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A Year Later, Woman Priest Sees GrowthOn a brutally hot morning this month, Joan Clark Houk was preparing for out-of-town journeys, first to New York City and then to Minneapolis, Minn. "This summer I have a lot of traveling with these ordinations," she said while sitting at her round pine dining room table. The McCandless woman made news last summer when she joined 11 other women aboard the Majestic, a boat in the Gateway Clipper Fleet. There, Mrs. Houk and the other women were ordained as part of a movement called Roman Catholic Womenpriests, which started ordaining women as priests and deacons in 2002.During that Sunday afternoon river cruise a year ago today, the 12 women participated in the first ceremony of its kind in the United States. After three women dressed in white vestments laid their hands on the heads of the 12 women and anointed their hands with oil, eight were named priests and four became deacons. While the Vatican does not recognize the ordinations, the Womenpriests movement, which began in Europe, has grown...
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There is a schismatic group off of Catholicism called The Old Catholic church they split off when the dogma of papal infallibility was introduced. When they split they begin to create there own dogmas and in 1990 they ordained the first female priest and this practice still continues! I can understand Anglicans doing that (seeing as they change with culture) but I thought the Catholics out of all would be still very rigid in doctrine but as it happened in Germany I believe the increase in secularism might have made dogma open to masses then to the holy spirit guiding the church!
They are excommunicated
Those women can keep playing "priestess" all they want. They are excommunicated, but to be honest, do they hold obedience to ANY Church teaching that contradicts their own desires?
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And why should someone hold obedience to an entity that has a long and well established history of discrimination and oppression towards their social class? It is said entity that needs to earn respect, the hard way...not simply demand it after spending 2000 years loosing all credibility on this matter. To counteract a radically oppressive past, equally radical change must be implemented.I for one am not too terribly impressed by Rome's history when it comes to women's rights and egalitarianism in general, so you'll forgive me if I fail to give the vatican any credibility on this matter. The Anglicans and Old Catholics are at least working to overcome their past and show genuine repentance...they're probably worth listening to.
Anyone that can support thier ideas and or actions are also heretics and need our prayers.
These people who are playing church are free to do that..."play church".
You see, the ordination of women to the priesthood isn't called a heresy by the Church because no major theologian (Saints of the Church, or even Synods) have tied a theological principal to it. Right now it's wrong because Holy Tradition says so, and because the local synods say so. Anyone who ordains women as priests (or who supports the idea) is advocating breaking the directions of the bishops and synods, and thus is advocating schism, not heresy (which is actually worse than heresy, according to St. John Chrysostom).
It was their schism that eventually made possible their female ordination and other innovations. If you cut a branch from a tree, it will eventually wither.
You do realize that you're a Roman Catholic making this argument on a Greek Orthodox board, right?
Yes Greek, Orthodoxy by its very nature is inherently Greek...are you trying to draw this discussion off on a tangent?
There's a difference?
Where'd he get Greek from. I'm Mexican. And Orthodox. Orthomex!
I see.Well, the Orthodox Church hasn't withered and died, nor has the Roman Catholic Church. Of course, it's a matter of opinion which is the branch and which is the tree, but suffice to say, we are in schism, and have been for a thousand years...and somehow we've both managed quite well without each other. I'm with GiC on this one.
There's been a lot of bad, biased reporting on these women and their publicity stunts: reporters insist on calling them 'Roman Catholic priests' then farther down in the article admit 'they're not recognised by the Vatican'. Right, that means they're not Roman Catholic priests.I respect anything with a real ministry to people, even if only two or three gather every week. It doesn't mean I'd receive Communion or join but it gets my respect... from the woman Anglican vicar who had to be accepted by her bishop and go to a seminary in order to serve a real parish to the hard-core Presbyterians who meet in a house in my town.Some of these women would be good Protestant ministers; others are just playing priest to spite their church.The Old Catholics AFAIK haven't invented new doctrine just like the Anglicans officially haven't done. They still believe the creeds. They did come into being to reject papal infallibility, in 1871, but were very strict and conservative until the 1970s. They now ordain women. lubeltri's right that they're basically Dutch and Middle European Broad Church Anglicans now, and a tiny minority in those countries. There are no Old Catholics in North America except one parish in Canada. There are lots of tiny churches that pretend they're Old Catholic.As for the issue itself there are two Catholic/Orthodox positions, 'it's impossible' or 'it's improbable but the whole church could decide to do it'. Either way it won't happen tomorrow if ever. (The Pope's belief: it's impossible and he doesn't have the authority to change it. Liberals can be funny about papal power sometimes: they talk as if he could allow this, gay weddings, etc.)
I agree that the ordination of women is inappropriate. Anyone who ordains women as priests (or who supports the idea) is advocating breaking the directions of the bishops and synods, and thus is advocating schism, not heresy (which is actually worse than heresy, according to St. John Chrysostom).
...like it or not, the liberalisation amongst Old Catholics is due in Large Part to Vatican II
For a clegyman to divorce is immediate removal form office regardless of wether it is church granted or not. Also a man who has been divorced before (remarried or not) can not recieve ordination...ever.Anyone (man or women) who has divorced by thier own means (in court) not in the church (which is the only authority over the marriage) is suspended of all sacraments until penance is completed as ordered by the priest or bishop. Ordination for the man will not be granted ...ever
It is not simply ordination alone that we are dealing with here....this sacrament is only 'sacred' because of its fussion to all other sacraments which are all the subject of the holy baptism and the holy body and precious blood of Christ. If we accept changes to one sacrament we automatically reformat all the sacraments for change (although not changing them right away). Its impossible to avoid this.Again; the 7 sacraments are bound. They are 1 faith. St. Paul said "it is a mystery". This is why serious orthodox christians would not even bother to comment on this issue (I hope to be able to be a serious orthodox one day ....for now Iam a wannabe). They feel it is a "non-sensical" waste of time to entertain changing the sacraments of the church and as such subjects like this one "should be left to those who choose to charaterize the true faith in thier own terms".Serious orthodox christian means: Follow the holy faith and holy tradition that comes down to us from the fathers and the apostles...in contrast with secular tensions of our era that seek to challenge our faith and to resist such secularism by all account and in every concern even when that which is porported is logical (proveable) to us. Serious orthodox christians are intent on turning over to the next generation the same faith and holy tradition that we recieved. As St Paul preached "be of one mind" and "keep that which was given to you by us".
Thanks for the info on the Old Catholics. I knew the PNCC left but not about the Slovak church leaving nor the situation in the remaining European churches.
Crisis in Utrecht Union – In last years arrived in advacement of Utrecht union to critical point, when because of decline of new attitude which was in conflict with authentic catholic doctrine, was from Utrecht Union default the biggest church Polish national catholic church in USA and Canada. As with this news: svätenie of women on priests and the beginning trend of blessing of homosexual couples, with this didn´t agree either Old Catholic Church in Slovakia, and decided on Extra Synod on 24. january 2004 to desert platform of Utrecht Union and came in to another oldcatholic aggregation called Union of Catholic Churches. It have more members like Utrecht union.When formally is the whole oldcatholic movement not so big, in presence lot of people are interested about it and we belive, that innovation of Curch and backward of "thriftless sons" to Father´s home will actualize soon. The hope to this give already 2. Vatican council, which did for this comeback big piece of work. More in declarations.
I agree.
The sad thing is, there is little to nothing in the actual documents of Vatican II to justify those changes, least of all female "ordination." There's some sort of phantom Vatican II that progressives like to imagine took place.
It's called the "Spirit of Vatican II", and if you've got Roman theologians, clergy, even bishops calling for such things contrary to the tradition - well, a few Old Catholics can be excused. I've seen enough to suggest that not a few Orthodox in some areas have also caught the "Spirit of Vatican II" as well.
Lord, almighty. We didn't need ecclesiastical judge and jury - you're not the synod, and definitely not the bishop, therefore the grace to ordain people is not yours (nor is it mine). And the decision over who to and not to ordain (... EVER) is certainly not yours or mine, either.*Sigh*We, as the faithful, have a duty to accept those who are candidates, and if we have objections, to state them to the ordain-er (the bishop) before the candidate is ordained. It is then up to the bishop or the synod to uphold the objection, or to reject it. And they will answer to Almighty God for their decision at that moment.So you're a bit, er, wrong when you say 'will not be ordained... ever,' or 'will be immediately removed from office.' You don't know that - partially because you don't know circumstances (did the wife abuse the husband, become an apostate, batter the kids, etc.); that is where the pastoral care of the spiritual fathers and bishops come in. Maybe not in your church, but certainly in ours. Some of the divorced priests are defrocked; some are not. I have heard of a divorced man receiving permission to be ordained; most do not.{AHEM}The rest of your post is good. I don't agree 100% (simply because I think there are people who bring the issue up who are not influenced by the secular feminist movement, nor any other socio-political movement), but I think you make some very good points.Um, two other things: I don't think that a change in ordination is a slippery-slope (and remember, I am against changes in ordination); all the sacraments are united in the Eucharist, which defines the boundaries of the Church and the membership in Christ's body; if there was a change in Eucharist, I think that would lead to a chain-reaction, but otherwise I don't think so.Secondly, I think serious Orthodox tackle whatever issues come their way from society: St. John Chrysostom, St. Athanasios, St. Cyril, St. Paul the Apostle, etc. - they all wrote about contemporary social, moral, political, and other sorts of issues. What separates those who are "serious" Orthodox and who are not are participation in the life of the Church and a focus on prayer in their lives.
I am not a bishop? or Synod?This is truely stating the obvious.All faithful are to be fully knowlegeable of the church and its canons. If I say to you or you say to me that "ordination is not allowed for those who are baptised outside the church" for example that does not mean the you or I are trying to be or proposing to be bishops or trying to judge or anything like that. We expressing simply the knowledge of the church to each other.
You seem to be a person who beleives that only the clergy should understand the church (which is rather typical thinking in the church among the laity). The laity has to embrace the church and its order. This inlcudes ordination and a general understanding of church canon.
I know about many orthodox communities that have all kinds of situations going on which should not be. The "circumstances" of individuals does not dictate canon. Canon dictates what we must be and maintain. The bishops may elect to bend a rule for a mans "circumstances" for whatever reason to obtain ordination or something else.
The Slovak church looks tame in a good sense - the archbishop is just a wayward Roman priest who wanted to get married.There's the dodgy 'proving our apostolic succession' page but they do seem to have real parishes so good for them.I don't know of an 'Orthodox Anglican' Church founded in 1967. There were what I call 'Dixiecrat Episcopalians', James Parker Dees and his Southern-based 'Anglican Orthodox Church' he started in 1963 reacting against all kinds of things: theological modernism, Anglo-Catholicism and the high-churchification in Episcopal practice at the time (it started to resemble RC practice even in middle-of-the-road parishes)... and IIRC the civil-rights movement and Episcopal involvement in it. He became a bishop thanks to some vagante Ukrainian pseudo-dox but was nothing to do with Eastern or Western Orthodoxy! His was a lowish Protestant Episcopal show. It still exists but is tiny. Practice is high by 19th-century standards but middle-of-the-road exactly as it was in Episcopal churches in 1963.Then there was the American Episcopal Church founded in 1968. Very similar but higher. Strange story that. An Englishman called Tony Clavier headed it as its archbishop. Merged in the 1990s with a Continuing church, the Anglican Catholic Church, and ended up causing still more splits. I think what's left of the AEC is now the Anglican Province in America, and what was the ACC are now the Anglican Church in America and the Anglican Catholic Church-Original Province. Clavier ended up chucking his position as bishop and many of his views, held for 30+ years, to become a mainstream liberalish Episcopalian; he is now a rector in West Virginia. (A son is still a Continuing priest.) He's nice but wrong.
Ahh, but you went from stating the obvious and the canons to editorializing and passing judgment when you added "... ever" to the end of the sentence; the canons themselves don't say "ever," but it is an implied concept. Your adding them for emphasis (methinks) was a bit too strong and presumptuous; but if that wasn't your intent, then I apologize.The strawman alarms are going off, Deacon. I have never in my 4580+ posts on OC.net advocated Lay ignorance or non-involvement. All I advocated in my previous post in this thread was an understanding of role differentiation: the laity can stop an ordination in progress, and prompt an investigation of the candidate, so it is indeed important for them to know the rules. But they will not be privy to the information that passes between an ordination candidate and their spiritual father and bishop - and that is where their roles dictate that they may know things that we don't.In the end, we are all responsible to know how the Church functions, but only the bishop (and Synod) has been placed in a position to pass Judgment (on behalf of Christ) as to whether or not an ordination will continue.You're right, they don't dictate canon - but they do dictate "... ever", which is the objectionable phrase in your original statement. Be careful. Economy (a deviation from the exactness of the canons) can be applied, but in its application it is (1) case-specific and (2) unable to set precedent. That's why individual cases don't dictate canon.
Ok!Strike "ever" from my previous post.Thanks for your responses.What does "the strawman alarms are going off" actually mean?I was not intending to imply that 'you' advocate lay ignorance.God bless you...Your servantDaecon Amde Tsion
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- 1 Installation
- 2 Alternative to install: use the web interface
- 3 Daemon
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- 5 Without Nautilus (Another Way)
- 6 Securing Your Dropbox
- 7 Multiple Dropbox Instances
- 8 Dropbox on Laptops
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dropboxAUR can be installed from the AUR. Alternatively, dropbox-experimentalAUR is also available.
- After installing the package, you can start Dropbox from your application menu or run
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- A pop-up will notify you that Dropbox is running from an unsupported location. Click on Don't ask again since you know that you have installed it from AUR rather than from the official homepage.
- Eventually a pop-up will ask you to log in to your Dropbox account or create a new account. Enter your credentials.
- After some time you will see a "Welcome to Dropbox" pop-up, which will give you the opportunity to view a short tour of Dropbox.
- Press the "Finish and go to My Dropbox".
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$ sudo touch /opt/dropbox/nautilus && sudo chmod +x /opt/dropbox/nautilus && sudo nano /opt/dropbox/nautilus. Dropbox will look in this path first!
Securing Your Dropbox
If you want to store sensitive data in your Dropbox, you should encrypt it before. Syncing to Dropbox is encrypted, but all files are (for the time being) stored on the server unencrypted just as you put them in your Dropbox.
- Dropbox works with TrueCrypt, and after you initially uploaded the TrueCrypt volume to Dropbox, performance is quite okay, because Dropbox has a working binary diff.
- Another possibility is to use EncFS, which has the advantage that all files are encrypted separately, i.e. you do not have to determine in advance the size of the content you want to encrypt and your encrypted directory grows and shrinks while you add/delete/modify files in it. You can also mount an encrypted volume at startup using the
-Soption of
encfsto avoid having to input the passphrase, but note that your encrypted files are not secure from someone who has direct access to your computer.
Multiple Dropbox Instances
If you need to separate or distinguish your data, personal and work usage for example, you can subscribe to Dropbox with different email addresses and have multiple directories synced to different instances.
The basic principle and general how-to are described in the Dropbox Wiki.
/home/dropbox-work, and so on.
For convenience, here is a script that I use to accomplish the task: just add a dir in the "dropboxes" list to have another instance of Dropbox, referring to the dir, loaded at script startup.
#!/bin/bash #******************************* # Multiple dropbox instances #******************************* dropboxes=(.dropbox-personal .dropbox-work) for dropbox in ${dropboxes[@]} do if ! [ -d $HOME/$dropbox ];then mkdir $HOME/$dropbox fi HOME=$HOME/$dropbox/ /usr/bin/dropbox start -i done
Dropbox on Laptops
Dropbox itself is pretty good at dealing with connectivity problems. If you have a laptop and roam between different network environments, Dropbox will have problems reconnecting if you do not restart it. The easiest way to solve this with netcfg is to use POST_UP and PRE_DOWN.
In every network profile you use (or in the Netcfg#Per-interface_configuration), add the appropriate commands:
POST_UP="any other code; su -c 'DISPLAY=:0 /usr/bin/dropboxd &' your_user" PRE_DOWN="any other code; killall dropbox"
Obviously, your_user has to be edited and 'any other code;' can be omitted if you do not have any. The above will make sure that Dropbox is running only if there is a network profile active.
If you have connectivity problem with NetworkManager, this thread on forum should be useful.
Known Issues
Dropbox keeps saying Downloading files
But in fact now files are synced with your box. This problem is likely to appear when your Dropbox folder is located on a NTFS partition whose mount path contains spaces. See more in the [forums]. To resolve the problem pay attention to your entry in
/etc/fstab. Avoid spaces in the mount path and set write permissions:
UUID=01CD2ABB65E17DE0 /run/media/username/Windows ntfs-3g uid=username,gid=users 0 0
Change the Dropbox location from the installation wizard
Some users experience the problem during setting-up Dropbox that they cannot select a Dropbox folder other than
/home/username/Dropbox. In this case when the window for changing the path is shown , hit CTRL+L, enter the location (e.g. /mnt/data/Dropbox) and click on the 'Choose' or 'Open' button.
Several file managers such as Thunar, Nautilus or its fork Nemo come with extensions that provide context menu entries for files and folders inside your Dropbox. Most of them will result in a browser action such as opening the file or folder in dropbox.com or sharing the link. If you experience these entries to not working, then you are likely to have not set the
$BROWSER variable which Dropbox requires. You can check that by
echo $BROWSER
To set your
$BROWSER variable open
~/.profile and replace
chromium with your default browser:
if [ -n "$DISPLAY" ]; then BROWSER=chromium fi
It may happen that Dropbox cannot connect successfully because it was loaded before an Internet connection was established. To solve the problem the content of the file
/opt/dropbox/dropboxd needs to be replaced with the following:
#!/bin/sh # Copyright 2008 Evenflow, Inc., 2010 Dropbox # # Environment script for the dropbox executable. start_dropbox() { PAR=$(dirname $(readlink -f $0)) OLD_LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$PAR:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH TMP1=`ps ax|grep dropbox|grep -v grep` if [ -n "$TMP1" ]; then kill -9 $(pidof dropbox) >/dev/null 2>&1 fi exec $PAR/dropbox $@ & } do_dropbox() { start_dropbox >/dev/null 2>&1 while [ 1 ]; do sleep 5 ERROR="$(net_test)" if [ -n "$ERROR" ]; then LAST_ERROR=1 else if [ -n "$LAST_ERROR" ]; then # Connection seems to be up but last cycle was down LAST_ERROR="" start_dropbox >/dev/null 2>&1 fi fi done } net_test() { TMP1="$(ip addr |grep "inet " |grep -v "127.0.0.1")" [ -z "$TMP1" ] && echo "error" } do_dropbox
Following is an alternative script that will check for an actual Internet connection by using curl to check if any entry in a list of hosts and IP addresses is available. If none of the specified hosts are available, the script will wait and try again (albeit not forever). The way the script increments the waiting time is quite messy, but the logic goes like this:
Start with a wait time of 5 seconds.
Multiply by 1.5.
Do this as long as the wait time is less than 1500 seconds (25 minutes), and the check_net() function returns non-zero values (failure).
#!/bin/bash # Copyright 2008 Evenflow, Inc., 2010 Dropbox # # Environment script for the dropbox executable. WAIT_TIME=5 #initial time to wait between checking the internet connection #HOSTS="www.google.com www.wikipedia.org 220.127.116.11 220.127.116.11" HOSTS="www.google.com www.wikipedia.org " PAR=$(dirname $(readlink -f $0)) OLD_LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$PAR${LD_LIBRARY_PATH:+:}$LD_LIBRARY_PATH #non-zero exit code iff none of the hosts could be reached check_net() { local ret=1 for i in $HOSTS; do #ping -w2 -c2 $i > /dev/null 2>&1 && ret=0 && break curl -o /dev/null $i > /dev/null 2>&1 && ret=0 && break done echo $ret } #if dropbox is running; kill it. Then start dropbox start_dropbox() { local tmp=`ps ax|grep -E "[0-9] $PAR/dropbox"|grep -v grep` if [ -n "$tmp" ]; then kill -9 $(pidof dropbox) > /dev/null 2>&1 fi exec $PAR/dropbox $@ > /dev/null 2>&1 & } #loop over: start dropbox iff check_net returns 0 #loop (and with it, the entire script) terminates when dropbox has been restarted, #+ or the waiting time has exeeded 1500 seconds (it grows 50% with each iteration of the loop) attempt_startup() { while [ $WAIT_TIME -lt 1500 ] ; do if [ $(check_net) -eq 0 ]; then start_dropbox exit fi sleep $WAIT_TIME #WAIT_TIME=$(($WAIT_TIME+$WAIT_TIME/2)) let "WAIT_TIME += WAIT_TIME/2" done } start_dropbox attempt_startup &
chattr +i /opt/dropbox/dropboxd which will make the file immutable. To reverse this action simply use
chattr -i /opt/dropbox/dropboxd.
Dropbox does not start - "This is usually because of a permission error"
Check permissions
Make sure that you own Dropbox's directories before running the application. This includes
~/.dropbox- Dropbox's configuration directory
~/Dropbox- Dropbox's download directory (default)
You can ensure this by changing their owner with
chown -R.
This error could also be caused by
/var being full.
Re-linking your account
Dropbox's FAQ suggests that this error may be caused by misconfiguration and is fixed by (re)moving the current configuration folder
# mv ~/.dropbox ~/.dropbox.old
and restarting Dropbox.
Errors caused by running out of space
A common error that might happen is that there is no more available space on your
/tmp and
/var partitions. If this happens, Dropbox will crash on startup with the following error in its log:
Exception: Not a valid FileCache file
A detailed story of such an occurrence can be found in the forums. Make sure there is enough space available before launching Dropbox.
Locale caused errors
Try starting
dropboxd with this code:
LANG=$LOCALE dropboxd
(You can also use a different value for LANG; it must be in the format "en_US.UTF-8")
This helps when running from a Bash script or Bash shell where
/etc/rc.d/functions has been loaded
Filesystem monitoring problem
If you have a lot of files to sync in your Dropbox folder, you might get the following error:
Unable to monitor filesystem Please run: echo 100000 | sudo tee /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_watches and restart Dropbox to correct the problem.
This can be fixed easily by adding
fs.inotify.max_user_watches = 100000
/etc/sysctl.conf and restarting your computer.
Proxy Settings
The easiest way to set Dropbox's proxy settings is by defining them manually in the Proxies tab of the Preferences window. Alternatively, you can also set it to 'Auto-detect' and then export your proxy server to the http_proxy env variable prior to starting Dropbox (HTTP_PROXY is also usable)
env http_proxy=http://your.proxy.here:port /usr/bin/dropboxd
export http_proxy=http://your.proxy.here:port /usr/bin/dropboxd
Take note, Dropbox will only use proxy settings of the form http://your.proxy.here:port, not your.proxy.here:port as some other applications do.
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A linked list is a dynamic data structure used to hold a linearly arranged (typically unordered) collection of data. The simplest variation will be just a "head" pointer referencing the first node in the list. Nodes are declared to contain a data portion and a "next" pointer to the succeeding node on the list. If the next pointer of a node is NULL (or some equivalent), that node is the last one on the list. Additional pointers can be included to facilitate faster access to specific points in the list; e.g., a "tail" pointer referencing the last node will speed up appending new nodes to the end of the list.
Why were linked lists developed? Won't an array work just as well or better? While a linked list doesn't support random access to any element on the list, it does allow for the insertion, deletion, or relocation of nodes in O(1) time. And there are no limits — other than the amount of memory available on the system — to the number of nodes that can be held in the list. So, with regards to access and data movement restrictions, arrays and linked lists would appear to be complementary. Programmers have learned to use whichever data structure best fits the algorithmic situation they are coding.
Now that we've entered the parallel programming epoch, do linked lists still have a place? Dan Grossman of The University of Washington says, "No." I first heard of this radical idea from a colleague that had done a presentation with Prof. Grossman at a SIGCSE conference. The claim is that a tree can be used anywhere that you might want to use a linked list. (In my visually oriented mind, I see an animated linked list and tree singing "Anything You Can Do" from Annie Get Your Gun. I doubt if either data structure can bake a pie, either.) Is Dr. Grossman's idea heretical or forward-looking? Let me try to convince you of the latter.
A linked list is a sequential data structure that is very well-suited for sequential processing. A tree is the epitome of fork-join parallelism, as I've been expounding throughout my previous three posts. As with a linked list, a tree can dynamically expand and contract. The time needed to add a new leaf node might not be constant, but it can be O(log
n) for a well-organized tree, which is much better than the O(
n) needed for two pointers to chase each other to the end of a list without a tail pointer. What about some of the other operations for which you might use a linked list? Can these be emulated by a tree, especially in parallel? Here are some operations on a linked list and how they can be "simulated" by a tree.


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Brothers and Sisters in Christ,Greetings.UmGǪ A staunch ROCOR-ite? LOL.First a clarification: I am a former Protestant pastor, missionary, and seminary prof. I converted to Orthodoxy in 1994 on Valaam (Moscow Patriarchate), my spiritual father is an OCA abbot, I am a member of an Antiochian parish. Hopefully 'nuff said about that.Orthodox Answers is currently under construction. I got the suite of domains (.com, .net, .org) specifically to guard against confusion in general, and the risk of having one of the schismatic groups put together a "copy-cat" version.As I said, the site is not yet launchedGǪ it is being programmed now, based on the general template you see at www.orthodoxanswers.org. The .com "look" was ruled out early.The idea of the design is for it to be very simple, very clean, and easy to read online.The participants (contributors, editors) are mostly clergy, all scholars and/or pastors with experience in answering REAL questions asked about the ancient Christian Faith, especially in our North American, Protestant culture. All are canonical (in the SCOBA sense) and committed to being so. The forum is not a place for liberal or speculative treatments of any subject, but rather to promote a normative, traditional Orthodox voice.Other than SCOBA jurisdictions, there will be representative work welcomed from members of the Moscow Patriarchate, Jerusalem Patriarchate, and ROCOR, and possibly other canonical jurisdictions with no parishes in N. America. Groups like HOCNA, ROCIE, etc., will not be endorsed.We are expecting upwards of 2 dozen or more active contributors. Each will have a pwd-controlled control panel, and be able to submit articles, papers, homilies, book reviews, etc. Upon submission, there will be a period of peer-review, when all the rest of the contributors are encouraged to read, and if necessary, comment on the submission. A finalized version will be presented to a general vote of the contributorsGǪ 1/3 or more NOs means the article is not published on the site. In this way, we are seeking to provide ORTHODOX answers by concilliar conscience, and guard against heresy, irrelevance, bad scholarship, etc.The idea is to have a dynamic (constantly growing and expanding, DB-driven, templated), automated (no programming required after the complete engine is ready, cut/paste, auto-format, etc)GǪ after the launch period, it will be nearly run on its ownGǪ new contributors will be elected by the core members based on interest, scholarship, experience, reputation, maturity, etc., contributors can choose how, when, and to what extent they will be active. Considering the expanding nature of the site, there will be new contributions all the time. We want to see it be RICH with information on many, many topics. THE source for answers about Orthodoxy on the Web.That is why a very deliberate approach is being taken. The site by Patrick Barnes, "orthodoxinfo.com," is very good, BUT 1. is a labor of love by one man, and therefore vulnerable to all sorts of errors, stagnation, etc. 2. does not represent the Canonical Orthodox voice on many issues, 3. nevertheless, is about as good as it gets (SO FAR!). Kudos to Mr. Barnes for the massive amount of time and attention he gives to his project. However, a less-marginal forum is needed. We will endeavor to prevent against errors of all sorts, non-Orthodox opinions (doctrinal), schismatic tendencies, and syncretistic liberalism/modernism. In short, we want it to be where people will find ORTHODOX answers.Having exhausted the "vision" in rambling prose, I'd like to welcome any and all interested Orthodox Christians to participate in the site's development. The more, the better. Please e-mail me directly at email@example.com. We are open to suggestions and ideas. I am excited that the idea has struck a chord with others, even independently of us.Brothers and sisters, we are on the same team, and (I hope) wanting merely to serve God, His Church, and those earnestly seeking answers to their heart-felt questions. So, I am up for and very covetous of collaboration.[name removed] P.S. BTWGǪ even though it is in the /whois DB, I'd like it if my name and address were not posted on the forum! K
After discussion with a few forum members, here is a rough outline of what we'd want to encompass in Orthodox Answers. Let me know if you see something I've missed or something that is miscatergorized. I apologise for the hard to read format.ORTHODOX ANSWERSArticles>Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy>>Protestantism>>>Miscellaneous Protestantism>>>>Mennonite>>>>Shaker
I would add>>>> Adventismto Misc. ProtestantismI would also add >>> Non-Christian Protestantism (Maybe there is a "better" name.)>>>> Latter Day Saints>>>> Jehovah's Witnesses
From Nicholas: I would disagree. Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses, even iof the later came from the Adventists Movement are not christian as they do not believe in the Trinity. They should be others, just like Muslims are.
From Nicholas: I'd sayMormons especially share more in common with Muslims who see Jesus as a great prophet and they look forward to him coming again. But I don't think we'll be calling them Christian either! JWs on the other hand think that Jesus is Michael the Archangel. They don't see him as divine at all.I think that if you do not believe in the Trinity, you are not Christian.
From Amator Dei: *Historically only groups that accept the Trinity and the dual humanity/divinity can be classified as Christian even though they may classify themselves as such.
Historically only groups that accept the Trinity and the dual humanity/divinity can be classified as Christian even though they may classify themselves as such.
But where does that leave Protestantism?Is it merely schismatic or heretical?
One can well argue that the Mormons don't even measure up to the basic requirement of being monotheists.
The modern Protestant Episcopal Church, with its liberal doctrines and its embrace of homosexuality, radical feminism and the like, is no more "Christian" than the Watchtower Society.Should it be classed as "other?"
Protestantism is a heresy with a multitude of sects that form a kind of spectrum with a "more orthodox" end and a "radically heretical" end. At the "more orthodox" end of the spectrum are the Lutherans, the Anglicans, and the Presbyterians. At the far left one progresses through the Baptist and Anabaptist groups until one passes out of the visibly Christian wavelengths and enters the ultraviolet zone of heresy: the zone wherein dwell the JWs, the Mormons, and their ilk.
From Oblio: TheoHeretical Physics
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Tom Hiddleston is about to become the subject of a song.
After three months together, the "Captain America" actor and Taylor Swift have split up, according to Us Weekly.
What do we do now?
"She was the one to put the brakes on the relationship," a source told the magazine. "Tom wanted the relationship to be more public than she was comfortable with. Taylor knew the backlash that comes with public displays of affection but Tom didn't listen to her concerns when she brought them up."
The source went on to say 35-year-old Hiddleston is "embarrassed that the relationship fizzled out."
I told those crazy kids to go slow, but they wouldn't listen.
"It was an intense start," a source close to Hiddleston said. "No one can keep that kind of momentum going."
Yes, they can.
"They get along great and will remain friends, but they just don't see it working romantically right now," the source said.
Swift launched the relationship just a couple weeks after breaking up with DJ Calvin Harris, who's now out and about with Mexican actress/singer Eiza Gonzalez.
Us Weekly says, at one point, Hiddleston was planning to propose.
C'mon. The guy who plays Loki was not going to marry Taylor Swift. C'mon.
"(He) has been a dream come true," someone close to Swift told the magazine at the time. "He's so romantic, classic and chivalrous, and he's doing everything right. She would definitely say yes."
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Intel AVX2 Will Bring Integer Instructions with 256-bit SIMD Numeric Processing Capabilities
A week ago, Intel released public details on its next generation of the x86 architecture. The forthcoming microarchitecture, codenamed "Haswell," will introduce Intel AVX2, a new SIMD instruction set that extends Intel AVX. The SIMD instruction set details are already available, but you will have to wait until 2013 to use them, when the first members of the Haswell microprocessors family become available.
The second-generation Intel Core processor family, codenamed "Sandy Bridge," introduced Intel Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) in 2011. Intel AVX is a 256-bit instruction set extension to Intel SSE that requires explicit operating system support.
Linux kernel version 2.6.30 or higher, Windows 7 Service Pack 1, and Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 added the necessary state management to support Intel AVX. Because Intel AVX2 is also a 256-bit instruction set extension, operating system support shouldn't be a problem. Windows 7 developers had to wait for Service Pack 1 to take full advantage of Intel AVX, but Intel AVX2 won't require additional state management changes. Thus, if an operating system already supports Intel AVX, it will provide complete access to Intel AVX2.
Intel AVX2 instructions will follow the same programming model introduced by the Intel AVX instructions. One of the most interesting enhancements is the promotion of most Intel AVX 128-bit integer SIMD instruction sets to 256 bit. Intel AVX brought 256-bit floating-point SIMD instructions, but it didn't include 256-bit integer SIMD instructions. Intel AVX2 will allow you to operate with the AVX 256-bit wide YMM register for integer data types.
For example, the PABSD instruction was part of the Supplemental Streaming SIMD Extensions 3 (SSSE 3) introduced with the Intel Core 2 architecture. The PABSD mnemonic means packed absolute value for double-word. This assembly instruction receives a 128-bit input parameter that contains four 32-bit signed integers. The instruction returns a 128-bit output that contains the absolute value for each of the four 32-bit signed integers, packed in the 128-bit output.
You can calculate the absolute values for four 32-bit signed integers with a single call to the PABSD instruction. If you have to calculate the absolute values for 1,000 32-bit signed integers, you can do it with 250 calls to this instruction instead of using a single instruction for each 32-bit signed integer. Thus, you can achieve very important speedups. However, because it is necessary to pack the data before calling the SIMD instruction and then unpack the output, it is also important to measure this overhead, which adds some code.
Intel AVX introduced the VPABSD instructio, which promoted PABSD to AVX, but didn't duplicate the number of integers that can be processed at the same time. If you have to calculate the absolute values for 1,000 32-bit signed integers, you can do it with 250 calls to the AVX VPABSD instruction.
Intel AVX2 will promote the VPABSD instruction to 256 bits because it will be possible to make it work with the YMM 256-bit register. Thus, with a AVX2 VPABSD instruction that uses the YMM register, you will be able to duplicate the number of integers that can be processed at the same time. If you have to calculate the absolute values for 1,000 32-bit signed integers, you can do it with 125 calls to the AVX2 VPABSD instruction that works with the YMM register. In addition, if you run SIMD instructions in multiple cores, you can reduce the number of necessary calls. In fact, I've already explained the advantages of running as many SIMD instructions in parallel as available physical cores in my previous post, High-Level Programming Languages Should Improve Support for SIMD Instructions.
Because you won't have to change the programming model, you will be able to achieve impressive speedups by making minor changes to code that uses Intel AVX 128-bit integer SIMD instruction sets. However, remember that Intel AVX2 won't be available until 2013.
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- Specific instructions to fetch non-contiguous data elements from memory.
- Instructions to simplify permute operations on data elements.
- Vector shift instructions with variable-shift count per data element.
You can download the full Intel AVX and AVX2 Programming Reference here. The PDF document is titled "Intel Advanced Vector Extensions," but it has been updated with the forthcoming Intel AVX2 instruction set.


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The Senate has turned back an attempt to kill President Obama's new rules requiring most health insurance plans to provide contraceptives without additional cost.
The 51-48 vote against an amendment to an unrelated highway bill (Yes, that's just how the Senate works) was mostly along party lines.
Missouri Republican Roy Blunt, the amendment's sponsor said its goal was a simple one. "I believe what this does is protect First Amendment rights. The first freedom in the founding documents is freedom of religion," he said.
The amendment would have allowed employers to opt out of the mandate to cover birth control. It was the latest in a series of collisions between the right to follow one's conscience and the demands of society.
Senate Democrats, like New Jersey's Frank Lautenberg, said the amendment's language was so vague it would allow employers to deny coverage of any benefit to which they had a religious or moral objection.
"Imagine that your boss is going to decide whether or not you're acting morally," he said.
The Obama administration weighed in on the language last night, with Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius calling it, "a cynical attempt to roll back decades of progress in women's health."
After the vote, the Coalition to Protect Women's Health Care, a consortium of women's health advocates, said in a statement, "We believe, as do the majority of Americans, that health care decisions should be made between doctors and patients, not employers."
And there are fresh poll data out from the Kaiser Family Foundation that show that's the case. Overall, 63 percent of Americans support the birth control coverage mandate. But among Republicans that support drops to 42 percent, according to the poll conducted last month.
The Senate has defeated narrowly an effort to roll back President Obama's policy requiring most insurers to offer no-cost contraceptives. Republicans have been arguing the issue is a matter religious freedom.
But as NPR's Julie Rovner reports they were narrowly trumped by those arguing in favor of women's health.
JULIE ROVNER, BYLINE: Republicans came out swinging against the contraceptive rule in today's Senate floor debate. Even after it was amended last month to satisfy some religious employers, said Utah's Orrin Hatch, it still goes too far.
SENATOR ORRIN HATCH: This amendment is necessary because of ObamaCare, the health care law that manifests new threats to personal liberty and individual rights with each passing week.
ROVNER: But the proposal would not just apply to contraceptives and it would not just apply to insurance companies. It would have allowed any health insurer or employer to decline to offer any benefit that is, quote, "contrary to the religious beliefs or moral convictions of the plan's sponsor."
The bill's sponsor, Missouri Republican Roy Blunt, defended the scope of that language.
SENATOR ROY BLUNT: If you are of a faith that believes that something is absolutely wrong, as an employer, why would you want to pay for that?
ROVNER: But Democrats like California's Barbara Boxer were quick to pounce with what ifs about what employers might be able to do with that policy.
SENATOR BARBARA BOXER: We believe prayer is the answer. We don't believe in chemotherapy. We believe that, you know, if someone is heavy and they're obese and they get diabetes, we have a moral objection to helping them because, you know what, they didn't lead a clean life.
ROVNER: Still, the debate never strayed too far from the issue at hand, access to contraceptives for women. Vermont Independent Bernie Sanders said sponsors of the amendment were trying to roll back the clock on women's reproductive rights.
SENATOR BERNIE SANDERS: If the United States Senate had 83 women and 17 men rather than 83 men and 17 women, my strong guess is that a bill like this would never even make it to the floor.
ROVNER: But others, like Louisiana Republican David Vitter, said the debate has been mischaracterized by the media.
SENATOR DAVID VITTER: This isn't merely about contraception. It's about abortion. It's about abortion-inducing drugs, like Plan B.
ROVNER: For the record, Plan B, the so-called Morning After Pill, is classified by the FDA as a contraceptive. It's not the same as the abortion pill, RU-486, but one of the ways Plan B may work is by preventing the implantation of a fertilized egg into a woman's uterus. So for those who believe that life begins at fertilization of egg and sperm, that drug could be considered to cause very early abortions and that has added to the controversy.
But, still, it's a debate that Democrats like Assistant Senate Majority Leader Dick Durbin mostly welcome.
SENATOR DICK DURBIN: The vote today should be a clear message to those who are following that if we take extreme positions from the social agenda that we hear so often in these Republican primaries and bring them to a vote, common sense and majority feeling in America will prevail.
ROVNER: In fact, the 51-48 vote was closer than the 63 percent majority that supports the contraceptive coverage requirement. That's according to a new poll out today from the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation. The poll also found, however, that half of those surveyed think the whole issue is being blown up now largely because of election year politics. But now that it's on the agenda, expect both sides to continue to pursue the religious freedom and contraception issues as the campaign season wears on.
Julie Rovner, NPR News, Washington. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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A duo from New York City was arrested in Middletown Jan. 5 after trying to fill a fraudulent Oxycodone prescription at Rite Aid.
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Officers were called to the Rite Aid on Main Street where the staff told them that the two men were attempting to pass a prescription that had already been filled.
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Groton - An explosion in the number of handgun permit applications has led to long waits, some frustration and now changes at the Groton Town Police Department.
Groton Town Police Chief Michael Crowley told the Town Council Tuesday that the department is now scheduling fingerprinting, a requirement for the background check that accompanies a handgun permit application, once a week rather than twice a month.
While the department usually averages 100 to 125 applications annually, Crowley said, it is on track to triple that this year. The department has received 169 applications to date, 100 of which are still being processed, in part because of a backlog at the state level.
While state numbers were not immediately available, state police Lt. J. Paul Vance has said handgun permit applications have risen dramatically since the Dec. 14 school shooting in Newtown and the resulting debate at the state level over stricter gun laws.
Crowley's announcement comes on the heels of comments by 26-year-old Sean Paddock of Groton, a member of the U.S. Navy, who publicly criticized the chief's policies and said the long waits were running counter to state law, which requires an answer on an application within eight weeks.
Paddock obtained his handgun permit from the state in early June, despite what he said was an unnecessary requirement that fingerprinting be done at the police department.
He had asked the council for helping correcting the process.
"It's very frustrating," Paddock said during a recent interview. "I was simply asking them to follow state statute."
Paddock said he initially approached the department in March and was told that his wait would be at least until August.
To obtain a handgun permit, applicants first must apply in their municipality and must obtain a temporary, 60-day permit from the chief of police or first selectman before obtaining a five-year permit from the state.
By state law, a person can be declared ineligible for a permit if they have committed felonies or certain misdemeanors, have a history of mental illness, have pending restraining or protective orders, or by an issuing authority using its discretion to deem the applicant "unsuitable."
In an attempt to speed up the process, Paddock said, he first obtained a federal fingerprint card from the Navy and later was fingerprinted at state police headquarters in Middletown.
Groton Town police did not accept either, and his application sat in limbo.
Paddock, with a representative from the law firm of Rachel M. Baird, appealed his case to the Board of Firearms Permit Examiners, who essentially directed Crowley to process Paddock's permit.
In a May 9 hearing, the board ruled the Groton Police Department was "without just and proper cause to deny the application."
The board also made two observations: that the Groton police must accept fingerprints from outside agencies and that the department has eight weeks, by law, to make some kind of determination on the application.
At the time, the department was scheduling fingerprints on every other Wednesday, between 8:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m.
Paddock got his temporary permit from the town, but when he went to get his five-year permit from the state, he was denied because the Groton police chief had not signed the form. The chief finally did sign the temporary permit. Dated May 28, it bears a message: "I do not feel this subject should have a permit."
A former submariner, Paddock has been in the Navy for 8½ years. He holds security clearances and has no criminal record. Paddock said he has no history with Crowley, but thinks the message is a response to him pushing for his Second Amendment rights and questioning Crowley's authority.
While Crowley was unavailable for comment regarding Paddock's remarks, he said at town council meeting Tuesday night that gun permit applications are now being processed more efficiently, with a "full court press."
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In 2000, the Museum embarked on an ambitious plan to recreate the iconic diesel-electric locomotive that once adorned Santa Fe's great fleet of Chief streamliners. While the railroad used several different models of locomotives to pull these trains, the General Motors Electro-Motive-Division F-7s were the most popular and successful versions.
Santa Fe's Texas Chief of 1948 to 1971 was no exception when it came to the dominant form of motive power being EMD's model F-7. Along with the rest of Santa Fe's famous Chief streamliners, the Chicago-Houston Texas Chief could be found with up to six of the locomotives on the head end in cab or booster form. The iconic Warbonnet paint scheme just seemed to lay naturally on the curved features and stainless steel flanks of the F-7.
After several months of searching for a good candidate for acquisition and restoration, Canadian National F-9A #9167 was located at National Railway Equipment Co. (NREX) of Dixmoor, Illinois. No original F-units survive from Santa Fe's passenger service with the exception of a cab and booster unit now on display at the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento. CN #9167, originally built as an F-7, was an ideal candidate, having the same carbody features as the Santa Fe versions.
Following purchase from NREX, the locomotive was shipped to Texas on its own wheels via Chicago and St. Louis. Funding for acquisition was made possible by a lead gift from the Hillcrest Foundation, which enthusiastically supported preservation and restoration of the unit.
The locomotive was painstakingly restored, with extensive body work and painting completed in 2005. The scope of work called for the unit to be cosmetically restored back to the 1952 appearance of an F-7. This required only modest changes to the exterior, which had been remanufactured to F-9 specifications in the early 1970s. Work included the application of stainless steel panels to the exterior of the locomotive's carbody at the location of those on original Santa Fe passenger units. Paint and graphics were applied using DuPont's Imron Polyurethane Enamel. Restoration of the locomotive was made possible by a lead gift from the Muckleroy Foundation.
The locomotive received mechanical repairs including extensive work on its 16 cylinder 567C 1,750 hp diesel engine, and replacement of the four D-77 traction motors that had been removed by NREX. The F-9 mechanical upgrades, performed by GM of Canada, were left intact. Restoration was completed in 2006. The unit is now in serviceable condition and operates periodically at the Museum and at special events offsite.
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After a long, hot summer, people may be looking forward to fall foliage, cooler weather and crisp apple cider. When the foliage will change or the weather cool is anyone's guess, but at least one thing is certain: This autumn's apple crop won't be nearly as bountiful as it was in 2011.
"We had a lot of frost damage this spring," said Mort Gellman, who manages an orchard of about 100 apple trees of ten different varieties on his property in Holland.
Mr. Gellman, like many apple growers, was hit hard by the April frost that followed an unusually warm March.
"Just when they were in full bloom, the temperature went down to 15 degrees," he said. "Yep, it was a big hurtin'."
Mr. Gellman sells his apples mainly through the Newport Farmers' Market, and people are welcome to come pick their own.
"I sold every apple I had," Mr. Gellman said in reference to last year's season.
Some varieties fared better this year than others. He estimates that he's down about 75 percent on his crop of Cortlands, but only about 50 percent on his Honeycrisps. His Rome Beauty tree, which is a very late bloomer, had its best year since he planted it three seasons ago.
Mr. Gellman said the Rome Beauty is one of the finest baking apples, and it's a variety from the 1800s.
As of August 30, his apples weren't ready for picking just yet. His earliest variety, Zestar, had about one and a half or two weeks left before harvesting could start.
Mr. Gellman planted all the trees himself, and takes care of them mostly by himself, sometimes with the help of a neighbor. He turned 86 in August.
"I'm not doing this to get rich," he said. "The orchard is my life."
Mr. Gellman started working in apple orchards when he was 18 years old. At one point in his life, he ran a large vegetable farm in his native New Jersey, where he planted 50 acres of tomatoes for the Campbell's Soup Company. He also worked on a 5,000-tree apple orchard in Missouri in the mid-90s.
"I know enough about growing because that's most of what I ever did," he said.
He isn't alone in having fewer apples this year. In fact, the apple crop for all of Vermont is forecast to be down about 28 percent compared to last year.
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), the state can expect to see a crop of about 24 million pounds of apples, down from last year's 33.5 million pounds.
The dip in statewide production mirrors a drop in national production for the year. NASS has forecast that U.S. apple production will weigh in at 8,065.7 million pounds this year — about a 14 percent drop from last year's 9,420 million pounds.
Cate Hill Orchard in Greensboro also expects much less of a crop this year.
"I think we had a total crop failure, really, from that late freeze, or rather that early spring," said Maria Schumann, who owns and operates the orchard withJosh Karp.
Last year, Cate Hill Orchard had about 60 or 70 fruit bearing trees, Ms. Schumann said. This year, about 20 of their trees bore fruit. "And they all have way less than they had last year," she said.
Ms. Schumann cites the same reason as Mr. Gellman: the April frost.
"It's a normal time to have that kind of freeze, it was more just that everything was three weeks ahead because of that warm weather in March," she said.
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, this year's March was the warmest ever for the U.S. since formal record keeping began in 1895. Some states experienced warmer weather than others that month. Vermont was one of the states to experience its record warmest March, along with the biggest apple producing states in the eastern half of the country, Michigan and New York.
Cate Hill Orchard sold apples and cider at farmers' markets in Hardwick, Montpelier and Stowe last year. Ms. Schumann said they probably won't do cider this year, except for by the glass maybe.
Cate Hill Orchard has a mix of trees that are about 100 years old and were inherited from Mr. Karp's family. They also have much newer trees, for a total of about 250 trees. Ms. Schumann said there is no real difference in production among the fruit-bearing trees in terms of their ages.
"Last year was such a fantastic year," she said. "There were apples everywhere."
She said that last year's bounty may also have something to do with this year's dearth.
"A lot of apples, not all, but especially heirloom varieties, will tend to have on years and off years. They won't bear the same amount every year, even without a frost."
Terry Bradshaw, president of the Vermont Tree Fruit Growers' Association, also said last year's big crop was a factor in this year's smaller one.
"Last year was an incredible apple year in terms of quantity of fruit," he said. "Even maple trees had apples on them."
Mr. Bradshaw said it's prudent to manage an orchard so that spring buds are thinned to a number that doesn't stress out the trees.
"If you don't, you'll get what's called biennial bearing," he said, meaning that the trees will produce a big crop every other year, with little or no production on the off years.
"So that's kind of the one-two punch of why things might be a little bit lower this year," he said. "I noticed before the frost even came that the count of buds was low."
Mr. Bradshaw makes the bulk of his observations at his home in Calais and on the orchard he manages for University of Vermont (UVM) Extension in South Burlington.
He estimates that even without the frost, many trees that produced heavily last year would have only had about 70 percent production this year.
Mr. Bradshaw explained that it's in the apple trees' best interests not to produce a lot of apples each and every year.
"The only reason why any plant produces fruit is not to feed us, but to have a baby, to keep spreading the plant along," he said. "What the plant wants to do is make lots of those seeds, a lot of apples, and it wants to be fairly small so animals can spread them and it doesn't mind not doing it every year because it breaks up pest cycles. But the role of an apple grower is to grow big red apples every year, so we're trying to steer nature in our direction."
Biennial bearing may contribute to a lack of wild apples this year, which were in abundance in many areas of Vermont in 2011.
"A managed orchard has an annual crop," Mr. Bradshaw said. "Whereas wild trees, if they put all their resources out one year, they don't mind taking a breather."
Mr. Bradshaw said that state crop production has been variable. He said the UVM Extension orchard is looking at about a half crop this year.
"But I've heard of some growers saying they're having their best year in recent memory, so it's variable, and it depends on the varieties and when their blooms open," he said.
"In Cabot there are maybe 3,000 trees in a fairly young orchard and they're having their best crop ever," he said. "I've heard in the Eastern Townships they're doing very well. So there's plenty of fruit."
"The economics of growing is interesting this year," he said. "If you've got fruit, you're sitting in the driver's seat, because all those packing houses and processors in west New York and Michigan have been driving to New England with checkbooks in hand trying to buy up fruit, and a lot of that's for processing cider."
"It wouldn't surprise me to see $7 or $8 jugs of cider this year, so it's good to be a grower."
Mr. Bradshaw also said that those who did get fruit this year may find themselves with an especially good quality crop. He said the sunny and warm weather has been complemented by just enough moisture to get the fruit to size.
"I'm seeing larger fruit and redder fruit, because there hasn't been a lot of cloud cover," he said. "The sun is what turns the apples red."
Leaves turn solar energy into carbohydrates, which translates into a sweeter, higher quality apple, he said.
"The other factor that turns apples red is cool nights," Mr. Bradshaw said. "Macs are classic with that, once you get nights in the 40s — and I think the weather is shifting and we're going to come into the fall weather here."
He pointed out that apple trees are grown all over the world, so they are very adaptable to different climates. He said lack of rain and warm temperatures shouldn't affect the trees.
"The fruit buds are already set," he said, referring to the middle of summer. "If you get a drought in June, that would affect things. The conditions that we've seen, I think we'll have a good crop for next year. Trees are adaptable, and they know that in August it dries up. August is our least precipitous month every year, and all of the tree's growth processes slow down by the middle or end of July because that's how the tree's programmed, to work with the systems we have."
Chris Rawlings of Heath Orchard in Stanstead, Quebec, said that he's seeing a crop of smaller quantity but higher quality this year.
"It's holding at about 65 percent of an average year," he said. "There are varieties which are better than usual in quality, not quantity.
"What I'm seeing on the MacIntosh is that, despite the fact that we had this event of frost on the blossoms, the apples that have come through for the most part are beautiful — round and have very little crevices and bumps for scab spores to install themselves, so they're much prettier. They're an average size, no bigger, no smaller. They're looking good and they're a reasonable size given the dryness."
He said his Cortlands are looking particularly good as well. The MacIntosh apples will start getting picked this Friday, September 7, which is early.
"We're harvesting a week to ten days earlier than usual, across the board," he said.
Mr. Rawlings owns and operates the orchard with Lynn Heath. They have 3,500 trees on 15 acres.
Mr. Rawlings told the same tale as other growers — that the warm March followed by cold snaps accounts for most of this year's lighter yield. He said his Melba trees do take a breather every second year.
He also said that "micro micro climates" within his orchard account for some of the discrepancies he sees among his trees, even among the same varieties.
"Nothing much is making a lot of sense, you know," he said.
Still it sounds like Heath Orchard will have plenty of fruit to pick, as will most Vermont growers.
Even though Vermont will see a significant drop in apple production, it's still doing better than some other states. Michigan — normally a top three apple producing state — is looking at a crop of 105 million pounds, as compared to last year's 985 million pounds; New York is forecast to have 590 million pounds, compared to last year's 1,220 million pounds.
Washington — usually the apple producing leader of the country — is slightly up this year, at a total of 5,700 million pounds.
NASS surveyed orchards of 100 or more bearing-age apple trees to gets its numbers.
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