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Fine Italian craftsmanship and quality materials are the hallmarks of Mike Konos footwear. For the ordinary man with extraordinary style, this beautiful Italian leather boat shoe will make you feel like a king on the water.
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I would very much like it to be revived. ^.^
I would very much like it to be revived. ^.^
Revive it! I'd post an entry too if you want to . (You probably don't)
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Revival please, I'd join it. Bimonthly sounds best to me. Can we submit fanart colorings too?
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I agree, that's a good rule.
Alright, we have our feedback, and so we have our results:
- The colouring contest will be held once every two weeks, and will be known as the Colouring of the Fortnight competition (CotF).
- Much like how SotW is run, a submissions thread will be opened for every round, and voting will take place via PM to either myself or Ravona. The voting period will take place after a round is closed and will go on for a week.
- Winners get a blinking custom title that reads "COTF #X Winner". *Subject to change.. still
- Fanart colourings are allowed, so long as it is credited if it is known.
- We'll be spelling 'colouring' with a U. <3
We're likely to start this up in March, so get your colouring tools ready. :3
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By royal decree of Asce, color is spelled without a U!!!!!
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Welcome to your morning dose of denim news, links, sales, and other irresistible glimpses of inside info. Catch up on what's happening (and what's definitely not happening) and browse our personal picks after scanning the web this morning. Got a tip you think we should include, a sale you want to share, or a style you just saw and can't live without? Email us!
1. Lindsay Lohan has already made a big splash with her Playboy cover shoot, but the actress has some other leaked images out…from her fiercely sexy Jag Jeans photo shoot.
2. San Francisco-based shirt company Taylor Stitch is branching out into denim! At $128 a pair, their personally crafted raw denim gets you handmade men's jeans at a not-exorbitant price.
3. Love hidden images and secrets embedded in your clothing? Stella McCartney's new Hawaiian print jeans look tie-dyed from afar, but are really made up of palm trees printed over and over again.
4. Ferrari understands that denim can mean luxury. The car company now offers its customers the choice to line their vehicles with a denim interior.
5. Look out for G-Star Raw's new campaign come January–it stars French beauty Clémence Poésy, who was just named the new face of the brand.
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Penny Loves Kenny Aisley Wedge Sneaker
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Shake up your casual style in these bold wedge sneakers by Penny Loves Kenny. The Aisley fashion sneaker has zipper details and pyramid studs to liven up your look.
- Faux leather upper
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July 16, 2014
Despite the fit...
"I still love them! They are not the most comfortable, but I'm a singer in an 80's band and rock these out almost every weekend."
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Location: Lafayette Hill, PA
June 08, 2014
Poorly made
"I purchased this shoe 2xs because I love them oh sooo much. I purchased the exact shoe in a different color and I wear them almost every day. When I first got this shoe there was a staple in the right foot that was suppose to be holding the soles together, but instead it was protruding through the shoe and cut me. I tried again with a different pair, but still a dang on staple was coming through the soles, but this time it was the left one. Luckily I put my hand in first to check. Please make more, but make it right like you did the black and plaid ones."
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April 16, 2014
Studdly Stepper
"I bought these in olive and I loved them so much that I decided to get them in black so that I would have more opportunities to wear them out. The height is great. I love a very high heel, about 4", and these are perfect! I get the height of a pump with the edginess and laid back appeal of a sneaker. These are going to be the star of my closet for a LONG time."
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December 22, 2013
Very cute shoe
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A resounding success!Men's Volleyball Full time Training Centre intra-squad match thrills fans
GATINEAU, Que. (December 1, 2012)– Once again the Men's Volleyball Full time Training Centre (FTC) held a successful intra-squad match at the Centre Sportif Gatineau on Friday. It was the second of three intra-squad contests planned before Christmas.
Hundreds of volleyball fans from the National Capital Region attended the match and were treated not only to an exciting volleyball competition but mingled with the Team Canada players afterwards. Needless to say autographs were in high demand!
FTC head coach Vincent Pichette plans to continue holding these matches and the interaction with the local public on a regular basis. Already another encounter has been scheduled for December 21 at the Centre Sportif.
"It was a wonderful event," said Pichette. "The players were looking forward to it all week and were well prepared. And the fans got a high intensity match from start to finish. We thank all the volunteers and the personnel at both the Centre Sportif and Volleyball Canada for their assistance."
In the match itself, the Red team defeated the Black team 21-25, 25-14, 15-25, 25-23, 16-14. Louis-Pierre Mainville of Notre-Dame-de-l'Isle, Que., led the winners with 21 points. Rudy Verhoeff of Calgary responded with 19 points for the Black team.


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A report issued this month says after steady economic gains in the 1990s, Latinos, African Americans and other people of color have lost ground since 2000. The report from the Boston-based group United for a Fair Economy was released near the annual observance of Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday. Executive director Meizhu Lui says the report's title is the State of the Dream 2005: Disowned in the Ownership Society.
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Dolce & Gabbana Patent Leather Peep Toe Pump
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With trendy and cutting-edge style, Dolce & Gabbana is the epitome of luxury. With timeless style and sophistication, this classic peep-toe pump will take your look to new heights.
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The plumbers who install those things almost never are the ones who have to work on them afterwards, so they either do not care, or do not know any better.
: Okay, so what you are saying is that the "backing up" problem will always be a problem? And, why would they put this drum trap so far under the floor that only someone with super long arms could get at it. I mean, the floor was a mud job so it's not like it was going to be easily accessible to begin with.
: I still have no idea exactly what is wrong with the fixtures themselves. I am far from being a plumber and only trying to understand so I can make some sense of this when I am talking to someone. When running the shower half the water comes out the shower head and the other half comes out of the spicket. I know that's not normal. How is that fixed???
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: : Unless the Crane fixtures are deteriorated, the parts are readily available at most parts stores. The drain thing is a drum trap, and the "bolt" is the wrench point for removing the cover. You usually have to cut the cover off, and if it is made of lead, then it will usually have a fine thread and those covers are no longer available. You would have to use a toggle cover, which is adequate until the drain plugs up again and then it might leak. You will not be able to unplug the drain until you remove the cover.
: : : Hello. My house was built in 1951 and the bathroom is completely original. The spicket in the bath has started to drip constantly and the tub has always filled up with water when taking a shower. I've cleaned out the hair so that is not it. The lead bend pipe under the floor has been replaced with PVC so it's not clogged. There was, however, a cylinder that the contractor did not know what it was. We couldn't access it unless you had extremely long arms or we were going to tear out the bathroom...which we are not. He thinks it's a cleanout of some kind. The pipe runs from the drain and into the bottom half of the cylinder and there is another pipe that comes out the other side of it only out the top half. He said this could be the cause of the water backing up but didn't want to mess with it because he didn't want to cause a bigger problem just in case. This cylinder has a bolt on the top of it but like i said you can't get at this thing. Does anyone know what it is?
: : : Back to the drip problem. I can't seem to find anyone that carries Crane products in Connecticut so I can replace the bath fixtures. We wanted to replace them with the same ones because the wall is tiled and behind the tile is concrete. The tile job would end up costing me too much money!!! Any suggestions?
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Humpback whales intervene in killer whale hunt
A BBC/National Geographic film crew have recorded rare footage of humpback whales intervening in a killer whale hunt.
Gray whales migrating along the coast of California, US are often targeted by orcas.
One mother and calf's journey was being filmed for the BBC series Planet Earth Live when the third party became involved in the drama.
Onlookers suggest they were deliberately disrupting the hunt.
"To be honest we weren't expecting to see anything - it was our very first day out on the boat," said Victoria Bromley, a researcher with the crew that witnessed the scene.
Whale facts
- Gray whales undertake the longest annual migration of any known mammal, a round trip of about 20,000km or more
- Humpback whales perform spectacular displays of breaching (leaping clear of the water) and males sing a complex song that can last for days, in order to attract a mate
- Killer whales are actually the largest species of dolphin
"It was a massive stroke of luck when we received the call about the attack."
Working from a whale-watching boat from Monterey Bay Whale Watch, the team set up to film in an area known for sightings of gray whales.
Every year female gray whales travel north from the birthing waters off the coast of Mexico to the nutrient rich waters of the Bering Sea with their calves.
Along the route, they are targeted by orcas, which co-ordinate their attacks - aiming to separate the defenceless young from their mothers.
To minimise their risk from the predators, gray whales swim in relatively shallow water but at Monterey Bay the whales must swim over the Monterey Canyon that in places can reach two miles deep.
The film crew arrived at the scene of the hunt following a tip off call from a sister boat.
Using a camera mounted on the boat, Ms Bromley told BBC Nature: "we saw a lot of grey shapes in the water and quickly realised they were humpbacks."
According to the crew the additional whales were not just observers of the hunt but were actively involved.
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They deliberately stayed in our area, loudly announcing their presence"
Humpback whales are known for their impressive range of calls, including a high-pitched "trumpeting" noise made when they are agitated.
The humpbacks at Monterey Bay were trumpeting, diving and slapping their pectoral fins against the water.
"It didn't seem at all like they were confused… they were definitely there with a purpose," said Ms Bromley.
Shortly after the crew arrived the orca successfully caught their prey. The mother whale fled the scene but the humpbacks remained.
"I have never seen anything like this before," said marine biologist Alisa Schulman-Janiger who accompanied the filmmakers.
Mrs Schulman-Janiger has studied California killer whales since 1984 and is currently the director of the American Cetacean Society/Los Angeles Chapter's Gray Whale Census and Behavior Project.
After the attack, two humpback whales moved into the area where the calf was last seen alive. They continued to make trumpeting calls, rolled in the water and slashed their tails aggressively at killer whales that came near.
According to Mrs Schulman-Janiger the whole encounter lasted seven hours.
"An extraordinary number of humpback whales had appeared "overnight", feeding within a five mile area: about 100 humpback whales - converging on an abundance of krill that had grown concentrated after two days of very strong winds," she explained.
"The whales [we watched] should have been off feeding: instead, they deliberately stayed in our area, loudly announcing their presence."
The researchers have sent photographs of the humpback whales to a research centre for identification against the North Pacific humpback whale catalogue.
"Female humpback whales would be expected to react much more strongly to the protection of a youngster," said Mrs Schulman-Janiger.
"This was not a curious approach by these humpback whales: they seemed truly distressed."
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November 2011
Cutting Back the Smart Way
That cost-cutting fever is in the air there is no doubt. Businesses large and small are looking for ways to trim the fat (if there is in fact any fat left) so as to keep costs under control. That is a smart thing to do. With cash tighter right now and deals tougher to get, we have to be especially smart with our money.
But one thing is also certain, cutting back can also be one of the dumbest things you can do. If your cost cutting cuts into your ability to get customers, then you have gone too far. So yes, there are both good and bad ways to cut back. For example:
Smart way: Cutting your overhead. Maybe that means getting cheaper insurance or having employees pay a higher deductible (sorry, sad, but true), or whether it means finding cheaper rent, or getting a virtual office, or letting some people go, or letting them become independent contractors, keeping your overhead low is not easy, but it is smart, especially these days.
Dumb way: Cutting back on your advertising and marketing. This is the most common mistake I see entrepreneurs make when times get tough. Sure I could give you plenty of examples, but just consider the conclusion of a survey done by the consulting firm Meldrum & Fewsmith:
"Sales and profits can be maintained and increased in recession years and in the years immediately following by those who are willing to maintain an aggressive marketing posture."
Notice they didn't just say that you need to maintain a marketing posture, but rather that you need to maintain, "an aggressive marketing posture." Aggressive means aggressive. It doesn't mean the same old thing. That means you have to get the word out, have a sale, have another, and get the word out.
Here's why:
First, in challenging economies, customer loyalty is an oxymoron. Customers leave. Marketing and advertising aggressively allows you to replenish your roster.
Second, what do people want right now? Yep, you know – cheaper prices. Well give them some then. Discounts, sales, coupons, twitter specials – anything you can do to let people know that they can get a deal at your place is probably a good idea right about now. Cut some prices. And then advertise those lower prices. I can almost guarantee that people will beat a path to your door. So the bottom line is this: Be smart about your money, realize that other people are being smart about their money, and then give them a reason to be smart about their money at your business. You will end up with more money to be smart with.
Key Person Insurance for Your Business
Let's say that your business has several outlets and you have a general manager who is critical to your profitability – someone who is firmly entrenched and important. Someone who is integral and critical to the business. It might even be a top salesperson.
Now, what would happen to your business if that employee were to pass away? If that employee is indeed "key", that is, he or she creates significant revenue, revenue that would take a while to replace, then their loss would likely trigger an economic crisis in your business.
Enter key person insurance. Think of it as life insurance for your small business.
If you do lose a key employee, the policy will pay you for your lost profits, thereby buying you some time to replace the individual and get things back up to speed.
Key person insurance can also serve as an incentive to retain vital employees. Because you can divvy-up the benefits under the policy any way you wish, you can offer part of any proceeds to the employee's family. In that manner, key person insurance can become part of your benefits package.
How much should you buy? The typical benefits run between $250,000 and $1 million. There are two ways to determine the right amount of key person insurance to buy. The first rule of thumb is to buy 8-10 times the employee's salary. A second method is better: Look at the economic value of an employee to your business and ask yourself, "How much money would I lose if something happened to this person?" The answer to that question tells you how much insurance to buy.
I know, you are probably thinking that this all sounds well and good, but buying that much insurance is likely cost-prohibitive. Nope. Rates for key person insurance are dirt cheap right now. In fact, rates are 60% less than they were 10 years ago. Back then, to insure a 40 year-old employee with an average 20 year, term key person policy, it would run you about $995. Today, that same policy would run you less than $400 a year.
Two more tips: Be sure to buy the right amount. Your broker can also help with this determination. Second, don't overpay. What you want is a broker that works with multiple carriers and can shop your needs around. That will ensure that you are getting the best deal. What is your most powerful business asset? Most employers say that it is their employees. With key person insurance rates as low as they are these days, it would be shortsighted not to insure your most important business assets.
Turning Failure into Success
One thing I know is that business failure can lead to business success – if the right lessons are learned:
- Ray Kroc never finished high school, was a musician, a salesman, a district manager for a paper cup company, and a promoter of a milk shake machines - before starting McDonald's at the age of 52
- P.T. Barnum filed for bankruptcy, and then he started his circus
- John Henry Heinz's company filed for bankruptcy in 1875. The next year he invented a nice little condiment - known as ketchup
- Henry Ford's first car company filed for bankruptcy, and his second car company failed. His third business was the Ford Motor Company.
So failure in one business does not necessarily mean that all subsequent endeavors will fail. The key as I see it is perseverance, and that the right lessons be learned from the failure.
In the early 90s I graduated law school. I worked for a while at a great law firm, and then went to work for what turned out to be a not-so-great law firm. My boss at the second firm was a very difficult, impatient, hard to please person, and being the novice that I was, I didn't please him. Though it sounds like something out of a Dickens novel, a few days before Christmas, with a baby at home and my wife pregnant with our second child, the firm fired me (ostensibly because I didn't write well enough – ha!)
It was the best thing that ever happened to me.
My lesson was that I wasn't meant to work for other people. Has my entrepreneurial road always been easy since then? No, but I wouldn't trade it for the world. Discovering that my mistake was that I was not cut out to be an employee has made all the difference.
The secret of turning business lemons into lemonade is proportional to one's ability to persevere in the face of adversity, figure out what is going wrong, and then go out there again and do things differently.
That is just what David Neelman did.
A college dropout, but a natural entrepreneur, Neelman started his first discount travel business at the age of 23. By the age of 24, he was out of business, filed bankruptcy and got a job at a travel agency. 10 years later, he started a small discount airline out of Salt Lake City known as Morris Air. Southwest bought him out soon thereafter and he went to work for Southwest.
Southwest fired Neelman five months later.
What did Neelman do? He kept going. Neelman learned his business lessons, and decided to start a new airline, one he would call Jet Blue. Though now is a terrible time for most airlines, Jet Blue is not most airlines. The company continues to grow, offers discount travel on a fleet of new planes, and still gets high rankings for customer satisfaction, despite some issues.
No, owning a business is not for everyone. But by the same token, don't conclude that failure in one venture necessitates failure in all subsequent ventures. The experiences of some of our best entrepreneurs dictate otherwise.
Should You Stay or Should You Go?
How do you know when a business problem is so big that it is time to turn the page versus riding out the rough waters. It's often not an easy thing to discern because business, like life, is cyclical. The challenge is knowing whether the down cycle is just that – a down cycle – or instead represents something more permanent.
The answer requires both a business analysis, as well as a more "visionary" analysis. Here is what I mean: In Buddhism, bodhi means "awakened wisdom," and it is under the bodhi tree that the Buddha is said to have become enlightened. I think that there is meaning and purpose and power in a business crisis. True business enlightenment comes when one realizes that the problem might be a manifestation of something that was requiring attention for some time. Giving it the attention it needs may allow you to turn things around.
Here's an example: In the best-selling business book Fish, authors Stephen C. Lundin, Harry Paul, John Christensen tell the tale of Mary Jane Ramierez, recently widowed and the mother of two, who is asked to turnaround her company's problematic operations department; the so-called "toxic energy dump."
Ms. Ramierez was at first puzzled, but then (coming from her perspective of living in the Pacific Northwest) she took her cue from the fun-loving, fish-throwing employees at Seattle's Pike Place Market. For those of you who haven't been there, part of the experience of the place is watching the fish market employees happily and loudly toss huge fish back and forth in front of the place.
Seeing the fish-tossers work, Ms. Ramierez decided that was missing in the operations department at her place of work was that sense of fun; of enjoying work. So she decided to get her co-workers to take a cue from the happy fish throwers, they did, and in the process, their workplace became a lighter, more playful, more fun-loving, better place to work.
Ms. Ramierez's Fish crew learned their lessons and changed their ways. That's what happens when you correctly identify a problem.
So here is the process:
- Crisis: We have a problem! When a problem arises, the natural tendency for most people or organizations is to avoid it, pass the buck, hope it will go away, or deal with it quickly and move on. The secret however is to look at the problem as the potential seed for greater renewal.
- Analysis: After confronting the painful reality of the situation, the next task is to correctly analyze what has gone wrong. Here is where the expertise and experience of your franchisor may come in handy. So what is the real problem?
- Gestation: A plan of action that deals with root problems is formulated, explained to the team, and implemented.
- Renewal: The plan is carried out, and things change, hopefully for the better.
There is a fundamental difference between seeing a problem as a problem and seeing a problem as a hint. The enlightened business master will know that finding the opportunity in the problem is not just rhetoric, it is in fact what works.


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FSU's Benjamin says Bills' Manuel, FSU's Winston are similar off-the-field
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posted Feb 21 2014 5:40PM
In April of 2013, the Buffalo Bills selected quarterback EJ Manuel as their new hope for the future of the franchise.
In January of 2014, his freshman replacement at Florida State led a very similarly talented team to the school's first national championship since 1999. It's led to the exclamation from some -- not all -- fans of the Bills that their team drafted the wrong Seminoles quarterback.
One of the more intriguing prospects in the draft this year is wide receiver Kelvin Benjamin who hails from, you guessed it, Florida State. He had two seasons on the field in Tallahassee.
His first year, EJ Manuel threw him the ball. In his second, it was Jameis Winston. How might he compare the two?
"You really can't. They're totally two different types of guys," Benjamin said of their on-field prowess, but remarked off-the-field that they're actually quite similar. "But at the end of the day, they care about their team. That most of all. They care about their receivers, really. EJ and Jameis, off-the-field problems, you can go to them with anything. They'll be there to talk to you. You want to borrow a couple of bucks from them? They'll take it out their pockets and give it to you. That's the type of guys they are."
That falls right in line with the leadership qualities Manuel was touted to have, in which he was described as a player his teammates gravitate toward. Now the Bills are just hoping the on-field production will improve to match his off-the-field persona.
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Skip to comments.The End of Intelligent Design?
Posted on 02/09/2010 3:15:53 PM PST by cornelis
It is time to take stock: What has the intelligent design movement achieved? As science, nothing. The goal of science is to increase our understanding of the natural world, and there is not a single phenomenon that we understand better today or are likely to understand better in the future through the efforts of ID theorists. If we are to look for ID achievements, then, it must be in the realm of natural theology. And there, I think, the movement must be judged not only a failure, but a debacle.
Very few religious skeptics have been made more open to religious belief because of ID arguments. These arguments not only have failed to persuade, they have done positive harm by convincing many people that the concept of an intelligent designer is bound up with a rejection of mainstream science.
The ID claim is that certain biological phenomena lie outside the ordinary course of nature. Aside from the fact that such a claim is, in practice, impossible to substantiate, it has the effect of pitting natural theology against science by asserting an incompetence of science. To be sure, there are questions that natural science is not competent to address, and too many scientists have lost all sense of the limitations of their disciplines, not to mention their own limitations. But the ID arguments effectively declare natural science incompetent even in what most would regard as its own proper sphere. Nothing could be better calculated to provoke the antagonism of the scientific community. This throwing down of the gauntlet to science explains not a little of the fervor of the scientific backlash against ID.
(Excerpt) Read more at firstthings.com ...
There is an eager discussion at the original site.
If it turns out life is designed rather than come about via a series of impossible coincidences, I'd say ID has increased the understanding of nature quite a bit.
Or if design was involved in the occurrence of biodiversity rather all being explained by random genomic changes fixed by natural selection, that would be another big benefit of ID.
ID does not reject evolution. It rejects pointlessness.
"Very few religious skeptics have been made more open to religious belief because of ID arguments."
Really? Maybe in the scientific community, but there are thousands of people who find faith in Christianity and therefore believe in ID. I don't think the scientific community is the arbitor of truth. There are many that do good work, but just look at the so called fear mongers in the GW movement. I will keep my faith in what the good book says.
I was hesitant to respond to this thread, since the straw man is so clumsily (and shamelessly) constructed.
I do, however, note with amusement that the retard didn't take the obvious next step of asserting that evolution was also a science.
Don't look for an end to the ID movement because Philip Anschutz, and others, will continue to funnel big, big bucks into the Discovery Institute.
I think we're at the end of intelligence.
Look around.
I am an evolutionist and also a believer in intelligent design. I have yet to see how they are incompatible.
In fact one can argue that the universe has an obvious evoltionary attractor as its future driven by the second law.
I guess I r stupid.
You're not allowed to use the word "retard" anymore. Or maybe it's "f***ing retard", it's hard to keep up.
Faith in fundamentalist Christianity.
This is a pretty dumb article. There's nothing "scientific" about Darwin's General Theory of Evolution. Intelligent Design theory has been chiefly valuable in identifying the problems with nailing down Darwinist theory as fact.
Barr must be aware that "young earth" theology is not the same as ID, but he seems to confuse the two.
Father Neuhaus, the founding editor of First Things, is dead. I have been wondering how it would survive in his absense. It's still a bit early to tell, but this article, and a couple of others, leave me rather doubtful.
I'm disappointed in Stephen Barr and First Things, frankly.
Simply put, science is based on the scientific method and reproducible statistical analysis. It is a closed system, in which, if you play by the rules of science, *all* you have done is just that, played by the rules.
An analogy is the game of chess. If you play by the rules, you have played a game. That is all. How the game was played, and who won and lost cannot be interpolated or extrapolated, as if they were magical.
Science, however, can be interpolated and extrapolated. But the further away from the original experiment and analysis, the less likely that the interpolation or extrapolation are correct.
But Intelligent Design has no place in this, because it is neither a control nor variable to the experiment, and it is statistically irreproducible.
Therefore, even if it exists, it has to be ignored, because it cannot be integrated into the system. Again, using the chess analogy, the white knight has put the black king into check, and at this point, some intelligence other than the players intervenes and does something to determine if the king escapes or is mated.
Both players can just sit there for an hour, yet even if they both believe that some intelligence will intervene and complete the game, it will not do so reliably, every time. In fact, it probably won't at all, ever.
So even taking it into account as part of game play accomplishes nothing. And even if a waiter stumbles into the table and the black king falls over, the players disregard that action, because it is not part of official, recognized game play.
Science has tremendous credibility precisely because it follows rules, is statistically verifiable, and can be reproduced. If something else is integrated into that, in an effort to capitalize on its credibility, its credibility is lost.
Look what harm Al Gore and his company of scoundrels has done to science, in the effort to glom on to its credibility for their own sordid purposes. The study of our climate has been set back decades because of this corruption.
And no matter what its motivation, Intelligent Design would have the same effect.
Like the surety of the Science of Anthropogenic Global Warming.
then there is the tale of Noah
How does Geology and Paleontology fit into this? Yes, certain rules are followed, but how is it statistically verifiable and reproduceable?
I agree that the natural world should be studied as a closed system even though I don't believe it is, however, if scientists are going to refrain from drawing conclusions of ID, they should also refrain from drawing conclusions of not ID, based on these studies. ID exists precisely because of the latter. Also, science needs to admit that it knows very little, compared to all that there is to know, and it will always be that way. A little humility would help credibility.
So if I come upon a beautiful house, built next to a desert oasis .. It just 'happened' to build itself .. by accident?
Wait .. a human being Must be much simpler to 'accidentally' come together. (I understand now) /sarc
Disingenuous for you to link science with AGW. Nay, dishonest.
ID was always a theory in search of evidence, Evolution is a theory that has shoe horned incomplete evidence into a entire system that is then demanded that complete belief be placed into.
ID is needed if only to sharpen Evolutionary Theorists work, the more ID demands "prove it" the more searching takes place.
"This throwing down of the gauntlet to science explains not a little of the fervor of the scientific backlash against ID."
More, it's their sense of entitlement and arrogance that anyone would challenge them. Look at the the response of the global warming crowd to any variation from the "consensus dogma".
Prov 16:33 The dice are cast into the lap, but every result is from the Lord.
Chuckles - Ok I'll bite.
My guess is that for you 'fundamentalist' is a bad word - only when attached to systems of thought or belief to which you are not an adherent.
How about a fundamentalist constitutionalist? Or maybe a fundamentalist 2nd Amendment proponent? Either one sounds to me like a badge of honor.
Bottom line: if the fundamentals are worthless, then I would submit that the entire line of thought is as well.
Are you a meat-eater - or one of those who eat vegetarian steak?
Dont look for an end to the ID movement because Philip Anschutz...
I really like what little I have gleaned about this man. I love "The Foundation for a Better Life" ads. He owns two movie studios and several (thousands) of theaters. I would love to see him do "Atlas Shrugs".
I would apuligize, but I don't think I can spel the wurd.
"but there are thousands of people who find faith in Christianity and therefore believe in ID."
Whoa there, hoss. I'm not for evolution or this new ID thing. Everything I've read, ID goes to a lot of trouble at explaining the how. How I got where I am is not that important to me. Whether some Bible thing is literal and the universe is 12 years old or it's figurative and it's as old as our national debt is large, makes no difference to me. Who put me here and why is another ordeal altogether.
Y'all can give yourselves aneurysms about all this junk and when you're done you'll have called each other all kinds of heretic about something that couldn't even change my wife's choice of which dress to wear to a wedding; and my wife changes her opinions on dresses by the second.
So knock yourselves out. As it says in Mathew 25, when you're done and the Good Lord splits us apart and says, "Y'all did good," I don't recall signing on to ID as being a part of that checklist. When he says, "Sucks to be you," I'm pretty sure not believing in ID wasn't on that list either. But hey, who needs the Good Lord to tell us what's important when we have internet theologians.
Go at it, folks. It won't make a bit of difference.
Bump for later.
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Derbyshire linked it because it comforts him in his atheism, but it isn't much of an article. Like most scientists, the author is undoubtedly good at working within a model in his field, but not so good at thinking about issues of methodolgy and sociology of science. Implicit in his writing is a 1950ish Popperian understanding of scientific method, which has long since been abandoned in its naive form as a result of work by Kuhn, Imre Lakotos, and others. In his response to someone commenting on Anthony Flew's abandonment of atheism Barr incredibly says it had nothing to do with intelligent design, but rather had to do with the Anthropic Principle. Yet, the whole point of Wheeler's long ago paper (1973) on the Anthropic Principle was that the physical constants in the universe give rise to a reasonable inference that the universe was designed to support human life. Fred Hoyle has said the same thing, just to name another prominent physicist.
Oddly, Barr, a physicist, is trying to write an obituary on a theory (ID) that, in the form he is discussing it, has to do with biology. While I don't know whether ID will eventually be vindicated or not, I think that it is clear that Darwinism is only supported by group think in the universities. Random mutation won't bear the burden of the work it has to do in the theory. Gould and others have recognized this, as well as other problems, but Richard Lewontin has been the most outspoken in demanding that Darwinism be defended - at least to the public - because he doesn't want God to get a foot in the door. People need to understand that while science has always been subject to agendas and politics, the politicization is more intense now than ever, largely because of the massive amounts of government money that flows through the system, IMHO.
I can't believe I am posting on this because these threads are virtually always an annoying waste of time...
No problem with that except there is a double standard wrt how science views evolution and ID.
"Well, there's your problem"
You're not supposed to look for the data that supports a speculation. The theory has to explain all the data you already have.
You make a good point . . . as the ancients have already said, nothing will come from nothing. But they make quite a stir for being debacles and failures.
Too many people on both sides of the issue don't understand that cosmology, evolutionary biology, paleontology should never be considered arbiters of metaphysical truth. These sciences are a process, not a conclusion.
If they're honest, the best they can do it give us "Our our best educated guess given the current state of knowledge in this field happens to be..."
Dude you took away much more from my comment than I could imagine. I have a faith in Jesus Christ, and that was my point.
"As this chapter is written in the early twenty-first century, the hypothesis that the universe reflects intelligent design has provoked a bitter debate in the United States. How very different was the intellectual world of the early nineteenth century! Then, virtually everyone believed in intelligent design. Faith in the rational design of the universe underlay the worldview of the Enlightenment, shared by Isaac Newton, John Locke, and the American Founding Fathers...."
Continued here: The Fractured Fairy Tale of Darwinian Evolution
"....for example, in the words of our founders, that we are endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable Rights. Under the terms of Darwinism, such a statement is unalloyed nonsense, because there is no "Creator" and no "rights" that are unalienable. Thus, metaphysical Darwinism has its own kind of absolutism, but I think a better word is "totalism," which has the intended association with "totalitarian." It is a total explanation that is anything but liberating, if for no other reason than it renders spiritual freedom an illusion. Or, you could say that it can only be total at the cost of excising what is most dear to us -- eg., freedom, truth, unity, etc. ..."
Continued here: Absolutist Philosophy and Totalist Necrophilia
Anshutz is also known for buying the SF Examiner(2004) on which he built all the other Examiners. He also bought the Weekly Standard from Murdoch last year for practically nothing.
"What has the intelligent design movement achieved? As science, nothing. The goal of science is to increase our understanding of the natural world, and there is not a single phenomenon that we understand better today or are likely to understand better in the future through the efforts of ID theorists."
Well if that statement was in fact the litmus test for all science, and all funding for scientific inquiry, then funding for continued work and development of "string theory" in physics would have to end, because it has never produced anything that can be empirically tested and proven and all work on it remains exploration of no more than a theory.
But you are right, there does seem to be some negative connotations what with the speaking in tongues and handling snakes.
I agree with you...most YEC...uhm...types...would not.
Amen brother. The canard that evolution = atheist is asinine and counterproductive.
Wow - if you think those are "odd", then holding to a "creator of the universe" or a "raiser of the dead" must be off the charts - right?
"You're not supposed to..."
That was the point of "Theory in search of evidence".
Wereas Evolution makes wild assumptions based on incredibly impossible odds all breaking in favor of the theory and all occuring across a innumerable manner of species.
As for speaking in tongues or handling snakes, in my view they are just an exploration of various people's faith.
Of course when the snake bites the handler one has to wonder what message that sends..:>)
It not what I think, it is what society thinks. And you just don't find many churches where they are speaking in tongues and handling snakes.
So society thinks thinks that "speaking in tongues and handling snakes" is odd, but creating the universe and raising the dead are within the realm of possibility?
Best post I've ever read on an ID/CREVO thread. Bravo.
Since you seem to be an authority, maybe you can explain why those that have been raised from the dead drag one foot and hold their arms out in front as they slow walk?
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NOAA Confirms The US Has 10 Years of Global Cooling
Government Data Show U.S. in Decade-Long Cooling
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's most accurate, up-to-date temperature data confirm the United States has been cooling for at least the past decade. The NOAA temperature data are driving a stake through the heart of alarmists claiming accelerating global warming.
Responding to widespread criticism that its temperature station readings were corrupted by poor siting issues and suspect adjustments, NOAA established a network of 114 pristinely sited temperature stations spread out fairly uniformly throughout the United States. Because the network, known as the U.S. Climate Reference Network (USCRN), is so uniformly and pristinely situated, the temperature data require no adjustments to provide an accurate nationwide temperature record. USCRN began compiling temperature data in January 2005. Now, nearly a decade later, NOAA has finally made the USCRN temperature readings available.
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Well I guess NOAA's data proves Global Warming is so happening and happening cause of man. And people are just silly deniers of the facts that Global Warming is happening and is happening cause of man and we need carbon credits to save us.
Wait pause, what data? What proof?
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Eric Cantor Threatened by Pig-Hating YouTube God
The cops arrested someone for threatening Eric Cantor over the weekend, proving him right about everything. Here is the threatening man demanding that the film Babe be removed from video stores, because he is God, and Lucifer was a pig.
Last week, Eric Cantor announced that Democrats should not tell anybody about the various insane threats and acts of vandalism that they have been dealing with lately, because that is just "fanning the flames." After he said that, he announced that he gets crazy threats all the time, too, because he is Jewish. Also someone shot his office, with a gun!
It turned out that the bullet just rained from the sky and broke a window in a building that he sometimes uses as an office, because that's just what happens in Virginia, people randomly shoot guns in the air in downtown Richmond, as the Founders intended.
So over the weekend, we assume he told his staff to find someone—anyone!—who'd ever made any sort of credible threat against Eric Cantor, House Minority Whip, a man no one cares about.
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1. Richard Knight
- outspoken, courageous [stood up against class bullies]
- hardworking helpful [work hard on his studies]
2. Joyce Kilmer
- kind supportive [asks Richard to share his poems with him and others]
3. Pa
- understanding [insist on privacy when he speaks to Richard]
4. Hannah Schermer
- generous, gentle [bakes cookies for Kilmer, which Richard sends to France]
Place: hannah's home (schemers') [safe haven for Richard where he can share his poetry, benefit from the more cultures German family and build a closer relationship with Hannah]
- classroom, Chicago, New York, Germany
1. The challenges of growing up
- Hannah faces the challenges of coming from a migrant German family, new to Iowa. Thus she has to endure the pain of ostracism and rejection by the majority of fearful, unreasonable classmates and country people
2. Humanity and friendship gives us hope
- being king to others when they are facing difficulty reveals the basic goodness of man, and underlines our humanity
3. Love, understanding and family relationships
- the schemer family in contrast is a more balanced and happy one There is joy, laughter, communication, music, singing, book and literature in their home
4. Where there is prejudice, there is no lesson
- Richard is unlike many irrational and biassed people in his community. He is logical, sensitive and perceptive. He continues to befriend Hannah and her family despite his family's comments
1. Courage and resilience
- Hannah turns down the role of Lady Liberty which she wanted very much even though she deserves it fairly
2. Truth, integrity and honor
- Richard tell his father the truth that he purposely misfired as he could not bear killing the beautiful duck
3. Compassion and understanding
- Joyce Kilmer understanding Richard's challenges and gives him a lot of encouragement and support
Richard is standing at Schermer's doorway, too stunned to cry. With great compassion, the family brings him inside.
Mr Schermer gently shows him the headline "Beloved American Poet Killed in Battle" in the newspaper. Richard gazes at the smiling face for the first time after his death. The article recounts the circumstances of Kilmer's death and how his comrades bury him in France.
Richard is too shocked to cry and realises that the unposted letter to Kilmer's is still in his pocket. Reality strikes and the tears begin to well up, He thanks the Schermers and runs to his favourite oak tree where he cries freely.
He is filled witrh hopelessness as he ponders the unanswered question on what poets and poetry can do to make the world a better place. He realises that poets are unable to stop war.
When he returns home he composes a poem In Memory of Sergeant Joyce Kilmer. It has four verses expressing sadness over the loss of a world of rhyme and song he had treasure.
Richard visits the schermers the next day and shares this poem with them. They are all touched by his beautiful poetic piece. Mr Schermer insists that more people should read the poem as so many families in Turtle Lake have lost their loved ones. Richard 's poem would mean a lot to local residents, espicially because it is 'coming from one of their own.
Despite his panic at the thought of having his poem published in the Turtle Lake Weekly, Richard agrees to the idea. Hannah immidiately accompanies him to the newspaper office. However, he flees ad Mr Garrison begins to read his poem. He fear Pa's reaction if his poem is printed.
When Tuesday arrives, Richar buys a copy of the newspaper and to his horror, sees his poem printed in the middle of page 3. As Pa gets his newspaper from his mailbox, Richard rushes to hide in his room.
Surprisingly, Pa calmly walks in and sits at the edge of Guy's bed. After a long silence, Pa begins to share about Uncle Rolamd who, like Gus, was a little reckless, and thought he was invincible. Sadly, Uncle Roland was the only war casualty in the Battle of El Garney on July 1 which America won. Pa breaks down and Richard reaches out to comfort him. "A world is gone! A world is dead and gone!" Pa had whispered to himself as Roland's body was lowered into the grave. "How didi you know those words?" ask Pa in a breaking a breaking voice. Richard remains silent because both of them finally understand why he writes poems.
The war in mid-November with an Allied victory . As winter approaches, Richard works at the farm and at school. He spends time with Hannah and her family and continues to write poems.
Soon his poems are regularly featured in the local weekly. Richard's father is now his consultant as his poems deal with farm life and Pa is an expert, Richard happy that Pa's ideas and suggestions are as helpful as Joyce Kilmer's had been.
1. Courage and resilience
- Hannah turns down the role of Lady Liberty which she wanted very much even though she deserves it fairly
2. Truth, integrity and honor
- Richard tell his father the truth that he purposely misfired as he could not bear killing the beautiful duck
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: : In the master bath, which has just a stand alone shower in it and a single sink plus the stool, the shower runs only tepid water, instead of hot. The sink runs hot water, but the shower never really heats up. This is a single lever Delta faucet. Is there any reason why the shower would be the only faucet in the house that doesn't quite get hot enough? Thank you for your time and attention to my problem!
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Peace Building Fund: Netherlands donates EUR 20 mln. to Peacebuilding Fund for 2012-2015
Statement by Ambassador Herman Schaper
Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
at Peacebuilding Fund – Annual High-Level Stakeholder Meeting
29 November 2012
The Netherlands attaches great importance to the Peace Building Fund as it provides crucial support to post-countries to avoid that these countries relapse into conflict.
I am therefore very pleased that today I can announce a new contribution of EUR 20 mln. for the period 2012-2015 in addition to our US$46 mln. that we contributed since 2006. The Netherlands believes that peace building remains a very important subject in the coming years and that the PBF has a central role to play in it.
PBF has some important comparative advantages in the wider system of post-conflict support which becomes more and more crowded. It continuously needs to look into these comparative advantages and adapt to new realities, for example with to new countries, new themes and new partners.
I would like to highlight two issues that are of particular importance to my government:
First, monitoring and evaluation. The Advisory Group, donors and PBF management continue to focus on monitoring and evaluation. Showing results remains very important for constituencies back home, and is essential to showcase that PBF-funding has made a positive impact on peacebuilding on the ground. We are looking forward to the Global Review of PBF and to have a discussion on it during our next Annual Stakeholder meeting.
Second, sustainability and complementarity. We welcome that more and more attention is given to sustainability of PBF-funded activities. The concept of PBF is that it bridges the gap between the end of a violent conflict and longer term development, and is able to fund whatever is needed and makes sense, even if there are risks involved.
We believe that funding from the PBF should cease once other financial resources become available, either other donors, or from the national budget. Crucial peacebuilding projects however cannot just be stopped; to the contrary many need to be scaled up. It therefore is important that this transition is well planned and carefully considered already in a very early stage of PBF-funding, including dialogue with potential partners for possible follow-up and up-scaling.
In this context, we welcome the ongoing discussions between the various multilateral donors, including UNDP and the Worldbank, in the area of peacebuilding to ensure complementarity and coordination. This will result in an improvement of the response of the UN and wider international community to peacebuilding challenges in post-conflict countries.
Madam Chairperson, thank you again for organizing this event and we hope that other donors will follow the Netherlands contribution, so that the target of 100 mln. US$ for PBF annually will be met.
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MFA 2 Thesis Reading: Jen Hutton, Colleen Hur and Sam Freilich
April 25, 2013
Thursday, April 25, 2013 - 7:00pm
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CRITICAL STUDIES: The CalArts MFA Writing Program is proud to present students from the graduating class of 2013 as they read from their theses. At times nebulous, always innovative, the culminating work of emerging CalArts Writers is unique and variegated in shape, style and content.
Join us as Jen Hutton, Colleen Hur and Sam Freilich along with mentors Bruce and Maggie share their work, followed by a reception in The Cube.