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(Reuters) - Wells Fargo & Co (WFC.N) on Friday said fourth-quarter profit rose 24 percent to a record high as the bank set aside less money to cover bad loans and made more fees from mortgages.
But lending margins declined and the bank made fewer mortgage loans than in the third quarter, and its shares closed down 0.8 percent at $35.10.
Wells is the first big U.S. bank to report fourth-quarter results, and its report reflects how banks are relying more on fees from mortgages and service charges to increase revenue, and less on interest income. Low interest rates are pressing on the profit banks make from interest.
But fees from mortgages may help the bank less in the future. The bank's pipeline of applications for home loans that have not yet closed was $81 billion at the end of the fourth quarter, down from $97 billion at the end of the third quarter. Wells issued $125 billion in mortgages during the fourth quarter, compared with $139 billion in the third quarter.
In an interview, Wells Chief Financial Officer Tim Sloan said the bank made fewer mortgage loans in the fourth quarter mostly due to a decision to stop making loans through brokers. The volume of loans under way but not yet closed is still among the highest in the bank's history, he said.
"Assuming rates stay about where they are or even pick up just a little bit, it's reasonable to assume we will still have healthy, strong originations in the mortgage business," Sloan said.
Wells, the fourth-biggest U.S. bank and the nation's largest home lender, said fees from mortgages climbed nearly 30 percent from a year ago to $3.1 billion as homeowners continued to refinance their homes at low interest rates.
The Mortgage Bankers Association has forecast that banks will make fewer loans in 2013 than 2012, and then fewer again in 2014, with a drop in refinancings more than offsetting an increase in loans to purchase homes.
Wells' lower mortgage applications and originations are "a wake-up call to the investment community that this isn't going to go on forever," said Scott Siefers, analyst with Sandler O'Neill. "It's a mounting headwind no doubt about that."
Wells Fargo's net interest margin - a closely watched measure of loan profitability - fell to 3.56 percent from 3.66 percent in the third quarter, but the decline was less severe than the drop from the second to the third quarter. Banks are seeing their margins shrink as older loans with higher interest rates are paid down.
Wells Fargo provision for loan losses fell to $1.8 billion from about $2 billion as borrowers continued to do a better job of making their payments.
Net income was $5.1 billion, or 91 cents a share, compared with $4.1 billion, or 73 cents a share, a year earlier.
The latest results included a previously announced pre-tax charge of $644 million for Wells Fargo's share of an $8.5 billion settlement that ends a U.S. government-mandated review of financial crisis-era foreclosures.
Analysts' average earnings forecast on Friday was 89 cents per share, excluding gains from equity investments and expenses from several one-time items, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S. On that basis, Wells earned 92 cents, according to I/B/E/S.
Bank of America Corp (BAC.N), JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N) and Citigroup Inc (C.N) report quarterly results next week.
Wells Fargo's total loans increased 2 percent from the third quarter to $799.6 billion, helped by a decision to hold onto $9.7 billion in mortgages that it could have sold to mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae FNMA.OB and Freddie Mac FMCC.OB.
That move cost the bank $340 million in fees in the fourth quarter - mortgage fees it would have received from Fannie and Freddie - but will provide it with interest income over the longer term. Wells took a similar action in the third quarter, saying the mortgages would provide a better return than other investments it could make.
With over 30 percent market share through the first nine months of 2012, Wells was the top U.S. mortgage lender, according to Inside Mortgage Finance, a publication that tracks the industry. JPMorgan Chase was second with 10 percent.
Wells Fargo's total fourth-quarter revenue rose 7 percent to $21.9 billion, driven by an increase in fees. The bank, which has added new monthly fees on checking accounts that were once free, brought in $159 million more in service charges from deposit accounts in the fourth quarter than a year ago. Income from interest fell.
Total expenses were up 3 percent to $12.9 billion. The bank blamed the foreclosure-related charge and a contribution to its charitable foundation.
Wells repurchased 42 million of its shares during the quarter and has a contract to buy back another 6 million in the current quarter. Big U.S. banks are undergoing Federal Reserve stress tests that will determine whether they can raise dividends and buy back more shares this year.
In a conference call with analysts, Sloan said the bank had asked the Fed for permission to return more capital to shareholders in 2013 than in 2012.
Reporting By Rick Rothacker in Charlotte, North Carolina; editing by John Wallace and Marguerita Choy


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San Ramon, Ca — In late January on Mark Mastrov's official last day as chairman of 24 Hour Fitness, four additional executives left the company.
The departing executives were Tony Bakos, vice president and general counsel; Mike Feinman, vice president; Don Harbich, vice president; and Adam Loew, vice president of new club development. Feinman, who resigned on Jan. 28, is now the chief operating officer for Gold's Gym International.
The company released the following statement about the departures: "24 Hour Fitness is dedicated to growing our business and to providing world-class service to our members. As part of this ongoing commitment, we regularly evaluate our resources and organizational structure and make strategic adjustments where necessary. Our recent personnel changes are consistent with these objectives, and we wish our former team members success in their future endeavors."
Feinman would not comment on the circumstances surrounding the departure of the other executives, but he praised 24 Hour founder and former chairman Mastrov.
"Mark Mastrov is an amazing leader," Feinman says. "Mark's very, very happy, and that's important to me. I continue to learn an incredible amount from Mark. Not only is he my mentor, but he's also my friend."

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It was a costly game for the Ravens' offense and special teams Thusday night, sustaining damaging losses in terms of injuries as two key players left the game nursing ailments.
First, Pro Bowl kick returner Jacoby Jones sprained his knee in the second quarter; he didn't return.
Jones indicated he'll undergo a magnetic resonance imaging exam Friday.
"I don't know," Jones said when asked how long he thinks he'll be sidelined. "I got to find out."
On a punt return, Ravens rookie safety Brynden Trawick with his head down in his first NFL game, barreled into Jones as he signaled for a fair catch. Both players were shaken up on the play...


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ADDISON COUNTY — Addison County, Huntington and Buel's Gore voters will elect at least one new state senator this November, and that person will either be a Democrat or an independent candidate.
A records check at the Addison County Courthouse revealed that two major party candidates had filed papers by the June 14 deadline to run for the state Senate this November. Those filing at the courthouse were incumbent Sen. Claire Ayer, D-Addison, and fellow Democrat Christopher Bray of New Haven.
ADDISON COUNTY — Barring write-in campaigns before the state's Aug. 28 primary election, Addison County will see no primary contests for seats in the Vermont House of Representatives and only three contested House elections in November.
Democratic incumbents in the Addison-1 Middlebury district — Betty Nuovo and Paul Ralston — and the Addison-4 district representing Bristol, Lincoln, Monkton and Starksboro — Dave Sharpe and Mike Fisher — will run unopposed.
ADDISON COUNTY — Head negotiators for Addison Northeast Supervisory Union teacher contract talks said they have agreed to a four-year contract that features pay increases.
After ANeSU teachers worked for almost two years without a collective bargaining agreement, the ANeSU board and teachers' union negotiators struck a deal last Monday, June 11.
MIDDLEBURY — The path to long-term sustainability of the Addison Central Supervisory Union's seven elementary schools hinges in part on sharing more resources, enhancing programs and curriculum, and exploring potential collaborations with Middlebury College.
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MIDDLEBURY — With a donation of more than $1,000 to the Tot Time program with the Middlebury Recreation Department, National Bank of Middlebury President Ken Perine put the shoe on the other foot by giving to others on the 25th anniversary of his date of hire at the bank.
MIDDLEBURY — At their June 12 meeting, members of the Middlebury selectboard delayed reconstruction of South Street after bids for the work came in much higher than expected (see story in June 14 Independent), plus they discussed a number of other issues.
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May 17, 2011
David Graham-Caso
Clean Energy Continues to Grow, Leaving Dirty Coal Behind
Recent Successes Include Impressive Wind-Power Growth, Colorado Utility Reaching Renewable Goals Years Ahead of Schedule and Wind Replacing Coal in Indiana and Illinois; Coal Found to be More Expensive, Used Less
(LOS ANGELES, CA) – Clean energy continues to grow at an impressive pace in America, with wind power expanding by nearly 90 percent in just one year, according to information released in the May edition of the U.S. Energy Information Administration's (EIA) Electric Power Monthly. The impressive growth of clean energy was coupled with a shrinking of the coal industry. Coal-fired power continued its steady decline, with coal use shrinking by almost 10 percent compared to one year ago, and cleaner energy sources grew nationwide as communities across the country call for their power to come from sources that do not make them and their families sick.
"Wind is the fastest growing source of not just clean power, but any power," said Bruce Nilles, Deputy Conservation Director for the Sierra Club. "The clean energy future that we kept hearing about is here now, and it is putting Americans to work across the country every single day."
Colorado Utility Meets Renewable Goal Eight Years Ahead of Schedule
As part of the trend of growing clean energy, last week in Colorado, the state's largest investor-owned utility, Xcel Energy, announced that it would meet Colorado's year-old mandate to generate at least 30-percent of its electricity from renewable resources eight full years ahead of the mandate's 2020 deadline.
"The fact that Xcel is going to be able to meet Colorado's renewable energy standard only two years after the law was passed, and eight full years before the law requires it, demonstrates that clean and safe alternatives to dirty and dangerous coal-fired power are available today," said Roger Singer, Regional Representative for the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal campaign in Colorado.
When Colorado approved a 30 percent Renewable Portfolio Standard in last year's legislative session, it was the most ambitious renewable energy standard in the country (California has since approved a 33 percent standard). Yet even this ambitious standard was easily surpassed.
"We can't afford to lose this great momentum and the many new jobs it creates," Singer said. "We are capable of so much more. If clean energy can succeed in Colorado, it can succeed all over America."
Expensive Indiana Coal Plant to Phase Out as Utility Turns To Wind Power
Last week, Virginia-based Dominion Resources announced that it would likely phase out its State Line Power Station coal-fired power plant, located on the Illinois-Indiana border near Chicago. Faced with installing necessary pollution protections to bring the plant into compliance with clean air protections, Dominion decided that coal was simply too costly an investment.
Another sign of the ongoing trend toward clean energy production, as Dominion is planning to phase out the State Line coal-fired power plant, the company is simultaneously proposing to build a 750-megawatt wind farm in Benton County, Indiana and is partnering with another firm to develop wind projects near the Kincaid coal-fired plant in Illinois.
"The American energy industry is transforming before our eyes. Our energy sector is finally shifting from reliance on antiquated, polluting coal plants to smart, modern clean energy technology," said Nilles. "We have a long way yet to go, but this is exciting progress."
Coal Continues to Decline
Coal-fired power, on the other hand, continued its steady decline. Not only has the energy output from coal-fired power plants dropped 9.5 percent according to EIA, but the average cost of coal increased, getting 4.9 percent more expensive in the past year.
"Coal is getting more expensive, and Americans are relying on coal less," said Mary Anne Hitt, Director of the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal Campaign. "People nationwide are abandoning this outdated source of electricity and moving to clean, reliable sources of energy that don't make their families sick.
"Given the devastating harm that coal pollution poses to our health as a nation, and the huge potential job creation that will come from a rapid expansion of clean energy, it is not at all surprising that coal is beginning to lose its stranglehold on America's energy production," Hitt concluded.
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For more information about the Sierra Club's work to move America from coal to clean energy, please visit www.sierraclub.org/coal.


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The Kings Mountain High boys basketball team completed a strong week by opening Big South 3A Conference play with a 71-67 victory against South Point on Friday night.
KINGS MOUNTAIN � The Kings Mountain High boys basketball team completed a strong week by opening Big South 3A Conference play with a 71-67 victory against South Point on Friday night.
Wil Sellers' jumper with 2:05 remaining put the Mountaineers ahead for good at 66-65 as the win at Parker Gymnasium improved their record to 3-0 this week and 4-4 overall.
�My guys have worked their tails off in practice to be as good as they can be,� KM coach Grayson Pierce said. �And it shows.�
Chad Sanders led five Kings Mountain (1-0 Big South) players in double figures with 17 points, followed by Josh Sherer (14 points), Solomon Hawkins (14 points, 8 rebounds), James Tillman (13 points, 16 rebounds) and Sellers.
�We�re playing as a team,� Pierce said.
Sanders hit a layup, Sherer sank two free throws and Sellers made a steal and connected on 1-of-2 free throws down the stretch to preserve the victory for Kings Mountain, which went 7-for-10 from the foul line in the fourth quarter.
Dan Johnson scored 19 to lead the Red Raiders (0-6, 0-1), with Deonte Gaston adding 16 and Tanner Muse pitching in 14.
South Point girls 45, Kings Mountain 43 � A physical Big South 3A Conference battle that saw a player on each team not finish the contest due to injury came down to a late steal on Friday night.
South Point�s Ashley Mull swiped a Kings Mountain in-bounds pass in the final five seconds and eluded defenders trying to foul her as the Red Raiders prevailed after trailing by as much as 22 at Parker Gymnasium.
�We�ve been in a few of these (tight) games,� South Point coach Scott Tudor said. �So I guess we�re getting used to them.�
Kings Mountain coach Mike Harris couldn�t help but be encouraged with the way his team battled through adversity.
�You hate to lose. But when they gave everything they had, that�s all you can ask,� Harris said. �I was very proud of our girls.�
The night featured a pair of scary moments that left both teams without much of a rhythm down the stretch.
Kings Mountain�s Monique Petty had experienced dizziness after taking an elbow to the eye in the first half but was back on the Mountaineers� bench in the third quarter before standing up and then falling and hitting the floor during a timeout. Her head didn�t hit the floor, Harris said, and she was helped off on a stretcher after about 10 minutes on the ground.
Then near the end of the third, South Point�s Chrissy White, whose 10 points helped fuel the Red Raider comeback, had to be carried off the court by two teammates after hitting the deck hard.
Mull�s team-high 15 points led South Point�s rally, as eight of them came in a 10-0 run immediately after Kings Mountain took a 31-9 edge on the Red Raiders midway through the second quarter. Haley Stewart scored all eight of her points in the second half as South Point (7-0, 1-0 Big South) fought back from a 31-18 deficit at the break.
Taquisha Smith paced the Mountaineers (6-2, 0-1) with 12 points, with Petty and Tiffani Thompson adding eight apiece. Thompson�s bank shot cut it to 44-43 with just over two minutes remaining. The Raiders� Blair Griffin hit 1-of-2 free throws with 14.8 seconds left to push it to the final margin.


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The Raiders hold their mandatory minicamp starting Friday with practices at 10:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. the first two days and a single session at 11:15 a.m. on Sunday.
There is no confirmation on the signing of undrafted free agents, and as far as anyone can tell, the company line given by coach Tom Cable that JaMarcus Russell would compete in minicamp after the acquisition of Jason Campbell hasn't changed.
Last year, when Derrick Burgess reported to minicamp but was angling for a trade, the team said he missed workouts because of the "stomach flu."
Last season's mandatory camp had some early warning signs of what was to come as Darrius Heyward-Bey had trouble holding the ball and ended the weekend with a hamstring strain, second-round Mike Mitchell also had a hamstring pull. Russell struggled to complete even the most routine pass routes.
During the first minicamp practice, there were 10 fumbled exchanges on center snaps.
The camps are "non-contact," with no tackling or full-on blocking. It's most choreography, teaching footwork and timing.
EXTRA POINTS: It appears Rock Cartwright is serious about being the new Justin Fargas. He was issued No. 25. Still no number given to Jason Campbell, who may be negotiating with Jonathan Holland for No. 17. (UPDATE: The roster on Raiders.com has been updated with Campbell wearing No. 8 ) . . . Holland is back at wide receiver after moving to cornerback last year . . . locker rooms are not open during minicamps and it remains to be seen who will and will not be made available following practice sessions. The Raiders usually bring rookie draft picks into the media room on the first day of minicamp, a practice that precludes the possibility of talking to certain veterans . . . got a mobile Twitter feed up and running Thursday and the plan is to post updates from the field . . . players began arriving Thursday for medical checks.


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Cat's looking even more beautiful than usual (which I didn't think was possible) as she welcomes us to tonight's episode with 16 dancers still left in the competition.
The opening number has all the dancers dressed like Charlie Chaplin's Little Tramp and they're using a weird filter to make most of the picture black and white while leaving the open umbrella red. It reminds me of a precious greeting card your grandmother might send you.
The routine is a little meh overall, with music that never seems to rise and fall.
To save time I guess, the dancers are not introduced individually, but as couples. But we still get the "gulls" and guys strut at the end of...


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Curiouser and Curiouser - Avant-Garde Polish Theatre Posters from the 1970s
Friday, August 15, 2014,
- Location: Cohen Memorial Hall • 1220 21St Ave S • Nashville, TN 37212
- Room: Fine Arts Gallery
- Contact: Joseph Mella
- Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
- Website: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/gallery/visit.html
Jan Sawka, Polish, 1946–2012
Teatr im. Jana Kochanowskiego w Opolu, 1975–6
Offset lithograph 32-3/4" x 23"
Gift of Don Evans,
Professor of Fine Arts, Emeritus
© Jan Sawka Estate, www.jansawka.com
Curiouser and Curiouser—Avant-Garde Polish Theatre Posters from the 1970s
June 19-August 28, 2014 (Please note that the Gallery will be closed July 4-7, 2014 for Independence Day)
Gallery Hours, June 19 - August 19:
Tuesday - Friday 12 - 4 pm
Saturday 1 - 5 pm
Closed Sunday and Monday
Gallery Hours, August 20 - 28:
Monday - Friday 11 am - 4 pm
Saturday and Sunday 1 - 5 pm
Presented in honor of the late Don Evans, who for much of his professional career taught art at Vanderbilt University, Curiouser and Curiouser—Avant-Garde Polish Theatre Posters from the 1970s features a selection of posters given by Evans from a particularly rich period of Eastern European graphic art design. Some artists went on to receive significant notoriety for their work; Jan Sawka's theatrical posters provoked the Polish government to expel him in 1979. Many of the posters reflect an aesthetic begun in the 1960s under the influence of Pop art and experimental theatre of the period. These posters, as well as those from the 1960s, influenced a wide range of creative figures, including the Quay Brothers whose films were recently featured in a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in which several similar posters from the period served as a context for their innovative work.
As a part of the exhibition, the Fine Arts Gallery will screen within the Gallery Freedom on the Fence, a 2009 documentary about the history of Polish posters, from WWII through the fall of Communism. The film details the evolution of this art form by revealing the revolutionary role posters played in the social, political, and cultural life of Poland. Freedom on the Fence spotlights several Polish poster artists, including Roman Cieślewicz and Franciszek Starowieyski, both of whom are featured in Curiouser and Curiouser.
The film fuses contemporary footage of Warsaw and Krakow with remarkable archival footage (from the Polish National Film Archive) of posters on the streets and artists at work, to provide context and demonstrate the contribution the art form made to the culture. Freedom on the Fence has been screened at many film festivals including the San Diego Jewish Film Festival, the Napa Film Festival and the Santa Fe Film Festival. In 2009, The Museum of Modern Art showed the film as part of a 6-month show on Polish Posters. It is now in the permanent collection of MoMA.
Curiouser and Curiouser—Avant-Garde Polish Theatre Posters from the 1970s is organized by the Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery and curated by Joseph S. Mella, director.
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Generally speaking, a god (or "deity") is a being with supernatural powers who receives worship. Not all religions worship a god or gods. There have been an immense number of Gods worshipped throughout history. The Bhakti tradition in Hinduism considers there to be millions of gods. [1] Many gods are no longer worshipped because their corresponding religion has become extinct. This may also be the fate of currently active religions. Attributes of gods supposedly include:
- perfect or makes mistakes
- being both perfectly just and merciful, which is a contradiction
- impassible and personal, which is a contradiction
- divinely simple
- immutable
- exists everywhere or is localised
- God is love
- transcendent
- capable of emotions or sometimes not
- have children, either other gods, demi-gods or mortal humans
- the only God, as in monotheism
- one of many Gods, as in polytheism
- identical to reality, as in pantheism
- infinite
- sovereign, so he can boss people around
- holy
- perfect or imperfect
- mortal or immortal
- multi-part but yet unified, as in the Trinity
- self-existent
- self-sufficient, which raises the problem of non-God objects,
- immaterial, just like my invisible pet dragon
- jealous Exodus 34:14
- sometimes incarnated as a human or animal
- omniscient or infallible
- omnipotent
- omnibenevolent or capable of evil
- unlike anything else Surah 42:11 Isaiah 40:25
- makes peace and evil Isaiah 45:7
- the best of deceivers Surah 3:54 Surah 8:30
- existence (which is debatable)
There are countless gods, including those of Norse mythology, Greek titans, Greek Olympians, Egyptian mythology, Roman mythology, etc. There are thousands or millions of gods in eastern religions.
Greek pantheon[edit]
Greek gods such as Hermes and Dionysus have limited powers and occupying a hierarchical pantheon. They often squabble with fellow gods, and exhibiting human traits such as anger and jealousy.
Abrahamic god (Yahweh/Jehovah)[edit]
- Main Article: Yahweh
In contemporary times, the most popular concept of God is based on the Abrahamic god Yahweh. The original concept of Yahweh has given rise to the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity and Islam. While based on a common origin, these religions have significant disagreements about the nature of God.
"Then he said, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob." At this, Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God."
Christian theology has traditionally defined God (Yahweh) to be the omniscient, omnipotent, and omnibenevolent lone creator of the entire universe. However, some early books of the Bible seem to imply a finite god: In Genesis 18:20-21 , God must personally visit Sodom and Gomorrah to see if they are as wicked as he has been told. In Judges 1:19 , the men of Judah are unable to defeat the people of the plains, in spite of the fact that God was on their side. God's failure in this passage is attributed to the iron chariots of the enemy (this is the basis for the name of IronChariots.org). These is also considerable evidence that Yahweh was one god among many, particularly in early chapters of the Bible.
Muslims worship the Abramhamic god (Allah simply means "God" in Arabic) and agree with Christians on many of his attributes. However, Muslims reject the concept of the Trinity.
By far the most straightforward argument against the existence of a god is that there is no evidence for it. An important principle of science is that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
In the case of the Christian god, we are asked to explain the existence of a vast, complex, incomprehensible universe by inventing an even more vast, complex, incomprehensible being, which also happens to be intelligent enough to "plan" the entire history of the universe and still micromanage the details enough to answer prayers, account for who will go to heaven and hell, and deal with minutiae like how people deal with seemingly arbitrary rules about sex.
Treated purely as an explanatory device, introducing a god into the universe raises far more questions than it answers. It brings up the obvious question of who created God. Science tends to reason from the complex to the simple, finding explanations of natural phenomena by breaking them down into basic rules. Of all the things we know of in the universe, intelligence in particular is one of the most complex and mysterious phenomena observed. To suppose that we could "explain" the universe by introducing a universe-spanning intelligence is completely backwards from the way science normally operates.
All this would be strictly academic nitpicking if there were any positive evidence for the existence of a god. Yet when pressed for evidence, apologists are notoriously vague. Rather than pointing to specific reasons why anyone should believe in such an improbable being, they point to the Bible as a historically accurate text; they bring up philosophical vagaries such as the first cause argument and the argument from design, and they threaten hell by means of Pascal's wager. No test is ever proposed to demonstrate or falsify the existence of God; God's existence is merely assumed to be a default position (which also invokes argumentum ad populum).
"If he is infinitely good, what reason should we have to fear him? If he is infinitely wise, why should we have doubts concerning our future? If he knows all, why warn him of our needs and fatigue him with our prayers? If he is everywhere, why erect temples to him?"
Capitalization of "God"[edit]
As a point of grammar, the word "God" is usually capitalized when it refers to a particular god as a proper name; whereas "god" is in lowercase when it refers to one or more of a set of objects. For example: "I do not believe in your god."
Reverential religious texts often take the capitalization a step further when they are talking about their own gods, going so far as to capitalize pronouns that refer to the god. For example: "I love Him"; "We are saved by His grace".
A concept in flux[edit]
"The concept of God, even within the same religious tradition, mutates as human societies change. The reaction of nonbelievers changes with it.[...] This flexibility is what keeps the concept of God-of the divine-alive."
- "the idea of God formed in one generation by one set of human beings could be meaningless to another [...There is no fixed concept of God] instead the word contains a whole spectrum of meanings, some of which are contradictory or even mutually exclusive.[3]"
See also[edit]
- Theism
- Monotheism
- Polytheism
- God commanded atrocities in the Old Testament
- God's character changes in the Bible
- God experiences emotions
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ I Don't Believe in Atheists, 2008
- ↑ Karen Armstrong, A History of God


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In line with the general trend toward the integration of social networking, business processes, and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), ABBYY says that the data-capture market is rapidly moving towards the SaaS delivery model. Specializing in document recognition, data capture, and language software, ABBYY is pointing to new on-demand delivery models in a market not previously characterized by the prevalence of pay-as-you-go structures.
"It is clear that SaaS-based data-capture services will dominate in the near future, however to what extent and where we can expect to see most prominent implementations remains to be seen," according to the company.
Highlighting the increasing data streams being fuelled by mobile-capture technologies, ABBYY says that camera phones are transforming into tools to digitize the analogue world and convert raw data into useful information — anywhere, anytime, and in any language.
According to ABBYY's forward looking pre-Christmas commentary, "The rise of mobile capture is expected to continue next year, offering data capture vendors the opportunity to expand this service delivery channel by selling new applications and services into mobile market space. Camera phones with ever advanced capabilities supporting data capture will be particularly welcomed by industries relying on fast processing of documents to boost quality of service. For example, in the insurance industry claimants will be able to file their digital claims immediately and consequently receive their benefits much faster."
Looking at the European data-capture market as an economic indicator here, the company says it has now certified over 80 partners for its own FlexiCapture 9.0 single platform transactional data-extraction technology.
FlexiCapture 9.0 is a tool for extraction of data from documents via a flexible and expandable architecture designed to meet the throughput needs of small departmental tasks to high-volume enterprise and governmental projects. It also offers a range of functions for document classification, indexing, data capture and document conversion.


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Monday, August 20, 2012
Lies in You
He smokes the tiniest cigarettes. He's smoking one now. It's so tiny and she stares at it thinking about how tiny it is. Her mind is consumed with its utter tininess. Why is it so tiny? Why does he pinch his fingers so tight? Why does he purse his lips like that?
He exhales now, slowly, but there is barely any smoke on account of how tiny the cigarette is. It's mainly just his warm breath. Air slightly heavier than the other air and she feels it on her cheek. Is he talking? There are words, they are small and they drift over her and around. She can smell them.
"What are you saying?" she asks, still thinking about that cigarette. It's even smaller now. Tinier than even before. His eyes are closed.
"I see it," he says. "That thing that lies in you."
He's laughing now, he's crying.
"All this time," he says. "These days and these nights. These hours in bed and in the kitchen, watching TV and inside of you. All I could ever see was yellow, the sun. You were always the sun. But here, right here, now, out here under the sky I see it."
She takes a cigarette from her own pack. It seems gigantic in comparison. It dominates her hands and her mouth and the smoke seems almost comical. Obnoxious. She is very aware and she does not want to breath.
"Blue and yellow," he says. "I can see it now under this sky. You are not the sun. You are the grass. The green of the earth and on top of you there are beetles and inside of you, I can see the worms. There are lies in you."
She looks to the sky and deliberately pumps plumes of smoke into the air, clouding the blue. She can feel the weight of her cigarette as she positions it for another drag. Her lungs expand as she sucks the smoke within.
She's laughing now, she's crying, and with less control than usual because it is hard to laugh and cry when you are burdened with an unusually gigantic cigarette. And the smoke. She coughs and it is messy. She is ugly.
"It is true," she says. "There are lies."
He flicks the butt of his tiny cigarette onto the pavement. There are ants and he smiles. He leans into her and pushes some dangling hair to the side of her face. He pulls her head to his. Her cigarette drops from her mouth. It tumbles end over end and lands also on the pavement, that gigantic cigarette right next to the tiny one.
They walk now, in silence without cigarettes. There is a field and there are children and they sit in the warmth of each other on the ground. They do not move until the moon and the stars arrive.
"This night is clear," she says. "But tomorrow you will be rain."
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Major Section: MISCELLANEOUS
This documentation topic is divided into two parts. We first
discuss the practical aspect of how to use the non-linear arithmetic
extension to ACL2,
and then the theory behind it. We assume that the reader is
familiar with the material in
linear-arithmetic and that on
linear rules.
We begin our discussion of how to use non-linear arithmetic with a simple example. Assume that we wish to prove:
(thm (implies (and (rationalp x) (rationalp y) (rationalp z) (< 0 y) (< x (* y z))) (< (floor x y) z)))
Note that
(floor x y) <= (/ x y). Note also that if we
divide both sides of
x < (* y z) by
y, since
0 < y, we
(/ x y) < z. By chaining these two inequalities
together, we get the inequality we desired to prove.
We now proceed with our example session:
(skip-proofs (progn
; Since the truth of this theorem depends on the linear properties ; of floor, we will need the linear lemma:
(defthm floor-bounds-1 (implies (and (rationalp x) (rationalp y)) (and (< (+ (/ x y) -1) (floor x y)) (<= (floor x y) (/ x y)))) :rule-classes ((:linear :trigger-terms ((floor x y)))))
; We now disable floor, so that the linear lemma will be used.
(in-theory (disable floor))
; We create five rewrite rules which we will use during non-linear ; arithmetic. The necessity for these is due to one of the differences in ; ACL2's behaviour when non-linear arithmetic is turned on. Although ; the conclusions of linear lemmas have always been rewritten before ; they are used, now, when non-linear arithmetic is turned on, the ; conclusions are rewritten under a different theory than under ``normal'' ; rewriting. This theory is also used in other, similar, circumstances ; described below.
(defthm |arith (* -1 x)| (equal (* -1 x) (- x)))
(defthm |arith (* 1 x)| (equal (* 1 x) (fix x)))
(defthm |arith (* x (/ x) y)| (equal (* x (/ x) y) (if (equal (fix x) 0) 0 (fix y))))
(defthm |arith (* y x)| (equal (* y x) (* x y)))
(defthm |arith (fix x)| (implies (acl2-numberp x) (equal (fix x) x)))) ) ; End skip-proofs.
; We disable the above rewrite rules from normal use.
(in-theory (disable |arith (* -1 x)| |arith (* 1 x)| |arith (* x (/ x) y)| |arith (* y x)| |arith (fix x)|))
; We create an arithmetic-theory. Note that we must give a quoted ; constant for the theory -- none of the normal
theory-functions; are applicable to in-arithmetic-theory.
(in-arithmetic-theory '(|arith (* -1 x)| |arith (* 1 x)| |arith (* x (/ x) y)| |arith (* y x)| |arith (fix x)|))
; We turn non-linear arithmetic on.
(set-non-linearp t)
; We can now go ahead and prove our theorem.
(thm (implies (and (rationalp x) (rationalp y) (rationalp z) (< 0 y) (< x (* y z))) (< (floor x y) z)))
The above example illustrates the two practical requirements for using non-linear arithmetic in ACL2. First, one must set up an arithmetic-theory. Usually, one would not set up an arithmetic-theory on one's own but would instead load a library book or books which do so. Second, one must turn the non-linear arithmetic extension on. This one must do explicitly -- no book can do this for you.
For a brief discussion of why this is so, even though
(set-non-linearp t)
is an embeddable event, see acl2-defaults-table (in particular, the final
paragraph). (Note that
(set-non-linearp t) modifies the
acl2-defaults-table.) Also see set-non-linearp,
see embedded-event-form, and see events.
You can also enable non-linear arithmetic with the hint
:nonlinearp t.
See hints. We, in fact, recommend the use of a hint which will enable
nonlinear arithmetic only when the goal has stabilized under rewriting.
default-hints can make this easier.
(defun nonlinearp-default-hint (stable-under-simplificationp hist pspv) (cond (stable-under-simplificationp (if (not (access rewrite-constant (access prove-spec-var pspv :rewrite-constant) :nonlinearp)) '(:computed-hint-replacement t :nonlinearp t) nil)) ((access rewrite-constant (access prove-spec-var pspv :rewrite-constant) :nonlinearp) (if (not (equal (caar hist) 'SETTLED-DOWN-CLAUSE)) '(:computed-hint-replacement t :nonlinearp nil) nil)) (t nil)))
(set-default-hints '((nonlinearp-default-hint stable-under-simplificationp hist pspv)))
This has proven to be a helpful strategy which allows faster proof times.
We now proceed to briefly describe the theory behind the non-linear
extension to ACL2. In
linear-arithmetic it was stated that,
``[L]inear polynomial inequalities can be combined by
cross-multiplication and addition to permit the deduction of a third
inequality....'' That is, if
0 < poly1, 0 < poly2,and
c and
d are rational constants, then
0 < c*poly1 + d*poly2.
Similarly, given the above,
0 < poly1*poly2.
In the linear arithmetic case, we are taking advantage of the facts that multiplication by a positive rational constant does not change the sign of a polynomial and that the sum of two positive polynomials is itself positive. In the non-linear arithmetic case, we are using the fact that the product of two positive polynomials is itself positive.
For example, suppose we have the three assumptions:
p1: 3*x*y + 7*a < 4 p2: 3 < 2*x or p2': 0 < -3 + 2*x p3: 1 < y or p3': 0 < -1 + y,and we wish to prove that
a < 0. As described elsewhere
(see linear-arithmetic), we proceed by assuming the negation of our goal:
p4: 0 <= a,and looking for a contradiction.
There are no cancellations which can be performed by linear arithmetic
in the above situation. (Recall that two polynomials are cancelled
against each other only when they have the same largest unknown.)
p1 has a product as its largest unknown, and for each of
the factors of that product there is a poly that has that factor as
a largest unknown. When non-linear arithmetic is enabled, ACL2
will therefore multiply
p1' and
p2' obtaining
p5: 0 < 3 + -2*x + -3*y + 2*x*y.The addition of this polynomial will allow cancelation to continue and, in this case, we will prove our goal. Thus, just as ACL2 adds two polynomials together when they have the same largest unknown of opposite signs in order to create a new ``smaller'' polynomial; so ACL2 multiplies polynomials together when the product of their largest unknowns is itself the largest unknown of another polynomial. As the use of
linear lemmas
to further seed the arithmetic data base may allow cancellation to
proceed, so may the use of non-linear arithmetic.
This multiplication of polynomials is the other situation in which
terms are rewritten under the arithemtic-theory rather than the
normal one. Because this may be done so often, and because the
individual factors have presumably already been rewritten, it is
important that this be done in an efficient way. The use of a small,
specialized, theory helps avoid the repeated application of rewrite
rules to already stabilized terms.


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Critical Pentagon programs to protect classified data from cyberattackers and state-sponsored spies hang in the balance as lawmakers begin to confer on competing House and Senate defense authorization bills.
The two chambers approved measures that make different cybersecurity requirements for companies that sell software to the government, and they set forth competing visions for how federal contractors should respond if their networks have been breached. In addition, the House and Senate specify different roles for the Defense Department to conduct clandestine operations in cyberspace.
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Lawmakers must untangle these thorny issues in a short time frame if they hope to finish work on the bill this year. On cybersecurity, the outcomes matter to tech companies and contractors with big bucks on the line, as well as to the Obama administration, which has raised red flags on how both bills approach the nation's digital defenses.
Most of the fights on the horizon originate from late changes made to the Senate's defense bill, which passed last week on a 98-0 vote.
One of the most controversial amendments, backed by chamber defense leaders, would require a broad swath of contractors to report to the Pentagon in the event of a successful cyberintrusion.
The problem: DOD already has a narrow, voluntary program — known as the defense-industrial base pilot — meant to encourage contractors in the DIB to report cyberintrusions while sharing threat data with their federal partners. The fear is the Senate's proposed mandatory program would cover more entities and possibly create another more costly reporting system, creating something of a conflict between the two.
Lawmakers say the change is critical. "It's so obvious that if a defense contractor with classified information has their networks penetrated and attacked, then the government has to know about that," said Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), who authored the amendment, after the Senate bill passed.
"I just think it's very, very clear in those circumstances that we have an obligation to know if contractors have classified information and that we are paying for that contractor's work," he said.
But the tech sector has plenty of doubts.
Trey Hodgkins, senior vice president of Global Public Sector at TechAmerica, told POLITICO many companies involved in the current DIB pilot are likely to try to fight the change, given they've "all invested a lot of time and effort in this process" at the regulatory level. His group wrote to Levin and Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Thursday to highlight a litany of issues with the amendment, including the fact it had never been vetted before a committee.


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The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript
|Dorothy Moye, Upper Ninth Ward house with "KEN" marking from private contractor, 2009.
It was a late afternoon in June 2006, and I was lost in New Orleans. It was my first trip into the city after Hurricane Katrina in August 2005 and I had been touring a friend around landscapes and cityscapes that I remembered from living there as a child—landscapes and cityscapes that were completely and permanently changed. Somehow I had gotten into the Gentilly neighborhood and was searching for an exit. Vaguely recollected bridges across Bayou St. John had disappeared. Street signs were nonexistent or homemade
Traffic signals dangled uselessly or had been swept from tangled utility wires. The potholed streets were deserted, as were the homes that had been submerged for weeks after the failure of the London Avenue Canal levee on August 29. The only signs of human intervention in this neighborhood almost a year after the storm were cryptic markings on each house, recording the progress of first responders down the streets. Large spray-painted Xs on every home, with numbers and letters in each quadrant of the X, recorded coded information.
Later, as I recalled my odyssey through drowned areas of the city, I kept returning to that visual image. As I have revisited the city in the intervening months, it has continued to haunt me. The spectacle of house after house on street after street marked with this bold coding is unforgettable. In its repetition it signified the scale of the wreckage, destruction, and abandonment that surrounded us, and inadvertently told a story.
|Christina Bray, Successive water lines on door in Lakeview, 2007.
I realized that the aftermath of a previous hurricane and flood primed me to respond to the X-codes, or Katrina crosses, as many in the city refer to them. When my family moved from New Orleans we settled in yet another hurricane-prone zone, eastern North Carolina. In the fall of 1999 I returned to Greenville, North Carolina, for a wedding and observed the aftermath of that September's devastating floods resulting from the torrential rains of Hurricane Floyd. Shells of houses stood spray-painted with large Xs. The impact of the X (which I assumed at the time to mark a structure for demolition) was powerful—were these homes and lives being X'd out? What about those who had lived there? Those Xs raised questions without answers, and although the symbol was strong, I filed it all away as a memory of Floyd. Almost seven years later the X-image resurfaced, a predecessor to my response to the thousands that appeared in New Orleans.
Katrina flooding in New Orleans (larger version). Map by Richard Campanella, 2008.
In addition to the US&R groups, with directives on details of recording their findings with the code, other units used their own systems. The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) appears to have searched in the Holy Cross area of the Lower Ninth Ward, and their coding system is similar to that used by the US&R teams. The mysterious TFW team, still not officially identified, used a circular coding system; these markings are found largely concentrated in the Upper Ninth Ward. Other individuals leapt into the rescue effort using private boats and native knowledge of the landscape, and were responsible for saving innumerable lives. However, if these heroic individuals used any system to indicate that they had already searched a structure, it was improvised or copied from others. These volunteer efforts, known informally around town as the Cajun Navy, are referred to by official sources as "self-dispatched" individuals. Various National Guard and police units added their own variations to the graphics. For all, the purpose of a marking was to indicate that someone had already been there, searched that structure, and moved on. The straightforward purpose of the coding systems was to avoid duplication of effort.
By the time the later dates were recorded, there would have been little hope of finding victims alive, and the effort by then seems to have focused on locating bodies and identifying hazards such as instability in waterlogged structures and toxic air quality inside flood-marinated buildings. The discovery of bodies for months afterwards by citizens indicates that these searches were not totally successful. In some areas two sets of markings, with a different color of spray paint superimposed over the earlier code, indicated that a structure had been re-searched after the water had receded; this is most often seen in the Lower Ninth Ward. The later searches also overlapped with the activities of animal rescue units whose free-form spray-painted reports noting animal welfare were sometimes lengthy epistles adhering to no discernible protocol.
|Dorothy Moye, Gentilly neighborhood, searchers' and animal rescue markings, 2007.
The location of the code on a building was often an indication of when in the progress of the flood a search had been conducted. A code sprayed on a roof or at the roofline, as seen occasionally in Lakeview, would have been applied from a boat. A code painted over successive water lines (indicating where the water level had settled long enough to leave a mark similar to a bathtub ring) was obviously applied after the water had receded from higher levels. The most common site for the graphic was a front door or window clearly visible to subsequent teams who might be criss-crossing the areas with unassigned territories. Other locations included garage doors; siding, brick, or stucco walls; and other architectural targets of opportunity that converted homes into billboards.
The linear reporting within neighborhoods offered by the markings offers a unique Katrina narrative. Although the tale told by these codes is still raw, the importance of the narrative in this unexpected format promises to persist, along with the memory of the graphic itself as an inescapable reminder of post-Katrina events. Individually, one code is interesting, but together, thousands are a stunning recording and reminder of the power of the storm and its impact on the city. The accumulation of the images can be viewed as both a found art installation and a vivid reminder of a moment in New Orleans' history. The image has become iconic as a part of the larger story of a devastating storm and its aftermath&emdash;graphic shorthand for those involved on any level.
"In retrospect there was something almost biblical about those markings on all the front doors around here," writes New Orleans Times Picayune columnist Chris Rose, "posting notice of who was spared and who was not."2 Traditions of coding dwellings date back to descriptions in Exodus 12 (the Passover story), when markings appeared for protection instead of after-the-fact reporting. Throughout history, markings have indicated death, quarantine, ghettoization, and destruction, as well as protection.
Although in contemporary life we tend to ignore coded messages not meant for general interpretation, the scale of the X-codes, both numerical and physical could not be ignored. Because of where and when returning residents of marked buildings discovered them, they produced strong emotions. Although applied to structures for the straightforward purpose of signaling completed searches, the markings stirred a range of feeling. Finding the markings on his own home, University of New Orleans professor Frederick Barton commented, "That first day and for many thereafter, we did not understand what the mark meant. In fact, I am not sure that I do yet."3 The codes were one more mystery in the flood of unknowns.
For others, the meanings were negative. "As a New Orleanian, the Xs are a glaring and still present reminder of how our government failed us," says photographer Jenny Bagert. "Not only failed us, but made it worse. . . . In addition to this frustration [of the markings being too late to be helpful in rescue], X's were used where they amounted to nothing more than graffiti. Whole neighborhoods with people living in them, that did not flood, were marked."4 New Orleans-based American Routes radio host Nick Spitzer refers to them as "conjuring a cross between the Vévé signs of voudun and a kind of military coroner's occupation."5 Many rumors circulated concerning the meanings of the marks, indicating that all too often the message sent to one group was received entirely differently by another.
What has happened to the markings as the city has slowly recovered? As neighborhoods of New Orleans rebuild and regroup, the majority of the coded artifacts have disappeared through demolition, repainting, or weathering; the emotional impact from the repetition of the graphic in these areas has eroded in the intervening months. However, even in 2009 there remain largely untouched areas of the city with deteriorating structures and fading markings, seemingly melting away. Where they are protected from the weather—under porch overhangs or balconies—Xs may shine with startlingly clarity. In neighborhoods where renovations and repairs progressed more quickly, most homeowners painted over the codes early in the process. Some still remark on how errant markings required a complete paint job that could have been avoided with more care in placement. "As we returned to the house again and again throughout the fall [gutting, cleaning, and repairing]," observes Barton, "we let ourselves express annoyance that the paint had been sprayed directly on the stucco when a plyboard plank covering the window was readily available and would not have damaged our house paint."6
|Dorothy Moye, Bywater neighborhood, Tibetan prayer flags and poster with preserved code, 2009.
Other New Orleanians purposefully preserve their X-codes as powerful memory markers, integral to the history of a particular structure and a reminder of personal histories. Rose, in a July 24, 2007 column, refers to them as "badges of honor." He notes that more codes are preserved in the some areas than in others and speculates about preservation of the marks in one neighborhood: "Perhaps it's due to the somewhat bohemian tilt of the Bywater neighborhood, with its cultivated affection for the offbeat, the unusual and the just plain weird."7 The most interesting example I have seen in Bywater is a preserved X-code draped withTibetan prayer flags.
As the codes fade, they persist in the collective memory of the city and its visitors. They are recorded by amateur and professional photographers who evoke the emotional power that comes through the repetition of these graphic icons, conveying the scope, variety, and sheer numbers of locations affected and the part that the X-codes played in mapping collective tragedy.
Dorothy Moye, Padlocked parochial school with water lines Elysian Fields Avenue, 2008
About the Author
Dorothy Moye is a long-time art consultant based in Decatur, Georgia. She has curated and managed various exhibitions and collections. Moye earned a BA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and an MS from North Carolina State University at Raleigh, and has studied independently with a variety of artists and arts historians.
About the Project
After her initial encounter with the X-codes, Moye realized that such a powerful visual experience should not go unrecorded. Since 2007 she has been collaborating with a variety of artists, photographers, writers, observers, friends, first responders, and supporters to bring a documentary photography exhibition on the X-codes into existence. The proposed exhibition is under the fiscal sponsorship of the Southern Documentary Fund. Moye can be contacted for submissions for this project at firstname.lastname@example.com.
- 1. National Urban Search & Rescue (US&R) Response System: Rescue Field Operations Guide. US&R-23-FG. January 2006. pp. 41–43.
- 2. Rose, Chris. "Badges of honor: Part historic preservation, part act of defiance, the spray-painted markings of Katrina rescue workers remain prominently displayed on many reoccupied New Orleans homes." New Orleans Times-Picayune, July 24, 2007.
- 3. Frederick Barton, E-mail correspondence, November 24–25, 2008.
- 4. Jenny Bagert, E-mail correspondence, October 15, 2008.
- 5. Nick Spitzer, E-mail correspondence, June 16, 2009.
- 6. Barton, op. cit.
- 7. Rose, op. cit.


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