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Participants: Apologies, I forgot to make a list. It was about 10 - 12 people, around half of whom hadn't come to a GRUG meeting before.
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Kata: KataMinesweeper in Ruby on a Mac with TextMate and RSpec
18:00 ~ 18:30 informal welcome, explanations and setting up environment. We had already agreed before the meeting which Kata we would do, and that we would be using RSpec, through discussion on the mailing list.
18:30 ~ 20:30 Coding Session
We tackled the problem in a RandoriKata style, using PingPong pair switching.
20:30 ~ 21:00 Retrospective
We talked about what happened in four categories.
What pleased us
* Good for beginners to Ruby, syntax questions answered without disrupting flow
* Tests were very readable, partly thanks to RSpec
What displeased us
* Several participants had never used a Mac or Ruby before, writing code was slow and frustrating due to keyboard and syntax difficulties.
* Multiline strings in Ruby are ugly (compared to python)
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- * we didn't solve the whole problem, although it was quite simple and we discussed design plans at the start (something we had thought at previous retrospectives might help speed progress)
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* RSpec gives readable tests, but how on earth does it work underneath
* Why didn't we start with the (failing) acceptance test instead of 0 0 input? That would have been better BDD.
* Why did we give up on using a regexp to split up the input and instead implement a state machine
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* KataMinesweeper again with Ruby and RSpec
* Windows environment instead of Mac (familiar to more participants)
* Start with the acceptance test then implement top down using mocking (NiclasNilsson suggested this)
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- Try not to worry as nerves will begin to affect your learning as well as your skills and your concentration may lapse. A typical driving test in Perth is not something to be stressed about if you remember the road rules and have been paying attention to during your driving lessons.
- You could mentally rehearse the driving test Perth by visualizing the whole process. This exercise helps in calming you and also prepares you for the next stage.
- Try some deep breathing exercises. This can work wonders for your nerves. These exercises would also improve your blood circulation, keeping you more alert and refreshed during the test so that you can give it your best shot.
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It was dinner time and as usual they were all focused on that one monitor, about halfway up, on the left. "Here he comes," Paul said. "Ah, yes! And there's the daughter," Kenny confirmed. They were all rather satisfied looking at the screen. They knew what was going to happen, but everyday again they were religiously pleased with …


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The Cincinnati board of trustees approved the next contract extension for head baskeball coach Mick Cronin today. It's a 7 year deal that will pay Cronin 2.2 million dollars a year. That makes him one of the 4 highest paid coaches in the American Athletic Conference behind Kevin Ollie of National Champion UConn, the legendary Larry Brown currently at SMU, and Josh Pastner of Memphis.
Cronin has been at UC for 8 seasons. He's signed extensions, or simply had his contract adjusted to pay him more, 4 times. The most recent time being last year. With the Frank Haith deal, 7 years, 1.85 million dollars a year, maybe Cincinanti felt some pressure to pay Cronin higher than the coach at Tulsa.
Or maybe it's just a sign of committment and respect. Cincinnati wants Mick Cronin to hang around. Mick Cronin wants to hang around Cincinnati. He doesn't appear to want to be the highest paid coach in the league, but he wants to be one of them. He wants the same opportunities the rest of the league has. He's deserved it throughout his run in Cincinnati. He's taken a program that was as down as a major program could possibly be without being heavily sanctioned and turned it back into a league champion that has gone to the NCAA tournament each of the last 4 seasons while winning 3 NCAA tournament games.
If Cronin actually hangs on to this contract in full, which he won't given the history, he would hit 15 seasons as Cincinnati head coach. That would put him as the second longest tenured coach in Cincinnati history.
Cincinnati.com had the following quotes from the UC head coach:
"Eight years ago, I was named head coach at the University of Cincinnati and at that press conference I said among other things that I wanted to make UC basketball an elite program, a class program, mentioned with the likes of the best college basketball programs in the country.
"Today, I hope that my commitment to that statement is much more in focus and understood. While it is a great honor to be the coach at my alma mater, my goals for our program are still very much the same.
"We have come a very long way in eight years, especially as one of only 16 teams to reach the last four NCAA Tournaments. Academically, we have had great success as our University continues to rise on the charts nationally. It is very true that I cherish coaching at home, on the campus where I literally grew up, but I believe that we can continue our climb to the top of college basketball at UC."


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But all those who have fallen into a swoon after some violent accident and have lost all sensation, have been in my opinion very close to seeing Death's true and natural face, for it is not to be feared that the fleeting moment at which we pass away comport any hardship or distress, since we cannot have sensation without duration. For us, suffering needs time and time is so short and precipitate when we die that death must be indiscernible. What we have to fear is Death's approaches, they can indeed fall within our experience.(Montaigne : On Practice Essays: II.6 (Screech trans. Penguin)
Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.(Ludwig Wittgenstein: Tractatus)
Henri Bergson would have agreed with those sentiments and his position on memory being mainly not stored in the brain he felt was borne out by the phenomenon of our life 'passing before our eyes' in an instant when we feel we are about to die. We deal with life through living it towards the future, responding to its demands by action. The brain is an organ of action. Specific memories are drawn out of 'storage' as they are relative to the situation. Take away a future and specific response is otiose. Memory then becomes a total immediate recall of everything.
We live in the past, by the past and out of our greater mind. (mental illness might be that alienation from it and a subsequent lack of meaning) Compressed into duration in Bergson's view is every relevant indication of appropriate action. The brain registers this or channels it but is not its storehouse except in the limited sense of rote memory and muscle memory.
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NASA astronaut Norm Thagard rode the space shuttle to orbit four times before he was selected as the first American to launch on a Soyuz. On that day, March 14, 1995, strapped into his couch atop the rocket at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, he took heart in the thought that the Soyuz had a launch abort system. At the tip of the vehicle was a long, slim, powerful rocket that could yank the crew capsule away from the rest of the Soyuz if the booster failed. The shuttle had offered Thagard no such insurance.
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"And if I doubted that [the abort system] worked," says Thagard, 66, by phone from his Tallahassee, Florida, home, "all I had to do was turn to my left and look at Gennady Strekalov, my flight engineer. I was looking at a guy who had actually been in a launch pad abort and lived to tell the tale—and in fact, obviously, was still on flight status."
Strekalov's ill-fated mission, Soyuz T-10-1, launching at night on September 23, 1983, ended about a minute before liftoff when fuel began to spill around the base of the rocket, which became engulfed in flames. Two seconds before the rocket exploded and destroyed the pad, the ground control team activated the launch abort system. It remains the only instance that one has been used on the pad with a crew aboard. Strekalov and his commander Vladimir Titov were propelled a few thousand feet into the night sky, squashed into their couches at 14 to 17 Gs for a few seconds. The spent abort motor popped off, the parachutes opened, and the capsule floated to the ground a few miles away. "If it had been the shuttle," says Thagard, "they would have been dead." You can almost feel the heat in this Russian video.
"I felt safer on the Soyuz," continues Thagard. "It's kinda strange. You grow up thinking that the Russians don't care as much about human life as the Americans, and when you get there you find out nothing could be farther from the truth. I think they're sort of fatalistic about their own individual fate, but when it comes to concern for others, I think they outdo us in that regard."
Now NASA is producing its first new launch abort system in a generation. Lockheed Martin and Orbital Sciences Corporation developed the 44-foot-long LAS for the space agency's Orion capsule, and came up with a design similar to the escape systems carried atop the Mercury and Apollo rockets. (Gemini capsules used ejection seats.) This morning at the U.S. Army's White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, NASA conducted Pad Abort Test-1, the first fully-integrated test of the new system, which according to Orion flight test manager Don Reed, was a "monumental success." See this NASA video made before the test, and footage of today's flight.
The new LAS is made up of three solid fuel motors. The main abort motor delivers half a million pounds of thrust—140,000 pounds more than the entire Mercury Atlas rocket that propelled John Glenn into orbit, and 350,000 more than the Saturn V LAS. The new abort system incorporates the latest advances in rapid-burn, solid rocket design, wrapped in a high-strength graphite-epoxy motor case. The attitude control motor, made by Alliant Techsystems, produces up to 7,000 pounds of thrust to steer the LAS and capsule, and marks the first use of a high-voltage lithium-ion battery in a solid-propellant system. Its variable high-thrust technology eliminates the heavy ballast, aerodynamic canards, and reliance on static aerodynamic stability of the Apollo era, and is more akin to modern missile steering systems.
The jettison motor, developed by Aerojet, fires to separate the crew capsule from the LAS so that the capsule's parachutes can deploy. It more closely resembles the Apollo version, yet generates more power to handle the greater mass of the new LAS. The jettison motor is designed to be extremely reliable, as it will separate the LAS from the capsule after every normal launch (when it's no longer needed), as well as being used in emergencies. In a pad abort, the capsule is expected to be on the ground a minute and a half after the abort begins.
The problem now is finding a crew capsule for the LAS to rescue. In NASA's budget announced in early February, Orion was cancelled along with the rest of the Constellation program to send astronauts to the moon. In mid-April, in his first address about his new plan for NASA, President Obama amended that decision slightly, saying that Orion may still serve as a lifeboat docked to the International Space Station. In that case it would launch without a crew. In either scenario—used as a lifeboat or totally cancelled—Orion would not need an abort system.
The uncertainty over Orion's fate has the abort system's designers thinking about how it might work with other commercially developed crew vehicles down the road. Orbital Sciences chairman David Thompson said last February that he was open to the possibility. Mark Geyer, manager of NASA's Orion project office, said after this morning's test that the new design is "very much applicable to any other [launch] system."
But because the LAS has been designed all along to work with Orion's weight and aerodynamics, it would have to be redesigned fairly extensively, according to Barron Beneski, an Orbital Sciences spokesman. It's not a stand-alone piece of technology that can be simply plugged into another capsule or on another booster. "Speaking for Orbital only," he says, "when we take a look at developing such a system, we need to look at all alternatives, beginning with the booster. We've looked at Atlas V, and we've looked at our own Taurus II [rocket]. And we've had some preliminary discussions with ATK on developing something—it doesn't have any name to it—but something like an Ares I Light, taking advantage of some of the work that's already been done there. So we have a range of options. We haven't made any decision."


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The 2030 Global Development Agenda contains 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Climate Agreement provides the foundation for sustainable low carbon and resilient development. The links between climate change and sustainable development are very strong.
Climate change presents a serious threat to sustainable development. The 2030 Development Agenda identifies climate change as "one of the greatest challenges of our time" and states that "its adverse impacts undermine the ability of all countries to achieve sustainable development".
Managing and adapting to long term climate risk is critical for sustainable development. Hence environmental sustainability is the underlying theme connecting the SDGs. Not only has climate change been given its dedicated target (Goal 13), but it is also integrated into almost all of the other SDGs.
The Commission on Science and Technology for Sustainable Development in the South (COMSATS) has decided to create a network of COMSATS Centre for Climate and Sustainability (CCCS). COMSATS is an intergovernmental organization of 27 developing countries as members based in Islamabad, Pakistan. It has a Network of 22 International S&T Centres of Excellence. The Centre for Climate & Sustainability (CCCS) – Uganda which will be hosted by Uganda National Council for Science and Technology (UNCST) is going to be one of the Centres of Excellence of COMSATS. More information about COMSATS can be accessed on www.comsats.org.
Interested COMSATS member countries will work in the framework of CCCS on shared commitment and purpose in addressing twin challenges of climate change and sustainable development.
The institutional framework will be on the principle of mutual benefit under South-South & Triangular Cooperation and keeping in view the significance of partnerships as an important mechanism under SDG 17.
COMSATS Centre for Climate & Sustainability will be a multi-stakeholder institute working in the framework of South-South & Triangular Cooperation to bring innovative approaches to plan, fund and tackle climate change challenges in line with the policy and practices of developing countries and their international obligations.
The center will focus on the following objectives:
Working Groups of the Centre:
Under the CCCS framework, a number of Working Groups will be established and will adopt a trans-disciplinary approach to key drivers of climate-sustainability nexus:
The CCCS-Uganda is one five Centres to be established globally by COMSATS. One of the five Centres which is already operational is in Kazakhstan hosted by the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University (KazNU) (http://www.kaznu.kz/en/19533/page/).
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I can't even explain how good these are. I took them to a party and they were met with grunts of appreciation. That's really all I need to make me happy. I should marry a caveman. The whole process took a pretty long time since I had to make the mousse, ganache, and cupcakes separately and THEN let them all sit long enough to have everything chilled during assembly.
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They are soooo rich and have an amazing chocolate/almond/cinnamon/nutmeg explosion going on. It took me twenty minutes to eat one because my eyes kept rolling back in my head and I feared an all out food coma. I also have a bunch of leftover mousse and ganache that will either be turned into a pie or some truffles. We'll see where the weekend takes me!


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In June 1963 Carrefour S.A. opened the first hypermarket in the Paris region at Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois (although the word "hypermarché" was first used only in 1966). Based on the ideas put forward by the American logistics pioneer , the centre offered on a single site a hitherto unknown combination of wide choice and low prices, supported by 400 car parking spaces.
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The engaging learning environment: does the physical learning environment facilitate Future Work Skills?
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Children are welcome to sit where they wish, and to move around the classroom during classes.
The University of Helsinki has also changed the learning environment for new teachers at university, with students learning new teaching approaches at the Minerva Plaza learning lab, an innovative 'transformable' learning space. The space is separated by a large glass wall and can be split into smaller and larger spaces as required, connected by tablets and smartphones to a main screen. Aspiring teachers learn new teaching methods, working in teams to teach each other, and connect with other teaching groups in other labs. One group can teach another located in a separate space, as all screens in each space are connected, and all students can edit the content.
But are these new learning spaces really critical to the development of Future Work Skills? There are three decades of research about the link between the physical learning environments and education outcomes. While the built environment is not the only mediating factor in educational outcomes, it has been found to be critical in the development of valuable skills, specifically: 'personalised learning, individual pathway planning, team teaching, inquiry approaches, teamwork, [and] problem solving' (Blackmore et al, 2011). An OECD review of the research into physical learning environments found that for many teachers, just having access to more space offered them the flexibility to independently redesign their teaching practice toward group-based learning and teamwork-focused activities (OECD, 2013) and away from teacher-directed activities.
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"How many lion parts are there?" Thus did Bert Lahr, a major comedy star on Broadway, sum up his occasionally interesting but largely unfulfilling film career. Dropping out of school at 15 to join a juvenile vaudeville act, Lahr worked his way up from second comic to top banana on the Columbia Burlesque Circuit. Along the way, he married his first wife Mercedes Delpino, who was also his onstage partner. Lahr gained popularity with lowbrows and the intelligentsia alike with his grotesque facial expressions, his apparently ad-libbed one-liners, and his plaintive expletive "gnaang, gnaang gnaang!" He graduated from vaudeville to Broadway in 1927, going on to star in such fondly remembered musicals as Hold Everything, Flying High, and Life Begins at 8:40, performing such classic routines as "Stop in the name of the station house!" and "Woodman, Spare That Tree!"
Lahr made his starring film debut in the 1931 movie adaptation of Flying High, but never truly caught on as a screen personality, possibly because his gestures and reactions were too broad for the comparatively intimate medium of films. Lahr's greatest screen performance -- indeed, one of the greatest performances ever captured on celluloid -- was as the Cowardly Lion in the perennial favorite The Wizard of Oz (1939). In the mid-1950s, Lahr gained a latter-day reputation as a sensitive dramatic actor when he was co-starred with E.G. Marshall in the first New York staging of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot. For all his onstage buffoonery, Lahr was an intensely troubled, unhappy man, a fact driven home in Notes on a Cowardly Lion, a biography written by Lahr's son, theatre critic John Lahr. After making more money than he'd ever seen in his life as star of a series of potato chip commercials, Bert Lahr was cast as Professor Spats in the nostalgic 1967 film The Night They Raided Minsky's; Lahr died of cancer during production, forcing the producers to use a double for the actor in several scenes.


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In United States, 36.2% of adults are obese. In Burkina Faso, that number is 5.6% of people.
In United States, 36.2% of adults are obese. In Burkina Faso, that number is 5.6% of people.
In United States, the average life expectancy is 80 years (78 years for men, 82 years for women). In Burkina Faso, that number is 56 years (54 years for men, 58 years for women).
United States has a GDP per capita of $59,500, while in Burkina Faso, the GDP per capita is $1,900.
In United States, 4.4% of adults are unemployed. In Burkina Faso, that number is 77.0%.
In United States, 15.1% live below the poverty line. In Burkina Faso, however, that number is 40.1%.
In United States, there are approximately 12.5 babies per 1,000 people. In Burkina Faso, there are 41.2 babies per 1,000 people.
In United States, approximately 14.0 women per 100,000 births die during labor. In Burkina Faso, 371.0 women do.
In United States, approximately 5.8 children die before they reach the age of one. In Burkina Faso, on the other hand, 72.2 children do.
In United States, 100% of the population has electricity access. In Burkina Faso, 17% of the population do.
In United States, approximately 76.2% of the population has internet access. In Burkina Faso, about 14.0% do.
In United States, approximately 99% of people have improved drinking water access (99% in urban areas, and 98% in rural areas). In Burkina Faso, that number is 82% of people on average (98% in urban areas, and 76% in rural areas).
United States spends 5.0% of its total GDP on education. Burkina Faso spends 4.2% of total GDP on education.
United States spends 17.1% of its total GDP on healthcare. In Burkina Faso, that number is 5.0% of GDP.
Burkina Faso is a sovereign country in Africa, with a total land area of approximately 273,800 sq km. Burkina Faso (formerly Upper Volta) achieved independence from France in 1960. Repeated military coups during the 1970s and 1980s were followed by multiparty elections in the early 1990s. Current President Blaise COMPAORE came to power in a 1987 military coup and has won every election since then. There have been increasing protests over the belief that the president may try to run for a currently unconstitutional third term in the 2015 presidential elections. Burkina Faso's high population growth and limited natural resources result in poor economic prospects for the majority of its citizens.
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Brenda was chosen by her crew to represent Mile High Youth Corps at the 2017 Conference of Young Leaders in Washington D.C. earlier this month, and then elected by her peers from across the country to the National Council.
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Monday, 16 April 2018 07:20 PM
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James Comey did it, naturally, for the children.
Why does anyone in Washington take advantage of the most opportune moment to make a mint off publishing a tell-all book? It's never for the profits or the sheer satisfaction of sticking it to your enemies and putting yourself in the best possible light. No, there's always some ostensible higher cause. For the former FBI director, it's demonstrating, through his own sterling example, what ethical leadership is, "especially to young people."
That the nation's youth will be riveted to their TV screens in coming weeks, watching Comey's exquisitely thoughtful gymnastics of self-justification, and conclude that this is how to conduct themselves when they inherit the baton of the country's leadership seems extremely unlikely.
James Comey has managed the seemingly impossible. The former FBI director is locked in a death struggle with an unpopular president who makes even his allies cringe with his belittling nicknames, foolish threats and strange view of the presidency — and somehow it is Comey who is coming away as the unlikable one.
That's because no one likes a prig, especially when he has an ax to grind. Comey has good reason to disdain Donald Trump, who fired him in humiliating circumstances and whose warped view of the Justice Department as an institution for the protection of the president is rightly anathema to him. Comey is just the latest of Trump's adversaries, though, who are diminished by the president dragging them down to his level and exposing their weaknesses.
Comey's weakness is self-regard, clearly wounded by the widespread sense that he took an impossibly challenging assignment in 2016 and made a complete hash of it.
A lesser mortal wouldn't be able to write about himself the way the former FBI director does. He describes sitting down with President Barack Obama after the election. Obama praises his integrity. A moved Comey agrees that he is just trying to do the right thing. "I know," Obama commiserates. "I know."
Every Washington memoir portrays its author as the smartest guy in the room; Comey is the most ethical guy in the room, and he lets us know it. A tart review in The Washington Post notes, "Comey isn't just the kind of writer who quotes Shakespeare, but the kind who quotes himself quoting Shakespeare."
Underneath the high-mindedness is a thirst for petty revenge. He says he took note of the size of Trump's hand when they first met — smaller than his. He goes out of his way to say Trump looks like he wears tanning goggles. In his interview with George Stephanopoulos, he says it might well be true that Trump watched prostitutes perform a profane act in a Russian hotel as described in the dossier — an observation surely born of a desire to wound.
Is all fair in a struggle with a president who calls you a "slime ball"? Maybe. But this is another instance of the country not being well-served by the president or his opponents violating norms.
It's not a healthy precedent for former FBI directors to attack presidents they served, even if briefly in terrible circumstances. It doesn't do the standing of our law enforcement and intelligence institutions any good to have the men recently entrusted with leading them, like James Comey and John Brennan, brand themselves as committed partisans almost immediately upon leaving government.
It's understandable that Comey wants to get his side out. But he's already done that in his extensive memos that he made sure to leak upon his firing and in his congressional testimony. He'll probably have his moment in the sun again as a key witness in the Robert Mueller matter, depending on how it shakes out.
Yet none of that is as remunerative as cashing in as a hero of the resistance when the Mueller investigation is perhaps at peak intensity. Nothing is better than being the most righteous guy in the room — while still getting a huge payday.
Children, take note.
Rich Lowry is editor of the National Review and author of the best-seller "Lincoln Unbound: How an Ambitious Young Railsplitter Saved the American Dream — and How We Can Do It Again. He has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and a variety of other publications. Read more reports from Rich Lowry — Click Here Now.
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Priced at $100 with a two-year contract, it's hard to say Verizon's LG VL600 LTE USB Modem is a good deal, especially when you have to pay another $50 per month for a data plan capped at 5GB (or $80 per month for 10GB). However, if high-speed Internet on the go is your biggest need, it could actually be the best deal ever.
This is because the little (or not so little) modem offers Internet connection speeds comparable with those of full-size cable modems, if not faster in many cases. Apart from that, it also enables sending and receiving text messages.
Though we wish the VL600 were not a modem, but rather a mobile hot spot, such as Verizon's MiFi, which allows for sharing the connection with multiple users, we can't recommend any existing mobile hot-spot devices over it. Its fast connection is just too great to be blemished by its lack of multiple user support and the slightly bulky design.
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Despite looking like a USB thumbdrive, the VL600 doesn't have any built-in storage. This is rather disappointing, as you'll need to use the included CD to install the software, called Verizon VZAccess Manager, which is required to establish an Internet connection. Though this is not a big problem, it would be much more helpful if the software were embedded on the device itself to spare you from using the CD when you need to quickly use the VL600 with another computer.
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Simons Foundation awards grants to Shelly Harvey, Tim Cochran
Rice University mathematicians Shelly Harvey and Tim Cochran have won prestigious fellowships from the Simons Foundation.
They are among 40 North American mathematicians and theoretical physicists to earn the fellowships, which provide faculty members a semesterlong leave from classroom and administrative duties to perform basic research.
Harvey, an associate professor of mathematics, and Cochran, a professor of mathematics, will use their time to work on questions of topology, the study of shapes in multidimensional space. They'll remain based at Rice, but the fellowship provides travel funds to encourage collaboration with other academics.
The fellowships, which began July 1, will enable Harvey and Cochran to extend their Rice sabbatical leave to a full academic year.
"It's certainly great that they can focus exclusively on their research for an entire year," said David Damanik, professor and chair of the Rice Department of Mathematics. "Typically our sabbaticals are for one semester, and one often needs several weeks to get started, to sort out the project to work on."
Damanik, who was the department's first Simons Fellow, recalled time moving all too quickly during his sabbatical. "Having a year is much more beneficial than one semester," he said. "I'm very hopeful and expect them to do great things."
Harvey and Cochran will work together to solve fundamental problems involving knots in three and four dimensions.
"We specialize in the four-dimensional aspects of knot theory, trying to decide which knots can be unknotted in four dimensions. It's quite difficult," Cochran said. "Topology is like geometry, the study of the shapes of things. That's very important in many applications. We don't do applied math, but a lot of people do study knotted DNA and linking of DNA strands in order to derive information about the nature of the mechanisms going on in replication."
He said their work also has implications for imaging in medicine, especially for three-dimensional imaging of internal organs, and for defense purposes.
"The interesting thing about topology is you can study any dimensional space. One and two dimensions have been understood for a very long time," Harvey added. "For higher dimensions, five and above, they come down to solving algebraic questions.
"Four dimensions is where things change a lot, so it has the most exotic behavior. Our work focuses on the interactions between three and four dimensions," she said.
"We feel fortunate because few organizations fund research in pure mathematics," Harvey said of the award. "We're grateful to the Simons Foundation for their support of our field."


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SUNY Canton Hires New Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs
The college's newest senior academic administrator was hired to help expand academic programs and strengthen student success.
SUNY Canton President Dr. Zvi Szafran announced that the college has selected Douglas M. Scheidt, Ph.D., as its new provost and vice president for academic affairs.
"Dr. Scheidt's background in program development and assessment will be crucial as we continue to grow our college and expand our offerings," Szafran said. "He has a record of encouraging academic growth and supporting faculty. I think he will be a very good fit for SUNY Canton."
Scheidt will be leaving his position as the founding dean of the School of Education and Human Services at The College at Brockport and will begin his new career with SUNY Canton in mid July.
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"I am honored to have the opportunity to team with Dr. Szafran, campus leadership, faculty, staff and students to advance the mission of SUNY Canton," Scheidt said. "More personally, my entire family is looking forward to joining the Canton community, on and off campus.
The college's newest vice president already has plans for development within the student population. He said he plans to continue the college's emphasis on retention, graduation and placement rates. "Focusing on future students, I look forward to continued enrollment growth and programmatic innovation," he added.
Scheidt is a New York State Licensed Psychologist who received his doctorate of Counseling Psychology from the University at Buffalo in 1991. He earned his bachelor's in Psychology from Colgate University in 1986. Additionally, he completed the Harvard Graduate School of Education's Institute for Management and Leadership in Education.
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For the second year running, current cup holders Bury St Edmunds have won the Suffolk section of the Norfolk & Suffolk Cup. They beat Ipswich yesterday evening in a very close match. In fact, the score was a 3 - 3 draw, but Bury won on bottom board elimination.
The individual results were (Ipswich players first):
Board 1 - Graham Moore 0 - 1 Mike Harris
Board 2 - Steve Gregory 0 - 1 Ed Player
Board 3 - Silas Peck 0 - 1 John Peters
Board 4 - Ian Wallis 1 - 0 Steve Ruthen
Board 5 - Nick Savage 1 - 0 David Brown
Board 6 - Ted Matthewson 1 - 0 Richard Lamont
Ipswich were without two of their top players - Shaun Munson and Mike Cook - which may have affected the final result.
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Sometimes one comes across a young artist who is so different from anyone else and has such an eye for what he or she does that the work they produce is as simple and as natural as breathing. One such person is Charlotte Rutherford. I found her work on Flickr and immediately I sat up and took notice. She has a rare talent that searches for and breathes beauty of colour, softness, love and life into her subjects.
Of course, I wrote to her and hoped that she would say yes.
The first words she said in her prompt reply were that my project was such a beautiful and great idea – so it was a yes! It is great to have such compliments thrown at me but I have to say that the idea is only beautiful and great because many wonderfully talented photographers, so different from each other, have also said yes and have imbued the project with their respective characters and love of the photographic art.
Charlotte and I corresponded over a period of months before I arranged a double shoot in her home town of Norwich in February 2012. She met me at the railway station (mm-mm) and we walked through the town to her studio in a complex of studios (surprisingly, all the other studios were empty whilst we were there). Charlotte is quite tall and very engaging and was a delight to be with for the next few hours. She had created a little montage in her studio comprising some wild (and some plastic) flowers, red top hat with rabbit and some candles and other bits and pieces and she asked me first to sit naked next to it.
She then asked me to put on a very colourful but very old fashioned dress on – she had bought an extra large version – and I posed facing her surrounded by flowers. This is the one she chose and I love it. The colour, the tone, the gentleness, the composition – all just as l had hoped....and more!
Website: http://www.charlotterutherford.com/
A photographic project involving a guy with Parkinson's Disease who has been photographed during the last nine years by 425 different photographers.
Friday, 24 February 2012
DRESSED by Charlotte Rutherford
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First off, let me apologize for the length of this story. Lets start off by saying in 2 days, I am getting married!!! I wanted a pedicure and manicure, I came across Nail inc. near my neighborhood and decided to pop in with my 7 year old daughter to have our nails done together. Everything seemed fine, till... I was asked by one of the women employed there. If I had a nail file in my purse.......
tony did my fill last week. He found a couple of small lift spots and took the nippers to them. He about ripped my pinkie nail entirely off and was not gentle. He did not ensure a seamless fit on my thumb. I was extremely disappointed in having to wait 20 minutes for a fill that has not even lasted me a week without major lifting problems.
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The Low Residency program is designed for students who are unable to engage in the academic year schedule owing to professional or personal commitments. Low Residency classes are scheduled for nine days in March plus one full month from mid-June to mid-July. The cycle of classes is as follows: students take courses for 9 consecutive days in mid-March during Pratt's Spring Break on the Brooklyn campus. Students return for nine consecutive days of classes in mid-June, followed by three weeks in Lincoln, New Hampshire. Final assignments are due in the Fall semester, enabling the students to integrate their readings, classroom and internship experience. Students complete two years of practicum/internship (direct experience in the field). This is completed from September through May after the first and second summers. Each year, students complete 16 hours a week, for 30 weeks, equaling 480 hours. Students secure internships at different settings and with different populations during the first and second year. Although both programs offer the same degee(s), the Low Residency Program differs from the Academic Year programming in several ways:
- Students attend classes prior to starting their internships.
- As part of their Introduction to Creative Art Therapy II class, students lead art/movement groups with local children as part of a Summer Creative Arts program, receiving clinical supervision from faculty. This helps students prepare for a more independent internship experience.
- Students are connected to each other and the program during fall and spring via online supervision group and forum.
- The Low Residency program takes three years to complete.
The art therapy program is approved by the American Art Therapy Association and the Dance/Movement Therapy program is approved by the American Dance Therapy Association. For those intending to work in New York State, all programs are registered with the New York State Department of Education and entitle graduates apply for New York State licensure. For those living and working in states requiring Counseling licensure, Pratt provides the majority of coursework required for a counseling license and the department will assist all graduates with licensure application materials.
To contact the Creative Arts Therapy Department directly, please email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Note to international students: The Spring/Summer Intensive Format is not eligible for an I-20 to be issued to get an F1 Visa. Other non-immigrants may be eligible for the program. Please contact email@example.com and ask if you are eligible for the Low Reisdency Format within the Creative Arts Therapy Department.


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Madagascar is blessed with abundant wildlife and plantlife, with about 80% unique to the island. On this, the world's fourth largest island, you'll see species you'll encounter nowhere else on earth.
Rather like the Galapagos Islands, life on this remote spot, which broke away from the mainland some 160 million years ago, has evolved in its own way, largely free from outside influences. There are very few large predators, one reason for the sheer abundance of wildlife. You'll find dozens of species of chameleon, frog, bat, butterfly and snake, and the animal with which Madagascar is most strongly linked, the lemur, with over 100 species and subspecies on the island.
This diversity is mirrored by the flora, including thousands of exotic orchids. As well as rainforests, there are steep canyons, stunning rock formations, mountains, lakes and valleys. All this makes Madagascar a prime destination for nature lovers. But that's not all. There are superb beaches, excellent dive sites, opportunities for watersports, boat trips and rock climbing.
As the island is so large getting around can be something of a challenge, but there is an extensive network of flights linking different regions to make covering large distances easier.
See lemurs, chameleons and orchids, enjoy forest hikes, speedboat rides and relaxed beach time - all in just 12 precious days.
Immerse yourself in nature and culture while stayting at two beautiful ecolodges in southern Madagascar, enjoying fine cuisine and top flight hospitality.
A comprehensive overview of Madagascar's flora, fauna and landscapes, this trip is very hard to beat.
Escape to the remote northwest coast where you'll stay at a gorgeous Relais & Chateaux hotel on the beach.
A wonderful tour through the dry forest, baobabs and 'tsingy' of western Madagascar with chances to see unique wildlife species.
Below you'll find some of our very favourite places to stay in Madagascar. However you can also see our full directory of properties by clicking the "All Places to Stay" button.
A modern hotel with good facilities, located just a 10-minute drive from the entrance to Andasibe National Park.
A beautiful resort of rosewood villas in tranquil gardens on Madagascar's remote and unspoilt northwest coast.'
A charming 5-room hotel that oozes style, where you can rest by the pool, stroll along the beach and enjoy some superb food.
A lovely beach lodge just 10 minutes from Ifaty village in Madagascar's south west.
You'll enjoy a warm welcome here, one of the best hotels in Isalo which offers great value for money.
A stylish beach lodge in Ifaty in south west Madagascar.
Satrana Lodge offers tented accommodation evocative of an African safari and is superbly placed for visiting Isalo National Park.
5/5 from 11 reviews
Time: GMT +3 hours
Flight time: Flights from Europe to Madagascar take about 10/11 hours.
Language: Malagasy and French are Madagascar's official languages. English or German is spoken by a municipal workers and guides.A basic working knowledge of French will make communication easier.
Visas: Most nationalities require a Madagascar visa, obtainable from the High Commission in London (or on arrival into International Airport.
Health: Malaria is present in most of the country. No vaccinations are compulsory.


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Birmingham is my much-loved adopted home.
When I first walked onto the University of Birmingham's campus I remember getting this buzzy feeling in my stomach and just felt like I totally belonged there.
In my second year I started working at two of the city's wonderful concert halls and loved working in the heart of it all.
After graduating, I headed back to Lincolnshire and mourned the loss of a city where so much stuff was happening; where I could get a train and a bus wherever.
Getting a job back in Birmingham last year was a complete dream, and living and working in the city centre has made me very happy. I love being in a city where people actually smile at you and are approachable and generally have pride in a place which still gets a bizarrely bad rap despite the fact that it has changed remarkably over the past 30 years.
One of the things that makes me proudest to live in Birmingham is the fact that it is a massively multicultural city. A place where people of all faiths and races live and work alongside each other.
However, sadly there are some people out there who are seemingly scared by the idea of people living harmoniously. That for whatever reason, people who do not look like them or practice the same religion as them are not worthy of a place in our country.
Pegida are a group that were originally founded two years ago in Germany, and are essentially neo-Nazis. Tommy Robinson, a co-founder of the English Defence League, has decided to bring this hate group over to the UK. On the 6th February, Pegida are planning to march through Birmingham to protest the presence of Islam, their first march on UK soil.
It would be fantastic if you could sign the Hope Not Hate pledge against them here. Groups like Pegida and their hateful messages have no place in the Birmingham that I know, or a country that I would be happy to live in.


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How to Buy and Display Antique Marbles
Vintage Marbles: the History
Marbles are one of the oldest toys on the planet, and were played with in ancient India, Egypt and Rome. The oldest marbles were made from clay, though old marbles may also be made from metal, glass, or stone. Nearly every culture around the world has a history of games involving marbles!
Collectors buy vintage marbles, generally from a more modern era. Handmade German "swirlies," for example, were manufactured from the 1840s through about 1915. The first mass-produced marbles were created in Akron, Ohio by S.C. Dyke in the early 1890's.
Antique Marble Types
Onionskin: A glass marble with a flecked, swirled appearance.
Clambroths: A glass marble with an opaque base and opaque, evenly spaced lines.
Sulphides: A clear glass marble with a porcelain figure embedded in the center. Early collectors thought the marbles were made from sulphur, hence the term.
Indians: Dark, opaque glass marbles with colorful stripes.
Mica: A translucent glass marble with streaks of mica, giving the marble a subtle sparkle.
Lutz: Any marble that contains aventurine glass (also known as goldstone). The marbles are named after Nicholas Lutz, a 19th century glass artist who used aventurine glass extensively in his work.
Logo: Several vintage marbles were manufactured with a company name or image imprinted on the marble. Marbles with vintage comic book and cartoon characters are particularly rare and valuable.
A Set of Vintage Marbles
Clay: The oldest marbles were made of clay and are exceedingly rare. In the 1950s, the United States manufactured many modern clay marbles: these marbles were so common, they were called "commies." Most clay marbles encountered in today's market are not rare, and are not very valuable despite being old.
Ceramic: Ceramic marbles are quite collectible, and many were painted with crossing lines in attractive patterns. Ceramic marbles are unlikely to chip, but may split or crack over time. Rare, Pennsylvania Dutch ceramic marbles were painted with intricate scenes are are extremely valuable.
Antique Handmade: Made from glass, antique handmade marbles were created in Germany. These marbles are also known as "swirlies" due to colorful swirls embedded in the glass.
Hand Blowing a Glass Marble
Identifying Handmade Marbles
Vintage, handmade glass marbles are easily discerned from modern, mass-produced marbles. Look for the following identifiers to verify a handmade marble's authenticity:
- Shape: handmade glass marbles will not be perfectly spherical. Any marble that is perfectly round has been produced by modern methods.
- Pontil Mark: Hand blown glass must be cut from the glass blower's cane, and this will leave a small mark on the glass. If the marble lacks a pontil mark, it is not handmade.
- Facets: Stone marbles will have slight planes in the surface where the stone was cut to make a round surface.
- Eyes: Ceramic marbles often have an "eye" where the marble came into contact with a solid surface as they dried. These marbles are also not perfect spheres.
Displaying Antique Marbles
Antique marbles are best displayed in a marble cabinet. Marble display cabinets protect marbles from dust, damage, and secure marbles to prevent them from rolling. Display cabinets backed with a mirror will help illuminate transparent marbles, and may be mounted on a wall for others to admire.
How to Play Marbles
I was at an auction where the men were bidding wildly for the Akro Agate marbles...funny thing some people will pay high prices for...lol
Does this ever bring back memories! My brothers and I used to play marbles. I always thought that what I called cats eyes were the prettiest ones. I guess if one keeps anything long enough it will eventually become collectible...or 100 years later, an antique. Thanks for this informative hub. Voted up, useful and interesting!


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More things to do with Synopsys Designware System Level Library.
Just so you know:
When they say use gcc-3.3.6, they mean gcc-3.3.6. RHEL3 shipped with gcc-3.2.X and RHEL4 with gcc-3.4.X. Both build models without errors but when executed segfault.
I am building a copy of gcc-3.3.6 now following this excellent guide by Tellurian.
More to follow.
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I've hated Jew in the City ever since I saw her nauseating video about the beauty of Mikvah, and the hate was reignited again after I saw her ruin all that is wonderful about Buzzfeed with an eye-rolling, kiruv style article about Orthodox Jews.
So when I saw that she wrote something about Miley Cyrus and Robin Thicke's performance at the 2013 Video Music Awards, I have to be honest, I assumed it was going to be just as cliche and holier-than-thou as her other posts.
But, I have to give credit when credit is due, and I actually liked what she had to say about it.
She writes that Miley explained her song, "We Can't Stop", as a celebration of adulthood and maturity. The lyrics of the song are an anthem of what grown-ups can do, simply because they're grown ups: "It's our party we can do what we want/…Doing whatever we want/This is our house/This is our rules/And we can't stop/We won't stop". But, Ms. Jew in the City explains that that's not real maturity, in fact, it's the essence of childishness:
"The irony in defining maturity as being able to do whatever you please is that it's the immature kids who we find screaming that it's their toy and they can "do what they want." Or telling their moms and dads "you're not the boss of me!" When considered in that light, Miley's hyper-sexualized, know-no-boundaries song sounds a bit like a spoiled little child having a fit about how she wants what she wants!"
Allison Josephs, Jew in the City, "We Like to Party: Childishness Masquerading as Maturity"
She goes on to explain that real maturity involves boundaries and limits and knowing when to say enough is enough. I've written about that before, and I agree.
The article also made me think about how exciting my first year of marriage has been for me. We were no longer simply our parents' children, we are now our own family, complete with our own family traditions. Some we've adopted from our parents, but some of our traditions are completely our own, and I love that. I love being able to say to my husband "I don't like the way our parents do X, lets do Y instead". We're adults, and we now have both the freedom to set our own customs, and the responsibility to make sure these customs fit our needs.
As adults, we sometimes use our freedom to eat junk food for dinner and to go three weeks without cleaning our room. But, our responsible nature also tells us that these things are okay, if done with moderation. We eventually clean our rooms, and a junk food dinner is usually balanced out the next day by a healthy salad and steamed veggies dinner.
This self-responsibility is one of the best things about being a grown-up.
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Please watch this amazing video response to Robin Thicke's Blurred Lines. Blurred Lines is a song about how the line of consent can be "blurry" for men. This is a feminist response, and it is wonderful.


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While we're not sure what drop AC Slater to snag the beautiful vocalist Anna Lunoe and cover J Cole and Miguel's "Power Trip," but we're glad it was done. AC's really onto something. His Return of the Underground EP is not something to sleep on, giving us some homegrown house that falls in line with the bass-heavy house beats that have been hitting our shores from the UK. Add in those old school elements and while we may feel like we're stuck in a timewarp, we love the way it feels. We might end up being up all night, rocking to tracks like this... especially when they're free.
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After Life (11) - Eternity with God
The word that is used the most in reference to our future life is "kingdom". Jesus said that the righteous shall inherit the kingdom that has been prepared for them since the foundation of the world (Matt 25:34). Speaking of the future life, he said,
The righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father (Matt 13:43).Our future life is not just a state of eternal bliss, where the saints bask in God's glory. It is a kingdom in which they rule with Christ. Our life on earth is a time of training to prepare us for ruling with Christ.
And I will confer on you a kingdom, just as my Father conferred one on me (Luke 22:29).
Adam was placed by God in the Garden of Eden, but that was not to be his final resting place. Once he had learned to care for the garden, he was to go out and subdue the rest of the earth. In the same way, our time on earth is a period of training, in which we learn how to rule. The Kingdom of our Lord is an eternal kingdom, which will continue after the last judgment in the spiritual realm (2 Pet 1:11).


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Irishman, 50s, arrested after 15 'illegal immigrants' discovered in the back of a lorry near Chippenham
FIFTEEN migrants who were found in the back of a lorry in Chippenham last night have been arrested on suspicion of entering the UK illegally. Police were called at 8.30pm to check out an HGV which was involved in 'suspicious activity' on the A350 near the town. Officers checked the lorry and discovered the 15 people in the back, one of which was treated in Swindon Great Western Hospital.
The driver of the vehicle, an Irishman in his 50s, was arrested on suspicion of assisting illegal entry into the country. He also remains in custody for further questioning. Police have confirmed all of the suspected illegal migrants are men over the age of 16.
Duty Superintendent Steve Cox said: "Members of the public would have noticed a large number of emergency services in the vicinity of the A350 last night while we dealt with this incident and the road was closed for approximately four hours while we carried out enquiries at the scene and recovery was arranged for the lorry, which was a hard-sided large goods vehicle. "We are working closely with partner agencies as we conduct further enquiries - I fully understand that recent tragic events elsewhere in the country will mean there will be increased interest and heightened concern regarding this incident. "I'd like to thank all emergency services who responded last night - as with all incidents, we didn't know the scale of what we would potentially be dealing with and all first responders showed true professionalism at the scene.
"I would also like to extend my thanks to the vigilant member of the public who initially reported this incident to us - it is thanks to them that this incident was resolved swiftly and safely with no serious casualties." A road closure was put in place on the A350 at the Kington Langley crossroads while the lorry was recovered. EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT
Robert Burton, 31, from Chippenham, was driving down the A350 when he saw the incident unfold. "Two ambulances passed us. We saw another five or six police cars then another three or four ambulances," he said.
"We saw immigrants being pulled out of the lorry. "One man had a jacket with the hood up. There was another man being treated.
"It was shocking. You expect it in the city. You don't expect it in a small market town."


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The first theological topic is the emergent church. The word "emergent" is used so loosely and applied to so many different movements in the church today. I think is it so difficult to understand because it is not well defined and used in a very nebulous way. Mark Driscoll wrote an article that outlines the different "lanes" of the emergent church and was very helpful to me in clarifying the issue and helping to wade through the jargon. Here is the synopsis taken from that article, "Navigating The Emerging Church Highway":
Wading through the entire emerging church milieu is incredibly complicated. In this article I seek to provide a simple but accurate means of navigating the emerging church highway by focusing on its four lanes and their leaders. For the purposes of this article I will define them as Emerging Evangelicals, House Church Evangelicals, Emerging Reformers, and Emergent Liberals. What the first three lanes have in common is theological orthodoxy. Churches in these lanes are not interested in reconsidering major Christian doctrines such as those that view the Bible as God's Word, God as triune, Jesus as God and the only means of salvation, humanity as sinful, all sex outside of heterosexual marriage (including homosexuality) as sin, and heaven and hell as literal, conscious, and eternal. In the fourth lane are the Emergent Liberals, who are most controversial and are not theologically evangelical. The three main leaders of this lane are Brian McLaren, Doug Pagitt, and Rob Bell. The Emergent Liberal lane of the emerging church has drifted away from a discussion about how to contextualize timeless Christian truth in timely cultural ways and has instead come to focus on creating a new Christianity. 1As Mark Driscoll points out, many groups and churches are being labeled as emergent, but the "Emergent Liberals", as he refers to them, are not merely interested in understanding how to best express the church and the Christian faith in our current culture, but are redefining what it means to be Christian (of course none of their claims are new, that's why the apostles wrote to the churches about them 2000 years ago). If that seems extreme, here is a quote from a book I've been reading by Marcus Borg who emphatically writes that the emerging church is doing exactly that: making a new Christianity.
The differences between the earlier and emerging ways of seeing Christianity and being Christian involve specific conflicts as well as more foundational issues. These include how we see the Bible, God, Jesus, faith, and the Christian life. To begin with, examples of specific issues that divide the contemporary church...2He goes on to mention ordination of women, gay and lesbian marriage and ordination as clergy, and christian exclusivism, arguing that this emerging Christianity is re-evaluating and redefining these issues. He sums up this introduction with:
Beneath the specific differences is conflict about more foundational matters, including especially how we see the Bible and its authority. For the earlier way of being Christian, the Bible is seen as the revealed will of God, as "God's truth," and thus as absolute and unchangeable. The changes listed above challenge passages in the Bible that (1) teach the subordination of women and forbid them to have authority over men, (2) declare homosexual behavior to be sinful, and (3) proclaim Jesus as the only way to salvation. To regard these passages as not expressing God's will for all time implies a very different understanding of the Bible's authority and interpretation.3Borg gets one thing right: the foundation is our understanding of the scriptures. If we don't have a basis for our theology and our convictions, we can make up whatever we believe to be true and right. What's interesting is how he values the scriptures, but sees them more as a personal experience rather than a revelation from God. There are many evidences for the authenticity and infallibility of the Bible (including its coherence as a book written over 2000 years by more than 40 authors, the consistency of it's message, its accuracy in predicting future events), but the most compelling to me is from the Bible itself. The authors of the Bible repeatedly declare the scriptures to be God's word and even refer to the other apostle's teachings in the New Testament to be scripture.
2 Timothy 3:16
"All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness,"
Matthew 5:17
"Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish but to fulfill."
John 3:34
"For He whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for He gives the Spirit without measure."
Revelation 22:18-19
"I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues which are written in this book; and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his part from the tree of life and from the holy city, which are written in this book."
It is also important to recognize that there are issues/beliefs that are essential to the Christian faith, and then there are doctrinal issues that are secondary. Another name for this is open hand and closed hand issues. Open hand issues are those things which are negotiable and are a matter of style, preference and wisdom. Closed hand issues are those things which are not negotiable and are issues of biblical authority.4 Mark Driscoll puts it this way:
Open-handed issues are those issues which Bible-believing Christians can debate over, disagree over, even discuss over, but not divide over. The closed-handed issues are those issues we really have to remain committed to, to remain Christian. 5I say all that to emphasize that yes, we should hold deeply and protect the close-handed issues, but be open and generous around the open-handed issues. The open-handed issues should not divide us. Our worship style and position on infant baptism should not keep us from working together as the Church, across denominations, cultures, and time.
This is a deep and broad topic, but I hope I've demystified the emergent/emerging church a little. At the end of the day, I believe the Bible to be true, to be the very words of God -- if they are not, I don't know what is left to stand on. To be clear, the Bible is made up of poetry, history, genealogy, letters, prophesy -- we would be silly to not read it contextually and dwell intently on its implication for our culture, but I think we would make a far greater error to believe it is simply metaphorical and assume we have a corner on what it means for us today.
1 Taken from Navigating The Emerging Church Highway
2 The Heart of Christianity by Marcus Borg (Page 3)
3 The Heart of Christianity by Marcus Borg (Page 4)
5 Taken from Mark Driscoll Says Just Grow Up