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There are a whole set of functions that differentiate to give themselves. But they are all multiples of each other.
Show this is equal to zero which means that h(x) = constant.
I think that should enable you to do what you want.
That was an awesome proof,but i need one more favor,if f'(x)=f(x) and f(0)=1 than f(x)=a^x for some constant a,how do i prove this?
I really like that proof. Really elegant.
Hi Bob
I suspect there's a circular argument lurking here as power series probably depend on natural logs somewhere, but maybe it's ok.
This is how I do powers and logs:
at (0,1), the derivative is:
Even though I don't know what that is, it will have a value; let's say k.
Now the derivative at other points
So all graphs in the family have the property that the gradient function at x is a^x times the gradient at (1,0)
In the family there will be one value of a for which k = 1
Call that one a = e
Now suppose
Taking logs base e for the first expression:
Differentiating wrt x
which means we now know the value of k ... and
so [still working on this last bit but I think I'll post before I lose it all]
No good. I seem to be stuck here because if k - ln a this becomes ln x and I was trying hard to avoid that. I seem to have gone too far and proved the log is base e. I'll come back to it later after a think.
Proof from first principles will be better
hi {7/3}
Help me prove this:for some constant a[i cannot use the fact this is ln(x)]


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Apple took home 72% of all handset profits last quarterFebruary 6, 2013: 3:36 PM ET
Samsung had 29%, according to Canaccord Genuity. The rest got nothing.
FORTUNE -- Can you spot the problem with the pie chart at right? If you noticed that the two slices add up to more than 100%, you're on the right track.
Last quarter, Apple (AAPL) and Samsung so dominated the worldwide market for mobile phones (smart and dumb) that the rest of the manufacturers -- including Nokia (NOK), Motorola (GOOG), BlackBerry (BBRY), Sony (SNE), LG and HTC -- either broke even or lost money.
That's just one of the notable findings in a report issued Tuesday by Canaccord Genuity's T. Michael Walkley. A few other highlights:
- Apple took home 72% of the profits with only 21.7% of unit sales (up from 15.4% in Q3).
- Samsung's 29% of the profits came from 28.9% of unit sales (down from 32.3% in Q3).
- 43 cents of every dollar spent in the world on a cellphone in Q4 ended up in Apple's coffers.
- Samsung got 36 cents. Nokia got 7 cents. All the rest got less than 5.
- For 2013, Walkley predicts that Apple and Samsung will split 103% of the profits, 69/34.

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And it was not the last. In the past four months, The__Truth__Hurts has posted more than 2,000 anti-Apple comments on a variety of tech-related websites, including AllThingsD, SlashGear and WMPowerUser.
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My journey began last June when I decided to sweep area high schools in an attempt to find teenagers who stood out in a crowd for being ambitious, unique and altogether, well, untypical. Several people have questioned what I mean by the word "untypical." By definition, something untypical is "not having the distinctive qualities of a particular type of person." This means students who have a talent, skill, passion or trade that makes them stand out among the hundreds of others in their schools.
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SARANAC LAKE -Jean Ouedraogo, chair of the foreign language and literature faculty at SUNY Plattsburgh, will present the "The Nation of Burkina Faso; African growth through Education," at noon on Thursday, Nov. 29, in the Cantwell Community Room at the Saranac Lake Free Library.
Ouedraogo graduated from the Universite de Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso and in 1997, earned a Ph.D. in Romance Languages at The University of Georgia, Athens.
He teaches courses at all levels of the French curriculum including African and Caribbean Francophone literature and culture. With research interests encompassing African Cinema, literary criticism and translation, he is currently writing on Ahmadou Kourouma and planning a critical anthology of the literature of Burkina Faso. He has published numerous books and articles and been recognized with a number of awards and distinctions for excellence in scholarship, research and literature.
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Key Findings * Top uses of the Internet: meeting destination and facility research, meeting registration, sale of association services and products, and e-mail marketing.
* The verdict is still out on the overall usefulness of online RFPs and meeting auction services. Many refinements are needed, according to respondents.
* Overwhelmingly, respondents said they were more productive, thanks to the Internet. Many also said they are more involved in marketing and developing online programs.
* Most said they don't know enough about for-profit companies that provide online education and commerce activities to gauge whether this "new media" poses a threat to associations and their meetings.
Five years ago we launched the first "special section" on how technology affects association meetings. The sweep and pace of change since then is truly striking. In 1995, there were about three Web sites specifically for the meetings industry, few associations with a Web presence, and a huge number of Web sites in general were "under construction." Moreover, AOL hadn't yet offered Internet access. "Most association meeting planners are not yet ready and the Web is not yet ready for them," one of the articles in our series concluded.
In the digital age, five years is an eon or two, of course. Still, the speed with which Internet options have proliferated- not just for consumers but for the meetings industry-is dizzying. Today there are dozens of dot-com companies vying for a piece of the "transaction business" conducted by corporate and association meetings groups. The extent to which associations, often considered slow-moving compared to corporations, have embraced the possibilities of the Internet, is also surprising. Keep in mind that in 1995, few associations had a Web site, and the topic of debate at industry meetings was whether an association really needed a "home page" on the Web--or was this whole Internet thing a passing fad?
Our first survey devoted exclusively to understanding how association meeting and event organizers use the Internet shows that for the most part, associations have gotten well beyond the "home page" mind-set (thinking of their Web site as a kind of yellow pages) and are tapping Internet for meeting management, research, and promotion--using it for everything from site selection to e-mail marketing, registration, housing and speaker program management. Do you think electronic RFP services provide a useful tool?
While many have also tapped the Web as a way to sell association products and services, a much smaller group has latched on to the next phase: using the Internet to create new products and services and new revenue streams, for example: online marketplaces or business exchanges, webcasting, and online education programs.
In the vanguard are associations for whom the Internet has led to a fundamental redefinition of what they can offer as not-for-profit entities. This group has created Web portals offering business-to-business e-commerce opportunities, and many of these portals operate as separate for-profit subsidiaries of parent associations. What do you use the Internet for-or plan to use it for in the next 12 months?*
Percentages are a combination of those who have used the Internet for the listed application, and those who plan to use the Internet for such a purpose within the next year.
What the next five years will bring is anybody's guess. The end of for-profit associations? Partnerships with existing for-profit Web exchanges? More for-profit subsidiaries? Stay tuned: Our August cover story will explore some of these questions.
How do you use the Internet? Fully half of respondents now use the Internet, or plan to use it in the the next 18 months, as tool for meeting planning, with the top three applications being using the Web for destination and facility research, online registration, and other vendor research. (See chart on next page.) At the bottom of the list of usages were virtual trade shows (an ill-defined term, admittedly), webcasting, and online committee meetings.
A healthy percentage also use the Web for the sale of association products and services, but few were currently involved or planned to be involved in brokering the sale of their membership's products or services via the Web (a real business-to-business exchange). Read more about this under the revenues section.
Which electronic RFP services have you used to date? Regarding using the Internet to send RFPs (request for proposals), half of 57 percent of respondents said they currently use the Internet for this purpose, while the other half of that percentage said they planned to so within the next 12 months. Moreover, with 57 percent of respondents saying they weren't sure if electronic RFPs were a useful tool, the verdict is still being formulated on the value of electronic RFPs within the association market.
Those that had used electronic RFPs had some very useful suggestions for making them more effective. This group said that follow-up was not prompt enough, that too many responses to the RFP didn't match requirements, and that some forms were too complex while others didn't provide enough room for important unique details. A good number of respondents wanted to be able to attach an existing file or to paste in information. Overall, the sentiment was that the RFP input process needed to be more flexible, the response time more prompt, and the responses more reflective of RFP requirements. A few of our survey participants also remarked that developing a personal relationship was far more valuable than saving a few thousand dollars by using the electronic RFP process.
Does your association have a strategic policy with regard to integrating the Web into its activities and goals? As for auction sites for meetings, no respondents had ever used such a function to date, although 29 percent said they would consider doing so. Eighty-seven percent said they weren't sure if auction sites for meetings were useful.
WHAT REVENUES are being generated via the Web? Other than meeting registration fees, respondents indicated that they are selling ads, sponsorships, and vendor listings on the Web, as well as association products like books, tapes, subscriptions, memberships, home study courses, and various other educational materials.
Only 6 percent of respondents said that their association's Web site provided an opportunity for exhibitors or members to sell their products or services in a scenario in which the association garners a percentage of revenues generated. However, 16 percent said that probably would have such an arrangement within the next 12 to 18 months, indicating that the number of associations involved in brokering business-to-business sales is tiny but growing.
Do you think commercial online marketplaces, online education, and online professional communities within specific industries and professions will erode participation in in-person meetings and trade shows of associations? When asked how much of the association's total annual revenue would most likely be generated via the Web two years from now, 15 percent estimated up to 5 percent of revenues, while a combined 33 percent estimated ranges up to 15 percent; however, 45 percent, the majority, said they simply weren't sure. The fluidity of the marketplace in this area just can't be predicted.
Nonetheless, the influence of the Web is apparent in that 54 percent of respondents said their organization had a strategic plan with regard to integrating the Web into the activities, events, and goals of the association. And another 26 percent said that their organization didn't currently have such a plan but probably would in the next year. Only 9 percent indicated that there were no plans whatsoever for such a strategic approach to the Internet.
How influential are meeting organizers in the development of such a strategic plan? Very influential, said 22 percent of respondents, while 59 percent said moderately influential, and 19 percent said not influential at all. Obviously, how much revenue a group's meeting or trade show generates relative to the association's total revenue is an important factor governing responses to this question.
DESCRIBE the impact of the Internet How has the Internet changed planners' jobs? A solid majority of respondents indicated that they were more productive because of the Internet. About a quarter of respondents said that because of the Web, they were more involved with marketing and developing online programs and applications; a slightly smaller percentage said they were more involved in strategic planning within the association as a result of the Internet's impact. Results like these point to a clear direction for professional growth within association meeting and trade show management: more strategic involvement and more involvement with Web-based events and marketing, as well as more partnering with outside organizations in developing Web-related affiliations.
How has the Internet changed your job as a meeting or trade show manager? Most respondents felt that, overall, the Internet will cause moderate to significant change within the association. Interesting comments on this question focused on how the Internet in general provided better communication and management tools (especially for housing and registration) and how it reduced the need for travel for site inspections--although many also acknowledged that online communication is not a real substitute for human contact with vendors.
Will for-profit companies that provide online education and business-to-business e-commerce opportunities within specific professions and industries significantly erode attendance at the in-person meetings of associations? Most respondents said no; however this question sparked a lengthy list of qualifying comments. The impact will vary with the industry being served, noted many respondents. The majority also said that, while nothing will replace face-to-face learning and networking opportunities, there probably will be some erosion of in-person attendance. However, associations could also reach new audiences with Internet-based education and events of their own, not to mention generate new revenues through these activities.
How would you gauge the depth of change that the Internet will cause within your association? What strategic steps have associations taken to integrate the Web into the live events managed by the association? Some respondents were in the planning stages of evolving virtual trade shows and online marketplaces, online education tools, listservs, and online call-for-papers programs. Most were using the Web as a promotion and registration tool.
SURVEY Details We used e-mail rather than "snail mail" to conduct our survey, realizing that in doing so, we were biasing our results somewhat, since not all readers have e-mail or access to the Internet. Further, we also selected from our readership list only those who worked for national associations, with about half of our sample composed of professional associations and the other half of trade organizations. Our sample also contained only those with titles corresponding to the following: CEO/president, director/manager of meetings, director/manager of trade shows, and director/manager of education. Respondents were hyperlinked from our e-mail to a Web site where the survey was posted. We received 203 usable responses out of a sample of 997 readers (after adjusting for undeliverable e-mails). That represents a response rate of 20 percent.
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Only 48 companies qualified for this year's rankings. But others are waiting in the wings.By MARK DAVIS
The Kansas City Star
The Star 50* universe grows a little darker.
Only 48 companies qualified for this year's rankings of public companies, down one from last year. And one more is about to fall off the list.
Still, there are hopes of a brighter future.
Inergy Midstream LP became a public company last December. The Kansas City-based company won't be eligible for a Star 50* ranking until next year.
But its initial public offering of stock, or IPO, was the first to raise money in the Star 50* territory since 2006.
Other new Star 50* companies may surface under the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act that President Barack Obama signed last month. The JOBS Act, as it is known, will make it easier for small companies to go public by lifting some of the burdens of public ownership that have steadily whittled away at the Star 50* universe.
"There are a number of Kansas City companies that this would be of interest to," said Kirstin Salzman, the head of the securities and corporate governance practice at Husch Blackwell LLP.
A decade ago, 80 companies vied for Star 50* status, our annual ranking of publicly traded companies in Kansas and Missouri (excluding the St. Louis area).
Now the pool is shallow.
For this year's ranking, which is our 22nd, Flint Telecom Group Inc. bowed out by deregistering its shares with the Securities and Exchange Commission last summer. The tiny seller of prepaid cellphone service is no longer required to report its financial results publicly.
Collective Brands Inc., the Topeka shoe retailer of Sperry and other brands, has agreed to a buyout that is expected to remove it from the ranks of publicly traded companies.
Five other Star 50* companies, all banks, have gotten exit visas from the ranks of publicly traded companies, thanks to the JOBS Act. It turns out that the law aimed at clearing the path for IPOs may just as easily hold down the number of companies in the Star 50* universe.
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For now, however, there's a budding crop of future candidates.
Inergy Midstream is cued up for a 2013 debut. The company had been part of Inergy LP, tied for No. 28 in the ranking this year. But the parent spun off partial ownership of its subsidiary by selling Midstream shares to the public.
Next year, the two companies will vie for Star 50* standing separately
March nearly brought another new candidate to Star 50*.
Instead, a software glitch disrupted the IPO of BATS Global Markets Inc. on its own stock exchange.
BATS operates stock and options exchanges in the United States and Europe. Its electronic U.S. exchanges handle more than 10 percent of all daily trades in U.S. stocks.
The Lenexa-based company had planned its own stock offering as the first to debut on the BATS Exchange. Executives withdrew the company's IPO after the software problem and haven't said when or whether they'll try again.
Others wait in the wings, perhaps.
AMC Theatres chain owner AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. registered its IPO with the Securities and Exchange Commission in August 2010. Unconfirmed media reports have said the company will withdraw its plan, though it remains on file at the SEC. AMC has been privately owned since late 2004.
AMC has grown, partly through an early 2006 merger with Loews Cineplex Entertainment. Revenues topped $2.5 billion in the most recent 12 months for which AMC has reported results in its quest to go public. In the 2004 Star 50 rankings (we didn't need asterisks back then), AMC's revenues were only $1.83 billion.
Smith Electric Vehicles Inc. filed a registration statement with the SEC in November. Its $125 million offering would raise money for the maker of battery-powered commercial vans and allow some existing owners to sell their shares to the public in the process.
TVAX Biomedical Inc., a Lenexa-based company, wants to raise $16.6 million through the IPO it registered in November. The funding would help in the development of cancer treatments that use a patient's own cells.
Grassmere Acquisition Corp. filed an IPO a year ago. Led by former AMC executive Peter C. Brown, it seeks $50 million from public investors to buy other companies.
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Going public often means hitting a narrow window during which a receptive market and a prepared company meet.
The JOBS Act helps by making it easier for a company to get its offer ready. An IPO filing for a qualified company would need two years of audited financials instead of three. The company doesn't have to have an auditor attest to the company's internal controls.
"Sometimes you miss that window because you're waiting to get your internal controls in order or you're waiting for another round of financial statements to come through," Salzman said.
The window slammed shut when the stock market tanked amid the financial crisis following the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008.
For example, Tim Schwab had gathered about $1 million to launch a new public stock offering early in 2008. Gold Ribbon Bio Energy Holdings Inc. in Sedgwick, Kan., north of Wichita, would have built a $60 million biodiesel plant. The fuel plant seemed a natural for someone already in the trucking business.
"It's done," Schwab said, though he never formally withdrew the registration papers from the SEC. "The auditors and everybody soaked up the money. Plus, the market" turned south.
CyDex Pharmaceutials Inc., a Lenexa-based company whose products improve existing drugs, yanked its $50 million public stock offering six weeks after Lehman Brothers' bankruptcy.
Three days later, AMC pulled a $500 million planned stock offering it originally had filed in 2007. Del Frisco's Restaurant Group LLC, a Wichita-based business, pulled its $100 million offering that December.
(AMC may be back, as is Del Frisco, but the restaurant group is now based in Texas and would no longer be eligible for Star 50*.)
The JOBS Act may take a while to open the window for more companies to join the Star 50* universe.
The new law requires the SEC to create new rules to carry out the law, and the regulatory agency already is behind schedule with the rules it is writing for the Dodd-Frank financial reform act.
That means potential public companies need to keep looking for private capital sources — perhaps from private equity firms or angel investors, said Tom Van Dyke, senior counsel at Bryan Cave LLP in Kansas City.
Even companies that decide to tap the public capital market should keep in mind the added costs of being publicly traded, from the expense of extensive financial disclosures to the information those filings provide rival companies.
"I'd have to tell them to think about it very, very carefully," Van Dyke said.
JOBS losses
BankLiberty's parent company, Liberty Bancorp, decided two years ago that costs outweighed the benefits of remaining publicly registered. So it deregistered and no longer files detailed reports with the SEC.
The JOBS Act makes it easier for more banks to follow suit.
Liberty Bancorp was able to deregister because the number of its shareholders had dropped below 300. The new law allows a banking company to deregister if it has fewer than 1,200 shareholders.
Five current members of the Star 50* already have fewer than that.
Blue Valley Ban Corp., which owns the Bank of Blue Valley in Overland Park, has only 179 registered shareholders. Blue Valley officials said they plan to raise the issue of deregistering with the board of directors.
Being public has benefits. It puts a price tag on owners' shares and provides a place where they can sell at that price if they like it.
Mark Funke, chief financial officer of Southern Missouri Bancorp. Inc. in Poplar Bluff, Mo., said the company raised $20 million in a secondary stock offering last November. Keeping that window open helps justify the burden of being public and is why the company will remain public even though it has only 252 shareholders, Funke said in an email.
Other changes under the JOBS Act could delay the arrival of potential Star 50* companies.
For example, any company must register with the SEC if it ends up with 500 or more shareholders. The new law raises the threshold to 2,000 shareholders, providing that no more than 499 of them are non-accredited investors. Accredited investors meet minimum income, net worth and other standards set by the SEC.
And the shareholder count no longer will include employees who received shares as part of their compensation.
It means a company likely would be able to continue raising money privately longer than has been possible.
Salzman said the provision could prove helpful to Star 50*.
Making it easier for smaller companies to keep raising money privately may ensure that more of them grow big enough to need public capital. And that would put them in future Star 50* rankings.


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Chelsea Ladies signed World Cup-winner Yuki Ogimi from FFC Turbine Potsdam in July 2013.
The 26-year-old, became the first Japanese player in the FA Women's Super League.
The striker was part of the Japan team that won the FIFA Women's World Cup in 2011 with a penalty shoot-out victory over the USA, which she followed up a year later with an Olympic silver medal. Despite netting in the final against USA, Ogimi's Japan side were defeated 2-1 at Wembley Stadium.
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NEWARK, July 31--The National Security Agency recently certified more than a dozen unique graduate and undergraduate courses in computer network security, data encryption, steganography and digital watermarking at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT).
These computer skills, often classified under the heading of Information Assurance (IA), allow users to hide messages. Following the destruction of the World Trade Center, rumors abounded that terrorists had embedded messages in the graphics and texts of sports, pornographic and other web sites. Federal government officials and others have highlighted IA as a national priority for defense. The field focuses on technology to protect the nation's information technology (IT) infrastructure. The IT infrastructure, which includes the Internet, is widely used by the public and computer network systems in government agencies, corporations, colleges and universities.
"The reason for increasing these courses at NJIT is that the United States currently does not have enough experts in the field," said Ali Akansu, Ph.D., professor of electrical and computer engineering. To correct the imbalance, the government has authorized NSA and the National Science Foundation (NSF) to educate more people.
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This is not the first time NJIT has been in a leadership position. The states third largest public research university has numbered among the leaders providing information about data hiding, since the early days of the Internet. Faculty members at NJIT, Akansu among them, built one of the industry's first video data hiding engines. In 1999, NJIT in conjunction with Princeton University, held one of the first symposiums on the topic.
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Undergraduates, NJIT degree students and visiting students who are interested only in IA courses may study computer network security, data encryption, steganography and digital watermarking.
Two new, 12-credit, 4-course graduate certificates will also be available for graduate students through the NJIT Division of Continuing Professional Education (CPE). Qualified professionals can earn stand-alone credits either in IA or Information Systems Auditing (ISA). CPE director Gale Spak noted that people who complete the program might apply their coursework toward academic credit in corresponding masters degree programs.
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The local program now will be renamed TechStars Chicago. Excelerate co-founder Troy Henikoff said the partnership will allow the incubator's graduates to access TechStars' global alumni and mentorship network and provide more capital to companies that are accepted to the program.
Henikoff, Excelerate's chief executive officer, will remain in charge of the local program as managing director of TechStars Chicago. Its offices will remain inside 1871, the technology co-working space in The Merchandise Mart.
Accelerators and incubators are rising in cities across the country as boot-campesque alternatives to MBA programs. They climax with a demo day, in which hundreds of potential investors gather to hear that year's class pitch their startups. In the lead-up to demo day, the incubator provides intense one-on-one mentorship from industry veterans.
Excelerate, founded in 2010, was modeled on TechStars, founded in 2007. In effect, the partnership is a merger, although no assets are being bought or sold. Instead, Excelerate and TechStars are creating a new investment fund for future graduating classes. Many, if not all, of the same Chicago-based investors who put money into Excelerate will be a part of the new fund. TechStars' co-founders and some of their partners also are investing in it.
Applications for TechStars Chicago's 2013 class are being accepted starting Friday.
"I think we're getting the best of both worlds," Henikoff said. "We're going to have our mentors, our process that's proven over three years, 30 companies ... and we're going to put that on top of the TechStars platform, which gives us a national presence, a louder megaphone and more visibility."
TechStars launched in Boulder in 2007, Boston in 2009, Seattle in 2010 and New York City in 2011. In 2012, TechStars launched an accelerator for cloud-computing companies in San Antonio, where they partnered with Rackspace, which is headquartered there and is a leader in the field. TechStars alumni from all of its sites attend an annual conference.
"If you think about Harvard Business School alums, there's a really powerful network back there," Henikoff said. "There's very little you can point to tangibly, 'Oh, look, they have a meeting once a month.' But at the end of the day, it's a really powerful network. People pick up the phone and call one of their classmates, and stuff gets hopping, deals get done. And the same thing happens with the TechStars alums."
When Henikoff and dating website OkCupid co-founder Sam Yagan began forming Excelerate in late 2009, they sought to team up with TechStars and become one of their early expansion cities. TechStars co-founders Brad Feld and David Cohen declined the request. Feld said they were trying to expand "slowly and with a focus on quality." And at that moment, they were focused on expanding in Boston.
"We didn't even know if TechStars was working yet, it was so early," he said.
Feld and Cohen, however, provided guidance to Excelerate, which quickly built a track record. Three companies from its first class in 2010 have achieved "exits," meaning they've returned capital to Excelerate's investors. GrubHub bought food-ordering app FanGo; Groupon bought FeeFighters, which provides online payment services and comparison shopping for credit card processors; and MediaMath bought Tap.Me, an advertising company for mobile games.
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Chicago will lose the Excelerate brand name, which has become a point of pride for the city's burgeoning startup community.
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Oh Boy. Where to start.
I was born into a Mormon family and was baptized at 8. Which right off the bat I have a few issues with. I believe the age of baptism should be at least 12, probably even 15 years. But looking back I never questioned the age and in fact defended people getting baptized at 8 without really thinking about it. (I'm going to face-palm a lot during this just looking back at myself)
I really started to question at about the age of 16-17 or so. I never really actually had the thought cross my mind that I was wrong, it was more of a problem with defending ideas that I had previously endorsed without question. For example - The mistreatment of homosexuals, Tithes and offerings, and straight up lying about not endorsing political issues. The most vile and despicable of which being the latter which I will explain in the next paragraph.
For all of my church going life I took great pride in the fact that if all else failed that at least I could count on my church standing for this one thing: They never told you HOW to vote, they only told you TO vote. I will bring the homosexuality issue into this because that is the issue the church leaders told us to vote on.
1. The Mormon church was the #1 donator for the political support of Prop 8 which denys Homosexuals the right to marry. Bam, reason one. Lets move on.
2. The Mormon church is also the largest contributor to the Boy Scouts. The church also denied Gays the ability to serve as scout masters or even to practically be in the organization at all. The mormon church told the Boy scouts they would take away all of thier support if it allowed gays to be in the Boy Scouts. As a Mormon youth you are expected to be in the boy scouts. In fact you are expected to be VERY active in the boy scouts. Most of what a youth will do at Youth Group (called "Mutual") is actually boy scout activities.
3. I remember being told from the pulpit to vote against the gay rights. The Proclamation to the World was the nail in the coffin. While I didn't think too much about gay rights at the time, the thought of them telling me how to vote was appalling.
4. I only include this comment to be fair to the issue: Homosexuals are invited to the Mormon church. However they must not do that which makes them homosexual. which means they basically have to either lie about being homosexual and simply try to be straight, or they must abstain from sex FOREVER no matter what.
----- Anyway that was my reasoning for being appalled at this one specific issue... On to how I broke the news to my parents. Because my reasons for leaving are somewhat unimportant because all you really have to do is think a little. I'll just tell my story.
As a youth in the Mormon church I was in church for 3 hours on Sunday, 1 hour every school day before school started in the morning, and Mutual (Youth Group) for another 2 hours on Wednesdays or Tuesdays depending on a couple factors. So I literally spent at least 10 hours physically at church in a normal week. Not to mention all the camping trips, Temple trips, volunteer work for members (which happened a lot), and other responsibilities due to the hierarchy of the local Mormon Ward (congregation). So I may or may not have specific responsibilities based on what leadership position I had (which was a lot of the time because of the size of my peer group). But anyways. Most of this ended when I got out of High School and started college
At the age of 18 I had just lost my job because the schedule was changed and I didn't receive the message because my phone was broken at the time when they tried to reach me. I was stupid and didn't realize I should have fought it. But I had other things going on in my life which I could focus more on and I was still living with my parents so it wasn't the end of the world.
I went home told my parents and since I lived in Dallas, Oregon at the time I decided I should go job searching in the Capital city of Oregon: Salem which is 17 miles away. So I hopped on my bike (we went on a lot of biking trips in the boy scouts) and rode my bike there and stayed at a friends house so I could more easily go to college and job search. Keep in mind this was about the time when the economy collapsed. These events transpired in January-February of 2009. Suffice it to say It was a little hard to find a job.
So I job searched for 3 weeks on my bike (I was pretty physically fit at the time) and at the end of those 3 weeks I decided it was time for me to head back to my parents place. When I arrived I sat in the living room for 3 hours with the TV on until my parents returned home from wherever they had been. And for some strange reason, my parents believed that I had been partying for 3 weeks since I wasn't home (even though I had told them what I was doing and checked up with them most every day).
A few things to note: I had never masturbated before this point in my life, I had never had sex at this point in my life, I had never had alcohol before this point in my life (in fact I waited until my 21st birthday for my first drink.), I could count how many times I had cussed on one hand, and I could go on. I was basically as moral as a person could be. I had never given my parents any reason to believe I was a terrible person.
My mother wanted to have a religious based conversation and I was a little depressed and stressed from the job searching situation and just wanted to sit down. I really didn't want to hear it but I humored her for the most point.
She wanted to know what I believed and I told her I couldn't do that because I had no beliefs. This was the first time I had ever told anyone I was agnostic or anywhere close to it. But finally, calmly and coolly explained that I could not take what she said seriously because its not based on reason and fact but instead based on faith and fiction. To that point she raged to a point I had never seen her rage before. I was kicked out. with nothing but a backpack, laptop, a few clothes and a bike.
So I sucked at life for a another 7 weeks while going to college. Luckily I had friends that would take me in (all of which were atheists). And found myself living at my grandparents house in a camping trailer which I actually liked. It was the first time I had ever had my own space to call my own.
This is the most important part of my de-conversion story.
I spent a lot of time by myself. Doing a lot of nothing. I sank into depression because of how my life was going, and was feeling very sorry for myself. I thought maybe God was punishing me somehow. I say 'somehow' in that I didn't believe but I thought that the events in my life were showing me that there was a God and he was displeased. But I started thinking with all the free time I had and realized that the reason I had been and still was sucking at life wasn't because of explainable external forces, but it was because of how everyone treated me because I had told them was an agnostic-atheist.
There is more to my story but I don't really know how many people will really read this. But thank you if you did. If people are genuinely interested I may share more. :)
-Joshua Francom.
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Ha ha ha! Dude, you should have brought your sword along and shown him how it worked. lol. Boy, they sure think they are the be all and end all, don't they.
'they'? ya mean the corporation. full on w/the 'anti-gov' stuff... for tiz they who love a raped woman or lost woman to get that welfare check bigger
and bigger
and.. hey what gives!??!
Mormon'.. chuch? Inc. ? offshore banks.. is just the administrative? on the books end for the Vatican..
vatican's totally bowing to the power of Utah.. stop lying America.. remember America/United States broke form the 'church' of England which still from what Dawkins said at reasonrally has sway.. to this day...
indeed no wonder a judge in UK once labeled ziontology a 'dangerous cult' hey now.. furreal
NPR was off the hook today w/callers about creationism schism opt. in TENN schools.. yep.
riddle em this... (unless their homies w/discovery (of big oil and pharm) instutute)
"there is no evidence against evolution" ha, now that's a bumper sticker whaaaggghhht!? ; )
w/Earth and humans through science (ethical and moral that is)
"there is no evidence against evolution"
That's fantastic! rofl
Being an ex mormon is a whole lot better than being stuck in the cult. I had an ultra-mormon mom. One thing I learned early was to keep my mouth shut about my doubts. At 13 I vocally expressed my unbelief and the consequences were swift and brutal.
It's not a good feeling knowing a parent is capable of filicide because of some wacko religion.
I walked away in 1986, but it wasn't until last year that I formally resigned.
Feels good.
It should be a right to leave to your estate the option of suing on your behalf (though you'd be deceased and couldn't personally profit from it)--if in case the mormon church or any other religious entity should claim you in death (since you'd be unable to defend yourself, pending a zombie apocalypse)... It does nothing for the deceased but defend the deceased's name and legacy--but it would be a good deterrent to the mormon church padding its membership roster by claiming non- and ex-mormons who have died.
Hey everyone. My second part is up now. Its on my blog.
Please do go on, it's an enjoyable read. [edit - didn't see that last post lol]
Could you elaborate on how you felt the bad things in your life were the fault of the way people around you reacted to your coming out, as opposed to being because of a displeased god? My ex is a mormon and she has some major problems which she refuses to do anything about because she says it's god's will.
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