Mark Page Research Articles

Like Melville on the Leaf of Shakespeare? Olson’s Annotations to Ace of Pentacles, by John Wieners

This article is on the textuality of handwritten marginal inscriptions, and the often acute difficulty of interpreting them. No poet was more profoundly influenced by the agonistics of this interpretative work than Charles Olson (1910–1970). One way to tell the story of his authorship would be to draw a categorical distinction between his life as a scholar of Herman Melville, and his life as a poet associated with the legacy of modernism and with Black Mountain College. However, the marginalia that Olson wrote in his copy of Ace of Pentacles (one of two he owned), by his former student and protégé, John Wieners, tell another story. At one point Olson seems to compare his marginalia in “John’s book” (as he calls it) to those Melville wrote “on the leaf of Shakespeare”. The annotated “leaf” he has in mind figures in Call Me Ishmael as decisively formative in the making of Moby-Dick. Evidence indicates that Olson used his copy of Ace of Pentacles to devise strategies of writing his way through a major tragedy—the loss of his wife in a car accident in March, 1964. It is amid his annotations that we find the probable starting place of several poems that he wrote to her memory, all controversially excluded from the posthumously published third volume of The Maximus Poems. Yet the marginalia are every bit as resistant to interpretation as those he had himself confronted in the marked pages of Melville’s books, and we will need to think carefully about this analogy and its implications. I argue that his marked-up copy of Ace of Pentacles is part of a textual continuum of uncertain extent, raising questions about how we should read the last volume of The Maximus Poems.

Authors' Response

Journal of Forensic SciencesVolume 58, Issue 6 p. 1682-1682 Letter to the Editor Authors' Response Mark Page B.D.Sc.(Hons.), Ph.D.; Grad.Dip.Clin.Dent., G.C.Ed.;, Mark Page B.D.Sc.(Hons.), Ph.D.; Grad.Dip.Clin.Dent., G.C.Ed.; markpage79@gmail.com School of Health Sciences, University of Newcastle, Brush Rd, Ourimbah, NSW 2258, AustraliaSearch for more papers by this authorJane Taylor B.D.S., B.Sc.Dent., Ph.D., M.Sc.Dent., Jane Taylor B.D.S., B.Sc.Dent., Ph.D., M.Sc.Dent. School of Health Sciences, University of Newcastle, Brush Rd, Ourimbah, NSW 2258, AustraliaSearch for more papers by this author Mark Page B.D.Sc.(Hons.), Ph.D.; Grad.Dip.Clin.Dent., G.C.Ed.;, Mark Page B.D.Sc.(Hons.), Ph.D.; Grad.Dip.Clin.Dent., G.C.Ed.; markpage79@gmail.com School of Health Sciences, University of Newcastle, Brush Rd, Ourimbah, NSW 2258, AustraliaSearch for more papers by this authorJane Taylor B.D.S., B.Sc.Dent., Ph.D., M.Sc.Dent., Jane Taylor B.D.S., B.Sc.Dent., Ph.D., M.Sc.Dent. School of Health Sciences, University of Newcastle, Brush Rd, Ourimbah, NSW 2258, AustraliaSearch for more papers by this author First published: 28 October 2013 https://doi.org/10.1111/1556-4029.12308Citations: 1Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article.Citing Literature Volume58, Issue6November 2013Pages 1682-1682 RelatedInformation

NeilChristie and PaulStamper, eds., Medieval rural settlement: Britain and Ireland, AD 800–1600 (Oxford: Windgather Press, 2012. Pp. xii + 369. 113 figs. 1 tabs. ISBN 9781905119424 Hbk. £30)

The Economic History ReviewVolume 66, Issue 2 p. 648-649 Book Review Neil Christie and Paul Stamper, eds., Medieval rural settlement: Britain and Ireland, AD 800–1600 ( Oxford: Windgather Press, 2012. Pp. xii + 369. 113 figs. 1 tabs. ISBN 9781905119424 Hbk. £30) Mark Page, Mark Page Victoria County History, OxfordshireSearch for more papers by this author Mark Page, Mark Page Victoria County History, OxfordshireSearch for more papers by this author First published: 02 April 2013 https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0289.12015Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Volume66, Issue2May 2013Pages 648-649 RelatedInformation

Medieval villages in an English landscape: beginnings and ends – By Richard Jones and Mark Page

Medieval villages in an English landscape: beginnings and ends – By Richard Jones and Mark Page

Early medieval, medieval and historic periods - Rosemary Cramp with contributions by C. Roger Bristow, John Higgitt, R.C. Scrivener & Bernard C. Worssam. Corpus of Anglo-Saxon stone sculpture Volume VII, South-West England. xviii+446 pages. 29 figures, 565 plates, 3 tables. 2006. Oxford: Oxford University Press/British Academy; 0-19726334-8 hardback £65. - Richard Jones & Mark Page. Medieval Villages in an English

Early medieval, medieval and historic periods - Rosemary Cramp with contributions by C. Roger Bristow, John Higgitt, R.C. Scrivener & Bernard C. Worssam. Corpus of Anglo-Saxon stone sculpture Volume VII, South-West England. xviii+446 pages. 29 figures, 565 plates, 3 tables. 2006. Oxford: Oxford University Press/British Academy; 0-19726334-8 hardback £65. - Richard Jones & Mark Page. Medieval Villages in an English Landscape: Beginnings and Ends. xviii+270 pages, 78 illustrations. 2006. Bollington: Windgather; 978-1-905119-08-0 hardback; 978-1905119-09-7 paperback £19.99. - Sam Turner (ed.). Medieval Devon and Cornwall: Shaping an Ancient Countryside. xvi+176 pages, 67 illustrations. 2006. Bollington: Windgather; 978-1-905119-07-3 paperback £19.99. - Christopher Lowe. Excavations at Hoddom, Dumfriesshire: An Early Ecclesiastic Site in South-west Scotland. xviii+222 pages, 87 figures, 67 plates. 2006. Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland; 9780-903903-39-4 hardback £35. - Clare Mccutcheon. Medieval Pottery from Wood Quay, Dublin: The 1974-6 Waterfront Excavations (National Museum of Ireland Medieval Dublin Excavations 1962-81, Ser. B, vol. 7). 2006. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy; 1-904890-12-1 hardback €35. - Barbara Yorke. The Conversion of Britain: Religion, Politics and Society in Britain c. 600-800. xvi+334 pages, 2 maps, tables. 2006. Harlow: Pearson Education; 978-0-852-77292-2 paperback £18.99. - Veronica Ortenberg. In Search of the Holy Grail: The Quest for the Middle Ages. xvi+336 pages, 17 illustrations. 2006. London: hambledon continuum; 9781-85285-383-9 hardback £25. - Brian Marshall. Lancashire’s Medieval Monasteries. 156 pages, 68 illustrations. 2006. Blackpool: Landy; 978-1-872895-68-0 paperback £10. - C.M. Woolgar. The Senses in Late Medieval England. xii+372 pages, 86 b&w & colour illustrations. 2006. New Haven & London: Yale University Press; 978-0300-11871-1 hardback £25. - Martin Hansson. Aristocratic Landscape: The Spatial Ideology ofthe Medieval Aristocracy (Lund Studies in Historical Archaeology 2). 224 pages, 68 illustrations. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiskell International; 91-22-02154-X paperback SEK294. - Viccy Coltman. Fabricating the Antique: Neoclacissism in Britain, 1760-1800. xii+256 pages, 86 illustrations, 5 colour plates. 2006. Chicago (IL): University of Chicago Press; 0-226-11396-5 hardback $48 & £30.50. - Volume 81 Issue 311

Medieval

The Goths. By Peter Heather Utraeque Res Publicae. The Emperor Anastasius I's Gothic Policy (491–518). Second Revised Edition. By Jan Prostko‐Prostyn´ski Cambridge Illustrated Atlas. Warfare: The Middle Ages 768–1487. By Nicholas Hooper and Matthew Bennett The Middle Ages in the North‐West. Edited by Tom Scott and Pat Starkey Anglo‐Saxon Glastonbury: Church and Endowment. By Lesley Abrams St Mary's Church, Deerhurst, Gloucestershire: Fieldwork, Excavations and Structural Analysis, 1971–1984. By Philip Rahtz and Lorna Watts The Commercialisation of English Society, 1000–1500. Second Edition. By Richard Britnell The Restoration of the Monastery of St Martin of Tournai. By Herman of Tournai Marriage, Family and Law in Medieval Europe: Collected Studies. By Michael M. Sheehan, CSB A Guide to British Medieval Seals. By P. D. A. Harvey and Andrew McGuinness Straws in the Wind. Medieval Urban Environmental Law: The Case of Northern Italy. By Ronald E. Zupko and Robert A. Laures An Illustrated History of Late Medieval England. Edited by Chris Given‐Wilson Progress and Problems in Medieval England. Essays in Honour of Edward Miller. Edited by Richard Britnell and John Hatcher William Wallace: Brave Heart. By James Mackay The Pipe Roll of the Bishopric of Winchester 1301–2. Edited by Mark Page Infantry Warfare in the Early Fourteenth Century. By Kelly DeVries Communities of Violence: Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages. By David Nirenberg Living and Dining in Medieval Paris: The Household of a Fourteenth‐Century Knight. By Nicole Crossley‐Holland The Register of William Bateman, Bishop of Norwich, 1344–1355. Volume 1. Edited by Phyllis E. Pobst The Plumpton Letters and Papers. Edited by Joan Kirby

The pipe roll of the bishopric of Winchester, 1301–2. Edited by Mark Page. (Hampshire Record Series, 14.) Pp. xxviii+470 incl. 1 map and 1 table+frontispiece, 7 plates and endpaper enclosing 4 sheets of microfiche. Winchester: Hampshire County Council, 1996. £15 plus £4 post and packing from Hampshire Record Office, Sussex Street, Winchester, Hants SO23 8TH. 1 85975 108 3; 0267

The pipe roll of the bishopric of Winchester, 1301–2. Edited by Mark Page. (Hampshire Record Series, 14.) Pp. xxviii+470 incl. 1 map and 1 table+frontispiece, 7 plates and endpaper enclosing 4 sheets of microfiche. Winchester: Hampshire County Council, 1996. £15 plus £4 post and packing from Hampshire Record Office, Sussex Street, Winchester, Hants SO23 8TH. 1 85975 108 3; 0267 9930 - Volume 49 Issue 1

Magnetic Bubble Memory Architectures for Supporting Associative Searching of Relational Databases

A memory organized around a major/minor loop magnetic bubble storage unit contains database information in relational form. An external marker memory, consisting of an M-bit shift register or an M X 1 RAM, provides, in conjunction with an assumed processing element, an associative search capability. Each bit accumulates search results of a query applied to its corresponding bubble page. The number of pages M equals the minor loop length and N, the page size, equals the number of minor loops in the bubble memory. A systematic series of performance-improving access strategies and architectural modifications are applied to an existing major/minor loop bubble device to determine the effects of each change. In all cases data access-time formulas reveal that positioning a marked page for access is a linear function of the minor loop length M, while outputting the marked pages via the bubbles serial output bus is a quadratic function of M. An evaluation and relative comparison of these architectures indicate that a segmented, nondestructive major/minor loop transfer function can enhance current magnetic bubble memory (MBM) performance in relational data processing by an order of magnitude.

Statistical contribution on symptomatic dry eye

Optical mark page reader forms to establish the case history were statistically evaluated with regard to the question 'Do you often have the feeling of having sand in the eye. Out of a total of 5,833 patients, 684 (11.7%) answered this question with 'yes'. Women stated with 15.1% relatively more often than men with 9.7% this clinical symptom. Of these 684 patients who subjectively complained of feeling of sand, 241 had an ophthalmological examination. In 92 patients (38.2%) the Bengal-Rosa 1% test was specifically performed due to the specific past history and the clinical symptoms stated on questions by the physician; in all cases signs of a keratoconjunctivitis sicca of different degree were found by slit-lamp microscopy, i.e., at least 4.5% keratoconjunctivitis sicca patients on our whole collective can be expected. The result of a thorough examination in these 92 patients (39 men and 53 women) with ophthalmologically confirmed keratoconjunctivitis sicca showed that in 25 (of 53) women there was an imbalance of the sex hormones. Besides degenerative diseases due to age, diseases of the connective tissue and those caused by an auto immune mechansim were found.

Optical Scanning for Large-Scale Studies

Data reporting the experience with an optical mark page reader is presented (IBM 1231Ν1). Information from 52,000 persons was gathered in seven countries, decentrally coded and centrally processed. Reader performance rates (i.e. sheets read per hour, sheet rejection rates, reading error rates) and costs (coding, verification, reading, etc.) are given.

A Simplified Data-Recording Method

A versatile and inexpensive procedure for recording source-data was successfully developed and tested April-October, 1965. The system consists of employing overlay templates with standard, 800-position Optical Mark Page Reader forms, and recording data in such a manner that they are immediately convertible to machine language on mmI's 1230 series Optical Mark Page Readers. Principal advantages of the template approach over traditional source-data recording methods include: (1) its versatility, convenience, and adaptability; (2) a reduction in initial cost because necessary materials are inexpensive; and (3) a substantial reduction in the cost and time required to key punch and verify numeric information, or to organize and tabulate data by hand. To tabulate and analyze large volumes of numeric data is potentially burdensome for wildlife researchers, managers, and administrators. Frequently, the bulk of collected information causes long delay in reporting results and in some cases results are never interpreted and reported. Usual techniques for alleviating this difficulty provide for recording data at their source on specially printed cards (Marksense or Port-a-punch) or forms in such a manner that they are directly convertible to machine language, or for punching source information into standard 80-column service cards. Either of these methods can be somewhat complex, time-consuming, and expensive. For long-term, routine investigations, however, particularly when numerous types of information categories are required and major recording-format changes are unlikely, the preprinted card or form is often appropriate. In many field research applications it is desirable to be able to alter periodically the recording format as dictated by study results and objectives and unanticipated exigencies. Hence, studies were conducted between April and October, 1965, to develop a more versatile and inexpensive system for recording numeric data in order to facilitate machine tabulation and analysis. Procedures developed involve use of overlay templates with standard, 800-position Optical Mark Page Reader forms which serve as input to International Business Machine Corporation's Optical Mark Page Reader machines.1 Two basic types of Optical Mark Page Reader machines, the 1231 and 1232, can be used to process information recorded on Optical Page Reader forms. The 1231 acts as an on-line input system to data processsing devices such as IM's 1401, 1440, and 1460 computers. If desired, the computer can be used to print-list as the sheets are by the 1231 and, at the same time, information can be punched into 80-column service cards by a card-punch unit. The 1232 machine operates only with a card punch. Thus, the choice of machine combinations depends on their availability, the availability of appropriate computer programs, and the type of results sought. Source documents are read by the Page Reader machines at a maximum of 2,000 sheets per hour. Actual throughput speed of the 1231 depends on computer programming, feed mode, and the method of grouping information on the forms. 1 Reference to IBM does not constitute endorsement by the Federal Government.

Automation of Public Health Nurse Reports

THE ACCELERATION of change in medical practice places a growing burden on the public health nurse to use the new techniques and procedures that will maintain and improve efficiency, thus enhancing the care of patients. Simplification of administrative tasks frees time for professional responsibilities, and when this benefit can be spread throughout the entire organizational structure of public health nursing, improvements may be significant. The development of a new reporting system for public health nurses in New York State (excluding New York City) is aimed at simplifying and reducing routine paperwork. The system also expedites preparation of reports for various administrative levels and signals important changes in parameters of patient care rapidly and meaningfully. In the New York State system there is but one basic form, used at the staff-nurse level by all participant,s. This form is unique in many respects. Almost every duty or function performed by the public health nurse is recorded on the simplified design, which is more comprehensive than any of the five different forms used previously in the manual data system. Information is recorded by placing lines in designated spaces adjacent to specified printed items (see chart). These marks are made with a standard lead pencil. A single sheet is prepared for each visit and each activity performed during the day. The forms are collected at suitable intervals and mailed to the computer center at Roswell Park Memorial Institute, Buffalo, where forms for the entire State are processed. To ease the burden of scheduling for machine processing, local departments send the completed material at no less than weekly intervals. In some areas where the volume of collected data is unusually high, packages are sent almost daily. Every effort is made to transmit the final material for each month shortly after conclusion of the reporting period so that accurate summaries can be prepared promptly. At the computer center the sheets are processed as received at the rate of approximately 5,000 per day. Each is passed through an IBM 1232 optical mark page reader, a machine which transfers the data recorded on the form to punched cards. No manual key punching is necessary. Incomplete or ambiguous reports are rejected automatically. Obvious errors are corrected at the computer center; other rejects are returned to the nurse for reprocessing. The cards are read by a digital computer (IBM 1401), and the information is stored on magnetic tape. At the conclusion of each month the magnetic tape, containing all reports for the period, is passed through the computer once again, and reports relative to the activity of each nurse are prepared. This information is sent to supervisors in the loca,l health departments through the distribution system of the New York State Department of Health. At this level the utilization varies considerably, depending upon the organizational relationships within the local departments. Usually, the report reaches the individual nurse, providing comparable statistics for monthly planning and scheduling. New personnel can be guided to some extent by reviewing the reports of predecessors in the same assignments. More adequate and realistic distribution of the All the authors are with the New York State Department of Health. Miss Parker is director of nursing services, Albany, Dr. Ausman is executive director, Health Research, Inc., Roswell Park Memorial Institute, Buffalo, and Mr. Ovedovitz is chief, computer study team, Albany.