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I Went To A Hockey Match And A guy Name "Bono" Hitches A Ride!
Top 5 places to bring Dad for Father's Day
Hey with Fathers' Day Coming soon (June 19). Where do you go to spoil your Dad?
In A Galaxy Not So Far Away
The Force is Strong with this one. Watch or Watch not there is no try..'Star Wars' on Your TV?
Looks like George Lucas is very serious about bringing Star Wars to TV...
That's A Bikini (Wreck) Waiting To Happen!
Ah, There is nothing like taking an nice Summer drive to take in the sites! Of Course the radio is blasting a fun summer song and we are enjoying some of the scenery just happens to be wearing Summer Time Swimwear.
Remember Those Who Served This Memorial Day Weekend
This Weekend Please Remember The True Meaning Of This Very Important Day. Memorial Day. To The Men and Women Who Served Our Country Proudly. 92.9 The Bull Salutes and Honors You.
It's A Wrap for 'Jackson Horn'
With a huge fan base that followed this Independant Production TV show. It wraps up with a Two Hour Special.
Getting Ready For A Long Weekend?
With the unofficial kick-off of Summer, here is one place you might want to put on your places to visit this Summer that is local.
If you are starting to do some planning for a family outing. There is some places right here in the Yakima Valley that you should experience with the family and it's a short drive!
Achmed, Walter, Peanut, Bubba J and Some Guy Name Jeff (not on a stick) Was Seen At A Eastern Washington Winery
Ronnie Dunn Tickets During The Bull Drive @ 5!
Had a long day?! It's a 5 o'clock world and The Bull has your Ronnie Dunn Tickets!
A Love Story-Funny How Things Turn Up And Out
As I was growing up in the Wapato area, everyone knew of Jerry Graham and what had happened to him and what he had over come.
Hey Hey We're The Chimps! – Weekend Plan Stampede 92.9 The Bull
Looking for an idea for something do to on the Weekend? 92.9 The Bull has this for an great idea perfect for the family or a date.


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My wife wanted a tablet to play with this year since her laptop is currently being used as a streaming device for the TV in the bedroom where there is no cable. I purchased her a Google Nexus 7 because it was the cheaper alternative with good specs. A couple of days later I found a deal on a 10" pad with a docking station, which is what she wanted in the first place, with the same specs aside from size and is more like the "touchscreen laptop" that she pointed out (for a fraction of the cost, I might add).
I currently have a nice laptop, a nice phone, and a nice desktop computer. The ONLY reason I would be interested in a tablet is the few out there that have IR emitters for the purpose of being used as a universal remote for my entertainment center and possibly as a DLNA server for music and movies as a supplement to my NAS media server. Neither of the current tablets are equipped with the IR emitter, as they weren't purchased with me in mind. The level of tablet that does have that emitter is still pretty expensive, so it won't be happening any time soon.
To get to the point...The retailer that I ordered the Nexus from charges a restocking fee for returning it, and they are an online retailer, so I would have to pay shipping back. By the time it's done I will lose roughly $50 returning it. They are sold out so I am sure they will have no issue reselling the item, it is unopened and unused, but it does bother me a bit that I will have to pay to ship and restock for them just to turn around and mail it out to the next backordered customer.
My options are to keep it as a fool around that will probably not get used past the "novelty" period, send it back and lose the money, or try and re-sell it myself through CL or the like. I would imagine that there are so many of them available through retailers that even that option will lose me money one way or the other. I cannot think of a compelling reason why someone would buy it from me at full retail.
The last, and rather unorthodox solution is this. My mother has a computer that is so old it will hardly connect to the internet. She barely uses it, has never used a tablet or even a smartphone, and has expressed that she isn't interested in "those fancy touchscreens". It would be easy enough to set this up with a bluetooth keyboard and have her use it as a computer, replacing her obsolete machine. Considering the size, and her "idea" of a computer, it would likely be met with some resistance to learn about it on her part and probably get used little like her current machine...it's 15 or so years old and is like new aside from obsolescence.
So, given that mouthful, what would you do with the tablet?

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RESNET, a nonprofit organization that sets standards for the inspection and testing of the energy performance of homes, published findings from a poll of home-owners' concern
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Old Lexington (GNIS FID: 77906) is a populated place located in Stone County at latitude 35.72 and longitude -92.411.
The elevation is 1,345 feet. Old Lexington appears on the Old Lexington U.S. Geological Survey Map. Stone County is in the Central Time Zone (UTC -6 hours).
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Cyprus Economy to Shrink 1.1% in 2012, Central Bank Says
Cyprus's economy, the euro area's third smallest, may shrink as much as 1.1 percent this year and grow 0.4 percent in 2013, the Central Bank of Cyprus said.
"Uncertainty in relation to probable fiscal consolidation measures, the prospect of resorting to the rescue mechanism, the decline of corporate profitability and of real private disposable income and the increase of unemployment have contributed to a negative climate" affecting economic growth, the Nicosia-based central bank said in a statement on its website today.
The downside risks to growth of the Cypriot economy also include "the probability of an escalation of the political and financial turbulence in Greece following the June 17 elections" and further fiscal consolidation measures, according to the bank.
If additional government budget cuts and a probable resort to Europe's rescue mechanism are done correctly, "the improvement in the credibility of the Republic of Cyprus may probably help overturn the economic climate, at least in the medium term with positive effects" on growth, the bank said.
The combined economy of the euro region may contract as much as 0.5 percent or grow as much as 0.3 percent this year, according to the central bank. Next year, the 17-nation currency bloc's gross domestic product may grow as much as 2 percent, the bank said.
Cyprus's unemployment rate will reach 10.1 percent this year and 10.8 percent in 2013, and the inflation rate will be 3.2 percent and 1.3 percent respectively according to standardized European methodology, the central bank said in a separate e-mailed statement.


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Canada's First Mining Publication
SASKATCHEWAN – North Atlantic Potash of Saskatoon has complete a 11-hole drilling program and released resource numbers for its Foam Lake potash property a hundred kilometres or so northeast of Regina. The company has outlined 218 million indicated tonnes and 724 million inferred tonnes. The total resource averages 19% K2O or 30% KCl.
The Foam Lake property consists of four contiguous potash permits, KP 382, 383, 508, 509. The drill program consisted of three holes in KP 382, five holes in KP 508, two holes in KP 509 and one hole in KP 383. Three typical Saskatchewan Potash Members were intersected and sampled which included: the Patience Lake, Belle Plaine and Esterhazy Members. As expected, said North Atlantic, the Esterhazy Member was the most consistent of the three potash zones intersected and is the basis of the resource estimate.
Maps of all of North Atlantic's potash properties are available at NorthAtlanticPotash.com.
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Synchrotron imaging reveals odd couple - 250 million years ago, a mammal forerunner and an amphibian shared a burrow.
Scientists from South Africa, Australia and France have discovered a world first association while scanning a 250 million year old fossilized burrow from the Karoo Basin of South Africa.
The burrow revealed two unrelated vertebrate animals nestled together and fossilized after being trapped by a flash flood event. Facing harsh climatic conditions subsequent to the Permo-Triassic (P-T) mass extinction, the amphibian Broomistega and the mammal forerunner Thrinaxodon cohabited in a burrow.
Scanning shows that the amphibian, which was suffering from broken ribs, crawled into a sleeping mammal's shelter for protection. This research suggests that short periods of dormancy, called aestivation, in addition to burrowing behavior, may have been a crucial adaptation that allowed mammal ancestors to survive the P-T extinction.
The results of this research resulted in a paper entitled Synchrotron reveals Early Triassic odd couple: injured amphibian and aestivating therapsid share burrow and that is published in the scientific journal, PLoS ONE, on Friday, 21 June 2013 at 23:00 SA Standard Time.
The international team of scientists was led by Dr Vincent Fernandez from Wits University, South Africa and the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble, France. The other authors from Wits University include Prof. Bruce Rubidge (Director of the newly formed Palaeosciences Centre of Excellence at Wits), Dr Fernando Abdala and Dr Kristian Carlson. Other authors include Dr Della Collins Cook (Indiana University); Dr Adam Yates (Museum of Central Australia) and Dr. Paul Tafforeau (ESRF).
After many impressive results obtained on fossils, synchrotron imaging has led to revived interest in the studies of the numerous fossilized burrows discovered in the Karoo Basin of South Afr
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Like many NBA players in the 1990s who signed lucrative signature shoe deals, Shaquille O'Neal signed a five-year, $40 million deal with Reebok when he entered the league with the Orlando Magic in 1992.
But the combination of wanting to run his own shoe business and a dressing down from a woman in Orlando who cried to the center about the high cost of his shoes convinced O'Neal to launch his own line.
"She was crying so much, I reached in my pocket and handed her some money," O'Neal said of the Orlando, Fla., woman. But she didn't want money. Instead, she begged O'Neal: "When ...


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Internationally known for his riveting presentations and sold out events, filmmaker and photographer Vincent Laforet will discuss his transition from nearly two decades as a Pulitzer-Prize winning photographer for The New York Times, Life, Time, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, and National Geographic, into the world of motion.
Whether he's shooting commercials, films, nature, cities and environs—some from helicopters that he favors—sporting events, or whatever subject he turns his cameras to, Vincent is highly respected as an innovator incorporating the latest technology, creative imagery, and storytelling into every project he works on.
This evening, Vincent will discuss many of the challenges he was faced with as he transitioned from editorial to commercial photography, through to commercial film sets as a director and cinematographer shooting commercials for clients such as Sony, Adobe, Pepsi, and Reebok.
He will also discuss current trends and how they are affecting most of the creative fields today. We will look at the rise of the internet and social media such Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, and other specific tools and technologies and their direct correlation to the recent evolution of both the still photography and motion businesses.
Showing footage from the Canon 5D Mark II, Canon C300, RED Epic, Phantom, and all the way down the technological spectrum to iPhone cameras, Vincent will point out specific points in the timeline of new technology developments and how they relate to trends in the photography and film markets.
This evening's presentation and discussion will also focus on the hybridization of the still and video worlds, allowing attendees to gain a glimpse into what might happen in the near future. While no one knows where we will be in five years, this evening's event will give you a better understanding about how we got to where we are today and what might come next. And as Vincent wrote on a recent blog post, 'I've started to 'make' stuff. I've been working with others to invent or to help to create tools that I need for myself in the film or photography world, and that I want to make available to others out there because I'm pretty sure they will fill important voids…These are simply things that I need for myself–to do my job better. Some are just wonderful silly little gadgets that we all need, while others are a bit more interesting…'
This is sure to be a great evening, and a special opportunity to see and learn from this leading filmmaker, director, and content creator working today—don't miss out on this event, sign up now!
Vincent Laforet
Vincent, a three-time winner at the prestigious 2010 Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival, is a director and Pulitzer Prize–winning photographer who is known for his forward-thinking approach to image making and storytelling.
In addition to having been commissioned by just about every important international publication—including Vanity Fair, The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, Sports Illustrated, Time, Newsweek, and Life—Vincent is considered a pioneer both for his innovative tilt-shift and aerial photography, and in the field of HD-capable DSLR cameras. In fact, his short film Reverie, the first 1080p video shot with a still camera, was seen more than 2 million times on the first week of its release in 2009. Vincent is a member of the Director's Guild of America and a DP with Local 600
Vincent, who was born in 1975, began his photography career at the age of 15. He started as a photojournalist, honing his abilities by landing internships with newspapers such as The Los Angeles Times and with Reuters. By the time he was 25, he had established himself as the youngest staff photographer for The New York Times, and by the time he left, he had a Pulitzer for feature photography under his belt. 'His images stir with life,' PDN wrote of him in a 2003 'One to Watch' profile. 'Athletes are colorful heroes ripped from comic book pages while his wartime photographs successfully wander between the unimaginably large scale and the touchingly human.'
In 2005, American Photo named him one of the '100 Most Influential People in Photography', and his work has been recognized in the Communication Arts and PDN annuals, and by the World Press Photo Awards, the Pictures of the Year Competition, the Overseas Press Club, the National Headliners Awards, and the Pro-Football Hall of Fame.
And the accolades continue to come his way, in June 2010, he was honored with a Gold, Silver, and a Bronze in the Titanium category at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival for his work as the director on the groundbreaking Canon 'Beyond the Still' competition, which he spearheaded with Grey Advertising.
'It's not just the laundry list of awards that sets Laforet apart, though,' noted The FStop magazine in a 2010 interview with Vincent, whose fine-art prints have been exhibited worldwide and are part of numerous private collections. 'It's his steady and unique growth as a photographer. From shooting weddings [as a teen] to the NBA finals in college to his job at the Times and now his much publicized move to commercial photography and motion work, it's been a long and fruitful evolution.'
Since 2006, Vincent himself has charted this evolution on his blog, blog.vincentlaforet.com, which has become a must read in the photographic and filmmaking communities, attracting more than 3,000,000 visitors each year. His combination of candor and expertise has made him highly sought after as a consultant (for companies such as Apple, Canon, Manfrotto, Lexar, X-Rite, and Zeiss), a keynote speaker, and an instructor. Vincent, who has been profiled on CNN and Good Morning America and in dozens of publications, has served as an adjunct professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and at the International Center of Photography.
He is represented as a commercial director by the Los Angeles & New York based production company 'Accomplice', and as a photographer by the New York based agency Stockland Martel. Vincent currently resides in Manhattan Beach, California, with his wife, Amber, son, Noah, and daughter, Eliana.
To see more of Vincent's work, go to: laforetvisuals.com and blog.vincentlaforet.com


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J-Hoppers Hida Takayama GuesthouseHida Takayama, Japan
Bedrooms were very well laid out - curtains around every bed, personal lights and space next to the mattress for your things, plus enough room to sit up on each bunk bed. Lockers big enough to fit a laptop. Only downside was reception closing relatively early - 10 PM.
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Arenal Backpackers ResortLa Fortuna, Costa Rica
The pool and swim-up bar was quite nice - the bar was provide-your-own alcohol, so you could either cheaply purchase alcohol in town or buy a drink from the bar and bring it over to the pool. The hammocks and trampoline were also lots of fun, the lockers for tent-stayers were large enough to store all our belongings, and the showers had good water pressure and water temperature. The only thing missing was a communal kitchen.
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Pension fuerDichZurich, Switzerland
The staff were extremely friendly and helpful - definitely the best part of staying here. The building was nice, the room was spacious and clean, and the food in the cafe downstairs was good. The only downside was that it was a bit out of the way.
Wombats City Hostel MunichMunich, Germany
The hostel was close to the Hauptbanhof, a big plus in terms of getting to the city and traveling to places such as the Olympiapark and Dachau (everything else was walking distance).
EastSeven Berlin HostelBerlin, Germany
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If you missed the first Salon of the season, we've just posted audio on the Two Lines Press website.
Last week translator Katrina Dodson--who dedicated year to translating the 80+ stories featured in The Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector--talked with Two Lines Press' Scott Esposito about the project.
Their conversation included a reading from the book in English and Portuguese, a discussion of Lispector as an author and individual, her religious mysticism, and Dodson's favorite stories from the collection.
Listen to the entire conversation, and be sure not to miss any of our upcoming events in the Bay Area and around the world!
Every print issue of Two Lines is accompanied by an online supplement—Two Lines Online—featuring prose and poetry that seems to us to have a character that would thrive in an online space. We asked Associate Editor Marthine Satris to review a piece in the current issue.
Jennifer Hayashida's translation of "White Blight," by the Swedish writer Athena Farrokhzad, has a visual presence that pops, so the choice to include an excerpt from the long poem in Two Lines Online this fall came very naturally. The poem also answers the present discussion of how Europe will respond to migrants from the Middle East by foregrounding the voices of those who have broached European borders before.
Two Lines Online's selection from the long poem, which will be published in full this year by Argos Books, captures the poem's key concerns. In a long poem, the accretion of reference is always a vital part of the form, and in taking just a sliver it's impossible to reproduce that effect. Yet, the poem's vision of family as both accuser and provider of succor, its chorus of voices, and the repeated references to darkness, light, white, milk, and night, are all present in the excerpt we chose to share with Two Lines readers, which hopefully will intrigue and delight those unfamiliar with Farrokhzad's daring and dashing writing.
As a reader, it is "White Blight"'s insistence on the visual and spatial element of poetry that is most enlivening. While rhyme and meter often must be adjusted or abandoned in translations of poetry, Farrokhzad's yawning gaps of blank space and her innovative use of white text highlighted in black carry across to the English without change, showing the potential visual and spatial elements of literature have to infuse the text with more than the denotative power of the words can hold.
Farrokhzad's poem brings the voices of outsiders to the fore, highlighting her family's origins outside of Sweden in the language of the poem while the form conveys the material fact of their otherness as Middle Easterners in a sea of polar light. In Hayashida's translation, family members order the writer to tell their story in the right way:
My mother said: Write like this
For my opportunities my mother sacrificed everything
I must be worthy of her
everything I write will be true
Read the full post on the Two Lines Press blog.
Order your own copy or subscribe to the print journal or better yet, subscribe to the press and you'll get a full year--5 books!--of fantastic translated literature.
Welcome to the new season of Two Voices Salons, intimate conversations with authors and translators about the art and craft of translation! The first event features translator Katrina Dodson talking with our very own Scott Esposito about her work translating the hefty "Complete Stories" of Brazilian novelist Clarice Lispector.
"The Complete Stories" was published this summer by New Directions and is getting so much attention, we decided to move the Salon from our office to the Book Club of California—only a few blocks away—to accommodate more people.
A quick intro to Lispector: born in Ukraine in 1920 to a Jewish family and raised in Brazil after the family fled anti-Semitic violence, Lispector published her first stories and journalistic writing while in law school. She gained instant fame when her first book, "Near To the Wild Heart", was published when she was 23. She spent the next decade and a half outside Brazil with her diplomat husband, producing her most celebrated works after her return to the country in 1959.
Between that time and her death in 1977, Lispector published several books which only added to her reputation as one of the best Brazilian writers, including "Agua Viva", "The Passion According to G.H.", and "Family Ties". She's often compared to Virginia Woolf and was recently described in Slate.com as "a genius on the level of Nabokov."
Interest in Lispector was rekindled after the publication of her biography in 2009 and release of a quartet of new translations—each by a different translator--from New Directions.
Katrina Dodson will talk about the ins and outs of working with Lispector's famously bizarre Portuguese. She'll also talk about how Lispector's art evolved through the years and why her writing has touched so many readers. We'll have copies of the book for sale, or bring your own copy and come ready to join the discussion.
Complete event details are here, and you can RSVP to secure your spot.
"The Complete Stories", with its 80-plus stories, has gotten attention from The New York Times, Bookforum, and The New Yorker, among others. And you can watch a 1977 interview with Lispector and check out related articles.
Did you know that the Nobel Prize for Literature has never been awarded to an author from Southeast Asia? Some blame the region's linguistic and cultural diversity for this, but the Center and our longtime partner Green Apple Books on the Park have teamed up to spotlight some of the great writing from this dynamic part of the world.
In just a few days, on September 17, we're co-presenting an event with leading Indonesian writer Eka Kurniawan at Green Apple's fantastic store just steps away from Golden Gate Park. He'll be joined by his translator Annie Tucker and Center for the Art of Translation founder Olivia Sears for a conversation about contemporary Indonesian literature and translation.
Kurniawan is the author of two recent releases: Beauty is a Wound (New Directions) and Man Tiger (Verso).
He's been described as the "brightest star in Indonesia's new literary firmament", author of two remarkable novels whose sheer beauty, elegance, cosmopolitanism, and ambition have brought comparisons not only to Pramaoedya Ananta Toer, considered Indonesia's modern literary genius, but also to Salman Rushdie, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Mark Twain.
Publishers Weekly named Kurniawan a "Writer to Watch" for Fall 2015, and his books were recently reviewed in The New York Times and San Francisco Chronicle.
Don't miss your chance to meet the author in person! Both books will be for sale at the event. RSVP to let us know if you'll be there.
For more translations from Southeast Asia, check out a story by Thai writer Prabda Yoon and poetry from Vietnamese poet Ngo Tu Lap in Two Lines Online.
The fall fog is hovering over San Francisco and school is back in session. For about a month now, teachers and students have been readjusting to the sound of bells, the homework, the concepts, impossible locker combinations.
I remember September as a mass of anxiety mediated only by my excitement of the unknown. My brother and I would stand outside our red house in our first day outfits, backpacks on, and my mother would take a photo. But what began with my nervous smile and my brother's insistence on wearing his bug t-shirt quickly transformed into a world of dissolving boundaries and crystalizing nuance.
In the coming months, a lot can happen. It's amazing how quickly children develop their interests and knowledge. They go from scientists, to poets, to 100-yard sprinters, to historians–oftentimes all within the course of a single school day.
The arts, in their many forms, transcend the boundaries of school subjects, which is just another reason to celebrate them this week as part of National Arts in Education Week.
Coinciding with the start of the school year, Arts in Education Week is a good reminder to all of us of the importance of multidisciplinary education. The experiences, no matter how small, that kids have in the classroom greatly influence them and inspire them outside the classroom. It is important, too, to remember that Art is a broad spectrum, including many forms of creative self-expression, such as the written arts and, yes, translation.
The California Alliance for Arts Education has a Top 10 list of things to know about arts education, and the National PTA has a fact sheet about the benefits of arts education.
Here at the Center, we're excited to kick off the school year with a Poetry Inside Out Teachers Workshop next week (Sept. 25-26) for Bay Area classroom teachers interested in bringing our poetry and translation-based language arts curriculum to their classrooms. Participants will learn the ins and outs of the program and join a community of likeminded practitioners passionate about diversity in education. Find out more about the workshop and register here!
And don't forget to check out the Arts Education Resource Fair on Sept. 24 here in San Francisco!
Two Lines 23rd issue is hot off the presses and will be on it way to subscribers—along with another fall title, Wolfgang Hilbig's The Sleep of the Righteous—in the next few weeks!
While you're waiting for your copy, here's a preview of what you'll find inside. We asked Poetry Inside Out Program Coordinator (and Two Lines editorial assistant) Sarah Coolidge to write about her favorite story. You'll have a chance to read about her pick and Associate Editor Marthine Satris' recommendation in the next few posts, which come to you from the Two Lines Press blog.
"One day, a strange man came along playing a flute, and all the children danced after him, drooling, their eyes wide and round as chrysanthemums."
When I was in fourth grade, I decided to learn to play the flute. We had to choose an instrument to learn, and I thought that because it was the smallest of the orchestral instruments it must be the easiest. That's how child logic operates sometimes. Needless to say, I was mistaken.
Unable to achieve the rounded notes of my teacher (and some of the naturals in my class that I copied with mounting desperation), I produced instead several squeaky, high-pitched peeps that must have been quite painful to listen to. With each breath of air, blown roughly through the "O" shape of my unnaturally pursed lips, I mastered the art of squeaking. Unfortunately, there was no place for squeaking in the school orchestra. The next year I gave it up.
Today, when I hear the rounded notes of a flute I remember the remarkable (dare I say magical?) way that our teacher guided us through a song, directing and obstructing air in a dizzying flurry of the fingers. This brings me to one of my favorite pieces from the upcoming 23rd issue of Two Lines. Told through 44 unique vignettes, Yoko Tawada's "The Piper" is unlike any other fairytale I've read. Translated by Margaret Mitsutani, the story—if you can really call it a single story—is a contemporary and sharp-edged transformation of the tale of the Pied Piper.
Popularized by the Brothers Grimm, the Pied Piper has since been retold in verse and prose by Goethe and Robert Browning. The poet Marina Tsvetaeva, who lived through the "terrible years" of Russian history, which included civil war and famine, borrowed the tale as an allegory for Bolshevik propaganda. Fairytales are beautiful for their ability to adapt to their surroundings; authors consistently modernize them, and we delight in their soothingly universal relevance.
Instead, Yoko Tawada dives into the shockingly personal details left out by most fairytales. After all, in fairytales we speak in general terms. The community is grouped into vague cloisters of townsfolk and people, and even the protagonists fade into unanimity, often going by their titles alone: prince, fairy, piper, etc. And yet each character, under the thumb of the omnipotent narrator, hides a unique perspective behind his or her silence.
In "The Piper," these perspectives are unleashed. Secrets are voiced that we almost regret having heard. The story of a mass kidnapping takes a carnivalesque twist. A pair of traveling entertainers is likened to a pair of fleas; children are continuously compared to rats; and the Piper, with his feathered red hat and magical flute, pops up across centuries and cultures. Tawada goes so far as to ask us to consider the rats: are they really guilty of carrying disease, or are they mere scapegoats for human filth and folly?
Read the full post, and buy your copy of the latest issue or subscribe to Two Lines Press!
You can also read exclusive online content translated from Thai, Hungarian, Slovak, Swedish, and more.
This post is also available on the Two Lines Press website. It was written by Poetry Inside Out Program Coordinator Sarah Coolidge. In addition to her work with Poetry Inside Out, Sarah offers editorial assisatnce to the Two Lines journal, and she's our in-house photographer for Two Voices events.
When I first searched the name Richard Weiner online, I found only a short Wikipedia article and a handful of blog posts by Slavic literature enthusiasts, clearly intended for fellow academics and speakers of Czech. I was intrigued but bewildered. Here and there I caught bits of information: passing remarks about the writer's sexuality, France, WWI, and odd comparisons to Franz Kafka and Marcel Proust, amounting to mere fragments of a life lived and obscured for nearly a century. I wished I knew Czech.
After speaking this past spring to Benjamin Paloff, Weiner's translator and a professor at the University of Michigan, I realized that Weiner was a contradiction of identities, much like his protagonists. "It's no longer, and not yet, real; it's the most beautiful moment he could ask of waking," the narrator tells us in the opening pages of "The Game for the Honor of Payback," the second part of The Game for Real. It seems that all of Weiner's protagonists live in worlds in which they would rather not exist. In these worlds—I say worlds because Weiner's universe is multifaceted and malleable—they are pursued, invaded, manipulated, ignored, accused, and shamed. And in this particular case, the protagonist is literally referred to as Shame...
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On July 24th and 25th Poetry Inside Out took part in the Philadelphia Writing Project's annual Invitational Summer Institute. Focusing on literacy approaches and key instructional strategies, the yearly Summer Institute works with a select group of teachers from the greater Philadelphia School District, equipping them with the skills needed to meet the needs of their students.
Over the course of the two-day workshop, Poetry Inside Out's Director of Curriculum and Research, Marty Rutherford, led the 36 participating teachers through the ins and outs of the rigorous poetry and translation curriculum. They went through the same process that their students will follow: learning the basics of literary translation and translating poems in small groups, discussing and defending their translations, and for a brave few, reading their translations aloud to the group.
The teachers were enthusiastic, united by a desire to educate and empower their students across a range of disciplines. One teacher told us afterward, "I think this will really help my students think deeply about words, word meanings, concepts--and life!" Another participant said, "Poetry Inside Out is a great way to build community in the classroom with all the diverse learners." We also heard "multilingual texts in the classroom is an immense resource for giving a voice to English Language Learner students." During the upcoming school year they'll be bringing the program to their classrooms—stay tuned for updates!
Interested in becoming a member of a growing network of Poetry Inside Out teachers using creative and imaginative ways to engage kids in literacy learning?
Join us on Sept 25th and 26th for our next Poetry Inside Out Bay Area workshop. Interested teachers should contact Mark Hauber at mhauber [at] catranslation.org for further information and to learn how to register.
The arts don't just enrich our lives and our souls, they're an economic force as well. They're a large part of the economy of cities like New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, employing hundreds of thousands of people. Artists and cultural organizations have always been at the forefront of creating vibrant neighborhoods and cities. That's why we're so excited that San Francisco—our hometown—has recently reaffirmed its commitment to the arts and arts funding, and significantly increased the budget for the city's arts funding agencies.
A recent SF Station article about the increase in arts funding in the city's new budget quotes Americans for the Arts' data showing that San Francisco alone is home to more than 5,000 arts organizations that employ about 30,000 people. Incredibly, arts and culture tourism brings $1.7 billion of economic activity to the city each year.
But the Bay Area's incredible economic growth is pushing out many arts organizations, and San Francisco recently responded by committing $7 million to the arts over the next two years. As reported in SF Station, the "Shared Prosperity for the Arts" package includes a $2 million enhancement to the San Francisco Arts Commission Cultural Equity Endowment Fund (a 50% increase) plus $1 million dedicated to Grants for the Arts. (Grants for the Arts supports individual artists and under-served communities, as well as small and mid-sized not-for-profits).
An additional $3.8 million has been set aside to make a capital investment in the city's Civic Art Collection and Cultural Centers and for arts education. And a Community Arts Stabilization Trust was created to help small and mid-size arts organizations secure long-term, affordable space in the face of skyrocketing rents.
Two Voices author and translator events have been supported by the San Francisco Arts Commission and Grants for the Arts for years, and we're thrilled at the recent 50% increase to Two Voices from these city sources.
The new funds will help us host more events with international authors and translators through 2016. Like Two Voices Salons and readings with Two Lines Press authors Naja Marie Aidt and Toni Sala; plus events in Berlin, Amsterdam, and New York with Isabel Fargo Cole, the translator of our upcoming book The Sleep Of the Righteous by Wolfgang Hilbig.
You can support the arts and the Center's literary programs by checking out our Events calendar--stay tuned for more details!
This spring marked Poetry Inside Out's second year working in partnership with Mills College's School of Education and the Oakland Unified School District. As part of a semester-long course taught by Mills Professor Tomás Galguera, Poetry Inside Out staff helped run workshops for the sixteen participating teachers from fourteen Oakland schools. The teachers spent the spring learning about the program–both the theories behind it and how to implement it in their classrooms–and met weekly to reflect on their own teaching practices as they worked to promote literacy, participation, cooperation, and cultural diversity in their classrooms. Chuck Erdmann is a teacher at Alliance Academy and participated in the workshops.
For my Newcomer students, Poetry Inside Out was intimidating, challenging, and risky. And yet it was a challenge that they were not afraid to take on. If you can walk from El Salvador or Honduras to the United States, translating a poem or learning a language is nothing. As we all witnessed, the risk that one takes when reading an unfamiliar language, translating it, and creating a new poem builds a wealth of knowledge and a deeper understanding of language.
I first introduced Poetry Inside Out to a small group of eight 8th graders–four from my Newcomer program and four who were proficient English speakers. While reciting the poems was fun, the discussions were minimal and the translation process seemed very formulaic: find the word; translate the word; write the new word. Was I doing something wrong? Then I realized what needed to be done. The process in general was a challenge, but we had to challenge each other, asking questions like "Why do you think that?" or else just plain disagreeing. These were teenagers; they needed conflict.
Once testing week came around I had smaller classes and the experiment began. What if we went from Japanese to English to Spanish? Students used Google Translate and searched for images on their phones in order to identify the synonyms they wanted to use for their double translations. Students spoke in their native languages to develop a deeper understanding. Students with a deeper knowledge of English helped those with less. At times they were vexed. "No this makes no sense in Spanish," Kevin cried one day. I realized that their previous exposure to poetry was minimal. They struggled to understand that a poet might skew the rules of sense and grammar in order to communicate meaning.
I decided that all my students needed to have this experience and, I asked myself, what better time than the end of the year? While introducing the poem to the group, I initially focused on the process of translation. Some students seemed bewildered. They couldn't quite grasp how to use the Translator's Glossary, which gives definitions and possible synonyms for each word, and were more comfortable using Google Translate on their phones. One thing did resonate with the whole class: the joy of reading poetry in another language. The Ethiopian students read Spanish, Salvadorans read Vietnamese, and everyone gave German (my favorite) a try. Participation was growing through the roof.
Students were excited, and it wasn't until watching a video of my class doing a translation that I realized Jefferson wasn't off topic when talking to Kevin; he was expressing his excitement for the language we were translating that day. There was something about Poetry Inside Out that went beyond the uncreative, thoughtless, point-and-say curriculum that programs like mine have unfortunately adopted.
Excitement drives me forward and keeps me thinking about my theoretical questions. I began with some doubts because of my students' language limitations, disrupted educations, and their general placement in schools as "others." But what I did next surprised me: I dove in, I tried, I failed sometimes, but mostly I succeeded. Poetry Inside Out made me reflect on what I wanted my classroom to be: a place for students to learn and love language. Building basic English is important, but it has to be connected to something meaningful. Poetry Inside Out made me feel like we were doing just that.
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Now, however, I'm asking for some outright help! I'm planning to make a trip next year (probably May of 2013) from my home here in NYC (I'll start at a beach somewhere just so I can say I went coast to coast) all the way out to CA (either San Fran or LA) and I know nothing. Well, that's not completely true but for the sake of argument lets say I know nothing. I've been riding with the local New York Cycling Club and have been getting some nice help from a lot of the people in the group, but they are mostly racers or day riders focused on going fast and now I'm trying to focus on going heavy.
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Ten years ago there was a trend of smaller and lighter is better in the mobile phone world, but now that's all changed. There are still lightweight phones out there, such as the BlackBerry Curve 9360 and slimmer phones are starting to make a comeback but packing so much technology into the handsets and demand for larger screens has made the mobile phone turn into a miniature laptop or tablet PC.
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Amarprakash "Temple waves" Phase 4 Launch on 26th and 27th Sep 2015 was a grand success! Customer's flooded to Own the pocket - friendly homes with 66 Incredible and intellectual amenities that builds your kid's future.
Amarprakash Developers Launched, "PALM RIVIERA" Phase 2 - Chennai's First Island Apartment on 29th & 30th August 2015, we extend our hearty thanks to all customers for making this event a "Grand Success"
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I'm a huge fan of Biggie, i love the guys songs and all that. So i was extremly happy to hear that a film about Big's life was coming out. I was there in the cinema watching it and it had me entertained from start to finish. Jamal played an excellent Big, Anthony Mackie fitted the role of Tupac perfectly, Derek Luke played an okay role for Puff but it was nothing special and that goes the same for the actors who played Lil Kim, Faith Evans, and Big's mom. It addresses everything about Big... More
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Couldve pedicted this kind of review even before viewing. Clearly not much research done as Biggie's own mother was heavily involved in the production. So no, probably not altered history to his own ends. Anyone who knows Diddy's kind of personality would say that he is an unlikely saint, he's selfish. You wouldnt get to where he is without being. Shit review. ... More
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I've never seen a movie where the supposed hero is so unlikeable - he's a complete bastard all the way through. Badly made too. "The second star is for the soundtrack" is bang on. The fact that you get to listen to a lot of Biggie is a tiny saving grace. ... More
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BURLINGTON–Two minutes into overtime, Ryan Paul cut through the slot and fired a high back-hander in the glove side of the net to complete the Falcons comeback and give North Country a 5-4 win over Colchester to move their record to 5-0 on the season.
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The gun was a double barreled, 12 gauge Stevens Model 311.
If Tabor makes bail, he will have to abide by numerous conditions.
COVENTRY – With the price of milk down and plenty of space to work with, the Maxwell Family Farm in Coventry has diversified. They have built a 70-foot by 30-foot greenhouse.
The structure has been up since August and the results have been good.
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This time of year, the Maxwells are growing lettuce and greens.
DERBY LINE – World renowned chefs and entrepreneurs have proposed plans to turn a Derby Line historical mansion into a restaurant and inn. Paulitta and Fritz Halbedl, under the name FriPaulita Inc., unveiled plans for a farm-to-chef's-table restaurant with an international flair, drawing on their culinary experience from around the world.
WESTMORE - It takes courage and perhaps more than a little chutzpah to jump into the icy water of Willoughby Lake on one of the coldest days of of the year, and yet that's what people were doing Tuesday as they donned bathing suits, trudged barefoot across the snow-covered ground, and dove in, all for a good cause.
NEWPORT CITY – Alex Tabor, 32, of Newport, was arrested by Newport City Police Monday after he allegedly fired off a shotgun within city limits. Tabor is scheduled to be arraigned today.
City police responded to the intersection of Pleasant and Third streets just before 1 AM Monday after receiving a complaint that Tabor had fired a gun over someone's head. Someone driving by at the time reported that their vehicle may have been hit but no injuries were reported.
NEWPORT CITY – New Year's Day will forever be memorable for Darlene Gilchrist and Cody Reynolds of Island Pond.
Not only did the couple have the first baby of the New Year to be born at North Country Hospital, they also had the first baby of 2013 to be born in the state.
Sayge Reynolds came into the world at 1:59 a.m. Her weight was six pounds, five ounces and she was 20 inches long.
"It's exciting," said Gilchrist. "Just to know I was the first one in all of Vermont to have a baby of the New Year."
Cody Reynolds, who wasn't sure how to react, said he was taking it all in.
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Low Noise Amplifier operates from 10-14 GHz.April 17, 2015
Housed in leadless 3 x 3 mm plastic surface-mount package, Model CMD189P3 delivers greater than 19 dB of gain with corresponding output 1 dB compression point of +4 dBm and noise figure of 1.4 dB. Broadband MMIC device has 50 Ω matched design, which eliminates need for external DC blocks and RF port matching. Applications include point-to-point and point-to-multipoint radios, military end-use, and test instrumentation. Read More
Traveling Wave Tube Amplifiers suit uplink applications.March 16, 2015
Based on SuperPower technology, XTD-2000KHE Ku-band TWTA provides 750 W of linear power in compact, rugged package weighing 92 lb and drawing less than 3,200 W of prime power. XTD-1500DBSHE DBS-band TWTA provides 560 W of linear power for direct-to-home applications in same package and draws only 2,500 W of prime power. Designed for SATCOM applications, both are available as outdoor antenna-mount units with operating temperature of -40 to +60°C or as indoor rackmount configurations. Read More
Broadband Low Noise Amplifiers range from 30 MHz to 40 GHz.February 18, 2015
With noise figure levels from 2.5–3 dB typ across entire band, ultra-broadband and millimeter wave low noise amplifiers (LNAs) include 17 unconditionally stable models covering multi-octave bandwidths with flat gain response and GaAs PHEMT semiconductor technology. Features include 50 Ω hybrid MIC circuits enclosed in environmentally sealed metal packages with nickel or gold plating, stainless steel SMA or 2.92 mm connectors, and IP3 levels as high as +42 dBm. Read More
Ultra Low Noise MMIC Amplifier has 17-27 GHz bandwidth.January 26, 2015
Supplied in die form, CMD163 features gain of +24 dB, noise figure of <1.3 dB, and output 1 dB compression point of +19 dBm across 17–27 GHz bandwidth. All-positive bias scheme eliminates need for negative voltages and sequencing circuitry, and bias conditions are Vdd = 4 V @ 120 mA and Vgg = 3.0 V. LNA is internally matched 50 Ω design that does not require any external components aside from bypass capacitors. Areas of use include military and space applications and communication systems. Read More
High Linearity 4 W Power Amplifier suits Ka-band applications.January 20, 2015
Offered in bare die format and 5 x 5 mm, 32-lead QFN package, MAAP-011139 has 29–31 GHz frequency range and delivers 24 dB of linear gain, 4 W of saturated output power, and 23% efficiency. This high-linearity power amplifier, suited for Ka-band, high-data density satellite communications, provides >27 dBm Pout/tone while maintaining IM3 levels of 30 dBc. Rating for input and output return loss is 10 dB. Read More
GaN Low-Noise Amplifier features 23 dB gain.December 24, 2014
Able to survive input power levels up to 5 W without front-end limiter, 4–8 GHz Model CMD219 features output of 1 dB, compression point of +18 dBm, and noise figure of 1.1 dB across operating bandwidth. Typical bias conditions are Vdd = 10 V at 100 mA and Vgg = -2.3 V, although Vdd can vary from 5–28 V. Suitable applications include point-to-point and point-to-multipoint radios, military and space, and test instrumentation. Read More
Low-Noise GaN LNA features high power survivability.December 15, 2014
Supplied in die form, CMD218 offers gain of 22 dB, output of 1 dB, compression point of +19.5 dBm, and noise figure of <1.25 dB across 5–9 GHz frequency range. Unit can, without input limiter, survive incident power levels up to 5 W without any degradation in performance. With 50 Ω matched design that eliminates need for external DC blocks and RF port matching, LNA operates from 5–28 V supply and draws 100 mA typ quiescent current. Negative gate voltage is required for proper operation. Read More
Transimpedance Amplifier targets optical networking systems.September 29, 2014
Intended for 100G optical networking market, 4-channel ONET2804T provides less than 2 µA input-referred noise and virtually no cross talk between channels. Internal circuit provides photodiode reverse bias voltage and senses average photocurrent supplied to each photodiode. Available in 750 µm channel-pitch bare die, TIA serves parallel optical interconnects in applications with data rates up to 28 Gbps, such as optical line cards, point-to-point microwave backhauls, and video over fiber. Read More
Klystron Modulator provides pulse fidelity and repeatability.August 26, 2014
Featuring >0.1% pulse fidelity and repeatability, with 100,000 hr MTBF, DTI PowerMod™ Solid-State Klystron Transmitter is suited for particle accelerators and mission-critical radars. Unit includes PLC-based controller, pulse transformer, high voltage solid-state switch, and required protection circuitry to run Klystron. With peak RF power to 100 mW, amplifier offers pulse widths from 1 µs to 5 mS, repetition rate to 1 KHz, voltage flatness of <1%, and 0.1% reproducibility. Read More
Low Noise Amplifier offers wideband performance.July 22, 2014
Operating from DC-50 GHz, Model CMD206 offers noise figure of less than 3.5 dB, gain of greater than 11 dB, and output 1 dB compression point of +12 dBm at 30 GHz. Distributed LNA requires all-positive bias of only 4 V at 32 mA (drain), 3 V (gate). External drain bias network and input blocking capacitor are required for proper operation. Offering full passivation, die is suited for microwave radio and VSAT, telecom infrastructure, test instrumentation, and fiber optic applications. Read More
Ultra-Low-Noise Amplifiers suit E- and W-band applications.June 6, 2014
Measuring 1.7 mm², Model ALP283 operates from 80–100 GHz, while Model ALP275, measuring 2.125 mm², operates from 71–96 GHz. ALP283 provides 29 dB of linear gain, 2.5 dB typical noise figure, and P1dB of 3 dBm (2 mw). Delivering greater than 26 dB of linear gain, ALP275 features 3 dB typical noise figure and P1dB of 4 dBm (2.5 mw). InP HEMT MMIC LNAs are suited for W- and E-band commercial, civil, and military applications such as communication links, sensors, and millimeter-wave imaging. Read More
Low Noise Amplifiers serve military and commercial applications.May 27, 2014
Featuring hybrid microwave IC design and advanced GaAs PHEMT technology, 14 low noise amplifiers (LNAs) are capable of broadband performance between 9 KHz and 18 GHz. Ranges include noise figures from 0.8–3 dB, gain levels from 25–50 dB, gain flatness from ±0.75 to ±1.25 dB, and power output levels (P1dB or Psat) from 10–18 dBm. These connectorized SMA modules are unconditionally stable and include built-in voltage regulation, bias sequencing, and reverse bias protection. Read More
Integrated Pre-Filtered GPS LNA offers low noise of 1.8 dB typ.April 2, 2014
Comprised of pre-filtered GPS Low Noise Amplifiers (LNAs) modules, 312 Series amplifies signals while filtering out interference. Design maximizes out-of-band rejection while minimizing system noise figure and size. Along with choice of single or dual output, options include bias configuration; SMA, N-Type, or TNC connectors; and L1, L1/L2, L5, and L1/L5 frequency band options. Gain can be set from 16–40 dB in 3 dB increments, and low noise figure is 1.8 dB typ. Read More
Ultra Low Noise GaAs Amplifiers operate up to 16 and 17 GHz.January 24, 2014
Available as bare die for hybrid assemblies, CMD167 ultra low noise GaAs MMIC amplifier operates from 10–17 GHz. Supplied in leadless 3 x 3 mm plastic SMT package, CMD167P3 operates from 8–16 GHz. Both deliver >15 dB gain, with output 1 dB compression point of +11 dBm and noise figure of 1.8 dB at 14 GHz, and feature 50 Ω matched designs that eliminate need for external DC blocks and RF port matching. Each device requires single positive supply voltage for operation. Read More
Low-Noise MMIC Amplifiers meet MIL requirements.January 17, 2014
Utilizing E-PHEMT technology, CMA Series is tested to meet MIL requirements for gross leak, fine leak, thermal shock, vibration, acceleration, mechanical shock, and HTOL. Units are housed in 3 x 3 x 1.4 mm ceramic cases that are hermetically sealed and nitrogen filled. Offering thermal performance of -55 to +105°C, CMA Series includes four models with 31.5, 18.4, 23.0, and 17.0 dB gain and noise figures of 1.00, 0.75, 0.50, and 0.80 dB, respectively. Read More
Low-Noise Amplifier delivers more than 20 dB of gain.November 20, 2013
Operating from 6–20 GHz, Model CMD194C3 delivers greater than 20 dB of gain with corresponding output 1 dB compression point of +15 dBm and noise figure of 2 dB. Ports of MMIC are matched to 50 Ω, eliminating need for external DC blocks and RF matching. Housed in 3 x 3 mm ceramic surface-mount package, RoHS-compliant broadband amplifier is suited for point-to-point and point-to-multipoint radios, military EW systems, and test instrumentation. Read More
GNSS Controller regulates effective radiated power levels.November 18, 2013
Capable of handling any GPS L1/L2 or GLONASS L1/L2 signal application, GLI-METRO-G offers ability to select GPS plus GLONASS, GPS only, or GLONASS only signal output power control. Unit includes built-in antenna monitoring and oscillation detection. When used in conjunction with active GPS/GLONASS receive antenna, controller will pass GPS+GLONASS signals inside building, hangar, or any structure where signal is not accessible. Read More
GaAs MMIC Low Noise Amplifier covers 33-45 GHz applications.July 17, 2013
Featuring 50 Ω matched design that eliminates need for external DC blocks and RF port matching, CMD190 delivers >19 dB of gain with corresponding noise figure of 2.1 dB at 36 GHz. All-positive bias design eliminates negative bias sequencing circuits while simplifying board layout, and use of on-chip pinch-off tracking circuit ensures consistent performance over temperature and process variations. Solution offers full passivation for reliability and moisture protection. Read More
Low Noise Amplifier presents 2.1 dB noise figure.June 3, 2013
Supplied in RoHS-compliant, 3 x 3 mm QFN plastic SMT package, 6–11 GHz CMD186P3 offers 2.1 dB noise figure, delivers >18 dB of gain, and has corresponding output 1 dB compression point of +16.5 dBm. Product requires single +5 V supply at 78 mA, and 50 Ω matched design does not require any external components aside from nominal bypass capacitors. Applications include microwave radios and C- and X-band applications as well as point-to-point radios and phased-array radar. Read More
High Voltage Amplifiers offer output up to 20 KV.May 30, 2013
Available with unipolar or bipolar output at 0–10 kV, 15 kV, and 20 kV, 10HVA-20HVA Series can operate in DC, reversible, and amplifier modes. Units provide high-voltage DC to full scale waveform capability greater than 500 Hz+ output depending on loading. Amplifiers operate precision filter/divider and linear HV switch, and can both source and sink current linearly through 0 V. Performing with 25 ppm temperature coefficient, devices come standard with differential precision, 0–10 Vdc control input. Read More


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SC Governor Haley was joined by Louisiana Governor Jindal, Texas Governor Perry, and Wisconsin Governor Walker on August 26, 2013 in support of her public announcement to seek a second term in office. Such an array of state leaders, when coupled with Governor Haley's recent attempt to make health care in SC far better for newborns, provides an ideal opportunity to examine how state leaders go about trying to improve the health care system in their area of responsibility.
None of these governors will be found lacking in their personal commitment to wanting to improve their state's health care system, but commitment, without understanding, typically falls far short of the true need. Governor Haley, the SC legislature, and their recent joint effort to improve her state's health care system provides an excellent example of the results when sufficient understanding about a major issue is sorely lacking.
"Even if you cured cancer you couldn't get it to the people because the medical system is broken," was publicly acknowledged in Greenville, SC by one of the most esteemed medical leaders in the state in April 2010. This profound statement was followed by "There's no question that our nation's healthcare system is broken.," as authored by a medical center president and CEO, and immediate SC Hospital Association past president in 2011. However, both Governor Haley and multiple members of the SC legislature, when told of those two highly knowledgeable sources dire assessments of health care in SC, collectively responded with no response.
Dr. Williams' new book, Find The Black Box, Prevent Needless Hospital Deaths, and The Solution No One Else Is Talking About provides for those four governors, and every other governor, details on why every state's health care system truly is broken, and why trying to "fix their state's health care system" one bill at a time, regardless of how
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