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Serves: Makes 4 servings
- ½ medium ripe avocado, peeled, pitted, and cut into cubes
- ½ cup mayonnaise (low-fat is fine)
- ¼ cup sour cream (low-fat is fine)
- 1 tablespoon finely chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley
- 1 tablespoon chopped fresh chives
- 1 teaspoon finely chopped fresh tarragon
- 2 green onions, ends trimmed, green and white parts finely minced
- 1 clove garlic, minced
- 1 teaspoon anchovy paste, or to taste
- 1 tablespoon white wine vinegar, or to taste
- 2 to 3 drops hot pepper sauce, or to taste
- 1 tablespoon water, or more if needed
- 1 large or 2 medium heads butter lettuce (enough for 4 cups of bite-size lettuce pieces)
- 2 ears fresh corn, in the husks
- 4 medium radishes, ends trimmed, thinly sliced (about ½ cup)
Procedures:Invented in the 1920s at the historic Palace Hotel in San Francisco, this creamy dressing was created in honor of actor George Arliss, who was appearing in the stage play The Green Goddess. The original recipe consisted of mayonnaise, anchovies, vinegar, green onions and herbs. In this modern update, we've included avocado to enrich its silky texture and enhance the lovely green color. This dressing is best made one day in advance to allow the flavors to blend together. It's delicious over crisp salad greens, tomatoes or chilled seafood, and is also a lovely dip for crudités.
Preheat the oven to 450°F.
For the Dressing: Combine the avocado, mayonnaise, sour cream, herbs, green onions, garlic, and anchovy paste in the bowl of a mini food processor; process until very smooth.
With the processor running, add the vinegar and hot pepper sauce; continue processing until fully incorporated. Again, with the processor running, add the water to thin the dressing to the desired consistency. (Note: For crudités dip, adding water may be unnecessary.) Season to taste with salt and white pepper, then refrigerate until needed.
For the Salad: Wash, dry, and crisp the lettuce; refrigerate until needed.
Trim both ends of the corn. Place in the oven and roast until the kernels are tender when pierced with the tip of a knife, about 25 to 30 minutes. Remove and let cool until just cool enough to handle, then remove the husks and silk. Allow to cool completely.
Use a sharp knife to cut the kernels from the cob. Discard the cobs, and reserve the roasted corn kernels.
Select four, large, beautiful outer lettuce leaves and set aside. Tear or cut the remaining lettuce into bite-size pieces.
Combine the lettuce pieces, corn, and radishes in a medium mixing bowl; toss gently to mix evenly.
Place one of the reserved whole lettuce leaves on each of four chilled salad plates. Mound the salad mixture onto the leaves, dividing it evenly between the plates.
Just before serving, taste the dressing and correct the seasoning as needed with additional salt, pepper, and vinegar. Drizzle the dressing attractively over the salads, and serve immediately. For a buffet presentation, line the outer edge of a chilled medium platter with the whole lettuce leaves, and mound the salad mixture in the center. Serve the dressing on the side, and allow your guests to help themselves.


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NOTE: The subject of this blog was developed into a presentation that can be found at: Building an Effective Data Warehouse Architecture
What is the best methodology to use when creating a data warehouse? Well, first off, let's discuss some of the reasons why you would want to use a data warehouse and not just use your operational system:
- You need to integrate many different sources of data in near real-time. This will allow for better business decisions because users will have access to more data. Plus this will save users lots of time because they won't waste precious time retrieving data from multiple sources
- You have tons of historical data that you need to gather in one easily accessible place in which it will have common formats, common keys, common data model, and common access methods.
- You need to keep historical records, even if the source transaction systems does not
- You can restructure the data and rename tables and fields so if makes more sense to the users
- You need to use master data management to consolidate many tables, such as customers, into one table
- Users are running reports directly against operational systems, causing performance problems. Instead, create a data warehouse so users can run reports off of that. Plus, the data warehouse is optimized for read access, resulting in faster report generation
- Having an easy to use data warehouse allows users to create their own reports without having to get IT involved
- Improve data quality by cleaning up data as it is imported into the data warehouse (providing more accurate data) as well as providing consistent codes and descriptions
- Having one version of the truth, so each department will produce results that are in line with all the other departments, providing consistency
- Having a data warehouse makes it easy to create business intelligence solutions on top of it, such as SSAS cubes
- Companies that have implemented data warehouses and complementary BI systems have generated more revenue and saved more money than companies that haven't invested in BI systems and data warehouses
Once you decide to build a data warehouse, the next step is deciding between a normalized versus dimensional approach for the storage of data in the data warehouse.
The dimensional approach, made popular by in Ralph Kimball (website), states that the data warehouse should be modeled using a Dimensional Model (star schema or snowflake). The normalized approach, also called the 3NF model, made popular by Bill Inmon (website), states that the data warehouse should be modeled using an E-R model/normalized model.
In a dimensional approach, data is partitioned into either "facts", which are generally numeric transaction data, or "dimensions", which are the reference information that gives context to the facts. A key advantage of a dimensional approach is that the data warehouse is easier for the user to understand and to use. Also, the retrieval of data from the data warehouse tends to operate very quickly. The main disadvantage of the dimensional approach is that In order to maintain the integrity of facts and dimensions, loading the data warehouse with data from different operational systems is complicated. Plus, if you are used to working with a normalized approach, it can take a while to fully understand the dimensional approach and to become efficient in building one.
In the normalized approach, the data in the data warehouse are stored following database normalization rules. Tables are grouped together by subject areas that reflect general data categories (e.g., data on customers, products, finance, etc.). The normalized structure divides data into entities, which creates several tables in a relational database. When applied in large enterprises the result is dozens of tables that are linked together by a web of joins. Furthermore, each of the created entities is converted into separate physical tables when the database is implemented. The main advantage of this approach is that it is straightforward to add information into the database. A disadvantage of this approach is that, because of the number of tables involved, it can be difficult for users both to join data from different sources into meaningful information and then access the information without a precise understanding of the sources of data and of the data structure of the data warehouse.
The final step in building a data warehouse is deciding between using a top-down versus bottom-up design methodology.
Kimball is a proponent of an approach to data warehouse design described as bottom-up in which dimensional data marts are first created to provide reporting and analytical capabilities for specific business areas such as "Sales" or "Production". These data marts are eventually integrated together to create a data warehouse using a bus architecture, which consists of conformed dimensions between all the data marts. So the data warehouse ends up being segmented into a number of logically self-contained and consistent data marts, rather than a big and complex centralized model. Business value can be returned as quickly as the first data marts can be created, and the method lends itself well to an exploratory and iterative approach to building data warehouses so that no master plan is required upfront.
Inmon is one of the leading proponents of the top-down approach to data warehouse design, in which the data warehouse is designed using a normalized enterprise data model. He has defined a data warehouse as a centralized repository for the entire enterprise. Dimensional data marts containing data needed for specific business processes or specific departments are created from the enterprise data warehouse only after the complete data warehouse has been created. In the Inmon vision the data warehouse is at the center of the "Corporate Information Factory" (CIF), and the newer DW 2.0, which provides a logical framework for delivering business intelligence (BI) and business management capabilities. The work is a long-term, construction will last a long time, but the return is expected to be a long-lasting and reliable data architecture.
Kimball is the most frequently used methodology, especially if you are using the Microsoft BI stack. It is popular because business users can see some results quickly, with the risk you may create duplicate data or may have to redo part of a design because there was no master plan. With Inmon there is a master plan and usually you will not have to redo anything, but if could be a while before you see any benefits, and the up-front cost is significant. And another risk is by the time you start generating results, the business source data has changed or there is changed priorities and you may have to redo some work anyway.
Note there are hybrid solutions consisting of the best of breed practices from both 3rd normal form and star schema such as the Data Vault.
More info:
Why & When Data Warehousing? Is it Relevant?
Top Five Benefits of a Data Warehouse
The 10 Essential Rules of Dimensional Modeling
Information architecture is a matter
LinkedIn discussion KIMBALL/INMON and ARCHITECTURE
LinkedIn discussion What formal data architectures do we have that represent a compromise between Inmon and Kimball?
Microsoft EDW Architecture, Guidance and Deployment Best Practices
Kimball vs. Inmon…or, How to build a Data Warehouse
Kimball versus Inmon: a peace offer?
Inmon vs. Kimball – An Analysis
Data Warehousing: Similarities and Differences of Inmon and Kimball
Video SQLBI Methodology
The Kimball bus architecture and the Corporate Information Factory: What are the fundamental differences?
LinkedIn discussion What is the difference between Inmon and Kimble point of view of the data warehouse?
Which Data Warehouse Architecture Is Most Successful? (2006)
Kimball or Inmon in an enterprise environment
Data Warehousing Battle of the Giants: Comparing the Basics of the Kimball and Inmon Models

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The Southern California Falcons face the Arizona Grand Snakes for a playoff berth today at Redondo Union High School.
A Falcons team official said the team includes boys who come from poor neighborhoods and broken families. "My heart breaks at some of the things they've faced in their personal lives," Keith Johnson said.
The squad is "a tight-knit group of underprivileged youth from South Los Angeles who are beating the odds, overcoming tremendous personal adversities to position themselves to compete against the best on a national level."
The 4 p.m. kickoff is at 800 Diamond St. in Redondo Beach. The winner goes on to represent the region at the national Pop Warner Championship game at Walt Disney World in Florida.


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Late today and tonight southeastern Wyoming will have a good chance of strong and possibly severe thunderstorm activity. Large hail, heavy rain and damaging winds will be possible from most any thunderstorm. Elsewhere, conditions look mostly dry, mild and breezy for today. Scattered showers and thunderstorms will be possible across all of eastern Wyoming on Thursday. Southeast Wyoming will also likely see morning fog. The remainder of Wyoming on Thursday looks to again be mild and mostly dry.


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Saturday, September 16, 2006
Weekend Cat Blogging - Kelly, Glinda and the spider
The girls found a spider a few mornings ago. (You can kind of see it, to the left in the picture.) This was apparently the best toy they ever had - especially Glinda loved it and played for at least an hour. Until the spider broke. As spiders tend to do.
9 comments:
- Åsa said...
Åh så fina! Jag tror nog att varje kattägare känner igen blickarna :) Din blogg är så trevlig att döda tid på, speciellt under helgerna när du har med katterna som extra "krydda"!
- September 16, 2006 12:30 PM
- SweetSarahJ said...
Oh, Kelly is so beautiful! The long hair is just gorgeous. They make such a cute pair. BTW, catsyth is hosting this weekend at http://www.ptank.com/catsynth/index.php
- September 16, 2006 8:43 PM
- Jelly said...
Your cats' faces are SO CUTE!!
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- Shannon said...
My cats cannot resist the urge to eat their spider toys almost immediately, so I'm impressed with a full hour!
I love the intense look on their faces. It's so feline-universal!
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ha, those two are a match made in heaven!
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Kelly är en sötnos och Glinda en raring... gillar deras blickar...så vilda...see you in okt..
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Kelly and Glinda have the most beautiful faces, and they are so adorable.
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Your Girls have such sweet faces - I'll bet they can get into trouble all on their own, tho :-)
Nice blog - loved all the recipes. T.
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Allen Wooten named All-Free Press Coach of the Year.
R.J. Nelson
R.J. Nelson was among several Ayden-Grifton Chargers who began the season with an injury.
During the first six games, the senior running back played with a recovering broken hand � the same first six games the Chargers lost.
Ayden-Grifton entered the conference season on a six-game losing streak to face Greene Central before sweeping the Eastern Carolina 2A for the title. The Chargers went on to finish 7-7, earning third-round NCHSAA 2A state playoff action.
Nelson�s cast came off as the Chargers pulled off a 28-27 come-back win over the Rams in overtime. He rushed for 144 yards that game but finished the season with 1951 and All-Conference honors (Eastern Carolina 2A Conference Offensive Player of the Year).
�It feels good because I know what I�ve been working for all year I accomplished,� Nelson said of the selection. �I can�t thank my team enough; if it wasn�t for them, I wouldn�t have the awards I have today.
�Running is not a big part of the game, it�s about my line.�
The 2013 All-Free Press Defensive Player of the Year remembered not only his team�s contest with Ayden-Grifton, but Nelson himself.
�I had a lot of fun with him that game,� Shyheem Carmon said with a smirk.
Shyheem Carmon
Carmon, a two-year varsity linebacker, led Greene Central�s defense with 80 tackles, 11 tackles for loss and six forced fumbles.
When the nominations for All-Free Press were entered, he wasn�t sure he�d make the cut.
�I was thinking I wasn�t going to get it because (The Free Press) covers a lot of good teams,� said Carmon. �When Wooten told me (I was selected), I was speechless. It�s an honor.
�I came a long way since middle school.�
Carmon is hoping to attend ECU to study criminal justice, with the dream to play football at the college level. He said he is �not going to give up on it.�
When the season started, he said the team�s goal was only to do well.
�I know we were much-doubted by everybody,� Carmon said. �We were 3-9, but at the end of the day, it was a tremendous turnaround for us.�
Allen Wooten
When Allen Wooten took over the Rams team, Greene Central was on a nine-game losing streak going back to the previous season.
The spell eventually stretched into 16 games, but the Rams didn�t fold.
�It shows what kind of character these gentlemen have,� said Wooten, who took the reins after nine years on the North Pitt coaching staff. �Starting with seven straight losses, it took a lot for us to mesh � coaches and players, but we ended having a successful run there at the end of the conference.
�I think it showed that we progressed.�
Greene Central only had a 3-9 record when the Rams hung up their jerseys this year, but the final trio before they earned a playoff berth was meaningful.
First of all, Goldsboro was the favorite to beat GC in the final regular-season finale this year, clinching the third spot in the conference and the last playoff ticket.
But Brandon Belcher blocked a potential game-winning field goal to help elevate the Rams into the playoffs � an ending no one would have predicted.
Greene Central lost a controversial contest to Ayden-Grifton to start the conference season. Had the Rams won that game, both AG and GC would have finished 4-1 in the EC2A � with Greene Central winning the tie-breaker.
But that�s in the past, and the Rams fought their way into the state playoffs.
�I think it showed what kind of will power they had, what kind of dedication they had,� Wooten said of this year�s team. �They were learning a whole new system of offense and a whole new system of defense.�
First-year coach Wooten admitted he thought Chargers� coach Paul Cornwell would be the favorite for Coach of the Year. The pair has a history, as Cornwell was Wooten�s offensive line coach when Wooten played football at North Pitt.
Wooten said he�s carried over values from Cornwell�s coaching into his own philosophies.
�I always use him as a crutch to lean on,� Wooten said. �Hopefully, we can have some good battles for the next 15 or 20 years.�


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Wildlife Commission schedules black bear meetings
The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission (NCWRC) will hold a series of public meetings in October to discuss the 2012-2022 Black Bear Management Plan, including possibly creating a Piedmont bear hunting season, extending the length of bear hunting seasons, increasing the bag limit in some areas, and receiving public comments on inequities between bear hunting with aid of bait that currently exist between hunters with hounds and still hunters. The NCWRC�s 10-year Black Bear Management Plan creates a structured decision-making process for recommendations regarding bear hunting regulations. The management plan will assist the Wildlife Commission in making decisions about hunting to maintain healthy bear populations consistent with habitat where bears occur, and balance the consideration of citizens.
�Our goal with these meetings is to provide citizens an opportunity to voice their opinions and present ideas,� said Dr. David Cobb, chief of the NCWRC�s Division of Wildlife Management.
Two of the four scheduled meetings will be in the eastern part of the state, at Martin Community College in Williamston on Oct. 1 and at Bladen Community College in Dublin on Oct. 2. All meetings will begin at 6:30 p.m. More information about North Carolina�s black bears and bear management is available online at www.ncwildlife.org/bear.
Boat registration fees to increase
Fee increases and changes in vessel registration and titling resulting from the N.C. General Assembly�s passage of Senate Bill 402 will go into effect Oct. 1. The new fees for registering and titling a vessel in North Carolina will be:
1-year registration for boats less than 26 feet - $30; boats 26 feet and greater - $50
3-year registration for boats less than 26 feet - $90; boats 26 feet and greater - $150
New or transfer titles - $30
Two other vessel registration changes will take effect Oct. 1 as well. One will require an owner of a vessel documented with the U.S. Coast Guard to register in North Carolina if the vessel is in the state for more than 90 consecutive days. The second change eliminates the free, one-year vessel registration renewal for those who have a commercial fishing license. To renew a vessel registration, commercial fishing license owners will pay the normal rate, which is based on the vessel length. Senate Bill 402 requires that 50 percent of the new registration fees be allocated to the new Shallow Draft Navigation Channel and Lake Dredging Fund.
Oct. 3 � The Cool Springs Environmental Education Center will host a Fall Bird ID Workshop from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. A local expert will teach the basics of birding and will guide participants through different forest communities while sighting birds. For persons age 16 and up; $5 fee. To register, phone 252-670-0090 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Oct. 5 � The 9th Annual Neuse River Backwater Open fishing tournament will be held on the waters of the Neuse River and its tributaries. The artificial lure tournament will showcase flounder, speckled trout, red drum and striped bass. Proceeds from the event will benefit Religious Community Services of New Bern which assists needy persons in Craven, Jones and Pamlico counties. Go online to www.nrbwo.com for more information or to sign up.
Oct. 11 � The Vanceboro Chapter of Ducks Unlimited will host their annual membership banquet at Mike Woolard�s shop off Hwy. 43 about 2 miles north of Vanceboro. The evening will kick off with a social hour at 6 p.m., followed by a catered dinner, silent auction, raffles, games, a live auction and much more. Tickets, which include a year�s membership in DU, are $50 for individuals and $70 for couples. Contact Don Hughes (252-637-8701) or Ed Wall (252-671-3207) for more information.
Hunting Seasons
Dove: through Oct. 5; Nov. 25-30; Dec. 13 � Jan. 11
Rails, Gallinule and Moorhens: through Sept. 28; Oct. 5 � Nov. 21
Deer (eastern region): archery through Sept. 27; muzzleloader Sept. 28 � Oct. 11; gun Oct. 12 � Jan. 1


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Google Launches Streamlined Image Search
Like how Google Image Search works on a tablet? Good news, then. That simplified experience is coming to Google Images on the desktop.
Out With The Old
Currently, viewing an image through Google Image Search is a multistep process. You do the search, see several images and can hover to get a slightly larger thumbnail:
If you want to see a larger version of the image, you have to click on the image, which brings up a bigger version superimposed over the actual web page the image is from:
In With The New
With the new system that's coming out today, selecting an image after a search brings up the larger version in a central preview area:
This makes it easy to quickly skim through multiple images, rather than the existing system that requires a lot of clicking, then closing windows to go back and select a new image.
Fewer Publisher Visits? Phantom Visits?
The change also suggests that fewer people may visit the actual pages hosting the images, which might be a concern to publishers. Anticipating this, Google's post about the change says that it has added new ways to reach the image owner's site that supposedly increase visits:
The domain name is now clickable, and we also added a new button to visit the page the image is hosted on. This means that there are now four clickable targets to the source page instead of just two. In our tests, we've seen a net increase in the average click-through rate to the hosting website.
When talking to Google about the change, I was also told that by not loading the hosting page, Google is no longer generating "phantom" visits that were a concern to some publishers, one of the biggest complaints Google said it heard from publishers about Google Images.
"That was causing problems for some webmasters, and so we thought we can do away with that. That's gone now," said Pierre Far, a webmaster trends analyst with Google. This, along with new options to reach publisher sites, is "a net win for webmasters," he said.
Of course, publishers who might not feel this is a net win have an easy solution. They can block Google from indexing their images with just two lines in a robots.txt file, as Google covers here.
When do you get the new look? Google says it is rolling out live now worldwide and should be available to everyone over the coming days.
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Coding vs. DesignJune 05, 2003
Why coding and design don't mix, and news of two new Zen Garden submissions.
The focus on browsers lately has been good for thinking about what's important for users and developers, and what lies ahead, but you can only prattle on so much before realizing it's just an intellectual discussion. While the technology may change, it's only a means to an end and what really counts is how you use it. Moving on to another subject near and dear to my heart: design.
I recently did an interview for zlog in which I stated that coding is counter–intuitive to a designer (and I just noticed that Ronan has a new one posted with Ben Hammersley — I'm in good company.)
Scott Steffens posted a thoughtful response to the interview that bears consideration. He argues that the designer is the best person to plan the layout and interaction, and one of his strongest points is that a designer who doesn't know the code can't possibly know what is or isn''t possible to achieve.
I believe to a certain degree, he's right. When designing for a technological medium, you have to consider the technology and make sure you understand its strengths and limitations.
This holds true for any medium — if you paint a picture with oil paints, you study concepts like fat over lean and get used to working with malleable paint that doesn't dry for days or weeks. If you don't know any of this going in, and all you've used in the past are watercolours, you will quickly get frustrated in your efforts. The result won't be pretty. Different methods of creation have their strengths and weaknesses, you need to know what they are before you can use them effectively.
But the problem, jumping back to the coding focus, is when you start adapting your layout to fit a design you know you can code. The tools are getting in the way of your creativity.
Consider old–school table layouts. The laborious process of chopping up images for each cell, then tediously aligning them row by row and adding up colspans and the like is a very mechanical process. Tools are available that allow a designer to accomplish almost anything they need to with these methods. A good handle on the code will only improve this process, and while there are surely layouts that cannot be handled effectively through these automatic tools, for many purposes they get you 80 or 90% of the way there.
The remaining few percent is what will distinguish a good web designer from a pixel–jockey. The former understands relative font sizing, window scaling, and clean code. The latter cares more about the visuals and can satisfactorily call their work complete without ever having to touch that last 10%. Some will say that's good enough, others will deride them for leaving the job unfinished.
Currently no such choice exists for CSS–based design. Which, some argue, is a good thing because it prevents those who fall into the latter category from mucking with it too seriously. Which, I'd argue, is precisely why a project like the Zen Garden was necessary, to show the latter category what they're missing out on.
Having a visual CSS editor isn't going to make the world a better place. It will enable people who code improperly to continue doing so. It still won't make better designers of the coders using CSS now. But it will make life easier for people who wish to have it both ways. §
And speaking of design, do not miss the two excellent new Zen Garden submissions: "Wrapped in Burlap" by John Simons and "What Lies Beneath" by Micheal Pick. You may remember Mike's previous submission, "Dead or Alive". These two designs are phenomenally creative examples of how radically different the same designer can approach the same problem. There's some incredible talent in this one, and if you're in the New York area, do peruse his portfolio. §
Reader Comments
You know, I'm all for designers NOT getting their hands dirty with the CSS. Why? well, I'm a terrible designer (e.g.: my personal site). But I'm excellent coder. I've also lots of experience in taking a designer's cherished Illustrator/Photoshop file and recreating faithfully in the web medium. So for purely selfish reasons, in that I get paid to do such things, I don't want designers to do that part. On the other hand, having worked with designers with little-to-no web-design experience, it can be frustrating to try and explain to them the rules, or paradigms of the web, as a medium. What's more important, it seems to be, is that a designer understand the medium, rather than know how to translate it out. I don't expect a print designer to know the intricate details of printing - that's for the printer to know. I do expect a designer to know how color-choice might affect that, etc. Same thing for the web.
The other side of it is specialization: the web is now a mature enough platform that people can specialize in what they do. Each specialist needs to know a fair amount about the platform they work in, but not the details of what the other specialists do.
I totally agree w/ Stv. However, the sad thing is that some (or a lot, depending on who you speak to) employers demand a designer/coder package in one person, not understanding it takes two different schools of thought of each. As this a comic illustrates. I think some people can pull it off just fine (Dave here being one of them), but I think the best case is to have designers design, and coders code.
Andy, thanks! Glad to hear you're enjoying it, and I'm sure I speak for the submitters as well.
Eric, I'd beg to differ. The logic behind creating a chopped-up table from Fireworks is linear. You divide the design into rows and columns, and chop away. Software can handle that. If you've ever tried to build a more complex CSS layout, things like tiling background images, overlays, and other assorted niceties are anything but linear. It takes a human brain to see a design and decide the best method to break down images, and I just don't see software duplicating that process. I may be wrong. I'd like to be wrong. But we'll see.
Steve, I work with the same kind of designers. Conversely, I'm a web designer that only deals with print from time to time, so I try to keep that in perspective when I talk to them. I understand the limitations of spot and process colour, but I sure don't know all the technical bits and reasons why things have to happen the way they do. I just assume print designers are coming at the web with the same sketchy knowledge. I try to be as receptive to suggestion as possible when printing, since it's assumed the people I deal with know more than I do. The hope is that they'd extend me the same courtesy. Sometimes it happens, other times…. well. Here's how it goes when that happens.
I don't expect a print designer to know the intricate details of printing - that's for the printer to know.
On the contrary - print designers know quite a bit about the printing process, even though the same divide exists between printers and designers as exists between coders and designers. Print is one of those things where there's a million tricks - if you know them, you're golden, but missing one can cost you in time and money - I know guys who have a solid five years print experience and they're considered beginners.
I'm like Dave, where I've ended up doing more web than print. I love print, but the opportunities haven't come up as much, and its a tough market to crack for the reason I mention above.
I think it's a Very Good Thing to know the limits of your medium, no matter what it is - the trick is to forget the limits for the creative process and remember them for the execution process.
i just wanted to say that this is both a great read and a terrific website you have here, dave! was just checking out the latest css-designs on the Zen Garden and cant believe some of the sweet designz all of you guyz have created….. wow.
i usually dont comment on a whim, but i really wanted to simply drop a quick line….
I am increasingly amazed and impressed at the talent shown through CSS Zen Garden in both design and artwork. For someone like me, who would love to design and create such a page, lacks the necessary skills (and talent :) ) in creating the graphics for the design.
I liked to say well done to all those artists that submitted designs and that I am slightly envious of their talent and skill.
Keep up the good work!
THere is no reason someone couldn't make a WYSIWYG page editor that used only CSS. In fact it would probably be easier than writing an editor to make pages the old way. However, it's not about designing/coding pages, its about designing/coding sites. Sites are no longer just directories full of pages, they are conherent applications and effective use of CSS is a big part of it.
the sad thing is that some … employers demand a designer/coder package in one person, not understanding it takes two different schools of thought of each.
A candidate that excells in both disciplines will obviously provide the employer with the best designer – one who can design for the medium. Another design field, landscape architecture, mixes design with botany, two otherwise unrelated fields. I wouldn't hire someone to design a city park unless they were experts in design AND plants. Just like the printing comment – I would question the credentials of a print designer who doesn't know the intricate details of printing.
But in this subject, as with most things, it's a matter of degrees.


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Happy Saturday everyone! It's been a while since we met and I'm happy to bring to you November's Feature Designer, JoyLynn of Blue Heart Scraps.
I may be a bit bias because I've been a part of JoyLynn's team in the past, but she is totally rad. One thing I love about Blue Heart Scraps is the 'paper' style to her designing. It one of my favorite ways to scrap, but enough about me and what I like, let's talk about JoyLynn!
What is your design process?
It varies from kit to kit. Most times, I start with a general idea of what theme I want to go with and then try to find colors and create elements that fit my idea of that theme. Other times, I run across colors or pictures (either online or in real life) that I just can't stop loving on, and try to build something from them.
What do you use to create your designs?
Photoshop CS 5, Adobe Illustrator (though no where near as much as I wish I could!), my Wacom Tablet, and every once in a while, I'll remember that I have a copy of ArtRage I can open up. 😉
Describe your work space
Messy, it's horribly disorganized! So, lately I've been taking over the living room recliner and side table (to hold my mouse and tablet), until my husband gets his portion of the computer desk figured out.
What motivates you as a designer?
Seeing the beautiful pages created with my products and knowing that I had a hand in helping someone create a lasting memory.
While it's always fun to hear about designers designing, it's more fun to hear about the fun tidbits totally unrelated to designing! With that said,
What is the last book you read?
Last book completed was Emma's Secret by Steena Holmes. Currently reading Fallen by Lauren Kate.
Tea or Coffee?
Tea, please…especially if you're making a Starbucks run. Then I'll have a venti, soy, no water chai with an extra pump of chai, please. Yum!
Can't say I agree with JL on the chai bit (though I know MANY who LOVE chai!) but I totally love tea, just give me a strong black with a splash of milk and I am one happy scrapper.
Do you craft outside of the digital world?
I can cut and paste some crafts with my kids…does that count? 😉
Totally counts.
Any hobbies in addition to designing?
Reading, catching up on older seasons of TV shows (I'm currently flying through Glee. It's really not that bad if you fast forward through most of the singing, LOL) and video games…because sometimes, I just need to lose myself in something mind-numbing.
I definitely know reading is a hobby, especially since you are one of the fearless leaders of the GingerScraps book club. I love to read too, but haven't given myself the time to do so in too long, sadly.
Show us YOU in one shot!
My youngest child is a snuggler…so most nights you'll find me just like this;
How do you feed your sweet tooth?
Lately, it's been this yummy goodness!
(and because I was forced to take that picture, I totally had to eat one now, LOL)
Seems like as good of an excuse as any!
What is the most used app on your phone?
Besides Facebook? Probably Plants Vs. Zombies 2…but I blame it all on my boys (which is a lie, I barely let them play it on my phone, and when they do it has to be on their own name…not letting them get ahead of me on MY game, LOL)
What is your *favorite* kit that you've designed?
Let's Get Reel! My family and I are HUGE movie fans. Because our boys are young, we don't always get to the theatre as often as we like…but family movie/tv nights happen quite often around here!
What is your favorite thing about GingerScraps.net?
The atmosphere. Everyone is so sweet and friendly and supportive. It's one of the nicest places I've been a part of online.
Truth! It really is a very friendly, supportive place! We've got a great group of people and new scrappers (AND designers) regularly join us here, growing our community.
Last but not least, with Thanksgiving coming this week everyone is focusing on what they are thankful for, so it is only right that I ask you, what are YOU most thankful for?
What am I most thankful for? The chance to be ME. I have an incredible family who love me regardless (even though I disappoint them often), two of the most precious boys the world has ever been blessed with (who have taught me more about compassion and acceptance and unconditional love than I have EVER thought possible), lifelong friends who make me laugh so hard I cry and then cry until I laugh (and have offered such a selfless dose of support and understanding this past year). Life isn't always easy and happy and filled with sunshine and rainbows and unicorns who poop lollipops – but I am so ridiculously blessed!
I love your honesty and colourful descriptions, and I have to agree with you; life isn't always sunshine and lollipops but the people that support and love us truly are a blessing and help us through!
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We come in our study of the Bible to 1 John chapter 5 tonight. We actually are entering the last chapter of 1 John. It was many, many years ago when I first went through 1 John. In fact, so many years ago that I wanted to do it again before I wrote the commentaries on 1 and 2 and 3 John. It's been a wonderful, enriching study for me and we will go on to the brief epistle of 2 John and then 3 John. And after that I will begin to write the commentary on these three epistles as well.
This is, as you know by now, if you've been in our study of 1 John, very foundational, very basic. This marvelous epistle has a very clear-cut purpose. It has the purpose of demonstrating the tests by which someone can know they're a Christian. Chapter 5 verse 13 is really the key verse to the whole epistle. "These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God in order that you may know that you have eternal life." This is a letter written to provide assurance of salvation. And as I said, it's basic. In fact, there's a sense in which it's very basic and very simple. And as we've been saying all along, it cycles back through the same themes again and again and each time John cycles back through he broadens and widens our understanding of those themes.
As we come in to chapter 5, however, there's a special note here that appears only in this opening section of this chapter. And it is the issue of the overcomer. Let me read you the opening five verses, you follow along. "Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God and whoever loves the Father loves the child born of Him. By this we know that we love the children of God when we love God and observe His commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments and His commandments are not burdensome. For whatever is born of God overcomes the world, and this is the victory that has overcome the world, our faith. And who is the one who overcomes the world? But he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God."
Now these five verses obviously direct our attention to this issue of being an overcomer. And I want to talk about that a little bit. It's a wonderful word and it needs a definition in our minds and in our hearts. We need to view ourselves as overcomers. It has immense implications for us as we will see.
There are so many wonderful titles in the New Testament by which we describe ourselves. We are called Christians which originally a term used to describe believers in Jesus Christ in a somewhat derisive way. They were really called Christians by pagans, little Christs. But it's become the most familiar of all terms to describe us. We are also in the Scripture called children, children of God, children of light, children of the day, and children of obedience. We are called believers, or the faithful. We are called friends of Jesus Christ. We are called brothers and sisters. We are called sheep. We're called saints, holy ones. We are called soldiers. We are called witnesses. We are called stewards. We are called fellow-citizens. We are called lights in the world. We're called the elect of God. We're called the chosen. We're called ambassadors of Christ. We're called ministers. We're called servants. We're called disciples. We're called heirs. We're called joint-heirs. We're called branches in the vine. We're called members of the body of Christ. We're called living stones by which the temple of God is built. We are called epistles, living letters. We're called temples. We're called beloved. We're called followers. And there are more.
And all of those terms and each of those terms give us the definition of who we are. And in a sense it takes all of those terms to express the fullness of what it means to belong to God through faith in Christ. I suppose we could say that the composite of the significance of all those terms sums up the total description and definition of those who are Christ's.
But there's one other title that isn't generally a part of the short list that most of us would refer to, and that is this term that is used a number of times in the text I just read. We are overcomers, twice in verse 4 it identifies us as those who have overcome the world, and then once again in verse 5. We are overcomers. This is a descriptive term. If you would like another term you could use the term victors. If you want yet another term that may be a little more contemporary, you could use the term winners. We are the winners. Very descriptive.
Let me give you a definition of this concept, to start with, and then we'll look at some of the characteristics of it. The word here for overcomes, nikaoin the Greek, it means to conquer, it means to win, it means to defeat, it means to gain victory. The noun from nikaois nikefrom which we get the word Nike. The Greeks loved the word nike. They actually had a goddess by the name of Nike, and this was the goddess of victory, the goddess of triumph. And the Greeks actually believed that victory could not be achieved by mortals, but only by the gods. Only the gods were ultimately unconquerable. I mean, true and ultimate and final and permanent and lasting and sort of eternal victory only belonged to the gods. They were the only ones who could conquer and become unconquerable. For men, there might be a triumph here and a triumph there, but there would also be mingled in between defeat and failure. Only the gods could reach the level of being unconquerable.
Playing against the background of that kind of thinking in the ancient times, it was a pretty stunning thing to assign to Christians the kind of unconquerability that belonged only to the gods in that culture. We like that word even in English. The United States military forces have for many, many years called their missiles Nike Missiles. And then of course we have Nike shoes that are supposed to lead you to triumph in whatever athletic endeavor you're engaged in.
The word is used by our Lord Jesus Himself in John 16:33, He uses the verb form when He says, "In this world you shall have tribulation, be of good cheer, I have overcome the world." I have won out in conflict with the world. I have defeated the world. I have conquered the world. I am the victor over the world. And, of course, there is a form of that word used in one of our most favorite portions of Scripture, Romans chapter 8. At the close of that great eighth chapter where Paul is speaking about the unconquerable position of Christians in Christ, he says, verse 37, "In all these things we are more than conquerors," that's the Authorized. The NAS says, "We overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us." Paul says, "We're not just overcomers, we're not just nike, we are huper nike, and he compounds the word and adds huper which would be in English saying, "We're super-conquerors. We are the ultimate conquerors." We have through faith in Christ entered the condition of being unconquerable. We are super conquerors. We are, to put it another way, invincible, unconquerable. So much that, "Neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, or any other created thing shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." There is nothing that can conquer us, not tribulation, distress, persecution, famine, nakedness, peril, or sword. We are super-conquerors. We are the unconquerable. We are the overcomers.
Reading history many, many years ago when I was a student, Lord Nelson came back and reported to the British Admiralty, the great victory over the French in the Battle of the Nile. And he said this, it's a great quote, "Victory is not a large enough word to describe what took place." And I would venture to say that that is true of our salvation, victory is not a large enough word to describe what took place. And so, when Paul spoke of the victory, it wasn't just victory, it was super victory, it was huper nike. As we think about that, as we think about that concept in relationship to our Christian blessing, we can kind of break it down a little bit and let's look at what that actually meant.
First of all, at the point of our salvation and from then on we have become super conquerors of Satan...super conquerors of Satan. We have overcome the evil one. As it says in Revelation 12:11, "They overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb." They overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony. And that's not only true of Tribulation saints, that's true of all of us. In the fifteenth chapter of the book of Revelation, John sees a sign in heaven and in verse 2 he sees a sea of glass mixed with fire. He looks into heaven and he sees those who have come off victorious from the beast and from his image and from the number of his name standing on the sea of glass holding harps of God and singing the song of the Lamb. As John gets a glimpse of heaven, he sees the redeemed there who are super-conquerors who have triumphed over the worst that Satan could possibly bring and they stand on the sea of glass in the presence of God.
In the view of heaven that comes in Revelation 21, verse 7 says, "He that overcomes shall inherit these things." Overcomes get not only triumph over Satan, but a triumph over Satan that results in an eternal heaven. And all that heaven is becomes ours. We are the true victors.
John certainly affirmed this idea earlier in his epistle if you go back to chapter 2, for a moment. And verse 13, "I'm writing to you young men," and he's not talking about chronological age, but those who spiritually are growing up. "Because you have overcome the evil one." How so? Verse 14, end of the verse, "The Word of God abides in you and you have overcome the evil one." As soon as you believe the truth, you defeat his lies. As soon as you embrace the power of God, his power is neutralized.
And so, we are overcomers because we have overcome the evil one. He is, as Paul says to the Romans, under our feet. He is defeated foe. The Scripture says, "Resist the devil and he will flee from you." He is vanquished.
Not only have we become overcomes of Satan as powerful as he is, but we have become overcomers in the realm of life as well. That is, we have overcome death. I think the most notable portion of Scripture that speaks to that is 1 Corinthians 15 and just a reminder, it says at the end of verse 54 in this great fifteenth chapter of 1 Corinthians, "Death is swallowed up in victory. O, death, where is your sting." The sting of death is sin, the power of sin is the law but thanks be to God that gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Victory over death because victory over sin, victory over law. That is to say we triumph over what sin wants to do to us. We triumph over what the law wants to do, the perfect, holy, righteous Law of God crushes us because we break it. It sentences us to damnation for our sins. But in Christ we triumph over the Law, over sin, over death which is the penalty the Law imposes.
And here, back to 1 John, having touched those other elements of overcoming, we come to verse 4 in chapter 5, "Whatever is born of God overcomes the world." We overcome Satan, we overcome death, including sin and the Law, and here we overcome the world. Three times it says we overcome the world. This is also an echo of what John has said earlier. Back in chapter 2 verse 15, "Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him." If you're still loving the world, if you're still attracted to the world, if you have not yet overcome the world, the love of the Father is not in you. "For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not from the Father but is from the world and the world is passing away and all its lusts, but the one who does the will of God abides forever." We have overcome the world. It no longer overwhelms us. It no longer is the object of our attraction.
In chapter 3, "See how great a love...verse 1...the Father has bestowed on us that we should be called children of God and such we are. For this reason the world doesn't know us because it did not know Him." What that means is it has no ongoing relation to us. We're in the world no longer of the world. Its allurements don't pull our hearts. We are drawn by the Holy Spirit. We are drawn by the love of Christ. We are drawn by righteousness. We are drawn by the Kingdom of God, not the kingdom of this world. We love not this world, but the kingdom of God. And so, in the very real sense we who are in Christ have overcome the world.
Verse 13 adds to our understanding of this. "Do not marvel, brethren, if the world hates you." You are so much not a part of the world that you have become its enemy. You do not love the world and it is so evident to the world how alienated you are from it, that you are perceived to be the enemy. Chapter 4 begins by reminding us, as you will remember, that many false prophets have gone out into the world but we don't listen to them. Verse 4, "You are from God, little children, and have overcome them."
You talk about being an overcomer, you have overcome Satan. You have overcome in defeating, triumphing permanently over Satan the whole of the kingdom of darkness. All the demons and all the demonic lies and falsehoods. You have overcome death and having overcome death also overcome the power of sin and the penalty of the Law. You have overcome the world, in the sense that you don't love it, in the sense that you are so alienated from it that it perceives you as its enemy. You have overcome the world also in the sense that you no longer are deceived by the false prophets who ply their lies and deception in the world. But being from God and having an anointing from God and knowing the truth, you have overcome false teachers.
Then this great statement of verse 4 and chapter 4, "Because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world." We are from God. And he who knows God listens to us. This is an extensive identification of the believer. And we are not just sort of barely overcomers, we didn't just barely eke by. It is not a fragile victory that we enjoy. We didn't win by one point in overtime at the buzzer. We are super-conquerors. And there never will be another game where we lose our victory. We are the reigning champions and the championship which has been won for us in Christ is a forever championship.
When it says there in chapter 5 verse 4 that we have overcome the world, we're talking about the world...we'll go back, we've talked about it a lot in John, I'll just briefly identify it. But what it is really saying is that we have overcome the invisible spiritual system of evil. When we talk about the world in the New Testament, we're not talking about politics as such, we're not talking about education as such, we're not talking about culture as such, civilization, society. We're not talking about human structures of any kind formal or informal. What we're talking about is the spiritual system of evil that exists without God, opposed to God, dominated by Satan, ruled by him as the prince of the power of the air, the ruler of this world. It is the system of Satan but it is also the system of man dominated by carnal ambition, dominated by pride, dominated greed, dominated by self, dominated by pleasure, by lust and desire, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, the pride of life. It is a system by definition that is ignorant of God in open rebellion against God, run by Satan set up on earth.
And as a Christian we have overcome that. Literally the text says in verse 4, "Whatever is born of God overcomes the world, is continually overcoming the world." Present tense...is continually overcoming the world. Very important that the Greek uses that tense. It is habitual, it is permanent, it is ongoing. We are permanently triumphant, permanently the conquerors. We can never lose. The victory can never be taken from us. We may fail along the way, we may fall victim to the enticements of the world here and there. We may lose some skirmishes but the great war has been won, the victory is ours. That is a settled fact forever, never to be altered. "We have been forever delivered," Colossians 1:13, "from the domain of darkness and transferred into the Kingdom of God's beloved Son." We're no longer of the world, though we are still in it. We do not love the world. The truest and purest part of us, the new nature, the expression of the power of the Spirit of God in us drives us toward God and toward the Kingdom of God and the love of God and the love of His Word and obedience. The world still assaults our fallen flesh and that's why we long for the day of resurrection.
Philippians 3:20 puts it this way. "Our citizenship is in heaven." That's where our hearts are. That's where our Father is. That's where our Savior is. That's where our name is written. That's where our room is being prepared. That's where we're headed.
We struggle though in the world. Paul struggled in Romans 7 against the power of his fallen flesh. He struggled under terrible persecution by the world, beaten, shipwrecked, stoned, whipped, assaulted, attacked, despised, hated, jailed, put in stocks, finally executed. But none of that took away his victory because the worst that you could ever do to a believer would be to kill a believer and to do that is to usher them into the full honors of their eternal triumph. It's really an astounding thing. The worst you could ever do to us is the best. If they take our lives, they free us from the debilitating flesh which clings to us. They can never take our salvation. Nothing can ever separate us from the love of God in Christ. Nothing can ever break our faith. Nothing can ever cause a believer to stop believing. And even if they kill us, all they've done is freed us up to enter the glorious realities of spiritual perfection in the presence of Christ.
And so, we are overcomers. We are victors. We are conquerors, by definition. And that's why, in a sense, Satan, the world, illness and even death itself are somehow not a threat to us. You can't find yourself too overwhelmed by them, too distressed by them, too overwrought with anxiety and concern. They are temporary enemies, temporary annoyances. But the victory is won and some day we'll enter in to our eternal life and we will be given an inheritance, the Bible says, that is the very inheritance that Jesus receives because we will be joint heirs with Christ. Whatever failures come and go here, we conquer in Him.
So we see the definition of an overcomer. Now John wants to give us the description of an overcomer. How do you know you're one? This is important for us, especially if you got a grip on what I just said. I can't think of anything more wonderful than living my entire life knowing that Satan can never defeat me, the world can never defeat me, sin can never defeat me, the law can never defeat me, and death can never defeat me, right? I am invincible, not in myself, but in Christ. My sins have been paid for in Christ. The penalty of sin has been paid in full. I have been granted eternal life. I have been given a permanent faith and trust. I have had planted in my heart an affection for the things of God, a new nature which longs for those things that are holy and righteous and good and just. I am a new creation. Nothing will ever change that. I have been born again. I cannot be unborn. I possess the life of God. I don't love the world. I am not any longer vulnerable to lying damning deception because the truth is in me and the truth teacher has taken up residence in my life, the Holy Spirit. I am invincible. I am an overcomer.
It's nothing for me to be proud about, it's something for me to be humbled by because I do not deserve that. I didn't deserve it when Christ made me an overcomer and I don't deserve it now because I, with Paul, still look at myself and say, "O wretched man that I am."
Well then if you don't deserve it, and if there's still sin in your life, and if occasionally you still fall prey to the temptings of the world and the allurements of Satan and you still sin, how can it be said that you have conquered them? It can be said that I've conquered them because the Bible says that I've conquered them in Christ...in Christ. But if I'm not perfect, what is it then that signals that I am a conqueror? If I still sin and fail, how do I know that I am an overcomer? It's a very important question cause if you look at your life like I look at mine, you don't see on a day-to-day basis some kind of spiritual invincibility, do you? You wouldn't rise up and say, "I will tell you this, as far as sin goes I am unconquerable?" I don't think so. You wouldn't even come close to saying that. You would understand that if you are put into the category of a super-conqueror, it is by grace, right? It is because a righteousness not your own has been granted to you, put to your account, the righteousness of God in Christ. It is because God in mercy and grace has made you a super-conqueror in spite of what you are, not because of it.
But nonetheless there have to be some ways in which I can look at my life and say, "I either am or I am not an overcomer." And there are three, and you won't be surprised by these if you've been with us in our study. Overcomers are characterized by the same three things that John has been talking about since chapter 1. The three tests by which anybody's salvation can be evidenced. Number one, faith, faith in the truth. Number two, love, love to God and to others. And number three, obedience to the Word. And here we find John back in the same zone he's been in through this whole epistle. He weaves together these same three. We've been saying it again and again, there are moral tests, love and obedience, there are doctrinal tests, a right understanding of your sinfulness and faith in the only one who is a provision for sin, namely the Lord Jesus Christ. In order to know that you're a Christian you have to examine what you believe about Christ and you have to look at your life and see there the evidence of love and obedience. These have been themes woven through the whole epistle. Here we find them again.
Let's take the first one, faith. Go back to verse 1. Here is again the definition of somebody who is an overcomer, "Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God." That's simple enough, isn't it? Overcomers are those born of God. That is to say the reason we are overcomers is because we have been given new life. We have been begotten by God. We now possess the life of God. And the only people who are born of God, the only people who received the new birth who are regenerate are those who believe that Jesus is the Christ. Overcomers then are those who believe that Jesus is the Messiah, God in human flesh. And, of course, that's an abbreviated statement. Jesus is Christ and you can fill it with the whole thing, all that's true about Jesus is implied there. Overcomers believe in Jesus. If you don't believe in Jesus, you're not an overcomer. Very, very basic.
"Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God," ek to theo ge genneti(???), literally in the Greek "out of God has been begotten," great statement. The emphasis on "out of God." Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ out of God has been begotten. Simply say, everybody who is an overcomer is begotten of God, everybody who is begotten of God believes that Jesus is the Christ. Conversely, if you do not believe that Jesus is the Christ, if you don't believe in Jesus, all He is as the Son of God, and Messiah and Savior, you haven't been begotten of God and if you haven't been begotten of God you are not an overcomer, you are still under the power of Satan, under the power of death, under the power of sin and the law, under the power of the world, and under the influence of the false teachers who move through the world.
In John chapter 1 verse 12 it says, "As many as received Him, as received Christ, to them He gave the right to become the children of God, even to those who believe in His name." You believe in the name of Jesus Christ, God makes you His child. You are literally out of God, begotten when you believe in Jesus Christ.
The point is, overcomers are those who believe in Jesus Christ as God, Messiah, Savior. The combination here is important in the language, "Whoever is believing has been begotten," literally. Whoever is believing that Jesus is the Christ, the Greek says, has been begotten. Whoever is now believing is by that very believing giving evidence of having been begotten. That is to say, and this is so important, continual believing is the result not the cause of the new birth. Did you grab that? Arminian theology says that you can be born again as long as you keep believing. You will be born again as long as you keep believing. I don't know if you ever see Gene Scott on television. That's the heart and soul of his theology. If you keep believing, God keeps saving you. As soon as you stop believing, he stops saving you. That's not what this says. What this says is whoever is believing that Jesus is the Christ has been begotten of God. It is your believing that proves that you've been begotten. What you received at salvation was a permanent faith, not a temporary one. "For by grace are you saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is...what?...the gift of God." God gave you a permanent faith.
You say, "Well what about people who stop believing?" Well John dealt with them, didn't he? Back in chapter 2 verse 17, "They went out from us because they were not of us, if they had been of us they would have continued with us, but they went out from us that it might be made manifest they never were of us." If you stop believing, it was never saving faith. Those who have been begotten of God are believing. Our present continuing faith is a result and therefore the evidence of our past having been begotten by God. If you have been born again, if you have been regenerated, if you have been given new life by God, it will manifest itself in an ongoing faith in Jesus Christ.
You may look at your life from time to time and you may see some failures in the category of moral test. You may say, "Well I don't see the love I should see at this point, I don't see the obedience I should see." Sometimes you're going to back yourself up to that one first great proof. But I still believe in Jesus Christ. And if I still believe that Jesus is the Christ with all that that means, then I have already been begotten by God and that's the evidence of it. It is a terrible deception and unbearable burden to say to someone, "As long as you keep believing, God will keep saving you." Who wants to live in that kind of fear and with the kind of God who rewards works making faith into some price if paid thus purchasing salvation?
Jesus is the Christ. He is the Messiah. He is the One who is the object of our faith. It's not enough to believe the Old Testament. It's not enough to be a faithful Jew. It's not enough to believe the best of the light that you have. People that are born of God were born of God because they believe Jesus is the Christ, that He is God incarnate, that He is the eternal second member of the Trinity, the Son manifest in flesh. This again is not new. Back in chapter 2 verse 22, "Who is the liar but the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ. Anybody who denies that Jesus is the Christ is a liar." This is the antichrist. So if somebody comes along, it might be a well-meaning Jew, might be a Jehovah's Witness or a well-intentioned morally acting Mormon who denies the deity of Jesus Christ, denies the Christ of Scripture, that's antichrist...that's antichrist. Sometimes you hear evangelicals, you know, they get on television and they say, "Well, you know, these people are going to get there even though they have a different view." NO, they're not going to get there if by there you mean heaven. This is antichrist to deny that Jesus is the Christ. Verse 23, "Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father. The one who confesses the Son has the Father also."
Go over to chapter 4 verse 2...well, verse 1, "Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they're from God because many false prophets have gone out into the world." Now how you going to know the difference? "By this you know the Spirit of God, every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God. And every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God, this is the spirit of antichrist." They're not going to fool you, verse 4 again, because you're from God, little children...children of God...and you have overcome them.
Go down to verse 14 of chapter 4. "And we beheld...we have beheld and bear witness that the Father has sent the Son to be the Savior of the world. Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him and he in God." It's right back to the same thing again. As I said, John cycles back through these things. It is not just a mere intellectual knowledge of the fact of the incarnation, but a full-heart acceptance of all that Jesus Christ is. It is to believe that the man Jesus is God, the Anointed One, the Messiah, the Savior, the Redeemer, the final sacrifice for sin and to commit one's life to Him as sovereign Lord and Savior. It is to recognize that there is no other Redeemer, there is no other Savior. All such are born of God. They are God's overcomers. Anybody who believes this way belongs to God.
And then you can jump down to verse 4, "For whatever is born of God overcomes the world." And he picks up the same idea that we saw in verse 1. "Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God." Then verse 4, "And whatever, or whoever is born of God is the overcomer." And this is the victory that has overcome the world, our faith...our faith. In verse 5, "And who is the one who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God."
Very clearly then what John is wrapping up here is that the first test to give evidence or proof that you're an overcomer is your faith...is your faith. If you believe that Jesus is the Christ and all the fullness of that, you're born of God. If you're born of God, you're overcoming the world. And what is it that makes you an overcomer? It's your faith. It's because you believe that Jesus is the Son of God. John just goes around and around that same great truth. And this is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith...even our faith, he pistos, our faith, the faith of us...the faith of us, now in the Greek, the faith of us. What does that mean? Could mean our personal act of faith, it also could mean THE faith which is ours, the Christian faith. You say, "Which?" I think both. I think there's a purposeful ambiguity here. It is our faith in the true faith, isn't it? We talk about Christianity as the true faith, don't we? And we're not talking about a subjective faith, we're talking about an objective body of truth. Jude calls it "The faith once for all delivered to the saints, the Christian faith."
What is it that overcomes the world? It is that which makes us the children of God. What is it that makes us the children of God? It is believing that Jesus is the Christ. And what is that? That is believing in the revealed faith, a faith once for all delivered to the saints. So it is our faith in the Christian faith, it is our faith in the true faith that makes us overcomers. Our victory then starts at the moment of our salvation and we are given a permanent faith that never ever runs out. Moments of questioning, moments of doubt...sure. And the Lord is gracious to us in our time of doubt. Doubt is a temptation. Doubt is a sin. But if you are a true Christian, doubt will always be a wrong response, a sinful response because if you are God's, your salvation is forever and so is the faith that He gave you. He has defeated every enemy. He has triumphed over Satan, demons, the kingdom of darkness, death, hell, sin, the Law, the world, false teaching and you are a super-conqueror cause you've been given a permanent faith. And that faith, the one who is believing, is because you have been begotten of God. And having been born of God, as verse 4 says, you are an overcomer and your victory was gained by our faith. And who is the one, verse 5, who has overcome the world but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.
In the eleventh chapter of Hebrews, we don't have time to go there but what is the great commodity that is celebrated in Hebrews 11? Faith...by faith and then you have all the heroes, right? By faith Enoch and by faith Abraham and by faith Sarah and by faith Moses and on and on and on it goes, by faith, by faith, and you come in to chapter 12, "We're surrounded with so great a cloud of witnesses," and what do they witness to? They witness to the power and validity and permanence and strength and endurance of faith. You could do whatever you wanted to those people, you could saw them in half, Hebrews 11 says, you could martyr them in any form by any means and their faith endured, their faith endured. They literally are the heroes of the faith. Their faith was unbreakable. Job summed it up, he said, "Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him." You can't break my faith. And that was the great test, you know, Satan goes to God and say, "You know, You blessed Job and he...he worships You, but if You didn't bless him, he'd hate You." Well Satan doesn't understand enduring quality of saving faith which had been granted to Job. And so God said, "Go ahead, do whatever you want short of killing him, and you'll see that nothing can separate him from Me, and nothing can break his faith." And that's exactly what happened. Satan went after him, destroyed his family, everything he owned and possessed, inflicted him with these terrible illnesses. Though He slay me yet will I trust Him.
You can't destroy this faith. It endures. And that's the message of Hebrews 11, you can read it on your own. By faith they went through the sword and the fire and all the other horrors of persecution and hatred and animosity from the world and Satan. But their faith was firm to the end, even though the chapter says they hadn't received the full revelation of Christ that we've received. Nonetheless, enduring faith, unbreakable faith, unconquerable faith, overcoming faith is the evidence of regeneration and new life. So overcomers are characterized then by faith in the Son of God.
Now that's just the first point, but I don't want to go any further because I'll get involved in that and keep you too long. Next time, next Sunday night we're going to talk about the next two proofs or evidences that you're an overcomer...love and obedience. Boy, the time does go rapidly as we heard in the baptistry tonight, it all goes so fast when you're studying the Word of God.
Father, thank You again for Your truth. I want to thank You for these dear people who are precious to You and to whom You are precious and to whom Your Word is precious who have come tonight to hear You speak, not to hear me speak, I have nothing to say, but to hear You speak because they love You, they love Your Word. They are the overcomers. They are the invincible, the unconquerable. They are the ones who are triumphant in Christ, who always triumph in Christ. They are the steadfast, they are the immovable. Not because of who they are or who we are, because rather You are gracious to us and You have saved us with an eternal salvation. You have loved us with an everlasting love. You have granted us an unceasing grace and mercy. You have given us an enduring faith, a persevering trust that cannot be broken. If it were up to us we would break it, but it isn't, You saved us when we were unworthy and incapable and you keep us though we are yet unworthy and incapable. We remember what our Lord said, that all that the Father gives to Me will come to Me and I will lose none of them. We are kept by Your power, Scripture says, not our own until that day when we see Jesus face to face. We thank You that we triumph in Christ and we are the super-conquerors because we have been given the privilege of participating in His great victory and we are unworthy. Fill our hearts with unceasing gratitude and longing for the perfections of heavenly glory and we thank You in Your Son's name. Amen.
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text: Famed tattoo artist Mark Mahoney is going strong on the Sunset Strip By DiAngelea Millar Reblogged from: http://www.latimes.com Mark Mahoney has inked some of the top names in Hollywood. Operating out of an upscale tattoo parlor near the western end of the Sunset Strip, the owner of the Shamrock Social Club has become the go-to man for celebrities seeking tattoos. On a recent Thursday evening, wearing a fashionable gray suit over brown alligator-skin shoes, the lanky 56-year-old strolled through the busy studio, decorated with three-leaf clovers and portraits of the Virgin Mary, on his way to his customary 5:30 p.m.-to-1 a.m. shift. Several of Mahoney's nine employees were already at work, their needles buzzing over custom tattoos that cost from $500 for a single sitting to many thousands of dollars for an elaborate tattoo. The salon and its owner are so busy that clients sometimes wait six months for an appointment with the boss, whose Hollywood clients include actors Mickey Rourke and Johnny Depp. Mahoney is so respected that fellow tattoo artists come in to consult with him on new styles and techniques. "He's legendary in the tattoo world," said Todd Honma, who teaches a Pomona College course on the art of the tattoo. "Mark is more of a celebrity than the celebrities he does," said client John Eshaya, a fashion designer who had come in to have Mahoney ink him a new tattoo — his third, with the words "Los Angeles" on his left side. "He's a beautiful artist. You don't get them from anybody else." Success was a long time in coming for the soft-spoken, gray-haired Boston native. Introduced to the art of tattooing as a teenager, Mahoney spent years studying the work of artists in Rhode Island and New York, trying to learn their secrets. "Nobody was willing to share tattoo secrets and teach others," Mahoney said. Eventually, he headed west and found a home in Long Beach on the Pike, the famed amusement park that was then home to many tattoo artists. It was there that he encountered the fine-line black and gray tattoos that would become his signature style. "It blew my mind," Mahoney says now. "I knew it's what I wanted to do — the low-rider, Mexican style that started in the prisons." Working hard, Mahoney spent years toiling in other tattoo salons before opening his own shop in 1985 — only to lose it within four years, he said, to a crippling heroin addiction. Mahoney went through rehab, and despite the advice of counselors who warned him it would be hard to work as a tattoo artist without returning to drugs, returned to the work he loved. He married, had two children and in 2002 opened the Shamrock Social Club. The late punk rockers Sid Vicious and Johnny Thunders were among Mahoney's first celebrity clients. Actors and rappers such as Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. followed. His secret? Discretion. "I don't tell the magazines," Mahoney said. "I don't take pictures of them. I don't let anybody bother them. I treat them like regular people." Close contact with Hollywood has brought the artist, who lives in Pasadena with his wife of 18 years and their two daughters, small roles in the movies "Americano" and "Blood Ties." The late-night hours take him away from his family, which Mahoney says is a "challenge." "I'm naturally a night owl, but [the work] keeps me away from my wife and kids," Mahoney said. "I have to make the most of the time we have together." In his spare time, Mahoney, a regular churchgoer, renovates old cars.The rise of the tattoo as a mainstream product has meant good business for tattoo artists, but also more competition. Mahoney hints that although he's made a good living from his art, he hasn't gotten rich. "I've been doing this for a long-enough time that I'm at the point where I can live comfortable," he said, adding, "but not comfortable enough to want my daughter to do it" for a living. He doesn't expect that to change. The popularity of the tattoo as a form of personal expression, he believes, is here to stay — even with a starting figure of $500. "Tattoos might be a little expensive," Mahoney said. "But you get a lot out of them."


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Last year, Fort Worth, Texas-based Bell Helicopter unveiled the mockup of its model 525 "Relentless," the aircraft its designers call a "super medium" twin. Designed to carry up to 18 people in a dense seating configuration, the 10,000-to-11,000-lb. (empty weight) ship is being developed primarily with the offshore support market in mind.
To assist engineers with tweaking the 525's handling characteristics and flight deck ergonomics, Bell built a concept simulator programmed to duplicate as many parameters as possible. The company then shipped the simulator to Heli-Expo 2013 in Las Vegas in early March for attendees to try. Rotor & Wing was one of the first to be invited aboard.
Bell engineers use the 525 Relentless simulator to test the ergonomics and flight characteristics of the "super medium" helicopter design. Note the side-stick configuration of the fly-by-wire controls. Photo by Ernie Stephens
For the technical purist, Bell did not actually bring a "flight simulator," which by most definitions is a machine that moves in order to give the feeling of flight. Instead, it was actually a "flight training device," or FTD, a learning tool that is laid out like an actual aircraft, but has moving graphics instead of a moving platform. But for our purposes here, I'll continue to call it a simulator.
The 525 simulator is more of a technology and cockpit ergonomics concept demonstrator made to stay on the ground. Bell explains that a customer review panel meets regularly to discuss the progress of the aircraft's design, and to use the simulator to test the outcomes. If anything disappoints the review panel, all efforts are made to correct the problem. Consequently, sources say that the layout of the ARC Horizon and Garmin G-5000H touchscreen displays in the simulator have already been rearranged for aircraft #0001. But for now, the aircraft's unique fly-by-wire (FBW) side-stick configuration for the cyclic and the collective are features that will reach the production model. And I can see why. With just a couple of quick and easy adjustments to the high-back seat and forearm rests, sitting in the real 525 will be like sitting in an easy chair.
If the flight model of the simulator is an accurate representation of how the actual aircraft will handle, the flying example of the Bell 525 will be as automated or as basic as the pilot wants at any given time. Hover position is held by GPS information, and can be tweaked by displacing the cyclic a half-inch in the desired direction, or with the cyclic-mounted hat switch. Transitioning to forward flight, performing altitude changes and making heading adjustments is a simple matter of moving the controls farther, or "beeping" the hat switches on the collective and cyclic with more authority. To let the aircraft capture and hold the new numbers, just let the controls go. In fact, if you want to manually manipulate one control, just grab it and fly it. The 525 will automatically relinquish it to you, and maintain the others as previously directed.For the full story see the Post-Show Wrap digital edition, due out in late March.Related: Technology News