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A Tale of Two Authors: Why Translations Happen, or Don't.
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Why don't books get translated?
If you think it's because it's hard to find willing translators, or because the skills required are too rare, I'd like to offer two case studies below that point to another explanation:
The reason translations don't happen is that we prohibit them. That is to say, translations are what happens naturally, except when copyright restrictions suppress them.
If you're skeptical, consider the following tale of two authors, one whose books are free to be translated by anyone, another whose books are not.
We'll even stack the deck a bit. The author whose books are freely translatable will be a relatively minor author, one whose books are not, to be perfectly honest, of earth-shaking importance. Whereas some of the the books by the other author are acknowledged masterpieces in their original language, and you will see quotes from a prominent scholar about how the absence of translations is "one of the great intellectual scandals of our time".
The first author is me. I've written two books, both available under free licenses, and although I'm proud of them and glad I wrote them, neither is of any great historical significance. The first, published in 1999, was a semi-technical manual on how to use some collaboration software. Despite its limited audience and my having put it online in a somewhat cumbersome format, several volunteer translation efforts sprang up quickly, and at least one (into German) was completed. The other efforts may have been completed as well; I'm not sure, and since the book is old now and I can't read the translations anyway I haven't bothered to track them down. Note I'm really just talking about the volunteer translations — the ones that people started because they wanted to, without asking anyone's permission first. There was also a translation into Chinese, which was completed and which I have a paperback copy of, but we won't count it as evidence here because it went through publisher-controlled channels.
My next book, first published in 2005, likewise appeals to a fairly limited audience: it's about how to manage collaborative, open source software projects — I wasn't exactly aiming for the top of the bestseller lists. But with the gracious cooperation of my publisher, O'Reilly Media, I put it online under a free license, this time in a somewhat more amenable format, and volunteer translation efforts sprang up almost immediately. Several of them have completed their translations: the Chinese, Japanese, Galician, German, Dutch, and French. The Spanish is almost done, and there are others still under way that I'm not even bothering to list here.
(Yes, by the way, some of those translations are available in high-quality commercial paper versions, and I have copies of them at home. Commercial activity is perfectly compatible with non-restrictive distribution models, as we have pointed out before.)
So... all this for a book on open source software collaboration? Really? What does this tell us?
Well, let's look at a contrasting example.
The author Hans Günther Adler (published as "H.G. Adler") died in 1988 having produced what are widely accepted as some of the core works of Holocaust literature in German. Very few of his works have been translated into English, but recently one, the novel Panorama, was published in English and was widely reviewed.
A look at two of the reviews shows why here at QuestionCopyright.org we consider reframing the public conversation around copyright to be our primary mission. Both reviewers — obviously intelligent, obviously in agreement about Adler's significance, and writing for two of the most influential literary publications in the English language — comment on the shameful absence of Adler translations in English, yet collapse into a curious kind of passive voice when it comes to the reasons for that absence.
First, Judith Shulevitz in the New York Times:
Every so often, a book shocks you into realizing just how much effort and sheer luck was required to get it into your hands. "Panorama" was the first novel written by H.G. Adler, a German-speaking Jewish intellectual from Prague who survived a labor camp in Bohemia, Theresienstadt, Auschwitz and a particularly hellish underground slave-labor camp called Langenstein, near Buchenwald. Adler wrote the first draft in less than two weeks in 1948... He wound up in England, but couldn't find anyone willing to publish the book until 1968, 20 years and two drafts later. The book is coming out in English for the first time only now.
It's hard to fathom why we had to wait so long. ... [Adler] is almost entirely unknown in the English-speaking world. Only three of his books have been translated: a historical work, "Jews in Germany"; a novel called "The Journey"; and now, "Panorama." That American and British readers have had such limited access to Adler's writing and thought for so long is, as the eminent scholar of modern German literature Peter Demetz has written, "one of the great intellectual scandals of our time." [emphasis added]
— "A Vanished World. Scenes from the narrator's past are illuminated in H.G. Adler's first novel, appearing only now in English."
by Judith Shulevitz
New York Times Book Review, 30 January 2011
And this from Ruth Franklin writing for the New Yorker:
...Hermann Broch wrote that the book ["Theresienstadt 1941-1945"] would become the standard work on the subject, and that Adler's "cool and precise method not only grasps all the essential details but manages further to indicate the extent of the horror in an extremely vivid form." (The book was published in Germany in 1955 and quickly became a touchstone in German Holocaust studies, but it has never been translated into English.) [emphasis added]
— "The Long View: A rediscovered master of Holocaust writing."
by Ruth Franklin
New Yorker, 31 January 2011
Now, to be fair, Shulevitz and Franklin were writing reviews of Adler's work itself, not analyses of why those works have been so little translated into English. Yet it is striking that both choose to comment on the absence of translations, at some length, and yet they don't speculate on the reasons at all. They merely describe the situation and express regret, as though it were bad weather. There is no outrage or frustration at the fact that the reason we don't have those translations is simply that they have been suppressed before they could be started.
I'm not even going to put qualifiers like "probably" or "likely" before that. It should be treated as a finding of fact, at this point. If my books — my little tomes aimed a small sub-demographic of the software development world — get translated multiple times from English into languages with smaller readerships, then there is simply no way that H.G. Adler's much more important books, on a much more important topic, would not have been translated from German into English already, if only anyone (or more importantly, any group) who had the ambition to do so had been free to. English and German have a huge overlap in terms of people fluent in both languages, and there is wide interest in Holocaust studies among speakers of both languages. Furthermore, there are non-profit and state funding sources that would have gladly supported the work. That happened even with mine, for example: the Dutch translation was published in book form by SURFnet, who paid the translators to guarantee completion. It would be incomprehensible if funding could be found for that but somehow not for Adler translations.
The fact that the reason for the lack of Adler translations — and the lack of translations for other important works — is not immediately understood by all to be copyright restrictions points a glaring weakness in public debate about copyright. Right now, translators can't translate if they don't secure the rights first, and since the default stance of copyright is that you don't have those rights unless someone explicitly gives them to you, most potential translators give up without even trying. Or more likely, they never even think of trying, because they have become habituated to the permission-based culture. The process of merely tracking down whom to ask for permission is daunting enough, never mind the time-consuming and uncertain negotiations that ensue once you find them.
It is no wonder that so many worthy works remain untranslated, given these obstacles. But it is a wonder that we continue to hide our eyes from the reason why, even as it stares us in the face.
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This is so true. Every once in awhile, I go ego-surfing to find translations and reprints of my work -- which is a fairly trifling blog on Free Software Magazine with a pretty narrow focus. Nevertheless, I have found versions of my blogs in French, Spanish, Russian, and Polish. The CC By-SA license, of course, makes all of those legitimate, and I've posted thank you comments on some of the sites to emphasize that.
This is definitely one of the nicer benefits of free-licensing your work. With the permissions-based approach, finding a translator for your own work or communicating with the author of a foreign work to translate is difficult -- partly because of the language barrier (you can speak well enough to translate from a language without being able to speak it well enough to conclude business negotiations!).
Re: A Tale of Two Authors: Why Translations Happen, or Don't.
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I have an anectode about that myself. An American friend of mine happens to be a fan of Romanian poet Lucian Blaga, so he naturally tried to find English translations. When he failed to, the next idea was to start a translation effort himself... but Blaga died in 1961, so his work is still under copyright everywhere but Canada. He considered exploiting a loophole in Romanian law that allows any use of a copyrighted work for strictly academic purposes, but it was legally tenuous. In the end, he dropped it.
Contrast with Cory Doctorow's works, which have been translated by fans in dozens of languages by now. Guess who's going to be remembered more in a few decades.
Re: A Tale of Two Authors: Why Translations Happen, or Don't.
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Yeah. All these "academic use only" and "non-commercial use only" laws and licenses don't really help. The whole point is to allow commercial activity -- that's what drives a lot of good work! And in the absence of any monopoly, you don't have to worry about the bad work it drives too. The bad work will be forgotten, and the good work will survive.
The human race over time is a filter for fishing the good stuff out of the stream; distribution and translation monopolies just serve to shut off the stream.
Re: A Tale of Two Authors: Why Translations Happen, or Don't.
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Thank you for posting this! I had just lately been thinking about copyright and translations, so let me raise another point:
Because rights-holders are monopolistic, when they do authorize a translation, they face practically no accountability as to its quality or accuracy. A glaring example is the cornerstone of modern feminist thought, The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir --- see Toril Moi's critique at "http://www.lrb.co.uk/v32/n03/toril-moi/the-adulteress-wife". Scholars have never been satisfied with the English translations, and there's not a whole lot they can do about it except make everyone learn the subtleties of French---and it's not like if you want to study the cornerstone of modern feminism you can just pick something else.
In a less crucial way, I also feel this constantly as a member of the J-pop fandom, which is rife with rebel fan-translations---which are the only access an Anglophone audience has to many excellent works, even ones with historical significance (for example, very little of Riyoko Ikeda's work, a seminal influence on the modern girls genre, has been legally translated). And if the official translation is just lame ("Ooku" by Fumi Yoshinaga comes to mind---"Naaay! I want it not!!"), well, there's not a thing you can do about it.
Monopoly means never having to say you're sorry.
Re: A Tale of Two Authors: Why Translations Happen, or Don't.
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Those are wonderful points, and great examples too. Thank you for posting them! Yes, absolutely: a monopoly on translation rights tends to drive down the quality of translations... and how could it be otherwise?
I loved your closing line :-).
French translation of this article.
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Just found out this article has been translated into French!
(I think the above link is probably the best one to use, but if it's ever unavailable, the translation also seems to be posted at http://www.a-brest.net/article7194.html.)


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Worse yet, because of the sheer incompetence of Harry Reid, Lieberman was given political POWER that goes beyond his seniority and his overinflated committee chairman seat. Lieberman is now treated as the lynchpin for Democratic support in the Senate when, by all rights, Reid and the rest of the Democrats should have cut him loose just like his state's party cut him loose a few years ago! But because Reid is inept and incompetent, Lieberman now has power over the course of the party's actions.
The Most Incompetent and Useless Members of Congress in 2008 (tie): House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid – They could not pass a federal budget by the October 1st deadline, but they found the time to declare a special day for "watermelon lovers". Not one single appropriations bill could be passed! NOT ONE! But they could declare "dirt" to be a natural resource. They agreed to have ONE hearing on ONE article of impeachment against the Bush Imperium, but only as long as there would be NO VOTE on that article of impeachment.
Is there any bigger reason why Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are, without a doubt, THE MOST INEPT PEOPLE in this whole world?
Worse yet, Pelosi was actually RE-ELECTED! The voters in her district were given a choice; they could have gone with a nationally recognized liberal icon running as an independent, but they said no. They stayed with Pelosi, even after she betrayed everything they were pushing for. Her constituents are just as INEPT and INCOMPETENT as her!
It's hard to imagine that Barack Obama is even in the same political party as these two idiots, never mind that he now has to work with them to get his programs put in place.
The Most Deserving Victory of 2008: The Presidential Election of Barack Obama – I've said this before and I'll say it again… I did not support Obama, and I did not vote for Obama. But even I have to admit that he EARNED his victories.
At the start of 2008, every political consultant and every member of the air-fluffed ego-driven media kept on saying that this would be a New York "subway election" between Republican wannabe Rudy "The Thug" Giuliani and Democratic wannabe Hillary Rodham-Clinton. That was it! Those were the "chosen" candidates! They deemed John McCain's campaign to be too liberal and weak, and they deemed Obama to be a flash in the pan.
And these so-called "experts" were proven to be WRONG on both counts!
McCain ended up being seen as the more credible of candidates to the primary and caucus voters, even though he almost ran out of money in March and April. And Obama's pop support, along with some usual campaigns from Oprah Winfrey, Will.I.Am, and "Obama Girl", managed to beat out Hillary's political favors and dirty tricks. They each had to overcome their party's "destiny picks", but it is Obama that really deserves credit for coming off as the more credible of the two. He EARNED his victory, and that's a rare thing to say in this day and age of politics.
The Tricky Dick Nixon Award for Dirty Tricks in 2008: Hillary Rodham-Clinton – This award originally was supposed to be shared with the McCain campaign, but the truth of the matter is that pretty much every dirty trick that McCain's people employed got their start with Camp Hillary!
Hillary was the WORST kind of presidential candidate from day one. She campaigned under the assumption that the party nomination AND the White House were both HERS for the taking. She carried herself and she ran her campaign under the assumption that this was all HERS. It was "HER turn". She did her time in the Senate, she paid her dues, she waited until the Bush Imperium was on the out, and now it would be HER TURN in the Oval Office. And no matter the gender, any candidate that claims that being in the highest office in the land is simply a matter of paying your "dues" and waiting your "turn" is THE WORST kind of candidate to have.
And when the primary and caucus support started going to Barack Obama, Camp Hillary pulled out the dirty tricks. THEY were the ones that spread the story that Obama wasn't a native-born American. THEY were the ones that spread the story that he was either a Muslim or a "closet Muslim". THEY were the ones that linked him to Reverend Wright and Bill Ayers and Tony Rezco. They did everything possible to discredit and dismiss Obama and Obamamania. They wanted to throw out caucus results, because caucuses mostly went to Obama. They wanted to throw out young voters, because they supported Obama. They painted Obama as being an "elitist" because of how he spoke. They claimed that Obama wouldn't have the experience to handle "the 3am call" even though Hillary's own experience consisted of picking up the phone and saying "Bill, where are you and who are you doing?" They used convoluted and tortured logic to justify how she "should win" the nomination when the numbers weren't there, and when worst came to worse, she dropped enough references in the media to suggest that Obama shouldn't get the nomination because he could end up being another Bobby Kennedy and get himself assassinated!
For all that can be said about John McCain's campaign, about the dirty tricks that he and his soothsayers and spin-masters employed, I don't think that ANY of them would even entertain the idea that they would ever link the words "popular support" and "assassination" in their campaign. Their myrmidons, maybe, but not the campaign people. But Hillary did! She did that herself! Not her campaign people, not her surrogates, SHE DID! She opened the door to suggest that people should not support Obamamania because Obama could be ASSASSINATED!
Worst kind of candidate indeed!
The Fake Idol Award for 2008: Governor Sarah Palin – I know the conservatives and neo-conservatives are saying "That should be Obama's award" but the truth of the matter is that Sarah Palin did very little of what the cons and neocons claimed she did for the campaign. She did not "energize the base". They did that all on their own. She was not a leader or an innovator of the party. She was a VESSEL of the party and of the neo-conservative campaign. She was their product, their end result of years of propaganda and politicking.
And that was the really scary part about her. This wasn't an act. Her Jiffy-Pop "Redneck Woman" demeanor and her small-town "Good-ol-boy" approach were genuine. Sarah Palin is EVERYTHING that the conservatives and neo-conservatives could every look for all wrapped up in the body of a former beauty queen. She wasn't intelligent, but she didn't have to be. She was just politically savvy to say all the right buzzwords to keep the myrmidons eating out of her hand.
She wasn't their spokeswoman. She was their spokesMODEL. She was the very definition of a false idol.
So much for that whole "glass ceiling" thing.
The Most Pathetic Presidential Campaign for 2008: Former Senator Fred Thompson – It's sad, because people were really begging this guy to come in and be the reincarnation of Ronald Reagan, and goes ahead and goes in, he has to give up his TV role to do it, and then suddenly he freezes and he just doesn't recover.
The Biggest Screw-job for 2008: Congressman Ron Paul – Ron Paul was the only libertarian Republican candidate in a batch of con and neocons wannabes. He also stirred up the libertarians in the party and got them to generate a record number of donations in one single day.
It was clear that Ron Paul was a threat to the status quo. And the GOP hierarchy knew it.
So they conspired to shut him out.
The primary debates were quick to silence Paul, focusing on the other candidates. Then the debate organizers shut out Paul along with the others. Even when the number of candidates were narrowed down to three or four candidates, party leaders REFUSED to include Paul in the debates. Paul did not give up, even when he suspended his campaign. He still had plenty of support.
Then, to add injury on top of insult, the Republican hierarchy actively SHUT PAUL OUT OF THE CONVENTION!
He was the ONLY candidate that was NOT allowed to speak. Not only did they NOT invite him to speak, but they actively barred him from even showing up there.
Not only did they shut him out, but they also shut out all of his supporters! Ron Paul actually had convention delegates, but they were prohibited from even getting near the convention center! Paul and his supporters ended up having their own counter-convention just down the street.
That was not only dishonorable and disrespectful, but it was uncalled for! This is the party that CLAIMED to be a "big tent" party, and at a time when they were looking for unity and bringing people together, and at the same time the GOP hierarchy turned to the libertarians and said that THEY were not welcomed.
That is what your pompous partisan attitude got you Republicans.
Speaking of which…
The Spoiled Baby Award for 2008: Conservative Talk Radio and the GOP Myrmidons – This was by far the most antagonistic campaigns in recent history. It's one thing to disagree with your opponents, but to exhibit out-and-out HATRED was uncalled for.
This commentator firmly believes that John McCain really had no idea just how antagonistic things were until about two weeks before the election, and by then it was really too late to do anything about it.
Now think about this: once the antagonism came out and the media was talking about it, don't you think that it would have a negative effect on the voters? I mean, on one side you had an eloquent speaker like Obama, and followers that were passionate but also optimistic. Then you have the addled McCain and a bunch of rabid, snarling, angry, myrmidons acting like it was the 1950's and they were waiting to start lynching someone for drinking from the "wrong fountain". Don't you think that may have had an impact on the other voters?
Worse yet, these guys are still claiming that McCain was supposedly "robbed" of his election by liberal groups like ACORN. They also still continue to claim that Obama is not really a native-born citizen, even going so far as to ask the Supreme Court to step in before the Constitutional Convention meets. (Thankfully the justices said no to that request.)
Remember when the Democrats complained about the 2000 Fiasco? What did you call them when they started talking about having a "Shadow Cabinet" and a "Shadow Administration"?
Yeah, you know what you called them. You called them "left-wing nutcases" and "moonbats". You called them spoilsports and sore losers.
Well now you guys are exhibiting the same actions. So what do you think people are calling you? It's certainly not "patriots".
Congratulations… it's eight years later and the tables have turned.
The Don Imus Award for 2008: Randi Rhodes – I will admit that I HAVE listened to Randi Rhodes on several occasions. I often don't agree with what she has to say, but she tries so hard to be the anti-Rush that she becomes somewhat entertaining to listen to. I also felt sorry for her when I watched the documentary "Left of the Dial" on the start-up of Air America Radio and how she was treated as the ugly stepchild as opposed to Al Frankin.
Anyway, Rhodes got the Imus treatment after she made a public appearance and called Hillary Clinton surrogate Geraldine Ferarro "a big (f'ing) whore", and then called Hillary the same thing. For that, Air America Radio pulled her off the air.
But I will give Randi credit for sticking up for what she believed in. She didn't go sucking up to her bosses. She didn't ask for her job back. She just turned to them and said "(F) you, you breached the contract, and I'm taking my show to a place where they appreciate my work!"
And now she's on Nova M Radio in Phoenix, where they air her show along with that of fellow Air America exile Mike Malloy.
Good for you Randi! Worst comes to worse, of course, there's always Internet radio… I know that ShockNet Radio would LOVE to get your fan base!
The Big Stinking Hypocrite Award for 2008: (former) New York Governor Elliot Spitzer – "Mister Clean", "Mister Law and Order", the so-called "sheriff of Wall Street" ended up leaving the Governor's office in shame after getting caught soliciting a high-priced prostitute. How funny!
The most infuriating part of this story is that he is actually GETTING AWAY WITH IT! The US Prosecutor handing the case has REFUSED to pursue charges against Spitzer, even after making all of those arrangements and all of those deals and after all of the details of his mess were made public. What the hell? The biggest fish in his whole career and he lets it go? I wonder what sort of political wrangling went on behind the scenes for that kind of blunder to happen.
The "Shut The Hell Up and Go Away" Award for 2008 (3-way tie): Congresswoman Michelle Bachman, Governor Sarah Palin, and "Joe the Plumber" – Unlike Sarah Palin, "Joe the Plumber" really is a fictional creation of the Republicans. The guy that plays "Joe" decided to blame John McCain for supporting the Paulson Plan. He also accused McCain for not giving thanks to Palin for her "hard work", even though McCain did just that just a couple of nights previously on David Letterman's show.
Uh, Joe? I got some bad news for you, Joe. YOU'RE A TOOL! You're nothing more than a convenient political prop whose time had long since expired. You are thirty minutes beyond your proscribed fifteen minutes of fame. It's time for you to sit down, shut up, and figure out what you want to do with your life besides being a political prop.
Palin also just can't seem to go away. Right after the dirty little diva secrets started to come out concerning her Barbie fashion trends, she gave what was probably the most memorable line in her short-lived national career: "I've never asked for anything, except maybe for a Diet Dr. Pepper!"
Riiiiiight… and I'll believe that just like I believe that you could see Russia from your house.
Look, I'm not complaining about the "Caribou Barbie" fashion scandal… I think it's hilarious that all of this is coming out. I mean, seriously, do you know how much security would be involved for the whole Palin clan to show up at Wal-Mart? It's just stupid that she would take the denials to the other extreme.
And then there's the modern-day reincarnation of Joe McCarthy… Congresswoman Bachman! She who called on the media to investigate who is "anti-American" before the election then turned around AFTER the election and said that she never made such a claim AT ALL! She said it was an "urban legend", even WHEN the transcripts of what she said were repeated to her WORD FOR WORD! She didn't claim that it was taken out of context; she flat-out denied ever saying it, even though the actual VIDEO of her saying it has circulated the Internet a few million times!
Okay Congresswoman Bachman, we get the picture. You're either a pathological liar or else you're a moonbat. That doesn't say much about the people who re-elected you, but, hey, the same can be said about Nancy Pelosi's constituents. Just do us all a favor and sit down, shut up, and hope that you won't give us another chance to decide which characterization you truly fall under.
The Tom Delay Award for Political Corruption in 2008: Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich – Auctioning off Barack Obama's Senate seat to the highest bidder is the lowest of the low. And from news reports I was coming across, this guy is really an abrasive person. I wouldn't be surprised if someone diagnoses him as being narcissistic. I really hope the state government there does the right thing and remove him from power before he is allowed to pick Obama's Senate replacement.
The Tom Delay Runners-Up for Political Corruption in 2008: Congressman William Jefferson and Senator Ted Stevens – They each came close. Jefferson got caught with a few thousand in literally "cold hard cash" in his freezer. Stevens was convicted for not reporting several very expensive gifts from an oil contractor. But they got beat out by Blagojevich not only because of the scope of his accusations, but also because the voters then turned around and voted both of these corrupt politicians out of office. Very smart move on behalf of the voters in those areas.
Now, why couldn't have the voters in Michelle Bachman's and Nancy Pelosi's districts do the same?
The Most Pathetic Bumper Sticker Slogan in 2008: "Conservatives in Exile" – Sean Hannity and several others are making this their tagline. They want to claim that they're now "exiles".
You know, I hate to burst your bubble, but you guys have to actually LEAVE THE COUNTRY in order to declare yourselves as "exiles"! You can't just sit in your cushy jobs on Fox News in New York and claim that you're an exile.
Remember when you were busy telling your critics to go leave the country? Well payback's a bitch, and it's her time of the month! Just remember: Delta is ready when you are.
The Second-Most Pathetic Bumper Sticker Slogan in 2008: "Mister Independent" – This is Lou Dobbs' tagline. He claimed to be an "independent". Sorry Lou, but you're nothing of the sort. At best you're a populist, and at worst you're a neo-con.
The Best Political Statement of 2008: The Iraqi Shoe-Thrower – This just came in as the article was being worked on, but it probably was the BEST political statement of the year about the Bush Imperium.
During an impromptu visit to Iraq, President George W. Bush was about to make a speech to the media when one of the Iraqi journalists started shouting and throwing his shoes at Bush. Both of the footwear missed the President's head by a few inches, and the man was taken down after running out of shoes.
What is not being said too loudly is that in the Islamic world, throwing one's shoes is the biggest insult you can make to a person.
There's your legacy, Junior. Still think you'll be treated kindly when history is written?
And finally…
The "Hate to See You Go" Award for 2008: ShockNet Radio's "Kick Start" – 2008 witnessed several changes to ShockNet Radio's lineup. First was the return of "Brutally Honest" to Internet radio, taking over where the "American Heathen®" left off. Then came the "Rock and Roll Diner". And then was the station's first morning show, "Kick Start". It was a fun show, and a full crew on staff and yours truly got to take part in some of the high points.
Unfortunately there were a few problems behind-the-scenes that forced the show to join "Sports Talk on the Juice" in radio limbo. Maybe some day it'll come back. Maybe.
In the meantime, let's get brutally honest here… I may not like to blow my own horn, but I'm really excited to see how 2009 will look for ShockNet! Between the debut of "American Heathen® Redux" (with myself co-hosting it from Atlanta) and "Uptown Sound with Andrew Brown", and the return of "High Instability", "Rock and Roll Diner" and of course "Brutally Honest", things look pretty good. Time will tell.
And speaking of which… that's it for 2008! See you guys next January!


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Sing Tao News Corporation Orders New Goss Press for Toronto
By: Press Release | Goss
January 31st, 2013 – Sing Tao News Corporation has ordered a new six-tower Goss Community press for the Sing Tao Daily, Canadian eastern edition. The publisher's experience with Goss equipment and personnel was crucial to the choice of supplier for its latest technology upgrade.
The installation coincides with a relocation to a new printing plant in the city of Markham, within the Greater Toronto Area. According to Peter Li, vice president – operations for Sing Tao Daily, Canadian eastern edition, there are a number of advantages to be gained from the installation: "Our objective is to improve production efficiency and reduce waste while also increasing color capacity for daily editions and supplements. Goss is not unique in the ability to meet these needs but we have always used Goss equipment so we know it well, and confidence in the long-term support was also an important consideration."
Founded in 1978, Sing Tao Daily is the largest Chinese-language daily newspaper in Canada. The press for Sing Tao Daily, Canadian eastern edition will consist of six four-high towers and two folders for printing the Toronto daily editions, as well as five weekly supplements and two independent weekly magazines. Comprising five broadsheet sections for each daily edition, the main eastern edition achieves readership figures in the region of 200,000 copies per issue.
"The competition for readership is stiff so we have been employing a range of strategies in order to reinforce our ability to capture and retain the largest share of the print readership," comments Li. "As well as increasing our number of titles we have also been devoting considerable energy and resources to improve content and print quality. This latest press acquisition is part of that process."


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A Chicago Bears fullback has been charged with disorderly intoxication and resisting an officer in Miami Beach after he interfered with police officers investigating an accident.
Jail records show 24-year-old Evan Rodriguez was arrested early Thursday. He was being held in the Miami-Dade County Jail on $1,500 bail after being booked at 5:32 a.m.
Rodriguez went to Temple University, where he was a tight end. He played in 12 games for the Bears in 2012, starting in five of them.
An attorney wasn't listed on jail records.
Rodriguez was a in a car that got into accident, so the officer asked him for identification for a traffic report, while assisting with the accident investigation at the intersection of 6th Street and Alton Road in Mami Beach.
The arrest report said Rodriguez responded by asking what the officer needed it for since he was an NFL player, saying that he didn't need all the media "stuff."
Rodriguez gave his ID but appeared upset. The officer told Rodriguez and another man, who was the driver of a vehicle involved in the accident, to stay at the scene, but several minutes later Rodriguez walked away, leaving his ID and the driver behind.
He returned, but then walked into the road, towards an officer who busy conducting roadside exercise on the driver. Another officer got between them and told Rodriguez to go back to the sidewalk. Rodriguez stopped but then continued to walk towards the officer. He was told again to go back, but instead stood in the middle of the road, the report said. He said he would go back but stayed in the road, the report said.
He was told again to go the sidewalk, but, raising his voice, he said he was hard-headed and didn't have to listen.
He was told again that he was interfering with an investigation and needed to go to the sidewalk.
"I don't need this. I'm an NFL player," Rodriguez was quoted as saying in the report.
Rodriguez complied after he was told that he was just a passenger and that all the authorities needed was his ID and then he could go.
He then started screaming at the driver and then the officers, the report said. Eventually, a crowd started to gather.
Authorities noticed he had slurred speech, bloodshot, watery eyes and a strong odor of alcohol on his breath.
While in the holding cell, Rodriguez spontaneously said, "I'm sorry, but I was upset 'cause of the accident," the report said.
It wasn't immediately known if he had an attorney.
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Senators seek pact on gun background checks
WASHINGTON (AP) — A cornerstone of President Barack Obama's drive to check gun violence is gathering bipartisan steam as four senators, including two of the National Rifle Association's congressional champions, privately seek compromise on requiring far more firearms purchasers to undergo background checks.
The talks are being held even as Obama's call to ban assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines, the two other major pillars of his plan, are hitting rough waters on Capitol Hill. An agreement among the four senators to expand background checks would add significant impetus to that high-profile proposal by getting the endorsement of a group that ranges from one of the Senate's most liberal Democrats to one of its most conservative Republicans.
"We'll get something, I hope. I'm praying for it," said Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., one of the participants.
Manchin, a moderate Democrat, is an NRA member who aired a 2010 campaign ad in which he literally shot a hole through Democratic environmental legislation that he pledged to oppose.
Also involved is Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., another NRA member with a strong conservative record but occasional maverick impulses; No. 3 Senate Democratic leader Charles Schumer of New York, a liberal; and moderate GOP Sen. Mark Kirk of Illinois.
Background checks are required only for sales by the nation's 55,000 federally licensed gun dealers, but not for private purchases like those at gun shows, online or in person. There are few indisputable, up-to-date statistics on how many guns change hands without background checks, but a respected study using 1990s data estimated that 30 percent to 40 percent of gun transactions fit into that category.
The senators' talks have included discussions about how to encourage states to make more mental health data available to the federal system for checking gun buyers' records, according to people who spoke anonymously because they were not authorized to describe the private negotiations. They are also considering potential exemptions to expanded background check requirements, including transactions involving relatives or people with licenses to carry concealed weapons
People involved in the talks would share little about their substance. In one of the few public remarks about the talks by participants, Schumer said last week that the talks have been productive and said the package they were seeking "will not limit your ability to borrow your Uncle Willie's hunting rifle or share a gun with your friend at a shooting range."
Congress has been focusing on guns since the December massacre of 20 first-graders and six adults at a school in Newtown, Conn. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., wants his panel to approve gun control legislation in the next few weeks and has voiced strong support for universal background checks for firearms purchases.
While an expansion of background checks is expected to be a key part of any gun control bill Leahy produces, a version of that provision with bipartisan support could give the entire package a boost.
It is likely that any gun-control bill will need 60 votes to pass the 100-member Senate. Democrats have 55 votes, including two Democratic-leaning independents.
Leaders of the GOP-run House are planning to see what, if anything, the Senate passes before moving on gun legislation. Strategists believe that a measure that passes the Senate with clear bipartisan support could pressure the House to act.
The political impact that the four senators could have by reaching agreement stems largely from who they are.
If Coburn embraces an agreement, that could help win over other conservative Republicans at a time when the GOP is responding to its White House and congressional election losses of last November by trying to broaden its national appeal.
In an Associated Press-GfK Poll last month, requiring more background checks got overwhelming public support, compared to just over half who backed bans on assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines.
"The whole goal is to keep guns out of the hands of the mentally ill and criminals," Coburn said in a brief interview.
Manchin's support could make it easier to win backing from other Democratic senators from GOP-leaning states, many of whom face re-election next year and who have been leery of embracing Obama's proposals.
"If the language is meaningful, it would be obviously a huge step," said Josh Horwitz, executive director of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, which represents child welfare, religious and other groups favoring gun curbs. "To have someone like Coburn, who's voted consistently with the gun lobby, to come out and endorse a meaningful background check would be very helpful."
Schumer and Kirk each have "F'' scores from the NRA for their voting records in Congress, while Coburn and Manchin have "A'' ratings.
Though widened background checks is given the strongest chance for enactment of Obama's major proposals, it is opposed by the NRA and many congressional Republicans, who consider it intrusive and unworkable for a system they say already has flaws.
"My problem with background checks is you're never going to get criminals to go through background checks," Wayne LaPierre, NRA executive vice president, told the Senate Judiciary Committee at its gun control hearing last week.
"That's the way reductions in liberty occur, when you start saying people have to sign up for something and they have a database where they know exactly who's who," Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, said in an interview.
Gun control supporters note that federal laws specifically forbid the national background check system from being used as a registry of gun owners. Much of the information the system collects must be destroyed within a day.
NRA spokesman Andrew Arulanandam declined to comment on the senators' discussions.
According to Justice Department estimates, the federal and state governments ran 108 million background checks of firearms sales between 1994 when the requirement became law and 2009. Of those, 1.9 million — almost 2 percent — were denied, usually because would-be purchasers had criminal records.
People legally judged to be "mentally defective" are among those blocked by federal law from firearms purchases. States are supposed to make mental health records available to the federal background check system and receive more generous Justice Department grants if they do, but many provide little or no such data because of privacy concerns or antiquated record-keeping systems.
People following the discussions say the talks have touched on:
—The types of family relatives who would be allowed to give guns to each other without a background check.
—Possibly exempting sales in remote areas.
—Whether to help some veterans who sought treatment for traumatic stress disorder — now often barred from getting firearms — become eligible to do so.
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T9B The Grand Final 2019
Date: Sat 14th December
Venue: Brooklyn Bar & Billiards
Time: 9.30 start 1st session, 10.30 2nd session, 11.30 3rd session
Discipline: 9 Ball
Format: 1 day 32-8 DE
Race to: 7
Handicap System: Yes
Entry Fee: Free Qualifiers / £50 Ranking Entries
Rules for 2019 season
**Members – Membership is not compulsary, however it will cost an extra £10 to enter if you are not a member. Every player has to be a T9B member to play Champion of Champions and receive ranking points.
**Payments – Entry fees must be made in advance via bank transfer, Paypal or cash paid into a bank.
**Lateness – Morning – 1 rack will be docked per 10 minutes that your late to a maximum of 3 racks after 30 minutes.
**Leaving the venue – Players must let the TD know if they are leaving the venue! If your match is called and your not in the venue the above lateness penalties will applied however if over 30 mins you will forfeit the match.
(Racks will be taken regardless of if the opponent agrees or not)
Players will now not be refunded or given a credit if they withdraw after the draw has been made, unless emergency circumstances.


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Wow, that's a lotta bold color lol! Almost hurts my eyes. But I'm not saying that's a bad thing.
Hmm, I'm not too thrill ed at the anatomy here, but that colour pallet makes me envious!
Twinkiesama wrote:I would have to agree with you on the anatomy. I could not get the hand just right and her bust-line looks a bit off to me. Poor girl.
You should try drawing your own hand more often, it's good practice.
As for proportion, I know its stupid, but I generally make the hand as big as I think the characters heart is(organ kind). Cause of that old science fact.
Twinkiesama wrote:You should try drawing your own hand more often, it's good practice.
As for proportion, I know its stupid, but I generally make the hand as big as I think the characters heart is(organ kind). Cause of that old science fact.
That makes sense. I should try working on basic drawing skills from now on. I been studying inking and toning techniques from professional manga and comics, so that aspect of my artwork has improved.
It is just difficult because I do not have a nude model available twenty-four seven. If anyone knows any free sites I can look at for figure drawing, that would help.
There's plenty of resources available in this thread
I really like the clothing on her, but the anatomy is a bit off. Her head is a little to big for her body, that's the main problem. Love the colors too. The simplicity makes it work.
It's great that you're stylizing your characters in a consistent manner, but I think it looks off to people because you don't have the underlying foundations to support the stylization. As a result, it looks unintentional ):
One thing you should consider is the width/thickness of your characters, not just the height. If your characters have slightly wider shoulders and hips, then the head will look proportional to those instead of looking too big for the body. Humans have a certain intuition for balance/proportions, so you can't just resize parts of the body independently of everything else without messing with that perception. Unfortunately, as artists we often get used to our own stylization, and it can become difficult for us to notice this sort of unbalance even though it gnaws on everybody else.
Edit: Also, 6 heads tall isn't just short by manga standards, it's short by real-life standards too. Humans have 6-heads-tall proportions roughly around the age of 7, as adults they're usually between 7 (short-ish) and 8 (tall) heads tall. By comparison, manga/anime characters are often upwards of 8 heads tall, and some are extremes (ex. in Bleach, characters are upwards of 10 heads tall).
If you're going to go for 6-heads-tall proportions, check out the proportions on children of that age. After all, children do look proportional to us, despite not having the same proportions as adults. If you're worried that doing so will make your characters look like kids, then there are two major things you cna do to avoid that:
1. Use adult facial proportions (children have smaller faces and larger eyes compared to the head than adults)
2. Give your characters more defined body features such as hips, pecs, fingers, etc. Children are often softer and have stubbier fingers/limbs due to all the baby fat.
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Windows XP / Windows Vista / Windows 7
X86 CPU with SSE1 (Pentium 3 and AthlonXP upwards).
Latest Beta ~ V0.9.260 ~ March 15th 2014
Fixed audio silence bug.
Fixed automation bug with Ableton Live.Download
Beta V0.9.225 ~ June 5th 2013
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Fear and Misery in the Third Reich
Bloomsbury Academic, 01.03.2012 - 144 Seiten
Also known as The Private Life of the Master Race, this is a sequence of twenty-four realistic sketches showing how "ordinary" life under the Nazis was subtly permeated by suspicion and anxiety. Written in exile in Denmark and first staged in 1938 it was inspired in part by his recent trip to Moscow where he had been researching tasks for the anti-Nazi effort.
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Hundreds of wild horses roam the misty mountains of the Guy Fawkes River National Park in northern NSW. Over the past ten years, Digby Foster has been successfully taming and re-homing the brumbies, many of which are descendents of horses bred for the First World War.
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Following a horse culling program in 2000, Digby and a group of other locals set up the Guy Fawkes Heritage Horse Association.
The organisation's purpose is to protect the heritage value of the horses which have inhabited the park from the late 1800s.
Many in the national park today are direct descendents of the Waler horse, which were purpose-bred for war service.
"They were looking for certain characteristics and the way to breed them was to basically put a heavy horse over a finer framed horse," Digby says.
"At the stage where they were training horses, some horses were put into the park here as a reserve so that if they needed them they could come and get them and they would've already been up to size and ready to break in."
As part of a collaborative program, the horses are trapped by National Parks and then moved to a 300 acre holding paddock on the park's edge, where the association get them accustomed to people.
Since its inception in 2001, the foundation has re-homed more than 200 horses, where they're used for mustering, riding and events.
Known to some as a 'horse whisperer', Digby says he thinks like a horse to gain their trust.
"If it's their idea to come up, then I might retreat straight away. Next time they come up they might allow me to touch them a little bit and then I retreat and go away," he says.
"I basically use their herd language and that way you can communicate to them quite easily."
The Guy Fawkes Heritage Horse Association is holding an open day at 1378 Guyra Road, Ebor, on Australia Day. For details visit the association's website or call (02) 6657 5342.


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- Describe some of the events that occur during an earthquake
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Value ranks high (No. 4). Kids under 7 ski free, and weekday nightskiing is usually half off thanks to one local promotion or another. Night or day, kids live it up on the endless whoop-dee-do's that weave through the lower trees, and intermediates build egos off the Millicent Chair. The resort is spread out, and readers complain about doing "the whole cross-country thing to get around." Expert skiers know that inbounds can be a bit tame. But head out one of the many backcountry gates to steep pitches and the lightest, driest power in the state. Brighton will forever get dinged for its lack of lodging and après action. Still, take a seat at Molly Green's for the best daily food specials in the Canyon. —Jill Adler
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captain sambuca wrote:t's like judging which tennis players in the tournament are the tallest
That's just flat out incorrect, there's no unit of measure for how much people like one entry vs another until they're pitted against each other in a one on one poll. Also, assuming that you can look at every pairing and spot the winner is awfully presumptuous given the vote spread in every poll so far. There's nothing finite about opinions.
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Is a fun idea. It doesn't really fit this contest, but I can see us working something like that into another one. I'm pretty sure a similar scheme was brought up in the podrace contest planning at one point - voting each separate lap based on speed, maneuverability, then durability.i still think a better system would be to have the community vote on just one aspect of the build at each stage. in this case, it could mean voting on the best bounty hunter. the best ship. the best prisoner hold.
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