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NPR's Frank Langfitt begins a four-part series on Somalia today on Morning Edition. Today he visits the front lines of the seemingly endless war with African Union peacekeeping troops, who control just a small area inside the country. Frank sent along some blog posts about his trip.
We spent a full-day traveling with Ugandan troops to various positions along the front lines in Mogadishu and one of the most striking things is how beautiful this city once was and how much has been lost to nearly two decades of fighting.
At one point, we pulled up to a four story building the African Union troops have occupied. They told us it was a hotel. You would never have known it. It was a shell. So many walls were missing, the place had a constant breeze and you couldn't tell there had ever been guest rooms.
Then we heard waves crashing below, looked out over some sandbags and saw the blue green water of the Indian Ocean. There was a beach and a cove filled with small fishing boats. They were empty. If you look in the right hand corner of the photo, you can see a giant gun.
I talked to the mayor of Mogadishu a couple of days later. He assured me that one day I would be able to return to Mogadishu and it would be safe and I could go swimming.
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Smith-Cotton got more than 160 all-purpose yards from Steven Archambault in a 28-14 win over Marshall on Friday at Jennie Jaynes Stadium.
The Tiger senior scored three times as S-C opened the home portion of their 2014 schedule with their first win of the season.
"The offensive line opened up holes all night," he said. "They were blocking all their assignments. We definitely upgraded from last week."
It was also the first victory for S-C head coach Ryan Boyer.
"It feels great," he said. "We came out and did some things really well. Came out a little tight, a little nervous. Second half we turned it over, but one thing we were very pleased with is that we stuck together and were able to force turnovers back."
Marshall ventured into Smith-Cotton territory on the first two drives of the game but got no points from either. The first, set up by a 20-yard Devon Cott run, bogged down when the Tiger defense stopped Cott for no gain on back to back plays and Zach Maupin threw an incomplete pass on 4th-and-6. The second, set up by Maupin's 46-yard kick return lost ground on the first play and the Owls went three-and-out.
Smith-Cotton held the Owls to a three-and-out on the next drive as well before Marshall once again began moving the ball late in the first half. Taking advantage of a Tiger fumble, the Owls got inside the 20-yard line 10 plays later with less than two minutes on the clock. Smith-Cotton's defense held again as Lane McFail intercepted a pass in the end zone.
Smith-Cotton's offense took the lead on a 14-play, 74-yard drive — the Tigers' first offensive drive of the game — capped off by an Archambault run up the middle.
Taking over at their own 20 late in the first quarter, the Tigers marched 80 yards for their seconds score in as many possessions. A pass interference call moved the ball to midfield. Ricky Warren made a diving catch to advance the ball to the Marshall 13 and Blake Jackson finished the drive, leaping over an Owl defender to haul in a 12-yard touchdown pass from Caleb Reed.
It was the second time this season Reed and Jackson have connected for a touchdown.
Smith-Cotton added to the lead on the second play of the second half as Reed connected with Archambault on a shovel pass. Archambault went up the middle 51 yards for the score.
"We faked the defense out, they were all going to the left," Archambault said. "It just opened up in the middle of the field, it was wide open for us."
On the ensuing drive, Marshall marched the other way, capped off by Maupin's bootleg to the left for 33 yards to put the Owls on the board.
Marshall threatened on the next drive as well. Maupin twice carried the ball on third-and-long, the first time converting for a first down, the second bringing up a fourth-and-one. On fourth down, Maupin's pass over the middle was incomplete and the Owls turned the ball over.
On the next Marshall drive, they again got into Smith-Cotton territory, reaching the six before a fumble recovered by LJ Marsh.
A Smith-Cotton fumble set the Owls up on the Tigers' three, but the Owls fumbled it back two plays later and S-C went on a nine-play, 98-yard drive which burned more than four minutes off the clock and ended in Archambault's 47-yard run up the middle for a score.
Marshall answered moments later with another Maupin touchdown to cut the lead to 28-14, but Smith-Cotton recovered the onside kick.
The Owls got the ball back one more time following a fumble, gaining 15 yards on a pass to Cott on the first play before Jayce Simoncic capped off the win for the Tigers with an interception.
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Soaking Nuts in the winter
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I don't have a dehydrator, and its winter now so i can't really sun dry em, what can i do?
Do you have a gas or electric oven? The oven in my house is gas and always emits a small amount of heat. If you have that you can just put them inside. That is really the only idea I have. Thankfully I have a dehydrator :)
You could put them in the oven at the lowest temperature with the oven door open and a thermometer. I know lots of people without dehydrators do that.
I don't soak nuts at all. Perhaps you don't need to soak them?
Winona, most nut have enzyme inhibitors that only go away when you soak a nut. Unsoaked nuts are neither alive or dead; they are not a living food unless you soak them. I can't digest an unsoaked nut, not even cashews which aren't supposed to have enzyme inhibitors. Also, when the squirrels gather nuts, they let them soak in the ground before they shell them and eat them. See here:
Well I can't afford to buy really raw nuts at $14/lb… so my nuts are store bought. They're the 'raw' nuts that are steamed to open their shells, or pasteurized in the case of almonds.
Enzyme inhibitors are a moot point for me.
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Custom 2 story 2,900 sq ft home located 1/2 mile from the ocean on a corner lot across from the Fiscalini Ranch Preserve with public access to walking and bike trails as well as an ocean view from the trail. You will enjoy a cozy sunken living room with a floor to ceiling rock wood burning fireplace, a fully stocked kitchen that is more than adequate to serve a party of eight. The den includes a comfortable queen size sofa bed and T.V. DVR for relaxation and entertainment.
The 3 bedrooms on the second floor sleep 6 with a deck off the master bedroom to enjoy a clear night to view the stars.
Paso Robles Wine Country, Big Sur and viewing the natural wonder of the Piedras Blancas Elephant Seal Rookery are also less then an hours drive from the house.
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Have only high praise for this vacation home; so very comfortable, clean, and situated in the best possible location on the central coast. Had access to a beautiful forest trail as well as an absolutely gorgeous beach trail within walking distance from the home. We took the most amazing pictures from this breath-taking location. Moonstone Beach and Downtown Cambria with its quaint shops and restaurants were a very short distance from the home as well. The beds were comfortable, the kitchen well stocked, and the great room was spacious and a wonderful place for lounging. The gracious owners are praiseworthy too, Cynthia and Dwight were helpful and attentive to all of our needs. Definitely a wonderful vacation home for those seeking rest and relaxation as well as for families with children seeking fun and adventure.
This Cambria home is beautiful. We had a very nice, relaxing stay. Cynthia promptly responded to our requests and questions -- and our deposit was returned in two days! The bottle of chilled champagne was a very nice touch.
The home has a large, beautiful dining table with 10 chairs, as well as 3 barstools for the kitchen counter, allowing us to have very nice leisurely meals. The kitchen and pantry were well-stocked with brown sugar, sugar, cooking oil, vinegar and many spices. There were plenty of plates and utensils, also. The beds were comfy and the towels were super-thick. The overstuffed leather chairs and huge floor pillows were very nice. Be sure to allocate time on your final checkout day to complete a load of laundry.
Note that there are a lot of stairs in the property, so it's not suitable for very young children. There are stairs to the front door, stairs down to the sunken living room, and stairs to the second floor (my 88-year-old mother handled them all very well, though). And there are beautiful glass decorations and glass-enclosed curio cabinets that would be tricky with toddlers.
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Some Threat Encounter Cards like "Lord of Change", "Keeper of Secrets" and "Fabius Bile" allow players to move another hero piece to the same square to participate in the battle, adding their own skill values to the total die roll. What the card doesn't state is the outcome for losing the battle with assistance. Do both players lose 1 life or just the hero who's turn it is?
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"Failure is what writers do."
Falling short: seven writers reflect on failure is a collection of seven short essays on failure by writers Diana Athill, Margaret Atwood, Julian Barnes, Anne Enright, Howard Jacobson, Will Self and Lionel Shriver. These range from the meditative to the funny. Essays reflecting on literary failure are legion, but let me point you towards a couple more, the brief Failure Is Our Muse by Stephen Marche and the longer Fail Better by Zadie Smith.
"tell that I was loved by the Muses and that the Locrian land bore me"
12 short poems is all that remains of the work of Nossis, one of the most beloved of the Ancient Greek poets. Exactly when she lived is uncertain, but it's certain that she was from Locri, which was on the "toe" of Italy. You can read about what archaeologists have found out about the ancient city on the website Locri Epizephyrii, Welcome To Magna Graecia. Scholars have tried to use Nossis' poetry to explain the particulars of life in Locri, looking for support for claims that noble status descended matrilineally. Marilyn B. Skinner looks at the status of women and explores the "unusual aspects of religious practice at Locri" in her essay Nossis and Women's Cult at Locri. You can read different translations of some of Nossis' poems, three by Skinner and two by Diane Rayor.
"There is something maddeningly attractive about the untranslatable"
Variations on the Right to Remain Silent is an essay by poet and classicist Anne Carson about translation, cliché, divine language and the way some words violently resist being explained. She touches on Homer, Sappho, Joan of Arc, Friedrich Hölderlin, and the painter Francis Bacon.
"I sat in the middle of a catastrophe."
In 1963 novelist Doris Lessing took in a fifteen year old former schoolmate of her son she had never met who couldn't live at home anymore. This teenage girl later grew up to be a writer herself, Jenny Diski (formerly of this parish), and has written a couple of essays in the London Review of Books about her relationship with Lessing. The first, What to Call Her?, was an obituary published shortly after Lessing's death. The second, Doris and Me, is a part of Diski's longer reckoning with her own life following her diagnosis with terminal cancer. [The last essay has been linked previously as part of a megapost.]
"John Williams's resurrection from the boneyard of obscurity"
In 2010 Alan Prendergast wrote a long article about the life of novelist John Williams and how he was beginning, at long last, to find a sizable audience. How true that turned out to be, as Williams' 1965 novel Stoner subsequently became a bestseller all over Europe, first in French translation, but later elsewhere in Europe, and it has begun to get glowing notices in his native US. Williams is not around to enjoy the success, as he passed away in 1994. Now another of his novels, Augustus, has also begun its rise from obscurity. The New York Review of Books republished it last year on the occasion of the 2000th anniversary of the first Roman Emperor's death. On the NYRB website you can read Daniel Mendelsohn's fine introduction to the book.
"T.S. Eliot, the stink-bombing Nobel prizewinner"
[T.S. Eliot] both recognised and skewered in Four Quartets the routines of "eminent men of letters" who became "chairmen of many committees". As a banker, then as a publisher, he worked at jobs where committees were de rigueur and he accomplished his work with aplomb. Yet part of him always sought an escape hatch, a way to elude his official self. His nephew Graham Bruce Fletcher remembers Uncle Tom taking him as a boy to a London joke shop in the 1960s. They bought stink bombs and let them off at the entrance of the Bedford Hotel, not far from Eliot's workplace in Bloomsbury's Russell Square. With a fit of giggles, Eliot put on a marked turn of speed as, Macavity-like, he and his nephew sped from the scene of the crime, Eliot twirling his walking stick "in the manner of Charlie Chaplin".—TS Eliot: the poet who conquered the world, 50 years on by Robert Crawford, poet and biographer of Eliot. You can listen to a lecture by him entitled T. S. Eliot's daughter on the poem Marina. You can hear it, and other poems, read in between classical music as part of an episode of Words and Music. And if you want to get to know the poet, the T. S. Eliot Society keeps tabs on what works are freely available online.
"How the ancient poets of Greece and Rome were imagined and re-imagined"
Living Poets is a Durham University website with short guides to various ancient Greek and Latin authors, such as Homer, Orpheus, Anacreon, Catullus, Ovid, and Virgil. The guides focus on the extant sources and how the authors were received in their lifetime and by later generations, avoiding the "perils of autobiography."
"I wanted to leave a monument to the Roman plebe."
Giuseppe Gioachino Belli was a 19th Century poet who lived in Rome and wrote sonnets in the Romanesco dialect spoken by the poor of his native city. An accountant by trade, he wrote from the perspective of working class Romans living in the theocratic Papal States, and has been referred to as the voice of Rome. Translating his work has caused translators some difficulty, with many opting for equivalent dialects, such as Peter Dale who used working class speech of his native Melbourne as a model. Anthony Burgess made his Belli Mancunian, while Mike Stocks rendered Belli into something closer to standard English. Collections of translated sonnets by Belli can be read on Andrea Pollett's Virtual Roma website and on Maurizio Mosetti's site about Belli.
Nobel lecture by Patrick Modiano
Writing is a strange and solitary activity. There are dispiriting times when you start working on the first few pages of a novel. Every day, you have the feeling you are on the wrong track. This creates a strong urge to go back and follow a different path. It is important not to give in to this urge, but to keep going. It is a little like driving a car at night, in winter, on ice, with zero visibility. You have no choice, you cannot go into reverse, you must keep going forward while telling yourself that all will be well when the road becomes more stable and the fog lifts.—From Patrick Modiano's lecture when receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature [Original French, Swedish and video] which is about cities, old telephone directories but mostly about writing, how to do it and what it's like.
"Why make breakfast, when you can just read Kafka?"
I have come to the conclusion that anyone who thinks about Kafka for long enough inevitably develops a few singular, unassimilable and slightly silly convictions. (The graph may be parabolic, with the highest incidence of convictions – and the legal resonance is invited – found among those who have spent the most time thinking and those who have spent next to no time thinking.) My own such amateur conviction is that the life of Franz Kafka reads like a truly great comedy. I mean this (of course) in large part because of the tragedies in and around his life, and I mean it in the tradition of comedies like the final episode of Richard Curtis and Rowan Atkinson's Blackadder, which, after episode upon episode of darlings and foilings and cross-dressings, ends in 1917 with our not exactly heroes climbing out of their trench and running towards the enemy lines.—What kind of funny is he? is an essay by Rivka Galchen on Franz Kafka's life, based on the recently translated three-volume biography by Reiner Stach.
"The Culture represents the place we might hope to get to"
The long-term optimism comes from the the fact that no matter how bad things seem and how idiotically and cruelly we behave. . . well, we've got this far, despite it all, and there are more people on the planet than ever before, and more people living good, productive, relatively happy lives than ever before, and—providing we aren't terminally stupid, or unlucky enough to get clobbered by something we have no control over, like a big meteorite or a gamma ray buster or whatever—we'll solve a lot of problems just by sticking around and doing what we do; developing, progressing, improving, adapting. And possibly by inventing AIs that are smarter and more decent than we are, which will help us get some sort of perspective on ourselves, at the very least. We might just stumble our way blindly, unthinkingly into utopia, in other words, muddling through despite ourselves.In 2010 Jude Roberts interviewed Iain M. Banks for her PhD. Banks discusses his utopia, The Culture, which he created in a series of science fiction novels.
"By the assembly line I stood straight like iron, hands like flight"
The poetry and brief life of a Foxconn worker: Xu Lizhi (1990-2014) is an article about a 24-year old Chinese assembly line worker and poet who committed suicide last month. He worked for the electronics manufacturer which makes products for a range of companies, including Sony, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Nintendo. The post includes Chinese originals and English translations of Xu Lizhi's poems. His death and poetry have garnered much attention, such as these blogposts from The Wall Street Journal and The London Review of Books.
"I write as a reader, not knowing what the author will say next."
Russell Edson was a prose poet whose poetry had the "the sustained wackiness of old Warner Brothers cartoons." When he passed away this year Charles Simic wrote in appreciation of his work, as did J. Robert Lennon, whose article included two audio clips of Edson reading. In interviews, Edson spoke with the same mix of seriousness and humor as he did in his poetry. Here are two interviews, one with Peter Johnson [pdf] and another with Mark Tursi. But, of course, the important thing is his poetry, so here are a few examples: 1, 2, 3. And finally, here's a video of him reading (starts after the 9th minute). [Edson previously. I especially recommend reading the linked appreciation by Sarah Manguso.]
2014 Nobel Prize in Literature Goes to Patrick Modiano
2014 Nobel Prize in Literature Goes to Patrick Modiano who is a French novelist and memoir writer. This article from 2011 is a good overview over his career and life. He was born in Italy to a Jewish father and a Belgian mother. Much of his writing deals with recent Jewish history such as in the book Dora Bruder. His detective novel Missing Person, which won the Prix Goncourt in 1978, has been called a postmodern mystery novel.
"Montaigne was Montaigne, a mountain in more than name."
It's said that even a century and a half after Montaigne's death, when the marquis d'Argenson subtitled a book with that word, Essays, he was shouted down for impertinence. Not a context in which many people would find themselves tempted to self-identify as "essayists." When the French do finally start using the word, in the early nineteenth century, it's solely in reference to English writers who've taken up the banner, and more specifically to those who write for magazines and newspapers. "The authors of periodical essays," wrote a French critic in 1834, "or as they're commonly known, essayists, represent in English letters a class every bit as distinct as the Novellieri in Italy." A curiosity, then: the essay is French, but essayists are English. What can it mean?—The Ill-defined Plot is an essay about the history of essays by John Jeremiah Sullivan.
The Zhivago Affair
The story of Dr Zhivago's publication is, like the novel itself, a cat's cradle, an eternal zigzag of plotlines, coincidences, inconsistencies and maddening disappearances. The book was always destined to become a 'succès de scandale', in Berlin's words, but the machinations and competing energies that went into seeing it into print, on the one hand, and trying to stop it going to print, on the other, make it the perfect synecdoche for that feint, counterfeint round of pugilism we call the Cold War.—The Writer and the Valet by Frances Stonor Saunders tells the story of Isaiah Berlin's part in publishing Boris Pasternak's novel Dr. Zhivago while Michael Scammell details the CIA's role.
There was no BBC in Shakespeare's time.
Shakespeare's Restless World is a BBC radio series (podcast link) where the director of the British Museum, Neil MacGregor, explores England during the lifetime of William Shakespeare as represented by twenty objects, much in the way of his earlier A History of the World in a 100 Objects (previously). The focus is on Shakespeare's plays and how they were understood by his contemporaries. The series was also published as a book.
"He's been in the black earth now for a thousand years"
Deaths in the Iliad is an infographic by Laura Jenkinson presenting every death in Homer's Iliad. In her book of poetry Memorial Alice Oswald did something similar, writing about all 213 named men who die in the epic poem. You can read excerpts of the poem and listen to her read these excerpts at the Poetry Archive (1, 2). Or you can listen to her discuss Memorial on the Poetry Trust podcast (iTunes, mp3).
Emily Dickinson's handwritten manuscripts
The Emily Dickinson Archive is a collection of high resolution digital images of Emily Dickinson's handwritten manuscripts. Here are, for instance, Because I Could Not Stop for Death, Tell the Truth but Tell It Slant, I Dwell in Possibility, They Shut Me Up in Prose and I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died. The whole collection is fully searchable and the images include the text of the poems as they were written down by Dickinson. The archive is a project of Harvard's Houghton Library but many other institutions provided manuscripts. Perhaps the best place to start is to simply browse the poems by title.
"therfore the holi fader, the pope, hath ratefied and confermed my book"
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville is a remarkable 14th Century book which tells the autobiographical story of Sir John Mandeville's travels from England to Jerusalem and beyond to Asia. The only problem is that the book "had been a household word in eleven languages and for five centuries before it was ascertained that Sir John never lived, that his travels never took place, and that his personal experiences, long the test of others' veracity, were compiled out of every possible authority, going back to Pliny, if not further." The book was very popular for many centuries and was illustrated many times. For more about the book there is the introduction to a recent scholarly Middle English version and an illuminating podcast interview [iTunes link] with Professor Anthony Bale, the translator of a new version of the "defective" version of the book, which was the best known version for centuries. The interview goes into the many errors and fantasias of Mandeville but also puts the work in the context of its time and place.
"One travels far to discover what was at home all along."
World Lite is a polemic against 'world literature' published last year in the magazine N+1. It is the latest salvo in a long-running debate about the term. M. Lynx Qualey of Arabic Literature (in English) gave a response to N+1, and so did Poorva Rajaram and Michael Griffith in Tehelka, N+1 responded to both, and the article was discussed at the Hay Festival in Dhaka. The N+1 article references Franco Moretti, who framed the contemporary version of the debate when he published Conjectures on World Literature and More Conjectures in 2000 and 2003 respectively. [more inside]
The True Story of America's First Black Female Slave Novelist
In 2002 Henry Louis Gates jr. published The Bondwoman's Narrative. It was the first publication of a novel written in the 1850s by a former slave who wrote under the name Hannah Crafts. The original manuscript has been digitized by Yale's Beinecke Library. The book caused a splash at the time, sold well and was reviewed widely, including an essay by Hilary Mantel in the London Review of Books. The identity of Hannah Crafts was uncertain, which cast a slight shadow on its provenance, but Prof. Gregg Hecimovich discovered the writer's true identity. Her name was Hannah Bond and after escaping slavery she became a teacher in New Jersey. Journalist Paul Berman further fills in the story of Colonel Wheeler, the slaveowner whose family was depicted in The Bondwoman's Narrative. Wheeler was the US ambassador to Nicaragua in the 1850s and played a major part in the administration of General Walker, the American who became a short-lived dictator of Nicaragua and tried to set it up as a slave state.
Disk Around a Star
An Alderson Disk is a science fiction megastructure imagined first by scientist Dan Alderson. It's a solid disk that is thousands of kilometers thick, with a circumference equal to the orbit of Mars or Jupiter. The habitable zone would be on both sides of the disk and would be millions of times the surface area of the Earth. Not much theoretical work has been done on its feasibility, but some have tried. Missile Gap, by MeFi's own Charles Stross, which won the Locus readers' award for best novella of 2006, features a 1960s Earth transposed to an Alderson disk and is available for free on the publisher's website.
"Something can be true and still be fiction."
[Norman Mailer] wanted to talk a lot about age and he told me I should look after myself. 'You know,' he said, 'when you get to my age you have to pee a lot. And there is no distance at all between knowing you want to pee and then just peeing. I was at Plimpton's funeral in St John the Divine not long ago, and they sat me near the front, you know. Suddenly, I had to go. I knew I wasn't gonna make it all the way down the aisle so I spotted a little side door and I got the canes and nipped in there. Halfway down the corridor, I was looking for a john and who do I see but Philip Roth. "Hey, Philip, what you doin' here?" "Oh, I had to pee," Roth said.'—Mailer's Last Punch is Andrew O'Hagan's tender, short memoir of his interactions with Norman Mailer. Among other things he talks about are the long interview of Mailer he did for The Paris Review and an event at the New York Public Library with Mailer and Günter Grass.
Contemporary poetry from around the world in English translation
Poetry International Rotterdam has contemporary poetry in English translation from all over the world, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, including countries as different as Argentina, China, Finland, Iran and Romania, in languages as unrelated as French, Malayalam and Zulu, as well as many poems originally in the English language. The poets range in age and stature from those barely over thirty to Nobel prize winners. There are also videos and audio recordings of poets reading, as well as articles about poetry.
Alice Munro has won the Nobel Prize in Literature
Alice Munro has won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Munro is praised by the Swedish Academy as a "master of the contemporary short story." You can read a long interview with her at the Paris Review website and read some of her short fiction at The New Yorker's website: Amundsen, Gravel, Face, Deep-Holes, Free Radicals, Dimension, Wenlock Edge, The View from Castle Rock, Passion, Runaway and The Bear Came Over the Mountain.
Achilles sat on the shore and looked out to the wine-dark sea
That Homer used the epithet "wine-dark" to describe the sea in the Iliad and Odyssey so puzzled 19th Century English Prime Minister William Gladstone that he thought the Ancient Greeks must have been colorblind. Since then many other solutions have been proposed. Scientists have argued that Ancient Greek wine was blue and some scholars have put forward the case that Homer was describing the sea at sunset. Radiolab devoted a segment to the exploration of this issue, saying that Gladstone was partly right. Another interpretation is that the Ancient Greeks focused on different aspects of color from us. Classicist William Harris' short essay about purple in Homer and Iliad translator Caroline Alexander's longer essay The Wine-like Sea make the case for this interpretation.
The Organist is a podcast from KCRW and The Believer Magazine
The Organist is an arts and culture podcast [iTunes link] from The Believer Magazine and the Californian public radio station KCRW. Each episode is generally a mix of interviews, essays and music. Among the contributors so far have been Nick Offerman, Rachel Kushner, Jonathan Coulton and Matmos. Each podcast begins with a short dramatic monologue, for example episode three starts with Sarah Silverman talking about her pet owl, in a piece written by Alena Smith (Conan O'Brien has another dramatic monologue in the same episode). There have been six episodes so far and they are all worth a listen.
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By Heart is a series on The Atlantic's website where writers speak about their favorite passages, each illustrated by Doug McLean. Here are a few of the entries so far: Stephen King on two opening lines, Hanan Al-Shaykh on One Thousand and One Nights, Susan Choi on The Great Gatsby, Jessica Francis Kane on Marcus Aurelius, Fay Weldon on The Myth of Sisyphus, Adam Mansbach on Montaigne, Ayana Mathis on Osip Mandelstam, Anthony Marra on Jesus' Son, and Mohsin Hamid on Haruki Murakami.
Who Edited Shakespeare?
New technology has changed scholarship. Whereas previous generations of experts have sought to reconcile the differences between quarto and Folio, current thinking highlights the difficult relationship between the various incarnations of Shakespeare's texts, something made easier by the availability of rare Shakespeare quartos in digital databases such as Early English Books Online. The scholar Eleanor Prosser thus detects "considerable evidence" for the elimination of metrical and stylistic "irregularities" in the Folio: short lines are lengthened to 10 syllables, verbs agreed with subjects, double negatives resolved. In addition, a range of unusual words are added to the text, words not used elsewhere by Shakespeare. Prosser concludes: "somewhere behind the Folio … lies a conscientious and exacting editor with literary pretensions", albeit one "more experienced in the transcription of literary than of theatrical works". But who was it?—Who edited Shakespeare? by Saul Frampton. [more inside]
Five Essays on Literature by Novelist Adam Thirlwell
Adam Thirlwell has written five essays in as many years for The New Republic. They all concern themselves with literature, especially French, though the first one was about Charles Dickens and how he was the most avant-garde writer of the 19th Century. The second was about Roland Barthes' plans to write a novel which came to nothing when he died. In Visionary Materialism, Thirlwell explores Rimbaud's Illuminations from several angles. Genocide and the Fine Arts is about Claude Lanzmann, the director of Shoah, and his complicated relationship with his famous work. The latest one, Baudelaire's Humiliation as a Way of Life, is about Baudelaire's place at the crux of the 19th Century revolution in letters.
"Should the poet be with the czar, or against him?"
Poets appeared in Russia in the eighteenth century. They wore officers' uniforms and mostly wrote odes for the accession of German empresses onto the Russian throne. In a country where life was lived according to the wartime principle of unity of command, everyone including poets served the government, which was personified by the autocracy. But everything changed with Pushkin. Born in a country where serfdom was only the formal expression of a deep internal psychological slavery, he achieved the most important Russian coup, the greatest Russian revolution: in opposition to the pyramid of power, at the head of which the Czar administers the fates of individuals and nations, he created an alternative pyramid, at the head of which stood the poet. The juxtaposition of the czar and the holy fool—the old divided paradigm of authority—was exchanged for the juxtaposition of the czar and the poet.— Poets and Czars — From Pushkin to Putin: the sad tale of democracy in Russia by Russian novelist Mikhail Shishkin, who caused a stir earlier this year when he withdrew from participation in literary events sponsored by the Russian state with a strongly-worded letter. His action was equally strongly criticized by the state and several Russian writers. Shishkin spoke to The American Reader about recent events. He currently lives in Switzerland and recently wrote an essay about being separated from his native language community.
Lydia Davis wins Man Booker International Prize
The 2013 Man Booker International Prize went to Lydia Davis, best known as a short story writer—some just a single sentence long—but also a novelist and translator. There is a wealth of material by and about her online, and here are few favorites: Video of Davis reading some very short stories, PennSound MP3 collection of readings, talks and interviews, writer James Salter reads and discusses Davis' story Break It Down, interview by Francine Prose, Frieze Talks reading and interview, video of reading followed by Q&A, "A Position at the University" and a a discussion about the story, and finally, a number of links to her short stories: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. [Lydia Davis previously on MeFi]
"an inadequate title for this ragbag of lectures and classes"
Literature and Form is a series of four lectures by Oxford literature academic Dr. Catherine Brown. The lectures are on the themes of unreliable narrators, chapters, multiple plotting and what comparative literature is. You can listen to it as a podcast or through iTunes U. In this lecture series Brown primarily looks at some central structures of the novel as well as examining what the study of literature entails. Brown weaves in examples from world literature, especially English and Russian literature of the 18th, 19th and 20th Centuries.
"the arts are just a part of the weapons of life"
The poet Jayne Cortez passed away this past December 28th in New York City (New York Times obituary). She started publishing her poems in the late 1960s and in the 70s began performing her poetry backed by music, first in collaboration with bassist Richard Davis, and then backed by her own band The Firespitters. Some of their tracks have found their way to YouTube: I See Chano Pozo, If the Drum Is a Woman, There It Is, Maintain Control & Economic Love Song I, Everybody Wants to Be Somebody, Takin' the Blues Back Home, Talk to Me (for Don Cherry), I've Been Searching, You Can Be and Endangered Species List Blues. Just two years ago she performed solo with her son by Ornette Coleman, drummer Denardo Coleman: Find Your Own Voice, I'm Gonna Shake and She Got He Got. In 1997 she was featured on University of California television network in the series Artists on the Cutting Edge where she read poems and discussed her work. Finally, here's a brief clip from the 1982 documentary Poetry in Motion, where she was interviewed.
"and even when there's nowhere left, no refuge for their pain, they turn to the illusion of travelling" - Kajal Ahmad, translated by Mimi Khalvati
The Poetry Translation Centre pairs living poets from Asia, Africa and Latin America with English-language translators and then puts the resulting translations online. You can browse the poetry by country, language, translator or poet. Besides the hundreds of individual poems, all presented in the original and both literal and poetic translations, many have been recorded in dual readings by translator and poet, and put online as videos or mp3s (look for the microphone or camera icon). There are also podcasts to download, articles to read, and chapbooks to purchase. It is absurd to single out a few poems as favorites, but nonetheless, here are a few that struck me hard, Birds by Kajal Ahmad, translated by Mimi Khalvati, Cataclysm and Songs by Conceição Lima, translated in a workshop, and Survivors by Choe Young-mi, translated by Kyoo Lee and Sarah Maguire (who is the founder and director of the Poetry Translation Centre). If these poems do not hit you, no need to worry as there are literally hundreds more to read. [via The Guardian]
Twelve Missives from the Roi des Belges
Perched high up above the Thames in downtown London every month this past year a different writer has spent four days living in a replica of the Roi des Belges, the boat Marlow travels up the Congo in Joseph Conrad's The Heart of Darkness. Each author would write a short text during their stay "which explores London, rivers, the work of Joseph Conrad, or even all three." They would be visited on the last day by a journalist from The Guardian who recorded them reading their essay, poem or short story. Among the poets, historians and novelists were Adonis, Jeanette Winterson, Teju Cole, Michael Ondaatje and Kamila Shamsie. These recordings, each prefaced by a short interview, are all available on the Guardian website, to stream or download. Below the cut there is a link to each recording, with a short description. [more inside]
"I watched the entire street turn hot and black with smoke and then, after a few minutes, stared up at the hole in the roof and saw thousands of small gray ashes—pieces of paper, books, newspapers—floating down from the sky."
Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here is a project initiated by San Francisco bookseller and poet Beau Beausoleil that began as a response to the 2007 bombing [previously on MeFi] of the Baghdad bookselling center Al-Mutanabbi Street. After the attack the authorities made an effort to revive the area but recently the government has begun to make life difficult for the booksellers and intends to turn the street into an animal market. The Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here project consists of book art created by 260 artists and authors from all over the world, but also includes essays, exhibitions and readings, some of which have been put online as videos. You can see a lot of artists' books online at the Jaffe Center for Book Arts and the Centre for Fine Print Research (1, 2, 3). The history of the project was told in a recent essay in World Literature Today by Persis M. Karim.
"One can tell if one is happy by listening to the wind. This latter reminds the unhappy of the fragility of their house and pursues them in fitful sleep and violent dreams. To the happy, it sings the song of their safety and security: its raging whistle registers the fact that it no longer has any power over them."
Minima Moralia: Reflections from the Damaged Life is a book written by German sociologist and philosopher Theodor W. Adorno during his exile in California in the 1940s. Translator Dennis Redmond has released his translation under creative commons (here is the same translation set up in a more book-like way). In his essay Promiscuous Reading, Mark O'Connell talks about his habit of never finishing books, but an exception being "this captivatingly strange and mordant text" Minima Moralia, "a thematically wayward aggregation of a hundred and fifty-three short essays and aphorisms that darts restlessly from one subject matter to the next, its fleeting yet intense engagements rarely spanning more than a page and a half." Among the subject matters Adorno addresses is the ethics of writing, which has reverberated down through the years, and is often set up in opposition to George Orwell's thought, as recounted by James Miller in the essay Lingua Franca. [more inside]
"so Manu got into his head a utopia"
The band Mano Negra are here introduced by MTV Europe in 1990. They are today best known for having been the original band of singer Manu Chao, but they were a pretty damn good band in their day. The band went from strength to strength but broke apart in 1993 after building a train and bringing ice to Macondo (or its inspiration, the city of Aracataca, Colombia). Manu Chao talks briefly about the trip here. His father, respected novelist and journalist Ramón Chao, accompanied his son's band and wrote a book describing the journey, which has been translated into English as The Train of Ice and Fire. The publisher of the translation, Route Online, made a YouTube playlist of related videos. The most interesting and substantial one has Ramón sharing a number of stories from the voyage (subtitled in English).
"Some remarkable Books, Antiquities, Pictures and Rarities of several kinds, scarce or never seen by any man now living."
Musæum Clausum is a catalog of invented books, pictures and antiquities written by 17th Century Englishman Sir Thomas Browne. It is a fantastical and witty meditation on the ravages of time on literature and other works of man. The Musæum Clausum is perhaps the finest example of the invented, or invisible, library, a genre which seems to have originated with Rabelais. The genre has been of special interest to Beachcombing's Bizarre History Blog (older posts), where he has written about the invisible libraries of writers such as Charles Dickens, Neil Gaiman, H. P. Lovecraft and invisible libraries in video games. The natural medium for invisible libraries might be pictures, and Musæum Clausum inspired a suite of etchings by Erik Desmazieres.
"It has been your lot to achieve that the obedience to manifold rules should not hamper poetry."
During the reign of Constantine the Great, the Roman senator and poet Publilius Optatianus Porphyrius was sent into exile for crimes unknown. He succeeded in regaining favor and his good name by composing a series of poems in praise of the emperor which looked like nothing else. His poetry was an evolution of the Greek tradition of pattern poetry, but he took it a much more complex level, as Arrigo Lora Totino explains. In an illustrated article, John Stephan Edwards goes through the poetry of Porphyrius, showing the evolution of his craft.
The 2012 Nobel Laureate in Literature Is Chinese Novelist Mo Yan
Mo Yan has been awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature. A Chinese novelist, born as Guan Moye, his pen name means "don't speak." His most famous novel, Red Sorghum: A Novel of China, was turned into an acclaimed film in 1987. Here are some interviews with Mo Yan: Granta, National Endowment for the Humanities and Paper Republic. Speculation was rife in China before the announcement whether Mo Yan would receive it, and the matter was controversial. For people who haven't read any books by Mo Yan, the Swedish Academy recommends Garlic Ballads [NYT]. For more news over the day, keep an eye on The Literary Saloon and The Guardian's liveblog.
"Bringing up the women's question — I mean the women's fiction question — is not unlike mentioning the national debt at a dinner party."
If "The Marriage Plot," by Jeffrey Eugenides, had been written by a woman yet still had the same title and wedding ring on its cover, would it have received a great deal of serious literary attention? Or would this novel (which I loved) have been relegated to "Women's Fiction," that close-quartered lower shelf where books emphasizing relationships and the interior lives of women are often relegated? Certainly "The Marriage Plot," Eugenides's first novel since his Pulitzer Prize-winning "Middlesex," was poised to receive tremendous literary interest regardless of subject matter, but the presence of a female protagonist, the gracefulness, the sometimes nostalgic tone and the relationship-heavy nature of the book only highlight the fact that many first-rate books by women and about women's lives never find a way to escape "Women's Fiction" and make the leap onto the upper shelf where certain books, most of them written by men (and, yes, some women — more about them later), are prominently displayed and admired.So begins The Second Shelf: On the Rules of Literary Fiction for Men and Women, an essay in the New York Times by novelist Meg Wolitzer. She was interviewed about her essay in the NYT Book Review podcast (mp3 link, interview starts at about 18:30). Wolitzer references the classic 1998 essay by Francine Prose, Scent of a woman's ink: Are women writers really inferior?, and further back in time you find Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own, which, as literary critic Ruth Franklin notes, still sounds fresh today.
"Two years before Hannah Arendt declared evil banal, Vonnegut was staking it out for stand-up treatment."
In the spring of 1945, three weeks after VE Day, Private First Class Kurt Vonnegut, Jr wrote a letter home to inform his family that he was alive. His infantry unit had been smashed by Panzer divisions in the Ardennes; his unmarked POW train attacked by the RAF; miraculously, he and a handful of fellow prisoners escaped incineration by American and British bombers. "Their combined labors killed 250,000 people in twenty-four hours and destroyed all of Dresden – possibly the world's most beautiful city", Vonnegut wrote. "But not me."- Survivor: How Kurt Vonnegut created a novel, a cult following and one of the most loyal readerships in American Fiction by Thomas Meaney in The Times Literary Supplement.
World Book Night USA
Hey! Do you like books? (Yeah...) Do you like free books? (Yeah!) Do you like giving books to friends and strangers and whomever? (Hell yeah!) Are you American? (I just said "hell yeah" didn't I?) Then sign up here! (Then what happens?) You can select from one of thirty books. (And?) They'll send you a box with twenty copies of one book which you can give to friends, strangers or enemies. (What's the catch?) There's no catch, it's World Book Night. [British edition previously on MeFi]
"these little songs, and many like them, were made for the comfort of my friends, in their sorrow, doubt and suffering"
An internet search, even in these days of abundant information, yields only that the pamphlets can be found in various library collections, and that they continued to be produced into the '70s. And that Edmund Wilson once sent one, "Mr. P. Squiggle's Reward," to Nabokov, calling it "one of the oddest of many odd things that are sent me by unknown people." He also got the title wrong, dubbing it "Mr. P. Squiggle's Revenge," which is probably significant. But that's it: nothing about Volk or McCalib.Epitomes was a series of pamphlets published by Elwin Volk and Dennis McCalib. Few traces of Volk's life are to be found, but he seems to have been a lawyer, and wrote at least a couple of pamphlets about law, which he self-published in Pasadena. McCalib is equally elusive. A man by that name contributed to an issue of One: The Homosexual Viewpoint in 1964. A Dennis McCalib also used the pseudonym Lord Fuzzy. The aforementioned "Mr. P. Squiggle's Reward" got a curt, two half-sentence dismissal in Poetry Magazine, otherwise these pamphlets seem not to have troubled the literary world. Someone donated their manuscripts to UCLA where they rest undigitized in fourteen boxes. But Library of Congress has scanned a total of twenty-six pages in high resolution.
#27 Help win war — beat fascism
Lists of Note is a new site from Shaun Usher, proprietor of Letters of Note. It posts interesting lists, running the gamut from funny to poignant, mostly by famous people, though other sources crop up. Here's a sampling of lists: Johnny Cash, Walt Whitman, Eero Saarinen, Don Carman, Marilyn Monroe and F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Day at Night, half-hour New York public television interviews from the 70s
Day at Night was an interview series on the public television station of the City University of New York that aired from 1973-4. CUNY TV is in the process of digitizing and uploading the 130 episodes that were produced, with 46 done so far. The episodes are just under half an hour in length. Among the people interviewed by host James Day are author Ray Bradbury, actress Myrna Loy, medical researcher Jonas Salk, singer Cab Calloway, writer Christopher Isherwood, nuclear scientist Edward Teller, comedian Victor Borge, tennis player Billie Jean King, linguist and activist Noam Chomsky, composer Aaron Copland, actor Vincent Price and boxer Muhammad Ali.
"Once upon a time there was an elephant who did nothing all day." - E. E. Cummings
Did you know James Joyce wrote a children's book (sort of)? Patricia Highsmith wrote one too. So did James Baldwin (not to be confused with James Baldwin the children's book author). Eugène Ionesco wrote four stories for young kids. Graham Greene also wrote at the very least four children's books (and possibly more). Other unlikely children's book authors are Aldous Huxley, E. E. Cummings, Chinua Achebe (2, 3, 4), Eleanor Roosevelt and Gertrude Stein. Author Ariel S. Winter has written about all these books on his excellent blog We Too Were Children, Mr. Barrie. On his Flickr page you can look at scans from these books, sometimes even the whole book.


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Take a slow ride to Bathurst on the colourful train! Train leaves Port Alfred Station every morning @ 11.05 am. Take something to drink and sit back and relax, its a great experience. In Bathurst you can opt for different tours or sit back in the Pig 'n Whistle hotel and 'sip the devils brew' till you climb aboard again. (they make their own beer in Port Alfred)
Grahamstown National Arts Festival (Near Port Alfr
Africa's largest and most colourful cultural event offers a choice of the very best of both indigenous and imported talent. Every year for 11 days (June/July) Grahamstown's population almost doubles, as over 50 000 people flock to Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape for the feast of arts, crafts and sheer entertainment.
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Kowie History museum
a very small little museum in a very old building. Originally it was a school, then the magistrate's court house and then Telkom occupied it. You can read about the British settlers of 1820 that came to this part of the country and all their struggles. There is a nice butterfly and moth collection from this region. You can get acquinted with some Xhosa customs and costumes. So if you have nothing to do or it is raining and you need to entertain the kids, bring them here. Cost is R5.00 per adult and R1.00 per child.
Kowie River cruise
A fun cruise as the skipper is really funny and extremely witty. However, even though you go approx 3km upstream, you do not really leave Port Alfred. So if you want to see the homes along the canals and upstream, then this is the cruise for you. If you want to see the countryside, then do the canoe trip which goes 21km upstream.
The two hour cruise cost R60 per adult and R30 per child. Bring your own refreshments along as none are supplied.
Kowie river mouth
A lovely area to visit with a nice beach next to it. A little bit upstream I would say approx 500 meters is where the 1820 settlers crossed the river. You will find a big stone with a unreadable plaque where this place is where they crossed the river.
River or Beach
Port Alfred is a sleepy town during the off-season. Early December to the end of January the popolation more than doubles, and the shopkeepers battle to keep up with the demand for food and drink. I am sure the locals breathe a sigh of relief when the town gets back to normality. A lot of the locals especially those who have homes on the Marina or on the Riverbanks, hire the homes out to tourists. They usually fetch quite a good daily rate. Up to R3500.00 per day for a 5 bedroom house on the Marina.
Having a boat to cruise the marina with, is a must, especially for those evening cruises through the canals. The canals will take you up the Kowie River, if you would like to do a bit of water-skiing, or if you are a keen fisherman.
Kelly's Beach is one of the best beaches in South Africa (in my opinion). White clean sand, small waves and warmish water, unlike Cape Town which is freezing.
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- Fishing
- Golf
Pleasure cruising, angling, water-skiing, canoeing
Wide tidal Kowie River stretching from river mouth to indigenous forest, for pleasure cruising, angling, water-skiing, canoeing, birdlife and a safe access to the sea from the harbour for deep-sea anglers and scuba divers.
- Kayaking
- Sailing and Boating
- Fishing
Visit the beach
Yes I know that looking at my photo, you do not see any bathers, but please remember that this is not season time. Also there are a number of lovely blue flag beaches here.
Bored? Play cards
In this sleepy hollow, you can become bored, so entertain yourself and play cards with friends. Good for building strong friendship bonds.
Great Fish Point Lighthouse:
The lighthouse was built in 1898 and is seeped in history. Today it is a tourist destination and the resident lighthouse keeper Martin will show you around.
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Saturday May 3, 2008
By SIM LEOI LEOI
Transport Minister: Independent audit for PKFZ
PUTRAJAYA: An independent accounting firm will be appointed to conduct an overall audit on the accounts of the Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) project.
Transport Minister Datuk Ong Tee Keat said the audit was not a probe on any party relating to handling of the accounts in PKFZ.
Ong, who named Datuk Lee Hwa Beng as the new Port Klang Authority chairman yesterday, said Lee would announce the name of the accounting firm next week.
"The audit is necessary for PKFZ to make a fresh start. There have been many reports criticising PKFZ as a 'white elephant' and a scandal.
"This is a grave accusation when nothing conclusive has been proven yet," he told reporters after chairing the post-Cabinet meeting at his office here yesterday.
The previous chairman Datuk Chor Chee Heung resigned on March 31 after being re-appointed into the Cabinet as Deputy Home Minister.
Lee, the former Subang Jaya assemblyman, is an accountant by training.
Ong had previously promised to reveal how the RM4.6bil soft loan to the PKFZ was spent after costs of the project were said to have ballooned from RM1.845bil.
He also extended an invitation to the media to visit the PKFZ site next week to see for themselves the project's progress.
"We should see what has been achieved in the one year since news broke out on the PKFZ. Results will show," he pointed out.
Lee said he was touched by the minister's confidence in him and that he would try his best to clarify the PKFZ's accounts.
On another matter, Ong said it was still too early to determine which of the ministry's projects scheduled under the Ninth Malaysia Plan would be put on hold.
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RM1mil reward offer for information on Dr M's alleged misdeeds
Body of child found buried in kitchen
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Turner cautiously optimistic as key players reaching their prime
He is usually the cynic on such things, at least the cautious observer.
Even now, coach Norv Turner is by no means predicting his players'self-actualization. He remains a show-me kind of dude, as it would be wise for all who have watched the Chargers fall short time and again to maintain a healthy skepticism.
But it is interesting that Turner believes a bridge has been crossed by his bunch, whose confidence and preseason predictions have dissolved in too-soon exits from the playoffs and even a couple of mediocre regular seasons.
"We have a lot of guys on this team that are at a place in their careers when they're going to play the best football they've ever played," Turner said recently, sounding a theme he has broached several times this spring. " . . . They're at a point, a lot of guys, experiencewise, where they're at in age, where they are in their maturity, both physically and mentally; we have a lot of guys capable of having their best years."
Turner refers to a large number of Chargers players who are entering what could be considered their prime and a significant number that now have spent multiple seasons in San Diego, giving them, the hope is, a combination of having learned from past successes and failures and being equipped to turn that into something positive.
"I think our team has learned a lot over the last three seasons – the ups and downs," Turner said.
He spoke of the injuries that played a large part in the AFC Championship Game loss after the '07 season and in derailing the '08 season from the start. He spoke of playoff victories after '07 and the overtime win against Indianapolis this past January. He spoke of the 8-8 of '08 and the clawing back just to win the AFC West.
"Every experience they've had has helped them," he said.
Still, that's just talk.
In a meeting this spring, Turner told his team that the NFL isn't "American Idol," that no one can text in a vote to help determine whether their team wins the Super Bowl.
"If you want something, you've got to go earn it," Turner told them.
The Chargers, at 54-26, have the fourth-best winning percentage in the NFL and have been to the playoffs four times over the past five seasons. But the three teams ahead of them (Indianapolis, New England and Pittsburgh) in regular-season success, all have also won at least one Super Bowl in that span while the Chargers haven't been to the Super Bowl in 15 years.
"I honestly believe the experience of being (highly) touted, being talked about as the favorite – at times, it would be impossible to not be affected by that," Turner said. "At times, some of our guys have been affected. I think our guys have outgrown that."
Turner and many veterans believe that growth was exhibited this spring.
"We're definitely over that overconfidence stuff," linebacker Stephen Cooper said.
The team's veterans yesterday practiced for the final time until training camp starts on the last day of July. Rookies will continue to practice next week; camp opens for them July 27.