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For the past many months, I have felt that God has been leading me to start a church. Actually, I've felt this for many years. But, since last summer (2009), it has gotten more serious when we decided to leave our previous church. Right now, it's in the formative stage. And I've recently created a website for it - New Kind Church. I'll be posting more about it on the blog on the church site.

- You want to speak to the pastor, but can only book a time with one of the associate pastors 3 months from now.
- It takes longer to get in and out of the parking lot than how long the service lasts.
- You can barely make out the pastor speaking if it weren't for the 100 ft big screen.
- When overflow rooms A, B, and C are full and you have to watch the sermon on TV in the church hallway.
- It takes longer to serve communion than it took Jesus to feed the 5000.
- When the church forms a worship band just for the kids ages 8-12 group.
- You've been going for years and still don't know anybody there.
- There are more people on staff than most companies have employees.
- When you're a member and someone asks you if you're a visitor.
- Kentucky Fried Chicken asks if they can have a spot next to the Starbucks inside the church.

As we have seen in the past month, the science of global warming is far from settled. In fact, considering the recent e-mails that surfaced from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom, it is clear that there has been a well-crafted plot among prominent global warming zealots to tamper with evidence, silence scientific opposition and stifle debate.

In light of all the evidence that the science underpinning the theory of global warming is bogus, submitting to binding targets at Copenhagen will ultimately be seen for what it is: an agreement for an international tax and global governance, not science.

Don't jump off cliff for climate

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PJTV
ClimateGate For Dummies

Climategate Document Database
Climate-Gate
East Anglia Emails

Wikipedia
CRU Hacking Incident
Global warming controversy

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CRU has apparently been hacked hundreds of files released
Climate Challenges
Climategate: the final nail in the coffin of 'Anthropogenic Global Warming'?
'Climate-Gate' Scandal Should Be Wake-Up Call For Press, Politicians
The ClimateGate Virus
Climategate: Anatomy of
a Public Relations Disaster
We've Been Had
Why You Should Be Hot and Bothered About 'Climate-gate'
Copenhagen's political science

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Organizations
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Burp - Not OSS, but has free version
Grendel Scan - Java based
Pantera - Python based
Paros - Java based
Proxmon - Python based
RatProxy - Ajax testing
WebScarab - Java based

I ran into a problem with Birt 2.5.0 running inside Weblogic 9.2. I could run the report inside Eclipse. But, when I tried to integrate the Report Viewer inside my webapp and run the report, I would get the following error:

java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: initStandardObjects
at org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.api.impl.ReportEngine.setupScriptScope

I finally found a solution here. The bug is reported here.

The problem is that the weblogic.jar conflicts with js.jar from Birt. Weblogic uses an older version of javascript.

So, some possible solutions:
- Drop the js.jar into beajrockit90_150_10jrelibext.
- Explicitly set the classpath in the weblogic startup to find js.jar first.
- Set prefer-web-inf-classes to true.
- Deploy as an ear file.

The unemployment rate has hit double digits for the first time since 1983 — and is likely to go higher.

The number of Americans who have been out of work for six months or longer rose to 5.6 million, a record.

October was the 22nd straight month the U.S. economy has shed jobs, the longest on records dating back 70 years.

Jobless rate tops 10 pct. for first time since '83

I'm running Eclipse 3.5.1 in a virtual environment. And occasionally the copy/paste (either through the menu or Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V) stops working. Fortunately, I found a fix. In Window > Preferences > Java > Editor > Typing, uncheck "Update imports". Then copy/paste will work.

I found a free program to be able to print to an image file (jpg, png, tiff, bmp) - Image Printer. Seems to work pretty well. And all the other ones I found you had to pay for.

The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded "to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between the nations and the abolition or reduction of standing armies and the formation and spreading of peace congresses."

The stunning choice made Obama the third sitting U.S. president to win the Nobel Peace Prize and shocked Nobel observers because Obama took office less than two weeks before the Feb. 1 nomination deadline. Obama's name had been mentioned in speculation before the award but many Nobel watchers believed it was too early to award the president.

Speculation had focused on Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, a Colombian senator and a Chinese dissident, along with an Afghan woman's rights activist.

Rather than recognizing concrete achievement, the 2009 prize appeared intended to support initiatives that have yet to bear fruit: reducing the world stock of nuclear arms, easing American conflicts with Muslim nations and strengthening the U.S. role in combating climate change.

President Barack Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize

President Obama on Friday won the Nobel Peace Prize, a stunning choice of an official who had been in office for less than two weeks before this year's nomination deadline.

"The Nobel Prize committee has its own rules and they may decide anything they want. They may decide that encouragement is part of the experiment," Wiesel said, noting Obama's short tenure as president.

"So soon? Too early. He has no contribution so far. He is still at an early stage. He is only beginning to act," said former Polish President Lech Walesa, a 1983 Nobel Peace laureate, of Obama.

"This is probably an encouragement for him to act. Let's see if he perseveres. Let's give him time to act," Walesa said.

President Obama Wins 2009 Nobel Peace Prize

The Norwegian Nobel Committee decided not to inform Obama before the announcement because it didn't want to wake him up, committee chairman Thorbjoern Jagland said.

"Waking up a president in the middle of the night, this isn't really something you do," Jagland said

The award appeared to be a slap at Bush from a committee that harshly criticized Obama's predecessor for his largely unilateral military action in the wake of the Sept. 11 terror attacks.

In a surprise, Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize

Well, it's obvious that Obama did not win the prize because he has actually accomplished anything towards peace, but that some people think he could possibly accomplish peace. Now we're giving preemptive prizes? And they did not notify him cause they did not want to wake him up? Have they ever said this before to anybody else?

From page 75 of Organic Church:

I suggested this to one church planter in Atlanta, and he followed this simple advice. The officer told him he should go to Crystal Cove, which has become known as "Crystal-Meth Cove." The man and his wife, with a lump in their throats, began to walk through that part of town praying. Soon a door opened, literally and figuratively, and a church was started that now has started other churches in adjoining neighborhoods.

Our family just got back from visiting this organic church. It was at a small house and packed with about 15 kids and 3 other adult couples. One couple brought 9 boxes of pizza. The kids were all around the house eating, chatting, playing guitar, and texting. It was held at a home where it was obvious it was a home away from home for these kids. And I could see why. The mom there radiated the love of Christ to these hurting kids. When it was time for "church", we all sang some songs, then prayed, then broke up into groups for questions. Kids acted up most of the time, but that's how kids are. But, what was neat was those kids wanted to be there. And they came to be in a church "service". All of them by themselves, without their parents. Most of them didn't realize that their group is mentioned in a book. (But of course the leaders knew.) I told them that was one reason why we visited.

What did I think of the meeting? It was raw. It was down-to-earth. It was real. I think Jesus could've fit right in. And I think he did.