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Quote of the Day
"Don't hesitate to take your queries to the Lord, dig into Scripture for answers, and seek the counsel of a trusted spiritual mentor. Prayer is too important to neglect."
~Charles Stanley (from "does prayer make a difference?")
Today's Answer
Who is the Holy Spirit?
Greg Laurie
"Nevertheless I tell you the truth. It is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I depart, I will send Him to you. And when He has come, He will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: of sin, because they do not believe in Me." (John 16:7)
It is sometimes hard for us to grasp the fact that the Holy Spirit is a Him, not an it. After all, the bible describes the Holy Spirit as a mighty rushing wind. We read of His coming upon the disciples in a divided flame of fire. We also read about His descending as a dove.
But let's remember that Jesus is called the Bread of Life, and the Father is described as a refuge, hiding us under the shadow of His wings. Does that mean that Jesus is a loaf of bread—or that the Father is a giant bird in heaven? Of course not. These are simply metaphors to help us understand God.
The Holy Spirit is a Him, and He has specific work that He wants to do. This includes convicting us of our sin—not necessarily sin in general, but to show us that we are sinners. The Holy Spirit takes the message of the death and resurrection of Jesus, shows us it is true, and shows us that we need to turn to God. Without the convicting power of the Spirit, you would never have come to Jesus. That is why, when I am praying for an unbeliever, I pray that God would convict him or her by His Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit doesn't convict us of our sin to drive us to despair, but to send us into the open arms of Jesus. When Peter preached on the Day of Pentecost, Acts 1:1 2:37 says that the people "were cut to the heart" (Acts 2:37). This phrase means "pierced in the heart" and describes something that is sudden and unexpected. The Holy Spirit will stab you, in effect, but it is not to destroy you. It is to show you your need for Jesus.
Taken from "the holy spirit's work" by Harvest Ministries (used by permission).
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Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands (PlayStation 3) review
"The Forgotten Sands was clearly designed for mainstream consumption. But somewhere along the development process, the line between simplicity and stupidity began to blur. The developers lost sight of what made the last Prince of Persia an unforgettable classic and attempted to create a game they thought the public might enjoy, instead of the one we actually wanted."
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Schierholtz hoping to prove he can hit lefties
MESA, Ariz. -- Wednesday was the Cubs' first full-squad workout, which meant it was the first day of live batting practice. Nate Schierholtz got to face exactly who he needed in lefty Travis Wood.
Schierholtz is hoping he can convince Cubs manager Rick Renteria to not platoon the outfielder against left-handed pitchers. Last year, Schierholtz batted .262 against right-handers and hit .170 against lefties, part of the reason he had to share right field.
"That's a huge goal of mine, to play every day and not necessarily platoon as much," Schierholtz said Wednesday. "That's one of my big goals this spring."
It seemed fitting that he had to face a southpaw on Day 1.
"These sessions right now are more for pitchers than hitters," Renteria said. "It's a difficult time for the hitters."
When Schierholtz was with the Giants, he recalls Barry Bonds having his own personal batting-practice pitcher who was left-handed. When Bonds stopped playing, that pitcher stayed with the Giants to help. The Cubs do need to find some lefties to throw batting practice to help Schierholtz, Anthony Rizzo and Ryan Sweeney.
"There weren't too many lefties who I had available here," Schierholtz said. "It'll be something I work on a lot this spring, [facing] left-handed throwers. That's the key. Rizzo and I talked about it a lot last year, how we didn't have anyone left-handed to throw to us ever. That's a big gap and hole we had to fill. At least in Spring Training, we can get more work that way."


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(The Root) —
"Why is it always the women who are heartbroken and disappointed, as opposed to men?" —S.D.
I'm unsure where this idea came from, but I've heard the assumption that "men don't have feelings" enough to recognize that among some people, it's a prevailing idea and one that couldn't be further from the truth. Of course men get heartbroken and disappointed. They are human. Those feelings aren't reserved for women.
It's as though women who say this have never heard of Kanye West's 808s & Heartbreak. That was a whole aching album from an incredibly heartbroken man going through the five stages of grief. Take it old-school back to Lenny Williams and "Cause I Love You," in which he has a full-on meltdown singing about how lonely he gets: "Oh, oh, oh!" If you didn't catch it, that was the sound of a broken heart. Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes let loose on "I Miss You," making it clear to anyone listening that Melvin is disappointed, agitated and in dire need of his ex. Those are just a few of my favorites; I could make a list of hundreds if challenged.
For clarity, men are not women with penises. Via nature, they're wired differently, and via nurture (i.e., socialization) they're usually taught to respond differently from women — for instance, holding back tears that women might let flow or clamming up when women would want to talk.
Some women make the mistake of assuming that men don't have feelings just because, in general, they don't express them the same way women do. And some women use that faulty reasoning to treat men with less care than they should, which is never OK. Expressing their feelings differently doesn't mean men don't have them.
However, men get incredibly hurt when a relationship in which they are emotionally invested ends. In fact, a 2010 study by the Journal of Health and Social Behavior found that breakups take a greater toll on men than on women. The study also found that while women were more likely to be depressed after a breakup, men were more likely to turn to substance abuse.
Just because men don't engage in the stereotypical activities that are assigned to heartbroken women in films — like consuming vast quantities of ice cream, crying incessantly or talking about their ex ad nauseam — doesn't mean they don't feel anything. Again, they just handle it differently — or, even better, they don't do it in front of you.
I'm privileged to have several close platonic male friends who have been around for more than a decade. And unfortunately, I've been a listening ear for more than a few who were going through what I like to think of as post-traumatic breakup disorder.
I haven't yet had one cry on my shoulder, but it wouldn't surprise me if, in quiet hours when they got to thinking after drinking, some tears were shed. And yes, post-breakup, guys do talk about their previous relationship and ex to an annoying extent, but they tend to share their confidences with close friends and relatives, not necessarily anyone listening, as some women are prone to do. Never seen a man binge on desserts, but I've seen more than a few react by consuming more tequila shots or cognac than seemed humanly possible — not that it's any better. Just different.
Try to remember this the next time you assume guys don't have the same feelings you do.
Demetria L. Lucas is a contributing editor to The Root, a life coach and the author of A Belle in Brooklyn: The Go-to Girl for Advice on Living Your Best Single Life. She answers your dating and relationship questions on The Root each week. Feel free to ask anything at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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'Reversion' of Units Rented Out in Downturn Is Fresh Sign of Housing Market's Strength
Many condominium developers who rode out the real-estate downturn by renting out their units are reverting to for-sale housing, in another sign of the market's continued recovery over the past year.
Take Amir Haber, a Los Angeles developer who opened his Universal Lofts project at precisely the wrong moment in late 2008, when the stock market was in free fall and home prices were declining at a double-digit pace. Instead of selling off the project's 67 lofts that range from 2,000 to 2,500 square feet and sit across the highway...
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Flowers, chocolates and even car air freshener top list of panic-bought presents, Hertz survey finds
Half of men admit they would give their partner a last-minute Valentine's Day gift bought at a service station, research* by the Hertz Corporation (NYSE:HTZ) reveals.
One in 10 men leave it to February 14 to grab presents, with many resorting to flowers, chocolates and even car air freshener from petrol stations, the poll discloses. And women are almost just as likely to do the same, with more than 40% saying they would stop at a garage to panic-buy a card or gift for their lover.
Despite the apparent lack of thoughtfulness, both sexes expect a gift on Valentine's Day. Two in five women feel disappointed if they don't receive anything, compared to one in five men.
But the survey of more than 1,000 Britons also reveals that a third of people never buy Valentine's cards or gifts. Those aged 16 to 24, and the over-55s are the least romantic, with 44% and 51% respectively shunning February 14, compared to a quarter of people in other age groups.
Those who do buy presents should avoid the typical gestures such as cards, flowers and champagne as they satisfy just 16% of women, the results indicate. Instead, almost half (46%) of women would rather have a surprise, 28% favour something they can share with their lover, and 26% would prefer a memorable experience.
"We all know how difficult it is to find the perfect gift for someone special or the feeling of panic when we realise we have forgotten to buy it," said Michel Taride, Group President, Hertz International. "But with only a few clicks, those who love sharing have the opportunity to experience together our attractive Fleet Collections and hit the road with the car that fits their taste and needs. And for those who are really thinking about going the extra mile for their lover, with Hertz Rent2Buy they can test drive the car of their dreams with the option of buying it afterwards!"
Hertz offers its car rental customers the possibility of exploring romantic destinationsthis Valentine's Day behind the wheel of a sporty, quirky car from the Fun Collection; a luxurious vehicle from the Prestige Collection; or a breath taking model from the Hertz Dream Collection. Elite models such as the Aston Martin DB9, Bentley Continental GT or Jaguar F-TYPE, part of the Hertz Dream Collection, are available at selected locations across Europe to surprise a loved one and have a shared experience of a lifetime.
The survey found that 45% of men and 41% of women would do their Valentine's gift shopping at a service station, with the most popular presents named as chocolates (67%), flowers (54%), wine (32%), cuddly toys (18%), lottery tickets (18%) and CDs (17%). A miserly 6% confess they would buy their loved-one a car air freshener for Valentine's Day, while 4% say maps, windscreen wash, engine oil, brake fluid or antifreeze would be acceptable presents.
Men are less organised with 17% admitting having completely forgotten Valentine's Day at least once, compared to 14% of women. The Censuswide survey found 61% of men leave gift buying to the week before and 12% buy presents on February 14, compared to 51% and 8% of women respectively.
Top 10 service station Valentine's gifts:
- Chocolates
- Flowers
- Wine
- Cuddly toys
- Lottery tickets
- CDs
- Books
- Car air freshener
- Ready meals
- Maps, windscreen wash, antifreeze, oil, brake fluid
Detailed information about Hertz's suggested top 5 romantic destinations in the UK available from https://www.hertz.co.uk/p/on-the-road/uk/five-of-the-most-romantic-destinations-in-the-UK-this-valentines-day. More information about Hertz Collections and Hertz Rent2Buy available from www.hertz.co.uk and www.hertzrent2buy.co.uk respectively.
* Survey of 1,000 UK residents over the age of 16, conducted by Censuswide on behalf of Hertz, January 2015
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Will covid-19 end the dominance of the big four?
By Campbell Shaw, Head of Bank Partnerships, Cardlytics
Across the country, we are readjusting to refreshed restrictions on our daily lives, as we continue to navigate the seemingly unnavigable waters of the coronavirus pandemic.
For all of us, the pandemic has made life anything but 'normal', and with social distancing here to stay, it will remain so for a long time yet. These paradigm shifts have impacted every aspect of life, including how we bank.
Focus is already turning to the role the big banks are playing through the pandemic, with experts fearing the economic downturn will only cement the position of the 'big four' traditional players.
But has the pandemic shaken the dominance of the big banks? Or has it simply confirmed their position?
Turning to tech
There's no doubt that the pandemic has caused the big players to be challenged like never before on tech.
Classically slower to adapt to developments in the market, increased demand for online services and contactless payment systems have turbocharged the big banks' need to act like a challenger.
And they have, agilely adapting to this new normal by updating systems and services to ensure customers' safety and financial security come first.
Scale is staying power
In these new times, the power and influence of the big players has also been proven.
The big four have provided the lion's share of the government-backed loans designed to help small and medium-sized businesses through the pandemic. It has also been the big four offering the majority of payment holidays for customers on their mortgages, debt and credit cards.
However, it's important to note that their power to retain customers goes much deeper than their market share.
Our switching study, which looked at the reasons behind customer switching, found that even before the pandemic, despite nearly half (48%) of UK adults admitting they know they aren't getting the best deal with their current bank, half have never switched their current account.
That's often because of the value they can provide to their customers, through personalized service, offers and rewards that keeps customers engaged and invested in them. As brands increasingly look to
Focus on finances
As the world becomes a more financially insecure place, due to COVID-19, there's been a marked shift towards more attention on finances, which has affected not only the business functions of banks but has impacted banking relationships with customers at their core.
From deals to savings, customers now more than ever are re-evaluating how they bank, and how they manage their money.
The impact on the big four is more pressure than ever to keep up with the best interest rates and deals. That can be difficult for a big, and often slower moving, organisation and could be a stumbling block for them in the months to come.
However, on the plus side, the big four can lean into their sophisticated loyalty schemes, using offers and deals from partner brands to demonstrate value to customers and build up their loyalty.
Engaging with purpose
The pandemic has seen many banks acting with a renewed sense of purpose. Banking has had to be more adaptable than ever before – fitting the needs of those who may be feeling financial stress or dealing with unprecedented challenges.
And showing a little heart can go a long way when it comes to increasing customer loyalty and boosting a bank's reputation.
Over the last months, traditional banks have been quick to adapt their products and services, in response to the demands and challenges their customers have been face.
No doubt, continuing to build more meaningful, supportive and engaging customer relationships, whether it is online or on the newly reopened high-street, will be critical to banks' dominance as we look to the future.
Bring on the challengers
However, with their meteoric rise ahead of lockdown, we must keep an eye on the challengers, who still have the potential to knock traditional players off their pedestal.
We found that more than three million people in the UK opened a current account with a new bank last year. Our research found that traditional banks made up well over half (69%) of the accounts UK adults switched from, while newer digital challenger banks such as Monzo, Starling Bank and Revolut made up 25% of current accounts switched to. And these fast moving, fast growing challengers may see further growth if traditional banks are stifled by the declining high-street.
What's more, the high street could yet prove to be the Achilles heel of the bigger players, as shifting budgets and increasing overheads in the context of a more online banking experience could see more big players struggle with their physical presence, making way for the digital challengers to thrive.
So, while the dominant players may have the lead, they should still keep an eye on the challengers as we look ahead to the next, uncertain, six months.
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To take the nation's financial pulse, we must go digital
By Pete Bulley, Director of Product, Aire
The last six months have brought the precarious financial situation of many millions across the world into sharper focus than ever before. But while the figures may be unprecedented, the underlying problem is not a new one – and it requires serious attention as well as action from lenders to solve it.
Research commissioned by Aire in February found that eight out of ten adults in the UK would be unable to cover essential monthly spending should their income drop by 20%. Since then, Covid-19 has increased the number without employment by 730,000 people between July and March, and saw 9.6 million furloughed as part of the job retention scheme.
The figures change daily but here are a few of the most significant: one in six mortgage holders had opted to take a payment holiday by June. Lenders had granted almost a million credit card payment deferrals, provided 686,500 payment holidays on personal loans, and offered 27 million interest-free overdrafts.
The pressure is growing for lenders and with no clear return to normal in sight, we are unfortunately likely to see levels of financial distress increase exponentially as we head into winter. Recent changes to the job retention scheme are signalling the start of the withdrawal of government support.
The challenge for lenders
Lenders have been embracing digital channels for years. However, we see it usually prioritised at acquisition, with customer management neglected in favour of getting new customers through the door. Once inside, even the most established of lenders are likely to fall back on manual processes when it comes to managing existing customers.
It's different for fintechs. Unburdened by legacy systems, they've been able to begin with digital to offer a new generation of consumers better, more intuitive service. Most often this is digitised, mobile and seamless, and it's spreading across sectors. While established banks and service providers are catching up — offering mobile payments and on-the-go access to accounts — this part of their service is still lagging. Nowhere is this felt harder than in customer management.
Time for a digital solution in customer management
With digital moving higher up the agenda for lenders as a result of the pandemic, many still haven't got their customer support properly in place to meet demand. Manual outreach is still relied upon which is both heavy on resource and on time.
Lenders are also grappling with regulation. While many recognise the moral responsibility they have for their customers, they are still blind to the new tools available to help them act effectively and at scale.
In 2015, the FCA released its Fair Treatment of Customers regulations requiring that 'consumers are provided with clear information and are kept appropriately informed before, during and after the point of sale'.
But when the individual financial situation of customers is changing daily, never has this sentiment been more important (or more difficult) for lenders to adhere to. The problem is simple: the traditional credit scoring methods relied upon by lenders are no longer dynamic enough to spot sudden financial change.
The answer lies in better, and more scalable, personalised support. But to do this, lenders need rich, real-time insight so that lenders can act effectively, as the regulator demands. It needs to be done at scale and it needs to be done with the consumer experience in mind, with convenience and trust high on the agenda.
Placing the consumer at the heart of the response
To better understand a customer, inviting them into a branch or arranging a phone call may seem the most obvious solution. However, health concerns mean few people want to see their providers face-to-face, and fewer staff are in branches, not to mention the cost and time outlay by lenders this would require.
Call centres are not the answer either. Lack of trained capacity, cost and the perceived intrusiveness of calls are all barriers. We know from our own consumer research at Aire that customers are less likely to engage directly with their lenders on the phone when they feel payment demands will be made of them.
If lenders want reliable, actionable insight that serves both their needs (and their customers) they need to look to digital.
Asking the person who knows best – the borrower
So if the opportunity lies in gathering information directly from the consumer – the solution rests with first-party data. The reasons we pioneer this approach at Aire are clear: firstly, it provides a truly holistic view of each customer to the lender, a richer picture that covers areas that traditional credit scoring often misses, including employment status and savings levels. Secondly, it offers consumers the opportunity to engage directly in the process, finally shifting the balance in credit scoring into the hands of the individual.
With the right product behind it, this can be achieved seamlessly and at scale by lenders. Pulse from Aire provides a link delivered by SMS or email to customers, encouraging them to engage with Aire's Interactive Virtual Interview (IVI). The information gathered from the consumer is then validated by Aire to provide the genuinely holistic view of a consumer that lenders require, delivering insights that include risk of financial difficulty, validated disposable income and a measure of engagement.
No lengthy or intrusive phone calls. No manual outreach or large call centre requirements. And best of all, lenders can get started in just days and they save up to £60 a customer.
Too good to be true?
This still leaves questions. How can you trust data provided directly from consumers? What about AI bias – are the results fair? And can lenders and customers alike trust it?
To look at first-party misbehaviour or 'gaming', sophisticated machine-learning algorithms are used to validate responses for accuracy. Essentially, they measure responses against existing contextual data and check its plausibility.
Aire also looks at how the IVI process is completed. By looking at how people complete the interview, not just what they say, we can spot with a high degree of accuracy if people are trying to game the system.
AI bias – the system creating unfair outcomes – is tackled through governance and culture. In working towards our vision of a world where finance is truly free from bias or prejudice, we invest heavily in constructing the best model governance systems we can at Aire to ensure our models are analysed systematically before being put into use.
This process has undergone rigorous improvements to ensure our outputs are compliant by regulatory standards and also align with our own company principles on data and ethics.
That leaves the issue of encouraging consumers to be confident when speaking to financial institutions online. Part of the solution is developing a better customer experience. If the purpose of this digital engagement is to gather more information on a particular borrower, the route the borrower takes should be personal and reactive to the information they submit. The outcome and potential gain should be clear.
The right technology at the right time?
What is clear is that in Covid-19, and the resulting financial shockwaves, lenders face an unprecedented challenge in customer management. In innovative new data in the form of first-party data, harnessed ethically, they may just have an unprecedented solution.
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The Future of Software Supply Chain Security: A focus on open source management
By Emile Monette, Director of Value Chain Security at Synopsys
Software Supply Chain Security: change is needed
Attacks on the Software Supply Chain (SSC) have increased exponentially, fueled at least in part by the widespread adoption of open source software, as well as organisations' insufficient knowledge of their software content and resultant limited ability to conduct robust risk management. As a result, the SSC remains an inviting target for would-be attackers. It has become clear that changes in how we collectively secure our supply chains are required to raise the cost, and lower the impact, of attacks on the SSC.
A report by Atlantic Council found that "115 instances, going back a decade, of publicly reported attacks on the SSC or disclosure of high-impact vulnerabilities likely to be exploited" in cyber-attacks were implemented by affecting aspects of the SSC. The report highlights a number of alarming trends in the security of the SSC, including a rise in the hijacking of software updates, attacks by state actors, and open source compromises.
This article explores the use of open source software – a primary foundation of almost all modern software – due to its growing prominence, and more importantly, its associated security risks. Poorly managed open source software exposes the user to a number of security risks as it provides affordable vectors to potential attackers allowing them to launch attacks on a variety of entities—including governments, multinational corporations, and even the small to medium-sized companies that comprise the global technology supply chain, individual consumers, and every other user of technology.
The risks of open source software for supply chain security
The 2020 Open Source Security and Risk Analysis (OSSRA) report states that "If your organisation builds or simply uses software, you can assume that software will contain open source. Whether you are a member of an IT, development, operations, or security team, if you don't have policies in place for identifying and patching known issues with the open source components you're using, you're not doing your job."
Open source code now creates the basic infrastructure of most commercial software which supports enterprise systems and networks, thus providing the foundation of almost every software application used across all industries worldwide. Therefore, the need to identify, track and manage open source code components and libraries has risen tremendously.
License identification, patching vulnerabilities and introducing policies addressing outdated open source packages are now all crucial for responsible open source use. However, the use of open source software itself is not the issue. Because many software engineers 'reuse' code components when they are creating software (this is in fact a widely acknowledged best practice for software engineering), the risk of those components becoming out of date has grown. It is the use of unpatched and otherwise poorly managed open source software that is really what is putting organizations at risk.
The 2020 OSSRA report also reveals a variety of worrying statistics regarding SSC security. For example, according to the report, it takes organisations an unacceptably long time to mitigate known vulnerabilities, with 2020 being the first year that the Heartbleed vulnerability was not found in any commercial software analyzed for the OSSRA report. This is six years after the first public disclosure of Heartbleed – plenty of time for even the least sophisticated attackers to take advantage of the known and publicly reported vulnerability.
The report also found that 91% of the investigated codebases contained components that were over four years out of date or had no developments made in the last two years, putting these components at a higher risk of vulnerabilities. Additionally, vulnerabilities found in the audited codebases had an average age of almost 4 ½ years, with 19% of vulnerabilities being over 10 years old, and the oldest vulnerability being a whopping 22 years old. Therefore, it is clear that open source users are not adequately defending themselves against open source enabled cyberattacks. This is especially concerning as 99% of the codebases analyzed in the OSSRA report contained open source software, with 75% of these containing at least one vulnerability, and 49% containing high-risk vulnerabilities.
Mitigating open source security risks
In order to mitigate security risks when using open source components, one must know what software you're using, and which exploits impact its vulnerabilities. One way to do this is to obtain a comprehensive bill of materials from your suppliers (also known as a "build list" or a "software bill of materials" or "SBOM"). Ideally, the SBOM should contain all the open source components, as well as the versions used, the download locations for all projects and dependencies, the libraries which the code calls to, and the libraries that those dependencies link to.
Creating and communicating policies
Modern applications contain an abundance of open source components with possible security, code quality and licensing issues. Over time, even the best of these open source components will age (and newly discovered vulnerabilities will be identified in the codebase), which will result in them at best losing intended functionality, and at worst exposing the user to cyber exploitation.
Organizations should ensure their policies address updating, licensing, vulnerability management and other risks that the use of open source can create. Clear policies outlining introduction and documentation of new open source components can improve the control of what enters the codebase and that it complies with the policies.
Prioritizing open source security efforts
Organisations should prioritise open source vulnerability mitigation efforts in relation to CVSS (Common Vulnerability Scoring System) scores and CWE (Common Weakness Enumeration) information, along with information about the availability of exploits, paying careful attention to the full life cycle of the open source component, instead of only focusing on what happens on "day zero." Patch priorities should also be in-line with the business importance of the asset patched, the risk of exploitation and the criticality of the asset. Similarly, organizations must consider using sources outside of the CVSS and CWE information, many of which provide early notification of vulnerabilities, and in particular, choosing one that delivers technical details, upgrade and patch guidance, as well as security insights. Lastly, it is important for organisations to monitor for new threats for the entire time their applications remain in service.
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The Visual Quantum Mechanics project, funded by the National Science Foundation (ESI-9452782), involves the development of instructional units that introduce quantum physics to high school and college students who do not have a background in modern physics or higher level math. To reach these students, the instructional units integrate interactive computer programs and digital multimedia with inexpensive materials and written documents in an activity-based environment. The goals of Visual Quantum Mechanics are to:
Interactive computer visualizations and animations provide graphical descriptions of quantum effects. Students learn to interpret and explain these graphics while the computer learns how to solve the equations.
Many small, inexpensive solid state devices are based on a knowledge of quantum science. By exploring the properties of light emitting diodes, tunneling diodes, solar cells and even glow-in- the-dark toothbrushes students learn about effects which cannot be explained with classical physics. They learn the quantum principles to understand the devices behavior.
All types of learning materials are needed to provide an adequate learning environment for the study of quantum science. Dialogs on paper as well as various digital formats enable students to explore phenomena such as electron diffraction and energy gaps in solids.
The Visual Quantum Mechanics materials consist of instructional units that integrate quantum science concepts into a typical physics course. The units, each of which requires about ten hours of instruction, can be inserted as students complete the study of certain classical concepts, such as conservation of energy. The materials can be used without a complete revision of the present curriculum and do not need to be placed at the end of the year.
All units utilize an active learning model of instruction. Students explore, learn new concepts and apply those concepts by using single equipment and interactive media.
By emphasizing the application of quantum science to devices which students see frequently, the Visual Quantum Mechanics materials help students understand that quantum science is all around them. Without quantum science they could not have television remotes, fluorescent lamps or many other everyday devices.


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CFO Moves this week include:
|Simply Hired
|Starbucks Corporation
|Norfolk Southern Corp.
|Ralph Lauren Corporation
|Lipocine Inc.
|PCTEL, Inc.
|InVivo Therapeutics Holdings Corp.
|Greenbelt Resources Corporation
|Hot Mama's Foods, Inc.
|Washington Trust Bancorp, Inc.
|Sterling Construction Company, Inc.
|Ingram Micro Inc.
|LLBH Private Wealth Management, LLC
|Emulex Corporation
|GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc.
|Northrop Grumman Corporation
|Commercial Vehicle Group, Inc.
|KaloBios Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
|Magellan Midstream Partners, L.P.
|SWS Group, Inc.
|Trevena, Inc.
|Five Star Products, Inc.
|Axcelis Technologies, Inc.
|Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota
|Odyssey Marine Exploration, Inc.
|Cordia Bancorp Inc.
|Tenex Health
|Baxano Surgical, Inc.
|VHA Inc.
|Advanced Cannabis Solutions, Inc.
|Barton Malow Company
|Severstal North America
|myoscience, inc.
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Simply Hired announced the appointment of Shelly Schaffer as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Before joining Simply Hired, Schaffer served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Support.com. Prior to Support.com, she served as Vice President of Corporate Operations Finance at Yahoo! Inc. Schaffer also worked as an executive at Mercury Interactive in a number of finance roles of increasing responsibility from September 2003 to December 2006 during which period it was acquired by Hewlett Packard. These roles included Vice President of Strategic Finance and Treasury and Vice President of Financial Planning and Analysis. Earlier in her career, Schaffer held a range of senior finance roles with The Coca Cola Company, Nestle Beverage Company and Cosine Communications.
Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ: SBUX) announced that Troy Alstead, chief financial officer and chief administrative officer, has been promoted to chief financial officer and group president, Global Business Services. Alstead joined Starbucks in January 1992 when it was a privately held company with just over 100 stores.
Lionsgate announced that its Chief Financial Officer, James Keegan, has announced his retirement effective October 1, 2013. The Company has asked him to remain as a consultant until January 3, 2014 to assist with the transition to his successor. James W. Barge has been named Chief Financial Officer effective October 1. Barge served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Viacom Inc. from 2010-2012 and Executive Vice President, Controller, Tax and Treasury, from 2008-2010. He previously had a 13-year tenure at Time Warner, ultimately serving as Time Warner Senior Vice President, Controller and Chief Accounting Officer. Prior to his tenure at Viacom and Time Warner, Barge spent 13 years at Ernst & Young, where he rose to the positions of industry leader of the Consumer Products Group and Regional Partner.
Norfolk Southern Corp. (NYSE: NSC) announced that Marta R. Stewart has been named executive vice president and chief financial officer, effective Nov. 1. Stewart succeeds John P. Rathbone, who will retire Nov.1, after a 32-year career in the finance and administrative divisions at Norfolk Southern. Stewart joined Norfolk Southern in 1983 and served in several finance positions before being named vice president and controller in 2003 and then vice president and treasurer in 2009.
NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) announced that it has named Colette Kress as executive vice president and chief financial officer. Kress most recently served for three years as senior vice president and chief financial officer at Cisco's Business Technology and Operations Finance organization. Previously, she spent 13 years at Microsoft, including four years as chief financial officer of the Server and Tools division, and held senior roles in corporate planning and finance. Prior to that, she served at Texas Instruments in a variety of finance positions.
Ralph Lauren Corporation (NYSE: RL) announced that Christopher Peterson, currently Senior Vice President (SVP) and Chief Financial Officer (CFO), will become Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) in addition to his role as CFO. Mr. Peterson has been SVP and CFO of the Company since September 2012. Before joining Ralph Lauren, Mr. Peterson spent 20 years at The Procter & Gamble Company in several senior corporate and operational roles. Most recently, he was CFO of its Global Household Care division.
Lipocine Inc. (OTC: LPCN) announced that Morgan Brown has joined the Company as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer ("CFO"). Most recently, Mr. Brown was the CFO at Innovus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Previously Mr. Brown was the CFO of World Heart Corporation and Lifetree Clinical Research and the Vice President, Finance and Treasurer of NPS Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Before NPS Pharmaceuticals Mr. Brown was a Senior Manager at KPMG LLP.
PCTEL, Inc. (NASDAQ: PCTI) announced that John Schoen, PCTEL's current and long-time CFO, has been promoted to Senior Vice President and CFO. Schoen has served as the company's CFO since November 2001. Schoen began his career in public accounting at Ernst and Young before spending nearly 20 years at Motorola, where he held both financial and operational positions. He served as Safco Technology's CFO and maintained those responsibilities after Agilent's acquisition of Safco.
Flurry announced the appointment of Bob Komin as its Chief Financial Officer. Bob has held several executive positions, most recently as CFO at Ticketfly, and previously as COO and CFO at Linden Labs, CFO at Solexel, CFO at Tellme Networks (acquired by Microsoft) and prior to that as VP of Finance and Treasurer at Convergys and Cincinnati Bell.
InVivo Therapeutics Holdings Corp. announced that Gregory D. Perry has been appointed as interim CFO, commencing September 23, 2013. Mr. Perry was most recently the Executive Vice President and CFO of Immunogen, Inc. Prior to joining Immunogen, Mr. Perry served as CFO of Elixir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. from 2007 to 2009. Prior to Elixir, he was CFO of Domantis Ltd., which was acquired by GlaxoSmithKline in 2006. Previously, Mr. Perry was Senior Vice President and CFO of Transkaryotic Therapies, Inc. until its acquisition by Shire plc in 2005. Mr. Perry is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Advanced Cell Technology, Inc.
Greenbelt Resources Corporation (OTC: GRCO) announced the appointment of Joseph Pivinski to the executive team as interim chief financial officer. Joe served previously as CFO and senior vice president at NASDAQ-listed Consolidated Water Co., Ltd., and as vice president of finance and CFO for Oriole Homes Corp. Joe has also held various similar C-level and board positions with other public and private companies, including the U.S. subsidiary of Adecco.
Hot Mama's Foods, Inc. (OTC: HOTF) announced that William Kenealy has joined as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). From 2010 to 2013, Bill was Chief Financial Officer of Compact Industries, Inc. Prior to that, Bill worked at Reserve Brands, Inc. as Senior Vice-President and CFO from 2007 to 2009. From 2006 to 2007 he was a consultant/interim CFO for public and privately held operating companies and private equity firms.
Washington Trust Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ: WASH), the publicly-owned holding company of The Washington Trust Company, announced David V. Devault has been promoted to Vice Chairman, Secretary and Chief Financial Officer.
Sterling Construction Company, Inc. (NASDAQ: STRL) announced that Thomas R. Wright has been named Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer effective September 25, 2013 and that Kevan Blair will assume the role of Senior Vice President of Corporate Finance following his stint as interim CFO. Mr. Wright was most recently Chief Financial Officer of Toronto-based St Marys/CBM, which he joined in 2011. Between 2006 and 2010, Mr. Wright was with Boart Longyear. He began his career at Boart as Vice President of Global Products and Manufacturing, and was later promoted to Vice President, Financial Planning and Analysis, Mergers and Acquisitions, Investor Relations, Strategic Planning and Corporate Communication. Before joining Boart, Mr. Wright was Director of Corporate Financial Planning and Analysis for a leading North American quick-serve restaurant company, Wendy's International. Earlier in his career, Mr. Wright held increasingly responsible positions in the finance areas of Bank One Corporation (now JP Morgan Chase Company) and Allied Signal Incorporated (now Honeywell International Inc.).
Ingram Micro Inc. (NYSE: IM) announced the appointment of Paul Read as president and chief operating officer, effective Sept. 30, 2013. Read, who joined the Ingram Micro board of directors last September, has resigned his role as a member effective immediately. From June 1995 to June 2013, Read was with Flextronics Inc. serving most recently as chief financial officer and executive vice president. Previously he served as the company's executive vice president of finance for worldwide operations. Prior to joining Flextronics in 1995, he held various senior financial positions in the United Kingdom with Allied Steel and Wire, STI Telecommunications and Associated British Foods.
LogicSource announced the appointment of Greg Hunt, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of Apollo Investment Corporation, to its Board of Directors.
LLBH Private Wealth Management, LLC announced the appointment of Jeff Fuhrman as its Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer. Most recently, Fuhrman spent nearly a decade as President and Chief Operating Officer of IMG Artists. Previously, Fuhrman was President and CFO of Gemini Voice Solutions, and earlier in his career, was an investment banker with Salomon Smith Barney.
Emulex Corporation (NYSE: ELX) announced that Michael J. Rockenbach, the Corporation's executive vice president (EVP), chief financial officer (CFO) and corporate secretary, will be departing effective December 31, 2013. Mike Rockenbach joined Emulex in 1991, and has served as executive vice president and chief financial officer since 1997.
Billtrust announced the addition of Ed Jordan as the company's new Chief Financial Officer. Jordan spent the last 25 years helping private equity-backed firms prepare for future investor opportunities. Among his many successes, Jordan led the acquisition of mobile barcode technology company JAGTAG Inc. as that company's CEO; he also served as CFO of ITXC Corporation and Dialogic Inc., where he guided those two companies' IPOs.
ConvergeOne welcomed Jeffrey Nachbor as its new Chief Financial Officer. Nachbor comes to ConvergeOne from Leap Wireless, where he was Senior Vice President of Operational Finance and Chief Accounting Officer. His previous positions include Senior Vice President of Finance and Controller at H&R Block, CFO and Treasurer at Sharper Image Corporation, and Senior Vice President and Corporate Controller at Staples, Inc., among others.
GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: GCAP) announced the appointment of Jason Emerson as its Chief Financial Officer (CFO), effective October 1, 2013. Mr. Emerson was most recently Managing Director and Business Manager of KCG Holding's Global Execution Services division. Previously, he served as KCG's Director of Financial Operations. Prior to KCG, Mr. Emerson held financial and operational positions at Instinet, Merrill Lynch and PricewaterhouseCoopers. GAIN's interim CFO, Daryl Carlough, will be leaving the company to pursue other opportunities.
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) announced that it has elected William H. Hernandez to its board of directors. Hernandez served as senior vice president, Finance, and chief financial officer of PPG Industries, Inc., a manufacturer of chemical and industrial products, until his retirement in 2009. Prior to that, he was PPG's corporate controller from 1990 to 1994. Hernandez previously held a number of positions with Borg-Warner Corporation and Ford Motor Company. He is a member of the board of directors of Albemarle Corporation, Black Box Corporation and USG Corporation.
Commercial Vehicle Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: CVGI) announced that its Chief Financial Officer, Chad Utrup, is resigning to pursue an outside opportunity. Mr. Utrup will remain active with the company until Friday, November 1 to ensure a smooth transition. Mr. Utrup began his CVG career in 1998.
KaloBios Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: KBIO) announced that Herb C. Cross will join the company as of September 23, 2013, and transition into the Chief Financial Officer role in coordination with Jeffrey H. Cooper, the company's current CFO. The company expects this transition will be completed in the October-November time frame. Mr. Cross was previously Chief Financial Officer of Affymax. Before becoming CFO of Affymax, he served as the company's Vice President, Finance. Mr. Cross previously served as Vice President, Finance for Facet Biotech Corporation. Before joining Facet, he was corporate controller at PDL BioPharma. Before that, he held positions of increasing responsibility, including Vice President, Finance, at Neoforma, Inc.
Magellan Midstream Partners, L.P. (NYSE: MMP) announced that its chief financial officer, John Chandler, has provided notice that he intends to leave the partnership effective March 31, 2014.
SWS Group, Inc. (NYSE: SWS) announced that Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer Stacy M. Hodges has submitted her resignation effective September 30, 2013, to accept an executive position with a North Texas financial services company.
Trevena, Inc. announced the appointment of Roberto Cuca as senior vice president and chief financial officer. Most recently, he served as Treasurer and Senior Vice President, Finance at Endo Health Solutions Inc. Before that, he was Director, Corporate and Business Development, at moksha8 Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Mr. Cuca also worked at JPMorgan Chase & Co. as an equity analyst covering U.S. pharmaceutical companies.
Five Star Products, Inc. is pleased to announce that Frederic E. Rubin has joined the company's leadership team as Chief Financial Officer. Before joining Five Star Products, Inc., he served as Managing Director of Sandhopper, LLC, and previously as Chief Financial Officer at the Judlau Companies.
Axcelis Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACLS) announced the appointment of Kevin J. Brewer as executive vice president and chief financial officer. Mr. Brewer, has served as the company's interim CFO since July.
Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota welcomes K. Alec Mahmood as its new chief financial officer. Mahmood succeeds Jerry Massman, who recently retired. Most recently, Mahmood spent five years as the chief financial officer for HealthMarkets. Prior to joining HealthMarkets, he was the chief financial officer and chief operating officer of the Medicaid division at Coventry Health Care. He has also held leadership positions at Ardent Health Services, Kaiser Permanente and Health Net.
PENSCO announced that Carol Foster, has been named Chief Financial Officer. Most recently, Foster was the founder of CLF Advisor. Earlier in her career, she worked for Pantheon Ventures, Calera Capital, Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs and Accenture. PENSCO also announced that Chris Radich, formerly the CFO of PENSCO, has been named Chief Risk Officer, a new executive level position at the company. Earlier in his career, Radich worked for RCM Capital Management, Bank of America and Ernst & Young.
DeliverLean announced that Richard Silverman was recently named Chief Financial Officer. In his prior position, he served as the CFO of The Fresh Diet, Inc. For more than 15 years, Richard ran his own consulting firm. Mr. Silverman also owned and operated a specialty auto parts distributorship in Miami, FL. Prior to building his consultancy business, Richard served as the CFO of Bolivia's third largest private mining company.
Odyssey Marine Exploration, Inc. (NASDAQ: OMEX) appointed Philip S. Devine as chief financial officer. Devine, who has been working as a consultant for Odyssey since August 1, 2013, succeeds Michael J. Holmes, whose intention to retire was reported in January. Prior to joining Odyssey, Devine served as CFO of a number of publicly-traded companies with operations in Europe and the United States. Most recently, he worked as a financial consultant via Decofi sprl and as the CFO of two biotechnology companies, MDxHealth and Tibotec-Virco (sold to Johnson & Johnson).
GoHealth announced that Robert R. Millard has joined the company as Chief Financial Officer. He succeeds Mike Ahern, who was named GoHealth's Chief Accounting Officer. Millard most recently served as CFO at Angie's List, Inc. He was a member of the executive team that took the company public in November 2011. Prior to that role, Millard served as CFO at two other publicly traded companies.
Cordia Bancorp Inc. (NASDAQ: BVA), parent of Bank of Virginia, announced the hiring of Mark A. Severson as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the Company and the Bank. Mr. Severson was most recently Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of Chemung Financial Corporation in Elmira, NY. Before that he served as Chief Financial Officer of FNB United Corp. in Asheboro, NC from 2007 to 2011, Chief Financial Officer of Camco Financial Corporation in Cambridge, OH from 2001 to 2007, Chief Financial Officer of FCNB Corp. in Frederick, MD from 1990 to 2001, and Vice President of Union Planters Bank in Memphis, TN from 1984 to 1989.
Tenex Health announced that Chief Financial Officer, Dr. Rom Papadopoulos will be resigning as CFO and a member of the board of directors as of September 30, 2013. Dr. Papadopoulos will be returning to his position as Managing Director of Intuitus Group. Ivan Mijatovic, Chairman of the company's Board of Directors, will assume responsibilities as interim CFO and oversee financial operations until a permanent CFO has been identified.
Baxano Surgical, Inc. (NASDAQ: BAXS) announced that Joe Slattery, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, has resigned effective September 27, 2013 to pursue another business opportunity. Tim Shannon, Vice President of Finance, has been appointed Interim Chief Financial Officer effective September 27, 2013. Tim Shannon joined Baxano Surgical in 2013. Previously, he was Vice President of Financial Reporting at Talecris Biotherapeutics and Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer at Harris Wholesale. He began his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers.
VHA Inc. has named Christopher Dunleavy as chief financial officer of enterprise operations. Since 2004, he has been the chief financial officer for USMD predecessor entities and executive vice president and chief financial officer for USMD Holdings since July 2011. Prior to that, Dunleavy served three years as chief financial officer for Baylor Heart and Vascular Hospital, LLP. In addition, Dunleavy was senior director of strategic planning for Sodexho Marriott Services, and provided consulting services to other companies. He also worked at Mariner Post Acute Network as vice president of finance.
Advanced Cannabis Solutions, Inc. (OTC: CANN) has appointed Christopher H. Taylor as Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Taylor's previous experience includes gaming audit experience with Deloitte & Touche, the management of the Colorado Lottery budget as the Chief Budget Officer, the financial management of Colorado Casino Resorts, Inc., a publicly traded casino company, as CFO, and 12 years of public accounting experience as owner of his own CPA firm.
Barton Malow Company announced the promotion of Lars Luedeman to Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Lars joined Barton Malow in 2012 as Director of Finance & Strategy. Prior to joining Barton Malow, Lars worked for Grant Thornton as Director, Corporate Advisory Services.
STRONG, LLC announced Billy Sanford as the new Vice President/Chief Financial Officer.
Severstal North America announced the appointments of Chief Financial Officer, Olga Petrova, and Deputy Chief Financial Officer, Michael Tuomey. Petrova joins Severstal North America's executive team from parent company OAO Severstal, where she was the Head of the Business Planning and Controlling Department since 2011. Her previous roles included various high-level financial positions in international offices of Shell Exploration and Production, Schlumberger and PepsiCo. At SNA, Petrova will be responsible for all aspects of financial strategy, planning and reporting, as well as forecasting, budget management and cost benefit analysis. Petrova succeeds Interim CFO Michael Tuomey, who is appointed Deputy Chief Financial Officer. Tuomey has been with Severstal and its predecessor companies for 28 years in various senior-level finance positions, most recently Director, Corporate Accounting and Controlling.
myoscience, inc. announced the addition of Peter Osborne to the team as chief financial officer (CFO). Osborne has over 25 years of experience in high growth public and private companies, most notably with Hansen Medical and VNUS Medical Technologies, and most recently with SentreHEART, Inc.


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Posting Guidelines (copied from last month, which was copied from the previous month)
DO NOT post full resolution screenshots! You can use the "mogrify" command (pacman -S imagemagick) to make a thumbnail of your screenshot:
$ convert -resize 20% screenie.png thumb-screenie.png
Sizes Twenty percent of the original size is great for 1024x768 screenies. For bigger sizes (and especially for multi-monitor setups), we ask you to keep in mind not everyone uses broadband, and use an even smaller size (10% of a Full HD setup will still be 192x180, for example).
NOTE: Anything with dimensions larger than 250px (be it height or width) or over 50Kb in size will be removed.
You can then upload these images to your server and use the following code to show them on the forum:
* Several websites also offer free image hosting. Here are some that supports thumbnails:
Omploader | ImageShack | xs.to | iPICTURE | ImageHosting | Imagebam | Imgur
Use the "Thumbnail for forums" link code that is supplied by the image hosting sites to post your thumbnail link.
Although, try to avoid imageshack. Its a pain in the you know where.
* Once the new month begins please do not post new screenies in the old threads.
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It's October.
I don't usually follow these threads, but will be looking for xmonad configs [awesome broke AGAIN ]
Might as well post these again:
-- mod edit: read the rules and only post thumbnails https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=61754 --
As you can see from the file name, my desktop does not change much
Edit: Seriously. They were 256px wide... so you removed them for 6px over the limit. And you could have left the links. Stupid mod...
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Seriously. They were 256px wide... so you removed them for 6px over the limit. And you could have left the links. Stupid mod...
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OK. This images satisfies both being less than 250px wide (128px) and is less 50KB (13KB).... So please explain what rule I am breaking when you remove it....
Edit: Note it could go 20x longer without breaking the rules...
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As you would be aware, having taken part in the discussion, the size rule was introduced to provide clarity for the community as to the maximum size of images, to ensure everyone could browse the boards, irrespective of their bandwidth or technology.
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So what was wrong with that image? It was within the guidelines... Or are the guidelines wrong and need to be flexible. Say 6px flexible?
Edit: and one again you removed the link as well as the thumbnail destroying any usefulness of the post.
Moderator edit: Don't spoil the topic for everyone else, if you have complaints about the rules, address one of the mods.
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I agree with Allan. The mods should be tolerant with the thumbnails, not "oh no, it's 1 px larger than the one defined by the rules. Delete delete deleeete".
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Settings have been pretty static.
xmobar+xmonad+urxvt+htop+scrot+ls & a partridge in a pear tree
Nice, are you piping conky to xmobar? [I'm new to xmonad]
Gonna post these again, since they are still fresh from the bake shop.
By the way, isn't the command example in the opening post a little suboptimal? For example, instead of this:
$ cp screenie.png thumb-screenie.png
$ mogrify -resize 20% thumb-screenie.png
we could have this:
$ convert -resize 20% screenie.png thumb-screenie.png
By using Convert instead of Mogrify, both ImageMagick commands, we can eliminate a step (Kiss!).
Thanks CarnalMilk, updated the start post accordingly.
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This post is part of a series entitled, Film Friday. All the images you see here were taken on a Canon EOS ELAN 7E using Kodak Portra 400.
As one of the bench markers testing this relationships longevity, I asked Gabe if he liked The Simpsons shortly after we started "hanging out". He seemed indifferent. – this was, at the time, a big deal for me as it was nearly an institution in our family. Sundays were not just "Nacho Night" they were "eat-nachos-in-front-of-the-tv-while-watching-The Simpons-night". To not like The Simpsons was, in a sense, to not like a part of me. Luckily, I've changed.
He also didn't like coffee. Luckily, he's changed.
This is what happens when you marry young. You know one another before you really know yourself. People warn you to live your life first, to discover who you are before the marriage seed is planted in your mind, and for some, that is probably a wise decision, but we were a different story. We met, hung out for a couple years, I moved to Italy for 6 months, and then I realized I would be crazy not to spend the rest of my life with this guy. This "Mexican with a beard", (which is how I first described him to my parents when telling them of my crush) who wore two button-up shirts at one time, carved his beard into the most creative forms imaginable, played the bass (hot), and loved me in a way that I never thought possible.
I was 21 when I told Gabe I would spend the rest of my life with him. He was 22. It never felt like a fairy tale, I couldn't and wouldn't tell you that Gabe was the only one for me but what I could tell you was that I loved him enough to choose to make this commitment and I vowed to make that choice everyday for the rest of my life. As life has carried us through different seasons of joy and sadness, as life has a way of doing, it becomes more and more clear to me that Gabe is indeed the one for me.
And now he drinks coffee. He also slurps coffee producing an even spray across the tongue in order to best taste his brew. This is not how he always drinks coffee, thank goodness, instead this sort of seemingly rude behavior is reserved for cuppings – a session in which one tastes multiple coffees and then rates and discusses them at great length, marking their sweet, sour, and bitter notes on a scientific wheel while jotting down scribbles such as "shoe leather, fermented blueberries, and tobacco". He liked that particular cup. I did not.
When we were first married I was just beginning to fall in love with food. He patiently waited as I labored over cake batter tweaking and tasting, baking and re-baking, all the while he just wanted cake. Seven years later I still love food and I still love him even though it takes him a solid twenty minutes to produce one cup of coffee in the morning – you know what? I love him BECAUSE it takes him twenty minutes to skillfully brew his morning cup.
Gabe has grown to appreciate all that goes into a single cup of coffee. He has traveled to Guatemala and met coffee growers. He returned with stunning images and the excitement of a young boy explaining to me the process of turning the red coffee cherry into a green bean ready to roast. And now I watch this man that I've known for nearly 11 years as he slurps, spits, and scribbles down notes in his journal that is in existence solely for the purpose of recording coffee flavors and I can't help but fall in love with him more.
Never would I have imagined that my husband would be schooling me in the subject of coffee nor did he know what he was getting himself into but we made that commitment to love and support one another wherever that takes us. If I can love him in-spite of his undying devotion to nacho-cheese sauce that squirts out of a pump found at sporting events or gas stations then I'm pretty sure I can love him through anything.
This cupping took place at Onyx Coffee which is located in Bellingham, WA. If you are ever in that area you must stop by. Their passion for coffee education is unmatched in the area. They are coffee purists encouraging you to leave the cream and sugar in order to taste the coffee the way the growers and the bean intended it to taste. Stop in for a coffee flight or just to hear Edwin and his crew speak about coffee with such passion and authority.
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Fired Md. Pastor Joel Peebles Fights to Reclaim Jericho City of Praise Church
Fired Md. Pastor Joel Peebles Fights to Reclaim Jericho City of Praise Church
Former megachurch pastor Joel R. Peebles Sr., who was removed from his position at Jericho City of Praise in Landover, Md., in April, has revealed that he is taking his case against the church to court in a battle to reclaim leadership.
Peebles, the son of the late Bishop James R. Peebles Sr. and Apostle Betty Peebles, who helped establish Jericho City of Praise, was removed from his position as lead pastor at the church by the administration's board members over financial disputes and ideas about running the church.
Jericho's decision created a great divide in the 4,000-member congregation, with a large portion of them deciding to stick with Pastor Peebles as he continued holding services in high school cafeterias and hotel ballrooms. But the pastor is now taking it a step further by declaring that he will challenge Jericho's board members over what he sees as a very unjust decision.
Oral arguments for the case are scheduled to begin on Sept. 11 before the Maryland Court of Special Appeals, The Washington Post reported. Peebles is apparently confident not only that he will regain control of the Jericho building, but that he will be able to expand the ministry to Virginia and Southern Maryland.
"I don't feel displaced. I feel free," Peebles was quoted as saying. "We are excited to be stretching the ministry."
According to reports, he has also been installed as senior pastor of City of Praise Church in Springfield, where he hopes previous church members will be able to join him.
"I want to share with you that we will be having church. We will be having church," the minister said the first Sunday after his removal from Jericho. "We're gonna have church here. We're going to have church everywhere. . . . Nobody will never stop the people of God from worshipping God. . . . We're going to stand as a church. A church is not a building. The building is simply a tool where people can worship."
Peebles' attorney reportedly said the issue is not just about restoring the former pastor to Jericho, but that the case is "extremely urgent because there is a serious risk that the employees are grossly mishandling the church finances and will continue to do so."
Representatives of Jericho City of Praise church have not yet commented on the news.
The Washington Post reported that only a few hundred people now attend Sunday services at the building, which can hold up to 10,000 people.
"Steps taken today will ensure an orderly transition that will continue to provide thousands of people from across the region the opportunity to participate in worship, school and other services that are a vital part of our church and community," read a previous statement on the issue from the church. "Today begins a new day for Jericho."


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Where is The Lorax Who Speaks For the Trees? Seriously, He Was Stolen.
Horrible thieves with hearts two sizes too small stole a 2-foot bronze statue of Dr. Seuss' Lorax character from the La Jolla home of the author's ninety-year-old widow last weekend.
Audrey Geisel noticed the theft when walking through the garden with her property manager, Carl Romero, Monday morning. Footprints in the garden appeared to indicate the grinches responsible dragged the 300-pound statue to an access road, then hoisted it over a chain-link fence, displaying, in addition to callous greed, an impressive amount of determination and physical fitness.
The incident occurred as plans were underway for the installation of security cameras and motion-detection centers around the Geisel property. The timing has aroused Romero's suspicions.
"It's peculiar that the Lorax was stolen right before the camera was installed. It's not a coincidence. It's very private up here."
Here is a shortlist of potential suspects.
The statue is one of a pair cast by Audrey Geisel's daughter, sculptor Lark Grey Diamond-Cates. The other is on display at a Dr. Seuss National Memorial in Theodore Geisel's hometown of Springfield Massachusetts.
In a statement to The San Diego Union-Tribune, Lark Grey Diamond-Cates lived up to her fun hippie name by imbuing the statue with lots of emotions:
"I want very badly to get our little Lorax back home where he belongs. Wherever he is, he's scared, lonely and hungry. He's not just a hunk of metal to us. He was a family pet."
She then added, rather bluntly, that she hopes El Lorax isn't Tijuana-bound, bein' run the wrong way round, headed for violent a Mexican death:
"I hope he hasn't been taken across the border into Tijuana for scrap. Worst-case scenario, I'll get the foundry to create another one, but he won't be the same."
As for the nonagenarian Mrs. Geisel, Romero reports that she "just wants [the Lorax] back," and does not intend to press charges if it is returned.
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Now that U.S. President Barack Obama - correction, an automatic pen using his handwriting - has signed hard-fought legislation to avert the much-dreaded fiscal cliff, details are emerging on what its impact may be on foreign aid spending.
The quick answer: It's not entirely clear.
What is clear, though, is that "the bill lowers the cap on discretionary spending, or the government money that Congress appropriates every year" including to foreign aid programs, as InterAction's Senior Legislative Manager Jeremy Kadden writes. For fiscal 2013, the total discretionary spending cap is $1.043 trillion, $4 billion lower than the previous cap set in August 2011 via the Budget Control Act and representing a total annual spending cut of roughly 0.4 percent.
"If the cuts are distributed evenly across all agencies and departments (which is by no means a certainty)," writes Kadden, "a 0.4 percent cut to foreign assistance programs would translate into roughly $100 million less in FY2013 for the accounts InterAction cares most about."
To be sure, this is complicated stuff, and Jordie Hannum, director of the Better World Campaign, shared a different assessment with the U.N. Dispatch.
"As international affairs spending is about 10 percent of non-defense discretionary spending, the cuts would presumably be about $300 million per year if applied across the board," he told Mark Goldberg.
The cuts will be split evenly between "security" and "non-security" spending; foreign aid falls into the former category and thus will have to compete for funding with the Pentagon and Homeland Security Department, a mighty task.
Negotiations on the fiscal 2013 budget will start earnestly later this month after President Barack Obama unveils his spending proposal.
Meanwhile, negotiations are expected to heat up to avert sequestration, those automatic across-the-board cuts which the fiscal cliff deal delayed until March 27, the day government funding expires under a current stopgap continuing resolution. Expect another set of billion-dollar cuts, including to the so-called 150 account, which covers the State Department, Millennium Challenge Corp. and U.S. Agency for International Development.
By extending most provisions of the 2008 farm bill, the fiscal cliff deal also extended funding for the McGovern-Dole International Food Program, as well as for Title II agreements under the Food for Peace Act.
Lastly, the deal reinstates a policy that reduces the overall value of itemized deductions of taxpayers earning more than $250,000 per year, which might prompt some of them to give less to charity, including NGOs engaged in international development cooperation. Then again, the bill also permits seniors 70 and older to give, from their individual retirement accounts, up to $100,000 without tax penalty to qualified public charities, according to the Association of Fundraising Professionals.
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Myers' plan: Move on from Fenway experience
Rays' young star never wants to have pivotal gaffe in playoffs happen again
PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. -- Not exactly Wil Myers' fondest memory.
Flash back to October and Fenway Park for Game 1 of the American League Division Series. David Ortiz hits a deep fly ball to right in the bottom of the fourth and, somehow, Myers, Tampa Bay's rookie right fielder lets the ball drop in for a ground-rule double. The moment led to a five-run inning and proved to be a pivotal moment during a 12-2 Rays loss to the Red Sox.
Myers, 23, smiled when asked about the moment.
"That's something that you never want to happen in your career, ever," Myers said. "It stinks that it happened. Honestly it's the worst thing that's ever happened to me in baseball. It's embarrassing for something like that to happen."
During the offseason, Myers finally watched the play for the first time.
"It was just weird watching me make that type of play," he said. "It's just one of those things that stuck in my mind all of this offseason. And I really think that helped me prepare this offseason. It left a bitter taste in my mouth."
In the aftermath of Myers' botched fly ball, Red Sox fans taunted him by chanting his name. Fenway's public flogging has not left a scar on Myers, who has managed to roll with the punches.
"You know what, thinking about it, when it was going on, it stunk," Myers said. "But having everybody at Fenway Park chant your name, it's kind of cool. Obviously I know it's one of those things where they don't forget about it. They're smart baseball fans. They know what's going on."
Myers understands he had better get used to having his name chanted at Fenway Park.
"It's going to happen this year, too," Myers said. "You just have to embrace it. It's just one of those things that happen in baseball. Boston fans know that play really changed the momentum of that game. Looking back on it, [the taunting] was kind of funny. I'm excited to go back to Boston this year and be out there again, and hopefully redeem myself."
Repetition and not redemption is on the minds of Rays fans. They just want to see more of the same from Myers, who earned the American League Rookie of the Year Award for his work in 2013.
Despite not joining Tampa Bay until its 70th game on June 18, Myers led AL rookies with 53 RBIs compiled in the 88 games he played. The last player to lead AL rookies in RBIs in fewer than 90 games was Detroit's Hoot Evers in 1946, when he had 33 in 81 games.
Myers also hit .293 with 13 home runs, which helped lead the Rays to their fourth playoff appearance in six years. Tampa Bay was three games over .500 when he arrived (36-33). Then, with Myers in lineup, the team had an 18-games-over-.500 (56-38) finish.
Myers came to the Rays on Dec. 9 as the marquee player received in the trade that sent James Shields to the Royals.
The rookie captured the imaginations of Tampa Bay fans with his big swing, the fact he didn't wear batting gloves and the perception he was not affected by pressure. Fellow Rays outfielder David DeJesus noted that the youngster's outward appearance can be misleading.
"He's the type of guy, people have a misconception about him, like he's no batting gloves and whatever," DeJesus said. "That couldn't be farther from the truth. He's a competitor. He wants to win at everything. He has a passion for baseball that's great to see at the young age he's at. And I feel the sky's the limit for him. He just has to keep on working."
Myers is already fielding questions about avoiding the dreaded "sophomore jinx" in his second Major League season. He greets such questions with a smile and a shrug.
"I don't believe in that," Myers said. "I think the thing about it for me was just to try not to get too complacent in the offseason. Try to work hard. I didn't want to think, 'OK, I'm going to make the team, so I'm fine this offseason.' I really want to come out this offseason and work hard to get better to improve this year."
If anybody on the Rays is qualified to answer questions about how to handle the sophomore jinx, Evan Longoria is the guy. He responded to winning the 2008 AL Rookie of the Year Award with a solid campaign in his second year.
"I think that he's probably heard [the sophomore jinx] before and he knows what to expect," Longoria said. "He knows that there's going to be more expectation on him this year and more that he needs to do in order to overcome that and learn from certain things."
Getting victimized by the sophomore jinx normally stems from an inability to make adjustments, at least according to Tampa Bay manager Joe Maddon and hitting coach Derek Shelton. Myers didn't dispute that idea, but the ever-confident sophomore thinks he already has a pretty good idea about how to adjust.
"My August last year was pretty bad," said Myers, who hit .209 with two home runs and 12 RBIs in August. "I made some adjustments going into September, with the outside pitch, especially. So I think I made those adjustments throughout the season."
When asked if a hitter can think too much while trying to make said adjustments, Myers responded, "No, I don't think so. I know what I did wrong and I know how to correct it for this year."
Shelton believes the key for Myers picking up this season where he left off will be up to Myers, who must not try to do too much.
"I think a lot of people who get into situations do so when they try to do things other than what they have done that has made them successful," Shelton said. "But I'm not concerned about it with Wil. He's a confident kid and extremely talented. So I think he's going to build on what he did last year."
Maddon is happy to have Myers. He believes the Rays right fielder has a great future in front of him.
"He's a young man," Maddon said. "He's got a really wonderful future to look forward to. He's good. Any organization would like to have him on the team. OK, he had a tough first experience in the playoffs. It's an experience, learn from it and move on from it."


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Megaraptor18 wrote:Hitman H94 wrote:pimpmage wrote:So, what forum will we be using for debates @Megaraptor18?Megaraptor18 wrote:OK it turns out I just remembered we have a debate section already. The Factpile Arena so hope over there and have fun!
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Pretty much I was trying to make a new section and while making it I saw Arena and it came to me that we already have such a section.
The rules will have to be edited.
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Wimbledon: Serena Williams wins, avoids early knockout
LONDON (AP) -- Five-time champion Serena Williams avoided the kind of early upset that has sent many top players tumbling out of Wimbledon, beating Caroline Garcia 6-3, 6-2 on Thursday to reach the third round.
A day after Roger Federer led the list of big names to exit in the second round, the top-ranked Williams never looked in danger against the 100th-ranked French qualifier.
Williams broke twice in each set to set up a match with Japan's Kimiko Date-Krumm, who at 42 became the oldest woman to reach the third round at Wimbledon in the Open era.
Date-Krumm beat Alexandra Cadantu of Romania 6-4, 7-5 to reach the third round for the first time since 1996, when she went to the semifinals.
"She's incredibly inspiring," the 31-year-old Williams said. "She's so fit, she's done so well. I've never played her before. I watched her play when I was super young, growing up."
Date-Krumm is the second-oldest woman to have won a match at Wimbledon after Martina Navratilova, who was 47 when she reached the second round in 2004. She took a 12-year break from tennis before returning in 2008.
"I don't know how she's able to do so well," Williams said.
Whether Williams can keep playing for another decade remains to be seen, but she certainly doesn't show any sign of slowing down in her 30s. The defending champion is looking for a sixth Wimbledon title, and saw her two main rivals -- Maria Sharapova and Victoria Azarenka -- eliminated on Wednesday.
The 19-year-old Garcia is seen as a potential future star, with a game especially suited for grass. But she couldn't force a single break point against the American's strong serve on Court 1.
"She's incredibly promising, she does everything well," Williams said. "Her serve is amazing, so I knew it would be a good match on the grass."
After that wild Wednesday, with seven players retiring or withdrawing with injuries, a sense of normalcy returned to the All England Club.
Sixth-seeded Li Na of China did look in trouble for a while before overcoming a poor second set to beat Simona Halep of Romania 6-2, 1-6, 6-0. Halep's lower back was treated after the first set, but she still dominated the second. Li, the former French Open champ, found her stride again in the third.
"Welcome to the crazy women's tennis tour," Li said.
Other seeds to win included No. 14 Samantha Stosur and No. 18 Dominika Cibulkova. Bernard Tomic of Australia, whose father and coach John Tomic has been barred from tournaments after allegedly assaulting his son's hitting partner, advanced by defeating American James Blake 6-3, 6-4, 7-5.
There was one injury retirement: Michael Llodra of France quit after losing the first set 7-5 against 23rd-seeded Andreas Seppi of Italy.
That was the eighth retirement or walkover of the second round in singles play, equaling the record for a single round at Wimbledon in the Open era. The International Tennis Federation said eight players also quit in the first round in 2008.
The record for a Grand Slam tournament is nine players withdrawing or retiring from the first round at the 2011 U.S. Open.
Later in the day, top-ranked Novak Djokovic was to play Bobby Reynolds of the United States.