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NEWBERRY, S.C. – Paced by senior guard Chandler Hash's game-high 33 points, the Anderson men's basketball team opened a three-game South Atlantic Conference road swing by outdueling Newberry, 89-80, Saturday afternoon at Eleazer Arena.
Anderson (15-5, 10-4 SAC) claimed sole possession of second place in the league standings with its season-high sixth straight win and improved to 9-1 away from the Abney Center with its sixth straight road win. The Trojans swept the season series with Newberry (13-5, 9-5 SAC), which has dropped seven straight to Anderson.
The Trojan defense surrendered 18 treys to Newberry, marking the most by an AU opponent this season, but offset the long-range output by out-rebounding the Wolves, 50-33. Anderson shot 45.8 percent (27-of-59) from the field, while Newberry connected on 38 percent (27-of-71).
Hash drained a season-high seven 3-pointers as part of an overall 10-of-18 effort on the night, including 7-of-14 from beyond the arc. He was a perfect 6-of-6 from the free throw line and recorded six rebounds. Senior guard CJ Gleaton notched his sixth double-double of the campaign with 15 points and a game-high 14 rebounds, while equaling a career-best five assists. Junior guard Myson Jones tallied nine points and a pair of assists, while redshirt junior Nick Jackson nearly posted his first double-double with nine points and a career-high nine boards off the bench.
Junior forward Dondray Walker led the Newberry attack with 20 points, while Demarkus Smith added 19 points and seven assists. Freshman guard Cole Birchfield netted 13 points for the Wolves.
"The kids definitely got it done tonight," said Anderson head coach Jason Taylor. "I'm not sure why we came out slowly to start the second half, but they bucked up and got focused. To out-rebound a team like [Newberry] is a testament to our effort."
The two teams opened the contest on a blistering pace, with Hash and Jones connecting on 4-of-5 treys inside the opening five minutes to offset Walker and Birchfield's three 3-pointers in the opening minutes, as Anderson took a brief 13-12 edge on Hash's third trey with 15:07 left in the first half.
Gleaton dropped in a pair of free throws and Hash followed with a 3-pointer to give the Trojans their largest lead of the opening 20 minutes, at 35-29, at the 6:11 mark, but Newberry countered with back-to-back treys from Smith followed by yet another 3-pointer from Walker, giving the Wolves a 38-35 edge less than two minutes later.
Hash and sophomore center Steven Faust combined for six straight Trojan points before Walker connected on his fourth 3-pointer of the opening half and the teams went to the locker rooms with the score deadlocked at 41-41.
The Wolves opened the second stanza with a 13-5 run to take their largest lead of the contest, 54-46, with less than 15 minutes remaining, but Anderson erupted on a 23-5 run over the next seven-plus minutes to turn the eight-point deficit into a double-digit lead. Gleaton ignited the outburst by hitting 5-of-6 from the line, while Hash added seven points and Jones netted five during the deciding run.
The Trojans pushed out to an 82-67 cushion with 2:16 left in the contest, with Newberry closing within nine on four occasions in the final moments. But AU connected on 7-of-10 from the line in the final 1:49 to keep the Wolves at bay.
Anderson continues the road swing by traveling to Greeneville, Tenn., on Wednesday as the Trojans square off against Tusculum for the first time this season. Tip-off versus the Pioneers is slated for 8 p.m.

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07/23/2014 | Alumni
Sep. 18, 2016 | In the News
Table Conversations
Hosted by the Desmont Tutu Center at the Indy Festival of Faiths. Sept. 18 3-6 PM.
Sep. 20, 2016 | In the News
Trans Lives in American Christian Contexts
The Desmond Tutu Center hosts this conversation about dealing with the complex issues surrounding gender identity.
Sep. 22, 2016 | In the News
Beyond Borders: The Debate over Human Migration
The Desmond Tutu Center continues their New View film series.
Sep. 29, 2016 | In the News
David Brooks and Tavis Smiley launch Faith & Action Project
September 29 events kicks off poverty-fighting initiative


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This means not only excellent UFP ratings, but improved heat management too. Additionally, these shorts use Pearl Izumi's Transfer Dry fabric, which complements the In-R-Cool with Minerale. This is a porous, highly-absorbent yarn infused with crushed volcanic rock to pull moisture away from the skin, accelerate dry time, and combat odors.
Moving on, the multi-panel design provides an anatomic fit, with structured leg openings that wrap and support your muscles. The inseam measures 9 inches (size Medium) with silicone hems to grip warmers and keep panels securely in place. Finally, no shorts are complete without a quality chamois, which is something Pearl Izumi's well versed in.
On these shorts, the Anatomic P.R.O. Seamless 1:1 insert incorporates variable density padding throughout its three-layer construction. The foam technology means that it's lighter and substantially thinner than previous generations. It maintains a pre-shaped, four-way stretch anatomic shape, and the chamois also incorporates Izumi's Pressure Relief Technology (PRT) and active carbon yarns in order to optimize riding comfort, blood flow, and thermo-regulation.
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PI shorts at the top
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I wear many of the PI products. The quality of the materials is at the top of the spectrum while the prices are usually modest. I normally wear bib shorts, but could not pass up a great sale on the PI Pro shorts. I actually find that after three washings, the chamois is more comfortable. The compression of the pro shorts and bibs is perfect for my body. I stand 5'9" and weigh 144lbs. I buy medium in the PI shorts and bibs. I could go SM but it is way too tight up front, if you catch my drift.
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My 92 Civic has very old spark plug wires, probably original, but their resistance is in-spec (under 20k ohms), they have no external damage, and the vehicle has no misfire or other symptoms associated with bad wires, aside from having worse gas mileage than it used to. Is there any reason to replace them? Would doing so perhaps get a more optimal spark timing or stronger spark, more-complete combustion, etc.? Or are those claims just made up to sell wires?
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Mostly replacement is preventative maintenance. Eventually they'll get cracks that moisture can get into, etc. If they test good, they're probably fine for the moment, however, at their age they could develop problems any time.
On my '91 Toyota, I've been through several sets now, and have to say that in my case, OEM is the best. I've tried other brands (including "performance" brands) and have never seen any measurable improvement in performance. I have, however, had a lot of early failures with those supposedly better (and dramatically more expensive) performance wires.
If it ain't broke don't fix it. If your wires already check out and you don't have misfires it is probably not worth replacing them just yet.
You could possibly get better performance out of better coils and plugs but even those numbers are pretty minimal. Best thing I can recommend for fuel economy is to use seafoam in the engine and fuel and then change the spark plugs soon afterwards.


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Forest Schools
Forest Schools in Birmingham
A Birmingham Forest Education Initiative Cluster Group (part of a national FEI umbrella group) formed in May 2004 with the aim of promoting and supporting Forest School in Birmingham.
The group aims to:
provide safe opportunities for young people develop personal, social and physical skills through active learning and play in a stimulating natural environment.
Improve concentration, behaviour and interest in learning that can be transferred back into the classroom.
Increase understanding of care and concern for the environment.
Train teachers, classroom assistants, parents and helpers who can sustain Forest School programmes and philosophy in the long term.
The founding partners included Birmingham City Council (Ranger Service - Parks Sports and Events and Study Support), Groundwork Birmingham and CSV Environment. New members are joining all the time.
Birmingham Parks Ranger Service have trained Forest School leaders at various sites across the city.
The rangers are not only interested in delivering Forest School programmes at their sites but also in offering advice and training to enable others to run Forest School in their own settings.
They also have rangers who are trained as Forest School Assistants who help to support the delivery of Forest School programmes.
The aims of Forest Schools In Birmingham:
The Ranger Service supports Birmingham FEI Cluster Groups vision for Forest Schools - that within the next ten to fifteen years, every child and young person in Birmingham will have access to at least one Forest School programme as part of their formal education. We aim to this by:
Supporting every School and Early Years Setting in Birmingham to access an established, accredited Forest Schools programme in their locality.
Supporting the outcomes of Every Child Matters.
Engaging parents, families and local communities in Forest Schools programmes.
Having a positive impact on children and young peoples understanding and care of their environment.
Working with other organisations to achieve these aims
The outcomes for Forest School in Birmingham fit perfectly with Every Child Matters and also contribute to meeting Agenda 21 sustainability targets.
Children and young people attending Forest Schools in Birmingham will:
Be healthy
Stay Safe.
Enjoy and achieve
Make a positive contribution.
Achieve economic well-being.
Learn to live sustainably
What happens in a Forest School?
A typical programme involves the FEI recognised Forest School leader initially talking to teachers, parents and carers to explain about Forest School and the sort of activities the participants will be doing. Any adults involved would be invited to visit an FEI recognised Forest School site.
An appropriate local site is found, woodland areas are ideal. A risk assessment of the site is carried out by a qualified leader, to ensure the site is safe for the children and adults to visit. The Forest School leaders get to know the participants and gain their confidence before taking them to the Forest School site, for example by leading activities at the childrens usual educational setting for one or two sessions.
The group (typically up to 12) visit the same local site on a regular basis (once a week or fortnightly) ideally throughout the year, but not less than six weeks (except in extreme conditions.) Each session is learner-led, based on the skills and needs of that group.
Games are played and small achievable tasks are set, such as hide and seek, building shelters, learning how to use appropriate tools.
The participants learn basic woodland skills as a method to try and boost their self-confidence and raise their self-esteem.
The participants learn to use natural materials and develop practical and intellectual skills, which call be linked with the National Curriculum. How to find out more.
To find out more about Forest Schools in Birmingham's parks you can talk to your localRanger Service
To find out more about who delivers Forest School sessions and training in Birmingham FEI cluster group


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What is the probability that two separate RSA public moduli are the same? For example, consider a 2048-bit modulus. The number seems to be huge, but the choice for prime factors p and q is much more restrictive: They both should be 1024-bit in size, not too close to $\sqrt{p*q}$ and the most significant bit should remain set. Even if $2^{1023}$ seems like a lot of numbers, not every integer in this set suits the RSA scheme.
Since public exponent $e$ should be set to $0x010001$, if I find a collision for the RSA modulus, have I also found a collision for the RSA private exponent?
Is it possible to treat the public RSA components (e.g. represented as $H(modulus, exponent)$) as a unique value for identification purposes?
If the RSA keys were generated randomly, then it is inconceivable that two different devices would happen to pick the same key.
Taking 2048 bit RSA keys as an example, there are approximately $2^{1014}$ 1024 bit primes; if we consider them pairwise (and realise that about half the pairs yield a 2047 bit number), that means there are about $2^{2026}$ RSA modulii possible.
This is an incredibly huge number. Even if we take into account the fact that the probability for generating each modulii isn't precisely the same (depending on the actual algorithm used), it'd be far more likely that you'd win the lottery 100 times in a row than two devices happen to pick the same RSA key.
On the other hand, examples of devices having the same RSA key have been seen. In this case, the problem wasn't that someone won the lottery 100 times; instead, they got the random part wrong.
An essential part of the above argument is that we pick them randomly; that is, we start with a 'random' value, and we use that value to select two primes. If two different devices start with the same 'random' value, and use the same algorithm to select the primes, they'll end up with the same RSA key.
So, to answer your question: whether you can assume that two different devices always have different keys, well, that depends on whether whoever did generate the keys had proper amounts of randomness (entropy) when doing so. If they did, you can certainly assume it; if they're broken, any such assumption is suspect.
On point 1: the question worded, reduced to common practice, is equivalent to: assume that we generate $k=2$ RSA public keys with public modulii $N$ of $n=2048$ bits, with prime factors $p$, $q$ random in range $[2^{(n-1)/2}\dots2^{n/2}]$, and public exponent $e=2^{16}+1$; what are the odds that any two of the $k$ public keys $(N,e)$ are the same?
Applying the Prime Number Theorem, considering that primes $p$ such that $\gcd(p-1,e)\ne 1$ are to be ruled out, and that $e$ has been chosen prime, there are about $$v=(1-1/e)\cdot\Big({{2^{n/2}}\over{\ln({2^{n/2}})}}-{{2^{(n-1)/2}}\over{\ln({2^{(n-1)/2}})}}\Big)=(1-1/e)\cdot\Big({{2^{n/2+1}}\over{n}}-{{2^{(n+1)/2}}\over{(n-1)}}\Big)/\ln2$$ primes to choose among. There are approximately $v^2/2$ modulii to choose among (that holds even considering the stated constraint that the two primes are not so close to the square root of their product that Fermat factorization is a threat). The odds asked are thus about $k\cdot(k-1)/v^2$. That is, with $k=2$ and $n=2048$, less than $2^{-2024}$. Which is, beyond negligible.
To illustrate that beyond negligible: odds of winning at a lottery where one must choose the right $6$ balls among $50$ are slightly better than $2^{-24}$. Odds of $2^{-452}$ is less than a million less than winning this lottery on each of $18$ attempts.
On point 2: Yes, should a collision occur on the public key $(N,e)$, there is a functional collision on the private key. All private keys pairs $(N,d)$ corresponding to the same public key $(N,e)$ yield exactly equivalent private key functions $x\mapsto x^d\bmod N$. However, there can be multiple distinct private key pairs $(N,d)$, for $d\equiv d'\pmod{\operatorname{lcm}(p-1,q-1)}$ implies that private key pairs $(N,d)$ and $(N,d')$ yield exactly equivalent private key functions. Even when $d$ is restricted to $n$ bits, there are at least $2$, sometime more equivalent $d$.
On point 3: Yes, $(N,e)$, or the hash of a suitable representation thereof as a bitstring, can be treated as a unique identifier (fixing $e$, or restricting its bit size to say $128$ bits at most, is enough to eliminate the concern of equivalent public exponents). It is even possible to embed (a suitable representation as a bitstring of) the name and unique ID of the key holder at a specified position in the public modulus $N$. That's easy up to about $n/2$ bits, and possible up to about $2\cdot n/3$ bits; see Marc Joye's RSA Moduli with a Predetermined Portion: Techniques and Applications. As an aside, it helps convincing peoples that do not trust math that everyone has a distinct key.


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How much should I invest in my house if I plan on selling it soon?
I have been in my house for almost 4 years. I have wanted to move out for a while. Lately I have been completing some projects and doing a bit of remodeling. I am thinking that maybe sometime this year I would like to move. There are some repairs that I know I want to do before I list it (like re-shingling the garage), however I'm not sure how much to invest on other things like repainting, carpeting, gardening etc. Is it worth it to make these improvements before I sell my house? Should I just wait and see what a realtor recommends? I don't know for sure when I will sell and want to be comfortable while I am there, but I don't know if it is worth the time and money to tailor the house to my desires if I am not going to be there for much longer.
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i wouldn't spend the money tailoring it to your desires. mainly because you never know if what the taste of the potential buyer(s) will be.
i say spend a few bucks and make it look nice, but relatively neutral.
oh, and you're still my nemesis (even though i've dropped to #3)
edit: it appears @cowboydann and passed us both.
For repairs that might turn off some prospective buyers (e.g. new roof for the garage): as much as it takes to do it right. I personally would put painting (light, neutral tones) in this category.
For other improvements, they almost certainly will not be a good financial investment (i.e. if you spend $1500 you will not get $1500+ more for your house than you would have if you hadn't made the improvements).
Curb appeal is huge to potential buyers. If you don't have a "nice" frontage now, it would be worth it invest in some flowers, bushes etc.
Neutrals are the way to go as far as paint. Depending on the condition of your floors, new carpet may be worth the investment (again go neutral).
If your cabinets are maybe a little out of date changing the hardware/knobs is inexpensive and can spruce up the look of the house a bit.
I think if you could make the house as move-in ready as possible for new homeowners that would be a major sell. Some people can be put off by needing to spend the time on painting/floors etc.
Well it depends what the housing market is doing in you area.... I think the things you have listed would fall under "Improvents that will help to sell my house" category. So if your market is soft and houses are listed for 200/300 days then I would do anything to help sell the house. The only one I see that you will see a definite return on your investment is landscaping/curb appeal.
Think of it as a formula. Anything that's "bad" or would take away value from the house, consider repairing. Look at the cost of repair vs the added value.
For instance, let's say you have cracked concrete on the floor of your basement. Current value of the house is 100k (to make it an easy example). If you were to fix that issue, it would cost you 5k, but the value of the home would only improve the value a total of 3k. That repair is a net loss of $2000. And therefore wouldn't be worth it.
It would be good to run this formula through any repairs or upgrades you would want to make. Anything that's an actual problem though, you should either fix or make sure the buyer fully understands and is aware of/ accepts the issue. Otherwise you risk some legal hot water.
EDIT: a realtor (since you mentioned one) should be able to help you determine post-repair values. Hopefully you get someone nice who will be willing to work with you to figure it all out.
I have replaced a few of the doors in the house, and am really starting to work on the lawn. Filling in dead patches and stuff that were dug up by the city (they do it every year and never fix the grass). I have removed a bunch of small trees that were leaning against the back of my house and such and replaced it with a nice flower bed.
What about carpeting? When we closed, they still had some furniture in the house. After we actually moved in, we found some almost couch sized stains underneath where the furniture was. Our couch is currently covering it now. I know a lot of people will recarpet the entire house when they move in if they might not like the color and such, so I'm not sure if I should bother with it.
I guess I dont have the expertise to say how much of a difference the repairs will make on the purchase price.
If there is something that jumps out at you when you look at the house: let's say that the shingles on the garages are starting to fall off and are in very bad shape, you should repair it before you consider placing the house on the market. You might as well get started on these things now, it takes some of the stress off later.
If the landscaping is very bad, and the lawn is in bad shape that is also something that you need to get started on now: the latter especially is very difficult to fix on short notice. For all the rest of the stuff, go ahead and wait for the realtor's opinion. For the most part big interior remodels (as opposed to repairs) do not pay for themselves.
Indeed. I am starting to work on the stuff that most people dont like doing first, however I am also getting pressure from the wife to fix up the other rooms (that we never go in). At this point, for things like the guest room, I am thinking that for now just filling in the holes that were there when we moved in, and priming the walls will be a good starting point.
Dumb question, is a light lavender a neutral color?
Even from a selling standpoint, if you're house has better charm, gardening, etc... than a similar house, your house may be more desirable and sell faster. And, you may simply enjoy it better while you're there. But, if you're planning on leaving soonish, I wouldn't make any major investments. Possibly come up with a reasonable budget to spend. Then choose those things that you'd both enjoy, and may help you sell (curb appeal, replacing old carpet, etc..).
Before you can even think of selling you should see if comparable houses in your area are selling and for what price. Living in the SF bay area I have a distorted view of the rest of the country but probably anyone who bought a house in this area 4 years ago would be upside down on their house. Remember, 6% of your selling price goes to the realtors.
If you can truly realize a profit or break even: Offer a carpet allowance as an incentive to the buyer and no color of any kind on the walls (except white). Leave it as blank as possible, remove any personal items, minimize furniture, etc.
It doesn't cost you to talk to a realtor, just don't sign anything :)
Talk to a realtor and ask advice, biggest thing is paint neutral colors declutter & don't go too expensive on your remodels, always make sure your remodel will give more return then your cost.
When my wife and I talked to our friend who runs a realty, she said simply that if it doesn't need repair, don't put any money into it, as you will not get it back.
Clean it up, de-clutter, leave the rest to the sales person.
@lichme: i wouldn't consider light lavender a neutral color. most colors i've seen that were considered neutral have been light earth tones.
Only invest an amount that will increase the value of the home by that same amount or more.


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Is there a software development process out there newer than agile?
I mean, waterfall, then agile, then what?
Is there a software development process out there newer than agile?
I mean, waterfall, then agile, then what?
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It helps if we stop thinking of Scrum being equal to Agile.
Agile is a set of principles, mostly aimed at reducing waste. Scrum is a process which reduces waste and thus is considered Agile. XP is another set of processes which reduce waste and thus are considered Agile.
Lean is the next step, but it is not contradictory to Agility, it is another principle aimed at reducing work in progress. Scrum isn't really Lean, but if you take a few hints from Kanban, you can make Scrum much Leaner very easily. (google "Scrumban")
There's probably too much of looking for the next "silver bullet" in this business. Most of what is done lately is improving specific practices of the software development (TDD, BDD, etc) and project management (Kanban) crafts. The main principles of agile are fundamental and there is no compelling rush to change to the "next" thing, but rather to get more to actually use them.
I think agile is the latest and greatest in these. I think agile is wide open enough that it shouldn't change a lot, especially in it's name, but evolve and encompass new techniques. But at the moment as far as I can tell, agile is probably will be the last thing till new terminology comes up (not so much ideas). To me agile is simple common sense, or things I was taught years ago to be productive and produce a strong product (regardless of what it is, programming, sport teams, construction, etc..) wrapped up in terminology for today's youths. In short agile is just time proven techniques that are known to work.
it's a nice question. A lot of Scrum adepts see Scrum as the silver bullet and 'one size fits all'. I think when a lot of people start using scrum, we finally have the enjoyment of people actually following some kind of method, and by using Scrum, finally learning about how much they can build.
And for my favorite one: Scrum sais you have to look back on your process, something that nowadays is seldom done. I think when all project teams around the world start looking back at their (Scrum) process, we will have a very much improved (Scrum) process which will probably be named otherwise to differ between the Scrum as we now know it and the newer version.


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Web exclusives: Bacevich on Kagan, Faggioli on Francis
We have two new web exclusives featured on the homepage. First, in "The Duplicity of the Ideologues," Andrew J. Bacevich responds to Robert Kagan's recent New Republic essay, "Superpowers Don't Get to Retire."
Writing in the New York Times, columnist David Brooks hails Kagan's New Republic essay as "brilliant." A more accurate appraisal would be slickly mendacious. Still, Kagan's essay also qualifies as instructive: Here in some 12,700 carefully polished words the impoverished state of foreign-policy discourse is laid bare. If the problem hobbling U. S. policy is an intellectual one, then Kagan himself, purveyor of a fictive past, exhibits that problem in spades.
That Robert Kagan, a bona fide Washington insider, currently housed at the Brookings Institution, possesses very considerable talents is doubtless the case. A well-regarded historian, he is also a skilled polemicist and an ideologue. Here he combines all three callings to fashion a historical narrative that advances two claims. The first enshrines the entire period since 1945—until Obama sounded retreat anyway—as a kind of golden age when freedom, democracy, and liberal values flourished as never before. The second attributes this golden age almost entirely to enlightened American leadership. Policymakers in Washington, he writes, manifested a "sense of global responsibility that equated American interests with the interests of many others around the world."
Neither one of these claims stands up to even casual scrutiny. Rather than describing the prevailing realities of the post-1945 era, phrases like "world order" and "global responsibility" obfuscate. Purporting to clarify, they merely gloss over. Kagan employs these as devices to beguile, while constructing a version of "truth" that ignores inconvenient facts. There's a name for this technique: It's called propaganda.
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In "The Italian Job," Massimo Faggioli asks how Francis, as he seeks to reform the Curia, might be able to manage the bishops in Italy.
Francis's first year has been characterized by a carefully coded fight for the ground between the old guard and the new. An abstract debate about the "continuity or discontinuity" of Vatican II has been replaced by a conversation about concrete issues such as poverty and inequality. Francis has shown a willingness to discontinue old practices—for example, the Vatican officially prohibits priests from washing women's feet on Holy Thursday, but that's exactly what he did just weeks after his election. Francis's new language and style have not been universally welcomed by the bishops, especially those in his backyard. Some of them silently resist these changes.
In Italy, for example, the old guard seems especially recalcitrant. The most prominent Italian bishops—the cardinals of Venice, Milan, Turin, Genoa, Florence, Naples, and Palermo—were all appointed by John Paul II or Benedict XVI. Now it seems that many of the most powerful and visible Italian bishops have little to say about Francis's agenda. Only Cardinal Carlo Caffarra of Bologna—a drafter of John Paul's most important document on life issues—has been willing to publicly comment, if only to oppose Cardinal Walter Kasper's proposal to allow some divorced and remarried Catholics to receive the Eucharist. The rest of the Italian bishops have been more or less absent from the public debate about family and marriage in advance of next October's episcopal Synod.
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Faggioli's piece is the most illuminating thing I have read about Pope Francis. I am particularly heartened to learn that he made bishops of three marginalized followers of his great Jesuit confrere C. M. Martini and that he is both restoring to the Italian bishop's conference their legitimate autonomy and foiling the resistance of the Caffarras etc.
The complaint about his "lack of theological clarity" is ironic. Benedict XVI was theological clarity in person, but a clarity often misapplied, too much point-scoring and Besserwissen, too little sense of the enveloping pastoral context. Such clarity easily becomes a permanent ideological rant.
Francis has a more integral pastoral outlook. And "pastoral" does not mean "fluffy" or "lacking in authority", as conservatives insinuate when they dismiss Vatican II as a merely "pastoral" council, unlike the sharply dogmatic Trent.
Pastoral theology is the truest and fullest theology, because it places all dogmas and teachings in their proper, functional place, at the service of the gospel healing and enlightenment. Vatican II was sparing in the formulation of new teaching but it did a wonderful job of putting the old teachings in a broad perspective of pastoral care for the people of God, in dialogue with the moden world, and in retrieval fo the accents and outlooks of Scripture as received and interpreted in Tradition.
Now we need more and more pastors in the image of Francis and Martini. The harvest is great but the laborers are few.
The next thing I would like Francis to do is to speak out about the overt approval of rape in India. Second to send all the Indian priests here back to India to work for humane treatment of women. Thirdly, I request that Commonweal commission someone to write about India Catholicism and itse need to reform the Catholic church in that country.
What makes you think the Catholic Church in India is in dire need of reform?
The first question is this. With all the needs of the Indian people why are they sending an abundance of priests here? Secondly, With the killing of women who do not obey their famiies wish to marry, why is the Indian Catholic church not speaking out about it? Third. As I understand it priests live like kings in India.
Thanks for luring Faggioli into Commonweal. Not even the esteemed John Allen understand the Vatican better.
Glan to agree with Joseph O'Leary of the Faggioli article. A must read. As Joseph pointet out Francis made bishops out of three of Martini's followers. And how about Francis making a bishop someone who was a target of the CDF.
"Fernández was one of the theologians who helped then-Archbishop Bergoglio draft the final document of the Fifth Assembly of the Latin American Episcopate at Aparecida (Brazil) in 2007. So he is a key witness to the paradigm shift embodied by the Argentine Jesuit. In the book's conclusion, Fernández reveals that a few years before the 2013 conclave, he was anonymously reported to the CDF for doctrinal shortcomings. He replied to the CDF, but that didn't satisfy his critics. At that point, Fernández explains, Bergoglio "insisted that I keep my head up and…not let them [the CDF] take my dignity from me."
Francis has his hands full with the old guard of Italian bishops who are terrified at losing all their privileges and powers. A long time in coming. What John XXIII could not do, Francis seems to be able to. Striking are all the vested interests in publishing and the clergy who were rabid restorationists.
Pray for this great pope.
Yesterday, someone who knows the Vatican scene extremely well said to me that the Faggioli piece is "brilliant." I agree.
I would also recommend Archbishop (Indianapolis) Joseph Tobin's talk, given some days ago at the College Theology Society meeting. Archbishop Tobin would make a good archbishop of Chicago. A long shot no doubt, but then he's definitely a "Francis bishop."
Massimo Faggioli understands Francis because they both understand Vatican II. Francis has gone on record saying Vat II has only been half put into practice/effect. Faggioli, the historian, has studied and written extensively on Vat II (e.g., his True Reform: Liturgy and Eccesiology in Sacrosanctum Concilium, Liturgical Press, Collegevlle, 2012).
A recent work that fits well in this conversation is Pierre Hegy's Wake up Lazarus Vol II: Paths to Catholic Renewal, iUniverse, Bloomington, 2013. Quite worth reading, it is a sociological study centered on worship. It analyses liturgy and actual instances of liturgical practice as sociological phenomena and unleashes a storehouse of insights on the liturgy that are new, refreshing, but disturbing at the same time. Hegy refers extensively to the Aparecida document that you mentioned as having been completed in 2007, notably under the leadership of none other than Pope Francis (Bergoglio) himself.
Yes, let us truly pray for this pope!
The Faggliori article is a second coup for Commonweal in the last week or so, the first being the Kasper interview. Well done, Editors :-)
Just asked an Indian priest if the RCC in India was in dire need or reform and he said "not that he'd heard".
An even more brilliant article is Faggioli's in-depth study of the fate of episcopal conferences in this month's Japan Mission Journal. I quote its conclusion:
"In the fifty years after Vatican II episcopal conferences built on the embryonic norms present in Christus Dominus, and their work was assisted and corroborated by Rome during the first post-conciliar decade, following an option in regard to Christus Dominus 36 that accorded institutional preference to episcopal conferences over plenary or national councils, which in this decade, whether projected or held, met not a few obstacles from Rome.
"But the advance in the role, authority, and function of the national episcopal conferences was checked by the 1983 Code, the 1985 Synod, the positions taken by the International Theological Commission, a still centripetal ecclesial praxis, and the papal legislative acts of 1998. The result was a clear crisis of synodal and conciliar activity at provincial, regional, and plenary levels.
"It was not in order to shore up the authority of the individual diocesan bishops that Apostolos suos and Ad tuendam fidem thus blocked the evolution of the doctrinal and pastoral function of episcopal conferences, for the diocesan bishops were also more tightly controlled by the Roman instances.
"From a global systematic point of view, the effort to limit the role of the conferences, especially in areas where Catholicism was developing strongly, connects with a shift in the center of gravity of the Latin Catholic Church in the 1990s from the Euro-Atlantic churches (more concerned with synodality and collegiality) to the young churches of Africa and Asia. This shift was not regulated through the national or continental conferences but through the continental Synods held in Rome.
"But national conferences have shown themselves the most competent organs for taking decisions and assuming direct responsibility in regard to the faithful and the national community (as seen in the German handling of Catholic counseling of pregnant women or the US handling of clerical child abuse). The silencing of episcopal conferences and the limitation of their capacity to be interpreters, including doctrinally, of the sense of faith of Christians, have been damaging here as well.
"This blocking is an attempt to limit the full reception and enactment of Vatican II and this is clear also to the successor of Benedict XVI. In his apostolic exhortation Evangelii Gaudium (but really an encyclical, 24 November 2013), Pope Francis has made important statements about the need of a new role for the bishops' conferences: 'The Second Vatican Council stated that, like the ancient patriarchal Churches, episcopal conferences are in a position "to contribute in many and fruitful ways to the concrete realization of the collegial spirit." Yet this desire has not been fully realized, since a juridical status of episcopal conferences which would see them as subjects of specific attributions, including genuine doctrinal authority, has not yet been sufficiently elaborated. Excessive centralization, rather than proving helpful, complicates the Church's life and her missionary outreach' (EG 32). "
"A prerequisite for theology must be the faith experience otherwise you are doing religious studies or maybe psychology."
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You seem to be assuming that there is one and only one "faith experience" that everyone must have to speak meaningfully about faith. But it seems to me that the four Gospels show that not all of the Evangelists experiences were of the same sort. Not to mention St. Paul.
What do you mean by "faith experience" anyway? Sorry, but I have to ask. I know it's a hard one.
I assume that there are many different sorts of experience of "the Faith". However, though all are directed to the same referent they cannot all be described in the same way. This implies that the Faith is a complex set of truths and goals, and different people experience different parts or aspects of those truths and goals. Experience of one person might be mainly experience of the narratives of the objective facts of the Gospel. For instance, a person might know that a man who implied He was God chose to die in order that we might live eternally. Such a faith is rather cut-and-dried, but communicable in ordinary language. It has nothing to do with any subjective, mystical experience of the facts nor any direct appreciation of the goals of the Faith. Another person might have a rather mystical, affective appreciation of a few of those facts, and others might react to some other aspects of the Gospel. Not to mention those who uphold the Faith as a way of living a good life in this world.
If you're saying that all must have an affective response to the Faith, how do you know that the affective response are the same in everyone? No doubt some are similar in being affective, but I just don't see how we can understand other peoples' experiences at all unless they poets (in some sense) who manage to suggest the ineffable by analogy or metaphor.
It seems to me that theology includes a number of elements:
1) discovering what Scripture meant to the writers of Scripture and tradition, i.e., interpretation of Scripture and Tradition.
2) logical inferences from those sources which are part of the *development* of doctrine (anybody can do this -- they just need to know logic)
3) another kind of development of doctrine which is based on the experiences of the Faithful, both the group and individuals.
4) the interpretation of the mystical experiences of the contemplatives.
This last looks at the current sum of understanding of Revelation and asks how it applies to the world today or to parts of the world and how the Kingdom of God might be advanced, given what we have to work with. You might call it "applied theology". For instance, given that Christ taught that we must love our neighbor, it judges the world (or our neighborhood) to be in such and such a shape and tries to match our actions to the needs of the current circumstancees. This requires intuitions that are as much aesthetic as they are historical and logical, and, of course, being dependent on the intuitions of individuals the intuitions are less sure than we would like. I'd say that the criterion of success is "does it work?" For instance, how the collegiality of the bishops should work is a pragmatic theological matter. The answer is neither explicit in Scripture nor a matter of sheer mundane experience.
I included the fourth element because the Church has traditionally included it in theology. But I'm not sure what sort of status it should have relative especially to 1) and 2). The guarantee of the value of mystical experiences is purely subjective -- we have to take the mystics word for it that what they say happened really happene. But can theology ever be based on what is purely subjective?
One of the most interesting facts of history was illuminated by John O'Malley, SJ in his study/book about Trent.
Over the course of years and successive sessions and despite the on-going tensions between Pope/Vatican and bishops; national bishops and their political rulers vs. other nationalities, the one consistent conciliar methodology was this:
- when a subject was introduced and the bishops laid out various points of view, the council would then bring in theologians to educate, explain, and provide theological analysis and directions. Bishops would have time to listen, ask questions, do homework, ponder various choices, and only then begin to take a vote.
- it is interesting that 450 years later, too many Curia folks and bishops have moved to seeing theologians as *threats*, have re-interpreted their role as *mere teachers* as if theology is a catechism; etc.
Another resource example that expands on the 1983 Code of Canon Law (and how it was revised without reference or inclusion of many VII concepts e.g. collegiality) is Ladislas Orsy's *Receiving the Council - Theological and Canonical Insights and Debates.


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Is there a way (probably an app) that lets you see all global (and possibly local) keyboard shortcuts that have been defined? Something similar to ActiveHotkeys on Windows. I dislike assigning new keyboard shortcuts without being sure that they won't cause shortcut collision.
There is a rather expensive program that does just this. I installed it on several classroom Macs, to help new users learn keyboard shortcuts:
Works well, easy to use, but at $28.00 a little pricy.
There is a very nice app that's freely available to show you all shortcuts when you hold down the command key a bit longer than normal.
It works on Mavericks and several older OS and I've never had problems with it other than forgetting to quit it after I'm done discovering shortcut keys. It appears to be advertisement supported, so consider that if you prefer to pay to support developers as opposed to be part of what's being sold.
I'm not a Windows user so I'm unsure of what ActiveHotKeys does. However, on System Preferences on the Mac OS X, there's a Keyboard preferences which when clicked will display "Keyboard Shortcuts" (the choice to the right of "Keyboard").
Hope this helps, and please mark your question as answered if this is what you're looking for.
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5 Miracles Deleted From the Bible For Being Too Awesome
#2. Jesus is a Talking Star
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The Revelation of the Magi is a newly translated tale of the Christmas story from the perspective of the wise men (Magi) who brought gifts to the baby Jesus. It starts off as most Christmas stories do, with a tight-fisted old grump learning the meaning of the season and Santa secretly being real all along. Also, the birth of baby Jesus triggers an astronomical anomaly that lures curious well-wishers.
Sadly, the only record is text since it happened before the invention of Russia and dash cams.
Now, in the version you know, the star was just a bright spot in the night sky, gently guiding the Magi to a stable in Bethlehem. In this apocryphal version, the star descends from the desert sky, hangs out in a "Cave of Treasures of Hidden Mysteries" and has baby arms that beckon the wise men to him.
And (something) like the hand of a small person drew near in our eyes from the pillar and the star � and we saw the star enter the Cave of Treasures and Hidden Mysteries and the cave shone beyond measure.
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"And within the cave we found a blue genie who would not shut the hell up."
So the star is a little person. That person is Jesus the Pre-Born Star Child. Star Jesus tells the Wise Men his whole future -- all of it. Starting with how he's going to get born at any second now.
I will be born like a human being. And again, worship me there: Even now, as I am speaking with you, I am also there.
So even as Mary is pushing through her contractions, Star Child Jesus is off in the desert in a cave, chilling with some exotic foreigners. And can you blame him? If you were all-knowing while getting birthed, wouldn't you want to get the hell out of town?
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"Call me when you're ready for the circumcision!"
Jesus goes on to explain, like, how he's going to eventually die on a cross and tells them to take all the treasures in the cave and bring them to come meet ... himself ... again, presumably so they can to turn them over to baby Jesus when they get to Bethlehem. In this version of the Nativity, Jesus is both a star and a hustler.
The Magi then set off on their journey as the Jesustar leads them, but the star doesn't just stay in the sky in the direction that the Magi should follow. The star is literally leading them along. The star gives them food and makes it so they don't tire out. They can walk day and night because the star outshines even the sun. The star levels mountains, allows the Magi to walk on water, and ...
when we crossed into the places [of beasts and vicious snakes], we trampled them with our feet.
... walk on animals, before finally reaching their destination.
#1. Peter the Wizard-Slayer
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So you're hanging out in Rome when word gets out that there's going to be a wizard battle: The forces of good are challenging the forces of evil. "Sweet!" you say, before discretely dropping a Horcrux. Before you know it the Bad Wizard proves his superior powers by flying above the city. If any of this sounds familiar, you're probably thinking of Voldemort and Dumbledore/Harry Potter, except things didn't end up nearly as awful for He Who Must Have Apnea Because He Doesn't Have a Nose.
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It's hard to take a supervillain seriously when they sound like they have a perpetual sinus cold.
Now, to pick up where we left off with Peter and Simon the magician ... Peter's given a dog a voice and resurrected a fish, so Simon knows he's got to do something huge to win back his followers. Good thing HE KNOWS HOW TO FLY. For real, Simon goes up to a high place and begins flying over Rome.
... Peter seeing the strangeness of the sight cried unto the Lord Jesus Christ: If thou suffer this man to accomplish that which he hath set about, now will all they that have believed on thee be offended, and the signs and wonders which thou hast given them through me will not be believed: Hasten thy grace, O Lord, and let him fall from the height and be disabled; and let him not die but be brought to nought, and break his leg in three places. And he fell from the height and broke his leg in three places.
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And in three places his leg did break.
What the hell? First up, the guy that's not on God's side can fly. Peter can't fly, but the allegedly dark lord of magic who's leading believers astray can fly. Second up, fresh off the wisdom of "Do unto others as you'd have done to you" and "Turn the other cheek," Peter, the foundation of the Christian Church and the first pope, asks God to make this man fall to the ground and break his leg in three places. And because God is petty, he does exactly what Peter asks -- and more.
No sooner had Simon fallen to the ground and shattered his leg, than
... every man cast stones at him and went away home.
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Worst flash mob ever.
That's right, Simon is writhing around on the ground in pain with a broken leg, and the crowd stones him. Simon later dies while having his leg operated on. So instead of praying for Simon to have a quick and painless death, he ends up putting Simon through the worst physical and emotional pain imaginable, which eventually leads to his death. Apparently God works prayers on genie wish rules. Peter appears to want to show Simon some mercy, and we can just picture God saying, "As you wish. Wink." Yes, we picture God as the type of person who says "Wink" when they wink.
So you can probably see why this torture porn of a gospel didn't make it into the canon.
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Recipes Snail Mail Style ~ Flash Drive/Journal
Okay, as some people have said they preferred to load their recipes on a flash drive or stick them in a recipe journal. I'd be glad to handle organizing that. I'll need a smidgen of help, I need to know what you would all prefer to be sent around for the journal? Submit your suggestions below.
Want to be on the mailing list? PM me your Full name, mailing address and specify how you would like to be contacted in case something goes. Here is a link to a post on the green side: http://www.woot.com/forums/ViewPost.aspx?PostID=3907433&PageIndex=2&ReplyCount=54#post3907504
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~The Flash Drive~
Size will be about 8 GB, I'll just pickup one of these: http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0338044
The Drive will have the following folders so as to keep the recipes organized.
Main Dishes
Side Dishes
Feel free to suggest changes to this.
~All files must be formated in either doc or odt.
~The filenames must contain the recipe title, a dash, and your initials.
~Feel free to include photos whether embedded in the recipe or separately, with the files named the same as the recipe. Please only 1~2 photos per recipe.
Flash Drive: PDFs will also be accepted.
~The Package~
The package that will be sent around will contain three things: The recipe journal, flash drive, instructions and the mailing list. You will cross out your name off the list and then mail the package to the next individual.
Packaging: It would be nice to stick this all in a flat rate envelope. It costs only $4.95 to send it anywhere in the U.S. However the journal will probably kill that option, but will see.
Closing time to sign up for the mailing list will be the September 17th, 2010.
@catbertthegreat: I'm not sure what you mean when you say that people should cross their names off before they send the package on - are we just going to list woot usernames and have each receiver contact the next person on the list (like with the Box of Offal)? I don't know how willing everyone would be to give out a full name/email address to all other people (though I guess email addresses are not too hard to come by).
There was also a suggestion about sending via media mail, which would be cheaper if it's not possible to fit everything into the flat-rate box.
@angstangel: I'm not asking for emails. I'm just asking that in the PM that they state how they want to be contacted in case of problems that may arise, PM, email, phone whatever they prefer. Sometimes things are delivered to the wrong place or are returned undeliverable. There will be a note inside to contact me should it be delivered to the wrong person. I will pay them to ship it back to me and I will contact the next person on the list for a fixed address. If it returns undeliverable, again, I'll use the emergency contact to get a hold of the person. If no one responds within a few days they will be skipped.
The self contained list will have no usernames attached, just names and addresses.
@catbertthegreat: Does this mean you're sticking around for awhile? :)
I have another suggestion:
Why don't we have everyone submit their "hard copies" to one person who would imput them into digital format, then we could upload the recipies to a website that everyone could download them from.
That way, there would be no cost to those who already have their recipes in digital format. Also, the people at the beginning of the list would get to see all of the recipes, as opposed to those at the end of the line being able to see all of the journaled recipes.
Oop, Sorry!
I didn't read the other thread first.....
I will go read it now.....
@catbertthegreat: On the fear that this question may not make it to Popular, I've made a link to it in a comment over on the other question.
I love recursion, and this is about as recursive as it gets. I am thinking that once the thumb drive finishes its journey, it would be nice to put the results as one or more compressed files that could be downloaded from the blog. That way everyone gets to play (sooner or later).
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Okay media mail is out since we are moving a flash drive around. However Parcel Post would work just fine.
Yay, this made popular!
Personally I dont think you guys should use a flash drive and mail it around the country. It would be too easy for someone to get on this mailing list and plant a root kit onto the drive without anyone knowing, so just be careful guys there are all sorts of unsavory recipes I mean characters out there.
@jagg3d3d93: Actually, the blog has taken off, much to my stunned amazement, and @catbertthegreat has been very busy with improvements and suggestions. For those that are looking for an easy way to share recipes digitally, this is probably the safest way.
I suspect that if there WAS a thumb drive making the rounds, that it would be limited to those whom people are very familiar with, and almost certainly not include those that couldn't be vouched for, no matter how nice they seem.
Yes, it's still easily compromised, and while the likelihood of someone deliberately introducing malware is extremely small, the possibility of it happening accidentally is pretty high, and gets higher, the more people there are in the group. It's a sad commentary on the way things are, but there it is.
The journal is a really nice idea, though. Paper still rules.
@shrdlu: Sad but true about the bad apples.
Hello all! I have a bunch of recipes ready to submit...but stumbled into a feverish blah. I'll post them on the blog within the next day or so.
I have to find my recipes before I can put them on. Hopefully I will find them soon.
@sgoman5674: I found some, but it will have to wait until next week. Busy time of year.


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How do you say after (insert verb here) in Japanese?
like after studying, after drinking? would after studying be benkyotte kara? (べんきょうってから)
How do you say after (insert verb here) in Japanese?
like after studying, after drinking? would after studying be benkyotte kara? (べんきょうってから)
There are many ways to say "after ...ing" in japanese. There is no one to one translation, since you can use different words as "after" depending one the overall meaning of the sentence.
-て から
One of the most common translations and one of the first one learns would be:
This shouldn't be confused with the reason-giving から which is not used with the て-form of a verb.
Note. I believe it is better to say that there is one から. The distinction between the "after"-から and the reason-giving-から is there for learning purposes. If one where to give one translation for から that would be "from". Eg 「日本から」(from Japan). So, in the above context of time, the exact translation would be "from (the time I have) returned home, I ate.", meaning that "I started eating from (as origin) my having returned home". For more info on から and to fully get the gist of it, read the excellent IMABI
-た 後で
Another usual translation is:
後 means "behind" when you use it in a spatial context (and it is then pronounced as 「うしろ」) or "after" when you are speaking about time (and it is then pronounced as 「あと」. So, in a way, the concept of "after" for the Japanese is similar to that of "behind", while "before" is similar to "in front". This is particularly interesting in 「午前」 and 「午後」(ごぜん and ごご)that mean "am" and "pm" respectively. You could also use that formation in other words, eg 「今後」 which means "from now on", literally "after now".
Note that 「、」 was not traditionally used in Japanese and it is written there mainly to help foreigners.
Another way to say after is by using just the て-form of the verb.
Note: The thing with て-form is there is no exact match for this grammatical phenomenon in English. If I were to choose I would say that it is closer to the past participle. But that is just an, at times, convenient translation. If I were to literally translate this sentence then, it would be "At home returned, I ate." In any case, one has to just accept things as the are at some point!
Also, note that the て-form can be used to give reasoning.
You can also use the -ます form of a verb without the ます ending, to denote the succession of actions.
Note: This is more like a listing of the things you did. The ます form of the verb without ます is a strange artifact as in many cases it is used as a noun. For instance, 帰り in the example sentence means "the returning, the coming back". So, again, if you want to translate exactly the example in English, you will have some trouble. If you feel it helps translate it as the present participle.
In more advanced levels, one learns of many other expressions. Those expressions are used depending on context and, while they might be translated as "after", the meaning takes a special nuance. For instance:
The list could be going on, but the more one adds, the more they deviate from the meaning of 'after'. All in all, if you are a beginner, stick to what the books say. "-tekara means after", "taatode means after" and so on. As you become more comfortable and acquainted with Japanese, try to sense those words. Listen to how Japanese people use them, their emotion and so on. Not everything can be translated 100%. Also, some words are more usually written than said and vice versa. The above is how I understand things.


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With so many farewells this last week at Reflections In Hindsight, it's beginning to feel like the ending of The Lord of the Rings trilogy movie.
Remember the multiple finales? I'll recap for you:
• Frodo recovers and is reunited with his friends.
• Arwen comes back from the brink of death and is reunited with Aragorn just as he is crowned king.
• Sam is reunited with Rosie and—voila!—they have a family!
• Frodo finishes his book (a HUGE accomplishment as any writer knows!).
• And just when you think you couldn't go through one more tissue…Frodo and Bilbo both sail away into eternity.
Oh my word, I couldn't take any more sadness! I looked like I'd been to a funeral when that third movie ended.
Well, I am also saddened by this, the last post, at Reflections. It has been an amazing journey for several writers as we've come together from various backgrounds to reflect on so many aspects of writing and life. It has been a joy.
But, alas, it is time to move on as our writing paths have been drawn into numerous lanes of opportunity at other blogs and in other ventures. It is time to bid a final farewell to Reflections In Hindsight. Just as Frodo finally sailed into the Havens, we are doing our last journey together today.
Unlike Frodo, however, you can still find us in other venues to follow our writing. Please keep in touch.
You can reach me at several group blogs:
I'll be there at least once a month at each blog.
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At the end of the book The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkein, Frodo prepares to leave with Gandalf into eternity (the "Havens"). Gandalf speaks to the three friends left behind: "Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end of our fellowship in Middle-earth. Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil."


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I have two new dell servers, both pretty close to the same hardware. One has RHEL6 installed and one has CentOS 6 installed.
I have the machines configured identically from a network-scripts, modprobe.d and sysctl.conf settings (did a diff on sysctl.conf to confirm).
All four physical ports are on a Cisco 3750X Stacked Switch and are configured identically except for each server pair has their own channel.
With the command
dd if=/dev/zero bs=4k count=262140 | ssh {host} 'cat > /dev/null'
I get roughly 100MB/s from the RHEL6 box, but only about 35MB/s on the CentOS6 box.
Any ideas?
I can post the various configs but there are a lot of them, don't want to have a huge post unnecessarily...


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NYU alum and Twitter sensation Rob Delaney will perform in a second show at the Skirball Center on Saturday, Nov. 10 at 9:30pm. One-hundred percent of the proceeds from this show will go towards Hurricane Sandy Relief Efforts. Tickets are $25.
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This British Assault on an Island Off Argentina Is for the Birds
Mission: Kill Rampaging Rats, Save Pipits; 'They Will Outthink You'
LITTLE DOWNHAM, U.K.—Britain is dispatching a band of skilled killers to an island off the Argentine coast on a boat carrying a lethal arsenal.
No, not to repeat the Falklands War. This time, it is to attack a problem that has been brewing in a remote British overseas territory for more than 200 years: rampaging rats.
Specialists from the U.K. are calling it the world's biggest rat cull. The location is the glacial island of South Georgia in the Atlantic, about 1,200 miles east of the tip of South America. The problem: the island is overrun with the rats that were first brought by sealing and whaling ships in the 18th century.
South Georgia is uninhabited by people. But the rats are a serious nuisance, conservationists say, because they eat the eggs and chicks of many species of birds—killing tens of thousands every year. That includes some that are unique to the island and in danger of extinction, such as the small, brown-speckled South Georgia Pipit, the Antarctic's only songbird.
Leading "Team Rat" is Anthony Martin, a 58-year-old white-bearded zoologist, whom some have called "the Pied Piper" for his role in the rat cull.
Mr. Martin needs more than a magic flute to get rid of the rats. The monthslong mission involves distributing by helicopter about 200 tons of rat bait laced with a powerful rodenticide called Brodifacoum that kills them in a period of days.
The soft-spoken professor of animal conservation is aiming for a massive body count. "If we were to remove 99.9% of them, we've failed," he says of the estimated millions of rats on the 100-mile-long mountainous island. "We have to get every single animal."
But, he says, he doesn't underestimate his enemy. If you don't respect the rats, "you're in trouble. They will outthink you."
One day recently at his lakeside home here near Cambridge, Mr. Martin mused on his role as a killer as he prepared for his trip. "You are playing god. It's an inevitable part of modern-day nature conservation. It means killing things," said Mr. Martin, who set off Monday.
But the alternative is even less palatable to him. "By leaving these rats you will be condemning millions of young seabirds to die a pretty terrible death, having their brains eaten out by rats in perpetuity," he said.
The 25 men and women on his team must survive the island's subarctic temperatures for months while they live in tents, repeatedly uproot camp as they move around the island and maneuver helicopters carrying heavy containers of bait, often buffeted by strong winds. "You need a bloody good pilot," said Mr. Martin. "That kind of flying is not for the fainthearted."
Another risk: The poison could kill some of the very birds Mr. Martin wants to protect. While it doesn't affect birds that feed at sea, which is the vast majority of birds around the island, it could harm those that feed on land, such as ducks, gulls and skuas.
Simon Pope, a spokesman for the World Society for the Protection of Animals in London, said his group would like to know whether other rat-control methods that don't involve toxic substances were investigated and what assessment has been made about the pesticides on the birds.
Mr. Martin says he will closely monitor the effects on the birds. The project's success will be "not only getting rid of the bad guys but making sure none of the good guys, the birds we intend to preserve, are harmed in anything other than a short-term, ephemeral way." In light of the large numbers of birds he expects to return to the island over time, he believes it is an "acceptable price to pay."
Mr. Martin has already spent a lot of time working on South Georgia, where he first went in the late 1990s while researching whales. He also has a keen interest in birds. In 2009, the South Georgia Heritage Trust charity, which is running the project, asked Mr. Martin to take on the role of chief exterminator.
"I took a nanosecond to think, 'Yup, that's what I'd love to do,' " said Mr. Martin.
The wildlife-rich island is best known for its king penguins, but it also has albatrosses, petrels and ducks—including the yellow-billed South Georgia Pintail. Then, there is the Rattus norvegicus, or brown rat.
The £7.5 million ($12 million) project is being financed largely by foundations and wealthy individuals. The South Georgia Heritage Trust has raised about half that amount so far, including a £250,000 donation from the British government. "These invasive species need to be eradicated," a government spokeswoman said.
Alison Neil, the trust's chief executive, said one of Mr. Martin's skills is his ability to convince people that that is necessary—a process she said he calls "conservation forceps," or picking out the bad guys to leave the good guys as much as possible untouched.
In 2011, Mr. Martin led a test mission to the island, celebrating with Champagne after reaching each bait-laying target. He says that effort appears to have successfully removed rats from a roughly 50-square-mile patch—or about one-tenth of the total infested territory.
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Bruce Perry Jr., 17, Casey Andringa, 17, and Colter Hale, who will celebrate his 17th birthday on March 28, are the three "big guns" for the Winter Park Competition Center and are skiing in Valmalenco, Italy, this week while competing in the 2013 FIS Freestyle Junior World Championships, according to Freddy Mooney, a freestyle coach for the Competition Center.
These three young skiers have all had quite the successful season competing across the country and are trying to end their season on a high note with wins for the U.S. team in Italy before they gear up for summer training.
Bruce Perry Jr., who is currently ranked as the No. 1 seed junior mogul skier for U.S. in Italy, recently clinched the title of Junior National Dual Mogul Overall Champion in Park City, Utah, as well as the NorAm Cup Grand Prix Champion, which qualified him for a spot on the U.S. Ski Team for the 2013-14 winter season.
At only 17 years old, making the U.S. Ski Team is a huge accomplishment for Bruce, who has been competing in moguls since he was 5. Bruce has chosen to keep Winter Park Resort as his training center as a U.S. Ski Team athlete and will also keep the same coaches he has through the Competition Center.
"Winter Park took him and took his aerials to a higher level and increased his speed," said Bruce Perry Sr. "He's got a big bag of tricks."
Casey Andringa is ranked just behind Perry in the No. 2 seed for moguls for the Junior World Championships and brings with him a long career of competing for the Winter Park Competition Center, for which he has been skiing since he was around 10 years old. Andringa skis out of Boulder and is following closely on the same track as Perry.
Colter Hale is the third skier representing the U.S. and the Winter Park Competition Center and holds the second seed in the slopestyle event for the Junior World Championship. Along with qualifying for the Junior Worlds, Hale had some "decent finishes that have him sitting in second in points for the USSA Rev Tour series in slope style," according to Coach Jeremie Livingston. This qualifies Hale for the Grand Prix series, which is the next big step toward the X-Games.


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