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Not Enough Evidence?
Paul Jenkins
One of the common challenges I receive from people in my encounters is that my Christianity is an emotional crutch. It helps me to sleep at night, it's a convenient explanation to children's questions about life and death, and the more aggressive will claim it's an institution of power and control to steal people's money (which in the case of unbiblical 'Christianity' – I could agree to some extent).
If this was true, I wouldn't be convinced either. But speaking for myself and what I think represents Biblical Christianity, truth is what is to be sought. Not what might improve or not improve my life. Not what 'works' or what doesn't seem to work. If the truth is uncomfortable, I want to know it no matter the consequences.
At this point, I won't even discuss relative truth because it is ridiculous. Truth, is what is real – what corresponds to reality. And we're all looking for that – mostly. Just because I may choose to disbelieve in gravity, that doesn't cause me to float away as one of my pastors likes to point out. And as I like to point out – people who claim that truth is not universal still look both ways before they cross the street. So it is with analyzing various worldviews. If you believe all worldviews are equally valid in essence, you may as well continue on to another website.
In discussing principles such as these with the atheist/skeptic, they often concede, 'Okay, I agree there is such a thing as truth, and there may even be a god somehow. But if I stand before the God of the Bible, I will just say he never gave me enough evidence to believe.'
That actually raises a good question – has He?
Because of irreducible complexity, the second law of thermodynamics, fossil records…? Sure, in some ways… but I believe these are more a demonstration of God's glory which is to be admired and perhaps some useful evidence to further bolster biblical history. But that isn't the main thing. It isn't the main evidence or 'proof'.
The fact is, the evidence of God is reflected in our experience – especially our ability to reason, to experience and use logic, and to know truth. Only the Christian worldview provides the preconditions of intelligibility.
An atheist will often ask, 'show me some physical evidence that God exists!'. Okay – everything.
Consider the opposing worldview. There is only physical matter, which we cannot provide the origin of. In order for this worldview to be true, it must be consistent within itself, and with our experience. This is because I'm operating under the established premise: truth is what is real.
Consider now, our experience. We have minds. We reason – with the ability to reject falsehood and embrace truth. We experience the concrete laws of logic (such as the law of non-contradiction for instance) which are universal (affect everyone and everything), immaterial, and unchanging. Furthermore – we have a moral conscience which influences our actions to varying degrees, but is experienced by everyone nonetheless. Things exist. Life exists – not just physical matter such as rocks, air and water, but there is animation to our being.
In the naturalistic worldview, our reasoning is a result of chemical reactions in the brain, influenced by our interactions and predispositions. In this worldview, whose reasoning can be objectively 'true' or 'false'? What is the final standard by which we can determine this? Who are we to say one's person's chemical reaction is 'true' and the other 'false'?
This being said, the truth or falsehood of one's reasoning is accounted for in Scripture. People are made in the image of God (Genesis 1:26), which provides us with knowledge of truth and falsehood (Proverbs 9:10). God and his word (John 17:17) provide the standard of truth, and by extension we experience that.
One worldview can make coherent sense of our experience, and it isn't naturalism. I always find it ironic how Christianity is painted as a pie-in-the-sky pipe dream, yet the critics themselves rest on such an insufficient worldview.
It's fine if you want to be a naturalist. The Bible says that men will go to all lengths of irrationality in order to not worship him. In fact, it says the reason we experience the effects of 'futile thinking' (Romans 1:21) is because God is righteous, we're not, and we do not want to submit to Him. It's so much easier to throw flak in the air so we can continue in sin (Romans 1:29-31). We can continue to lie, covet, lust, commit adultery, steal, hate, and be greedy if we suppress our conscience in this manner (Romans 1:24-25).
The good news is that God welcomes all who will come to him. For those who are honest with themselves – realizing their imperfection would not stand before a righteous judgment (Hebrews 9:27), Jesus is a perfect Saviour who covers all of their sin. Indeed, he washes them white as snow.
"Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool. If you are willing and obedient you shall eat the good of the land; but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be eaten by the sword; for the mouth of the Lord has spoken." (Isaiah 1:18-20)
"…Everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." (Acts 2:21)
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Great article Paul. If people wish to continue to seek more on the topic of the logic for believing in god Alvin Plantinga and William Lane Craig are great sources.
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I'm glad people are reading this blog and not drinking the kool-aid because the logic is painful at best. Your 'objectivity' epiphany was reached in the 18th century and so the scientific method came into being, tests and tests against mathematics to determine truth, not human chemical reactions. In fact this method was developed in order to counteract 'from the gut', baseless theories from only one person's truth (this blog entry for near-perfect example).
Paul, an insufficient worldview is not something to be lamented. In fact scientists generally tend to agree thats where their wonder and connection to the world comes from, discovery. Insufficient means there's more to learn, a widely celebrated aspect of science. With your sufficient worldview what is left to learn? You apparently know how the world came into being… great for you. So now that you have all the answers why don't you sit back, crack open a beer and go watch a sunset. The rest of us (who are humble enough to embrace our lack of knowledge) aren't satisfied with the bible. So we'll be busy discovering quantum mechanics, abiogenesis, interstellar travel like the insufficiently understanding idiots that we are.
"The bible tells us how to go to heaven, not how the heavens go" – Galileo Galilei


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The big buzzword among fashion bloggers is "monetize." They're always looking for a way to monetize their blog, their outfit posts, their shopping suggestions. They'd love someone to subsidize their vacations. Hell, why not subsidize their entire life? Their blog sidebars are riddled with ads. Some of the retailers are recognizable, others are small boutiques suckered into the big league world of Blog Marketing 101. Affiliate links are everywhere. Their entire outfit might be c/o'd. Is that the big American Blogger Dream?
No one can deny that a few bloggers have basically lucked into a viewership that affords them a decent income per month, but what about the little guys? If you're in it for the money, does your hard work pay off? If it doesn't now, WILL IT EVER?
Let's start with a few case studies:
- What I Wore: Although Messica used to command thousands per monthly sponsorship, she now uses BuyAds.com to sell sponsorship slots. She is currently charging $5 per 1,000 impressions. As of now, she does have one ad on her site, but it's through AOL's Styleite service. She has no bought ads displayed from BuyAds.com. My guess is she's probably making around $1,000 per month in affiliate marketing revenue.
- The Daybook: According to Sydney's rates per ad and given how many ads she has on her blog right now, she's likely earning between $4,000-$5,000 per month.
- Bleubird Vintage: A source told us that Bleubird was allegedly pulling in between $100-$300 per ad spot on her site. If the higher of the rates is for a larger ad and the smaller commands around $100, she's also making about $4,000 per month.
- Using Affiliate Links: If a blogger has no sponsors but uses an affiliate link service such as RewardStyle when they link to products, they earn a commission off every purchase (and potentially every click through, depending on the service). We've heard from readers that commission returns vary widely. Popular bloggers (such as the ones on this list) could be making in the thousands, while a smaller blog could be making between $10-$500 per month.
I posted harsh words about popular blogger perceptions a few days ago and I stand by what I said. In reading the above, I have no doubt that there are bloggers telling themselves that they too, with enough hard work and great content, could match The Daybook's rates and pull in an extra $5k per month. But, the reality is that for every Daybook there are thousands and thousands of lookalike bloggers littering Bloglovin' and Blogger. They're mostly indistinguishable and they'll mostly stay that way. Making money in blogging is more about luck and connections than hard work. Take Messica, for example. She used to make thousands per month in sponsorships, but after a series of unfortunate life decisions and continual reader backlash, she's mostly faded into obscurity. She still posts stats that indicate she's receiving over $1 million pageviews a month, but what is that doing for her? Probably not much. She's still posting every day like she used to, still (inexplicably) getting millions of pageviews but I think you'd be hard pressed to find any evidence of that work and those statistics paying off in her bank account.
Here's the bottom line: You absolutely may luck into making some cash from your blog. But other than using affiliate linking, brand/retailer sponsorships are a product of luck based on fickle reader preference and unfortunately you can't control that, no matter how many outfits you wear or how much shit you buy. You can always hope to get picked up by a management firm like Jordan Reid or network like crazy or hope that some bigger blogger links to you, but the pay-off may STILL not come even if those things work.
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Posted: 20 Jul 2011 @ 00:00
by Ed Thornton
A TRANSLATION of the entire New Testament by Professor Tom Wright, a former Bishop of Durham, is published this month. The publishers, SPCK, hope that The New Testament for Everyone, along with the popular For Everyone commentaries, will confirm Professor Wright's position as the J. K. Rowling of Christian publishing.
The For Everyone commentaries have sold half a million copies in English, more than half of them in the UK. These alone represent an estimated £5 million in sales. In addition, SPCK publish another 24 books by Professor Wright, one of which, Simply Christian, has sold 160,000 (i.e. another £1.5 million in sales). He is now selling well on Kindle.
He is also published in 18 other languages, among them Korean, Chinese, Romanian, Farsi, and Arabic.
In an interview at the launch of The New Testament for Everyone at King's College, London, on Wednesday of last week, Professor Wright said that he decided to translate the whole New Testament when working on the commentaries.
"The series is designed for people who would never normally pick up a biblical commentary; it's designed for old Mrs Jones in the back pew for whom the word 'commentary' would be scary," he said. "So I did not want to say: 'The NIV is wrong at this point, or actually the NRSV hasn't quite got the meaning.' And the only way not do that was to do my own translation."
The For Everyone commentaries can be traced back to the five-year period in the 1990s when Professor Wright wrote the Church Times Sunday Readings column. In the late 1990s, Simon Kingston, who is now general secretary and chief executive of SPCK, visited Professor Wright in Lichfield, where the latter was Dean of the Cathedral.
"Simon sat in my study and said: the William Barclay things are fine, but they're way out of date, we need to do that again — and you're the man to do it," Professor Wright recalled. "The thing that gave me the courage to say yes was knowing that I had written 500 words a week for five years for the Church Times. So I thought, if I can do that, it's just possible that I can do 800 words on each paragraph."
The commentaries, on which work began in 2000, should have been completed by 2006, Professor Wright said, but his appointment as Bishop of Durham in 2003 meant that "grabbing time to do that serious writing was much harder".
He said that he was greatly helped in the translation process of The New Testament for Everyone by Dr Michael Lakey, "a brilliant Greek scholar" who lectures in New Testament at Ripon College, Cuddesdon. "Over this last year, Michael has worked right through the text, millimetre by millimetre, and pointed out all sorts of places where he says, 'I don't think you've quite got the nuance here, or the meaning there'; or, in some cases, I've missed out whole phrases without realising it."
In the preface to the translation, Professor Wright says that it is "a translation, not a paraphrase. I have tried to stick closely to the original. . . There is no 'safe' option: all translation is risky, but it's a risk we have to take."
The most challenging New Testament books to translate, Professor Wright said, were "the General Epistles, and Revelation — the commentary on which is released in September, completing the series. I've never written on them before, except as odd little bits here and there, so I really had to dig deep and dive into the commentaries."
The New Testament book that gave Professor Wright "the most sheer excitement" was Acts, "which I had never taught right through before". He completed the translation in eight days, while he and his wife, Maggie, were having a summer break at their cottage. "I was working from about 4.30 in the morning until about 10.30 at night, and it was just exhilarating."
The translation and commentaries are "not about trying to market a particular brand of Christianity, it's just . . . what I think the New Testament is saying."
The translation has won approval from scholars outside the Evangelical circles in which Professor Wright is most popular. The senior commissioning editor for SCM Press, Dr Natalie Watson, an Anglo-Catholic, said that The New Testament for Everyone was "faithful to the Greek text, and good at communicating to the present day. It could be read in church. He is the Barclay for this generation."
Mr Kingston described Professor Wright as "J. K. Rowling-plus", because he has both popular and scholarly appeal. "He can convey things simply and effectively to large numbers of people, but also tackle robustly the most complex of issues. . . . It means that when we publish his books for a more general audience, we do so confident that [the] theology is really thought through."
One of the reasons for Professor Wright's prolific output, Mr Kingston said, is that he is "by nature an outgoing person and a person of extraordinary energy. You can put before him tasks that would make anyone else faint away, and he will really consider it."
The Revd Stephen Kuhrt, Vicar of Christ Church, New Malden, and author of Tom Wright for Everyone: Putting the theology of N. T. Wright into practice in the local church, which is also published by SPCK, said that one of the reasons for Professor Wright's popularity is that "he writes in a remarkably similar way to the way he sounds when he talks; his lucidity and common touch is very important."
Mr Kuhrt said that Professor Wright's books have given Evangelicals a theological basis for a "holistic gospel", and helped them overcome a false divide between social action and evangelism.
"So many things that Christians have intuitively known are right, like the fact we've got to be at the absolute forefront of fighting injustice, Tom has shown that, of course, the Bible supports that, and that's central to the gospel."
Mr Kuhrt believes that many conservative Evangelicals are still "not engaging with the overall paradigm shift" brought about by Professor Wright's work. "You've got a lot of people who like what Tom says, and who are attracted to it, but who know they'll lose friends if they push it strongly."
With the For Everyone series complete, Mr Kingston said that neither Professor Wright nor SPCK is short of ideas for further books. "It is a question of what we choose to do next from among a large range of ideas, not what can we come up with next. My worry is he won't live to be 110 to write what I would like him to write."
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Record profits. Continued company growth. Expansion plans.
These are phrases not often heard in today's economic climate. Whether spelled with a small or capital "r," most experts agree the nation's economy has been in recession mode for several years and continues to lag behind expectations.
Someone forgot to send Acuity the memo.
The Sheboygan-based insurer announced this week that it will spend at least $130 million to expand its corporate headquarters, adding 240,000 square feet to its 450,000-square-foot facility on Taylor Drive. That will give the company an "immense" presence in Sheboygan, according to President and CEO Ben Salzmann.
The announcement is an indicator of Acuity's continued commitment to the Sheboygan area and a promise of more jobs in the future. Non-industrial companies don't expand to this extent unless they are confident of adding workers to fill the space being created.
For example, new security parking structures will hold up to 3,000 vehicles and replace existing parking lots for employees and visitors. That's a lot of parking for about 950 employees currently on the payroll. The revamped Acuity building will have room for up to 4,000 employees.
There is good reason for the company's optimism. Acuity operates in 22 states, generates over $1 billion in revenue through 1,000 independent agencies and manages nearly $3 billion in assets. Acuity is rated A+ (superior) by A.M. Best and also receives an A+ rating from Standard and Poor's.
Not bad for a company that began as the tiny Mutual Auto Insurance Company of the Town of Herman in 1925. The name was changed to Mutual Auto of Wisconsin in 1953, and Heritage Mutual Insurance Company in 1957. The company moved to the city of Sheboygan in 1960, and to its current location in 1984. It became known as Acuity Insurance in 2001.
And Acuity hasn't looked back since, opening a $39 million addition to its headquarters in 2004 and gaining an ever-larger share of the property and casualty insurance market in each succeeding year. It is currently among the top 65 insurers in the country, according to its website.
It has been quite a ride for Acuity, which could be among the reasons the new facility, expected to be completed in phases over the next three years, also will include an indoor, 65-foot Ferris wheel.
It is arguable whether that little frill is needed, but who is going to argue with the success of a company that will continue to bring jobs and tax revenue to an area much in need of both.
Acuity is a quality corporate neighbor that contributes a great deal of time and money to many worthy community causes. The company gives as well as receives, and for that we are thankful Acuity calls Sheboygan home.


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>> Dec 23, 2010
It's been a flurry of last minute legislative wheeling and dealing in the lame duck Congress. Below are photos from Obama's tax deal, the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell, the DREAM Act, New Start Treaty, and the NY Senators on the 9/11 first responders bill. Also, the president squeezed in time to read to school children and wish them a Merry Christmas.
President Obama and former President Clinton make a surprise appearance in the briefing room of the White House to talk about the compromise on the tax bill, in Washington, Friday, Dec. 10, 2010. (Drew Angerer/ The New York Times)
Republican Senate Leaders Mitch McConnell and Jon Kyl speak with reporters at the Capitol, after brokering a deal with the White House to extend the Bush-era tax cuts, in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2010. (Drew Angerer/ The New York Times)
New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand prepares for a TV hit to urge support for the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compsenation Act, in the Russell Rotunda on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Dec. 20, 2010. (Drew Angerer/ The New York Times)
Supporters of the Dream Act console each other after they watched the Senate fail to advance the bill, on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Saturday, Dec. 18, 2010. The bill would have paved the way for citizenship for children who were born in the U.S. to illegal immigrants. (Drew Angerer/ The New York Times)
Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., Majority Leader Harry Reid, and Sen. Carl Levin, D-Michigan, make their way to a press conference after the Senate advanced the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Saturday, Dec. 18, 2010. (Drew Angerer/ The New York Times)
The repeal of the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy.
Republican Senators Jeff Sessions, John Barrasso, John Thune, Jon Kyl, and Orin Hatch prior to a news conference to voice their dissatisfaction with the New Start Treaty, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2010. (Drew Angerer/ The New York Times)
Obama visits a local elementary school to read to children and wish them a Merry Christmas.
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posted Sep 26 2013 8:05PM
here isn't a single thing I like about car racing. And when I say "car racing," I mean car racing in every form. I think it's all boring and never impressive.
, the new film from Oscar-winning directory Ron Howard (
A Beautiful Mind, Apollo 13
), is about Formula One racing. Now, if you're gonna rank the different factions of this "sport," NASCAR is definetly on the bottom and Formula One is at the top. So obviously this movie had its work cut out for it if it was going to win me over as a fan. I'm thrilled to say that it did and might be one of my favorite films of 2013 so far.
Specifically, the movie is based on the true story of rivals James Hunt, who's played by Chris Hemsworth (
Thor, Cabin in the Woods
) and Daniel Bruhl (
Inglorious Basterds, The Fifth Estate
), as NIki Lauda. It spans many years of their relationship but mainly focuses on the 1976 Grand Prix championship. I know nothing about the world of Formula One but I knew the name Niki Lauda before seeing this because he always shows up on all the Top 10 Worst Sports Injuries of All Time lists. If you don't know what happens to him, I won't spoil it here but it's pretty gruesome and Howard shows it in all its ugly glory.
But what sets this film apart from most other sports films is that it's about the men and not the sport. Their relationship was complicated, competitive and inspiring. It's not a sports movie that's sappy like
Brian's Song
but you may feel your eyes sweat in certain scenes because they're so moving. Both actors are great but Bruhl pulls ahead fully capturing the almost Autistic nature of Lauda. He's unlikable and likable in every single sentence he says. It's a very impressive character to watch. Hemsworth shows us that he's more than just a pretty boy or superhero however playing a sexy, playboy must not have been much of a leap for him.
However, the reason you see
is for Ron Howard's directing. This may be his finest film and yes, I know how bold of a statement that is. The man who made
Backdraft, Willow, Ransom, Cocoon, Frost/Nixon
Cinderella Man
may have made something better than all of those. The only film that gives
a run for its money is
A Beautiful Mind
is so different from that I think I can only say they're equally as good. Aside from the attention to the 1970s details in sets, cars, clothes, etc., the racing scenes are utterly spectacular. It's hard to tell what's stock footage, what's Green Screen and what's live racing shot for the film. The pinnacle of the film is the historic and infamous rain-soaked race that took place in Japan in 1976. That 10-15 minutes of the 123-minute-long running time is enough to earn the man an Oscar nomination and I really hope he gets one.
I know it's cliche to say that the Oscar race is on but with a film like this I think it's totally appropriate.
is a movie that manages to be tender and ferocious; fun and inspirational. I can't think of many sports films that can pull off this level of quality and, speaking for myself, it's even more impressive that it's about a sport that I could honestly care less about. Prior to seeing
, I'd say it was made for a very narrowed audience but after a viewing I can honestly say that there aren't many people who wouldn't absolutely love it.
Gavin spoke with one of the stars of
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A new independent bottler was born a couple of months ago: Malts of Scotland. In March 2009, they released a first range of 11 single cask whiskies (cask strength, no colouring, no chill-filtration) with prices between 40 and 140 euro. They claim to have several hundreds of casks from more than 60 distilleries ageing in their warehouses.
The brand was founded by Thomas Ewers, who has been acquiring interesting casks over the last couple of years and is now releasing them.
I'll be reviewing most of their current products soon. Some of the highlights in the range:
- Bunnahabhain 1976
- Clynelish 1996
- Glenkinchie 1975
- Macduff 1990
- Port Charlotte 2001 (fully sherry matured)
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The last few years have been very stressful for me and it is very hard to shut down my mind at night enough to go to sleep. I started listening to audiobooks on CD when I went to bed. I listen to them and it keeps me from worrying about everything and I drift right off. It works better for me than a TV because it shuts off at the end of the CD and there is no change of volume when a commercial comes on or when a new program starts.
Instead of curling up in my favorite chair to read a book, I load audiobooks on my iPod and listen while walking.
I stopped reading. Well, not really. I've just changed the way I read books. I now listen to audiobooks on my iPod. You can download them free from your local library. Instead of sitting and reading the recent releases or some good old classics I listen to them. Only when I exercise. This means that if I want to know what happens next I have to get off my butt and move. You'd be amazed how fast the time flies when you're distracted by a good story. It's free and fun.


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Per Troen, a Danish and English-qualified lawyer and partner at Osborne Clarke OWA, is quite a guy.`Troen's clients are some of the largest Danish and Nordic banks and companies, including some of the best known Danish high net worth families. Not only that, but our Mr Troen established the first Danish law firm in London in 1985.`But all this work has not been for nothing. Mr Troen's ...
Olswang chosen to rescue embattled dotcom Sportal
Troubled dotcom Sportal is using Olswang to negotiate the funds it needs to survive.`The firm has taken Sportal through every stage of the business, from its incorporation in 1998 to its recent second round of funding.`Sportal's head of legal Jonathan West said: "We're delighted with Olswang's loyalty to us, the firm has proved itself a loyal and capable adviser and we know we can rely on it in these difficult ...
Down in Chancery Lane, the announcement of the election result has been greeted with a giant yawn. Once again, an election has led to the triumph of apathy and abstention. No, I am not talking about the general election, but the election for the vacant seat on the ruling council of the Law Society for the City of London constituency.`It was my first election contest since 1966, when I competed for a place as the drummer in my cousin's band, Fryin' Tonight. I won both contests, ...
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we all know that the English bar is respected throughout the world and its leading practitioners appear in courts from Hong Kong to Tonga. But Tulkinghorn was still somewhat bemused to hear that leading European practitioner David Vaughan QC and fellow Brick Court Chambers tenant Fergus Randolph were recently out in the Falkland Islands.`Yes, there is a court there, which heard the fishing licence dispute in which the two were involved. The trip did not, however, provide the glamour ...
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Equal opportunities campaigners have been struggling for decades to get their cause onto the political map and into the social consciousness. There must have been times when even the most stalwart began to lose hope, but in the new millennium, causes that have been given the cold shoulder are finally being addressed, and hopefully even redressed. There is no doubt that equal opportunities are experiencing a new dawn and are here to stay.`Legislators and lawyers in the UK certainly have ...
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The $850m (£602.9m) restructuring of Pilipino Telephone Corporation (Piltel) is the Philippines' largest corporate debt restructuring. Linklaters & Alliance was recommended to Piltel by Lehman Brothers. Allen & Overy was originally brought in to act for the consortium of Filipino banks, but it ended ...
Pilipino Telephone Corporation (Piltel) is restructuring 98 per cent of its debt in a deal worth $850m (£602.9m
Pilipino Telephone Corporation (Piltel) is restructuring 98 per cent of its debt in a deal worth $850m (£602.9m). Piltel advised by Linklaters & Alliance (Steven Christopher). Creditors advised by Allen & Overy (Alan Rae Smith).
Tulkinghorn wonders whe-ther anyone could find a more bizarre use for one's home than criminal barrister Colin Campbell, whose half-renovated house in Clapham has been transformed into possibly the smallest theatre in the world. A dividing wall has been knocked through to make space for four actors to perform a play entitled Rooms of the House and a capacity audience of 30.'The play, a cross between Alan Bennett's Talking Heads and TS Eliot's The Cocktail Party, has been written by ...
Railtrack completes second and third stages of its fixed rail infrastructure UK tax leasing programme
Railtrack completes second and third stages of its fixed rail infrastructure UK tax leasing programme. Railtrack advised by Clifford Chance (Gavin Teague, Michael Ehrlich, Nina Buchan). Banks Barclays Structured Asset Finance and Lombard Corporate Finance advised by Denton Wilde Sapte (Paul Holland, Lisa Marks).
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Rowe & Maw scores brand-building goal
Firm moves into new league with 6 minute ad during England clash
Shake-up at the top for Nelsons
Leeds law firm Nelson & Co has a new hierarchy in place after new senior and managing partners were appointed.
Simmons redeems itself as profits soar
After shaky financial results last year, Simmons & Simmons has come storming back with profits up by 56 per cent.
SJ Berwin expands in Europe with new Paris corporate team
SJ Berwin is continuing to drive its private equity practice across Europe, taking on a corporate team in Paris.
Spruson and Cheong in IP merger
A new niche practice has been formed in Singapore with the marriage of two of Asia's biggest names in IP.
Technology Media & Telecoms
When it comes to technology, media and telecoms (TMT), US firms have a head start. The home of Silicon Valley and Bill Gates was cashing in on the brave new world while the UK was still trying to work out how to turn on its Acorn computer.`So it is no surprise that many of the US firms in London are technology-orientated. Shaw Pittman and Brobeck Hale and Dorr came to the UK with the express desire of cracking the IT market, Shaw Pittman focusing on large, outsourcing deals and Brobeck ...
The anorak
One area where there does seem to be a definite push towards online legal transactions is conveyancing. Much of the impetus is coming from the Government, which, along with just about every other government in the developed world, says that it wants to make the country the best location for e-commerce. Although much of this is inevitably just e-spin, the UK is taking definite steps in the sphere of conveyancing. Last year's Electronic Communications Bill will allow electronic signatures, ..
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Cloisters splits up after crisis meeting`Crisis talks between the civil and criminal groups at Cloisters confirmed suspicions that the criminal group was leaving the set. Seventeen criminal tenants left the chambers, leaving Cloisters as a demerged civil set, with the majority joining Michael Mansfield QC's 14 Tooks Court (The Lawyer, 26 June 2000). Stephen Solley QC and Jerome Lynch QC joined Cloisters' ex-senior clerk Michael Martin at Cardinal Chambers.`Cloisters' ...
The tenders trap
Procurement issues were dragged from blissful obscurity last summer when the European Commission challenged the process of negotiation used in UK PFI projects. EC officials questioned the use of the 'negotiated procedure' - where short-listed bidders start detailed discussions with the contracting body about project cost and structure - in the negotiation for the now defunct Pimlico School project in London, on which CM
Time management software business Atlantic Global raises £2m through its first placing on AIM
Time management software business Atlantic Global raises £2m through its first placing on AIM. Atlantic Global advised by Theodore Goddard (Paul Salmon). Nominated adviser and broker Seymour Pierce advised by Memery Crystal.
TJG buoyant as gross fees pass £60m
Taylor Joynson Garrett posted a 26 per cent rise in gross fees to £60.4m for 2000-2001.
Tods Murray wins shipping specialist from McClures
Scottish firm Tods Murray has bolstered its corporate finance and commercial practice with a partner from smaller rival McClure Naismith.
UPM-Kymmene buys German-based paper producer G Haindl'sche Papierfabriken
UPM-Kymmene buys German-based paper producer G Haindl'sche Papierfabriken for euro3.85bn and sells two of Haindl's mills to Norske Skog for euro1.1bn. Haindl advised by Gleiss Lutz Hootz Hirsch (Gerhard Wegen). UM-Kymmene advised by Hengeler Mueller Weitzel Wirtz (Julius Budde). Norske Skog advised by White & Case (Andreas Stilcken).
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The rollercoaster ride of lastminute.com's share price is emblematic of the bursting of the dotcom bubble but last month the site's chairman claimed that it would achieve profitability in key markets within the next year. The UK's biggest e-tailer, Amazon.com, also says that it has turned the corner and expects to start making operational profits in the fourth quarter.`Interest in legal online offerings never approached the dizzy heights of goldrush e-tail mania or the ...
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The fog on the Tyne is all Watson Burton's. It has been a record year for the medium-sized North East firm, with annual figures showing a 22 per cent increase in turnover.`"It's an old firm with a youthful attitude," says Rob Langley, head of both the construction and insurance and the litigation practices, speaking from Durham's cricket ground. In fact, the average age of the 22 partners ...
Wessing in crisis as four more jump ship
Andersen Luther becomes refuge for Wessing teams as internal dissent sparks more walkouts
White & Case ace takes Uefa to Olswang
Olswang has scored a major coup by adding European football governing body Uefa to its client base as White & Case partner Alasdair Bell joins the firm today (11 June).
Withers sees BBC in court for libel case
Withers is taking the BBC to court on behalf of Elite Model Management in an attempt to clear its name after its damning in the television programme MacIntyre Undercover: Fashion.
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Feedback on roads and bridges in Davison County was the subject of a public input meeting held Tuesday night at the Davison County Fairgrounds.
A Davison County transportation study is being sponsored by the South Dakota Department of Transportation. State and county officials, as well as officials with engineering firm HR Green were on hand at the meeting to take public input and answer questions from residents of Davison County. The transportation study is expected to be completed by July 15th. It will cost 100,000 dollars, 80,000 of which is paid by the state. The remaining 20,000 dollars will be paid for by the county.
Written comments on roads and bridges in Davison County will be taken until December 16th. They can also be submitted online at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/DavisonCounty.


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Aidan O'Brien thinks the world of Australia, his premier hope in today's eagerly anticipated 2000 Guineas at Newmarket.
Aidan O'Brien thinks the world of Australia, his premier hope in today's eagerly anticipated 2000 Guineas at Newmarket.
Expect to see 80-year-old trainer Clive Brittain's dancing feet in action after tomorrow's 1000 Guineas.
Athletico Madrid have been the 'dark horses' all the way through the Champions League – but now have a marvellous chance of winning it for the first time.
If the cream comes to the top, then Long Run should have backers licking their lips in anticipation of victory in today's Crabbie's Grand National – the race that brings 600m viewers in front of television screens.
Having a bet on the Grand National will see queues galore in bookmaker shops and newcomers wondering what to do.
What if? – it is the number one question in most aspects of life, not least in the theatre of big-time racing.
A right royal result is anticipated by David Pipe in today's Albert Barlett in the shape of Kings Palace.
Quevega proved on the Festival's opening day she's unstoppable at Cheltenham with her record sixth win in the Mares' Hurdle.
Donald McCain has a consistent record in the Kim Muir Chase and he has a chance second to none in today's finale with Indian Castle.
One likely outcome on the Festival's second day is that the Wetherby's Champion Bumper crown will return to Ireland, courtesy of Willie Mullins.
It's the poorest Queen Mother Champion Chase for some time, especially with the non-appearance of defending champion Sprinter Sacre, although his presence would have made it a one-horse event.
Quevega has been the Cheltenham queen for five years in a row and a sixth win in the Mares Hurdle will see her set a new record of six successive Festival victories.
The roof will come off on Cheltenham Festival's opening day if Hurricane Fly enters the pantheon of all-time great Champion Hurdle winners.
Willie Mullins sends his strongest ever team to next week's annual Anglo-Irish equine confrontation at the Cheltenham Festival.
The most eagerly awaited Cheltenham Festival race is Tuesday's cracking Champion Hurdle which, according to the Europa Hotel Cheltenham Preview panel, is wide open and hence 3/1 the field.
Northern Ireland has never qualified for the European Championship finals and on current form our hopes of reaching France 2016 are slim, especially if the Faroe Islands fancy their chances of a first international success at Northern Ireland's expense.
With Cheltenham starting on Tuesday week, there are plenty of Festival attractions to tempt those looking to have an edge over the bookmakers.
Manchester City's defensive weaknesses were once again exposed, albeit by a Barcelona team that's finding its way back to the form of two seasons ago when they were virtually impossible to beat.
The Tote Scoop6 has bounced back in terms of popularity after a spell in the doldrums.
Our Conor, an easy winner of the Triumph Hurdle at Cheltenham last year, takes on Ulster-owned Hurricane Fly for Champion glory in less than a month's time.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A key piece of evidence in the investigation
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Federal investigators said testing of the blowout preventer began Tuesday at a NASA facility in New Orleans.
The device was raised from the seafloor Sept. 4. Testing had been delayed in part because of the length of time it took the government and interested parties to create procedures for the tests.
A statement from investigators did not say how long the testing
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days from the time it started.
An April 20 rig explosion killed 11 workers and led to more than
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The Rise Of Social Entrepreneurship, From Innovation To Industry
Taproot's Aaron Hurst has watched the social innovation movement grow for 15 years. He's seen it turn into a real economic and social force. But has it lost something in the process?
Aaron Hurst is the president and founder of the Taproot Foundation, which
works to match up skilled professionals with nonprofits who need their help. He's seen the social innovation space evolve from an open and undefined network of people trying to do good to a legitimate and more codified industry. While this certainly has created more respect and impact, Hurst isn't sure it's entirely better.
His advice for budding social entrepreneurs:
- Know the difference between trying to create an innovation, and trying to scale that innovation. Trying to do both can often make it impossible to do either.
- Find good partners. It's rare that a social innovation that doesn't involve multiple organizations and people.
This video is part of series of prominent social innovators, convened by PwC during the 2012 Social Innovation Summit discussing the evolution of social innovation and offering advice to social entrepreneurs. We'll be featuring them here on Co.Exist.
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded contracts for the first phase of a program that could revolutionize computer technology and produce systems that work similar to mammalian brains.
For the military, the Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics (SyNAPSE) initiative could provide the foundation for machines that will supplement humans in many of the most demanding situations facing warfighters today, according to DARPA. The system would include such things as processing video images to extract information, sensory integration, robotics and decision support, the agency said.
The ultimate goal is to produce a chip that mimics the way the brain works and that would drive machines that could autonomously process information in real-world, complex environments by automatically learning what the relevant features are in those environments and how they are associated.
"If we succeed in manifesting this technology into reality, we could deploy computer systems that can deal with ambiguity and use a wide range of both biological and non-biological sensors to act the way the brain does," said Dharmendra Modha, manager of IBM's cognitive computing initiative.
IBM, which is working with a number of other universities in the SyNAPSE program, was recently awarded a $4.9 million contract. Other contractors are Malibu, Calif.-based HRL Laboratories, which got $6.2 million, and Hewlett Packard, which got $1.8 million.
The problem with current computers is that they require algorithms derived by humans to describe what information to look for, and then how to process that information. That's good for situations that are relatively well-defined, but not for real-world situations where there's an infinite number of ways in which the various data elements can interact.
In those situations, the biological brain is more efficient by factors of anywhere from one million to one billion. According to DARPA.
The revolutionary advance of a successful SyNAPSE initiative in computing terms would be to break the co-called Von Neumann bottleneck. In current computer architectures, the processor and the memory are separated and performance is limited by how fast data can be shuttled between the two.
In the brain, however, the synapse represents both memory and processing function, Modha said.
"There is no Von Neumann bottleneck in nature," he said. "And we haven't even begun to exploit that."
Systems that can work like the brain have been the ultimate goal of computer research for decades, but none of the efforts have so far come to much. But there's a confluence of three powerful trends that Modha feels could make the SyNAPSE program successful.
Neuroscience has now reached the point where it is successfully producing meaningful data about brain neurons and synapses and how they work. Also, supercomputers have progressed to where researchers can attempt ever larger simulations of brain dynamics.
Also, he said, nanotechnology has now progressed to the point where a brain's real estate, at least at the level of some 10 billion synapses and 1 million neurons per square centimeter, could be replicated in hardware.
DARPA has designed SyNAPSE as a five-stage program that would stretch over six years or more. The final phase goal is production of a multi-chip neural system capable of driving a robotic platform that could perform at the level of a cat in terms of interpreting the environment around it, DARPA said.
However, that's still a big if. The first stage, named Phase 0, is intended to show if the technology is even feasible. If none of the contractors succeed in that phase, which will last for up to a year, SyNAPSE will end.
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LOGICAL EXTRACTION OF NEO-CORTEX STRUCTUREI do not understand why the neocortex is a mystery to everyone. Its neuron net circuit is repeated throughout the cortex. It consists of excitatory and inhibitory neurons whose functions, each, have been known for decades. The neuron net circuit is repeated over layers whose axonal outputs feed on as inputs to other layers. The neurons of each layer, each receive axonal inputs from one or more sending layers and all that they can do is correlate the axonal input stimulus pattern with their axonal connection pattern from those inputs and produce an output frequency related to the resultant psps. Axonal growth toward a neuron is definitely the mechanism for permanent memory formation and it is just what is needed to implement conditioned reflex learning. This axonal growth must be under the control of the glial cells and must be a function of the signals surrounding the neurons. The cortex is known to be able to do pattern recognition and the correlation between an axonal input stimulus and an axonal input connection pattern is just what is needed to do pattern recognition. However, pattern recognition needs normalized correlations and a means to compare these correlations so that the largest correlation is recognized by the neurons. Without normalization, the psps relative values would not be bounded properly and could not be used to determine the best pattern match. In order to get psps to be compared so that the maximum psp neuron would fire, the inhibitory neuron is needed. By having a group of excitatory neurons feed an inhibitory neuron that feeds back inhibitory axonal signals to those excitatory neurons, one is able to have the psps of the excitatory neurons compared, with the neuron with the largest psps firing before the other do as the inhibitory signal decays after each excitatory stimulus, thus inhibiting the other excitatory neurons with the smaller psps. This inhibitory neuron is needed in order to achieve psp comparisons, no question about it. For a meaningful comparison, the psps must be normalized. As unlikely as it may seem possible, it comes out that the inhibitory connections growing by the same rules as excitatory connections, grow to a value which accomplishes the normalization. That is, as the excitatory axon pattern grows via conditioned reflex rules, the inhibitory axon to each excitatory neuron grows to a value equal to the square root of the sum of the squares of the excitatory connections. This can be shown by a mathematical analysis of a group of mutually inhibiting neurons under conditioned reflex learning. This normalization does not require the neurons to behave different from as known for decades, but rather requires that they interact with an inhibitory neuron as described.
The road ahead is never that far its the journey istelf that stals the goal not knowing what happens while your on the road. And the same is with men qeust for A.i an undefined computing factor which only purpose is to learn and adapt by-it-self. The biggest (unsound) confusion comes from mixed view of biological intelligence (humans , mammals ,insects etc) with machine intelligence (computers, electronics) two different things where one of them needs to emulate the other. It is possible to construct machine intelligence but it has not have to be in emulating biologic processes which we learn from. Its a totaly different science. The possible gain in A.i reside in programmable memory which a.i algorithms can use to update any network faster without having a black box effect. By my oppinion the memristor could be , eprom memory which almost every pc have etc. even normal cpu's with programable fpga makes possibility's. The only bottleneck in a.i is the how people feel it must be thats the error that slows the process keep it real.
Yes, we're a long way from making it happen. But, isn't that how we move forward, by trying and learning from our mistakes? The first attempts at flight didn't produce much more than data about what didn't work and Edison found hundreds of ways to build an incandescent bulb that wouldn't light. But now we have airplanes and lightbulbs and ever so much more. The money being spent on this is pretty small and the data retuned may turn out to be very useful in many ways.
Is this a joke? We are so far from making this happen it's ridiculous to set such a goal. We haven't even got half-decent AI working yet.
Does anyone expect this to succeed, or are we just looking for ways to get cash to cronies and send the govt further into debt in the process?
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The democratic state legislators need to stop wearing orange hooter shirts, banging on drums and chanting shame, shame, shame - and get some work done. The cowardly 14 also need to just show up for work.Hide replies
exactly, they act like monkeys and then the right gets the blame! That's okay because the GOP is like the parental figure over the children (dems)
If you want to follow along on legislative developments to see if it really will be jobs, jobs, JOBS, here are two links to session activity and introduced proposals:
But don't hold your breath.
· Wisconsin is open for business. We will work tirelessly to restore economic growth and vibrancy to our state. My top three priorities are jobs, jobs, and jobs.
-Scott Walker Inauguration speech
This was obviosly a lie- priority one was tax breaks for the rich(that created no jobs)
Priority two-bust public unions
p3. concealed carry
p4 castle doctrine
p5 campaign on taxpayers dime using gov office to do it
p6- stay out of jail for campaigning on taxpayers dime.
Jobs were never on walkers list no matter how many times he repeated it.
Looks like Eagle River World Championship Snowmobile Derby 50th anniversary
is job #1 for our assembly
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