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MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- A possible boiler leak at Cramton Bowl forced a delay in Friday night's game between Jeff Davis and Central-Phenix City, which the Red Devils won 48-13.
The potential leak was on the east side of the stadium, and officials moved both teams to the west sideline.
Sgt. Jerry Boykins of the Montgomery Police Department released the following statement: "There was possibly a boiler leak according to the fire department. The fire department checked things out and determined everything to be OK. As a precaution all fans in the eastside stands were moved to the west side and the game was resumed. There were no injuries related to this incident."
Central led 35-7 midway through the third quarter when the game was delayed. Central defeated Jeff Davis 48-13.
The stadium, which opened in 1922, recently underwent major renovations. A multipurpose facility was added behind the south end zone and opened this year.
Both teams' locker rooms are under the east stands.
Records: Central 4-1, 2-1 Class 6A Region 3; Jeff Davis 0-5, 0-3. Next: Central, home vs. Auburn, Friday, 8 p.m.


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Ahead of Curve: Simulation Developer
In a rapidly changing technological landscape, more industries are trying to plan for the future.
Simulation Developer. Whether for entertainment, training, education, or predicting the future, we enjoy and learn more if we're immersed in a subject. Governments use simulations to predict terrorist strategies. Scientists use them to predict how a synthesized molecule will work. Surgeons use them to learn a new technique without endangering patients. Corporations and, to a lesser extent, schools are moving from the instructor who attempts to keep people awake by telling anecdotes and jokes to immersive simulations of critical real-world situations. For example, Pitney Bowes had its managers trained using a simulation game called Executive Challenge, in which each team of managers was given a virtual company and presented with a series of challenges requiring effective management skills.
The use of simulations for training will continue to grow because of the wide availability of broadband and ever faster (for example, Sprint's 4G) mobile Internet access. That will enable you to receive, on your iPhone or BlackBerry, training filled with video scenarios in which you are the protagonist—all while you're actually lying on the beach in Hawaii.
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Jim Goldsworthy, Columnist
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One of the people who wanted to go ghost-hunting with us was a big, strong, husky young fellow who's afraid of the dark.
Maybe not afraid of the dark itself, but what may be waiting for him out there in the dark. I myself love being in the woods when it's daylight; when it's dark, not so much. It hasn't always been that way.
Some of Gary's buddies and their ladies from Mount Savage went to Gettysburg with us. Like us, they already want to go back.
No sooner than Gary and I checked into our room than we found a harbinger of what might be waiting for us.
"Look what was on the floor beside my bed," he said. It was a "wooden nickel" coin from Chapter 172 of the Vietnam Veterans of America. It has the VVA logo on one side and "WELCOME HOME" on the other.
We've handed out hundreds of them on our trips to Gettysburg, to Vietnam Veterans and veterans of the Korean War and World War II and to those who are on active service. Some of the Vietnam Vets tell us tearfully, "You're the first people who ever welcomed me home." Awesome.
Gary hadn't even started to unpack, and he had none of the coins in his pockets. It was just there ... in a place where it had no reason to be, with the "WELCOME HOME" side up.
"Our friends know we've come back," I said.
"Uh-huh," he nodded. "That message is for us." (Now tell me this: Where did they get it?)
They do things that seem to be aimed at simply saying "Hello" and letting us know they're around, but never when we're watching. It's like they don't want to startle us.
During our latest visit, I woke up to find a bath towel folded neatly on top of the small pile of used shirt and socks that I had set beside my bed before retiring. (I do the same at home, anticipating the possibility of having to put them back on before morning.) A washcloth was laid out flat in the middle of the floor, where we'd have to step on it or walk around it.
Both the washcloth and the towel were dry. I had planned to take a shower that morning and used them, appreciatively figuring they had been put out for my convenience.
Folks ask us about this sort of thing, and we tell them that neither we, nor anyone else we know of, have encountered anything in Gettysburg that had the appearance of being evil. I can't say the same for other places I've been.
We believe that if spirits do exist, those in Gettysburg are the spirits of good men who know how to fight, and there are thousands of them.
They've settled their own differences and won't tolerate nastiness from outsiders — human (as one of our buddies found out after profanely taunting them to show themselves; they put him on the ground and held him there) or otherwise.
We took our friends to Spangler's Spring, even though recent visits hadn't given us anything to write home (or write columns) about.
The Park Service has removed many trees from the battlefield so it will look as it did during the battle in 1863, and it seemed that the spirits had left with the trees. You would think History Channel's "Ax Men" have been to Spangler's Spring.
Gary and I have ample reason to think of those who may be there as friends. Maybe some had returned.
As we stepped off the blacktop onto the grass, one of our friends asked us if we had noticed how cold it suddenly had become. We had. That's one way to tell a presence is near. You walk into and out of cold and warm spots.
Later, he asked if we smelled something sweet. We said, "It's pipe tobacco."
We also smelled bread cooking. The soldiers had no ovens, so they wrapped a mixture of flour and water around a stick to cook it over a fire or just put it on a hot rock.
My mother and both of my grandmothers used to bake bread, and so did I. I know what it smells like, and there are times when I smell bread baking in my house.
(While as I was sitting at my desk typing the words, "smelled bread cooking," I got a strong and unmistakable whiff of just that. Nobody was cooking in our microwave or having lunch, nor did anyone else notice it. I've also been alone in the newsroom and by myself in my car when I smelled the same pipe tobacco I've smelled on the battlefield.)
Digital and smart phone cameras were unlimbered. They produced photos of orbs, green mist and what looked like tree branches that appeared in several places where there were no branches. They were identical in each photo but showed up in different areas of the picture.
Makes me wonder: Considering what has been done at Spangler's Spring, can there be ghosts of trees?
One photo of Gary shows him visible only from the waist up ... as if he himself were a ghost. Several photos of the Indiana Monument (where Gary does not appear in pictures taken of him standing in front of it) shows the progression of an orb across its face.
Later, our buddies had trouble with their phones — images moving up and down and sideways by themselves, and the like. One of the women hadn't gone with us, and her phone behaved normally.
I went by myself to sit on a big rock that has become my favorite place to still hunt (as hunters would put it).
Not once did I see or hear anything, but I got the feeling, as I often do there, that people I couldn't see were gathering to listen as I talked to them — and that I know them, just as they know me. Warm and cold spots both came and went, and there was no wind. I felt surrounded by a type of energy that by now has grown familiar.
As we left, I stood and turned toward what is now the edge of the woods, rendered a Civil War salute (palm turned outward) and said, "Peace be with you. Until our next posting."
Immediately, an orb of light that was bigger and brighter than any star burst forth at the tree line, less than 50 yards away in a place where none of our people had been, and then it went out.
They're still here, I thought. We will be back.
I've seen the same light, more times than I can count, on the hillside near my home where Fort Piano stood during the Civil War.
It happens at night, while I am sitting on my back porch, after I have saluted and raised a toast To Absent Brothers.


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Steve Zwick, Contributor
I write about the economic value of nature's services.
Will anyone who is coming to this post after reading about it on other blogs please read the whole thing — including the addendum and the PS and the PPS at the end — before commenting? If you disagree, please disagree with what I said, and not with what you imagine I said.
Every former addict seems to remember the moment he decided to change: maybe he woke up in prison, or in the hospital; or maybe he injured someone, or lost his job. Whatever the cause, something forces him to accept that his actions have consequences, and that those consequences will lead to disaster for him and others if he doesn't alter his behavior. Then, in the best of cases – and if it's not too late – he fixes himself.
A recent poll by Yale and George Mason Universities shows that most Americans are at or near that point on climate change, with 72% of us seeing a link between extreme weather and our own actions. It's a link that climate models have long predicted, and with the benefit of hindsight we see that even the earliest models have proven accurate over time.
At the same time, however, the denial machine is ratcheting up its disinformation campaign, and therein lies the problem. Every time someone validates or fine-tunes the science, ten or twelve well-funded and active propagandists pop up to distort it – usually by twisting the attempts at fine-tuning into "proof" that the models are fundamentally useless, and then launching childish attacks on the scientists themselves.
This propaganda has already set us back two decades, during which the costs of dealing with climate change have risen and our chances of curtailing it have diminished. As crop failures mount and costs from damages rise, the denial machine will first continue to blame everything on nature, then it will pretend to be reconsidering its position in light of "new" evidence, and finally it will pretend this was all just an honest mistake – oops, sorry.
Well that doesn't wash, because the evidence is there right now for anyone who does their homework, and it has been for some time. What's also there is a very public record of who has been lying to the public and who hasn't – and it's time to start using this information to make the liars and shirkers pay.
Let's take a page from those Tennessee firemen we heard about a few times last year – the ones who stood idly by as houses burned to the ground because their owners had refused to pay a measly $75 fee.
We can apply this same logic to climate change.
We know who the active denialists are – not the people who buy the lies, mind you, but the people who create the lies. Let's start keeping track of them now, and when the famines come, let's make them pay. Let's let their houses burn until the innocent are rescued*. Let's swap their safe land for submerged islands. Let's force them to bear the cost of rising food prices.
They broke the climate. Why should the rest of us have to pay for it?
Obviously, the ideal solution is to get our collective act together and prevent this from happening, but we need a fall-back – a mechanism that puts responsibility for damages on the shoulders of the shirkers and deniers who cause it and profit from it, and we need to build that mechanism before the damages materialize.
If you look at the typical profile of a denier, you will find most of them are old, white men (just think of the Koch brothers and the rest of the 1%) who won't be around, and certainly don't want to be around when the fire catches hold. They are also most likely to have enough money to protect themselves, or their descendents to some extent as well. I suspect that some of them are also psychopaths with no sense of empathy toward others.
As ever, it's the 99% who will suffer the most severe burns and it is this 99% who need to be persuaded to stop burning fossil fuels as we are all pouring gas on the fire right now. When the spark ignites we can be sure that the deniers will be long gone to their islands and bunkers.
So what can we do? Apart from reducing our individual impacts we can cooperate with those around us to build communities which can become resilient to disasters through things like local farming, local production, education and repair and innovation centers. We need to walk away from the lifestyle that is helping to burn down our houses.
Education is the answer, coupled with taking personal action, which shows we practise what we preach. Some might call this mentoring.
My years of experience debating with deniers on the Guardian website has taught me the value of patient engagement using scientific knowledge as a guide. It is quite impoosible to crack the toughest nuts, but it's the others who are unsure, but open to new ideas who are the main audience. They are the majority who will decide our future.
As for the core institutions like Heartland in the USA and the GWPF foundation in Britain, the best approach seems to be to push for transparency. Such propaganda machines do not like the oxygen of publicity, and rapidly lose funders (GM just pulled the plug on Heartland) due to toxic association. They often also enjoy charitable status, or 501(c) tax exemption, which can be revoked if they are not operating according to their stated aims.
Sometimes the battle seems hopeless, but, like the tobacco lobby, they can be beaten. The tradegy is by the time this happens it may be too late to save the building from being destroyed. That never prevented a dedicated fireman from trying though!
See my comment Steve. The shifting rationale for doing nothing is disturbing, but hopefully the rising tide of agitation at those who advocate disinheriting our children of the planet we found will expand to the needed level in time. In the meantime, the rest of us must embrace solutions in our own lives. I've seen it make a difference in my own neighborhood.
Old white men? How about young Latino women? You are a sexist and a racist I take it? Psychopaths? So now you are a psychologist too?
I don't have an island or a bunker, I can assure you that. I just want you fascists to leave me alone and stop trying to curb my water and property rights on my own land, on behalf of some bug.
'We need to walk away from the lifestyle that is helping to burn down our houses.'
So what are YOU doing to begin this lifestyle change, hypocrite? Until I see morons like you living in unheated shacks with no electricity or amenities, and grow your own food, and we get to do research on how well your lifestyle is going, don't act like we all need to do what you think we should do. Tell ya what…you get that horrendous POS al gore to give up his lavish lifestyle, airplanes that pollute every time he travels to tell the story about how much planes pollute, give up his incredibly wasteful home that consumes many times more power than the average person, THEN, and only MAYBE then, will those of us like me who understand what your agenda is start to think about living as you see fit for us. It's interesting that in this article, it's those who are in denial who have ruined the earth and caused global warming. Tell ya what steve zwick….why don't you admit that you, yes YOU, have something to do with the warming of the planet? Huh? You drive a cr likely, use toilets, breathe, need heat. You liberals are such hypocrites. I don't believe for a second that we have warming that is caused by humans, at least not warming anywhere near the extent you all claim is caused by humans. And it's interesting always to note that airplanes by the hundreds around the planet are spraying chemtrails by the literally mega tons, and you are silent about that. Let me tell ya something….I've been researching chemtrails for years now. And what I know about them is that the sheer number of planes spraying as heavily as they do are causing as much harm as anything else on this planet you could possibly mention. And another thing I've researched is how much the chemtrails themselves are causing warming of the planet. So, while you sit there like the little hypocrites you are pointing the finger at all of US who are ruining YOUR world, you do your share of polluting your wonderful planet too. You are hypocrites to the Nth degree. It has become so apparent that you have an agenda that isn't what you claim. All we in-the-know need to know is how well your little secret was unearthed through the climategate email scandals, doctored climate data, taking temperature measurements near parking lots that have lots of blacktop to give the impression there is warming going on, et al. You liberals are sickening. If you want even a modicum of attention paid to your little scandal, try telling us in the same article what you are doing or have done to save the planet. All we intelligent beings hear is do as I say, not as I do. Hypocrites.
Actually Bluecloud….I am 55 and been around long enough to understand bullshit when I see it. And the Climate threats by B.S. Liar artist Gore and company is a sack of lies. I am highly educated and I have read very extensively on this subject over years. If you do not understand the root of this bullshit is the "hockey stick".
you're idea is right about communitys for self reliance,but that has nothing to do with climate change and you can do that with our without buying into this complete bullshit that Steve Zwick is trying to spill to us…
its mostly the corproations and actually its the people who sponsor the legislation, al gore, hillary clinton, ceo of goldman sachs ETC who ahve the biggest co2 footprints and who attually stand to make the most money on this guys idea to tax everyone who reasonably questions climate change which has been forced down our throat in every tv program magiazine etc….
i mean at some point you gotta realize that they cram it down our throats so often, and so many ppl still wont beleive the bullshit, that this Steve Zwick guy has to be pretty weak minded to feel this passionately about somethjing that is so blatantly a money grab and a power grab for the electricity water, utility companies worldwide.
Maybe you start by turning off YOUR cherry-picking BS, and by attempting to engage in the debate honestly. This sort of doo-doo just disqualifies you as an honest voice.
(Was replying to the author's post; ". . . how do we turn off the torrent of BS these guys are flooding us with?")


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Nine more banks have been slapped with subpoenas in connection with an investigation into alleged interest-rate manipulation by banks, an inside source shared with the Wall Street Journal (paywall).
Banks that received subpoenas include: Bank of America Corp., Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ, Credit Suisse Group AG, Lloyds Banking Group, Rabobank Groep NV, Royal Bank of Canada, Société Générale, Norinchukin Bank and West LB AG, according to the person familiar with the investigation.
The probe is a joint effort between the offices of New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen. The subpoenas – issued in August and September, but not previously reported on – bring the total number of subpoenas in the case to 16.
According to the Journal, the banks under investigation employ most members of the panel that helps set the dollar London interbank offered rate (Libor). Several banks are accused of rigging Libor.
The New York-Connecticut Libor investigation focus on how Libor rates could have affected investors, state agencies and municipalities that invested in interest-rate swaps tied to the rate to help manage their debt costs, according to the paper. The losses that occurred because of rate manipulation could have a direct impact on state finances. Interest-rate investigations are also occurring in other states, including Massachusetts and Florida, the Journal previously reported.
In July, Barclays paid about $450 million to U.S. and U.K. regulators as part of a settlement in which the London bank admitted that executives and traders had manipulated Libor. The firm's CEO and chairman later resigned.
Attorney General Schneiderman was appointed by President Barack Obama in January to head a joint committee investigating the national mortgage crisis. Since then, a number of banking resolutions have passed in New York State.


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There's a new grocery option downtown.
Aisle Nine, at 112 S. Central St., opened last week, according to manager Kate Joy. The small store offers a variety of packaged foods (think Kraft Mac & Cheese, Cheerios, Jif peanut butter) and a wide selection of beers. Joy said the store had just sold its last container of milk, although more will be coming on Friday (from Cruze Dairy Farm) and meat will be coming in the next two or three weeks.
Downtown denizens have long said a grocery is needed in the center city but previous ideas have mostly failed to take off.


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Xilinx FPGA Design Tools for Linux
A field programmable gate array (FPGA) is a user-programmable piece of silicon constructed in very large-scale integration (VLSI) technology. The VLSI transistor-level detail is absolutely predefined in an FPGA. Internally, the FPGA consists of a matrix-like fabric of logic and interconnect elements that are inherently flexible. Flexibility is accomplished through programmable SRAM memory cells that define the silicon resources. FPGAs are standard commodity parts with trillions of possible user configurations. This essential organizational structure of the FPGA has persisted through two decades of VLSI technology development. However, today's FPGAs are utterly unlike those of yesteryear.
FPGAs are blurring the lines between hardware and software in systems. FPGA devices are inherently soft-programmable and may be changed dynamically during the operation of a system. More compellingly, FPGA devices now also contain embedded microprocessors within the logic fabric, and these microprocessors can run Linux. Imagine a Linux computer with up to millions of gates of flexible logic immediately around it. One way to grok this new paradigm is to think of the following: "Software is configuration bits for hardware."
FPGA design is custom silicon design with less effort than full-custom VLSI design. Besides processor cores, FPGAs today not only have logic gates and flip-flops, they also have large Block RAMs, embedded hardware multipliers, arithmetic acceleration logic, digital clock managers (DCMs) for frequency synthesis, multistandard system I/O cells with programmable line termination and multi-gigabit transceivers (MGTs). These system-oriented resources, along with the kinds of device packages and user I/O counts, are enumerated in Figure 1, which shows the most advanced of the FPGA devices, the Xilinx Virtex-II Pro family.
The technology of VLSI memory is everything in this equation—FPGAs are in the realm of commodity silicon manufacturing and typically have better silicon wafer yields than custom VLSIs. Following Moore's Law, FPGAs, much like DRAM and other advanced memory products, are the lead silicon technology drivers, pushing the most advanced 300mm wafer technology at deep submicron densities.
In this article, we introduce the most recent Xilinx FPGA design tools. The design tools are called the Integrated Software Environment, or ISE. These design tools are now released for the Linux platform as the Xilinx ISE 6.1i tools for Linux. This allows FPGA design on a platform having very low total cost of ownership.
Designing with an FPGA device is both different from and similar to programming microprocessors in a language such as C. Hardware description languages (HDLs) are used to design logic at a high level. Verilog and VHDL are the most popular HDLs in industry practice, and ISE 6.1i supports both. These languages allow description of hardware in structural or behavioral terms, or as a mix of both. HDLs are the input source code for specialized compilers, which either synthesize logic for a target or allow it to be simulated. Here, our focus is on logic synthesis, with an inside look at the FPGA and, finally, generation of the configuration bitstream with the ISE 6.1i tools.
One way logic is different from software is that it's inherently parallel. HDLs can describe numerous concurrent changes directly, unlike the major programming languages, for example, when specifying synchronous changes in a logic circuit based on the rising edge of a clock signal. In logic design, as contrasted with programming, one is often describing something that takes area, not memory. Both logic and programs require that time elapses during operation, and our preference is normally that it be very little time. As we will see, the ISE 6.1i design tools can help with both area and time optimization.
This article covers the basic steps in entering a simple but interesting design in Verilog and explores some of the capabilities of the tool. We also look inside the FPGA device configuration. See Resources for more information about the Verilog HDL. Additionally, refer to the July 2002 issue of LJ (/article/6001) for an article on a free Verilog tool, which also contains a Verilog tutorial.
For this tour, we synthesize a 16-bit pipelined parallel multiplier by specifying it with behavioral Verilog. We use synthesis to create and evaluate this result. Then, we use the implementation tools in ISE 6.1i to create a configuration for a particular Virtex-II Pro FPGA device. Various options of the toolchain are explained in the process, including a way to look inside the implemented FPGA.
After the software is installed, we open a shell and begin. The process starts by typing ise at the command line. This brings up the Project Navigator, which is the screen shown in Figure 2. To start a new FPGA design project, select a new project under the File menu. This brings up the window shown in Figure 3. Here, we enter a project name, MPY-TEST, and indicate the kind of top-level module we're going to use for this project. We are interested in an HDL top-level module for this tour, but ISE 6.1i allows the use of several other top-level module types.
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Black and Latino entrepreneurs push an insular and often risk-averse industry in new directions.
via Judith Messina of Crain's New York
In a city that is 27% Latino and growing, Ricardo Garcia-Amaya is a rarity. He's a tech entrepreneur who founded a venture-capital-backed startup.
"I find myself at the forefront," said Mr. Garcia-Amaya, whose company, DonorTap, uses data to help nonprofits raise money.
It's a place he's gotten to by stepping beyond his Latino roots. "Within my immediate Latino community, there are no mentors, especially in tech in early stage," Mr. Garcia-Amaya explained. "In fact, forget about tech; just early-stage investment is extremely difficult. Throw in tech and it's a whole different ballgame."
Black and Latino entrepreneurs are a small subset of Silicon Alley, where 83% of teams getting seed and Series A money are all white, according to 2010 research from CB Insights, with the all-white teams receiving a higher median investment from venture capitalists.


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Cultural Diversity OrganizationThe Cultural Diversity Organization consists of students and advisors, from various facets of Westminster College, who want to improve cultural awareness and respect of diversity. The club promotes intercultural learning, conducts research and promotes networking amongst its members and neighboring communities.
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Advisor: Jill firstname.lastname@example.com Black Student Association (BSA) To represent the interests of Westminster's Black student population and to express their cultural heritage
Student Contact: Lashaye Allen Advisor: Cinnamon Brown International ClubThis organization was created with the intention of promoting and encouraging a better understanding of the "Global Village" in which we live through both social and service programming. The Club seeks to promote friendship based on mutual understanding and respect and to encourage cultural exchange and awareness and to facilitate international understanding. All students with an interest in sharing an awareness of world cultures and peoples are encouraged to join, both international and American students, alike. Student Contact: Estefania Morera Advisor: Dr. Catherine Pesce African Union OrganizationAfrican Union Organization is an organization for students who are interested in Africa and deal with issues pertaining Africa. Mainly we work with other organizations and try to help or get contacts on projects they are doing pertaining to African issues. This organization is based on an African Union club in Whales UWC. Student Contact: Sharon OkelloAdvisor: Dr. Sam GoodfellowSpanish ClubThe Spanish Club is composed of a group of students who promote Spanish language and culture.
Student Contact: Brittney Regal Advisor Contact: Susan Divine The AllianceThe Alliance is a group that seeks to explore LGBT issues and help students understand the LGBT community. Any issues that could be related back to sexual orientation can be covered in Alliance meetings. The Alliance also serves to act as a bridge between straight "Allies" and those of the LGBT community. Attendence in this group does not imply any claim to a sexual orientation; any and all students are welcome to join.
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VOICES(Valuing Our Impact on the Cultural Experiences of Students)
Voices is an organization that serves as an umbrella of all cultural organizations present on the WC campus:
* The African Union Organization (AUO) * The Black Student Organization (BSA) * The Cultural Diversity Organization (CDO) * The French Club * The International Club
VOICES will help the represented clubs/organizations to define specific purposes for the clubs/organizations, to encourage extended participation from all groups to one another, to sponsor an annual event together and ultimately, to help create a stronger voice for the multi-culturally involved students on campus.
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Null Hypothesis ≠ Presuppositionalism
It was just over a year ago that I seriously considered a range of theological, philosophical and empirical data regarding the existence of God and the likelihood that any theistic religion, particularly Christianity, was true. As I read books, blogs and web sites, I occasionally stumbled across the term, presuppositionalism. I quickly gathered that this is a branch of Christian apologetics that starts with the premises that God is real and that Christianity is true, and then seeks to find rational support for those premises. I probably don't need to point out to you that this method of reasoning is circular. Presuppositionalists try to weasel out of that charge by claiming that there are different types of circularity, that their method does not rely on mere vicious circularity (which they agree is a logical fallacy) and that all methods of inquiry rely, to some degree, on presuppositionalism. Therefore, even if they are guilty, so is everyone else.
Presuppositionalists claim that their presuppositions – 1. that God exists and 2. that the Christian version of God is the correct one – are not unreasonable and are, in fact, the only ones by which humans can make any sense of the world. Naturalists, on the other hand, claim that humans are capable of observing and testing data in the world and drawing sound conclusions about the nature of the universe on the bases of their tests and observations…
Continue Reading September 3, 2008 at 9:57 pm the chaplain 13 comments
From Theistic Evolution to Apostasy
For much of my evangelical Christian life, I held a Theistic Evolutionary view of creation. I'll confess that I didn't always adhere firmly to this view. Sometimes I wavered and veered into a fairly conservative Creationist point of view. Nevertheless, I could never entirely shake free of the realization that evolution had lots of empirical support. Moreover, I realized this long before I ever read my first book about evolution.
What, you may wonder (or maybe not), does a theistic view of evolution look like? Let me state up front that I can only describe what my view was; I cannot and do not claim to speak in any way for other theistic evolutionists. My view of theistic evolution was pretty simple and consisted of these points:
- The first section of Genesis (say, the first eleven chapters) should not be read as literal accounts; they were literary constructions intended to recognize and respectfully memorialize through poetic imagery God's activity in the universe. As for the rest of Genesis, I'll shamefacedly admit that I took much of it literally.
- Evolution was the process that God designed to create and sustain life on earth…
Continue Reading August 16, 2008 at 4:58 pm the chaplain 115 comments
Shopping For God
James Twitchell, a professor of English and advertising, spent more than two years researching and writing his account of the USA's recent rise in religiosity. He notes that consumerism is deeply ingrained in American culture and that American religion has not escaped its effects. In fact, as Twitchell demonstrates, American religion played a role in shaping American consumerism. Thus, the phrase "shopping for God" is literal as well as metaphorical. Twitchell visited dozens of churches and interviewed scores of pastors and churchgoers to discover what churches are selling and what religious consumers are buying. The result is an engaging book that offers substantial insights into both American religion and consumerism.
Twitchell opens by citing the intersections and interactions between American religion and popular culture. It was once the norm that celebrities said little about their religious beliefs. Nowadays, celebrities flaunt their faith. Few, if any, Americans are not aware of Mel Gibson's Catholicism, or Tom Cruise's Scientology, or Richard Gere's Buddhism, or George W. Bush and Hillary Clinton's Methodism. And religion pervades movies and television. Most Americans have viewed, repeatedly, such "sword and sandal" epics as The Ten Commandments and Ben Hur. Throughout the 1990s, Touched By an Angel was one of the most popular shows on television. And TV news shows, such as Dateline, frequently do special features on religion. You can't even escape from religion in your car, unless you keep the radio off, because most programming on the AM band is religious. And guess what subject ranks second only to pornography in Internet popularity? Religion is even ubiquitous in print media. In 2004, Americans spent $3.7 billion on Christian books and related merchandise …
Continue Reading July 31, 2008 at 11:02 pm the chaplain 2 comments
In God We Trust?
As I was leaving a grocery store recently, I noticed a display that was stuffed and overflowing with Christian pamphlets. One of them was entitled, "In God We Trust: What Does It Still Mean?"
Many atheist bloggers and podcasters have explained why they find this motto offensive and have argued that it should be removed from American currency. In response, or perhaps as a pre-emptive move, many theists have claimed that the motto is merely a reference to something they call "ceremonial deism." Atheists have generally countered this statement with something like, "If it's merely ceremonial, then what's the harm in removing it?" To my knowledge, theists have not had an effective response to that query.
For the sake of argument, and also because it's probably true, I will concede that many people, Christians, Jews, Muslims, probably don't really care one way or the other whether the phrase remains on American currency. But, as the pamphlet I am about to deconstruct demonstrates, there are some Christians (I have no way of determining how few or how many) who take the phrase seriously and who consider it to be much more than just a "ceremonial" statement.
The pamphlet opens with these statements:
Printed boldly on the back of the United States currency is the motto "In God We Trust." We have seen it so often that it may have lost its meaning to us. But found in these words is the secret to national and personal greatness...
Continue Reading July 22, 2008 at 12:22 am the chaplain 197 comments
Yet Another Review of The God Delusion
Since its initial release, millions of people have read The God Delusion. Some have echoed Michael Shermer in hailing it "not just as an important work of science, but as a great work of literature." Others have sided with H. Allen Orr in deeming it a "badly flawed" book in which Dawkins "makes a far from convincing case" for his opposition to religion. My view lies somewhere between these two extremes.
The God Delusion is not Dawkins' best book. In fact, it may be his worst (even so, Dawkins at his worst is immeasurably superior to most of us at our best). While his scientific discussions are, as always, insightful and illuminating, his philosophical and theological shortcomings are clear. Nevertheless, The God Delusion is a book that should be taken seriously by religious believers and non-believers alike.
Dawkins describes himself as a religious non-believer, a position that he also ascribes to Einstein, Sagan and Hawking – lofty company, indeed. Since theists are often quick to claim that Einstein was a theist too, Dawkins cites several passages from Einstein's letters and other documents to refute their claim. Dawkins contends that Einstein was a deist, or perhaps a pantheist, but certainly not a theist…
Continue Reading July 11, 2008 at 11:05 am the chaplain 3 comments
Prayer: Why I may do it Anyway (if asked)
On Good Friday, 1973, my parents caught me smoking. It wasn't the first time I'd been caught, but it was the last. This wasn't because I quit immediately, per their demands. It was, rather, because I quickly grew fairly skilled at hiding my vice from them. Oh, they continued to harbor suspicions, but they never again caught me in the act. Anyway, it so happened that, like most good evangelical Christians, our family was scheduled to attend the annual Good Friday service that very evening. So, off to church we went.
I sat through the service and dreaded the coming altar call because I knew exactly what was going to happen. Sure enough, the pianist had barely begun playing the prayer chorus when my mother ambled over to where I was sitting with some friends and insisted that I accompany her to the altar. There, of course, I was compelled to repent of my sin, renounce my filthy habit and ask Jesus to forgive me. I mouthed the requisite syllables as tears of rage flowed down my cheeks.
I was enraged at being compelled to say a prayer that I did not mean and thereby label myself as a hypocrite. You see, when I was fourteen I was in what I now regard as a state of rebellious disobedience of God. I believed in God but had absolutely no desire to follow, obey, love or worship him. Therefore, my prayer was utterly insincere and, as I understood the matter then, both he and I knew I hadn't meant a word of it. I believed that uttering an insincere prayer while in a state of believer's rebellion was the height of hypocrisy…
Continue Reading May 14, 2008 at 9:31 am the chaplain 25 comments


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Gamers can engage in classic 3D action as they take control of Marvel's wisecracking, mentally unstable mercenary while he slices, shoots, and teleports his way through a variety of levels in Deadpool. In his first dedicated video game, Deadpool sets off in search of a corrupt media mogul, using his swords, an arsenal of guns, heavy melee weapons, and explosives to hack and slash his way through hundreds of enemies, all while cracking jokes and talking directly to gamers. The action also includes other popular Marvel characters like Wolverine, Cable, Domino, and Psylocke.
Some of you may know me as the Merc with the Mouth. And it's time to get mouthy. Prepare to get Deadpooled - That's right, $#*! just got real! Couple things I'd like to get off my chest: I'm a mercenary for hire with an accelerated healing factor. I like to run my mouth. Some say I'm unstable but I'm very stable. (Yep, totally stable) (What about that time we beat the dude with his own arms?) (That doesn't count) And if you want to know what gets me going in the mornings, it;s chimichangas! (Mmmmm Chimichangas) WHOA, I feel better now. All right. I'm gonna battle for the safety of humans (and bewbs!) and mutants (and bewbs!)
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By BRAD KELLAR
Herald-Banner Staff
Having just completed a major renovation project at the city's oldest park, City of Greenville officials are now considering a much more modest revamp of a park at the other end of town.
The City Council voted Tuesday to issue a notice of its intent to issue up to $2.5 million in certificates of obligation, which would be used to pay for multiple efforts, including $40,000 for the renovation of Oak Creek Park.
The park located at the intersection of FM 1570 and Aerobic Lane features ball fields, grills, a jogging trail, a pavilion, playgrounds, picnic tables and restrooms and is a popular location for youth soccer games.
Parks and Recreation Director Colby VanGundy told the Council that the renovation of Oak Creek is next in line for an upgrade, following renovations at Warren Park and Graham Park.
Warren Park at 3100 Webb Avenue, close to the center of Greenville, received a state-of-the-art "playscape" in the summer of 2010, which featured the latest interactive elements, allowing children to engage in rock climbing and other endeavors before flying in the swings or heading down the slides.
Graham Park, at the north end of the city, was recently reopened after a $1 million renovation effort.
VanGundy said the Parks Board wanted to pay some attention to the south end of Greenville and decided on Oak Creek.
"The facilities that have not been replaced, they all need it," VanGundy said.
Council member Dan Perkins agreed the renovation was overdue.
"It is a needed park and it is time," Perkins said.
VanGundy said as much of the work, which would be similar to the upgrades at Warren Park, as possible will be done in-house to save money, but added Oak Creek Park is not the only facility needing attention.
"I get requests every day for different parks," VanGundy Said.
The City Council is expected to vote to issue the certificates on February 12.


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Your first look at what's happening around Milwaukee. All of the latest events you can't miss in the city.
On Tap for Today: Tuneful Tubby and tuneful Tommy
You're two days into the work week. We feel your pain. So we'll get right to the entertainment part.
Tubby the Tuba is a pajama jamboree at the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts. It starts at 7 p.m. Details are here.
Jetty Rae entertains at Fall Fest at the University of Wisconsin-Waukesha. Yup, it starts at 7 p.m.
The Brewers go back at it with the Colorado Rockies at 7:10 p.m. at Miller Park.
Tommy Keene plays Shank Hall starting at 8 p.m.
Maybe the day unfolds with enough time for a drive and some art. Here's a suggestion.
If you're staying home for television, "H8R" makes it debut at 7 p.m. on CW. "Survivor: South Pacific" begins at 7 p.m. on CBS and NBC premieres "Free Agents" at 9:30 p.m. "Free Agents" could be fun, if you give it a chance.
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A very strange column in the UK tries to use Google's experiments with high speed broadband in Kansas City as a way of justifying a national broadband program. It's not just that you cannot apply the US experience to the UK, there's a much deeper problem within the argument.
Both of these US states have cities called Kansas City and in both of them Google is signing up customers for what any informed person would call real broadband, namely a connection running at 1,000Mbps. It uses fibre-optic cables to give gigabit (1,000Mbps) connection speeds to subscribers. For $70 a month on a 12-month contract, Google promises them up to 1,000Mbps upload and download speeds, plus a terabyte (1,000 gigabytes) of free online storage. Alternatively, for a one-off $300 connection fee, Google offers them 5Mbps download and 1Mbps upload free for seven years.
I agree that those are extremely attractive offers. Indeed I would certainly, if it were offered where I live, take the second of them. And we can compare these offers to what is available in the UK:
On this, they are strangely evasive, but essentially they appear to mean broadband speeds ranging from 2Mbps (megabits per second) – which is marginally better than smoke signals but will be available to even the humblest yokel in the land – to as much as perhaps 100Mbps in favoured urban locations, in which frappuccinos and other delicacies are available. If such heights can be attained by 2015, the aforementioned governors assure their readers that Ruritania will lead Europe.
The leap is then made that if Google can offer really fast broadband then therefore there must be a national plan to extend that all over the UK. And I'm sure there are others making much the same argument in the US. Justifying it all the while with the mantra that if others are faster then we'll be left behind and then….well, apparently the economy crumbles or something.
There are a number of problems with this argument. The most obvious being that outside certain very specific uses (video editing for example, where people can pay up for their own T1 line) there's not really much evidence that speeds above 2 Mbps or so actually improve productivity or economic performance/growth. Sure, they're great for consumers who want to download movies but that's not really a justification for a large scale infrastructure program.
It is a justification for those who want to sell downloaded movies to pay for their own, but it's not a rational or reasonable call on the resources of the nation to build it for them.
However, there's also one much larger flaw in the logic being used here:
Since Google is not a registered charity, you may ask why it's doing this. The first reason is simply that it can, because ever since the collapse of the first internet boom, Google has been acquiring, at knockdown prices, the bandwidth capacity (the "dark fibre") installed by the telephone companies at the height of the bubble. (This also explains why the company can absorb the colossal bandwidth requirements of YouTube without missing a beat.)
There's a very large difference between being able to do something usefully experimental with an orphaned asset and having to pay for the construction of that asset in the first place. The telecoms companies lost fortunes on laying that fibre (indeed, several, including such as Global Crossing, went resoundingly bust for billions in doing so). That something that was built for $100 can find a use when it is sold for $1 (just to make up some numbers) is not an argument in favour of spending the $100.
Yet that is exactly what the argument being proposed is. Look, Google's got really cool fast broadband, now we should build it for everyone! What's being missed is that, at least so far as we know as yet, that really fast broadband isn't worth the cost of building it. It only makes sense even for Google because they've not had to pay full price for it.
It is possible that ultra-, mega-, hyper-, whatever-, fast broadband will be something worth building to every home in the land. I tend to think that it will be a mixture of fibre in high density areas and mobile in low if and when it does happen. But we have absolutely no evidence as yet that it will be a sensible economic decision and we really shouldn't do anything until we have evidence that it is.
At the very least, if we're to use Google as an example, we need to ask not what is the cost to Google of providing it, not what did Google pay for that fibre, but what was the real cost of laying that fibre in the first place? For that is the number that will be important if we decide to lay more fibre.
you don't even know the difference between backbone and last mile. who at forbes thought you were appropriate to hire to write about technology?
the difference is that the urban area DOES require a higher-capacity backbone, but the 1Gb to the shack is the same as 1Gb to an apartment in NYC. we're talking nodes, not backbones. so exactly why can't we have 1Gb to the node nationally? you break out the backbones as appropriate, but leave everyone with a 1Gb pipe to their house.
there are elementary school students with a better understanding of the Internet than you.
I quit reading at: "The most obvious being that outside certain very specific uses (video editing for example, where people can pay up for their own T1 line) there's not really much evidence that speeds above 2 Mbps or so actually improve productivity or economic performance/growth. " because this person is obviously an idiot with no current concept of what all is used on the internet nor a vision for what can come.
Glad you werent around to stop the improvement in the highway system, phone system, electrical system and whatever other " utility" that you take for granted now.
Does it cost money to improve and move forward? Sure. But you implying the cost is not justified is silly. Cost savings in maintenance alone justifies it.
"The most obvious being that outside certain very specific uses (video editing for example, where people can pay up for their own T1 line) there's not really much evidence that speeds above 2 Mbps or so actually improve productivity or economic performance/growth. Sure, they're great for consumers who want to download movies but that's not really a justification for a large scale infrastructure program."
I rather take exception to this statement on grounds that many don't think of. Yes, granted those speeds are great for downloading movies. They are also great for just plain downloading. Perhaps I re-imaged my machine at home and now have over 7 GB worth of software patches and updates to download and install for both the OS and 3rd party applications. Online gaming also now in many cases come with very large content updates (1GB or more) periodically and lets not forget many software items are now going to a digital distribution method. So if I buy a program and its an average 2-3 GB install…1000Mb vs a 2Mb connection is a WORLD of difference and a handy time saver.
congratulations on only calling out your feeble responses to these posts. hooray for open discussion.
To those who have responded to this terrible piece, I wouldn't waste my time. The author has no idea what he is writing about. Anyone writing about broadband should know that a T1 line runs at 1.5 Mbps, which is, of course, slower than 2Mbps.
Additionally, the Global Crossing fiber and other such fiber paths made famous from the dotcom bust have nothing to do with Kansas City. Google has spent its own capital creating its own fiber optic network in Kansas City. There is a lot of dark fiber out there, but it isn't leading to every home. For how bad the broadband markets function, even they are so horrible as to ignore such a resource if it existed.
This is a person without the most basic grasp on any of the facts on which he is writing, so don't waste your time trying to refute him.


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What: Public Hearing on New Billboard/EMC Ban
When: Monday, October 29, 2012 - 5:30pm
Where: City/County Building
Knox County Commission will hold a public input session on a proposal by Commissioner Richard Briggs to ban new billboards, prohibit the conversion of traditional billboards to digital format and ban new electronic message centers in Knox County. This will likely be voted on at the December County Commission meeting.
Today's News-Sentinel has an opinion piece by Scenic Knoxville president Joyce Feld where she outlines the case for supporting the resolutions.
The city of Knoxville has had these controls in place for over 10 years and Knox County has had a moratorium on new billboards and digitals for 4-1/2 years. Knox County already has hundreds of billboards, many of which are blank.
My favorite billboard, if there is such a thing, is the one at Rutledge Pike and I-40 by Joe Neubert's auto body repair shop:
There are enough distractions on the road and in your car without adding flashing, scrolling signs and "TV screens in the sky," as digital billboards have been called. Once a billboard is in place, it almost never comes down. Furthermore, once a billboard is erected, the community has no control over what is advertised on the billboard because of free speech. It is intrusive advertising and there is no escape from it. In a way, billboards steal the view because they overwhelm everything around them - the scenery, the architecture, and even the on-premises signs of businesses around them.
I support these resolutions and hope people who feel the same will attend the public meeting and speak, or email Commissioners at firstname.lastname@example.com and ask them to support the scenic beauty of our area.
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Ryan Fahey begins his first season with the Dartmouth program in 2013.
Fahey joins the Dartmouth staff from Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, where he has been an assistant coach for the past three years, primarily working with the goalkeepers.
A goalkeeper by trade, Fahey helped the Stags to three consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances and also served as the Stags Camp Director.
In addition to his duties at Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, Fahey served as the Chivas USA Youth Academy goalkeeper coach and served as a trainer at CATZ Sports Performance Center. Fahey has also served as a coach for the Foothill Storm Soccer Club and as private goalkeeper coach.
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What do you expect from Budget 2013/14?
The annual budget, to be unveiled on Feb. 28, is likely to be the last ahead of the 2014 elections and is perhaps the government's final chance to announce steps to improve India's investment climate.
Reuters India asks its readers to share their views on the budget and what they would do if they were in the finance minister's shoes this year.
What is your budget wishlist for this year? What should the income tax slabs look like? Which investment products should be added or removed from the exemption list?
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What do you expect from Budget 2012/13?
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee will present the annual budget in parliament on March 16.
The Direct Taxes Code (DTC) will be in focus this year. Individuals will seek more clarity on income tax slabs and the investment instruments eligible for tax exemptions. Options like tax-saving funds (ELSS) may no longer be eligible for tax breaks going ahead.
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Railways Minister Mamata Banerjee unveiled a populist budget on Friday that froze both passenger and freight fares, disappointing hopes for major reform in a lagging sector key to the country's infrastructure growth.
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Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee will present the annual budget in parliament on February 28.
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The government has freed up state-subsidised petrol prices and also hiked the prices of diesel, cooking gas and kerosene.
Petrol prices would be market driven and have been raised by 3.50 rupees per litre, while kerosene prices were hiked by 3 rupees a litre. Diesel prices saw an addition of 2 rupees per litre and will be freed up in the future. Cooking gas prices were raised by 35 rupees a cylinder.
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The government raised personal income tax slabs for 2010/11, which could result in a net tax saving of 20,000 to 50,000 rupees for those earnings above 300,000 rupees.
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ZEBULON — The chairperson of East Wake Relay for Life is keeping tabs on two important things with just a handful of days left until the annual event – participation and precipitation.
The weather, Vickie Curtis said, is projected to cooperate for the local Relay, scheduled for this Friday, May 17, at Five County Stadium.
"You know I'm looking – I start looking the week before (Relay) and watching it," Curtis said Wednesday of the weather forecast. "We should be in good shape next week."
The number of participants in the event and the amount of money they collect to support the American Cancer Society's research and family support programs, however, are things the event can never have enough of. Sitting on just over half its fundraising target a week before the event, East Wake Relay is hoping for a big push toward meeting its goal this week.
This year's fundraising goal is $113,000, close to the amount the event raised last year. As of last week, a little over $62,600 had been collected. That money is used to fund research and to provide support to cancer victims and their families.
The Relay had 22 teams on board at that time, about the same amount as in recent years, according to Curtis.
"We had some teams that didn't return and we have some new teams," she said. "But we're always looking for new teams to join us, even the week before. We had a team join us two weeks before Relay last year and they raised $300 – $300 we didn't have before they joined."
Last year, Curtis joked that she barely had room to list about 70 corporate sponsors on the back of the local Relay T-shirts. The joke has intensified this year, as the American Cancer Society will have to fit 85 corporate sponsors on the latest print of the shirts.
"I also told ACS they could start printing across the front and the sleeves too if needed," Curtis said. "Our goal is bring in the sponsors. It's their job to figure out how to get them on the shirt."
At the highest level of sponsorship are the Town of Zebulon and the Carolina Mudcats organization, which provide the space and more for the annual event.
There are currently seven Silver-level sponsors (donating $1,000 or more), nine Bronze sponsors ($500-999) and 65 Donor sponsors ($250-499).
There are also 25 additional sponsors that made contributions of money, products or services through the individual Relay teams.
Curtis said the local Relay keeps operating expenses within reason, spending about $1,800 to put on the event, thanks to the efforts of its committee and teams in soliciting support and the response they get from the local communities.
"Without those folks supporting us with their donations, and the community coming together as a whole with their team fundraisers and at the May 17 event, we could not do Relay," she said. "I need them to realize how much we appreciate them."
The event is seeking walkers to keep feet on the Relay track throughout the night Friday, but is really interested in finding friends and creating lasting relationships.
"If you're thinking about joining Relay, come out and observe us, talk to the teams that are there and figure out what it's all about," Curtis said. "That way (you) might be able to make a better decision about joining us next year – by creating a team."
The gates will open for the event this Friday at 5 p.m., opening ceremonies will begin at 5:50. Luminaries and torches can be purchased and donations made online at www.relayforlife.org/eastwake.
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