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One of the most-talked-about kisses at the Golden Globes was when Jennifer Lawrence planted one on Nicholas Hoult after American Hustle won. Here's all you need to know "About A Boy" who stole JLaw's heart.
1. He Played the Boy in 'About A Boy'
Hoult started his film career as the lead in the 2002 film, opposite Hugh Grant. In 2013, he told Elle that he admired Grant's way with women:
Just watching him was quite remarkable. He's one of the most charming people in the world. Women do just melt around him. There was a kind of, oh, okay. He seems to have something.
There was a time, Hoult admits to Vulture, when it was hard for directors to forget that boyish persona and cast him in more adult roles:
As you're growing up, it's odd, because directors don't expect you to grow up. They think you'll be young forever, but as an actor, there is an awkward period when you're too young for old or too old for young, and it can be an odd time.
2. He's British
The 24-year-old still has an attachment to his native England. When the Daily Mail asked him when he's happiest, he answered:
I'm so happy to be back in England! I've been in the Namibian desert for so long filming Mad Max: Fury Road, so to see green and trees is wonderful.
3. The Couple Met on the Set of 'X Men:First Class' in 2010
The down-to-earth actress fell for the Brit during the filming of the action flick. In the December 2012 issue of Elle, she gushed about her new boyfriend, saying:
[My boyfriend] is honestly my best friend, and hopefully I'm his best friend too. He's my favorite person to be around and he makes me laugh harder than anybody.
In May, they will return onscreen together in X-Men: Days of Future Past. When they were filming this sequel, they rekindled their once-broken romance.
4. They Broke Up After Two Years of Dating
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The pair split in the spring of last year. After the breakup, Lawrence spoke to Vogue about a fault of her then-ex, which was that he did not wring out dish sponges:
[Hoult] would never wring them out. We were in the kitchen once, and I picked up the sponge, and it was soapy and wet, and I was like, 'See? These are the kinds of things that make me think we are never going to work.'
However, they've been seen together over the last few months and were definitely back on last night at the Globes. When Jen, 23, won for her role in American Hustle, Hoult appeared to mouth the words, "Way to go, baby!"
A week after the awards show, Hoult sang Lawrence's praises to the Huffington Post.
She deserves it all. It's fun to watch.
5. He Was the Lead in the Cult Teen-Drama 'Skins'
Although it only lasted for two seasons, the British teen drama helped Hoult make a name for himself as an actor.
In fact, he told Vulture he had quite the following in England:
Skins was very popular here, especially with people my age, and there was an odd period for a little bit, I remember. I'd be sitting in a car waiting for my little sister to come out of her classes, on a street corner, and there were like a hundred people gathered outside the car watching me. I felt very much like an animal in the zoo. I remember thinking at the time that maybe acting wasn't the right path, cause that was quite a scary experience.


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What is a Water Transport Worker?
A water transport worker is someone who operates and maintains ships that take cargo and people over water. They are sometimes called merchant mariners. These ships travel to and from foreign ports across the ocean to domestic ports along the coasts, across the Great Lakes, and along the country's many inland waterways. Work schedules and conditions vary by the type of ship.
What does a Water Transport Worker do?
Water transport workers typically do the following:
- Operate and maintain private ships
- Follow their ship's strict chain of command
- Ensure the safety of all people and cargo on board
Water transport workers work on a variety of ships:
- some operate large deep-sea container ships that transport manufactured goods around the world
- motorboat operators work on bulk carriers that move heavy commodities, such as coal or steel across the oceans and over the Great Lakes
- others work on both large and small tankers that carry oil and other liquid products around the world
- some may work on supply ships that transport equipment and supplies to offshore oil and gas platforms
- water transport workers on tugboats help barges and other boats maneuver in small harbours and at sea
- salvage vessels that offer emergency services also employ water transport workers
- cruise ships employ a large number of water transport workers; some work on ferries to transport passengers along shorter distances
A typical deep sea merchant ship, large coastal ship, or Great Lakes merchant ship employs a captain and chief engineer, along with three mates, three assistant engineers, and a number of water transportation workers and marine oilers. Smaller vessels that operate in harbours or rivers may have a smaller crew, with a captain, sometimes a mate, and one to a few water transport workers.
What is the workplace of a Water Transport Worker like?
Workers in water transportation occupations usually work for long periods on small and cramped ships, which can be uncomfortable. Many people decide life at sea is not for them because of difficult conditions onboard ships and long periods away from home. However, companies have worked hard to improve living conditions on their ships. Most ships are now air-conditioned and include comfortable living quarters. Many ships also include entertainment systems with satellite TV and internet connection. Large ships usually have a full-time cook as well.
Water Transport Workers are also known as:
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On far West 18th Street—past the housing projects and the parking lots and the auto-body shops, where the High Line is home not to condos but homeless people—the new, $100 million international headquarters of Barry Diller's company, InterActiveCorp, rises like an undulating, reflective space station. The lobby is home to the largest video wall in the world, and another video wall, behind the security desk, that shows statistics from various IAC Web sites. Recently, it showed how many Evite parties were taking place that evening around the world, indicated by red pinpoints on a rotating map. A button on the desk allows visitors to shift the map any way they wish.
"I wanted a white building you could see out of," Mr. Diller told The Observer by phone the other day. The man who created the Fox network twenty-one years ago and who was head of Paramount Pictures for a decade before that, was driving himself through Manhattan, on his way to a lunch appointment, and was stuck in traffic. "It was something of a contradiction in terms until Frank [Gehry] figured it out."
Mr. Diller, whom Forbes magazine estimates is worth $1.5 billion, is a man who is used to getting what he wants. In early November, Mr. Diller, who is 65, announced a plan to spin off parts of his company to create five new entities: IAC, which includes several of Mr. Diller's most well-known brands, including Evite, Match.com, Citysearch and CollegeHumor; HSN, home to several catalogs (Garnet Hill, Smith & Noble) as well as the Home Shopping Network and affiliated Web site; Ticketmaster; Interval International, a time-share resort holding company; and LendingTree, the online mortgage broker.
The spinoffs came after pressure from an increasingly impatient John Malone, the reclusive billionaire head of Liberty Media who owned 24 percent of IAC and had been agitating for changes in the months before the announcement.
"In a way, IAC is starting again," Mr. Diller told investors on Nov. 5, the day the spinoffs were announced.
But it's unclear whether the disparate Internet companies that make up the "new" IAC will, finally, bring the kind of success that Mr. Diller seems to crave—and that he had earlier in his career. He brushes off questions about his legacy at IAC, saying only, "I hope to leave it well."
And so it's hard not to see the building—and the companies he chose to keep under his aegis—as one more attempt to create a lasting media empire to rival that of his onetime boss, Rupert Murdoch, for whom he built Fox in 1986. The seeds of a bitter rivalry were planted in 1991, when Mr. Diller approached Mr. Murdoch and asked to be made a principal in News Corp. According to a 1993 New Yorker article, Mr. Murdoch's response was, "There is only one principal in this company."
Today, the specter of Mr. Murdoch hangs over the company; his decision to purchase Dow Jones, for $5 billion, is a life-defining gamble that Mr. Diller would be unlikely to make. IAC buys Internet companies on the cheap or develops them in-house with a lean staff, and attempts to turn them into profitable online brands. Mr. Diller's career was once defined by his skill at developing original programming—this is the man, after all, who green-lighted The Simpsons, one of the most profitable television franchises in history. Now, his company is made up of sites like Pronto.com, which merges social networking with shopping, relying on strangers' recommendations about consumer products; Gifts.com, which allows you to enter information about a gift recipient and then comes up with ideas; and Zwinky.com, a virtual-reality world geared toward 'tween girls. The paradigm has become, give the people a platform, and they will come.
The pre-split IAC had around 30,000 employees, spread out in offices around the world; the new headquarters currently holds 415 employees—like a special clubhouse for a select few. It's in contrast to other iconic New York media headquarters, like the Hearst building or the New York Times building or the Condé Nast building, which house most of their companies' employees. (Condé Nast CEO Si Newhouse has proposed building a new headquarters for his company on the Hudson rail yards site because he'd like to consolidate the remaining staffers who aren't in the 4 Times Square headquarters under one roof.)
Anyone who spent time at an Internet company during the last or current booms will find the familiar totems at IAC: unlimited snacks and drinks on every floor, a Nintendo Wii in the cafeteria on the ninth floor, bagels all day. The bathrooms are a jarring departure from the generally muted tones: bright tiles in primary colors arranged in random patterns, and a bright yellow counter. It's like an elementary school at the circus.
Open cubicles, each with a desk in a boomerang shape and individual coat closets, sit in the middle of each floor; offices line most of the walls. There are conference rooms tucked into oddly shaped spaces, tricked out with the latest in videoconferencing technology: huge flat-screen televisions, wireless keyboards, and SMART boards, which allow users on one side of the country to write something that—magically!—shows up on the other side. Then there are the chairs scattered around each floor, some of which have tables attached, as if to encourage employee interaction. (This reporter didn't see anyone sitting in them in two visits.) There's also a darkened "quiet room" with a massage chair, a couch and a flat-screen TV—and, of course, snacks. (But no gym! Perhaps they get their exercise in the long walk from the subway, or across the street at Chelsea Piers.)
At one point in his career, Mr. Diller was the consummate Hollywood player; then he revamped QVC from an office in the woods of West Chester, Pa., helping relaunch the career of his longtime best friend and wife since 2001, Diane von Furstenberg (The New York Times Vows column noted, "The marriage came after years of speculation about a relationship widely assumed to be platonic") in the process.
By building his headquarters here, he's staking the claim that IAC is a distinctly New York company, one that will—or, if it fails, will not—make an irrevocable mark on the city's landscape, both mental and physical. "I think New York is the capital of the world, and I don't know how much longer it's going to be," Mr. Diller said, when The Observer wondered why he chose to have IAC headquartered in Manhattan. "I feel that it's where everything connects, particularly in the media business. And so I can't imagine any other place where you would want to have a headquarters."


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The Boston Celtics have been a disappointment much of the season — not terrible by any means, but not "team to beat in the East" good, which many pundits projected them to be (*raises hand*). It led to a lot of speculation about what has gone wrong — too many good players all looking for touches and shots, not sacrificing for the team, was the conventional wisdom — and why weren't the players all pulling the rope in the same direction?
Then the Celtics seemed to hit their stride, won 9-of-10 in January into early February, they were moving up in the East standings… but a defeat to the Lakers at home Friday, where Boston led by 18 in the first half but couldn't knock L.A. out and lost on a buzzer beater, seemed to burst that bubble.
Saturday night it got uglier yet — a blown 28 point lead to the Clippers that ended in another loss. Kyrie Irving did leave the game with a sprained knee, but this was more than that, and Celtics fans knew it as they booed the team off the court.
Veteran Marcus Morris tried to put his finger on what has gone wrong, via A. Sherrod Blakely of NBC Sports Boston.
"I watch all these other teams in the league, they're jumping on the court, all the stuff that looks like they're enjoying their teammates' success. And they're playing together, and they're playing to win. When I look at us I see a bunch of individuals."
That's a punch to the gut.
And he's right.
There is no joy in Boston's game, something Morris said multiple times. Maybe it goes back to Irving calling out the young core earlier in the season. Maybe it's those young guys — Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown, Terry Rozier — believing they deserve a bigger role after the playoffs last season only to be forced into a smaller box because Irving is back. Maybe the idea they could be traded for Anthony Davis or another star weighs on them.
Whatever it is, the Celtics are running out of season to figure it out.
So what has to change?
"The goal has to be to win; the bottom line," he said. "We have to play to win. That's sacrificing, playing hard; that's sacrificing, being a better teammate. That's sacrificing, whatever it is we have to put it to the side. No one's getting traded. The trade deadline is over. We're competing for a championship and that's how we have to approach the game. Win, lose or draw, you're gonna lose games. But we don't have no attitude, we don't have no toughness. We ain't having fun. It's gonna be a long season."


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By Debbie Rozear, Chair
It is time to start thinking about who our award recipients are going to be this year at the PCB convention. Please read the criteria and nomination form below and submit your nomination today. It is not too early to start getting everything in place.
Also, there are openings available on our committee for new members. If anyone is interested in participating in the Awards Committee, please email me at email@example.com or call me at 610-791-4830. We are eager to welcome new members with fresh, new ideas.
Pennsylvania Council of the Blind (PCB) Awards Criteria
PCB believes that individuals, organizations, and companies who make a difference in the lives of people who are blind or visually impaired need to be recognized for their commitment. Each year at the PCB Conference and Convention, we celebrate the work of these advocates by bestowing the Distinguished Service Award(s), Honorary Service Award(s), the Corporate Service Award(s), and the Lifetime of Distinguished Service Award(s). Nominations for any of these awards can be made by any individual or organization that supports the work of PCB. The criteria for these awards follow:
PCB Distinguished Service Award
• The recipient must be blind or vision impaired.
• The recipient must be a resident of Pennsylvania.
• The recipient must have demonstrated a satisfactory adjustment to his/her disability.
• The recipient must be acknowledged by the "blind community" for having performed outstanding service(s) for the blind.
• The recipient, through example and effort, must have represented to the community at large the capabilities and respectability of blind and vision impaired persons.
PCB Honorary Service Award
• These award(s) may be given to an individual, with or without sight, who has performed meritorious service to the blind or for the blind community.
• These award(s) may be made either in memory of a person, or to a person now living.
PCB Corporate Service Award
• The recipient of this award shall have made a significant difference in the life of blind or vision impaired persons through a product, a service, or its employment practices; or
• This award may be presented to a corporation/agency/foundation that has provided significant support to the mission or projects of PCB.
PCB Lifetime of Distinguished Service Award
• The award(s) may be given to an individual, with or without sight, who has performed at least twenty years of meritorious service to the blind or for the blind community.
• The recipient(s) must be sixty years of age or older.
• The recipient's service contributions must be well recognized in the community in which they live or throughout the state or nation as significant to the betterment of the lives of those with vision loss.
Note: The Awards Selection committee may not make prejudicial selections of award recipients based on age, nationality, race, religion, creed, or gender of an individual.
Submit your nominations in your preferred format by Saturday, August 1, 2015. Email electronic nominations to: email@example.com. Typed or brailled nominations should be sent to: Debbie Rozear, 1415 South 3rd St., Allentown, PA 18103. Call 610-791-4830 with questions.
Please give the following information about your nominee:
Phone: (Home)
Phone: (Alternate)
Name of the award for which you are making this nomination:
____ Distinguished Service
____ Honorary Service
____ Corporate Service
____ Lifetime of Distinguished Service
Nominated by:
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Please include the reason for your nomination in 100 words or less along with any additional supporting materials.


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3D TV is still in its infancy, and we are already looking towards the next big thing, Holographic Technology. You have wonder if hologram will be the next 3DTVs? There are suggestions that this technology could be ready for launch even before the current 3D TV tech has had a chance to get off the ground.
The idea of Holographic TV has been in my mind since 1977, the year that I first watched Star Wars: A New Hope. How many of you thought that it was cool seeing Princess Leia projected out of R2D2? I just love it when science fiction becomes reality, something that has happened on a number of occasions from gadgets seen on Star trek.
Holographic technology has been a bit slow, but recent advancements means that things are moving ahead once again. The issue used to be with refresh rates, with one imaging changing every few minutes, this has now been increased to one change every two seconds. However, this is still a long way from 30fps.
You can see in the video below that the prototype has a 10-inch photorefractive polymer screen, and lasers are then used to project an image onto it. The University of Arizona has already started work testing a 17-inch version, so things are starting to move at a much faster rate.
How long do you think it will be before you will have a holographic dynamic 3D in your home?
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I love to workout and always have, which is why I stay active five to six days a week doing a challenging workout of some kind.
While it varies from week to week between running and weight lifting, I just enjoy the sheer act of exercise. So when my friend recently told me she was planning to do P90X at her house, I jumped on the chance to give it a try.
P90X is a three-phase, 90-day fitness program that promises to transform your body into a lean and ripped muscle machine in the comfort of your own home. It requires minimal equipment – dumbbells, a pull up bar and/or resistance bands – and includes 12 DVDs that are to be completed in a certain sequence in each phase of the program.
The workouts range from upper body to lower body to yoga and abs, to ensure you're focusing on a different area of the body each day.
Tony Horton, the creator of the program, is a stern yet encouraging leader throughout the workout. I never once felt discouraged or that I wasn't giving enough – he only pushes each person to their individual limit.
Last night my friend and I completed the chest and back workout that was approximately one hour including a warm up and cool down. I didn't know what to expect other than I'd heard from several very fit people that it was a challenging workout.
After the warm up led by Tony and his three assistants – two male and one female – we jumped right into chest and back exercises that I can explain in no other way than extremely difficult and no frills. The idea was to do as many reps of each movement as you could within a set time period, with about a 30-60 second break in between moves.
We rotated between varied pull up and push up motions, and since I'm not strong enough to complete pull ups without assistance, I opted for the resistance band modification which required me to sit down on the floor and pull down to simulate an actual pull up. While this may sound like an easier modification, I don't know that it was as I'm certainly feeling the soreness today.
Some of the push-ups included closed-grip or diamond, military style, decline, wide stance and traditional. Within each 45-60 second time period, I was able to complete between 15-25 reps depending on the move, with almost half on my knees.
The pull-ups included several variations that I'd never tried before, such as wide grip and overhand. And some of the other moves included modified 'flys' and a move Tony referred to as 'the lawnmower.'
We completed one cycle of the workouts and then did them all through a second time. And by the end, I felt very fatigued and 'beefy.' I think I now understand the term 'muscle pump' because my arms felt as bulked up Tony Horton's looked. Needless to say, I was feeling the burn.
The only draw back I'll note from the DVD was that it wasn't really a cardio workout for me, and I also think I pulled a nerve in my back because I'm limping around today. But there's very much my fault for trying to do more reps than I could with proper form.
Overall, I was very impressed with my first P90X experience and would gladly go through the workouts if I was willing to dish out the money to pay them for myself. However, at this time I think I'll stick to my running and lifting routine to save a few bucks. Even though I won't have Tony there pushing me along, I now understand the 'P90X' mentality which is to push yourself harder than your mind thinks you can – otherwise you won't see results.
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Communicating war memory across languages
Almost seventy-five years after the end of the Second World War, competing memories of Japanese colonial and military actions in the first half of the twentieth century remain unresolved between Japan and its neighbouring countries, South Korea and China. In recent years, South Korea in particular has been most vocal in challenging the Japanese government's representation of its wartime misdeeds. Disagreement over the responsibility and compensation for wartime forced labourers (choyoko) and 'comfort women' (ianfu)1 has escalated since late 2018 owing to developments in South Korea, such as the high court rulings against Japanese companies and the government's decision to dissolve a Japanese-funded 'comfort women' foundation. Along with the controversial military radar lock-on incident,2 remarks by the Speaker of the South Korean National Assembly in February and March 2019 calling the Japanese Emperor 'the son of the main culprit of war crimes' and seeking his apology over the issue of 'comfort women' further aggravated the already heightened diplomatic tension between Japan and South Korea.
The contestation of historical memories among East Asian nations and within Japan has attracted increased attention from a range of scholars since the 1980s, propelled by a series of high-profile regional disputes over such issues as Japanese history textbooks with revisionist views, Japanese prime ministers' visits to the Yasukuni Shrine,3 and forcible recruitment of 'comfort women' and wartime workers.4 In the large body of literature on contested war memories of the Japanese past, however, little attention has been paid to how these are communicated across different languages. The fact that contesting or negotiating war memories often involves translation in bilateral and international settings has been largely ignored. Effective transmission of one's memory is vital in order to garner wider recognition, sympathy and support and to become a 'winner' of memory politics as the owner of the most prevailing memory. Although it is not directly connected with war memory, the recent 'translation battle' between Japan and South Korea concerning the abovementioned radar incident is a telling story of the essential role translation plays in a state's effort to prevail in international disputes. Each side kept increasing the number of subtitle languages for its respective video of the incident, up to eight: Japanese, English, Korean, Arabic, Chinese, French, Spanish and Russian. Translation is indeed an integral part of international politics that can contribute to enhancing and legitimizing a given party's position. Translation is also important for a state to communicate discussion in the international arena to its domestic audience.
In this article, I will illustrate how translation can be used to circumvent complications of memory politics through four examples in which the Japanese government used translation strategically in addressing contested war memories. To analyse how the Japanese government communicates its war memory across different languages, I draw on the functionalist approach and the notion of translation as rewriting developed within Translation Studies. The functionalist approach in Translation Studies, or Skopos (from the Greek for 'purpose') Theory, was advanced by Hans Vermeer and other German scholars. It regards translation as a social activity used to fulfil the purpose of a given communicative event. In other words, the way a translation is carried out is determined by its intended function in the target culture. This means that a given source text can be translated in a number of different ways depending on its purpose. The other theoretical framework I will refer to is the notion of translation as a form of rewriting, advocated by André Lefevere. In this theory, translation is viewed as a new text produced in line with the ideology and poetics of the target culture for a new audience. Lefevere also introduced 'patronage' in connection with power as a constraining element in the production of translation. Paying attention to the purpose of the translation and the ideological and political expectation of its patron and audience, I will examine how the Japanese government articulated its war memory through translation in four cases.
'Feel sorry' and 'apologies'
The first example concerns the Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's remark in Japanese on 'comfort women' and how it was translated into English by his interpreter during a press event with US President George W. Bush in the United States in 2007.5 After laying out some background of Abe's prior comments on 'comfort women' and the particular context of this event, I examine what appears to be a discrepancy between the source speech and the interpreter's rendition.
The issue of 'comfort women' was brought to the fore in the early 1990s, triggered by the coming-forward of former 'comfort women' in South Korea and their class action lawsuit against the Japanese government. In 1993, the Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yohei Kono issued a statement (the Kono Statement), acknowledging the Japanese military's involvement in the establishment and management of the 'comfort stations' and recruitment of 'comfort women', which took place 'generally against their will through coaxing, coercion, etc.'. The Statement also extended 'sincere apologies and remorse' to all 'comfort women'.6 The Japanese government has issued a series of apologies over 'comfort women' since then, but their sincerity has been brought into question every time these 'apologies' were contradicted by some politician's remarks and actions.7
In 1997, the inclusion of 'comfort women' in history textbooks and the revelation of allegedly problematic investigations8 that led to the Kono Statement drew harsh criticism from a group of nationalist lawmakers in Japan. They started calling for a review of the Kono Statement. As one of the leaders of this group, Shinzo Abe stated that no document had turned up proving the Japanese military's use of coercion in the recruitment of 'comfort women'. In 2001, as a senior cabinet member, Abe reportedly pressured the national broadcasting company to tone down the content of a documentary on the Japanese military's responsibility for 'comfort women'.9
Backed by his nationalistic supporters, Abe became prime minister in 2006. Contrary to the concerns of his opponents, Abe underscored his commitment to the Kono Statement, which irked his conservative base. In January 2007, a member of the US House of Representatives introduced a resolution that called for Japan to formally acknowledge, apologize and accept responsibility for 'comfort women'. In March, Abe reiterated that, although he would uphold the Kono Statement, there was no evidence to support that the Japanese military used coercion to recruit 'comfort women' in a narrow sense of the word, that the resolution proposed in the House of Representatives was based on a misunderstanding of the facts and that he would not apologize even if the resolution was passed. This position drew intense backlash from Japan's neighbouring countries as well as Western media and government leaders.
'Double-talk' through translation?
In the midst of the political storm created by his own remarks on 'comfort women', Prime Minister Abe arrived in the United States for talks with President Bush on 27 April 2007. During the Q&A session of a joint press event, Bush and Abe were asked about the 'comfort women' issue. Here is Abe's response followed by my literal translation:
自分は辛酸をなめられた元慰安婦の方々に、人間として、また総理として心から同情するとともに、そうした極めて苦しい状況におかれたことについて申し訳ないという気持ちでいっぱい (moshiwakenai to iu kimochi de ippai) である、・・・と述べた。10
I said, as a human being, and as Prime Minister, I have heartfelt sympathy towards former 'comfort women' who had severe hardships; at the same time, I am filled with sorry feelings about them having been placed in such extremely difficult conditions.
The interpreter's rendition was, 'I do have deep-hearted sympathies that my people [who] had to serve as comfort women, were placed in extreme hardships, and had to suffer that sacrifice; and that I, as Prime Minister of Japan, expressed my apologies, and also expressed my apologies for the fact that they were placed in that sort of circumstance.'11
'I … expressed my apologies' in the interpreter's rendition presumably corresponds to moshiwakenai kimochi de ippai, which I have translated as 'filled with sorry feelings'. Risa Kashima, a translator and translation researcher, examined dictionary meanings of moshiwakenai and 'apology' with attention to cultural differences of apologia in Japanese and English, and conducted an experiment with translators to see how they would translate moshiwakenai. She concluded that the translators predominantly translated moshiwakenai as 'I am/feel sorry' but 'apology' would also be acceptable. Interestingly, her experiment also revealed that the translators back-translated 'apology' into Japanese as owabi or shazai, and never as moshiwakenai. Incidentally, owabi had been used in most of the previous apology statements by Japanese prime ministers. Abe could have followed his predecessors and used the word owabi, but he did not.
Abe was aware that his source speech would be heard or read by a Japanese audience. He did not want to apologize explicitly, perhaps out of his own principles but also to avoid upsetting his conservative base. On the other hand, the rendition by the interpreter was meant for international audiences, including members of the US House about to discuss the proposed resolution on 'comfort women'. To 'apologize' was politically tactical to avoid fuelling criticism against Japan and passing of the resolution. This can be viewed as an example of a translation having a different purpose from that of the source text or of the translation rewriting the source text to cater to the ideology or expectations of the target audience.12
Given the significance of the term 'my apologies', I found it highly unlikely that this word choice was the interpreter's prerogative. The journalist Hidetoshi Kaneko holds a similar view. He argues that the 'comfort women' controversy was contained for the time being by Abe using an ambiguous wording – moshiwakenai – and having the interpreter convert it to an unambiguous English word, 'apologies'. Kaneko speculates that this kind of spin would not have been at the interpreter's discretion and that this deliberate translation choice was pre-coordinated by the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) in order to repair the strain in the Japan–US relationship, and which must have been accepted by Abe, no matter how grudgingly.
Kashima informs us, though, that the interpreter revealed in response to her inquiry that he was never directed by the MOFA and it was his on-the-fly choice to use 'my apologies'.13 Even if this was indeed the case, it seems that Abe and the Japanese government accepted their interpreter's choice of words, as they never tried to clarify or correct the English transcript posted on the White House website.
Who did the 'human trafficking'?
The second example concerns a Japanese term, jinshin baibai, that Prime Minister Abe started using in connection with 'comfort women' in 2015. Abe employed the term for the first time publicly in his interview with the Washington Post in March 2015 (Ignatius). During his visit to the United States in the following month, he mentioned jinshin baibai again at Harvard University and at a press conference. On all three occasions, jinshin baibai was translated into English as 'human trafficking'. Here, I examine Abe's remark with consecutive interpretation at Harvard.14
Abe stepped down from the premiership for health reasons in 2007 but made a comeback as Prime Minister in 2012. Concern about his revisionist inclination persisted due to his actions since then, such as visiting the Yasukuni Shrine, forming a panel to re-examine the Kono Statement, seeking a revision in a UN report concerning 'comfort women' and requesting a US publisher to change references to 'comfort women' in its history textbook.
Anticipating worldwide attention to Abe's statement at the commemoration of the seventieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War in August 2015, the Japanese government carefully prepared Abe's visit to the United States in April, including his comments on war memories, in coordination with their American counterparts.15 On 27 March, prior to his visit to the United States, the Washington Post published an interview with Abe. In it he referred to 'comfort women' as victims of human trafficking. A few days later, in response to a parliamentary inquiry, Abe confirmed that he had used the term jinshin baibai during the interview.
Pre-translating 'human trafficking'?
On 27 April 2015, Abe gave an address at Harvard University. During the Q&A session, a student in the audience asked about the 'comfort women' issue. Abe responded as follows.
Abe: 慰安婦問題については人身売買 (jinshin baibai) の犠牲となって筆舌に尽くしがたい思いをされた方々のことを思うと今でも私は胸が痛みます。
The interpreter's rendition: 'When it comes to the comfort women issue, my heart aches when I think about those people who were victimized by human trafficking and who were subject to immeasurable pain and suffering beyond description.'
He gave a similar remark during a press conference with President Barack Obama the following day. His reference to 'human trafficking' was welcomed as 'a positive message' by the US government (Yomiuri Shimbun) as it was consistent with the American discourse that regards 'comfort women' as 'one of the largest human trafficking' incidents in history (US House of Representatives Resolution 121). There are a couple of problems, however, with the way the term 'human trafficking' was used. First, it is not clear who did the human trafficking to which Abe refers. He almost sounds like a bystander extending his sympathy to women victimized by evil individuals, rather than a representative of the nation that was responsible for the wrongdoing. And, more importantly, the corresponding term, jinshin baibai (literally, 'human bodies selling and buying') in the source speech, has a connotation of poor individuals selling their family members to dealers in commercial transactions and is not normally associated with state involvement. In contrast, 'human trafficking' in English is understood to entail a broader meaning that includes coercive and organized illicit activity.
Some Japanese and Korean media also commented on nuanced differences between the terms jinshin baibai and 'human trafficking'. They generally argued that jinshin baibai carries the image of private agents' involvement and does not necessarily imply 'coercion', while 'human trafficking' encompasses 'coercion' and involvement of a range of entities, including state and military. In fact, Rui Abiru of Sankei Shimbun reported a comment by Abe's aid that jinshin baibai did not include kyosei renko (forcible taking away). Shizuya Fukuoka, a Mainichi Shimbun reporter, suggested that jinshin baibai was aimed at Abe's domestic base, advocating the narrative of 'comfort women' being prostitutes recruited by Korean private agents, while 'human trafficking' conformed to the Western view of 'comfort women' as representing a violation of human rights.
Here, the subtle differences in the connotations between jinshin baibai and 'human trafficking' seem to be strategically exploited by the Japanese government to meet the different ideological expectations of the different audiences Abe had to address in the source speech and its translation. Considering the fact that Abe's reference to jinshin baibai was unprecedented, it is plausible that he deliberately introduced it in order to produce the term 'human trafficking' in the English rendition. In other words, the translation existed before the source speech – the wording jinshin baibai in the source speech was a carefully choreographed 'pre-translation'.
Catering to a domestic audience
This section examines two examples of the Japanese government's controversial translation from English into Japanese in the politics of war memories.
'Forced to work' versus 'forced labour'
In 2015, twenty-three industrial locations in southern Japan were designated as UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Sites. In the deliberation process, however, there was considerable negotiation involving Japan and South Korea as some of the sites had used forced labourers from Korea, China, POW camps and so forth during the Second World War. In order to secure a unanimous vote, Japan reportedly conceded to South Korea's demand to include a reference to forced labour in its official statement in English. However, Japan insisted on the wording 'forced to work' instead of 'forced labour'. Ultimately, this diplomatic word game resulted in the following statement by the Japanese government: 'Japan is prepared to take measures that allow an understanding that there were a large number of Koreans and others who were brought against their will and forced to work in harsh conditions in the 1940s at some of the sites.'16
Although the two phrases – 'forced to work' and 'forced labour' – seem to mean exactly the same thing in English, the corresponding Japanese phrase for 'forced to work' (hatarakasareta) sounds colloquial and less significant than the standard Japanese translation for 'forced labour' (kyosei rodo). This choice of phrase which leads to hatarakasareta in Japanese allows the Japanese government to weaken the impression of its admission of having used forced labour as understood in international conventions. In fact, Japanese officials emphasized to the domestic audience that the phrase hatarakasareta (forced to work) does not mean kyosei rodo (forced labour). Thus, the wording of the source text in English was determined based on the effect of its Japanese translation in the government's communication to its domestic audience, especially Abe's conservative support base. This can also be viewed as a case of the source text and the target text having different purposes, and of the practice of 'pre-translation' to achieve desired translation.
What kind of suffering?
In 2016, the Group of Seven (G7) foreign ministers' meeting in Hiroshima adopted a declaration on nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation. There was a controversy in Japan over an alleged discrepancy between the original declaration in English and its Japanese translation provided by the MOFA. The declaration included a sentence: 'Hiroshima and Nagasaki experienced immense devastation and human suffering as a consequence of the atomic bombings.' The phrase 'human suffering' in this sentence was translated by the MOFA as hiningenteki na kunan, the literal back-translation of which is inhumane suffering.
It was reported that, concerning nuclear weapons, Japan originally sought the inclusion of the wording 'humanitarian consequences' in the declaration but conceded to opposition by the nuclear powers among the G7 states: the United States, Britain and France. In fact, these countries abstained from voting for a UN resolution that included the phrase 'humanitarian consequences' in the previous year. A direct, literal translation of 'human suffering' would be ningen no kunan, which would sound too understated and insensitive to the experience of the atomic bomb survivors. The Japanese translation here can be viewed as rewriting to cater to the general sentiment among the Japanese concerning the bombings.
This issue of translation attracted critical comments from the media, academics and activists. In response to questions raised by news reporters, a MOFA official defended its translation, saying that various types of diplomatic documents are translated in different ways depending on the purpose of the translation, and that this word choice (hiningenteki) was suitable for the purpose of this particular document, which was to send a strong message supporting a world without nuclear weapons.17 It is noteworthy that, when pressed to explain the general policy on translation methods of diplomatic documents, the MOFA emphasized a purpose-driven approach, just like the functionalist approach in Translation Studies. Unwittingly, the MOFA appears to be embracing a post-equivalence, non-essentialist approach to translation.18
I have argued that translation plays a vital role in communicating a nation's war memory effectively to different audiences across languages to enhance its legitimacy and garner support. The Japanese government has been using translation strategically to protect national interests, circumvent diplomatic complications and cater to the political sentiment of its domestic audience. This phenomenon can be explained by the notion of translation as a purpose-driven activity and a form of rewriting which is subject to ideological and political expectations of the patron and the target audience. I have also argued that, in the politics of war memories, the source text can be manipulated in advance in order to produce a desired translation.
As demonstrated in the examples above, it is not difficult nowadays to locate the source texts and their translations that form the narrative of contested war memories (or in any context for that matter) thanks to the internet and general government policies promoting transparency. Translation can be another lens in the investigation of how contested war memories are represented and communicated. In addition, the choices made in translation and interpreting now have greater visibility and exposure for being scrutinized and critiqued. Just as the MOFA articulated how it dealt with translation and stood by it, translators and those who commission translations are now increasingly expected to be able to account for what they translate and how they translate. Further, the risk translators and interpreters take in producing 'non-standard' translations, as found in the cases of 'my apologies' and hiningenteki, can be analysed in the framework of translators' risk management with attention to professional ethics in future research.19


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29 augusti 2018
Hola amigos!
So english is giving me a little bit of a problem right now. It's actually kind of making my life a little bit more difficult than it should be, especially my blog life. There are litterally so many things I would like to share with you but its hard to do it in TWO languages, especially when time isn't on my side right now (is it ever though?).
So, I've made a decision. Well at least temporarily... That I will only be writing in Swedish on this blog for now.. I know Im sad too my beloved english crew, I wish I could do it in Swedish and English simultaneously, but I haven't found an app for that yet (Hint hint - business idea!). This basically means I write a blog post in the language that i comes to me in, to be honest, it varies a lot. Some days its Swedish other days its English. But then i have to go and translate it all! And NO google translate can't express the feelings i want to show in my writing most of the times so it doesn't actually help for these kinds of texts that much...
Therefore I'm saying bye to english on this blog for now my loves, so that I can focus on just writing, which I absolutley LOVE and sharing my life with you! BUT I will be ALL english on my Instagram with Microblogs there and lots of stories and videos for you to dive into so make sure you follow me there. @JeaniusRose
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What is a Cataract?
Like a camera, eyes have a clear lens inside them that is used for focusing. A cataract is any opacity within a lens. The opacity can be very small (incipient cataract) and not interfere with vision. It can involve more of the lens (immature cataract) and cause blurred vision. Eventually, the entire lens can become cloudy, and all functional vision lost. This is called a mature cataract. Some mature cataracts will transform over time into hypermature cataracts. Hypermature cataracts usually are reduced in size due to loss of water and proteins from the lens. This causes the lens to shrivel and the lens capsule to wrinkle—similar to a grape turning into a raisin. Hypermature cataracts vary in how cloudy they are. Some are completely cloudy, and others have clear areas that can allow some vision IF the rest of the eye is functional. Depending on the dog's age and breed, it can take several months to years for a mature cataract to turn into a hypermature cataract.
What is not a cataract?
All geriatric dogs (usually beginning at 6 years of age) develop a hardening of the lens (Nuclear Sclerosis) that causes the lens to have a grayish appearance. The grayish-blue haze increases as the dog ages. Nuclear sclerosis is NOT a cataract, and does not usually interfere with vision. The photo to the right shows a normal geriatric dog eye with normal nuclear sclerosis. Nuclear sclerosis also occurs in humans, and the hardening of the lens with age results in reduced near-vision in people; this is why people in their 40's and older need reading glasses—because their lenses no longer are soft enough to easily change shape to allow for near vision. Another name for this is presbyopia, which means "old eye". Dogs do not have good near-vision to begin with (compared to people), so nuclear sclerosis does not significantly interfere with their near-vision.
How do you tell the difference between nuclear sclerosis and cataract in your dog? The answer is that you can't. You can start with having your family veterinarian evaluate your dog's eyes, but often it is difficult for a doctor who is not an ophthalmologist to differentiate between the two conditions. However, veterinary ophthalmologists can tell the difference between nuclear sclerosis and cataract, using specialized equipment and their expertise. Also keep in mind that dogs can develop BOTH nuclear sclerosis AND cataract—many geriatric dogs do develop cataracts. If your geriatric dog has cloudy eyes but still appears to see well, this does not mean that they do not have cataracts—dogs can see fairly well if their cataracts are small. Dogs also can adapt well if one eye is blind from cataract and the other is not. Often, they adapt so well that the owner does not realize that the dog cannot see out of one eye. Dogs can also adapt well—up to a point—if both eyes gradually develop severe cataracts; dogs can develop a "memory map" as to where things are in their familiar environment. Dogs with poor vision do not let their owners know that they have a vision problem until it is severe in both eyes.
Why did my dog develop a Cataract?
Cataracts have many causes in dogs, and sometimes it is not possible to identify the cause of cataracts in affected patients.
- Most cataracts in dogs are inherited and can occur at any age. The cataract may develop rapidly over weeks, or slowly over years, and occur in one or both eyes. Different breeds of dogs have different characteristics of cataract development. For example, cataracts in Bichon Frise dogs tend to develop rapidly in early adulthood and usually involve the entire lens in both eyes. Mixed-breed dogs can also develop inherited cataracts.
- The second-most common cause of cataracts in dogs is diabetes (diabetes mellitus). 75% of diabetic dogs will develop blinding cataracts within the first nine months of being diabetic. Often, the cataracts form very shortly after the dog becomes diabetic. See the accompanying article, Cataracts, Blindness, and Diabetic Dogs. Diabetic cataracts develop VERY fast—often overnight—in dogs, and they are a medical and surgical emergency. NOTE: Did you know that if a diabetic dog is supplemented daily with a specific canine antioxidant vision supplement (see our Veterinary Supplements page) BEFORE diabetic cataracts form, that this can help prevent blinding diabetic cataracts from forming?
- The third most common cause of cataracts in dogs is a toxic reaction in the lens—the lens is "sick", due to some other ocular disease or (much less commonly) due to a drug reaction. These are called "toxic cataracts". Toxic cataracts caused by ocular disease are quite common in dogs, and are caused by: 1) retinal degeneration, especially Progressive Retinal Atrophy (PRA)—see Progressive Retinal Atrophy (PRA) in Dogs; 2) uveitis (intraocular inflammation) of any cause, including trauma; and 3) secondary to glaucoma (increased intraocular pressure) of any cause—see Glaucoma.
- A special type of cataract occurs in dogs in which the lens capsule is ruptured due to trauma. The trauma can be penetrating (such as a cat claw injury or pellet gun injury) or a severe blow to the eye that results in lens capsular rupture. The lens contents leak out through the hole in the capsule and cause both cataract and a severe immune-mediated reactive uveitis; the uveitis does not usually "peak" in severity until 2–3 weeks AFTER the injury occurred. It is not always apparent that the lens capsule has ruptured; often, by the time this is diagnosed it is too late to save the eye and the eye needs to be removed. Thus, it is prudent to seek immediate medical attention for ANY injury to your dog's eye. Lens capsules can also rupture if the lens swells, causing the capsule to stretch and split open. NOTE: This can also happen in diabetic dogs and in some types of inherited cataracts that rapidly form.
- Cataracts can also develop due to nutritional deficiencies in dogs, such as puppies on an artificial milk-replacer diet. These are called nutritional cataracts, and they often will improve as the puppy matures.
- Dogs also can develop cataracts with age (often after 8 years of life). However, age-related cataracts in dogs are usually small and do not significantly interfere with vision.
- There are many other potential causes of cataracts in dogs, such as birth defects, infection, radiation (usually from prolonged radiation therapy for cancer of the head), etc. but discussion of these causes is beyond the scope of this review article.
How are Cataracts treated?
Once a lens has developed a cataract, there is no known method to make the lens clear again. Immature, mature, and hypermature cataracts can be treated by surgically removing them.
However, nutritional support of the lens can help to prevent or lessen the severity of developing cataracts. Nutritional supplementation can help to enhance lens health by providing oral antioxidants designed specifically for support of the canine eye. Antioxidant supplementation may also help reduce ocular inflammation that occurs in dogs both secondary to cataract formation and following cataract surgery (see our Veterinary Supplementspage).
It is important to understand that no cataract can be reversed; once the lens is cloudy, it stays that way unless cataract surgery is performed to remove it. Two exceptions to this rule are: 1) some nutritional cataracts can improve over time; and 2) hypermature cataracts can develop clear zones over time. However, as this process occurs in hypermature cataracts, damage to the eye also occurs in the form of lens-induced inflammation (called lens-induced uveitis or LIU). LIU, in turn, can cause glaucoma, retinal detachment, and/or lens luxation (slippage of the lens from its attachments, allowing the lens to float around inside the eye and cause damage and pain).
Cataract surgery is one of the most common surgeries performed on humans. However, not all dogs with cataracts need or should have cataract surgery. In fact, most dogs with cataracts do not need surgery, because most lens opacities in dogs (and a lens opacity is a cataract, no matter how tiny or big) are small and don't significantly interfere with vision. Just because a dog's eye has a cataract does not mean that the dog must undergo cataract surgery. Only a veterinary ophthalmologist can determine if cataract surgery is indicated in an affected patient.
Cataract surgery is a quality of life surgery—not a life-saving surgery. The ophthalmologist must evaluate many criteria before determining if a dog can or should undergo cataract surgery. However, it is also true (in Dr. McCalla's view) that restoring a blind dog's vision with cataract surgery is one of the most satisfying parts of being a veterinary ophthalmologist, and surgery can give a dog a wonderful new lease on life. For a blind dog to again be able to see its owner, to play with toys, look out the window and actually see things—this is life-changing for canine patients and their owners. This is especially true if the dog is elderly and deaf or hard of hearing, and/or has senile dementia and cognitive issues—to have its vision restored can make a huge difference in its quality of life.
The procedures and equipment used to remove cataracts in dogs are the same as those used in humans, and this equipment is highly technical and very expensive. The two most costly instruments used are an operating microscope and a phacoemulsification machine. A small incision is made in the eye and a hole is made in the capsular bag that holds the lens. Phacoemulsification is then performed, in which a special probe ultrasonically emulsifies and removes the cataract (all of the lens contents inside the capsule). After the cloudy lens is removed, the empty lens capsule remains and is called the capsular bag. An artificial replacement lens, called an intraocular lens or IOL, is placed in the bag. The eye is closed with extremely small absorbable sutures. IOLs are either rigid polymer plastic lenses or soft foldable lenses. The choice of which type of IOL to place inside an eye during surgery is determined by the ophthalmologist. Because even the slightest damage to structures in the canine eye can have disastrous effects, cataract surgery is extremely delicate surgery and is performed under general anesthesia with high-magnification using an operating microscope. If both eyes are affected, usually both eyes are operated on at the same time—especially in diabetic dogs.
How well will my dog see after Cataract surgery?
After successful cataract surgery dogs see close to normal. However, we cannot give dogs perfect vision. This is because an exact replacement of the original living lens is not possible. Furthermore, dogs have more inflammation in their eyes after surgery than humans and therefore have more scarring. This scarring does slightly decrease vision. The post-operative inflammation and scarring (lens capsular opacification) may be lessened by both anti-inflammatory drugs and oral antioxidant supplementation. Capsular opacification is especially a concern in puppies and young adult dogs, and the best way to help reduce the risk of opacification is to implant an IOL, control uveitis, and provide daily antioxidant supplementation. A unique canine antioxidant vision supplement contains ingredients that work synergistically to help reduce the risk of opacification. Once the capsule develops opacities, they cannot be medically reversed. In people, capsular opacities that develop following cataract surgery can be lessened with laser surgery, but this does not work in dogs. Most owners notice a tremendous increase in their pet's vision after cataract surgery, but they can still detect certain visual difficulties.
After surgery, cataracts cannot recur. However, some dogs can have decreased vision years after cataract surgery due to formed scar tissue, glaucoma, and/or retinal detachment. In rare instances, placement of an IOL is not possible at the time of cataract surgery. These dogs still see better, but are more far-sighted and near objects are out of focus. The cornea does two thirds of the focusing of the eye, so vision is still present but not perfect if the lens (which does one-third of the focusing) cannot be replaced with an IOL. Some dogs require anti-inflammatory medication for several weeks, months, or lifetime following cataract surgery. Following cataract surgery, lifetime supplementation with a specific canine antioxidant vision supplement may help reduce the risk of capsular opacification, secondary glaucoma, and/or retinal detachment forming (see our Veterinary Supplements page).
Why is Cataract surgery so expensive?
Cataract surgery is expensive because it requires specialized equipment and training. The instruments and equipment used for cataract surgery in dogs are the same type used for cataract surgery in people. Furthermore, you are paying for the highly advanced training and expertise of a board-certified veterinary ophthalmologist.
When people undergo cataract surgery, they usually pay very little for it because insurance picks up most of the tab of the surgeon's fee, facility fee, and anesthesia/sedation fee. This is not the case in veterinary medicine. The pet owner pays 100% of the cost of cataract surgery and other health care for their pet. Even pet health insurance policies often exclude cataract surgery, because the cataracts are often genetic and most insurance companies will not cover genetic or pre-existing conditions. If you have health insurance for your dog, do not assume it will cover cataract surgery—check with your insurance provider.
What if Cataract surgery is not done?
Immature, mature, and hypermature cataracts can cause a serious reactive inflammation inside the eye (Lens Induced Uveitis, or LIU) that must be medically treated, whether or not surgery is performed. LIU can lead to complications such as glaucoma or a detached retina whether or not cataract surgery is performed, and LIU decreases the success rate of cataract surgery. An additional potential complication in eyes not undergoing surgery is lens luxation, which can be quite painful depending on how the lens slips (luxates) out of position. Glaucoma is also painful, in the form of a headache. Cataract surgery is an elective procedure. If surgery is not performed, lifetime anti-inflammatory eye drops and lifetime supplementation with a specific canine antioxidant vision supplement are required by Dr. McCalla, as well as lifetime eye re-examinations. There is a best window of time in which to perform surgery. The earlier the cataract can be removed, the better. If you first decide to not have surgery performed but change your mind later, it is quite possible that surgery cannot be performed at a later date due to the decreasing surgical success rate over time.
If cataract surgery is not done, your dog might do just fine. However, it might not; the worst-case scenarios that could occur are that the dog eventually develops glaucoma secondary to LIU (which is chronically painful in the form of a headache), or develops extremely painful lens luxation. If these conditions cannot be controlled medically (and lens luxation usually cannot be medically controlled, especially if the lens luxates into the anterior chamber of the eye), then surgery is needed; either removal of the eye, or removal of the luxated lens if there is a hope of vision. There are other surgical choices for blind glaucomatous eyes (see Glaucoma).
It is also important to understand that most dogs that are blinded from cataracts can adequately adjust to their vision loss, if they are in a safe and stable environment and their eyes are not painful. You cannot determine if your dog's eyes are painful from cataract development—if your dog has developed secondary glaucoma, it has a headache but will not show this in any obvious way, until it is too late. By that time, the affect eye is enlarged and completely blind due to destruction of the optic nerve. When this occurs, medication usually is not adequate to control the increased intraocular pressure, and surgery is needed to relieve the pain.
If your dog has cataracts but you believe that you cannot afford surgery, it is still VERY important for you to have your dog evaluated by a veterinary ophthalmologist! This is because medical treatment of the affected eye(s) is almost always needed to help prevent complications arising from the presence of the cataract. The cataract causes LIU, which in turn can cause many serious complications and the complete loss of the eye (including possible surgical removal of the affected eye).
What is involved in having Cataract surgery performed on my dog?
The first step is to have your pet examined by Dr. Terri McCalla at Animal Eye Care to determine if your pet is a good candidate for surgery. A preoperative blood profile (including serum triglyceride testing; for nondiabetic dogs, the blood is drawn after the dog has been off food for 10–12 hours. For diabetic dogs, the blood is drawn shortly before the morning or evening meal to mimic a fasting blood sample), comprehensive physical exam, and assessment of anesthetic level of risk are then performed by your family veterinarian. If your pet "passes" these tests, some patients require electroretinography (ERG) and gonioscopy testing at our hospital. These are performed under sedation, and cause no discomfort. ERG testing evaluates retinal function, as it is vital that the retina (the "film in the camera") is working, in order to perform cataract surgery. Gonioscopy evaluates the drainage angle of the eye to determine if the eye(s) are at increased genetic risk of developing glaucoma postoperatively. If they are, additional medications will be prescribed and these medications may be needed for your pet's lifetime. Ultrasonography of the eye(s) is often required prior to cataract surgery, to determine if retinal detachment is present. This test is performed at a nearby veterinary specialty hospital. Many patients require ultrasonography and not ERG testing, and some patients require neither test.
If your dog "passes" the ultrasound and/or ERG tests, surgery can be scheduled. The eyes require intense topical medication immediately preceding the surgery day. Dr. McCalla also prescribes special oral antioxidant supplementation prior to surgery, that is then given for the rest of your pet's life (see our Veterinary Supplements page). On the day of surgery, your pet will need to arrive at the hospital early in the morning to receive intensive eye treatment before surgery. The surgery is performed and your pet goes home the same day. Your pet will not have eye patches. Your pet must wear a harness after surgery when being walked. Attach the leash to the harness and NOT to a neck collar, as this could place pressure on the jugular veins, causing increased eye pressure.
Vision usually improves during the first week after surgery—often within 24 hours—but the return of functional vision sometimes takes up to 2–3 weeks. Most dogs exhibit minimal to no pain after surgery. Your pet will require oral medication and two or three different kinds of eye drops 3 to 4 times a day for the first few weeks after surgery, and on a lesser frequency for several months post surgery. Your pet MUST wear a cone-shaped restraint collar (E collar) the first 2 weeks after surgery to prevent self-trauma to the eyes. You MUST also bring your pet for reexaminations at 1 day, 5 to 7 days, 2 to 3 weeks, 8 to 10 weeks, and 4 to 6 months post surgery, and every 6 to 12 months thereafter. This reexamination schedule may change if there are post-operative complications.
What are the risks involved with Cataract surgery?
Cataract surgery is a highly successful procedure, but there are risks. Chances of the patient having improved vision after surgery are high for most dogs (90%–95%). But 5% to 10% of dogs will not regain good vision due to complications, and (worst case scenario) may actually be permanently blind in one or both of the operated eyes. Because of species differences in how reactive eyes are to cataracts, inflammation, and to intraocular surgery, cataract surgery is not as successful in dogs (or other domestic species) as it is in humans and other primates. Additionally, it must be kept in mind that no surgery on any species can be guaranteed to be successful.
If your dog has significant LIU (most commonly caused by a hypermature cataract or a rapidly-developing cataract), this also decreases the success rate. LIU is the primary reason that the sooner that cataract surgery can be done, the better.
- The risk of intraocular scar tissue. All dogs develop some intraocular scar tissue (primarily opacities of the lens capsule). Excessive scar tissue will limit vision. Puppies and young adult dogs develop more capsular opacities than older dogs. Anti-inflammatory medication and lifetime support with a specific canine antioxidant vision supplement may help reduce the formation of severe capsular opacities.
- The risk of glaucoma. Glaucoma (increase in eye pressure) occurs transiently in 30% of dogs that have cataract surgery, usually within the first 24 hours after surgery. This is not as bad as it sounds; most of the time, these pressure increases are temporary and quickly resolve with treatment within the first 1–2 days after surgery. However, glaucoma can also occur later—months to years following surgery. Glaucoma not only can cause complete vision loss, but also may require the need for additional medications or surgery. It can be painful (in the form of a headache) and cause LOSS OF THE EYE if uncontrolled.
- The risk of retinal detachment. While surgical re-attachment of the retina is sometimes possible, the success rate can be low and this complication usually results in complete vision loss. However, if it is caught early the surgical success rate is much higher.
- The risk of intraocular Infection. While this is rare, it can cause complete vision loss as well as LOSS OF THE EYE (i.e. surgical removal of the eye).
- The risk of general anesthesia. Anesthesia safety has progressed tremendously during the last 5 years. However, even healthy pets CAN DIE UNDER GENERAL ANESTHESIA. We take anesthesia very seriously. All patients are monitored extensively by our surgical team. All patients receive electronically assisted ventilation and monitoring of their blood oxygenation, carbon dioxide levels, respiration, temperature, heart function, and blood pressure. See Anesthesia Section
How can the risk of developing postoperative complications be reduced for your dog?
By following these recommendations:
- Having your dog's eyes examined by a veterinary ophthalmologist as soon as cataracts are suspected (especially if your dog is diabetic), and NOT waiting until the lens is completely opaque and the eye is blind. Sometimes general veterinary practitioners advise waiting—It is best NOT to wait!
- Following all treatment directions correctly and faithfully.
- Bringing your dog to all recommended postoperative reexaminations by your ophthalmologist. Regular postoperative reexaminations by the ophthalmologist, for the rest of the dog's life, are needed. Sadly, veterinary ophthalmologists often see cataract patients in trouble, that are several months to years overdue for their eye appointments. The dogs usually have developed irreversible blindness from glaucoma and the eye(s) are lost.
- Lifetime postoperative support with a specific canine antioxidant vision supplement (see our Veterinary Supplements page)
- Calling your ophthalmologist's office if you suspect ANY change has occurred in your dog's eye(s).
- Always using a harness to walk your dog; do not attach the leash to a neck collar.


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We had a WONDERFUL time having fun and learning new skills from great buddy Dawn Edwards during her 'Fantastic Felt Hats' workshops at the weekend!!! All the participants started each day oohing and aahing over the gorgeous hats on display, trying them on and discussing with Dawn whether to work from one of her templates of branch out and design one of their own.
Friday is going to be hectic, since Dawn's arrival I have also been running around and frantically preparing a lot of felt which needs to be delivered to Duckett's Grove tomorrow (I had the wrong deadline) and amazingly I was in the right place at the right time and have secured a new studio place there as well! There are 4 artist's studios in the renovated courtyard and one of the artists had to back out at the last minute, enter me!!!We'll be measuring it up tomorrow when we deliver the felt to the new retail unit there and then planning what to set up for the official opening with a government minister on Friday morning, Dawn's been invited to display her hats too so it sounds as if it will be an action packed and fun day!
After a lot of technical issues 'Nuno Felting with Chrissie Day and Nicola Brown' is now available to order as an ebook for iPhone, iPod and iPad touch. Currently Blurb don't offer it for other forms of digital readers but hope to do so before too long has elapsed. I did have to make it available in a wrap around hard back too in order to get it online but I've priced highly just to ensure nobody orders it by mistake, of course if you do happen to want a hard back copy that's another thing entirely!


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We are company with office in Novo mesto and stock yard for metal waste and other wastes in Industrial zone Kanižarica in Črnomelj.
Origin from north of France group BOONE COMENOR METALIMPEX employes more than 400 workers in 13 states and on four continents. WIth more than 100 years of experience, knowledge and expertise, group is leading global player in recycling of metal waste from industrial production. From 2008 BOONE COMENOR METALIMPEX is part of one of the biggest and most famous group all over the word SUEZ.
Group BOONE COMENOR METALIMPEX is leading French specialist for recycling of scrap from industrial production.
Our story in Slovenia started in April 2004 with esthablisment of company, at that time with name Tojer Metalimpex, we renamed company in july 2007 in Metalimpex SLV d.o.o. We are part of global group Boone Comenor Metalimpex and Suez. On area of metal waste and other wastes we are taking care our partner Renault Revoz anl also other big and small companies (Akrapovic) in this was that we are offering complete service of waste managment.
Some of our key figures in 2017
Around the country
2 yards
Our equipments
2 baling presses
1 cranes
4 trucks
1 spin dryer
50 containers
Our collaborators
15 employees
Volume processed
37 000 Tons sold in 2017


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On Saturday, August 4, 2012, I led the first ever ice cream run held by the Tar Heel MINI Motoring Club. The run started in Durham, wound through some countryside over to Asheboro before heading north to end in Greensboro.
Our first stop was Pelican's SnoBalls in Durham. I suppose technically this was not ice cream as it was shaved ice dubbed a "snoball". They had about 100 flavors on the menu along with a variety of extra toppings and other goodies. I stuck with a simple snoball and got POG - a mixture of pineapple, passion fruit, orange, and guava. And it was delicious. Probably my favorite of all the stops.
We then motored through Durham, skirting Duke Forest on our way to Maple View Farm. This is obviously a popular spot with travelers of all sorts as there were several Harley groups there when we arrived along with numerous cyclists that were using Maple View as their start/stop location for a country ride. I went with Blueberry ice cream in a waffle cone. I'm pretty sure the last time I had blueberry ice cream was during The Great Ice Cream Run 2 back in 2009 when we got some up in Maine. (Shhh - Maine's was better imo.)
Our third stop was Homeland Creamery, a location we had visited during the 7th Anniversary Run (yeah, I'm sure you are wondering where the recap for that is). Homeland is definitely in the country. It proved to be a wonderful stop once again. This go round I went with Pineapple ice cream (last time I got butter pecan) as I had realized I was hitting the fruits.
With a few dropping out at that point, our group then motored down Old Liberty Road for some twisty fun before looping around/through Asheboro to enjoy the run up Caraway Mountain Road. We then shot into Greensboro for our final stop at Gnam Gnam Gelato. This was a good bookend to the run since gelato technically isn't ice cream (like the snoballs that started the run). I went with a cup of Bilberry, which I'm informed is a European version of the blueberry, only with more tartness. I have to say, the Europeans are pretty lucky to have bilberries instead of blueberries.
As part of the run, we collected some funds to help a capital campaign being run by NCSU's food science program to build a new creamery for the Howling Cow. That tied in nicely with the theme and the visits to local creameries.
Enjoy the gallery of images below and hopefully I'll have a video put together at some point.
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Welcome to the Tournament of Carols.
Maybe the holiday season doesn't start for you until you hear Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" on the radio. Or perhaps you can't address your Christmas cards unless Brenda Lee's "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" is playing in the background.
Maybe you're so fiercely loyal to that song that you even broke the all-is-calm, all-is-bright holiday spirit when you fiercely argued with your neighbor that your Christmas song is the Christmas song.
Before you go landing on Santa's naughty list for not showing goodwill to all men, we've decided to settle the debate for you.
That's right. Carol squaring off against carol March Madness style, in one grand Tournament of Carols that gives you the chance to vote online week by week as we head toward the Final Four and the ultimate crowning of a champion on Dec. 25.
We'll start with 16 classic versions of classic carols that we've paired off in brackets. (You can download a bracket of the Sweet 16 here: Xmas Sweet 16)
Click on one of the match-ups below to see a video for each song plus a chance for you to cast your vote. This week, there are eight match-ups for you to vote on. Voting for this round will end early afternoon of Tuesday, Dec. 1.
First round
BRACKET No. 1: MERRY-MAKERS
No. 1 "Winter Wonderland" Eurythmics vs. No. 4 "Feliz Navidad" Jose Feliciano
No. 2 "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" Brenda Lee vs. No. 3 "Christmas Eve/Sarajevo" ("Carol of the Bells") Trans-Siberian Orchestra
BRACKET No. 2: WISHES & DREAMS
No. 1 "The Christmas Song" Nat King Cole vs. No. 4 "White Christmas" Bing Crosby
No. 2 "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" The Pretenders vs. No. 3 "I'll Be Home for Christmas" Frank Sinatra
BRACKET No. 3: TV LAND
No. 1 "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" Burl Ives vs. No. 4 "Frosty the Snowman" Gene Autry
No. 2 "The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)" The Chipmunks vs. No. 3 "Christmas Time is Here" (A Charlie Brown Christmas) Vince Guaraldi
BRACKET No. 4: ROCK LEGENDS
No. 1 "Happy X-Mas (War is Over)" John Lennon vs. No. 4 "Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy" Bing Crosby/David Bowie
No.2 "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" Bruce Springsteen vs. No. 3 "Blue Christmas" Elvis Presley


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While friends and supporters of Palestine were outside the Zurich Venue of FIFAs Congress, holding placards and Palestinian flags, the Palestine Football Association was inside working out a deal to pull the motion to ban the Israeli Football Federation (IFA).
Instead of forcing the Congress to consider the motion which sets out why the IFA should be suspended because of Israel's breaches of FIFAs statutes, Jibril Rajoub, Head of the PFA agreed to drop the call for expulsion in return for formation of a committee to examine the outstanding issues. Far from showing Israel the red card, the PA gave away another card it holds to bring Israel to account for nothing.
Israel will be the happier of the two sides. The Palestinian people and their supporters are again left wondering how the PA repeatedly postures and backtracks at the last minute. They are also angered by what they see as a missed opportunity to bring Israel to account.
I know people who travelled to Zurich to demonstrate outside the venue and who have conducted an excellent campaign to 'show Israel the Red Card'. I feel embarrassed as a Palestinian that while our supporters show unbelievable commitment to the Palestinian people, the Palestinian leadership takes this for granted. They call on the world to show support and solidarity, get it and then pull the carpet from under them, literally as they demonstrate for Palestinian rights. How can we continue to ask them for unquestioned support if the leadership then capitulates?
The PA will claim that they came under sustained pressure to pull the motion. Israel will have worked tirelessly behind the scenes. Netanyahu threatened FIFA with 'destruction'. But the PA knew that would happen. It was hardly a surprise.
The Palestinian people and their supporters remember the hope for Israeli accountability generated when the International Court of Justice gave its advisory about the illegality of the Separation Wall in 2004 and remember the Goldstone report on Israel's war in Gaza in 2009. Both were important cards the PA chose not to use at the time and continue to do so to this day.
Can the Palestinian people believe any more of the PAs threats (postures) in the future? Should Palestinian supporters plan their trip to the International Criminal Court (ICC), where the PA intends to go next, to show their support? Or should they save their money and use their well earned days off from work for a well deserved holiday instead?
The PA needs to surprise us all. It needs to go to the ICC with the cases against settlements and the 2014 war on Gaza and stick with it until Israeli war criminals are brought to justice. It has let the Palestinians down for too long and has taken the solidarity movement for granted for too long.
I want to say to supporters of the Palestinians with confidence, book your tickets and prepare the Palestinian flags for your trip to the ICC.
Updated 31/5/2015
The President of the Palestinian Football Federation, Jibril Rajoub explained what happened at the FIFA Congress in an interview in Arabic with Slarabia Alhadarh channel. He said that the motion to suspend Israel from FIFA was not pulled, but was suspended to allow a committee to investigate the claims of hindering Palestinian football's development and racism in Israel against Pakestjnian citizens. He said that the issue of 5 teams from the settlements playing in the Israrli league needed investigation to ascertain whether it was legal. He also said there was a threat to put a motion in front of Congress to prohibit the suspension of any member of FIFA at the request of another member before the Palestijian motion was put. Thus would gave effectively made it inadmissible. He explained that by agreeing to 'suspend' the suspension motion and receiving 90% support, including Europesn members, Palestine made done key wins that will help to either improve the situation or to bring back a suspension motion in future.
Rajoub also stated that he had voted for Prince Ali Bin Alhussain for the leadership of FIFA but had not made it public initially for tactical reasons connected to the Palestinian motion.
Rajoub had come under attack for both 'pulling' the Palestinian motion and his lack of public support for Prince Ali. He accused those with political agendas for pursuing these 'false' claims.
The problem is how the message is communicated to Palestinian supporters who are left angry at the withdrawal of the Palestinuan motion and the kerf river capitulation by the PA.
Below us s copy if the resolution passed by FIFA Congress on Friday 29/5/2015 Via @jibrilrajoub.


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Holiday Gifts: Sept. 3rd, 10th, 17th
September 10, 2019 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm$88.00
Do you have memories of a favorite hand-made stocking hanging in anticipation of Christmas morning? In the Holiday Gifts class you will create your own one-of-a kind stocking for that special child, grandchild, or the Christmas elf in your life. Choose your favorite holiday patterns from our kit selections. You can even personalize the stocking with a name and/or date.


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