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Key Largo
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Key Largo (1948) was based on Maxwell Anderson's popular Broadway play which featured Paul Muni in the lead role as a fatalistic ex-member of the Loyalist Army who has returned from the Spanish Civil War. For the film version, the time period and the setting were changed, and the lead was played by Humphrey Bogart, not Muni. Director John Huston and screenwriter Richard Brooks also rewrote the main character, Frank McCloud, making him a World War II veteran who had served in the Italian campaign. The two writers emphasized the idealism of the early Roosevelt years and how those ideals began to erode as organized crime spread through urban areas.
Edward G. Robinson is mesmerizing as the one-time crime czar Rocco, even though he had long grown tired of the gangster image he helped mold in films as Little Caesar (1930) and Brother Orchid (1940). There was little doubt that the character Robinson was modeled on in Key Largo was Al Capone, who retired to Florida and died there of complications due to advanced syphillis a year before Huston's film was produced. Screenwriter Brooks later revealed he had also incorporated biographical details about another famous gangster, Charles "Lucky" Luciano, into Rocco's character as well. Robinson certainly captured the brutal quality of these two criminals in his performance, and Huston later paid him the odd compliment, saying, "I think Key Largo is best remembered by most people for the introductory scene, with Eddie in the bathtub, cigar in mouth. He looked like a crustacean with its shell off."
In her autobiography, By Myself, Lauren Bacall recalls Key Largo as "one of the happiest movie experiences. I thought how marvelous a medium the movies were, to enable one to meet, befriend, and work with such people." Her husband, Humphrey Bogart, was also impressed with the distinguished cast and crew and had the highest respect for Robinson off-screen, despite the on-screen tension between their characters. Though Bogart did receive top billing in the film, Robinson was given the star treatment from him on the set. Robinson later commented on his marquee status in his autobiography (All My Yesterdays): "The journey down. No suspense to this. I didn't even argue. Why not second billing? At fifty-three I was lucky to get any billing at all."
Other Key Largo trivia: Claire Trevor won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar® for her performance as Rocco's alcoholic companion, a character based on Lucky Luciano's mistress, Gay Orlova.
The ramshackle hotel where most of the drama unfolds was constructed on the Warner Bros. lot along with the beach area. Exterior shots of the hurricane were actually taken from stock footage used in Night Unto Night, a Ronald Reagan melodrama made the same year at Warner Bros.
Director: John Huston
Producer: Jerry Wald
Screenplay: Richard Brooks, John Huston, based on the play by Maxwell Anderson
Cinematography: Karl Freund
Editor: Rudi Fehr
Art Direction: Leo K. Kuter
Music: Max Steiner
Cast: Humphrey Bogart (Frank McCloud), Edward G. Robinson (Johnny Rocco/ Howard Brown), Lauren Bacall (Nora Temple), Lionel Barrymore (James Temple), Claire Trevor (Gaye Dawn)
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EMC Completes Acquisition of Document Sciences
EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC), the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced it has completed the acquisition of Carlsbad, CA-based Document Sciences Corporation (NASDAQ: DOCX), a leading provider of document output management (DOM) and customer communications management (CCM) software that facilitates highly personalized, multi-channel communications to customers, partners and suppliers. Under terms of the definitive agreement announced on December 27, 2007, EMC acquired Document Sciences in a cash transaction valued at approximately $85,800,000.
The acquisition complements and extends EMC's vision in transactional content management (TCM) one of the fastest-growing segments of enterprise content management (ECM). EMC's unique combination of document capture, business process management — and now, document output management further extends EMC's leadership in this important segment. In addition, this acquisition also extends EMC's broader ECM offerings, adding dynamic communications services to enhance the company's interactive content management, knowledge worker and archiving & compliance solutions.
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Yiannis Mouzakis has posted a screengrab of the latest projections for the Greek parliament.
Note that 48 seats out of 300 are split between KKE (communists) and Golden Dawn (Nazis). That's nearly 20% . Whoops, dumb math error. That's about 1/6th, not 1/5th of the parliament.
This confirms the early exit polls, confirming a major surge in fringe parties.


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Ginab necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 205 diseños de 54 diseñadores freelance.
Creative design using our two names to create a 'brand' / 'logo' for our wedding invitation, website and all printed material for our wedding.
Gina & Harry's wedding invite
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We would like only our names included in this logo (ie Definitely NO doves, champagne glasses, hearts, stars etc, just the names)
Both my partner and I are creative, Harry works in the fashion industry and I work in marketing so the logo needs to be stylish and clean and most importantly memorable.
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Angst grows among Obama backers
First came the nausea. Then came the anxiety.
After months of watching Mitt Romney twist in the media glare, a growing number of President Barack Obama's supporters — though confined for now to a noisy minority of liberals — are peering into the Obama-might-actually-lose abyss for the first time after last week's disastrous first debate.
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Some progressives seem to be going into primal panic mode — to the profound annoyance of the Democratic professional political class and an Obama campaign predicting a rebound at next Tuesday's debate in Long Island.
( See also: Complete coverage of 2012 presidential debates)
"That's my party: Irrational overconfidence followed by irrational despair," quipped veteran Democratic political consultant Jim Jordan, summing up the view of Obama's campaign and a half-dozen top Democratic aides interviewed for this story.
But a lot of Democrats are somewhere in between — they simply can't believe Obama could be that bad again. Or could he?
"My honest and truthful answer is Democrats are not panicked — and I'm not exactly sure why," said longtime Clinton adviser James Carville, who thinks Obama will still win. "Maybe I'm being silly here, but I've talked to a lot of people today and everybody's saying the same thing. … Should I be more concerned than I am?
( Also on POLITICO: Mitt's post-debate bounce: Will it last?)
"We're all trying to talk ourselves into a state of panic, and we're not quite there yet."
The quick shift in the poll numbers in the week after the debate illustrates the volatility of the race in general — and the dangers of assuming that the outcome hinges on a tiny number of undecided moderates in swing states who will use the debates as a guide. Romney's surge, especially among previously Obama-friendly subgroups, suggests a much more fluid electorate — a dangerous dynamic for an Obama campaign that has trumpeted the "stability" of the race in the battleground states.
Insiders see Obama's flop as turbulence, unsettling but hardly fatal, and say their internal polling shows erosion but not anything approaching collapse.
A handful of liberal pundits — amplifying the visceral reactions of the party's liberal base to the debate and Obama's subsequent dip in the polls — think the plane is plunging into a cliff. They have found their muse in Daily Beast columnist Andrew Sullivan, whom Obama reads regularly and was once invited to a White House state dinner.
"Did Obama just throw away the election?" Sullivan wrote in a widely read column posted Monday night, which drew 21,000 Facebook likes within a few hours.
(Also on POLITICO: Rush: Dems are on 'suicide watch')
Sullivan, a political iconoclast who supports the president, became agitated after the release of a Pew poll Monday showing Romney vaulting 4 points ahead of Obama — a 12-point swing among likely voters since last month.


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Cerfolio Brings Shutout into 7th Inning of Game 1; Hsieh Reaches Base in Ninth Consecutive Game and goes 3-for-4 in Game 2
WEST HAVEN Conn.— The Yale baseball team (5-17,2-4 Ivy League) dropped a doubleheader at Yale Field Saturday, falling to Columbia (11-15,4-2 Ivy League) 2-1 in Game 1 and 5-2 in Game 2.
Yale lefthander Rob Cerfolio had the Columbia hitters under control and held the Lions scoreless until the seventh and final inning of Game 1. Cerfolio (1-3) had another solid outing on the mound, scattering five hits in 6 1/3 innings while allowing only one earned run. The game took a dramatic turn for the Lions with one out in the seventh inning as pinch hitter Joey Falcone homered into the right field picnic porch to tie the game at one. After this dramatic turn of events Columbia's Mike Fischer made it to second base on a throwing error by the Yale third baseman and scored what proved to be the winning run on leadoff batter Eric Williams' double to left-centerfield.
Junior righthanded reliever Cale Hanson replaced Cerfolio and retired two of Columbia's top hitters, Nick Crucet and Alex Black, to keep Yale in striking distance. In the bottom of the seventh inning the Bulldogs' rally was not to be as Black moved to the mound, struck out the side and earned the save.
Yale took a 1-0 lead in the third inning. Freshman right fielder Nate Adams started the frame with a walk. He was moved to second by freshman shortstop Tom O'Neill on a sacrifice bunt. Captain Chris Piwinski singled to right field to give Bulldogs a 1-0 advantage. A double play ended the Yale threat.
In the bottom of the fifth Yale looked to get on the board. Adams started the inning with a walk. O'Neill followed with a fantastic bunt that he pushed past the Columbia pitcher, setting up first and second with no one out. Piwinski then sacrificed the runners to second and third. After sophomore left fielder Eric Hsieh walked, loading the bases, junior first baseman Jacob Hunter hit into a fielder's choice and Adams was thrown out at home. Columbia would survive the inning with no runs given up.
Adams and his speed returned to the lineup for the first time since March 15th and he went 1-for 1 with two bases on balls in Game 1. Hsieh reached base in his eighth consecutive game with a base hit and a walk. Other Bulldogs that had base hits included O'Neill, Piwinski and freshman third baseman Brent Lawson. Piwinski's base hit increased his hitting streak to four games.
In the second game of the doubleheader Hsieh continued his streak and reached base in his ninth consecutive game, finishing 3-for-4. Yale junior starter Michael Coleman surrendered single runs in the first three innings. Coleman falls to 1-4 on the season after scattering nine hits, walking one, and allowing four runs (three earned).
In the second inning Piwinski threw out Crucet attempting to steal second. Piwinski has thrown out a runner attempting to steal in three of Yale's last five games and has been solid defensively behind the plate.
Columbia took a 4-0 lead in the seventh inning before Yale cut into the deficit. Freshman pinch hitter Chris Moates singled in two runs with two outs off reliever Mike Weisman . Both runs were charged to starter and winning pitcher Joey Donino. Hsieh scored after singling to left field and Cerfolio scored after pinch running for senior Josh Scharff (walk). The Bulldogs could not cut the deficit any further than 4-2 as Donino held them scoreless in the eighth and ninth inning and picked up a save.
Freshman righthander Chris Lanham had a strong relief outing for the Bulldogs, pitching 2 2/3 innings striking out three and allowing one earned run. Sophomore center fielder Green Campbell added a base hit for Yale.
The Bulldogs are back in action on Sunday when they host Ivy League foe Penn in a cross-division doubleheader. The first pitch is scheduled for noon.
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I have a client who wants to set up a fax server in their office. I'd like to use HylaFAX under Ubuntu, but I'm a little shy to spend money on hardware for Linux, particularly a modem given the whole Winmodem issue. So to ask two different questions in the same post:
First, what are the most reliable ways to tell if a modem is supported in modern releases of Linux? It's nice when a manufacturer specifically mentions Linux support. Failing that, do you check the kernel docs? Chipset type? Other keywords on the modem's spec sheet?
Second, what specific modem would you recommend?


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It's sunny and warm at our Kennebunk/Kennebunkport Bed and Breakfast, and glorious weather is expected for the foreseeable future. Foliage is peaking in the northern portion of the state, though we're still waiting for the leaves to peak here. We expect the change to take place any day now, especially as our nights turn cooler.
This is one of the best times to explore the coast of Maine by boat. The water off Kennebunkport is fairly cool – just under 60 degrees – but it's much warmer now than it will be in a few months. There is much less boating traffic now than during the summer, but it's still possible to rent boats and enjoy chartered trips and tours.
Many guests of our Kennebunkport/Kennebunk Bed and Breakfast bring kayaks and canoes with them. Folks who don't have their own boats may rent them at nearby Kennebunkport Marina, which provides single and double kayaks, canoes, Boston Whalers, Inflatables, and Outrage boats. Meander up and down the coastline or head up the Kennebunk River.
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bigstrads wrote:rockyBeli wrote:if Stephen Jackson gets booed, it's evidence that warrior fans aren't too bright.
LOL!!!............really? hows that then?
A 3 point chucking, awful percentage shooting, turnover MACHINE, phantom defense playing, Mullin backstabbing to get his extension, quitting on this team and wanting out as soon as he has his dollars kind of player returning here............should NOT get boo'ed?
Question is how could anyone NOT boo him???
What are your reasons for why he shouldnt get boo'ed? come on, educate us "not very bright" fans who think he should be boo'ed?
because you can't blame the guy for wanting to leave the warriors tradition of dysfunction! if you were him you'd probably want out too. they traded every savvy player around him for shi- in return, promised him and Ellis they'd bring in "beef" yet opted for Mikki Moore instead of Amare Stoudemire. why be loyal to a franchise who are so fukn clearly unloyal to its own players and its own fans?
the front office gets no tangible flack from the fans (signs, chants, drop of ticket sales), yet we should boo a player who was a major reason for the only winning basketball we've seen in 15 yrs? sorry, not happening from me.


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We return tonight to 1 John chapter 1, and I apologize that we have been so often interrupted and will be again interrupted over the next couple of weeks, but we're going to keep working at it as much as we can because it is such a marvelous and wonderful book for us to study. We're in the first chapter of 1 John and we're actually looking at the last section in the chapter, verses 5 through 10 and we've entitled this section, "Confession of sin, a certain proof of salvation....Confession of sin, a certain proof of salvation." This is part 4 in our look at these verses.
By way of an introduction, let me say that this past week I had the opportunity to participate in the Christian Booksellers Convention down at the Anaheim Convention Center. I suppose there were about 20,000 or 25,000 people down there associated with Christian literature, music and Christian stuff in general...whatever that might be that you sell in the name of Christianity at the broadest possible level. And I had the opportunity to speak and to be involved in some various projects and meetings and things there. I also had the opportunity to meet with editors of a well-known publishing house in our country and one that has had a wonderful reputation for publishing those things that represent the Word of God. And recently they published a book on salvation and I brought it to their attention that in this book on salvation, I could not find anywhere the word "repentance." And I asked the question, "How can you publish a book on salvation that doesn't mention the word 'repentance'?" I even called the author, whom I know, and asked the same question. How could you write a book on salvation that doesn't mention repentance? How can you have a book on salvation that doesn't deal with confession of sin?
Repentance and confession is one of the great themes of Scripture. Repentance is a work of God done in the heart necessary to salvation and equally sustained unto sanctification. It is not only God's work in the heart leading to salvation, it is the continual pattern of the heart producing sanctification. Repentance, confession of sin is a constant way of life for one who comes to the Lord.
To say it another way, true Christians are by nature repenters. I remember years ago the first time I went to the former Soviet Union just after perestroika and glasnost and they were fresh in terms of enjoying the freedoms that the yoke of communism had kept from them. And there was a...there was an openness, it was a wonderful thing and I was so thrilled to go there in that openness and proclaim Christ. Many things stunned me about eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, but one, I think, shocked me the most was how they spoke of conversion. And it is true throughout Eastern Europe, in particular the former Soviet Union, they say, "I repented." And the first time I ever preached there, I preached to a packed church, I preached the gospel and the pastor got up and said, "If anyone wants to repent, please come to the front."
Well, I didn't know how they were going to get there because there weren't any aisles because people packed the pews, packed the aisles, stuffed the doorways and in the winter they were outside in the cold looking in the windows. I didn't know how anybody could get to the front, but come they did. If I remember right, I stopped preaching about 11:30 and they stopped coming about 1:30. And what would happen would be they came to the front and the pastor would take the microphone and hand it to them and say, "Please repent." And the person would take the microphone and repent. And so, when anyone over there spoke of their conversion they say, "I repented such and such a place...I repented at such and such a time." They don't talk about being born again, they don't talk about being saved, they don't talk about being converted, they talk about repenting.
For the true believer, repentance is a way of life. Confessing sin is habitual. Covering sin, denying sin, trivializing sin, diminishing sin characterizes non-Christians and that really is the message of this section of the first chapter, verses 5 through 10. Listen to it, "This is the message we have heard from Him and announced to you that God is light and in Him there is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light as He Himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin. If we say we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say we have no sinned, we make Him a liar and His Word is not in us."
And here John is giving a test and the test that he gives in this section...many tests are given through this epistle, as you remember, but the test that he gives here is the test of true salvation, the first test and it is the test of confession. It is the test of repentance. To John, repentance is an indicator of genuine salvation and so he expresses that in the verses I just read. And in the first part of the first verse of chapter 2 he says, "My little children, I am writing these things to you that you may not sin." And with that he closes that section. The chapter division should come between that statement and the next one in verse 1, and we'll look at that in a few moments.
His basic premise is in verse 5 and we're just going to review that for a moment. In the...in verse 5 he establishes this premise,"T"This is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you that God is light and in Him there is no darkness at all." And John says there is a division...there is light and there is darkness. And God is all light and in Him there is no darkness. What does it mean that God is light? Well, we could say that light refers to truth and we would be right. We could say that light refers to virtue or righteousness or holiness and we would be right, it does in the Bible. But primarily light is a synonym, as I proved to you some weeks ago, light is a synonym for eternal life which is by nature both true and pure, true and holy.
So what he is saying here is that the eternal life which God gives has no darkness in it. This is foundational to the whole epistle. There is life and there is death, there is light and there is darkness. The life that comes from God is that eternal life which is both true and pure. And those who have that eternal life manifest both that love of the truth and that love of purity that is consistent with that eternal life. There were at John's day and always, including today, those people who wanted to claim they knew God. And so you have in verses 6 and following the "if we sayers," if we say, verse 6, if we say, verse 8, if we say, verse 10. But that's not what John is interested in. "If we say" means nothing. It's if we walk, it's if we confess that matters, verses 7 and 9.
We saw last time those who claimed to be in the fellowship, and he uses the plural pronoun "we" only because he is stating truth that is applicable to all people. And in verse 6, "If we," that is anyone, "say we have fellow with Him," fellowship with God, "and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth." Claiming to possess eternal life isn't sufficient to prove it. We look at your life and do we see that eternal life manifest in the love of truth and the love of holiness? Claiming to be in the fellowship and walking in darkness indicates that rather than being believable in our confession, we are rather liars who do not practice the truth. Verse 8, "If we say we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us." Somebody who doesn't recognize sin in their own life is self-deceived, possesses no true understanding. Verse 10, "If we say we haven't sinned, we make Him a liar," and that is blasphemy and mockery of God and surely His Word is not in us.
And so, just to claim to possess eternal life is not enough. You may claim it and be a liar. You may claim it and be deceived. You may claim it and blaspheme. And John, of course, was talking to people who were doing just that, making claims to be connected to God which claims were not true.
And so, as we saw last time, they failed the test of repentance. They failed the test of repentance. In verse 6, "They say they have fellowship with God but they walk in darkness." And so the first word that describes them is "darkness." There is the absence of life, eternal life, characterized by the love of truth and the love of holiness. Further, it's even beyond that in verse 8, they go so far as to say, "We have no sin." Not only do they say we have no sin but in verse 10 they say "We have never sinned." They redefine their human condition without regard for the reality of sin. Though they are dead in trespasses and sin, they are deceived and deceiving. Their condition is blasphemous against God whose true diagnosis they mock.
And so, John simply says in these very, very penetrating words,"Y"You're not in the fellowship because you say you are if you're not confessing sin in the present and in the past, walking in the light of truth and holiness and practicing what that truth proclaims." It's not what you say, it's who you are.
So let's look at the second in these two groups here, those who are in the fellowship. Not those who claim to be but those who are. Now the words that we just saw defining those who claim are darkness, deceit and defamation we could say for verse 10, they defame the name of God. But there are three words to describe the true believers here and they're very simple. Let's just start with the word "cleansed...cleansed." Go back to verse 7 for a moment."B"But on the other hand, unlike those who say and don't do, if we walk in the light as He Himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another and the blood of Jesus, His Son, cleanses us from all sin."
Now let's talk about this verse, this one and verse 9 are not easy to interpret, I want you to hang in there because this is very, very important. Walk is in the present subjunctive, it refers to continual action. It is hypothetical because it's a general statement that is thrown out generally and applies only to some people but should be known by all...If we are continually, habitually moving in the light. Walk is a term used throughout the New Testament to speak of constant daily conduct. Paul uses it numerous places. Walk is synonymous with living your life on a daily basis. This is the index to a person's true spiritual condition. It's not what they claim, it's not what they say, it's how they walk, how they step-by-step live their life. And if step-by-step, day-by-day we walk in the light, that is we manifestly evidence that eternal life which is synonymous with the light, we then are the ones truly having fellowship with one another and being cleansed by the blood of Jesus. If we are sharing that very light of God, if we are sharing that very eternal life of God and we show that by a continual life pattern of behaving in a way that reflects that eternal life of God, then we demonstrate that we are, in fact, true believers. We are the ones, notice there are two ways he describes us, we are the ones who have fellowship with one another. This, I believe, refers to God. We are the ones having fellowship with God, we are in communion with God. The ones who are walking in the light are having fellowship with God because we possess the common eternal life.
On the other hand, no matter what you claim if you walk habitually in the darkness, your claim is a lie because you do not practice the truth, as verse 6 says. If you have received Jesus Christ truly, if you have been regenerated, if you have been born again, then you are walking in the light, that is you are walking evidencing on a routine basis that you possess eternal life which is manifest in the love of truth and holiness. And you are, in fact, demonstrating that same attitude that He Himself has, that's why we call it godliness. If you have received Jesus Christ as manifest by the fact that you live out that eternal life which is in you, you then have fellowship with Him. We have fellowship one with another, that is a believer and God. And you can say, like in verse 6, you have fellowship with Him, it doesn't mean anything unless it's manifest in the way you live your life.
And the second thing he says, if you live this way not only are you enjoying communion with God, but the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin. Now listen carefully, because I have eternal life, because I'm in the light, because I love truth and holiness does not mean that I do not sin. As long as I'm in the flesh I will sin. As long as I'm in this unredeemed humanness I will sin. As long as I'm on this side of heaven I will sin. "But when I sin, the blood of Jesus Christ His Son keeps on cleansing us." What a great statement. Sin never alters the fellowship because it is continually being cleansed. The blood of Christ is simply a vivid gory way to describe His death. He loves us, according to Revelation 1:5, He released us from our sins by His blood, by His sacrificial death. And if I have come to Christ, truly embraced Him, I will be being continually cleansed, therefore I will be being continually in fellowship with God because nothing can really come between. I will enjoy that partnership with God in an unbroken fashion.
And please notice, the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from how much sin? All sin, all sin, every sin...no sin in the life of a believer ever goes uncleansed...never. The cross provides a full cleansing. You say, "Well how can God do that?" He can do that because Jesus paid the penalty for all that sin in full, did He not? If you are walking in the light, that is if you are a possessor of eternal life, manifesting itself in the way you live your life which is demonstrable in the love of truth and holiness, as you live that way you reveal that you are in the light, you are having your sins consistently cleansed.
By the way now, confession is not a condition in verse 7. Confession is not a condition for cleansing. There isn't any condition except salvation. What this means is that always, all the time for those who are God's who dwell in the light with Him, who possess eternal life, there is constant complete and full forgiveness. Oh there are people who want to argue about this and they say, "No, no, that's wrong, this verse means that Christians can walk in darkness but they better stop and start walking in the light if they are going to be forgiven and cleansed." Really! So the only way I can get forgiven and cleansed is if I stop sinning. Well then I don't need it. It seems fairly apparent. You're telling me forgiveness and cleansing is only available to those who don't need it? This is not a command, this is no command in verse 7. This is a fact. Christians always in the light, always in the fellowship, always enjoy cleansing. How thrilling is that? Always, always, always, all sin is being cleansed.
First Corinthians 6:11, "Such were some of you but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God." When you came to Christ you were washed and you were declared righteous before God by the imputed righteousness of Jesus Christ. You were covered with His righteousness. You are no longer guilty, defiled or unclean. Ephesians chapter 1 verse 7 says, "That He has forgiven all your trespasses in the redemption provided through His blood."
Turn for a moment to John 13, there is a comparative passage that is instructive for us. In John 13 and someone would ask the question if I didn't refer to it, in John 13 and verse 8 Jesus was going to wash the disciples feet. Of course, impetuous Peter in verse 8 said to Him, "Never shall You wash my feet." Peter was feeling humble at the time and didn't want His Lord to stoop and wash his filthy feet. Jesus answered, "If I don't wash you, you have no part with Me." Simon Peter said to Him, "Lord, not my feet only but also my hands and my head." And Jesus said, "Stop it, Peter, you're tampering with the illustration! I know exactly what I want to do here, just be quiet." Jesus says, "The point is this, he who has bathed needs only to wash his feet but is completely clean and you are clean."
The idea is simple. In the Orient before a man would come to a dinner like this, he would take a bath thoroughly cleaning himself. He had then when he arrived only to wash off the dirt from his feet and he would be prepared to recline at the meal. And each time he went outside and came into a house through the day, he would need not to take a full bath again but just to wash off his feet. Jesus is saying, "Look, once you've been cleansed, once you've been bathed, all sin has been removed, only the dust of the world needs to be cleaned from your feet and I'll continue to do that." Jesus washes their feet as a way of saying...in salvation you're bathed and as your feet get dirty along the way, I'll clean them too. This is a marvelous picture of the ongoing continual washing that Christ provides for those who are His.
Back to 1 John, this is just thrilling. The first word then that describes the one who is in the fellowship, the possessor of eternal life is the word "cleansed." The second word is"confessing...confessing." This in verse 9, "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."
I suppose most people have memorized that verse somewhere along the line if you've ever been in a Bible class or a Bible study or Sunday school somewhere along the way. Very familiar verse and yet it's not an easy verse to interpret because on the surface it appears to be conditional. If we confess, He forgives...conversely, if we don't confess, He won't forgive. But we've just heard in verse 7 that as we are walking in the light, as we are truly God's in the fellowship, demonstrating the love of the truth and the love of holiness that characterizes those who possess eternal life, as we walk that way in communion with God the blood of Jesus His Son keeps on cleansing us from sin. Which is to say, we haven't become perfect, we still sin but it's constantly being cleansed. We had been bathed at salvation and Jesus just keeps washing our feet. Why then in verse 9 do we introduce this condition? Why is this introduced, "if we confess our sins He's faithful and righteous to forgive our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness," when it says in verse 7 He's already cleansing us from all sin?
Well we want to understand that. First of all, He is faithful. He will continue to do what He says He will do I verse 7, He will cleanse us from all sin. He is faithful to His promise, the promise of the New Covenant, Jeremiah 31:34, "I will forgive their iniquity, I will remember their sins no more," and all the other passages of Scripture that speak about forgiveness, removing our sin as far as the east is from the west, bury it in the deepest sea. He is faithful to do that. He is righteous to forgive, not unrighteous because Christ has paid the penalty in full, so it is a righteous act of God, it is a just act of God since the penalty was paid to forgive the guilty sinner.
So here is simply a reiteration that He is faithful and righteous to do exactly what He said He would do and that is to keep on forgiving us our sins and cleansing us from all unrighteousness. By the way, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins in the aorist tense which speaks not so much of a process but a single act. That's wonderful, wonderfully important because it shows that forgiveness is not constant, it's not habitual, it's rather event related which shows that the pre-salvation unbroken pattern of habitual sin has ceased and sin comes here and there and here and there. Later on in chapter 3 we'll see that in verse 10, "By this the children of God and the children of the devil are obvious. Anyone who doesn't practice righteousness is not of God." Back in verse 9, "No one who is born of God practices sin."
In other words, that habitual practice of sin and unrighteousness is broken and now sin rather than being the continual pattern of life, present tense or imperfect tense in the past, is now that event which interrupts the righteous flow of life.
Now he says that God is faithful and righteous to forgive the sins of those who confess. What does homologeo mean? What does the word confess mean? It means to say the same thing, to say the same thing. Logeo is to speak or to say, homo is the same...the same. Homogeneous means it's the same, heterogeneous means it's different, homo means the same. It is to say the same thing. What do you mean? To confess your sin is to say the same thing about your sin that God is saying about it. It is to acknowledge reality. It is to affirm the truth. It is to say what God is saying.
Look down in chapter 2 verse 12, "I am writing to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for His namesake." Your sins are forgiven because that's what salvation gives you. Your sins are forgiven because that's what God promises you. Your sins are forgiven because they have been justly paid for. Your sins are forgiven because Jesus promises to wash your dirty feet. Your sins are forgiven, chapter 2 verse 12, "Because of His namesake." That is to say because it is consistent with who Jesus is and what He promised. In other words, not to forgive you would be a breach of the integrity of the Son of God. It's not something that He does reluctantly, it's not something by which you're sort of hanging by a thread, it is consistent with a perfectly faithful, perfectly righteous, just, holy, loving nature of God, it is consistent with the justice of God to keep on cleansing those who sins have been fully paid for and it is filial as well. God will continue to do that for those who are His own beloved children for whom He sent His Son to die and whom He has brought into His eternal family and to whom He has granted eternal life and in to whom He has planted a new nature...a nature they share with Him.
So then, how does the phrase "if we confess our sins" fit in? How does it fit in? Well the Roman Catholic Church has an answer. They say you're not going to be forgiven if you don't go to the priest and confess. Confession to the priest becomes a meritorious act and you know what happens when you go to confession and you confess your sin? That meritorious act earns you forgiveness. Does that sound right? Can forgiveness be earned by a meritorious human act? Forgiveness then becomes a reward for your meritorious conduct. And when you go from the confessional booth and cycle your way through the beads and say your rosary as many times as you're told to say it, that continued meritorious act earns you forgiveness in the Catholic view. And that is the "if we confess" that brings about in their view the forgiveness.
Socinius said, another view, "Confess simply means to perceive sin, to be aware or conscious of it." The psychological view is that confessing sin is therapeutic, that is it teaches you humility and it's really good to feel bad, it's cathartic and if you can just feel really rotten and weep, that catharsis is especially helpful and you will feel forgiven because you gushed and wallowed and inflicted pain on yourself. That shows up in Catholicism as well. Others say this can only be referring to salvation. This is looking at the moment of salvation, "if we confess our sins He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins," the problem with that is there's more than just confessing your sins to being saved. You have to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ. And furthermore, confess here is in the present tense and should be translated "if we are confessing our sins" as a pattern. And there are others who say, this is the more popular view, that you're only forgiven the sins you confess. One writer put it this way, "Confessed sin will be forgiven, unconfessed sins will remain in a person until the judgment seat of Christ, then He will deal with them. Sin can never be cleansed from us until it is forgiven in us, it is never forgiven in us until it has been confessed by us," end quote. That's not true. That means you're going to go to heaven with unforgiven sins. There's nothing in the Bible that indicates that and it diminishes the work of Christ, right? People just say things, I think. I think they get enamored with their own little ditties and their own little musings and they just say things without regard for Scripture.
The twelfth verse again of chapter 2, "Your sins are forgiven you for His namesake," it's not about you, it's about Him. He forgives your sins because it's consistent with who He is. It's consistent with the God of justice and mercy and with the accomplishment of Jesus Christ on the cross. You do not have to confess every sin to have every sin forgiven.
In Romans chapter 4 in verse 6, David speaks of the blessing on the man to whom God reckons righteousness apart from works,"B"Blessed are those whose lawless deeds have been forgiven, whose sins have been covered. Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will not take into account." I mean, we're blessed because God forgives all our sins, they're forgiven, forgotten, removed from the account. "Be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other even as God for Christ's sake as forgiven you," Ephesians 4:32. So that kind of popular view can't be right.
Confession here isn't presented as some tit-for-tat kind of concept, confess-get forgiven, confess-get forgiven, and it goes like that. Rather what it's saying is this, if we are the ones confessing our sins then we are the ones being forgiven. To say it another way, the ones who are being forgiven are characterized as confessors. That is the only way to understand this verse in the context both of this passage and the Bible. The forgiveness is not because of the confession, listen to this, the confession is because of the forgiveness. One of the things that the Spirit of God works in the life of a forgiven person is a hatred of sin, particularly in his or her own life. And that hatred of sin rises from the heart as penitence, as confession. Somebody who comes along and says, "I'm in the fellowship, I'm in the light, I know God, I commune with God, I have eternal life," and who denies sin is a liar, who says they don't sin, they never have sinned, they're liars, they're deceived. On the other hand, if we are the ones continually confessing our sins then that is indicative of the marvelous work of the Spirit of God in our lives that has cleansed us from sin and given us a holy hatred of sin which causes us to be confessors.
I remember years ago when I first came to Grace Church I was teaching in a place at UCLA called "The Light and Power House." Hal Lindsey and Ray Nethery(?) and some people who had come out of Campus Crusade were teaching there and they were teaching that you never need to confess your sin, that you don't have to confess your sin, you only confess it once. They took the view that this is a salvation verse, you confess once, that's it, never again. And I remember sitting and listening to this lecture from one of these guys to all of these UCLA students and I...and they were basically saying "don't confess your sin, that is...that is foolish, that is nonsense, that is needless, that it questions the goodness and grace of God, you only pray that prayer once and then you're forgiven, you never have to do it again." And he made a huge point out of this for about an hour.
Afterwards I went up to him and I said, "I have a question. Do you confess your sins?"
He said, "Well I just said you don't have to."
I said, "I know you said that. Do you?"
He said, "Yeah, and I don't understand why."
I said, "Good, because you're probably a Christian. If you didn't, I would think you weren't. God hates evil. He hates iniquity. And whoever possesses the life of God has the attitude of God toward that." You go...wildly going through life in some kind of bliss without recognizing your sin and claim you're a Christian, you have the attitude of Paul in Romans 7 who said, "O wonderful man that I am..." is that what he said? Or did he say"O...what?...wretched man that I am, what I want to do I don't do, what I don't want to do I do and I'm sick of it." Continual confession of sin is the mark of a Christian. Later on we're going to find out love for God is a mark for a Christian, love for one another is a mark of a Christian, obedience to the Word of God is a mark of a Christian. And here we're learning confession is a mark of a Christian. It's no different...I'll give you an illustration, it's no different than faith. You don't say, "Well, I believed when I became a Christian I don't need to believe anymore. I stopped believing after I was saved." What is that? You didn't stop believing, you continue believing. And so you don't stop confessing. In fact, you're probably more of a confessor now than you were when you were converted. You probably have a greater hatred of the sin in you that you did before you were saved because the more mature you are in Christ, the more you hate sin. If salvation is real, then confession becomes a way of life. The very opposite of these people who deny sin, we're happy to admit it, aren't we? True Christians go on and on and on admitting their sin. It's just the way it is. And as we go on admitting our sin and confessing, the Lord goes on cleansing.
Continual confession characterizes Christians. There you have it, the four "Cs", continual confession characterizes Christians. Now I admit there are degrees of thoroughness in confession. There are varying numbers of confessions, full or incomplete repentance. But faith differs from one Christian to another, doesn't it? And our faith in the Lord and our trust in Him wavers, has its highs, has its lows. Our obedience to Him has its highs, has its lows. And so our confession has its highs and its lows. But agreeing that you're a sinner and seeing your sin the way God sees it is characteristic of a Christian. True confession then involves sorrow over sin, the longing to turn from sin.
You might want to look with me just for a brief moment, so many passages pertain to this but look for just a brief moment at 2 Corinthians chapter 7 and I won't get in to a lot of detail, but this is really the definitive text on repentance. Second Corinthians chapter 7, Paul gives us this very good definition of repentance. Down in verse 9, 2 Corinthians 7:9, "I now rejoice," he says, "not that you were made sorrowful but that you were made sorrowful to the point of repentance. For you were made sorrowful according to the will of God in order that you might not suffer loss in anything through us." Paul commends a true kind of sorrow, a sorrow unto repentance. And then in verse 20 and 11 he defines that, "The sorrow that is according to the will of God produces a repentance without regret leading to salvation. But the sorrow of the world produces death." We're not talking here about feeling bad that you got caught. We're not talking here about feeling bad regarding the consequences of your sinful conduct. We're talking here not about a sorrow of the world that only puts you in to despair and depression and suicide. We're not talking about that kind of Judas sorrow that makes you go out and hang yourself. We're not talking about the world's kind of sorrow that brings death. We're talking about the kind of sorrow that produces repentance that leads to salvation.
What is the nature of that kind of repentance? Verse 11,"Behold, what earnestness this very thing, this godly sorrow has produced in you, what vindication of yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what longing, what zeal, what avenging of wrong? In everything you demonstrated yourselves to be innocent in the matter." Here in this list of words he defines real godly repentance, it is earnest and that means it is aggressive, it is seeking after holiness, it pursues what is right. That's the nature of it. He also says it has in it a vindication of yourselves, that is open testimony of the desire to be clean from sin. You...you want yourself to be vindicated, that is to say you are open about the desire that you have to be pure. It contains a certain indignation, anger. There is a...there is an anger over sin in true repentance. There is fear, that is reverence for God and concern over His chastening. There is longing, that is for a pure and uninterrupted life of holiness. There is zeal which again is passion for God and for righteousness. There is avenging...a desire for an avenging for wrong. In other words, there's a sort of a desire for design justice to see sin dealt with at any cost...even in your own life. These are the things that make up the kind of repentance we're talking about.
Well now you can go back to 1 John with just that brief look. Confession doesn't change our fellowship, our fellowship is with the Lord Jesus Christ and with the Father. Our fellowship began at the time of our new birth when we entered into the family and into the fellowship. Our fellowship is forever, nothing can break the fellowship. Listen to this, you can never be out of the fellowship. That never changes, it can't be broken. The fellowship iskoinonia or koinonos, partnership, union, common sharing of that light which is eternal life. We are all partakers, 1 Corinthians 10:17, we are all koinonia of that one bread. We share the common, eternal life. Fellowship can't be broken, if it can then this passage is telling us how to get saved again.
Confession like faith, like obedience, like love is an evidence of salvation. And it is not the perfection of our lives, but it is the direction of our lives. So the true Christian experiences cleansing and confessing. Thirdly, the third word is conquering...conquering. And we'll go down to chapter 2 verse 1,"M"My little children, I am writing these things to you that you may not sin." Guess what? We don't have to sin. What good news, huh? What liberty. Even though sin is always going to be there somewhere in our lives and we're always going to be confessing that sin, always going to be being cleansed, that is not to lead us to an attitude that says, "Now it's going to be there and it's going to be cleansed and we're going to confess it, so why bother striving for holiness?"
And so John says, "My little children, don't abuse God's grace, don't abuse God's cleansing, I'm writing these things to you that you may not sin." This is the tender regard of an old man who is at least 90, though you're always confessing, you're always being cleansed, don't think that sin is a necessity that you can't avoid. Don't treat sin lightly, it is to be mastered, it is to be conquered and you can conquer it...you can rise above it in the strength of the new life and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. Romans 6:1, "Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? May it never be." May it never be.
He says, verse 6, "We are no longer to be slaves to sin for He who has died has freed from sin." Verse 12 says, "Don't let sin reign in your mortal body that you should obey its lusts." Verse 14, "Sin shall not be master over you." "Do you not know that when...in verse 16...you present yourselves to become a slave for obedience you are slaves of the one whom you obey whether of sin resulting in death or obedience resulting in righteousness? But thanks be to God though you were slaves of sin you became obedient from the heart that that form of teaching to which you were committed you've been set free from sin, you become slaves of righteousness." You don't have to sin. And John is saying, "Look, back away and understand you can conquer, you can conquer. You have that power to conquer." As you grow in Christ there should be the decreasing frequency of sin.
And so John gives us a clear picture of who is a Christian, one who is being cleansed, one who is confessing, one who is conquering. We'll stop there. That's good preparation for the Lord's table for us.
Father, as we apply this to our life now in this moment, it is clear to us that we have enough information to take a good look at our hearts and discern our spiritual condition. And I pray, Lord, that You give us insight, may we know the state of our hearts, may we know where we stand with you. We are reminded that before we come to this table we are to examine ourselves and that examination is to reveal to us our spiritual state. May we ask the question...am I a true Christian?...first of all. Is there manifest eternal life in me? Am I walking in that light and demonstrating the love for truth and purity that characterizes that light? Am I a cleansed, confessing, conquering Christian? And if not, if the answer is no or I don't know, may this be the moment when that person embraces Christ and pleads for salvation. For those of us who are Christians, if we have come to contentment with some sins, if we have abused grace and failed to sin not, given up on the battle, no longer pursued with all our might in the strength of the Spirit, virtue and holiness, would You convict us of that so that we don't come to this table holding to any sin. We would release it all, confess it, repent of it and ask that You would remove it from us.
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Standard Dose: One 400 mg enteric-coated Videx EC, delayed-release capsule once a day for people who weigh 132 pounds or more. Dose needs to be adjusted for those weighing less than 132 pounds; kidney function less than 60 mL/min; and when combined with Viread, Truvada, or Atripla. Take strictly on an empty stomach (unless taking with Viread), one hour before or two hours after food or drink, except water. Approved for children weighing at least 44 pounds. Take missed dose as soon as possible, unless it is closer to the time of your next dose. Do not double up on your next dose. Capsules must be swallowed whole. Videx is also available as a buffered powder for oral solution. Generic Videx EC (didanosine EC) is available.
Potential side effects and toxicity: Peripheral neuropathy (tingling, burning, numbness, or pain in the hands or feet) may go away once Videx EC is stopped, but can be painful and permanently debilitating if not treated in time or if you continue to use Videx EC after symptoms of neuropathy start. It occurs more frequently when Videx EC is used with Zerit or in people with more advanced HIV. Upset stomach, diarrhea, headache, and, more rarely, pancreatitis (inflammation of the pancreas), have also been reported. Pancreatitis can be life-threatening and may cause pain in the stomach and back, along with nausea, vomiting, and blood in the urine. Risks for pancreatitis include higher than recommended doses of NRTIs, advanced HIV, and alcohol use. Stop all HIV medications and see a health care provider right away. Recent post-marketing surveillance has reported cases of non-cirrhotic portal hypertension (increased blood pressure in the vessels that connect to and from the liver) associated with the use of Videx EC. Symptoms (elevated liver enzymes, enlarged spleen, blood in vomit, and fluid collection in abdomen) may begin months to years after starting Videx EC. Routine doctor visits and lab tests will assist in early detection and prompt discontinuation of Videx EC. Other possible toxicities include eye changes and optic neuritis. Have periodic eye exams by someone who is aware you are HIV-positive. Increased uric acid levels (indicating a number of disorders, including kidney damage and metabolic diseases), and insomnia are other potential side effects. People with a history of peripheral neuropathy, pancreatitis, or heavy alcohol use should avoid Videx EC. Body fat redistribution/accumulation has also been reported with Videx EC. See chart for potential drug class side effects.
Potential drug interactions: Should not be taken with Viread (tenofovir), if possible. However, if co-administration is necessary, use tenofovir with caution and close monitoring, since Videx EC levels are increased with tenofovir (a medication also found in Atripla, Complera, and Truvada). Videx EC dose should be decreased to 250 mg daily for patients weighing more than 132 lbs. and 200 mg daily for those weighing less. Adjust dose of Videx EC when taking Viread, Truvada, Atripla, or Complera to avoid Videx-related toxicity, including neuropathy and pancreatitis. The combined use of Videx and Retrovir (zidovudine), Zerit, or hydroxyurea may increase risk of peripheral neuropathy. Videx EC taken with Zerit increases the risk of facial wasting and/or lactic acidosis. Combining Videx EC with Zerit, hydroxyurea, alcohol, ganciclovir, valganciclovir, or intravenous (not inhaled) pentamidine may increase risk of pancreatitis. Do not take with ribavirin or allopurinol. Also, ganciclovir substantially increases Videx EC levels, and is generally recommended not to be taken together. If there is no alternative to ganciclovir, use it with caution and monitor for Videx EC toxicity. Videx powder in oral solution should be taken on an empty stomach one hour before or two hours after protease inhibitors, Tagamet (cimetidine), ketoconazole, itraconazole, and dapsone, and one hour apart from Rescriptor. Videx EC capsules can be taken with them, but still on an empty stomach. With Viread, it may be taken with a light snack (low-fat, 373 calories). Methadone decreases Videx powder concentrations significantly and should not be used together, but if necessary, the Videx EC capsule formulation should be used.
More information: Videx EC is rarely used. Videx EC compared to Zerit may have lower risk of peripheral neuropathy, but the rate found in clinical trials was still 12-34%. This is hardly an issue anymore, since Zerit is even more rarely used (if ever). Swallow the capsules whole. The enteric coating reduces diarrhea compared to the previous formulation. If you have reduced kidney function, you may require a lower dose. Notify your doctor right away if peripheral neuropathy is suspected. See package insert for more complete information on potential side effects and interactions.
Doctor's Comments
Videx (ddI), approved in 1991, was our second antiretroviral drug. People often used it after AZT stopped working. Later it was added to AZT in our primitive attempts at early combination therapy. It was a complicated drug to take, requiring twice-daily dosing on an empty stomach, and sometimes involving the use of powder formulations or the mixing of crushed tablets with antacids to improve tolerability. The new EC (enteric coated) formulation eliminates those problems, but this is no longer a drug with much of a purpose. Its resistance patterns overlap with the better tolerated tenofovir and abacavir, and it causes neuropathy, pancreatitis, and probably lipoatrophy. More recently, questions have been raised about whether ddI might cause non-cirrhotic portal hypertension, an uncommon but serious and potentially fatal liver condition that doesn't get better after you stop taking the drug.
-- Joel Gallant, M.D., M.P.H.
Activist's Comments
Is there anyone out there still on this drug? There may be a handful of folks still using this, but it is mainly a relic of HIV treatment history. Too many toxic side effects for me to tolerate it back in the day, but Jeff Taylor said it best in last year's rundown; "The fact that it's rarely used anymore can work in its favor, making it a useful add-on drug to salvage regimens for patients who've exhausted all other options." Other than that, I can't see much use.
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When the chinese invasion of Tibet began in 1958, the new Trolig Rinpoche was very young, and the Zuru Rinpoche was very old, so all the responsibilities fell mainly on Thrangu Rinpoche. They all left Kham to go west towards Lhasa. There were thousands of Tibetans going west as refugees from Kham when the fighting broke out. The people were leaving in huge numbers accompanied by many yaks. Thrangu Rinpoche was leading a small party of less than a hundred. They would stop and camp by setting up lots of tents at night. One night an extremely old lady appeared among the thousands of people camped with all these yaks with no one knowing where she had come from. People said that she was a spy for the chinese and if they didn't kill her, they wouldn't escape. So the younger Tibetans were getting ready to kill her and Thrangu Rinpoche said, "No, you mustn't do that. The reason we are running away is to save lives. So if we kill someone, what will that be?" He said not to kill her, so they didn't.
The next day when they were traveling, a plane flew past to see where they were going. That afternoon they camped out to eat at about 3:00 in the afternoon. Then it got dark and they did not see that they were completely surrounded by Chinese soldiers. The chinese communists had machine guns and some kind of artillery. The machine guns started to fire and the people thought there was nowhere to go and just sat there. Thrangu Rinpoche said, "We mustn't just sit here, we must escape." So the machine guns were firing and the yaks were all panicking and all running into each other. All the people were jumping on horses to escape. All the time bullets were flying by and this mortar or cannon fired and the shell came right down where Thrangu Rinpoche, Tralig Rinpoche and Zuru Tulku were. The shell landed right next to them with a thump. It made a hole in the ground, but it didn't explode.
Thrangu Rinpoche had a large white horse and a very strong person who looked after his horse. But the horse was uncontrollable in the panic and it was rearing up and the horse trainer just couldn't hold the horse. Then a large monk came onto the scene, grabbed the horse, pulled it down, got hold of Thrangu Rinpoche, and put him on the horse. Rinpoche rode off. If he hadn't been able to get on the horse, he would never have been able to get away. It turned out that Thrangu Rinpoche, Tralig Tulku, and Zuru Tulku all got away safely. Afterwards everyone was asking who this monk was. But everyone said, "No, it wasn't me."
It turned out that this "monk" was the genyan, the dharma protector that appears in all different forms. Sometimes he appears as an elephant, sometimes as a kind of sadhu, sometimes as a lama in monk's robes, and so on. From this, one can see how Thrangu Rinpoche's dharma protector is always there at the right time and gives whatever help is needed. Tenzin continues:
The party was able to carry on and get to Tsurphu, the Karmapa's monastery in Tibet, and see the Karmapa. When Thrangu Rinpoche arrived, I who was with His Holiness, heard with my own ears the Karmapa say that Thrangu Rinpoche was the main scholar, the most learned person of the Kagyu school. With him the continuity of the teaching of the dharma will remain. So he was very important for the transmission of the actual teachings.
When Tenzin and His Holiness Karmapa left Tibet for Rumtek, Karmapa told Thrangu Rinpoche that he mustn't stay and must come and follow him. So Thrangu Rinpoche left Tibet at the age of 27 and went to Sikkim. At this time all the monasteries were being destroyed, most of the Buddhist monks of any standing being imprisoned and tortured and all the accumulated text of over 1,200 years were being burned. Only 100,000 Tibetans were able to escape.
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In the never-ending quest for cinematic gems hidden in the weekly TV listings, here's what I'll be watching (or at least recording) this week:
What: "Kill Bill: Vol. 1" (2003) and "Kill Bill: Vol. 2" (2004), director Quentin Tarantino's two-part tribute to the martial arts films of his 1970s youth, starring Uma Thurman and David Carradine.
When: Films play back to back, starting Saturday at 1 p.m., then repeat, starting at 6:30 p.m.
Where: Spike cable channel.
Why: Not only do they contain Tarantino's trademark mix of quick dialog and even quicker tempers, followed by quick fists, but the "Kill Bill" movies also are among the more memorable recent performances from Carradine, who died under mysterious circumstances June 3 while filming in Thailand.
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By Michael H. Kleinschrodt, The Times-Picayune
Friday, October 10, 2003
After an absence of six years, writer-director Quentin Tarantino returns to the big screen today with a tribute to the martial arts films of the 1970s.
The movie, "Kill Bill, Vol. 1, " is the first in a two-part series originally conceived as a single epic. The tale will conclude next year.
Tarantino delivers the goods his fans expect: quirky characters, snappy dialogue, brilliantly idiosyncratic music choices and lots of eye candy. What he doesn't deliver is a fully satisfying narrative.
Uma Thurman, who appeared in Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction, " stars as The Bride, a woman seeking revenge against the would-be assassins who shot up her wedding party and left her for dead four years earlier. In a move that's too clever for its own good, every mention of The Bride's name is bleeped out.
All the audience knows is that The Bride once was known as Black Mamba, a lethal member of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad -- DiVAS. Of course, the acronym misplaces the "I" for convenience's sake, and the inclusion of Michael Madsen's Budd/Sidewinder in this squad of women raises interesting questions about his character that aren't explored in "Kill Bill, Vol. 1."
No, the first movie focuses on The Bride's attacks against two of her former colleagues: Vernita Green/Copperhead (Vivica A. Fox) and O-Ren Ishii/Cottonmouth (Lucy Liu).
The movie also introduces Elle Driver/California Mountain Snake (Daryl Hannah) and the titular Bill (David Carradine), the group's leader and the chief target of The Bride's wrath. They, along with Madsen, presumably play larger roles in "Kill Bill, Vol. 2."
As in "Pulp Fiction, " Tarantino tells his story in a nonlinear fashion. There are flashbacks inside other flashbacks, and the backstory of O-Ren Ishii is delivered in an anime sequence. This is the kind of filmmaking without a safety net that Tarantino's fans love.
The disappointment, though, is that movie-goers walk out of "Kill Bill, Vol. 1" without the satisfaction of the story -- or even just this part of the story -- having been brought full circle. "Kill Bill, Vol. 1" does not stand very well on its own.
The abrupt ending obviously is a result of the decision to split the film into two parts. It's a choice that might have irrevocably weakened the movie's dramatic impact. Here's hoping some future DVD release will allow viewers to see the film as originally conceived.
In the meantime, even some very basic questions remain unanswered. For what purpose was the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad formed? What did The Bride do to incur the squad's wrath? Presumably, these questions will be answered next year if a couple of clumsily tacked-on cliffhangers are enough to bring audiences back.
That's a challenge "Pulp Fiction" didn't face, although Tarantino's success with that film bodes well for "Kill Bill, Vol. 2." It was with "Pulp Fiction" that Tarantino proved his talent as a filmmaker by weaving a single tapestry out of the film's seemingly separate threads.
While waiting for Tarantino to repeat that trick with "Kill Bill, " perhaps movie-goers will concentrate on the positive aspects of "Vol. 1."
Because we know so little about The Bride and because she appears first as a victim, Thurman is able to elicit a great deal of compassion for a character who, in essence, is a cold-blooded killer.
"Kill Bill, Vol. 1" also pursues its violent setpieces with much more style and wit than such lunkheaded summer hits as "Bad Boys II" and "Once Upon a Time in Mexico" (Robert Rodriguez's exercise in Tarantino Lite).
Nonetheless, in its desire to replicate the savagery of ultraviolent Japanese cinema, "Kill Bill, Vol. 1" goes too far. When heads are lopped off, blood sprays from open necks as if the Mardi Gras Fountain were inside. The effect, used over and over again, is so ridiculously over the top that it cheapens the film.
Other graphic scenes -- including DiVAS's initial attack against The Bride -- wisely are presented in black-and-white to diminish the impact of all that blood.
Yuen Wo-ping was the film's martial arts adviser, but the fight sequences exhibit little of the grace he brought to films such as "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and the "Matrix" series. "Kill Bill, Vol. 1" is more brutal.
More successful are the film's two production designers: Yohei Taneda, who designed sequences in Japan and China, and Tarantino favorite David Wasco, who designed sequences in the United States and Mexico. The two have given the film a rich look in keeping with each setting.
Despite misgivings about the blood-letting and disappointments with the narrative, "Kill Bill, Vol. 1" is an extraordinarily entertaining film and a brilliant melange of Japanese yakuza films, Chinese kung fu epics and spaghetti Westerns.
Tarantino has borrowed these ingredients to cook up something entirely his own. Now, it's up to him to bring the meal to a satisfying conclusion.
I'm betting he can do it.
By Michael H. Kleinschrodt, The Times-Picayune
Friday, April 16, 2004
Writer-director Quentin Tarantino delivers a stunning coup de grace with "Kill Bill, Vol. 2, " a killer ending to his eye-popping martial arts epic/black comedy.
The new film not only brings the story to a satisfying conclusion, it deepens one's appreciation of "Vol. 1, " released in October.
For the uninitiated, "Kill Bill" stars Uma Thurman as The Bride, the sole survivor of a wedding chapel massacre in El Paso. After spending four years in a coma, The Bride (whose real name is bleeped out of the dialogue) seeks revenge against the traitorous former colleagues who executed her entire bridal party.
These colleagues constitute the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad, of which The Bride a/k/a Black Mamba once was the most venomous member.
In "Vol. 1, " The Bride eliminated O-Ren Ishii/Cottonmouth (Lucy Liu) in a huge samurai swordfight in a Tokyo nightclub. She got the better of Vernita Green/Copperhead (Vivica A. Fox) in a knife fight in a California suburb.
The Bride has three targets left to eliminate in "Vol. 2": Budd/Sidewinder (Michael Madsen), Elle Driver/California Mountain Snake (Daryl Hannah) and the Snakecharmer himself, squad leader Bill (David Carradine), who once was The Bride's lover.
While the two volumes are very much of a piece, "Vol. 2" has some striking differences.
For one thing, the character of Bill was mostly a disembodied voice in the first film, but he's an equal co-star in "Vol. 2." Also, there's less of an emphasis on gore (the fountains of blood are gone), making the gore that remains all the more powerful.
This is where the brilliance of the whole of "Kill Bill" becomes clearer. I originally believed that the fountains of blood cheapened "Vol. 1, " but now I see that they were present only as a homage to the Japanese-influenced sections of the film. "Vol. 2" carries more of a Chinese influence, so explicit gore is minimized (though still used occasionally for shock effect).
The Chinese influence is most apparent in a sequence about The Bride's training at the hands of kung fu master Pai Mei (Gordon Liu). The character is depicted as a cross between Yoda and Gandalf, and Gordon Liu has great fun dismissively flicking his long, white beard the way Cher used to flick her hair every time she insulted Sonny Bono.
There's also a great sequence in which The Bride and Pai Mei are silhouetted against a blood-red background, condensing The Bride's training as '70s funk plays on the soundtrack. This is pure Tarantino.
Thurman is the very picture of determination as the steely Bride, perhaps the strongest female character ever portrayed on the big screen.
Hannah comes into her own as the conflicted Elle in "Vol. 2." She more than holds up her end of an intense fight scene and just as easily handles the humor of a long speech to a desperate colleague.
Fittingly, Carradine's Bill remains a bit of an enigma, but "Vol. 2" does answer most of the questions left from the first film.
The audience finally learns the reason for the wedding chapel massacre. The Bride's real name ultimately is revealed. And, most amusingly, Elle's partial blindness is explained.
There are many incidental bits of humor sprinkled throughout the film, including clouds of dust that follow The Bride for quite a while after a particularly nasty encounter. There's also a wonderful stand-off between two assassins thrown into confusion by the results of a home pregnancy test.
Of course, a critic cannot let any movie pass without exposing some flaw. At the end of "Kill Bill, Vol. 2, " audiences still are left wondering why the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad was formed in the first place. And the fate of one character remains something of a mystery, a point cleverly played up in the movie's final credits.
The credits also underscore the movie's original conception as a single film. The credits honor everyone who worked on "Vol. 1" as well as "Vol. 2."
More than ever, I am eager to see the two volumes restored to Tarantino's original vision. I'm convinced that the dramatic impact would be greater.
I just hope that the split release does not kill the movie's Oscar chances. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences completely ignored "Kill Bill, Vol. 1." If voters' memories will stretch back to April, they can rectify the situation later this year.


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