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A 34-year-old Aiken woman was detained for disorderly conduct after she was found sleeping in a tire in a parking lot on Laurens Street on Thursday. The woman exhibited signs of intoxication, and there were beer cans and liquor bottles around the tire.
An unknown man entered Dillards in Aiken Mall on Thursday, grabbed six purses from a rack and ran from the store, according to Aiken Public Safety. The man reportedly had a ride waiting for him outside the store.
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State: Health care website functions take step forwardBy Neal P. Goswami
VERMONT PRESS BUREAU | December 03,2013
MONTPELIER Online functions to process premiums for the health care plans selected by individuals and families on the states exchange will be in place today, but paper bills will be sent later this week as testing of online payment systems continues, state officials said Monday.
Today we will begin the deployment of the payment and enrollment functionality for individuals and families who have started a Vermont Health Connect application and have selected a plan, Mark Larson, commissioner of the Department of Vermont Health Access, said in a conference call with reporters.
But the ability to pay for health insurance online is still not available, Larson said. That function will not launch until security testing is completed, he said.
Well do that when we feel like its tested and ready for Vermonters to use, he said. People will not be able to pay with a debit card or credit card online.
Larson and his boss, Gov. Peter Shumlin, have offered launch dates for the payment function in the past and failed to meet them. Now they say it will launch only when testing indicates it is ready for use.
Still, Larson maintained that Mondays announcement was a milestone and another significant step forward.
Shumlin, speaking to reporters Monday at an unrelated event, agreed.
From Commissioner Larsons perspective and mine this is a huge accomplishment because it means that the systems are working. That you can actually go in, complete the process and get a bill out. We will be going to a credit card payment as soon as we can, the governor said.
The premium processing function for small businesses remains in testing, according to Larson. As a result, small businesses and their employees who have selected health coverage through Vermont Health Connect will have their current coverage extended into 2014 at 2013 rates. That arrangement will continue until the payment function for small businesses is operational.
We are not prepared today to initiate the invoicing for small groups, Larson said.
All deductibles and out-of-pocket costs for all extended plans will reset Jan. 1. Any expenditures will be credited to an employees new exchange plan in 2014 as long as the carrier remains the same.
About 1,400 small businesses that have signed up for health coverage through the website online, over the phone, with a navigator or through a paper application are affected. Those businesses employ about 13,400 people.
Small businesses that have already elected to extend 2013 coverage or directly enroll through an insurance carrier into an exchange plan, and small businesses that chose to have their carrier roll them into an exchange plan that most closely resembles their current coverage are not affected.
Officials said invoices will be mailed later this week to individuals and families who have selected plans through the exchange. Those bills will need to be paid by paper check or money order no later than Jan. 7 for coverage beginning Jan. 1.
Larson said that while invoices and payments must be in paper form for now, Mondays announcement is a major step forward. A vast amount of information will now be readily exchanged between the state, federal government and insurance carriers, a process that previously did not work.
There are a variety of different transactions that are occurring to facilitate that payment. Thats what we have been testing, he said.
Shumlin said that while the state offers online payments for some other services, health insurance is much more complex than buying a hunting license or registering your car.
The credit card payment system wont be too far behind. We just want to make sure its gone through all of the security tests that are necessary, he said. Lets remember that never have you been able to pay for health insurance with a credit card. No one has done that yet. So, were trying to do something thats not been done.
The deployment of the premium processing function was set to begin Monday evening. The Vermont Health Connect website was expected to be unavailable for applications and plan selection until late this morning.
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A man was shot to death outside a Spruill Avenue convenience store Saturday morning, and North Charleston police arrested a suspect.
Officers were dispatched to the Circle A store at 1813 Spruill Ave. shortly before 10 a.m., police spokesman Spencer Pryor said. They found a man lying on the ground who was suffering from gunshot wounds, Pryor said. The man was later pronounced dead.
Charleston County Deputy Coroner Dottie Lindsay identified him as Samuel Coardes, 25, of North Charleston.
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Smithsonian video games exhibit debuts at TMAWritten by Jeff McGinnis | | email@example.com
For more than a century, the Toledo Museum of Art (TMA) has served as one of the most prominent jewels in the Glass City's artistic crown. Wandering its galleries, visitors are treated to a representative sampling of the works of some of the greatest names their mediums had ever known. Rubens. Rembrandt. El Greco. Miyamoto. Kojima. Levine.
If those last few names seem out of place, perhaps the newest exhibition at TMA will help to change your mind. Beginning June 19, the museum's Canaday Gallery became home to a show that spotlights the creative output of a canvas which has heretofore been left unchronicled within many galleries: Interactive media. Playable narratives. "The Art of Video Games."
"The key to what the exhibition is about is in the title," TMA Director Brian Kennedy said during a news conference with reporters on June 17. "It's about, in a sense, in question, to what extent do you believe that video games are art, and what is the art form in video games?"
Smithsonian debut
"The Art of Video Games" exhibit is in many ways the brainchild of Chris Melissinos, former chief evangelist and chief gaming officer for Sun Microsystems. Working with the Smithsonian Institution, Melissinos crafted the show to demonstrate the evolution of gaming over a 40-year period, emphasizing how games grew, not just graphically, but artistically.
"A whole new culture has been established," Kennedy said in an interview with Toledo Free Press. "Gaming is a usage of technologies to do something that we've never been able to do in this way before. And then, out of that, come certain artists that become very, very well known. And yet most of them, I don't think, have yet emerged. This is such a new format."
The exhibit was designed to tell the story of game development by dividing it into individual eras, with kiosks representing 20 different platforms. Art and videos showing examples of games that defined their time period are on display at each station. These representatives were voted on by the public, with players around the world choosing which titles best exemplified each era.
Five games are made available to be played by visitors: the original "Pac-Man," "Super Mario Bros.," the adventure game "The Secret of Monkey Island," the groundbreaking point-and-click title "Myst" and the offbeat and beautiful PlayStation 3 title "Flower."
"The Art of Video Games" was wildly popular during its initial run at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. "This exhibition was one of the most successful exhibitions in Washington at the Smithsonian — actually, the most successful exhibition they've had," Kennedy said.
"And it just attracted people because there hadn't been an exhibition on the art of video games."
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Stepping into the exhibit, as it now stands in the Toledo Museum of Art, is less like walking into a gallery and more like traveling back in time to an arcade. The first sight is a 10-foot-high projection screen, showing Pac-Man wandering his trademark maze. The sounds of Mario collecting coins and stomping on enemies dominate the space as you wander the gallery. The entire experience is like being inside echoes of gaming's past.
The look and feel of the show is quite deliberate, explained Amy Gilman, the museum's associate director and point curator for "The Art of Video Games." "I just have to give a little shout-out to our exhibition's designer, Claude Fixler, who is the one who really works with each curator on the different shows, to come up with different ways of displaying for that show. And we do, we spend a lot of time thinking, 'What is the best way for this show to be seen here in Toledo?'
"And with this exhibition, we had seen it in other venues, and the place that we saw it last was in a much larger space, it was more spread out. And we thought that, actually, for us to really make it more of a tight show, [we kept it] enough like an arcade that you immediately go there in your mind. We wanted it to be a little loud, we wanted it to feel a little visually crazy and all of that. And that's a really important quality to video games, but it's also an important quality to the experience of the exhibition."
It's a little jarring for someone familiar with the space — and with the museum in general — to see the transformation. Just a few months ago, the Canaday Gallery was home to a showing of works from the Tuileries Gardens of the Louvre. To see it as it is now might strike some as a vulgar offense to their delicate ideas of what "art" is.
But to Gilman, that contrast is crucial to the museum's mission.
"For the museum, it's really important that over time we have a really broad range of offerings for our visitors," Gilman said to the gathered reporters. "And that means reaching out into communities that are not necessarily served by being our core audience, but it also means that we like to provide all our visitors with really different experiences."
For anyone who lived through the console eras represented, the exhibit is certainly a genuine shot of nostalgia — a factor Gilman and her colleagues recognize.
"The fact that we chose to use Mario and Pac-Man as our graphics for this show is about the nostalgia for that period in video gaming that is very much alive today. So one of the things that's very important to know is, this exhibition isn't about showcasing the next latest game from Nintendo, or Wii or whatever, and being the launch for that. It's actually about looking at the progression in a way that we who play video games in our basements probably don't get a chance to do."
It's against the nature of the show — and indeed the medium it represents — to only dwell on the past, however. The four corners of the room are dominated by large projection screens where visitors can play one of the interactive titles, arranged chronologically. To see the progression of play — from "Mario," where the goal is to stomp enemies and save the princess, to "Flower," where you flutter on the breeze to invigorate a dying landscape — it's hard not to see how narrative and genuinely artistic ideas have taken root for players the world over.
"With heightened, almost virtual reality, or hyperrealism in video capability now, we understand that it is more visually complex and that narratives are more complex, etc. But you don't actually see how different it is in that progression, because we don't actually look at it in that way," Gilman said.
"So bringing them in here, and you being able to, start with the most pixelated, some of the most beloved, like Pac-Man. And you progress, and you can see them next to each other, you really get a sense of … not just the technical advances, but really, how visually and narratively complex things have become."
"The Art of Video Games" is on display at the Toledo Museum of Art from now through Sept. 28. Admission is free.
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The anti-Catholic Presbyterian TAO (The Anonymous One; aka "Turretinfan") has written a hit piece directed towards yours truly for the umpteenth time, playing the game of not naming me (as if that impresses anyone), entitled, Failure to Understand both Calvinism and One's Own Doctrine ... . Nice try, TAO . . .
As is well-known, I don't debate theology anymore with anti-Catholics. This has been my policy for four-and-a-half years, with no end in sight, because there is no debate possible. It's a complete waste of time. At times it is necessary to clarify my position when it has been wildly distorted and misrepresented. This is one such occasion. I'm sure even this distinction will be lost on TAO, and I'll be mocked for doing this: which in turn will perfectly illustrate why I don't take anti-Catholics seriously anymore, in terms of wasting time futilely attempting adult discussion with them. I am simply clarifying what I and my Church believe: matters of fact.
TAO's words will be in blue; John Bugay's in green.
I saw the following comment from a lay apologist of the Roman communion recently, directed at one of my fellow Calvinists:
[ME] If I am going to hell and predestined to do so, then you don't have to pray for me or even have any love at all, according to your warped, hideous, grotesque version of Christianity. You can even hate me.
If THIS is what Christianity means, I would rather be an atheist.
That's me, folks. It is from a comment I made in a recent thread about John Bugay's refusal to accept Catholic charity for his wife's serious illness, that I later removed, because I thought it was too heavily sarcastic, and thus would be misunderstood, as indeed now it has been, from the usual suspects! I was rebuking him because of his atrocious behavior, having actually returned a donation that fellow apologist Devin Rose made, and having insulted myself and my friends by writing:
In the meantime, please take down the link to our PayPal account. One donation has come in from this bunch of mockers, and I've returned it. And I will return other donations if I can identify them from you or yours as well. . . . [I had made links to his PayPal account so people could help him (his wife has leukemia), on my blog, Facebook, and Twitter pages]
Brent, you'll have a hard time convincing me that anything coming from this group is Christian. . . .
I want to remain as far away from you as possible.
All of this was prime material for a searing rebuke, and I delivered it. I removed it for the above-stated reason and out of charity, not because I disagreed with anything in it: any of the content. I utilized sarcasm (just as Jesus and Paul did in cases of extreme hypocrisy) to rebuke John for not even following Calvinism properly. This was what the above portion was about. I believe I mentioned in the removed comments how I have experienced this, myself: on a Calvinist board, where someone stated that no one should pray for me. This attitude comes from the notion that a person is not in the elect; therefore, if God has predestined them to hell and condemned them, there is no longer any reason for us to pray or even love them. These motifs show up among Calvinists now and then (more on this below), and it shows in how they treat Catholics.
It was also in the context of the original dispute, where John wrote that I should give up my work because of the sexual scandal. The first comment underneath it was from Ron Van Brenk, who linked to his article, "Do NOT Pray for Patty!": one of the most outrageous pieces from a purported Christian that I have ever seen in my life. This was the context. He was saying that; John wasn't disagreeing with it and was returning donations, so it stood to reason that he could quite possibly be of this same mindset: nothing we Catholics do can be good; hence he attacked our motives in trying to help him out financially: calling us "mockers" and returning a donation, and questioning that anything we do is "Christian." It couldn't possibly be good. This is a classic instance of the application of the Calvinist doctrine of total depravity (see articles of mine about that: one / two / three / four / five / six). If a person is unregenerate, then he can do no truly good thing.
This is why I honed in on that very important factor on my blog today, since Bugay showed up. Here is our brief exchange in the combox under the post about him (excerpts; read the entire thing by following the link to the left):
For John, I am an unregenerate apostate. Therefore, all my acts, even if they look good on the surface, must be intended with an evil heart, and are intrinsically evil (doctrine of total depravity). Not all Calvinists act like this, of course, but the anti-Catholic ones do, because they immediately make the ultra-uncharitable judgment of someone's soul. This is a classic case.
I guess he thinks we would mock someone suffering [i.e., like his buddy Ron did with Patty] because, after all, we are unregenerate and can't possibly do any act of good, or feel sincere compassion and charity. What a sad, pathetic, ridiculous (and radically unbiblical) view . . . I have refuted it from the Bible several times.
Dave, I'm sorry about the loss of your brother, and the other tragedies in your family. But rather than allow such tragedies to exhort you to humility, your whole enterprise may be summed up with this verse: 'God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get.' I want to remain as far away from you as possible.
It is one thing to understand someone's motivations; it is quite another to describe their behavior. Your behavior is quite easy to describe.
How could I not lie in the first place: being unregenerate and totally depraved? Or do anything good?
Dave Armstrong, I have not said a word about you other than that your enterprise very much resembles the pharisee of Luke 18:11. Your rants about what you suppose Calvinism holds you to be have been commented on by Turretinfan at his blog.
Very interesting. So you deny that I am totally depraved and unregenerate? If so, then I am regenerate; therefore, I would be a Christian, and you would have to explain your recent comment about myself and my friends here:
"Brent, you'll have a hard time convincing me that anything coming from this group is Christian."
Which is it? Please clarify.
I don't judge you at all.
Am I a regenerate Christian and brother in Christ or not? You just judged me by refusing my acts of kindness, to try to raise money for your wife's illness, calling it "mockery" and returning Devin Rose's donation, and then using it as a pretext to judge my heart and motivations. Are you truly so blind as to not see this?
It sure got quiet in the room. I wonder what happened?
I went to lunch.
As of writing I have been waiting an hour-and-a-half for an answer to my simple query: "Am I a regenerate Christian and brother in Christ or not?" Perhaps I will be waiting for much longer, or indefinitely. If John ever answers, I will add it to this paper. Alas, he did reply to (not answer) my question three hours and six minutes after I first asked it:
I am not going to answer your question. Aside from that, I have a real job, and you are probably the least important thing on my mind at any given time.
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Thank you very much for the verification. It will be duly noted in the reply I just made to TAO's usual inanities and puerile insults. God bless you.
This is key to the whole discussion (and I think he knows it full well). If indeed he has classified me as unregenerate, then by Calvinist teaching I am totally depraved, and nothing I do can be with a pure motive: it has to be impure and have at least a high degree of evil and wickedness in it. But if he had guts enough to state this it would run counter to TAO's present reiteration (and my knowledge of) Calvinist teaching: whereby we can't know for sure who is among the elect (and should cease from speculating). So John can't assert that, even though his actions and wicked responses to us recently seem to confirm that this is what he believes.
On the other hand, if he stated that I was a regenerate Christian, he would be in a huge personal mess with his anti-Catholic friends, who would then jump all over him (since they absolutely despise me personally: having been refuted by my apologetics time and again online, for over 16 years now). And it would run contrary to what he has recently stated about yours truly and my friends here. So (like the Pharisees when Jesus asked them a hard question) he was profoundly trapped. Both falsehood and sin have a way of bringing that result about. Thus, John took a pass and decided to insult me instead. Truly the behavior of an intellectual coward . . ..
In any event, the whole issue under consideration hinges on this factor. If John doesn't know whether I am regenerate or not, then he has no grounds for rejecting my act of charity, and classifying it as wicked and therefore to be rejected, because then it could quite possibly be done with the right motive, and he would have no reasonable grounds to reject it or to deny that anything I do is "Christian," or quickly assume that our motivation is to mock his wife's leukemia (like his buddy Ron abominably mocked Patty Bonds' present maladies and urged his oh-so-charitable Christian gentleman friends to not pray for her at all), or his difficult financial situation resulting therefrom. We're not doing that; his buddy is.
There is a big difference. We don't deny free will altogether in matters of salvation as Calvinists do (remember Luther's Bondage of the Will, which was proto-Calvinist?). We don't deny universal atonement (Calvinists hold to limited atonement). Nor do we deny that reprobation is conditional; hence we (both Thomists and Molinists: I am the latter) deny double predestination and unconditional reprobation in the Calvinist sense, while holding to predestination of the elect (with some allowable differences in detail between the two parties).
Heretical Predestinationism in its various forms (the Southern Gallic priest Lucidus in the 5th century; the monk Gottschalk in the 9th century, according to reports of his opponents, which, however, find no confirmation in his recently re-discovered writings; Wycliffe, Hus, and esp. Calvin), teaches a positive predetermination to sin, and an unconditional Predestination to the eternal punishment of hell, that is, without consideration of future demerits. This was rejected as false doctrine by the Particular Synods of Orange, Quiercy and Valence and by the Council of Trent. Unconditioned positive Reprobation leads to a denial of the universality of the Divine Desire for salvation, and of the Redemption, and contradicts the Justice and Holiness of God as well as the freedom of man.
According to the teaching of the Church, there is a conditioned positive Reprobation, that is, it occurs with consideration of foreseen future demerits (post et propter praevisa demerita). The conditional nature of Positive Reprobation is demanded by the generality of the Divine Resolve of salvation. This excludes God's desiring in advance the damnation of certain men (cf. 1 Tim 2:4, Ezek 33:11, 2 Pet 3:9) . . .
In the question of Reprobation, the Thomist view favours not an absolute, but only a negative Reprobation. This is conceived by most Thomists as non-election to eternal bliss (non-electio), together with the Divine resolve to permit some rational creatures to fall into sin, and thus by their own guilt to lose eternal salvation. In contrast to the absolute Positive Reprobation of the Predestinarians, Thomists insist on the universality of the Divine Resolve of Salvation and Redemption, the allocation of sufficient graces to the reprobate, and the freedom of man's will.
So much for TAO's ignorance about what we teach, and what I believe, as an orthodox Catholic. Thus, we have the amusing spectacle of TAO rebuking me for supposedly understanding neither Calvinism nor Catholicism, when in fact I understand both quite well (having written an entire book critiquing John Calvin), while he does not comprehend our position, as just shown.
Of course not. I completely agree; always have. I was rebuking John for not only acting outrageously, but also for being inconsistent even with his own Calvinism. I also noted in the removed remarks that not praying for someone does not at all necessarily follow from the Calvinist position. It comes from human sin and disobedience to God, who told us to pray for all men (1 Timothy 2:1 [RSV]: ". . . I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all men," ).
The problem is sin and hypocrisy and contempt for other Christians. Calvinists are supposed to pray and show love like any other Christian (and this is what they teach in their own ranks, except for the most extreme fundamentalist fanatics), yet when Ron Van Brenk makes reference on Triablogue in John's own combox for his post, about not praying for a suffering [Catholic] human being (complete with wicked mockery of her), no one protested. When I made note of it on my blog, no one in your camp protested. It was perfectly fine and dandy. Now you want to protest. This is what I will always describe as a "warped, hideous, grotesque version of Christianity." When even a minimal expression of love is spurned and trampled upon, complete with urging others to not pray for someone who is suffering: that is not the spirit of Christ and Christianity: sorry. It comes from the pit of hell and from the devil's own "philosophy."
I challenge you, then, TAO, to go ahead and renounce Ron's post, and ask that Hays remove the link to it on his site (and preferably renounce it, too). Be my guest. Put your money where your mouth is. Show how marvelously loving and full of charity those in the anti-Catholic wing of Calvinism can be. I'm the one who has upheld universal Christian and biblical teaching about praying for all men. I'm the one who rebuked the person in your ranks who didn't hold to this, because none of you would do that. Yet now I'm being rebuked for supposedly not understanding your teaching that I do grasp quite well. I am condemning the rank hypocrisy and lack of Christian charity in your ranks.
More classic TAO blundering and imbecilic analysis . . . Because TAO almost universally (in my case) does not understand how language functions in context, thinks illogically, and commits both errors in large part because of his huge hostility brought on by dumb anti-Catholic theological thinking; and, furthermore, won't trouble himself to see what I actually believe (with 2600+ papers posted online, on my site), he misses this. So he claims that I don't know that Calvinists (per Calvin) aren't supposed to know who the elect are.
I stated the opposite, I'm pretty certain, in the removed remarks: noting that Calvin stated more than once that we can't know who is in the elect. TAO assumes the worst, as he always does with me. My true position is seen in my paper of January 2006: John Calvin: Only God Knows Who is Numbered Among the Elect. It must get wearisome to continually be so dead-wrong on the facts, but it is a tension and cognitive dissonance that TAO (an attorney, of all things!) obviously has long since made peace with.
I did no such thing, as shown above. It is yet another case (among innumerable ones) of TAO not getting it.
Obviously, that TAO made another silly mistake (several, actually), and embarrassed himself for the umpteenth time, in trying to argue me down: this time concerning my own beliefs, that I can easily document: stuff from fifteen and five years ago that has long since been posted on my site.
Shall we assume he's just being silly? Probably not. The tone of this comment was harshly serious . . .
It was serious: a serious sarcastic rebuke of hypocrisy and sin and a Calvinist not even consistently following his own teaching. Jesus and Paul did the same. I've called no one a "viper" (Jesus) or said that Bugay (or Ron or TAO) should be castrated, as Paul said, with heavy sarcasm.
John stated on my blog, "I want to remain as far away from you as possible." Then (oddly enough) he posted again. Noting this hypocrisy, I replied with, "why don't you get the hell off of my blog, then?" -- since getting as far away from me "as possible" obviously included not commenting on my blog! That is not cursing him! I didn't call him some terrible name.
Of course, TAO's fundamentalist "ears" can't handle this horrific "curse" word. That was entirely predictable. These are the same folks who once objected to my use of "ass" in the sense of a donkey, which the KJV Bible does many times, and which word Shakespeare and Calvin also used in the same sense several times. I pointed this out to them a few years back: to no avail, of course.
Anti-Catholic ranks are rife with hypocrisy on this score. For example, I know that both James White and David T. King are big fans of Rush Limbaugh, and (I've listened to him a lot off and on for over 20 years) he often uses quite ribald humor, sexual double entendre, and minor "curse" words of this sort, and far worse (many times to an extent that I would not want my kids to listen to). But they still listen to him, don't they? Their "principles" don't extend to not listening to a man who regularly uses language and jokes of a sort that they purportedly think is so wicked. It's only when someone like me is the target that they want to make a federal case of it. I think lying and distorting and not praying for others is far, far; infinitely more serious than merely using the word "hell" when it was fully warranted.
Never mind that James White put up a post (10-26-07), citing a hostile professor his daughter had, with three words that he would consider profanity. He had no problem citing the actual words for public consumption, warning, "This blog post contains profanities and vulgarities. I am warning you up front." He could have "bleeped" out the three words, as I have done many times on my site. He chose not to. If anyone searches my site for a certain alternate word for manure, they come up with nothing. But if they search White's blog they will find it. Same for the synonym for a female dog. Just because someone else said it and he merely cited it, is beside the point. It was unnecessary in the first place (especially by White's own -- and general fundamentalist -- stated ethical criteria).
Yet TAO won't even quote me saying the outrageously profane, vulgar word "hell" -- so that people will think what I said is far worse. Because of this vagueness, "Natamllc" in TAO's combox launches into even more asinine jeremiads:
Rather than pray for the lay apologist, though, I would think we should encourage your friend along these lines instead, for both your friend and us as well to do as much as opportunity does for us:
Gal 6:10 So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith.
If the lay apologist has cursed him, he has cursed us as well!
Rather, I would think, though, we ought to be praying for your friend whom the lay apologist has cursed especially if he is one you can attest to being such as the ones the Apostle Paul writes about, here?
2Th 3:1 Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may speed ahead and be honored, as happened among you,
2Th 3:2 and that we may be delivered from wicked and evil men. For not all have faith.
2Th 3:3 But the Lord is faithful. He will establish you and guard you against the evil one.
Note the assumptions and premises made: I'm a "wicked and evil" man, without "faith." That obviously means I am not in the elect or at least unregenerate (if it is to be that I will eventually be saved). Thus, right under the post where TAO says that Calvinists don't make these judgments, one of his cohorts does exactly that (but of course TAO won't disagree with that, because it blasts me: the one he detests). And it is in part based on this contention that I "cursed" a person, rather than (what actually occurred) simply using a strong expression (of emphasis) to bring across the point that he ought to leave my blog since he himself said he wanted to get as far away as possible.
If a person insists on majoring on the minors (just as sinful Pharisees did), they won't get it. So they didn't and don't. TAO is highly concerned about the word "hell." I am highly concerned about Christians showing love: praying for others, helping others in need. We tried to help his friend John and he spurned that and called us a bunch of names. But I used the word "hell": thus proving beyond any doubt that I am a wicked, evil person. Is it any wonder that the world is in the mess it is in, with Christians acting in such a ridiculous fashion?
Note how TAO (classically) suggests that I am a deliberate liar. I don't do that with him. I always assume he is ignorant in cases of factual whoppers because invariably, I have always found this to be the case . . .
Rather, his mischaracterization of what he falsely believes was my mischaracterization, because he can't properly read and interpret the English language in context or look up things that would take a minute max with search tools. Ironies abound . . .
Right. Well, folks, I have laid the facts of the matter before you, to decide for yourself what happened here. It's the same-old same-old.


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Competitive balance proposal could change athleticsWritten by Chris Schmidbauer | | email@example.com
According to its mission statement, the Ohio High School Athletic Association (OHSAA) prides itself on regulating and administering interscholastic athletic competition in a fair and equitable manner. With a new proposal, to be voted on in May, the Buckeye state's prep sports governing body is trying to rebalance the competition.
On Jan. 13, OHSAA announced the introduction of the Competitive Balance Proposal, which is to be voted on by the state's high school principals, that looks to restore equal footing to all athletic teams that participate in high school sports.
"There were a significant faction of our constituents who feel that we have a competitive balance issue within our state athletics programs," said Dan Ross, commissioner of OHSAA since 2004.
The proposal calls for a new way of determining an athletic count based on four factors: enrollment, school boundary, socioeconomics and tradition. Each will be weighted to determine the new athletic count.
"Each factor tries to address the issues that were throwing the balance off in competition," Ross said.
The athletic count will always start with the current enrollment in a school and then use the other three parts to come up with a new count. The school boundary factor takes into account from where the schools pull students and who they allow to enroll in classes.
The socioeconomic factor uses the percentage of students who participate in the free lunch program.
The tradition factor examines a school's four year window in a given sport and determines how successful the program has been based upon the number of appearances made in regional finals, state championships, and state finals.
"I think our committee did a tremendous job with what they came up with, and I think this was the best solution to the current problem," Ross said.
If the proposal passes, it would take effect in 2013.
Ross said the initial concern was raised in early 2010 after an independent survey found that more than 60 percent of superintendents, athletic directors and school administrators found there to be a problem with the parity of competition within high school sports. The survey was conducted by a group of superintendents from Northeast Ohio.
"When the survey came back with that high of a percentage in the affirmative, I was very surprised," Ross said. "That told us that the problem needed to be looked into."
Another study showed that 43 percent of state championships won in select team sports between 1999 and 2010 were won by nonpublic schools. Nonpublic schools make up just 17 percent of the total OHSAA membership base.
"We formed a committee made up of athletic directors, superintendents and school administrators from around the state to figure out the problem, and this was the best solution that has been brought forth," Ross said.
Eric Frantz, managing editor of the high school sports website JJHuddle.com, said it seems as though this is more of a knee-jerk reaction to what is a cyclical issue.
"I think people saw the results from the state football playoffs this year, and there was this irrational reaction," he said.
Frantz said just three years ago a similar committee was formed, and that group said there was not a competitive balance issue in state athletics.
"They said it wasn't a problem then, and I am not sure how things have changed that much in a short amount of time."
Coming to a decision
While not a part of the committee that generated the proposal, St. John's Jesuit Athletic Director Brian Miller was heavily involved in the construction of the Competitive Balance Proposal.
"Dan Ross is good friends with my father-in-law, and he was looking for a connection with someone from a private school," Miller said. "So I was asked to help out."
Miller said Ross and OHSAA assembled a think tank to address the issue, and he said the process of coming up with a solution was a long and arduous one.
"Our goal was to find a solution to the problem that wasn't going to make a drastic change for any school," he said.
"There were many ideas that were thrown out there and considered by the group," he said. "This recommendation was not come to hastily."
Other potential solutions were lowering or raising the minimum enrollment for divisions and adding an extra division.
Miller said most of the other ideas had some drawbacks.
"Most of the suggestions had added cost and expenses for OHSAA, and that was something they did not want to do."
Once the recommendation was made, OHSAA went to work ironing out the details of the proposal.
"This was really the best idea. The alternative is public school versus private schools, and this idea was equal to all schools, and it didn't drastically change the system in place," he said.
Local reaction
As expected, reaction is mixed among athletic directors in Toledo. Terry Reeves, athletic director at Bowsher High School, is a fan of the current proposal.
"Things aren't balanced right now," Reeves said. "It is heavily swayed towards private schools. We can only pull so many kids in right now from our district because of our boundary. The private schools can take kids from anywhere in the area."
Reeves cited a few other advantages private schools have over public schools.
"They have private donors that can help with their teams. Plus their facilities are always state of the art," he said. "We are very lucky with what we have here at Bowsher, but not all public schools are as lucky. That certainly attracts kids to go to a school versus another."
Dick Cromwell, assistant athletic director at St. Francis, has seen this debate come up before.
"This has been raging ever since I came to St. Francis," he said. Cromwell has been at St. Francis for roughly 27 years.
Cromwell said that St. Francis is very happy with the current format and that no proposal will ever be the perfect solution.
"There is never going to be a formula that will be fair to all parties involved, so we feel that there really is no need to change at this point," he said.
Perhaps most critical of the proposal was Chad Rutkowski, Cardinal Stritch athletic director. Unlike its other private school counterparts, Cardinal Stritch competes at the lowest level in athletics. With an enrollment of 250 students in the high school on Pickle Road, Ritkowski said the proposal would "kill" Cardinal Stritch.
"We already have trouble competing at the lower levels in athletics," he said. "There is no way we would be able to compete in a higher division."
Rutkowski said he has already done the math for his school, and the Cardinals would compete in a higher division for most sports.
The Cardinals football program competes in Division VI. If the proposal were to pass, the school would be assigned to Division IV, where local high schools like Genoa compete.
The Comets were one of the most dominant teams in high school football this year, and Rutkowski said that it would not be fair to ask his team to compete with Genoa.
"Our best isn't as good as Genoa's worst right now, and I don't think anyone would dispute that."
Miller said that he feels for smaller schools like Cardinal Stritch.
"At St. John's, this really isn't going to affect us," he said. "We are still going to be Division I no matter what. I certainly can see these small schools' complaint."
Rutkowski said with enrollment already hurting at Cardinal Stritch, losing athletic programs won't help the cause.
"Kids don't want to come to school and get beat in every game they play in," he said. "Losing all the time isn't fun for anybody."
If the proposal passes, Frantz said some private schools have threatened to branch off from OHSAA and form their own state tournament.
"That's a very real possibility," he said. "Some of these schools feel as though they are being singled out for winning, and they could elect to start their own tournament."
Rutkowski said he would be in favor of splitting from OHSAA and having a separate state tournament.
"The multiplier format that is proposed is one of the worst ideas, and I think a separate tournament would be much better."
St. John's Miller was opposed to a separate tournament.
"I think we have a great relationship between public and private institutions locally and at the state level as well. I would hate to see that end."
St. Francis' Cromwell said all avenues should be explored, but would not be for a separation between public and private schools on the athletic fields.
"All solutions should be looked at, but we are happy with the way things are so I wouldn't change it," he said.
Cromwell said there is still much to be determined before the May vote.
"There's still a lot of feeling about that needs to be done," he said. "May is still a ways off."
That didn't stop him from voicing a decision: "We would vote no today."
Rutkowski said Cardinal Stritch would vote down the proposal as well.
"I have already talked to the principal and I have advised to vote against the proposal."
Bowsher's Reeves said he would endorse voting for the proposal.
"There could definitely be some tweaking here and there, but overall I think this is a fair solution to the problem."
Frantz said no matter what the outcome of the vote, the public versus private debate will rage on.
"This is an issue that has been hotly debated forever, and even if this passes, someone will still think more should be done to level the playing field for all teams," he said.
Tags: Bowsher High School, Brian Miller, Cardinal Stritch, Chad Rutkowski, Dan Ross, Dick Cromwell, Eric Frantz, JJ Huddle, Ohio High School Athletic Association, St. Francis, St. John's Jesuit, Terry Reeves


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CRESTVIEW — Residents and city officials, along with Okaloosa County Transit management, have discussed ways of improving Crestview's bus routes if they continue operating past Nov. 4. That's the date the county will terminate routes 11 and 12 unless the cash-strapped city finds funds to match the county's share after state and federal grants.
More than a dozen residents and nine officials on Tuesday shared ideas during an informal gathering in the Crestview Community Center. Consolidating local service into one route; eliminating underused or closely located stops to expand service to unserved areas; eliminating duplicated service; and running smaller buses at slow times are among suggestions.
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Until she retired, Carol McPherson rode the bus every day to her jobs at Walgreens and Wal-Mart.
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City Planner Eric Davis said no other city in the county has to find funding to maintain bus services. The county wants at least $25,000, and possibly as much as $50,000, from Crestview to match its share, he said.
Roysaid a possible source could be increased gas tax revenue expected to begin coming to the city after Jan. 1, but she noted the same source also must fun city road repairs, which are several years behind.
Barry Peterson, Okaloosa County Transit's operations supervisor, said fares do not come close to covering the bus operating expenses.
Resident Kenny Fuller, a regular bus rider, said he believed that it was unfair to expect the city to pay for the buses. Like roads, they're an essential service, he said.
"The city, it's not their job to fund the buses, and they don't have the money anyway," Fuller said. "The buses are like roads. You don't make any money paving the roads."
However, Elliott Kamper, the county's growth management director, said city funding is probably the only thing that will save the Crestview bus routes.
"Strategically, the best thing that could happen is for the city council to agree to fund 50 percent of the cost," Kamper said.
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- Andy Christofi Illustration said...
Wow i love it! I think this is one of my favourites of yours. Interesting use of colour!
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- Sam Bosma said...
So, Jeremy, what exactly are you trying to say about digital art here?
In all seriousness, it's nice to see you hop back and forth between digital and tradition. One informs the other, etc etc.
- November 18, 2009 at 5:33 PM
- Jeremy Enecio said...
Thanks guys!
Sam - hahah i meant that digital art seems to be my safety and i don't experiment and change things up as much as i should.
- November 18, 2009 at 5:50 PM
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The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga men's tennis team is sending four individuals to the Gwinnett College Grizzly Open in Lawrenceville, Ga., this weekend. This will close out the Mocs fall schedule.
Sophomores Gino Delavalle (Rosario, Argentina), John Peacey (Emerald, Australia) and Luke Saunders (Halifax, Nova Scotia) and freshman Derrick Brown (Marietta, Ga.) will all compete in singles action. Peacey and Brown are teaming up for doubles play, as are Delavalle and Saunders.
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The GGC Tennis Facility is located at 100 Countryside Place in Lawrenceville, approximately half a mile north of the GGC main entrance on Collins Hill Road. Admission all weekend is free of charge.
Tournament entrants: Alabama State, Austin Peay, Berry, Brenau, Dalton State, Georgia Gwinnett, Georgia Southwestern, Itawamba CC, Kennesaw State, Palm Beach Atlantic, Point, Presbyterian, Reinhardt, Chattanooga, Tennessee Tech and West Georgia.


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Caro the Lawyer
Joseph Caro (1488-1575) [was an] outstanding lawyer and mystic. Caro was probably born in Toledo but, after the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492, his family settled in Turkey where Caro lived for around forty years, acquiring a great reputation as an authority on Jewish law. In 1536 he left Turkey for Safed, serving there until his death as a rabbi and head of a yeshivah. In Safed he became closely associated with the mystical circle that flourished there.
Caro wrote a commentary, entitled Kesef Mishnah, to Maimonides' code and another commentary, his greatest work, on the Tur of Jacob ben Asher, to which he gave the title Bet Yosef (House of Joseph), because in it he provided a home for all of the legal opinions held by the jurists of the past.
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Caro recorded the decisions in every branch of practical law at which he had arrived in his digest, the Shulhan Arukh ["Set Table"], which together with the glosses of Isserles, became the standard code for all Orthodox Jews. [Moses Isserles (d.1572) was a Polish rabbi who authored several works on Jewish law. His claim to fame, however, was his glosses to Caro's Shulhan Arukh. Caro meant to provide a clear ruling on all matters of halacha, according to Sephardic teachings. Isserles brought Ashkenazi opinions and customs to the "table." Isserles titled his collection of additions, Mappah (tablecloth). From 1569 the Shulhan Arukh has included Isserles' additions.]
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Pronunciation: /ˈsekSH(o͞o)əl/
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