Let’s say, hypothetically, that you are a designer, and are working on a design comp for a Christian Science church or reading room, and you wanted a high resolution vector version of the logo to use in your mock-up so you didn’t have to chop out background garbage out of some low-resolution version of the logo you found on the web somewhere. What should you do?

In the Cross and Crown trademark licensing documentation, you will find the following instructions:

Two approvals are necessary:
(1) for your type of use (sign, etc.) and
(2) for the actual form of your use (how the sign appears).
Therefore, if you already have a sample or mock-up of the proposed use, please send it by e-mail or regular mail along with the Request Form, so both approvals can be done simultaneously. It will save you time later.

Unfortunately, they do not currently provide any links to a high-resolution version of their logo for purposes of laying out a design, which would be very helpful to all the designers out there trying to help their clients prepare a mock-up of the proposed usage.

Update: I’ve removed the instructions for how to extract a vector version of the logo out of a PDF since they’ve changed the PDF available on their site to only include a raster version now, and it would probably be more helpful to more people in the long run if they hear the need for a vector version for placement in design comps from a number of people rather than trying to work-around the system they’re offering.

My suggestion is you contact the trademark administrator directly and request a vector version of the logo if the high-resolution JPG version of the logo isn’t sufficient for your usage. Their email address is trademark@csps.com.

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We were happy to have the Wee Trio come give a concert on April 22, 2008. It was a great success!

They performed to a packed house (standing room only) and did a great job. Their polished sound including drums, vibraphone and bass impressed everyone present.

James Westfall – Vibes
Dan Loomis – Bass
Jared Schonig – Drums

http://www.myspace.com/theweetrio

Click here to see video of the final piece they played

(Cross-posted on the Lafayette Square Christian Science Society site)

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Question: What do scientists consider to be valid evidence for a theory? How should studies be conducted to prove efficacy of treatment options? How can we tell, scientifically, if something really works or not?

• Scientific method
• CARGO CULT SCIENCE by Richard Feynman
• Mistakes in Experimental Design and Interpretation
• Randomized controlled trial
• Placebo effect

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This is a site that we’ve been working on for a while for the Christian Science church in Orinda, California.

Check it out and feel free to visit them sometime if you’re ever in the area.

First Church of Christ, Scientist – Orinda, California – Welcome to our healing church

It’s powered by Wordpress, of course.

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The one biggest application that my mom wanted to have running on her shiny new Macbook was Concord. A program that the publisher has not updated in many years. And that, for Macintosh, assuming you already have a copy, will not run under the new OS X Intel version, since Apple really wants OS 9 (Classic) to die.

This is how I got it to run without installing Windows and the Windows version of Concord. Note that this may or may not work for you.

1. Download the latest version of Basilisk II (Universal Binary)
2. Download an old Macintosh ROM file. These can be tricky to find. I got the 1mbMacrom.zip one from here. You are looking for a Quadra or Performa ROM.
3. Download the free and legal 4.3MB Macintosh OS 7.5.3 Starter Disk from here
4. Use Stuffit Expander to expand it. It will then have a .hfv extension. Change the extension from .hfv to .dmg. You can then open this in the Finder.
5. Create a Mac OS Standard format disk image using Disk Utilities application. I made mine 200MB and called it Classic Drive. Save it into a location you’ll be able to find later.
6. Copy your copy of Concord into a folder in your new disk image.
7. Delete any old preferences and Notebooks from the copy of Concord that you will be running. (It was crashing for me before I did that).
8. Copy the Basilisk II into your Applications folder
9. Run the BasiliskIIGUI.app application to configure Basilisk.
10. Select the location of the ROM file under the Memory/Misc tab, select Quadra 900 in the drop down and give it a good amount of memory (I set it to 128MB). CPU Type was set to 68040.
11. Set Graphics/Sound Width to 800 and Height to 600
12. Click Add… on the Volumes tab and select the Starterdisk.dmg image. Also click Add… again to add the Classic Drive image.
13. Under JIT Compiler, click Enable JIT Compiler.
14. Click Start
15. You should see OS 7.5.5 start up (quickly) and the be presented with a VERY old-school Mac OS desktop. You really really want Concord, remember?
16. Navigate to Classic Drive > Concord, then double-click on it to open. Hopefully you should see it open.
17. Create an alias for Concord, then add it to the System Folder > Startup Items folder.
18. Create an alias for BasiliskII.app and give it the Concord icon. Drag this alias into the Dock.
19. Now, to run Concord, all you have to do is click once on the Dock icon for it.

This is somewhat of a “hack” in that you are emulating the old Motorola 68040 chip to run a really old program. I’m not sure how printing will work or if it will. That will have to be explored another time.

Incidentally, this loads much quicker than loading OS 9.2.2 does under Classic mode on a PowerPC Powerbook. Lots less that is being loaded, but it really feels snappy. Of course, going back to OS 7.5.5 style menus where you have to keep on clicking in order to scroll down in them is a bit of a pain.

References:

• Basilisk II – Motorola 68000 chip emulator – works like a champ once you figure out what all you need.
• Sheepshaver – PowerPC emulator. I wasn’t able to get this to work since I didn’t have the OS 8.6 installer disk.
• MacOSHints.com article about running Classic apps on Intel Macs
• Old Computer ROMS – where I finally found a working download for an old Macintosh ROM. I owned a Quadra, so I feel pretty OK about pulling the ROM down for this purpose.

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These lectures on Christian Science were given to public audiences and printed either in The Christian Science Monitor or in local newspapers.

Christian Science Lectures

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CSMedia_01d, originally uploaded by gserafini.

Working with Rachel on a design for a new site that would make free Christian Science Media readily available to the general public.

Coming as soon as it can. The logo font is Mrs. Eaves Small Caps from Emigre.

ChristianScienceMedia.com

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It wasn’t tooo hard, but pretty cool that if you search for Christian Science in iTunes podcasts the #1 result is the Lafayette Square Christian Science Society’s first podcast.

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Lafayette Square Christian Science Society

Wednesday Evening Testimony Meeting Podcast

December 8th, 2005

Lafayette Square Christian Science Society Podcast cover

This is our first podcast. It is an unedited recording of our weekly Wednesday evening testimony service that is open to the public as are all Christian Science services. You are welcome to join us at our next meeting on Sunday or Wednesday if you are in the area or to subscribe to this podcast if you would like to hear more testimonies of healing.

Check it out!

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Introduction

The other day I was trying to figure out how to get the audio-recorded version of the Christian Science Bible Lesson onto my shiny new iPod photo. The iPod likes .mp3 or .aac files. It does not include any way to save out a Real Player audio stream in .ram or .rm format and listen to it later.

Here is how I was able to get OS X to record a streaming Real Player Media file (.ram) to .mp3. Note that because this is recording a stream, this is a real-time operation.

This was tested under Macintosh OS X – Panther 10.3.7 using a 1.5GHz 15″ Powerbook G4 with 1.25 GB RAM.

Software

Needed software:

1. Soundflower – http://www.cycling74.com/products/soundflower.html
2. Audio Recorder – http://versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/17392
3. LAME Framework – http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/22570
4. Real Player – http://www.real.com/

Process

1. First, download each application above. (You only have to do this the first time.) Make sure you get the Free RealPlayer version from Real.
2. Install Soundflower, according to their website instructions (pretty much standard double-click, type in password, and click next.)
3. Install Real Player
4. Install Audio Recorder (drag-and-drop into your Applications folder, I believe.)
5. Install LAME Framework. You can put it into either your /Library/Frameworks/ folder or your ~/Library/Frameworks/ folder, depending on if you want it to be available to other users of your computer or not.
6. Open Audio Recorder. You should see the audio level meter responding to your microphone input or whatever your default Input is set to in your System Preferences / Sound control panel. (Note: At this point you could create your recording, but you would be converting from digital to analog, recording the input from your microphone, then saving to file. Not ideal for getting the best sound quality.)
7. Open your Audio Recorder Preferences. Change the dropdown from .aiff to .mp3 and adjust the Quality to whatever you want. For recording the Lesson I chose Voice.
8. Close your Audio Recorder Preferences.
9. Open your System Preferences, then click on Sound
10. Click on Input. Select Soundflower (2ch) as the Input.
11. Click on Output. Select Soundflower (2ch) as the Output. (After you do this, you will not hear anything coming out of your speakers. Essentially you’ve told your Mac to use the Soundflower application as both your Input and your Output device.)
12. Click on Sound Effects. Where it says “Play alerts and sounds through:” choose Built-in Audio: Internal speakers. This will ensure that if you’re using your computer while you’re recording system alerts won’t be recorded as well.
13. Open Real Player, and start the audio stream.
14. Switch to the Audio Recorder application, then click Record. You should see the audio level meter responding to the Real Player audio, not your microphone input.
15. Press Stop in Audio Recorder once you’ve recorded the program you wish to save to .mp3.
16. Audio Recorder will prompt you to name the file.
17. Open up your home directory in the Finder (the default save location for Audio Recorder). Double-click on the .mp3 file, and it should load into iTunes and begin playing. The next time you plug your iPod into your computer it should sync and you now have a time-shifted copy of the Real Player audio stream stored on your iPod for your listening pleasure.

Don’t forget to switch your Output back to Speakers in your System Preferences after you’re done, otherwise you won’t hear any audio coming out of your computer.

Conclusion

Using this method you should be able to record any shows or programs that are made available in streaming format that you can listen to – this is just like adding a line-out cable into your line-in, without having to actually have any physical cables.

The 28:31 minute long Lesson on Christian Science ended up being around 11.5 MB .mp3 file and it plays perfectly on the iPod. I think that the Christian Science Publishing Society should make the Lesson available natively in .mp3 format for free (or at all) on their site. Bonus points would super for sure apply if they then also turned it into a nice .mp3 enclosure-enabled RSS feed podcast so you could download it automatically to your iPod every week using an iPodder application.

Link to the Christian Science weekly Bible Lesson:
http://www.spirituality.com/dt/sg_home.jhtml

Link to Real Player version of the Lesson:
http://boss.streamos.com/real/csps/clerks_office/wbl/wbl_rp_28k.ram

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