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Previously on LOST: Happily Ever After
Posted by Frank on April 9th, 2010 Filed under: Previously on LOST
Previously on LOST is a weekly column recapping and analyzing each episode from the final season of Lost. (Warning: May contain spoilers!)
We're back in action again this week after a brief hiatus. I won't spend too much time catching up on last week's episode "The Package", which was pretty average.
It featured a yet to be married Sun and Jin and their crazy trip to LA. Some of the highlights were the return of Mikhail a.k.a Patchy (sans patch) and a look at the series of events that led up to Jin being tied up in a freezer in the previous episode "Sundown". There was also a nice scene that featured Jin seeing the photos of his child for the first time. It was standard fare for this season, but there was some redemption in the final scene which confirmed that Desmond was indeed the precious cargo on Widmore's boat, leading into this week's Hume-centric "Happily Ever After".
This week's episode began with Desmond being treated to an intense electro-magnetic experiment. Shortly after, we were back in the alternate timeline for almost the entire episode. It began in typical fashion featuring Desmond working as a right hand man for none other than (duhn duhn duhn) Charles Widmore. Desmond was bestowed the responsibility of ensuring that Drive Shaft member Charlie Pace make it to a concert alongside Widmore's son (ie. Get Him To The Geek). The episode took an abrupt turn when Charlie drove their car into the water, which sparked Desmond to see a flurry of images from his island timeline (specifically relating to Penny). Prior to this, Charlie had revealed that he had a similar experience with Claire while on Oceanic 815.
"Happily Ever After" also marked the return of two more key characters, Eloise Hawking and her son Daniel Faraday, the former of which is now married to Charles Widmore in 2004. Faraday shared an experience similar to Desmond and Charlie, describing a redhead who can be none other than Charlotte. With these occurrences came great reassurance that the two timelines are destined for some kind of meaningful interaction. In fact, the 'awakening' that Desmond experienced in this episode made me start to suspect that it isn't a different timeline at all.
The flashes of another life or destiny witnessed by Desmond and Charlie in particular (with no previous time travel history) made me start thinking along the lines of The Matrix. The Losties could be being forced to perceive this other reality only to be saved by 'the one' and only Desmond Hume. I've come across others with this theory, many putting Eloise in the Oracle role. Personally, I see her more in the Mr. Smith role, protecting the facade at all costs. Regardless of the true nature of things, it's clear that Eloise is very aware of what's going on and will most likely play a large part in the interaction (or lack thereof) between the two realities.
The episode concluded poignantly, with Desmond finally managing to track down Penny, in spite of the interference of Eloise but with the help of Daniel. Before the couple could share their first cup of coffee, Des blacked out, and we were taken back to the island, thus confirming that the alternate timeline events were a transfer of consciousness for Desmond, similar to the episodes "Flashes Before Your Eyes" and "The Constant". Widmore told Desmond he is the key to his plans on the island, but they seem to depend more on the fact that Desmond can withstand powerful magnetic fields. It's not clear whether he knows about Desmond's temporal powers.
There haven't been too many subtle Easter eggs in LOST this season, but I did read about one that caught my eye in this episode. It referred to the broach that Eloise Hawking was wearing. It featured two parallel straight lines each with explosions in the middle of them. These have obvious symbolic connotations but the other interesting tidbit involving these was that they closely resembled the brand that Juliet was given in Season 3.
Does this bear any significance at all? Who knows? If anything, it made me realize how many things I had completely forgotten about in the show's previous seasons. I don't think any show can ever match the urge LOST will create to revisit the series immediately after its conclusion.
"Happily Ever After" is a very strong episode that I think will be looked upon as the spark that started the fire in the final season. It is bringing together so many separate threads of ideas throughout the series, and is the first step of weaving them into what should be an amazing series conclusion.
What role does Eloise play in the timelines?
What are Widmore's intentions for Desmond on the island?
Could Penny be the mother of Jack's child (hence her running in the same stadium)?
Paul Andrews
I enjoyed this episode too; last week's didn't do anything for me. Sun and Jin are the weakest characters in the show I think.
Looking good for the rest of the season !
I thought this episode was very boring
I think this might be my favourite ever episode of Lost.
IchigoNL
a good if not brilliant episode.some nice plot revelations plus the addition of a couple of characters…..3/5.
Why on earth would you suppose that Penny is the mother of Jack's child? Back in the episode where Jack runs into Desmond in the hatch, it is revealed that they were also running in the same stadium. Does it then follow they are gay lovers? Come on. Penny and Jack? Too much of a stretch.
@ Aztec
Yes, Jack and Desmond are in fact gay lovers. I heard about this rumor on a Lost Podcast. Their love is going to be strong enough to defeat the smoke monster, merge the timelines and even cure Rose and bring Locke back to life. Love conquers ALL.
Jack and Locke are going to become MiB and Jacob. Jack will be of faith, and Locke will be science (rolls switched) and trying to get off the island.
Another good recap.
Desmond is by far the best character in the show.
I noticed the broach being similar to Juliet's as well.
Looking forward to the next post to discuss more re: Desmond's Jacob-like role in the alternate timeline.


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The Orion Ensemble performed Wednesday night at Ganz Hall.
Cinco de Mayo is as good a reason as any to explore the rich world of chamber music by Mexican composers or composers influenced by Latin American rhythms and harmonies.
The ever-inventive Orion Ensemble is closing its 20th anniversary season with a set of concerts honoring the holiday. Heard Wednesday night in Roosevelt University's Ganz Hall, the program opened with the zesty Zarabandeo for clarinet and piano by contemporary Mexican composer Arturo Marquez followed by Trio Romantico, an expansive, four-movement work for violin, cello and piano by Manuel Ponce, composed in 1911.
The evening also included a short piece commissioned for Orion's 20th season: Lost Souls by Chicago-born jazz pianist and composer Miguel de la Cerna. Last on the program was Brahms' fiery G Minor Piano Quartet, Op. 25, a fitting finale for a concert fill with colorful, tuneful music.
The Orion Ensemble—Kathryne Pirtle, clarinet; Florentina Ramniceanu, violin; Judy Stone, cello and pianist Diana Schmuck—is one of Chicago's chamber music treasures. Not only do their performances crackle with the kind of electricity born of musicians who listen and respond acutely to one another. They also explore far corners of the repertoire. Over the years Orion has never hesitated to mix it up in programs that might range from Mozart to William Bolcom or Chick Corea. Their choices are always thoughtful and we never feel that they play unfamiliar pieces merely for the sake of novelty.
And so it was Wednesday night. Composed in 1995, Zarabandeo grew out of Marquez's fascination with danzon, a distinctive type of lively yet sultry Cuban dance. Pirtle and Schmuck threw themselves into the piece from the opening bars, Pirtle's big clarinet tone filling the hall with crisp, clean melodies while Schmuck's crunchy piano chords marched brightly underneath. When the music melted into lazy jazz rhythms, their high-energy playing slowed seamlessly into more relaxed, smoky realms.
Ponce (1882-1948) deliberately ranged all over the stylistic map in his Trio Romantico. He studied in Europe, and his trio shifts from lush Romanticism to extended folk-flavored sections. In the opening movement, the dark, velvety tone of Ramniceanu's violin and Stone's cello was a lustrous match for Schmuck's somber piano. But at times Ponce's inspiration flagged and the piece lost momentum despite the performers' best efforts.
De la Cerna's Lost Souls, inspired by Columbus' travels in 1492, evoked the fate of the Native Americans eventually displaced by white settlers. Scored for clarinet, violin, viola and piano, it was a short but deep portrait of an unsuspecting people overwhelmed by uncontrollable forces. Guest violist Stephen Boe added a powerful voice to the chilling moments when single notes from each instrument hung in the air like low, oppressive clouds. Moments of frenzy were sharp-edged and jumpy, but we never lost the sense that they were propelled by something massive and unstoppable.
In the faster movements of Brahms' mighty quartet for piano, violin, viola and piano, the Orion played with controlled ferocity. The Andante sounded overly deliberate, however, lacking the ardor of wind-swept lyricism. But the Hungarian-flavored finale overflowed with saucy syncopations and hellbent-for-leather speed.


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Here's the abridged version of the Bloom County Islam flap:
A popular comic strip that poked fun at the Rev. Jerry Falwell without incident one week ago was deemed too controversial to run over the weekend because this time it took a humorous swipe at Muslim fundamentalists.
The Washington Post and several other newspapers around the country did not run Sunday's installment of Berkeley Breathed's "Opus," in which the spiritual fad-seeking character Lola Granola appears in a headscarf and explains to her boyfriend, Steve, why she wants to become a radical Islamist. . . .
The Washington Post Writers Group syndicates "Opus," and the Post is the cartoon's home newspaper. The syndicate sent out an alert about the two strips in question, according to Writers Group comics editor Amy Lago.
Sources told FOXNews.com that the strips were shown to Muslim staffers at The Washington Post to gauge their reaction, and they responded "emotionally" to the depiction of a woman dressed in traditional Muslim garb and espousing conservative Islamic views.
There was also considerable alarm over the strip at the highest echelons of The Washington Post Co., according to the sources. . . .
"The strip came in and I knew we would have to send out an alert to all the newspapers," Lago said. "I do that fairly regularly with materials that might pose issues for local areas. ... We knew that because it was a sex joke, it could raise issues. And there is another client that has issues with any Muslim depiction whatsoever."
The Aug. 19 "Opus" ended with a joke about the late Jerry Falwell. . . .
Lago said she didn't flag newspapers about that strip because she didn't think readers would misunderstand the humor. . . .
But she did alert newspapers about the Muslim-themed cartoon because there was a question about whether Muslim readers would be offended.
"I don't necessarily think it's poking fun [at Islam]," Lago said. "But the question with Muslims is, are they taking it seriously?"
The "Opus" strip in question takes swipes at Islamists — a term used for radical Muslims — as opposed to moderate Muslims, she pointed out, but there was concern that the distinction wouldn't be clear.
Why wouldn't it be clear? Are Muslim readers--like the "emotional" Muslim staffer at the Post incapable of making such distinctions? That sound an awful lot like prejudice?
Unless, of course, it's true. The story continues:
As far as whether the Post and the Post Writers Group syndicate treated content about conservative Christians differently than it did content about conservative Muslims, it certainly could be taken that way.
"It appears on the surface to be a double standard," Burford said, "but at the same time, the climate of the world probably informs their decision with how to go forward with it."
Delicately put, no? So either Muslims really are incapable of making rational, reasonable distinctions, or there is a cultural double-standard created by Western secularists to protect Muslims and assail Christians. Either case presents an enormous set of problems for the West.
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Q: Exceptionally slow import task I have a rake task (Rails 3 / Mongoid) that takes a lot of time to complete for no apparent reason, my guess is that I'm doing something multiple times where it's not needed or that I'm missing something very obvious (I'm no MongoDB or Mongoid expert):
task :fix_editors => :environment do
  (0...50).each do |num|
    CSV.foreach("foo_20141013_ascii.csv-#{num}.csv", col_sep: ";", headers: true, force_quotes: true) do |row|
      editors = Hash[*Editor.all.collect {|ed| [ed.name, ed.id]}.flatten]
      begin
        book = Book.where(internal_id: row["ID"], editorial_data_checked: false).first

        if book && !row["Marchio"].nil?
          editor_name = HTMLEntities.new.decode(row['Marchio']).strip.titleize
          editor_id = editors[editor_name]
          unless editor_id
            editor = Editor.create(name: editor_name)
            editors[editor_name] = editor.id
            editor_id = editor.id
          end

          if book.update_attributes(editor_id: editor_id, editorial_data_checked: true)
            puts "#{book.slug} updated with editor data"
          else
            puts "Nothing done for #{book.slug}"
          end
        end

      rescue => e
        puts e
        retry
      end
    end
  end
end

The CSV I had to read at the beginning was very big, so I've split it in 50 smaller files (that was my first attempt to speed things up).
Then I tried to remove all the queries I could, that's why it doesn't read from the Editor collection for every row but collects all of them at the beginning and then just looks up things in a hash.
At the end I removed all save calls and used update_attributes.
The Book collection is more or less 1 million records, so it's pretty large. I have 13k Editors, so no big deal there.
Here is my Book class:
https://gist.github.com/anonymous/087e6c81ef5f355a160d
Locally it takes more than 1 second per row, I don't think it's normal, but feel free to let me know if you disagree. All writes take less then 0.1/0.2 (I've used Benchmark.measure)
I'm out of ideas, can anybody help me? Am I missing something? Thanks in advance

A: Replace
editors = Hash[*Editor.all.collect {|ed| [ed.name, ed.id]}.flatten]

to the second line right after
task :fix_editors => :environment do

other thing that you could do batch processing: load 1000 rows, then 1000 books and then process those 1000 books

A: Do you have an index on column internal_id of books table?

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Endowment Sweepstakes: How Tiny Houghton College Beat Harvard
The hotly competitive returns of college endowment performance are out, and the results have again shaken the higher education elite down to their Ivy League roots: The smallest endowments — those with total assets under $25 million — outperformed their billion-dollar-plus rivals for the second year.
The National Association of College and University Business Officers, known as Nacubo, and the Commonfund Institute last week released the latest results, which are, for most schools, far more important than whether they advance to the N.C.A.A. Final Four.
The 2016 fiscal year, which ended June 30, wasn't an especially good year for anybody. But the smallest endowments outperformed the billion-plus group, losing 1 percent, on average, compared with a 1.9 percent decline for the biggest endowments.
Results were even worse for endowments of $500 million to $1 billion, which lost on average 2.2 percent.
Falling behind by nearly a full percentage point has a huge impact on giant endowments like Harvard's, which stood at $35.7 billion at the end of the fiscal year. Harvard said its investments declined by 2 percent, and its endowment total dropped by $2 billion because of the investment losses and spending. Harvard is now shaking up its endowment management.
Yale did much better than many of its peers, gaining 3.4 percent. But that still lagged the 4 percent return over the same period for the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index and wasn't enough to offset spending. Yale's total endowment dropped by $200 million, to $25.4 billion.
Compare the results with those of Houghton College, a liberal arts institution affiliated with the Wesleyan Church in the Genesee Valley in western New York. Houghton has just over a thousand students and an endowment of $46.4 million.
Houghton emerged in the top quartile of all endowments, according to Nacubo, with a return of 11.85 percent for the year ended Sept. 30. (Houghton uses a different fiscal year.) For the calendar year, the results were also impressive, at 7.54 percent. Houghton has been able to lower its spending rate — the amount it withdraws each year to fund operations — to an enviable 4.5 percent, and may be able to lower it further, to 4 percent.
How did tiny Houghton do it?
The answer is pretty simple: Houghton got out of hedge funds and all alternative investments a year and a half ago, and moved the entire portfolio to a mix of low-cost index funds and mutual funds at the fund giant Vanguard.
Houghton's endowment is now invested in a simple mix of 76 percent in stocks, evenly divided between United States and foreign, and 24 percent in fixed income, according to Vincent Morris, who joined Houghton last year as its vice president for finance after a stint in risk management at the insurance broker Arthur J. Gallagher. Roughly half the endowment is in low-cost index funds, and the rest is in actively managed mutual funds.
Houghton's investment committee met this week, and is likely to move even further from active management, Mr. Morris said. "I went to the University of Chicago, where I sat in a lot of investment classes," he told me. He learned how difficult it was for active managers to outperform market averages, "especially year after year," he said, adding, "I'm a big believer in passive investment."
As for hedge funds and other high-cost alternatives, "the whole two-and-20 model" — in which investors typically pay 2 percent of assets under management and 20 percent of any gains — "is ridiculous," Mr. Morris said. "The cost structure is outrageous. As they say on Wall Street, 'Where are the customers' yachts?' I'm not going to play that game."
Houghton's experience with hedge funds predates Mr. Morris's arrival on campus, but their performance was "mediocre at best," he said, adding, "The investment committee and I are on the same page about moving to less active management and lower costs."
As Houghton's experience suggests, the past year's disparity in results between the large and small endowments can almost entirely be explained by the differing allocations to alternative investments, especially hedge funds.
According to the association's survey, endowments larger than $1 billion had 58 percent of their assets in alternative strategies on average, with 20 percent in hedge funds and 12 percent in private equity.
The smallest endowments — those of less than $25 million — had just 10 percent in alternatives, with 6 percent in hedge funds and a mere 1 percent in private equity.
Stung by overexposure to the troubled pharmaceutical company Valeant International, and taken by surprise by Britain's decision to leave the European Union, hedge funds, on average, lagged far behind both the S.&P. 500 and fixed-income returns in fiscal 2016.
As a result, the performance of a simple low-cost mix of stocks and bonds, much like the portfolio Houghton assembled, has streaked past the more complex portfolios laden with hedge funds and other alternative investments.
Vanguard said a simple mix of index funds with 70 percent in equities and 30 percent in fixed-income assets delivered an annualized return of 7.1 percent over the past five years, and 6.1 percent over the past 10. For a mix of 60 percent stocks and 40 percent bonds, the returns were 6.7 percent for five years and 6.1 percent for 10.
By comparison, the annualized returns for the billion-plus endowments were 6.1 percent for five years and 5.7 percent for 10.
Hedge funds, however, have successfully marketed themselves as offering higher risk-adjusted rates of return, in part because they supposedly minimize losses in down years. But according to Vanguard's calculations, its simple, low-cost model portfolios have provided higher returns even after adjusting for risk in eight of the past 11 years.
Most investors "would have been much better off in a low-cost, broadly diversified portfolio than in these other complex vehicles," Christopher Philips, head of Vanguard Institutional Advisory Services, said.
Harvard reported its hedge fund portfolio lost 1.2 percent for the 2016 fiscal year. The university said it had 14 percent of its assets in "absolute return" strategies — meant to ensure that the return is always positive, rather than pegged to a benchmark — a category that includes hedge funds.
Nonetheless, in a report written by the previous chief executive of Harvard Management Company, which oversees the university's endowment, Harvard said that "we continue to believe that partnering with best-in-class managers will lead to attractive risk-adjusted returns."
Why Harvard would harbor such a belief after years of hedge fund underperformance remains a mystery to some.
"Supposedly the big endowments have access to better managers," Mr. Morris said. "I may be more cynical, but I'm not sure I buy that. How do you know who the better managers are? I'm not convinced that any manager can outperform" over the long-term horizons of most endowments.
Mr. Philips of Vanguard agreed. "The ultimate challenge is picking the hedge fund managers," he said. "There are so many, you end up seeing the same distribution of returns that you see in mutual funds except there are twice as many hedge funds."
No major college endowment has publicly turned its back on hedge funds, as the California Public Employees' Retirement System did in the world of pension funds in 2014. But endowment managers are closely watching to see if Harvard changes its approach now that it has brought in a new chief executive, N. P. Narvekar, who had a successful run managing Columbia University's $9 billion endowment.
Mr. Narvekar has already shaken up the endowment's management, saying Harvard will lay off roughly half its 230 employees by the end of the next fiscal year, including all of its internal hedge fund managers. He promised to outsource more of the endowment's investment decisions.
Even so, no one expects Harvard — or any other major endowment — to ditch hedge funds anytime soon. Hope springs eternal, and the allure of potentially higher returns is paradoxically more potent the lower the actual returns are.
"If I put myself in the shoes of an endowment manager, I can sympathize," Mr. Philips said. "You have to keep ahead of inflation and contribute to the operating budget at a time when return expectations are muted. So you feel compelled to reach for hedge funds or private equity in the hope you'll outperform."
While Vanguard hasn't seen any stampede out of hedge funds and other alternatives among college endowments, "those hopes are starting to come up against reality," Mr. Philips said.
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Charis Unmanned Aerial Solutions (CHARIS UAS) has been awarded the ITU TELECOM AWARD for its excellence in providing and promoting innovative ICT solutions with social impact.
The awarding ceremony that was held under the theme; 'Innovation for smarter digital development' took place last week in Durban, South Africa.
The ITU Telecom World Awards recognises excellence in tech small medium enterprises and large companies worldwide that provide innovative solutions with real social impact.
They also aim at growing fast ideas to make the world a better place. The awards gathered people and industries from all over the world including major industry players such as tech SMEs and those that deal in international visibility for innovative ICT products, technologies and solutions.
High-level debates were held by experts on the core issues affecting the ICT sector who also shared knowledge and best practices across emerging and developed markets.
Charis UAS was one of the exhibitors at the event where they promoted the use of drones to provide various services in various industries including: agriculture, construction, infrastructure, inspection, mapping, mining, monitoring, photogrammetry, and aerial photography & videography.
The CEO and founder of Charis UAS, Eric Rutayisire, said that the award was a recognition of the tireless work and quality of Made in Rwanda services.
Rutayisire said that they felt the sense of responsibility and that it was just the beginning because there was a lot more they needed to achieve.
"There are big challenges that we face in Africa that we need to tackle through innovative solutions with dynamic practices and efficient use of technology," he added.
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Netflix is developing a sequel to their original fantasy cop drama Bright that will bring back stars Will Smith and Joel Edgerton.
Netflix confirmed that a sequel to the film is incoming on Twitter Wednesday alongside a comedic clip featuring orcs auditioning for the project.
Director David Ayer (Suicide Squad), will also be returning to write and direct, Variety reported.
The first film's writer, Max Landis, is not attached. Landis was accused of sexual assault by multiple women on Twitter in December following the release of Bright.
Bright follows a veteran Los Angeles cop played by Smith who takes on a new orc partner portrayed by Edgerton in a world that also includes fairies and elves. The duo fight to protect a powerful wand from getting into the wrong hands.
The film, with a budget of $90 million, is currently the No. 1 film on Netflix in over 190 countries. According to Nielsen, an average of 11 million Netflix users in the U.S. streamed Bright during its first three days of release.
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among those BeeMp3 is my most favorite… I have to check all of 'em….
Indeed they are the best sites.
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Trace Adkins has released a music video for his latest single, "Watered Down."
The track is the first release from Adkins forthcoming record. Over the past two decades, the country singer has sold over 11 million albums.
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Trace Adkins will release his 12th studio album, Something's Going On, March 31.
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Carlo Michelstaedter (Gorizia, 3 de junio de 1887 - Ibídem, 17 de octubre de 1910) fue un filósofo, pintor, dibujante y poeta italo-parlante austrohúngaro

Carlo Michelstaedter nació en Gorizia, ciudad situada hoy en la frontera italo-eslovena, que pertenecía al Imperio Austro-Húngaro. Michelstaedter era considerado, según los criterios de este último, italiano de nacionalidad y judío de confesión.

Además de una gran cantidad de dibujos, caricaturas y retratos, Michelstaedter deja una obra poética y algunos trabajos filosóficos. Estos últimos están formados por La persuasión y la retórica, los Anexos críticos y diálogos filosóficos cortos o inconclusos, excepto el Diálogo de la salud, así como una cantidad considerable de textos diversos que están reunidos bajo el título de Scritti vari en la edición de las obras completas del autor, publicada en 1958.

La perspectiva filosófica de Michelstaedter parece haberse formado de manera repentina y su vida breve no le permitió explorar alternativas. Para él, la vida ordinaria era ausencia de vida, estrecha y engañosa, tanto como el "dios del placer" que decepciona al ser humano al prometer placeres y resultados que no son reales. La retórica comprende la vida social, en la cual el hombre rebasa a la naturaleza y a sí mismo por su propio placer. Sólo viviendo en el presente como si cada momento fuese el último puede el hombre liberarse a sí mismo del miedo a la muerte y arribar así a lo que Michelstaedter llama "persuasión", es decir, auto-posesión. Resignarse y adaptarse uno mismo a la vida es, para él, la verdadera muerte.

Su pensamiento ha sido reconocido como precursor de Martin Heidegger en filosofía, de Ludwig Wittgenstein en la crítica del lenguaje y  de Jacques Derrida en hermenéutica.

Hay tres fases en el desarrollo de su filosofía. Entre 1905 y 1907 - sus años universitarios - el pensamiento de Michelstaedter se caracterizó por una influencia decadente, "dannunziana", aunque con una atención constante a la relación entre el individuo y la sociedad, a todo lo social que impide la expresión de la singularidad del individuo. Desde finales de 1907 hasta 1908, Michelstaedter hizo una contribución clave en Europa al estudio de lo trágico como posible medio de rescatar un significado inmanente, un centro resistente a la "crisis de los cimientos" que había transformado la existencia. En 1908 Michelstaedter sumó su voz a las de Henrik Ibsen, Otto Weininger, Scipio Slataper y Giovanni Amendola en Italia, quienes recurrirían al "pensamiento trágico" como respuesta al abismo abierto por el nihilismo. En 1909, catalizado por la tarea de escribir una tesis universitaria sobre los conceptos de persuasión y retórica en las obras de Platón y Aristóteles, el pensamiento de Michelstaedter experimentó un cambio, que continuaría después de su regreso a Gorizia. Su análisis ahora buscaba brindar la posibilidad de resistir la fuerza abstractora que el consenso social ejercía sobre las formas de pensamiento tanto filosóficas como cotidianas. Está claro en sus escritos posteriores que entendió que todos los enfoques filosóficos deben analizarse en términos de cómo se abstraen (alienan) de sí mismos dentro de las estructuras de consenso social. Sobre esta base, llegó a entender la cultura como un comportamiento social más que como algo creado por el sujeto; esto allanó el camino para una serie de reflexiones sobre la relación entre epistemología y consenso ideológico que tendrían más en común con las ideas de Lukács en Historia y conciencia de clases.

El 5 de octubre de 1910, Michelstaedter envía a Florencia su tesis de filosofía sin los "anexos críticos", que terminará de redactar el 16 de octubre. El 17 de octubre se suicida dándose un tiro en la cabeza.

Bibliografía
 La persuasión y la retórica. Traducción de Belén Hernández González. Editum, 1996.
 La persuasión y la retórica. Traducción de Antonio Castilla Cerezo. Sexto Piso, 2009.
 El diálogo de la salud y otros diálogos filosóficos. Traducción de Marta Pino. Marbot Ediciones, 2009.
 La Melodía del joven divino. Traducción de Antonio Castilla Cerezo. Sexto Piso, 2011.

Enlaces externos

 El Diálogo de la salud y La persuasión y la retórica están traducidos en español por Belén Hernández en la colección digital de la Universidad de Murcia
 Carlo Michelstaedter: el desconocido filósofo suicida
 El Diálogo de la salud está disponible, así como otros diálogos, traducidos al francés, en Lyber.
 El sitio Internet en italiano www.michelstaedter.it, creado por la Biblioteca Cívica de Gorizia, constituye una preciosa fuente de información sobre Michelstaedter.

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You know that feeling when you're hurried to get to work or an appointment downtown but the subway trains are all packed? So you fidget with angst until a less jam-packed car zooms into the station? Now, multiply that stress by 20 times. That's what it feels like to be a disabled man or woman waiting for a subway train in Toronto, at any time of day.
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You know that feeling when you're hurried to get to work or an appointment downtown but the subway trains are all packed? So you fidget with angst until a less jam-packed car zooms into the station?
Now, multiply that stress by 20 times. That's what it feels like to be a disabled man or woman waiting for a subway train in Toronto, at any time of day.
Since I was gob-smacked with serious hip arthritis -- I have just a barely visible line of cartilage -- I've learned that disability access in Toronto sucks. Have you ever seen anyone in a wheelchair on the subway? I haven't.
Many Torontonians treat the Elderly Like Dirt
The subways are useless for people on canes or crutches or with strollers. I have to pack up my foldable cane when I step into the car. Even if someone gives up a seat -- most people, unless you're pregnant (count me out) -- are too busy playing Candy Crush or staring vacantly at emails to give a damn. And I say this not out of self-pity, but rather to note that many Torontonians treat the elderly like dirt.
I'm turning just 44 soon. I don't care if I suffer a bit. It's life. But when I see elderly people on canes waiting for seven -- maybe 10 -- subways before they attempt to stumble on, I know the recent Mayoral candidates' caterwauling about improving transit meant they never seriously listened to the needs of people with disability.
I meet one man regularly, about 75, who shares the same schedule as me; he doesn't use a cane, due to frustration with the experience (he's had multiple surgeries) and he can't abide by the horror of stepping onto the subway. Even if you land a seat, it's Hades to navigate yourself through the crowded, self-absorbed pack.
Here's an idea for Mayor Tory that's won 100 per cent support from about 50 friends of mine -- across the political spectrum: get rid of special seats for the elderly, pregnant and infirm. Replace them with a regularly designated train, or bus, reserved for just those people needing it.
It's not just subways. We are nearing Remembrance Day. And yet, it's stunning to me that young people near the university where I teach part-time careen breezily past on a bicycle whilst elderly academics and pedestrians hobble about.
Greek Stoicism explains, empirically, that we are all part of a collective whole; you are not more special than anyone else, whatever your wealth or beauty or self-perceived accomplishments. You realize this more as you age -- or when you get socked with disability. How many of those elderly men in uniform on November 11 could snag a seat on a subway with ease? How often do they receive looks of awkwardness from passersby? Many of us would not be here but for them.
Mayor Tory: help us help them. That should be your number one goal as Mayor, nothing less.
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As time goes on, more conflicts seem to flair between charities and businesses. Just last year, the Senate Finance Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee began investigating questions ranging from whether nonprofit hospitals were really charitable to whether corporate-sized salaries for some foundation board members and charitable officers were excessive. At the same time, charities and businesses collaborate like never before. We've all seen credit cards bearing a charity's good name, donations of business staff time for pro bono work, and corporate logos associated with nonprofit events. (My favorites are the Chick-fil-A Bowl, the Meineke Car Care Bowl, and the Pioneer Pure Vision Las Vegas Bowl. Somehow, Sin City doesn't summon up the pure vision of pioneers for me, but hey, I guess it works for some people.)
These new business-charity collaborations and conflicts, and consequent legislative attempts to ensure that charities really are "charitable," can be tricky. But before attempting to judge all these attractions and repulsions between the two sectors, let's hold our peace and ask what is fostering these new relationships in the first place.
Put simply, Americans are becoming more charitable! More and more of our industries produce goods and services that potentially serve charitable purposes. And ever more adults are engaged in activities and occupations that can be either charitable or profitable.
This isn't fairy dust descending from the jet stream. Our economy's growth is mainly in health care, information services, and research, while information science and nursing rank among the fastest-growing professions.
Professor Joseph Cordes of George Washington University and I have studied data on output by industry and employment by occupation to figure out just how much charities and profit-making businesses are beginning to look like each other. Between 2004 and 2014, industries involving businesses that could organize as charities and pass the charitable purpose test are predicted to grow by almost 3.5 percent a year, compared with about 1 percent for all other industries. Similarly, occupations with a nonprofit bent will collectively grow by a whopping 23 percent over that decade, compared with about 13 percent for other types of employment.
A typical "do-gooder" 100 years ago might have been someone who worked in a steel mill or grain elevator by day and volunteered at an orphanage or looked in on shut-ins at night. That person's counterpart today might be a computer scientist or advertising exec who works for a profit-making drug firm but e-mails technical advice throughout the day and evening to community nonprofit organizations.
If such trends persist, in a few decades we'll find that most people in developed nations will produce services and products that could be produced as easily in the nonprofit as in the profit-making sector.
In this new AC/DC system, charities, government, and charitable watchdog groups inevitably will see opportunities and tensions proliferate. And as service and innovation incubate together, the never-bright line between what is charitable and what isn't—determined in part by "charitable purpose" so health care and research qualify but manufacturing and entertainment don't—will blur even further.
Meanwhile, competition will increase. Profit-making institutions will continue entering fields once left to nonprofits as rising fees and government payments make these forays more lucrative. Charitable contributions may continue to stay fairly constant as a percentage of gross domestic product, but charities will produce larger shares of economic output as long as they continue to collect more private and government fees in exchange for what they provide.
With all this in mind, think about the recent evolution of hospitals as a test case. With the significant expansion of health spending, it's easy to understand how nonprofit hospital output has grown rapidly even while the share of hospital work supported by charitable giving has declined and competition from for-profit medical service providers has intensified. A further upshot has been congressional investigation of what makes a nonprofit hospital charitable, the reorganization of some nonprofit hospitals into profit-making ventures and vice versa, and a whole host of questions surrounding the future research and teaching capabilities of hospitals.
So here's the rub—and the opportunity. These forces are probably unstoppable, but they must be channeled to maximize the public good. Tax laws governing charitable giving and charitable status must continually be reexamined, and consumer protection and tax laws must help protect the charitable purpose of our charitable contributions in this polyglot of joint ventures, marriages and divorces across sectors, selling of charitable names, and competition for status. As businesses and charities increasingly cooperate and compete to meet both public and private demand, we will spend more and more of our time providing and receiving services once defined as primarily charitable. Whether all these changes beget greater generosity is an open question.
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6 new degrees approved, including graduate degrees in biostatistics and quantum information science
By Kirk Johannesen
The Indiana University Board of Trustees has approved six new degrees, four of which are graduate level.
A Bachelor of Arts in theater, film and television at IUPUI is one of six new degrees approved by the Indiana University Board of Trustees. Photo by Getty Images
All of the new graduate degrees are on the Bloomington campus:
Master of Science in biostatistics.
Doctor of Philosophy in biostatistics.
Master of Science in quantum information science.
Master of International Affairs.
Also approved were a Bachelor of Arts in theater, film and television at IUPUI and a Bachelor of Science in accounting at IU East.
The master's and doctoral degrees in biostatistics are offered by the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics in the School of Public Health-Bloomington. They will focus on rural public health issues and specialized areas in public health research, such as the opioid epidemic.
Biostatistics is considered a high-demand job field. Both degrees are intended to meet the labor market and educational and research needs of the state, which is trying to reduce negative health outcomes. Biostatisticians typically are hired by state and local health departments, federal government agencies, medical centers, medical device companies and pharmaceutical companies, among others.
The Master of Science in quantum information science will involve an intensive, one-year, multidisciplinary program with tracks that tie into physics, chemistry, mathematics, computer science, engineering and business. It's offered through the Office of Multidisciplinary Graduate Programs in the University Graduate School. The degree was proposed by the College of Arts and Sciences, the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering, and the Kelley School of Business.
Most of the faculty who will teach the classes are members of the newly established IU Quantum Science and Engineering Center.
Students who earn the Master of Science in quantum information science can pursue careers with computer and software companies that are active with quantum computation, and national labs involved in quantum information science, among other opportunities.
The Master of International Affairs is a joint degree by the O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs and the Hamilton-Lugar School of Global and International Studies. The degree is the first of its kind offered by any IU campus and meets student demand for professional master's programs having an international focus.
Featured components of the degree include the study of international relations and public administration. Graduates can expect to find employment in the federal government, such as the Department of State, the Department of Treasury or the U.S. intelligence community, or with private-sector firms in fields such as high-tech, global trade and finance.
The Bachelor of Arts in theater, film and television combines existing programs and provides them a more visible home in the School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI. The degree features three distinct concentrations:
Applied theater.
Film and television studies.
Integrated film and television production/studies.
Applied theater is a growing field that emphasizes and works with organizations around issues of social justice, social change, diversity and inclusion.
IU East's Bachelor of Science in accounting degree, offered through the School of Business and Economics, helps meet projected high demand in the accounting industry. It also will prepare students to take the certified public accountant or certified managerial accountant exams, or enter graduate programs in accounting or business.
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The Cardigans & Tom Jones - Burning Down the House
June 02, 2016 / Cedrick Lui
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Today I was in the car and the 1983 Talking Heads song 'Burning Down the House' came on. Despite the commercial success hitting in the top 10 at the time, their song lives in my memory as the remake by The Cardigans and Tom Jones. Just to recap, the song is a late 90s pop hit featuring The Cardigans and Tom Jones and is as delightfully silly as it sounds. The swingy pop beat is infectious and Tom Jones brings his Vegas crooning in full effect.
Released as a single on Tom Jones' album 'Reload', the track came out in 1999. I haven't seen the video in over a decade and forgotten how wonderfully weird it is. I am pleased to share this odd throwback to you over 15 years later.
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Publications - November 24, 2014
Video-assisted laryngoscopy has revolutionized airway management. While anesthesia providers warn that the technology cannot replace the skill and training necessary to intubate a surgical patient, they admit that the ability to see "around the corner" of respiratory anatomy gives them an advantage in challenging airway situations. We asked a panel of anesthesiologists what they saw when reviewing a selection of videolaryngoscope demonstrations online, and we've included links to the videos they watched. Here's what stood out to them. Click here to read more
Innovative Techniques for Shorter ASC Anesthesia Recovery Time
At the 20th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference in Chicago on Oct. 24, G-A Lawson-Boucher, MD, lieutenant commander in the United States Navy Medical Corps and a diplomate of the American Board of Anesthesiology, outlined ways for ambulatory anesthesiologists to shorten patients' length of stay in the post-anesthesia care unit. Dr. Lawson-Boucher discussed how hospitals have been trying to bully anesthesiologists into being reluctant to perform outpatient surgery based on safety. However, data show fewer day-of-surgery deaths for office-based and ambulatory surgery centers procedures than hospitals by a significant margin. "The problem with contemporary medicine is that it's contemporary," he said. "The people who have colored my life showed me that by following the contemporary, you will never lead." By using innovative techniques and thinking outside of the box, ambulatory anesthesiologists can get their patient PACU stays under one hour and reduce post-operative anesthesia problems and risks, he said. His fast track formula includes assessing respirations and instabilities, then sedation and ambulation. Teamwork is crucial to successful anesthesia strategy, Dr. Lawson-Boucher said. Teamwork includes the surgeons, the pre-operative nurses, operating room staff and any day-of-surgery personnel working together and being on the same page. "We win the battle before the recovery room," he said. Pre-operative management is crucial to selecting the proper anesthetics for the patient and procedure. Things to look for in a patient history include any herbal drug or supplement use, exercise tolerance for heart stress, sleep apnea, obesity, fibromyalgia, arthritis, past opioid dependency and a history of post-operative nausea or vomiting. However, patients who fit into any risk categories should not be automatically sent to the hospital, he said. Anesthesiologists aware of all potential risks or complications can tailor drugs and monitoring to the patients' specific needs. "We are hyper vigilant," Dr. Lawson-Boucher said. "Sending someone home pain free is not good enough. How will be they feel three, six, 12 hours later?" Click here to read more
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Book excerpt: Spartans' win was one for the ages
"The Perfect :10" includes reflecting on where people were for the finish of 2015's Michigan State win over Michigan.
Book excerpt: Spartans' win was one for the ages "The Perfect :10" includes reflecting on where people were for the finish of 2015's Michigan State win over Michigan. Check out this story on Freep.com: http://on.freep.com/2eRMoo1
Detroit Free Press Published 5:08 p.m. ET Oct. 27, 2016 | Updated 5:59 p.m. ET Oct. 27, 2016
Book cover for "The Perfect :10"(Photo: Matthew Mitchell)
"The Perfect :10," a new book by Jack Ebling and Joe Rexrode, includes 42 pages of vignettes from the famous and not-so-famous reflecting on where they were for the historic finish of last year's 27-23 Michigan State victory over Michigan in Ann Arbor. For rivalry week, the authors have shared with the Detroit Free Press seven of their favorite vignettes:
DAY 5: JOHN HOOD
Rochester, N.Y., native who fell in love with MSU on a visit in 1991, elementary education major and the State News' Spartan of the Year as a senior, 21-year teacher and principal in Okemos, now assistant superintendent in the district and the owner of the vanity plate with a Spartan logo with "10 SEC."
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"I didn't think of going to Ann Arbor. I wanted to be with my friend, Jim Pignataro, who was struggling with health issues. We watched at his house with our wives, Kristen and Alana. And I remember saying, 'We should've won.' Just then, Jim said, 'Maybe he won't get the punt off. You never know.' Then, I saw him say, 'Whoa!' We stood up and started screaming. Our kids came running in, thinking something was wrong. The high lasted for weeks. I'd always thought about getting a vanity plate. I went on the Secretary of State's website, picked the Spartan plan, tried '10 SEC' and saw it was available. It's actually on my wife's Honda CRV. We put a picture on Twitter. And Jim said, 'Don't drive it to Ann Arbor.' It hasn't been closer than Ypsilanti. But it's a sense of pride for us."
To order "The Perfect :10," which includes a foreword by play-by-play icon George Blaha and 31 special photos by Matthew Mitchell, go to 10PerfectSeconds.com or the website DrivewithJack.com. The 284-page book costs $29.95 for the hardbound edition and $19.95 in paperback.
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Brief comments on William Bowen and Haverford College commencement
By Sherman Dorn on May 19, 2014
William Bowen at Haverford commencement, May 18, 2004
Above, my view of William Bowen yesterday
At yesterday's Haverford College graduation, one of the honorary degree recipients was William Bowen, former president of Princeton University and longtime head of the Mellon Foundation (from 1988 to 2006). He took the opportunity to talk about the controversy at Haverford over the granting of an honorary degree to former University of California Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau. Birgeneau was one of four named honorary degree recipients, and after he was named, several dozen students and faculty wrote an open letter to him asking him to accept nine conditions surrounding the use of law enforcement against Occupy protesters at Berkeley in 2011. Birgeneau's response was dismissive ("I do not respond to untruthful, violent verbal attacks"), and he eventually decided not to come to graduation. Given Bowen's stature in higher ed, his commenting on the controversy was both perfectly understandable and instant news in higher ed.
Bowen's relatively brief remarks focused on what he thought was the loss to Haverford from the events, and what he thought were mistakes both by at least some of the letter-writers and by Birgeneau in avoiding the chance for a constructive dialogue.1 You can read the gist of Bowen's remarks at the Philly Inquirer article linked at the top of this entry. This echoed at least one graduating student who had spoken at an open forum on campus May 8:
While the tone of the letter was not as diplomatic as it could have been, [Birgeneau's] describing the letter as a violent verbal attack does not seem to demonstrate that he was willing to engage in any type of dialogue.
A good portion of the family and friends in the audience applauded or stood at the end of Bowen's remarks, but students reacted coolly. As you might expect at any college campus, there had been much discussion both about the core issues surrounding the offer of an honorary degree and about how the first to frame the issue (the letter writers) addressed it. Yet I sensed that whatever their views, Haverford College students were not happy with Bowen. I may be wrong about my general impression, but I know that graduating student quoted above was not pleased with Bowen's remarks: they were from my daughter.
The reaction of students should not be a surprise, even for students who agreed with the substance of Bowen's comments. Bowen was not speaking to the graduates, though he was speaking at their graduation. If he were, he was speaking down to them (and I think students perceived his first, unreported, remarks as equally patronizing). His remarks were clearly aimed at the public–the language referring to intemperate or immature statements by some students implied that Birgeneau's reaction was similarly intemperate and surprisingly immature. But he didn't say that about Birgeneau directly–he stated that he disagreed with Birgeneau's withdrawal, a decision that disappointed Bowen. The reporting thus far has mentioned both criticisms, so Bowen was successful if he intended this framing to be the one that newspapers communicated. Addendum (5/20): Bowen's interview with the Chronicle of Higher Ed confirms my reading of his intent.
If he had intended to speak primarily to graduates, I hope and suspect he would have spoken somewhat differently, but that's an issue for a separate entry. So, too, is the question of whether honorary degree invitations are stamps of approval on all of the actions of their recipients, or the extent to which graduation ceremonies are entirely about the graduates' achievements (brief answers to both issues: they can't be). I am on vacation this week, taking private time to celebrate the achievement of a family member, something you may observe by the relative distance from the camera of the subject at the top of this entry and the subjects below.
Haverford Physics professor Walter Smith and new graduate Kathryn Dorn, Haverford College campus, May 18, 2014
Bowen's speech was actually his second. After Birgeneau's withdrawal, Bowen received the approval to talk about this, in addition to the first speech he had written before the controversy. At yesterday's commencement, he referred to the more public remarks on Birgeneau as his "second bite at the apple." Trite, if a venal speechwriting sin. To mark the transition between his first set of remarks and the remarks about Birgeneau, he put away one manuscript and then pulled another from another pocket. [↩]
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Pine cones are so commonplace that it only occurred to me recently to look to see what they look like when they are first forming. The mature pine cones from this tree in my neighborhood are large and have hard sharp edges. The newly formed cones, shown here, are soft and rounded. Young or old, the pine cones settle into a nest of pine needles on the branch. Here the juxtaposition between the rounded softness of the young pine cones and the hard prickliness of the pine needles is my contribution to the Weekly Photo Challenge: Juxtaposition.
Here is my submission for the Ese's Weekly Shoot and Quote Challenge – Buzz. It is a riff on several meanings of the word buzz. One, meaning is of course the buzz of a bee. Another meaning of "buzz" is the "high" that comes from the use of alcohol or pills. Finally, buzz can sometimes be used in relationship to the positive feelings that addicts get from any type of addictive behavior or even the type of behavior that can be analogized to addictive behavior (as per my quote below).