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I went to the first day of Cardiff's second Fiction Fiesta – Saturday 18th May 2013.
Fiction Fiesta, they tell us, is:
An innovative programme of literary events celebrating international fiction and poetry in translation alongside home-grown talent.Here are my thoughts on the day. The morning sessions were more academic, discussion-led, while the afternoon sessions were primarily readings. I hope some of this translates, as it were.
I've been a student at Cardiff University since September. And this, shockingly, is the first time I've set foot in the main building.
The room we're in – The Council Chamber - is a little more formal than the Humanities building – wooden panels and liver-spotted paintings of University-type men (no women) looking very official and Chancellorific. Tomorrow will be in Dempsey's bar. They couldn't book it for today.
There's a stall being set up by Amy from Seren Books. Lots of lovely books. I would buy a lot of them, but I don't think I'll get away with it.
I buy a pre-publication copy of New Welsh Review issue 100, and donate some money to the charity we're supporting today: Education For The Children, who support the poorest of children in Guatemala and other Central American countries.
Let the Fiesta commence!
I: The Translated Life of Rebecca Jones
At about twenty-past nine on this Saturday morning, after two weeks of trying to find some time to read her book, Angharad Price broke my heart.
I wanted to tell Angharad Price this, but she scarpered, straight after the morning session, which was a great shame, as I'd loved to have had the chance to do that awkward eavesdrop while she talks to someone of importance while I hover, hoping to get her attention.
Anyway, Angharad, in conversation wirh Jon Gower,was a very interesting. In speaking about her novel The Life of Rebecca Jones / O! Tyn Y Gorchudd , she was very self-deprecating or reticent about her 'authorship' – instead pointing out that the book was fact, and she'd just compiled the words. The eponymous Rebecca was Angharad's great aunt. The book is the family history, through Rebecca's eyes.
However, and this is a point Jon Gower made: Angharad as 'historical compiler' or 'historical embellisher' acts like a seamstress, stitching these disparate pieces of story together. A motif attached to title character, too.
The book is frequently described as being about a family where there are three blind brothers. What Price does best at, though, is to align the sympathies and pride of the readership with the narrator, the aforementioned Rebecca Jones, and to gain an interest into her world, and life.
That this understated character can have so buy reader buy-in, that so many readers will and have reacted as I did, with utter sadness, then it goes to prove that Angharad Price is not a storyteller, or a story thief, but a writer, using the foundations of reality and family to tell her story, her truth, of the life of Rebecca Jones. It's Rebecca's 'autobiography' – and therefore Angharad's work.
Whether there is a veil in the way or not, it's irrelevant. This book (Angharad said it isn't a novel!) with its combination of deliberately simplistic and quotidian prose, elegant, almost spiritual passages about the river, and the poetry of englyn and hymns and longer poems, works so well. It takes in the whole of the Twentieth Century, and the history of farming in Wales, and makes it personal and compact rather than the expansive outside world. It takes Rebecca Jones, and makes her sing and love.
Angharad clearly adores her book. It took her the best part of 10 years to allow a translation into English:
'I wanted to let it breathe in Welsh'
I think it was a very sensible decision. Having won at the Eisteddfod, the book was immediately published. In Welsh it quickly became canon, and the lack of a translation maintained that specialness. As an established welsh book, appreciated in English, as a work in translation, as a glimpse into a truly different culture and language.
There is a sense of inevitability when she talks about the success of the book. When translated, a parallel English / Cymraeg edition was published, and barely noticed. Lateran English-only edition it was published by a London-based press, and all of a sudden it is reviewed in national broadsheets and declared a masterpiece. Which it is.
II: Displacement and Childhood
The second panel at Fiction Fiesta saw the Argentinian short story-writer and journalist Inés Garland and Guatemalan writer Eduardo Halfon read from their work, and discuss it, with prompts from the chair - Fiesta patrón Richard Gwyn.
Garland, though prolific in her homeland, has just had her first story translated and published in English, by Senor Gwyn inthe 100th issue of New Welsh Review.
Halfon is also widely published in Spanish, but his first book to be translated into English so far is last years The Polish Boxer.
Halfon's novel-ish-short story collection is the best thing I've read in the last six months, hands down. It is also the only thing I've read three times in the last six months. I did get to tell him this, thankfully. He didn't run away screaming or call the police.
The panel talked about identity and versions, alternate selves: Halfon's narrator in The Polish Boxer is a character called Eduardo Halfon, but is not the same person.
'He smokes a lot. I smoke a little'
Garland too writes of a reality / fiction amalgam – her story 'A Perfect Queen' takes in an incident of her childhood, but she remembers it, deliberately unreliably, mixing fact with what it needs to work as a story.
Both writers, although from very different parts of the Americas, talked of the idea that in 'Latin American' writing, there is no dividing line of fact and fiction, only stories. Halfon makes the point that he wants the reader to feel like they are reading real events.
This is the writing of 'a truth', rather than 'the truth'.
A question from the floor asks how South American Literature or Latin American Literature can be such a collective genre, almost, whilst European literature does not have the same catch-all generalisation / genrefication. Garland and Halfon admit their own difficulty in even obtaining each other's work – that Guatemalan fiction is not available in Argentina, and vice versa. Spain is the melting pot where this work all meets, to be dispatched and consumed.
It is all too easy to compare everything with Márquez, with Borges, or Bolaño , and ignore that there can be other voices, lacking in magical realism or whatever else is 'expected' of a South American author
What neither mention, which is apparent to me, is that it is easier to pigeon-hole all Spanish language writing from South America as 'South American Literature'. European fiction cannot really exist, in that we have too many different languages, the romance and Germanic and Slavic (...etc) roots of which all provide different textures and rhythms.
Whereas (lusophonic Brazil aside) Central and South America, 'Latin' America, are united by this linguistic consensus, by a collective consciousness of words. European fiction is too diverse and dispersed to ever have the same impact as English, North American or Latin American literature, purely because it lacks that unifying communal vocabulary.
One thing that united the panel, language and literary capability aside, is there sense of wanderlust, of displacement even. Perhaps this sense of travel and ennui at sitting still is the key to writing. Gwyn spent a long period vagabonding about Europe. Garland started as an au pair in London before heading for the continent, while Halfon moved from Guatemala to the USA and back to Guatemala. He is half-Jewish, and married to a Spaniard. He used a unique Spanish word, one that can almost be translated as an extreme form of displacement and unbelonging.
I think he should move to Cardiff. We could be friends. I don't tell him that. He might take out a restraining order.
III. Potter versus Gower
Readings from poet Clare Potter and writer Jon Gower were the first serving of afternoon entertainment. Clare went first. As Jon said straight after.
'Remind me never to try and follow Clare Potter'
She performed her poetry with such singsong gusto and humour and love for the subjects. Potter sings and almost raps, fusing Blackwood valley-girl with a New Orleans jazz twang that just captivates. I saw her do a similar set of poems in October, one of her first performances after taking some time off. Some six months later and she really is back. I'm a prose writer, but Potter really could make me turn...
Jon, freshly nominated for the Welsh Book of the Year award for his Wales at Water's Edge read some of his work, and it was clear quite why he has been so highly regarded.
IV. Pick a Number
Tiffany Atkinson, albeit sore-of-throat, read some tricky poems. Tricksy as they made you laugh and then regret laughing and want to cry. Her traffic jam poem (the name of which escapes me) being the prime example of this phenomena. I've got to stop enjoying poems. I'll start writing them again if we're not careful.
Charles Boyle, a man of many nom-de-plumes, read from
his 'Jack Robinson's collection of micro-vignettes from London ,W12.,
Days and Nights in W12. Boyle read a
selected few, before engaging in a bout of 'call out the page number' which led
to unexpected storied being read.
V. Turks, a Scot, and a Welsh ex-vagabond.
Richard Gwyn and W.N. Herbert closed the day with tales of Turkey, and their recent translation project there, and read out some of the work they'd completed. Herbert read a piece he'd translated in Chinese, while Gwyn read some new poetry, prose poems being he'd not written for a while. Herbert finished, at 6pm prompt, with poems of dogs and other such amusement. We even got a poetic duet between Herbert and Potter.
Wine on the lawn, with up'n'coming superstar Joao Morais, and two of my fellow MA classmates. A train home accompanied by one of my tutors, and lots of ideas and inspirations. And confidence, and affirmations, about where my writing is going. I am also very annoyed to have to miss the Sunday session. Here's to next year, anyway.


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PhD student with the Department of Sociology, Zach Roche, recalls his experience at two conferences, funded by the Faculty of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences (AHSS), University of Limerick:
Over the summer I was blessed with the opportunity to attend two excellent conferences thanks to the funding I received from AHSS at UL. The first was the Sociological Association of Ireland (SAI) conference, held in Belfast, and the second was the European Sociological Association (ESA) conference, which took place in Athens.
These conferences marked a special occasion for me, as prior to the SAI I had never been in Northern Ireland before; and prior to the ESA I had never presented my research outside of Ireland.
At the SAI I had the opportunity to mingle with excellent scholars from across the whole of Ireland (and as I discovered many who had travelled from further away to be there). Besides meeting like-minded scholars my experience of the conference was highly positive, I was determined to get as much from the opportunity as possible. To this end I visited some of the more popular tourist areas in Belfast when I had the time, and managed to see the famous Belfast Murals, the Titanic Museum, the City Hall and the Grand Opera House.
The highlight of the SAI however was the keynote presentation by Richard Barbrook, who incisively discussed the political elements of the digital world, and to what extent can we democratize the internet. I even met him afterwards at the conference dinner and we had a long chat about identity politics, Richard (like everyone at the SAI) was very approachable and interesting.
The ESA was quite different, with almost 5,000 attendees from more than 50 countries I was concerned that the conference was at risk of feeling industrial and forced, while also being overcrowded. The organizers were certainly equal to the task and had an elegant system where scholars were organized into "streams" defined by a number of themes common to their research. I was in the economic sociology stream and was able to meet a dozen excellent scholars I would never have been aware of had I simply stayed in Ireland.
Despite the conviviality I was nervous to present my research and ended up speaking slightly too fast. Besides this I received a great deal of constructive feedback which has helped me refine the findings section of my thesis, and many business cards were exchanged.
As in Belfast, I wanted to treat the conference as a holistic experience (not a holiday, I promise) and as I was in one of Europe's cultural capitals I wanted to see as many sights as possible during the evenings. I managed to see Hadrian's Arch, the Acropolis, the Temple of Zeus (not much left of it, I must admit) and more.
I would recommend conferences and locales that take you a bit beyond your comfort zone to anyone doing a PhD (or indeed even if you aren't); you will learn a lot and your presentation will go better than you think it will!


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A Mile in His Shoes (2011)
Based on the book "The Legend of Mickey Tussler", this film follows the story of eighteen-year-old Mickey Tussler, who lives on a farm with his father and mother and who has Asperger's Syndrome, a form of autism. But he can throw apples at an amazing speed. When a chance meeting occurs with the baseball manager of the semi-pro team the River Rats, from Clayton, Ohio, Mickey gets a chance to pitch for the team and to prove to his father he can do more than live hidden away on the family farm, taking care of his pig Oscar (http://www.christianfilmdatabase.com/).
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Release Date: 2011-09-05
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Tonto's Revenge
Adam Aitken is a Thai-Australian living in Sydney, where he teaches Creative Writing. He was born in London and as a young child he was schooled in Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur. He has lived, worked and travelled widely through Asia and Europe, and was recently Distinguished Visiting Writer at the University of Hawai?i at M?noa. His poetry has appeared in Poetry, Tinfish, Drunken Boat and Jacket. This is his fifth collection of poems.
Tonto's Revenge
By Adam Aitken • May 2011 • $3
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Tonto's Revenge, composed of poems written by Adam Aitken during his term as Distinguished Visiting Writer at the University of Hawai?i at M?noa, is something of a Thai-Australian version of Ed Dorn's Gunslinger. The poet, masquerading sometimes as Tonto, sometimes as Charlie Chan, meets a Sheriff; they face off over everything from tourism to nostalgia to departmental hiring. Along the way, the poet meets the Rabbit Lady of Honolulu, laments the death of Danno (James MacArthur of the original Hawai?i Five-0), and gathers in many of Honolulu's voices off buses and from the city parks burgeoning with homeless persons. "You want to shout Fuck Tourism," Aitken writes, "but that would be nostalgic."
from "The Day Danno Died":
The day Danno died
some old senators
and heroes of Pearl Harbour
last surviving ones
cried. They knew Danno
had done a lot for these islands.
The day Danno died
someone's father entered
Harry's Music Store
and bought his son
a Ukelele.
At Smiley's Nails
someone mentioned in passing
that Danno had died.
Somehow, at Jimmy's
Television Sales & Services
the owner thought
TV will never be the same,
now that Danno's died.
Read more about Aitken's work on the TinFish Editor's Blog.
Read Susan Schultz's interview with Aitken.
Read Schultz's commentary on Aitken's Cambodia poems in Jacket2.
Read Michelle Cahill's review of Aitken's Eighth Habitation (Giramondo, 2009) in Jacket.Download PDF


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The judge may have brought a little too much baggage to the case.
A British judge hearing a complex and long-running price-fixing case involving BA has agreed to step down from the case after making it personal by demanding that the airline tell him what it had done with his lost luggage.
High Court Justice Peter Smith, confronting representatives of the airline in his courtroom, found himself in the perfect position to demand answers over how the airline had mislaid his bags.
The airline's lawyers objected to the question and refused to answer, likely considering it irrelevant to the case at hand, if not wholly improper. The judge responded by threatening to have BA's chief executive brought before him to explain what had become of his luggage.
The Belfast Telegraph reports that BA then asked the judge to step aside from hearing one of the biggest competition battles ever to come before British courts. Eventually, he complied.
The case in question dates back to 2006 when European Commission officials raided BA offices over suspicions of air cargo price-fixing. The EC later found BA and several other carriers had colluded to fix air cargo rates – as a result of which several hundred companies have launched a lawsuit against BA for losses and damages they say they suffered as a result.
The judge has now agreed to step aside or "recuse" himself from the case. But like a dog with a bone, he wasn't giving up on his luggage quest, and he didn't believe his actions had been inappropriate.
The judge said that just because he had raised "issues about the non-delivery of my luggage" he didn't believe and "reasonably minded observer" would perceive the possibility of bias.


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The event venue was a new one this year, moving from the top of the Kyocera Dome to another "dome" -- My Dome, near Kitahama. No, not mine or even yours, but some corporate group's building, and it seemed like any generic conference site: gray-walled, gray-carpeted, and brightly fluorescent-lit.
The schedule was different this year, as well. In the past, an entrance ticket allowed for four hours or so of unlimited pours. This year, there were two sessions each day, and attendees had to choose between an early afternoon slot (11:30am-3pm) or a later one (4-7:30pm). The main effect of this change was to lessen the crowds at each session.
The number of breweries represented seemed somewhat fewer than in past years, but there were certainly enough of the more familiar Japanese standouts as well as several newer ones (Hyappa) and quite few smaller distant rural outfits (Tirol no Mori, Yoshii Kogen) we had never seen before.


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Curious About Push To Allow Medical Marijuana In Massachusetts
About time!-UA
BOSTON (CBS) –6/20 By David Wade
Some people say medical marijuana is about helping people who are seriously ill, but others worry there's a potential for abuse.
Jerry from Whitinsville Declared his Curiosity, asking:
"Are they ever going to pass a law allowing medical marijuana to help people with chronic pain?"
Well, there's a new push here in Massachusetts to do just that.
Steve Saling has advanced ALS, Lou Gehrig's disease. He uses a computer to speak and told us: "I think medical marijuana should be available. This medicine calms the constant spasms in my muscles and the rigidity in my joints. I have tried everything else my doctors have recommended and nothing else works."
Sixteen states and the District of Columbia have legalized marijuana for medical purposes, including New England neighbors Maine, Rhode Island and Vermont. However, in Mass., pot for medical use has been a non-starter. Some lawmakers say that should change and it's time for the state to legalize medical marijuana, but that controversial idea has run into trouble in other states. Even if some sick people can benefit, the concern is, will a law cause more problems than it cures?
"The bill is really about compassion," says State Rep. Frank Smizik, the primary sponsor of the Massachusetts Medical Marijuana Act. "Now people are buying it, they can get it on the street, and that's illegal."
He wants to change that to what he says is a tightly crafted law.
Under the proposed law, only people with about ten very serious illnesses like cancer, HIV/AIDS, ALS and Multiple Sclerosis would be able to get a license for medical marijuana. Patients would need recommendations from their doctors. No more than 19 dispensaries would be licensed to grow and sell marijuana, and the state Department of Public Health would control the system.
But, some people doubt the state will keep tight control. There have been problems in other states because of loose regulations. Potential abuse is the concern.
In a statement, Middlesex District Attorney Gerard Leone told us he's open to medical marijuana, but with a caution: "…provided that proper regulatory measures are in place to ensure that there is systemic accountability that prevents abuse."
Advocates say the Mass. bill has controls to do just that.
"It's a balance of allowing safe access for suffering, qualifying patients, and including the kind of strict regulations that will prevent abuse of the system," says Matt Allen, from the Mass. Patient Advocacy Alliance.
The debate gets underway next week with a hearing at the State House, and Steve Saling has his own question for lawmakers: "Why shouldn't I have access to an effective, safe, all natural drug?"
Even if the bill passes, there's another issue. Since marijuana is illegal at the federal level, authorities have busted dispensaries even though state laws allow them.
New Hampshire has also been debating this issue. Even though the House passed a bill legalizing medical marijuana, the state Senate table it, effectively killing the bill for now.


text: We drove up to Cleveland for a quick weekend getaway. We stopped at the only Taco John's in Ohio on our way up. On Saturday, we hit up the West Side Market which was amazing. The grocery and food vendors were so well varied and everything was such high quality; I really regretted not bringing a cooler to bring more home. We had lunch at the Market Garden Brewery and then we checked into our AirBnB. We were able to walk from there to Great Lakes Brewery where we had a tour and some tastings. They have a wonder restaurant too – but with a toddler, we opted to eat in at our AirBnB and made some Ohio City Pasta. Sunday morning I got up for a run thru Ohio City. There is not much more I love than getting to see a new place while on a run, the familiar pumping of my legs and quiet plodding of my feet while seeing all the new graffiti, restaurants and places to see. We went to A Christmas Story House and Museum and it was everything M and I dreamed of. The owners have bought the house from the movie, the Bumpus House and 2 houses across the street. We ate the Rowley Inn and had some of the best pancakes ever before heading home.


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Coyne PR Confirms West Coast Expansion Plans
First on PRNewser: PRNewser received a tip that PRWeek 2009 Midsize Agency of the Year Coyne PR is considering a West Coast expansion and currently recruiting talent. Reached for comment, Wayne Catan, Vice President/Media Specialist confirmed that the agency is "absolutely looking for leadership on the West Coast."
"We need someone with the right chemistry who fits the Coyne profile," he said, adding that the agency is specifically looking at the Los Angeles area. Catan said the time frame for expansion would likely be in 2010 or 2011 and that it is a "natural expansion as we've experienced double digit growth even in a down economy and we're going to keep going forward."
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Despite following the Mountain Camp method of dry sugar feeding in the winter more or less since I started beekeeping, I don't do it anymore. I've switched to easy-to-make and easy-to-add sugar cakes.
I don't use dry sugar anymore because the bees tend to remove it from the hive if they're not hungry enough to eat it. Spraying the sugar down with water so it hardens helps to prevent this, but if the weather is still warm enough so that the bees are flying around, they'll do what active bees like to do: clean house. Whatever grains of sugar are not hardened together will often get tossed out of the hive. I used to add dry sugar sometime in November after the temperatures took a serious dip — when the bees were clustered below the top bars, not actively flying around in house-cleaning mode. Overall, the discarded sugar wasn't a huge problem. If the bees were hungry, they ate the sugar regardless of the weather. But still, sometimes it seemed like a waste of sugar.
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Eagles 'D' Produces Different Results Vs. Brady
FOXBORO, MASS. — Billy Davis had seen this before.
It happened in 2000 when he was an assistant with the Packers and later in his career when he was the Cardinals defensive coordinator. A top-level quarterback completing pass after pass, dissecting and embarrassing the defense. The ball never hitting the ground.
That was the scene last summer too when the New England Patriots traveled to South Philadelphia to practice against Davis' unit. But a year later at Foxboro, he noticed a difference.
"It really is a great barometer," Davis said. "Every place I've been, the quarterbacks like [Tom] Brady during 7-on-7, the Kurt Warners of the world, the Brett Favres, 7-on-7 is just them picking you apart. And that's what he did last year to us. And this year I think we were a little bit better. He's still who he is, and no rush he's gonna win more than he loses. But we are so far ahead of where we were, even with how much scheme we have in is so far ahead of where we were a year ago."
The Eagles have spent the offseason harping on continuity. There's a pretty good chance that when they take the field Week 1 against Jacksonville, the defense will only have one new starter (Malcolm Jenkins) from a year ago. But Davis sees improvement in a couple areas. One, players are more comfortable with the scheme. Two, more scheme has been installed.
"It's a much better feeling," hesaid. "That first year is a bear. I don't know how to explain it. That first year, you just kind of keep growing and growing and growing. You've still gotta show up on Sundays and have it be there. But it's a good feeling now."
Brady still made plenty of plays against the Eagles this week, but there was a clear difference. Cornerbacks and safeties got their hands on the football, coverage was better downfield, and quite simply, the Eagles just competed at a much higher level.
Perhaps the surprise of the week was that Cary Williams didn't get into a scuffle. The Eagles cornerback was kicked out of practice for fighting a year ago. And earlier this month, he called the Patriots cheaters, making it quite clear that he had no interest in practicing against them.
But Williams was on his best behavior and was a part of the defense's effort to improve on last summer's performance.
"They're a physical team," Williams said. "We know they're gonna set the precedent early. We knew we had to come out and respond to what we did last season against those guys, basically came out and punched us in the mouth last year. And we definitely wanted to be ready for that. So as far as I'm concerned, great practice, an opportunity for us to build on.
"We understood what happened last year. I guess we didn't understand the pace, and then we didn't necessarily understand our responsibilities within the defense either. We were a team that was basically brand new, coming together with guys we had never practiced or played with in our lives. We were just trying to get the system up under our belt. And they took advantage of those things. They knew that. And Tom Brady is a savvy, great quarterback who's gonna take advantage of those opportunities when they present themselves. Since we got our defense up under us for a year, we added some new pieces and things like that. We shored up our communication, and you saw a better day of practice today."
The defense still has plenty to prove. The Eagles ranked 23rd in Football Outsiders' ratings last year, but in its weighted ratings, which account for how teams played late in the year, they ranked 15th.
Davis is a smart man. Since the day he got here, he's been tempering expectations. Last summer, he warned everyone that switching to a two-gap 3-4 would be a process. After the team got smoked by the Broncos in Week 4, he promised that they were actually showing progress. And that progress showed in the second half of the season when they held opponents to 21 points or fewer in nine straight games.
Asked if the defense is better now than it was at the end of last season, Davis said: "I'll hold judgement on that until Jacksonville because that's the true test. We're happy about the progress we have right now in camp and it's a great barometer. You've got New England from a year ago this same week… and where we are and install and all that. It's a good feeling to be where we are."


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The 2014 Pyranha Burn 3.0 Sneak Peak
Every year there seems to be one new boat that draws excitement from paddlers and retailers alike, and creates a noteworthy buzz. This year, just before Outdoor Retailer, we got word that the Pyranha Burn was going to be redesigned.
We got to see a prototype at OR, and really liked what Pyranha had done to it. We think that the 2014 Burn, or the Burn III is going to be very popular this spring.
After checking out the display boat at the tradeshow, we wanted to know more in depth info, so we reached out to Team Pyranha spiritual movitavor, Dave Fusilli. He gave us the straight dope on this big water, river running / creeking hard charger. Here is the info that you'll need to help decide if this is the right boat for you:
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1.)What's the main difference between the current model Pyranha Burn (II) and the new 2014 Burn (III):
The new Burn is a bit longer and faster, has a little more volume (maybe 2 gallons or so), has a narrower knee area (similar to Shiva) and wider seating pad, is LIGHTER, and also has some modifications to the edges (particularly near the stern)…more on all of this below.
2.) How does the 2014 Burn (3.0) compare to the Shiva?
The Shiva is more of a straight up creeker, and the 2014 Pyranha Burn is a river running, big water slayer. The Shiva has less edge, a rounder hull, more rocker, and is available with more volume (up to 93 gallons). If you're looking to paddle lower volume creeks with shallow features, very steep drops, and class V in general, you may like the Shiva better.
The Burn has has more of a precise feel than the Shiva has due to the planning hull and edge. Either way, whether you're a steep creeker or a big water paddler / river runner, Pyranha's got you covered. One thing to note, is that this years Pyranha Burn has the cockpit combing that the Shiva uses – the 2 boats have that in common.
3.) What is the edge like on the new 2014 Burn?
The Burn still has a planning hull. It's got an edge on that runs from bow to stern. A portion of the edge behind the seat has been smoothed out a little bit. This has been a pretty common thing to do on high performance river runners because it offers the best of both worlds; a paddler can edge the boat anytime, yet not have to worry about getting smacked over when the edge grabs the water unintentionally.
The focus of this boat is the same as found in Burn's of generations past; precision handling. The awesome thing about a Burn, is that you can literally look at where you want to go, and the boat will carve it's way to your target. Kayaks turn from the stern, and by smoothing out the hull "you'll have more edge where you need it, and less edge where you don't " says Dave.
4.) How does the overall boat design compare to the 2010 Burn (II)?
The new Burn has a longer water line, which makes it faster. It also has a few more gallons. This will give it better handling in big water features. It's only a couple of gallons bigger, so it will still have a sleek high performance feel.
On that note, the knee area of the boat has been modified, because Pyranha is using the cockpit combing from the Shiva. They are closer together (for more control) – similar to how a paddler would feel in the Shiva. One of the few complaints that paddlers about the Burn II, was that it had a wide knee position – problem solved! There is also a little bit more rocker up front, which can only do good things when boofing and trying to make moves quickly.
Adding rocker to the bow profile, and a peaked deck also make the boat look cool, and let's not kid around, all Pyranha's look badass. Robert Peerson (Pyranha's boat design master) is the man!!
5.) What is the outfitting like in the 2014 Pyranha Burn? Anything new and exciting?
Yes! Pyranha still uses the same high performance Connect 30 outfitting, which can be likened to the feel of sitting inside of a sports car. It's somewhat minimalist (compared to the new Dagger / Wave Sport outfitting), comfortable, and keeps you snug. The Burn still has a roto-mold center wall, which stiffens up the boat. As previously mentioned, the thighs have a tighter feel. Another change that Pyranha made (for the better) was reworking the front bulkhead. It is now angled a little more forward, which is more of a natural and high performance feel. The bulkhead is also a bit lighter. It seems that creek boats have gotten noticeably heavier recently, so nice job on that Pyranha!
6.) Is the Pyranha Burn too edgy for me?
The new 2014 Burn still have a heavy emphasis on performance / precision paddling. You can carve turns in this boat. Unlike other river runners, that have dulled down edges, the Pyranha kept the Burn's crisp.
BUT – Pyranha did work on the volume segment right behind the seat, as well as the edge. By raising the hump behind the seat, the boat will keep water from piling up on it, which it turn will make it less grabby. Also, as we have already mentioned, the stern behind the seat is subdued, which will cause it to be a smoother and more predictable.
The Pyranha Burn is a high performance river runner. If you have never paddled a kayak before, and want to learn in this boat – it may take some getting used to. In fact, you may even become a better paddler (quicker) because of it.
It seems that the sweet spot for the Burn is class III/ IV and V river running, with some creeking mixed in for fun. Gore Canyon, Bailey, Pine Creek and The Number on The Arkansas and runs of that nature were practically built for this boat.
Ultimately, the only way to know if the Burn is right for you, is by hopping in one and boofing everything in site. Try one for yourself!


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Hatsune Miku: Project Diva F might come to Europe and North America! That is if you share and like a special image on the official page of SEGA on the social network. The rhythm game has been attracting the envious looks from many who live in the countries west of Japan. Now and hopefully, SEGA is offering fans to show how much they wants this game localised.
Hatsune Miku: Project Diva F has been released in Japan this week. It features special and unique features, songs and modules alike, that have not been released previously for the PS Vita.
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JP Morgan just launched the largest ever real-world blockchain application, developed to facilitate corporate cross-border payments. In that surprising development lies several lessons for public equity investors of financial services companies.
The classic paradigm of disruptive innovation assumes incumbent companies remain quiescent as new tech-enabled competition starts to nibble away at the low end of a market. This is not an assumption of corporate laziness. Rather, it makes sense that established businesses would actually not mind losing low-margin, low average revenue/unit customers. "Let the upstart take them… our return on capital actually improves when we shed that segment of the market!"
Well, Amazon's success over the last decade has changed that mentality to some degree within even the largest companies. No one wants to be Barnes & Noble. Or Wal-Mart, for that matter. But altering large company behavior remains difficult, so it is still unusual to see a brand-name multinational really thinking – and acting – outside the box.
We did recently come across one example: JP Morgan's initiative to remake the cross-border payments business using an Ethereum-based blockchain system called Quorum. Sending dollars from a corporate account in the US to Europe or Asia may sound easy, but in reality anti-money laundering and know-your-customer regulations are complex and everything has to be done just so. At our prior company, partly owned by another very large multinational bank, we had to sit through hours of compliance training on such topics. It's no joke…
Payments such as these are exactly where you would expect to see big financial institutions like JP Morgan cede ground to new blockchain-enabled startups with a cost advantage over large commercial banks. "Blockchain" is the technology that powers bitcoin and other crypto currencies. It offers a secure way to validate transactions and is much cheaper to run than a centralized, company-specific system. And payments are a low margin business for most banks, offered primarily to keep corporate Treasury customers happy so they will buy other more lucrative services. New technology meets low-profit business line = classic disruption story.
Other banks must see the same threat, because yesterday the Financial Times reported that JP Morgan has signed up more than 75 of the world's largest banks to its new Interbank Information Network, powered by the Quorum blockchain. Two banks – RBC and ANZ – had been testing IIN since October of last year along with JPM. All this makes the IIN/Quorum the single largest real-world application of blockchain technology out there, according to JPM.
For public equity investors that have investments in financial services companies, three quick observations to finish off this section:
- There are many reasons why JP Morgan (+7.6%) has done so much better than the S&P Financials (+0.2%) this year, and the story above is too small a part of the company to have a financial impact. Still, we find the bank's efforts to push the technological envelope refreshing and unusual for its peer group. Whether this ethos sparks a modest revaluation in JPM over the next 3-5 year remains to be seen, but it can't hurt.
- To the degree to which traditional financial stocks suffer from a "disruption discount", this story shows it is possible for old-line companies to adapt. Case in point: the market cap of American Express is $93 billion while PayPal's is $106 billion. On less than half of AXP's revenue base. That's what disruption is worth when you do it correctly.
- Regulation is actually a friend to incumbents. All that KYC and AML paperwork makes corporate cross-border payments a tough nut to crack for disruptive new entrants. And since financial services is one of the most regulated industries in the US, there is (in theory) plenty of time for this industry to adapt.


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Luke Perry, Who Defined Cool for a Generation in Beverly Hills, 90210, Dies at 52
He suffered a massive stroke last week
Every generation has its teen idol TV icon that defined high school cool. For Generation X, that person was Dylan McKay, the brooding star of Beverly Hills, 90210, played by Luke Perry. The actor, who was 52, died today following a massive stroke last week.
Perry was best known for 90210, Fox's massively popular teen drama that aired as many as 32 episodes a season to capitalize on its rabid audience. Perry—and his famous sideburns—blanketed teen and entertainment magazine covers during the show's 10-season run. (He left the show after Season 6, but returned for 90210's final two seasons.)
It was tough to move on from such an iconic role, but Perry did his best, upending expectations and showing his range with meaty roles in a pair of HBO dramas: Oz (as Rev. Jeremiah Cloutier) and John From Cincinnati.
Most recently, Perry enjoyed a career renaissance on yet another hit TV high school drama: The CW's Riverdale, where he played Archie's dad, Fred Andrews.
The actor would selectively revisit his 90210 days since the show ended in 2000. While he steered clear of The CW's revival, which premiered a decade ago, he joined Old Navy's 90210 campaign in 2012, appearing in a spot with Jennie Garth. In the ad, Perry still had his motorcycle and was hanging around high school long past an appropriate age, while Garth played a teacher who introduced the chain's Famous Jeans back-to-school special.
Had social media existed back in 90210's heyday, the actor would have likely been a star on the platform. But Perry steered clear of social media, he told Adweek in 2013. "Isn't the basic concept of Twitter that you believe that so many people care about what you have to say that you have to post it on this world-wide medium? I'm not going there. I don't think what I have to say is that important," Perry said.
His death will also cast a pall over 90210, the Fox limited series airing this summer, which was just announced last week. In the show, costars Jason Priestley, Jennie Garth, Ian Ziering, Gabrielle Carteris, Brian Austin Green and Tori Spelling play heightened versions of themselves as they consider a possible revival of the Fox show that launched them all to stardom.
Perry also filmed a role in Quentin Tarantino's next film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.


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The Warm South How the Mediterranean Shaped the British Imagination Robert Holland
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Ever since the age of the Grand Tour in the eighteenth century, the Mediterranean has had a significant pull for Britons—including many painters and poets—who sought from it the inspiration, beauty, and fulfillment that evaded them at home. Referred to as "Magick Land" by one traveler, dreams about the Mediterranean, and responses to it, went on to shape the culture of a nation.
Written by one of the world's leading historians of the Mediterranean, this book charts how a new sensibility arose from British engagement with the Mediterranean, ancient and modern. Ranging from Byron's poetry to Damien Hirst's installations, Robert Holland shows that while idealized visions and aspirations often met with disillusionment and frustration, the Mediterranean also offered a notably insular society the chance to enrich itself through an imagined world of color, carnival, and sensual self-discovery.
"'The Warm South' is both authoritative and entertaining and offers a much-needed antidote to the din of the Brexit debate. Here is the long view, across three centuries, of a cultural exchange that is rich, complex and tenacious."—Charles Nicholl, Wall Street Journal
"Holland is a sensitive, prodigiously informed guide. . . this is a book so crammed with interest that when you finish it you feel like starting all over again to make sure you haven't missed anything."—John Carey, The Times
"Marvellous, transporting cultural history... If in the last year you have read Elena Ferrante, ordered an Aperol spritz and watched Mamma Mia 2, then you too have been lured by the siren song of the warm south...A rare book that makes you wish for more." – Laura Freeman, The Times
"Enjoyable...As this sweeping survey shows, Britain has for centuries emulated, envied, denigrated and defined itself in opposition to its southern cousins."—Suzi Feay, Financial Times
"Holland penetrates the deep south, accompanied by Byron, Disraeli, Edward Bulwer Lytton, John Ruskin, George Eliot, Edward Lear, Robert Browning, E M Forster, Henry James, D H Lawrence, the Bloomsberries, Ernest Hemingway, Gerald Brennan, Robert Graves, Elizabeth David (who brought Italian cooking to postwar England), Kenneth Clark and Peter Mayle, author of A Year in Provence."—Frances Wilson, Literary Review
"Holland begins with Shelley and ends with Damien Hirst, but as no discussion of the Mediterranean and its influence on British life can fail to encompass the ancient world, since ancient and modern are "inseparable", he flings his net over classical times, too." —Norma Clarke, Times Literary Supplement
"Holland's detailed survey of the impact of the Mediterranean on the insular British imagination is timely. All the winter sun you'll need." —Carl Wilkinson, Financial Times
"Rich and fascinating" —Jeremy Musson, Country Life
"'In The Warm South, Robert Holland draws on a huge range of literature, art, memoir and biography to capture with extraordinary precision the often contradictory influences of the Mediterranean on British cultural, public and private life. Written with style and wit, and alive with sharply drawn personalities, it engages the reader irresistibly."— John Darwin, author of After Tamerlane: A Global History of Empire
"Scholarly and accessible, The Warm South is an absorbing exploration of where the heat, light and history of the Mediterranean have taken the British imagination, through dreams of excess and salvation."—Jason Goodwin, author of Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire
"The Warm South is an ambitious work – and Holland is undoubtedly the scholar who can pull it off."—Rosemary Ashton, author of One Hot Summer: Dickens, Darwin, Disraeli, and the Great Stink of 1858
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Distant Planet May Have the Right Stuff
Sep 30, 2010 1:47 PM PT
Planet Gliese 581g, the so-called Goldilocks planet whose discovery was announced earlier this week, may help prove Earth is not the only habitable planet in the universe.
One reason for that is because it was so readily discovered -- scientists found it after looking at only nine nearby stars.
"Planets in the habitable zone seem to be amazingly common based on the fact that we found this one in such a short period of time," Gillian Wilson, an associate professor in the department of physics and astronomy at the University of California Riverside, told TechNewsWorld.
Goldilocks planets are those at the right distance from their suns to potentially allow life to develop. They're not too hot or too cold -- they're just right.
About Gliese 581g
This planet is one of six orbiting Gliese 581, a red dwarf star of the spectral type M3V. It's 20.3 light years from Earth in the constellation Libra.
A red dwarf star is a small and relatively cool star of the main sequence, of either late K or M spectral type as classified by a Hertzsprung-Russell diagram. Red dwarf stars have a mass of about 40 percent that of our sun, and a surface temperature of less than 4,000 degrees Kelvin. For reference, zero degrees Kelvin equals -273.15 degrees Celsius.
Our sun has a mass 30,000 times that of Earth.
The main sequence is a continuous band of stars that appear on plots of the stars using brightness, or magnitude, for the Y axis, and color for the X axis. Plots like this are named Hertzsprung-Russell diagrams after their developers, Ejnar Hertzsprung and Henry Norris Russell.
Stars are allocated to spectral classes based on the ionization of their chromospheres and what atomic excitations are most prominent in the light they give off. Basically, the light stars give off is analyzed in order to allocate the stars to a class. There are seven major spectral classes -- O, B, A, F, G, K and M, in descending order from the hottest to the coolest.
M-class stars are considered red by convention, even though their actual colors may not match those descriptions. They account for about 76 percent of the main sequence stars in our part of the universe. Most are red dwarfs, although there are some supergiants such as Antares and Betelgeuse. M stars usually don't have hydrogen, but have all neutral metals. They can have a lot of titanium oxide. Late M stars have vanadium oxide.
Looking at Gliese 581g
Gliese 581g is a so-called Goldilocks planet. It has a near-circular orbit in the middle of its sun's habitable zone. Its mass is estimated at three to four times that of Earth and it has an orbit of about 37 days. The planet is tidally locked, always presenting one face to the sun.
The fact that the planet is tidally locked and that its sun is a red dwarf suggest the Gliese system is very much older than ours.
Whether or not it may actually have life is a question its discoverers disagree on. Steven S. Vogt, one of the two coauthors of the study describing Gliese 581g, contends there's life on the planet.
Both he and his collaborator, Paul Butler, believe there's water on Gliese 581g.
Have Space Suit, Will Travel
Since Gliese 581 has been around for so long, how is it the planet doesn't seem to have any signs of life? Surely by now an old civilization might be expected to study the stars and send out signals like we do, if it isn't going to explore the stars.
Those arguments assume life may develop along parallel lines to that on Earth -- but what if life on Gliese 581g consists of, say, extremely intelligent rocks that don't care about space exploration or contacting other species elsewhere? There's no reason life on Gliese 581g should even come close to developing the way life on Earth has.
For one thing, one side of Gliese 581g is in perpetual light and is relatively hot, while the other is in perpetual darkness and is relatively cold, because the planet doesn't rotate. For another, we don't know what the planet's made of and so we can't tell how life, if any, would have developed there.
"If the planet has any sort of an atmosphere, then it's not going to be either super-hot or super-cold," Frank Timmes, an astrophysicist at Arizona State University, speculated.
"And you could possibly develop life around the parts where it's not completely light or completely dark. You may not develop life over the whole planet," Timmes told TechNewsWorld.
However, that life may not necessarily be carbon-based or breathe oxygen like Earth's life forms do.
"We don't know its composition yet," Timmes pointed out.
More Life in the Universe?
Vogt and Butler reportedly contend that the speed and ease with which they discovered Gliese 581g indicates life is more widespread in the universe than previously thought.
"We know there are about 200 billion stars in the Milky Way, which is our galaxy, and the team that discovered 581g are estimating one in five stars could have a Goldilocks planet -- which means there are 40 billion stars in our galaxy that might have life," UC Riverside's Williams explained.
"The most interesting thing I take away from the report is how common these planets might be," she added.


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A youth from Jodhpur has been chosen among 50 computer experts from across the globe by the Google for its 'Mentor Summit' to be held at its headquarter in California on October 20-21 this year.
Aditya Maheshwari, who will be presenting a paper on 'How to attract youth for contribution in development cycle of open source world', has been chosen by the internet giant as a student mentor of 'Google Summer of Code 2012' for playing an exemplary role as the on-line project guide on the international level.
"There will be three components of this summit, which are how to improve the programme, how Google can do more for open source and how mentors and representatives of development communities can help one another," Maheshwari said.
Maheshwari is not only one of the two Indians to be invited by the Google at the summit, but also the youngest among all the participants.
The objective of this summit is to bring together the mentors of the 'Google Summer of Code 2012', which is a global programme that offers student developers stipends to write code for various open source software projects.


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Discussion in 'General Market' started by Crimson, Oct 28, 2015.
This will be my vouch thread, it is a placeholder.
Why would you need an additional thread for vouches, what is your trading thread for?
@Savior Most communities have some sort of feedback/vouch system. I do more than just gold buying and selling, and would rather have a single compilation of vouches.
There's other threads in this section I found searching "vouch". None of them were closed, so I assumed that would be enough precedent for me to post mine as well.