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The Texas A&M International University Small Business Development Center (TAMIU-SBDC) will sponsor a "Managing Cash: The Small Business Owner's Guide to Financial Control" workshop on Friday, Sept. 26, 2008 from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the TAMIU Western Hemispheric Trade Center, room 103. A $20 fee includes a copy of Managing Cash: the Small Business Owner's Guide to Financial Control Workbook.
Cash flow is what comes into and goes out of a business. Gaining financial control by understanding cash flow is crucial to business success.
"Many people think their business is sound as long as more money is coming in than is going out. This way of thinking can weaken a business' short-term stability and its long-term growth. A certain amount of cash must be on hand at all times for day-to-day operations and to pay expenses on time," explained Richard Pérez, SBDC Director.
"Inevitably, a gap will occur when bills are due before the cash that's owed the business is collected. In addition, unexpected expenses, like equipment repair, can really complicate operations," he noted.
Pérez explained that without proper cash flow, even a thriving business can fail.
"Think of your business as a rope with three intertwined strings. One string is what you sell (your products and services). The other string is what you earn, and the third is what you spend. If one string weakens, it affects the strength of the rope," Pérez said.
The workshop will offer advice on: Cash–The Fuel that Runs your Business; Maximize your Cash Flow; Tools for Speeding up Cash Collections; Overdue Invoices; Three Tools for Helping with Accounts Receivable; Cash Flow Statements; and Four Short Term Financing Solutions.
For more information or to register, call the TAMIU SBDC office at 956.326.2827, or e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com. Register online at sbdc.tamiu.edu
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Alright, folks. The 2012 Video Game Awards on Spike TV ain't just Sam Jackson handing out a bunch of monkeyfighting awards to some Monday-to-Friday games. In fact, one could argue that is the least interesting purpose of what is essentially an E3 keynote in December.
Gears of War: Judgment will premiere a trailer showing us stuff we haven't seen before; so will games like South Park: The Stick of Truth, Tomb Raider and BioShock Infinite. And there's always a few totally new games who get their first-ever announcement at this show, too. Rumors already are swarming as to what that could be.
Whatever comes down, you can watch all of the action here, live, on two streams—one of the show itself, the second one of the VGAs' All Access show, featuring our editor-in-chief, Stephen Totilo plus others.
Kotaku's writers will be breaking out the news as it happens in Los Angeles, with stories, videos and more once they come available. And consider the comments below your forum for gabbing about what you're seeing, loving, hating, etc. Won't you join us?
The 2012 Video Game Awards on Spike TV

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Walter Ray Allen (born July 20, 1975) is an American professional basketball player who is currently playing for the Boston Celtics in the National Basketball Association. He has played professionally for the Milwaukee Bucks, Seattle SuperSonics, and the Boston Celtics; and collegiately for the University of Connecticut Huskies. One of the most accurate 3-point and free throw shooters in NBA history, he is a ten-time NBA All-Star and won an Olympic gold medal as a member of the 2000 United States Men's Basketball Team. Allen has acted in two films, including a co-starring role in the 1998 Spike Lee film He Got Game. On 02011-02-10 February 10, 2011, Allen became the NBA's all-time leader in regular season three-point field goals made, surpassing Reggie Miller's mark of 2,560. On 02011-03-11 March 11, 2011, Allen surpassed Miller's career total of 6,486 three-point field goal attempts.
The third of five children, Allen was born at Castle Air Force Base near Merced, California, the son of Flora and Walter Allen. A military child, he spent time growing up in Saxmundham in England, Altus in Oklahoma, Edwards Air Force Base in California, and Germany. He attended high school in Dalzell, South Carolina, where he led Hillcrest High School to a basketball state championship.
Allen attended the University of Connecticut from 1993 to 1996, where he earned All-American status and was named USA Basketball's Male Athlete of the Year in 1995. In 1995–96, his final college season, Allen was a first-team All-American and won the Big East Player of the Year award. Allen finished his UConn career third on the Huskies' career scoring list with 1,922 points and set a single-season school record by connecting on 115 three-pointers in 1995–96.


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Free Money on Cruisesby Cruise Director Kuki
The final night of our cruise on the Rhapsody of the Seas, Mrs. Kuki was busy packing for debarkation, when the bill was slipped under our cabin door. She took a quick look and panicked. $8000!!! As the sweat poured profusely down her brow, she feared, "what in the world has he done now?" I suppose, given my checkered past, her worry was justified.
No, I didn't buy my favorite cocktail waitress a diamond tennis bracelet in the duty free shop. I was simply taking advantage of the cruise lines' generous policy of giving away free money.
Here's a little known fact: most major cruise lines allow you to use your onboard charge card to purchase chips from the casino cashier. These chips may later be exchanged for cash. The cruise lines treat these transactions as onboard purchases, rather than cash advances. If you pay off these charges in full when your credit card bill arrives at home, the cruise lines have provided an interest free loan.
OK, so it's just been a short-term loan, but there is another major advantages to these types of transactions: Mileage! I use a credit card that accumulates frequent flyer miles. Credit card companies generally provide one frequent flyer mile for every dollar charged. The American Express Platinum Card awards one and one half frequent flyer miles for every dollar spent.
Being Canadian, I am often at a disadvantage when it comes to the killer rates we pay for U.S. dollars. However, through the frequent flyer mile award programs, I make up for some lost ground. My Rhapsody $8000 charge converts to roughly $12,000 Canadian dollars. When that $12,000 is processed through my credit card award program, I receive 18,000 frequent flyer miles.
The cruise line's generous interest free loan translates to nearly enough frequent flyer miles for a free airline ticket to fly me to my next cruise. You see -- they really did give me "free" money. I have used this procedure often on a variety of ships and cruise lines. The only major cruise line where I couldn't use my nifty program was Princess, which charges a 3% service fee for each of these transactions, negating any possible advantages. The daily maximum amounts the cruise lines allow for this type of transaction varies, ranging from $350 to $1500 per day.
If you are a frequent cruiser I highly recommend getting a credit card which awards frequently flyer miles. I know there is a Carnival Cruise Lines Visa. Using that card in the manner which I described, it would take no time at all to earn a free cruise.
Free money! However, always remember to pay off the credit card bill as soon as it arrives. And, trying to double it in the casino is definitely NOT a good idea.
Disclaimer: The editors of CruiseMates have not tried this, (okay, we did once, but just to get enough cash to pay our tips) and it is up to each individual to determine whether or not any additional charges may apply. The cruise lines can change their policies at any time. Oh, and Kuki is a really big guy, so don't be lookin' for him as he steps off the ship.


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A Vermont man accused of causing the crash that killed a 17-year-old girl in Rutland is scheduled to be arraigned on a charge of second-degree murder.
The Rutland Herald reports the charges against 23-year-old Alex Spanos have been amended and that he is to be arraigned Thursday. He previously pleaded not guilty to manslaughter and other charges in the death of Carly Ferro in September.
Police say Spanos, of Rutland, was inhaling chemicals before his car went off the road and into a parked car, pushing it into Ferro, a pedestrian who had just walked out of the store where she worked.
Two other vehicles also were hit and two passengers in Spanos' car were injured.
Police found aerosol cans and alcohol at the scene.


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How to Use
Map 1: Main routes to the Catoctin Recreational Demonstration Area, 1930s.
Catoctin Furnace was the site of the Catoctin Iron Furnace established in 1774 to produce pig iron, which was in demand during this period. The need for charcoal to fuel the furnace contributed to the depletion of the forest. Thurmont was once named Mechanics Town and now serves as the eastern gateway to Catoctin Mountain Park. At the time Camp Misty Mount was built in the 1930s, it took people from Washington and Baltimore nearly a half day to drive to the site.
Questions for Map 1
1. Note the location of Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Thurmont, and Catoctin Furnace. Calculate how far Washington, D.C. and Baltimore are from Catoctin RDA. Approximately how long would it take to get to Catoctin RDA from these locations today?
2. What natural recreation areas are within two hours of your community?
* The map on this screen has a resolution of 72 dots per inch (dpi), and therefore will print poorly. You can obtain a high quality version of Map 1, but be aware that the file may take as much as 60 seconds to load with a 28.8K modem.


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I'm not going to write too much about this comic because it really doesn't deserve much. Instead of trying to be funny, Randall just throws us some intense cynicism, which I guess is supposed to be the cool, ironic way that young people act now. Almost feels like he is trying to go for a Pictures for Sad Children vibe, like "there is no point to life, let us all be sad together."
Like a lot of people, I was a little confused by it at first, too. Not only because the "kindle" is just a rectangle (unlike the last time you drew one) and when people talk about books we, as a culture, still think of, you know, books, not computers (no matter how much you want it to be the future already). It's because in the first panel, the girl says "Kindle collections are pointless" and then she is like "NO they are pointless in general, collecting anything, because you will die." So why specify "building a kindle collection" then? That's so obnoxious. That's like:
"Why did you dye your hair red and make it all spiky, and attach blue LEDs to the ends of your hair spikes?"
"Oh, well I know it looks a little weird, yeah..."
"No I mean in general having hair is stupid."
dammit, if her point is that no matter why you do you will die alone, why the hell start that out by saying "it is pointless to build a kindle collection. Because anything you do in life is pointless. Because you will die alone." What a lousy way to shoehorn us towards a dumb line about pretend existential crises. am I making sense with this?
oh also: GOOMH I READ SOME DISCWORLD BOOKS ONE TIME! i thought i was the only nerd who did that!
update: Coviza points out below that Mr. Evans warned us the date may not work for guest posting, BUT when I e-mailed Mr. Evans to organize all this, I said the first available date was August 19th for comic 625, and he said, to quote what he thought was a private e-mail, "That date sounds good for me." END QUOTE. However, he did promise that in exchange for letting him blog he would draw a picture of me arm-wrestling a dinosaur (and winning). And he did, to be fair, send me that. And I should, to be fair, share it with the world. SO:
oh john evans. I can't stay mad at you.


text: 19 Oct 2014 08:30 Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, has extended its Breast Cancer Awareness campaign to guests and employees at Abu Dhabi International Airport. Etihad Airways cabin crew wearing pink uniforms distributed pink ribbon pins and information leaflets with breast cancer prevention advice to guests, employees and local authorities in the Terminal 3 departures area of Abu Dhabi Airport.Coordinated by the Etihad Airways Medical Centre, the initiatives are part of the airline's wider efforts to promote breast cancer awareness among employees and in the community, particularly during October.In partnership with the Health Authority of Abu Dhabi and Lifeline Hospital Group, the Etihad Airways Medical Centre is also hosting a mobile breast cancer mammography screening unit for employees and employees' wives over 40.In addition, all female employees, regardless of age, can get a free consultation at a breast cancer awareness drop-in clinic operating at the centre.Other initiatives to mark the month and raise funds include a staff competition, bake sales, wristband sales, educational lectures, newsletters and updates through Etihad Airways' intranet site.The airline also supported a 'Pink Plunge Abu Dhabi' bungee jumping event organised by Breast Cancer Arabia at Emirates Palace, the annual 'Pink Polo' event at Ghantoot Racing and Polo Club, and the Pink Lady Golf Day at Abu Dhabi Golf Club. Get in touch with us. Contact us Let us know what you think Send feedback Join our community Etihad Facebook Watch our latest videos Etihad YouTube Follow us Etihad Airways


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Urgent prayer for Brother Warren Smith - May 23, 2017Written by Jacob Prasch
Moriel & Jacob Prasch request urgent prayer for Brother Warren Smith who suffered a coronary and is requiring a surgical procedure. Please pray for his healing and for God's wisdom to guide his physicians. Warren is an essential voice in addressing New Age toxin infiltrating the Western Church and we ask The Lord for a speedy recovery.
On a personal & family note, we also ask serious prayer for Ashlyn, the niece if Jacob Prasch who was born with Turners Syndrome (a fairly rare genetic disorder) . Her condition has become very problematic with periodic non-epileptic convulsions resulting in black outs and extreme disorientation. Ashlyn is a saved believer and we believe there is an element of demonic attack involved in her illness. The physical toll and emotional toll on her mother (Jacob's sister who is also a believer) has been very difficult as Ashlyn requires monitoring 24/7 and is repeatedly taken to hospital which complicates an already stressful situation as Ashlyn's father is disabled. Prayer is much needed and appreciated.
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Yes, it is winter and yes, it is freezing outside, but you're not going to let that keep you inside-are you? We didn't think so. Bundle up in your favorite American Eagle Outfitters puffer jacket, sweater and jeans and don't forget to grab your camera on your way out the door because our Earth-saving friends at the Student Conservation Association are holding their annual "I ♥ Snow" Photo Contest.
The SCA wants to see pics of the sights and scenes that inspire you to embrace the great outdoors no matter how low the thermometer drops. Hopefully the same things that inspire you will inspire others to get out and enjoy nature's wintry best, too. Enter your chilliest images at contest.thesca.org today. Prizes include a free round-trip plane ticket and cold weather camping gear so share your photos with the SCA now!
Check out some of the photo submissions that are inspiring us to get outside, no matter what Mother Nature brings! Don't forget to tag your Twitter and Instagram photos of you wearing your favorite AEO cold weather gear with #AEOSTYLE for a chance to be on our AE.com style gallery.
Want to learn more about American Eagle Outfitter's partnership with the SCA? Check out coverage of American Eagle Outfitters' $1 million donation to the Department of the Interior, Hurricane Sandy relief and the SCA's 12 Months of Serving campaign.


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Have never had home healthcare since breaking my neck. Always got by with a little help from my friends, who are now getting older and fewer.
My best friend who I met at the bus stop on the first day of high school helps me quite a bit. I'm very good at managing money, He is not. I have no problem doing this for him because he is help me out since I broke my neck as a matter of fact he was there when did it.
He is dropped off take out food for me and never charge me for the meal itself so I have bought him some large dollar amounts like a new roof for his house.
So as a C6 quadriplegia as a frame of reference for me how much do you pay annually in home healthcare? Know everybody's injury is different, and subsequently their needs are different, but what is your level of injury and how much deduct on your taxes or spend if you don't itemize?


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Split-screen software for the BMW navigation system.
The split-screen function adds even more effectiveness to the information provided by digital road maps. Viewing the map and arrow display simultaneously - or other information - is easy with a split screen. Travelling is more pleasurable now that retrieving information on alternative routes is so effortlessly accessed. Ask your BMW service partner for more information on equipping your vehicle with this convenient, easy-to-use feature.


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A failed anti-rejection drug got a new purpose and a new lease on commercial life Wednesday as the
the medication fingolimod -- to be marketed as Gilenya -- to slow the progression of disability in
Gilenya becomes the first MS medication that can be taken daily in pill form, and it joins a small clutch of injectable medications that sometimes go unused because they can be difficult to administer and have bothersome or painful side effects, including flulike symptoms and pain at the site of injection.
The FDA's move won applause from the
as "a significant step" that broadens treatment options for multiple sclerosis patients. The society had testified in support of Gilenya's approval at a
of the FDA's advisory panel on peripheral and central nervous system drugs, and on Wednesday it posted an
on the new medication on its website.
At the same time, physicians who conduct MS research and care for patients with the neurodegenerative disorder cautioned that potential safety issues that arose in clinical trials will require continued monitoring.
of Wayne State University said the drug, which suppresses the immune system, appears to carry some increased risk of infections. And some patients in early trials experienced breathing problems.
The Swiss drug giant
, which makes Gilenya, had already abandoned its effort to seek FDA approval of a higher dose of the drug, after several clinical trials found it raised the rate of serious side effects without offering patients greater improvement in their symptoms.
The newly approved drug works differently than other MS therapies currently in use. It reduces the circulation and the penetration into the brain of immune cells that cause inflammatory damage to brain cells and the fatty sheaths that protect the connections between them. In relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis, which accounts for the majority of cases worldwide, episodes of inflammation in the brain leave lesions that can result in progressively disabling problems with mobility and cognition.
One clinical trial
showed that compared with subjects taking a dummy pill, patients who took fingolimod had roughly half the number of MS relapses annually. A second trial compared relapse rates in subjects taking fingolimod with those of subjects taking the injectable
currently in widest use. That trial showed those on Gilenya had almost half the annual rate of relapse of those taking the drug
But Novartis' efforts to show that subjects taking Gilenya suffered fewer brain lesions were inconclusive.
Such a "disease-modifying" approach falls far short of the elusive
that patients and physicians have sought. But reducing relapses brings measurable benefits for MS patients, because each episode typically results in cumulatively greater disability.
Because it is a "highly welcomed alternative to injections," Gilenya is predicted to become a leading treatment for MS in a market expected to reach $2.4 billion in 2019, according to Trung Huynh, an analyst with the market research firm
-- Melissa Healy / Los Angeles Times


text: CLICK HERE TO WATCH ON YOUTUBE. Refinery29's Lifestyle Host, Lucie Fink, dives headfirst into social experiments, 5 days at a time. Manhattan's very own Millennial survivor-woman is willing to try it all and see what she learns along the way, testing her mental and physical strengths. New to the city, she is asked to shut off her cell phone for the following work week and then spend a limited $50 the next. Do you know how much the subway costs now-a-days? It's time to watch and learn with Lucie.


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Malware is a short version of Malicious Software.
Malware is software used for data theft, device damage, harassment, etc. It is very similar to computer malware. It installs things such as trojans, worms, and botnets to the affected device. It is illegal to knowingly distribute malware.
A computer program that can automatically copy itself and infect a computer.
A self-replicating computer program that can automatically infect computers on a network.
Trojan horse
A computer program which appears to perform a certain action, but actually performs many different forms of codes.
A computer program that can automatically intercept or take partial control over the user's interaction.
Exploit Kit
A toolkit that automates the exploitation of client-side vulnerabilities, targeting browsers and programs that a website can invoke through the browser [1]. Often utilizing a drive-by-download.
Any download that happens without a person's knowledge [2].
A rootkit is a stealthy type of software, typically malicious, designed to hide the existence of certain processes or programs from normal methods of detection and enable continued privileged access to an operating system.
See Also
External Links
- Wikipedia: malware
- Wikipedia: drive-by-download
- Viruslist.com
- Androguard: A list of recognized Android malware
- A Forensic Overview of a Linux perlbot, by Andre M. DiMino, December 17, 2013
- Probing into the Flash Zero Day Exploit (CVE-2014-0502), by Krishnan Subramanian, February 21, 2014
- Operation Windigo, by Olivier Bilodeau, Pierre-Marc Bureau, Joan Calvet, Alexis Dorais-Joncas, Marc-Étienne M.Léveillé, Benjamin Vanheuverzwijn, March, 2014
- [http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2014/03/24/security-advisory-2953095-recommendation-to-stay-protected-and-for-detections.aspx Security Advisory 2953095: recommendation to stay protected and for detections\, by Chengyun Chu, Elia Florio, March 24, 2014
Exploit Kit
- What Are Exploit Kits?, by Lenny Zeltser, October 26, 2010
- The four seasons of Glazunov: digging further into Sibhost and Flimkit, by Fraser Howard, July 2, 2013
- Kore Exploit Kit, Kahu Security blog, July 18, 2013
- Wikipedia: Rootkit
- Understanding Rootkits: Using Memory Dump Analysis for Rootkit Detection, by Dmitry Korolev, Yuri Gubanov, Oleg Afonin, November 22, 2013
- Police Story: Hacking Team's Government Surveillance Malware, by Morgan Marquis-Boire, John Scott-Railton, Claudio Guarnieri, and Katie Kleemola, June 24, 2014
- HackingTeam 2.0: The Story Goes Mobile, Kaspersky Lab, June 24, 2014
- Fuck you Hacking Team, by fG! at ShakaCon 2014, June 2014


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Centim Font Family
Centim is contemporary sans with sharp top endings of stems that give a bit technical charm to typeface. With a squarish look, it can be used widely in all modern publications or become a part of an corporate identity. In smaller sizes, Centim offers good readability due to its simple and good balanced lines. Centim is available in Regular and Bold weights, as an ideal high-contrasted combination where all characteristics of the typeface are purely effective. Centim is the archaic Serbian word for Centimeter, a word that was mostly used in tailoring during XIX and XX century.
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Seriously. Just kick back, relax, and enjoy the show — because chances are you've never seen steel like this.
What you're watching is a close-up, super slow motion look at different pieces of steel being whittled away by a variety of high-precision metalworking tools (click here for a video of what this looks like in real time). Most of us probably don't think of steel as being a particularly malleable alloy, but zoom in close enough, and slow the frame rate to the pace you see here, and it's like watching a pad of butter deform at the edge of a knife. Seriously captivating stuff.
If you're into this kind of thing, be sure to check out the National Institute of Standards and Technology's website for tons of information, videos, and research on high-speed machining processes.
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World No.2 Saina Nehwal is seeded second behind Olympic champion Li Xuerui in the women's singles at the All England Badminton Championships, starting in Birmingham March 5.
Saina's best performance at the Premier Super Series tournament came in 2010 when she reached the semifinals. The Hyderabadi will have adequate rest before reaching Birmingham as she is skipping the German Open Grand Prix Gold, beginning Feb 26.
No other Indian has been seeded, though P.V. Sindhu (women's singles), Ajay Jayaram and Parupalli Kashyap in the men's singles are in the main draw.
Jwala Gutta will be making a comeback after a six-month sabbatical following the London Olympics. Jwala will play mixed doubles with her long-term partner V. Diju while in the women's doubles she and controversial Mumbai girl Prajakta Sawant in the qualifiers.
Ashwini Ponnappa, who had paired up with Jwala to win the World Championships bronze and the Commonwealth Games gold, is playing with Pradnya Gadre and she is playing the mixed doubles with Tarun Kona.


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text: "A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song." – Maya Angelou Allison Nolker '13 is currently a master's student at NC State studying zoology with concentrations in anthrozoology and bioacoustics. Nolker, who has had a lifelong interest in animals and human-animal interactions, piloted the accelerated dual bachelor's/master's program in zoology. Her current research focuses on the evolution of bird songs, particularly mockingbirds.


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Loren Roberts, an eight-time PGA Tour champion and a 13-time Champions Tour winner, was inducted into the Toshiba Classic Hall of Fame at Newport Beach Country Club on Monday.
Roberts, who won the 18th annual Toshiba Classic by two strokes, joined the past tournament champions.
"It's an honor," Roberts said. "It just great to be among all those great names."
Monday proved to be a busy day for Roberts, who met with the media in the morning. He also posed for photos next to his name on the wall that has the Hall of Fame honorees near the putting green. He then conducted a putting clinic for sponsors and those associated with the Toshiba Classic.
He also shared stories and answered questions during a luncheon and he played a round of golf among the 112 sponsors and others associated with the Toshiba Classic.
Roberts won the Toshiba Classic March 20, amid rain and 25-30 mile-per-hour winds during the final round. It was first win since June 27, 2010, a span of 33 starts.
He said he enjoys the course at Newport Beach Country Club and it's a type of course that makes for a wide-open run for a champion. There hasn't been a repeat winner at the tournament, yet Hale Irwin won it twice (1998, 2002).
"Being defending champion gives you that feel that you've done it before and you can do it again," Roberts said. "But will be a great field, like it always is."
The 19th Toshiba Classic is March 11-17 at Newport Beach Country Club.
The Toshiba Classic past champions include Nick Price (2011), Fred Couples (2010), Eduardo Romero (2009), Bernhard Langer (2008), Jay Haas (2007), Brad Bryant (2006), Mark Johnson (2005), Tom Purtzer (2004), Rodger Davis (2003), Jose Maria Canizares (2001), Allen Doyle (2000), Gary McCord (1999), Bob Murphy (1997), Jim Colbert (1996), George Archer (1995) and Irwin.
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Appro notches up another Los Alamos super deal
Riding a Mustang to $10m
Supercomputer maker Appro International has lassoed itself another supercomputer win at the US Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Los Alamos would no doubt have preferred that Advanced Micro Devices had gotten more of its 16-core "Interlagos" Opteron 6200 processors out of its GlobalFoundries wafer-baking partner and that 56Gb/sec FDR InfiniBand was also a little more mature. But the "Mustang" supercomputer that Los Alamos is taking from Appro is no slouch and offers pretty good bang for the buck compared to the alternatives for machines that scale from hundreds of teraflops up to a petaflops or so. The Mustang will more than double up the lab's unclassified computing capacity. The $10m machine weighs in at $28,328 per teraflops – about half the price per teraflops of a Cray XE6 with its snazzier and lower-latency "Gemini" interconnect.
The Los Alamos "Mustang" super built by Appro
The Mustang super is based on Appro's Xtreme-X EL Series of machines, which are based on two-socket Opteron 6100-class processors and which use a single-rail QDR InfiniBand network to cross-connect the blade server nodes in the machine in a fat tree configuration.
Each rack of Xtreme-X EL Series machines has 64 server nodes for a total of 1,536 cores. In the case of the Mustang machines, the nodes are configured with a mere 64GB of main memory. Los Alamos had the option of going with the MR Series, which has a dual-rail fat tree setup based on QDR InfiniBand. The HE Series of Xtreme-X machines have a dual-rail 3D torus topology, which makes it easier to extend the cluster with more nodes. You don't have to use the 3D interconnect to build a fat Xtreme-X machine, and in fact Los Alamos is putting together 25 racks of these Xtreme-X boxes to build a 1,600-node system with 38,400 cores, 102.4TB of aggregate main memory, and a peak theoretical performance of 353 teraflops.
Appro pre-assembling and testing the Mustang super in its factory
If AMD had already fully ramped up the Interlagos processors, the Mustang super would probably weigh in at around 475 teraflops of floating point oomph, depending on the clock speeds that will be used in the Mustang machine's Opteron 6100 processors and the possible speed options in the Opteron 6200 lineup. The good news is that both the current and impending Opteron processors are compatible with the same G34 socket, so Los Alamos can upgrade the CPUs at will if it wants that extra performance.
Los Alamos has five other clusters that are part of its non-classified computing capacity, which is collectively called Turquoise and which have nearly 300 teraflops of aggregate computing capacity. This includes a baby version of the Opteron-Cell hybrid called "Roadrunner" which was built for Los Alamos by IBM. Roadrunner was used for open science as it was being built and tested, just to see how applications would scale on a 1.1 petaflops hybrid supercomputer.
But in October 2009, Roadrunner was taken behind the wall of secrecy to do its top-secret nuclear missile management and design work. Some researchers had apps running on this box, and to help them keep going, Los Alamos maintains a 153 teraflops baby Roadrunner, named Cerillos, for this unclassified work. This Turquoise network has nearly double the bandwidth to storage arrays thanks to a recent upgrade as well as anywhere from 20 to 100 times the bandwidth going to outside networks after another recent upgrade. In November, Los Alamos plans to kick in another 480TB of storage for the Turquoise network to store data upon.
As part of the expanded Turquoise network, Mustang will be used to do modeling and simulation for oceans, wildfires, plasmas, advanced materials, and nuclear reactions.
Los Alamos has been buying supercomputers from Appro since 2005, and the upstart HPC system supplier has also landed big contracts at Lawrence Livermore and Sandia National Laboratories, two of the handful of nuke-super centers controlled by the US Department of Energy. These three are often called Tri-Labs, and they have created their own variant of Red Hat's Enterprise Linux distro to run on their various massively parallel machines.
Back in June, Appro inked a two-phase deal that will see a 6 petaflops Xtreme-X machine based on Intel's "Sandy Bridge-EP" Xeon E5 processors being spread across the three labs. This machine – well, it is really three clusters – will use a dual-rail QDR InfiniBand interconnect between the two-socket blade nodes; 3 petaflops of iron goes into the labs in the first quarter of 2012 and by the third quarter, all 6 petaflops should be up and running. There's a chance that some of the nodes will get Nvidia GPU coprocessors to goose their performance. That procurement for Tri-Labs came in at under $15,000 per teraflops, which just goes to show you that if you want a good price for anything in this world, you have to buy in bulk.
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Hello, my long LOST friends! I rarely post on this site anymore, but given the related topic, I am long overdue to update you.
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Also, all this week, I had the privilege of doing a series of messages at the Master's College in chapel
on the inerrancy of Scripture. And so, through the week, able to share with the students and also to
remind myself of the fact that we have the true and authoritative and inerrant word of the Living God.
So it's been a wonderful week and a great opportunity to minister on those particular accounts.
But it's always the highlight of my week, no matter where I am or what I do, to be with you and to
open God's Word with you together. And tonight, really, you set the agenda, what it is that you would
like to know is what it is that I would like to be able to say. I can't promise that there's an immediate
answer for every question, but I'll do the best I can, and I have the MacArthur Study Bible in front of
me with all of the stuff in the footnotes.
You know, it is a bit of a difficulty for me because I, through the years, have preached out of the New
American Standard, and I continue to do that, and that serves the purpose, also of writing the
commentaries before...Moody Press Commentary on the New Testament, that series, which is on the
text of the New American Standard and has been from the beginning. So I need to continue to work
with that text. But having written the study Bible on the text of the New King James, I'm sort of caught
in the middle. And as you know, Sunday mornings, I read the Scripture out of the New King James,
preach out the NAS. But whatever text I use, I try to work my way around if there's variations that you
need to know about so that we're always dealing with the appropriate text.
But it is an unfortunate thing that we have so many translations, and you...I don't know whether you're
going to be glad to hear this...there are more coming. Soon there is coming a new one that...I've
talked to the people who are doing that, called the ESB, which is another, sort of, title for another
translation that I think will be a very fine one, but it will certainly pose another difficulty. We, in the
English language, have a hard time sort of agreeing on what the Bible says because we have so
many translations.
But I...if there are variations, and there are variations in these translations, sometimes variations in
the original text that they have chosen, or not that original manuscripts but the sources of their texts,
their English texts. Sometimes there are variations. But we always try to deal with those variations
and let you know what they are and pick the one that we think is best. So...
But tonight we'll be using the New American, the New King James, I should say, since if I need any
help, I'm here to help myself with my little notes. It's up to you, then, to pose the questions about the
Bible or theology or ministry or whatever might be upon your heart. And the mics are there. We have
some of our pastors who are going to come and help you. Dick Mayhew, over there, at my right. And
Tom Pennington in the middle. And Jim Pyle on the left. And you need to go and just kind of pose
your question to these men, and they'll help you to articulate the question quickly so that we can
cover as much ground as possible. And then you'll have the opportunity, I hope, to get to the mic and
as the question.
Now, I want to make sure that you pose your question and that you give me your name, if you will, so
I know who I'm talking to. That really is very helpful to me. Okay? Are we ready anywhere?
John: Who's ready? Tom, we'll start right in the middle, yes.
Joe: Joe McIllete. You and I played basketball many, many years ago together.
John: Good.
Joe: John, you know, we started this search some 30 years ago, when you were just getting started.
One of the questions that I have for you...first of all, I have to preface this by saying you have always
been very, very bold in the way you've preached, and I've appreciated that. I only hope you can
appreciate the boldness in which I ask this question.
John: Sure.
Joe: John, my question is...30 years ago, you started teaching me. I'm just curious...have you
changed in any of your stances or interpretations of anything biblical or maybe the way you might
have said something? Let's face it. You probably have offended some people, and maybe a better
word is convicted some people. But I'm just curious, has any changes in your stances or
John: It's great to see you, Joe, and that's a very good question, and I'm glad you asked it. And let
me answer it this way. I have not changed my theology because I had the benefit of great training. I
had the benefit of great training under my father, who had a sound and a right approach to Scripture.
I had great training in my seminary experience. I sat under men who had the right understanding of
Scripture. Some of the men that taught me in seminary are now teaching in the Master's Seminary
and have from the beginning...Dr. Roskob, Dr. Thomas. So I was benefited by not having to sort out
and figure out everything on my own once I got into the ministry, which would have probably
produced many more changes.
There have been very few times when I actually have changed something. I remember one Sunday
night I preached on why the anti-Christ will be a Jew. And somebody came to me after the sermon
and said, "You're wrong." This was very early in my ministry here. And he sent me back to the
Scripture, and so the next Sunday night, I preached on why the anti-Christ will be a Gentile. And I still
couldn't make up my mind, so we left both tapes in there for awhile. You could have your pick. But
I've come to believe that the anti-Christ will be a Gentile.
There have been just a couple of occasions like that. But I would say what might appear to people to
be changes really is a refinement. I would say I've always believed what I believe, but as you grow
older, and as you deal more with Scripture, it becomes more refined. And so I might go back and
say...I wouldn't say it that way anymore. I would be more clear. There would be a few things that I
would change. There have been a few interpretations of a passage that we would...through the
years, we've gone back and changed the tape or eliminated something, but nothing of major
Occasionally, on a Sunday, I'll say something in a sermon and ask them to pull it out because I didn't
say it clearly, or I misspoke...I said something that was the opposite of what I meant by throwing in a
not or something like that. But for the most part, the theology that I was raised on and trained on and
taught has stood the test of all the years of exegesis. But t is true that it has been greatly refined.
And I am now much better able to articulate it.
I think where that may show up most dramatically is in the fact that I've never had to pull any of my
books back and take material out of them. And as you heard this morning, I think I've written about
80 books and, if you add study guides and things, a lot more than that. But I've never had to go back
and throw anything away.
There would be...there have been a few interpretations, maybe, of matters in Revelation or prophetic
matters that I might see a little differently now than I did years ago when, maybe, I was a little more
prone to let the headlines mess with my exegesis than I am now. But for the most part, the theology
has stood the test of time.
And with regard to the matter of offending people, I...that's only a problem to me if I am the offense.
It's not a problem to me if the Word is an offense because it is. That is the way it is. If people are
offended by the Truth, then I have fulfilled my responsibility. If they're offended by me, then I need to
repent. I want to speak the Truth in love. I don't want to be the offense. But I understand that people
who believe error, people who believe the lie, people who don't understand the Truth or aren't
committed to it are offended by it. I mean, certainly, in the culture in which we live today. I mean, the
basic idea is you have to tolerate anything and everything that anybody and everybody believes.
And people ask me all the time...is it hard to be so bold? Is it hard to be so dogmatic? And the
answer is no. It's relatively easy because I don't speak my own words. If I come and teach the Word
of God, then I have to let the Word of God say what it says. So I don't wrestle with...how is that going
to effect me? Are people going to like me? Am I going to be popular? Am I going to make enemies?
That never comes into my mind, literally never comes into my mind. I never think like that. All I think
about is what is the Truth here. And I don't think...well, this is Truth, so let me crank up ten decibels
and really get this across. I don't think about technique. I don't think about the style of my preaching
or whether I yell or don't yell or whether I try some theatrical enhancement to make a point.
I just love the Truth. I get passionate about the Truth. And it's the Truth that compels me. And if the
Truth is an offense, then it needs to be an offense. You know what I'm saying? I mean, it's like a
doctor...if you go to the doctor, and he tells you you've got cancer, you don't like it. That's an
offensive statement. But if it happens to be an accurate diagnosis, it's really the important thing for
you to hear, and then you have to deal with it.
You know, I don't like to have enemies. I don't choose to do that. But people who don't want to hear
the Truth have a problem not with me but with the source of the Truth.
I hope that answers the question. Very good question, Joe. Thank you.
Over here.
Gene: Hello, John. This is Gene Stouts, and I have a question for you regarding a book I just read by
Earl Davies, Heaven is a Far Better Place. I actually had three questions, but Dick said I can only ask
one. The question I guess I'm going to ask is...is Heaven an intermediate state? Or is Heaven an
eternal state?
John: No, there is no such thing as an intermediate state. There is no such thing as purgatory. That
is a fabrication of the Roman system...nonbiblical. Heaven is...really, Heaven is the presence of God.
In fact, in the New Testament, you read about the Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of Heaven are
the same thing. Heaven is where God is.
There are distinguishing parts of Heaven in the sense that there is a place in the Old Testament that
is called "Abraham's bosom," but it was a place of the righteous dead in the presence of God. And
there is in the book of Revelation a city called the New Jerusalem that is described as an 1,800-mile
cube that hangs in the middle of eternal space, and that is the capital city of Heaven. The throne of
God is there, and it gives a tremendous description of that in Revelation 21-22.
So, there are features of Heaven that can be described, but what characterizes Heaven above all
things is that Heaven is where God is. When Jesus on the cross said to the thief, "Today you shall be
with Me in Paradise," you might say Paradise is not the final new Heaven and new Earth, which
hasn't yet been created, and it won't be created until this one is destroyed. So, we are waiting for the
new Heaven and the new Earth, which is our eternal state. But, Jesus said, "Paradise is the place
you're going to be with Me."
And so, whether it's paradise or whether it's Sheol, or Hades in the Old Testament...the place of the
dead, the righteous place of the dead...or whether it's the present Heaven, absent from the body for a
believer, in II Corinthians 5, is to be present with the Lord. In Philippians 1:21, Paul said, "Far better
to depart and be with Christ." Throughout all of redemptive history, those righteous ones who leave
this world enter into God's presence, whatever the unique characteristics of His presence at any
given time might be, or any given point, I guess you could say, in eternity.
We are still awaiting the new Heaven and the new Earth. That is not talking about the eternal abode
of God; that's talking about that which will replace the present physical Heaven and physical Earth.
That will make up part of that eternal state. But, the best way to understand Heaven is it is the
immediate, full presence of God and Christ and the Spirit and all of those that have died righteous,
and their spirits are now in the presence of God waiting for the resurrection when their bodies will be
gathered to join them, new bodies, glorified bodies. Okay? There are no intermediate states.
Andy: I want to ask you...in Genesis 6, if the Nephilim giants didn't survive the flood, how come when
Caleb and Joshua and the spies went to Canaan, they found the Nephilim giants there? And also,
why are there so many interpretations of Genesis 6?
John: Well, the fact that there are so many interpretations of Genesis 6 means that a lot of people
have gotten it wrong, right? Because there is only one proper interpretation. I understand that
because there are some obscurities in the passage, okay. There are some obscurities in the
passage. It's helpful to me, however, to know that most of the views that are different than the one
that I hold have come later in history, that the earliest views of Genesis 6 that we can find...even
among rabbis, to say nothing of early church fathers...viewed the "sons of God" as angels.
So, by taking, as we did when I went through that, the "sons of God" as fallen angels, demons, who
come down and possess men, who then take wives and really desire demon involvement, and have
children. That's to show the depth of the fallenness of man: he engages himself with demons
willingly. I think that, in the context of what Satan was doing in Genesis 6, it's the best interpretation.
It's consistent with what he tried to do in the garden as we pointed out at the time.
But, it says that at that time there were giants on the Earth in those days, and it uses the word
Nephilim. The term is from a Hebrew verb "to fall," and it has to do with powerful beings that crush
somebody. This is not a race of people; this is just some powerful people, some powerful men who
fell on others in the sense of overpowering them. That's what I put in the note and that's exactly what
I believe is accurate.
They were already on the earth when children born of these unions of demonically possessed people
came out. They were mighty men. It says, "The products of those unions were mighty men and men
of renown." There were, in ancient times, mighty men and men of renown born to those unions. But,
there also were these Nephilim, these powerful, powerful conquerors. The idea is that they are
threats, dangerous. It just describes them because we want to know something about the pre-flood
society. There were oppressive, I suppose you could say even deadly, men in that day. There were
powerful, I suppose we could call them conquerors or warriors.
And so that word Nephilim is describing them. Later on, when the spies went into the land, and they
came back to report what they had seen, they simply said, "There are Nephilim there." They didn't
mean that they were the children of Nephilim, as if they were a race. Nephilim, because of its usage
here, was sort of a word that they all knew was in the Scripture, and they knew that it referred to
giants. And so when they came back and wanted to report that essentially the Canaanites were
unconquerable, they simply said, "They're Nephilim." They just took that word in its generic sense...in
its general meaning...rather than having it refer to some race. They couldn't have been children of
Nephilim. Nephilim was not a race; it wasn't a tribe; and they couldn't have had any children that
lasted until that time, as you said, because the flood drowned everybody but eight people.
So, it's just a term that has to do with warriors...powerful, deadly, fearful kind of men. And Joshua...in
Joshua and Caleb's day, the spies who didn't believe they could conquer Canaan wanted to make
their point as strongly as they could and so they said, "They're like the giants, like the Nephilim that
are mentioned in Genesis, chapter 6." Okay?
Andy: Thank you, sir.
Charles: Good evening, Pastor John. I've been listening to you for years, and I finally mustered up
enough courage to come and ask you this question.
Charles: I wanted a question...I guess this all falls under the same category. Let's say a person is
born into this world, and they have Downer's Syndrome. And as they grow old, they can never
understand or come to a place where they understand the Gospel. And also, let's say a person lives
their whole lives...let's say an example like my mother or my father, and they're attacked with a
disease, Alzheimer's, in their brain. I guess you would say it goes into a dysfunctional stage and to
the point where they don't understand normal things anymore, and they've never received the Gospel
prior to this disease or, with the situation with Downer's Syndrome, never before...how does God see
them on the category of coming to...?
John: Sure. We must understand what we said this morning, that nobody can be converted to Christ
today, nobody can be saved, apart from faith in Jesus Christ. Anybody who gets a disease like
Alzheimer's disease or dementia or what they used to call hardening of the arteries or senility,
reaches a point in old age where they no longer can process information, has still had a life before
that and still had the opportunity to live up to the life they had and to believe if that was their hearts
desire. So those people are culpable.
You have your lifetime. You have your rational lifetime. I mean, many people, at the point of
their...reach some point in life, many people reach some point in life where they're not fully rational,
but they have still had their life, and that's all that God gives a person.
That's why it's so critical to come to Christ in your youth. As Ecclesiastes says, "Remember thy
Creator in the days of Thy youth." You know, the last chapter of Ecclesiastes, before you start falling
apart. And he describes it there, describes all of that. The legs don't work anymore. The eyes don't
work. The ears don't work. The brain doesn't work. The hands begin to tremble. And you better
remember your Creator before you get to that point.
In regard to somebody who's born with Down Syndrome or somebody who's born with some kind of
genetic deformity or somebody is born with some kind of a brain injury or misformation of the brain to
whatever degree, and they cannot understand, then I believe that God deals with that individual in a
very special way because no one can be saved apart from faith in Christ. But no one can be damned
apart from unbelief. And those people can neither believe nor disbelieve.
And, you know, back in Genesis 4, God says, "Have not I made the blind and the lame and the
_______? Have not I made these people?" And I believe that God deals with those people in His
own way. Since they cannot believe and they cannot disbelieve, they have to be treated in some way
by God that is unique.
And I think the best way to understand that is to understand how the Lord deals with infants who die.
And you go back into the story of David, in the Kings, where his little boy died, infant son. And he
said, "He cannot come to me, but I shall go to him." That's a very compelling statement. Well, David
didn't mean, "I'm going to be buried in the same cemetery." There wasn't any hope in that. There
wasn't any encouragement. He was finding encouragement in the fact of a reunion. And David had
the confidence in his heart that he would see that child again.
And then you have the Mark 10 passage where Jesus says, "Permit the little children to come to me,
for of such is the Kingdom of Heaven." And He picks the little children up, and it says He blessed
them. There is no occasion in the Bible where God does that, where Christ does that to a
nonbeliever, to one that's not His own. He embraces little children, and He blesses them, which
indicates that there is a very special care for those who are not yet able to know, as it were, they right
hand from their left, to believe or not believe.
And there's one other element. And this could be developed over a long kind of look through the Old
Testament. I won't do that. There was a certain kind of worship in Canaan, the worship of the God
Molech or Moloch. That worship involved incinerating a child. In other words, to appease the God
Moloch, they would take one of their babies and build a fire on an altar and incinerate the baby to
appease the God. And the Old Testament calls that...and this is very interesting..."the slaughter of
the innocence."
So there is God, saying about those infants, that they are innocent. They are not the children
of...they are not the circumcised children of Jews. They weren't the infant baptized people of
Presbyterians, as an analogy. They were the kids of pagans. They didn't have an family covenant
protection, is what I'm saying, and he said it was the slaughter of the innocents. If God designated
them as innocent even though they were children of pagans who couldn't believe or not believe, that's
pretty significant.
So I think what you have in any kind of, any situation, is if a person has the mind of a child and an
inability to believe or not believe, they fall under the category of an infant, of an innocent. I believe
God takes them to Glory. I believe they are His special care, thus the Mark 10, "Permit the little
children to come unto me, for such is the Kingdom of Heaven."
Now, if you have a child who is Down Syndromed, a child who has some learning disability, a child
who is autistic or something like that, I think it's critical...very, very important...as that child grows,
whatever the disabilities of that child might be, some genetic defect or whatever, I think it's still critical,
as that child grows and develops to whatever degree possible, to communicate the Gospel to that
child because you don't know the full faculties. You don't know whether they do have that capacity at
some point to embrace Christ in a simple childlike way. Because, "unless you become as a little
child," right, "you're not going to enter the Kingdom," Matthew 18. So it is a message a child can
believe. And you don't want to assume that that child can't believe.
We've had so many kids like that here. I remember...and some of you will remember the story...there
was a young boy in our ministry to the disabled who was mentally very young. I think he was about
20 physically and maybe...I don't know, how do you calculate that...four or five. Just very, very
young, mentally...six, seven. His name was Rodney, and for some reason, he had a great love for
me. He was very mistreated by his family. His parents couldn't deal with his disability, and so they
sort of pushed him off on the church, and he became my pal. And I wanted to see how far he could
go. And so I got to know him a little bit, and he had a great affection for me. He would often stand by
me at the close of a service. He has since been transferred to another home somewhere. But he
would stand by me in the service, and he'd put his little head on my chest while I was talking to
people. And I'm sure many people thought he was my child, and that was okay. But that's what he
did. But he had a special love for me, just to show you what was going on in his little heart.
And I would talk to him about Christ, and he would tell me things he was being taught in that class for
those are mentally handicapped. And he said to me one day...he said, "I need a new Bible." And I
said, "You need a new Bible?" And he said, "Yep." And I said, "Why?" And he said, "Well, look at
my Bible." And he pulled out this Bible, and I'm telling you...this was one of those just cloth-covered
Bibles, just a very, very cheap Bible. And he couldn't read. And it looked like somebody had literally
put a sort of a buzz saw in there and just chewed it up. I mean, it was mangled. And I said, "Rodney,
what did you do to your Bible." Well, he said, "I have to ride my bike to church, and sometimes I have
my Bible, and I just put it over my handles, and I ride." And he's just grinding up his Bible as he rides,
you know. So he said, "So I need a new Bible." And I said, "Well, what kind of Bible you want?" He
said, "I want a Bible with big numbers." I said, "Big numbers?" He said, "Yep. Because when you're
preaching, and you say look at verse two, I find the two. When you say look at verse three, I find the
three." And I thought to myself, "Some people don't even care to find the words, let alone the
numbers." I said, "You go over to the bookstore. You get the Bible over there with the biggest
numbers." So he came back, and he had a Bible with big numbers.
I was...sometime later, after that...he came to me, and he said, "I want to be baptized." He said,
"Everybody else gets baptized. I want to be baptized." So I said, "Well, you have to go talk to the
people in your department, your teacher, and they have to talk to you and find out if you really
understand the Gospel." So a few weeks later he came back, and he said, "They said I could be
baptized." And I said, "Well, good." So we were in the backroom, and I was doing the baptism that
night, and we always have a little testimony time. And I said to him. I go, just wanted to make sure, I
said, "Rodney, I just want to be sure now. Who is Jesus Christ?" He wrinkled up his nose, and he
said, "You mean you don't even know that?" He thought I need the information. And I said, "Yeah, I
know that." He said, "I thought you knew that." And he knew who He was, and he came into the
waters of baptism, and he gave his testimony.
I might have underestimated him. Somebody else might have underestimated him. I think his
parents underestimated him. So that's why we have the ministry we have with these people, isn't it?
Don't underestimate what the Lord can do in a simple heart. But I think God treats those people who
can't believe or not believe in a way of grace, in a gracious way, and embraces them and blesses
them and gives them Heaven as trophies of His grace. Okay?
Edith: I think you must have been preaching and teaching have your life here at Grace Community
Church now.
John: Almost. Almost. I've got a few more years before it's half my life, but I hadn't thought of it that
way, but that's true. I know more than half of my life is gone, and that's for sure.
Edith: I wanted to ask a question about God's day of rest and how it might relate to the fall of man. I
was wondering if perhaps the reason why Adam and Eve fell, could that have been because God was
resting. And because God is the only one who's inherently righteous, He must uphold everyone else
in righteousness. Was it because He was resting that He sort of took His hand off of them, and,
therefore, they were able to fall into sin because of that?
John: No, but that's an interesting and provocative question. I have the idea that somebody put you
up to asking that question, or somebody may have asked you that question. But no. And I'll tell you,
when you study the creation account, it doesn't say that God stopped doing everything. It says, "On
the seventh day, God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all
His work which He had done." That simply means He rested because the creation was over. He
rested from the specific work of creating the universe.
He continues, as Hebrews 1 tells us, to uphold all things by the Word of his power. Had God actually
stopped doing everything, the whole thing would have disintegrated completely. He has to uphold
what He created. What it's saying there is simply that the work of creation was finished in six days,
and you could even translate it, "God ceased from his work" because the work was done. And that's
all that that intends to say.
In fact, God didn't even establish there some kind of ceremonial seventh day. It was not that He said
to Adam, "Now, you need to rest." He didn't, sort of, launch that idea there. He just stopped working
because the work was done. And it was that singular work of creation, okay?
Edith: I though, actually, you had taught that God has to uphold the world now because it's fallen. I
was thinking that before it was perfect, and so He didn't have to uphold it.
John: Well...no, I don't know how I said it at the time, but God, the Creator, is also God, the Sustainer.
He has to sustain by His power everything that exists. I mean, there were atoms in the world at that
time. There were protons and neutrons and molecules. And there was energy. And there was the
matrix of time, force, action, space and matter, the mixed matrix of verse one, which is the composite
of everything that exists. And the God who spoke that all into existence also spoke into perpetuity.
It isn't to indicate that it all was self-perpetuating. Nothing can continue to exist apart from God. But
whatever measure of tranquility God knew after the original creation was shattered by the fall,
certainly, God was required to sustain everything all the time. I guess when you introduce into it the
second law of thermodynamics, chaos, disorder, the curse and the fall, that upholding takes on a
different dimension because now it becomes a battle against the different tendencies that were there
that weren't there originally. So it may be the nature of that work is necessary, but it is still God the
Creator who sustained the universe by the power that He alone has that causes all physical
processes before the fall to continue to operate. Okay? Good.
John: Yes?
Scott: Good evening, Pastor MacArthur, my name is Scott Bird, and I just wanted to preface my
question by thanking you for the opportunity to open the pulpit. My text comes from James 5:16, and
that simply reads: "Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another so that you
may be healed. The effective prayer of a righteous man can accomplish much." And my question is
simply...I've often been confronted with the idea that in order to have authentic relationships among
the brethren, that we need to confess our sins to each other. How far should we go in confessing our
sins to each other? And what types of sin should we confess to one another?
John: Well, that's a very good question, and I think...I think we have to start with this, that the only one
that can forgive our sins, the only one...as we were sating this morning...who can make that true
forgiveness, the one who is truly offended is God. But I think the intent here of James is that when
you have sinned against your brother, I think you need to confess that sin. I don't see here some kind
of mandate to run around confessing all our sins to everybody.
Now, there was a time in the past when that sort of sensitivity-training kind of mentality invaded the
Church, and it was very, very destructive. It became sort of "Can you top..." or "Can you bottom
this?" I don't think that's the intent. What you have in this context here is a person who is weak and a
person who is spiritually defeated, not so much physically sick but spiritually defeated, who has no
spiritual strength, who goes to the elders and asks the elders to pray. In the state of spiritual
weakness, he has committed sins. He has offended. He has transgressed. The text is saying you
need to make that right. You need to deal with that. You need to be honest and open and sharing
with others that you recognize those things that are an offense. I don't think it does any good to say,
"Well, you're my Christian brother; let me dump all my sins on you."
So I think the perimeter for that kind of thing is established by the relationships that are affected by
the transgression. Instead of somebody confronting you about your sin or somebody feeling the
effect of your sin and having you hide it and cover it up and not acknowledge it, the right thing to do is
to acknowledge it. And that's all part of the catharsis of this whole text.
You had people here in the churches James is writing to who are under tremendous persecution.
Actually, they were under the sentence of death. There were people who, literally, were taking the
believers. And some of them were caving in under this tremendous hostility, and they had become
weak, and in their weakness, in vacillation and compromise, they had sinned and committed sins, and
they needed to deal with those things. And if they were ever going to be restored and put back
together spiritually...maybe they were so weak that they couldn't deal with the things themselves, then
they were to go to the elders and let the spiritually strong pray for the spiritually weak so that the Lord
could lift them up. And if they had committed sins, then they would be forgiven at that point, but they
still had the necessity to go out and to be honest and open about their iniquities and to bring about
that kind of restoration that comes only when we acknowledge that we've offended somebody.
So I really do think the perimeter for that is the perimeter of those who've been affected by that sin.
Josh: And my question's in regards to Jesus' words in Luke 24:20, when He says, "And in the same
way He took the cup. And after they had eaten, He said, 'This cup, which is poured out for you is the
new covenant in my blood.'" And based on those words of Jesus, can we, with certainty, look back at
the new covenant that Jeremiah spoke of in chapter 31. And even though it was made with the
house of Israel and Judah, say that the Church is a part of that covenant? Are they the same? Or is
there a difference there?
John: Between?
Josh: Between that what Jesus spoke of, the New Covenant He spoke of in Luke and the New
Covenant that's spoken of in Jeremiah 31? Because it says specifically that it's just made with the
house of Israel and Judah. So it would be wrong to say that that is for us as well?
John: It is not wrong, and it is the same covenant. Understand this...God didn't promise any nation
other than Israel a Messiah. God promised Israel the Messiah. God promised Israel the Kingdom.
God promised Israel the new covenant, not that it might end with them but that it might come through
them. But from the very beginning, the promise of a new covenant was to extend to the nations.
Jeremiah acknowledges this. Isaiah acknowledges this, that the impact of the new covenant is going
to be worldwide. So the promises...Romans 9 says, "The Jews were given the promises and the
covenants." It was to them the promises were made. It wasn't to them the promises were exclusively
given. But they were told that there would be a Kingdom, and there would be a King, and there would
be a sacrifice that would provide complete cleansing for sin. The promise was made to them
because they were chosen people of God, who were then to take that promise and declare it to the
world, that God has promised to us a Savior for the world.
I suppose it's parallel to the promise that the angel Gabriel came and gave to Joseph. "The Savior's
going to be born to you. You're wife's going to have the Messiah, the Son of God." The same
promise came to Mary. It isn't that the promise made to them is therefore limited to them. It is that
they become the instrument through which the promise comes to the world. It is true that, though the
new covenant is described in Jeremiah 31, and the new covenant is ratified in the death of Jesus
Christ, the terms of the new covenant were being applied since the day of Adam because even
Adam's sins were forgiven on the basis of what Christ would do, as everybody else before the cross.
And now everybody since the cross is forgiven on the basis of what Christ did.
So God had a new covenant. I try to point this out in some of our teaching recently. There was the
covenant of the law, right? The mosaic covenant. And when you look at the covenant of the law, it
condemns you because you can't keep the law, and there's no grace in that covenant. And so you're
left humble, crushed under the law. But then God gives another covenant, the covenant of
forgiveness, the covenant of grace, the covenant that we know as the new covenant. And by virtue of
the new covenant, God can act graciously because He knows the Messiah will come. And in God's
mind, the Messiah was slain before the foundation of the world so that His sacrifice could be applied.
Jim: Yes, John, Jim Doyle. My question is in regards to your sermon this morning. You made
mention of the paralytic..you raised the question as to whether the paralytic knew that Jesus was
God. And my question is...does a person have to know that Jesus is God in order to be saved?
Believe He is God in order to be saved? Are the terms synonymous? Or does belief presuppose
John: No, I think that man didn't have to know that because of where he was in redemptive history,
prior to the death of Christ and the resurrection. He was still under the Old Testament economy. He
may have thought that Jesus was God. He may have wondered if He was God. He certainly
believed He was sent from God. I think once his sins were forgiven, and he was healed, he may
have believed that this was God. And once he experienced the power of regeneration, both spiritually
and physically, he may have come to that conviction.
But since the cross and since the resurrection, you cannot be saved unless you confess Jesus as
Lord. And Lord means God, sovereign God. So no one is going to be saved today who doesn't
acknowledge Jesus as Lord. And, not only that, believe that God raised him from the dead, which
means you have to believe in his death as a sacrifice for sin that satisfied God, and so God raised
Him to affirm that satisfaction. The terms then, after the death and resurrection, are laid out in
Romans 10:9, 10. Okay?
Sandra: Good evening. My name is Sandra Rogers. I often listen to you on KKLA over the years,
and tonight it brought me here.
John: Good.
Sandra: I guess my question centers around the anointing. I understand that the Greek translation for
Christ means the Anointed One and his anointing. And I notice that throughout the Bible in many
instances, different people who have been empowered with the anointing have...I mean, they go from
one point to a person of power. And even with Jesus, what, up until He was 30, and then He began
His ministry, it talks about how the Holy Spirit came upon Him. My question centers around...what
actually...how does this transition happen? I've been, from my understanding, it's meditating on the
Word, and that we all individually can be empowered.
John: Good question. Very good question. And it opens up a whole lot of possible directions to talk
about. There were three, essentially three, types of people that were anointed in the Old Testament:
prophets, priests and kings. The anointing was...and you have to understand this, first of all, was
symbolic. They, maybe, were anointed with oil. They was, perhaps, hands laid on them in some
symbolic fashion. And what that meant...what to be anointed meant, essentially, was that they were
set apart for some special service within the theocracy, within the earthly realm of God's rule. Priests
were set apart to bring men to God. Prophets were set apart to bring the Word of God to men. Kings
were set apart to rule on behalf of God. And so the actual, physical anointing was symbolic.
There are also a number of places in the Old Testament where you have the spiritual anointing
described. And it very often will say, "The Spirit of God came upon so-and-so, and he prophesied."
"The Spirit of God came upon so-and-so, and he went here and did this." And sometimes it'll say,
"And the Spirit of God departed."
When you're talking about anointing, you're talking about something that was very particular in the
Old Testament. It's not something that occurred in the life of all those who were believers, all those
who were the children of God, all those who had been justified, declared righteous by faith. It is a
unique ministry of the Spirit of God to empower somebody for a very particular level of spiritual
service. And, interestingly enough, it seems to be confined to the Old Testament. You don't really
have anybody in the New Testament of whom it says, "And the Spirit of God came upon, and He did
this, and the Spirit of God departed."
It was a unique ministry of the Holy Spirit. I believe the Holy Spirit was ministering in the Old
Testament, convicting people of sin, or nobody would be saved. I believe the Holy Spirit was
regenerating people in the Old Testament. The Holy Spirit was enabling people. Because, let's face
it, it didn't matter when you were alive, you couldn't come to God on your own; you couldn't repent on
your own; you couldn't serve God on your own; you couldn't love God and obey God's law on your
own. You had to be enabled by the Spirit of God.
But there were those special people with special callings, some of them revelatory in that they
actually spoke the very Word of God. That was a very unique responsibility. There are no kings in
Israel, no kings at least in the line that God affirmed in the time of Jesus, of course. There are no
priests really anymore, and there were no prophets after John the Baptist, who was anointed really by
the Holy Spirit for that unique role from his mother's womb, according to Luke 1. And so I think you
have to see that as a very special work of God for someone who fit into a role in the theocracy that
was unique when Israel constituted that theocratic kingdom on earth.
When you come into the New Testament, you don't read about anointing. You read about all
believers being given the Holy Spirit who has been with you, but shall be where? In you, and you
believe...you see on the day of Pentecost, they were all filled with the Holy Spirit. And you read in
First Corinthians Chapter 12 that we've all be made to drink of the same spirit. And Romans 8, if you
don't have the Holy Spirit, you don't belong to Christ. Conversely, if you do belong to Christ, you do
have the Holy Spirit. And even the Corinthians, who were carnal and fleshly and divisive and
immoral, and they were doing things that dishonored the Lord, He says, "What know you now that
your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, which you have of God. You're not your own. You're
bought with a price."
And Jesus said, "When you receive the Holy Spirit, you shall receive power." Acts 1:8, "You shall
receive power after the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you should be witnesses unto Me in
Judea, Jerusalem, and Samaria and the end of most part of the earth." So in the New Testament era,
the spirit of God is given in fullness to all believers, all believers, at the moment of salvation. But we
are instructed, if we are going to enjoy the fullness of what that means, we need to walk in the Spirit,
Galatians 5, which means to obey the Spirit. How do we know what the Spirit wants? The Spirit
wants what's in here, because the Bible reveals the will of God, who is that Spirit. So we don't need
to be looking for some anointing.
There are gifts given to the Church. Some of us have the gift of preaching and teaching. Some of us
have the gift that helps in administration. Some of us have the gift of faith and giving, and they're all
outlined for us in First Corinthians 12, Romans 12, and mentioned in First Peter 4. We have those
gifts. There are gifted men given to the Church, Ephesians 4, evangelists and pastor teachers. So
we have gifted people.
And with the gifts, according to Romans 12, comes a measure of faith to operate that gift, but we
don't read about anointing. The Apostles had a very unique anointing. There given the power to cast
out demons and the power to do healings. But that was the Apostles. Those were the signs of an
So for us, as believers, and even for me as a preacher...and I think some people can be confused
about it. That's why it's such an important question. I'm not looking for some anointing. I'm not look
for some mega dose of the Holy Spirit. That's not something that I am called to look for. What I'm
told to do is to walk in the Spirit. What I'm told to do is let the word of Christ dwell on me richly. What
I'm told to do is to use my gift. What I'm told to do is to be diligent to study the Scripture to show
myself approved unto God a workman that needs not to be ashamed. What I'm told to do is preach
the word, be instant in season and out of season, Second Timothy 4.
For me, it is a matter of recognizing a gift, thanking God that I possess the fullness of the Holy Spirit,
and there's no more fullness necessary, because I'm not gonna give divine revelation. I have the
fullness of the Holy Spirit. We all have the fullness of the Holy Spirit available. There's no more of
Him to get, folks...no more of him to get. That's one of the great errors in the modern charismatic
movement, the idea that some people have a little bit of the Holy Spirit, and some people have a
whole lot of Him, and the fact of the matter is, you are all the temple of the Spirit of God, who in His
fullness dwells within you. The question is not how much of the Spirit is there. The question is how
much of you is obedient to Him. So for me, in ministry, it's a matter of recognizing a gift. It's a matter
of walking in obedience, walking in holiness, walking in with a pure heart and a pure mind, and a pure
life, so that I can enjoy the full power of the Spirit of God, and in knowing the Word of God so that I
can bring you the truth through the purest vessel possible. It's not sort of waiting for something to fall
on me. I'd be waiting a long time. You know, there are people who felt that they couldn't really preach
if they didn't have some sort of mega dose of God's Holy Spirit dumped on them in some
transcendent experience.
One of the people who believed that was Dr. David Martin Lloyd Jones, the great preacher...the great
expositor in England, who said that he only felt...that he felt he actually only preached two real
anointed sermons...in his life. I don't know what he felt when he was preaching those two. I don't
know what he thought the difference was. Maybe his brain was functioning. Maybe he really had a
grasp of the material. Maybe God, in a marvelous way, used the Truth that he preached to sweep
over many, many lives, and he interpreted that way. But I've listened to him preach a lot of times, and
I'll tell you what...every time he preached...every tape I've ever heard, every message, every book, he
has exhibited to me the knowledge of the Word of God, the power of the Spirit of God and a clear,
clear love for the Truth, which he accurately handles.
So I don't think as Christians we need to be looking for more of the Spirit. But we need to be giving up
more of ourselves to the Spirit. And that means less of me and more of Him, which means doing His
will, obeying his Word. Okay?
Toya: Good evening, Dr. MacArthur. My name is Toya Tyler, and my question has to with prayer and
my responsibility. I've been diagnosed with a brain tumor, and I am not...I don't pray that God take it
away. My prayer has been, "Strengthen me," 'cause I know He...I have it for a reason, and He's
gonna use me with whatever it is, and I have joy. So am I...I'm not praying that he takes away that
_______. I'm confused. Can you please help me?
Toya: Thirty-four.
John: Thirty-four. Yeah, you can pray that he'll take it away. You can certainly pray that, and you can
pray whatever's in your heart to pray. But at the end of that prayer, what do you have to say? Not my
John: But Yours be done. But you can pray that. God has a right to say, "Yes," to that, doesn't He?
Toya: Yeah.
Toya: No.
John: You're not gonna tell Him what He can answer and what he can't. You can pray that, and you
can pray that the Lord would stop its growth right where it is and give you a full life of health.
John: Go ahead.
Toya: I mean...
John: That's it, but you can pray with all your heart and with all your might, "Lord, if it is Your will and
if it will bring You glory and if it's Your purpose for my life, take it away. Render it ineffective, benign,
whatever." Or you can say, "Lord, that would be my first choice, but my second choice is that you
would give me the grace and the strength to see Your face in this, to see Your hand in this, to see
Your glory in this." Frankly, the worst thing that could happen to you is the best thing that could
happen to you. Isn't it?
Toya: Mm-hmm.
John: I mean, the worst thing that could happen is you die, and that is the best thing that could
happen to all of us. Now whether or not that's God's will, I don't know. But I can see He's already
worked His grace in your heart. And I know you love Him and trust Him, don't you?
Toya: Yes.
John: And you just want to be used to His glory, and that's really the essence of your prayer. But you
can ask Him to remove it, and I think you can ask Him that truly and honestly and passionately. Then
you can ask Him, "And Lord, if that's not what You want, than give me the grace and somehow glorify
me through...glorify Yourself through me in this situation." And you want to know something? He's
already doing that tonight. Doesn't He?
See, we see in your smile...I see in your smile the work of God. You know most people who've got
that kind of news, they're not gonna stand up there with a smile on their face and with hope and faith
and confidence that God is in charge. He is, isn't he?
Toya: Uh-huh.
John: And you know that, and He's your Lord and your Redeemer. And He cares more about you
than any of us, than anybody who knows you. And He knows more of what you need and what will
glorify Him and what will bring honor to Him than you can ever imagine. And so He's gonna glorify
Himself through you. He'll always do that for His children. So look for the ways in which God can be
honored, and He's honored in the joy that I see on your face, in the confidence, in the faith, in the
But Toya, we're all gonna join you in prayer. Can we do that? Can we just have a word of prayer for
her right now?
John: Father, You know Your child Toya, and You know her heart, and You know her life. And You
also know her body, her brain. You know everything about her. Nothing escapes You. She's Yours
forever, and Lord, You know that this is a trial of great proportions for her. And Lord, we come
humbly, and we would ask You unhesitatingly to give her physical healing and wholeness, to stop the
growth of that tumor, to even diminish it, and to give her a full life to honor and glorify You. That
would be our desire, because we love her, and because we care about her. And we sympathize with
her pain, the pain of those who love her, her family and friends. And we are weary with what sin does
in this world. We, like Jesus, stand beside the tomb of Lazarus and weep...not for Lazarus, but for
the constant, incessant impact of sin. And would long that You would break the power of sin that
destroys the body and well as the soul of so many. And we would fight; we would resist what sin
does. We would also love to see You glorified through healing her in a way that has no human
explanation, so that You alone receive the glory.
But You know Lord, perhaps for You there is great glory than we would ever imagine in our request.
And so we ask that through her life, You would exalt Jesus Christ, through her faith, her joy, her
peace and her hope in the midst of this that Christ be glorified. That is our prayer, and we thank You,
Father, that we'll all be together in Your presence someday forever where there's no sorrow, no
sadness, no crying now sickness and no death. And in that glorious hope we live and face life and
even death. We thank You for that hope and even that joy. We can rejoice in all things, even those
things which could take our lives, because that is not the end. That's the beginning.
In the meantime, we commit Toya to You, and we ask that she might experience Your grace and
Your love and Your strength, and if it's Your will, Your healing, in the name of Christ...and everyone
said, Amen. Amen.
Time has gone, and I don't know how anybody could take us to a higher place, do you, than the
throne of God. And I think maybe we just ought to leave with that in our hearts. And you know what?
There are a lot of people in our church who are struggling through things like that, not to minimize
Toya's, but she was thankful for our church family, and that's understandable. Isn't it? I mean, you
need to be remembering to pray.
And I was thinking this afternoon, just that I needed, and I didn't earlier in the service, but I was
thinking this afternoon, I need to remind you to pray for our church. You need to pray for our church.
You need to pray for me. You know that, don't you? I mean, I'm serious. You need to pray for me
for strength and wisdom and protection and faithfulness and holiness and all of these things. I need
your prayers, and you need to pray that the Word of God would go forth with power. Right? You
need to pray for the elders and the leaders and the deacons and the teachers, and you need to pray
for the people around you.
You know, we all dress well and look well and smell good, and we're wretched on the inside. And we
have all the problems that the world brings to bear, don't we? Some of you have a broken heart over
your children. Some of you have a broken heart over your grandchildren. Some of you have a
terrible marriage, and you're wounded and hurt by your spouse. And some of you are mistreated.
Some of you are struggling in a job. Some of you are out of a job. Some of you are having financial
problems. Some of you are in the tank with your foolish credit card. Some of you are looking at
disease, illness. It's just life, isn't it?
It's pretty silly to think that the Church's responsibility is to cure all that. All we want to do is to teach
you to trust God. If you want to come in for counseling, that's fine. We'll try to help you with your
problem you've got, so you can go back and get another one. And because that's life...so if you'd like
to trade in the one you've got for another one, we'll be happy to help. We're not here to eliminate
your problems. We're here to tell you there's a God who will lift you above them all, and we saw a
little of that tonight. Let's covenant to pray for each other. Can we do that? We need to do that.
Father, we thank You again for this time of fellowship, thank You that we could be reminded of Your
marvelous, rich, thrilling foods of Your word. We thank You that in the midst of strife and trouble and
trials, there can be a profound peace in our hearts. It's in that peace that we rejoice, the peace that
passes all understanding. And we long for the day when all our trials are over, and we enter into
eternal joy. Thank You for that promise, in Christ's name, Amen.
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GRAMMY-winning songwriter Jessie Harris is releasing his new solo album, Sub Rosa, on July 31. In conjunction with the album's release, GRAMMY.com has your exclusive first look at the iPhone video for "You Were Bound To Fly Away," a B-side track from Sub Rosa featuring fellow GRAMMY winner Norah Jones.
A native of New York, Harris grew up studying classical piano and guitar. After spending time with several bands, including Once Blue with vocalist Rebecca Martin and the Ferdinandos, Harris met GRAMMY winner Norah Jones, with whom he subsequently collaborated on her debut album, 2002's Come Away With Me. That same year Harris earned a GRAMMY Award for Song Of The Year for penning Jones' "Don't Know Why," a song on which he also played guitar. After releasing several albums with the Ferdinandos, Harris released a solo album, 2006's Mineral, followed by 2007's Feel, 2009's Watching The Sky, and 2010's Cosmo.
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