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The most troubling aspect of the recent attention in the media, most especially the Korean media, on the "comfort women" issue is that it has been conflated with the Japan-Korea dispute over the Liancourt Rocks (Dokdo/Takeshima). The conflation of these two issues has created the appearance that what is at stake in both issues is the historical truth concerning Japan and Korea.
However, this conflation treats both issues as a means to nationalist ends. The dangerous assumption behind this is that the interests of the surviving "comfort women" are the same as that of the Korean national interests. This same logic was operative in the conditions that allowed for the military sexual slavery of these women, conditions which C. Sarah Soh in her book The Comfort Women: Sexual Violence and Postcolonial Memory in Korea and Japan shows to be developed from "both Japanese colonial economy and the centuries-old sexual cultures of Japanese and Korean patriarchy."
It would be a grave mistake for the Korean government to speak on behalf of these women since it runs the risk of violating the stories of these women in the same way that their bodies have been violated. For in doing so, national interests become inherently embedded in shaping their stories. Yet, the ease with which the media has coupled the two issues in the past few weeks seems to hide more than just the Korean nationalist interest.
What is interesting about this grouping of the "comfort women" issue with the Liancourt Rocks as the grounds for the Japan-Korea dispute is that it hides from attention the issue over another island, the construction of a naval base in Jeju Island's Gangjeong Village for the purposes of the U.S. Navy, despite protests from the local residents. Similarly, the presentation of the "comfort women" as a Japan-Korea dispute hides the American role in the production of the knowledge about the "comfort women" and its influence on how the story came to be told.
The Asian-American scholar Lisa Yoneyama wrote of how the legal language of human rights, the violation of it, and its redress concerning the "comfort women" issue has been "Americanized."1 Such "Americanization" has become stronger considering the U.S. House Resolution 121 in 2007 and Hillary Clinton's recent remark about the label "comfort women." In addition, the need for an American intervention on this issue continues to be expressed in both the American and the Korean media.
The real narrative voice behind this Hollywood-style legal drama that currently frames the "comfort women" issue, in which a victimized party remains in silence, until a third-party legal advocate comes to break the silence, giving voice to and bringing reparation to the victims, may not be a Korean, nor a Japanese one, but an American voice.
The story of the "comfort women" is not merely composed of the testimonies of the surviving "comfort women." It is rather framed by the discursive history of how their stories came to be known in the 90s. This discursive history reveals how the international human rights and feminist movements, nations, and even Asian-American artists and activists have knowingly or unknowingly framed the story of the "comfort women" from their own perspectives and with their own vested interests.
With this in mind, one must be vigilant about whether or not this Americanized framework of the story of the "comfort women" and the overshadowing of the Jeju Island conflict by the dispute over the Liancourt Rocks hides American interest. The real story behind what appears to be the dominance of the Japan-Korea dispute may indeed be the need for American intervention.
1. Lisa Yoneyama, "Traveling Memories, Contagious Justice, Americanization of Japanese War Crimes at the End of Post Cold-War Era." Journal of Asian American Studies 6 (2003): 57-93.
Maybe the first step could be for the Japanese Government and media to not refer to the victims as "comfort women". These women were sex slaves and it must be horribly insulting and degrading to they themselves, their families and their fellow citizens to use the word "comfort" when describing them.
Japan trying to gloss over the horrific crimes they committed during World War 2 is simply disgusting. They committed war crimes in virtually every area they set foot in. They vary from turning local women into sex slaves, to literal cannibalism on Wake island. There is even a niche market where the country won the war.
The author is missing the point. The comfort women issue is having the recognition it is having today because the Korean government is constantly speaking out for it. China and Taiwan are weak on human rights and they could care less; it is Korea with Asia's strongest human rights protection that ensures this issue does not fade in people's memory. If it wasn't for the Korean government's tireless campaign, then there wouldn't have been the US House and EU Parliament condemning Japan's denial of the issue and demanding an apology. On the Comfort Women issue, it is basically The World Vs Japan.
The testimony of the women is in many case either self-contradictory, demonstrably false or clearly exaggerated beyond belief. Some former women have testified that most of the women were willing participants in prostitution (clearly such testimonies were not highlighted by activists)The exact same comfort system was utilized after WWII by US troops in Japan, and US, UN, and Korean troops in Korea and Viet Nam.
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In the same week that China handed Israel a major diplomatic victory by agreeing to allow the isssue of Iran's nuclear weapons program to be reported to the United Nations Security Council for possible sanctions, China's leading scholar of Judaic studies urged Jews and Jewish organizations to seek a stronger relationship with China.
Xu Xin, one of China's first scholars of Judaic studies and founder of the Center for Jewish Studies at Nanjing University, said that while the notion of stronger ties between Jews and China has been discussed and praised, he has seen little activity.
"We need people to endorse programs," he told the Forward. "They should take action."
Xu's remarks come at a time when Sino-Israeli relations are shifting in the wake of China's agreement to apply diplomatic pressure on Iran. The move surprised some observers who had assumed that China's dependence on Iran's oil would dissuade it from supporting diplomatic pressure on the nuclear issue.
China's rise as an economic, political and military power has led to increasing tensions with the United States. At the same time, this increasing profile on the world stage has brought some Chinese interests into harmony with those of Israel and Jews worldwide. In addition to China's growing concern about the dangers of Iran arming itself with nuclear weapons, Beijing has begun pointing to ties between Al Qaeda and Muslim separatist groups in the western Chinese province of Xinjiang. According to Xu, although the Chinese government would not say so openly, Beijing believes that "Israel is not a threat. Islamic fundamentalism is a threat."
Xu has been pushing for efforts to capitalize on the growing points of agreement between China and Israel. Shalom Salmon Wald's 2004 strategy paper, titled "China and the Jewish People," drew heavily on Xu's expertise. The Jewish People Policy Planning Institute, a think tank established by the Jewish Agency for Israel, commissioned the paper.
The document urged the world's Jewish communities to cultivate an independent relationship with China as Jews, separate from American and Israeli interests. The paper makes a number of policy recommendations, including a permanent delegation in China representing world Jewry, greater distribution of Jewish materials through books, television and the Internet and greater support for Jewish scholarship in China.
Xu endorsed the findings of the paper, particularly the call for greater support for such Judaic studies programs as his own.
Xu said that while some Jewish organizations, including the American Jewish Congress, had cultivated contacts with government officials, they had done little to promote Jewish studies in China.
"Political policy can be changed at any time, for any event," Xu said. Scholarly efforts, he added, would "lay a better foundation" for Chinese-Jewish relations.
During a recent visit to the United States, Xu spoke at a session of the Proshansky Jewish Studies Seminar Series at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. In his remarks, he described the history of China's attitude toward Jews and Judaism.
Though a small Jewish community lived in the city of Kaifeng from the 12th through the 19th century, he said, the Chinese had little awareness of the Jews as a group until the 19th century, when the country was forcibly opened to Western influences. At that point the Chinese began to develop a positive image of Jews. They viewed the Jews as a minority that was, like China, oppressed by the Western powers but that had nonetheless registered great achievements as intellectuals, a minority that wielded impressive economic and financial power.
In the early 20th century, as China sought to modernize, various Chinese intellectuals turned to the Jews for inspiration. Many Chinese writers pointed to Yiddish literature as a model for the development of a vernacular, and Sun Yat-sen, modern China's nationalist hero, praised the Zionist movement as an exemplar of a popular quest for independence. In 1920, Sun wrote to the Shanghai Zionist Association in support of the Balfour Declaration.
China's contact with Jews persisted through World War II, as the cities of Shanghai, Harbin and Tianjin became home to thousands of Jewish refugees from Europe. Contact with the Jewish world largely ceased after the Communist Party took control of the country in 1949. However, interest in Jews was revived following the visit of Henry Kissinger, then assistant to President Nixon for national security affairs, in 1971 and the 1978 visit of Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal, who had been a refugee in Shanghai during World War II.
China has historically favored Arab countries over Israel in the Middle East. But Beijing and Jerusalem still have managed to develop an extensive and, at times, mutually beneficial relationship.
Israel formally recognized the People's Republic of China in 1950, though China did not extended full diplomatic recognition to Israel until 1992 — a move that Xu suggests was an attempt by China to improve its international image in the wake of the Tiananmen Square Massacre.
Starting in the early 1990s, Israel began supplying military weapons and technology to China for more than a decade. Then, in 2000, the United States blocked Israel from selling Phalcon radar equipment to China. Israeli-American tensions over China flared up again in 2004, when Washington pressured Jerusalem not to return Harpy attack drones that China had sent to Israel for upgrading.
Xu described a recent political cartoon that depicted Israel's military industry surrounded by a gate, with America holding the key.
In the wake of these incidents, the relationship between Israel and China has shifted away from military cooperation and toward technological and financial partnerships. Xu said that the Israeli consulate in Shanghai now announces on an almost weekly basis new agreements worth more than $100 million for Israeli investments in China, joint venture projects, new factories and other economic development projects. o frequent and so lucrative are the agreements that, according to Xu, it's as if "less than $100 million doesn't count."
Xu said that critical Chinese media coverage of the second intifada has had a negative effect on the image in China of Jews and Israel (the two are often conflated, he explained).
However, according to Xu, Israel and Israeli leaders still have a great deal of support in China. He noted that in the wake of Ariel Sharon's decision to break with the Likud, online polls in China showed 90% support for the leader, who was praised as "great hero" and a "real man."
Though China ceased to view Jews as victims after the formation of the State of Israel, Xu said that most Chinese continue to have a positive view of Jews, though not always an accurate one. Many Chinese wish to emulate the success of Jews in the realms of science, technology, business and finance. Some even see the power of American Jewish lobbying groups as a model for their own efforts to influence American policy.
Xu said he hopes that, in turn, the major Jewish organizations will recognize the long-term importance of establishing contacts in Chinese society beyond the government level, particularly in reaching out to Chinese scholars.
"If you have a better foundation, you can stand any kind of shocks," he said. "I hope people in empowered positions realize it."

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Mother's Day is one of the busiest times in High Street perfume departments and no wonder. For many people (not me!) perfume is a luxury item that they feel self indulgent buying for themselves. It is seen as a treat, in a similar vein to a box of chocolates.
There are usually three problems with buying Mother's Day Fragrance: a) Either you don't know what your Mum likes or, b) you think you know what she likes but she secretly went off it years ago and has to make happy faces when she unwraps it for the umpteenth time, or c) what she used to like has been discontinued or reformulated and she wants something new.
I'm going to put a few ideas out here that ought to help with all of the above. There's the Classics, the Discovery Sets, and finally, at pocket money prices, there are the Cheap and Cheerfuls. At these prices, if you're buying for your Mum, you may as well pick something up for yourself…
These are the stalwarts that have been around for years and which, in my opinion, don't get enough love from younger perfume fans. If your Mum likes the mossy chypres, orientals and aldehydes of the Seventies and Eighties, these are all safe bets.
Good enough to make a grown woman weep, Ysatis fans are rarely casual about their love for this oriental chypre. Ysatis is priced very reasonably for such classic quality and prices start at £24.50. You can read my review here. Ysatis can be bought from Boots, Amazon and trusty allbeauty.com
Estee Lauder Cinnabar
For oriental fans, Cinnabar is a classic that's hard to beat. It's been around for a long time whilst fashions have come and gone, and it still stands majestic on the beauty counter. You can read my review here and buy it from Amazon, House of Fraser and John Lewis.
Yves Saint Laurent Opium
It's not as good as it used to be, but it's still a very good oriental. Find my review here. There's another review here which compares old and new. Die hard fans really know their stuff, but sadly the original formulation is only on eBay these days. You can buy Opium from John Lewis, Boots and House of Fraser to name but a few. Do not confuse this with Black Opium, which is very different indeed. (I'm pulling a face and being tactful).
Arguably the most famous fragrance in the world. I have seen more red faced men buying this than women. Personally I'm not keen, but its popularity shows no signs of waning ever. At all. I like it on other people, but on me it smells like stale face powder. My review is here and you can buy it everywhere: Boots, John Lewis, and Escentual to name but a few.
Miss Dior Originale
This is the one that'in the glass houndstooth check bottle, not the pretty floral Miss Dior that comes with a little bow. It's green and mossy and longlasting. I much prefer it to the latest incarnation of Miss Dior (which is pretty good, but is more of a fruity floral) You can buy Miss Dior Originale from John Lewis, House of Fraser and Amazon.
Clinique Aromatics Elixir
I can't believe I haven't reviewed this one. With aldehydes, spices and oakmoss, I often happily find myself in a miasma of this whilst gadding about town. It's usually on more mature perfume lovers: the youth of today are missing a trick. You can buy Aromatics Elixir from House of Fraser, Amazon and John Lewis.
Many perfume houses offer a "Try Some Then Buy One" service, which is a great way of getting some samples to try and a follow on bottle of your choice afterwards. Another alternative is buy a sample set and a voucher. Here's a selection of the best:
4160 Tuesdays
I'm a big fan of 4160 Tuesdays and can't hide it.: quirky artisan scent hand made with passion in a London studio. If you haven't tried any yet, enter the portal now! For £95 you can get 7 samples and a voucher for a full 100ml bottle of whichever is her favourite. It works out cheaper than buying the bottle and samples separately by £20. Here's the link you need to the site.
Jo Loves is the brainchild of Jo Malone MBE, former CEO and founder of Jo Malone. Jo couldn't stay away from fragrance and started her own perfume house on a smaller scale after stepping down from her original flagship business. You can buy a Fragrance Discovery Gift Experience for £100 which includes samples and a voucher for a full bottle.
The Perfume Society Discovery Boxes
These boxes contain around ten hard to get samples and a couple of very good beauty treats such as hand cream, skin serum or nail polish. A VIP Subscription at just £25 gets you a free Discovery Box and a discount off all the other Discovery Boxes on offer as well as many more benefits throughout the year. Your Mum might well find a brand new favourite and learn something along the way: each box has testing notes and sniffing strips. Quick plug- I have five VIP subscriptions up for grabs, but be quick- entries must be in by 25th February at midnight. See my post here to find out how to enter.
Pell Wall Perfumes
Pell Wall is a perfume house that consists of a delightfully eclectic mix by Shropshire based Nose Chris Bartlett. A set of minis costs just £49 for 9 x 10ml bottles. My favourites are Pretty in Pink and Deep Purple. Try the website and read my reviews here and here.
Cheap needn't smell cheap. Some of my favourite and most frequently worn perfumes cost under ten quid. You can often find me wearing some of the following. In fact I wear them more often than my posh stuff because I know I can afford to replace them when they're empty.
Coty L'Aimant
This was my grandmother's favourite. It came hot on the heels of Chanel No 5 and there are many similarities in this powdery aldehydic gem, created in the 1920s. My review is here and you can buy it from allbeauty.com or Fragrance Direct. Often you can get beautiful gift sets with talc, body spray and a little cosmetics bag for under ten pounds. (The one pictured is from Fragrance Direct and is 6.99 currently).
Tweed makes some people pull faces and say "old Lady"- a term I avoid, but I say don't knock it till you've tried it. It used to be made by Lentheric but is now made by Taylor of London. My Mum wears Tweed and it smells amazing on her. It's woody and mossy with a nice bit of citrus in the opening notes. You can read my review here and buy it from Boots, allbeauty.com and Fragrance Direct.
Avon has been a favourite among several generations of women in my family. My late Nanna used to like Soft Musk and Timeless, as does my Mum today. Avon launches new scents all the time, and prices are so reasonable that even a blind buy won't break the bank. Here's my guide to my Avon Top Ten. You can buy online from AvonShop UK.
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This is an excellent rose scent, that smells far more expensive than it's low price. Containing centifolia roses, this is a beautiful perfume and the one I chose for myself for Mother's Day last year. Here's my review. It's currently only £11.20.
Elizabeth Arden Blue Grass
Blue Grass was another of my late grandmother's favourites. It is widely available for under a tenner and is especially good sprayed fridge cold in hot weather. I reviewed it here. You can buy Elizabeth Arden Blue Grass from Half Price Perfumes , Fragrance Direct or Superdrug.
That's my round up for Mums everywhere, including me! So what scent reminds you of your Mum? Do feel free to comment below. I always love to hear from you.


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French Ligue 1 Round Up: Alain Perrin, Damien Comolli, and le Beau JeuNovember 17, 2008
France's Ligue 1 entered it's 14th round this week. Lyon increased their lead at the top as Marseille faltered and St. Etienne's new coach will need a miracle to turn around their dismal season.
Going into round 14, St. Etienne had lost five games in a row, and languished one point off the bottom of the table. Their 3-0 home defeat by Stade Rennais last weekend was the last straw and spelled the end for head coach Laurent Roussey.
Roussey was shown the door to make way for a new coaching team headed by former Olympique Lyon and Portsmouth manager Alain Perrin. Perrin led Lyon to a domestic double last year, but left the seven times champions after just one season.
Perrin joins France's most successful club days after the appointment of new sporting director, Damien Comolli. Comolli of course is a former Arsene Wenger protégé who crashed and burned as director of football at Tottenham.
Les Verts' new management team got off to a less than auspicious start, losing 3-0 against an impressive looking Lille side.
Perrin had less than a week to prepare his team for Lille—and it showed. St. Etienne were devoid of any confidence and went down without any real resistance. Luck wasn't on their side against Lille but, as the saying goes, you make your own luck in football.
Before the game Perrin said: "We will need a bit of time. Confidence comes with good results and good results come with confidence". So I'm not too sure about M. Perrin's logic, but seemingly it's a vicious circle.
Lorient's late raid at the Stade Velodrome snatched all three points from Marseille. L'OM will be seething after leading the game 2-0 until the 77th minute, they then let Lorient back into the game. The visitors went on to score three in 10 minutes for an unlikely victory. Marseille now slip back to seven points behind the leaders.
Bordeaux's recent good form had seen them climb to third in Le Championnat, the Girondins had won five of their last seven, taking 17 points from a possible 19. Bordeaux were unable to gain any ground on Lyon though, bravely going down 2-1 in Sunday night's thrilling game thanks to goals from Karim Benzema and Kim Källström.
A late rally from Bordeaux led by Argentinian sensation Fernando Cavenaghi's eighth goal of the season set hearts a-fluttering, but Lyon hung on to win what could be a very important game in their chase for an eighth consecutive Ligue 1 title.
André-Pierre Gignac scored his seventh and eighth goals of the season for Toulouse in their 2-0 win. His second was a cracking goal. Check it out here
Guillaume Hoarau's impressive partnership with Ludovic Giuly continued, as PSG swept aside Le Havre 3-1, Hourau scoring two against his former club.
Le sac d'oignon, transfer news:
Lyon striker, Karim Benzema is the latest striker to be linked with a move away from Ligue 1. A host of Europeans teams (Chelsea, Real Madrid, and Barcelona) have recently been rumoured to be admirers of the player.
OL have so far stymied any attempted approach by installing a €100 million release clause in Benzema's contract. This has put off Italian giants, AC Milan, who were chasing the French International. Milan's managing director, Adriano Galliani has said: "He's too expensive. I think he will stay at Olympique Lyon".
Bordeaux's Yoann Gourcuff, currently on loan from Milan, is the main catalyst for Laurent Blanc's energetic team, and is at the centre of a transfer tug of war between Lyon and Bourdeaux. Lyon's president is quoted as saying: "He (Gourcuff) is a player that interests Lyon, whatever the price".
Ligue 1 Results:
Saturday November 15 2008
AJ Auxerre 1-0 FC Sochaux-Montbéliard
Le Havre AC 1-3 Paris Saint-Germain
Le Mans UC72 1-0 Valenciennes FC
Olympique Marseille 2-3 FC Lorient
AS Nancy-Lorraine 1-1 SM Caen
Toulouse FC 2-0 Grenoble Foot38
Sunday November 16 2008
OGC Nice 2-1 FC Nantes
Stade Rennais 2-1 AS Monaco
Olympique Lyon 2-1 Girondins de Bordeaux


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There's a new version of your favorite program available, but no packages for your distro. What do you do? Compile its source code, of course! Mike Saunders shows you all you need to know...
Wiki post by Captain_Tux. Original article written by Mr. Mike Saunders and published in LXF 111 (November 2008). For the original PDF document click here.
Building software from source – that's a bit old-school, isn't it? Who wants to wrestle with the command line, hunting down dependencies and coaxing the GCC compiler into running properly? Well, it does sound like a strange thing to do in this world of binary packages and online repositories. We have thousands of packages available via the internet, all neatly compiled for our distros, thereby nullifying the need to get down and dirty with a Makefile. Or so it seems. As great as they are, binary packages have a lot of limitations that can only be overcome by compiling a program from its source code. Here are some of the benefits of building by hand:
- Timeliness Get software as soon as it's available. When CoolApp 2.1 is released, your distro will probably have only version 2.0, and (unless it's a rolling-upgrade distro like Gentoo) you'll have to wait until the next major release of your distro to get the new app. But by building from source, we can get the newest version of anything when it's released.
- Features In the interests of stability, distro vendors often disable experimental features when making a package, leaving you with a rather plain (albeit reliable) piece of software. When we go down the source-code route, however, we can turn on extra goodies – it's our choice!
- Optimizations When you compile from source, you get the chance to boost the program for your machine. Binary packages are built for a wide range of x86 processor types. Using certain compilation options, you can build apps specifically for your exact model of CPU, helping to wring extra performance from your PC.
To prove that it's not as difficult as it sounds, let's see how this works. The skills you learn here will put you in good stead for your Linux (and Unix-using) career, as the vast majority of programs can be compiled in this manner. We're going to take a stock, unmodified Ubuntu 8.04 installation and install the Audacity sound editor, enabling some extra features along the way. Audacity is a good choice because it can throw up some strange errors during the compilation process, so we'll learn how to deal with every eventuality.
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Get prepared
First off, we need to get hold of the Audacity source code. You can find this on the project's website at http://audacity.sf.net, or on the LXFDVD in the Audio section. Save audacity-src-1.2.6.tar.gz on to your desktop, then open a command line window (Applications > Accessories > Terminal) and enter the following:
cd Desktop
tar xfvz audacity-src-1.2.6.tar.gz
cd audacity-src-1.2.6
The first command switches us into the Desktop folder, and the second command extracts the compressed .tar.gz archive. (Note that for archives with a .tar.bz2 suffix, you should use tar xfvj instead.) Finally, we switch into the newly created source code directory.
Enter ls to see the list of files in the expanded archive. Along with various scripts (highlighted in green) and sub-directories (blue), you'll see a README.txt file. It's always worth having a quick peek at any file called README.txt or INSTALL.txt, as it may have useful information on building the program. Enter less README.txt to view the file, and hit the Q key to quit. In this case, we don't need to read through it all – we can get straight to work on the compilation process.
The configure script will prepare the Audacity source code for compilation. Enter this command:
./configure --help
This executes the configure script (the ./ is required, as we're running it in the current directory), telling it to spew out all available compilation options. If you scroll up through the terminal, you can see that there's a huge range of options available to us. But don't fret – we can happily accept the defaults. We're going to make a couple of small changes though: firstly we're going to enable the SoundTouch library, which provides extra pitch and tempo manipulation tools that aren't included in the default Ubuntu package.
Another tweak we can make is to set the location of the installed program when it has been built. To do this, we use the --prefix option with the configure script. For instance, to install Audacity in the /usr/local directory (away from other software and easier to maintain), we use --prefix=/usr/local.
As mentioned earlier, another great benefit of compiling software from source is the choice of optimizations. By setting the CFLAGS (for C code) and CXXFLAGS (for C++) environment variables before we run the configure script, we can select the exact GCC compiler optimizations we want to use. This is a complicated subject, but we can get an extra speed boost very easily. Consider these commands:
export CFLAGS="-O3 -march=core2"
export CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=core2"
Here we're setting up the aforementioned environment variables with optimizations suitable for the Intel Core 2 CPU architecture. The -O3 bit at the start has a letter O, not a zero, and requests the third level of optimization. (Most distributions compile their packages with -O2 for slightly smaller executables and easier debugging.) If you have a machine with a AMD64 chip, use -march=athlon64, and if you're not sure, just use -march=i686 for wide compatibility. You can consult the GCC manual page (man gcc) for a complete list of supported CPU architectures, but it's heavy reading!
So, we have our optimizations set up, and we're ready to run the configure script. Here we go:
./configure --prefix=/usr/local --with-soundtouch=system
This tells the script that we want to install into the /usr/local directory, and enable the SoundTouch option that was listed when we ran ./configure --help before. (The 'system' part for the soundtouch option indicates that we want to use the version of SoundTouch available in the distro, as the one supplied with Audacity is broken.)
Why compile at all?
If you haven't even glimpsed at a chunk of source code before, you may be perplexed by some of the terminology in use here, so let's clarify the terms and processes.
Compiling is the process of converting human-readable source code – a software recipe that could be written in any high-level programming language – into the binary instructions used by a specific computer's processor. For the most popular programming languages, C and C++, the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) does the hard work of converting the source code into a binary executable file. It reads the source files, translating the C or C++ code listing into machine code instructions for your CPU.
Different CPU families have different types of instructions; for instance, if you compile an app's source code to run on an Intel processor, the resulting program won't run on a PowerPC. You need to compile it for each type of processor on which it will be used.
Note that for interpreted languages, such as Python, Perl and Ruby, each line of the source code is translated on the fly. With those languages, there is no compilation process – the language interpreter steps through the program line by line.
Grab dependencies
Oops – something's not quite right. After you've run the ./configure command, you'll get this error back: 'C compiler cannot create executables'. We need to install a development toolchain to build binaries from source, so enter:
sudo apt-get install build-essential
On Ubuntu, this installs a meta-package that pulls in all the tools we need to compile bare-bones command-line programs. If you're running another distro, look for GCC, G++ and Binutils in your package manager, and go ahead and install them. Now run the previous configure script again. (A handy time-saver for those new to the command line: hit the up cursor key and you'll be able to retrieve previously entered commands.)
Now the script will proceed more healthily, but it will stop and inform us when it can't find a program on the system called wx-config. Audacity uses a graphical toolkit called WXWidgets to render its interface, and we don't have it installed, hence the error message that you'll see. So we need to grab WXWidgets from the Synaptic package manager.
Before you run off with the mouse, though, it's important to note that many Linux programs, especially libraries and toolkits on which other programs depend, are supplied in two versions. One version is the run-time library that a program can link to; the other is a bundle of development libraries and header files used for compiling software. So, open Synaptic (under the System > Administration menu) and search for WXWidgets.
Scroll down the list of results and you'll see libwxgtk2.6-0. This is the run-time library on which WXWidgets-using programs depend – it provides a GTK layer on top of the WXWidgets framework. Check that for installation, and also check libwxgtk2.6-dev, which will provide the necessary development bits and bobs for our source code build, and then apply the changes. (In other distros, these packages will have similar names, so search for WXWidgets or wxgtk to find them. Development packages will almost always end with a -dev or -devel extension.)
Now re-run the configure script. You'll see that Audacity requires an older version of WXWidgets – namely, 2.4.x! This is pretty much the standard process for building from source code, which is why we've illustrated it for you here; it often takes a bit of trial and error to work out exactly what library dependencies and versions are required – and it can sometimes be frustrating. So, head back into Synaptic, remove WXWidgets 2.6, and install version 2.4 (don't forget the -dev package).
The magic of Checkinstall
If you've got several PCs, or you're an administrator in charge of a large number of corporate machines, you probably won't have time to follow the whole compilation procedure for every single computer. Thankfully then, there's an RSI-eliminating tool that enables you to create binary packages of your source-built programs. Checkinstall, available from http://tinyurl.com/2uodas (or the LXFDVD in the Essentials section) generates Deb, RPM and .tgz packages for Slackware.
After you've installed Checkinstall, run the ./configure script for the software you want to build as described in the main guide. Then run make to compile the software, but don't run the usual make install command afterwards. Instead, as root, run checkinstall.
You'll then be asked a variety of questions, such as the type of package you want to build, and whether you want to include any documentation or not. When Checkinstall has finished its work, you'll have a binary package that you can then install on as many other machines as you like (providing they're running the same distro and have the same libraries installed).
Build the code
Run the configure script once more and you'll see that everything goes smoothly this time. For other programs, you may have more dependencies to sort out before you can build – as mentioned, it's all a trial-and-error process. For instance, if a program's configure script complains that it can't find the PNG development libraries, look for a package named something like libpng-dev. If you're building a Qt-based app, you'll need libqt-dev. Often the README file will provide a full list.
The command we need to kick off the GCC compiler is (drum roll please)...
Simple as that. The 'make' utility consults a newly created file called Makefile, which details the order in which the program's source code files are to be compiled. Depending on the size of your program – and speed of your machine – the compilation process can take anywhere between 10 seconds (for a small command line app) to several hours (for a leviathan like OpenOffice.org).
During the compilation phase, you'll see that GCC is being executed using the CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS settings we defined before. You may also see some warning messages about nonstrict code, but those are nothing to worry about. You will, however, get a bit of a shock when the compilation process halts abruptly with an error. You'll see that SoundTouchEffect.o couldn't be compiled – does that mean SoundTouch is missing?
Well, yes, and the configure script should have alerted us to that. But not all is perfect in this world, so we have to fix it ourselves. You may recall, back at the start, that we passed the --with-soundtouch=system option to the configure script, instead of =local, because the version supplied with Audacity is broken. (You would've found out that =local is broken, so we've saved you a bit of time!)
So, configure let us down a bit there. But no big deal: open Synaptic, search for libsoundtouch and install it (along with its -dev sibling). We don't need to re-run the configure step again, as that succeeded, so enter make again and watch the output. Now you'll see that it can't find FLAC. D'oh! So fire up Synaptic and install the libflac-dev library package.
Enter 'make' once more, and you'll see that the compilation progresses a bit further, but then halts with a rather terrifying sequence of errors, including this:
undefined reference to 'soundtouch::SoundTouch::SoundTouch()'
Well, it looks like the compiler still can't find SoundTouch, even though we've installed it and it didn't complain during the configure phase. So during the last part of the compilation, when all of the program's files are being linked together into the executable, GCC doesn't know where SoundTouch is.
We need to alter the Makefile which controls the compilation process. Enter:
gedit src/Makefile
Scroll down to line 31, where you'll see 'LIBS' – that is, the libraries with which Audacity needs to be linked. Add -libSoundTouch to the end of the line (it's case-sensitive), save the file and exit the editor. Run make again. You'll see that the main Audacity binary compiles correctly, but the process hits another wall: it can't find the msgfmt utility to handle documentation.
This time we need to rely on Google: search for 'msgfmt' and 'Ubuntu' (both terms in the same search, but not in quotes as it's not a phrase) and you'll see that other users have had similar problems when compiling programs. You'll discover that it's in the gettext package – but, tediously, the Ubuntu team has both gettext and a gettext-base packages. The latter was installed as part of the build-essential bundle, whereas the former includes our essential msgfmt tool. Maybe one day distro developers will stop fragmenting programs into a squillion ambiguously named packages, but at least the solution was a quick Google away here.
So, install gettext to get msgformat, and run make again. In the words of Borat, great success! You'll land back at the command line prompt with no errors. All we need to do now is install the newly built Audacity into the filesystem, so enter:
sudo make install
This action needs to be performed as the root (admin) user, hence sudo. On non-Ubuntu distros, you may need to switch to root with su and then enter make install. And now you can run the program:
If you want to uninstall the program, do sudo make uninstall. You can also remove the source code directory whenever you want – the final program is now in /usr/local/.
Font of knowledge
You'll notice that this version of Audacity isn't looking so pretty on the font front. That's because the version of WXWidgets 2.4 included with Ubuntu is built against GTK 1, which doesn't have anti-aliased fonts. Recompiling WXWidgets 2.4 to use GTK 2 is another exercise that you can try when you've finished this guide! Anyway, load up a sound sample and click on the Effect menu. You'll see two new options that weren't available in the stock Ubuntu version: Change Pitch and Change Tempo.
Thanks to our geektastic compiling powers, we've got one up on Ubuntu. Eat it, Shuttleworth! Given that it's quite fiddly to add SoundTouch support and get those two extra features, it's not surprising that the Ubuntu team has steered clear. Most of the programs you compile will go completely smoothly or just require a few obvious dependencies, but we've looked at lots of issues that can crop up, so now you're trained and ready for any eventuality. Now go forth and compile!


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"It's easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing -- that's the Lord's test."
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"At the dawn of history India started on her unending quest, and trackless centuries are filled with her striving and the grandeur of her success and her failures. Through good and ill fortune alike she has never lost sight of that quest or forgotten the ideals which gave her strength."
"One individual may die for an idea; but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives. That is how the wheel of evolution moves on and the ideas and dreams of one nation are bequeathed to the next'"
"Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially. At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom."
"We end today a period of ill fortune and India discovers herself again. The achievement we celebrate today is but a step, an opening of opportunity, to the greater triumphs and achievements that await us. Are we brave enough and wise enough to grasp this opportunity and accept the challenge of the future?"
"If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability."


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The University Senate Center by Chyutin Architects is located in Beer Sheva, Isreal and is 6,000 square meters. The whole complex reflects an architectural trend moved by the weather imperatives of a desert environment. The exterior walls shelter the center patio and provide protection from wind, while investigating the effects of imposing a circular movement in a square plan. The following is a statement by the architect about their design that explains more about this building:
The Ben-Gurion University Senate Building was designed to serve as the University's administrative center, and contains offices, the Senate Hall, and an exhibition space. The building, which faces the campus's main entrance plaza, on the main lengthwise pedestrian axis, is shaped like a monolithic cube with sandstone cladding, and encloses a circular inner courtyard. The main entrance to the plaza to the building is designed like a cleft carved into the rock of a canyon.
The courtyard, open towards the building and closed towards the desert, constitutes an inner world that is protected against the winds and shaded from the sun. The use of an inner courtyard that the public spaces face onto is a characteristic element of residential buildings in the Mediterranean and desert regions. The Senate hall is shaped like an inclined cone, has cladding of sandstone and bricks, and stands in a narrow space that creates a tension towards the wall of the central building.


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Solution providers also like support they receive from Microsoft for its storage management software, giving it almost as high a score as IBM/Tivoli.
Microsoft's score makes it the third vendor of storage management software to be in the top 10 vendors in terms of support satisfaction.
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OKWAP (Who??) Launching a Phone
Taiwan's OKWAP announces they are jumping into the shark infested smartphone pool. The S868 runs Windows Mobile 5.0 and incorporates a 2.4 inch touch-screen, 2 megapixel camera with autofocus, GPRS, Bluetooth, Infrared, stylus and alphanumeric keypad but it does keep its dainty figure weighing in at a mere 4.3 ounces. To set themselves apart OKWAP has added their own shortcut menu as well… Read More


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A Daily Record writer gave it some welly after scooping two media gongs.
Moira Kerr, a freelance journalist from Oban , picked up the feature writer of the year prize at the Highlands and Islands Media Awards for three articles published in the Record.
The judges also crowned her journalist of the year in recognition of a body of work that included news reports as well as features.
Moira, who is a volunteer fundraising secretary for Oban RNLI Lifeboat, donated £300 of her £500 prize money to buy the brave volunteers some much-needed welly boots .
She said: "It is a real honour to win these awards but a journalist is only as good as their contacts so I would like to say thank you to all my phone-a-friends in far-flung corners of the Highlands and Islands who keep me up to date with all the news.
"I am delighted to say that my £300 charity cash will be going to Oban RNLI Lifeboat.
"It will help with the excellent work of the volunteer crew, who are on call 24/7, whatever the weather, and ready to save lives at sea.
"It will cover the cost of seven pairs of RNLI yellow wellies, a most essential part of the crew kit."
At a ceremony at New Drumossie Hotel in Inverness, judges praised Moira's work, which included an interview with "tunnel tigers" who built the Cruachan power station 50 years ago.
An interview with retiring CalMac ferry captain Norman Martin was highly praised as well. Moira's news stories, including a piece on a Campbeltown woman who had travelled the equivalent of twice around the world to get weekly dialysis treatment at Vale of Leven hospital in Dunbartonshire, were commended.
Another Record news story featured a moving interview with an Islay mum separated from her children after falling ill with a rare form of blood cancer. The woman sadly lost her fight for life.
A spokesman for the competition organisers said: "Moira was the unanimous choice of the judges for a series of strong entries across the writing categories.
"She won the feature writer of the year award and was shortlisted in the reporter of the year category."


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Our biggest stories of the week are …
Use your face and thumb to pay
No, it's not biometrics … it's a bit weird actually. Just received a link from Matt Cross to a video of a new service that launches this Sunday, and claims to use your face and thumbs-up as a payment approval:…
Half a billion dollars jackpot in my sights
It's my last day in the States and off to the New York Stock Exchange to join TEDx Wall Street – the first one ever! Staying in downtown New York is as mad as ever, but fun. What's really fun is the lottery fervour fever. Everyone's talking about the lottery called Mega Millions.
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I was asked to keynote at the ISITC 18th Annual Industry Forum & Vendor Show in Boston this week. Knowing that it's always important to pull the chain a little bit, I put forward the title: "The next mega global…
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The major general news stories of the week include …
London and New York 'top cities' – BBC
London and New York will remain the most important world cities for wealthy individuals over the next decade, research suggests.
Barclays most complained about bank – The Telegraph
Barclays was Britain's most complained about bank in 2011, generating more than 500,000 customer complaints last year, according to figures published by the Financial Services Authority (FSA).
It's time for the FSA to take mis-selling seriously – The Telegraph
Today we reveal more details of how banks sold complex and loss-making contracts to small businesses, often breaking rules.
RBS admits thousands of SMEs were sold interest rate swaps – The Telegraph
Royal Bank of Scotland has broken ranks with its high street peers to reveal that it sold controversial interest rate swaps to thousands of small businesses.
JPMorgan Chase in 'missing' decimal point contract blunder – The Telegraph
One of the world's biggest investment banks, JPMorgan Chase, does not have to pay a trader nearly $1 million despite making a decimal point blunder in a botched employment contract, a British judge ruled.
VIDEO: Merkel: Britain must decide on Europe – BBC
The German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, has told the BBC that the British have to decide for themselves to what extent they wish to be part of Europe.
Mobile payments companies link up in £109m deal – The Independent
The mobile payments firm Monitise has acquired its US counterpart Clairmail for £109m as the market for banking and shopping by phone hots up.
Coutts fined £9m for failures in money laundering controls – The Telegraph
The "Queen's bankers" Coutts has been fined £8.75m for failing to perform adequate controls on money handled on behalf of high risk customers, including Politically Exposed Persons.
Blame Brussels, not us, says FSA after Prudential attack – The Telegraph
The City watchdog has hit back at claims by Prudential that its policies are "ludicrous" and "horrendous", insisting it is just the middle man between government, Europe and industry.
The Goodwin Effect: Enter Fred, exit staff and client – The Independent
Still widely blamed for running one of the world's largest banking organisations into the ground, the curse of Fred the Shred appears to have struck again. An architectural firm which hired the former RBS banker Fred Goodwin as an adviser is now facing difficulties.
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Xtreme Wheels (iPhone) Review: Trial Bike Racing At Its Best
Excite Bike was one of the mainstays during my younger video gaming experience. Who can forget the intrepid motocross rider going up and down the course occasionally breaking out into wheelies, and in my case, crashing like a n00b.
Even though simple the game's influence onto future gaming titles cannot be denied, with the latest being Bravo Game Studios' Xtreme Wheels. This is one heck of a gritty intepretation of Excite Bike, bringing into focus extreme trial bike racing with exceptional physics.
Presented in 3D, the game is a joy to behold, but it wouldn't work without the myriad of control options available to the player. The courses themselves are pretty hardcore, mistime a jump, or failing to lean forward or backwards at the correct moment and players will find themselves punished. Thankfully despite the rather gruesome crash animations, the game is easy on the save points throughout each of its courses.
The game does suffer a little from some lack of refinement at the level end screen, I can't really tell how well I did based on the trophies I received, a three star rating system would be easier to understand I guess. But anyhow, this doesnt detract from the gritty experience of riding on a (virtual) trial bike on the iPhone.
Nine Over Ten 9/10 awards Xtreme Wheels with a 4.5 out of 5. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. The game is available on the iTunes App Store for USD 3.99. Check it out over here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/xtreme-wheels/id435899356?mt=8. A review code was provided to Nine Over Ten 9/10 for the purpose of this review.Powered by Sidelines
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Pippo Inzaghi has reportedly declared that he hopes to agree a deal to return to former club Atalanta this summer.
The 38-year-old striker will have had another birthday by the time the 2012-13 season starts, but after his departure from Milan this summer, has reportedly stated his intention to continue playing. [12]
Rumours suggest that he has a choice between Atalanta and Watford [13] to do so, or to take a coaching role back with the Rossoneri's youth team.
L'Eco di Bergamo are reporting today that the veteran has revealed that he hopes to return to Atalanta, which represent a 'choice of the heart'. Sources close to the player, who is currently on holiday, are quoted as saying the Orobici are his intended destination.
Inzaghi spent the 1996-97 season with Atalanta and picked up the Capocannoniere title with his 24 goals for the campaign. That total remains a club record for a single season at the club.
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SARATOGA SPRINGS — The Patient Experience Project (PEP), a marketing and communications firm based in Saratoga Springs, announced the addition of Sara Agan to its team.
Agan joins PEP as an account manager and is responsible for serving as a liaison between clients and the agency, ensuring that client needs are always met, and providing daily support for PEP's account leadership team.
She has nearly a decade of experience in various marketing roles with such upstate New York companies as TL Cannon Applebee's, Marley Beverage Company, DeCrescente Distributing Company, and Saratoga Casino and Raceway.
Agan earned a bachelor's degree in journalism and mass communication and a master's degree in integrated marketing communications from St. Bonaventure University in upstate New York.


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Hillary Clinton and cronyism go together. She practiced her craft as the Elite's Magical Crone.
You might be thinking "What in the heck is a crone."
Wikipedia defines the "crone" as "A stock character in folklore and fairy tale, an old woman. In some stories, she is disagreeable, malicious, or sinister in manner, often with magical or supernatural associations that can make her either helpful or obstructing."
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Last season, the New York Knicks' Amare Stoudemire was hampered by injuries and a lack of a point guard to distribute the ball which clearly affected his ability to perform on the court.
Stoudemire shot 48.3-percent from the field this past season, which was his worst shooting percentage since the 2005-06 season with the Phoenix Suns when he shot 33.3-percent in just three games. He underwent microfracture knee surgery prior to the start of that season and after a long rehab period, he lasted just three games before missing the rest of the regular season with ongoing stiffness in both knees.
This past season, Stoudemire missed his first All-Star Game after failing to develop chemistry with various point guards, but bounced back in the month of March with an average of 18 points and 8.2 rebounds. However, Stoudemire had to miss time after suffering a bulging disc in his back and returned with just four games left in the regular season.
The Knicks earned the seventh seed in the playoffs last year due to the birth of Linsanity and the great play of Carmelo Anthony near the end of the season, but they'll need a healthy Stoudemire if they are going to contend for a championship this season.
"All indications are that he is healthy and that his back is fine." said ESPN New York's Ian Begley. "He had microfracture surgery on one of his knees, so that's always a concern there, but his general health seems to be fine. I don't know if you've seen any of the videos in Houston of Amare training with Hakeem Olajuwon, but he seems to be in great shape."
"He really needs to bounce back this year and last year as we talked about, he struggled throughout the season," Begley added. "His numbers were at career lows and a lot of people are looking for him to really come with a stronger sense of purpose this season, to really be able to knock down a perimeter shot like he did in 2010."
Despite participating in the 2004 Olympics, Stoudemire has declined the last two opportunities in effort to remain healthy for the upcoming NBA season.
"What's intriguing with Amare is after working with Hakeem Olajuwon for two weeks, I wonder how his post game will translate to the NBA," Begley said. "What can he learn in two weeks and how quickly can he implement that into his game."
According to Stoudemire, Olajuwon's training will have a huge impact in his game since he isn't known for having a post game. For the majority of his career, he's relied on pick-and-rolls or isolation situations such as driving and shooting mid-range jumpshots.
"He helped me a lot," Stoudemire said. "A lot of moves that he has really translate to my game. To now develop a post game is going to be remarkable for me. It's going to catch a lot of my opponents off guard and it's going to be a great year for me."


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Nick Blaemire, Zina Goldrich, Adam Gwon Among Writers for Once Upon A Time In New York City Benefit Concert
Bethany Rickwald • New York City • Aug 28, 2012
Created by Caleb Hoyer and Jennifer Ashley Tepper, the concert will feature songs about someone who has changed the writers' ideas of New York City.
Writers contributing to the concert will include Danny Abosch, Deborah Abramson, Gaby Alter, Nick Blaemire, Jake Brandman, Zina Goldrich, Adam Gwon, Paul Scott Goodman, Marcy Heisler, Caleb Hoyer, Joe Iconis, Michael R. Jackson, Galt MacDermot, Julia Mattison, Ryan Scott Oliver, Willem Oosthuysen, Bill Russell, Charles Strouse, and Zack Zadek, with additional writers announced at a later date.
Performers will also be announced at a later date.
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I first met January O'Neil last year on a sunny April day in Boulder, Colorado. No, I met her late at night, the previous winter while up way too late on my computer. January is well known for her Poet-Mom blog and while I am not a mom, I still think it's a blog well worth checking out for information on poems, poets, Spike Lee, and the creative life.
Meeting January for lunch at AWP was one of the weekend high points for me. I am much happier meeting one new person over onion rings than I am in a hotel ballroom. In fact, the lunch was such a success that we traded books and casually said it would be fun to read together one day. One day is almost here! January and I will be reading together 7:00 pm, Wednesday, November 17th at Porter Square Books, Cambridge. I am looking forward to hearing her poems in the air - as I have come to love many of them on the page in Underlife.
Q. Many writers seem to collect quotes on writing. What is one of your favorite quotes on poetry or on the poet? Can you say a little about why these words speak to you?
Toi Derricotte, my professor as an undergrad at Old Dominion University, used to quote Robert Creeley who said, in terms of poetry, "Sometimes you have to make an ass of yourself." It reminds me to take a risk and worry about the outcome later. Also, I like the Sam Beckett quote on my blog, "Ever Tried. Ever Failed. No Matter. Try Harder. Fail Harder. Fail Better."
Q. I'm always intrigued how other poets balance making money with making poetry. How have you been able to lead an artist's life and still pay the bills? Do you see ways in which the two sides of what you do are complimentary?
In my case, the two sides are complementary. I work in the marketing department a college as a writer/editor. I feel lucky to have full-time work that allows me to make money and be creative. And with poetry, I've able to use my marketing skills in the promotion of Underlife, which has been a huge help in reaching an audience. Although, as we all know, there's very little money in poetry.
Q. The poet Stanley Kunitz wrote, "The first task of the poet is to create the person who will write the poems." I love that quote because it declares that the poet must work on herself at the same time she works on the page. Over the years you've been writing, do you think that there's been any discernable relationship between your development as a person and the development of your work?
That's a great quote! I certainly have more life experience then when I was a grad student New York University. Getting married, working full time, having kids, getting divorced—all of those things have shaped my writing over the years. But I'm thankful for those experiences. There's a certain depth and edge to my work that wasn't there before. I take more risks in my poems now more than ever.
Q. Your new book, Underlife is absolutely lovely. Can you talk about the process of putting this book together? What is the backstory to the book?
Back in 2006, I had a toddler and an infant who needed my full attention. I wasn't able to attend poetry readings or writing workshops with any regularity, so I started to blog. Reaching out to the virtual community was a big push for me to write and share poems. Before I knew it, I had a full manuscript. I sent it to two contests and two publishers. CavanKerry Press took it right away, to my complete surprise. To this day, I still can't believe they took Underlife. It's so hard to get published these days—I feel very, very lucky.
Q. Would you choose one poem which is a favorite of yours from the book and talk about what makes it a favorite?
Honestly, my favorite is Sex and Pizza, because it's not just about sex and pizza. It's about putting a new spin on an old topic. Yes, there's sex. Yes, there's pizza. But it's about craft, and that's what I see when I read that poem.
Q. The question you would have liked me to ask you goes here. ???
Don't have one. Any opportunity to talk about "Sex and Pizza" is a good one.
Thanks, January! For more information on Underlife, January O'Neil or Poet Mom -- click here.