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Lewis Lapham's Antidote to the Age of BuzzFeed
With his erudite Quarterly, the legendary Harper's editor aims for an antidote to digital-age ignorance
- By Ron Rosenbaum
- Smithsonian magazine, November 2012, Subscribe
The counterrevolution has its embattled forward outpost on a genteel New York street called Irving Place, home to Lapham's Quarterly. The street is named after Washington Irving, the 19th-century American author best known for creating the Headless Horseman in his short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow." The cavalry charge that Lewis Lapham is now leading could be said to be one against headlessness—against the historically illiterate, heedless hordesmen of the digital revolution ignorant of our intellectual heritage; against the "Internet intellectuals" and hucksters of the purportedly utopian digital future who are decapitating our culture, trading in the ideas of some 3,000 years of civilization for...BuzzFeed.
Lapham, the legendary former editor of Harper's, who, beginning in the 1970s, helped change the face of American nonfiction, has a new mission: taking on the Great Paradox of the digital age. Suddenly thanks to Google Books, JSTOR and the like, all the great thinkers of all the civilizations past and present are one or two clicks away. The great library of Alexandria, nexus of all the learning of the ancient world that burned to the ground, has risen from the ashes online. And yet—here is the paradox—the wisdom of the ages is in some ways more distant and difficult to find than ever, buried like lost treasure beneath a fathomless ocean of online ignorance and trivia that makes what is worthy and timeless more inaccessible than ever. There has been no great librarian of Alexandria, no accessible finder's guide, until Lapham created his quarterly five years ago with the quixotic mission of serving as a highly selective search engine for the wisdom of the past.
Which is why the spartan quarters of the Quarterly remind me of the role rare and scattered monasteries of the Dark Ages played when, as the plague raged and the scarce manuscripts of classical literature were being burned, dedicated monks made it their sacred mission to preserve, copy, illuminate manuscripts that otherwise might have been lost forever.
In the back room of the Quarterly, Lapham still looks like the striking patrician beau ideal, slender and silvery at 77 in his expensive-looking suit. A sleek black silk scarf gives him the look of a still-potent mafia don (Don Quixote?) whose beautiful manners belie a stiletto-like gaze at contemporary culture. One can sense, reading Lapham's Quarterly, that its vast array of erudition is designed to be a weapon—one would like to say a weapon of mass instruction. Though its 25,000 circulation doesn't allow that scale of metaphor yet, it still has a vibrant web presence and it has the backing of a wide range of erudite eminences.
When I asked Lapham about the intent of his project, he replied with a line from Goethe, one of the great little-read writers he seeks to reintroduce to the conversation: "Goethe said that he who cannot draw on 3,000 years [of learning] is living hand to mouth." Lapham's solution to this under-nourishment: Give 'em a feast.
Each issue is a feast, so well curated—around 100 excerpts and many small squibs in issues devoted to such relevant subjects as money, war, the family and the future—that reading it is like choosing among bonbons for the brain. It's a kind of hip-hop mash-up of human wisdom. Half the fun is figuring out the rationale of the order the Laphamites have given to the excerpts, which jump back and forth between millennia and genres: From Euripides, there's Medea's climactic heart-rending lament for her children in the "Family" issue. Isaac Bashevis Singer on magic in '70s New York City. Juvenal's filthy satire on adulterers in the "Eros" issue. In the new "Politics" issue we go from Solon in ancient Athens to the heroic murdered dissident journalist Anna Politkovskaya in 21st-century Moscow. The issue on money ranges from Karl Marx back to Aristophanes, forward to Lord Byron and Vladimir Nabokov, back to Hammurabi in 1780 B.C.
Lapham's deeper agenda is to inject the wisdom of the ages into the roiling controversies of the day through small doses that are irresistible reading. In "Politics," for example, I found a sound bite from Persia in 522 B.C., courtesy of Herodotus, which introduced me to a fellow named Otanes who made what may be the earliest and most eloquent case for democracy against oligarchy. And Ralph Ellison on the victims of racism and oligarchy in the 1930s.
That's really the way to read the issues of the Quarterly. Not to try reading the latest one straight through, but order a few back issues from its website, Laphamsquarterly.org, and put them on your bedside table. Each page is an illumination of the consciousness, the culture that created you, and that is waiting to recreate you.
And so how did it come to pass that Lewis Lapham, the standard-bearer for the new voices of American nonfiction in the late 20th century, has now become the champion for the Voices of the Dead, America's last Renaissance Man? Playing the role T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and their magazine The Criterion did in the 1920s: reminding people of what was being lost and seeking some kind of restoration from the wasteland around them: "These fragments I shore against my ruin," as Eliot wrote at the close of his most famous poem.
Lapham traces his inspiration for this venture, his sense of mission, to the spellbinding influence of one mostly forgotten soul, an intellectual historian he met at Yale named Charles Garside Jr. who dazzled him with his polymath ability. With the very idea that becoming a polymath, coming closer to knowing more about everything than anyone else, was something to strive for.
"He was an inspiring figure," Lapham says, recalling long, late-night disquisitions in an all-night New Haven diner. "It was like I found a philosopher wandering in the academy."
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And how wonderful it is to have my hunch confirmed that LHL is indeed leading the charge for, if I may say it, resurrecting (or re-booting in a more sustainable way) the American Dream. What a gift to the process of civilization he is. Now if only he could share some political prescriptions that might occur to him…. Thank you, Ron Rosenbaum.
Posted by Jim Dustrude on December 7,2012 | 08:05 AM
How wonderful it is to read that my beloved and brilliant Uncle Chuck, Charles Garside Jr. as he is mentioned here, helped to inspire and influence someone as brilliant in turn as Lewis Lapham. He really was one of a kind.
Posted by Jon Garside on November 17,2012 | 06:52 PM
I am a great fan of the Quarterly and grateful for the dedication of its editors to collect and curate the world's classics. I caution you however--and the Smithsonian--to abstain from framing this effort in a way that makes it seem elitist and inaccessible to those who could be enjoying your efforts. I urge you to connect to contemporary experts in digital scholarship who somehow manage to preserve the old and classic with the new and modern in order to attract and inspire a whole new generation of polymaths. When the likes of Lapham die off, it may be partially their fault that not enough got to enjoy the fruits of their labor. Sometimes to preserve, one must invest in an effort to "port" the essence of the curatorial effort into formats that can be disseminated far and away. The few thousand copies you sell speak of an endangered practice. If you love what you do so much, why not set it free? Why not take the next step to having the digital Lapham's to a Google Scholar list of your inspired sources? We all wish we could afford an apartment of house with the physical space to have an amazing printed book library at our disposal, but we don't have that luxury. When I read your gems, I want to link out to the most inspired sources of further interest to where they came from. A curated semantic web of Lapham's would make me the happiest scholar alive. Give us some more insight into the interconnectedness of your beloved sources and you can harness all the ills of Google and transform them into something all of us could enjoy.
Posted by Marientina Gotsis on November 11,2012 | 05:17 PM
I would take issue with one statement in Ron Rosenbaum's otherwise excellent article "Lewis Lapham's Antidote to the Age of Buzzfeed". In the portion describing the influence that Charles Garside, Jr. had on Lapham while he was at Yale, Rosenbaum refers to Garside as "largely forgotten" As a former student of Garside at Rice University 1966-1970 who had a lasting impression made on me by Dr. Garside's eloquence, I would offer the following: 46 years after Garside left Yale and 20 years after his death, Timothy Dwight College at Yale still awards the Garside cup annually to "that senior in colege who has most highly distinguished him/herself in the field of history. The History Department at Rice University annually awards the Charles Garside, Jr. prize to a distinguished student of history. The Garside Papers in Fondren Library, Rice University are 9 linear feet in all. Gone but hardly "mostly forgotten>
Posted by Michael Tibbets on November 6,2012 | 12:02 PM
Editors slipped on including this article in their magazine, topic great author horrible. The Mr. Rosenbaum was too busy trying to use his thesaurus he forgot what he was writing about.
Posted by Roy Froebe on November 3,2012 | 06:25 AM
The problem I've had with reading Lapham's Quarterly is that I just want to go out and read the books they quote from. Every volume is a fresh reminder of how little time I have. So I feel like I'm wasting precious time reading sound bites when I should be reading sources. I guess it's a happy problem to have.
Posted by Daniel Urbach on October 31,2012 | 05:03 PM
Thanks so much for writing this. Mr. Lapham has been my hero for many years dating back to his earliest days at Harper's. He's one of the few people I think would be worth meeting and taking to lunch!
Posted by Ruth Speake on October 31,2012 | 10:57 AM
After decades of delivering information systems my concern has become information obesity. People consuming reams of data of all stripes and presenting it undigested as a substitute for decisions. Quality is one concern but quantity can bring an otherwise capable group to a grinding halt.
Posted by Jim Brennan on October 31,2012 | 08:18 AM
Way to bury the lede, Rosenbaum.
Posted by Edward R. Murrow on October 28,2012 | 04:59 PM
This is one of the most profound longreads I have come across online in many, many years. I arrived here not via social media, but via a 'River of News' feed which in itself aims to remedy many of Lapham's critiques of Buzzfeed et al. Thank You. HiMY SYeD / Toronto
Posted by HiMY SYeD on October 28,2012 | 04:14 PM
Very well-written. Thank you.
Posted by Ester de Beer on October 28,2012 | 03:37 PM
What is intriguing in the extreme about this article is that in its internet incarnation there are no hyperlinks to any of the writers/documents Lapham and Rosenbaum discuss and make reference to. That is how it used to be in humanity's past when your wisdom's depth was often both a function of your library's reach and the printed page's intrinsic opacity. It's not like that today in a digital information universe. And in that the pathway to and from information has profoundly been altered, our definition of what wisdom is may also be profoundly different. A wise 21st century person blazes a hyperlinked trail we readers can follow to arrive at the mental place they have gotten to in their rhetoric - or maybe somewhere else. And the latter sentence is quite important. Or maybe somewhere else.
Posted by stephen strauss on October 28,2012 | 02:46 PM
Nice piece, left me wanting to read Lapham's. You're mildly misquoting Eliot, though: you have "These fragments I shore against my ruin" but the line from The Waste Land is "These fragments I have shored against my ruins".
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Several watershed projects planned by the Feather River Coordinated Resource Management group, of the Plumas Corporation, are on hold for a final review by the executive committee Wednesday, June 27, from 1 to 4 p.m.
The projects were put on hold in April, after a special meeting to review the structure and processes of the organization, which is comprised of several state and county agencies and organizations.
Executive committee members met in May and reviewed only two projects in three hours, due to considerable discussion about the short meeting notice.
The Yellow Creek Humbug Valley Restoration Project was approved with little discussion, yet the committee stalled on the Upper Dotta Canyon Restoration project.
Indian Valley ranchers concerned about impacts to their water rights were present at the meeting and via the telephone.
Committee members agreed to delay their decision for a month, when they expect an engineering review of the project to be completed by the Natural Resources and Conservation Service.
Eight other projects were deferred for the meeting this week, during which they will also announce their appointment of the member at large.
Several nominations were made in May, including Jeff Carmichael, Russell Reid, Ken Roby and Heather Kingdon.
The meeting will be in the Plumas County Planning Department Conference Room, which is handicapped-accessible and located at 555 W. Main St. in Quincy, on the corner of Highway 70 and West Main.
Those who wish to attend via a conference call may dial (800) 867-2581 at the time of the meeting. The access code is 0439272#.
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1. Yellow Creek – Humbug Valley Restoration Project
Restoration of 109 acres of channel and meadow floodplain using ponds and plugs on Pacific Gas and Electric Co. land to re-establish hydrologic function, eliminate gullied channel as a sediment source and enhance meadow habitat.
Primary sources of funding are $99,000 for development and analysis from PG&E, and $297,400 for implementation and monitoring from the Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District Wetland Conservation Fund (ACOE Wetland Fund).
2. Last Chance Creek Phase II Restoration Project
Restore the hydrologic function of 402 acres of Plumas National Forest meadow to re-establish floodplain, stabilize 7.8 miles of channel along Last Chance Creek to eliminate gullied channel as a sediment source and enhance meadow habitat.
A potential Plan B is to buy water from Antelope Lake to compensate for any flow impacts on Indian Creek.
Alternatives that might be considered before the final environmental document is complete include check dams, bank re-vegetation and a scaling back of the pond-and-plug treatment to 212 – 263 acres.
Primary sources of funding are $2,118,750 from Proposition 50 Integrated Regional Water Management via Plumas County and $749,000 from National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, all for development, analysis and some implementation.
3. Rowland – Meadowview Restoration Project
Restore the hydrologic function of 256 acres of meadow along Rowland Creek and Last Chance Creek, which are private lands owned by the Matley and Peters families, and public lands managed by Plumas National Forest, to re-establish floodplain, eliminate gullied channel as a sediment source and enhance meadow habitat.
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4. Upper Dotta Canyon Restoration Project
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Concerns raised by downstream irrigators and an engineering review team resulted in changes, including closer monitoring, the formation of a five-year plan B and some design changes.
Primary sources of funding are expected to be $59,480 from the Plumas Resource Advisory Committee (RAC), $441,184 from the ACOE Wetland Fund and $120,000 from State Water Resources Control Board.
5. Spanish Creek in Meadow Valley Rehabilitation Project
Treatment of four locations on private lands owned by Soper-Wheeler Company and multiple creekside property owners within the Pineleaf subdivision for bank stabilization and removal of gravel bars to expand floodplain capacity, reduce bedload sediment and bank erosion, and rehabilitate aquatic and riparian habitats.
Primary sources of funding will be $44,300 from the Plumas County Watershed Forum, $22,000 for development and analysis from Plumas RAC, and $464,750 for implementation and monitoring from the ACOE Wetland Fund.
6. Integrated Greenhorn Creek Restoration Project
Treatment of six project reaches, including 22 acres of private lands along Greenhorn Creek in American Valley and 1 acre of land managed by Plumas National Forest, for stabilization of eroding stream banks and bed with boulder vanes, bank sloping and vegetation and the construction of two fish-passable riffle-pool structures to improve fish passage.
Landowner concerns at two public meetings were about how and when the banks would be stabilized.
Also, the county recently used some of the rock CC Myers donated for the project during the emergency at Dame Shirley Plaza.
Primary sources of funding are $19,550 from Plumas County Title III funds for development and $68,360 from Plumas RAC for analysis and implementation of the Reid/PNF Reach, which is already complete.
7. Red Clover Confluence Restoration Project
Restore the hydrologic function of approximately 1,800 acres of channel/floodplain system on private Red Clover Valley lands using pond-and-plug.
Primary sources of funding are $75,000 from the landowner for development and $53,300 from Plumas RAC for development and some analysis. No implementation funding has been secured.
Since planning funds were exhausted in early 2012, the focus has been on fishery and water rights concerns.
A fishery committee was formed, and has met several times.
The committed involvement of numerous partners has allowed the fishery-related work to move forward.
A Plan B that could address potential downstream flow impacts during construction is also being developed.
8. Spanish Creek in American Valley Rehabilitation Project
Treatment of three project reaches on private lands with multiple owners along Spanish Creek implementing gravel management through removal of gravel bars to expand floodplain capacity; stabilizing eroding stream banks with bank sloping, boulder vanes and vegetation; and rehabilitating aquatic and riparian habitats.
The primary source of funding is $38,000 from the Plumas County Watershed Forum for development. No analysis or implementation funding has been secured.
9. Fitch Canyon Restoration Project
Restore meadow on private land within Fitch Canyon on tributary to Cottonwood Creek upstream of Big Flat meadow to re-establish floodplain function and improve habitats for wildlife and aquatic species.
Primary funding is $2,000 from Ducks Unlimited Intermountain West Joint Venture for preliminary surveys.
10. Mountain Meadows Restoration Project
Three separate project reaches on private lands within the Mountain Meadows region on upper Goodrich Creek, Mountain Meadows Creek and an un-named tributary are proposed for meadow restoration to re-establish floodplain function, reduce fine sediment, improve forage production and enhance habitats for wildlife and aquatic species.
The Feather River CRM is a participant in the Mountain Meadows Watershed Group, a recently formed organization whose mission is to restore the health of the Mountain Meadows/Goodrich Creek watershed.
The group includes the Mountain Meadows Conservancy, PG&E, W.M. Beaty & Associates, Stroing family, USDA Forest Service Almanor Ranger District, California Department of Fish and Game, Honey Lake Resource Conservation District, Sierra Pacific Industries, local landowners and interested citizens.
The primary source of funding, so far, is $14,700 from Ducks Unlimited Intermountain West Joint Venture for preliminary project surveys.
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Posted 04 September 2004 - 10:36 AM
It is nice to have a bit of transparncy there, a bit of clear answering.
Posted 05 September 2004 - 07:49 AM
Although it does very much depend on the planned use for these forums, if it is to aid communication between members then I think it is perfectly valid to keep it within the membership.
In their answers they say the forums are...
I agree you could argue that ultimately given the goals of SEMPO feedback should be received from all, and not just members, but like anything that has a membership, you would expect the members to have additional routes of communications and influcence over the organisation they joined.
For example, I am a member. I joined because I agree with the goals of SEMPO (as it would appear many do) but also like many people, I think it's not had a great first year in setting out a plan to achieve these, so rather than stand on the sideline pointing out the errors I choose to join and try to influence from within.
Just my worth.
Posted 05 September 2004 - 09:51 AM
Not being a smarty, I am just curious.
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Posted 05 September 2004 - 10:23 AM
After all, even if all of their decisions and policies have to be public, I don't think the discussions that lead to those decisions do.
Posted 05 September 2004 - 10:27 AM
Posted 05 September 2004 - 10:28 AM
Aren't there different levels of non-profit?
Posted 05 September 2004 - 10:52 AM
I do know that having members only data is thin ice. especially as they are researching information about the industry they are promoting and have as their main goal to help.
But Like I said I am not sure about the legalities of it all, and that is why they have done a good thing in appointing a not for profit specialist. All moving in the right direction now.
Posted 05 September 2004 - 10:58 AM
It will be interesting to see if they find out they can no longer promote their different levels of members any more. What will happen if that's the case? Many people joined because of that level of promotion. If that is no longer available, will they leave?
What about the board members themselves? If any of them are motivated by the self-promotional aspects of being a board member, will they leave if this is no longer a viable option?
It will certainly be interesting to watch over the next 6 months!
Posted 05 September 2004 - 12:03 PM
In real world terms, if someone who is an organic SEO specialist ever post to the SEMPO Members Only forum for help/recommendations on PPC, they could have legal issues. Same if two SEMPO members decide to work together on any For Profit project and it is ever mentioned on their forums.
Assuming that knowledge ever became public of course.
That's just a layman's opinion, because that's what it is, based upon the legal advice that we received with the last two NP's I sat on the board for. We were told point blank by two different law firms that we would be better off not having any sort of Members-only area of the web sites.
The way it was explained to me both times, a very unlikely occurance since neither NP had any connection nor did the law firms, was that it would be akin to some or all of the board members/regular members getting together in a sit-down meeting and trading business. That's illegal becuase membership alone is gaining a financial benefit for those who "belong".
The real problem is that the people who are being charged with the duty to take care of that area (forum Moderators in SEMPOs case) are not non-profit attoneys. So it would be far too easy to a legal line being crossed without even realizing it.
Probably a ticklish situation at best as OWG indicated, unless they're going to have their attorney review every post made to the SEMPO Forums. Given the track history so far doesn't lend a lot of confidence. Based upon the little I know about the Law and what SEMPO has in mind, if they're going to do the whole Members-Only forum thing, they'd be better off making the entire corp a For Profit organization.
Randy - who obviously isn't an attorney
Posted 05 September 2004 - 12:11 PM
I see absolutely nothing wrong with an organisation charging different levels of membership fees for diferent levels of priviledge. that is business IMO, clear cut and perrfectly fine. It is just the NFp status and the laws you have to work within, are absolutely scary.
Dump the NFP thing, and bite the bullet on the tax benefits, then just run it as a business and shove a finger up at the detractors
Posted 05 September 2004 - 12:17 PM
The reason you have a committee is to make things more efficient. Many of the areas of the forum are designed for comittees to discuss matters with each other. Once the comittee actually makes a recommendation, then certainly the membership (and the public) are entitled to know about it.
A 501c is entitled to have "members-only" events and related resources. They are NOT entitled to have "members-only" events and resources that would be profitable to the members at the expense of the public. There is a difference. The key is "profit". That's why it's called a non-profit.
I don't think people are very clear on this distinction. A lot of people seem to think there should be no difference between membership and non-membership status, and no difference between the executive and membership, and no difference between the exectutive and the directors.
There is. These concepts exist within a 501c and all companies because there is an inherent difference in liability between, for example, a director and a non-member. This requires different rules for each. It would be considered harrassment to start phoning up or contacting random non-members and compaining about SEMPO policy to them. Just because a non-member is entitled to certain information does not make them liable for it. Just because some of their tax money goes to support it doesn't mean they are a member. Otherwise, I'd be a member of every church, religion and society in Canada.
There are many blatently for-profit corporations that pay little or no taxes. In this manner they are supported by tax payers. Since I'm not a citizen of the US, NONE of my personal taxes go to SEMPO at all.
The tax angle is being overplayed, IMO. It's been held in supreme courts in every country of the Commonwealth (and the US) that just because your taxes go to something doesn't necessarily put you personally in charge, nor are you entitled to *not* pay a certain percentage of your taxes for things that you disapprove of. Some people have tried to argue that they disapprove of military spending and therefore are entitled to not pay that percentage to the government. All this supports that the payment of taxes does not automatically create a connection to an individual taxpayer and everything tax money touches.
You pay taxes to a pool of money, not to a collection of individual uses for the money.
There is a significant legal difference. For one thing, that makes the taxpayer liable to the government and the government liable to the taxpayer. On an individual project basis (meaning anything from non-profit societies to roadwork to healthcare) the individual projects are responsible to the GOVERNMENT and vice versa.
Back to SEMPO membership issues. Why allow members to vote in elections and not non-members? Isn't that discriminatory? Isn't it a non-profit?
There is a difference between members and non-members - legally, there has to be. How could you charge for a membership and then not give them anything in return? Wouldn't that be bordering on government sponsored fraud?The fact that the legislation allows and assumes membership requires that there be a difference. The difference simply cannot be PROFIT.
I'm not arguing for a lack of communication. I'm saying that SEMPO members are entitled to send emails for each other without the legal requirement of CCing everyone else on the planet, and likewise they are entitled to have a forum to discuss issues that affect members.
If the forum starts up a job board or something, THEN the status of the corporation becomes important, but not until, IMO
Edited by mcanerin, 05 September 2004 - 12:34 PM.
Posted 05 September 2004 - 12:25 PM
As Randy points out, you have to be very careful about posting anything that's profit-related into a members only forum and for this reason many non-profits avoid it.
But in SEMPOS' case, due to the international flavor and widespread membership, it would unfairly exclude members to only hold meetings that were appropriate to the California timezone, to choose one example. A forum allows a written record and is far more inclusionary then email, IMO.
PS: It just occured to me that since I'm a SEMPO member, the guy doing the initial legal review, and commenting in a thread about SEMPO that my comments here could be taken as an official communication. It is not. It's a personal opinion.
Edited by mcanerin, 05 September 2004 - 12:31 PM.
Posted 05 September 2004 - 12:45 PM
I have a few other questions that I don't want to bore people with, which I'm going to send you privately. If there's anything worthwhile that come of it in terms of SEMPO, we can post more of it here or in the other SEMPO thread...
Posted 05 September 2004 - 01:00 PM
I am not being difficult or stirring the pot or anything, I was just pointing out the way things run in the UK. I know that it is different in the US etc. SEMPO is a great opportunity, I really don't want to see it squandered.
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Workshop Will Assist Native Americans in Applying for Federal Grants to
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TULSA, OK - The National Energy Technology Laboratory is conducting a one day, no cost workshop to demonstrate how to respond to the most recent Native American Solicitation, Applications of Petroleum Technologies on Native American and Alaskan Native Corporation Properties for the Benefit of the Entire Tribe/Native Corporation.
The workshop will be a hands-on demonstration of the new electronic application process - the Industry Interactive Procurement System (IIPS). Attendees will have the opportunity to learn about the solicitation goals and objectives, as well as the step-by-step application process. The workshop will be held January 29, 2002 in Las Vegas, NV at the Stardust Resort and Casino. The U.S. Department of Energy supports the development and application of innovative petroleum technoolgies on Native American and Alaskan Native Corporation lands that increase resource and economic development while protecting the environment. This program is directed toward creating cooperative efforts between the Tribes or Corporations and the oil industry. Approximately $1.2 million of DOE funding is planned for this solicitation. DOE anticipates issuing approximately two to five financial assistance (grant) awards with a project performance period from one to two years in length. |
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Calvi's B-17
On February 14, 1944, the Flying Fortress (bomber B-17) of sub-Lieutenant Frank G. Chaplick, based in Foggia (Italy), was on a mission to bomb the marshalling yard of Verona (Italy). During this mission, the bomber was hit by enemy fire and two of its four engines caught fire, a third was also shot and started "coughing". The crew managed to shoot down a Messerschmitt Me-109 (German fighter) during the combat before the Allied fighter P-47 Thunderbolt came to the rescue. One of these fighters then escorted the B-17 that took a direct route to Calvi (Corsica - France).
On this crew of 10, the radio, the port gunner and the rear gunner were killed during the attack. Despite the very degraded performances of a four engine aircraft with only two remaining engines, the crew managed to reach the airport of Calvi. On final approach to the runway, while flying over the sea, one of two engines still in operation broke down and the B-17 remained with only one engine. This new power loss did not permit to maintain the final approach slope and the pilot took the only possible decision: to try to ditch.
The operation, with three engines failed, was all the more delicate and Frank Chaplick performed a feat of skill by successfully landing on the water his flying fortress in front of the citadel of Calvi.
All 7 crew members still alive survived the ditching, could evacuate the aircraft - which floated a few moments - and were finally rescued by boat. Frank Chaplick, born May 22, 1920, was only 23 years!
It was his 37th and last war mission flying a B-17 with his crew whom the headquarter felt that they had fulfilled their quota of missions and deserved to return to the U.S.. This feat earned Frank Chaplick his second prestigious medal "Purple Heart" to be added to the seven "Air Medal" he received for various war missions.
Although still very young, Frank Chaplick had indeed already received a "Purple Heart" during the attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, where he was then stationed, where he was wounded and from where he was a survivor and a veteran.
Appointed instructor back in the US, Frank Chaplick finally left the army and became an air traffic controller in civil aviation.
Frank Chaplick died May 16, 2003, a week before his 83rd birthday. His B-17, historical and symbolic heritage, is for ever resting by a depth of some thirty meters (100 feet) in the clear waters of the Mediterranean sea...
This photo was taken with a special filter to reveal the colors of both the bottom and the bomber, which strobes could not light up on such a wide scope. The light conditions were exceptional on the day of the shooting, which led to these colors although the depth did exceed the maximum operational depth of the filter.
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All good things come to those who wait? Naaaahhhhh. The "New Moon" soundtrack was set to be released next Tuesday, but now it's become one of the rare albums to have its release date pushed up. Summit Entertainment issued a release saying "due to overwhelming and unprecedented demand," the soundtrack will come out this Friday!
Adding to the great news, Myspace announced earlier this week that starting yesterday the site will premiere songs from the album on its official New Moon profile, allowing fans to listen to all 15 tracks in their entirety legally. Led by Death Cab for Cutie's with the official song for the movie titled "Meet Me on the Equinox", the soundtrack album is made up solely of "original and exclusive" songs. Muse, who contributed to the first movies soundtrack, is making a return with another track titled "I Belong to You (New Moon)". The line-up also include Thom Yorke, The Killers, and OK Go. Regardless of your level of affection for vampires who sparkle, the album has been getting pretty decent reviews and may be worth paying attention to even if you're not swept into the whole "Twilight" hysteria. "New Moon" will open on November 20th, giving us fan enough time to reread the book with the soundtrack blaring in the background. Twi-hards, you now have 35 days from today to get this done!
In other related news, the official soundtrack for the first movie in the franchise, "Twilight." is nominated in the category for favorite soundtrack at this years AMA's, alongside the soundtracks for "Hannah Montana: The Movie" and "Hannah Montana 3." If you've been living under a rock for the past year, some of the Twilight soundtrack artist include Paramore
with the movies official song "Decode", Robert Pattinson, and Muse - just to name a few. The awards show will take place on ABC on November 22nd, just two days after The "Twilight Saga: New Moon" movie is released, and voting is still ongoing.
This is one franchise that has no signs of slowing down. "Overwhelming and unprecedented demand" is every movie exec's dream. So be prepared for a few more years of Robert Pattinson and sparkling vampires. You have been warned.
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Alberta Ferretti's fall 2013 collection showcased at Milan Fashion Week, proved once again that simplicity can indeed look amazingly chic and spectacular. The famous designer described her line as being sensual, extremely feminine and a little fragile. And boy oh boy, it was a real achingly lovely and elegant line featuring an array of delicate and uber-feminine goodies. Simple elegance is served up on dreamy silhouettes and a monochrome flare. "It's the recognisable Ferretti shape and still authentic, the importance is the precise ... Read More
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It seems that Macy's has picked yet another uber-tallented fashion designer to collaborate with and this time the surprise will come from Alberta Ferretti. The designer will create 30 amazing pieces for Macy's Impulse line this year, outfits that will be limited edition and sell for just 10 weeks. To give the fans a sneak peak, Alberta Ferretti and Macy's Impulse department released two sketches featuring two of the garments that are going to hit the shelves. The Italian designer is known for creating soft and ultra feminine designs, and thi... Read More
Macy's is continuing its fruitful collaborations with esteemed fashion designers teaming up this time with renowned Italian designer Alberta Ferretti to bring high-end styles to fashion addicts at a more affordable price. The collection which features the designer's trademark soft and flowing silhouettes enchants from first glimpse, so if you're all about underlining your fashion icon style, take a peek at Alberta Ferretti's Impulse line for Macy's and pick up your favorites as with a retail price ranging between $49 to $119 and with a retai... Read More
A veritable display of elegance, sophistication and whimsicality marked the Alberta Ferretti spring 2013 show. The designer chose to reflect the aquatic world through a series of spectacular elegant ensembles that exude femininity and excite imagination despite their subtlety. Flowing fabrics, intricate details, a melange of simplicity and daintiness can make even every heart melt regardless of whether you define yourself as a tomboy or a girly girl. The new season doesn't seem as flashy and conspicuous as previous ones. However, this proves... Read More
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Sasha Pivovarova is the main character in the Alberta Ferretti spring/summer 2011 ad campaign. Just a glimpse at the photos taken by Paolo Roversi it seems like entering into a fantastic world where everything begins with "Once upon a time..." and ends with "...and they lived happily ever after." For the latest Alberta Ferretti ad campaign, a series of bohemian and sweet photos were made depicting a beautiful and innocent girl wearing stunning chiffon and lace dresses. In fact, this campaign flawlessly reflects the spirit of the spri... Read More
This year we had the opportunity to see the well known Harry Potter star, Emma Watson, involved in many projects that placed a strong emphasis on a sustainable lifestyle. The latest People Tree collaboration is perhaps the most relevant example in this sense, as it expresses her concern for environmental problems in a highly artistic manner. Those who kept track of the latest news about the star cannot help but notice the series of events that subtly anticipated and promoted the actresses' latest fashion line, called Pure Threads. With the l... Read More
The new Philosophy fall 2013 collection is filled with modern pieces oozing a particular femininity and romanticism. Natalie Ratabesi's offer for the upcoming cold-weather season included appropriate pieces in order to keep you both warm and stylish. Still, cozy chunky knits seem to remain essential items in our wardrobes. There were Mongolian ski sweaters and some cool hand knits that guarantee to add a comfy and effortlessly chic touch to your wardrobe. After her pre-fall debut collection for Philosophy di Alberta Ferretti, it was... Read More
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[Beowulf] Re: torus versus (fat) tree topologies
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Note that the large BlueGene/L machine(probably the fastest in the world) uses a couple different networks. IBM's paper "An Overview of the BlueGene/L Supercomputer" describes them: "The nodes are interconnected through five networks: a 3D torus network for point-topoint messaging between compute nodes, a global combining/broadcast tree for collective operations such as MPI_Allreduce over the entire application, a global barrier and interrupt network, a Gigabit Ethernet to JTAG network for machine control, and another Gigabit Ethernet network for connection to other systems, such as hosts and file systems..." The main communication one is a 3-D Torus. Torus topologies do eliminate expensive switches, since nodes connect directly to other nodes, however there may be issues with latency. A message must be sent to one node and then forwarded, which is slow if software is involved, but may be supported on the NIC(as is done in BG/L). The fat tree networks allow high bisection bandwidths, along with large numbers of contention free "virtual" paths, all using dedicated(maybe line speed) hardware which gives low latency. One of the hardest parts of HPC is the latency that kills many fine grained parallel applications. Also using a separate network allows nodes to die, without breaking the network(or its routing algorithms). And most people are more familiar with tree style networks like ethernet, so it is easy to adapt to fat-tree. One further thing to note is Fat Tree's give multiple contention free paths between nodes whereas a normal tree only has a single path between any two nodes. So that is one reason why Fat Tree's are used in big machines. Isaac Dooley Parallel Programming Lab, UIUC >My investigation thus far has led me to believe that one reason a torus >topology might be better is because it eliminates the need for a switch. > On the other hand fat tree interconnects seem to dominate the >larger(est) clusters out there, why?
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AEP Releases New Research Bulletin
AEP's latest research bulletin, Preparing Students for the Next America: The Benefits of an Arts Education, offers a snapshot of how the arts support achievement in school, bolster skills demanded of a 21st century workforce, and enrich the lives of young people and communities. It draws on the research in AEP's ArtsEdSearch.
ArtsEdSearch Has a New Look!
AEP's ArtsEdSearch—the nation's first and only research and policy clearinghouse focused entirely on student and teacher outcomes of arts learning—has a fresh new look! The new design includes more ways to help you search for information, a news feed, and a discussion feed. Visit the new ArtsEdSearch today!
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LA GRANGE – Village Trustee Mike Horvath and Clerk Thomas Morsch took part in their final meeting as members of the Village Board May 13.
Horvath, who championed fiscal responsibility, lost his reelection bid and is being replaced by David McCarty. Several residents thanked Horvath and questioned the board's future without his accountability.
"You always did the right thing even if it meant going against a misguided majority," Kathy Deane said. "You always asked the right questions; ones that certain folks hoped you wouldn't ask."
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This year alone, 795,000 people in the United States will have a stroke. Use MySilverAge's easy-to-follow brochure to learn how to handle medical emergencies before they happen.
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From January's perch I have decided to take a look back at 2012. It was certainly a year of media, where companies struggled to find their footing in Web 3.0, where mobile became the buzz word and visual media–both videos and photos–proved there is no end to creativity or time to view everything from lovely photos on Pinterest to videos of every length and topic across the World Wide Web.
Google published its Zeitgeist, a list of lists of trending topics throughout the world. Google's top ten images included mostly pop singers and the iPhone. I am not sure what that says about our collective tastes.
Over the weekend, newspapers from the New York Times (and online) to our local Journal News published their year in pictures as television stations ran their video montages we always called, "The Year Ender."
I have my own year-ender rolling in my head. Beyond family, it is filled with images of political campaigns debated, won and lost, binders full of women, Big Bird and Elmo, Olympic athletes competing in London, wars raging in Iran and Afghanistan with more body bags coming home, the Mideast ablaze in rocket attacks, famine in Africa, a man with flaming red hair who opened fire in a crowded theater, and the most indelible of all for me were the images of the double-whammy close to home: Sandy and Sandy Hook. The most haunting, of course, remains the shooting rampage at a quiet little school in a nearby hamlet in CT where my children have friends and where it could have been Any Town USA. Photos of children's faces frozen in time and Christmas trees adorned with memories will linger. It was a year marked by a country galvanized politically and marked by violence where young soldiers and young children died in vain.
And how did the media handle it? By looping photos and images over and over again. But did they need to? Images never leave us now. They are just a click away.
It's hard to miss news or the images it provides. If you didn't see it on TV, there's a clip in your Facebook newsfeed shared by a friend. There's an alert in your email about breaking news, or a Google alert on a topic you find interesting.
My colleague, Sean Womack at Touchstorm took stock after the presidential election of how the campaigns used video for better or for worse. He seemed to think they could have used it in a better way to convey the stories they wanted the world to see rather than those they didn't (like Romney and the 47% debacle). As Sean says, with smartphone cameras, nothing is off the record ever. Here's Sean's take: The Camera is Always Rolling
Meanwhile, I look forward to the images of 2013. No presidential politics and, I hope, no pictures of tiny children lost to this world for no reason.


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