creative savv: How does this frugal family celebrate a milestone birthday?
How does this frugal family celebrate a milestone birthday?
This past Sunday, my two daughters celebrated their 18th birthday! I can hardly believe it myself. They still seem so young to me. After all, when I was their age, I was much older.
Whether we like it or not, we all have birthdays. So why not celebrate as best as we can?!
Julia and Grace's birthday was a milestone birthday. You don't turn 18 very often. I like to make the "big day" an extra special one for each of our family members. I'll tell you all about it.
First of all, this isn't a zero-dollar budget birthday. We do have a healthy budget saved for each birthday. But that budget is in line with the rest of our expenditures.
I give my kids choices in how they'd like their birthday budget spent. Would they like to have a fun time with friends? Would they like to eat out in a restaurant? Would they like to do something fun with just the family?
The year that I let the kids paint on the family room wall, as the entertainment portion of their birthday party (as that was an inexpensive activity), the girls also chose to get take out burgers from McDonalds for all their friends that day.
Another year they chose to go to the Seattle Center Fun Forest and ride some rides (costs money), but also chose to have a nice family dinner at home.
For my son's birthday this past autumn, he chose to spend the budget on a ferry ride across the Sound, then an inexpensive lunch in a coffee house, for his birthday celebration.
So, you see, the budget is just big enough to provide either some entertainment that costs money OR a nice dinner out in a restaurant.
For the remainder of the day, I provide as many special moments as I can, without really spending much money.
Breakfast in the dining room (we mostly eat breakfast in the kitchen or the family room), with the room decorated for the their day (these decorations will double as spring and Easter decor).
Blueberry pancakes, with real maple syrup, and scrambled eggs. The real maple syrup is a splurge for us. It's quite pricey in our area, so I buy it rarely. This time, it came out of the regular grocery budget. The blueberries are from the freezer, the last of summer's harvest from our garden.
Making breakfast special -- the family gathered at the dining room table. No extra cost.
This idea I shamelessly stole from The Prudent Homemaker. It was darling and I knew my daughters would love this. Brandy, from the Prudent Homemaker, had printed out some images of butterflies, cut them out and hung them from the light fixture. How very cute, right?! I could not get the color portion of our printer to work; so I broke down and bought some scrapbook butterfly stickers (but they were on sale).
I had some gold thread in my sewing box, which I used to suspend each butterfly from our chandelier arms. I hung the butterflies at different heights, to give the illusion of a flurry of butterflies overhead.
I plan on leaving the butterflies up throughout spring, then carefully, take them down and store with our spring decorations. Hopefully, I can get several years of use from these butterflies. We'll have to see how I can store them to avoid damage.
I have to admit, I hemmed and hawed in the store over whether to buy these, but ultimately it was Julia and Grace's choice if they wanted their budget spent this way, and so we did. The cost for a sheet of 16 butterfly stickers, with tax -- $3.94.
I bring whatever flowers I can find outside, into the house on birthdays. My son has a November birthday, so mostly for his birthday, I find evergreens and berry clusters. These bits from the landscape can make a nice table decoration on their own, that time of year.
For Julia and Grace's birthday this year, we have petite daffodils in bloom. A small vase of tiny daffodils helped add some cheer to the table. Some years the Camellia bush is in bloom, and I float several blossoms in a bowl of water. No cost for the flowers.
Decorating the dining room -- a lot of cheer, but not a lot of money!
I have always, except once, baked and decorated the birthday cakes myself. There was the one odd year, when both girls really, really wanted a store-bought cake. That was their choice, and we used part of the birthday budget to pay for that one cake. Every other year I have baked a cake from scratch (I think they taste better, and I can't have dairy, so baking it myself ensures that I can eat some, too). Some years I've done quite elaborate designs on top. Other years, I've tossed a whole lot of M & Ms on the cake, and called it decorated.
This year, I baked a yellow cake a few days early. I find it is easier on me, if I bake the cake layers a few days in advance, wrap in plastic and freeze, until I'm ready to frost. Then the day before their birthday, I get the layers out of the freezer, bring to room temp and frost. I stay sane for their birthday this way, instead of running around like a crazy woman trying to be the perfect birthday mom, with a million things on my to-do list.
The frosting is a simple vanilla buttercream. And I went with the butterfly motif. As you can see, my hand was shaky at times, and the cake is not perfect looking. But my daughters think it's wonderful and that's all that matters. Mostly, I just try to have fun with it, and not worry too much about it being just right. If you don't let it stress you out, cake decorating is really quite fun.
A very delicious birthday cake, using ingredients that I had in my kitchen -- no additional cost!
We reuse our birthday candles, with one rule of exception. If it will only be our immediate family, we use the used candles. If anyone else will be present for the cake, then we use new candles. Here's my thinking on that. The members of our immediate family directly benefit from our many money-saving strategies. Guests, do not experience that benefit, and so we wish to provide our very best for our guests.
And the candles that are too short to reuse? Those are saved to make into fire starters for the charcoal grill.
I'd like to say that these are gently-used birthday candles. But you can see for yourself, that we get as much mileage out of a tiny candle as we can. But they are my favorite price -- free!
What about paper plates and paper napkins? Using what we have costs nothing. I like our regular dishes, and I have some fun cloth napkins in my large assortment to choose from. And in years that we have guests enjoying cake with us, it's always nicer to have a real plate on your lap than a flimsy paper one.
We all like to compare what we're giving to our kids at varying ages. Even I do that. I asked my sister on the phone last week, what they gave their son when he turned 18. I think we just like to get a feel for what others think is "normal", and make sure that we're on track, given our own particular financial priorities.
Since this is a milestone birthday, We wanted to give our daughters one gift that marked the occasion. This gift is ear piercing. Neither daughter has pierced ears, so this is a first for both of them. To go with the piercing, I gave them earrings passed down to me, from my mother and grandmother.
And since we have made it a priority to save for their university educations (beginning September), the other gifts need to be practical ones. I had wanted each daughter to have a cheap, pre-paid cell phone for on-campus, so they can keep in touch with each other, and keep me informed of when they'd be coming home each day, as well as to have in case of an emergency.
So for their birthday, they were each given the least expensive pre-paid phone; but these phones won't be activated until they have real need to use them (which may be this summer, depending on where they land summer jobs, otherwise just before fall quarter begins).
And finally, the 3rd gift (we seem to give gifts in 3s whether for Christmas or birthdays). They are both realizing the value of knowing how to sew. One daughter saw another young girl wearing some fun fleece pants, while we were on vacation last month. I told her that she could easily make herself a pair, using my pj pants pattern. The other daughter likes to take thrift shop finds and embellish them. Last week she was adding lace trim to a simple dress to add some of her personality. So, we gave both of them a gift card to Jo-Ann Fabrics, to pay for a new project each.
For this frugal family, the gifts are not over the top, but tend towards the practical with a bit of fun thrown in -- and both girls were really thrilled with what they received.
Our son did something clever, as well. He gave them egift cards to ebay. On the envelope holding the printout with their egift card info, he wrote down some interesting facts about March 17: who died, what country was invaded, who was born, and who created something, on that day in history. Wikipedia has a list of historical events for every day of the year -- very interesting trivia.
We reuse gift wrap, cutting off the shabby bits and pieces with tape on them. The wrapping paper in these photos was on my son's gift in November; and as it was, it was free in-store gift wrapping, so it didn't even cost us anything, then!
If gifts are large enough, I find that I have a big square in the center of the gift, with no wrinkles, tears or folds. A piece like this can be saved and used on gifts of smaller size.
If I am out of tape, I use glue-stick to seal the wrapping paper.
I like to use fabric ribbons. I buy them on spools at the fabric store, many yards for $1 -$2. The fabric ribbons can be ironed and reused numerous times. And they're handy to have around for craft and sewing projects, like making ribbon flowers to sew onto a young girls dress or top.
Wrap and ribbons -- no cost.
Let's face it, we all have a stash of boxed cards that need using up. I've been trying to use mine up for years. It could take many, many decades of birthdays to use them all!
I collect vintage print greeting cards. These two are from that collection, and now are our birthday cards to our two daughters.
If you think it sounds too cheap to reuse gift wrap and ribbons, or use a boxed greeting card for a birthday card, this is how I see it. The less I spend on the items that don't have lasting value, the more I can spend on the event and gifts that they will hold onto for a while.
Birthday cards from my collection -- no extra cost here.
Julia and Grace chose to have a nice dinner in a restaurant to celebrate the occasion. They had never eaten at Benihana before, and I suggested this as a unique restaurant experience.
Benihana is a Japanese steak house, with a dinner-show put on by the chef at the table. Half of the table is the grill, and the diners are seated around. The chef performs a few tricks with his knife and fork, as he's cooking everyone's meals. I don't often find great value in eating in restaurants. But Benihana was an exception to this, with entertainment as part of the meal.
We stayed well within our dinner budget. We looked over the menu online, while still at home, and made our selections taking the budget into account. We shared entrees and substituted a couple of appetizers for entrees as a way to keep costs down, and not have a ton of food wasted. As it was, my 2 daughters shared an entree and still couldn't finish it all.
We do tip very generously when we order this way. Our tips are based on what 5 of us might have spent, had we all ordered entrees. With tax and tip, we spent $86 for dinner.
I do consider how much our transportation will cost. The gas was paid for from our regular monthly gas budget. This means that I will have to take care when planning my errands for the next couple of weeks, to ensure our gas money holds out for the month.
Parking in downtown Seattle is very expensive during regular work hours and on Saturdays. But on Sundays, street parking in downtown Seattle is free! It's limited to 2 hours, in most places, during the day, but after 5 PM, the limit is extended to 3 hours. Whenever a special occasion falls on a Sunday, we always consider downtown as a possible excursion venue, because of the free parking.
Gas, covered, and parking free!
Pictures, pictures, pictures! I like to print out at least a couple of the pictures right away, instead of just saving them all on the computer. Prints are nice to have. So often we never get around to looking at our digital photos.
We have a photo printer, paper and ink, so we can print out a couple of photos at home for free.
A while back I signed them up for Baskin-Robbins Birthday Club. About 6 days before their birthday, they received an email coupon redeemable for a kid's scoop of ice cream, for free.
Other places I have signed up with include Sephora, Panera, Starbucks, Baskin-Robbins, Menchie's Frozen Yogurt, our local mall, and Payless Shoes, for their birthday programs. All of these businesses email or send coupons for free products or percentage off a purchase.
We spent money in 3 areas for this celebration: decorations (the butterfly stickers), the gifts, and the dinner out. No additional money was spent on the cake, candles, flowers, plates/napkins, gift wrap, cards, transportation/parking, photos, and one of the gifts to each of the girls (the earrings).
It's clear that one of our biggest expenses for this birthday celebration was the meal out. Most years we spend about half this amount if we're doing a restaurant meal for a birthday. Turning 18 is a big deal, so we spent on the high side.
We save on costs where we can, so that we can afford what we think will provide the most value to mark the occasion.
Julia and Grace's 18th birthday was a day to remember. We had a blast, but didn't break the bank in the process!
How have you celebrated family birthdays, especially milestone ones?
Happy birthday girls :) That sounds like a great birthday :) I like that you let them decide what to spend the money on for their birthday celebrations, so they can choose what's important to them. Do they ever want to do completely different things from each other, or do they generally agree?
The cake is really beautiful, and at first I thought it was the store-bought one! And it sounds like you had a great dinner out. I also like spending more on good quality food when I go out.
I think for my 18th I had an afternoon party with my extended family (it's a bit long ago to remember now!) and for my 21st I had a costume party with friends and family. Both parties were at my parents' house, so were not too expensive, and my mum, sister and I did all the cooking.
My parents also gave us each quite a valuable gift for our 21st birthdays. They gave me a laptop, which was great because I was living out of home and didn't have a computer. My sister got a contribution to her volunteer work in Africa and I can't remember what my brother got, but something similar.
yes, they do sometimes have different ideas of what they'd like to do. But they seem to work it out between themselves. They are really good at give and take; it doesn't seem like one of the two always gets her way, but they each seem to have things the way they would like from event to event.
As much as feasible, I've tried to give them choices in financial decisions, so that they'll have experience working within a budget when they're on their own.
Your 18th and 21st birthdays sound like you had a fun time. The memories are what are lasting. How great that your dad could be in Brisbane for your birthday last year! I had moved away from my parents' area when I was in my 20s and so often celebrated birthdays without them.
What's your next milestone? Is it 30? Have fun planning it!
It sounds like you all had a great day! When I was a kid, my parents would take us out to dinner at the restaurant of our choice. We always enjoyed that!
I think kids really enjoy "the choosing" part of their celebration. That's wonderful that your parents gave you this as part of your birthday celebration.
Happy Birthday, Julia and Grace! Lili, the picture of them as little girls was adorable but made me a little sad--I bet it's felt like a blink in time since they were that age.
I agree with you on comparing with others what they do for birthdays--sometimes it's helpful to know what the "norm" is (although that can get tricky, too). It sounds like you gave them a fantastic celebration. Isn't this why we all budget, so we can splurge on the occasions that deserve it?
I think I spy you in the mirror taking a picture! Ha!
I'll pass your good wishes on to the girls -- thanks!
I was a bit teary-eyed when I was adding my message to their birthday cards. I had to keep telling myself that it was okay, we were just moving on to a new phase in our relationships, which would be filled with great joy, as well! Funny thing, at the table last night, one of them was referring to something from several years ago and she said, "when I was a girl. . ." We all cracked up, because it just still sounds so funny. They are my girls still!
Being frugal really is all about choices. It's not the same as being "poor". You can be poor and be a spendthrift or frugal, and you can be well-off and be a spendthrift or frugal. I wish that concept was better understood by the larger society. For our family, we choose to economize in many areas so we can do the "big" things. That's what makes life fun and memorable for us!
Yes, that's me! I'm horrible with a camera. I gave up apologizing for my poor photography a long time ago. I didn't even see myself in the corner of the shot until my very last proofing, and then just thought, "oh well, it would be a lot of work to go back and crop that one". So, I'm a bad photographer AND I'm lazy about some things!
What a special day you created, I'm sure your girls appreciated it.
I would store the butterflies between the pages of a phonebook or magazine.
I love Benihana too. My brother took me to a similar restaurant in Shoreline (on Aurora) great entertainment.
Thank you. Good idea on storing the butterflies. I'd like to keep them for as many years as I can. They're fairly sturdy, scrapbook stickers, not the peel and stick sort of stickers.
It was freezing cold Sunday, and windy, which made the cold go right through us. So my son, the one with sense, put on his jacket and gloves as soon as we got out of the restaurant. But my daughters, flung their jackets over the railing behind them, so as to show off their dresses. Men and women just have different priorities!
We have quite a high gift budget for our family - Christmas and birthddays. A set limit for those that we buy for. We do not buy the kids gifts or treats throughout the year (my 4 stepkids) as they have plenty that they receive as have two entire families, 3 Grandmas and 1 Grandpa plus Aunts and Uncles. We generally eat in as taking a family of six out to dinner costs a fortune, although at least once a year we do splurge on it. I think it is a great idea you let them choose how to spend the budget. My stepdaughter had those stickers on her walls in her room at our house!
I find it interesting to know how others do things, like celebrate special occasions. Yes, taking 6 out to a restaurant can be so expensive. And so, with 5 in our family, eating out is a big deal for us. I would prefer to go out once or twice per year, but to a restaurant with excellent food, service and/or entertainment, than to regularly eat at cheap take out places with mediocre food.
I think our family really appreciates the times that we do eat out, because they are few and far between, compared to the experience of many of my kids' peers.
My gosh, that's quite the elaborate and thought through birthday celebration! I totally love the pictures of your girls, has one always had bangs and the other not? And the butterfly decorations are just wonderful.
Birthdays in my family were never really a big deal. I always had a sleepover party, but don't remember any gifts of note.
Although, one year I decided for some crazy reason to give goldfish as party favors. I have NO idea why I thought this was a good idea, but we bought a bunch of plastic fish bowls, and each girl at the party received a goldfish.
Well... as fate would have it, my cat thought that the goldfish was wonderful entertainment that I had provided specifically for him, and when I came home from school a few days later I discovered, to my horror, that he'd knocked the bowl on the floor and eaten the fish!
Soooo, the next weekend, my dad & stepmom took me out to eat for my birthday. They had been out of town, and knew nothing about the goldfish party favors or the cat-eating-fish incident. They gave me a present, and when I opened it up I discovered a lovely framed photograph of a kitten staring into a goldfish bowl! They said they saw it in a shop on their trip and instantly thought of me. Oh my! Must have been some sort of bizarre ESP situation going on there.
They both had bangs for many years, then one of them chose to let hers grow out, about age 10 or 11, and they've kept to their own look since. It does make it much easier for others to tell them apart.
How tragically funny, your kitty and the fish! And how amazing that your dad and stepmom would choose that particular picture for you.
When I was growing up, we had a cat and fish. When we went out to run errands with my mom during the day, she'd have to put the fishbowl on a shelf in the closet, to keep the fish safe. The fish provided hours of entertainment/torture for the cat. Our kitty was sure that someday she'd have a nice little snack. Never happened.
Too funny! Wouldn't you have loved to see just what happened after that photo was shot?!
Neither of you probably read kid's books, but there is a series out called Mr. Putter and Tabby. It's about an old man and his cat. In one book, Mr. Putter gets a goldfish. All these comments reminded me of the book. It's a riot.
I do occasionally wander through the children's section of the library. I'll see if they have the Mr. Putter books.
You know, when my mom would put the fishbowl in the closet, and close the doors. . .well, when we'd come home, the cat would be sitting in front of those closet doors, and occasionally slip her paw under the door to see if she could pull it open.
I am sure this Birthday was a little emotional for you-having your daughters turning 18, knowing college is just around the corner, larger life decisions to be made. I remember feeling a little weepy-I tend to be a little emotional over everyone growing up!! Oh well-enough about that! It looks as though the Birthday celebration was well planned, executed and thoroughly enjoyed by all! I like your butterfly theme-so popular this season and who doesn't like a wispy and colorful butterfly!
It was a bit emotional. I have to keep reminding myself that we are just entering a new phase, that will be equally joy-filled!
I am so glad that butterflies have been popular this year. I adore butterflies and all they symbolize with new beginnings and rebirths. they are a reminder that there is always much to look forward to.
I'll pass on your good wishes to my daughters -- thank you!
Happy Belated Birthday, Grace and Julia!
When I was growing up, my mother was very organized with birthdays (there were four of us.) We got to have a party every other year and she had us coordinated on off years. The parties were always at home and a lot of fun. Also, every year on our birthdays, we got to chose what we had for supper that night. However, the best part of having a birthday was that you didn't have to wash any dishes or do any chores on that day. We all loved that and sometimes held it over the other sister's heads.
With my own boys, I did the every other year party thing that my mother did. Sometimes they were at home and sometimes they were out like a bowling party. Since they have gotten older, we try to do something as a family. One of them has a birthday in a couple of weeks and he wants to see the symphony do Disney's Fantasia. I bought the tickets last night.
I will pass on your birthday greetings to my daughters -- thank you!
It sounds like you have great memories of your birthdays. I love the part of not having to do chores on your birthday, AND making sure that your sisters knew that you didn't have to do any chores on that day.
Oh, Fantasia would be wonderful to see done live. We've watched the video of it so, so many times. I hope you and your family enjoy the performance. It should be a memorable birthday for your son.
Your kids are lucky that you put so much thought into their birthdays! At our house, Link always wanted to do things with friends, so we'd have a family meal at home or at grandparents' home one day, and an activity on another. The choices were: an activity such as a movie or the Clay Cafe with 1-3 friends, a lot of friends for an evening party, or a smaller number for a sleepover. The parties at home would involve homemade snacks like cake and popcorn, but we always bought Pocky!
Those sound like very fun parties for Link, and a way to include both a family event and friends' one. I'm sure Link remembers his birthday celebrations fondly. What is Pocky? I know of a cookie stick called Pocky. Is that it?
Yes, it's them - a must for anime fans!
Oh, that makes sense. My son has a couple of friends who are really into anime, and they have often had boxes of Pocky with them.
It sounds like your daughters had a very special day. Good job putting it all together for them! My oldest (daughter) turned 13 this past October. This was a milestone for us, as we now have a teenager in the house! Grammy and Gramps came over on her birthday (it was mid-week), for a nice family dinner and family gifts. Then on the weekend, my daughter had about 20 of her girl friends over for a slumber party. Imagine, 20 giggling, squealing girls in the basement keeping us up half of the night! But they had a very fun time, and I was glad to do this for our daughter.
I love those butterfly stickers. Where did you find them?
The stickers are a Martha Stewart product. Our Jo-Ann Fabric and Crafts carries them here, in with the scrapbooking supplies. Good luck finding some.
I'll pass your birthday wishes on to my daughters -- thank you!
I am seeing butterflies everywhere I go (fake ones, not the real deal, sadly). It must be a popular motif for this spring, or maybe all springs, and I'm just now noticing them! LOL!
Thanks for your kind comments! Have a wonderful evening!


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Up to this point, mere encouragement has not been enough. Governments and individual businesses have required inoculation, but much of the effort has seemed to focus on public information campaigns—that the shots are safe and the virus gravely dangerous—and incentives such as lottery entries. Though vaccinations have ticked up amid the delta surge, infections remain far too high: ten times higher, Dr. Anthony Fauci told Axios Thursday, than where we need to be to end the pandemic.
To some extent, there is a limit to what Biden, whose poll numbers have slid amid the resurgent pandemic, can do. Lack of trust in the vaccines, driven by cynical culture warriors and conspiracy theories, is going to be difficult to overcome. It's not Biden's fault that some would apparently prefer to take a horse dewormer than a safe, effective vaccine, or that GOP leaders like Ron DeSantis and Greg Abbott seem hellbent on turning their states into COVID petri dishes, or that the pandemic has been so absurdly politicized. Bold moves from the executive branch are undoubtedly a good thing. But it remains to be seen whether inconvenience will have the intended effect. Asked Wednesday if the steps Biden plans to announce would "influence the average American's day-to-day life," Psaki replied: "It depends on if you're vaccinated or not."
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Web browsers have taken over the desktop. For many people, the browser is the most used application, which is why it's so important to choose a stable browser that suits all your needs. Linux users can pick from a dozen web browsers of different kinds – from lightweight and command-line to cross-platform and extremely extensible ones.
All browsers on this list are free to download, install and use, and they earned their place on this list because they're reliable in everyday use and/or actively developed.
Here is the list of 10 best browsers for Linux
Firefox is the third most popular browser in the world, and likely the most popular Linux browser, since it ships with many Linux distributions by default. Its initial release in 2002 marked the rebirth of Netscape Navigator, though it wasn't until 2004 that it became known as "Firefox", having previously been known as first "Phoenix" and then "Firebird". It's one of the most customizable browsers, and the ocean of user add-ons and themes created for it will likely never be surpassed by other projects. It also performs well – tests show Firefox is the most memory-efficient of the mainstream browsers, in addition to having the best Javascript performance.
However, Mozilla has a history of making things difficult for add-on developers and users by introducing backwards-incompatible changes, one of which was a complete revamp of the UI. The new interface called Australis left many users unhappy and incurred a loss of market share. It wouldn't be unfair to say Mozilla went through a direction crisis, and time will tell if the direction they've chosen will serve them well.
2. Chrome
Chrome is Google's answer to Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Mozilla's Firefox. Chrome took everyone by surprise, offering a lightweight, responsive experience, and a fast Javascript engine. This affected all other browsers, as everyone had to scramble to catch up. Today, it's the most popular browser, holding just over half the market share.
On Linux, you're more likely to see Chromium, which is the open source project that Chrome is based on. However, Chromium still lacks a few potentially useful features, such as H.264 support and Google's version of the Flash plugin. On the other side, it doesn't feature Google's tracking software. Following its main competitors, Chrome ships with only the most basic functionality, but it's very extensible, and the number of add-ons has risen dramatically over the years.
Opera has never had much market share, despite being one of the more innovative browsers – it was the first browser that had the Speed Dial feature. In recent times, they've abandoned their proprietary layout engine, Presto, in favor of Google's fork of WebKit, Blink. This essentially means Opera is now a version of Chromium, a move which disappointed some old users, as some of the customization options have been lost in the transition. However, it retains much of the look and feel of the older versions, and offers mouse gestures, a download manager, extensions, Private Browsing and Turbo Mode. If you still can't get over this change, try Vivaldi – a revival of Opera 12 with many new, exciting features.
4. Konqueror
Konqueror is KDE's one-stop solution for both file and web browsing. By default it uses the KHTML rendering engine, but it also supports KHTML's progeny, WebKit. In somewhat typical KDE fashion, it's an application that does a great deal many things. It features most of the amenities you'd expect in a modern browser, such as tabs, pop-up blocking, ad filtering, bookmark management, and mouseless browsing. Those are just a part of its functionality, though: with KDE's KIO plugins, it's possible to use it for FTP, SAMBA and IMAP browsing, or even as a ISO image viewer. Konqueror is without a doubt the most advanced file / web browser combo application on any platform.
5. Web
The official browser of the GNOME project, Web was previously known as Epiphany. It's a WebKit-based browser which adheres to the design tenets of the GNOME project, offering a clean, simple interface and tight integration with the desktop environment. More recent versions have dropped support for user extensions, but a number of the most popular add-ons have become a core part of the browser. These include ad filtering, Greasemonkey support and mouse gestures.
6. Conkeror
Conkeror is a representative of the wave of minimalist, keyboard-driven GUI browsers. Vimperator was an attempt to transform Firefox into a Vim-like environment. Conkeror, on the other hand, is inspired by the Emacs approach. This is reflected not only in keyboard shortcuts, but also the inherent extensibility. Many Firefox extensions work with Conkeror, and you can customize its appearance with simple CSS scripts. It's a great browser for programmers and fans of mouse-less browsing. Conkeror is not related to Konqueror; it's based on Mozilla's technologies.
7. Pale Moon
Pale Moon started out as an optimized Firefox build for Windows, but has since expanded onto other platforms, and has moved away from Firefox in a number of ways. The most obvious is the decision to retain the classic Firefox UI instead of switching to Australis. This makes Pale Moon a desirable alternative for dissatisfied Firefox users, but there are a few caveats. Its Windows-centric legacy shows in a number of places, notably in the fact that the profile migration tool is not available for Linux. Pale Moon also isn't fully compatible with Firefox add-ons, and some of the more popular extensions don't work with it. If that's not an obstacle for you, Pale Moon is an easy recommendation for anyone tired of Mozilla's antics.
8. Midori
Midori is a lightweight alternative browser for GTK-based desktop environments, such as GNOME or Xfce. It supports both GTK+ 2 and GTK+ 3, and it's based on WebKit. Due to its fast startup time and responsiveness, it has become the default browser for a number of Linux distributions. Like many browsers on this list, it follows the Opera rather than Firefox approach to providing features out-of-the-box: it comes with support for user scripts and styles, smart bookmarks, ad blocking, mouse gestures, and a speed dial, among other things.
9. QupZilla
QupZilla could be viewed as Midori's Qt counterpart in the context of this list. Although the name sounds similar, it has no relation to Mozilla. It offers a lightweight yet feature-packed alternative to its better-known competitors. QupZilla is based on WebKit, and comes with with its own ad blocker and speed dial. It also offers an interesting approach to viewing bookmarks, history and RSS feeds – it unifies them all in a single window. Another distinguishing feature is that QupZilla tries to seamlessly integrate with the user's environment.
10. Lynx
Lynx is a text-based browser – it runs in the terminal. In case you're wondering why would anyone bother, there are a few situations where it might come in handy: maybe X has crashed and you need to Google how to fix it, or perhaps the documentation for some other console application is in HTML, and it's a lot more elegant to just open in it in another tab. Lynx is the oldest such project still around, dating all the way back from 1992. Lynx doesn't do much: it renders text from web pages. It has no support for images or video or Javascript. Consequently, it's blazing fast, and fairly secure.
What's your favorite web browser for Linux? Do you know of any other browsers worth mentioning? Tell us about them in the comments.
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April 5, 2019 | in Dispatches, News, Weekly Roundup | by Diána Vonnák, Lara Norgaard, and Poupeh Missaghi
Start your spring off with literary dispatches from around the world!
With the arrival of spring comes a new slate of literary translations, festivals, and events all over the world. In Iran, we follow the sprouting of two new literary journals and several translations challenging the country's censorship laws; in Hungary, we look forward to the 26th Budapest International Book Festival and the season of literary awards; and in Brazil, we discover a range of upcoming events celebrating such topics as independent publishing, the Portuguese language, and International Women's Day.
Poupeh Missaghi, Editor-at-Large, reporting for Iran
March 20 marked the spring equinox, Nowruz (the Persian New Year), and the celebrations around it. To see the previous year off and welcome the new one, in addition to providing their readers with reading material for the holiday season, Iranian journals have long published special issues, each covering a range of diverse topics including, but not limited to: economy, philosophy, sports, film, and literature.
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Be Small: An Interview with Marcelo Lotufo
March 25, 2019 | in Interviews | by Lara Norgaard
That's what I want for Jabuticaba. We do not want to grow. We just want to keep doing good books.
Marcelo Lotufo is a literary translator and founder of Edições Jabuticaba, an independent Brazilian press with a unique focus on poetry in translation. In today's post, he sits down with Asymptote's Editor-at-Large for Brazil, Lara Norgaard, to discuss the burgeoning indie publishing scene in São Paulo and the role of translation in Brazilian literature.
Lara Norgaard (LN): What was your vision when your started Jabuticaba? How did you see it fitting into the Brazilian publishing scene?
Marcelo Lotufo (ML): I had the sense that an indie scene was starting in Brazil. Lote 42, for instance, was a press that had started a few years before Jabuticaba. Editora Patuá had started around the same time. And Marília Garcia, who is a poet, she and her husband, Leonardo Gandolfi, who is also a poet, also started a press, LunaParque. The scene had been around for four, maybe five years before Jabuticaba started. Before, there were some smaller presses that didn't last for very long. People would start self-publishing and then a bigger press would invite them to their offices and then they would close the press. You saw that happen with Daniel Galera and other groups.
Poetry has always been sidelined, though. Brazil doesn't have a big poetry market in the big presses, so smaller presses tend to crop up and do a lot of poetry. 7Letras and Azougue, which are both from Rio, have been around for almost twenty years and they've done a lot of poetry. But for a long time there wasn't exactly a scene.
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Jumping Between the Urban and the Rural: An Interview with Rodrigo Fuentes
March 18, 2019 | in Interviews | by José García Escobar
Characters can take on a life of their own as you write them, and that can hold a great amount of interest and suspense for me.
In late 2016, the Guatemalan publishing house SOPHOS put out Rodrigo Fuentes's literary debut, entitled Trucha panza arriba. The book follows, sometimes closely and at other times tangentially, Don Henrik, a white landowner living in Guatemala, and the way his decisions and economic and emotional downfall affect those around him. The book includes intense dramas like "Dive"—available in Asymptote's Winter 2019 Issue—and "Ubaldo's Island"; vibrating suspense stories like "Whisky"; and profound character explorations like "Henrik." And all of them are wrapped in exquisite dialogue, like "Terrace," my favorite story. I told Rodrigo it was my favorite.
"Really?" Rodrigo said, somehow confused.
"Sí," I told him, and said it was a tight story. "Apretada," I said, "elegantly condensed, effective, quick as a flash." READ MORE…
Meet the Publisher: Book*hug's Hazel Millar and Jay MillAr on French Canadian Literature in Translation
January 10, 2019 | in Interviews, Publisher Profile | by Sarah Moses
"We realized that we were interested in risk."
Book*hug is an independent Canadian publisher based in Toronto. Since 2004, the press has been committed to bringing underrepresented voices into print and to pushing the boundaries of what literature can be. Book*hug's first title was translated from the Danish and the press has gone on to publish numerous Scandinavian works in translation alongside French Canadian titles. Sarah Moses, Asymptote's Editor-at-Large for Argentina, sat down with co-publishers Hazel Millar and Jay MillAr, to chat about their interest in works that take a risk, how translation fits in with what they're doing as a press, and a few of the titles by French Canadian authors that they're excited about.
Sarah Moses: How did Book*hug get started?
Jay MillAr: The first book that we ever published was a translation. The Toronto International Festival of Authors always has a country of focus and in 2004 it was Denmark. A focus of the festival that year was on Denmark and there were all these writers coming to Toronto that didn't yet have books translated in English so the assistant to the director was calling publishers and asking them if they would consider applying for money from the Danish Arts Council and then producing a book in English by one of the authors coming to the festival. I was working at Coach House Books at the time but they didn't want to do it so I asked if it would be okay if I did it with my imprint, BookThug, which was at that time more or less a chapbook press. They said sure, go ahead, so I applied for the money and received a grant to cover the translation of a book called Pencil of Rays and Spiked Mace, selected poems by Niels Lyngsø, which was translated by Gregory Pardlo, an American poet who had been living in Denmark for some time and was interested in translation.
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Meet the Publisher: Feminist Press' Lauren Rosemary Hook on Feminist Writing in Translation
November 28, 2018 | in Interviews, Publisher Profile | by Sarah Moses
Now that Trump is president, people are like, "of course we need a feminist press." But five years ago people were really questioning why.
Since 1970, Feminist Press has made it its mission to publish marginalized voices and authors writing about issues of equality and gender identity. From the start, founder Florence Howe focused on publishing works in translation from around the world alongside feminist classics by local writers. Almost fifty years later, the press's catalogue continues to reflect these priorities. Senior editor Lauren Rosemary Hook spoke to Sarah Moses, Asymptote's Editor-at-Large for Argentina, about the press's approach to publishing in the current political climate, acquiring works from different countries, and titles in translation that readers can be on the lookout for.
Sarah Moses: How did Feminist Press get started?
Lauren Rosemary Hook: We were founded in 1970 by an English professor named Florence Howe. It was very much a reaction to the few women's studies courses that were popping up at the time. I feel like that's something we take for granted—women's and gender studies—now that programs are available at every university. But I can count on only one hand how many there were across the country then, so it was a very tight-knit group. There was a lot of talk about how there weren't many texts available by women—besides Emily Dickinson—especially in literature, and Florence was a part of this dialogue. A lot of feminist professors and activists at the time met up and Florence went away on vacation and came back and she had all these checks in her mailbox made out to the Feminist Press, and she was like, "I'm doing this?" It's a really fascinating story.
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May 4, 2018 | in News, Weekly Roundup | by Catherine Belshaw, Diána Vonnák, Jacob Silkstone, and Manel Mula Ferrer
The best in the international literary scene right here at Asymptote
Welcome back for a fresh week of literary news from around the globe, featuring the most exciting developments from Hungary, Norway, Spain and the Caribbean.
Diána Vonnák, Editor-at-Large, reporting from Hungary:
A major literary event, the 25th International Book Festival was held in Budapest between 19-22 April. The annual festival is not only a feast of newly published Hungarian literature with roundtable discussions, speeches, and meet-ups, but also a hub for translated literature. This year, Serbia was the guest country, with invited authors such as Milovan Danojlić, Laslo Blasković, Dragan Hamović, Igor Marojević, Radoslav Petković, Dragan Velikić, and Vladislava Vojnović. Authors discussed the place of Serbian literature in the broader European context, and their Hungarian translators talked about the translation process.
A highlight of the Festival was guest of honour Daniel Kehlmann's discussion of his recent book Tyll, a chronicle of the Thirty Years War, featuring the archetypical German trickster Till Eulenspiegel. Kehlmann received the chief award of the Festival, the Budapest Prize, previously awarded to Jorge Semprún, Orhan Pamuk, Günter Grass, and Michel Houellebecq, among others.
The International Book Festival was not the only place where great news about translated literature could be shared these weeks. The Hungarian Books and Translations Office of the Petőfi Literary Museum announced the list of subventioned books for the first half of 2018. Asymptote contributor and Close Approximations winner Owen Good received support for Krisztina Tóth's Pixel, soon to be published by Seagull Books. We can also look forward to Peter Sherwood's translation of The Birds of Verhovina by Ádám Bodor, supported by the same agency.
András Forgách's No Live Files Remain has just been published by Simon and Schuster in Paul Olchváry's translation. The book narrates Forgách's reckoning with his mother's past as an informant of the Kádár regime. Facing family histories and friendships compromised by agent activities is a peculiar genre in Hungarian literature—and literary traditions of virtually every country that experienced intense state surveillance. No Live Files Remain is a crucial addition to this thread, a mother's story that could serve as a counterpart of Péter Esterházy's account of his father in Revised Edition.
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The Asymptote Book Club Is Here!
November 28, 2017 | in News | by Duncan Lewis and Lee Yew Leong
The best of global literature, delivered to you monthly!
Today, we interrupt our regular programming to bring you some exciting news about a groundbreaking initiative we are launching at Asymptote!
We're thrilled to announce the launch of our latest project: the Asymptote Book Club—a new way for you and your loved ones to dip into the wealth of world literature! For as little as USD15 each month, receive a new fiction title hot off the presses of the very best independent publishers in the UK and the US, specially curated by the Asymptote team and delivered to your door.
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As borders of the heart and of the polity continue to thicken and petrify throughout the globe, Asymptote's cross-cultural mission becomes ever more urgent. 2017 has been an incredible year for us. With readers like you standing behind us, we put together a showcase of Banned Countries' Literature to fight Trump's #MuslimBan, gave USD3,000 to six emerging translators through yet another edition of our translation contest, and published 17 Translation Tuesdays at The Guardian. This year has also seen 47 Weekly Dispatches reported from six continents, along with countless reviews and interviews published at the blog. While institutional funding continues to elude us (and we continue to be ineligible for the grants that like organizations in the US or the UK receive), we've certainly worked hard to keep bringing you podcasts and educational guides, in addition to massive quarterly issues featuring new writing from upwards of 25 countries per issue.
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Meet the Publisher: Seagull Books and the Value of Independence
July 13, 2017 | in Publisher Profile | by Sneha Khaund
The idea of target readers out there is a myth: no one can know for certain what people will read.
In a globalized publishing landscape Seagull Books, based primarily in Kolkata, India, stands out as having uniquely made a mark as a world publisher. In its thirty-five years of existence, Seagull has primarily concentrated on publishing literature in translation with a particular emphasis, from its early years, on Indian theatre and cinema from different regional and linguistic backgrounds. Seagull has introduced Indian readers to the joys of literature from different world languages — writers such as the Nobel Prize winners Mo Yan, Imri Kertez, Ellfride Jellinek and the more recent Man Booker International Prize winner László Krasznahorkai. Operating with a small team to produce and design books distinguished by superior literary content and exquisite aesthetic appeal, each Seagull book is a collectible that is also reasonably priced for the Indian buyer. While Asymptote has previously covered Seagull books, Sneha Khaund caught up with Naveen Kishore, Seagull's founder, to know more about how the publishing house continues to support translation and shape world literature.
Sneha Khaund (SK): Can you tell me a bit about how Seagull was conceived?
Naveen Kishore (NK): Overnight. Very specifically, the event that marks our "birth," as it were, was a festival of grassroots theatre I produced in 1982. Around that time there were a lot of theatre groups working with original themes and using their bare bodies with no props or costumes. Their plays dealt with the human condition around them and the dailyness of survival. Working in a 40km radius around Calcutta, these groups were more interested in going into villages and the interiors of the state rather than trying to perform for an urban city audience. At this event I noticed someone in the front row of benches madly sketching the body movements of the performers. So I turned to a theatre scholar, Samik Banerjee, who was also at the time an editor at Oxford University Press, and I said what a pity there is no way to capture this moment. We were not familiar with words like documentation and there was no digital photography and so on at the time. It was Samik da who suggested that a specialist niche publisher focusing on the arts could be a good way of documenting these evolving movements not just in theatre but also in cinema and fine art. We already had a name! Seagull! So Seagull Books was waiting to happen. We decided to explore the possibility of a theatre publishing programme that would do theatre scripts from different Indian languages in translation and document the vibrant New Indian Cinema movement: Satyajit Ray, Shyam Benegal, Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Jabbar Patel, Goutam Ghosh, to name a few. We would not focus on anything but the performing and the visual arts. So after thirty-five years, in fact after the first twenty-six years—that's how long it takes sometimes—all the s, a lot of the Tendulkars, a lot of the Mahaswetas, a lot of these plays have now become textbooks. Classics of Indian drama like Ghasiram Kotwal, Charandas Chor. The irony is that even after thirty five years because it's not a great commercial thing there's still no other dedicated theatre publisher. It just doesn't pay enough. So that was the first lesson for a non-publishing person stepping overnight into publishing — that you have to build a back-list because that's how publishers survive. You can't produce one book, sell it, recover, then re-invest because the way a publishing chain works is that you are expected to keep producing the books. Regardless. No single book is a profit centre. Small numbers selling across a list of say 500 books is how the numbers begin to make sense. Sometimes there are spikes and you sell certain titles very well. These then support the ones that don't sell that well! Who said it is easy?!
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Sustaining Diversity: Translating the Literatures of Smaller European Nations
June 26, 2017 | in Essays | by Rajendra Chitnis
A new study investigates whether the growth in translations from literatures of smaller European countries is matched by an increase in diversity.
Smaller European literatures don't necessarily come from geographically or numerically small nations, but they are generally clustered in what for, say, English, French, or German readers, are European peripheries like the Balkans, the Baltic, Central and Eastern Europe, the Low Countries, the Mediterranean and Scandinavia. They are written in less widely spoken languages, come from less familiar traditions and depend on translation to reach an international audience. A project called 'Translating the Literatures of Small European Nations', funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, aimed to understand both the challenges and opportunities that exist for these literatures as they try to break into the cultural mainstream in the UK, and in June 2017 we finally published a report on our findings.
Our project brought together four academics from the UK who promote very different smaller literatures―not only through their teaching and research, but also through various kinds of public engagement and publisher collaboration: I work on Czech and Slovak at Bristol, Rhian Atkin on Portuguese at Cardiff, Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen on Scandinavian and Zoran Milutinović on South Slav at UCL. We sensed that we work quite similarly, in parallel or even in competition, without much opportunity to discuss how our smaller literatures perceive and promote themselves internationally and how they are received by readers. We suspected that this parallel, competitive experience applied more generally to other professional advocates of smaller European literatures, whether translators, publishers, literary agents or state and third-sector promoters.
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January 27, 2017 | in Dispatches, News | by Flora Brandl, Maíra Mendes Galvão, and Sarah Moses
Updates from Brazil, Argentina, Germany, and Austria
Would you believe we have already reached the end of January? We've already brought you reports from eleven different nations so far this year, but we're thrilled to share more literary news from South America and central Europe this week. Our Editor-at-Large for Argentina, Sarah Moses, brings us news of literary greats' passing, while her new colleague Maíra Mendes Galvão covers a number of exciting events in Brazil. Finally, a University College London student, Flora Brandl, has the latest from German and Austrian.
Asymptote's Argentina Editor-at-Large, Sarah Moses, writes about the death of two remarkable authors:
The end of 2016 was marked by the loss of Argentinian writer Alberto Laiseca, who passed away in Buenos Aires on December 22 at the age of seventy-five. The author of more than twenty books across genres, Laiseca is perhaps best known for his novel Los Sorias (Simurg, 1st edition, 1998), which is regarded as one of the masterworks of Argentinian literature.
Laiseca also appeared on television programs and in films such as El artista (2008). For many years, he led writing workshops in Buenos Aires, and a long list of contemporary Argentinian writers honed their craft with him.
Some two weeks after Laiseca's passing, on January 6, the global literary community lost another great with the death of Ricardo Piglia, also aged seventy-five. Piglia was a literary critic and the author of numerous short stories and novels, including Respiración artificial (Pomaire, 1st edition, 1980), which was published in translation in 1994 by Duke University Press.
The first installments of Piglia's personal diaries, Los diarios de Emilio Renzi, were recently released by Anagrama and are the subject of the film 327 cuadernos, by Argentinian filmmaker Andrés Di Tella. The film was shown on January 26 as part of the Museo Casa de Ricardo Rojas's summer series "La literatura en el cine: los autores," which features five films on contemporary authors and poets, including Witold Gombrowicz and Alejandra Pizarnik.
On January 11, the U.S. press New Directions organized an event at the bookstore Eterna Cadencia in anticipation of the February release of A Simple Story: The Last Malambo by Argentinian journalist Leila Guerriero and translated by Frances Riddle. Guerriero discussed the book, which follows a malambo dancer as he trains for Argentina's national competition, as well as her translation of works of non-fiction with fellow journalist and author Mariana Enriquez. Enriquez's short story collection, Things We Lost in the Fire (Hogarth), translated by Megan McDowell, will also appear in English in February.
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Reading Resolutions from the Asymptote Team (Part II)
January 4, 2017 | in Essays | by Hannah Vose
More reading resolutions for 2017
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I confess: 2016 was not a great reading year for me. Settling into a new job, traveling frequently—not to mention living through the U.S. election season!—made me retreat into videogames and the comforts of the suffering, over-handled paperbacks on my bookshelf. So in order to kick myself back out into the world of literature, I have two Reading Resolutions for 2017.
The first is to buy and read at least one book by an author from every continent, although since Antarctica is not awash in literature, Central America will be stepping in to play the role of the seventh. At a time when nationalism and xenophobia are rearing their ugly heads across the U.S. at an alarming rate, it feels more important than ever to remind myself of the incredible breadth and depth of international literature and to support the missions of the presses who publish and promote it by being an active consumer.
The second resolution is much simpler: to read at least one book in Spanish, because "rusty" is starting to become a generous description of my skill level.
Luckily, I've got my Spanish-language, European title all lined up. In Asymptote's April 2016 issue, we published Close Approximations 2016 runner-up Ona Bantjes-Ràfols's sample translation of El Mundo Sobre Ruedas by Albert Casals. As a sucker for travel narratives—and funny ones, at that—I was hooked. And since there's no full English translation available, this is the perfect opportunity to work on my Spanish.
Africa also already has a spot on the reading roster. When Rochester Knockings by Hubert Haddad (trans. Jennifer Grotz) came out in 2015, it jumped straight onto my ever-growing wishlist. Written originally in French by a Tunisian author, it concerns the Fox Sisters, fraudulent mediums and Rochester, New York residents. As a former student of the University of Rochester, where Open Letter Books is based, and a two-time former Open Letter intern, this one is right up my alley. Supporting a favorite indie press and getting to read about fake mystics? Win-win!
Thinking ahead, I'm anticipating difficulties choosing an Australian title. Ideally, I would like to read something in translation from a native Australian language, but I'm having trouble finding something. Failing in that mission, I do want to read something by a native Australian author. As of now, The Swan Book by Alexis Wright and Swallow the Air by Tara June Winch have both entered consideration.
2017 should be a good year for reading. Two books picked out, five to go, and—sorry in advance for the cringe you'll get out of this—a whole world to explore.
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Asymptote's Pushcart Prize Nominations
November 3, 2016 | in Dispatches, News | by Aditi Machado, Joshua Craze, Lee Yew Leong, and Lori Feathers
It's that time of year, and we're proud to recognize six wonderful pieces of literature!
We are thrilled to nominate the following six articles published during the past year for the Pushcart Prize. Please join us in giving a round of applause to both the authors and translators behind these incredible pieces.
At 997 words, Pedro Novoa's devastating short story, "The Dive", won Peru's "Story of 1,000 Words" contest. Translating this nautical thriller cum family saga into English, George Henson made it an Oulipian exercise by keeping the English text under 1,000 words as well. Shimmering with poignancy, the multi-layered story delivers a powerful allegory about the blood ties that bind even when broken—the concatenation of islands we will nevertheless always be.
"To translate means, therefore, not only to exercise extreme vigilance over the movements of the original text, but above all to scrutinize the limits of one's own language, as it creeps up to the original." Via co-translators Rebecca Falkoff and Stiliana Milkova, Anita Raja's magnificent essay frames "Translation as a Practice of Acceptance " and argues that the translator's greatest resource must be her own inventiveness.
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VOA Gets Trump North Korea Interview
Television June 13, 2018 January 28, 2020
Topics: Donald Trump, North Korea, USA, VOA
VOA contributor and host of weekly show Plugged in, Greta Van Susteren, caught up with President Trump after Tuesday's historic summit with North Korean leader Kim.
In the interview, the U.S. president told Van Susteren he believes other "good things are going to happen for North Korea," in the days and weeks after the summit, but noted that U.S. sanctions against North Korea will remain in place until the nation proves it is actually dismantling its nuclear program. "…the sanctions are going to remain on until such time as we see, you know, this is going to happen."
VOA Director Amanda Bennett says, "interviews like this with a U.S. President make a huge difference in the effort to give closed societies like North Korea more of what they need – an accurate picture of the outside world."
President Trump said that he and Kim liked each other. But he also said that the North Korean leader "knows that we want to do business, we have to do business and we will do business," and suggested that is a big change from previous administrations.
Van Susteren pressed the President on Kim's human rights abuses after he said of Kim: "He's smart, loves his people, he loves his country." Susteren called out the nation's human rights record: "But he's starved them. He's been brutal to them. He still loves his people?" "Look, he's doing what he's seen done…" President Trump responded, while acknowledging that Kim has been a "rough guy" in the past.
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Oswego Players Score A Hit With "Dracula"
Written by	Jim Farfaglia
The season of ghosts and ghouls has come a little early to the city of Oswego.
Though I've never considered myself a huge fan of Halloween, this past weekend I had the pleasure of attending a performance of The Oswego Players' rendition of Dracula. It was a cool autumn afternoon when I entered the Players' theater, but by the time the curtain closed on the show, I had felt a more powerful chill that knows no season.
I was already familiar with the story of Dracula. Most of us are. Through countless retellings of the classic vampire story by author Bram Stoker, Count Dracula has become a star, albeit a dark one, of our popular culture. Just the mention of his name stirs up vivid images, most of them unsettling. So why did I find The Oswego Players' version of the horror story so enjoyable? It started the moment I stepped foot in their theater.
Music that I can only describe as New Age gone sinister drew my attention toward the stage, its curtain closed. The curtain's deep red color served as a reminder of the leading role blood would play in the show. As I settled into my seat, a gentleman clad in old English attire strolled onto the stage. I thought the play had begun, unannounced; instead it was the show's director, Troy Pepper, providing an unusual welcome that sent the first chill up my spine.
In the play's opening minutes, Dracula's familiar story was offered. Set in the library of a sanatorium, we are introduced to its proprietor, Dr. Seward (Kevin Colvin), who keeps watch over an array of mentally ill patients. But the doctor's more immediate concern is for his daughter, Lucy (Jessie Dobrynski), who has taken ill with a strange illness. Lucy's husband-to-be, Jonathan Harker (Patrick A. Carman), and her father have exhausted their options to help the young woman, so Dr. Seward calls on his friend, Abraham Van Helsing (Derek Potocki), a Dutch professor well-schooled in metaphysics.
As the dialogue continues we learn the details of Lucy's strange illness: nightly bad dreams, episodes of her falling into a trance-like behavior, and two telltale red circles on her neck. To add to the bewildering circumstances, a patient at the sanatorium, Renfield (Norman Berlin III) has gone mad, making it difficult for his attendant (Matthew Fleming) to control him. Even Lucy's nurse maid, (Alex Taylor), suddenly loses her loyalty to the Seward family.
One character remains to be introduced to the audience, the sanatorium's neighbor, Count Dracula (Pablo I. Mendoza). The Count we first meet seems to only have concern for poor Lucy. Originally from Transylvania, he explains his recent move to London as due to not having many "opportunities to serve." We, of course, know what lies beneath the Count's altruism, but somehow we want to believe his story, just like we want to believe that all mankind is good.
It was the play's strong cast that let me believe that and other fantastic aspects of this story. All the actors are accomplished performers, having had roles in other Oswego Player productions and various CNY theater troupes. Each had his or her memorable moments during Dracula: Madman Renfield's bloodcurdling screams bouncing off the walls of the theater, his attendant's hilarious attempts to keep him from jumping out windows, Lucy's desperate pleas to be rescued from the Count's spell, the nurse maid's easy falling under that spell, Dr. Seward's determination to uncover clues, Jonathan's undying love, Van Helsing's quick-witted plans, and the Count's sinister switch from caring neighbor to creepy stalker. Each of their piece of the story burns on in my memory.
The Players were supported by some excellent technical wizardry—yes, it felt like magic to be fooled into forgetting I was in Oswego, New York. For the duration of the play, the lights creating foggy shadows and the sounds that brought werewolf howls uncomfortably close made it seem like I was far from home. Tom Fazzio and Ryan Benson Smith are to be congratulated on their amazing artistry. Even during a few necessary extended set changes, the music and lighting held my attention as I anticipated what I would see when the curtain again opened. Hats off to Stage Manager, Morgan Fazzio. With her guidance, the entire play moved effortlessly from the opening curtain to the climatic ending.
Finally, it was Troy Pepper's direction that brought Dracula to life. Pepper must have realized he would be competing with award-winning Broadway and Hollywood versions of the show, so he wisely focused on the human side of this otherworldly story. By focusing on the person-to-person drama of this famous thriller, he breathes new life into what frightens us. Under Pepper's care, I got to see—no, I got to feel the story's message of good versus evil, of the battle between heaven and hell. I found myself on my feet rejoicing in the satisfying ending to this tragic story I thought I knew so well. Only the magic of theater can do that.
Dracula continues this weekend, September 14, 15 and 16, at the Frances Marion Brown Theater at the Fort Ontario Complex in Oswego. Show times vary. Contact their box office at (315) 343-5138 or online at www.oswegoplayers.org to reserve your tickets.
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PlayStation 5 Social Features Allow Players To Open Their Gaming Experience Wider, Oddworld Creator Says
Francesco De Meo • Aug 27, 2020 05:54 AM EDT
The PlayStation 5 yet to be announced social features will allow developers to do some clever things that will let players open their gaming experience wider, according to the Oddworld series creator.
Speaking with the Official PlayStation Magazine (via VGC), Lorne Lanning highlighted how the PlayStation 5 social features will bring user connectivity and sharing features to the next level without "having to go to the web".
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I think we're going to see in this generation a lot more of that interlaced, where you're not leaving the console as much to go get the other data… It'll be really interesting to see how much the audience takes to it and what they do with it, and what developers do with it.
To get into the sharing capabilities, the social stuff that's been built into PS5 – I'm still not sure how much I can really talk about… I want to be careful, but they're doing a lot more things that are like, enabling you to sort of open your experience a little wider to your human network of people that you're connected with.
Lorne Lanning also touched upon the dynamic game hints that have been originally revealed through an older PlayStation 5 patent. This system will provide help if players get stuck in a game, but it will also monitor players having difficulty. This system will also extend into other networks and people, providing more information on how to improve at a specific game or how to get past a particularly difficult spot.
Very little is currently known about the PlayStation 5 user interface. Last month, we learned that the instant access system that has been teased by Mark Cerny months back will be called Activities. In WCR9, the system will allow instant access from the menu to races and other parts of the game.
The PlayStation 5 releases later this year worldwide. Pre-orders have yet to open, but customers in the US can register on the official website to get the chance to be among the first to pre-order the next-gen console from Sony.
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