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A group of 20 former pastors at Seattle-based Mars Hill Church have asked church leaders, including pastor Mark Driscoll, to begin a mediation process aimed at mutual repentance and reconciliation.
The request, first disclosed by the Patheos website, was addressed to executive elders of the mega-church and its Board of Advisers and Accountability. Driscoll sits on both groups.
“I am deeply grieved and even depressed by the pain we have caused,” Driscoll wrote.
Patheos interviewed two of the dissenters: Dave Kraft was pastor of leadership development at the church, which has 14,000 members who meet in 15 locations. Kyle Firstenberg was executive pastor of Mars Hill Orange County (Calif.). “We didn’t step up to the pate when we should,” Kraft said.
Turmoil has frequently hit America’s mega-churches, which, like Mars Hill, have sometimes enjoyed meteoric growth.
In the 1990s, an allegation of personal impropriety led to the resignation of Overlake Christian Church senior pastor Bob Moorhead. The Oral Roberts religious empire in Oklahoma has been shaken by strife. The Crystal Cathedral, built by the Rev. Robert Schuller in Garden Grove, Calif., went bankrupt in 2010 and was sol...
Driscoll, writing last weekend, acknowledged hiring a firm called RealSource Inc., which had Mars Hill buy up copies of his book “Real Marriage” — elaborately disguising the purchases — in order to garner a place on The New York Times bestseller list.
“I am sorry I used this strategy and will never use it again,” Driscoll wrote. Harper Collins, Driscoll’s publisher, has also sourced and footnoted book passages after Driscoll was hit with allegations of plagiarism.
Driscoll pledged that he would travel less and refrain from social media for the rest of the year. “I don’t see how I can be both a celebrity and a pastor, and so I am happy to give up the former so I can focus on the latter,” he wrote.
The 20 former pastors have requested that experts in conflict resolution be brought in to oversee the process, Kraft and Firstenberg told Patheos.
Cybersecurity experts don’t depend on anti-virus software.
It’s actually not that difficult to protect your digital identity like an expert.
Update your software, and your conceptions about what it takes to protect yourself online.
You, too, can protect your computers and online accounts like an expert! But you probably don’t, according to a study from researchers at Google presented at the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security last week. The researchers conducted online surveys of 231 security “experts” (defined as people with at least five y...
Let’s set aside the question of how it’s possible that one-fifth of the non-expert computer-using population is visiting only known websites. One of the most interesting things about these findings is the implication that expert-level protection requires very little technical know-how. The practices that experts are mo...
To protect yourself online like an expert, in other words, you don’t need to understand the Internet’s architecture or inner workings—you just need to branch out from anti-virus software. The survey suggests non-expert users are wary about programs like password managers or new software updates. But they lean heavily o...
But when it came to installing software updates and using password managers, non-experts were much more hesitant than experts. For instance, 73 percent of experts said they used a password manager program to store their credentials for at least some of their accounts, compared with 24 percent of non-experts. And some o...
Other non-experts expressed concern about downloading software updates, with one writing, “I don’t know if updating software is always safe. What if you download malicious software?” Another noted that “there are often bugs in these updates initially, that must be worked out by the software vendor.” This suspicion of n...
People who work in computer security (and security more generally) tend to have a reputation for being paranoid about every possible risk, so it’s striking that the non-expert population actually seems to exhibit greater paranoia around some issues—being more suspicious about the trustworthiness of a password manager, ...
Paranoid or not, the computer security experts seem, in some ways, to live in less fear of the dangers of the Internet than the non-expert population. In some cases this may just be an indication of how experts and non-experts fear different threats—perhaps the group of non-experts is more concerned about their old pas...
Of course, non-expert opinions about security are probably shaped to a large extent by expert ones—someone probably told them that anti-virus software and regularly changing passwords and staying away from unknown websites are important safety measures. If anything, the most popular non-expert safety measures seem to r...
Actually, it’s still hard to know which measures to adopt. The Google study largely sidesteps the question of which of these myriad suggestions actually lead to the best outcomes, or correlate with fewer malware infections or account compromises.
That doesn’t mean the expert suggestions from the survey aren’t good advice. Indeed, non-experts might do well to shift some of their practices to emulate those recommendations (especially if you’re one of the users out there studiously avoiding all unknown websites—as my favorite survey respondent said of this recomme...
I read with considerable dismay that our esteemed councillors have seen fit to vote for expenditure of £400,000 on a study to consider the expansion of Edinburgh’s tram network down to Leith.
Given the fiasco over the construction and financing of the tram system to date, it is to be hoped that any further expansion of the network will be the subject of a referendum asking the council-tax-paying citizens of Edinburgh for approval.
Can I also respectfully suggest that nothing should be done until the current public inquiry under the chairmanship of Lord Hardie has been completed and the findings published for all to see.
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Danko has PM aspirations; Sulík predicts Fico will not be in power soon.
In a popular opinion poll, the incumbent Prime Minister Robert Fico placed third, behind the speaker of parliament and leader of opposition, as the most popular politician, although an early election is not desired by majority of Slovak electorate. People in Slovakia perceive Speaker of Parliament Andrej Danko (Slovak ...
Of the two politicians, Danko is seen as the more acceptable possibility. While 49 percent of respondents of the poll carried out in December 2016 say they can imagine Danko at the prime ministerial post, only 44 percent would have a problem with him. As for Sulík, 38 percent of respondents claimed they could see him a...
The incumbent PM and chairman of the ruling Smer party, Fico, placed third, with more negative responses than positive ones – more than 60 percent of those polled would not be happy if he was re-elected.
Danko has already admitted his ambitions to become the new PM, but political analyst Grigorij Mesežnikov does not think he has the qualities the job requires. The analyst also explained for Sme that some respondents can imagine Sulík as the new PM because he is widely considered the natural leader of the opposition.
Early election - a realistic option?
Another question on the poll was the potential early election: it seems that especially the voters of the ruling coalition parties do not wish this to happen. Of the SNS electorate – which could theoretically gain from the situation – only 16 percent see early election as a good option; while Smer and Most-Híd voters u...
The rumours concerning early election are being spread by SaS MPs. SaS chairman Sulík told the TASR newswire that he does not consider an early election realistic but he thinks – as his personal feeling, not stemming from lobby talks – that Fico will not be in his position by spring 2017.
The opposition is growing, as seen from the preferences, and it would consider it a victory and strategic issue of election campaign to topple Fico by less than mid-election term, political analyst Pabol Baboš said for Sme.
2 What Are the Advantages of Computers in Business?
A few decades ago, the most powerful computer any business needed was an electronic calculator. In the 21st century, however, computers are an indispensable tool for any business. They're important in a myriad of ways – to communicate internally and externally – as well as to pay bills, send invoices and order supplies...
Before computers made the "e" prefix a thing, e-commerce didn't even exist. Now, however, e-commerce is firmly entrenched as a prime mover in the economy. Giants such as Amazon have been able to succeed at e-commerce without any brick-and-mortar stores. Websites, newsletters and email make it easy to promote yourself s...
Customers can submit bids or questions online to your company or order your products 24/7. E-commerce can lead to a greater number of sales within a shorter time period – but without computers, this wouldn't even be possible.
Computers offer a mind-blowing range of communication tools – email, chat sessions, instant messaging, Slack, the enterprise communication service, and more. But it's actually not the specific technology that's important – it's the benefits of tech-enabled communication. Collaborators across the country can work on a p...
In an emergency, crisis managers can contact everyone who needs to be informed of any news or development more quickly than in the recent past, when the only cutting-edge communications device was a telephone.
As recently as a few decades ago, many tasks depended entirely on human effort, although these were aided by an adding machine or a typewriter. In the 21st century, computers improve business efficiency by expediting routine tasks. These machines can format a letter, spell-check a document or enter the sale of an asset...
Businesses still need to file paperwork, but much of the "paper" work exists solely in digital bits. This saves a tremendous amount of space that would otherwise be devoted to physical file storage. Digital systems also offer greater organizational efficiency – users can retrieve a document from their desks without nee...
To most businesses, the importance of computers isn't always a benefit. As the business world becomes more dependent on computers, that dependence creates new weaknesses. As recently as two or three decades ago, stealing information required that the perpetrator have the document in one's physical possession – just lon...
An employee whose password is written and easily accessible to anybody who walks into the office is a gift to a hacker or fellow employee. This person can easily find top-secret company information. Computers aren't going away, but neither are the vulnerabilities that computers pose.
Sherman, Fraser. "Importance of Computers in the Business World." Small Business - Chron.com, http://smallbusiness.chron.com/importance-computers-business-world-4013.html. 05 February 2019.
It’s hard to believe but in 1988 the very first Die Hard movie premiered when Bruce Willis was a budding star and shared the small screen with Cybill Shepherd on the hit show, Moonlighting. Well, fast forward to 2011…the 56 year-old actor will reprise his role as John McClane in Die Hard 5.
The next installment in the series, “A Good Day to Die Hard” will focus on his character and his son as they get involved in a prison escape in Russia, as reported by RadarOnline. Ever since the first Die Hard movie, Bruce’s character has been at the wrong place at the wrong time.
The movie will start to begin filming in Russia this January and will open in theaters in 2013.
The holy grail of world-building games, it’s argued, is a black box that lets players do as they like with minimal handholding. Pliability with just the right measure of accountability. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, a tactical stealth simulation wrapped in a colossal resource management puzzle inside a love let...
That probably sounds a little backwards if you’re hip to Hideo Kojima’s long running Metal Gear Solid series, which launched in 1987 on a Japanese computer platform. We laud Kojima for his contributions to stealth gaming’s grammar, but he’s also loved and, by some, lampooned, for bouts of indulgent auteurism. A self-pr...
So it feels a little weird to declare The Phantom Pain comparably cutscene-free. Oh they’re still here, as fascinating, offbeat and abstruse as ever, but restricted to momentary exposition instead of Homeric interruption. It’s like some other mirror-verse version of Kojima helmed production, suddenly obsessed with play...
That turnabout pays dividends. We’re instead treated to a clandestine feast of open world prowling, an unparalleled tactical toybox staged in sprawling bulwarks bristling with eerily sentient enemies. You play as Big Boss, the grizzled, cyclopean soldier of fortune we spent so much of the series reviling, traumatized a...
The idea, first articulated in 2010’s Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, is that you’re leading a private nation-agnostic military force from your “mother base,” a concrete and steel-jacketed platform anchored in the middle of the Indian Ocean near the Seychelles archipelago. From there, you execute contracts for shadowy ...
You’d think a game about private mercenaries would entail managing squadrons of them, and The Phantom Pain does eventually unlock a meta game where, wielding an anachronistic wireless handheld drolly dubbed an “iDroid,” you can deploy groups of soldiers to conflict zones based on probabilistic projections. But this is ...
Consider just a few of the ways Kojima lets you poke his anthills. Like how to approach a cliffside fortress teeming with floodlights, security cameras, anti-aircraft cannons, machine gun nests, barbed wire fences, lookout posts, labyrinthine caverns, hovering gunships, weaponized bipedal robots and playgrounds of scal...
Should you wait for a stray sandstorm to blow through, occluding visibility and making direct approaches (or escapes) tenable? Buzz HQ to chopper in a rocket launcher so you can take out an enemy gunship while it’s still on the helipad? Scout for unguarded power hubs to kill lights and cameras (at the expense of raisin...
But it’s the game’s ruthless artificial intelligence that ties it all together so superbly. The Phantom Pain sports the most unpredictable, exploitation-resistant opponents we’ve seen in a sandbox game. Though they run through all the classic Metal Gear-ish paranoia loops, they’re capable of far grander collaboration a...
In the background sits your mother base, visually emblematic of Kojima’s fondness for pumpkin-orange containers and pipe-strung sidewalls, everything smooth and orthogonal and gleaming—the Jony Ive of offshore platform design. Once you’re using the Fulton recovery system, an intentionally silly balloon-driven means of ...
The game has its share of head-scratchers, like why enemies tagged on your radar stay marked when restarting a mission (convenient, but immersion-killing), or why it takes so much work to unlock the game’s notion of a fast travel system. I’m also conflicted about the buddy system: I wound up abandoning my wolf companio...
The least defensible design choice is probably Quiet, a female warrior-sniper dressed in, well, let’s just say the opposite of practical battlefield attire. There’s a plot explanation for this, but it’s pretty weak, though I found it curious that the men in the game seemed not to notice (okay, a couple yahoos overheard...
But then we know by now that Kojima games mean wrestling with paradox. Thematic gravitas versus silly dialogue. Visual revelation versus graphical compromise. Gameplay versus cutscene. Eroticization versus objectification. Antiwar allegory versus lurid violence.
Loping across The Phantom Pain‘s hardscrabble Afghani-scapes, lighting on soldiers bantering about communism and capitalism, playing tapes of cohorts waxing philosophic about Salt II, Soviet scorched earth policies and African civil wars, questioning who I’m supposed to be—sporting metaphorical horn and tail, both hero...
MANHATTAN (CN) – Unable to mediate a dispute over television fees with their cross-town rivals, the Washington Nationals asked a judge Monday to stop the Baltimore Orioles from forum shopping.
The two teams have been battling for more than a decade over the revenue from the Mid-Atlantic Sports Network, and had agreed to submit to arbitration before the commissioner of Major League Baseball last fall if mediation between the teams fell apart.
That process is set to begin now after mediation concluded in March without resolution, but the Nationals contend now that the Orioles have improperly sought relief from the American Arbitration Association instead of the MLB.
The Nationals brought a petition to stay arbitration this morning in Manhattan Supreme Court, claiming the Orioles failed to disclose to the AAA it already had pending arbitration before the league or that it had previously requested the commissioner weigh in on the dispute.
The Nationals, formerly known as the Montreal Expos, relocated to D.C. in 2005.
With the move, Nationals games were to be broadcast on MASN, a joint venture between the two teams created that year. Under the deal, the Nationals would reap 10 percent of the broadcasting revenue but would eventually gain a larger stake in the network.
Last June, the Nationals claimed the Orioles and MASN had failed to make their yearly cash flow distribution.
The Washington team sought to go straight to arbitration before the MLB or proceed with mediation, and the Nationals say the Orioles waited months to raise the objection over the league’s purported financial interest in the Nationals.
To this end, the Orioles point to a $25 million advance that the MLB paid the Nationals to cover shortfalls in MASN fees during 2012 and 2013.
The Nationals state the advance never granted the league a financial interest in the team, and that the team had repaid the advance with interest by November 2018.
Orioles spokeswoman Kristen Hudak did not return a phone call seeking comment Monday.
Hitting shelves this July 2011, “Fame: 50 Cent” follows then unknown Curtis James Jackson III as he builds his hip hop persona and climbs up the music charts with tracks like “In Da Club” and “How We Do” featuring The Game. The book also tackles 50's drug-dealing past, public feuds with other rappers along with his les...
“Fame: 50 Cent,” will feature cover art by Joe Phillips, famed DC comic book artist and will retail for $3.99 in July.
Memory loss is a key tenet in Chomko’s film, which she also wrote. The story follows a family dealing with the fallout of its matriarch’s descent into Alzheimer’s as estranged siblings Nick (Michael Shannon) and Bridget (Hilary Swank) are forced back together to make some difficult decisions about their parent’s future...
Speaking alongside Chomko were castmembers Shannon, Swank, Taissa Farmiga and Blythe Danner, who plays the dementia-stricken Ruth.
Cherry's new Low Profile switches are 35 percent smaller, but the typing experience is almost the same.
Low-profile mechanical keyboards are the next trend, it seems. Just last month we reviewed Roccat’s Vulcan 120 Aimo, the first keyboard I’d seen to combine laptop-style keycaps with full-sized mechanical switches. It was eye-catching, to say the least.
Now Corsair’s got its own version, the K70 RGB MK.2 Low Profile Rapidfire ($160 on Amazon). Thankfully, the keycaps are a lot shorter than the name. Let’s dig in.
This is the first Corsair K70 model we’ve tested in a while, but you’d barely know it at first glance. Not much has changed in four years. Oh sure, at some point Corsair got around to fixing its busted RGB controller, and the CUE software suite is marginally better these days. But from a design standpoint? The K70 is a...
Thus the Low Profile version features the same exposed brushed metal backplate as its “high-profile” predecessors, with the keycaps raised to better show off the lighting. Barely raised, though—and that’s the most surprising aspect of the K70 Low Profile.
If you take a look at Roccat’s Vulcan 120 Aimo, half-sized keycaps were clearly an aesthetic choice. Lighting is key, with the translucent keyswitch casing shining brightly out from under each cap like a field of luminescent mushrooms. It looks weird at first, and feels even weirder, but the design grows on you.
Corsair’s K70 Low Profile is different though. These aren’t half-size keycaps popped on top of normal Cherry MX switches, like I expected. Instead, Cherry’s designed a different switch entirely. Building on the work it did with the MX Speed switch a few years ago—called MX Silver when used by third parties—Cherry’s cre...
It barely even looks like a Cherry switch. Sure, you’ve got the iconic cross-shaped stem in the center, but that ring of support plastic around the outside changes the footprint substantially.
Appearances are deceiving though. Cherry said its goal was to recreate the standard MX typing experience in a smaller switch, and as far as my fingers are concerned it’s mission success. Typing on the Low Profile MX Speed feels remarkably similar to the full-sized version, with a few minute (practically imperceptible) ...
All this in a switch that’s 35 percent smaller than its full-sized predecessors. It’s an impressive feat of engineering, and I’m curious whether we’ll start seeing them on laptops soon. Until now, mechanical keyboards have been primarily a gimmick in oversized laptops like MSI’s GT80 where space could be spared. A Low ...
But the K70 Low Profile is a desktop keyboard, which makes this an ergonomic choice. Perhaps it was inevitable. With so many people using laptops day-to-day, it’s only natural some would prefer the flatter profile of a chiclet keyboard while still wanting the crisp and clean keystrokes of a mechanical.
The K70 Low Profile doesn’t feel completely flat like the Roccat Vulcan Aimo 120, but it’s close. There’s still a millimeter or two of height variance between rows, which helps recreate the desktop typing experience, but it’s slimmed down enough to provide the speed I associate with a flatter laptop keyboard. Ergonomic...
It’s completely down to personal preference though. As I said, the Roccat Vulcan Aimo 120 was mostly a bold design experiment. The K70 Low Profile is not. The same sliver of light peeks out from the bottom of each switch, and if anything, the overall effect is dimmer than some of Corsair’s other keyboards like the K95 ...
And in most respects, the K70 Low Profile is identical to its standard-switch peers. The same block of media controls resides in the top-right corner, with the usual best-in-class volume roller at the top. I still prefer Corsair’s smooth and intuitive roller to the increasingly common “Radio Dial” setups we’ve seen on ...
There’s USB passthrough on the rear, plus a block of buttons in the top-left for profile storage, backlight brightness, and game mode.
Then there’s the wrist rest. This is the one area where I think Corsair’s quickly falling behind its peers. The past year or two, we’ve seen Razer, Logitech, and others pack in plush, padded leatherette wrist rests with top-end keyboards like the BlackWidow and the G513. Corsair’s soft-touch plastic isn’t really cuttin...
That’s a small quibble though. Overall the K70’s build quality is still among the best in the business. Cherry’s Low Profile keys aren’t quite as time-tested as its standard switches, but the company has a reputation for quality and it certainly feels solid enough after a few weeks use. We’ll keep you updated if rattli...

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