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The legendary Irish traditional group Altan brought style, verve and great musicianship to their performance at The MAC on Saturday night.
The legendary Irish traditional group Altan brought style, verve and great musicianship to their performance at The MAC on Saturday night.
In the chilly gloom of Wednesday evening, south Belfast's Drumglass Park came alive with the undead.
Terry Alderton's Belfast Festival gig last night was downscaled from the White Room to Bar Sub in the basement of Queen's University students union.
Six new plays, six new writers and two directors — all women.
John Graham Davies' love letter to Liverpool, told through the eyes of football fan Kenny and his beloved team, takes us through the recent history of the city via the European Champions League.
Well-known for his appearances on The Comedians, Mick Miller is one of a handful of 1970s stand-ups still touring.
What a beautiful, compelling, heartbreaker of a show.
The key word in this show's title (and its numerous linguistic variants) can't be printed in a family newspaper.
Peter Hitchens was on a bit of a charm offensive last night. Admittedly, the audience was about 60-40 in favour of the Mail on Sunday's fulminator-in-chief, but his gags got a decent hearing.
David O'Doherty's gig on Saturday night seemed to be a case of the Dublin comic against the world.
Scott Capurro's position on Saturday night wasn't so much a stand-up comedy gig as a live TV-style chat show.
Ray Davies' audience came in many shapes on Saturday night.
If you were tormented by the vuvuzela during the World Cup a couple of years ago, last night's Ladysmith Black Mambazo concert at the Waterfront Hall was probably not for you.
Did you hang out with music legend Jimi Hendrix during his historic gig at Queen's University in Belfast in 1967?
Kiri Te Kanawa, Ulster Hall
Carmina Burana, Waterfront Hall
Elvis Costello, Waterfront Hall
James Vincent McMorrow, Grand Opera House
Total Football, Lyric Theatre
Your guide to groups, fixtures and dates
Key moments in life of former president
Laure Prouvost named winner in Derry
Help save lives of babies around the world
Lights on and market opens in city
Comparing Sony and Microsoft's latest consoles
Animals snapped in Belfast Zoo contest
Fashion designer David Emanuel has said he thought I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! was going to be "a bit of a romp" and more of a luxurious experience.
Pressure ramped up ahead of next week's X Factor final - with the emotion getting the better of one of the show's youngest contestants.
It was each couple for themselves in Strictly Come Dancing as the contestants did dance battle in the swing-a-thon.
Piers Morgan believes being a good father is high on Simon Cowell's list of priorities.
Jay Z easily led the Grammy Award nominations today with nine, but left-of-centre rappers Macklemore & Ryan Lewis and Kendrick Lamar were among a group of new stars who took many of the major nominations.
Kelly Clarkson has admitted she doesn't feel attractive in her pregnancy.
Robbie Williams has said that while he wishes Gary Barlow well with his new solo album, he still wants to beat his Take That chum when it comes to record sales.
The guitar that Bob Dylan plugged in when he famously went electric at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival sold at auction Friday for a record 965,000 US dollars (£590,000).
Simon Pegg was determined to play the "wild man" in his latest film The World's End, according to director Edgar Wright.
Martin Scorsese has revealed that collaborating with Leonardo DiCaprio "reignited" his love for movie-making.
Jennifer Hudson has said her son may make his debut in her new film - but he's not impressed with the marketing.
Idris Elba deserves the Oscar for best actor for his performance as Nelson Mandela, Harvey Weinstein has said.
There's a lot to be said for the efficiency of European city centre mid-range restaurants geared up for feeding shoppers, office workers and museum visitors. Pick any city between Amsterdam and Albufeira and in their centres you will find clean, formica-clad, brightly lit, food businesses offering a small range of dishes of the day at reasonable prices. They generally don't have much character or charm. They are there to service, not to entertain.
New restaurants should be treated with the same patience you would show a toddler taking his first steps. The nightmares experienced by owners choosing the cutlery, furniture and glassware are one thing. But the horror show which an executive chef will have suffered before finally agreeing the menu (strike the last one if you're opening a burger bar, fish and chip counter or pie stall) is worse than any torture.
Holywood, Co Down. The town with its own accent (pronounced: ex-sent) is a lovely little community of aspiring and arrived done-wells. Comedian Nuala McKeever immortalised them in her character, Hilary Hamilton.
Bistro Este may have relocated to Belfast's new cultural hub in the east, but their ethos of serving great dishes at good prices is intact


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Hands off my jerky | Re: Great North Road by Peter F. Hamilton Intriguing. I've probably read more PFH than any other (barring Stephen King) and am a big fan, despite his almost universally-accepted failings. The most interesting thing about this book is that it's set in a new universe and also in the relative near future (by PFH's standards). My bookcase may have to groan again. |
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Blondebeauty2 on 10/20/2013 5:14:00 AM more reviews by Blondebeauty2
Age: 30-35 Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium Hair: Blond Eyes: Brown
I've worn this color for years & it's one of my faves! I always get complimented on it. I truly don't think these pictures on this site show how dark and pretty it really is. In the pics it comes off lighter. This is a quality polish that barely chips. The color is very universal & just lovely. This would look great on any skin tone! I'm just in love w/this & will always repurchase it as long as they make it. It's a perfect, deep burgundy red! Beautiful in person!
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Benjamien on 7/11/2013 6:14:00 PM more reviews by Benjamien
Age: 19-24 Skin: Combination, Olive Hair: Other Eyes: Brown
The finish is pretty,has a duochrome effect to it,red sparkles in cranberry polish,BUT the color is not very pretty and does not look good in my olive skin, but it is so longlasting ,OPI is great
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Ellie424 on 5/30/2013 9:03:00 PM more reviews by Ellie424
Age: 19-24 Skin: Normal, Fair Hair: Brunette Eyes: Blue
This polish lives up to its reputation. I think it's a great option for people who prefer cool toned red. It has a pretty shimmer. It has the quality and longevity I expect from OPI. My bottle was a little thick when I received it, but that is probably because I bought it online and the color has been around for so long. Nothing that thinner couldn't fix.
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summergirl8830 on 5/26/2013 8:55:00 PM more reviews by summergirl8830
Age: 19-24 Skin: Acne-prone, Fair-Medium Hair: Black Eyes: Brown
I don't really get the hype with this product. While the formula was amazing, the color just didn't work for me. It was a lot more vampy looking than I thought, and even though I'm a huge fan of red nails, I just don't like vampy nail colors on myself. This could be because I have long nails, so this color kind of made me look like an evil witch. I think short nailed people would probably like this polish better.
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ebonykeys on 5/10/2013 6:49:00 PM more reviews by ebonykeys
Age: 19-24 Skin: Acne-prone, Fair Hair: Brown, Straight, Fine Eyes: Hazel
This is the perfect red for nails! Looks good on most skin tones and I've received so many compliments. I keep going back to this colour even though I've got tonnes others.
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jadeymac on 4/12/2013 11:21:00 AM more reviews by jadeymac
Age: 19-24 Skin: Other, Olive Hair: Brown Eyes: Brown
Ok now don't get me wrong, this is a very nice polish... But that's just it, it's just...'nice' I dont find it amazing, or gorgeous or anything special really... So I don't really understand its cult status... I bought this polish after reading so much about how it's the most amazing red ever, the most popular opi of all time and I was pretty disappointed... I have tried much nicer reds than this... For example I absolutely adore Big apple red and Malaga wine by opi. (I know they are completely different types of reds but they are something to rave about) I'm not really a waitress is a so-so polish... The medium red shimmer is ok... The wear is ok (about 4 days) and the application is ok (not the easiest polish I've worked with, not the hardest) I'm wearing this polish right now and it just doesn't excite me the way others do... It doesn't give me that "can't stop staring a t my hands" feeling... But that's just my opinion I guess :)
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heyjoni on 2/25/2013 2:56:00 PM more reviews by heyjoni
Age: 25-29 Skin: Very Dry, Fair, Neutral Hair: Brunette, Straight, Fine Eyes: Brown
I can see why this is one of OPI's most coveted polishes. This cranberry-ish red is gorgeous with its threads of shimmer and it just GLOWS. The formula is top notch; it looks good after two coats and dries quickly. Many other reviewers mention that it's the perfect red for fair skin and I couldn't agree more, even if it's not my personal favorite shade of red. I'm Not Really a Waitress is the perfect fall and winter holiday red.
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SWilisons on 2/4/2013 9:09:00 PM more reviews by SWilisons
Age: 36-43 Skin: Combination, Fair Hair: Brunette Eyes: Blue
So, so pretty. I have super fair skin and this is the only red I've found that looks good on me. Dries fast, too.
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*TOP REVIEWER* bonniherself on 1/3/2013 11:24:00 PM more reviews by bonniherself
Age: 44-55 Skin: Sensitive, Fair, Cool Hair: Brown, Medium Eyes: Hazel
Oh, what a pretty nail polish. Medium-deep red with a distinctively cool-toned edge, flashes of magenta, and with a gorgeous, strong shimmer. I'd call this a cool-toned wine red, though I've seen it described as raspberry, cranberry, or ruby red, and those work, too. I have a long love affair with wine red nail polishes, and this definitely works with my cool, pale skintone.
I will note that this might not work well on warm-toned skin. I tried it on my daughter, who has medium-fair, warm-toned skin, and it was pretty awful. I suppose it might work for some kinds of warm-toned complexions, but judging by the reviews here and my own observation, I would really recommend avoiding this if you're not cool-toned (or at least neutral).
Application is okay, streaky on the first coat and generally sorts itself out by the second. I can usually get acceptable opacity in two coats, if I apply carefully.
This polish looks surprisingly good with a matte top coat, I've found. It loses the shimmer and becomes an almost velvety wine red, very visually appealing, at least to my own aesthetic tastes.
This is a nice, rich, eye-catching colour with typical OPI formula. I'd certainly buy it again, but I've heard rumours that OPI is dropping it from their line, so I might not get the chance... Ah, well, there ARE other shimmery wine reds out there, but it seems a shame to lose this one. It's really quite beautiful.
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ILoveBrody on 12/30/2012 5:13:00 PM more reviews by ILoveBrody
Age: 19-24 Skin: Combination, Fair, Neutral Hair: Brunette, Wavy, Fine Eyes: Blue
Beautiful dark raspberry-red shimmer that enhances fair skin tones. It lasts a long time, just minor chips at the very tips of my nails - only noticeable to the wearer. Great fall/winter colour. Definitely will be repurchasing, it is very classy and luxurious looking (and that's surprising for me to say as I usually stay away from shimmers due to the fact that they often look tacky, IMHO).
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- used OPI Natural Nail Base Coat
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- finished with Seche Vite Dry Fast Top Coat (reapplied every other day)
Highly recommend this colour!! :)
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Since everyone else has.... below is my long $0.12 about the Terri Schiavo case. I am not a lawyer, don't play one on TV, and don't live in FL.1. From my understanding listening to many folks who are FL lawyers... the law in that state is such that it just doesn't matter if this would have been Terri's decision. The law makes him, as her legal guardian, responsible for these and many other decisions on her behalf. I suspect if she had written documentation to the contrary it might make a difference but as far as anyone can tell she didn't.
2. A lot of people have vilified the husband. I do not believe there is evidence that this is reasonable. He may be worthy of this disdain but it is also reasonable that his "attitude" is a result of being fought tooth and nail by others when he truly believes he is doing the right thing. According to many sources he was a model husband for a long time after her initial "accident". He went to her side every day and seemed to be a loving and committed husband. He hasn't been there regularly for many years and he has moved on with another woman with whom he has children. That can be explained either by his moving on and wanting her to die because she has become inconvenient OR by his conscientious decision that his wife is no longer present in the shell before him and won't be coming back. I have no way of knowing and I think most of the people pontificating on this topic don't either. There are certainly coincidences that do not look good. That said, we should not judge until we have walked a mile in his shoes.
3. The court seems to have initially ruled on Terri being PVS based on the testimony of 1 doctor (whose reputation makes his diagnosis somewhat suspect) that was hired by the husband. This does not seem right to me. It may be legal in FL law but it is highly suspect. I once got a second opinion on how to treat my planters warts. I would certainly want a second, independent opinion on a patient's diagnosis if I were a judge about to sentence someone to death based on that diagnosis. There are a lot of doctors out there who say that this diagnosis is more than suspect given the innumerable tests that might show it to be incorrect which were never run. Some of these doctors have an obvious axe to grind, others do not appear to.
4. All the other courts at the state and federal level took that diagnosis on face value. It was never reviewed. This is common in the legal system. Upper courts will generally stipulate to any finding of fact by a lower court and question processes and legal opinions based on those facts only. The rhetoric that 19 judges have reviewed the case is just hot air. Only one judge ever evaluated Terri's condition from a medical perspective. That finding was treated as indisputable fact at every subsequent step. That finding is the basis of most of the controversy and it was never questioned by another court. The process of determining an outcome based on that and other findings were reviewed and found to be within the bounds of the initial judge's discretion. In my opinion that judge made a huge mistake. In the opinion of other judges it was not so outlandish that it should be reviewed. This is sad, but legal under our system of government.
5. The US Congress passed a law inviting (some would say ordering) the federal courts to review the case. The federal courts did conduct a de novo review of whether Terri's federal constitutional rights were violated. This is, again, a procedural review. They did not de novo review the underlying finding of facts. Many congressmen have stated that the courts ignored the law in not doing a de novo review of the findings of fact. Many lawyers fall on both sides of this issue. It seems to me that if Congress claims that they ordered the courts to re-review the basic facts of the case then they have stepped over their own boundaries of authority and the law itself may be unconstitutional. This is a very sticky wicket even with the expanded powers of 14th amendment considerations. We explicitly allow the Congress of the US to tell the federal courts when to go sniff out 14th amendment constitutional violations by state courts but it is another matter for the Congress to decide that gives them the power to order de novo review of the finding of fact in a state court case not involving any officially alleged criminal action or prosecution.
6. I believe that the federal courts had the right to review the basic findings of fact and should have done so in the face of so much evidence that the finding of PVS may be incorrect. This is rarely done but certainly can be done and has been done many times in the past when the federal courts have any reason to believe that a lower court (state or federal) may be creating facts that are convenient to its desired outcome in a case rather than fairly interpreting both the facts and the law as it applies to those facts. The same applies to the upper state courts who could have, and in my opinion should have, reviewed the diagnosis of PVS which is so critical in this case. The most common use of this level of review at the federal level have had to do with civil rights cases but there are others. All of this said, it is also a discretion of the courts to decide when to question findings of fact and when not to.
7. The US Congress used it's supeona powers in an effort to force a stay prior to passing "Terri's Law". This one, unlike "Terri's Law", is highly suspect to me. Legal scholars I have heard claim that this is certainly within their powers but is clearly a disgraceful abuse of those powers. Many would argue that the courts are so out of control that the legislatures must overreach to bring them back in line. If that is the case we are in big trouble. I would argue that we should appoint better judges and force our legislature to behave themselves and use their constitutionally granted powers to remove the really bad judges legally (impeachment anyone?) rather than "stoop" to constitutional abuses themselves. This move should have never been made. That said, given that the knuckleheads did it, shouldn't they hold the judge in contempt of congress for ignoring them? I believe they should, and then after a closed door session and not a publicity stunt, let him off with a fine or something. State judges are not exempt from congressional supeonas and they should not be. I would argue one should not have been issued in this case but we should not allow a judge to break the law just because he is reacting to a stupid and partisan abuse of power.
8. Many people are calling on Jeb Bush to use his authority as Governor to ignore the current court rulings and take custody of Terri. Governor Bush has been as strong an advocate as this woman has had. I am glad that he did the things he did. I am also glad that he is refraining from violating legal (flawed, but legal) court orders. Again, we should not deteriorate into lawlessness because of a bad ruling from the bench. I respected Judge Moore's position on his now famous 10 Commandments display......... right up to the point that he knowingly violated a federal court order. He should have continued his fight within the law instead of stepping outside of it. I may choose to violate a court order or bad law as a private citizen and accept the outcome of doing so. It is my right and your right to do so. We do not want or need state judges or governors doing so in public matters. The ramifications are too severe.
9. How in the world do we allow a human being to be dehydrated to death? This is apparently a very common solution to "allowing someone to die with dignity." There is no dignity in dehydration. We need to write to our legislators and change our laws so that when someone is going to be allowed to die when they are PVS or brain dead or whatever - they are truly killed in a humane way. If I decided that my dog was PVS and let him "die with dignity" in this way I would be locked up for animal abuse. These laws need changing and we should push our elected representatives to get them changed. If a state assembly passed a law making it possible to carry out the death penalty this way the courts would throw out said law in the blink of an eye.
10. On that note, why are the doctors giving Terri morphine? If she is PVS she wouldn't feel pain. If she isn't in pain why the painkillers? If they are not so sure she is PVS then why is she being allowed to die by dehydration?
11. Should a man (or woman for that matter) be allowed to continue to act as legal guardian to their spouse once they have another de facto marriage with someone else? This is a tough question... much tougher than many claim. If my wife truly believed I was PVS and was trying to carry out my wishes to allow me to pass on would I want her to wait 10 or 15 years to move on with her life? Would I want someone else who might not carry out my wishes to be allowed to get legal custody of me if she did move on? This question seems the hardest one to get my arms around in this whole mess. Like most tough questions the devil is in the details and this is a great example of details that legislatures have a great deal of difficulty getting right. It is too political for our political system.
12. Conservatives are clearly as capable of jumping into the fever swamp as liberals. I am disappointed. I do not like the outcome of this case for the simple reason that I don't think this woman is PVS and I am certain that it hasn't been reasonably proven. We cannot start asking our federal courts to insert themselves into a state court decision because we don't like state law. No system is perfect and the citizens of each state must retain the ability to define their system as they choose (within the bounds of not violating the federal constitutional rights of other citizens of course). FL law clearly has some holes that most Floridians would like to get plugged. Let them work with their elected representatives to do so in constitutional and legal way and not fall into the trap that it is somehow the federal governments business because we don't like the outcome in this one case. Judicial activism is wrong even when the outcome of the case is moral (Brown vs. Board of Ed being the most famous of many cases of conservative activism). If we encourage conservative-minded judges to commit these sins we cannot complain when liberal ones do it. Judges must be forced to simply interpret the law and legislators must be forced to past just and sane laws. Governors must uphold the laws passed by those legislators and interpreted by those judges. Anything less is lawlessness.


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Budbreak is the beginning of the growing season and a celebration of what is to come. It's fascinating to watch as the shoots emerge from the dormant vines and start subtly painting the vineyards green. The bud is where it all begins. The clusters and leaves are wound up in the bud and will mature over the next six months for harvest in the Fall.
At the Sonoma-Loeb vineyards winemaker Phillip Titus keeps up with the vineyard development, though he is still working with the 2010 wines set to release in a few months. Following the accolades from the 2009 vintage he has a lot to follow. The 93 and 94 point scores from Robert Parker and the 92 point score from the Wine Spectator have created great interest for the 2010 wines.
For now we are enjoying the 2009 wines and hope you are as well.
]]>We learned this week that Mr. Parker in his Wine Advocate publication has rated our 2009 Envoy Chardonnay from Carneros vineyards with 93 points and the 2008 Private Reserve Chardonnay from Carneros with 94 points. We are excited but not surprised as these wines have done extraordinarily well at tastings.
In Mr. Parker's words." The 2008 Chardonnay Private Reserve is a sensational Chardonnay, with notes of white peach, brioche, honeysuckle an subtle oak that emerge forcefully but elegantly from its light greenish gold color. Rich, full-bodied, and a really sensational, this terrific Chardonnay is reminiscent of a premier cru from Chassagne Montrachet. A brilliant effort for sure!"
The 2009 Envoy Chardonnay was described as,"A contrast in style, the 2009 Chardonnay Envoy has a much more primary character, given that it's a year younger, but there is a lot going on, as this is an excellent vintage for Burgundy varietals. Loads of white currant, quince, honeysuckle, citrus oil and peach notes jump from the glass of this light golden-colored wine. Rich, full-bodied, and dense, it is another impressively endowed, concentrated Chardonnay that should age nicely for 4-5 years."
We enjoy the accolades almost as much as we enjoy sharing our wine with friends and family. Join us in a toast to the joys of a good bottle (or two) of wine!
]]>When Ambassador Loeb was searching for a winemaker to produce Burgundy style wines, Phillip was the perfect fit with the right experience, temperament and passion for the project. Phillip was the winemaker at Napa Valley's Chappellet winery and brought his skills and experience to Sonoma-Loeb. He now produces award-winning wines for both wineries and for Titus, his family's label.
Phillip lives in Napa, California with his wife, Laura, and their two sons.
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The former ambassador to Denmark and investment adviser is giving $200,000 to New York-based nonprofit Facing History and Ourselves to create a project promoting religious tolerance in schools.
Called Give Bigotry No Sanction: The George Washington Letter Project, the program is centered on a letter written in 1790 by George Washington to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, R.I., one of the oldest synagogues in the U.S. now known as the Touro Synagogue.
In the 300-word letter, Washington assures synagogue leaders that in the newly formed United States they would not be persecuted for practicing their religions.
Washington writes: "For happily the Government of the United States gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens, in giving it on all occasions their effectual support."
Mr. Loeb wants to incorporate this letter as part of a circuit of lesson plans and symposiums, the first to be held next month in conjunction with New York University. The letter will also be included as inspiration for a letter-writing campaign run by more than 3,000 teachers to talk about the importance of religious pluralism in a democracy.
If he program is successful in its first year, Mr. Loeb says he will renew the grant for two more years to a total of $600,000.
"This letter applies more today than ever," says Mr. Loeb. "The idea of treating people equally and with respect is something that goes back to the beginning of this country's history."
Pam Haas of Facing History says this grant comes at a time when religious tolerance is at the forefront of the American psyche.
"Look at what happened with Park 51, where people were so quick to take sides without having a conversation about the nuances of what it all means," she says, pointing to this year's controversy over the Lower Manhattan Islamic culture center and mosque known as Park51.
Through the George Washington Letter project, Ms. Haas says, Facing History can help teachers raise these kinds of issues in their classrooms and "have a productive discussion, rather than a polarizing shouting match."
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Evolutionary biologist, author and atheist, Richard Dawkins, offended Muslims everywhere last month when he described Saharan arsonists as "Islamic barbarians".
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Mayor of Brighton and Hove City said he was disappointed at the reaction of many of the council members after Muslim prayers were read before a town hall meeting.
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Untold Story SummaryWhen Princess Diana died in Paris's Alma tunnel, she was thirty-seven years old. Had she lived, she would turn fifty on July 1, 2011. Who would the beloved icon be if she were alive today? What would she be doing? And where? One of the most versatile and bold writers of our time, Monica Ali has imagined a different fate for Diana in her spectacular new novel, Untold Story. Untold Story Reviews"Clearly, Ali is capable of writing a novel about anything, including Diana. But somehow Untold Story has come out all wrong.... In certain sections, Ali offers glimpses of the better, richer novel this could have been." - New York Times Sunday Book Review The information about Untold Story shown above was first featured in "The BookBrowse Review" - BookBrowse's online-magazine that keeps our members abreast of notable and high-profile books publishing in the coming weeks. In most cases, the reviews are necessarily limited to those that were available to us ahead of publication. If you are the publisher or author of this book and feel that the reviews shown do not properly reflect the range of media opinion now available, please send us a message with the mainstream media reviews that you would like to see added. Monica Ali Author BiographyMonica Ali is the daughter of English and Bangladeshi parents. She was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh and came to England aged three years old. Her first home was in Bolton in Greater Manchester, she later studied at Oxford University.
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Im looking into making a CNC Mini Mill so I can make my own alumnium parts for my R/C's.
But my problem is I dont know where to start and im on a extremely low budget.
The max I can spend is $150.
Is it possible to build a Mini-Mill that can do small alumnium parts for under $150?
Any help is apreciated.
Thanks, James
Do you think one like this http://www.hackaday.com/2006/07/12/h...-own-cnc-mill/ will cut small alumnium parts? Because I allready have some Stepper motors from an office printer and Dremel's are pretty cheap.
Even a micro mill will cost double that, then you have the cost of the cnc conversion, tooling, etc.
That would be good for maybe circuit boards or small plastic stuff but it doesn't look rigid enough for cutting aluminum.
While I am still a newbie to CNC myself I just don't think you can do it for $150.00. Just the software alone for the controller is going to cost you that much(Mach3).Add the cost of a CAD program plus drive board. Plus the saying that you will spend many times the cost of the machine in tooling is very very true and that stands true even for a bare bones setup.
And no I don't think that little machine you had the link to will cut it. You just can't cut metal with a machine made from plastic.
I was planning on making the base out of X tubeing (I think thats what its called.) so it will be more rigid.
Also I allready have CAD (Delmia and AutoCad)
Linkster ya could probably do it real cheap like many others here have done. But $150, it would be a $150 cnc thing. I too plan to build a cnc gantry mill. I also plan to save as much money as possible without sacrificing quality. To cut metal whether its aluminum or steel or whatever. Ya need a degree of accuracy. Ya could do some dumpster diving like JasonMarsha did and probably save quite a bit. But if ya add up the time it takes to put all the different pieces together and getting them to work is another thing. I,d say probably the cheapest ya could do it would be around $500 and thats pushing it. I,m estimating my build to be around $1500(hopefully cheaper) But if I have to pay out more to make it right than so be it. Some the guys on here have set the bar high when it comes to DIY cnc and it really should be about craftsmanship and ingenuity. I push myself to be as good as some of the guys here and you should too. Here,s some links to help ya get started.
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I saw an article sometime ago where a guy converted a 79 drill press to CNC. He used a little ENCO mill table. While not nearly the ideal CNC setup, he had decent results. Under 150 is a stretch. If you go that route, you can probably do under 250 if you already have steppers and they are strong enough.
Good luck with your project. You still need control software that takes your g-code and tells the machine what to do. Again I think Mach2/3 is the cheapest you will find at $159.00!
EMC2 is open source and runs on linux. You can get both for free.


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On Tuesday, Fox so-called News, the Drudge Report, and the Daily Caller threw together a rather pathetic - and racist - attempt to create an October Surprise against President Obama. And in the end – they failed miserably. Yes – the kings of the rightwing media bubble released what they called "Obama's Other Race Speech" yesterday evening, which they promised would create controversy and unleash accusations of racism against the President.
It did neither. That's because the so-called bombshell video was already well-known and had been publicly available on the web ever since he gave the speech 5 years ago in 2007. The video shows then-Senator Barack Obama speaking at Hampton University in front of a largely African American crowd.
In the speech, Obama accurately pointed out that when Hurricane Andrew hit mostly-white parts of Florida, the federal government waived the requirement for local matching funds for rebuilding, but when Katrina hit mostly-black New Orleans, the Bush Administration still wanted the city to pay the matching funds. And to Fox News, that was a declaration of a race war.
Oddly – Fox News already aired the speech back in 2007, believing that it would cost Obama the Democratic nomination. It didn't – so now they're dusting the video off again five years later to try again.
The Mitt Romney campaign is denying any involvement in the video re-release. White House reporter at Mediate, Tommy Christopher, best summed up the whole fiasco when he wrote, "This will be remembered as the day Sean Hannity, Matt Drudge, Tucker Carlson, and much of the right wing prepared to board their white resentment mothership, only to have it crash and burn."
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That wasn't necessarily the case with Wright's book; in the prologue he tells us that the role of 1st Recon was to serve as guinea pigs for Rumsfeld's doctrine of maneuver warfare. The unit's sole function was to travel far past enemy lines and souse out ambushes by serving as cannon fodder — allowing the main invasion forces to pinpoint the location of Iraqi resistance and to roll through and crush it with the greatest expediency. Though the narrative is largely a character portrait of the Marines in 1st Recon, the knowledge that these men are to serve as target practice for the Iraqi Republican Guard imbues the book with a political subtext — a referendum on Rumsfeld's speed-over-brute-force ideology.
As Wright and I make our way through the first episode, it appears as if the miniseries will offer no such meta vision. The show progresses, but the eminent danger these men face remains hidden. The viewer knows no more than the Marines do, and that's just the way Wright wants it. He stops the DVD to explain:
"In this case, the show is more honest than the book, because in real life, we didn't know what the fuck was going to happen. I didn't learn that strategic context until weeks later, when I started reporting my experience. So in that sense, the book's narrative is artificial."
Wright reaches for the remote control to restart the show but pauses, something clearly on his mind.
"The chaos and violence that erupted after the invasion is often cited as proof of the failure of the maneuverability doctrine. But here's the thing: In 1989, when the U.S. invaded Panama, they went down there to take out one guy — Manuel Noriega. The military ended up killing about 3,000 people in the process, most of them civilians, and about half of them at roadblocks.
"Roadblocks are very tense, tricky situations. The military's policy has been to fire warning shots to get people to stop. But it can be difficult to tell where the shots are coming from, so when people hear gunfire, their natural reaction is often to speed up and head toward the roadblock, thinking they'll be safely protected. They end up dead.
"In the '90s, in response to what happened in Panama, Bill Clinton tried to institute a 'peace studies' department — to help train troops to deal with situations exactly like this. Everyone tore into him, saying this draft-dodging weed smoker was trying to pussify the Pentagon. When Newt Gingrich came to power, one of the first things he did was successfully lobby to end the program. Fifteen years of willful neglect later, we're killing tons of Iraqi citizens at roadblocks. If 400,000 troops had invaded Iraq, things wouldn't have been any better. We would have set up that many more roadblocks and had that many more civilian casualties."
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Big Windy Complex Morning Update
Incident: Big Windy Complex Wildfire
Released: 8/1/2013
Fire Information Update
Thursday, August 1, 2013 - 10:00 AM PDT
Complex: Big Windy
Acres: 3,703 acres
Containment: 0%
Personnel: 269
News & Highlights for the Big Windy Complex:
-The Wild and Scenic Rogue River from Gold Beach upstream to Blossom Bar Rapid is still open for business and skies are currently smoke-free.
-There are NO evacuations orders in place for Agness or Gold Beach
-Josephine and Curry Counties have swept the closed portion of the Rogue River to ensure no rafters remain. Members of the Merlin Rappel Crew, assisted by Curry County, swept 21.5 miles of the Rogue River Trail to ensure no hikers remain.
-Fire operations personnel are looking for opportunities to hold the fire should it cross over to the north/east side of the Rogue River. It will be challenging to hold any advance without air support, which is currently very limited due to poor visibility.
-A marine influence will remain over the area the next couple of days, after which the inversion will start to lift and smoke will begin to clear out. This change will also prompt an increase in fire behavior.
-Oregon Governor Kitzhaber declared a state of emergency on Tuesday for Josephine County, allowing the Oregon National Guard to provide assistance to fires in the area. The National Guard will be providing assistance with additional air resources as well as personnel. National Guard personnel will assist with closure checkpoints at roads near the fire including:
=2308 @ 33 Agness Road (Burnt Ridge)
=23 Road @ 33 Road (west end of Bear Camp)
=2402 Road @ 22 Road
=BLM 34-8-36 @ Galice Road (east end of Bear Camp)
-The National Guard is being logistically supported by Jackson County; the guard station in Agness will be utilized as a base camp operation for National Guard resources assigned to the Big Windy Complex.
Big Windy Operations Summary:
Firefighters will be working to reopen the old Biscuit fire line on the south end of the Big Windy fire as well as continuing structural protection efforts at the Black Bar Lodge and Zane Grey Cabin. Additional resources including firefighters, heavy equipment, and dozers are arriving; approximately fifteen twenty-person hand crews are assigned to the fire.
Spotting activity from the Jenny fire has been observed up to 1/3 of mile from the main fire boundary. There is concern that the spotting may cross the river in the Horseshoe Bend area. The fire currently remains south of the Rogue River.
Air Operations: A light and a heavy helicopter are currently assigned to the Big Windy Complex, with the possibility of receiving additional air support from the Labrador Fire. Numerous emergency response landing zones along the river have been identified. The inversion that is keeping smoke in the area is predicted to lift to 4000' by 3 PM today, opening a window to allow for air resources to be utilized for fire operations.
Closures in Place:
-The Bear Camp Road is officially closed with closure orders and maps issued by the Medford District of the Bureau of Land Management/Grants Pass Interagency Office and the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest/Gold Beach Ranger District. See websites above for additional information. The Josephine County Sheriff's Office and the Curry County Sheriff's Office are providing staffing at the closure points and signs are in place.
-Rogue River Trail from Grave Creek to Rogue River Ranch.
-The BLM portion of the Wild Section of the Rogue River is closed from Graves Creek to Mule Creek due to extreme fire conditions and public health and safety issues.
Big Windy Complex: Consists of the Big Windy (Josephine County), Calvert Peak and Jenny Fires (Curry County). Located on Medford District Bureau of Land Management lands protected by the Oregon Department of Forestry Started: July 26, 2013 at 3:00 a.m. Cause: Lightning Location: Approximately 8 miles NW of Galice. The north part of the fire is within two miles of Winkel Bar on the Rogue River.
VALUES AT RISK: Boaters and campers on the Rogue River, Wild and Scenic River below Graves Creek, economic considerations associated with recreation, Black Bar Lodge (18 structures), Zane Grey Historical Cabin (9 structures), Marial Lodge, Rogue River Ranch, cultural resources, threatened & endangered species habitat, late successional reserves, fisheries and wildlife.
WEATHER: Temperatures 67-70 with winds N 5-7 mph and RH 42-47%. The potential for lightning today is low. The inversion is expected to lift to 4000' by 3 PM today.
FIRE BEHAVIOR: The morning will remain smoky, but the inversion is expected to lift to 4000' by 3 PM. Fire behavior is expected to be moderate, with some occasional flare ups in thicker fuels.
SAFETY CONCERNS: Steep and unforgiving terrain, mixing of fire and public traffic, particularly on one-lane roads, variable and unpredictable winds in the river corridor, inactive and active mine shafts, ticks, hazard trees, poison oak, poor air quality, aviation operations, extreme fire behavior, and railroad crossings.
COOPERATING AGENCIES & PARTNERS: Oregon Department of Forestry, Medford District Bureau of Land Management, Josephine County, Curry County, Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest, Jackson County.


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Using Picasa's Search to Find your Pictures
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If you have thousands of pictures of your travels, you need some way to find them. I look to Google for all my search needs, so what better place than Google's photo software, Picasa, to turn to for searching my pictures?
One of the reasons I use captions on all my good pictures is so I can find them even years later. I keep most of my 40,000+ pictures on an external hard drive, but they all show up in Picasa's Library so I can view any digital picture I've ever taken as long as I can find it!
Let's say I want to see a picture of that cool Stonehenge place we visited in Washington State. I just type Stonehenge into the search box, next to the magnifying glass in the upper right corner. Picasa will instantly match whatever you type by looking at captions, folder names and descriptions, file names, tags, people, albums, and more. Since I entered captions on all the good pictures of Stonehenge, my search will produce results. Notice that it even finds that we were there 2 times, once in 2004 and again in 2010. I didn't have to know that, it found all pictures with the word Stonehenge in the filename or caption.
Back to View All
When Picasa finds matches, it filters the pictures in the library to just those that match. It will appear that all your other pictures are gone. Let's say that, in my thousands of photos, I have a few hundred with the word 'beach' somewhere identifying them. If I search for 'beach' my library view will now consist of the few hundred beach pictures. It will look like I have no pictures except those of beaches. You need to click the 'Back to View All' in order to see your complete library again.
Other Searches
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How to Disagree About Invisible Stuff, or What a Systematic Theologian Likes About the Emerging Church (by Jonathan P. Case)
I teach that 'nasty little subject' (to borrow a phrase from William James) called systematic theology, frequently maligned by emergents. Yes, I know, emergents often say they're keen on studying theology, but generally not the kind of study I'm talking about: reading dense books (often translated from German) with footnotes, writing dense papers with footnotes and arguing with other theologians whose idea of fashion is wearing a tweed jacket and sweater vest. Systematic theology isn't as cool as sociology or communications, as intellectually respectable as philosophy or as relevant as 'cultural exegesis'.
Admittedly, my discipline frequently is badly bungled: scores of religion majors choking down volumes by Grudem, Oden or Pannenberg, piling up abstraction upon abstraction in pursuit of the great white whale called Truth ('truth' or Absolute Truth, depending on your place on the theological spectrum). Compared to engineering, computer science or early childhood education, we systematicians trade in a lot of 'invisible stuff': Eastern v Western concepts of the Trinity, divine sovereignty v human freedom, Alexandrian v Antiochian Christology, filioque v no filioque, imputed v imparted righteousness, etc. My teenage daughter jokes that her Dad can't be wrong about anything because he teaches things that nobody can test. (She hasn't read Karl Popper, and her joking is funny only part of the time.) In this article I want to lay out some problems I've come to see in being too rigid systematically with one's invisible stuff and what I think the emergents have right in their approach to theological discussion. I don't consider myself a full-on emergent (whatever that would mean), but over the past few years I've come to really like these people.
I believe the following about theology: it's challenging, it's fun (I write that with a straight face) and, yes, it's important. But over the years I've grown to be suspicious of too-neatly constructed systems (I'm probably the least systematic systematic theologian you'll ever meet) and the air of certainty and self-importance that accompanies pronouncements on invisible subjects. (When's the last time you heard a professional theologian say, 'We just can't answer that one'? AAR and ETS would go out of business.)
We pile up doctrine upon doctrine (God, creation, anthropology, sin, Israel, Christology, Holy Spirit, church, eschatology) like an invisible theological Burj Dubai reaching into the heavens, loaded with centuries-old debates. And just how do you research invisible realities? A biologist colleague once remarked that I can do 'research' without ever leaving my office. After all, it's relatively easy to research invisible stuff. Then you tie your results together neatly, so what you say about creation, for example, works itself out predictably when you talk about Christology or church. Too easily, sometimes.
At its heart, systematic theology is about being coherent and responsible in your talk about God. Make the connections between the great ideas of the faith and be aware of the consequences of what you're saying about God! Now I still maintain that consistent and coherent talk about God is a good thing (God knows I've critiqued enough student papers through the years for lack of it), but there is such a thing as overdoing it: letting One Big Idea solve all problems and tie all loose ends together. The longer I teach, the less I trust this notion.
Isaiah Berlin once classified thinkers as Archilochus' hedgehogs or foxes: the former see the world through the lens of one big idea, while the latter know many little things. Christian theologians have been notorious for posing as hedgehogs, but if there is One Big Idea running through the Biblical story , we've never been able to agree on what exactly it is. I would say, as my Sunday school teacher taught me: Jesus, but what Jesus means in God's economy is hardly simple. As Whitehead (no mean systematizer himself) once said, 'Seek simplicity, and distrust it.' From what I understand, this all seems close to the emergent ethos.
I can hear the objections coming. 'It's not all "invisible stuff." We have the Bible before us (anything but invisible) with texts that obey grammatical rules, which constrain what we can do with these texts.' Exegesis, not eisegesis and all that. Finding answers to theological questions remains a lot more concrete than what I'm leading you to believe. Right. Presently, Christians divide themselves into over 30,000 denominations worldwide, many (most?) of whom disagree with each other over who possesses the correct interpretation of The Book. Not because the book is invisible and not because the lexicons that help us translate Zechariah or Ephesians are invisible, but because the methodological questions that divide us depend in large measure upon a host of interpretive and theological allegiances on the scene long before the work of exegesis even happens.
Six credible Biblical scholars from six different denominations all exegete the same passage and arrive at radically different conclusions. Is the scholar from your denomination correct because of a superior exegetical method that allows her to get at the unvarnished truth? Not only does the Bible never say, 'All you need is the Bible,' it also never gives a hermeneutics lesson or outlines an inductive study method guaranteeing results. If it were that simple, we wouldn't have those 30,000 groups.
Another objection: 'But ideas – about all that 'invisible stuff'- have real, visible consequences!' Ecclesiastical and political decisions surrounding environmental issues, evolution v creationism, homosexuality, women in ministry, sacraments, etc, are all said to flow from those theological positions. Of course. But too often the following scenario develops: If I come to a different conclusion than you on any of those thorny issues, the problem is not simply that we're both limited in our approaches. The problem must be that you're not genuinely committed to the truth, or intelligent or spiritual enough. Perhaps you even intend to distort the Bible or destroy 'the historic' Christian faith. So now I'm obligated to denounce you publicly as an enemy of the Gospel and maybe even find a way to have you blackballed or dismissed from your position, all in the name of Christ. Sorry, you don't have all the invisible stuff lined up correctly.
Emerging folks, I take it, are more likely to say we're all constrained by our situatedness (upbringing, temperament, church tradition, social location, etc), and what's compelling to you about how to arrange all the invisible stuff may just not convince someone else. And if someone is not convinced by the case you're attempting to make, then no amount of cajoling, bribing or threatening is going to help. At any rate, you certainly can't ask someone to 'fake it' and say they believe something if you've failed to convince them. The shortcomings of what we call rational discourse are frequently apparent to all, e.g., when people who've studied and taught invisible stuff for years cannot agree on basic methodological questions. What seem like fairly straightforward exegetical arguments often fail to convince largely on account of implicit interpretive commitments that lie hidden like landmines.
A third objection runs like this: 'Do you even believe in truth anymore? This all sounds like a recommendation of skepticism. If you're skeptical about everything, why don't you find something other than teach theology? Our students need certain answers in the classroom.' To begin, I'm not skeptical about everything. Everyone operates with a set of non-negotiables. And as far as the question of truth is concerned, the plain fact is that we all make truth claims. It's ridiculous to charge the emerging movement with giving up on the idea of truth; no one would ever write a book or speak at a conference if they didn't believe what they were saying was true.
I suspect that most people operate with a set of beliefs that you could arrange in concentric circles, with those you hold dead-set certainly true in the middle circle, and beliefs you're increasingly less certain about scattered in the larger outside circles. But certainty, that great buttress for evangelicals and fundamentalists, is a psychological state and never a guarantor of truth. The important questions to focus on when discussing truth are not whether one believes in 'Absolute truth' or one's state of certainty but how you justify the truth claims you make and what kind of justification is appropriate for our invisible stuff.
Rather than giving a lecture on the atonement in which I attempt to pronounce with certainty 'the' meaning of the death of Christ (which students wouldn't believe anyway, since they're Googling ten different professors while I'm lecturing), I'm far more likely to say something emergent-ish like, 'Atonement? Ok, break out Anselm, Hodge, Girard. Let's get ready toooo ruuuumble. Then pizza and football at my house tonight.' Throwing yourself with abandon on the mercy of Christ is different than declaring this is how it all works. Theories of the atonement don't save us, and we had better learn to be friends throughout our sometimes fierce disagreements over how things work.
Over the past few years, in view of so much nasty theological sniping, I John 4.20 has struck me with renewed urgency: 'Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen.' (I John 4.20) I've come to believe that emergents have a better grasp of this than many more conventional believers. Yes, I know about some of the now-famous spats amongst emergents, but on balance, one of the things that impresses me as I get to know the emerging crowd is the importance they place on friendship and hospitality in face of sometimes prickly disagreement over invisible stuff. In view of that, and insofar as the Apostle enjoins us to 'as far, as possible, live peaceably with all people,' I'd like to make a few suggestions of my own about disagreeing over invisible stuff.
1. Recognize that you're not the only one interested in truth.
This means giving the other person the benefit of the doubt regarding their pursuit of truth. Don't automatically assume that, because they disagree with you or your theological tradition, they're your intellectual or spiritual inferior, or that they're up to no good. John Wesley once said, 'never assume anyone sins because he disagrees with you.' If I want to be taken seriously, as someone who pursues the truth in good conscience, I must grant my conversation partner the same courtesy, even if, despite my best efforts, I fail to convince him or her. Yet how many times have you witnessed (or been part of) conversations between people of hugely different opinions that started out politely enough, with each person doing their best to convince the other, but finally ended in a shouting match about each other's character or moral fitness for ministry? Or, if it's an online discussion, how often have you noticed people eventually resorting to the 'CONVINCE' font (all capitals), accusing each other of being a tool of the Enemy, perhaps launching a few expletives and then breaking off the conversation?
So many theological disagreements emerge at root from philosophical commitments that verge on the nature of rationality itself – why something makes sense to one person, church or culture and not another. When we finally arrive at those commitments in a conversation, we often don't know how to proceed. But this much is sure: abusive ad hominem attacks will never help someone make sense of your position. Respect throughout.
2. Keep your distinctives in perspective.
Beware of allowing the theological 'distinctives' of your tradition to grow in your own mind, Godzilla-like, until it causes you to look down on other believers. Inerrancy, the historic episcopate, justification by faith, double predestination, entire sanctification, speaking in tongues, believer's baptism: most groups have 'distinctives' crucial to their understanding of the Bible, salvation or the Christian life. Denominational identities rest on those distinctives. But if your tradition alone in all of Christendom holds this particular belief, could be all that important in God's great economy or the key that unlocks the secrets to the Bible or Christian life? Some popular theological watchdogs (self-styled 'heresy hunters') on the internet, foaming at the mouth over their protection of the 'truth,' seem to me to be what the ancient church would have called 'schismatics.'
3. Humanize the discussions, and know when to cool out.
Once you put a human face on a theological disagreement and take the time to get to know someone holding a radically different position to your own, the emotional temperature surrounding 'the problem' usually goes down a few degrees and the conversation can proceed in more productive directions. If you can't or won't do this, then at least have the good sense to recognize that after a certain emotional temperature has been reached in a vigorous 'discussion,' further attempts to convince actually become counter-productive. Once your conversation partner is 'in the zone,' the chances of changing their mind in the heat of battle are pretty remote. In my experience, most people change their minds on important issues over a lengthy and painful period of questioning, study, reflection and conversation, and almost never through a silver-bullet conversation with someone holding an opposing viewpoint. There's generally too much ego involved for someone (especially professionals) to stop in the middle of a heated argument and say: 'Yup, you've convinced me. I've held this position for all these years but now I see I'm wrong about it.'
4. Learn to recognize who your friends are.
Over the past several years emerging leaders like Tony Jones and Brian McLaren have taken heaps of unfair criticism. Yet I've heard Tony say publicly that the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ is the central event in the cosmos, and in Naked Spirituality Brian writes unapologetically of being 'transparently Trinitarian.' Whatever other disagreements one may have with their respective theologies, I'm constantly reminding my evangelical colleagues: given everything else we have to face in the world today, these people are our friends. I suspect that many of the criticisms of the emerging movement could be just as easily addressed to any number of denominations on the middle-to-left sections of the theological spectrum, but emergents in particular are taking it on the chin these days because they're highly visible.
5. When all else fails, then at the very least: do no harm.
With some issues, the really interesting question is this: what do we do when no agreement, compromise or even further civil conversations seems possible? When all the best available, exegetical, theological and cultural arguments pro and con have been laid on the table, we look each other in the eye and realize that there is nothing more to be said: how do we then treat each other?
Further, we all tend to think of ourselves as being on a mission to persuade other, as-yet undecided people to our way to our way of thinking. Is it possible to do this by staying with the issues and not demonizing the opposition? The ancient rhetorical advice to make your opponent stronger seems to me to be sound for several reasons: 1) constructing straw-man arguments about your opponents' positions and then knocking them down has a short shelf life when sharp thinkers get their hands on them 2) attracting people to your position by demonizing the opposition plays to the lesser angels of our nature; in other words, you tend to attract haters who always find reasons to hate and 3) if you expect your conversation partners to take the time to hear and treat you and your arguments fairly and respectfully, then (again!) any conversation carried out in good faith demands that you extend the same respect to them. (Why is it so hard for us to live by the Golden Rule when talking to fellow Christians?) Of course whenever we extend that courtesy to another it carries the risk that we may have to change our minds, but without that risk no learning is possible.
6. Pose the eschatological scenario.
When push comes to shove and you have to make a theological decision, ask yourself what position you'd be willing to defend on that great gettin' up mornin'. Now if it turns out I am wrong about a position I've arrived at in good faith, through diligent study and reflection, do I truly need to fear being drop-kicked into perdition by the Christ I've worshipped as Lord and God? I suspect that Jesus is going to ask me more questions about how I actually tried to follow him and love the people around me. Further, am I willing to say before Christ that, yes, it was worth disagreeing with someone to the point of ruining their reputation, all in Your name, Lord? I've become far more willing to err on the side of love and mercy than judgment and condemnation, and more willing to commend other believers who see things differently than I do to the mercy of Christ.
7. Keep doxology central.
Remember that at the heart of the Gospel stands the personal reality of God in Christ, which is a fancy way of saying that Jesus is alive. Because of that, when speaking of the church, our common commitment to doxology (how we respond to this living Jesus) is the best theological defense against schism. In other words, there's a close relationship between doxology and identity, between the God whom we worship and who we are as a particular community with a mission. Now maybe it's a category mistake to call the emerging church a 'church.' Maybe it really is simply a conversation or a movement, in which case the conversational boundaries can be as porous as the AAR and founded on little more than the conviction that friendship and open conversation is a good thing. No doubt genuine friendship has theological moorings, but the church (insofar as it is the body of Christ) is based on more than a commitment to conversation and friendship.
There are theological boundaries to our doxology, even if those boundaries are wide indeed. If the emerging consensus (whatever that might mean) were to finally alight on the position that we shouldn't worship Jesus or be filled with the Holy Spirit, or that we should worship Vishnu, Angelina Jolie or Captain Falcon in addition to Father, Son and Holy Spirit, then that would be a deal-breaker, at least as far as the 'church' part of the 'emerging church' is concerned. But, as far as I can determine, worshiping and following the living Christ remains core to the emergent ethos and provides, I would argue, the best basis for lovingly disagreeing about our invisible stuff.
Jonathan Case is Professor of Theology at Houghton College. Prior to Houghton, he taught for several years at Kingsley College, Melbourne (Australia). He enjoys mountain biking, vocal trance, FC Barcelona and makes the meanest marinara sauce in Allegany county. Case and his family live in the bustling metropolis of Fillmore, New York.


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