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Stephen Page Interviews Esther Cross (part 2): Re-Creation
Re-Creation:
Esther Cross
by Stephen Page
Esther Cross was born in Buenos Aires in 1961. She is the author of four novels, The Chronic Winged Apprentices (Emecé, 1992), The Flood (Emecé 1993), Banquet of the Spider (Tusquets, 1999), and Radiana (Emecé 2007); and the author of two collections of short stories, Divine Proportion (Emecé, 1994) and Kavanagh (Tusquets, 2005). She co-authored along with Felix della Paolera two books of interviews, Bioy Casares at the time of Writing (Tusquets, 1987) and Conversations with Borges (Editorial Fuentetaja, 2007). In 2002 she released The Insulted and the Injured, a documentary film that she co-wrote, co-directed, and co-produced with Alicia Martínez Pardíes. She has translated Richard Yates's Eleven Kinds of Loneliness (Emecé, 2001) and William Goyen's The Faces of Blood Kindred and Other Stories (Editorial La Compañía, 2008). She has been awarded a Fulbright and a Civitella Ranieri scholarship. She teaches writing in Casa de Letras, Buenos Aires, and for Fuentetaja, of Spain. She is published regularly in several culture magazines and supplements.
Sp: What started you translating?
EC: I read Richard Yates's Eleven Kinds of Loneliness, and was overwhelmed by it. I fell in love with the way he wrote, which is directly, sparingly—yet richly at the same time. Also, something Yates said in one of his stories, "Builders," about using words honestly. That's how Yates writes, he uses words honestly. I did some research and found that Eleven Kinds of Loneliness had not been translated into Spanish. I immediately decided I wanted to bring the book to the Spanish-reading world.
Sp: Who are some of your favorite Argentine translators?
EC: Enrique Pezzoni, who brought us Moby Dick. Borges, who made some great translations despite that quite often, his style is prominent. Félix della Paolera, who translated Dylan Thomas's Under Milkwood. Rodolfo Walsh, Cortázar—among others.
Sp: Do you enjoy translating?
EC: Oh, I love it. It has increased my understanding of how language works. Also, it has increased my understanding of the two languages I work with—first of all, it has made me realize that I know more English than I thought I did, and second, it has made me realize that I know less Spanish than I thought I did (she chuckles). When I come to a sentence and it takes me three or four days to translate it, and all of a sudden I get it right—find the right words and the right word order—it is a rush. Mostly, I just love bringing great texts to people that language would normally keep apart.
Sp: Tell me about your translation processes. How do you go from concept to completed product?
EC: When I decide which book I want to translate, I read it from beginning to end to capture a general sense of it. Then I read it again to capture the rhythm of the words, the voice of the narrator, the writer's style. Then I sit down and do a first draft of the translation, not worrying about getting it right word-for-word, but trying to capture the rhythm, the voice, the style. Then I go through my first draft, polish the details, make sure word choice is correct, that phrases make sense, that I am getting all that is needed to make an honest translation.
Sp: About the "voice" of the narrator or writer. Is that difficult to translate sometimes, even if you hear it clearly in the original language?
EC: Yes. But it is also what I enjoy about being a translator. I think that is the key between a good translation and a great translation—capturing the voice.
Sp: Is it difficult to get the rhythm of the words?
EC: Of course, because Spanish and English are very different languages. English is more plastic than Spanish, more pliable. Spanish is more rigid. Often, In Spanish, you need two or three words for one word in English, so sometimes you will write a very long sentence, whereas the original writer wrote the sentence economically.
Sp: And what do you do when you come to sentence or phrase where you just cannot capture the proper rhythm?
EC: I never give up. With Goyen it was not easy, because he has a talking quality, derived from the oral tradition. In interviews he speaks about the breath of the sentence. His fiction reads like someone is sitting down and telling you the story. Once I was able to "hear" his voice, it was a lot easier.
Sp: Now that we are talking about Goyen, what attracted you to him and his writing?
EC: His uniqueness. His powerful story telling. He has a quality that is similar to Faulkner, but of course he is not Faulkner at all. Many people call Faulkner's style Southern Gothic. I like to call Goyen's style Texan Gothic. It may be related to Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, and Carson McCullers—but his landscape is Texas. What makes Goyen's stories impressionable is their orality, their musicality, and their subject matter. He said that he was inspired by his mother's voice, the way she talked, how she almost sang when she spoke. Goyen also loved music—which his father did not like because he thought it was effeminate, and he forbad Goyen from playing the piano—so Goyen's mother bought him one of those mail-order music courses, and he made a cardboard keyboard and sat under his covers at night and played music silently. His music playing, and as was later, his writing, had to be done in secret from his father. He was literally an undercover musician and writer. Sometimes, at night, he would pretend he was asleep and play his cardboard piano while he listened to his family talk in the living room—stories about sawmill workers, woodsmen, farmers, ranchers, out-of-work small-town people, the Ku Klux Klan. When he was older and started to write, he wrote those voices he heard while he was playing music.
Sp: Which of the two was most challenging to translate—Goyen or Yates?
EC: Yates. Because he is grammatically precise. Goyen is poetic, freer, looser.
SP: The stories you selected for La Misma Sangre are not solely from Faces of Blood Kindred, but are from a number of Goyen's books. What were the factors in your selection process?
EC: I found that most of his stories fell into two groups—urban and rural. I chose the rural stories.
Sp: Goyen has been described as being drawn to the grotesque. Do you agree?
EC: I do. He often said he worked with the grotesque. He compared himself to the photographer Diane Arbus. He said he was not fond of the abnormalities in people, but that they drew him, and made him want to write about them, write about people who lived on the peripheries of society—like the bearded woman in his story "Zamour, or a Tale of Inheritance."
Sp: In Eleven Kinds of Loneliness, what does Richard Yates say about modern society?
EC: His stories can be read as bleak, but I think he was trying to show truth, the dark side of the Golden Era in the United States—the Cold War, the façade of the perfect job and the perfect family, the failure of the American Dream. Yates showed the loneliness of those Americans—mostly young married couples—who bought the American Dream and found themselves in dead-end jobs, in debt, and with an awareness of the phoniness of dressing-for-success. Jean Améry once said that our biographies are not only formed by what we did but also by what we would have wanted to do. I think that Yates explored that gap, between who people are and who they had once wished to be.
Sp: Was Yates misanthropic, or kind to people?
EC: He was kind. He understood people. Most great writers understand people. Though he was pessimistic about the way the world works, he was very tender in his portrayal of the people involved in the world.
Sp: When you translate, in general, do you feel you translate into Argentine Spanish, Latin-American Spanish, or Spaniard Spanish?
EC: If it comes down to a choice, I choose Argentine Spanish, especially if I am being published here in Argentina. If I am translating for a publisher is Spain, of course, I use Spaniard Spanish. Overall, though, I try to think I translate into the language of translation.
Sp: So, when you are translating, do you feel you are copying something, or re-creating something?
EC: Re-creating. I try to be loyal to the original work. I know I can never copy something exactly, especially with language. I try to capture the spirit of the book. You have to re-create and not copy in order to respect another person's work. If I may draw a parallel, it is like restoring a painting. In restoration, when the restorer fills in an absent part of the painting, or re-creates a part that was damaged, he performs what is known as tratation. If you look at the painting from a normal viewing distance, you see it complete. If you move closer, put your face right up to the painting, you will notice the restoration because the restorer worked with very thin lines. The restorer did that on purpose. She is telling you, "I am restoring the original painting, but I am not the original painter." As a translator, I know I will never be able to reproduce the writer's writing. I will try to get as near to it as I can, but I will not copy the writing. That would be too difficult.
Sp: Does that mean you feel a translator's presence should be somewhere in a translation?
EC: No. Those lines I spoke about are not the translator's presence, but the translator's respect. The lines are there, but not the translator.
SP: You chose to translate two North American authors. Is there any particular reason for that?
EC: I guess that it has to do with my admiration for North American writing. I believe that the 20th Century narrative was what it was because of North American writers—not only, but mostly. I also feel there is a wonderful lack of solemnity in North American English that makes it playful. North Americans use the English language with a freedom and familiarity that is wonderful.
Sp: Do you find translating language of one culture into language of another culture difficult?
EC: Yes. Without a doubt. Because language is derived from culture and culture from language.
SP: Do you think, then, that translations promote cultural understanding?
EC: Yes, for the reader and translator. Unfortunately, from a political point of view, "cultural understanding" is a misleading term. For the book industry, anyway, translation is a means of cultural appropriation.
Sp: What do you do when you come to a word or phrase or a scene that does not make sense in your culture?
EC: I always try to stay true to the original. There are some exceptions, especially in word-choice, but the scenes must remain in the same order for the reader to understand the situation.
Sp: What about metaphors, similes, and double meanings. How do you deal with them?
EC: You have to give up something sometimes when dealing with figurative language. It's inevitable. You strive to make it best as possible. Changing a word is hard, but not impossible. Sometimes you can find a similar figure of speech—just as long as you don't change meaning. Sometimes when you are meticulously reading a text you will find figurative language that the author did not intend. Usually that happens with the genius writers. Their unconscious minds at work. If you try to reproduce any of that, it is kind of like trying to show the submerged part of an iceberg. You can attempt to show as much of it as you are able, but you will never be able to show it all. That would be too ambitious. There is just too much mass there. Lifting the iceberg out of the water would change the aesthetics of the tip.
Sp: What about story titles? Do you often have to change them to make meaning?
EC: Quite often, but not always. This is because titles are an introduction to the story, or an overall interpretation of the text. If that introduction or interpretation does not make sense in the culture of the translated language, a change must be made—something representative.
Sp: Do you feel there are a lot of great books and authors that have not been translated into Spanish?
EC: Yes I do. The main reason is marketability. Another reason is fashion. Basically, books that are being translated today are successful books. For contemporary books, that means bestsellers. For an older text, someone must classify it as a classic—which doesn't necessarily mean it was a best seller when it was first written. If a good book does not become a best seller, or a classic, then the likelihood of it being translated is slim. Some great writers and great books are never discovered in other cultures.
Sp: Do you take a long time getting to know the author you are translating?
EC: Yes. (She holds up a two-inch thick book that she has held in her lap during our conversation, a biography about John Fante). I would like to translate his letters and that is why I am reading his biography. I always research the author.
Sp: Why do you feel it is important to get to know the author?
EC: If I know the author, I know how his mind works. If I know how his mind works, I know how he uses language.
SP: When you are working on a translation, how do you work…do you focus solely on the translation, or are you able to juggle other things, like your own writing?
EC: I would prefer to work solely on the translation. Keep my mind focused only on that. Sometimes though, I have to work on two projects and it works out. It's difficult, but it can be done if it is necessary. You have to have a lot of faith in yourself if you want to work on your own writing while you are translating a genius.
Sp: Then, do you feel that your own writings and your translations compliment one other, or contradict one other?
EC: I think they complement one another, like all your lifetime writings do. They are linked. They are united. From each translation I make, I learn something. When I go back to my own writing I feel I have changed, I feel I am a better writer.
Sp: What kind of advice would you give to writers about to embark on their first translation project?
EC: A translation will never be perfect; you just have to get it as close as possible. The closer you get it, the better the translation is. Have tenacity. Never give up, even if it feels like it is not working. Have a very good dual-language dictionary, and read all you can about the author.
Sp: As a final word, then, what is the major role of a translator?
EC: To introduce the reader to the writer, then step back, and disappear.
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Stephen Page interviews Esther Cross (part 1): Creation
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Interview with Argentinian author Esther Cross
Esther Cross was born in Buenos Aires in 1961. She is the author of four novels, The Chronic Winged Apprentices (Emecé, 1992), The Flood (Emecé 1993), Banquet of the Spider (Tusquets, 1999), and Radiana (Emecé 2007); and the author of two collections of short stories, Divine Proportion (Emecé, 1994) and Kavanagh (Tusquets, 2005). She co-authored along with Felix della Paolera two books of interviews, Bioy Casares at the time of Writing (Tusquets, 1987) and Conversations with Borges (Editorial Fuentetaja, 2007). In 2002 she released The Insulted and the Injured, a documentary film that she co-wrote, co-directed, and co-produced with Alicia Martínez Pardíes. She has translated Richard Yates's Eleven Kinds of Loneliness (Emecé, 2001) and William Goyen's The Faces of Blood Kindred and Other Stories (Editorial La Compañía, 2008). She has been awarded a Fulbright and a Civitella. She teaches writing in Casa de Letras, Buenos Aires, and for Fuentetaja, of Spain. She is published regularly in several culture magazines and supplements.
Creation:
SP: What was it like growing up in Buenos Aires?
EC: It was quiet, then. Peaceful. Full of parks. I knew everyone in the neighborhood, maybe not personally, but at least by face—and they knew me. Everyone knew everyone. You could go for a walk and see someone on the street and say hello or nod your head and they would recognize you. The feeling everywhere was genial. Many of the people I know now are the same people I knew when I was a child.
SP: And your family?
EC: I remember playing with my two brothers—going to the cinema, playing in the park, sitting in the back seat of my parents' car while driving out to the family ranch, near La Pampa (a province in the Pampas, the plains belt of Argentina). We vacationed on the ranch, spent part of our summers there. We rode horses together, we played in the woods, we followed the gauchos around. The ranch was a whole world for us, a world very different than Buenos Aires. We were independent on the ranch. We were let loose to do whatever we wanted. Our parents did one thing and we did the other. Our ranch house was huge—or so it seemed when I was a child—lots of rooms, so we could explore and play inside for hours and never see our parents. We only saw our parents at meal times.
SP: When did you first conceive you would be a writer?
EC: As soon as I read my first book. I remember reading Perrault´s stories and thinking of a different ending or a new character. I also loved other stories I read by Anderson and the Grimm brothers—and I felt that I wanted to be able to do the same thing those writers did. Immediately after I started reading those stories, around age six, I started writing my own stories, in child penmanship, of course. I folded the stories into little booklets and tried to sell them to my neighbors.
SP: Was there anyone in your family that affected you to read and write?
EC: My father. He was a literature teacher. I lived in a house with a huge library. My father was always talking about books, and his friends were always talking about books. He encouraged me to read all the time. Although I had been writing as a child and as a teen, it wasn't until I was 17 that I chose writing as a profession. When I decided that, I told my father. He immediately stepped outside the house, "to go for a walk," he said, and came back a little while later with a present for me—Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own.
SP: Have you written fiction all of your life?
EC: No. When I was a teenager, I released my adolescent angst through poetry. As soon as I was a young adult, I started writing short stories again.
SP: A lot of fiction writers wrote poetry in their early career, Paul Auster, for example, and William Goyen. Do you think there is a reason for that?
EC: Yes, I think when you are young or when you first start to write, you imitate what you have read. I read a lot of short stories, but I read a lot of verse too. Poetry is a precursor to almost all literature, culturally speaking. It is definitely literature in the oldest sense. I choose to write prose because that is most innate for me. I would love to write good poetry but I can't. Poetry is very special. You either have the talent for it or you don't. I don't have it.
SP: Which other writers influenced you when you were young?
EC: Jonathan Swift. Lewis Carroll. Charlotte Brönte. Mary Shelley. Oscar Wilde. Stevenson. Kipling. As I got older, Argentine writers. Bioy Casares, Silvina Ocampo—who was Casares's wife . . . they lived just two blocks away from where I was born and raised. I used to see them shopping for groceries and vegetables—and I knew them, in the neighborhood way. Julio Cortázar, Manuel Puig, Sarmiento, Alejandra Pizarnik, and many, many other Argentine writers. Let's see, after that, Virginia Woolf. I like her novels, but I prefer her essays. I like the way her mind works. How she thought literature should work—that reading and writing are connected. Then, Proust, Poe, Maupassant, Balzac, Gogol, and Dostoyevsky.
SP: You have a daughter. Tell us about her.
EC: She's fourteen now. Very dynamic. Strong willed. She knows who she is and what she likes. She loves animals. She likes riding horses. She is an equestrian. She competes a lot. Sometimes every weekend. I like that she likes riding, but it makes me nervous sometimes—her on that big horse. She spends the whole weekend with her friends and the horses, and when they are not riding they are taking care of the horses, feeding them, brushing them, washing them. She just loves to be with animals. All her life. Since she was a little girl. Dogs. Cats. If it were up to her, our house would be a zoo. At school she does very well in literature, but she doesn't love it, or have a passion for it. She likes history a lot. And she hates math.
SP: Does she support your writing time?
EC: Well, when she was very little, she knew that I was doing something at my desk, but it took her some time to understand that I was working, that writing was working, even though I was at home. She was a bit noisy, demanding attention, but I understood that is normal for a child. Now she is used to the fact that I am a writer. She accepts and permits my writing time.
SP: Does she inspire you to write?
EC: Yes. It's amazing. I never plan it. It just happens. Talking with her sometimes sparks ideas. The things she says, the way she says them. Motherhood changes your life, radically—as do all the important things in life—it turns you into something else. It makes you realize there is more than the self. I want to write about motherhood sometimes, the relationship between a mother and her daughter, but I need a little time for that. Right now I am still inside the motherhood situation. I write better about something when I have a little distance from it. Perhaps when she is older. When I am older, which is not too far from now, ha?
SP: You recently wrote a novel in three months. How did that go? Where you happy with the results?
EC: I was very happy. It came after almost a year of block. I had been writing, but only commissioned work—short pieces for magazines and such. I was relieved when it came out so quickly and so well. I think it had been burgeoning inside of me for a while, growing; it just had to find a time to come out. That one-year block was the first time in my writing career that I had not been writing what I wanted to write. When I finally started the book, it was three months of writing non-stop.
SP: Do you have a theory on why you had the block?
EC: Not exactly, but I think it might have been because the novel I had written before, Radiana, I had written obsessively. I don't usually write obsessively. Radiana is a short novel, with lots of small parts and characters intertwined, and I started out with the idea that I wanted all the parts to connect, so when you read it and get to the end, you will understand the beginning and find meaning in the whole. I was obsessive in that I was making too many changes as I was writing. I usually don't write that way. I do make a lot of corrections, but usually only after I complete a first draft, when I revise. This obsessive behavior was intense. It left me exhausted.
SP: In general, besides that particular book, do you write quickly, or do you labor over words as you write?
EC: It's ironic, because my novels usually come out quickly, and then I go back and spend a lot of time making corrections, but my short stories come out slowly. In a short story, every sentence has an important job, and each sentence has to follow the previous one, so if you write a weak sentence, it is hard to follow it with a strong sentence. The story just does not progress as it should.
SP: Where do your ideas for your books and stories come from?
EC: Life, in general. Things that happen to me. Things I see. Conversations I hear. Things people say to me. Lately, it has been in dreams. The last four or five short stories I wrote came to me in dreams.
SP: The stories complete from beginning to end?
EC: Not complete, but in bits and parts, and in instructions. For example, for some days I had wanted to write a story about the countryside, about when I was young and vacationed on the ranch. I wrote a couple of stories, and started another, but I didn't like what I was writing. The stories were not coming out well. Then, one night, I dreamed I was answering the telephone, and when I picked up the receiver I heard my father's voice, and he said, "Cross!" he called me by my surname, "Cross," he said, "you have to go out and take the dog for a walk." So I woke up and I told my husband about the dream. And my husband said, "Well, you have to take the dog for a walk then."
SP: So you did.
EC: And I did. But nothing happened. I almost forgot about the dream, and late that same afternoon, I was sitting at my desk, and I remembered an event with my father and his dog. I wrote a story about the event.
SP: Do you feel you have a muse?
EC: No. I would love to, but I don't.
SP: Do you have a favorite place to write?
EC: Yes. My study, and in cafés. I go to a café with my computer, I find a table near a wall, and I sit with my back to a wall, and I start to write. If the bar is not to noisy I can get a lot of writing done. Sometimes I can write in a noisy bar, if the energy is right.
SP: Are there are a lot of bars with creative energies here in Buenos Aires?
EC: Yes. There is a whole culture of café writing here. It goes back over a century. There is also a history of café readers. In any café you go to, you will see people reading books as well as people writing. That might not sound unique to some people, but, the beautiful thing about it, the helping factor for readers and writers, the cultural difference, I think, is that here in Buenos Aires you can sit down and order a cup of coffee and you can remain in your seat for an hour or two, or even longer, and the waiter or waitress does not bother you or rush you. You are free to write or read until you are tired.
SP: How many hours do you usually write every day?
EC: I sit down at my computer for at least four hours. During that time I either write, or do writing-related work—such as note-taking, revising, editing. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes I just sit there, and it doesn't work. Most of the time, though, if I am tenacious, something happens.
SP: Do you write best in the mornings, afternoons, evenings, or nights?
EC: Mornings, mostly. Sometimes a bit after lunch, if I have time. And I like writing at night. After I have helped my daughter with her homework, if I can, I write a little at night. Writing at night has its advantages. It's quiet. There are fewer interruptions. Only problem is, I like waking up early, so I have to balance that.
SP: Do you find yourself conceiving stories at odd times, perhaps while driving, or talking to somebody, or while you are teaching? What do you do, if an idea comes to you at an inconvenient time?
EC: I have a good memory.
SP: How do you write a first draft—do you write it in long hand, on a typewriter, or on a computer?
EC: On a computer. I have terrible handwriting.
SP: Do you proofread your own final drafts?
EC: I have some friends, who are all great readers, take a look at my final drafts. I give them the novel or book, and they read it and write comments for me. I love them because they are honest. They tell me if a scene is boring, or if a character is unbelievable, or if a section is paced too slowly. I read all of their comments, listen to what they tell me, then I reread my manuscript, and if what they said makes sense, I make the changes.
SP: Talk a little about your book Kavanagh. What does the building Kavanagh symbolize?
EC: The Kavanagh building is the first and only Art Deco skyscraper built in Buenos Aires, a brilliant piece of architecture. The characters in Kavanagh are rich people who find themselves no-longer rich, and they are resistant to that change. They don't want to lower their standards of living. They are living in denial, and they are decaying. They try to keep their standards of living up, because to them that symbolizes their dignity. Their resistance to change creates conflict, and this conflict inevitably leads to the climax of each story. The characters in the stories represent different types of people in Buenos Aires. The Kavanagh building houses these people, thus, the Kavanagh building becomes emblematic of the city Buenos Aires.
I think these types of situations, though tragic, make interesting fiction—people going through disaster, sorrow, and change—and the resulting actions that they take. Sympathy must be given when writing about these people, and dignity must be given, even if a few characters are not perfect or even good hearted.
SP: Kavanagh is a collection of short stories, but it works like a novel. The narrator's voice is quite evident throughout the collection. Was that arbitrary, or your plan?
EC: When I first started writing those stories, I did not know they would be so connected, but after I finished the third story, I realized I had a connecting narrator voice.
SP: Going back to your book Radiana, who or what does the woman/robot protagonist represent?
EC: Well, I think she is what the inventor, a man, would like a woman to be.
SP: Is there a sexist statement in that?
EC: Of course. Because he makes an artificial woman. But, the story is much more than that. The inventor ends up getting what he sought.
SP: And Banquet of the Spider? What is the plot of the story?
EC: Well, without giving away too much, it is the story of a girl, Celina, whose socialization is very unique. In her family, in order to be respected, one must rob or deface a famous art masterpiece. Her ancestors are culprits of infamous crimes: the beheading of the statue The Little Mermaid in Copenhagen; the stealing of La Giaconda from the Louvre; striking Le Genie du Repos Eternelle and Michelangelo's La Pietá with hammers. She thinks that if she wants her family to respect her and take pride in her, she must do something similar.
SP: Have you found any of your characters from earlier books reappearing in later books?
EC: No, in my books, I am always moving to another place, meeting new characters—especially after I have written something and had it accepted for publication. I have left those characters behind and gone from that place, on my way somewhere else.
SP: What kind of a statement were you making in your movie, The Insulted and the Injured?
EC: It is a social statement on the homeless. After one of our recent president's government, there were a lot of homeless people wandering about. What was so unusual was that many of these people were former functioning, middle-class citizens who all of a sudden found themselves homeless because of a perverse governing institution. So, along with structural poverty, there was this new group of homeless. The government required that you have an address in order to have an identity card, so if you didn't have an address, who were you? A new kind of desaparecido (a term for the people who "disappeared" during the military juntas)? Basically, these homeless did not exist—on least on paper. In reality, they existed, and you could see them everywhere. We realized while we were shooting that we were capturing the first symptoms of a societal disease. The infirmity of a system.
SP: As a final word, what would you advise to other writers?
EC: Always give your final drafts to a few people whose opinions you respect—and then take their feedback into consideration.
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58 Interview with Louise Brogan
In this episode I chat with Louise Brogan who's a LinkedIn Trainer. Louise is an international speaker and podcaster who talks to audiences about why, how and when they should be using LinkedIn in business.In this episode we chat about top ways to stand out on LinkedIn. Louise shares top tips for:StudentsGraduatesCareer MoversLouise shares her four pillars of using LinkedIn - optimising your profile, building a valuable network full of potential clients and customers, creating content that raises your visibility and the golden ticket to winning business on LinkedIn - how to use the messaging feature without spamming or being sleazy.We chat about new features coming to LinkedIn & the benefit of having a LinkedIn company page for your business. Louise shares some fantastic tips on how to raise your visibility to grow your network across LinkedIn. Louise is also running a 'Build your LinkedIn Strategy Workshop in Dublin on 27th of April more details can be found here if you'd like to grab a ticket. Promises to get a great opportunity to learn more. Don't miss it
57 Interview with Peter Doak PDG Advertising
In this episode I chat with Peter Doak from PDG Advertising based in Northern Ireland. PDG Advertising launched in 2015 as a creative and results focused digital marketing agency, based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Our focus for a positive ROI for customers is our guiding light in delivering an Exceptional Digital Marketing Experience.We kick off the episode finding out a little about Peter's background and his reason behind setting up PDG - Peter chats about why simplification in digital is so important especial for the customer considering using digital advertising as a way to get in front of customers. With so many social media platforms at our disposal it can be difficult to find out which platforms might be best for a business to use to start to compete for attention & get their product or service in front of customers. Peter also shares a exercise he and his team use called 'Fish bowling' before they begin working with any new client & explains the importance of this exercise Finally Peter shares his top tips for businesses considering using digital advertising in 2022 as well as 3 key tips for those interested in developing a career in digital marketing.
56 Interview with Dorcas Crawford
In this episode I chat about conflict management with Dorcas Crawford. After over 20 years as a litigation lawyer and several years conducting a high profile piece of litigation (Northern Ireland's longest running civil trial) Dorcas Crawford, senior partner at Edwards & Co Solicitors, began to re-evaluate the whole area of dispute resolution and concluded that there was a better way. She trained as a mediator with CEDR in London in 2008 and has since conducted numerous commercial mediations and added workplace mediation and facilitation training to her CV. Conflict is something which we all experience at one time or another - the thing about conflict which Dorcas explains is that it's costly, it's destructive, it drains resources and it impacts peoples lives. There must be a better way... Dorcas shares her insights as well as some helpful tips in which businesses of all sizes can better manage conflict from the boardroom to right across the organisation.
55 Interview with Henry Mc Crory
In this episode I chat with Henry McCrory who runs a very trendy and focused marketing agency, with one of this closest and lifelong friends Christopher Mc Clenaghan. Creative3 has a clear goal of growing brands and businesses. They have unconventional ideas, are disrupters and grow brands, that grows businesses.Henry has been though 2 recessions & now a global pandemic, he is a big believer everywhere we go we can make a difference, from the server at the coffee shop, to the big shot in the big office, we are no different.In this episode we cover things from building your personal brand on LinkedIn to feeding your potential market. The importance of looking after your mental health & wellness as well as having the right people in your corner. Henry talks about showing your customers what's possible. Sit back, grab a cuppa and listen in to some real honest business banter.
54 Interview with Gary Day My Garden of Music
In this episode, I chat with Gary Day who runs Garden of Music based in Warrenpoint. Garden of Music believes that everyone should have lifelong access and opportunities to both music-making and music education. Garden of Music advocate for musical inclusion. They believe everyone is musical and should have equity to opportunities and provision.This episode was all about finding out more about Garden of Music, the impact it has & how it's helping making music more accessible for everyone. Founder Gary chats about his early days in music to becoming one of the leading music practitioners in the UK and Ireland, with 20 years' experience working in accessible and inclusive music-making and education.Gary talks openly about the importance of making music accessible & as inclusive as possible stating that 'music is in us all' We also chat about Gary's own business journey in which he shares 3 key tips when it comes to business Why are you doing it The importance of Networking Collobration for SuccessIf you're enjoying the show, don't forget to hit the Share button and Subscribe to get notified on future episodes..
53 Interview with Lianne McCooey
In this episode, I chat with Lianne McCooey of McCooeys Coffee Shop, Newry. Lianne gives the full showdown on her experience working in the business industry - from pulling her first pint at the age of 10 to now running her very own coffee shop within the City of Newry. We talked about the challenges of opening your own business along with the highs and low's of opening a business in today's society. Lianne opens up, sharing her tips on creating the perfect online social presence and lessons learned on how sometimes failure can lead bigger successes. Lianne is a local celebrity around the Newry area, due to her witty and quirky content, and it's safe to say that this podcast included both these, along with a lot more. Our chat ended with inspirational advice from Lianne - don't be afraid to be a risk-taker, success takes time as not all things take off straight away and hard work and determination is key. If you're enjoying the show, don't forget to hit the Share button and Subscribe to get notified on future episodes..
52 Interview with Aaron Watson
In this episode I chat with Aaron Watson, Telephone On Hold Marketing, Voiceover, Audio Branding, Media Professional.For several years, Aaron has been delivering his distinctive and clear Northern Irish Voices for radio, TV, and advertising. Aaron specializes in telephone voiceovers for businesses in NI.. onhold marketing, auto attendant and so on.Working with clients all across the UK, Ireland and Europe. Aaron is one of Northern Ireland's very few full-time voice artists working from his very own voice studio, located just outside Belfast.We kick off by chatting about Aaron's business journey and challenges along the way. Aaron shares an open and honest insight into this word as well as how he has been using Social Media in particular LinkedIn for this business.Aaron is a big ambassador of Northern Ireland PLC or 'Our Wee Country' as he calls it and the importance of helping others and giving back along the way. Our chat ends by Aaron sharing some super useful tips for businesses on how to 'keep plugging' If you are enjoying the show please don't forget to hit the share button and subscribe to get notified on our next episode.
51 Interview with Ruth Young Ruthless Media
In this episode I chat with Ruth Young of Ruthless Media, which helps businesses to improve their social media presence & content. Ruth starts off by chatting about her career and business journey to date as well as the work she did with Young Enterprise NIWe chat about the impact of Covid-19 on small businesses. Ruth shares some insights and ideas on how businesses can continue to remain visible and how social media can push out content & help attract new sales opportunities.Ruth chats about the benefits of networking and how the BNI in particular has help her own business grow and develop. Finally Ruth shares her top 3 tips for businesses durning Covid-19
50 Interview with Nicola McGuinness
In this episode I chat with Nicola McGuinness founder of Lean In Newry. Nicola is also Lean in Regional Leader an #IamRemarkable Facilitator as well as Research and Information Project Manager at Intertrade Ireland. We kick off by chatting about the Lean in Newry Network and how it helps support a large network of women dedicated to achieving their potential through an inclusive, diverse and confidential support network. Nicola chats about how the Lean in Network has help her overcome her own challenges with Imposter Syndrome. As a trained #IamRemarkable Facilitator Nicola helps empower women and underrepresented groups to speak openly about their accomplishments in the workplace and beyond. She shares her helpful tips and advice for businesses especially at this difficult time with Covid-19 as well as her 3 top takeaways;1: Networking & Visibility2: Have a Career Life without regrets3:Change the track in your head
49 Emotional Wellness Wayne Denner chats with Joanne Callan
In this episode, we take a much-needed step back. Our World has changed, as a result of the Covid-19 virus. I chat with Joanne Callan on our first episode in which we start to explore Emotional Wellness and what this means. Joanne is a Holistic Therapist & Well Being Coach. She a coach and an International Trainer for Relax Kids in Ireland and an Accredited Coach with The Institute for The Psychology of Eating. With over 15 years experience in the area of health and wellness, Joanne is passionate about holistic health, educating, empowering and supporting individuals and families to be the healthiest they can be. Joanne particular area of interest is in children's physical and emotional health, women's fertility and menstrual health along with Eating Psychology and mind, body, nutrition. Joanne chats about the importance of helping people understand how their body works and how to maximise our wellness & how can move to a place of acceptance. Joanne also chats about the 'new sense of norm' and how at the end of the day it is important that we acknowledge that we are only humans.
48 Interview with Fiona Forman Positive Psychology
In this episode, I chat with Fiona Forman author, speaker, trainer, former teacher and facilitator in the areas of well-being and Positive Psychology. We kick off by chatting about Fiona's journey to date from Teacher in the Classroom to setting up her own business and how she got starting in the area of Wellbeing & Positive Psychology.Fiona is the co-author of Weaving Well-Being, an international multi-level Positive Education program for primary school students. She is also the author of Wired for Well-Being, a program for secondary level students which is based on neuroscience and Positive Psychology.Fiona shares her thoughts on Positive Psychology and how it can help people and how it's especially important now due to the global pandemic coronavirus which is sweeping the world.
47 Interview with Cormac Harty
Not getting paid in Business is hard. You have delivered an excellent product or service and yet can't get paid. But Credit Insurance is one way to prevent this from happening. In this episode, I chat with Cormac Harty from Cormac Harty Insurance who acts as a Consultant in the Insurance Sector. Cormac chats about what credit insurance is, how it helps and why businesses need to consider it. We chat a little on the dreaded B (Brexit) word, Cormac shares his thoughts on the UK leaving the EU and we chat about some of the business success stories in the local area. Cormac also shares his 3 helpful tips for someone considering starting a business in 2020 and he shares some useful tips for Students & Graduates which will help kickstart their career after college or university.
46 Interview with Kristina Koehler-Coluccia Woodburn Accountants & Advisors
Have you ever thought about expanding your Business or Brand overseas? Ever thought that China or Hong Kong might be a great location? The Chinese and Hong Kong market has great potential for international businesses seeking to expand and develop business relationships with 1.3 billion consumers in the region. In this episode, I chat with Kristina Koehler-Coluccia Head of Business Advisory at Woodburn Accountants & Advisors wh specialized in inbound investment to China and Hong Kong. Woodburn Accountants & Advisors offer companies a one-stop shop approach to their corporate service's needs. They offer market-entry advisory and ongoing corporate, accounting, tax and human resource services.We chat about some of the important things which need to be considered & researched before jumping right in & registering a business. Kristina shares her experience and knowledge on the importance of businesses getting the right advice from the start and ways to protect their business idea or IP.Kristina explains the importance of making a trip across to experience China and Hong Kong, the importance of setting up business meetings in advance, planning and preparation is vital to ensure you get the most out of the trip. Finally, Kristina shares her top 3 tips for businesses considering expanding into China or Hong and sums up by stating that spending time researching and getting the correct advice will help save time and money in the long run. She runs regular workshops and webinars to help educate businesses on a number of key topics and suggests those interested to reach out and get in touch.
45 Interview with Emma Marmion Prestige HR
In this episode, I chat with Emma Marmion Director of Prestige HR based in Newry. Emma and her team at Prestige HR in Newry provide a full range of services for the SME sector right across NI/ROI and UK. I start off by asking Emma about her Career journey to date how she ended up getting into HR and also how Prestige HR was born. A core focus on this episode of the Podcast was Leadership an area which Emma has expertise in when it comes to helping SMEs. Emma discusses what she feels are the most important traits for leaders in today's ever-changing world. A core focus of our discussion on the podcast was wellbeing and how the important the wellbeing of both the leader and the staff are key to success within all organisations. Emma is also VP of Newry Chamber an organisation which is the voice of businesses across the region we discuss BREXIT and the impact locally which we may have and the importance for all businesses to get into planning mode - Emma shares ways which the local chamber in Newry can help.Emma wraps up by sharing her top 3 tops for Businesses and entrepreneurs to help grow and move a business to the next level.
44 Interview with Adam & George Foxglove Productions
In this episode I chat with Adam and George 2 independent video content creators based in Derry & owners of Foxglove Productions. Both Adam and George met at college and saw a gap in the North West Region to help businesses and brands create cost effective video content with high quality results. Adam also known on YouTube as IzonHow is a successful You Tube content creator in his own right and has been Vlogging for some time - I first came across Adam at an event which we both had been speaking at and felt inviting the guys onto the podcast would be a great way to do more of a deep dive into the world of creating effective video content. We kick off the episode finding out why Adam and George decided to launch their own video content agency and what the motivation was behind it. Adam explains the key to all video content is about storytelling and that each video not matter how short or long needs to have a start, middle & end. Adam explains how he uses YouTube as a Vlogger & the steps which he focuses on when create regular videos for this YouTube community and how businesses can tap into the power of video content.George explains what businesses need to think about when it comes to creating video content as he puts it 'Clients should ask themselves what would they say about there business if they where explaining it to someone, explain you're business in a nutshell'If you have enjoyed this episode please don't forget to hit the share button and if you want to find out more information about getting in touch with Adam & George for your next video project check out Foxglove Promotions
42 Interview with Colly Graham CEO Salesxcellence
In this episode I chat with Colly Graham CEO Salesxcellence about the importance of sales within Businesses both small and large. Colly Graham in 1996 who has over forty years' experience in telephone, field sales and sales management. Colly is recognized as an international sales trainer who achieves excellent results.Colly chats about the key traits which make a good sales person and how being resilient is an important characteristic of a successful sales person. When it comes to sales Colly explains it's all about being a 'problem solver' A good sales person has to be a good listener. Colly explains how a business can recognise a well-qualified sales opportunity and that account management is key within business. He shares this top 3 sales tips and techniques to help small businesses generate better sales. We discuss the impact which Social Media, the Internet and in particular LinkedIn has had on the sales process and Colly share's his thoughts on how businesses can use LinkedIn more effectively within the sales process. Finally Colly talks about this upcoming 3 Day Accelerate your Sales in 2019 training and development and how it will help sales professionals. More details on the program here https://www.eventbrite.com/e/accelerate-your-sales-in-2019-3-day-sales-masterclass-with-colly-graham-tickets-55984477078?aff=dw
43 Interview with Brett 'GOllumfun' Johnson
In this episode I chat with Former United States Most Wanted Brett 'GOllumfun' Johnson referred to by the United States Secret Service as "The Original Internet Godfather. Mr Johnson was a central figure in the Cybercrime world for almost 20 years. He build and was the leader of 'ShadowCrew', the precursor to today's darknet markets. He was instrumental in development many ares of online fraud while helping design, implement and refined modern identity theft, account take over fraud, card not present, IRS Tax fraud and countless other social engineering attacks and breaches and hacking operations. Brett shares openly and honestly his backstory, being on the United States Most Wanted to turning it all around and now working with Business, Organisations and Individuals across the world helping them protect themselves against Cybercrime. We chat about the types of Cybercrime which people need to be aware of as well as simple things which people can do to help protect themselves. Brett chats about what is know as the;Surface WebDeep WebDark WebBrett explains the different motivations of cybercrime as well as the rise of 'Fake' reviews online & how they influence who you buy from and what you buy online.
41 Interview with Terry Robb Ulster Bank
This episode of the podcast is taken from my recent Facebook Live in which I chat with Terry Robb Head of Personal Banking at Ulster Bank. Financial fraud is becoming more prevalent so protecting your money whilst shopping particularly in the run up to Christmas is really important.I've teamed up with Ulster Bank over the next few weeks to contribute to the 'TAKE FIVE TO STOP FRAUD' national campaign from Financial Fraud Action UK and the UK Government.We kicked off on Black Friday (which one you say J) and are creating and posting tips to help keep you safe – videos, blogs, Instagram stories and Facebook and Twitter posts out with practical advice to prevent scams in the run up to Christmas. Terry chats about the common types of fraud and scams which can impact people as well as sharing simple and effective ways which people can protect themselves. We chat about the 'Take 5 to Stop Fraud' Stop and Think when you receive a request to move money. A genuine bank or organisation will never contact you out of the blue to ask for your PIN, full password or to move money to another account.Only give out your personal or financial details to use a service that you have given your consent to, that you trust and that you are expecting to be contacted by.When clicking on links or files, don't be tricked into giving someone access to your personal or financial details.Never automatically click on a link in an unexpected email or text. This podcast is sponsored by Ulster Bank Northern Ireland, I believe it's sound advice which is why I'm working with the bank on this campaign. As always, all views and opinions are my own.
40 Interview with Ted Rubin
In this episode I chat with Ted Rubin a leading Social Marketing Strategist, Speaker, CMO of Brand Innovators, & Co-Founder of Prevailing Path. In March 2009 he started using and evangelizing the term ROR, Return on Relationship, hashtag #RonR.Ted has a deep online background beginning in 1997 working with best selling author, entrepreneur and agent of change Seth Godin at Yoyodyne, which was acquired in Q4 1998 by Yahoo! Ted chats about his time at Yoyodyne & what it was like working with Seth Godin. Ted talks about the importance of relationships and shares real life examples of how they can be developed, nurtured and the value which they can bring. We chat about the importance of 'being nice to people' a value concept which Ted feels is so important and often forgotten. Ted also shares this thoughts on what brands especially those in retail need to think about and shares simple and effective tips for small businesses when it comes to engaging with customers. Finally he finishes off with this top 3 tips for ALL Businesses:1:Become responsive 2: Build your own community3: Empower Employees

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Станом на січень 2023 року — командир військової частини, 169-й навчальний центр Сухопутних військ.

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Free bet clubs seem to be all the rage these days, with a high number of British Bookmakers launching them in recent months, and Coral.co.uk are the latest to join the 'free bets' party.
Coral's free bet club is called the 'Bet & Get Club', which is a basic description of how their club works, i.e. you need to 'bet' in order to 'get' free bets - like you do with most bookmakers clubs.
One slightly different aspect to the Coral free bet club, is the fact that they let you earn 2 x £5 free bets each week, with one being for use in Coral's betting shops, and the other online.
The free bet that you can use in betting shops is actually credited to a Coral Connect Card. Make sure you signup for your free Connect Card if you've yet to add one to your wallet.
Earning free bets with Coral's free bet club; 'Bet & Get' is fairly straightforward.
Obviously you'll need to have an online betting account with them to be able to opt in to the club. Check out Coral's signup offer if you're yet to register with this top rated bookmaker.
First up, login to your account via Coral's website or App.
Next, visit Coral's promotions page and opt in to their 'Bet & Get Club'.
Bet £25 or more between Monday and Thursday each week.
Qualifying bets can be placed on any sports markets that Coral offer.
Remember that settled bets must be at odds of evens or greater.
Coral will then credit your online betting account with a £5 free bet on Friday.
As well as another £5 free bet to your Connect Card for use in shop.
If you haven't got a card, you won't get the £5 free bet for use in shop.
Visit one of Coral's betting shops within the UK.
Place a total of £25 in bets on any sports markets between Monday and Thursday.
Make sure that you show your Coral Connect Card each time you place a bet.
All qualifying bets making up the stake of £25 or more must bet at odds of even or greater.
On Friday, Coral will give you a £5 free bet to use online.
As well as crediting a £5 free bet to your Coral Connect card to use in shop.
Coral's free bet club really is as easy as that. If you already stake at least £25 with Coral each week then joining their 'Bet & Get Club' really is a no brainer!
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There are a few other online bookmakers that have launched similar free bet clubs to Coral's.
One club, PaddyPower's Rewards Club, also splits the free bets that you can earn between their betting shops and online, although they let members earn £35 in free bets each week!
Another slightly similar club, Betway's Free Bet Club, also lets you earn £10 in free bets each week but there's are purely for use online and are released by placing ACCA bets.
And if live in-play betting floats your boat, check out Unibet's In-Play Free Bet Club as that rewards members with a £10 free bet once you've placed 5 in-play bets within 7 days.
Let's take a quick look at an example that shows how, once you've opted in to Coral free bet club, you can get your hands on £10 in free bets each week.
Basically you've placed bets with a total stake of £25, with all bets odds over Evens. You've also opted-in to Coral's 'Bet & Get Club', and all bets are settled by 23:59 on the Thursday.
This means that Coral will give you £10 in free bets (£5 online and £5 to use in one of their betting shops) by 18.00 Friday, so you have 2 free bets on Coral and 7 days to use them!
You'll need to have a Coral Connect Card to claim the £5 free bet to use in shops, so make sure to signup for your free card before opting in to Coral's club.
You can't use Cash Out as part of Coral's offer.
Bets must be settled before 23:59 on Thursday or else you won't qualify for the free bets.
Any free bets that you use won't count as these aren't considered real money bets.
The two £5 free bets can be used on any sports market at odds of 1/2 (1.5) or greater.
Free bets must be also staked in full when you use them.
To summarise, if you bet £25 or more on any sport, then you won't want to miss out on joining Coral's free bet club; 'Bet & Get' and be on the way to earning 2 x £5 free bets - each week.
Opt in to Coral's club today and you could get your hands on £10 in free bets by Friday!
Click here to visit Coral's website to find out more about their 'Bet & Get Club'.
T&C's apply to Coral's free bet club; 'Bet & Get'. 18+ UK+IRE players. Opt in required. Some deposit types, markets and bet types excl. Min Odds EVS. Bets must settle before 23:59 Thurs. £10 free bet (£5 online & £5 Shop/Connect ) valid for 7 days, stake not returned. No cashout. Restrictions + further T&C's apply.
Not Signed Up To Coral?
As with all of Coral's betting offers, you'll need to previously have signed up as a customer at Coral.co.uk in order to be able to take advantage of their free bet club.
If you aren't a member yet then great, as you'll also be able to claim the signup offer that Coral reward new account holders with as well as joining Coral's 'Bet & Get Club'.
Coral then give you 4 x £5 free bets!
18+. UK+IRE only. Min first bet £5 at odds 1/2 or more. Tote and Pool excluded. Must be placed within 14 days of account reg. £20 credited as 4 x £5 free bets. Not valid with Cash Out. Free bet valid for 4 days. Free bet stake not returned. T&C's apply.
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What Do I Need To Rent a Car For Vacations?
Car rentals are a good option, especially if you are planning a long trip during the summers. No matter, you have your own luxury sedan still, it's better to rent a car. The reason being that with rented cars one can choose any van or car in which his whole family can adjust for a hassle free or comfortable traveling experience.
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Are you looking to rent passenger vans for your upcoming business trip? If yes, then you can find many car renting companies in GTA itself that promise to make your traveling experience a breeze.
For some people, renting a car only makes sense when their own vehicle is down with repairs or they are planning out for a long vacation. Though there are many other situations when a rented car or van can turn up to be beneficial, there are still many who doesn't realize its actual worth.
Are you planning out a trip for holidays? If yes, there are a lot more things you need to consider before actually deciding how to reach your holiday destination. With so many preparations to do, you suddenly realize that your personal vehicle isn't spacious enough to accommodate the heavy luggage.


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For an overview of 7.62mm rounds throughout the Fallout series, see 7.62mm.
7.62mm is a type of ammunition in Fallout and Fallout 2.
The 7.62x51mm NATO bullet (or 7.62x39mm bullet in Nuka-World) consists of a gilding metal jacket and a lead antimony slug. It is a boat-tailed bullet (rear of bullet is tapered) and weighs 173 grains. The tip of the bullet is not colored. The base of the cartridge is stamped with the year of manufacture and a circle that has vertical and horizontal lines, sectioning it into quarters. Its spread (accuracy standard) for a 10-shot group is no more than 12 inches at 550 meters.
The 7.62mm ammunition is more of a curio and a relic, than a legitimate choice. It's used by a handful of weapons, with two being notable (FN FAL (night sight) and the rare M60), but lacks the excellent bonuses of late-game ammunition like 4.7mm caseless and 2mm EC. As such, it's use is largely contextual: The night sight FN FAL can be a powerful tool if attacking foes during the night.
The 7.62x51mm round is the metric equivalent of the .308 round used in Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas.
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Stylish Kate attends SportsAid dinner with Rio hopefuls at Kensington Palace
The Duchess of Cambridge hosted a special dinner at Kensington Palace to benefit one of her charities, SportsAid, on Thursday night (June 9). The formal event saw Kate mingling with charity ambassadors as well as athletes hoping to compete in the Rio 2016 Olympics.
The Duchess, who has been a patron of SportsAid since 2013, looked glamorous in a daring, floor-sweeping gown by Roland Mouret which retails at $3,900. She paired the designer number with oversized hoop earrings and her signature glossy, Chelsea blowdry.
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Kate dazzled in an royal-blue Roland Mouret gown
Thursday night's reception was held in the beautiful gardens of Kensington Palace, while the dinner was served in the King's Gallery inside. The menu included English asparagus with truffled potato alioli, seared fillet of beef with vegetables and for dessert, a delicious orange and Valrhona chocolate bar with milk chocolate mousse, orange jam and an almond praline ice cream.
Before sitting down to enjoy the delicious meal, the mother-of-two delivered a short speech in which she expressed her love for sport.
The Duchess met with SportsAid ambassadors and young athletes who will be competing in the Rio 2016 Olympics
"Some of you may know that I love sport. I love cheering on teams and athletes that I am passionate about. I love the physical challenge sport presents and the mental strength it gives us all. And I love the way it so often brings people together to work as part of a team," she said, before expressing her excitement ahead of Rio.
"We cannot wait to meet the next SportsAid champions – the next Chris Hoys and Katherine Graingers who will remind us all of the magic and the power of sport. So thank you all for supporting the incredible work of SportsAid. I am immensely proud to be their Patron and I can't wait to cheer on our team competing in Rio".
The reception was held in the beautiful gardens of Kensington Palace
Prince William's wife has carried out several engagements in the past to show her support for the charity, and this time Kate was no doubt thrilled to meet some of the budding Olympians.
KATE'S MOST SPORTY MOMENTS
The dinner was held to showcase the work of SportsAid, which provides financial support and recognition to the next generation of Olympians and Paralympians in the critical early stages of their careers.
The charity's alumni includes Jessica Ennis-Hill, Mo Farah, Tom Daley, Denise Lewis, Chris Hoy, Steve Redgrave and Ellie Simmonds.
While Kensington Palace is famously home to the Duchess and her family, there was no sign of Prince George and Princess Charlotte at the bash. The last time Kate, 34, hosted a dinner at home, it was for the Obamas and two-year-old George made a sweet surprise appearance.
While Kate supports a host of charities around the UK, she makes every effort to divide her time between her different causes. This year is particularly special for SportsAid as the charity is celebrating its 40th anniversary.
In April Prince William's wife penned a thoughtful message, in which she praised SportsAid for their contribution to British sport.
"As Patron, I would like to wish SportsAid a very happy 40th birthday, and offer my best wishes to everyone who has played a part in their success," she wrote.
"Thank you to those who have, and are, supporting SportsAid. Your efforts make a huge difference to thousands of young people and their families.
"Everyone involved in this great cause should be incredibly proud of the impact SportsAid has had on the success of British sport over the last four decades."
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Q: Windows Colour Management of common elements It came to my attention recently.
I have a sub-par LCD and a profiling device (i1 Display).
I have created a profile and have installed it (listed in Colour Management).
However, that did not affect the colour of Win32 elements at all. I am getting good colour reproduction in colour-managing editing programs (same appearance with very different LCD settings) but Windows is not changing colours of common elements. I even rebooted mh PC to be sure. There is a settings set in LCD which gives me more desirable response but I cannot use it because it results in terrible tint.
How do I make Windows to use ICC profile for common UI elements?

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All That Heaven Allows – And Then Some
August 4, 2014 · by Supreme Being · in Active Observation, I Like to Watch. ·
When director Douglas Sirk was making his melodramatic movies in the '50s, critics loathed them, and audiences ate them up. They were perceived as romantic, overwrought, simplistic junk for housewives, "women's movies," they were called, an actual genre at the time (today we're cool and ironic and call them "chick flicks"). They starred people like Rock Hudson and nobody took them seriously.
Fortunately, in the years since, it's dawned on many that Sirk's films are anything but simplistic and treacly. What are they? They're savage deconstructions of social, sexual, and societial norms in the form of outlandish, melodramatic, tragic love stories, filmed with an artful, knowing precision to the point they feel like carefully choreographed dance.
I was floored by Written On The Wind when I saw it a couple of years ago. How could anyone have missed its subversive nature? It's one of the most outrageous movies I'd ever seen! Yet they did and they do. Last night I watched All That Heaven Allows ('55), and I can't remember the last movie I enjoyed so much. Every scene—every line—leaves you with your mouth hanging open. How can they get away with that?! This is insane! I said in reference to literally everything that happens.
The gardener. Ask him about trees.
All That Heaven Allows plays like the kind of ironic, scathing take-down of a past era you'd assume was made twenty years after the fact. That it's made in '55 seems impossible. How did a social critique so blinding pass by as if invisible?
Was it because people at the time were living in the society being critiqued, and couldn't step outside of it to see its inherent absurdity? Maybe. But then again, what it showed, according to detractors, was a simplified Hollywood version of reality. So maybe the fact that it was Hollywoodized precluded anyone looking deeper? I think this makes some kind of sense. Viewers at the time must have seen Sirk's characters for what they are on the surface: outrageous stereotypes, each with a simple, starkly lit character trait, each serving a blatantly melodramatic purpose. But with just a little perspective, it's easy to see that his simple stereotypes are designed to highlight the absurd.
Wyman as the tortured housewife.
Here's the story in a nutshell. A well-to-do widow, Carly (Jane Wyman), with two grown children, a daughter in college and a son just out, living in a very nice middle-class '50s house and neighborhood, is a bit sad, a bit at loose ends. An older, well-off businessman asks for her hand in marriage, not out of passion, but to comfort each other as they age. And at a fancy party, a married man drunkenly propositions her. She's interested in neither offer.
Then she meets her gardener, Ron (Rock Hudson). He's a confident, free-living man, about to embark on a career as a tree-farmer (!), whose friends are inspired by him to read Walden, not because Ron's read it, but because he embodies it. He lives in a restored barn in the woods. He and Carly fall madly in love. He asks her to marry him. But Carly's society won't accept him. Her children won't accept him. What will she do? Let down everyone she knows? Or deny herself true love?
Oh, this old place? Just my little barn.
If reading that you threw up in your mouth a little, I don't blame you. And you haven't even seen the colors. Sirk loves Technicolor, which I'm beginning to suspect was invented expressly for his use. The opening shot, of a town square in the fall, is like a Norman Rockwell painting of a Norman Rockwell painting.
But the colors aren't garish, exactly. Or not always. Or at any rate never without reason. Sirk is a master of light and shadow too. Interiors glow. A single room might be divided by color and light into three separate zones through which the characters move. Romantic moments you'd expect to be brightly lit take place in the shadows.
The rotten, selfish kids
Carly's daughter, an overly intellectual college girl, brings up the ancient Egyptian practice of wives being walled up in the tombs of their deceased husbands. Over the course of the movie, Sirk uses colors and framing to do the same to Carly, boxing her up in windows, mirrors, doorframes, scene after scene. When a TV shows up in her house at the end, she's literally trapped within it, there to watch the rest of life pass her by outside.
Ron's friends are all a bunch of wine-swilling bohemians–artists and foreigners and weird old guys and so on. They're as absurd as Carly's socialites. Everyone in the movie is trapped not primarily by their chosen social milieux, but by their conceptions of themselves, Ron as much as Carly.
What kind of movie is this? There's a scene where Ron, outside his house/barn, feeds a friendly deer. Which maybe you have to see to fully appreciate.
I can't recommend All That Heaven Allows too highly. Or for that matter, Written On The Wind. Douglas Sirk knew exactly what he was doing, even if nobody else in the '50s did.
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3 responses on "All That Heaven Allows – And Then Some"
Evil Genius August 30, 2014 at 10:37 pm · · Reply →
I have watched this film and it pleased me greatly.
I am sorry that I smashed your teapot, if you know what I mean.
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The teapot? How could you! You fiend!
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The common denominator of the universe is still chaos, but Werner Herzog has two new books coming.
By Jessie Gaynor
August 18, 2021, 11:41am
Get ready for some excellent longform profiles, because everyone's favorite filmmaker/delightfully bananas quote machine Werner Herzog is coming out with two books.
The first, The Twilight World, is a nonfiction book about Japanese soldier Hiroo Onoda, who refused to surrender at the end of World War II, remaining at his post on a Philippine island for 29 years. It will be translated by the poet Michael Hoffman (who has also translated work by Hans Fallada, Franz Kafka, and Joseph Roth, among many others), and published in summer 2022.
The second is a memoir, which, according to Jörg Hensgen, editorial director of Herzog's UK publisher The Bodley Head, will be "filled to the brim with memorable stories and poignant observations, the memoir will throw fascinating light on the influences and ideas that drive Herzog's creativity and have shaped his unique view of the world." It will come out in 2023. Both The Twilight World and the memoir will be published simultaneously in the US by Penguin Press.
In the meantime, here's a spectacular quote from Herzog (from an interview with the Guardian in 2009):
I watched the Anna Nicole Smith show and now it's over, so now I watch WrestleMania and things like that, simply because a poet must not avert his eyes. You have to know in which collective world you are living; you cannot isolate yourself, you should not.
Quite!
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Big Blue wears Red Hat
By System Administrator	 16th August 2000 12:00 am 15th December 2015 4:05 pm
IBM Corporation and Red Hat announced an agreement that will enable a commercial Linux developer to bundle all of IBM's Linux-based software into e-business solutions.
Through the collaboration, IBM and Red Hat will jointly market, distribute and support bundled IBM, Lotus, Tivoli and Red Hat software offerings. IBM will provide the software for Red Hat Linux solutions through products such as IBM DB2 Universal Database, IBM WebSphere family of e-business servers, Lotus Domino, Tivoli Framework, and IBM's Small Business Pack for Linux.
The agreement is unique for both companies in two respects:
First, it marks the first time that Red Hat and IBM will embrace and promote each other's Linux offerings providing both enterprise and small-business solutions for its customers worldwide.
Second, through a marketing agreement, IBM and Red Hat will jointly fund marketing and channel recruitment and enablement efforts focused on IBM/Red Hat solution bundles for the worldwide Linux market.
Initially, Red Hat will sell Red Hat Linux and Red Hat services bundled with IBM software such as DB2, WebSphere Application Server, Lotus Domino and the IBM Small Business Pack for Linux. The agreement allows Red Hat to use any IBM, Lotus or Tivoli software available on Linux in future solutions.
These complete e-business and Internet solutions will be available through Red Hat's online marketplace at redhat.com, beginning September 1, 2000. IBM and Red Hat will work jointly to enable channel partners to sell these solutions. Additionally, IBM intends to sell these same solutions through its 'ShopIBM' Web site.
The announcement extends and strengthens the relationship between Red Hat and IBM that began in early 1999, when IBM announced support for Red Hat Linux. Since then, the two companies have worked closely on several projects designed to advance the adoption of Linux and open source software.
According to International Data Corp. (IDC) research, paid Linux shipments grew faster than any other server operating system over the past two years. Figures for 1999 show Linux shipments held 24.6 percent of the server operating system market, up from 15.8 in 1998.
Research firm Netcraft, Inc. (www.netcraft.com) states that as of May 2000, 30 percent of all public Web sites run on Linux-based operating systems, making Linux the most popular choice for deploying public Web sites. IDC research shows 40 percent of all spending on Linux servers is for Internet-related applications, firmly entrenching Linux servers in the Internet infrastructure.
Recently, IBM announced Linux running on a wrist watch, a contribution to the open source community of source code of SashXB for Linux, which offers Linux developers the ability to write Web applications that are tightly integrated into the Linux desktop and 'Small Business Pack for Linux,' a promotional offering of software for e-businesses.
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ARTICLES TECH 4 WAYS DRONES WILL SOON MAKE THE FUTURE MISERABLE
4 Ways Drones Will Soon Make the Future Miserable
Alaric Penname
We never got our flying cars, hoverboards, or evolved talking ape people like science fiction promised us, but we do have something close: unmanned drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs, are kind of like Rosie the Robot, if Rosie was tasked with killing terrorists and didn't have a sassy mouth. If you could get a soulless robot to do your job for you, would you? Of course. And that's why unmanned flying drones exist and aren't going anywhere any time soon.
That's also why you should be pretty scared.
4 The Pervert Brigade Now Has a Brand New Weapon in Its Creepy Arsenal
As long as there are women who are willing to step outside the house with more than a wristful of skin showing, there are going to be men who want to stare at them. Nobody's happy about it, but that's where we are. Up until now, women could take comfort in knowing that unless they were enormously famous or living next door to a complete creep, backyards and private homes were safe territory. Not anymore.
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"Say goodbye to nude sunbathing Thursdays, gentlemen."
A student in Florida attached a camera to a flying drone and sent it for a spin ... over a completely clueless sunbather. Not to mention in front of an apartment window and over a busy freeway. Fortunately, the drone crashed without hurting anything other than our sense of privacy.
Speaking of crashing ...
3 Drones Are Really Good at Crashing
First up, if you thought the American government was only using drones to spy on foreigners, forget it. FBI director Robert Mueller freely admits that using surveillance drones on American soil is totally an option. But you probably already knew that, right? Right.
You probably also knew that Congress passed a bill that calls for 30,000 drones up in U.S. airspace by 2030. Thirty thousand. That can mean 30,000 tiny backpack-size drones like the one the spying doofus above used to be a creep, or 30,000 Global Hawks so big they can take out 30,000 neighborhoods. Who knows? It's a mystery!
"Are you sure one guy speeding is worth glassing the whole interstate?"
In addition to the obvious problem of "Holy shit, our government is spying on us," these drones are still in the Kitty Hawk Wright Flyer stage of their development. This is brand new technology that everyone is still figuring out ... which explains why drones crash between 30 and 300 times more than similarly sized civil planes. And if you're worried why we don't have more specific statistics, so are we. It turns out drone crash numbers are pretty hard to come by.
What we do know is that on top of the regular problems that come with flying a man made machine where God never intended people to be, drones face communication glitches and risky pilot decisions made by guys playing Top Gun with their remote controlled robot plane. Once you take a human out of the aircraft, the pilots get a lot more gutsy and error prone.
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Which is why the Air Force no longer lets drone pilots use hard liquor in their drinking games.
2 They Will Swarm!
The next generation of drones are about the size of gnats and can fly, record audio and video, and adapt power from their environmental surroundings -- eliminating the need to go home and refuel. Theoretically, once these drones are launched, they can remain active for weeks at a time. Oh, and they can kill people, too. These "micro-drones" are, according to the U.S. Air Force, "Unobtrusive, pervasive, and lethal." Three words that don't belong in a string unless you're talking about a new insecticide.
These micro-UAVs are specifically designed for "homeland" use and are slated to be the next big game changer in urban warfare scenarios. A simulation of next-gen drone functionality was recently exhibited in this U.S. Army promotional video:
As you can see, next-gen micro-UAVs can be launched in a swarm from an airplane, and then perform missions as a group or individually. A single drone can be selected for "direct attack missions," where it will hang out for a few days and then shoot some sniper in the back of the head with its arsenal of "incapacitating chemicals, combustible payloads, or even explosives." Together, as a swarm. And if that not-quite-realistic computer simulation isn't scary enough for you, just know that civilian researchers have gotten further along in making bug-bots.
Fidel Castro is about to come down with a serious case of "choked to death on robots."
1 The Only Anti-Drone Technology Available Makes You Look Like an Idiot
In the past, the go-to movie shortcut for "paranoid" was a tinfoil hat, usually perched atop a crazy-eyed nutjob. Artist Adam Harvey has updated the tinfoil hat with a line of clothes explicitly created to block infrared camera technology on drones. Unfortunately, the clothes look like this:
Adam Harvey
We're calling it Terrorist-Sheik.
The clothing uses metal fibers to reflect heat -- inward -- and is made from a material similar to the stuff they use to make fireproof suits for firefighters. Stealth Wear will literally make you invisible to drones by blocking your heat signature, which is great until you realize you're probably leaving a sweat trail everywhere you go.
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How Traffic Is Rotting Your Brain
That's not road rage, it's air pollution destroying your cognitive functioning
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