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Minister grounded over emissions row
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Ian Pearson attacks major airlines over their climate change stance
A Government minister who launched a broadside on the airline industry's attitude to global warming has been told not to make any further public comment on the issue.
But the Department for the Environment insisted this was simply to avoid fuelling the controversy further and denied press reports that Ian Pearson was subjected to a humiliating dressing down by his boss, Environment Secretary David Miliband.
The climate change minister's comments sparked a furious response from the head of no-frills airline Ryanair, Michael O'Leary, who said Mr Pearson was "foolish and ill-informed" and "hasn't a clue what he's talking about".
In an interview published in The Guardian on Friday, Mr Pearson described Ryanair as "the irresponsible face of capitalism" and said Mr O'Leary was "completely off the wall".
His comments reflected frustration over a failure to make headway in talks over the inclusion of air travel in the EU's carbon emissions trading scheme, designed to cut the greenhouse gases which cause global warming.
The Times today quoted an unnamed adviser to Mr Miliband as saying the minister's comments were "incredibly unhelpful" and the Environment Secretary had made his displeasure known to Mr Pearson in a telephone call.
"It is not helpful for the Government to attack individuals," she was reported as saying. "From our point of view, these negative comments are incredibly unhelpful. This is not how you make Government policy."
But a Defra spokeswoman insisted: "There hasn't been any dressing down."
She denied Mr Pearson had been "silenced", but added: "He has been told not to do any more interviews which might accelerate the story."
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Moscow - The Indo-Asian News Service has reported that a Russian scientist Leonid Ksanfomaliti, published a paper in which he claimed evidence of life on planet Venus. Ksanfomaliti's basis for the conclusion may cause many of his colleagues consternation.
Ksanfomaliti, according to Daily Caller, is an astronomer at the Space Research Institute of Russia's Academy of Sciences. He announced that after analyzing photographs of the surface of planet Venus from a Russian space probe (see video for the Russian landing probe photographs), he has found evidence of life on the planet.
Zee News reports Ksanfomaliti noted the objects changed location in different photographs taken from variety of positions. The Russian scientist described the objects, saying they "emerge, fluctuate and disappear."
Ksanfomaliti's conclusions will not be taken seriously by astronomers because Venus, a planet with thick atmosphere and an atmospheric pressure 92 times that on the surface of the Earth, and temperatures as high as 894 degrees, is not considered a serious candidate for extraterrestrial life. The planet may have once had bodies of water, but scientists agree there have been no oceans on the planet for at least 2 billion years.
Adding to skepticism would be the fact that the Venus Express spacecraft has been observing the planet since 2005 and scientists involved in the project have not reported findings suggestive of life on the planet. But some scientists have not ruled out the possibility of microscopic life on Venus in spite of harsh conditions.


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JORJA SMITH ON THE RISE
Busk Music Blog, Music, Music Blogger by SC March 22, 2017 December 10, 2018
Nineteen year old R&B singer Jorja Smith, is creating a lot of noise in the music scene with her soulful vocals that have been taking everyone by a storm. And one person in particular who has been riding the Jorja Smith wave is none other than esteemed rapper Drake, who has gotten the talented singer on not one, but two tracks on his newest album More Life. However, Jorja's vocals and talent really began to take centre stage following the release of her hop-hop and R&B debut single Blue Lights early last year.
Early last year, Jorja gave us a tease of what was to come as she released a trio of singles, following up Blue Lights with her next two releases Where Did I Go? and A Prince. This eclectic mix of singles show off the richness of Jorja's voice and the perfect infusion of soul, R&B and blues that her music and vocals deliver. And following the excitement and attention her first few releases gained, she kept the world in suspense as she spent the rest of the year working on her next project. With her singles being followed up so perfectly by her debut EP Project 11 which arrived at the end of the year.
Project 11 could not have been a more perfect introduction to the music scene, and her effortless vocals compare to the likes of Amy Winehouse with their smoothness and dream-like quality. Speaking for itself, the EP follows up nicely from the earlier singles, presenting a nice compellation of R&B, pop and soul infused tracks. Making for easy listening there is an unmistakable air of vintage soul to the whole EP making it impossible not to sit back, relax and enjoy the music.
And this year, as well as being busy collaborating with some of the biggest names in music, Jorja has also released another single 'Beautiful Little Fools'. This was written by Jorja at the age of sixteen and inspired by 'The Great Gatsby', and can undoubtedly be seen as an incredible female anthem. This mellow track really shows the emotion Jorja puts into her music and the effortlessness with which she sings and performs. And here her vocals, so reminiscent of Amy Winehouse, really stand up against the greats of music with such a classic and timeless quality.
Jorja is certainly heading for greatness and we will undoubtedly be hearing plenty more from her across the airwaves. So watch this space and make sure to keep and eye and an ear out for Jorja Smith, as the talented singer and songwriter is certainly going to be coming back with some more incredible hits!
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The Curl BC Board has nominated two individuals for re-election in 2018, and three individuals have been nominated for election by curling clubs from around the province.
Current Curl BC Board Vice Chair Peter Muir of Port Moody and Governor at Large Janice Mori of Coldstream have both been nominated by the Board and member clubs. Brent Pierce of New Westminster, Keith Switzer of Vancouver and Marilyn Kraeker of Victoria are the other three individuals who have been nominated by member clubs.
Every year at the Curl BC Annual General Meeting (AGM), Governors at Large are elected. At our 2018 AGM, scheduled for June 17 in Burnaby, the Curl BC membership will elect two Governors to join with those elected from the Regions to sit on the nine-person Board. This year the Governors at Large will be elected for two-year terms.
The board is still interested in hearing from more candidates. Those looking to run should be individuals who are willing to help Curl BC dedicate itself to the development, promotion and organization of curling in BC.
Information about the five current candidates has been emailed out to member curling centres.


This is the third of three related posts that I'm uploading in a row. The first was up the day before yesterday, the second was up yesterday and this is the third.
Just a few personal thoughts and a bit of feedback on this natural wine event, which I hope will be the first of many, as it was a great success.
First I have to confess that I was actually very sceptical in the run-up to this event and that I thought that it would be a waste of my time to go. In fact, when I was invited to participate as a producer, I seriously considered whether I should go or not. I was weighing up my options, as it were, as I had (have!) so many things to do in the vineyards/winery that whether to "waste" a day at a fair was a major decision for me. In the end, what decided me was that as I actually live and work in Madrid, it would be inexcusable/ unforgivable/ shameful if I didn't go, even if it were to turn out to be a waste of time. Sorry, but that's the truth!!!
I have to further confess to being very surprised at the number of visitors throughout the day. After 11 straight hours on the go (from 9:00 in the morning to 8:00 in the evening) I ended up with sore feet, a sore mouth and a sore throat! From standing up attending to visitors and from talking about my wines! I think that's a pretty good indicator of the success/failure of an event, no?
And on the other hand, there were lots of 'normal' general–public visitors too who didn't know much about wine technically-geekily speaking, but who had come to see what this was all about. Which was great, as these are the most important link in the supply chain that runs from the earth under the vines to our stomachs!
The lovely food at the Fair was provided by Carlos, of the ex Petit Bistrot (Madrid's only natural wine bar and restaurant), which has recently rebranded itself as SoloDeUva ("OnlyFromGrapes"). I was pleased to see that he also brutally exploits his wife and children - in the kitchen, in his case; as opposed to in the vineyard and winery in my case. Traditions must be maintained!
Many thanks to Carlos Scholderle, and Gabriel Blocona for looking after my stand while I went to answer the call of nature several times during the course of the day. Also thanks to Jorge Sibaritastur for fetching me assorted glasses of neighbouring producers' wines for me to taste, including two from Frank Cornelison, who was the most famous name at the fair (tho he wasn't there in person!). Thanks also to Hugo, son of Carlos, for bringing me things to eat from his father's popup, during the course of the day.


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Second-quarter GDP growth gets pushed up to 3.9 percent
September 25, 2015 / 8:55 AM / AP
WASHINGTON -The U.S. economy grew at an even faster clip in the spring than previously estimated. But that growth likely slowed in the summer, held back by global headwinds and turbulent financial markets.
The overall economy expanded at an annual rate of 3.9 percent in the April-June quarter, up from a previous estimate of 3.7 percent, the Commerce Department reported Friday. The new-found strength came from additional gains in consumer spending, business investment and residential construction.
The second-quarter expansion in gross domestic product, the economy's total output of goods and services, was a marked improvement from an anemic 0.6 percent increase in the first quarter when the economy was battered by a harsh winter.
Economists estimate that growth in the third quarter has slowed to around 2.5 percent.
The revision in second-quarter growth was led by a boost in consumer spending, which expanded at a 3.6 percent rate, up from the previous estimate of a 3.1 percent advance. The stronger result reflected increases in spending on such consumer services as health care and transportation.
Business investment spending was revised higher, reflecting increased spending on structures and equipment. Residential construction grew at a 9.3 percent pace, even better than the 7.6 percent growth estimated last month.
Friday's report was the government's third and final estimate for second-quarter growth. The initial look tabbed GDP growth in the spring at 2.3 percent, which was revised up to 3.7 percent last month.
Economists believe the subsequent slowdown in the summer will reflect a reduction by businesses in restocking their inventories.
Once unwanted inventories are worked down, the expectation is that growth will accelerate again in the year's final quarter. Economists at Macroeconomic Advisors are forecasting GDP growth of 2.7 percent in the October-December period.
For the whole year, economists expect a modest gain of around 2.2 percent, in line with the modest growth seen during the six years of the current recovery. In 2014, the economy grew 2.4 percent after 1.5 percent growth in 2013.
Activity has been held back this year by a rise in the value of the dollar, which weakens sales of U.S. exports while making foreign goods more competitive in the United States.
Adding to the problems facing American manufacturers has been a significant slowdown in growth in China, a major market for U.S. products. The slowdown in China sent shockwaves through global financial markets as investors grew concerned that that the economic problems in China, the world's second largest economy, could be even worse than previously believed.
All these developments contributed to a decision by the Federal Reserve last week to keep its key interest rate unchanged at a record low near zero, where it has been since late 2008.
However, Fed Chair Janet Yellen said Thursday that she still believed the Fed would start raising rates before the end of this year. While the central bank would continue to monitor developments abroad, she said that, "we do not currently anticipate that the effects of these recent developments" will be large enough to impact the Fed's interest rate decisions.
First published on September 25, 2015 / 8:55 AM
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Rauni Inkeri Barenthin, född 9 november 1942 i Kotka, är en finländsk-svensk tandläkare.

Barenthin, som är dotter till civilingenjör Seppo Korte och farmaceut Anita Strömberg, blev odontologie licentiat 1967, filosofie kandidat 1972, odontologie doktor 1977 och docent 1983. Hon var lärare vid Uppsala universitet 1973–1974, vid Karolinska Institutet 1977–1983, sjukhustandläkare på Löwenströmska sjukhuset 1983–1985, sjukhustandläkare vid Serafimerlasarettets sjukhem 1985–1988 och blev cheftandläkare där 1988. Hon har varit konsult vid Svenska Röda Korsets center för torterade flyktingar och ledare för Stockholms läns landstings projekt- och policygrupp för tandhälsovård.

Bibliografi
Samhällsmedicinska aspekter på tandvården (akademisk avhandling, 1977)
Kariologiska principer. Nordisk lärobok i kariologi (femte omarbetade upplagan av Yngve Ericssons Nordisk lärobok i kariologi, 1980)
Changes in Swedish dental health 1968–91 (tillsammans med Kozma Ahacic och Mats Thorslund, 1999)
När inget annat hjälper. Energipsykologi och hjärtfokusering (2009)
Kalibrera din lycka, reglera din stress (2011)

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Giuseppe is Italian and works at Vandebron as a Data Scientist. Read more about him in this blog.
At Vandebron, you know from whom you buy your electricity. But there's an entire office between you and your source, filled with more than a hundred people who are fully committed to change the Dutch energy market. All under the guise of one mission: to get towards 100 percent sustainable Dutch energy as soon as possible. And those people have a story, like Giuseppe. He is Data Scientist at Vandebron and comes from Italy.
How did you end up at Vandebron?
What do you do as a Data Scientist?
'In my role, I am busy bringing Vandebron to a 2.0 version. And right now I am doing that with the Smart Charging project within Vandebron EV (Electric Vehicles). At the moment, it is still a pilot project with Tennet (the transmission system operator in the Netherlands and in Germany) and IBM, where we use Blockchain technology to balance the Dutch electricity grid. Also, I am very happy to say that this project has won an award this year!
Is it different to work in a Dutch organization compared to an Italian company?
Your Dutch is really good too. How long did it take you to learn it?
Do you have a sustainable lifestyle?
What is the importance of sustainability to you?


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The Helix project has been on the go since 2003, a result of an idea to create a local greenspace that connects and engages with the communities it reaches. Helix Park opened its doors to visitors in 2013, with The Kelpies constructed the next year, on 21 April 2014.
The Helix is an outdoor recreational park land found between Falkirk and Grangemouth, covering over 350 hectares of green space and fun for visitors of all ages to enjoy the outdoors. Some of the facilities include a lagoon for water activities, splash fountains, café and adventure play zone.
The Helix is also home to The Kelpies. Standing at 30 metres tall, and weighing over 300 tonnes each, The Kelpies are the world's largest equine sculptures towering over the Forth and Clyde canal. Visitors to The Kelpies can take part in a fascinating guided tour, discovering the art, history and engineering behind Scotland's newest `must see` visitor attraction.
For more information on future events happening at The Helix, keep an eye on The Helix website.


Our guide will help you pick a point-and-shoot film camera.
Lens: A deluxe lens won't make you Ansel Adams, but you should always choose a camera with good lens optics. Among the names to look for: Nikon, Yashica, Zeiss, Contax.
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Despite the support of such big photo names as Kodak, the thunder of APS (Advanced Photo System) cameras seems to have been stolen by the digital-camera revolution. Small, lightweight and fairly expensive, APS cameras use 24-mm film cartridges instead of standard 35-mm film. It's impossible to load the film incorrectly, plus you never touch negatives. Warning: Check to see whether your favorite "one-hour" photo developer does APS processing.
The three most standard film speeds are 100, 200 and 400 ASA. (The ASA rating of the film refers to its light sensitivity.) Here's the short version: 100 works best outdoors; 200 is indoor-outdoor; 400 is for indoors.
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Rearden Commerce secures $133M for smart e-commerce
Faith Merino · September 21, 2011 · Short URL: https://vator.tv/n/1f4f
The e-commerce platform also acquires daily deal site HomeRun.com
Rearden Commerce, creator of the Deem e-commerce platform, announced Wednesday that it has raised $133 million from existing investors JPMorgan Chase and American Express, as well as new investor Citi. The new capital brings Rearden's total raised to $353 million, for a valuation of $1.35 billion.
Launched in 2000, the company aims to make e-commerce smarter via its interoperable smart applications, which leverage big data, analytics, and semantics technology to make shopping online more relevant and direct. Some 7,500 companies—ranging from large Fortune 50 and S&P 500 companies to SMBs—are using the Deem platform to connect with 1.2 million merchants.
Over the next several months, Rearden Commerce plans to launch next-generation Merchant Offer apps for both merchants and consumers.
"American Express, JPMorgan Chase and Citi each have meaningful business relationships with Rearden," Rearden Commerce SVP Pam Erickson tells me. "As we evolve and expand these relationships, we are excited that companies of this caliber see an investment in Rearden Commerce as an investment in the future of smart commerce. The combination of their assets and Rearden's Deem platform will deliver on the promise of real-time commerce."
In addition to the funding, Rearden also announced its expansion into the daily deal space with the acquisition of group-buying service HomeRun.com. With the acquisition, Rearden is also acquiring HomeRun's OfferEngine platform.
"Adding the expertise in social commerce and game mechanics from the HomeRun.com team, along with their pioneering work in self-service merchant tools, aims to instantly enhance the value of the Deem platform and ecosystem," said Rearden Commerce CEO Patrick Grady, in a statement. "Ultimately, we are seeking to fundamentally transform commerce by perfecting the interaction between buyers and sellers by correlating an individual's preferences, location and circumstances with all the options available from merchants – and presenting just those that are relevant to that buyer."
HomeRun.com has more than doubled its membership to 3 million subscribers since February 2011, and Rearden plans to combine HomeRun's daily deal platform with Deem's personalization capabilities via Deem's Consumer Loyalty partners. The HomeRun.com team will be integrated into Rearden Commerce and HomeRun CEO Brad Brodigan will report to Patrick Grady as President of Merchant Services.
Rearden has been growing at a pretty quick clip, itself. In the last year, the company has tripled its distribution channel, gaining access to more than 60 million consumers, while quadrupling its merchant network to some 1.2 million.
Rearden says it plans to use the new funds from this round for "high growth initiatives," including acquisitions (like the acquisition of HomeRun.com), working capital, and debt repayment.
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How e-commerce evolved from search to feeds
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In today's article we review how Rockwell's new 1756-L8xE (5580) line of processors stack up price wise with the 1756-L7x (5570) series.
Now in today's article we're going to take a look at the pricing side, comparing the cost of buying a 1756-L83E or L85E to purchasing the last generation 1756-L73 or L75, along with a 1756-ENBT.
But before we look at the prices, let's first look at the technical differences between the L8xE and a L7x paired with an ENBT.
First, as we mentioned in our previous articles, the biggest improvement with the 5580 appears to be the processing speed of the CPU itself.
Another upside of the 5580 series is that it now comes with 20% more memory over previous models.
Specifically, the L83E and L85E have 10mb and 40mb respectively, while the L73 and L75 have 8mb and 32mb respectively.
And the new 5580 series even come with larger SD cards, shipping with 2GB cards as opposed to the 1GB models that come with the 5570 family.
On to the 5580's integrated Ethernet port.
First we see a 10x increase in speed with support up to 1GB, whereas the last gen Ethernet modules (ENBT, EN2T, etc) topped out at 100MB.
Speed aside, comparing the total I/O capacity of these two systems is a little more murky.
On the one hand, the 5580 specifications list a combined Processor and Ehernet node limit.
For the L83E that limit is 100 Ethernet Nodes, while for the L85E it's 300 nodes.
On the other hand, the L73 and L75 capacity is listed as 500 "connections," and the ENBT is listed as 128 CIP and 64 TCP connections.
So while the older 5570 system does support a large number of connections, that doesn't automatically translate into more connected Ethernet devices.
In fact, since many Ethernet devices require multiple connections per node, determining which system has the most capacity will likely come down to the actual hardware devices used.
NOTE: For an easy way to compare ControlLogix processor network capacity, check out this article.
Now that we have reviewed the major differences between the 5580 and 5570, lets move on to a price comparison.
Conclusion: Which is a better value?
On the surface, the 5580 series faster processor and Ethernet port seems to be a much better value based on the above estimated street prices.
That said, there's always a down side to using newly released hardware, as has been experienced by some of our readers in the form of new firmware and software bugs.
Additionally, if you install a new 5580 in your facility you may also need to install Studio 5000 v28 on all the PC's that service your ControlLogix systems. For larger organizations, or those without a Tech Connect contract, that could be the deciding factor.
But given those considerations, if you currently have a ControlLogix system in much need of a speed boost, then the 5580 could definitely warrant consideration given its much greater speed.
Is there any known compatibility issues in systems with both L7 & L8 ControlLogix Processors? Thank you.
As far as communicating to each other via peer to peer comms, typically all ControlLogix controllers can do so.
So I would say no - there's no reason you can't have L7's and L8's used on the same plant floor.
That said, version compatibility is another matter.
Each new firmware version adds new features, and old versions don't supporting new features.
So to know which feature a new L8 supports that an older controller might not, you would need to know the firmware version in each.
I'm pretty sure it was not 5-20%, but 5-20 times performance increase.


Jonathan Chevreau is the CFO of Financial Independence Hub; author Findependence Day, co-author Victory Lap Retirement. Writes for Motley Fool, FP, G&M, MoneySense.
I've been a print journalist since 1979 and got involved in web forums when I launched a magazine (The Wealthy Boomer) in 1999, which led to blogging and more online activity, culminating in the site I now run: FindependenceHub.com (aka FinancialIndependenceHub.com).
between and after those two-hour work blocks.
I have a fully equipped home office with Apple equipment of all kinds: MacBook Air with an HP large monitor, wireless mouse, the major Microsoft apps and WordPress as my blog publishing app. I also use the iPhone 6S and iPad mini to download major newspapers and magazines and use the VoiceRecord app on either machine to record interviews.
Stay on top of the news and social media, and consider pitches from various sources.
Just trying to spread the word on Financial Independence and keep the website going and paying for itself.
Guest blogs are one way to get started: usually without pay initially but a good way to get your feet wet and establish your name in certain fields of expertise. FindependenceHub.com does accept such blogs, as it seeks to publish five or six days a week, 52 weeks a year (and has been doing since its launch three years ago).


This 19 July 2006 article from the internal NSA newsletter Foreign Affairs digest explains the ramifications of the Soviet attack on Korean Airlines flight 007 in 1983 for US-Japanese intelligence cooperation: see the Intercept article Japan Made Secret Deals With The NSA That Expanded Global Surveillance, 24 April 2017.
This undated NSA protocol note provides a short briefing for a visit to the agency's Deputy Director of Foreign Affairs by his Japanese counterpart, due to happen sometime after January 2013: see the Intercept article The Untold Story of Japan's Secret Spy Agency, 19 May 2018.
This internal assessment from the NSA dated 14 January 2013 analyses Japan's progress towards its cyber defense goals and domestic barriers to progress ahead of a planned US-Japanese Memorandum of Understanding due to be signed that year: see the Intercept article The Untold Story of Japan's Secret Spy Agency, 19 May 2018.
An extract from a 2009 memo from the technical director of NSA Mission Operations, describing improvements at Misawa Security Operations Center (MSOC), the agency's collection point in Misawa, Japan: see the book No Place To Hide, 13 May 2014.
"DISTANTFOCUS," a system mounted on Predator drones in the global war on terrorism, brings "the dawn of a new era" for signals intelligence and precision geolocation. Operators at the NSA headquarters have been remotely receiving encrypted real-time audio and geolocation data from U.S. Central Command's area of responsibility since December 2004.
New infusion of manpower into the Pacific Theater: Several vacancies are available at Yokota Air Base, Misawa, Tokyo, and Okinawa.
This internal briefing dated 2 January 2013 provides talking points for the NSA Director on restoring Japanese participation in the CROSSFIRE programme, which had stopped in 2009: see the Intercept article Japan Made Secret Deals With The NSA That Expanded Global Surveillance, 24 April 2017.
This internal briefing dated 29 January 2013 provides talking points for the NSA Director on improving cooperation with Japan in the cyber realm : see the Intercept article Japan Made Secret Deals With The NSA That Expanded Global Surveillance, 24 April 2017.
This 23 October 2010 article from the internal NSA newsletter FAD Digest describes how US-Japanese intelligence cooperation has begun to operate more openly: see the Intercept article Japan Made Secret Deals With The NSA That Expanded Global Surveillance, 24 April 2017.
Japan's Directorate for SIGNIT, or DFS, found the replacement for a signal that benefited "many organizations" in the U.S. intelligence community but disappeared in 2002 or 2003. To honor this discovery, the NSA allowed DFS to name the new signal.


I have to correct two impressions about Topgun Days before I begin.
One. My brother Matt, a Navy pilot himself, was skeptical when I told him I was reading it. To be specific, he thought it "reek[ed] of self-congratulatory arrogance". Keep in mind that his call sign is Sunshine. But the point is, after reading Dave Baranek's book, I found it to be a totally mistaken assumption.
But here's the thing: I did really enjoy Topgun Days. And I think my non-buff-ery makes me an even better judge. I had a good time reading it, so if you're at all into military aviation, not just by proxy like I am, you'll be rapt.
Dave Baranek was one of the naval aviators who designed and carried out the flight scenes, dialogue, and overall accuracy of "Top Gun", and that part of the book is full of fun backstage info – which call signs were real, what quotes were taken straight from life, how the flight sequences were shot, what it was like with the stars (who weren't that famous yet – and actually sucked at volleyball!).
But the book title is a bit misleading, because it's much more than those weeks. Dave was a Radar Intercept Officer (think Goose). Then he was chosen to go to Topgun. Then he became a Topgun instructor himself. So if you're looking for a mid-80s inside-Hollywood tell-all, this is not that book; but as a memoir, this is a plainly told story of massive accomplishments. The movie was cool, but the real thing is cooler, isn't it?
What I particularly appreciated is how good he is at explaining. It can be hard to have a conversation with my brother that isn't stilted. Military life has so many acronyms, for one thing – and for another, aviation is a vastly different type of workplace. It's a foreign language about a foreign land. So I loved how accessible Dave made his world.
The funny thing is, Dave did one thing in a very military way, and while this is exactly what refutes my brother's assumption, I found it confusing at first. He was extraordinarily matter-of-fact. The flights and activities that would get a rock-and-roll montage, if this book was a movie – they're another day at the office. Early in his career, Dave's superior reminds him that he does a job like everyone else – he's just lucky enough to like his. He clearly took that to heart. At first, the contrast between the tone he was using and what he was describing was confusing, but I grew to appreciate it.
What I came to see is that the moments that were the most harrowing or rewarding weren't what I'd guess. While of course it must be wild to roll all over the sky, the real fear happened when he was forced to bail out – and the real pride came when he delivered his first lecture as a Topgun instructor.
The one jarring note in the book is that his wife of many years is relegated to an startlingly cursory mention at the end. It's as if he realized at the last minute that he had to explain who the lady in the pictures was. I'm sure he had reasons – hey, maybe that's how she wanted it – but it felt odd.
If you're interested in military aviation, or just in memoirs in general, you'll really enjoy this. It's an easy read, a fun one, and an interesting one too. And thanks to his PR people, who provided me a review copy (which I'm passing to Matt in accordance with my policy of Find Books Great Homes), I also know you can get it on crazy-good sale for e-books right now ($4.99!). Get it for Kindle here, or for Nook here. And if you want to hear more about it, I dug up an interview that Dave did on Sirius, which you can hear here and here.


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Can't say enough about these two. So I am sure gonna try!!
This couple pushes to the next level in EVERY class they attend and they are just awesome people!
Sarah came in on a free trial and met with me on a Saturday after the hustle and bustle of class was over. Her very first workout after she joined was a special holiday workout with a packed house! She was nervous but made it through. 🙂 She was afraid that she was going to need to be in great shape before even joining, but I had explained to her that we had all levels and that she would be getting stronger in no time. That was an understatement! She came in class after class determined to keep pushing herself to her limits. It wasn't long after joining that she convinced her husband, Dan, to come in as well. Now they're both hooked!!
Edge Body has given Dan an opportunity to get back into weight lifting, while also pushing him in conditioning. Sarah finds way more motivation in the classes then she did trying to run on her own. They have such an amazing support for each other; it's great to watch! The Edge Body classes have become a way they can be active and healthy together, as well as meet new friends and work off the stress that comes with life sometimes. AND they are a breeze to coach!! Always wanting to improve form and push themselves that one extra step. Dan has hit a PR on bench and Sarah continues to lose inches. LOVE having you guys apart of our fit family!!
Watch the above video for their awesome story! Continue to kill it guys!!!


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The Cordish Companies (previously The Cordish Company) is a U.S.-based real estate development and entertainment operating company with its headquarters on the 6th floor of the Pratt Street Power Plant in Baltimore, Maryland. It was founded in 1910 by Louis Cordish. In 1933, his son Paul L. Cordish joined the business, then in 1968, Paul's son David S. Cordish joined the firm and serves as its chairman and CEO. As of 2014, all three of David's sons, Jonathan, Blake, and Reed Cordish, serve as Vice Presidents of The Cordish Companies with responsibilities over Private Equity Holdings, Real Estate Development and Entertainment Management divisions.
The Cordish Companies has experience in the following disciplines of real estate: Commercial Real Estate, Coworking Spaces, Entertainment Districts, Gaming, Hotels, International Development, Private Equity, Residential, Restaurants and Sports-Anchored Districts. The Cordish Companies has been awarded seven ULI Awards for Excellence for positively impacting the cities in which they develop.
The company dates to 1910, when Louis Cordish began developing real estate in the Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area.
In 1935, his son Paul L. Cordish joined the business; in 1968, Paul's son David S. Cordish joined the firm.
In 1968, David S. Cordish assumed leadership of the company and remains CEO today.
In 1982, the Gaming and Hotel divisions were formed.
In 1984, the company won an award from the Urban Land Institute for Rainbow Centre.
In 1989, the company won an award from the Urban Land Institute for Charleston Place.
In 1993, the company won an award from the Urban Land Institute for Furness House.
In 1994, the Entertainment Management division of the company was formed.
In 1999, the company won an award from the Urban Land Institute for Bayou Place.
In 1999, the company opened the first Live! district, Power Plant Live!.
In 2000, the company won an award from the Urban Land Institute for The Power Plant.
In 2004, the company reached developed the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tampa and the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood.
In 2005, the company won an award from the Urban Land Institute for Fourth Street Live! The company also formed the Sports-Anchored District division.
In 2009, the company won an award from the Urban Land Institute for Power & Light District.
In 2010, the company launched its International Development division.
In 2012, David S. Cordish won the WaveMaker Lifetime Achievement Award from the Urban Land Institute.
1984 Urban Land Institute for Rainbow Centre.
1989 Urban Land Institute for Charleston Place.
1993 Urban Land Institute for Furness House.
1999 Urban Land Institute for Bayou Place.
2000 Urban Land Institute for The Power Plant.
2009 Urban Land Institute for Power & Light District.
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In action, bar codes look like a magic trick. With a simple pass by a scanner the bar code unlocks hidden information, sets in motion actions making commerce easier, and can even prevent mistakes from happening. While not actually magic, bar codes are an important part of systems that do some incredible things. They are particularly good in fast paced environments, where the cost of errors are high, and the demands on the attention of overworked staff are monumental, like always delivering the right drug, and the right dose, at the right time, via the right route, to the right patient…all while juggling countless other issues and pressing concerns. This sounds like the perfect place for a system that quickly verifies all this information against orders that were carefully documented by a trained professional! Because Medi-Dose®/EPS® specializes in printing unit-dose medication labels with bar codes, this is the type of situation we have in mind here while discussing bar codes and scanners.
Ultimately, a bar code is just text encoded in a special pattern that a bar code scanner can read. When you scan the bar code, the scanner converts it back into characters and enters them into a program, just as if you typed those characters with a keyboard. The magic happens in the program that uses those characters to look up a record. At the store, this would be a UPC Code that links to information like the product name and price, which the software uses to add the price to a bill, and then subtract the item from inventory. With medications, this is often an NDC number that links to information like the generic name and strength, which the software might use to warn a nurse they are trying to administer the wrong medication, or to add that dose to a patient's record.
In both situations above, the bar code only contained a number that identified the item. The software matched that number with a record that has detailed and useful information. The bar code and scanner only eliminated the need to type in the number without error, and then the software used that information to perform the desired function.
A scanner, the tool that reads the bar code, is often attached to a computer or device that has the software running. In some cases, like handheld devices that provide drug interaction information, the software is built right into the scanner. 1-D and 2-D are the two most common types of scanners. Each has strengths and weaknesses, and each use different technology to scan bar codes, but both still end up producing the same results.
A 1-D scanner can only read 1-D bar codes, which are typically made up of straight vertical lines, and are the type you see on products at the store. The scan area will light up as a straight horizontal line when you point a 1-D scanner at a piece of paper. The scanner has to be lined up correctly with the bar code to read it, which in a healthcare setting could cause issues, like having to move a patient to get the right angle to scan their wristband. The only factor where 1-D scanners are better than 2-D scanners is cost, which in large facilities where many hundreds of scanners are required, can be significant.
A 2-D scanner can read both 1-D and 2-D bar codes, which usually look like patterns of little dots or squares, and are the ones you might have noticed in postmarks or in advertisements. The scan area will light up as a rectangle, or as a squiggly, twisting line when you point a 2-D scanner at a piece of paper. These scanners do not need to be perfectly aligned with the bar code, and can read them at almost any angle. Not long ago, 2-D scanners were much more expensive than 1-D scanners, which led to many facilities still having legacy equipment with 1-D scanners.
There is a 3-D bar code, but we have never seen it in use on unit dose medications. The intent and purpose of a 3-D bar code is to make creating the physical bar code so hard and expensive that it deters counterfeiting, similar to the way holograms and special papers are used to protect currency. Identifying and validating diamonds is a situation where the cost and effort equals the benefits of 3-D bar codes. Potentially, pharmaceutical companies might use them to protect their supply chain from counterfeit medications, but we don't see 3-D going past the loading dock to the bedside or dispensing cabinet.
An RFID Tag is another technology that is gaining popularity in healthcare settings. These tags are encoded by a special printer, and they work very much like bar codes, with the advantage that they do not require line of sight to be scanned. This allows for systems that can inventory whole collections of items within range of the scanner, or systems that set off alarms if an item is moved past a scanner. While we see potential for RFID in identifying unit-dose medications in some cases, the cost and complexity still outweighs the benefits for tagging all medications at this time.
Even if most of their scanners are 2-D, almost all of our customers only encode a 10 or 11 digit NDC without dashes in a 1-D bar code because it works well in the small space available on unit dose items. Plus, it's backward compatible for any equipment that only has a 1-D scanner. A small number of customers use 2-D bar codes to save space on the label, or use them because 2-D bar codes are more fault tolerant, which means they can handle more physical damage and still be readable. A very limited number of customers encode information like the NDC, Beyond-Use Date and Lot Number all in one bar code, and they can't do that in a 1-D bar code at the small size needed to fit on a unit dose item, so they use 2-D.
Within each type of bar code there are different bar code fonts. Just like Arial or Times New Roman in human readable fonts, the bar code fonts are just different ways to format the same information. Each one has features that make it better suited to specific purposes, like including check digits for verification of scans, or being better at small sizes, or even at really large sizes. For our customers, the most commonly used fonts are Code 128 for 1-D bar codes, and Data Matrix for 2-D bar codes. Both of these fonts are very good at the small sizes needed to fit on unit dose labels, and they both return the same characters when read with a scanner.
Some bar code fonts have "check digits" that a scanner will use to verify it read the whole bar code correctly. Scanners can also be programmed to change the encoded characters before passing them to the software, or to expect only certain types of information in a bar code, but we rarely see customers using these advanced settings in their scanner. More often, we see them program the scanner to send a "return key" or a "tab key" after each scan so the user doesn't have to press that button on their keyboard each time an item is scanned.
If a bar code is damaged and can't be read by the scanner, most bar code fonts will also include human readable text with the characters that are encoded in the bar code. When a bar code fails to scan, a person might be offered the option to type those characters in manually. Most programs make a note that the code was manually typed in for this transaction, and we have seen reports that have come back to pharmacy with information about bar codes that were hard to scan, or that had to be entered manually, so pharmacy can work to improve the physical quality of the bar code and minimize these issues. Most commonly, these issues are caused by too much data for a small bar code size, or faded, worn out printing on the label.
Whenever we are asked for a recommendation on which scanner to buy, we always recommend customers use the same scanner that their facility uses at the bedside or dispensing machine that will ultimately be reading the bar codes they make. Each brand and model of scanner will have slight differences in tolerance, and the small bar codes required to fit on small labels could cross those tolerance lines. For almost every customer we have worked with, they test their finished unit dose items with the scanner and program that they will be using in the live environment to verify it matches the scan to the right item. If you do not currently use scanners in your facility, we use a Symbol/Motorola/Zebra DS4208 for testing bar codes internally. The DS4208 is considered a reasonably good, inexpensive 2-D scanner.
In our MILT software, the Standard 1-D Template with a 10 or 11 digit NDC without dashes, encoded in a Code-128 1-D bar code, including human readable text, is the most commonly used configuration for our customers. MILT can be easily configured for 2-D bar codes. It can even encode up to seven pieces of information, including Application Identifiers that identify each piece, in one bar code, but this is only of value if your program knows what to do with that information when it's scanned.
If the intention is to make bar codes for a specific system to read, use that same scanner and test the bar codes with that same system. If there is no specific system yet, use an inexpensive scanner like the Symbol/Motorola/Zebra DS4208. But, keep in mind that the system you end up using may not have a scanner as good as this one, so you should lean toward the simplest options below to minimize the risk of your bar codes not working when you do have a system. Going with the simplest possible option is also a good idea if you think you could merge with other facilities someday, because it will increase the odds that your bar codes will be compatible with their systems.
Determine the type of scanner you have by scanning a piece of paper. If it lights up a straight horizontal line, it is a 1-D scanner, and the only choice is a 1-D bar code. If it lights up a rectangular or squiggly, twisted area, it is a 2-D scanner, and you can use 1-D or 2-D bar codes. If you are buying your first scanner, go with an inexpensive 2-D type, like the DS4208 mentioned above.
Determine the type of information required in the bar code by the system that will be reading it. Remember, the purpose of a bar code is to pass information to the next system so it can perform a function for you. If that system doesn't want a Beyond-Use Date in the bar code, your encoding it will not make it a better bar code, and will probably make it harder to use that system. If it does want more than one piece of information, ask for the exact type of items, the expected order of those items, and if there needs to be Application Identifiers or codes that mark each item.
If you are only going to need a 10 or 11 digit NDC without dashes, a 1-D works well at the size required to fit on unit dose items. If you need more information encoded in the bar code, you may have to go with a 2-D bar code. Note that with most 1-D bar code fonts, alpha characters "weigh" more than numeric ones and make for denser, harder-to-scan bar codes. If you need one alpha character, 1-D may still work at the small size needed on unit-dose medications. If you need more than one alpha character, you may be pushed more toward the 2-D bar codes because they are better able to store alpha characters without becoming too dense to scan.
With the above information collected, we usually recommend you go with the simplest option possible for your situation. Even if you have 2-D scanners, if you only need an NDC without dashes, the safest choice is a 1-D bar code. Using 1-D will cover you for that one dispensing cabinet you didn't realize people are still using, or that new facility your company just bought that has older equipment. This is not to say you shouldn't use 2-D. If you need more information encoded, or several alpha characters, or your bar coded items will not be handled with care and fault tolerance is a concern, or you will be labeling small vials with a tight circumference, and you are positve all your scanners are 2-D, then you may want to consider 2-D bar codes because they are, by design, a better technology.
Remember, the bar code is usually just a method for easily passing information to the next device or program in your system. While there might be bar code choices that seem like they have more power and options built into them, it is the bar code that is most universally readable and reliable in your environment that will unlock the magic! With this information in mind, you can determine the best bar code options to suit the needs of your system.
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 Кулибали, Мамаду (ивуарийский футболист) (род. 1980) — ивуарийский футболист.
 Кулибали, Мамаду (малийский футболист) (род. 1985) — малийский футболист.
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A rare chance to see Orson Welles' Moby Dick – Rehearsed. Take it.
The madness of Ahab. (Photo: Frank Chen)
"The soul is a sort of fifth wheel to a wagon."
The protagonist, of course, is the sea – murderous, obsessive, monotonous, devourer of lives, sanity, and time, time, time. The sea is the pervasive, melancholy backdrop for the Stanford Repertory Theater's compelling production of Orson Welles' Moby Dick – Rehearsed, mercifully without intermission, which would only have diluted the oceanic severity of Welles's wonder of a script. The "watery part of the world" is countebalanced by a quieter antagonist, the human soul itself, that "fifth wheel to a wagon," as the mad prophetic sailor Elijah says early in the play. Welles whittled Herman Melville's 700-page metaphysical novel into a relentless and lyrical 90-minute show – it's a daring choice for the artistic director Rush Rehm, and a rare opportunity. (The production continues through August 10 – tickets here.)
Call him Ishmael. (Photo: Stefanie Okuda)
The hard heart of the inventive production is Rod Gnapp, a Bay Area veteran of ACT, Berkeley Rep, the Brooklyn Academy of Music and others, who turns in a stellar performance as one-legged Captain Ahab. The captain is misguidedly bent on killing the whale who maimed him, his twisted face locked in a grim and grizzled rictus of resentment. His short exchanges with the upright Quaker first mate Starbuck (played by Peter Ruocco), who finally cries, "I disobey my God, obeying him!" are among the highpoints in a drama that has many of them. Here's another: thanks to composer/sound designer Michael Keck and music director Weston Gaylord, the haunting, a cappella hymns and sailors' songs are a delicious descant to the drama – in the end, a haunting lament for those who have given their lives for the sea.
The script itself has an interesting history. The original production took place at the the Duke of York's Theatre in London, with a cast that included Director Welles, Gordon Jackson, Patrick McGoohan, and Joan Plowright. Welles eventually filmed about 75 minutes with the original cast, then abandoned the venture when he was disappointed with the results. Others, including McGoohan, thought the short film was impressive. We'll never know. The film was lost when a drunken Robert Shaw was smoking in bed at Welles's Madrid home. The house burned down, along with the only copy of the film. The Munich Film Museum owns a shorter film of excerpts from the play, filmed by Welles in 1971.
Moby Dick – Rehearsed is commonly said to be blank verse, which obviously isn't true. At best, it's broken iambics and prose – it falls off the metrical horse too often to be anything more. Just fine for theater, since the ear isn't counting off metrical feet, and the irregular rhythms throw the emphasis on a hypnotic tale about a monstrous obsession. It's a lyrical, meditative script, with lines like this one from the narrator, from the young, inexperienced sailor Ishmael (played by Louis McWilliams):
"Our souls were so possessed that Ahab's hate
was almost ours, and the white whale
our foe as much as his…"
Or from the spiritual insightful Starbuck:
"a vulture feeds upon his heart forever: –
that vulture the very creature he creates."
Or from hell-bent Ahab:
"…How d'ye know that some
entire, living, thinking thing
may not invisibly be standing
there, where you are standing?
In your most solitary hours, then
don't you ever fear the feel of eavesdroppers?"
I have some quibbles. Welles' show-within-a-show convention was already shopworn when Welles's wrote it, and adding a few lines about deconstruction and cellphones (already a bit stale themselves), add little comedy or humor. I'd rather cut to the chase. Also, the mad characters should dial it back a bit: they're often loud and hard to follow, which is too bad, because the delivery muffs some of the most moving and poetic lines in the play. Besides, I've seen insane, and that's not all of it. Insanity is scariest when it whispers, calm and confident as a megalomaniac in a boardroom. "I'd strike the sun if it insulted me," announces the captain. Ahab is insane.
Interesting production video below. It doesn't quite capture the power and desolation of this drama – how could it, really? See the real thing for yourself.
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Happy birthday to us! Five years for the Book Haven!
We celebrate and sing ourselves! The precise anniversary was earlier this year, but we've just gotten round to thinking about it – so it's a little more than five years actually. And it took us weeks and weeks to bake this cake. (Or maybe we should have baked one of Emily Dickinson's cakes – we wrote about that here.) Since the last weekend also coincided with the less public birthday of Humble Moi, we thought we would combine the occasions and make a sort of splash of it.
So let us take a moment to thank our readers, and do a bit of a victory lap for a few of our more successful posts over the years.
Most recently, our interview with Philip Roth here was widely picked up, leading to an article about Roth, the Book Haven, and Humble Moi in the pages of The Guardian here and in the Los Angeles Times here. French speakers might want to read Le Monde's republication here, Italian speakers in La Repubblica here, and an excerpted version of the interview also appeared in Germany's Die Welt here.
It wasn't our first time in Le Monde. When we wrote about Anaïs Saint-Jude's research on the communications revolution in the 17th century – which bore more than a passing resemblance to our own times – Le Monde spotlighted the piece, and we wrote about it here. It even got a mention in the New Yorker here.
Andrew Sullivan has been a Book Haven friend, mentioning us here and here and here. And we made several appearances in The Atlantic Wire here (on the troubling case of Cat Stevens) and here. We even made the top ten in Publisher's Weekly here.
Krasznahorkai made a splash here – and we covered it.
When we heard that a new edition of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn was being published without the "n" word – we were quick on the story here. It went around the world, getting a big spread in the New York Times, and just about every other American paper before the story went international. We wrote about it here and here and here and here and here and here and here. The Chronicle of Higher Education credited the Book Haven with starting the conflagration here.
When the Washington Post invited readers to make funny comments about poet Donald Hall, receiving a National Medal of Arts from President Obama, we were quick to respond here. Others joined us – including Sarah Palin in a tweet (we've always suspected she has a staff to do this, but still, it was under her name). Eventually WaPo responded – we discuss the brouhaha here.
You were in Vilnius with us!
College Education Online named us as a top lit blog. We sponsored a Cahiers Series giveaway with the American University in Paris here. We posted the first-ever English language video interview with Michel Serres here. My minute on Moscow television – the video is here – when, through our Lithuanian connections, a splendid Joseph Brodsky archive came to Stanford Libraries – we wrote about it here and here, and also mentioned it again when we wrote about it for Russia's Zvezda and Poland's Zeszytie Literackie – here and here. We brought the Book Haven with us on trips to Poland, Lithuania, England, and France (ohhhh… here, here, here, here, and here, among other places). Our photo of the Kultura office in Maisons-Laffitte made it all the way to Italy in a permanent exhibition – read about it here. We became something of a Victor Hugo expert with our post "Enjoy Les Misérables. But get the history straight" (here). The post got nearly a hundred comments – a record – and led us into being a guest speaker and informal consultant when Les Miz came to Stanford (here).
There's more, lots more, including our Orwell Watch series of injuries to the English language (you'll have to search, I'm afraid, too many to list), our series of interviews with PBS filmmaker Mary Skinner about Holocaust heroine Irena Sendler (here and here and here and here), and sad farewells for wonderful friends who have died, such as Dostoevsky maestro Joseph Frank, poet and translator Daniel Weissbort, Polish scholar and author Krzysztof Michalski, Polish journalist Marek Skwarnicki, poets Regina Derieva and Natalya Gorbanevskaya, and, alas, more. We covered Jean-Pierre Dupuy's recent panel on nuclear deterrence here, the talk by Estonian President Tomas Hendrik Illves, László Krasznahorkai and Colm Tóibín speaking in London, and so many others. Tired yet? We are. We're winding up.
A recent hit in the Book Haven.
According to the bit.ly links, our top-hitting posts were: "Philip Roth: 'The novelist's obsession is with language,'" "Joseph Brodsky's reading list 'to have a basic conversation' – plus the shorter one he gave to me," "Baltic masterpiece in English at last, in a PEN-awarded translation," "John Hennessy likes big, fat books," and "Terry Castle: "Austen's characters know nothing of date rape, unwanted pregnancies, hip-hop bitches." Runners-up included "Enjoy Les Misérables. But get the history straight", "Martin Amis: "It's the deaths of others that kill you in the end," "Talented artist goes into hiding: Molly Norris & "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day," "László Krasznahorkai to Colm Tóibín: "I was absolutely not a normal child." "Naimark on the Ukraine crisis: 'It's scary. Things could get a lot worse.' The surprise was that our discussion of Paweł Pawlikowski's Ida few weeks ago was among the runners-up. Who knew?
There! That wasn't so hard, was it? Why did it take us so long? Oh yes … the cake … let me go turn off the oven.
Moby Dick onstage with Stanford Repertory Theater
It's been a busy weekend, too soon over and too little accomplished, but I did get an opportunity to see Orson Welles's Moby Dick – Rehearsed, Stanford Repertory Theater's current production, which opened this weekend. I'll have more to say in the coming days about Welles's little-known and little-performed masterpiece – meanwhile, I highly recommend that you get tickets while you can here. It's a magnificent and moving show, under the direction of Rush Rehm, and I very much doubt you'll find much else to top it in the Bay Area this summer. With Herman Melville and Orson Welles as your starter kit – how could you possibly go wrong? The play runs July 17 to August 10, Thursdays to Saturdays at 8 pm, Sunday matinees at 2 p.m. at Pigott Theater, Memorial Auditorium, on the Stanford campus. Stay tuned in the coming days for more …
Theodor Adorno: punctuation as music
Serious about the semicolon
"Punctuation marks," wrote German critical theorist Theodor Adorno, "are marks of oral delivery." Because of that, they're a sort of musical notation: "The comma and the period correspond to the half-cadence and the authentic cadence." Exclamation points are "like silent cymbal clashes, question marks like musical upbeats." Colons are like "dominant seventh chords."
Open Culture notes that Adorno "is known for many things, but a light touch isn't one of them. His work includes despairing post-fascist ethics and a study on the sociology and psychology of fascism. Those who dig deeper into his catalog may know his rigorously philosophical Negative Dialectics or dense, opaque Aesthetic Theory. Given the seriously heavy nature of these books, you might surprised, as I was, to read the paragraph below":
An exclamation point looks like an index finger raised in warning; a question mark looks like a flashing light or the blink of an eye. A colon, says Karl Kraus, opens its mouth wide: woe to the writer who does not fill it with something nourishing. Visually, the semicolon looks like a drooping moustache; I am even more aware of its gamey taste. With self-satisfied peasant cunning, German quotation marks (<<> >) lick their lips.
Read the Open Culture snippets from Adorno's piece here – or, if you're up to it, read the whole essay here.
A few days ago, Ben Yagoda attacked the humble and serviceable semicolon. We're pleased to see that Adorno gave it a rousing defense. From Open Culture:
There is no mark of punctuation that Adorno rejects outright. All have their place and purpose. He does decry the modernist tendency to mostly leave them out, since "then they simply hide." But Adorno reserves a special pride of place for the semicolon. He claims that "only a person who can perceive the different weights of strong and weak phrasings in musical form" can understand the difference between semicolon and comma. He differentiates between the Greek and German semicolon. And he expresses alarm "that the semicolon is dying out." This, he claims, is due to a fear of "page-long paragraphs"—the kind he often writes. It is "a fear created by the marketplace—by the consumer who does not want to tax himself." Right, I told you, he would hate the internet, though he seems to thrive—posthumously—on Twitter.
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Bliss Carnochan names the worst poet evah.
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2014
A cult figure now.
The world has exploded into violence, everywhere you turn this month. Where else to turn for a few moments' respite from the news but … Scotland?
A few months ago, Bliss Carnochan gave a talk on his book Scotland the Brave during the Company of Authors event – I wrote about his book earlier here. I meant to write about his talk that day, too – but, well, time ran away with me, and I forgot the details of what he said, so must refer to his book for the part I remember best: Bliss's nomination for the worst poet evah. He's not alone, apparently, in his assessment.
Where, he asks, should we begin in the extraordinary career of William McGonagall (1825–1902), who has become something of a cult figure? "He specialized in dramatic events: shipwrecks, battles and, in his best-known poem, the disastrous failure of the Tay Bridge, spanning the Firth of Tay near Dundee, in December, 1879. Only a year after it was built, the bridge collapsed in a storm under the weight of a passing train, killing all aboard when the train plunged into the water below." Here's the poem, then, with Bliss's words to walk us through:
When the bridge had opened, McGonagall was bursting with Scottish pride.
Beautiful new railway bridge of the Silvery Tay,
With your strong brick piers and buttresses in so grand array.
And your thirteen central girders, which seem to my eye
Strong enough all windy storms to defy.
And as I gaze upon thee my heart feels gay,
Because thou are the greatest railway bridge of the present day.
Lest passengers worry about the bridge's strength, McGonagall assures them:
And I think nobody need have the least dismay
To cross o'er thee by night or by day.
Because thy strength is visible to be seen
Near by Dundee and the bonnie Magdalen Green.
So long, so splendid is the Tay Bridge that it rivals a famous bridge across the sea:
The New Yorkers boast about their Brooklyn Bridge,
But in comparison to thee it seems like a midge,
Because thou spannest the silvery Tay
A mile and more longer I venture to say
Besides the railway carriages are pulled across by a rope,
Therefore Brooklyn Bridge cannot with thee cope…
But then the bridge collapsed in December,1879:
Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv'ry Tay!
Alas! I am very sorry to say
That ninety lives have been taken away
On the last Sabbath day of 1879,
Which will be remember'd for a very long time.
McGonagall offers an engineering analysis of the disaster, quite at odds with his earlier raptures, and a homespun moral:
I must now conclude my lay
By telling the world fearlessly without the least dismay,
That your central girders would not have given way,
At least many sensible men do say,
Had they been supported on each side with buttresses,
At least many sensible men confesses,
For the stronger we our houses do build,
The less chance we have of being killed.
Bliss concludes that "the niceties of critical exegesis are probably lost on this poet's oeuvre. Macro-poetics, not micro-poetics, are the issue here." Is this the worst poem ever written? No! McGonagall falls from that to this, written at the request of bereaved parents in Scotland to honor their daughter who died young, and mercifully confines himself in one short quatrain:
Here lies little Mary Jane,
She neither cries nor hollers,
She lived but one and twenty days,
And cost us forty dollars.
Connoisseur of sorts…
Bliss Carnochan is a connoisseur of badness. "This may be uniquely bad, perhaps the worst poem ever written," he mulls. "But its badness differs from that of McGonagall's usual fare. Here he can only be read as sporting with a child's death. As an expression of feeling in the face of tragedy, it is utterly perverse. That is not the case with poems like "The Tay Bridge Disaster," in which the hypnotic monotony of expression—Hugh MacDiarmid calls it a 'dead levelness of utterance'—flattens rather than perverts normal feelings. I think that is one reason why McGonagall's poetry, in all its dreadfulness, has been able to attract an audience as devoted almost as that of Robert Burns."
The legendary McGonagall has been remembered Spike Milligan's film The Great McGonagall (1974), with Peter Sellers as Queen Victoria. McGonagall inspired a series of books, concluding with William McGonagall Meets George Gershwin (1988). "A William Topaz McGonagall Appreciation Society keeps his memory warm in his hometown of Dundee where, until his born-again life as a poet and performer, he was an impoverished hand-loom weaver. And a capacious website, McGonagall-Online, filled with information, provides a McGonagall poetic 'gem' each day, inviting readers to register if they would like to receive it by e-mail."
According to the website here: "His audiences threw rotten fish at him, the authorities banned his performances, and he died a pauper over a century ago. But his books remain in print to this day, and he's remembered and quoted long after more talented contemporaries have been forgotten."
How did such an extraordinary writing career begin? Bliss takes us to the roots. McGonagall writes: "I remember how I felt when I received the spirit of poetry. It was in the year of 1877, and in the month of June . . . when all of a sudden my body got inflamed, and instantly I was seized with a strong desire to write poetry, so strong, in fact, that in imagination I thought I heard a voice crying in my ears, 'WRITE! WRITE!'" And so he did.
"Did he fabricate the whole thing? Almost certainly not. For better or worse, William McGonagall was born to write."
Spike Milligan below as McGonagall. Not quite my thing, but it gives you a feel… In any case, Peter Sellers does an interesting turn as Queen Victoria.
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Robert Pogue Harrison socks it to Silicon Valley
Pregnancy brings unaccustomed insight. For instance, I used to look around me and realize that everyone, including the dirty drunk on a park bench, required someone to go through hours of agonizing labor to bring him into the sunlight. Some woman, whether she consciously helped or hindered, nurtured the new being for nine months, offering the best of her body's resources to a tenant who would never be able to repay the rent – true whether the mom is a doctor or a drug addict. The fragility of the whole human endeavor, and the perishability of the robust daughter I eventually bore, used to bring me almost to the point of tears – also unaccustomed.
I realized that a huge amount of what we call "civilization" goes into maintenance. I estimated about a third of an individual's lifetime, and about the same percentage of a society's resources, goes into rearing and educating the next generation – whether, for an individual, it's teaching kids to refrain from punching a pal in the sandbox, to eat with a fork, and to appreciate the finepoints of Bellini, or, on a societal level, building a school, funding studies on infant mortality, kicking a few bucks to the old alma mater, or supporting neighborhood basketball court.
Now, however, we've become a society "where children, metaphorically speaking, believe that adults need their guidance and tutelage," according to the latest from Robert Pogue Harrison. It's not so metaphorical, actually. I've often considered that our technological world is being driven faster, ever faster, by 15-year-olds with time on their hands to text hundreds of messages a day, to tweet their most trivial and transcient feelings to the world. Those who hold jobs, have children to feed and clean up after, math homework to correct, or a subpoena to respond to, don't have time to fiddle with their smartphones or figure out Pinterest. And yet we must keep up, keep up, keep up – or lose our jobs and our social connections, lose our "relevance" and fall hopelessly behind.
Robert is on the same wavelength. In "The Children of Silicon Valley," a strong and scathing essay on the New York Review of Books blog, he begins:
Harrison as radio host. (Photo: L.A. Cicero)
In the new HBO comedy Silicon Valley, almost every new start-up representative at a high-tech conference ends his presentation with the programmatic words, "and this will make the world a better place." When Steve Jobs sought to persuade John Sculley, the chief executive of Pepsi, to join Apple in 1983, he succeeded with an irresistible pitch: "Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water, or do you want a chance to change the world?" The day I sat down to write this article, a full-page ad for Blackberry in The New York Times featured a smiling Arianna Huffington with an oversize caption in quotes: "Don't just take your place at the top of the world. Change the world." A day earlier, I heard Bill Gates urge the Stanford graduating class to "change the world" through optimism and empathy. The mantra is so hackneyed by now that it's hard to believe it still gets chanted regularly.
Our silicon age, which sees no glory in maintenance, but only in transformation and disruption, makes it extremely difficult for us to imagine how, in past eras, those who would change the world were viewed with suspicion and dread. If you loved the world; if you considered it your mortal home; if you were aware of how much effort and foresight it had cost your forebears to secure its foundations, build its institutions, and shape its culture; if you saw the world as the place of your secular afterlife, then you had good reasons to impute sinister tendencies to those who would tamper with its configuration or render it alien to you. Referring to all that happened during the "dark times" of the first half of the twentieth century, "with its political catastrophes, its moral disasters, and its astonishing development of the arts and sciences," Hannah Arendt summarized the human cost of endless disruption "The world becomes inhuman, inhospitable to human needs—which are the needs of mortals—when it is violently wrenched into a movement in which there is no longer any sort of permanence."
She knew.
We purchase connectivity at the price of solitude, and, as I've written before, the very essence of the humanities is to teach one to be alone. Many of us have forgotten how to read, as opposed to scanning. Books are mere sources of data, not keys to meaning, clues to understanding another time, another place, another human being. Quoting Thoreau – "Be it life or death, we crave only reality" – Robert adds, "Alas, Silicon Valley has enriched its coffers thanks largely to a contrary craving in us—the craving to trade in reality for the miniature screen of the cell phone." He writes:
With a few exceptions, our new tech armies rarely take the time to think through what they are doing. Or if they do, they tend to think in ways that only add to the turmoil and agitation.
Silicon Valley, and everything it stands for metonymically in our culture, has indeed affected billions of people around the planet. The innovations have come fast and furious, turning the past four decades into a series of "before and after" divides: before and after personal computers, before and after Google, before and after Facebook, iPhones, Twitter, and so forth. In the silicon age, 'changing the world' means at bottom finding new and more ingenious ways to turn my computer or smart phone into my primary—and eventually my only—access to 'reality.'
Read Robert's essay here. Okay, okay, it's a little bit of a rant at points, but Robert is an intelligent and provocative Jeremiah, and his words are worth a large audience. Another one of the skills that has gotten lost in our times is the ability to consider different points of view impartially – to be able to rub elbows with strangers who are not like-minded, not in one's Twittersphere or Facebook circle. You don't have to buy his whole argument – but you can, at least, look at it. It's easier than being pregnant. Trust me on that one.
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Word crimes: irony is not coincidence, etc.
Sing it, Al.
We have already rabbited on about the misuse of the word "literally," especially when people actually mean "figuratively." Don't get us going about "hopefully." However, Ben Yagoda doesn't necessarily have a problem with these kinds of usages. Nor does he yawn at strings of passive voice sentences, or the misuse of the word "which" instead of "that." We agree with him, however, that it's okay to split infinitives. Read the rest of his views on "bogus grammar 'errors'" here.
Wait! Don't give up on him. He cracks down hard on some grammatical abuses: the misuse of subjunctive and bad parallelism, for example. However, we don't agree with his tiff with the semicolon, a punctuation mark that we rather like. Read his take on the grammar rules he insists on here.
Or, if you prefer, you can enjoy the 3-minute version below by a fellow called "Weird Al Yankovic":
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Happy birthday, Iris Murdoch! A few words from her about happiness…
Two quotes today, because I couldn't decide. You choose:
"Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self."
"People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us."
— Dame Iris Murdoch, born on this date in 1919
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A boy and his little library: free and legal
A boy and his books
Spencer Collins of Leawood, Kansas, likes books. Lots of them. "It's kind of like I'm in a whole other world and I like that," he said. "I like adventure stories because I'm in the adventure and it's fun."
He became the protagonist in an adventure story of his own when he tried to start a little free library on Mother's Day, May 11 – you know, the kind that are springing up all over the country, often no bigger than a country mailbox or a bird feeder. It was a gift from his grandfather, and they built it together. The boy stocked it with such classics as Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time and Roald Dahl's The BFG.
The city didn't like it. When the family returned from vacation, notification of a code violation was waiting in the mail. If it wasn't taken down by the 19th, the family would receive a citation.
City officials said the little house is an "accessory structure," and the city bans buildings that aren't attached to someone's home. The city had received two complaints. Go figure. People don't have anything better to do. "We empathize with them [the family, that is – ED.], but we still have to follow the rules," said Richard Coleman of the City of Leawood. "We need to treat everybody the same. So we can't say if somebody files a complaint but we like the little libraries – we think they're cute – so we ignore it. We can't do that." The family closed the library.
Daily Kos picked up the story here and complained: "Only in Kansas would someone complain about a little free library. I guess book-learnin' is too librul." (The Book Haven does not know the political content of Spencer's books, if any.) Then the writer added, "Anyway, Kansas City area Kossacks, let's help Spencer out and get his little free library back out in his yard."
Spencer thought of getting a rope and tethering the library to the house. Voilà! Same "structure." But we live in the technological era. So he set up a Facebook page instead, called "Spencer's Little Free Library." The page currently has nearly 32,000 "likes." The Collins family decided to fight city hall.
Meanwhile, the Kansas City Star picked up the story. In an editorial protesting Leawood's acton, the Star wrote:
Mayor Peggy Dunn said she has put the topic at the top of the agenda of the July 7 City Council meeting. That's appropriate. Lending libraries have become Leawood's hottest topic since media reports about the forced removal of one family's front-yard structure went viral this week.
"I'm hoping there might be some resolution that we can come up with," Dunn said.
The rest of the nation followed suit – Spencer even got a spot on NPR. He argued his case before the authorities, standing on a milk crate to reach the podium. Reprieve! The Leawood City Council unanimously approved a temporary moratorium last week that exempts the little lending libraries from a city ordinance that prohibits structures in front yards. The moratorium will last until October 20. That's short term. The council also discussed changing the ordinance to allow front-yard libraries. It could take two or three months to amend the ordinance as the city goes through the required public hearings before the council can adopt it.
Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/opinion/editorials/article590071.html#storylink=cpy
According to a July 9 Facebook post: "Spencer's Library is back out and open for business. Spencer assembled a new bench for the library. Many people have donated books, the two pictured here were given to Spencer by the author at the city council meeting. After we are done reading them they will be put into the library."
Life is good. For now.
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Join NYRB Classics at the "Classics and Coffee Club"
Over at tumblr, "A Different Stripe: Notes from NYRB Classics" is inviting everyone to partake in its "Classics and Coffee Club." Here's the invite: "Do you have a picture of an NYRB Classic with a cup of coffee or tea? Send it to this address and we'll post it here (making you an honorary member of the Classics and Coffee Club). And let us know where you bought or borrowed your book from. We would love to shout out bookstores and libraries." They aren't fussy. Later on they admit they'll take a photo of a book with a cup of tea or – what the hell – vodka or beer or a hot toddy. How, in fact, do they know that's coffee in my photo above, and not, say, Jamaica rum?
It sounds like fun. We've interviewed NYRB Classics founder and editorial director Edwin Frank before here, and we're awfully fond of managing editor Sara Kramer, too. Most of the photos on the tumblr site are accompanied by a quote from the photographed book about coffee (or tea or vodka, etc.) – such as this one: "Of course, we always drank coffee, no matter what the weather," from Nescio's "Insula Dei," in Amsterdam Stories, translated by Damion Searls. We post that photo below, because we can't turn down the chance to add another book cat to our gallery. This one is a half-Siamese at Haymarket Café in Northampton, MA. (I couldn't find a coffee quote to go with the tweet I sent for Vassily Grossman's Life and Fate, but I rather liked this one: ""Life's grace and charm can never be erased by the powers of destruction…")
Exactly what the club will do I don't know, but I'm sure the imaginative folks at NYRB Classics will think of something. Meanwhile, check out some of the photos here.


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Woman Hit by Vehicle in City Heights
By Jaspreet Kaur and Samantha Tatro • Published August 9, 2016 • Updated on August 10, 2016 at 5:01 pm
A woman was injured after being hit by an SUV in City Heights on Tuesday evening, the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department (SDFD) confirmed.
The incident happened at approximately 6:29 p.m. on the 4300 block of University Avenue near Fairmount Avenue.
University Avenue between 44th Street and Fairmont Avenue was closed off while police investigated the incident.
According to the San Diego Police Department (SDPD), the driver, a 46-year old woman, did stay at the scene.
The victim, believed to be between 35-40 years old, was transported to Scripps Mercy Hospital. She suffered a laceration to her head and bleeding in her brain. Her injuries are considered to be life-threatening.
SDPD says she had been crossing outside of the pedestrian crosswalk when she was hit.
Drugs and alcohol were not considered to be a factor.
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A Romanization is a system for representing text in a language that is using a writing system other than the Roman alphabet (e.g. Chinese, Japanese and Korean (CJK)) into the Roman alphabet. Three methods may be used to carry out Romanization: transliteration, transcription and phonemic conversion[?]. Each Romanization has its own set of rules for pronunciation of the Romanized words.
To Romanize is to transcribe or transliterate a language into the Roman alphabet.
Some languages have more than one system of Romanization; Mandarin, for example, has several, including Wade-Giles, Yale[?], and the now official pinyin; and Cantonese has Jyutping[?], penkyamp, and Yale[?].
In China, a Roman alphabet-based system called pinyin, has been used officially for decades, primarily as a linguistic tool for teaching the official Mandarin language to Chinese whose mother tongue[?] is not Mandarin. The Roman alphabet is used to commonalise the pronunciation of Mandarin words, since the Han characters describe only things and concepts, and provide no pronunciation information. In a country with 1.2 billion people, China has literally hundreds of distinct dialects, though all literate people read Han Chinese characters.
Romanization in Japanese is called "Romaji". Common systems include Hepburn and Kunrei-shiki systems. ISO 3602 is a system approved by ISO.
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