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We return to our wonderful study of Luke's gospel. Open your Bible, if you will, to Luke chapter 9. This is how we inform our worship so that we can worship in spirit and in truth. We inform it with the truth of God's Word. Any and every passage is from God and is rich and instructive. But the one we look at this morning is particularly so.
I want to read verses 23 through 26, and then you'll have in mind and we'll begin to talk about it. Luke 9:23. "And He was saying to them all, 'If anyone wishes to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily and follow Me. For whoever wishes to save his life shall lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake, he is the one who will save it. For what is a man profited if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits himself? For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed when He comes in His glory, and the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.'"
It's brief, not many verses, not even very man words, but this is at the heart of the teaching of Jesus. This is pure gold, biblical gold. Maybe better, this is a diamond of truth, clear and brilliant. The subject is following Jesus, verse 23, "If anyone wishes to come after Me." This is a text about how to come after Jesus, how to follow Jesus, how to become a Christian, how to be saved, how to be redeemed and born again. That's what it's about. It is critical teaching.
And one thing strikes you at the very outset, and that is coming after Jesus involves self-denial. That's clearly the first thing that's said. "If anyone wishes to come after Me, let him deny himself." The gospel is a call for self denial. It is not a call for self fulfillment.
And that puts the true gospel in opposition to the contemporary evangelical gospel which is a gospel of self fulfillment, self help. Jesus is viewed as a utilitarian genie. You rub the lamp, He jumps out and says, "You have whatever you want." And you give Him your list, and He delivers. There are those within the framework of evangelicalism in the Charismatic segment who tell you Jesus wants you well, and if you're not well it's because you haven't claimed your healing. Jesus wants you prosperous and rich, and if you're not it's because you haven't claimed it. Jesus wants you free from debt and if you send the televangelists enough money, you'll by virtue of your faith free yourself from debt, or the demon of debt, as it's often referred to, because Jesus doesn't want you having any troubles or any problems. Your salvation is a guarantee of health, wealth, and prosperity, and happiness.
The psychological, man-centered evangelicals tell you that Jesus gives you peace, and Jesus gives you joy, and Jesus makes you a better salesman, and Jesus helps you hit more home runs. Jesus really wants to make you feel better about yourself, and wants to elevate your self image, and wants to put an end to your negative thinking.
It's interesting how this trend has come into the church. I kind of watched it through the years, been around long enough to have seen it arrived. It really arrived, I think, most pointedly through the ministry of Robert Schuller. A number of years ago he wrote a book called Self Esteem: The New Reformation. I reviewed that book. It was published in a national magazine, the review that I did. Because I thought it was a turning point, it was an attempt at a new reformation. It was an attempt to replace the gospel - the biblical gospel - with a new gospel. And it worked.
In that book, Self-Esteem: The New Reformation, Robert Schuller writes, "It is precisely at this point that classical theology has erred in its insistence that theology be God-centered and not man-centered." So this is an iconoclastic beginning. The first thing we have to do is put an end to classical theology. We have to put an end to God-centered theology and replace it with man-centered theology. That's pretty blatant, but that was exactly what was going on.
He writes further, "This master plan of God is designed around the deepest needs of human beings." And what are those needs? "Self dignity, self respect, self worth, self-esteem. The pearl of great price is genuine self respect and self-esteem."
He further writes, "If we follow God's plan as faithfully as we can, we will feel good about ourselves." That's the gospel of evangelicalism. It's the feel-good gospel. Feel good about yourself. Then he goes on to say, "God needs you and me to help create a society of self-esteeming people." Pardon me if I don't join. I can't think of a group I'd less like to associate with.
So, in this effort at a new reformation, the first thing you have to do is wipe out classic, God-centered, historic theology, then replace it with a man-centered, psychological, self-esteem theology, and make everything in the Bible and the gospel work toward making people feel better about themselves to fulfill their dreams, and fulfill their visions. Further he says, "God's ultimate objective is to turn you and me into self-confident persons." And then - this is enough - one more quote, "Once a person believes he's an unworthy sinner, it is doubtful if he can really honestly accept the saving grace God offers in Christ."
So, in the new gospel, if you want to be saved, you cannot believe yourself to be an unworthy sinner. How twisted is that? How contrary to the truth is that? But it is that man-centered, self-esteem gospel that was picked up by the number one disciple of Robert Schuller, Bill Hybels, and translated into the seeker-friendly movement which has hijacked evangelicalism. It's a kind of quasi-Christian narcissism, self-love which is characteristic of false teachers, according to 2 Timothy 3, where it says, "Dangerous seasons will come, for men will be lovers of self."
And Christianity has become a "get what you want," rather than a "give" movement. The divine intention for the gospel has been prostituted. The glory of God has been replaced by the satisfaction of man. Abandoning your life to the honor of Christ has been replaced by Christ honoring you. It's all twisted and the real gospel is no longer in vogue.
There was a saint of many centuries ago who got it right. This is a prayer that he wrote. "Lord, high and holy, meek and lowly, let me learn by paradox that the way down is the way up, that to be low is to be high, that the broken heart is the healed heart, that the contrite spirit is the rejoicing spirit, that the repenting soul is the victorious soul, that to have nothing is to possess everything, that to bear the cross is to wear the crown, that to give is to receive. Let me find Thy light in my darkness, Thy joy in my sorrow, Thy grace in my sin, Thy riches in my poverty, Thy glory in my valley, Thy life in my death."
Thy life in my death? That's the true gospel. It's not about exalting me, it's about slaying me. Jesus said, "If you're going to follow Me, you deny yourself, you take up your cross every day and you follow Me." It's the death of self. You win by losing. You live by dying. And that is the core, the heart message of the gospel. That is the center of discipleship.
This is not an obscure passage. This is not something that's sort of different than the normal teaching of Jesus. This is principles which He teaches repeatedly throughout His ministry over, and over, and over again, in all different contexts.
Let me show you that. Go back to the 10th chapter of Matthew, for a moment. Matthew 10:34. Jesus has been, in the prior verses, talking about confessing Him, of course confessing Him as Lord and Savior. Verse 32, "Everyone who confesses Me before men, I'll confess before My Father who is in heaven." So He's talking about confessing Christ as Lord. And then in verse 34 He says this. "Do not think that I came to bring peace on the earth; I didn't come to bring peace, but a sword. I came to set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And a man's enemies will be the members of his household."
First thing, come to Christ, it may make your family worse, not better. It may send a rift into your family the likes of which you have never heretofore experienced. But that's the way it is, because if you give your life to Jesus Christ, there will be an impassable gulf between you and the people in your family who don't. Verse 37 says so "he who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me." If you're not willing to pay the price of a permanent rift in your family unless those people come to Christ, if you're not willing to pay the price of greater trauma in your family, greater conflict in your family, greater suffering in your family, then you're not even worthy to be My disciple.
Verse 38, He says, "He who doesn't take his cross - " the cross was associated with one thing, one thing alone. A cross was an instrument of death. It was an instrument of execution. Jesus goes even beyond this. If you're not willing to have conflict in your family, you're not worthy to be My disciple. If you're not willing to have conflict with the world to the degree that it could cost you your life, then you're not worthy of Me.
Verse 39. "He who has found his life shall lose it, he who has lost his life for My sake shall find it." It's about losing your life. It's not a man-centered theology, it's a Christ-centered theology that says, "I give everything to Christ no matter what it costs me." Now that's Matthew 10.
Mark 10 is another illustration of this teaching of Jesus. This is absolutely at the heart of Jesus' teaching, that's why these few verses are going to take us some time to work through because this must be understood. Mark 10:21. Jesus here is speaking to this rich young ruler who wants eternal life. He asks in verse 17 about eternal life. And Jesus, you remember, talks to him, and if you put the whole account together, Jesus confronts his sin. He won't admit it and he won't give up his self-righteousness, which is the worst sin. And then Jesus talks about his money and he's not about to give up his money. He wants Jesus, yes. He wants eternal life, but Jesus throws in his face you're going to have to give up your self-righteousness, that is you're going to have to recognize yourself as an unworthy, wretched sinner, and you're going to have to be willing to give up all your earthly possessions if I ask.
And you remember the story. He wouldn't do it. Verse 21. "Jesus felt a love for him and said to him, 'One think you lack: go sell all you possess and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; come, follow Me.' " Jesus said, "The price is be willing to give up everything. I might not ask it, but I might. The price is be willing."
"At these words his face fell, he went away grieved. He was one who owned much property." I'd rather have my money. I'd rather have my property than Jesus. Then you're not worthy to be His disciple. If you're not willing to be separated in your family, if you're not willing to be separated from the world, if you're not willing to be separated from the material things that you possess, then Jesus isn't that valuable to you. It's an all or nothing proposition.
Now follow along into Luke chapter 9 again, and go to the end of the chapter, verse 57. This is so critical for us to understand and so practical, as I'll point out. They were going along the road, Jesus with some of the people who followed Him, some of the disciples, who would-be disciples. And somebody said to Him, "I will follow You wherever You go." Really? "Jesus said to him, - " We're not going to the Ritz Carlton, I hope that doesn't affect you negatively. " - The foxes have holes, the birds of the air have nests, the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head." If you follow Me, you will lose everything. That's the price. Just know that. Jesus didn't say, "Oh great, follow Me. You will be happy. You will be healthy, wealthy, prosperous, successful." He said, "Just know this. I don't have any place to lay My head. It's going to cost you everything."
"He said to another, 'Follow Me.' He said, 'Oh, I need to go bury my father.' " And the implication is his father wasn't even dead. What does he mean "go bury his father," go to the funeral? No, hang around till he gets the inheritance. He just heard Jesus say he wasn't going to have anything if he followed Jesus. Jesus had nothing to give him, so he wanted to hang around home until he could pack a fortune in his bag and then come after Jesus. He too disappeared.
But Jesus sets the standard as total self-denial. If you turn to the 14th chapter of Luke, just introducing these times and places where Jesus discussed this, you find that the message is always the same. There's a great multitude in 14:25 and they're coming along with Jesus, and He turns and He speaks to them. "If anyone comes to Me - " You all want to follow Me, you want to be My followers. "If you come to Me and you don't hate your own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and even your own life, you can't be My disciple." It's not about you. It's not about your self esteem. It's about your sin, and your desperation, and you seeing Christ as so priceless, and so valuable as your Savior from sin and death and hell, that you would willingly give up everything. If it cost you your family, if it cost you your marriage and - in verse 27 - you carry your own cross. And if you don't carry your own cross - that is, be willing to die and give your life and come after Me - then you can't be My disciple. It can't be any clearer than that.
In the 17th chapter of Luke, Jesus speaking again on another occasion, says this, verse 33, "Whoever seeks to keep his life shall lose it, whoever loses his life shall preserve it." It's the same principle. You try to hold onto you, your plans, your agenda, your success, your self esteem, you lose. You lose.
In the 12th chapter of John's gospel, so you know that John didn't leave this core teaching from Jesus out, John 12:24. "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains by itself alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit." "If you're going to be fruitful in following Me," Jesus says, "It's going to cost you your life. You're going to have to die." "He who loves his life - " verse 25, " - loses it, he who hates his life in this world shall keep it till life eternal. If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me." And the path that He was going was a path to persecution and death.
So you want to come after Jesus, do you? So you want to follow Jesus, do you? It will just cost you absolutely everything. Oh, the Lord might not take your life. He might not take all your money. He might not take your family or your spouse. He might not take your job, but you need to be willing if that's what He wants. You need to be desperate enough to embrace Christ no matter what the price.
Now let's go back to Matthew 16 for a moment, because we can't understand the full picture of the Luke passage without comparing Matthew 16 because they're parallel, but Matthew has included more information. Now the scene is, it's exam time with the disciples, as you remember from our last message. It's exam time. There's only one question on the exam. The one question on the exam is Matthew 16:15. "He said to them, 'Who do you say that I am?' " After a couple years of training, and disclosure, and revelation, and miracles, and signs, and wonders that Jesus had done, all of His teaching, it was time to give them the final exam in the school of discipleship. And so there's only one question on the exam, "Who do you say that I am?" They get it right. "Simon Peter answers - " on behalf of all of them, " ' - Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.' " And Jesus responds, "That's right. Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonas Barjona, because flesh and blood didn't reveal this to you, but My Father who is in heaven." You have accepted the revelation of God. You have seen what God has been revealing through Me. You understand that's the right answer. This is the high point of all discipleship training. They have come to the right conclusion about Jesus Christ. That's absolutely necessary for salvation. He is God's Christ, God's Messiah, God's Son, God's Savior, all that the Old Testament promised, and all that Jesus claimed is in fact, true. This is the great confession, the supreme confession.
You remember that the gospels were written that you might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God, and that believing you might have life in His name. Well, they believed and they have life in His name, and this is their great moment of confession. They got it right.
In response to that affirmation comes, "You got the message from God. You saw what God was saying through Me, and you got it right. That's wonderful. And I have something else to say to you, Peter." Verse 18, "You are Peter, and upon this rock I'll build My church." There's a little bit of a contrast here. "You are Peter - " you're a small rock, " - but upon this rock bed - " different word - "I'll build My church." A little contrast. What is the rock bed? The confession of who He is, the reality of who He is.
"I'm going to build My church," He says, "and the gates of Hades will not overpower it." This is wonderful. You've come to the right answer and I'm telling you this. I'm going to build the church and the gates of Hades - what's that? Hades is where dead people are, the gate is how you get dead, and that's by dying. So the "gates of Hades" is simply death. Satan has the power of death. Hebrews 2 says he wields the power of death in the world. That's his greatest power. But even Satan's power of death is not going to stop the Lord from building His church.
This is a triumphant note. You've got the right answer to the question. You passed the exam, A+. And I'm telling you guys it's on that great and glorious reality that I will build My church, and Satan's great power of death will not prevail against it. Furthermore, I'm not only going to build My church, but I'll give you the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven. You're going to be able to open the door to the Kingdom and let people in.
How? Because they're going to proclaim the gospel. How do you get into the Kingdom of Heaven? What's the key that unlocks the door? It's the gospel, isn't it? So you're going to be My gospel preachers, and whatever you shall bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven, whatever you shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. Binding and loosing was an old rabbinical concept. The rabbi would say to a person who didn't repent, "You're bound in sin." He would say to a person who did repent, "You're loosed from sin because God forgives those who repent." And so Jesus says to the apostles, "You're going to do the same. You're going to unlock the Kingdom with the gospel and you're going to tell sinners who repent they're loosed from their sin, and sinners who don't repent, they're bound in their sin. You're going to be My representatives. You're going to be My authoritative agents in the world, and you're going to bring people into the Kingdom."
You can just feel the welling enthusiasm. This is it, guys. This is what we've been bouncing around for the last couple of years hoping would happen. He's the Messiah. He's going to build the church. Nothing's going to stop it. We are going to have the authority to open and close the Kingdom, not the established religion of Judaism, not the scribes and the chief priests and the elders. It's going to be us. We're going to build the premier ones, the preeminent ones in the Kingdom. This is what we've been waiting for. And then in a shocking, shocking statement, verse 20, "He warned the disciples that they should tell no one that He was the Christ."
That doesn't make sense because they're just swept up in the thrill of the moment, of the authority, of the invincibility of the church, at the identity of Jesus, and now He says, "Don't tell anybody." It's not the time. And verse 21, "From that time Jesus Christ began to show His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem, suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised up on the third day."
What a downer. Jesus says, "Don't tell anybody because the plan is not for Me to take over My Kingdom now. The plan is not for Me to enter into My glory now. The plan is for Me to be killed by the Jewish establishment." I mean, this is just absolutely shattering. After they have been literally exalted by the realities that He is the Messiah, that He will build the church, that even the power of death won't prevail against it, that they're delegated this authority, they could taste the Kingdom. They could feel the glory coming. You could say they could feel the heat of the Shekinah. Health and wealth and prosperity was right around the corner. And surely Jesus would destroy the apostate leaders of Judaism, and they would be the new leaders of Israel, and surely He would destroy the Roman oppressors, and occupiers, and pagans, and surely He would heal all diseases, and He would provide food as He did when He fed the multitudes. This was the great glorious moment they had all been waiting for, for so long. And then Jesus says, "Don't say anything. I have to die first."
Verse 22. "Peter took Him aside." Peter says, "Lord, we need to have a private talk. Come over here." "And he began to rebuke Him." Talk about a type A personality. Man, he rebukes the Son of God, the self-confessed Son of God. The Son of the living God just came out of his mouth and he says, "Come over here. I need to straighten You out."
And he says, "God, forbid it, Lord. This shall never happen to You." That's not going to happen. You're not going to die. That isn't the plan. "And Jesus turned and said to Peter, 'Get behind Me, Satan.' " I don't think he even liked being called Simon, let alone Satan. Then He says this, "You are a stumbling block to Me." And here's why. "You are not setting your mind on God's interest but man's." You have a man-centered idea.
You know, that could almost be the motto for contemporary evangelicalism. You are not setting your mind on God's interest but man's. It's all about you, isn't it? And it's all about what you want, and it's all about the power and the glory, and it's all about the crown, and it's all about the reward and the authority. You don't get it. The way up is down. You're not going to get a crown without a cross.
And then in verse 24, Jesus introduces the principle, "said to His disciples - " the apostles and the rest of the crowd, as Mark 8:34 indicates the crowd was listening, too. "If anyone wishes to come after Me, let him deny himself and take up his cross." Luke adds, "Daily and follow Me." And with that, we transition back to Luke 9. Let's transition back to Luke 9 and pick it up there. Matthew filled in so much for us that was helpful.
This is a shocking experience for the apostles, having come to this glorious confession, and now being told not to say anything, and then being told Jesus is going to die. And not only is Jesus going to die, but He's saying to them all - back to Luke 9:23, "If anyone wishes to come after Me, let him deny himself, take up his cross daily and follow Me." And with that statement, Jesus opens up the paradox of discipleship. The paradox of discipleship. We're going to be looking at that not only, of course, this morning, but next Sunday, as well.
Now this section, I'll just kind of break it down into four categories: The principle, the paradox, the Parousia and the preview; which we'll look at as we go. But for this morning and just a few moments left, I want you to look at the principle in verse 23. The principle.
It isn't hard to figure the principle out. It's simply this. If you want to follow Christ, you want to be a Christian, do you? Here's the message. Deny yourself, take up your cross and follow Him.
Do you hear that in the contemporary gospel? Do you ever hear that? Do you ever hear that in a message given by a television preacher or an evangelist? Do you ever hear anybody say that? Do you ever hear anybody stand up in a crowd and say, "If you want to become a Christian, slay yourself, deny yourself all the things that yourself longs for and wants and hopes for, be willing to die and slavishly submit in obedience to Jesus Christ"? That doesn't sell. That's not smart marketing. It just happens to be the truth.
So what do you want to do? Get someone artificially converted? That's the popular way. Give people the illusion they're saved when they're not so that some day when they face Christ they're going to say, "Lord, Lord," and He's going to say, "Depart from Me, I never knew you." The gospel has to be the gospel. You want to follow Me then? The principle is, it's the end of you if you want to follow Me. It's the end of you. You don't exist anymore. Paul said it this way. "For to me to live is - " what? " - Christ and to die is - " I've learned how to be abased and how to abound. I've learned how to have things and not have things. It doesn't matter. If I live I live to the Lord. If I die I die unto the Lord. What's the difference? I'm the Lord's." That's the attitude.
Men want glory. They want health. They want wealth. They want happiness. They want all their felt needs met, all their human little itches scratched. They want a painless life. They want the crown without the cross. They want the gain without the pain. That's how people think. That's not God's interest. The author of our salvation, according to Hebrews 2:10, was made perfect through suffering, and so are we as well taken through the crucible of suffering. And where we suffer, first of all, is in the death of all hopes, all ambitions, all desires, all longings, all needs that are human. That's the point.
So you want to be a Christian, it's not easy. You'd think it was easy. Today, if you want to be a Christian, pray these little words. Pray this little prayer, and you'll be a Christian. It's not easy to be a Christian. Let me show you some things.
Matthew 7:13. This is, again, the teaching of our Lord. Matthew 7:13, Sermon on the Mount, familiar words, verse 13, "Enter by the narrow gate." First of all, become a Christian, you're going through a narrow gate. The idea of narrow here means "constricted." I mean, it's one of those things that you have to kind of go through. It's very, very tight. You can't carry anything through it. You come through with nothing. "There is a wide gate, but it leads to destruction."
There's a wide religious gate, and people are going on with all their baggage, and all their self needs, and all their self esteem, and all their desire for fulfillment and self satisfaction, and all of that. They're going on there, but it doesn't go to heaven, it says "heaven" but ends up in hell. And many go that way.
But there is also, verse 14, this very small, narrow gate and it leads to eternal life, but notice this, "Few are those who find it." And the idea is it's hard to find. And I agree that it's hard to find. It's especially hard to find today. You can go to church, after church, after church, after church, after church and never find it. It's a very narrow gate.
If you turn to the 13th chapter of Luke you'll see some more elements of this same teaching. Luke 13:23. This is very, very important. Someone said to Jesus as He was passing from one city and village to another on His way down to Jerusalem, "someone said to Him, 'Lord, are there just a few who are being saved?'" That was the implication of Jesus' teaching, that this is a narrow gate, that this is hard to find. And so the question comes, "It seems like You're saying there are just a few who are being saved." And He said to them, 'Agonize, agnizomai, strive to enter by the narrow door; for many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able."
It's hard to find and it's hard to get through. Why? Why is it so hard to find and why is it so hard to get through Answer, because it's so hard to deny yourself. So hard. That's the reigning reality in human fallenness, that man is the master of his own soul, the captain of his own faith, that man is the monarch of his own world, that man is king and to say he has to slay himself, deny himself, that's too much to swallow. You preach a gospel that doesn't include that and people will flock around to get out of hell into heaven. You start preaching the true gospel that calls for total and absolute self-denial, the recognition that you have nothing of which you are worthy, nothing of which you can be commended, nothing in you that needs to be salvaged. But rather you're willing to slay everything you are, all your hopes, dreams, ambitions for the sake of the pearl, for the sake of Christ and you're coming on God's terms. That's not easy. It's hard, first of all, to find that truth and it's even harder once you've heard it to submit to it because man worships himself. He's his own god.
What we need to be telling people is not "come to Christ and you'll feel better about yourself," is not "Jesus wants to meet whatever your needs are." Jesus doesn't want to meet your needs, your worldly, earthly, human needs. He wants you to be willing to say, "I will abandon all the things I think I need for the sake of Christ."
So, a little further along in the 14th chapter of Luke's gospel, go down to verse 28. "Which of you - " Jesus says " - who wants to build a tower doesn't first sit down and calculate the cost to see if he has enough to complete it? Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all those who observe it begin to ridicule him saying, 'This man began to build and was not able to finish.' "
Now if you're going to come to Christ, you're going to have to count the cost. You're going to have to count the cost before you make a pretense that you're going to come to Christ, a pretense that you're going to follow Jesus. Have you counted the cost? Do you understand there's a price to pay? We know what the price is. The price has just been given in verses 26 and 27, which I read earlier, hating your father and mother if necessary, hating your own life, carrying your cross, coming after Me. That's the price, that there's nothing in the world, the human realm, that you hold dear enough to forfeit Christ. "What king - " verse 31 " - if he's going to go out and fight a battle with another king doesn't sit down and take counsel whether he's strong enough with ten thousand men to counter the one coming against him with twenty thousand? Or else, while the other is far away, he sends a delegation and asks terms of peace." You either make peace with the enemy if you can't conquer him, or you make sure you've got the troops that it's going to take to win the battle. In other words, Jesus is saying, "Don't come to Me unless you've assessed the price." And the price is self denial, self crucifixion and self submission.
In verse 33 He gives the point. Don't think it's anything less than this. "No one of you can be My disciple who doesn't give up all his own possessions." Jesus said, "You have to be willing to give up everything. You're not going to get saved by dumping all your earthly goods, but you have to be willing to give up everything. That's how devoted you are to the cause of Christ. You will deny yourself all of your worldly longings. You will deny your own right to live and give your life, if need be, for the cause of Jesus Christ, and you will submit to His will, following Him whatever He asks, whether He says you must lose these things, or you can keep them, that's up to Him."
And then Jesus told those two parables in Matthew 13:44-46. He said there was a man who found a treasure hidden in a field and he saw the value of the treasure and he sold everything for the treasure. Then he said there was a pearl of great price, that the man found the pearl of great price, he sold everything to get the pearl. It's the selling everything that is the essence of salvation. It's I give up everything, I deny myself, I offer my life both in terms of death, if need be, and in terms of obedience in life. This is the message of the gospel. So when you go to preach the gospel, that's what you have to say.
Now, you say, "But people aren't going to buy that." Well wait a minute, people aren't going to buy that, of course not, unless the Spirit of God is working in their hearts, right? Unless the Spirit of God is doing the work of conviction, and the Spirit of God is awakening the dead heart, and the Spirit of God is generating faith, and then that's the only true message that connected with the work of the Spirit will produce true salvation. Don't reinvent the gospel to suit you. That's what's being done today.
If anyone, anybody wishes to come after Me, open invitation, any of you wish to come, anybody here want to come? Well, you have to believe in Jesus. You have to confess Him as the Christ, the Son of the Living God, and Lord and Savior. Then you have to be willing to have a rift in your family, a rift in your marriage, a rift with the world that could cost you your life, and a rift with your own personal ambitions, and submit your whole life to following Him and doing whatever He asks. It's not the one who says, "Lord, Lord," Jesus said, "It's the one who does the will of My Father. And this is the will of My Father, that you submit to the Son."
This is the gospel. It's a gospel of self denial. It's a gospel of self sacrifice and self submission. Deny yourself, take up your cross every day, put your life on the line for the cause of Christ, and follow in the sense that you do whatever He asks.
If you give anything less than that as the terms of the gospel, then somebody could be deceived, right? You say, "But what if they don't respond?" That's not the issue. That's within the power of God to determine. What you're responsible for is the purity of the gospel.
Well, next time we're going to go into these elements of the principle in verse 23: Self denial, taking up the cross, and following Him. I wish I could give this all in one message, but I can't, and I can't shortcut the material because it's too critical and it's too germane to the essence of the gospel. But I think you can tell by now how critical important this is, how replete it is in the teaching of Jesus, and as we get into these elements next time and move from the principle to the paradox, you're going to see clearly what is your responsibility in terms of following Jesus and in terms of proclaiming that message to others. Let's bow in prayer.
Our Lord, we are again reminded that this is not a human work, nor could we accomplish it in our own strength. But it is Your mighty work to break us of ourselves, it is Your work to make us have a broken and a contrite heart, to make us able to give up everything, to let go of everything, to lose all self desire, self will, to set aside all of our dreams and ambitions, goals, plans, hopes, assumed needs. And in desperation, contemplating our sinfulness, embrace the salvation that Jesus gives and the wonderful spiritual riches that come with it in time and eternity as the pearl of great price for which we would gladly sell everything.
Would we be faithful, O God, by Your strength, and by Your truth, and by Your Holy Spirit to proclaim this message to sinners that's not minimalistic, that's not superficial or shallow, but that calls for what true discipleship really calls for, and that is the death of myself that I might live in Christ. May this glorious gospel become part of us, both in our believing and in our witnessing. We pray in the Savior's name. Amen.
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action attribute of the
<form> tag?
The only reason constructor of HTML_QuickForm_Page does not provide a means to set the
action attribute is to make it harder to shoot oneself in the foot. That being said, the attribute can still be changed by setAttribute() or updateAttributes() method of HTML_QuickForm_Page (these are inherited from HTML_Common, and you should really consider learning its API).
To avoid confusion lets use the terms "action" for the string containing the name of the action and "action handler" for the subclass of HTML_QuickForm_Action.
While you can invent your own action names and create custom handlers for them, you'll most certainly have to deal with the default actions and their handlers first.
This action has a default handler, HTML_QuickForm_Action_Display, which displays the form using the Default renderer. You should subclass this handler if you want to customize the form output. This action is called automatically when the page needs to be displayed and should not be bound to buttons via getButtonName().
This action should be bound to a "global" submit button for a form. It can be the "submit" button of a single-page or tabbed multi-page form, "finish" button of a wizard. This action has a default handler, HTML_QuickForm_Action_Submit, which checks whether all the pages of the form are valid, then either calls the
'process' handler or displays the invalid page.
This action should be bound to the "Next" button of (usually) a modal multipage form (AKA wizard). This action has a default handler, HTML_QuickForm_Action_Next, which checks the validity of the current page and redirects to the next one if the current is valid (or if the form is not modal). On the last page of a modal multipage form this behaves like the default
'submit' handler.
This action should be bound to the "Back" button of (usually) a modal multipage form (AKA wizard). This action has a default handler, HTML_QuickForm_Action_Back, which redirects to the previous page if one exists. As of QFC 0.9.3, no form validation takes place on
'back' action.
This action has a default handler, HTML_QuickForm_Action_Jump, which just makes HTTP redirect to the given page of the form. This action should not be bound to buttons via getButtonName().
This is the action called by default
'submit' and
'next' (on the last page of the wizard only) handlers after successful (i.e. without validation errors) form submit. This action doesn't have a default handler, you should define the custom one yourself and implement all the necessary logic to process the form's values in it.
There is also a default handler, HTML_QuickForm_Action_Direct, that does not have a default action name. It is used to go to the specific page of the form and should be explicitly added via Page::addAction() or Controller::addAction() with the name of the target page as
$actionName and bound to buttons via getButtonName() using the same name.
You should use Page's handle() method:
Controller's handle() method will be called automatically if needed.
Create a subclass of HTML_QuickForm_Action, add the necessary logic to its perform() method. Add it to the Page or to the Controller via addAction() with the appropriate name.
If you intend to bind this action to some button via getButtonName(), you should care about storing values in the container():
Build the form.
Get a reference to container.
Fill the container's
['values'][$pageName] and
['valid'][$pageName] elements.
As usual, see the default action handlers' source for the examples.
Controller is able to properly handle actions bound to
<input type="image" /> controls, too. You don't have to do anything special, just set the control's name via getButtonName().
If you want to bind an action to something like a hyperlink, you must consider the following: the form must be submitted to be able to get its values, thus you need to write some javascript that will submit the form and somehow pass the action name to the controller.
Controller keeps the form data and validation status in session in so-called container, accessible via container() method. To reset the form you need to clear this container, which is achieved by passing TRUE to container().
The answer is quite simple: you need to use the container() method of HTML_QuickForm_Controller, like this:
// Note the reference
$data =& $page->controller->container();
$data['_my_stuff'] = $stuff;
On the target page you do
$data =& $page->controller->container();
$stuff = $data['_my_stuff'];
Please use some prefix for your fields or start their names with underscore to prevent possible name conflicts with the future versions of QFC.
Please note that Controller knows nothing about your additional data, so do not expect it to return it via exportValues() method or the like. You'll have to use the container() method and extract the data yourself. However, your data will be deleted when the container is reset.
First of all, please understand that HTML_QuickForm_Page is a subclass of HTML_QuickForm, thus everything that applies to the parent class will apply to the child. You are encouraged to read the section about renderers in HTML_QuickForm and the docs to the renderer you are trying to use. The usage examples are available in
docs/renderers/ directory of QuickForm distribution.
As was already pointed out, you should subclass the HTML_QuickForm_Action_Display class if you want to customize the form output and add an instance of this subclass as a handler for Page's
'display' action. Its _renderForm() will contain all renderer-specific code.
The only new problem Controller introduces is the buttons bound to specific actions via getButtonName(). If you are using some kind of Dynamic renderer this will not be a problem, as you need not care about the elements names, but you need these names to output the form via Static renderer.
We'll assume using ITStatic renderer but the same can be applied to other Static renderers as well. You basically have 3 options:
Manually add the buttons/placeholders with the names that should be autogenerated via getButtonName() to the form. This is not recommended, as the names should not be of interest to anyone except Controller itself and should not be used directly.
Put the auto-named buttons into group. You can name the group any way you like, just be sure to set
$appendName to false. When ITStatic sees
{form_element_html} placeholder, it'll assign group's HTML to it.
Call getButtonName() from within template. Add the following to the template
and the following to the _renderForm() method of your custom HTML_QuickForm_Action_Display subclass
$tpl->setCallbackFunction('buttonName', array(&$page, 'getButtonName'));
This code will work with HTML_Template_Sigma, HTML_Template_ITX (note the X) will require some more tweaking.
Thanks to Donald Lobo for this contribution.
Lets assume we have a three-page wizard:
You need to create several action handlers based on QFC's default HTML_QuickForm_Action_Next and HTML_QuickForm_Action_Back. You can do this either at the Page level or at the Controller level. The Page level subclassing is simple, but if you have a complex StateMachine you will end up having multiple subclasses.
For the above example, the
'next' action on page 1 sends the 'user' to either page 2 or page 3 based on input. The handler also sets the
'valid' flag of the page that will not be visited.
'back' action on pages 2A and 2B sends the user back to page 1, while the
'next' action sends him to page 3.
Finally, the
'back' action handler on page 3 should examine the input on page 1 and send the user to either 2A or 2B.
The working example is available in
statemachine.php file.
'Back' button?
Client-side validation is called by form's
onSubmit handler, if you remove
the handler, the validation will not run. Therefore you need to remove it if user clicks on
'Back' button. This can be achieved f.e. by adding the following as
the button's
onClick handler:
this.form.onsubmit = null; return true;


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The suspected drug overdose death of a 15-year old girl who attended a massive rave in Los Angeles last weekend has drawn attention to the drug her family was told was found in her body: Ecstasy.
Officials said use of the hallucinogen and stimulant was widespread among the scores of partygoers taken by ambulance to emergency rooms from the Electric Daisy Carnival, which was held at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and surrounding Exposition Park, attracting 185,000 people over two days.
The drug's prevalence is no surprise to national and local officials, who report increases in both its supply and demand in Los Angeles County. In 2005, 4.5 of every 10,000 people entering treatment for substance abuse in Los Angeles County said Ecstasy was their primary drug of choice. By 2009, it was 33.6 — more than seven times as many.
Ecstasy is also showing up more often among drugs seized in Los Angeles County and sent to government labs for analysis, more than doubling from about 5 samples per 100,000 people in 2005 to 13 per 100,000 people last year.
The connection between drug use and raves — massive dance parties that feature electronic music and sometimes last 12 hours — is well-documented. Some who attend consider the use of Ecstasy integral to the experience.
At the 2009 Love Festival, a late-summer rave that takes place annually at the Los Angeles Sports Arena, the song "Let's Take Drugs" played for the crowd, electronically splicing the voice of former President George W. Bush calling out "I wanna take drugs," with President Obama's voice responding "Yes, we can."
"I have worked overnight for several such events and have been truly astounded by what I have seen. There is something about seeing a comatose, scantily clad, critically ill teenager who will go on to be brain-dead, which has upset me more than I thought possible," said Dr. Elizabeth Mitchell, an emergency room physician at California Hospital Medical Center, which is about two miles from the Coliseum and Los Angeles Sports Arena, both publicly owned venues popular with rave operators.
The president of the joint state, county and city commission that oversees the Coliseum and Sports Arena last week announced a temporary ban on new contracts with rave producers until commissioners can meet on July 16..
Dr. Caitlin Reed, who works with the epidemic intelligence service with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and was at the command post during the Electric Daisy Carnival, said that she walked with paramedics headed to the field about 20 or 30 times and that the drug use was obvious.
"There are many people with pupils the size of dinner plates, suggesting that they are using MDMA," another name for the drug Ecstasy, Reed said last week.
Ecstasy is an illegal synthetic drug that law enforcement officials say is most often manufactured in foreign countries and smuggled into the United States. Although many users believe the drug is a safe alternative to more dangerous illicit drugs, Ecstasy can be deadly and cause lasting side effects, medical experts said.
Extreme thirst can be caused by Ecstasy use, said Dr. Marc Futernick, medical director of emergency services at California Hospital Medical Center. In response, a person may drink enough water to lower sodium levels so severely as to hamper the ability of neurons — nerve fibers in the brain and throughout the body — to transmit impulses that keep the body breathing and the brain thinking. As a result, a person may fall into a coma or have seizures.
"It's as if you turned the electricity off," Futernick said.
Since 2003, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has tracked an increase in methamphetamine being added to Ecstasy; and more recently, other types of chemicals, such as ketamine, primarily used as a horse tranquilizer, said DEA spokeswoman Sarah Pullen.
Similar to adrenaline, amphetamines can increase a user's heart rate so much that the heart fails. It can also cause body temperature to rise to 109 degrees — precipitating what Futernick compared to organs melting.
Maureen David, whose 17-year-old daughter went to the Electric Daisy Carnival on June 26, said that someone there offered her daughter Ecstasy and that, within 20 minutes of taking it, the teenager's heart was beating rapidly.
She told her mother that she told a security guard how she was feeling, and he replied, "Yeah, that's what happens."
When she insisted something was wrong, the guard took her to paramedics and she was taken to a Kaiser Foundation Hospital emergency room. After a few hours, hospital officials discharged her. David said since the experience, her daughter has had panic attacks when asked about what happened.
Three years earlier, Hilary and Marcus Gaede attended the Monster Massive rave at the Sports Arena just before Halloween. They watched as a young woman collapsed on the sidewalk and began to have a massive seizure, screaming.
"Help was summoned and a security guard came a number of minutes later," Hilary Gaede said. "As time elapsed and her lips turned blue, we sat there with her boyfriend asking: 'Where are the EMTs?'"
It took at least 45 minutes before paramedics reached her, and 40 minutes more to get the woman to the ambulance, in part because of the large crowds, Marcus Gaede said.
Five days later, the woman was dead. According to Los Angeles County coroner's records, the woman, identified as Michelle Yuenshan Lee, 20, of Irvine died of multiple drug toxicity, including Ecstasy and amphetamine overdose. The report notes that she died after attending a rave near the Coliseum on Oct. 28, 2007.
Dr. Karen Miotto, a clinical psychiatry professor at UCLA and medical director of the UCLA Alcoholism Addiction Medical Service, said other events, such as the annual Burning Man held in the Nevada desert, have developed an organic, communal safety culture, where hundreds of people volunteer to provide medical services.
But at massive raves, Miotto said, the same community of volunteers promoting safety cannot be found.
"Everyone is doing it," Miotto said. "It's very available and acceptable in that context, because there's no grownups. This scale of young, vulnerable people is just a setup for drug dealers peddling marginal, bad, unsafe drugs."


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How to Add External SRT Subtitles to Video
SubRip caption files are named with the extension .SRT. SRT is perhaps the most basic of all subtitle formats. This format is supported by most software video players and subtitle creation programs. The time format used is hours:minutes:seconds:milliseconds, with the milliseconds field precise to three decimal places.
SRT file does not contain any video data, it is a simple text file you can edit by any text editor (translate subtitles into another language). The purpose of srt subtitle file is to use it with desired movie file together to display subtitles when you play video file by any player supporting srt subtitles.
If your video doesn't include any subtitles, you can add a .srt file to this video folder, then you will be able to get a video with subtitles by converting this video using Any Video Converter Professional/Ultimate. Here, we will show you an example on how to add an external .srt file to an .mp4 video:
Please download the program as you like before adding .srt files to your videos.
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Step 1: Edit a .srt file
You can either download a .srt file from website and then modify it, or create .srt format subtitles totally on your own.
To make .srt format subtitles,
you can follow below steps:
1. Open Notepad, WordPad or other text editor.
2. Edit subtitles shown as below:
Notes: SRT consists of four parts, all in text.
a. A number indicating which subtitle it is in the sequence.
b. The time that the subtitle should appear on the screen, and then disappear.
c. The subtitle itself.
d. A blank line indicating the start of a new subtitle.
Step 2 : Save subtitles to .srt format.
In Notepad, please click menu File->Save As, change file name to "xxx.srt", set "Save as type" to "All Files", and then set "Encoding" to "ANSI" or "UTF-8".
1. Save .srt file as "ANSI" if using English subtitles.
2. Save .srt file as "UTF-8" if using non-English subtitles.
Step 3 : Copy .srt file to MP4 video folder, rename .srt file according to the video name.
Note: If you add more than one .srt files to the MP4 folder, you can rename the .srt file name like this: if source MP4 file name is "michael.mp4", the .srt file names can be "michael001", "michael002", etc.
Step 4 : Drag and drop this MP4 file to Any Video Converter Professional/Ultimate.
Step 5 : Select .srt subtitle in Any Video Converter Professional/Ultimate.
See as below picture. In the right, select in the drop-down list "Add Subtitle" to add the subtitle you want.
Step 6 : Change subtitle position, size and font.
Encoding: Please set "UTF-8 (UTF-8)" as the default format for subtitle encoding.
Position: Adjust the slide bar to change the position of the subtitles on screen.
Size: Increase/Decrease scales of subtitles according to movie height, width, and diagonal.
Font: Please follow this directory C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\, choose your desired font, right click on the font name to choose
Properties and copy and paste the font name, such as "AdobeFanHeitiStd-Bold.otf" to subtitle font option.
After you finish editing the subtitle options, please click OK to go back to the main interface.
Step 7 : Preview the video before encoding.
Step 8 : Start converting
Start converting MP4 file to your desired output format if you feel satisfied with the subtitles.
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Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax (16 April 1881 – 23 December 1959), known as The Lord Irwin from 1925 until 1934 and as The Viscount Halifax from 1934 until 1944, was a British Conservative politician. He is often regarded as one of the architects of appeasement prior to World War II. During the period he held several ministerial posts in the cabinet, most notably as Foreign Secretary at the time of Munich in 1938. He succeeded Lord Reading as Viceroy of India in April 1926, a post he held until 1931.
- Instead of deluding public opinion with a notion that a sufficient application of force will provide a remedy, a wiser course would be to set about taking such steps as may be the means of recovering that consent without which society in Ireland cannot exist...[an offer should be made to the Irish] conceived on the most generous lines.
- Speech in Parliament on the Irish insurgency after the Great War. Quoted in Lord Birkenhead, Halifax (Hamish Hamilton, 1965), pp. 121-2.
- In the name of Indian national life, in the name of religion, I appeal to all in each of the two countries who hold position...let them begin each in their own community to work untiringly towards this end: boldly to repudiate feelings of hatred and intolerance, actively to condemn and suppress acts of violence and aggression, earnestly to strive to exorcise suspicions...I appeal in the name of national life because communal tension is eating into it as a canker...I appeal in the name of religion because I can appeal to nothing nobler, and because religion is the language of the soul, and it is a change of soul that India needs today.
- Speech as Viceroy of India, 1926. Quoted in Birkenhead, pp. 223-4.
- Though I am, as you know, a pacifist by nature, I am not disposed to go to all lengths to meet people who seem to be behaving with utter unreason.
- Letter to William Wedgwood Benn, quoted in Birkenhead, p. 275.
- [It is] a question of personal appeal and conviction, rather than any argument. The cards I fancy are sympathy, understanding of his hopes, suspicions and disappointments, but above all, striving to convey to him, through what one says, a real echo of the sincerity that pervaded your doings in London.
- Letter of 16 February, 1931. Quoted in Birkenhead, p. 296.
- [The Hore-Laval proposals] were not so frightfully different from those put forward by the Committee of Five. But the latter were of respectable parentage: and the Paris ones were too much like the off-the-stage arrangements of nineteenth-century diplomacy.
- In 1935. Quoted in Keith Feiling, A Life of Neville Chamberlain (Macmillan, 1970), p. 275.
- Nothing was more likely to aggravate the difficulties of the present situation than any suggestions that our ultimate objective was to unite France, Italy and ourselves against Germany.
- To the Cabinet (15 March, 1938).
- To history, until yesterday, Halifax was the arch-appeaser. This, it is now recognised, was a mistake. His rôle, however, was complicated. In these pages he is not the man who stopped the rot, but the embodiment of Conservative wisdom who decided that Hitler must be obstructed because Labour could not otherwise be resisted.
- Maurice Cowling, The Impact of Hitler. British Politics and British Policy, 1933-1940 (University of Chicago, 1977), p. 9.


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Q: Nicotine and breast milk: a bad combo? I quit smoking while I was pregnant, but now that I've had my baby, I'm back to four or five cigarettes a day. Should I quit breastfeeding?
A: No! It's true that if you smoke, nicotine and other garbage will end up in your milk and may cause harm to your baby, such as nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramps and diarrhea. (Secondhand smoke isn't good for your child, either, so if you're going to smoke, make sure you do it when you're not around her.) Also, do not smoke two hours prior to breastfeeding, if possible. But the benefits of breastfeeding--higher IQ and reduced risk of ear infections, diarrhea and some childhood cancers, to name just a few--far outweigh the negative aspects of smoking while nursing. Quit as soon as you can using a support group, smoking-cessation products such as gum or patches--whatever it takes--but do not stop breastfeeding.


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Jen Niquidet speaks at the Cycling Advocates Network's CAN DO event.
Cycling Advocates Network's CAN Do event was held on the 13-14 of April in Auckland. The event was a great chance for cycling enthusiasts to network, discover today's most effective tools for change, listen to panel discussion and be involved in workshops designed to inspire and inform.
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What I like about this montage of clips from Supervolcano - a BBC show about the Yellowstone megavolcano exploding - is that there is no messing around. We get all the crucial pillars of fire and no distracting plot.
Behold the ultimate distillation of disaster cinema. Yes, there really is a megavolcano under the Yellowstone Caldera.
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Looking at the new Sorceress, I think it is pretty save to say that our italian friend is somehow involved in the process. Just take a look at his MOTUC-Visions and compare them to the announced and already released figures, there is way to much likeness to what we have been given in the end.
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Did not see them. But did add quite a good amount to my used condom collection.Thanks, 40016 and counting.SlimMagnum
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Spending just a couple of hours with the players was a treat that will be treasured for a long time by our patients.
Loma Linda, CA (PRWEB) August 06, 2014
Members of the UCLA Bruins football team visited patients at Loma Linda University Children's Hospital on Thursday, July 31. Four freshman players played video games, puzzles and chatted up with kids on the hematology/oncology unit at the hospital.
"The kids were eager and excited to have the Bruins visit," said Dorothy Brooks from LLUCH's child life services. "Spending just a couple of hours with the players was a treat that will be treasured for a long time by our patients. It was so good to hear the laughter in the playroom during this visit."
Players who came out were Jordan Lasley, wide receiver; Aaron Sharp, quarterback; Dwight Williams, linebacker; and Kenny Young, linebacker. They were in preparation to begin open training camp, which started on Monday, Aug. 4 at California State University, San Bernardino. This is the third year CSUSB has hosted Bruins football for training, with support from Stater Bros. Markets.
"Stater Bros. truly believes in giving back to the communities that we serve," stated Susan Atkinson, vice president, corporate affairs for Stater Bros. Markets. "As strong supporters of both the UCLA football training camp and Loma Linda University Children's Hospital, we are especially proud to provide an opportunity to brighten a child's day."
UCLA's 2014 football season will kick off when the Bruins take on University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Va on Saturday, August 30.


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So here's what I think it going on. Murdoch has no intention of shutting down search-engine traffic to his sites, but he's still having lurid fantasies inspired by the momentary insanity that caused Google to pay him for the exclusive right to index MySpace (thus momentarily rendering MySpace a visionary business-move instead of a ten-minutes-behind-the-curve cash-dump).
So what he's hoping is that a second-tier search engine like Bing or Ask (or, better yet, some search tool you've never heard of that just got $50MM in venture capital) will give him half a year's operating budget in exchange for a competitive advantage over Google.
He may, in fact, get a taker. And it will be a disaster. A search engine whose sole competitive advantage is "We have Rupert Murdoch's pages!" will not attract any substantial traffic. The search engine will either go bust or fail to renew the deal.
So, he might have a taker. Bing also partnered with Wolfram Alpha. Microsoft has plenty of money to blow, but I don't foresee them overtaking Google any time soon, considering Bing is starting to serve a different demographic than Google.
The only way Bing could distinguish itself would be through privacy, but that renders any search engine unprofitable and we've got Scroogle for that already.


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BROWNLEE, Iain, FAIRCLOUGH, Andrew, HALL, Anna and PAXMAN, Jenny (2012). The potential health benefits of seaweed and seaweed extract. In: POMIN, Vitor H., (ed.) Seaweed : ecology, nutrient composition and medicinal uses. Marine Biology : Earth Sciences in the 21st Century . Hauppauge, New York, Nova Science Publishers, 119-136.
BROWNLEE, Iain, FAIRCLOUGH, Andrew, HALL, Anna and PAXMAN, Jenny (2011). Dietary seaweed and human health. In: Culinary Arts and Sciences VII:Global, National and Local Perspectives. Bournemouth University UK, Bournemouth University International Centre for Tourism and Hospitality Research, 82-88.


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February 2009
Better Bioremediation at Uranium Mill Tailings Site
Scientists find process that could enable sustained bioremediation of uranium
Results: At a former uranium mine site in Colorado, researchers have found a surprising process for immobilizing uranium that could lead to simpler, less-expensive remediation methods. In laboratory tests of subsurface sediment samples, they found that under certain conditions, mobile uranium, or U(VI), will adsorb on—or accumulate on the surface of—microbial communities in the subsurface, making it immobile. If those conditions can be duplicated at a contaminated site, the uranium will stay immobile for long periods of time. This eliminates the need for long-term treatments—specifically, adding acetate to the subsurface to stimulate microbes that reduce U(VI) to an immobile form, U(IV).
Why it matters: Uranium that was released to the environment as a result of ore milling, nuclear fuel fabrication or processing activities is found in the groundwater at many contaminated U.S. Department of Energy sites. Extensive efforts are currently under way to remediate these contaminated areas with physical, chemical and biological techniques. However, the high cost or limits to long-term sustainability of current methods limit their large-scale application.
For the past decade, researchers have studied prevention of further mobility of uranium in groundwater using native microbes. In recent field studies at DOE's Integrated Field Research Challenge Site in Rifle, Colorado, scientists added acetate to the site subsurface to stimulate Geobacter, a bacteria species capable of reducing U(VI) to U(IV).
However, in a study published in the April 2008 issue of Environmental Science & Technology, researchers from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the University of Massachusetts found that U(VI) continues to be removed from the groundwater even after acetate additions to the groundwater are discontinued. Further analysis suggests that uranium removal during this phase is associated with U(VI) adsorption to the biomass of the site's natural microbial community rather than reduction of mobile U(VI) to immobile U(IV), as was previously hypothesized.
Methods: In previous field experiments, researchers identified two distinct phases following the addition of acetate to stimulate microbial bioreduction of U(VI). In phase I, Geobacter species reduce U(VI) to U(IV), thus removing uranium from the groundwater. In phase II, sulfate-reducing bacteria predominate. However, long-term monitoring revealed an unexpected third phase during which U(VI) removal continues even after acetate additions are stopped.
This scanning electron microscope image is of the Mollicute Acholeplasma palmae. Mollicutes are a class of bacteria found in subsurface sediments at a uranium-contaminated site in Rifle, Colorado. Mollicutes could play a significant role in remediation by adsorbing mobile uranium.
In the current experiment, the PNNL team successfully reproduced all three phases in the sediment columns. When sediments from the third phase were gently heat-sterilized using pasteurization to remove the microorganisms, the capacity to remove U(VI) was lost. In the sediments with live microorganisms, U(VI) removed from the groundwater was recovered as U(VI) in the sediments. This contrasts to the recovery of U(IV) in sediments that resulted from the reduction of U(VI) to U(IV) in sediments where acetate was added.
In the sediments in which U(VI) was being adsorbed, members of the bacterial phylum Firmicutes and class Mollicutes were the predominant organisms, whereas no Mollicutes were detected in sediments having no capacity to sorb U(VI). This suggests that the U(VI) adsorption may be caused by the presence of these living organisms. This unexpected enhanced adsorption of U(VI) onto sediments following the stimulation of microbial growth in the subsurface could increase the cost effectiveness of in situ uranium bioremediation.
What's next: The research team's finding that even the gentle heat treatment of pasteurization eliminated the U(VI) adsorption capacity suggests that a living microbial community, or at least intact cell components such as membranes and/or proteins, are required for extended U(VI) removal in the absence of acetate. It's possible that the Mollicutes are responsible for this U(VI) adsorption, but to investigate this it, the researchers must first isolate and characterize these organisms from the sediments.
Acknowledgments: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is advancing science to understand energy and materials transfer in the subsurface from molecular to ecosystem scales. The research team included Lucie N'Guessan, Charles Resch and Phil Long, PNNL, and Helen Vrionis and Derek Lovley, University of Massachusetts. This research was supported by DOE's Office of Biological and Environmental Research, the Environmental Remediation Science Program.
Reference: N'Guessan AL, HA Vrionis, CT Resch, PE Long, and DR Lovley. 2008. "Sustained removal of uranium from contaminated groundwater following stimulation of dissimilatory metal reduction." Environmental Science & Technology 42(8):2999-3004.


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William Johnston
posted on Thursday, March 28, 2013 - 10:58 am
I am trying to estimate a two-level latent growth model in which individuals are nested in neighborhoods but are also grouped into three age cohorts. I am interested in seeing if neighborhood contextual characteristics have a differential impact on individuals' growth factors based on the age cohort of the child.
In order to allow for easier interpretation and possible mediation analysis down the road, I would like to estimate this model with all of the cohorts and no intercept. Is there an option that I can include in my syntax that will avoid issues of multicollinearity in the observed data matrix due to the inclusion of all cohort dummy variables?
If I were doing this in Stata with xtmixed I would use the "nocons" option. Is there something similar in Mplus?
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Thursday, March 28, 2013 - 4:07 pm
You can treat the cohorts in two ways in Mplus: Using dummy variable covariates or using a multiple-group approach.
Analyzing all 3 cohorts you would simply create 2 dummy variables and use them as covariates.
In Mplus the most flexible way to do this is using a multiple-group growth analysis, where your cohorts form the groups. Then the groups can be specified to have as much or as little equality among any of their parameters as you wish, including the impact of covariates. I think this is a more powerful approach than the Stata approach you mention because you can let any parameter vary across cohorts, including variances. Note,however, that the grouping is on level 1 (subject) not level 2, which means that you have to use approaches described in the Mplus Web Note 16 at
William Johnston
posted on Monday, April 01, 2013 - 1:03 pm
Thank you for the suggestion.
Another wrinkle in this model that I forgot to note in my initial post is that I am working with imputed datasets. Will that change the estimation?
If so, would using FIML with the original data be the best alternative?
Thanks again,
-W.R. Johnston
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Monday, April 01, 2013 - 3:20 pm
Whenever you can use FIML on the original data, that approach is preferable because it allows many more options for testing.
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The Search Agency, a global online marketing firm and the largest independent U.S. search marketing agency, recently released its quarterly State of Paid Search Report, which found that Q3 saw strong growth in impressions, clicks and advertiser spend across Google, Bing and Yahoo!. In addition, mobile continues to gain market share over desktop, with one-third of Google's clicks coming from mobile and tablet devices. Impressions increased 37.1 percent while clicks grew 16.2 percent and advertiser spend increased 23.1 percent year-over-year. The quarterly report analyzed aggregated client data from various industries to identify paid search marketing trends across search engines and devices on a year-over-year (YoY—Q2 2012 to Q3 2013) and quarter-over-quarter (QoQ—Q2 2013 to Q3 2013) basis.
"In Q3, we continue to observe consumers migrating toward smartphone and tablet devices," said Keith Wilson, vice president of agency products at The Search Agency. "With Enhanced Campaigns rolled out and Google's cross-device estimated conversions announcement, marketers must adapt to these new tool sets to understand how to connect with today and tomorrow's consumer."
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Two awesome features competitors have that i would LOVE to have on MS
Two awesome features competitors have that i would LOVE to have on MS
Cadillac has had the headsup display since the early 2000's. Even have had thermal night vision cameras linked to the HUD. I think it would become distracting but would be OK if you could turn it off.
Nissan's four-camera around-view parking system. Using some image transforms, it essentially gives you a birds-eye view of the vehicle while parking. Would be useful for making sure you don't curb your pretty 21" wheels.
Ha. Misread the title. I thought it was features from competitors we'd like to have on the Model S. Ooops!
Tesla does have wiper sensors. If they are not calibrated well report it to Tesla. They have been adjusting their sensitivity. That is a feature the competitors don't have.
My friend's Corvette had HUD. It was cool. For some reason, it has never really caught on in the States. You can find it in some luxury and performance cars. I think the coolness factor wears off quickly and then you realize you didn't really need it in the first place (and eventually you can't believe you paid extra for it).
I test drove the 2013 BMW 750Li a lot before purchasing the P85. The issue with their implementation of the HUD is that you can't see the darn thing in the daytime with polarized sunglasses! So if you only want to use it at night or want to carry another pair of un-polarized sunglasses in the car for driving then I guess it's ok.
I only wear polarized glasses to avoid glare so the HUD is something I'd never use in the BMW.
I did like how their big heavy doors had infinite memory positions. Hold the door open at any angle on nearly any incline and it will hold its position. I thought that was pretty cool.
@Thomas: That is pretty neat. I wonder how they determine what is "you" moving the door vs what is gravity/wind/etc?
I don't know how it works, but it does! The salesman had me park on an incline, open the door up to any distance and leave it there and it just stuck. He said BMW is the only manufacturer with that feature. It sure stops the door dings.
I don't recall thinking that the door was any easier or harder to operate than any other luxury sedan I test drove.
That's pretty damn cool. I selfishly want it installed on everyone else's cars immediately so they don't ding mine.
I have a HUD on my BMW 535ix. It is awesome, exceedingly helpful, not distracting, and a big wow feature that I will miss when I sell and use my model s (fortunately the model s has lots of other "wows" to make up! )
The annoying feature is as previously stated, if you wear polarized glasses the HUD disappears.
I have Navigon on my iPhone and I can program it to warn me when I exceed speed limit by a particular amount (e.g. 10mph on highways and 5mph in city). It will talk to you when you exceed that number based on local speed limit. No quite as exciting as a HUD but equivalent in functionality....
Wow I didn't know that Tesla has not rain sensors, I though they were as common as ABS brakes. Does Tesla has ABS breaks?
@EVMD: The Model S has both rain sensors and ABS brakes :-/.
'Tis true Kaboom. My car has rain sensors. It even senses cottonwood tree fuzz. It looks like snow.


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