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Volume 18, Issue 7, 01 July 1947
The Nucleation of Ice Formation by Silver Iodide18(1947); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1697813View Description Hide Description
Silver iodide particles have been found to serve as nuclei for the formation of ice crystals in super‐cooled water and in water vapor super‐saturated with respect to ice. It is believed that silver iodide serves as a very effective nucleus because it very closely resembles ice in crystal structure. Both dimensions of the unit cell of ice and silver iodide are the same to within approximately one percent. The maximum temperature at which the silver iodide particles serve as nuclei is approximately −4°C for particles one micron in diameter, and −8°C for particles 100 Angstrom units in diameter. A silver iodide smoke generator has been constructed which consumes 1 mg of silver iodide per second and produces 1013 effective nuclei per second.
Waves in Elastic Tubes: Velocity of the Pulse Wave in Large Arteries18(1947); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1697814View Description Hide Description
An equation for waves in elastic tubes is developed and applied to cylindrical tubes with Hookian and with elastomeric walls. The former application yields the Moens‐Korteweg formula, which has been found inadequate. The latter application leads to a rather complicated equation for the pulse‐wave velocity.
Values of pulse‐wave velocities are computed for the thoracic aorta by means of the foregoing equation, and the results are compared with measured mean velocities for the entire aorta. Graphs and tables are given, so that a graphical analysis of this velocityequation can be applied to any large artery; and the method is illustrated by computing the pulse‐wave velocity in the left common carotid. The relation , for the mean velocity over a tube of length l, is shown to be valid for the aorta and large arteries.
An Electronic Computer for X‐Ray Crystal Structure Analyses18(1947); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1697815View Description Hide Description
An electronic synthesizer is described for determination of atomic positions in crystals. The synthesizer sums the two‐dimensional Fourier series representing planar, centro‐symmetric projections of electron densities in a crystal unit cell; and the projection is presented by a television scan on the screen of a cathode ray oscilloscope. The specific advantage of the device is the immediate observability of effects on the projection of alterations in signs of one or any number of Fourier coefficients.
Resonant Cavities for Dielectric Measurements18(1947); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1697816View Description Hide Description
Fixed and variable length re‐entrant resonant cavities designed for the measurement of dielectric constant and dissipation factor are described. These cavities operate in the frequency decade of 108 to 109 cycles per second, a region avoided by many experimenters because the frequency is too high for the application of circuit techniques and not high enough for the convenient use of coaxial lines or wave guides. The theoretical considerations in the design of these cavities are presented. The well‐known susceptance variation method, widely used in the frequency range of 104 to 108 cycles per second, was extended to apply to these cavities; it yields a rapid measuring technique and very simple expressions for calculating the values of the dielectric properties. The performance of this apparatus is discussed and the results of the measurements of a few typical dielectrics are given.
A Variable Capacitor for Measurements of Pressure and Mechanical Displacements; A Theoretical Analysis and Its Experimental Evaluation18(1947); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1697817View Description Hide Description
A variable capacitor is described for measuring (1) small displacements, (2) small volume changes, and (3) pressure differences. The capacitor consists of a deflectable diaphragm and a fixed electrode. The diaphragm is metallic, plane‐parallel, clamped at the edges, and at ground potential; the electrode, at an a.c. potential, has a plane surface parallel to the undeflected plate across an air gap. For use in displacement measurements, the diaphragm's center is deflected by a point contact from a mechanical link to the observed system, or by a uniform pressure load from a fluid link to the system. The fluid link is used also when measuring volume changes and pressure differences. The plate deflection results in a change in the air gap, and thus generates a capacitance signal. This signal is measured by electrical methods.
A theoretical analysis of this variable capacitor is presented; sensitivity and alinearity factors for the three uses of the device are derived. The experimental performance shows reasonably satisfactory agreement with the derived theory. The displacement of the plate's center was measured with an interferometric method, using a yellow He line as a standard of reference; the applied pressure, with a liquid manometer; and the capacitance signal, with a standard capacitor substitution procedure. The gauge can be used so as to give quantitative electrical indications of displacement, volume change, or pressure difference; or can be used as a null indicator device in which an unknown pressure is balanced against a known one on opposite sides of the diaphragm. In order to achieve large volume an displacement sensitivities, small air gaps (5.10–4 cm) are employed. Details of a construction method to assure small values are presented.
Conductivity of Metallic Surfaces at Microwave Frequencies18(1947); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1697818View Description Hide Description
Methods of measuring effective conductivities at microwave frequencies are described. These consist of either measuring the transmission loss in a long waveguide, or in measuring the Q's of resonant cavities. Both methods have been applied to measurements at 1.25 cm. Results for a number of metals are presented. Deviations from d.c. conductivity are thought to be due to surface roughness.
Note on Circular Loop Antennas with Non‐Uniform Current Distribution18(1947); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1697819View Description Hide Description
In this paper are presented the approximate formulas for the components of radiation vectors of a short‐circuited circular loop with non‐uniform current distribution. The formulas are valid for the ratio of loop perimeter to wavelength of the order of 0.5 or less, and assume the current distribution of the hyperbolic cosine form. These formulas lead to the radiation intensity formula from which the expressions for the horizontal and vertical field patterns are derived. The latter formulas are further simplified assuming that the attenuation constant is much smaller than the phase constant. From the expression for horizontal field pattern, it follows that the pattern is symmetrical about the loop axis of symmetry. Moreover, this horizontal pattern exhibits a directional effect with maximum field in the direction of the feeder end of the loop. This directional effect is a function of loop dimensions. The theoretical horizontal pattern agrees very closely with the experimental one. From the expression for vertical field pattern, it follows that the non‐uniform current distribution produces a pattern intermediate between that for horizontal dipole and horizontal small loop with uniform current distribution. The field intensity in the zenithal direction is again a function of loop dimensions. Using the expression for radiation intensity, formulas for a radius of equivalent circular horizontal field pattern, power gain, average power gain, and radiation resistance are derived. It is shown that the average power gain is essentially a function of loop radius and decreases with the increase of the latter. Finally, the approximate expression for the attenuation constant of the transmission line equivalent to the loop is derived.
High Speed Compression Tests on Copper18(1947); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1697820View Description Hide Description
Dynamic shortening of one‐half inch long copper cylinders is achieved by striking them with a hardened steel projectile at high velocities. The average strain rate was about 1200 per second. Energy per unit volume absorbed by the copper is plotted against strain. A true stress‐logarithmic strain curve is computed. This curve is compared with a similar curve derived from high speed tests on copper in tension.
TM 0,1 Mode in Circular Wave Guides with Two Coaxial Dielectrics18(1947); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1697821View Description Hide Description
Field components for a transverse magnetic wave in a wave guide with two coaxial dielectrics are computed. A typical example is given to show the calculation of guide dimensions to reduce phase velocity to a preassigned value.
Graphical Methods for Evaluating Fourier Integrals18(1947); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1697822View Description Hide Description
The Fourier transform method of determining the response of a linear system to an arbitrary input signal often has its practical usefulness impaired because of difficulties in evaluating the necessary integrals. One possibility of overcoming these difficulties lies in the application of graphical methods to the transformations. Three such graphical procedures are described, all based upon fundamental properties of the transforms. Each method involves an analysis of the curves of the function to be transformed as a sum of curves of simpler functions whose transforms are known. The methods are useful in cases where the problem is too complicated for a simple analytic solution, or where part of the necessary data is available only in the form of a curve obtained, say, from experimental measurements of transmission characteristics or wave shapes. The accuracy of the methods is restricted only by that of the graphical plotting and curve fitting. If only approximate results are required, they may be obtained relatively quickly by these methods.
Two Calculating Machines for X‐Ray Crystal Structure Analysis18(1947); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1697823View Description Hide Description
The calculation of structure factors in x‐ray structure analysis is one of the most laborious operations. Two mechanisms are described which have proved of great service in several analyses. The simpler of the devices is of general application and can be constructed with comparatively limited workshop facilities.
The Field of a Microwave Dipole Antenna in the Vicinity of the Horizon18(1947); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1697824View Description Hide Description
In this paper a method is developed for determining the electromagnetic field produced by a microwaveantenna at points on the horizon, and on either side of it, where neither the ray theory nor the normal mode theory can be used conveniently. The theory is developed for a condition of standard atmospheric refraction, by use of a space in which the earth is flattened and the rays are curved. This allows us to make a simple derivation of the ray theory, valid in the optical region, and of the normal mode theory, suited for the shadow zone. For the intermediate region centered around the horizon we use the original integral for the potential to obtain expressions for the field under the restriction of maximum absorption, which for typical ground conditions applies to wave‐lengths less than about a meter. Three cases are treated in which the transmitter, or receiver, are either situated on the ground or are elevated several natural units of height. For an elevated transmitter and receiver the Hertzian potential ψ due to a point source at the origin is in the vicinity of the horizon given by,with,where x denotes the horizontal distance r expressed in natural units, z 1 and z 2 the heights of transmitter and receiver in natural units, r̄ the distance of receiver from transmitter when the former is on the horizon. F(p) (see Eq. (68) below) has been evaluated, and is given in Table IV, while the integral in (A) can be expressed in terms of the tabulated Fresnel integrals. In the limit of very short wave‐lengths the field on the horizon approaches the value 1/(2r̄) which would result from the diffraction of the direct ray only by a straight edge placed at the point of tangency of the horizon with the earth. A comparison of the field obtained from (A) with exact values computed by van d. Pol and Bremmer, using the ray theory and the normal mode theory, is shown in Figs. 6 and 7.
When the transmitter is at zero elevation and the receiver is elevated several units of height, the potential in the vicinity of the horizon is given by,for vertical polarization and horizontal polarization, respectively. Here ε1 denotes the complex dielectric constant,ac the effective radius of the earth, and λ the wave‐length. G(p) is given in Eq. (78) and is shown in Fig. 4. A comparison of (B) with exact values obtained by van d. Pol and Bremmer is shown in Fig. 8.
When both the transmitter and receiver are at zero elevation, it is found that the potential can be expressed as the sum of the surface wave appropriate for a flat ground and an integral depending on the radius of the earth. At great distances, the two terms tend to cancel out. Under conditions of maximum absorption this leads to,.H(p′) is given in (84) and g(p′) is shown in Fig. 5, where it is compared with results obtained previously by van d. Pol and Bremmer using the normal mode theory.
For points on the horizon Eq. (A) reduces to,while in (B) and (C) we put |G(0)| = 2.13.
Linearized Supersonic Flow through Ducts18(1947); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1697825View Description Hide Description
Rigorous Solution of Linearized Supersonic Flow Through Ducts18(1947); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1697826View Description Hide Description
The Mechanism of Cutting Fluid Action18(1947); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1697827View Description Hide Description


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Essential Elements for Guitar, Book 2
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Air streams horizontally past a small airplane's wings suchthat the speed is 70.0 over the top surface and 60.0 past the bottom surface.
If the plane has a mass of 1390 and a wing area of what is the magnitude of the net vertical force(including the effects of gravity) on the airplane? The density ofthe air is 1.20 .
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A Gaggle of Cartoonists, but It's Not All Smiles; At a New Yorker Exhibit, Some Artists Revere the Old Days. Others Don't.
Published: February 14, 2000
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Mr. Modell continued: ''I became worried. If I let a million-dollar talent kill himself falling down the stairway, what would happen to me?'' He touched Thurber's shoulder and asked, ''Can I help you?'' Thurber bellowed, ''Get out of my way,'' and then, Mr. Modell recalled, ''he went down like a stack of dishes.''
But, Mr. Modell said, ''it was an absolutely utopian time.''
Then the bomb dropped. The Newhouse family took over the magazine, fired Mr. Shawn and put Robert Gottlieb in his place. ''When Shawn's time came to an end, we were all shocked and hurt,'' Mr. Modell said. ''We lost Daddy.''
The betrayal was not only personal but aesthetic, or so many of the old cartoonists think. ''Gottlieb liked wordplay, puns, and some thought it was horrible,'' said Mr. Sorel, who now draws covers for the magazine.
Then came Tina Brown. ''Tina wanted the magazine to be competitive on the newsstand,'' Mr. Lorenz said. ''She began to encourage material that was right on top of the news. There were pictures of the Clintons, the Bushes.''
Arnie Levin, the cartoonist of loopy lines, said, ''There would be 40 artists piling up on the same topic.''
And the effect? The cartoons are ''not quite as philosophically pointed as they used to be,'' and ''the drawing has diminished,'' Mr. Koren said.
Mr. Modell said, ''There's no heart there, and you can feel the effort of the artist, how he has his hand on the pulse of the world.'' But not everyone agrees.
''When people look back, they say cartoons aren't as funny today,'' said Ms. Chast, who specializes in drawing homely types with odd domestic obsessions. ''But if you pick up any issue from any year, maybe two or three cartoons are complete side splitters, and two or three completely miss the boat, and the rest will be O.K., funny but not sublime.''
Ms. Chast was once accused of drawing badly. When she started appearing in The New Yorker in 1978, ''she caused tremendous anger,'' Mr. Lorenz said. ''She was primitive. She made no attempt to have correct perspective. And there were letters from people canceling their subscriptions. Other artists were angry, too.''
But now almost every New Yorker artist reveres her. Ms. Chast knows that there's ''less emphasis on the craft of drawing,'' she said, but she does not think that means standards have disappeared. ''I like a drawing not to repel me.''
But now, both inside and outside The New Yorker, many cartoonists are striving for a certain arty repulsiveness. ''There's a whole generation of younger cartoonists inspired by R. Crumb, Art Spiegelman, Bill Griffith and Harvey Kurtzman,'' Jules Feiffer said.
With traces of underground styles reaching The New Yorker, some of the old cartoonists have found themselves out of work. ''When Tina came, it was like kissing a beautiful girl and not getting kissed back,'' Mr. Modell said. ''Tina never bought any drawings of mine. Now I'm like an old mule who still goes to the pump. If I have an idea, I have to get rid of it, so I'll fax it to The New Yorker, then Playboy.'' But lately, he said, he has sold nothing.
Mr. Booth is more philosophical: ''I haven't done any covers since the 1980's. But things go in cycles, and you just pull your skivvies up around your armpits and go on.'' He continued: ''I think The New Yorker wouldn't be in existence if Tina Brown hadn't come in and raised hell. She was running into an audience that didn't read.''
Cartoons, Mr. Modell noted, are there to defuse readers' anxieties about encountering ''great slabs of type,'' the way clowns defuse the intensity of the high-wire act. ''But now,'' he added, ''there's so much cacophony -- photos, ads -- that there's no need for cartoonists. If I ran the magazine, I wouldn't have them.''
There are some people who don't lament the lost New Yorker. Not surprisingly, they are the ones who made their reputations elsewhere. Surprisingly, they are among the few who actually live in New York.
''I was not a reader of The New Yorker, and I didn't have the ambition to be a New Yorker cartoonist,'' said David Levine, who is best known for his pen-and-ink caricatures in The New York Review of Books but now does pencil caricatures for The New Yorker. ''I'm not a gag cartoonist. Two years ago Tina Brown called me to have lunch. She was fighting for a losing magazine. She decided caricature was the only entertaining way for the public to deal with the onslaught of interviews and biographies. Her changes were made to fit the craving of an audience no longer as literate as it had been.''
Mr. Feiffer, who is known for his squiggly, talking-head cartoons in The Village Voice, has a similar story. ''I grew up reading The New Yorker, but it was the furthest thing from my ideal. I was too Bronx for Arno. I grew up loving comic strips.'' And what he calls his ''abrasive social and political commentary'' was far from The New Yorker's ideal. ''William Shawn broke out in hives when he saw my stuff, but Tina didn't have that problem. She wanted me in the first issue.''
So under a host of pressures the old cartoon culture has crumbled. Few cartoonists go into the city regularly. Many have families and other jobs: as animators, artists and authors.
''I realized the fax machine worked fine,'' Ms. Chast said.
Mr. Koren said: ''The collegiality has evaporated.''
Mischa Richter, 90, who started drawing cartoons 45 years ago, said: ''The New Yorker made celebrities once. Now it wants celebrities to make The New Yorker.''
Even drawing itself may be in decline. ''Kids don't draw anymore,'' Mr. Sorel said. ''Comic art in America started at the turn of the century, and it's ending at the turn of another century. There is no longer a New Yorker style. Anything goes. A New Yorker cartoon is anything the editor says it is.''
Mr. Modell takes a simpler view of the new New Yorker: ''I could be a great admirer if they would buy my cartoons.''
Photos: Ed Koren, right, with the writer Mark Singer and Mr. Singer's son; below, a 1989 Koren cartoon.; Frank Modell, who started drawing for the magazine in 1945; below, his ''Window Washer'' (1975).; Roz Chast, whose work started in the magazine in 1978, with her daughter Nina; below, a Chast cartoon. Cartoons (Roz Chast/The New Yorker (center); Ed Koren/The New Yorker (above); (Frank Modell/The New Yorker)


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Hope it's Alex! But Hill is cool 2.
I just want niners to win!!!
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Originally posted by P-52ENFORCER:Originally posted by WINiner:Originally posted by P-52ENFORCER:Originally posted by scorpio_49ers:
Flacco, Colt, or any other rookie QB we SHOULD draft.
My $$ is on Hill, because he doesn't have the tools that Smith does, but finds a way to get the balls in tight spaces and moves the chains, something Alex will not do again this year. He looks impressive when he is doing drills, not in games.
I bet it will be close in preseason. Smith wins it by a hair. Our record by week 5 will be 1-4. Hill will come in on week 5 and lead us to a better record....pretty sure that is whats goign to happen. Also, players will not be happy if Smiths wins it (most likely cause of contract) they want to see the best passer on the field..which they all believe is Hill. You will see some uninspired play with Smith, esp when he starts sucking and throwing errand passes, sacks, fumbles...deer in headlights...lol.....
I also kind of feel that Hill may not start immediately, but eventually. I also agree with the portion of your statement that is now in bold. You could feel it last year. The offense played better with Hill in the lineup because they had more faith in him. Finally, someone else see's the light. Thank you!
Did they have more faith in Hill, or the game plan that Tollner helped tweak? Does your, and those who also share this perspective, dislike for Smith cloud your perception? Have you heard even one report of teammates not having trust in Smith? I certainly have never seen any, but I did read negative comments about Hostler.
Ill put my vote down for Smith. Hill didn't have a single snap in 6 years for a reason.
First of all, trust me when I say that they had more faith in Hill, and not the gameplan. It's called body language, and if you were too blind to read it, then that's your problem, and not mine.
Second, let me clear something up real quick here. I DON'T HATE, OR DISLIKE ALEX SMITH. So to answer your question, my perception has not been clouded by hate. I don't want him to fail, and I wish none of us were on this board having this discussion right now. I wish he would have came into the league, and tore it up, but he hasn't even come remotely close. I hope Alex proves me wrong, and becomes the quarterback that we have been paying him to be for the past 3 years. I just don't think that is going to happen this year. We were warned by Urban Meyer that Alex would not succeed until he knew the offense back and forth, and here we are approaching a year where he has to learn another system. He is going to feel out of sync, once again until he masters the offense. Hill on the other hand is a GAMER, who can think on the run, improvise, and elevate the players around him because they feel a sense of comfort when he's behind center.
With that being said, I think that Hill is the better quarterback at this point in time, and for the upcoming season until Alex can wrap his mind around the new system. If he has all of these tools that I keep hearing about, and can get his mind right, then he may very well become a legitamate QB one day, but I'm tired of waiting.
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WTF. QUIT WITH THE f**kING DISCUSSION. POST IN THE THREAD ABOUT ALEX'S DAD, OR THE ONE ABOUT VD (WHICH TURNED INTO AN ALEX SMITH VS SHAUN HILL THREAD) STOP.


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What are the approaches to better consumer awareness and engagement on the topics of food and agriculture?
This Animal Agriculture Alliance Stakeholders Summit event brought together a great mix of people to help connect, educate, and protect agriculture, farming, and food.
What are the conversations on antibiotics and agriculture? What are the consumer concerns and how are farms and ranchers addressing the questions. What about the agriculture pharmaceutical companies and the changes they are taking on?
Antibiotic Use in Animal Agriculture: Changing the Narrative - Dr. Leah Dorman, Director, Food Integrity and Consumer Engagement, Phibro Animal Health; Dr. Richard Raymond, Food Safety and Public Health Consultant, former Undersecretary for Food Safety, U.S. Department of Agriculture; Christopher Doering, Reporter, USA Today.
Highlights on how the thinking of economics of biosecurity plays out in swine producer decision making.
Dr. Glynn Tonsor, Associate Professor, Kansas State University, highlights how the thinking of economics of biosecurity plays out in swine producer decision making. Key message: lack of knowledge is likely NOT sole reason for partial implementation of recommended biosecurity measures. Many business look at trade-offs and incentives for action.
Missouri Pork Expo brought some focus on reaching out to 4-H and FFA swine exhibitors. Session included helping young exhibitors learn about reducing the risks of animal health issues, proper use of medication, and developing awareness on animal welfare programs.
The Missouri Pork Expo brought some focus on reaching out to 4-H and FFA swine exhibitors. Session included helping young exhibitors learn about reducing the risks of animal health issues, proper use of medication, and developing awareness on animal welfare programs.
What are the issues in pork that Iowa producers need to stay focused on?
There were many conversations in Iowa on the freedom to do business and adding equipment plus expertise to improve profits. Attorney Eldon McAfee shared the status on active nuisance cases; there are more in the courtroom this year than in recent memory as producers look for common ground with incoming neighborhoods [video].
What can the Chief Technology Officer of Monsanto Company share with people about the future of food and agriculture?
Genetic Science, Food, and People Dr. Robert Fraley, Chief Technology Officer at Monsanto, shares stories of genetic science and its relation to food and consumers. Dr. Fraley points out steps we need to take as an industry, specifically starting with being truly engaged on social media, as that is how the public is getting their information
This annual conference featuring both research virologists and practitioners marked the release of the most important industry discovery in recent times.
This annual conference featuring both research virologists and practitioners marked the release of the most important industry discovery in recent times. Dr. Randy Prather (University of Missouri) shared his findings on the genetic key to PRRS resistance [video][slides].
What is the focus of various swine health & disease issues, plus how is research helping both veterinarians and farm management / staff?
The 2015 Allen D. Leman Swine Conference was the focus of various swine health & disease issues plus research to help both veterinarians and farm management /staff. Also this year, the Pijoan Lectures continue with Dr. Linda Saif sharing info on coronaviruses and their global threats to humans and animals and Dr. Carol Cardona providing a review of the H5N2 epidemic [fyi link].
All episodes are on SwineCast.com [link]
The complete agenda and informational guide can be found in the online conference program or pre-conference program.
Human and animal health experts came together in Atlanta, GA to discuss issues related to antibiotic resistance and to work toward increased antibiotic stewardship, in both human medicine and animal health. Throughout the dialogue, attention was focused on specific areas which can be measured in order to verify the progress made in reducing antimicrobial resistance.
Human and animal health experts came together in Atlanta, GA for the fifth NIAA Antibiotic Symposium to discuss issues related to antibiotic resistance and to work toward increased antibiotic stewardship, in both human medicine and animal health.
What happened at the previous four NIAA antibiotics symposiums?
The 2015 NIAA Antibiotic Symposium is the fifth in a series of antibiotic symposiums. What happened at the previous four symposiums? Here are the links to the play lists for each year since 2011.
The 2015 Carolina Swine Health Seminar focused this year on antibiotics and the new directions via the Veterinary Feed Directive. Also timely is the presentation by Dr. Robert Desrosiers on Emerging Diseases:The Past and Future.
How are mathematical models being used to understanding emerging animal diseases?
Dr. Shweta Bansal, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology at Georgetown University, provides an assessment of how mathematical modeling is used in understanding emerging swine diseases.
Dr. Bansal digs into the data and assumptions used to produce a model to help answer questions about PEDv. Specifically, Dr. Bansal's team analyzed the role of movement in PEDv spread and provide an estimation of likely PEDv sources.
The Pork Academy is a series of presentations held at the World Pork Expo that highlights Pork Checkoff funded research aimed at helping pork farm operations, management, and staff.
Through the Pork Checkoff, research and tools are developed to help understand / manage disease issues like PEDV, provide updates on consumer preferences, and share position conversations around antibiotics. These presentations help management and staff communicate with consumers, and integrate economics into daily farm decision making process.
Water is a critical element to everything. With many players and rules that have built up over the years, understanding and solving the coming water issues will not be easy nor simple.
Water and the Future of Animal Agriculture The 2015 NIAA Annual Conference: Water and the Future of Animal Agriculture, March 23 - March 26, 2015, Indianapolis, IN, USA, brought out conversations around the issues of water, the perceptions of agriculture by media, and what agriculture groups need to think about in their conversations with consumers, the public, and media.
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This year there was less focus on porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDv, though it is still a concern). More sessions highlighted trade, economics, and sow live time productivity. And of course there was lots of BBQ and tenderloin sandwiches to be had.
Antibiotics, Trade, and Pork Quality The 2015 World Pork Expo (June 3 - 5, 2015, Des Moines, IA, USA) offered other interests beyond the past several years of PEDv: International Trade and Pork Quality sessions offered inside on how consumer are driving business. Also on the conversation channels: Antibiotics and new changes shared by the U.S. FDA.
How are consumers seeing agriculture? What are people in agriculture doing to make connections?
This Animal Agriculture Alliance Stakeholders Summit event brought together a great mix of people to help connect, educate, and protect agriculture, farming, and food.
How does biodiesel with animal fats generate additional revenue for the livestock industry?
Alan Weber, Economist and Founding Partner, MARC-IV, states biodiesel demand for animal fats generates an additional revenue stream for the livestock industry. So the biodiesel and livestock sectors are tied together in the future success. Mr. Weber shares the connection points and the economics for both groups.
Mr. Weber closes with thoughts on the need to maintain the stakeholder connections for their success into the future.
What is happening with food consumer demand, beliefs, and reality?
What is happening with food consumer demand, beliefs, and reality? Cameron Bruett, Head, Corporate Affairs, JBS USA & Pilgrims and President of the Roundtable for Sustainable Beef, provides a reality check for meat producers and what media concerns are influencing consumers. Mr. Bruett's take away: Keep focused on what you are really trying to accomplish.
Why is food so important now?
Back to the Future of Food Dennis Dimick, Executive Editor, National Geographic Magazine, shares a media person's view of food and agriculture. Why is food now important?
Mr. Dimick shares what has happened over the last few years on how food came to the forefront of media. Mr. Dimick challenges the audience with the idea that consumers need to know more about the issues and what is being done to continue the education and informing of the greater public about food ecosystems.
Are there opportunities in agriculture for biodiesel to have a future?
Kaleb Little, Communications Manager, National Biodiesel Board, shares the opportunities agriculture and biodiesel have in the future. Mr. Little highlights why biodiesel is important and what needs to happen to sustain the ecosystem.
Fueling Livestock Profitability - Kaleb Little, Communications Manager, National Biodiesel Board, from the 2015 Animal Agriculture Alliance Stakeholders Summit, The Journey to Extraordinary, May 6 - 7, 2015, Kansas City, MO, USA.
More presentations at http://www.trufflemedia.com/agmedia/conference/2015-the-journey-to-extra...
"Is there a problem in feeding 9 billion people?" - "Only if you want to eat."
Mandy Hagan, Vice President, State Affairs and Grassroots, Grocery Manufacturers Association, asks the core question of "Is there a problem in feeding 9 billion people?" and rhetorically answer it with "Only if you want to eat".
Ms. Hagan shares approaches to utilizing technology, like genetically modified organisms, to meet the needs of those future 9 billion people.
Has the poultry business arrived late to the sustainability table?
Paul Bredwell, Vice President of Environmental Programs, U.S. Poultry & Egg Association, opens with an admission that the poultry business is late to the table with sustainability solutions.
Mr. Bredwell shares what is being done today to develop, launch, and execute sustainability programs. Mr. Bredwell closes with an outline of what will happen next and what key performance indicators will be used.
What is sustainability and what is it not?
Roger Cady, Global Sustainability Lead, Elanco, shares an opening view of what sustainability is and is not. He believes the idea of sustainability will not go away and must be meet head on. Mr. Cady provides information on what consumers believe and care about.
The challenges? Sustainable practices must be a continuous process whose management must take in the ideas of tradition and change to be effective. Mr. Cady closes with the idea that raising the standard of living for farmers must be measured, whose data is incorporated into the sustainability continuous process.
Pork producers are looking to gain insights on the Checkoff funded programs and the policy activities being pursued.
The Pork Industry Forum, held March 5-7, 2015 in San Antonio, TX, gathered pork producers looking to gain insights on the Checkoff funded programs and the policy activities being pursued.
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How is outbreak of PEDv being handled?
Dr. Liz Wagstrom, Chief Veterinarian, National Pork Producers Council, provides an update on the pork emerging diseases response plan. Dr. Wagstrom shares information on the projects others are also doing and how they tie together.
One of the key areas of improvement resulting from the outbreak of PEDv was communication consistency and protocol. Dr. Wagstrom also highlights the risk assessments completed, the swine disease matrix development, and the "strengthening the boarders" project.
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LeAnn Rimes gets personal in music
Perhaps you've heard a few things about LeAnn Rimes, even if you didn't want to. It was pretty hard to avoid all the tabloid stories, including the affair Rimes had with actor Eddie Cibrian in 2009 while they were married to other people; the ongoing feud with "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" star and Cibrian's ex-wife Brandi Glanville and Rimes' stint in rehab last year to deal with anxiety and stress.
You might have also heard the 30-year-old's a country singer (she's headlining Summerfest's Miller Lite OasisWednesday), having scored her breakout single, a cover of Bill Mack's "Blue" when she was just 13.
So when the time came for Rimes to get back to work, she could have easily escaped from all that well-documented drama and reinforced that her talent made her famous in the first place. Instead, she did something rather curious: She addressed her problems head on with the rather personal and striking, new album, "Spitfire."
"I didn't set out to write something like this," Rimes said. "I wanted to open the door for nothing to be off limits. It was the first time I felt like I had a voice. Everyone was writing this whole story where you are the main character, and who you thought you were was so far from who you really were. I got to create a record with the truth."
So what is the truth, exactly? The single "What Have I Done?" is a surprisingly remorseful tale about stepping out, where Rimes sings "I broke the sweetest heart of the only man that's ever loved me." She said it was written about a friend of hers, before Rimes had the affair, but she acknowledges the song can generally apply to what happened in her life.
"It was not some flippant thing Eddie and I did," saying their actions prompted Rimes "to take a long look at yourself, the pain in part that you're causing."
"Borrowed" was directly inspired by her affair with Cibrian (to whom Rimes is now married), with Rimes repeatedly singing, "I don't want to give you back."
"Everything said in that song came out of conversations I had one day with (co-writers) Dan Wilson (Adele's "Someone Like You") and (Keith Urban songwriter) Darrell Brown," Rimes said. "I had these ideas I carried around in me for eight or nine months and was terrified to write it down. They bullied me into a couple of lines in the song, and I was going, 'I can't say that,' and crying in the corner. And they were saying, 'That's so honest. It cuts to the core.' I have to say I'm so glad they talked me into it."
Curiously, Rimes' ex-husband, Dean Sheremet, also shares a co-writing credit for a song written seven years ago, before their divorce. "I think he's fine with that," Rimes said. "I haven't talked with him much about it."
Critics will argue that Rimes made this kind of album because she likes the attention. She may complain about the tabloid coverage, but she recently gave People an exclusive interview to discuss her battles with depression.
But Rimes insisted she doesn't "do drama for drama's sake," and ultimately, making the record was a cathartic experience.
"I felt like I had a piece of tape on my mouth, and I got to rip that apart," she said. "I had been bottling up so much anger and guilt and love and pain and frustration and confusion and happiness. Anything I experienced as a human being day to day for the last four years is on this record."
But Rimes said there was a consequence. The record was completed last June, two months before she checked into rehab.
"Writing this opened up Pandora's box, and a lot of emotions I never confronted were at the forefront of my mind and my soul," she said. "I was like, 'I need to take care of me.'"
Now she's stuck with these very personal songs, performing them night after night along the road. But Rimes said she's ready to handle it.
"After all these years of craziness, there's a settled feeling of where I'm at with music and my life and my family."
Who: LeAnn Rimes
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23rd October 2010, Saturday
Since shopping malls are closed on Sundays in Paris, the guide decided to take us on a one-day shopping spree today. I didn't really like the idea but what to do, when there are so many brand conscious sakais in the group. A couple – let's called her China woman and Mr VAT were all excited and kept asking questions. "LV Got discount ah? Gucci got discount?" From the way they asked questions, it's obvious that they have never step out from the country. Which branded boutique would give discount?? Unless they are on end season sale? Maybe she assumed buying a genuine Louis Vuitton in Paris is the same like the many other LVs she bought from Petaling Street! And yes.. all throughout the trip, she kept gushing over LV, LV and LV. I think she dare not say Louis Vuitton because she doesn't even know how to pronounce it!
I quite like the La Vallee Outlet Shopping Village, in Marne La Vallee, a new town in east of Paris. It has small little quaint shops along a very, very long stretch of shopping mall – it's probably 6x the size of Mid Valley! Here, you get most of the brands at factory outlet prices. I got a teapot from Bodum at probably 60% off the prices in Malaysia. For those who enjoy shopping, I gather this is a good place to go. The boutiques are in little cottages and it's quite a joy to shop here. Nike are going cheap as well as other foreign brands like Zara, Massimo Dutti, Pull and Bear, etc.
After shopping in La Vallee, we went for lunch and again, proceeded back to the city, La Fayette for shopping. On our way there, we saw some demonstration going on there. The demonstration is not about pensions but, about animals' rights. Well, this is the way of life for the French. They always go on strike most of the time that they probably could make a career out of it! No joke!
For animal's right! Malaysia needs this badly as well!
At La Fayette, you probably see all the tourists mainly Asians making their money's worth. You see long queues going to Longchamps, Gucci, Prada, Burberry, Yves Saint Laurent, Louis Vuitton etc! Nobody lined up at Bottega Veneta, Chanel, Christian Dior? Because they are more expensive! I didn't bother to shop. I ventured out from crazily crowded La Fayette and went to walk around the surrounding area – Clichy.
Here are some photos of the day:-
Many, many taverns
Many, many sidewalk cafes
Little French Girl
Moulin Rouge
Crossing the Road
We had dinner of escargot in buttered garlic and parsley
For people who would like to buy souvenirs, the best place is probably St Michel. I find that you get more choices at almost half the prices you get elsewhere around Paris! After all the shopping madness, we took the subway to St Michel where all the happening people are on a Saturday night. It was indeed an experience. French subway is already more than 100 years old! Instead of using steel wheels, they are still running on rubber tyres! The funny part is probably, you still need to manually open the doors by yourself in order to get in and get out! It's a maze in the subway! There are many exits like the ones in Hong Kong!
A stop at St Michel
The road surrounding this area is paved with cobble stones, just like the ones in Macau. Even the names of the street were seemingly the same like Macau. I believe it's not French, probably some influence of Portuguese. I guess that's because Portugal was a powerhouse back then, other than Spain, leading the first exploration via sea back in the 1500s. A quick check on the internet reveals that, cobble stones are mainly used in earlier streets in European countries.
Latin Corner Cafe has a mean bouncer!
For girls who want to have a great fun night out, I suggest you go to Latin Café, along Rue de laHuchette. Here, you get half naked men in g string, serving you like a queen! Our group consists of too many men, so we weren't allowed in. so, I guess you need to go separately, and better – if all girls, you will get a place to sit in no time!
We just walkabout the place, and felt a little out of place. I guess we didn't dress to the nines like the very good looking people we see along St Michel's. I guess we need to visit this place another time sans the men in our group!


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Skip to comments.Why the Palestinians Must Pay a Price--Rewarding violence will only produce more violence
Posted on 10/04/2011 4:40:59 AM PDT by SJackson
The Palestinians are in the process of seeking sovereignty from the United Nations, but in doing so, they are asking for more than what was offered them in any prior negotiation with Israelincluding during the talks involving President Clinton and Ehud Barak in 2000 and 2001. Rather than more, it is imperative that the Palestinians get less.
It is imperative to world peace that the Palestinians pay a priceeven if its only a symbolic pricefor rejecting the generous Clinton/Barak offer and responding to it with a second intifada in which 4,000 people were killed. It is also important that Israel not return to the precise armistice lines that existed prior to the 1967 war. If the Palestinians were to achieve a return to the status quo prior to Jordans attack on Israel in June of 1967, then military aggression will not have been punished, it will have been rewarded. Thats why Security Council Resolution 242which was essentially the peace treaty that resulted from the end of the Six Day Warintended for Israel to retain territory necessary to give it secure boundaries (Indeed, in the formal application submitted by Abbas, he sought membership based on UN General Assembly Resolution 1810-11 of November 29, 1947, which would put the borders where they were before the Arab armies invaded the new Jewish state in 1948. This would reward multiple aggressions.)
Yet, however important it is that aggressive and unjustified violence not be rewarded, the international community seems bent on doing just that. If the end result of Jordans 1967 attack on Israelan attack supported by the Palestinian leadership and participated in by Palestinian soldiersis that the Palestinians get back everything Jordan lost, there will be no disincentive to comparable military attacks around the world. If the Palestinians get more than, or even as much as, they rejected in 2000 and 2001 (and did not accept in 2007), then further intifadas with mass casualties will be encouraged. A price must be paid for violence. Thats how the laws of war are supposed to work and there is no reason to make an exception in the case of the Palestinians.
I support a two-state solution based on negotiation and mutual compromise. But the negotiations must not begin where previous offers, which were not accepted, left off. They must take into account how we got to the present situation: The Arab rejection of the UN partition plan and the attack on the new Jewish state that resulted in the death of one percent of Israels population; the attack by Jordan and its Palestinian soldiers against Israel in 1967, which resulted in Israels capture of the West Bank; Israels offer to trade captured land for peace that was rejected at Khartoum with the three infamous nosno peace, no recognition, no negotiation; Israels generous offer of statehood in 2000-2001 that was answered by violence; and Olmerts subsequent, even more generous, offer that was not accepted by President Abbas.
Efforts to achieve peace must look forward but they must not forget the past. A balance must be struck between not rewarding past violence and not creating unreasonable barriers to a future peace. But the Palestinians made it clear last week that they reject such balance.
I was at the United Nations on Friday when President Abbas made his speech demanding full recognition of Palestine as a state with the borders as they existed just before the Jordanians and Palestinians attacked Israel. In other words he wants a do over. He wants the nations that attacked Israel to suffer no consequences for their attempt to destroy the Jewish State. He wants to get back The Western Wall, The Jewish Quarter, and the access road to Hebrew University. Only then will he begin negotiations from this position of strength. But why then negotiate if the UN gives him more than he can possibly get through negotiation? Will he be in a position to seek less from Israel than what the UN gave him? Will he survive if he is seen as less Palestinian than the UN? Abbas blamed Israel for the self-inflicted wound the Palestinians cynically call the Nakba (the catastrophe). He denied the Jewish history of the land of Israel and he quoted with approval his terrorist predecessor Arafat. He refused to acknowledge Israels legitimate security needs. Abbass message, in sum, left little or no room for further compromise.
I also sat in the General Assembly as Israels Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered to begin negotiations with Abbas, with absolutely no preconditions, in New York, at the United Nations, that very day. He said he would come to Ramallah to negotiate with him or keep the door of his Jerusalem office open. He did not even require as a precondition to negotiations that the Palestinians acknowledge what the UN recognized in 1947namely, that Israel is the nation-state of the Jewish people.
Although many in the international communities and on the editorial pages of newspapers claim that Abbas wants to negotiate a two-state solution, while Netanyahu has refused to do so, the truth was on full and open display at the General Assembly on Friday: Netanyahu wants to negotiate a peace now, whereas Abbas wants to win recognition from the United Nations before any negotiations begin. As Netanyahu put it: Lets stop negotiating about negotiating and lets just start negotiating right now.
If the Palestinians accept Netanyahus offer to negotiate a peaceful two-state solution, it will get a real state on the grounda state that Israel, the United States, and the rest of the international community will recognize. It will not be on the pre-1967 borders because the Palestinians are not entitled to such borders and because such borders are not conducive to peace, but it will be close. The Palestinians will get a viable state and Israel will get a secure state.
If, on the other hand, the UN were to reward nearly a century of Palestinian rejectionism and violence by simply turning the clock back to 1967 (or 1947), it will be encouraging more cost-free rejectionism and violence. The Palestinians must pay a price for the thousands of lives their rejectionism and violence have caused. The price must not be so heavy as to preclude peace, but it must be heavy enough to deter war.
This article originally appeared in The New Republic.
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"If the Palestinians accept Netanyahus offer to negotiate a peaceful two-state solution, it will get a real state on the grounda state that Israel, the United States, and the rest of the international community will recognize. It will not be on the pre-1967 borders because the Palestinians are not entitled to such borders and because such borders are not conducive to peace, but it will be close. The Palestinians will get a viable state and Israel will get a secure state."
As long as they demand a state they get hundreds of millions of dollars from the stupid Western Governments. But if they, Heaven forbid, ever be given a State, they would have to comply with International Law that pertains to States.
They have the best of both worlds right now and they know it. The UN waits on them hand and foot, and keeps them from being made accountable to their terrorism. All they have to do is make it back over the border and they are free.
If they were given a State, Israel would have full right to respond militarily to their aggression and wipe them out. Now they can hide behind the "occupied peoples" laws and get away with murder, literally.
This is all smoke and mirrors to drum up more money from the UN and the international community. And they need it, because with the Egyptian border being held by radicals now, they have lots of new military toys to pay for.
There is only one way on earth that they would ever accept becoming a State, and that is standing on the ashes of Israel. After all, the Q'uran commands them to kill every last Jew on earth for the judgment day. Is that not what the festival of Eid means?
You can negotiate politics, but you cannot negotiate the Q'uran away. Religion is not negotiable. They are willing to lie for money, but they will never, ever give up subjugation of the Earth to Islam. That is the literal translation of Jihad. Subjugation. Holy war.
You want to see the Palestinians back down like a whipped puppy? Offer them a State.
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Great jpegs!
MEMRI, but from Imagine, the al Quaida english publication. If you've never read it, it's very slick, worth taking a look. They get the message across, though Awlaki's column won't be there anymore. Hopefully Samir Khan who was the magazine's brains was really killed with him.
I'll take a look later today, thanks.
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Variety certainly is the spice of life, and in the case of landscape design and gardens, this adage holds very true. Imagine a garden with large, striking plants and flowers, bold rockwork and planters in between large expanses of bare soil. Now, imagine this same garden, only this time add an array of textured and colored smaller plants woven between, filling the open areas perfectly and adding to the variety and color of the space. This is exactly what the selection and proper care of ground cover can do for any landscape or garden.
Fall is the best time to install plants, and ground covers are no exception. During the fall, plants of all kinds require less supplemental watering and experience ideal weather for rooting. For ground covers this is especially advantageous, as "the roots begin getting established while the plant itself is starting to go dormant," says Kristen Baker of Valley View Nursery's Medford location. "Using a starter fertilizer (when planting) is a benefit for the plant and root development, as well," Baker explains, emphasizing the importance of getting the plants rooting before their dormant season. This ensures that when the plants come to life in the spring, they will have sufficient roots to quickly begin growing and spreading throughout the space provided.
Esther Lee of the Grange Co-op in Medford concurs. "In the Northwest it is especially important to plant in the fall because we rarely experience frozen ground, and roots can develop during the winter. If you look at a specimen planted in the fall and one planted in the spring, within one year you can see the fall planting will be double the size."
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Synopsis/Noteworthy: oldest English epic poem
I'm a Heaney fan and, after reading his introduction to and translation of Beowulf, I think the depth of that statement swelled a few leagues. That being said, I haven't read Beowulf prior to this encounter and would have to read other translations to really offer up a satisfyingly comparative review. However, I can say that this particular effort of Heaney's has inspired enough interest to do just that.
As for the story of Beowulf in and of itself: it offers a view into an honor-bound society and a heroic journey that is priceless in how it's merit in both style and telling has inspired and shaped our definition of the 'hero's journey' up to the present day. As Heaney says, it's 'an inheritance,' a statement I fully agree with. Much like Homer's Odyssey or Tolkien's Rings, it's both definitive, explorative, and "willable...again and again and again."
A great epic fantasy tale.
This was soooooooo much better than The Iliad and The Odyssey.
First of all, this edition of the book is lovely. It included many photos and illustrations of artifacts and the general places involved in this story. That was a nice edition.
Second, I did not read it in the Old English. I would have liked to, but without reading this as part of a class - reading this just for my own edification - there was no percentage in it at this point.
That being said, reading this was a pleasure. This translation portrayed the action, the atmosphere, and the characters. Perhaps it was the accompanying photos of artifacts, but I had so much more sense of place and feel for this story than The Iliad & The Odyssey.
Two interesting things come to the fore for me:
1. There is a real sense of responsibility of the leaders for their followers/thanes. Writing this on the eve of a mid-term election, I wonder how we've gotten so far away from that. We give power to those who do nothing to earn it, and in turn they do not hold that power in sacred trust. Perhaps these ancient leaders did not live up to this, but the poet who tells the tale makes a point of emphasizing that heroes did.
2. The poet is telling a pagan tale. Yet he infuses this tale with Christian values and sentiments. It's a bit of a loss to not hear how exactly Hrothgar, Beowulf, the Danes, and the Geats related their actions to their gods and their understanding of the afterlife.
All in all, a worthwhile read of the Western Canon. I'm glad I picked it up.
Nice, readable prose translation of the epic poem--not sure I would have read it otherwise. My Granny Giroux saw this and said "You bought that because of the cover!" and I couldn't argue.
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Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0393320979, Paperback)In Beowulf warriors must back up their mead-hall boasts with instant action, monsters abound, and fights are always to the death. The Anglo-Saxon epic, composed between the 7th and 10th centuries, has long been accorded its place in literature, though its hold on our imagination has been less secure. In the introduction to his translation, Seamus Heaney argues that Beowulf's role as a required text for many English students obscured its mysteries and "mythic potency." Now, thanks to the Irish poet's marvelous recreation (in both senses of the word) under Alfred David's watch, this dark, doom-ridden work gets its day in the sun.
There are endless pleasures in Heaney's analysis, but readers should head straight for the poem and then to the prose. (Some will also take advantage of the dual-language edition and do some linguistic teasing out of their own.) The epic's outlines seem simple, depicting Beowulf's three key battles with the scaliest brutes in all of art: Grendel, Grendel's mother (who's in a suitably monstrous snit after her son's dismemberment and death), and then, 50 years later, a gold-hoarding dragon "threatening the night sky / with streamers of fire." Along the way, however, we are treated to flashes back and forward and to a world view in which a thane's allegiance to his lord and to God is absolute. In the first fight, the man from Geatland must travel to Denmark to take on the "shadow-stalker" terrorizing Heorot Hall. Here Beowulf and company set sail:
Men climbed eagerly up the gangplank,After a fearsome night victory over march-haunting and heath-marauding Grendel, our high-born hero is suitably strewn with gold and praise, the queen declaring: "Your sway is wide as the wind's home, / as the sea around cliffs." Few will disagree. And remember, Beowulf has two more trials to undergo.
Heaney claims that when he began his translation it all too often seemed "like trying to bring down a megalith with a toy hammer." The poem's challenges are many: its strong four-stress line, heavy alliteration, and profusion of kennings could have been daunting. (The sea is, among other things, "the whale-road," the sun is "the world's candle," and Beowulf's third opponent is a "vile sky-winger." When it came to over-the-top compound phrases, the temptations must have been endless, but for the most part, Heaney smiles, he "called a sword a sword.") Yet there are few signs of effort in the poet's Englishing. Heaney varies his lines with ease, offering up stirring dialogue, action, and description while not stinting on the epic's mix of fate and fear. After Grendel's misbegotten mother comes to call, the king's evocation of her haunted home may strike dread into the hearts of men and beasts, but it's a gift to the reader:
A few miles from hereIn Heaney's hands, the poem's apparent archaisms and Anglo-Saxon attitudes--its formality, blood-feuds, and insane courage--turn the art of an ancient island nation into world literature. --Kerry Fried
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Composed toward the end of the first millennium of our era, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. He then returns to his own country and dies in old age in a vivid fight against a dragon. The poem is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and then having to live on in the exhausted aftermath. In the contours of this story, at once remote and uncannily familiar at the end of the twentieth century, Seamus Heaney finds a resonance that summons power to the poetry from deep beneath its surface. Drawn to what he has called the "four-squareness of the utterance" in Beowulf and its immense emotional credibility, Heaney gives these epic qualities new and convincing reality for the contemporary reader.… (more)
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