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Bush & the Pope
From Drudge Report on new George Bush book:
In the chapter "Stem Cells", Bush describes receiving a letter from Nancy Reagan detailing a "wrenching family journey".
But ultimately, Bush writes: "I did feel a responsibility to voice my pro-life convictions and lead the country toward what Pope John Paul II called a culture of life."
In the book, Bush describes an emotional July 2001 meeting with the Pope at the pontiff's summer residence.
Savaged by Parkinson's, the Pope saw the promise of science, but implored Bush to support life in all its forms.
Later, at the Pope's funeral -- and after a prodding from his wife that it's a time to "pray for miracles" -- Bush found himself saying a prayer for the cancer-stricken ABCNEWS anchor Peter Jenning
Now THIS is a zinger:
"Fr. James Martin, SJ -- who often has interesting things to say about Catholic culture -- makes a disappointing foray into the "tone of the Catholic blogosphere" melee. (To call it a "debate" would be an insult to televised senatorial and presidential debates.)" - Tom of Disputations
And Darwin Catholic weighs in on the NPR debacle:
In a sense, NPR's decision to fire commentator Juan Williams, for saying, as a guest commentator on Fox's Bill O'Reilley show, that he finds himself feeling nervous when he sees people on an airplane flight dressed in traditional Islamic attire, is entirely explicable and normal. Most cultures punish people for saying or doing things that violate cultural taboos. It is most unquestionably a major cultural taboo of the American Left (of which NPR has long made itself both spokesman spokesperson and totem) that one may not admit to being scared of non-white people who show signs of belonging to particular cultures through their dress or demeanor. Thus, you can admit to being scared of a white person in a religious t-shirt because you're concerned about "right wing violence", but you can't admit to being scared of a non-white person dressing in a way that suggests to you correlation with criminal or dangerous activity.
Williams violated this taboo when he talked about being nervous when he saw people in traditional Muslim attire on airplane flights and so it's not surprising that NPR chose to ritually drive him out.
This & That...
Chesterton poem:
THE HOLY OF HOLIES
'Elder father, though thine eyes
Shine with hoary mysteries,
Canst thou tell what in the heart
Of a cowslip blossom lies?
'Smaller than all lives that be,
Secret as the deepest sea,
Stands a little house of seeds,
Like an elfin's granary,
'Speller of the stones and weeds,
Skilled in Nature's crafts and creeds,
Tell me what is in the heart
Of the smallest of the seeds.'
'God Almighty, and with Him
Cherubim and Seraphim,
Filling all eternity—
Adonai Elohim.'
View outside my door...
View on my TV...
The sky is a subdued blue, a far cry from apricot-colored Sunday. I truck to the car and open all the windows in order to smell the itemized rain, intermixed with the whine of tornado warning sirens. The hum-echo of the sirens sound vaguely haunted, like the muezzin call in a forlorn desert. It makes me long to read a travelogue.
And a boundary so marked one can scarcely recall! The pre-rain day poignant with clouds but surprisingly warm, until the deluge begins and a forceful chill descends. The rain pours in great gusts and it's a pleasing sort, for the seasonal aspect of it. Do we not long, deep down, for spring to look like spring, winter like winter, summer like summer and fall like fall? Don't we want the essence of a thing mirror its surface?
Have moved ever-briefly to the friendly confines of a nearly empty cafeteria, looking out the rain-soaked windows and half-listening to the light jazz in the background. Missing only my decanter of coffee, the necessary accompaniment to bloggish journeys. Read a bit of the Dispatch and how taken the academic community is with the Burning Man festival. I'm ever hyp-mo-tized by how the academics are wont to fall for the notion of Utopia, especially when it involves nekkid folks. A LA Times piece says that one dissertation writer couldn't "help noticing the dichotomy between female empowerment and male lust." The empowerment being all the women who took a bare-chested ride on bicycles outside Reno. The male lust is obvious. It's clear what men are thinking when they see a topless girl, it's a bit less clear, to me anyway, why girls going naked would be a symbol of power. "It was women celebrating being women," said one. Okay then.
This online book organizer seems intriguing.
From latest National Review
Hyp-mo-tized by the Greek tragedy of the late Joseph Sobran who, it's said, could "write like Chesterton" but who ended up underachieving, to put it charitably. A prose sample from his better days:
The highest form of appreciation is worship. I don't insist that there is a correlation between formal religion and conservatism. But there is an attitude prior to any creed, which may make a healthy-minded unbeliever regretful that he has nobody to thank for all the goodness and beauty in his life that he has done nothing to deserve. One might almost say that the crucial thing about a man is not whether he believes in God, but how he imagines God: as infinitely good and adorable, or merely as an authoritarian obstacle to human desire? The opposite of piety is not unbelief, but crassness.
The Walls Have Ears
A female employee talks to a male employee about the company co-ed soccer league:
"Girls just want to play on a good team. Guys want to be the star of the team. That's why even these guys who aren't that good are switching teams. They don't want to sit the bench."
From an 1839 Ohio Newspaper...
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The "road to perfection" sounds so binding and final. I get hung up on that word, "perfection" and overlook the fact that that's just the name of the road. - Betty Duffy
Darwin and I used to send each other tomes of agonized love, rich with all the cliches of the genre. I believe I fancied myself a great stylist. Upon sorting out our closet preparatory to the move, I found a box (a shoe box!) full of this old correspondence. As I paged through his letters and mine, I felt a sensation akin to that of the unfortunates subjected to the Total Perspective Vortex. Passages that once seemed so eloquent and incendiary now paraded with all the grace of a herd of hormonal elephants. The most engaging bits were the parts I tossed off as stupid filler: minutiae about family life or the weather or work. The most fascinating letter of all was one Darwin sent me from Greece, simply describing the place and his travels there. And I burned with shame to recall that at the time I'd sulked because I thought he didn't write enough about ME. - Cat of Darwin Catholic
When you go into the hospital for a risky surgery, you have to face the Big Nothing. They crack you open, and you can read the writing on the walls of your arteries. A slow recovery, big scar up your chest, short of breath, no energy—you can't help but think. You're warmed up by death's proximity, softened up. You rewrite your will, amend for your mistakes. You call your kids to gather round, you tell people the important stuff, you appreciate the very little things, like urinating. But now—pfff. No risk, no fuss, one afternoon, in and out, and your heart condition is all better, and back you scurry to play golf and yell at the valet and expect your children to apologize first. Total up all the love produced by invasive surgery and subtract all the love prevented by speedy laser surgeries. That's love lost. - Arthur Phillips novel "The Song is You"
Isn't it exactly as I feared, that if I kept beating on that glass ceiling of my mediocrity, I'd one day burst through into the realm of holiness where all the holy people scrub the corners of their houses with toothbrushes and listen to classical music, and read only books written before 1945 with an imprimatur? - Betty Duffy
This year, whenever I approached an aid station during an ultra[marathon], I'd call out "whiskey". At Massanutten, a worker at the mile 40 aid station pulled out a flask, and poured me a half shot of bourbon, which I chased with a shot of Coke. Boy, did the next three miles of road pass painlessly! - co-worker/runner
On Facebook, links and status updates posted to one's wall are visible to everyone in one's network. Which, of course, runs counter to the most basic rule of having more than two friends in the world: you don't talk about everything with everyone. - Darwin Catholic
At the four corners of a child's bed stand Perseus and Roland, Sigurd and St. George. If you withdraw the guard of heroes you are not making him rational; you are only leaving him to fight the devils alone. For the devils, alas, we have always believed in. The hopeful element in the universe has in modern times continually been denied and reasserted; but the hopeless element has never for a moment been denied. - GK Chesterton
Inch by inch, reading the book, doing about a meditation a week, saying the Rosary, showing up at Mass during the week—practicing devotion—the decision to organize the sock drawer was somehow a manifestation of a new freedom—freedom from my chronic "No." - Betty Duffy
Percy MacKaye's Trees of Miami (circa 1923)
Trees of Miami, -Miami,
Oracular word
In a far red dawn first uttered
By the vowelling cry of a dawn-red-
(-Miami! Miami! Miami!)
Echoed there by the muttered
Song of an ancient earth-red race
In a shadowy, sacred place, -
Trees of Miami, beautiful trees!
What do you brood in your reveries?
Where the freshet-torn
Clay-blue banks of the Tallawanda
Gape, to reveal forlorn
Relics of your rooted ancestors,
What do you ponder
There, on those primordial shores,
Out of the clay
Lifting green thoughts into the golden
day?
What are the secret reasons
That stir your leaves to sing?
Out of a million seasons
Of seqent life -
Wraths of autumn, rages of lyric
Winter's calm self-conquering,
And summer's rife
Fecundant, rapt foreseeing --
What are your vernal reasons
For this unintermittent being?
-Miami!-
In answering choir
Leafy and sibylline,
Out of the shadowy green
Echoed that only word, opal with
--Miami!--
Trees of Miami, what bird
Of your boughs will unriddle that
word?
Flicker, --flicker,
Resolute toiler elate,
What do you iterate, iterate,
Iterate,
Tapping it there with your elfin tick-
er? --
. . . Truth, --truth, --truth!
Redbird, burning
Heart of ecstasy, what is your yearn-
ing? --
. . . Youth, --youth, --youth, --youth!
Wood dove, wild dove,
You that call--
In pensive music--all
Those that pass
Ever and ever over the grass
Beneath you, what are you fluting
of? --
. . . Truth, --remembrance, --youth!
Miami! Miami!
Ah, trees of Miami! now
The voice of a vowelling bird--
Once, twice, thrice -- from a secret
bough
Has unriddled your sacred word:
Truth - remembrance - youth: of
You brood in your ancient reveries;
In the flow of universal tides
This is the knowledge that keeps you
vernal;--
Only beauty abides;
Youth is eternal.
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From Old Paint Blog...
Cyber Sleuthing Results...
I'm distantly related to the guy with the goatee, who lives in Massachusetts. We share a great-great grandfather named Patrick, who had sons by the name of Michael and William. I come through the William line while he does Michael's. From what I can tell, his grandfather (Michael's son) lived in Ohio all his life but his kids moved out to Mass.
Yes, I realize there's no reason on earth you should care about this post but it's too easy to hit "Publish Post".
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Post-Scandal
Hyp-mo-tized by life of a Catholic apologist post-scandal, in this case one who left his wife and took the kids. Is there public Catholicism after scandal? Apparently so, though he removed his name from his website and refers to himself on the site by the royal "we". The urge to opine publicly and connect via the internet seems an irresistible impulse, and if what you are interested in happens to be faith matters, then that is what you'll continue to opine on, scandal or no scandal.
What's more surprising is it seems he still has an audience, as evidenced by the fact that he mentions getting a heated reaction to his anti-pants commentary. He writes how pants show a figure better: "Sadly, and we understand you may not be aware of this, but almost every style of pants reveals private information about your figure (by way of contour) what only your husband... should perceive."
I'm always fascinated by the juxtaposition of shamelessness and Christianity, of how Jesus ate with tax collectors and prostitutes and how sin does not ultimately conquer Christianity or define us. Jim Bakker, Robert Hanssen, Jimmy Swaggert - these are the folks who are fallen "but somehow rise" (to borrow from John Mellancamp's "Little Pink Houses") post-forgiveness.
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Hitch Can Write
Samples of the iridescent prose of Christopher Hitchens in Hitch-22:
Once, after staying with a school friend on the Mumbles peninsula of South Wales, I had been as distressed as William Blake by my brief glimpse of the hell-mouth scenes of the steelworks and coal-pits around Port Talbot. But now I realized that, just on the other side of the bright Bristol Channel from the lovely moors and uplands of my upbringing, there was a world as remote from my own as the moon, or as Joseph Conrad's Congo.
Several aspects of this hitherto-occluded other Britain lodged in the mind. First of all, its inhabitants worked mostly under the ground, like the Morlocks in H.G. Wells. Second, they spoke a non-English language at home and at church, and considered themselves conquered and dispossessed as a nation as well as suppressed as a class. Third, they thought of going on strike as an act of unselfish solidarity and emancipation rather than as "holding the country to ransom."
In the annals of "good-bad," then, I would put How Green Was My Valley in the same class as Uncle Tom's Cabin: a work that leaves an ineradicable "scratch on the mind," to borrow Harold Isaacs's useful phrase.
My new school was in town, and in the ancient town of Cambridge at that, instead of out on some blasted heath where long and muddy cross-country "runs" could be inflicted on you and even the nearest manic-depressive hamlet was many furlongs or versts or miles away.
Weekend Ramblings
Read some potent Chesterton this weekend, as well as "Hamlet's Blackberry" and then heard a remarkable speech from the Chesterton Conference on CD by a "futurist".
Chesterton and Mr. Futurist want us to be more outward, while Mr. Hamlet Blackberry wants us to be more inward. The difference couldn't be more vivid, such that Chesterton thought it so wrong that someone would listen to music via reproduction rather than attending a concert hall and Mr. Blackberry approves the invention of iPods, saying that it takes a previously public event (music) and makes it inward, just as reading became a private event with the introduction of silent reading around Augustine's time. The case for inwardness is that it is what creates time to think, to mull over, to acquire depth. He says that we are too outward-focussed, too shallow-thinking. Chesterton and Futurist applaud human interaction, the more tactile the better. (Mr. Futurist said the thing we touch the most during the day is a keypad, and keypads don't touch back.) Chesterton made some very interesting points about the Triune God and how the difference between the East and the West is symbolized by the wide-eyed saints (outward-looking) of the West compared to the closed-eye Eastern Buddhas (inward). The East gave us hermitages, the West monasteries such that even the Trappists are brotherly in their silence.
Futurist said many of us are suffering from distraction and A.D.O.S - "Attention deficit OH, SHINY!"
Mr. Blackberry says that we're too connected now and that's why we're so thirsty for inventions that are inward (such as the iPod). But is it a reaction to the environment that is too outward or is it something else? Writing is a semi-inward activity, at least it was for Seneca (who complained about too many books and so wrote letters).
Read long yesterday from the November issue of First Things, a very appetizing issue full of the sort of things that fascinate me, like what went wrong with the German soul such that led to the horrors of the last century, and what did Mark Twain have to say in his one-hundred years delayed autobiography.
Then too there were piquant ratings of various religious-affiliated universities, by overall excellence and then by how Catholic (or not) they were and such. Very interesting stuff and the transparency is an excellent service. Too many still haven't gotten the memo (though admittedly they're unlikely to be First Things readers) that not all schools alleged to be Catholic are, in fact, Catholic. Of First Things' top 25 schools in America, Thomas Aquinas College, Franciscan University, Notre Dame, University of Dallas and Providence made up the Catholic list. Ave Maria noticeably absent, which is the sort of inside baseball I appreciate seeing. Protestant school Wheaton College was numero uno.
An excerpt from the article about Germany:
The problem was that Germany exalted its cultural achievements to the point of idolatry. The only prayer Goethe could utter in earnest, Rosenzweig comments, was Psalm 90's 'Establish thou the work of our hands.' Kultur became Germany's national religion, with terrible consequences...
To a great degree, the main intellectual movements of the postwar years can be understood as efforts to purge idolatries of blood and mind from our collective imaginations. Germany has all but abjured the Kultur it once worshiped; it is hard to find a German schoolchild today who can quote four lines of Goethe from memory. And at present fertility rates, the German population will shrink by 98 percent over the next two centuries.
That is not only Germany's tragedy, but ours. The great project of German theologians such as Barth, Urs von Balthasar, and Rosenzweig - to restore religious orthodoxy in the modern world after Kant and Nietzsche - was a work in progress when Hitler took power...If what was good in Germany is lost along with the ill, it will be all the harder for us and for our children to find our bearings.
Parody blog updated...
I understand the gals at The View don't much like Bill O'Reilly saying that a group of Muslims attacked us on 9/11 but prefer to say that "Muslim extremists" attacked us. But who's to say "Muslim extremists" won't become offensive tomorrow?
Thursday Eve
Grandson Sammy and "GG" (great-grandma) came over and afterward I made a beer run for Sierra Nevada Tumbler purposes, my new all-purpose "foil" beer for the duskier stouts and porters. Waited in line behind a woman with a twelve-pack of that same Tumbler; she'd forgot her Giant Eagle card and was reduced to mumbling her phone number to the clerk, presumably because she didn't want the guy wearing socks with flip-flops (me) to overhear. I gave them as much privacy as could be afforded, though it was slightly hilarious that the cashier took ten minutes to get the number right. But his cheerfulness covered a multitude of sins. The earlier solo Nevada Pale Ale was delicious if precious. I stopped there merely because I wanted to go into the weekend with a full thirst. "It takes beer," the German proverb goes, "to make thirst worthwhile." And, to a certain extent, one needs a thirst to make beer worthwhile.
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Catholic Tea Party
The latest tempest in a teapot concerns the Catholic Tea Party, of which I do not want to be a part. Catholic Beer Party? Yes! Catholic Coffee Party? Okay! But I am not particularly fond of tea.
[This message brought to you by the the producers of Beer, the Natural DrinkTM).
"I only wish someone would police US Catholic."
The Poet's Shack
My alma mater was in the vanguard of offering a "poet in residence" position which, around 1920, was offered to Percy MacKaye:
Have gotten adept at surfing the last waves of warmth this fall, keeping a keen weather-eye on the weather and planning accordingly. Today wanted to go out at lunch and read outside but elected for the "early release program", and so at 4pm darkened the goodbye door and came rushing into the arms of the brief interlude, 5-6, of solar splendor. Have the obligatory misgivings and misbegones at writing so much about the weather rather than about moments of enlightenment, those crucial pediments that make living worthwhile. What can I say on that score? Just that I meditate on the sufferings of Christ and post-offer my own past sufferings, figuring that even if in the moment I had trouble offering them up, I can at least try to do so now with a weather-eye towards the future. I ponder the electric impulse of Morning Prayer, the resolute, hammer-it-home necessity of recognizing Who is God and that he owns even the "tops of the mountains". I can look into the distance and see God's flag, can look at the moon and see it too. We go in search of distant vistas and think them unclaimed but they exist in the eye of God.
Was interested by a blog post at "No Wealth but Life" on the topic of happiness. My tendency is to think happiness for the Christian is a tad extraneous, as meaningful as the male nipple.
Am hypmotized by the increasing narrowcasting made possible by the 'net. There's a channel called "Class Reunion 1985", my very graduation year, a year drenched with longing for sex and a fresh four years of college (not necessarily in that order - oh who am I kidding) with the hits tailored to exactly those needs. I click to it and wonder if there's a song on that station I've not heard given that 1985 was the apex of my musical familiarity. As if in answer to my hubris, the song "Nemesis" by Shriekback comes on. But then comes the Hooters "And We Danced" and I am put in spirit if not body to those semi-innocent undergrad days.
Was moved by Masterpiece Theater's Inspector Lewis episode from a month or so ago but just now catching it. The stoic sidekick meets a childhood flame and she leaves his heart in Oxford, England. Such maddening ambiguity! He asks, basically, "did you use me?" and she say "You don't really think.." and the viewer is forced to conjecture whether she's thinking, "you don't really think we were real" and "you don't really think I was faking". Wanting to think the former, I can't trust my reading of her body language. But then the shocking denouement: "You're not one of us." which pretty much decides it given that "us", her family, her caste, was her creed.
01:19:47 And what about you and me? What was that?
01:19:49 Your way of getting close to the investigation?
01:19:54 You don't really think...?
01:20:02 You're not one of us.
01:20:08 No.
Then too there was this:
00:46:18 I thought for a moment you'd chased after me to declare your undying love.
00:46:21 I'm not sure men do that nowadays, do they?
00:46:24 Perhaps they should.
Parody blog...
...updated with the latest Obama shamelessness, where he accused the Chamber of Commerce sans proof.
Grilled out Sunday the best steak I've had in at least a couple years. Juicy, tender perfectly cooked filet that my wife brought home from the grocery. Also a side of hamburger and cheese broccoli. Doesn't get any better than that.
* * *Listened to the dulcet sounds of "Promenade in A-major" as played by the water in the fountain out front. Thinking about how jazzed I was at work after automating a repetitive and trying process. Indeed, I'm at my best when uncovering ways to avoid work. Nothing motivates me to automate a process more than my having to do it repeatedly.
So there's that, as well as the fine leaf-scented air of mid-October vintage. Listened to Fr. Ian Ker on Chesterton and Newman from the Chesterton conference CD today. Rich material and gives me renewed hunger to read more of GK.
Might've been the last beautiful summer-like weekend of the year. It's certainly "pure gift", since nothing great after September can be expected; the old sun is too far away to be anything but punch-drunk. It feels like instant nostalgia, to see the hammock operative again. Front porch was uber-fine, sheltered from the wind and full of the seasonally appropriate wheezing of crickets and locusts. The birch with brilliant yellow leaves stands behind the fountain. An iron Victorian bench sits ready for an occupant. The dog lays flat against the door frame.
* * * Beer, that poetry of liquids, is verboten for awhile due to weight control 101 (avoid superfluous caloric liquids).
* * * Heather King's marvelous post on Simone Weil still resonates. I like the whole Baptism thing as being crucial, as being that step that makes us part of the Body of Christ and gives us a sense of belonging and, curiously, also a sense of not being anything special. Because our Baptism means that we are no longer "other". I think NOT being baptized gives one a sense of still being "in play", still being desirable to those within the "in" circle. To be baptized gives one more reason to be outward-focused than inward-looking. Ideally anyway, alack & alas.
* * * From Hamlet's Blackberry:
Walking [NYC] in those days, I was both surrounded by others and utterly alone, and it was this solitude within the crowd that made city life magical. It's what E.B. White was talking about when he observed that New York City 'blends the gift of privacy with the excitement of participation...insulating the individual (if he wants it, and almost everybody wants or needs it) against all enormous and violent and wonderful events that are taking place every minute.
Review of the new film The Social Network...
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This & That ...
Looking over an expanse of recently acquired books via the going out of business sale of a local bookstore (75% off). Such beautiful, fine volumes! The Dickens biography especially calls, as does the great basketball book of Bill Simmons that I have yet to finish.
Dandies, that's what they are, the Fox Sports guys. Three-piece suits and handkerchiefs carefully folded in their vest pockets. All to talk about football. Go figure. What's next, tuxes?
Chernow's new biography of George Washington is over nine-hundred pages long proving either that modern biographers need editors or that there are those for whom trivia enthralls in a non-utilitarian sort of way. George Washington may've slept there, but I don't have time to read about it.
State judges align themselves publicly with a political party, so I find it curious/humorous that their party isn't indicated on the ballot. Seems a pretense given that most judges' philosophy can be deduced from their political affiliation.
I'm hyp-mo-tized by the transparency and candidness of a pastor at a downtown church. In the bulletin he says, "People jokingly, and sometimes not so jokingly, label me as the pastor who spends too much money and is occupied too much with financial affairs...Yes, I spend money, but I do not regret it. Money is meant to be spent. It keeps people employed and gives parishioners a sense that things are being attended to."
It's surreal that Big Brother insists I register my kayak.
Heard an EWTN radio show about combating vices. It can't be done on willpower, they said. It has to come from the Spirit. This goes to my confusion over the amount of effort, or effortlessness, is necessary to overcome sin. Everybody says that only through God is change possible, yet I tend to see the willpower as equivalent to human effort. In the past I've thought that it's a mystery; that human effort and divine help are hopelessly entangled. Maybe that's true, but I have my doubts now. The saints don't seem confused about where God starts and they end - they give all the credit to God. They say that without God they could've done nothing. If the line between God and man is obscured, how does man give proper praise to God? (Of course, our very existence is due to God, so every good we do is a praise of God.)
I've never wanted to write a novel that I wouldn't want to read, which is why I've never written a novel. In other words, I'd want it to toss off insights and pleasure-giving phrases on every page and preferably every paragraph and I can't achieve that. It's something I get only rarely from the best novelists; it's too bad I don't like to read cheap fiction. I wonder if it's "selling out" to write beneath one's own taste, or whether that's merely pride talking in the way a teacher may not want to teach that which he or she considers too basic. But the essence of sharing, it seems to me, is to share what you value. If you don't value Harlequin romance, then offering it would seem a sham.
Listening to the Pretender's Don't Get Me Wrong with the lyrics about an impromptu meeting-turned-to-love while "just passing in the street." Seemingly a random moment. And I thought that a analogy of our relationship with God, where at any moment we might be surprised by His sudden overture. Certainly my meeting my wife was a chance one. Life can turn for the good on a moment's notice. I think of how Mary might've received the angel Gabriel at just a random moment, a moment that changed everything.
It's a November weather day: 50, fully cloudy, with occasional sprinkles. It's the sort of day that I could see welcoming with nostalgia and open arms were I a full-time resident of Southern California, but here now it feels like the semi-permanent return of an unpleasant roommate. Still, I look at it as a refreshing challenge to renew my relish of "the great indoors". Though what would be cool would be to have a room with a 10' by 10' sunroof!
Yesterday was the big main library bookstore but blew it off. I have so many treasures already, so many wonderful books, not the least my Chesterton collection. The odds of finding something there I liked were decent, but that's why I didn't go. I don't need anything usurping the place that Chesterton currently deserves.
Besides, I get tired of driving. Chesterton himself opines:
The motor car has progressed because nobody is happy where he is. The idea of leisure has become the idea of getting away somewhere else in the hope that by some extraordinary chance it may be better...Modern civilized life is so miserable for both rich and poor, because of its vulgar and stifling atmosphere, that people are always full of that divine human illusion that if only they rush around the corner they will find something that is a little better, and they make round the corner exactly like what they have left.
Though let's stipulate that Chesterton had an interesting job and one that involved a lot of interesting travel.
_____Watched HOUSE; seemed pretty soft-porn, with a main character lounging around nekkid in bed all day. Didn't need to see that. (Although I recognize that perhaps my definition of 'soft porn' has been sliding.)
Corporate fads come and go, and the latest one in our "shop" is treating our multitudinous cabinet as celebrities, such that we can sign up for "exchange sessions".
In the past we could buy tickets for a chance for lunch or golf with one of the AVPs. I've witnessed online chats with some of these figures and I'm always impressed by how "content free" the discussions tend to be, sort of like watching politicians talk on the Sunday shows. Just as the politician's goal is usually to never make news, similarly the party line is predictably paraded perchance we be persuaded by a cult of personality.
Read long from the inspiring Pearce biography of Chesterton. Pearce seems to share that Chestertonian sense of hope, at least that's always the thread I found running through his Oscar Wilde book. Chesterton's love for his wife was inspirational and it crushed her when he died. Another example of how earthly love entails loss and thus pain. To love much is to suffer much.
"The Rolling English Road" is a Chesterton poem that is taken to be just a drinking song but is actually an allegory of life. The young man is carefree, he grows older and becomes aware of social justice and patriotic duty, then he grows conscious of sin ("which would blast even the material beauty of the world but for the mercy of God") and finally "the approach of death expels the folly of youth and clears his vision for the good news of God."
Chesterton wrote about how there was too much focus on the spice of life, rather than life itself. Sports as religion was a theme and he said that "our world will end in despair unless there is some way of making the mind itself, the ordinary thoughts we have at ordinary times, more happy than they seem to be just now, to judge by the most modern novels and poems. You have got to be happy in those quiet moments when you remember that you are alive."
He became upset over the economic folly of "bullying people into purchasing what they do not want; of making it badly so that they may break it and imagine they want it again; of keeping rubbish in rapid circulation like a dust-storm in a desert; and pretending that you are teaching men to hope, because you do not leave them one intelligent instant in which to despair."
He defined the free man as "he who is in charge of himself. He may, and does, damage himself. He may smoke too much, drink too much, work too hard, walk too little; he may starve fanatically, either for fasting or for slimming. But he decides."
More Chesterton...
He takes the words of Christ about us having to lose our lives to save them, and give tremendous backstory to them:
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die. "He that will lose his life, the same shall save it," is not a piece of mysticism for saints and heroes. It is a piece of everyday advice for sailors or mountaineers. It might be printed in an Alpine guide or a drill book. This paradox is the whole principle of courage; even of quite earthly or quite brutal courage. A man cut off by the sea may save his life if he will risk it on the precipice.
He can only get away from death by continually stepping within an inch of it. A soldier surrounded by enemies, if he is to cut his way out, needs to combine a strong desire for living with a strange carelessness about dying. He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it; he must desire life like water and yet drink death like wine. No philosopher, I fancy, has ever expressed this romantic riddle with adequate lucidity, and I certainly have not done so. But Christianity has done more: it has marked the limits of it in the awful graves of the suicide and the hero, showing the distance between him who dies for the sake of living and him who dies for the sake of dying. And it has held up ever since above the European lances the banner of the mystery of chivalry: the Christian courage, which is a disdain of death; not the Chinese courage, which is a disdain of life.
And now I began to find that this duplex passion was the Christian key to ethics everywhere. Everywhere the creed made a moderation out of the still crash of two impetuous emotions.
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The Mike Toole Show - Binge Benefits
Voltron season 2 was great and the hook for season 3 has me excited spoiler[Summon Prince Lotor] and I am if spoiler[Shiro isn't found and rescued by the end of the first 2 episodes of season 3 I will be pissed. Where we are in the series, the mythos of the series, and all we went through from the end of season 1 through season 2 to just get rid of Shiro now is beyond bullshit. Paladins bond with their lions and lions with their paladins you can't just switch lions or get a new paladin like it is nothing. Also Allura is the only one who can pilot the castle and activate the wormholes so she can't be a paladin. I know all the fans of the original want her to pilot a lion but it doesn't make sense in this series.]
Lemonchest
I mostly binge/marathon/whatever watch for the simple reason that I find juggling multiple shows concurrently a nightmare, especially now there's so much stuff being shunted out every week. Tried to when I first discovered simulcasting a couple years ago & burnt out pretty quickly. It's easier to just start something, take a tea break every 3-6 episodes & finish it or give up & move on.
There's exceptions, of course - Stardust Crusaders worked well as a 2 episode a day series & I kind of wish I hadn't binged Sweetness & Lightning given how formulaic its episode structure was - but in general I find it a better way to watch.
Parsifal24
Give me enough caffeine and I can motor through almost anything the longest I've ever done watching Anime was the hours I'd spend getting off working second shift when I just started working and still lived at home I'd get the Netflix DVDs of Neon Genesis Evangelion and burn through them every night one DVD at a time until I had to get up in the morning.
Or I finished all of the 1997 Berserk in under a week after my friend recommended it to me. only to meet up with him for coffee with the Thursday I finished the series and Banquet scene was still fresh in my head.
I also finished Mermaid's Forest in s littlie over an few hours. Memorable if only because I paused it at one point and my kid sister was walking through where I was watching it and asked wther it was Pokémon.
I don't binge watch as much now as honestly if it is something I like I don't want to rush it as well as the amount of seasonal stuff I watch week to week that is new gives me more than enough to watch. Fall 2016 Anime Season I watched different new Anime series from 8 A.M. to 3:45 P.M. Of course now that I've got Anime Strike as soon as I finish up Vivid Strike I will end up burning through Nanoha StrikerS pretty quick.
SnowyLightning44
When I first started watching anime a few years ago I never used to watch airing shows and basically used to binge watch everything (nothing like 72 hours though probably a max of 7 to 8), but overtime I just got tired of it because eventually I couldn't even manage two 24 minute episodes of a show a day no matter how much I liked it and even then found myself watching some older shows an episode a week (which actually I tried a while ago and found quite nice so just I kept that routine).
angelmcazares
Location: Iscandar
Each season I usually follow 7-10 simulcasts and watch the episodes as they air. But I binge watch the shows I have on BD/DVD. I can watch one-cour shows in 3-4 sitting in one day, but for longer shows I watch in consecutive days 8-10 episodes per day.
Marathoning subbed anime can be tiresome, but I find the experience of consuming a bunch of episodes in a single day more rewarding than watching 1-2 episodes here and there. And the longest time I have binge watched anime without a break is like 6 hours.
blaizevincent
When I first watched Fullmetal Alchemist (my first real anime) I was watching it in 10 episode chunks.
A single cour tends to be my limit but on occasion I've gone further, especially with recent One Piece arcs.
One Piece can be easy to storm through episodes nowadays because if you skip the extended opening and sometimes as long as 5 minute recap, most episodes only tend to be 15 minutes long. 4 episodes takes only 2/3 of the time as a result. So I've done 20 One Piece episodes in a day quite often over the last few years.
Romance series are easy to be sucked into. I fall quite easily for the simple yet endlessly frustrating angle of 'will they, won't they?' and have fallen into marathons 20+ episodes long. Maison Ikkoku, Nana and Boys over Flowers spring to mind.
#Immie93
I've binge watched a lot of shows. Mainly if I'd just finished uni work for the day it would be straight onto any show which took my interest. I remember I literally had to take a day out of uni work to marathon attack on titan. I'd read all the reviews, heard of all the hype after it had finished airing so I gave it a go and oh crap. There's go any chance of me doing any work! And I'm glad I could marathon it, because I can't imagine the depression of having to wait a week for a new episode. Not looking forward to being one of those people for AOT S2 because no way can I hold out until it all finishes airing!
Another marathon was Code Geass. That was a day and a half job.
I blame it on the first couple of episodes. Once you're hooked you spend the whole time saying "just one more and I'll finish there." Wrong.
There's a point in Maison Ikkoku toward the end where it's a cliff-hanger every episode. I'd already been watching for a while when I hit that point, but once I did, I kept popping in the tapes until I finished the series sometime the following morning.
The same thing happened with the manga --- it was back to Million Year Picnic every day to pick up one or two (or three or four) more volumes until I finished the series.
I will occasionally pop in a favorite episode of a series and then just watch through to the end of the series.
Keichitsu0305
I have to plead guilty to watching all of Stranger Things at once
I honestly only planned to watch one episode to see what all the fuss was but, by the time it was 5pm I had to go outside & take a break because I had just marathon the first four episodes back to back in my basement.
Just finished binge watching Voltron 2 last night and I'm both happy for certain character developments specifically Keith since he and Pidge are my favorites but I had to avoid Tumblr for a while because if I see one more goddamn Klance shipper say spoiler["Shieth is dead because Keith loves Shiro as a brother lol we win"] in a series where the main group considers each other family anyway?!? *eyeroll* Anyway, I loved the background designs this season and episode 4 Greening the Cube was one of my favorite planets so far. I guess we are going to see more parallels with the original Go Lion;spoiler[ Allura will most likely pilot Red while Keith handles Black and that Galra guy Keith and Hunk saw was probably Prince Lotor. My major complaint is that Hunk only had a few times to shine this season and the Galra! Keith was glossed over but I'm glad that Pidge's brother Matt isn't a prisoner anymore so hopefully she can find him soon. Altean Haggar was a mild surprise but, I've been iffy about hoe Allura's magic overpowered Haggar in the finale. ] Also, did anyone else notice that the spoiler[decontamination scene from the spores] looked like that one scene from Rebuild of Eva 2.0??
Binge watching is useful for shows that I wanted to give a second chance or, if it's Netflix, a quick fix of some new content without worrying if I forget to watch it on a weekly basis. Otherwise, I rather watch anime specifically new shows on a weekly schedule and then marathon it once I bought the series. Actually, back in my sophomore year of college I would watch 5-7 episodes of LOGH for almost 2 months after class since I didn't have any other new anime I wanted to watch but also, the amount of praise made me morbidly curious. Now if Sentai were to ever give a release date I'll do the same schedule after I buy that and Space Bros which I really need to rewatch after seeing Hidden Figures twice.
Binge-watching is something that I honestly can't wrap my head around very well. It just feels like you're inevitably losing something when you cram episodes one after the other without giving yourself any time to chew on what just happened and speculate on what might be coming next. I guess I'm more of a product of the Old Ways, where viewers were denied instant gratification by necessity, but it does feel like there were some tangible benefits to that. Some of the best anime-viewing experiences I ever had were watching shows premiering on [adult swim] back in the day and having to suffer through a devastating cliffhanger for an entire week before finding out how things were resolved. Hell, after the penultimate episode of Eureka seveN aired, I think it occupied almost all of my down-time thinking for the entire week. This had the added side effect of encouraging more in-depth discussion on individual episodes, because we had all that time to pore over details and toss around theories. All of that gets completely lost if you're watching a show that has an entire season dumped on Netflix or Amazon Prime. About the only thing I feel like it make sense to marathon is something along the lines of One Piece, which is so gargantuan in length (and in recent years often glacial in pacing) that limiting yourself to one or two episodes per week just isn't practical in terms of catching up.
Besides all of that, I just can't sit through a whole bunch of episodes of a series in a row without starting to feel all twitchy. I think the most I've ever managed for a single series in one sitting was 5, and even watching 7 or 8 episodes of different series like in a Toonami-style block tends to wear on me. If it's playing a game or reading a book, I'm good for hours at a time, but television is an inherently non-interactive medium, and I can feel my brain check out if I park myself in front of it for too long at a time.
thekingsdinner
Location: Terheijden, Netherlands
The only animes I usually bingewatch are 11-13 episodes or shows with hundreds of episodes. Any others I usually take my time with, especially old school titles.
I do love to bingewatch super long shows (this goes especially for Toei anime). My record so far has to be with One Piece at 43 episodes in 1 day (same with D.Gray-man about a year ago) and I can't say I was even remotely sick of watching it. Don't think I'll ever manage to do that again.
Currently rewatching Detective Conan (yes, all of it) and despite its episodic and formulaic nature, I can't seem to stop. Just wish there was a legal way to watch episodes 124-753.
Lord Oink
I only binge-watch if it's an older show that's already out and done with. For new stuff I prefer weekly episodes. I don't have a Netflix account nor am I interested in any of their output, I just torrent any anime they license and hold ransom for the entire season so they can release it for binge watchers. Binge-watching makes a show feel cheap and disposable, like its already over the moment it began. Then you're waiting a year for it to come back. Seems like a great way to kill fan investment and longetivity into a series. Then again every Netflix show I've heard about only has 13 episodes seasons or fewer. 26, 52, 100+ episode series that wouldn't really work and seems even more stupid to release those all at once.
TrustTheFungus
How many episodes do you need to watch for it to be binge watching? I always wait for something to finish airing before I watch it, but I don't watch the whole thing in one sitting. I normally watch 2 or 3 episodes a day. Maybe more on the weekend.
brankoburcksen
Your friend's donut analogy does not really work. Ted Sarandos, CCO of Netflix, compared it best to when English literature went from serials (like Dicken's novels) to larger bound books, which much like streaming had to do with advances in printing technology amongst other economic and cultural changes.
I set aside one morning every week to binge all the newest episodes of whatever anime I am watching that season. I change up the order each time depending on how I feel, but I usually go from worst (or least good) to best. My own, personal Weekly Shounen Jump.
I prefer to binge shows when I can, but I sometimes watch series like House of Cards with my parents and they are the antithesis of binging. The most they can handle is 2-3 episodes at a time. They are very active and productive people, so they feel bad if they sit around for too long. Whenever I watch two episodes back-to-back of Empire or Vikings with my mom in the morning, she will inevitably say, "Now it's time to get up and do something."
That goes for when I show them anime like Death Parade, Yowapeda (my dad's favorite show) or Shirobako (he loves the director and two male PAs, but thinks the girls are boring) as well.
Oh! And my first binge watch was Twin Peaks with my best friend in high school, which was not unusual because we binged classic movies with his mom too.
WingKing
I really just let the show dictate how I watch it. The first time I watched Lyrical Nanoha A's I pretty much binge-watched it - 4 episodes before I went to bed, and the last 9 episodes after I got up the next morning, because it was so gripping I didn't want to stop. Persona 4 was another one like that. I bought the first half of the series, devoured those 12 episodes in about two days, and then impatiently waited for RightStuf to put it on sale again so I could buy the second half. On the other hand, one of the shows I'm watching right now is Squid Girl, and that is absolutely a one-episode-at-a-time series, especially because the way it's structured, every full episode is like watching 2 or 3 shorter episodes anyway. I can enjoy one episode of it, but each time I've tried to stretch it to two episodes I've found myself checking my watch halfway through the second one.
Craziest marathoning I've ever heard of, though, is that I actually know someone who watched all (at the time) 700 episodes of One Piece in about six weeks. Even allowing 20 minutes per episode by skipping openings and endings, that's still an average of 17 episodes per day for over 40 days in a row. And she's still in school, so it's not like she didn't also have other things she needed to do, either.
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Social Networks Are Also a Helpful Tool To Prevent Suicide
Sometimes, preventing suicide is a matter of sending out the right message at the right time. Social media represents a new channel to reach out to many people that need help but have not looked for appropriate assistance.
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Ana Freire holds a Ph.D. in computer science and works as Head of the Tech Academic Unit of the UPF Barcelona School of Management and as a Senior Lecturer. She also works by offering social media solutions for those people who are planning to commit suicide. The World Health Organization has mentioned that every year, the number of people who die from intentionally causing their death, is higher than those who die of aids, breast cancer, or even as a result of wars or homicides. According to the National Institute of Statistics in Spain, more than 10 people die every day by suicide. The pandemic has also played a part in elevating this number.
The STOP (Suicide prevenTion in sOcial Platforms) Project, which is promoted by Ana Freire analyzes social media in search of behavioral patterns which could be linked to suicidal behavior, to offer help for people who are at high risk of committing suicide. The Project implements the use of social media, text and image analysis as well as artificial intelligence combined with the collaboration of experts in different fields. It offers assistance by reaching out to people through social media, encouraging them to receive help. Developing tools to prevent intentional deaths, is not an easy task. It means getting involved in a field that has been permeated by taboos and that hasn't been widely explored. When Freire arrived at the UPF School of Management, she was looking for a research topic that would keep her motivated. She found it by exploring the relationship between social media and mental health, a field that had not been a research subject before.
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Freire focused her attention on the detection of behavioral patterns that could be considered as indicators of suicide risk for individuals who expressed themselves on social media and who found it hard to express themselves in real life. In a recent interview, Ana Freire mentioned that she ran into a post on Facebook, where a girl mentioned that she was willing to commit suicide. Below, many comments told her not to, some even alerted the police, but the authorities came too late. This was the moment when she realized how important it was to create a technology that could detect this type of problem on time, to prevent people from committing suicide.
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As it is shown by Freire through her Project, social media may be seen from different angles. Although it can indeed be harmful to self-esteem, anxiety, and depression, because it can lead to comparisons and fear of missing out, it also represents an opportunity to reach out to many people that have mental health problems and have not been diagnosed. It allows us to detect people who need help, but who haven't called out for assistance!
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Cahiers du Cinéma names Fantastic Mr. Fox #5 Movie of 2010
Esteemed French cinema journal Cahiers du Cinéma, once home to nouvelle vague pioneers Jean-Luc Godard, Francois Truffaut and Eric Rohmer, among others, has named Fantastic Mr. Fox the #5 film of 2010. The film received general release in France on February 17, 2010. To read more about the French release, please visit our older posts on the matter.
The full top ten is after the jump.
Wes' film joins those by veteran filmmakers Werner Herzog, Jean-Luc Godard, Joel and Ethan Coen, David Fincher, and the genius Thai filmmaker Apitchatpong Weerasethakul. Though it appears that even in France Wes can't escape from underneath the clutches of Pixar.
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, Werner Herzog
Film Socialisme, Jean-Luc Godard
Toy Story 3, Lee Unkrich
Fantastic Mr. Fox, Wes Anderson
A Serious Man, Joel & Ethan Coen
To Die Like a Man, João Pedro Rodrigues
The Social Network, David Fincher
Chouga (aka Ainour), Darezhan Omirbayev
Mother, Bong Joon-ho
Felicitations aux Wes!
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Q: How to generate a key for a javascript object I want to implement an ObjectSet class, which contains a set of object references. In the implementation 1 below, I use an Array to store the objects. In the put/remove function, I iterate the whole array to find passed-in object. The set size would be very large and the functions are called frequently. The performance of the iteration is a concern.
In the implementation 2, I use an Object, which acts as a map, to store the object references. In this manner, it doesn't need to iterate all the objects in the put/remove functions. The performance would be better. But the Object property must be a string. I can't use the object as the key. The question is: Is there any algorithm to generate a unique key for an object?
Implementation 1 - Store object references in an Array
function ObjectSet() {
    this.store = []; // Array
}
ObjectSet.prototype = {
    put: function( obj) {
        var store = this.store;
        for (var i = 0; i < store.length; i++) {
            if (store[i] === obj) {
                return;
            }
        };
    },
    remove: function( obj ) {
        var store = this.store;
        for (var i = 0; i < store.length; i++) {
            if (store[i] === obj) {
                store.splice(i, 1);
            }
        };
    }
};

Implementation 2 - Store object references in an Object
function ObjectSet() {
    this.store = {}; // Object
}
ObjectSet.prototype = {
    put: function( obj) {
        var key = generateKeyFromObject(obj);
        if(!this.store[ key ]){
            this.store[ key ] = obj;
        }
    },
    remove: function( obj ) {
        var key = generateKeyFromObject(obj);
        if(this.store[ key ]){
            delete this.store[ key ];
        }
    }
};
function generateKeyFromObject(obj){
    // Question: How to generate a unique key for an object?
}

============UPDATE 7/2/2014================
Paste my implementation based on the answers/comments.
// Use the global index to avoid the clash when the same object is added to different sets.
var index = 1, key='##key';
function generateKeyFromObject(obj){
    if(!obj[key]){
        var uniqueKey="##uniqueKey" + (index++).toString();
        Object.defineProperty(obj, key, {
            writable: false,
            enumerable: false,
            configurable: false,
            value: uniqueKey
        });
   }
    return obj[key];
}

A: If it's no problem to add attributes to the objects you're inserting:
function ObjectSet()
{
    var id = 0;

    this.nextId = function() { // id generator function
        return ++id;
    };

    this.store = {}; // Object
}

ObjectSet.prototype = {
    put: function(obj) {
        if (!obj.id) {
            obj.id = this.nextId();
            this.store[obj.id] = obj;
        }
    },
    remove: function(obj) {
        if (obj.id && this.store[obj.id]) {
            delete this.store[key];
        }
    }
};

As pointed out in the comments, this will become a problem if objects can be shared between sets; in that case the same id generator needs to be used for all objects that are used.
var nextId = function() {
    var id = 0;

    return function() {
        return ++id;
    };
}();

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Single image calibration is the problem of predicting the camera parameters from one image. This problem is of importance when dealing with images collected in uncontrolled conditions by non-calibrated cameras, such as crowd-sourced applications. In this work we propose a method to predict extrinsic (tilt and roll) and intrinsic (focal length and radial distortion) parameters from a single image. We propose a parameterization for radial distortion that is better suited for learning than directly predicting the distortion parameters. Moreover, predicting additional heterogeneous variables exacerbates the problem of loss balancing. We propose a new loss function based on point projections to avoid having to balance heterogeneous loss terms. Our method is, to our knowledge, the first to jointly estimate the tilt, roll, focal length, and radial distortion parameters from a single image. We thoroughly analyze the performance of the proposed method and the impact of the improvements and compare with previous approaches for single image radial distortion correction.


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Луис Антонио Вальдес Салас (; родился 1 июля 1965 года в Агуаскальентес, Мексика) — мексиканский футболист, полузащитник известный по выступлениям за «Гвадалахару» и сборной Мексики. Участник Чемпионата мира 1994 года.

Клубная карьера
Вальдес начал карьеру в клубе «Гвадалахара». В 1986 году он дебютировал в мексиканской Примере. За команду Луис провёл 5 сезонов и сыграл более 100 матчей. В 1991 году он перешёл в «Монтеррей», но уже после двух сезонов покинул команду. Его новым клубом стал «Леон». В 1995 году Вальдес завершил карьеру из-за травмы колена.

Международная карьера
В 1989 году Вальдес дебютировал за сборную Мексики. В 1994 году Луис попал в заявку национальной команды на участие в Чемпионате мира в США. На турнире он сыграл в поединках против сборная Норвегии.

Примечания

Ссылки

Футболисты Мексики
Игроки сборной Мексики по футболу
Игроки ФК «Гвадалахара»
Игроки ФК «Леон»
Игроки ФК «Монтеррей»

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Impresiona citologija  (skraćeno IC)  minimalno invazivna oftalmološka tehnika za ispitivanje konjunktivalnih promena na ćelijskom nivou. Metoda može da se kombinuje sa metodom impresione citologije sa skening elektronskom mikroskopijom (ICSEM), koja je novijeg datuma, prvi put je saopštena 2007. godine.
Ona je  veoma efikasna u otkrivanju smanjenja broja mikrovolja, i može predstavljati efikasan metod za detekciju promena u konjunktivalnom epitelu nastalom oštećenjem filma. Oštećenja se ovom metodom otkrivaju čak i pre nego što se pojavi epitelno oštećenje koje može da se otkrije optičkom mikroskopijom.

Opšta razmatranja
Patohistološka ispitivanja, u okviru dopunske dijagnostike u oftalmologiji, obuhvata različite metode pregleda iz domena oftalmološke patologije za sagledavanje površine oka (vežnjače, rožnjače, limbusa), suzne i salivatorne žlezde. Među citološke metodam pregleda okularne površine, sprovode se scrape, brush, impresiona
citologija, koje se mogu kombinovati sa različitim tipovima mikroskopiranja, imunohistohemijskim i PCR analizama.

Namena
Metodom impresione citologije dobija se dva do ti sloja odgovarajućih konjunktivalnih ćelija za analizu, primenom različitih metoda u patologiji. U toku te analize sagledavanjem dobijenih uzoraka impresione citologije mogu da se dobiju sledeći podaci:
 karakteristike epitelne ploče dobijenih impresionih uzoraka
 odnos kohezivnosti epitelnih ćelija,
 stepen skvamozne metaplazije,
 stepen keratoze,
 učestalost jedarnih promena,
 tip jedarne promene  - i utvrdi pojava binuklearnih ćelija ili  "zarezanog jedra" u ćelijama u ranim fazama razvoja npr. suvog oka, apiknotična jedra ili gubitak jedara odlika je uznapredovale bolesti
 gustina peharastih ćelija i morfologija peharastih ćelija,
 količina mukusa i morfologija mukusa
 prisustvo ćelija zapaljenja,
 utvrdi stepen izraženosti bolesti uz poremećen odnos nukleus citoplazma (N/C) na račun citoplazme.
 skvamozna metaplazija,  kao stanje u kome je nekeratinizujući epitel zamenjen keratinizujućim epitelom
 redukovana koncentracija peharastih ćelija.
Nakon semikvantitativne analize, rezultati se izražavaju kao IC skorovi, a pomoću metode se procenjuje gustina populacije peharastih ćelija i konjunktivna skvamozna metaplazija, kao drugi indeks zdravlja konjunktive i integriteta.

Prednost ove metode je uočavanje oštećenja epitela ko njunktiva narušenim suznim filmom pre nego što se epitelijalna oštećenja dese i detektuju optičkim mikroskopom.

Indikacije
Ova jednostavna i praktična metoda se praktikuje u:
 Oboljenjima prednje površine oka, kao što su suvo oko, insuficijencija limbalnih stem ćelija,
 Neoplazme,
 Kod nekih virusnih infekcija.

Način izvođenja
Ovom metodom se analizira skvamozna metaplazija i gustina peharastih ćelija konjunktive. Filter papirićima se uklanjaju ćelije površnih slojeva konjunktive, ponekad i rožnjače u predelu limbusa. Uzorak ćelija se analizira različitim metodama, u zavisnosti od cilja ispitivanja (mikroskopija, imunohistohemija, PCR).

Kod bolesti suvog oka analizira se skvamozna metaplazija koja se karakteriše gubitkom peharastih ćelija i različitim stepenom keratinizacije epitelnih ćelija površine. Postoji više sistema gradiranja ovog procesa, a najpoznatiji je Nelsonov klasifikacioni sistem.

Izvori

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 Doughty MJ. Surface features and morphology of bulbarconjunctival cells of bovine eyes obtained from aslaughterhouse: a scanning electron microscope andimpression cytology study. Curr Eye Res 2002; 24(5):341–353.6
 Kruse FE, Schmitz W, Jaeger W, Gotz ML. Scanning electronmicroscopy image of the cells of the conjunctival epitheliumin specimens from impression cytology. Klin MonatsblAugenheilkd 1986; 188(1): 29–32.7
 Guillon JP. Current clinical techniques to study the tearfilm and tear secretions. In: Korb D, Craig J, Doughty M,Guillon JP, Smith G, Tomlinson A (eds). The Tear Film.Butterworth-Heinemann: London, 2002, pp 51–83.

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After a delay of more than a month, Microsoft has finally begun rolling out Windows 10 October 2018 Update, after being hit by bugs that caused the company to pull the update offline. Microsoft has reportedly promised significant changes in the way it approaches quality issues, including better communication with its users.
"A number of Windows 10 users reported missing files after the update was released in early October. While Microsoft did re-release the update to beta testers, it has taken the company more than a month to fully test it and release it more generally today," The Verge reported late on Tuesday.
According to the tech giant, the "data destroying" bug that delayed the release of the so-called October 2018 Update has been thoroughly investigated.
Windows 10 October 2018 Update will now reach Windows Update "for a small percentage of users, and people will need to seek it out by checking for updates for it to even be installed," the report added.
However, the company has said the update might not get installed in a user's system if an issue is detected. "If we detect that your device may have an issue, such as an application incompatibility, we will not install the update until that issue is resolved, even if you 'Check for updates,' so you avoid encountering any related problems," John Cable, Director, Programme Management for Windows Servicing and Delivery was quoted as saying in the report, according to IANS.
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Q: Armadillo C++ and BLAS and ATLAS cannot find lapack blas under mingw32 All,
Summary ...
I am trying to compile example.cpp of
  arma.sourceforge.net/docs.html#example_prog
I try to compile and link armadillo with lapack and blas.
I am always getting the same error back.
This message is returned
ld.exe: cannot find -llapack
ld.exe: cannot find -lblas

I verified that all of my paths below are correct and ran the following.
g++ example.cpp -o example -O1  -I..\..\lapackblas_headers\lapack -I..\..\lapackblas_headers\blas  -I..\include

-L....\lapackblas_MD_debug -llapack -lblas
This message is returned
ld.exe: cannot find -llapack
ld.exe: cannot find -lblas

FROM
f:/mingw/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.5.2/../../../../mingw32/bin/ld.exe: cannot find -llapack
f:/mingw/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.5.2/../../../../mingw32/bin/ld.exe: cannot find -lblas

collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
Andre Mikulec
Andre_Mikulec@Hotmail.com
Details follow ...
I downloaded pre-compiled versions of LAPACK and BLAS were downloaded from ...
  http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xsvobod2/misc/lapack/
I am following the instructions here
https://sourceforge.net/projects/arma/files/latest/download
http://sourceforge.net/projects/arma/files/armadillo-3.800.0.tar.gz
file:///M:/YDrive/All_Economics/eclipse_workspace/armadillo-3.800.0/README.txt

From
arma.sourceforge.net/download.html#windows
I have lapack and blas libraries
ls -alrt ../../lapackblas-MD-debug

-rw-r--r--  1 Administrator Administrators   27092 Oct  5  2009 blas_win32_MDd.lib
-rwxr-xr-x  1 Administrator Administrators  280576 Oct  5  2009 blas_win32_MDd.dll
-rw-r--r--  1 Administrator Administrators  254886 Oct  5  2009 lapack_win32_MDd.lib
-rwxr-xr-x  1 Administrator Administrators 3774464 Oct  5  2009 lapack_win32_MDd.dll
drwxr-xr-x  2 Administrator Administrators       0 Mar  3 08:02 .
drwxr-xr-x 10 Administrator Administrators       0 Mar  3 08:06 ..

ls -alrt ../../lapackblas_headers/blas

MANYFILES.h

ls -alrt ../../lapackblas_headers/lapack

MANYFILES.h

ls -alrt ../include

MANYFILES.h
I try to compile and link armadillo with lapack and blas.
I am always getting the same error back.
M:
cd \YDrive\All_Economics\eclipse_workspace\armadillo-3.800.0\examples

M:\YDrive\All_Economics\eclipse_workspace\armadillo-3.800.0\examples>

I tried relative paths
g++ example.cpp -o example -O1  -I..\..\lapackblas_headers\lapack -I..\..\lapackblas_headers\blas  -I..\include

-L..\..\lapackblas_MD_debug -llapack -lblas

I tried absolute paths
g++ example.cpp -o example -O1  -IM:\YDrive\All_Economics\eclipse_workspace\lapackblas_headers\lapack

-IM:\YDrive\All_Economics\eclipse_workspace\lapackblas_headers\blas

-IM:\YDrive\All_Economics\eclipse_workspace\armadillo-3.800.0\include

-LM:\YDrive\All_Economics\eclipse_workspace\lapackblas_MD_debug -llapack -lblas

In all cases returned information is here
ld.exe: cannot find -llapack
ld.exe: cannot find -lblas

f:/mingw/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.5.2/../../../../mingw32/bin/ld.exe: cannot find -llapack
f:/mingw/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.5.2/../../../../mingw32/bin/ld.exe: cannot find -lblas
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Any ideas?
Thank you.
Andre Mikulec
Andre_Mikulec@Hotmail.com

A: I found the partial solution.
g++ -o example example.cpp ..\..\lapackblas_MD_debug\blas_win32_MDd.dll ..\..\lapackblas_MD_debug\lapack_win32_MDd.dll -O1  -I..\..\lapackblas_headers\lapack -I..\..\lapackblas_headers\blas  -I..\include

This page explains it.
http://www.mingw.org/wiki/MSVC_and_MinGW_DLLs
Basically, I needed to specify the DLL files directly on the command line after the main program
Also, to FINISH TO SOLUTION, I have to install the (yet) dependent DLLs
from an Intel Fortran compiler ( or 30 day eval ).
This page ( were I aquired the DLLs ) explains it ( in the fine print ).
LAPACK & BLAS precompiled binaries for Win32 platform
http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xsvobod2/misc/lapack/


The vast majority of Picardy Spaniels look like they are supposed to look and hunt the way they are supposed to hunt. There are no large kennels breeding dozens of litters per year, no trucks full of Picardies on the major field trial circuit or show-only breeders seeking blue ribbons in the ring. Picardy Spaniels are still bred the old-fashioned way; mainly in the homes of hunters who produce a litter or two every couple of years from their personal hunting companions.
The entire world-wide population of Picardy Spaniels is only about 1000 individuals. The breed has gained ground over the last 45 years but it still averages fewer than 100 registrations per year. Of course there are dogs that are not registered but the number of Picardy Spaniels whelped in France has probably never been more than 200 pups in any given year. Outside of France an additional 20 to 40 Picardy Spaniel pups are whelped in places like Germany, the UK, the Netherlands and Austria each year. With such a small population, we have to be very careful to avoid the dreaded 'popular sire syndrome'. Alliance members have all committed to limit the use of popular sires in order to reduce the loss of genetic diversity in the breed (see breeding guidelines).
The breed has no greater share of the usual health issues than other gundog breeds, but ectropion and entropion can be present in some lines. Testing rates for hip dysplasia and other health concerns are rather low in some countries but hip dysplasia does not seem to be particularly common in the breed. Nevertheless, all breeders in the Alliance have agreed to test the hips of all breeding stock and perform other genetic tests (see breeding guidelines).
Even before the breed was fully formed, "foreign" blood (mainly English Setters) had made its way into French Spaniels all over France, and in particular, into lines bred in Picardy, Normandy and Brittany. When the Picardy Spaniel was officially recognized as an independent breed in the early 1900s, it was declared pure and independent and was supposed to remain that way. But like every other French breed of épagneul, further crosses to setters occurred between the wars and again in the 1980s and 90s. Rumor has it that more have occurred in some lines as recently as just a few years ago.
But there have also been some drawbacks. The overall build of some dogs has become more setter-like and there is a real fear that the versatility and practicality of the breed's continental hunting style may also be at risk as some breeders seek more range and speed at the expense of water love and natural retrieve. Coats have also been affected. Instead of a rich brown tone of liver, coats with a rather faded brown tone are occurring. Others lack the distinctive tan points or instead of grey roan may have white patches.
We strongly recommend that all Alliance breeding stock in North America be tested to identify carriers and non-carriers of the gene.
Non-carriers may be bred (if all other requirements are met). Carriers may also be breed (if all other requirements are met) but should only be bred to non-carriers.
Pups from non-carrier-to-non-carrier litters do not have to be tested but ALL pups from carrier-to-non-carrier breedings should be tested. Anyone interested in breeding should select non-carrier pups.