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The Church's "Long War"?
Sandro Magister has the text of Benedict's Q&A with priests at his vacation home in northern Italy. (This is the pope's preferred way of communicating in a more casual manner; it is effective, and enlightening, as he seems comfortable in this setting.) The excerpt Magister has posted is Benedict's response to the final question, regarding the hopes and disappointments of Vatican II. It is a very comprehensive response by the pope, and I think sums up well his thinking about the Council (and the modern world) and the long struggle in which he--and we, if recent threads are any indicator--are all engaged to "define" Vatican II, and modern Catholicism. The pope reveals his typically binary, or I daresay Manichean, view of the conflicts, and his view of himself as occupying the proper center, which he says will hold as long as it has to. The prospect of such a long struggle, as in the early years of the church, as Benedict says, could be dispiriting. But this also seems to point toward a question Peggy Steinfels posted recently about why the Commonweal bloggers and commenters, in particular, seem more concerned with things ecclesial while the magazine itself has traditionally taken a wider view. I suspect that for the first decades of Commonweal's existence most of the Catholic things we fight about today were taken for granted. Now it is as if we have to settle those ad intra debates before we can constructively engage the wider culture more than we do now. Just an idea for thoughtul (I hope) feedback, or correction.
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David Gibson is a national reporter for Religion News Service and author of The Coming Catholic Church (HarperOne) and The Rule of Benedict (HarperOne). He blogs at dotCommonweal.
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An interesting point that the Pope made has to do with the indirectness of the most effective response: the evangelical response.How do we interpret the Council? By doing something! Start a homeless shelter. Begin forming a community of prayer. Put the Gospel at work in your life:"I saw that almost every day in Brazil a new religious community is born, a new movement is born, and it is not only the sects that are growing. The Church is growing with new realities full of vitality, which do not show up in the statistics this is a false hope; statistics are not our divinity but they grow within souls and create the joy of faith, they create the presence of the Gospel, and thus also create true development in the world and society. "
David,I take the following to be your assessment of the Pope's words:"The pope reveals his typically binary, or I daresay Manichean, view of the conflicts, and his view of himself as occupying the proper center, which he says will hold as long as it has to."Could you elaborate: what is "Manichean" in his view? What is "the proper center" you see him claiming to occupy?Thanks.
An interesting response, but profoundly European. The end of African colonialism is as important as 1968.If that is how he is going to analyze, I would be more interested in his assessment of Vatican I. Would "1917" mean Soviet communism or Fatima? Would "1945" mean the destruction at Hiroshima or the liberation in Europe?
Bob--I thought the pope was fairly clear, ceratinly as regards his view of contemporary life, describing it, for example, as "nihilistic" and plagued by a "blind pseudo-rationalistic skepticism that ends in drugs, that ends in all these problems that we know..." Also he says of the post-conciliar era:"One side was of the opinion that this cultural revolution was what the Council had wanted. It identified this new Marxist cultural revolution with the will of the Council. It said: This is the Council; in the letter the texts are still a bit antiquated, but behind the written words is this spirit, this is the will of the Council, this is what we must do. And on the other side, naturally, was the reaction: you are destroying the Church. The let us say absolute reaction against the Council, anticonciliarity, and let us say the timid, humble search to realize the true spirit of the Council. And as a proverb says: If a tree falls it makes a lot of noise, but if a forest grows no one hears a thing, during these great noises of mistaken progressivism and absolute anticonciliarism, there grew very quietly, with much suffering and with many losses in its construction, a new cultural passageway, the way of the Church."Again, these seem to be straw men, Marxists versus Traditionalists, 1968 v. 1870, that kind of thing. The reality is more complex. And Benedict has certainly identified with one party, in his actions--such as going to great lengths to reach out to the Lefebvrists with the Latin Mass restoration and the like, without being so sedulous as regards the "other side". And he tends to ID with one camp in his words: "And thus it seems to me that we must rediscover the great heritage of the Council, which is not a spirit reconstructed behind the texts, but the great conciliar texts themselves, reread today with the experiences that we have had and that have born fruit in so many movements, in so many new religious communities."I don't particularly agree with Benedict and his apparent critique of the Bologna School and the like. But again this is not so much about agreeing, as clarifying where Benedict stands, and how he arrays the post-conciliar battlefield. He wants to "go back to the texts," which are curently being re-translated to his liking and which will be held up as the "official" translations to restrict dangerous exegesis. So he claims the center, but that is not really the case.
I would call this Benedict at his best, but I agree that his view of history, of significant points in time, is Eurocentric , perhaps even eccentric. Postmodernism, in literary critical circles at least, was alread a phenomenon in the 1970s. Today I would venture to say that it is moribund. !989 seems to me primarily significant as marking, if one has to pick a year, the failure of state socialism as a path to the future. It led to despair only those who had placed their faith in Marxism, especially Soviet Marxism. I do think Benedict has caught well the difficulty of real change in the church. It is particular difficult to understand for those who have little sense of history--the example of Nicaea is well taken, but he follows Newman and others in pointing this out--and who believe that the Church at the first Pentecost is quite simply and precisely the one and only Church that has alway been since then and alway will be till the parousia.The Church is among other things a human organization. Nothing human is without confusion, misdirection and misunderstanding, not to say sin and idol worship. The guidance of the Spirit is there, but it effects should not be overstated. The human limitations of the those guided remain.
An observation I'd agree with, Joseph Gannon. One of the human limitations, I think, is our understandable aptitude for believing ourselves to be standing at the "sensible center" of any debate. (Those who pride themselves on always being on one fringe or another are of another type altogether.) I think that is a self-awareness we always need to cultivate, or at least I do. I read a comment somewhere--heck, I bet it was in Commonweal--from Rahner, I think near the end of his life, in which he asked both sides, but especially "progressives" with whom he would understandably be identified, if we hadn't sought to make the Council something that would satisfy our own desires, to make us more comfrotable in church, rather than pursuing its Spirit where it will. Something to that effect. Perhaps someone here can hunt it down. I'll try.
David, I'd be interested in hearing more about what you mean by Manicheanism.All dualities are not the same. Distinguishing between a good social trend and a bad social trend is hardly the same as saying matter is bad.
Take a look at John Allen's on-line piece today and it's emphasis on the environment and Benedict's take on care for it being a means of recovering natural law.I think David is right though about Benedict being too deeply tied to a European view in a rapidly eveolving world.
Kathy, I was using Manichean in a metaphoric rather than literal sense, of dividing the world between the Forces of Darkness and the Forces of Light. It wasn't intended as a neo-Gnostic analysis about the relative values of matter and spirit. It was meant, imperfectly no doubt, to characterize the tendency to see our foes as completely and wholly wrong and even evil, and ourselves as on the side of the angels.
I don't even know if eurocentric is the right word because it bypasses quite a bit of modern Europe. My impression of Benedict, as well as JPII, is that they thrived so well in the pre-war culture that they grew up in that they never stopped (or have stopped) seeing it in idealistic terms and everything else is viewed in comparison as inferior and inadequate. I lived through 1968 and even as a child I knew it was a bad year: assassinations in the U.S.; the invasion of Czechoslovakia; the massacre of Mexican students; and compared to all of these student uprisings in college towns across Europe don't seem all that momentous. And to see them solely in terms of Marxian underpinnings is a little bizarre. I just don't consider his answer to be an answer at all. It's just a manifestation of the ongoing battle he has apparently been fighting in his head with a bunch of students in 1968 when a generation flexed its muscles. Joschka Fischer, for instance, came to terms with German mainstream society from his leftward perch. Why can't Benedict begin to see 1968 and for that matter modernity in general through greater perspective? Why does he always seem be pining for that pre-war farming village idyll?
Okay, that helps.It is a rather strong term, especially when referring to an Augustinian.I was wondering, though, is it impossible that he is right? That he is actually holding the center?
There was something else that happene in 1968, the repercussions of which are still dividing the Church. An encyclical, I think.
Kathy, it's not at all impossible that he is right. I would see him more as part of a reaction than a correction (necessary, I think) after the council. But hey, it's all straw...I do agree with Barbara's comments on his character--again, the descritption of Benedict as old-fashioned as much as conservative is apt. And personality is at play here as much as theology, in my view. And "old-fashioned" can seem cute and quaint. But the decisions such a view spawns have real import, esp if you were not a Catholic raised in early twentieth-century Bavarian Catholicism.
I'm not sure when I've seen the Pope act quaintly.
Nicea is a prodigiously overrated council. As if declaring the nature of God led Christians to lead better lives. From this point on dogma became more important than living the faith. Orthodoxy became favored over orthopraxy. Then Matthew 16:18 began to be trumpted and they really forgot all about Matthew I8 which is the essence of the faith. How dogma makes one better is beyond me.In point of fact the Nicean crowd was the most corrupt in the Church's history up to that point. And I am not sure what the point is to compare councils. Triumphalism was ushered in with Nicea, along with religious orders as an attempt to reproduce what was lost by the emperor's capturing Christianity. Vatican 2 did not have the strong arm of adeluded emperor commanding things. The bishops voted freely. Huge difference.Benedict coyly notes that the renewal group that emerged from V2 was a sort of triumphalism. That is true in the sense that some attempted to make renewal and anarchy the same. And noting that many church rules were counter productive did not mean that one turns to a laissez faire church.I don't really object to allowing the Tridentine Mass to be allowed in more places as long as it does not demand that this is superior worship and that the others rites are invalid.Benedict is too concerned about having everyone recite the same dogma. We had that already pre-Vat 2 which was led by a domineering and haughty clergy. The renewal has been fantastic despite glitches. Let God sift the wheat from the chaff.Rome can be an equalled sign and center of unity with more humility and hard work less the glitter and the triumphalism.
What can one say about Pope Benedict's answer to the "10th question"? His little bit of history is without nuance, is simplistic, and proves nothing. It is hardly conducive to serious thought.So he wants continuity. With what? Surely with the fundamental truths of our faith. No argument there. But recall the leadup to Vatican II. The curia prepared a set of documents for the Council that the bishops roundly rejected. Are we to go back to the vision of the Church represented in those rejected proposals? And during the Council there was a constant struggle between the "old guard" led by such Cardinals as Ottaviani and Ruffini. Shall we now seek continuity with their vision? To see how the old guard fought, often with disreputable means, against any revision of the status quo, see the diaries that Yves Congar kept during the Council and has now published. To go back to that old guard is to say that Pope John XXIII simply bungled in calling the Council. Say that if you will. That's o.k. by me, but don't then say that to question what sense there is in Pope Benedict's call for "continuity" is somehow lacking in deference and piety.Frankly, if I were the priest who asked the 10th question and got the answer he got, I would have been intellectually insulted.
Let me point to a different Benedikt from the diocese of Regensburg who showed up in the German press the past few days. This link to the Passauer Neuer Presse may be a link to the geographically closest newspaper to the Pope's native region. Link:http://www.pnp.de/nachrichten/artikel.php?cid=29-16741108&Ressort=pol&BN... short, the bishop of the diocese of Regensburg has acted like some American bishops. He has given a pedophile parish work, and the victims named Benedickt and Daniel, and their parents are angry. Is this the sole holy and apostolic Church at work? I wonder whether the bishop who reappointed the convicted pedophile is Gerhard Mueller, who a year or two ago made headlines by dismissing his lay financial advisory board. Joe McMahon
As I said Joe McMahon, Matthew's chapter 16 is more important than chapter 18, in the eyes of those whose power is more important than children.Abuse of children is the scandal worse than the jailing of priests. As per Christum Dominum Nostrum.
Well. The transcript sounds a little Delphic Oracley to me.I don't think the pope answered the question. Perhaps he doesnt know how. And we shouldn't expect him to! And sorry David, I don't think it answers my question about why this blog is quasi-obsessed.
I wonder what common ground I can possibly find with someone who calls Nicea a prodigiously overrated Council.But regarding the answer to the 10th question, the Pope said something real. He said that insofar as we are putting our hopes in economic or intellectual schemes of human progress, we will cause our own destruction. But insofar as we cling to the Cross and seek to grow in knowledge and love of God, we will become capable of making true and lasting change for the good of the world. Because, the first thing that will change is ourselves.
David,I am far from thinking that Benedict is anywhere near the centre on liturgy, to take but one example. The Motu Proprio will, in my opinion, do nothing to make the practice of the Novus Ordo any better, any more dignified or ceremonious. Rather it will encourage division and give hope to those who believe that a return to the missal of Pius V can be achieved. Benedict's decision is no way to go about seriously reforming the reform.An interesting and perhaps telling item in todays NYT. Benedict's Secretary, Msgr. Georg Ganswein, at the Vatican, is quoted as warning against "the Islamization of Europe". Msgr. Ganswein--nomen omen?-- is also said to have defended "a speech Benedict gave last year linking Islam and violence". I assume this is the Regensburg Address. This is from an AP despatch. One is tempted to ask, "Back from Turkey so soon?"
Margaret,Frankly I for one find the nattering of politicians and their lackeys rather less important than the blathering of religious leaders. I have already decided, with reasonable confidence, where to cast my vote in 2008. I seriously worry about the behavior of Church leaders. I do not pretend to know how best to provide universal health care. I have some fairly well founded opinions abou the liturgy. Few will long accept folly from a President or a governor. All too many will hang with unhappy credulity upon every utterance of His Holiness.
kathy writes:"I wonder what common ground I can possibly find with someone who calls Nicea a prodigiously overrated Council."Well the first thing you can do is address me by name and perhaps tell us why you do not give your last name. Others have shared that they do not use their last name for employment reasons.Secondly, maybe we have this "common ground" thing mixed up. Perhaps we can meet at feeding the hungry, the sick, the old and prisoners. Other than that if you feel Constantine left the bishops to just follow their consciences at Nicea then I have a bridge I want to sell you. Note also that Athanasius was still begging the emperor Constantius, years later, to repossess his Sea. Very spiritual indeed.And for those who think voting for bishops is a sinful idea, you might recall that it was an early practice. Athanasius, is reported to have short circuited this process by having his cronies take possession for him before the legal elections. Somehow he succeeded. And he was the great Nicea savior?The dangers of ascribing sanctity and wisdom to an office ipso facto. Still goes on does it not as many will defend anything Benedict says regardless of content?
Bill, I happen to agree with Pope Benedict's argument. Although I concede that he might have dated postmodernism a little late.Bill, if you do not think that the Church's baseline agreement about Jesus' relationship to the Father and his relationship to us is important, then how can I talk to you about the meaning of anything regarding the Church? Yes, we can feed the people together. But can we teach them together? I really don't think so--and that is part of our calling.I have linked to my blog before, and from it one can glean many things about me. Feel free: www.hymnographyunbound.blogspot.comI don't think that voting for bishops is sinful. When did I say that? What I think is that we are all fallen and prone to malfeasance of many kinds. I don't think that you, for example, would make a better authority in the Church than the current bishops. Especially if you think Nicea is prodigiously overrated. And I really don't like people taking advantage of a real problem to "restructure" God's people according to their own image and likeness.Blake, as usual, said it best:But vain the Sword and vain the Bow,They never can work War's overthrow.The Hermit's prayer and the Widow's tearAlone can free the World from fear.For a Tear is an intellectual thing,And a Sigh is the sword of an Angel King,And the bitter groan of the Martyr's woeIs an arrow from the Almighty's bow.The hand of Vengeance found the bedTo which the Purple Tyrant fled;The iron hand crush'd the Tyrant's headAnd became a Tyrant in his stead.
About the blog site:I find much political and political values discussion to be quite difficult due to the duplicity and secrecy of our executive, the heavily partisan nature of the legislative and judiciary branch, the difficulty in obtaining objective media reports in world and national events, and in thrse spaces, the frequent repetition of talkin gpoints by posters.I became interested far more in matters Church when the sex abuse scandal broke and saw it as an opportunity for folk to wake up the complexity of Church problems. A number of folk I know correspond on these matters still, hoping that some real change in accountability will occur,I must say (as I have elsewhere) that the discussion here - often informative thanks to folks like Jean, David, William Collier and others too, is often greeted with repetitious argument by defenders of the status quo as well,Why the Church part of this blog is important is the underscoring of progress being posible only if real dial;ogue proceeds.Finally, one last thought: we need to keep examining the extent our politics control our belief as well as vice versa.
If B16 wants continuity with the pre-V2 church described by David Lodge in "Souls & Bodies" ... a book I recommended to those of you who weren't part of THAT wonderful experience .... then his smaller church will come even sooner than he imagines possible.
Kathy,The matter of Jesus' relationship to the Father is not that simple. The matter was in confusion at least until the 7th century. Secondly, the emphasis on the divinity of Jesus was so excessive during the centuries that V2 had to emphasize the full humanity of Jesus. So "baseline agreement" is a fantasy and a concoction of theologians.That "baseline agreement" is the reason the "church" is thrown back on its heels so many times when leaders feel compelled to defend "beliefs" that are not central to the Christian methods. A baseline that took 17 centuries to remove the hatred of Jews out of the liturgy cannot be taken seriously. Today there are people who insist that everything in the Catechism is true.But one can understand staunch conservatives when they buy this rigid belief insistence and then find out there are nuances. The Vatican should stop that kind of playing.More to the point Chapter 18 of Matthew is unquestionably baseline. Here is where one can say if someone rejects," then how can I talk to you about the meaning of anything regarding the Church?"BTW, found "many things about" you interesting. Why would you hesitate to use your real name since it is easily found?
Kathy,I agree with you in accepting the Niceno-Constantinopolitan creed--not the Nicene, as Benedict has it, a common eror. But rather than Blake I think A. Pope said it best: "'Tis with our judgments as our watches, none / Go just alike, yet each believes his own."
Joseph, Quel bon mot!But, there are better and worse watches. And we may be dealing with something more concrete than time. If God is the object of our study, and nothing is as concrete as God, then there must be an exactitude about our conclusions--at least theoretically and potentially.Thus Aristotle:"Our discussion will be adequate if it has as much clearness as the subject-matter admits of, for precision is not to be sought for alike in all discussions, any more than in all the products of the crafts. Now fine and just actions, which political science investigates, admit of much variety and fluctuation of opinion, so that they may be thought to exist only by convention, and not by nature. And goods also give rise to a similar fluctuation because they bring harm to many people; for before now men have been undone by reason of their wealth, and others by reason of their courage. We must be content, then, in speaking of such subjects and with such premisses to indicate the truth roughly and in outline, and in speaking about things which are only for the most part true and with premisses of the same kind to reach conclusions that are no better. In the same spirit, therefore, should each type of statement be received; for it is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits; it is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician scientific proofs."N. Ethics,1.3
My my!! Even Augustine said we know more about what God is not than what s/he is. If you think that a council controlled by an emperor who was not even a Christian, is infallible then there is a problem. Certainly, Aristotle did not believe in infallibility.The confusion after Nicea occurred because the emperor dictated what people could believe and bishops were afraid to truly express themselves.Before Nicea the focus of the leadership in the church was more sincere and true. Nicea had a lot of people who became Christian because of the approval and largesse of the emperor.To say it usque ad nauseum, Jesus and Paul stressed behavior over dogma. Certainly there was theology but the emphasis was always on action which needed the grace and help of God.
Kathy,We followers of Aristotle also make a distinction betwees what is knowable in itself and what is knowable to us. God is supremely knowable in himself but not to us because of the incapacity of our intellects.As for God being "concrete" I do not know if I would use that word. Individuals or perhaps better, individual substances, are concrete as contrasted with concepts which are abstract. However I would hesitate to say that God is an individual substance, and so I would hesitate to say that God is concrete.As for exactitude, I would say that the classic Trintarian doctrine of the early Councils is exact, e.g., that it is exactly true to say that Jesus is God, but that is not to say that we can comprehend or explain how it can be true that a man is God.As for watches, some are better than others, but they all have their limitations as do our intellects. Watches have perhaps improved since Pope's day; I am not confident that our intellects have.
Joseph, I don't have a lot of insight into how our knowledge of God is meant to increase. But I believe deeply that it must."This tradition which comes from the Apostles develops in the Church with the help of the Holy Spirit For there is a growth in the understanding of the realities and the words which have been handed down. This happens through the contemplation and study made by believers, who treasure these things in their hearts (see Luke, 2:19, 51) through a penetrating understanding of the spiritual realities which they experience, and through the preaching of those who have received through episcopal succession the sure gift of truth. For as the centuries succeed one another, the Church constantly moves forward toward the fullness of divine truth until the words of God reach their complete fulfillment in her." (Dei Verbum 8)
In reply to Bill Mazzella's comments on the Council of Nicaea, I suspect that a case could be made that Rowan Williams is an apologist for an imperial papacy, but I think there is wisdom in his comments on the situation after Nicaea:"What the Church discovered in the painful years after Nicaea was thta its own inner tensions could not after all be solved by a deus ex machina on the imperial throne; and that its relationship with the empire intensified rather than solved the question of its own distinctive identity and mission. It was unabe to avoid reflection on its defining conditions, unable to avoid a conscious and critical reworking of its heritage, unable, in short, to avoid theology."I think is ironic that at a time when Protestant scholars are rethinking the whole notion of the Constantinian/Nicean fall of the church (as in the essay by Daniel Williams on Constantine and the Fall of the Church from which I pinched the Williams quote) it seems to have become the intellectual bedrock of no small part of the Catholic Church.And to get myself in a little deeper, it strikes me that if there is a council that is overrated it is Vatican II. Not that I don't admire the fathers and periti of the council (I suspect I'd trade Bea and Suenens for the whole 120 great electors we currently have) but that both putative proponents of the spirit of the council and the reform of the reform set seem to place entirely too much emphasis on implementation or non-implementation of the reforms and truth to the spirit or truth to the letter of the council. In reality a great many changes have occurred (mostly with parallels in other churches that didn't have a council; to reference the Archbishop of Canterbury again, his piece on John A T Robinson has instructive remarks on the fate of the Anglican church that seemed to be riding high and handsome in the fifties) which are basically unconnected (like the changing roles of women, and the decline in catechesis) or less connected than we like to think (like the liturgy, or the discrediting of large segments of the European right that had historically been connected with the church in the aftermath of the overthrow of Fascism) with what went on at the council, and I strongly believe we would all be better off tackling these issues on their own without blaming the council or the failure to implement the council -- in fact we would all be better off explaining and understanding rather than blaming, hence my repugnance at the whole notion of the Church's Long War.
Gene: Is part of the issue and the pursuant debate and agita about the implementation of V2 due to the fact that, as I understand it, Vatican II was more of a pastoral council whereas most others (I guess Nicaea most emblematically) were dogmatic councils concerned with clarifying teachings rather than practices? Pastoral life is inherently messy.
Mr. Gibson,You may have a point (I'm not completely sure if I accept the distinction), but I suspect the real issue is the degree of emotional commitment, not necessarily connected to the issues of the council, that all of us who were alive at the time, and some who weren't, bring to the discussion. Rather as I, as a 1968 student, bring a certain emotional gravamen to some of Benedict's obiter dicta. May I say, by the way, that the poor guy should have figured out that Marxist theology students weren't exactly serious figures, and haven't actually had much influence on the last forty years.
David, I think you're talking about "the moving and the still."That's a paradigm a good friend (a Bostonian Democrat) and I have worked out over the years. Our theory is that some people think that reality is basically, fundamentally still, and others think that reality is in motion.Without getting into particular positions on many things, the first type prefer to think of things according to their natures, the second type, according to their stories.Nicea is still. It defines, brings things to a certain conclusion. (Or intended to.)Vatican II is moving. It responds, discusses.Something like that.Or as is much talked about, there were no anathemas at Vatican II.
Gene, thanks for the reference to Daniel Williams. I have not read him that much so it is precarious to comment on him. Further, I am not sure I get your point. In the first part you seem to arguing for dogma while in the latter part of your post you advocate working things out in a dialogue. I believe you are right that the spirit of the council is more important to concentrate on rather than the documents, especially when there are huge gaps in interpreting them. Perhaps more importantly, most of the council documents were compromises as the participants gave in to allowing things as long as their ideas were kept in the document/s.So both councils can be considered overrated as can certain declarations in the history of dogma.The church's long war started before the council, through it and therafter. It is a natural process. As human nature will have it leaders of the renewal became obnoxious along with those who wanted to invalidate the council. One of the problems was the small part that wanted to invalidate the council were in the Roman Curia. Paul VI had his hands full controlling them during his years.With John Paul II the bureacrats got their person. John Paul too quickly concluded that we had to stop the renewal. Ratzinger came to agree and the conflict intensified. Both men saw the conflict as a result of the renewal rather than the necessary result of renewal.Nicea, should not be the bedrock. The early church and the New Testament should. Further those who compose this insistence on the bedrock, more readily abandon it when there is disagreement. Like the Iraqi war, for example.Theology is precarious because of the axiom; as many minds so there are opinions. It should not be that the person now getting the approval of the pope should be seen as having the truth.On the other hand there can be no doubt as to who one's neighbor is. Yet as Auschwitz, the world wars and the inclusion of the condemnation of the Jews in the Tridentine Mass shows, we have not figured out who our neighbor is. So Nicea and Vatican II can be quite beside the point if one cannot answer that question.
Kathy,Have you read the works of Alfred North Whitehead, who built a metaphysic around the insight that the final real things are units of process? He can be a tough slog, but it's worth the effort.
Yes, Grant, that's the kind of thing I mean. Whitehead is a "motion" kind of person.By the way, I don't think Vatican II can be characterized as a non-teaching Council. The documents define and clarify and restate. But I think the reception of Vatican II has been affected by this fairly basic difference among minds.
To kiss off the Council of Nicaea as a Diktat from Constantine is a travesty. The council adopted an earlier creed (probably from Jerusalem and inthe form of a a Q/A form). The idea of a "Regula Fidei" goes all the way back into the short creedal formulations of the New Testament as Jaroslav Pelikan has magisterailly shown. As I have often told my students, to get matters wrong has long consequences. Athanasius got it right and Arius did not. The subsequent councils drew on those early affirmations of faith. They form part of what it means to be a Catholic. Benedict, in the end of of sees - correctly - that the Christian faith is to be found in a symbiotic relationship between relationship of proclamation and witness/worship, and service. With respect to David Gibson's first post: it is probably better not to use loaded vocabulary invoking the vocabulary of the Manichees. Such language is too redolent of the old (tiresome) disjunctions that afflicts so much of contemporry discourse on these matters.Finally, to Kathy: Vatican II is singulare in that it alone did not use the "canons" so characteristic of early councils. John O'Malley has written perceptively on the rhetorical style of Vatican II.
Actually the contrast of light and dark is very Johannine and the Gospel according to John has a special place according to Benedict.
"Vatican II is singulare in that it alone did not use the "canons" so characteristic of early councils."Yes, I believe I mentioned this above.
I agree that Nicea cannot be written off. Martin Luther expressed detestation of the word homoousios in 1520, but later recognized its necessity. In any case the Nicene affirmation of the true divinity of the eternal Logos/Son is the basic Christian dogma, repeated at subsequent Councils. Constantine reneged on Nicea -- just as the Vatican seems to have backtracked in large part on Vatican II -- and it was saintly Christians who upheld the core insight of Nicea.


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Cheshire girls beat Hillhouse for 1st time since '94
CHESHIRE — The scoreboard may have shown her team leading by 17 points at halftime Tuesday night, but Cheshire High girls basketball coach Sarah Mik didn't feel comfortable. Wins against Hillhouse don't come easily.
In fact, for the Rams, they come rarely. In fact, not since 1994, Mik's first year as an assistant coach here, had Cheshire been victorious over Hillhouse, an eight-time state champion and one of the kingpins (or should that be queen-pins?) of the Southern Connecticut Conference.
So Mik and her Rams hunkered down for the second half.
"We knew they're a second-half team," said Mik after surviving a foul-infested 53-43 win. "We knew the storm was going to come with that style of play they have."
A young team after key graduation losses, the Academics (1-2) stormed back to pull within 12 points on Kayla Smith's 3-pointer at the third-period buzzer and as close as seven points, 40-33, early in the fourth quarter.
That's when Cheshire guards Lauren Como and Missy Bailey stepped forward.
Over the next four minutes and change, Como scored on a drive and a foul shot, and Bailey sank two free throws and also drove to the hoop for a basket that gave Cheshire a 47-37 lead with 1:56 to go. Sara Como, Lily Dolyak and Lauren Como kept hitting foul shots to hold Hillhouse at bay.
"We didn't feel secure because we knew Hillhouse can come back at any time. We were happy (at halftime), but we didn't want to take anything for granted," said Bailey, who finished with 21 points and six steals. "It feels good to know we're the first ones (to beat Hillhouse)."
Lauren Como added 16 points and Sara Como had 10. Emma Gorham grabbed seven rebounds.
The game devolved into a foul-shooting contest in the second half as the two teams finished with a combined 49 fouls. Cheshire made 17 of 31 free throws, Hillhouse 14 of 32.
Still, the Rams are 2-0. So even though a big lead melted in the second half, Mik was pleased.
"It's Game 2. We can't act like that in Game 10, Game 15," she said. "But we have people who have not played chunks of varsity time, so for Game 2, I couldn't be prouder."
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'If he wins he is a combination of Einstein, Leonardo, Saint Francis, Plato and Dante. If he loses he is a sewer rat' - Gian Paolo Ormezzano.
Welcome to 'Lessons in Calcio'!
I have been threatening to get an FM12 career going for some time now and I think I'm finally going to get around to it at last! Thanks in particular to Iacovone and SnakeXe for taking the time to offer some advice in terms of setting up this save.
Some of you will remember some of my past endevours on older versions of FM. My last major career thread was my long-term St. Albans City game on FM10. I pretty much skipped FM11 despite owning it and continued to play my Saints save instead of starting the new game. Therefore, I have been away from the series and I think this is why I have found it difficult to pick up the new game and plunge straight in.
Many of you will know that I am a creature of habit and that I usually play a long-term save with St. Albans City (otherwise known as the 'mighty' Saints). However, there will be no 'Crouchy's Mighty Saints Save' this time around. The FM10 save is still too fresh and it wouldn't be much fun to start exactly the same save again on FM12. Plus, I still have the intention to one day revisit my St. Albans City side and to get a stadium named after me plus continue the latter part of the legendary Michel Vermeer's career!
After recently getting a new computer, I decided that a journeyman career game would be my next adventure in FM but this journeyman career save will have a twist. Many of you will know that I have a fascination with Italy and with Italian football. I've had a number of good saves in Italy over the years and I decided that I simply had to make Italy the centre and focus of my new career.
The title of this thread pretty much gives away the intentions I have in starting my career. I have decided that I will begin my 'apprenticeship' in football management in the world of Calcio! The bottom division of the Italian leagues will be my starting point and it is here that I will learn my trade. Hopefully, these 'Lessons in Calcio' will stand me in good stead for a future career in which I intend, eventually, to broaden my horizons and to head abroad to try out some new experiences in different leagues.
So, to sum things up, I should let you know that my main intention with this save is to start at the bottom of Italian football and work my way up in the world of calcio. I have loaded leagues from a number of countries as I hope to move abroad once I've made some kind of name in Italy.
I've started off as an unproven (Sunday League reputation) English manager who is unemployed (so I'm basically playing as myself). I'm an Englishman who is going to serve his apprenticeship in the Italian lower leagues and I'll be taking whatever job comes up first at Serie C2 level. Each club I manage will become a new short-term 'project' for me and, once I feel that I have taken the club as far as I can, I will be looking for a new 'project' to take on. If/when I move abroad, the projects will become 'lessons in calcio applied to.....' as I seek to apply all that I have learnt in Italy in countries other than my adopted 'home' country.
So here it is: Crouchy's Lessons in Calcio thread!
This game is played on FM12 and started with patch 12.1 with no edits made to the database. Leagues loaded are: Mexico, US, England, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Argentina and Uruguay. I am playing with a Medium database.
I forgot to add my Twitter details.
Twitter for FM - http://twitter.com/Crouchy_SACFC
Twitter primarily for St. Albans City, Non-League and general football tweets - http://twitter.com/Daedalus1882
Steam profile - http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198046026468
YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/user/CrouchyLP
Some of my old FM Career Update threads:
When The Saints Go Marching In - Crouchy's Mighty Saints Save!
Fabio Crouchello - Taking England to South Africa 2010
Crouchy's Calcio Journeyman Save


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The Royal Ballet's 2006-07 Season Has Been Announced
Posted 29 March 2006 - 06:33 AM
Posted 29 March 2006 - 07:53 AM
Thanksgiving Weekend gets you Schlepping Beauty and the Wheeldon & MacGregor.
Mid March offers possibilities to see Onegin and the Apollo Mixed Bill (3/24-5 among others).
Early April (4/9-10 among others) can get you Onegin and Mayerling.
Late April-early May gives opportunities to see Mayerling with Fin du Jour.
There are plenty of other single programs worth seeing as well.
Posted 29 March 2006 - 07:58 AM
From the reviews that have come back from St. Petersburg, it doesn't sound like there'd be much "schlepping" in a Cojacaru performance
Thanksgiving Weekend gets you Schlepping Beauty and the Wheeldon & MacGregor.
Now that would tempt me to a second Thanksgiving in a row in London...
Posted 29 March 2006 - 08:01 AM
Posted 29 March 2006 - 08:28 AM
I land at Heathrow at 17:10 on 31 May from St. Petersburg and I have standing room seats for the 19:30 curtain. I'll never make the prologue, but I'm seeing two more Beauties on the 1st and 3rd of June, so if I make it there by Act I, I'll see all of Cojocaru's performance, and that's the point.
Yes, not much Ashton. Will Ansanelli do Theme? I'm pretty certain she has learned the role, but not performed it.
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Posted 29 March 2006 - 02:52 PM
If Royal Ballet doesn't perform Ashton on a regular basis, who will keep the style and rep alive?
Posted 29 March 2006 - 03:11 PM
Again, it isn't as if it's a bad season - it isn't.
Posted 29 March 2006 - 05:01 PM
My quick thoughts are, there's a lot of Balanchine . . . and not that much Ashton.
Yes, not much Ashton.
No, not much Ashton. Actually, barely any Ashton. Back in the Heritage bin already?
If Royal Ballet doesn't perform Ashton on a regular basis, who will keep the style and rep alive?
At the risk of oversimplifying, it seems to me that a company that excels at Ashton should be able to do nicely by Bournonville. But I guess that doesn't answer your question, bart.
What do you all think about Kobborg's setting of Bournonville's Tarantella Divertissements as part of an evening including La Sylphide, which has already been a success. Is this the sign of a trend towads even more Bournonville at the Royal? What kind of effect might such a trend have on the dancers' style at the Royal (British, not Danish)?
Actually, this may be a temporary retraction after All That Ashton of the centennial year. Like Paul Taylor's company hauling out his Greatest Hits for the 2004-2005 (50th Anniversary) season, leaving slim pickin's for this year.
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Why all the Balanchine though? I also vaguely remember Mason saying she wanted Kylian to choreograph for the company, maybe that'll be the result of bringing back Sinfonietta (sorry, not a fan).
The mixed bills look interesting and I pray they sell well given how new work seems to depress audience numbers I'm especially excited about the new McGregor - I was crazy for Qualia which he created for the company a couple years back, though there were a few grumbles about the electronic music and "body-popping" choreography from certain sections of the audience!
La Fin du Jour is the only one that's a complete mystery to me - has anyone here seen it?
And finally I feel for the poor souls who'll have to dance Mayerling and Onegin back to back!
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Manchester United Manager Ferguson Retires
When Manchester United MANU -0.45 % manager Alex Ferguson announced his retirement Wednesday morning after 26 years at the helm, he kicked off a high-stakes transition for one of the world's most popular and lucrative sports brands.
Ferguson, 71, won 38 trophies during his quarter-century at United, making him one of the most respected and longest-serving coaches in any sport.
Replacing the legendary manager at the end of the season poses a crucial challenge for the team's American owners, the Glazer family, which also owns the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Getting it wrong could be costly for a team that is worth an estimated $3.17 billion, according to Forbes.
The club boasts some of the most valuable corporate sponsorships in sports, including General Motors Co.'s Chevrolet and Nike Inc., NKE 0.09 % and must also deal with a restless fan base that has often been frustrated with the Glazers.
On top of that, big decisions loom on the field, including speculation in the media about the possible departure of superstar striker Wayne Rooney and the continuing need to improve the squad in the summer transfer market.
The club is keenly aware of what may lie beyond the Ferguson era. When it listed on the New York Stock Exchange last year, its prospectus cited the risk that, "any successor to our current manager may not be as successful as our current manager."
With 26-year tenures unheard of in modern soccer, it is almost certain that another coach would never have the time to get anywhere near Ferguson's trophy haul.
"I think the new person is walking into a difficult situation maybe in terms of the number of trophies but will also have the support of the Manchester United family and the squad to take that forward," the club's Chief Executive David Gill, told MUTV, United's television channel.
Ferguson intends to continue as a director at the club. With two games left this season, his record in the Premier League stands at 527 victories, 167 draws, and 114 defeats, making his winning percentage a staggering 65%, according to Opta Sports. He will retire after being in charge for a total of 1,500 games across all competitions.
"The decision to retire is one that I have thought a great deal about and one that I have not taken lightly. It is the right time," Ferguson said. "It was important to me to leave an organization in the strongest possible shape and I believe I have done so."
The discussion came up with increasing regularity for more than a decade, after Ferguson first announced he would retire in 2001 before changing his mind. Every trophy felt like an opportunity to go out in a blaze of glory. His 70th birthday, in 2011, only stoked the fire. And when the club unveiled a bronze statue outside its home stadium, Old Trafford, and named the North Stand after him, the timing suggested he might be ready to bow out.
His status as the most decorated manager in the Premier League—and the oldest—was uncontested. During his tenure, for instance, Chelsea went through 15 managers.
And still, he remained on United's sideline, typically chewing gum and pointing at his watch to let match officials know that theirs was obviously wrong.
The question of who could succeed Ferguson has been one of the most hotly debated issues in soccer. Though Real Madrid and former Chelsea Manager Jose Mourinho was said to be in the frame, the front-runner seems to be David Moyes. In 11 years at Everton, he hasn't won a trophy or racked up much experience in Europe, but the 50-year-old is regarded as one of the brighter managerial talents in England. Similar to Ferguson, he is from the Glasgow area of Scotland.
As of Wednesday evening, Moyes was the odds-on favorite among British bookmakers, but neither Manchester United nor Everton had made a public comment.
Ferguson's departure marks the end of an era in Manchester and European soccer, a spell that saw Manchester United become not just an on-field juggernaut, but one of sports' pre-eminent global brands. In the 1992-93 season United's revenue was $39.2 million. By 2011-12, that number was $498.5 million, according to Deloitte. And during the latter 15 years, his close work with Gill was cited as a key partnership in building United's commercial presence and the financial clout to sign top talent.
Gill said earlier this year that he would leave United this summer, once more prompting talk that Ferguson's time there could be short.
"I've had the tremendous pleasure of working very closely with Alex for 16 unforgettable years—through the treble, the double, countless trophy wins and numerous signings," Gill said. "We knew that his retirement would come one day and we both have been planning for it by ensuring the quality of the squad and club structures are in first-class condition."
Ferguson, forever berating officials and at times his own team, built a reputation as a fierce disciplinarian. His halftime rants at individual players became known as "the hairdryer treatment." Perhaps his most famous locker-room incident came after a defeat in 2003 when he reportedly kicked a boot that struck David Beckham above the eye.
He is also famous for his mind games with other managers during Premier League campaigns, using the headlines to psych out opponents.
"There'll never be another manager like him again. He is a manager from an older era," said Stefan Szymanski, a professor of management at the University of Michigan and co-author of Soccernomics. "And if you think about the likes of Mourinho, these are people whose skill is to motivate very rich, young players. They seem, in some ways, more like psychologists than anything else."
A journeyman player in Scotland for 17 years, Ferguson joined a struggling Manchester United team as manager in 1986, having already won silverware with St. Mirren and Aberdeen in Scotland. His first three years nearly saw him fired. But within a decade, he had put an indelible stamp on United, winning four out of five Premier League titles from 1992 to 1997, on his way to a total of 13.
"In my early years, the backing of the board, and Sir Bobby Charlton in particular, gave me the confidence and time to build a football club, rather than just a football team," Ferguson said.
Ferguson set himself apart from almost every manager in the game during that extended dominance by showing how many times he could rebuild a winning side around world-class talent.
In the mid-1990s, he molded some of the best players of their generations—such as Beckham, Paul Scholes and Ryan Giggs—but later showed that no one was irreplaceable. When Beckham left, Ferguson cultivated Cristiano Ronaldo. And by the time Ronaldo left, Ferguson had turned Wayne Rooney into the focal point of the side. Most recently, he rebounded from losing the 2011-12 Premier League title to crosstown rival Manchester City by signing Robin van Persie , whose goals made the difference in this year's stroll to the title.
Ferguson has also won the Champions League, Europe's most prestigious competition, twice, including a classic victory over Bayern Munich in the 1999 final. He later described that night, when United came from behind to win with two goals in the last 90 seconds of the game, as his best moment in the game.
—Peter Evans contributed to this article
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I have a huge chunk of data on my hard disk which I'd like to give away to someone else. Unlike me, this other guy has a lot of available storage space on his Google Drive. Thus, uploading the data to my Google Drive and then sharing it with him is impossible (and isn't either really my objective: I want to give it to him not share with him). Is there a way for me to upload the data directly to his Google Drive other than by signing in to his account?
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Yes, it is very possible. Here is how:
It may look complicated, but it's actually much simpler than you might think. I use this for shipping very large amounts of data around. The fact Google Drive has a maximum file size of 10Gb helps too.
There is EntourageBox, which allows you to upload directly to someone's cloud storage, including Google Drive.
Ask him to visit entouragebox.com and create a share URL for his Google Drive. Then visit the URL and upload your files to his Google Drive.
With that much data to transfer I can see why it will not all fit into a default sized Google Drive. All I can say is you either need to sign into your friends account or consider an alternative.
ADrive offers free 14-day trials for 50GB and up, so you can sign up for one of these and use the free trial instead of your friends Google Drive. I cannot, however, grantee that you are under no obligation from the trials, because I have not tried one. Be sure to read the agreement.
If all else fails you could get a flash drive and send it snail-mail.


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The current code given by Google for ServerSide (JSP/PHP) tracking of mobile sites for non-javascript clients uses a blocking method: http://code.google.com/mobile/analytics/download.html#Download_the_Google_Analytics_server_side_package
Namely, if you are using a browser like Opera Mini which fetches all the images before the site is shown to the user then the loading time will be blocked by the
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i.e. the speed of your site to the user is now limited by the speed of your server to google's server to submit the analytics data.
Is there a version of the server side google analytics snippets that doesn't block in the incoming request?


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I'm currently reading some articles about QML, QtQuick and the soon coming Ubuntu SDK and I'm wondering if there are any mechanism that allow a device resolution dependent selection of image resolutions.
For example Android provides a very simple directory structure that differentiate between low resolution devices and high resolution devices, so I just ship different version of the same image with my app and android decides which is the best one for the currently used device.
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5 Computer Hacks from Movies You Won't Believe Are Possible
#2. Hijack a TV Station
As Seen In:
V for Vendetta, The Running Man, Hackers
The Hollywood Hack:
Even in a fictional dystopian future, people love them some TV. So when it comes time for our not-taking-this-lying-down protagonist to stick it to The Man by getting his message out to the mindless masses, what better way than to hijack a TV station?
"Mess with the best ... well, maybe just don't do that."
But surely it can't be that simple for someone to take over an entire TV station and broadcast whatever the hell they want, right? Not unless they stormed the control room with machine guns. Otherwise, wouldn't Anonymous be constantly interrupting children's programming with clips of naked men doing the helicopter with their dicks?
"Keep watching, kids. This is apparently crucial for your development."
The Real-World Hack:
Actually, it's apparently easier than you might think, and it might have all started with Captain Midnight.
No, Captain Midnight isn't some shitty comic book character created by Rob Liefeld. His true origin is almost even less impressive than that -- Captain Midnight is satellite dish store owner John MacDougall of Ocala, Florida. That's right, we just totally revealed his secret identity.
That's what he looks like when he's not in costume.
Back in 1986, MacDougall was sticking it to The Man in his own way -- by hauling in shovelfuls of cash selling his customers satellite dishes that let them intercept the signals that premium channels like HBO sent to the cable companies, allowing them to watch the premium programming for free. But when HBO caught on and scrambled their signal so that satellite dish users would have to start paying for their programming like everyone else, Captain Midnight kicked into crime-fighting mode.
So he hijacked HBO's signal, and starting at 12:30 a.m. on April 27, 1986 -- presumably he wanted to pick a time when everyone would be watching -- the pay channel delivered Captain Midnight's message instead of the scheduled movie:
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Man, we totally forgot how crappy TV looked in the '80s.
HBO immediately relented from their disgustingly capitalist ways and became free for all satellite dish owners, and MacDougall was able to take an early retirement to spend some quality time with the obscene piles of money resulting from his satellite dish sales. Then he stopped daydreaming and received a $5,000 fine, one year of probation and a lifetime of being referred to by a nickname that sounds like something out of a comic book people would only buy if every last Marvel and DC title was sold out.
#1. Ferris Bueller-ize Your School Records
As Seen In:
WarGames, Ferris Bueller's Day Off
"I asked for a car, I got a computer -- and hacking lessons."
The Hollywood Hack:
Apparently casting directors in the '80s looked at Matthew Broderick and thought "Now there's a hacker if I ever saw one." Because, you know, it was the '80s -- probably they had never seen an actual hacker before. And ever since watching Broderick adjust his grades in WarGames and his attendance records in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, entire generations of slacking students have dreamed of how great it would be if "fixing" their transgressions were really as easy as sitting in front of a monochrome screen and making a few quick keystrokes.
But damn, hacking is hard in real life, and let's face it: If these students were smart enough and enterprising enough to hack into a school's computer system, then they probably wouldn't need help with their grades in the first place.
"OK, now rename the basketball team 'Please Rub Your Penis on Our Faces'."
The Real-World Hack:
But hey, this is America -- land of the free, home of the outsourcing. As any American knows, it doesn't get much easier than paying someone else to do it.
Several students at Palos Verdes High School discovered the wonders of outsourcing their nefarious activities when they paid a group of three high school juniors to do their hacking for them. The three entrepreneurial students had installed keystroke loggers on their teachers' computers to intercept the teachers' usernames and passwords, and then charged other students up to $300 a pop to hack in and bump up their grades by one letter.
But the award for student hacker with the brassiest balls would have to go to Tyler Coyner here:
Via Daily Mail
Apparently brass balls are a major cause of acne.
Coyner was running his own one-man grade-hacking ring at his Nevada high school, raking in the bucks by charging his classmates to bump up their grades. But when it came to adjusting his own grades, Coyner wasn't satisfied with just any shitty little bump: He went and made himself the undeserved class salutatorian. Presumably he was going for valedictorian, but screwed up the math.
But of course the school administration discovered Coyner's little stunt before it went too far, and the student who had genuinely put in the hard work to earn the honor took his proper place as the class salutatorian come graduation. Just kidding -- here's a video of Coyner's acceptance speech:
"I changed for the better, learning what it meant to be a student at PVHS and taking initiative in completing assigned work ... Well, sort of." Yeah, this kid might just have out-Buellered Ferris Bueller.
For more Hollywood tropes that aren't so outlandish, check out 7 Real Car Chases Way Crazier Than Anything in the Movies and 6 Real World Spy Gadgets Straight Out of the Movies.


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In adults with diabetes, the most likely cause of CKD is the diabetes itself. However, not all CKD in patients with diabetes is due to diabetic nephropathy and it is important to look out for patients whose CKD pattern (e.g., significant albuminuria early in the course of diabetes, a rapid rise in urine albumin excretion) suggests another etiology. These patients should be referred to a nephrologist for further testing (e.g., kidney biopsy) for a definitive diagnosis and treatment plan.
Monitoring and Treatment of Chronic Kidney Disease
Once CKD and its cause(s) are established, there are effective treatments that can delay progression to ESRD and improve quality of life. CKD further increases CVD risk in patients with diabetes. Therefore, modification of CVD risk factors, including tobacco cessation, lipid control, and blood pressure control, is essential.
Treatment of blood pressure requires diligent efforts to achieve targets. For those patients who can achieve a target of < 130/80 mmHg without adverse symptoms, this target may be selected. For other patients, a target of < 140/90 mmHg (or higher if symptoms and comorbidities dictate) should be selected.
The use of ACE inhibitors or ARBs should be considered for all patients with diabetes and hypertension, and/or albuminuria. In addition to lowering blood pressure, these medications also decrease the rate of urinary albumin excretion. Monitoring patients' serial UACR results will help assess the effectiveness of interventions, and also is prognostic as to the rate of kidney decline. Laboratory testing, monitoring, and treatment of CKD complications such as anemia and metabolic bone disease become important in patients with eGFR < 60 mL/min/1.73 m2.
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National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. Prevent Diabetes Problems: Keep Your Kidneys Healthy. [PDF] NIH Publication No. 10–4281. 2010.
National Kidney Disease Education Program and Indian Health Service Division of Diabetes Treatment and Prevention.
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Chronic Kidney Disease Prognosis Consortium. Association of estimated glomerular filtration rate and albuminuria with all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in general population cohorts: a collaborative meta-analysis. Lancet. 2010 Jun 12;375(9731):2073-81.
Di Angelantonio E, Chowdhury R, Sarwar N, Aspelund T, Danesh J, Gudnason V. Chronic kidney disease and risk of major cardiovascular disease and non-vascular mortality: prospective population based cohort study. [PDF] BMJ. 2010;341:c4986.
Holman RR, Paul SK, Bethel MA, Neil AW, Matthews DR. Long-term follow-up after tight control of blood pressure in type 2 diabetes. [PDF] N Eng J Med. 2008;359(15):1565-76.
Kim NH, Pavkov ME, Knowler WC, Hanson RL, Weil EJ, Curtis JM, et al. Predictive value of albuminuria in American Indian youth with or without type 2 diabetes. [PDF] Pediatrics. 2010;125:e844-51.
Levey AS, Coresh J, Balk E, Kausz AT, Levin A, Steffes MW, et al.; National Kidney Foundation. National Kidney Foundation practice guidelines for chronic kidney disease: evaluation, classification, and stratification. Ann Intern Med. 2003 Jul 15;139(2):137-47. Erratum in: Ann of Intern Med. 2003 Oct 7;139(7):605.
McFarlane SI, Chen S, Whaley-Connell AT, Sowers JR, Vassalotti JA, Salifu MO, et al. Prevalence and associations of anemia of CKD: Kidney Early Evaluation Program (KEEP) and National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 1999-2004. [PDF] Am J Kidney Dis. 2008;51 4 Suppl 2:S46-55.
Miller WG. Estimating glomerular filtration rate. Clin Chem Lab Med. 2009;47:1017-9.
National Kidney Disease Education Program (US). Urine albumin-to-creatinine ratio (UACR) in evaluating patients with diabetes for kidney disease. [PDF] Bethesda (MD): National Institutes of Health; 2010. 2 p. (NIH Publication No. 10-6286).
National Collaborating Centre for Chronic Conditions. Chronic kidney disease: national clinical guideline for early identification and management in adults in primary and secondary care. London: Royal College of Physicians; 2008 Sep. 204 p.
Narva, AS. Reducing the burden of chronic kidney disease among American Indians. Adv Chronic Kidney Dis. 2008;15:168-73.
Nelson RG, Pavkov ME, Hanson RL, Knowler WC. Changing course of diabetic nephropathy in the Pima Indians. Diabetes Res Clin Pract. 2008;82 Suppl 1: S10-4.
Pavkov ME, Knowler WC, Hanson RL, Bennett PH, Nelson RG. Predictive power of sequential measures of albuminuria for progression to ESRD or death in Pima Indians with type 2 diabetes. Am J Kidney Dis. 2008;51(5):759-66.
Pavkov ME, Knowler WC, Hanson RL, Nelson RG. Diabetic nephropathy in American Indians, with a special emphasis on the Pima Indians. Curr Diab Rep. 2008;8:486-93.
Pavkov ME, Mason CC, Bennett PH, Curtis JM, Knowler WC, Nelson RG. Change in the distribution of albuminuria according to estimated glomerular filtration rate in Pima Indians with type 2 diabetes. [PDF] Diabetes Care. 2009;32(10):1845-50.
Sacks DB, Arnold M, Bakris GL, Bruns DE, Horvath AR, Kirkman MS, et al.; American Diabetes Association. Guidelines and recommendations for laboratory analysis in the diagnosis and management of diabetes mellitus: a position statement of the American Diabetes Association. [PDF] Diabetes Care. 2011 Jun;34(6):1419-23.
Schwartz GJ, Muñoz A, Schneider MF, Mak RH, Kaskel F, Warady BA, et al. New equations to estimate GFR in children with CKD. [PDF] J Am Soc Nephrol. 2009;20(3):629-37.
Schwartz GJ, Work DF. Measurement and estimation of GFR in children and adolescents. [PDF] Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2009 Nov;4(11):1832-43.
Van Wyck DB, Eckardt K, Adamson JW, Bailie GR, Berns JS, Fishbane S, et al.; Anemia in Chronic Kidney Disease Work Group. National Kidney Foundation (NKF)-Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative (KDOQI) clinical practice guidelines and clinical practice recommendations for anemia in chronic kidney disease. New York: National Kidney Foundation; 2006.
Vassalotti JA, Stevens LA, Levey AS. Testing for chronic kidney disease: a position statement from the National Kidney Foundation. Am J Kidney Dis. 2007;50(2):169-80.
Zelmanovitz T, Gerchman F, Balthazar APS, Thomazelli FCS, Matos JD, Canani LH. Diabetic nephropathy: review. Diabetol Metab Syndr [Internet]. 2009 Sep;doi:10.1186./1758-5996-1-10.


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@wootcompare: Pssh, you say that like Google doesn't already track your every click on the internet!
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Most sites already use Google Analytics or Adsense, both of which probe your cookies and stalk you from entrance to exit. It's not that big of a deal now-a-days to be honest. Sure, there are still the paranoid few who freak out every time their mouse cursor twitches, ever so slightly when they aren't touching it, but for the most part it's fine. You still have your normal privacy, it's not going to read your emails, nor rat you out for all those dirty pics you just sent and isn't going to spam your credit card all over the place. Infact, the very few things you do have privacy with on the internet, aren't even touched with this. And chances are, you already have spyware which you didn't ask for, don't get paid to use, or have the guarantee of a well known company behind it, and have been tracked for the last few years anyways. So let's face it, what's there to lose with it?


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Stocks rallied to new highs, briefly sending the Dow industrials above 15000 and pushing the S&P 500 past 1600, after April job-growth data handily beat expectations.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 142.38 points, or 1%, to 14973.96, after touching an all-time intraday high of 15009.59. It closed at a record.
The Standard & Poor's 500-stock index, meanwhile, pushed through the 1600-point level, 13 years after it surpassed 1500. The index rose 16.83 points, or 1.1%, to 1614.42. The Nasdaq Composite Index climbed 38.01 points, or 1.1%, to 3378.63.
A Labor Department report showing the U.S. added 165,000 jobs last month bolstered stock-market bulls' argument that the economy is recovering steadily, to the benefit of companies' earnings and share prices. A handful of shaky economic reports had cast doubt on that view recently, including disappointing payrolls data last month and a weak reading on April's private-sector job growth Wednesday.
"The jobs report certainly puts a dent in the 'soft patch' worry," said Hank Herrmann, chief executive of Waddell & Reed Financial. WDR 1.44 % "The fear has been that we're going to have a repeat of softer data and the market's spring selloff. But, with the latest jobs data, we've taken one of the legs off of that story."
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Gold, which tends to rise in value when central banks are helping send cash into the economy, sold off as the strong jobs number caused some to question the outlook for the Federal Reserve's easy-money policies. Gold fell 0.2% to settle at $1,464.30 a troy ounce.
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American International Group AIG -0.64 % rose 2.39, or 5.7%, to 44.52, after the insurer reported first-quarter earnings that beat analyst estimates, boosted by strength in its property-casualty business.
Caterpillar rose 2.72, or 3.2%, to 86.98, leading the Dow. Other top-performing blue chips included Alcoa, AA -0.56 % which rose 16 cents, or 1.9%, to 8.62, and 3M, which added 1.79, or 1.7%, to 107.83.
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals REGN 3.43 % jumped 17.52, or 7.1%, to 266.16, leading the S&P 500, after reporting better-than-expected sales of its vision-loss drug Eylea in the first quarter.
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Sorry if this is a silly question but most books claim $\log n < n$ for $n \geq 1$ without providing any proof, saying it's too obvious. Could someone give me a rigorous proof? Is there some trick or method I forgot about?
If we let $f(n) = \log n$ and $g(n) = n$, then $f'(n) = \frac{1}{n}$ and $g'(n)=1$. Since $f(1) < g(1)$ and $f'(n) \leq g'(n)$ for $n \geq 1$, we must have $f(n) < g(n)$ for all $n \geq 1$.
The idea in the last sentence is sometimes called the racetrack principle: If $f(n)$ and $g(n)$ denote the positions of horses $f$ and $g$ at time $n$, horse $f$ starts behind horse $g$ (i.e, $f(1) < g(1)$), and at any given time horse $f$ is never faster than horse $g$ (i.e, $f'(n) \leq g'(n)$) then horse $f$ will always be behind horse $g$ (i.e, $f(n) < g(n)$ for $n \geq 1$).
OP asks for a proof of the racetrack principle.
The racetrack principle: If $f(a) < g(a)$ and $f'(n) \leq g'(n)$ for $n \geq a$, then $f(n) < g(n)$ for $n \geq a$.
Proof: Let $h(n) = f(n) - g(n)$. Then $h'(n) = f'(n) - g'(n) \leq 0$. The mean value theorem tells us that there exists some point $x \in [a,n]$ such that $$h'(x) = \frac{h(n) - h(a)}{n-a}.$$ Since we know the claim is true for $n=a$, take $n > a$. We already know $h'(x) \leq 0$, so we get $h(n) - h(a) \leq 0$, which means $f(n) - g(n) \leq f(a) - g(a) < 0$, and so $f(n) < g(n)$ for $n \geq 1$.
Just simply look at the function $f(t)=t-\log(t)$. You can show that this function is always increasing and that $f(n)\ge f(1)=1$ for every $n$.
How rigorous do you need? If it's rigorous enough in your context, prove that $\log(1) < 1$ (shouldn't be hard!), and then show that the derivative of $\log(x)$ is less than or equal to the derivative of $x$ for all $x \geq 1$.
I will assume that by $\log n$ we mean the natural logarithm of $n$.
If $b > 1$, then $\log b$ is the area under the curve $y=1/x$, above the $x$-axis, from $x=1$ to $x=b$.
This area is clearly less than the area of the rectangle with base $b-1$ and height $1$, so $\log b <b-1$.
Comment: It is not uncommon in calculus courses to define $\log b$ as above, and then introduce the exponential function. If we want to make the argument rigorous, we would probably introduce the definite integral before introducing the derivative, and define $\log b$ as $\int_1^b \frac{1}{t} dt$. The inequality we need is an easy consequence of the definition of Riemann integral.
In your comments you seem ask about this in the context of the big O notation -- e.g., the concept frequently used in computer science that when analyzing an algorithm for time (or resource consumption like RAM). In big O notation, the following order appears (with constant time as best, and exponential time being worst):
You aren't going to come up with a mathematical proof for this ordering that shows for every $N$ that a $O(\log N)$ function will be smaller than every $O(N)$ function, because it simply isn't true. To demonstrate with a counterexample, let $f(N) = 10^{100} \log N$ (an $O(\log N)$ algorithm; you ignore the constant multiplier), and let $g(N) = N$ ($O(N)$ algorithm). While $N \lt 10^{98}$, $f$ the logarithmic function will be larger (and hence slower; less optimal) than $g$ the linear-time function, opposite to what you usually expect.
The point of big O notation is that the scaling what usually matters most is how the functional will scale for large N. Comparing any logarithmic and linear function, the logarithmic function will always be smaller than the linear function for all values of $N$ larger than some finite number. You would say that a $O(\log N)$ function grows asymptotically slower than a $O(N)$ function.
Note in many cases like comparing $f(N) = N$ and $g(N) = \log N$ it will be true over the entire domain of $N$ (equivalent to $N \gt 0$).
The power of big-O notation is that is if you know you have an $O(N)$ and an $O(\log N)$ function and both take 2 seconds to do when $N = 100$, when you need to process $N = 100000$ cases, the O(N) function will worst-case take roughly 2000 seconds, but the $O(\log N)$ function will take only about 5 seconds.
For $n\geq 1$, $\log n < n$ iff $$n < e^n = 1 + n + n^2/2! + n^3/3! + \cdots$$


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Now this is a H33rsay of the extreme variety where there is absolutely no basis of truth in the claim save for the assurances of an anonymous source of the on-again-off-again variety.
Speaking to Dual Pixels, the source (known as 'Geno') claimed that s/he had some information relating to the next entry in the Pokemon series on the back of the release of the hugely popular Pokemon X and Pokemon Y in 2013.
The biggest piece of news from Geno is that the next set of Pokemon games will be called 'Pokemon Plus' and 'Pokemon Minus,' planned for a release on Wii U, while developer GameFreak apparently plans to overhaul and simplify Pokemon's battle systems. The source goes on to claim that GameFreak aims to include many of the studio's long-standing ideas for the franchise into this new pair of Pokemon games, with a focus on the theme of 'Old Tradition Versus New Exploration.'
You can read over the rest of what 'Geno' claims to be true of the next Pokemon games in the series over here, with information on where the games will be set, details on the three new starters, a new legendary creature, a new type of Pokemon and much more that franchise fans will want to know about. Be sure to take it all with a good pinch of salt, though.
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