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Red Wings add Red Berenson, Jimmy Carson, Dennis Polonich, Aaron Ward to Winter Classic Alumni game

From the Red Wings’ PR department:

… Red Berenson, Jimmy Carson, Dennis Polonich and Aaron Ward to Skate for Detroit at Comerica Park on Dec. 31; Toronto Adds Tie Domi, Brad May and Tiger Williams …

Detroit, MI… The Detroit Red Wings® and Toronto Maple Leafs® today announced the addition of seven total players who will participate in the festivities surrounding the 2012 Maple Leafs vs. Red Wings Alumni Showdown™ on December 31 at Comerica Park™ as part of the 2012 SiriusXM Hockeytown Winter Festival™.  Detroit has added defenseman Aaron Ward as well as forwards Red Berenson, Jimmy Carson and Dennis Polonich. In addition to having suited up for the Red Wings, all four of these players were also members of either minor league or collegiate teams in the Great Lakes State during their respective careers; Berenson and Ward both attended the University of Michigan prior to turning pro while Carson – a Metro Detroit minor hockey product – and Polonich each competed in the International Hockey League for various Michigan-based clubs.

Toronto, meanwhile, has added former enforcers Tie Domi, Brad May and Dave ‘Tiger’ Williams – the NHL’s all-time leader in penalty minutes (3,966) – to their alumni roster. Between the three of them, Domi, May and Williams spent nearly 10,000 minutes in the sin bin over the course of their 3,023 combined regular season appearances.

Acquired in a trade with the St. Louis Blues on February 6, 1971, Gordon Arthur ‘Red’ Berenson recorded 201 points (73G-128A) for the Red Wings over the course of his 283 appearances with the club.  The Regina , Sask. , native skated in 987 total career NHL games, tallying 261G-397A-658P for the Red Wings, Blues, Rangers and Canadiens. Upon retiring as a player, Berenson moved behind the bench – first in the NHL with St. Louis and Buffalo and later at his alma mater, the University of Michigan . Now the fifth-winningest coach in collegiate hockey history, the 72-year-old bench boss has amassed a career record of 752-352-77 in 28 seasons with the Wolverines, capturing a pair of NCAA titles in 1996 & 1998 as well as a National Coach of the Year award in 2008.

Originally selected by Los Angeles in the opening round (second overall) of the 1986 NHL Entry Draft, Jimmy Carson enjoyed a highly-respectable professional career during which he appeared in 626 games for the Kings, Oilers, Whalers, Canucks and Red Wings. The Michigander scored 275 goals during his tenure in the NHL, still the 19th-highest total in league history amongst U.S.-born players. Carson also dished out 286 assists during his 12 NHL seasons to finish with 561 points. In his 240 games with Detroit , Carson tallied 100G-102A-202P, ranking him fourth in franchise history in scoring by an American (61st overall).

A native of Foam Lake, Sask., Dennis Polonich broke into the NHL with the Red Wings during the 1974-75 season and went on to appear in 390 games for Detroit and 360 games for Adirondack/Virginia (AHL) over the course of his 11 seasons with the franchise. The 5’6”, 165-lb. agitator finished in the top 10 in the NHL in penalty minutes for four straight seasons between 1975 and 1979 with his 1976-77 total of 274 placing him second in the league behind only Tiger Williams of Toronto (338). Polonich wrapped up his playing career with the Muskegon Lumberjacks, helping the western Michigan-based club win the Turner Cup as IHL champions in 1985-86 prior to retiring the following season.

Winnipeg’s top pick (first round, fifth overall) at the 1991 NHL Entry Draft, the Red Wings acquired Aaron Ward in a trade with the Jets on June 11, 1993. The Windsor , Ont., native went on to skate in 276 regular season games for Detroit as well as 30 playoff contests. Ward was a part of the Red Wings’ Stanley Cup titles in both 1997 and 1998. Traded to Carolina on July 9, 2001, Ward won another championship with the Hurricanes in 2006. Upon his retirement at the end of the 2009-10 campaign, Ward had appeared in 839 career NHL games with the Red Wings, Hurricanes, Rangers, Bruins and Ducks. The 6’2”, 209-lb. blue-liner registered 44G-107A-151P over the course of his 16 seasons in the league.

Updated alumni rosters for Toronto and Detroit can be found below. Further roster for both teams will be announced in the coming weeks.

FORWARDS                 DEFENSEMEN             GOALIES         COACHES

Red Berenson               Chris Chelios               Chris Osgood     Scotty Bowman

Jimmy Carson               Paul Coffey                   Mike Vernon       Barry Smith

Dino Ciccarelli               Mathieu Dandenault

Alex Delvecchio             Jiri Fischer

Kris Draper                   Viacheslav Fetisov

Sergei Fedorov               Mark Howe

Joe Kocur                     Vladimir Konstantinov

Martin Lapointe               Larry Murphy

Igor Larionov                 Aaron Ward

Ted Lindsay

Kirk Maltby

Darren McCarty

John Ogrodnick

Dennis Polonich

Mickey Redmond

Luc Robitaille

FORWARDS               DEFENSEMEN             GOALIES                   COACHES

Dave Andreychuk           Dave Ellett                   Johnny Bower               Red Kelly

Wendel Clark               Jim McKenny                 Curtis Joseph               Pat Quinn

Russ Courtnall               Bryan McCabe               Mike Palmateer

Vincent Damphousse       Bob McGill                   Felix Potvin

Bill Derlago

Tie Domi

Ron Ellis

Doug Gilmour

Gary Leeman

Kevin Maguire

Brad May

Lanny McDonald

Gary Roberts

Darryl Sittler

Darcy Tucker

Rick Vaive

Tiger Williams

Update: DetroitRedWings.com’s Bill Roose spoke to Polonich about joining the roster and dealing with the fact that he scrapped so much that his, well, his face is kind of disfigured:

The shortest drafted player to ever don a Red Wings’ sweater, Dennis Polonich wasn’t going to allow his vertically challenged stature prevent him from fighting his way to a pro career.

“Being a little guy wanting to prove people wrong all of the time, it’s just the way I grew up,” said the 5-foot-6 Polonich. “I was very tenacious with very unbelievable will-power, and tremendous attitude and character. It was all of the traits.”

But that wasn’t the only driving force for Polonich, who was an eight-round draft pick in 1973.

“I was afraid to lose,” he said. “I was afraid to get cut, I was afraid to return home, so I was going to do whatever it took.”

Three decades after he had fans on their feet and cheering his name at Olympia Stadium, Polonich, who lives in Calgary, will return to his NHL home in December to participate in the Alumni Showdown during the SiriusXM Hockeytown Winter Festival at Comerica Park on New Year’s Eve. Besides Polonich, the Wings announced Thursday the addition of defenseman Aaron Ward and forwards Red Berenson and Jimmy Carson to the rosters that will take on former Toronto Maple Leafs in an alumni doubleheader.

The Leafs also revealed that a trio agitators – Tie Domi, Tiger Williams and Brad May – have committed to their Dec. 31 roster. Williams and May also spent some of their careers with the Red Wings.

“It’s such an honor when I see some of the names that are going to participate,” Polonich said. “And then I start thinking about all of the players that have gone through there, and for myself, a guy who is all of 5-foot-6 from small town Saskatchewan it’s kind of the final chapter for me. When I look back at the whole thing, everything that I have is through hockey, it’s through the Red Wings, it’s through the NHL.”

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Talk about booing Federov - I remember Berenson getting booed at the Olympia…...while wearing the red and white (with all due respect to his success as a collegiate coach).

I an era of pretty dismal hockey in Detroit, Polonich was the show.  I was at a game where he dropped the gloves with Dave “The Hammer” Schultz…..twice. Right after the first major expired they exited the penalty box, dropped them again and picked up where they left off.

He was a favorite and I am glad he is attending.

Posted by Cal on 08/16/12 at 03:02 PM ET

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Aaron Fuching Ward.

Posted by WingsFanInBeanLand from where free agents no longer dare. on 08/16/12 at 03:43 PM ET

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Love Red Berenson, the fabulous coach of the Michigan Wolverines.  Did you know he was the first Canadian to play hockey at an American university (Michigan) and then play in the NHL?  In his day, young Canadian players were told they would never play in the NHL if they went to college.  Red played his last game at Michigan - a loss in the national championship - then played the very next night with the Montreal Canadiens.

Posted by MsRedWinger from the State where Tigers roam in the Spring on 08/16/12 at 05:57 PM ET

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Federal audit of Lansing Police Department shows forfeiture funds mismanaged, pointing to larger, statewide issue

The Lansing Police Department is the subject of a recent U.S. Department of Justice report showing instances of poor financial management and misallocation of federally awarded funds over the past five years.

In an audit of the department’s revenues from asset forfeitures — given to state and local departments to support police operations — federal officials found irregularities relating to where the money was kept and how it was spent.

From July 1, 2008, through June 30, 2012, more than $800,000 was given to the Lansing Police Department as a part of the equitable sharing revenue program, which is funded through the assets seized during criminal investigations.

The audit says LPD failed to separate federal and state allocations and also neglected paperwork related to how funds were spent from 2009 to 2011. Those were updated during the course of the audit. Even though investigators found filings for 2012, that information was found to be inaccurate. Federal officials also found the department misspent more than $3,000 on pay for civilian overtime and $12,563 on uniform allowances.

LPD Chief Mike Yankowski said in a statement: “While the DOJ informed us that the audit found several issues, they were very minor in scope. These errors were unintentional and the audit has provided clarification on the proper regulations and procedures.” LPD followed up with a corrective action plan as well.

The collection and use of forfeiture assets by law enforcement agencies has been contentious in Michigan.

Long held as a means to disrupt criminal activity, particularly drug offenders, asset seizure by law enforcement officials stands as an affront to public opinion, according to Charmie Gholson. Founder of Michigan Moms United, a group dedicated to ending the war on drugs, Gholson believes this latest report is indicative of a system that leads to unfair treatment of those who may have not even faced a conviction.

“It’s all about drug prohibition and the failed war on drugs,” she said.

More than $25 million was seized and used by law enforcement officials in 2012, according to the Michigan State Police.

A 2010 study from the nationwide advocacy group Institute for Justice found numerous issues with Michigan’s forfeiture law, giving the state a D- rating.

In reaction, several Michigan lawmakers — including state Rep. Tom McMillin, R-Rochester Hills — introduced legislation that would require law enforcement agencies to issue detailed seizure reports as well as detail more information about each case and whether any subjects were convicted.

“I think it’s pretty outrageous that people’s assets can be taken without a conviction,” he said. McMillin has also signed on with a number of representatives in bipartisan support of another proposal prohibiting asset seizure prior to a criminal conviction.

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    JavaScript Frameworks, Libraries, and Loaders -- there is no shortage of options. Each are wrong. Each have their own philosophies, usefulness, targets, and flaws. Continuing on the "It's Just JavaScript" theme we'll take a subjective look at the current offerings, what problems they intend to solve, and the reasons you should be using one of them anyway.

    Either roll your own or adopt a major library, but know the caveats and benefits therein. Embrace JavaScript as the elegant, loosely-typed language that it is and leverage it's ubiquity for the forces of good. This is not your average framework-comparison presentation; there will be no charts or performance tests. There will be, however, lively discussion of the current state of affairs in the JavaScript landscape, client and server side. And of course beer.

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    Straight from the talent pool comes the wonderful Jenn Lukas. If you missed her talk in the US, go watch it on (when it is released :) because here comes part 2:

    "Part one of this series spanned a broad overview of where JavaScript and Web Standards meet. I also explored examples of how to support progressive enhancement without sacrificing functionality or alienating users. The sequel to that talk will continue on that track and delve deeper into specific examples of JavaScript gone wrong! I will talk about common JavaScript enhanced mistakes that prevent users from enjoying the site experience and provide solutions on how to overcome those. Accessibility and usability should always be on the forefront of your code; this talk will cover take-away tips and general theory all while keeping those goals of best practices in mind."

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  • Techniques and Tools for Taming Tangled Twisted Trains of Thought

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    One of the biggest challenges to the otherwise wonderful programming model of JavaScript is handling complex logic that involves lots of async functions and things that emit events. The inversion-of-inversion-of-inversion-of-control often needed is hard to read, write, and just plain understand.

    With pre-empetive multi-threading you delegate all control to the operating system and it handles concurrency for you. This comes at a great performance cost. However with JavaScript this simply isn't the model, there is one thread and finite snippets of code executed. There is nothing like being able to tell a computer exactly how much code to run and under what conditions and it just works under extreme load and/or concurrency.

    Be prepared to have your mind warped and molded as you are trained to not only accept this fact of life, but embrace it. You'll even be thinking in callbacks by the time this talk is over.

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    Graphically intensive and fast paced browser games written in pluginless JavaScript largely do not exist yet, for a very specific reason - Performance issues. Only recently, browser engines started to give us enough quirks and hacks to power full motion graphics, animation and real time interaction. With unprecedented depth, you'll learn why Canvas isn't the obvious choice, why you should write JavaScript in front- and backend, why HTML5 really is just a buzzword and how to leverage CSS hardware accelerated to create true platform independent games. Dive in to the world of JavaScript gaming!

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    Did you know that London 2012 olympics shop runs on server-side JavaScript? Did you know that you can buy a Burton snowboard, a Puma sneaker or latest fashion from Nine West, all with the help from server-side JavaScript. All these web sites run on Demandware's commerce platform, where customization from business logic to pages is done with JavaScript. The talk gives an introduction how JavaScript is used on the Demandware platform and talks about the history, the decision made along the way, the learning and the DOs and DON'Ts with server-side JavaScript in a system, which is provided in a platform-as-a-service model.

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    Applications that were once on the desktop are now appearing on the Web, bringing a whole new set of performance challenges. After writing a console emulator in JavaScript, I have a few tips to share that might be applicable to your more sensible applications. I will talk about the differences in performance between modern browsers, tweaks that can have a huge impact on the speed of your code, and some fun hacks.

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Italy beat England 1-0 in Tel Aviv on Wednesday evening to move to the top of European Under-21 Championship Group A.

A second-half free-kick by Lorenzo Insigne was enough to separate the sides and Stuart Peace's men can have few complaints.

With Israel and Norway drawing 2-2 earlier in the day it provided the winner of the late kick-off with the chance to claim top spot in the group.

England came into the game without conceding a goal in nine matches but started far more anxiously than their opponents and the Italians dominated for large periods of the first-half with Paris Saint-Germain's Marco Verratti the pick of their players.

Liverpool forward Fabio Borini and Ciro Immobile were causing problems too with their movement and Immobile had the games first chance leaving Craig Dawson for dead before firing wide. Alessandro Florenzi started to enjoy himself more down the right as the half went on first setting up the equally impressive Insigne on the other flank and then Immobile again.

Then, just as England threatened at one end through Nathaniel Clyne, Italy hit back on the counter attack and Jack Robinson appeared to get away with fouling Florenzi in the penalty area. England manager Stuart Pearce will certainly have been more than relieved to go in at the break all square.

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Monday, October 08, 2012

Tonight's Movie: The Man I Married (1940)

THE MAN I MARRIED is a powerful anti-Nazi film released by 20th Century-Fox 16 months ahead of America's entry into World War II. I'm surprised that this frank film, a fascinating slice of movie and war history, isn't better known.

It's 1938, and Carol Hoffman (Joan Bennett), a New York art critic, takes a three-month leave of absence to accompany her German-born husband, Eric (Francis Lederer), to Germany, along with their little boy, Ricky (Johnny Russell). The Hoffmans intend to combine a long vacation with Eric helping his elderly father (Otto Kruger) sell the family business.

The Hoffmans arrive in a much different Germany than Eric had left years before. Carol is increasingly troubled by the oppressive atmosphere under Hitler, but Eric falls under Hitler's spell and decides he wants to remain in Germany permanently with a new love, devoted Nazi Frieda (Anna Sten). Her marriage in ruins, Carol must find a way to get her little boy out of the country against her husband's wishes. There's a humdinger of an ending which couldn't have been more perfect.

This was an excellent film which was interesting on many levels. Some of the attitudes seemed quite modern; for instance, Eric and Carol initially believe stories about concentration camps have been exaggerated by the press to sell newspapers. Their lack of trust in the media would fit right in over seven decades later. They soon discover, of course, that if anything the press was underplaying what was happening in Germany.

Another "modern" angle is that Carol is both a career woman and a mother; she and her husband seem to be the very model of a glamorous New York dual-career marriage. Unfortunately for Carol, her independent attitudes aren't a good fit for Nazi Germany, and as her husband grows more uptight and "German," outspoken Carol and Eric clash repeatedly.

Naziism is examined in detail. I loved a conversation Eric and Carol have on a train, innocently marveling over stories in a German paper that there are so many jobs in Germany that workers are being transported in from Austria; they also wonder how the new Volkswagen car can be so inexpensive. A fellow passenger dares to sarcastically set them straight.

Carol has a harrowing run-in with Nazi authorities when a neighbor is arrested, and she finally has had enough after watching her husband swept up in the excitement of a Nazi party rally. As she tells the American newsman (Lloyd Nolan) who comes to her aid, "I've seen men go mad over football games, but nothing like this!"

I won't spoil the ending, but I didn't see it coming till the last minute and it was jaw-droppingly perfect. This really is a must-see movie for anyone who is interested in the films of WWII.

I particularly loved Joan Bennett as the American whose dream of a lovely vacation in Germany is replaced by a crumbling marriage in a very scary environment. She does an excellent job taking her character through this transition in a film which is only 77 minutes long.

It's always interesting to me how actors criss-cross my viewing in unexpected ways. I was recently reading about Austrian-born actor Francis Lederer in the context of some research on the TV series THE HIGH CHAPARRAL; it seems that Don Collier, who plays ranch foreman Sam on the show, got his start as the real-life foreman on Lederer's ranch. The home and stables are today Los Angeles Historic Cultural Monuments.

THE MAN I MARRIED was directed by Irving Pichel from a script by Oliver H.P. Garrett. The black and white photography was by J. Peverell Marley. Joan Bennett's wardrobe was created by the great Travis Banton.

The film's supporting cast includes Maria Ouspenskaya and Ludwig Stossel.

THE MAN I MARRIED is available on DVD-R from Fox Cinema Archives. It's a beautiful print. Recommended.

Blogger Clara said...

Sounds great and I love the actors, I'll try to find it :)

5:50 AM
Blogger DKoren said...

This is one I'd very much like to see! I will keep my eye out.

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Blogger Cliff Weimer said...

Never seen this... just watched Secret Beyond the Door... (1948) with Miss Bennett. She's one of those actresses... I dunno, there's something odd about her. Maybe it's her diction. Maybe it's her mouth. *L* I'm not sure, but every time I see her, I try to figure out what it is that's odd about her, and I haven't come up with it yet. Maybe it's just buried feelings from watching Dark Shadows when I was a kid!

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Blogger Laura said...

Hope you can find it, Clara and Deb! It was such a detailed look at Nazi Germany, I'm really surprised I haven't read more about it in the past in conjunction with similar Hollywood films which prepared the American public for war, i.e., CONFESSIONS OF A NAZI SPY.

DARK SHADOWS is as good a reason as any, Cliff! I always avoided that as I don't care for horror. I love Bennett's film presence, she's a really interesting actress. I think my favorite of her performances seen to date is THE RECKLESS MOMENT.

Best wishes,

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Blogger Moira Finnie said...

Oh, I'm so glad the read that this is finally available to be seen again on DVD-r. I have always admired Lederer's films, particularly in this period (not the later, ghoulish stuff so much). Joan Bennett should be known for more than the Fritz Lang films. She was a very good actress when the script and her co-stars drew something more out of her. And this movie will even help me to satisfy my need to see Lloyd Nolan once a month. ;-)
Thanks for highlighting such a forgotten gem.

11:15 AM
Blogger Laura said...

Hi Moira,

It's wonderful to hear from you, thanks for stopping by! Hope you'll enjoy having a chance to check this title out, I thoroughly enjoyed it while also appreciating it from an historical perspective. And Lloyd Nolan was a definite factor when I chose it. :)

Best wishes,

11:22 AM
Blogger Raquelle said...

This sounds like a very interesting movie. I'm adding it to my Classicflix queue. In fact, I think I'll bump it up so I can watch it sooner (that queue is at least 100 movies long!).

I have an interest in WWII films but haven't watched many about Naziism. Have you ever seen Pressure Point? It's a 1960s film with Sidney Poitier and Bobby Darin that deals with Neo-Nazis, racism and mental illness. It was really interesting and also another frank film that isn't very well-known.

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Blogger Laura said...

I'm glad to know ClassicFlix has this, Raquelle, and I hope you'll enjoy it! I was fascinated.

One striking aspect I didn't mention in my post is that the film uses a *lot* of German language -- not everywhere (Kruger and Sten's characters speak English to Bennett, as does a Nazi interrogator) -- but in some ways the more extensive use of a foreign language is more authentic than some other films of the era. One gets more of a sense what it would have been like for Joan Bennett surrounded by a language she didn't know.

I don't know PRESSURE POINT at all and just headed over to Netflix and added it to my Instant queue. Thanks! I enjoy both Poitier and Darin so it sounds interesting on multiple levels.

Best wishes,

1:29 PM
Blogger Laura said...

Moira, I just saw you in the TCM Now Playing Guide! I'm so excited to see you on TCM November 30th!! :)

Best wishes,

9:50 PM
OpenID movieclassics said...

This sounds very interesting and has a great cast - I've seen a couple of Anna Sten's films recently and would be interested to see more of her work. Not sure how likely I am to get a chance to see it, but I will hope! Judy

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Thanks for this review. Not a film I knew but have now seen it and agree it was very interesting. Though I did feel Lederer's conversion to Nazism was too rapid.
Interesting that it was released in 1940 and that Hollywood was prepared to take a very clear political stand.
Good part for Joan and Lloyd Nolan never disappoints.

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Really hope you have the chance to see it, Judy! Thanks so much for stopping by, always nice to hear from you.

Glad you were able to view it, Vienna! I know what you mean about the fast conversion -- one of the drawbacks of a short movie, it had to be accomplished fairly quickly. Very interesting to consider this film in the context of the time it was made and released.

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Many young people who get into trouble with the law are expelled from school. They may even go to jail. Helping these teens change their way of life takes a lot of effort. But it is not impossible. There is a program in the Washington D.C. area that takes young men, sent there by the courts or social workers, and gives them a new chance at life.

Twelve young men, 16 and 19 years old, attend classes at the program, which is called Fresh Start. Each one has made some bad decisions. But they want to turn their lives around, to live a different way. One young man explains how he got into trouble.

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Terrence Sinclair was 17 at the time. But instead of being sentenced to prison, as an adult might have been, he was sent to this special program. He spends his days studying to get his high school diploma, while also learning an occupation.

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Carpentry instructor Kenneth Talley says that is difficult for some of his students to recognize. He says they sometimes start a little reluctantly, not putting all their effort into it. Then they get creative and start to make their own products. And that is when they start to get really interested.

Mr. Talley says working in the wood and metal class teaches them other lessons, like following directions and making a plan for whatever they are building. And they feel good when they finish.

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Fresh Start Director Toni Lemons says once they get into the spirit of the work, these young men are eager to learn.

The program also helps them find their way in the job market. The Workforce Development class, for example, teaches students how to write a resume and prepare for a job interview. Ms. Lemons says the young men learn basic skills like how to respond to interview questions and how body language is important when speaking to a possible employer.

Fresh Start’s director says another class, called Life Skills, teaches other things they need to succeed, for a career and in personal life.

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During World War Two, as American men went off to war, women filled the jobs they left behind. Women worked in factories, stores and shipyards. There was even a famous painting of a woman rolling up her sleeves and preparing to become “Rosie the riveter.” It was the kind of job that only men had done in the past. But one group of women worked with wood and steel, building Gibson guitars. Christopher Cruise picks up the story from there.

John Thomas is a writer and a lover of guitars. He was surprised when he saw a wartime photograph of the Gibson guitar factory in Michigan. Nearly all of the 75 people in the picture were women. Irene Stearns, now age 90, spent several of the war years working at the factory.

"I got out of high school and everybody is looking for a job, and there weren’t any jobs. Then one day, they called and I started at Gibson. I suppose it was because of the war."

Irene Stearns is one of the former Gibson factory workers who John Thomas found in the Kalamazoo, Michigan area. She made guitar strings for some of the thousands of instruments the factory produced in the 1940s.

"All the celebrities and people who were buying the guitars would come. And they would be on the other side of the wall from where I sat making strings. So, it was really nice in that part. I could hear them playing all these beautiful guitars."

John Thomas calls the women who worked at the Gibson factory, the "Kalamazoo Gals." That is also the name of his new book about the female guitar makers. He believes the company kept their work secret because it did not think guitar buyers of the day would use instruments built by women.

Mr. Thomas collected three of the World War II Gibson guitars and borrowed several others to help tell the story. Then a friend told him about Lauren Sheehan, a professional musician who agreed to help.

"Certainly I'm a champion for a story about women excelling at work that is traditionally a man's domain."

Lauren Sheehan bought a restored Gibson guitar for herself. She says she wanted to own a piece of America’s musical heritage.

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And I’m Jim Tedder in Washington. Thank you for being with us on this Thursday, the 18th day of July. My, my, how time flies.

Today is the birthday of a fellow from the Bronx, New York, by the name of Dion DiMucci. He has 74 candles on his birthday cake this year. Back when rock and roll was young, Dion and his band the Belmonts could be heard on AM radio stations across America.

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Gerry from Valparaiso sends in this contribution - it is pretty timely. Have a great Fourth everyone! As an aside, we blow up a lot of stuff here in Wisco as well - many residents of Northern Illinois come up over the state line to purchase their illegal fun every Fourth.

Welcome To Indiana!

The Fourth of July is my favorite holiday of all. Maybe it’s because I’m a guy but I just love blowing things up.

As you motor into Indiana from Illinois near the Chicago metro area about five miles before the state line you will notice a steady array of billboards along the I-94. The messages are usually seasonal. There are billboards for strip clubs, casino boats, cheap tobacco and the price of cheaper gas at upcoming truck stops (gawd I love this state). Indiana has a way of attracting the residents of Illinois and their wallets with vice, cheaper gasoline and much cheaper tobacco.

Near the Fourth of July the fireworks retailers dominate the billboard messages. One retailer in particular is Krazy Kaplan’s Fireworks. He must have three dozen billboards along a fifteen-mile stretch of I-94 alone. He also has more locations than anyone else. The billboard image speaks for itself. Krazy.

My favorite fireworks retailer is Shelton’s in Porter IN at the I-94 and US20 interchange. They claim to be the world’s largest fireworks store. And it is huge.

Fireworks marketing is quite interesting. It’s all the same stuff but they think of clever ways to set one aerial bomb apart from another. One item that caught my eye is called “Pool Table”. It is made to look like a mini pool able and contains 21 consecutive aerial bombs connected to one fuse. Nice.
Another new item is called “Sword of Lights”. It is 3’ long, comes with a built-in spike to stick into your lawn and shoots out lots of fun pyro stuff. I bought one of those too.
And then there are mortars. My favorites. These are scaled-down versions of the big stuff launched by the pros at your local town J-4 celebration. They’re really awesome. I like the one named “Da Big Thumper” How Chicago! I bought three. To light on ‘da fourt.

Being at Shelton’s near the forth is better than being at Wal-Mart near Christmas to see the most diverse (ahem) people. Many who go through the cashier line think nothing of dropping $500 - and they look as if they are spending the monthly mortgage payment on the double-wide. Ba-dum.

For the past decade or so Indiana allowed the sale of fireworks to anyone over eighteen, resident or non-resident. Before you make the purchase you must present a photo ID and sign a form with your name and address vowing that the fireworks you purchased would not be detonated in the State of Indiana where detonating fireworks was illegal. How’s that for irony?

Each year since the sale of fireworks has been legal in Indiana the Illinois State Police would set up sting operations. The Chicago news media simply cannot resist a story like this and they play it each year. Undercover Illinois troopers copy the license plate numbers of Illinois vehicles leaving the parking lot and radio the license plate numbers to squad cars waiting on the Illinois side in order to intercept and bust these criminals once they cross ‘da border. Go figure, Illinois doesn’t have enough cops to fight urban gang violence and mayhem but they can easily manage to bust a large number of the firecracker crowd. In Illinois they will do anything to generate state revenue. Busting gang bangers costs the state money. Busting a firecracker smuggler makes the state money. There ‘ya go!

Well, finally this year our fine Indiana Governor signed a bill allowing the legal detonation of WMD’s (Weapons of Minimal Destruction) by residents right here in Indiana. Yep. Finally. They have left it up to local municipalities to regulate times and dates.

Fireworks are quite disturbing to some of my neighbors mainly because of their pets.

Most pets hate fireworks and get real freaky. Some of my friends and neighbors purchase downer meds from the local vet to calm down their pups on the 4th. I don’t have that problem. I have bird dogs. English Setters. Fireworks only turn them on. A loud bang to them means a bird or two is down and it’s time to fetch. That becomes another problem in itself for me. I hate to disappoint my setters.

Have a bang-up Fourth of July everyone. And God bless America!

Annie said...

Excellent first post!
Wooohoooo!!! Another Hoosier and it ain't even my birthday!!
I look forward to reading more from you.
In your repertoire of "bang noises" that you're fond of,... might the crack of a .22 or the boom of a .45 be a couple??

t'su said...

A 26 y/o chick blew her face off with Indiana firecrackers here in Detroit today. Illegal / legal, doesn't make a difference. Irresponsible idiots are still going to hurt themselves, one way or another.

If WI is as financially ailing as badly as Michigan, then they can use every greenback they can extract.

Dan from Madison said...

Wisco isn't ailing too bad right now, but that may all change soon if they pass a socialist universal single payer health system as they have been discussing - we are all screwed.

Anonymous said...

Heh... loved it.

But I seriously can't see why Illinois will just legalize the sales and use of fireworks. I mean, thousands of people every year go to Indiana, Wisconsin, or Missouri to pump thousands of dollars into both their economy and government, so doesn't Illinois stand to lose?

Evey one is going to hurt themselves with fireworks. Legal or Illegal.


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One1more2time3’s Weblog is a blog written by animated film industry production designer Hans Bacher.

Formerly based in Europe, the U.S. and Tokyo, Bacher is now in Manila, Philippines and writes about a number of animation and production art topics.

According to Michael Hirsh’s Articles & Texticles, Bacher had been blogging previously on a different platform, stopped for a time and has recently relaunched his blog on WordPress.

I don’t know if he will eventually bring his archives from the older iteration of the blog over to the new one. I hope so, because the current crop is fascinating, informative, insightful and crammed full of great illustrations (what more could you want from an animation blog?).

The most recent article (as of this writing) is about 4 masters, production artists who Bacher has had the opportunity to work with, one of whom is Alex Niño, who I recently profiled.

Of particular interest in the articles currently available are several on the nature and production of backgrounds for Disney’s classic Bambi. One of them discusses the range of greens in the background paintings, displays them as a palette, and talks about the predominance of saturated, intense colors in modern animation backgrounds vs. the more subtle and naturalistic backgrounds in the older classics. There is a related article about the rendering of rocks. (This discussion would be of interest to contemporary landscape painters as well.)

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I will wander off topic for a little personal background (“local color”, so to speak) and then come back.

The town of Arles is in Provence, a region of France that borders the Mediterreanean Sea and Northern Italy, where the Romans established their first province (provincia) outside their borders (hence the name). Arles was one of the major Roman cities in France, still has a largely intact Roman theater and arena and a good bit of the city wall. Today it’s a charming and visually rich town, popular with tourists.

Provence has long had a draw for artists, who find a particular appeal in the warm light and beautiful countryside. In 1888 and 1889 Arles was home to Vincent van Gogh for two of his most productive and most troubled years.

There are none of Van Gogh’s paintings in collections in Arles, the closest is in Avignon, about 20 miles (35km) away, but there are signs of him in many places. When my wife and I traveled to Arles on our first trip to France in 2002 (and I came to the immediate conclusion that the sunlight is indeed wonderful in Provence), Van Gogh’s presence kind of snuck up on us several times.

When we arrived in Arles, after two flights, a bus and train ride and a considerable walk, we were exhausted; and soon discovered that the locals don’t seem to eat between lunchtime and 6 or 7 PM. After spending some time searching for a cafe serving food in the mid-afternoon, we were finally relieved to find a small place that happened to have outdoor seating out its back door at the edge of a courtyard with a pleasant garden.

As we were eating and unwinding, I kept looking at the garden and courtyard, which was backed by a building faced with rows of arches. I found myself fascinated with it, partly because it was attractive, but partly, I gradually realized, because there was something oddly familiar about the place, which was impossible, of course, as I had never been to France before, let alone to this courtyard in Arles.

I finally noticed there was a plaque at one corner of the courtyard and as I approached it, and the view changed slightly, I suddenly realized we were in the garden portrayed in Van Gogh’s The Courtyard of the Hospital at Arles (image above, bottom right, larger version here); which, the plaque confirmed, is intentionally maintained in a pretty good approximation of the way it looked when he painted it (photo here).

Later, after unpacking and settling in a bit, we were out for a drink in a cafe that I had chosen primarily because it had internet access, and I was sitting at the table sketching when I got a similar feeling of odd familiarity from a cafe a few steps away with a yellow front and awning; and I realized that it was the subject of van Gogh’s Cafe Terrace at Night (image above, bottom left). The cafe is currently a tourist spot, named “Cafe Van Gogh” (also here), though we didn’t notice it at first.

We had chosen to sit not in the cafe that was the subject of his painting; but, by sheer chance, in another cafe in almost the exact position Van Gogh must have been sitting while composing his well known work. The effect was even more dramatic in the night, when the awning was lit from below by the glow of lamps, and the colors were uncannily similar to the painting.

We felt the artist’s presence again when walking by “The Yellow House” and in the fields surrounding the town. In particular, when looking out over the Rhone River at night, I imagined him painting Starry Night Over the Rhone (image above, top, larger version here).

Most people are more familiar with the other “Starry Night”, the famous one, The Starry Night; but both paintings, along with The Night Cafe (the lamplit interior) and a number of other works, remind us that as much as van Gogh was a painter of brilliant fields ablaze with the Provence sun, he was also a painter of the night; more specifically, the colors of the night.

Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night is the title of a new exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The exhibition promises to be a small (23 paintings, 9 drawings and some letters) but insightful look into Van Gogh’s interpretation of the night, of which he said: “I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.”

The exhibition should prove that with some of his most renowned works, including The Night Cafe, The Dance Hall in Arles, The Potato Eaters, Gauguin’s Chair, Starry Night Over the Rhone and the iconic The Starry Night, which is in the MoMA’s permanent collection, along with several less well known works. (The Courtyard of the Hospital at Arles and Cafe Terrace at Night are not in the show, I just included them here to illustrate my story.) There is a catalog accompanying the exhibition.

Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night runs until January 5, 2009 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and then will be on display at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam from February 13 to June 17, 2009 (English link here). Advance tickets are suggested.

The exhibit should demonstrate that even though the light for artists is indeed special in places like Provence, it is even more special in the eyes of the artist, day or night.

Robert Crumb Exhibit in Philadelphia

Robert Crumb Exhibit in PhiladelphiaJust a quick note that there is a new extensive exhibit of works from demented genius cartoonist and underground comix pioneer Robert Crumb at the Institute for Contemporary Art here in Philadelphia.

I’ll write a post about the show, and Robert Crumb, in more detail after I’ve had a chance to see the exhibit, but I wanted to give a heads-up about it now for those within traveling distance.

The ICA site has a list of events and public programs related to the show, including tours, a showing of the film Crumb, and a lecture by cartoonist Charles Burns.

The exhibit is called “R. Crumb’s Underground” and features over 100 works. It runs until December 7, 2008.

Thomas Paquette (update)

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It’s always a treat for me to get to meet and talk to some of the contemporary artists I write about. This past Friday, I had the opportunity to attend an opening of a new show at the Gross McCleaf Gallery here in Philadelphia of works by Western Pennsylvania artist Thomas Paquette.

I wrote about Thomas Paquette back in the Spring of 2007 on the occasion of another show at the same gallery, but I just made it to that show before it closed, and missed the opening.

At the time I was fascinated with his small works in gouache that I had seen in reproduction, and since then in a beautiful book, Thomas Paquette: Gouaches, that is available directly through the artist’s site, or though Amazon. The pieces featured in the book are also available as archival prints.

Though the gouache paintings weren’t part of the show that time (or this time), I became fascinated with some of the gouache-like characteristics of his much larger scale oils, that seem to carry some of the same feeling.

This time I had a chance to meet the artist and talk with him about his work and technique. Though still pursuing many of the same subjects and approaches that were evident in his work before, he is pushing with some of his new paintings in new directions, notably in paintings in which large color filled skies dominate the composition.

You can see some of his recent work on his own site, and a selection of additional work on the Gross McCleaf site.

In asking about his working methods, I found out that Paquette often works over his oils in layers, painting and repainting areas, partly building up texture and placing areas of color within areas of color, and partly searching out the forms and colors, almost like an additive sculptor working back and forth in clay. It reminded me that there is actually a sculptural quality to his work, in which the surface texture of his paint is one of the appealing elements of the painting; unfortunately, one that is lost in reproduction.

Paquette’s work strikes me as a delightful blending of seemingly contradictory elements, impressionistic in its color and open brushwork, yet academically strong in the drawing and composition. Close up, the shapes and areas of color seem abstract, in the true sense of that word, meaning to extract the essence of something, but also in the sense that you could crop out a small section of almost any area of his paintings and have a vibrant non-representaional composition, filled with lively variations in color and texture.

That texture itself, layers of richly applied paint, well raised above the surface in places, is also a contrast with the apparently flat nature some of his shapes take on from a middle distance. Step back more and that graphic quality, a sense of line and color that reminds me of colored woodblock prints, resolves into a lush naturalism.

The surface character of his paintings, and the nature of the areas of color close up, seem so different form the naturalistic appearance of the works from a distance that I asked him if he does a lot of stepping up and back as he paints; something I’ve been curious about in regard to a number of painters in who exhibit similar characteristics, like Sargent or Daniel Garber.

In Paquette’s case, the answer is no. He told me that it is more of a mental grasp of overall work, maintained while working close, than a technique of constantly viewing the work from close up and back.

Paquette is, after all is said and done, a realist; but his rendering technique pays attention to paint as paint, areas of color as individual abstract elements; and texture as an exploration in itself.

The tension between these opposites, along with his strong sense of value and color and the dynamics of his compositions, are what make his work so fascinating.

The show at the Gross McCleaf Gallery runs until September 27th, 2008.

Harry Grant Dart

Harry Grant Dart
Harry Grant Dart was an American illustrator and comics artist active in the late 1800’s and early 1900s.

He worked for the Boston Herald and then the New York World, where he eventually held the position of Art Editor. He was one of the newspaper sketch artists who sketched important events for newspapers prior to the use of photographs (see my post on The Illustrators of La Domenica del Corriere). He also maintained an outside career as a magazine illustrator, working for titles like Life and Judge.

As a cartoonist Dart created a comic strip called The Explorigator, about a an airship staffed by a crew of adventurous kids. Meant to be a competitor for Winsor McCay’s spectacular strip Little Nemo in Slumberland, The Explorigator only ran for 14 weeks in 1908.

There aren’t a lot of resources on Dart that I could find, but there is a treasure of an archive of The Explorigator on the Barnicle Press site; sadly, not in color, but still a stunning example of this detailed, beautifully drawn and wildly imaginative strip.

The strip featured Dart’s penchant for drawing fantastic Victorian era aircraft, which also showed up in his other illustrations, like the image above (large version here on Flickr), done for a magazine called The All-Story.

I love the fact that he’s given us a liberated, fashionably attired Victorian era woman pilot, years before women could vote.

Alex Niño

Alex Nino
There are a number of strong communities of comics art (those of you in the expensive seats read: “graphic storytelling”) in various parts of the world, each with its own stylistic leanings. Some, like Japan, France and Belgium are more familiar to us here in the U.S. than others, like Italy, the UK, South America, China, Korea and the Phillipines.

Unlike comics artists in China, Korea and most other countries in the Western Pacific rim that produce comics, artists in the Philippines took their primary influences not from Japanese Manga styles but from Spanish, South American and North American influences.

In the early 1970’s established artists from the Phillipines, many of them with with their own studios and publishing endeavors, like Alfredo Alcala, Nestor Redondo (a personal favorite), and Tony De Zuñiga began to do work for American companies like Marvel, DC and Warren.

I don’t know the details, but it may have had a lot to do with the crackdown and sanitization of the comics medium that resulted when the Marcos government declared martial law and began to outlaw or control all mass media in the country.

In the U.S., the Filipino artists’ unique styles and intense, detailed rendering brought them the immediate attention of publishers and readers, and had a dramatic impact on the American comics artists working at the time.

The elder Filipino comics artists (in the Phillipines, is was “komiks”, as there is apparently no “C” in the alphabet), soon began to bring some of their younger contemporaries into the American market. One of the most notable of these was Alex Niño, who would become a star comics (and komiks) artist in his own right.

Niño illustrated over 300 stories for publishers in the Phillipines; and in the U.S. did work for Marvel, DC, Warren, Byron Preiss and Heavy Metal magazine.

Drawing on influences that ranged from his fellow Filipino artists to golden age pen and ink illustrators like Franklin Booth and Joseph Clement Coll and science fiction illustrators like Virgil Finlay, Niño created a synthesis of pen and ink styles that he used to propel his highly imaginative flights of fantasy.

His work ranged from quietly elegant renderings to over-the-top, wildly stylized fantasies that had some of the manic energy of American underground comics.

His rendering style combined the calligraphic thin-to-thick line work common to American comics with the intensely textural rendering of pen and ink illustration, to unique effect.

In the late 80’s and early 90’s Niño’s decorative style and fertile imagination led him to doing production and design work for Disney Studios, contributing to feature animation like Treasure Planet, Mulan, The Emperor’s New Grove and Atlantis.

Auad Publishing, who I have mentioned in the past as the publisher of terrific books on Franklin Booth, Alex Toth and other illustrators and comics artists, has just released The Art of Alex Niño, a 160 page labor of love into which Auad had crammed page after page of Niño’s lavishly rendered illustrations, drawings and comics pages, including several complete short stories.

The book covers a wide range of Niño’s styles, and includes a healthy sampling of color work (perhaps a quarter of the book). As much as I enjoy his color work, it was in his black and white work, particularly in the Warren magazines, that I think Niño was able to utilize his drawing and rendering strengths, and his dramatic sense of page design, to best advantage.

The Gallery of Niño’s work on the Auad site is small, and the is no official site for Niño or large single repository of his work in the web that I’m aware of. I’ve tried to line up some other resources for you below.


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LINGUIST List 15.495

Fri Feb 6 2004

Review: Translation: Nida (2003)

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  1. Christine Winskowski, Fascinated by Languages

Message 1: Fascinated by Languages

Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 23:01:05 -0500 (EST)
From: Christine Winskowski <>
Subject: Fascinated by Languages

Nida, Eugene A. (2003) Fascinated by Languages, John Benjamins.

Announced at

Christine Winskowski, Iwate Prefectural University.

In this book, Eugene Nida offers an autobiographical account of his
work, spanning over four decades, in Bible translation. In this time,
Nida made over 200 trips to various parts of the world, supervising
scriptural translation projects on behalf of the United Bible
Societies (UBS) and its members. ''Fascinated by Languages'' presents
a first-hand account of many difficulties inevitably encountered in
meaningfully translating ancient scriptural texts across time, across
language, and across cultures.

Nida opens this account by describing the causes of his ''fascination
with languages'' - a multi-lingual family and neighbors, and visiting
preachers presenting contradictory arguments based on the same
Biblical texts. After completing a master's degree in patristics
(early church fathers) in 1939, Nida's first professional work was the
evaluation of a translation in Yipounou (a Bantu language) of the
Gospel of Mark from the Bible. Here he first encountered translation
which was faithful to the original wording, but not to the meaning of
the text - a theme which would recur many times in his career.

After the end of the Second World War, Nida participated in the
formation of the United Bible Societies, a non-denominational umbrella
organization for national Bible societies of the world, dedicated to
the translation and dissemination of the Bible. Oversight of
translation projects in the field was to be Nida's vocation for the
next 40 some years.

Part I of the book comprises highlights of Nida's experiences in
various parts of the world over the course of his career. As such,
his experiences are not presented chronologically; in fact, there is
no dating whatsoever, except from the occasional hint given by a
historical event, e.g. ''after the Cultural Revolution in China''
(p. 33). Instead, Nida describes translation difficulties, relevant
social/political and church-related developments, cultural issues, and
his own travel adventures, grouped by region and country.

The reader is first introduced to Nida's work in Africa, initially a
survey to find what translation projects were being undertaken at the
time. He describes translation problems grounded in culture,
linguistics, theology, and administration. For example, in the Sudan,
the expression for ''forgiveness'' is ''to spit on the ground in front
of someone,'' a traditional sign in the adjudication of disputes.
Clearly, however, such a cultural accommodation would be problematic
for many translators rendering scriptural passages.

The chapter on Asia is divided by countries. Translation problems,
social and political contexts, cultural differences, and travel
adventures are treated. Nida describes delays to translation projects
in Lebanon because of factional rivalry over dialects of Arabic. In
Thailand, Nida found the notion of ''everlasting life,'' the
traditional reward in Christianity, could not appeal to Buddhists, who
aim to break the chain of innumerable rebirths into life and escape to
the oblivion of nirvana. Nida's account of Japan suggests curious
intransigence. His recommendations to select translators of middle
age (rather than advanced age) were politely received but not taken
seriously, and it was also felt that meaningful and clear translations
would leave preachers with nothing to do. In China, however, Nida
found exceptionally effective language learning and impressive
dedication among students and scholars.

Latin America is the next region of the world treated in this volume.
Nida describes one church he visited in Chile which boasted more than
10,000 members. In describing a project to revise the Reina-Valera
Bible in Spanish, he points to the reluctance frequently encountered
to scriptural change, especially when a text has been used for some
time. Still, the revision proceeded with ''more than 1,700 pages of
proposed changes'' (p. 48), forwarded from all over Latin American.
Another challenge was the translation into indigenous languages. The
apostle Paul was considered a brujo (sorcerer) because the text of
Acts speaks of him ''breathing out threats and death against the
disciples,'' apparently characteristic behavior of sorcerers.

Nida also worked in North America, assisting translation of the Bible
into indigenous languages. In this section he points to the
difficulties stemming from poor, literal renderings of the Greek into
English in the King James and English Revised versions. The phrase
''hallowed be they name'', for example, is not a reference to God's
holiness, but rather a reference to ''the manner in which people
should recognize his holiness'' (p. 53). In reviewing a Hopi
translation of the New Testament, Nida found no evidence supporting
Whorf's well-known claim that the Hopi language contained conceptual

In Eastern Europe, Nida investigated developments in Russia, Georgia,
and Armenia. Along with interesting travel stories (e.g. encountering
a hotel reservation as ''A. Linquist,'' due to the misreading of
''Nida, Eugene Albert; Linguist''), Nida seemed to appreciate his
contact with the intelligentsia of all three countries.

In Western Europe, Nida found that university graduates had strong
foundations in literature but had little practical skill with foreign
language. In the Czech Republic, Nida encountered Old Testament
scholars prepared to represent time and place realistically in their
translations, but New Testament scholars who preferred more literal
renderings. He apparently found great interest and dedication on the
part of students and teachers of Romania, and reports that his
sessions with Lithuanian translators were the most interesting he has

Part II of Nida's book deals with translation, texts as literature,
and interpretation. He introduces the key translation consultants he
worked with through the years, and points out that the best
translators may not be conversant in linguistics, but must know the
cultures of the Hebrew Bible and New Testament. They must also be
able to render the text in a meaningful way for future readers. Nida
clearly is passionate about fidelity to the text: A colleague,
translating the book of Matthew, omitted reference to the star of
Bethlehem being observed by the wise men as ''moving.'' The colleague
argued that the wise men, as astronomers, knew that stars did not
''move.'' However, Nida points out that eliminating this supernatural
event from the translation departs from the text.

In the chapter on the Bible as literature, Nida points to the rich
literary character of the texts, and observes that translators are
rarely educated to be sensitive to the literary forms. He discusses
the powerful poetry and insightful theology of Job, densely packed
metaphors in Ecclesiastes, and other beauties of the language.

In Nida's chapter on interpretation of texts, he states that the
contextual differences may lead to diverse interpretations, a typical
translation problem. He describes the apocryphal and deuterocanonical
books (i.e. those not accepted by all churches as genuine), and
explains their importance to the understanding of the time. Also
presented are some of the knotty problems raised by inconsistency
across texts. Is differing order in the listing of the temptations of
Jesus in Matthew and in Luke a sign of Biblical errancy, or
theological emphasis? Did Jesus' cleansing of the temple take place
in the last week of his life, as indicated in Matthew, Mark and Luke,
or at the beginning of his ministry, as indicated in John? Nida
points out that such inconsistencies are to be expected in texts which
have been orally transmitted and then transcribed across more than a
thousand years.

The Vatican II declaration that scriptural readings should be made
available to local languages of churches set in motion conferences on
inter-faith cooperation on translation projects, such as an ecumenical
French translation of the Bible, and a modern Greek translation of the
New Testament. Nida explains that ancient texts have variable
reliability; in fact the well-known King James Bible was based on a
text of lesser reliability. Another project was a commentary of the
Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia, evaluating ancient texts according to
whether there were multiple copies, whether scribes had attempted to
simplify text, attempts by scribes to make their texts more similar to
one another, and various errors. Nida adds some anecdotes about these
scholars' lives - e.g. playing scrabble in four languages at once.
The development of a Greek New Testament lexicon was the next project,
a task involving careful and principled classification of thousands of
meanings for the 5000-word vocabulary, sorted on slips of paper into
hundreds of piles in a translator's apartment. Nida discusses the
kinds of semantic relations encountered, and illustrates a number of
interesting problems that arose.

Finally, Nida turns to the description of some specific Bible
translation problems, including the meaning of the term ''virgin'' in
the Hebrew Bible and the Greek New Testament, idiomatic and figurative
usage, the changing of a terms meaning over time, and the nature of
literary traditions, such as those apparent in the letters of Paul.

In the third part of the book, we are treated to some details about
Nida's impressive career. While he never served as a translator
himself, he was dedicated to understanding the problems of translation
as a linguist and anthropologist. We are introduced to his home, his
first wife, and after her death, his second wife. Retirement and then
a move to Europe apparently have done little to slow Nida's continued
lecturing and writing. Lastly, he offers brief comments on the
various movements in linguistics, and concludes by describing himself
as an eclectic and pragmatist.

As a reader with no background in translation, but with great
professional and personal interest in language, culture, and the
psyche, I found this volume to be a fascinating glimpse into the world
of scriptural translation. What fascinates is that such translation
lies at the nexus of societal history and literature on the one hand,
and psychological and spiritual culture of biblical peoples on the
other. As such, one can hardly imagine a more serious task.

Nida's matter-of-fact assumption of religious faith does not obviate
his scientific perspective of translation as a rational, orderly, and
objective process in keeping with linguistics as an empirical
endeavor. This is refreshing in light of an academic milieu whose
pursuit of every appearance of unbiased objectivity has resulted in a
kind of arid separation of the personal from the measurable. No such
issue arises with Nida, who blithely accepts the reality of a
spiritual universe. At the same time, his fidelity to true and
accurate rendering of the text comes through. Nor does he fear the
loss of habitual forms and interpretations, no matter how
long-sanctioned, if more accurate translations from available textual
and contextual understanding can be found. The reader might be
curious about Nida's private understandings of the many scriptural
passages discussed in this volume, given his extensive experience and
exposure to religious people from all corner of the earth. That,
however, is not what the book is about.

What it is about -- Nida's encounter with the complex problems of
translation -- is sufficient. It is also about the dedicated people
and organizations with whom Nida worked through the years, both well-
known scholars and translators and various church and lay people, and
some of the circumstances of the major translation projects with which
he was involved. Non-insiders will find these details interesting and
even inspiring.

As a quasi-memoir, Nida's book intrigues, illuminates, and entertains.
The one reservation that might be offered has to do with overall
coherence, unity, and order. This manifests in a few ways. For
example, too often, the reader is taken from discussion of translation
issues to travel anecdotes, or vice versa, with little or no
transition. In the opening of Part I, we are treated to a page and a
half of travel stories. They do not seem to form any sort of frame
for the main thrust of the countries' overview; they are simply there.
There are many such sudden changes from translation matters to travel
anecdotes or other observations.

Further, the initial section on areas of the world has a curiously
uneven quality. Africa is treated in a single, undifferentiated
section, whereas other regions are not. In the section on India, most
of the space is devoted to strange customs (e.g. ''dishes rinsed in
water containing fresh manure,'' p. 26-7), whereas the section on
Thailand addresses most interesting issues of cross cultural
difference in understanding of western scripture by Buddhists.
Further, in the very brief Burma/Myanmar section, we are told that
''people from the Hill Tribes were the dynamic innovators of
meaningful translations'' (p.27), with no elaboration on what this
might refer to. Nida may certainly be forgiven if his memory for the
details of his experience in some countries is better than for others,
e.g. in China, where extensive description is presented. However,
better editorial assistance might have guided the inclusion,
exclusion, or expansion of sections and contents to provide more
consistent treatment of these regions and countries of the world.

Occasionally, accounts seem half-told: In the section on the Pacific
Islands, Nida explains that in Marshallese, it must be specified
whether the ''rich young ruler'' had lands, money or children. ''False
prophets'' may refer to people who pretend to be prophets, or prophets
who speak lies. However, we are not told how these translation
solutions were solved. Nida mentions the most interesting discussions
with translators he has encountered in Lithuania, yet we learn nothing
about them. The resolutions of scholars on the inconsistencies in the
Gospels are not offered.

Nida illustrates the difficulties of meaningfully translating through
the two halves of the book. While this, as well as snippets of UBS
history and events, and personal/travel observations also appear
throughout, there is an awkward disconnect between the half on
regions/countries and the half on translation. There is no
transition, and the issues described in Part II seem to have little
connection (except for the location of translation projects) with the
events in Part I.

Despite these criticisms, the book is a fascinating read to a person
like myself, a teacher of English to students from more than 40
countries, and one who has lived abroad in three countries (two as
working adult). While critical assessment of Nida's arguments on the
technical aspect of translation must be left to his colleagues, anyone
interested in language and culture cannot fail to be compelled by
Nida's descriptions of and insights on scriptural translation. They
are a testament to an extraordinary career.

Christine Winskowski is a Professor in the Department of International
Cultural Studies at Iwate Prefectural University, Japan. Her research
interests include culture learning and teaching in second language
programs, and topicalization (topic development) dynamics in talk.
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LINGUIST List 7.41

Wed Jan 10 1996

Qs: Focus positions, Stanford Workshop, Comparative Ling

Editor for this issue: Ljuba Veselinova <>

We'd like to remind readers that the responses to queries are usually best posted to the individual asking the question. That individual is then strongly encouraged to post a summary to the list. This policy was instituted to help control the huge volume of mail on LINGUIST; so we would appreciate your cooperating with it whenever it seems appropriate.

  1. Steven Schaufele, Focus positions
  2. Alexis Manaster Ramer, Query: Stanford Workshop
  3. Alexis Manaster Ramer, What's Happening to Comparative Linguistics

Message 1: Focus positions

Date: Tue, 09 Jan 1996 21:08:18 CST
From: Steven Schaufele <>
Subject: Focus positions

I am soliciting a cross-linguistic information on the relative
positioning of `focussed' constituents, by which i mean constituents
that are highlighted because they represent `new', rhematic or
contrastic information, as in the following examples:

1. I introduced her to LESLIE = It was LESLIE i introduced her to (i.e.,
 not to Morgan)

2. Ewan is nervous aobut EARTHQUAKES = It's EARTHQUAKES that Ewan is
 nervous about (i.e., not fires)

3. You must be home by SUNRISE = It's at SUNRISE that you must be home
 (i.e., i don't care where you are at midnight)

For instance, Hungarian has a specific, clearly-defined position for
such constituents: immediately to the left of the verb. I would be
interested in hearing about any languages that also have a clear
preference for plac- ing such constituents in a specific position
(pre-verbal? post-verbal? clause-initial? clause-final?) within a
simple declarative clause. Clear, well-glossed examples will be
especially welcome.

I'll post a summary if there's sufficient interest.

- -------------------
Dr. Steven Schaufele
712 West Washington
Urbana, IL 61801

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Message 2: Query: Stanford Workshop

Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 07:54:51 EST
From: Alexis Manaster Ramer <amrCS.Wayne.EDU>
Subject: Query: Stanford Workshop
There was a workshop on comparative linguistics at Stanford in 1987
which featured a panel on the Altaic question, but two of the most
important contributions to it were not published and I can find no
concrete information about them either from the organizers of the
panel or from the author of one of them (the other one is dead), so I
am asking anybody who might have attended, to see if they can find any
notes, handouts, or any texts that might have been distributed either
for the Clark or the Austerlitz talks at that workshop. Any material
I might obtain will be used in preparing the final draft of a paper to
appear this year in Journal of Linguistics, entitled "Telling general
linguists about Altaic".
Alexis Manaster Ramer
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Message 3: What's Happening to Comparative Linguistics

Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 09:28:56 EST
From: Alexis Manaster Ramer <amrCS.Wayne.EDU>
Subject: What's Happening to Comparative Linguistics
Is it only me, or is comparative linguistics disappearing from
American and European universities? I recently looked over the list
of departments put out by the LSA and lots of departments simply have
NO comparative linguist at all. Moreover, both in the US and in
Europe I hear of more and more cases where retiring or dead
comparative linguists are not replaced, and the posts go to other
kinds of linguistics. I fully understand that there was a need in the
60's and 70's to shift some resources from diachronic to synchronic
work, as a result of the Chomskyan revolution, but the 90s seem a bit
late for that, don't they? ((And of course now even the term
'comparative linguistics' is increasingly being appropriated for work
in what used to be known as 'contrastive linguistics' instead. Is
there a connection between the two trends?))
Alexis Manaster Ramer
Professor of Computer Science
Wayne State University
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text:
Integrated Pest Management Reviews

, Volume 4, Issue 1, pp 39–52

Integrated Pest Management of Pest Mole Crickets with Emphasis on the Southeastern USA

DOI: 10.1023/A:1009628915989

Cite this article as:
Frank, J. & Parkman, J. Integrated Pest Management Reviews (1999) 4: 39. doi:10.1023/A:1009628915989

There are at least 70 species of mole crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllotalpidae). Some are rare, others are innocuous, and a few are important pests. These soil-dwelling pests damage underground parts of a long list of cultivated plants. Although tillage and flooding are used successfully in some situations to bring these pests to the soil surface and expose them to vertebrate and other predators, chemical pesticides are widely used against them. Knowledge of their life history is used to time application of chemical treatments to save money, but is not used as widely as it might be. Classical biological control has been used against immigrant mole crickets in Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the southern USA. In Florida, three Scapteriscus species from South America cause major damage to pastures and turf and are targets of a classical biological control program. Population levels of two of the pest species have been reduced substantially in Florida by establishment of a tachinid fly (Ormia depleta) and a steinernematid nematode (Steinernema scapterisci) from South America. The nematode also functions as a biopesticide. Managers of pastures and turf in Florida have thus far derived benefit from these classical biological control agents without understanding their function: use of chemicals is reduced when mole cricket populations are lower due to action of these organisms. Future enhancement of the action of O. depleta and of a sphecid wasp (Larra bicolor, which also was introduced from South America) probably will demand deliberate planting of nectar sources for adults of these biological control agents, and the advantage will be to managers who adopt such a strategy. Chemical pesticide use is strongly promoted by a large chemical industry, whereas biopesticidal use has thus far been little promoted and sales have been few. Even managers who do not change their simple strategy of pesticide use in response to damage by mole crickets, and have no knowledge of the differing life cycles of the three Scapteriscus species or of the presence and action of the classical biological control agents, will derive benefit as these biological control agents (and a predatory beetle which has not yet been released) increase their distribution.

ScapteriscusNeocurtillaGryllotalpabiological controlturfpasturesvegetables

Copyright information

© Kluwer Academic Publishers 1999

Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Entomology & Nematology DepartmentUniversity of FloridaGainesvilleUSA (E-mail
  2. 2.Department of Entomology and Plant PathologyUniversity of TennesseeKnoxvilleUSA