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A prominent CNN commentator, the top two political reporters for The Huffington Post, a Reuters reporter, the editor of The Nation magazine, a producer for Al Jazeera America television, a U.S. News & World Report columnist, and approximately two dozen Huffington Post contributors are among the more than 1,000 members of Gamechanger Salon.
Founded by leftwing activist Billy Wimsatt, the group is a secretive digital gathering of writers, opinion leaders, activists and political hands who share information, ideas and strategy via a closed Google group.
The group's existence was discovered by Media Trackers through an open records request filed with a University of Wisconsin professor who happened to be a member of the network.
Sally Kohn, formerly a Fox News contributor, now works for CNN reliably echoing pro-Obama Administration talking points and championing leftwing ideas as a network commentator. Kohn is also a member of Gamechanger Salon, and e-mails show that she occasionally approached the group's membership and asked them to promote her television appearances.
"I'm guest co-hosting CNN's Crossfire tonight at 6:30pm EST, with fellow co-host Newt Gingrich. I would be grateful for folks (a) helping spread the word on Facebook, Twitter, etc to encourage people to tune in; and (b) tuning in and live tweeting during the show," Kohn wrote to the group on January 14 of this year.
In another e-mail, Kohn pitched her TED talk about working as a liberal at Fox News. "I would be grateful for any shares and reactions. Here is a straightforward, sample tweet[:] Watch @sallykohn's amazing TED talk on emotional correctness: on.ted.com/Kohn" she wrote. "Thanks for everything all of you do every day to make the world a better place!" she signed off.
Amanda Terkel, the "Senior Political Reporter and Politics Managing Editor at The Huffington Post," is a member of Gamechanger Salon along with The Huffington Post's Washington bureau chief, Ryan Grim.
In mid-July, Terkel and Grim jointly wrote a piece about a leftwing effort to push Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D) to run for president. The pair of reporters heavily quoted Erica Sagrans, a fellow member of Gamechanger Salon and leading organizer of the "Ready For Warren" effort, and cited Billy Wimsatt's support for the project. Wimsatt's work as founder of Gamechanger Salon and the reporters' own membership in the group, along with Sagrans' membership, went unreported.


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The water level is rising and it is time to make the RCC look its best! All members are requested to join us in getting our clubhouse and grounds in great condition to start the paddling season. We will be holding our annual spring clean-up on Saturday May 2nd from 10:00 am until we are clean!
Many hands make light work. Even if you can't spend the whole morning, please come out for however long you are able to help out. We will need people to bring some gardening tools to help us out.
Some jobs we will be doing:
Look for Commodore Ron Sibthorpe, he will tell you what you can do!

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New Zealand EPA issued report saying glyphosate unlikely to cause cancer
A new report on glyphosate, commissioned by the New Zealand Environmental Protection Authority (EPA), says the broad-spectrum herbicide is unlikely to be carcinogenic and should not be classified as a mutagen or carcinogen under the HSNO Act.
Review of the Evidence Relating to Glyphosate and Carcinogenicity has been prepared by former National Poisons Centre Director and toxicologist Dr Wayne Temple, with input from Poisons Centre colleague Michael Beasley, and peer reviewed by toxicologists from the Ministry for Primary Industries.
It takes into account studies reviewed by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) as well as those assessed by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), the US Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) and the FAO/WHO Joint Meeting on Pesticide Residues (JMPR).
A lay summary of the report states: "The majority of human studies did not show an association between exposure to glyphosate and cancer. Although a small number of studies with a limited number of participants found a weak association between glyphosate exposure and increased risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL), others did not".
The studies that found no association between glyphosate exposure and NHL included the largest and most reliable, which included over 50,000 participants.
The lay summary adds: "Based on the inconsistency in the results of the studies on glyphosate exposure and NHL, and the lack of any association in the largest, most robust study, it was concluded that there is no convincing evidence of an association between glyphosate exposure and the development of cancer in humans."
The EPA, which approves and regulates glyphosate for use in New Zealand, commissioned the report amid ongoing public unease about its impact on people and the environment.
Ray McMillan, Acting General Manager of the EPA's Hazardous Substances and New Organisms team says: "The review confirms the EPA's long-held findings, that at the present time glyphosate – with controls – is safe to use.
"As with any chemical, glyphosate remains subject to our approval process which considers any likely impacts on human health and the environment. We ensure risks are managed by setting controls which cover how, when and where it should be used, and by whom."
Mr McMillan adds: "Glyphosate has been approved for use in New Zealand since 1976. It is one of around 30 chemicals currently listed on the Chief Executive-initiated Reassessment Programme. This means we continue to keep a watching brief on its status, and monitor international scientific findings or developments. If any new information comes to hand that makes us think further action is necessary, we can consider a formal review of its use".
Glyphosate is used in New Zealand in a wide variety of commercial and domestic settings including orchards, vineyards, pastures, vegetable patches, roadways, parks and sports fields and gardens. It is sold under a range of brand names.
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Hurricane Irene's classification as a Category One hurricane is misleading and understates the danger from the storm surge that it will produce.
The primary danger from Hurricane Irene will be the storm surge. The second major danger will be the massive rainfall and associated flooding. Each of these factors will hinder the ability of emergency responders to get to people with medical emergencies -- and justify evacuations. Indeed, the storm surge is the primary killer from most hurricanes hitting developed areas. (In undeveloped and mountainous areas like in parts of the Caribbean, the primary killer happens to be mudslides.)
The wind factor is only third on the list of severity, in my opinion. This is why Irene remains a major danger, even as a Category One hurricane that may not even be a hurricane by the time it passes New York City. (See this chart showing the single-digit percentage chances of hurricane force winds striking Atlantic City, New York City and Montauk Point, NY.) While Hurricane Irene is only a Category One hurricane, that classification refers only to its wind potential. (Indeed, the categories now only refer to the wind scale.) The system is barely a hurricane as of mid-morning Saturday.
Hurricane Irene has led to unprecedented evacuations of low-lying areas of New York City. This is not media hype nor the misguided policy panic of public officials who were justifiably embarrassed by their absence (or incompetence) during prior weather disasters. The evacuations are justified because of the very likely serious flooding from storm surges as Hurricane Irene pushes water from the Atlantic Ocean, and Long Island Sound, into and over the shores of New York City and the New Jersey barrier islands.
These evacuations recognize that anticipated and even moderate storm surges will easily flood those areas, like the entire Coney Island peninsula, the Broad Channel island in the middle of Jamaica Bay and the Midland Beach and South Beach neighborhoods of Staten Island. Having walked each of those neighborhoods at some point, I know that those areas are no more than a few feet above sea level. (And people live on Broad Channel, they're a hardy bunch, some even walk upright.) A mild surge -- a certainty with any landfalling hurricane pushing water off the ocean -- will overrun the shore. Once streets are flooded, emergency responders will be unable to reach people in distress. The evacuations help ensure that needed emergency treatment for evacuees can be provided. Think of the women in childbirth, the possible heart-attack and cardiac victims. If roads are flooded or otherwise impassable -- like in this past winter's infamous December blizzard in New York City (26 inches of snow) -- emergency medical technicians will not get to those people in time.


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CCleaner uses a set of Rules to define what files it can and can't remove. These rules cover everything from Windows Temp files, files that have been put in the Recycle Bin, to old virus definition files that just clutter your hard drive up. CCleaner currently supports over 200 applications.
We spend an enormous amount of time each month checking and double checking these rules to make sure that what we remove is absolutely, definitely not needed.
We also monitor closely all the development of the applications we clean. If they change something, so do we.
You can view the latest rules by running CCleaner with the /export option.
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I think this may be the fancy-est dessert I have made to date.
The inspiration struck on Tuesday at the local farmers market in downtown Eugene. If you live near here and have not checked out the weekday market it is amazing. The focus is on local produce AND local food products. I tried some really beautiful rose petal jam (for the life of me I cant figure out why I did not buy a jar!), homemade shortbread, an assortment of flavored goat cheeses, and fresh figs. The figs made it home with me along with a flat of assorted berries and cherries. I will be back next week for that jam!
I was going to make a gellate or something like a rustic pie but the figs are so delicate I thought puff pastry would be a better match. I have never made puff from scratch... someday... so I used frozen squares. This way you can make this super fast!
Fig and Lavender Goat Cheese Pastries
4 fresh figs
4oz of goat cheese
Lavender- to taste
1 teaspoon honey
1/4 cup Almond meal
sugar for sprinkling
Preheat oven to 400 degrees
To make the lavender goat cheese let the cheese soften to room temperature and mix in a couple of crushed lavender buds and the teaspoon of honey. Mix it well and taste. If you want a stronger lavender flavor keep crushing and adding and tasting until you get to your desired strength. I tend to go light on the lavender giving it just a hint in the pastry...
Slice the stem off your FRESH delicious figs and slice into 4 slices.
arrange your puff pastry however you like. I made a little box by slicing off the edges andattaching them with water on a square of pastry.
Spread 1/4 of your cheese on the pastry then coat with the almond meal add the figs, a drizzle of honey, and some lavender flowers (this is optional).
Brush the exposed pastry dough with an egg wash.
Place in oven and bake for about 20 minutes or until pastry has turned golden, the goat cheese has puffed up, and the figs are juicy!


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Enjoy the best local Yorkshire produce…
Pocklington Farm Shop
Enjoy the best local Yorkshire produce…
Our Farm Shop is proud to showcase fantastic local produce from Yorkshire. Indeed, our speciality is selling artisan products and items that you will not find in a supermarket.
We know many of our suppliers personally and by supporting them we are supporting the local community.
The shop is great for unusual gift ideas for that special someone – beers, ciders, handmade chocolates, cereals, jams, chutneys, rapeseed oils, cheeses and much, much more.
We're also known for our extensive range of Gin, including many from Yorkshire suppliers.
Also popular are our hampers, bespoke to suit your budget and interests. Corporate hampers and Christmas hampers also available.
Some of our most local people…
Yorkshire Rapeseed Oil
Based on the edge of the Yorkshire Wolds, this is a family-run business specialising in the production of award-winning cold pressed Yorkshire Rapeseed Oils.
Mercers of Yorkshire
Jam, chutneys, sauces and preserve maker Mercers are led by Paul and Lizzie Mercer and uses British ingredients where available and in season.
Sloemotion is a small family-run business based in North Yorkshire that produces high-quality hedgerow and orchard fruit liqueurs.
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Based in Pocklington, potato experts Wold Produce launched in 2004 – co-led by Simon Foster, whose family has grown potatoes for three generations.
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Paul Moon is a landscape photographer with a passion for capturing the beauty of the beautiful Yorkshire Wolds in lovely greeting cards.
Chilli Jam Man
Simon AKA The Chilli Jam Man makes amazing chilli jams – pefect for spicing up sandwiches, stir fries, pasta, pizza, curries and more!
Pipers Crisps
Pipers – set up by three Lincolnshire farmers Alex Albone, Simon Herring and James Sweeting – produce award-winning, great tasting, quality crisps.
J Stringer & Sons
J Stringer & Sons is a family run farm based in East Yorkshire on top of the Yorkshire Wolds supplying c porridge oats and flour.
Raisthorpe Manor
Malton-based drinks producer Raisthorpe Manor creates gin using water from ancient "Gypsey streams" that run beneath the Yorkshire Wolds.
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Great Newsome Brewery brews award-winning, classic beer from its family farm in East Yorkshire, using home-grown malt, whole hops and its own yeast.
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Run by Neil & Gill Maycock with their son Peter, Bracken Hill Fine Foods is a family run business, and one of Yorkshire's best known preserve makers.
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Premium and speciality meats from WF Burtons, a traditional Pocklington-based butchers offering grass fed Givendale Prime beef.
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Wold Top Brewery
Based high on the Yorkshire Wolds, Wold Top Brewery was founded in 2003 by arable farmers and brews superior quality beer from home grown barley and water.
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National Park Card Co is situated in the North Yorkshire Moors and create and design humurous greeting cards and personalised postcards
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This one was a little tough I will admit but it was good to have a challenge. I usually revert back to an all black background but using colors from the two characters worked really well. Soul Eater has always been my favorite anime and Stein is my FAVORITE! Always has been and always will be. With this picture it let me use some new stitch brushes I got as well as more kanji brushes, the one by Spirit (Death Syth) meaning dangerous, the other one by Stein being another form of Spirit.
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drackhenzo Mute Member Aug 24, 2010
very good this image of Stein and Death syth. thank you
Kaitouchan Aug 25, 2010
Awesome wallie, Stein 4ever, hehe :3 Thank you for sharing!
HaruhiKagamine Aug 31, 2010
thanks! Is it just me, or do they make for awesome yaoi?
SHERLAND Sep 01, 2010
dude love stein from soul eater huh thanks man
Muraki3 Sep 05, 2010
aw stein <3
nice job *nod nod*
missmurderdoll Mute Member Sep 12, 2010
Thats great! i love it!
thank you so much! n.-
Anonymos Nov 06, 2010
It looks so good! Thanks for share!
valequant Nov 08, 2010
*o* I love stain
es mi favorito de todos, un poco loco pero ....*-*
narutoshinobi Nov 19, 2010
ery good picture, i really like this
michimisu Nov 21, 2010
so cool...i like this. grabbing this one for my desktop wallie. thanks for the share :)
Usagi Jan 08, 2011
Love the wall! Thanks for sharing XD
MaayaBlue Apr 09, 2011
It looks awesome! Way to go.
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Posts filed under 'Faith First'
I'm a Reading Rainbow
I did finally get to read to my neighbor. It was terrifying and exhilarating at the same time.
My friend whom I met with in regard to God's harebrained plan about reading to her husband the doctor, was glad to see me and optimistic about our arrangement. Unfortunately her husband had fallen asleep and she was not able to readily wake him so instead of introducing us she left me with her eleven year old daughter while taking her other kids to youth group.
Waiting made my anxiety worse. My husband had asked earlier in the day if I was nervous and at that time I was not, even when I showed up I was not but sitting there I began to entertain my reservations.
What will he think of this crazy plan? Will he think I intend to evangelize him without compassion. I bet he is wondering if whatever I have planned will allow him yet another chance to sleep or let his thoughts wander.
I chatted with my heart in my throat, nervous about what to do if he woke. At last we heard him coughing in the other room and that darling little girl got up and ran into his room exclaiming, "Good morning, sleeping beauty!"
It was actually six at night!
"Do you wanna meet a new friend?" she exclaimed and beckoned with her hand for me to enter.
Thank you Lord!
I had been so nervous about how to approach him and yet this lovely little girl had taking away all tension with her plucky introduction.
Lord, help me not to talk down to him, help my conversation to be comfortable and respectful. Lord give me the right words so that I don't pity him but that your love shows through me and your hope is evident without my having to preach at him. Jane and I want so badly for him to learn to trust you, help me to understand your timing.
She left us alone and I sat beside his bed and began to explain why I had chosen the book that I did. Despite the fact that God clearly directed me to read House, by Ted Dekker and Frank Peretti, I had many other reasons for agreeing with Him and I shared those. 🙂
As I spoke I took in a couple quick glances at the pictures above the bed, they were of healthier times for the doctor and I was shocked at the stark difference. Though he had thick cotton white hair even then, it was silky and bright . Now his hair was a coarse gray mat against his head. He had been a big man with a broad inviting smile. Now, emaciated and limp, his smile ghoulish, his head appearing too large on his skeleton frame. My heart ached.
I opened my book and read stopping now and again to take a sip of water and allow him to cough.
We finished one chapter and I paused to talk a little about myself. I told him briefly about each of my kids and that I felt blessed to know his family. His daughter came in to check on us and I took another drink of my water while conversing with her.
I read another chapter and twice I made major mistakes that sent us both into laughter. His eyes sparkled and he tried to laugh but it caused a coughing fit. I winced at the pain it seemed to cause him as he gagged and sputtered. I could not believe that I was sitting there, next to a man who was so incapacitated and yet the Lord was allowing us to fellowship. I was not disturbed by the monitors and wheelchair. My mind was filled with compassion and my heart longed only for him to know my Jesus and accept the promise of complete healing whether on earth or in heaven.
I read a total of three chapters and in the third had another laugh fumbling around with my voice attempting to recreate a "booming" male voice.
Though I had seen the sparkle in his eye and thought I made him laugh it was hard to be sure how he was taking it until his daughter ran to her mother the minute she arrived and exclaimed "He was so into it, I haven't seen him that alert!"
My reservations were wiped away and the Lord graciously confirmed that His thoughts are completely different from ours…and His ways are far beyond anything we can imagine.
I read again soon and will be sure to keep you updated.
"My thoughts are completely different from yours," says the Lord. "And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine. For just as the heavens are higher than the earth so are my ways higher than your way and my thoughts higher than your thoughts."
"The rain and snow come down from the heavens and stay on the ground to water the earth. They cause the grain to grow producing seed for the farmer and bread for the hungry. It is the same with my word. I send it out and it always produces fruit. It will accomplish all I want it to and it will prosper everywhere I send it. You will live in joy and peace. The mountains and hills will burst into song, and the trees of the field will clap their hands! Where once briers grew, myrtles will sprout up. This miracle will bring great honor to the Lord's name; it will be an everlasting sign of his power and love."
Isaiah 55:8-13
Look to the Rock
Isaiah 51:1 says "…look to the Rock from which you were cut, the quarry from which you were hewn."
I was thinking about that verse and our discussions on names and I had an epiphany…. what do God's names mean and what are they all?
So I went on a little hunt. Do you know that our English translation of the Bible is quite limited in understanding of His names. What I mean is that God's names are so deep and rich yet in our language there is no comparrison to the original Hebrew.
Where we use "Lord" there are many many different versions of the name Jehovah (YHWH or simply the 4 letters) which is God's covenant name or the name He promised. It means that he is the God who continually reveals himself to us. Add it to another name and it literally means he will reveal himself to be as such…. Example; there is Jehovah Raah, which means shepherd, Jehovah Nissi meaning banner or refuge and carries with it a hope that can't be understood in just one word of the English language. Since Jehovah preceeds each of the names they literally mean, God who reveals himself to be our shepherd, or the God who will show us He is our hope!
I'm not doing all the work for you! 🙂 Find out for yourself who God want's to reveal that He is for you today!
Here are a couple few 🙂 websites I found to help you study.
What's in a Name?
If you look at Biblical examples many times children were named for the mother's first impression; Esau (hairy), Jacob (deceiver- he came as a surprise, hanging onto the heel of his elder brother) and so on….
I've decided if I were to name my kids based on my current impression they would not have the most flattering of names. Would I for that matter??
Introducing Lawyer (master of debate and arguing his case):
Here is Ticking Time Bomb (everything is fine until an unknown switch is triggered and KABOOM!):
This is Clown (jokester, magpie, remember-er of everything especially naughty words and apparently "funny" jokes):
Finally the Girl (at least she IS a girl but man can she scream and manipulate and get everyone wrapped around that pinky finger):
Sigh! Then there is me, I can't even imagine the things I deserve to be called. Thank you Lord for giving us a "new name" for making us children of the Living God, for allowing us to be know by association of YOU.
"Christ follower"
"Little Christ"
"Child of the Most High!"
Revelation 2:17 He who has an ear let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give some of the hidden manna. I will also give him a white stone with a new name written on it, known only to him who receives it.
Revelation 3:11-13 11.I am coming soon, hold onto what you have so that no one will take your crown. 12.Him who overcomes I will make a pillar in the temple of my God. Never again will he leave it. I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem which is coming down out of heavenfrom my God; and I will also write on him my new name. 13. He who has an ear let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.
The Doctors Doctor
It wasn't even Sunday and I got that feeling in my stomach that happens when you know you are supposed to go up during the altar call. The very same butterflies that urge you to speak out on something important. The unrest that does not settle until you take action. I'm sure you've felt the same feeling in one situation or another. But this was the middle of the week. No pastor preaching, nobody challenging my ideals just me driving my car down the road in peace and quiet! Maybe that was the trouble, I'm usually unable to think, let alone pray with my Thinglets poking each other and Pee Wee squealing along with them, my radio blaring to try to drowned out the noise.
I knew what it meant. We have a new neighbor in the valley whose house I pass each time I go to town. The family had moved into the single level home six months after the man of the house had suffered a major frontal lobe stroke that put him in a nursing home and made it unable for him to return to their multi level house only a few miles away.
Matt and I had stopped by one day and offered our assistance when we saw them moving in. Jane told us the whole story about her husbands stroke and how he was unable to return home to her and the kids until they moved into a house that was better suited to a wheelchair.
When we left I couldn't stop thinking about how I could serve them better. What could I do to help out?
Drop off a meal? Ugh! No offense to any kind soul who serves meals in love but I always cringe at the Christian cliche, "Just serve them a meal!" Although this common practice is how I was introduced to one of my favorite meals to date (so I had better not frown too obviously) it's just not my cup of soup.
I could babysit the kids but anyone who knows me IRL knows that I am not the gal for that job! While I love my kids and have an absolute blast with each and every one of them I'm not the little kid type. Please send me all your teenagers but not your babies! Only one of Jane's children would fit my category so I didn't think that would be my job either.
"How then Lord, how can I help?"
Have you ever asked a question and promptly found you regret the resulting answer?
I did get a clear answer. Not in the form of actual words but a vivid and real epiphany complete with the thought process behind it, none of which I came up with on my own.
For months the Lord has been preparing me to stop and present His harebrained plan of which I am supposed to happily facilitate. I've prayed many times since then, " let me know when it is time Lord," and yet even when he made it distinctly evident, I didn't want to go through with it.
Imagine an intelligent and mature man who had spent a lifetime pursuing a successful career as a doctor, a family practitioner. He has a beautiful wife many years younger than himself, loving and devoted to him, his three darling children and his time consuming job and passion. They live in a grand custom home on a private lake and lead a life of ease. The family entertains many friends and attends church every holiday. They are the ideal American family.
Now imagine you are that man and one night after you lay your head to rest you awake to the bright lights of the ER. The smells and sounds as familiar as your jobplace.
Wait… you can not turn your head, you can't sit up and reach over to turn off the monitor beeping in your ear. Your heart begins to race, your eyes dart from the lights on the ceiling to the IV in your hand. The blue coats rushing around are not your nurses, but you've seen them before while attending surgery at the local hospital. Why can't you speak? You want to ask "Why am I laying here?"
I thought about these things and I imagined myself in Dr. Smith's position. I feared the inability to move myself, to express myself, to learn. When I climbed into his shoes I was terrified and lonely.
It's been a year since his stroke but mobility has not returned, speech continues to allude him. People come to the new house to wish him speedy recovery but most of them don't know what to say, they talk to him like a child. He can't lift his hand to shake theirs, he can not assure them he is still as sharp as ever in thought. He can only sit alone with his thoughts hoping to either get well or die.
If I were in his shoes I can only imagine the struggle I would have pondering the apparent either/or.
Armed with compassion I would not have mustered on my own and the harebrained plan that made me blush each time I explained it to those who were praying, I drove up the driveway to the new house and parked reluctantly at the barn.
I was really hoping this was another practice run since I'd parked there once before (another time when the butterflies made me do it) only to find that Jane was not home. This time she slipped out the back door almost immediately and strode confidently toward my Suburban. A lump formed in my throat. I conjured up a front for my visit and began to converse about our kids, 4-H, the Mariners (not really) until finally the swirling, fluttering, shaky feeling could no longer be ignored.
"Jane, uh er, I uh…," I took a deep breath then spit it all out, "the real reason for my visit is to see if your husband would like if I was to read to him on a regular basis."
I didn't look for her reaction before I continued, "I have a book in mind that I have not read yet, it's a supernatural thriller that honestly sounds a little scary."
Then I took another breath and tried to blur the next sentence into an unrecognizable muddle, "It has a faith based component, so I believe it ends well."
To my surprise my lovely neighbor whom I barely know anything about latched onto the whole idea like I was sent by God to help ease her burden. Imagine that! 😉
Before blurting out the whole plan I had thoroughly convinced myself of the stupidity of reading to an intelligent man, like I was Mr Rogers. The Lord told me clearly to read to a scholarly doctor who despite his medical condition I was convinced could certainly read on his own.
After I had settled my fluttering friends, I confided in Jane as to how stupid I felt for even suggesting the idea. The only read aloud forums I would let myself imagine were juvenile gatherings; the library story hour, Saturday nights as a kid listing to my dad read "Little House on the Prairie" and visions of my own children nestled around reading "The Indian in the Cupboard." What in the world would a full grown man think of me READING to him. "I'm sure he can read on his own, maybe he would prefer to borrow my book!" I explained.
"Oh, no," Jane grew solemn "He would not be able to hold the book."
The stroke had been severe enough that even a year later the doctor is still unable to sit fully on his own or steady his hands for anything other than a squeeze or a meager wave. His speech is nearly non existent and if he stands at all it is only with the help of a strong adult. Most of the time she said he doesn't even lift his head to watch the TV. "He just listens," she assumed aloud.
At the mention of faith (a word I had used hoping to avoid the subject of Jesus all together) a whole new conversation emerged and I spent the next hour sharing a spiritual connection with Jane. I learned that she is a believer herself and concerned about her husbands salvation. Before the stroke, he had been successful and preoccupied, not the one to persue Christian gatherings but never in the way of her endeavor to educate the children on "religious" matters. She told me about how more and more people have been pursuing him and telling him that Christ wants to be a part of his life.
She told me, with an embarrased but mischievous glint in her eye that she had been reading her Bible to him and dragging him out to church every Sunday.
As she described it, they had recently had a discussion where she told him that he needed to give his burdens to the Lord and allow Christ into his life. Things that day had been really bad, he was weak and unhelpful when she tried to get him up, she had struggled to lift while he resisted and in the end he had fallen. She knew that her prayers could only go so far since the Lord will not make a person believe so she urged him to pray and ask God for assistance. The next day his strength was back and his face a little less ashen.
The Lord hears and the doctor is beginning to ask!
There was an urgency in Jane's mind in regard to her husband knowing the Lord's healing. We talked about the possibility of the Great Physician bringing total healing and she insisted it won't happen until Dr. Smith allows it.
I invited them to a bible study at our house and she said they would be sure to come.
Through obedience to the Lord, I have made a new friend, been given a new prayer, and am a participant in the healing process of the doctor in heart and health! I am confident this won't be the end of the story.
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Sometimes I Forget
Sometimes I forget to taste my food.
I've even forgotten what wheat tastes like.
Sometimes I forget that my children are all very young,
That the oldest is young enough to still fear the dark.
Sometimes I forget to hug my husband,
And that my best weapon is prayer, my shield is the God who sees!
Sometimes I forget that I do a good job,
That the children will not remember a swept floor, a well thought out meal.
Sometimes I forget my manners, my patience, my happy countenance
But my Jesus, my Joy
He is my witness
Sometimes I forget
He never forgets
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Not so FAST!
Do you know how much you can learn from observation. "Be still and know that I am God" implores the Lord!
In our instant gratification, fast food, fast paced, speed dating, online chatting, thrill seeking society the noise never stops. But those who take the time to STOP and look around will find knowledge in the simplest of places.
Did you know you could learn to garden without "Gardening for Dummies" or that you can track an animal without high tech gear?
I met a huge bull moose face to face the other day. Twenty feet apart we stared at each other, me on my horse, he in his element. No fear, no aggression he just caulked his velveted rack and stared. Quickly we departed. But how did I track and sneak up on one of the largest specimen of four legged creatures in our mountains when hunters search for weeks with their ATV's and GPS, their cell's and scopes and tree perches?
It's because I listened and learned. I've tracked numerous deer and found signs of bears and many other critters. I use my nose, my sight and the sounds that carry on the wind when you are silent.
That's why I love the woods, they remind me to hear with ears that really listen, see with eyes that search, feel with my whole being and trust my God given senses.
Sometimes in the day to day I begin to feel like one of the machines I load to wash dishes, or type at to communicate with friends or watch to learn something new. When did we become so one dimensional?
Today will you sit down and listen? What can you hear beyond the honking cars, the whir of the fan or the droning of the local news anchor?
10's and Reese's
I tried to take a picture for you of my depressing Reese's!
Can you BELIEVE they had the nerve to make them SMALLER!?
Matt brought me a package of Reese's which I stashed away in the refrigerator for a "rainy" day and when that day came I opened up the package to find a scant representation of what my Reese's used to be. What once filled the package to the edge barely fit in one corner. I estimated it is only 2/3's the size it used to be, I should look up the oz but I was too darn bummed.
Maybe I should look on the bright side since eating a Reese's now equals less calories but on the other hand, I need three cups to get the previous positive effect.
Maybe I'm better up giving them up all together because when I open a package now I'm suspicious and crabby instead of swept away with peanut-buttery delight.
What would you do if Reese's were extinct?
I've recently been reminded of a past obsession. I may as well call a spade a spade, right? Most things I tackle become somewhat of an obsession. I am not moderate in the things I set my mind to. This week I heard a nice explination in which I might be allowed to call it something other… it was said that the healthy side of obsession is devotion and the unhealthy side of obsession is desperation. May I call it my newest devotion?
For the time being I am devoted to the idea of continuing my Japanese language lessons.
When I was 15 our family had a Japanese exchange student who fast became one of my best friends. The following year I spent 10 days in Japan visiting her and got my first taste of the language. It was actually my first taste of any foreign language, magnified by the fact that growing up in a small town people in California spoke a foreign language. Haha! Not really but anything outside of our little town was different and strange not to mention I had changed schools enough to somehow "get out of" taking foreign language in high school. 10 days in Japan was my first taste and I liked it! What a thrill it was to hear the different sounds, see the signs in lines and symbols and even see some familiar but strangely different sights! I was hooked.
Years later I spent another 10 days with my my husband leaving behind our firstborn baby who at the time was 10 months old! I missed him dearly but again I was swept away (not like the Un-Reese's) by the magnitude of it all. The sights, the smells and the now somewhat familiar sounds. I bought numerous Japanese language books and attempted to learn the language. I could ask for a few necessities and introduce myself. I even learned to write and read Hiragana, one of the Japanese alphabets.
Guess what? I found a blog by a Christian, homeschool family in Japan and at the same time a box of books came out of storage that happened to have those Japanese language texts in it!
My newest devotion… Japanese!
Once I picked up the books I remembered more than I would have thought! It is fun, it is challenging and I love learning something new. Since I remember the Hiragana alphabet and some of the Katakana (used for writing foreign words) I am going to begin learning Kanji. The pictographic representations of thousands of concepts were adapted from the Chinese language thousands of years ago and they are fascinating. At first glance a jumbled bunch of dashes and lines but upon further investigation they are beautiful pictures and visually make a lot of sense. I picked up a book with the "1st 100 Kanji" and will begin that this evening.
Do you know a foreign language? If so what one and why?
I've been known on occasion to exclaim emphatically that I hate something someone in close proximity absolutely adores. The color pink has often been the victim of my scrutiny so I thought it would be a good idea to come clean on the issue and give you a little peek into a true color of my daily existence. Some days! 🙂Ha ha, just kidding- sorta!
I just love her little bald noggin!
Can you believe someone would do this to her little girl's toes?
That's better! Here she is going "green" with a fresh "Pinocchio nose", what a fab fashion accessory.
Mom must have gone crazy, I think the sun is getting to her!
Oh dear, definitely the sun!
Speaking of sun, the poppies are doing quite well and in such a beautiful shade!
Okay, I had to sneak in a little orange but PeeWee is DONE! I can't resist taking pictures of her mad faces!
Even though I'm not as opposed to pink as I like people to think, if you plan to bring me flowers, these are my favorite kind. WEEDS! Yellow, sunny, happy, WEEDS! Thank you thing 1, you light up my life!


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Wow, I got lots of entries in this giveaway and I really wish I could give you ALL copies of Half-Blood!<3 Sadly, I can't do that, but here's what I am going to do though:
I'm throwing in yet another copy of the book and extending the giveaway until tomorrow.
So: THREE winners, contest open until Sunday night. Go!;)
Happy New Years Eve everyone!
I guess I should have prepared a End of The Year post, but things have been a bit hectic around here lately, and I'm not talking just about the Heroine Tourney.
Half-Blood (Covenant #1) by Jennifer L. Armentrout
Published October 18th 2011
by Spencer Hill Press
Goodreads / Official Website
The Hematoi descend from the unions of gods and mortals, and the children of two Hematoi-pure-bloods-have godlike powers. Children of Hematoi and mortals-well, not so much. Half-bloods only have two options: become trained Sentinels who hunt and kill daimons or become servants in the homes of the pures. Seventeen-year-old Alexandria would rather risk her life fighting than waste it scrubbing toilets, but she may end up slumming it anyway. There are several rules that students at the Covenant must follow. Alex has problems with them all, but especially rule #1:Relationships between pures and halfs are forbidden. Unfortunately, she's crushing hard on the totally hot pure-blood Aiden. But falling for Aiden isn't her biggest problem--staying alive long enough to graduate the Covenant and become a Sentinel is. If she fails in her duty, she faces a future worse than death or slavery: being turned into a daimon, and being hunted by Aiden. And that would kind of suck.
And... that's it. I hope you all have a wonderful New Years Eve and an even better New Year! Cheers!


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Dom Cadden
Australian National Champion Powerlifter.
The old belief that athletes should – and do – abstain from sex before competition just doesn't hold any more. The IOC sure knows what's up. At the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, 70,000 condoms (three for every athlete) were made available for free in the Olympic Village. It wasn't enough – another 20,000 had to be shipped in. After that, the standing order for Olympic Villages was 100,000 condoms. At the 2012 Olympics in London, that was increased to 150,000. Now research presented at Sports Medicine Australia's 2013 Asics Conference of Science and Medicine in Sport shows that sex before competition doesn't hurt and can even help sports performance – but it's a matter of timing.
The idea of laying off sex when preparing for competition goes right back to the Ancient Olympics, as sex was thought to take away from a man's strength. This theory followed through to the 20th Century, when world champion boxers such as Muhammad Ali and Rocky Marciano famously had long stints of abstinence before bouts in the belief that sex would decrease testosterone levels, which would reduce their aggression and therefore performance. A pleasant side-effect, especially for boxers and other fighters, was that abstinence itself was thought to also increase agitation and aggression. The Mexican Olympic team used to believe so much in this theory that they gave potassium nitrate to their athletes in the hopes of preventing erections. These ideas have since been debunked. Several studies have shown that males with high sex drives and more frequent sexual activity tend to have higher average levels of testosterone, while Dr Emmanuele A. Jannini, an endocrinologist at the University of L'Aquila in Italy, has stated that after three months of sexual inactivity, the testosterone levels of a person can drop to the level of children.
The research presented at Sports Medicine Australia's 2013 Asics Conference of Science and Medicine in Sport suggested that having sex 10-12 hours before sports competition does not have a negative effect on physiological testing and possibly athletic performance.
The research, presented by study author Assistant Professor of Sports Medicine, Shahram Mohaghegh from Shahid Beheshti University, examined a number of previous scientific studies on sex the night before competition. Those studies included tests on maximum grip strength, strength test, balance, lateral movement, reaction time, aerobic power, and VO2max.
Unsurprisingly, one of the studies showed higher heart rate readings and another reported that 40% of athletes "felt worse" when exercising up to two hours after sex – so sex before a serious training session is probably not a good idea. Think you're OK because you play golf or do archery? Think again – another study found that even two hours after sex, subjects were less attentive.
The mental side of performance, however, can potentially benefit from sex the night before competition. Sex is a balance between the two systems of your autonomic nervous system. There's the sympathetic system, often referred to as 'fight or flight', which produces agitation, excitement, increased pulse rate – all the things athletes want to rev themselves up. Then there's the parasympathetic system, which stimulates rest and recovery and a whole list of bodily functions you don't really need happening just before a competition. However, the activation of this parasympathetic stimulation can work very well the night before competition to reduce anxiety and promote recovery and sleep.
"Sex helps you feel relaxed and sexually, mentally and physically satisfied," Juan Carlos Medina, general coordinator of the sports department at the Tecnologico de Monterrey (Mexico) reported prior to the London Olympics. "This contributes to reduce the athlete's anxiety levels before an important match. Sex helps to distract the mind from the competition and that helps sweep away mental fatigue, which is more dangerous than physical fatigue."
Much of the concern and consequent studies about sex before sport have focussed on men and the influence on testosterone. For women, however, the hormones most stimulated by sex are progesterone and, to a lesser extent, oestrogen. Still, the benefits of night-before nookie come on strong. Neuro-feedback studies at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey, have found that the female orgasm stimulates parts of the brain that could stop the release of a specific pain transmitter for up to 24 hours, which may help ease muscle pain or soreness for up to 24 hours
With all good news comes caution. As with all things, it's best not to try anything new just before a big match or competition – you make good habits in training, then you stick with what works for you. There's a great quote by Andre Agassi that reinforces another aspect to this point: "Sex doesn't interfere with your tennis; it's staying out all night trying to find it that affects your tennis."
That's right – the partying, the eating, drinking, dancing, the exhausting effort to impress. Some good healthy comfort sex will beat the random fling every time in this game, and the one who knows you and understands you might not mind if you set a timer, either. No surprise, then, that despite being older than most of his competition, Agassi played much of his best tennis after settling down with Steffi Graf (although she probably taught him a thing or two!).
As for all those Olympians and their sexually athletic exercises in international and inter-sport relationships, well, there's one stat we don't have – how many were having sex before their event and how many were waiting until after competition to turn up the crazy!


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Ecuador | Poetry (excerpts) | SpanishJuly, 2016
One of the most interesting works among this selection--all of which are taken from Santiago Vizcaíno's most recently published collection of poems Hábitat del camaleón--is the long-form prose poem song of oneself. As both translator and reader, I thought it might be interesting to delve more deeply into the influences and processes which went into creating this particular piece. What follows is a brief interview with the author.
Q: What is the purpose of using Whitman's famous poem as influence and point of departure in song of oneself? How was such an idea born, in particular the use of third person and the constant repetition of your own name to direct the phrases (a type of punishment/ bullying/black humor) towards a deformed version of yourself, the author?
A: The reference to Whitman is without doubt sarcastic. While Song Of Myself is the highest expression of poetry in conjunction with life, that is to say, the exaltation of the self and of nature, song of oneself —in which Whitman's poetic "I" becomes the poetic "one"—turns rather to the more sincere and absurd pathos of the poet. It is no longer the romantic "I" imbued with an almost religious spirit. It is the poet character looking in from the outside, fed up with repeating his name. It is a poet who opens up, but who also reinvents. There is an intention to demystify. That is precisely why a poor translation of one of Whitman's verses is used, as an epigraph.* It is to say that the poet is no more than a bad translation of himself: an impostor.
Q: What place does the Latin American experience and/or Ecuadorian poetics have within this work, and how is it evidenced?
A: Perhaps the clearest influence would be Trilce by César Vallejo (Peruvian poet, writer, playwright and journalist, 1892-1983). This fundamental book in Latin American poetry has had a great deal of influence on the writing of this poem, divided into four parts. Vallejo's sorrow is, of course, Santiago's sorrow. But there is also irony, which I take from Nicanor Parra--although it might be better called sarcasm. I'm a bit fed up with poets who exalt their condition. song of oneself is a mockery, but it is also testament to the fact that the poet is no medium for divinity.
* Estoy enamorado de mí mismo, hay tantas cosas en mí tan deliciosas: "I am in love with myself, there are so many things within me which are so delicious.' I have left this epigraph untranslated—while it seems to be from a widely circulated version of Song of Myself (Canto a mí mismo, in Spanish), it not so much a translation as a free-form, modernized interpretation of the original work. I was unable to find anything near to its equivalent in either the original or in more traditional translations into Spanish, such as the one done by León Felipe in 1941. I think the context provided here allows for some insight into why such a choice was made, and justifies leaving it "as is" in the poem.
- Kimrey Anna Batts
Ancient Greece | Ancient Greek | PoetryJuly, 2016
Book twenty-one of Homer's Iliad covers the core of Achilles's rampage, after Patroclus's death and before Hector's, and includes Achilles's battle with the river Xanthus, one of the best set pieces in the epic. The book opens with the Trojans, who were on the cusp of victory the day before, in full retreat. In the confusion half the army stampedes into the Xanthus, and the other half is making its way over the plain, trying to reach the shelter of Ilios's walls. What follows is a summary of this version's conventions.
Achaeans, Argives, Danaans, and their fellows are flattened to "Greeks," unless the context asks for some distinction between regions. Trojan factions are treated similarly.
Patronymics ("son-of-Atreus") are treated as surnames, and surnames may be used alone where Homer uses a patronymic alone and there is no danger of ambiguity. That is,
McCartney = Paul McCartney = Paul, son of Cartney
Peleus = Achilles Peleus = Achilles, son of Peleus
Or even,
Aeacus = Achilles Peleus Aeacus = Achilles, son of Peleus, grandson of Aeacus
Homer is lax about pronoun referents ("he chased him and he fled" would be an acceptable construction) and this translation is lax about countering this laxity. Ambiguous cases are clarified in notes.
Some Greek words and particles, often cognates, are retained unmodified: agora (assembly), daimon (spirit, demigod), hero (warrior), mantis (seer), phalanx (battalion), and others, as well as prefixes such as ambi-, amphi-, para-, and poly-. Compounds such as "horsebreaking," "greatsouled," and "brazenshirted" reflect single-word epithets in the Greek, whereas hyphenates like "long-haired" correspond to multiword formulas.
This translation retains the Greek punctuation mark áno teleía ("·"). It functions like a colon or semicolon, separating independent clauses.
Occasional three-accent hemistiches, or half-lines, are employed for effect. The hemistiches do not reflect metrical irregularities in the original.
Line numbers in the English equate to line numbers in the Greek, give or take some syntactical variation.
- D. H. Tracy
Isadora Duncan, who haunts our car-mares with her scarf entangled, has cut a wide swath through literary, art, and film history. It was an exciting project to translate from the French her story, so wonderfully told by Anne Reynes-Delobel, in our joint project, Glorieuses Modernistes, published just now by the Presses Universitaires de Liège. A story that, along with Anne's chapter on Kay Boyle, completed the essays I had written on seven artist women in my Glorious Eccentrics; Modernist Women Writing and Painting, each essay so expertly translated by Anne. So it has turned out to be an equilibrating project, the most delightful balancing act I can possibly imagine.
- Mary Ann Caws
Italian | Italy | Poetry (excerpts)July, 2016
The following selection of poems comes from Vito Bonito's most recent collection of poetry, Soffiati via. The title could simply be translated as "Blown away" but it is something more. The title refers to a state of nirvana, an otherworldliness where there is neither suffering nor desire. The poems are short, often sharp, and create a chorus of ethereal voices. They are filled with violence and beauty, and I was drawn to them because of their unique use of the Italian language. At times the syntax is markedly disjointed and childish, yet equally as often the poems use Latin phrases and references to the poetry of Montale and Pascoli, and the films of Herzog and Korine.
Translating these poems has been an education, a way into a new world. A feature of Bonito's work I particularly admire is the level of moral distance the poems take from the brutal actions they narrate; the poems are free of judgment. Bonito asks readers to push themselves and their understandings of compassion beyond the sentimentality that's often mistaken for true emotion.
The poems are voices from truncated childhoods. When I first read the poems, it was unclear to me what continued to pull me in, but in the end I knew it was this shortened yet eternal infancy that can call to each of us. Learning that Giovanni Pascoli is one of Bonito's main influences led me to read more Pascoli as I translated. I learned that Pascoli wrote about the voice of childhood, and how it remains within each of us, never quite abandoning us, for better or worse. I was reminded of Avital Ronell's assertion in the chapter from her 2012 book Loser Sons: Politics and Authority entitled "On the Unrelenting Creepiness of Childhood: Lyotard: Kid-Tested": "Childhood, in any case, will leave us with inhuman surges of deregulation, with a level of fear and distress that can come up at any point in the trajectory of so-called human development." Bonito gives voice to the pain and disenfranchisement alive within each of us. His poems give us the opportunity to experience the distress and confusion that often characterize childhood.
- Allison Grimaldi-Donahue
Latin | Poetry | Roman RepublicJuly, 2016
Since the 116 extant poems of Catullus were recovered in the 14th century, his short poems (60 polymetra and 48 epigrams) have struck readers as distinctly modern. The poet grounds these works in contemporary life rather than in the mythic past. His erotic verse is as moving as his invectives are mean-spirited. His emotional range is great, perhaps shown most effectively in the portrayal of his love affair with Lesbia, a sophisticated noblewoman (likely based on the historical Clodia Metelli).
In translating, I emphasized that Catullus is an iambic poet. Dating from the seventh century BCE, the iambic genre owes its name to Iambe, a minor goddess of satire who, in the Homeric Hymns, rescues Demeter from sadness by means of bawdy jests. Invective is characteristic of iambus; accordingly, Catullus, learned poet that he was, refers to his attacks as "iambics."
To better capture in English his manner--a blend of coxcomb and brute--I abandoned his hendecasyllables and elegiac couplets for free verse, enabling me to approximate his rhythms without sacrificing subtleties of sense.
In spite of the modern feel of these poems, written more than two thousand years ago, they differ from a good deal of lyric poetry written today in one important respect: Catullus prefers a personal mode of address to the meditative style that has prevailed since Mallarmé. Whether praising or blaming or some combination thereof, the Roman poet's addresses to others read as genuine. T. S. Eliot believed that, for the ancients, the You of lyric was merely a formality. But with Catullus, there is no question that it is intended literally, and issues from the heart.
- Michael G. Donkin
Argentina/France | Poetry | SpanishJuly, 2016
Much like the work of Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen, Atahualpa Yupanqui's song lyrics are beloved as poetry, in addition to their role in music, and many have been published as such in a variety of editions. The works translated here are taken from two volumes: Guitarra, published in 1954, and Antología, published in 1973. The poems/lyrics themselves cover a wider span of time, with "Road of the Indian" written in 1928, when Yupanqui was 20 years old, and "The Heart and the Verse" written in 1970.
Yupanqui uses the word viday numerous times in his work. This word is a combination of Quechua and Spanish and literally means "my life," but it is uttered as an interjection, a verbal sigh. When possible I have translated it, but there were instances when I felt it was better left untranslated.
- Maia Evrona
Korea | Korean | Poetry (excerpts)July, 2016
Sowohl, meaning "white moon" or "humble moon," is the pen name of Kim Jung-Sik. Born in 1902, he lived most of his life in Chung-Ju, a small town northwest of Pyongyang in present-day North Korea. Chung-Ju, his ancestral home for many generations, was renowned for its natural beauty: the Yellow Sea in the west, the nine majestic mountain peaks toward the north and east. Rivulets from the mountains converged to form a river that wove through the villages and irrigated the rice fields throughout the lower valley--a pre-industrial, unspoiled countryside. This landscape surely nurtured Sowohl's poetic sensibility; an intimacy to nature, like a second skin, resonates throughout his poetry.
Sowohl grew up during the tumultuous Japanese Occupation of Korea. When he was two years old, Japanese railroad workers robbed and beat his father, leaving him with a permanent mental disorder. Sowohl's grandfather was responsible for his early education and, before Sowohl attended primary school, he taught him classical Chinese characters as was the custom for Yangban, the landowning class. Sowohl began writing poetry at the Oh-San secondary school where he met his mentor, Kim Uk. Kim Uk was a well-established poet and a translator of French symbolist poetry, and his influence on young poets was far-reaching. Although the Oh-San school was burned down by Japanese authorities for its participation in the March 1 Liberation Movement in 1919 and forbidden to reopen again, Kim Uk remained a mentor and friend to Sowohl. When Sowohl was eighteen, Kim Uk introduced his poetry to the literary world, hailing him as a gifted new poet.
In 1925, Sowohl's first collection of poems, Azalea Flower, was published, and he was regarded as a brilliant poet. Sowohl found an authentic modern lyrical form by employing both traditional folk rhythms and colloquial expressions. The poem "Azalea" was particularly beloved: the azalea flowers that brighten the mountains of Korea after the harsh winter, instead of being the hopeful sign of spring, become a metaphor of the colorful sorrow of dejected love and the means to sublimate that anguish.
By the end of the 1920s, Sowohl had ceased writing and was struggling with financial difficulties, depression, and heavy drinking. In 1934, he committed suicide at age 32.
Sowohl is the most beloved modern poet in Korea and many of his poems were composed into songs still widely sung today. His simple words and his mournful rhythm resonate deeply with people across generational and social divisions, the trauma of Japanese colonialism and the Korean War which resulted in one million refugees from the North, and the massive migration from the countryside to cities in the South. Sowohl's poetry consoles people's yearnings for their homeland, which for many Koreans still lies inaccessible beyond the 38th parallel of the Demilitarized Zone, and reminds them of their deep bond with nature.
I began translating poetry as a way of quenching my homesickness while raising children in the U.S., far away from my native home of South Korea. At the time, my language deficiency felt bottomless since English was my third language. I believed translating would deepen my understanding of the English language as well as teach me something about writing my own poetry.
I was acutely aware of the difficult task ahead of me; the concision of Sowohl's diction and his unique lyrical qualities defy translation into English verse. Despite inevitable losses, in these translations I have attempted to capture some of the musicality present in the original Korean. And I tried to retain the same physical layout of the original poem as much as possible.
For this translation, I am very grateful for the encouragement and critical input of my late teacher, Ottone M. Riccio and my fellow poets, the poetry group previously known as the Lincoln group and the Boston Literary Translators group. I especially thank Lee Mendenhall for taking the time to proofread the entire manuscript with care and make many invaluable suggestions. Lastly, I thank my family, especially our two daughters, Pendry and Julia, for inspiring me and helping me to complete this project.
- Sekyo Nam Haines
Hebrew | Israel | Novel (excerpt)July, 2016
Crossing a River Twice presents the basic translator's dilemma: how to tell a story set in a specific time and place in a way that is universally relevant. This problem is compounded in the first three chapters with the character of Itamar, who is alienated from modern society in a way that readers worldwide will recognize, but has a distinctly Israeli way to express this alienation. His stream of consciousness, often undistinguishable from the narration, is comprised of Israeli-specific references and expressions, and he has a habit of using these references and expressions in a literal and figurative sense at the same time. The solution I found was to have Itamar use slightly altered versions of English idioms. This way, צרת רבים חצי נחמה (literally, "there's consolation in shared troubles") became "there's comfort in numbers" rather than "misery loves company," since Itamar emphatically does not want company. Similarly, וטובה שעה אחת קודם ("and better an hour sooner") became "an hour saved is an hour earned," rather than "the sooner the better," since Itamar means exactly one hour.
The story is set in Tel Aviv, and Itamar's attachment to the city, and specifically the Yarkon River, is a major aspect of his character. To emphasize this (and to add some clarity for readers not familiar with Tel Aviv and Israel) I added subtle reminders throughout the text. For example, מישור החוף ("the coastal plain") in the second line of the prologue I translated as "Israel's coastal plain" to provide an early point of orientation for the international reader. Similarly, I added terms for terrain and infrastructure features (e.g. river, bridge, interchange) that will be obvious to the Israeli reader but perhaps necessary for the international reader. Ultimately, I tried to achieve a translation that would not sound foreign to the international reader, but that would engage their curiosity towards the setting.
- Tom C. Atkins
Mexico | Poetry (excerpt) | SpanishApril, 2016
Elsa Cross is a Mexican writer and philosopher, widely recognized as one of the most important voices of her generation. She has produced a considerable body of work that consists of over 20 collections of poetry, books of essays, and translations. Octavio Paz wrote that Cross "is one of the most personal voices in recent Latin American poetry. Her work, already extensive, brings together some of the most perfect poems among those written by recent generations of Mexican authors. I say 'voice' and not poetic writing; although it is written, above all it is spoken. Two opposed aspects are united in Elsa Cross: complexity of thought, and diaphanous diction."
Bomarzo (from which these poems are taken) is a book-length sequence examining a relationship through the lens of the Italian garden of grotesques built in the mid-16th century by the Italian architect Pirro Ligorio that gives the book its title. Both the imagery and the language used in these poems are ornate and dreamlike, reflecting the phantasmagorical nature of the sculptures of orcs and other creatures which inhabit what is called the "Villa of Monsters," designed to shock and express grief rather than to delight or amuse. And this poetic trip through Bomarzo is metaphoric, not literal, resulting in a nostalgia as much for things that never were as for those that never could be.
For the translation, I've tried to preserve Cross' heavy utilization of Greco-Latinate terminology, to reflect both the location and a certain linguistic extravagance that echoes the Park's eerie beauty.
Relatively little of Cross' work is available in English, although Shearsman Press in the UK has been striving valiantly to redress this. They published a volume of Cross' Selected Poems in 2009, and have just brought out two more of Cross' shorter Greece-inspired collections in a single volume entitled Beyond the Sea, translated by Anamaría Crowe Serrano. A bilingual edition of Bomarzo is forthcoming from Mexican publisher Vaso Roto in 2017.
- Lawrence Schimel
Epic Verse Novel | German | GermanyApril, 2016
Manas is an epic novel in free verse and a mashup of two different cultures: Hindu mythology and Existential philosophy from 20th-century Europe.
This excerpt from Manas includes the first 350 or so of the 13,000 lines of the epic. War-hero Manas returns victorious to Udaipur, but broken by his existential awareness of Death. He insists on going to the source of this sorrow: Shiva's Field of the Dead in the high Himalaya.
Encounters with human souls and demons render Manas unconscious. Demons hijack his body, hoping to use it to go down to Earth. Puto is tricked into "killing" the body, and Manas' soul wafts back onto the Field. Puto hauls the body down to Udaipur.
Manas' wife Savitri refuses to believe that he is dead. She sets out on an arduous quest to find him, eventually coming to the Field, where she encounters Manas' soul. Their coupling leads to Manas' re-embodiment. Shiva makes contact with Savitri, now revealed as the universal principle of Love. She rejoins Shiva on Kailas.
Manas rejoices in his restored body, but is unsure of his individuality and shows no empathy for other humans. He captures the three demons who caused his earlier "death" and returns with them to Earth. Holy men declare that he and the three demons together make up one new and terrible personality. Shiva comes down to retrieve the demons, but Manas challenges him with his new-found Ego, receives Shiva's blessing, and becomes a benign spirit facilitating the transmigration of souls.
These bare bones of the tale are wrapped in scene after intriguing scene of action, comedy, pathos, and lyrical description, which leave the reader wondering, "Gosh, whatever next?"
- Chris Godwin
The Brooklyn Rail welcomes you to our web-exclusive section InTranslation, where we feature unpublished translations of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and dramatic writing. Published since April 2007, InTranslation is a venue for outstanding work in translation and a resource for translators, authors, editors, and publishers seeking to collaborate.
We seek exceptional unpublished English translations from all languages.
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Welcome back to the unfolding story of the follies. So far, we have covered the making of the Green Folly, the Chinese Pavilion, the Ottoman Tent, and the Neoclassical Folly with three more to highlight. This week, we are featuring the Gothic Tower. Towers are something that have appeared in our imaginations since childhood, featuring […]
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What better way to utilize an "extra day"–Leap Day–than to take a moment to see how the Winterthur Garden is waking up. The intent was to go right to the March Bank because that is the main display at this time of year but I was lured by other flowers along the way. Here is how the […]


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The Moskk system was an Outer Rim Territories star system in the Albarrio sector,[1] that was several sectors away from the Gwori system and had at least two planets and two moons. A Galactic Republic task force under the command of Jedi Generals Plo Koon and Saesee Tiin and Admiral Wullf Yularen used the system around 22 BBY as a staging area for an attack on Gwori and its InterGalactic Banking Clan shipyards.[2]
- The Clone Wars: Shipyards of Doom (First appearance)
- The Essential Atlas
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These are simple round sterling silver blue Sodalite stud earrings.
These simple round earrings are great addition to a minimalist jewellery look for women that love real crystals and would make a great gift for a woman that loves healing Reiki spiritual gifts.
sodalite approx. 8mm
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First, let's define what we should verify for a displayed chart. I usually check the following:
Now let's look more closely at Nevron charts through the Object Browser.
To do that run the application to be tested that's uses a Nevron Chart control. Navigate to a window with the ChartView control. In TestComplete's Object Browser, locate the icon representing your tested application and open it, then investigate the sub nodes and locate the Chart View control. Select the Chart View control in the TestComplete Object Browser. As you can see, the Chart View control has compound 'Labels', 'Charts' and 'Legends' properties. These are the properties that I use the most.
Working with the 'Labels' Property
If you double click on the 'Labels' property then the NLabelsCollection object with its properties will be displayed. NLabelsCollection has the 'Count' and 'Item' properties. The 'Count' property contains a number of existing charts labels. The 'Item' property allows you to get access to the NLabel object by using the get_Item(index) method. In turn, the NLabel object allows you to get text from the displayed label using the 'Text' property.
Now that you know how to get access to the labels, we can take a look at the first simple function that allows us to get an array of labels for the displayed charts.
function NevronNChart_getArrayOfChartsLabels(oNevronNChart){ var oLabels,iNumLbls,oLabel; var aLabels = new Array(); try{ oLabels = oNevronNChart["Labels"]; iNumLbls = oLabels["Count"]; for(var i=0;i<iNumLbls;i++) { oLabel = oLabels["get_Item"](i); aLabels[i] = oLabel ["Text"]["OleValue"]; } return aLabels; } catch (e){ Log["Error"](e); return null; } }
As you can see, this function returns all existing labels' values. We can use this array to define the index of the demanded chart and compare two string values. Let's look at the following function:
function NevronNChart_getChartIndexByLabel(oNevronNChart,sLabel){ var aLabels = new Array(); try { aLabels = NevronNChart_getArrayOfChartsLabels(oNevronNChart); for(var i=0;i<aLabels["length"];i++) if(Utilities["CompareStr"](aLabels[i],sLabel)==0) return i; return -1;//if specified label was not found } catch (e){ Log["Error"](e); return -1; } }
Working with the 'Charts' and 'Series' Properties
Now, let's look at the 'Charts' property of the Chart View control. Double click on the 'Charts' property - the NChartCollection object will expand. NChartCollection has the 'Count' and 'Item' properties. By using the 'Item' property we get access to the NChart object that contains the compound property, called 'Series'. This property allows us to get access to the NSeriesCollection that contains the 'Count' and 'Item' properties. So, let's look at the next function that allows us to get a series number for the chart with a specified index:
function NevronNChart_2D_getSeriesCount(oNevronNChart,iChartIndex){ var oCharts,oChart; var oSeries; var iSeriesCount; try{ oCharts = oNevronNChart["Charts"]; oChart = oCharts ["get_Item"](iChartIndex); oSeries = oChart ["get_Series"](); iSeriesCount = oSeries ["Count"]; return iSeriesCount; } catch(e){ Log["Error"](e); return -1; } }
Given the example above, we can retrieve all of the chart's labels, we can get the chart's index using it's label, and we also know how to receive the quantity of curves.
Each item of the 'Series' property is contained in the NLineSeries object. By using the 'Values' property of the NLineSeries object we get access to the NDataSeries object that has the 'Count' and 'Item' properties. Each Item has the 'm_value' property that stores the x-coordinate for each dot of the displayed curve. So we can get the number of dots that form a curve and then get all coordinates. The function below shows how to do this:
function NevronNChart_2D_getDots(oNevronNChart,iChartIndex,iSeriesIndex){ var oCharts,oChart; var oSeries,oSerie; var iSerieValNum,i,aValues; aValues = new Array(); try{ oCharts = oNevronNChart["Charts"]; oChart = oCharts ["get_Item"](iChartIndex); oSeries = oChart ["get_Series"](); oSerie = oSeries ["get_Item"](iSeriesIndex); iSerieValNum = oSerie ["Values"]["Count"]; for(i=0;i<iSerieValNum;i++) aValues[i]= oSerie["Values"]["get_Item"](i)["m_value"]; return aValues; } catch(e){ Log["Error"](e); return null; } }
Working with the 'Legends' Property
Let's now consider how to work with the 'Legends' property. We work with it in a similar way that we work with other compound properties of the chart view control. Each item of the 'Legends' property is contained in the NLegendCollection object. Each item of the NLegendCollection is contained in the NLegend object that also has the compound 'Data' property. When the 'Data' property is opened, we get access to the NLegendData object that has the 'Items' property. Each item of the NLegendData object is contained in the NLegendDataCollection object. The 'Count' and 'Item' properties are stored in this object. By using a combination of 'Text' and 'OleValue' properties for each item of the NLegendDataCollection, we can get all of the values for the existing chart legend. The function below has been created using this structure:
function NevronNChart_getArrayOfLegendValues(oNevronNChart,iLegend){ try{ var oLegends = oNevronNChart["Legends"]; var oLegend = oLegends["get_Item"](iLegend); var oData = oLegend ["get_Data"](); var oItems = oData ["get_Items"](); var iValNum = oItems ["Count"]; var arr = new Array(); for(var i=0;i<iValNum;i++) arr[i] = oItems["get_Item"](i)["Text"]["OleValue"]; return arr; }catch(e){ Log["Error"](e); return null; }}
I hope this helps you understand how to work with charts in Nevron .NET Vision Controls.
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(With all due respect to Lance, I think Eddy was the most dominant cyclist because he won every type of race that existed while he was competing. Like Mercx, Bernard Hinault and Miguel Indurain also won the Tour de France and a variety of other races. However, they never seemed to have the same aura of invincibility Mercx had in his prime.)
Of the four, perhaps Navratilova's timing was the most fortuitous. She came along during the 1970's, when women's sports first started to achieve anything like a wide audience, and was at her peak during the early and mid 1980's.
Recently, I learned of another great athlete who may have been on the other side of the mirror from Navratilova.
|Nancy Burghart accepting the trophy for her 1964 National Championship from USI President Otto Eisele Jr.
Nancy Burghart (now Nancy Burghart-Haviland) won eight US National Championships during the 1960's. She was one of the most versatile riders of her time, as she also won pursuit and sprint championships. Nearly any time she mounted a bicycle, people expected her to win, much as they did when Navratilova entered a tennis court.
Some would say that Burghart had the misfortune of racing at a time when relatively little attention was paid to cycling, and to women's sports, in the US. However, she garnered great respect from both the men and women in her sport, and even got some overseas press, which was no small feat in the conditions I've described, and in the absence of the Internet and 24-hour news cycles.
During Burghart's career, the traditional cycling powers of Europe and Japan did not take American racing very seriously. However, one could argue that, even then, American female cyclists were among the world's best. In countries like France, Italy and Japan, bicycle racing, and the media that covered it, were focused almost entirely on male racers. This could only have stunted the development in women's racing in those countries. On the other hand, bicycle racing in the US during the three decades after World War II was entirely an amateur affair. Some have argued that this is a reason why male and female racers were on more or less equal footing, and may have been what allowed women's cycling to gain more prominence in the years before Greg LeMond won the Tour de France.
In my research, I found another interesting detail about Ms. Burghart: She was born and raised in the Jackson Heights section of Queens, barely a couple hundred pedal spins from the Kissena track--or my apartment. That track, of course, is where any number of American racers have trained as well as raced. And it's also where the trials were held for the 1964 Olympic team.
In 1957, when she was 12 years old, she won the Girls' Midget title. Her twin sister Melissa also competed in the race, and others Nancy rode and won. It would have taken plenty of determination for an American boy to pursue a bicycle-racing dream at that time: Imagine what it must have taken for two girls!
From what I've gathered, Burghart-Haviland now lives in Maine. Given her role in cycling, and American sports generally, I am surprised she isn't better-known.


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Hotel Albert is situated in an attractive location in Krkonoše valley near skiing area in village Paseky nad Jizerou. It provides perfect condition for winter sports, very good accommodation together with excellent cuisine redound to enjoyable stay. Hotel offer an opportunity to organise company trainings, seminars or smaller congress, also schools in nature and exercise in our hotel.
You can find Accommodation in private Hrušová in town aseky nad Jizerou, in region Giant Mountains.
Apartments and mountain farming settlement Na Zvonici stands alone on the southern slope of the town Paseky nad Jizerou, with a view of the western Giant Mountains and neighbouring mountain towns.The focus of the farming here is the keeping of Romney sheep. The herd's main products are stud rams and high-quality organic lamb. The family also provides private lodgings, which are highly popular with visitors to Paseky due to its position.
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