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Ghirlandaio's Capella Sassetti (1482-85)
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The bland facade of SS Trinita, which was slapped onto a much more attractive blind arcaded Romanesque job by an architect misnamed Buontalenti in 1593, opens into an equally undistinguished looking and usually untouristed church. The church backs onto old Vallombrosan monastery buildings which still house the office of the Abbot General of the now tiny Vallombrosan Order.
The church has several interesting works of art, but the piece de resistance is without doubt one of the finest and most complete remaining Renaissance chapels - Ghirlandaio's Capella Sassetti. Take plenty of loose change with you to work the voracious light meters (unless like the Dom you are lucky enough to find a camera crew and lights already at work!). Ghirlandaio was the numero uno of the visual biographers of Renaissance Florence - all the participants would have had real life identities (indeed have probably paid to be there), though sadly all but the most famous are now anonymous. It is also great to see a chapel where the movable stuff - like the painting of the nativity scene, has not been flogged off to or stolen by a museum (worse still, a foreign one).
The Sassetti Chapel was frescoed between 1482 and 1485 by Domenico Ghirlandaio. The restored chapel (in 2007 framed in full on scaffolding) is not only a gem, it is one of the only places of its type where significant components have not been disappeared ....... for example, the main altar painting for Ghirlandaio's Tornabuoni Chapel in Santa Maria Novella is now in Munich, whilst the rear panel is in Berlin.
Francesco Sassetti had become very wealthy over many years as the partner running the Medici Bank in Avignon and then Genoa. He was later briefly Chairman of the bank in Florence. To ensure that he was remembered appropriately here and in the next life he purchased the rights to decorate a chapel in Santa Maria Novella. The idea foundered when the Dominican monks there discovered that the chapel was to be covered with frescoes about the life of their mortal rival Saint Francis. Injunctions and writs flew, and eventually Francesco told them where they could put their chapel and decamped to SS Trinita where the Vallombrosans were only too glad to welcome anyone with lots of moolah and the Medici and Ghirlandaio in tow.
The cycle starts with the conversion of Saint Francis on the top left panel. Other events follow, with, as one would expect from the leading narrative frescoist of the times, lots of fascinating detail about renaissance life and built environments (all from Tuscany - no room for Rome, Umbria etc in this environment - anyway, they all knew that Florence was the new Rome - as evidenced by the granite monolith Column of Justice you can still see in the piazza opposite the church of SS Trinita itself, which came from the Baths of Caracalla in Rome). In the bottom right hand scene, fellow friars gather round the body of their founder.
The donor and his wife Nera are shown bottom centre kneeling on either side of a oil painted nativity scene, and their sarcophagi are in the side walls behind them.
This photo and the one below were taken from "Ghirlandaio" by Andreas Quermann - an out of print Könemann book which is still around second hand.
Domenico with his usual modesty has cast himself as shepherd number one opposite a drop dead gorgeous Mary,
with Joseph distracted by the clatter of the Magi and their retainers riding over to join in, and wondering what he has got himself into.
The top centre panel theoretically shows Pope Honorius III handing over the scroll bearing the rule for the Franciscan Order to Saint Francis, in a Rome which bears a strange resemblance to Florence's Piazza della Signora. This scene has been relegated into the middle ground to make way for a foreground group dominated by Francesco Sassetti and Lorenzo de'Medici - this now being about the only contemporaneous portrait of Il Magnifico still around.
Climbing up the stairs towards their dad (below) are Lorenzo's children Guiliano (front - later helper of Leo X with the title Duc de Nemours), Piero (known later as Piero the Fatuous) and lastly the blond Giovanni (known later as Pope Leo X). They are led by Agnolo Poliziano, their tutor who was credited with saving Lorenzo's life in the Pazzi Conspiracy in 1487.
What is the symbolism of the stairs you ask? Well, none is the correct answer. They were the only way Ghirlandaio, who was having to frequently rework the geometry as more and more people were nominated for inclusion "in the tent", could fit in all the faces clearly!
In the central panel ("Resurrection of the Boy") there are lots of friends and associates of the Sassetti and Medici families, with the artist himself standing by the pillar on the right and looking "at the camera".
Incidentally, fresco cycles relating the life of Saint Francis and his contemporary and fellow Franciscan Saint Anthony easily outnumber lives of other saints and apostles frescoed around Italy, and you'll be hard put to find many of San Domenico!
Francis renounces his worldly goods (left hand side)
Francis on Crusade (the 5th one) - our man challenges Muslim counterparts to walk with him through fire as a test of faith (right hand top)
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If you are feeling wrong about leaving because of your wife's condition, then that would be a stronger guilt because of societies expectations of us as human beings. When someone is down or vulnerable, our society says it is wrong to turn our backs on that person. We are seen as "heartless" or without compassion. In other words, "bad" people. But the dilemma here is that you felt your marriage was over before your wife had the handicap. Your feeling bad may be that you feel others would see you as leaving your wife because of the handicap, which is far from the truth.
What you need to realize in your situation is that you are not a bad person. Guilt implies you are bad. Changing that feeling to sadness and remorse is important. It is important to realize that you would not be feeling guilty if you were a bad person. Bad people don't care about how they treat others nor do they stay in marriages to help someone when it's already over. You do. So you are not bad. By leaving, you are coping. You gave of yourself longer than most people would have. Changing your thinking about the situation will help you realize that fact.
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You expect a competition regulator to make decisions that promote competition. Last week the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission did the opposite, approving a deal between Optus and the government-owned NBN Co, under which NBN Co will pay Optus $800 million and Optus will cease serving customers on its cable broadband network.
In the telecommunications and broadband sector, increasing competition has been the central public policy objective for more than 20 years. Unfortunately, the governments of
Since then the prime objective of its telecoms policy has been to shore up NBN Co's hopelessly weak business case. Labor's solution was to force every Australian to use the NBN – by arranging for NBN Co to pay both Telstra and Optus to shut down their networks and cease serving retail and small business customers directly.
No one could criticise Telstra or Optus for agreeing to these deals. The public policy question, though, is what best serves the community's interests. Ordinarily, these interests would be served by the operation of competition law. But the Rudd and Gillard governments abandoned competition principles – and it seems the ACCC is falling into line.
Its decision to grant authorisation quite correctly highlights the public detriment the deal will cause: it will "remove a source of competitive tension" and therefore will "have negative consequences for price and non-price competition at the retail level" and remove indirect constraints on NBN Co in the wholesale market. (In other words, it will be easier for NBN Co to jack up its prices.)
Less competition, less choice and higher retail and wholesale prices: rejecting this deal should be an open and shut case for the ACCC. But it says this detriment is outweighed by the magnificent public benefits the deal will offer. It cites the "cessation of continuing HFC [hybrid fibre coaxial] expenditure requirements" (that is, Optus will not have to keep spending money on the HFC network); cost savings through co-ordinated migration of Optus HFC customers to the NBN (that is, NBN will save on sales and marketing); and "environmental benefits".
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Red Meat May Reduce Length of Life
A new study in this week's issue of Archives of Internal Medicine is turning some heads, especially those who love steak and burgers.
The researchers from the National Cancer Institute found that over the 10-year period studied those who ate the most red meat every day had about 30% greater risk of dying compared to those who had less red meat. The causes of death were mostly from heart disease and cancer.
How much red meat is too much?
In this study, those with highest risk ate the equivalent of a small steak or 1/4 pound burger every day. Red meat in this study was defined as all types of beef and pork alone and in dishes containing it.
Those people who ate the most white meat have lower mortality than those who ate the least. I am assuming this means that the people eating the least were eating other high fat sources of animal protein instead (and were not vegetarians, for example). Those who ate large amounts of processed meats (bacon, sausage, cold cuts, ham, hot dogs) also had higher mortality risk than those who consumed the least.
How much red meat can we have?
- The American Heart Association does not have a limit to ounces of meat but rather limits saturated fat to less than 7% of total calories. Red meat and processed meats tend to be high in saturated fat.
- The American Institute for Cancer Research recommends less than 18 ounces of red meat per week
- The USDA food pyramid suggests 2-3 servings of protein per day which could include red meat.
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1. Swiss International Hotel Xiamen (5-star)
Located in Xiamen downtown and facing Gulangyu Island, Swiss International Hotel Xiamen is 20 minutes driving from Xiamen International Conference and Exhibition Center and 10 minutes' from Xiamen Railway Station by bus. It boasts 588 deluxe suites and rooms, 130 of which can be reached by elevator, and the multi-functional restarants, business centers and conference rooms are also available in the hotel, making it an ideal choice for business travellers and sightseeing travelers alike.
Name in Chinese: 厦门瑞颐大酒店
Address: No. 12, Lujiang Avenue, Xiamen (厦门市鹭江路12号)
Tel: 0592- 6366666
2. Kempinski Hotel Xiamen (5-star)
Surrounded by breathtaking natural beauty and overlooking the scenic Yundang Lake, Kempinski Hotel Xiamen has 460 luxurious suites and rooms, including one presidential suite, 12 exeutive suites adn 12 deluxe suites, where the well-appointed banqueting halls, restaurants of Chiense and western styles and conference rooms are also availble. It's about 20 minutes to Xiamen Gaoqi International Airport and 15 minutes to Xiamen International Conference and Exhibition Center by bus.
Name in Chinese: 厦门源昌凯宾斯基大酒店
Address: No. 98, Hubin Middle Road, Siming District, Xiamen (厦门市思明区湖滨中路98号)
Tel: 0592- 2588888
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Backing on the mountais and facing the sea, Seaview Resort Xiamen is an ideal choice during your Xiamen travel owint to its conviniently located position and modern well-equipped facilities, and it's composed of 5 villas of 464 spacious and elegant rooms, where free parking service and foreign excheng service are also availble. It's 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Xiamen downtown and 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Xiamen Gaoqi International Airport.
Name in Chinese: 厦门海悦山庄大酒店
Address: No.3999 Huandao South Road, Siming District, Xiamen (厦门市思明区环岛南路3999号)
Tel: 0592- 5023333
4. The Westin Xiamen (5- star)
The 45 -storied Westin Xiamen boasts 300 innovatively designed spacious rooms and suites offering breathtaking views of the Xiamen skyline, where the high speed wireless internet, 42 inch LCD TV screens and iPod docking stations that help guests stay connected are also available, and the Heavenly spa helps visitors to stay focused and renewed.
Name in Chinese: 厦门威斯汀酒店
Address: No. 398, Xianyue Road, Siming District, Xiamen (厦门市思明区仙岳路398号)
Tel: 0592- 3378888
5. Yeo Hwa Hotel (5- star)
As the only five-star hotel with a golf course in Xiamen, Yeo Hwa Hotel has 288 guest rooms, where the high -speed wireless wifi, fitting center and conference center are also available. It's coviniently located for all kinds of transportation means, and it's only 10 minutes' driving to Xiamen Gaoqi International Airport.
Name in Chinese: 厦门悦华酒店
Address: No. 101, Yuehua Road, Huli District, Xiamen (厦门市湖里区悦华路101号)
Tel: 0592- 6023333
6. Remy's Garden Hotel Xiamen (economic hotel)
Standing on the romantic Gulangyu Island, Remy's Garden Hotel Xiamen is only 5 minutes from the sea, and it's operated by a businessman from Paris of France, where you'll feel at hoome by immersing yourself in charming, peaceful and silent environment. Guests can taste the authentic French wine and food in Remy's Garden Hotel Xiamen.
Name in Chinese: 厦门瑞米花园旅馆
Address: No. 65, Kantai Road, Gulangyu, Xiamen (厦门市鼓浪屿康泰路65号)
Tel: 0592- 2196957
7. Jingmin North Bay Hotel (5- star)
Neighboring Jimei University Village and Jiageng Park, Jingmin North Bay Hotel enjoys combining beauty of the wooden trestle near the seaside and the southeast Asian gardens, where the sea-view rooms are well-appointed with balconies for appreicating the beauty of the sea. The Spa service and the multi-media halls are available in the hotel, and it takes about 15 minutes' driving to Xiamen Gaoqi International Airport.
Name in Chinese: 厦门京闽北海湾酒店
Address: Besides Ludao Beihaiwan Villa Club, No.210 Jiyuan Road, Jimei District, Xiamen (厦门市集美区集源路210号)
Tel: 0592- 6123333
8. Crowne Plaza Hotel Paragon Xiamen (5- star)
Located in the commerical and shopping center of Xiamen, the 16-storied Crowne Plaza Hotel Paragon has 327 guest rooms, each of which is equipped with a work table, lamp, high-speed internet access and a safe, and it's an ideal choice for the business travellers. It's about one kilometer (0.6 miles) from Xiamen Railway Station, 9 kilometers (5.6 miles) from Xiamen city center and 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Xiamen Gaoqi International Airport.
Name in Chinese: 厦门磐基皇冠假日酒店
Address: No. 199, Jiahe Road, Siming District, Xiamen (厦门市思明区嘉禾路199号)
Tel: 0592- 5399999
9. Pan Pacific Xiamen (5-star)
Located in the heart of Xiamen's financial and entertainment district, the 29- storied Pan Pacific Xiamen hotel allows you to indulge in modern luxury, and it boasts 387 luxurious rooms. The Pan Pacific Xiamen hotel is very convinient to the major attractions of Xiamen, adn it's 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Xiamen Railway Station and 3 kilometers (1.9 miles) from the Egret Island Park.
Name in Chinese: 厦门泛太平洋大酒店
Address: No. 19, Hubin North Road, Xiamen (厦门市湖滨北路19号)
Tel: 0592- 5078888
10. Le Meridien Xiamen (5-star)
Located on the Xianyue Mountain slope of Xiamen, Le Meridien Hotel is about 15 minutes' driving from Xiamen Gaoqi International Airport, where guests can appreicate the fine views of Xiamen Bay. The seven -storied Le Meridien Hotel has 348 rooms decoarated in a modern style, and it's 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Xiamen Gaoqi International Airport and 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Xiamen Railway Station
Name in Chinese: 厦门艾美酒店
Address: No. 7, Guanjun Road, Nanshan, Xiamen 361006 (厦门市南山冠军路7号)
Tel: 0592- 7709999
11. International Seaside Hotel Xiamen (5-star)
Boasting of being the longest hotel in the wold, the International Seaside Hotel Xiamen is 325 meters (355 yards) long with 208 gutest rooms, 131 of which are sea-view rooms offfering the fine views of the Little Golden Island and the Large Golden Island. The Spa and sanna service is also available in the hotel, and it 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Xiamen Railway Station and 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Xiamen Gaoqi International Airport .
Name in Chinese: 厦门国际会展酒店
Address: No. 199 Huizhan 2nd Road, Xiamen (厦门市思明区会展二路199号)
Tel: 0592- 5959999
12. Lujiang Harborview Hotel Xiamen (4-star)
Facing Gulangyu Island across the sea, Lujiang Harborview Hotel boasts 154 guest rooms and suites, 100 outdoor tea seats and 88 indoor tea seats, and all the rooms are well-appointed with modern facilities, and it's about 110 meters (120 yards) to Gulangyu Island.
Name in Chinese: 厦门鹭江宾馆
Address: No. 54, Lujiang Road, Xiamen (厦门市鹭江道54号)
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Florida Gov. Rick Scott announced Wednesday he will ask the Legislature to increase funding for public schools by $1.2 billion next year, or the equivalent of about $400 more per student.
A third of that amount would fund a $2,500 pay raise for teachers, and another $300 million would be a contribution to the state pension fund to reduce its unfunded liability. A total of $118 million would pay for normal growth in student enrollment.
Speaking to the annual AP news forum in Tallahassee, Scott presented a case that Florida's economy has steadily improved under his direction and that now is the time to "strategically invest" in public education.


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Des Moines, IA, United States, 2010/09/03 - Kemin Industries announces the addition of two employees to Kemin Nutrisurance, the companys pet food division.
Mitch Poss, Ph.D., has joined as director of research and development and Radek Nigrin has joined as senior commercial manager.
Poss will initiate and oversee the innovation of new products, an integral part of Kemin´s vision and strategy. He has over 18 years of experience in managing research teams and developing new products.
Prior to joining Kemin, Poss was the director of chemistry for Nanosphere, Inc., a nanotechnology-based, in-vitro diagnostics company. He has also held various positions at Baxter Healthcare, including global research and development director and research scientist.
Nigrin will be responsible for managing the sales team and commercial business in Europe. He most recently worked as the senior marketing manager for Kemin AgriFoods Europe. Prior to that, he was the area manager in the Czech Republic, Slovak Republic and Baltic States.
Mitch was the clear choice for our new R&D director because of his extensive experience and knowledge in the field, said Giuseppe Abrate, president of Kemin Nutrisurance. Under his guidance, we expect that our R&D team will continue in its growth and commitment to innovation. We are also excited to welcome Radek to Kemin Nutrisurance. His previous sales and marketing experience within Kemin will help ensure success for the pet food divisions marketing and commercial efforts.
Poss received a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Utah and a Bachelor of Science in chemistry from Fort Lewis College in Colorado.
Nigrin received a Master of Science in animal nutrition from the University of South Bohemia in the Czech Republic.
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Founded in 1961, the Kemin group of companies (kemin.com) provides health and nutritional solutions to the agrifood, food ingredient, pet food, human health and pharmaceutical industries. Kemin operates in more than 60 countries with manufacturing facilities in Belgium, Brazil, China, India, Singapore, South Africa, Thailand and the United States.
Kemin Nutrisurance is exclusively focused on providing innovative solutions to the global pet food and pet supplement industry. A trusted supplier of superior palatant and antioxidant products, Kemin understands how a product works at the molecular level and uses superior chemistry to uncover the best ways to deliver nutritional solutions to pets with maximum efficacy.
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Just two blocks from the wharf, this 64 sq m apartment was totally stripped and renovated in 2010 by its current owner, a director at an architecture and interior design firm, to maximise its warehouse appeal. A focus on material and textures has resulted in details like cut bluestone in the bathroom. Its high ceilings have been taken advantage of to allow extra light and air to flow through the apartment. Communal facilities include a pool, spa and sauna. The agent says this unit represents great value thanks to its beautiful renovations, city views and security.
Levies $1722 pq
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The kitchen in this 60 sq m unit received granite benchtops and new appliances in 2006 and the bathroom had a makeover in 2009. The agent says even more value could be added if the new owner adds a deck or extends into the attic. Original Federation features including a fireplace and decorated ceilings have been well maintained and there are views to Botany Bay from the apartment. In a block of four apartments in a cul de sac half way to Coogee Beach, it could be rented for $630 a week delivering a gross rental yield of 5.04 per cent.
Levies $500 pq
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Auction June 19
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On a level 924 sq m block, this Hardiplank timber house may be the cheapest waterfront property in Sydney. The open-plan living area opens onto an entertainer's deck where parents can relax to the birdsongs from the nearby Royal National Park while keeping an eye on the kids swimming and paddling in their very own river playground. The house also has a study, because life's not all fun and games! There were two other sales of four bedroom houses on Arcadia Avenue in the past 12 months and both sold for over $940,000.
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Epping houses have undergone 20 per cent-plus growth in the past year and the median price is now $1,300,250, so this brick veneer house looks like a bargain. A designer gas kitchen offers Caesarstone benches and stainless appliances. Bi-fold doors leading from the dining room open onto a deck that sits above a large grassy backyard. Two bedrooms have built-in wardrobes and en suites, and there is a spa in the main bathroom. The house also has a Ventis ventilation system, polished timber floorboards, a sandpit for the kids and a water tank. It's located close to Carlingford shops, Epping West public school and bushland.
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The Barrow County Sheriff's Office reported the following incidents:
FOUND HAND GUN: A 50-year-old Bethlehem woman and her husband found a handgun on Argonne Road near Corinth Church Road on Nov. 3.
A deputy responded and picked up the gun from the middle of the road and placed it into an evidence locker in case anyone came looking for the weapon.
Later that day, a 24-year-old Winder man called to say he was missing his Glock. He thought he had put the gun into his bag on the way to the range that afternoon but told a deputy it was possible he had driven off with it on the top of his truck's tool box. He told the deputy that he often took Argonne Road on his way to the shooting range.
BURGLARY: A housesitter returned to the house she was watching on Kendall Park Drive shortly after midnight Nov. 5 and found the back door and window open.
Inside, she found that someone had raided the house, taking more than $1,600 worth of electronics and appliances.
The man who owns the house had told a lot of people he works with and several friends that he was going out of town on Nov. 3. The housesitter had last checked the house on the afternoon of Nov. 4 and nothing seemed to be out of place then.
BURGLARY: A Winder couple returned to their Cedar Valley Trail home shortly after 1 a.m. Nov. 6 and found that someone had taken their 100-year-old Smith & Wesson pistol.
The gun was worth about $250 but nothing else was taken from the house, the couple told the deputy.
The couple thought it was probably taken by someone they knew because the pistol had been hidden at the bottom of a chest in their living room, and only a few people knew where it was located.
BURGLARY: Workers at Harrison Poultry in Bethlehem returned to work Nov. 6 to find that one of the plant's utility buildings had been broken into.
Someone had pried open the front door, causing about $200 worth of damage and stolen a laptop computer and some tools valued at just over $1,000.
The building is located at one end of the plant's water processing spray field.
THEFT: A 54-year-old Bethlehem man called the sheriff's office on the afternoon of Nov. 6 to report that someone had stolen his leather jacket, valued at $100.
The man told a deputy that the last time he saw his jacket was on Nov. 2 and there had several people in and out of his house on Tanners Bridge Road since then. He didn't know who would have wanted to take it.
THEFT: A 65-year-old man went into his yard on Georgia Highway 82 on the afternoon of Nov. 6 to split some firewood and discovered that someone had taken his $2,000 log splitter from the house.
He last saw it on the afternoon of Nov. 5 when he was splitting logs.
The log splitter would have been impossible to move without a truck or some other vehicle, he told the deputy.
The man had recently come home to find a man he did not know sitting on his porch drinking a beer that he had left on the porch. He believes that the man may have come back and taken his log splitter, he told a deputy.
THEFT: A East Wright Street woman headed out to work shortly before 6 a.m. Nov. 6 and found that someone had taken her family's 1986 Honda four-wheeler from the carport.
She last saw the red, white and blue ATV shortly after midnight Nov. 6. Nothing except for the $500 four-wheeler was missing from the carport, she told a deputy.
THEFT: A technician with Carolina Cable was checking a work site on Georgia Highway 211 and found that someone had climbed the fence around the company's storage yard and taken 336 feet of wire sometime between 5 p.m. Nov. 4 and 7 a.m. Nov. 7
The wire is worth about $110, the technician told a deputy.
ENTERING AUTO: A 35-year-old Auburn man checked his car on the morning of Nov. 7 and found that someone had broken into the 1991 Honda Accord and taken about $1,000 in stereo equipment and $1,000 in tools from the car.
He told a deputy that he left the car unlocked when he parked it in front of his home on Breanna Court on Nov. 6.
His neighbors also reported that their cars had been ransacked but only a $20 car radio was taken.
BURGLARY: A 26-year-old Hoschton man returned home from work to his house on Georgia Highway 211 around 4 p.m. on Nov. 7 to find that someone had pried open his back door and taken just over $2,000 in electronics.
He suspects his neighbor's boyfriend.
HOME INVASION: A middle-aged Bethlehem couple called the sheriff's office around 9 p.m. on Nov. 8 to report that three men forced their way inside the house on Tanners Bridge Circle and robbed them at gun point.
The couple told a deputy that the men came in, assaulted the man and took his gold wedding band, a bag of white dirt and $75 in cash.


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Got a child who loves rockets and all things outer space? Then this is the cake for him! Not only are there rockets made of rocky road, but the cake has a secret centre of marshmallows and Smarties.
This recipe will make a 28cm x 28cm cake and six rockets
Chocolate cake:
This can be made up to a month in advance and kept in the freezer.
Chocolate buttercream icing:
This can be made up to two months in advance and kept in the freezer or made fresh and frozen for next time. The leftovers are a great back up for those unexpected school fundraisers!
Rocky road for rockets:
Only a small amount of marshmallows and smarties are used to fill the rockets so the remainder were used in the middle of the cake with the buttercream icing.
Equipment and other items needed:
1. Cut the cake in half 2. Slice each half through the middle 3. Cover the bottom halves in buttercream and sweets
4. Cover the sweets with butterceam and place cake halves on top 5. Cover the cake in buttercream 6. Colour fondant icing grey, roll out and carefully drape over cake
7. Fill rocket molds with rocky road mixture 8. Unmold by gently by dipping in hot water for 5-10 secs 9. Roll out coloured fondant and stamp out letters and numbers
Chocolate cake
Preheat oven to 180°C. Line tin with greaseproof paper.
Beat the sugars and butter until light and fluffy. Add the eggs gradually, beating thoroughly between eggs.
Add the jam and beat until just combined.
Fold in the combined cocoa, flour and bi-carb alternately with the milk, stir until mixture is just combined and almost smooth.
Pour into the tin and smooth the surface if necessary.
Bake for approx 45 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean.
Allow the sponge to cool slightly in the tin before turning out onto a rack.
When totally cool, cut sponge into two. For ease, cut the sponge in half before cutting through horizontally. Place the bottom pieces onto the cake board.
Spread a thin layer of chocolate buttercream on both sponge bases (approx 1/3 of the mix), using the buttercream to join the two together.
Sprinkle with smarties and marshmallows that were left over after making rocky road rockets.
Top with another thin layer of buttercream before carefully laying on the top pieces of the sponge.
Spread the remaining buttercream evenly around the cake with a pallet knife or smooth edged kitchen knife.
Buttercream icing
Place the icing, butter, egg and chocolate in a kitchen mixer. Place on low speed to combine all ingredients (if it's on high you may lose a lot of the mix when it flies out of the bowl!) Once combined, turn up on high and allow to beat for a further 5-10 minutes until fluffy. You may need to scrape the bowl occasionally so it whips all of the mix.
Keep aside a tiny amount of buttercream to later attach the lettering and numbers onto the cake.
Use 1/3 of the mix in the centre of the cake.
Use the remainder for the outside of the cake.
Rocky road rockets
Ensure the rocket moulds are clean and thoroughly dry.
Melt together the chocolate and copha in the microwave on high for 1 minute. Mix until all is fully melted. Put in microwave for another 30 seconds if not fully melted.
Add in the Smarties, marshmallows and Rice Bubbles.
Using a teaspoon, begin by adding some melted choc/copha into the bottom of the mould and continue to carefully spoon in the mix until you reach the top. Use the teaspoon to move the lollies around so all areas of the moulds are filled to avoid any air bubbles.
Secure the stick on top and refrigerate until set.
Un-mould just before assembly by dipping the moulds into hot water for 5 - 10 seconds.
Readymade white icing
This is also known as 'fondant icing' and can be found in larger quantities in cake specialty shops – they also sell them already coloured if you don't wish to do that yourself. It will keep for a long time if stored in a cool place (like the freezer) and if it's wrapped very well (I usually use a few layers of cling film before placing in an airtight container).
Usually the icing is quite firm to touch when you open the packet. Break it into small pieces with your fingers and begin to 'work' or 'massage' it until you notice is becomes smoother and softer. At this point, bring the icing together and knead as you would a dough until it is soft and smooth (the smoothness reminds me of my kids' baby bottoms!) Once it's smooth and soft you are ready to add the colour. Approximately 70g will be blue for the numbers and writing and the remainder will be grey.
Starting with the grey fondant, flatten a little, press some 'craters' into the dough and add a few drops of colour. Going slowly but steady is better than adding too much at once (unless you are after a very bright colour!) until you have achieved the strength of colour you are after. To work the colour into the icing, continue kneading as you would a dough. If the icing starts to stick to the bench use icing sugar, as you would flour to dough. Repeat this process with the smaller piece of icing and blue food colour. Wrap the blue icing in cling film to prevent it drying out
Roll out the grey icing, using icing sugar to prevent sticking, until it is large enough to cover the sponge. Use the cake tin as a guide to ensure the edges will be covered.
Roll onto your rolling pin gently and transfer to the cake. Gently unravel over the cake, starting from the top until the icing is totally unravelled over the sponge.
Using a sharp knife or pallet knife, trim away any excess around the edges and gently push the fondant icing under the sponge to neaten up.
Using the remainder of the grey icing, create the bases for the rockets. Roll three pieces of fondant icing into three equal sized, wide cylinders. Gently press down to create a solid barrel and use a chopstick to create a hole big enough to hold the stick of the rocket ships but not too wide that they will fall out. These will be best if they dry out for a day so they won't buckle under the weight of the rockets. Manipulate the chopstick so the rockets point up on an equal angle.
Glue the bases for the rockets on the cake with some butter cream and allow to set before positioning the rockets.
Roll out the blue fondant icing and cut out the letters 'blast off' and numbers 1,2 & 3 and small dots for the countdown. Remember to use icing sugar if the fondant icing begins to stick and the finished letters and numbers are best left on some greaseproof paper to dry out and harden (makes handling easier).
Finishing the cake
Glue on the letters and numbers with the reserved buttercream.
Wrap the wide blue ribbon around the cake and secure with a pin at the back of the cake.
Wrap the happy birthday ribbon on top of the blue ribbon and attach with a pin at the back of the cake. Use more pins around the cake to secure ribbon.
Sprinkle blue edible glitter around the cake.
Arrange the fairy floss around the cake and at the base of the rockets.
Put the rockets into position – ready for blast off!
Although I am a qualified chef, I've had no formal cake making training. What I have learned is through trial and many errors. I hope that by sharing my knowledge, you can become as confident and as excited about cake making as I am! (without the mistakes!). I think the most important thing is to 'give it a go,' you'll be producing amazing cakes before you know it!
Please feel free to contact me for any questions at email@example.com or at Chef Sonia & You.


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In a mock memorandum to President Obama, Kinkopf, a law professor at Georgia State University, and former counselor to the Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Policy, argues why the administration would likely not expend political capital on a nominee to the Supreme Court who openly espouses a method of constitutional interpretation contrary to the prevailing method pushed by conservative jurists, academics and legal advocacy groups.
Kinkopf argues that "the conservative legal movement that has convinced the public that its method of interpretation is legitimate and that other methods are activist did not succeed overnight," and that currently there is no "significant constituency that demands we seek to promote a progressive legal agenda."
He continues that until such a constituency forms "demanding a progressive approach to constitutional issues," it would be foolhardy for the administration to drift from its current strategy of not spending much political capital on particular nominees to the federal bench.
So at the moment, Kinkopf explains, the conservative legal movement has successfully "convinced the public that its method of interpretation is legitimate and that other methods are activist …."
His mock memo to the president provides a strong argument on why progressives, including policymakers, should support and help advance progressive legal thinkers who have begun to formulate an answer to the proponents of "originalism."
Kinkopf cites in his law review article the work of scholars such as Stanford law school professor Pamela Karlan, who co-authored the book Keeping Faith with the Constitution, which articulates troubling shortcomings with originalism and advances a progressive method of constitutional interpretation.


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Why would someone in full clown regalia wander--like a child into a war zone--through the streets of a toxic inner city? Is he on a quest for instant martyrdom? No. He's Tommy Johnson, an ex-drug dealer now known as Tommy the Hip-Hop Clown, and he's recruiting some of the best local talent of South Central Los Angeles to help create a frenetic, feel-good style of dance called clowning. Missionaries of optimism, they go about, one clowner says, "making smiles where there were no smiles, laughter where there was no laughter," and turning the meanest Los Angeles turf into what one proud...
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Where we come from
It's not surprising that the humble soy bean, that staple of Asian cuisine for over 3,000 years, is at the heart of the Vitasoy story, which began over 65 years ago. Sometimes called, 'the cow of China', it's the star ingredient in the nutritious, high protein and vitamin-rich drink Dr K.S. Lo began making in Hong Kong under the Vitasoy name in the 1940s.
With our first soymilk production plant, opened in March 1940, Vitasoy was the first to bring nutritious soymilk to the mass market by selling door to door, and through shops
Then in 1953, we began heat-treating our soymilk so refrigeration was no longer necessary, allowing even greater freedom of distribution and popularity. Since that time, Vitasoy has become a household name and the leading supplier of soymilk in Hong Kong.
With the introduction of Tetra-Brik packaging Vitasoy experienced another boom. Together with the long life (Ultra Heat Treatment) processing, it allowed our products to be kept for months, without losing any of their delicious flavour and nutritional quality. The obvious next step was to begin exporting and from the late 70s to early 80s, Vitasoy soymilk found a foothold in over 30 markets.
In Australia, our first state of the art production facility was built in Wodonga, Victoria, in 2001 for Vitasoy Australia Products Pty Ltd (VAP) – a joint venture between Vitasoy International Holdings Ltd and National Foods Ltd, two of the largest non-carbonated beverage companies in Hong Kong and Australia.
Today, Vitasoy International Holdings has production facilities in Hong Kong, mainland China, Australia and the U.S.A., and is listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Our mantra is to constantly challenge the status quo to create innovative and dynamic improvements in our products and range.
To visit the Vitasoy International Holdings website, please go to www.vitasoy.com
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Mission Statement
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Hard News: The witless on the pitiless, in reply to
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even murderous religious fascists deserve a fair trial
Coming very late to this debate, but having read the very many well considered opinions I come back to NRT's as the one which best encapsulates my own. We caught someone whose ranking on the 'evil scale' is up there with Stalin and Pol Pot - yay!! We shot him in the face when he was unarmed - y... wait, what?
Francis Bacon's essay "On Revenge" is, IMHO, still a touchstone in these situations:
Revenge is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out...
The most tolerable sort of revenge, is for those wrongs which there is no law to remedy; but then let a man take heed, the revenge be such as there is no law to punish; else a man's enemy is still before hand, and it is two for one.
We have laws capable of taking our revenge, even for genocide in the name of bigotry. Abandoning them emboldens our enemies and dispirits those who would otherwise cheer the accomplishment without reservation.
Hard News: Doing battle alone, in reply to
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Dismissing facts as opinions is one of the existential problems with the modern conservative movement.
Arrrgh, yes! I'm so used to actually debating people with views opposing my own that I become quite flummoxed by this approach (which is, of course, what it's designed to do).
Here in delightful Western Australia ("We loved the 1950s so much we decided to stay there") the Attorney General is fond of saying "I don't accept that". The speaker can be some looney liberal civil libertarian like myself or some clearly no-nonsense prison officer with several decades of experience under her belt, who both challenged him at the same meeting, and that's the stock answer.
That and "show me the statistics". That worked for about a year, as we all laboured to do peer-reviewed research. Then he'd look at the quantitative data and say, you guessed it, "I don't accept that".
He's also a habitual user of "air quotes" when talking about those whose views differ from his own. He recently addressed a conference I was MCing (wearing my professional hat, so I had to STFU) and referred to a prominent critic as "the (airquote) ee-con-o-mist (airquote)..." The fact that the man he was belittling is a well-respected professor and has been since the AG was in short pants didn't, of course, matter.
"I don't accept that the smell of smoke and brimstone means we're all going to hell in a handbasket. And that (airquote) dev-vil (airquote) has yet to present any credible statistics as to our pending damnation" is, sadly, quite an effective debating technique, as it leaves your opponent homicidal with rage but struggling to appear just as calm and reasonable as you look. Or that might just be me, I don't know.
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there are common decencies that are not negotiable. Like not treating human bodies like trash
I wonder how much of the moral basis of that comes from religious tradition, even for the non-religious?
Since I don't believe any part of me is headed for rencarnation, floating about playing a harp, communing with 72 virgins or anything else, I'd quite like my body to be treated like trash.
That is to say, recycled where possible (I'm a donor) and then run through one of those tree shredders, or something, and used for compost. The Swedes do it already though not in quite that way.
I don't go so far as the environmentalists who want Soylent Green to become a reality, but driving past a cemetery yesterday, all I could think was "what a terrible waste of a beautiful public open space". And cremation's a waste... even sprinkling the ashes provides no real plant nutrients.
(I get that your point is about the indignity of the way this partcular matter was handled, but just sayin'...)
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Most of the assorted "late night" hosts I find cringingly unfunny, aside from the slightly demented Craig Ferguson. But they've managed to come out with some decent one-liners on this topic so, in the interests of making light of slaughter...
Jay Leno:
Osama bin Laden was apparently shot twice in the face. It looks like Dick Cheney may have been involved.
For their honeymoon, the royal couple wants to go somewhere they can have complete privacy and no one in the country will give away their location. I think they're going to Pakistan.
Conan O'Brien:
Osama bin Laden is dead, which means the No. 1 threat to America is now the KFC Double Down.
The news of bin Laden's death interrupted this week's episode of [Donald Trump's] "Celebrity Apprentice." Which begs the question, how do we kill bin Laden again next Sunday?
David Letterman:
There's already been some trouble for Osama bin Laden in the afterlife. There was a mix up and he was greeted by 72 vegans.
Craig Ferguson:
Dick Cheney said he hasn't been this happy since he saw the YouTube video of the girl throwing puppies into the river.
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@Graeme Edgeler:
It's already a meme!
@Russell Brown:
From my admittedly limited knowledge the government of Pakistan does what it has to do to keep from annoying the US to the extent that it would come back to bite them. So if they're directy requested to do something the west can monitor, like "can we use your airspace?" they'll do it, and make a big show of doing so.
But if it's something harder to track, like, "you'll tell us if you see bin Laden, right?", you might as well be asking the guy who's dating your teenage daughter to behave like a gentleman.
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Okay then... from what I gather he was found in Pakistan, living reasonably openly and in relative luxury - e.g. not that hard to find if you're the ISI and actually bother to look.
For some time now the elephant in the room when people chat nervously about "radical Isamists" has been Pakistan. The focus always falls on various Arab countries, not that frequently on Pakistan. And when it does, they seem to get a much easier ride (cf the blunt accusations of the Sauds directly funding Wahidists etc).
Osama was one of many, as the jihadist message boards are already reminding us. If the west is serious about minimising the capacity of his followers to wreak further tragedy, isn't it about time we called Pakistan on it's tacit support for terrorism and started imposing some consequences?
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So The Chaser lads gave up, sadly. Instead we got repeats of their "War On Everything" which relied for its funniness on the events covered being current. Jokes about John Howard... in 2011?
Sandwiched between, though, were the pre-records they'd done to drop into the dull(er) bits of the ceremony, so we get a glimpse of what might have been, like Prince Phillip's speech:
and "The Consummation"... apparently the bride must be checked to see she doesn't have an "anus horribilis":
Check the "related videos" for more.
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So Steinman performed all the songs himself
Superiorly, too. *genuflects reverently*
Air Supply... meh... I almost couldn't forgive him for that. But still, considering what he got out of Bonnie Tyler, previously famous for a droning country pop number called "It's a heartache", for Air Supply to have worked with Steinman and only managed "Making Love" shows just how crap they were.
*sigh*... Now I'm yearning to put the cans back on and go back to being a music station rock jock.
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it reinforced again how utterly crap most commercial 80s music was
Look, nobody disses Jim Steinman and no one gets hurt, okay?
There's something... compelling... about it all. And to go straight from an overture that wouldn't be out of place in something by Wagner to the spoken word intro that just goes.... whack...
Pure genius. And I will brook no debate.
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@Deep Red:
Ah, didn't know that about Cunliffe. I knew there had to be some reason I didn't skim past his utterances chortling to myself though. Thanks.


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Usually, the people I come across who favour same-sex 'marriage' are non-Christians. However, on the radio and internet recently, I have begun to encounter a strange phenomenon: Bible-believing Christians who are in favor of gay marriage, or at least its legalization.
The argument they use hinges on introducing a sharp distinction between civil marriage vs. ecclesiastical or sacramental marriage. This view is particularly attractive to those within traditions—such as the Eastern Orthodox church—who believe marriage to be a sacrament. If marriage is one of the church's sacraments, so the argument goes, then marriages outside the church are not sacraments and therefore not really marriages at all. But if so—the argument continues—then we shouldn't really be concerned about governments debasing the meaning of marriage because civil marriages have nothing to do with religious marriage anyway.
This is an attractive argument because it promises to make the church immune to the artifices of secular government through suggesting the religious marriage and civil marriage occupy what we might call 'Non-overlapping magisteria.'
The notion of separating the civil from the ecclesiastical is possible because of prior ideas that have dominated since the Enlightenment about the separation of church and state. The notion also draws on postmodern theories about the privatization of religion and the false assumption that the state can be religiously neutral.
The question of whether ecclesiastical marriage can be separate from civil marriage was a question that was recently discussed on Ancient Faith Radio. The downloadable program was called 'Same-Sex Marriage: Separation of Church-State Issue, or a Moral Problem We Must Oppose?' Although the program was addressing the issue in an American context, and from the perspective of the theology of the Eastern Orthodox church, the basic principles touch on many of the issues we are facing here in Britain.
I highly recommend the discussion. Father John Whiteford did an excellent job representing the long standing teaching of the church that civil marriage is a sexual union of a man and a woman. He also gives some very helpful information (grounded in the latest research) about what actually happens when gay people get 'married.' Father John also drew attention to the important point that the gay rights community has shifted the goal posts. Once content to be treated well and have equal rights, now their goal is to have their behaviour publicly sanctioned. This relates to a point we have made here and here, namely that what is really at stake in this debate is not equal rights at all, but the type of normalization that can only be achieved by homosexuals appropriating to themselves the powerful symbolic significance of marriage.
Both Father John and Dr. Dunn are Eastern Orthodox theologians and claim to be approaching the issue from the perspective of their church. However, Dr. Dunn is more like a liberal Episcopalian that wandered into the wrong denomination. For example, he argues that marriage in God's eyes is a purely spiritual reality rather than a civil contract, he implies that the conjugal view of marriage has no natural law basis, and (most shocking of all) he suggests that there is no evidence that it benefits children to have a mother and a father.
Unfortunately, most of the time during the radio program Dunn merely assumed his conclusion, presupposing that gay 'marriage' is a coherent concept. However, it would only be a coherent concept if we first assume the civil marriage is either a union of persons or a social construct that can be redefined by the state. If these options be denied, then talking about same-sex 'marriage' is akin to referring to square circles or one-wheeled bicycles. (For a further explanation of this, see my Salvo article 'Apples, Oranges and Gay Marriage') That is why I always put the word marriage in quotes when referring to it in a same-sex context since what we are really talking about is an incoherent concept.
Despite the criticisms that can be made of Dunn's position, his argument is the most compelling presentation I have heard of the new and trendy idea that we can separate ecclesiastical marriage from civil marriage. It is clear from listening to Dunn and reading his blog that he is a thoughtful and reflective thinker, and that is something that counts for a lot when most champions of same-sex 'marriage' are content to simply dogmatise and emote instead of constructing rational arguments. Dunn's argument is intriguing and seems to break down to the following points:
- Homosexuality is wrong.
- The only real marriages are those which occur as a sacrament of the church.
- Civil marriage isn't a sacrament of the church and consequently it isn't really a marriage in God's eyes.
- Therefore, it is okay for the state to redefine civil marriage because this isn't really 'marriage' in the full sense anyway.
- Because of premise 4 and because of the separation of religion and state, gay marriage ought to occur so that same-sex couples can have the same rights as everyone else.
I've tried to condense Dunn's argument, and I hope he will let me know if I have misrepresented his position.
So, what's wrong with this picture? First, it is important to remind ourselves that the point about equal rights in premise 5 is a complete red herring. As I recently pointed out in my 'Q&A at Instant Analysis', both homosexuals and heterosexuals already have equal access to the institution of marriage, for no one is stopping homosexuals from getting married, since they are allowed to marry someone of the opposite sex. The fact that they do not want to do this is no more relevant to the question than whether the pope wants to marry. Just as it would be absurd to change the definition of marriage to include celibacy so that the Pope can have 'equal access' to the institution, so it is absurd to change the definition of marriage so that homosexuals can begin to want access to it.
But what about premises 2 and 3, which are the crux of Dunn's argument? In his controversial Huffington Post article, 'Civil Unions by Another Name: An Eastern Orthodox Defense of Gay Marriage', Dunn fleshes this out, arguing that marriages outside the church are not marriages at all. "Strictly speaking," he writes, "our theology does not recognize the legitimacy of such marriages. They are not sanctified by the Spirit in the church." Elsewhere in the same article he says that the Eastern Orthodox church only "tacitly recognize these civil marriages."
Don't be fooled by the subtitle of Dr. Dunn's article. He understands the implications of legalizing same-sex 'marriage' little more than he understands the teachings of his own church, and his errors have been addressed in Fr. John Whiteford article 'An Orthodox Response to an Anti-Orthodox Defense of Gay Marriage' in addition to the Ancient Faith Radio interview. In both platforms Whiteford points out that this notion that the civil aspects of marriage can be partitioned off from religious marriage is something that no Christian tradition–least of all the Eastern Orthodox church–has ever taught. Nevertheless, this a-historical myth is picking up traction, for earlier this month an Eastern Orthodox priest said to me on Facebook that even if a man and woman are in a legal marriage, "until they are married in the Church, the two of them are living together, and having sex, while not married."
This line of reasoning sees religious marriage as a purely spiritual reality and not a civil contract. As Dunn put it in his article 'Civil Unions by Another Name', "Marriage, for us, is not a contract or a covenant" and he underscores this later by claiming (rather misleadingly), "We have no vows in our ceremonies." Since what we as Christians mean by marriage exists on a completely different plane to what marriage means in secular civil society (according to this line of thought), the next step is to assert that it really isn't any of our business if people in secular civil society want to debase marriage. After all, Dunn reasons, they haven't got real marriage to begin with anyway.
There are many problems with this line of reasoning. First, as mentioned before, the idea that non-religious marriages are not marriages at all has never been taught, either by the Orthodox or any other Christian group in history. As Fr. John Whiteford pointed out in his refutation of Dunn, Canon 72 of the 6th Ecumenical Council states explicitly that one needs not be married in the church to have a real marriage. Moreover, throughout the Bible it is assumed that non-Christians participate in legitimate marriages.
If we were to be truly consistent with the spurious notion that religious marriages can be completely separated from civil marriages, then we would also have to say that no one was truly married in nations or times of history where there was no church. This is in fact a different species of the same nominalism apparent in those who argue that the state has the authority to define and redefine marriage, for it denies that marriage is a creation ordinance that exceeds and precedes the legal system. The church can take marriage up, sanctify it and turn it into a sacrament only because marriage has a prior existence in creation, just as the church can take up and sanctify bread and wine and turn it into a sacrament because bread and wine first have a prior existence in creation. To say that those outside the church can't enjoy real marriage is like saying that those outside the church can't experience real bread and wine. What they don't experience is the sacramental dimension, but marriage is still marriage even when it is not sanctified by the church, just as bread and wine are still food even when they are not turned into a sacrament by the church.
This illustration gets to an important truth. From a Christian perspective–whether Protestant, Catholic or Eastern Orthodox–marriage is a creation ordinance that precedes and exceeds the church even as it precedes and exceeds the state. Marriage is rooted in the creation of the world. As our Blessed Lord said in Matthew 19:4-5: "And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, and said, "For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh."
Jesus is recognizing a reality that is older than both the church and the state because it goes back to the earliest days of creation. It is an institution rooted in nature, in the way the world simply is according to God's design. This means that when civil society recognizes marriage, it is recognizing something that precedes and exceeds itself. This also means that when the church recognizes marriage and sanctifies it as a sacrament (a practice among Anglicans, Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox), it too is recognizing something that precedes and exceeds itself because it is rooted in a state of nature. Dr. Dunn de-emphasizes these natural dimensions of marriage by trying to make it something exclusively supernatural, calling it "a miracle."
One need not be a Christian to recognize that the basis of marriage is a state of nature. As Girgis, Anderson and George point out in their book What is Marriage?, "There is simple and decisive evidence that the conjugal view [of marriage] is not peculiar to religion, or to any religious tradition. Ancient thinkers who had no contact with religions such as Judaism or Christianity–including Xenophanes, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Musonius Rufus, and Plutarch–reached remarkably similar views of marriage. To be sure, the world's major religions have also historically seen marriage as a conjugal relationship, shaped by its social role in binding men to women and both to the children born of their union. But this suggests only that no one religion invented marriage. It is rather marriage–the demands of a natural institution–that has helped to shape our religious and philosophical traditions." This is an important point in order to undermine the utterly simplistic argument that is often formulated along the following lines:
- It would be inappropriate for the state to impose religion on a secular public;
- The conjugal view of marriage is a function of religion
- Therefore, if the state supported the conjugal view, it would essentially be imposing religion onto the public.
The problem with this argument is that it implicitly undermines the reality that conjugal marriage is rooted in nature and in the fixities of how the world objectively is. The problem with those who champion gay 'marriage' is that by granting the state the power to define and redefine the meaning of marriage, they are implying that marriage does not exist prior to government in a state of nature.
Once we recognize that the civil and ecclesiastical aspects of marriage are embedded in the way the world is, rooted in a state of nature that is older than either the state or the church, we see that it is a false dilemma to sharply distinguish between the civil and the ecclesiastical. Once this false dilemma is out of the way, it is no longer problematic to recognize that Christian marriage is a civil contract (though it is a lot more as well). Indeed, marriage ushers two persons into a web of civil rights, duties, and obligations in public civil society, and this is entirely appropriate. From a Christian point of view, it is appropriate that the family is and continues to be the foundation of civil society, a foundation that would be compromised if the most vital relationships in the family, such as those between a husband and a wife, are deemed to have only a spiritual rather than a civil legitimacy. Non Christians who favor the stability of the family and recognize the economic liability to family breakdown would do well to concur.
Now to be sure, the civil legitimacy of Christian marriage could conceivably be destroyed by a state that redefines marriage out of all recognition, leading to a point where religious marriage has little or no point of contact with civil marriage. Such a situation is possible, and there have been times in the past when this state of affairs has prevailed as Stuart Koehl has shown in a brief historical overview. Some Christians I know who hold ideas about the separation of church and state see this as an attractive solution, while radical libertarians would like to see civil marriage abolished completely so that the states "gets out of the marriage business altogether." I would suggest that those who take this position have spent insufficient time reflecting on the implications. In their book What is Marriage?, Girgis, Anderson and George suggest some of the consequences that would arise if civil marriage is abolished:
Abolishing civil marriage is practically impossible. Strike the word 'marriage' from the law, and the state will still license, and attach duties and benefits to, certain bonds. Abolish these forward-looking forms of regulation, and they will only be replaced by messier, retroactive regulation – of disputes over property, custody, visitation, and child support. What the state once did by efficient legal presumptions, it will then do by burdensome case-by-case assignments of parental (especially paternal) responsibilities.
"The state will only discharge these tasks more or less efficiently–that is, less or more intrusively. It can't escape them. Why not? Because the public functions of marriage–both to require and to empower parents (especially fathers) to care for their children and each other–require society-wide coordination. It is not enough if, say, a particular religion presumes a man's paternity of his wife's children, or recognizes his fights and duties toward their mother; or if the man and his wife contract to carry out certain tasks. For private institutions can bind only their own; private contracts bind only those who are party to them. A major function of marriage law is to bind all third parties (schools, adoption agencies, summer camps, hospitals; friends, relatives, and strangers) presumptively to treat a man as father of his wife's children, husbands and wives as entitled to certain privileges and sexually off-limits, and so on. This only the state can do with any consistency.
But more than inevitable or necessary, it is fitting that the state should do this. Consider a comparison. Why don't even the strictest libertarians decry traffic laws? First, the orderly traffic protects health and promotes efficiency, two great goods. Second, these goods are common in two senses; private efforts cannot adequately secure them, and yet failure to secure them has very public consequences. It is not as if we would have had the same (or even just slightly less) safety and efficiency of travel if people just did as they pleased, some stopping only at red lights and others only at green. Nor would damage from the resulting accidents (and slower shipments, etc) be limited to those responsible for causing it. To ensure safe and efficient travel at all, and to limit harm to third parties, we need legal coordination. Indeed, it is no stretch to say that the state owes its citizens to keep minimum security and order: to these we have a right. Finally, unlike private associations, the state can secure these goods, without intolerable side effects. Al this makes it appropriate for the state to set our traffic laws….
If something would serve an important good, if people ha a right to it, if private groups cannot secure it well, everyone suffers if it is lost, and the state can secure it without undue cost, then the state may step in–and should.
Further Resources
- 'Why Gay "Marriage" Will Affect Everyone Else?', by Fr. John Whiteford
- 'Why Gay Marriage is a Public Threat', by Robin Phillips
- 'An Orthodox Response to an Anti-Orthodox Defense of Gay Marriage', by Fr. John Whiteford
- 'Same-Sex Marriage: Separation of Church-State Issue, or a Moral Problem We Must Oppose?', discussion on Ancient Faith Radio
- 'Opinion on Same-sex Marriage', by Father Sergei Sveshnikov
- 'Same-Sex Marriage: How Did We Get Here? And Where Are We Going?', by Archpriest Lev Semenov
- 'Orthodox Christianity and the Idea of Homosexual Marriage', Father Chrysostom MacDonnell
- 'Q&A on Same-Sex 'Marriage,' by Robin Phillips
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CHILDREN have been spotted throwing stones at motorists from a bridge over the M25.
A woman reported damage to her windscreen around 4.50pm on Friday when something was dropped from the B1335 Stifford Road bridge near junction 30.
On Saturday three children were spotted on the bridge throwing what were believed to be stones onto the carriageway of the M25 at the same location.
A lorry driver later reported a stone hit his cabe windscreen causing minor damage.
Searches were immediately launched following both incidents, using both local officers and the police helicopter, but no one was found.
Officers are now urging parents to ensure it is not their children committing this dangerous act.
Chief Inspector Justin Smith: "This is very serious and it is fortunate that these incidents did not result in any injuries. These children may think it is just a game but it is so very stupid and dangerous."
The children were described as two boys and a girl and she was wearing distinctive pink trousers.
They were thought to be two teenagers and a younger child.
Chief Inspector Smith added: "I would ask parents to please talk to your children and make sure it is not them that are responsible, because this is a crime and we will arrest anyone found committing these acts."
Anyone with information is asked to contact police at Grays police station on 101.


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Dyad PlayStation 3
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Jul 31, 2012If you allow yourself to get absorbed into what Dyad is offering though, I think you'll admit that there's a lot more to Dyad than what a simple text description can relate. And for me that's the sign of something truly great, regardless of the type of media it's presented in.
Jul 12, 2012Dyad calls to mind the pure sense of wonder that would take over when I was six years old and playing Nintendo games in front of a little television. I was completely absorbed and simultaneously amazed that I was affecting the outcome of what was transpiring on screen. Dyad has this effect on me as an adult. Constantly. I almost can't believe the speed at which it seems to be moving, and I'm equally astounded that I'm any damn good at it. In both instances Dyad is a fantastic example of its medium and deserves to be enjoyed by anyone with an active interest in it.
Nov 20, 2012Dyad walks that fine line between artistic evocation and arcade addiction, emerging in a blinding euphoria of brilliant light at the end of its tunnel.
Aug 24, 2012As an experience, it's one of the most unforgettable of the generation, and overall one of the best games on PSN.
Jul 23, 2012A unique, compelling experience that will reward your sense of adventure if you indulge its charms.
Jul 17, 2012Its visual and aural splendor lies a simple, stimulating experience that's difficult to put down. Dyad manages to create a beautiful synthesis of music, visual design and gameplay mechanics, and it does so without missing a beat.
Jul 16, 2012Dyad is one of the best pure arcade experiences to come along in years, and for players who fall prey to the siren song of its leaderboards, it might just devour their summer.
Jul 13, 2012Between its exceptional presentation, fair but firm gameplay challenges, and trophy requirements that ensure you'll get some significant mileage from the experience, there's no digital game in 2012 that's like Dyad.
Jul 14, 2012Few console games in recent years are as special as Dyad. It can captivate with its beautiful synthesis of visuals and audio while delivering a gameplay experience that grabs hold of you and simply won't let go.
Jul 14, 2012Dyad's heart and soul ultimately reside in the hard-edged and inventive gameplay mechanics that prop-up the aesthetics. Both easy on the eyes and exciting to fiddle with, it'll simultaneously dazzle and bedevil you. If you're game for the challenge, a ticket to this vivid world is yours for a song at $15.
Nov 15, 2012Dyad is a brilliant take on the arcade spirit, a game that will be enjoyed for many years thanks to its superb mechanics and mesmerizing audiovisuals.
Nov 13, 2012If you give a chance to Dyad, you will find yourself engaged in an amazing gameplay and a great audiovisual experience.
Aug 30, 2012Dyad is like an incomplete informative flyer on drug usage. The 'racing game' comes with an obvious manual, but no one will explain to you why you're hanging in front of the television with dilated pupils an hour later, staring at the explosion of color and sound that appears to be emanating from the screen. Let the epilepsy-warning be seen as an invitation to one of the most amazing trips in recent years.
Jul 17, 2012For its surprisingly low asking price, Dyad is a visual powerhouse that must be seen to fully comprehend.
Jul 12, 2012This PSN exclusive offers something unique and fun to the PlayStation audience, and it's a game I truly think that a wide variety of gamers with an even wider variety of genre preferences can enjoy.
Official PlayStation Magazine BeneluxSep 13, 2012Not that we have ever experienced it ourselves, but everything you get to see in the PS3 exclusive Dyad has to be similar to how the world looks when you are under the influence of certain "enlightening" chemicals. [September 2012, p.86]
Jul 16, 2012Dyad is not a pure racing game, but sometimes I aimed for speed. It's not quite a rhythm game, but the steady beat and ethereal enemy sound effects influenced my pace. Dyad falls into a genre gray zone that makes it hard to define. Playing for long stretches feels like sensory over-indulgence, which could be good or bad depending on your sensitivity. No matter how busy the onscreen action becomes, Dyad is consistently entertaining and rarely frustrating.
Games Master UKJan 16, 2013A unique trophy system will happily send you into metal hunting delirium. [Feb 2013, p.87]
Sep 16, 2012The true measure of this journey isn't where you end up, it's how fast your pulse is racing when each luminous tube finally spits you out into the darkness again. [Oct 2012, p.92]
Playstation Official Magazine AustraliaAug 13, 2012Clever, colourful and enchanting. You'll be hypnotised from the start. [September 2012, p75]
Aug 13, 2012It will undoubtedly prove to be too much for some – whether it be too loud, too fast or just too out there; but should it sink its hooks in (pun intended), Dyad will foster obsession and with plenty of levels, Trophy challenges, a remix mode and the lure of online leaderboards, there is plenty of content here to feed the addiction.
Aug 8, 2012A special game that is both unique and stylish. The developers (those capitals stand for Right Square Bracket Left Square Bracket Games) do a great job of blending slick music with a surprisingly accessible (albeit sometimes out of control) gameplay mechanic.
Aug 2, 2012Even though Dyad doesn't quite teleport you into the epic worlds of a certain man by the name of Tetsuya Mizuguchi, it doesn't lag behind much either. It even manages to evoke a new type of game experience, which high-score enthusiasts will gladly - and fully - embrace.
Jul 25, 2012Dyad looks tough to fathom, but with the controller in your hands it's not only a hypnotic game but also a very fair one. It pulls together audio, visual and control well, so even at its most visually confusing it rarely feels like you're not pulling the strings. And while it's possible to complete quite easily on a surface level, mastering its depths to claim all the rewards and place well on the leaderboards could take a rather long time indeed.
Jul 25, 2012While Dyad offers quite a bit of gameplay for $15, it can be seen as a one-trick pony. By the time you've beaten every level, you'll probably be fatigued and bored with its gameplay. What's more, it doesn't have the endless replayability of other arcade games.
Jul 24, 2012Dyad merely holds a mirror up to your own failings. If you take the time to master the machine, to level up your own eyes and hands and co-ordination, then this is a game to amplify those tiny victories; to put your name in lights.
Jul 21, 2012Dyad is an entertaining collection of clever gameplay mechanics made more exciting by a trippy presentation.
Jul 20, 2012Dyad is elegant and joyous, a hurricane waiting to be tamed - and you might hate it. That's true of every game, I know, but this is one of those games that you will either want to beat into submission as you bend it to your will, or one that you'll play for a few levels and abandon as soon as the learning curve starts to arc too high. There just isn't a whole lot of in between here.
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Mixed or average reviews- based on 55 Ratings
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Positive: 6 out of 15
Mixed: 5 out of 15
Negative: 4 out of 15
Jul 17, 2012Dyad is a crazy psychodellic game. It is just too damn awesome to describe it in words. Ever played Rez? This is 1000x better and faster.Dyad is a crazy psychodellic game. It is just too damn awesome to describe it in words. Ever played Rez? This is 1000x better and faster. Another AAA exclusive for PS3s library. Never stop Sony and thank you developpers.… Full Review »
Jul 21, 2012Dyad is unlike anything you have ever played before and is very hard to describe in words. It combines a racer, shooter,puzzle game andDyad is unlike anything you have ever played before and is very hard to describe in words. It combines a racer, shooter,puzzle game and somewhat of a music game all into one psychedelic explosion of light and color. When watching Dyad you probably won't know whats happening and when playing it you might feel the same way. Dyad's sense of speed and colorful bombardment will probably cause you to get lost in its trippy tunnel. The main goal is to use enemies to pull you forward and you speed down a cylindrical tunnel. All of this visual assault only adds to Dyad's difficulty. It is not an easy game, with each level forcing you to play by different sets of rules always keeping it fresh. While Dyad's visuals may seem overwhelming at times, its solid gameplay combined with jaw dropping light and color create a very unique experience. Just don't forget to blink.… Full Review »
Jul 31, 2012Dyad is a very beautiful game in both visuals and music. An unusual game, however, as it is like a racing game with no accelerate or brakeDyad is a very beautiful game in both visuals and music. An unusual game, however, as it is like a racing game with no accelerate or brake button, and a shooting game with no bullets. The game nicely introduces different mechanics for game play. It is simple enough to understand, provided you take a few seconds to read the instructions. Simple button mashing does not get you far. You need to make conscious decisions on what you want to do in order to progress in this game. The first few levels start off quite tame to get the player used to the different mechanics. After the player gets the hang of how to play the game, the game progresses to a more and more psychedelic and exhilarating experience that you cannot take your eyes off of! The videos and pictures do not do this game justice! You must play it in order to really get it!… Full Review »


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