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Somehow this isn't very surprising. Bloomberg reports today on the contuing shift in financial support of Wall Street executives from President Obama to Republican presidential hopeful, and friend of the banks, Mitt Romney.
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Our friends at Brave New Foundation have teamed with Alternet and Salon to document how the Democrats on the "supercommittee" have actually received far more defense industry campaign cash than the Republicans serving on the committee.
It seems that Big Oil isn't the only one reaping the benefits of taxpayer subsidies after showering Congress with campaign cash and employing scores of lobbyists on Capitol Hill. The Colorado Independent reports on how Big Sugar has been sweetening the pot for members of Congress for years, and getting what they want in return.
As Public Campaign Action Fund noted yesterday, presidential hopeful Gov. Rick Perry's (R-Texas) ties to pharmaceutical giant Merck run a lot deeper than a $5,000 check, as he claimed in Monday's Tea Party debate. And it seems we weren't the only ones who noticed.
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Distributed filesystems effortlessly juggle enormous files in the gigabyte and terabyte ranges. The Kosmos filesystem plans to impress its competitors.
Modern computer programs handle increasingly large volumes of data. Whereas data-mining applications are content to sift through mountains of existing data, Internet search engines constantly horde new information. Users who access this data regularly encounter files of several gigabytes or more.
Legacy filesystems soon reach their limits with this kind of data and throughput. Consequently, organizations that manage huge volumes of data need an alternative solution for fast and safe access. Having redundant data storage is useful; after all, who wants to lose the valuable data gained by several days of number crunching because of a banal disk error?
Distributed filesystems fulfill these requirements. A distributed filesystem splits the data into manageable chunks and stores the chunks on a scalable cluster of computers. By virtualizing storage on the cluster, the filesystem then tricks applications into believing that they are talking to an enormous hard disk.
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The Kosmos filesystem (KFS) [1] is a promising new entry into this field. Kosmix Corporation developed KFS and released the source code under the Apache license. The first alpha version 0.1 appeared in September 2007. KFS's relative youth shows when setting up the filesystem: KFS requires 64-bit Linux. If possible, the Linux version and distribution should be identical on all the computers involved in data storage.
KFS is up against a number of renowned competitors, including Google filesystem (GFS), which Google uses as the underpinnings for its search engine, and Hadoop project's HDFS [2]. The KFS developers lifted much of the structure and functionality from Google, but they have removed a number of limitations. KFS – like GFS – is optimized for scenarios in which many large files are created once but read many times [3].
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KFS thus works much like a database that resides between a computer program and the traditional filesystem (see Figure 1).
KFS first splits a file into handy 64MB blocks. The filesystem distributes these chunks evenly over all attached servers, aptly referred to as block or chunk servers. The servers store the blocks on normal filesystems that belong to the host operating systems.
If the chunk servers start to run out of storage capacity, the administrator can simply add a new computer to the cluster. KFS automatically adapts the new storage node, which keeps the whole system scalable and helps it keep pace with increasing storage demands.
KFS mitigates hardware errors by storing the blocks from every single file redundantly on multiple chunk servers; typically, three instances of each file placed in storage exist.
This safety net allows administrators to deploy standard PCs as cheap, but reliable, data repositories. Google FS proves that this works day after day. If a disk or server fails, you just replace it with a new one. KFS detects the replacement and automatically integrates the newcomer into the cluster.
As another preventive measure against data loss, each block has both a version number and a checksum. KFS evaluates the checksum on each read operation. In case of irregularity, the distributed filesystem deletes the defective chunk and replaces it immediately with an intact copy (re-replication).
Version numbers help to identify obsolete chunks: If a poor Internet connection temporarily separates one server from the cluster, it can identify obsolete chunks quickly when the connection is reestablished and retrieve the more recent variant from the other servers in the cluster.
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The film was another critically lauded blockbuster for the director, and won four Academy Awards for its technical wizardry. Nolan followed Inception with the third blockbuster film in the Batman franchise, 2012's The Dark Knight Rises,
this time starring Anne Hathaway as Catwoman and Marion Cotillard (who was also in Inception) as Miranda Tate.
Nolan was the sole screenwriter for Following and Inception. Excluding Insomnia, he has shared writing credits for his other films with Jonathan Nolan, among others.
Cinematic Sensibilities
Nolan's movies are known for their intellectualism, psychological depth and unorthodox storytelling. Both Following and Memento had non-chronological narrative structures, with Memento receiving much of its attention for unfolding episodically in backwards time. And Inception has stories that exist within other stories, as the characters explore the realm of a person's highly layered unconscious mind.
The director's work has also focused on male protagonists who try to come to grips with their past while working through complex challenges of the present day. Women in his films have been written as allies and/or romantic interests, some of whom become casualties as well.
Nolan imbues vivid artistic sensibilities into films that are positioned as mainstream entertainment, as seen with the imagery and cinematic choices that abound in the Batman series and Inception, with scenes resembling surreal paintings given life. Nolan's choices have significantly influenced filmmaking, proving that complexity can exist in the commercial.
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Nolan has dual citizenship within the United States and Great Britain, and is married to Emma Thomas, who has worked as a producer on all of his feature films. The couple has four children.
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St. Martin of Tours
Patron of Soldiers
When Sulpicius Severus first met Martin of Tours he was stunned. Not only did the bishop offer him hospitality at his residence -- a monk's cell in the wilderness instead of a palace -- but Martin washed Sulpicius' hands before dinner and his feet in the evening. But Sulpicius was just the kind of person Martin showed the greatest honor to -- a humble man without any rank or privilege. People of nobility and position were turned away from his abbey by chalk cliffs, out of fear of the temptation to pride. From that visit, Sulpicius became Martin's disciple, friend, and biographer. Little is known of many of the saints who died in the early years of Christianity but thanks to Sulpicius, who wrote his first biography of Martin before the saint died and who talked to most of the people involved in his life, we have a priceless record of Martin's life.
Born in 315 or 316 in Pannonia, a Roman province that includes modern Hungary, Martin came into a world in transition. Christians were no longer persecuted by the Roman empire but Christianity was still not accepted by all. Martin's father, an Roman army officer who had risen through the ranks, remained faithful to the old religion and suspicious of this new sect, as did Martin's mother. Therefore it was Martin's own spiritual yearning and hunger that led him to secretly knock on the door of the local Christian church and beg to be made a catechumen -- when he was ten years old. In contemplative prayer, he found the time to be alone with God that he ached for. In the discussion of the mysteries, he found the truth he hoped for.
He was still an unbaptized catechumen when he was forced to join the army at 15. The Roman army apparently had a law that required sons of veterans to serve in the military. Still, Martin found this so far removed from his desire to be a Christian monk that he had to be held in chains before taking the military oath. Once the oath was administered he felt bound to obey. He was assigned to a ceremonial cavalry unit that protected the emperor and rarely saw combat. Like his father, he became an officer and eventually was assigned to garrison duty in Gaul (present-day France).
Even in the military Martin attempted to live the life of a monk. Though he was entitled to a servant because he was an officer, he insisted on switching roles with his servant, cleaning the servant's boots instead of the other way around!
It was on this garrison duty at Amiens that the event took place that has been portrayed in art throughout the ages. On a bitterly cold winter day, the young tribune Martin rode through the gates, probably dressed in the regalia of his unit -- gleaming, flexible armor, ridged helmet, and a beautiful white cloak whose upper section was lined with lambswool. As he approached the gates he saw a beggar, with clothes so ragged that he was practically naked. The beggar must have been shaking and blue from the cold but no one reached out to help him. Martin, overcome with compassion, took off his mantle. In one quick stroke he slashed the lovely mantle in two with his sword, handed half to the freezing man and wrapped the remainder on his own shoulders. Many in the crowd thought this was so ridiculous a sight that they laughed and jeered but some realized that they were seeing Christian goodness. That night Martin dreamed that he saw Jesus wearing the half mantle he had given the beggar. Jesus said to the angels and saints that surrounded him, "See! this is the mantle that Martin, yet a catechumen, gave me." When he woke, it was the "yet a catechumen" that spurred Martin on and he went immediately to be baptized. He was eighteen years old.
We don't know much about the two years that followed but his baptism must have fed his growing desire to make a total commitment to Christ, a commitment that was in conflict with his military role. This conflict came to a crisis when the nomad Franks and Allemanni invaded the empire.
It was the practice at the time to give money to soldiers before battle, in order to infuse the soldiers with a greater love of their country and desire to fight. When Julian lined up the soldiers in Gaul to give them their bounty, Martin refused to accept the money -- and to fight -- saying, "Put me in the front of the army, without weapons or armor; but I will not draw sword again. I am become the soldier of Christ." There seems to be no evidence that Martin had been in combat before so perhaps he never had to reconcile his Christian beliefs with war. In any case, it does seem an unfortunate time to make such a decision. Julian, furious at what he saw as cowardice, told Martin he would grant him his wish and put him right in the middle of battle the next day. Until that happened, he had Martin imprisoned. However, against all predictions and all explanation, the nomads sent word that they wanted to negotiate for peace and the battle was postponed. Martin was released from his prison and from the army.
Searching for direction in his new life, Martin wound up in Poitiers, seeking the guidance and example of Saint Hilary. Hilary wished to make this promising young man a priest but Martin, out of humility, refused even to be ordained a deacon. He finally agreed to be ordained an exorcist (someone who performed rituals for those who were sick or possessed) when Hilary told him his refusal meant that he thought he was too good for such a lowly job.
On a trip over the Alps to visit his parents, he was attacked by robbers who not only wanted to steal what he owned but threatened to take his life. Calm and unperturbed, Martin spoke to the robbers about God. One was so impressed he converted and became a law-abiding citizen who told his own story to Sulpicius years later.
But Martin was to find even more trouble in his own home town. Though his mother converted, his father stubbornly refused. When Martin began to denounce publicly the Arian heretics that were then in power throughout the empire -- even within the Church -- Martin was whipped and driven out of his own hometown!
He could not escape trouble by leaving. When he discovered that Hilary had been exiled from Poitiers as well for the same reason, Martin went to an island near Milan to live as a hermit. The Arians soon discovered that Hilary was even more trouble in exile, because of the writing he did, and let him come back. When Hilary returned to Poitiers, Martin was there to meet him and renew their old friendship. In order to fulfill Martin's call to solitude, Hilary gave Martin a wilderness retreat. As disciples came to Martin for direction, he founded a monastery for them called Ligug. It was there he performed the first of many miracles. When a catechumen died before baptism, Martin laid himself over the body and after several hours the man came back to life. Sulpicius also had talked to this man who was baptized immediately but lived many years after that. Martin remained in this monastery near his teacher and friend until after Hilary died.
This was still the era when bishops were chosen by the people and when the bishop of Tours died, the people decided they wanted an example of holiness as their new bishop. After that their choice was simple -- Martin. But as well as they knew his holiness, they also knew he would never agree to be a bishop so they conceived a trick. A citizen of Tours came to Martin and begged him to come visit his sick wife. When the kindhearted Martin got to Tours crowds of people came out of hiding and surrounded him. Unable to escape, he was swept into the city. The people may have been enthusiastic about their choice but the bishops there to consecrate the new bishop declared they were repelled by this dirty, ragged, disheveled choice. The people's reply was that they didn't choose Martin for his haircut, which could be fixed by any barber, but for his holiness and poverty, that only charity and grace could bring. Overwhelmed by the will of the crowds the bishops had no choice but to consecrate Martin.
Instead of living in a palace, Martin made his first home as bishop in a cell attached to a church in hopes of being able to maintain his lifestyle as a monk. But at that time bishops were more than spiritual pastors. With the Empire's administration disintegrating under outside invasion and internal conflict, often the only authority in a town like Tours was the bishop. People came to Martin constantly with questions and concerns that involved all the affairs of the area.
To regain some of his solitude Martin fled outside the city to live in a cabin made of branches. There he attracted as many as eighty disciples who wanted to follow him and founded the monastery of Marmoutiers. He kept in touch with Tours through priest representatives who reported to him and carried out his instructions and duties with the people.
It may seem from this that Martin did not get involved with what was going on but Martin was deeply committed to his responsibilities.
One of those responsibilities was, he felt, the missionary conversion of those who still held to various non-Christian beliefs. In those early days of Christianity such old beliefs survived in abundance. He did not attempt to convert these people from a high pulpit or from far away. His method was to travel from house to house and speak to people about God. Then he would organize the converts into a community under the direction of a priest of monk. In order to let them know of his continued love and to keep them following the faith, he would then visit these new communities regularly.
Of course he ran into resistance. In one rather ridiculous scene, locals decided to get back at him by dressing up as the gods. So in the middle of the night, he was visited by a waggish talkative Mercury, a doltish Jupiter, and an enthusiastically naked Venus, as well as various "wood spirits." Needless to say, he was unconvinced by this show.
In one town, when he tried to convince the locals to cut down a pine tree they venerated, they agreed -- but only if Martin would sit where the tree was going to fall! Martin seated himself directly under the path of the leaning tree and the townspeople began to cut from the other side. However, just as the tree began to topple, Martin made the sign of the cross and the tree fell in the opposite direction -- slowly enough to miss the fleeing townspeople. Martin won many converts that day.
Martin tore down many non-Christian temples and always built a Christian church in their place to make a point about true worship and give people a genuine replacement for their false idols. In once case when a huge tower was not torn down under his orders, a bolt of lightning came to destroy it after his prayers.
Martin was also dedicated to freeing of prisoners, so much so that when authorities, even the emperors, heard he was coming, they refused to see him because they knew he would request mercy for someone and they would be unable to refuse. Martin was so dedicated that few escaped his entreaties. One who didn't was a general named Avitianus who arrived at Tours with ranks of prisoners he intended to torture and execute the next day. As soon as Martin heard of this cruel plan, he left his monastery for the city. Although he arrived there after midnight, he went straight to the house where Avitianus was staying and threw himself on the threshold crying out in a loud voice. Sulpicius tells us that it was an angel who awakened Avitianus to tell him Martin was outside. The servants, certain Avitianus was dreaming, reassured him there was no one out there (without looking themselves). But after the angel woke him up the second time, Avitianus went outside himself and told Martin, "Don't even say a word. I know what your request it. Every prisoner shall be spared." Remarkably enough Sulpicius had this story from Avitianus himself, who loved to tell it.
Martin was human and made mistakes. In spite of what we may think of people in earlier times, many were skeptical of his visions of demons, believing them to come from too much fasting. He also announced eight years before he died that the Antichrist had been born. But his visions, whatever the source, are still instructive.
At one point the devil appeared to him dressed in magnificent robes, encrusted with gold and gems, and announced he was Jesus and that Martin was to adore him. Martin immediately saw the mistake the devil had made (and had to make) and asked, "Where are the marks of the nails? Where the piercing of the spear? Where the crown of thorns? When I see the marks of the Passion I shall adore my Lord." Jesus would not come in riches but with the signs of his suffering and poverty.
Martin's compassion was as well-known as his miracles. In just one case out of many a father came to him griefstricken that his daughter had never spoken. Martin healed her by asking her to say her father's name -- which she did.
However it was this compassion and mercy that led to what he considered his greatest mistake. Bishops from Spain including a bishop named Ithacius had gone to the emperor soliciting his help in destroying a new heresy taught by a man named Priscillian. Martin agreed completely that Priscillian was teaching heresy (among other things, he rejected marriage, and said that the world was created by the devil) and that he should be excommunicated. But he was horrified that Ithacius had appealed to a secular authority for help and even more upset that Ithacius was demanding the execution of Priscillian and his followers. Martin hurried to intervene with emperor Maximus, as did Ambrose of Milan. Martin stated his case that this was a church matter and that secular authority had no power to intervene and that excommunication of the heretics was punishment enough. He left believing he had won the argument and saved the heretics but after he left Ithacius began his manipulation again and Priscillian and the other prisoners were tortured and executed. This was the first time a death sentence had been given for heresy -- a horrible precedent.
Martin's mistake was yet to come. He hurried back in order to forestall a massacre of the Priscillianists. Once there he absolutely refused communion with the bishops who had murdered the people. This was a strong statement that rejected the persecuting bishops as part of the communion of the Church.
Unfortunately, the emperor Maximus knew the key to Martin's heart. He had prisoners that supported the former emperor Gratian in captivity and knew Martin wanted mercy for them. Maximus said that he would free these prisoners if Martin would share communion with Ithacius. Martin agreed to do so, but afterwards was so overcome with shame and guilt for giving in to such evil that he never went to any more assemblies of bishops.
On his way home, still weighed down with a feeling that he had sinned by communicating with Ithacius, he had a vision of angel who told him that although he was right to regret what he did, he was wrong to brood over his faults. "You saw no other way out," the angel said. "Take courage again: recover your ordinary firmness; otherwise you will be imperilling not your glory but your salvation." This advice we all should remember if we dwell too much on our mistakes.
Martin died when he was over 80 years old on November 8. Historians disagree on the year and place it anywhere from 395 to 402. His feast is November 11, the day he was buried, at his request, in the Cemetery of the Poor.
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4 days ago
how inspiring this is truly amazing and im glad to be writing a saint report on him :) lololololololollolololololoololol
3 months ago
Very inspiring. I am choosind St. Martin as my Confirmation Saint
4 months ago
I am very impressed by this story of St. Martin of Tours of which I have much of. I understand that the people of northern Italy when surnames became compulsory in the 12th century , that many took on the surname of Martino, which was later extended with the surnames such as my own appearing. Others like Martinelli, Martingano,Martinengo,Martinich,Martinoglio etc are also extensions of the surname of Martino. In my case Martinaglia means, ''Son of Martin''.
1 year ago
I don't know much about st Martian until I was struch by present in a church one day looked for st Antony . I wil play to him he was a great and holy person
1 year ago
St. Martin of Tours, Please pray for us to be more humble in our day to day life.
1 year ago
Please pray for Jacob that he finds the right path, for his parents that they find the strenght and wisdom to guide him and for all cancer patients that they deal with their disease with grace and dignity. Thank you.
1 year ago
Dear Saint Martin,
I'm really glad that I read your life biography today. You are such a great servant of God. Thank you for your good examples. Please I do pray to you, to intercede in my prayers for wisdom and understanding, reverence and love to the poor, to be humble and generous and above all to put God first in everything I do in life.
Pray for me my dear Saint. Thank you. -
1 year ago
Great St Martin of Tours i belive in you please pray for me and my family
God bless you
Amen -
1 year ago
Im learning about saint martin tours and i thing some one can help me to discover him so I cam get an A on my science report thank you:)
2 years ago
ST.martin you know my worries today only so that i may be at peace wickeds have joined to harass me
2 years ago
Saint Martin, I now know of your great gifts of wisdom, forgiveness and compassion. These gifts are also evident in my father, Martin, your namesake. I humbly ask that you would look on my father with compassion and heal him of all illness. He is loved greatly by his family. We cannot bear to lose him and still need to learn from his wisdom. Please hear my earnest and sincere request and I promise to tell all of your intercession, for the greater glory of God, father to us all.
2 years ago
Your article states that St Martin-in-the-Fields Church at Trafalgar Square is named after St Martin of Tours. Can you tell me where that information comes from please? Many thanks
2 years ago
Martin Luther was named after St.Martin of Tours born on the same day.
2 years ago
I was praying today at St. Martin Cathedral in Tours. Amazing place. I needed some explanation of what I have seen there and I got it here. Life is amazing miracle with many coincidences!
2 years ago
St. Martin of Tours, please pray for us!
2 years ago
Thanks for this update & always care to send me more information about my catholic teaching so that i can grow more in the knowledge of the church.
Well done all & keepfit.
2 years ago
What a great detailed account of an amazing person. Very humbling to read and great experience to read pray for us.
2 years ago
Dear St. Martin of Tours, I'm deeply touched and edified by your choice in life. Though born of nobility into high military office, you choose a humble life of service to Our Lord. However, God honoured and bestowed you with much, much more as we can see. How many miracles were wrought through your powerful intercession. Dear Saint, today, on your feast-day, which also happens to be auspicious in numerology 11/11/11 in the Asian world, I would like you to pray for my aging mother. She undergoes terrible sleepless nights, screaming and shouting. We are distraught too. Please give her Heavenly calm and send sweet angels to her bedside. We need your powerful intervention for her to be cared for as best as possible till she surrenders her soul to the Almighty. Amen.
2 years ago
Dear St. Martin of Tours, what privileged people we are to have this detailed and thorough account of your humble, saintly life. What I would like to think about, amongst the emormous details, stroies and narratives is the part where you gave away half of your tunic to a beggar. At night Jesus appeared to you to say that He had received your half tunic. All this means to say that whatever we do for someone, unknown to us is truly done to Christ Himself.
The other sweet story is the one about your fighting tooth and nail for mercy, even mercy towards the heretics. What a humble saint you are! You knew how seriously wrong these heresies were, but you did not judge the sinner. You did not behave like some of us like to. We display holy indignation at the faults of others, only to appear better than them. I admire you and pray to you to help me get over my pride and "better than thou" attitude.
Dear Saint, lastly, I would like to take away this simple, yet powerfu lesson. When you regretted something that you had done, you were advised by the angel that it is right to regret our mistakes, but wrong to brood over our faults. This is something I'd like to learn, however long it may take me.
Dear St. Martin, pray for my dear, loving son, also named Martin, for all his needs, both spiritual and temporal. Give him a true love of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. Grant success for the work of his hands...in his career. Free him from a financial loan. He has had his share of adversities. Please protect him and his family. Amen -
2 years ago
I would love to have a book with a Biografy of Sao Martinho,,,"Vai a adega e prova o Vinho" . rank Baptista
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Critical Essays
Critical Essays
Konrád, György (Vol. 10)
Konrád, György 1933–
Konrád is a Hungarian novelist and social worker. The Case Worker is his best known translated work, gaining its power, according to Irving Howe, "from Konrád's gift for the vignette, the suddenly snapped picture, as if taken from a slightly overfocused camera." (See also CLC, Vol. 4.)
The Case Worker, a first novel by the young Hungarian writer George Konrád, has been widely praised in the West…. The Case Worker is horrific, and Konrád possesses both the power to see and the power to describe what he sees. But there is much to make reservations about: his violent, remorseless battering of the feelings causes monotony, his rhetorical seizures which spatter the reader with a hundred hot adjectives in a few sentences are, it seems to me, the easy but wrong way to the effect he wants….
What is memorable about the book is neither its narrative structure nor its tirades: Konrád's real achievement is, in fact, his evoking of a "case," the brilliant, economical creation of a character in a trap. He is a very talented writer, but The Case Worker is the sort of abreacting, subjective novel which does not yet prove him a gifted novelist and which, by its nature, can't be repeated in variation or developed upon. Konrád's next work will probably tell us more.
Neal Ascherson, in The New York Review of Books (reprinted with permission from The New York Review of Books; © 1974 by NYREV, Inc.), August 8, 1974, p. 16.
With the skill of a social scientist, the compassion of a humanist, and the stylistic pyrotechnics of the avant-garde, Konrád [in The City Builder] outlines the political, social and economic history of an unnamed East European city….
Much of The City Builder reads like an extended essay, although it is profoundly literary. Its ideas arrive in language of extraordinary power and plasticity. Moreover, by constantly condensing and telescoping events, Konrád manages to pack a number of potential novels into his text. Alfred Kazin has said that novels cannot be written anymore, only scenarios. Eastern European novelists and film makers are particularly adept at schematic, elliptical modes of composition. Konrád merely hints at the specifics of time and place, yet each hint is crucial, for it evokes a state of mind and a way of life. The true protagonist of the novel is the city, whose main square, with its impressive public buildings and statuary, is a memorial to mock heroism and real suffering. The narrator finds his city at once cozy and confining, irreplaceable and detestable—"an Eastern European showcase of devastation and regeneration" that "can welcome its enemies with salt and bread and, having taken crash courses in the art of survival, change its greeting signs, statues, scapegoats—its history."
In his much-praised first novel, The Case Worker, Konrád already proved his stylistic...
(The entire section is 407 words.)
George Konrád's first book, "The Case Worker," was a fictive essay built with blocks of grotesque realism: the daily horrors of the lives of the poor and helpless, the deficient, abandoned, crazed and rejected…. Its thesis was that our urban culture grows more vacant of humane values in proportion to our power to process masses of people through a machinery designed to give them well-being….
Still, "The Case Worker" accepts love, is drenched in compassion as it offers a traditional humanist solution of the problem of human imperfection. Konrád sees that it is just the problem—the intolerable evil inherent in our defective human condition—that spurs the revolutionist, and infuriates the...
(The entire section is 525 words.)
"The City Builder" is written as an interior monologue delivered by a city planner—a Socialist bureaucrat who lives and works in an "East-Central European city."…
The namelessness of speaker and city—besides possibly indicating a diminished individuality owing to East-Central European political circumstances—emphasizes the general pertinence of Konrád's theme, which is the bitter disappointments of middle age. East European Socialist middle age, true; but readers of diverse persuasions will recognize, if they don't also share, the planner's close attention to his aging body, his feeling of private and professional failure, his absorption in thoughts of death and of the sexual joys of the...
(The entire section is 449 words.)
Konrád, György (Vol. 4)
Konrád, György 1933–
Konrád is a Hungarian social worker and novelist. He is known to Americans as George Konrád.
Beneath the lowest rung of society live the speechless. They are the broken and deranged, the flotsam and the lumpens, all those helpless people who have signed a separate peace with reality and now choose not to confront regulations, skills, responsibilities….
Modern literature has noticed them not as "cases" but as creatures…. [Never,] to my knowledge, have they been evoked with such intimate authority and grating clarity as in "The Case Worker," a brilliant first novel by a new writer from Hungary. With this one book George Konrád, himself a social worker in Budapest, strides to the forefront of contemporary European literature….
It is a powerful book, and it gains its power from Konrád's gift for the vignette, the suddenly snapped picture, as if taken through a slightly overfocused camera. The graphic prose carries one from paragraph to paragraph, with no expectation of pleasure or accumulation of suspense, yet a need to share in the fated journey of a mind seeking to reach its limits.
Necessarily, there are losses in this kind of fiction, and the very success of this novel helps to define them. The vignette, the prose snapshot, the virtuoso passage cannot yield us that experience of a sustained narrative that Lionel Trilling has described as "being held spellbound, momentarily forgetful of oneself, concerned with the fate of a person who is not oneself but who also, by reason of the spell that is being cast, is oneself, his conduct and his destiny bearing upon the reader's own." No; in reading "The Case Worker" we are not held spellbound, we are not forgetful of ourselves, since the author is trying for other effects—the effects of a kind of ratiocinative blow, almost a cringing before the extreme possibilities of existence. But what saves the book from mere shock is that Konrád believes overwhelmingly in the moral significance of other people's experience, and writes out of the conviction that the world, no matter how terrible, is still the substance of our days.
The materials of this book are of a kind that in recent years have often become the special property of documentary movies—we have even been told that the old-fashioned printed word cannot match the film for vividness. But "The Case Worker" shows, if anyone doubts it, that language remains the greatest of human powers, with unrivaled capacities for evocation, parallel and echo. A notable debut, a remarkable achievement, and a vindication of the word.
Irving Howe, in The New York Times Book Review (© 1974 by The New York Times Company; reprinted by permission), January 27, 1974, pp. 1, 24.
A grim talent of Eastern Europe has emerged: one who has the ability to invest the sinister with a fool's cap without diminishing its horror or our humanity. Konrad is now under surveillance, probably for being talented enough to describe reality. Well, you can say this about the Iron Curtain countries: they certainly know who their best writers are.
Martin Washburn, in The Village Voice (reprinted by permission of The Village Voice; © 1974 by The Village Voice, Inc.), February 28, 1974, p. 23.
For ten years, the middle-aged, middle-echelon bureaucrat in a contemporary Budapest child-welfare organization who is the narrator of this scathing first novel ["The Case Worker"] has listened to his "clients'" grotesquely similar, "massive, tentacular, and incurable woes"; he has said "Have a seat, please," some thirty thousand times, he speculates; and he has swept so much pain and remorse off his desk with a bang of his rubber stamp that he feels like "a surgeon who sews up his incision without removing the tumor." The narrator takes us through the encounters of a typical, depressing, frustrating day, through his nightmare-like store of memories of past cases, and, at one point, through a fantasy he entertains about shedding his bureaucrat's armor, leaving his family, and caring for an idiot five-year-old whose parents have recently poisoned themselves. The language is straightforward and utterly unsentimental, which makes the incurable illnesses, perversions, cruelties, lies, and social injustices he describes on page after page all the more shocking. Pity and loathing tug at the case worker (and at the reader) with equal force. The case worker's task—patching up the injuries that the wretched inflict on each other, and especially on their children—is, of course, comically Sisyphean, obscenely unaccomplishable. Such raw human suffering as is depicted here is infrequently the subject of works of fiction, and even more infrequently the theme of a writer as skilled, brilliant, and willing to take risks as Mr. Konrád. This is an almost unbearable book to read, but it should not be missed.
The New Yorker, March 11, 1974, p. 134.
At first glance, there doesn't seem to be anything either absurd or particularly Eastern European about The Case Worker, a stunning first novel by George Konrád, a young Hungarian writer (in a translation by Paul Aston).
For these precise and dispassionate accounts of the most horrendous forms of degradation and suffering have also become something of an Eastern European specialty—if only because they are so simple and straightforward, and never sensationalist or self-indulgent in the Western manner. (In reading Konrád's book, one thinks inevitably of Jerzy Kosinski who in his terse tales of human perversity has also drawn on his Eastern European experiences.) But Konrád, though he himself worked as a superintendent in a child welfare agency and has, like Kosinski, a background in sociology, is not merely a dispassionate observer and recorder….
What makes Konrád's book a remarkable achievement—what transforms the sociological content of his work into art—is that he succeeds in revealing, with his physical descriptions even more effectively than with the actual case histories, the true state of his clients…. Konrád, almost in the manner of the French nouveau roman, constructs a world of precisely observed objects—but his objects speak, and their tales of woe remain vivid.
The only other examples of Konrád's stylistic departure from his clinically concise narrative are his occasional anguished outbursts. But even in the searing parallel sentences of these prose poems, we find no rhetorical exaggeration, only an intense concentration on fact, a mixture of impassioned plea and ironic understatement…. Konrád's novel is not only an artistic tour de force, it is also a moral triumph—a book without despair is not altogether despairing.
Ivan Sanders, in The New Republic (reprinted by permission of The New Republic; © 1974 by Harrison-Blaine of New Jersey, Inc.), March 16, 1974, p. 26.


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- The column highlights Whitney Tilson's critique of 3D Systems and the company's recent warning, argues 3D printing/additive manufacturing "remains slow and cumbersome," and notes the presence of rivals such as printing services firm Shapeways and leading metal printer maker EOS.
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- "We do not expect 3D printing to garner a meaningful share of the global manufacturing industry in the near term, with the total market size of 3D printing, as per Wohlers Associates, estimated to grow to $6B by 2017 (from $2B last year), largely falling short of the conventional manufacturing space ($93B)."
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- Also mentioned is ExOne (XONE) for its binder jetting technology currently employed by Ford to create part prototypes, and Organovo (ONVO) for 3D bioprinting technology to create functional human tissue.
- On the 3D printing software side, Dassault (DASTY), Autodesk (ADSK), ANSYS (ANSS), and PTC (PMTC) get a mention, while Proto Labs (PRLB) is noted in services.
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Sunday, Jul 152012, 5:18 AMBoeing (BA) reportedly offers to share more technology with Brazil if the government upgrades its Air Force with the U.S. company's F-18 Super Hornet jets. Boeing, which is vying with France's Dassault for the multi-billion dollar deal, would give Brazilian firms the chance to make components for the F-18 and for other projects. |Sunday, Jul 152012, 5:18 AM| 3 Comments
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Senate Bill 80, which unanimously passed the Senate this week, could legalize a common practice in arid Colorado.
"We don't see a lot of people rushing forward to say I'm breaking the law," Isgar said. "But it's possible people have been using runoff in a questionable way that this would make legal."
Colorado water law currently forbids rainwater catchment anywhere in the state because it must be allowed to move into rivers and streams for use by those who hold the water rights.
Isgar's bill would apply only to owners of exempt wells, which are not administered under the priority system. Exempt well permits are issued only to those who can not get water from a municipality or water district but its uses are restricted.
"There hasn't been a lot of opposition because it's tied so closely to the well permit," Isgar said. "You cannot expand usage beyond what the well permit allows."
Isgar said allowing rainwater catchment actually could reduce injury to downstream users because it would reduce well pumping that draws down the aquifer.
SB 80 now goes to the House, where it will be sponsored by Rep. Marsha Looper, R-Calhan. She also is sponsoring a more controversial rainwater catchment bill that has yet to reach the House floor for debate.
Looper's House Bill 1129, which has the backing of the State Engineer's office, sets up a pilot project for up to 10 developments to collect rainwater from rooftops and impermeable surfaces to see what the impact would be on downstream water users.
"We will pick the projects that truly give us the data we need," Kevin Rein, a Division 1 water engineer. He said the State Engineer's office is hoping to collect a minimum of two years of data on small, medium and large projects.
The House Agriculture, Livestock and Natural Resources Committee unanimously approved the bill, but only after Looper offered an amendment to require participants to augment 100 percent of the rainwater collected.
"The bill now clearly states there must be a substitute water supply plan in conjunction with 100 percent augmentation," Looper said.
HB 1129 is awaiting a hearing in the House Appropriations Committee along with any other bills that require state funding.
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Most of the appropriations are to continue projects that previously have been authorized, such as a $1 million appropriation for the Colorado River water availability study or $1.5 million to develop a statewide grant program for water projects that prevent the permanent dry-up of agricultural land.
"There's really nothing controversial in it and the money's there because we get 10 percent of the FML (federal mineral lease) dollars," said Isgar, who is sponsoring the bill.
Isgar also said Western Slope concerns about a "water grab" are being addressed in a pair of bills aimed at helping South Platte River irrigators whose wells have been shut off or sharply curtailed because they don't have augmentation plans in place.
The House on Monday passed and sent to the Senate a bill sponsored by Rep. Jim Riesberg, D-Greeley, which eliminates the requirement that depletions from well pumping prior to 1974 must be accounted for in augmentation plans that still are pending in Division 1 water court.
House Bill 1174 affects about 400 wells users that the Central Water Conservancy District accepted into its plan after the demise of the Ground Water Appropriators of the South Platte (GASP).
The Senate sponsor of HB 1174 is Sen. Mary Hodge, D-Brighton, who also has introduced what could be the most controversial water bill of the 2009 legislative session.
Senate Bill 147 would allow the State Engineer to approve substitute water supply plans in permanent augmentation plans for the repayment of out-of-priority depletions from the stream prior to 2003. The bill would apply only to wells in Division I (northeast Colorado) and would expire in 10 years.
"Right now you can't use substitute supply plans for augmentation," said Hodge, who's bill is scheduled for hearing next week in the Senate Agriculture Committee. "This would just give them a quicker way to get water when it's available."
A similar bill was introduced last spring when water providers said they had some surplus water to sell because of the heavy snowpack. It was immediately opposed by surface water users and Western Slope interests.
"There's language (in SB 147) to say we're not taking more water from the Western Slope," Hodge said. "We needed to assure the Western Slope that this wasn't a water grab."
One of the bigger water-related issues could be fee increases that the administration is proposing to help fill a $1 billion hole in the state's budget for next fiscal year.
State Engineer Dick Wolfe said his office is recommending $3.1 million in fee increases to reduce spending from the general fund. They include increasing well permit fees from $100 to $600 per application; increasing well inspection fees from $40 to $60; removing the $3,000 cap on fees associated with dam design review; and increasing from $300 to $2,000 the cost of administering each substitute water supply plan.
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Leipzig, Feb. 27, 2007 (CWNews.com) – In Leipzig, Germany, a brother and sister have launched a campaign to abolish criminal laws against incest.
Patrick and Susan Stubing, who are the parents of 4 children, are asking legal permission to continue their romantic relationship. Patrick has already served one prison term for violating German laws against incestuous relationships, and faces another sentence because he refuses to leave his sister.
Patrick Stubing, who was adopted as a young child, did not know his parents or siblings until 2000, when he found his birth mother and his younger sister Susan. Their mother died soon thereafter, leaving the children alone, and a romantic relationship was kindled.
Leaders of Germany's Green Party have voiced their support for the Stubings' cause. "We must abolish a law that originated last century and today is useless," said party spokesman Jerzy Montag. Critics of the laws against incest say that they were developed as a product of Hitler's theories on racial purity.
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Quail, Texas is located in Collingsworth. Nearby cities and towns include Hedley, Memphis, Samnorwood, Shamrock and Wellington. Quail is a rural community with a population of 19. The median household income in Quail is $44,999. 71% of residents are married and families with children reside in 37% of Quail households. Half the population of Quail commutes 12 minutes or more to work, with 100% of residents holding white collar jobs and 0% residents holding blue collar jobs.
The median age of homes in Quail, TX is 50 years, with 53% of those homes owned, 7% rented and 38% not occupied. Find a Coldwell Banker real estate agent in Quail, Texas today.
Homes for Sale around Quail
702 Waldron St
McLean, TX 79057
4 Beds, 2 Baths