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5 Stocks Hated by Hedge Funds Last Week
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We have identified five stocks that had absolutely horrible days last week. Assuming the funds we track have not changed their holdings since the end of June, there were key funds that lost big money on these price drops. The first company on our list is HMS Holdings (NASDAQ: HMSY).
The company was down over 23% on Friday, October 26th—around $6.30—after missing quarterly estimates and offering lower guidance. There were a number of insiders who were able to cash out before the huge decline. Even though the company trades at 45x EPS, it did just sign its largest contract in history and trades at "just" 30x forward earnings. The company provides services for ensuring healthcare claims are paid correctly, and is expected to grow five-year EPS at over 25% annually. As a result, we believe that this pullback could be a buying opportunity.
The top fund owner, Columbus Circle Investors, owned nearly 930,000 shares at the end of June. Assuming the firm has not changed its position since this time, the hedge fund lost over $5.8 million dollars on Friday. Other notable investors like Samlyn Capital also had large positions, one that was an over 400% increase from their 1Q share count. Samlyn was the owner of over 680,000 shares, causing the firm to potentially lose around $4.3 million last week.
Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) also lost its investors big money, with its market value down over 15% on Friday, October 26, burning two tiger cubs in the process. The company reported 3Q earnings up 28% from last year but the numbers missed consensus estimates. The big overhang for the company is regarding its submission of its ".com" registry agreement to the Department of Commerce, which may not approve its renewal before the November expiration date. Credit Suisse believes there is a near-$20 valuation swing depending on how the DOC rules. This, coupled with the fact that Verisign trades at a P/S well above the other tech companies listed at 8x, compared to its industry average of 2.4x, leads us to stay away from the stock.
One fund manager who is likely to be particularly saddened by Verisign's decline is Stephen Mandel with Lone Pine Capital. In a 13G filing in early September, the firm announced an 8.6 million-share ownership in Verisign. Based on Verisign's decline, Lone Pine Capital may have lost as much as $62 million. In addition, John Griffin was another top shareholder, with over 6.2 million shares invested. Verisign made up over 4% of Griffin's 2Q 13F and may have cost the firm as much as $45 million. Mandel owns around 5.5% of Verisign's outstanding shares, and Griffin owns nearly 4%. Beyond just Mandel and Griffin, ten funds that we track had 3% of their 2Q 1Fs invested in Verisign.
Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ: RVBD) was down 18%, over $4.00, on Wednesday, October 31, after announcing it would acquire OPNET for $1 billion. Various insiders were able to get out before the decline. The company saw various execution issues that put the stock down 35% over the past year. Although the company trades at a 45x P/E, the forward P/E comes in at 16x and we believe that the OPNET transaction will be a long term positive and would consider the pull back a buying opportunity.
Cliff Asness, Polar Capital and Israel Englander all were upping their stakes in 2Q, with Asness being the top fund owner and upping his stake significantly. They owned over 500,000 each and may have lost at least $2 million a piece from the stock's decline.
Fluor Corporation (NYSE: FLR) was down 10% on Friday, November 2 on disappointing earnings and weak 2013 guidance. We believe the Chicago Bridge-Shaw Group will be the market leader for engineering and infrastructure services and Fluor will see further declines in new billings as delays in mining projects continue amidst a slowing global economy. As well, the company trades in line with its historical P/E of around 15x.
This decline was very unfortunate for the top-fund owners in Fluor, Diamond Hill Capital and Carlson Capital. Diamond owned nearly 1.2 million shares and Carlson held 720,000 at the end of 2Q. This translates into a roughly $6.6 million loss for Diamond and a $4 million loss for Carlson.
Pitney Bowes (NYSE: PBI), down 13% or $1.90 per share on Friday, November 2, missed gross earnings estimates. The company posted 3Q results of $0.38, compared to the same quarter last year of $0.85 and consensus of $0.48. The company is seeing tech competitors infringe on its key arena, the postal delivery product market. Pitney may appear undervalued on a P/E basis at 7x, yet we believe the company is cheap for a reason, as it is expected to see EPS decline at a 5% CAGR over the next five years.
Pitney called Coatue Management as its top fund owner, which was a new position for the company at 1.2 million shares. The potential loss for Coatue was $2.3 million, while Winton Capital Management was the second largest fund owner by shares, and may have lost as much as $1 million last week.
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Dragon trainers take turns pinning down Squirt! Tape or glue together this four-page poster to play this classic game at your child's Mike the Knight themed party.
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Teach knights to be thankful! Print & give to party guests!
Looking for a card that suits your little knight? This print-and-fold card is just right!
Regally wrap lollipops to give away to party guests!
It's your little knight's big day! Say "Happy Birthday" with a banner
No time to bake? Dress up store-bought cupcakes with these fancy wrappers
Keep hungry party guests preoccupied while their meals are being prepared!
Invite kids to your castle for a knightly celebration!
Win cool points at your kid's next party with this pin the tail poster!
Celebrate Dad's Day the knightly way!
Kids can make Mom feel like a queen
Greet guests with a medieval message from Mike or Evie!
It's your kid's knightly mission to circle what's different in the pictures
Knightly mission accomplished? Make it official with a certificate from Mike
These fancy printable Valentines are fit for royalty!
Print them out and sing along!
Award your little knight at home a badge of honor. Be a Knight, do it RIGHT!
Preschoolers can piece together this puzzle of Mike & Galahad!
Six pages of royal coloring fun featuring Mike and his friends
Mike's galloping onto your goodies!
Kids can blow their trumpets during a royal celebration!
Personalized kids' party cups for your knightly guests!
Piece together this fun fall puzzle with your Umi fan!
Kids lead Team Umizoomi to their special forest friends
Print and bring along on your next apple or pumpkin-picking trip
Here's a delicious idea! Guide Crumbs through the maze to see what she's baking
Show Peter the safest way to get this pumpkin from the patch to the burrow
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We're blazing into some monster-sized puzzle fun at top speed
The next big thing is here. It's Blaze and AJ racing into action
Learn different parts of the body by counting and connecting with Bubble Guppies!
Get the Guppies through the maze to Nonny's stomach bug!
With this final section, the puzzle poster is complete!
Put this Dora and Friends puzzle together, then add to the rest of the pieces to create one large poster!
Color, assemble, and add to part 1 to make a large Dora and Friends poster!
Solve part 1 of the puzzle, then check back each week for more pieces to complete the jumbo puzzle poster!
Find the final piece of Wally's summer surprise puzzle poster here!
Who will Dora walk dogs with, play soccer with, or even make music with?
You don't need a magic stick to complete this puzzle! But you do need part 3!
Find the second part of the Wallykazam Summer Surprise Puzzle Poster here!
Collect one section of the puzzle each week to complete the Wallykazam Summer Surprise Puzzle Poster!
Your pup can get wild with this animal-filled PAW Patrol puzzle pack!
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Abbott spins off AbbVie. Which to buy?
One has all the risk and one has all the growth. The decision is an easy one.
On Jan. 1, Abbott Laboratories split into two companies with two different stocks.
AbbVie (ABBV) is the drug company that owns Humira, a big-selling injectable rheumatoid arthritis drug that produced $7.93 billion in sales in 2011.
Abbott Laboratories (ABT) is the medical device, diagnostics and nutritionals company.
Do you want to hold both or sell one or the other?
In the near term, say the next two years, one, AbbVie, has all the risk and the other, Abbott Laboratories, has all the growth. In Jubak's Picks, I'm going to sell my shares of AbbVie and use the proceeds to buy more shares of Abbott Laboratories to restore the pre-split position size in Abbott.
AbbVie CFO William Chase laid out the case for AbbVie in an interview with Bloomberg last week.
It's not an especially attractive story over the next two years.
Over those two years, Chase said, the company will be in what is basically a holding pattern as AbbVie nets out increased revenue from Humira and Androgel with losses of about $2.5 billion in sales as drug patents expire. The company's hope is that new products now in the pipeline will start to kick in around 2015 and put the company back on a growth track. Those products include the company's hepatitis C drug (which does not require interferon), a gel for Parkinson's, a multiple sclerosis drug, and a drug for endometriosis. The four, Chase projected, would produce $4 billion to $6 billion a year in peak sales.
And why would investors be willing to hang onto AbbVie shares until the pipeline produces? The company's shares now pay $1.60 in dividends and the company intends to grow that dividend.
Contrast that high-risk growth strategy with the very clear growth trend in most of the four units -- diagnostics, medical devices, generic drugs, and nutritionals -- at the core of the post-split Abbott Laboratories.
Of these the star is the nutrition business, which is projected to grow by a compounded annual 35% a year powered by the company's growth in China, India and other developing economies. (The post-split Abbott Laboratories gets about 40% of its revenue from developing economies.)
Rising income levels are driving sales of infant and adult nutritionals in emerging markets and Abbott has been increasing its penetration, especially in China, South East Asia, and Latin American through moves like the 2009 acquisition of the nutritional business of India's Wickhardt Ltd. Margins in this business are likely to increase as the company is able to spread the costs of growth over an increasing sales base.
Abbott's generic drug business is another unit taking advantage of faster growth in developing than developed economies. In 2010 Abbott acquired Solvay Pharmaceuticals, which brought the company a portfolio of branded generic drugs and expanded Abbott's presence in Eastern Europe, Russia, India, and Brazil.
This isn't to say that the post-split Abbott Laboratories doesn't have problems -- especially in its medical device business. For example, Abbott's drug-eluting stents are a market leader but sales have been under pressure and prices have been falling. I think the problems in the division are certainly fixable through an acquisition or two but the challenge will be buying the right technologies at the right price in a market where customers are under pressure to cut costs.
I still think that adding up the pluses and minuses comes out very strongly in favor of the post-split Abbott Laboratories and I added to that position by selling my shares of AbbVie
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On August 29th 2010 people gathered at Miller Park from all over the fine state of Wisconsin to take part in an event known as "Miller Park Drunk's Pants Party." Few knew what they were getting into before the event, but after some amazing food, a great party, a Brewers win and a pantsless kegstand; everyone who attended realized they just had one of the greatest times ever and their lives were never the same a-gain.
For a variety of reasons 2011 did not feature a return event and many people were left extremely disappointed. Some turned to hard drugs to ease the pain, others to crime. (One dude even ate another dude's face in Florida.) Relationships crumbled, the dead rose from the grave, humans were sacrificed, cats and dogs started living together... it was mass hysteria! But that's all over now because today is a new dawn.
The clouds have parted, the sun has come out and Miller Park Drunk's Pants Party has returned. Rejoice because on July 15th...
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And not only is Miller Park Drunk's Pants Party returning this year it is going to be bigger and better than ever. Check it out.
PLACE: Miller Park parking lot
TIME: Whenever they let us in the parking lot.
OPPONENT: Pittsburgh Pirates
CHANCE OF WIN: Likely!
Price includes:
- (1) Terrace reserved ticket!
- (1) OFFICIAL Pants Party t-shirt!
- (1) Awesome sticker from ForwardFabrics.com!
- (All) The delicious keg beer you can drink!
- (All) The sausages you can eat!
- (1) raffle ticket for sweet Brewer related prizes!
- Stadium Sauce Bloody Marys!
- Bottled water!
- Highly competitive parking lot games!
- Intelligent conversation!
- Not so intelligent conversation!
- Beautiful weather (hopefully)!
- Other things that you'll really like!
We'll have more information on the food menu in the coming weeks, but know that it is completely different than last time and completely awesome. The official t-shirt, while still being finalized, is also completely awesome and you'll want to wear it everyday.
I have no doubt in my mind when I tell you that this will be the best tailgate of the summer and you would be silly to miss it. SO DON'T! Secure your place now!
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Review: 'The Details' Is An Inconsistent But Entertaining Dark Comedy
Described as an "existential horror film," "The Details" can't quite reach the same level of excellence as The Coen Brothers' recent "A Serious Man," another film about a man being punished (or rewarded) by fate based on his actions. Though this film makes a great argument against cheating, these tonal inconsistencies keep it from being in the same league as some of the dark comedies it emulates. [C+]
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I know it won't be...but I have hopes that this is one of those stoopid funny flicks.
Review: Todd Rohal's Third Feature 'Nature Calls' Is A Dull, Droning Wrong Number | The Playlist
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"Nature Calls" demonstrates yet again that the real question for any bad script is not "Who wrote this garbage?" but, rather, "Who read this garbage and thought it would make a viable way to spend time?" Rohal has a great cast, a great cinematographer and, sure, even an interesting idea -- but he doesn't have the screenwriting skills that would make the film either an engaging drama/comedy with real characters or an over-the-top spoof. Somehow both curdled and undercooked, this film feels like a curiosity more than anything -- and even with Oswalt and Knoxville's star power, it's likely neither to attract an audience nor hold their attention. You can't help but feel that Rohal's film is going to limp around the festival circuit for a while -- there is, of course, a new film festival every three days, but not a new film festival's worth of good movies every three days -- but if you're somehow somewhere it's screening, bluntly, when "Nature Calls," hang up. [D]
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I had seen [director] Todd Rohal's earlier films. He has an almost unique-to-a-fault view of the world and filmmaking. With this film, I think he was trying to do something a little more mainstream. But that attempt, when put through his filter, made it so much more bizarre. I was intrigued by the idea of being the calm center in the middle of a lot of hysteria from other characters—from both my enemies and my allies. The other thing that seduced me was that there was a Bad News Bears feel to it, and I thought maybe it would find a way to filter through the film. I don't know how successful they were at doing that, but I would always rather shoot for something unique and fail than do a script because I feel like they're hitting all the right mainstream beats. It certainly wasn't a boring experience for me.
This is actually a really good read, by the way.
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Anybody see Babymakers yet? Their previous movie?
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MacFarlane now has a bit of clout in choosing his next project, and it appears that he's going an original Western comedy that he co-wrote with Ted/Family Guy writers Alec Sulkin and Wellesley Wild called A Million Ways to Die in the West. Hit the jump for more.
Per Heat Vision, MacFarlane plans to direct and star in the live-action film, which is said to be in the vein of Blazing Saddles. The pic is described as "a Western with contemporary humor, with one undercurrent being just how dangerous and painful life really was in the late 1800s."
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Warner Bros. is reportedly in negotiations to pick up Get Hard, a comedy pitch that would be developed as a star vehicle for funnymen Will Ferrell (Anchorman) and Kevin Hart (The 40 Year Old Virgin). The picture would star Ferrell as a milquetoast but rich investment bank manager who gets wrongly convicted of a crime and sentenced to a maximum security prison. He then hires a street-smart guy (Hart), who normally washes his car, in order to prepare for doing hard time in thirty days.


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ARRL HandbookThe 2014 ARRL Handbook
ARRL Centennial Edition
-- Book with CD-ROM
Softcover Editions Available.Order Now >
100 Years of Advancing the Art and Science of Radio
This 91st edition of The ARRL Handbook for Radio Communications marks a milestone: the 2014 ARRL Centennial. For 100 years, ARRL has been at the forefront of promoting technical advancement and improvements in radio operating practices. And since 1926, The ARRL Handbook has defined the latest innovations in the field of applied electronics and communications. The Handbook is written by radio amateurs…for radio amateurs, experimenters, engineers and students.
Commemorative hardcover edition:
- Gold foil/embossed hardcover
- Personalized with your NAME and CALL SIGN
- Each copy is imprinted with a serial number
- Major new edition: components, new projects, latest technology
- CD-ROM included—a fully searchable digital edition
Always Revised! This edition has been extensively updated and revised.
New Projects
- A one- or two-tube linear amp for beginning builders
- VHF and UHF signal sources
- QSK controllers for amplifiers (analog and digital)
New Information
- MOSFET design for power amplifiers
- Telemetry and navigation data including GPS
- Oscillators and synthesizers
- Current battery technology
- The new Codec2 software for HF digital voice
- New material on microwave techniques
- Annual transceiver model review
…and more!
CD-ROM Inside — includes all of the fully searchable text and illustrations in the printed book, as well as expanded supplemental content, software, PC board templates and other support files.
Product Details
1312 pages
Publisher: The American Radio Relay League, Inc.; Ninety-First Edition/First Printing (October 2013)
Language: English
Softcover Edition: ISBN: 978-1-62595-000-7
Shipping Weight: 5.50 pounds
Product Dimensions: 8 3/16 x 10 7/8 inches
What is Amateur (Ham) Radio?
Fundamental Theory
Electrical Fundamentals
Analog Basics
Digital Basics
Practical Design and Principles
RF Techniques
Computer-Aided Circuit Design
Power Supplies
Oscillators and Synthesizers
Mixers, Modulators and Demodulators
RF and AF Filters
DSP and Software Radio Design
Digital Modes
RF Power Amplifiers
Antenna Systems and Radio Propagation
Propagation of Radio Signals
Transmission Lines
Equipment Construction and Maintenance
Component Data and References
Construction Techniques
Station Accessories
Test Equipment and Measurements
Troubleshooting and Maintenance
RF Interference
Station Assembly and Management
Assembling a Station
Welcome to the 91st edition — the 2014 ARRL Handbook! In this ARRL centennial year, you'll find the book contains up-to-date information on the latest amateur technologies, along with solid and reliable electronic information that has been an integral part of the hobby through the decades. You'll particularly enjoy a special graphic-filled Handbook history written specially for this edition by one of the ARRL's favorite authors and editors, Joel Hallas, W1ZR. Complemented by a CD-ROM that is full of supplemental articles and projects, this edition has plenty for every ham.
We've updated many of the chapters — three-quarters of them have new or rewritten sections to keep them up-to-date. And there is an addition to the Handbook family — a completely new chapter on Telemetry and Navigation! Written by experts Paul Verhage, KD4STH, and Bill Brown, WB8ELK, this chapter is going to grow along with the rapid increase in the use of Amateur Radio in partnership with scientific experiments on land, sea, and in the atmosphere and even in space.
Key updates include the new material on batteries and battery charging in the Power Sources chapter — renamed to reflect the broad range of ways in which we get power for our radios. The Oscillators and Synthesizers chapter has been updated by industry expert Earl McCune, WA6SUH. To help out on the repair bench, the Troubleshooting and Maintenance chapter has been updated and reorganized to address the current needs of amateurs.
Speaking of that CD-ROM, more and more material is added to this valuable resource every year, including the full text and graphics from the current edition as convenient and searchable PDF files. This year, we've made a special effort to make sure you'll want to open the envelope inside the back cover and install it on your computer right away. There are more projects than ever on the CD-ROM, full construction details to complete projects in the printed book, and supporting articles that extend the technical material of the regular chapters.
Here are some highlights of what you'll find on this year's CD-ROM:
- W1ZR's annual transceiver model review organized by type and frequency coverage — if you are considering purchasing a radio, this is a great place to start!
- Historical development of amateur receivers and transmitters — W1ZR explains how our radio designs came to be as various challenges and needs were met.
- Jim Tonne, W4ENE, has contributed the latest amateur versions of his professional filter design software, ELSIE, along with several other filter and filter-related programs. We are once again very fortunate to include such high-quality software tools.
- Chapters providing operating guidance and station information on Space Communications by Joe Taylor, K1JT, and Steve Ford, WB8IMY; Digital Communications by Steve Ford, WB8IMY; and Image Communications by Tom O'Hara, W6ORG, and Dave Jones, KB4YZ
- Projects have been added throughout the Handbook but the new ones on the transmit side are sure to catch your eye:
- The Everyham's Amplifier — a simple and flexible design by John Stanley, K4ERO, that is within reach of beginning builders who would like to add some output power to their signal.
- QSK Controllers for Amplifiers — one is an analog design by Jim Colville, W7RY, that can be adapted to many common linear amplifiers. The companion Arduino-based design by Paul Christensen, W9AC, provides the ultimate in flexibility.
- VHF signal sources by long-time amateur design guru Rick Campbell, KK7B, are a great way to start your 6 meter or 2 meter project.
- In addition, on the CD-ROM, you'll find a set of VHF/UHF amplifier designs from the pages of QST and Ham Radio magazine.
Even after more than 90 editions, the ARRL Handbook continues to pursue its mission of providing a technical reference for hams of all interests and abilities. Whether you choose to pursue public service communications, engage in technical experimentation, hone your operating skills, or just explore the magic of wireless communication, "the Handbook" has a place in your library and at your workbench.
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On rare years when the conditions are right in the arid landscape of the Badlands, in the American West, wildflowers burst into a display of colour for just a few days.
The vegetation in the region has adapted to the climate, with just a small amount of moisture the desert can become coloured with sweeping fields of Scorpion Weed, Beeplant and the flowers of the Pincushion Cacti. These blooms can be very short-lived to conserve moisture.
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I really don't know much about security, at all. It's a big field touching almost every aspect of computing, and I only occasionally get some exposure to it, as part of my WebGL work.
But recently, I've come across some browser security articles (like this and this) that paint a picture of browser security that can't even accommodate the few examples I've personally had to deal with. Indeed, they tend to reduce browser security to just a couple of aspects:
- Arbitrary code execution
- Information leakage across browser tabs
So they proceed to judge browser security based only on a few features revolving around these two aspects, chief among which are sandboxing and process separation.
These aspects of security sure are very important and interesting, but do they really deserve to be glorified as the end-all and be-all of security?
In my limited experience with WebGL, these aspects have indeed sometimes shown up in certain bugs we've fixed, like certain crashes involving heap corruption. We took them very seriously and rated them as 'critical' because theoretically, well, they are the kind of bugs that can lead to arbitrary code execution. In practice however, we haven't, as far as I know, seen any of them actually exploited, and for good reason: a majority of them are probably not practically exploitable, all the more since techniques such as ASLR and DEP are used. More importantly, these bugs have been easy to fix, so they just got fixed before they could get widely exploited.
So what I want to talk about here is other categories of bugs I've encountered around WebGL, that were not as easy to fix.
Example 1: cross-domain information leakage
There was a flaw in the 1.0.0 version of the WebGL spec, which Firefox 4 followed, that led to a cross-domain information leakage vulnerability. Details are given on that page; let's just say here that it allowed a malicious script from one domain to read back images from other domains, which is a serious concern; that vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 5, but that was heart-breaking as the fix involved disallowing the use of cross-domain images in WebGL, which broke some legitimate Web pages. A way forward has since been implemented.
There are plenty of examples of cross-domain information leakage vulnerabilities; they are a key part of the Web landscape as they often shape the boundaries of what's doable and what isn't (read this). For example, they are the reason why we can't allow regular Web pages to render other Web pages inside of WebGL scenes, and beyond WebGL, they are now a key technical challenge for CSS Shaders. In addition to shaping new Web specifications, they also make some optimizations unsafe to use in, say, Canvas 2D implementations.
Perhaps it's worth underlining the fact that information leakage across domains has little to do with information leakage across tabs, which is why process separation is mostly irrelevant here. The above-mentioned cross-domain leakage vulnerability required only one browser tab to exploit. Indeed, the test case had only one canvas; even if some exploit ever used two canvases from two different domains, they could still be put in iframes in a single Web page.
Example 2: browser or driver bugs exposing video memory
We've seen (and fixed!) a few bugs whereby it was possible, through WebGL, to get read access to random parts of video memory.
Sometimes it was our fault (like this one): we weren't correctly programming the graphics system to clear new surfaces, so they still contained contents from earlier usage of that memory area.
Sometimes it was the driver's fault (like this one and this one) where, despite us correctly programming the graphics system to clear our video memory, it gets it a bit wrong and you end up with your Terminal window painted inside a 3D scene. Regardless, it is the browser's duty to ensure that such bugs don't affect the user as a result of browsing. That latter bug is why we blacklisted Mac OS 10.5 for WebGL, but the other one affects newer OSes, so I encourage all users to ensure that they are on the latest stable version of their favorite browser, which has a work-around
Example 3: client denial-of-service
Denial-of-service vulnerabilities are a very big deal for servers, because for ill-intentioned people, there can be profit in taking down a server in this way. In the case of clients (like Web browsers), the profitability of a denial-of-service (DoS) attack is much more limited, or even inexistant in many cases. We don't see a lot of Web pages trying to DoS your browser, because all they would gain from it is… that you wouldn't visit them again.
The existence of DoS vulnerabilities in the Web platform has been a reality forever, and there aren't great solutions to avoid that. For example, a script can allocate a lot of memory, denying other programs on your computer the "service" of having that memory available to them; and if the browser decided to limit how much memory a script can use, that would certainly collide with legitimate use cases, and there would still be plenty of other DoS vulnerabilities not involving scripts at all. Fun experiment: on a browser that does hardware-accelerated rendering, which will soon be all browsers, try to saturate video memory with a Web page containing lots of large image elements.
WebGL, like every other 3D API since OpenGL 1.1 was released in 1997 with the "vertex arrays" feature, has a specific DoS vulnerability: it allows script to "hog" the GPU, which is particularly annoying as today's GPUs are not preemptible. Modern OSes have mechanisms to reset the graphics driver when it's been frozen for a couple seconds, but many drivers still respond poorly to that (crash). It's sad, but we haven't seen this hurting many users in the real world, and at least this has led to good conversations with GPU vendors and as a result, things are improving, albeit slowly.
Those are the three worst kinds of WebGL-related vulnerabilities that I've personally had to deal with. The security techniques, that some people think are the Apha and the Omega of browser security, are irrelevant to them. I don't mean that these techniques (sandboxing, process separation…) are useless in general — they are extremely useful in general, but just are useless for the particular kinds of security bugs that have been scariest in my own limited experience. This means that browser security does not boil down to just these techniques, as the security articles, that I linked to at the beginning of this post, would have you believe.


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For those who are unused to the place of Tradition in the understanding and interpretation of the Christian faith, it is easy to assume that Tradition is simply an additional set of texts to be read alongside and in addition to Scripture. There are certainly texts which belong to Tradition (indeed the Church would consider the texts of Scripture itself to be part of Tradition). The teachings of the Apostles were "handed down" to us – which is the simple meaning of the word paradosis, Greek for "tradition."
I recall Stanley Hauerwas at Duke using the example of brick-laying to illustrate the nature of tradition. It is a skill that can be taught up to a certain point – but finally can only be mastered by working with a master brick mason. It is a skill that is "handed down." In point of fact, most human learning has something of this element.
You go to high school and college – perhaps even graduate school. However, once you find yourself in the world of work, having to apply things that have been learned, tradition becomes essential. Theory and practice are separate experiences. My father received training as an aircraft mechanic during the Second World War. He became an auto mechanic after the war. The training was somewhat transferrable. His father was also a mechanic – but one who had no training. He learned by experience and the tradition that is the practice of being a mechanic. Both were very intelligent men and quite skilled in their field. But they knew things that were never taught in school.
We learn to cook in the same manner – a recipe never being sufficient of itself. Such examples could be almost endlessly multiplied. It is essential to human life and always has been.
The Christian life is no different – for it is not a set of ideas to be memorized – but a life to be lived. For this reason, Christ had disciples. For this reason the Church had a catechumenate that often lasted for three years. We learn the Christian life by doing it. We learn to pray by praying and praying along with those who know how to pray. We read Scripture with those who have read it before us and from them we learn how it is that a Christian reads Scripture. Those who have not been trained in such a manner are like children building a house with bricks. They may have the proper ingredients – but the result is likely to be a house that falls down.
Modernity has an assumption that those who live in the present always know more than those who have gone before us. Thus we always expect our children to be able to program a digital clock when an adult cannot.
I have taught four children how to drive. It is a tradition. Over the years I hope to have taught them how to live the Christian life. It is a tradition. To learn from a tradition requires a humility and a recognition that not everything worth knowing can be expressed in words. It requires that we accept that a disciple is not greater than his master. The child is not greater than the adult.
As the bumper sticker says: "If you can read this – thank a teacher."
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I have been a teacher of literacy and I now teach literacy teachers. We have a saying in our tradition – "A love for reading is caught, not taught". Your post reminded me of this saying, but also made me think about the necessity of loving tradition in order to learn to live tradition (or loving the person who is sharing the tradition, or being loved by the person who loves/lives the tradition). This saying is not intended to set up a false dichotomy – direct teaching of theory/skills vs contextualized practice – however it does highlight something quite 'magical' about the process, something beyond our control and yet within our grasp.
Thank you for this helpful and thought provoking post!
I love the picture… and this post. I try to explain tradition but always fall short. THANKS!
Father, I have learned much from your blog, and I have struggled for a long time with the decision, if it is that, to become an Orthodox Christian. It is because of what you wrote in this post that I have not yet made that decision. It is a daily struggle for me, because I have received so much from my own teachers and pastors. I have also received much from the fathers of the Church and other Orthodox Christians, including yourself through your own posts. How do I give up everything I have received throughout my entire life for another tradition, even if I have come to believe that Orthodox Christianity is that tradition which is the true, apostolic tradition?
Hi Sandra
As one who has come through the other side of that decision, for me, it has not been essentially a matter of giving things up. I see it as being a fulfillment of all that I was taught and given. This was a struggle for me too, as there was much that was rich and good in the traditions in which I was brought up. I had thought initially that joining the Orthodox Church would mean denying the good in my history. While there has been considerable sifting through of old ways of thinking about and living the faith (and more sifting and sorting to do), I don't feel a sense of denial of all that came before, but of integrating that history into a new whole. It took awhile to come to this sense though.
Sandra, having left behind different Christian traditions as well to become Orthodox, I am very conscious of having been led to this place as much because of the truth and examples of faith I have received from others outside of the Orthodox Church as I have been compelled by an attraction to a fullness within Orthodoxy I could not find anywhere else. ISTM that the goodness of God means that anytime someone seeks Him with sincerity, the Holy Spirit acts and imparts grace and wisdom to the extent that person is willing to receive it. I think it would be correct to say that this, too, is a manifestation of the Tradition. Insofar as there are beliefs, attitudes of heart, and practices upheld by Christians outside of the Orthodox Church that are in agreement with Orthodoxy, there is something of the Tradition there as well (just not in its completeness). ISTM that becoming an Orthodox Christian can be as much a fulfillment of the best that you have received from your non-Orthodox Christian background as it is a repentance from what within those traditions ultimately runs counter to the Tradition in its fullness.
Thank you as always Fr Stephen. Your reference to the 3-year catechumenate makes me wonder how you proceed with inquirers and catechumens in your parish church. My Orthodox godparents and I were taught individually by a priest and felt blessed to have our instruction be tailored to our spiritual state (which apparently was the case in the pre-Vatican II Catholic church as well. Recently our parish started having group classes taught by a deacon to foster a sense of community among newcomers over a specified period somewhat like RCIA post Vatican II classes. Just wondering about your thoughts and mode of teaching Thanks!
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These last few posts have been like a mini catachesis for me. Thank you for your reflections.
GREAT job on describing the importance of tradition in the Church. I always grieve for people who have no use for tradition, regarding it as a set of meaningless rules, or worse, something handed down to perpetuate the "power" of "patriarchal restrictions on women." Thanks, Father!
Thank you Father Stephen for this post. I look back with a bit of chagrin at my question in one of my first classes asking for a list of traditions and being told one cannot list them. Further study and reading have shown me the role tradition has played in handing down person by person and generation by generation our Christian life.
As to the question of leaving one body of Christians for another, which I have done very recently into Orthodoxy, I would suggest that perhaps the best way to look at this is to think about where God wants us to be. When we turn our lives over to him, we have to learn to think about where He thinks we should be not where we think we should be. Where do you want me to be, God? is the question to ask. He deploys believers where He needs them.
Father, bless.
Is there an Orthodox Christian oral tradition which provides biblical background details analogous to that of the Jews? I'm thinking of things such as the fact that Isaac was in his thirties at the time when he was brough up to be sacrificed by Abraham, which I have heard from both a Jewish rabbi and an Orthodox Christian priest. If so, where can we find these details?
Dear Father, bless!
Recently you made a comment with respect to Trinitarian doctrine to the effect that for most western Christians, if God were viewed as a simple unity as in the other monotheistic faiths such as Judaism and Islam, it would not greatly affect their approach to Christian life and ministry, but if that were to happen in Orthodoxy, it would undermine the very foundations of our faith. I have been looking for that reference without success. Do you perhaps remember where this was (or what you said)?
Dear father,
Please I need some insight about the difference between will and feelings.
Sorry I cannot discern. I found myself so easely entangled by my feelings I am afraid they define me. And also it is difficult for me to understand how the human identity differs from both memory and feelings.
What happens to a person like myself whose memories are quite troubling and whose feelings resort lately to sadness and anger.
I fight so strong against them and eventually it seems I win. But I found myself distrusting my will because even when deciding to look at life with hope it seems to me this "willful decision" has "lesser value" that the ever-present landscape of rebelious feelings.
Thank you very much.
Karen's question reminded me of an aspect of Tradition that I often reflect on. We cross ourselves a lot in Orthodoxy. There may be rubrics written somewhere for this but mainly we learn how and when to do so by Tradition, by observing and doing. This simple yet profound act is a constant affirmation of the Trinity as well as of the Cross and our devotion to Christ. Most protestant groups have lost this traditional practice, and I believe it is not coincidental that many have also lost a firm grip on Trinitarian doctrine. By cementing doing and believing together into a seamless whole, Tradition preserves the Faith once for all delivered to the saints.
As a male unmarried convert (who is also painfully shy), I accept the point of this post but it makes me want to scream. My parish is overwhelmingly ethnic and made up of families with children. The entire life of the parish centers around passing the faith and the culture on to the next generation, which is commendable, but which doesn't include me. If I submit to the purgatory (sorry, toll-house) of "coffee and donuts," people are polite, but after being a member of this parish for a couple of years now I still feel like a visitor. And the other Orthodox parishes in the area I've attended are more or less the same. I have a good prayer rule to which I adhere and I attend the liturgy every Sunday and when I am able on feast days during the week. But if Orthodox is a religion that you learn to practice by being part of a community then I am afraid I will never be Orthodox.
Think of yourself as a pioneer. As an Orthodox convert in your area you are breaking new ground; it is never easy being a pioneer, and it's unfortunate in your area there are not any *blended* Orthodox parishes. (Picture a classroom full of first-grade readers with a second-grade teacher . . . yikes! Or the reverse, a reading group for the elderly, with a cataract-geriatric leader.)
Balance within the Orthodox faith is key. traditions pass to those new to the Faith from those born to the Faith, alongside insights drawn from those with varied Christian backgrounds – this brings a richness to Orthodoxy.
This is a new stage for Orthodoxy in America. Dice it up however you want, but this is what you've got . . . and stirring it all together takes effort and awareness from all sides.
Geography plays a role in all this, particularly in America. In the South, parishes are often heavily convert and more or less easily adopt new members. It's harder in other situations. Being painfully shy increases the difficulty. Your priest or confessor should be a primary help.
Part of the problem, it seems to me, is that apart from the celebration of the sacraments, the principle function of most Orthodox parishes is social and cultural rather than religious. For example, at my parish, there is a once a week Bible study conducted during the week, when most people are at work. That suggests to me that it is primarily for retirees who need something to do. There is very little in the way of adult education and with respect to what exists I get the sense that the classes and lectures are primarily an excuse for people who already know each other to meet and socialize afterwards. I want to make friends, but I would like the basis of the friendship to be the Orthodox faith rather than my kids or my Arabic surname (and I don't have either). You mention speaking to my priest or spiritual director. My parish has two priests who from what I can see do most of the work for a large affluent parish. And since I work even scheduling an appointment to see a priest for more than fifteen minutes is difficult. I love the Orthodox faith and I'm not going anywhere but there don't seem to me to be any obvious solutions.
I feel a bit like you do already. I only recently began attending an ethnic Orthodox church in the next city. I am fortunate that there is one. I try to remember that. There is much it seems that I may never feel at home with there. But much that I do. I am thankful for the latter. The latter may be enough.
Parish experience varies widely. Thus we can't say "most Orthodox parishes" based on the experience of a few.
Tradition is a thorny issue for us moderns – it is often thought of as to merely deal with what we deem to be non-essential, arbitrary or unimportant – such as dress codes, liturgical rubrics, titles and so forth. So we ignore, change or discard at will. But this overlooks the central issue regarding Tradition which is one of utmost importance to Christians – authority. Someone asked earlier, "why do you take the body and blood passages literally and not the cut off the hand/foot texts?" – and we can respond with various reasons that seem right and "make sense" to us. There is certainly nothing wrong in exploring these and other questions. But for Orthodox Christians, however, the answer ultimately comes down to Tradition, a living Tradition which we believe is the witness and work of the Holy Spirit Himself. Our faith is in the Living God who works in His Church throughout the ages. By rejecting Tradition we reject God Himself.
I'm sorry, Father. I didn't mean to make you defensive. When I spoke of most Orthodox parishes, I was of course referring to my own experience and to the experiences of those Orthodox people I have known. I have no other basis for judgment.
Fr. thank you for this post, it is very thoughtful. With your permission I would like to use it in our monthly Bulletin if you don't mind.
Fr. Vasile,
I'd be honored.
I have spent most of my Orthodox time in a middle eastern church. They seem to be nice folks but never seemed to interested in learning my name. So I learned their's and it freaked them out a bit when I approached them and called them by their name. I still have a hard time pronouncing many names and in when I see them in written form, I've got no chance. I'm in an accepting mode and have decided that the food is excellent and the sacraments are even better. Hang in there dude.
It can be hard to learn to love those around us. Sometimes the most difficult people we encounter are our brothers and sisters in Christ that comprise our home parish community. Many prayers for all who find themselves feeling adrift.
Ron & etc –
Perhaps I can address the difficulties of bridging cultural differences, since I'm of Middle Eastern descent (although I'm born and raised here in USA, and frankly some Arabic culture still puzzles me).
First, I agree there is a huge social component at Church, which I often struggle with as well (yep, it's the truth). When I'm at Church, I'm there for Church, and when I'm at the various other spots my life takes me I'm a chatterbox. But I'm at Church for Church, and not best friends, coffee, or much else.
So sorry to admit, but because I attend Church with some folks they may be an odd bunch and we have Church in common and perhaps not much else. But, the big difference for me is I have a huge (HUGE) Orthodox family and it provides a huge (HUGE) community of Orthodoxy, although not in the same town as me.
But I've always felt Church is a place of Worship, the other bells and whistles are extras. In fact, I love attending various Churches where I can slip in the back unnoticed and worship in wonderful anonymous peace.
Forgive me for my ramblings . . .
but I'm a chatterbox
Just to be up front about my background, I'm Protestant, although I've been looking at Orthodoxy quite a bit in the past several years. This is a great post on the need for tradition, but I don't know if it sufficiently deals with the fact of innovation. One might even say the need for innovation. Teaching your children how to drive was an interesting example, because though it is a tradition, it is not a very old one; it is based on an innovation that is hardly more than 100 years old.
This quote was very interesting: "Modernity has an assumption that those who live in the present always know more than those who have gone before us. Thus we always expect our children to be able to program a digital clock when an adult cannot."
The "always" in this assumption is plainly wrong, for reasons I can agree with you on. But the following statement is a fact, not an assumption: newer generations can do some things that older generations couldn't. Of course we must give credit to older generations for passing down their knowledge to us, or else we wouldn't be able to come up with new innovations.
It seems to me that innovation is part of any robust tradition. I celebrate the fact that the Protestant tradition of which I am a part can look back at the traditions which got us to where we are, yet always have an eye on how to refine these traditions or apply them in new ways. How do the Orthodox view innovation? Is it part of the tradition? Does each individual have a part to play in moving the tradition forward?
Orthodoxy does not see Tradition as an artifact of human culture. It sees Tradition as the living presence of God in His Church.
You may be a convert, and I certainly sympathize with your situation, but one thing is certain: if you are communing in the Body and Blood of Christ as member of His Body, the Church, you ARE an Orthodox Christian. It is not a question of whether you'll ever be one; you already ARE.
Sure, you may have much to learn or unlearn. Who among us doesn't? I've been a convert for many, many years. I, too, am somewhat shy and often feel like a visitor even among those I have come to know well. And I'm still learning and unlearning on the level of the heart. Sometimes this occurs in prayer, sometimes by the silent leadership of holy people, other times by merely being attentive to how the hymns of the Church reveal her understanding of Scripture, as well as countless other ways including this blessed blog which has corrected me on many occasions. It is often a painfully slow process.
But just as a child is fully human and fully a member of the family at conception while he also grows and is nurtured within the family , so all those baptized into to Christ have put on Christ in His fullness while also having the unlimited capacity for growth into the likeness of God as sons in His family.
You ARE an Orthodox Christian and a full participant in the Living Tradition of the Church.
This post reminded me of the song Tradition from Fiddler on the Roof.
I have tried to think about the meaning of the word discipleship, a word that is thrown about rather casually in most Christian circles. I think the word is misused. Discipleship has nothing to do with most of what goes on in an American church. Actually, I think the word as it should be used, describes the relationship between instructor and student in a traditional marital arts environment. If we consider the Mideast and the model of Jesus, we see an itinerant preacher/spiritual master select a number of students, disciples. He then over the course of several years transfers a body of knowledge and power to his pupils. He does this by verbal instruction but more importantly, the students and the master live together, eat together, sleep together, and practice together.
It is more than any structured learning experience, the master and the student share a life. It is a dangerous relationship. The master has so much power in this relationship it can be misused. The student has invested so much emotional energy in the master that any sense of betrayal can have cataclysmic lifetime consequences.
It seems to me that the disciples of Jesus really didn't get the "verbal instruction" even up to the end. What seemed to really get them to a new level was the resurrection as they had pretty much cut and run when things got dicy, i.e. Jesus' arrest and death. So much for attained knowledge. But when the incarnate God came forth from the grave and reclaimed the world there was a huge shift in understanding. By the way, who is Steve?
Before the resurrection the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name, but I must agree that when God incarnate came forth from the grave there was a huge shift in understanding.
Steve would be the author of this blog, a good and holy man who I have been privileged to know and call friend for about 38 years.
That's a good point regarding the seventy and their pre-resurrection experience. I guess I would add that it wasn't knowledge that got them "jacked up" but rather the demonstration of power of Jesus given them by proxy that stirred them.
Yes, that Father Stephen. I've not had the chance to meet him but appreciate his humility, gentleness and wisdom. After recently being drawn into the Holy Apostolic Catholic Church I humbly refer to him as Father Stephen out of respect and his divinely appointed assignment.
Have a great day brother Henry.
America is a melting pot society in terms of religion and culture; Orthodox Christians have traditionally shared both their religion and culture. Being Orthodox Christian was just part of who you were – another layer of skin, or integrated into your heart. Thus the whole family sense within The Church.
Understanding tradition is essential to Orthodoxy, though American traditions for Orthodoxy are in a state of flux. Americans somehow have a way of *improving* most of what they tackle – maybe franchising it in a mass market manner.
Move slow, be patient, and handle with care the traditions of the past, because now we share our American culture.
There is an important distinction between Tradition and tradition(s). It's getting all mixed up in the discussion. Truly this is a difficult subject.
Tradition, as Fr. Stephen pointed out is "the living presence of God in His Church." Therefore it is not a set of rules. Neither is it a specific set of behaviors. However, we are not free to change it at our whim or for our convenience, it should change us as we internalize it.
The issue of the American spirit of 'improving' everything can be a difficulty.
Hi, all,
Writing to at least resonate/commiserate with Rob the "unmarried convert's" comment. I've been a practicing Orthodox Christian, by God's grace, for about 25 years. I still feel somewhat isolated, having experienced a variety of parish disintegrations, jurisdictional battles, etc., etc.; plus the bare fact of there not being a whole lot of parishes to choose from, if one is Orthodox.
It raises a philosophical/theological question: how important is community? One might say: well, important — but not as important as the Truth. Then there are those who would say that even desiring a community can be a huge "temptation."
I'm not sure. When a particular way of belief — even Orthodox belief — fails to illuminate, or discover, any kind of real community in a physical sense, how long can one hold onto Truth before that itself becomes a bare idea? One does want a community that is open, friendly, and with at least one or two people that one might want to socialize with outside of church. Is there something wrong with that? Could one be faulted for actually looking for that kind of community at the expense of what others might call "truth"?
This is the kind of tension one finds between such sayings as "judge not" and "by their fruits ye shall know them."
Very helpful artcle, Father Stephen! I think this understanding of tradition is either misunderstood or missing in our society.
I also like Henry's description of discipleship
Lots of food for thought here, and helpful explanations for conversations with friends and family!
Intentional, physical community is rare in the Orthodox world in the U.S. in my experience. It does occur BUT, the ones I've seen are either formed after the old world family/village model. It is difficult for converts to integrate into these types of communities or folks who have converted largely intact from another faith tradition of some sort. It is nice, but I am coming to believe the longer I am Orthodox, secondary.
The real community is in and through the Eucharist. It connects us to one another in a real and vital way across time and space even when it goes largely unacknowledged. It is participated in by participating in the fundmental disciplines of the Church: prayer (corporate and private), fasting, almsgiving and repentance.
To seek the first type of community at the expense of the second would be a grave mistake IMO since it is largely ephemeral even when it is really good. The Truth is, after all, the person of Jesus Christ–union with Him is eternal and unlikely to be experience outside the Church (especially once one has been baptized/Chrismated into the Church).
To work within the second to create a sub-community that includes others who are non-Orthodox (perhaps) is not a bad thing. Family is still the core community whether it is natural, adoptive, or created by other means such as evangelizing (not proseltyzing); shared interests with friends, etc. To create such a community where one is not given takes effort–going beyond oneself and one's comfort zones. It necessarily includes empathies other than faith.
Thank you to all those who have responded to my original comment. Part of the irony of my situation is that I left a church where I felt a lot less lonely than I do now in order to become Orthodox. But returning to my original communion is not an option because regardless of the problems I am in love with Orthodoxy. (Some days I'm not so crazy about God, but I'm in love with Orthodoxy.) But I am deeply aware that it is difficult to practice Orthodoxy alone. Fasting and almsgiving it seems to me are easier to practice in the context of a community than alone, even if the community is only a couple of close friends. I am not very good at making myself do things I don't want to do if I am doing them alone. At this point I just keep repeating my favorite Orthodox prayer (the one that includes the phrase "whether I will it or not, save me O Lord") and hope that the Lord has a high tolerance for spiritual mediocrity.
Ron, I was struck by the way you described days when you may not be crazy about God, but love Orthodoxy. I'm not Orthodox and it's still not at all clear to me if there's a time when I will be or not. But I find again and again that the Orthodox describe the God who eventually drew me into Christianity. I suppose I am "crazy" about that God. At least I have been drawn to him in ways that broached all my defenses. But I've not really found anything "new" in Orthodoxy. Instead, I've discovered a Christian tradition that again and again describes the God I encountered. Fr. Stephen's post to the memory of Donald Sheehan was the first time I knew of anyone else who prayed the Jesus Prayer before they even knew it was a prayer tradition or anything about Orthodoxy. I find Orthodoxy compelling, but only because they actually describe the God who drew me to him. So I would tend to say the opposite. I'm crazy about God. Orthodoxy (or specifically the prospect of becoming Orthodox) presents … problems.
Pray for the members of the church. Pray for them like it's your job. Because it is. You will discover that the people are beautiful and are just trying to get along in this world and aren't really trying to out-Greek you or out-culture you. It's just all they know. It's not a den of lions.
They are there for your salvation. Be courageous and don't be afraid: you're just as Orthodox as anyone else.
I speak as one who recently left a very friendly OCA parish for a not-as-friendly ethnic Greek church. It's not easy, but anywhere can be heaven when you're Orthodox.
Psalm 85:11 pretty much sums up the true definition of spiritual excellence (In The Orthodox Study Bible: "I will give thanks to You, O Lord my God, with my whole heart . . ."), as exemplified by the "Eucharistic" offering of the poor widow in Mark 12:41-44.
A few years ago i moved to a new town and started looking for a new church to attend. I am Protestant and in my mid twenties and I realized that I had no interest in looking for a church with a pastor past his thirties. I wanted a church that was young and thought about and understood the world like I do. However, i began to realize how unbalanced and arrogant my thinking was that i couldn't be taught by those who came before me.
At the same time I was attending seminary at an evangelical school. I was getting teaching across the Protestant spectrum and became more and more frustrated that it was up to me to pick and choose what i thought was right from the many perspectives. So many disagreements and everyone was basically just figuring it out as they went along. New innovations in theology such as open theism were supported by some and deemed heretical ny others in the school. The defenders took pride that the reformers were once called heretics too and searched for evidence of historical groups with similar beliefs that had been "squashed" by the church.
i began to feel like Protestantism was lacking any legitimate authoricenters center to hold it together. I began to look back to try to find a center or authority and began to discover the orthodox church. I asked professors for more information about the eastern church but they could tell me very little. So i looked myself and began to read and discover. The Tradition of the church was exactly what i was looking for and found missing in Protestantism but is also still something that gives me great difficulty in seeking. I am not orthodox yet for a number of reasons but I hope to be someday.
Now I still struggle with the tension between tradition and innovation. There's a lot of tension in Protestant churches between holding onto traditional forms of worship and innovating to keep up with peoples preferences and cultural understandings. Orthodoxy doesn't struggle with this issue so much because it has a respect for tradition yet there has been innovation in worship as orthodoxy has moved into new cultures. Such as western rite liturgies. Is the church just slower to innovate than protetant churches and does this fear of innovation create a safety mechanism? Do the option of church splits and lack of authority structure in Protestant churches create easier innovation? Will orthodoxy slowly take a "more western" feel of worship in America? Is this even possible? The more I understand about orthodoxy the more i think it cannot be understood from any sort of western cultural understanding.
Orthodoxy is still examining the "Western Rite" but does not yet have a real consensus on the matter. It is not seen as a necessary accommodation to Western culture. The liturgy does undergo some evolution over the centuries, remaining faithful to what has been received. Orthodoxy will doubtless have some things about it that are uniquely "American" as it takes root in our culture – but I seriously doubt this will be marked by huge innovations in the liturgy. I certainly pray that there will be no such innovations.
Just wondering if maybe my question got lost…
Alex, sorry. The question got sort of buried. There is no single source on such items of tradition. The fragments of Papias have some interest. The History of the Church by Eusebius also has a fair amount. Generally, it's scattered across a lot of material – mostly patristic writings. I am not aware of any one place that gathers such things up.
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- Andres Aullet
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Should we teach our kids about how advertisement (public relationships, marketing) works?
Let's face it, advertisement works.
But let's also admit it, it is not as simple as a creative ad shown during the superbowl or a picture on a magazine that we find funny and incidentally reminds us of some particular brand of chips, or insurance company.
As far as i know (admittedly a much more thorough research can be done), advertisement works because it exploits a few flaws in the way our subconscious work:
- we remember things best when emotion is evoked while we learn them (fear, anger, excitement). And this is due to the chemical changes that these emotions induce in our brain.
- we decide mostly with emotions, and not with reason. This seems counter intuitive to most people
- we live with the ever present contradiction of trying to be unique and trying to be like others. We like to be singled out if we are wearing nice clothing, but we hate being singled out if our pants happen to rip.
- being rejected by our peers, or not being part of the in-group we admire, actually hurts, pretty much in the same way (neurologically) as a punch in the stomach hurts
- anything repeated frequently makes a stronger memory, easier to recall, and a memory that is easier to recall is trusted more (and feels more familiar) regardless of it's veracity
- novel experiences are considered riskier than familiar experiences, regardless of their real inherent risk
So all these factors are merged with a product and tweaked to make that product appealing and familiar to us, without us fully understanding why it feels appealing and familiar.
Now, recently the target of the advertising industry are increasingly younger kids. And I would venture to say that if many adults don't fully understand why advertisement works, then even less kids would be expected to know
Should we include in a kids education: at schools, in church sermons, at dinner table conversations, an explanation of what advertisement is and why it works? What would be an argument against teaching this?
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Nov 14 2012: On the power of PR... I'll comment here: Take the videogame industry, I've watched the videogame industry over the last ten years use PR techniques to steal videogame ownership from gamers. See this mans website here: http://store.steampowered.com/
This man (gabe newell of valve/steam) and many in the industry have successfully taken computer programs hostage on the other side of the internet and made them "check in" with their servers (which would have been impossible in a pre internet era, you would GET the software and wouldn't need permission to use it).
If you look at a site like reddit, you see gamers CELEBRATING having their games sabotaged by a gaming corporation that uses it's "digital rights management" (hostage software) to data mine kids and adults who play videogames for "business purposes" (how better to spin PR and exploit them for money).
The videogame industry has redefined broken "get permission" hostage software (games) as a benefit and have young kids and adults alike celebrate being exploited, that's a PR miracle.
Diablo 3 (a game that cuts a chunk out of the software and has it run on servers on the other side of the internet) sold 10 million copies, thats how dumb most people really are they just don't give a crap that they are exploited because their emotions are involved - they've been taught to love their exploitation.
Same thing happens with "MMO's" which is just code for DRM'd role playing games (which used to be single player and you owned them). Corporations have successfully spun them as a "Service" (which technologically from a software standpoint they don't have to be). Paying monthly to play one single videogame (15/month) after you just bought the game for $60 up front, is another PR miracle.
Not only did you PAY for the game, you PAY for the corporation to exploit you and you like it because you are so addicted (it has 8-10 million players still after almost 10 years)
Nov 14 2012: Thank you for taking the time to provide a more in-depth explanation Bob,
While I may not agree with all of it, i do see its value and I will do some reading based on the references you have provided.
My point i guess tries to jump one level down... The actual mechanism that makes people fall prey to manipulation is within our brains, and most of it is not learned, but relies on innate abilities (or disabilities) of our brains to be aware (or not) when we are manipulated.
Awareness goes a long way to reduce the impact, but we cannot change our brain physiology, so we are stuck with having to train every future generation on how to deal with those inefficiencies
I will be back with more comments once i have done some more reading. Thanks again for the pointers
Nov 15 2012: The problem Andres is without the internet they would be forced to sell you the software stand alone, i.e. the only reason they can get away with this is because of technology.
(you should read this by Thomas Babbington Macaulay)
Of course you'd 'disagree' since you are a capitalist, you'd accept anything that exploits others for profit because you have no understanding of copyright law and how it has been infinitely expanded to take away the public domain. Older games should fall into the public domain (source code, etc) but they never do, they are locked up under monopolist copyright law.
Unless the developer has enough power in the relationship and is kind enough to release the source code.
Things like this are impossible for most games:
So you have tonnes of old games that can't be fixed or updated and are confiscated by capitalists. There is no software repair industry because of copyright (monopoly rights) which you blindly protect. You come off as just another ignorant american IMHO. Which you couch in 'reasonable' sounding language because you are just so alarmingly uninformed and unconsciously pro capitalist underneath it all.
Diablo 1 + 2 did not have to get permission from the nanny corporation to be used, they could be modified and used without the internet because people you know PAID FOR IT. Diablo 3 introduced SINGLE PLAYER LAG (latency) that is *breaking* the game on purpose, making it inferior because game corporations desire total authoritarian control and don't give a shit about the right of gamers to own their software.
Corporations now use contract and law to do an end run around individual and civil rights (your rights to own the products you buy).
Gaming culture and the ability of fans to update and fix their old game is stolen from them and the fact you'd "disagree", is just wrong.
Nov 15 2012: Hello Bob,
I did not disagree because i am a capitalist or because i would accept anything that exploit others for profit. I hope you meant that as a generalization, but if you meant that as a description of my own worldview you can go back and read some my opinions and that might drive a different conclusion
I am very aware of the problem with patent and copyright law, and like you, i am always weary when businesses change their model in order to add more strings attached to their products. Diablo 3 is just one example of an increasing trend
Now, regarding online games, I can share with you the experience i have with my kids. They do own console games and some pc games, and from time to time we do the experiment of turning the internet modem off and trying to use both computers and console games as usual.
It is eye opening for them to see how many programs (even simple programs in the computer) are crippled when they are not allowed to "call back home" behind our backs.
And their response is usually one of disgust with the program/game makers: "why do they need us to be connected?" is they immediate question. I usually leave the question lingering in, for them to ponder later
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The oldest roses in the garden are 60 years of age. Mark dug them from his mother's collection when she died in Atherton five years ago. He started collecting most of his other roses 20 to 30 years ago when he and Lane moved to the Scotts Valley property. Because he seldom has a rose die, the only new rose in the garden is a double-blooming red variety called Legend and named after Oprah. It was just starting to open on the day I visited this amazing rose garden.
I asked Mark which rose is his favorite. It was hard to pin him down to just one. The garden is divided into two separate beds. One bed is devoted entirely to roses while another blends roses with other perennials. I admired a large shrub covered with pinkish flowers.
"This is one my most beautiful roses," he said. "It starts out a deep dusty rose then fades to lighter shades as it ages."
Most of the roses in the garden have large ornamental name tags that he purchased online. The sign at the base read Distant Drums.
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Double Delight, like many roses, blooms in cycles. They set buds and bloom for a month, rest for a month, and then set another round of blooms. Mark said he usually gets about three cycles per season. One of his favorite roses will bloom all summer non-stop. Strike it Rich lives up to the name with lovely sherbet-orange flowers.
Mark also likes Black Magic with its deep, reddish-black blooms that last two weeks in the garden, as does another of his favorites, Fame, with pink flowers so bright they are nearly iridescent. With deep yellow blooms, Gold Medal caught my attention. But then I saw St. Patrick with those cool greenish-white blooms. Mark told me that in the white rose department he thinks White Lightnin' is a beautiful rose as is the classic, JFK.
The roses in the Maloney's garden are lush and healthy. What's your secret I asked? Mark smiled and handed me a Rose Garden Calendar he had prepared on his computer for me. In a nutshell this is how he does it.
Late December: Prune heavily down to about 24 inches tall. Early January: spray roses with dormant spray and again in early February. March 1: fertilize and repeat each month through September.
Mark uses a systemic fertilizer which keeps insects at bay. He also uses an acid fertilizer once or twice a year as well as putting banana peels on the surface of the soil for potassium. I laughed when he told me his banana peel tip. I was nearly standing on a blackened peel with sticker still intact when he shared this info.
His other "secrets" include picking off diseased leaves regularly, pruning lightly throughout the year, mulching with several inches of chipped wood and watering with 1 inches of water per rose each week applied in a trough surrounding the shrub.
Mark is a member of American Rose Society with he suggests as a good source of information and also rose recommendations for different areas and climates. He also maintains the roses at the Scott House on Civic Center Drive. So when Mark talks roses, I listen.
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Bel Marra Health, well known for offering high-quality, specially formulated vitamins and nutritional supplements, is reporting on new research that shows how sugar is hiding in more and more unexpected food items, causing people serious health issues.
As Bel Marra Health reports in its article (http://www.belmarrahealth.com/diabetes-2/the-sugar-epidemic-how-it-is-killing-more-than-your-diets/), a recent report actually shows that North American's eat, on average a half of a cup of sugar…every single day. Those amounts are bound to cause problems, but the question becomes, how can one even begin to address the problem if they don't know where all of this bad stuff is hiding?
As the Bel Marra Health article reads, the effect of sugar is more or less the same, whether consuming loads of white sugar, refined sugar, icing sugar or brown sugar, sugar means a spike in blood sugar levels. So one of the most common sugar myths is officially busted, just because if a person is consuming sugar that is brown, doesn't mean that it won't affect blood sugar levels. And high blood sugar is a common complaint due to the issues it creates with insulin, which can do a number on health.
Proper balance of blood sugar is very important, and whether the sugar is brown, or white, it is wrecking havoc on blood sugar levels, which need to be kept in appropriate balance to achieve optimal health.
Another thing to remember is that every time one consumes sugar, not only is blood sugar negatively affected, but the immune system becomes sluggish which can lead to a whole host of other health problems. When the immune system is lagging it can give bacterial and viral infections a chance to thrive.
Spokesperson for Bel Marra Health Dr. Victor Marchione says, "Don't give up the sugar fight, it might appear to be a losing battle of avoidance because of the idea that it is saturated in so many common and uncommon hiding places, but there are other sugar options to sweeten your food so you aren't depriving yourself either. Consider using some natural maple syrup, black strap molasses, agave and honey as refined sugar substitutes."
(SOURCE: "Eur J Public Health", Access to excess: how do adolescents deal with unhealthy foods in their environment?, Dec, 2012)
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Former Western Michigan University and Grand Haven kicker John Potter celebrated his selection in the NFL Draft by going to a job interview Monday in Chicago. The interview was with Red Frog a company that organizes events. He had set up the interview before he got the call from the Buffalo Bills in the 7th round on Saturday. Potter told Red Frog at the interview "I would get a hold of them in about 20 years when I retire (from football)".
The Bills currently have 13 year veteran Rian Lindell on their roster, but Potter hopes to challenge him for the job in preseason and at the very least make the team as a kick off specialist.


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If U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is incapacitated for a period of time and unable to perform her duties, there is no specific set of rules to vacate her seat.
According to the Congressional Research Service:
There is no specific protocol, procedure, or authority set out in the United States Constitution, federal law, or congressional rule for the Senate (or the House) to recognize "incapacity" of a sitting Member and thereby declare a "vacancy" in such office.
Under the general practice and operations in the Senate (as well as in the House), personal "incapacity" of a sitting Member has not generated proceedings to declare the seat vacant.
. . . it would be the particular House of Congress that would have to either declare or, at the least, recognize any such "vacancy" because of any "incapacity" before giving the oath of office and seating anyone presenting himself or herself as having been chosen to fill that seat.
In 1981, Rep. Gladys Noon Spellman of Maryland was re-elected but had a heart attack and fell into a coma before she could take the oath of office. The attending physician of Congress declared "there is no likelihood that she will be able to serve out her term of office." The House adopted a resolution declaring her seat vacant, which triggered the Maryland vacancy provision.
Arizona rules require that a special election must be called within 72 hours of the seat being declared vacant. The winner would fill the seat until 2012, when Giffords' term ends.
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