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About 20% of adults have flat feet. A small subset of the population suffers from hereditary flat foot, but most of it is developed. Very few of us are actually born with flat foot. In this post I'll explore what you can do to avoid flat feet in the first place, and if you already have them whether it is possible to reverse the damage.
Since publishing blog posts on ditching shoes [1], alternatives to going barefoot [2], and others I now receive regular reader emails like this one:
Dear Mark,
I've had flat foot all my life (18 years so far) and always wondered about the cause from an evolutionary stand point, and any negatives that might come from it. I vaguely remember the doctors subscribing foot supports and a lot of unnecessary products which I haven't used in a decade. I don't have any problems that I know of, but just wondering if there's any alterations I should make to my workout routine to benefit me more? Thanks in advanced.
Great question, Ahmed.
First, how do we develop flat feet? Almost every online resource gives a few stock answers for the cause of flat foot. Most places say something like this:
Causes of Weak Arches:
Flat feet can be hereditary and present themselves at birth. For others the condition can occur as a result of mis-treating the feet – for example wearing high heels for prolonged periods of time, or wearing shoes with no support.
Flat feet or fallen arches can also result from:
- Weakened muscles in the foot due to aging
- Weakened muscles in the foot due to injury
Or this:
- Weakened muscles due to aging or heavy strain placed on the feet.
- Standing or walking for long periods in high heels.
- Wearing shoes that don't provide proper arch support.
Okay, weakened muscles in the foot I can buy as a cause. In fact, it's almost certainly one of the primary causes of flat foot. High heels aren't doing us any favors, either, although I'd amend that one to include anything with even slightly-raised heels as a causative agent. I cannot, however, agree with the contention that lack of shoes without "proper arch support" is the problem; I'd even say that it's the exact opposite. Try "Wearing shoes that do provide proper arch support" instead. Shoes do little else but provide an environment that our feet simply haven't truly adapted to.
Our genes want us to be barefoot. In fact, it's the only environment they know, having been born into a shoeless existence. On an individual scale, you could say we adapt to our shoes, but not on a genetic level. Evolutionarily, we're still walking on the same bare feet Grok used to get around his environment. In fact, hominids have been obligate bipeds for over two million years. Our feet were arguably the first things to develop. Before the big brains, the complex tool making, and the language, our ancestors were walking upright on feet that looked remarkably similar to our own [3]. But don't tell that to the guys at Nike. They're convinced those millions of years of natural selection still weren't enough to produce a working, functional foot that doesn't require manmade supportive footwear (unless, of course, you buy the Nike Free, in which case the lack of support is suddenly beneficial – awesome logic, huh?).
The Evidence
Before I get carried away on a tangential rant against athletic shoes, I'll try to stick to the topic at hand. We know that shoes alter the structure and function of the foot. I mean, it sounds like plain common sense, but there's also some concrete evidence. Back in 1905, an orthopedist named Dr. Philip Hoffman conducted a "Comparative Study of Barefooted and Shoe-Wearing Peoples" (don't you just love old research?) and published his results in the American Journal of Orthopedic Surgery. He also took a ton of photos.
Here's one of a foot that rarely – if ever – saw the inside of a shoe.
Note the wide toes, and how a straight line can be drawn through the axis. Looks pretty healthy and stable, right?
Now look at this photo of a pair of feet and the shoes they're shoved into.
Notice the narrow structure and the cramped toes, especially the angle of the big toe. It's pointing inward!
Shoe wearing acts quickly, too. Here, Hoffman snapped photos of two sets of feet.
Foot A is that of a child who has worn shoes for a mere three months, while Foot B is that of an adult who's gone barefoot his whole life. Three months was all it took to drastically shape the child's feet. Already his big toe is turning inward.
In the end, Hoffman concluded that of the "one hundred and eighty-six pairs of primitive feet examined, [he] did not find a single foot associated with the symptoms of weakness so common in adult shoe-wearing feet, which are weakened by the restraint the shoe exerts over function." He also noticed that foot development was remarkably similar, in all populations, up until the introduction of foot wear. Shoes, it seems, have an undeniable ability to alter one's natural foot structure.
But wait: there's even more. Researchers in India found [4] (PDF) that flat foot was far more prevalent among people who wore footwear before the age of six. Kids who ran around barefoot for most of their first six years – the formative years, it turns out – had better developed longitudinal arches and less flat foot. Among children who wore footwear on a regular basis, 8.2% suffered from flat foot (compared to 2.8% of barefoot kids). No other factors had comparable impacts. Adults didn't have higher rates of flat foot than the kids, unless they reported wearing shoes as children. Why do we wear these things, anyway?
If you've got kids or are planning on it, you may want to take a good long look at their shoes – or lack thereof.
What Can You Do About It?
Okay, that's all very compelling, but what does a guy like Ahmed do about his condition? Whether it was inherited (not likely) or developed through footwear usage, he's still got to deal with a pair of flat feet. He can't go back in time to age four and throw out his baby sneakers. He can't erase the years and years of shoe-wearing, years that may have exacerbated his problem (kudos for ditching the orthotics, though!). Is Ahmed beholden to his situation? Are his feet forever altered?
No! Assuming his flat foot was developed, he's still got the genetic potential to improve his feet and – at least partially – restore some of his natural structure and strength. You'll still technically be flat footed, but you should be able to restore total functionality to your feet.
The first, perhaps most important step is to stay away from orthotics and shoes with "plenty of arch support." Rather than help you solve your problem, shoes with arch supports prop you up and lead to weak, atrophied foot musculature. Your feet aren't grasping, pulling, pushing, and flexing inside a pair of athletic trainers; they're growing soft and growing weak. Fixing, or at least mitigating, your flat feet is going to require some serious foot strength.
Next, spend as much time as humanly possible with your bare feet. If you're at home, remove your shoes as soon as you enter. If you're heading out to take the dog on a walk, try circling the block in your bare feet. Mail's come? Shoeless. Early morning paper? Barefoot. Living room workout? Do it without shoes on. You've got to learn to use your feet again, and the best way to do so is to simply live, eat, breath, and sleep barefoot.
Try toe running. When I haven't done any serious barefoot work (which is very rare, actually; I'm almost always barefoot or in minimalist footwear) in awhile, I'll hop on the treadmill in my socks (to reduce slippage) and do five or six minutes of light jogging. The catch is that I make sure to stay on my toes the entire time. This strengthens the ligaments and muscles (there are over a hundred of 'em in the human foot) and prepares them for future activity.
A Few Simple Exercises to Strengthen Your Feet
Do toe spreads. Sit, stand, or lie down and fan your toes out as widely as possible. Create space between each toe. Hold this position for ten seconds, and repeat the exercise ten times daily per foot.
Point at things with your toes. Pick something, anything, in the room and point your toes at it. Now flex your foot. Hold it for five seconds, then release. Again, do this ten times per foot each day. For extra work, try tracing the alphabet with your feet in midair each day.
Get on your toes. Stand on your tippy-toes and just walk around for five minutes each day. Never let your heels touch the ground for the duration. Barefoot toe treadmill work is a worthy alternative.
Try side walking. Stand up (barefoot, of course) and get in a shoulder wide stance. Bend your knees slightly and roll onto the outer edges of your feet. Keep the weight on your outer feet and slowly raise up on your toes. You should feel your longitudinal arch stretching; once you do, hold that position for five seconds. Repeat five times each day.
Walk in sand. Sand is never the same. If you kick off your shoes and hit the grains (yeah, I just coined that phrase: "hit the grains"), you will be catapulting your virgin bare feet into a chaotic, ever-changing environment that will force them to adapt. Hyperbole aside, walking barefoot in the sand is a highly effective way to strengthen your feet.
I can't stress this enough: go slowly. From the previous pictures, it's obvious how much of an impact shoes can have on our bodies. For many of us, a lifetime of shoe wearing means the risk of overtraining our bare feet is possible, or even likely, if we don't exercise caution. You don't want to leap blindly into barefoot sprints [5] with severely flat feet and risk injuring yourself even further, do you? Do the strengthening exercises before anything else.
Again, the damage may be done, and the flat feet may be permanent. I'm obligated to say it. There is, however, a lot of anecdotal evidence, especially on some of the barefoot running sites, that suggests people with flat feet can prosper without shoes (and even cure their condition), but there's little in the way of actual, concrete evidence. We do know that shoes affect the structure and function of our feet; what we don't know is whether the damage can be reversed. You can certainly strengthen your feet simply by removing your shoes and going barefoot as often as possible – and I highly doubt we're forever beholden to an artificial adaptation. We often hear about people adopting the Primal Blueprint and turning their lives around in a month after eating the Standard American Diet for years, because our genes are hardwired to prefer certain things and our bodies can recover from an awful lot of abuse. Maybe our feet are the same way. Maybe actual structural changes can't be completely overcome, but I'd be willing to wager that through careful, targeted foot exercises and a focus on barefoot living, we can make them almost irrelevant.
I'd love to hear your thoughts on flat feet and a barefoot existence. Hit me up with a comment. Thanks for reading, everyone!


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It is the matchup everyone wanted.
The Confederations Cup hosts and patrons of the next World Cup against the greatest international side of this generation, perhaps all time.
Brazil, who have managed to find some long-elusive form at this two-week competition based in four coastal cities and two others in the interior, come into Sunday's final seeking a third consecutive Confederations Cup crown and fourth overall.
Spain, meanwhile, are the reigning world and European champions and are looking to become just the second nation (France the other) to complete a grand slam of the sport's four most prestigious international titles -- a repertoire that includes the two championships they already hold and the Olympic gold medal, which they won in 1992.
Nevertheless, Spain manager Vicente del Bosque is adamant Brazil should be tipped to win Sunday's Confederations Cup final in Rio de Janeiro.
"Brazil are the favourites," del Bosque told reporters at his Friday press conference. "They have five World Cups, three Confederations Cups. We're going to be facing them at the Maracana and we're excited to do so."
In three group-stage matches and a semifinal, Brazil beat high-profile opponents Japan, Mexico, Italy and Uruguay by a combined score of 11-3 and have yet to trail at this competition. Since seeing off historical nemesis France 3-0 in a friendly match earlier this month they have moved from strength to strength, surging in confidence and getting game-changing performances from many of their best players.
Foremost among them has been Neymar, the 21-year-old Santos product who agreed a Ǩ57 million transfer from the Paulista side to Spanish champions Barcelona late last month.
With three goals and two assists in his first Confederations Cup, Neymar could well win the tournament's Golden Ball as best player with one more standout showing in the final -- a match in which he will be going up against several of his future Barcelona teammates.
"They play well and beautifully," he told Mundo Deportivo, regarding a Catalan contingent that includes Gerard Pique, Jordi Alba, Sergio Busquets, Andres Iniesta, Xavi Hernandez, Pedro and Cesc Fabregas. "I wish luck to them."
Not that they need it.
Never before has Europe produced a side so internationally dominant as this Spain outfit -- a team that has bookended a World Cup triumph with a pair of European Championships while playing a close-passing, often stifling brand of football.
A win on Sunday would only serve the dual purpose of cementing their legacy and confirming their installation as World Cup favourites for 2014, and no matter what del Bosque says they should be fancied, however slightly, to lift the Confederations Cup at the Maracana.
In fact, they can expect their run of dominance to go on for as long as Xavi and Iniesta are fit and functioning at the high standards they have set for themselves. So rarely do playmakers of such quality overlap in a single generation, and that they have done so with each of Spain and Barcelona has meant both their country and club have been the beneficiaries of such an extraordinary phenomenon.
Nevertheless, Brazil captain Thiago Silva refused to single out individuals in his pre-match remarks.
Calling Spain a team of "great quality," the Paris Saint-Germain defender conceded Sunday's opponents had "a squad made up of reserves that are of the same level as the starters."
He might have mentioned his own group of players includes the sort of individualistic talent that can alter the course of a match in an instant.
Flair and flamboyance against order and organization. Moments of magic against perfectly strung-together plays.
Two weeks ago this was the encounter we had all hoped would come. And now it's here. It's hard to imagine even the World Cup delivering a more compelling spectacle.
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Projected Spain XI: Casillas; Arbeloa, Pique, S.Ramos, J.Alba; Xavi, Busquets, J.Martinez; Pedro, Fabregas, Iniesta.
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No problem. I like to give all you skins fans a hard time (oh, do I like to give it after tonight) but I post those videos for everyone. So enjoy 'em, and download 'em before they get taken down by the man.
amen. we could use a little trent williams attitude on this team.
This I can definitely agree with...well, except for the 15 yard penalty. But I could definitely go with the intimidation factor during the game.
Yeah... be a jerk then basically add... "Just sayin'"...
Doesn't that make everything better?
True, but hypothetically speaking, that 70% RG3 that started the game would've sustained drives and at least got FGs after going up 14-0. We would've never lost the lead. I actually believe Cousins could've pulled it out with a 2 TD lead and the defense holding strong in the redzone.
This guy is a local news reporter here, lol, he's a good sport.
"Thank God we don't have Romo" :yousuck:
the news people up there support their team? i've never seen that down here.
Ha! I did say that, didn't I? That's what I get for talking smack.
It'll be an interesting off-season. Number one on my wish list isn't another WR, CB, or RT, but that Griffin's MRI comes back negative and he won't be spending all offseason rehabbing.
oh yeah, this is Redskins country, no doubt. He's more hardcore than most news guys but he's not alone.
Yes, and I could use a little Ray Lewis emotion, passion, and intensity on defense as well.
And unless Jerry, Jason and the Cowboys get their act together soon, they better get used to seeing the skins in the playoffs.
Morris and Griffin are real good at their positions.
Morris is a stud RB, .. Griffin has star qualities, and proved tonight that he is a warrior.
If they get a young WR, they will have their "triplets."
Dallas better get busy, and quickly. They have to get it right this offseason because they are looking up at the Giants and the Skins.
Would've been a different game for sure. But that's a big leap to saying the Redskins would have blown them out if not for RGIII's injury. Oh well, we can play the what if game until the end of time. You guys had a good season. Next year will be interesting.
Sherman seemed to be smack talking a lot throughout the game. While I liked the intensity that both teams played with (some great hits), I thought that the taunting was excessive on both sides.
Yeah, I could see that, but I don't mind a bit of talking as long as you back it up. Sherman plays with a chip and I think Carroll probably enjoys that.
Yeah, that's what I meant by the inherent hypocrisy of fans. Redskin fans are crying a river about Shermans trash talking, yet Deangelo Hall has made career of it. His is somehow overlooked.
Redskins fans are crying? Really?
I have no issue with Sherman. Talking is part of the game.
You nailed it. Nice sig btw. I think I'm gonna hit the sack, gotta work tomorrow. Lotta Redskins fans at work. Gotta be bright eyed and bushy tailed.
You haven't visited your own team's forum?
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With the discovery of living things that refuted the thesis regarding the transition from water to land, evolutionists clutched at other theories on the subject. (See Coelacanth.) Some evolutionists regarded lunged fish as the ancestors of all terrestrial animals. The general name given to these fish that are able to use their lungs as well as gills is Dipneuma. There are three different species of these fish living in the seas around America, Africa and Australia.
Since the 1850s, it was actually thought that these fish had evolved into primitive amphibians. By the 1950s, however, they ceased being regarded as transitional forms because they were very exceptional specimens. By that time no one any longer supported the idea that they were the ancestors of terrestrial life forms.128
Since 1930's, the Dipneuma assumption has been put aside gradually. When the final years of 1950's were reached, organisms with double respiratory features was characterized as very exceptional by a paleontology publication known to be a classic.129
In addition, the fact that the fossil remains of these fish are regarded as being 350 million years old, and have undergone no change at all in that time, also removed their candidacy as transitional forms. These animals are not transitional links between two species that subsequently disappeared, but distinct species that have been alive since very early times.
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THERE was no dream start for new manager Sean O'Driscoll in his first game in charge of Bristol City at Elland Road on Saturday.
City went down to a second half Ross McCormack header but O'Driscoll was keen to point out the positives after the game had ended.
The new City boss said afterwards: "I've had three days with them and I thought they deserved a 'well done.'" He went on: "We wanted them to be well organised, hard to beat and bright in the opposition's half, which they were."
Despite O'Driscoll's encouraging words, City only mustered one shot on target and you can't really expect to win games with that amount of endeavour going forward. Nevertheless, this wasn't really a game City should have lost as Leeds had few decent chances. We were much better organised, all over the pitch, and defended well as a team.
Yet again we conceded from a header from a cross. Keeper Tom Heaton does like to stay on his line and this seems to make us susceptible to conceding from set pieces in particular.
We have two really big games coming up in the next week, against Ipswich (Saturday 3pm) and Watford (Tuesday 7.45pm), both to be played at Ashton Gate. Our home form has been dire this season and O'Driscoll must somehow instill some much needed confidence into the players when playing in front of the home crowd where expectation is that much higher than at away games.
Ipswich have drawn their last two games, including a decent point at league leaders Cardiff, but have not had a good season overall and languish in 19th place.
The Ipswich game is probably our best chance of three points as Watford have been flying of late. They've won their last two, beating Middlesbrough away before thumping Huddersfield 4-0 at Vicarage Road.
We're seven points adrift of safety and have 19 games to play, so we need wins and we need them fast. Failure to win either of these next two games and the goal of Championship survival will look that much tougher.
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The total number pages of advertising published, based on an actual count of ads in a publication.
Ad dollars
Publishers Information Bureau estimates of advertising revenues, derived by combining official ad rates and published pages. It multiplies the rate magazines charge on their rate card by the number of ad pages they published. The resulting estimate is an imprecise representation of actual ad revenue because advertisers often get discounted prices from the rate card. Because of various discounts and incentives, experts say that actual revenue is often half what the reported ad dollars would suggest. For this reason we are not using these estimates.
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Copies served to a new subscriber that are older than the current issue. Often used to help meet paid rate base or controlled demographics goals.
An office for gathering or distributing news. Similar terms are used for specialized bureaus, often to indicate geographic location or scope of coverage: a Tokyo bureau refers to a given news operation's office in Tokyo, Japan; foreign bureau is a generic term for a news office set up in a country other than the primary operations center; a Washington bureau is an office, typically located in Washington, D.C., that covers news related to national politics in the United States.
A magazine's total net paid subscriptions and single copies (newsstands). Subscriptions may include digital subscriptions i.e. websites' subscriptions circulation.
Consumer magazines
They do not include farm and religious magazines, as well as publications which are not filed.
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Where the advertising and editorial content exactly match the printed publication.
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Where the basic identity and content are similar to the printed edition but the articles and advertising may differ. Free, unrestricted public access to a Web site does not qualify as a paid digital edition.
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Also called newsstand sales. Single copies of magazines sold at retail. Most single-copy sales are made in supermarkets and other mass retail outlets. Many publishers also distribute through specialty stores.
Social media
Online technologies and practices that people use to share opinions, insights, experiences, and perspectives with each other.
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Web sites that allow people to link to others to share opinions, insights experiences and perspectives, whether it's music fans on MySpace, business contacts on LinkedIn, or classmates on Facebook. Many media sites have adopted social networking features such as blogs, message boards, podcasts and wikis to help build online communities around their content.
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The number of inferred individual people within a designated reporting timeframe, with activity consisting of one or more visits to a site. Each individual is counted only once in the unique visitor measure for the reporting period.
Rate Base
Some declines in circulation are by design. Newsweek and Time in the United States, for example, have been actively trying to reduce the minimum circulation the publications guarantee to advertisers in recent years.
Why would a magazine seek to reduce the number of copies it distributes?
The biggest share of revenue a magazine takes in comes from advertising, with a much smaller share from subscriptions and sales of individual copies. Advertising rates are based on a promised circulation number for each issue. This number is often lower than actual circulation. Many publishers guarantee advertisers that they will maintain a certain average circulation level, or rate base, over a given six-month audit period (a few publishers guarantee rate base on each issue published).
If a magazine fails to deliver the promised circulation, a publisher has to refund advertisers a portion of the rate, based on how short circulation falls.
Publishers make certain that they meet the guaranteed circulation, or advertising rate base, mostly by attracting readers through incentives. And some offer steep discounts to subscribers to meet this goal, discounts that can cut into any profits.
With a slow erosion of ad sales at magazines since the mid-1990s—and significantly fewer ads bought in 2008—publishers have reconsidered the cost-effectiveness of trying to maintain high circulation bases.
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Two of the biggest owners of magazines — Hearst and Advance (the owner of Condé Nast)— are privately held companies, and as such are not required to issue public financial reports. Even the publicly traded media companies that do issue reports generally do not break out revenue figures for specific magazines.
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Wednesday, 5 December 2012
The No True Atheist Fallacy
I used to be an atheist. That doesn't necessarily mean I was a Hitchens/Dawkins (insert other religion despiser) style atheist, in fact I wasn't anti-religious at all. Yes perhaps I thought it was all a little silly but to be honest it was more out of ignorance than disdain for the religious. Coming from a single-parent, dysfunctional and working class household I wasn't particularly well read and needless to say I did pretty bad at school, not because I was stupid but because I was lazy and was never really encouraged to see any value in education and learning. However, I considered myself an atheist because I didn't believe a God or gods existed nor did I believe in the supernatural which seems consistent with atheism. I have always been naturally sceptical and atheism just seemed rather normal to me. Although I never thought about it at the time (because I'd never heard of hedonism), I used my atheism to justify my hedonistic lifestyle because it just seemed okay because that's what everyone else in my friendship group was doing. Of course I'm not saying atheism necessarily leads to hedonism but it could just as much as it could lead to humanism.
Yet in the seven years I've been a Christian I can't count the number of times I have been accused of lying, since I couldn't really have been an atheist. I'm constantly struck by the arrogance of some atheists who seem to know better than I do about what I have or haven't believed in the past, rather than accept that people can move from atheism to theism. How dare people accuse me of not knowing what I didn't believe in. One does not have to be a middle-class, Nietzsche read, university educated, Starbucks sipping humanist to be an atheist, one simply needs to have the absence of belief in the gods and the supernatural! There is no atheist disclaimer that states only those that know the Origin of the Species from back to front or those that saw the light after reading The God Delusion are allowed to call themselves atheists. Perhaps it's that it's only some of the arrogant atheists (and atheist celebrities) on Twitter that define themselves by their lack of belief in the gods that feel justified in accusing those less read than themselves as worthy of calling themselves atheists. There is no qualifier for atheism other than that one doesn't believe in the gods or the supernatural, there are no books to read or prophets to obey, just the ones you choose. I'm quite justified in referring to myself as a former atheist whether atheists like that or not and in fact the more atheist literature I read the more I think I'm justified in my decision.
The No True Atheist Fallacy
What this amounts to is a variation of the no true Scotsman fallacy whereby anyone who once considered themselves an atheist but has changed their minds couldn't have been a real atheist. This is because from their perspective anyone that once called themselves an atheist should never become a theist, so you therefore must have been pretending, not properly understood atheism (there's not really much to misunderstand) or just using the story for some ends. This is all very strange since many (not all) atheists view themselves as being the champions of reason and logic yet fail to see the problem of their own erroneous reasoning which I demonstrate below.
No true atheist would ever become a Christian
You said you were an atheist and are now a Christian
Therefore you couldn't have been a real atheist
I suppose all I really want to say is that if you are an atheist please don't keep accusing ex/former atheists of not really being atheists to begin with. Firstly, it makes you look silly and arrogant and secondly, I'm afraid you better get used to it because I think a number of people are starting to see that ultimately atheism does not stand up to scrutiny. As a Christian I have to constantly hear about all the Christian de-conversion stories going around which I read and try and learn from so perhaps extend the same respect to former atheists rather than pretending we don't exist. Thanks.
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I believe you when you assert that you were an atheist but have in becoming a Christian changed your mind.ReplyDelete
I do wonder if you extend the same courtesy to former Christians who are now atheists or do you, as do most of the organizations linked in your recommended sites, believe 'former Christian' is an oxymoron?Replies
To a certain extent yes. But in a number of ways its far more complicated when it comes to Christianity and people with differing beliefs on soteriology may disagree.Delete
Complicated because there are a number of beliefs one must have to be considered a Christian, for instance one couldn't be a Christian if they didn't believe God existed or that Jesus physically rose from the dead after his death on the cross, even if that's what they called themselves.
So as valid as the comparison is it is far more complicated going from Christian>Atheist than it is Atheist>Christian in terms of assessment. Here in the UK over 70% of people tick Christian in the census (my mum used to even though she was agnostic) yet other research suggests most in that 70% don't actually hold any Christian beliefs but are rather 'cultural' Christians. You don't generally get people ticking the non-religious (atheist) box who believe in God. That of course is not to say people who considered themselves genuine believers can't become atheists that much is clear to anyone, there are enough de-conversion stories around for us all to see.
So no I don't believe its an oxymoron but I also think that many of the 'conversions' from Christianity were from those who were culturally Christian rather than true believers, but clearly not all of them.
Thank you so much for sharing this, failedatheist. I enjoyed it.ReplyDelete
To me you sounded like a real atheist. The ones who claim that you couldn't have been a real atheist are the ones that I doubt. If what they claim to believe is true then what they believe doesn't matter and they should not bother about it. I suspect they're angry with God and are pretending that He doesn't exist to spite Him.
I found this particularly interesting because I am always trying to distinguish between real Christians and those who are Christians in name only whenever I encounter atheists who say they "used to be Christians." I'm wondering how you feel about that, failedatheist.ReplyDelete
I think it's always important to define terms. I define a Christian as being someone in a relationship with God through the person of Jesus Christ by the infilling of the Spirit. There are, of course, people who attend church and give some credence to the idea of God existing, but they don't have that relationship.
I put "ex-Christian, now atheist" people in the category of nominal Christian. After all, if you have been in a real relationship with the Lord and born-again spiritually, you could not walk away from God and suddenly declare he no longer exists any more than you could walk away from your earthly father and say he wasn't real either.
I do, of course, know people who have walked away from God out of anger for a variety of reasons -- death of a child, loss of a business, severe health problems, for example. They are disgusted with God for allowing these things and they may hate him because of it, but they don't deny his existence.
I also know people who have walked away from God because they want to indulge in a sin -- usually sexual -- that God doesn't approve of and the desire to commit adultery or whatever is stronger than their desire to serve the Lord.
An interesting topic indeed! Thanks for a perspective I had never even thought of before, failedatheist. God bless you!
To be honest i cannot fully express my POV since in the first place i don't know how to define atheist in the first place. But i believe that not all atheist is bad. Some are just still in the process if looking what they can call as real religion.ReplyDelete
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I used to be an atheist as well. However, I was one of those who spent a lot of time trying to destroy belief in God and any religion. I did this for almost a decade until I finally called out to God to prove me wrong and received an experience that changed my life. Never did I think I would be caught alive a Christian. Yet, here I am. Those who would say I wasn't ever a "true atheist" are just making yet another excuse to reject God. There really are no atheists, just those who "suppress the truth in unrighteousness". This is most evident in the militant atheists, who are really just angry at God and being accountable to Him. Many disown being "Christian" because of personal experiences rather than the facts. I just hope and pray those who are genuinely seeking will find Him as He promised.ReplyDelete
Now, I couldn't fall back into atheism, even if I tried, because I have been saved and would clearly know it is wrong. So, I also believe you are right in saying it is more complicated going from a "Christian" to an atheist. After all, "many are called, but few are chosen".Replies
"This is most evident in the militant atheists, who are really just angry at God and being accountable to Him."Delete
so you can read minds now professot X? This is an absurd argument if athiests accept human governments, then the divine would be another super-level of government, and since athiests have no problem with human levels why would they with a super-level of government
You were an atheist and yet you "finally called out to God to prove me wrong". I think you must be mistaken, since you could not call out to something you actually did not believe in. Or do you call out routinely to the literal infinity of potential deities who you also don't believe in? Gies a break!Delete
I'm in a similar light, I guess. I mean, I can admit that I used to hate religion and religious people, and I still have a certain Dawkins' book (it's not a bad read, it's sort of ignorant and kind of has prejudice attitudes against Christians and Jews, but not that bad of a read). I disagree with Didactic there, who says that atheists are just angry at God. True, many are in that group, but I don't think most atheists are like that. They just don't believe. They are like me and you and simply see the world in a different way.ReplyDelete
I wasn't really like that, and even some old friends of mine were pretty astounded that I would convert from atheism to Christianity. They act like it was something that ruined me (though I still have atheist friends, don't think that because I converted I can't still have a few drinks with my friends anymore). That being said, I couldn't see myself ever going back to atheism, nor could I see people going the other way around.
I do not get into religious dialogue with people anymore for this particular reason. When I state that I am a Christian, I do not want people automatically assuming I believe in a "bearded man in the sky," or an "abuser," especially since I happen to be a Christian Universalist. I do not assume that every atheist is "morally corrupt," or "a Stalin-imitator." I just wish we could all look past our personal beliefs and just... agree to disagree.
I thought I was an atheist once, it turns out I didn't believe it.ReplyDelete
Good article. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and some of your journey with us.ReplyDelete
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Seasonic to Power Hashfast Bitcoin Mining Equipmentby E. Fylladitakis on 10/25/2013 10:46 AM EST
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DanNeely - Friday, October 25, 2013 - linkI'd rather buy tulip bulbs. Reply
DanNeely - Friday, October 25, 2013 - link... at least they'll still look pretty in a few years.
An old bitcoin miner will just be a weirdly shaped space heater. Reply
psuedonymous - Saturday, October 26, 2013 - linkWhen you're cold, every computing device is 100% efficient. Reply
JKflipflop98 - Friday, October 25, 2013 - linkI wonder how many people out there know what you're talking about? Good reference. Reply
Theard - Wednesday, October 30, 2013 - linktil I looked at the check ov $7708, I have faith that my cousin realy bringing in money in there spare time at their laptop.. there aunts neighbour has done this for only about 19 months and at present cleard the dept on there villa and got a new Citroën DS. web link .... jobs23.com Reply
Hrel - Friday, October 25, 2013 - link" individuals should trend lightly,"
Last paragraph, tread* lightly Reply
Flunk - Friday, October 25, 2013 - link
lest this whole thing becomes a 21st century "gold rush"
Too late for that, it's been a gold rush since the value of Bitcoin rallied up to over $100. Reply
JeffFlanagan - Friday, October 25, 2013 - linkIt's meandering around $200 per BTC now with the Chinese driving the bubble. Now's a good time to sell off your bitcoins. Reply
The Von Matrices - Friday, October 25, 2013 - linkI agree it's a bubble, but it's far from the end of Bitcoin. There will be more bubbles as it's in its infancy but eventually the currency will stabilize at a high value as it gains more widespread acceptance. Reply
The Von Matrices - Friday, October 25, 2013 - linkI should clarify that the bubbles occur because the majority of the market is currently controlled by speculators, but once consumers own the majority of the coins these bubbles will be a thing of the past. Reply
ShieTar - Saturday, October 26, 2013 - linkYeah, because money tends to flow from speculators to consumers in the long run. As long as the value of the bitcoin is rising, it will be of interest to speculators. Since the overall amount of bitcoin is restricted, but the overall amount of real world currencies is growing exponentially, it has a natural tendency of rising in value. Its the same thing with gold, and real estate, and every other object in reality that can't be created as quickly as money.
Unless people decide to no longer be interested in it, in that case the bitcoin value starts falling, but no reasonable business-person will trade his goods and services for bitcoin in that situation. Reply
Sunsmasher - Saturday, October 26, 2013 - linkAnd once the speculators are done with their manipulation of the market, Bitcoins will crash in value, and the poor goofs that had faith in them will lose their shirts. There will be no bubbles alright, and also much less value in Bitcoins. Reply
Shadowmaster625 - Friday, October 25, 2013 - linkIs there any rough estimate on how many bitcoins could be mined in one month from one of those $6300 Sierra system? Assuming it was deployed right now...
And if 500 such systems were deployed exactly what effect would that have on the bitcoin mining rate of one system? Reply
JarredWalton - Friday, October 25, 2013 - linkI updated the text with an example, but you can run your own calculations here:
http://www.alloscomp.com/bitcoin/calculator Reply
tipoo - Friday, October 25, 2013 - linkI had wondered whether more known manufacturers would get into this field. I guess this will be good for the space.
I've always had a vague curiosity about bitcoin mining dedicated hardware, but the problem was always that ship dates seem to always be pushed back, and by the time they are shipped mining may not be economical anymore. See Butterfly Labs, 200 dollars a long time ago would have been a steal for a 5GH/s miner, but they're STILL not shipping in mass and by the time they do who knows how much mining difficulty would have risen (and their shipping itself would raise its difficulty). Reply
kingpomba - Friday, October 25, 2013 - linkWhat the */!#? is happening to anandtech lately? I don't like where this site is headed. :-( Reply
tech.kyle - Friday, October 25, 2013 - linkYeah. I remember the good ol' days when it was all just fantastically in-depth and thorough reviews of hardware. Reply
martyrant - Friday, October 25, 2013 - linkI find it rather funny that Anandtech has put the spotlight on Cointerra and HashFast in the Bitcoin arena but has left out the obvious winners in this game: Bitfury and KnCMiner customers made out pretty well. Neither of the companies you covered have anything working currently and are admitting to delays (HashFast in particular). Not to say Cointerra may be the miner to buy in 2 months, but HashFast is certainly not. The fact they were selling "insurance" for their miners was a red flag for anyone with a brain--they're running late on purpose no matter what. Reply
The Von Matrices - Friday, October 25, 2013 - linkI think this article was created because it involved SeaSonic, a major manufacturer if PC Power supplies, not because of Bitcoin. Reply
twindragon6 - Friday, October 25, 2013 - linkBitcoin mining is f*****g retarded! I love ASICs and all they can do but why not just use all that awesome power to better the world and put it toward something like BOINC and the World Community Grid? A little modification to the BOINC code and bam, pow, zowie, boom; fastest distributed cancer research grid ever!If I could buy one of these bad mammer jamers and use it to help cure AIDS and cancer from home I would totally buy one. Otherwise what a f*****g waste of time, money and resources. Reply
The Von Matrices - Saturday, October 26, 2013 - linkYou statement is flawed for a few reasons:
First, an ASIC is an Application Specific Integrated Circuit. Bitcoin ASICs can only hash and do nothing else; this is why there are so efficient compared to CPUs or GPUs. There is no way to program a Bitcoin mining ASIC to do anything else efficiently.
Second, mining on CPUs or GPUs is no longer profitable. Running a 7970 at current difficulty will generate a coin every three years while consuming seven coins worth of electricity. No one mines using a GPU anymore. Therefore, Bitcoin mining no longer competes with protein folding.
Finally, I hope you realize that Bitcoin and supporting cancer research are not exclusive concepts. Widespread adoption of Bitcoin would eliminate the middle man in currency transactions (the credit card processor or armored car for cash), thus saving 1-2% on every transaction made. Do you have any idea of how much money that is? If even a fraction of that money was donated toward medical research it would dwarf anything done by current protein folding groups. Reply
MDX - Monday, December 09, 2013 - linkDude, you think a cure for cancer and aids would be allowed to hit the market? I'd pay for whatever you're on, sounds like a heck of a happy place!! Reply
superflex - Friday, October 25, 2013 - linkAnother fiat currency scam. Reply
MDX - Monday, December 09, 2013 - linkkinda like...every currency in existence...wait...except cryptocurrencies, because they're not fiat. Reply
madwolfa - Friday, October 25, 2013 - linkAs with a gold rush, most gains are from selling shovels and pickaxes... Reply
minijedimaster - Saturday, October 26, 2013 - linkBingo Reply
ShieTar - Saturday, October 26, 2013 - linkActually, I'm quiet sure that the early adopters which understood the concept have also made a lot of money with it. Keep in mind that the first 5 million coins have been generated at costs below 1$ per coin, and the owners of these coins can claim an apparent value of 1 billion $ at today exchange course. And with the way modern financial systems work, you don't even have to find a buyer for all of them, you can just go and take a cheap 500 million $ credit if you show 1 billion $ worth of securities, and you can refinance it instead of every paying anything back, as long as the formal value of your securities is rising. Reply
Endlesspath - Friday, October 25, 2013 - linkSay "can I have 1 Ponzi scheme with that bit-coin bubble (a'la dot.com)? Reply
MDX - Monday, December 09, 2013 - linkYou clearly aren't aware of the definition of a Ponzi scheme. Reply


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Lions Topple Second Top-Ranked Opponent in a Week
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. – The eighth-ranked Saint Leo men's tennis team toppled its second higher-ranked opponent in seven days as they took down No. 6 Concordia College (N.Y.) on Monday afternoon at the Flagler Tennis Center in St. Augustine, Fla.
The Lions advance their record to 6-2 on the season, while the Cilppers drop their first contest of 2014 and fall to a mark of 2-1.
Saint Leo found themselves with a 2-1 advantage after doubles play, kicking off with the tandem of Ismail Lemtouni and Bruno Sisti defeating Rafael Ferreira and Ricardo Frey, 8-5, at the No. 3 position. Matt Nicholson Lewis and Victor Lozier finished next, earning an 8-5 victory at No. 2 doubles over the No. 25 duo of Juuso Ojanen and Pulat Babadjanov to pull the Lions ahead, 2-0 overall.
It was a long battle at No. 1 doubles, but Concordia came out on top as the No. 1 pair of Daniele Piludu and Benas Majauskas took down Fons Verberne and Aloua Adjenak, 9-7.
The Clippers pulled even entering into singles action, with fourth-ranked Ojanen earning a 6-3, 6-2 at No. 1 singles over Sisti to pull the overall score to 2-2.
Lozier gave the Lions the lead as he closed up shop at No. 5 singles with a 6-1, 6-3 victory over Ferreira to give Saint Leo a 3-2 lead, but fifth-ranked Piludu picked up the next win, earning a 6-1, 6-4 victory over Adjenak at No. 2 singles to pull the Clippers even once again, 3-3.
No. 50 Lemtouni toppled No. 18 Majauskas, 7-5, 7-6 (7-4) to give the Lions the lead once more, 4-3, followed by Jacobo Gonzalez-Tarrio defeating Ofir Ginat at No. 6 singles, 6-4, 6-1, to set the overall mark at 5-3.
Nicholson-Lewis clinched the victory he closed up shop at No. 3 singles, but it was a hard fought battle. The Cambridge, England native picked up the first set over Olfans with a score of 7-5, but his opponent battled back in the second set to win 3-6 to send play into a tiebreaker. After a back and forth battle, Nicholson-Lewis put away his opponent by a score of 12-10 to seal the deal.
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St. Albert duo takes third at K-Days Talent Search
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Local finalists
� Julia Nicholson � Folsom Prison Blues
� Kira Romans and Sage Jepson � This World Will Remember Us
� Cheenie Morales � And I�m Telling You
� Hailey Benedict � My Sweet Alberta Home
� Andrew Boyd � Reviewing the Situation
� Sharmaine Pagtakhan � The Voice Within
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Second place winner Stacy Farkas, a young Edmonton girl with a huge belt of a voice, sang You Raise Me Up for a $2,000 prize.
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Their rousing, danceable tune is the first act finale of Bonnie & Clyde where the doomed lovers are on the run after Clyde busts out of jail killing a deputy.
A triple-threat duo, they sang, acted and hoofed their way with poise, charm and a natural connection to the audience.
The long-time friends were initially so excited they had difficulty collecting their thoughts for an interview.
But after a few moments, Jepson managed to gasp, �It was so surreal what was happening to us. We went to have fun and get experience and we got third. It�s amazing we got this opportunity.�
Romans, a Grade 11 Bellerose High student, added that the two musical theatre buffs pulled their act together in a few days. Using past experiences working on What a Night, Peter Pan and Shrek, they adapted quickly and developed a relaxed onstage chemistry.
When asked what they would do with the money, Romans and Jepson replied in unison, �I don�t know.�
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The four judges, including, Tupelo Honey�s Dan Davidson, were tasked with allocating points based 60 per cent on technique, 30 per cent on showmanship and 10 per cent from an impromptu pre-show session.
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Florida reaped one of the rewards Monday for winning the SEC volleyball championship.
Junior middle blocker Chloe Mann was named the SEC Player of the Year, Ziva Recek earned Freshman of the Year honors and Mary Wise received her 13th Coach of the Year nod.
It's the first time since 2000 and second time in program history for Florida to receive SEC Coach of the Year, Player of the Year and Freshman of the Year. In all, five Gator athletes were honored on the All-SEC teams with four players earning first-team mention, the most in the league.
Mann, Recek, Taylor Brauneis and Tangerine Wiggs were named first-team All-SEC, while Betsy Smith was named to the second team. Recek made the all-freshmen team.
Mann leads the Gators with a .437 hitting percentage, good for fifth in the NCAA. Mann leads Florida with 1.13 blocks/set, good for third in the SEC.
Recek leads Florida in kills with 409 (4.05/set) and ranks top five in the SEC in kills and points per set (4.50).
Wise has led the Gators to a 19-1 conference record and a 25-4 mark overall.
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Hi guys,
First of all hello (:, I'm relatively new to this forum.
I'm a student with some experience in web design and i'm currently in the process of setting up a business venture that will include primarily deals (exclusive offers + some affiliate links) and jobs sections, along with music, film and sport articles aimed at a specific target audience.
Ideally I would like to create the website myself from scratch and refine some skills along the way but i'm finding myself increasingly bogged down with fundraising, promotion and the day-to-day stresses of a start-up, so with some reluctance me and my business partner decided to get a man/men in.
I've approached several professional designers about having a bespoke system made and i'm getting offers of about £15k+/$24k+, which is more than I initially thought but not a complete shock as it's quite a comprehensive system we're looking for, luckily we have raised a fair bit in fundraising but we need to put as much as we can into promotion to really get our vision off the ground.
Now what i'm interested in is advice as to whether you think I could spend less money on a CMS + Plugins + Template's combination without sacrificing too much in terms of functionality, professionalism and credibility - that would be okay until we can afford a tailor-made option without breaking the bank. We wouldn't need a job system and we are having that done separately, but to be more specific we would need a members-system, deals/affiliate page as well as blog style sections for the article's (with featured section) and a main page that contain widgets such as hot 20 deals, top news, articles + videos etc.
This website is a close example of what we are trying to acheive.
Would using a CMS be a viable option? I have done some research, I've heard wordpress decribed as "state-of-the-art" but my first impressions are that is seems a bit "too bloggy". I've also heard Joomla! and Drupal are very good and that ExpressionEngine is quite powerful, what's you guys opinions for a website of this magnitude?
Any constructive advice welcomed!
If I were to go with a CMS for your purpose it would be Drupal for me. I find it more secure (bad coded WP plugins is the reason why many WP sites gets hacked), more developer friendly and easy to build on top of it.
Thanks, i've been messing about with Drupal today and i'm hoping It can fit the bill
I would second PromptSpace's recommendation of using Drupal for this project. It is the engine used most for larger projects and has the ability to scale with your needs. This comes with a cost of server resources and a pretty hefty learning curve. Based on the little I know of your project, those estimates seem to be in the right range.
I just wanted to touch on this part here... I would build everything within Drupal Careers/Jobs, Content, User profiles, music, articles, etc... That way the CMS has influence and availability of all content rather than piecing it together with bits that can't necessarily access each other on a one-on-one basis. This is the most valuable part of having a complete CMS.
Thanks for your help guys! I'm going to seriously look into Drupal over the next few weeks.
Awasson, What do you mean when you say learning curve, as it developing modules for Drupal? Sorry if i'm being ignorant.
Do think I would be able to cut design costs by creating the first iteration of the website myself using Drupal and getting a professional to increase functional once the website starts making income? Obviously it would be better if I had the whole thing done by a pro but we need to find a bit more cash to go into promotion.
Hey Brendan,
There are three or four areas of expertise in Drupal development and it's probably the same with WordPress, Joomla, EE, etc.... They are:
1) Configuration: Knowing the way the CMS works and what combination of modules, features and settings will provide the most efficient use of the system. I inherit one or two Drupal sites a year that have been developed by some poor soul who hasn't taken the time to learn the ins-and-outs of the system and just stats throwing heaps of modules at it hoping something sticks. Often the site sort of works but it's sluggish from module bloat and inefficient design. If you know your way around Drupal, you'll come to recognize certain swiss-army-knife like modules that can satisfy a multitude of your website's needs. These are modules like: views, ctools, token, pathauto, and context.
2) Theming: This is the part where your design is applied to the site and this is so often overlooked by developers. You can Theme in Drupal several ways; get a free theme, sub-theme (extend a parent theme), build a theme from scratch. I tend to build themes from scratch because I know it produces the least amount of markup and server-side code and I can control exactly what gets sent to the browser. I'm a bit of a theming nerd and I would have to say about 99% of the custom themes I run across (including the first ones I built) suck.
A theme should be concise and specific to the site you're building. Last year I inherited a website for a large national organization and it was obviously put together by someone who was learning Drupal on the job (working for a flashy big ad agency). The theme has no less than 30 CSS files and some of those span into the thousands of lines. It also contains 20 template files, plus the usual theme.info file. The thing is that the design isn't that tricky and I could rebuild it with a fraction of that number of files and templates. It's a subtheme of another theme so it has a bunch of bloat right from the get-go. If I were to create it from scratch it would consist of perhaps two page template files and two or three concise CSS files, plus the info file. That would make maintenance and extending it a breeze compared to the existing situation.
3) Coding: Often when you're developing in Drupal, you need to write some code to introduce some UI magic via jQuery or on the server with PHP to manipulate the page's output. This is not module building, this is just a little tweaking with the Blocks area or in a custom views field, header or footer. It requires some knowledge of the API and how to effectively use it within the various levels. The Devel module comes in really handy at this point.
4) Module building: Module building is the next step up from coding tweaks. It's not all that complicated once you wrap your head around the API and what you want to do. I have a half dozen simple helper modules I use for modifying the login or user profile forms as well as a couple of wysiwyg helper modules I use to refine things. Once you've made a simple module it gets much easier to do something a bit more complex.
A good book for getting started is Using Drupal: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920010890.do A more advanced book is Drupal Pro Development: http://www.apress.com/9781430228387
Edit: [I]To answer your question, I think you will save time/money in the long run if you find someone very good to develop your site, make sure they understand exactly what you want right down to the fine details and then have them develop the site. Get references and have a look at as many sites that they've built to ensure you have the right people. If you want to manage the entire site in-house make sure thy understand that and have them customize the admin pages to suit the way you'll need them to be set up. Also get them to have you involved in inputting the content early on in the project. That way you'll be able to become familiar with the system while the project is evolving and you'll cut costs by doing that part of the work.
Any large site will require maintenance so make sure that you either have your developer on retainer to do the typical updates or have them show you how to do them. For Drupal Core update, you might want them to do that. It isn't a huge deal but it can be nerve wracking if you haven't done that sort of thing before. Also for a safety net, get the Backup And Migrate module setup to do nightly database backups. I set all of my sites to do that and they keep a 7 day cache of backups. [/I]
Wow, loads of great info there, thanks man!
I'm going to get stuck in to a few of those area's, probably leaving theming to a pro - I have designed the pages I want by hand and although I am flexible on some of the elements a lot of the pre-made templates i've looked at seemed to be either really tame or just not the right fit, plus the design is important for the audience we are trying to capture.
I do have some experience in programming so hopefully i'll be able to pick up some of the area's, Ideally I want to learn how to operate the site myself as I like to be as involved as I can be. I understand where you are coming from with the bloatware and I'm definitely going to avoid stacking tons of modules onto my page. I'm just going to have to do a lot of research to find out what modules are suitable or can be made suitable for the widgets and functions i'm after.
Thanks again for your generous advice!
Well, Brendan, It seems that you're all sorted.
I don't see a problem with using a CMS for your project and most of the time it may download the programming/coding time and the costs. And in business keeping the costs low is everyrhing.
There are many CMSs that can do the job and that have plenty of plugins that you need. Drupal is a solid choice but if the plugins you need to add functionality you require don't adapt to your needs as expected, you may take Joomla into consideration. Joomla is easier to learn but it's been around longer and there are more plugins for it than for Drupal.
As much as I love WP, I would probably stay away from it for this project. Of course, there are plenty of great CMSs out there, but I don't know them well enough to have a well formed opinion.
Still, whatever you choose, also take your time to learn how to secure well, specially if you use plugins (which you will). Most of the security issues in any CMS don't come from a poor built CMS, but from a poor build plug-in that opens security holes.
That is a good break down of things in the Drupal realm. I would second what is being said about Drupal being a good fit if your not going to program it from the ground up. The Drupal community offers enough to probably achieve many goals without a single line of custom code. So it is a good option if you are not familiar with programming nor have a budget for it.


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