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The new CORE reels by Shimano are designed to be the ultimate, lightweight baitcasting reels. Made with magnesium frames and sideplates, and Magnumlite spool construction.
-Ultra-Lightweight Magnesium Frame and Sideplate
-Ultra-Lightweight A7075 Aluminum Spool Construction
-Magnumlite Spool Design
-S A-RB Ball Bearings
-A-RB Roller Bearing
-High Efficiency Gearing (HEG)
-Super Stopper
-Super Free (SF)
-Variable Brake System (VBS)
-Reduced Mass VBS Hub
-Escape Hatch
-Dartainium Drag
-Cold Forged Aluminum Drag Star
-Clicking Drag Adjustment
-Aluminum Cast Control Knob
-Rubber Shielded Cast Control Knob
-Tapered Ti Levelwind Insert
-Cold Forged Aluminum Handle Shank
-Drilled Handle Shank
-Septon Handle Grips
-Recessed Reel Foot
-Lightweight Aluminum Drive Gear
-Paddle Grips
-Approved for use in Saltwater
Place Your Order
About This Reel
The Core reel from Shimano is designed to be the ultimate lightweight power fishing reel. Constructed with a magnesium frame and sideplates this reel weighs in at an astonishing 6.1 ounces. The HEG gearing gives this reel plenty of fighting power and the 11lbs of drag will allow you to tame just about any fish. There is no question mark when it comes to durability with the Core. Tackle Warehouse staff tested this reel for three straight days with braided line on Lake El Salto. This reel handled hundreds of casts, hooksets and fish.
Not only is this reel extremely light it is extremely comfortable to hold during the cast and retrieve. The all new 100 size frame design is ergonomic and becomes an extension of the rod. The 6.2:1 gear ratio gives you burn back retrieve speed and combined with the HEG gearing you can move fish quick and efficiently. The Core represents the next generation of Shimano magnesium reels.
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Customer Feedback
Comments: Recently fished a tournament with this reel and it handled many different lures flawlessly. It's super light weight, smooth, and powerful. This is a very versatile reel and I would definitely recommend this to anyone. Nuff said!
From: Delby: USA 4/20/14
Comments: Amazing reel!! I landed a 20lb 1oz hybrid bass with this reel the second time I took it out. Reel handled great and the drag allowed me to tire the fish out and bring him in. I pair it with a 6'10 13 Envy and fish my shallow to medium cranks with it. The reel is an absolute featherweight and allows you to fish all day without fatigue while still having the strength and smoothness to tackle any fish in the lake.
From: Unknown: USA 4/17/14
Comments: I use this core 6.2.1 reel on a 13 fishing omen 7ft med hvy rod for spinnerbait fishing.it has to be the best spinnerbait combo ever.the castabilty of this reel is awesome. the drag can handle any fish. thank you tackle warehouse for this great setup. put some sunline sniper line on and you are set baby. LOVE IT!LOVE IT!LOVE IT!
From: David: Charles City, VA 4/3/14
Comments: highly recommended reel. i have a chronarch, a quantum smoke , and a johnny moreis carbonlite i bought all three reels around the same time and the chronarch is the only reel that is still in perfect condition that still runs as smooth as it did the day i took it out of the box which made me buy another shimano and the core is betond smooth i couldnt ask for anything better im beyond satisfied with this reel and have come to the conclusion that im never buying anythimg else but a shimano. cant wait to see how the new chronarch feels very excited for that reel.
From: pittston, pa, us
Comments: Wow. That one word describes it all. I have been an Abu guy my whole life but after my gen 3 Revos started taking a dump on me after only a few months of use I figured I would give Shimano a try. Quieter, smoother, better feeling drag, and further casting than my Gen 3 Revo Premier with Boca orange seals installed. After hooking into my first fish, 3lb 7oz, I couldn't believe how much more connected to the fish I felt compared to my Revos. This has completely changed my mind about buying Abu again. I even get discounts direct with Pure Fishing (Abu) as a collegiate angler and would rather just get Shimano from TackleWarehouse now.
From: Brad: Nebraska
Comments: This reel literally puts a smile on my face with how far it casts. It will blow your mind, a "country mile" doesn't even begin to describe what this reel is capable of. Shimano puts great quality and thought into their higher-end reels and it shows. I would love to have a Core 100mg on all my rods, but I couldn't be happier with the two I have!
From: Ralph: No. FL
Comments: So I hadn't even had this reel a whole month and when fighting a fish, not even a very big one 2.5lbs, the screw that goes through the handle shank and drag star jumped threads and the handle was soooo crooked and the drag star was really offset too. I don't know if I got a defective nut/screw or shimano doesn't put very durable material in that part of the reel. Now I get to wait 3 weeks so shimano can hopefully get it right this time. Other than that, this reel is boss.
From: South GA
Comments: This reel just came in yesterday and haven't gotten a chance to fish it yet cause i'm waiting on my Powell Endurance rod to come in. But first impressions this thing is insanely light, I love all the glitter on the reel and this is the smoothest five bearing reel money can buy. Shimano is definitely the only reels I will ever buy, all my rods have shimano reels on them because I have yet to fish another reel that feels, performs and looks as good as a Shimano!
Comments: Just arrived in the mail today paid $271.06 also purchased a Daiwa Alpha Ito AI 2005 JDM reel for $190.88 can't wait to get on the water again. It feels like a feather in my hand shimano is still one of the best reels made in my book.
From: Tbass: Loganville, GA
Comments: Very light smooth retrieve cast very well & has strong drag . Hate the line capacity, wish it holds some more line .
From: Fishkiller01: NYC, NY
Comments: I also CAN NOT believe anybody would compare this reel to an ardent. Shimanos have held up to fishing a few hundered days a year. These reels are workhorses.
From: Jeremy: Punxsutwaney, PA
Comments: cant believe someone compared this reel with an ardent... anyways yeah its pricey but you get what you pay for.....shimano's are tanks and can take a beating and still function like day one - this reel has great drag, smooth retrieve and cast great - what else can i say.
From: Sickman: NY area
Comments: The reel feels great but I don't like paying $350 dollars for it plus I like my Ardent XS1000 a lot more it is $100 cheaper and throws farther. The reel is too small for my hand and I have come to not like Shimanos.
From: Taylor, GA
Comments: Awesome... cast like a champ, tough, easy access to the brakes, and light... A Chronarch in mag!
From: Ker: Florence, KY
Comments: Super light and super tough, one of the best reels on the market, Tackle Warehouse is a great on-line store to get all the best stuff!!!
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The 12 in '12 series celebrates the fact that the London 2012 Olympic Games are just two years away. The series previews 12 athletes who have proven themselves as true competitors in past Games and look to win medals for Team
Pan American Games gold medal. FINA World Championship silver medal. FINA Diving World Cup bronze medal.
As a teenager, diver David Boudia earned himself countless international medals. Leading up to the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, he won gold at the 2007 Pan American Games and bronze at the 2007 FINA World Championships in 10-meter platform synchro with Thomas Finchum, and bronze at the FINA Diving World Cup in 10m platform. When it mattered most, Boudia fell short of earning a medal in
Flexible Beginnings
David Boudia was born in 1989 in
Two years later, Boudia watched the "Magnificent Seven" win women's gymnastics team competition gold at the
When he was 11, Boudia won free diving lessons from John Wingfield, head coach of
"Acrobatically they're pretty much the same," Boudia said. "I was really progressive because of the gymnastics."
He fell in love with the sport and soon abandoned gymnastics. His Olympic dreams remained alive, but shifted to a different sport.
"He was naturally talented from the beginning," Wingfield said, adding there were some areas that needed work, particularly with pointing his feet.
Another issue that Wingfield and Boudia needed to work through was Boudia's fear of heights. Wingfield wanted to start him out on 10m platform - practically a 33' high diving board - rather than 3m springboard.
"I generally go platform first because at the younger ages they can't really bend the springboard well," Wingfield said. "All of the skills on platform are transferable to springboard and not the other way around."
With Wingfield's help, Boudia overcame his fear of heights and excelled at platform. He said even with a decade worth of experience, the mental aspect of the sport is still most challenging today.
"Your mind can get in the way of so many different things," Boudia said. "When you really overcome the mental aspect of the sport, then you can really accomplish a lot."
Boudia was named to the National Team in 2005. That year, he and synchro partner Finchum won at the Speedo National Diving Championships. The following season, they won at the Speedo U.S. Open and Kaiser Permanente National Diving Championships.
Fulfilling a Dream
The 2007 season was crucial for Boudia to prove himself internationally in order to go into the Beijing Games with the ability to medal.
He, and partner Finchum, were able to do that and more. Not only did they medal in eight international events that season, but they won gold at the Pan American Games and AT&T USA Diving Grand Prix. Individually, his best results that season were two fifth place finishes at the FINA Grand Prix Canada Cup and FINA Italian Grand Prix.
"It's definitely a big confidence booster when you go into a competition and you have success and you know that it's possible to reach your goal from those victories," Boudia said.
In 2008, Boudia hit his stride individually with silver at the FINA Diving World Series in
He was also the 2008 U.S. Olympic Trials champion on platform and was immediately named to the 2008
"It's awesome to have someone like Laura on the team," Boudia said. "She's been through it and she knows what it takes to get to that elite level, so just the encouragement that she gives is awesome."
Boudia was finally fulfilling his Olympic dreams – twelve years after being inspired by the "Magnificent Seven." And this time it would be Boudia who was making Olympic memories of his own; perhaps the greatest of which was the Opening Ceremony.
"We were among so many elite athletes," Boudia said. "And then to walk into the Bird's Nest with millions of people and you know that you're representing your country, it's an honor.
"I was ecstatic to be on the team and be able to experience that, at that age," Boudia said. "We were definitely striving for a medal, but it didn't work out that way."
Unfortunately, Boudia fell short and finished tenth individually.
"Coming off the World Cup that year, which was about six months before the Beijing Olympic Games, he won a bronze medal," Wingfield said. "So it was hopeful that he would medal individually."
Boudia and Finchum had more success together in synchro than either did individually, but they still weren't able to medal. They finished in fifth place, less than five points away from the bronze – a close margin in diving.
"It was tough because they had medaled internationally fourteen or fifteen times, pretty much every meet they went to they would bring back either bronze or silver," Wingfield said. "It's bittersweet. But for the first time they were in the Olympic Games together, I felt they handled the experience quite well, especially for teenagers."
New School, Same Dream
Just days after returning home from the 2008 Games, Boudia packed up his life and moved to
In 2009, he showed how well he could bounce back from the mistakes in
He came in sixth place at the FINA World Championships in
Because he is competing collegiately, Boudia returned to his roots of 3m springboard (in addition to 10m platform), where he found most of his improvement post-Beijing.
"There's no doubt about it, he's certainly improved on springboard," Wingfield said. "Maybe his front 4 ½ [tuck, on platform] has gotten a little better too."
Boudia's front 4 ½ had the highest degree of difficulty at the 2008 Games. Wingfield had Boudia dive a 3 ½ pike in the preliminary and semifinal rounds in
"The good thing is he has Olympic experience with that dive," Wingfield said. "That really sets him up for next Games too."
FINA recently raised the degree of difficulty on that dive, which will be perfect for Boudia should he make the 2012 Games.
He recently used the dive to his advantage when he was chosen as one of five international divers to compete at the China All-Star Diving Series this past December. Boudia medaled at both events in the series.
"His front 4 ½ tuck was one of his premier dives there," Wingfield said. "He got about 106 or 107 for it, which was phenomenal. It was awesome."
Boudia started off the 2010 season with an impressive second place finish at the FINA Diving World Series in
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The UH Law Center's Center for U.S. and Mexican Law and the Houston Center for Photography have joined forces to bring to Houston the photography exhibition, Aliento a Tequila, by renowned photographer Joel Salcido. The exhibition will be on view in the lobby of the Wells Fargo Plaza from May 2 to May 30, 2014. The building hours are Monday to Friday, from 8am to 5pm. This exhibition is FREE and open to the public. Curated by Roy Flukinger, M.A., Senior Curator of Photography & Film, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin.
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|December 06, 2012
|December 06, 2012
Congratulations to Fun. who received 6 Grammy nominations for their album Some Nights and single 'We Are Young' at last night's Grammy Nominations Concert in Nashville. The band also performed the song last night as they were nominated in the following categories:
RECORD OF THE YEAR: 'We Are Young'
ALBUM OF THE YEAR: Some Nights
SONG OF THE YEAR: 'We Are Young'
BEST POP DUO/GROUP PERFORMANCE: 'We Are Young'
BEST POP VOCAL ALBUM: Some Nights
Use the code GRAMMY to receive 10% off in The Fun. Webstore today only!
|December 06, 2012
Today during The Fueled By Ramen Holiday Sale you can get $20 off any order of $100 or more! Just use the code YOUSAVE when you checkout. This deal is valid until midnight tonight only! Don't forget to check out your favorite bands accessories, select pieces are 10% off!
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|December 06, 2012
Cobra Starship recently teamed up with G By Guess for a Style Rocks competition to give the most stylish music fan the chance to party with the band! You can watch the first episode of the competition HERE and see who won in the video above!
|December 05, 2012
Congratulations to Fun. for making 'NPR Music's 50 Favorite Albums of 2012' with Some Nights! You can read NPR Music's full list of favorite albums from 2012 HERE and download the album on iTunes HERE.
Fun. will also be performing at the Grammy Nominations Concert live from Nashville tonight! Tune in at 10/9c on CBS!
|December 05, 2012
Click HERE to listen to the Holiday Playlist that Ryland of Cobra Starship put together. Listen exclusively on The Fueled By Ramen Spotify.
|December 05, 2012
Subject: Melissa Uselton, Merchandising Director
Interviewed By: Amber Baumer & Adam Walker, Marketing Interns
What is the most rewarding aspect of being the Merchandising Director of Fueled By Ramen?
I feel like merchandise is an extension of an artist's brand and another way fans can support the artists they love. The most rewarding part of working in merchandising is seeing people wearing the merchandise that I've had a hand in creating. It's an "I did that!" moment where you feel proud of your job.
What is one of your favorite memories from when Fueled By Ramen was still located in Florida?
Well I'm still in Florida, but when the entire office was there everyone hung out outside of the office going to shows and throwing parties which was really fun.
|December 05, 2012
Today during The Fueled By Ramen Holiday Sale you can get $15 off any order of $75 or more! Just use the code YOUSAVE when you checkout. This deal is valid until midnight tonight only! Plus if you purchase two posters today we will give a third poster of your choosing for FREE.
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|December 05, 2012
Hey Malaysia! Fun. will be headed to Kuala Lumpur for Future Music Festival Asia on Saturday March 16th! Click HERE for tickets!
|December 04, 2012
On Friday, December 7th at 7:00pm check out the opening of Travie McCoy's latest art show. The Rich Event will take place in Miami Beach Florida at Air.Traffic.Control
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Volsunga Saga
Volsunga Saga
Icelandic prose, circa 13th century.
Replete with elements now familiar in tales of heroic adventure, the Volsunga Saga is one of a series of medieval Scandinavian prose adventure narratives called fornaldarsogr, and is often considered a precursor for such works as Richard Wagner's monumental cycle of music dramas The Ring of the Niebelungen and J. R. R. Tolkien's epic Lord of the Rings. Composed in Icelandic or Old Norse in the thirteenth century by an unidentified author, the Volsunga Saga recounts the legendary history and heroic feats of several generations of mythic Viking families. It derives from preexisting Edda (heroic poems), Norse legends, historical events, and orally-transmitted folklore. Heroes and villains of the Volsunga Saga are endowed with superhuman powers and perform mighty and perilous deeds, with the action spanning several generations. The story embodies primitive and fundamental impulses and conflicts, which are played out in the face of grim destiny.
Textual History
There is only one extant parchment manuscript of the Volsunga Saga, which dates from 1400. In 1656, Brynjolfur Sveinsson, the Bishop of Skalholt, Iceland, presented it to King Frederick III of Norway and Denmark. It was deposited in the Royal Library in Copenhagen, but mislaid—apparently filed on the wrong floor of the Library. It was not discovered and properly registered until 1821. That text now remains in the Copenhagen Library. Although it was misplaced, the manuscript was not unknown, for there are twenty-one paper manuscripts dating from before 1800 found in Sweden, Iceland, and England. The first printed edition of the Volsunga Saga, edited by E. J. Bjorner, is dated 1737 and contains translations of the work into Latin and Swedish. Volsunga Saga has been the most frequently translated into English of all the Icelandic sagas, notably in 1888 by William Morris and Eirikr Magnusson.
Plot and Major Characters
Despite the fact that the narrative is straightforward and simply told, the complexity, length, and episodic character of the story of the Volsunga Saga make it difficult to synthesize the plot. The epic begins when Sigi, son of the god Odin, is exiled from his homeland for killing Bredi, a vassal. Guided by Odin, Sigi becomes chief to a band of warrior sailors who conquer the land of the Huns. Sigi eventually marries and has a son named Rerir. Shortly thereafter, Sigi is murdered, leading Rerir to eventually avenge his father's death and reclaim the throne of the Huns. Unable to have children, Rerir and his wife pray for a child; their wish is granted and the resulting pregnancy, which lasts six years, culminates in the birth of Volsung, a full-grown boy. Like his father and grandfather, Volsung grows up to be a great warrior and becomes King of the Huns. He eventually marries and has ten sons and one daughter. The saga follows the lives and deeds of these descendents, includes Volsung's death, and covers subsequent generations and their adventures and encounters with many strange and formidable creatures.
Major Themes
Amid the episodic richness of plot and the intricacy of its strands, the primary and recurring theme of the Volsunga Saga is power. Through the stories of its many characters, the Volsunga Saga closely examines in various ways the many forms of power, the consequences of having or not having power, and the responsibilities and obligations conferred on individuals by power. Within the saga framework, the Volsunga Saga depicts such emotions and impulses as love, jealousy, rage, fear, revenge, and loyalty in a fundamental, raw state that is usually refined or obscured in later societies.
Critical Reception
The Volsunga Saga, embedded in the folk culture of Iceland, has enjoyed great popularity as part of Iceland's literary heritage. Deriving from a set of orally-transmitted legends, the Volsunga Saga in the nineteenth century came to be valued as an example of authentic experience at a time when industrial, economic, and social forces seemed to be denaturing humanity. In his introduction to the 1888 Morris-Magnusson translation of the Volsunga Saga, H. Halliday Sparling wrote, "Of all the stories kept in being by the saga-tellers, and left for our delight, there is none that so epitomises human experience; has within the same space so much of nature and of life; so fully expresses the temper and the genius of the Northern folk, as that of the Volsungs." Morris and Magnusson themselves commented in their preface, "how strange it seems to us, that this Volsung Tale … should never before [have] been translated into English. For this is the Great Story of the North, which should be to all our race what the Tale of Troy was to the Greeks." Wagner, too, was mining the Volsunga Saga at this time for his huge music drama, The Ring of the Niebelungen. Twentieth-century critics including Dorothy M. Hoare, Lloyd Wendell Eshelman, and Hartley S. Spatt have examined the relationship between Morris's own works and his translation of the Volsunga Saga, noting ways in which his sensibility reshaped the text. Jesse L. Byock and Gloriana St. Clair have analyzed the ways in which Wagner and Tolkien incorporated elements of the saga into their works. Studying the sources of the Volsunga Saga and its relation to other sagas, Stephen A. Mitchell and Marianne E. Kalinke have placed the work in literary and historical context. In the late twentieth century, the role of women in the saga has become an area of growing interest, with Robert A. Albano and Jenny Jochens discussing some of the implications of their presence in the work. Melvin Burgess, author of Bloodtide, (2001), a novel transferring the characters and events of the Volsunga Saga to a bleak, dystopian future, considers the Volsunga Saga great because "despite the way the whole narrative spirals down to a final, crushing finale, the characters live their lives and face their deaths with such ferocity and pride."
Principal Works
Volsunga Saga: The Story of the Volsungs and the Niblungs [translated by William Morris and Eirikr Magnusson] (poem) 1888
Saga of the Volsungs [translated by R. G. Finch] (poem) 1965
Volsunga Saga [translated by George K. Anderson] (poem) 1981
Saga of the Volsungs: The Norse Epic of Sigurd the Dragon Slayer [translated by Jesse L. Byock] (poem) 1990
Dorothy M. Hoare (essay date 1937)
SOURCE: Hoare, Dorothy M. "The Dreamer in Contact with Icelandic Saga." In The Works of Morris and of Yeats in Relation to Early Saga Literature, pp. 50-76. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1937.
[In the following excerpt, Hoare examines Morris' translations and adaptations of the Volsunga Saga, arguing that his rendition of it changes the nature of the original text and replaces its direct style with dense medieval prose.]
It is this writer [William Morris] (who is following his own natural bent when describing the slow-moving pictures of his fancy) who attempts to deal with the vivid, impressive, passionate strength of the Norse tales. How individual a body of literature they are has already been seen; how different, too, from the "sweet" pathos, the dallying sentiment, the tender feeling, which is evident often in Morris' original work. This difference is emphasised strikingly, in a comparison of Morris' translations and free renderings of the Norse matter with the originals.
Morris' work in connection with the Norse sagas consists (1) in the translations which he and Magnússon jointly made from a selected number of them, and of certain of the Edda poems belonging to the matter of the Völsunga Saga; and (2) in the free paraphrases and re-tellings which Morris made of the Norse matter, including two of the greatest stories: the Laxdœla Saga and the Völsunga Saga.
Any comparison of a translation with the original from which it has been translated is interesting. There is bound to be a difference; something of the essence of the original escapes; something of the essence of the new language enters in. From the point of view of obtaining an exact estimate of the original, this difference is a loss; from another point of view, it may be a gain, by emphasising the difference between two modes of thought. A good translator ought to reduce this difference to a minimum; he ought to be so imbued with the proper tone and atmosphere of what he translates, that the miracle of capturing that in other words is almost achieved. But when one finds that the difference has become so great as to make the translation quite a different thing from the original, one is able sometimes, on examination, to find a sufficiently convincing reason for it.
Morris had a sincere interest in the Norse sagas, spent much time over them, translated and paraphrased and re-told them, and made two journeys to Iceland. This last fact is considerable evidence of the deep interest he had in the Norse matter; the journey to Iceland entailed a fair amount of hardship; once arrived there, there was the rough life, the difficult and even sometimes dangerous travelling by horseback through comparatively uninhabited and unknown country, to be undergone. Morris, the most stay-at-home and contented man, did not relish this when he set out; he was away for six weeks, and, as he himself confesses, was often uneasy and homesick. Yet so much had he been stirred by the poems and tales he had read that, knowing the difficulties which would have to be undergone, he went through with the journey, and two years afterwards went a second time to Iceland. He was quite sincerely and deeply attracted to it; in spite of this, the Norse matter which he deals with turns in his hands to something quite other than its real nature.
His translations,1 as will be seen from any comparison with their originals, change the vitality, directness and freedom of the Icelandic prose to a kind of weighted medieval utterance. For example, in Grettis Saga:2
Hinn þriðja dag fór prestr með þeim ok leituðu allan daginn ok fannȝ Glámr eigi. Eigi vildi prestr optar til fara, en sauðamaðr fannȝ þegar prestr var eigi í ferð. Létu þeir þá fyrir vinnast, at foera hann til kirkju, ok dysjuðu hann þar, sem hann var kominn. Lítlu síðar urðu menn varir við þat, at Glámr lá eigi kyrr.
[On the third day the priest went with them, and they searched all day but Glamr was not found. The priest would not go again; but the shepherd (i.e. Glamr) was found as soon as the priest was not with them. Then they stopped trying to bring him to church, and they buried him in a cairn, in the place where he was. Shortly afterwards people became aware that Glamr was not at rest.]
This has humour, vitality, a neat and direct expression. Morris renders it thus: "The third day the priest fared with them, and they sought all day, but found not Glam. The priest would go no more on such search, but the herdsman was found whenso the priest was not in their company. Then they let alone striving to bring him to church, and buried him there, whereto he had been brought. A little time after men were ware, that Glam lay not quiet."3 In the ingenious search for the words which come nearest to the actual form of the Icelandic, the life and nearness, the directness has vanished. Again, in his effort to come near the original, he deliberately uses in his translation words which are not modern, forgetting, or not realising, that Icelandic prose is colloquial and rapid. The effective, quiet energy of what is not said, in Icelandic, loses its point in the long drawn out and rounded translation, as for instance, again from the same saga:4
þat var einn morgin er Grímr kvam heim af veiði, at hann gekk inn í skállann, ok stappaði fótum ok vildi vita hvárt Grettir svaefi; en hann brá sér hvergi við ok lá kyrr; … gjörir hann nú hark mikit, svá at Grettir skyldi orð finnast, en at var eigi.
[One morning when Grimr came home from fishing, he went into the hut and stamped his feet and wanted to find out whether Grettir was sleeping; but he lay still and did not move. Then he made a great noise so that Grettir should break into words, but he did not.]
The merit of this consists largely in its simplicity and utmost clearness as of a person relating what he has just seen. Morris at once destroys this: "But one morning whenas Grim came in from fishing, he went into the hut and stamped his foot and would know whether Grettir slept; but he started in nowise, but lay still: so he made a great noise that Grettir should chide him therefore, if he were awake, but that befell not."5 This use of semi-biblical and dignified language, where such an effect is entirely incongruous, spoils the essential meaning of the passage.
Again, Morris' manner—in his effort to impose a tone of dignity—has often the effect of making his translation appear unintelligible to a reader who has no knowledge of Icelandic, for example:
- (1) Hjarandi said he would not bring his brother to purse.6
Hjarrandi kvazt eigi mundu bera bróður sinn í sjóði.
[Hjarandi said he would not take compensation for his brother's death.]
- (2) They said that they wotted not if he would drag the rule west of the sea to King Harald.
Eigi sögðust þeir vita, at hann draegi Haraldi konungi ríki fyrir vestan haf.7
[They said that they did not know that he would obtain a dominion for King Harald in the British Isles.]
- (3) The body of Bergðor was covered over with a tilt for the night.
En þar var tjaldat yfir Bergðóri um nóttina.8
[A cloth was hung over Bergthor's body for the night.]
Sometimes indeed a wrong impression is conveyed, e.g.
And yet withal it misliked them both.
Ok likaði þo hvargi vel.9
[Yet neither was pleased.]
—which might mean that both had a foreboding of what was to come, which is by no means indicated in the saga. Or again, in full medieval cry—
Then they tilted over a wain in most seemly wise.
þeir tjölduðu vagn allvegligan10
[They put a canopy over a splendid carriage.]
—which surely conveys, if any meaning, the utterly inappropriate picture of a kind of leisurely wrestling.
It is evident that Morris did not grasp the nature of the style and the matter with which he was dealing, or the result would not have been so entirely different from the effect which is obtained on reading Icelandic for oneself. His faults in manner—of reducing the speed, economy, plainness and vividness of the original to diffuseness, false rhetoric, obscurity, unfamiliarity, by making too literal a translation where the idiom needs to be translated by a corresponding English idiom, or by using phrases and syntax not in modern usage, and thus giving a kind of remote, medieval flavour to what is fresh and modern in spirit—may ultimately be reduced to the same first cause, the idea that the life dealt with was heroic in the ideal sense, a kind of earthly paradise where men were simple and free and noble, and untroubled by the misfortunes and oppressions of the modern world. This pre-misconception is what makes his style pitched up, and hollowly dignified. Because of this, the spirit of the Norse matter is altered.
So much for the translation of the sagas. Morris also translated certain of the Edda poems. It is difficult to deal with Morris' work in this connection; again it is obvious that for some reason he appreciated the Norse poems; this time, too, not for a quality superimposed by himself, a romantic feeling for the past, as in the sagas, but apparently with a direct realisation of their proper worth. In the preface to the Völsunga Saga,11 where the translations of the poems are incorporated, Morris and Magnússon say: "As to the literary quality of this work we might say much, but we may well trust the reader of poetic insight to break through whatever entanglement of strange manners or unused element may at first trouble him, and to meet the nature and beauty with which it is filled: we cannot doubt that such a reader will be intensely touched by finding, amidst all its wildness and remoteness, such a startling realism, such subtilty, such close sympathy with all the passions that may move himself to-day."
On the other hand, one cannot count much artistically on Morris' rendering of the Norse poems; it is not quite his own effort. Magnússon and he read the poems together, Magnússon then produced a literal version from which Morris proceeded to his rendering—a method of collaboration which is unhappy even in the case of a first-rate poet. It comes, in fact, to a poetising of a prose translation; hardly the best way in which to reproduce the spirit of the original.
It will be seen that the same faults are evident as in the saga translations, and it must be said (in spite of the contradictory evidence quoted above) for the same reason, an incapacity to comprehend the spirit which looks on life and death with equal courage and acceptance, which faces facts as they are and deals with them in full knowledge of their value.
Although the Edda poems are in the heroic manner and dignified, they are not static; the verse is compressed, allusive, packed full with meaning, but at the same time it has a fire and energy of speed. The poems are not cold though they are constrained; nor does their energy cloud the flame of high spirit which is evident in them. The words do not make us pause; they are molten and flexible because of the feeling which fills them. In Morris' version because he, whose virtue is a characteristic leisureliness and pleasant discursiveness, is dealing with matter wholly different, he interprets literally, apparently with the desire to imitate the multum in parvo of the Norse. Sometimes the result is merely ludicrous—in the translation of the Runes of Brynhild:12
Brimrúnar skalt kunna ef vilt borgit hafa á sundi seglmörum.
[Thou must know sea-runes if thou wilt have safety for the floating ships (lit. sail-steeds).]
Sea-runes good at need Learnt for ship's saving For the good health of the swimming horse.
Sometimes it is easily apparent that Morris has given himself over to the delight of building up words, of embroidery: as for example in his translation of "ok biðja a dísir duga" [and pray for the help of the dísir (goddesses)], "call for the good folk's gamesome helping", which at once throws in the antique, pseudoromantic feeling. Sometimes, again, he makes strange and unreal what is said with fierce directness:
Melta knátt móðugr manna valbráðir eta at ölkrásum. …(13)
[You are proudly digesting human flesh and consuming it as a dainty with your ale.]
In most heavy mood Brood over venison of men.
It is very significant that where he is able to catch the tone of the original, and render it without loss, it is when he has an opportunity of dealing, in images, with the softened note of romance. The Lay of Helgi Hundingsbane opens characteristically with the passion, fierceness and energy of the North: Sigrun's immediate outbreak into curses on the news of her lover's death. Yet the poem as a whole belongs to romance rather than to epic; the last verse, which brings one away from the unearthly meeting to the cold twilight on the hillside, strikes a note which is to be heard again and again in balladry. And precisely because of this, Morris' touch in his translation is more certain. Indeed at one point he manages the metaphors well, in the passage:
Svá bar Helgi af hildingum sem ítrskapaðr askr af þyrni eða sá dýrkalfr döggu slunginn, es efri ferr öllum dýrum (ok horn glóa við himin sjalfan).(14)
[So did Helgi surpass the warriors as a graceful ash (surpasses) a thorn, or the deer who moves, bedewed, higher than other beasts—and its horns glitter to heaven itself.]
As high above all lords Did Helgi bear him As the ash-tree's glory From the thorn ariseth Or as the fawn With the dew-fall sprinkled Is far above All other wild things, As his horns go gleaming 'Gainst the very heavens.
It is a different matter when he deals with such a characteristic poem as The Whetting of Gudrun.15 The value of this lies in the exceedingly swift and stern narration, not a word given more than is absolutely necessary, and yet each helping to convey fully the force and passion of the whole. In Morris the expression loses all its sharpness, and becomes clogged and heavy. The first verse, for example, is quite alien to the terse, pointed phrase of the original:
þá frák sennu slíðrfengligsta trauð mál talið af trega stórum.(16)
[Then I heard most dire words of strife, words uttered with difficulty out of mighty grief.]
Words of strife heard I Huger than any Woeful words spoken Sprung from all sorrow.
Again, the mournful emphasis of the Icelandic is destroyed by a banality of rhythm and iteration which is ludicrous:
ól ek mér jóð erfivörðu erfivörðu Jónakrs sonu.(17)
[I brought forth children, the sons and heirs of Jonakr.]
Offspring I brought forth Props of a fair house Props of a fair house, Jonakr's fair sons.
Any translation of such compressed, fiery and allusive utterance is difficult. Indeed, parts of the poem seem almost untranslatable, their peculiar virtue residing in the sound and stress of the words by which the meaning is attained, e.g.
hvítum ok svörtum á hervegi gráum gangtömum Gotna hrossum.(18)
[(Trodden) on the warpath by the white and the black and the grey well trained pacing horses of the Goths.]
Or the fiery scorn which leaps through Gudrun's bare words:
hví sitið ér? hví sofið lífi? hví tregrat ykr teiti at maela … ?(19)
[Why do you sit idle? Why do you sleep away your life? Why does it not grieve you to speak cheerful words?]
The characteristics of this kind of poetry are its speed, its compression, and its pride. Matthew Arnold, in his essay on Homer and the epic way of writing, has laid his finger on the essential thing about it: "That severity of poetical style … which comes from saying a thing with a kind of intense compression or in an allusive, brief, almost haughty way, as if the poet's mind were charged with so many and such grave matters that he would not deign to treat any one of them explicitly."
This compression and intensity turns in Morris' hands to obscurity and heaviness. His translation is effortful, striving after something which is alien from himself and which he does not seem to understand. In the attempt to come near his original, he uses the same kind of metre, without appearing to realise that the authentic use of it, with the immense stress laid on assonance and alliteration, is entirely different from an imitation of it in English which does not lend itself to that kind of handling, but depends to a much greater extent on accent and rhyme. Even when he is comparatively...
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Lloyd Wendell Esheleman (essay date 1971)
SOURCE: Esheleman, Lloyd Wendell. "Sigurd the Volsung and a Poetry Chair at Oxford." In A Victorian Rebel: The Life of William Morris, pp. 128-33. New York: Octagon Books, 1971.
[In the following excerpt, Esheleman asserts that Morris found echoes of his revolutionary sentiments in the Volsunga Saga.]
In examining the basic ideas of Morris's literary works one finds that his observations regarding life, history and art are in distinct agreement with his views concerning the individual and society under varying historic conditions. One will note, too, that these views led him eventually to the cause of the people—to an attempt to repurify decadent modern...
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Hartley S. Spatt (essay date 1977)
SOURCE: Spatt, Hartley S. "Morrissaga: Sigurd the Volsung." ELH 42, no. 2 (summer 1977): 355-75.
[In the following essay, Spatt presents a comparative analysis of the Volsunga Saga and Morris's late-nineteenth-century epic Sigurd the Volsung.]
During the forty years of his career, William Morris sought—at first confidently but later with desperation—a religion which might replace the inadequate Christianity of his youth. He embraced the grandeur of the lost cause in his early poems about Camelot and Troy; he moved on to the archetype of the quest in The Earthly Paradise; and he placed his central faith in "the greatest story of the...
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George K. Anderson (essay date 1982)
SOURCE: Anderson, George K. "Introduction." In The "Saga of the Volsungs": Together with Excerpts from the "Nornageststháttr" and Three Chapters from the "Prose Edda," pp. 21-53. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1982.
[In the following excerpt, Anderson explores the dating, literary sources, and cultural origins and permutations of the Volsunga Saga.]
The unique parchment manuscript containing the Völsungasaga, henceforth called the Saga, was given to King Frederick III of Norway and Denmark in 1656 by Bishop Brynjólfur Sveinsson of Skalholt, Iceland.1 It was accepted at the Royal Library in...
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Marianne E. Kalinke (essay date 1990)
SOURCE: Kalinke, Marianne E. "A Paradigm for Bridal-Quest Romance." In Bridal-Quest Romance in Medieval Iceland, pp. 25-30. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990.
[In the following excerpt, Kalinke examines the influence of the Volsunga Saga on the "May-December" marriage trope as it appears in Hrólfs saga Gautrekssonar.]
The Tristan tale may justifiably be considered the medieval European bridal-quest romance par excellence. Neither Brother Robert's Tristrams saga ok Ísondar, however, nor the anonymous Tristrams saga ok Ísoddar is exemplary for bridal-quest narrative in Iceland. The acme of Icelandic bridal-quest romance is...
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Jesse L. Byock (essay date 1990)
SOURCE: Byock, Jesse L. "Introduction." In The "Saga of the Volsungs": The Norse Epic of Sigurd the Dragonslayer, pp. 1-29. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.
[In the following essay, Byock traces the historical antecedents for the characters in the Volsunga Saga and examines its influence on the works of Richard Wagner and J. R. R. Tolkien.]
The unknown Icelandic author who wrote The Saga of the Volsungs in the thirteenth century based his prose epic on stories found in far older Norse poetry. His sources, which may have included a lost earlier prose saga, were rich in traditional lore. The Saga of the Volsungs recounts runic...
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Stephen A. Mitchell (essay date 1991)
SOURCE: Mitchell, Stephen A. "Origins and Influences." In Heroic Sagas and Ballads, pp. 66-73. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991.
[In the following excerpt, Mitchell discusses early Eddic poems from which the Volsunga Saga and other Scandinavian heroic prose narratives derive.]
… The saga writers were informed about Nordic mythology through many different conduits (for example, Snorra Edda, Icelandic 'learned history'), and one of these was surely eddic poetry. This traditional narrative verse was the vehicle by which heroic adventures were recounted before the existence of the extant fornaldarsogur, as in the case of Hálfr of...
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Gloriana St. Clair (lecture date 1992)
SOURCE: St. Clair, Gloriana. "Volsunga Saga and 'Narn': Some Analogies." Proceedings of the J.R.R. Tolkien Centenary Conference 1992, edited by Patricia Reynolds and Glen GoodKnight, pp. 68-71. Altadena, Cal.: The Mythopoeic Press, 1995.
[In the following essay, originally delivered as a lecture in 1992, St. Clair presents a comparative analysis of the plot and characters of Tolkien's story "Narn" and the Volsunga Saga.]
In a letter to Milton Waldman, a potential publisher of a combined Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien says, "There is the Children of Húrin, the tragic tale of Túrin Turambar and his sister...
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Robert A. Albano (essay date 1994)
SOURCE: Albano, Robert A."The Role of Women in Anglo-Saxon Culture: Hildeburh in Beowulf and a Curious Counterpart in the Volsungasaga." English Language Notes XXXII, no. (September 1994): 1-10.
[In the following essay, Albano discusses the primacy of vengeance as a motive in the Volsunga Saga and Beowulf and explores the role of women in the two works' vengeance plots.]
Scholarly debate has raged in recent decades over the Finn episode in Beowulf without reaching a satisfying conclusion;1 for in some articles the critics attempt to promote the thematic relevancy of the text by imposing a modern interpretation or...
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Paul Battles (essay date 1994)
SOURCE: Battles, Paul. "Of Graves, Caves, and Subterranean Dwellings: 'Eoroscraef' and 'Eorosele' in the Wife's Lament." Philological Quarterly 73, no. 3 (1994): 267-87.
[In the following essay, Battles examines references to subterranean earth dwellings in several Scandinavian and Old English works including the Volsunga Saga.]
The past three decades have witnessed a bewildering variety of interpretations of the Old English Wife's Lament. We are no longer even certain that it is, in fact, the lament of a "wife"; critics have suggested that the narrator is a lordless retainer, a heathen deity, the soul yearning for the body (or the body...
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Jenny Jochens (essay date 1996)
SOURCE: Jochens, Jenny. "The Whetter: Brynhildr." In Old Norse Images of Women, pp. 162-73. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996.
[In the following excerpt, Jochens explores the role of whetters—women whose social reputation was based on their ability to incite men to deeds of violent revenge—focusing on the quarrel between Brynhildr and Gudrun in the Volsunga Saga and earlier Nordic texts.]
Guddrún and Brynhildr, the two heroines in the Nibelung drama, each desired revenge for injustices committed against them. Guðrún used physical acts in her youth but resorted to verbal inciting in later years, whereas Brynhildr was from the...
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Further Reading
Gillette, Devyn Christopher. "The Son of Odin: A Heroic Analysis of the Volsunga Saga."
Examines archetypal elements in the Volsunga Saga.
Kirchhoff, Frederick. "The Story of the Volsungs and the Fall of the Niblungs (1876)." In William Morris, pp. 98-110. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1979.
Explores the importance of the Volsunga Saga to Morris's "Sigurd the Volsung" as well as to his development as a poet.
Macfarlane, Robert. "William Morris and the Source of The Waste Land." The Times Literary Supplement, no. 5146 (November 16, 2001): 14–15.
Reports that a copy of Morris's translation of the Volsunga Saga was once in T. S. Eliot's possession and that his annotations in it point to possible influence of that saga on The Waste Land.


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2013 Retiree: Jan Fredrich, MVL teacher
NEW ULM – During her interview, Jan Fredrich struck me as what I think of as a "Renaissance personality" – because of the versatility of her abilities and interests.
Just a few examples:
Mathematics was easy for her in high school, so, in college, she chose instead to work on what she was "less confident" in and major in English.
She has taught a truly wide range of classes, both advanced and basic, including, but not limited to: AP English, British literature, American Literature and composition, poetry, speech, consumer math, practical math, pre-algebra, algebra I and II, world geography, and parenting and child development. She has done so successfully, as evidenced by her students' achievement.
She has juggled the duties of head librarian, Math Team, Knowledge Bowl and National Honor Society adviser as well as chair of the English Department.
In her "younger" teaching days, she coached basketball, volleyball, cheerleading and softball.
When her children were small, Fredrich wrote children's stories to help one of them conquer speech problems (a sample: "Bruce used a brown broom from the broom closet to brush the brown dirt off the path" to illustrate blending; "br" and "fr" are blends.) She has plans to illustrate and publish the stories, and the drawings she showed me testify to her talent as an artist.
Fredrich also creates crafts, sews and plays the piano and organ.
Like other "Renaissance personalities," she is a classics scholar. She once received, and was able to read, a love letter in Latin – sent to her by her future husband, a classical languages professor.
She is an animated talker, and her conversation sparkles.
The Minnesota Valley Lutheran High School teacher is retiring this year, after 28 years in the profession.
The daughter of a Lutheran pastor, Fredrich grew up in Randolph, Two Rivers and West Bend, Wis., graduating from West Bend Public High School.
Fredrich did not plan to be a teacher. Inspired by an aunt's example, she wanted to be a surgical nurse.
Her mind was changed by her father, who convinced her that "the Church needs more workers" and she should "give it a try," remembers Fredrich. She never regretted her choice.
She attended what was then Dr. Martin Luther College (DMLC) in New Ulm, earning her degree in education, with a concentration in English.
Over time, she continued taking classes and earned credits equivalent to a half of a master's degree from the University of Wisconsin, Whitewater. Although her master's program (in educational professional development) is on hold, she continued to take "whatever courses, workshops and seminars would benefit my students by making me a better teacher."
Fredrich started out teaching upper elementary grades in a Lutheran school in Seminole, Fla. (1974-76), before moving to an inner-city elementary school in Milwaukee (1976-78). Her next assignment was at Lakeside Lutheran High School in Lake Mills, Wis. (1978-1984). She then took a break and scaled down to half time to raise her children. In 1996, her husband accepted a professorship at Martin Luther College, and the Fredrichs relocated to New Ulm.
She did not immediately return to full-time teaching and briefly worked at Oak Hills and as executive director of the Red Cross. Interestingly, her work for the Red Cross was right around the time a major tornado hit Brown County and a wind storm hit New Ulm, in 1998.
After teaching part-time at Minnesota Valley Lutheran (1996-2001), her assignment there became full-time (2001-2013).
Fredrich says she especially enjoys the self-sufficiency and motivation of high-school aged students.
"The kids are the best part of the day; we have a lot of fun," she said.
She enjoys the rapport with students; "the interest, the discussions, watching the wheels turning;" as well as "the procedural aspects" of teaching a concept.
One thing she won't miss? "Faculty meetings at 7 a.m.," she laughs.
Fredrich hopes that retirement will afford her time to concentrate on family, health, on "reclaiming her house" and interests such as the writing, illustrating and crafts.
Her advice to a beginning teacher?
It is best expressed in what her own teachers stressed in college, she says: "Be fair, be firm, be friendly."
She is leaving her successor a huge legacy, in materials and teaching aids. However, she adds: "Make the course your own. Once I leave this classroom, it is no longer my course."


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By LISA M. REED
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NORWAY – The O'Dill farmhouse and former soda pop factory in Norway was restored and will be open for tours again this summer.
Carol (Brisson) Zechlin, director of the Jake Menghini Historical Museum, said the soda "pop" that was made at the O'Dill house was awesome. Zechlin attended Norway school and left the area after graduating high school only to return 50 years later and become director of the museum in 2009.
She shared her knowledge of the O'Dill farmhouse, her experience with the pop factory and the history of the Jake Menghini Museum.
"The O'Dill farmhouse was owned by Antone O'Dill who was an interesting guy in that he found the first ore products in Norway," Zechlin said. "Then mining followed."
According to an article in The Current on June 19, 2002 by Bill Van Wolvelaere, Antone O'Dill was a businessman who was known to have operated a saloon, a furniture store, an ice house, a tenement building and dabbled in real estate following a devastating fire in the 1880s that almost destroyed Norway.
He then left the saloon business in 1897 for health reasons.
In November of 1897, Antone O'Dill purchased the soda water and mineral business from Mat Wirtz with plans to make that his full-time business. In 1899, he purchased the previously rented equipment and moved it to the farmstead on O'Dill Road to make use of "good spring" water.
Today, that water is known as Norway Springs water.
Zechlin said the O'Dills, an immigrant family from Luxembourg, Germany built the O'Dill farmhouse in 1900. The house is one of the earlier homesteads in Norway.
In 2012, the downstairs of the farmhouse was restored into a museum.
"It's representative of a typical farm in our area. When you walk in, it reminds you of your grandparents place," Zechlin said.
Antone O'Dill had married twice and had six children.
Zechlin said when she was a child Antone's son, Johnnie, ran the pop factory that his father started.
After Prohibition, soda was manufactured in a back room of the farmhouse.
Zechlin said there was a private room to mix colors and flavors.
"He bought the syrup and tinkered with it," she said.
Local young men were hired to help out in the shop.
"Townspeople had to order ahead as Johnnie only made so much a week," said Zechlin who recalled some of the soda flavors as orange, strawberry, cherry, and grape.
Zechlin said orders for the flavored soda had to be given well in advance.
"One would say we would like a box of mixed soda for a Sunday school picnic," she said.
"Johnnie would deliver one day a week to Norway stores and bars. He gave them what he thought they needed. When the owner would ask for another case, he would think about it for a minute and then say no. He knew what he could do," Zechlin said.
Tours of the farmhouse began in June of 2012 and will resume again this year.
"It's a delightful place," Zechlin said of the restored farmhouse.
About the museum
Adjacent to the O'Dill farmhouse is the Jake Menghini Historical Museum.
The museum was built in memory of August "Jake" Menghini, a Norway boy who loved collecting artifacts and had a passion for the history of the Norway-Vulcan area.
Zechlin said Jake found his first artifact, an old whiskey jug, in the fourth grade.
"He loved this town and the young people and its history," she said. "He was largely responsible for hockey and baseball and helped coach and get young people involved."
He also ran the ice skating warming house.
Jake passed away on Aug. 14, 1996 at the age of 83.
But not before he discovered a log cabin on Felch Mountain Road, now referred to as the "Norway Truck Trail." Zechlin said he dismantled it log by log and hauled it to his childhood home at 807 Chestnut St. in Norway.
This is where Jake re-assembled the log cabin and it became known as "Jake's Museum."
School children were given tours in the spring.
That tradition continued when Dan Olson, the benefactor who gifted 40 acres to the museum and Cornerstone Ministries, for the new Jake Menghini Historial Museum to be built.
The museum was built in the early 2000s and opened to the public for tours in 2006.
Those who tour the museum can see the school room, creamery, mortuary, market, jail and hardware store and learn about iron mines and pine logging.
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Stentor wrote:"Bitter" would suggest the temperature being too hot or possibly - but less likely - too much time. You are extracting something you do not want to extract. That usually happens when you cross a certain temperature threshold below which the undesired (bitter) substances do not get extracted.
Too much leaf gives quite a different sensation. Maybe give it a try with a cheaper tea and really overdo the leaf to water ratio so you can be sure you're not confusing "too strong" with bitterness. This should narrow it down to what parameters you need to be tweaking.
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Lazy H Ranch
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- Total permits: 1
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Species: Buck deer
Weapon: Any legal weapon
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DescriptionThe Lazy H Ranch Cooperative Wildlife Management Unit (CWMU) is east of East Canyon Reservoir. Sheeep Canyon splits the CWMU, it enters the unit at 6400 feet and exits at 5400 feet. The Right Fork of the Beaver Canyon almost forms the eastern boundary. The most common elevation is 6600 feet but ranges from 5300 feet to 7800 feet with an elevation difference of 2500 feet. Fifty-five percent (55%) of the CWMU elevation ranges between 6400 feet and 7800 feet an elevation difference of 1400 feet.
Rocky Mountain Gambel Oak-Mixed Montane Shrubland (41) is the dominant land cover type on the Lazy H Ranch Cooperative Wildlife Management Unit (CWMU). It covers nearly 40% of the land. Inter-Mountain Basins Montane Sagebrush Steppe (62) and Rocky Mountain Aspen Forest and Woodland (22) together account for a third of the land cover on the CWMU. Another 15% of the land cover is Rocky Mountain Montane Mesic Mixed Conifer Forest and Woodland (32), Rocky Mountain Bigtooth Maple Ravine Woodland (23), and Rocky Mountain Montane Dry-Mesic Mixed Conifer Forest and Woodland (30) mixture.
One of the Lazy H Ranch Cooperative Wildlife Mangement Unit (CWMU) nearest weather stations, CITY CREEK (421446), is about 6.2 km southwest from the southwest edge of the CWMU. CITY CREEK has fifty-three (53) years of records, 1955 - 2008. During the FALL (September, October and November) the average precipitation is 6.94 inches, but it can be as high as 10.80 inches or as low as 2.38 inch. During the 91-day FALL period, 24 days will experience greater than or equal to 0.01 inch of precipitation, 14 days of greater than or equal to 0.10 inch, or 5 days of the greater than or equal to 0.50 inch of precipitation. There is also 1 day where the precipitation and be greater than or equal to 1.00 inch. Snowfall during the FALL averages 18.6 inches but can be as high as 56.0 inches. FALL temperature at CITY CREEK averages 49.9 degrees F. but can be as high as 92.0 degrees F. or as low as 2.0 degrees F. During the FALL, 34 days will be below freezing (32 degrees F.) and no days above 90 degrees F. This map is provided for general reference only and does not constitute a legal hunt boundary. The Division does not guarantee access to any private or public land. Hunt unit boundaries may include private property or other excluded areas.
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Gwyneth is often mocked for her health advice�but some of it is quite good
We love to hate Gwyneth Paltrow, the statuesque actress who recently topped Star magazine�s list of the 20 Most Hated Celebrities�especially when she says outrageous things about her diet and other health topics. (Like her recent admission that she smokes one cigarette a week, despite positioning herself as a wellness guru!) But give the girl a break�not all of her health advice is that bad. We rounded up a few highlights, both from recent interviews and her new cookbook, It�s All Good: Delicious, Easy Recipes That Will Make You Look Good and Feel Great. Sharing her favorite kid-friendly meal, �Rice Cream Sundaes,� in It�s All Good: �Make a big batch of brown rice (or buckwheat soba noodles), then lay out lots of little bowls of whatever your kids like. I use diced avocado, steamed peas, broccoli saut�ed with garlic and tofu, savory broiled tofu, shredded carrot � you get the idea. Kids have fun picking what they want to put on their grains from the �sundae� bar.� On the silver lining of losing her father to throat cancer, in an interview with Harper�s Bazaar: "All I've learned about nutrition and health came from his cancer. I'll probably have a long and healthy life because he didn't." RELATED: The Best and Worst Celebrity Health Advice Getting real about gluten-free pasta, in It�s All Good: �Brown rice pasta has many detractors, and for good reason. It doesn�t stand up that well to sauces and doesn�t have the same great chew as regular pasta. But when you�re avoiding gluten but are dying for a bowl of pasta, it can do the trick, especially when you give it a lighter sauce, bursting with rich flavor.� The truth about the uber-restrictive diet that she describes in her new cookbook, to SELF: �I probably eat this way two or three times a year for three weeks at a time. Past that, I'm not willing to make the sacrifice. Life is about balance. It's good to work in healthy food, whether it's five days a week or five meals a week. And if you're going to do it, it should be awesome food you're psyched to make.� On her fit friends� favorite snack, in It�s All Good: �A superfood for sure, sweet potatoes are beloved by many of my very fit friends, who snack on them all the time. A roasted sweet potato is a beautiful thing on its own with just a pinch of salt, but you can shake up your routine by mashing your roasted sweet potato with Chinese five spice powder.� Helping combat the stigma of postpartum depression, in an interview with Good Housekeeping: "I thought postpartum depression meant you were sobbing every single day and incapable of looking after a child. But there are different shades of it and depths of it, which is why I think it's so important for women to talk about. It was a trying time. I felt like a failure.� On the cover photo of her new cookbook, in an interview with the UK�s Daily Mail: �I look a mess, no make-up and my naturally frizzy hair un-brushed. But it was taken while we were cooking for real and I thought, �this is me, this is how I am.� I think it says something about how I have learnt to accept myself.� � Brought to you by: Spry Living


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Because that's exactly what retailers want to do when the economy's sputtering and sales are slow: Wait for you to come around.
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Sure, that place that used to be a Borders still has racks of Trashy Librarian and CGI Hero From That Summer Movie costumes lining its walls. Yes, your grocery store has basically built a gantlet out of chocolate and sugar that you'll have to pass through several times in the next few weeks, with the occasional Snickers or pack of Skittles making their way into your cart as collateral damage. You may even be under the impression that anybody in the retail world cares in the slightest about your plans for Thanksgiving -- known to them as Black Friday Eve.
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I grew up on the southeast side and we had Capri's pizza...i dont know if it is still open but those cheesy, greasy squares of love were wonderful...nobody who was a Capri's fan would even acknowledge the existence of pizza hut or dominos...i have to try fat ricky's the next time i'm there for a visit.
Triangles? pepperoni? whole milk cheese?....why....I never.....!! Fat Ricky? Sounds like a NY name... Get that thing outta here man.
Pizza by the slice. A couple squares would suck for the price.
You can sell your soul...grezzy 'lil squares are my goal.
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The Year of Faith is an invitation to each one of us to encounter anew the Risen Lord Jesus, find our home in the heart of His Church and say "yes" to his invitation into the Mission of the Third Millennium of Christianity as loyal sons and daughters of that Church. Let us together, following the successor of Peter, open the door, enter in, and witness the wonders of God anew.
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Keywords: Year of Faith, Porta Fide, New Evangelization, Missionary, Synod, Bishops, conversion, evangelization, witness, Pope Benedict VI, Deacon Keith Fournier
VATICAN CITY (Catholic Online) - On Thursday, October 11, 2012, Pope Benedict XVI will lead the Catholic Church throughout the world through the Door of Faith and into a Year of Faith. This extraordinary opportunity for grace and renewal will continue until November 24, 2013. That is the last day of the Church year, the Feast of Jesus Christ the Sovereign King.
On October 11, 2011, Pope Benedict announced his intention to call the Year of Faith by releasing a letter entitled "The Door of Faith". (Porta Fidei) In this letter he wrote "The 'door of faith' (Acts14:27) is always open for us, ushering us into the life of communion with God and offering entry into his Church." The opening day was chosen to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Second Vatican Council and the twentieth anniversary of the official release of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. As with everything this Pope does, the choice of the Image of a Door and the reference to the Acts of the Apostles, the New Testament account of the missionary activity of the Church of the First Centuries, is packed with prophetic meaning and pastoral insight. First, the door. As with every door, it must be opened and one must walk through it in order to enter in. Clearly, Pope Benedict XVI sees our age as a new missionary age. He knows that the same Risen Lord who empowered the early Church is in our midst and opening the same door of faith. We must choose to respond.  The chapter from which the Holy Father quotes details the spread of the Christian faith into the world of the First Millennium. It speaks of the heroic missionary journey of Paul and Barnabas to the Gentiles. Upon their return they give their testimony o the Christians of the Church of Antioch. "They called the church together and reported what God had done with them and how he had opened the door of faith..."(Acts 14:27). He is exercising his Petrine ministry by leading all of us through this Door of Faith into a new encounter with the Risen Christ in the heart of the Church. We need to be converted anew, re-catechized - and experience afresh the grace that comes from the Sacraments. Then, equipped to participate in the mission of the Church, we are being sent into the Third Millennium like Paul and Barnabus were sent into the First millennium. We can - we will - witness the same kind of miraculous results that Paul and Barnabas did in the First Millennium. That is if we allow the Lord, through the power of the Holy Spirit, to continue His mission through us. Shortly after Pope Benedict XVI's election I wrote an article quoting from Alisdair MacIntyre's book "After Virtue" : "It is always dangerous to draw too precise parallels between one historical period and another; and among the most misleading of such parallels are those which have been drawn between our own age in Europe and North America and the Epoch in which the Roman Empire declined into the Dark Ages." "Nonetheless, certain parallels there are. A crucial turning point in that earlier history occurred when men and women of good will turned aside from the task of shoring up the Roman Imperium and ceased to identify the continuation of civility and moral community with the maintenance of the Imperium." "What they set themselves to achieve instead- often not recognizing fully what they were doing- was the construction of new forms of community within which the moral life could be sustained so that both morality and civility might survive the coming ages of barbarism and darkness. If my account of our moral condition is correct, we ought also to conclude that for some time now we too have reached that turning point." "This time however, the barbarians are not waiting beyond the frontiers; they have already been governing us for quite some time. And it is our lack of consciousness of this that constitutes part of our predicament. We are waiting not for a Godot, but for another-doubtless very different- St. Benedict." I suggested that "another Benedict" was here in the person of Pope Benedict XVI. I am more convinced of it now. I suggested back then, "This will be a pontificate that emphasizes and vigorously contends for the truth; one that recognizes the loss of the soul of contemporary culture and proclaims the ever fresh yet ancient truths of classical Christianity to an emerging new paganism. This will be a prophetic as well as a pastoral Papacy. We will witness a resurgence of Christianity that is rightly "orthodox" in both faith and practice. "Because of that, many will try to "claim" Benedict. Some, pining for the past, will watch for what they hope will be a return to some perceived pre-conciliar "purity." Others will try to squeeze the clarity of his commitment to the dignity and sanctity of every human life, his unwavering insistence on the unchangeable truth concerning marriage and family, and his love for human freedom into their particular political mold. "However, he will not fit any political mold. He will not lead the Church backwards but rather forward to a future of hope and into a true and desperately needed reform. Under his leadership we will see new forms of Christian life and community emerging in an analogous way to what happened to the world at the time of St. Benedict." "From those Benedictine monasteries, an entire monastic movement was birthed which led to the evangelization of Europe and the emergence of an authentically Christian culture. This led to the birth and flourishing of the academy, the arts and the emergence of what later became known as Christendom. One of the greatest hopes of Pope John Paul II, and of Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger- now Pope Benedict, was for Europe to rediscover her Christian roots as it did at the time of St Benedict. Now we have "another Benedict" to lead the recovery and reform." I continued "Pope Benedict XVI will surprise many, particularly in the area of ecumenism, reaching to heal the divide between eastern and western Christianity so that the "two lungs" of the full Christian Church can breathe together again and animate the entire Church so that she can become again the soul of the world." "We will witness the beginnings of the coming full communion of the Church during his pontificate. We will witness the recovery of the authentically Catholic academy through the rebuilding of some institutions almost lost to the Church and the building of new ones. We will see the flourishing of good, solid theological and philosophical work alongside of a flourishing of the arts and human culture, led by the Church, as it has been in ages past. He will be like his namesake and help to bring the Christian influence back to Europe and beyond." I believe this has already resulted from the extraordinary Pontificate of Pope Benedict XVI. He turned 85 years old on April 16, 2012. Some early observers indicated his age would make him some sort of caretaker Pope. His pace has demonstrated those observers were wrong. He has proven to be an indefatigable and tireless missionary of a Pope. He has continued the pastoral visits of his predecessor, Blessed John Paul II, with amazingly fruitful travels around the world. The youth of the world still flock to World Youth days and his genuine love for them - and they for him - is evident. He has pastorally and decisively dealt with serious matters concerning the need for a purification of the Church. He is exactly what he told us when he was when began his service, a "simple, humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord." Clearly, to this successor of Peter; it is not about him, but about the Lord whom he serves. His diminutive size and humble manner reveal the holy heart of a man totally given over to the Lord.  His encyclicals, apostolic exhortations and books show that he is a teacher and scholar of the highest order, yet able to communicate with simplicity and beauty because he is a man of deep prayer. He has given continual teaching to the faithful - including some of the finest hagiography in centuries - during his Wednesday Catechesis. He made Church history when, on his own authority, he released of the Apostolic Constitution on Groups of Anglicans which has begun the healing of the divided Western Church. The fruits of these Ordinariates will be recounted by future historians as among the most important events in the Third Millennium of the Church. He has earned the great respect of Patriarchs and leaders of the Orthodox Church and is making progress toward some form of communion between Eastern and Western Christianity. He has championed the rechristianizing of Europe and passionately promoted the New Evangelization of the Church - even establishing a new Pontifical Council on the New Evangelization. He has been a champion of the New Ecclesial movements and helped to ensure that they are rooted in the heart of the Church and received as gift for the missionary work of the Church in this hour. He has doggedly defended the Christian roots of the West and religious freedom as a fundamental human right. He has courageously engaged the Islamic world on the ground of a dialogue in truth. He began the "Courts of the Gentiles" outreach engaging atheists and agnostics. Clearly, this is a missionary Pope. And, it looks like he is just getting warmed up. Indeed, another Benedict is here, and the Church is truly blessed to have him at the helm of the Barque of Peter as she sails into the Third Christian Millennium. The Year of Faith is an invitation to each one of us to encounter anew the Risen Lord Jesus, find our home in the heart of His Church and say "yes" to his invitation into the Mission of the Third Millennium of Christianity as loyal sons and daughters of that Church. Let us together, following the successor of Peter, open the door, enter in, and witness the wonders of God anew.
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- 1 egg
- 5 ounces unsweetened chocolate, melted
- 1/4 cup chopped pecans
- For the glaze:
- 3/4 cup butter
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 2 tablespoons light corn syrup
- 3/4 cup sweetened condensed milk
- 1 cup chopped pecans
- 1/2 cup sweetened coconut flakes
Special Equipment: off-set spatula, parchment paper, 12 by 8 1/2-inch sheet pan
Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
In a medium bowl, sift flour, baking powder and salt together. In a large bowl using a handheld mixer on medium high speed, cream the butter and brown sugar until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add the egg and mix until well combined. Add flour mixture in batches and blend until combined and crumbly. Fold in melted chocolate and the pecans. Butter a quarter sheet pan. Line the pan with a piece of parchment paper and butter the parchment. Press dough evenly into the sheet pan and prick surface evenly with a fork. Bake until firm in the center, about 20 minutes. Let cool and prepare the glaze.
In a medium saucepan over medium heat, melt butter, then add sugar, corn syrup and condensed milk. Cook until all ingredients are dissolved and a golden color is reached, about 10 to 12 minutes. Fold in the pecans and coconut. Pour the hot glaze over the cooled chocolate bars and quickly chill in the freezer to let glaze set. Cut into bars and serve.
Recipe courtesy of Sunny Anderson, 2008
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