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Princess Garnet (Final Fantasy 9) – Cosplay of the Day
We love princesses here at Arcade Sushi, but we love it even more when they moonlight as commoners named after weapons. So it goes without saying that Final Fantasy 9's Princess Garnet Til Alexandros XVII, otherwise known as Dagger, is a perfect fit for Cosplay of the Day.
The young princess has the power to summon and to heal, making her an asset to any party. While she initially started out on her adventure with Zidane and the crew as a mild-mannered, soft-spoken monarch, she eventually grew used to speaking in the common tongue and behaving like an ordinary citizen of the realm.
GebGeb, a Canadian cosplayer, is here in Garnet's commoner outfit, which the princess wears while she's incognito. While wearing this getup, she goes by the name Dagger, named after Zidane's weapon, and acts like a normal girl. The outfit is spot on, as is the hair, making this an amazing cosplay.
Check out more of her work on her deviantART, which includes a lot of other great Final Fantasy cosplays. Let us know what you think of this princess in disguise!
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With Call of Duty: Black Ops II set for release tomorrow (check out our Black Ops II launch roundup), Activision is set to once again break entertainment records while gamers are preparing to again immerse themselves in the online multiplayer experience that has come to be synonymous with the franchise, and has helped to define this generation of consoles.
As the budgets, pressures, and scrutiny have all mounted on the annual Call of Duty offerings, Treyarch's game design director, David Vonderhaar, is the man behind the competitive multiplayer experience for Black Ops II. In this exclusive interview he explains how the sequel was designed from the ground up with a separate multiplayer team that had its sights set on advancing the online competitive play experience beyond any previous Call of Duty game.
Check back with us tomorrow for our full review on Call of Duty: Black Ops II.
What are the challenges of trying to advance multiplayer beyond Call of Duty: Black Ops 1?
Black Ops was a very successful game for us, but really it was just the start of everything that we have been thinking about for many years. With Black Ops II, it was really important for us to challenge all the fundamental assumptions about all of the core gameplay systems.
We asked ourselves some really important questions. Why does the leveling system work the way that it does; why do you unlock content this way; what should really happen when you Prestige; how do we fit a competitive agenda into this game in a way that makes sense? It was very critical for us not just to assume that because it worked the way that it did the last game, that it had to work that way in Black Ops II. It may be a sequel, but it's a sequel only in name in that way.
What role did fan feedback play in developing this game?
We wanted to have the absolute best gameplay systems for this game, regardless of what they were in Black Ops. Fan feedback for us in an important part of the entire development process. I'm sure our fans will know that we're pretty engaged with the community at large, socially and through our own forums on CallofDuty.com. There's actually entire game features that have been inspired by that interaction and that level of direct contact with the fans of the game feeding back into what we're doing.
Call of Duty has been extremely popular with the mainstream audience. How have you kept them on target with Black Ops II?
Mainstream fans are going to find all the mechanics changes just as accessible as they would expect. It still has to be a game where you can get in there and press A and start playing and that's all you need to worry about. What I think they're going to find really accessible is the tremendous amount of work we did when you're configuring or setting up your load out gear in the create-a-class system, how visceral that presentation is. You don't have to overly think about these things. Everything is presented in this nice visual way. They have great pictures and all the key stats. You can just go through and quickly set up 10 things for your class and you'll be off and running in a heartbeat.
How did you tackle balancing the multiplayer gameplay experience?
When we talk about balancing Call of Duty: Black Ops II multiplayer, there's really a couple of things that are super important to us. The first starts with what we call the data instrumentation. We actually do a tremendous amount of data logging about how the game is planned. I can tell you exactly for any weapon, any combination of weapon, any combination of weapon and attachment, equipment and perk and that kit or load out, how well that kit is performing compared to the averages of other types of equipment combinations. This actually lets us balance the gun for the competitive level, making sure everything is classed up appropriately.
We know from a math point of view how well stuff is performing and how well it's trending and we know that even the slightest tweak in one direction or another and what kind of impact that has. You take that data — it's math and therefore a mathematical fact – and you combine it with your experience using it. How fun is it to use? How does it feel? Does it seem appropriate and these two things are combined together? That's how you give the perfect scenario for creating a game that can stay competitive, but also be really accessible and fun for everybody.
There are likely going to be new recruits coming into Black Ops II for the first time. How have you designed the game for them?
If you're brand new to the game, there are all sorts of really great stuff that go right into the game to make it accessible for a new player. There are two very important things. The first is combat training. Combat training is a set of modes where it's human players and AI-controlled players on the same team together, playing against another group of inexperienced — meaning under Level 11 players — that are humans and AI controlled opponents. That gives you this battle space where you can be successful and have some successes, and you're actually ranking up along the way and getting the full multiplayer experience. But just as important is League Play.
That feature means that you're being ranked with players of an equal skill. Competition is fun for everybody. It's just fun to compete. It's actually a really important part of this that just because it's an eSport doesn't mean it's just for the hardcore. Somebody who is totally new to the game could go and enjoy League Play right off the bat because he's going to be with other people who are also new to the game, or at his skill level because that's when the game is most fun, when you win or almost win. It's just not much fun when you're getting your butt kicked all the time, and it can even not be very much fun if you're so good that you just kick everybody else's butt all the time. Putting players of equal skill together is a super important part of the initiative, and that's why it's also good for people who are new to the game.
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Cake Studios Uses C4D for Two NFL Network Graphics Packages
August 15, 2011 1:15 am
Tags: 3D, CINEMA 4D, MAXON, MoGraph, Motion Graphics, NFL
Take one part MAXON's CINEMA 4D, add two parts challenging projects — create quickly under high pressure — and you've got Cake Studios. Headed by founders Jim Steinhaus, Cake's producer, and Mannix, creative director, the up-and-coming Los Angeles-based design studio is fast becoming known for doing inventive design work using C4D.
Jim Steinhaus and Mannix of Cake Studios used C4D to create graphics packages for two NFL Network broadcasts.
Fairly new to the industry, Cake hadn't yet picked their software of choice when they were hired by the NFL Network for a couple of high-profile jobs. The first: create interstitials, bumpers, wipes, and more for a television broadcast of the annual college football all-star game, the Senior Bowl. The second: do the same for a special segment about NFL quarterbacks called QB Quandary. (QB Quandary animation: http://vimeo.com/27510132.)
The only caveat was that the NFL Network required them to use CINEMA 4D. "The NFL Network project offered us the perfect opportunity to expand our use of CINEMA and dive headfirst into the software," says Steinhaus. "It's exciting because we're constantly evolving as a company in terms of what we can offer and we're seeing the creative advantages CINEMA offers over other platforms." (Senior Bowl opener: http://vimeo.com/27510032.)
One key advantage is CINEMA 4D's intuitive interface that "allows artists to quickly get from concept to motion and on to color and lighting faster than other software," says Steinhaus. It also makes it easier for artists to learn. "That's one of the biggest reasons many of our clients are using CINEMA in-house, so it's to our advantage to offer it in our suite of services."
Mannix, Cake's creative director, appreciated how easy it was to import vector artwork into CINEMA 4D.
Sports in motion
Sports advertising is well known for having swooping camera work, bright colors, lots of reflections, busy imagery and constant motion. When brought together, these elements help capture the dynamic of professional sports. That's why C4D fits well with that "testosterone aesthetic," says Mannix, who is happy with how easy it is to import vector artwork into CINEMA 4D. "With C4D we can easily import, build & treat vector artwork," he explains. "This is essential in our business, as the ability to present clients with high-quality imagery quickly is key to success."
Cake created interstitials, bumpers, wipes and more for QB Quandary, which featured NFL quarterbacks.
In addition to requiring Cake to use C4D, the NFL Network asked them to incorporate already existing creative elements into the new projects to maintain continuity. Using storyboards and assets provided by the Network, Cake began working on the motion of each piece; making sure they got the "vibe" of what each could possibly be.
Good design and fast-action motion graphics gave the Senior Bowl the quintessential sports feel the NFL was looking for.
Among the many pieces Cake Studios produced for the NFL Network, the12-second intro to the Senior Bowl and the 8-second intro to QB Quandary are standouts that quickly establish the excitement of football.
To allow the client to swap desired artwork for things like animated banners, Cake rendered a UVW pass from C4D. Cake also rendered out a motion vector pass in CINEMA 4D to allow them to better control the motion blur in the compositing stage. To achieve the realistic motion of waving banners, Cake used C4D's cloth module.
Cake used MoGraph to populate the environments for QB Quandary with shapes that could be animated.
The QB Quandary video offers the same vibrant, visual roller-coaster ride with a swooping camera, high-sheen reflections and dazzling images as an introduction to the rarified, complicated world of the professional quarterback. MoGraph was used extensively to populate the environment with shapes and animate them. "It was nothing too extreme," says Steinhaus. "The shapes were basic and their motion was simple, but MoGraph helped us set things up quickly and animate easily."
Dramatic camera angles and a wide-angle lens add to the extreme action feel of the broadcast.
Having worked with C4D on both of these projects, Steinhaus believes the software will not only enable Cake to work for a wider range of clients, it will help them work more quickly and efficiently. (See Cake's reel: http://cakestudios.tv/reel.html.) "In the old days, nobody cared what software you used, they just wanted to get your final animations and that's all you delivered," he explains. "Now you're sharing source files with clients and delivering tool kits and ready-to-use files, so because of the ease of use, CINEMA is where everyone's going."
Editor's Note: Be sure to check out the following related links:
- Cake Studios' website
- Renderosity's CINEMA 4D Community
- CINEMA 4D products in the Renderosity Marketplace
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This page will guide you through a typical, one size fits all, installation of MinGW. If you are new to MinGW, this is a perfect place to learn which packages are required, and which tools are used to perform which tasks.
Contents of MinGW Packages
- gcc: A native port of the GNU gcc compiler. This is the application which parses source files, translating them to linkable object code. Note that the gcc package set is subdivided into a core package, which provides only a C compiler, with additional supplementary packages for additional programming languages. You must get at least the core package; if you also wish to add any supplementary languages, please ensure that you get the appropriate packages, with the same version number as the core package.
- binutils: A native port of the GNU binutils. Amongst other tools, this package contains the assembler and linker, which will transform the output of the compiler into a binary executable. You must install this package, together with gcc, to obtain a correctly functioning compiler suite.
- w32api: Header files and import libraries for the Microsoft Windows operating system; this provides the Application Programming Interface (API) required to access the essential operating system service functions, which are required by any working native Windows application. You must install this package, together with gcc, to obtain a correctly functioning compiler suite.
- mingw-runtime: Header files and import libraries for the default C runtime library, (also known as msvcrt), which is required by MinGW compiled programs running on the Microsoft Windows operating system. You must install this package, together with gcc, to obtain a correctly functioning compiler suite.
- mingw32-make: A native port of GNU make. This application parses makefiles to create a project by following the rules expressed in the makefile.
MinGW Installation Notes
MinGW may have problems with paths containing spaces, and if not, usually other programs used with MinGW will experience problems with such paths. Thus, we recommend that you do not install MinGW in any location with spaces in the path name reference; i.e. you should avoid installing into any subdirectory of "Program Files" or "My Documents", or the like.
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(Reuters) - Donald Driver, a largely unknown seventh round draft pick who went on to become the Green Bay Packers' all-time leading wide receiver, retired on Wednesday after 14 National Football League seasons with the team.
Driver, 38, won a Super Bowl championship with the Packers in 2011 and retires as the team's all-time leader in receptions (743) and receiving yards (10,137).
"I have to retire a Green Bay Packer," a tearful Driver told about 1,500 fans who attended a celebration for the sure-handed receiver inside the Lambeau Field atrium.
"I've always said I never wanted to wear another uniform, but always the green and gold."
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker declared Wednesday "Donald Driver Day" to honor the player who tops the franchise list with most 1,000-yard seasons (seven), most 50-catch seasons (nine) and most consecutive games with a reception (133).
Driver, a three-time Pro Bowl receiver, was limited to eight catches for 77 yards and two touchdowns last season.
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On the first day of my new job, I reached into an office cabinet to take out a coffee mug and, to my surprise and delight, emerged with one that carried the logo for Northampton's annual Hot Chocolate Run for Safe Passage.
As regular readers know, I'd just left my beloved Northampton – a western Massachusetts college town where I'd hoped to put down roots – to take a job in Boston. I'd participated in the Hot Chocolate Run several times myself, and picking up this mug—on my very first day!—struck me as crazily serendipitous, you might even say, a sign.
Over time, however, I've come to see it as something else: A reflection of the fact that I'd landed in a simpatico workplace culture.
The coffee mug incident wasn't the only clue. There was also the fact that, when I interviewed, the two future colleagues with whom I had lunch were both Buddhist meditators. The fact that my department head took time off from work to campaign for her (and my) candidate before November's election. The fact that I love my colleagues' distinctive scarves and ear rings. I could go on.
Much advice about career transitions focuses on the what—on figuring out what you want to do and then finding a place to do it. Do you want to take cases to trial? Do you want to write about food? Do you want to counsel women in crisis? Do you want to teach kids?
Yes, it's important to have a sense of what you want to do—but I've found that it's equally (or more) important to consider the where and the how.
I love to write. Whether I'm working on a Plan B Nation post (like this one) or a speech about health care, I tend to lose myself in the process of putting words together—to enter that state of absorption famously described as flow.
But that isn't to say that I'd love any job that involves lots of writing—and speaking from experience, I can tell you that I would not. My current job isn't the most prestigious I've ever had, and it's not the most high-paying. It is, however, overall, one of the more satisfying.
So what accounts for job satisfaction? Over time, I've come to identify the qualities that matter most to me, which incidentally, can all be traced directly to workplace culture. Here are three examples:
1. Autonomy
I'm far from alone here—lots of research suggests that autonomy is critical to on-the-job satisfaction. (One interesting recent study found that high-level leaders have less stress than those lower on the corporate food chain, with researchers hypothesizing that this counter-intuitive result stems from the fact that the higher-ups have more control over their lives.)
That said, I suspect autonomy is more important to some of us than others. For me, it's really important, and my most difficult professional experiences have been in workplace cultures where this creates tension. ("I feel like I've spent the year trying to keep you in the box, and you've spent the year trying to get out," one supervisor ruefully remarked many years ago.) I could be writing the coolest thing in the word, but if I'm being micro-managed, I'm not going to be happy.
2. Balance
I don't care how much I like what I'm doing: I don't want to do it 110 hours a week. For that reason alone, I was never going to be happy in the sort of firm where I spent my first two years after law school.
It's no secret that in the post-Recession world, work has gotten more demanding, as layoffs and increased "efficiencies" create more work for those who remain. Still, while I roll my eyes at suggestions that employees simply need to do a better job setting limits, the issue of balance is a real one. If you're unhappy at work, is it because of what you're doing or is it because of how much? And if you're lucky enough to have some choice: How much is it worth to you to have time to dedicate to other parts of your life? For me, it's worth a lot.
3. Mission
A shared sense of larger mission–such as the one that infuses my work at Harvard School of Public Health—is a through-line, enriching good days and giving meaning to the inevitable minor slumps. In my experience, it's also more likely to lead to warm workplace friendships—which themselves have been found to correlate with job satisfaction and success.
Even Cal Newport—an outspoken critic of the "follow your passion" school of decision-making—discourages people from taking a job they think is useless or actively bad for the world. His reasoning is partly pragmatic: If you feel this way, you're probably going to have a hard time sticking around long enough to build up the sort of career capital that you'll need to move forward long-term.
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In 2011, as the Great Recession ground onward, I found myself scratching my head over a New York Times article with the headline "Maybe It's Time for Plan C." The piece recounted the stories of several people who traded steady jobs for entrepreneurial opportunities, launching businesses that included a Greek food stall, a wedding planning business, and an online ceramics store. As Newport might have predicted, it wasn't long before they were overwhelmed. "I preach to my students to make time for themselves, to treat their bodies as vital instruments. Now I'm lucky if I get that a few times a month," said a marketing professional turned Pilates instructor.
But here's the curious thing: Only one of the people interviewed regretted their decisions. While the piece didn't offer any explanation, I have an idea. Even harder than working for yourself is working in an alien culture. If that was their alternative, these choices make total sense.
What workplace culture qualities are important to you? Please share your thoughts in the comments section.


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How often is the license exam given?
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How long can one spend taking the examination?
The time limit for the national portion of the exam is 3 hours. The time limit for the state portion of the exam is 2 hours.
How many questions are on the exam?
There are 150 multiple-choice questions on the national exam and 50 multiple-choice questions on the state exam. This applies to both the nursing home administrator and community residential care facility administrator license exams.
What is a provisional license?
A provisional license is a license used for a temporary period of time and is substantiated by need. The license is issued to the applicant who has been found by the Board to meet pre-examination qualifications when the applicant has been appointed the administrator of a nursing home or community residential care facility without a licensed administrator in charge.
Is an administrator required to meet the continuing education requirements to renew his or her license in an inactive status?
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She may have become a reclusive eccentric in her later years, but Brigitte Bardot did and still does represent an ideal of womanly beauty that I, to be honest, long to see today... maybe a touch too sex kitten too often, but it beats the hell out of the strange mix of androgynous boy-girl and quasi-prostitutes (a la Pussy Cat Dolls) that have replaced said former ideal of feminine beauty (I suppose at least there are a few now (ideals) instead of one).
If you're ready to see more than just 'interesting' beanpoles during London Fashion Week this fall, the James Hyman Gallery in London will be exhibiting 75 vintage prints of Bardot taken between 1956 and 1970 by famous photographers (and paparazzi).
Brigitte Bardot and The Original Paparazzi
September 3rd to October 3rd
James Hyman Gallery, 5 Savile Row, London W1S 3PD (020 7494 3857)


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Three events recently awakened me to the weighty reality of our secular age and why the church's New Evangelization is both timely and crucial.
The first took place one Sunday afternoon as I watched "Higher Ground," Vera Farmiga's film about an evangelical woman's struggle with faith. The reviews I read had praised the film for giving an honest view of contemporary faith. I kept waiting for the moment of revelation to come, but the epiphany that takes place in the last sequence is no revelation at all. We are left with Corinne Walker, Ms. Farmiga's lead character, still aching for God to break into her life. If the reviewers are to be believed, the icon of faith for the people of our day is a woman beating on her car for God to break the silence. There are hints that "Higher Ground" wants to be about maturing in faith, but the story at best depicts the impossibility of finding a mature faith in the contemporary world.
The second event occurred the same evening, as I took in one of my guilty pleasures, an episode of "Inspector Lewis" on PBS's Masterpiece Mysteries series. In these stories the title character, a world-weary widower, is paired with Detective Sergeant James Hathaway, an intellectual former Catholic seminarian. Like so much in cinema and on television, this series shows a certain fascination with Catholicism. In an unbelieving world, Catholic rites, Catholic family piety and individual Catholic belief are still talismans for a forgotten world of faith. The murders to be solved that evening took place at an Oxford friary, Saint Gerard's. During the investigation, one of the suspects asks Lewis whether he believes. Lewis answers he used to, intimating that his faith died with his wife in a hit-and-run accident some years before.
Later, the murder solved, Lewis and Hathaway share a beer while contemplating a natural mystery, a Turneresque sunset. Lewis asks Hathaway why the setting sun is not enough for him, as it is for Lewis. Hathaway deflects the question by asking Lewis about his plans to retire. When Lewis replies that his retirement will open the way for a promotion for Hathaway, the younger detective responds that should Lewis retire, he will leave the police. The viewer understands Hathaway may be considering returning to the ministry or taking the junior lectureship in theology offered him in the course of the episode.
Yet Hathaway, the image of the mature, educated, even sophisticated postmodern believer, holds his faith a closely guarded secret. The series requires that he share theological trivia, translate Latin and Greek and insinuate himself into clerical circles. The most viewers know about him is that he left the seminary guilty over the orthodox but ultimately deadly advice he gave a gay friend about coping with his homosexuality. We see his occasional acts of devotion: he furtively lights a candle, stops to contemplate a Nativity scene in a chapel. But we have not a hint of what or why Sergeant Hathaway believes. His is a thoroughly private, unspoken faith.
The third event came the next morning. A culture report during a National Public Radio newscast reviewed a two-millennial-old classic, Lucretius's De Rerum Natura, "On the Nature of Things," a first-century essay in cosmology best known for its speculation about the atomic nature of matter. What was the news? That De Rerum Natura is an atheistic text. As Stephen Greenblatt writes in his new novel, The Swerve, in Lucretius "there is no master plan, no divine architect, no intelligent design." Two millennia before Inspector Lewis, Lucretius found the complexity, diversity and beauty of nature enough for him. He did not ask, "Is that all there is?" This world was enough to delight him.
Lucretius was the reporter's stand-in for Richard Dawkins and the scientific naturalists in the creationist-evolution debate. But in the radio report there was no debate, no philosophers or theologians to comment or put Lucretius in historical context; there was just Mr. Greenblatt celebrating his atheistic predecessor. Secular naturalism, it seems, is the currency of the culture.
One, two, three, things fell into place: Ours is a secular age: an evangelical woman confronting the silence of God, Detective Hathaway mute about his faith, atheists celebrating their idols without apology and without challenge. These are by no means the only signs of our times, but they are signs symptomatic of the culture in which the church undertakes the New Evangelization.
Top Priority
Pope Benedict XVI has made the challenge to secularism a major theme of his pontificate and singled it out as the number one problem facing the church in the Western world. To meet the challenge, he established the Pontifical Council for the New Evangelization and appointed one of the rising stars of the curia, Archbishop Rino Fischella, to head it.
In a parallel move, the Pontifical Council for Culture is moving ahead with a new program for dialogue with secular thinkers, especially scientists, called The Court of the Gentiles, after the outer court of the ancient Temple in Jerusalem. "There should be a dialogue," Pope Benedict said, "with those for whom religion is something foreign, to whom God is unknown yet who do not wish to be left utterly without God, but rather to draw near to him, even as if to the Unknown."
Last March in Paris the pope praised a mixed crowd of young believers and nonbelievers who had come together in a model court before the cathedral of Notre Dame "to discuss the great questions of existence." He continued, "Those of you who are unbelievers challenge believers in a particular way to live in a way consistent with the faith they profess and [you challenge them] by your rejection of any distortion of religion which would make it unworthy of man. You who are believers," he went on, "long to tell your friends that the treasure dwelling within you is meant to be shared...."
Pope Benedict not only respects unbelievers but also appreciates them in ways that should confound self-appointed watchdogs of orthodoxy. He understands, for example, that many among them would like to discuss "the great questions of existence." He senses "the immortal longings" that make them restless, and he perceives their justified antipathy to the hypocrisy of lax Christians and how their rejection of "the distortions of religion" contributes to the purification of the church. In this he is a son of the Second Vatican Council, which confessed, "Indeed the Church admits she has greatly profited and still profits from the antagonism of those who oppose or persecute her" ("Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World," No. 44).
Emergence of the Spirituals
In the last decade a major development in the religious demography of the United States has been the growth of a segment of the population whom the pollsters call "the spirituals." Many people, especially young people, report themselves as "spiritual, but not religious." In general, that means they are unchurched, not necessarily formally uninitiated but often disaffected from the church. Eventually the spirituals may find themselves in a congregation of their own choosing. Their standard for belonging, however, is not the religious authority of any church as a repository of revelation but rather the satisfaction of their own often inarticulate searching.
The subjective, unaffiliated character of the spirituals' choices does not mean they are shallow. Many regularly carry out disciplined spiritual practices: meditating daily, fasting at special times, serving the hungry in soup kitchens, doing spiritual reading, seeking out spiritual guides. What they reject is conformity in a rules-bound institution. They do not understand why they need to marry in a church building rather than under the vault of heaven. They resist the reinforcement of ritual distinctions between the ordinary faithful and the ordained. They want to explore the world of faith and plumb the depths of the spirit in the company of like-minded people. They welcome the company of the officially religious who can help them but balk at rigid orthodoxies, imagined or prescribed in the name of tradition. They want to converse with men and women of other denominations, and with those of other faiths, like Muslims and Buddhists, and to learn from them.
I think of St. Francis of Assisi in conversation with the Sultan Malik al-Kamil. The seekers and the saints find one another; they understand one another; they grow together and spur one another on in the quest for God.
Consider the lay movement Focolare. Its charism of unity inspires an extraordinary inclusiveness that embraces people of many faiths and no faith at all. All are drawn by the alluring power of the movement's charity. Where the self-appointed inquisitors of the day seek to put distance between Catholics and non-Catholics and even between themselves and some Catholics who are insufficiently orthodox by some narrow sectarian standard, Focolare's genius is to invite everyone to the table, just as Jesus did. The Focolarini are a community that lives Pope Benedict's maxim in "Deus Caritas Est," "A Christian knows when it is time to speak of God and when it is better to say nothing and to let love alone speak" (No. 31).
The Mustard Tree Church
Pope Benedict XVI, in his book Without Roots (2006), showed appreciation for spiritual kinships beyond formal church structures. Drawing on the parable of the mustard seed (Mt 13:31-32), he argued that the big church (my term), one larger than the organizational boundaries we routinely set for it, is like the great tree grown from the mustard seed, in which all the birds of the air find their home. The alliances that then-Cardinal Ratzinger was proposing were ties with Italian secularists who affirmed the Christian roots of Europe and took the side of the church on human life and other social issues. But his capacious image of the big tree is patient of expanding to include Catholics' engagement with "the spirituals" too.
Commenting last year on the parable of the two sons, Pope Benedict offered this paraphrase: "Agnostics who are constantly exercised by the question of God, those who long for a pure heart but suffer on account of our sin...are closer to the Kingdom of God than believers whose life of faith is 'routine' and who regard the Church merely as an institution, without letting their hearts be touched by faith."
So the New Evangelization is not just about rebutting aggressive European secularists but more about engaging the spirituals among them, even as Catholics are called to a new, fully conscious, self-appropriated faith.
The first challenge for U.S. Catholics in the New Evangelization is to engage the spirituals, to befriend them. They are not "low-hanging fruit" for proselytizing nor erring sheep to be brought back to the fold. Those who are serious challenge us as to the degree of our own spiritual discipline. Those who may appear to be no more than spiritual vagabonds test our willingness and ability to express and share our faith with them. We cannot afford to be mute about what we believe.
But spirituals will not be interested in hearing correct answers hedged about with all sorts of protective cautions. Rather, they want to hear us speak from the heart about "the hope that is within [us]" (1 Pt 3:15). Careful answers are the residue of history. The spirituals are not interested in answers to past controversies. They want to know what men and women they respect believe, to learn why they believe it and to discuss with them what difference it makes in their lives and for our common life together.
Rev. Brendan Leahy talks about Focolare and other lay movements.
Good article, thank you. Thanks for recognizing that one size does NOT fit all. Certainly structure is necessary, but so is flexibility. The church needs to be elastic enough to stretch out and envelope all the different ways human beings can find that help them to relate to God in real, tangible, concrete and not artificial ways. Otherwise it's not a universal church.I'm not sure why you take issue with the Hathaway character. I haven't seen the series, but from your description he sounds like a typical Old School, pre-Vat Catholic. We've always been very private about our faith. We were brought up that way. It wasn't something you wore on your sleeve. The character isn't in the story to represent or speak for the Catholic Church, he's there to simply be a character, and the character happens to be a certain kind of Catholic. The character seems to me to be a very plausible one.
And I also appreciated the quotes showing the openness of the Pope to a sincere dialogue and exchange with non-believers, and with how much credit he gives them for actually caring enough to engage in the dialogue. It helps to see that so we don't so easily stereotype the Pope or the hierarchy like we tend to do. The hierarchy isn't the bad guy all the time, just some of the time…like us! :)But I think the best quote was the one about how sometimes we just have to shut up and love. If we actually did that, no one would be able to stereotype us so unfavorably. Love made real by giving ourselves to others is far more powerful than anything the left side of the brain will ever produce…
Thanks for the article.
Many of the arguments of atheists and anti-theists are very strong, I wonder if contributors could recommend what book has most inspired them as part of this new evangelization? I've lost count of the number of times I've mentioned Pierre Teilhard de Chardin every time the book of Genesis is brought up.
Thanks again, des
By the way, the last two paragraphs of this article, on a second and third reading, remain inspired.
So, if a lapsed Catholic or searching agnostic was to ask you for your favourite 3 books on growing that mustard tree what would they be?
"A Generous Orthodoxy" by Brian McClaren
"The Great Emergence" by Phyllis Tickle
"A Search for What is Real" by Brian McClaren
"A Search for What Makes Sense" by Brian McClaren
"Jesus Wants to Save Christians, A Manifesto for the Church in Exile" by Rob Bell
These are all from a non-Catholic perspective, but it's interesting to see that Christian unrest with traditional Christianity exist on both sides of the Catholic/non-Catholic divide...What is refreshing about this movement is that it seems very open to what other traditions bring to the table. The non-Catholic side of this sees that there is a lot of value in the Catholic churches that shouldn't be rejected simply becuase they're Catholic. Everyone brings something to the table.
I don't know of any books on the Catholic side of this. But then, would you expect there to be?
I'd say those two McClaren books, "A Search for What's Real" and "A Search for What Makes Sense" are not academic or pious. I think they are aimed mostly at young searchers. I think one is intended for people who are thinkers, and the other is intended for people who are more experienctial. they are published by Zondervan, an evangelical publishing house.
The "Stepping Stones" book you referred to sounds similar to one I am reading, although it not the least bit overly academic. It's "God is not One, the 'eight Rival religions that run the world and why thier differences matter", by Stephen Prothero, a religion prof at Boston College. The premises of the book are that 1) you're not religiously literate if you know nothing about religions other than your own, and 2) you cannot understand the news in various parts of the world if you don't know anything about the religions in those parts of the world.
I've just started it, and have discovered that if I were a Muslim, I'd be a Sufi. So I guess that makes me a Sufi Christian, because I have the same attitude toward my Christian religion that a Sufi has toward his Muslim one. :)
Hope you find what you're looking for in the books, Des...Take care.
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Greenblatt himself, however, claims he is not an atheist. Likely he infers that he, like Lucretius, is a deist, and that God, such as he is, is a sort of guppy god who deposits his mechanistic rules for the universe and departs, no more interested in his children, read us, than a guppy is of his spawn.
Lucretius, and Epictetus and the Ionian philosophers and Stoics from whom they derive, basically conclude that we are complex collections of atoms and will simply be no more. Therefore, the famous quote of Lucretius, "Death is nothing to us," as we simply will be no more. This may have worked well enough for Lucretius, yet to many this is a sort of cowardly evasion of that mystery of what has intrigued men since they first buried their dead on an east-west axis, as we are of the species Homo Sapiens Sapiens and desire to know more of the mysterious beginnings and ends of things that Lucretius, admitting only sensational information, ignores as irrelevant. And Nietszche picks it up as well, saying we should simply ignore death.
The two books, from a Catholic perspective along the house of many mansions, inclusive approach, I have valued are Ronald Rolheiser's The Holy Longing, which presents a very broad definition of spirituality, and, although it is heavy lifting, Karl Rahner's Foundations of the Christian Faith, his response to the demands of Vatican II.


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I shit you not. Via Sky News:
A performance by "grindcore" band Napalm Death has been cancelled by the V&A [the Victoria & Albert Museum, London] after fears the deafening noise could cause the historic museum to crumble.
The metal-punk act had been due to play a one-off show on Friday after teaming up with a ceramic artist who created a sound system which was designed to disintegrate during the gig.
But the London museum called off the free event, called Bustleholm, after a safety check highlighted a risk that the gallery itself could deteriorate.
WOW! Napalm Death playing through a disintegrating soundsystem in a potentially collapsing museum?! Dethklok eat your heart out!
Just one word for you, though, V&A Museum: BOOOO!
Here's a taste of what this concert could have sounded like, minus the imploding PA and collapsing historical buildings.
Napalm Death, live at Hellfest 2012:
Thanks to Stephen Macfarlane.


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There may be a glut in the housing market in many of the Western economies, but when it comes to data centers, there's pent-up demand for more modern facilities. So business should be booming then, right?
Wrong. As the cost of compute, storage, and networking capacity has dropped, allowing companies to – in theory – get a lot more oomph for the buck, the price of constructing and operating data centers has continued to rise. Companies that built their last big data center in the 1980s or 1990s – usually with raised floors and power densities that were tepid by comparison with the 20 to 30 kilowatts per rack that is possible with dense servers today – are jonesing for brick-and-mortar data centers with all the modern power distribution and cooling technologies. They just don't have the money to build them.
Moreover, very few companies are willing to use cheaper containerized data centers, and not just because they look trashy. The containerized data center only copes with certain kinds of servers, not all servers, and doesn't provide the other facilities – like workspace for admins and meeting rooms, as well as tough security – that normal data centers have. A containerized data center is more like a super-rack, meant to be tossed out in a few years when it is technologically worthless, than it is like a data center, meant to have a life of several decades.
HP's Critical Facilities Services division thinks it has come up with the answer, and it is one that mirrors the housing market and splits the difference between building a stick house and buying a trailer: building a house from prefabricated, modular components.
HP today started showing off something called the Flexible Data Center, based on what it calls a "butterfly design." The body of the butterfly is not the IT facility, oddly enough, but the places where people work, what HP calls the core building, designated by the product number M32:
This part of the butterfly facility has a central core hallway, off which hang shipping and receiving centers, staff and meeting rooms, administration areas, and a network operations center – all of which has the physical and electronic security that a modern data center should have. Off this central core hangs the four wings of the butterfly, which are data centers that are 6,000 square feet in size rated at 800 kilowatts, known by the product number M8:
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Just before her Delta jet landed in New York for the final stop on the fast-paced seven-day tour on Tuesday, the star sat down with the disgruntled writers who had made the trip with her to address complaints she didn't make herself available to them.
Rihanna served up champagne and posed for pictures when the 777 Tour took off to Mexico City last week but failed to show for much of the rest of the trip, locking herself away on flights to shows.
But after reading journalists' less than enthusiastic comments about the tour over the weekend, the singer staged an impromptu press conference on Tuesday.
She said, "We made it! This has been an experience I will never ever forget. I barely slept. My sleeping was all done on this plane. I want to thank everyone for making this trip the s— … I was glad I did this.
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She added, "I would do this next time with more people, more cities and sit back with the fans more… Normally, I'd be back here popping bottles with y'all (but)… I had to preserve my voice. I was worried about my body more than partying on the plane, so I had to just sleep whenever I could. I hope you guys had as much fun as I did."


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BOSTON, MA, June 9, 2011 — Perceptive Informatics, a leading eClinical solutions provider and a subsidiary of PAREXEL International Corporation (NASDAQ: PRXL), today announced that it is taking a lead role in the biopharmaceutical industry to advance the practical application of revised response criteria for Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma (NHL) and Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL) to clinical trials. Bruce D. Cheson, M.D., Medical Imaging Scientific Advisor, Perceptive, who chairs the Lymphoma Committee of the Cancer and Leukemia Group B and American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) Subcommittee on Lymphoma, is working with the Perceptive Medical Imaging Group on standardizing and harmonizing the criteria across investigative sites and central reviewers for the assessment of patients.
According to Dr. Cheson, "Perceptive is a leader in bringing practical approaches to the implementation of standardized guidelines for assessing response to treatment of hematologic malignancies. This major step is valuable to Perceptive's clients in their imaging-based oncology and hematology clinical trials, with regard to the application of the assessment criteria for NHL and CLL." Dr. Cheson is an author on the widely accepted assessment criteria for NHL (1999 and 2007 IWG-NHL) and CLL (1996 NCI-WG and 2008 IWCLL), which are standardized guidelines for assessing response to treatment.
Perceptive Informatics has introduced its NHL/CLL Product Program to support the implementation of these criteria in clinical trials. Dr. Cheson, Professor of Medicine, Deputy Chief, Division of Hematology-Oncology, and Head of Hematology at the Georgetown University Hospital Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, together with the expert medical team in the Perceptive Medical Imaging Group are helping to advance understanding of the guidelines to provide clinicians worldwide with consistent criteria to compare and interpret clinical trials in hematology and oncology indications—with the goal of facilitating the development of new treatments. Perceptive experts bring an in-depth understanding of the criteria for harmonization across clinical trials. Perceptive develops analysis applications to enhance the review process and workflow for studies using the NHL/CLL analysis criteria to validate clinical trial data.
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Perceptive Informatics, a leading eClinical solutions provider and subsidiary of PAREXEL, is focused on helping customers to accelerate the product development process through innovation. Perceptive enables customers to maximize the benefits of clinical trial technologies by providing flexible software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications and leading technology services. The Perceptive Informatics eClinical Suite is built on extensive medical and clinical expertise, as well as a deep understanding of the regulatory environment. The suite includes Randomization and Trial Supply Management (RTSM) technologies, Medical Imaging, Clinical Trial Management Systems (CTMS), Electronic Data Capture (EDC), and Electronic Patient-Reported Outcomes (ePRO). The Perceptive Informatics eClinical Suite blurs the boundaries among systems that traditionally have been used in isolation, resulting in simplified workflow, improved efficiency and enhanced productivity. For more information about the integrated solutions in the Perceptive Informatics eClinical Suite visit www.perceptive.com.
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PAREXEL International Corporation is a leading global bio/pharmaceutical services organization, providing a broad range of knowledge-based contract research, consulting, and medical communications services to the worldwide pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries. Committed to providing solutions that expedite time-to-market and peak-market penetration, PAREXEL has developed significant expertise across the development and commercialization continuum, from drug development and regulatory consulting to clinical pharmacology, clinical trials management, medical education and reimbursement. Perceptive Informatics, Inc., a subsidiary of PAREXEL, provides advanced technology solutions, including medical imaging, to facilitate the clinical development process. Headquartered near Boston, Massachusetts, PAREXEL operates in 71 locations throughout 52 countries around the world, and has approximately 10,350 employees. For more information about PAREXEL International visit www.PAREXEL.com.
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The ESRC Genomics Network (2002 – 2013) was a major initiative by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) examining the social and economic implications of developments in the life sciences. Its activities covered the whole field of genomics, including areas as diverse as plant and animal genetics, embryonic stem cell research, and associated health applications.
The Network consisted of four centres spanning five of the UK's leading universities.
Three of the four centres continue to operate in some form following the end of the Network in June 2013 but one, the Genomics Forum, no longer exists.
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When universities and the private sector work together, new ideas fuel economic growth.
Joseph DeSimone brings a certain chemistry to the Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise, where he served as director from 2012 to 2013.
Frank Hawkins Kenan, the late visionary entrepreneur and philanthropist who created the Kenan institute in 1985, advocated for building bridges between the private sector, government and the university. Four Kenan Institutes bear his name: for private enterprise at UNC; for engineering, technology and science at N.C. State; for ethics at Duke; and for the arts at the N.C. School for the Arts. "That's an amazing amalgam the Kenan family has fostered," DeSimone said.
"My vision for the Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise is to be a partner that drives innovative entrepreneurship, not only on campus but throughout the region and state," said DeSimone, a world-renowned chemistry scholar, innovator and entrepreneur.
DeSimone also builds bridges – in his work, he links innovative academic research with entrepreneurial practical applications to solve real-world problems. He also serves as a link between institutions – he has a joint appointment as Chancellor's Eminent Professor of chemistry at UNC and William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of chemical engineering at N.C. State University.
His 35-member lab at UNC, the DeSimone Research Group, has launched more than a few businesses, the most successful being Liquidia Technologies, which now employs about 50 people in Research Triangle Park.
DeSimone will continue to run his research lab while leading the Kenan Institute for Private Enterprise. He sees the two roles as synergistic.
"I'm a researcher, an entrepreneur," he said. "Everything I do is to facilitate the success of research and entrepreneurship within and outside of the university. By engaging business people, we can be more effective in competing nationally."
With 130 patents approved and another 100 pending, DeSimone's lab has had extraordinary success in producing patents. In 2004, he and his students invented PRINT (Particle Replication in Non-wetting Templates), a technology that creates precisely tailored nanoparticles with specific shapes, sizes, flexibility and chemistry, and around which Liquidia was formed. PRINT is unique in its capacity to mass produce such particles uniformly.
Liquidia, which uses nanotechnology in vaccines, has raised $60 million to date, including a $10 million equity investment by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the first time the foundation has bought into a for-profit biotechnology company.
DeSimone points out that innovation drives the U.S. economy. Historically that innovation came from private companies such as Bell Labs, which developed the first wireless local area network, for example. But increasingly, universities have stepped in to become the nation's primary sources of innovation. Only eight universities in the country receive more federal research dollars than UNC.
Around the country, multiple universities are collaborating on big ideas to drive entrepreneurship and economic development. "We need to compete not with Raleigh or Durham," DeSimone said, "but with New York, San Francisco, Mumbai and Beijing."
Collaboration among universities could improve the funding-to-patent rate, for instance. UNC produces one patent per about $8 million in federal funding. In comparison, MIT kicks out a patent for every $800,000 in federal grants. Because engineering is a core discipline that translates science into products and services, UNC needs N.C. State's expertise, DeSimone said, and N.C. State needs UNC's ability to bring in grant funding.
DeSimone's experience inventing technologies and bringing them to market makes him particularly well-suited to lead the Kenan Institute for Private Enterprise's mission of strengthening the connection between entrepreneurs working to commercialize inventions made in the university setting and business leaders.
"If ideas stay in the laboratory, you don't help anybody improve their lot in life," he said. "Translating research into the commercial sector can improve the well-being of society, create jobs and spur economic development."
UNC professor Joseph DeSimone is the former director of the Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise at UNC Kenan-Flagler.


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