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HONOLULU -- A Coast Guard rescue swimmer whose disappearance led to a massive search in Hawaii pleaded guilty to desertion Tuesday, saying he left work one day, decided never to return and spent the next three months camping in the mountains. A military judge sentenced him to more than six months confinement and a bad conduct discharge.
During a special court-martial in Honolulu, Petty Officer 1st Class Russell Matthews pleaded guilty to desertion and wrongful use of marijuana. In exchange for his guilty plea, the Coast Guard dismissed charges of being absent without leave and causing the Coast Guard to conduct a search when there was no need.
Matthews' sentence also includes forfeiture of $2,000 of pay per month for a year, which he can opt to have sent to his two children. He'll also be downgraded to the third-lowest rank. The Coast Guard says the six months' confinement is on top of the 119 days he's already served at a Navy brig.
He wanted to leave the Coast Guard to bury the pain of losing crewmembers in a 2008 helicopter crash, he said. He was supposed to be with that crew but was hospitalized with appendicitis at the time of the crash. Adding to the pain was a bicycle accident, where his first wife was pulling their two sons on a trailer. She suffered a traumatic brain injury and later committed suicide. He deserted near the one-year anniversary of her suicide.
"Your honor, I left work and I didn't have any intention of going back," he testified, describing how he went to pick up his children from school on Oct. 9 and then got into an argument with his wife. He then drove to Kaena Point, a remote part of Oahu, and walked on the beach for several hours. Afterward, he camped in the mountains behind his kids' school, he said, where he stayed until he showed up at his wife's home in mid-January.
"That's a long time to be camping," said Coast Guard Cmdr. Kevin Bruen, the judge presiding over the court-martial. "How did you sustain yourself?"
"I had $20 in my pocket," Matthews said softly. "I did some... stuff I try not to remember."
Meanwhile, the Coast Guard launched a massive search. Members of the Coast Guard who participated in the search that scoured more than 10,000 square miles testified about the motivation to find one of their own, the speculation he may have tried to kill himself and then the mixed emotions that came when he turned up alive.
Pilots flew 64 hours searching over the waters off Kaena Point, taking Coast Guard members away from their normal duties and taxing aircraft. "He's part of our unit...we are family," said Cmdr. Prince Neal. Rescuers mourned his loss, only to find out he was alive. They felt happiness for his children, but also confusion, Neal recalled.
Matthews didn't discuss more about his time in the wilderness, only saying he simply went back to where he lived and realized his wife and children had moved. The memories of what happened next are sketchy, he said, recalling that paramedics were called because he had a cut on his head and he ended up in police custody.
"It was not my intention to turn my back on my unit or the Coast Guard," Matthews said. "I cannot change the past but I vow to make things right in the future."
Lt. Kelly Vandenberg, a Coast Guard attorney prosecuting the case, said by "hanging out in the woods," the people who suffered the most are his children.
One of Matthews' defense attorneys, Lt. Cmdr. Christopher Deerwester, said Matthews loved the Coast Guard and didn't act in spite. Finding a campsite overlooking his children's school was his way of not abandoning them, Deerwester said. He also said Matthews smoked marijuana to "self-medicate."
Coast Guard attorneys said his two sons are in the custody of his first wife's family on the mainland.
Before being led away, Matthews kissed his wife, who sat alone, dressed in black, in the back of the courtroom. She declined to comment and left the federal courthouse in tears.


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Here are the Catholic higher education institutions that made the top 100, along with their ranking, location, annual costs and enrollments:
- 18 — University of Notre Dame, Indiana; $53,239; 11,816
- 26 — Boston College, Massachusetts; $54,624; 15,036
- 27 — College of the Holy Cross, Massachusetts; $54,432; 2,932
- 47 — Georgetown University, District of Columbia; $56,485; 16,520
- 67 — Santa Clara University, California; $53,742; 8,846
- 84 — St. Norbert College, Wisconsin; $37,392; 2,304
- 85 — St. Anselm College, New Hampshire; $45,705; 1,915
- 88 — St. Michael's College, Vermont; $45,630; 2,466
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Basic Daylight Exposure. Photographers often use built-in or handheld meters to ensure proper exposure. However, there are times when knowing how to judge the light will arrive at good exposure.
In daylight and ambient light envelopes, you can use a non-metered approach to determining exposure. With the sun, for all intents and purposes, a constant distance from the earth, the light reaching the light envelope will be constant with normal clear sky sunlight. Therefore, we can set a standard for lighting using the sun as our main light.
Basic daylight exposure (BDE), also called the sunny day or sunny 16 rule, allows you to adjust exposures based on a set of recommendations related to the light rather than a meter measurement. The concept is built on the assumption that on a sunny day, an f/16 aperture setting and a shutter speed of 1/ISO can be used to produce a correct exposure. With a shutter speed of 1/ISO, the following are recommendations for BDE:
The following scenarios will require adjusting the shutter speed and f-stop:
This exposure was made at night and metering was not practical. Using BDE, an exposure was established that allowed for the capture of the color of the lights. Photograph by Glenn Rand.
Light Meters. Though determining exposure through BDE is possible, most exposures are determined by light meters. Light meters can be built into the camera or handheld.
Reflective meters evaluate the amount of light that is reflected from the subject. Incident meters, on the other hand, are used to determine the amount of light falling on the subject. Reflective meters are available in two types: averaging or spot meters. An averaging meter reads all the light reflecting toward the meter from the entire light envelope. A spot meter measures the light entering the meter from a specific area within the envelope. Either type may be built into the camera or handheld. A problem with reflected metering occurs when the subject is very light or very dark. This creates subject bias and will cause images of dark subjects to appear overexposed and images of light subjects to look underexposed. In such cases, an incident meter should be used. Because an incident meter measures the light in the envelope, it is not influenced by subject bias.
Substitution Metering. Subject bias can be avoided by using substitution metering. To use this technique, you use a reflected light meter to meter an object with a known reflectivity (e.g., an 18 percent gray card). The object you are metering must be part of the subject, placed at the subject location in the light envelope, or receiving the same intensity of light as the subject. If the only thing that the metering system measures is the substituted material, the results will match those of an incident meter.
Though a gray card, held perpendicular to the lens axis, is a popular choice for substitution metering, there are other commonly used targets. For instance, you can meter a clear north sky, which has a relative luminance equivalent to 18 percent reflection. You can also measure the light reflected from the palm of your hand, then reduce the exposure by one stop.
Flash Meters and Guide Numbers. When working with electronic flash, photographers typically use a flash meter, which also reads incident light. A still better option for ensuring proper exposure when using electronic flash is to use a guide number (also called a guide factor). A guide number is a value used to calculate the correct f-stop for the flash-to-subject distance and ISO rating/setting required to achieve correct exposure. To determine the correct f-stop, divide the guide number by the distance (the guide number is often provided with the flash unit). To determine best subject distance, divide the guide number by the f-stop.
Light balancing was used to produce this image. Since shutter speed is less of an issue for electronic flash, the light outside was balanced to the flash exposure by using an equivalent exposure to set the camera's shutter speed to the f-stop recommended by a flash meter. Photograph by Glenn Rand.
This photograph was made for Women's Circle Crochet magazine. The lighting of this subject was controlled to produce only three stops of difference between the reflected spot-meter readings from the white yarn and the black detail. The lighting was adjusted while taking meter readings until the light was tuned to create the dynamic range required for the magazine's printing. Photograph by Glenn Rand.
Tonal Placement. Tonal placement metering is an important tool to accomplish the desired look in our images. In fact, it is the basis of the Zone System. The concept is built on the direct relationship between stops and zones and holds true for all midtones but loses its effectiveness at the dark and light extremes of the light range. The concept holds that a one-stop change in the light or exposure will change the zone value of the metered area one zone. To use this technique, then, the photographer uses a reflected light meter to measure the light coming from a selected area of the image. Since the meter is built to calculate exposure of middle gray, opening up one stop will lighten the selected tone to be brighter by one zone and stopping down one stop will darken by one zone. When darkening or lightening any specific area within the image, the tones in the rest of the image will shift in the same direction.
Dark-Tone Metering. Perhaps the most useful and nontechnical approach to film exposure based on the Zone System is dark-tone metering. In this approach, we would determine the area of critical shadow detail in the picture, use a reflective meter to take a reading, then stop down two stops from the recommended setting. In a controlled-lighting scenario, we can take an overall incident meter reading then adjust the fill light in the shadow area to provide a two-stop difference from the metered setting.
Highlight Detail Metering. Highlight detail metering is the flip side of dark-tone metering and is most effective for determining exposure for digital capture and transparency film. In this method, you meter the area in which you want to show highlight detail and adjust the exposure by opening up by two stops.
To avoid blooming or blown-out highlights, when working with a tethered system check the histogram for your image and ensure that the maximum highlight value is no higher than 242.
Exposure was chosen based on the important highlight tones of the pearl diver. A spot meter was used to take a reading from the diver at a previous surfacing and used for photographing this assent. Photograph by Glenn Rand.
Average Value Metering. Within the light envelope there are generally both highlight and shadow details that the photographer will want accurately presented in the image.
To use average-value metering, use the following steps:
If the distance between the highlight and shadow detail areas of the image is beyond seven stops for film or nine stops for digital, the system will not work well. Note that when the distance is an even number of stops (e.g., f/16 to f/5.8) the average value will be a half stop. In this case, you should select the value below the midpoint for film and the aperture setting above the midpoint for digital work.
Testing. Image sensors can only accept a specific amount of light at each pixel. Beyond this point the energy will bloom to adjacent pixels or block up as white. To determine our image sensor's ability to accept overexposure, we must conduct a simple test to determine its exposure index (EI).
To run the test, you will need the following:
Test setup. Photograph by Tim Meyer.
To ensure the test is properly conducted, complete these steps:
To determine your camera's true ISO, read the white card with the color sampler tool in your image-editing software. Neutralize the file, then take a series of readings across the white card. The neutralizing should not include adjusting the white point. The correct exposure will be the frame where your white card value is approximately 242 with no exposure adjustment.
If you organize the shooting and corresponding white point data in order of exposure, from most exposure to least exposure, you can see which exposure's white point is closest to 242. That is the exposure closest to the ISO set in the meter. The optimal ISO setting (EI) is determined by counting the number of stops (1/3 or 1/2) from the camera's set ISO. If the EI is below the meter setting, you must reduce your exposure. Conversely, if the EI is greater than the meter setting, you must increase the exposure. Obviously, this is only viable if the camera is used in manual mode using the light meter used for testing. It is also important to record the light meter readings for the white card and the textured white area of the test scene.
The two examples show a normal exposure (top) and a two-stop overexposure test (bottom). Our task is to find the highest level of exposure in which detail is maintained in the white textured area of the image. Photos by Tim Meyer.
This photograph by Tim Meyer shows the benefit of EI testing a digital camera. The image was captured in JPEG, and without EI testing, shadow details in the background and highlight details in the gown and wall would not have been captured.
Exposure Profiles. An advanced but complicated way to ensure accurate exposure is to build exposure profiles. Because the process is quite complex and is beyond the scope of this book, this section is designed to merely introduce you to the basic concept.
An exposure profile is an intermediary function that will allow us to work within a changing light environment with predictable results. The profiles include information about the type of light, its intensity range, the camera sensor's limits, the sensor's functional EI, the type of file that will be used, and the limits of the intended output device. As can be imagined, taking into account all these variables and the way they interact can be very difficult.
By establishing your camera's EI, you can ensure that the highlights in your image will not exceed the camera's capture range. The RAW channel histogram shows that few light levels reach the maximum highlight value. Photograph by Glenn Rand.
Key in developing an exposure profile is the tool in the middle, the light meter. The meter is used to measure light variations, and the values that are calculated are used in the creation of inter-relational and coordinated lookup tables. These look-up tables connect measurements from the light meter, camera limits and processes, and outputs. Each look-up table compares two or more of the variables and provides exposure information based on these or related interactions.
Manually creating exposure profiles is difficult because one must take into account so many interrelated variables. Fortunately, there's a tool that can be put to the task to alleviate this burden. The Sekonic DigitalMaster L-758DR light meter uses proprietary software and testing tools to calculate exposure profiles, which can then be transferred to the meter via USB connection. Once stored in the memory of the light meter, the profile is accessible as an operating function of the meter. When operated in the profile mode the meter graphically shows the photographer where overall (incident) illumination falls within the dynamic range of the sensor and also indicates if the highlight and shadow points fall outside the dynamic range of the sensor and will be "clipped." This allows the photographer to adjust the lighting or exposure in order to ensure that the photograph can be captured and output as previsualized.
Photograph by Glenn Rand.


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We are about to launch a new marketplace for a large DVD rental company (whose name I can't use). The site will be called "Big Lot DVDs" and will auction millions of dollars worth of excess DVDs per year in large lots (in case our name wasn't clear about that) to an approved buyers only. All buyers must apply, be vetted and approved before they are able to participate.
We need a logo for this site, and quickly.
The users of this site are businesses buying DVDs as inventory for their own resale. They might be online (ie. eBay or Amazon sellers) or they might operate their own web stores. They might be brick and mortar retailers who sell or rent DVDs. They also might be brokers or wholesalers of DVDs who will buy 10,000 units and resell in 1,000 unit lots.
I am looking for your creativity to create an appealing, intuitive and versatile logo. The primary use is on the site, but we'll also be advertising the site both online and off and the logo should be applicable to those uses as well.
I have no preconceived idea of what this should look like. I want to draw on the collective creativity of the 99Designs community to find something great.
We are on a short timeline. We need a logo fast, so we'll be choosing a winner before the end of the 7 day duration. We are extending our deadline another couple days. We will select our winner on Monday (before the contest official end time).
Thanks for considering our contest!
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I'm having difficulty with a current Java assignment. I believe if I can get it started properly (and know how the whole object, method, main thing works) I could finish the rest. The assignment is :
Write a Java program that will create and manipulate an array of
double values in several different ways. You will have at least
two classes. Let's call them Mid2 and DVector. You may have more
classes as you need (many of you will want class Prompter, since
there will be keyboard input).
Mid2: class containing the main method
DVector: class that will be used in Mid2
The program will be similar in structure to assignment 7, in that
the main class Mid2 is a "driver" that will allow a user to create
and manipulate an object (or objects) of class DVector.
Here are the details of what each class should do.
class DVector
This class will contain an array of double (among other fields) and
will have several different methods for manipulating that array
(note that this will be a similar situation to your assignment 7
class Student having an array of grades):
public void show()
method "show" will print out all the elements in the array in
some nice readable fashion (show the value, and the slot number).
You probably want to write this one first, as it will be helpful
in determining if your other methods are working correctly as
you write them.
public void fill()
method "fill" with no parameters will read double values from the
keyboard and put them into the array. Get a value of every slot
in the array. Do not worry about error checking the input values;
you may assume the user will type well formed doubles.
public boolean fill(int n)
this version of fill will get keyboard input, reading doubles from
the user, but it will only put values into the first "n" slots.
Return "false" if the parameter n is too large (i.e., larger than
the maximum number of slots in the array) and don't do any input;
otherwise, do the keyboard input and return "true".
public void fill(double val)
write a second method called "fill" (overloaded method) that takes
a single parameter of type double; this version of fill will put
the parameter value into each array element; for example, the
call fill(0.0) will set each array element to zero, whereas a call
fill(7.3) will put the value 7.3 into each array element.
public boolean add(double val)
this method will put the parameter value into the next open slot
in the array. You will have to check to make sure there is an open
slot (make sure the array is not full already).
public boolean set(int slot, double val)
method "set" will take an integer and a double as parameters, and
put the double value into the array slot indicated by the integer
parameter. This method will return a boolean and you will have to
do some simple error checking in the method. First, you must check
the integer that is passed to make sure it can be used as a valid
subscript... i.e., that it is 0 or greater, and it is not larger
than the size of the array. Return true if the integer is good and
the set can be done; return false if the integer is bad, and do not
change any array values in that case.
public boolean full()
this method returns true if all array slots have values in them;
it returns false if there is at least one empty array slot.
public int size()
this method returns the number of elements stored in the array
public int max()
this method return the total number of slots in the array, i.e.,
maximum number of elements that could be stored
public double sum()
method "sum" will find the total sum of all elements in the array
public double largest()
method "largest" will find and return the largest value in the array.
public int filter(double val)
this method takes a single parameter of type double; it will compare
each array element to the parameter value, and set an element to
zero if the element is smaller than the parameter value; the method
will return the count of how many elements got set to 0.0; for example,
if 3 elements get changed, return a 3; if no elements are changed,
return a 0.
constructors as needed
You know you need a constructor that takes a single integer as
argument and uses that integer to set the size of the array that
is created (see Mid2 discussion; this is like you did in assignment
7 class Student to set the array length).
class Mid2
This class will contain the public static void main method.
It will read one run line parameter -- an integer that will tell how
many slots should be in the array (remember to do proper error
checking... you may assume the user types a well-formed integer,
but you need to make sure that integer is larger than 0).
Once you have a good integer value from the run line parameter, you
will create an object of class DVector and pass this integer parameter
to the DVector constructor. This integer will tell DVector how large
to make the array.
Once you have the object of class DVector you will do this:
a) enter a loop that asks the user what method he/she wants to run on
the DVector object. You can do this in several different ways...
print a menu of choices and let the user give an integer (like we did
way back in an early Javascript program, the converter). You can
designate choices by integer or string... you pick a way.
b) When the user makes a choice, you will call the corresponding method
on the object of class DVector (you may need to ask for more input...
for example, if the user wants to run method "set"). Remember to
make one of your choices "quit". Remember to also make two of your
choices the "fill" methods so the user can re-fill the array easily
if desired.
c) When you run the selected method on the object, print out the results
you get back (if there are return values). You might wish to use the
method "show" to show what is in the array after some operations.
-- Start with Mid2, get main running to where it accepts the
command line parameter... start without error checking and just
make sure you type in a correct positive integer for the run
line argument when you test.
-- Now create class DVector but only put one or two useful methods
in it... like the constructor to make the array, and something
like display, and fill(double val). With these, you will have
an array full of values, and can see them. This will allow then
growing the other methods.
-- Now add the code in main that creates the object of class DVector.
Since the compiler puts 0.0 in doubles by default, you should be
able to call show() on the object and see the values.
-- Now add code to allow the user to select a method to run and
make the object run it. Obviously at this point the only
methods you can choose are fill(double val) and display.
-- once you have fill(double val) working, you can do the smaller
methods like sum(), max(), size(), etc. and get a nice sense of
-- Now add the method "fill()" to DVector... this means adding code
for keyboard reading to that class.
-- Add the call to fill() back in class Mid2... then test
-- Add more methods to DVector, and more invocation choices to Mid2...
test... grow it until you have all methods.
Good ones at this point might be largest(), filter, etc.
-- after you have these working, you can go back and create the
other forms of fill, and the add method (which grows an un-full
array one element at a time) and the set method. Since you have
methods like show, largest, sum already, you will be able to see
if your new methods work properly.
-- Add error checking where input values are obtained to make the
program robust.
Can anyone help me?


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This book should finally lay to rest any complaints that Brian is too often vague and evasive in stating what exactly he does believe about the gospel. In this book he is crystal clear. Bottom line: it's about the kingdom of God.
Of course, that's not to say that Brian purports to answer every question or spell out a detailed systematic theology. Instead, rather true to form, he paints us a picture with broad strokes, giving us a new way to look at what Jesus and his gospel were all about. And he does it with a remarkable clarity and simplicity.
Indeed, the most surprising thing about this book is that it seems to have been written as much for non-Christian seekers as for fellow Christians. This is a book you could give to your "spiritual but not religious" friends who might be interested in learning more about Jesus. In fact, when I saw the cover art along with the title touting a secret message of Jesus I couldn't help but wonder if Brian and/or the publishers were hoping to tap into all the buzz about the DaVinci Code. People these days seem to be really fascinated with "lost gospels" and suppressed ("secret"?) truths within Christianity; so one can imagine a seeker picking up Brian's book in hopes of finding more in this vein. (Not that I think this is a bad thing. One of my good friends came to Christ in part because his interest in apocryphal gospels led him to bring his questions to my youth group.)
However, I have to admit that when I first heard the title I did raise an eyebrow. I was worried that talking about Jesus' "secret" message might imply some kind of Gnostic insight that only truly enlightened (emergent?) Christians really understand. However, I was relieved to discover that Brian's use of the word was instead intended to raise questions about the lack of clarity we often find in Christ's teachings. After all, Jesus' own disciples complain about him using parables all the time rather than just speaking clearly, and Jesus admits that he's being deliberately obscure (Matthew 13:10-15). So Brian raises the question:
"What if Jesus had actually concealed his deepest message, not trying to make it overt and obvious but intentionally hiding it as a treasure one must seek in order to find? If that's the case, why would Jesus ever do such a thing?" (p. 4)
Once Brian raised this issue I realized that I too had often been puzzled by this in the Bible. If knowledge of the truth is so very important, then why couldn't Jesus have just spoken more clearly and told us everything we needed to know. Why did he speak in parables rather than in doctrinal statements? Why does the Bible contain letters and poems and stories rather than systematic theology?
What Brian suggests is that perhaps Jesus' purpose was not to simply impart knowledge. Instead maybe Christ's goal was to effect spiritual transformation in the lives of his hearers; and maybe this goal is best achieved by means of parables and other similar forms of communicating. In his chapter on "The Medium of the Message" Brian states:
"If the goal is an interactive relationship (which is at the heart of terms like kingdom of God and eternal life), a parable succeeds where easy answers and obvious explanations couldn't. With a clear and easy explanation, hearers can listen and achieve understanding and then go on their way, independent of the teacher. But when the parable confounds them, they must come back to interact; they continue to depend on the teacher himself, not just their independent understanding of his words… So parables have this capacity that goes beyond informing their hearers; parables also have the power to help form them into interactive, interdependent, humble, inquisitive, and persistent people." (p. 46)
But what is Jesus' secret message then? According to Brian, it comes down to the idea of the kingdom of God as present, political, social, and personal reality. In other words, he focuses on the fact that Jesus didn't seem to talk about heaven as some place we go to after we die, but rather as a reality that we can begin to live in here and now ("the kingdom of God is among you!"). And perhaps by living in this reality (according to its ways and values) we can begin to transform the world in such a way as to bring a little bit more of heaven to earth. Brian puts it this way:
"What if Jesus' secret message reveals a secret plan? What if he didn't come to start a new religion – but rather came to start a political, social, religious, artistic, economic, intellectual, and spiritual revolution that would give birth to a new world?" (p. 4)
He spends the rest of the book describing this revolution and this new world. The book itself is divided into three main sections. The first, "Excavation: Digging Beneath the Surface to Uncover Jesus's Message", dives into the historical and especially the first century Jewish context of Jesus' message. Of course, to me it seems obvious that if we are to really understand what Jesus is all about we must first understand him through the eyes and ears of his original audience. What astounds me is that there are still some Christians who see this approach as a threat to an "evangelical" understanding of scripture. But if we truly respect the Bible and desire to know what it's really saying, then wouldn't we want to look at it first through the lens of its historical and cultural context rather than through the lenses of our systematic theologies? After all, most of our current theologies, whether evangelical or liberal, were developed centuries later in response to very different questions than those that concerned Jesus and his followers.
As Brian uncovers this historical context of the message he shows how it has revolutionary political and social implications, both for Jesus' time and for ours. Not revolutionary in the sense that Jesus was trying to violently overthrow Rome and set up a new Jewish kingdom in its place, but revolutionary in that Jesus was calling people to live according to the values and practices of a new social order, and swear allegiance to a different Lord than Caesar. This is the thrust of the book's second section, "Engagement: Grappling with the Meaning of Jesus's Message", as Brian more fully explains the implications of Christ's message of a kingdom of sacrificial love, subtle subversion and radical inclusion.
The third and final section, "Imagination: Exploring How Jesus' Secret Message Could Change Everything", discusses the practical and personal implications by examining how this new understanding of Jesus transforms our understanding of social relationships, spiritual practices, as well as the dynamics of just war versus active peacemaking. But Brian wades into even more controversial subjects when he suggests that this new understanding of the gospel requires us to also rethink our traditional understandings of Heaven, Hell and the End Times as well as who is really "in" and "out" of the kingdom and what that means. Without getting too mired down by trying to explain what Brian says about all these topics, I will say that the picture he paints is a far more satisfying and biblically consistent view than many of the ones that I've encountered in my theological journey thus far.
Of course, it shouldn't be assumed that much of what Brian writes is entirely his own creation. This entire book is really a popularization of the work of many respected biblical scholars and historians such as N.T. Wright, Walter Wink, Dallas Willard and C.S. Lewis among others. He is standing on the shoulders of others, but he putting their work in terms that are more accessible to the average lay person, and indeed, even to non-Christians.
And it's a message that needs to be heard. I had already started piecing this "secret message" together myself through reading some of the same scholars that have influenced this book, but once again Brian succeeds in putting what I was already thinking into words far clearer and more compelling than anything I could have come up with myself. And this understanding of Jesus' message certainly will change everything for those who embrace it. Many of the perplexing absurdities and dilemmas of evangelical theology simply disappear when seen through this lens; while at the same time one is still challenged by Jesus' message to reorient one's whole life according to this new kingdom lifestyle. At least, I know I was.
You should all go buy the book and read it as soon as possible. This is a message that needs to be heard. Not Brian's message, but Jesus' message - Jesus true message, stripped of centuries of theological accumulations. This is more than just a new view of the gospel (i.e. new "theology", new abstract ideas). It's an invitation to a new kind of life. Jesus secret message is an invitation to live in the Way of the Kingdom. This is the message that we have been committed to teaching and following at our new church plant, Via Christus (the Way of Christ), and it's a message that I hope all Christians would soon discover, because it's what we, and the whole world, need to see lived out.
So buy the book, read it, then come join us at up/rooted over the summer months as we discuss it. You can order The Secret Message of Jesus here.


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It's 2009 after extensive testing and fixing the LHC is finally switched on to do its thing. A wonderful achievement! Surely the borders of science will be pushed and some of the most fundamental questions will be answered. The first results are truly spectacular. But then something happens...
Many tiny black holes are created, as much as one per second. But no problem, they are unstable and vaporize within a tiny fraction of a second. This is all according to calculations anyway. But next something unexpected happens; against the odds one of those baby black holes is stable. It is there to stay! Nothing seems to happen though; it simply escapes the lab and slowly sinks to the centre of the Earth attracted by gravity. Nobody will probably notice.
After some time the black hole bumps into an obstacle like for example an electron. It greedily swallows the particle. The black hole becomes heavier and pulls in some more particles, and more, and more… The black hole becomes bigger and bigger and bigger until it sucks up the Earth's core, the mantle and then the entire Earth. Oops.
Fortunately it takes the black hole probably hundreds of thousands of years to mature. All the time we need to evacuate the planet. The probability on something happening like described is considered "acceptable small".
I am going to watch the Black hole again;-)
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The Islamic Republic of Afghanistan is a landlocked country in south-central Asia. It is bordered by Pakistan in the south and east, Iran in the west, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan in the north, and China in the far northeast. In addition; India claims a border with Afghanistan at the Wakhan corridor as part of its claim on the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Kashmir currently controlled by Pakistan.
The territories now comprising Afghanistan have been an ancient focal point of the Silk Road and human migration. The land is at an important geostrategic location, connecting East, South, West and Central Asia, and has been home to various peoples through the ages. The region has been a target of various invaders since antiquity, including by Alexander the Great, the Mauryan Empire, Muslim armies, and Genghis Khan, and has served as a source from which many kingdoms, such as the Greco-Bactrians, Kushans, Samanids, Ghaznavids, Ghurids, Timurids, and many others have risen to form empires of their own.
The political history of Afghanistan begins in the 18th century with the rise of the Pashtun tribes (known as Afghans in Persian), when in 1709 the Hotaki dynasty established its rule in Kandahar and, more specifically, when Ahmad Shah Durrani created the Durrani Empire in 1747 which became the forerunner of modern Afghanistan. Its capital was shifted in 1776 from Kandahar to Kabul and most of its territories ceded to neighboring empires by 1893. In the late 19th century, Afghanistan became a buffer state in "The Great Game" between the British and Russian empires. On August 19, 1919, following the third Anglo-Afghan war, the country regained independence from the United Kingdom over its foreign affairs.


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Following on from a number of enquiries about this, here's a quick How-to:
The current packages in Ubuntu (and derivatives) are not up to date, and as users will find out, incomplete when compiling LS and a Qsampler front end.
So to install deb packages from your own build, reference the excellent Debian How to in LS documentation, do the following:
Open Synaptic, and completely remove the following packages, before building yours:
Once these have been completely removed, then build and install your own deb packages.
After you've installed your build, system up dates will, naturally, 'remind' you to update to, you guessed it, the aforementioned ubuntu packages.
Stick with the packages you've made, and simply untick the updates for the Ubuntu packages.
If you get irritated by the constant reminders, then do the following:
AFTER you've built your own packages and installed them, they will appear in Synaptic. Go to packages in the synaptic menu, and "lock" the versions you have.
The update reminder will disappear.
NOTE: Once you've locked the versions, you'll need to "unlock" them, when you build your own updated versions of LS, and associated packages, install your new build, then "relock" the versions again.


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