True Pleasure Research Articles

2015 Report of the President and Chair of the Board: ASHP: Setting the standard for the future of pharmacy practice.

Today, I want to start with a heartfelt thank you. As my presidential year draws to a close, it is hard to express how grateful I am for the opportunity to have served ASHP and its 43,000 members as president. I also wish to express my thanks to you as members of the House of Delegates for all that you do for ASHP, for our profession, and for patients. Everything that you have done all year to shepherd ASHP policies through to completion, along with the ongoing work of ASHP’s Councils, Sections, Forums, and State Affiliates, shows your commitment to and how focused you are on improving patient care and the future of pharmacy. On behalf of the Board of Directors, I also want to thank Dr. Abramowitz for his support and leadership throughout this year. His cheerful presence and leadership have made this year a true pleasure. Thank you, Paul.

Spiritualium gaudiorum plenitudo in der Erkenntnislehre Richards von St. Viktor

The epistemology of Richard of Saint-Victor is characterised through a detailed analysis of contemplatio, the highest mode of human knowledge. Contemplatio culminates in an ecstasy, in which man reaches the highest object of his knowledge, God himself, and is fulfilled by true spiritual pleasure. This plenitude of spiritual pleasure is not just the fruit of knowledge, but fed by love. Richard distinguishes three paths of knowledge (cogitatio – meditatio – contemplatio) in accordance with the growth of the love between God and man. The love of God gives an orientation to human knowledge. Through the love of God human knowledge is structured from disoriented cogitatio to oriented meditatio as a spiritual ascent to the divine things supported by virtues, then finally to contemplatio, which culminates in ecstasy with true spiritual pleasure. So the essence of true spiritual pleasure reflects the structural key of the highest knowledge, contemplatio, namely the love of God.

Latin American Science Fiction: Theory and Practice ed. by Elizabeth M. Ginway and J. Andrew Brown (review)

Reviewed by: Latin American Science Fiction: Theory and Practice ed. by Elizabeth M. Ginway and J. Andrew Brown Samuel Manickam Ginway, M. Elizabeth, and J. Andrew Brown, eds. Latin American Science Fiction: Theory and Practice. New York: Palgrave, 2012. Pp. 241. ISBN 978–1–137–28122–7. In the last approximately fifteen years, scholarly attention on Latin American science fiction has steadily increased. Once confined to the shadows of Hispanic literary studies, this genre is now taken seriously by scholars since it is considered to be an important window into the cultures and histories of this region. Latin American Science Fiction: Theory and Practice, edited by M. Elizabeth Ginway and J. Andrew Brown, is a good addition to this growing field of studies since, as the editors note, if many early studies tended to be “archeological,” that is, bringing to light various lost and unknown science fiction texts, then the essays contained in this volume represent some current attempts to interpret this literature in its various cultural and historical contexts in Latin America. The ten essays are divided into three categories: “Speculating a Canon: Latin America’s SF [Science Fiction] Traditions,” “On the Periphery of the Periphery: Cyberpunk and Zombies in Latin America” and “Comics and Film: Latin American SF across Genres.” Essays on Mexican, Argentine and Brazilian science fiction constitute a majority since these three countries are the main Latin American producers of this genre. There are also essays on science fiction from Cuba, Chile and Bolivia. As will be apparent by reading these essays, science fiction has given Latin American writers, as well as filmmakers and cartoonists, the artistic license not normally afforded by more traditional approaches to questions of national identity, among other issues. The most interesting essays in this volume carefully examine science fiction texts through theories on, for example, historiographic metafiction, irony and allegory, while contextualizing them within the history and culture of their respective Latin American countries. In her essay “Islands in the Slipstream: Diasporic Allegories in Cuban Science Fiction since the Special Period,” Emily A. Maguire outlines the problematic relationship Cubans experience with technology in a country forcibly isolated by economic sanctions and a repressive government. The three stories analyzed show three authors utilizing science fiction to speak symbolically about their isolated, exiled situations. In “Time Travel and History in Carmen Boullosa’s 1991 Llanto, novelas imposibles,” Claire Taylor convincingly demonstrates how this Mexican novelist uses the SF trope of time travel to problematize the historiographic process of ascertaining the truth regarding the Aztec emperor Moctezuma’s death. Álvaro Bisama’s essay “Bolaño and Science Fiction: Deformities” creatively strays from conventional “scholarly” protocols and is therefore a true pleasure to read. Bisama weaves the narrative of Bolaño’s life with his works [End Page 328] while showing aspects of science fiction in both. Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado’s essay “Ending the World with Words: Bernardo Fernández and the Institutionalization of Science Fiction in Mexico” is perhaps the first serious critical overview of this author, who has been key in endowing science fiction with literary respect and credibility in Mexico today. The author’s thorough analysis of Fernández’s works by couching it in the post-NAFTA era is commendable. In her essay “Oesterheld’s Iconic and Ironic Eternautas,” Rachel Haywood Ferreira gives a complete overview of the evolution of this Argentine’s comic series titled Eternautas (for which he wrote the text while the drawings were done by others). Haywood Ferreira clearly contextualizes the Eternautas series in the Cold War and Dirty War eras in Argentina. Oesterheld’s “disappearance” by the military junta in the eighties sadly demonstrates how science fiction in Latin America imbued with political commitment can be considered “dangerous” by the authorities. The other five essays in this collection focus on further variations of science fiction in Latin America: a dystopian vision of Argentina in the film Sexilia, the Brazilian João Guimaráes Rosa’s early science fiction stories, the figure of the zombie as conceived in Chilean and Bolivian novels, science fiction motifs in Brazilian comics from the turn of the twentieth century, and elements of science fiction in some Brazilian films. These...

PLATO ON TRUTH-VALUE AND TRUTH-APTNESS

"Plato on Truth-Value and Truth-Aptness" examines Plato’s conception of truth-value and truth-aptness. The examination focuses on Philebus 36c3-50e4 where Socrates argues that pleasures can be true and false and more precisely that there are various kinds of true and false pleasures. The Philebus passage is the only one in Plato’s corpus where various kinds of truth, falsity, and truth-aptness are examined in close proximity and in relation to one another. Hence it is an especially valuable and, with respect to the topics treated in this paper, neglected site. Socrates distinguishes four kinds of true and false pleasure, which I examine sequentially. In doing so, I argue that Plato distinguishes two kinds of representational truth-value and truth-aptness, propositional and non-propositional respectively, and two kinds of ontic truth-value and truth-aptness, absolute and gradable respectively. On the basis of a key passage at Philebus 42c5-7 the discussion concludes, suggestively but aporetically, with a consideration of how these various kinds of truth-value and truth-aptness are related to one another.

The Four Deaths of Acorn Whistler: Telling Stories in Colonial America by Joshua Piker (review)

Reviewed by: The Four Deaths of Acorn Whistler: Telling Stories in Colonial America by Joshua Piker Julie Anne Sweet (bio) The Four Deaths of Acorn Whistler: Telling Stories in Colonial America. By Joshua Piker. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2013. Pp. 310. $29.95 cloth) On April 1, 1752, some Creek Indians killed several Cherokee not too far from Charleston, South Carolina, and although Acorn Whistler did not participate in the incident, he was held responsible and executed to avenge those deaths. Those basic facts, however, did not prevent the fabrications of four different versions of these events by four different storytellers who had four different agendas. After all, “telling the right story was more important than getting the story right” (p.11). Joshua Piker scrutinizes these four tales and uses them not only to show the complexity of colonial America but also to understand the storytellers themselves. The result is a brilliantly organized, smartly analyzed, creatively written text that both educates and entertains its readers. [End Page 109] Acorn Whistler’s death overshadowed his life, and his contemporaries chose to sacrifice him to save themselves, each for their own reason. South Carolina governor James Glen was in danger of losing his job as a new administration took power in London and reconfigured the British Empire, so he presented himself as an exceptional diplomat who understood the inner workings of Indian politics and could use his expertise to maintain peace among rival Indian nations. He arranged for Acorn Whistler’s death to promote reconciliation between Creeks and Cherokee while asserting British authority over Indian affairs. Malatchi, the leading headman of the Lower Creeks from the town of Coweta, sought to strengthen and stabilize the Creek confederacy while solidifying his position as the unequivocal leader, so he ordered Acorn Whistler’s death as retribution for the attack on April 1 and thereby demonstrated his influence over Creek politics. Upper Creek headmen from Acorn Whistler’s (possible) town of Okfuskee wanted to prevent further troubles with the Cherokee and the British, so they accepted Acorn Whistler as a scapegoat but expressed outrage over his death as an attempt to advance the supremacy of their town over others. Thomas and March Bosomworth, agents hired by Glen to travel to Coweta and meet with Malatchi about this matter, played political games in Charleston and Coweta in an effort to secure their standing in both British and Creek realms, so they chose to become involved in the affair and suggested that Acorn Whistler be blamed for the April 1 attack. In the end, these four stories not only told different versions of Acorn Whistler’s death, but they also revealed much about the persons telling the tales and about the worlds that they inhabited. Piker plots his own story carefully and thoughtfully, taking his readers through every nuance of every perspective about this particular event, and readers should be prepared to read every word so that they do not miss a single detail. Piker’s prose is neither tedious nor boring, however; instead, his writing style makes this book a true pleasure to read. His meticulous analysis of imperial affairs, Creek politics, and colonial America exposes the intricacies of life in this place and [End Page 110] at this time, but his astute insights about individual characters and their personal motivations are equally impressive and compelling. His endnotes are exhaustive and reveal conscientious research that few authors can match yet all should strive to emulate. Piker has crafted a multifaceted text that transcends the bounds of one discipline and shows how they are all interrelated, and he reminds historians to think beyond their own agenda and to include all viewpoints. Piker’s search for meaning in Acorn Whistler’s death thus provides readers with a comprehensive examination of this one incident while revealing its broader implications for everyone involved and teaching readers to appreciate the complicated nature of early America. Julie Anne Sweet Julie Anne Sweet is an associate professor of history at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, where she teaches colonial and revolutionary America as well as American Indian history. She is the author of Negotiating for Georgia: British–Creek Relations in the Trustee...

PLEASURE AND TRUTH INREPUBLIC9

AtRepublic9, 583b1–587a2, Socrates argues that the pleasure of the philosophical life is the truest pleasure. I will call this the ‘true pleasure argument’. The true pleasure argument is divisible into two parts: 583b1–585a7 and 585a8–587a2. Each part contains a sub-argument, which I will call ‘the misperception argument’ and ‘the true filling argument’ respectively. In the misperception argument Socrates argues that it is characteristic of irrational men to misperceive as pleasant what in fact is a condition of neither having pleasure nor being pained. In the true filling argument Socrates argues that in so far as pleasure entails somatic or psychic filling and there are more and less true fillings, there are more and less true pleasures. Philosophical filling is the truest filling and thus the truest pleasure. The misperception argument critically contributes to the true pleasure argument by clarifying what pleasure is not: merely an appearance (φαινόμενον) or merely the absence of pain. The misperception argument thereby clears the ground for the constructive contribution of the true filling argument.

Grounded, yet reaching for the stars: The growth of the CUA

Spring is finally upon us across Canada and our planning for the Annual Meeting has reached a fervent pitch. Soon, we will all convene in Banff for the outstanding academic meeting planned by Dr. Trevor Schuler and Dr. Jay Lee. To support our left brains, Dr. Howard Evans and Dr. Marty Duffy will entertain us and ensure we are well fed and have lots to quench our thirsts. As an organization, the CUA is coming into its own. It has transformed itself from a self-driven association run from basements and dens of the secretary and treasurer with the support of the executive, to a true corporate entity run from an office professionally managed and with much more diversity in responsibility and reach. The Corporate Office is running like a perfectly tuned Swiss watch. It is fulfilling our needs from the perspective of planning the Annual Meeting, supporting logistics, fundraising and the day-to-day operations of the organization. The Corporate Office ensures proper succession and successful meetings (both academic and financial) year-to-year. It has helped us diversify our funding sources from relying totally on excess revenues at the Annual Meeting. The Office of Education is fully developed and working on multiple projects and providing an excellent revenue stream. CUAJ has always been successful as an academic publication, but with help from the Corporate Office, CUAJ is finally operating in the black. Also, interaction with other urologic associations has reached a new high. The second year of our exchange with the EUA will be completed this June. At the EAU Annual Meeting in March, there were extended conversations between the CUA and the EAU about how each organization can improve relations, exchange ideas and increase interaction. The AUA has approached the CUA, recognizing the growing presence of the CUA, and is exploring new potential interactions that will benefit both organizations. It will formally include CUA members on key AUA committees not just as “Canadian” members of the AUA but as CUA representatives on specific AUA committees. New interaction with the other “CUA,” the Chinese Urological Association, will bring the first official contingent from China to Banff for this year’s Annual Meeting. Huge effort and much work have been done by our members to facilitate these relationships, but none would succeed with out the support of our Corporate Office. I am thrilled to have served this organization in multiple facets over the years. It has been my true pleasure to associate with the urologists across Canada; we have much to be proud of and much to celebrate. It is a true family. We must always remember the humble beginnings of our national organization. These roots will ground us and keep our ship pointed into the wind. I am confident as we move forward that the CUA will continue to grow, thrive and expand in ways we have not yet conceived. I look forward to celebrating the academic and social accomplishments of the CUA at our Annual Meeting in Banff.

Björn O. Roos: 1937–2010. Mentor, colleague, innovator

Björn O. Roos: 1937–2010. Mentor, colleague, innovator

Raising BRN: Growth of a Journal

Raising BRN: Growth of a Journal

In Memoriam: David J. Macey

In Memoriam: David J. Macey

Herman Kalman Gold, MD

Dr Herman K. Gold, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass, died on March 1, 2008, at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) of complications related to acute myelogenous leukemia. He was 67 years old. Dr Gold served for 37 years as staff physician and interventional cardiologist in the Department of Cardiology at MGH and was responsible for groundbreaking research in the use of fibrinolytic agents and subsequently glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitors in the treatment of myocardial infarction. Dr Gold was born in Newport News, Va, the son of Jonah and Miriam Gold. His life was from early childhood shaped by medicine, a recognition of the role it played in saving his own life, which drove his passion, hope, and tireless energy in the pursuit of medical advances and clinical excellence to save others. Two indelible childhood events fueled his desire to become a physician. As a child, he contracted scarlet fever. During wartime, penicillin was rationed, and the family was only able to obtain enough for a few doses. He recalled that every night, his parents would boil his urine to collect enough penicillin for the next day’s treatment. Later, at the age of 9, he contracted bulbar polio, which prevented him from swallowing properly for nearly 2 years. These two experiences imprinted in him an appreciation for good health and a feeling of personal obligation as a physician to try sometimes unconventional treatments in an effort to cure patients’ ills. Dr Gold received his BS from the College of William and Mary in 1961. It was there he …

Recent Developments in Financial and Insurance Mathematics and the Interplay with the Industry

Recent Developments in Financial and Insurance Mathematics and the Interplay with the Industry

In the Wake of the Balkan Myth: Questions of Identity and Modernity by David A. Norris (review)

574 SEER, 85, 3, JULY 2OO7 theApollonian (i.e., rationality being the only road to happiness). Involved in founding a new culture, he is, like Peter theGreat inPeterburg, willing to sacrifice himself and others for the future good. In Zamiatin's dystopian novel My, legality functions in a similar way, but here it is satirically exaggerated and fundamentally negative. The under ground is both political and psychological because the revolutionaries want to restore emotion and the imagination (the Dionysian) which have been abolished by a state founded entirely on rationality (theApollonian). Gerigk concludes that Sologub and Zamiatin represent a pessimistic model inwhich negatively perceived legality oppresses the individual and cannot be overthrown, whereas Gor'kii and Gladkov represent an optimistic view, in which present or future legality is identifiedwith 'just cause'. Gerigk sees Belyi as a tragic model, because the balance between underground and legality can be maintained only for a short time before a cultural cycle comes to an inevitable end. Gerigk's study is compiled from lectures to students of Russian and comparative literature.This results in an eloquent stylewhich makes reading a true pleasure, but the volume's sparse bibliography and lack of consider ation of critical literature is surprising in a publication of this significance. Still, thebook will be of great interestnot only to students but to the academic community at large. Department ofSlavonic Studies U. Lange Universityof Mainz Norris, David A. In the Wake ofthe BalkanMyth: QuestionsofIdentity and Modernity. Palgrave, Basingstoke and New York, 1999. xiv + 192 pp. Notes. Maps. Plates. Bibliography. Index. ?58.00. The late nineteenth-century Serbian writer Laza Kostic once tried to explain the relationship between the culture of Serbia and those ofmajor Western European cultures using the scenario of a phone conversation, in which the speaker in Belgrade keeps repeating: 'Can you hear us? We do hear you, can you hear us?', with the other end of the line remaining silent. If you were to substitute 'Serbian' with 'Bulgarian' or 'Slovak', or any other Central or South East European culture, the image would still retain its value and accu rately express the frustrations of smaller European cultures at not being heard, or not being understood. David Norris begins In the Wake of the BalkanMyth: Questions ofIdentityandModernity by reminding his reader of Bakhtin's idea, expressed in hisNovy mir interview, of a dialogue between cultures, inwhich they open up to each other. By contrast, those small nations that emerged in nineteenth-century Europe had to struggle from their early days with an imbalance in the dialogue through which cultures come into being. The Balkan's entry into this symbolic dialogue has been hindered by what Norris calls the 'Balkan myth': the cluster of representations of the Balkans as a seat of primitivism,which isalternately looked upon positively ('noble savage') and negatively ('threatening barbarian'). Norris maintains that the source of the REVIEWS 575 Balkan myth lies in theWest, and its fears of a cultural Other. It reduces a culturally varied territory into a threatening unity which both justifies the colonialist ventures of theGreat Powers, and relieves them of responsibility for the origins of the FirstWorld War. Western images were established on an identity of the Balkan as Other and alien to themodern world. The West offered cultural recognition to that exotic world on the borders of theOrient, within the European family of cultures, but kept itas a separate space which was not and would never be fully integrated. The production of Balkan semantics isbased on a narrow range of persis tent images, reinvented as appropriate in each historical moment, and derived fromRomanticist aesthetics which privileged the national authenticity disco vered in folk epics. Norris shows how the Balkan myth resurfaces in critical periods in its Janus-like form ? either noble savage or primitive barbarian ? from thewritings of journalists such as Harry De Windt orJohn Reed at the beginning of the twentieth century, to those of Ian Traynor, the current Balkan correspondent of The Guardian. However, while other small and more colonized societies in a classical sense established a culture of resistance to the foreign voice, in Serbian culture the dominant motifs of the noble savage and primitive barbarian eventually came to dominate...

2006 Association of American Physicians Presidential Address: The US's changing competitiveness in the biomedical sciences

Fellow AAP members, friends, and guests, it’s been a true pleasure serving the Association for the past 11 years, first as a Council member, then as an Officer, and this year as President. The entire 11 years has been a real honor and privilege, and also a thoroughly enjoyable experience. I’m glad to report that the organization is strong, financially stable, and moving forward, and I think this year’s meeting has been an excellent one, at least to this point. And this of course, brings me to the annual ritual of the Presidential Address.

Trance and Treatment: Clincal Uses of Hypnosis, 2nd ed

Article AbstractBecause this piece does not have an abstract, we have provided for your benefit the first 3 sentences of the full text.It was a true pleasure to read the second edition of Trance and Treatment by Herbert Spiegel and David Spiegel. Since the publication of the first edition more than 25 years ago, there has been much clinical research and some neurobiological research in the field of hypnosis. The authors have incorporated both and much more.†‹

Research submissions to JMHC: Perspectives from the Associate Editor

I am extremely pleased to serve as the Journal of Mental Health Counseling (JMHC) associate editor for research, especially as the role affords me the opportunity to work with such fine colleagues as Drs. Jim Rogers, Alex Hall, and Bernie Jesolowski. I also look forward to working with the mental health counselors who submit their work for publication in JMHC; therein lies the true pleasure of editing. The opportunity to work with scholars doing cutting edge research and to read their contributions as they are drafted; fresh from the field, so to speak. I am fortunate, too, in following in Jim Rogers' footsteps, he having previously served in my current role as research editor (2002-2005). His introductory column in the July 2002 issue of JMHC, in which he laid out his vision for strengthening research publications, leaves little to improve upon. Therefore, I will seek only to expand on his chief points in that editorial. In terms of an overarching perspective, I agree with fully and will continue to support Rogers' (2002) idea that research articles in JMHC will reflect an appreciation for different methodologies relevantly serving to address research questions. As well, JMHC will encourage and seek to publish research submissions that are tied to clinical practice and that serve to build and test theory. Finally, although the JMHC editorial staff anticipates fielding submissions that possess a high level of competency with respect to research design, methodology, and statistical analyses, we recognize that research is definitely a give and take venture. As Gelso (1979) aptly points out, strengthening certain aspects of experimental design (i.e., increasing internal validity) will inevitably lessen the generalizability or clinical relevance of results (i.e., decrease external validity) and vice versa. Even good research has weaknesses. My goal as an associate editor will be to foster the knowledge and learning of all mental health counselors who submit research-based works to the journal. Offering constructive feedback will be the mainstay provision so as to edify authors' work and strengthen their contributions. In my opinion, the role of editing is not only to serve a gatekeeping function, but also to help all mental health counselors, as a community, move forward together, learning and growing in our collective skill. Rogers (2002) also made specific recommendations to authors of research submissions concerning increasing their attention to the theory that drives their research questions; to making accurate and explicit statements concerning the validity and reliability of instruments employed and constructs assessed; to report relevant sample-specific psychometric indices of reliability as a matter of course; and, to placing the significance of their findings within an appropriate context with respect to normative (e.g., absolute versus relative differences), sample (e.g., statistical power issues), and clinical benchmarks (e.g., clinical significance versus statistical significance). I cannot state any better than Rogers (2002) the importance of these issues. These recommendations will stand during my tenure as associate editor for research exactly as they are laid out in Rogers' remarks. I will also note that Rogers' editorial made reference to a number of fine research and statistical resources (e.g., Pedhauzuer & Smelkin, 1991; Wilkinson et al., 1999). These are certainly recommended reading and reference for any mental health counselor submitting research articles to JMHC. I might also add a few other statistical (Pedhazur, 1997; Tabachnick & Fidell, 2001) and research design (Heppner, Kivlighan, & Wampold, 1999) resources to that list. BUILDING A BETTER MOUSETRAP Moving a manuscript from initial submission to publication is a time-intensive effort for all involved. However, there are ways in which the process can be made easier. I hope that my affirmation of Rogers' (2002) comments will provide a significant head start to contributors. …

Cataract and Refractive Surgery

Thomas Conen and Douglas D. Koch (eds) Cataract and Refractive Surgery In: G. K. Krügelstain and R. N. Weinreb (eds) Essentials in Ophthalmology 324 pages Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 2005 ISBN 3 540 20046 0 Price: $99.00 Essentials in Ophthalmology is a review series covering eight different topics in ophthalmology, of which cataract and refractive surgery represents one. A new book of review in each area will be published every 2 years. This particular volume contains 10 chapters on cataract and nine on refractive surgery. Obviously not all aspects of these two quickly developing areas in ophthalmic surgery can be covered in this first volume. Each chapter, however, is designed in a didactic manner and begins with core messages, where the take-home information can be digested in 20 seconds. Each section within a chapter is also summarized in between three and five sentences, in what is called a ‘summary for clinicians’. This enables the reader to acquire an abstract view of each chapter very quickly and without reading the details. The authors are all well known surgeons and scientists working within the international arena and, although they stick to the same format, each of them frequently adds his or her personal touch to their own particular chapters, for better or for worse. As we all know, illustrations, particularly colour photographs, are difficult to obtain in the field of ophthalmology and in this book the illustrations range from the excellent to the not-so-good. This volume paints the cataract and refractive scene of 2002–03. This means that if you want to read about today's hot topics, such as Epilasik, you will have to wait for the next volume. For those who want to acquire an update of modern cataract and refractive surgery, this is an effective and enjoyable way to do so. Three chapters, in particular, recommend this book. The first is the chapter on accommodative intraocular lenses by Oliver Findel. This must be the best description of a complex and controversial subject published so far. Further, the chapter by Rupert Menapase on the prevention of posterior capsule opacification should become required textbook reading in the future. For those of us who enjoy a bit of an historical perspective and a touch of when, who, why and why not, the chapter on refractive keratotomy ‘Does it have a future role in refractive surgery?’ is not only very educational, but is a true pleasure to read. As an added bonus for cataract surgeons interested in surgical techniques, another chapter clearly delineates the difference between ‘chip and flip’, ‘crack and flip’, ‘fako chop’, ‘chew chew chop and flip’ and a few other variations on this theme. Given the rapid development in these two fields of ophthalmic surgery, I look forward with anticipation to the next volume in this series. It will, I am sure, include chapters on today's hot topics, such as patient benefit from ophthalmic surgery and newly evident complications that are inherent in every surgical technique in the areas of both cataract and refractive surgery.

Handbook of Local Anesthesia, 5th Edition

Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Mort Rosenberg; Handbook of Local Anesthesia, 5th Edition. Anesth Prog 1 March 2005; 52 (1): 39–40. doi: https://doi.org/10.2344/0003-3006(2005)52[39:HOLATE]2.0.CO;2 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest Search

Editor's Introduction

Editor’s Introduction Jennifer Popa My roommate believes that English majors are self-appointed metaphiles and grammar-spouting introverts who scoff at the world, clothed in black berets and turtlenecks. While stereotypes frequently have some basis in reality, I don't think of English majors as bookish intellectuals who woo people with their sesquipedalian nature (for non-English majors, this refers to our bent for using long words) or notoriously precise conversational style that can only be described as pedantic. Instead, I think of the new Red Cedar Review (RCR) staff. This fall, at the eleventh hour, I was asked to take over as managing editor. The previous staff all graduated last spring, and attempts to rally replacements over the summer proved fruitless. I struggled with the possibility that the next issue might never materialize because the pile of manuscripts had grown to fire-hazard proportions, and so I circulated a frantic plea for help among MSU English students. To my great relief, a brave band of volunteers rallied to comprise a new staff. Now I can fondly look back at fall weekends spent in the depths of Morrill Hall, attempting en masse to set new world records for safe caffeine-and-sugar consumption. At a time when the journal could have been abandoned, an earnest group of local English geeks assembled to wade through the never-ending stacks of manuscripts. With caffeine surging through our veins, we performed dramatic readings; guiltily shared a fondness for Harry Potter as though it was our own dirty little secret; questioned whether or not Morrill Hall was, in fact, sinking, threatening to crush us all; and attempted to answer the ever-plaguing question, "Is an MFA in Creative Writing really anything more than an expensive trip to the local coffee shop?" While I sat on a ratty plaid couch descended from the age of Heroes, I looked around at my reading companions. It was truly a sight to see them generously offer their time, eager to rescue a journal in need. While we weren't splitting atoms, curing cancer, or solving the mysteries of the universe, our efforts yielded a force to be reckoned with because we refused to let the publication die. There were still times when I questioned whether or not this journal would ever make it to print. It has been a struggle, but with great assistance from other students and former staff members (thank you, [End Page 1] Laura Tisdel), and some much-needed cheerleading from our faculty advisor, [you'll have to imagine that] we have managed a great feat. So, when I think of the pretentious English-major stereotype now, the image is always replaced by one of this very special community so wholly committed to our literary tradition. This group of devoted students is far from the exception, however. Dedication is not unique to this latest group of individuals—it's a quality characteristic of previous RCR staff members, also unwilling to allow a journal to perish. Though I don't know them personally, they are present in our office to this day, ghosts of another time and place with whom we share a commonality. We can feel their presence in an office that bears their sketches on the ceiling, their carvings of a Unabomber/Christ-like figure on the desk, and yellowing comics and aged hate mail adorning the walls. In a time of budget cuts and overwhelming apathy, it pleases me that this little publication of ours has survived. I believe that RCR's longevity is assured because there just has to be a certain vitality inherent in a journal that, on a number of occasions, could have been abandoned entirely. I am enormously proud to be a part of the 40th issue, and I and humbled by the unflinching dedication of my staff. Through the challenges, it has been a true pleasure to piece together this collection. In this issue you will find pieces that range from a treatise on the significance of attaining the perfect bruise to an essay on the innermost thoughts of a Head Color Namographer. There are local finds cultivated from within our East Lansing community, pieces from across...

Education

When you think of searching for information on the Web, you probably think of search engines such as Google. But do you think of eigenvectors? You should! Faithful readers of the Education section may recall the connection between information retrieval and numerical linear algebra from the second issue of the Education section, in 1999. In the article "Matrices, Vector Spaces, and Information Retrieval" (volume 41, pp. 335--362), Berry, Drmac, and Jessup described the use of latent semantic analysis, which is based upon the singular value decomposition, for searching document collections. The paper in this issue's Education section, "A Survey of Eigenvector Methods for Web Information Retrieval," extends this topic to the modern world of the Web. As the authors, Amy Langville and Carl Meyer, point out, information retrieval on the Web is significantly more challenging and difficult than information retrieval in a collection of documents, due to the enormous scale of the information space, the critical role of the hyperlink structure of the Web, and the greater fluidity of the space. Their paper summarizes the main approaches that have been taken to ranking Web pages in response to queries in search engines. It shows readily that the two basic approaches both lead to an eigenvector problem that is naturally solved by the power method. In the case of the PageRank method used by Google, this problem can have several billion variables! Fortunately, it does not have to be solved very often. The paper provides examples of the use of many concepts in matrix algebra, including stochastic and irreducible matrices. It also points to various promising areas for additional research. As such, it will be useful both in introductory numerical analysis and numerical linear algebra courses, where its very pleasant style and real-world context should make it popular with students, and in more advanced courses where it will provide a foundation for deeper study. It is fitting that as this paper on information retrieval brings the Education section full circle after six years, leadership of the section is changing hands. By the time this issue is published, the Section Editor role will be in the very capable hands of Professor Andrew Bernoff of Harvey Mudd College. It has been a true pleasure serving as editor of this section, due to the wonderful support of the SIAM staff (thanks particularly to Brian Fauth, Lou Primus, Mitch Chernoff, and Mary Rose Muccie), to a superb editorial board, and, most of all, to the many authors who have contributed their excellent work to SIAM Review. Thanks so much to all of you!