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I recently upgraded from Leopard to Snow Leopard on my white Macbook (mid-2007) and immediately noticed a bunch of performance issues:
- Finder is a lot slower at displaying the Applications folder. Scrolling through the applications list consistently hangs the Finder for several seconds while the Cover Flow display is being re-generated. Leopard had little to no delay when rendering the list or the icons.
- System processes (kernel_tasks) and applications are eating up my memory at a voracious rate. For example, only using Safari (all other apps closed) for about an hour leaves me with around 250 MB out of 2 GB left. Closing Safari only frees about 100 MB of memory. I've used Intego VirusBarrier X5 and the latest virus definitions but did not encounter anything suspicious.
- The "Smart Eject" functionality now takes 5 to 20 seconds to eject a DVD, when it previously was instantaneous upon pressing the Eject button in Leopard.
Aside from completely wiping the drive and installing Snow Leopard again (I have a lot of data all over the place that would be a significant hassle to restore), what are my options?
The following are screenshots that display Activity Monitor with all processes visible and the other with only system processes visible. Both are sorted by Real Memory used.
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As Middle East regimes try to stifle dissent by censoring the Internet, the U.S. faces an uncomfortable reality: American companies provide much of the technology used to block websites.
McAfee Inc., acquired last month by Intel Corp., has provided content-filtering software used by Internet-service providers in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, according to interviews with buyers and a regional reseller. Blue Coat Systems Inc. of Sunnyvale, Calif., has sold hardware and technology in Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar that has been used in conjunction with McAfee's Web-filtering software and sometimes to block websites on its own, according to interviews with people working at or with ISPs in the region.
A regulator in Bahrain, which uses McAfee's SmartFilter product, says the government is planning to switch soon to technology from U.S.-based Palo Alto Networks Inc. It promises to give Bahrain more blocking options and make it harder for people to circumvent censoring.
Netsweeper Inc. of Canada has landed deals in the UAE, Qatar and Yemen, according to a company document.
Websense Inc. of San Diego, Calif., has a policy that states it "does not sell to governments or Internet Service Providers (ISPs) that are engaged in government-imposed censorship." But it has sold its Web-filtering technology in Yemen, where it has been used to block online tools that let people disguise their identities from government monitors, according to Harvard University and University of Toronto researchers.
Websense's general counsel said in a 2009 statement about the incident: "On rare occasion things can slip through the cracks."
Web-filtering technology has roots in the 1990s, when U.S. companies, schools and libraries sought to prevent people from surfing porn, among other things.
Today, that U.S. technology is now among the tools used in the clampdowns on uprisings across the Middle East. In Egypt, Syria, Tunisia and elsewhere, bloggers have been jailed and even beaten as governments try to repress online expression.
In Bahrain, Nabeel Rajab, head of the banned Bahrain Human Rights Center, which runs a website the government blocks, says he was briefly thrown in a car and roughed up after authorities raided his house last week. The men threatened him with a pipe, he says, and slapped him when he refused to say he loved Bahrain's king and prime minister.
For the U.S., the role of Western companies in Internet censorship poses a dilemma. In a speech last year, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said, "Censorship should not be in any way accepted by any company from anywhere. And in America, American companies need to take a principled stand."
Lately the State Department has spent more than $20 million to fund software and technologies that help people in the Middle East circumvent Internet censorship that is sustained by Western technology.
Asked about that policy, a senior State Department official said the U.S. is responding to "a problem caused by governments abusing U.S. products." When governments repurpose U.S.-made tools "to filter for political purposes, we are involved in producing and distributing software to get around those efforts."
A Bahrain official defended censorship. "The culture that we have in the Middle East is much more conservative than in the U.S.," says Ahmed Aldoseri, director of information and communication technologies at the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority.
Freedom of speech is guaranteed in Bahrain, Mr. Aldoseri says, "as long as it remains within general politeness."
Makers of Web-filtering technology say they can't control how customers use their products. "You can add additional websites to the block list," says Joris Evers, a McAfee spokesman. "Obviously what an individual customer would do with a product once they acquire it is beyond our control." A spokesman for Blue Coat made similar points.
There are no special export restrictions on Web-filtering technology. Anti-censorship advocates say there needs to be a way for companies to track how their filtering software is used.
"They could build into the software something that signals and, in fact, sends back to them exactly what kind of filtering is taking place," says Jonathan Zittrain, a professor of law and computer science at Harvard Law School. "There's no rocket science there, it's just their customer wouldn't like it."
Web-blocking companies declined to name their Middle Eastern customers, but The Wall Street Journal identified a number of them through interviews with ISPs, a reseller and former employees. In addition, OpenNet Initiative, made up of Harvard and University of Toronto researchers who study Internet filtering, identified three ISPs in Yemen, Qatar and the UAE that were using Netsweeper in January. ISPs provide Internet access to households and companies.
A Netsweeper official said the company doesn't comment on its clients.
According to a forthcoming report from OpenNet, ISPs in at least nine Middle East and North African countries have used "Western-made tools for the purpose of blocking social and political content, effectively blocking a total of over 20 million Internet users from accessing such websites."
Employees at ISPs in the Middle East said in interviews that government ministries give them databases of Internet addresses, including, at times, antigovernment sites, for blocking and that they must comply. The number of requests varies by country.
Mishary Al-Faris, quality assurance manager at Qualitynet in Kuwait, says his ISP, which uses SmartFilter, receives several requests a year from the government to block content deemed religiously offensive. "It's kind of a gentlemanly understanding: 'We're going to honor your requests,'" he says.
Web-filtering isn't exclusively a tool of Internet censorship. As companies like McAfee, Blue Coat and Netsweeper note, their technology can prevent youngsters from encountering pornography and protect ISPs from malicious cyber attacks.
In recent years, American companies aggressively have sought new customers abroad.The global Web-security market, including filtering, was valued at $1.8 billion in 2010, according to Phil Hochmuth of market-research firm IDC. The Middle East and Africa accounted for about $46 million and is growing at about 16% a year, he says.
China is considered the king of Web filtering, with its elaborate censorship system dubbed the "Great Firewall." China's technology remains unclear but its reach is vast: Local Chinese sites must be licensed and are required to remove any content the government deems objectionable. In addition, some major foreign sites, including Facebook, Twitter and Google Inc.'s YouTube, have been blocked for more than a year.
Middle East Web blocking has some differences. Government licenses for websites typically aren't required. Another difference: In the Middle East the ISP will generally show an explicit notice saying a site has been blocked, whereas in China it is often unclear why a site becomes inaccessible.
Blocking websites can be done with hardware, specialized software or a combination of the two. On a basic level, Web filtering works this way: First, a list is built that groups websites into categories such as "gambling," "dating" or "violence." Netsweeper says it has categorized more than 3.8 billion Web addresses and adds 15 million a day. Then, a user of the software can use that list to block access to specific sites or categories.
Companies like Websense and Netsweeper can now scan and categorize the content of an uncategorized page in real time. They can also block pieces of a site, rather than whole pages, if only a certain image or text is considered objectionable.
The use of filtering to block websites could be seen this month in Bahrain, where a group of mostly Shia protesters took aim at the country's Sunni ruling family and met a violent crackdown. Batelco, Bahrain's main ISP, filters the Web using McAfee SmartFilter software and Blue Coat technology, according to Ali AbuRomman, who works on the network team. He says the government regularly uploads lists of websites to block, including some political sites, to the country's ISPs.
In a test on a Batelco connection in Bahrain in recent days, The Wall Street Journal found that online-community forums for Shia villages and the websites of at least two human-rights groups were censored.
"Site blocked," the screen read in English and Arabic when a Journal reporter tried to view the sites. "This website has been blocked for violating regulations and laws of Kingdom of Bahrain."
Since 2009, Bahrain has had the power to order the blocking of websites for "transgressing local values and impairing national unity," according to the U.S. State Department.
Also blocked during the Journal test was Malkiya.net, a news site and discussion forum for Malkiya, a mostly Shia fishing town that has seen antigovernment protests in recent years. Its owner, Ali Mansoor Abbas, says the site also was blocked after it covered protests over the seizure of part of a local beach by a cousin of Bahrain's king.
Mr. Aldoseri, the Bahrainian telecom official, says his country plans to switch in the next few months from SmartFilter to technology from Palo Alto Networks. It can block activities within websites, like video or photo uploading, or Internet tools that let users bypass blocking altogether, which are illegal in Bahrain.
Middle East Web filtering has sparked a cat-and-mouse game to outfox the censors. Website owners like Mr. Abbas of Malkiya.net sometimes create "mirror" sites, with slightly different names.
Walid Al-Saqaf, a graduate student and former journalist from Yemen who now lives in Sweden, engineered his own circumvention tool after his news-aggregation site, YemenPortal.net, which included antigovernment content, was blocked by the country's filters. Known as Alkasir, the Arabic word for "circumventor," his free program has attracted at least 16,000 users in Yemen, China, Iran and elsewhere, he says.
Two years ago, OpenNet Initiative researchers found that Yemen was using filtering software from Websense to block privacy tools. In response, the company said it stopped providing the ISPs involved with its latest website-block lists since the ISPs violated its anticensorship policy.
The new OpenNet report says Websense tools and services appeared to still be used in Yemen as recently as August. The company declined to comment. The report also found that in January, new filtering software was being used in Yemen from Canadian firm Netsweeper.
"Filtering decisions are made by the entity that decides to filter," says Scott O'Neill, Netsweeper's director of sales and marketing. "Much as Ford Motor Co. can't decide how [its customers] are going to drive their cars."
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An informational company document says telecom companies can use Netsweeper to "block inappropriate content using [a] pre-established list of 90+ categories to meet government rules and regulations—based on social, religious or political ideals."
Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Co., or Du, one of the UAE's main ISPs, decided last year to switch to Netsweeper from the filtering system it had been using with Blue Coat devices, says Abul Hasan Jafery, a technical consultant who helped implement Netsweeper's filtering system there.
"We block malware, alternative lifestyles, profanity," says Mr. Jafery. "If something is offensive to the religion, we block it."
Until recently, Tunisia had some of the most pervasive Internet filtering in the world, according to OpenNet. Then, a January popular revolt forced the resignation of the country's president—triggering the wave of protests that have spread across the Middle East.
Tunisia has since pulled the plug on its Web-blocking gear. The new head of the Tunisian Internet Agency, Moez Chakchouk, says he was astounded when he recently visited a secured room at the state telephone company where the filtering equipment was kept.
The room was full of unfamiliar gear, says the 36-year-old computer engineer, who took the job last month. "I don't know" what it all does, he says. Mr. Chakchouk says the Interior Ministry controlled the filtering equipment since 2004, and the entire country's Internet traffic flowed through it.
For several years, according to Mr. Chakchouk, the Tunisian government used SmartFilter, which McAfee acquired in 2008. The McAfee spokesman confirmed the product has been sold in Tunisia, but declined to disclose its customers.
For better or worse, says Mr. Chakchouk, part of the legacy of Tunisia's former regime has been to leave Tunisia with some of the most sophisticated Internet-filtering equipment in the world. "I had a group of international experts from a group here lately, who looked at the equipment and said: 'The Chinese could come here and learn from you.'"
—Marc Champion, Christopher Rhoads, Nicholas Casey and Loretta Chao contributed to this article.
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Dance Fever with celebrity judge Frank Zappa (1979) - Footage Offline - 6/01/09
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- Belle Epoque said...
Holy shit! I haven't seen Dance Fever since I was a kid! I wonder what became of Denny Terrio...? And Frank Zappa judging a dance contest, priceless!
- May 25, 2009 at 1:15 PM
- greg6363 said...
In the early 90's, Terrio filed a sexual harassment suit against Merv Griffin which was later dismissed. I heard he has a show on Sirius satellite radio.
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I want to begin our preparation for the Lord's table by reading to you two verses from the middle of Paul's second letter to the Corinthians. "And will be a Father unto you and you shall be My sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty. Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God."
That's 2 Corinthians chapter 6 verse 18, chapter 7 verse 1. And what Paul is saying is very simple and is a good setting for the thoughts that we are to attend to this morning in preparation for communion. God is a Father to us. We are His sons and daughters. Since God has granted so much to us, it should be apparent that we ought in response to cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit and seek holiness in reverence toward God.
Now this sets our mind in the pattern that I want us to think about this morning. Coming to the Lord's table means dealing with sin. We come to this table to celebrate the Lord's death and in order to do that in a worthy manner, we must confess our sin, repent of it, turn from it, forsake it or else we mock the very table to which we come.
If you've been with us for any weeks in the recent months, you know that we've been studying Matthew chapter 26. And that chapter has taken us through the final week of our Lord's life. We've studied His arrest, His mock trial, the denial of Peter, and we're now approaching the very death of Christ on the cross. We have been with Him in the upper room. We were there when He gathered together His disciples for the last authorized Passover. We were there when He dismissed Judas to do what was the most horrible crime in human history, the betrayal of the perfect Son of God.
And in that upper room, it was very obvious as the disciples were arguing about which of them was the greatest and were utterly indifferent to that which awaited the Lord Jesus Christ that the heart of the Lord was filled with sorrow. We could sense His sadness there. Sadness at the ugly self-preoccupation of the disciples, sadness at the betrayal of the traitor Judas, sadness as He began to anticipate separation from God and the bearing of sin. And then we followed the Lord out of that upper room and to the Mount of Olives and we saw there again His sorrow and His sadness. As He went deep into the garden to pray and wrestling with temptation coming against His perfect holiness from Satan in three great waves, He came out victorious but not until He had sweat, as it were, great drops of blood. And we know that He was in an unbelievable and indescribable and unimaginable anguish in that struggle which was only intensified by the tragic indifference of His own disciples who instead of watching and praying along with Him, fell asleep. And again we are confronted with indeed the fact that as Isaiah said, "He was a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief." All the sorrow of Jesus and all the grief of Jesus was not confined to the cross, by any means.
And then we followed Him just to the entrance to the garden where came the mob who arrested Him and tied Him up and carried Him away bound while His disciples forsook Him and fled. And again we can sense His sadness and He watches Peter's misguided courage whack off the ear of Malchus, which ear He needed Himself to restore. And sees the supposedly brave disciples flee for their lives and He is left alone.
We see Him next in the house of Caiaphas as He is undergoing the three phases of the mock Jewish trial. Finally they accuse Him of blasphemy because He has claimed what is indeed true about Himself, that He is the Christ, the Son of God. And after accusing Him of blasphemy, they then take their fists and beat Him in the face and their hands and slap Him across the face and then they spit all over Him. And the grief and the pain and the sorrow and sadness accumulates. It reaches almost, I'm sure, its pinnacle when Peter has denied Him three times and Jesus meets Peter's eyes with His own eyes.
So, we have been with a man of sorrows. We have felt His sadness. We have felt His loneliness. We have entered in, at least in some small way, to His pain and His grief. And all of this is only the beginning. All of this is only anticipatory of the unbelievable grief and agony that He will experience in the atrocity of the crucifixion.
And I want you to note one thing in your mind, a very simple truth but one that I would like to embed somewhere in your thinking so that it never goes away and that is this, that every bit of this was a result of what? Sin...sin. All the suffering and all the grief and all the sorrow and all the sadness and all the pain and all the loneliness and all the separation that Jesus Christ endured, He endured because of sin. It was sin, in one sense, that killed Jesus Christ. And consequently, no person could come to this table to celebrate the death of Jesus Christ while at the same time entertaining sin in his or her life.
I mean, to put it another way. Can we take pleasure in the thing that brought immeasurable pain to the Savior? Can we take pleasure in that? Can we live to enjoy that which took His life? That for which He died? Ludicrous. So if ever in all of our spiritual experience we have an obligation to confront and face and deal with the sin in our lives, it is here at this table, lest we perpetrate some monstrous hypocrisy wherein we come to the table and in a very ritualistic fashion go through the routine not really dealing with sin and therefore we are offering some kind of half-hearted praise which must be noxious in the nostrils of God saying we celebrate the death of Christ, we're so thankful for the One who died bearing our sin. And at the same time we celebrate our love of sin. No such incongruity could be tolerated in the mind of God.
And so, as we come to the Lord's table, we have to deal with sin. In fact, the Apostle Paul said you better come in a worthy manner because God is so repulsed by the thought of coming in an unworthy manner while celebrating sin that He may bring upon you sickness or even death. For among the Corinthians, because they did come with their sin and mocked the table, some of them were weak, some of them were sick and some of them were dead. So it is a serious moment in the life of the worship of the church and we need to face our sin.
Now, having said that, let me say this. Most of us deal with sin in just a couple of categories. We are prone to look at our lives and say, "Well, I don't see any major sin there." We look at the deeds of sin, the major things, the evil committed. And if we do a little inventory, even though it might be cursory, and we don't see some great evil deed that we have done, we tend to exonerate ourselves and feel that we can come rushing to the table of the Lord with impunity.
And it may be, also, that sometimes we might even look at the sins of omission and be honest enough to say that there are not only the sins of the things we do but there are the sins of the things we do not do, "To him that knoweth to do good and doeth it not, it is sin." And so, we may run a little inventory on our lives and say, "Well, yes, maybe I didn't do that as I ought. And maybe I didn't do that as I ought." And if we can get through that little test and feel pretty good about ourselves, we feel exonerated again.
But perhaps to help us to do the kind of inventory that we ought to do, assuming that we have at least looked through the deeds of sin and confessed them, we have looked through to some extent the things we fail to do and know we fail to do them and confess them. I want us to look at two areas, briefly as preparation for the Lord's table, that I think we often overlook.
The first one is sinning in our thoughts, the sins of our thought life. There needs to be an inventory in this area as well. You see, many of us will not be evil doers on the outside. And many of us are pressed to do the things we ought to do. So we tend not to commit sins of overt commission and we tend not to commit sins of omission because there's a certain peer pressure and a certain expectation and a certain reputation that we want to maintain. And we might even not only fear the reprisals of the church, we might fear the invasion of friends who know us who come to try to straighten us out, but we might even fear God's chastening. And so, we eliminate the overt sins and the ones that are visible to others.
But, there are many people who will not do evil deeds who are boldly evil in their thoughts. And only God knows it. I mean, these are the people who look after a woman to lust after her in their hearts, Matthew 5:28, and commit adultery in the heart.
You remember what Jesus said in Matthew chapter 9 and verses 3 to 5, "Certain of the scribes said within themselves, This man blasphemes," they were accusing Jesus of blasphemy because He forgave sin which only God could do, "And Jesus knowing their thoughts..." Boy, what a statement. You ought to underline that in your Bible. "Jesus knowing their thoughts..." He knows your thoughts. He knows my thoughts. "...Said, Why are you thinking evil in your hearts?"
The heart can imagine. The heart can entertain itself with all kinds of evil. Proverbs 24:9 says, "Any foolish thought is sin." Any thought that is not God-honoring, Christ-exalting, representative of obedience to the Word of God is sin. And in Deuteronomy 15:9, God lays down a very basic principle, "Beware that there be not a wicked thought in thy heart." Beware that there be not a wicked thought in thy heart. You remember, don't you, Proverbs 23:7 that says, "As a man thinketh in his heart...what?...so is he."
So, Jesus said, "Why are you thinking evil in your hearts?" You see, all evil deeds are a result of what? Evil thoughts. And that's why the heart is the first line of defense.
Back in Matthew, do you remember our study of chapter 15? In chapter 15 of Matthew and verse 19, it says, "Out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies. These are the things which defile a man." It's out of the heart that all the evil comes. It begins there, sin does, and proceeds to defile.
Now that's why Job said he made a covenant with himself not to think lustfully, Job 31:1. And that's why Proverbs 4:23 gives us the bottom line in all practical Christian living. And that is, "Guard your heart with all diligence for out of it are the issues of life." And the heart is seen as the seat of thought.
So, we then must examine our thought life if we are to deal with sin because sin is conceived in thinking. And because you didn't do it doesn't mean you didn't sin. The thought of evil is sin.
Now let me suggest just as a footnote that it..it is...it is possible to think of evil in a good way. You say, "How?" You're thinking about the evil in your life and the good part of it is you're seeking to confess it, repent from it, turn from it and forsake it, right? So that when you come to a point of confession like this morning approaching the Lord's table, you do need to think of evil. You need to approach the evil in your life, see it for what it is, call on God to wash your heart. So it is possible to think of the evil of your heart with good intent. The sin is thinking upon evil with evil intent.
And I think there's an absolutely graphic illustration of it in Job chapter 20, and verses 12 and 13 where Job pictures how it is that a man savors evil in His heart. He talks about holding wickedness in the heart like some delicacy tucked under the tongue and left to sit in the mouth and have from it extracted all of its flavor. And it's the picture of someone in their thought life who is in the midst of some sinful thoughts, meditating on those sinful thoughts, cultivating those sinful thoughts, letting them settle in the mind and out of them extracting all of the unsavory flavor that can be received.
People sin grievously before God when they please their thought life with sins. And, there are at least three ways to do this...three obvious ways. The first one is the past. There are some people who sin in their thought life by bringing back past sins and luridly re-experiencing those sins in the present.
I've had occasion many times to baptize a person who is former homosexual transformed by the Lord Jesus Christ. And I have often asked them the same question: what's the most difficult thing about the transition? The answer seems to me to be most often the same: the most difficult part of it is that living as a homosexual, you have entertained yourself with so many vile kinds of sexual relationships and activities which have embedded themselves in your brain that even though you are transformed as a Christian, Satan brings back the memory of those things with all their lurid ugliness and tries to cycle them back through your mind and reindulge your senses in the very vice that you first entertained physically.
And there are some people who cultivate that. I've talked to young couples who lived a life of fornication before they came to Christ. They came to Christ, they were married. And now in their new marriage, they find it very difficult to be singly devoted to each other because they're having constant thoughts about all of the illicit unbiblical ungodly fornication kind of relationships that they had before they knew the Lord.
And Satan will take all the garbage out of your past and try to drag it back through your mind so that you re-entertain yourself with it. You see, that's why I've said through the years that it is such a tragic thing to expose people to evil visually. That's why televisions and movies can be such an absolutely devastating thing because the pictures that are planted on the mind by those images are retained in the mind and the capability of Satan then is to drag all that garbage back through the mind of someone. And they re-entertain the sins of the past.
In Ezekiel 23, I think it's about verse 19, there is an indictment against Israel. And the indictment is most interesting. It says, "She multiplies her adulteries in calling to remembrance the sins of her youth." She multiplies her adulteries in just calling to remembrance the sins of her youth when she played the harlot.
There are some people who sin in their minds by acting out again and again the past. And it isn't necessarily only in a...in the moral area, in the sexual area. There could be a myriad of things. Some people relish the time they got angry and poured out vengeance on someone. The time they gave someone what they thought that someone was due. Some people relish the time they lied and got away with it. It can be all things.
There's a second way in which the mind can sin. And that is not the past but the future. There are those people who sin in their minds in the fantasy of the things they long to commit, the things they long to do, who fantasize about an illicit relationship, who fantasize about a robbery in which they'll become wealthy, who fantasize how they're going to eliminate somebody who's in their path in the road to success, who fantasize about what they'd like if they had it the way they wanted it. And so, they sin in a sense by creating an unreal future and living in a fantasy of sin.
And then there's the present sense. There are some people who sin in their minds by just in the present planning, contriving, strategizing, plotting the sins they want to do immediately. The sins of the thoughts have to be dealt with before you can come to the Lord's table.
You say, "Well, are they really that disastrous?" Yes, Matthew 15 says they defile the man, they defile you. Proverbs 15:26 says, "The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord." They not only defile you but they are an abomination to God. And that's why Jeremiah said in chapter 4, "O Jerusalem," he said, he called out to the people of God, he said, "wash your heart, wash your heart from wickedness." And then he said, "How long are you going to fill your minds with empty thoughts?" It has to be washed.
James 1:15 says, "Lust when it conceives brings forth...what?...sin. Sin when it conceives brings forth...what?...death." And that's why David cried out to God for God to help him at the very front line of defense, when David was caught in the terrible sin of immorality and murder. David cried out and said this, "Not create in me a clean body, not clean up my act, but create in me...what?...a clean heart and renew a right spirit within me."
You see, Ralph Venning(?) in 1669 said, and it's such a beautiful statement, "The heart is the inn where lodge all the thieves and traveling lusts that are in the world." And so, God says, "I hate every empty thought," Psalm 119:113. And David said, "Cleanse Thou me from secret sins." Isaiah said, "Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thought and let him return to the Lord."
Now let me tell you something. The real difference between a sincere, Spirit-controlled, devoted, godly, obedient, Christian, and a disobedient, fleshly Christian is one thing-- thought life. That's the difference. That's the bottom line. I mean, they may both on the outside be doing the same thing, the difference is the thought life. It isn't necessarily what you do, it is what you think that really indicates what you are. "For as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he."
And by the way, God knows that. That is why it says in Hebrews chapter 4 verses 12 and 13 that the Word of God is a two- edged sword dividing into the soul and spirit to the intents of the heart, to the thoughts of the heart. And it tells us in 1 Corinthians 4:5 that someday God is going to open up, as it were, the heart of man and do some spiritual surgery and reveal the thoughts and intents of the heart.
In Psalm 139, I think it's verse 2, you remember the psalmist says, "He knows our thoughts afar off." Even before we can do a deed, He knows our thought.
Proverbs 30, the writer says, "If you have thought evil, put your hand on your mouth." In other words, don't let it out. Take the posture of shame.
You say, "Well, John, how do I deal with this problem?" Well, let me tell you. Confess it. If you have sins in your thought life, confess them, sins of immorality, sins of anger toward someone, sins of vengeance, sins of a bitterness toward someone else, all inside of you. Sins of unforgiveness, sins of plotting evil against someone, sins of lusting after material things, whatever, confess them, repent and ask forgiveness. If we confess, He's faithful and just to forgive and keep on cleansing.
Secondly, start to feed on the Word...feed on the Word. "Thy Word have I hid in my heart that I might not...what?...sin." You keep pouring the Word in and it insulates the heart. It strengthens the heart, it occupies the heart.
Thirdly, avoid the evil attractions. Don't expose yourself. Second Timothy 2:16, Paul said, "Avoid profane and vain babbling that only increase unto more ungodliness."
So, you confess, repent, seek forgiveness, begin to feed on the Word and avoid the evil attraction and cultivate the love of God...cultivate the love of God. David said in Psalm 119:97, "O how I love Thy law." And then four verses later he said, "I have restrained my feet from evil." I love Your law so I hate sin. Set your affections on things above and not on things on the earth, Colossians 3 says. And remember what it says in Matthew 6:21? You better do that because wherever your treasure is, that's ...what?...where your heart's going to be.
So put your thoughts on God, your affections on God, set your love on Him. We must deal with the thought life because that's the mark of your character. It isn't what you do, it's how you think. And I may not know it and the people around you may not know it, but who knows it? God knows it. And if you come to this table and haven't dealt with it, He knows that, and you mock His table. And that's an unworthy approach that can bring to the one who comes on those terms chastening.
There's a second category, just to mention very briefly, and that's not sins in thought but sins in word...sins in word. You know, the sinners always say, as it's recorded in Psalm 12, the sinners always say, "Our lips are our own, our lips are our own, who is Lord over us?" In other words, we'll say whatever we want to say. And you remember Job? He kind of had that attitude in chapter 13. He said, "Let me alone that I may speak and come what may...come what will." That's the attitude of the sinner. His mouth is his own, he'll say just exactly whatever he pleases to say.
But, Proverbs 21:23 says, "Whoever guards his mouth and guards his tongue keeps his soul from troubles." And Psalm 34, do you remember that? It's a familiar one because it's repeated later on in 1 Peter 3:10 in very similar words, but Psalm 34 and verse 13, "Keep thy tongue from evil and thy lips from speaking deceit." And you remember, of course, Ephesians chapter 4 which is a very familiar passage that deals with the tongue. Ephesians 4:29, "Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but only that which is good to the use of edifying that it may minister grace to the hearers." Anything that comes out of your mouth ought to minister grace, it ought to build people up, it ought to be that which honors God. He says in the next verse, "And grieve not the Holy Spirit. So, no bitterness, no wrath, no anger, no clamor, no evil speaking should ever come out of your mouth."
And then in chapter 5, "Neither filthiness, nor foolish talk, nor jesting which isn't fitting, but rather giving of thanks." So we are called to have a mouth that is clean.
In fact, in Psalm 39, David was so afraid of his mouth he said he put a bridle on his mouth to control it. In James, that very familiar passage that all of us know about the tongue is so powerful, James 3. It says, "In many things we all stumble, if any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man." None of us is perfect, so we're going to offend with our mouth. And then he goes on talking about we put bit..bit in horses mouths that they may obey us. We turn their body with it. Ships have a rudder and we guide them by it. And the tongue is similar. With a little bit you can guide a big horse. With a little rudder you can guide a big ship. And with a little tongue you can control a whole body, in fact, more than that, he says, the tongue is a fire, it is a world of iniquity. So is the tongue among our members that it defiles the whole body. It sets on fire the course of nature and is set on fire of hell. Now, that's pretty strong language.
The tongue can do more damage than any other part of the human anatomy. The mouth can be more devastating than any other part of human physical form. So you have to deal with that. And James, also, in chapter 1, I think it's verse 26, "If a man among you seems to be religious and bridles not his tongue, but deceives his own heart, the man's religion is nothing." If you say you're religious and you haven't got control of your mouth, your religion is nothing...it's nothing. We have to deal with that.
You know, one of the most beautiful images in all the Bible is the image that you find in the Psalms. And it is this, David said in Psalm 57 verse 8, "Awake my glory, awake my glory." Do you know what he was referring to? Do you know what his glory was? His glory was his mouth, his tongue. That was his glory. The tongue and the mouth of a human being is either the glory or the shame of that person. "For it is out of the abundance of the heart that the mouth...what?...speaks." So, the mouth will either be the shame of a person or the glory of that person.
In other words, it will be the point of shame or it will be the point of honor. We know this from Psalm 16:9 because in Psalm 16:9 it says, "My glory rejoices," and the Septuagint translates that same verse, "My tongue was glad." And so, in Acts 2:26. So, your mouth should be the point of your honor and the point of God's honor and the point of glory for Him. And if it isn't and hasn't been, then you need to deal with that.
You say, "How do you deal with the sins of the mouth?" Confess them specifically. Repent of them. Fill your mouth with the Word. Now let me suggest another thing that I've learned through the years is be of few words. Now I'm not talking about the length of sermons, obviously. It's different when you're speaking the Word of God. But when you're speaking for yourself, be of few words. The less you say, the less likely you are to say bad things. In fact, in Proverbs 10:19 it says, "He that restrains his lips is wise." Learn to keep your mouth shut. James 1 says, "You need to learn to be swift to hear and slow to...what?...speak." You see, the heart of the wise teaches his mouth.
So, if we're going to deal with the sins of the mouth, we confess, we repent, we fill ourselves with the Word so that out of our mouth will come the Word. We limit the amount of speaking we do. And when we speak we teach our mouth from a wise heart.
And another thing that you see illustrated in Scripture is to pray, is to pray that God by His Spirit will help you control your mouth. The psalmist in Psalm 19 says, "Let the words of my mouth and the meditations of my...what?...heart be acceptable unto Thee." You need to ask God to help you. "O Lord," says David in Psalm 51, "O Lord, open my lips and my mouth will show forth Thy praise." "Let my mouth be filled with Thy praise and Thy honor all day long," says Psalm 71:8. "Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth, keep the door of my lips, incline not my heart to evil things." Notice how the mouth and the heart are always connected? It's what's inside that's going to come out.
And, beloved, if you came to the Lord's table today, you need to do some spiritual inventory. You need to look over your life and see if there's any acts of sin that you have done, those need to be brought to the Savior for cleansing. Any things you should have done and didn't do, they need to be brought as well. But then these areas as well. You need to do a little inventory on your thought life, what's it been like and what has your mouth been like? Has it spoken that which builds up and edifies? Or has it been characterized by bitterness, clamor, evil speaking, gossip, filthiness, empty talk? These are the sins that must come before the Lord if we are to come to His table in a worthy manner.
Our Father, we come to You as a merciful Lord and ask that You would pardon our sins, sins of omission and commission, sins of temper, sins of word, of hard-heartedness, of unbelief, presumption, pride, sins of unfaithfulness to the needs of those around us, sins of lacking decisiveness in the cause of Christ, of bringing dishonor on Thy holy name, sins of deception and injustice and untruthfulness and hypocrisy, of impure thoughts and words, of covetousness, sins of hankering for the things of the world, of selfish hoarding of our resources, the sin of not being fully committed to Thy glory, sins in our personal lives that no one knows, sins in the family that only a few know, sins that many know, sins in the study of Thy Word without diligence and then the neglect of it all together, sins in lack of prayer and prayer irreverently offered, in wasted time, in opening our heart to the temptations of Satan, in ignoring the Word of God and being disobedient, in quenching the Spirit, sins against knowledge, against the restraint of the Spirit, against love. Father, pardon all our sins known and unknown, felt and unfelt, confessed and unconfessed, remembered and forgotten and wash our hearts and our mouths and our bodies with the water of the Word that we might be clean, that we might come to this table to glory in the cross with clean hands and a pure heart. We cannot do it on our own, Lord, You must do it. We ask for that.
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Recently, writing my paper for ASCS 34 this January I was confronted with the question How much did the average Roman citizen know about their own history?
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After Summers, Syria and Health-Care Fiascoes, a Senior Aide Says Aim Is to Be More Organized 'Going Forward'
The White House has begun a quiet self-assessment in the wake of the troubled health-law launch, recognizing that administration officials missed warning signs and put too much trust in their management practices in implementing a program that is the centerpiece of President Barack Obama's domestic legacy.
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When free-motion quilting, where do you start? We all learned to sew with the fabric bulk on our laps and sew away from ourselves. This is also how I was free-motion quilting and it was always difficult to look behind the needle and see where I'd been and where I needed to go. THEN THE LIGHTBULB WENT OFF!!!!!! taadaaahhh!!
Now the unquilted bulk of a project is behind the needle. I start quilting at what would be the bottom edge and pull or move the project toward myself. I can see where I've already quilted and can see where I need to go next, east and west and forward. It is much easier this way for me.
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A military judge in Texas has tossed charges against an Air Force trainer charged with sexual misconduct, saying evidence in the case was obtained illegally.
Col. Donald Eller Jr., said evidence against Tech. Sgt. Samuel Wicks was taken from a cellphone stolen by Wicks' girlfriend, the San Antonio Express-News reported Thursday.
Tech Sgt. Ronda Roberts gave the cellphone to investigators after she discovered it contained improper texts by Wicks, a basic training supervisor at Lackland Air Force Base, to three other women. Investigators then reviewed texts on the phone without obtaining a warrant.
Wicks was the ninth of 32 instructors at Lackland to be tried on charges of sexual misconduct. He is the first to have charges dropped.
However, he is not necessarily out of trouble. He could still be discharged from the service, although he could appeal such an action.
Prosecutors have until Friday to appeal the judge's ruling.


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National Water Efficiency Alliance Is Born
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Been hitting with this fella over the last few weeks......
Stock spec is around 341g/7pts hl/ 320sw/ 20mm beam
new modded spec after a bit of tinkering Im now at 367g /32,2cm balance /360sw (8g added between 11-1 in hoop, dampener (2g) overgrip (7g) lead top of handle (9g)) strung with solinco tour bite @49lbs (strings up tight feels like 55lbs)
These were my initial thoughts.........
Had a short hit with a coach who used to have a few atp points this morning.....
Initial thoughts were all about feel and it did not disappoint, very similar to my volkl dnx 10 mids, the feel is old skool graphite, crisp, slightly raw with the tour bite, loads of feedback, you know exactly how well and where you have hit the ball.
My second thought was stiffness, its stiffer than my mids a very compact feel that is great for groundies, it never feels like you get into trouble on the backswing, hard to describe, hits thro your opponents spin, feels like its made of steel but its really comfortable with that volkl softness. Specs say 64ra but it feels closer to 60 imo.
A number of reviews have talked about the low power and dense pattern, well, its not low powered at all its a beast, reminds me of k95 kinda power off the ground without the arm kill. Loads of spin, the stringbed is not particularly dense, i was getting the same spin i do from my open patterned mids. Overlapped the two rackets are not too different. The headsize doesnt feel 98 it feels much smaller in a good way but feels its full size when hitting from the back, very penetrating heavy ball, very noticable, as I said its a bit of a beast.
Volleys great, just so stable, serves bombs, deffo a Becker stick. Slice backhands were unreal. Control as you would expect. Amazing stick!
Its like Becker has taken the power and grunt of the 6.1 line, the manouverability and CAP grommet stability of a prestige, the feel and refinement of a volkl and made the DC Melbourne.
Im playing so well atm with my dnx mids so Im not just gonna switch, it was a short session today so need extra hours and matchplay but all I can say is that its the same as my mids but with some extra grunt and solidness. A true allcourt/S&V players stick if you've got the game.
Had a few more sessions and a couple of matches and everything is still as Ive said, Ive taken a bit of weight off the hoop ( a gram or two) when playing in cold, windy conditions and this has helped with manouverability as your body gets slower but when the weather is ok I will add it back on.
I wasnt really looking for a new racket after playing so well with my dnx 10 mids, read some reviews and the Melbourne seemed like a bigger headed brother so I thought id give it a try, its good to have the extra forgiveness when playing quality, heavy hitters. I used my mids alongside the Melly yesterday and there is a noticable oomph difference, I was hitting slightly long but my tension has dropped and I need to restring. Im very taken with this stick now, my go to racket.
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I was wondering a lot about this racquet. Too bad they've discontinued it already over here in the U.S.. I might've tried it and made the switch. They're selling them for $99 at my shop already! The guy at the shop told me it was a better Prestige Mid and I was like, "Really?" I see on the TW racquet power map application it has alot more sweet spot and power. Thing looks gorgeous. Those are probably the mods I would use on my racquet, Meags, minus the dampener and overgrip.
Yeah, you would save $30 bucks, but then the shipping to the U.K. is going to kill that savings. Unless those you were offered were already used. What grip size were you thinking?
I have 5 Prestige Mids which I love to death. But I had a great hit with the IG Extreme Pro. It's totally against my usual philosophy on racquets, but I got such a monstrous kick serve out of the stick. lol
Oh, I didn't know you meant 115 pounds. Well, then you would save quite a bit! I'll check the shop tomorrow and see if there are two L3s.
Hey, so I tried this racquet this afternoon for the first time. I started with it stock with Dunlop Synthetic Gut 16 mains (59) and Alu Power cross (56). I thought to string it lower because I read the TW thread and saw you posted there. So it began pretty board like and there wasn't much power. I didn't like the handle shape, even though it was 4-1/4.
So I took out my pack of lead and ran lead all the way lengthwise along the bevel 1 and bevel 5 down the handle, from buttcap to the top. That solved the handle shape problem big time.
Then I put the same amount of lead at 10 and 2 o'clock. Now, it was a BEAST on groundstrokes!! My Western forehand had a great deal of drive and flattened out, and every time it had a loud walloping sound. Same for my semiwestern backhand. I must've been hitting more than 5 mph faster! And the slice backhand was downright outrageous how low I could drive it.
The only thing is on serves, I was losing some racquet head speed, because of the amount of lead on top. I still serve a good deal better with my Prestige Mid, because I can really whip that 93 head around. This racquet doesn't whip as much for me, but feels like a wide paddle. Well, I'll try to remove some lead at the top and see how it goes next time.
You're also right about the feel, that it's like steel. That Delta Core material is outrageously stiff and where they place it in the hoop. I think it really makes for less deflection and increases the saber like quality of slashing through the ball at a much lighter weight. The other racquet that comes to mind is the Wilson K 90 for that pure slash/steel feel. The new Fed Pro Staff 90 also has that feel but to a lesser degree, mixed in with a dampened feel.
I know that guy "Tennis Maverick" keeps suggesting athletic tape because it is lighter incrementally and can be removed easily. But aesthetically not real nice to look at. :p
Well, yeah, I have a problem with 98 head size when I lead it up. It's harder for me to lift it than a 93 at the same static weight. I like my balance to be at 310 mm, so I might have to remove some lead at the tip and some in the handle,as you suggest and see how it goes.
Let me know about hexaspin twist. I like my usual hybrid, but I'm definitely going to get another Melbourne to fool around with strings.
I love Head handles, but that Becker handle drives me nuts! lol I'll ask the shop if they have Attiva pallets.
No, I won't like rounder. I like rectangular, Head style because it is more "oval", I can run my thumb back and forth across a smaller bevel 1 and make a more extreme grip change.
When I put lead on bevel 1 and 5 on the Becker handle, it makes it more oval. I might even throw some more lead and double layer it there by the hand, so the balance will change.
I could like a racquet at 31.5 cm balance. 32 is okay, but I don't get the whip effect as much. Gasquet is around 10 pts HL from what I've read.
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Flogging to this degree does not persuade someone to work; it disables him. But it also sends a message to the other slaves, especially those, like Jimmy, who belonged to the elite class of Hemings servants and might think they were above the authority of Gabriel Lilly. Once he recovered, Jimmy Hemings fled Monticello, joining the community of free blacks and runaways who made a living as boatmen on the James River, floating up and down between Richmond and obscure backwater villages. Contacting Hemings through Oldham, Jefferson tried to persuade him to come home, but did not set the slave catchers after him. There is no record that Jefferson made any remonstrance against Lilly, who was unrepentant about the beating and loss of a valuable slave; indeed, he demanded that his salary be doubled to £100. This put Jefferson in a quandary. He displayed no misgivings about the regime that Oldham characterized as "the most cruel," but £100 was more than he wanted to pay. Jefferson wrote that Lilly as an overseer "is as good a one as can be"—"certainly I can never get a man who fulfills my purposes better than he does."
On a recent afternoon at Monticello, Fraser Neiman, the head archaeologist, led the way down the mountain into a ravine, following the trace of a road laid out by Jefferson for his carriage rides. It passed the house of Edmund Bacon, the overseer Jefferson employed from 1806 to 1822, about a mile from the mansion. When Jefferson retired from the presidency in 1809, he moved the nailery from the summit—he no longer wanted even to see it, let alone manage it—to a site downhill 100 yards from Bacon's house. The archaeologists discovered unmistakable evidence of the shop—nails, nail rod, charcoal, coal and slag. Neiman pointed out on his map locations of the shop and Bacon's house. "The nailery was a socially fractious place," he said. "One suspects that's part of the reason for getting it off the mountaintop and putting it right here next to the overseer's house."
About 600 feet east of Bacon's house stood the cabin of James Hubbard, a slave who lived by himself. The archaeologists dug more than 100 test pits at this site but came up with nothing; still, when they brought in metal detectors and turned up a few wrought nails, it was enough evidence to convince them that they had found the actual site of Hubbard's house. Hubbard was 11 years old and living with his family at Poplar Forest, Jefferson's second plantation, near Lynchburg, Virginia, in 1794, when Jefferson brought him to Monticello to work in the new nailery on the mountaintop. His assignment was a sign of Jefferson's favor for the Hubbard family. James' father, a skilled shoemaker, had risen to the post of foreman of labor at Poplar Forest; Jefferson saw similar potential in the son. At first James performed abysmally, wasting more material than any of the other nail boys. Perhaps he was just a slow learner; perhaps he hated it; but he made himself better and better at the miserable work, swinging his hammer thousands of times a day, until he excelled. When Jefferson measured the nailery's output he found that Hubbard had reached the top—90 percent efficiency—in converting nail rod to finished nails.
A model slave, eager to improve himself, Hubbard grasped every opportunity the system offered. In his time off from the nailery, he took on additional tasks to earn cash. He sacrificed sleep to make money by burning charcoal, tending a kiln through the night. Jefferson also paid him for hauling—a position of trust because a man with a horse and permission to leave the plantation could easily escape. Through his industriousness Hubbard laid aside enough cash to purchase some fine clothes, including a hat, knee breeches and two overcoats.
Then one day in the summer of 1805, early in Jefferson's second term as president, Hubbard vanished. For years he had patiently carried out an elaborate deception, pretending to be the loyal, hardworking slave. He had done that hard work not to soften a life in slavery but to escape it. The clothing was not for show; it was a disguise.
Hubbard had been gone for many weeks when the president received a letter from the sheriff of Fairfax County. He had in custody a man named Hubbard who had confessed to being an escaped slave. In his confession Hubbard revealed the details of his escape. He had made a deal with Wilson Lilly, son of the overseer Gabriel Lilly, paying him $5 and an overcoat in exchange for false emancipation documents and a travel pass to Washington. But illiteracy was Hubbard's downfall: He did not realize that the documents Wilson Lilly had written were not very persuasive. When Hubbard reached Fairfax County, about 100 miles north of Monticello, the sheriff stopped him, demanding to see his papers. The sheriff, who knew forgeries when he saw them and arrested Hubbard, also asked Jefferson for a reward because he had run "a great Risk" arresting "as large a fellow as he is."
Hubbard was returned to Monticello. If he received some punishment for his escape, there is no record of it. In fact, it seems that Hubbard was forgiven and regained Jefferson's trust within a year. The October 1806 schedule of work for the nailery shows Hubbard working with the heaviest gauge of rod with a daily output of 15 pounds of nails. That Christmas, Jefferson allowed him to travel from Monticello to Poplar Forest to see his family. Jefferson may have trusted him again, but Bacon remained wary.
One day when Bacon was trying to fill an order for nails, he found that the entire stock of eight-penny nails—300 pounds of nails worth $50—was gone: "Of course they had been stolen." He immediately suspected James Hubbard and confronted him, but Hubbard "denied it powerfully." Bacon ransacked Hubbard's cabin and "every place I could think of" but came up empty-handed. Despite the lack of evidence, Bacon remained convinced of Hubbard's guilt. He conferred with the white manager of the nailery, Reuben Grady: "Let us drop it. He has hid them somewhere, and if we say no more about it, we shall find them."
Walking through the woods after a heavy rain, Bacon spotted muddy tracks on the leaves on one side of the path. He followed the tracks to their end, where he found the nails buried in a large box. Immediately, he went up the mountain to inform Jefferson of the discovery and of his certainty that Hubbard was the thief. Jefferson was "very much surprised and felt very badly about it" because Hubbard "had always been a favorite servant." Jefferson said he would question Hubbard personally the next morning when he went on his usual ride past Bacon's house.
When Jefferson showed up the next day, Bacon had Hubbard called in. At the sight of his master, Hubbard burst into tears. Bacon wrote, "I never saw any person, white or black, feel as badly as he did when he saw his master. He was mortified and distressed beyond measure....[W]e all had confidence in him. Now his character was gone." Hubbard tearfully begged Jefferson's pardon "over and over again." For a slave, burglary was a capital crime. A runaway slave who once broke into Bacon's private storehouse and stole three pieces of bacon and a bag of cornmeal was condemned to hang in Albemarle County. The governor commuted his sentence, and the slave was "transported," the legal term for being sold by the state to the Deep South or West Indies.