Interesting, indeed. And I’m sure there are other applications. =========== From “The Parlance of Pilots,” by Mark Vanhoenacker, a British Airways senior first officer, for Aeon online, June 9: Imagine a plane that flies from London to Bangkok. The pilots speak first to British air-traffic controllers but, just a few minutes after takeoff, the British controllers hand them over to Belgian... Read more
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Do You Know Your Employee?
April 10 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Interesting, Work worldI believe lots of organizations are in the very same boat. ========== WSJ 4/9/2016 BY DANIEL HUANG AND LINDSAY GELLMAN Entry-level bankers from Goldman Sachs Group Inc. gathered in a lower Manhattan hotel ballroom last April to listen to the firm’s top executives try to fire them up about their budding careers. David Solomon, co-head of the firm’s investment bank, took on the... Read more
Castiglione: Lost Genius.
January 16 | Posted by mrossol | Art, InterestingSure wish I could visit this collection. ====== By Karen Wilkin WSJ Jan. 12, 2016 5:23 p.m. Fort Worth, Texas It’s not an overstatement to describe “ Castiglione: Lost Genius. Masterworks on Paper From the Royal Collection,” at the Kimbell Art Museum, as “revelatory.” I confess, however, that I hadn’t planned to see the exhibition. I simply happened to arrive in Fort Worth on the... Read more
Karl Rove on Bach
January 16 | Posted by mrossol | Interesting, Music, PersonalThese variations are one of my favorite as well. And Gould’s 1981 recording is wonderfully different from his 1955 youthful rendition. ========= WSJ. 1/16/2016 Karl Rove, 65, is a former senior adviser and deputy White House chief of staff, and the author of “The Triumph of William McKinley: Why the 1896 Election Still Matters” (Simon & Schuster). He spoke with Marc Myers. ... Read more
It was a really flat day..
December 6 | Posted by mrossol | Interesting, RowingMy rowing partner, Mike Moriarty, and I for our first row this December on the Maumee River in the Hudson (boat).
Wow, this water is really flat…
It looks like we have a good line..
12/5/2015
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An Unusual Religious Alliance to Aid Refugees
March 28 | Posted by mrossol | Interesting, ISIS, Israel, Middle EastHow refreshing. Oh, it can be done! ============= By Georgette Bennett March 26, 2015 7:08 p.m. ET Last month I visited the Syrian refugee camp in Jordan known as Za’atari. With 80,000 occupants, the camp would be the fourth-largest city in Jordan. It occupies a vast desert plain, filled with endless rows of tents that are gradually being replaced with rows of metal-sided... Read more
