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Bucketlist: Maldives
Where do I start….bucket list item ~ The Maldives ~ definitely top of my list. The thing about the Maldives is it's so far away; it's best paired at the end of an experience like Africa or India. But rest assured, if you only go the Maldives, you will definitely not be disappointed. Once you get there, all your travels and time spent on the journey seem to disappear.
My trip started from LAX, 16 hours to Dubai (Emirates really is an amazing air carrier), 7 hours in Dubai (took a little excursion to Dubai Mall and the Burj Khalifa), then 4 hours to Male, Maldives.
There are over 1,000 coral islands and about 200 inhabited islands. Each resort in the Maldives is on its own atoll and they are spread all over the area. There are 2 ways to get from Male to your resort…by boat or by sea-plane. However, it's not a choice, there's only 1 way to each resort. So that plays a bit into selecting your resort.
I had the pleasure of enjoying the wonderful JA Manafaru (Jay Aye Man-aye-far-rue) on the Maldives northern most atoll, Haa Alif. After arriving in Male (and a slight layover) we boarded our Sea-plane for the 75 minute flight to the resort. The resorts closer to Male allow you to get there by boat, however, those resorts are closer to the city and therefore don't offer the same feeling of location. However, picking 2 resorts, one by boat and one by plane allows you to cut down on the travel time a bit. Additionally, while the resort is 75 minutes away, and there are closer resorts, the additional flight time really doesn't matter since you're already in the plane. Saving 15 minutes of flight time isn't worth missing an amazing experience like JA Manafaru! Besides, the view from the plane is fantastic, I kept taking pictures of atoll after atoll because each one seemed a bit different, but all were beautiful.
Upon arrival at the resort the sea-plane pulled up to the dock and we were taken to our over-water bungalow. Going to a destination like the Maldives (similar to Bora Bora, Tahiti) I think an over water villa is the way to go!
Each accommodation comes with a pair of bikes that you can use to get around the island, but if you prefer to get a ride, just call a buggy and they'll come and get you. The trails through and around the island are great, mostly covered in tree canopies with dirt paths. It's easy to find your way around and enjoy all the amenities of the property. There are 7 dining venues, a spa, a water sports area, numerous beaches and beauty everywhere you look. I walked around the entire island in about 30 minutes.
The food was great, from the buffet breakfast, to the pool-side lunch, dinner on the beach or wine and dessert in the Cellar (originally the first one in the Maldives). The way the Maldivian head chef put together flavors and ingredients was exceptional. Each meal, from the first to the last, was great. There is nothing I would have done different, definitely one of the high points of the resort!
Aside from the normal pool and beach activities, we enjoyed snorkeling in the most beautiful water I've ever seen, followed by lunch on the boat and a quick tour to find the spinner dolphins, who played in front of the bow of the boat for a bit. One evening we went out about 5pm to go fishing (for our dinner) in the typical Maldivian style. We dropped our lines in the water, and let the line drop to the bottom of the ocean. When we got a bite we pulled the line up (we were given cloth gloves to protect our hands) and brought in our evening meal. When we arrived back at the resort, a bit after sunset, the chef met us, took our catch and later that evening provided us the best and freshest sushi I've ever enjoyed.
JA Manafaru is definitely a place I'd go back to. The accommodations were great, the food amazing and the setting beyond description. As I sit and write up my experience I continue to remember so many special places and moments, but then, if I included them all, this would be way too long and no one would read it….so please ask me for more info. I'm happy to share so much more of my first Maldivian experience!
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Anyone who is a parent can identify with the stresses inherent with the role and that a network of support is essential to ease the intrinsic challenges of raising children. Two programs at Lutheran Social Services of Illinois (LSSI), Intact Family Services and Intact Family Recovery, provide vital support to parents who have few people to turn to at a crucial time when their children are at risk for abuse or neglect. The voluntary programs are important safety nets for vulnerable families, many grappling with challenges like domestic violence or trauma that are exacerbated by poverty and lack of basic needs, such as food and housing.
Part of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) and administered by nonprofits like LSSI, the programs help families reported to DCFS for suspected abuse or neglect. Part of the program's success hinges on LSSI caseworkers building trust with families. "We strive to provide the same level of service we would want if the client were a member of our own family," said Intact Senior Supervisor Julie Hanson, LCSW.
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Ashley Rule, an Intact client and mom to five, has benefited from Koeppen's support. With her husband working full time, Rule acknowledged the stress inherent in parenting. "Parenting is not easy," she said. "To have the support that Rebecca and Intact provide is amazing."
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Down from the Mountain
An interpreter's perspective on the book – Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
Seth Godin, in his newish book on Tribes, takes on a challenging task – prompting us to consider how we see our role as workers in our modern, social world.
We've looked at tribes from the point of view of our own profession – conference interpretation. Here, we break down the basics – what tribes are and how they work, and how interpreters might see what they do from the perspective of the tribe.
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What are Tribes?
Tribes happen when people are connected to each other, connected to a leader, and connected to an idea. Tribalism isn't new, and has taken on a slight tinge – traditionally connected with concepts such as ethnicity or labor, for example. Tribes live together in valleys, having relieved themselves of the day-to-day drudgery of rugged mountain-man individualism. When people enter into a tribe, they enter into a community that moves in a common direction. They have shared interests, ways of communicating, and a leader to direct traffic. Most importantly, tribes happen because the community wants change, and have faith that the change they seek is desired and actionable.
So, there are leaders and followers. Godin evokes the specter of Steve Jobs and others in the tech lineage as examples of tribal leaders. Leaders design iProducts. iConsumers buy them, and crucially, build communities that recognize a common allegiance, thereby building momentum for iProfit. Followers, as it stands, should be respected in fulfilling their role, yet Godin leaves us feeling that anybody who's anybody really would want to be the leader.
The conference interpreter's perspective:
Interpreters traditionally don't, but can fit the model. Interpreters embody the rugged individual. They speak your language, but they also speak that other language too. Jobs are typically by contract, not employment. Even the tools of the trade, like the notes they take to remember your 15 minutes of speech, are custom made for that interpreter – no two sets of notes are alike.
Interpreters act with other interpreters as a crowd, rather than a tribe. They are the mountain goats of linguists, their bonds made through an association of geography or language. At the end of the day, most self-employed interpreters know that crowd-level success is great, but individual success is necessary.
Is there a way off the mountain for interpreters?
Tribes need a way for people to commune with one another. In Godin's modernist view of the tribal world, community is shifting away from old notions of manufacture, ethnicity, and nationality – towards new conceptualizations of ideas and services. Social media doesn't make a tribe in and of it's own merits. Members create tribes when leaders leverage a medium to facilitate communal ownership of the platform.
Such facilitation seems to be exactly what interpreters do for clients. Moving away from the A/B-language view of the interpreter, could it be that the interpreter acts as tribal leader, utilizing a medium (interpreting) that facilitates tribal qualities in the community of clients they serve? Going back to Godin's Tribal concept, let's situate that with the interpreter. Tribes happen when:
The challenge of application rests on the idea of faith. Currently, interpreter codes of ethics mandate that the interpreter take on a neutral stance. The interpreter should take on their role as if they do not exist – where meaning is the sole province of the speaker. For interpreters to take on a role as leader, they would require a new mandate. Wittgenstein famously said that meaning is a two-sided coin… negotiated between people, rather than dictated by individuals. Are interpreters arbitrators of meaning, or are they simply translators of meaning?
We think that the value prospect of the entrepreneurial interpreter lies in their capacity as tribal leaders.
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Michael Grez and Tian Huang of Intran Solutions LLC, provider of authentic conference interpreting service between Chinese and English - based in Washington, DC.
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Takeaway: People can understand interpreter problems without knowing the language.
A while ago, we received some feedback from a client that we just finished interpreting for.
"Thanks for doing such a good job!"
Really, we wondered? How could someone who doesn't speak both languages 'feel' that the interpreter did a "good job"?
The client continued: "I felt that when I emphasized something - that you did the same when you were interpreting."
This idea got us started thinking about how that famous line – that 90% of all communication is non-verbal, meaning that you should be able to understand a whole lot of what someone says without even knowing the language. It seemed like for us as interpreters, that this would be very important to deeply understand, so we took this idea and ran with it.
The result has become a collaborative effort between us, an interpreting company, and an academic friend at a university... Michael Grez of Intran Solutions, along with Dr. Kazuki Hata of Tokyo City University, recently presented their findings at the recent American Association of Applied Linguistics conference in Portland, called Repair in Interpreted Monologue.
The findings show that people who use interpreters can understand - not only that their interpreter is experiencing problems - but also can understand how the interpreter is trying to fix that problem. All without knowing the language.
This is particularly important for anyone who uses interpreters, because it's absolutely necessary that communications can flow freely between people, and not be bothered by wondering whether or not the interpreter is doing their job well enough. Because, as soon as they're wondering about the interpreter, they're not focused on what they need to be focused on – the client, getting the sale, getting to Yes, or whatever.
So, we think that there is a lot more room in the interpreting industry for teams like this– where the rubber of academia can meet the road of interpreting practice. We'll keep you posted on other collaborative efforts as we find them.
Until then… Have you ever heard of practicing interpreters and academics joining forces? If so, we would love to hear from you.
This article is co-written by Michael Grez and Tian Huang, co-owners of Intran Solutions, provider of interpreting and translation services between Chinese and English, based in Washington, D.C. Special thanks to Kazuki Hata!
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Competing Across Languages
A recent report put out by the Economist Intelligence Unit describes how language affects business done across borders. This article describes how translation (spoken interpretation and written translation) fits in this puzzle, so that company can better understand the situations where they might best utilize such services.
The skinny: Companies understand they are not providing the best returns for shareholders because of failures in cross-border communication. Translators are an important part of the solution mix. Here's how...
The Report
Comprised of a survey and interviews with experts and senior executives, the report suggests that companies experience challenges relating to how well, or poorly, multi-language resources are managed. Here's some quick stats:
Beyond such fluffy statics, it's most important to consider local challenges. 61% of Chinese-based firms say that they have 'suffered financial losses as a result of failed cross-border transactions.' Lan Kang, the general manager of human resources at Fosun Group, based in Shanghai, attributes such difficulties not only to language, but also culture: The 'high-context' Chinese style of communication does not always translate well into the 'explicit' approach normally taken in the American style. But, how does a company cross such barriers in the best way? There's a choice between using employed bilinguals, or contracted translators.
On using bilinguals
It is true that job candidates with two+ languages are in demand - approximately 40% expect job candidates to be multilingual. Bilinguals are useful, especially at the higher end of the employment market, where superior skillsets are correlated with superior second-language skills. Yet, bilinguals are not always the best option. The bilingual bottleneck can filter out other desirable traits more specifically suited to the job, especially in places like China, where Ms Kang says 'Western multinationals often limit themselves to English-speakers and thus miss out on people with excellent operational experience who don't speak English.' There are also other issues, that we have discussed previously.
On using translators
The results of this report indicate that interpreters are most commonly used during communications with an outside firm. 42% report using interpreters and translators to communicate with 'external partners across borders'. Almost half of that, 23%, report the same internally.
Likewise, of the external factors affecting cross-border communications, the most critical are in developing relationships with clients or customers overseas, selling overseas, and branding/marketing. This makes sense - You only get to make a first impression once, and if that involves butchering the relationship via poor communication efforts… As they say, that's all folks.
The translator wants how much money?
It's true. Good translators are expensive. That's why we think that companies doing cross-border trade or operations should carefully consider their specific situation. Bilingual employees might just be the right option, or they might not.
So, consider the situation:
If YES, that interpreter or translator might just be a great investment. You, your customer, and your shareholders will appreciate how your interpreter pays dividends.
Michael Grez and Tian Huang of Intran Solutions. We provide interpreting and translation services between Chinese and English.
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The Confluence conference is designed to offer "workshops, and opportunities for discussion, networking and career development, and celebration focusing on various aspects of translation, including literary, practical and philosophical dimensions."
It drew attendees from all local walks of life, including translators working between an impressive range of languages, a limited number of interpreters (like ourselves), and institutions. Here's our take on the conference overall, and a bit about our small part in it.
The Conference
Confluence 2016 happened over two days, during International Translation Day, at Montgomery College near Washington DC. The first day, which we did not attend, was an open mic session with translators describing their translated works. The following day drew about 100 people, who attended presentations about both translating and interpreting topics.
The keynote was offered by David Bellos, of Is That a Fish in Your Ear? fame. One of the most impressive points made in this presentation has been previously mentioned in Thirwell's review of the same book…
It's often said, for instance, that a translation can't ever be an adequate substitute for the original. But a translation, Bellos writes, isn't trying to be the same as the original, but to be like it. Which is why the usual conceptual duo of translation — fidelity, and the literal — is too clumsy. These ideas just derive from the misplaced anxiety that a translation is trying to be a substitute.
Vivian Cook would be impressed.
Bellos' presentation moved several audience members to explore a whole host of issues. For almost an hour, the questions came. Could it be that the translation community is hungry for a more theory/research driven approach to their practice? We hope so.
The presentations offered by others seemed more focused on the local community of translators and interpreters, and institutions. For example, local translators, like Andrew Gudgel and Minh Van T. Tran, spoke about their own translating work and discussed how poetic form can be maintained in translation. Later in the afternoon, Maria Brau and Amanda Curry discussed the FBI's use of translators in an institutional capacity.
For our part…
Intran Solutions presented Signaling Quality through Interpretation. This focused on creating a new method of practice for interpreters that is designed from linguistic and economic perspectives. This was a big experiment for us, because we weren't sure how the audience would take to discussing such topics, and we were very interested in getting critical feedback from the community. Wonderful things seem to have come out of it. Several audience members offered questions and critiques that will help us build on the idea.
Every conference brings something a little different to the table. Confluence focuses on the local Washington DC scene. If there was anything that we'd like to see changed, it would be to label interpreting as distinct from translation. Still, it was awesome to see such variety present in such a local event.
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Interpreter Tools: Custom Notepads
There's been a big push from the interpreting community to professionalize. We seem to be moving from the neutral language-elephant in the room to a value-adding aspect of what businesses, governments, and individuals do. This is all super cool, but making that shift means it's important for interpreters to reconsider all of the tools we use in designing value, just like we've already done with headphones and booths. Here, we take-on one of the least celebrated – but most important – tools an interpreter uses: The Notepad.
What goes into a good notepad? It should be easy to use, look professional, and be as cost effective as possible. Most find that 'Steno Pads' (short for Stenographer's Notepad) are a good option, but having a customized notepad can do so much more.
How can I make my own custom notepads?
The bits and bobs of a notepad are pretty simple. Here's what goes into making one, along with what we recommend, should you decide to make one yourself.
Customizing your pad means thinking about even its most mundane parts. You'll select the paper's brightness, weight (thickness), size, color, and any pre-printed stuff like horizontal writing lines (rules) or vertical margin lines. We recommend paper that's not too 'bright' to mitigate strain on the eyes. 20lb paper is pretty good to write on – it doesn't tear or shift and can be printed on any printer. The regular size, 8.5"x11", works fine as well, because two pad-sized pieces can be cut out of it. My personal preference is to use blank white 'multipurpose' paper, with a single printed line down each notepad's page. Here's a PDF if you'd like to check out how this looks.
The Back and Front
For backing, we recommend something thicker than the 24-point chipboard we originally purchased. This turned out to be too thin, so we're doubling up on these sheets for now so that the pad doesn't warp while being held. As for the front, we purchased 5.5"x8.5" postcards with custom printing on the front. These are customized with images, like the interpreter's name and company logo.
Binding Type
The binding mechanism is the hinge on your notepad. There are several types, each with their own features. We chose the type called Wire-O, because pages don't tend to get clogged up when flipped back and forth, larger sizes (9/16") can hold up to 100 sheets of paper, and the look is refined. There are cheaper types of binding, such as spiral binding, but we find these don't work as well. We use 3:1 pitch (that just means there are three holes per each holed inch), but 2:1 pitch might be usable as well.
Paper Trimmer Machine
This guillotine-like device trims the paper, back and front sheets to your preferred size. We chose Yescom's 400 sheet capacity trimmer. It handles, at one time, all the pieces that go into a single notepad, and consistently cuts well.
Binding Machine
Like Paper Trimmers, Binding Machines come in a range of prices and quality levels. We opted for the Akiles Wiremac-M Manual Wire-O® Binding Machine. The main things we considered here are the 'pitch patterns', from which you can choose either 3:1 or 2:1, its ability to choose which holes are punched and which aren't, the ease-of-use of the binding device, and overall robustness.
Is it worth it?
The initial cost is pretty high. We spent about $420 for the machines, and each pad costs about $1.25 to produce. A comparable quality store-bought pad would cost about $5.50, so this means that we will break even after about 100 pads. After that, we're saving money, and using pads that are efficient to make and use.
Best of all, our clients know that we mean it when we use the term: professional interpreter.
Developing a professional online network means developing profiles on online platforms. Some, like us, choose to focus first on LinkedIn, because it has a nice balance between popularity and professionalism. Yet, this single-platform model can limit what a small business' online identity can develop into. So, we've moved beyond the one-platform and have started developing several platforms by creating content (blogging). Here's how that transition is progressing.
Getting established: LinkedIn
Our goal with online marketing was to network with right people and organizations. As a boutique translation and interpreting provider, we need to communicate both with other industry professionals and potential clients. There's two things that need to happen:
A few things became apparent as we put up these posts. First (the obvious), we can get people to know about us (Goal #1) by posting on LinkedIn. As we did, our 'connections' grew, which made us feel Goal #2 was happening as well. We focused on short, easily digestible, content pieces that communicated from the first person perspective. Here are the titles in chrono, demonstrating how our posts moved away from the 'me and what I am' posts to the 'we and what we are' posts.
New directions!
Prepping for ATA--as a newly minted interpreter
A follow-up on ATA 2015. Putting it into practice.
Intran Solutions. Hello.
Is 'Authenticity in Communication' more than just what's said? A blog.
Impressions. Month three into a new interpreting business.
Second, we also learned about LinkedIn's limitations. By this we mean that because we were engaging with the limitations of a relatively small LinkedIn community of interpreters and translators, the ROI for each additional post would continue to decrease. This showed up on our radar as we noticed the same people liking and commenting on our content, and the number of connections elicited from each post decreasing (sorry, there's no easy way to show statistics on this). So, we began engaging other platforms.
Moving beyond the one-platform model
One option was to create a website and adding content through blogs. Links to those blogs would then be put up on other platforms, and on LinkedIn. Here are results comparing the resulting views from Linkedin vs. Not-LinkedIn platforms:
In going beyond the one-platform model, we've been able to create content that engages a wider audience and is better fitted to our mission. For us, this has meant that we write about ourselves in relation to respected and relevant organizations and theory. Here's those posts in chrono so far:
Proz's new affiliate TM Town. Innovation meets Ethics.
Selling interpreting by educating the client
Interpreters' Social Responsibility
Using: Interpreting-specific resources
What it's like to take ATA's new computer-based test
Do I need an interpreter or bilingual?
How does finding work work?
Interpretation: Rendition not Redirection
First time at the annual NAJIT conference: Professionals and People
Signaling in the Translation Industry
We think that getting on board with LinkedIn in the earliest stages of starting a company like ours is a great idea, because we really have gotten in contact with a lot of awesome people. With this foundation being set however, we have been able to expand out to more of the right people and organizations by developing an identity outside of LinkedIn by writing content on our website and linking to these blogs on several other platforms.
Tian Huang and Michael Grez are the co-founders of Intran Solutions, providing authentic communication between Chinese and English. Find us at www.intransolutions.com.
Translators ask a simple question before taking on any new gig: Are my skills right for this task? It's challenging to answer with so many unknowns. How technical is the language… Do I know enough about the topic? This article talks about how translators can get answers through signaling.
What is Signaling?
Signaling, in short, is indicating something to another person. Think presidential candidates pummeling the airways with advertisements. The idea is pretty simple, but let's dig a little deeper.
Where signaling becomes a little more complex is when people don't know much about each other – what academics call 'imperfect information'. If someone who needs a translation (a client) doesn't know much about a translator, they'll probably go to someone else they know more about, like an agency. The translator - regardless of their quality level - can't differentiate themselves, and contracts with an agency as well. So, what we don't know about each other can keep us from being able to directly contract with one another.
This isn't the best-case scenario for either translator or client. The client gets service provided by any translator provided by the agency. The translator ends up providing service at commodity-level prices. The goal for the translator should be to minimize what the client doesn't know. How's this work?
Signaling a Standard
Translators may signal to clients about their quality level by getting relevant certifications or training. But, it's also so important to understand just what is signaled through certs and training - they signal a standard, not the individual.
Only service providers that pass their certification/training will signal that they can perform at a certain standard. Even so, it's the standard that is being signaled, and...
The client is left wondering: Is this translator right for my task?
Signaling Individual Quality through Networking
Signals also come through a professional network, which is built through previous clients. This is great for the client and service provider, because recommendations come from trusted people who observed the actual work done in-action. If done well, a virtuous circle of networking should develop. On the flip side, though, people are much more likely to signal when they've got bad things to say. So, there is huge motivation not to take on tasks that are more than one can chew on!
It's pretty obvious that only experienced service providers will grow their network enough to be signaled consistently. This puts up a huge barrier for excellent - but new - translators. Networks take a lot of time and experience to build, so...
The translator is left wondering: How can I build a professional network?
Signaling through an Online Identity
Online platforms hold a special place on this list, because they only happen through the direct efforts of the service provider (in the same way as happens with certificates and training), and the efforts of a community (in the same way as happens with networking).
But – how do you know if you're using them right? One way we analyze this is through Klout, where some of the biggest names in the industry have high scores, like Tess Whitty and Marta Stelmaszak. At this level, LinkedIn, Twitter, FB and the other platforms don't simply work as discrete elements of an online identity. Rather, they support one another to design a single online identity.
Translators that signal competence online get the message out to clients by building such an identity. Those that signal but are not competent are filtered out. Those that don't signal online remain unknown.
We think service providers that signal well will be more likely to be found by the right type of client for the right type of task. Signaling well means signaling about yourself, signaling positive things, and signaling to many people. So, the question has really changed to 'Have I signaled well enough so that the right client is asking me about the right task?'
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This post was written by Michael Grez and Tian Huang of Intran Solutions, providers of Chinese/English conference interpretation and translation.
NAJIT just held its annual conference a few weeks back, and my experience as a first-time attendee drew comparisons with last year's ATA's conference. Those in the know – know that NAJIT and ATA are two of the most significant US-based organizations for interpreters and translators, and that each organization holds its own annual conference. Here's some first-hand tips on how to do conferences like NAJIT, and how these two events compare.
NAJIT, the National Association of Judicial Interpreters & Translators, is the go-to organization for all things law. The main body of the 2016 conference was held on a Saturday and Sunday in May, with select workshops offered on Friday (the 13th!). As a new professional, I had very limited contact with NAJIT (accepting some casual conversation with a few members) prior to the conference, but knew that getting involved would be instrumental to my efforts in establishing myself in the topical area of law. This is in stark contrast to how I approached attending the 2015 ATA (American Translators Association) conference, where I had previously been able to be a part of the organization's activities by getting involved with the local ATA chapter (I'm a board member of NCATA – ATA's DC subchapter), and that ATA is more focused on general skills than those related to a specific topical area.
Coming in to San Antonio from DC meant that I would need to make both flight and hotel arrangements. I reserved a spot for a Friday afternoon workshop, and paid for the conference fees online. The plan was to arrive the morning of, drop my bags in the hotel room, grab a quick power nap, and attend the workshop. Then, I thought it would be nice to meet up with both new and old friends over dinner to close out the evening. As for the rest of the weekend, I planned to just go with the flow until my flight left on Sunday afternoon.
Tip #1: Fly to the event the day before
This might seem pretty obvious, but flights can and will be problematic. Despite being scheduled to arrive several hours in advance of the workshop, my plans were a little roughed up by the lovely attendants at BWI who felt that it was in all our best interests to remain in the security line for a really long time (perhaps now they've changed their mind?). Anyway, flight missed; workshop missed. Not too much harm done, and I got to chill with friends in the evening anyway. Still, it was a shame to miss Judy Jenner's workshop on depositions.
Tip #2: Spring for the in-house hotel room
One of my best decisions was to bite the bullet and get a room at the same hotel in which the event was being held. NAJIT 2016 was held at the Marriott Rivercenter. Pretty swanky and pretty pricy, but well worth it after a long day of workshops/presentations/networking/dinners. Staying in-house meant that I had peace of mind in knowing that I could get back and forth between the conference and my room to handle any involved business phone calls or emergencies. It was also a benefit in that the hotel offered the flexibility for me to leave my belongings in the hotel room past the standard checkout time, so that I could finish out the conference based on my schedule – not the hotel's.
The Comparison – People and Professionals
NAJIT is focused. Much more so than ATA. This focus puts one in a great position to meet experts from a highly diverse background set, where professionals learn about what other professionals do as interpreters and translators of law. At ATA 2015, I met both agencies and LSP's that specialize in my language combination (Chinese/English). We spoke to one another, and made lasting friendships, based on what our language combinations or language needs are. NAJIT presented an entirely different dynamic. I think this is because of three main reasons.
NAJIT conferences have been described as 'united'. The number of attendees at this year's NAJIT, from my anecdotal point of view, was in the hundreds. ATA 2015, if consistent with prior years, was in the thousands. No better or worse judgement is implied here for either case, but it certainly designs a different dynamic. Relationship building just seems to happen better in a low population density environment than in a high-density micro-networking environment.
Focus on the topic
Law and all its relations (ethics, practice, specialties, etc.) can be a bear of a topic, and NAJIT provides a unique opportunity to focus on this single area for an extended period of time. A full weekend offers one time to focus the mind on several concepts and make novel connections between related, but distinct, presentations. This seems to foster the 'stimulating' and 'passionate' quality that has been spoken about NAJIT previously.
Focus on the members
At NAJIT, I met people and learned about their stories and profession. We did not share business cards because of a common language combination, or because we were both 'newbies'. I had conversations with people that, in learning about their backgrounds, allowed me connect better to my personal practice. The interpreter whose mother and father came from different continents and now live in the US. The pre-interpreter/translator lives of others. The fact that I observed my first town-hall style meeting where individuals had an opportunity to speak with the board about personal and organizational concerns. The connections I made with other members happened in a very organic way.
Put another feather in that hat, would ya NAJIT?
How does finding work work?
A few months back, some soon-to-be interpreting/translation MA graduates asked me a question at the end of a presentation: How do you get gigs? Stumbling around my words, I realized it seems like they come from almost anywhere. Here's a more focused light on that subject.
Faced with this same question as I started out, I initially broadsided agencies with emails and waited…and waited. Things started moving as soon as I began expanding my efforts, so that several ways, or what I'll call flows (described below) appeared. The distinction between doing things like emailing and doing other things (like making a website) is subtle but also necessary, especially in the beginning stages of a freelancing career.
How flow works
From beginning to end, each gig has its own flow. By this, I mean that there is a sequence of actions that people take, which eventually ends in actual interpreting or translating work being done. That's really academic sounding, so here's a classic example, where I (peekaboo!) had a friend who needed work done. We agreed on the terms (price, timeline, etc.), and work was done.
But soon enough, if you're like me, that personal network gets exhausted. This is where I adapted beyond my personal networks and email strategy. Two types of flow appeared and became apparent.
Pre-fab (Pre-fabricated) flow
This is the network that you've already got. All it needs is a little polish. Turns out that I had been developing this all along while in a previous life and during school – professors, visiting lecturers, past and present personal friends, etc. All I had to do was…
To start with, I reoriented how I engaged with online social platforms, like WeChat, and LinkedIn. Then some amazing flows happened, like this:
(Tian has an alumna, that has a friend, that works with a company…)
This is one of my longest flows. It shows that there are five individuals involved. All I needed to get it started was to know an alumna that believed in me. From there, the rest of the flow did the work, as I was introduced to each party down the chain. I made sure that the work done was par excellence, and hopefully now I've got four new flows from this one gig.
Fab flow
So, pre-fab flow is great, but it's even greater when it builds upon itself to create new sources of flow. Other resources, like association memberships and a website can act as a way for freelancers like us to create our own new opportunities. Here are two actions (making my website and becoming a member of a T/I association) that I've taken, and actual flows coming out of those efforts.
The point here is simple: Flow is where work comes from. It starts by vacuuming you up into a process that connects you with other people, and ends in work being done. Pre-fab networks do this automatically and with little effort, because all the pieces are already in place—all you need to do is to make yourself available and trustworthy. Fab flows are only available once you make/do something new, like a website, conference, association membership, etc. Early career freelancers should be open to opportunities offered by all types of flow, and therefore open to interacting with as many valuable collaborators as possible.
We imagine that as new freelancers graduate to a more experienced career-stage, certain flows become more valuable than others. So, only valuable flow-types will be developed, and other types will fall by the way side. Any thoughts on this?
Time to go with the flow! (sorry, I couldn't help myself)
Image (top): Ben Gray


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DescriptionI have been following Skullgirls for a long time and was super excited when it finally came out. I main Filia and Valentine and really like Filia's character and also thought her wig would be a big challange (I'm still working on it atm, haha).One of my new favorite costumes. I spent a lot of time trying to make everything accurate even though it's relativity simple and I just love it, ahhh.
he shirt I made from scratch. I based it off a blouse pattern and added a helluva lot of extra darts and seams, lengthened the sleeves, and added the oversized cuffs. The pockets were probably the hardest part since I wanted them to have that "3-D effect" that Filia's has. I patterned those off of some cargo pockets and have some craft foam stuck in there to help them keep their shape.
Hat and skirt were both made from scratch as well, but were not that difficult so I don't have much to say about them.
Wig has been a crazy, crazy adventure. Base wig was a long wig I got off of arda wigs. I ripped off the wefts in the back and created a hard felt shape for the mouth. Hair was then carefully applied with glue and hairspray to cover it. Inside of the mouth is felt that was glued on while the teeth and eyes were made from lightweight sculpy and glued on.
Tentacles are still a work in progress but I will get them done soon!
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It's been a pretty mediocre NFL season (and that's being generous), but there's always storylines to watch and matchups to see on a weekly basis no matter what. Here's what I'm looking forward to for Week 7.
Packers @ home on Thursday Night Football
Thursday Night Football is a mockery to the league, and it seriously needs to be canceled as soon as possible for the betterment of the league. But, since it's not, I'm more than happy to watch (and write about it).
The Packers are absolutely struggling this season. They're 3-3 after losing to the Cowboys at home Sunday, and now find themselves with their backs against the wall; the Vikings are 5-0 and can run away with the division quickly, and the Lions are 3-3 and playing well. More worrisome for the Pack is the play of Aaron Rodgers — there was a time he was by far the best quarterback in the league in my opinion, and I can no longer say that with confidence. Dating back to last year, he's struggling to put up numbers like he once did. With Eddie Lacy now on the IR, I'm looking forward to see how Rodgers and the Pack respond to some serious adversity on Thursday Night Football.
A London Game!
London games are another thing the NFL should consider dumping; players are forced to play on serious travel conditions, and it usually has a multi-week effect on teams and players. For us fans, though, it's just another game. I personally enjoy it because NFL Sunday starts that much earlier (9:30 a.m.).
The Giants face the Rams, and I'm looking forward to see how the Giants respond to more distraction (Josh Brown not traveling due to recent information regarding his past with domestic violence). The Giants offense, and Odell Beckham particularly, finally broke out against the Ravens last Sunday, so I'm looking forward to see if that trend continues moving forward, or to see if it was just a product of facing a banged up secondary.
Sam Bradford Returns to Philly
The 5-0 Vikings come off a bye to travel to Philadelphia, where Sam Bradford will face his former team for the first time. Bradford has played surprisingly really well, and I'm looking forward to see if he can continue his hot play against a team that he definitely has some personal vendetta against.
On the other hand, rookie phenom Carson Wentz will face his toughest task so far — playing against a red-hot Minnesota defense that will throw a ton of different looks at him. This, in my opinion, is one of the best games to watch of the week.
Two Teams on the Rise?
The Oakland Raiders will travel east to play the Jacksonville Jaguars, who are coming off two straight wins. The Raiders started the season really hot, but lost a tough game at home to the Chiefs. This matchup is particularly interesting to me because I felt these two teams would take some big steps this season. The Raiders certainly started off hot, but it took some time for the Jags to get a win. I'm interested to see 1. how the Raiders respond to a loss and 2. how the Jags will perform against a better team than the Colts and Bears.
NFC West Showdown
This Seahawks and Cardinals matchup looked like it would be one of the best of the season, but the Cardinals slow start to the 2016 season have made the storyline less appealing. Nonetheless, this is still a really big game.
The Cardinals are 3-3 and tied for third in the West after two straight wins, while the Seahawks are 4-1 and coming off a big win against a hot Atlanta team. The game is in Arizona, but I think the Seahawks are the better team. I'm interested to see if Arizona can convince me that they're for real again; back-to-back wins against the Niners and Jets didn't, but a win against Seattle may.
Another QB returning "Home"
Like the Eagles Vikings matchup, I'm interested to see how Brock Osweiler plays returning "home" to Denver on Monday Night Football. Osweiler has been underwhelming this season, but a win @ Denver can certainly adjust my feelings toward him. I don't see it happening, and I think Denver's defense is going to demolish him. But this matchup will be fun for that exact reason, and I'm excited to see if Brock can step up to the plate.


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Warm-up Drills (05.04.2012)
2 Rounds for Quality of
20ft Bear Crawl
20ft Crab Walk
20ft Standing Broad Jumps (No Pause)
-Inchworms/Cobra Stretch
-Scorpion Stretch
*Box Jump technique review
**20ft is pole to pole the long way inside the room
After warming up execute no more than 7 true attempts, hit or miss.
Box Jump 1-1-1-1-1-1-1
Notes: Raj, don't punch the box. Psycho.
A great way to scale this movement into a simpler or potentially safer jump test (depending on the athlete) would be to mark maximum overhead reach on our black iron stanchions with a bit of chalk. Warm-up with a few sets of low box jumps, bounds, or other jump variants before chalking up the hands and working through as many max jump attempts as needed. Chalk for jumping is madness, you say? It's actually an easy way to leave a mark with a loud hand 'slap' during the apex of a jump. Measure the distance between the starting point and the best jump attempt's mark to determine an initial vertical capacity score.
Get some, freaks.
Row x Max Meters
8 Rounds of (:20 on x :10 Rest) for each of the following movements:
Thrusters (65/45lbs)
Notes: There are 16 total 'Tabata' intervals of work between the Thrusters and Pull-ups. Athletes that need to scale Pull-ups will do all 8 Thruster intervals first, followed by all 8 Pull-up intervals. Those with a confident enough set-up are encouraged to attempt the 'Mash-up' Version, which alternates back and forth between Thrusters and Pull-ups each round as seen below.
:20 x Thrusters
:10 Rest
:20 x Pull-ups
:10 Rest
:20 x Thrusters
:10 Rest
:20 x Pull-ups
Continue for 8 Rounds of Thrusters and 8 Rounds of Pull-ups total.
Dumbbells also add a challenging twist to this workload, ensure you use a weight that's comparable to the 65/45lb guidelines (barbells); emphasis with this thruster isn't necessarily the weight as much as transition, technique, competency, and moving the load as fast as possible from point A to point B (under control). All weights must come back to the deck under control, no drops.
And yes, the phonetic pun in the title was absolutely intended.
Post total meters as well as high and low numbers for each movement to comments.
Mobility WOD
CrossFit Endurance WOD (05.04.2012)
Swim, Bike, Run, or Row (C2)
4 Rounds of (5 min x 3 min rest)
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Apple Boosts Performance in New iPad Air and Mini
Mar 19, 2019 5:00 AM PT
Apple on Monday announced a new 10.5-inch iPad and a refresh of the iPad mini.
The 10.5-inch iPad Air, which will sell for US$499 ($629 with cellular), provides 64 gigabytes of solid state storage and WiFi support. It has Apple's latest mobile processor, the A12 Bionic chip, and supports Apple Pencil and the company's smart keyboard.
"The Bionic A12 is a cut above the processors used in all other tablets on the market," Tim Bajarin, president of Campbell, California-based Creative Strategies, told TechNewsWorld.
The new 7.9-inch iPad mini, which will sell at a base price of $399 with WiFi support ($529 with cellular), also has an A12 chip, as well as Apple Pencil support.
The A12 boosts overall performance of the new Air by 70 percent and doubles graphics performance, according to Apple.
The Air's screen -- now 20 percent larger with half a million more pixels -- also has been upgraded to a 2224 x1668 pixel Retina display with True Tone technology.
True Tone dynamically adjusts the screen's white balance based on the light around it, so it's easier to view in any conditions.
Big Leap Forward
The mini also benefits from the A12 chip, which delivers three times the performance of its predecessor and nine times faster graphics, according to Apple.
Its Retina display is 25 percent brighter than previous models, and it has the highest pixel density of any iPad.
Both units have an 8-megapixel rear-facing camera and a 7MP front-facing camera.
The f/2.4 rear camera supports autofocus, panoramas, HDR for stills, exposure control, burst mode, tap to focus, timer shots, auto image stabilization and photo geotagging.
It also supports 1080 HD video recording, slow motion at 120 fps, time-lapse video with image stabilization, a 3x video zoom, and video geotagging.
The f/2.2 front camera supports many of the same features as the rear camera, including HDR, exposure control, and burst and timer modes.
The Air and the mini are available to order online immediately, and they will be in stores next week. Both will be offered in gold, silver or space gray.
"Today the iPad family takes two big leaps forward with an all-new 10.5-inch iPad Air that brings high-end size, features and performance at a breakthrough price, and a major upgrade to the 7.9-inch iPad mini, which also brings Apple Pencil, Retina display and the A12 Bionic chip to the many customers that love its compact size," said Phil Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of worldwide marketing.
iPad Pro Substitute
The new iPad Air is an "uptick in technology" over previous models, noted David McQueen, a research director at ABI Research, a technology advisory company headquartered in Oyster Bay, New York.
"It has a larger screen, better processor, lighter weight, eSIM -- all while nudging up the processing power to that of the iPad Pro, but at a markedly cheaper price than the Pro," he told TechNewsWorld.
"It has also adopted technology like the Smart Keyboard and Apple Pencil, which was initially just the preserve of the iPad Pro," McQueen added.
The 10.5-inch Air seems to be a replacement for the 10.5-inch iPad Pro, which has been discontinued.
"It looks like a refresh of that previous generation of iPad Pro without including all the bells and whistles on the latest version," said Paul Gagnon, director of technology analysis and research at IHS Markit, a research, analysis and advisory firm headquartered in London.
"The focus is to hit a $500 price point. The 2018 iPad Pro was meant to be a notebook PC replacement, so the typical configuration is well over $1,000," he told TechNewsWorld.
"This is Apple's way of maintaining some volume at a mid-range price point, especially to compete with some of the cheaper offerings that have come from Samsung and others," Gagnon added.
Smartphone Cannibals
Apple appears to be focusing the iPad on creative work, like note-taking and sketching, observed San Jose, California-based Kevin Krewell, principal analyst at Tirias Research, a high-tech research and advisory firm.
"The iPad mini could be a replacement for a reporter's notepad now that there's Pencil support" he told TechNewsWorld. "It does seem that these products will undercut the demand for the iPad Pro, especially the 11-inch version."
Although the rationale behind the Air refresh seemed apparent, the upgrade of the mini puzzled some analysts.
"I don't quite get the point of it," Gagnon said.
"At $400 for an 8-inch tablet, it is much more expensive than the typical small tablet, which is usually in the $100 to $200 range," he pointed out.
"There's some overlap with larger smartphones that have been introduced," Gagnon said, "so we've seen a dropoff in shipment volumes of tablets with those smaller screen sizes in the last year or so."
Worldwide shipments of tablets in the 7- to 9-inch category dropped from 84 million units in 2017 to fewer than 60 million units in 2018, he noted. The same is true for the tablet market, generally, with worldwide shipments slipping from 176 million units in 2017 to just over 140 million in 2018.
"It's a declining category," Gagnon said, "but most of that decline is coming from the smaller screen sizes, which are being cannibalized by the much larger smartphones."
Teen Appeal
The mini refresh also seemed puzzling to Lauren Guenveur, a senior research analyst at IDC, a market research company based in Framingham, Massachusetts.
"I heard rumors of the launch of a new iPad mini for many months before today, and for the life of me, I couldn't figure out why they would bring back a small screen tablet when they have a smartphone with a screen that approaches the same size as the iPad mini," she told TechNewsWorld.
That said, Guenveur's anecdotal experience suggests there may be some potential for the new mini.
"I do a lot traveling for work, and I do consistently see the iPad mini being the tablet that most teenagers and children have for media consumption," she observed.
"The mini seems to be for either technology laggards, or for those who need a device purely for consuming media," Guenveur added.
Although the tablet market is generally in decline, Apple has been able to buck the trend, for the most part. It may continue to do so with its latest iPads.
"The second quarter, third quarter, fourth quarter is going to look pretty good for Apple tablets," Guenveur said, "but I don't how much growth they have left in the iPad after that."


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EACEA - Programma Cultura
With the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union
This strand seeks to support cooperation projects between private or public organisations which have direct and practical experience in the analysis, evaluation, or impact assessment of cultural policies at local, regional, national and/or European levels. The project aims at addressing the promotion of cultural diversity and intercultural dialogue through the analysis and evaluation of gender policies within the cultural field at a European and National level, focussing on the countries which are partner of the project.
The project aims at investigating the support and visibility provided to women through their active role in the field of art and culture, of education and of lifelong learning, in order for them to become active and self-conscious participants in civil, social and cultural life.
The analysis will have a very specific focus on the network of Women Museums all over Europe, as they have a strategic role in urban spaces, providing arenas for participation, communication and sharing of knowledge, experiences, interpretations among different cultures and generations.
Women Museums represent a very meaningful starting point to analyse the interaction among cultural and gender policies, which can produce not only social and cultural values but also give a strong input to social inclusion and lifelong learning processes, as well as to active participation to community life.
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Museo delle donne di Merano (IT)
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Women's Museum in Norway (NOR)
Women's Museum in Denmark (DEN)
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Who: Pablo Discobar
When: Sunday, June 24
Where: Moe Joe's
Scungy dancehalls, brown suits and reel-to-reel tape machines: what is not to love?
"What I love about that era was that there was no over thinking," said guitarist Arik Blum of the Australian band Pablo Discobar. "Music was an expression of a moment in time rather than a process of over analysis. Once something is commited to tape, it's done — no tweaking, no editing. Everything exists in the moment."
Pablo Discobar's in-the-moment experience comes to Whistler on Sunday, June 24 at Moe Joe's.
The band takes the theory so to heart that their first EP, The Only Thing, was recorded in five hours on six old TV microphones to produce its signature hard, tight soul shaking funk that has won over Australian audiences for the past four years.
"We have a strong emphasis on deep groove that allows melody to soar over the top," he said. "When you hear the recording, you will hear a lot of different ideas being expressed by all the individuals; however, each idea is set in a common vision to keep things simple and easy to understand."
This will be Pablo Discobar's first venture off Australian soil. The country's hardest working band has worked the Australia festival circuit non-stop with shows at the Woodford Folk Festival, Queenscliffe Music Festival, Apollo Bay Music Festival and Brisbane International Arts Festival. The eight-piece super heavy soul/funk band has won over an astute local following with their simple loops and melodies that lock in to shake a room. The Melbourne boys were heralded by Triple J as "the most exciting live funk band in Australia." Beat Magazine raved, "These boys are all shit hot musicians. A must have for all fans of funk."
"It's easy to live in a bubble and take your local reputation as the definition of where you are at," Blum said. "Coming to Canada is a chance to play to fresh ears and share the Melbourne music scene with the world."
After the tour, it is back into the recording studio with their debut album planned for late next year.
"We've got a couple things in the works," he said. "We are going to sit down and record our debut album, a cross Australia tour and then come back to Canada in time for the 2008 festival season," he said. "Oh yeah, and win a gold at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games."
Rumour has it music is really just a decoy for their real jobs as accomplished figure skaters.
"We're the first eight person group to pull off the inverse human pyramid on ice while singing Ricky Martin's Living La Vida Loca in Russian."
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Food trucks could eat up more downtown parking spots
City Council votes on bill to make food trucks legit in Pittsburgh
The City Council took a preliminary vote Wednesday on legislation aimed at making it legal and fair for food trucks to operate within Pittsburgh city limits.
Councilman Dan Gilman said he has been tweaking the bill for a few years and now believes he has the necessary support. The preliminary vote was 6-1 in favor, with two council members not voting.
Video -- Watch Jackie Cain's report
Current laws were written in the 1970s, aimed at regulating ice cream trucks and forcing food trucks to move every 30 minutes.
"Our food scene is one of the things that brings young people here, it's one of the things that creates tourism, and if you ask a lot of the young chefs who own brick-and-mortar places, they've signed a petition on my desk for food trucks. That's because they see it as part of the food scene and culture not as competition," Gilman said.
If the legislation passes, food truck operators would purchase a permit for $1,200 that allows them to operate for 12 months. They would have to comply with Allegheny County Health Department rules and regulations.
Food trucks would be able to park at metered spaces and stay for four hours. Trucks could be larger, and part of the measure encourages them to source food locally.
"Chronicle: Taste of the 'Burgh" -- See how Pittsburgh's food scene has grown and evolved
Not everyone is in favor of the bill.
Jeremy Waldrup, of the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership, supports food trucks and works with many on a regular basis, but has concerns about space downtown.
"Allowing food trucks to operate at the 500 metered spaces without the understanding of street and sidewalk congestion and how streets function is a recipe for chaos," he said.
Waldrup suggests creating a special district for food trucks with a specific location and hours.
Kevin Joyce, owner of The Carlton, said that some restaurant operators with limited parking spaces have concerns about trucks taking up spots for their guests.
Council will take a final vote Tuesday. Gilman expects the measure to pass, with permits being made available to food trucks by Jan. 1.
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2 ripe but firm Pears, peeled2 cups red Wine1/2 cup Honey1/2 cup WaterJuice of 1 LemonPeel of 1/2 Lemon1/2 cup California Raisins1/2 cup coarsely crushed Amaretti cookiesHoney Cream1/4 cup low-fat sour Cream1 teaspoon HoneyPinch of Cinnamon
Cut each pear in half and remove core and seeds with a small knife or melon baller. Place in a large saucepan with wine, honey, water and lemon juice and lemon peel. Bring to boil; reduce heat and simmer for 10 minutes. Flip pears over and simmer for 10 minutes more. Remove from liquid and let cool. Place three-quarters cup poaching liquid in a small saucepan with raisins. Bring to a boil; reduce heat and simmer over low heat for 10 minutes or until raisins are plump and syrupy. Place each pear cut side up on a dessert plate. Top with equal amounts of raisins then sprinkle with crushed cookies. Stir together sour cream, honey and cinnamon; place a spoonful on the side of each serving.
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A sweet, buttery, curranty filling encased in crisp, golden flaky pastry – classic British bake meets tasty Purim treat! It's the Eccles cake hamantaschen!
Purim inspiration?
Every year as Spring rolls around my thoughts turn to hamantaschen – those delicious three-cornered pastries traditionally enjoyed on the Jewish festival of Purim, which this year (2019) falls on 20-21 March. I really like creating new and different variations on the classic treat, whether they are sweet and crunchy like my fortune cookie hamantaschen, or deliciously savoury like my fabulous pizzataschen, which are perfect Purim party fare.
But this year I found myself at a bit of a loss. My inspiration had dried up and my creative juices just weren't flowing. What to do?
Do something else!
As so often happens, by setting the problem aside and getting on with something else, the answer was encouraged to come forward!
We were in the North, visiting Kipper's Grandparents for a few days. Inevitably, we spent a fair amount of time driving between DH's parents' house and my Mum's house. As we circumnavigated the M60 for the umpteenth time, I noticed the sign for the exit to Eccles and Irlam. That was it!
The Eccles cake hamantaschen was born.
Eccles cakes – a British classic
Have you ever had an Eccles cake? My Mum used to make them a lot when I was younger. They're super easy to do and very, very delicious. Plus, as they're packed with currants and other dried fruit, you can probably claim they count towards your five-a-day. What's not to love?!
Eccles cakes traditionally hail from the town of Eccles, near Manchester. They consist of a dried fruit filling encased in flaky pastry, usually topped with a sprinkling of sugar. The fruity, buttery treats have been sold in Eccles since 1793!
Of course these fabulous Eccles Cake Hamantaschen also enabled me to indulge my sometime hobby of creating British-Jewish food hybrids. (See Chelsea Bun babka, Chanukah mince pies, and Hot Magen David Buns for more examples.)
Eccles cake hamantaschen
Making Eccles cake hamantaschen was a simple matter of changing the shape from round to triangular – to represent the villainous Haman's pointy ears or three-cornered hat, depending on who you ask. I experimented a little with having the seam uppermost, as in a standard hamantaschen, or underneath, as in a standard Eccles cake.
In the end, seam down worked best. Do your utmost to seal thoroughly – you can patch any holes with scraps of pastry, they won't be seen anyway! – but don't worry too much about leaking. Any sugary juices that sneak out during baking will simply create a delicious sticky, caramelised layer on the bottom of your Eccles cake hamantaschen.
You are of course completely at liberty to use this recipe to make standard round Eccles cakes for the rest of the year!
Makes 12-14 hamantaschen. Chag Purim Sameach!
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Eccles cake hamantaschen
- 35 g butter or margarine (2 1/2 tbsp)
- 75 g currants (1/2 cup)
- 25 g raisins (2 1/2 tbsp)
- 25 g chopped candied peel (2 1/2 tbsp)
- 25 g brown sugar (2 tbsp)
- 250 g readymade puff pastry
- Milk, plant-based milk, or egg wash for glazing
- A little extra sugar for sprinkling (optional)
- Preheat the oven to 200C (400F). Line a baking sheet with greaseproof paper or a nonstick liner.
- Melt the butter or margarine. Add the currants, raisins, candied peel and brown sugar and mix well, then set aside to cool.
- On a well-floured surface roll out the puff pastry until 2-3mm thick. Use a 9cm (3.5 inch) round cutter to cut out circles from the pastry.
- Brush a little milk/plant milk/egg around the edge of a circle of pastry, then spoon about 1.5-2tsp of filling into the centre. Fold up the edges to create a triangle shape, pinching and pressing the pastry well to seal. If there are any gaps, use a small offcut of pastry to patch it up. Place the hamantaschen seal-side-down on a lined baking tray and press lightly to flatten.
- Continue with the remaining pastry and filling. You can re-roll the offcuts by layering them up and then rolling - don't squash into a ball or you will lose the flaky layers.
- When all the pastry and filling is used up, brush each hamantaschen with milk/plant milk/egg and sprinkle with sugar if using. Cut a small slit in the top of each one to allow steam to escape while baking.
- Bake at 200C (400F) for 15-18 minutes until risen and golden brown. Remove from the oven and allow to cool on the tray for a few minutes before transferring to a wire rack.
- Serve warm or cold. Great in lunchboxes!
If you want something more traditional, try my classic poppy seed hamantaschen buns.
I'm linking this recipe up with #BakeoftheWeek, hosted by Casa Costello and co-organised by Mummy Mishap.


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Monoksbones posted a topic in Show OffSaw this figure in my LGS a while back, decided to buy it, and now I'm using it as my new DnD character. He was quite intriguing to paint. I really enjoyed this one. I used Citadel paints for it. I also gave it a spray undercoat first, I do with all minis even ones that are already primed, too much of a habit now.
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The air conditioning system is out of order in the Osage Nation's Law Building and the temperature outside is 91 degrees. The sweltering conditions inside the building may impact office hours for the workers in the building.
In the meantime, air conditioners have been ordered and the subcontractor responsible for installing the state-of-the-art temperature control unit will be there Wednesday to fix it, said Bruce Cass, director of the Tribal Development and Land Acquisition office.
"One of the compressors has a big crack … the air conditioning unit is under warranty … it broke down yesterday," Cass said. "If it breaks, now's the time for it to break down because it's still under warranty."
Cass said if all goes to plan, the air conditioning should be fixed this week in the 18,000-square-foot, two-story building. The Law Building houses the Police Department, the Attorney General's Office, and the Office of the Treasury, accounting department and Emergency Management.
The building has sustainable energy features such as the temperature control system that uses natural light, water, fans and pumps to cool and heat the buildings. The cost of the law building and new Welcome Center was $24.6 million.
Due to the hot building temperatures, a scheduled blood drive was moved from the Law Building to the Osage County Health Department. The blood drive will last until 3 p.m. and the health department is on 15th Street in Pawhuska just east of the hospital.
Employees working in the building were granted administrative leave Monday afternoon. Around 10 a.m. today employees were using fans and cold washrags to keep cool.
Employees and visitors should call ahead if needing services from the Law Building departments.
Accounting/ Treasury Department can be reached at (918) 287-5251.
The Attorney General's Office can be reached at (918) 287-5514.
The Police Department can be reached at (918) 287-5510.


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