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The central issue of Embers is loyalty. Though its main action takes place in 1940, its two main protagonists are 75 years old, products of another world. Their grounding is military, aristocratic and imperial. They are refugees from Joseph Roth, yet somehow straighter, more Ruritanian. Integrity runs through their spi...
"In our country feelings are more intense and more decisive," the general's father says. Márai would know. There is an anecdote about him which tells how, when he heard that his estranged younger brother, the film director, had gone blind, he travelled across half the world to visit him. On his arrival his brother excl...
Stern and unbending as he was, he was nevertheless a sumptuous writer. His eye is as cinematic as it is theatrical. "In Paris it was raining," he writes. "The child sat in a carriage upholstered in blue silk, looking through the hazy glass of the windows at the city glistening in the raindrops like the slippery underbe...
The intensity of friendship is partly the product of the isolated Hungarian language. For Márai, the isolation of his language was not only an echo of his personal loneliness, but of his loneliness in a world that was turning to trash in his hands. The soul-destroying trash of Nazism was followed by the soul-destroying...
"Paris was dark and it felt cold," he complained, wondering why "no one suspected that a civilisation had ended. During my studious turning of pages, my suspicion that some affliction had befallen books in the west grew." A victorious Europe no longer existed. When he returned to Hungary, he no longer appeared on the r...
He did, however, continue to write wherever he went, becoming a kind of unattached conservative, almost a cold war warrior, who earned his pence by broadcasting for Radio Free Europe. He watched and celebrated the 1956 revolution from a distance. He published in émigré presses, occasionally in Germany and France. Lola ...
It is easy to imagine the younger Márai being amused by that. Nor would it have escaped his sense of irony that Embers, his great posthumous success, has succeeded as the translation of a translation. The Italian edition was translated from the French, and the new English edition is translated from German. The critical...
The translation, it should be said, reads very well; all the same, there might have been a certain point of honour in taking a newly proclaimed classic back to its source. Time and again Márai eulogised the Hungarian language to which he had given his life. He longed for it, missed it, and was marooned without it. It i...
A short history of science,, by W.T. Sedgwick and H.W. Tyler ..
The Jew in science,, by Louis Gershenfeld ..
The march of mind; : a short history of science,, by F. Sherwood Taylor ..
The path of science,, by C.E. Kenneth Mees ... with the cooperation of John R. Baker ..
The seven seals of science; : an account of the unfoldment of orderly knowledge & its influence on human affairs, [by] Joseph Mayer ..
A history of science : Hellenistic science and culture in the last three centuries B.C.
Studies and essays in the history of science and learning offered in homage to George Sarton on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday, 31 August 1944.
There are a few sessions at this year’s World Economic Forum that discuss the future but the fully-subscribed session on “The Rise of Robo Sapiens” on Saturday gives a glimpse on how artificial intelligence is reshaping our lives.
Panelist of that session, Gil Weinberg, professor of music technology at Georgia Institute of Technology, is here to present his project on “Shimon” – a $100,000 robot that “listens like human being but improvises like a machine”.
“The robot can play classical or jazz or whatever. It will push music forward”, Weinberg told Reuters.
Why is a robotic musician relevant to the world’s CEOs and politicians attending Davos?
“We have more machines and new technologies and it’s important humans and machines both interact,” he says.
Will there be a restructuring of the euro?
The revered three-time world heavyweight boxing champion was admitted into a Phoenix hospital Thursday due to respiratory issues. Overnight those issues grew more serious and were complicated by his Parkinson's disease. Things then took a turn for the worse Friday afternoon, when reports surfaced that Ali was on life s...
"After a 32-year battle with Parkinson's disease, Muhammad Ali has passed away at the age of 74. The three-time World Heavyweight Champion boxer died this evening," Bob Gunnell, Ali's family spokesman, told NBC News.
What a indelible legacy "The Greatest" leaves behind.
After retiring from boxing in 1981, Ali began what turned out to being an arduous 32-year, post-retirement bout with Parkinson's disease, which he was first diagnosed with in 1984 at the age of 42. Now, that Ali's fight is over, he can finally rest in peace.
As much as he was known for delivering tongue lashings to his opponents outside of the ring before defeating boxing greats such as Sonny Liston, Joe Frazier and George Foreman in the ring, Ali transcended the sport he dominated for over two decades by making significant socially-conscious moves that were ahead of his t...
He refused to be drafted into the U.S. military to battle in the Vietnam War in 1967, citing his Islamic religious beliefs and notoriously exclaiming, "I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong."
Standing his ground cost Ali, as he was arrested, had his boxing license suspended and was stripped of his heavyweight title, banned from boxing for three years during his prime years (25 to 28-years-old). Even in recent months, Ali used his fame to make bigger impact, jabbing Donald Trump's stance on Muslims in the Un...
"We as Muslims have to stand up to those who use Islam to advance their own personal agenda. They have alienated many from learning about Islam," Ali said in a statement last December, as reported by NBC News. "True Muslims know or should know that it goes against our religion to try and force Islam on anybody."
He added: "Speaking as someone who has never been accused of political correctness, I believe that our political leaders should use their position to bring understanding about the religion of Islam and clarify that these misguided murderers have perverted people's views on what Islam really is."
Ali will be remembered as much for taking such brave stances as he will for the "Fight of The Century," "Rumble in The Jungle," "Thrilla in Manila" or any of his other notable clashes in the ring.
Born Cassius Clay in Louisville, Kentucky on January 17th, 1942, he turned to boxing when he was only 12-years-old, progressing enough through the years to win the Light Heavyweight gold medal in the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. Clay would turn pro the same year and rapidly rise through the ranks.
By 1964, Clay had earned a shot against feared champion Sonny Liston, shocking him with a seventh-round technical knockout, to become the then-youngest heavyweight champion of all time at 22-years-old in February 1964. Shortly after the bout, Clay converted to Islam and changed his name to Muhammad Ali. More than a yea...
Ali went on to win his next eight fights, before he was suspended from boxing for refusing to be drafted into the U.S. military. Ali missed more than three years of action, but when he returned to the ring in October 1970, he looked every bit like himself, scoring a convincing third-round TKO over Jerry Quarry.
Two fight later, though, Ali tasted defeat for the first time in his pro career, via a unanimous decision loss to Joe Frazier in what became known as the "The Fight of the Century" at Madison Square Garden in New York City on March 8th, 1971. It'd take nearly three years and 13 more fights, including grueling back-to-b...
Ali's very next fight — against George Foreman — was billed as "The Rumble in the Jungle," in which "The Greatest" infamously used his rope-a-dope strategy to tire out the bigger Foreman before knocking him out in the eighth round in thunderous fashion in Zaire.
A year later, Ali would also defeat Frazier in their third and final fight. Having retired in 1981 after back-to-back losses to Larry Holmes and Trevor Berbick, the abuse Ali endured in the ring paved the way for his Parkinson's disease diagnosis in 1984 — a diasnosis that seemed to reverberate around the world.
Undeterred, Ali became that much more of a beloved global sports icon, memorably lighting the cauldron at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, before a worldwide audience. Touching, unforgettable moment.
Whether it was Michael Jordan, Jim Brown or a long list of presidents, they all had to bow down to "The Greatest."
We'll never have another like Muhammad Ali.
Rest in peace, legend. You can finally stop fighting now.
FOR DECADES Maryland Blue Cross raised high its banner of "nonprofit insurer" while reaping hundreds of millions of dollars from state tax breaks, from trusting subscribers and their employers, and from preferential treatment by the state insurance commissioner.
Now it wants to use that protected status as Maryland's largest health insurer to become a for-profit company, with its income going to private stockholders.
This major change, affecting some 1.3 million Marylanders, deserves full public discussion and scrutiny. Indeed, it requires extensive review and debate by the General Assembly, whose laws govern the Blue Cross charter.
Now is the time to establish a legislative task force to examine the extensive technical matters and broad ramifications of this fundamental change for health insurance in the state. That task force groundwork would provide the basis for a full discussion by the General Assembly when it convenes next year.
At stake are many millions of dollars in assets that Maryland Blue Cross has accumulated from years of public tax and legal benefits. Should they go to a public trust in compensation, or for sale to private stockholders?
In California, where that state's Blue Cross is making the same transition, $3 billion will go to heath charities, Sun reporter John Fairhall pointed out. Maryland's insurance commissioner, Dwight K. Bartlett III, believes these assets should remain with the new Blue Cross.
Maryland does not need to scrupulously copy the California example. But its citizens deserve more than an agreement reached behind closed doors by the company and its regulator, followed by a pro forma "public hearing".
That's similar to what happened a decade ago when a previous insurance commissioner forged the merger of Blue Cross and Blue Shield and privately promoted a management change. Instead of promised efficiencies, policyholders "benefited" from luxury sports skyboxes, junkets to Europe and other perks lavished on Blue Cros...
Rebuffed by Mr. Bartlett and the legislature earlier this year, Blue Cross has been quietly working with the commissioner, a few top lawmakers and the governor on a privatization plan that would avoid official dissent. That's contrary to the public interest. Full disclosure and in-depth legislative review is required.
Rapper-producer Kurtis Blow was cited this week at Los Angeles International Airport for possession of marijuana.
Authorities would not say whether the marijuana was found during a body scan or pat-down Thursday at 5:45 a.m. as Blow was undergoing a TSA security screening at Terminal 7, said Los Angeles airport police.
Walker was cited for misdemeanor possession of less than 29 grams of marijuana and released, according to Police Department spokesman Albert Rodriguez.
Blow tweeted Thursday on Twitter: “What is this bout me being busted for weed at the airport? Not true. Isn't weed legal in California?"
He tweeted Friday that he had more than 500 Twitter followers. “I wonder why...” Blow wrote.
Blow became the first major rapper to be signed by a big label in 1979 at age 20. His album "Christmas Rappin" sold more than 400,000 copies. "Breaks," a catchy, philosophical rap, sold 600,000 copies and ensured his place in history as one of the first commercially successful rap artists.
Blow was also behind rap hits by The Fat Boys and Run DMC.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has promised to table a motion of no-confidence in the Government – which could trigger a new general election – ‘soon’.
Corbyn told the Andrew Marr Show he would wait until the result of Tuesday’s Commons vote on Theresa May’s Brexit deal to decide when the no-confidence motion will be tabled – but hinted it is a matter of when not if.
Corbyn said he believed Theresa May’s government was in ‘desperation stakes’ and her EU Withdrawal Deal would be ‘very damaging’ to the country in the long run.
Corbyn also expressed his support for Commons speaker John Bercow who he said was the best since he entered Parliament in 1983 and said attacks on him were ‘unwarranted and unfair’.
It came after Theresa May fired a warning to MPs that if they do not vote her deal through the Commons it would be a ‘catastrophic and unforgivable breach of trust’ in those that voted to Leave the EU.
She once again threatened that the UK risks crashing out of the EU without a deal or facing no Brexit at all, calling the vote the ‘biggest and most important decision that any MP of our generation will be asked to make’.
The vote had been scheduled to take place in December but was called off at the 11th hour as May faced near certain defeat.
MPs continue to be divided on the plans, with a number of pro-Remainers calling for May’s deal to be voted down and some ardent Leavers pushing for the same result to ensure a no-deal Brexit.
If Government wins the vote on the Withdrawal Agreement the UK would leave the European Union on March 29.
If May’s deal is voted down by MPs, then a whole host of scenarios could play out.
The prospect of Labour putting forward a vote of no confidence in Mrs May has been mooted and a general election could take place should the Government lose.
The Government could also ask for an extension to Article 50 which would have to be agreed by the remaining 27 members of the bloc.
This could come from the current Government or in the instance that a new Prime Minister was appointed following a vote of no confidence or May’s resignation.
If the EU does not agree to postponing Brexit then the UK would leave the EU with no deal on March 29.
If the EU agrees to an extension of Article 50 there is the potential for negotiations to be reopened.
The Government’s plan B could include discussion about a free trade agreement, customs union, membership of the single market and even a second referendum on the deal.
She said a recent global survey showed that one in five young people have experienced cyberbullying; 18 percent of those had had suicidal thoughts. Lewinsky encouraged the audience to fight back by resisting the temptation to click on such postings. One person’s shame has become another’s profit, she noted. A marketpla...
Earlier in the day, futurist Ray Kurzweil took the audience on a mind-bending spin into the not-so-distant future. Innovation is about being in the “right place with the right idea at the right time,” said the inventor and author. Fortunately, technological advances grow at an exponential pace, not linearly, so what on...
Much of the medical innovation is already starting – reprogramming a heart with stem cells, for instance. Kurzweil, who co-founded Singularity, a Silicon Valley technology education center and think tank, and is now employed by Google, said he is involved with a company that is 3D printing hearts, lungs and kidneys and...
For the media panelists, the future is well under way. Pitbull was joined by CNBC Chairman Mark Hoffman, NBCUniversal International Group, NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises Chairman Cesar Conde and CNBC journalist Melissa Lee for a discussion of the fast-changing media landscape and the importance of the Hispanic audi...
Conde talked about his company focus on the “three Ms” of his audience: millennial, mobile and multicultural. “If you look at the Hispanic community as a freestanding economy, it’s the 14th or 15th largest in the world,” he said, with a $1 trillion spending power.
Throughout the day, startups took over the center stage, with pitch competitions for university, early stage and later stage companies as well as the pre-eMerge Hackathon and the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship, which teaches young people in low-income communities how to start and run their own businesses.
The biggest prize, $100,000 in investment plus in-kind prizes, went to Mediconecta. The Miami company provides telemedicine in Latin America and is expanding quickly.
Carolina Rendeiro, an eMerge Americas vice president who oversaw the Startup Showcase and eMerge Hackathon, said several winners and competitors in previous years returned as judges, including founders from Modernizing Medicine and Tesser Health. Facebook, Microsoft, Visa, Nasdaq and Venture Hive were among the compani...
The eMerge team was also setting the stage for next year, when the convention center’s renovation schedule will push the conference until June 12-13. With 13,000 attendees this year, the bar is high.
Miami Herald Business Editor Jane Wooldridge contributed to this report.
Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship: Khareem Oliver, founder of Find or Found, a pet finding app, and Gabriel Martinez, founder of GAM-V, a school supplies vending system each won $3,000; Stephanie Diaz of Lux Candles won $1,500; Justin Rivas, of Top Level Athletics, a youth basketball program, and Kevin Diniz, of Ea...
Arizona House lawmakers have started debating three proposed laws designed to deal with distracted driving caused by cellphone use.
Paul Karason of Madera, CA, has argyria, which makes your skin blue. People get it when they use colloidal silver as an antibitoic.
Karason does not believe drinking the potion is what caused his discoloration. He believes it happened because he rubbed it on his face to treat a skin problem. A medical condition called Argyria has been linked to such discoloration since the days when silver solutions were used as antibiotics.
Whatever the cause, Karason said it is not easy living life as a blue man.
"I do tend to avoid public places as much as I can," he said.
Karason's girlfriend, Jackie Northrup, said she was surprised at first, but is now used to it.
"The only time now that I really think about it or notice it is if we're out in public and people start staring," she said.
The best thing you can hope for from taking a quack medicine is that nothing bad happens to you. The worst thing is you die. The weirdest thing is to you turn blue.
In the early part of the 20th century, medicines containing microscopic silver particles were sold as a way to cure infections. They were popular as nose drops. In the grim era before antibiotics, colloidal silver solutions were one of the only ways to treat infections. While it is true that microscopic silver particle...
Unfortunately, quick-buck hucksters push colloidal silver on the Internet in the same way that traveling medicine-show scam artists sold bogus remedies out of horse-drawn wagons in the 19th century. They claim that big drug companies and the government have conspired to suppress this miracle drug. They spend a lot of t...
The only thing the hucksters donit claim colloidal silver can treat is argyria, an irreversible blue-gray skin condition caused by the ingestion of silver. That's because colloidal silver causes it.
Argyria first shows up under the fingernails and around the mouth and nose, then spreads across the surface of the skin. The skin literally turns into a living photographic plate (some black- and- white photographs contain silver as the photosensitive material) turning the skin dark when exposed to light and the chemic...
Not surprisingly, people who with argyria say their condition draws a lot of unwanted attention. Strangers stare at them, and little children point in astonishment.
In 1996, a woman named Rosemary told a Canadian reporter what it's like to have argyria. In 1953, when she was 11 years old, her doctor prescribed colloidal silver nose drops for her colds. At the age of 14, a pharmacist looked at her one day and said, Why are you that color? Soon after, it became obvious to everyone t...
For the rest of her life, insensitive idiots all over the world have confronted her in public: "In Spain, people on the street would yell at me that I was a terrible color," she told the reporter. "I speak Spanish and I learned to yell back. In Germany, people would bluntly ask what was wrong with my face." Seeking a s...
As a public service, Rosemary has published a Web site to warn people against taking colloidal silver. On it she writes that the only thing she recommends colloidal silver for is as "a gray skin dye -- it is safe, effective, and permanent when used for that purpose."

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