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The Nature and Exercise of Church Power
1. The power which Christ has committed to his church is not vested in the special officers alone, but in the whole body. All believers are endued with the Spirit and called of Christ to join in the worship, edification, and witness of the church which grows as the body of Christ fitly framed and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in due measure of each part. The power of believers in their general office includes the right to acknowledge and desire the exercise of the gifts and calling of the special offices. The regular exercise of oversight in a particular congregation is discharged by those who have been called to such work by vote of the people.
Comment: The Roman Catholic Church sees all church power as vested in the bishop, particularly the Bishop of Rome (the Pope), and identifies the two, being willing to go so far as to say, "The bishop is the church." Protestantism, among all the things that it entails, involves a reaffirmation of the significance and importance of the laity, so that church power is not seen to devolve only to the ministers, elders, and deacons but has a proper residency among all the church, including the whole of the laity. Luther spoke of this reality as the priesthood of all believers. Our FG addresses it in terms of the general office of the believer. This means that all believers have the Spirit and have a part in all the aspects of church life, growing together with every member, as Paul argues by using the metaphor of a body (1 Cor. 12), with no parts dispensable or insignificant.
It is out of the discharge of the general office of believer that special office arises. In other words, it is out of a faithful Christian life that some men emerge in their walk as having gifts that would suit them for special office (1 Tim. 3:1–11). It is to this special office to which oversight in the church is particularly given and set forth in the next section. Men are brought into special office only by the vote of the congregation, whether through the election of local ruling elders or through the calling of a minister. Ministers and elders are never imposed upon a congregation apart from their approval. More about this at the appropriate place below.
2. Those who join in exercising ecclesiastical jurisdiction are the ministers of the Word or teaching elders, and other church governors, commonly called ruling elders. They alone must exercise this authority by delegation from Christ, since according to the New Testament these are the only permanent officers of the church with gifts for such rule. Ruling elders and teaching elders join in congregational, presbyterial, and synodical assemblies, for those who share gifts for rule from Christ must exercise these gifts jointly not only in the fellowship of the saints in one place but also for the edification of all the saints in larger areas so far as they are appointed thereto in an orderly manner, and are acknowledged by the saints as those set over them in the Lord.
Government by presbyters or elders is a New Testament ordinance; their joint exercise of jurisdiction in presbyterial assemblies is set forth in the New Testament; and the organization of subordinate and superior courts is founded upon and agreeable to the Word of God, expressing the unity of the church and the derivation of ministerial authority from Christ the Head of the church.
Comment: Ministers of the Word and sacraments exercise both teaching and ruling functions in the church. As teachers, they are preachers who authoritatively proclaim God's Word, particularly the unsearchable riches of Christ and all the promises of God that are "yes" and "amen" in him. They are also instructors in doctrine and life as part of the church's catechesis of the youth and discipleship of all members. As rulers, ministers govern in the congregation, and on the session, together with ruling elders, who are "other church governors." Ruling elders hold the ruling office, then, together with ministers, though they do not hold the teaching office. Ruling elders, together with ministers, exercise this office for rule (they are the ones now who have the gifts for such rule) in guiding and guarding the church.[1] More on the particular of these offices at the appropriate place in the FG.
These teaching and ruling elders are said now to hold the only permanent church offices with gifts for rule. In the Old Testament Levites and elders of the people held such offices as did Apostles and elders in the New Testament era before the close of the canon (as at the Jerusalem Council—Acts 15). The Levitical priesthood has expired due to the fulfillment of all to which that system pointed and the Apostolate also ceased when the canon of Scripture closed. The Apostolate admits no successor with respect to the extraordinary aspect of its office; however, with respect to the ordinary aspect of its office, it finds its successor, or perhaps, better, its analog, in the New Testament Minister of Word and Sacrament. Even as elders joined Apostles in the joint rule of the church at the Jerusalem Council, so, now, ministers join elders in the joint rule of the church.
This joint rule of minister and elders occurs not only at the level of the local church in the session but also at the broader levels of the presbytery (governing the regional church) and the General Assembly (governing the whole church). This is because the church is also connectional (universal or catholic). Ministers and elders thus govern not only in their own local congregations but also at the level of the regional and national church. The New Testament makes clear that neither everyone in the church governs (congregationalism) nor is there a hierarchical clerical government (episcopacy). Rather, ministers and elders, the latter serving as rulers from the among the people, join together in the local and broader church for a rule of the people that properly reflects the Presbyterian principles contained in God's Word.
3. All church power is only ministerial and declarative, for the Holy Scriptures are the only infallible rule of faith and practice. No church judicatory may presume to bind the conscience by making laws on the basis of its own authority; all its decisions should be founded upon the Word of God. "God alone is Lord of the conscience, and hath left it free from the doctrines and commandments of men, which are, in anything, contrary to his Word; or beside it, if matters of faith, or worship" (Confession of Faith, Chapter XX, Section 2).
Comment: Church power is exclusively ministerial and declarative, which means that it is to be carried out in a servant (ministering) mode and involves proclamation (declaration) of the Word.[2] This stands over against the Roman Catholic Church, for which church power is magisterial and legislative, meaning that the church can proclaim dogma on its own authority, based on the Word and tradition, and that it can legislate—make canon law—and not simply declare what the Word says. Protestantism does not believe that the church is self-authenticating, only the Word is; Rome believes that the power of the church to declare doctrine is not limited to what the Word proclaims but is based on the teaching authority that the church possesses to proclaim dogma and canon law.
No church judicatory can properly do anything other than proclaim "thus says the Lord:" it must cite in all its decisions a proper application of the Word of God. This means that the church may not in matters of faith or worship speak "beside" or in addition to God's Word. No doctrines may be promulgated that are not biblical and no elements may be added to worship that do not come from God's Word. For example, the church cannot shape worship as it pleases nor can it tell people what to eat, drink, and the like. It can say "don't be a glutton or a drunkard" but it can prescribe no specific diet. This is not the proper province of the church; when the church exceeds its proper biblical authority, it denies true Christian liberty, either in adducing unbiblical rules for its members to follow or in introducing novel elements in worship or doctrine. Church judicatories, in other words, must neither add to nor take from the Word of God. To do so is both treason with respect to Christ's rule and tyranny with respect to the flock that office-bearers are called to shepherd, not to domineer over (1 Pet. 5:2–3).
4. All church power is wholly moral or spiritual. No church officers or judicatories possess any civil jurisdiction; they may not inflict any civil penalties nor may they seek the aid of the civil power in the exercise of their jurisdiction further than may be necessary for civil protection and security.
Comment: This is one of the most important lessons for us to learn in terms of the doctrine of the church and the polity of the church.[3] Church power is not like the power given to other institutions ordained of God. The family has a power proper to it, for example, which includes the exercise of discretion. Parents, for instance, may forbid their children from wearing certain clothes or eating certain foods. The church does not command with respect to what one eats or wears (as long as one is not gluttonous or immodest) but permits a wide range of Christian liberty, particularly with respect to adiaphora (matters indifferent).
Similarly, the church exercises no coercive authority as does the state, which enjoys the power of arrest and imposition of civil and criminal penalties for those adjudged guilty at law. The symbol of authority for parents is the rod and for the state is the sword, indicating that parents may employ corporal punishment and the state may inflict penalties up to and including death. The power of the church is the power of the keys—to admit to or bar from Holy Communion.
This power is said to be wholly moral or spiritual. It is not a lesser authority; in fact, it is the greatest authority. To remain barred from the Table of the Lord is more injurious for the soul (and body) than the death penalty is. The church receives its power from Christ through the vicarage of his Spirit. Church power is spiritual because it is distinctly an administration that occurs in and by the power of the Holy Spirit. The church administers the means of grace, especially the Word, sacraments, and prayer, and its work is a spiritual work, ministering first of all to the inner man (to the outer as needed, of course, but the focus being to the inner, spiritual man).[4]
The Unity of the Church
1. Since the church of Christ is one body, united under and in one God and Father, one Lord, and one Spirit, it must give diligence to keep this unity in the bond of peace. To this end the church must receive those endued with gifts of Christ as Christ himself, must submit to those whose call to govern in the church has been properly acknowledged, and in particular must learn of those with gifts of teaching the Word of God. Further, since every Christian is endued with some gift for the edification of the body, he must minister this gift to the church as a faithful steward. Church government must maintain this fellowship in Christ and in the gifts of the Spirit and seek its restoration when it has been disrupted through schism.
Comment: Sometimes we witness the division of the church (one may think of it in terms of Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Protestant, for instance) and despair over its unity. We often hear ecumenical exhortations to unity, from both the left and the right, that suggest that the church is not unified. While true calls to unity are quite appropriate, especially given our divisions, they must always be recognized as calls not to become something that we are not, but rather calls to be who we are.[5] We are, as FG 4.1 asserts (in keeping with John 17), one body, united together and brought into the fellowship and communion of the blessed, holy, undivided Trinity. We have unity as God's great gift: we who were not a people have been made one and we have far more in common in Christ than we do differing with one another.
The basis for unity then is not that all in the church speak the same language, share the same culture, or even like the same music, but that we all partake, by the Holy Spirit, of the same spiritual life, hidden with Christ in God (Col. 3:3). Wherever on earth we have national citizenship, we all have heavenly citizenship (Phil. 3:20), being seated with Christ in heavenly places (Eph. 2:6). And notice this feature, then, of our unity. That unity that we have in Christ binds and commits us to strive for it always and everywhere, manifesting itself in our willingness as the church to receive those whom Christ has gifted as we receive Christ himself.
If the church refuses those gifted for office by Christ through the Spirit and instead ordains and installs those not gifted, then it invites disunity. So, those gifted and called of Christ to serve in church office need their calling discerned both by the congregation as a whole and by those who have also been received as officers in Christ's church. The church must especially receive the preachers/teachers that the Lord sends her, as such labors together with the ruling elders and deacons, in the mutual governance and service of the church.
Not only are officers gifted, but every Christian enjoys the gifts needed for the specific calling that God gives to him or her. Proper church government helps ensure the harmonious operations of all the gifts in a congregation (or broader church body), enabling all to serve as they have been called, and maintains these gifts so that fellowship in Christ and in the gifts given by the Spirit is achieved, making for the harmonious working of the body. Failure in this respect promotes schism or division, when some exalt their gifts and offices over others either failing to recognize such gifts and offices of others or ill-regarding the gifts as of no consequence (regarding their own gifts instead as paramount). This all makes for division, as does heresy, and good church government seeks to avoid such and foster unity.
2. It is the right and duty of those who rule in the church of God to maintain order and exercise discipline, for the preservation both of truth and duty. These officers and the whole church must censure or cast out the erroneous or scandalous, always observing the requirements of the Word of God, and seeking the honor of Christ's name, the good of his church, and the reclamation of the offender.
Comment: The ancient and medieval church spoke of the attributes of the church (one, holy, catholic, and apostolic). These proved necessary but not sufficient, and the church in the Reformation found it necessary to affirm as well certain marks of the church, whereby the true church (over against the Roman and Eastern churches) might be identified.[6] Among these marks (alongside the pure preaching of the Word and the right administration of the sacraments) was the faithful exercise of church discipline. This section speaks of maintaining order, addressed here in the FG, and exercising discipline, addressed in the BD, as it will much more fully be explicated in the BD commentary.[7]
In the middle ages, church discipline tended either to be ignored or abused; abuse employed discipline politically, enforced against those who offended hierarchs, the pope especially. With the Reformation came a recovery not only of preaching and a right doctrine of the sacraments but also a restoration of the biblical doctrine of church discipline, without which the church remains deficient. This is because Christianity cannot be reduced simply to doctrine, on the one hand, or life, on the other. It is both—a life that emerges out of a proper understanding of our native spiritual inability, Christ being the sole remedy for our great need, calling us by his Word and Spirit to live as new men and women in vital spiritual union with him. When those who are baptized and profess faith in Christ go astray, whether seriously in doctrine (to the detriment of a credible profession), or markedly in life, it is a mark of the true church to call them to repentance and back to the fellowship of the church.
3. The manifestation of the unity of the church requires that it be separate from the world. Apostasy in faith and life is destructive of the fellowship in Christ; only by rejecting such error can Christian fellowship be maintained. There are many antichrists, many false apostles and teachers. From these the church must turn away, and those who steadfastly hear the voice of false shepherds and follow them cannot be regarded as the sheep of Christ. There are organizations which falsely call themselves churches of God, and others which once were churches, but have become synagogues of Satan. Communion with such is spiritual adultery and an offense against Christ and his saints.
Comment: The church is both one and called to be one, even as saints are holy and called to be holy. All of the attributes of the church (unity, holiness, catholicity, and apostolicity) are inter-dependent; thus, the church can never express its proper oneness or unity without being, among other things, holy. And holiness presupposes a proper separation from the world. The church is a kingdom not of this world, and it must maintain its integrity as such in the face of the world and all its temptations. It has been said that when the church seeks to be most like the world she does the world the least good. The church must witness to the world a life shaped by God's Word, a life that is holy and separate from worldliness, from the idols of our culture and times.
False doctrine and sinful living (apostasy in faith and life) destroys our unity with God and with each other as members of his mystical body. Unity cannot be purchased at the expense of purity and holiness, which, in fact, are necessary for unity; we have true unity only as we stand together on and in the truth. What unites the church is not that we all like the same music, or food, or sports teams: it is that we all worship the same God as set forth in his Word. All our differences give way to the unity that we have in Christ (Gal. 3:28). Thus, the enemy strikes at truth, seeking to foster disunity by promoting errors among us, through the agencies of false gospels and messiahs, promoted by false teachers and religious hucksters.
The church requires capable teachers and orthodox teaching so that she may know and remain firm in the truth. Only then can she resist error and turn away from false teachers and false churches. Here the FG reflects the Confession of Faith at 25.4–5 in teaching that churches may be more-or-less pure, in doctrine and life, and that some have so departed from biblical truth and godly living that they are synagogues of Satan, no longer worthy of the name church. Not only then is the church to separate from the world, but true saints ought to separate from false churches. To have communion with antichrist (another way of speaking of false teachers and churches in the aggregate) is spiritual adultery: the church is Christ's bride and to be in league with falsehood is for the bride to be untrue to her faithful husband and Lord.
4. The visible unity of the Body of Christ, though not altogether destroyed, is greatly obscured by the division of the Christian church into different groups or denominations. In such denominations Christians exercise a fellowship toward each other in doctrine, worship, and order that they do not exercise toward other Christians. The purest churches under heaven are subject both to mixture and error, and some have gravely departed from apostolic purity; yet all of these which maintain through a sufficient discipline the Word and sacraments in their fundamental integrity are to be recognized as true manifestations of the church of Jesus Christ. All such churches should seek a closer fellowship, in accordance with the principles set forth above.
Comment: The fact that we are one often seems lost in the call to be one, coming as it does in our highly divided denominational scene. We should take heart, though, that our denominational divisions, while lamentable, do not destroy, though they obscure, our unity in Christ. This is because, ultimately, our unity is "of the Spirit" (Eph. 4:1–7) and this transcends all our differences, making all true Christians, in whatever church they may be in, to have and enjoy a trans-denominational unity with all other true Christians. To be sure, the closest bonds of fellowship are with other true believers in one's own denomination, sharing confessions, liturgies, church orders, and the like that are not shared with other Christians, who are in different ecclesiastical bodies. As noted above some churches have so gravely departed from the Bible that we cannot have, nor do we seek, fellowship with them.
We do seek, however, fellowship with churches of like faith and practice (other Reformed and Presbyterian churches), as well as recognize on a different level other churches that may not be Reformed or Presbyterian but that maintain a gospel witness of some sort nonetheless. We seek the closest alliance with the sister churches with whom we have the most in common, naturally, and with all churches, in varying degrees, that are truly evangelical, which is to say, that faithfully preach the gospel.
[1] Mark R. Brown, editor, Order in the Offices: Essays Defining the Roles of Church Officers (Duncansville, PA: Classic Presbyterian Government Resources, 1993) is one of the more important volumes of recent years to treat the offices of the church and their mutual relationships. See especially Thomas Smyth, "An Ecclesiastical Catechism: Officers of the Church," first published in 1843 and reprinted here, 119–133.
[2] James Bannerman, The Church of Christ: A Treatise on the Nature, Powers, Ordinances, Discipline and Government of the Christian Church (1869; repr., Carlisle, PA: The Banner of Truth Trust, 2015), Part II ("The Power of the Church"). This tome merits consultation across the range of topics it treats but is particularly helpful on the nature, limit, and other aspects of church power.
[3] The historical roots of this doctrine of the spirituality of the church are contained especially in the Scottish Second Book of Discipline (1578; widely available online). The First Book of Discipline (1560), modeled after Calvin's Genevan Discipline, did not reflect this anti-Erastian sensibility so strongly. It was only after the short-lived overthrow of Presbyterianism in Scotland in 1572 that the commitment to the spiritual independency of the church emerged as it did in the Second Book, all of which provided historical precedent for the sensibilities of the Westminster Form of Presbyterial Government and this FG.
[4] Alan D. Strange, The Doctrine of the Spirituality of the Church in the Theology of Charles Hodge (Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R, 2017), 132–174 seeks to develop the links between the Holy Spirit, the church as a spiritual entity, and the doctrine of the spirituality of the church.
[5] Alan D. Strange, "Barriers to Ecumenicity," in Ordained Servant 27 (2018): 31–37.
[6] Edmund P. Clowney, The Church in the Contours of Christian Theology, Gerald Bray, series editor (Downers Grove, IL: IVP, 1995), 99–115 is helpful not only on the relationship between the attributes and the marks of the church but also on the visible/invisible, local/universal, and institute/organism perspectives on the church.
[7] Until the BD commentary: Alan D. Strange, "Conflict Resolution in the Church," Parts 1–2, Ordained Servant (Nov.–Dec. 2019) at https://www.opc.org/os.html?article_id=778 and https://www.opc.org/os.html?article_id=786?issue_id=151.
Alan D. Strange is a minister in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church and serves as professor of church history and theological librarian at Mid-America Reformed Seminary in Dyer, Indiana, and is associate pastor of New Covenant Community Church (OPC) in Joliet, Illinois. Ordained Servant Online, August–September 2020. A list of available installments in this series may be seen here.
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Danish Ambassador Ulrik Andreas Federspiel , who visited New Orleans less than a month ago, says his government is offering 10 large water purification units to the U.S. government to deal with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Denmark is one of more than 90 countries that have made offers of aid to the United States via a newly created State Department task force. U.S. officials established the task force last week to handle consular queries on expatriates trapped in disaster areas as well as to coordinate foreign pledges of assistance.
Federspiel, who is leaving Washington this month after 5 1/2 years as ambassador, said he still could not believe that the quaint and lively neighborhoods he walked through and visited, both poor and wealthy, are submerged in a maelstrom of water, destruction and ruined lives.
"America has a remarkable capacity to come out normal at the other end of crises because of the resilience of its citizens, if not the system," he said in an interview yesterday. "I am surprised at how many countries have stepped up to help. The international response has been different this time from what happened on September 11, 2001."
"What is common with the aftermath of 9/11 on the international scene is the realization that American people are also vulnerable," he said. "There are no safe havens anywhere, and no one can live alone on an island."
"Americans and Europeans think they are alike, but they are not. Americans are open, more optimistic and cannot believe they can be bad people. In Europe we are burdened by our history and know that the world is not as nice as it should be. In a sad way, Katrina may contribute to better transatlantic ties," he added.
Federspiel noted that the State Department has clarified an original perception that the United States was reluctant to receive aid. A State Department spokesman said Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice last week took the position that "no offer that can help alleviate the suffering . . . will be refused."
En route to her home state of Alabama on Sunday, Rice told reporters that she was gratified by the international response. "People have said that America has been so generous in times like this in other places, and now it is time to be generous to America," she said.
The task force, meanwhile, has been briefing emissaries of foreign governments on the status of rescue efforts and the conditions of stricken areas and evacuee centers. It also is tabulating various offers of humanitarian and technical relief before deciding what to accept, based on specific needs.
"We are still waiting to hear. The administration is still consulting on what to receive," Federspiel said.
Countries big and small, as well as various international organizations, have come forward to express solidarity and offer aid within their means. Thailand, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, still recovering from the Dec. 26 tsunami and other natural disasters, have pledged support. Bangladesh, which has already sent $1 million in aid, is awaiting a response to its offer to send experienced disaster management teams.
Sri Lanka is donating $25,000 to the American Red Cross. Thailand volunteered to send doctors and nurses to New Orleans. Romania offered two medical teams.
Singapore was among the first countries to respond to a request by the National Guard and sent four CH-47 Chinook helicopters based in Texas for training to Louisiana for the rescue effort.
Afghanistan has pledged $100,000 for Katrina victims; Pakistan has offered doctors and paramedics. Honduras is offering experts on flooding and sanitation, and Peru has offered to send a medical team.
Countries considered to be U.S. adversaries, such as Iran, Cuba and Venezuela, said they were prepared to channel help. Cuban President Fidel Castro said 1,100 physicians were ready to fly to Houston with 26 tons of medicine to treat victims. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said he would send fuel supplies as well as humanitarian relief. Iran said it would provide aid through its Red Crescent relief agency, affiliated with the Red Cross.
The Netherlands will send a frigate from Curacao to New Orleans to offer emergency assistance and provide teams to inspect dikes, should the United States ask for it. Many other countries -- including Britain, Belgium, the Nordic countries and China -- have also made pledges.
In addition to the $30 million in aid South Korea said it was sending, it offered a 50-person rescue team and troops, pending parliamentary approval, should the United States request them. Israel is sending 70 to 80 tons of medical equipment such as crutches and wheelchairs, long-life milk supplies, baby food, diapers and bedding materials, an embassy spokesman said.
Oil-rich Arab countries have pledged direct financial assistance to hurricane victims. Kuwait and Qatar are donating $100 million each, with Kuwait pledging an additional $400 million worth of oil products. Bahrain has pledged $5 million, and Saudi Arabia's state oil firm is donating at least $5 million.
The list of donors is growing daily.


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No need to share our inner thoughts with those we love or give any indication that there is anything to worry about. After all, it could be something that we have amplified through some mysterious act of our imagination. Such a thought, rather than being even slightly heroic, is built into our idea of what it is to love someone. In illness, as in death, the first inclination is to deny it as a first line of defence against despair. We don't intend it to be a game – after all our life is at stake – but it bears a remarkable resemblance to the very first game of all: the game of beep-o, which both excites us and puts us in touch with other persons and, perhaps for the first time in our lives, allows us to experience a sense of engagement, with others and also with ourselves.
Self (1999), a psychiatric senior house officer, comments on her personal experience of having osteosarcoma: 'I was fascinated to hear the term "Damocles syndrome" used to describe the psychosocial stresses experienced by survivors of childhood cancer. ' Dyer (2002), a physician with cancer, suggests that 'recovery from cancer was much like recovery from alcoholism; once you had it, you were always in recovery (or remission), never really cured'. The art therapy clients who participated in this study reported this limbo experience in various ways.
Betwixt and between' (Turner 1995: 95) transition experience. • Incorporation – or reincorporation; the passage is 'consummated' and the person is in a 'relatively stable' position (Turner 1982: 24). Writing of the 'cancer experience', Bronson (1994) describes how, at a conference on cancer, Achterberg compared cancer to 'a rite of passage' with its three phases of 'a separation and wrenching away from life as usual' (like diagnosis), a 'transition time . . like the solitary journey of cancer treatment', and 're-entry' into society as a changed person.


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Q: How to stop audio changing from monitor to laptop when monitor is off I have a DELL U2518D and speakers connected to the monitor. The audio uses the HDMI cable. So far so good, but when the monitor goes off (because of the energy saving feature) the audio is disconnected and begins to play in the laptop's speakers.
I'm running Windows 10.
Is there some configuration tweak to keep using the monitor audio even if it's in energy saving, or to stop the playback when the monitor is off?

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Q: Inverse relation $0 ≤x − y ≤ 1$ Let the relation $R:\mathbb{N} \rightarrow \mathbb{N}$ givenas $xRy$ iff $0 ≤x − y ≤ 1$i.e $R=\{(x,y):0 ≤x − y ≤ 1\}$ on $\mathbb{R}$. How do I find an inverse of this relation?
Is it  $R^{-1}=\{(x,y):0 ≤y − x ≤ 1\}$?. Could someone help me out please?

A: The definition of the inverse of $R$, $R^{-1}$, is that for any $x,y$ $xRy$ iff $yR^{-1}x$.
$xRy$ means that $0\leq x-y \leq 1$ that is, $xRy$ iff $x\geq y$ and $0 \leq \mid x-y\mid \leq 1$. To get the inverse we have to require $x \leq y$  and $0 \leq \mid x-y\mid \leq 1$ which is the same as  that requiring $0\leq y-x \leq 1$ as the OP suggested.


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FT Interactive Data enables automated delivery of independent valuations of credit default swaps
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New Offering Helps Clients Increase Efficiency; Leverages Markit's Broad Range of Credit Default Swap Data
BEDFORD, Mass. and LONDON - FT Interactive Data, part of Interactive Data Corporation (NYSE: IDC) and a leading global supplier of securities pricing, evaluations and data for valuation purposes, today announced a new offering that facilitates the automated delivery of independent valuations of credit default swaps (CDS), helping clients more efficiently value their portfolios of derivatives.
The CDS valuation service represents the first new offering developed through FT Interactive Data's recently announced strategic alliance with Markit Group Limited ('Markit'), a leading source of over-the-counter derivative valuations, mark-to-market pricing, dividend forecasting, index services and reference entity data.
Credit default swap trading has become a significant driver of fixed income market activity. The International Swaps and Derivatives Association estimates that the notional amount of credit default swaps outstanding around the globe was $12.4 trillion in June 2005. This represents growth of nearly 50% since the beginning of 2005, and approximately 130% over the previous year.
FT Interactive Data's CDS valuation service provides a robust set of capabilities designed to meet the needs of firms that own or trade this type of derivative. The offering enables clients to review their CDS portfolio, identify which holdings they would like to value - with the option of using Markit's industry standard Reference Entity Database (RED) codes - and then easily submit a valuation request. Through an alliance with Markit, FT Interactive Data can deliver an independent valuation based on the cleaned and averaged prices taken from over 50 dealers in the CDS markets.
The CDS valuation service is available to clients as an add-on to FT Interactive Data's evaluation services. The new service is also seamlessly integrated into a module of FT Interactive Data's FTS online portfolio administration service.
"The rapid growth of derivatives in the financial markets has made it critical for firms to obtain reliable data that helps them more accurately value their portfolios," said Ray D'Arcy, president of sales, marketing and institutional business development at Interactive Data Corporation. "By forming an alliance with Markit, FT Interactive Data can now offer clients seamless access to a leading source of independent mark-to-market CDS data.
Our CDS valuation service can replace the time-consuming and potentially error prone process of manually calculating the value of CDS holdings in spreadsheets, enabling clients to be more efficient and freeing up their time to focus on other value-added business activities."
"FT Interactive Data's new CDS valuation service enables firms to combine trusted delivery and support systems with Markit's independent CDS valuations and reference data," said Mike Rushmore, executive vice president of Markit Group. "We are excited to be working closely with FT Interactive Data to meet the rapidly expanding needs of the fixed income market."
In addition to CDS valuations, FT Interactive Data clients will also now have access to supporting information from Markit, such as spread curves, recovery rates, par spreads, accrued interest and present value deltas.
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About Interactive Data
Interactive Data Corporation (NYSE: IDC) is a leading global provider of securities pricing, financial information and analytic tools to institutional and individual investors. The company supplies time-sensitive pricing (including evaluated pricing), dividend, corporate action and descriptive information for more than 3.5 million securities traded around the world, including hard-to-value instruments. Many of the world's best-known financial service and software companies subscribe to the company's services in support of their trading, analysis, portfolio management and valuation activities.
Interactive Data is headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts. Through its branded businesses, FT Interactive Data, ComStock, CMS BondEdge and eSignal, Interactive Data has approximately 2,100 employees in offices located throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. Pearson plc
(LSE: PSON; NYSE: PSO), an international media company whose businesses include the Financial Times Group, Pearson Education and the Penguin Group, owns approximately 62 percent of the outstanding common stock of Interactive Data Corporation.
FT Interactive Data, part of Interactive Data, is a leading provider of financial information and analytics to global markets. FT Interactive Data supplies global securities pricing, evaluations, dividend, corporate action and descriptive information designed to support mutual funds' pricing activities, securities operations, research and portfolio management. FT Interactive Data collects, edits, maintains and delivers data on more than
3.5 million securities, including daily evaluations for approximately 2.5 million fixed income and international equity issues. FT Interactive Data specialises in 'hard-to-value' instruments and 'hard-to-get' information from emerging markets.
The FT Interactive Data business includes FT Interactive Data Corporation, a Delaware corporation, and the FT Interactive Data divisions of Interactive Data (Europe) Ltd. and Interactive Data (Australia) Pty Ltd.
For further information about Interactive Data please see:
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An excellent way for you to support Community Foundation of Bloomington and Monroe County's mission is to leave us a bequest in your will, living trust or with a codicil. One significant benefit of making a gift by bequest is that it allows you to continue to use the property you will leave to charity during your life. Another benefit is that you are able to leave a lasting legacy.
There are a number of ways you can make a bequest to Community Foundation of Bloomington and Monroe County.
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Contingent Bequest. A contingent bequest is made to charity only if the purpose of the primary bequest cannot be met. For example, you could leave specific property, such as a vacation home, to a relative, but the bequest language could provide that if the relative is not alive at the time of your death, the vacation home will go to Community Foundation of Bloomington and Monroe County.
In order to make a bequest, you should speak with your attorney. Your attorney can help you include a bequest to Community Foundation of Bloomington and Monroe County in your estate plan. We have provided some basic bequest language to assist you and your attorney.
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NEW to 2019 - TriClub Podium Awards
We've got some big news for 2019... We're introducing a shiny new Tri-Club awards structure that you're going to LOVE!
We're always looking for ways to improve and innovate to ensure the best experience for you and your club-mates. This year we have taken an even bigger step, with the introduction of the Tri-Club Podium Awards.
The top five individual Age Group Ranking athlete results from each club will be added together to receive a club grand total. The top 3 clubs with the highest score, no matter the division, will win the Tri-club Podium Awards and no-doubt receive a wild standing ovation, as they take the podium with their trophies at the event awards.
For events where there is both a full distance and 70.3 (such as this weekend) – Tri-Club points from both races will be combined, and the Tri-Club Podium announced at the final awards. For full details of the Age Group Ranking points system please click here.
So, in summary, it's a great new system that rewards the very best performing Tri-Clubs at each event... sweet!
Congratulations to our first TriClub Podium Award winners for 2019!
Rally The Troops Competition
Congratulations to our #RallytheTroops winners - IRONMAORI, Wellington Triathlon Club and Triathlon Tauranga (Random draw)!
Great representation of TriClubs from around the world 🌏🤗
IRONMAN TriClub Village
We will once again have the TriClub Tent Village on course at 2019 IRONMAN New Zealand. The TriClub Tent Village provides your Club with the opportunity to get right among the action on race day and creates a great meeting area for all your members. Book your spot now!
Bump In: Friday 1 March 9am - 5pm
Bump Out: Saturday 2 March after 3pm
The IRONMAN TriClub Program, launched in 2012 in North America, was created as a way of giving back to the hundreds of Triathlon Clubs that have long been an integral part of the Triathlon Community. Supporting not only the sport of triathlon, but IRONMAN and IRONMAN 70.3 races around the world. Since then, the IRONMAN TriClub Program has grown into a global community of over 2,500 clubs and teams.
Registered clubs generate points throughout the year based on their member's participation and performance at IRONMAN, IRONMAN 70.3. 5150 and Multi Sport Triathlon events. At the end of the year, clubs are ranked by country, region and globally.
IRONMAN invites clubs from around the world to join this FREE Program, where you can receive a range of great benefits and prizes and have the chance to race against each in a bid to be crowned IRONMAN World TriClub Champion!


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Nearly two years ago, we took a broad look at the real estate market and pointed out the uncertainty over valuations generated by a possible (then) vote to leave the EU. Our view at the time, which we shall repeat, is that life goes on, and that property values will continue to be fundamentally governed more by the various factors that influence what remains a highly diverse sector rather than by any temporary hysteria over Brexit. And indeed, the health of the real estate sector remains inextricably linked to the health of the economy, which has been far more resilient than politically-motivated pre-Brexit warnings suggested.
In this sideways look, Paul Jackson asks: could the housing shortage be institutional?


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In the years since the west's most hated terrorist was killed in a raid in Abbottabad, Pakistan, many new details have emerged. From Twitter leaks during the raid to the surprising conduct of Osama bin Laden's fifth wife, here are 7 surprising and…
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Home / About Wheaton / Leadership / Strategic Priorities for Wheaton's Future / Past Strategic Priorities / Globalize a Wheaton Education / Korea Trip 2015
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In January, Dr. Philip Ryken traveled with a team of Wheaton staff and alumni to Korea in support of the College's strategic priority to globalize a Wheaton education.
Globalizing a Wheaton Education in Korea
When Dr. Billy Kim, chair of the Far East Broadcasting Company (FEBC), visited Wheaton in 2013, he invited President Philip Ryken '88 to visit Korea to share the gospel and advance the kingdom mission of Wheaton College. In January, 2015, Dr. Ryken took him up on the invitation and traveled to Korea along with musicians Nathaniel Olsen '11, Julianne Olson and Dr. Mary Hopper '73. Also traveling with the group to provide interpretation, translation and cultural insight was Dr. Chandler Im, director of Ethnic Ministries at the Billy Graham Center for Evangelism at Wheaton College.
A primary goal of the trip was to support the College's strategic priority of globalizing a Wheaton educationby introducing Wheaton to Christian church and education leaders in Korea. To that end, President Ryken took advantage of every opportunity, speaking nearly twenty times during the ten day trip. He was invited to preach in some of the largest and most influential churches in Korea, including SaRang Community Church and Yoido Full Gospel Church, opportunities which Ryken characterized as a "huge privilege and a big help."
Nathaniel Olson and his wife Julianne used their vocal talents to lead worship and to perform in public concerts. Dr. Hopper participated in an international music festival in Seoul and explored opportunities to take Wheaton music ensembles to Korea in the future, as well as provided accompaniment for the Olsons on occasion.
Connecting with Pastors and Church Leaders
One of the many highlights of the trip included the chance to meet with Dr. Billy Kim of FEBC (who holds an honorary doctorate from Wheaton); Dr. David Kim, President of Torch Trinity Graduate School in Seoul (and former president of World Evangelical Alliance); and Rev. Paul Yonggi Cho, founding pastor of Yoido Full Gospel Church, the largest single church in the world, with over 500,000 members.
Connecting with Higher Ed Leaders
The Wheaton team also attended a gathering of presidents of Christian institutions, which included a meeting with Hwang Woo-ye, deputy prime minister and minister of education for South Korea. Later they also met with Suh Byung-soo the Mayor of Busan, the #2 city in Korea and a sister city to Chicago.
Recruiting International Students
Another key strategic purpose for the trip was recruitment. President Ryken spoke at several public information meetings with hundreds of prospective students and their parents about Wheaton, Christian higher education and what it's like to study in the U.S. At Taejeon Christian International School, he met with the principal, counselors, teachers and staff and spoke at chapel.
"All of [the three international schools we visited] are exceptional—some of the best schools in Asia and some of the best Christian schools in the world. So those are good connecting points for Wheaton," said Dr. Ryken.
Connecting with Alumni
On January 20, several dozen alumni gathered for a dinner and a chance to reconnect at the FEBC building. Alumnus Eric Youn '11, an interpreter and English instructor with the Republic of Korea Air Force, even took two days off so he could take the five hour one way bus ride from his base to join the alumni gathering in Seoul. The group brainstormed ways that alumni could be more involved in recruiting new students.
Forging New Partnerships
Perhaps one of the most exciting outcomes of the trip was strategic partnerships forged with other higher ed institutions. Letters of intent were signed to explore faculty and student exchange with Handong University and Baekseok University. Wheaton has also received seed money for a scholarship fund for Korean students, with a challenge to match the $100,000 that friends in Korea hope to contribute. The scholarship will be named after Dr. Billy and Mrs. Trudy Kim.
"This was an exceptional trip for Wheaton College because we were able to make such significant connections on so many levels," said Dr. Ryken. There are plans for another trip in 2016 to continue building connections in Korea, Indonesia, China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan and other countries throughout Asia.
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The Lookout, The Host, The Lives of Others
Allen Fraser / Miramax Films POUTS AND PANS Chris (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) has a crisis in the kitchen in The Lookout
THE LOOKOUT Hollywood is never at a loss for rising stars, but far too many prove to be the products of media saturation or studio backing rather than any discernible talent (James Franco, for starters). But Joseph Gordon-Levitt is shaping up to be the real deal. Television viewers might remember him as the kid on the sitcom 3rd Rock From the Sun, but since then, he's been delivering memorable performances in feature films as varied as 10 Things I Hate About You, Mysterious Skin and Brick. He's at his most impressive in The Lookout, which marks the feature directorial debut of screenwriter Scott Frank (Minority Report, Get Shorty). Gordon-Levitt plays Chris Pratt, a former high school hockey star whose life was shattered after a car accident (his fault) killed two friends and disfigured his girlfriend. Now suffering from a faulty memory, Chris works as a janitor at a minimum-security bank and rooms with a blind man named Lewis (affable Jeff Daniels). Frank does such a distinguished job in creating the character of Chris Pratt -- and Gordon-Levitt is so touching in the role -- that it's a shame the movie turns into a typical heist flick that runs rampant with all the expected clichés: the smooth-talking roughneck who can erupt in violence at any moment, the silent henchman, the nice-guy cop who's at the wrong place at the wrong time, etc. Whenever Frank turns his attention toward the robbery, the film goes slack. But as long as he keeps his camera firmly focused on Chris Pratt and his inward journey, he insures that The Lookout is at least worth a peek. **1/2
BRIDGE TO TERABITHIA There's a gentle strain seeping back into today's family films, a development that should be encouraged at every turn. When movies aimed at the smallest fry feature characters belching and breaking wind at regular intervals, it's clear that the tide has turned since the decades of such marvelous and -- I hasten to add -- enduring masterpieces like Lady and the Tramp and 101 Dalmatians; even the recent live-action take on Charlotte's Web couldn't resist occasionally pandering to the crusty-snot-nosed kids in the audience. Like the film versions of A Little Princess and The Neverending Story, Bridge to Terabithia wasn't made for them; instead, it's for bright, inquisitive children (and attendant adults) who subscribe to the theory that imagination is one of the most wonderful tools available. Based on Katherine Paterson's award-winning book, this explores the relationship between two outcast middle-schoolers (Josh Hutcherson and AnnaSophia Robb, both highly appealing) and the adventures they share as they create a magical kingdom in the woods that rest behind their respective houses. If the effects involved in the creation of their imaginary world seem on the thrifty side, that's OK, since the heart of the story rests in the manner in which children are able to cope with loneliness, ostracism and even death. Incidentally, cowriter David Paterson is Katherine's son, which helps explain the film's fidelity to its source material. ***
THE HOST Just as the original 1954 Japanese cut of Godzillawarned against the evils of nuclear proliferation, this Korean import similarly rails against a host of societal ills, including humankind's disregard for nature, the ability of America to force its will on the rest of the globe, the false front provided by governments declaring bogus "terror alerts," and media insensitivity. Yet these themes only simmer in the background, and even the creature feature often takes back seat to a sturdy and even touching comedy-drama about the importance of familial fortitude. The central character is Gang-du (Song Kang-ho), a dim-witted food-stand vendor and unlikely father to bright young Hyun-seo (Ko A-sung). When an enormous mutant emerges from the Han River, munches on a few humans, and then takes Hyun-seo back to his lair, it's up to Gang-du and other family members to rescue the girl, battling military personnel every step of the way. Full of memorable imagery (amusing sight gags easily commingle with more brutal shots) and anchored by the human story at its center, The Hostis only harmed by the varying quality of its special effects. Created by the companies that worked on the Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings flicks, the effects are slick to a fault, with seamless visuals compromised by obvious CGI renditions, often within the same scene. Still, given that the movie works best when focusing on the people rather than the predator, that amounts to a minor quibble: This is a monster movie for those who like a little meat on the genre's bones. ***1/2
I THINK I LOVE MY WIFE It's inconceivable that the names Eric Rohmer and Pootie Tang would ever appear in the same sentence, yet that's the result of cowriter-director-star Chris Rock making I Think I Love My Wife. The film is a remake of 1972's Chloe In the Afternoon, the sixth and final movie in philosophical French director Rohmer's "Moral Tales" series (issued by Criterion last year). Now, Rock and his Pootie Tang cohort Louis C.K. have teamed up to rework Rohmer's story into a moderately amusing but ultimately scattershot comedy about Richard Cooper, a businessman whose marriage to a schoolteacher (Gina Torres) has become so stagnant that he constantly daydreams about other women. Into his office walks Nikki Tru (Kerry Washington), a high-maintenance friend from his long-ago clubbing days. Bringing to mind the "Darling Nikki" from Prince's Purple Rain soundtrack, she tempts Richard by injecting some much-needed fun back into his life, thereby requiring him to decide whether he should cheat on his sexually frigid spouse. The level of humor is all over the map, yet while the script by Rock and C.K. offers a few salient points about the challenges posed in keeping any marriage fresh, any benefit of the doubt as to the picture's worth goes out the window upon the arrival of a dreadful conclusion that's not only poorly conceived and executed but also reverses one of the story's major conflicts with no explanation. I'm sure Rock meant well, but the next time he feels the urge to improve upon the French, he should try his hand at baguettes. **


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