Archive for September, 2009

First impressions: Wax 2.0 review

Wax2.0 is a powerful system for doing video processing. It is not the only program you would need to produce (edit) videos. One of the reasons for this is that there is no audio preview for the video within Wax 2.0. The program also uses more processing time for all of the video effects to be preformed on the video.

The video processing (out of the box) includes features such as:

2d and 3d video plugins, to embed into the video effects like particle generation creating effects like animated fire and snow, Warping images, 3d text.

Presets include a large selection what could be called (stock) video effects of graphics manipulation, warping and adding graphics, transformations and titling.

Access to directX plugins: includes statics graph effect found in graphics programs like emboss, blur, shadows … and directX transformations: pixelate, fades …

The processing is done using multiple media elements and effects are added either into its own track or as an effect for the media element.

Bottle line is the program provides some very good processing for making scenes and very professional titling effects.

Approaching anniversary of “Origin of the Species”

Ready or not here comes 150 years of Darwinism.

Using Format Factory to convert youtube videos to IPOD

Apple iPod nano 16GB MP3 Player - Silver

Format Factory is a free conversion program that converts from just about every video / audio format to just about any other video / audio format.

Ipod uses a mpeg4 format for video – some programs require you to install an mpeg4 codex into your system to be able to read and create mpeg 4. Factory format does not.

I digress Some of these codex’s are trials which watermark or expire. I’ve used these methods before with tversity. The additional complications are that the codex’s code and decode a varieties of formats and have bugs in one area but work in another. Just look at tversity help forum. I am not saying anything is wrong with tversity, but going through the process of getting all the codex’s working on the computer and then adding another program that changes things take the fun out of it.

But Format Factory has everything it needs built into the program.

It is free ready to go and does not tie into anything else you have on the computer for video.

I still use realplayer to download youtube videos and once converted move them to the ipod. I realize that I do not need to use realplayer at all but it interfaces with firefox nicely to download videos.

Atheists Angered by Origin of Species Giveaway

Hat tip: Christian News Wire

MEDIA ADVISORY, Sept. 24 /Christian Newswire/ — The author of a new book called Nothing Created Everything is giving away 50,000 copies of Charles Darwin’s famous Origin of Species to commemorate the 150th anniversary since its publication in 1859. Best-selling author, Ray Comfort, said, “I’m excited that 50,000 students in our top 50 universities will get a free copy on November 19th–and they will get the entire book, a huge 304 pages.”

Comfort has teamed up with his TV co-host actor Kirk Cameron to mobilize those who believe that if university students are exposed to the teaching of evolution they also be exposed to the alternative of Intelligent Design.

Comfort said, “You would think that atheists would be thrilled that Charles Darwin’s epic publication is being given away, but they are not. This is because I have used information from Nothing Created Everything in a special Introduction, to show how crazy atheism is, and how evolution has no scientific basis whatsoever. It’s as though I have kicked a hornets nest.”

Here are some of their comments about the free publication:

“That is so #$@! disgusting. It makes me physically ill. *%$!@ maggots.”

“Couldn’t you pose as a church near a major college and have them shipped direct to you? Then have a book burning party.”

“When I thought these idiots couldn’t sink any lower they still manage to surprise me.”

“Anyone up for a large bonfire?”

“I’m not into burning books, but this one deserves to be.”

“I just want to get a hold of one of those books, and in front of Ray Comfort, rip out 50 pages and throw it in his face.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gOC8BTG9nE

“Do you want a compelling, challenging, entertaining and Biblically sound interview? Schedule Ray Comfort. I have interviewed hundreds of authors and guests and I can say without hesitation…Ray is the best. No other guest has had the impact, or generated more positive response than Ray. His message is bold, compelling and Biblically solid. Your listeners will be challenged, entertained and inspired. We interviewed him once and invited him back 14 times…really. He is outstanding. I have slept through hundreds of interviews and not one comes close to creating the excitement that he brings. He has an energy and passion that forces people to listen…and respond.” — Todd Friel, Host, “Wretched Radio.”

“After interviewing thousands of guests over thirty-one years, I would put Ray Comfort in the top five, not five thousand; five. He is unique.” — Tim Berrends, KKVV Las Vegas

ACORN has opened pandora’s box – Update Judicial Watch files FOIA Lawsuit for HUD documents

They have elected to sue the investigators who video taped their employees breaking the law. The defense will be able to request discovery information, depose witnesses and work their way up the chain of command to see how far the up the corruption goes.

Updated

Judicial Watch has filed for Freedom of Information documents with HUD for documents regarding HUD.

1. Any and all documents concerning money given to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) and/or any of its affiliates (since January, 2000).
2. Any and all documents concerning any actions and/or disbarments against ACORN, for reasons including but not limited to abuse of grant money, misconduct, etc. (since January, 2000).

IRS Cuts ties with ACORN

The Internal Revenue Service said Wednesday it would no longer include ACORN in its volunteer tax assistance program. The program offered free tax advice to about 3 million low- and moderate-income tax filers this spring.

The IRS said ACORN, which is short for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, provided help on about 25,000 returns.

Hat tip YID With LID

COVER-UP!! : US Government Trying To Hide ACORN/BIG Labor Alliance

In the mid 1990s, ACORN and the SEIU partnered with other leftist groups to help form the Marxist New Party, a political coalition. In 1995, Obama sought out their nomination. He was successful in obtaining that endorsement and used a number of New Party volunteers as campaign workers.

The fact that Obama received the New Party’s endorsement in his first run for office cannot be dismissed as insignificant. On the contrary, Obama’s ties to the New Party and the New Party’s backers at ACORN and the SEIU are long-standing, substantial, and reveal a great deal about his personal political allegiances.

The partnership between the POTUS, SEIU, and ACORN is glued together by this rule from Saul Alinsky:

If Pelosi believed “Global Warming” – She would divert water to farm land

Now I don’t believe in Global Warming, but I am not an idiot with the inability to know that 2+2-1 = 4 is incorrect. If those who believe in Global Warming actually believe it there actions would match their words.

Plants consume CO2 and they also use H2O, which is a green house gas that helps to contain much more heat on the planet than any other gas.

While it is true that crops produce food and that food is eaten and then recycled back into the carbon cycle. The bulk of the plants are not eaten they represent carbon taken from the atmosphere. This bulk is rotated back into the soil if not removed could pool up into future oil reserves. The food is of course also needed to feed people, currently there are millions of people without enough food.

The reality is with more and more people facing economic uncertainty and more people needing support who are out of resources. Reducing the supply of food and driving up the costs is a green pernicious lie, which is not even green, it does not save the fish from death; but it does harm people taking the biggest tole on the poor. It is a attack on self sufficiency.

If we need laws to reduce CO2 then we need laws to increase irrigation for plants to consume CO2. If we put aside the science fiction we need farmers to have a supply of water.

Morality is not explainable by evolution – Updated

Another problem for Darwinian evolution is human morality. Unlike looking at animals and trying to understand them, we have inside information on what human morality means and how it goes against selfishness.

In Darwinism the strongest wins – it survives and produces more children. When we try to apply this to human moral behavior Darwinian evolution does not fit. There is nothing in Darwinism to explain self sacrifice. Nothing to explain why fire fighters went into the twin towers in New York on 9/11 to rescue people who they did not know; and committed to continue until either every person was rescued – many sent text messages home because they realized the danger they were going into.

Self sacrifice is not instinctual, the (what we call) instinct is to get away from the danger. The morally right thing to do is often in opposition to instinct, and must be a decided choice, it is not forced.

Updated 9/21

Human Morality is much much larger than merely an individual’s conscience. But all us individually can look in our heart and understand we distinguish right or wrong we can also see this in other people. Indeed when we seek for somebody to act in a correct way – we are appealing to their knowledge of right and wrong. One would never ask a dog to do the right thing.

“Origins of the species” (online here: http://www.literature.org/authors/darwin-charles/the-origin-of-species/ ) puts forth that species evolve because of the aspects of certain individuals within that species. Those individuals most fit for survival are favored (in Darwinism) and their children inherit the traits of those individuals who are best fit for survival because within the species they have the most children.

Lets look at another moral law that of adultery is wrong. Again there is a problem fitting this moral law into Darwinism because those who would control such behavior would have less children than those who would not. Therefore according to the fundamental principles of Darwinism as it is accepted by the scientific community (not rebuttals of those who are concerned about religion or metascience being taught in school) – those traits against adultery would have less opportunity to be inherited and would vanish.

I could continue to innumerate moral laws of humanity which cause mental anguish to those who insist evolution is a fact. All of us can search our knowledge of right and wrong and find things that would not have been advantageous to reproduction – none should exist under Darwinism.

It would be incorrect to suggest all moral laws conflict with Darwinism. It would also be incorrect to say all chemical reactions conflict with alchemy’s ancient classic element systems http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_element – Until the renaissance, (before Christians took seriously the search for truth), Alchemy was considered true. It explained enough during its time but failed to explain everything because it was not fact.

However, if one is to insist that Darwinism is “fact” then any error in Darwinism is a problem. One would not send somebody to jail in court if the DA presented a case and important elements – lets say DNA type – did not match the accused.

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The American public’s awareness and beliefs vis-à-vis our government’s expanding role in defining the curriculum in America’s schools, universities and institutions of science.

Neo-Darwinian theory contends that life is the result of a random, purposeless process.

Neo – Darwinian theory is taught in schools as if it is the only plausible scientific explanation of how life originated and developed. Yet Intelligent Design theory has recently emerged to challenge neo-Darwinian theory.

Both are scientific theories, and the debate is therefore legitimate. Why is the debate being suppressed?

At stake are two very consequential views of existence: Is life purposeful, and intelligently designed? Or is it random and purposeless?
Question #1:

Knowing this – should our government be engaged in official, de facto promotion of the exclusively secular, materialist worldview inherent in neo-Darwinian theory in our nation’s public schools, universities and research institutions? Why?
Question #2:

There is growing support among scientists that there is evidence of intelligent design operating in nature. Yet these scientists, researchers and educators are being routinely persecuted for their scientific views. Who is behind this persecution? Why is this happening in America? How did this situation develop?
Question #3:

Should the enterprise of science somehow be treated differently from all other forms of human knowledge, and accorded a special privilege that exempts it from robust debate or inquiry, especially when such debate or inquiry may alter viewpoints that raise important questions concerning larger issues that extend beyond the limits of science itself?

“Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed” presents a point-of-view so powerful, that it
literally forces a re-examination of these issues.

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Deafening Silence



Revelation 3:20 Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me.

Revelation 3:14 “To the angel of the church in Laodicea write: These are the words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the ruler of God’s creation.

I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other!.

So, because you are lukewarm–neither hot nor cold–I am about to spit you out of my mouth.

You say, ‘I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked.