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Posted on | January 27, 2012 | 11 Comments
Today I've my last review for this month as part of Gathering Books' Award Winning Book Challenge, and again it's a picture book which has won the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis (German Youth literature prize).
One, Two, Three, Me by Nadia Budde is a board book for the pre-school / nursery crowd. It is a quirky take on the "learn about the world around you" type of book with an exploration of colours, shapes, weather, locations, clothes, sizes and emotions/characteristics. Told in rhyme with naive, childlike drawings that reminded me a little both of Finnish illustrator Hannamari Ruohonen and Dutch illustrator Babette Harms, this is not your average toddler learning book, and is so much more fun for all that.
The choice of vocabulary is interesting (eg "gigantic, average, wee" when talking about size, or "spotted, plaid, pale" when talking about colours and patterns), and the animals modelling the cloths / locations / emotions etc are unusual: you'll meet boars, cockroaches, rats, moose and a gnu!
The unusual lexical and illustrative choices made by Nadia Budde ensured that was this book inherently more interesting to read than many of its ilk. Whilst I wouldn't be surprised if some parents felt happier with a more conventional approach, for example Kali Stileman's Big Book of My World (which I reviewed here), the slightly anarchic slant taken by this book meant I loved reading it aloud, my enjoyment came across to J, and she too discovered a new book to love.
So now for a slightly geeky diversion, if you're interested in translation. As a rhyming book, and a book where there is a close connection between the text and the images I was curious to find out how it had been translated.
Nadia Budde's book is called Eins Zwei Drei Tier (One Two Three Animal) in the original German. A little rooting around has shown that not only has the translation been creative, Nadia Budde also must have redrawn some of the images for the English language version. Here are some images from the original book side by side with the corresponding images from the translated version.
I'd love to know more about the process that went on here – the conversations between writer/illustrator, translator and publisher. If you're a writer/illustrator and have ever had to make such substantial changes to a book of yours, in order for it to be published in another language, I'd love to hear about it.
But moving on…
J loves to rhyme so it seemed very natural for us to make our own sing-song version of One, Two, Three, Me. J came up with the rhymes and then illustrated them for her own book about her world. Here's her poem in full:
Ewan, Alfie, Molly, Dolly
In a dress, in a t-shirt, in a cloak, what a joke!
triangle, semi-circle, square, chair
in the clouds, in the sun, in the light, bike
Ginormous, medium, teeny, what a meanie
red, blonde, black, sack
filled with snacks, filled with bread, filled with presents, elephant
trumpetty-trump, raa, moo, you!
I gave her prompts for each line but J had tremendous fun "filling in the blanks" and especially coming up with the rhymes. Whilst not the most detailed of books, she's tremendously proud of it and it's become a favourite to read together at bedtime alongside the original which inspired it.
Whilst helping J make her book we listened to:
Other activities which might work well alongside reading One, Two, Three, Me include:
Can you recommend any picture books that are particularly interesting from the translation point of view? Books that posed particular problems for translation, but that were nevertheless translated successfully?
Tags: Award-Winning-Books Reading Challenge 2012 > Bookmaking > Books in translation > Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis > Learning about the world > Reading Round Europe
11 Responses to "A creatively translated world for little ones"
Donna McKinnon
January 27th, 2012 @ 1:57 am
Hmm…I'd love to know why these changes were made too! Seems unnecessary, although both versions are very charming. Reminds me of the Swedish picture book Else-Marie and the Seven Little Daddies (reviewed in 32 Pages)-and the removal of the communal bathing scene for the North American version. Of course, with 'One, Two, Three, Me', it was an aesthetic decision rather than censorship, but you gotta wonder why the jackal was switched out for the giraffe in the English version! Must have been an interesting editorial meeting. I hope the illustrator got paid twice. Sadly, I don't pay much attention to board books since I left the bookstore, but I certainly remember some very lovely titles. Your review made me very wistful. I'll have to dive back in.
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Linda Baie
January 27th, 2012 @ 2:21 am
I found your blog through the award challenge. Your review of the translated board book is interesting, and I especially enjoyed your background research of the changes that had occurred from the original German book. The book does look cute & I'm sure my 2 1/2 year old granddaughter would enjoy it. Thanks!
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January 27th, 2012 @ 3:17 am
I want to know why they were changed too! I wonder if it's just one of those things where someone has more time to think about something and then changes it. I do that all the time with writing!
Love your filling in the blanks activity, hope you don't mind if I steal it!
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January 27th, 2012 @ 9:15 am
Hi Donna, Jen, Linda,
I think some of the changes were made simply to ensure a good rhyme in English – "bald" and "jackal" rhyme in German, and the creative team had to come up with something to do with hair colour and an animal for it to rhyme with (hence "half and half" followed by "giraffe"). I'm also interested in the fact that it must have been the concept of the book (rather than the actual book) that was sold into English – so many changes have been made that I wouldn't really say it is the _same_ book.
January 27th, 2012 @ 9:17 am
One thing you don't mention is who the translator was. Please don't forget them! On the odd occasion when I've had to translate something more literary (when I'm not writing poems I'm a Thai to English translator), I've had great fun trying to come up with something that alliterates and/or rhymes in both languages.
I loved J's poem – she's obviously a poet in the making.
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January 27th, 2012 @ 9:29 am
Sorry Elli, I absolutely should have done, although it is not clear who the translator was. On the front cover of the English language version there is a second name – Jeremy Fitzkee – but I can't be sure what role he played in the book.
maggy,red ted art
January 27th, 2012 @ 10:22 am
Oooh thank you for this review! I am particularly interested in the original, as my children are growing up bilingually. Maybe the unusual choice of words is really good for us to help build vocabulary in the weaker language (German). And as the text is so simple it will give us plenty of time to discuss any unknown words. It is going on my wish list!
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Myra from GatheringBooks
January 27th, 2012 @ 10:39 am
Hi Zoe! That's an interesting question that you posed – I'm part of the organizing committee of the Asian Festival of Children's Content this 2012 here in Singapore and we are planning on having a panel on translation – books that have been translated, the challenges faced by translators, the whole shebang. I am not sure whether we're still pushing through with that panel, but you've raised great questions here that I'd be sure to ask if I'd have a chance to sit in that session. Great books, by the way! And yes, my library list is growing longer by the mile.
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January 27th, 2012 @ 3:56 pm
I always wonder this about Dr. Seuss books (my daughter's school library has a number of them in Spanish). With all the rhyming PLUS the made-up words, they must be awfully difficult to translate.
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January 27th, 2012 @ 4:25 pm
Zoe if you are an Asterix fan (like me!) then Peter Kessler's A Complete Guide to Asterix is worth getting hold of – my favourite is the part that talks about how Anthea Bell translated the original works from French to English. Amazing insights.
January 30th, 2012 @ 9:11 am
Hi Maggy,
I think you make a great point about the slightly unusual vocab choices – they're definitely enriching, and make the reading more interesting.
Hi Myra,
Your panel sounds fascinating – do keep me posted on developments
Even in Australia,
Oh I'd love to see some Dr Seuss in spanish – can't imagine how that's been translated!
Hi Choxbox,
Thanks for the tip, have added it to my library wishlist.
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Ron Peterson https://pub.mtholyoke.edu/journal/ron/feed/entries/atom 2014-03-19T16:32:50-04:00 Apache Roller (incubating) https://pub.mtholyoke.edu/journal/ron/entry/i_m_a_lumberjack_part I'm a Lumberjack: Part II Ron 2011-12-29T09:37:03-05:00 2011-12-29T09:47:53-05:00
In my last post, I milled some logs in the field into large slabs. I typically mill these slabs into smaller boards before I stack the wood to dry. I built a sled to hold odd-shaped lengths of wood straight and steady as I run them through my band saw.

The sled is constructed from 3/4" plywood. Sliding stops on either end hold the log in place while I slide it through the saw.

The end stops slide in T tracks. Toggle clamps hold the end stops in place.

I put friction tape on the bottom of the end stops to keep them from sliding. The clamps alone are not sufficient.

I mounted nailing plates upside down on the inside faces of my end stops to hold the log. Once the log is in position, I use a heavy rubber mallet to tap the stops into the end grain before clamping them down.

A 3/4" x 3/8" polycarbonate extrusion which fits the band saw's track is mounted on the bottom to guide the sled in a straight line. I used my router table to mitre a very shallow 3/4" groove on the bottom to hold the extrusion perfectly straight before I mounted it with wood screws. I hold the sled up on either side of the saw with roller stands. A 3/8" thick strip of plywood on the side provides a level base for the sled to roll on. The bottom is also waxed so that it slides easily when heavily loaded.

Here's what the log looks like after a first pass through the saw. At this point, I could stop using the sled, and continue ripping dimensioned boards by running the straight edge I just made against a fence. I find that the sled does a better job of holding things straight, though. It's a little more work to use the sled, because I have to mark and carefully position each end of the log for every pass, but the results are better.

I use a 3/4" wood slicer resaw blade. It alternates between 3 and 4 TPI (teeth per inch) along the blade. This alternating pattern reduces vibration. Resaw blades are wide to provide stability. They also have deep gullets between the teeth so that they can remove all of the material from the cut. Shallow teeth would quickly gum up and fail to cut well. It's important to have a sharp blade in the saw. You can tell when the blade is getting dull because it will cut a wavy line.

I ripped this piece of log into approx. 2" wide planks. I chose the direction of the cut so that the ring pattern is roughly perpendicular to my cut - i.e. these boards are quarter sawn. Quarter sawn boards cannot be as wide as a plain sawn board, but they are more dimensionally stable.

Now I just need to find a place to store all this stuff...
 https://pub.mtholyoke.edu/journal/ron/entry/i_m_a_lumberjack I'm a lumberjack Ron 2011-12-05T22:53:07-05:00 2011-12-05T22:58:50-05:00
...and that's OK.

LITS's very own Beth Johnson lost a very beautiful cherry tree to the crazy storm we had just before Halloween. She didn't want to see such nice wood go to waste so, knowing I had a milling attachment for my giant chainsaw (who doesn't), she graciously invited me over to help mill it up. I took a few pictures, because I have a hard time explaining to people exactly what I'm talking about when I tell them about my little hobby.

 The first cut with the chainsaw mill is performed by running it over two parallel tracks fastened to the log. The bar of the chainsaw is fastened to the milling attachment on either end, as you can see in the picture below.

 The mill runs over the plane made by the first cut for subsequent cuts. There are wedges driven into the cut behind the saw to keep the saw from binding. The slab in this picture is about 5 1/2 inches thick.

 I'll mill the rest on a big band saw. The kerf of the bandsaw blade is much thinner than a chainsaw, so less wood is wasted. I won't cut these down too much more though until I know what I want to use them for. I can always cut it later, but I can't uncut it. In the meantime, I'll paint the ends with polyurethane. Wood contracts as it cures. If the end grain is left unprotected, it will dry faster than the interior wood, and the differential contraction will cause the wood to check.

If you're like my wife, you are perhaps wondering what I plan to do with all the wood I'm collecting this way. That's a good question; maybe I'll post an answer here some day. The thickest pieces here will take a couple of years to dry properly, so I have some time to think about it.
 https://pub.mtholyoke.edu/journal/ron/entry/community_rowing Community Rowing Ron 2010-07-28T14:30:23-04:00 2010-07-28T14:30:23-04:00
The MHC community rowing program took off in earnest this summer with the dedication and opening of the new MHC boathouse. Several dozen people have taken introductory rowing classes and we've been having a great time. We're usually out on the river around six AM or so. The quiet, the early morning fog, the various moods of the river can seem magical. I took a few pictures the other morning that I thought I'd share. It was a particularly foggy morning, so we attached lights to the bow to improve our visibility. Once we got up river a thousand yards or so, the fog lifted, and it was a quite beautiful morning.

Setting up an eight

Chris and his Alden Star

Getting ready to launch

Sculling

Sweep rowing

Good morning dad

Bringing the eight up the ramp

Adaline checking out Dad's oar

Boathouse interior

Boathouse deck, looking towards the dock
 https://pub.mtholyoke.edu/journal/ron/entry/rsyslog_article RSyslog Article Ron 2010-03-05T16:20:03-05:00 2010-03-05T16:21:59-05:00
From time to time, I do some work that requires I write some documentation. This is for my own benefit as well as my colleagues, because odds are, given a bit of time, I myself won't recall exactly what I did. Sometimes the work I do may have utility outside of MHC, in which case I've taken a shine to publishing my documentation in Linux Gazette. It's work I have to do anyway, and by doing so, someone else might benefit from the work I did. It's been a while since I did this, but I just published an article on using RSyslog to log to PostgreSQL. If nothing else, this will make it easier for me to find my own documentation when I need it.
 https://pub.mtholyoke.edu/journal/ron/entry/hoops_wrapup Hoops Wrapup Ron 2010-03-03T09:00:39-05:00 2010-03-03T09:46:49-05:00
The MHC student basketball team sent the faculty/staff team limping home to defeat in a really exciting game last night. The students took an early and commanding lead, but the F/S team rallied back and the game remained tied up for most of the next two quarters. But the final quarter was a rout, the F/S fell behind by nine, and stayed there. Final score: 61-55.

Everyone had a great time, but most importantly, we raised a significant sum to assist w/ Haiti relief efforts. Thanks to everyone who helped organize this event, thanks for coming to watch, thanks to the players, and thank god for ibuprofen and Bengay.

The Diversions and the M&C's also came to sing the Star Spangled Banner and to perform at halftime. They were terrific!

Coach Ken Tucker

Team Photo

Hi-Res version of team photo

Crowd starting to arrive

Hi-Res version of crowd photo
 https://pub.mtholyoke.edu/journal/ron/entry/holly_and_the_patriarchs Hoops for Haiti Ron 2010-02-28T20:00:58-05:00 2010-02-28T20:00:58-05:00
Come to Kendall at 7:30 on Tuesday night, March 2nd, to watch the MHC basketball team square off against the MHC staff and faculty! It's the best and worst of basketball, all rolled into one. We try to organize a game every year to benefit a charitable organization. This year, Cause will be collecting voluntary contributions at the door (suggested donation: $2, additional generosity much appreciated) to benefit Haiti. Hope you can make it.
 https://pub.mtholyoke.edu/journal/ron/entry/yogin Yogin Ron 2010-02-10T23:59:00-05:00 2010-02-10T23:59:00-05:00
Youth challenges the master on the mountain. Via my friend Ben Okopnik.

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 https://pub.mtholyoke.edu/journal/ron/entry/embrace_your_inner_girl Embrace your Inner Girl Ron 2010-02-02T13:02:35-05:00 2010-02-02T13:13:42-05:00
I caught wind of this TED talk from CNN. It's nice to see women's issues getting such attention. Eve Ensler is probably best known for the play "The Vagina Monologues". I was particularly struck by this CNN byline:

<quote>...and launched safe houses in the Congo, Haiti, Kenya, South Dakota, Egypt and Iraq.</quote>

I grew up in SD, and to see my state in this list is rather appalling. But appropriate, given my home state's stance on the abortion issue. Not every South Dakotan leans so far right, and so I thought I'd share this.

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 https://pub.mtholyoke.edu/journal/ron/entry/lits_open_house_pictures LITS Open House Pictures Ron 2010-01-20T21:16:39-05:00 2010-01-20T21:16:39-05:00
A few snapshots from the recent LITS Open House.

A few snapshots from the recent LITS Open House.

 https://pub.mtholyoke.edu/journal/ron/entry/don_t_stop_believin Don't Stop Believin Ron 2010-01-07T09:29:13-05:00 2010-01-07T09:29:13-05:00
Why wasn't chorus this cool when I was a kid?

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 https://pub.mtholyoke.edu/journal/ron/entry/2009_darwin_awards 2009 Darwin Awards Ron 2010-01-04T18:55:43-05:00 2010-01-04T21:36:16-05:00
Of all the best-of and worst-of end-of-year retrospectives, my macabre favorite is always the Darwin Awards. The (official?) logo reminds me of a favorite expression of mine: "Extrapolation is when, upon reaching the edge of a cliff, you keep walking, because the ground has been flat so far."

This year doesn't seem to quite match up to earlier years. One entry in particular - "Tennessee Pee" - has me confused. I mean, who wouldn't climb a clearly marked barbed wire fence to climb on top of a high power transformer to pee on a wasp nest that obviously shouldn't be there?
 https://pub.mtholyoke.edu/journal/ron/entry/bow_saw Bow Saw Ron 2009-12-06T09:17:10-05:00 2009-12-07T19:57:42-05:00
I'd been working on a bow saw, but got stuck figuring out how to attach the saw blade to the frame. I sat on it for a while, and then finally came up with this solution. I sawed the threads off of a couple of 5/8" carriage bolts. Then I cut slots in the ends of the bolts, and drilled a small hole in each for a small machine screw to hold the blade in place. A nice feature is that I can turn the bolts 90 degrees, so that I can use the saw to rip through a long board if I want to.

 https://pub.mtholyoke.edu/journal/ron/entry/the_timekeeper The Time Keeper Ron 2009-12-02T23:08:03-05:00 2010-01-28T11:44:51-05:00
Many of you may know Ron Zissell from his work tending the telescopes at the Williston Observatory. Or perhaps you've seen him in full Scottish regalia playing the bagpipes on special occasions. In addition to these things, Ron has also been keeping the Mount Holyoke campus on time since July 1st, 1976, when he was given the keys to the Mary Lyon clock tower by the previous caretaker, Charlie Lang Lyon.

I spent some time this afternoon helping Ron with one of the observatory computers. After we were done, Ron brought me with him while he ascended the tower to perform some routine maintenance. The staircase into the tower happens to be in Elizabeth Braun's office. Tanya Williams' office is right around the corner. Her office mates had made the trip before, but she had not, so she also came along.

It's not a trip most people get to make, so I thought I'd share some pictures.

The large bell used to be rung by a rope around the large pulley, but everything is now driven by the clock mechanism. The rods going through the ceiling are attached to the striking mechanism, which is driven by the clock mechanism.

Tanya signing her name to the guest register, which dates back to 1975. Ron knows almost everyone on the list, of course, and has lots of great stories to tell. One of the guests was an alum who made the trip up and down the rickety ladders in a white dress while attending her 50th reunion.

This is the main clock mechanism. The tower shifts very slightly with the seasons, so Ron carefully balances the pendulum to keep proper time.

This is part of the bell striking mechanism. You can see a couple of the rods extending down through the floor to the bell room.

When oil came from whales, clock makers used the finest grade, extracted by tapping the blubber at extremely cold temperatures. There's just a little left in this bottle from long ago. It smells really terrible.

 https://pub.mtholyoke.edu/journal/ron/entry/blum_blum_shub Blum Blum Shub Ron 2009-11-25T16:02:53-05:00 2009-11-25T16:02:53-05:00
I've been whiling away the evening hours writing a set of cryptography functions for PostgreSQL. First in importance, but the last thing I wrote, is a cryptographically strong pseudorandom number generator. I chose to implement the Blum Blum Shub algorithm. My attraction to this algorithm lies in the fact that it is supported by a security proof very similar to that behind the RSA PKCS #1 v2.1 standard, which relates to the difficulty of factoring large integers. This algorithm has been subjected to lengthy and intense scrutiny, and has withstood the test of time. This code is available to use under the terms of the GNU Affero GPL v3.0.
 https://pub.mtholyoke.edu/journal/ron/entry/kpartx_redux kpartx redux Ron 2009-11-10T09:16:06-05:00 2009-11-10T09:16:06-05:00
I've wrestled with kpartx before. This time I thought I might lose what hair I have left. This post is a little wonkish, but as before, I hope posting about my experience will help some other sap someday.

For the uninitiated, kpartx is the linux utility called by udev to assign device names to disk partitions when using multipath. Kpartx has a -p option which is used to assign the string you'd like to use as the partition delimiter in these device names. So say you have a disk called 'foo', with three partitions, and you give kpartx the string 'bar' as the argument to -p. Then you should end up with device names under /dev/mapper that look like foobar1, foobar2, foobar3. Fair enough.

In the process of setting up a new server, we elected to ensure we knew how to configure this by setting the delimiter to 'quack'. It worked fine. Of course 'quack' is not what we really wanted in production, so a few weeks later we set this back to plain old 'p'. After a reboot, however, the device names came up 'quack' again. (!) (@$%#$%). If we cleared the device names (multipath -F) and recreated them (multipath -v2) they came back the way we expected. We searched high and low for where 'quack' could be hiding, but couldn't find it.

Finally, I sent a query to the dm-devel list. These are the linux programmer gurus who write the device mapper utilities. Mike Anderson from IBM sent this helpful reply: "It sounds like there is a copy of the old rules in your initrd." Bingo! Between our original test and when we tried to revert, I had compiled a later version of the kernel for this server, which of course updated my initrd. Another compile with kpartx configured correctly, and the machine now boots with the correct names.
 https://pub.mtholyoke.edu/journal/ron/entry/climb_any_mountain Climb any Mountain Ron 2009-10-01T10:24:40-04:00 2009-10-01T14:35:36-04:00
Chris Waddell's ascent of Kilimanjaro is an amazing story without the local interest angle, but he's a son of Granby to boot! From the event's blog: "Chris is the 1st paraplegic to summit Kili, unassisted!" You can see Chris' equipment in this video of him riding in Utah.

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 https://pub.mtholyoke.edu/journal/ron/entry/sand_animation Sand Animation Ron 2009-08-06T22:01:32-04:00 2009-08-21T13:42:05-04:00
I could easily spend hours reading reading Arts & Letters Daily. That's where I found the link to this absolutely stunning video of Kseniya Simonova doing a sand animation of WWII in the Ukraine. From Ukraine Has Talent.
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There's a nice excerpt on blogging from a new book by Scott Rosenberg on Salon. In it, he deconstructs the oft-heard criticism of blogging that "Self-publishing by someone of average talent is not very interesting" - a common lament of traditional publishing venues feeling besieged by the outpouring of mediocre commentary. The problem, according to Scott, is that people have their metaphors all mixed up. Instead of comparing blogging to traditional one-way communication paradigms like television, it should really be considered a new type of telephone. People value active two-way interactive conversation at least as much as passive one sided reception of broadcast style messages, he argues. In that light, criticizing a blog because it has a tiny audience is akin to criticizing a telephone conversation because the only person who cares what you are saying is Mom. Complaining about "too many blogs" is akin to complaining about too many telephone conversations. Of course, blogs have the potential to cross the public/private line, so the metaphor isn't exact, but it's nevertheless illustrative. This blog, in keeping with the on-line conversation metaphor Scott invokes, would direct you to Scott's article or book for further discussion.
 https://pub.mtholyoke.edu/journal/ron/entry/networked_music_performance Networked Music Performance Ron 2009-05-07T09:54:16-04:00 2009-05-07T10:41:24-04:00
At a five college network meeting yesterday, Maria Toyofuku told us about a unique music performance planned for this Saturday, May 9th. A special topics course at Amherst this semester, led by Jason Robinson, has been working on using some new network technology that enables real-time musical collaboration between distant participants.

People have used the internet to facilitate their musical collaborations for quite some time. You send me an mp3, I compose and record my response, then send it back. This is different, because the participants are collaborating in real time. One of the key concerns with real time collaboration is that there be no delay or jitter in the audio signal. If you are having a phone conversation, and the audio signal is delayed by 1/4 second, you probably won't notice. Imagine the same thing happening with a music ensemble, however. If I hear your drum beat 1/4 too late, when you hear my instrument's sound return, it will be delayed by the original 1/4 second, plus whatever delay is introduced on the return journey. Playing music this way would not be fun.

It will be very interesting to see how well this technology works. The network protocols upon which the internet is built do not support quality of service traffic prioritization. In other words, you can't say "this is an audio stream, delay and jitter is unacceptable" vs. "this is an email message, delays and even out-of-order packet transmission are perfectly fine." All internet packets receive the same prioritization (well, there are exceptions, but nothing worth going into right now.) It seems to me that the only way this can work well is if you have fat enough pipes. It's like making a boat go fast by strapping in a really big engine, vs. building something really streamlined. This collaboration, therefore, may only be possible because of the five college fiber network. It would be interesting to see how this technology works between more remote locations.

If you are interested in hearing how this all works out, you can listen to the performance here. Because setup is complicated, and this is new, they are not sure exactly what time the performance will start, but it will be sometime between 5pm and 7pm on May 9th. The exact starting time will be announced on the website at least 30 minutes prior to the performance.
 https://pub.mtholyoke.edu/journal/ron/entry/viral_video_of_the_day Viral Video of the Day Ron 2009-04-15T10:47:29-04:00 2009-04-16T10:33:10-04:00
An unexpectedly incredible performance. YouTube disabled embedding for this video, so just follow this link.

Regarding her newfound fame, Susan Boyle says this: "If it all gets too much and they lock me up, I want a great big strait-jacket with spots on it. A pink one... and a big zip on the back so I can escape."
 https://pub.mtholyoke.edu/journal/ron/entry/cloning_grapes Cloning Grapes Ron 2009-02-15T22:26:38-05:00 2009-02-15T22:26:38-05:00
Have you ever wanted to know how to propagate grapes? Well, I pruned my grapes today, and took some pictures so I can show you how to use the cuttings to clone new plants. I may be pruning a little on the early side, but I wanted an extra week or two to help the roots get established so that I can pot them in the spring. These are Niagra grapes. I got them from a friend and can vouch that in the right hands, they make an excellent white wine.

Grapes need to be pruned hard - you remove about 90% of the growth. There are a number of different pruning techniques. I prune everything but two opposing one year old canes which start at the top of the trunk. The shoots that grow from these canes will yield this year's fruit.

New plants can be cloned from cuttings you make from the pruned canes. Each cutting typically has three buds. Make a straight cut just below the basal bud, and an angled cut just above the top bud.

The cuttings should then be placed in peat, which will stay moist, but still breaths. The first time I did this, I made the mistake of putting all of my cuttings into one big pot. The top bud leafed out and they took root just fine. The problem was that I could not tease the plants apart without damaging the delicate root structure, and I killed quite a few of them. So I came up with a different system where I put each individual cutting into it's own eight inch piece of PVC pipe. This way, once the plants begin to grow, I can push the whole peat plug out and pot it without damaging the plant.

That's it for now. I keep these inside by a sunny window, and keep them moist. Come spring, I'll move them into some larger pots with some dirt. Assuming all goes well, in a few years these little sticks will be producing grapes of their own.
 https://pub.mtholyoke.edu/journal/ron/entry/blog_updates MHC Web Journal Updates Ron 2009-01-06T08:46:36-05:00 2009-01-06T08:47:23-05:00 We're about to enter a new phase of our blogging initiative. Some of the preparations may temporarily affect the availability and appearance of this site. Over the next several weeks, we'll be making some minor adjustments to the back end software, installing a new front page theme, making some new and upgraded themes available, and cleaning out some of the temporary testing blogs we created. Stay tuned for more details; and thanks for your patience while we make these modifications. https://pub.mtholyoke.edu/journal/ron/entry/shibboleth Shibboleth Ron 2008-12-05T15:35:21-05:00 2008-12-06T20:25:42-05:00
A few weeks ago, Dennis Bowen, Christopher Woods and I attended a NERCOMP event in Portsmouth, NH titled Directory Services Best Practices. There were two morning sessions about how to customize LDAP schemas to accomodate local directory requirements. It was a good introduction, but personally, I found it a bit boring, as this was familiar territory. In fact, one of the presentations bore an uncanny resemblance to an article on customizing LDAP schemas I had written a couple of years ago. After breaking for a rather meager lunch, I was beginning to wonder why I had signed up for such a long car ride.

However, the afternoon session was well worth the price of admission. Stephen Carmody is the project director of the Shibboleth project, an important Internet2 initiative which aims to provide a "web single sign-on across or within organizational boundaries. It allows sites to make informed authorization decisions for individual access of protected online resources in a privacy-preserving manner". Stephen's presentation gave us an overview of the project's current status, and provided a lot of good information about a number of SAML enabled services that are coming online which are of interest to the higher educational community.

We have had many informal internal discussions about Shibboleth for quite some time. While it has many advantages over traditional authentication and ad-hoc authorization mechanisms, it has always suffered from the usual chicken-and-egg impediment to adoption: no-one wants to invest in implementing an access solution until it is supported by the applications we use, and the application providers don't want to develop an access solution which no-one has the infrastructure to support. What Stephen made clear was that a number of commercial organizations and federal agencies are breaking the logjam, by provisioning SAML-mediated access to their content and services. (Shibboleth is basically an open reference implementation of the SAML protocol.)

On the commercial side, we have Google providing SAML Single Sign-On (SSO) to Google Apps. Apple is piloting federated access to iTunes U. Microsoft is making its DreamSpark suite of software development tools available to students available to students at no charge, and supports SAML assertions as proof of their status. Federal agencies, propelled by the E-Government Act of 2002, are also getting into the game. Both NIS and NSF will, in about sixteen month's time, use SAML assertions to provide access to grant proposals. The gorilla in the room, for higher ed, is FAFSA, which is looking to SAML to control access to student financial aid information.

I don't have time right now to write up all of the details of how this all works, but will do so in the near future. In the meantime, the important point is that we can no longer consider Shibboleth a solution in search of a problem. Quite the opposite - it appears imperative that we implement Shibboleth (or another compatible SAML implementation) if we want to provide our institution access to any number of important on-line electronic resources.
 https://pub.mtholyoke.edu/journal/ron/entry/the_girl_effect The Girl Effect Ron 2008-12-02T09:06:58-05:00 2008-12-02T22:31:37-05:00
Reading the news this morning, I stumbled upon an organization called The Girl Effect who's mission is to improve living conditions in the developing world by helping the girls in those societies get a leg up. Check it out. (I love their logo.)

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Wow, did Peter Shiff call it. Watch this video. Admire Peter's prescience, to be sure; but I especially enjoy watching his narcissistic detractors preening themselves, especially Arthur Laffer - he of the laughable laffer curve from which trickle-down Reagonomics and other supply side corollaries derive.
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If you want to get an insider's perspective of the machinations of Wall Street, you could do worse than to read Michael Lewis. Author of an earlier expose titled "Liar's Poker", he has a new article online which details how Wall Street made sausage from financial detritus. A great, although alarming, read.

One of the fascinating tidbits he discusses is the linkage between the folks taking long positions and the short sellers. Common wisdom in my crowd is that the shorts are the devilish market manipulators. Maybe, but it cuts both ways. Turns out that folks pushing mortgage backed securities were playing off the short positions to create new assets out of, well, nothing.

Eisman was perplexed in particular about why Wall Street firms would be coming to him and asking him to sell short. "What Lippman did, to his credit, was he came around several times to me and said, 'Short this market,' " Eisman says. "In my entire life, I never saw a sell-side guy come in and say, 'Short my market.' "

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That's when Eisman finally got it. Here he'd been making these side bets with Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank on the fate of the BBB tranche without fully understanding why those firms were so eager to make the bets. Now he saw. There weren't enough Americans with shitty credit taking out loans to satisfy investors' appetite for the end product. The firms used Eisman's bet to synthesize more of them. Here, then, was the difference between fantasy finance and fantasy football: When a fantasy player drafts Peyton Manning, he doesn't create a second Peyton Manning to inflate the league's stats. But when Eisman bought a credit-default swap, he enabled Deutsche Bank to create another bond identical in every respect but one to the original. The only difference was that there was no actual homebuyer or borrower.

Thank goodness we're giving these people the money they need to sort this all out.
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Interesting dittodot today. Reports from Brian Krebs' Security Fix blog convinced the ISPs providing traffic to major US-based hosting provider McColo to shut them down. Apparently McColo hosted a lot of big time operators. You can see this by looking at a recent graph of reported spam activity.

I sure hope someone gives Brian Krebs a big Christmas bonus!
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It's not too late to enter the 2009 AAAS Science Dance Contest! In order to enter, you have to be pursuing a PhD in a scientific field. Submit a video of your dance to YouTube by 23:00 EST 16 November 2008. The competition looks fierce:

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I learned how to stretch from some high school kid who coached my pee-wee baseball team. You know the drill: before you begin strenuous exercise, by turns overextend the various muscle groups involved until they burn. Hold the position. This is called "static stretching" and the concept has been promoted by well meaning parents, friends, and coaches for generations. I don't know the original genesis of this concept, but according to this article in the New York Times, the conventional wisdom is all wrong. From the article:

Researchers now believe that some of the more entrenched elements of many athletes' warm-up regimens are not only a waste of time but actually bad for you. The old presumption that holding a stretch for 20 to 30 seconds — known as static stretching — primes muscles for a workout is dead wrong. It actually weakens them.

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THE RIGHT WARM-UP should do two things: loosen muscles and tendons to increase the range of motion of various joints, and literally warm up the body. When you're at rest, there's less blood flow to muscles and tendons, and they stiffen. "You need to make tissues and tendons compliant before beginning exercise," Knudson says.

This certainly squares with my own experience. I've had a couple of different persistent injuries. Looking back, I'm pretty certain I've been over-stretching these areas. No more. It's the "spider-man" stretch for me! And if you don't know what I'm talking about, you'll have to read the article.


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Ick... why mess up a perfectly fine peanut by boiling it and making it soft and soggy?? LOL
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You boil the green, or not yet mature, ones. You say soggy, I say delicious. I am not anti-peanut, just anti-peanuts as a dessert food. Maybe I need to get my friend to boil us up some for the next summer get-together.
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I had them at a Hyman's in Charleston, South Carolina. They came with everyone's meals (kind of like tortilla chips & salsa at a Mexican restaurant). They were warm and sitting in a liquid. Is that how your friend serves them? I would be willing to try again.
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Yes, that's how they are served- in warm in water. You can spice up the water to make Cajun boiled peanuts too.
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Last day is May 24th (half day) here!
I'm not sure yet what day we are stopping. We homeschool, so it is kind of up in the air. Normally, we do way more than the required number of days for the year. We usually stop right around June 1st and start up September 1st. This year the kids are burning through their math books, so I told them once they finish and pass the end of year test, they are done for the year. I would suspect middle of next week probably. I'm excited though - now we'll have more time for relaxing and playing
DD is done this Friday. I'm already freaking out!
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Summary: A magnificent drama of love and war, this riveting tragedy presents one of Shakespeare's greatest female characters--the seductive, cunning Egyptian queen Cleopatra.The Roman leader Mark Antony, a virtual prisoner of his passion for her, is a man torn between pleasure and virtue, between sensual indolence and duty . . . between an empire and love.Bold, rich, and splendid in its setting and emotions, Antony And Cleopatra ranks among Shakespeare's supreme achiev ...show moreements. A wide-ranging selection from the most recent criticism of Antony and Cleopatra, beginning with seminal work from the 1950s onwards and culminating in a series of radical reappraisals of the play's content, form and appeal to modern readers. The essays, together with a substantial Introduction, offer a controversial, lively re-reading of one of Shakespeare's major tragedies. In this edition, David Bevington shows how the theatrical design and imaginative vision of Antony and Cleopatra make it one of Shakespeare's most remarkable tragedies. The substantial introduction synthesizes the best criticism of the play, presenting a fresh consideration of its erotic and political complexities.This edition is constantly aware of the play as theater: a detailed illustrated account of the stage history is followed by a discussion of the staging options offered by the text.The full, helpful commentary untangles obscure words and phrases, illuminating sexual puns and Shakespeare's adaptation of source material from Plutarch's Lives. The queen of the Nile meets her match in Marc Antony, and the lovers destroy each other--yet triumph in ruin--in this great romantic tragedy. ...show lessEdition/Copyright: 64
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Valencia close on Pabon deal
Valencia are closing in on the signing of Colombia striker Dorlan Pabon.
The 25-year-old has arrived in the Spanish city as he looks to put the finishing touches on his move from Mexican side Monterrey and, if all goes to plan, he will be presented by the Primera Division club on Wednesday.
A Valencia statement read: "Dorlan Pabon is already in Valencia. If the Colombian passes his medical, he will be official presented as new Valencia player tomorrow at 1930 (local time).
Los Che, who sold star striker Roberto Soldado to Tottenham this summer, are reportedly set to pay around 7.5million euros for the former Real Betis loan player.


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