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The simulation of ice cream was one part of a wider research project to study soft matter in general. That includes materials such as sauces, engine lubricants, and even different paints. The performance afforded by a supercomputer allowed the simulation of different ingredient mixtures, suspensions, and the formation of liquid crystals, and gave insights into how to prevent certain things happening to produce a better product.
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There is a saying that when you stumble, you will trip or even fall. When times get rough you get knocked down, but when this occurs only the courageous stand back up, shake the dirt off, take a deep breath and try again. Often many fail to stand up again, but for those who do, stand stronger than ever before.The 2009 PKRA Freestyle World Champion Kevin Langeree (NED, Naish) knows better than anyone else what it's like to get knocked down repeatedly. This brave and determined rider got back up numerous times and proved that he was going to make his life long dream of becoming the world champion a reality.
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1. What was your first reaction after hearing your name as the 2009 PKRA Freestyle World Champion?
The announcer said, "The next world champion is…" I took a deep breath and my name was called. I had a huge smile on my face, my dad was with me and we gave each other a big hug. There weren't a lot of words said, other than, I just did it!
2. How has this success changed your life and what is your outlook for the 2010 tour season?
I have a lot more coverage now that I'm the world champ! Ching, Ching…he laughs. My sponsors are all super proud and threw me this huge party at home. It was super nice! I think that the outlook looks good for the upcoming tour season with many new and exciting stops. My plans for this year are to promote the PKRA tour and make the sport of kiteboarding as big as possible!
3. What were your parents, friends and fans reaction after you won?
Everyone was super happy, very supportive, and proud. I got lots of emails and greetings from people all around the world. It was super cool!
4. Now that you are the new King of Kiteboarding, have you adapted nicknames, such as Kiteboarding King Kev?
Well…hahaha, he laughs. I have been called a few things before, but Kiteboarding King has a nice ring to it… I like it!
5. In your opinion what do you think it will take to defend the world title considering you have been defeated by 3 contenders, Youri Zoon (NED, Slingshot), Alex Pastor (ESP, Naish), and Aaron Hadlow (GBR, Flexifoil) and do you think that the point system played a role in you winning the world title?
I'm going to have to work and train super harder to defend the title. The other guys are awesome riders and tough competitors so I'm going to be training extra hard to defend the title. It's not going to be easy but I did it once and I can do it again. As for the point system, all the riders voted for it, and it just happened that it worked out in the best interest of some riders and not others. It's how you play the game, you win some and lose some.
6. It appears that after all these years you and Aaron Hadlow have been battling a classic game of Cowboys vs. Indians and there are rumors insinuating that Hadlow may not be competing this upcoming tour season. In your opinion do you think that Hadlow is going to hold up his white flag and surrender as being a 5x world champion, or do you think he will be back for another battle?
I don't think that Aaron will surrender. He's too competitive. In my opinion I think that he will be back next year and most likely stronger than ever. My main focus is to continue to work hard, learn how to bust out some new sick tricks and have fun doing it!
7. In your opinion why do you think that you won the title?
I think that I won because I've gained a lot of experience over the years. I know what's right and what's wrong. I won because I was more relaxed and didn't pressure myself like before and I wasn't thinking so much about the title. I was just out to have fun and that made all the difference.
8. Do you think that wave riding competition should be re-incorporated into the tour line up?
Yeah for sure!!!! Wave riding is super awesome! I hope they bring that back!
9. How did you ring in the New Year?
I rang in the New Year in Cape Town with my friends. It was a lot of fun!
10. Do you have a girlfriend?
Nope, I'm still single! Hahaha! It's difficult to have a girlfriend when you are not in one place for longer than 2 weeks. The longest I spend in one place is 3 months and that is here in South Africa. But I'm always on the look out for the right girl!
11. Do you have certain characteristics that you are looking for in the right girl?
Oh for sure! She has to be smart, super sexy with a good sense of humor. Preferably a flight attendant so that she can help me out with my flights or maybe even access baggage charges!!! Hahaha!
12. Since you haven't had any luck finding that special flight attendant yet, do you have any tricks for traveling with access sports luggage?
Well, normally I look for a pretty chick at the airline check-in counter and flirt just a little so that she is distracted by the number of kg's on that scale, and if that doesn't work I normally end up paying for the over weight luggage. If anyone knows of any ways to help me or any of my kiteboarding buddies out with these access baggage fees please contact me ASAP!
13. Can you tell me one thing that gets you pumped just before your competition heats?
I really love to listen to Reggae music while pumping up my kites. I can listen to Reggae 24/7! It really gets me going!
14. Any final words you would like to add?
Happy New Year to everyone and all the best for 2010!
Thank You Kevin for taking the time to share some of your thoughts and opinions with us. All the best for another successful PKRA Tour Season.
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As a business owner, magazine editor, and children's book author, Tesh is the first to admit she's a chronic doer. She even used to create a list every weekend of things to accomplish. One Saturday morning, however, when she sat down to perform this little ritual, she made an absent-minded error. Instead of "do," she scribbled "be" at the top of the square, pink sticky note. Ever since that day, she's been intrigued with exploring the concept of being rather than doing. This book is a collection of her insights over the years. Her hope is that it will inspire you to also tear up your endless to-do lists and instead think about who you want to be.
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NHL first quarter review: Who's for real, who should panic
Corey Crawford's stout defense has lifted the Blackhawks to an NHL-best 10-0-2. (Rich Lam/Getty Images)
By Allan Muir
You've seen the early results. The question is can you take them at face value? Here are 17 teams that have given us a pretty good idea of what they're about:
The Real Deals
Boston Bruins: Outside of Shawn Thornton's concussion, the beating that Buffalo laid on them last week was exactly what Boston needed. Their compete level is up. This team is deep and extremely well coached. Tuukka Rask looks like he's up to the challenge of replacing the Colorado Kid. They're going deep.
New Jersey Devils: My first mistake this year: Thinking it was finally safe to consign the Devils to the dustbin. This group is the ideal hockey team, so much more than the sum of its parts. Adam Henrique has been on a tear (4-2-6 in seven games) since returning from surgery, David Clarkson looks exactly like the guy who surprised everyone with 30 goals last season, and the defense is allowing a scant two goals per game. The Devils look more than capable of repeating as Eastern champs.
Chicago Blackhawks: I questioned his No. 1 potential after a couple of familiarly soft goals in Dallas, but Corey Crawford has silenced me and every other doubter with his focused play. With that type of goaltending, the Hawks are the class of the league. (HACKEL:Keys to Chicago's hot start.)
Vancouver Canucks: Don't think you can say enough about what Alain Vigneault's done with a team that has no second-line center, a faltering power play, a failing power play quarterback, and a raging goalie controversy, but still has the fifth-best record in the league.
Pittsburgh Penguins: They have issues, sure, but they're better than they've shown. The Zach Boychuk experiment looks like a flop, so GM Ray Shero may have to find wing help somewhere other than the scrap pile. Sidney Crosby has been better than his numbers, and he's healthy. He'll lead a second-half surge to get the Pens back into contention for the conference title.
Tap the Brakes
San Jose Sharks: A team that drank deeply from a bountiful power play early on is finding it tough to secure points now that the well has gone bone dry. Patrick Marleau is neither the goal-per-game stud of the season's first five matches nor the impotent empty sweater that he's been during the past five. Same with Joe Thornton. Those two guys will contribute as the season progresses, but finding a consistent level would be helpful if the Sharks are going to do more than just hang on for a low seed.
Toronto Maple Leafs: Even though Phil Kessel shot blanks for 10 games and Mike Kostka was asked to impersonate a top-two defenseman, the Leafs have proved to be surprisingly effective. James Reimer looks like a legitimate No. 1, the team is playing with a pack mentality, and they're cutting down on mistakes. It seems like the good times will never end...but Leafs fans have seen this act before. The key from here on will be the team's ability to turn the Air Canada Centre into a house of horrors for visitors (just like on Monday night, although Reimer suffered a lower body injury) and not themselves, and stockpile points at home.
Anaheim Ducks: So much to like about this hot start. Teemu Selanne playing like he's 25. Sheldon Souray playing like he's 25. Viktor Fasth playing like he's someone you've heard of. And they're tearing it up despite getting just one goal from the guy who is now carrying Kessel's old gorilla: Corey Perry. He's likely to break out of this slump, but it's unreasonable to expect the other three to maintain that level of play. The Ducks may stay in the playoff mix, but don't expect them to lead the division.
Montreal Canadiens: The Habs might not be the annual Andrei Markov injury away from flirting with irrelevance, but it's still a pretty fine line with this team. On the bright side, they can expect real contributions from Max Pacioretty and P.K. Subban in the coming weeks, and Alex Galchenyuk and Brendan Gallagher have more than a little something to offer, giving hope that this start isn't a mirage.
Climb off the Ledge
New York Rangers: John Tortorella has all the ingredients he needs, but he's still trying to find the right recipe. Injuries to Ryan Callahan and Dan Girardi haven't helped, and he's still tinkering with the penalty kill. (Newcomer Darrell Powe will be an asset once he settles in.) Eventually, Torts will put it all together.
Philadelphia Flyers: Who would have thought that goaltending would be the least of Philly's concerns? Ilya Bryzgalov has been sending out distress signals in between episodes of head-standing and wondering what a guy has to do to get a little defense around here. Injuries are an issue, but the bigger problem seems to be a creeping strain of conservative play. Philly is at its best when it plays brash, aggressive hockey. Once Claude Giroux shifts out of first gear, they'll find their way.
Los Angeles Kings: No need to remind me of their frantic push to make the playoffs last spring, followed by one of the most impressive runs to the Stanley Cup ever staged. Clearly you can't count these guys out. At least, not if they still had Wiilie Mitchell and Matt Greene -- the two core defenders are lost for the season -- and Jonathan Quick looked remotely like the player who earned the Conn Smythe last June. The Kings are in trouble, but there's too much talent and too much experience for them to let this slide much longer.
Phoenix Coyotes: A systems-based team like Phoenix was bound to be hurt by the absence of a full camp. Now that they've had a few games to find their rhythm and discipline, look for the Coyotes to regain their dangerous 2012 form.
Washington Capitals: You have to feel for Adam Oates. Given a traditional training camp and a full-size season to work in his new system, he might have made a believer (and a player) out of Alex Ovechkin and gotten the most out of an above-average group. Instead, he's trying to make it work on the fly while his two young goaltenders remind everyone nightly why keeping Tomas Vokoun would have been a prudent move. With a 4.9 percent chance to make the playoffs according to sportsclubstats.com, it's almost time to cash in on some vets and hope for a break with the new draft lottery.
Minnesota Wild: They are proving that you can't spend your way out of mediocrity. Zach Parise has delivered as promised, but secondary scorers Mikael Granlund, Pierre-Marc Bouchard and Devin Setoguchi have offered little support. Ryan Suter is starting to round into form and rookie Jonas Brodin appears ready for prime time, but it all feels like so many mismatched parts right now.
Florida Panthers: The defending Southeast champs already have racked up a minus-15 goal differential thanks in part to an offense that's created just 25 goals -- both are conference lows. Injuries, soft goaltending...they have plenty of excuses, but it feels like the team that overachieved in 2011-12 has taken two steps back.
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Storm Ophelia, which hit large parts of the country this week, isn't likely to be the last storm we will see this winter.
Although storms can come and go quickly, if they are severe the damage they cause can be disruptive to homes and buildings and can take a long time to repair.
It can also be incredibly costly. The Association of British Insurers estimated that the cost to insurers of flood and storm damage caused in the winter of 2015/6 would top £1.3bn.
But there are some steps you can take to prepare for such events.
Mike McGrail, senior product manager at Swinton Group shares his top tips for minimising storm damage:
1. Securing and storing all fixtures and loose objects around your house and garden in a shed or garage is a good place to start when preparing for a storm. Fence panels, for example, normally aren't covered by insurance policies and can easily come loose in a storm, so make sure these are firmly attached. Also fold away your garden furniture and close table umbrellas, these can cause damage by colliding with buildings and objects in heavy winds.
2. It might sound simple, but make sure you close and fasten all doors and windows, no matter how small. High winds can cause serious damage to frames and panels when doors and windows swing open or shut, so ensuring they are secure will help limit damage.
3. Because we don't naturally see them every day, we can easily forget to check whether our gutters are clear. Take a minute to clear any blockages and fallen leaves to ensure that rainwater has somewhere to drain. If you don't do this, a buildup of water during bad weather could cause flooding and serious leaks which have costly repair bills.
4. Park your car in a garage to reduce the risk of loose flying objects damaging the vehicle, no one wants to walk out of their front door to find their windscreen smashed. If you don't have a garage, try to park as far away from large trees as you can to reduce the risk.
5. Heavy rain during storms may cause flash flooding or cause rivers to burst their banks. If you think you could be at risk, minimise damage by using sandbags to block potential water entry points like doors on the ground floor and garden gates. You can usually get these from your local authority, but there might be a charge, or you can buy them at various retailers.
6. One job to remember all year-round is regularly checking your roof for cracks and loose shingles or slates. Should the wind get really fierce, cracks could worsen or shingles could blow off, leaving openings where rain can come through.
7. Keep your insurance documents somewhere safe and easily accessible should the worst happen. Maybe create a digital copy or pass one to a friend or neighbour. Taking note of important telephone numbers is highly advised too.
8. Finally, to be extra cautious, always keep stocked up on supplies such as torches, first aid kits and plenty of food and water. If the weather prevents you from going outside for a short while, you don't want to be left without the essentials.


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by Matt Slick
On April 17, 2008, I debated Edwin Kagin on "Does God exist?" The debate was held on the Campus of West Florida University in Pensacola, Florida. Following is the text I read as my 15-minute opening statement. I had to shorten the original by 2 pages, so I could read it in 15 minutes. I made it and with 10 seconds to spare! I read it word for word with just a couple of slight changes here and there since the flow of speaking was slightly different from the written word in a few places.
How did it go? Well, I'm biased, but I don't believe Kagin was able to answer my argument. The best he did was say that logic evolved--that it comes from people. That response is refuted in my opening statement below. But you should see the video when it comes out so you can judge for yourself.
By the way, Mr. Kagin said he'd be glad to debate me on ethics. Sounds good to me.
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First of all, I want to thank all of you for coming here tonight. I hope you enjoy the debate and that your minds and hearts will be challenged.
Since my time is limited and I have a lot to cover, let me just jump right in.
In order for this debate to occur, Mr. Kagin and I had to have prior agreements on a topic, a location, duration, format, and so forth. But we have also agreed, though not formally, that this debate should be logical. In fact, without logic, we don't have a debate.
Now, I have a question for you, Mr. Kagin. How do you, as an atheist, account for the existence of logic? Remember, the question is directed to you as an atheist. How do you account for the existence of logic?
The question is important, and it directly relates to God's existence. Asking that a person give an account for something based on his worldview is not a kindergarten exercise. It is not a word game. It is an important philosophical question worth answering and especially given the fact that we live in a finite and physical universe yet use logic which is transcendent and conceptual.
So, I hope to show that the atheist perspective cannot rationally account for logic, but the Christian one can because it acknowledges God's existence.
But, in order for me to show this, I need to do two things:
First, I need to offer a definition of God. God is that Supreme Being who exists independent of the universe, who does not change, is absolute, transcends space and time, who is self-aware, who is all-knowing, ever present, and can accomplish whatever he desires to accomplish. In short, I am proposing the Christian God.
The Second thing I want to address a simple logical principle. If there are only two possibilities to explain something and one of the possibilities is incapable of explaining it, then by default the other is validated. Let me illustrate.
Let's say that there is a man named Frank who has a small room in his house in which he keeps valuables. This room is encased in thick metal, has no windows, no vents, and only one light with one table inside. The door has a very strong lock which can only be opened by a keypad that requires a sequence of numbers that only Frank knows. There is an alarm, a heat detector, and a motion detector. Now Frank has just acquired a bag full of rare coins. He puts them inside the room on the table, exits, and immediately locks the door behind him.
Frank then goes directly to his car, drives to a meeting, and returns 3 hours later to inventory his currency. But to his surprise, after he disables the alarms, unlocks the door, and enters the room, he finds the coins are not in the bag where he left them. Instead, they are neatly stacked on the table. Upon further examination, he discovers that the stacks of coins are in separate piles in sequences of prime numbers from 2 through 31. Frank wants to know how this happened. He calls the police.
When they arrive, they find no physical evidence that anyone else besides Frank had been in the room. For all they know, he arranged the coins. There aren't any fingerprints, shoe prints, or traces of DNA other than Frank's.
But Frank knows he did not arrange the coins, and the coins didn't arrange themselves. Frank is bewildered and refuses to believe that someone got into the room. His criteria for proof necessitate that there be some finger-prints, shoe prints, pry marks, or the alarms having gone off. But none of these evidences are there. So, he refuses to believe the obvious because his criteria for proof doesn't include the possibility that someone intelligent arranged the coins logically without also being detected in the manner that he chooses.
Now, we can see that the proof is there. Obviously, someone arranged the coins. But Frank is not persuaded. Why? Because proof is different from persuasion.
Okay, so let me reduce this illustration to a simple proposition: Either an intelligence or non intelligence arranged the coins. There aren't any other options.
In like manner, in this debate we have only two options: there either is a God or there is not. Since there are only these two options, we can take a look at them and ask a question: Which position, the theistic or atheistic, can account for the existence of logic? One of them has to be able to; otherwise, we have no rational reason for the existence of logic at all.
Now, Mr. Kagin might just say that he doesn't know how to account for logic. I have no problem with him pleading ignorance should he so choose; after all, Christians sometimes do the same thing. Or on the other hand, he might say he doesn't need to give account for the existence of logic, and he might offer various reasons why he doesn't need to. In either case, whether it is ignorance or ignoring, I'll continue through with this debate using my argument and enjoy Mr. Kagin's neglect in responding to it. But, I do expect a logical response from Mr. Kagin, and I hope it is forthcoming.
So, in anticipation of possible responses from my atheist opponent, I want to enlist the help of previous atheists who've tried to give me an account for the existence of logic. I will list their arguments and attempt to show why they are invalid. But, I won't stop there. After I have shown that their arguments are invalid, I'll try to show that the Christian perspective can account for logic and thereby demonstrate that God exists.
So, what is logic? Logic is the process of proper thinking based upon principles that govern the validity of arguments. Logic is used in proofs, refutations, explanations, and even in debates.
Logic has laws. I'll list three of them.
The first law of logic is the law of identity. It states that something is what it is and is not what it is not. For example, an egg is an egg and not a flashlight.
The second law of logic is the law of non-contradiction. This means that something cannot be both true and false at the same time and in the same way. In other words, two contradictory statements cannot both be true.
The third law of logic is the Law of Excluded Middle which says that a statement is either true or false. "We are here" is a true statement. "The planet Mars is in my pocket" is not a true statement.
Now, these laws, and others, are logical absolutes; and they form the basis of rational discourse.
So, let me reiterate my argument in brief before I tackle the atheists' attempts to account for logic.
I propose that logical absolutes are conceptual realities that do not depend upon human minds or the physical universe for their existence. Since they are conceptual, absolute, and transcend space and time, there must be an absolute and transcendent mind from which these logical absolutes are derived. I conclude that absolute and transcendent mind is God. That is my explanation. But before I try to support it, let's take a look at the various explanations offered by atheists and see why they are insufficient to account for logic.
If I miss any, I hope that Mr. Kagin can articulate them for me.
The First explanation I want to look at is that logic is the product of a single human person who thought it up, and other people agreed that it was true.
The problem here is that if you assume that one person thought it up, then what happens when another person says it is false? If logic's existence and truth is based upon an individual thinking it is true, then another person can say it is false; and it would be false. But this is illogical since something is not false because someone says it is false.
The second explanation I've heard is that logical absolutes are conventions. In other words, they are principles that we humans agree are valid. But agreeing that they are valid doesn't account for them. This would also mean that logical absolutes are then subject to "vote" and popular agreement. But this would mean that something is true because a lot of people believe it is true. What would happen if the majority of people started saying that truth is not absolute, or that mutually contradictory statements are valid--would it mean then that these things would then be so? Of course not. So that argument doesn't work.
The third explanation I've heard is that logic and logical absolutes are the result of chemical processes in the brain. The problem here is that if someone's brain chemistry is altered, then logic is altered. But that can't work. Besides, people's brains are different and often contradict each other. So people's brains can't be the source of logical absolutes in spite of their particular brain chemistry.
The fourth explanation is to say that logic is a function of language. If that is so, then is logic in Spanish better than logic in English? Or is Russian logic superior to French logic? If they differ due to language constructs and patterns, then is there a Spanish logic, an English logic, and a French logic? That would make no sense. Seeing this difficulty, atheists sometimes say that language constructs are consistent across different languages in spite of the stylistic diversity, and that they reveal logic. But that is exactly it. They "reveal" the logic that is already there; linguistic constructs don't invent logic or form it. Linguistic constructs describe logical processes. They don't account for their existence.
The fifth explanation is that logic is a property of the universe--like the natural physical laws of motion and gravity. The problem here is that it equates logic with things like weight, mass, heat, and cold all of which can be measured and their effects observed. But how do you measure and observe the effects of the law of non-contradiction or the law of excluded middle? If you could develop an experiment to test for logic like you would motion or gravity, you'd have to use logic beforehand to develop the test and this would assuming the validity of the very logic you're trying to test. So this explanation fails.
The sixth explanation is similar to the previous one. It says that Logical absolutes would cease to apply to anything if the physical universe stopped existing because logical absolutes could no longer be called true or false. But this doesn't work either. You see, it is logically true that something cannot bring itself into existence. If the universe did not exist, it would still be true that something could not bring itself into existence. The truth would still be true whether or not it was known and whether or not the universe existed.
Also, if Logical Absolutes being true or false depends on the existence of the physical universe, then they would stop having existence and meaning in the same way that gravity and motion would stop existing and have meaning. But this would mean that logic is a property of the physical universe in the same way that gravity and motion are properties of the universe. But, gravity and motion can be measured and tested. Not so with logic. In fact, no test can be developed to measure, weigh, or photograph logic. This would mean that logic is not a property of the physical universe as are gravity and motion. Therefore, it cannot be said that it would cease to be true if the universe ceased to exist.
The seventh explanation is that trying to use the existence of logic to demonstrate God's existence is nothing more than a word game. Alright, if this argument is a word game, then it should be easy to point out where it is wrong. So, when I ask atheists to do that, they don't demonstrate how it is a word game, whatever that means; and they have yet to demonstrate to me how the argument is false. So, I can't accept it as a refutation.
The eighth and final explanation I've heard offered by atheists is that asking them to account for the existence of logic is asking the wrong question.
Okay, then why is it the wrong question? Give a logical reason why it is not right to ask an atheist to give account for the existence of logic and logical absolutes. Just saying it is wrong doesn't make it so. I would not expect an atheist to accept my saying, "Asking me to prove that God exists is the wrong question." He or she would be right in asking me why it is the wrong question.
As I said before, if there are other explanations that I have not listed here, perhaps Mr. Kagin could offer them; and then we could cross-examine them later.
But before my time is up, I would like to try to show that the existence of logic and logical absolutes shows there is a God. Also, please notice that I am not first assuming that God exists. I am first approaching the issue of logic and then concluding that God exists. I'll try to do that with three points.
First, the laws of logic are conceptual by nature. They occur in the mind. The Laws of logic are concepts. They cannot be frozen, weighed, measured, or photographed anymore than love and humility can be frozen, weighed, measured, or photographed. The Laws of logic are not found under rocks or in test tubes. They occur in the mind. They are conceptual. You can think of them. You can write laws of logic down on paper. You can talk about them and listen to their being discussed in a debate, but you cannot observe the laws of logic occurring in matter. This is because they are conceptual by nature.
Second, the laws of logic are absolute. This means that they don't stop being true if we disagree with them. It means their absoluteness is not dependent upon our wants, our brain chemistry, popular vote, how big the universe is, or how cold or hot something is. They are absolute. They don't change. Otherwise, logic would not be dependable and consistent with itself and with reality, and we would have no way of being rational and judging the arguments in this debate.
Third, the laws of logic are transcendent. Logic transcends space and time. This means that if you were to go in any particular direction and reach the end of the physical universe, logical absolutes don't stop being true because of where you are located. If you were to travel back to the beginning of the universe or move a trillion years into the future, they don't stop being true because of when you are. At least no one has yet demonstrated that they stop being true.
Now, another question. Is it logical to conclude that if there's a concept, there must also be a mind? This seems reasonable.
Concepts reside in the mind, and thoughts reflect the mind. Since we have absolute and transcendent logical truths which are conceptual by nature, I conclude that there is an absolute and transcendent mind that, for a lack of a better term, has authored the logical absolutes. I call this absolute and transcendent mind, God.
Now, you may or may not agree with my conclusion. Perhaps you are like Frank and refuse to accept that someone else got into the room and arranged the coins in a logical fashion. Perhaps your worldview does not allow this argument to be true anymore than Frank's presuppositions allowed him to believe someone got into his room and arranged the coins. But, as I said before: proof is different from persuasion.
Now, I again turn my attention to you, Mr. Kagin. You may or may not like my conclusion. But whether or not you do, and no disrespect meant, your liking or disliking it has no bearing on it being true or false. If my argument is not valid, please demonstrate to me how it is not valid. Please give me a logical explanation stemming from your atheistic perspective that accounts for the existence of logical absolutes. Of course, in order to do this you would need to use logic. I would even say that to do so you have to borrow from the Christian worldview to try to make your case in order to argue against the Christian worldview.
So, how do you account for the existence of logic and logical absolutes from your atheistic worldview? I don't believe you can, and I conclude it is because your atheistic worldview does not comport with reality--but the Christian worldview does.
Thank you.


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Controller furloughs hit LAX with 3-hour delays
LOS ANGELES Some passengers headed to Los Angeles International Airport were met with long delays on the first day of staffing cuts for air traffic controllers resulting from government spending reductions.
The Federal Aviation administration said on its website late Sunday that a "traffic management program" was causing delays averaging more than three hours for flights arriving at LAX, reports CBS L.A. station KCBS-TV.
The agency did not say how many flights were affected.
- Control tower cutbacks could keep passengers waiting
- Airlines, pilots sue FAA over furloughs
- FAA set to close 149 air traffic towers due to budget cuts
Airport spokesman Marshall Lowe says about 70 flights had delays of about an hour or more Sunday, but could not say the role staffing played.
Delays are expected to get worse Monday.
The FAA released a statement Sunday saying, "Relatively good weather throughout the country and light traffic helped minimize air traffic delays. The FAA will be working with the airlines and using a comprehensive set of air traffic management tools to minimize the delay impacts of lower staffing as we move into the busy summer travel season."
The budget cuts are forcing the FAA to begin giving controllers extra days off. The agency says planes will have to take off and land less frequently to avoid overloading the remaining controllers.
Commercial flights moved smoothly throughout most of the country Sunday, the first day air traffic controllers were subject to the furloughs resulting from the spending cuts, though some delays appeared in the late evening in and around New York.
And even though the nightmarish flight delays and cancellations the airline industry predicted would result from the furloughs haven't materialize yet, experts say the real test will come Monday, when traffic ramps up.
Information from the FAA and others showed that flying Sunday was largely uneventful, with most flights on time. There were delays in parts of Florida, but those were caused by thunderstorms.
Mark Duell at the flight tracking website FlightAware said John F. Kennedy and LaGuardia airports in New York indicated delays due to lower staffing starting late Sunday evening. JFK averaged 70-minute delays for inbound flights, but no detectable departure delays. LaGuardia averaged 74-minute delays for inbound flights, and departure delays of 37 minutes.
The FAA website said flights from Philadelphia and Orlando, Fla., into John F. Kennedy, LaGuardia and Westchester County airports were delayed due to staffing issues.
The trade group Airlines for America, which represents the airlines and had predicted a big traffic snarl, said Sunday evening that it was "not seeing a significant impact at this point." A spokeswoman said the group would continue to monitor the situation, and urged flyers to stay in contact with their airlines.
Government budget cuts that kicked in last month are forcing the FAA and other agencies to reduce their spending. FAA officials have said they have no choice but to furlough all 47,000 agency employees, including nearly 15,000 controllers. Each employee will lose one day of work every other week.
Friday, airline trade groups and the country's biggest pilots union sued the FAA to try to stop the furloughs. They predicted that the furloughs would delay or cancel flights for as many as one out of every three airline passengers across the country. Airlines have also directed their customers to tell the FAA to find other ways to cut costs.


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Reds induct Casey, Driessen, the late John Reilly to team Hall of Fame
Press release courtesy of Cincinnati Reds
Three-time All-Star Sean Casey, Big Red Machine infielder Dan Driessen and 19th-century first baseman John Reilly were inducted into the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame in ceremonies at Great American Ball Park on Saturday afternoon June 23, prior to the game vs. the Minnesota Twins.
Casey was selected by the fans through the modern player ballot presented by Cincyfavorites.com. The veterans committee selected Driessen and Reilly.
One of the most popular players to ever wear a Reds uniform, Casey came to be known as "The Mayor" during his 8-year Reds career.
A versatile infielder of the Big Red Machine clubs of the 1970s, Dreissen played 12 seasons for the Reds from 1973 to 1984.
A Cincinnati-native and dominant first baseman in the 1880's, Reilly wore a Reds uniform for his nine-season Major League career and held Reds records for most singles, double, triples, home runs, runs scored, RBI and games played.
Casey was the top vote-getter of the thousands of ballots cast online at RedsMuseum.org, at Great American Ball Park and at participating Skyline Chili and Montgomery Inn locations.
Driessen and Reilly were selected by the Reds Hall of Fame's veterans committee, comprised of members of the media, Hall of Famers, historians and Hall of Fame executives.
The addition of Casey, Driessen and Reilly brings the Hall's membership ranks to 75 players, 3 managers, and 3 executives, a total of 81.
Previously inducted members of the Hall of Fame in attendance at the press conference included Clay Carroll, Wayne Granger, George Foster, Lee May, Tommy Helms, Mario Soto, Joe Morgan, Eric Davis, Johnny Bench, Jim O'Toole, Dave Concepcion, Leo Cardenas, Cesar Geronimo, Gary Nolan, Tom Browning, Jack Billingham,
Sean Casey (First Baseman, 1998-2005)
One of the most popular players to ever wear a Reds uniform, first baseman Sean Casey came to be known as "The Mayor" during his 8-year Reds career. Acquired by the Reds on the eve of Opening Day in 1998, Casey overcame a serious eye injury and established himself as the club's starting first baseman and would remain in that position for the next 7 seasons. A lifetime .305 hitter as a Red, Casey eclipsed the .300 mark 5 times during his Reds career, posting a career-best .332 average in 1999. Casey was one of the offensive forces of the 1999 Reds, a club that won 96 games and fell just 1 win short of securing a playoff berth. For the 1999 season, Casey led the Reds in batting average, hits, doubles, on-base percentage and slugging percentage. During his Reds career, Casey ranked in the league's Top 10 in batting average 3 times and was the team's batting average leader in 6 of his 7 seasons as a starter. Only 12 players in Reds history posted higher career batting averages than Casey's .305 mark. A 3-time National League All-Star, Casey was also the 1999 winner of Major League Baseball's Hutch Award, was twice the recipient of the Reds' Joe Nuxhall Good Guy Award and was the 2004 winner of the Reds' Most Valuable Player Award.
Dan Driessen (First Baseman/Third Baseman, 1973-1984)
A versatile member of Cincinnati's Big Red Machine clubs of the 1970s, Dan Driessen was signed by the Reds as an 18-year-old undrafted free agent in 1969. In his Major League debut season of 1973, Driessen's .301 average helped propel the Reds to the Western Division title and earned him a third-place finish in National League Rookie of the Year voting. Over the next 3 seasons, Driessen excelled at multiple positions for Reds teams that averaged over 100 victories a year and won back-to-back World Championships in 1975 and 1976. In the 1976 World Series, Driessen became the first designated hitter in National League history and hit .357 in the Reds' sweep of the Yankees. In 1977, Driessen became the Reds everyday first baseman and enjoyed his finest offensive season, batting .300 with 17 home runs, 91 RBI and 31 stolen bases. One of the finest defensive first basemen of his era, Driessen led the National League in fielding percentage 3 times and shares the Reds all-time single season record for fielding percentage at the position. A member of the Reds from 1973 to 1984, only 8 players in history have appeared in more games as a Red than Driessen.
John Reilly (First Baseman, 1883-1891)
The Reds' starting first baseman from 1883 to 1891, John Reilly was the club's leading hitter for most of the 1880s and paced the club in home runs, RBI and batting average with a .301 mark. At 6'3", Reilly was tall for his era, earning him the moniker "Long John" years before he played his first professional game. A Cincinnati native, Reilly wore a Reds uniform for his 9-season Major League career. Reilly held single-season Reds records in numerous offensive categories, including most doubles, triples, home runs, RBI and slugging percentage at multiple points in his career. When he retired after the 1891 season, Reilly held Reds records for most singles, double, triples, home runs, runs scored, RBI and games played. While all of these records have since been broken, Reilly remains 1 of only 4 players in Reds history to lead the league in home runs twice. Reilly died in Cincinnati on May 31, 1937 at the age of 78.
About the Reds Hall of Fame:
Established in 1958, The Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame is the oldest continually operating team Hall of Fame in all of baseball. The Reds Hall of Fame & Museum features 15,000 square feet of historical, interactive and educational exhibits, highlighting the rich and storied tradition of the Cincinnati Reds. The mission of the Reds Hall of Fame & Museum is to celebrate greatness, preserve history and provide inspiration.
Press conference audio used as a courtesy by MLB.com & cincinnatireds.com
Stuart Mason also contributed to the feature


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Traditional Midwife practice - providing primary care since 1983.
Heartland Midwifery is committed to serving women and their families whom are seeking partnership with a midwife in preparation for their home birth; whom desire the safety, comfort and privacy of their own home (free of unnecessary disturbances, interventions and fusses) and desire the care and readiness of an experienced midwife through their childbearing year.
Childbirth is not an illness and one of the wonderful benefits of authentic midwifery care is that it is health-promoting and prevention oriented -- the natural choice!
With joy (and ...with patience), my own four children were homeborn and 'homegrown' (in-arms care/a.k.a babywearing, breastfed, wholefoods, etc.). In our tech-ie world, I hope mothers will take time for the whole hearth of mothering and pass the natural way to their children, including wholistic family health care at their own hearth.
Complimentary (free of charge) first visit for parents to make solid inquiry & discovery of Heartland Midwifery services and care.
1983 – Present (29 years) areas of SE OH., Central OH., and NE Central OH.
Prenatal, labor/birth and postpartum care. Certified Professional Midwife. Neonatal Resuscitation Provider certified. 28 years of practice included home birth and birth center care. Specialized care. Offering waterbirth option for 18 yrs. Several birth tubs available.


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New Testament Volume 02 Satan, the Enemy of God Full-size Student Activities Ready-to-Print PDF Download (2,829KB)
NOTE: Does NOT include color flash card teaching illustrations, lesson text or audio files!
System Requirements: Acrobat Viewer to read and/or print PDF
These activities have been developed as an additional resource for use in teaching the truths from this BVI Visualized Bible volume. In this full-size version, student handouts have been resized to 8½" x 5½" or 8½" x 11". This download includes:
Click here to download a free PDF of the first page of this resource material.
Click here for tutorials to help you with downloading BVI materials.
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Photos of Octomom sporting a hot pink two-piece hit the web before a more revealing video of the infamous mom giving a solo performance is scheduled to be released.
Nadya Suleman was photographed showing off her taut physique while soaking in some sun and splashing around on a beach in Florida.
Suleman, who made headlines in 2009 after giving birth to octopulets, seems to have taken her upcoming starring role seriously and blasted herself into shape for the self-love porn video, "Octomom: Home Alone."
TMZ reports that Suleman"s video is set for online release on June 20.
Celeb site TMZ posted a few edited but still-not-safe-for-work photos of the 36-year-old mother of fourteen doing the nasty while performing household chores.
Warning: If you absolutely have to look at the photos, it"s best to wait thirty minutes after eating before diving into TMZ"s photo slide show. Photos here.
In other Octomon news: reports say that Suleman"s California home is being returned to the bank for foreclosure. Apparently, no one wanted to bid on the four-bedroom, three-bath house in La Habra.
Opening bid on the La Hambra home was $355,643.


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Early Days
The origin of the sugar cane industry in Tully dates back to 1865, one year after Cardwell's settlement. A wealthy Scotsman named John Ewen Davidson, who was educated at Oxford University and who visited the West Indies sugar growing areas, came to Tully with the objective of establishing a sugar cane plantation. With his partner R.D.Thomas who was his right hand man, Davidson took up his farm on the banks of the Murray River. The now Bruce Highway actually runs through some of the property which was called "Bellenden Plains". Davidson's attempts to establish a mill proved futile due to a severe cyclone, excessive flooding and hostile aborigines.
This was only three years after the first official record of sugar being manufactured in Queensland by Captain Lewis Hope and John Buhot. They established the first sugar cane plantation in 1862 and Hope operated Australia's first commercial sugar mill in Cleveland near Brisbane in 1864.
The second venture of sugar cane growing in Tully was by James Tyson who arrived here with Isaac Henry and Edward Hewitt in 1879. Henry and Tyson each selected 5,120 acres or 2045 hectare lots. Tyson planted 150 acres of Black Java cane and yellow bamboo. Tyson died a bachelor at the age of 79 in southern Queensland.
Another early venture was by the Neames brothers. They took up land on the north banks of the Tully River in the early 1880's. This area was where the township of Tully was later developed.
Whatever credit may be given to Davidson, Tyson, Hewitt or any others as early settlers, there can be no doubt that the true pioneer of settlement in the Tully district was Isaac Henry. Whereas the others abandoned their plans for settlement, Henry stayed.
Early settlers in the area grew bananas, citrus crops, cattle and even experimented with rice, cotton and potatoes but sugar was never far from their minds.
Many years passed along with surveys, soil testing, serious lobbying and the opposition of southern millers and a royal comission into the viability of establishing a mill in the Tully area. Finally the Theodore state government adopted the royal commission's recommendation and Tully Mill was approved under the Sugar Works Act of 1922.
The site of the new mill on the bank of the Banyan Creek was chosen and a town region surveyed. Apart from the recently built Tablelands crushing plant, Tully mill was the last mill built in Queensland.
The tender for construction of the mill was awarded to Walkers Limited, Maryborough. Bundaberg Foundry supplied some machinery and equipment and FE Barbart and Sons undertook the construction of the factory. Contracts were signed in August 1923 and construction started soon after. The new mill was regarded at the time as an engineering work of art.
The mill's first crushing season, a trial crushing, commenced on 5th November 1925 and continued till the 16th January 1926. This resulted in 32,075 tonnes of cane going through the rollers for a yield of 3,946 tonnes of raw sugar. The mill began its first full season's crushing on 5th July 1926 and it concluded on 19th January 1927. During the period of 28.05 weeks 148,006 tonnes of cane were crushed for a yield of 19,754 tonnes of raw sugar. The number of Tully cane growers who supplied the 1926-1927 crop was 256 of whom 74 were from soldier's settlement farms. Today there are approximately 325 growers who supply the mill with more than 2 million tonnes of cane.
In 1931 the Tully Co-Operative Sugar Milling Association purchased the Tully sugar mill from the government. It was run as a co-operative mill until 1990 when Tully Sugar Limited was incorporated as a public company.
Information for this abbreviated history of the origin of the Tully Sugar Mill was obtained from Alan Hudson's "By The Banyan" published in November 2000 by Christopher Beck Books.


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Matrix "Head Start" Skills Clinic
Overview of "Head Start" Hoops Skills Clinic
With house basketball practices beginning in Arlington and surrounding areas next week, we wanted to offer a skills clinic for players of all skill levels in the 3rd and 4th grades to provide them with an additional skills training opportunity prior to the start of their seasons. The "Head Start" Hoops Skills Clinic is a part of the Matrix Next Level Training Series, our club's commitment to providing year-round skill development opportunities to girls of all ages.
Ted Bardach will be leading the "Head Start" clinic, and will be supported by other Matrix coaches as needed. As many of you know, Ted has extensive experience running youth basketball skills clinics, and he also is the director of the Arlington Summer Saturday basketball league.
"Head Start" Hoops Skills Clinic Details
Date: Friday, November 6
Time: 6:30-8:00pm
Cost: FREE (small donations accepted)
Location: Arlington Traditional School (ATS)
Directions: Click here for directions to ATS
**All players should bring a basketball, clearly labeled with their name**
Please Register Online on Matrix Website - Pass On Invitation to Friends/Teammates
While there is no cost for the clinic, please register online in advance by clicking on Online Registration. This will assist us in planning for the clinic. However, you may also register at the door. I also strongly encourage you to pass on this clinic information to your daughter's friends, house teammates, or teammates from another sport who might be interested in this clinic.
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WordPress and Dave Winer are working together to bring real-time, Twitter-style updates to RSS feeds using the cloud element and the accompanying RSSCloud Interface. Yesterday, WordPress added RSS cloud support to "all 7.5 million blogs on WordPress.com." Winer's documenting the ongoing work at RSSCloud.org.
Although some tech sites are reporting this as a new initiative, cloud has been around since RSS 0.92 in December 2000. I was getting real-time RSS updates as a Radio UserLand blogger back then, and it was a great feature.
However, there's a reason that UserLand turned off cloud support in its products several years ago and shut down all of its cloud notification servers. The approach has massive scaling and firewall issues.
To explain why, it's worth looking at an example. I publish the Drudge Retort, which has around 16,000 subscribers, including 1,000 who get the feeds using desktop software on their home computers. If I add cloud support and all of my subscribers have cloud-enabled readers, each time I update the Retort, my cloud update server will be sending around 1,050 notifications to computers running RSS readers -- 1,000 to individuals and 50 to web-based readers.
That's just for one update. The Retort updates around 20 times a day, so that requires 21,000 notifications sent using XML-RPC, SOAP or REST.
On Internet servers it's extremely expensive to request data from clients, in terms of CPU time and networking resources. You have to make a connection to the computer, wait for a response and deal with timeouts from servers that are unavailable or blocked by a firewall.
RSSCloud also requires that all desktop software receiving cloud notifications functions as a web server. So if an RSS reader like BottomFeeder or FeedDemon adds cloud support, it must show its users how to turn off firewall ports to accept these incoming requests and possibly turn them off in their router as well. UserLand's attempt to put web servers on user desktops failed because it was too cumbersome to support. Back when I was writing the book Radio UserLand Kick Start and working closely with UserLand developers, their biggest customer service issue was helping users open up their firewalls so that Radio UserLand could act as a web server.
I don't mean to be a dark cloud, because this functionality could be a nice improvement for web-based RSS readers, letting services like Google Reader and Bloglines receive much quicker updates than they get from hourly polling.
But if the effort to make RSS real time extends to desktop software and mobile clients, cloud won't work. I think that RSS update notification would require peer-to-peer technology and something like XMPP, the protocol that powers Jabber instant messaging.


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1/2 box of orzo pasta
1 tablespoons of olive oil
2 cloves of garlic, minced
1 small yellow squash, small dice
8 green onions, sliced
juice of 2 lemons
2 tablespoons of olive oil
1 teaspoon of sea salt
1/2 teaspoon of pepper
Cook the orzo pasta in salted boiling water just until it is cooked, but still firm. Drain - do not rinse.
Saute garlic and squash in 1 tablespoon of olive oil until the squash has softened slightly. Add to the cooked orzo. Also add the sliced green onions.
For the dressing, mix together lemon juice, olive oil, salt and pepper. Pour over the still warm pasta and toss.
I used a homemade teriyaki marinade for our steaks - it was sweet and spicy... so good. I'll share the recipe next.
And of course, a staple around our house... slice heirlooms with fresh mozzarella.