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2019 Oxford Conference: "Scholars, pastors, policy makers gather to discuss Orthodoxy, sex, gender, and sexuality"
An international academic gathering of scholars, pastors, clinicians, and other expertstook place in Oxford from 16th to 19th August, at which contemporary issues of sex, gender, and sexuality were discussed in relation to the Orthodox Church.
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The ground-breaking meeting brought together a wide variety of views on highly controversial social issues confronting the 260-million strong Orthodox Christian community.
The conference was supported by the British Council as part of the second iteration of its "Bridging Voices" project. It was organised by a consortium of scholars from the University of Exeter and the Orthodox Christian Studies Center at Fordham University.
Some fifty scholars gathered from across the globe. They brought a diversity of professional expertise and experience, and represented a range of academic disciplines including theology, philosophy, church history, and canon law, and fields within the natural and social sciences. Orthodox clergy from multiple jurisdictions, LGBTQ+ activists, and clinicians were in attendance. A small number of ecumenical observers from the Church of England and the Catholic Church also took part.
The goal of the meeting was neither to reach immediate consensus nor issue common statements but rather to stimulate dialogue among experts in order to help the Church discern responses to urgent pastoral needs that are both truthful and pastorally-sensitive. The meeting was strictly unofficial: all participants attended in a private capacity and the Church hierarchy was not involved in a formal capacity. This arrangement, together with strict observation of the Chatham House Rule, ensured that all participants could speak freely, without fear of misrepresentation.
Conference delegates participated in nine workshops. Topics included hermeneutic issues in scripture and tradition, theological anthropology, ethics, pastoral challenges, therapeutic approaches, and secularism and public policy. Each session included stimulus presentations followed by open discussion.
Views were heard from every perspective. Participants who strongly support, defend, and adhere to the traditional teachings and disciplines of the Orthodox Church spoke alongside those who find them somehow problematic—and many contributed perspectives along a continuum between these positions. A range of opinions and practical approaches were shown to exist already within the Church.
The genuine dialogue demonstrated deep respect for contrasting positions alongside a strong desire for co-operation and faithfulness to the Orthodox tradition. Full attention was given not only to the teachings and practices of the Church emerging from its pre-modern and Eastern consciousness but also to the need to address modern Western challenges which have come to dominate the modern world.
The gathering can serve as a model of how issues of sex, sexuality, and gender can be approached without the recriminations and polarization that too often characterize this discussion. Indeed, the conference is surely unique to date in world Orthodoxy in its achievement of creating a hospitable context in which all participants—conservative, progressive, and everything in between—could express themselves and be heard and seen in their full, complex humanity in process of drawing nearer to Christ.
Whatever their stances, conference participants agreed on a number of points: The dignity of all humans must always be respected. Violence must be excluded. Pastoral compassion is essential. Dialogue must continue, in the same respectful and gracioustone that characterized this gathering.
Prof. George Demacopoulos, Deacon Brandon Gallaher, Prof. Aristotle Papanikolaou, Dr Edward Skidelsky, Gregory Tucker, Father James Alison, Prof. Evangelia Amirali, Dr Thomas Arentzen, Dr Nikolaos Asproulis, Father Michael Bakker, Dr Antonios Basoukos, Father Demetrios Bathrellos, Father John Behr, Father Philippe Bordeyne, Dr Patricia Fann Bouteneff, Prof. Peter Bouteneff, Prof. David Bradshaw, Father Silviu Bunta, Misha Cherniak, Father Ian Graham, Bishop Jonathan Goodall, Dr David Heith-Stade, Father Dragoș Herescu, Father Cyril Hovorun, Prof. Andrej Jeftić, Nik Jovčić-Sas, Dr Pantelis Kalaitzidis, Father Isidoros Katsos, Sister Vassa Larin, Dr Sean Larsen, Father Andrew Louth, Mari Mars, Rev. Alison Milbank, Prof. John Milbank, Dr Elena Narinskaya, Father Stephen Platt, Prof. Ashley Purpura, Father Richard Rene, Dr Bryce Rich, Dr Edward Siecienski, Prof. Richard Swinburne, Dr Elizabeth Theokritoff, Father Vasileios Thermos, Dr Dmitry Uzlaner, Natalia Vasilevich, Metropolitan Kallistos (Ware) of Diokleia, Prof. Gayle Woloschak, Father Mark Woodruff.
Official Summary
An international gathering of scholars, pastors, clinicians, and other experts took place in Oxford from 16th to 19th August, at which contemporary issues of sex, gender, and sexuality were discussed in relation to the Orthodox Church. The goal of the unofficial meeting was to stimulate dialogue among experts in order to help the Church discern responses to urgent pastoral needs that are both truthful and pastorally-sensitive. Participants who strongly support, defend, and adhere to the traditional teachings and disciplines of the Orthodox Church spoke alongside those who find them somehow problematic—and many contributed perspectives along a continuum between these positions. All agreed that dialogue must continue in the same uniquely respectful and gracious tone that characterized this gathering.
The conference is part of a three-year research project funded by a generous grant from the British Council, Friends of the British Council, and the Henry Luce Foundation. This press release is issued in the name of the organisers of the project "Contemporary Eastern Orthodox Identity and the Challenges of Pluralism and Sexual Diversity in a Secular Age," Dr Brandon Gallaher and Prof. Aristotle Papanikolaou (Principle Investigators) and Prof. George Demacopoulos, Dr Edward Skidelsky, and Gregory Tucker (Additional Partners) and must not be represented as the agreed statement of the conference.
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Five Reasons the Child Tax Credit Shouldn't Have a Work Requirement
By Samuel Hammond
Budget reconciliation negotiations among Democrats have hit an impasse over Senator Joe Manchin's worries about extending the Child Tax Credit (CTC) without a work requirement. As he put it in his agreement with Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Manchin believes any new family spending must have "needs based means testing."
At the outset, it is worth emphasizing that Manchin's position is not entirely unreasonable. While America is one of the few developed nations without a child allowance — a 2020 survey found 108 countries have some form of periodic child benefit anchored in national legislation — the concept is nonetheless somewhat novel in the U.S. context. It is therefore worth reviewing the top five reasons why adding a work requirement to the CTC is not only unnecessary, but may even risk undermining Manchin's own stated goals.
1) The work disincentives from child benefits are negligible
Unconditional child benefits have historically faced an uphill battle in the U.S. given concerns over the potential that they discourage work. As recently as the 2016 election, then-candidate Hillary Clinton proposed a significant CTC expansion that still phased in with earnings. This was simply following the conventional wisdom that her husband established 20 years earlier with welfare reform: namely, that transfer programs should always be tied to work, implicitly or explicitly, in order to promote self-sufficiency and thus genuine poverty alleviation.
In the decades since, anti-poverty experts have realized that we in many ways over-learned the 1996 welfare reform's success at promoting work among single mothers. After all, the Clinton-era welfare reform was aimed at Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), a program that not only provided cash assistance to needy families, but one which also rapidly withdrew assistance if a struggling parent sought employment. As a textbook example of a poverty trap, AFDC's steep benefit cliffs promoted dependency by design. This was technically the byproduct of too much means-testing, not too little, made all the worse by Kafkaesque social services that sacrificed the poor on the altar of bureaucracy.
Flat child benefits don't suffer from AFDC's benefit-cliff problem, as a dollar earned is a dollar kept. Meanwhile, the disincentive from the pure "income effect" of a child allowance ranges from small to negligible, and in a way that is differential with respect to married and single mothers (no study has ever found a significant effect on the labor supply of fathers). Canada's child benefit is nearly twice as large as the CTC expansion being considered by Congress, and yet a 2021 study found no effect of its expansion on overall parental labor supply. To the extent employment rates were affected at all, earlier research found the Canada child benefit only decreased work among a small subset of married mothers who became stay-at-home parents. Never-married parents, meanwhile, increased their employment rate by nearly 2 percentage points.
The Canadian results are consistent with the broader research literature on income effects. While one must always be cautious with international comparisons, the labor market institutions of countries like Canada, Australia, and the U.K. are far more similar to the U.S. than their counterparts in Northern Europe. In fact, a 2020 study of the CTC found that a $1,000 increase in the credit was associated with a 1.1 percentage point increase in the labor force participation of single mothers — exactly in line with the Canadian results. In both studies, the effect was driven by single parents who used the child benefit to afford home- and family-based child care.
2) The "zero-income" demographic is not a bunch of slackers
Most rich countries have a child allowance in recognition that child dependents add expenses for households without generating any corresponding income. While promoting work is important to reducing poverty, the market does not automatically pay workers more simply because they have kids at home. That basic arithmetic is why child benefits are essential to reducing overall rates of family poverty, as illustrated by the United States' outlier status among the OECD in terms of both child poverty and social spending on family.
Nevertheless, some remain squeamish about providing a cash benefit to households with low or zero income. The image in many of these critics' minds is a member of the non-working poor — what scholars in the 1990s called the "underclass." Yet this portrait of households with zero reported income is as outdated as it is misleading. Income distributions are not static; people move in and out of "poverty" as measured by income every year. Nor does reporting zero personal income in a given year imply that one is necessarily poor. It's not uncommon for a small business owner with some savings to forgo taking a salary until their company gets off the ground, for instance.
The 2020 Census found that 5.8 million children in the U.S. live in households headed by their grandparents, or 7.9 percent of all children under the age of 18. In addition, over 4 million U.S. households with children are headed by parents with a disability. Parents and legal guardians living on a fixed income typically don't need to file a tax return, and when they do, Social Security benefits are not considered part of their gross income. Nonetheless, these households face all the same child-related expenses as households with working-age parents. And while Social Security offers "auxiliary benefits" to beneficiaries with child dependents, restrictive rules mean that more than half of all families with two or more beneficiaries are affected by the statute's per-family maximums. The "dependent allowances" in state Unemployment Insurance programs are even more paltry, averaging on the order of $5 extra dollars a week per child.
The age gap between when a family has their first child and when they reach their peak earning potential makes tying the CTC to tax liability particularly problematic. That's all the more true for parents young enough to still be in school. According the National Postsecondary Student Aid Study, 26 percent of all undergraduates in the U.S. are parents. This represents 4.8 million students raising a child while in college, typically with minimal market incomes and large additional expenses like tuition. Not surprisingly, with the share of colleges that provide on-site child care services in steady decline, the dropout rate among student-parents is the highest of any demographic. If the goal is long-term self-sufficiency, using the CTC to incentivize cash-strapped parents to quit school in favor of an entry level job is misguided to say the least.
3) More rules mean more bureaucracy
Even a modest earnings requirement would severely compromise the administrative simplicity of the Child Tax Credit. As it stands, the IRS has made strides toward easing the application process since the CTC was temporarily extended in 2019, including through a simplified online portal. The lack of a phase-in under the extended CTC has been critical to this effort. With benefit calculations now a matter of simply counting the number of eligible children in a household, the administrative burdens involved with income verification have been lifted.
Contrast this with the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), which has a complex phase-in structure and 41 pages of tax preparation rules. It is no wonder that the EITC suffers from such a high error rate, accounting for 44 percent of all IRS audits in 2019. These mispayments are a pittance compared to the estimated revenue the IRS fails to collect from wealthy individuals every year, and place significant stresses on both the recipients and the IRS itself.
As my colleague Brink Lindsey and I put it in our agenda paper, Faster Growth, Fairer Growth,
Wherever possible, we need to maintain a dogged preference for simple, clear rules and standards over multifactor balancing tests; for big, blunt interventions over subtle nudges; for on-budget direct payments to beneficiaries over tax preferences and empowering bureaucratic intermediaries; and for decision-making venues that force rent-seeking insiders to face effective representation of the broader public. Small government is not the answer; what is needed is simpler, more legible government.
A child allowance fits that bill. By not phasing out until relatively high incomes, the CTC now reaches 96 percent of all families, with benefit levels that only need to be adjusted for households that file income taxes anyway. The simplicity of a flat benefit reduces the need for bureaucracy, leaving paternalism to parents. It has also made it infinitely easier to enact important policy innovations, from making the credit a monthly payment, to allowing the credit to follow a child who lives part of the year in a different household. This would all be jeopardized by even a modest work requirement.
4) Earning phase-ins amplify income shocks
Even if a flat child benefit doesn't discourage parents from working, some still support phasing the Child Tax Credit in with earnings as a proactive work incentive. For non-working, able-bodied parents, the credit's historical 15 percent phase-in rate may function as a kind of wage subsidy: with every dollar earned along the phase-in range, the CTC kicks in an extra 15 cents.
This argument suffers from several problems. First, most labor market entry decisions are relatively binary — do you take the entry-level job or not — and therefore unlikely to be influenced by marginal incentives at very low levels of earnings. Indeed, even the EITC's effectiveness as a work incentive is now under dispute despite its far more aggressive phase-in rate of 34 to 45 percent.
Less appreciated is how an earnings phase-in can wind up amplifying income shocks if and when they occur. Consider a single parent who takes a year off work to care for a sick family member. While this parent may normally earn a reasonable wage, they will report low or zero income within the period of their leave. If the CTC is phased in with annual earnings, any loss of market income that results will come with an additional reduction in tax benefits, turning the social insurance function of the CTC on its head.
The perverse flipside of a CTC earnings test should be particularly troublesome to pro-family conservatives. The certainty and predictability of an unconditional child benefit is key to promoting household stability, as measured by rates of divorce, reductions in child abuse and neglect, and lower consumption of stress-relievers like alcohol and tobacco.
5) Child allowances reduce dependency and social inequality
Pregnancy and childbirth can itself represent a significant income shock. The nation's traditional welfare system, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), is thus widely acknowledged to function as a kind of maternity-leave-of-last-resort for new moms near the poverty line. In lieu of a child allowance, cash-strapped new parents are instead forced to turn to means-tested public assistance.
The unconditionality of a child allowance can help divert these parents from sticky, bureaucratic forms of aid in a way analogous to how Unemployment Insurance diverts dislocated workers from turning to disability insurance. Child allowances can thus promote improved social mobility in the long run, all while reinforcing a deeper commitment to social equality. As I put it in a piece for the Institute for Family Studies earlier this year,
At 22.9% of all "poverty spells," the introduction of a new child to the family is the third leading reason women report turning to traditional welfare programs. Divorced and never-married mothers are particularly vulnerable in this respect, including those who may have otherwise considered terminating their pregnancy, giving rise to the so-called "feminization of poverty." In lieu of a simple child allowance, many cash-strapped moms are thus forced to turn to more bureaucratic alternatives. Navigating the morass of Great Society-era anti-poverty programs can itself become a full-time job. As a result, a family that starts off as merely income poor risks becoming socialized into "poverty" in the richer sense of the term, putting children at a much higher risk of becoming dependent as adults.
Senator Manchin's concerns about the potential for family welfare policies to backfire and create dependency are thus not without merit. Well-intentioned policymakers in the U.S. have a long track record of doing just that. Nevertheless, if the senator paused to take a closer look at the evidence around child allowances, he might well be surprised. Far from repeating previous policy mistakes, the CTC expansion in the reconciliation package would actually right those past wrongs, creating a more equitable and family-friendly tax code in the process.
Samuel Hammond is the director of poverty and welfare policy at the Niskanen Center, and co-author of The Conservative Case for a Child Allowance.
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Sahara has become my 'heart' dog. I am her goat. She is my guardian. She tells me when to get up, when to feed, when to go to bed and when to turn off the TV. She sleeps in the doorway on the bedroom, monitoring the other dogs coming and going. She will explore the property but she would never leave. The driveway is as far as she will venture. If the gate gets opened and the others take off, she does not leave. This is her home, I am her responsibility and she takes it all very seriously and with great love.
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Liquid Biopsies to Detect Cancer Could Boost Annual Sequencing Volume By 40-Fold
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Next-generation DNA sequencing ("NGS") is creating a new wave of diagnostic tests for cancer. The level of detail offered by NGS tools is helping researchers make important connections between the biology of tumors and the successful treatment of cancer.
Cancer is a dynamic and elusive disease. Its genetic profile mutates over time, sometimes in response to therapy. Consequently, tumors have to be monitored regularly for molecular changes. While tissue biopsies have been the standard of care historically, they are invasive and often not successful or reliable because of a tumor's location or metastasis. Meanwhile, sequencing costs have dropped to a point that clinicians now can track the evolution of advanced tumor tissues noninvasively over time by sampling and testing blood: a liquid biopsy.
With liquid biopsies ("LBs"), clinicians are searching for trace amounts of tumor DNA ("ctDNA") circulating in the bloodstream that, when sequenced, can guide treatment decisions. While still in development, liquid biopsies will be tuned not only to detect cancer in its earliest stages but also to monitor patients in remission. Cancer is easier to treat if discovered early, but the sequencing required for early stage tumors is more intensive, and more cost prohibitive, than that in later stages. Recurrence rates for most forms of cancer are harrowing, and for some tumors like gliomas inevitable. According to our estimates, if only the patients at risk of recurrent cancer were to be sequenced on an annual basis, the volume of genetic data produced would leap by 40-fold—an amount equivalent to that expected when 100 million whole human genomes will be sequenced globally in 2023, as shown below.
Screening the body for cancer involves a targeted form of NGS that focuses on a subset of cancer-causing genes, also known as oncogenes, that can mutate and cause tumors. Currently, more than 6 million oncogenic mutations span a region equivalent to just 2% of the human genome. Companies that have developed liquid biopsies for single cancer indications, such as Guardant Health (GH), focus on regions even smaller. Guardant's liquid biopsy test for advanced non-small cell lung cancer, for example, focuses on mutations comprising 78,000 base pairs of DNA—corresponding to only 0.0025% of the human genome. Although these target regions are small, clinicians sequence the DNA so many times that the data generation can exceed that associated with one whole human genome.
Tumor cells shed ctDNA into the bloodstream in extraordinarily small quantities. Most NGS diagnostics split the DNA into small fragments and sequence it many times to reduce the probability of random errors. This multiple, or sequence coverage, can vary widely. In cancer patients, the ratio of ctDNA to healthy DNA can drop below one in one hundred. To detect this trace amount of ctDNA in the bloodstream, the tumor's signal must be amplified. GH reports a liquid biopsy coverage value of 8,000X for lung cancer, meaning that the genetic target is read 8,000 times prior to analysis. In pan-cancer liquid biopsies, Grail has reported coverage of 60,000X. Consequently, one liquid biopsy for monitoring pan-cancer recurrence can have a sequencing intensity equivalent to mapping 40 whole human genomes.
Just to monitor the recurrence of cancer, liquid biopsies could be the reason that NGS volumes will scale from 2.4 million in 2018 to 100 million genome-equivalents per year, pushing costs down towards the $100 per genome predicted by Wright's Law, by 2023.
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I don't think our defense lacks any confidence coming out of Spring practices and the O&B game. There's no intent for the defense to go out and shutdown the offense in an exhibition event. Besides, they've carried the offense at UF for a few years now and know it.
For a Spring game, offense is what Gator fans want to see. Our team delivered.
We need the offense as a unit to build knowledge, confidence and experience right now. Everyone knows the o-line is the initial challenge. It won't help in their rapid development to have the Gator defense humiliate them in from of the home fans.
In Mullen's second year, there's a jump in offensive capability that's anticipated and expected. As the season progresses, the line will come together and improve to better match the talent level at other offensive positions. We will see the return of a potent and consistent Gator offense this season. The O & B game reflected those developments.
Mtn, saw some good stuff with the OL yesterday. Saw some players getting reps as Orange and Blue. Of course those were clothes.choreographed to let the coaches see what they were looking for. If the 2s 3s come along fast enough to fill in they'll be a strength this year.
Wasn't that the defense we were playing during the McLoser years?
Honestly, the only issue for our defense is where Polite was. He had a uniquely good year. Other than that, we should be pretty much as good or better this year at every other spot. I think our run defense should be better and our pass defense may be much better with the right linebacker in the game. Reese can't cover well but we already know that. It's the other linebacker spot that could be big improvement.
65% of the question on the team is on OL. 30% is qb(can Franks be consistently good?). 5% the rest of the team.
I'd say that's a pretty fair assessment from your perspective, David — mine is a tad different c regards to the OL and in particular Franks. Acknowledge that it's hard to tell in this type of game and you certainly have to be keen to certain indicators, but those that I was able to pluck out made me think that things will not be that dire for the OL when all is said and done. That is, I'm thinking that they may "come of age" (in SEC context) perhaps before the Auburn game. We'll see if you're right or I'm right, I suppose. Now, c respect to Franks and his development — same nuances applied for this type of scrimmage — I don't agree fully that he's 30% questionable. StL's in depth analysis of him notwithstanding, and again taking in to consideration a limited opposing defense, I saw a lot more improvement in him. I think he's on the verge of a huge compensation for his processing liabilities in terms of accuracy and especially in terms of running with power. Again, we'll see if that's true early on.
I sure hope Cody Alan was there yesterday and will see fit to post his impressions too.


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Opposites attract in this epic and spellbinding novel, which transports us from the untamed beauty of St Kilda to the glamour and intrigues of high society in the 1930s. The Last Summer is the first book in The Wild Isle series by Sunday Times bestseller Karen Swan, inspired by the true history of St Kilda and its small island community.
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Summer on St Kilda – a wild, remote Scottish island.
Two strangers from drastically different worlds meet . . .
Wild-spirited Effie Gillies has lived all her life on the small island of St Kilda but when Lord Sholto, heir to the Earl of Dumfries, visits, the attraction between them is instant. For one glorious week she guides the handsome young visitor around the isle, falling in love for the first time – until a storm hits and her world falls apart.
Three months later, St Kilda falls silent as the islanders are evacuated for a better life on the mainland. With her friends and family scattered, Effie is surprised to be offered a position working on the Earl's estate. Sholto is back in her life but their differences now seem insurmountable, even as the simmering tension between them grows. And when a shocking discovery is made back on St Kilda, all her dreams for this bright new life are threatened by the dark secrets Effie and her friends thought they had left behind.
'The most exciting, enchanting and evocative story of forbidden love I've ever read. I truly loved it and am waiting feverishly for the second instalment' - Cathy Bramley, author of The Summer That Changed Us
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San Antonio Huista är en kommunhuvudort i Guatemala.   Den ligger i departementet Departamento de Huehuetenango, i den västra delen av landet,  km nordväst om huvudstaden Guatemala City. San Antonio Huista ligger  meter över havet och antalet invånare är .

Terrängen runt San Antonio Huista är varierad. Den högsta punkten i närheten är  meter över havet,  km sydost om San Antonio Huista. Runt San Antonio Huista är det ganska tätbefolkat, med  invånare per kvadratkilometer. Närmaste större samhälle är Jacaltenango,  km öster om San Antonio Huista. I omgivningarna runt San Antonio Huista växer huvudsakligen savannskog.

Årsmedeltemperaturen i trakten är  °C. Den varmaste månaden är april, då medeltemperaturen är  °C, och den kallaste är juni, med  °C. Genomsnittlig årsnederbörd är  millimeter. Den regnigaste månaden är juni, med i genomsnitt  mm nederbörd, och den torraste är mars, med  mm nederbörd.

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Its not the enemys strength, its the enemys weakness Shanghai is 21 points ahead of the competition
2020-01-07 16:54:39 category:Sports
The Beijing team in the away battle cant enter into the competition state. It plays iron continuously outside the three-point line. On the contrary, although the strength of Shanghai team is not as good as that of its rivals, the first half of the match was a brilliant one, which has been killing Beijing team. With Shi Yuchens quick counterattack and layup, Shanghai team established a 21 point lead. On the other hand, there is no effective counterattack in Beijing. After half-time, Beijing was 30-49 behind.
I dont know if I drank ecstasy at half-time. In the third quarter, the whole team came back to Shanghai and fell into a sleepwalking state. And the power of Hamilton and Youdus two towers on the side of Beijing team began to play. Hamilton continued to score points, and Youdu also staged a good fight back.
Everyone of Beijing team is fighting for the first place, but Shanghai side doesnt show a strong desire for survival. In this competition, Shanghai team only got 6 points, among which Dong Hanlin, Mo taiyunus and Zhang Chunjun got 2 points respectively.
It took more than three minutes in the third quarter before morteunas scored the first point for the team. After that, it took another three minutes for Zhang Chunjun to get the second goal of this section. Shanghai team has only scored in these two sports games. With 2:46 seconds left in the game, Dong Hanlin forced an attack on the inside line, causing Hamilton to commit a foul and hit twice. This is the last time Shanghai team scored in this section. At this time, Shanghai team led by two points with 55-53, but they didnt get a point in nearly three minutes, and Beijing team scored another nine points. From 19 points ahead to 7 points behind, Shanghai team only spent one game time.
At the end of the game, the Shanghai team was back in shape, but the Beijing team firmly took the lead. The two teams drew 22 games at the end of the quarter, and finally Shanghai suffered a big reversal with 77-84.


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Q: How to draw an irregular loop in Tikz I'm trying to illustrate a sensor network inside a domain. This is what I have right now:

Here is the code I used to generate this:
\documentclass[border=5mm]{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
    \begin{tikzpicture}[scale=1]
        \foreach \i /\x/\y in {
            1/1/1.7320508075689,
            2/-1/1.7320508075689,
            3/-2/0,
            4/-1/-1.7320508075689,
            5/1/-1.7320508075689,
            6/2/0,
            7/4/0,
            8/4.7/0.6,
            9/4.7/-0.6
        }{
            \node [coordinate] (n\i) at (\x,\y) {\i};
        }

        \foreach \i in {1,...,9} {
            \fill (n\i) circle (1pt);
            \fill [orange,opacity=0.3] (n\i) circle (1.4142135623731);
            %\draw [red] (n\i) circle (1);
            %\draw [green] (n\i) circle (3.1622776601684);
        }
    \end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

and what I would like to achieve is something that has this on top:

Would anyone have any advice on doing something like this?

A: I see no other ways than drawing it by yourself with the calc library and the curve line tool for \draw command. Here I post just the partial work, you can imagine how to continue, also depending on where you want you curve to pass.
Here I just used the out in options which are explained in the tikz documentation (p. 101):

[...] if you write (a) to [out=135,in=45] (b) a curve is added to
  the path, which leaves at an angle of 135◦ at a and arrives at an
  angle of 45◦ at b. This is because the options in and out trigger a
  special path to be used instead of the straight line [...]

\documentclass[border=5mm]{standalone}

    \usepackage{tikz}
    \usetikzlibrary{calc}

\begin{document}
    \begin{tikzpicture}[scale=1]
        \def\radius{1.4142135623731}
        \def\posyA{1.7320508075689}
        \def\posyB{0}
        \def\posyC{0.6}

        \foreach [count=\i] \x/\y in {%
            1/\posyA,
            -1/\posyA,
            -2/\posyB,
            -1/-\posyA,
            1/-\posyA,
            2/\posyB,
            4/\posyB,
            4.7/\posyC,
            4.7/-\posyC}{%
                \node [coordinate] (n\i) at (\x,\y) {\i};
                \fill (n\i) circle (1pt);
                \fill [orange, opacity=0.3] (n\i) circle (\radius);
                }
        \draw[blue, thick] ($(n2) + (0, 1)$) to[out=180, in=180] ($(n4) - (.5, 1)$)
            to[out=0, in=250] ($(n5) + (1, -.5)$)
            to[out=0, in=250] ($(n5) + (1, -.5)$);
    \end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

OUTPUT

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Original drawings held at the Waging Peace London office.
In 2007, Waging Peace traveled to the refugee camps of eastern Chad to interview displaced Chadian and Darfuri refugees who had escaped the war in Sudan's Darfur region. While there, the Waging Peace representatives gave paper, crayons, and pens to the children in the camps aged 6 to 18 years old. The children were then asked to draw their hopes for the future and their memories of the war. This collection includes 500 drawings, most of which depict what the children saw when their villages and homes were attacked and destroyed by militia groups. In November 2007, the drawings were taken to the International Criminal Court in the Hague and were accepted by the court as contextual evidence of the crimes committed in Darfur by the government of Sudan and the Janjaweed militia group.
For more information about Waging Peace, visit their website. For more information on the partnership between the USF Holocaust & Genocide Studies Center and Waging Peace, click here.


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Rick Moranis - Quotes
There are 42 quotes by Rick Moranis at 95quotes.com. Find your favorite quotations and top quotes by Rick Moranis from this hand-picked collection about music. Feel free to share these quotes and sayings on Facebook, Pinterest, Tumblr & Twitter or any of your favorite social networking sites.
I always find it flattering when somebody recognizes me.
I have forty-six cookbooks. I have sixty-eight takeout menus from four restaurants. I have one hundred and sixteen soy sauce packets. I have three hundred and eighty-two dishes, bowls, cups, saucers, mugs and glasses. I eat over the sink. I have five sinks, two with a view. ---->>>
There will always be another group of kids going to college, drinking beer, and discovering that movie. Many of them have never even heard of SCTV. ---->>>
The actual process of filmmaking, the many hours out of your life- it is very slow and boring. I'm not interested in that now unless an opportunity was provided for me. ---->>>
Well, I took a sabbatical. I walked away from shooting movies because I couldn't handle the travel. I'm a single parent. I had young kids, and I found that keeping in touch with them from hotel rooms and airports wasn't working for me. So I stopped. ---->>>
Like all teenagers in the early '60s, I put down my hockey stick when the Beatles got big and picked up a guitar. We all thought we'd be rock stars. Then I got into comedy, but I'd always find a way to use my guitar, such as writing songs and doing musical parodies. ---->>>
What we see is what they're trying to sell us. It's not true nostalgic as much as it is repeating old material because it's less expensive than new material. ---->>>
When I was a little kid, it was not uncommon for a cousin or an uncle, before they would even say 'Hello,' to gush, 'You know, your mother's brisket is just incredible; it's so good.' That was an inspiration for creating a love song in that well-worn terrain of the relationship between a Jewish boy and his mother. ---->>>
When you're 5 ft. 5 in., have a round Jewish face and wear glasses and refuse to wear contacts, you're going to get offered certain parts. People thought of me as the nerdy guy, even in non-nerdy parts like 'Parenthood.' I didn't feel the need to change anything I was doing - I embraced it. ---->>>
Well, whether it's on film or on TV, you don't want to throw too many curves at your audio and video guys. ---->>>
And we had the perhaps unfair advantage of not having to worry about what an audience was gonna think. We were in a vacuum. We were making little short films, really. ---->>>
I don't limit my taste. There's some jazz that I like and there's some opera. I've been listening to what was essentially country music, but it crossed over to rock. ---->>>
There's a song called 'Live Blogging the Himmel Family Bris.' I kind of went for it here in terms of - it was really fun to be explaining ritual circumcision in Nashville - a lot of brises are done in hospitals, but many are done in people's homes, and there's a lot of food, and a lot of leftovers. ---->>>
I think that I recall the nostalgic '50s: the start of early television and rock-and-roll, and I think everything seemed to get very generic. Not much has changed. ---->>>
I'm a single parent, and I just found that it was too difficult to manage raising my kids and doing the traveling involved in making movies. So I took a little bit of a break. And the little bit of a break turned into a longer break, and then I found that I really didn't miss it. ---->>>
This whole blogging stuff has been bugging me for years. Talk about no filter on things. People feel free to do and say whatever they want with no vetting, with no editing, with nothing. ---->>>
I pulled out of making movies in about '96 or '97. ---->>>
I think Alison Krauss and her band are the best today. The same goes for Rick Skaggs and his band. ---->>>
My own personal taste in films as a member of the audience was not completely in line with films I was doing. ---->>>
On the last couple of movies I made - big-budget Hollywood movies - I really missed being able to create my own material. ---->>>
A few years ago, I decided I wanted to be home with my family. ---->>>
About a year ago, out of the blue, I just wrote a bunch of songs. ---->>>
And I discovered after a couple years that I really didn't miss making movies. ---->>>
I have a problem with blogs - all the best writers benefit from edits. ---->>>
I have nine armchairs from which I can be critical. ---->>>
I just love when the Internet is wrong. It's the only thing that will save journalism. ---->>>
I was able to do a lot of music on 'SCTV,' and I was really lucky to do a musical; I got to sing the part of Seymour in 'Little Shop of Horrors.' ---->>>
I'm not good at making plans, because I never have been. I never do things with an idea of where they may wind up. ---->>>
There's a long tradition - certainly with country, but in all kinds of genres of music - to have humorous lyrics. Certainly with Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention and, if you look at country, Roger Miller and Jim Stafford. ---->>>
By the time I got to the point where I was 'starring' in movies, and I had executives telling me what lines to say, that wasn't for me. I'm really not an actor. I'm a guy who comes out of comedy, and my impetus was always to rewrite the line to make it funnier, not to try to make somebody's precious words work. ---->>>
Canada Day comes and goes modestly every year. Sure, there are retail sales promotions and a long weekend. But there isn't bluster or commodity in Canadian celebration. Canada isn't big on bunting. Or jet flyovers, fireworks, marching bands or military pomp. ---->>>
For me music is pretty personal. I generally listen to it alone, and I've never been a lover of concerts. So I don't think I really bond with other people over music. That's not unique to music for me, either. I feel that way about film, television, art, everything. I read a book alone, so why wouldn't I listen to music alone? ---->>>
Geddy Lee and I went to the same grade school. He moved away when we were still young, but I remember him like I do all my friends from back then. Then in 1982, Dave Thomas and I were approached to do a record as the McKenzie Brothers on Anthem Records, the same label that Rush was on. ---->>>
I am wary of sequels. I understand them from the studio's point of view, but the audience doesn't want more, they want better, and I thought the second 'Ghostbusters' was not very effective, it did not really work, so there's no reason to believe a third would. I'm more interested in new things. ---->>>
I have five television sets. (I like to think of them as a set of five televisions.) I have two DVR boxes, three DVD players, two VHS machines and four stereos. I have nineteen remote controls, mostly in one drawer. ---->>>
The decision in my case to become a stay-at-home dad, which people do all the time, I guess wouldn't have meant as much to people if I had had a very simple kind of make-a-living existence and decided I needed to spend more time at home. ---->>>
The only type of music I don't like is Dixieland jazz. It's just a little too happy and noisy for me. I like intervals and spaces in my music. There's just something about Dixieland. ---->>>
There are fans of some of the old movies that'll mention those, and there's people that have little kids that'll look at me and say, 'Wow, I just watched 'Honey, I Shrunk the Kids' 35,000 times, and here you are!' ---->>>
There's a gray area between Conservative and Orthodox people, for whom you don't screw around with the mezuzah, you don't mess with the holy melodies. ---->>>
Until 1982, Canada Day was known as Dominion Day. I always thought that had more of a ring to it. Beyond the zippy alliteration, it reminded us citizens that our domain of orderly domesticity was graced by the dominant power of our 'Dominus.' ---->>>
When I got to filmmaking, the most democratic of environments where anybody could say anything, those were the best environments, but what you don't want to assume is that you know what the audience is thinking. ---->>>
When the Beatles hit in the early '60s, I think the objection was more to the hair than the music. The McCartney melodies were undeniably beautiful. The parents of my generation couldn't deny 'Yesterday.' I happen to have been partial to the Beatles, but a lot of kids loved the Rolling Stones, and I don't know what their parents thought of them. ---->>>
Name: Rick Moranis
Nationality: Canadian
Birthplace: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Frederick Allan "Rick" Moranis (born April 18, 1953) is a Canadian-American actor, comedian, screenwriter, producer, musician and songwriter. He came to prominence in the sketch comedy series Second City Television (SCTV) in the 1980s and later appeared in several Hollywood films, including Strange Brew (1983), Ghostbusters (1984), Spaceballs (1987), Little Shop of Horrors (1986), Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989, and its 1992 and 1997 sequels), Parenthood (1989), My Blue Heaven (1990), and The Flintstones (1994) (wikipedia)


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Similar to his other music, the song is delicately crafted, constructed with delectable synth pop melodies and even harps. What really impresses, though, is Grossi's awesome delivery, an indication that You Are All I See is shaping up to be one very decent album. Comes out August 23rd via Vagrant.
New Active Child - "Way Too Fast"
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New: Active Child - "Evening Ceremony"
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Ліз Кембідж (, 18 серпня 1991) — австралійська баскетболістка, олімпійська медалістка.

Кембідж народилася в Лондоні 18 серпня 1991. Її батько нігерієц, а мати — австралійка. Коли дівчинці було три місяці її батьки розійшлися і мати забрала її з собою до Австралії. Спочатку вони жили в Кофс-Гарборі (Новий Південний Уельс), а пізніше в Мельбурні і Морнингтоні. Почала грати в баскетбол у віці 10 років.

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Glischropus — рід ссавців родини лиликових. Живе в пд.-сх. Азії й Індонезії.

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Голова і тіло довжиною 40 мм, хвіст довжиною 32–40 мм, передпліччя довжиною 28–35 мм, вага 3,5–4,5 г. Забарвлення від темно-червонувато-коричневого до чорнуватого зверху і блідіше знизу. Рід подібний до роду Нетопир (Pipistrellus), але відрізняється тим, що має краще розвинені подушечки.

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Lateral or outer hip pain is a common complaint that we treat at Mountain Health & Performance. There are many structures around the hip that can cause pain. The lower back can also refer pain into the hip, which makes things even more complex! This is why a detailed history and physical examination is an important part of getting to the root cause of your hip pain. At Mountain Health & Performance our chiropractors spend between 45 minutes to an hour with our patients on their first visit in order to correctly diagnose and provide a detailed treatment plan for your hip pain.
Outer hip pain (or lateral hip pain) is a common location that people experience pain. Once the lower back has been ruled out as a cause of lateral hip pain, our chiropractors will focus on determining which tissues may be causing pain. The most common tissues involved in outer hip pain are the gluteus medius and minimus tendons. When these tendons cause dysfunction and pain it is classified as a gluteus medius tendinopathy or a gluteal tendinopathy In the past this condition has been labelled as hip tendonitis or hip bursitis but more recent research has revealed that painful tendons rarely involve inflammation and that the bursa is less commonly involved. Tendinitis (or Tendonitis) means "inflammation of the tendon," but many doctors may still use the term tendinitis out of habit. For the purpose of this article we will refer to hip tendonitis/bursitis as a gluteal tendinopathy.
The most common form of tendinopathy is tendinosis. Tendinosis is a noninflammatory degenerative condition that is characterised by collagen degeneration in the tendon due to repetitive overloading. Therefore tendinopathies do not respond well to anti-inflammatory treatments and are best treated with functional rehabilitation. The best results occur with early diagnosis and intervention.
The glutues medius muscle help provide side-to-side stability to our pelvis and allow us to move our hips in various ways. The tendon of the gluteus medius muscle inserts onto the greater trochanter, which is a bony prominence on the outside of the thigh (femur). The IT band also crosses the greater trochanter and can place compression on the gluteus medius tendons when the hip is weak and or placed in certain positions. Over time increased compression on these tendons can lead to weakening and changes in structure of the tendons. Gluteal tendinopathy is a compressive issue therefore, anything that increases compression on the tendon is going to aggravate or worsen the condition. Unfortunately there are various things that patients do to help their outer hip pain, which actually hurts them in the long run. This is why a proper history and diagnosis is really important to treating any painful muscle, joint or nerve condition. Let's look at the top 5 ways people make their hip pain worse and exacerbate a gluteal tendinopathy.
There is a common misconception that stretching is a long-term solution to muscle or joint pain. When we are in pain it is almost second nature to want to "stretch it out". You may even feel better during or shortly after a stretch because of something called "stretch induced analgesia". This is a complex neurological phenomenon but simply put you're replacing pain signals with stretch signals and creating a distraction from pain for a short moment.
A gluteal tendinopathy may also cause the muscles around the hip to feel tense. Piriformis and IT band stretches are commonly prescribed by practitioners for various lower back, hip and knee conditions. It's easy to understand why patients believe that stretching these muscles will be beneficial however it's actually one of the worst things you can do if you have a gluteal tendinopathy. These external rotation and adduction stretches will place compression on an already compressed and irritated tendon which will make things much worse in the long run. Take a look at some of the common piriformis and ITB stretches below and cut those out of your routine if you are currently doing them.
Clam shells are also a commonly prescribed exercise for low back, hip and knee pain. It's an easy exercise that patients default to if the hips feel painful and weak. Strengthening the hip is an important part of treating a gluteal tendinopathy however, the muscles must be strengthened in a very specific way to ensure that there is no added compression on the tendons. As we discussed above any stretches or exercises that place the hip in external rotation (figure 4) or adduction (hip dropping down) will compress the gluteus medius tendon. The clam exercise places the hip into external rotation repeatedly so it's an important exercise to scrap when healing from this condition. There are various other gluteus medius exercises that can be done to strengthen the hip in a way that will not place compression in the tendon. These will be specifically prescribed by the chiropractors at Mountain Health once a diagnosis of a gluteal tendinopathy has been made.
Foam rolling is a great way to loosen up muscles and warm the body up for exercise. Typically foam rolling muscles that feel tense or sore is fine but for compression injuries like a gluteal tendinopathy, foam rolling right over the compressed tendons will…. add more compression. While trying to loosen things up you are irritating a gluteal tendinopathy. If you really want to foam roll just make sure not to roll directly over the side of the hips. Roll out your lower back, quads and hamstrings all day just avoid the sides of the hips and thighs for now!
A lot of us sit for a living, or spend a lot of time at home sitting on a computer or watching TV. Because of the amount of time spent sitting it's important to avoid placing the gluteal tendons in compression for long periods of time. If we sit with the legs crossed (one foot on the knee or ankles crossed) we add compression and irritate a gluteal tendinopathy. Low chairs will also create more compression on the tendons. Try to sit with the hips, knees and ankles straight (feet flat) and if you have a low chair try adding a cushion wedge to decrease the angle between the hip and torso.
Remember that IT band stretch that you should avoid? Well a lot of us actually stand in a similar position. Hanging off the hip or standing with one hip dropping out to the side is a common pattern a lot of us revert to. It is less work for the muscles on the sides of the hips (including gluteus medius) when we stand with the hip dropped down to the side. You can see in the picture below how the woman is standing in a position where the hip hangs to the side. Every time you let your hip hang you are putting that hip under compression and irritating a gluteal tendinopathy.
This posture may be a pattern that is easy to fix but may also be due to lack of endurance in the muscles and or weakness in the hips. It could also be due to anatomical variants like a leg length inequality. Try your hardest to avoid this posture but it's also important to start training these muscles in various ways to help support you in a neutral posture. A leg length inequality can also be investigated and diagnosed by the chiropractors at Mountain Health and Performance.
Posture Below: It feels easier and like less work to stand in this position but long term it is irritating a gluteal tendinopathy.


I got the report handed in on Friday. I noticed a couple of minor errors after it had been printed, but nothing significant. The report and the application are now on my website if anyone's interested.
I'm doing some planning for the presentation on Wednesday, but the pressure has now eased off a bit, so I've been able to get 8 hours of sleep a night with a clear conscience.
I've also watched a couple of films: "Pitch Black" on Friday, and "The Chronicles of Riddick" on Saturday. I didn't see "Pitch Black" when it came out a few years ago - it was shown at Picocon, but I didn't watch it because I was involved in the organisation of the event, so I was busy. More generally, I figured that Vin Diesel means "brain dead action film", so I wasn't particularly fussed. I then heard people saying that it was a more cerebral film, so I thought I should give it a go with the sequel coming out. When I saw it, I was a bit concerned about it being "arty" at first, but that eased off after a while. Overall, I'd say that they're both decent action films, so they're quite fun, but they don't exactly have deep characterisation.
Oh, and one odd thing about the rental version of "Pitch Black" - when you put the DVD in, it starts by showing the first 5 minutes of "Chronicles of Riddick". We didn't realise it was a trailer until the end of the clip (we thought it was the start of the first film), by which point it had given away part of the ending of the first film. So, something to be aware of if you rent it.
They also had the usual batch of adverts and trailers at the cinema - none of the upcoming films look particularly inspiring. There were some odd aspects of the sequence. One advert was against domestic violence; I assume it was deliberately going for shock value, and it succeeded, but it made a rather uncomfortable change of pace compared to the funny adverts surrounding it. They also had a safety advert saying "Don't use your mobile phone while driving", with menu options on the mobile like "Crash the car" and "Kill your girlfriend". Fair enough - not something that really applies to me on the motorbike, but probably prudent advice, especially after recent news reports. However, this was immediately followed by a trailer for Cellular, where the hero gets involved in saving people by answering his mobile while driving. It could be argued that this is sending mixed messages to the general public... Unless they're going for a "Sliding Doors" style morality play (in that film, the version of her who stood clear of the closing doors on the Tube came out better than the version who jammed them open to get in).
Pitch Black and the Chronicles of Riddick are bridged by an anime, which may or may not be any good (it got a higher rating than Chronicles, but had far fewer votes, so it's harder to be sure).


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Q: help me reason about F# threads In goofing around with some F# (via MonoDevelop), I have written a routine which lists files in a directory with one thread:
let rec loop (path:string) =
  Array.append
    (
        path |> Directory.GetFiles
    )
    (
        path
        |> Directory.GetDirectories
        |> Array.map loop
        |> Array.concat
    )

And then an asynchronous version of it:
let rec loopPar (path:string) =
  Array.append
    (
        path |> Directory.GetFiles
    )
    (
        let paths = path |> Directory.GetDirectories
        if paths <> [||] then
            [| for p in paths -> async { return (loopPar p) } |]
            |> Async.Parallel
            |> Async.RunSynchronously
            |> Array.concat
        else
            [||]
    )

On small directories, the asynchronous version works fine.  On bigger directories (e.g. many thousands of directories and files), the asynchronous version seems to hang.  What am I missing?
I know that creating thousands of threads is never going to be the most efficient solution -- I only have 8 CPUs -- but I am baffled that for larger directories the asynchronous function just doesn't respond (even after a half hour).  It doesn't visibly fail, though, which baffles me.  Is there a thread pool which is exhausted?
How do these threads actually work?
Edit:
According to this document:

Mono >=2.8.x has a new threadpool that is much, much harder to deadlock. If you get a threadpool deadlock chances are that your program is trying to be deadlocked.

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A: Yes, most likely you are overwhelming the Mono thread pool which is grinding your system's performance to a halt.
If you remember one thing from this, it is that threads are expensive. Each thread needs its own stack (megabytes in size) and slice of CPU time (requiring context switching). Because of this, it is rarely a good idea to spin up your own thread for short lived tasks. That is why .NET has a ThreadPool.
A ThreadPool is an existing collection of threads for short tasks, and it is what F# users for its Async workflows. Whenever you do run an F# Async operation, it simply delegates the action to the thread pool.
The problem is, what happens when you spawn thousands of asynchronous actions in F# all at once? A naive implementation would simply spawn as many threads as needed. However, if you need 1,000 threads that means you need 1,000 x 4MB of stack space. Even if you had enough memory for all the stacks, your CPU would constantly be switching between the different threads. (And paging the local stacks in and out of memory.)
IIRC, the Windows .NET implementation was smart enough not to spawn a ton of threads and simply queue the work up until there were some spare threads to perform the actions. In other words, it would keep adding threads until it had a fixed number and just use those. However, I don't know how Mono's thread pool is implemented.
tl;dr: This is working as expected.

A: Chris is probably right. The other angle to consider is that filesystems are not fixed things -- are those directories with thousands of files changing as you are trying to process the list? If so, that could be causing a race condition somewhere.


Security Balance: What should I do about BYOD?
There are lots of people providing canned advice about BYOD (for all the cloud related stuff too). It's very important to understand that the only correct answer for the "what should I do about BYOD" question is the standard lawyer line: it depends.
Technology trends (I don't question the fact that it is indeed a trend) such as BYOD often bring advice in the form of "you can't fight the future" and "security is past the time of blocking new stuff". I definitely agree that anyone working with security should keep an open mind, specially for technology trends. But those that are always anxious to stay on the bleeding edge should also understand that security must consider multiple factors when making decisions. BYOD is a very good example for that.
How prepared is the organization for BYOD? What's the maturity and technology state of the organization network? About the applications, are they prepared to be used in a BYOD way? What's the point of allowing people to work on their iPads if most of them use to work on fat client applications running on Windows? What about access control, encryption, etc? Is your network prepared to handle those for those devices?
Technology is only one aspect. Of course it's easier to people to read email on only one nice smartphone. But are there any compliance regulations that should be considered? Financial Institutions usually have to comply with a lot of regulations regarding monitoring and controlling employee communications, how will they enforce those in a BYOD model?
It may be straightforward to decide about BYOD in a startup in California, but a big defense supplier may have a few additional threats to consider when deciding about that. Keep that in mind when someone asks for advice on BYOD and any other technology trend. The answer may not be as simple as you would expect.


I know for a fact we have Linux that is 10 years out of support (EoL) and still in use, and if there was a flaw specific to that (and not newer versions) I would still CVE it so at least people are aware of the flaws existence. And like G.I. Joe says "knowing is half the battle".
In this specific case, the discoverer contacted the CNA and received a case number. However, they were told that the unsupported/obsolete product was outside the scope of the CNA.
As Kent mentioned, this would be a good Board discussion and we could drive to a specific CNA rule that covers this situation. Does anyone disagree with Kent's perspective?
Yes. We should always give them the opportunity and redirect to them first if they exist. If they refuse, then a next available CNA could be contacted. One item for the Board discussion, as the backup CNA how would we verify that this conversation took place.
>From my perspective... I would like it to be the vendor CNA if one still exists. If the vendor refuses or is no longer in business, then next up would be to go to a secondary CNA such as you list.
I would hope the vendor would want to issue that themselves even if the product is EOL. There is concern in various circles that this type of acknowledgement from the vendor on an EOL'ed product could cause some liability on that vendor. Abandonware is going to become more and more of a problem with the new emerging device landscape. Who owns the problems they create?
Next, is it up to a more generic CNA like MITRE, DWF, CERT/CC, JPCERT/CC?


The greatest achievement for any entrepreneur is when you scale the greatest heights in your career. Owning a business is one thing, and making the best of it is another.
Despite all the challenges, every business person desires success for their business.
After some time, the business owner may feel like selling their business. However, they may not be sure whether it is the right thing to do.
The reason one may hesitate is because they may not have another plan in mind, and they are probably not sure whether their current disinterest will change or it will remain constant.
In a business, there are both positives and negatives. However, most people only look on the positive side and assume that the negative is temporary. If you are a business owner and you notice that your business is affecting your health, then it is time you put it on sale. This will save you from dying due to illnesses like blood pressure and depression. When your business gets out of hand and you are unable to manage it properly, you might start having constant migraines due to stress. If this situation is serious and even the doctor gives you a warning, it is definitely time to put your business on sale.
According to wikihow.com, the success of every business is measured by its growth. In most businesses, the owner is also considered an asset. You are an asset to your business because you implement ideas and policies. From these ideas and policies, you are able to generate more revenue and achieve your goals as a company. It comes a time when the company outgrows you. When this happens, you are no longer an asset to your company, but a liability. This is a clear sign that you need to sell it or exit to pursue other opportunities.
Sometimes, as an entrepreneur, you might get a more interesting and lucrative opportunity. It is wise to go for greener pastures if you have reached your maximum capacity where you are. Whenever another worthwhile business idea presents itself, pursue it wholeheartedly and exit your current commitments. It is okay to grow. When selling your business, you should consider the available options in the market. If you are still going to invest in another business, what will you invest in and are there chances of succeeding? You need to evaluate all options and know the odds of each.
The market is growing every day As technology keeps changing with regard to business. If you don't keep up with the trends, you might end up being irrelevant. Your competitors may have already incorporated new techniques that have increased revenue on their ends and left you struggling to hold on to a small share of the market. In such a case, it would be best to hire the best brokers to sell your business for you before it loses more value.


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peter_speckhard
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As some of you know, I participate in a group sponsored by the College of Pastoral Leaders at Austin Theological Seminary. Our last conference was on the theme of Time and Place and featured Marva Dawn as one of the main presenters. Recently everyone who participated was invited to submit a reflection on that topic for a collection. Since I am the only LCMS person in the program I thought I would share my reflection here, too. (They said it was fine to submit it in multiple places.)
Driving out of town and following the signs for Denmark, you pass through Poland and then turn left and head into Luxemburg. Such places pepper this whole section of the map near Green Bay, interspersed with names like Oneida, Kewaunee or Shawano. The fields and forests form (if you ever get up high enough on a ridge to notice) a vaguely defined grid of country roads draped over the contours of the creeks and ridges and hills that prevent the lines from running straight. If there are idle tears involved with looking on the happy autumn fields and thinking of the days that are no more, the tears may partly dwell on the pre-historic, Native American past, but they recall the bygone things of the European settlers, too, among these faded red barns on fieldstone foundations.
You can still navigate by steeples in the distance. The larger Catholic churches and smaller but more numerous Lutheran churches are spaced for distances reckoned by wagon and built with the assumption of big families on the surrounding farms, so they seem ridiculously close together as you're driving along. You're never out of sight of the next steeple. Some of the littler churches have closed their doors and left the building as a relic for the surrounding cemetery. Some of the churches are so small that one old-fashioned extended family could fill every pew and then some, if any such families were still around and still interested in that sort of thing. But some of the churches still ring the bells for worship. And back when the churches were built, they held up the cross as the only thing above the tree-lined horizon to navigate by, fixed upon the very tops of the steeples like little buckles or clasps securing the land to the sky.
But you're more likely to navigate by something else. Long after the churches were built, the little silos next to the red barns gave way to mammoth blue silos standing in formation above long rows of sheds, as the farms grew larger and the families smaller. Some of the time you might notice a little cross on top of a big silo, presumably put there in deference to the old idea that the food of this life was not the most important thing. There is, after all, a whole parable about the folly of bigger barns. Or maybe whoever put the cross up there unintentionally crowned the silo like a church. In any event, the people who built the tall churches had long since died when these taller silos went up and left the old family-farm silos to crumble.
Or you might navigate by the impossibly tall satellite towers, substance-less and mostly invisible, with cables like puppet strings against the sky. The towers are almost invisible as structures but noticeable for miles in any direction because of their glaring red lights, which show up even in broad daylight. They're the chief thing you see at night, and even airplanes can navigate by them. From the top of such towers you could look down on scores of steeples. But you don't make much progress against them driving—the satellite towers are so tall and so far apart that you don't need them to navigate the little distance from Denmark to Luxemburg.
The newest and therefore most eye-catching feature of the landscape would have to be the occasional high-tech windmill. They have a certain space-age look to them—sleek and delicate but deceptively tall—certainly taller than the steeples or anything else that might interfere with the harvesting of wind. If you ever see one swivel, it can sometimes look startlingly like a vast, alien being surveying the landscape from a little ridge overlooking the fields.
So the steeples aren't the tallest things. Prosperity and mammon-worship and the building of bigger barns gave way to technology and man-worship and the babble of a million channels, which is now giving way to environmentalism and nature worship and a reduction in the number of mouths to feed, which will give way to what? There is an ever-changing progressive spirit at enmity with all those old-fashioned churches and their steeples and crosses. Who knows what the horizon out in the country will look like a hundred years from now? But if you proposed to build a church with a steeple higher than a modern windmill you probably couldn't even get a permit.
The particular steeple I am looking for is St. Paul's Lutheran Church, a little more than twenty miles out in the country east of Green Bay. Their pastor is very ill and recently retired, so I am filling in during the vacancy. The church is in Montpelier, a name without a discernible referent here, geological or otherwise. The congregation was founded by German immigrants in the mid-nineteenth century and moved to its current location in 1865. The current brick building with a steeple sticking up past the old trees went up in 1888. The cemetery sits behind and to one side, with a brand new parochial school building and parking lot to the other side, with woods and farms beyond in every direction.
Today I get the honor of dedicating the new school building as part of the service, which is a shame because I don't know these people well enough to appreciate their big day the way their ailing former pastor would. The school is celebrating its 125th year of k-8 Lutheran education, beginning from a one-room schoolhouse and classes in German, to the "old old" building (now gone) to the twice renovated "new old" building still standing across the road (too much asbestos in it to tear it down, so it is used for storage) to today's brand new school building with a gym and everything.
I'm early and I don't have a key, so I decide to check out the cemetery. On a whim I want to find the oldest person here. I begin with the most cracked, worn and mossy and unreadable stones, and by tracing my finger in the vague indentations I find a man who was born in 1792 and died in 1868. The names are all German—Gruetzmacher, Dahlke, Zeitler—row after row in an orderly grid from those who were already old in 1865 all the way up to the present with funerals the previous pastor did earlier this year. The names remain the same, but the language of the Bible and hymn verses engraved on the stones changes from German to English right around the first world war. There are some veterans of that war here, who fought and maybe killed or were killed by other Gruetzmachers, Dahlkes and Zeitlers. Some of the older stones display not only names but family vocations like Mother, Father, or sometimes Aunt or Beloved Son, and sometimes those relationships are in bigger lettering than the actual names. The newer stones are still shiny and looking like they will always be shiny.
Some people arrive early for church and hustle into the school building to do some last minute preparations for the pot-luck, so I take the opportunity to walk through the new school all decked out for classes to start. The principal—Mrs. Zeitler—shows me around the hallways and classrooms—row after row of shiny desks labeled with colorful nametags—Dahlke, Gruetzmacher and a host of other familiar names from the cemetery interspersed among them.
Over in the church, people are streaming in excitedly and filling the narthex, which is an obvious ad-on to the front of the building from about 40 or 50 years ago. The sanctuary holds maybe 200 people tops, but today they will be, as they say, hanging from the rafters—extra chairs everywhere, balcony full, people standing in the narthex and even outside. The mailboxes along one wall are labeled with row after row of Zeitlers and Gruetzmachers and so forth, some of whom tell me about the big dedication of the new old school building in 1950 and how this day compares to that day. Old-timers in wheelchairs who remember the hitching posts out front like yesterday and toddlers and infants in carseat carriers who will live to see God-knows-what before they take their place out in the cemetery all pack themselves tighter together as the church bells begin to chime.
The chancel is lavish with old world religion original to the 1888 construction—statues and paintings and an ornate elevated pulpit in which I am to stand. I don't know these people. I am a child of the same German Lutheran immigration and the same, vague European grid draped over the contours of the Upper Midwest in the 19th century, so in broad sociological terms I am one of them. But I have never been to this grid of gravestones, these rows of school desks, this particular block of church mailboxes. I can't say I know these particular people.
But no matter. I know what they believe, teach, and confess. I know what their retired pastor would say, as would the pastor before him and before him. I know what the next generation will say, for I will be the one teaching it to them, at least for a little while. I know what all the headstones in the cemetery bear witness to, and what the builders of this building were trying to proclaim when they climbed the scaffold to put the cross on the steeple and looked out on nothing taller to the horizon. I know what the progressive spirit with its idols towering above the steeples would try to prevent them from saying, but what the people of all ages here would still say in unison if I began at the beginning today by asking, "What is the first commandment?" You shall have no other gods before me. What does this mean? We should fear, love, and trust in God above all things.
And we all still sing, "As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end, Amen."
Jeremy Loesch
Re: Time and Place
That is very nice. Thank you. Blessings on your work during the vacancy.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost!
A Lutheran pastor growing into all sorts of things.