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PHIL: Hi, I'm Phil Johnson, executive director of Grace To You. And I'm here today with our pastor and teacher, John MacArthur who has written a ground-breaking new book, The Jesus You Can't Ignore.And we want to talk to him about that book, but first, John, you've just returned to the pulpit after total knee replacement surgery and I know you're still in the process of recovering from that. How it going? Can you give us an update?
JOHN: Well, yeah I think I'm on schedule. I had no idea that the recovery and rehab would be this demanding and go on for as long as it has, but yeah, I'm on schedule to do well. It's a surgery that I put off for years and years and years and eventually my bad knee started affecting my hip and my back and all that stuff that was out of alignment. So I'm really grateful to have a new shot at physical well-being and as the next couple of months go by, I should get back to full function.
PHIL: You plan to preach full schedule this Sunday, right?
JOHN: Right and I came back to the pulpit last Sunday which is about four weeks out from the surgery, maybe a little premature but had a wonderful time Sunday night. I've survived standing there for an hour so next Sunday we'll give it the full shot. I'll do two services in the morning and then again on Sunday night. So we'll see how it goes.
PHIL: It's great to have you back. And in the meantime, lots of us have been reading your latest book, your new book, The Jesus You Can't Ignore. Can you tell us the thrust of the book?
JOHN: Well, I think there's a pop-Jesus that exists in the minds of most evangelicals that doesn't really reflect the true Jesus of Scripture. There's a Jesus that people are comfortable with and find acceptable. They can sell him on a popular level. But it's a far cry from the Jesus of the New Testament which is to say that it's a misrepresentation of the true Christ. Jesus is not to be invented by anybody. We don't have the right to make Jesus into whatever we think we would like Him to be, or whatever we think people would like Him to be so that He's acceptable to them.
Taking the full revelation of the New Testament, you get the picture of Jesus and it's not the picture that fits the comfortable evangelical pattern for today. This because an issue to me because I wrote a book called The Truth War, and The Truth Warbasically said that divine truth is the most important thing that exists. Divine truth saves, divine truth sanctifies, divine truth gives wisdom, comfort, hope of eternal glory, all of that. And so I said we have to fight for the truth. Satan is a liar, he's a deceiver from the Garden on, he's the father of lies, deception runs rampant outside the church, inside the church, coming from every direction, and we have to be willing to go to war for the truth.
I also pointed out in that book, The Truth War, that there's a lack of interest in the evangelical world for war. People want to be comfortable. They want to make peace. They want to come up with a message and a gospel that is tolerable by everybody and so some of the response kind of went along this line, "Well, John MacArthur is certainly not like Jesus. John MacArthur wants to make war, Jesus came to make peace."
Well you know, Phil, we've got all kinds of e-mail saying Jesus came to bring peace, why do you want to start a war? So I began to think to myself, what Jesus are these people talking about? After all, Jesus said "I came not to bring peace but a sword." That's pretty graphic and unmistakable language. He said, "If you're going to follow Me...it may come down to this, hate your father, hate your mother, hate your own life, take up your cross and follow Me." This is a discipleship call that could result in your martyrdom because the hostility against Me is so profound.
So, if you're going to say Jesus came to bring peace, you don't have the whole picture. He came to bring peace but only to those who believe in Him, to all others, of course, He brings eternal judgment. And so, I felt compelled to write a book that gives the full picture of Jesus, and most particularly how Jesus reacted to false teaching. Did He just roll over and say, "Well, let's have a conversation," like the Emerging people want to do? Did He say, "Well, look, let's just find what we can agree on, let's just find common ground, let's celebrate, you know, our points of agreement and not make a fuss over the things we disagree with?"
Hardly, He starts His ministry by going into the temple, making a whip and basically pulling an all out assault on the heart and soul of Judaism. He hit them at their heart, that's how He began His ministry. And from that day on, they despised Him...the leaders of Israel because of what He had done, He had unmasked their hypocrisy, He put a dent in their economic prosperity. And then at the end of His ministry, the last week of His life, remember the triumphal entry, He comes into Jerusalem. No sooner does He get into the city that He does the same thing again...the second act of judgment on the temple.
And I think I need to say at this point, you hear about that and it's often called the cleansing of the temple. It really wasn't the cleansing of the temple, it was really a statement about the demolishing of the temple. He didn't really clean it up, they couldn't clean it up. That's why He also said after the second time, "Not one stone will be left upon another in this place." The whole system is coming down.
So it was not just some kind of Reformation movement, not just some kind of cleanup thing. He was essentially saying this is a false religious system, full of hypocrisy, lies and deception. He warned the people, "Beware of the scribes and Pharisees. Beware of these false religious leaders because, you know, their deception will damn your soul. Stay away from them, God's going to judge the whole system." And we all know that in 70 A.D. the Romans came, they really were an instrument of divine judgment and the temple came down and it's never been rebuilt. There's never been a priesthood. It was a smashing triumphant divine act bringing to end Judaism as it had been practiced at that day. So that was Jesus' attitude toward false religion.
In the meantime, between those two times when He attacked them at the temple, He was in an ongoing relentless, never-ceasing conflict with the religious leaders of Israel. Compassion toward the people, tender heartedness toward the people, sympathy toward the people, tears over their lostness, but when it came to the purveyors and the architects of false religion, He was downright vicious in pronouncing judgment on them and called them snakes, vipers, whited sepulchers. He said, "You produce sons of hell." So if you're going to get the full picture of Jesus, you have to understand on one hand He preaches the doctrine of grace and peace, on the other hand, He pronounces judgment on anybody who deviates from the truth of the gospel.
PHIL: So The Jesus You Can't Ignoreis not the gentle Jesus, meek and mild, of the popular...
JOHN: No. But that's the Jesus you hear so often being presented. If you turn on the television and you listen to the Jesus that is being described there, He's this sort of benign unconditional loving personality who wants to fulfill your dreams and everything that you want, He wants you to have and He wants to make you prosperous and help your self-esteem. And He just wants to come alongside and find out what you really want to be so that He can help you become that.
PHIL: And that has become kind of the dominant popular view, hasn't it?
JOHN: No question.
PHIL: People today tend to think of Jesus as devoid of any negative affections. He could never say a harsh word to anyone. But that's not the Jesus of Scripture at all, is it?
JOHN: His language in the New Testament was blistering language when He was addressing the people who were propagating error. And it comes back to the same thing, you cannot ignore the fact that Jesus said, "I am the truth," that to Jesus the truth was everything, absolutely everything. The only hope of salvation, the only hope of redemption, the only hope of the fulfillment of God's divine plan to bring eternal life to lost and doomed sinners was that they would believe the truth, were begotten again by the Word of truth. And Jesus was relentless in His assault on anything that deviated from the truth.
By the way, so were the Apostles. Take a look at the Apostle Paul warning again and again and again, as soon as I leave, perverse men are going to rise up among you, false teachers are going to come in from the outside. There are going to be wolves. There are going to be destructive. They're going to try to tear you to pieces. Peter has the same message. Jude has the same message. John has the same message in the epistles, "Beware of those who propagate lies and deception. And it all really drew from Jesus' attitude.
PHIL: Now was Jesus any less severe or more mild with people who were basically religious or morally upright or sincere in whatever convictions they held?
JOHN: Sincerity had nothing to do with it. In fact, one could argue that the most sincere people in Israel were the Pharisees. They were the most fastidious legalists. They lived according to their interpretation of biblical law with the embellishments of endless rabbinic laws that were imposed upon the biblical law. And they did everything they could to...well to tithe every tiny seed. They did everything they could to keep every ordinance, every law, every ceremony, every tradition down to the gnat's eyebrow. One would assume that there was a great deal of sincerity in that. I think perhaps the model illustration, you don't have stories of Pharisees being converted in the Bible, with the exception of the Apostle Paul. And so if you use him as the single testimony, you would have to conclude that Paul as a Pharisee was extremely sincere. In his own mind, he wasn't playing a game. I don't think in his own mind he was a hypocrite, knew he was a hypocrite and was pulling off a ruse. I think he really did think that being circumcised the eighth day, being of the tribe of Benjamin, being an Israelite, being as touching the law blameless, zealous for the traditions, violent against Christianity which seemed to him to be loyal, a loyal attitude toward Judaism, I think the man was a sincere man. And I think when he was breathing out threatening and slaughter against true Christians, he was doing it from the heart because he thought it honored God. So...you would have to say the Apostle Paul, the model Pharisee who was converted, if he's a model of what a Pharisee was, was an extremely sincere man who also was sincere in his belief in the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, sincere in his belief in the Old Testament.
But he said, "Add it all up," Philippians 3, "It's manure, it's all manure, rubbish, trash." And so he saw that stuff for what it was and he saw it as the lies and the deception that it was eventually when, of course, he came to understand the gospel. So sincerity has nothing to do with it. The only thing has anything to do with it is truth, believing the truth. I think the world is full of sincere religious people. I think there are sincere Buddhists who set themselves on fire. I think there are sincere Muslims who fly into buildings and blow themselves up. I saw on the news last night, a bunch of Muslims trying to put together an IED over in Iraq to blow up American troops along the highway and they all blew all themselves up. You have to believe these people are sincere. That's meaningless...that's meaningless. It's the truth and Jesus makes that clear by never accepting sincerity as that which meets the standard for salvation.
PHIL: I think the most surprising thing for me, studying through your book and the material that's in it, is the realization that these incidents where Jesus drove the money changers from the temple and the conflicts He had with the Pharisees and the Sanhedrin, the religious authorities, those are not the exception, that's the thread that runs through all of Jesus' ministry from beginning to the end.
JOHN: Yeah, you're not surprised. If you just read the New Testament, you're not surprised like, "Oh wow, I didn't know He felt that way about the Pharisees." Hardly. This is ongoing all the time.
Right now I happen to be preaching through the gospel of Mark and you're barely in to the gospel of Mark and already they want to kill Him. Well they didn't want to kill Him because He did miracles. They didn't deny His miracles. That's one of the most interesting things to me about the whole New Testament account in the gospel record, never did the religious leaders of Israel who despised Jesus and wanted Him dead deny one miracle. They were undeniable. They never did deny them.
So they didn't kill Him because He did miracles. Look, they were happy to have their own relatives and friends healed of all these diseases. They didn't kill Him because He cast out demons and liberated people from the horrendous oppression that demons brought upon them. They didn't kill Him because He fed people who were hungry. They didn't kill Him for any other reason than the fact that He attacked their religion, that's why they hated Him. He exposed their religion as a false religion.
Look, He went to His own synagogue in Nazareth. To me this is really a remarkable story, Luke 4. Okay, this is His hometown where He grew up, the synagogue He had been in since birth as a kid, gone there, gone to school there, you know, probably Mosaic Law School, whatever you called it. Grew up there, all His friends and extended family, and relatives there, He goes there, He's now a prophet, He's now a great preacher. He's come back from nearly a year in Judea. He arrives in Galilee after a ministry in Capernaum, they hear, "Wow, His preaching is amazing." And they've been hearing it for a year, now it's come close. They hear about His miracles, so He goes to the synagogue in His hometown with His own people, preaches one sermon, one sermon and they try to throw Him off a cliff and stone Him to death.
What in the world could excite a crowd to the point where they would kill one of their own after one sermon? The answer to the question is, He took issue with everything they believed and He basically said to them, "You are outside the Kingdom of God. You are just like your ancestors, just like those in the past during the time of Elijah, during the time of Naaman the leper where God had to leave and go find somebody on the outside to speak the truth through His prophets because you were so apostate." He says, "You're no better than those generations. You're outside the Kingdom," and they just were. They exploded in a fury.
So...and I'm sure there were leaders in that synagogue who sort of led that explosion. But the ministry of Jesus is marked at its inaugural point in Galilee when He goes to His own synagogue from then on. And it just escalates and escalates and escalates and every time He confronts the Pharisees, it's negative....every single time. There's never a positive event and there are dozens of times when the New Testament records they came together. There is never a time when He says, "Well, let's have a conversation and find what we can agree on." Never, not once.
PHIL: That was going to be my next question. Is there...is there no instance anywhere where Jesus ever tried to win their approval by seeming more friendly or by toning down something, or maybe looking for good things He could say about the Pharisees to sort of soften the rebukes?
JOHN: Not one...not one.
PHIL: Did they pick these fights with Him always? Or did He sometimes?
JOHN: No, He sometimes initiated them. They would put themselves in a position to take these blows by confronting Him, asking questions that He would then turn on them and use against them. But there were...there were occasions when He just stepped up to them and took the initiative to attack them.
PHIL: He never backed away from a conflict? He never said, "Look, I don't want an argument with you guys?"
JOHN: Never. In fact, He would generally penetrate deeper into the conflict in order to pin them back and leave them without an answer.
PHIL: That would not win Him any popularity, even today.
JOHN: No, no. One of the interesting elements of that, I think, is the occasion when they came to Him toward the end of His ministry and they said, "By what authority do You do these things? By what authority do You do these things?" And His final answer to them was, "None of your business, I'm not telling you by what authority I do these things." Which was like wham!...the curtain came down, "I'm done with you, I'm finished with you. That's all. They'll be no more discussion. They'll be no more clarification!"
You know, that is the final judgment when the Lord has nothing more to say. He had said it all and He wasn't going to say anything else. At that particular point there is an act of judgment that takes place upon them.
PHIL: It sort of challenges the contemporary notion that it's always wrong to be harsh. It's always wrong to say anything that somebody might interpret as an insult. Actually, the idea to write this book came up when you were preaching through Luke chapter 20 and I believe it was at verses 45 through 47 that say this, "And in the hearing of all the people, He said to His disciples, "Beware of the scribes who like to walk around in long robes and love greetings in the marketplaces and the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at feasts who devour widows' houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation." There's just no mincing of words there.
JOHN: None at all. And I...you know, it's just so odd in this world if you turn on a Christian television station, one of those typical long drawn-out talk shows, you know, on a typically Charismatic Christian television station, there will be this long parade of people advocating everything. You know, one guy telling you that you can be healed if you drink this miracle water. The next guy telling you you'll be rich if you put this rag on your head that he's anointed. The next guy lining up people and supposedly curing them of cancer as they fall over. All of them with an aberrant kind of theology. And whoever runs the station mixes that in with another guy who preaches the gospel, and another guy who maybe teaches the Bible to one degree or another. The utter disregard for false teaching, charlatanism, downright deception is in my mind a kind of a window on contemporary evangelicalism. It just wants to embrace everything. Just wants to celebrate the fact that we're all talking about Jesus and we're all trying to advance His fame and help people to come and know Him. And there's just an absolute unwillingness to be discerning and discriminating and distinct. In fact there's certainly an unwillingness to say that's error, that's wrong. The Bible condemns that and you need to avoid that and people like that need to be exposed for what they are.
PHIL: So there is a time when it's right to fight.
JOHN: There always is a time when there's a right to fight and it's not a personality thing. It's not jealousy over somebody's success in ministry. It is not a style thing. You know, fight over the way a certain person does what he does. It's...the legitimate battle is for the truth, contending earnestly for the faith.
PHIL: Now, not only is it sometimes right to fight, chapter 1 in your book is "When it's wrong to be nice." Are there times when it's wrong to be nice?
JOHN: Absolutely. You know, it's wrong to be nice...you can look at that on a lot of fronts. There are times when, you know, if somebody is trapped in a car that's about to explode, you know, niceness goes out the window. You grab the person by the arm if you can, you rip them out of the car any way you can to save their life. And, you know, Jude talks about snatching brands from the burning. There are people who are on the edge of the fires of hell because they're engulfed in false religious systems and we snatch them out of the fire like a brand being singed. There are times when being nice, if you mean by being nice, being accommodating to whatever it is people choose to believe is really the greatest harm you could ever do.
PHIL: Now you've made a distinction there between...earlier you said would you fight for the truth and things that are important, and not matters of personal taste and opinion and so on...that does bring up a difficulty. You caution in the book not to be argumentative, that it's not a good thing to be pugnacious, or to get caught up in petty or foolish disputes. What is the best way to know what's really worth fighting for and what's petty?
JOHN: Well, first of all, you'd have to start with the Word of God. You have to fight for that which is revealed in the Scripture. And the core, the heart and soul of that is the gospel, right? The gospel, because that's the message that saves. You cannot be saved without the gospel. You know, I think there are lots of evangelicals who don't believe that...they don't believe that. They think you can be saved if you get approximately the gospel, or if you're worshiping, you know, oneGod, if you're sort of a monotheist. One evangelical leader wrote a book on salvation and talked about being transdispensationalized so that God would save you as if you were a pagan living some time in the Old Testament and knew nothing about Him or Jesus.
So I think there's this sense among evangelicals that you don't really have to be precise. You have sort of a general belief in God and, you know, be a good person. You know, it's sort of like legalism-lite. It's not a heavy legalism, it's not like Judaism. But you go to these churches where the pastor just speaks about everything that you want, everything you desire, Jesus wants to give you. You need to dream your dreams, don't be discouraged, don't be downhearted, don't give up your dream. Hold on to your dream, move ahead.
That's legalism. You've got no power in you to fulfill God's requirement for your future blessing. You know, the right attitude would be let go of your dreams, let go of your ambitions, let go of your desires, fall on your face before God as a penitent sinner, confess that you can do nothing to lift yourself up, you can do nothing to bring salvation to you and plead that God in His mercy will save you through Jesus Christ. That's the true message.
So, the answer to the question is, if you're going to fight for something, fight for that. Fight for the gospel. That means that God is a trinity because you have to believe in the God that is God. You have to believe that Jesus is God incarnate, lived a perfect, sinless life, died a substitutionary death, rose from the dead and that faith alone, grace alone in Christ alone is the means of salvation...the way of salvation. So I would fight for that.
I'll tell you. When I hear a preacher tell people they can seize their future blessing by their own will. And I hear it all the time...in the biggest church in America that's the message, that you can have what you want in the future if you'll just, you know, screw up your courage and your will and your determination and just charge ahead and believe God, and have the faith, you can seize your future, you can lay hold of everything God has for you and bring great blessing.
That is bunk. That is a damning lie. And again I'm back to what I just said. You fall on your face in hopeless, helpless penitence realizing there's nothing in you that can grasp anything of God or anything that saves and you plead with Him to save you in spite of your own wretchedness.
So, the popular approach to the gospel has kind of accommodated the popular approach to Jesus. You have a sort of generic friendly Jesus and then you have a sort of nice, generic, friendly gospel. You can make Jesus the way you want Jesus to be and you can sort of usher yourself into the Kingdom of God by your own will power. These are the kinds of things that are deadly lies that fall upon the people who sit in a place thinking while they sing about Jesus that they're believers when they're anything but.
PHIL: What you're saying here, and especially the idea that truth is worth fighting for, might strike some of our listeners, even Christian listeners as shocking or politically incorrect or possibly even offensive; because we live in a culture that says it's okay to fight for personal rights but not for personal convictions.
JOHN: You know, how bizarre is that, Phil?
PHIL: Yeah.
JOHN: That you do have a right to fight for your own self-esteem, fight for your own opinion, fight for your own space in the world. And if somebody does something to you that you don't like, sue the socks off of them because they invaded your space. What kind of thing...what kind of world do we live in when everybody has a right to fight for his own personal rights? That's a world where everybody thinks he's god, where everybody thinks his own self-importance reigns supreme.
How different is that than saying, "I'm not going to fight for my own rights. There's nothing good in me. I'm not going to fight for my own place in the sun, but I will fight for divine truth. I will fight for something far beyond my personal opinion, far beyond my personal whims, wants and desires. I will fight like the heroes of the faith have always fought, going back in church history, going back in New Testament history, back in Old Testament history, I will fight for the honor of God."
You know, when Jesus went into the temple, the motive that made Him make a whip was passion for the house of God which is to say passion for God's glory. And when God's name was reproached, when God's name was dishonored, He felt the pain...He felt the pain. That's why He fought back. And I think the sign of a mature believer is you feel the pain when God is dishonored. You feel the pain when His Scripture is misinterpreted. You feel the pain when His name is used in vain. You feel the pain when a Jesus is invented that isn't the true Jesus. I think that's the mark of mature Christians. They love the truth, written and incarnate. And they feel the pain when God and Christ is dishonored.
I live that, that's my life. If you were to ask what is the most defining thing about me, it would be my love for the truth, written and incarnate. It's so great, so strong, so compelling that I feel the pain when the Lord is dishonored. And He's always dishonored when His name is used in vain, when Scripture is misrepresented, misinterpreted, or when deceivers come and manipulate the Scripture to sell people their lies. Any form of false religion, especially that which calls itself Christianity is the horror of all horrors to me because souls are at stake, eternally, and the name of God and His glory.
PHIL: Jesus was passionate about the truth and we should be as well.
JOHN: Bottom line, absolutely right. How can you be passionate about the Lord Jesus who is the truth and not be passionate about the truth? You know what John said? This is summing it up. "If you say you abide in Him, then you ought to walk the way He walked. If you say you abide in Him, then you ought to live the way He lived."
PHIL: Even though that's counter-cultural, that's contrary to every value contemporary secular culture holds.
JOHN: Right.
PHIL: This is not one of those areas where we become all things to all men.
JOHN: Not at all. You know, Jesus is...Jesus certainly would have known the way to win people over on the Dale Carnegie level, "How to win friends and influence people." I mean, He would have known how to do that. He would have been the ultimate salesman because He knew everything and could read people's minds. Just look at the picture. He comes into the world, lives His life and from the beginning hostility generated until finally they kill Him. And it isn't just the leaders, they've managed to sweep the whole nation up in their hatred and so everybody's screaming, "Crucify Him, Crucify Him, Crucify Him, Crucify Him."
So you would have to think that the most intelligent being that ever walked on the planet, namely Jesus, who could read people's minds, who knew exactly how to win people's favor would have done that if that's what He had chosen to do. But it wasn't because that would have been to prostitute the purpose of His coming. The purpose of His coming was to bring salvation and salvation required believing certain truth. And He stuck to that truth knowing that it wouldn't be politically correct and knowing exactly where it would take Him. And that's exactly where it took Him, right to the cross.
Jesus said, "Look, it's not going to be any different with you, right? If they hated Me, and you're faithful to Me, they'll hate you." He said, "The student is not above His teacher. The slave is not above is master. If they did it to Me, they'll do it to you." And the Apostles certainly saw that, didn't they? They went on with the same commitment to the truth and on all of them, with the exception of John, were martyred and John ends up in exile on Patmos and waves of persecution break out against the church. Every time in church history that the church decides to become the friend of the world, the truth is lost and the church goes into a form of apostasy. And I think we're living in that today and we've got to get back to the truth and back to the Jesus that you really shouldn't ignore.
PHIL: Now in this book, The Jesus You Can't Ignore, you more or less go chronologically through the ministry of Jesus and take a close look at several of the major conflicts He had with the Pharisees. I thought the most interesting thing about it is that while you're looking at Jesus in these situations where He's harsh and sometimes even angry and very outspoken and determined and people all around Him getting angry, it doesn't make Him seem harsh and unapproachable, it makes Jesus more appealing because of His love for the truth.
JOHN: Well yes, and the reason He was so adamant for the truth was His love for the sinner. It is not unloving to give to someone the cure. You know, I mean, the simple analogy, if the doctor comes into the room and you know you've got terminal cancer, and the doctor knows the cure, and he says to you, "You're going to die if you don't do what I tell you to do." Well that's not unkind, that's the kindest thing you can possibly do. "God so loved the world that He gave His only Son that whoever believes in Him should not perish." He loves the truth and He loves the people and it's the love of the people and the love of the truth that comes together in the glory of the gospel.
PHIL: Thanks for this preview of the book, John. Is there a final thought or a challenge you'd have for believers who want to be faithful to Christ and stand up for His truth in the midst of a culture that we know is going to label us as intolerant and uncharitable?
JOHN: You know, I would say this, Phil. Get to know Christ. Second Corinthians 3:18 says that when we gaze on His glory, we're changed into His image from one level of glory to the next, even by the Holy Spirit. The great work of sanctification is the Holy Spirit conforming us to Christ. I want to be like Christ. I want to have His compassion on the one hand, His sympathy on the one hand, and I want to have His fire and His fierce and adamant devotion to the truth on the other hand. And I really believe that, instead of reading books on how to be a better wife and how to be a better husband, and how to be successful, and that little gimmicky formula kind of books and sort of insipid little devotional books begin to live in the glory of Christ. I would just encourage people, start reading Matthew...Read Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, and when you're done, go back and read them again and keep reading them, and keep reading them until you see the majesty of Christ in His full glory. I think part of the reason we're content with a very partial picture of Christ is because people don't read the story, they don't read the Scripture.
What I do in the book The Jesus You Can't Ignoreis just take you into the Scripture and show you what it says about Christ. And, look, we've been going through Luke for ten years, we're going through Mark, we went through Matthew in our ministry. We went through the gospel of John. People never get enough of Christ, and the more of them they get, the more like them they become and they find this wonderful balance between grace and truth.
PHIL: Those are great thoughts and a great challenge. Thanks, John.
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Another Manny Ramirez Moment? What Would We Do Without Him? Answer? That Will Never Happen...PERIOD!
Peter here yet again on Monday (uhh) morning. This is a story that I had not heard, from Houston, of all places. This is from Sean McAdam of the Providence Journal. Thank you Sean. Here it is...
HOUSTON -- "Maybe it's something in the water in Houston. Days after Houston Astros pitcher Shawn Chacon tackled general manger Ed Wade in the home clubhouse at Minute Maid Park, the visitors clubhouse was the scene of another player-club employee altercation Saturday afternoon.
Manny Ramirez shoved Red Sox traveling secretary Jack McCormick to the ground in an argument over Ramirez' ticket allotment. Several onlookers moved quickly to separate the two.
Ramirez had asked McCormick for 16 tickets for Saturday night's Red Sox-Astros game, an unusually high number for day-of-game. In addition to handling all travel details for clubs, traveling secretaries also take player ticket requests for both home and away games.
When McCormick cautioned Ramirez that he might not be able to fulfill his request, Ramirez responded by shouting: "Just do your job!" An argument insued and Ramirez pushed McCormick, sending him to the ground.
Later, the two met behind closed doors and Ramirez apologized to McCormick, who accepted the gesture. No further disciplinary action is expected against Ramirez.
Asked on Sunday to comment on the altercation, Ramirez responded: "That's over. We're fine now."
"Sometimes things happen," said Terry Francona, "and when they do, we choose to handle them internally. I'm satisfied with how we handled this."
Added McCormick: "It was an unfortunate misunderstanding and it's over with as far as I'm concerned."
Peter here. I read some comments on the Projo website, and a "special" few said Manny must go. Actually, it was ONE person, a person who MUST have been a Yankee fan. The Red Sox without Manny would be like a banana split without the bananas, a milk shake without the ice cream, an apple tree without any apples, the winter without snow and the summer without sun. I'm sure you get my drift. A link to this article, WITH all the comments, are yours. Just click on this post's title. I'd love to hear what you think. Thanks. Click away!

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In addition to Colorado presenting its Athletics Strategic Plan for 2014-17 to the CU board of regents, the school also announced Wednesday that it has selected the design/build team for the $143 million athletic complex expansion project:
The partnership of Denver-based Mortenson Construction and Kansas City-based Populous, which has 13 worldwide locations.
Mortenson/Populous has partnered for many high-profile projects including Coors Field and the Pepsi Center.
The chairman of Mortenson Construction, M.A. Mortenson Jr., is a CU graduate in engineering. Some of the projects that have involved Mortenson Construction include Kansas State's football stadium expansion, the Minnesota Twins' Target Field, the University of Minnesota's new football stadium, terminals at Denver International Airport and the current project at Coors Field with part of the upper deck in right field being converted to a food/beverage/entertainment area.
To clear up any confusion or erroneous notions, CU athletic director Rick George reiterated that no tax dollars or student fees will be used for this facilities expansion. Financing will come from private and corporate donations, and through bonding.
George hopes groundbreaking will be sometime in April with completion targeted for August 2005.


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Service Delivery
At the Edge. In the Cloud.
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Game Leaders
Team Stats
Passing Yards
Rushing Yards
Time of Poss.
MOORPARK, Calif. - Cal Lutheran rolled up 552 yards of total offense Saturday afternoon on the way to a 28-17 non-conference football win over the visiting Pacific Lutheran Lutes at Moorpark College's Griffin Stadium.
The Kingsmen, who improved to 1-1 this season, broke away from a 7-3 halftime lead with 21 third-quarter points before surrendering a pair of fourth-quarter touchdowns to the Lutes, also 1-1 this season.
Cal Lutheran rushed for 281 net rushing yards, including Daniel Mosier's 166 on 16 carries. Mosier averaged 10.4 yards per carry and scored on touchdown runs of one yard in the opening quarter and two yards in the third period. D. Chambers scored the other rushing touchdown from two yards and also had 68 net yards on 15 carries.
Kingsmen quarterback Jake Laudenslayer was 13-for-23 for 271 yards with one touchdown and two interceptions. His 70-yard scoring strike to Frankie Jones capped CLU's scoring in the third period and gave the hosts a 28-3 lead.
After falling behind 7-0 in the early going, the Lutes closed the first half with an amazing 18-play, 77-yard scoring drive capped by Nick Kaylor's 37-yard field goal. Senior quarterback Zack Halverson added fourth quarter touchdown passes of 42 yards to Alex McDiarmid and two yards to Daniel Herr.
The Lutes accumulated 301 yards of total offense, including 82 rushing yards on 20 carries by Brandon James. Halverson was 23-for-38 passing for 240 yards, the two touchdowns, and no interceptions. Halverson has not thrown an interception in PLU's first two games.
Herr, a freshman wide receiver playing his first college game, led the Lutes with five catches for 43 yards. McDiarmid had four receptions for 64 yards, James had four for 46 yards, and Tyler Bowen added four more catches for 43 yards.
Sophomore safety Sean McFadden had nine tackles, including a tackle for loss, and an interception to lead the PLU defense. Justin Whitman added six tackles from his cornerback spot.
PLU has next Saturday off before opening Northwest Conference play on Oct. 1 when it hosts the Puget Sound Loggers.


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|Wisdom Audio Partners With Audyssey MultiEQ XT For New SC-1 System Controller
|Thursday, 26 July 2007
Audio, a leader in planar magnetic technologies, is proud to announce
that Audyssey Laboratories' MultEQ XT software has been incorporated
into its SC-1 System Controller, part of Wisdom's new Sage Series high
end architectural and in-room audio systems, to be launched at the 2007
CEDIA Expo.
Wisdom Audio offers multiple electronics options for the Sage Series,
including the SC-1 System Controller, boasting an electronic crossover
and acoustic room correction that incorporates Audyssey MultEQ XT
technology. It also includes selectable, RS-232 operable memory
settings for optimized performance in varied acoustic settings for
music and film environments. A PC-based installation application allows
a professional installer to configure the SC-1 for a particular
complement of Sage Series speakers in a given installation.
"When designing such a high end audio system such as our new Sage Series, it is imperative that a room&Mac226;s acoustic signature not detract from the system&Mac226;s performance," explained Mark Glazier, Wisdom Audio president. "With the growing acceptance of higher quality multi-channel systems, we think it is imperative to offer a sophisticated tool to optimize loudspeaker performance. Room correction has been a hallmark of Wisdom systems since 1996 and we now pleased to collaborate with a partner to redefine our capabilities for the custom installation community. That's where Audyssey MultEQ XT room correction system comes in. Incorporated into our new SC-1 System Controller, installers will now have the ability to utilize Audyssey&Mac250; technologies in order to optimize the performance characteristics of our new Sage Series speaker systems on a consistent basis, regardless of room acoustics."
When installed by a professional installer using Audyssey MultEQ Pro software, the Sage Series loudspeakers and companion SC-1 has the capability to deliver the highest quality sound. Audyssey MultEQ XT measures sound information throughout a listening area, and then combines this information to accurately represent the acoustical problems in the particular room. Based on these measurements, MultEQ XT calculates an equalization solution that corrects for both time and frequency response problems in every seat. The solution provided by MultEQ XT results in a listening experience unlike anything the listener has heard before. MultEQ Pro takes up to 32 measurements around the listening area and uses high resolution equalization filters to correct room problems in both amplitude and time domains for all satellites and subwoofers. The implementation of the SC-1 System Controller incorporates MultEQ XT technology in a 7.3 channel in, 14.3 channel out, biamped configuration.
The Sage Series, which are available as in-wall, on-wall, and standalone models in order to offer even greater flexibility to the customer and custom installer, incorporates proprietary Wisdom Audio technologies.
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Other Libraries and Tools to Use with MinGW
If you want to compile and build cross-platform Open Source programs that you might typically find in a POSIX environment (Linux, Cygwin or BSD), you'll need some of the standard libraries and tools these systems use to build applicatons. There's still no guarantee a program from another system will port to Windows unless it's been designed to, but many applications that work on POSIX systems can be built and run on Windows with some minor patching. Look for command line tools or programs built on cross-platform libraries like curses (pdcurses on Windows, ncurses on POSIX), gtk+, fltk, fox toolkit, wxwidgets, qt for your best bets on Open Source programs that will port to Windows or may already have ports. If you do get a port running, you can help the project by contributing a mingwPORT of it so others don't have to try to repeat the work you've done.
Installing Libraries
I usually install libraries in the subdirectories under Msys to prevent library files from co-mingling with compiler files and possibly over-writing needed files. According to the MinGW developers mailing list, the decision was made to put libraries built to be used with MinGW in the subdirectories under the directory MinGW is installed in instead of under Msys. This keeps a division between libraries used to create programs for a standard Windows environment and programs specifically for the Msys environment only. When you look at the MinGW downloads at Sourceforge, most libraries are labeled for MinGW or for Msys. You'll generally want to use the versions for MinGW if you're building a standard Windows application.
Most MinGW files at Sourceforge are in the tar.lzma format. LZMA based compression can help create smaller packages in most cases than other formats like tar.gz (.tgz) and tar.bz2 (.tbz). Both xz and lzma use lzma compression algorithms. I don't know why lzma was chosen over xz for packages with MinGW. According to the creators of both the lzma and xz formats, lzma is being deprecated. See http://tukaani.org/lzma/ for more information. However, you can still decompress lzma files with the xz program using the -lzma switch or use the older lzma program.
To manage libraries or extra files that need to be installed in your compiler directories, you can use a program such as spkg. That way, you don't accidentally over-write compiler files. You can tell which libraries are installed and update them quickly and easily to the next version. You can also uninstall them without having to track down all files in a package when they're no longer needed. To work with Spkg, set the ROOT environment variable to the top level directory where you want to install to (example: SET ROOT=c:\MinGW). Spkg requires names of files you install to use the standard Slackware package naming conventions. See the package how-to at http://www.linuxpackages.net. Packages are simply tarballs (a combination of using tar to archive a file and a compression algorithm like gzip or xz or lzma to compress the archived file). Slackware packages also add a few files to an install directory within the tarball to give extra information about the package. These may include a description of the program or library in a slack-desc file and a list of other programs or libraries needed to make it work in a slack-required file. These extra files are optional and aren't necessary to install a package using spkg. Spkg works well for .tgz (.tar.gz) files, but might need some tweaking and program updates for the new .txz format or to handle MinGW packages' use of .tar.lzma. Worst case scenario, you can always decompress and unarchive a package, recreate the package in .txz or .tgz format with a proper name (and even add a slack-desc for better documentation) and then install.
Some Standard GNU Tools and Libraries
Building Programs
Many programs can be compiled and built in msys using ./configure, make, make install commands. GNU has provided tools to help create and run the files that let you do this.
One of the simpler tools to work with for building applications and libraries is a make file. There's a program called make that uses the information in the make file to build the library or application. For more information, see http://www.gnu.org/software/make/. The make program provided with your latest msys installation should be fairly up-to-date.
For the configure scripts, having up-to-date versions of autoconf and automake are useful. If you don't have the latest, you can download the mingw32 versions from Sourceforge. Install in your \MinGW directory (top directory where MinGW compiler suite was installed). According to gnu.org, "autoconf is an extensible package of M4 macros that produce shell scripts to automatically configure software source code packages". See http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/ for details. Also from the gnu.org site, "GNU M4 is an implementation of the traditional Unix macro processor". If you want to know more about M4, see http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/m4.html. A fairly up-to-date version of M4 should have been installed with your latest msys installation. According to gnu.org, "automake is a tool for automatically generating 'Makefile.in' files compliant with the GNU Coding Standards". See http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/ for details.
According to gnu.org, "GNU libtool is a generic library support script. Libtool hides the complexity of using shared libraries behind a consistent, portable interface." See http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/ for details. You'll find updated versions of this as well at Sourceforge in the MinGW downloads section. Check the release file for notes. There's mention of an issue with linking against the static libstdc++ runtime. If you get an error that the compiler is trying to find the dll version and there isn't one, be sure to see the note.
GNU also provides some standard tools and libraries for handling internationalization and language issues. These include gettext and libiconv. According to gnu.org, "the GNU 'gettext' utilities are a set of tools that provides a framework to help other GNU packages produce multi-lingual messages". See http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/ for details. According to gnu.org, GNU libiconv is a conversion library for converting between a given text encoding and the user's encoding and for converting between internal string representation (Unicode) and external string representation (a traditional encoding) when programs do I/O. See http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/ for details. If you're attempting to build an Open Source application that looks for gettext or libiconv, you'll probably want to add these libraries to your system. You'll find them in the MinGW Sourceforge downloads. Check the release notes file for information on what helper files you need to download and install with these libraries. The MinGW versions (with mingw instead of msys in their file names) are for typical MinGW users and need to be installed in the \MinGW directory (top directory where MinGW compiler suite was installed) in order to work properly.
Shared Libraries
POSIX systems use shared libraries (.so) while the Windows standard is the dll. To help bridge that gap, there's a wrapper library, dlfcn. You can download it from http://code.google.com/p/dlfcn-win32/.
Threading support has been added to later versions of MinGW. Windows compilers don't normally supply POSIX style threading with a standard installation. A library for Cygwin (and MinGW) was created by Red Hat and the Cygwin developers to bridge that gap. You'll find more about POSIX threads here http://sourceware.org/pthreads-win32/.
Screen Libraries
GTK+ is one of the more popular cross-platform screen libraries on POSIX systems. It's used by the GNOME desktop and many applications. You can also use GTK+ on Windows. Check the GTK+ site http://www.gtk.org/download-windows.html for useful GTK+ libraries to install and use with MinGW and msys. Some of the libraries on the GTK+ Windows download page are also available in the MinGW download files section. If possible, you'll most often want to use the MinGW versions of these libraries at the MinGW Sourceforge archive. For the main GTK+ libraries such as glib, pango, atk, cairo, it's best to download straight from the source, the GTK+ site. GTK+ can be configured to give a similar look and feel to all GTK+ based applications. See programs such as stardict at Sourceforge for some tools to customize GTK+ themes on your system.
Further Information
How you can help
This is just the start for a list of some of the tools and libraries that can help with porting. The [mingwPORT] system was designed to help assist MinGW users in adding other useful libraries and tools to their system. It can also be used to build applications. However, developers first need to contribute mingwPORT scripts so that others can use them and save time on patching, porting and installation. Please help the MinGW project out by contributing mingwPORT scripts for some of the Open Source programs and libraries you've built with MinGW.
If you need an easy way to install, uninstall, update and track libraries or applications (tarball packages) on your system, take a look at spkg. It's a good way to avoid the registry for installations (which may be useful with portable apps).
You can help by adding links to other standard Open Source tools and libraries that you've found useful when building applications using MinGW and msys. You can share what versions of various tools described above or found in the MinGW downloads you prefer working with. Do you have any tips for installing or tweaking these libraries and utilities to help you build applications? Please post your favorite tips and tricks below.


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Outbreaks of E. coli O104:H4 infection
Countries in the WHO European Region have reported significant numbers of infections from verocytotoxin-producing Escherichia coli O104:H4, resulting in a large number of cases of bloody diarrhoea and haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS) in Germany, and in 15 other countries in Europe and North America. More recently, another cluster of cases in the Bordeaux region of France, and a single case in Sweden, have been reported.
WHO supports coordination of information sharing through the International Health Regulations, the International Food Safety Authority Network (INFOSAN) and other reporting mechanisms; it is monitoring the outbreaks, and providing the latest information. WHO is working closely with national health authorities and international partners to detect the unusual bacterial strain and track down its source.


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Novelty. It's a wonderful thing. Take this USB optical mouse-cum-Skype phone; what a great idea! But given the fact that novelty wears off, there's a limit to how much we're prepared to pay for such items. That's why everyone coos over Sony's Aibo, but barely anyone bought one. The VN-CX1 is light, saves space and looks as stylish as the concept allows.
But it's hewn from slightly flimsy plastic, has no display or buttons and will give your wallet a sound kicking. If you are a desperately fashion-conscious exec, this will make you the toast of the boardroom for a week, but where's that next meal coming from, eh?


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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – No. 10 UC Santa Barbara ended up on the wrong side of a wild, see-saw second half in Friday night's Big West Tournament Semifinals, ultimately falling to visiting No. 25 Cal State Northridge by a score of 3-2 behind a hat trick from Sagi Lev-Ari in front of 1,832 fans at Harder Stadium.
The loss snapped an 11-game unbeaten streak for the Gauchos, whose last loss came all the way back on Sep. 27 against Stanford. Their overall record falls to 12-5-3 with the loss, while the Matadors improved to 15-5-1.
It was an extremely physical match between the North Division champion Gauchos and CSUN, who entered as the second seed in the South after trouncing Cal Poly 4-1 in Tuesday's quarterfinal round. A total of 37 fouls were committed in the game, while six cards were handed out.
All-Freshman midfielder Drew Murphy and junior defender Kevin Garcia-Lopez each received red cards in the match and will have to sit out UCSB's next game.
After a quiet first half saw just two shots go on frame, the action took a dramatic turn in the second half. The second period featured 15 shots, a whopping 21 fouls, and all six cards.
Cal State Northridge managed to open the scoring in the 58th minute. The Matadors' Beto Velasquez was able to find his way into the box, but was steered to the outside by the UCSB defense. Near the endline, Velasquez chipped a cross over the Gauchos' backline and keeper to forward Lev-Ari, who headed in to an empty net for the first of his three goals.
Just like their regular season win over CSUN earlier this season, the Gauchos battled back from a 1-0 deficit to reclaim the lead and go up 2-1. Marshall Cazares picked a good time to score his first career goal, as he redirected a long Ismaila Jome pass with his left foot into the net in the 64th minute.
Less than 10 minutes later, Cazares' play led to another UCSB goal. Moving quickly from right to left at the top of the 18 yard box, a sliding tackle from a CSUN defender caught Cazares in the ankle. The sophomore would have to leave the game after the tackle, but the ensuing freekick was promptly banged home by Goffin Boyoko, who took over the team lead with his eighth goal.
Garcia-Lopez would receive his second yellow card in the 73rd minute, leaving UCSB shorthanded the rest of the match.
The high-powered CSUN offense wasted no time capitalizing on their man advantage. Lev-Ari slotted home a 78th minute penalty kick to equalize, then put the Matadors up for good in the 83rd minute after he headed a ball off the left post and in.
The Gauchos now await their fate as determined by the NCAA selection committee. The 48 team NCAA Tournament bracket will be unveiled on Monday morning at 9 a.m. Entering Friday's game as the No. 8 team in the RPI rankings, UCSB still has a solid chance to receive a first-round bye as one of the top-16 seeds in the tourney.


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America's Home Cooking: One Skillet
In this new special, Chris Fennimore and Nancy Polinsky prepare easy, delicious and satisfying one-skillet meals with talented home cooks. America's Home Cooking: One Skillet features a collection of cherished family recipes passed down from generation to generation. Whether slow-simmered or quickly sautéed, these hearty soups, stews and cheesy casseroles move from the stove to the table in one pan. The "no-fuss" recipes include: steak pizzaiola, skillet Reubens, spaghetti with clams and apple skillet cobbler.
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ii CELLULAR MECHANISMS CONTROLLING THE MOSAIC OF SURVIVNG CONES IN RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA RETINAS By Yerina Ji A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY NEUROSCIENCE Copyright 2013 Yerina Ji
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|In this research project, there are four main parts. Scientists have for long tried to understand the fate of cones in RP retinas in determination to rescue them from degeneration at later stages of the disease following rod degeneration. However, no past studies have examined cone mosaic in depth in the whole mount of RP retinas. In the first part, the extensive remodeling of cone mosaic in the S334ter-line-3 rat retinas was examined in depth. We have found that cones in these RP retinas rearranged themselves in a regular array of rings and survived for a long time after rod deaths. The rings continued to remodel through later stage of life as their mean size and quantity increased with the progression of disease before the eventual cone deaths. Similar photoreceptor distribution pattern of rings are also observed in human patients with some eye diseases, and this makes the current study even more significant (Carroll et al., 2004; Choi et al., 2006; Duncan et al., 2007; Joeres et al., 2008; Rossi et al., 2011). In the second part of the research project, we examined our hypothesis that rod deaths would have some relationship to the cone rings. We have found that rods degenerated initially in random scatter. Gradually, these dying rods seemed to affect the neighboring rods as they led to clusters of deaths, which then radially propagated outward in a circular wave fashion to create growing rings of dying rods leaving growing holes in their mosaic. These holes were always accompanied by cone rings that occurred exactly at the same locations. Thus, we have shown that rod deaths triggered the remodeling of cone mosaic as they migrated away from regions where rods were unhealthy or dead. It was previously reported that Müller cells aided the migration of neurons (Sullivan et al., 2003). In the third part of the study, we showed that cones and Müller cells in our RP retinas were indeed in close association. Moreover, we found that Müller cells remodeled remarkably in their apical processes to fill inside each cone ring. We then aimed to examine whether or not the Müller cells were necessary for cone rings. We performed the experiment this by poisoning the Müller cells and showed ring deformation. In conclusion, we have illustrated that proper metabolism of Müller cells and their interaction with cones were necessary for the maintenance of cone rings. In the final part of the study, a broader and more fundamental question of what determines and modulates the regularity of the cone mosaics in normal and in RP rat retinas was addressed. For this investigation, tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase (TIMP-1) known to modulate the degradation and turnover of the extracellular matrix, and also affect the ability of photoreceptors to migrate, was administered into the eyes of both normal and RP rats. The results indicated that TIMP-1 led to striking change in the cone mosaic in both normal and in RP retinas. Upon TIMP-1 application, cones in normal retinas showed tendency to clump while cones in RP retinas lost their ring arrangement and regained homogeneity of their mosaic. Most important of all, the TIMP-1in normal and RP retinas disrupt the regularity of cone mosaics as they became close to that of random distribution. Therefore, we conclude that the cone-ECM interaction is necessary for controlling of regular cone spacing. In addition, we have shown that TIMP-1 is one of the key factors that take part in modulation of such process. We hope that the addition to knowledge harvested from the current research would eventually lead to better approach for therapy against Retinitis Pigmentosa and other above-mentioned eye diseases, where retinal transplantation or reengineering of cone mosaic is necessary.
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Lionsgate is taking what could be dubbed "the Harry Potter approach," when it comes to the studio's own adaptation of a best-selling young adult book series, The Hunger Games - namely, recruit highly-respected acting talent for the film's adult supporting roles and also get some big names working behind the camera.
Word began circulating in 2011 that the studio was planning to do likewise with the Hunger Games sequel, Catching Fire, with Simon Beaufoy as a possibility to handle screenwriting duties. Now, the Oscar-winning writer responsible for Slumdog Milionaire is confirmed to work on the next installment in the futuristic trilogy.
The Wrap is reporting that Beaufoy has begun penning the script for Catching Fire, under the guiding hand of Hunger Games director Gary Ross, who is set to helm the sequel. It's a situation somewhat similar to that of the latter film, where another acclaimed script writer (in the form of Shattered Glass scribe Billy Ray) penned an early draft, with input from Ross; there, however, the bulk of the final shooting script reportedly ended up being written by Ross, with original Hunger Games novelist Suzanne Collins contributing to the process.
Without getting too deep into spoiler territory: Catching Fire begins in the immediate aftermath of the 74th annual Hunger Games ceremony in the first film, which leaves the dystopian nation of Panem in a state of social upheaval and inspires the dominating Capitol government to tighten its steely grip on the general population, in the hopes of regaining control - even as whispers of rebellion start to spread like (what else?) fire amongst its subjects, all thanks to the actions of District 12 "tributes" Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) and Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson).
Ross' Hunger Games movie adaptation won't actually hit theaters for another two months (from the time of writing this) but it's a highly-anticipated title that should do solid business at the box office. Matter of fact, it's been said that the film need only gross $100 million in the U.S. in order for Lionsgate to properly justify keeping the franchise alive, from a financial perspective. In other words, studio heads are wise to begin work on Catching Fire now, so they can strike while the iron's hot (pun not intended).
Much like other upcoming blockbuster titles that deal with themes about revolution or feature plot points concerning mass uprisings (ex. The Dark Knight Rises) both The Hunger Games and Catching Fire will have the benefit of timeliness on their side, in addition to the popularity of Collins' source material. However, similar to how The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is generally the most well-liked installment in Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy, the first novel in Collins' Hunger Games series tends to be ranked higher than its sequels; so, that could affect interest in the franchise, as a whole.
That said: Catching Fire could mark one of the rare occasions where a sequel is just as good or better than its predecessor - thanks to the combination of Beaufoy's reliable screenwriting prowess (see: The Full Monty, Slumdog Millionaire, 127 Hours) and Ross holding the directorial reigns again. As always, we shall have to wait and see...
The Hunger Games will hit theaters in the U.S. on March 23rd, 2012.
Catching Fire is currently scheduled to reach U.S. theaters by November 22nd, 2013.
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My birthday this year came during a very bittersweet week: My parents and brother are in the process of moving to Phoenix; I'm staying here. My birthday dinner was the last time we would ever sit down together for a meal in that house.
Helping to pack up and sell off the contents of my childhood house over the past few months has been full of sad pangs and heart-wrenches. We picked through all my childhood books, tore up the vegetable garden where my dad and I had spent happy summer hours, bid farewell to the woods where I played as a child. Nostalgia strikes in strange moments. We held a yard sale and I was nearly moved to tears over the little footstool from our bathroom, a permanent fixture in my daily routine now looking oddly out of place in the hands of a stranger who was bargaining over the one-dollar price tag.


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The multi-generational home is making a comeback - but for some families the concept of living under the same roof as one's parents is old news.
Western families have traditionally raised their children to be independent and able to take care of themselves. It was expected they would stand on their own feet after they left home and strike out on their own. But with the rise of the price of housing and the economic downturn, that goal is elusive for some.
The dream of settling down and purchasing a detached single-family house with a white picket fence may still be the dream for many.
Some have opted for a condominium but for others, sometimes referred to as boomerang children, are returning home - some with their own children in tow.
For some cultures, however, multi-generational housing has always been the norm.
"I moved into my in-laws' house when I got married 26 years ago," says Usha Lagah, 45, who works in a seniors home. "Today, they still share a house with me and my family."
Lagah says the arrangement benefits both parties. By saving on rent, Usha and her husband, Pargan, were able to save up money for their own house faster. When her three children, who are all in their 20s, were younger, her inlaws could always be relied upon to babysit. They would also be there for the children when they came home from school.
When the time came to build their own house, the Lagahs naturally made the house a bit larger to accommodate Pargan's parents. They live in one of the five bedrooms of their new house.
For other people, living with children makes good financial sense, especially in light of the local real estate market.
Stephanie Jenkins lives with her 37-year-old daughter and sonin-law in a 850-square-foot suite above the three-car garage of a house on 0.8 hectares of land in Sooke.
"There was no way my daughter and her husband could have afforded to buy the property on their own," says Jenkins, who is semi-retired. "We managed to buy it only because we pooled our money together."
She used proceeds from the sale of her own home as a down payment on the new property.
What she would have paid for in rent helps offset the mortgage on the property.
She says the extended family shares meals together occasionally and respects each other's privacy. When the young couple go away on vacation, she looks after their cat.
"I see it as an equal partnership."
Having seniors under the same roof is good for their well-being as well. Members of one's family are usually the first line of support for many seniors. Without someone to look after their needs, many seniors are left without a caregiver at a time when they need care.
"Some of my elderly clients move to Vancouver Island because they love the weather here," says Jack Barker, a real estate agent with Re/Max Camosun Peninsula. "But the problem is that they often don't have any family here, so when circumstances change, there isn't anybody to look after them."
Sometimes neighbours will pitch in to take care of a senior, but in some cases elderly people fall through the cracks in the social safety net.
Builders and municipalities have taken note, with in-law suites a common addition to new house construction.
"Over half of my South Asian clients ask for their homes to have extra accommodation," says Rov Dosanjh, a builder and president of Rayn Properties.
"In the south Asian culture, it's almost expected of the oldest son to look after his aging parents' needs."
Along with their parents, Dosanjh says South Asian clients also have their children's as well as their own needs in mind when they build.
"They will build an in-law suite today for their parents, but at the back of their mind they know that they may, one day in the future, live out their own old age in that same suite."
The suite may also serve as a fall-back for the children or as a rental when nobody in the family needs it.
Long-term multi-generational living arrangements aren't without friction. Sometimes family members just don't get along with others or may need a level of personal care that a family cannot provide.
"When I get older, I know I don't want to live with my kids," says Dosanjh. "I value my privacy - and I think my kids do, too."
But for Lagah, who has been living with her in-laws for most of her adult life, it's not a problem.
She is happy in the knowledge that the 600-square-foot, one-bedroom suite in her new house - which is currently rented out - might be where she spends her twilight years, perhaps spending time with her grandchildren. firstname.lastname@example.com


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When you make your own pasta, you will always end up with some scraps, even more if you make ravioli. You can easily recycle this leftover pasta to make maltagliati, meaning "poorly cut" in Italian, which was traditionally meant as food for the poor. We are way past that, and today you can enjoy rich texture and amazing flavor of your pasta without the social stigma ;-)
Creamy scrambled eggs
I love the creamy texture of scrambled eggs, but I strongly dislike the idea of eating eggs raw, so I hacked a scrambled eggs recipe to be both completely set, creamy, and pack a crunchy punch as an extra. It's so delicious with fresh bread or toast, and the consistency makes it spreadable like a cottage cheese! I come back to this recipe quite often, because it's simple, fast and feels luxurious ;-)
Sweet potato quiche
Quiche is that one recipe that I love coming back to — it's easy to make, looks delicious and tastes heavenly :-) Plus, it allows me to come up with new fillings, which makes it very versatile!
Sweet potatoes are very smooth and creamy when boiled, then baked, and shallots add a crunchy texture. The combination of them is very mild and aromatic, so make sure you spice it up to your liking!
German Zimtsterne (cinnamon almond cookies)
I always wanted to make these, and finally got the guts — oh boy, I wasn't really prepared for the amount of nitty-gritty with making these. I started with original German recipe that called for 500g of almonds, but that ended up being 2 full baking sheets and lots of sneaky snacking between steps ;-) But the result is good, and these cookies are worth the effort.
Orange cheese-tart
I didn't plan to make this cake at all, what I did plan was apple tart with apricot jelly... Well, sometimes I just change my mind, especially while experimenting in the kitchen :-) The result is interesting, refreshing and citrusy! :-) If you don't like the strong orange aroma, you can replace them with any soft and sweet fruit: peaches, pears, and apricots should do fine!


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What I'm Drinking Now: Limoncello Lemonade
One of my original cocktail experiments, before I even knew they were cocktail experiments, was making homemade limoncello in college. I had tasted it a couple times and, due to my deep love of lemon anything, was immediately hooked. I remember that first batch, made with lemons peeled with a vegetable peeler, steeped for weeks in overproof vodka and generally okay. Not amazing, but good enough to keep me trying. I've since refined my recipe quite a bit (more on that later) and was making up a new batch a couple weeks ago.
I had a bottle of limoncello in my freezer (that's where it should be kept by the way) from my previous batch and wanted to do something fresh, crisp and summery with it. Limoncello lemonade was the clear winner, but it needed some spice. Inspiration came in the form of fresh herbs which are now blossoming all around.
The first batch we mixed up used basil which was fantastic with the lemon. Next we tried thyme. A good flavor choice but kind of a pain in the ass with the small leaves. If you're going to try that one use whole sprigs instead of leaves. Then came tarragon. The licorice notes went really well with the sweetness of the drink and sourness of the lemons. Latest, but not last and certainly not least was mint. It seems almost too easy, but this one worked really really well. The almost cooling character of the mint went with the theme of a crisp summer cooler fantastically. What's next on the docket? There are no limits. How about rosemary, oregano, varietals of the above (lemon thyme, spearmint, etc)…please let me know what you try. Oh, and I'd hope this goes without saying, but if you're not an herb person or don't have any around, skip them. The drink is still damn good without any herbage.
Limoncello Lemonade
Herbs (optional) 1 1/2 oz Limoncello 1 1/2 oz Lemon Juice Soda Water
1) Muddle herbs, or not 2) Combine limoncello and lemon juice 3) Top with soda water
I'd suggest you try to sip it slowly and watch the world go by, but the reality is, you should just be ready to make another one in short order.


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When Larry Fletcher explains the thinking behind the GoControls project management system to electrical contractors, he likes to describe his company's Web-based tool as a "fax machine" on steroids.
The key difference, said Fletcher, the president of the Denver-based GoControls, is that while fax machines are great for sending and receiving requests for proposals (RFPs), bills of materials and other paper-based documents, GoControls puts all of this paperwork into an electronic format so electrical contractors and electrical distributors can use it to manage their businesses more effectively.
"The data that used to be written on the page of a fax can now be manipulated," he said. "You can track your wins and track the orders."
Key features of this online scorecard for the electrical contractor include the ability to analyze their "hit ratio" on quotations by a wide range of variables; check on distributor performance such as delivery timeliness and pricing; and get timely analysis of purchasing trends by vendor, product type and job type.
To accomplish this, the system uses a task-based job management philosophy, Fletcher said. "The main theory here is to help electrical contractors manage their business by the task instead of how it was managed before, which was by the process," he said. "Guys aren't breaking their jobs down into manageable tasks. They don't know what they spend on materials on any single task. This system is going to tell them that."
The system allows electrical contractors to create a bill of materials with a few clicks of a mouse and to then track all transaction data online. This approach gives the contractor and the distributor online access to related purchasing data. Electrical contractors can use the system to automate the entire process of finding and bidding on projects and manage data such as project lists, request for information (RFI) and submittals.
Once the contractor selects a distributor to supply a job, the two companies rely on the online job ticket to tell them when to expect deliveries, job completion dates and other important information. Since it's Web-based, the system runs remotely on GoControls' hardware; users do not have to load it on their own computers. The system runs in parallel with users' existing business management software, but Fletcher said many users eventually will want to integrate it with their own business systems.
Tom Strauss, the company's senior vice president, says the GoControls system helps electrical distributors improve their inventory management by giving them better information on when their customers need the material on job sites. It also helps them track customer service variables such as timeliness of deliveries and ordering trends.
"Our system will allow distributors to log on and see exactly how they are doing by customer," adds Fletcher. "The flip side of that accountability is that the electrical contractor can log in and say, `Who is getting me my materials on time?'
"These things aren't intended to be hammers, they are intended to be business tools. Our industry right now is a reactive industry. Our system gives them proactive tools to truly manage what they are doing in a proactive fashion. The project manager can see from the job site what he is supposed to have delivered."
To help project managers do this, Strauss and Fletcher said the company will provide wireless access to this information so customers can manage their business from job sites via wireless modems connected to personal digital assistants or laptop computers. "Wireless communications in the field is a great piece, but you have to be able to consolidate that info to a hub," Fletcher said.
To develop a beta version of the system, GoControls relied heavily on members of Independent Electrical Contractors (IEC), Alexandria, Va., to see what they needed in a project management system. To gather this input, the company ran focus groups with dozens of IEC electrical contractors; recently GoControls has run focus groups with electrical distributors, too.
One of the ideas that the electrical contractors came up with is the system's cost structure. The system is free for all registered users until Jan. 1, 2001, but after that time it will cost electrical contractors a one-time fee of $40, and then $30 per project per month. Three free projects are included in the $40 initial fee. It will cost electrical distributors $150 per month per location. This includes five users per location; for companies that want to give more users access, it costs an additional $10 per user per location.
Fletcher said the system will cost much less than other project management systems now on the market, and that it's a reflection of the fact that most electrical contractors are relatively small companies. "You have to remember who your market is," he said. "Half of our industry probably can't afford to use a computerized estimating system." He adds that since electrical contractors can bill the use of the system as a pass-through job cost, it doesn't have to be an overhead expense.
In October, GoControls merged with SupplyWave.com, Salt Lake City, a developer of software that integrates with distributors' back-office systems such as pricing, project quotations and shipment tracking. The two companies plan to use the SupplyWave name in 2001.
TradePower launches B2B Digital Marketplace To simplify procurement processes and improve business efficiency, TradePower recently launched its B2B digital marketplace and integrated supply chain solution for the construction industry. TradePower's marketplace connects contractors and suppliers through a neutral, centralized and integrated environment that enhances information exchange and simplifies the purchase and sale of construction supplies. The exchange enables TradePower users to enhance customer satisfaction and improve business operations by reducing overhead costs and fulfillment errors.
More than just a Web site, the TradePower marketplace can be linked to distributors and contractors' existing desktop procurement, estimating and project management systems. This allows distributors and contractors to begin sharing information without having to overcome the challenges associated with training employees to use new methods of buying and selling construction supplies. For more information, visit www.tradepower.com.
VerticalBuyer launches portals for the electrical, datacom industries
VerticalBuyer, Inc., Billerica, Mass, a company involved in developing and publishing industry-specific Web sites, has launched online auction services and global news portals that address the business-to-business needs of the voice/data and commercial electrical industries. VerticalBuyer's two new Web sites, VoiceDataNews.com and ElectricalTimes.com, were introduced at NECA's show Sept. 24-26 in Seattle. Both sites will feature product searches, reverse auctions and a bulletin board on which companies can post press releases.
FindMRO.com selects bestroute.com as supplier
Find-MRO.com has selected bestroute.com LLC, Dewitt, N.Y., as a new supplier. FindMRO.com is a Grainger e-commerce procurement site specializing in hard-to-find indirect materials and sourcing solutions for businesses. The agreement will give FindMRO.com customers access to bestroute.com's stock of trade products, expected to reach up to 65,000 SKUs. In a separate announcement, bestroute.com said that electricalsearch.com, an industry-specific search engine, will be moved to bestroute.com's site.


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Tonsil surgery patient to remain on life support
The family of a 13-year-old Oakland girl who was declared brain-dead after tonsil-removal surgery served a cease-and-desist order to Children's Hospital Oakland on Tuesday demanding that she be kept on life support, then said hours later that the hospital had agreed not to remove the ventilator.
However, the next steps remained unclear, and privacy laws left the hospital unable to comment on the case or "correct misperceptions created about this sad situation," the chief of pediatrics said in a written statement.
The move by relatives of Jahi McMath brought a potential legal element into an unusual - though not unprecedented - case that has captured widespread attention.
Tonsillectomies are one of the country's most common surgeries. More than 700,000 are performed each year, according to a recent study, and estimates of mortality in the U.S. and England range from 1 death in every 10,000 cases to 1 death in every 29,000 cases.
Jahi's family said she had a tonsillectomy at the hospital on Dec. 9 to correct her sleep apnea. She appeared to be fine after emerging from the operation, relatives said, but later blood began pouring out of her nose and mouth and she went into cardiac arrest. She was declared brain-dead Thursday.
Family members have been hoping for a recovery, though, and have accused doctors of pressuring them to remove Jahi from machines that are helping her breathe. The girl's uncle, Omari Sealey, hand-delivered a cease-and-desist letter to doctors on Tuesday written by San Francisco attorney Christopher Dolan.
The letter cited the California Patient Bill of Rights and asked top hospital officials to "refrain from any actions or activities which would remove Jahi from life support" until there is a "judicial determination" in the matter.
"If they move without our consent after having this letter in their hands," Sealey said, "they're just creating more problems for themselves."
Prayer vigil
On Tuesday afternoon, Dolan, surrounded by family members, said the hospital had agreed to keep Jahi on life support indefinitely, even as a second test Tuesday confirmed the girl had no brain activity. "There is no timeline currently," he said. "That gives the family time to hold a prayer vigil (Wednesday night) and seek to have some kind of divine intervention."
Dolan said Jahi's mother, Nailah Winkfield, had a "full and frank discussion" with doctors on Tuesday about her daughter's prognosis.
"The mother understands the progression that could take place," Dolan said. "The mother's aware of how conditions could deteriorate or stay the same. She is just of the mind that this is not something that should be rushed, and that it's something that she wants to talk to God (about)."
In a statement, David Durand, the hospital's chief of pediatrics, said, "Our hearts go out to this patient and her family. Unfortunately, we have not been authorized by the family to share information with the public about this matter. Consequently, we are not able to correct misperceptions created about this sad situation.
"Nonetheless, we want to assure the community that we are doing everything in our capacity to provide support to the grieving family."
Cover-up feared
Winkfield told reporters outside the hospital earlier Tuesday that she feared the hospital would "cover up" what happened to her daughter. She was angry, saying, "Thank you, Children's Hospital, for just ruining my child's life and my life."
Winkfield said she believes Jahi is trying to communicate with her, saying, "I feel her. I can feel my daughter. I just kind of feel like maybe she's trapped inside her own body. She wants to scream out and tell me something."
She said, "I want her on as long as possible, because I really believe that God will wake her up."
Difficult decisions
The case highlights the nuances and difficulties that surround end-of-life decisions. No two cases are the same, and even the term "brain-dead" can mean different things in different contexts, experts said.
Culture, religion, family dynamics and many other factors can affect how people handle such issues, said Kathleen Day-Seiter, a Berkeley elder attorney and former social worker.
"In some cultures, you don't give up, no matter what. You don't give up until the person is gone, gone," she said. "Plus, you're dealing with the emotions of losing a loved one. It can be very complicated."
Henry K. Lee and Carolyn Jones are San Francisco Chronicle staff writers. E-mail: email@example.com, email@example.com


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