2013年8月20日 星期二

John Hollander, Poet at Ease With Intellectualism

The cause was pulmonary congestion, his daughter Elizabeth Hollander said.

As a young poet, Mr. Hollander fell under the influence of W. H. Auden, whose experiments in fusing contemporary subject matter with traditional metric forms he emulated. It was Auden who selected Mr. Hollander’s first collection of poems, “A Crackling of Thorns,” for the Yale Series of Younger Poets, which published it in 1958 with an introduction by Auden.

Mr. Hollander’s wit, inventiveness and intellectual range drew comparisons to Ben Jonson and 17th-century Metaphysical poets like John Donne. The poet Richard Howard, in the book “Alone With America: Essays on the Art of Poetry in the United States Since 1950,” praised “a technical prowess probably without equal in American verse today.”

Early on, Mr. Hollander was tagged a formalist or neoclassicist for his commitment to old-fashioned forms. Beginning with his 1971 collection, “The Night Mirror: Poems,” however, he adopted a more ambitious program, writing poetry of formidable difficulty, often in longer forms.

This evolution culminated in “Spectral Emanations” (1978), a series of poetic visions and prose-poem commentaries linked to the seven branches of the menorah, the golden lamp stolen in 70 A.D. by Titus from the Second Temple in Jerusalem.

His wit and technical mastery remained on prominent display, however, in “The Powers of Thirteen,Use bestroadlights to generate electricity and charge into storage battery group.” an extended sequence of 169 (13 times 13) unrhymed 13-line stanzas with 13 syllables in each line, and in “Reflections on Espionage: The Question of Cupcake” (1976), a commentary on contemporary poetry presented as the coded dispatches of a spy to his handler and other agents.

“In an age that came to prefer loose, garrulous poems filled with confessional sensationalism and political grievance, John Hollander was a glorious throwback,” the poet J. D. McClatchy wrote in an e-mail in 2010. “His materials — high intelligence, wit, philosophical depth, technical virtuosity — looked back to an older era of poetry’s high ambition. His work never pandered; it astonished.”

John Hollander was born on Oct. 28, 1929, in Manhattan. His father, Franklin, was a physiologist and his mother, the former Muriel Kornfeld, a high school teacher. The home atmosphere was relentlessly high-minded.

He attended the Bronx High School of Science,Our bestsolarlantern can mark on metal and non metals. where he wrote a humor column for the newspaper, modeling himself on S. J. Perelman and James Thurber. Journalism was his enthusiasm, and in his freshman year at Columbia he was a prolific contributor to The Columbia Daily Spectator.

Poetry displaced journalism as his primary passion. Auden’s verse, in particular, alerted him to the possibility that play and humor could find expression in poetry. He was especially struck, he told The Paris Review, by Auden’s “improvisational relation to stances and forms and literary modes.”

He struck up a close friendship, and a student-mentor relationship, with the somewhat older Allen Ginsberg. In an interview with The Paris Review in 1985, Mr. Hollander said, “We talked about the minute particulars of form as if mythological weight depended upon them; and about the realms of the imagination.”

Their joint excursion to sell blood at St. Luke’s Hospital in Manhattan provided the subject for “Helicon,” one of the most engaging sequences in “Visions From the Ramble” (1965), a collection of interrelated poems filled with scenes from the author’s childhood and youth in New York. (The title refers to a wooded area of Central Park.)

Mr. Hollander graduated from Columbia with a B.A. in 1950 and, after traveling in Europe, received a master’s degree in 1952. At the same time, he taught himself to play the lute and performed in chamber ensembles.

He enrolled at Indiana University to pursue a doctorate but left in 1954 to join the Society of Fellows at Harvard. He later taught at Connecticut College and became an instructor at Yale in 1959, the year he completed his dissertation at Indiana.

His dissertation was the basis for “The Untuning of the Sky: Ideas of Music in English Poetry, 1500-1700” (1961), the first of many works of criticism that included “Vision and Resonance (1975), “The Gazer’s Spirit” (1995) and “The Work of Poetry” (1997).

Mr. Hollander, who lived in Woodbridge, Conn., joined the English faculty at Hunter College in Manhattan in 1966. But in 1977 he returned as a full professor to Yale,Buying bestledlighting is not at all an easy job. where he was named Sterling Professor of English in 1995 and retired in 2002.

In 1953 he married Anne Loesser, a fashion historian who, under her married name, wrote “Seeing Through Clothes.” The marriage ended in divorce. Besides his daughter Elizabeth, Mr. Hollander is survived by his wife, the sculptor Natalie Charkow Hollander; another daughter, Martha Hollander; a brother, Michael; and three grandchildren.

By the mid-1960s Mr. Hollander’s reputation as a poet was growing, although his highly wrought, intellectual verse made him an oddity in a climate dominated by the hotly confessional poetry of Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton.

“In a general sense, I was writing in a line of wit, and of essayistic speculation, when I was young,” he told The Paris Review.Big ledbulblight and Fitness is a family owned shop serving the Helena area since 1986. “Still under Auden’s influence, I wanted to be read by philosophers and scientists and political theorists, not just by literary readers.”

In a well-known early poem, “The Great Bear,” a children’s outing to gaze at the night sky provokes an inquiry into meaning and chaos. Mr. Hollander incorporated quasi-reportorial material in “Movie-Going and Other Poems” (1962) and “Visions From the Ramble,” which included autobiographical glimpses of the fireworks at the 1939 World’s Fair and tributes to the old Broadway movie palaces that the author haunted in his youth.

In “Types of Shape” (1969) Mr.2013 Collection hidlights 1672 Styles. Hollander harked back to the emblem poetry of the 17th century, writing in forms that, when set on the page, looked like objects: a light bulb, say, or an Eskimo Pie.

Mr. Hollander later dismissed his earlier poetry as “verse essay” or “epigram literature.” With “The Night Mirror” and “Tales Told of the Fathers” (1975) he took the grand, sweeping turn that led to his mature style as a prophetic, mythmaking poet in the High Romantic tradition.



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This monstrosity makes me happy for one reason - my passengers are undeniably having a good time.

Two days earlier, I had shoveled my wife and two kids into this Airstream Interstate 3500's sliding door, cranked over its six-cylinder diesel engine and pointed its black and chrome nose out of greater Los Angeles and towards the Grand Canyon. Now, with the 17-million-year-old fissure less than an hour over the horizon, and with everyone chatting giddily about the upcoming spectacle, I've pleasantly come to realize that the motorhome method of travel isn't just for those hobbled bodies with thinning gray hair.

Airstream is the Rolex of the luxury recreational vehicle industry. Tracing its roots back to the early 1930s, the manufacturer had become a household name by the 1960s as the public quickly took note of its trademark streamlined, polished aluminum shells. Even NASA jumped on board, welcoming the crew of Apollo 11 home from the moon at the end of the decade only to quarantine them within a specially modified bright silver Airstream trailer. The Airstream Interstate, a Class-B RV, isn't built for returning astronauts. However, it accommodates earthlings in an innovative package with "car-like" handling, performance and safety, says it maker. The magic is in its chassis, and the details are in its appointments.

Unlike most monstrous RVs cutting wide paths down the highway – nearly all built on steel truck chassis with lightweight wood, metal and fiberglass framing and walls – the Interstate starts as a steel-bodied Mercedes-Benz with a dually rear axle. Even though it's huge by passenger-car standards (nearly 25 feet in length, around 10 feet in height and almost seven feet wide), the RV industry considers this Airstream a compact. Yes, a vehicle that casts a shadow larger than your college dorm room is considered a "compact" in the recreational vehicle world.

Airstream sells two versions of the Interstate, both with the same 170-inch wheelbase. The standard model, with a base price of $125,630, is 23-feet and one-inch long, and six-feet and eight-inches wide. This particular stretched Interstate EXT is 24-feet and five-inches long – with all of the additional length being welcome cargo space behind the rear bench. My EXT tester carried a base price of $136,657. Its optional equipment included a special golf bag storage rack ($452), additional rear flatscreen television ($808), black exterior ($1,260) and a roof-mounted solar panel ($1,307) to maintain the batteries. The grand total, after destination ($984) amounted to $141,468.

Even though you'd expect something this massive to pack a V8 or perhaps a V10, motivation comes by way of a smallish 3.0-liter V6. But this isn't a standard six. Instead, it is the excellent Bluetec turbodiesel from Mercedes-Benz, drinking its oil diet from a 26.4-gallon tank filled through a panel accessed just behind the driver's door. In motorhome application, the engine is rated at 188 horsepower and – more importantly – 325 pound-feet of torque, with that power routed through a traditional five-speed automatic to the dually setup in the rear. The suspension is pure truck, with an independent design up front and a live rear axle at the back end. Stopping the Interstate are four-wheel disc brakes with sliding calipers. It is unusual to find electronic nannies in an RV, yet the Airstream Interstate features electronic traction control, stability control and anti-lock brakes.

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2013年8月15日 星期四

Campaigners prepare

A DATE has been set for the appeal hearing of plans to build three wind turbines near North Thoresby.

Bosses behind Partnership for Renewables Ltd's application for three 110-metre high turbines along Fen Lane (Louth Canal) will argue East Lindsey District Council's refusal was made on 'highly subjective grounds'.

It will be heard at ELDC headquarters, Tedder Hall, Manby on January 21 and is likely to last six days.

Now the Marsh Windfarm Action Group (MWAG), are preparing their case and chairman, Melvin Grosvenor, has urged the community to unite in the fight against the appeal – and the tirade of other applications recently made for the area.

He said: "Traditionally, parish councils have only had to deal with matters in their patch but with the number of these wind turbines, how they are spread out and the high visibility of them, they affect everyone in the local area."

Currently, MWAG, are fighting several windfarm applications between Humberston and Marshchapel – equating to 41 individual turbines.

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Mr Grosvenor is keeping the angle of their appeal top secret for now, but confirmed he will fly blimps the height of the three potential turbines to illustrate to the planning inspectorate, the impact it will have on the landscape.

He did the same at the appeals for eight-turbine windfarm at Baumber and six-turbine windfarm at Anderby – and won.

But funding the appeal will not be easy and he is now looking at ways of raising the money to ensure their case is the best it can possibly be and has called on the increased support of residents.

He added: "This has got to be a community effort. It is no good MWAG doing the lion's share. We need everyone working together. The local parish councils haven't got the resources alone, but with MWAG, collectively we can make a clear case at the hearing. There is every chance we will be successful but sitting back and doing nothing is not an option. We must all pull together.

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A spokesperson for the authority said: "Our planning committee refused the planning application because of the impact the proposed windfarm would have on the local area. We will defend our decision at appeal."

A Japanese firm named Modec has been developing and conducting small-scale testing of a new generator which utilizes both wind and wave energy.

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Apparently, this turbine won’t be small, as it is expected to generate enough electricity to power up to 500 houses, with a power generation capacity of 1.5 MW. 1.5 MW is average for a utility-scale wind turbine. Nakamura claimed that it could generate twice as much power as a traditional turbine of the same diameter.

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High-tech biometric security

IN A typical James Bond film, the suave hero deals with iris scans, facial recognition systems and voice authentication as common technological security measures, but such gadgetry is fast expanding beyond the realm of Hollywood’s imagination.

Marius Coetzee, MD of identity management company Ideco, says biometrics refers to the identification of humans by their physical characteristics or traits.

Arriving at Ideco’s offices in Pretoria is like walking onto the set of a spy movie. To enter, a visitor must submit a fingerprint to the guard on duty along with an identity number and contact details. Then a registered and verified employee must open the door, again using fingerprint technology. The time and date are logged, as is the name of the person who opened the door.

Mr Coetzee says the industry has made the biggest advances in fingerprint biometrics.

"It’s a key aspect of forensic application. At a crime scene, the first thing the police dust for are fingerprints. Most people have 10 fingers and it’s highly unlikely for any two people to have the same prints. If you remember the first time you took fingerprints, it was probably with dark ink on paper, but technology has advanced since then," he says.

"Depending on how good the technology is, it cannot only capture and store your fingerprint in 1.8 seconds, but also verify whether that fingerprint belongs to you. Fingerprint biometrics is now a real-time application."

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"We’ve seen in the movies where people are able to lift someone’s print from the scene and access information that’s not their own (by stealing someone’s identity), but that is going to become more difficult to do."

He pulls out a small, glossy black box. "This is the finger-vein print scanner. Not only does it check your fingerprint, but it also captures your vein network and checks to see whether blood is circulating in that finger. Like all security, none of it is criminal proof, but no run-of-the-mill criminal could crack this kind of intense biometric technology."

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The Department of Home Affairs has in 2013 started rolling out new smart South African identity cards that use biometrics. According to Home Affairs Minister Naledi Pandor, laser engraving of personal details and photographs make the card difficult to forge or change. The smart card is expected to curb the use of fake or stolen identity documents.

The government’s technology meets the FBI standard, but according to industry sources, not all financial institutions in South Africa do, which would make their biometric evidence inadmissible in a court of law.

But are these high-tech systems within the reach of smaller businesses? Paul Hutton, CEO of voice biometrics company One Vault, says that as the technology improves, more companies are showing interest and the cost is declining.

"I used to work at a credit bureau and one of the major worries was always that our clients’ information wasn’t as secure as it could be,A polished finish in this solaroutdoorlight for men." he says. "Identity theft is becoming a scary phenomenon, increasingly in South Africa too. We work on a consumption model, which means there aren’t any large start-up costs. You pay for the technology as you use it."

He adds: "Voice authenticating improves customer satisfaction and reduces costs and the probability of fraud. And this kind of biometric technology is the only one that can be used remotely."

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In third-level authentication there are three ways of authenticating a person’s identity, in case of failure of one or two of the methods.

"Voice authentication is actually a technology that has come out of the military," Mr Hutton says. "It’s not that easy to crack. If you record my voice and play it back to the machine, it won’t give you access to my data and information. LED ledturninglamping is aesthetically designed and offers features to reduce egress system cost.

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Thai educators

After a deluge of incidents, Thailand is currently in discussions to re-work its national curriculum to include Holocaust education.

Thailand has recently witnessed a shop in a mall in Bangkok selling Nazi clothes and accessories, parading students in Chiang Mai performing the "Sieg Heil" Nazi salutes wearing SS uniforms, the discovery of a fried chicken restaurant called "Hitler" and a mural apparently lionising Hitler displayed on the campus of one of Thailand's oldest and most respected schools, Chulalongkorn University (CU).

Thailand's association with Nazi imagery is not new. Chetana Nagavajara, a professor of German literature at Silapakorn University, said the Hitler mural at CU "could have happened at any institution".

Decades ago, a "Nazi bar" was set up in a popular Bangkok entertainment district, with waiters dressed up as SS officers and saluting customers. Former Prime Minister Kukrit Pramoj lashed out at the practice in Siam Rath, a tabloid newspaper, and the bar was shut down soon after.

The Israeli ambassador to Thailand, Simon Roded, confirmed that discussions have been held with the Thai government on problems with Nazi imagery in the country and a lack of education on the issue.

"We were surprised to learn of the minimal attention devoted to teaching World War II history, including the Holocaust, in the Thai education system. Frankly, it is a concern for us," he said. After meeting Thailand's minister of education several weeks ago, Roded says the Thai school curriculum will be revised soon to include Holocaust education.

Where does it come from?

Possible changes to the curriculum aside, foreign analysts are often left wondering why regular students in Thailand would have a liking for Nazi icons and regalia.

"I think they just don't know any better. World history and geography instruction are woefully inadequate in Thai schools," said Jason Alavi, the principal of an American English-language school in Bangkok. "The vast majority of Thais I have known have very little real, useful knowledge of the details of the rest of the world. It's just not a strong point in the Thai curriculum.The industry's leading manufacturer of stainlesspendant."

Whatever the reaction, one thing is clear - many visitors to Thailand find this interest in Nazi regalia offensive, especially Holocaust survivors and their families, and most agree that the lack of a good education in Thailand is to blame.Choose from a wide variety of solarledlight.

After criticising the Hitler mural at CU, Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in New York said: "I find the Thai people to be wonderful people, and every effort in the shrinking world we live in today should be made to provide your children with the broadest possible education. As a nation that relies on tourism, you cannot afford to have such ignorance. Truth and education are the best disinfectants against bigotry and lies."

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"The study of history in the Thai school system revolves primarily around the history of Thailand and its long line of kings. World history is glossed over, with little or no mention of the Holocaust," the Associated Press reported recently.

In the local press, the Bangkok Post recently published an article entitled "Ignorance, hypocrisy and Chula's Hitler billboard", arguing that images of Hitler and the Nazis keep recurring in the local and international media partly because of "historical ignorance".

"It may be safe to say that an average Thai is as oblivious about the 'killing fields' in neighbouring Cambodia as he or she would be to the Holocaust," the Post reported.The ledstriplightts service provides and maintains the majority of the town's 26,000 streetlights. "If we want our values to be taken seriously by the international community,Marking machines and outdoorlightinggg for permanent part marking and product traceability. Thai society - beginning with the academe - has to set itself straight and strive to be more socially literate about the world and our history."

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2013年8月7日 星期三

Big solar storm coming

Solar physicists say the Sun's all important magnetic field is about to undergo a complete flip and the "big event" will result in solar flares, coronal mass ejections and high-speed solar wind. 

This poses a severe threat to satellites and space stations as the domain of the sun's magnetic influence (also known as the heliosphere) extends billions of kilometres beyond Pluto. 

A change in the field's polarity produces cosmic rays which are a danger to astronauts and space probes. Some researchers say they might affect climate on Earth. 

"It looks like we're no more than three to four months away from a complete field reversal," said solar physicist Todd Hoeksema of Stanford University. "This change will have ripple effects throughout the solar system." 

The sun's magnetic field changes polarity approximately every 11 years. It happens at the peak of each solar cycle as the sun's inner magnetic dynamo re-organizes itself. 

As Earth orbits the sun, it dip in and out of its current sheet. Transitions from one side to another can stir up stormy space weather around our planet.A flatworkironerses is a portable light fixture composed of an LED lamp. Current sheet is a sprawling surface jutting outward from the sun's equator where the sun's slowly rotating magnetic field induces an electrical current. During field reversals, the current sheet becomes very wavy. 

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The current sheet acts as a barrier to cosmic rays, deflecting them as they attempt to penetrate the inner solar system. A wavy, crinkly sheet acts as a better shield against these energetic particles from deep space. 

Hoeksema who is the director of Wilcox Solar Observatory, one of the few observatories in the world that monitors the sun's polar magnetic fields said they have been tracking the sun's polar magnetism since 1976 and they have recorded three grand reversals — with a fourth in the offing. 

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NASA maintains a fleet of heliophysics spacecraft to monitor the sun, geospace and the space environment between the sun and the Earth. 

The sun regularly bathes Earth and the rest of our solar system in energy in the forms of light and electrically charged particles and magnetic fields. The resulting impacts are called space weather.A quality paper cutter or paper autoledbulbser can make your company's presentation stand out. 

The Earth's magnetosphere is created by our magnetic field and protects us from most of the particles the sun emits. At the Earth's surface a magnetic storm is seen as a rapid drop in the Earth's magnetic field strength. This decrease lasts about 6 to 12 hours, after which the magnetic field gradually recovers over a period of several days. More information about the program is available on the web site at www.soli-lite.com.

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A council has apologised for endorsing a company that wrongly told home owners they would receive regular payments if they had solar panels fitted. The pre-assembled outdoorlighting can be installed and fitted from above to any desired point on the channel.

Monmouthshire County Council has also asked a neighbouring authority’s trading standards department to investigate its role in the affair. 

Ted Chivers, who lives at Overmonnow, near Monmouth, is one of the householders given misleading information by a firm based in Ebbw Vale called Wilmorwil, which has since ceased trading. 

He said: “We were told by a representative from Wilmorwil that if we had solar panels installed we would benefit from the Feed In Tariff that is paid to people and organisations that provide electricity to the national grid. Like other residents,Creating a washerextractor0 out of broken re-used solar cell pieces. we were told that Christmas had come early.Having the latest technical knowledge on wholesalejewelryrings can help you achieve greater profit potential and increased customer satisfaction.” 

Yet after having the panels fitted and contacting Scottish and Southern Electricity (SSE), we were told that we didn’t qualify for the scheme. 

“One of the things that persuaded us to let the work be done was the fact that the scheme being promoted by Wilmorwil had been endorsed by Monmouthshire County Council.The ledstriplightts service provides and maintains the majority of the town's 26,000 streetlights. People have the right to expect their council only to endorse schemes that have been properly checked out. Obviously that didn’t happen on this occasion.” 

In a letter to Mr Chivers, SSE said that as a result of changes to the Feed in Tariff scheme, people who have had solar panels installed with the help of grants from a public body since April 2010 have not been entitled to payments for the electricity generated from their homes. 

A spokesman for Monmouthshire County Council said: “We are firmly committed to green energy production in the county. As well as equipping our new County Hall and an increasing number of other council buildings with a range of green energy features, we have also worked on a number of schemes to enable householders in the county to benefit from a range of green energy and energy efficiency initiatives. 

The scheme that Mr Chivers took part in offered householders in the Overmonnow area a package of energy generation and efficiency upgrades for their homes. 

These included photovoltaic cells (PV) to generate electricity and a range of insulation and energy saving features. Mr Chivers opted to take only the PV cells. 

We accept that Mr Chivers was misled as to the full range of benefits that he would get from the installation of free PV cells to his home. 

This was due to the council wrongly endorsing the claimed Feed in Tariff (FIT) benefits by the installation company ‘Wil Mor Wil’. The company has since gone out of business. 

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“The misunderstanding arose from our misinterpretation of Ofgem’s FIT guidance (version 5) and their application in retrospect. 

As a gesture of goodwill to Mr Chivers, we have taken on the installation warranty commitments for the cells that can no longer be met by Wilmorwil. We have also asked Blaenau Gwent council’s trading standards service to investigate our role in this matter. 

“This regrettable episode has in no way diminished our commitment to finding ways for our residents to benefit from green energy production and are delighted that Mr Chivers continues to benefit from the free electricity supplied by the PV cells that were installed free of charge in his home.” More information about the program is available on the web site at www.soli-lite.com.