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[b]4 Marks of a Hell-Bound Man[/b][i]by John MacArthur[/i]As I have been traveling across America this past week and ministering in a number of cities and encountering a number of people, I have been reminded again of the tragic reality that there is a world dying in sin. And as I was thinking about our brief meditation time this morning in preparation for the Lord's table, my heart was drawn to John chapter 8. Would you open your Bible for a moment and look with me at one of the most tragic portions of Scripture reflecting the ministry of our Lord? In John 8 Jesus says these tragic words in verse 21, "I go away and you shall seek Me and shall die in your sin. Where I'm going, you cannot come." Then again in verse 24, "I said therefore to you that you shall die in your sins, for unless you believe that I am He, you shall die in your sins." Three times Jesus makes that tragic condemnation...You shall die in your sin...you shall die in your sins...once in the singular, twice in the plural. You've all heard the expression, "He has nobody to blame but himself." You've probably used it, I have. And while that axiom is true in many ways in the natural world, it is also true in the supernatural and spiritual dimension as well. When anyone dies in their sins, they have no one to blame but themselves. If a person dies in sin, to perish in an eternity of punishment, there is no one to blame but himself. Back in the first chapter of this marvelous gospel as we were being introduced to its truth, the Holy Spirit recorded these words of Christ, "There was the true light which coming into the world enlightens every man. He was in the world and the world was made through Him and the world did not know Him." It fascinates me that the Holy Spirit has said that the true light, namely Christ, coming into the world enlightens every man. There is a sense in which every man who has ever lived on the face of the earth is responsible for some degree of the light. In Romans chapter 1 we are told that the creation reveals certain things about God, conscience reveals certain things about God. In chapter 2 of Romans Paul says, "Conscience actually excuses and accuses even the pagans." And all of these scriptures remind us that man has been given sufficient light which if lived up to will lead to further light and even the light of the knowledge of Christ. The tragedy is that man does not live up to the light. Man willfully refuses the light and as John 3 tells us, "Man loves darkness rather than light because his deeds are evil." As wonderful as it is for us to experience the love of Christ and the peace of Christ, the joy of salvation, to know the hope of eternal life, it is equally tragic that there are many who flatly blatantly overtly reject it. They refuse the light, choose the darkness because they love their sin. The amazing part of the passage we just noted, however, is that Jesus was not speaking to out and out wicked people. He was not speaking to the immoral riffraff of His society, He was speaking to the religious leaders. He was speaking to the experts in Old Testament revelation. He was telling the most religious people of all that they were going to die in their sins and never be able to come where He was going. How did that happen? How is it that people die in their sins unforgiven? How does that happen? Unjustified, unconverted, unregenerated, unredeemed and bound for everlasting hell. Well, there are four attitudes that guarantee you will die in your sin, four attitudes. If you want to die in your sin then these four things will make that a reality. Number one, be self‑righteous...be self‑righteous. The first step to dying in your sin is to be completely content with the condition you're in, to feel that you have no need of a savior, you have no severe sin problem, you're a good person, you may even think you're better than average. And certainly when God scores on the little sheet that He keeps, you're going to have more good points than bad ones. Imagine yourself having attained some righteousness through religious activity and ceremony and believe that you have no serious sin problem, therefore no need to bow the knee in humble broken repentance before God and plead for the mercy of the Savior, and I guarantee you will die in your sin. In verse 21 Jesus said, "I go away and you shall seek Me and die in your sin, where I'm going you cannot come." He said we're going to be separated. We're going to be in different places. You're never going to be where I am because you're going to die in your sin...you're going to die unforgiven, unconverted, unjustified, unprepared to meet God. What He is saying is very simple. Coming toward the end of His ministry and the end of His life He is saying, "I'm going to return to My Father in heaven, I'm going back to the glory of the presence of God. You...you will vaguely look for a Messiah, you will hopelessly pursue a Messiah, but you have already rejected and blindly misunderstood the Messiah so you will seek and seek and never find and you will die some day but where I go you will never comes. There is no way unto God but through Me," he said, "You reject Me and you will never be in the presence of God. The eternal home of the Father which is open to Me is closed to you." In John 7:36 He said, "You will seek Me and will not find Me and where I am you cannot come." Jesus is announcing the doom of an unforgiven sinner. But what as I said is so interesting about this is that these were the religiously elite. These were the people who fancied themselves in the know, who thought that they really knew God. Now if you want to see how self‑righteous they are, notice their response to Jesus' statement, the response comes in verse 22. "Therefore the Jews," and by the way that term when used by John generally means the leaders, the Pharisees and the scribes and in this case it does, the Jewish leaders were saying, listen to this, "Surely He will not kill Himself, will He? Since He says where I am going you cannot come." What a strange response that is. What a difficult statement to understand, why would they say such a thing? Well, first of all they knew He was talking about death when He said, "I go away and you shall seek Me, shall die in your sins, where I'm going you cannot come." They knew He was talking about death, that was clear. But they mocked what He said by bringing up the issue of suicide. Let me tell you why. Orthodox Judaism views suicide as utterly unthinkable. In fact, the Jews believed for centuries that anyone who committed suicide was literally and eternally relegated to the darkest part of the eternal pit of punishment, that someone who committed suicide would go to the darkest part of eternity. Josephus said that and Josephus also said that the Jews believed that a person who committed suicide would be separated forever from the place of comfort and peace known as Abraham's Bosom. So what these self‑ righteous Jews are saying is this, "Oh, so You're going to a place where we can't come, then You must be going to the darkest part of the pit because we're on our way to heaven." They reversed the whole thing. That's how smugly confident they were in their own self‑righteousness, that the sinless perfect spotless Son of the living God whose words they had heard, whose works they had seen, whose character had impressed them was to be jeered and mocked and blasphemed and treated sarcastically and assigned to the darkest pit when compared with what they deserved. What unbelievable and blasphemous self‑righteousness. "Maybe He's going to kill Himself," they say, "so He will go to that black pit where we will never go since we are the righteous." That is the amazing and tragic reality of religious self‑righteousness. It lives under such boastful pride that it makes unimaginable assumptions and blasphemes even the Son of God. And so, they stand there, already blinded to His works, deaf to His words and now stupidly they ignore the warning that they shall die in their sin with all the horror that that involves in an eternal hell and they turn it into a mocking joke about Jesus committing suicide. And again they turn their venom on the Son of God. He was going to a place where they couldn't come. But that place was heaven. That place was the Father's presence. That place was the place of eternal glory. And they were going to another place, a place of condemnation, out of the presence of God known as hell. But they were so self‑righteous, they didn't think their sin was a problem and they didn't think they needed a savior, they thought they were all right, they were religious, they were moral to some degree, that was sufficient. You want to guarantee that you'll die in your sin, just live with that attitude and I'll promise you, you'll die in your sin. Believe you don't have a sin problem, believe you don't need a Savior and a redeemer. And they laughed at Jesus and they laughed until they died and then they cried in the hell they never thought they'd reach. You see, the Jews had developed a system of salvation by human achievement and these were the epitome of the achievers. But as Luke 16:15 says, "That which is highly esteemed in the sight of men is an abomination to God." And they being ignorant of God's righteousness, Romans 10 says, went about to establish their own righteousness and they didn't realize that by the deeds of the law shall no flesh be justified in His sight. The way of a fool, says Proverbs, is right in his own eyes. But they were wrong. So it's very simple, if you want to die in your sin, just be self‑righteous. Count on the religion of human achievement, count on crediting your good works and your good deeds. During a campaign for evangelism in Melbourne, Australia, a Melbourne daily paper received this letter which it printed. "After hearing the evangelist on the air, viewing him on television, and seeing reports and letters concerning his mission, I am heartily sick of the type of religion that insists my soul and everyone else's needs saving...whatever that means. I have never felt that I was lost nor do I feel that I daily wallow in the mire of sin, although repetitious preaching insists that I do. Give me a practical religion that teaches gentleness and tolerance, that acknowledges no barriers of color or creed, that remembers the aged and teaches children goodness and not sin. If in order to save my soul I must accept such a philosophy as I have recently heard preached, I prefer to remain forever damned." That's his choice, he would have nobody to blame but himself. If you prefer to remain forever damned, then be self‑ righteous and imagine you don't have a sin problem, you don't need a savior. Look at verse 23, "And Jesus answered saying to them, You are from below, I am from above." What He's saying here is, "Wait a minute, I think you have the directions mixed. I am a citizen who belongs to the above kingdom, you are a citizen who belongs to the below kingdom. I think you have it reversed." What a blow. They are saying, "Well, maybe He's going to the pit because we're going to heaven." He says, "You've got it reversed, I belong to the above, you belong to the below." And the implication here is that you don't have to wait to be a citizen of that kingdom, you're already a citizen. In verse 44 He says, "You're of your father, the devil. You're children of the devil. You're part already of the kingdom of darkness which in its final form is the eternal hell. But you already have your belonging place there. Your unbelief, your hypocrisy, your false religion, your willful ignorance, your unwillingness to come to the knowledge of Christ are right out of the pit and your represent that, you are under the rule...Ephesians 2 says...of the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now works in the children of disobedience." The whole world, says John the Apostle, lies in the lap of the wicked one, 1 John 5:19. So, if you want to die in your sin, just imagine that you're fit for heaven on your own, you don't need a savior, and you will die in your sin. Second point, how to die in your sin, secondly, be worldly...be worldly. Verse 23 again, "You are of this world, I am not of this world." Here is another guarantee that a person will die in his sins. Simply be a part of this kosmos. Kosmos here, and we've discussed that many times in our church, but kosmos refers to the invisible spiritual system of evil that fights the kingdom of God...the invisible spiritual system of evil. It is the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches referred to in Matthew 13:22 which chokes out the seed. We use the term in that way. We talk about the system with the term word. For example, we talk about the world of politics, or the world of education, or the world of sports, or whatever. And what we mean is the system that makes up those particulars. He says to them, "You are of this system." In fact, in Luke 16:8 He says, "You are children of the system, children of the kosmos as you are children of the devil." The world system is opposed to truth, it is opposed to righteousness, it is opposed to holiness, it is opposed to purity. In fact, Jesus gave Himself, Galatians 1:4 says, for our sins that He might deliver us from this present system of evil. The system is hostile to godliness, it is hostile to virtue. Look at the system. By materialism, humanism, sex, carnal ambition, pride, greed, self‑pleasure, self‑desire, it exists. Its opinions are wrong. Its aims are selfish. Its pleasures are sinful. Its influences are demoralizing. Its politics are corrupt. Its honors are empty. Its smiles are fake. Its love is false and fickle, and on and on and on and on. And the world will self‑destruct. It is a passing world. Remember the words of the Apostle John, "Do not love the world or the system, nor the things in the system. If anyone loves the system, the love of the Father is not in him, for all that is in the system, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the boastful pride of life is not from the Father but is from the system, out from the system and the system, or the world, is passing away." Three things characterize it, lust of the flesh, passion; lust of the eyes, covetousness; pride of life, boastful arrogance. That's the system. And if you love the system, the love of the Father is not in you. James gave us the same truth in different words. "You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the system is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever wishes to be a friend of the system makes himself an enemy of God." You can't have both. These sinful selfish earthbound souls who live in the system controlled by the prince of this world, the prince of the system are separated from Jesus Christ by an infinite gulf. The Christian, however, has been crucified to the system. He has died to the system. Oh, it's still there but it's not our life, it's not our domain. We have been translated from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of His dear Son. Satan's not our prince, Christ is our King. The old patterns are not those that drive us. Now the law of God is that in which we delight and obedience is our deepest heart desire. For a man to die in his sins, he need only be self‑righteous and be worldly. Thirdly, and here's the crux, be unbelieving...be unbelieving. In verse 24, "I said therefore to you that you shall die in your sins for unless you believe that I am He, you shall die in your sins." If you don't put your faith in who I am, which embodies all of My person and work, you will die in your sin. That's the crux. Now the way of escape is open, the way of salvation is open. Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved, said Paul to the Philippian jailer. If you believe in your heart God has raised Him from the dead and confess with your mouth He is Lord, you will be saved. It's available. Salvation is offered. But the one who persists in unbelief, who will not believe that Jesus is God, who will not believe that He is God in human flesh come as a redeemer to pay the price of sin, that He rose from the dead for our justification, that He is sovereign Lord...the one who will not believe that, who will not embrace in faith all that He is and all that He has done will die in his sins. And when He says, "If you will not believe that I am He," He is summing up the fullness of all that He is. God's name, you remember, "I am that I am." And to believe that Jesus is the great "I am" is to believe that He is all that He claimed to be. "I am," He said, "the bread of life. I am the living water. I am the light of the world. I am the good shepherd. I am the vine. I am the resurrection and the life." And if you believe that He is all that He claimed to be, and you place your faith in Him, you will escape death in its eternal consequence. But if you don't believe, you'll die in your sin. In John chapter 3, you remember the last verse, verse 36, "He who believes in the Son has eternal life, but he who doesn't obey the Son shall not see life but the wrath of God abides on him." Just don't believe and you'll be damned forever. To die in your sins, all you have to do is be self‑righteous, don't think sin is a big problem and believe you're already good enough, be worldly, get yourself totally engulfed in this system, be driven by the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, the pride of life, serve your father, Satan, and then just refuse to believe that Christ is all that He said He was in a full expression of faith that embraces Him fully as one's own redeemer, just don't do that and you'll die in your sin. Fourthly and lastly, be willfully ignorant...be willfully ignorant. It's unimaginable what their response is to this conversation in verse 25 and so they were saying to Him, "Who are You?" That is an unbelievable question. You know, that is an unimaginable response when you stop to realize the ministry that Jesus has had up to this point...healing people, creating food to feed the mouths, as it were, of multitudes of people, walking on the water, creating wine at a wedding, incredible power. They had seen this, many of them first hand, they had heard His powerful words, words which had never been spoken by any man. And yet they say, "Who are You?" It reminds me of the blind man in chapter 9, they came to him and said, "Who is He that did this? Where is He from? And he said, You mean, you don't know where He's from and He made me see?" If he was living today he would say, "Come on, give me a break. You ought to know where He's from. I was blind, He made me see. Take a wild guess." Here they ask the same sneering question in different form, "Who are You...You, literally, You, who are You? Who do You think You are telling us these things, saying these things? What in the world gives You a right to assume that You're going to go above and we're going to go below? That we're going to die in our sins and You're going to go somewhere in the presence of God where we can't come, who do You think You are? Who are you?" This is just willful ignorance. It should have been patently obvious who He was. How else could it be explained that He was God, if not by what He did, what He said, what He was, and they had seen it all. And Jesus responds by saying, verse 25, "What have I been saying to you from the beginning? I've been telling you who I am, I've been telling you over and over who I am. It's not a secret." Early on He said the temple was My Father's house. He said, "You destroy Me and three days I'll rise again." He said to Nicodemus that He was the Son of God. He said to the woman at the well that He was the promised one, the Savior. It was clear. The message had been given. He had said in that tremendous section in John chapter 5 that all judgment had given from the Father to Him, that He would literally raise the dead, just and unjust, to the resurrection of life and the resurrection of damnation. It was obvious who He was. He had said, "I am the light of the world, you follow Me, you'll never walk in darkness." He said, "I'm the water of life, you drink of Me and you'll never thirst." He said, "I'm the bread, you eat of Me you'll never hunger." He said, "You better eat My flesh, drink My blood or you'll never know God and be saved." He had said it all and He had verified it with a powerful display of miracles. And then stupidly they stand there and say, "Who are You?" And He says, "What have I been saying to you from the beginning?" And then He says this in verse 26, "I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you, but He who sent Me is true and the things which I heard from Him, these I speak to the world." He says, "I have more to say to you and what I have to say to you comes from God and God is true and God wants Me to speak these things. I have more to say and these are words of judgment. And they're not His words alone, they're the words of God who is the judge." Back in verse 16 He said, "My judgment is true, I'm not alone in it." So, He's saying to them, "Hey, I've said a lot to you and you ought to know who I am, and now since you've come to the point where you don't know who I am, I have something more to say to you but what I have more to say to you is about judgment." So you move fairly rapidly from chapter 8 verse 12 where He says, "I am the light of the world, he that followeth Me shall not walk in darkness," there's an invitation, now comes a condemnation. "I have more to say to you but it's about judgment and I get it from God." And to show you how ignorant they were, verse 27, they didn't realize He had been speaking to them about the Father. They didn't know who He was and they didn't know who His Father was and they didn't even know when He was talking about God. That's how ignorant they were and ignorant because of willful rejection. In verse 28 He said then to their ignorance, "When you lift up the Son of Man then you'll know." What does He have in mind there? His crucifixion. He says, "When I'm crucified, lifted up, then you'll know that I am He and I do nothing on My own initiative but I speak the things as the Father taught Me. You'll know I am the promised one. You'll know I came from God. You'll know God sent Me and speaks through Me. You'll know it when I'm lifted up." How would they know it? Well if they had their eyes open, just standing there at the base of the cross and watching what He was doing would have revealed it enough. After all, the centurion said, "Truly, truly this was the Son of God." How did he see it? He saw it in just what was happening on the cross. Add to that that the graves burst open and dead people came alive. Add to that that the veil of the temple was ripped from top to bottom and the access to God was thrown open. Add to that that in 70 A.D. 1.1 million Jews in Jerusalem were massacred and 72 A.D. 20 thousand were slain in Galilee, ten thousand Jewish throats were cut in Damascus in one day. Add to that fifty years later Hadrian destroyed 985 towns in Palestine and slew 580 thousand men and many more were killed in the concomitant events of that massacre. Stop and look. Add to that that a church was born and Apostles went out in miraculous power preaching and healing, casting out demons and the church was growing and exploding and they filled Jerusalem with their doctrine and they turned the world upside down. He says lift Me up and you'll know...you'll know that I am He and I speak for God. The cross will be the point at which history will be so dramatically altered you'll have to know if you're not blind by your own desire. You'll know. And then Jesus adds again the most essential aspect of His claim, His relation to God in verse 29, "He who sent Me is with Me, He has not left Me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to Him." He just sort of wants to make sure they realize again that He is no operating independent but He is equal to God. How do you die in your sins? Be self‑righteous, be worldly, be unbelieving, and just be willfully ignorant. And you know the sadness of it all? Even after the cross they knew. Hey, they knew He rose from the dead. They paid the soldiers to lie about it because they knew it. They knew the church was born. They knew the phenomena of the coming of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost in, as it were, great cloven tongues of fire. They knew that Peter was healing everybody in his shadow. They knew that the lame man in the temple could walk. They knew. But sin loves darkness. And it is willfully ignorant. You want to die in your sin? Be self‑righteous, worldly, unbelieving and willfully ignorant. But there's another alternative, look at verse 30. Thank God for this. "As He spoke these things, many came to believe in Him." Isn't that wonderful? What about you? Those people who believed, they went where Jesus is. They did not die in their sins. They died with their sins completely paid for. Only such people enter into heaven and only such people share this table. Shall we bow together in prayer? Father, as we come to this time of remembrance of the death of our dear Savior, our hearts are filled with joy and yet with the desperate need for confession, for we must examine ourselves, to be certain that we do not partake in an unworthy way. There cannot be anything between us and You, and so we come now to this time of confession. Father, if there are any in our midst this morning, and I'm sure there are, who are going to die in their sin, who are holding on to their own religious achievement, who are holding on to the world, who have refused to abandon themselves in full faith and belief in Jesus Christ, who are willfully ignorant, O God, may they turn from that, even now, and reach out and embrace the Savior and believe like those that day. Father, may they in believing be cleansed and fit to partake of this table which remembers Your death and Your saving work. And then, Father, for those who are Christians, may this be a time of confession for us. We get our hearts right with You so there's nothing between us and Yourself. Let me lead you in a prayer and just pray with me. Lord Jesus, I sin, I see my sin, grant that I may never cease grieving because of it, never be content with myself, never think I can or have reached a point of perfection. Lord Jesus, kill my envy, command my wayward and unruly tongue, trample down myself and pride. And, Lord Jesus, give me grace to be holy, kind, gentle, pure, and peaceable, to live for You and not for self, to copy Your words, Your acts, Your attitude, grace to be transformed into Your likeness, to be consecrated holy to You, to live entirely to Your glory. And deliver me from attachment to things unclean. Deliver me from wrong relationships, wrong associations. Deliver me from the predominance of evil passion. Deliver me from the hypocrisy of an outward mask, without an inward purity. Deliver me from the sweetness of sin as well as its bitterness. Lead me to an earnest heart searching and a casting of myself on You, to trust You, to cry out to You, to be delivered by You from the sin which so easily besets. And may I know, O God, that You are the eternal all and all and that all things are shadow but You are substance, all things are quicksand but You are a rock, all things are shifting but You are firm. All things are ignorance but you are truth and wisdom. And if we sin willfully and grievously and even unwittingly, may Your grace take away our mourning and give us music, remove our sackcloth and clothe us with beauty, still our sighs and fill us with a song, wash and cleanse us, Father, in this hour, even as we pray.
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Tim Russert isn't around to celebrate the 10th anniversary of "Big Russ & Me," his best-seller about his dad. But Russert's son, Luke, is stepping in.
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Tim Russert, the longtime political analyst and host of NBC's "Meet the Press," died in 2008 at age 58. Luke Russert is a correspondent for NBC News.


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A TSF reader tipped us off about Akiko Morigami's retirement from professional tennis, announced yesterday. She is playing in the first round against Anastasia Rodionova at this week's HP Japan Open in Osaka, her hometown (draw). This is her last WTA tournament and will play the All-Japan Tennis Tournament in November.
Above is a photo of Akiko practicing with HP Japan Open top seed Caro Wozniacki.
While Morigami might not have made any splashes with her game — she only one 1 title (Prague, 2007) — Morigami gets props for her awesome display of Fila Japan's flirty and whimsical clothes.
We don't expect her to pull a HingDavenKimHenin, so we'll end it here: so long, Akiko!
(photo via the HP Japan Open website)


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The deputy watched as the driver of a silver pickup with one operating headlight swerved all over the road Saturday night before nearly plowing head-on into a stopped vehicle.
The deputy watched as the driver of a silver pickup with one operating headlight swerved all over the road Saturday night before nearly plowing head-on into a stopped vehicle.
The truck lurched away and the deputy pulled over the man, suspecting that his reckless driving was because he was drunk.
That much was apparently true, as Warren Thomas Michael III of Fleming Island, near Jacksonville, later registered a .156 blood-alcohol level, nearly twice the legal limit in Florida.
But Michael told the Clay County deputy something else was wrong: Inside his shirt, a small squirrel was "eating" him.
The deputy looked and sure enough, the 23-year-old had a small squirrel peeking out from his clothing.
As Michael spoke, the deputy smelled alcohol on his breath. Other signs of intoxication were evident as well. Michael's eyes were bloodshot and glassy. His face was flushed and he continuously mumbled to the deputy, slurring his words.
The deputy asked the man for his license and registration. Michael fumbled searching for them, dropping the items he was holding as he looked. He couldn't seem to find either.
At this point, the deputy asked Michael to "secure the squirrel" and exit the vehicle.
He watched Michael sway behind the truck, trying to maintain his balance without holding onto anything.
The deputy asked if he would be willing to participate in sobriety tests and Michael agreed, but his performance was less than stellar.
Michael swayed while he walked, having to grab the side of the truck to keep from falling over. He raised his arms to try to maintain balance, then steadied himself. He placed his foot down twice while trying to stand on one leg. He forgot the directions, neglecting to count out loud while he performed each exercise.
The deputy then arrested Michael for DUI and took him to the county jail.
Michael's girlfriend, Mary Rock, was at the scene watching.
Rock explained to Michael that he was drunk and should not have been driving. Having dated Michael for over a year, she told the deputy that she knew when he was drunk and would often try to tell him. But she said he refuses to listen to her and "does what he wants anyway."
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Last year, geneticists developed a new techniquethat allows them directly insert genes into bacterial DNA — or remove them. It was a powerful discovery, one that finally offered researchers a cheap and easy way to remove precise sections of a bacterial genome. And now, MIT researchers led by George Church have proven that the technique will also work in human cells — a confirmation that could transform the way genetic medicine is done, and introduce advanced therapies for genetic diseases, cancer, and AIDS.
According to the new study, two different developments allowed this to happen: zinc-finger nucleases and TALEN (Transcription Activator-Like Effector Nucleases) proteins. These techniques allow researchers to hone in on a particular part of a genome and snip the double-stranded DNA at a precise spot.
UC Berkeley reports:
Researchers can use these methods to make two precise cuts to remove a piece of DNA and, if an alternative piece of DNA is supplied, the cell will plug it into the cut instead. In this way, doctors can excise a defective or mutated gene and replace it with a normal copy. Sangamo Biosciences, a clinical stage biospharmaceutical company, has already shown that replacing one specific gene in a person infected with HIV can make him or her resistant to AIDS.
Both the zinc finger and TALEN techniques require synthesizing a large new gene encoding a specific protein for each new site in the DNA that is to be changed. By contrast, the new technique uses a single protein that requires only a short RNA molecule to program it for site-specific DNA recognition, Doudna said.
In the new Science Express paper, Church compared the new technique, which involves an enzyme called Cas9, with the TALEN method for inserting a gene into a mammalian cell and found it five times more efficient.
"It (the Cas9-RNA complex) is easier to make than TALEN proteins, and it's smaller," making it easier to slip into cells and even to program hundreds of snips simultaneously, he said. The complex also has lower toxicity in mammalian cells than other techniques, he added.
"It's too early to declare total victory" over TALENs and zinc-fingers, Church said, "but it looks promising."
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Posted on 13 March 2013
CITES agreed to develop a comprehensive reporting mechanism on the illegal killing and trade of great apes.Governments at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) taking place in Bangkok, Thailand, today agreed to develop a comprehensive reporting mechanism on the illegal killing and trade of great apes.
According to the United Nations Great Apes Survival Partnership (GRASP) Stolen Apes report, launched at the CITES meeting, 22,218 great apes were taken from the wild between 2005 and 2011 to be traded illegally on international markets, primarily for the pet trade.
WWF believes that the real number of apes killed and traded is double or even triple this figure, due to the larger, more influential and significant bushmeat trade, which needs greater attention. Especially in Central Africa, ape meat is still a sought after commodity for mid-high level socio-political functions.
"CITES has shown it can take strong measures to tackle international trade in great apes, for example by agreeing CITES trade sanctions for Guinea last week partly due to illegal ape trade," said Wendy Elliott, from the WWF Illegal Wildlife Trade Campaign. "However greater action is needed to tackle the killing of apes as a status food item which is a huge threat to ape populations across Africa."
The agreement of CITES sanctions for Guinea means that they are no longer able to trade in any of the 35,000 CITES listed species.
Measures needed to ensure the conservation of African great apes include implementation of existing legislation, strengthened enforcement controls including anti-poaching measures, market survey and control, and anti smuggling measures at international borders, meanwhile eliminating the widespread corruption which blocks the legal system and facilitates illegal trade.
Ofir Drori, from The Last Great Ape Organization, has been conducting undercover surveillance of poachers and traffickers for more than a decade, reporting them to the authorities and systematically watching criminals walkfree. Speaking at a press conference during the CITES meeting, Ofir outlined that the obstacle is clear "First corruption, second, corruption and finally, corruption."
Although there are recent exceptions for example in Gabon, range state governments do not regularly reinforce the ongoing work of anti-poaching teams. According to WWF, well patrolled protected areas, with demonstrated cases of imprisonment of illegal wildlife traders offers the best chance of securing African great apes in the wild.
Most of the apes captured for the pet trade are infants, the preferred bounty for poachers. But adult apes are not willingly letting their young go, and often defend their families to the death.
Great ape populations in Africa often share their habitat with civil wars, illegal logging and the expansion of agriculture and other industrial activities which threaten their habitat. Conservation efforts are also threatened by highly infectious diseases which can kill vast numbers of great apes in single outbreaks. In addition there is an increasing threat of extractive industries including newly proposed oil operations in places like Virunga National Park, home of the last remaining populations of mountain gorillas.
On the other side of the planet, the orangutan, Asia's single great ape, is also severely threatened. The species' last populations live deep in the rainforests of Sumatra, Indonesia, and the island of Borneo which are destroyed and fragmented mainly by forest conversion to agriculture such palm oil, and illegal logging.
Launched in 2002, WWF's African Great Apes Programme works in Central, Eastern, and West Africa. The team works with numerous partners to support projects that help range state governments and their appropriate ministries, wildlife departments and national parks services to improve great ape protection and management, build capacity within range states, stop the illegal trade in ape products and increase local community support for ape conservation.
WWF also works on orang-utan conservation, to conserve their critical habitats, and reduce threats such as poaching and conflicts with humans.
TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network, has been a partner of GRASP since 2008 and has monitored the trade in orangutans and gibbons in Indonesia over a number of years and supported work to mitigate the effect of illegal meat trade on apes in Central Africa.
"Illegal domestic and international trade in Great Apes and their parts continues to have a strong detrimental effect on the survival of wild orangutans, gorillas and chimpanzees," said Roland Melisch, TRAFFIC's Director for Africa and Europe.


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Electronic Gas-Spring Pressure Monitors
Three different and unique applications—in-die assembly, in-die welding and deep drawing—all paint the same picture, illustrating how digital nitrogen-gas pressure monitors can improve quality and productivity. First, consider the U.S. Army's desire to build a better bullet, and the creative solution provided by its primary small-caliber supplier, Lake City Army Ammunition Plant, operated by Alliant Techsystems (ATK), Independence, MO. Lake City is the Army's largest supplier of small-caliber ammunition, the lone survivor among a supply chain that once numbered a dozen different companies. In the last several years—and particularly since 9/11—ATK has seen its production volumes jump to 1.4 billion small-caliber rounds/yr., tripling its output since 2000.
Forming and assembling the new rounds in the Waterbury presses requires ATK to take production-process control to new heights. Its ongoing Green Ammo program eventually will comprise a range of EPR sizes manufactured on 24 presses. To date the firm has completed upgrades to 12 BAMs for one of the EPR products—the M855A1 5.56 x 45 bullet, which has been used in Afghanistan since the spring of 2010.
The rounds are manufactured on 12 Waterbury presses, each outfitted with 14-station dies. Bowl-fed copper-alloy cups that enter the die are drawn over several stations to become the bullet jacket. As the drawn cups move through the die, the penetrator gravity-feeds into the jacket. Trim stations follow, then an ogive sizing and assembly station, additional sizing stations and a final cannelure or knurl station. Presses stroke at 60 hits/min.
"The design engineers that developed the process specified that we must closely monitor and track gas-spring forces in the die," says ATK engineer John Segovia. "Insufficient force (from a leak in the nitrogen-gas supply system, for example) or over-pressurized gas springs trigger a press shutdown before out-of-specification bullets are fabricated.
"When we launched the program (early in 2008)," continues Segovia, "we installed electronic load cells to meet this requirement—four load cells in each BAM. However, we quickly realized that the load cells were too complicated for our manufacturing environment."
"We had to find a better, most cost-effective, reliable and accurate solution for monitoring the spring forces," says Segovia. To replace the load cells, Segovia opted to install electronic pressure monitors (from Dadco). Each of the 12 BAMs that have been upgraded for the Green Ammo program now boasts four pressure transmitters connected to nitrogen-gas springs, and a central control panel mounted on the press ram. The pressure monitors provide a 22-lbf resolution, offering significantly more process control compared to the 316-lbf resolution of the load cells.
To fit ATK's presses, Dadco customized the die springs to mount the M6 port in the center rather than on the side, "a key factor to the success of the project," says Segovia. "Our press rams are designed such as there is no room to go left or right—they're all set up for vertical motion. All of the lines going to the control panel had to go through the top of the ram. We drilled a hole through the top of each ram to accommodate the lines."
Since installing the electronic pressure monitors, maintenance issues are nonexistent, maximizing press uptime. And the facility is busy preparing a dozen or so additional BAMs similarly to continue to support the Army's EPR programs.
Perfect In-Die Weld Pressure
Resistance-weld quality hinges on three key process variables—time, pressure and current. When welding inside a stamping die, pressure often proves the most difficult variable to control. Metal stamper GR Spring & Stamping, understands this well—well-versed in in-die welding, 30 of its dies include in-die nut-welding stations. On larger dies, the firm pipes nitrogen-gas springs together so it can pump up and dial down weld pressure as needed. Measuring and monitoring gas pressure initially fell to analog switches, which would trigger press shutdowns if nitrogen pressure dropped beyond an allowable setpoint, perhaps due to a worn spring or a leaky tubing connection.
"While the pressure switches were better than nothing," says toolmaker Wade Pennington, "hysteresis on the switches often was significant. We needed a narrower tolerance range on gas pressure to ensure good-quality welds."
Voit has electronic pressure monitors (shown here protected by green enclosures) installed on three presses, and will retrofit a fourth press this spring. The monitors gauge pressure to 14 nitrogen-gas springs installed at key stations in each press table.
"We intend to replace analog switches with electronic on all of the larger dies in which we run in-die welding operations," says Pennington, who notes that the retrofit process is "simple and straightforward."
In addition to less-frequent destructive testing and greater assurance that the in-die welding process is performing as designed, using the electronic nitrogen-pressure monitors has eased the troubleshooting process.
"Because the tolerance window was so large in the past, as well as the hysteresis, we'd waste a lot of time trying to pinpoint the exact cause of a shutdown. We would, for example, spend time adjusting welding parameters, leading to a long and tedious trial-and-error process that often was unnecessary. Now we can look at the digital readouts of the pressure monitors and know instantly if gas-spring pressure is the problem, or not, and address it immediately."
Deep-Draw PPM Slashed from 300 to Zero
Tolerances on deep-drawn servo-motor and booster housings stamped at the Voit Automotive facility in El Salto, Jalisco, Mexico, average ±0.002-0.003 in. That level of precision requires state-of-the-art process control, says engineering manager Raphael Zazzaretta, which is why he's sold on using electronic pressure monitors at critical nitrogen-gas-spring die locations. The plant has the Dadco electronic pressure monitors installed on three presses, and will retrofit a fourth press this spring.
"Other types of pressure switches might function as-designed," says Zazzaretta, "but the electronic monitors are the state of the art. In particular, the ability to program the gauges for upper and lower setpoints makes a big difference in our ability to control our deep-drawing processes."
Voit's Jalisco plant operates six transfer presses and nine progressive-die presses, running 220 dies and 150 part numbers. Zazzaretta told us of one particularly challenging part where the addition of electronic pressure monitors had an immediate and measurable payback—stamping of booster-motor housings. The housings, of galvanized steel sheet, run in a 12-station blank-fed transfer die, where concentricity tolerances are ±0.1 mm. "Even the slightest bit of nitrogen leaking causes out-of-tolerance draws from the very first die station," says Zazzaretta. "Or, the parts can become stuck in the die and cause transfer problems."
Responsibility for in-die pressure control falls to a set of 14 nitrogen-gas springs installed in the press table, not the die. "This setup makes it easier for us to achieve the required level of precision compared to using a press cushion," says Zazzaretta. Eight of the die's 14 stations contain nitrogen springs. At the draw stations, the springs act as a cushion Each spring connects to an electronic pressure switch—14 separate switches connected to the nitrogen filling station.
"The pressure switches trigger a press shutdown only once every few months," says Zazzaretta, "due to out-of-tolerance gas pressure to the springs. This may not seem like much, but when you don't immediately see a problem in the press, it causes quality issues. This is particularly important with these housings, since their design makes it difficult for operators to visually identify tolerance issues—primarily varying wall thickness."
Now, the firm no longer has to worry about nitrogen-gas pressure causing quality issues with this critical die. With part volumes approaching 3 million/yr., the die is running with a PPM of zero. This is a significant improvement compared to a PPM of 300 when the project first launched, without the electronic pressure monitors.Zazzaretta continues to tell us of his latest project involving the electronic pressure monitors—a press that will run several different part numbers and dies. "Here, we'll include the settings for each pressure monitor in the part program, so that the PLC will automatically adjust the high- and low-pressure setpoints based on the die," says Zazzaretta, "without operator intervention. The program will automatically instruct the nitrogen filling station to provide the required gas pressure to each spring as programmed." MF
See also: DADCO, Inc., Waterbury Farrel Technologies
Related Enterprise Zones: Presses, Tool & Die


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Season 40 Episode 5 | 23m 43s
Insulation is crucial to a net zero house. Kevin finds Jeff and the apprentices starting the work. Dana shops for efficient yet decorative lighting. Tom and Jeff work with the apprentices to build false rafter tails and then they install them.
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LIBERTY, December 4, 2013 - With Christmas approaching, many parents are planning to give their child a new bicycle – maybe even their first bicycle. This is an excellent opportunity to teach children about the importance of wearing a helmet to protect their head. According to National Safe Kids, helmets can reduce the risk of severe brain injury by up to 88%, but only 45% of children wear bike helmets. According to National Safe Kids, bicycles are associated with more injuries in children than any other product except automobiles. Other studies from the organization found that nearly half of the hospitalizations related to bicycles are traumatic injury to the brain. Helmets should be considered an important part of bike riding.
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The Museumsinsel Berlin (Museum Island) has been part of the UNESCO World Heritage since 1999. That same year a resolution was passed for a complete renovation of the exceptional ensemble that dates from the 19th and early 20th centuries. These plans have since been implemented step by step. The tour provides insights into the history and future of the Museumsinsel, and presents highlights of the Neues Museum and the Pergamonmuseum.
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Little Rock, Arkansas
Historic Kavanaugh House
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The Kavanaugh house was built using a Queen Anne floor plan with Classic Revival motifs throughout, beginning with the Greek ionic columns on the porch and facade.
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Front foyer staircase
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2nd Parlor
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Formal Dining Room
Fabulous large formal dining with cypress wainscoating and period stenciling on ceiling and upper walls, huge palladian style window, and exquisite built in china cabinet. Floors throughout downstairs are oak (in excellent condition). Adjoining modernized butler's pantry and kitchen have cherry cabinets with upper glass doors, green glass knobs, granite countertops, wet bar and a powder room/ half bath.
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When we use the term "realisation," people are very often confused. They feel that a realised person is totally different from an ordinary person, that he behaves in a very unusual way. But I wish to say that a realised person need not and should not behave in an unusual way. What has he realised? The ultimate Truth in God. And who is God? God is someone or something absolutely normal.
When someone realises the Highest, it means he has inner Peace, Light and Bliss in infinite measure. It does not mean that his outer appearance or outer features will be any different, for Peace, Light and Bliss are inside his inner consciousness. If a Master achieves realisation, it does not mean that he will grow two big horns or a long tail, or become in some other way abnormal. No, he is normal. Even after a spiritual Master has realised the Highest, he still eats, sleeps, talks and breathes just as others do.
It is inside the human that the divine exists. We do not have to live in the Himalayan caves to prove our inner divinity; this divinity we can bring forward in our normal day-to-day life. Spirituality is absolutely normal, but unfortunately we have come to feel it is abnormal because we see so few spiritual people in this world of ignorance. But this feeling is a deplorable mistake. Real spirituality is the acceptance of life. First we have to accept life as it is, and then we have to try to divinise and transform the face of the world with our aspiration and with our realisation.
Unspiritual people frequently think that a realised person, if he is truly realised, has to perform miracles at every moment. But miracles and God-realisationneed not necessarily go together. When you look at a spiritual Master, what you see is Peace, Light, Bliss and divine Power. Enter into him and you are bound to feel these things. But if you expect something else from a realised soul, if you come to a spiritual Master thinking that he will fulfil your teeming desires and make you a multimillionaire, then you are totally mistaken. If it is the Will of the Supreme, the Master can easily make someone a multimillionaire overnight. He can bring down material prosperity in abundant measure, but usually this is not the Will of the Supreme. The Will of the Supreme is for inner prosperity, not outer affluence.


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Kazmir impresses Norris, Melvin in first 'pen session
PHOENIX -- In the early hours of the morning Sunday, A's manager Bob Melvin found his way to Scott Kazmir's locker, took a seat beside his new left-hander and had a little chat.
"I wanted to talk to him a little bit before his first bullpen," Melvin said. "I know he's pumped up about it. Usually the first bullpen isn't what gets you motivated, but being with a new team, I know he's excited about it."
Hours later, both Melvin and Kazmir were pleased with it, too, and so was Derek Norris, who caught the $22 million southpaw for the first time.
"Great first bullpen," Kazmir said. "Always have a little adrenaline going the first time, seeing the staff behind you, but I kept it simple and it went good. You wanna go out there from the get-go and show the organization that they made the right decision. You always get those nerves."
They didn't show.
"I didn't realize his ball had that kind of carry," Melvin said. "Similar to [Sean] Doolittle, he has a really good backspin on his balls. He looked real good."
"His fastball had a lot of life," added Norris. "It's still early, and of course everything's going to look faster than it probably is, but it's coming out good. Everything was popping the mitt. It was the first day, but the way he was dotting up with his fastball was really impressive, especially this early. So my first impression of him is very strong."
Norris didn't quite realize the extent of Kazmir's repertoire, which now includes a cutter he added in the second half last year. It takes the place of his traditional slider, after he lost grip on it, and has been very effective against right-handers, who hit .240 off Kazmir when he threw it in 2013, according to brooksbaseball.net.
"I stumbled on it and had success with it," he said. "It felt easy to throw, and so I just stuck with it. Toward the second half I used it quite a bit, and it would probably be my third-best pitch. I'm still getting used to throwing it consistently, but it's something I want to use for sure going into the season."
Learning the nuances of a new battery mate doesn't happen overnight, which is why Norris planned to continue getting to know the veteran Kazmir more on the golf course soon.
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It looks like the Knicks came to play tonight, I'm tuning in on MSG and the first half was great. Randolph and Marbury showed up tonight. Halfway through the third there looking pretty good, hopefully we can finish out what we started.
It looks like the Knicks came to play tonight, I'm tuning in on MSG and the first half was great. Randolph and Marbury showed up tonight. Halfway through the third there looking pretty good, hopefully we can finish out what we started.
What did Jamal just do, lol SICKKKKKKK
holly balllls is this our team and jamal take back everything I trashed u about but u have been a good leader ...marbury turns star tonight and even maybe a leader? a lot of comraderee
Get rid of MARBURY! whatever it takes sorry brooklyn but hes not our answear and IT i rather have you playing for us at the moment then to have any power in the office
Knicks actually looked good tonight. I'm not going to get my hopes up yet because everytime I do, they let me down. But, 10 steals and 6 BLOCKS!! And 2 from Curry!! Hopefully they can build on this win and learn that defensive effort will win them games. If Marbury can play like this all season I will retract all of my previous negative statements. The players looked like they were supporting Marbury and each other. Maybe all of the negativity brought them together. Wait! What am I doing? I'm getting my hopes up again!! I've got to stop that. If they show this kind of effort consistently, then I will have faith.
Marbury was never the issue. He always takes the blame for everything based on his selfish track record. He is still the best player on the Knicks. Isaiah needs to get his head out his behind, and let Steph do what he did tonight, every night. Take the ball out of Crawford's hands so much, let him run of screens as he did tonight, so those stupid carrying violations he commits at least 20 times a game won't happen as much. Zeke has no imagination on offense with this team at all. And they are never going to play good team defense. So they have to score. And it should be balanced instead of always forcing it to turnover Prone and black hole Zach and Curry.
Isaiah is getting fired.
Easy on the negativity dude!That's the most effort on defense I've seen this team display in 1 game I've seen in a loooonnng time.Please dude,CHILL!!
This had to be the best Knicks game i've seen all season so far, maybe even better than some of the wins they got last year. Marbury was really "starbury" tonight, Randolph was incredible, and Q-rich played good aggressive D. We got steals, Blocks (Everyone see Curry's monster block towards the end of the fourth?) and we made free throws. Boston awaits on Thursday i think, that will be the real test. Great Game tonight!
umm... was that the 2007-2008 new york knicks?...
im very confused right now hah. i will not jump to conclusions or get excited or talk about anything but tonights game in general.
I think we found our rotation and it consists of Curry, Randolph, Lee, Balkman, Jeffries, Richardson, Crawford, Robinson and Marbury. 9 players is all we need.
and it seems everyone in that rotation played defense... did i just say that? curry didnt seem to care (and this is one of those odd didnt seem to care when it comes to eddy) that he wasnt getting his numbers. 8pts 5 boards and more focused on D than stats!?! 2 blocks? is that more than he had combined all season?
Crawford was showing leader qualities, hell always be an erratic shooter we know that. butttt he calmed it down on O and led this team. if we cant get through to steph someone needs to take the balls by this team and it looks (from tonight) that jamal COULD be taking that reign.
also... stephon marbury.. stephon marbury. what to say about stephon marbury... umm... good game. keep it up! thats all i want to say hahaha
i know 2 in a row is not a lot. but we defeated a great team in utah... and like it or not a good team in chicago. dont say chicago has only won twice blah blah blah. this is the same team that made the playoffs. they are just playing with no heart (no contract extensions and kobe trade rumors can do that to ya). SUCK ON THAT SKILES and PAXSON you guys are the new knicks.h haaha
#15...So good it had to be retired twice
I didn't see the game but looking at the numbers, there defense needs help. The Bulls are a struggling offensive team. The Jazz scored 109. shooting 50% from the field. We can't just score ridiculous amount of points and only win by a little.
They did what they needed to do win but. That effort won't go well against the Celtics. We have to not let them score so easily.
66 points in the paint by the Jazz. Cant happen.
Remember the 6 game winning streak in 2006. We had horrible defensive numbers and crazy offensive numbers. Then we went down the toilet.
This type of play does not last in the long run. When the Knicks score 100 and hold opponents in low 90s and under 48% then we'll talk.
damn this was fun to watch, deron vs stephon was a great battle, damn dat move jamal did was ridiculous, its great to win when defensive effort is applied
This was a fun game to watch and the effort was there for the Knicks. Curry, Randolph, Marbury and Crawford all played well at the same time. What a sick move by Crawford for that shot. Hopefully they can carry some of this over to the big game thursday against the Celtics.
There is just one thing thing I don't get: Why do they always try to pass the ball into the post from the top of the key? This is the position from where an interception is most likely. If a guy thinks about doing that he should rather pass the ball out of bounds to give everybody time to get back on defence.
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Let's play connect the dots. After the US midterm elections, President Obama will visit India, Indonesia, South Korea, and Japan. Trace a line between the nations, noting how it loops down through the Indian Ocean and back up through the South China Sea and East China Sea, forming a semicircle around China.
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"In this post-Iraq, post-Afghanistan world ... we're seeing the rise of India and China," he says. "Think of China trying to move south toward the Indian Ocean and India moving west and east. Where they intersect will be lines of rivalry through the 21st century."
China now has fighter jets stationed in Tibet that can reach Indian airspace. The Indian Navy now has a presence in the South China Sea. And in the Indian Ocean, both powers are racing to establish their presence.
China is building major port projects in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Burma (Myanmar), and Sri Lanka, while also providing significant military and economic aid to those countries. Chinese warships paid their first visit in August to Burma, the Monitor's Ben Arnoldy recently reported, warning that the Indian Ocean could become a more serious flashpoint for India and China's overlapping ambitions.
"China wants a presence. India is unnerved by all of this," says Kaplan.
China takes to the seas
The United States, too, will need to play this game of "soft power" in the region. "We've gotten used to this Burger King, cold war-style base," Kaplan told a smiling audience. Into the future, the US military is likely to offer aid for nations to maintain military bases in exchange for access. "In other words, more of a subtle relationship."
Like the United States, which beefed up its navy and increased its maritime activities after consolidating its land borders, so too is China expanding on the oceans now that it has nearly completed drawing its land border from Tibet to Taiwan.
"China is able to build a great navy precisely because its land borders are secure," says Kaplan. By contrast, he says India is still attempting to control its borders with Pakistan (at Kashmir), Nepal, and Bangladesh, which sucks resources away from its navy.
No longer America's playground
This highlights how India is still far behind China. China paves more miles of road per year than India already has. Its economy and military are both much larger than India's. Even the recent Commonwealth Games in Delhi, fraught with delays and troubles, served to highlight China's display of might in pulling off the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Regardless of when or if India catches up to China, this much is now clear for the Washington, says Kaplan: "The Indian Ocean and Pacific are no longer American lakes."