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Digital dollars on rise. Campion to head Cannes jury. Bay walks!
By By Joe Flint
Michael Bay made an abrupt exit at the CES show. (Bloomberg)
After the coffee. Before figuring out why 2014 is dragging.
The Skinny: Apparently the first Monday after Jan. 1 is the most depressing day of the year. I actually was in a good mood yesterday. Go figure. Maybe I'm just grateful not to be at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Tuesday's headlines include a look at the growth of digital sales of TV and movies. Also, Michael Bay's flame-out at CES and a new show about youth football has the NFL throwing a flag.
Daily Dose: This weekend, Fox will carry two early NFL playoff games and CBS will have two late games. That's unusual as typically each network would have one of each. The late games are more desirable because there are more viewers and they lead into prime time. According to a person with knowledge of the matter, CBS has the late games because they feature big-name quarterbacks Peyton Manning and Tom Brady and the NFL wanted maximum exposure. Fox was OK with this because it got to hold on to this past Sunday's Packers-49ers game, which NBC had wanted.
Digital dollars. The bigwigs of the media and technology industries are gathering this week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to look at new toys and discuss the best ways to capitalize on changing media consumption habits. One bit of good news is the rise of digital sales for movies and television shows. Last year, sales topped $1 billion for the first time. Me, I still like to actually hold a box, but I'm rapidly approaching "get off of my lawn" age. More on the growth of digital from the Los Angeles Times.
Lady Jane. Director Jane Campion will head the jury for the 67th Cannes Film Festival in May. She is the only female director to have taken home the festival's famed Palme d' Or grand prize, for "The Piano" in 1993. Great, now I'll have a naked Harvey Keitel in my head all day. Variety on Campion's appointment.
Cat got your tongue? So far, the biggest news out of the Consumer Electronics Show is something that didn't happen. Director Michael Bay, known for big-budget and special-effects-driven films including the "Transformers" franchise, was there to a plug a new television from Samsung. Instead, he froze when there were teleprompter issues and stormed off the stage. This wasn't even meant to be a speech but rather a Q&A session with a Samsung executive. In other words, we're not talking Gettysburg Address here. The story and, of course, video from the Hollywood Reporter.
Throwing a flag. The National Football League is less than thrilled with promotional spots hyping "Friday Night Tykes," a new unscripted show from the Esquire Network about a youth football league in Texas. The clips feature coaches berating kids under the age of 10, and are filled with lots of brutal helmet-to-helmet collisions. "The trailer is definitely troubling to watch," an NFL spokesman told the Los Angeles Times. The Esquire Network is owned by NBCUniversal, whose NBC network carries NFL games. The network might learn just how seriously the NFL takes anything that could potentially damage its reputation.
Exclusive membership. It's kind of sad that in 2014 the hiring of a black woman by NBC's "Saturday Night Live" is national news. The show and executive producer Lorne Michaels have taken heat the past few months over criticisms of a lack of diversity in its cast, and on Monday comedian Sasheer Zamata was announced as a new cast member. Normally, Michaels marches to the beat of his own drummer, but this time there was even some internal grumbling by black cast members Kenan Thompson and Jay Pharaoh about having to get into drag and play black women. Well, at least NBC got the hiring in before Martin Luther King Day. Details from the Associated Press.
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U2 was honored at the Palm Springs International Film Festival last Saturday, just one of the many intriguing elements to this quirky gathering of Hollywood glitterati. If you couldn't make it, here are recaps from the
Inside the Los Angeles Times: Mary McNamara on "Intelligence" and "Killer Women." Former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is joining Spanish-language broadcaster Estrella TV as a senior advisor.
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Following on from their sold out Show at the Royal Albert Hall in 2017 – they will play 2 nights with 2 different sets in the Iconic Venue.
Marillion release a live DVD – All One Tonight on 2nd April. The DVD was filmed at the Royal Albert Hall Show in October 2017.
On 26th March there will be screenings of All One Tonight in 6 Everyman Cinemas across the UK. Marillion will host the one at Kings Cross Everyman in London.
Marillion have added 3 NEW DATES to their almost sold out UK tour in April 2018. The shows are in Belfast, Dublin and York, and fans should buy the tickets fast when they go onsale on Friday 26th July at 10am as Marillion's recent show at the Royal Albert Hall sold out in just four minutes.
Prog rock giants MARILLION announce 7 new UK dates in April 2018 on the back of their October show at The Royal Albert Hall and The London Palladium in November, which are both sold out.


Parents of seniors, we know what you're going through! If you're a first timer this year, here's a handy list of things NOT to do when your child gets accepted to college. This is a wonderful article from Grown and Flown. Grab a Kleenex, leave your denial at the door and take notes.
SAT Subject Tests are subject specific college admissions exams. They are designed by the same company (College Board) that publishes the SAT and AP exams. There are twenty different subject tests available in the areas of English, Math, Science, and foreign language. They are one hour long multiple choice tests that are given on the dates that the SAT is given- but, not all twenty tests are offered on the same date.
SAT Subject Tests are an admission data requirement for many elite, top schools. Most of these top schools require two subject test scores.
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Avascent awarded Digital Earth Canada contract by Canadian Space Agency
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OTTAWA – Avascent is pleased to announce that it has been awarded the Contract "Option Analysis Studies for Earth Observation (EO) Analytics Platform – Digital Earth Canada" by the Canadian Space Agency (CSA). The work under this contract will support the CSA and many other Government Departments.
In the era of Big Data, a paradigm shift is underway in the storage and analysis of Earth Observation (EO) data. Digital Earth Canada (DEC) is proposed as a Canadian EO exploitation platform that embodies the principle of free, open and accessible data. As part of its future activities to provide a powerful networked system to fuel innovation in EO data applications and address major challenges, the CSA Space Utilization Directorate has contracted Avascent. Executed in partnership with the RLD Consulting, this project will support the work of many stakeholders across the Government of Canada including Natural Resources Canada, Agriculture and Agri-Food, Environment and Climate Change Canada and many others.
"This work offers us an exciting opportunity to collaborate with the Government of Canada on such an important file with far reaching implications. DEC has the potential to impact Canadians from coast-to-coast-to coast by promoting agricultural efficiencies, preserving natural resources, fighting climate change and so much more. We are honored to have been selected to contribute to this important work." said Michael Petric, Director and head of Avascent's Ottawa office.
Ray Deluke, a partner with RLD Consulting & Executive Coaching said, "We're excited to bring together the highly complementary skillsets of our teams for this important engagement for the Canadian Space Agency and the Government of Canada."
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Is it Illegal to Ride a Bicycle Without a Helmet?
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Military Base and Bicycle Safety
As of 2010, the U.S. has more than 1.4 million military personnel on active duty. About a million of these personnel are stationed at one of the more than 400 military bases in the U.S. and the remaining are spread around the world at one of the additional 700 plus foreign bases. Each base is like a small metropolis, often with families and civilian personnel driving or riding military and personal vehicles. Within the confines of bases, bicycles are popular means of transportation, but as you would expect from the military, there are rules that govern bicycle traffic. Most bases enforce similar rules for the use of bicycles.
Regional Traffic Laws
The laws of the individual states govern bicycle and vehicular traffic on bases. Additional military regulations are enforced to assure the security and safety of the base and the people on the base. Bicycles must follow all state traffic laws that govern motor vehicles for the state the base is located in. Bikes must ride with the flow of traffic and obey signs and traffic control devices. In addition, riders must walk their bike when crossing the street and use hand signals when turning.
All military personnel and family members must wear bicycle helmets that meet the standards of the Snell Memorial Foundation or the American National Standards Institute. Workers who ride bikes in areas that require ANSI-approved hard hats to protect themselves from falling or flying objects can wear those helmets instead of bicycle helmets.
Helmet Exceptions
Workers who operate bicycles in industrial or flight line areas that are designated as a no-hat area because of the potential of foreign object damage do not have to wear a bicycle helmet. People riding three-wheeled bicycles do not have to wear bicycle helmets.
All bicycles must have a functioning light and rear light reflectors that are visible from 300 feet during hours of low visibility.
Bicycle Paths
Bicycles must use bicycle paths when they are available. Otherwise, bicycles should use the streets.
Bicycles must observe the state laws regarding child passengers. For example, the Fort Stewart & Hunter Army Airfield Newcomer's guide states that children between the ages of 1 and 4 must be secured in a child safety seat, bicycle trailer or infant sling, and must wear a helmet.
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KECC, a technical consultancy for architecture and civil engineering established by the government in 1965, was responsible for the construction of major state-led development projects, from ports, waterworks, bridges, and other infrastructure to architectural works such as Sewoon Sangga and Expo pavilions. KECC was the best design firm at the time employing key figures in Korean architecture at one time or another, such as Kim Swoo Geun, Seungjoong Yoon, Seokchul Kim, Won Kim, Kerl Yoo, Wonseok Kim, Sangbaek Jeon, and Heungsung Kee.
Kukje Industrial Consultant, the former of KECC, is established.
Park Chang Won is inaugurated as the 1st president of KECC.
Kim Swoo Geun is inaugurated as the 2nd president of KECC.
Jung Myoung Sik is inaugurated as the 3rd president.
This exhibition is composed of two archives from KECC's back catalogue and seven new works by individual artists or collectives. The archives, named 'Absent Archive' and 'Emergent Archive' respectively, provide the context needed to understand the new works created by the participating artists. The square brick room1 of the Korean Pavilion contains the early history of KECC around 1968, which serves as the starting point of the exhibition and a reference point for the new works created by the participating artists. It allows us to explore the work of some representative architects who worked at KECC in the era when Korean society had the greatest desire for the future and a belief that this desire could be realized through architecture. Ironically, the Absent Archive is a memorial to four projects of KECC that were not realized in full: Sewoon Sangga (1967); the 1st Korea Trade Fair (1968); Yeouido Master Plan (1969); and the EXPO '70 Korean Pavilion (1970). While the ideals of the architects attracted the government's attention, some parts of the designs were not chosen, amended, or discarded entirely by the government. Yet the original plans that departed from the government's intent still remain in institutional archives (Archerion), such as the National Archives of Korea. As such, the architects' unrealized proposals depart from the four existing places today, but reveal the gap and conflict between the two. The Absent Archive is a paradoxical space that collects such failed ideals. It reconsiders the reputation of the architects and their ideals, which were not recorded and are only left in the drawings and reports. Meanwhile, the Emergent Archive, which is located in the lobby of the exhibition hall, is an ambiguous area that exists only to create a situation and atmosphere for visitors.2 There are short texts and images, and the audience's actions are incorporated into the illusion while the works of today's young Korean architects illuminate each other. It enables audiences to imagine the time to come rather than suggesting concrete predictions. The Emergent Archive is the starting point of a critical story that can be written now that we have faced the 'Spectres of the State Avant-garde'. This will be a new way to understand the relationship between Korea's modern architecture and the state legacy of the past, as well as the starting point of artistic practice.
1 The Korean Pavilion, the latest national pavilion built in the Giardini, was designed by architect Kim Seokchul (1943–2016), who was a member of the Urban Design Division of KECC. The pavilion, which looks like a sailboat, was a projection of the imagination of the dreaming architect. This year's exhibition aims to revive the initial intention of the architect by removing the traces of past biennale exhibitions, built up over 20 years, while keeping the brick room—which is the only space remaining in its original form—as a core space for the exhibition.
2 This exhibition pays homage to the design of the EXPO '70 Korean Pavilion, which was the last project of Kim Swoo Geun's team at KECC. It adopts the intention of the KECC architects who sought to create a situation rather than a form through elements including reflection, amplification, and repetition.


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Q: What does while javascript while(i<9) mean? On this site about javascript shorthands, by Sam Deering, a long-hand example is as follows (the site uses a before-and-after format):
var i=0;
while (i<9)
{
  //do stuff
  i++; //say
}

While I don't understand this, I do understand the short-hand version, which is:
var i=9;
while(i--)
{
    //goes until i=0
}

I don't know about if i is the same in both loops, but assume that they both loop 9 times.
Because I would like to expand my limits and improve my programming skills, what does the while (i<9) mean, and how can I use it (with other numbers)?

A: In XML, e.g. XHTML, you must escape < properly as <.
In HTML it's not necessary to do so inside script elements because their contents are parsed in a special way, but XML does not do these nasty things.
For example, you can write index.xhtml:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">

<title>Some document</title>

Most people don't want to XML-escape JavaScript operators in inline scripts, so they use CDATA sections:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">

<title>Some document</title>

A: Your HTML file most probably has some encoding quirks. < corresponds to the less than symbol < in HTML entities. So really you can read that as while (i<9).

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According to Singapore Airlines, this unique partnership has been formed to simplify the overall travel experience of the customers allowing them to travel to several cities in the south west of the UK to any of the destinations being currently served by Singapore Airlines from London Heathrow on a single booking. This tie-up among the three companies would be convenient for passengers as well since they would not be required to make three separate bookings and instead travel on a single ticket.
Singapore Airlines said that under this unique Rail-Fly partnership the customers who start their travel at any one of 11 railway stations in the UK would be able to travel as far as Brisbane in Australia on a single booking. For example, through this kind of booking a customer would be able to travel by rail with First Great Western to London Paddington from Bristol, catch the Heathrow Express service to London Heathrow, and finally take Singapore Airlines flight to Brisbane via Singapore Changi Airport – and that too, all on the same booking.


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Record review: Foxygen – …And Star Power (2014, LP)
October 22, 2014 / Paul McBride
Before having even heard of note of Foxygen's third album you'd be forgiven for thinking they'd lost the plot. Twenty-four songs spread over a double LP seems like the sort of rock music folly that '70s punk killed off for good, but the Californian duo of Jonathan Rado and Sam France are seemingly undeterred. They even go as far as labelling their opening track 'Star Power Airlines' in a nod to a time when rock stars flew in planes with their band logo painted on the fuselage.
Thankfully, the expected musical flatulence doesn't appear, although it's barely kept at bay in parts. Second track and lead single 'How Can You Really' goes a long way towards bursting that particular bubble; it's Big Star-esque aesthetic soothes and radiates warmth, before the piano balladry of 'Coulda Been My Love' shows that the duo have lost none of their song-writing talents during the crazy times they've experienced since the release of 2012's We Are The 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace and Magic. Indeed, it could be suggested that the alleged infighting, shambolic live performances and so-called exhaustion have made …And Star Power what it is. Much like their heroes The Rolling Stones' 1978 classic 'Beast of Burden', Foxygen have their own bruised-and-battered anthem with 'You And I', on which France is found asking "Why doesn't anybody help me? Why doesn't anybody care?" amid tales of broken bodies and divided relationships.
The next four tracks, labelled the 'Star Power Suite' are a fairly ridiculous few minutes that start off sounding like a medley of '70s theme tunes in the vein of The Fall Guy or Smokey and the Bandit, before 'Mattress Warehouse' picks things up again; its organ-driven base allowing France to mumble and stumble through his vocals in the elegantly wasted manner he has made his own. The driving whimsy of 'Cannibal Holocaust' provides an album highlight shortly after, 'Cold Winter Freedom' throws some heavily-distorted synths into the mix to make it the heaviest track here, and 'Freedom II' is about as Rolling Stones as any band is going to get without snorting their dead father's ashes.
By the last quarter, the gloves are well and truly off and nothing is left in the tank. The flailing fury of 'Talk' gives way to the cheese-balladry of 'Everyone Needs Love' and its calls to "shine on", before closer 'Hang' closes proceedings on a miserable and dragging note.
At 82 minutes, boundaries of length and self-indulgence aren't quite reached and beached, but there's a lingering feeling that at least four or five of these tracks could have been left out or set aside for the special edition and no loss of quality would have resulted. At times out of focus, at times incoherent, but always engaging …And Star Power is more like three or four albums disguised as one. However, for all their retro leanings and sometimes misguided ideas, Rado and France remain top-drawer songwriters, and it's that fact that make this album worth a spin or two.
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Inside Jack's: The new budget supermarket from Tesco to take on Aldi and Lidl
Matilda Long
Yahoo News UK 19 September 2018
Most of the products in Jack's will be own brand (PA Images)
Tesco has opened the door to its first Jack's stores – a new discount concept designed to tempt shoppers away from Aldi and Lidl.
Two Jack's shops will officially open on Thursday in Chatteris, Cambridgeshire, and Immingham, North East Lincolnshire.
Most of the products on the shelves will be own-brand and eight out of 10 Jack's food and drink products will be "grown, reared or made" in Britain, according to Tesco.
Aldi and Lidl have tempted middle class shoppers away from the big four supermarkets in recent years (PA Images)
They will employ a 'low-cost business model' to keep prices low, in line with the the German discounters.
Tesco plans to open another 15 branches over the next year, five of which will be converted from existing Tesco stores.
Ahead of the opening Tesco has released the price details of some products.
A tin if own-label baked beans will cost 29p
A 350g broccoli will cost 48p
6 Cox apples will cost 77p
4 pints of semi-skimmed milk will cost £1.09
500g of turkey breast mince will cost £3.35
The launch is an attempt to claw back market share from Aldi and Lidl, who have enjoyed a surge in popularity over the past five years.
In the past five years the two shops doubled their market share and now take 13.1% of the market.
Aldi was the fastest growing supermarket over the most recent period, and the majority of their growth came from the fresh and chilled aisles.
Tesco is still Britain's grocery market leader with a share of 27.4%
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Fraser McKevitt, head of retail and consumer insight at Kantar Worldpanel, said earlier this year: "Traditionally focused on own-label lines, Lidl has actually seen fastest growth among its branded products, which are up by 28% and now account for 12% of all sales.
"Not to be outdone, Aldi also increased sales by 16.2% to hold a market share of 6.9% – up 0.7 percentage points. Aldi experienced particular success with its premium 'Specially Selected' range, which saw sales climb by £26 million."
The first Jack's stores officially open on Thursday 13 September (PA Images)
Tesco chief executive Dave Lewis said: "[Tesco founder] Jack Cohen championed value for customers and changed the face of British shopping.
"He's an inspiration for all of us and that same spirit still drives Tesco now.
"It's fitting that today, we mark the beginning of Tesco's celebration of 100 Years of Great Value by launching a new brand, and stores bearing his name: Jack's."
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In this March 1, 2018 photo, Rick Thompson (clockwise from left), Keith Baskerville and Xavier Baskerville smoke marijuana while sitting in a booth in the smoking lounge at Barbary Coast Dispensary in San Francisco.
San Francisco's marijuana 'czar', Nicole Elliot, said new permits will be issued once city health officials finalise regulations designed to protect workers from second-hand smoke and the neighbourhood from unwelcomed odours. The lounges are required to install expensive heating, ventilation and air-conditioning systems to prevent the distinct marijuana odour from leaking outside.
The city of West Hollywood has approved plans to issue up to eight licences; the tiny San Francisco Bay Area town of Alameda said it will allow two; and Oakland and South Lake Tahoe each have one lounge. Sacramento, Los Angeles and other cities are discussing the issue but have not authorised any lounges.
Jackie Rocco, the city of Los Angeles' business development manager, said residents and cannabis businesses complain there is "no safe place, no legal place, to use it".
Massachusetts marijuana regulators considered approval of "cannabis cafes." But the proposal came under withering criticism from Republican Governor Charlie Baker's administration and law-enforcement officials, who claimed among other things that opening such businesses would lead to more dangerously stoned drivers.
The five-member Cannabis Control Commission ultimately yielded to pressure by agreeing to put off a decision on licensing any cafes until after the initial roll-out of retail marijuana operations, expected this summer. Members of the panel, however, continue to support the idea.
"Those who wish to consume cannabis are going to do so whether social sites exist or not, and are going to make driving decisions regardless of where they consume," said Jim Borghesani, spokesman for the Massachusetts chapter of the pro-legalisation Marijuana Policy Project. "Social sites will simply give cannabis users the same options available to alcohol users."
In Colorado, one of the first states to broadly legalise, lawmakers failed in a close vote to make so-called 'tasting rooms' legal. However, cities may do it, and Denver has authorised lounges where consumers bring their own marijuana, issuing a single permit so far.
San Francisco has allowed medical marijuana patients to smoke in dispensaries for years, though there was uncertainty over whether the practice was authorised when California voters in 1996 made the state the first in the nation to legalise cannabis use with a doctor's recommendation.
The Barbary Coast, which received its state licence in January, first opened as a small medical dispensary in 2013. It expanded and opened its smoking lounge to medical users last year.
On January 11, the shop opened to all adults when it received its California recreational-use licence. The state started issuing those on January 1 and continues to approve dozens of applications a month since voters broadly legalised the use and sale of marijuana.


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The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume 4
This is the penultimate collection of diary entries for Mrs. Woolf. Volume 3 was one of the most delightful--it covered the years she wrote To the Lighthouse and Mrs. Dalloway, a time of her growing strength as a writer and self-confidence in what she was doing. Volume 4 is a bit less ebullient. She's working on The Years, taking much of the time of this volume, in fits and starts, good days and awful ones. She also loses several people who were important to her and begins the tentative process of trying to write a biography of one of them (Roger Fry).
On a more ominous note, the political situation in Europe is worsening. Woolf still clearly remembered the ravages of WWI. And yet, perhaps not surprisingly (if you, like me, think what's happening in the US right now is akin to what happened in Germany during these years), she doesn't seem to fully grasp the threat or where it might lead.
At least, not until 1935, when she and husband Leonard (Jewish) take a driving trip onto the mainland that takes them through Germany for three days:
"People gathering in the sunshine--rather forced like school sports. Banners stretched across the street 'The Jew is our enemy' 'There is no place for Jews in--'. So we whizzed along until we got out of range of the docile hysterical crowd. Our obsequiousness gradually turning to anger. Nerves rather frayed. A sense of stupid mass feeling masked by good temper."
And now I go to the final volume, with more than a little trepidation--I mean, I know how the story ends.
Posted at 04:34 AM in biography, memoir | Permalink | 0 Comments
Savage Beauty
I first read and loved this bio when it first came out. I loaned my copy to someone, can't remember who, and it never made its way back to me. These things happen. But! Good karma came my way. I helped a friend clean out her mother's apartment when her mother had to be moved to senior care. The friend told me to help myself to any of the books there (her mother was an avid reader, obviously a woman after my own heart). And look! A hardcopy, first edition! Score!
And it holds up beautifully on a second reading. Author Milford acted on a hunch and went to visit Millay's sister Norma, wondering if Norma had any papers, letters, etc. that hadn't previously been available to researchers. Score again: Norma had a ton. It was no small task getting access to them; Norma was a big personality person herself and put Milford through some hoops. But those hoops included a lot of time remembering Edna. Now, to be fair, Norma was far from objective, and is subject to the faults of memory that we all are. So Milford doesn't necessarily take Norma's word on everything, which is the right approach. But it's still fascinating to hear her side of the story.
And Edna's life itself is a great read, almost like a novel. Born to a poor family where the parents split at a time when that rarely happen, Edna and her two sisters were often left alone, weeks at a time, as their mother hired herself out as a nurse at quite a distance. The girls pretty much raised themselves. How Edna got through this childhood and young adulthood, and eventually made it to college and became that rarest of rarities, a celebrity poet, is quite a ride.
No doubt part of the reason she was a celebrity had to do with her unconventional lifestyle (open marriage, female relationships that, while not fully proven sexual, certainly seem to have a strong possibility of being so) and her apparent willingness to address it in her poetry. Just look at the short, famous poem, First Fig and its many potential interpretations.
But though there were happy, productive years where her books were bestsellers and she drew packed audiences to readings and talks, she also suffered ongoing medical problems that were seemingly impossible to diagnose at the time, and which led to a severe morphine addiction along with alcoholism. Her husband Eugin (a somewhat beleaguered man who on the surface supported an open marriage, but when Edna took him up on it, found it almost intolerable) went so far as to start taking morphine himself to see what was happening to her. His protectiveness veered into over-protection when he kept Norma away. The third sister, Kathleen, was something akin to collateral damage in the family situation, and died young and bitter.
A cautionary tale for sure, but beautifully researched and written, and with wonderful photographs. A keeper.
The Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume 2
I noted in my post about volume 1 of Sylvia Plath's letters that even at a very young age, she wrote letters geared on pleasing her mother, and lord almighty, that continues right down to the last week of Plath's life. Volume 2 is a different animal than volume 1; the first volume left off shortly after Plath had married Ted Hughes and while she was still a student at Cambridge. Volume 2 picks up from there and carries us through to a week before her suicide in February 1963.
I think it helps to have some familiarity with Plath's life before reading these, otherwise it's far too easy to take her letters to her mother, Aurelia (which make up the bulk of the work) at face value. Plath spends an enormous amount of time painting a beautiful picture for Aurelia: The perfect marriage, the perfect husband, the perfect writer's life, the perfect children, the perfect father of those children. However, in letters to others, Plath lets a few cracks show through, even though she still maintains a sense of idealism about their marriage and relationship.
Once Plath learns about Hughes' infidelity (which couldn't have happened at a worse time--her mother was actually on a six-week visit with them then), she goes 180 degrees. Then Hughes is the most evil person in the world. Now, I'm not condoning infidelity. But Plath makes a number of incendiary statements in some of these letters that have not been validated by anyone who knew Hughes, including allegations that he told her he wished she'd kill herself, or that she'd had a miscarriage after he'd beaten her. She did have a miscarriage, but in letters from that time, she notes that shortly after the miscarriage, she had her appendix removed and wondered if the two were related. Was she covering up abuse when she wrote that? Or were the later allegations a way of getting back at him for her misery? In much earlier letters, she seemed to romanticize physical violence and mentioned fights with Hughes that turned physical, and she claimed she gave as good as she got.
She also claims in one letter that she once spent a winter in a lighthouse. Um--no. She never did. How much of what she writes, especially during the last months of her life when she was under considerable mental duress, can readers take a face value? I don't know. I do know that as these letters were being published, there were many who held them up as prime evidence of Hughes' abuse. But I can't bring myself to completely buy into that. I'm also not saying it never happened. What we have here are letters that are incendiary from a tremendously talented writer, and the reality is that we'll never know the truth.
In the end, the final letters are harrowing and gutting. A week before her death, she wrote letters to several people on the same day, many of which continue to paint a picture of hard times, but with faith in her ability to carry on. One of those letters, however, tells a different story. It's a letter she wrote to the psychotherapist who worked with her after her earlier suicide attempt. In that letter--the final letter of the book--she says she doesn't know if she can survive this. Doesn't know if she has the ability to carry on. And, of course, we know that she didn't.
Plath's and Hughes' daughter, Frieda, wrote an introduction to the volume and talks about learning about the existence of these letters to the psychotherapist late in the process of preparing the letters for publication. She wasn't sure (understandably) that she wanted them included, but sat down to read through them before making a decision. The earlier letters to the therapist are all of the "Ted is perfect" variety, and Frieda gives us almost a letter-by-letter response, right up to the devastating final letter. It's a heartfelt piece of writing from a woman whose entire life has been framed by her mother's suicide and the vilification her father received because of it. She doesn't take sides, except to say that she never saw a violent side to her father. I can't imagine what it took for her to read those letters, then give permission for them to be published. But I think their inclusion makes this volume even more significant than it already was.
A hard, heartbreaking book.
Posted at 04:46 AM in biography, nonfiction | Permalink | 0 Comments
I never realized that I might be interested in Princess Margaret until this book came onto my radar. My interest in the royal family has generally been limited to the Princess Diana era (and I was Team Diana all the way), or watching The Crown on Netflix. But I read about Ninety-Nine Glimpses, and it sounded kind of surreal and fantastic, and here we are.
I loved it.
Author Craig Brown turns biography upside down and inside out. The book is, at the title truthfully promotes, 99 glimpses of the younger sister of the current queen. The glimpses are mostly, but not entirely, chronological. The glimpses are mostly, but not entirely, true. One glimpse sent me running to Google to see if the princess had actually been married to Pablo Picasso. No, she was not. But apparently, Picasso was entirely smitten with her and did want to marry her. So Brown simply gives us a glimpse of what that might have looked like.
To be fair, Brown also is quick to note where he's making things up. What he's doing--100% successfully, in my opinion--is giving us a fractured portrait of a fractured woman. In the process, Brown doesn't sugarcoat the princess' temperament, which made her someone I don't think I would have wanted to meet in real life. She can be crazy unsympathetic. Brown also doesn't shy away from the concept that maybe being a "lesser" royal might have had an impact on that. He doesn't apologize for her, though, and he doesn't attempt to explain away her bad behavior. He just sets out a variety of potential factors and lets the reader decide. Or try to decide--it's a complex situation, and she was a complex woman.
Brown also takes sharp aim at official royal biographers, with excerpts that are guffaw-inducing:
"Of all the adjectives used to describe the Queen Mother, 'radiant' is surely the most frequent. During her lifetime it almost became part of her title, like Screamin' Jay Hawkins or Shakin' Stevens. Radiant this, radiant that: she might have popped out of the womb radiant, and continued radiating morning, noon and night. As time went on, it became hard to imagine her ever unradiant, but then again, she never had to put out the bins, or book a ticket online, or trudge around a supermarket with a twelve-pack of toilet paper. She seems to have achieved her perpetual radiance by ring-fencing herself from anything unpleasant or -- a favourite word, this -- 'unhelpful.' She was singular in her pursuit of happiness, banishing anything upsetting from her walled garden of delight. She rarely attended funerals or memorial services, even of old friends, and was a stranger to deathbeds."
He's also not particularly sympathetic to Captain Peter Townsend, he of the tortured royal romance with Princess Margaret. One has to wonder what both Townsend and Margaret would make of Prince Harry's recent marriage to divorced Meghan Markle.
One entire chapter is given to a relatively modest incident in Margaret's life, told over and over again different styles. Each segment is given a heading of that style: Journalistic, Comic, Statistical, Alliterative, Confrontational, Discreet, Haiku, Index, Optimistic. Pages and pages. Hilarious and wonderful.
This isn't a format that would work well for many biographies. But it was wonderful for Princess Margaret. There's more than a bit of cheekiness--I mean, look at that cover, with those magnificent sunglasses and the queen peering anxiously over her sister's shoulder. A biography like no other, and in the end, gives the reader a lot to chew on in terms of opinions of the prickly, difficult princess.
The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Three
I've loved each volume of Woolf's diaries so far, but this has been the best yet. It spans a time period in which she came into her own, both as a person and as a writer. As it opens, she's preparing Mrs. Dalloway for publication, and goes on to write To the Lighthouse, Orlando, A Room of One's Own, Being Ill, and begins The Waves--some of her finest works.
The diaries themselves show a woman becoming more confident and recognizing that her work was valued by others as well, including monetarily. She has moments of gladness over being able to buy a new dress or a new chair without it causing significant financial distress, and she works on her skills in terms of saying no to things that wouldn't help her forward her career or were simply not valuable enough.
She also draws portraits of people she knows and meets, but she also has a razor-sharp wit and isn't afraid to use it. She wrote witheringly (but also with striking imagination and imagery) of Princess Anne of Lowenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg, a German princess with a mania for aviation who was a passenger on an attempted first-transatlantic flight that disappeared into the ocean:
"The Flying Princess, I forget her name, has been drowned in her purple leather breeches. I suppose so at least. Their petrol gave out about midnight on Thursday, when the aeroplane must have come gently down upon the long slow Atlantic waves. I suppose they burnt a light which showed streaky on the water for a time. There they rested a moment or two. The pilots, I think, looked back at the broad cheeked desperate eyed vulgar princess in her purple breeches & I suppose made some desperate dry statement--how the game was up: sorry; fortune against them; & she just glared; & then a wave broke over the wing; & the machine tipped. And she said something theatrical I daresay; nobody was sincere; all acted a part; nobody shrieked; Luck against us--something of that kind, they said, & then So long, & first one man was washed off & went under, & then a great wave came & the Princess threw up her arms & went down; & the third man sat saved for a second looking at the rolling waves, so patient so implacable & the moon gravely regarding; & then with a dry snorting sound he too was tumbled off & rolled over, & the aeroplane rocked & rolled--miles from anywhere off Newfoundland, while I slept at Rodmell, & [Leonard] was dining with the Craniums in London."
I look forward to starting Volume Four, but with a little trepidation; at some point in the next two volumes, this confident, intelligent, interesting/interested woman is going to lose that and end up committing suicide. But at least for now, it was a joy to see her coming into her own.
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
I've read this before, many years ago, but it was a pleasure to return to. It's a phenomenal journey through Plath's teenage and college years up until the time she was about to leave the U.S. for good, married to Ted Hughes and pregnant with their first child, and just on the verge of making her poetic breakthrough. We see everything from teenage naivete to early-20s obsession with self and lovers and first suicide attempt, especially Richard Sassoon (the entries involving him are perhaps the only ones I find almost unbearable to read), and finally her agonizing struggles over giving up her long-wanted academic career to pursue writing, a decision that both terrified her and put her in direct conflict with her mother.
Then it's the long section where she faces, for the first time, trying to be a writer as her primary vocation, and the world of struggles that go along with that. As a writer myself, this is the section I found mesmerizing. She's balancing her own needs and fears along with her role of a 1950s American woman and wife, as well as the expectations of her mother, and her own fears of failure as a writer. It's hard to believe that she didn't know about the success ahead of her, but of course, how could she?
While there are some post-1959 writings in the appendices, this volume does make the reader--this reader, anyway--really regret what's lost: the journals written after Plath and Hughes returned to Britain in late 1959. I saw someone on Goodreads commenting that this journal collection just shows how Plath was subjugated by Hughes and gave up her artistic autonomy to him as she wrote the most important works of her career. Um, no. Those poems were written in 1962-63. The poems she wrote during most of this journal are not largely considered to be her best work. In the latter half of 1959, the couple had a long stay at the writer's retreat Yaddo, and while there Plath did have a beginning of a breakthrough, composing things like Mushrooms and Poem for a Birthday that set the stage for her later work.
Yes, in the journals she talks a great deal about the importance of Ted's work, and he seems to have been miles ahead of her at this stage, at least in terms of self-confidence and willingness to take risks. Yet she also notes the support he provided her during her myriad down times. So I don't think that Goodreads reviewer really grasped the timing and complexity of the situation.
And that makes me really wistful for a final volume of journals. Ted Hughes has said that he burned the last notebooks, and the ones previous to that "disappeared." Of course, that's led to all kinds of rumors. I can't help but hope that there's an unopened archive somewhere that still has them. Not because of the salacious details of the marital downfall between them, but to see Plath's journey as she increasingly came into her own as a writer and wrote the poems that she finally, correctly, said would make her name.
Alas, that is life in the literary artifact zone. Complete works are simply not always available, but this is a valuable piece to look at one writer's partial journey.
I loved the first volume of Virginia Woolf's diaries, and volume two did not disappoint. After surviving a breakdown in volume one, this volume finds Woolf growing in strength and health, as well as gaining mastery and confidence in her writing. This is the period during which she wrote the ever-wonderful Mrs. Dalloway, and the diary entries around that offer so much to readers of that book. She had more confidence in Dalloway than in previous novels, even while doubting that the public or critics would be as enamored by it.
There is still the endless rounds of gossip, some of it very mean-spirited, and also her coming to terms with the death of her frenemy, Katherine Mansfield.
But there's also her battle with Leonard, who'd moved her out to the suburbs after her breakdown because he felt that London took too much of a toll on her. Regaining her health, she pushes back, and ultimately they return to London, which is a situation for pure delight for Virginia. She often goes days and days without writing in her diary, which is frustrating to the reader, except for the knowledge that this was a rich period for her; being able to easily explore London and see people, while watching the Hogarth Press grow in prestige and sales, and seeing her own work blossom.
She also tosses off little gems like: "Pure honesty is a doubtful quality; it often means lack of imagination."
And it appears she was an early practitioner of a fiction-writing technique in which, when it's time to revise, authors retype from the very beginning rather than just notating in the margins (or, in today's world, beginning an entirely new file rather than just editing within an existing document):
"I am now galloping over Mrs Dalloway, re-typing it entirely from the start, which is more or less what I did with the [Voyage Out] a good method, I believe, as thus one works with a wet brush over the whole, & joins parts separately composed & gone dry."
Very excited for volume three.
Posted at 04:42 AM in biography, classics, memoir | Permalink | 0 Comments
In the Great Green Room
In the Great Green Room is, of course, the first line of the iconic children's picture book, Goodnight Moon. Our oldest son loved Goodnight Moon so much as a toddler that my husband and I both knew it by heart for a long time. I can still quote several pages from memory. It's a lovely, quiet story of saying goodnight, charming without being cloying, comforting and ritualistic in a good way. No wonder it's still a bestseller decades after being published.
When I saw there was a biography out about its author, of whom I knew nothing, I decided to give it a try. Author Amy Gary had been working on getting some of Brown's works back into print and asked Brown's sister if there were any unpublished works. Turns out there were--including a huge stash of diaries and letters.
That's a cool find. Gary used them as the basis for this bio, and it turns out that Brown had a really interesting life. She was a groundbreaker in ways I hadn't realized. When she started writing children's books, the prevailing attitude was that children only liked fantasy and fairy tales. Brown disagreed. She felt that children looked at their own lives and the real world with a sense of wonder, and that books for them should explore that. Clearly she was onto something.
She also earned a living (mostly--although it didn't hurt that she came from a wealthy family and her father kept her on an allowance) as a single woman in the 1930s and 40s, something that was rare, and she had an extended relationship with a woman. She owned unique and interesting properties and was almost frighteningly prolific, yet hard on herself; she longed to write adult works, but her attempts in that direction failed. She was a shrewd businesswoman and tough negotiator. She once sent a publisher a set of dueling pistols while they were haggling a contract.
So, interesting woman, interesting life. But the bio itself had some serious flaws. Most of it reads as if the author simply paraphrased things from the journals and diaries. In the end, she notes considerable research, but most of that doesn't seem to appear in the actual text. Not enough time is spent looking at the effects of the lesbian relationship she had, in which her partner was emotionally abusive, to put it mildly. It would have been nice to know if the author had uncovered any source materials from the partner that might give some alternative views on the relationship, or on the relationship she had with a man who was more than a bit of a cad. Towards the end of her life, Brown finally had a romantic relationship that seemed to be working, but it was cut short by her sudden death. The author treats that last relationship as the romance for all times. But we don't know that for sure, do we? Brown had a terrible track record in terms of her love life. We have no idea if this relationship would have lasted.
It would also have been nice to have more time spent on the iconic books like Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny. Other than noting that the librarians at New York Public Library didn't consider Goodnight Moon to be a good book and, in fact, didn't stock it in the library until decades after it was first published, the importance of those books is barely noted.
The Invention of Angela Carter
I confess I haven't read any of Angela Carter's novels, but am besotted with her short stories. So I was excited to see there was a biography just out and was fortunate enough to be among the first wave to get it from the library.
Did the biography live up to my excitement? Not quite. There are good aspects--I really didn't know much about Carter's life, and she lived an interesting one: She up and moved to Japan for a while without knowing a word of Japanese and had two love affairs there; she met her life partner when he was working on a house across the street from hers and she asked him to fix a plumbing problem in her home; she traveled all over the world and knew tons of literary stars, but never found herself overly starstruck about any of them. The excerpts from her letters make me wish that 1. I'd been a recipient of some of those letters and 2. that someone would compile the letters and publish them. (Also: her journals.) She sounds like she was a hell of a correspondent. Author Edmund Gordon appears to have been a thorough researcher and made contact with many people who are still alive (or were, while researching) who knew her and were willing to talk to him. There were also a few who wouldn't talk to him, including Carter's first husband, and there were apparently some sources who had letters they wouldn't share. All of which makes me wonder if we'll see more Carter scholarship as the years go on. People who have those letters must realize how valuable they are and hopefully are planning to donate them somewhere at some point.
That said, I had some problems with the book. Gordon is given to making statement like "she must have felt" without giving us any solid proof that she felt that way. While telling us about Carter's first job in a small town newspaper, where she was the first female reporter, he says the newsroom had a "self-consciously masculine environment." First of all, he wasn't there to know if it was self-conscious or not and doesn't report anyone saying anything of the sort; second of all, of course it had a masculine environment--it had been a boys' club for years. I doubt there was anything "self-conscious" about it. Worse, much of Carter's development as a writer took place during the 1960s and 1970s, yet Gordon barely touches on what was happening socially and culturally during those years, especially for women. He interviewed many of Carter's peers during that time, but doesn't seem to have done any kind of deep dive into that aspect with them, and the book sorely lacks from that.
Where he does go into detail is into the mundane things like how much money she was advanced for every book. This quickly becomes tedious, except for the few times he compares it to what other writers in Britain were earning at the time. But most of the time, it starts to feel like a list: "In X year she sold X book for X pounds. In Y year she sold Y book for Y pounds." This all could have been condensed; the only time it's really important to know the actual amounts is when she took a big leap forward or back. In fact, that approach is kind of how the entire second half of the book goes: "She did this, and then this, and then this. She went here, and then there, and then there. She wrote this, and then that, and then that." It's a bit plodding and made me wish for Hermione Lee's approach instead. It would be much more interesting to look at Carter's life and work from thematic standpoints rather than straightforward chronology.
Finally, one hope I had going into this book was that I'd learn why Carter's amazing story, "The Fall River Axe Murders" (about Lizzie Borden), appeared in a different form in Carter's collected works than in its original form in Black Venus. The altered version leaves out a critical scene that's breathtaking and important to the story. I've always wondered if Carter chose that and why. But that's not even mentioned in this book.
To his credit, the author notes in an epilogue that he was aware that people might say it would have been better for a woman to write this bio. He defends himself by saying there have been great bios by men about women and vice versa. It's true, but I do think this book in particular lacked a strong female perspective, especially in terms of Carter's feminism, which was not rote and got her into trouble at times. But he also notes that he doesn't expect this to be the only biography of Carter, just the first one, and he hopes other biographers will be able to dive into her life and bring new perspectives to the table, which seems appropriate.
So if you're interested in learning more about her life, this is an OK start, but I'm definitely keeping my eyes open for someone else to tackle this subject. And in the meantime, I have a lot of her novels to catch up on.


North Korea exists as an existential nuclear threat today because President Eisenhower wanted to end the war in Korea — not win it. The desire to end the war instead of winning is the same naivety that was the basis of surrendering Eastern Europe to the Russians: Eisenhower was one of many leaders who believed that peace was an attainable goal.
There is a proliferation of nuclear weaponry today because this nation and its allies refused to enforce a nonproliferation policy militarily. "Live and let live" is an ideal that simply does not apply to nation states.
If the adversary is irrational, rational elucidation is ineffectual. When theocratic dogma haloes a tyrant, urbane susceptibilities are deduced by the tyrant as weakness. The sole result of striving to find compromise and common ground under such a situation is wholly unproductive. Kim Jong-un believes that America will not allow thousands of South Koreans to die as the price for disjointing his regime. He will not shut down and dismantle his nuclear arsenal without a fight. Persuasion may win out once we evacuate Seoul, create a naval embargo, and position our air and warships off his shore to seek dialogue. Kim Jong-un may be persuaded to move his nuclear arsenal to China and wait out for another opportunity to continue his quest to dominate Korea — or he will aim his missiles and artillery and fire.
A Prussian General, Carl Von Clausewitz, once declared that war is a continuation of politics or diplomacy. Successful diplomacy requires the willingness and wherewithal to apply overwhelming martial force. Diplomacy void of martial force would be as lethal as President Obama's red line in Syria.
Warfare is inevitable and unremitting. Violent conflict is a mainstay of human experience. The invention of the wheel and sail disabled distance as a safeguard of invasion. The success of husbandry motivated neighbors to monetize violence. The use of violence as a means to accumulate proved so effective, the means of violence were mechanically enhanced and tactically sophisticated. Nation states have embraced (and presently are embracing) banditry and gangster(ism) as the raison d'être of their economic wherewithal. This imposition of banditry and gangster(ism) is the cultural ecosystem of humankind yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
Peace defined as an absence of war is an ideal void of empirical legitimacy. Essentially, the concept of peace as a viable, attainable reality is a dangerous fabrication, a mindless fantasy.
If the previous paragraph is true, why educate the populus to the contrary? Why is it that nation states espouse peace as their ultimate foreign policy goal? The foundation of this answer resides within a common predisposition: The unwillingness to accept violent conflict as a persistent commonality; this unwillingness to accept reality creates vulnerability — which results in Pearl Harbor and 9/11; war requires victory. Bloodletting does not necessitate a rational cause; history demonstrates that no cause is required to kill a fellow human — or millions of humans.
No transaction of any kind will successfully transact without the vital assurance of security. America's choice is simple: Either we are the most powerful nation on earth, or we are not. To not be the most powerful nation on earth means that Russia or China will be.
Kim Jong-un will never consider demilitarizing his murderous regime. This man is a believer in a very deceptive myth: that of being Kim Jong-un.


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Q: Move all lines between header and footer into new file in unix I have file records like below, header, data & footer records.
I need to move only data part to another file.  New file should only contain lines between Header2 and Footer1.
I have tried t head -n 30 fiename | tail 10 > newfile
as data record counts may vary .
example records from source file .
Header1
Header2
Header3
SEQ++1
line1
line2
SEQ++2
line1
SEQ++3
line1
line2
line3
Footer1
Footer2
Footer3

Output file should have:
SEQ++1
line1
line2
SEQ++2
line1
SEQ++3
line1
line2
line3

A: There are different ways.
grep:
grep -v -E "Header|Footer" source.txt

awk:
awk '! /Header.|Footer./ { print }' source.txt

You can replace the "Header" and "Footer" values by whatever you use to identify each lines.


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Dallas Cowboys General
Are The 2016 Cowboys Better Than The Two Previous Cowboys Playoff Teams?
The last two times the Cowboys made the payoffs was in 2009 and 2014. After six games, how does this year's team compare to those two teams?
By One.Cool.Customer@OCC44 Oct 28, 2016, 9:00am CDT
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The Cowboys lead the division after six games with a 5-1 record, a much better situation than they found themselves in last year, when the were 2-4 after six games. But 2015 is not a good benchmark for this year's team.
A much better benchmark for this year's team are the last two Cowboys playoff teams from 2014 and 2009. The 2014 team also started the season 5-1 and went on to a 12-4 record, while the 2009 team started 4-2 and finished 11-5.
The 2009 team famously shutout the Eagles 24-0 in the regular season finale and then routed the Eagles 34-14 in the wildcard round. The 2009 season ended with a demoralizing 34-3 loss to the Vikings in the divisional round which ultimately led to a wholesale rebuilding of the team and particularly the offensive line.
The 2014 won its wildcard game against the Lions but would infamously lose in Green Bay in the divisional round.
Can the 2016 team do better than each of those two playoff teams?
There's obviously no quick answer to that question, and there's a lot of football still left to be played, but one way of approaching that question is by looking at how different the 2016 Cowboys are compared to the previous two Cowboys playoff teams after six games in a number of key statistical categories. In comparing the stats over three years, I'll use a simple color scheme to denote where the 2016 team stands against the previous playoff teams:
Green : better or equal to both 2014 and 2009
Yellow : better or equal to at least one of the previous seasons
Red : worse than both 2014 and 2009
If you're so inclined, you can skip all the numbers in the tables below and simply focus on the colors, they'll provide the same information as the numbers do.
Apart from the W/L record, the most obvious place to start comparing the three teams is by looking at the all-important scoring differential, which headlines our overview of topline team stats in the table below.
Stats after 6 games
'09 Cowboys '14 Cowboys '16 Cowboys
Points scored 159 165 159
Points allowed 119 126 107
Points Differential 40 39 52
TO ratio -2 -2 +4
First Downs 123 142 144
Penalties 45 36 36
The 2016 team scored slightly less points than the 2014 team, but make sup for that in points allowed. The 2016 Cowboys look much better in scoring differential and the closely linked turnover ratio. This year's team is generating more first downs than the two playoff teams, and also looks good on penalties.
Overall, the numbers above paint a very favorable picture of the 2016 Cowboys. The visually inclined will have noticed that five of the six 2016 cells are green, and indication that the 2016 team is equal to or better than the 2009 & 2014 teams in some key metrics.
Let's dig a little deeper into some of the stats for the offense to see whether the picture remains as 'green' as it was in the table above. Here is how the 2016 offense compares to the 2009 and 2014 versions:
OFFENSE after 6 games
Passer Rating 97.7 100.5 103.9
Passing TDs 9 11 7
Interceptions 4 5 1
Passing yards /Attempt 8.2 7.5 7.9
Sack /Attempt 5.7 5.2 4.9
Yards per rush attempt
Rush yards per game 153 160 161
Rushing TDs 7 6 11
Third Down Efficiency 38.4% 56.3% 46.6%
Red Zone TD % 44.4% 61.9% 65.2%
This is a good showing for the offense. Overall, the 2016 team is better than the other two teams in six out of the ten metrics above, which strongly suggests that this year's offense is superior to both the 2009 and 2014 versions.
Passing TDs are the only metric in the 'red' but that's balanced by the high number of rushing TDs. The 2016 passing offense is not quite as vertical as the 2009 version, the running game is not quite as efficient as in 2009, and the third down conversions are behind 2014. But then again, neither the 2009 nor the 2014 teams had rookies starting at QB and at RB, so the 2016 numbers are even more impressive.
If the 2016 offense is the best of the three offenses we're looking at, it stands to reason that the Cowboys could go even further in the playoffs this year than they did in their last two playoff appearances - unless the defense isn't up to par.
After an offseason full of ridicule for the 2016 defense, there was serious doubt that the unit would be an improvement over 2015, much less an improvement over the playoff defenses from 2009 and 2014. But the numbers are not as unequivocally negative as you may have been led to expect, far from it:
DEFENSE after 6 games
Passer Rating 90.0 95.9 95.0
Passing TDs 10 8 10
Sack /Attempt 6.4% 3.6% 4.8%
Yards per rush 4.3 5.1 4.4
Rush yards per game 109 115 92
Rushing TDs 3 4 2
The big surprise here, at least for me, is that the 2016 defense only has one metric in the 'red'. The third-down defense doesn't look particularly impressive, although I'll freely admit that I don't fully understand how much of this is due to more of a bend-but-don't-break defensive approach as opposed to a general suckitude.
But apart from that, the 2016 defense is very much comparable to the 2009 and 2014 playoff defenses - and that, apart from the rookie success in Dallas, must surely count as one of the biggest surprises of the season. The defense will need to sustain this level of play over the entire season, and it sure would be nice to see that third down conversion rate come down, but right now there's no indication that the defense will keep the Cowboys from making the playoffs.
The next and final table is about special teams.
SPECIAL TEAMS after 6 games
Punt returns 10.4 7.5 7.6
Kickoff returns 23.3 25.9 24.0
Punt returns allowed
Kickoff returns allowed
The Cowboys have an okay return game. The 24 yards on kickoff returns currently rank sixth-best in the league, while the 7.6 yards on punt returns rank a less impressive 21st. But a real area of concern is the return yardage allowed. The 14.4 yards allowed on punt returns is ranked 28th in the league, the 23.2 yards on kickoff returns is ranked 21st.
Especially on Sunday against the Eagles - ranked No. 1 on kickoff returns with 38.7 yards and 12th on punt returns with 11.2 yards - the Cowboys need to be extra vigilant in the return game.
We haven't even reached the half-point of the season yet, so it's probably still a little early to project where the 2016 team will end up this year. But based on where the 2009 and 2014 playoff teams were after six games, the 2016 team stacks up very favorably against those two teams and there's a reasonable chance that this year's team could outperform those two teams in the playoffs.


The building was constructed in 1893 and designed by architect, Axel Kumlien who in the year of 1886 traveled to Luleå, Piteå and Skellefteå to find a suitable place to build on. When the medical board decided to build a hospital in the northern part of Sweden there were many conditions that needed to be sustained. The prospective hospital would have a central location for both Norrbotten and Västerbotten, well-functioning transportation links as well by land and at sea.
There had to be good and cheap supply for food. Plenty of water and sufficient water was also a requirement. The building ground had to be good and sheltered from northern and southern winds. After careful considerations they found such place on the island Pitholmen, two kilometers from Piteå city. During the inauguration of Furunäset hospital it was considered to be the most magnificent building in the northern part of Sweden.
All the fantastic conditions were fulfilled, the central and windproof location, good transportation connections and finally good food and water for everyone. In 1987, the property housed a hotel and conference and a business park with then about 70 companies and 550 employees.
Furunäset Hospital 1893 – 1994.
It was the 20th of October 1893 as the steamer "Rurik" added at a newly built harbor in Piteå River. There was not an unusual sight for the people who lived in Piteå to see the steamers park at the dock filled with cargo this time of year. The unusual thing about this time was that the steamer was filled with 74 men who were received by uniformed staff to take them to Furunäset Hospital.
A week later it arrived the same amount of women to the same harbor, with the same conditions. The people who came to Furunäset Hospital were called "insane" and they came from overcrowded hospitals around Sweden. With this new hospital and these patients, the modern mental health care had established in the northernmost part of Sweden.
Many of the patients spent most of their adult life in the hospital area and their memories and experiences of the place are off course different. Furunäsets history contains both bright and dark stories. Stories that is equally true and equally important to narrate and remember.


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