too powerful. Almost as bad as SBMHawks.


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Rogers, American Super Soldier. Evans, might be most commonly know
for is role as the Human Torch, the snarky comic relief in the
Fantastic Four movies.
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I've been working on a bunch of little projects recently that individually don't amount to much, yet. I should have something to post about that soon.
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