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Manchester's Township Council last week approved the purchase of four new police cars as the department continues to cycle vehicles in its fleet.
The 2012 Dodge Chargers requested by police will replace three aging and one damaged Ford Crown Victorias used by the Manchester Police Department which are no longer in production. The cost for the vehicles, which will be bought through the Cranford Police Cooperative Purchasing System, will not exceed $99,836, according to the purchase authorization resolution approved Tuesday evening.
Of the four cars, three will replace vehicles that have met or will soon reach their 100,000 mile usefulness limit. Another will replace a patrol car damaged in June when an allegedly intoxicated driver struck it, according to Chief of Police Brian Klimakowski.
"If there's any value to those vehicles, they'll be passed down to our other departments like public works," said council Vice President Brendan Weiner.
Weiner said that it is also possible that the old vehicles will be sold at public auction, as is typically done with unneeded police department equipment as a means to recoup some money.
An insurance payment from the June crash will cover some of the cost of one new vehicle, the chief said.
About 30,000 miles are driven in each patrol car every year. Vehicles must be replaced annually to ensure that the police department does not end up with an aging fleet that needs immediate replacement, which would be a daunting task for the township, Klimakowski has said.
The township last approved the purchase of three Chargers in February — those cars only recently have been put into use by police.
Some existing equipment will be re-purposed from the older cars to the new models. An additional approximately $5,000 per vehicle from the police department's operating budget will be spent to outfit them for service, Klimakowski said.
The new vehicles are expected to arrive in about three to four months, according to Klimakowski.
The chief has said that having 100,000 miles on a police car "is probably like having 300,000 miles on a regular car" because of the "the manner in which they're driven, the high speeds, the braking, in addition to the idling that a normal car never does."
The Charger is commonly used by police departments — including neighboring Lakehurst — and is "a good vehicle," said council President Craig Wallis in February when the first wave of replacements were approved. Though there were other options, administrators did not want to take a chance with unproven police vehicles.
"Chevy is going to come out with the Caprice [police version], but they haven't been tested," Wallis said. "When they come out with a new police vehicle, do you want to be the testbed for it? The Dodges have been out there for a while."


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A healthier you? Here's the skinny
The Web site goodfoodnearyou.com claims to help people find restaurants that offer nutritional value. It lets you enter a zip code and local eateries pop up on the screen.
Sounds like a handy tool for travelers trying to stick to diets on their trips, right?
Well, yes and no.
Lots of fast-food chains are the the mix. The site recommends a whole wheat glazed doughnut at Krispy Kreme, a garden salad at McDonald's, a fried chicken leg at Hardee's and an egg cheese English muffin sandwich at Dunkin' Donuts.
Even though 250,000 restaurant locations are listed, I'm not sure the site is all that helpful. It does let you sort dishes at popular chains by calories, carbs or fat.


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Meera Jasmine is shooting for Minnaa Menungu Kootam with Prithviraj and Jayasuriya, directed by Kamal with cinematography by Manoj Pillai, who is assisted by Meera Jasmine's brother.
While at a shoot at Thrissur, Meera Jasmine and her brother met face-to-face. The scene being canned was between Jayasuriya and Meera. During the scene, Meera caught sight of her brother George and immediately walked out. It took all the persuasive powers of the director Kamal and the cinematographer to convince her to come back and finish the shoot.
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Explore Saint Paul's regional parks through geocaching! Geocaching is an outdoor treasure hunting game using GPS-enabled devices like smartphones, tablet computers, or receiver units. Natural Resources staff hides caches monthly from May through October with activities designed to encourage learning and exploration of regional parks. This year's theme is Art in Nature. Participants who successfully navigate to the provided GPS coordinates, find the cache, and complete the activity described inside are entered in a monthly prize drawing.


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Turning 40 is depressing enough...at least that's what I'm told. Just kidding. This is one of those movies where the wife can't take it and she struggles with the BIG 40!
(Isn't 40 the new 30?) YES, this is a funny movie unfortunately all the funny parts are shown in the previews! Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann are a cute, dysfunctional couple dealing with kids, bills, in-laws, feelings for one another and LIFE! Will they survive their 14-year marriage or won't they?
The trials and tribulations of this couple should be saved for your sofa and a Saturday night! SAVE IT!


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The one-stop online provider of event decors and equipment, OnlineEEI.com offers flame retardant fabrics that meet the standards of the U.S. National Fire Protection Association.
Romeoville, IL (I-Newswire) December 13, 2012 - Events that require decor and interior design elements should also consider the safety aspects of the materials used. While event hosts and organizers need to pay attention on how beautiful and creatively designed the whole venue is, fire codes must be met to ensure the overall safety and protection of all attendees during the course of the celebration.
Accidental fires and venues catching on fire, for one, are unfortunately common. To help combat this hazard, organizers should implement the use of flame retardant fabrics. In order to avoid life threatening and sometimes fatal fires at events, it has become essential in the United States, to use certain fabrics or textiles that meet the standards of U.S. Federal regulations. This is required especially when fabrics are used in public spaces like schools, theatres or wide, open spaces such as sports fields.
OnlineEEI.com, the one of the leading suppliers of decorative items and paraphernalia for all events, provides clients with the best decorating fabrics that have passed the flame retardant standards set by the U.S. National Fire Protection Association. Although virtually all fabrics are susceptible to burning, flame retardant fabrics are, comparatively, more resistant to fire because of approved chemical treatments or the fire resistant fibers from which they are made of.
In particular, OnlineEEI.com is home to fire retardant exhibit cloths, table skirts, stage draperies that meet NFPA 701 rev99 and CA Fire Marshall standards. Economy satin, premier, and polysuede fabrics, pleated cloths, table top fabrics with embossed vinyl are also available on the website, with fire retardant certificates obtainable upon request.
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The venture capital fund VTB Venture Fund invested $4 million (100 million rubles) in EZtalk, a mobile callback service operated in Russia by Simbiotel Limited company, reported newspaper RBC Daily. EZTalk helps save on international calls from mobile. The callback service market in Russia was valued at $60 million in 2007, of which mobile callback accounted for several millions, the daily said.
Founded by private individuals in 2007, EZtalk started providing services in January 2008 and now has 30,000 users. With accelerated marketing spending, the service could reach several million subscribers out of more than 140 million mobile users in Russia.
EZtalk requires registration via its web-site and download of its application to mobile phone. After topping up an account via a payment terminal, user can make calls to Europe, US, Canada and some other countries for about $0.30 per minute or to anywhere in Russia for $0.15 per minute. EZtalk has interoperability agreements for voice traffic with several long-distance and international telecom operators including Rostelecom and Orange.
VTB Venture Fund (ВТБ – Фонд венчурный), which was formed in September 2007, is managed by VTB Asset Management, part of banking group VTB.
In June 2008, VTB Venture Fund invested in provider of indoor-advertising and interactive marketing solutions BS Graphics (Б.С. Графика).
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Funeral services for David Welsh, 59, Pryor, are Friday, Feb. 22, at 10 a.m., in the Shipman's Funeral Chapel. Interment will follow in the Benge Cemetery. Visitation is from 7 p.m. until 9 p.m. at the funeral home. To leave a personal message to his family, visit his web memorial at www.shipmansfuneralhome.com.
Arrangements are under the direction of Shipman's Funeral & Cremation Service.


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AdminiSTAR is delivered as an application service, built on solid state-of-the-art HP Integrity servers, for employee stock and option plan administration. This comprehensive and flexible approach offers you a wide range of equity plan administration features, combined with real-time trade execution, user-controlled reporting, and full FAS 123R compliance—all in a single, web-based solution.
Behind the scenes of this application service are HP Integrity servers, offering outstanding performance to support your most demanding workloads, high efficiency to deliver a better long-term value, and the flexible scalability to support your growing demands. What's more, because HP servers are hosting the AdminiSTAR application, you also gain the advantage of our rock-solid disaster recovery and business continuity capabilities that keep plan services available around the clock


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NORMAN — Flooding has been occurring in nearby states and AAA cautions car buyers about the danger of being duped into purchasing a flood-damaged vehicle.
When vehicle owners find cars damaged by floods, they make claims to ther insurance companies. In many cases, insurance companies "total" flood-damaged vehicles which are then sold to salvage companies. Rather than being disassembled for parts, some of these vehicles are purchased by individuals who restore them to operating condition — with varying levels of expertise. After being "repaired," these vehicles often end up on used car lots in Oklahoma and other states.
AAA Tips…How to Spot a Flood-Damaged Vehicle
· Obtain a CARFAX Vehicle History Report – This report can potentially reveal if the vehicle has been involved in a flood, major crash or fire, although incidents are occasionally not reported officially and don't make their way onto the CARFAX report.
· Engage your sense of smell to detect any damp or musty odors inside the vehicle.
· Has the carpet or upholstery been replaced or recently shampooed? Pull back the carpet in different areas and look for mud, dirt or signs of water stains.
· Inspect the underside of the dashboard for signs of mud and dirt. This is a particularly hard area to clean.
· Look under the vehicle for corrosion. It is uncommon to find corrosion in newer vehicles and those that are owned or sold in southern states.
· Open doors, hood and trunk to inspect for corrosion, mud and dirt or discoloration on the door frames, hinges and under the weather stripping. Pay special attention to small spaces and crevices that are difficult to clean.
· Check all warning lights, window motors and all electrical components to ensure they are working properly. While a non-working part alone does not mean the vehicle was flooded, it combined with other difficulties is a cause for concern.
· Always have the vehicle inspected by a quality repair facility prior to purchasing. AAA Approved Auto Repair facilities are located across the United States. Nearby locations can be found at AAA.com/Repair.
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When Jen McGlasson started her first business, she had no idea where it would take her. In November of 2008, McGlasson started a photo album designing company.
She said that while the business got off to a great start, soon after, the economy crashed.
Stumbling blocks
"I kept it going to see if I could make it work," she said. "I tried as hard as I could, and it just never really picked up, unfortunately."
At that time, McGlasson decided to start working a part-time job to help cover the loss of income, reluctantly putting her business aside.
"My parents and my husband were so upset because I was a stay-at-home mom, and the business brought out my artistic side and helped me to be happy and keep going," she said. "Then, I was looking at a job at a day care, and I met a mom who was deciding to quit her full-time job and find a work-at-home job."
A new direction
McGlasson said she worked out a deal with the other mom to work on the album design business at home while McGlasson worked at the day care. The two women formed a partnership, and later that year, they decided to do a show together.
"The kids at the day care dressed in costumes, and we took pictures of them," she said.
That show was what eventually led to McGlasson's photography career.
"My husband and I were going to rent a camera for the show, but it was a better option to buy one," she said. "I bought a beginner's camera and took pictures of my daughter, capturing emotions and everything. I fell in love with photography."
After that, McGlasson said she began to offer parents at the day care free sessions in order to get experience. When she began doing family sessions, she knew she had found her niche.
A career is born
McGlasson met Kelly Adler, the former owner of Adler Photography, in 2009.
"I came into the business as an album designer and was doing some designing for her," McGlasson said. "I told her I do portrait photography on the side, and she asked if I would second shoot at weddings."
She said the two became fast friends, and she was soon Adler's main wedding photographer.
When Adler announced late in the year that she would be moving to California, the two women worked out a plan that would have put two branches of Adler Photography on the map. McGlasson would run the Missouri business, and Adler would run the California business.
"But then she got sick and was bedridden," McGlasson said. "She asked if I would buy the company, so I did."
What's in a name?
When Patch asked McGlasson why she didn't change the name of the business after Adler left, she said it was simple.
"I worked my butt off getting her name out there when I quit my first company and started focusing on hers," she said. "Last year, I worked with mostly her clients, but this year I really gained a lot of my own clientele."
She added that she feels blessed for the business she's pulling in, and that she probably won't change the name of the business because she worked so hard to get it out there.
Adler Photography today
McGlasson said that she no longer photographs weddings, except for family and friends, but she has added several other types of portrait photography to her list of services.
"I decided that since I really love portrait photography, I should stick with that," she said. "I do boudoir, maternity, childbirth, newborns and kids, families, seniors, modeling photos, commercial and engagement portraits."
She said that for the boudoir photos, she works on location at a local hotel.
"I want my clients to feel as comfortable as possible, so I have them come to a hotel room and set out wine and food," she said. "We talk and I give them time to feel comfortable with me before we start the session."
She said that it's a two-hour session with unlimited clothing changes.
"I absolutely love it, and I do it because it helps to boost up their self-esteem," McGlasson said. "It's awesome to watch them start feeling good about themselves."
As for the other kinds of portraits, McGlasson does both destination photography, as well as studio photography.
She has a studio in her home, and she has a list of park suggestions. She will also go where she is needed—so if a family wants portraits taken at home or in another local location, she will work with them.
"I want people to know I'm a Christian with a Christian background," McGlasson said. "I'm very outgoing and I am always about pleasing my clients."
She said that it "hurts her" if her client's aren't happy, so she always goes "110 times beyond" when it comes to providing the best portraits and customer service.
Upcoming specials
"I do a mini-marathon every October and then again in the springtime," McGlasson said. "My mini-sessions are $100, but they will get $25 off, and this will include a free 8-by-10 print."
She said a mini-marathon involves a one-day event where she takes clients all day in 20-minute sessions. During her October event, people came every half hour to get their portraits taken.
"It was a lot of hard work, but it was fun," she said. "I'm going to have the next one probably in May."
McGlasson is also offering a "sweetheart" event in January at her home studio.
"It will be like a Valentine's Day setup," she said. "You can bring in the kids and have Valentine's pictures taken."
The sweetheart event will take place from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Jan. 14. McGlasson is offering 20-minute sessions for $60. The price includes one free 8-inch-by-10-inch print and a DVD of 10 to 15 edited photos with full copyright permissions.
To learn more about Jen McGlasson or to schedule an appointment, visit the Adler Photography website.


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Motorcycle jackets, at least when they are first bought, can often feel rough and stiff. After months of use they finally start to get a softer feel to them. If you would like to soften up your jacket sooner, there are things you can do to make that happen. All you need is leather conditioner, a microfiber towel, and a blow dryer. Suzanne Alicie, an eHow contributor, explains how to make a leather jacket softer by using these items.
Source: http://www.ehow.com/how_4855956_make-leather-jacket-softer.html


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Over a smoking ban?
According to Webster, there are at least five shadings of the definition of the word "liberty" in the social sense and several others in the context of the legal system and the military. Mr. Pack's May 13 letter in the Record-Eagle, in which he contends that the smoking ban in bars and restaurants is an affront to "liberty" would, I suppose, be based on what Webster describes as "freedom from arbitrary or despotic control" — the contention that smoking on premise should be the sole right of the proprietor to determine.
Non-smokers and restaurant employees might see "liberty" as the next listed definition: "The positive enjoyment of various social, political or economic rights and privileges." The contention that they should have the right to not be exposed to a proven health hazard and that this right, if needed, should be protected by law.
The arrogance or ignorance of his assumption that any employee has the "liberty" to just find another job tells me that he might never have had to look for a job in a bad economic climate. As for the Patrick Henry reference, give me liberty or give me death? Over a smoking ban? Really?
Marlowe Bonner
Traverse City
Not thinking straight
I have been stunned by the news that Traverse City, a proud and beautiful city, filled with kind and friendly people, has been talking about laying off firefighters and police officers. If we are to continue re-building and "placemaking" our hometown and surrounding area into a draw for others to want to live here, like all those "young professionals" the planners keep mentioning, then this move will certainly scare the dickens out of them. No young professional single, couple or family person will find it comforting to live in an area that treats the safety of its citizens so shabbily.
Please re-think this absolutely stupid idea and allow us to pay our few dollars a year to have protection when we need it. Who ever first suggested this idea certainly was not thinking straight, in my humble opinion.
Nancy Griesinger
Traverse City


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Guide for student organization management and operations.
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Career Exploration & Development is here to support you throughout different stages of your career planning at Denison. Our goal is to help you understand how your skills, abilities, and interests will shape your life after Denison. From your first day on campus, you are encouraged to participate in externships, internships, research, leadership activities, and service learning.
The Denison Alumni Recruiting Teams is an organization of concerned alumni who contribute their knowledge of the University and enthusiasm for the education they received at Denison to prospective students, parents, secondary school administrators, and guidance counselors.
Congratulations on your admission to Denison and welcome to our community! We look forward to meeting you and the rest of the great Class of 2018. This notebook contains information you will need to get started at Denison.
Denison University's personnel policies for administrative staff.
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Psychology, broadly defined, is the science that involves the study of physiological, behavioral, and mental processes in humans and animals. Psychology has several interrelated facets, being a scholarly discipline, a scientific field of study, and an applied profession.
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Since 1938, Cleveland-based Kichler Lighting has created exceptional lighting in a variety of styles, finishes, colors and designs. With a diverse collection of indoor and outdoor lighting in classic and contemporary styles, Kichler Lighting always focuses on making home lighting that is both beautiful and functional.
The Norwich 2-Tier Chandelier is available with the following:
- Metal frame
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- Nine 60 Watt 120 Volt Candelabra Base Incandescent lamps (not included).
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- Suspension: Length Adjustable To 102.5"
- Chain: Length 72"
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The number of drivers arrested for DUI on California highways during the first 60 hours of the Labor Day weekend is up from last year, according to the California Highway Patrol.
Statewide, CHP officers have made 1,399 DUI arrests, compared to 1,360 last year. The numbers for San Diego County are also up, with 84 DUI arrests this year and 72 last year. Orange County has seen a rise as well, with 77 arrests this year, up from 51 in 2010. There have been no roadway fatalities in either county, according to the CHP.
The reporting period began Friday at 6 p.m. and ended Monday at 6 a.m. The arrest figures only reflect arrests made by CHP officers; they don't include arrests by other law-enforcement agencies.
During the same time period, 16 people have been killed in traffic accidents in California this year, according to the CHP. There were 11 fatalities in the same time period last year. Those numbers include all law-enforcement agencies in the state.


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K-1: The Arena Fighters is a video game for PlayStation developed and published by Unknown. It has an unknown or pending rating from the ESRB and no users have rated it yet.
Our newest cheats for K-1: The Arena Fighters were added January 26, 2001.
Select team battle mode. Then at the character select screen, press Up(2), Down(2), Left, Right, Left, Right, Start. Now Master Ishii will be selectable to the right of the regular characters.
When "Push Start" begins to flash on the title screen, quickly press Up, Right, Down, Left, Up, Right, Down, Left, Select. If you entered the code correctly, you will hear the sound of an explosion. Note: This code affects both players.
Pause the game and press L2, R1, L1, R1, L2, R1. Now use the D-pad on either controller to change the flashing numbers on either side of the screen to any value between one and nine for the corresponding player.
At the title screen, hold L1 + R1. If you entered the code correctly, you will hear three beeping sounds. Now press Start to choose alternate character costumes for Musashi, Andy Hug, and Sam Greco.
On both controllers, hold L1 + L2 + Triangle + Circle + Left and power on the PlayStation. Then, continue to hold all buttons until demo mode starts to view the ending sequence and credits.
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Microsoft Pushes Security Essentials
On November 1st, Microsoft took an unusual move throughout the USA. They started offering their Microsoft Security Essentials software when their automatic Windows update ran.
This move has computer security companies Trend Micro and Panda complaining. These two companies offer competing anti-virus software suites, which they seem to feel will suffer as a result of this move.
Microsoft uses a facility called the 'action center' to monitor certain aspects of your computer. One of those is whether or not you have any anti-virus software running. If you don't, the action center will now offer you their own anti-virus software when your regular Windows update runs.
The reason that they claim they are doing this, is that despite the fact that there are so many free anti-virus software suites available today, many people still choose to take the risk and go without.
These people, for whatever reason, have nothing installed and as a result are likely to quickly become infected with viruses and other malware.
Once infected they may become part of a botnet-a network of infected computers that work together in order to commit cyber crimes, though their owners know nothing of what they are doing.
They are also likely to pass on their viruses to others, to spread the infections through email, instant messaging and other methods so that they can then steal the personal information of other people.
When taking this into consideration it could be argued that this latest move is for the greater good. It will encourage people who have yet to install anti-virus software just because they haven't thought about it yet to get protected. It will also help people to find reliable and trustworthy software, if they are otherwise unsure where or how to get it.
However, some are arguing that it goes against the competition rulings that have been issued in previous cases against Microsoft.
In the past the courts in various countries have ruled that by bundling its media player, and web browser with its operating systems, it was forming an unfair monopoly in the market. It was ordered to cease bundling and offer them separately instead.
The fact that they are merely offering it as a suggested download though, instead of automatically downloading and installing it is likely to count in their favor-making it seem as though they are simply offering help rather than forcing their software on people.
Unfortunately, because they are offering this software through the Windows update service, many people are uncomfortable. The update service is compulsory, and so no matter whether you want it, you will be offered the software if you don't have something running.
This might seem like a sensible move, but the other side of it is new installations. When an operating system is first installed on a computer it won't have anti-virus protection. The user must then go and select it.
If they are offered it automatically when bringing their operating system up to date, they may take the easy route rather than finding another product.
Whether this leads to further court action against Microsoft will depend in part upon whether any other company chooses to complain.


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In another month or two, FogBugz 6.0 (now in beta) will be shipping. It's cool. It's very cool. It has a kiwi.
Because I was born without the part of the brain that allows normal people to learn, over time, that Travel is Hell, I thought it would be fun to travel to a few cities around the world and demo it myself, in front of a live audience.
The demo will probably take about 30 - 45 minutes, and I'll leave lots of time for questions -- not just questions about FogBugz, but anything about the software development process, really. It'll be completely free.
Anyway, I'm not sure where to do these. Silicon Valley? Yes. Boston, Seattle, London... almost certainly. But beyond that, I'm not sure. So I set up a little survey. If you're interested in attending, please fill out the survey and tell me where you're located. I'll collate the responses and figure out some good places to stop on the FogBugz World Tour of 2007.
You're reading Joel on Software, stuffed with years and years of completely raving mad articles about software development, managing software teams, designing user interfaces, running successful software companies, and rubber duckies.
I'm Joel Spolsky, co-founder of Fog Creek Software, a New York company that proves that you can treat programmers well and still be highly profitable. Programmers get private offices, free lunch, and work 40 hours a week. Customers only pay for software if they're delighted. We make Trello, which lets you organize anything, together, FogBugz, enlightened issue tracking software for bug tracking, and Kiln, which provides distributed version control and code reviews. I'm also the co-founder and CEO of Stack Exchange. More about me.


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Mon, 11/11/2013 - 09:46am
Today is Veteran's Day, a day when we recognize and thank all the men and women who are serving or have served in our United States Armed Forces: Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Coast Guard. The 3rd grade choir sang a special tribute to the veterans of the Steubing community to show their appreciation for the sacrifices and dedication they have committed over the years to ensure our continued freedom. We had a wonderful turn out of veterans whose children and grandchildren either come to school here or work here at Steubing Elementary. To all of our veterans we want to say THANK YOU for your service!
(Pictured above are: Ms. Frances Oliver, Suzanne Jaimes, and Retired Private Robert Jaimes. Private Jaimes served in the Army as a foot soldier and with the military police. Private Jaimes is a World War II veteran and father to IA, Suzanne Jaimes.)


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Gov. Nathan Deal has appointed retired Air Force officer Thomas L. Coleman, of Lithonia, to serve as a Department of Juvenile Justice board member.
Officials say Coleman's experience in the military and public administration will serve him well in his position as a board member. Coleman earned a master's degree in public administration from Central Michigan University. Officials say Coleman earned a doctoral degree in higher education from the University of Atlanta and served four years as deputy commissioner of programs and education for the Department of Juvenile Justice.
The board is comprised of 15 members who represent the state's congressional districts. Deal appointed Coleman to represent the 4th Congressional District, which covers areas east of Atlanta including DeKalb, Rockdale and Gwinnett counties.
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By Shawn Wood
For The Daily Item
PINE GROVE — With a modest two-game winning streak, Line Mountain has another test for its young squad as it travels to Pine Grove to take on the undefeated and top-ranked Tri-Valley League Cardinals on Friday.
"I hope the place is electric on Friday night as I told our kids this is a championship-caliber football team and we have to rise to the occasion and play at a championship-level game like this," Line Mountain coach Rodney Knock said.
The Eagles (3-4, 2-4 TVL) blanked East Juniata last week 22-0. It was the second straight week the defense has pitched a shutout.
"The last two weeks, the defense has been playing great, giving the way the season has been going," he added. "We have the potential to play defense like that every week. It was just two or three big plays this year where we could have ended up shutting out a lot of teams. We're going to have to play very solid defense against Pine Grove this week."
Knock said that the progression of his team continues and that some of the seniors have challenged kids to step up and make plays and they have.
"There hasn't been a time this year that the kids haven't given everything they've got," Knock added. "The Williams Valley game got away quickly from us, but, they played all out each game. Even in the Juniata game when they were one inch away from a touchdown, some of the players were physically exhausted when I went out to talk to them during a timeout and they still did what they had to do to win the game."
Pine Grove (7-0, 6-0 TVL) is the only undefeated team in the TVL following last week's win over Halifax.
Senior Ryan Heim had his third 200-yard rushing game of the year last week and has gone six straight games over 100 yards on the ground. He is averaging nearly five yards per carry.
"They are a very disciplined team and they have some great athletes who don't make mistakes," Knock said. "We are a momentum football team. We have to get some momentum early and make some plays if we want to have a big win."


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Some Billboards I designed for Brisfest 2013
UWE Graphic Design stand at D&AD New Blood 2013 - we were nominated for best stand, pretty grand achievement!
That whole week turned out to be incredible. And London won me over.
A selection of work in our Degree show. Go in and take a look – it's on until tomorrow!
I Am Story, Created for the ISTD brief: 'Books Still'
Messing around with the high speed camera. Had to do a slap!


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Eighty-four formerly neglected horses began new lives over the weekend.
"Not long ago these majestic horses were struggling to survive, but they will be given all of the care they need to make a full recovery at the Cleveland Amory Black Beauty Ranch," said Diane Miller, director of operations at the ranch. "The HSUS looks forward to watching these horses overcome the neglect they faced on the Three Strikes Ranch, and blossom into healthy animals."
The HSUS has been working with Habitat for Horses and Front Range Equine Rescue since the rescue to find appropriate permanent homes for the neglected horses. Unfortunately, very few people are properly trained to care for wild horses.
Of the 222 horses rescued in April, nearly 100 have been adopted or reclaimed by previous owners, 38 will be transported to the Cheyenne, Wyo. Stockyards for further care and eventual adoption, with the remaining 84 now safely at Black Beauty Ranch.
The horses taken to Black Beauty Ranch will be mostly stallions and geldings. These mustangs will require special care and handling during their rehabilitation, and will be housed in large pastured areas designed to hold wild horses.


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Kim Kardashian just can't quit Kanye West. The no-talent famewh*re skank cheated on then-boyfriend Reggie Bush with Yeezy, and now Kris Humphries is alleging she did the same thing to him during their engagement and marriage!
According to Star (via HollywoodLife.com), Kris "is threatening to testify in court that Kim was cheating on him while they were engaged." Although Kim promised to "cut off contact" with Kanye once she and Kris were married, she never did and instead kept seeing her "secret lover" throughout the 72-day marriage. And now Kris is planning to use Kim's cheating "to prove their marriage was a sham from the start -- making their prenup invalid."
Star claims this latest "divorce bombshell" could cost Kim "upwards of $10 million," which is an increase in Kris' asking price from the $7 million that was reported most recently.
"Kris is ready to blow the lid off all of Kim's lies and reveal who she really is," a "source" dishes to the mag. "This could be a huge blow to her reputation. It would be a good idea for her to just write him a big, fat check to keep quiet."
Uh, what reputation? She already has a sex tape and two divorces, plus she's a known cheater (even before this) and treats others terribly, like when she called sister Khloe Kardashian an "evil, ugly little troll." Can it really get much worse?
Star is not usually very reliable, but it could be on target with this report. Kanye's then-girlfriend Amber Rose has confirmed he cheated with Kim when they were together, and Kim was spotted at Yeezy's recent Paris Fashion Week show. Her Kim K Superstar costar Ray J alleges in a new book that she carried on a long-term affair with him while married to her first husband, so she's obviously not a one-man woman. And she's been on the PR offensive the past couple weeks, throwing a pity party to Us Weekly about how she just wants to move on, so she might be trying to do preemptive damage control for when this (or something else damaging) comes out. At this point, anything less-than-flattering that's reported about Kim is pretty believable!
What do you think? Did Kim Kardashian cheat on Kris Humphries with Kanye West? Should she pay her soon-to-be-ex $10 million? Sound off in the comments!


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ATHERTONAtherton pedestrian struck by car dies of injuries
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ATHERTONFormer Atherton councilman Jim Dobbie dies
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Atherton's City Council approved a contract with a project manager for their new civic center, moving the project a step...Original post made on Jul. 17, 2014
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ATHERTONThose were the days
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A volunteer nonprofit group has embarked on a ambitious plan to raise $2.5 million to restore and renovate the Carriage House...Original post made on Jun. 26, 2014
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and City Attorney Paul Rost have drafted an ethics policy that was presented to the Board of Aldermen at last night's work session.
Human Resources Director Amy Mixen introduced the policy, which the board had directed staff to prepare. She said that staff had looked at the ethics policies of several other cities, and that the University of Missouri - St. Louis ethics department had specifically recommended that they take a look at Creve Coeur's policy as a model.
Rost said that the first draft was being presented to the board for direction, and that he expected it would take several discussions to cover any changes that the board might request.
The policy covers:
- Responsibilities of public office
- The use of city-owned property
- Conflict of interest
- Disclosure statements
- Gifts and gratuities
- Donations and sponsorships
- Bidding and contracting
- Avoiding undue influence
- Confidential information
- Participating in city contracts
- Endorsements
Ward 1 Alderman Forrest Gossett requested stronger language in the section about accepting gifts. He mentioned having four tickets placed on his desk the day he started his term as alderman. "We shouldn't be accepting freebies from anyone. I'm an absolutist on this."
Mayor Guccione said the when he has been given tickets, he doesn't use them himself. "I hand them to someone else who might use them," he said.
Gossett disagreed. "It just gets into a gray area we don't want to be in . . . we turn down the tickets, period."
Ward 2 Alderman Chris Gard asked for clarification on the solicitation part of the policy. "It's a slippery slope," he said. He said that business owners might feel pressured to make donations if solicited by elected officials.
Guccione said that, as mayor, he gets many requests to solicit donations for charities or charitable events.
Rost suggested that the board might want to be careful in setting limits on amounts solicited or donated to the city, that it might harm efforts like the public/private partnerships the city is seeking to bring Ranken Tech to the city.


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Todays Denver Post article, by Mike Klis titled Tebow's bonus for playing time is relatively affordable, is very deceptive, if not inaccurate. Why?? Is he attempting to deflect criticism from Elway, by showing that there is little financial incentive to not play Tebow - implying finances have nothing to do with keeping Tebow on the bench.
But Klis's article only discusses Tebow's "one timer" bonus; and states that Tebow will get only a one time additional bonus of $472,500 if he plays 45% of the snaps this year. That is a small amount relative to the overall salary cap. However, there are much more significant escalators in Tebow's contract, that are not mentioned, even though Klis reported them a long time ago. Using Klis's words from his 08/03/2010 article, - Tebow's contract doubles from $11.25 million to $22.5 million if he reaches 55 percent playing time in two of his first three seasons, 2010-12 (and he/Broncos reach some other thresholds). That's an additional $11.25 million - a significant increase that would detract from the Broncos ability to get/keep other talented players.
Why did Klis not even mention this very significant escalator in Tebow's contract? Also, Klis's 08/03/2010 article stated the 45% playing time bonus was worth "$1.5375 million". What happenned to reduce it from over $1.5 million to under $0.5 million? Is Klis even reporting facts correctly?


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There's a new Political Action Committee (PAC) in town calling itself Santa Monicans United for a Responsible Future—it's funded by big developers with big projects pending before the City Council.
Santa Monicans United for a Responsible Future filed its organization papers on Oct. 1 with both the state and city as required by law. Two days later, on October 3, slick full color campaign brochures were distributed directly to homes in support of Gleam Davis, Terry O'Day, Ted Winterer and Shari Davis. On Oct. 8, the PAC's campaign disclosure statement was received by the city stating developers had contributed $175,000 and that's just as of Sept. 30!
There's another month to go and the coffers will likely grow. This is serious money aimed at securing a pro-development council.
Who Is Behind the New PAC?
Only residents reading the small print would have any idea who is behind the campaign literature. NMS, a developer of apartments in Santa Monica, is funding this group along with Century West Partners, LLC; Ideal Properties, LLC; and Roberts Business Park-SM, LLC. NMS Properties contributed $100,000 of the $175,000 to fund these slick brochures supporting candidates for city council; the other developers each contributed $25,000.
The developer, NMS Properties has filed plans with the city to build 1,027 new single occupancy apartments in seven locations, asking to exceed the current zoning codes. These projects are in addition to the 97 junior one bedroom and studios at 1447 Lincoln and 50 apartments at 1420 Fifth St. currently under construction.
In August, the city traded land with NMS in downtown Santa Monica to build a new fire station on an NMS property adjacent to the main library. The exchange was for two city lots closer to the new Expo line and the beach. Also in August, NMS received approval of a Development Agreement that allowed it to add four apartments to an existing building. The development agreement was needed to allow the additional apartments without providing the nine parking spaces required by the city's zoning code.
- Roberts Business Park – SM, LLC is the developer of a 300,000 mixed-use project with post-production studio space, creative office space and ground floor neighborhood serving retail & restaurant space and between 169 – 231 rental units. Roberts is seeking a development agreement with the city that will allow them to exceed the current zoning code. Roberts gave $20,000 against Proposition T in 2008, the resident initiative that would have put limits on how much new commercial development could be built annually in Santa Monica.
- Century West Partners, LLC, a Chicago based developer, is currently building K2 LA, a two building, 303-unit luxury apartment development in the Koreatown neighborhood of Los Angeles. The company website lists property in Santa Monica at 7th and Arizona and 1320 Second St.
- Ideal properties, LLC based in Los Angeles is a private company categorized under Operators of Nonresidential Buildings. It was established in 2007 and incorporated in California. Expect new Santa Monica projects soon.
Why Is it Supporting Ted Winterer?
The name of this pro-development PAC is deceptively similar to the resident-funded Santa Monicans for Responsible Growth PAC that supports slow growth. The close name of the new PAC will likely confuse voters—the exact opposite of transparency. And the inclusion of Ted Winterer as an endorsed candidate adds greatly to the confusion. In fact, the voice mail and email inboxes of neighborhood leaders have filled with messages from confused voters asking how Ted Winterer could possibly be associated with a developer funded PAC.
By including Ted Winterer in their mailers and door delivery brochures, the confusion is heightened because Ted Winterer has consistently voted against the kind of non work force housing that NMS is building all over the city. The type and mix of housing needed in Santa Monica to address the job/housing imbalance that generates much of the traffic congestion is a policy issue for the new City Council to decide. Ted Winterer isn't pro development and his campaign doesn't take developer money.
This new, developer PAC is an independent expenditure committee, meaning it independently collect funds and works in support or opposition to a candidate(s) of their choosing. These groups are prohibited from coordinating with candidate campaigns.
When the resident-funded Santa Monicans for Responsible Growth formed, candidates Gleam Davis, Terry O'Day, Shari Davis, Frank Gruber, Tony Vasquez, John C. Smith and Jerry Rubin immediately sent a letter to the PAC demanding information to determine everyone who was behind the PAC and other information citing the need for "transparency." No such letter has been sent to the new developer funded PAC by these same candidates. Why not?


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|Josh Harding is all smiles ... most of the time. Competitive as hell, too.
First, the Wild assigned goalie Josh Harding to the Aeros for a conditioning stint. He'll play two games with the Aeros this weekend before rejoining the Wild. I believe he is the AHL Aeros' all-time leader in wins, and he's a great guy, too.
He was recently diagnosed with MS, and he's on a new medicine regimen that looks to be ironed out. He'll give it a go this weekend and then hopefully is recalled to the Wild to back up Backstrom. That would likely mean that Darcy Kuemper would be sent back to Houston for the playoffs.
Also, with Matt Cullen getting healthier, the Wild sent forward Mikael Granlund back to the Aeros. He'll get primo playing time here instead of riding the pine for the Wild. With Zucker on recall, the Aeros can use Granlund on the power play for sure.
The team is off until Friday when it stars a road three in three at Texas. After that, they'll close out the regular season at San Antonio and then again at OKC.


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St Mary's Church in Whitby 'not under threat'
9:20am Friday 11th January 2013 in News
A church overlooking an historic North Yorkshire harbour is not under threat despite parts of its graveyard continuing to disappear down the surrounding cliffs, officials have said.
A series of landslips over the last two months have dislodged banks of earth containing human remains from graves at St Mary's in Whitby – a church with connections to the Dracula story.
The debris has been tumbling down behind houses and businesses on the east side of the picture-postcard town.
Engineering work is under way to stabilise the cliff. Landslides have also struck further down the coast in Scarborough and Filey.
Residents have been urged to remain vigilant following the incidents, which have been reported in Khyber Pass and The Cragg in Whitby, behind the Clock Café in Scarborough's South Bay, and Church Ravine in Filey. Some footpaths have been closed as a precaution.
Work to dismantle five properties in Aelfleda Terrace, Whitby, which were affected by a landslip in December, was completed before Christmas.
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It will be built on a shale layer which is soft and fractured. Below that are layers of mudstone and clay.
These cause stability problems throughout the area.
When one section has slipped there is a very good chance adjacent areas are at increased risk until we have a prolonged dry spell.
Serious work should be undertaken promptly, although a ruined church would have some appeal I suppose.
It will be too late when cracks appear by the wall in a few years time.
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We continue exploring the theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar with Fr. Aidan Nichols. See previous post, Balthasar and the Beautiful 1 for full intro.
The Relation Of Apologetics To Dogmatics
One important corollary of Balthasar's estimate of the respective roles of the subjective and objective evidence for Christian revelation is a shift — for those inclined to accept his approach – in the relation of apologetics to dogmatic theology. These are two of the most important branches of Christian thought, so this is no bagatelle. Through his theological aesthetics, Balthasar seeks to modify the currently understood picture of apologetics by presenting apologetics as incipient dogmatics. For Balthasar, investigating the motives of credibility — the ways in which revelation commends itself to us on the ordinary rational level – is constantly on the point of trembling into loving prostration before the figure of the Word incarnate.
Here a bit of background may be useful. There were Christian apologists from the first generations of the Church after the apostles. But the first Catholic theologian to treat the issue of apologetics in a fully systematic fashion is usually reckoned to be the thirteenth-century German Dominican St Albert the Great. His `antecedents of the act of faith', antecedentia fidei, include the most important theses of what we now call fundamental theology.
They concern especially the metaphysical presuppositions of divine revelation, the fact of such divine revelation in Christ, and the character of Scripture as the witness to that revelation. One question Albert did not settle clearly was the relation of these `antecedents' to the certainty aspect of faith. The problem of the kind of certainty produced by apologetic argumentation and its relation to the free and supernatural character of the act of faith was one that long troubled the Schoolmen.
Some masters of the early High Scholastic period — such as William of Auxerre, William of Auvergne, and Philip the Chancellor — admitted two sorts of faith. The motives of credibility were said to produce `intellectual faith' (other terms were also in use), which, said these thinkers, should be distinguished from faith in the full theological sense of the word.
Merely intellectual faith, precisely because it rested on the rational force of arguments, had neither the religious nor the moral value of the virtue of theological faith — properly Christian faith — in the strict sense. That virtue is virtuous precisely because it has the character of an unconditional response to God as the `First Truth', Prima Veritas, made possible by sharing in a more than natural light — by sharing a light, in fact, that is the light of supernatural faith proper, called by the Scholastics the lumen fidei.
It is noteworthy that both Albert and Thomas are disinclined to give what the cathedral masters called `intellectual faith' or some synonym thereof the title of `faith' at all. The motives of credibility — such considerations as the Savior's miracles and his fulfillment of prophecy, the sublimity of his teaching and his ethical perfection — may make people certain in some kind of adhering to the bearer of revelation (such adhering was sometimes known as certitude adhaesionis, `certainty of adhesion'). But this is not as yet the recognition of Jesus Christ as the very Word of the Father.
Over against, in particular, early Deist thinkers, Catholic writers from the sixteenth century onwards stressed the importance of the rational motives of credibility. Though in the later part of that century, owing to the challenge of Protestantism, a section `on the Church', de Ecclesia, was customarily added to Catholic treatises on apologetics, the main content of Catholic apologetics for divine revelation did not differ greatly from that treated by their Protestant counterparts.
The classic Catholic representatives of this stream undertook to prove the principles of both natural and revealed religion, moving through an account of natural theology and natural law to treatment of the possibility, utility and necessity of supernatural revelation, and the features of miracle and fulfilled prophecy which (especially) enable one to recognize a divine mission in act, the whole thing ending up with a discussion of the claims of the Church and the principles of Catholic faith. From the mid-eighteenth century on, this structure remains largely constant up until the manuals in use in the 1920s and beyond.13
This was so even if in another way these treatises were always being modified, pouring into the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century mould discussions with such thinkers as Kant, Hegel, Schelling, Darwin, the history-of-religions school of empirical scholarship, Liberal Protestantism and Modernism. But by the time Balthasar was setting out to begin his lifelong study of Christian thought, in the 1920s and 1930s, some Catholic philosophers and theologians were declaring a degree of dissatisfaction with the entire approach.
Why might that be? The main criticism, and one Balthasar largely shared, was that such treatises claimed to establish the fact of divine revelation without ever envisaging the meaning of its content. Painting with broad brush-strokes: in these works the relation of supernatural truth to human realities was not manifest. And while that relation wholly exceeds what human beings could ever expect, so Balthasar would want to add, the wonderful character of that excess was not brought home.
Presumably the Gospel offers an intelligible message — something we are meant to understand, even if this `something', by its grandeur, also stretches our powers to a point where only the gracious enhancement of our capacities can serve our turn. (Where the appropriate paradigm of knowledge is love, then understanding and mystery will develop together, in direct proportion to each other.)
But such was the emphasis on the proof of revelation by arguments external to itself that this intelligibility (even if it were an intelligibility with a depth of mystery to it) failed to make a proper appearance in justifying revelation's claims. Hence the critical epithet 'extrinsicist' applied to these schemes: the supernatural order seemed to be externally added on to the natural as an autonomous supplement, rather than fully integrated with the natural and suitably interiorized there.
Where Catholic apologetics was concerned, the single most influential dissentient voice was the French philosopher and lay theologian Maurice Blondel. Without disputing that some place should be given to the considerations adduced in early modern apologetics, Blondel proposed to give the lion's share, in any commendation of revealed religion, to an account of how the internal logic of the act of faith corresponds to the `logic' of the highest kind of human activity we know: namely, when we set out to discern meaning — and (especially) the fullness of meaning — in human life at large.
It is not enough to adduce arguments to show the fact of divine attestation to Jesus. The mystery of Christ must be presented as throwing light on the whole human condition. The question is not so much to prove by miraculous facts the rights of Jesus as divine legate (though this is certainly not illegitimate, and can even be called necessary), but, in Balthasarian terms, to discern in the `figure' of Jesus, his acts and destiny, a divine-human presence penetrating and transforming our sense of relation with God, with the world, with other persons and indeed with ourselves. In so doing, the Revealer, so we discern, confers on human history the weight of eternity.
Naturally enough, this cannot be done without treating the content of revelation from within, rather than simply the fact of revelation from without. What Balthasar is attempting in the Theological aesthetics coheres with much of this Blondelian programme, though his manner of pursuing its agenda is entirely is own. Certainly, Balthasar had no desire to replace an extrinsicist apologetics with an apologetics of natural immanence. As he wrote:
[T]he tradition never set the criterion for the truth of revelation in the centre of the pious human subject, it never measured the abyss of grace by the abyss of need or sin, it never judged the content of dogma according to its beneficial effects on human beings. The Spirit does not reveal himself,- he reveals the Father in the Son, who has become man. And the Son never allows himself to become re-absorbed in the human spirit …
How then does Balthasar proceed? His first step is to show that beauty is a possible vehicle for divine self-manifestation. As we have seen, considered ontologically, beauty is not just a property of all created things qua created. What appears in the beauty of created forms is the radiance of being, der Glanz des Seins. Beauty thus speaks of the meaning of that which transcends and yet inheres in all existents.
Secondly, Balthasar treats beauty as the vehicle of the actual revelation of God in Christ, a revelation made when the eternal manifests itself in a concrete, material form, breaking into this world, as beauty does, numinously (for beauty, in words Balthasar liked to quote from Rilke's Duino Elegies, is the beginning of the terrible). In the case of revelation, this means the eternal breaking in with the glory that truly inheres in the form of Jesus Christ.
The epiphany of this form is not just sheerly overwhelming, however, for exploration of the career and fate of Jesus shows it is an intelligible history. This form is a narrative form, and the meaning of the story is divine love. Here the content and the form are one since both are wonderful. The content is as marvelously beautiful as is the form, and Balthasar's explanation for this is that both content and form reflect love. Love shares the structure of beauty. It confronts us with the mystery of the otherness of some other and calls forth a corresponding wonder and admiration.
Thirdly and finally, Balthasar develops his theological aesthetics in two parts that are, however, strongly unified as well as distinct. And this two-in-one exposition spans the separate treatises of (early modern and modern) apologetics and dogmatics. This is so because Balthasar's aesthetics is not only an epistemological investigation of the kind of `seeing' involved in faith. It is also a doctrine of what he terms `ecstasy'. There is `ecstasy', first, in the going out (in Greek, ek-stasis) of the Godhead in weakness into the world as the manifestation of the love that is interior to the divine glory.
There is `ecstasy', secondly, in the way the believer is seized by the divine glory in this revelation in Jesus Christ and is taken up thereby into a share in the life of God himself. Ecstasy, so understood, contains in principle all the main themes of dogmatics — the Trinity, Christology, the doctrines of justification and sanctification, as well as of the sacraments, the Church and eschatology, the Last Things. Faith is a response to the radiance of what St Thomas calls the bonum promissum, the beautifully ordered whole of salvation that is offered to us, exceeding any such `whole' that exists within the world."
So what we have here is a tendency to elide, without however ever completely denying, the distinction between apologetics and dogmatics just because Balthasar wants to elide, without however ever completely denying, the distinction between what the Schoolmen called `certainty of adhesion' and the virtue of theological faith properly so called — the faith that, corresponded to in loving conversion, justifies and saves.
Balthasar can proceed in this direction because he doesn't think that what explains the act of faith is simply rationally available materials plus an elevation of human judgment by supernatural light. In his view, there is not only God's gracious supplying of more light with which to judge materials accessible to any reasonable person supplied with appropriate historical data about Jesus and arguments to back up those data. There is also, he maintains, a `light' that shines forth from those materials themselves in their beautiful ordering in Jesus' person, life and work.
The act of faith needs both kinds of light: light from within where God can affect my powers of knowing and willing internally, since as my Creator he is closer to me than I am to myself, and light from without — light striking one from Jesus Christ himself as a figure in history who is made palpable to me in the preaching and Liturgy of the Church. On the one hand, the glory of the divine self-emptying in Jesus Christ can be seen only by `eyes of faith' when God has prepared me interiorly to be receptive to Christ. On the other hand, the `eyes of faith' can only see when the light of faith falls on them from the divine form that Jesus is. What the eyes of faith see when this interplay of light works as it should is the opening of the divine heart in love, the self-disclosure of the Trinity.
Conclusion On Aesthetics
It is in the lives of saints and mystics that the inspired seeing which animates the Christian life in general and theological aesthetics in particular is most fully in act. Balthasar identifies its key as humility, which is the readiness to accept the gift of the divine love as it is, to appreciate the necessary and rightness of the form of the divine revelation as we are given it.
Much of Balthasar's celebrated concern with the practice of holiness as precondition of fruitful theologizing belongs here; adoration and obedience follow from humility, and draw good theology in their train. Henri de Lubac once contrasted Balthasar's theology with Hegel's. Whereas Hegel called his own thought `speculative Good Friday', de Lubac calls Balthasar's a `contemplative Holy Saturday'.
Evidently, I note in passing, de Lubac was not `phased' by Balthasar's theology of the Descent into Hell which turns, of course, on the events of the first Holy Saturday: perhaps he realized that for Balthasar while the Descent is, unlike for most of Catholic tradition, the end-point of the mysteries of Christ's humiliation, it is also, in keeping with Catholic tradition, the starting-point of the mysteries of hi exaltation.
The useful phrase `contemplative Holy Saturday' in the wider meaning de Lubac intended for it, brings out the degree to which Balthasar's material dogmatics are informed by his fundamental theological insight into the nature of faith a contemplative seeing, as well as the extent to which his theology centers on the self-emptying of the Son of God which reached full term in the Descent into Hell.
It also reminds us that the final volumes of the theological aesthetics consist in a reading of the Old and New Testament. Balthasar at the close of this massive work turns again to the Bible in the hope that, now we grasp what is at stake in theological aesthetics, we can read the Scriptures with new eyes. If we do so, we shall see how though the New Testament's amazing consummation of the Old, the mystery of all creation, man included, received its definitive interpretation as the hidden presence of Absolute Love, to which, in its luminous, bountiful and exuberant character, beauty's qualities of clarity, integrity and proportion, by analogy, belong.
See too how the recipients of God's self-revelation — ourselves — receive thereby the call to make the divine visible in charity, the specifically Christian love of God and neighbor, the intended moral outcome of Balthasar's entire work. These statements are not only conclusions drawn from his theological aesthetics. They are also anticipations of the message of his theological dramatics and theological logic as well.


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Playing in front of a packed house at the revamped Dail Soccer Field, the N.C. State men's soccer team tied UNC Greensboro, 0-0, Tuesday night in the Pack's first exhibition game of the season.
Coach Kelly Findley took the field for the first time at the helm of the program, and had 23 players see action during the course of the game.
Sophomore Fabian Otte got the start in goal for N.C. State, and finished with two saves in his 45 minutes of action. The second half was split between senior Vasilios Dimopoulos (31 minutes) and freshman Joe Mills (14 minutes). Dimopoulos led the Wolfpack with three saves on the night.
Freshman Monbo Bokar had the Wolfpack's first quality look in the 16th minute, but his shot slid wide. Redshirt-freshman Nazmi Albadawi nearly found the back of the net twice in a two minute span midway through the second half, but both of his attempts were saved.
The Spartans' best scoring chance came in the 67th minute, when Oddur Gudmundsson rang a shot off the post.
Meet the Fighting Camels: Campbell University men's soccer fans will have their first chance to meet the 2011 Fighting Camels Thursday with a Meet the Team Night at the Eakes Athletic Complex.
Gates open at 6:30 p.m. with free pizza available for those in attendance.
Duke volleyball team ranked No. 17: The reigning ACC champion Duke volleyball team is ranked No. 17 in the AVCA Preseason Coaches Poll as announced by the American Volleyball Coaches Association on Monday.
The Blue Devils, who advanced to the NCAA Round of Eight last season, are coached by 2010 ACC and East Region Coach of the Year Jolene Nagel and return five starters from last season's ACC Championship team.
Women's All-America Soccer: Boston College leads all schools with three student-athletes named to the 2011 Soccer America Preseason Women's All-America team, and a total of seven ACC players were named to the 25-member team announced by the publication Tuesday morning.
In addition to the BC trio of goalkeeper Jillian Mastroianni, midfielder Kristie Mewis and forward Vicki DiMartino, the ACC is represented by Florida State defender Toni Pressley, Maryland forward Jasmyne Spencer, North Carolina midfielder Crystal Dunn (2010 ACC Defensive Player of the Year) and Wake Forest forward Katie Stengel (2010 ACC Freshman of the Year).


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A Glen Rock man booked on burglary and drug charges in Fair Lawn had a surprise for prison officers who searched him later at the county jail, police said.
Corrections officers found an additional 30 bags of heroin hidden inside the man's anus during inmate processing, arresting officer Timothy O'Shaughnessy said.
Justin Alvarez, 27, who already faced charges of burglary, theft and heroin possession for allegedly snatching a wallet from a truck parked outside Rivara's, had a charge of possession with the intent to distribute tacked on after the discovery.
Alvarez was picked up Saturday after Detective O'Shaughnessy, who was working a plainclothes detail, observed him suspiciously circling the area near Rivara's on bike while the restaurant's owner worked on his truck in the parking lot, Sgt. Richard Schultz said.
After the restaurant's owner stepped away from his truck and went back inside, Alvarez approached the truck and reached through an open window to grab the owner's wallet that had been left behind, Schultz said.
O'Shaughnessy, who had called for backup in the mean time, arrested Alvarez before he could escape and took him into custody without incident, Schultz said.
Schultz said that in addition to the wallet, Alvarez was also carrying a small bag of heroin. Prison officers found the additional 30 baggies of heroin after he was remanded to Bergen County Jail and underwent a strip search. Schultz said Fair Lawn officers did not find the hidden drugs because the department's rules and regulations do not call for that level of search.
Alvarez remains in jail on $35,000 bond. He's set to appear in municipal court on Wednesday.
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