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I am missing this. Sitting down and writing whatever I want to at the moment? Judging by the date from the last post and this one, I am one major blogging failure. Actually, I think I just change my mind on what I find interesting at the moment. Blogging takes so much time commitment. Add my 7 to… 7s lately plus the photography gig, I need an IV of redbull just to keep up. This is a pep talk to myself. Get. It. Together.
Do you go to the optometrist to get your eyes checked? I wear glasses at night when I drive. I got Lasik surgery a couple years ago, but I still need glasses to help me out when my eyes are tired. I had my appointment earlier today.
I always feel like I give the wrong answer when the optometrist asks me, "which one is more clear, 1 or 2?".
"1 or 2?"
"Uhhhh… two?"
"2 or 3?"
Ahhh. I feel so pressured. THEY LOOK THE SAME! Every once in awhile the two options look different, but most of the time, I think he's crazy. It felt like 20 rounds of this or that today at my appointment. I end up guessing and then boom, somehow he manages to still get the right prescription. It's like going to a restaurant and the waitress is ready to take your order since everyone else has ordered. She's standing there with her pen in hand and you blurt out "LIVER AND ONIONS" when what you really wanted was the chicken fingers and deep fried cheese.
AND THEN, I'm attacked with a glaucoma check. He can probably tell that my eyes are nervous for the poof. They start irrationally blinking and just when he figures out what the blinking pattern is, he attacks.
I am set to get new glasses before the end of the year, which is the most terrible time to shop for yourself. Money is flying out of my account for gifts, which is fine, but it makes spending on yourself a little tougher to swallow. I hope all of your Christmas shopping is going well!
Tags: events, funny
Thanks to Cat | Courtney | Sutaru | Michelle |
Check out my new photography website =)! I am so excited. I have a couple of bookings this month so I am excited to keep posting.
Do you have a photographer? Send me a link, I love inspiration!
Tags: photography, picture
Well. This whole blog thing is really starting to not work. I am trying, but not hard enough, evidently.
I've been busy pursuing my other hobby… photography. I just can back from a shoot with my friends last week and it was SO MUCH FUN. The even more fun part is going through all the pictures and editing. This leaves me very little time to post my nonsensical thoughts.
Tags: dreams, photography
Thanks to Kym | Cat |
What is up with some women? When I got engaged, I was so shocked… so surprised, so OVERWHELMED that the guy I've been dating had decided that he wanted no one else but me, that I didn't even know what the damn ring looked like. I was crying, hysterical, and probably appeared crazy to any on-lookers. I can't even remember what he was saying. The world sounded muffled. Then, he put the ring on me and I just remember focusing on getting it past my gigantor knuckles that I STILL didn't see what it looked like. The bar manager was taking pictures of us, all planned by my then-boyfriend. Finally, I woke up and realized, "Shit, I really need to fix my makeup for better post-engagement photos." I ran into the bathroom and STILL didn't even note that shape, size, color, or weight that the ring was. I ran back out for photos and FINALLY, the girl who helped my then-boyfriend plan the most magnificent moment in my life at that time asked me to show her THE ring. I held out my hand and glanced at it while she rolled my hand around to inspect it. Even then, it was just a ring. The moment was more about the fact that he was going to be my husband.
It wasn't another 10 minutes after that we got back into his car and he said to me, "I want you to know, that ring is yours. It's completely paid for and we won't owe anything on it. I wasn't going to start this in debt." It was peculiar to me and then I held up my hands and looked at it for the first time. It was rather big. I never asked for any size, any shape, nor did I specify a weight and color. We didn't talk about it. He went out and got what he wanted. To me, it was perfect. He knew that if he chose to finance a big rock, I'd be pretty upset. He knew that starting our life together in debt would probably be the dumbest thing ever and he was right. Some girls, though… seem to think about it differently… » » » »
Tags: engaged, grr, money matters, people watch, wedding
Thanks to Alissa | ashes | Cat | Emiley | Sutaru | Nancy | Licorne | Lexi | Olivia H. | Colette | Nina | Carrie | Sutaru | Ashley |
So. Hi. I feel sort've like a stranger. Not like I really knew any of you before. Strangers could be a one-sided dealio.
I have returned back from Europe and am finally catching up with life – not yet the pictures since I took nearly 8,000. I have a problem, but I'm not willing to "fix" that one. Life has been rather good to me and I just want to point out that I am not taking it for granted at all – I am rather content. Life is good. I love my job. BEST. DECISION. EVER. to quit the old job earlier this year. I thought that I was doomed to spend 40 years with a ceiling jammed over my head, but not at all. The new company is just amazing. Kind of like a hot fudge sundae in 90 degrees of sunshine. That sounds delicious.
D survived this year's round of layoffs (they happen annually in his field) and actually got a promotion too. We have been traveling all over the place. I feel generally jet-lagged, but for great cause. There is nothing like experiencing one or several foreign cultures to either open your eyes or appreciate what you have and dude… do I EVER appreciate my life.
I am healthy, secure, and even though the remodeling has forced me to be without kitchen since MARCH, I am still well-fed. Mind you, it's been freezer dinners or frozen leftovers from the rents, but they're tasty – or so I have tricked my taste-buds into believing.
So, the title refers to the feeling of being content, happy. Not so much content as in the meat of a book. Obviously I am lacking that lately. GUILTY. Fine, I'll be better, I promise. I hope you're content with this content.
Tags: culture, trips
This past Wednesday morning, my husband told me that his company announced layoffs and it will happen in mid-June. I said, "Okay." and went about removing the hot rollers in my hair. Why the nonchalant response? Well, this is the 4th round of layoffs we've been through since we started dating. His industry is rather high-risk in the job security department. The first one scared me, but now, it's expected like rain in May in Michigan.
He survived all those layoffs except for the one right before we tied the knot, but he found another job right away, beating hundreds of applicants. He's good like that. Yes, I'm bragging, deal with it. Anyway, this one is even more less scary cause we have a plan. First, we are a dual-income couple. That is BIG in this town. Most of his coworkers are the sole income-earner for their families and the same with all the men I work with too. If they lose their jobs, they are EFFED with a capital 'F'. The families are built traditional around here. Many of his coworkers find it so odd that I also work… until a round of layoffs comes learing, then I can raise a big fat "I told ya so".
Second, as I mentioned, we have a plan. Luckily I found this new job that I love and I can support us if need be. If he gets laid off pending all these realignments, we have a plan. Always have a plan. Even if the plan is to cry and hide in a corner… it's a still a plan. Just kidding. Don't do that you big wuss. It's a quality I found to be irresistible. My husband is a planner, like me, and even though we might argue about the plans, it's OK because I always win. OK, I don't always win… he concedes and then sneakily changes things, but being on a team (Team Marriage) puts the trials and tribulations of something like job loss on a much stronger foot with such a solid support system.
We're leaving for Europe on Friday and coming back after 2.5 weeks. THEN we find out the word on Work Lane. Keep your fingers crossed. I promise I'll bring back picture souveniers.
Thanks to lindsie | snow_love | Shannon | Jordan | Cat | Courtney | Tabby | Risa | Sakura | professional photographers | Scot Vale |
Uhhh… it's April. Mid-April. My last post was back in February after I quit my job for a promotion at another and holy crap has life changed.
So much has been happening that this might one of those pointless 'nothing-has-happened' posts… ooooor I'd sooner watch Bruno again, i.e. the worst movie ever. I am heading out tomorrow to visit a vendor along our western coastline, The Beaver State. Look it up. Even though it's work, I still get to 'see' a new place. I don't get people who don't travel or have the desire to see what else is out there. I've been in the thick of planning for another European excursion… a REAL one. A backpacking one. My previous Germany visit was for work and while I got to see some of it, I didn't get to explore like I will starting May 21!
I digress so fast now. I was saying that I can't believe people don't want to travel. I recently met some people who have just… lived… here. I like this area, but I would never say that this is a melting pot of culture, or even music. I just get 'pop' on the radio here. Tragic. One of the reasons the manager hired me was because I'm not from around here and therefore not just stuck on the ideas that brew here. I don't have to identify the city in which I live – 'here' could be anywhere. Why be stuck in one 'here' or one 'there'? To be better, one must open one's eyes to the possibilities beyond 'here', wherever 'here' is for that one. Catch my drift? I take away so much new information when I travel, even if it's just a couple hours north. EVEN if it's just at a new friend's home.
Learn something new about the next place you're at and you'll be one step further than you were before. Resistance is futile. Literally.
Tags: culture, people watch, trips
Thanks to lindsie | Sutaru | Marigold | Cat | Shannon | Courtney | Becca |
You know what I am talking about. It's the night that bars in college towns have great drink specials, i.e. dollar-you-call-it's. My girlfriends and I used to get ready and head to the bars at 11PM, immediately ordered our 'fistful' of drinks and closed the place down around 2AM. Commence stumbling into a cab and heading home for some oven pizza. Mmm. Nothing is better after the bar than greasy, cheesy, hot pizza. Or chili dogs.
You know what I've got going on now? After the husband and I meet with our tax guy again, I am heading to one of my girlfriend's place, opening up a bottle or two of wine, and we're Skyping with our girl who moved to North Carolina. This is a far cry from the "cleavage-baring, leave little to the imagination outfits, and double fisting until the specials run out" days of yore. HEY! We're still having wine. That counts. Right? RIGHT?
I've been catalogging my pictures with Adobe Lightroom 2.0 on the new laptop – which by the way, are both fabulous. I've gotten to midway through 2007 in the photos and boy did we participate in Thirsty Thursday. These days, I'm still thirsty. Just ask last Friday. However, it is rarely on a weeknight *gasp* and it is typically scheduled in advance, i.e. dinner date with two couples tomorrow and then again on Saturday. I tell you, we're bringing the crazy to double and triple dates! I CAN'T CONTAIN the wild child inside. Heh, with any luck, I won't be 50 when I wake up tomorrow.
Tags: college life, friends, married life, party
Thanks to Catherine | Tiffany | melle | April | Ashley | Daniella | milktan | Chiui | Jihyun | Lady Impulse | Jenni | snow_love | Gel | Stepherz |
So if you've heard anything on the news, you know that Kevin Smith was asked to step off a Southwest flight due to his size, in otherwords, he was "too fat to fly".
There are a lot of skinny people out there chastising him on how HE was responsible and that he should lose weight. Agreed. However, isn't that really easy to say since you're a skinny person? What if I said, "people who are in financial debt should all cut up their credit cards and shut the hell up." Granted, I think that, but when those skinny people telling fat people to lose weight like it's easy say that stuff, I want to make sure they realize that their criticisms are without understanding.
It's easy for someone who makes a lot of money, who isn't in debt to say "suck it up". Then those same skinny people don't think the problem is that simple is it? or "people who need health-care funding should just… get healthy!" Wow, isn't that an epiphany?
It's always a simple problem and a simple solution to those who don't need to put the work that gets to the simple solution. I could be non-compassionate and just bark to people who have been fiscally irresponsible, "well, you should have gotten a better job!" Isn't that the same as barking to a fat person that they should have just stopped eating? or maybe I should tell the person who is homeless to "just get a house"
Now, it's not so simple to criticize anymore is it?
Now, if you want to criticize him being lazy, choosing not to do anything about it, AND asking for concessions from everyone else, then kudos.
Tags: grr, news, pc issues, people watch
Thanks to Chiui | Lym | Cat | Caity | Lani | Ayah | Jenny | Lillie | lindsie | Jenny | Milktan | Julie | Lady Impulse | Jessica | Tabby |


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|Publication number
|Publication type
|Application number
|Publication date
|Nov 19, 2002
|Filing date
|Jun 30, 1998
|Priority date
|May 19, 1994
|Fee status
|Also published as
|Publication number
|Beth A. Marcus, Timothy Osborne, Bin An, Brian Eberman
|Original Assignee
|Microsoft Corporation
|Export Citation
|BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
|Patent Citations (18), Non-Patent Citations (7), Referenced by (30), Classifications (42), Legal Events (6)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
This application is a continuation application, based on prior application Ser. No. 08/245,957, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,004,134, filed on May 19, 1994, the benefit of the filing date of which is hereby claimed under 35 U.S.C.� 120 and 37 C.F.R.� 1.53(b).
This invention relates to interactive simulations, and more particularly to simulations and games including force or touch feedback to a joystick or multi-axis controller or input device.
Interactive computer simulations and, interactive video games often include a movable structure generally known as a joystick to provide inputs for the simulation or game. Oftentimes, the joystick is strictly an input device by which signals are conveyed to the processing unit of the computer. These joysticks do not provide any tactile or force feedback to the user.
The Atari Hard Drivin� video game provides one-dimensional force feedback to a steering wheel or a brake pedal. That is, during a game, torques are generated on the steering wheel which simulate those torques which would be experienced during, for example, cornering in a car. See also, U.S. Pat. No. 5,044,956. In a more general simulation context, control elements including force feedback are known in elaborate flight simulators costing many millions of dollars. Heretofore, there has been no multiple-degree-of-freedom joystick suitable for games and simulations and suitable for arcade and home use.
The interactive simulation system of the invention includes a computer or game display unit programmed with simulation rules. A control unit is connected to the computer and provides information and control signals to the computer to interact with the stored simulation rules and to receive information and control signals from the computer. A movable structure for movement in at least two degrees-of-freedom by an operator is interconnected to the control unit by means of actuators. A programmable unit processes signals and information from the computer to generate signals to drive the actuators so as to apply forces in the at least two degrees-of-freedom to the movable structure and thereby to the operator. The applied forces are based on internal programming within the programmable unit, events occurring in the simulation and movements of and forces applied to the movable structure by the operator. The system thereby provides continuous interaction among motion of and forces applied by the movable structure, the events in the simulation and forces applied to and applied by the movable structure.
In a preferred embodiment the simulation system is an interactive video game and the programmable unit resides in the control unit. In this embodiment, the movable structure is a joystick with two degrees-of-freedom. The actuators include electric motors driving a low-friction, low-backlash transmission. The programmable unit includes integrated electronics for controlling feedback and modeling user interaction with the simulation or game. It is also preferred that information compression technology be used so that much smaller information sets can be processed and communicated while still achieving a desired experience.
By providing touch or force feedback, the system of the invention more effectively involves the operator in the simulation or game. For example, in two-dimensional games such as flight simulators the present touch feedback is used to allow the player to feel the difference in performance between a small general aviation airplane and a high performance military fighter and to feel environmental forces such as air turbulence or updrafts. In this case the joystick, known as a PowerStick™, will feel a variety of programmable effects including feeling "stiffer" or "softer" depending on which type of airplane is being "flown" by the simulation user. In three-dimensional games (which are just now becoming available) force feedback is particularly valuable because navigating in a three-dimensional environment is often difficult and the touch feedback provided by the invention will enable the user to feel objects which are being encountered and provide a real-time indication of where an object controlled by the user or player is. In games involving contact, such as fighting games, the invention simulates and displays to the operator's hand the feel of collisions with objects encountered during the game or simulation and interaction with terrains of different textures.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating the overall system of the invention.
FIG. 2 is a plan view, with parts broken away, of the force feedback control unit of the invention.
FIGS. 3 and 4 are side and front cross-sectional views, respectively, of the joystick control unit of the invention.
FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view of an alternative embodiment of the invention.
FIG. 6 is a bottom view of the embodiment of FIG. 5.
FIG. 7 is a detail taken from FIG. 5.
FIG. 8 is a detail taken from FIG. 6.
FIG. 9 is a block diagram of the signal and communication paths in the operation of the invention.
FIGS. 10 and 11 are perspective illustrations of a character in an interactive game with force feedback according to the invention.
The overall system of the invention is illustrated schematically in FIG. 1. A control unit 10 includes a movable structure such as a joystick 12. The control unit 10 also includes a programmable section 14. It will be appreciated that the unit 14 need not be a part of the control unit 10; it could be separate or part of the computer 16. A general purpose digital computer 16 such as a personal computer or game display unit is programmed with simulation or game rules. The output from the computer 16 is displayed on a video monitor 18. The control unit 10 is connected to the computer 16 and provides information and control signals to the computer 16 to interact with the stored simulation rules and to receive information and control signals from the computer 16. The programmable unit 14 processes signals and information from the computer 16 and generates inputs to, and processes outputs from the joystick 12.
With reference now to FIG. 2, the control unit 10 supports the movable structure or joystick 12 for two degrees-of-freedom motion with respect to the control unit 10. (The joystick 12 also includes at least one button type switch 20 for sending signals to the computer 16.)
With reference now to FIGS. 3 and 4, the control unit 10 is shown without its cover. The control unit 10 includes electric motors 30 and 32 along with angular rotation sensors 34 and 36. The motors 30 and 32 include shafts bearing capstans 38 and 40. The sensor 34 responds to the angular orientation of capstan 38 and the sensor 36 responds to the angular orientation of the capstan 40 to generate signals for use by the programmable unit 14. A cable transmission mechanism driven by the capstan 38 is adapted to rotate the joystick 12 about an axis 42, that is, left and right in FIG. 3. Similarly, the capstan 40 is adapted to rotate the joystick 12 about an axis 44 so that it moves into and out of the plane of FIG. 3. As shown in FIG. 4, a drum 46 cooperates with the capstan 38 to effect rotation. This transmission system has low backlash and low friction. The sensors 34 and 36 provide an output proportional to angular orientation of the respective motor 30 and 32 shafts.
As shown in FIG. 1, the control unit 10 is connected to the computer 16 so that information and control signals can pass in either direction between the control unit 10 and the computer 16. The programmable unit 14 may be included in the control unit 10 housing or may be part of the computer 16 itself. The programmable unit 14 processes signals from the computer 16 using internally stored rules and equations to generate signals to drive the motors 30 and 32 so as to produce forces with two degrees of freedom to the joystick 12 and to a user (not shown) operating the joystick 12. The applied forces are based on internal programming within the programmable unit 14, events occurring in the simulation and movements of and forces applied to the joystick 12 by an operator (not shown). The system therefore provides continuous interaction among motion of the joystick 12, events in the simulation and the forces applied to and applied by the joystick 12.
With reference now to FIGS. 5, 6, 7 and 8, another embodiment of the control unit 10 is described. A motor 50 through a linkage denoted generally at 52 rotates a shaft 54. The shaft 54 passes through an angular orientation sensor such as potentiometer or encoder 56. The shaft 54 causes a bracket 58 to move left and right in FIG. 6 and engages a lower portion 59 of the joystick 12 to cause the joystick 12 to move left and right in FIG. 5. The slotted bracket 58 is supported in bearings 60 and 61.
Similarly, a motor 62 drives a linkage 64 which rotates a shaft 68 which passes through a potentiometer or encoder 70. The shaft 68 causes a bracket 72 to rotate as shown in FIG. 6 to cause the joystick 12 to move into and out of the plane of FIG. 5. The bracket 72 is supported by bearings 73 and 74.
As will be appreciated, as the motors 50 and 62 are energized, the joystick 12 is driven with two degrees-of-freedom, that is, left and right and in and out of the plane of FIG. 5. The rotational sensors 56 and 70 provide electrical outputs proportional to the angular orientation of their respective shafts. With reference to FIG. 5, the programmable unit 14 is shown as a circuit board 76 which may include the motor control and signal processing electronics.
With reference now to FIG. 9 the programmable unit 14 includes a microcontroller 80 which communicates with the computer 16 (FIG. 1) through a host connection 82. The microcontroller 80 is any suitable processor such as a digital signal processor (DSP) or RISC architecture processor for enhanced operation. Further, the system can be designed for an upgradable processor core, independent of I/O hardware. In addition, the possibility exists of changing the controller's executable code from the host computer. This flexibility opens up the opportunity to customize the operation of the device for specific host applications. The microcontroller 80 executes boot code upon start up that loads in default operating firmware from on-board non-volatile memory (or removable media, e.g., memory cards) and waits for a host command to begin execution, or to download operational software. (The default operation code provides general force feedback, positional, and other functions.) Code downloaded to the microcontroller 80 from the host computer 16 can be tuned for specific functions and/or characteristics. The downloaded code can either be native executable binary or pseudocode for an on-board interpreter. An interpreter implementation removes the need for the host to know what processor resides on the control unit. Amplifiers 84 and 86 drive the motors 30 and 32 in the embodiment of FIG. 3 or the motors 50 and 62 in the embodiment of FIG. 6. It is to be noted that currents in the drive motors can be used to determine torque which can also be inferred from strain gauges or other types of force/torque sensors (not shown) on drive cables or shafts. It should also be noted that the torque transmission can be a four-bar linkage as illustrated in FIGS. 5 and 6, a cable transmission illustrated in FIGS. 3 or 4 or a belt or gear train. If desired for a particular application, a speed reduction can be built into the transmission to amplify the torque applied to the joystick 12. In applications where space and motor size are not constrained, the motors 50 and 62 can be directly mounted onto shafts 54 and 68 in FIG. 6 without transmissions.
An example of a game or simulation illustrating the technology of the invention disclosed herein will now be described in conjunction with FIGS. 10 and 11. The system of the invention has been integrated into an IBM Windows demonstration game which itself does not form a part of this invention. In this exemplary game, a character 90 fights his way through a series of different terrains to reach a treasure (not shown). The walking, running, jumping, squatting, punching and kicking of the character 90 are controlled by movements of the joystick 12. When, for example, the character 90 hits a patch of ice, the force being felt by the player goes to zero and can in fact use the motion and forces applied by the operator to further exaggerate the effect by actively getting out of the way of the operator to simulate sliding. On rough terrain, vibrations and pulses are felt by the game player in proportion to the objects encountered. If the character 90 is jumping and hits a tree or other object, the player will feel the stiffness of the object through forces transmitted through the joystick 12. When the button 20 is depressed, the character 90 stops moving and kicks or punches as shown in FIG. 11. Depending on the nature of the object being punched or kicked, and also depending on other events in the game, the forces experienced by the player will be different. Also, the velocity of the motions change the forces felt as they would in real fighting. Real physical models of the environment and objects encountered are programmed into the programmable unit 14 so that feedback is virtually instantaneous and independent of the graphics update of the computer 16. This architecture also makes the game fully interactive in which game outcomes unanticipated by the programmers occur based on the performance of the player. Because of the force feedback, the player is more actively involved in the game since the forces applied to the joystick 12 realistically simulate forces which would be felt by the character 50 in the game.
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You will reach the fairground and the main entrance NORD from Main Central station with the railway lines 8 or 18. The travel time is approx. 18 minutes.
Visit www.gvh.de orr www.efa.de to get latest information about ticket sales and prices.
You can make you own personal Journey Planner www.efa.de.
The airport is approx. ca. 11 km north of Hanover and approx. 20 km. to the fairground. The S-Bahn line S5 runs all year from the airport to the Main Central station in Hanover. The S-Bahn is between Terminal B and C.
From the Hanover Main Central station, railway line 8 goes to the fairground, entrance NORD. You will not need a connection ticket.
Ticket sale
Machines at S-Bahn stations.
Travel time
Approx. 12-15 Minutes.
Follow the signs in and around Hanover when travelling with car. The Hanover Fairground is very well signposted. When finding a parking space, the parking guidance system help you quickly and safely to to find any free parking.
Please enter -Hermesallee- in 30521 Hannover as your destination in your navigation system. This will lead you to the North of the fairground.rdlich des Messegeländes.
Environmental Zone (Environmental Sticker)
Hanover has since January 1st 2008 been an eco-conscious city, with environmental zone to reduce the fine particle pollution.
The environmental zone covers large areas of the city around the center within the highway ring and is shown by signs.
Vehicles which enters the zone, has to meet certain minimum requirements or have the special Environmental sticker. Learn more of the environmental zone at www.hannover.de
Order of environmental sticker
Environmental sticker can be ordered at the website of TÜV-NORD:
For furter questions, contact the office of TÜV-NORD directly.


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Ultimate waste forms are waste that have been suitably processed and can be no more recycled.
Of the 849 tons of all types waste produced each year in France, 3,4% are toxic chemical waste and 0.05% are radioactive waste from the nuclear industry, hospitals, and research laboratories.
"FMA-VC and TFA" radioactive waste, with low or very-low activity levels and short half-lives*, account for only 3% of total radioactivity but for 90,8% of all radioactive waste total weight produced in France. The remaining waste (HA, HA-VL or FA-VL) represents 95% of the activity and 10% of all radioactive waste total weight produced in France.
SOCODEI processes low or very-low-activity waste, type FMA-VC and TFA, in order to condition it into a solid, non-dispersible, and chemically stable form, to reduce its volume considerably (to one tenth or one twentieth of its initial volume, depending on the process). Furthermore, SOCODEI discusses how valuation of these products once processed for recycling within the nuclear industry. SOCODEI recycled to date some of the scrap metal as shielding container of radioactive waste.
* Materials with a radioactive half-life not exceeding 30 years.


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Ask nearly all Blues' fans and they will tell you that Roman Abramovich is probably the best thing that has ever happened to Chelsea Football Club.
The amount of money the Russian billionaire has invested in to the club since his takeover has been mind-blowing.
Millions have been spent on bringing the best players to West London and building the best facilities to turn the club from one that would win the odd FA Cup to a European powerhouse.
But there have been times in his nine year reign that have left Chelsea fans wondering if Abramovich is a hindrance on the club's further progress.
It is no secret that Abramovich likes to be "hands on" in his ownership and has been guilty of meddling, perhaps too much, with coaches and playing staff.
His latest managerial change has not gone down well with Chelsea fans, who are yet to warm to Rafael Benitez.
But whether this appointment was a big mistake or a stroke of genius is yet to be seen.
Here are five of Abramovich's biggest slip-ups in his time at Chelsea.


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This interview was conducted by Molly Higgins, with editing assistance by Manlia Xiong.
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Kristen Nyitray (KN): My name is Kristen Nyitray and my title is Head of Special Collections and University Archives, and University Archivist, at Stony Brook University Libraries. In this role, I implement and manage all facets of curatorial and stewardship activities for the collections, including acquisitions, archival processing, reference services, website design and maintenance, promotions and publicity, teaching, and donor relations.
(MH): Please provide the street address, hours, and days of operation, and any other information necessary to visitors.
(KN): Special Collections and University Archives is located on the second floor (room E-2320) of the Frank Melville Jr. Memorial Library at Stony Brook University. Research and access services, including reference assistance and the scanning of documents, are extended to the university community and to the public. The department is open Monday through Friday from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., by appointment.
(MH): Can you tell me about the collections pertinent to Asian American Studies? Overall, what makes these collections significant or unique? What role or mission do the collections address?
(KN): Both the Chang and Newman collections advance the research and scholarly missions of the university. They support a wide range of curricular needs for several departments, including but not limited to, English, Asian and Asian American Studies, Cultural Analysis and Theory, and Women's Studies. Additionally, faculty members from the Department of Pharmacology have consulted the Newman Collection for research materials on herbs and medicinal plants. A representative from P.F Chang's restaurant accessed many books to select recipes from the Szechuan section of their menu.
The papers of Diana Chang, a Chinese American novelist, poet, educator, and artist, opened for research in March 2016. Ms. Chang donated her papers in 2008. She resided for many years in Water Mill, NY (Long Island) with her husband David Herrmann. I was fortunate to have met her in East Hampton, NY and correspond with her as a "pen-pal" for several years. I learned about her work through the poet and SBU benefactor Dr. Daniel Thomas Moran, whose papers are also part of Special Collections.
Her first novel, The Frontiers of Love, originally published by Random House in 1956, was the first novel to have been written by an American born, Chinese American, in the United States.
This has significance — researchers are welcome to delve into the papers to draw their own conclusions about her impact and legacy. The collection includes 4.6 linear ft. of manuscripts and published poems, incoming and outgoing professional and personal correspondence, subject files, clippings, and photographs dating from the 1950s to the 2000s.
Dr. Jacqueline M. Newman is professor emerita, Queens College and founder and editor of the award-winning magazine Flavor and Fortune. It is the first, and the only, American, English-language quarterly about Chinese food and Chinese dietary culture. In 2002, she decided to share her passion for this area of scholarship and collecting. Dr. Newman visited many libraries to see if there was interest in her collection. After much careful consideration, she selected our library at Stony Brook to be the home for her one of a kind collection. In total, she has donated more than 4,500 books, the largest collection of its kind, to Stony Brook University and has provided support to ensure the growth and maintenance of it. These books provide a valuable record of the Chinese Diaspora that has carried its rich cuisine to every corner of the world. In addition to the cookbooks, Dr. Newman donated a large set of herbal medicine books, mooncake molds, haute cuisine magazines, and more than 4,000 slides.
(MH): How are the collections organized? What various subcollections, formats, and unique items are included in the collections?
(KN): The Chang collection is comprised of nine boxes, arranged in four series:
Series 1: Writings (boxes 1-5)
Series 2: Correspondence (boxes 6-7)
Series 3: Subject Files (box 8)
Series 4: Scrapbook and Photographs (box 9)
The papers include drafts of poems, short stories, teaching materials, and correspondence. Scrapbooks include news clippings that she compiled about her writings and related promotional materials. Books she authored and donated to complement the collection have been cataloged and can be located in the SBU catalog. You can find more information in the finding aid.
The Newman collection has both LibGuide and finding aid. Approximately 60% of the books are cataloged in OCLC/Worldcat. The remaining portion is in the queue to be fully processed, but can be searched and located via the SBU Library's catalog.
(MH): We talked a little bit about the Chang collection. How did the Newman collection get started? How was it built? Who are the particular people who played a role in the development or change of the collection?
(KN): Dr. Newman has collected Chinese cookbooks for more than 50 years; her first Chinese cookbook was received as a wedding present. Chinese cooking developed in her area of research and special interest. She wrote her Ph.D. thesis on changing Chinese food habits in New York City and later went on to author and edit several books, including the 1994 title Chinese Cuisine & American Palate: The Art & Science of Chinese Cooking.
At the dedication ceremony for the collection in 2002, Dr. Newman stated: "I looked at several places for my collection and chose Stony Brook for a variety of reasons. Of course, I've known (past SBU) President Kenny for several years from Queens College, but the building of the new Charles B. Wang Center celebrating Asian and American cultures and the University's desire to build a major Asian studies program really convinced me….The fact that Stony Brook has a special collections area means that the books will be preserved in perpetuity and in the proper fashion. This collection is like a child to me," she said. "It is hard to part with it, but I know that it will be in excellent hands at Stony Brook."
(MH): What programs are available to researchers, visitors, and community education?
(KN): Since 2003, Special Collections has sponsored an annual event during the spring semester on an aspect of Chinese culinary history and cuisine in the form of a free lecture or exhibition, followed by a food tasting featuring recipes from the collection. Collaborations with the Charles B. Wang Center and The Confucius Institute have also evolved and developed. Topics have included: Confucius: His Thoughts about Food (2016); Cookbooks: A Cultural Banquet (2005); The Chinese Philosophy of Feasting (2006); Chinese Food Can Be Good for Your Health (2007), and A Wok Through Chinese Culinary History (2008). These events are well-received and have been enthusiastically attended by more than 3,000 members of the university and neighboring communities.
This interview was conducted by Molly Higgins, with editing assistance by Manlia Xiong.
I wasn't always a dog person. A grad school friend likes to remind me, in fact, that I adamantly said I would prefer not to have her sister's dog Storm visit our office. Oh, how quickly that all changed.
Growing up, my family only had goldfish as pets, and my only experiences with dogs were being chased by a neighborhood Labrador retriever and having a friend's German shepherd leave teeth marks in my jacket. But during graduate school, there was a moment when suddenly many of my friends adopted dogs, and I found myself surrounded by them. With the encouragement of my partner, who had lived with two beloved dogs previously, we headed to the local animal shelter where we met and adopted Giles, a beaglish dog who wiggled his little body into our hearts and quickly reoriented my relationship with the world.
I had not the first clue about how to take care of a dog or how to live with a dog, and I was worried that the poor thing would not survive under my watch. It turns out, luckily, that dogs are very resilient and really just need the simplest of things—food, shelter, play and affection—to flourish as loving companions. We took Giles to puppy socialization and basic obedience classes, guided by a positive-reinforcement training philosophy, and found ourselves in the many social worlds of dog ownership. We took him to puppy play dates, dog parks and doggy day care. When we moved to the Twin Cities, we developed walking routines through our neighborhood. We learned which coffee shops and restaurants welcomed dogs on their patios. In all of these spaces, we encountered dogs and people we would never have met otherwise. We scripted our lives through Giles.
To say that my normal is dog is to say that I discovered how to negotiate social life through the constant presence of Giles. People's relationships with dogs are manifold; they psychically and physically reshape spaces and behaviors in our homes and in public.
With a friend, I taught an honors seminar on how our relationships with dogs affect all kinds of interactions among humans, dogs and our built environment. For example, we thought about how debates over the establishment of dog parks sometimes were proxies for discussions of racial segregation and a history of dog-assisted police violence against black bodies. We considered how city ordinances for licensing dogs, leashing dogs in public and picking up dog waste all inform and are informed by norms of social behavior for both humans and dogs. We traced the presence of dogs in urban environments through fenced yards, signs about cleaning up after dogs and enclosed park spaces carved out for canines.
At the same time that Giles careened into my life, I was researching sounds in Asian American cultural productions. My intellectual orientation coalesced around Asian American studies and queer theory. This work, in general, critiques normative narratives of social life, race, gender and sexuality. Scholars in the field challenge received notions of who we should be and how we should act because these narratives weave uneven power through social institutions. For me, these two sides of my thinking life—dogs and social critique—were strongly connected because they offered examples of how to think outside mainstream narratives and particularly encouraged me to pay attention to the structures and institutions that codify power for certain people at the expense of others (both human and canine).
We put Giles to sleep in February 2016, a little over half a year after he was diagnosed with an inoperable bladder tumor. We were heartbroken. We grieved hard and continue to grieve. The house was suddenly so much emptier. We no longer had our companion there to greet us enthusiastically every time we came home. Our everyday activities shifted in unexpected ways. When we woke in the morning, we didn't have to take care of the dog's needs first. We took our meals without an animated and attentive audience. We could go to the basement without setting off a whirlwind of fur and barks. We stopped taking multiple daily walks.
We continue to light a candle for him every night.
In April, we brought another dog into our home and our lives. His name is Otis. He is his own unique creature, and we are learning who we all are anew in each other's presence. We like to think that he and Giles would've been good friends to each other. Dog is my normal.
Dog books:
Doty, M. (2007). Dog years: A memoir. New York: HarperCollins Publishers.
Dunbar, I. (1996). How to teach a new dog old tricks: The Sirius puppy training manual. Berkeley, Calif: James & Kenneth Publishers.
Haraway, D. J. (2003). The companion species manifesto: Dogs, people, and significant otherness. Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press.
Horowitz, A. (2009). Inside of a dog: What dogs see, smell, and know. New York: Scribner.
McConnell, P. B. (2002). The other end of the leash: Why we do what we do around dogs. New York: Ballantine Books.
Asian Americanist critique and queer theory books:
Butler, J. (2015). Gender trouble: Feminism and the subversion of identity. New York: Routledge.
Chuh, K. (2003). Imagine otherwise: On Asian Americanist critique. Durham: Duke University Press.
Lowe, L. (1996). Immigrant acts: On Asian American cultural politics. Durham: Duke University Press.
Matsuda, M. J. (1996). Where is your body?: And other essays on race, gender, and the law. Boston, MA: Beacon Press.
Nguyen, V. T. (2002). Race and resistance: Literature and politics in Asian America. New York: Oxford University Press.
Sedgwick, E. K. (2008). Epistemology of the closet. Berkeley, Calif: University of California Press.
Vaid, U. (1995). Virtual equality: The mainstreaming of gay and lesbian liberation. New York: Anchor Books.
Warner, M. (1999). The trouble with normal: Sex, politics, and the ethics of queer life. New York: Free Press.
Yoshino, K. (2006). Covering: The hidden assault on our civil rights. New York: Random House.]]>
The program will be moderated by Janet H. Clarke, APALA President, and Associate Dean, Research & User Engagement, Stony Brook University.
Oralia Garza de Cortés is a leading voice for bilingual and multicultural children's literature and library services for Latino children. In 1996 she co-founded the Pura Belpré Award to promote quality children's literature about the Latino experience written by Latino authors and illustrators and has worked tirelessly with Pat Mora to promote April 30th as El Día de los Niños / El día de los libros, through advocacy for family programs and activities that promote lifelong reading. She received the Advocacy Award from the Joint Conference of Librarians of Color in 2012 and in 2013 she was named to the Women in Library History Honor Roll by the Feminist Task Force of the American Library Association. In 2015 she was named by Library Journal as a Mover and Shaker in the area of Advocacy. Currently she co-chairs the REFORMA Children in Crisis Project, a project that aims to deliver books in Spanish to the incarcerated refugee children from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala.
Ady Huertas is the Manager of the Logan Heights Branch Library in the San Diego Public Library System. She has 19 years of library work experience, an MLIS degree from San Jose State University and is a Eureka Fellow and Spetrum Scholar. Ady is the Chair of the Creando Enlaces Committee, which has put on five bi-national library conferences that bring together librarians for the U.S. and Mexico to collaborate and share best practices. She has been involved with REFORMA: The National Association to Promote Library and Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish Speaking for 9 years and has held leadership positions in the San Diego LIBROS Chapter as President in 2013. She is currently the REFORMA International Relations Committee Chair and is actively involved in the REFORMA Children in Crisis Task Force by offering services and access to books to unaccompanied immigrant and refugee youth in San Diego.
is an Assistant Professor & the Middle East and North Africa Studies Librarian at Illinois University in Urbana Champaign. She worked with International Human Rights organizations such as Human Rights First, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty. Laila studied in New York University and Long Island University in NY and she is specialize in the Middle East and Africa Studies Her Research focused on preserving rare and endangered cultural heritage materials in wartime and some of her recent work has appeared in Library Management, IFLA and International Leads –ALA. She is one of the Donor Board members of Arcadia, which is administered by the British Library.
Krystle Nguyen is the Planning Manager at Florida Hospital Alliance and Innovation eXchange (AIX), developing innovative partnerships to connect businesses of all sizes to Florida Hospital's health-care professionals to transform the future of health care. Krystle earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Health Services Administration from the University of Central Florida and is currently attending Rollins College Crummer Graduate School of Business to pursue a master's degree in Business Administration. Krystle's passion is to make an impact in the community and has over nine years of leadership experience with cultural and nonprofit organizations across Central Florida. During her undergraduate education at the University of Central Florida, Krystle strongly believed that collaborations and strategic alliances can help an organization become more successful. Her most notable leadership roles included becoming President of the Vietnamese American Student Association (VASA) in 2007, and Director of the Miss Vietnam Florida Pageant for the Vietnamese Community of Central Florida (VCCF) in 2010. She is currently on the Nominating Board for the City of Orlando and recommends qualified individuals for appointments to City and Multi-jurisdictional boards. Krystle also enjoys spending her free time exploring Orlando and created a blog to share her adventures on TheOrlandoGirl.com.
Touger Vang is Programming and Outreach Librarian at the Arthur F. Turner Community Library in West Sacramento, CA of the Yolo County Library. He holds a Master in Library and Information Studies from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Touger is a refugee from Laos and came to the United States at the age of 10 to resettle with his family in Mobile, Alabama. He has worked with refugees and first generation college students in North Carolina for over 15 years before moving to northern California. His experience and research with underrepresented populations informs his community-engaged approach in delivering library and information services. Raised in the Hmong tradition and growing up in the United States, he is aware of the value of preserving traditional cultural heritage and the need to provide multilingual information access in today's culturally diverse communities.
Please join us for our remaining APALA Programs in Orlando
Saturday, June 25, 2016
3 – 4 p.m., ALA Diversity & Outreach Fair, Exhibit Hall – Special Events Area
4 – 6 p.m., Joint Council of Librarians of Color Fundraiser Reception,
Hyatt Regency Orlando, Manatee Springs
6:30 – 9:30 p.m., Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature Awards Banquet,
Chutney's Indian Restaurant, (Tickets available at the door, $40 members, $45 non-members)
Sunday, June 26, 2016
10:30 –12:30 p.m., Film Screening & Panel Discussion: Now Showing @ ALA – Chinese Couplets,
Film Screening Area
2 – 4 p.m., APALA Membership & All Committee Meeting,
Hyatt Regency Orlando, Manatee Spring I]]>
Join us for the APALA sponsored screening of the film "Chinese Couplets" as part of Now Showing @ ALA Annual Conference. The film will be followed by a Q&A and panel discussion that includes:
"Chinese Couplets" is part memoir, part history, part investigation, the filmmaker's search for answers about her mother's emigration to America during the Chinese Exclusion era reveals the often painful price paid by immigrants who abandoned their personal identity, the burden of silence they passed on to their offspring and the intergenerational strife between immigrants and their American born children.
Featured Filmmaker and Panelist: Felicia Lowe
Felicia Lowe is an award winning independent television producer, director, and writer with more than 35 years of production experience. Her latest film, "Chinese Couplets," is gaining rave reviews as it begins circulating in film festivals and community screenings. Lowe received an EMMY for Best Cultural Documentary for "Chinatown: The Hidden Cities of San Francisco." The lively hour-long piece on the history of San Francisco's oldest neighborhood has been broadcast numerous times on PBS. "Carved in Silence," a documentary about the experiences of Chinese immigrants detained on Angel Island Immigration Station and "China: Land of My Father," a personal journey to China to meet her paternal grandmother have garnered numerous awards and have also been broadcast on PBS and abroad. Her innovative works have screened in film festivals, museums and are used in classrooms across the country. Prior to her documentary work, Lowe worked in children's television and broadcast journalism. She has also taught film production at San Francisco State University and Stanford University. A descendant of Angel Island detainees, she has been actively involved in the preservation of the Angel Island Immigration Station.
To learn more about APALA @ Annual and all of our events, visit www.apalaweb.org]]>
Jordan Wong (JW): My name is Jordan Wong, [and] I'm the Library Coordinator for the Governor Gary Locke Library and Community Heritage Center (GGLLCHC) within the Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience. We get paid by the word, so we like to use long titles. As Library Coordinator, I'm responsible for the upkeep of our library, as well as assisting patrons with research and inquiries. My role is also to coordinate the usage of our oral history lab and also liaise with the public for access to The Wing's collections.
AJP: Where can visitors find you and what are your hours of operation?
JW: 719 South King Street, Seattle, WA 98104
GGLLCHC Hours: Tuesday – Saturday 11 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Museum Hours: Tuesday – Sunday 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Visitors are admitted to the library without charge, but admission is required for the rest of the museum. For more information, visit our website or our database website.
AJP: Please describe the physical facilities that house the collection. Overall, what makes the collection significant or unique? What role or mission does the collection address?
JW: The library is located on the third floor of The Wing. Materials are collected with an eye towards the mission of the museum, that is, providing materials that touch upon the rich experiences of Asian Pacific American experience. That being said, the library's materials are provided [almost] entirely through donations and contributions. Perhaps the most unique library asset is the extensive collection of oral histories, collected throughout the museum's lifetime.
AJP: How is the collection organized? What various sub-collections, formats, and unique items are included in the collection?
JW: The library's collection is categorized according the the Library of Congress classification system. Broadly speaking, materials are divided by ethnicity/country of origin and also include audio and visual materials. Among our more unique items, we are proud to host the Coram Nobis case papers of Gordon Hirabayashi.
AJP: How did the collection get started? How was it built? Who are the particular people who played a role in the development or change of the collection?
JW: The museum moved into its current home in 2007, inhabiting a renovation of one of the oldest buildings in the Chinatown-International District. Designed from the start to incorporate a library, the renovation not only provided a space for a library, but an oral history lab, with the mission of recording and archiving community stories. JJ Higgins, née Aviado, former librarian for The Wing was instrumental in establishing the policies and standards for the library, alongside Bob Fisher, collections manager.
AJP: What role, if any, did the local community play in the development/change of the collection?
JW: The GGLLCHC is dependent on donations of materials by community members and patrons. Either through years of personal scholarship and collecting, by specific donations on our wishlist, or simply sharing stories, the community is directly involved in the continued operation of the library.
AJP: What programs are available to researchers, visitors, and community education?
JW: For researchers and educators, the database website is an excellent resource. Anyone can make arrangements to view items from our collection as well. The GGLLCHC also hosts StoryTime, reading Asian Pacific American themed stories for young children on the first Thursday of every month, as well as on select third Saturdays.
This interview was conducted by Alyssa Jocson Porter, with editing assistance by Molly Higgins.
Images provided by the Governor Gary Locke Library & Community Heritage Center.]]>
Join us for the APALA sponsored screening of the film "Chinese Couplets" as part of Now Showing @ ALA Annual Conference. The film will be followed by a Q&A and panel discussion that includes:
"Chinese Couplets" is part memoir, part history, and part investigation of the filmmaker's search for answers about her mother's emigration to America during the Chinese Exclusion era. The film reveals the often painful price paid by immigrants who abandoned their personal identity, the burden of silence they passed on to their offspring, and the intergenerational strife between immigrants and their American born children.
Featured Panelist: Erika Lee
One of the nation's leading immigration and Asian American historians, Erika Lee teaches American history at the University of Minnesota, where she holds the Rudolph J. Vecoli Chair in Immigration History, is Director of the Immigration History Research Center, and is a Distinguished McKnight University Professor. The granddaughter of Chinese immigrants who entered the United States through both Angel Island and Ellis Island. She grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and received her PhD from the University of California at Berkeley.
She is the author of three award-winning books in U.S. immigration and Asian American history: At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943, Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America (co-authored with Judy Yung), which won the 2010 Asian Pacific American Award for Literature from the American Library Association, and most recently, The Making of Asian America: A History. Called "sweeping" and "comprehensive" by the New York Times and a "long overdue stirring chronicle" by Pulitzer-prize winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Making of Asian America has just received the 2015 Asian Pacific American Award for Literature from the American Library Association.
To learn more about APALA @ Annual, visit www.apalaweb.org
Today, Laila Hussein Moustafa, the Middle East and North Africa Studies Librarian at University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign, shares a bit about herself, an article she hopes you'll read, and an invitation to begin a dialogue on refugees with APALA Vice President/President-Elect, Lessa Pelayo-Lozada.
Lessa Pelayo-Lozada (LPL): Introduce yourself! What's your name? Where do you live? What do you do and what are you passionate about?
Laila Hussein Moustafa (LHM): My Name is Laila Hussein Moustafa. I am in Illinois and I am passionate about cultural heritage preservation and children's rights.
LPL: In June, you'll be speaking at the APALA President's Program in Orlando, entitled ""From Vietnam to Syria: Refugees, their Stories, and Needs". Is there anything you'd like people to know before they hear you speak?
LHM: I would like our audience to read the Amnesty International Report about Female refugees facing physical assault, exploitation and sexual harassment on their journey through Europe.
LPL: What else would you like to tell those interested in our panel?
LHM: Please come to our event and share your thoughts on refugees with us.
To learn more about serving refugees, join us at the APALA President's Program, "From Vietnam to Syria: Refugees, their stories, and Needs", co-sponsored by IRRT and REFORMA, on Saturday, June 25, 10:30-11:30 a.m., OCCC W103B.
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Vu Tran (VT): I came to the States in 1980, when I was five, a refugee from Vietnam. I grew up in Tulsa, Okla. and eventually went to school in Iowa City where I got my MFA, and Las Vegas, where I got my PhD. For over 10 years, I wrote and published short stories and did not publish my first novel until 2015. During this time, I taught literature and creative writing at the University of Iowa, the University Nevada, Las Vegas, and the University of Chicago, where I'm currently an Assistant Professor of Practice in the Arts.
My short stories mostly take place in contemporary Vietnam and deal with Vietnamese characters, but I finally moved my setting to America in my novel, which deals with both Vietnamese Americans and white Americans. Despite my focus on the Vietnamese diaspora in my work, I'd say my fiction is fundamentally concerned with romantic love and familial love and how similar their emotional contours can be: how damaging the fractures, and how lasting and far-reaching those damages can be, even long after the relationship has been broken.
AC: The narrator in your debut novel, "Dragonfish," is a white male, but nearly all the other characters are of Vietnamese descent. Did you intend for this book to be viewed through the lens of "Asian American literature"? What does the term "Asian American literature" mean to you?
VT: Asian American literature, in my view, is more a marketing label than a meaningful literary category. Plenty of books about Asians are written by non-Asian writers, and plenty of books written by Asians do not portray Asian characters. And of course, the word "Asian" itself describes a wide range of nationalities, cultures, and experiences. So, Asian American literature, as a term, says very little about the content of the books being described or about the writers who write them.
In the case of "Dragonfish," I was much more mindful of the traditions I was working in, namely crime fiction, immigrant fiction, and fiction about Vietnam and the Vietnam War. My main narrator is a white male because I needed him to embody the typical hero in detective fiction, except in my book he would be deprived of agency and heroism—the ability to solve the mystery or save the people he wanted to save. I also wanted him to be the outsider in the story, a stranger to both Las Vegas and the other Vietnamese characters, especially Suzy, the woman he desperately loved but who never gave him the access to her that he wanted. I was interested in that popular narrative where a white, Western hero enters a foreign land and not only becomes one of the natives but also ends up saving the native community from an outsized threat. I was interested in what that kind of hero would do when he's been stripped of power, when his desire to be the hero is obstructed. Who does he end up hurting? How much does he end up hurting himself? What kind of alternative narrative does he end up creating to steel himself against failure?
AC: "Dragonfish" was met with glowing reviews and made the The New York Times "100 Notable Books of 2015," San Francisco Chronicle "Best of 2015: 100 Recommended Books," and The Kansas City Star "Best Fiction of 2015" lists. Does your perception of your story and/or its characters change when you see people respond to your book?
VT: Writers, like all artists, are sensitive creatures, so I think it's inevitable that our own perception of our work is affected by how people respond to it. I was lucky to have mostly good reviews of my novel and that did reinforce my sense that I had made the right artistic decisions. I'm honestly not sure how my perception of the book would have changed had it received mostly bad reviews. What did strike me was how certain reviews treated it exclusively as a crime novel and others treated it more as a literary novel, and how different the response could be according to the expectations the readers brought to the novel. A lot of this has to do with how the novel has been marketed, of course, and so the differences in how it's been treated is not that much of a surprise to me. But I am more aware now of how something like the likability or flawed nature of a character can significantly affect a reader's reaction to the book overall, depending on what kind of book they think they're reading.
Libraries offer this opportunity to everyone, no matter your financial, ethnic, or social status, and I can think of no better place in the world where you can start to engage with the diversity of humankind."
AC: Your bio says you were born in Saigon five months after the city fell to the North Vietnamese, and when you were five years old, escaped Vietnam by boat, spending five days at sea, and settling in a refugee camp in Malaysia. In what way did this experience influence the scene in "Dragonfish" where Suzy/Hong also escapes Vietnam with her young daughter by boat and ends up in a refugee camp in Malaysia?
VT: For that part of the novel, I definitely drew upon my own experience escaping Vietnam with my mother and sister and our time on Pulau Bidong, the same refugee island the characters in the novel lived on. I was too young back then to retain much of anything, so my mother became a vital source of information and verisimilitude for me in the writing of the book. Suzy's experience, however, is much more dramatic and traumatic than my own. In many ways, we were very fortunate in our journey to America. If anyone suffered the terror and uncertainty of an experience like that, it was my mother, and I wanted to bring the emotional weight of her memories to that part of the story. I've always imagined that there can be few things more terrifying than fleeing the land of your birth with no hope of returning, across waters that could kill you in so many different ways, and doing so with the life of your young children in your hands. So yes, I used the basic facts of my escape from Vietnam for Suzy's story, but what really framed it was my imagining of my mother's emotional and psychological experience of our escape. Without that, I actually don't think the novel could have worked.
AC: When Suzy/Hong's daughter is an adult, she has almost no memory of this experience from her childhood. Can you tell us about this literary decision?
VT: Originally, the decision wasn't literary so much as practical. I was the same age when I escaped Vietnam and I have hardly any memory of what I went through. Fragments of things, yes, like standing in the ocean up to my neck or napping under swaying palm trees—but there's no cohesive emotional or psychological memory of the experience. For my portrayal of Mai (Suzy's daughter), however, I soon realized that giving her no memory of anything exacerbated her disconnection from her mother. It gave her this dramatic alternate life, if you will, that she has no access to, even though its shadow still touches her and affects her in ways she can't understand. I have the benefit of a mother who's spent the last 35 years telling me stories about that time in my life, both good and bad, so that her memories have in many ways become my own, filling in the blanks of a time that would otherwise be lost to me. To know that you went through something like that but to have no one to connect you to it: that's Mai's dilemma, and it's a deprivation that is as significant as her mother's abandonment of her.
AC: How do you think your personal identity influences your writing and/or the diversity of your readership?
VT: That's a tough question. To answer it, I'd have to first define myself for you, and I'm not sure I can properly do that even for myself. That said, the most basic part of my identity is that I'm a Vietnamese American who grew up in a very white part of the country, in an environment where my friends, mentors, and cultural touchstones bore hardly any resemblance to me, and also with parents who raised us in a very Catholic, strict, and traditionally Vietnamese household. The ambiguity and indecisiveness of that upbringing—the need to belong to the dominant culture, the obligation to remain in the culture I was born in—has always shaped what I've written. For example, I only recently realized how many of the stories I wrote in elementary and middle school were about characters travelling back and forth from their normal world to an alternate one, like they do in "The Narnia Chronicles," my favorite books as a child. I only truly connected to Vietnam when I returned to visit in 1996, and since then my writing has directly confronted the culture I essentially left behind when I was five. At its most basic, "Dragonfish" is about that abandonment, metaphorically and literally, reluctantly and intentionally. I'm very happy that the novel has resonated with readers whose background is similar to mine, but I'm even happier to know that it has resonated with readers who simply know what it's like to live uneasily on the border of something or someone. Everyone is an outsider on some level, I think, and it's always interesting to me how that alienation—whether significant or not—ends up affecting the decisions we make.
AC: Your website has a list of nearly two dozen of your favorite books. Can you highlight five authors you think we should be reading and tell us why?
AC: You're being interviewed by a librarian, for an audience of progressive Asian American librarians. What are your thoughts on libraries, and their place in building diverse communities?
VT: Andy Rooney, may he rest in peace, once did a "60 Minutes" segment on how libraries should carry no fiction, because it's a place where people should learn about reality, not indulge in fantasy. I've always disliked him for saying something so silly and narrow-minded. Libraries are, of course, the place we go to for research, to cultivate our knowledge of facts; but fiction offers us truths that facts sometimes cannot express, and it also teaches us everything that nonfiction can teach us, with the crucial benefit of moving us so that we can feel the truth in a way that lingers. Libraries offer this opportunity to everyone, no matter your financial, ethnic, or social status, and I can think of no better place in the world where you can start to engage with the diversity of humankind.
AC: What advice would you give young professionals, especially those from diverse backgrounds, who are interested in a career in writing?
VT: The only advice I ever give to young writers is to be wary of all good advice, especially the kind that feels universally and earth-shatteringly true. It might very well be true, but everyone writes differently, just like everyone reads differently, and the truthfulness of that good advice—and its usefulness to you—will evolve over time, and sometimes holding onto it too adamantly or blindly can hamper your growth as an artist.
My advice for writers from diverse backgrounds is to embrace the fact that you're coming from a place of outsidership and uncertainty. I used to think that my upbringing was an unfortunate struggle for me, but I've now come to see it as a crucial source of understanding and inspiration. When you're on the outside of things, you tend to look at the inside with a more critical and thoughtful eye, and that liminal space—that amorphous border between two or more places—is the most compelling and productive space to be in, especially as an artist.
This interview was conducted by current APALA Secretary, Anna Coats, with editing assistance by Alyssa Jocson Porter.]]>


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Had fun making this little film with Martin Creed.
Had fun making this little film with Martin Creed.
We produced Impossible to Print to share some of the stories, interviews and workshops Impossible has collected over its first two years. Possibly anarchist. Almost gentle. Definitely positive.
You can buy a copy on shop.impossible.com
An article co-written by Lily and Adam Werbach about the concept of sharing and its arguable bastardisation amongst modern day economics. "Is it just us or is there something a bit awkward about marrying 'sharing' with 'billion dollars'? Unless you are sharing a billion dollars, which would be rather cool."
Project Literacy is a global coalition of organisations from War Child to the Clinton Foundation who agree that illiteracy is a root cause and sustainer of many of the major social challenges we face from gender equality to world hunger. Lily launched the Alphabet of Illiteracy to support the campaign which you can discover more about here.
Born on the hottest day
Witchcraft. Wilderness.
Love beyond doubt.
Love, a fact of life.
Without fear or choice.
Wylde Cole Ferreira.
We have a little girl –
I have added my mother, Patience Owen, as a photographer here.
She took images of me like this. Click here to see more…
Two working class girls
Dressed in pearls.
Max Mara; Roland Mouret
Dripping cashmere
Feeling poor
Apple pear trickles
Sweet to survive
In a gifted reality
Measuring riches
Comparing debts.
Wealth's ceiling
Framed by its roots.
It's been a year since I spoke with Chelsea Clinton at the Apple Store in New York to launch the first Impossible iOS app, and we have since grown a community of users in 75 countries around the world, and learnt a lot.
We have taken those learnings to develop the second Impossible app which has several new features…
– sexy fuller profiles (more photos, tag lines and tell us your skills so we can better match and filter posts to you)
– language filtering (choose which language/languages you want to read your feed in as our global community posts in multiple languages!)
– add photos to your posts (add a color background or take a photo to reflect your need or offer)
– a news feed (your news! click on news to read stories from the community, and share your own stories)
– a shop (click on shop to discover products that are made in interesting and transparent ways; products can be bought for money or your impossible thanks!)
Download the app and I hope to see you on there!
if art becomes data
then data becomes art
followers hits views
our metrics of success
as we drive a world
watching itself watching itself
the mirror can only reflect
the status quo
familiar – formula
popularity contest
if art becomes data
then data becomes art
say no
"less rubbish"
paint blind – write deaf
sing unfashionable chords
warp the mirror.
only the splinters
and tests of time
can reflect you.
i passed my driving test
it was hailing on the car
i drove through a roundabout
children and marriages
kindness helped but
i was good enough to pass now
last year for five hours
i cried in the himalayan folds
after failing twice, thrice
but now here
in the small sheen of earned success
i thank failure for learning.
kindness conceived you.
kindness caught you as you fell from between your mother's legs.
kindness fed you before you were able to lift a fork.
kindness taught you to speak – to walk – to love –
perhaps kindness taught you to conceive another.
kindness webbed life.
kindness built homes.
and at its most potent, kindness came from strangers.
reminding you for one eternal moment that you are not alone;
that you belong.
I have just added some photographs taken by me (and a few of me by loved ones) from 2014….
Welcome to Lily Cole's official website.
"Here you will find the different threads that weave together my working life.
On the left hand is work I have directly produced: writing, photography, films and information on the social network I founded, Impossible.
On the right hand you will discover work I have participated in with others and perceptions of me: how I have been portrayed in writing and images; from characters I have played to social businesses I have supported."


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