POWAI, India — The Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT-B) recently completed a major renovation of its 1,500-seat Convocation Hall.The venue's new interior spaces were designed by Mumbai architects Sandeep Shikre and Associates. Mumbai- based systems integrator ADJM Technologies was contracted to provide expert consultancy on the A/V system upgrade, which included HARMAN's AKG microphones, BSS signal processing, Crown power amplifiers, JBL loudspeakers and a Soundcraft console.
The IIT-B is recognized as a worldwide leader in the field of engineering education and research, and is known for the quality of its faculty and the outstanding caliber of students and alumni who are successful entrepreneurs, scientists and leaders in multi-national companies. The IIT-B campus is situated in picturesque surroundings at Powai, Mumbai and extends over 200 hectares. In the recent past, the IITB has expanded to now include more than 584 major buildings, including a Convocation Hall, which recently had the honor of being inaugurated by India's Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh.
The primary use of the Convocation Hall is for graduations and convocation, and the hall also hosts audiences on a regular basis for presentations, training programs. It can also be configured for use as a theater for viewing movies, and serves as a focal point of faculty and student activity.
"As an institution that has been the hallmark of technology and innovation, our mandate for the A/V systems upgrade at the auditorium was to achieve crystal-clear, high-quality sound with ease of operation and maintenance," said Prof. N. Venkataramani, Dean (IPS), Infrastructure, Planning & Support, IIT-B. "After a thorough study of the market, we were convinced that a Harman high quality audio system, as a first choice among other brands, supported by expert consultancy from ADJM Technologies, was the right choice, thus fulfilling our audio requirements in an integrated manner that is befitting of the institution's reputation and infrastructure".
The Convocation Hall system includes six JBL SRX725 loudspeakers, four SRX712M stage monitors and two SRX728S subwoofers, selected on the basis of high performance and simplicity in installation and for their ability to deliver powerful bass for both cinema sound and live sound applications in the auditorium. The speakers are driven by Crown CDi 1000, XLS 2000 and Crown XTi 6002 power amplifiers. The multipurpose auditorium's complex audio matrix requirements are managed by a BSS Soundweb London BLU-100 signal processor. Two AKG PCC-160 boundary layer mics and a Soundcraft FX16ii 16-channel mixing console complete the installation.
Mistry also explained that support from the HARMAN team throughout the design, specification and installation phase was excellent. "They came immediately to the site when we informed them that we had the go-ahead for the project, even though we let them know at the last moment! Ultimately, the staff at IIT-B is very impressed by the overall performance of the system," Mistry concluded.
Other similar projects recently undertaken in India by the HARMAN team include the Guwahati Medical College Auditorium and Chettinad Medical College Auditorium in Chennai. Worldwide, HARMAN has a rich heritage as the sound solutions partner for numerous, prominent auditorium, theatre and performance venues, including 10 stadiums at India's 2010 Commonwealth Games and the 55th annual GRAMMY® Awards in Hollywood, CA.


Since the patient's skin is a major source of pathogens that cause surgical-site infection, optimization of preoperative skin antisepsis may decrease postoperative infections. We hypothesize that preoperative skin cleansing with chlorhexidine–alcohol is more protective against infection than povidone–iodine.
We randomly assigned adults undergoing clean-contaminated surgery in six hospitals to preoperative skin preparation with either chlorhexidine–alcohol scrub or povidone–iodine scrub and paint. The primary outcome was to check any surgical-site infection within 30 days after surgery. Secondary outcome included individual types of surgical-site infections.
A total of 849 subjects (409 in the chlorhexidine–alcohol group and 440 in the povidone–iodine group) qualified for the intention-to-treat analysis. The overall rate of surgical-site infection was significantly lower in the chlorhexidine–alcohol group than in the povidone–iodine group (9.5% vs. 16.1%; P = 0.004; relative risk, 0.59; 95% confidence interval, 0.41 to 0.85). Chlorhexidine–alcohol was significantly more protective than povidone–iodine against both superficial incisional infections (4.2% vs. 8.6%, P = 0.008) and deep incisional infections (1% vs. 3%, P = 0.05) but not against organ-space infections (4.4% vs. 4.5%). Similar results were observed in the per-protocol analysis of the 813 patients who remained in the study during the 30-day follow-up period. Adverse events were similar in the two study groups.
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Welcome to the Hood: Three Things that Haven't Changed Since I Became a Parent - WILL SMALL.
In the previous post, I shared 'Three things that have changed since I became a parent', reflecting on how much taking care of a tiny human can flip your world inside out.
When I think about how my life has shifted since becoming a Dad, there are a few things that remain the same. And after sharing what they are, I'll let you in on the secret why.
1. My wife is my lover, not just that kid's mother!
It's an enormous, colossal, seismic shift when you go from being a two to a three. I am so grateful for the years Sam and I shared before becoming responsible for another life-form (excluding our old turtle, Sheldon). In the years of being a two we travelled to Thailand and Europe. We took some risks and moved our life interstate without any idea how it would work out. We forged friendships together. We watched all the good seasons of How I Met Your Mother (1-5) an embarrassing amount of times. We had regular Star-Wars marathons. We ate out at all kinds of amazing restaurants. We spent hours, days, months, years talking about everything under the sun. We evolved - from a 17 and an 18 year old who we cringe seeing in old photos and videos now - to two people who are as comfortable in our own skin as we are in each other's presence. We spent eight years building a foundation of romance, friendship and love before we were joined by our Noah. Then, bam! All of a sudden there's another person with us basically all the time. He's there at our dining table, in our bedroom, on our outings and holidays. And that certainly changes some dynamics. I'll confess - I've sheepishly corrected myself on more than one occasion for calling Sam 'Mama' when Noah is not in the room. And it's not a lie - a part of who she is now is a Mama, just as much as a part of who I am now is a Dadda. But here's the thing. Long after this boy leaves our home and makes his own, I'm going to be going on adventures with this woman I spoke sacred vows to. Whilst I can't help but view her now in relation to Noah and in this parenting partnership we've formed, first and foremost before all else, she is my love. My wife. My girl. She is the one I give my best energy to. She is the one I write my best words for. She is the one I spill my guts to. And I will do everything I can to constantly remind myself that though parenting together is the most significant and demanding role we have been called to currently - one of the best things we can do for Noah is see each other with the eyes those cringeworthy teenagers had for each other.
2. Life isn't more expensive with a baby.
In our cultural context there's a correct order for doing things. Roughly speaking it's something along the following lines: get qualified, start a career, save some money, buy a house, get married, start a family. There's a strong undercurrent and emphasis on being 'financially secure' before committing to the biggies. We haven't followed this order. When we got married Sam was working full-time and I was studying full-time. A year after getting married, with essentially no savings we moved our life to a new place, where I was earning less than Sam had been and she commenced study. I won't lie - it was tight and difficult and stretched us. But we learnt what we are capable of and who our provider is and what we value. The next risk? Literally a week or two after finding out we were pregnant I resigned from a full-time job (our only stable income) with a few threads of things to pursue. Again, no savings in the bank. No back-up plan. Just a sense that this was the step before us. So why didn't we wait a few more years to do the family thing? Partly because some good friends of ours reminded us there will always be a reason to wait until tomorrow. Partly because there are families all around the world and all throughout history who have never, ever viewed money as a deciding factor in this regard. Did we feel 'ready'? Sure. As much as you're ever going to feel ready for something it's impossible to be ready for. But the whole 'babies are expensive' thing is an absolute myth! I mean, if you want them to be expensive, there's no shortage of weird, expensive contraptions and tiny items of clothing with expensive logos printed on them. But, it doesn't have to be that way. Between all the pre-loved baby clothes we were given by friends and a bunch of great op-shop scores, we were basically set - and that's not even including the clothing people bought us new as gifts. Add in some cloth nappies off gumtree (which Sam had secured before we were even trying), a couple of secondhand wraps and an ergo and you're off to a flying start. Noah's food either comes from Sam's body for free, or from sharing what's already on our plate. I completely acknowledge we benefited from the generosity of our family and community (being given things like a cot and a carseat). But once Noah joined us I noticed our spending habits changed too. We used to regularly, impulsively go out for dinner, dessert, movies, retail therapy...now, going out at night requires much more forward planning and the amount of items that have entered our house along with another life-form have increased our desire to live simply, consume less and evaluate how we spend our money, time and resources. The end result? On balance, our finances are in a better place than they were before we became parents. Does parenting add costs to your life? Of course. Will there be greater costs as Noah gets older? Yep. Will we continue to become increasingly resourceful and skilled at stretching what we have? You bet. The bottom-line: you may have been told caring for a baby is going to break the bank, but the truth is you have the capacity to use what you already have in ways that may surprise you.
3. We still go out to the places we like and do the things we like doing.
I know you've heard someone complain about all the things they used to be able to do before they had kids. You've seen comedians talk about it. And yes, I'd be lying if I didn't say Hamish and Andy's 'Parent Fantasy Hotline' was one of the most relatable things I watched last year. But if you completely stop doing all the things you love and going to all the places you like...I don't think you can blame that on your baby. 'Oh, but you must have had one of those easy babies who sleeps everywhere you go'. Nope! We had one of those 'hard' babies who didn't sleep anywhere we were (including home). So we figured, we might as well still try going to the places we would have liked to anyway. The result? Noah has been to music gigs in backyards and venues. He's been to more poetry nights than your average hipster. He's done the rounds of our local cafe scene. We've brought Noah into the way we want our life to look - rather than losing that life to revolve around him. Beyond that, we think it's vital that each of us still engages in the things that energize and inspire us as individuals. So, we schedule it in. Once a week, we each have a solo date. For me, it frequently involves a craft beer and a hammock. For Sam, it's the beach and a sketch-pad. Of course, some things are more challenging. The classic dinner and movie date ain't so easy anymore. Booking a room in a nice hotel and sleeping in late...won't be happening anytime soon. But as the philosophical maxim I'm often found quoting goes, 'don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good'. We can't do all the things we used to do the way we used to do them. But it doesn't mean we can't find new ways to enjoy those old things in this season.
There's something very different about these three things to the three I shared in the last post. Those were things that had changed necessarily. I had no real say in the matter. Even though they have ultimately been positive changes (like waking up earlier in the morning without ever using an alarm clock), they took no intentionality on my part. These three things are the complete opposite. Without intentionality all of the above statements could lose their truth.
Do I always feel like I have energy for my marriage, when we spend half our time together in the evenings cleaning the house and washing nappies?
Would it have been easier to just buy a bunch of new stuff rather than looking out on gum-tree and hitting the op shops for baby gear we needed?
Is it exhausting and difficult taking your baby out at night or trying to make sure they don't throw all your smashed avo across the floor of your favourite brunch spot?
Are these things worth the work?
The reason - the secret - why these things remain the same, is because when Noah was the size of an almond, a mandarin, a watermelon in his Mama's belly, we were talking about them. We were committed to them. We watched people we knew who were demonstrating them.
Surrounding the world of babies there are a billion different conversations. About what you can and can't do. What you should and shouldn't do. How your life will and won't look. My advice? Figure out what matters to you. Find someone doing it that way already. And brace yourself. It won't be easy.
Everything can change when you have a baby.
But, some things should stay the same.
brilliant read! A baby certainly change your life but it's about you take those changes and adapt to them that will make your journey a lot better! And yes very important to work in the foundations that will carry you over once the baby is not a baby anymore.


A member of the firm's board of directors since 1996, Brenda is LDG's longtime chief financial officer. During her career, she has developed a widely admired and unique leadership style — inquiring, honest and down-to-earth.
As part of our Celebrating LDG Women in Leadership series, we'll learn more about Brenda, from her path to leadership to the advice she has for future leaders.
What were the circumstances when you first had an inkling that you might become a leader someday?
I was a senior in college taking a business policy course. The professor pulled me aside after class and asked me what my major was. I told him accounting and he said, "You won't be an accountant very long." I was crushed and asked him why he thought that. He said, "Your mind is inquisitive, you always ask questions and you love to learn. Your career will take off quickly and you'll be in management." In hindsight, he saw something in me that I hadn't seen in myself.
What inspires you as a leader? What do you enjoy most?
Making a difference. Participating in moving an organization forward. Assisting in solving problems. Encouraging others. I love change—it's stimulating. It provides opportunities for learning and reflection.
As a leader, I believe in asking lots of questions. Don't wait for your team to ask questions. Encourage your team to ask questions also. Get their opinions. Seek their input.
Who has been your greatest inspiration and/or mentor?
My first mentors were Sam and David Simon, owners of Simon Resources in Williamsport and investors in Chromographic Processing. They're very traditional men, and people were surprised that they had hired me. I was 28 years old and they hired me to be a controller for their start-up company. I was young, in a role that I was probably unprepared for, and they were patient and helped me. And they had faith in me.
My greatest inspiration is my mom. She was just a great human being. She was kind, she was generous. She loved kids. And she died way too young of what began as breast cancer.
How important to you is the team that you lead? How do they contribute to your success?
I think it's the other way around. If you read The Serving Leader by Ken Jennings and John Stahl-Wert, a person's success is directly related to how they help their team succeed. Leaders need to help everybody flourish, and in turn, they will thrive.
Has your path to leadership been a straight line? Zigzag? Other?
I never saw myself as being on a leadership path. I had people who took chances and helped me to succeed. LDG founder Ken Larson took a chance on me. I was relatively young when he hired me to help with a newer company. I wasn't on a path to leadership. Instead I felt I had an opportunity, and I made the most of it. And by doing that, I learned. I was always willing to open my mind and accept challenges.
For example, at Chromographic Processing, one of the first assignments I had was being in charge of the shipping department. I knew nothing about shipping. I just went out, got to know the guys, became a good friend of one of the guys, and he helped me.
What are some of the most significant obstacles you've overcome in your career? How did you accomplish this?
The biggest obstacle I've had early on was being a woman in mostly male-dominated companies. I've worked in manufacturing and engineering, and I had to figure out ways to get beyond the stereotypes that men can cast on women.
I'm really good at acting as if I don't notice things. If there was a situation where someone treated me differently, instead of making that something that stopped me, I ignored it and persisted. It's not that I didn't notice it, but I didn't allow it to be a distraction from my goals. That applies to everything, not just being a woman in a man's world. If a man sounded condescending, I acted as though I didn't hear it and pushed ahead. If my father made statements like "You'll never amount to anything", I ignored him and kept going.
As a working mother, what values, techniques, or support systems have you used to achieve balance?
Ask for support. Seek help. Speak up yourself. Request that your husband pitch in. You need to find ways to do better at using your support system or making one. Get past the annoyance that you have to ask and just ask.


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Building trust through data: Introducing Deloitte's Data Spotlight Series
This year, Deloitte's Risk Analytics team are introducing the first ever Data Spotlight Series – a sequence of webinars on the topic of how businesses, organisations and individuals can help build trust through data. This will be a series of talks unlike many others, as it is the continuation of an ongoing discussion our team has been having on the impact of businesses and other organisations on our society. It was also inspired by the cancellation of our Datathon this year, which you may have already heard about. In case you haven't, let me tell you about what happened.
Just over three years ago, Deloitte organised its first ever Datathon in Scotland. The event consisted of two days where people of various backgrounds would come together and form teams to develop innovative solutions to a common problem, while looking through a data and analytics lens. In 2017, the Datathon was all about increasing Financial Inclusion, making financial services accessible to disadvantaged populations who may need them. Needless to say, the event was a huge success, which was evidenced over the next few years, as the Datathon became a yearly tradition.
After joining Deloitte, I quickly started associating March with the high energy of hosting yet another one of these events. Each year, our office became a melting pot of ideas and conversations about innovative business models and data analytics (and yes, some of us really geek-ed out talking about statistics). In 2018 we were exploring the idea of "Financial Services for Good" and in 2019 the theme was "Productivity". These events were always hugely inspiring not only because of the participating teams' impressive efforts over the two days of the event, but also because of the high calibre of speakers accompanying them during our presentations evening.
This year, our team our team was getting ready for our fourth Datathon – the theme would be "Building trust to create a more responsible society" and it was scheduled to start on the 10th March. We were only a week away from the event, when covid-19 unfortunately became a reality in the UK and we made the very difficult decision of cancelling what we were expecting to be another exceptional gathering.
As the year passed, we kept thinking about the purpose we had behind our Datathon this year. Our team has been noticing a trend of businesses changing how they define corporate and social responsibility, moving towards building brands which can be trusted by their customers. One of our biggest questions was: if brands are now a way of conveying trustworthiness towards a business or an organisation, then how do their purpose and role in contributing to society translate into data initiatives? This was one of the questions we were ready to present to our Datathon participants in March, which with time we realised is increasingly important question to be asking right now.
While there is a movement towards increasing involvement of businesses in tackling societal challenges, governments are also re-thinking how they can become more effective at doing so. Covid-19 has made these shifts more urgent than ever, and while new initiatives are important, we also want to keep people who are already working towards creating a better society running. We can see that we have to go beyond just creating trust within customers and move into understanding how purpose is translated into real change, and data is a big piece of this puzzle. So we decided to keep the conversation going.
To facilitate the conversation, we will now introduce our first Data Spotlight series: "Building Trust Through Data" – a series of webinars we will be hosting over the upcoming weeks. Our first speaker will be Professor Roger Halliday, who is the Chief Statistician & Joint Head of COVID-19 Modelling and Analysis Team for the Scottish Government. Could we get a more appropriate start?
Our first will talk about how the government set up a new organisation to "make it easier to access and use data for the public good", as well as how their newly built capabilities have been leveraged to improve the government's response to the Covid pandemic in Scotland. Professor Halliday is keen to share some of his reflections around running Covid-related modelling and leading an analytics team within the Government, all invaluable lessons to anyone interested in enabling change within their organisation, as well as anyone interested in getting an insight into the real power of data.
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During a recent renovation of an apartment building, an employee took a misstep and fell down an elevator shaft. Luckily, he was able to dodge major injury, but the injuries that he did suffer will keep him from his job for the next few weeks.
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Feel free to use any sausage you like if you find Italian garlic sausages too spicy. Hit the deli area of your supermarket for more choices.
1 Cook penne noodles according to package directions. While pasta is cooking, make the sauce.
2 Heat oil in a sauté pan. Add in minced garlic and sliced onions. Cook until onions are translucent then add in sausages and sundried tomatoes.
3 Sprinkle Herb and Garlic Pasta powder. Add green olives. Taste and adjust seasoning if needed.
4 Toss immediately with cooked pasta.
Are the parmesan slivers really necessary or optional?
In dishes like this everything is optional. If you like grated cheese use that instead. It's a texture preference. Or use no cheese at all, although that would be sad.
Instead of the powdered garlic herb product I would definitely use fresh parsley. There enough garlic in the dish anyway and it's nice to add something fresh and fragrant to pasta right at the last minute.


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"Pelvic Organ Prolapse Quantification System (POP-Q) - A New Era in Pelvic Prolapse Staging" (2011), by Cristian Persu, Christopher Chapple, Victor Cauni, Stefan Gutue, and Petrisor Geavlete
In 2011, Cristian Persu, Christopher Chapple, Victor Cauni, Stefan Gutue, and Petrisor Geavlete published "Pelvic Organ Prolapse Quantification System (POP-Q) – A New Era in Pelvic Prolapse Staging," in the Journal of Medicine and Life. In their article, the authors explain the need for a reliable diagnostic method for describing the state of a pelvic organ prolapse, or a condition that can result from weakness or damage to the muscles that support the pelvic organs, sometimes leading to bladder, bowel, and sexual dysfunction.
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Evaluation of the Newborn Infant--Second Report (1958), by Virginia Apgar et al.
Virginia Apgar and colleagues wrote "Evaluation of the Newborn Infant—Second Report" in 1958. This article explained that Apgar's system for evaluating infants' condition after birth accurately predicted the health of infants. Apgar had developed the scoring system in 1953 to provide a simple method for determining if an infant needed medical attention after birth.
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"Some of the Uses of Electricity in Gynecology," (1901) by William Henry Walling
In 1901, physician William Henry Walling published the article, Some of the Uses of Electricity in Gynecology, in the January issue of the American Gynecological and Obstetrical Journal. Walling was a practicing gynecologist who studied electro-therapeutics, or the use of electricity in medicine for the treatment of disease, which was an emerging topic during the late 1800s. Walling stated that proper administration of electrical current to a woman's vagina, uterus, bladder, or rectum could be therapeutic for gynecological diseases.
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"Pelvic Scoring for Elective Induction" (1964), by Edward Bishop
In the 1964 article, "Pelvic Scoring for Elective Induction," obstetrician Edward Bishop describes his method to determine whether a doctor should induce labor, or artificially start the birthing process, in a pregnant woman. Aside from medical emergencies, a woman can elect to induce labor to choose when she gives birth and have a shorter than normal labor. The 1964 publication followed an earlier article by Bishop, also about elective induction.
The Time Has Come: A Catholic Doctor's Proposals to End the Battle over Birth Control (1963), by John Rock
In 1963, Roman Catholic fertility doctor John Rock published The Time Has Come: A Catholic Doctor's Proposals to End the Battle over Birth Control, a first-person treatise on the use of scientifically approved forms of birth control for Catholic couples. The first contraceptive pill, called Enovid, had been on the market since June 1960, and Rock was one of the leading researchers in its development. In The Time Has Come, Rock explicitly describes the arguments for and against the use of birth control from both a religious and a scientific perspective.
Subject: Publications, Religion, Reproduction
"Mothers' Anxiety During Pregnancy Is Associated with Asthma in Their Children" (2009), by Hannah Cookson, Raquel Granell, Carol Joinson, Yoav Ben-Shlomo, and A. John Henderson
In 2009, A. John Henderson and colleagues published "Mothers' Anxiety During Pregnancy Is Associated with Asthma in Their Children," hereafter, "Mothers' Anxiety," in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. Previous studies had shown that maternal stress during pregnancy affects children's health during childhood. The researchers explored the association of asthma in children with maternal anxiety during pregnancy. The cause of asthma is often unknown.
Subject: Theories, Reproduction, Publications, Disorders
"The Intergenerational Effects of Fetal Programming: Non-genomic Mechanisms for the Inheritance of Low Birth Weight and Cardiovascular Risk" (2004), by Amanda J. Drake and Brian R. Walker
In 2004, Amanda J. Drake and Brian R. Walker published "The Intergenerational Effects of Fetal Programming: Non-genomic Mechanisms for the Inheritance of Low Birth Weight and Cardiovascular Risk," hereafter, "The Intergenerational Effects," in the Journal of Endocrinology. In their article, the authors assert that cardiovascular disease may develop via fetal programming, which is when a certain event occurring during a critical point of pregnancy affects the fetus long after birth.
Subject: Publications, Theories, Reproduction


The submitted image, "Ion 'shells' produced by ultrafast intense infrared laser pulses", by Jamie Nemeth and Will Bryan from the Department of Physics, won the Professor Dame Jean Thomas Postgraduate Image Award in 2011, and was selected from all of the postgraduate entries as the winner of the very first postgraduate award in the Research As Art competition, for the striking nature of the image and the quality of the abstract. The overall winner was Elizabeth Sackett, from the College of Engineering, for her image entitled Pac-Man, a striking representation of a laser-bombarded aerospace alloy.
The 2012 competition is now open, with 27th April 2012 being the closing date for entries.


Mountain Top is a city in Pennsylvania. So far we have accumulated 336 streets in Mountain Top and on these streets we have added 54,325 real estate properties.
Mountain Top is a census-designated place (CDP) in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. As of the 2010 census, the CDP population was 10,982. Mountain Top is located along Pennsylvania Route 309 south of Wilkes-Barre in Fairview Township, Wright Township and a small part of Rice Township.


It was the perfect day to get a glimpse into the future of the Detroit Lions.
When the Lions hosted the Atlanta Falcons last weekend, it wasn't just a big game because the Lions were hosting the NFC champion that played in the most recent Super Bowl.
It was actually a test of the progress of the organization to compete against the best teams in the league. After watching the Lions nearly beat the Falcons, it is clear that the organization is actually ready to take the next step as a franchise.
No one walked away from Sunday's game thinking Atlanta is a bad team. The Falcons are clearly balanced in each phase of the game, with explosive playmakers all over the field. But the same can be said about Detroit.
The young Lions very well could have pulled out the win in an early season game in which the team was missing its left tackle and center on offense and its middle linebacker on defense.
The Lions weren't even supposed to be in the game. And yet, they nearly pulled off the improbable victory.
It was yet another step in the right direction for the team, which has already cemented itself as one of the best clutch football teams in the NFL.
The Lions aren't where they want to be, but it's clear the team is headed in the right direction under Jim Caldwell. The heartbreaking loss to the Falcons was more than enough to prove it.
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There are various important types of computer repairing services so before making selection of a perfect one it is certainly important for you to know if they offer you the needed service; otherwise all the research work will be wasted.
Hardware repair – It is something that is related to some physical damages. It includes, dent or paint jobs or the structural problems that tend to be faced by the computers.
Virus removal – In such type of service, the providers need to ensure that virus will be removed even without risking the data or the information.
Data recovery – Data loss is the big problem. So, data recovery has a great importance. This is termed as a highly sensitive matter so the top-quality service must be hired.
Reparation of accessories – There are numbers of accessories with a computer such as printers, scanners and more. An individual specialized in computer hardware would certainly not necessarily be aware of the methods and techniques needed as both are said to be have completely different components.
Maintenance services – It is primary need of any computer since it not only improves the working speed of your computer but also enhances its overall lifetime.


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Episode 331 – Liniers
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Episode 115 – Idlers and Belgians
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Edward Mendelson – Idlers and Belgians
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"I have a private test for whether I'm an individual person or whether I'm part of the culture: I go to the supermarket and I look at the supermarket weeklies, and if I recognize the names, then I'm not a person, I'm a product of collective culture."
Professor Edward Mendelson joins the show to talk about his new book, Moral Agents: Eight Twentieth-Century American Writers (New York Review Books), which profiles Lionel Triling, Dwight Macdonald, Alfred Kazin, William Maxwell, Saul Bellow, Norman Mailer, WH Auden, Frank O'Hara. We discuss the role of individuals in mass culture, the intellectual's temptation to be a leader, the outdated figure of the Beloved Professor, Orwell's misinterpretation of Auden, the writer he was terrified to meet, the failures of identity politics, the purpose of Columbia University's Core Curriculum, his lack of nostalgia for the era of public intellectuals, the way certain books need a year off from teaching in order to recharge, and more. Give it a listen!
"All these writers were tempted by the way they were taken seriously."
We also talk about why he hates one of my favorite novels, why he agrees with my take on Achilles' uncanniness in the Iliad, why professors think students are getting dumber year after year, how the economic collapse of the '70s led to improved colleges across the country, why he thinks Stoner is a study in self-pity, and more! Go listen!
Eva Brann
Michael Dirda
Prue Shaw
Charles Bivona
At Columbia since 1981, Professor Edward Mendelson has also taught at Yale and Harvard. A recipient of American Council of Learned Societies, NEH, and Guggenheim fellowships, he is chiefly interested in 19th-and 20th-century literature, formal and social aspects of poetry and narrative, and biographical criticism. He is Auden's literary executor; his book Later Auden (1999) is a sequel to his Early Auden (1981). His book, The Things That Matter: What Seven Classic Novels Have to Say About the Stages of Life , was published by Pantheon in 2006. His new book is Moral Agents: Eight Twentieth-Century American Writers , from New York Review Books. He has edited a volume of essays on Thomas Pynchon and, with Michael Seidel, Homer to Brecht: The European Epic & Dramatic Traditions . He has prepared editions of novels by Hardy, Bennett, Meredith, Wells, and Trollope, the first five volumes of a complete edition of Auden, and selections of Auden's poems and prose. His essays and reviews have appeared in the New York Review of Books, London Review of Books, TLS, the New York Times Book Review, and many other journals and collections, and he wrote an introduction for a new edition of Gravity's Rainbow. He has also written about computers, music, and the visual arts. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was the first Isabel Dalhousie Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh.
Credits: This episode's music is Homesickness by Tsegue-Maryam Guebrou. The conversation was recorded at Mr. Mendelson's office on a pair of Blue enCORE 200 microphones feeding into a Zoom H5 digital recorder. I recorded the intro and outro on a Blue Yeti USB Microphone . Processing was done in Audacity and Logic Pro. Photo of Mr. Mendelson by me.
At the end of last year's writeup, I mentioned that I was 10% of the way into Winter's Tale . I bailed on it; just wasn't feeling it, which may have been due to reading it on my Kindle vs. print. I also mentioned that I'd like to read the rest of Sebald's novels, James Salter's Light Years , Thomas Pynchon's Bleeding Edge , Joseph Roth's The Radetzky March , Dante, Bruce Jay Friedman's Stern , and Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow . How'd I fare? I didn't get to Sebald or The Radetzky March, I gave up on Light Years after 100 pages, did read Bleeding Edge, Stern and the whole Divine Comedy, and never got back to Kahneman's book.
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Reading for my Virtual Memories Show podcast dominated my book selection this year. Around two-thirds of the books I read were by guests or were for background for our interviews. I'm not complaining; a lot of them were really good, and I may never have gotten around to them without the impetus of the show! There were some periods where I was chasing, or just trying to stay afloat with reading. That said, when I finally got ahead of the guest list in April, I took it upon myself to read Dante, which of course turned out to be fantastic.
Anyway, I read more than 50 books this year, but not all of it was Dante-sized. I still haven't made an appreciable dent in my library, which keeps creeping up as new pod-guest-books come in, along with my own purchases and gifts from pals. I've asked our handyman to build me a couple of book carts, so I can pretend that there's enough shelf space downstairs for everything.
The list below only includes prose work. I feel like including comics would be cheating, but I do have to say that one of the best books I read last year was Roz Chast's graphic memoir, Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant? , about her parents' deaths in their mid-90s. If you're using this as a shopping list, definitely put that one at the top. If you read smart comics, you should also check out Here , by Richard McGuire, a full-length version of the groundbreaking six-page comic he made in 1989. You'll never look at a corner of your living room the same again. (Don't take my word for it; here's Chris Ware's take on Here.) And give Over Easy , by Mimi Pond, a read. (I did a podcast with Roz Chast, and pair with Mimi Pond. Here's the one with Roz, and part 1 and part 2 with Mimi.)
Unlike past years, I'm not going to take this space to ruminate on midlife, mortality, the pleasure of books, etc. Well, it's all about the pleasure of books, I suppose. Enjoy, and good reading in 2015!
Notes: (r) means it's a re-read, and all the podcast links are directly to mp3 files. You can subscribe to the podcast over at iTunes. And you can always check out every book I've read since 1989.
Strange Relation: A Memoir of Marriage, Dementia, and Poetry – Rachel Hadas – Read it for the podcast, as recommended by past guest Willard Spiegelman. It's a memoir about the period in which Rachel's husband developed early-onset Alzheimer's disease. It's a beautiful book that details both her husband's decline and the poetry that helped sustain Rachel through that gradual, terrible loss. I'm a poetry imbecile; that is, I don't spend enough time with poetry, because of my preference for novels, but I was pretty immersed in this one. Listen to our podcast!
Searching for Zion: The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora – Emily Raboteau – Read it for the podcast, as recommended by past guest Peter Trachtenberg. It's the author's exploration of race as she travels the world. She's a very light-skinned black woman, at least by American standards. In Jamaica, she's considered white, and in Africa, she's something else completely. It's a compelling book about identity and blackness in America. Listen to our podcast!
Comics Art – Paul Gravett – Read it for the podcast, in time for a business trip to England, where I connected with the author. It's a good overview of the comics form, without the America-centricity that can crop up in that sort of survey. The book was commissioned as part of the Art series for the Tate, and it does have a sort of museum aspect to it, but I mean that in a good way. Paul is so so knowledgeable about comics, and it was a pleasure to read the book and then talk with him for something like four hours over an afternoon. Listen to our podcast!
Black Cracker – Josh Alan Friedman – Read it for the podcast, as part of my "Capturing The Other Friedmans" series of interviews. It's a fictionalized memoir of Josh's childhood, where he wound up as the only white student in an all-black school in the '60s. It's hysterically funny, but I was a little nervous about people noticing the cover while I was reading it on a British Railways ride. The book was particularly interesting because I read it after reading Josh Alan's youngest brother's book about their childhood (Barracuda in the Attic ), their dad's memoir (Lucky Bruce , which I reread soon after this), and hearing middle brother Drew's stories about childhood. It's not like a Rashomon situation, but each rendition creates a fuller picture of the tensions and dynamics of these kids and their parents. I'd love to get all the family together for a group interview, but I'm afraid it could lead to bloodshed, possibly mine. Listen to our podcast!
About Harry Towns
The Current Climate
Lucky Bruce: A Literary Memoir (r)
A Mother's Kisses – Bruce Jay Friedman – Read it all for the podcast, but also because I made the discovery of Bruce Jay Friedman's fiction in 2013. (As you may or may not recall, I wrote, "I realized that this was the sort of writing I wanted to pattern my own fiction after. . . . I finally found the writer who could tell funny, witty, engaging stories about men (Jews and gentiles) without having to draw a literary-cosmic conclusion about the universe.") Stern and A Mother's Kisses supported the claim Bruce's son made to me, that their dad was Philip Roth before Philip Roth. The two books of Harry Town stories, About Harry Town and The Current Climate, helped me think more about my Abe Loesser stories. Several of the chapters in them mirror episodes from BJF's memoir, Lucky Bruce, which I re-read once we were definitely on to record a show. I was interested in how Bruce rewrote the stories of his life for fiction and for memoir. We didn't go into that topic extensively during our conversation, but it did give me a sort of license to play more with my experiences and bend them out of strict re-telling and into art. Listen to our podcast!
The World of Yesterday – Stefan Zweig (tr. Anthea Bell) – Technically not for the podcast, although it did serve as background when I interviewed George Prochnik a little while later. This was the new translation of Stefan Zweig's memoir, which he sent out to his publisher shortly before his suicide in 1942. It paints a magical picture of pre-WWI Vienna, and a harrowing picture of Austria after that war. Some of the most evocative material is about Zweig's own development, and what it was like to live in a time when one could travel the world without a passport. The New York city segment is a joy. It's a remarkable book. I don't know if there's a "key" to understanding Zweig's suicide, but contrasting the world of yesterday with the future that was unfolding — even with an Allied win over the Axis — it was clear that Zweig didn't want to live through another reconstruction or face a bureaucratized future. Listen to my Zweig podcast with George Prochnik.
Visible City – Tova Mirvis – Read it for the podcast. This was pitched by the publisher, and I had some reticence about it; from the description they gave, it sounds like Mommy Lit, which is not my thing. It had more going on than that, lucky for me, in terms of urban exploration and struggling with Judaism. I was bummed to find that the closing line of my short story about the High Holidays was mirrored in her book, as a minor line describing a character, but I refused to give it up. Listen to our podcast, even though I didn't do a good job on this one, for a variety of reasons.
The Elephants Teach: Creative Writing Since 1880 – DG Myers – Read it for the podcast. The first non-fiction / non-memoir of this year's reading. The late Prof. Myers (he died in September 2014) writes a wonderfully readable history of creative writing programs, from their inception to the mutant self-replicating form they've evolved into. It's an illuminating piece of scholarship about a system that seems broken at first glance (that is, treating creative writing as an accredited program leads to teaching it for the sake of making more formulaic writers and/or more creative writing teachers); with an understanding of its history, we see far better how it ended up like this. Note: I've never taken a creative writing class. Listen to our podcast!
Hyde – Daniel Levine – Read it for the podcast. It's not exactly a revisionist take on The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, not like that book about Ahab's wife. Rather, it tells the classic story from Hyde's perspective. I was suspicious about the premise (it was another book pitched by the publisher), but it's really well written and Levine does a great job of making sure his story fits into the mechanics of the source story. Giving voice to Hyde — and not going with the easy out of making him the unrestrained id of the Victorian era — Levine manages to create a tense horror story that we thought we knew. Listen to our podcast!
Not pictured: The Bookshop – Penelope Fitzgerald – I picked this up on the suggestion of DG Myers. I'd never read Fitzgerald, and zoomed through this one over the course of an afternoon. It's gorgeous and understated, and apparently that's a hallmark of her work. I picked up the two Modern Library collections of her work recently, and plan on reading more of her work. I'm awfully sad that I won't get new recommendations from Prof. Myers, but he left a wealth of writing about literature on his blog over the years.
The Cold Song – Linn Ullmann – Read it for the podcast. It's a lot of books: a murder mystery, a fairy tale, a family drama. I was swept up by the fragility of the characters, the compulsion to lie, the unendingness of a family's grief, the ways in which loved ones fail to communicate. It's set in Norway, but it almost feels like another world. It's such a strange and compelling book, while seeming "normal" on its face, that I can't really come up with the right words to describe it, beyond "You should read this." Listen to our podcast: part 1 and part 2!
Mortality – Christopher Hitchens – Another suggestion of DG Myers, who was working on a book about his cancer experience. In our conversation, he lamented that Hitchens died so soon after his cancer diagnosis, because he hoped to see more writing from Hitchens about the process of dying. Ironically, Myers himself died far sooner than he expected. He thought he had another one or two years of life when we spoke in March, but he died six months later. And now those of us who knew him can lament that he too died before he could tell us more about Life on Planet Cancer (the title he settled on for his book). Hitchens' essays come from the incredibly specific experience of his cancer, but his graceful writing brings it to life.
Not pictured: This Is Where We Came In: Intimate Glimpses – Lynne Sharon Schwartz – Read it for the podcast. We met at Bennington in 2013 when I drove up to interview David Gates; they're both part of the Low Residency MFA faculty. These essays remind me very much of Phillip Lopate's work, and it makes me wonder if that's coincidental or if there's a sort of generational approach to the personal essay that they both characterize. Probably the former. The centerpiece of the book is an essay about her heart surgery, and it's digressive and detailed and a wonder to read. Listen to our podcast!
All That Is – James Salter – Likely the final book by a great American author I didn't get around to until 2013. That year, I read A Sport and a Pastime and Solo Faces , and felt stupid that I'd missed out on a hybrid of Hemingway and Henry Miller all these years. His new book extends to cover the shape of a man's life, with its myriad mistakes and friendships and failed loves and admission of age. For some reason, I felt echoes with Philip Roth's Everyman, although Salter's language is more beautiful than Roth's.
The Divine Comedy, Vol. 1: Inferno
The Divine Comedy, Vol. 2: Purgatorio
The Divine Comedy, Vol. 3: Paradiso – Dante (tr. Durling) – As I mentioned in the intro, I got ahead of the podcast-reading list around April, so I took the opportunity to read Dante's Divine Comedy. I picked this translation on the recommendation of one of my tutors at St. John's College. It's a prose translation with line breaks that mirror the poem; he and another tutor I consulted with contended that it's better to go with a prose translation than a rhyming one, because Dante's Italian is almost impossible not to rhyme, and it forces a false rhythm on the text. Anyway, it deserves all the accolades, and I weirdly found Purgatorio to be more enjoyable than the Inferno. I think it's because the souls in Purgatory, even while they suffer awful torments, have hope that they'll complete their purgation and ascend to Paradise, while the souls in Hell have abandoned all hope. Paradiso, I have to say, was the least enjoyable of the three poems, probably due to being the least concrete. Its abstractness and focus on the church's founders/pioneers didn't resonate with me the way the suffering and the stories of the lost did.
The Impossible Exile: Stefan Zweig at the End of the World – George Prochnik – Read it for the podcast. One of the best books I read this year. It's a biography covering Stefan Zweig's final years, leading up to his suicide in 1942, but it's also about Prochnik's father's flight from Austria. I found it to be a beautiful work, meditating on the meanings of exile, Zweig's inability to cope with refugee life in New York despite his privileged position, and the culture that was lost with the rise of Nazism. Prochnik travels to many of Zweig's waypoints during his last years — England, Manhattan, Westchester, Petropolis — but the book's most haunting moments come in Austria. It's a fantastic book (and one I would've read regardless of the podcast possibilities). Listen to our podcast!
Secrecy – Rupert Thomson – Read it for the podcast. An enjoyable novel set in 17th century Florence. It's got sex, murder, religious hypocrisy (hence the need for secrecy), art and aesthetics, plague tableaux, and a true-life lead character in wax sculptor Gaetano Zummo. I'd never read Thomson before, and apparently his hallmark is jumping from genre to genre and style to style. I'm thinking I need to check out more of his work, but as you can see from the rest of the list, I was a little busy this year. Listen to our podcast!
Not pictured: Solaris – Stanislaw Lem (re) – I reread this one on a whim, just to recapture that feeling of loneliness, of the mystery of experience and the failings of communication. I lead an exciting life.
Nose Down, Eyes Up – Merrill Markoe – Read it for the podcast. It's a fun novel about a 40-something layabout in LA (named Gil) who realizes one day that he can understand what dogs are saying and communicate with them. Merrill does a great job portraying the world as perceived by dogs, in terms of how they'd logically understand the behavior of humans. They can't for the life of 'em figure out why we keep picking up their crap and putting it in bags. Listen to our podcast!
Bleeding Edge – Thomas Pynchon – Like many of his readers, I'd wondered if Pynchon would write about "modern times," as in post-9/11. The closest he came to his own era was Vineland, published in 1990 and taking place in 1984. This one treats of the months before and after 9/11, and it's as weird, elliptical, funny, not-quite-sensical as I've come to expect from his novels. There were segments where this one seemed to overlap with William Gibson's post-9/11 novels, and I think that's partly because of WG's status as a Pynchon novitiate, but also because the general response to these times by any novelist with a Big Perspective is to get caught up in the wheels within wheels of conspiracy, malignity and neglect by Forces Larger Than Us. I enjoyed the heck out of this one, and it made for an interesting segue from Inherent Vice, which takes place in the late '60s and sorta has to shoe-horn the internet (and its ramifications) into a world that really had No Idea What Was Coming.
Some Hope
Mother's Milk
At Last – Edward St. Aubyn – This series, the Patrick Melrose novels, was recommended to me by Peter Trachtenberg at the end of 2013. Then there was a big New Yorker profile on the author and the ways in which his abusive childhood is mirrored in Melrose's stories. I devoured the novels in pretty short order. They're almost a sort of A Dance to the Music of Time , but with a smaller cast of characters and history, and with child-rape at the heart of the whole shebang. I enjoyed the first novel the most, mainly because of the utter vividness of Melrose's monstrous rapist of a father. The second novel, in which Melrose goes on a drug bender while in New York to claim his father's ashes, is a close runner-up. A lot of "writing as therapy" can make for bad art, but St. Aubyn does a wonderful job of turning the horrific circumstances of his childhood into a compelling series of novels. They're necessarily brief; I think too much time in any of these tales would grow tiresome, even if there are characters with whom we'd like to spend more time. I'm sure there are plenty of nuances of British culture and class that I missed, but the acid portraits are still pretty amazing.
The Incentive of the Maggot: Poems
The Great Wave: Poems – Ron Slate – Read them for the podcast. Every year, I tell myself that I need to read more poetry, so I was happy to book a podcast with Ron and let myself slow down to read these two collections of his work. I enjoyed the first one more, and he concurred that it's a better collection, mainly because the lines are given more room to breathe. Many of the poems are grounded in a sort of working life to which I was able to relate: not the labor of the service biz or the factory, but one of Business, where the seeming romance of travel can wear thin and one looks for minor bits of magic to keep from growing numb. Listen to our podcast!
My Face for the World to See – Alfred Hayes – This was recommended to me by Phillip Lopate as one of the best books he'd read in 2013. It's a novel about a New York writer in Hollywood who falls into a relationship with a suicidal gal. (As in, he first sees her when she's trying to kill herself by walking into the Pacific.) It's in a sorta laconic style, where the events, even as they grow more dramatic, aren't treated with great intensity, even though the narrator is struggling to cope with the relationship. It made me think I need to go re-read Nathanael West next year.
The Horned Man – James Lasdun – Read it for the podcast (we haven't recorded yet). The novel's a psychodrama about a college literature professor who may or may not be framed for several murders. There's a harassment aspect to the professor's history that gets really weird because, a bunch of years later, the author was accused by a student of harassment and stealing her novel. He wrote a memoir about it called Give Me Everything You Have: On Being Stalked , which I'll be reading before we get together to record. This novel's enjoyable in its strangeness; once the unreliability of the narrator is established, it's a little difficult not to fall into a guessing game of "what really happened," but Lasdun takes the story away from that easy out and proceeds into a surreal conclusion. Podcast coming in 2015!
The Literary Churchill: Author, Reader, Actor – Jonathan Rose – Read it for the podcast. This is a literary biography of Winston Churchill, and Prof. Rose does a marvelous job of connecting the books and plays WC read and enjoyed with his major life points and policy decisions. I didn't know all that much about WC's early career, and this book helps illuminate that period of his life along with the aforementioned literary influences (of course, it's up to debate as to how influential those literary influences were on WC's decisions, but Rose makes plausible scenarios for many of them). I was glad to learn that Churchill was among the first science fiction politicians. Listen to our podcast!
Doll Palace – Sara Lippmann – Read it for the podcast. I think we connected because she found the podcast I did with David Gates. This collection of fiction is Sara's first book, and it's got some intense and powerful short stories in it. The author told me her work's been described as "Jewish gothic," and I think that's appropriate. There's a degree of Flannery O'Connor to her stories, even though the setting (and the religion) are quite different. She writes good sentences, creates compelling characters, and puts the reader in some uncomfortable frames of mind. Listen to our podcast!
Last Night – James Salter – I was waiting down at the local library for my wife's bus from NYC (the bus stop is in the library parking lot), and took this slim collection of stories off the shelf. I devoured one story during the wait, checked the book out and read the rest of it over the next 24 hours. I'm still embarrassed not to have discovered Salter until 2013. The title story, about an assisted suicide, has a Poe-like twist/change of tone, but it's not all about storytelling trickery.
Where To?: A Hack Memoir – Dmitry Samarov – Read it for the podcast. Really fun collection of essays about the author's career as a cab-driver. He published a previous book on the subject, but that one focused on the work-week, and this one covers Dmitry's time from his first shift to his last, from Boston to Chicago. He's also a painter, and the book includes a number of his drawings made while sitting in the driver's seat of the cab. (Not while driving.) Listen to our podcast!
The Wife – Meg Wolitzer – A few guests and pals told me I need to read her work, and recommended this one. I was pretty disappointed in it; the big twist was pretty obvious to me about a quarter of the way in, and it made the rest of the read a slog until The Big Reveal. It's about an author and his wife, on their way to pick up a Nobel-like award for his fiction. She narrates it and tells their story. It's laden with Important Gender Issues to the detriment of not having believable or interesting characters. A pal asked me what book I read in 2014 disappointed me the most, and I didn't hesitate to cite this one. That's what I get for listening to my guests.
The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton – I was really not expecting the degree of antisemitism that cropped up early in this one. I loved The Age of Innocence when I read it a few years ago, and figured this would be along similar lines, but focused on the female character's prospects. In broad terms, I was right, but the characterization of Rosedale and "his race" was pretty vile. I'm no PC warrior or anything, but stereotyping Jews (and this wasn't focused on class-conscious merchant Jews, which would have been bad enough) is the mark of a second-rate mind (at best). I rallied on, and did enjoy much of the book. In fact, Rosedale's bluntness turned out to be one of my favorite aspects of it, but I had this nettle pricking at me throughout the book.
Backing Into Forward: A Memoir – Jules Feiffer – Read it for the podcast. I wasn't sure if Mr. Feiffer would follow through on our podcast-date, but I wanted to be prepared if he suddenly said, "Yeah, let's do it tomorrow." His memoir, published in 2010, covers a lot of Feiffer's dizzying career as a cartoonist, novelist, illustrator and screenwriter. He knows how to tell a story, as he's proved for decades, and weaves comedic tales about his mother-obsessed childhood, his scams and meltdowns in the U.S. Army, his cross-country pilgrimage for a girl had moved on, and his political evolution. He's led an immensely rich life, and his writing conveys the importance of the outside world on his art, and vice versa. I went into the book expecting an old man's reminiscences, and was pleasantly surprised by how charged the prose was, and how laugh-out-loud funny Feiffer is. Listen to our podcast!
I Only Read It for the Cartoons: The New Yorker's Most Brilliantly Twisted Artists – Richard Gehr – Read it for the podcast. Wildly entertaining profiles of a dozen cartoonists at the New Yorker, as well as two of the cartoon editors. It's a lot of fun, and it's a blast to read about these cartoonists' histories, their influences, their work habits, and how they've seen the magazine and the rest of the market change. It's based on interviews that Gehr did with the cartoonists and editors (and which I used as research for a few of my podcasts this year). Listen to our podcast!
Not pictured: Mr. Wicker – Maria Alexander – Read it for the podcast. This one's an urban fantasy novel (I think; it may be part of another genre) that reminded me in part of Neil Gaiman's early Sandman comics. It's about a blocked writer who commits suicide, only to discover herself in a library of children's hidden memories, governed by a sensual, scorched guy named Mr. Wicker. She gets restored to life, which sets in motion a plot by Mr. Wicker to get out of his eternal job assignment. It's not a genre I do much reading in, so I was happy to find the book nicely written, carrying the reader along with a good deal of suspense, and not piling on unnecessary "rules" of the magic world that some writers use after they write themselves into a corner. Listen to our podcast!
The Getaway Car: A Donald Westlake Nonfiction Miscellany – Donald Westlake (ed. Levi Stahl) – Read it for the podcast. Past guest Dmitry Samarov suggested I get in touch with Levi Stahl, the editor of this book, and get him on the show, and I'm awfully glad he did. I've probably read a dozen novels by the late Donald Westlake (he wrote under a bunch of pseudonyms), but this was the first exposure I've had to his nonfiction. If you have any experience with his crime novels, you won't be surprised to find that he was a wonderful writer even when he wasn't crafting Parker or Dortmunder stories. This one's a no-brainer for anyone who cares about the craft and business of writing, particularly in a genre like crime fiction (which Westlake refers to as "detective fiction"). It's refreshing to read someone who's so well-versed in the history of the genre, and so willing to talk about the economics of the business. His essays, reviews, appreciations, and letters are a joy to read. Podcast coming in 2015.
Give + Take – Stona Fitch – Read it for the podcast. Enjoyable crime novel about a piano player who doubles as a thief, and the singer-thief he falls for. Having just finished that book of Westlake's writing, it was little step down, but Westlake was a master, so that's no big knock. Fitch carries the story along quite well, and the sections on the working life of the piano-player are awfully engaging. Podcast coming in 2015.
Senseless – Stona Fitch – Read it for the podcast. A trade negotiator gets abducted, and gets brutally tortured by his Occupy-esque abductors. The kicker is, his whole experience is captured on live-streaming cameras, and the abductors are raising funds by having viewers vote on his fate. The torture, dragged out over weeks, is absolutely horrifying, and you really should not read this book if you have a weak stomach. I'm supposed to interview the author about a crime novel he wrote under a pseudonym, but I'm sure we'll have some words about this one, and how he was able to write it. Podcast coming in 2015.
All Those Vanished Engines – Paul Park – Read it for the podcast. Boy, was this a weird one. It's a metafictional novel in three parts. First, it's about an alternate world in which the Confederacy won the Civil War with a Man in the High Castle narrative about a future world won by the Union, only both stories are writing each other. The next two segments get really weird, and I'm still not sure what to make of it. The writing's gorgeous, but I felt that the metafiction was a little too opaque for me, so I'm going to reread Mr. Park's four-volume White Tyger series to see if that helps me make more sense of this one. There's a lot of good stuff in this, but metafiction is so difficult to pull off, and I fear I didn't have enough of a background to get everything I should have out of this. Podcast coming in 2015.
Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade – Walter Kirn – Read it for the podcast, I hope. At least, the author has said he's up for recording with me sometime. This may be the best nonfiction book I read in 2014. It's about "Clark Rockefeller," who turned out to be a German national named Christian Gerhartsreiter. I was fascinated by the Rockefeller case when it came out that he was a fraud; I couldn't imagine how his wife went so many years without figuring out her husband's false identity. Turns out that the author, Walter Kirn, knew Rockefeller for years, and also never suspected the fraud. As Rockefeller is exposed and then charged with murder, Kirn grows more engrossed in the case, and his (and our) propensity to be fooled, to want to be fooled, by the promise of high society. Kirn does a fantastic job of balancing his reporting on the case with his own anecdotes and analysis, playing up his own weaknesses and trying to explore how a novelist, who's so immersed in understanding character, can fail to see through such an audacious fraud. There's a degree to which "Rockefeller"'s ability to take interlocutors' words and spin new stories to draw them in put me in mind of Borges' "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbus Tertius"; something about not only the construction of new worlds, but the way they come to infect and permeate what we think of as reality. I can't recommend this book enough. Podcast coming in 2015.
Not pictured: A Princess of Roumania – Paul Park – The first in a four-book series about an alternate earth and a changeling princess who was hidden in our world (speaking of "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbus Tertius"). As I mentioned in the previous Paul Park item, I started this series to get a better grasp of Paul's work, so this is technically For The Podcast. It has some deliberate nods to John Crowley's Aegypt cycle of books, although I hope not the final volume, which I couldn't fathom. This one does a good job evoking the alternate world, alluding to its strange history and laws, while bringing us up to speed on a 20-year plot to hide the princess who can be the salvation of Roumania against those nasty Germans. There's a scene in the afterlife that's absolutely breathtaking. Podcast coming in 2015.
Death Comes for the Archbishop – Willa Cather – The last book I finished in 2014. One of my podcast-guests considers it The Great American Novel, so I was expecting a very different book than the one I got. It's about a pair of Catholic missionaries in the American southwest after the Mexican-American War, and it's almost a collection of anecdotes, rather than a novel. I literally had no idea what to expect from the book, but the title left me thinking it'd be a Whiskey Priest tale, with awful, dissolute people abounding. Instead, it's a very Catholic novel. At least, I'm hoping that's why I felt so disconnected from it. It's a beautiful work, with the landscape serving as a lead character, but I did feel as though its outlook was somehow alien to me. At first, I attributed it to the 1850s SW setting, but one of my favorite novels (The Leopard) is set in 1860s Italy, so that wasn't it. I think the purity of the two missionaries' vision of the world (not that it was naive), demonstrates a type of grace that I just don't feel in my life. Also, I was watching season 3 of Breaking Bad at the same time, and that's a very different vision of New Mexico right there.
And that's it for 2014! At the moment, I'm in the second book of Paul Park's White Tyger series, as I mentioned, along with Sarah Bakewell's How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer . I've got plenty of podcast-related reading for 2015, but I'm also hoping to get to Climates (Andre Maurois), Erasmus' Praise of Folly , more Stefan Zweig, Lucretius' The Nature of Things (a re-read), and The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man (David Maurer).
Why don't you go check out the past editions of this writeup?
Podcast – The Hollow Man
The Hollow Man
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It's the ONE-HUNDREDTH EPISODE of The Virtual Memories Show! And they said it would never last! To celebrate hitting the century mark, I asked past guests, upcoming guests and friends of the show to interview me this time around!
This special episode includes questions and recorded segments with Maria Alexander, Ashton Applewhite, John Bertagnolli, Lori Carson, Sarah Deming, Paul Di Filippo, Michael Dirda, Robert Drake, Aaron K. Finkelstein, Mary Fleener, Drew Friedman, Josh Alan Friedman, Kipp Friedman, Richard Gehr, Ben Katchor, Sara Lippmann, Brett Martin, Zach Martin, Seth, Jesse Sheidlower, Ron Slate, Tom Spurgeon, Levi Stahl, Maya Stein, Rupert Thomson, Peter Trachtenberg, Wallis Wilde-Menozzi, Frank Wilson, and Claudia Young.
Find out about my reading childhood, my dream list of pod-guests, my best practices for productivity (don't have kids!), my favorite interview question, my top guest in the afterlife, the book I'd save if my house was on fire, what I'd do if I won a Macarthur Grant. and more! Give it a listen!
Gil Roth is the host of The Virtual Memories Show and the president of the Pharma & Biopharma Outsourcing Association.
Credits: This episode's music is Stupid Now by Bob Mould. Several of the conversations were recorded on a pair of Blue enCORE 200 microphones feeding into a Zoom H5 digital recorder. I recorded the intro and outro and the self-interview segments on a Blue Yeti USB Microphone . Processing was done in Audacity and Logic Pro. Photo of me by Aaron K. Finkelstein.
Podcast – The Guest List 2014
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Two years in a row? That makes The Guest List a Virtual Memories Show tradition! I reached out to 2014's podcast guests and asked them about the favorite book(s) they read in the past year. More than 30 of them responded with a fantastic array of books. So, just in time for Hanukkah and Christmas, the Virtual Memories Show provides you with a huge list of of books that you're going to want to read! Get ready to update your wish lists!
This episode features selections from nearly 3 dozen of our recent guests! So go give it a listen, and then visit the Guest List cheat sheet where you can find links to the books and the guests who responded.
(And check out the 2013 edition of The Guest List, too!)
About our Guests
The guests who contributed their favorite book from the past year — and that's "favorite book I read in 2014," not "favorite book that came out in 2014" — are Maria Alexander, Ashton Applewhite, David Baerwald, Nina Bunjevac, Roz Chast, Sarah Deming, Michael Dirda, Jules Feiffer, Mary Fleener, Nathan Fox, Josh Alan Friedman, Richard Gehr, Paul Gravett, Sam Gross, Rachel Hadas, Kaz, Daniel Levine, Sara Lippmann, Merrill Markoe, Brett Martin, Mimi Pond, George Prochnik, Emily Raboteau, Jonathan Rose, Ron Rosenbaum, Dmitry Samarov, Seth, Katie Skelly, Ron Slate, Maya Stein, Rupert Thomson, and Frank Wilson. Check out their episodes at our archives!
Credits: This episode's music is The Book I Read by Talking Heads. Most of the episode was recorded at Virtual Memories Manor on a Blue Yeti USB Microphone . A few segments were recorded by the guests and e-mailed in (which is to say: don't blame me!). Processing was done in Audacity and Garage Band.
Podcast – I Was A Teenage Structuralist!
Richard Gehr – I Was A Teenage Structuralist!
"I've read enough Roland Barthes and Foucault to know it's all fiction, man."
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Richard Gehr's new book, I Only Read It for the Cartoons: The New Yorker's Most Brilliantly Twisted Artists (Amazon/New Harvest), profiles a dozen New Yorker cartoonists. We talk about the genesis of that project, lament the dearth of cartooning in print and online, bond over Abe Vigoda, and ponder why it is that so many New Yorker cartoonists had teachers or educators for parents. We also get into Richard's history in the arts-journalism racket, the joys of Robert Walser, his time in the Boy Scouts with Matt Groening, how he built a career out of his oddball enthusiasms, and the most mind-blowing "Which celebrity did you totally melt down around?" story in the history of this podcast. (Seriously.) Give it a listen!
"I love New Yorker cartoons, but they might be the whitest form of art ever conceived."
Enjoy the conversation! Then check out the archives for more great episodes! Related conversations:
Roz Chast
Caitlin McGurk
Paul Gravett
Ivan Brunetti / Michael Kupperman
Richard Gehr has been writing about music, culture, and travel for quite a while. He has been an editor for the Los Angeles Reader, Spin, and Sonicnet/MTV Interactive. He currently writes for Rolling Stone, Spin, The Village Voice, Relix, AARP: The Magazine, and other publications. He was a senior writer for the book Alt. Culture: An A-To-Z Guide to the '90S – Underground, Online, and Over-The-Counter and co-authored The Phish Book with the Vermont quartet. His new book is I Only Read It for the Cartoons: The New Yorker's Most Brilliantly Twisted Artists . He resides in the Brooklyn arrondissement.
Credits: This episode's music is Homesickness by Tsegue-Maryam Guebrou (because I'm on the road for a week). The conversation was recorded at Mr. Gehr's home on a pair of Blue enCORE 200 microphones feeding into a Zoom H5 digital recorder. The intro and outro were recorded on the same setup in a hotel room in San Diego, when my voice was shot from a three-day podcast-athon in Los Angeles. Processing was done in Audacity and Garage Band. Photo of Mr. Gehr by me.
Posted on October 27, 2014 December 17, 2014
Podcast – Look Day
Sam Gross – Look Day
"One thing I tell young cartoonists: a magazine is like going out on a date, and a book is like getting married. If you're going out on a date, you don't need a lawyer. If you're doing a book, you get a lawyer."
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Sam Gross' gag panels warped me at a young age (see above), so it was an honor to get him on mic to talk about his nearly six-decade cartooning career. We sat down in his studio to discuss the serious business of gags, how he went from drawing a Saul Steinberg nose to drawing a Sam Gross one, how he continues in his 80s to come up with a week's worth of new gags for Look Day, how he once got a Vanishing New York tour from Charles Addams, how he revels in the "humor of the handicapped", and the magazine he misses the most. Give it a listen!
"I don't know where I'm gonna go next. I'm not a finished product."
Ashton Applewhite
Bruce Jay Friedman
Drew Friedman
Sam Gross has been publishing cartoons since the 1950s. His cartoons have appeared in The New Yorker since 1969. He served as the cartoon editor of National Lampoon and Parents magazines, and was president of the Cartoonists Guild. He has published numerous collections, including I Am Blind and My Dog is Dead . You can buy reproductions of his art at the Conde Nast Store.
Credits: This episode's music is Funny Little Frog by Belle & Sebastian. The conversation was recorded at Mr. Gross' studio on a pair of Blue enCORE 200 microphones feeding into a Zoom H5 digital recorder. The intro and outro were recorded on a Blue Yeti USB Microphone . Processing was done in Audacity and Garage Band. Photo of Mr. Gross by me.


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Final Regulations Substantially Alter DOL's Proxy Voting Guidance
Final Rule: Fiduciary Duties Regarding Proxy Voting and Shareholder Rights, 29 CFR Parts 2509 and 2550, 85 Fed. Reg. 81658 (Dec. 16, 2020); Fact Sheet: Fiduciary Duties Regarding Proxy Voting and Shareholder Rights (Dec. 11, 2020)
Final Regulation
The DOL has issued final regulations establishing standards for determining whether and how to exercise shareholder rights, including the right to vote proxies, for stock held by ERISA-covered plans (including 401(k) plans). Such rights have been the subject of multiple DOL interpretive bulletins and other guidance since 1988 (see our Checkpoint article). In August, the DOL proposed amending its regulations on plan fiduciaries' investment duties to articulate the standards for exercising shareholder rights, including when plan fiduciaries must and must not vote proxies (see our Checkpoint article). The proposal prompted considerable public comment (despite a short comment period), which has resulted in substantial changes to these final regulations, including the adoption of a "principles-based" approach that deletes specific obligations commenters perceived as particularly burdensome. But they retain the basic idea that fiduciaries do not have a fiduciary obligation to vote all proxies and must satisfy certain basic obligations when deciding whether to vote proxies or exercise other shareholder rights. Here are highlights of the changes:
Economic Impact Test. The final regulations eliminate provisions that would have compelled fiduciaries to vote proxies on matters that would have an economic impact on the plan and refrain from voting on matters that would not have an economic impact. Those provisions, the DOL acknowledged, raised concerns about increased costs, liability exposure, the difficulty of determining economic impacts, and the possibility that some risks created by not voting might not have an economic impact.
Pass-Through Rights. The regulations do not apply to voting, tender, and similar rights that are passed through to participants and beneficiaries pursuant to the terms of an individual account plan.
Required Considerations. Fiduciaries deciding whether to exercise shareholder rights must satisfy a list of obligations that has been substantially revised under the final regulations' less prescriptive approach. Concerns about compliance costs and the difficulty of quantifying economic value prompted the DOL to eliminate the obligation to consider only factors affecting "the economic value of the plan's investment based on a determination of risk and return over an appropriate investment horizon consistent with the plan's investment objectives and the funding policy of the plan." Also removed is the express requirement to consider the impact on investment performance of factors such as the size of the plan's holdings in the issuer relative to the total investment assets of the plan, and the plan's percentage ownership of the issuer. (These factors may be relevant, but they cannot be considered in some circumstances—e.g., where a portfolio is managed by different managers.) The final rule prohibiting the promotion of nonpecuniary benefits omits references to sacrificing investment return and taking on additional investment risk. According to the DOL, this is to avoid suggesting that a fiduciary may exercise proxy voting and other shareholder rights with the goal of advancing non-pecuniary goals so long as it does not increase costs or reduce the investment's value.
Records. The general obligation to maintain records on proxy voting has been retained, but the express requirement to maintain records that demonstrate the basis for particular proxy votes and exercises of shareholder rights has been deleted to avoid its implications for monitoring investment managers. Also deleted is the provision obligating fiduciaries to require proxy advisors and investment managers to document that their recommendations or decisions were based on economic benefits to the plan and solely on the financial interests of participants and beneficiaries.
Proxy Voting Guidelines. The regulations retain the framework for adopting proxy voting policies, but the provisions with optional means for deciding whether to vote are framed as safe harbors, not minimum requirements. The proposed rule that would have allowed fiduciaries to vote with management on proposals unlikely to have a significant impact has been eliminated, as has the requirement to review proxy policies at least every two years.
Applicability Date. The final regulations generally will be effective January 15, 2021. Certain obligations, however, are delayed until January 31, 2022.
Prior Guidance. Interpretive Bulletin 2016-01 (see our Checkpoint article), which no longer represents the views of the DOL, has been withdrawn, and FAB 2018-01 will no longer be considered current guidance (see our Checkpoint article).
EBIA Comment: The principles-based approach of the final regulations will allow the rules to adapt to the circumstances and avoid substantial burdens and risks raised by the original proposal. The modifications to the regulations are well-chronicled in the preamble, which is extraordinary for its description of some commenters' strong opposition to the proposal and the DOL's willingness to articulate (and in many cases respond to) those concerns. The final product may, for some, be sufficiently close to current practice that compliance by the applicability date should not be difficult. For others, however, the holiday season just got busier. For more information, see EBIA's 401(k) Plans manual at Sections XXV.C.2 ("Establish and Maintain a Statement of Investment Policy") and XXV.L ("Proxy Voting and Shareholder Rights").
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Q: How do i call This nodejs function to be used as a JSON object into another function I have this variable called categories that is supposed to hold the object returned from the function that is getting value from mysql database
whenever i want to access this variable in order to use it as a JSON object i'm not able to acess the data following is my codes
  //this is the variable that is supposed to return a JSON object containing value from mysql
  var categories= function(req,res){
  req.getConnection(function(err,connection){
    if(err){
      console.log('Connection yanze'+err)
    }else{
      connection.query('select * from categories',function(err,results){
        if(err){
          throw err;

        }else{

        return (JSON.stringify(results));

          }
      })
    }
  })
}

app.get('/',function(req,res,next){
  res.render('index',{title:'Voila',category:categories});
 console.log(categories);//whenever i try to print this variable it only prints the name of the variable instead of printing the the content of the object
})

A: For me, like this, you define your variable categories as a function, not as the result of the function.
Try something like this :
function getCategories(req,res){
  req.getConnection(function(err,connection){
    if(err){
      console.log('Connection yanze'+err)
    }else{
      connection.query('select * from categories',function(err,results){
        if(err){
          throw err;

        }else{

        return (JSON.stringify(results));

          }
      })
    }
  })
}

var categories = getCategories(req1, res1);