Jozef Imrich, name worthy of Kafka, has his finger on the pulse of any irony of interest and shares his findings to keep you in-the-know with the savviest trend setters and infomaniacs.
''I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.''
-Kurt Vonnegut
Charlie Teo has raised eyebrows with the announcement of his plan for a billion-dollar medical-based development in Sydney.
Disgraced former NSW Labor politician Eddie Obeid has been released from Silverwater jail after serving three years behind bars for misconduct in public office. Eddie Obeid released from Silverwater jail, but facing new trial Dear Angus Taylor ... let me remind you of our encounter at Oxford and why it matters
While Do the Right Thing’s fatally flawed ending (violent looters — led by the character played by Spike Lee — destroying their favorite neighborhood pizza restaurant after a minor character in the film was killed by the police) garnered plenty of controversy for Lee, it was Aiello’s performance that gave the film its heft and made it watchable.
According to IMDB, Aiello “was a bus driver and the president of the Greyhound Bus union in his 30s before he pursued acting,” and quotes him as saying, “I was 40 when I did my first movie. I didn’t know what the hell I was doing. My interpretation of acting at the time, because I didn’t know how to build a character, was pure energy. People call me an instinctive actor. I used to consider that an insult early on, only because I had never studied. Now… I love it.”
What Are the Larger Implications of Ex Libris Buying Innovative?
Ithaka S+R: “Earlier [on December 5, 2019], news began leaking out that Ex Libris will purchase Innovative Interfaces,
one of its largest competitors. The deal, which is expected to close in
early 2020, further cements Ex Libris as the leader in the library
systems marketplace and can be expected to put added pressure on OCLC.
It will also raise concerns about Ex Libris’s dominant market position.
Ex Libris’s core business is in library systems, including its flagship
cloud-based platform Alma. Ex Libris’s strengths have been in higher
education globally, and in recent years it has been moving into adjacent
spaces such as supporting course readings and the research enterprise
(in the latter area, S+R provided them with some facilitation and
advisory services earlier this year). Ex Libris is owned by ProQuest,
which has a variety of content businesses, including aggregations of
journals, books, theses, and primary source material, with an audience
quite a bit larger than higher education. Innovative provides a number
of library systems, currently marketing both Sierra and Polaris. Its
strengths have been with public, special, and smaller academic
libraries. This sale represents an exit for its private equity owners…”
The author of Ducks, Newburyport(yes, the 1,000-page, one-sentence novel) has some ideas. Lucy Ellmann: “I find the annual celebration of contemporary writing, the Xmas lists of 2019 books, quite offensive. It seems so arrogant. These lists suggest that the most relevant books must be the ones most recently published. That’s daft. It’s nice of people to take an interest in new writing of course, especially when one has a book out that year oneself, but let’s face it, it’s a marketing ploy. They want to shift some books, and to do so they glory in the ‘now’ – while everybody knows readers would get more from reading Ulysses or Woolf or Kafka.” – The Guardian (UK)
“I am deeply grateful for the work in Potter and indeed Downton, but it wasn’t what you’d call satisfying. I didn’t really feel I was acting in those things.” – The Guardian
Camus had sided publicly with the Hungarian uprising since autumn 1956, and was highly critical of Soviet actions. He also publicly praised and supported the Russian author Boris Pasternak, who was seen as anti-Soviet. – The Guardian
“The poem we call Gilgamesh is based on copies of a work assembled over a millennium after the earliest stories were written in Old Babylonian. … A specific scribe, editor, collator, poet is given credit for bringing it all together. He may also have been an exorcist, magician, diviner, priest or seer; or a combination of these not unrelated vocations. He was active between 1300 and 1000 BCE. … He goes by the name of Sin-leqi-unninni.” – Literary Hub
How to Use a Data-Scraping Tool to Extract Data from Webpages
maketecheasier
– “If you’re copying and pasting things off webpages and manually
putting them in spreadsheets, you either don’t know what data scraping
(or web scraping) is, or you do know what it is but aren’t really keen
on the idea of learning how to code just to save yourself a few hours of
clicking. Either way, there are a lot of no-code data-scraping tools
that can help you out, and Data Miner’s Chrome extension is one of the
more intuitive options. If you’re lucky, the task you’re trying to do
will already be included in the tool’s recipe book, and you won’t even
have to go through the point-and-click steps involved in building your
own…”
For many many other resources and tools to extract data from web pages – please see 2020 Guide to Web Data Extractors – This guide by Marcus P. Zillman
is a comprehensive listing of web data extractors, screen, web scraping
and crawling sources and sites for the Internet and the Deep Web. These
sources are useful for professionals who focus on competitive
intelligence, business intelligence and analysis, knowledge management
and research that requires collecting, reviewing, monitoring and
tracking data, metadata and text.
“The closure of almost a fifth of the UK’s libraries over the last 10 years comes against a backdrop of a 29.6% decline in spend … since the Conservative government implemented austerity in 2010.” The number of paid librarians and other staffers has fallen by more than one-third in the same period. – The Guardian
This
chapter advances the claim that judges have an ethical obligation of
competence that requires them to enhance their knowledge about language
(in the context of statutory interpretation) and income tax law design
and policy. It articulates some of the foundational understandings that
support that competence and provides a simple hierarchy of approaches to
interpreting income tax law. It concludes by contending that greater
competence is not only more ethical but also advances other important
societal goals fulfilled by the imposition of income tax systems. ...
Ultimately,
judges should seek to interpret income tax legislation in a fashion
that respects our interdisciplinary understanding of how words are used
to express ideas and supports the effective functioning of income tax
legislation.
In
2018, I resigned as a trustee of the University of Pennsylvania and an
overseer of its law school to protest the shameful treatment of law
professor Amy Wax.
Her
sin, in the eyes of her detractors, was to question the wisdom of
racial preference policies that brought to the law school, in her
estimation, black students who did not rise to the top half of the
class.
Her challenge to campus orthodoxy led to a firestorm. ...
In
1967, the University of Chicago’s widely respected Kalven
Committee—which was assembled to explore the university’s role in
political action—warned:
There
is no mechanism by which [the university] can reach a collective
position without inhibiting that full freedom of dissent on which it
thrives. … The neutrality of the university … arises out of respect for
free inquiry and the obligation to cherish a diversity of viewpoints.
...
I now look upon a once-beloved campus and see oppression the likes of which I did not think possible.
At 25, he picked up Finnegans Wake and tried to read it. He did not get far. He was stopped by a 100-letter word in the middle of the first page. How do you read a 100-letter word, he wondered? “But I’m in music school at the time, practicing the piano every day, and I realize the only way to read a 100-letter word is to practice it like I practice the piano. – The Stranger “It is not the dead rather the ones who lives through war have seen the
dreadful end of the war, you might have been victorious, unwounded but
deep within you, you carry the mark of the war, you carry the memories
of war, the time you have spend with your comrades, the times when you
had to dug in to foxholes to avoid shelling, the times when you hate to
see your comrade down on the ground, feeling of despair, atrocities of
the war, missing families, home. They live through hell and often the
most wounded, they live with the guilt, despair, of being in the war,
they may be happy but deep down they are a different person. Not
everyone is a hero. You live with the moments, time when you were
unsuccessful, when your actions would have helped your comrades, when
your actions get your comrades killed, you live with regret, joyous in
the victory can never help you forget the time you have spent. You are
victorious for the people you have lost, the decisions you have made,
the courage you have shown but being victorious in the war has a price
to pay, irrevocable.
You can't take a memory back from a person,
even if you lose your memory your imagination haunts you as deep down
your sub conscious mind you know who you are, who you were. Close you
eyes and you can very well see your past, you cant change your past,
time you have spent, you live through all and hence you are a hero not
for the glorious war for the times you have faced. Decoration with
medals is not going to give your life back. the more you know, more
experiences doesn't make it easy rather make its worse. Arms and
ammunition kills you once and free you from the misery but the
experiences of war kills you everyday, makes you cherish the times
everyday through the life. You may forgot that you cant walk anymore,
you may forget you cant use your right hand, you may forgot the scars on
your face but you can never forgot war. Life without war is never easy
and only the ones how survived through it can understand. Soldiers are
taught to fight but the actual combat starts after war which you are not
even trained for. You rely on your weapon, leaders, comrades, god, luck
in the war but here you rely on your self to beat the horrors,they have
seen hell, heaven, they have felt the mixed emotions of hope, despair,
courage, victory, defeat, scared.”
―
Pushpa Rana,
Just the Way I Feel
Camus had sided publicly with the Hungarian uprising since autumn 1956, and was highly critical of Soviet actions. He also publicly praised and supported the Russian author Boris Pasternak, who was seen as anti-Soviet. – The Guardian
