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The Only Way to Happiness: Be Merciful
Let's open our Bibles to Matthew chapter 5...Matthew chapter 5, the Beatitudes. As I mentioned to you this morning, a book has come out called The Only Way to Happiness which I think is available in the bookstore and out in the tape center over there in the patio as well, which sums up all the teaching that I've done through the years on the Beatitudes. That's a fitting time for the book to be reissued. I didn't know the publishers were going to do that but they did it, unbeknownst to me, right in the middle of our going over these Beatitudes which we really haven't taught in...well, it's been nearly twenty years, I think, since we really dug in to the Beatitudes.
What a joy it is to look at Matthew chapter 5. This is really, as I said this morning, the seminal teaching of Jesus about true spirituality. This is the bottom line instruction about what it means to belong to God, what it means to be in His kingdom, what it means to be saved. And Jesus put all the emphasis on the inside. Sadly the Jews of His day had put all the emphasis on the outside. The religion that Jesus faced in His day was shallow, it was superficial and it was external. The Jewish leaders thought that God was pleased with the outside, their apparent external self-righteousness, their formalized religion. They were proud about it. They were self-centered about it. And Jesus demantled it.
Jesus did essentially what John the Baptist said He'd do. John the Baptist predicted that when Jesus came He would come in a destructive way. In Matthew 3 John the Baptist was preaching down by the Jordan. In verse 10 he says, "The axe is already laid at the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that doesn't bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire." He was...he was anticipating the imminent arrival of the Messiah who would lay the axe of divine judgment against the tree of formal religion. And He would cut down that external religion that was so utterly displeasing to God. And again I say, Jesus put all the emphasis on the inside, not just action but attitude, not just conduct but character. The emphasis is not on what I do but what I am. Certainly He is concerned about action but that action which springs from righteous character. As Martyn Lloyd-Jones wrote many years ago, "A Christian IS someone before he DOES anything." It all starts with who we are.
And to be a child of the King, to belong to God's kingdom, to be a Christian, to be a saved person is to possess a certain kind of nature, a certain kind of disposition, a certain kind of character that is defined in these Beatitudes. As Martyn Lloyd-Jones also said, "We are not meant to control our Christianity, but rather our Christianity is meant to control us." And it starts from the inside and works its way out.
And so, Jesus in addressing the Jews of His day went right for the heart, identifying for us the fact that salvation, or Christianity, is something that happens to us at the very center of our being. As you heard earlier, it is...it is something which occurs that could be called a new creation. It controls everything we are at the innermost part of our being and flows out from that point. Jesus was not interested in external religion. He was not interested in formal religious ceremony anymore than God was. He was not interested in superficial works with wrong motives. He was interested in pure transformed hearts. He characterized the Jews as sepulchers or graves painted white on the outside, but inside full of dead men's bones.
In addressing the issue of a real salvation, a real religion, a true knowledge of God, Jesus speaks to matters of the heart. And we've already gone through the first four of these Beatitudes. He talks about those who are poor in spirit, those who mourn, those who are gentle, or better translated meek, meaning humble, and those who hunger and thirst for righteousness. Those are characteristic inner principles that operate in the life of those who belong to God's kingdom.
People in God's kingdom recognize their bankruptcy of spirit. They recognize that they cannot do anything to please God. They recognize that they are sinful, they are wicked, they are hopeless and helpless and they can't do anything about it. And they mourn about that. There's a sadness and a sorrow about that. Consequently there is a humiliation about it. There's a shame that comes with it that produces meekness. And then there is an expressed hunger and thirst for the righteousness they know they don't possess.
It is also true, according to the fifth beatitude, that those people who belong to God's kingdom are by nature merciful. Verse 7 says, "Blessed are the merciful for they shall receive mercy." In some ways the first four beatitudes sort of connect up with the next four, verses 7, 8 and 9 and then in verses 10 and 11 you have the eighth one. You can look at it this way, those who are poor in spirit acknowledge their need of mercy and are willing to show mercy to others. Those who mourn over their sin desire to wash their hearts clean with tears of penitence and they become the pure in heart. The meek or the gentle are those who spontaneously make peace because their own agenda is not the issue, they're concerned about others. And those who hunger and thirst for righteousness are willing, if you look at verses 10 and 11, to be persecuted for the sake of righteousness. So there's some wonderful parallels in these Beatitudes as they unfold.
But tonight we're going to look at this fifth beatitude that we find in verse 7, "Blessed are the merciful for they shall receive mercy."
First of all, let's talk about the significance of being merciful. That is to say, what does it really mean? What are we saying here? This is a magnificent human virtue admittedly. It's wonderful to meet a merciful person. Shakespeare, for example, spoke about mercy in the well-known speech by Portia in The Merchant of Venice. He wrote, "The quality of mercy is not strained," that's a rather famous line. "It dropeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed. It blesses him that gives and him that takes. Tis mightiest in the mightiest. It becomes the throned monarch better than his crown," so wrote Shakespeare extolling the great virtue of being merciful.
Even the Talmud, which is a codification of Jewish law, records this saying by Gamaliel who was no less the notable teacher referred to in the book of Acts, a great, great Jewish teacher. And Gamaliel said about mercy, "Whenever thou hast mercy, God will have mercy upon thee. And if thou hast not mercy, neither will God have mercy upon thee." Again he was extolling the virtue of mercy as a path to blessing.
Now it is easy then to see the virtues of this sort of human attribute of mercy as some path to immediate blessing. That is to say that some people see this virtue of showing mercy as a way to force God's hand to make us prosperous. You hear sometimes this kind of thinking in money-raising schemes where people say, "You show mercy and you give money to us and we'll promise you that God will pay you back...and maybe some have said...even ten fold."
One writer paraphrases this beatitude this way. "This is the great truth of life. If people see us care, they will care for us." Is that what it's all about? Is it all about being kind on a human level so that you can intimidate people into being kind back? Is it all about somehow forcing God's hand?
Unfortunately it isn't that simple. The issue is far more than a human platitude. It is far more than a little formula that somehow works its way out in life. It would be nice to think of the fact that this is the great truth of life. But the fact of the matter is, it's not. And the fact of the matter is you may find yourself on the human level being merciful to people who are in return merciless to you. The issue is far more than a human platitude.
In fact, it was the Romans who didn't admire mercy at all. The Romans admired justice. The Romans admired revenge. They admired vengeance. They admired discipline. They admired power and strength and they thought mercy was an evidence of weakness. In fact, some philosophers at the time of the writing of the New Testament said that mercy is a disease of the soul. It's evidence of a sick person. And, any successful person would be ashamed to be called merciful. It was a sign of weakness.
Frankly, that's not unlike our time, is it? Being merciful, being forgiving, being kind, being gentle with people, overlooking their transgressions, showing them great and magnanimous kindness no matter what they might have done to you is a sign of weakness today.
In ancient times it was that way. In fact, slaves, women and many children were treated like useless garbage. And a master could maim or kill any of them anytime at his own discretion. And it was some kind of show of male strength to do things like that. And, I think today the idea that if we care, others will care...just doesn't fly either. Our selfish, grasping, vengeful, competitive, litigious society is marked by lots of things but mercy isn't one of them.
Furthermore, understanding the substance of mercy is...is not just the simple idea that if you're going to be merciful to somebody else, somehow they're going to make you rich, they're going to make you happy, they're going to make you prosperous, or they're going to be merciful to you. And the best illustration of that is Jesus. Was there ever anyone more merciful than Him? He showed mercy to the sick. He showed mercy to the crippled and the blind and the deaf and the dumb. He showed mercy to the poor. He showed mercy to the outcasts, the prostitutes, the riffraff, the sorrowing, the lonely, the unloved. Once He stopped a funeral procession and He didn't even know the people personally but He stopped that procession to touch the casket and restore a young man back to life because He was so grieved at the sorrow of his widowed mother. He was merciful in John 8 to a harlot and said, "Neither do I condemn thee, go and sin no more." He ate with tax collectors and sinners, a definite sign of His mercy toward the outcasts. Mark 2:16 says, "When the scribes and Pharisees saw Him eat with tax collectors and sinners, they said to His disciples, `How is it that He eats and drinks with publicans and sinners?'" From start to finish one would have to say that Jesus' life was a life of mercy.
And, listen, if somehow there was some kind of principle that mercy carries its own reward, it never worked out for Him. If this was some inviolable human operative, form of truth that worked as truly as laws of science work, they would never have nailed the most merciful man who ever lived to a cross and spit on Him in the process. In fact, the most merciful person who ever walked the earth received from men no mercy at all from the very ones to whom He showed mercy. Two merciless systems, the Roman system and apostate Judaism, mercilessly came together to kill the merciful Son of God. The totalitarianism of merciless Rome was characterized by intolerance, and joining them was the merciless Pharisaic external Jewish apostate religious system that couldn't tolerate Him because He spoke the truth. And without mercy they came together to execute Him.
What is then the Lord saying here? He's not giving us just some principle of human life that sort of always works. What is He saying? What is the significance of this?
Well we have to look a lot higher than the human level to see the answer. This mercy does not refer to some natural human emotion. It doesn't refer to some sort of earthly operative principle. It refers to a mercy which grows out of a relationship with God. We're talking about something that's not human at all, it's divine. We're moving out of the kingdom of darkness, out of the kingdom of men, out of the kingdom of this world in to the kingdom of God. We're talking about a kind of mercy that's operative in God's kingdom, not in man's kingdom.
Now let's look at the word itself. The word "merciful,"eleemones(?), is used here and in Hebrews 2:17 in this form. The verb form is very common in the New Testament and used often in the Old Testament Greek Septuagint. It's a very common word in the Greek. It comes from eleeo, it means to have mercy on. It means to care for the afflicted. It means to give help to the wretched. It means to rescue the miserable...very broad idea but the intent of the word is pretty clear from those various options. It has to do with sympathy. It has to do with compassion. And here we're talking about something that is divine. This is the real thing. It's not some weak sympathy which carnal man can sort of grant by the sheer milk of human kindness, we're talking about something beyond that. It is a genuine, true and pure, divine compassion with unselfish motives that reaches out to help someone who is wretched, miserable, needy, poor.
The Hebrew word for mercy is a beautiful word used very often in the Old Testament and sometimes the Hebrew word is translated in the Septuagint by the Greek word, eleeo, it's the wordchesed. It really is untranslatable. It...it...you can hardly reduce it to one word but most often the Old Testament writers in most translations intended to say what I think the English word lovingkindness expresses. Lovingkindness embraces a motive and an action and it is often translated lovingkindness. It does not mean simply to feel sympathetic. It does not mean simply to feel compassionate. It refers to the ability to literally get inside someone else's skin until you think their thoughts, feel their emotions, understand their pain. It is more than a passing wave of pity. It is...it is an empathizing, it is a deliberate act of feeling their suffering and seeking to relieve it.
Perhaps one way to get at it is to see it in comparison with other words. It is linked to, for example, the word forgiveness. Titus 3:5 says, "According to His mercy He saved us." So mercy was behind forgiveness. Forgiveness is the fruit of mercy. When God looked at us with compassion and affection and sympathy, when God, as it were, God in our skin, Jesus incarnate, came into the world and suffered all the things that we suffer, yet did not sin, was tempted in all the ways that we are, there was a great sympathizing and He became for us a sympathetic and merciful Savior. Mercy then was behind forgiveness. In Ephesians 2, "God...verse 4...being rich in mercy because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions made us alive together with Christ." He saved us because of mercy. Mercy is an attribute of God that led to forgiveness. Mercy is God's sympathy toward the suffering, the outcast, downtrodden, the miserable.
Our God, according to Daniel 9:9, has compassion and forgiveness. Out of His compassion comes His forgiveness. Psalm 130 expresses the same great reality.
I think sometimes we think of mercy as God withholding judgment, and it is. But the reason He withholds judgment in mercy is because He has forgiven our sin. So mercy is linked to forgiveness. But that's only one aspect. There are many more mercies than just forgiveness.
Psalm 119:64 says, "The earth is full of Thy mercies." Genesis 32:10, "I am not worthy of the least of all Thy mercies." Second Samuel 24:14, "For His mercies are great." Nehemiah 9:19, "Thy manifold mercy." Psalm 69:13, "The multitude of Thy mercies." Forgiveness is an expression of God's mercy, but it isn't the only one.
Listen to Psalm 145:9, "The Lord is good to all and His mercies are over all His works." I mean, you can look anywhere in God's created world and find His mercy expressed. Lamentations 3:22, "The Lord's lovingkindnesses, or mercies, indeed never cease for His compassions never fail." And where there is compassion, there is mercy. "They are new every morning, great is Thy faithfulness." Verse 32 says, "He will have compassion according to His abundant lovingkindness." And His compassion is expressed in His forgiveness and much more. All the gifts of grace, all the gifts that God gives us, all the good gifts are expressions of His compassion and sympathy and mercy.
Mercy is also linked, secondly, to love. As I read for you earlier Ephesians 2:4, "According to His great love wherewith He loved us, He was therefore mercy...merciful." So mercy flows into forgiveness but out of love. It starts with love, becomes mercy, becomes forgiveness. Love is more broad, more extensive than just mercy.
Thomas Watson wrote, "Mercy properly respects them that are miserable. Love is of a larger consideration. Love is like a friend that visits them that are well. Mercy is set just for the miserable, love is bigger, but mercy is an expression of love. Mercy, we might say, is a physician for the sick, love is a friend to everyone. Love acts out of affection. Mercy acts out of compassion. Love is constant, mercy is for times of misery. Love and mercy are different, but inseparable. Mercy and forgiveness are different, but inseparable. If you're going to be merciful, you're going to be forgiving. If you're going to be merciful, you're going to be loving.
And then there's mercy and grace. Grace is another word that plays in to this discussion. The term eleeos and its derivatives always deal with what we see of pain and misery and distress which are the results of sin, while grace deals with the sin itself. Mercy looks at the misery sin produces, grace looks at the sin itself. God gives grace for our sin and mercy for our misery as a result of sin. Grace is charis, grace offers pardon for the crime, mercy offers relief from the punishment. Grace comes first and renders us no longer guilty, mercy comes second and delivers us from the punishment. Again, mercy and grace are different, they're different concepts but inseparable. Mercy eliminates the pain and grace grants a better condition.
And then there's mercy and justice. They go together. They have to as far as God is concerned, He cannot be merciful if in some way it violates His justice. Mercy, remember when it comes from God, is a holy attitude like all His other attitudes. It doesn't negate His justice, or His holiness. It is not some shallow sentimentality which disregards iniquity and ignores justice. That's a false and unholy mercy which wants to conceal justice. But God in order to be mercy...merciful and show mercy had to express His justice, as we all know, and He poured out His justice on Christ on the cross satisfying the requirement of a just and holy God and a just and holy law which had been violated in order that He might be merciful to the miserable sinners who had fallen under judgment for the violation of that law.
So, mercy fits together with forgiveness though its different. It fits together with grace though its different. It fits together with love though its different. It fits together with justice perfectly though it is also distinct. The truth of the matter is, if we got what we deserved we would get judgment without mercy. That's what we would get. We would get judgment without mercy and we would deserve it. In fact in James 2:13 it says, "Judgment will be merciless to one who has shown no mercy." Mercy triumphs over judgment. If you're a merciful person you won't be judged. That's another way of James saying if you are a merciful person because God has been merciful to you...in other words, if you have divine mercy granted to you as a child of God, you demonstrate that you are one who has escaped judgment. But justice has been satisfied, punishment has been made in Christ. We could say then that mercy is more than forgiveness, less than love, different than grace and not apart from justice.
To sum up our discussion of the significance of mercy we'll define it in some very practical terms. The merciful not only bear the insults of evil men, but their hearts reach out to those very evil men in their misery because they know they will perish in their sins. Merciful people will not only bear the insult, and not just, you know, stiff upper lip, grit your teeth and endure the insult, but rather their hearts reach out to those people who are being merciless because they understand the terrible misery they're in. The merciful are willing to be insulted and willing to be persecuted as it comes up later. They are sympathetic with those people who even attack them. They're eager to forgive. They are sympathetic with the afflicted. They are gentle to the weak. They are forgiving to everyone who abuses them. They are considerate of the fallen. They are generous to the poor. They are gracious to the offensive, and so forth. And they remember, of course, that they are the recipients of divine mercy and greatly in need of it, so are quick to share the same.
It's much like the parable in Matthew 18, isn't it? Where the man who was a king called his governors to him and one man had embezzled all his money and had nothing to show and the king says he's going to be punished. And the man falls on his face and pleads and the king is merciful and forgives him the entire debt. That's a beautiful picture of mercy. But the man who had just been forgiven went out and found somebody who owed him a pittance, strangled him and threw him in debtor's prison until he paid everything and himself refused to be merciful. And the parable ends with the Lord calling in that unmerciful man and chastening him until he learned to be merciful. The Lord will chasten you who have received mercy if you do not grant mercy. You who were miserable and blind and naked, like all the rest of us sinners, you who deserved nothing and God in His great love was merciful to you and forgave you your entire debt against His holy justice, you must be merciful to others. God changes your heart by His mercy, intending to cause you to be merciful to others.
Psalm 37:21 says, "The righteous shows mercy and gives."
It was mercy, wasn't it, in Abraham after he had been wronged by his nephew Lot.
It was mercy which caused Abraham to treat Lot the way he treated him. It was mercy on the part of Joseph after being treated so badly by his brothers. It was mercy on the part of Joseph to make sure his brothers' food was all provided. He forgave them and fully met their need.
It was mercy, wasn't it, in Moses after Miriam had rebelled against him and the Lord had given her leprosy. And Moses went to the Lord seeing the misery of Miriam and said, "Heal her now, O God, I beseech You," Numbers 12. That's mercy.
It was mercy in David, wasn't it, which caused him to spare the life of Saul. That's mercy.
And in a world of merciless people who are all consumed with self-protection, making sure everything is the way they want it for them, God had deposited kingdom citizens who are truly merciful and compassionate.
Man, frankly, without mercy is evil. He's evil. Man without mercy is hostile. Man without mercy is angry and we're seeing it in full view today. The absence of mercy just rips and shreds and tears all of the tenderness out of a person. It creates nothing but hard surfaces and sharp edges. But for those of us who have come to God in Christ to receive mercy, we have been called to show mercy, to be compassionate, benevolent, sympathetic when we see others in weakness, misery and need.
Now let's talk about the source of being merciful. The source, basically, is God because, you see, when we come to this fifth beatitude in verse 7 we've had to go through the first four. The people who are merciful are those who have realized their spiritual bankruptcy, mourned over their sin, meekly come before God knowing they offer nothing, and demonstrated a hunger and thirst for righteousness they know they don't possess and only God can grant.
In other words, that's...that is the pattern of salvation throughout all of redemptive history. If you were in the Old Testament, people ask me this all the time, how did an Old Testament person become saved? Christ hadn't yet died, Christ hadn't yet risen, they couldn't confess Jesus as Lord and believe in their heart that God had raised Him from the dead and thus be saved, as Romans tells us, so how could they be saved?
The answer was right in the very path of those Beatitudes. Instead of being spiritually proud, instead of being spiritually self-sufficient, instead of thinking you had achieved salvation by your works, you are bankrupt of spirit, you realize that you have nothing, you are literally poverty stricken when it comes to any claim to righteousness. You are morally, spiritually bankrupt. And in that condition you have mourned. There's an overwhelming sadness about your hopeless condition and there is also a great meekness, a shame about it that humiliates you. And in that condition you cry out to God, hungering and thirsting for a righteousness you know you don't have and don't earn. That's how people in the Old Testament were saved. When they came to the place where they said...I can't keep Your law, all I do is violate Your law, I am bankrupt, I am unworthy, I am shamed, I am humiliated. O God, if I am to possess righteousness, You have to give it to me.
That was like the Luke 18 publican beating on his breast. The Pharisee is saying, "Oh, I keep this and I do this, and I abide by the ceremonies, and I tithe all that I possess, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I'm not like other men, even like this publican." The publican has got his head down, he's beating on his breast, he won't even look up and he says, "God, be...what?...merciful to me a sinner." He's crying for mercy. That man was bankrupt. That man was mourning. That man was meek. That man was hungering and thirsting for righteousness. That man reached out and received mercy. The source of mercy is God. The merciful are the people of the first four beatitudes and they have come to God and hungered for righteousness and in mercy God has granted it to them. They have a deep awareness of their need of deliverance, their need of righteousness. They see how sinful they are, how miserable they are, how desperate they are. And they come seeking mercy.
This is so important to understand salvation cause it's the same now. A lot of people say...Yeah, I want Jesus to fix my life. Raise my hand, or sign a card, or come forward in a meeting, or call up a TV station. Yeah, I want Jesus to fix my marriage. Yeah, I'm...I don't want to go to hell, I want to go to heaven. I'd like...I'd like my life to be different than it is and I'd like Jesus to fix my life.
And, they're never converted genuinely because the path is indicated here. You have to come to the place of moral bankruptcy, realize the shame of your own life and hunger and thirst for a righteousness not yours and cry out for mercy from God. It's a sin issue.
When I wrote the book on The Gospel According to Jesus and I was castigated and battered around from pillar to post for years and some of it's still going on, many of those who took issue with me took issue with the fact that one needed to come to an overwhelming sense of sinfulness and repent before he could become a believer. Still boggles my mind that anybody could conclude any other than that. The whole issue of coming into the kingdom is all about seeking righteousness which you don't have, granted to you by the mercy of God out of the compassion of God who sees your miserable wretched condition, understands its eternal consequence and in mercy and grace reaches out to provide forgiveness.
A lot of people want, sort of want the end blessing bypassing the real heart work. Balaam, the false prophet, said, "Let me die the death of the righteous and let my last end be like his." It's not that easy, Balaam. You want to die the death of the righteous and you want to end up the way the righteous end up, then you come to God bankrupt in spirit, grieved over your sin, shamed and hungering and thirsting for a righteousness you know you don't possess and can't earn. A wise old Puritan said, "Balaam wanted to die like the righteous, he just didn't want to live like them."
If we want the reality of mercy in our lives from God, there's a path and the path is there in those Beatitudes. God then is the source of this mercy. Ephesians 2:4, "God who is rich in mercy..." Psalm 103:11, "As the heavens are high above the earth, so great is His mercy toward them that fear Him." Luke 6:36, "Be ye thankful, merciful as your Father is merciful."
I think it is, in the Psalms the Scripture says God's mercy endures forever. Psalm 62:12 says, "Unto Thee, O Lord, belongs mercy." Similar things all through the Psalms, Psalm 86; 103; 111; 112; 116, 145; elsewhere. God is the source. We're not talking here then about some natural human law that operates, some principle. We're talking here about a divine work. God is the source in Jesus Christ. As it were, God got inside the skin of man, feeling, seeing as man does. The supreme act of God's mercy was to become man and to show His sympathy and His compassion and His love and His grace and His mercy by dying in our place.
Dr. Barnhouse, Donald Grey Barnhouse wrote, "When Jesus Christ died on the cross, all the work of God for man's salvation passed out of the realm of prophecy and became historical fact. God has now had mercy upon us. For anyone to pray, `God, have mercy on me,' is the equivalent of asking Him to repeat the sacrifice of Christ."
All the mercy that God ever will have on man He has already had when Christ died. This is the totality of mercy, there couldn't be anymore. God can now act toward us in grace because He has already had all mercy upon us. This fountain is now open and flowing and it flows freely from the cross.
We sing of this mercy sometimes when we sing these words, "He saw me ruined in the Fall, He loved me notwithstanding all. He saved me from my lost estate, His mercy, O how great."
"Mercy there was great and...what?...grace was free. Pardon there was multiplied to me. There my burdened soul found liberty, at Calvary." The mercy flood was turned on at the cross and it flowed forward and it flowed backward and on the basis of the work of Christ to satisfy the justice of God, God was free to pour out mercy to His own.
And so, we have received from God mercy. "Every time you draw your breath," write Thomas Watson, the Puritan, "you suck in mercy. Every bit of bread you eat, the hand of mercy carries it to you. You never drink but in a golden cup of mercy."
What he was saying was it's mercy that you live. It's mercy that you will live forever.
Thirdly, the substance of being merciful. Now we know that we have received mercy, but what is it about being merciful? I believe that this springs out of the mercy of God toward us. I think that's pretty obvious. We don't need to say a lot about that. God has demonstrated mercy to us and we have had a clear and marvelous transforming understanding of mercy and we have been called to the same mercy. We who have received mercy have been called to give it."B"Blessed are the merciful for they shall receive mercy." There's kind of a cycle here. You receive mercy when you cry out, hungering and thirsting for righteousness, you then become the givers of mercy who from God receive more mercy.
By the way, when you became a Christian you didn't move into the category from the undeserving to the deserving. You're still undeserving and so am I, right? The fact of the matter is, we're as sinful now and unworthy and undeserving now as we ever were so that every good and perfect gift the Father gives us is a gift of mercy. There's a cycle here. You cry out for mercy, God gives it, He transforms your heart, you become merciful, you give it and He pours out more mercy.
This...I suppose...is really the sum of all of our salvation. "I urge you therefore, brethren," Paul writes in Romans 12:1, "by the mercies of God." And what are they? Everything in chapter 1 through 11. Everything that God gives His own, everything in justification, everything in sanctification, everything in glorification is in the category of the mercies of God. They are all expressions of His compassion. They're all gifts of His sympathy. They're all attributable to the fact that He cares for the needy, that He's compassionate toward the miserable the wretched. And His mercies, I read you earlier in Lamentations, are new...how often? Every morning...every morning. Everything you have fits in the category of His mercies.
And you look at the Pharisees Jesus was talking to, they had took a totally different approach to life. Their idea was to beat the poor down harder. Oh they would do alms in the temple which eventually flowed to the poor, but they would blow a trumpet announcing they were going to do it because it was all done to call attention to them. It didn't express any mercy. It didn't express any sympathy, or compassion or love for anybody. It just sought the applause of men. They were deeds of mercy theoretically, but actually they were deeds of vain glory, conscience salving. Same can happen today.
I would say to you, a true child of the King is going to have to empty himself of selfishness before he will empty his hands of alms. He's going to have to lay himself in the dust first before he'll raise the needy out of it. I mean, it just seems so very basic. God has been merciful to us, we have then become the merciful. It is the...it is the severest kind of twist on your salvation to receive all of God's mercy and then be merciless, lack compassion to those who are sinful or wretched or poor and needy, suffering, even those who persecute us.
This is so substantial, so essential that I read you earlier in James where it says if you're not going to be merciful, James 2:10 to 13, God won't be merciful to you. You want to put yourself in a position to be disciplined like that man who was forgiven in the parable of Matthew 18, then hold back mercy from people and God will bring discipline on you. What an unbelievable twist to receive all of His mercy new every morning and grant none to someone around you.
As believers we continue to recognize our spiritual bankruptcy. We continue to grieve over our sin. We continue to feel the same and guilt of those things we do that dishonor the Lord. We continue to hunger and thirst for righteousness in the sense that we want to pursue being more like Christ and manifesting more of His righteous character. And we are continually the merciful who from the hand of God as those in His kingdom receive new mercies every morning.
It also would include what Jesus said in the next chapter when He was talking about prayer, chapter 6 and verse 14. "If you forgive men for their transgressions, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men, then your Father will not forgive your transgression." You want a miserable life? Be unforgiving. That will make you miserable.
I'm telling you, since I wrote this book on forgiveness, I've been doing a lot of radio interviews, I do these one-hour radio talk shows all across the country live. And people call in and ask these questions. And I...when I wrote the book on forgiveness I knew it was a big issue, but in our church we understand the Word of God and we understand spiritual attitudes but there are so many people in Christian churches around the country who have bought in to the sort of cultural thing that you don't forgive anybody, you get your pound of flesh, you sue them or you identify them as somebody that's abused you or wounded you and made you into a victim or traumatized you or your children, and you hold that grudge perennially and whatever. And I get in to these talk programs and, I mean, it is astonishing to hear some of the things that these people bring up.
I was on a program in New York and this lady came on and she said, "Well, Pastor MacArthur, I want to ask you a question." She said, "I have...I just can't forgive this certain person."
And I said, "Well how long has this gone on?"
She said, "Ah, for two years."
And I had been talking about how not forgiving produces bitterness and steals your own joy and what's the point? And I said, "Well what did this person do?"
"Well, this is my son's Little League coach."
I thought, "What? What did he do? Put him eighth in the lineup instead of second? What do you mean your son's Little League coach?" I didn't say that to her but I thought...what? Two years...two years this has been eating at her.
She says, "Because of what this child...what this man did to my child, I can't forgive him."
Now what do you think that...what message does that send to that child? What's going to happen in the child's...to say nothing of this woman? You mean, nobody told her about mercy?
And on the other hand, I talked to a lady on the same program. She said, "I want to tell you I have been completely freed by understanding God's forgiveness. My husband left me," she said,"ran off with another woman and I now...this is like five or six years ago...and I have to share my children with him." And she said, "I forgave him for what he did from the heart and I know that because all I ever do is pray for his spiritual well being. All I ever do is pray for God to get a hold of his life, for God to save him and then God to bless him."
And I said, "That's evidence that you've truly forgiven from the heart.
She said, "What makes it hard is we share the children and every time they come back he has done everything he can to poison them against me and against the Lord which readdresses the issue of forgiveness all over again." But she said, "I've had such a taste of what it is to forgive and the joy of granting mercy that God has given me the grace to continue to give it to him."
I always think about my brother-in-law Duane Rey who was serving on the pastoral staff here. His son Tim was a big strapping guy, a great athlete. He was a volleyball player at Cal State Northridge and a wonderful Christian young man. I think he was nineteen years old, wasn't he, Patricia? Or twenty, I think nineteen...twenty? Anyway, he was working in a market over here in Sun Valley and he was trying to...he was doing his job as a student, just working part time. And a drug addict came in to hold up the market and put a gun in front of the checker and Tim tried to intervene and he was murdered on the spot.
And, I mean, I can't think of anything worse than having your son murdered or your daughter murdered. And I'll never forget, within a matter of a couple of weeks, of course they caught the guy very rapidly and he's still serving a life sentence, of course, but Duane went to the jail to see him because he wanted to let him know that he forgave him and he wanted to give him the gospel of Jesus Christ so that he could be saved. He rejected the gospel. But that's the essence of mercy and that's what God does for us undeserving sinners, and that's what God asked us to grant to others.
It means there's no retaliation. There's no vengeance. There's no holding the grudge. There's no slandering someone else. There's no gossiping against someone else. There's no flaunting someone else's weakness, someone else's failure, someone else's sin. There's no relishing someone else's deprivation and your wealth or prosperity.
Augustine made a great issue out of mercy, so much that on...he had some words engraved on his dining room table. This is what was engraved on Augustine's dining room table. "Whoever loves another's name to blast, this table's not for him, so let him fast." Sometimes I think that ought to be on our dining room tables. We get to talking about people there, don't we? Sometimes it's not very merciful.
Sirius(?) who is a Jesuit reported that Luther learned his theology from the devil and died drunk. Not a very nice thing to say about somebody. But he was angry at Luther and so he said he learned his theology from the devil and died drunk. That's merciless even if he disagreed. People like that don't give evidence of having transformed lives.
Alian(?) who was a Roman writer of natural history in his history reports that in India there was something called a griffin, g-r-i-f-f-i-n. And this animal had four feet like a beast, but it had wings like an eagle. You can see it in mythology, the griffin. It was hard to classify because they couldn't decide whether it was a fowl or a beast and the old legend was that only the gods knew. So it is with those who profess to fly on wings to heaven but have no mercy. Flap as they will their feet continue to lick the dust of earth.
And it is possible that merciless people may profess to be kingdom citizens, but in reality are not. Vindictive, self-righteous, defensive, self-protective, people who lack sympathy and compassion, forgiveness, they're like the priests, you remember, and the Levite who hurried on, you remember, on the Jericho road they hurried on past the beaten man. We need to show mercy.
First of all and foremost, beloved, we need to show mercy to the souls of sinners by giving the gospel to them, right? That's the most merciful thing you can do. We need to show mercy to people by prodding them toward righteousness. We need to show mercy to people by helping meet their needs. We need to show mercy to people by praying for them. We need to show mercy to people by pardoning them.
So, we could say we need to show mercy by preaching the gospel. We need to show mercy by prodding them to mercy, if they're disobedient. We need to show mercy by prayer. We need to show mercy by pardoning.
And the sequel in the end, and we'll finish with this, verse 7,"And they shall receive mercy." "They shall obtain mercy." What is that? Ongoing mercy from God. I don't know about you but I...I really do want all of God's mercies poured out on me. This is not saying you can earn your salvation, you're going to get God's saving mercy if you act merciful. This means that if you have been made into a merciful person and you act mercifully toward others as James 2:13 said, which I read earlier, when you're merciful God will pour out mercy on you. It's not that your acts of mercy are meritorious for salvation, but you shall obtain mercy. It doesn't say you shall obtain salvation, you'll obtain mercy. You'll get mercy. But you don't get mercy from merit or it's not...what?...not mercy. You can't earn mercy. Mercy is giving you what you don't deserve. God will be merciful to you if you're merciful to others.
Again and again David cried out, "Be merciful to me, O God," Psalm 86:3 he said, "Be merciful to me, O God, for I cry unto Thee daily." And these words, "Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever." No wonder the psalmist said in Psalm 59, "I will sing aloud of Thy mercy."
Father, we do acknowledge with gratitude from the heart Your mercy in Christ and then new every morning. We praise You for Your continued mercy. Your compassions never fail. Great is Your faithfulness. We are literally flooded with the mercies of God which become the motivation for the dedication of presenting ourselves to You. Make us ever to be the merciful who have received mercy that we might receive even greater mercies, that we might praise You all the more. Thank You for this great truth in Christ's name. Amen.
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Seoul's Global Hawks will be primary sensors for a preemptive strategy against North Korea
Although South Korea has been seeking Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawks for eight years, the unmanned surveillance aircraft is now becoming all the more crucial to its strategy of dealing with the threat from Pyongyang. North Korean attacks on the south in 2010, combined with the mounting nuclear danger, have led Seoul to seek an ability to stop strikes before they are launched. The Global Hawk is now seen as a primary sensor for cueing a preemptive attack.
Four RQ-4 Block 30s should be delivered to South Korea in 2017-19; the dates are uncertain. A contract from the U.S. government is likely in 2014, following an intergovernmental agreement by the end of this year, say Northrop Grumman officials, although the South Korean defense ministry expects the intergovernmental contract in the first half of next year. Under the Foreign Military Sales process, which is compulsory for the RQ-4, the U.S. government will supply the aircraft.
South Korea expects to pay 900 billion won ($850 million) for the acquisition program. The defense ministry says it expects to "adopt" the Global Hawk in 2017; Northrop Grumman forecasts deliveries in 2018-19.
The aircraft will be delivered with equipment for imaging but not signals intelligence, though weight and space is available for the latter should South Korea want it and the U.S. agree to supply it. As supplied, the system matches the U.S. Air Force's imaging-only Block 30 Global Hawks. "There is no dumbing down," Drew Flood, Northrop Grumman's international program manager for the system, said at the Seoul International Defense & Aerospace Exhibition late last month.
South Korea has sought Global Hawks since 2005 and formally asked the U.S. in 2009 to supply them. They will fill a requirement called HUAV while South Korea separately works on a medium-altitude unmanned surveillance aircraft, the MUAV. One obstacle to the supply of Global Hawks has been the Missile Technology Control Regime, but the U.S. government has decided that the informal international understanding, limiting the export of long-range missiles and unmanned aircraft, does not apply to the Global Hawk.
The UAV's synthetic aperture radar is of particular value to South Korea because the peninsula's mountain mists obscure military activity from visual sensors. South Korea's recently announced Kill Chain policy (or capability objective) evidently envisages detecting North Korean preparations for a missile launch and rapidly knocking out the weapon before it can be fired. South Korea does not seem to have said explicitly that it would act preemptively, but it must be inferred to give meaning to recent remarks by President Park Geun-hye—that she will make North Korea realize that nuclear weapons are useless.
Kill Chain was developed in response to two North Korean attacks on South Korea in 2010: the torpedoing of a warship and, more relevant to radar surveillance aircraft, the artillery bombardment of an island. The recklessness and aggression underscores fears of North Korea's nuclear capability.
With neither advanced surveillance satellites nor suitable radar aircraft, South Korea's ability to independently monitor North Korean ground activity is quite limited; however, it depends mainly on U.S. intelligence. The Global Hawks will transform that situation. "This is a South Korean controlled asset," says Richard Weir, Northrop Grumman's director of business development. The nearest U.S. Global Hawks are on Guam.
The preemptive attack would be mainly an army and navy mission, using surface-to-surface ballistic and cruise missiles, says Yang Uk, a senior researcher at the Korean Defense & Security Forum, a think tank. Aircraft without long-range standoff missiles would have to wait for the North Korean air-defense system to be knocked out, by which time the opportunity for preemption would have passed. South Korea is investing very heavily in indigenous surface-to-surface missiles (AW&ST May 21, 2012, p. 27). The ballistic variety would offer the fastest response time.
Even the enthusiasm of the South Korea air force (Rokaf) for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) seems doubtful, says Yang. "Since the most important factor of the so-called Kill Chain is the sensor, the role of the Rokaf is important with its ISR assets. But the problem is that the [air force] leadership is so focused on fighter programs such as F-X Phase 3 and KF-X," he notes. "And the current fiasco in F-X gives little room for the leadership to take interest in other programs, such as Global Hawk." South Korea is reevaluating its F-X Phase 3 program for 60 fighters.
Current ISR assets such as RF-4, RF-5 and RC-800 aircraft have no real-time capability, a critical problem if rapid preemption is required. Yang thinks the Korea Defense Intelligence Command should lead all national ISR programs.
South Korea's Global Hawk order will include two ground stations. Since one would normally be at the operating air base, handling takeoffs and landings, that suggests that the country's air force is planning to normally maintain one patrol with the capability to add another. The South Korean air force operates RC-800s, electronic intelligence aircraft based on Hawker 800 business jets, from the Seongnam base south of Seoul, but the runway there is only 55 km (34 mi.) from the territory of North Korea, which has S-200 surface-to-air missiles systems capable of reaching much greater distances.
Patrol stations near North Korea cannot be more than about 1,000 km from any South Korean air force base, so four aircraft, each with range of more than 18,000 km and endurance of 36 hr., are not needed to maintain one continuous patrol; allowing for overhauls, three would probably do. Instead, the order for four seems to be based on the unstated service-life goal. The Global Hawk airframe is designed to fly for 40,000 hr., so four could serve for a theoretical 18 years even if one were always aloft.
For Northrop Grumman, engineering work on South Korea's program will be largely limited to replacing obsolescent parts in the ground equipment. Under offset contracts, local suppliers will make wiring harnesses and machined parts for all Global Hawks, not just South Korea's. The government will nominate the suppliers, presumably with an eye on developing local industrial capability, but Northrop Grumman says they will have to meet expectations for price and quality.
Probably more important to South Korea will be technology transfer from Northrop Grumman. That will include training and modeling techniques for simulations, as well as advice on airworthiness certification of unmanned aircraft. Those issues are particularly relevant to the development of the propeller-driven MUAV and its proposed high-altitude derivative. Little information on development of the indigenous aircraft has been available, but the program is known to have hit its fair share of troubles. The MUAV airframe is adaptable to jet propulsion for operation closer to the Global Hawk's altitude above 60,000 ft.


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Summit League Men's Preview: South Dakota State at Denver
It's a crucial week four Summit League road trip for South Dakota State, as the Jackrabbits try to get back above .500 at the halfway point of the league schedule, with games at Denver and South Dakota.
The defending regular season and conference tournament champs start play this week 2-3, tied for fifth in the eight team league.
It's been a struggle for the Jacks on defense lately, as teams are shooting a league-best 47 percent against them. In all three of their conference losses, SDSU has allowed 80 points or more.
The other issue for this year's team has been trying to fill the biggest void left from last year's team, with the graduation of point guard Nate Wolters.
Head coach Scott Nagy told me that developing the back court is still a work in progress; and so is keeping the confidence level of his team up heading into this week:
Against NDSU last Saturday, the Jacks allowed the best shooting team in the nation to hit 56 percent of their shots, 53 percent from behind the three-point arc, while letting the Bison control the boards, finishing plus 10 in rebounding.
SDSU did their part offensively to stay in it, hitting 50 percent from the floor, and knocking down 10 three-pointers.
Coach Scott Nagy says that kind of production should win games:
This week starts with something new: the Jackrabbits first Summit League trip to Denver, where the Pioneers have one of the top all-around players in the league in Chris Udofia, who not only scores 12 points per game, but also pulls down six rebounds, has three steals and two blocked shots a game, for a team that will slow it down on offense like Western Illinois, but does a lot of other things differently than the Leathernecks:
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Energy Savings
Did you know that MSU's electricity bill was over $1.8 million last year? In a time where everyone is looking for ways to cut costs, save money, reduce carbon footprint, and preserve the environment, there are things you can do to help cut our energy bill and go green too.
Some ideas are obvious – like turn off lights when no one is in the room or when you leave the office/classroom (you do this at home, right?).
Another way you can save money is to turn off your computer when you leave work. People occasionally ask if it's better to leave a computer on or shut it off and the answer in most cases is to shut it off when it's not in use. This will both save energy and extend the life of the hard drive and monitor.
How significant are the savings? Our own Dave Esping measured the power use of several different types of computers and monitors. What he found was that leaving your computer idle was like leaving a 40-88 watt light bulb burning 24x7. Turning your computer off, putting it to sleep or hibernating it when you leave will reduce energy consumption by about 73%.
LCD and LED computer monitors use very little power and only consume about 1 watt in energy saving mode.
But some of you know that it may take a long time to start up your computer in the morning – which might be the reason why you don't want to shut down your computer at night. PCs and Macs have two alternatives for you to use to cut power and get to work faster in the morning.
Sleeping and Hibernating
Both modes freeze the current state your computer is currently in. Say, for example, you have web browsers open to where you are doing research, your e-mail is open, you're working on a Word document and trying to correct an Excel formula. When you sleep or hibernate your computer in the afternoon, then power it back up in the morning, all of your programs are where you left them the afternoon before. You just log in after a very quick boot-up and you're ready to continue working.
There is a slight difference between sleep and hibernate. Sleep freezes the programs and goes into a low power state, so there still is some 'brain activity' because the computer's memory is still being powered and refreshed while the hard drive and other devices are powered off. In contrast, during hibernation, the computer's state is frozen, memory contents are copied to the hard drive and then everything is powered down. Therefore, sleeping reduces power consumption, while hibernation eliminates it. Now, if your computer is asleep and there is a power outage, your computer will have to do a full system boot-up and unsaved work may be lost. (The exception is with Vista, which uses a hybrid sleep, so if there is a power interruption Vista will recover as if it were hibernated.) Hibernation will bring everything back regardless if power was removed. It offers added benefits of lower power consumption and more reliable recoverability of your work.
Another difference between hibernation and sleep is the time it takes for your computer to 'wake up.' In sleep mode, some computers bypass power on tests and your computer might be up and ready to log in within 5 seconds. Hibernation may take 15 to 30 seconds to get ready to log in on some computers since it has to copy the contents of memory from the hard drive to memory first. (Your mileage still may vary.)
Have a laptop? Hibernation is the way to go because it won't use battery power while it's hibernating. If you put a laptop to sleep, the battery will eventually drain and, upon your return, you'll be back to a full system boot with a dead battery. So with hibernation, not only will your boot up time be reduced, but your laptop will be ready to go much more quickly and your battery live will be preserved.
Here's the link to the results https://mavdisk.mnsu.edu/bryan/Esping_Powerstudy.pdf (broken link). Some interesting results show that laptops use much less power (20-30 watts less power than desktops), and Macs use much more power when sleeping than Dells.
Introducing Problems?
There is a possibility that sleep or hibernation will result in some computer issues – like sound not working, or you may find out that your computer does a full system reboot rather than waking up quickly. The ability for a computer to successfully sleep or hibernate will depend on the devices in it and the software and driver's ability to recover gracefully from a sleep or hibernation state.
If you find that your computer doesn't have a sleep or hibernate option, please call the Help Desk at 389-5993 for assistance in enabling these options.
- Shutdown
- Saves files and closes running applications and then powers down your computer. When you power your computer on, the computer does a health check, checks files on the hard drive for functionality, boots up the operating system, checks for devices connected to the computer, loads drivers, as well as other programs that need to be ready for you to log in, and finally presents you with a login prompt. After logging in, you must open applications to begin working or communicating.
- Sleep
- Keeps applications open and running in memory, but stops hardware devices and enters a low power state. Power keeps memory running an monitors keyboard or mouse activity. When the power button is pushed again, hardware devices are started and all running programs are still open and ready to use just as when the computer was put to sleep. Time to start up is a matter of seconds, versus tens of seconds booting from shutdown. (NOTE: If a computer is sleeping and power is disconnected, any program data that is in memory may be lost and the computer resumes just as if it were completely shut down.)
- Hibernate
- Hardware devices are stopped, and the contents of memory are written to disk and then power is shut down. When the computer is powered back on, memory is copied back from disk and then hardware devices are restarted. All programs that were running are still open and ready to be used just like they were when the computer was sent to hibernation.
- Hybrid
- Windows 7 introduced hybrid sleep that puts the computer to sleep, but it also copies memory to the hard disk. In case of no power interruption, the computer wakes from sleep instantly. If power is interrupted while asleep, it wakes up from hibernate.
The difference between hibernate and sleep is that in sleep, even though power is reduced, it must still be maintained in order to successfully return from sleep. In hibernation, the computer powers down and if power to the computer is disconnected, all programs and settings will still be ready to use. Vista uses a combination of hibernation and sleep.
So what is the best option to use?
- Laptops - The best option is hibernation, because no battery is drained while the laptop is not in use. Mac laptops will sleep until the battery is depleted and then it will hibernate.
- Desktops - Windows 7 hybrid sleep will go into low-power sleep as it also hibernates. In case of power interruption during sleep, all programs and data apps will always be ready to go in seconds. Macintosh desktop's sleep mode will greatly reduce power when not in use and will wake up in seconds so you can get to work quickly. For Windows XP, either sleep or hibernation is the best option, depending on how long it takes to wake up from hibernation.
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When replacing my old Toro valves I noticed a very fine spray coming out of the Febco 715 Atmostpheric Vacuum Breaker.
It is a simple connection with [2] 3/4" female ends (top, side) to connect a brass pipe from home to poly that feeds a open/close valve to the manifold.
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I'll get the FE765-075 - Febco® 3/4 inch PVB Assembly to replace it.
It looks easy to replace.
I am well above the 12 ".... and there doesn't seem to be any local rules (and think some of my neighbors have the same device).
It does appear the guy who installed this system years ago didn't do well.. He had too many zones, and buried the valves without a box
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What was it intel said about ending price cutting?
Devices that combine the power of a notebook with features of a tablet were one of the themes of last week's gadget-fest, Computex 2011 in Taiwan. Intel is pushing its new "ultrabook" concept, and the stage is set for the mobile PC market to split into three emerging form factors: touchscreen tablets; a new wave of more …
AMD were already in a good position with the Fusion APU's compared to Intel, only now waking up to the inability of Atom to deliver in this sector.
AMD actually have a bigger advantage here though, they have stronger GPU tech and have been successfully embedding powerful implementations for a long time now. Intel continue to demonstrate complete incompetence with GPU's. 'Ultrabook's will need to compete with the strong media and gaming performance of pads to create a new niche, Intel have no viable solution for that.
One option available is supplementing or replacing x86 cores in Fusion with ARM. That would still leave AMD owning most of the silicon on the die. Almost all Intel's value is the x86 core (no one willingly chooses an Intel GPU) so its not as attractive an option. AMD have more choices here -> can adapt faster.
Stocked with popcorn while I watch Intel panic...
I have seen Intel GPU on a Macbook only and Intel Mini first generation.
It was basically a horrible experience. You should have seen the face of Macbook owner when he launched a direct3d game on bootcamp (os x was already unsupported) and see the amazing value of 1 fps. Yes, ONE fps!
I won't touch anything and won't let others unless Intel has fired all those guys responsible for shipping that scandal GMA series and convinced Apple to put them on Macs.
If I told you "no hardware T&L support", would you believe? 3dfx was still in business when nvidia introduced that feature. It is _that_ old.
AMD divested their Arm expertise some years back which puts it in the strange position of actually being more wedded to x86 than even Intel (who, IIRC has an Arm license and Itanium).
I think an Arm option for AMD would be great, but it looks like Nvidia have the whole Arm+advancedGPU market to themselves.
I still keep my HP NC4010 and MacBook G4 in use for this exact reason - they have discrete non-Intel graphics. As a result they are still usable now with the HP 6 years old and the MacBook 9 (not with Windows or MacOSX). Compared to them your average corporate laptop with a GMA is a horrible slouch even if it is carrying anything short of the last generation of Core/Ivy/SandyBridge inside.
"supplementing or replacing x86 cores in Fusion with ARM. That would still leave AMD owning most of the silicon on the die. Almost all Intel's value is the x86 core (no one willingly chooses an Intel GPU) so its not as attractive an option. AMD have more choices here -> can adapt faster."
good thinking - x86 drinks power i hear. Dont abandon it, but use it as little as possible.
My posts elsewhere here, fancy similar logic for servers. AMD cloud servers w/ 2 x cpu & 8 x gpu on 1 die, running open cl for the grunt jobs. The x86 cores act as traffic policemen & run legacy code.
Power is a big problem for these farms. A new approach is needed.
What is missing here is reference to what AMD has shipping now - a dual core 1GHz APU complete with integrated HD6000 series DX11/OpenGL 4.1 graphics and a UVD3 multimedia engine - all for less than 6W TDP!
That's Atom territory for TDP but with far superior graphics and out-of-order execution CPU cores.
Clearly this may still not be a low enough TDP for tablets, but certainly makes for nicely performing products with long battery life for anything bigger.
As usual there seems to be too much talk of what is coming next, not enough about what is actually shipping now - a common fault with us techies?
The fact is the new Bobcat core architecture wedded to latest generation ATI/AMD GPU architecture already makes for a very nice product. The gradual move in emphasis away from raw CPU grunt to GPU hardware acceleration of common parallel processing tasks (which, after all, is where most performance is really needed) is already starting to favour AMD with their superior GPU technology. Anyone who has seen a die shot of the Onatrio/Zacate won't fail to be impressed by the fact that two thirds of the die is actually GPU - and the total die size is less than an Atom. That demonstrates a much better balance of resources in today's world.
As I see it AMD is already on a role with this APU stuff, not something that is vaguely out there in the future.
It is rather amusing how everybody is in a rush to define the next generation of portable device - trying to see what will catch on and what will fall down the drain of the history. Yet, very few seem to bother on improving on what was already promising and (almost) delivering not long ago. The netbook was a wildly popular product. But then various actors on the scene got worried that it might just start eating into their more expensive lines. So they did all they could to make it less useful and capable. MS imposed all sorts of restrictions on who could install XP on them and under which specific (crippled) set of hardware spec. Intel imposed other restrictions on OEM's as to what other hardware could go with the Atoms they were supplying. And so the saga continues. They strangled the platform in order for it not to compete with their other products - and now they are investing millions (billions?) in trying to invent other products because netbooks don't sell that well.
How about:
1. Give netbooks a reasonable resolution - 1300x700 or thereabouts. I've worked on the rare small machine with this resolution - and they are incredibly usable.
2. Pack as much battery life in the damn things as possible. There use to be netbooks out there with 9 cell batteries - now everything is on 3 cell and 6 cell. If the current 6 cells can stretch to (theoretical) 12 haours - a 9 cell should be a heck of a mobile little machine.
3. Equip them with integrated 3g - for pete sake. There initially were few netbooks with 3g onboard - then you could not buy any model with it inside. Who killed it? Was there really no interest from people?a Everybody preferred a dongle sticking out on the side? Oh - and don't charge a fortune for this extra - while you are at it.
4. Make the processor and anything else on the platform consume a lot less during idle. It is one of the key disadvantages of x86 processors - they are not good at idle-ing from an energy point of view. Work on that - instead of diddling with marketing terms.
And there you are - you would end up with a truly useful machine - without re-inventing the wheel.
I just bought AMD shares, minutes before reading this.
intelligent story & comments.
"vital that Intel and AMD make the shift, tapping into their entrenched positions in PCs, while refusing to be dragged down by the legacy."
well put. Odd for me to a bit negative, but amd especially so cos of their discrete gpuS. Fusion will slaughter the low end gpu business.
We all seem agreed on the merits of fusion, now if only AMD could do decent cloud servers. Thats where the money is.
How about a dual cpuS w/ 8 gpuS fused in, running open gl server apps.
As another said, brazos is a good product and selling now. Its 40nm, same as the discrete gpuS, which are due to shift to 28nm (brazos next?).
Hope it wasnt here I read it, but they got ~124 design wins for brazos & 145 for llano. Sounds impressive anyway.
AMD dont care much about the market, the real action is stealing share from intel, or new value conscious markets (india/china etc)
I read 400 smart phones or 120 tablets = 1 new server on the cloud.
Also good money in emerging markets tho, & AMD can kick ass.
Just a guess, but a hybrid lap/desk top llano which can handle a few hours of power outtage may sell well in 3rd world etc.
SB seems foolish to me. Who would want a grunt CPU & crap integrated graphics? Those guys go the discrete route.Hope I dont sound a shill. Just sayin


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Does anyone else find this slogan for christianmingle.com unbelievably hypocritical. When speaking to most fundamentalist Christians I have found that they will generally say that God will basically make everything happen. God will provide everything for them no matter how great or small. This dating site slogan is so repulsive to me that I felt I had to ignite a discussion about it. It's just more of the same, say one thing and mean another all the time with some Christians. Sometimes God is waiting for you to act...if God supposedly does everything for us and has this big ol' plan for all of us, then how can we have the right to choose a mate.
Also, there is nothing like discrimination against others to really piss me off. having a dating site where one is required to be a Christian to join is really really lame!
Please post feedback on this I can't wait to hear what you guys think!
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Yeah there is a distinct tension between "God will provide" and "God helps those who help themselves". I am sure the former can be "justified" in the bible, but I am not sure about the latter.
The fact of the matter is they pick the one that fits the current situation, so they can be always right. But it goes back to the fact that many of the things they have trouble making sense of (such as why doG answers this prayer but not that one, etc.), make perfect sense if you assume there is no god!
As for discrimination... well sometimes it makes sense to do so, and this is one of those cases. They probably want a refuge from those tiresome atheists and muslims (and they have every right to set one up as long as it remains a private organization), and to have some confidence that the people they meet there to date and possibly marry, will at least share some of their core values. I am not sure why any atheist would feel injured by this, why would one want to go into this site other than to be obnoxious?
Listening to the message, I do wonder if they use some standard associative database, or some early quantum computer that they call 'GOD'.
How the database would work differently from any other is unclear. Thinking that 'GOD' was somehow involved with the data processing, makes me think that they allow a pseudo random number generator to pick what they call your perfect 'mate' from a large list of bozos. Letting 'GOD' determine the pseudo random number seems rather funny, I quess since the operation can claim that they 'did not choose that perfect someone', they can use 'GOD' as the perfect fall guy.
What happens if the perfect mate, turns out to be an imperfect bozo? Does 'GOD' get tagged as a screwup, or is there an excape clause in the contract, "Due to the problem of prayer being weaker than probability, your rape, identity theft, etc, will at no time be considered an 'act of GOD' ".
Which in the end causes me to wonder if their system is any better than speed dating, or laundromate shoping.
I have had good success with web dating over the years. After 30+ dates over a five year period, some of which were more memorable that I wish in hind sight, I found my nearly perfect someone, educated, charming, creative, but maybe a little too prissy white light, atleast she does not eat crackers in bed mostly....
What happens if the perfect mate, turns out to be an imperfect bozo? Does 'GOD' get tagged as a screwup, or is there an excape clause in the contract, "Due to the problem of prayer being weaker than probability, your rape, identity theft, etc, will at no time be considered an 'act of GOD' ".
But of course it is part of God's plan. He never gives you more than you can handle, and if in his infinite wisdom, he gives you a rapist, well rapists have needs too.
I am torn between thinking that this is an excellent way to rope off the Christians into a selective breeding program leaving everyone else free to have random experiences, and disgust at the commercialism of religion to below the cheapest tackiest level I had thought possible.
I have to tell you, this ad came on TV the other night as I was going to bed, and I laughed so hard, I had to come downstairs and have another cigarette to get over it.
Is "christian mingle" ubiquitous on the internet, or targeted to atheist sites? Cause, I see their ads all the time and they can't possibly have enough money to saturate the internet.
Their TV commercials make me want to puke. I'm glad I'm not the only one.
HA HA Ha, man this group is so funny!
"I had to come downstairs and have another cigarette to get over it."
Dear Strega:
It does seem hardly worth the trouble to poisen yourself, just because you need to 'recover' from Christian Co-Mingle mental associations. Try what I do, link funny things to a bucket of absurdity, always putting new things in, and only revisiting the best when dullness seems be in accendence. Most absurdity is non-caustic, so your bucket need not be remove to a toxic waste recovery operation once a year. Dumping it on your neighbor's roses might be ok.
If you need actual intervention, check out the study of Pataphysics....LOL
I thought that sort of thing could kill the stuff in your septic tank.
"I thought that sort of thing could kill the stuff in your septic tank."
See just about anyone can do absurdity.
I am not sure about dumping the bucket into a septic tank. Given the degree of levity, it could cause excessive aeration and sludge flotation, that could foul your drain field.....Ok enough already...LOL
Feeding it to the neighbor's roses, might just make them bloom nicer....
See what happens when we allow crazy to infect our sensibilities, I start trying to make sense out of non-sense....
I think it'd be easier to fool a girl or guy into going out with you on religious based dating sites.. All you gotta do is say you love jesus, or you can say jesus came to you in a dream to message them.


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The 54th Grammy Awards will be remembered as a story of two women with towering, timeless voices — Adele and Whitney Houston — one representing youthful triumph and boundless possibility, the other a reminder of fresh tragedy and a life unraveled.
Adele, the 23-year-old British singer-songwriter, took home six awards including album, record and song of the year, a trophy bounty that puts a gold-plating on a commercial and critical success story that has dramatically defied the grim gravities of today's economically-challenged recording industry.
Adele's other victory came when she stepped to the microphone and sang a robust version of her hit "Rolling in the Deep," which suggests that she is past the career scare of throat surgery that came just after Halloween and kept her mute through New Year's Day. It was her first public performance since the operation.
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Adele's honors for her sophomore album, "21," were juxtaposed against the dazed grief and still-raw reactions to the death of Houston on Saturday. The 48-year-old singer was found in a bathtub in her room at the Beverly Hilton Hotel and, while the determination of cause of death could take weeks, Houston's history of drug addiction is a likely starting point for the investigation.
The Grammy broadcast on CBS began with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performing its new hard-times anthem, "We Take Care of Our Own," and then host LL Cool J addressing the loss of Houston, a six-time Grammy winner who tumbled from the pinnacle of the pop charts into the pit of a tabloid life.
"We ask ourself," the rapper and actor said with the crisp tones of a Sunday sermon, "How do we speak to this time, to this day? There is no way around this. We've had a death in our family. At least to me, the only thing that seems right is to start with a prayer for our fallen sister, Whitney Houston." He then read a prayer while the audience went silent, many with bowed heads.
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It was one of the many moments of emotion during the night. The big winners included the Foo Fighters with five awards and Kanye West with four, but it was the performances — not the envelopes — that opened up the true drama of the night.
Country singer Glen Campbell, who is battling Alzheimer's disease, was given a warm ovation after his engaging, high-energy performance of "Rhinestone Cowboy."
Meanwhile the applause for Chris Brown's daring dance work (he performed on a hulking prop of giant cubes) may have echoed with a sense of redemption. Brown's future seemed uncertain at the Grammys in 2009 when he missed the show and was arrested on suspicion of felony assault on his girlfriend, Rihanna, but on Sunday he won best R&B album for "F.A.M.E."
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"First and foremost, I gotta thank God, and thank the Grammys for letting me get on this stage and do my thing," Brown said. "All my fans, I love you. We got one. Thank you."
The best new artist award went to Bon Iver, the folk-pop project of mastermind Justin Vernon, who used his time on the Grammy stage to thank "all the non-nominees who never will be here." Although the likes of Kanye West have endorsed Bon Iver, the Midwestern act was competing against bigger names such as rapper Nicki Minaj and dance music sensation Skrillex.
"It's really hard to accept this award," Vernon said. "There's so much talent out there and on this stage. There's so much talent that's not here.... When I started making songs I started for the inherent reward of making songs."
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The 3 1/2-hour show also featured cross-generational pairings, most notably a Beach Boys reunion that came bundled with the newer falsettos and harmonies of Maroon 5 and Foster the People.
Brian Wilson wasn't the only 1960s legend on stage — Paul McCartney performed twice on the show.
The 69-year-old McCartney performed a new song, "My Valentine," with an orchestra, Eagles guitarist Joe Walsh and jazz pianist Diana Krall. The song was written for Nancy Shevell, his new wife, and he also crooned it on their wedding day.
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He was back on stage at the end of the show to perform the climatic "Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End" medley from the "Abbey Road," the swan-song studio album by the Beatles. Springsteen, Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters and Walsh joined in for the intense guitar volleys of "Carry That Weight" before the final line of "The End" brought the show to a close: "And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make."
That may have been the timeless music moment of the night, but the most timely was the performance of "I Will Always Love You," a tribute to Houston by Jennifer Hudson, one of the many young singers who saw in Houston a career and stylistic template.
The song was written and recorded by Dolly Parton in the 1970s but became a mega-selling signature hit for Houston with the release of "The Bodyguard" film and soundtrack.
On Sunday night, the soaring and epic song came at the end of the "In Memoriam" sequence as the photos of recently deceased music luminaries filled the screen behind Hudson. She blew a kiss at the end of the song, which was subdued but still packed with emotion — especially for the audience at the arena.
The funereal feel went further with a tribute by Bonnie Raitt and Alicia Keys to Etta James, who died last month. Also, in the pre-broadcast ceremony at which awards are handed out in dozens of Grammy categories, Tony Bennett brought the parents of the late Amy Winehouse to the stage to join him as he accepted the trophy for his collaboration with the singer who died last summer at age 27.
"We shouldn't be here," Mitch Winehouse told the audience. "Our darling daughter should be here."
Winehouse was one in a series of gifted female singer-songwriters who won over Grammy voters in recent years with blockbuster sales and a sense of music history. Norah Jones, Alicia Keyes and Lauryn Hill had historic nights running off with an armload of gramophone trophies — and Adele (born Adele Laurie Blue Adkins) of North London is now clearly on that list.
Adele's album "21" finished as the bestseller of 2011 with 5.82 million copies sold in North America. Her rousing hit "Rolling in the Deep" enjoyed the best year of sales of any song since "Candle in the Wind: Princess Diana Tribute," Elton John's charity single in 1997.
She became just the sixth performer in Grammy history to take album, record and song categoriesThe others: Dixie Chicks (2006), Eric Clapton (1992), Christopher Cross (1980), Carole King (1971) and Paul Simon (1970).
Adele also won best new artist in 2009, and her new shelf of trophies will make her a key figure to watch in the years to come.
The drama of her night was heightened by a moment of silence — just after she started singing "Rolling in the Deep" she and her band paused for a long beat, which caused a flicker of anxiety for audience members fretting about her throat condition. It was just a pause for drama amid a fairly flawless night. Adele joined Beyonce as the only woman to take home six Grammys in one night.
"This is ridiculous," Adele said on accepting record of the year, and then broke into tears when "21" was announced as the album winner to cap the show.
"This record is inspired by something everyone's been through, which is a rubbish relationship," she said. "It's gone on to do things I can't tell you…. It's been a life-changing year."
Adele shared the award for song of the year — the category honoring songwriters — with Paul Epworth for "Rolling in the Deep."
The Grammys are determined by about 13,000 voting members. The eligibility period for nominated recordings was Oct. 1, 2010, to Sept. 30, 2011.
The 54th Grammy Awards will be remembered as a story of two women with towering, timeless voices — Adele and Whitney Houston — one representing youthful triumph and boundless possibility, the other a reminder of fresh tragedy and a life unraveled.


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The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Duane lies upright on a sandy bottom in 120 feet of water one mile south of Molasses Reef off Key Largo.
After being decommissioned on August 1, 1985, as the oldest active U.S. military vessel, the Duane was donated to the Keys Association of Dive Operators for use as an artificial reef. On November 27, 1987, she was towed to Molasses Reef, her hatches opened, her holds pumped full of water, and down she went to begin her final assignment.
She is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
The Duane was built in 1936 at the U.S. Naval Yard in Philadelphia. She was a 327-foot long Treasury Class Cutter, one of seven such vessels, and was named for William J. Duane, Secretary of the Treasury under Andrew Jackson. She had various assignments before being sent to the Atlantic in 1941, where she eventually served with the U.S. Atlantic Fleet. Her service included an impressive wartime and peacetime record.
On April 17, 1943, the Duane and her sister ship, the Spencer, sank the German U-boat U-77. She participated in four rescues at sea, picking up a total of 346 survivors. In 1980, she was an escort vessel for thousands of Cuban refugees coming to the United States. Her last assignments included search and rescue work and drug enforcement.
On a clear day, the outline of Duane's intact hull can be seen from above. The mast and crow's nest, protruding high above the hull, can be seen at 60 feet. At 70 feet, just forward of amidships, is the navigating bridge. The superstructure deck is at 90 feet and the main deck lies at l00 feet. The hull structure, completely intact with the original rudders, screws, railings, ladders and ports makes an impressive display.
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