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2016 Close Approximations Winners Announced

fb7c90cc1af368152720fc8890c264e7For the second year, Asymptote Journal has hosted a set of translation awards (with $1000 prizes) in three different categories, and the winners (and runners-up) have just been announced:

POETRY WINNER: Marie Silkeberg and co-translator Kelsi Vanada for their translation of Silkeberg’s “The Cities” from the Swedish
POETRY RUNNER-UP: Sophie Seita for her translation of Uljana Wolf’s “Subsisters” from the German

FICTION WINNER: Ruth Diver for her translation of Sophie Pujas’s Street Rounds in Paris from the French
FICTION RUNNER-UP: Jason Woodruff for his translation of Kim Kyung-uk’s “Spray” from the Korean

NONFICTION WINNER: Sean Gasper Bye for his translation of Filip Springer’s Miedzianka: The History of a Disappearance from the Polish
NONFICTION RUNNER-UP: Ona Bantjes-Ràfols for her translation of Albert Casals’s The World on Wheels from the Catalan

For more information about the prize and books and statements by the judges (Margaret Jull Costa, Ottilie Mulzet, and Michael Hofmann) see the Asymptote Journal website.

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TA First Translation Prize Announced

This is the very first year of the brand new TA First Translation Prize, so I’m giving it its own special blog post even though it was announced together with the other 2018 translation prizes awarded by the Translators Association last night. This £2,000 prize honors both the first-time translator of a book-length literary work published in the UK and the book’s editor, recognizing the hard work editors do and the decisive contributions they make to the quality and success of a literary work, particularly when collaborating with a first-time translator. The TA First Translation Prize was launched and funded by Daniel Hahn with support from the British Council; he sat on this year’s jury together with Rosalind Harvey and Bill Swainson. The first shortlist was published in January, and now the first winners has been announced: translator Bela Shayevich and her editor Jacques Testard of Fitzcarraldo Editions for Second-Hand Time by 2017 Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich, a 700-page tome filled with many different voices that presented significant challenges for both translator and editor. For more information about the prize and the winning translation, see the Society of Authors website. Big congratulations to Shayevich and Testard! May this prizewinning book be one of many. (And may Shayevich get her name on the cover next time.)

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Unless miracles happen, Iran will soon be bombed

Unless miracles happen, Iran will soon be bombed

© Jan Oberg – How much longer shall the Iranian people suffer? And shall they also be bombed?

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Jan Oberg

March 1, 2021

The West-Iran conflict is extremely a-symmetric. It’s the West that has, historically, sought to influence, change, threaten, demanded obedience from, punished (with sanctions and more), liquidated high-level politicians and scholars, shot down a civilian plane, demonised and excluded Iran. Not to speak of giving Saddam Hussein the chemical weapons and the green light for his war on Iran in 1980.

Iran has not done similar harm to the West.

Originally published by Transcend Media Service, TMS

The conflict’s roots go back to 1953 when the US’s CIA and the UK’s MI6 orchestrated a coup d’etat, or regime-change, in Tehran and deposed the democratically elected Prime Minister, Dr Mohammad Mossadegh and installed the Shah and made Iran the most militarized country in the South (and gave it nuclear power). The Prime Minister’s crime was that he believed Iran’s oil belonged to Iran.

Iran and the West have been on a collision course ever since around various issues. The biggest has been whether or not Iran should be “allowed” to have nuclear weapons. In addition to strong Western political pressure, sanctions and embargo have been imposed since 1987.

From Day One this whole affair has been a sort of the Theatre of the Absurd. Here sits a series of nuclear weapons powers – the US, Russia, the UK, France and China – which for decades have arrogantly ignored every attempt at real nuclear reductions, nuclear abolition and the UN goal of general and complete disarmament – and force through a deal that tells Iran to not acquire what they themselves obviously cannot live without.

Furthermore, next door is heavily-armed nuclear weapons state, Israel, that – in contrast to Iran – became a nuclear weapons state in the 1960s with the full blessings of the West, accepts no inspections, is not a member of the NPT (the Non-Proliferation Treaty) and is the only country violating the UN’s normative work which dates back to the 1970s to establish a legally binding Weapons Of Mass Destruction-free zone in the Middle East.

We should be grateful that Iran has put up with it all and joined the nuclear deal in 2015, the JCPOA.

President Trump withdrew the US from that deal and few have understood that that was a gross violation of international law because the JCPOA was part of a UN Security Council resolution. And in addition to the psychological effects of dropping what has been one of the most important deals ever negotiated – in my view, the alternative at the time would have been war – he also slammed new sweeping, suffocating sanctions on Iran that increased further the very serious suffering of country’s innocent citizens.

I want my readers to be aware that these sanctions also include humanitarian aid. In 2019 and just as a test, I tried to donate the equivalent of US $ 5 to the Iranian Red Crescent – when millions of people were hit by floods. The Nordea bank blocked the transfer with a blurred reference to there being ”sanctions in the country.” I have written the story here and published my Open Letter to the Chair of Nordea’s Board. Not a word in response.

And what was – and is – the reason? It is that anyone who does business transactions with Iran will be punished by the US Treasury. Other countries such as the EU have de facto and de jure accepted that American sanctions on Iran shall also be applied by them which means that US law is applied in otherwise sovereign states. That’s why my Nordea bank would not transfer those US $ 5 to help Irans in need.

No media among a few thousands I sent the above article to took up that story.

Even US State Department has acknowledged that Iran was in compliance with every aspect of the JCPOA until the US scrapped it. Thereafter, it increased the level of enrichment but, as stated repeatedly by Iran’s brilliant foreign minister (and West connoisseur), Javad Zarif, it will be adjusted down again immediately after the sanctions that should have been lifted from 2015 are finally lifted.

The future

Let me admit two things before I continue here. One, we have listened more than enough to the general US/Western view and perspectives on Iran – in politics, media and research. We have listened far too little to what the conflict is about and to what Iran’s views of the West and the conflict are and what its future goals may be.

Two, I do not believe that even 1% of the people who shape and conduct the media war and the political war on Iran have ever visited the country or have any deeper sense about its culture, history and people – and the suffocation of the later by sanctions. If you don’t, you should forget about finding a peaceful solution.

The difference between the generalised Western image of Iran and the reality any visitor will experience is, simply put, mind-boggling.

While the Biden-Blinken team states that the US is back and totally different from the Trump days, there is nothing new. Instead, it takes advantage of Trump’s withdrawal. Because what it says is this:

Iran must first come into compliance with the deal and then the US may re-enter – depending, it seems, also on Iran being willing to negotiate a new deal in which several other non-nuclear issues shall be included – such as what conventional missiles and what influence it can have in the Middle East in general and in Syria, Iraq and elsewhere, and with Hezbollah.

And to make its point and to continue stealing Syria’s oil, Biden authorised a military attack on Iran-supported militias inside Syria on February 25, 2021 – not one comment pointing out that this was an act of aggression or asking why the US still has hundreds of military facilities in Iraq and 11 bases in Syria around the main oil fields and re-enforcing them. (For more facts and links to these matters, please consult this article on my personal blog).

There is in my view not 1% of a chance that a sovereign state of Iran’s stature in terms of culture and history should or would accept such dictate. None of the existing nuclear weapons powers waited for a kind of permission from anyone when they decided to go nuclear; they just did it.

In addition, the religious Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, has repeatedly stated that nuclear weapons are ”Haram” – forbidden – according to the Quran. It is my impression from a number of visits to Iran and conversations with various experts, scholars and media people that Iran does not want to become a nuclear weapons power. They see that that would mean escalation and automatically legitimise Israel’s existing up to 400 nuclear weapons.

This entire issue now has a new frame. As of January 22, 2021, all nuclear weapons exist in violation of the new, truly historical, UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, TPNW. In other words, Iran is in a legally correct position – has international law on its side – the majority of those imposing themselves on its policies do so from a position of illegality.

As I said, Iran cannot be expected to accept such injustice, such bullying in response to its status as a non-nuclear weapons state.

My prediction, therefore, is – and I hope by all my heart that I am wrong and some miracle happens – that the Biden Administration will conclude that Iran is not bowing down to US dictates and will neither accept U.S. policies or proposals, neither in content, conditionality nor in terms of sequencing.

Iran is not Iraq where soldiers rapidly put on civilian clothes and ran away in March 2003. But Iran is a very small military power when compared with those who could, and probably, would gang up against it – the US, Saudi Arabia, Israel, and members of NATO. And while Iran is rapidly turning its back on the West and its face to China and Russia, they would hardly intervene military in support of Iran.

Iran does have some advantages in that equation of power – such as closing the Hormuz Strait – but, again, US military power would then probably just increase as would the suffering of the Iranian people.

What could prevent such a terrible military scenario?

The only other scenario is that the other parties, China and Russia in particular, to the JCPOA as well as all of the EU with one voice tells Biden this: 1) Rejoin the JCPOA, 2) lift the sanctions on Iran according to the JCPOA and the secondary sanctions on us, 3) then let’s dialogue with Iran about how to pick up the pieces and begin various types of civilian interaction and 4) let’s find a formula that enables us all to discuss a new stable order for security and peace in all the Middle East, including getting that treaty in place that prohibits weapons of mass destruction in the region.

With just one positive move by the West, I am positive that Iran would immediately come into compliance again with all provisions and would be eager to cooperate with the West.

Why does the US continue to make suggestions that any fool can see are not possible for Iran to accept within the framework of the geopolitical Realpolitik school that the West itself is pursuing? If not to provoke war. One is reminded of former US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo’s 12 demands to Iran from 2018: Surrender, give up everything, or else!

It would be reasonable also that the US paid reparations for the harm done to Iran and its suffering people. Remember, that more people died from 13 years of sanctions in Iraq than from the military violence there.

However, and to my chagrin, the EU has proven unable to deal with anything important with the one voice stipulated in the Lisbon Treaty. It could not get its acts together concerning the refugees in 2015. It has accepted US policies vis-a-vis Iran and also faltered miserably when it comes to the Corona crisis. Nationalisms prevailing.

Under Trump, the US has undermined its own diplomatic capacity. It is a declining super power that is only second to none in one field – the military. The US does not have a MIMAC – Military-Industrial-Media-Academic Complex; rather, towards its end, like the Soviet Union at its end, it is a MIMAC.

Hence, there may be quite a few in Washington who see a new armament drive and a new war as a welcome distraction/cover-up for the deep inner crisis that existed and has now become much worse because of the Corona.

If the West and the JCPOA countries could come together and offer Iran something reasonable and fair in the direction of the four points above, we would avoid a terrible war (or some nasty military actions) with unavoidable regional and global consequences. And we would see the world moving in a better, more balanced direction in which Iran plays its rightful role as one of the world’s oldest continuous civilizations with a history going back to 7000 BC.

And my longterm vision in such a perspective?

Iran as ”different” as it is, could become a kind of Switzerland of the Middle East and a central player on the new Silk Roads, an important connector of the Far, the Middle and the Near East and the West (Venice, the Arctic, Belgrade and London) – and also include the US if it should decide to become one among equals and seek permanent cooperation instead of permanent confrontation.

Please see also my comment on PressTV here.

Please consult this article on my personal blog.

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  2. oleajorngmailcom   March 2, 2021 at 8:14 am

    What the members of the EU are doing in stead of using diplomacy is boosting their military industry separately or in collaboration. See especially Germany, France and Italy. Its worrying.

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eight Methods to Practical experience Classic Hawaiian Culture on Maui –

The Hawaiian Islands are a diverse place–and this is not just referring to the flora and fauna.

A rainbow of cultures exists on Maui and all through the Hawaiian Islands, but one particular came 1st: the classic Hawaiian culture of its original inhabitants. Although going to Maui, the ideal way to connect with the island is via a classic Hawaiian culture activity.

These activities come from the rituals and celebrations of the native Hawaiians, who initially came to Hawaii from Polynesia as early as 400 CE. The traditions have been passed down via generations and a lot of are now out there for travelers to attempt out.

Right here are eight methods to celebrate Hawaiian culture on Maui, and the ideal spots to attempt them.

8 ways to experience Hawaiian culture in Maui

1. Stop by the Kihei Canoe Club

At the Kihei Canoe Club, guests are immersed in Hawaiian culture. Commit a day in the visitor paddling system, and expertise a great deal far more than just a canoe ride.

In the course of the paddling system you will be provided an introduction to Hawaiian culture, expertise numerous Hawaiian chants, discover sea life, and be instructed in outrigger canoe paddling, known as wa’a. You might even see a green sea turtle up close as you paddle beyond the reefs.

Stop by the Kihei Canoe Club on Tuesdays or Thursdays and for just $40 you can have this exceptional expertise only out there on Maui. Bring your swimsuit and be ready to get wet!

two. Go to an genuine luau

Handful of Hawaiian cultural experiences are far more iconic than a luau. They might appear like just a celebration on the outdoors, but luaus are element of the wealthy Hawaiian culture.

Luaus originated when the king of Hawaii 1st permitted ladies and males to consume with each other. There was a giant and entirely decadent feast to celebrate–as you do.

Apparently, this decadence was fairly common, for the reason that luaus are now celebrated on the every day across the Hawaiian Islands! In the course of a luau you can get pleasure from roast pig, poi, and other Hawaiian delicacies.

There are normally fire dancers, hula, and so a great deal far more. There are tons of areas across Maui that you can pay a visit to for a luau. Having said that, for the most genuine expertise, attempt the Old Lahaina Luau, which is broadly respected for its cultural sensitivity.

How to experience Hawaiian culture in Maui

three. Consume classic Hawaiian dishes

When in Hawaii…eat like the Hawaiians consume! There are so a lot of great eats on Maui that it can be really hard to pick out.

Although I know it is tempting to have a smoothie bowl for each and every meal, be confident to attempt the classic Hawaiian foods as effectively (açai bowls, regardless of their prevalence in Hawaii, truly originated in Brazil).

The genuine crowd pleasers include things like Poke (cubed raw fish, normally served in a rice and salad bowl), Poi (a fresh paste produced from taro root, served savory or with dessert), and Kalua pork (slow roast pig normally served at luaus).

For a modern day spin on classic Hawaiian foods, attempt a poi mochi. This chewy Japanese dessert is produced from Hawaiian poi, mixing two of the Islands’ cultures into a yummy concoction.

How to experience Hawaiian culture in Maui

four. Take a hula lesson

Hula dance is not just a super exciting exercise, but an important element of Hawaiian culture. On Maui there are so a lot of possibilities to expertise hula.

You can take totally free hula lessons at Whalers Village Buying Center (Fridays at 3pm), or Lahaina Cannery Mall (Thursdays at 5pm). If you want to splurge on a private lesson you can also book with the Hawaii Hula Organization For an further dose of cuteness, watch a Keiki (“children”) Hula Show at Lahaina Cannery Mall (Sundays at 1pm, totally free!).

five. Study how to make leis

Most guests to Maui and the other islands acquire a lei upon arrival – a lovely garland of island flowers. Leis are so crucial on Maui… they symbolize not just welcoming to the island, but also act as a sign of really like, acceptance, and respect. They are provided on birthdays, graduations, and even memorials.

Attempt your hand at lei creating with a totally free class at Whalers Village Buying Center. Classes are supplied on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 11-1pm.

How to experience Hawaiian culture in Maui

six. Take a Hawaiian language class

So a lot of people today do not know that there is an actual Hawaiian language–this is known as Ōlelo HawaiʻI and it is one particular of the oldest identified languages. Not a lot of people today are fluent in Hawaiian language today, but it is nevertheless an integral element of the islands’ culture.

On Maui, you can immerse oneself in the Hawaiian language via a class–the ideal alternatives are the totally free Hawaiian language classes supplied through on the web sources and apps. However, the University of Hawaii Maui no longer presents its totally free weekly Hawaiian language course. Having said that, you can nevertheless discover longer term possibilities at the University of Hawaii Maui and the College of Hawaiian Language.

7. Jam on a ukulele

The ukulele is, rather actually, the sound of Hawaiian culture. As the official Hawaiian instrument, ukuleles have a tropical sound that is not only lovely, but also comparatively quick to understand.

If you are like me, you might have dabbled in a couple of ukulele chords on your personal. When in Maui, although, you really should surely spring for a lesson. Head to Lahaina, Maui exactly where you can take totally free lessons from Lahaina Music, supplied 5 instances a week. You can also attempt out Ukulele Mele, a Maui native who presents on the web classes.

How to experience Hawaiian culture in Maui

eight. Program your trip about a Hawaiian culture festival

An quick way to pack in some classic Hawaiian cultural activities is by arranging your trip about a festival. See the island come alive with festivities that are uniquely Hawaiian. Maui has a lot of festivals that celebrate Hawaiian culture, and there is one particular for everybody based on your interests.

Foodies really should attempt the Hawaii Meals and Wine Festival in October, history buffs might get pleasure from the Olukai Hoolaulea in May well which celebrates the island’s ocean culture, film lovers really should come to the June Maui Film Festival…and if you truly truly truly like poi (see #three), consume ‘til your heart’s content material at April’s East Maui Taro Festival.

Maui has so a great deal to provide. It is truly a vibrant and diverse neighborhood, but so a great deal of what it is these days is thanks to the Hawaiian native people today. As travelers it is so crucial to respect and honor the traditions of the areas we travel. In Maui, you can attempt any of these eight experiences to celebrate Hawaiian culture.

What Hawaiian cultural activities would you most like to attempt when on Maui?

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Sunday, January 26, 2014

Questioning My Sanity

Every January and February, I question my sanity.  I am not a great fan of cold snowy winters.  I was born in Michigan I endured a few blizzards in my days.  When I was in school my parents started spending winters in Florida.  I discovered that there is life without layers, without hats and gloves and freezing your bits and pieces.  After high school I moved to Florida and I lived there for almost 20 years.  My idea of a cold winter night was around freezing.  Snow was something I saw on television and only felt once in 18 years. Over the years I grew to appreciate the subtlety of of a semi tropical winter. In the fall the trees and leaves change the shade of green, foliage grows more slowly and in dead of winter, things may even show frost damage. Then love and a desire for change talked me into moving back north.  The last time I saw the statistics, about ⅓ of the people that move to Florida move out.  My sweet bear and I moved from central Florida to Kentucky and I went onto graduate school.  I experienced my first driving in snow and nasty cold winter weather.  After 13 years I moved to Washington DC.  The winters are a little milder here, but still cold with snow (the week after I moved into the high rise condo, we had 48 inches of snow in a week.)  Every winter, I question the sanity of moving this far north.  I love DC, I am constantly in awe of the museums, the power and politics of being here.  I love being in a real city, with a good mass transit system, But every winter I question the sanity of a cold winter day being 4 or 5 degrees instead of 45 degrees.

Friday, January 24, 2014

So I went from the top picture to the bottom picture this week, WHY?

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

The Journey and the Destination

Some say travel is about the journey not the destination. My experience is that it is about both.

It is easy to focus on getting where you are going and overlook the joy of the journey.  Planes, trains, automobiles, moving across the landscape can be an incredible experience. I am always amazed at the sounds, sights and smells along the way.  I enjoy airports, watching people coming and going I am always surprised or amazed at the things I see.  I enjoy the mechanics of airports. Airplanes are remarkably complex and reliable.  I enjoy watching them come and go at an airport.  I enjoy the physical act of flying, the views out the window and the view up the aisle - especially at takeoff and landing. I wish that airplanes were more comfortable. I started flying when seats were larger and service included meals on any flight longer than a couple of hours.  I miss the bag of peanuts.  Train stations carry an interesting mix of people, rich, poor, young and old, and a nice mixture of foreign tourists.  I love the views from trains. The rails run through the backyards of America.  Driving gives us the greatest connection to the terrain,  I like to get off the expressways and onto the back roads and see what the locals see everyday.

I also enjoy the destination.  Even the most mundane of places has something uniquely local about it.  Food, language, architecture, there is such an amazing spectrum to be experienced.  Occasionally I get to go to a “destination.”  I enjoy the great world capitals, historical sites, and tourist traps.

In all cases I need to remember to see, hear and smell all that travel has to offer.

Sunday, January 19, 2014

Having Fun

Growing older happens, growing up is optional.  There is a Jimmy Buffet line about growing older but not up. All too many of us forget how to have fun, as we get older.  We need to remember that it is okay to be silly, zany even a little crazy.  Remember to laugh a little each day.

A Couple of Days in Alternate Reality Land

Many people think their parents are crazy, my mother is steadily slipping into alternate reality land.  All of the time she talks about going up stairs, my parents have lived in single story “ranch style” homes for well over 60 years.  Yesterday she asked my sister to go up into the attic over the upstairs bedroom and help that man out of the long sleeve satin dress. We had been talking about wedding dresses (my sister is getting married again) but we have no idea who the man is and why he is in the attic over the imaginary second floor in her 65 year old satin dress. Yesterday evening she looked at me and said, “I am sure there are shovels in the garage, you can plant anyplace along the front.”  When my father asked what in the world she wanted me to plant, the answer was roses - I could plant as many as I wanted.  I assured her that I had planted all of the roses and they were doing fine.  I had planted roses across the front of their house, about 25 years ago.  At midnight last night she was blowing her distress whistle and then arguing with my father that she wanted to get up (she can’t get in and out of bed without help.)  She was refusing to turn the television in their bedroom off, every time my father drifted off to sleep she would turn the volume up until he woke up.  He would turn the television off, she would turn it on and turn the volume up and hide the remote.  At one time I wondered where I learned passive aggressive behavior.

My parents are 86.  It has been a rough year. Mom was in and out of the hospital and a nursing home.  My sister and her soon to be husband (he knows what he is getting himself into,) moved in with my parents to provide in-home care for mom.  Mom has Parkinson's, is unable to walk, stand or transfer from chair to chair, or bed to chair without full help.  Her memory has been fading and her personal reality has settled in quite soundly over the past year.  I am not sure what special land she lives in, but she is comfortable and happy most of the time.  How the rest of them in this house remain sane living in her alternate reality, I don't know.

Friday, January 17, 2014

Taking Control of My Life

It happened by accident, I forgot to set my radio alarm clock one night.  I woke with a start the next morning, realizing that the music was not playing and the sun was rising.  After a moment of panic, I realized that I had slept an extra 15-20 minutes and felt so relaxed.  I had not been roused from my slumber, my dreams had not been interrupted.  I made it to the office more or less on time.  I thought about the experience over the following few days.  The clock had ruled my life since I was a teenager.  I was raised in a house where if you were not 15 minutes early, you were late. It has taken me decades to understand that not all of the world works on the principle, in fact not all of my family lives on that basis.  I took control, I turned the clock radio off.  Much to my surprise, life and work went on.  I wake most mornings, plenty early, occasionally my body takes control and I sleep a little later.  I am still fairly calendar driven, and my body seems to adjust so I am on time for calendar items, especially when they impact others.  It has been five years and I am so happy with the decision to take control and not let the clock rule my life.  On rare occasion when I have an especially early meeting or airline flight, I will set the clock, but even then, I usually find that I am awake before the music starts playing, awake without being awoken.

Thursday, January 16, 2014

Great Adventures in Travel

An Exercise  in Flexibility

The fog stuck around, the flight was delayed, first for 12 minutes, then 30 minutes, than an hour, then 2 hours, then cancelled.  I was re-booked on another flight and had a row to myself in the back of the bus.  I arrived at my destination over two hours late, but I arrived.  The rental car people were incompetent, chatty and polite, kept asking me the same questions and trying to sell their overpriced insurance.  Then they didn't have the class of car I had reserved, I said I would take something else, we started to make the change - the phone rang and they had what I had reserved.  Picking up the car took twice as long as it should have, I am now about two and half hours late. I drove to the Crown Plaza, park and went to registration.  They don't have a room ready, I say I will take anything, one bed - two beds I am very flexible.  She asked if "I was paying for the room" - uh yes.  She then asked if I was driving - if she had been listening I had said I had a car in the garage.  She explained that there was an option that would get me into a room immediately, the hotel was oversold, and they had just made arrangements with the Hyatt Regency across the river for the overflow.  She would comp my room, if I would be able to stay at the Hyatt instead of the CP.  Ah, yes, the Hyatt is much nicer.  So I spent the night on the 16th floor with a spectacular river view.  I was four hours late getting to the conference, but I am listening not talking at this one, so I could be quite flexible.  All in all it was not a bad trip when compared to the emergency landing in Dallas with smoke pouring out of an engine, or the time the plane backed into another plane (twice) in Charlotte one morning. Any landing you can walk away from, is a good landing.  It is all a matter of perspective and flexibility.

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Out early in the fog

I was off to the airport before dawn today.  Very foggy on top of the hill.

I love TSA pre - check.  One of the airlines enrolled me.  Not sure which one, but THANK YOU.  I can leave my shoes on, wear a light jacket,  leave my computer in my bag. At most airports I pass through a metal detector, hence I need to empty my pockets into my bag.  It is so much easier.  Most of the part the participants are frequent flyers, who know what to do.  So much better.

Now the flight is delayed two hours.

Oh well,  control the things we can.

Wednesday, January 08, 2014

How Cold Was It?

It was so cold that I took the condo shuttle bus to and from the subway station and went to the deli in the building for lunch, rather than going around the corner to my favorites.  There is a thin layer of ice on the Potomac River, bunching up around the bridge piers where the subway crosses the river.  The trains have been having trouble with frozen switches for a couple of days.  But the worst is past.  It was above freezing this afternoon and will be 10 degrees warmer tomorrow and back into the high 50's (Fahrenheit) over the weekend.

DC has it's share of cold jokes,
It was so cold that Congressmen had their hands in their own pockets.
It was so cold that government bureaucrats stopped moving - but no one noticed the difference.
It was so cold that we had to print more money to burn (about half of the currency used in the US is printed in DC.)
Home on the hill?
I live in a condo in the high rise towers on the top of that hill. If my neighbors would cut down all of the trees I would have a great view of Old Town Alexandria, the Patent and Trademark offices and the George Washington Masonic Memorial.  About 1/3 of the time I ride a bike to and from the office.  Every afternoon, I HATE the hill I live on, when I have to climb it on the bike.  The rise is about 100 feet in about 500 feet.  Nasty-nasty climb.  I will conquer that hill.

Tuesday, January 07, 2014

Fresh Look

It was time for a new look.  I was trying to edit my profile, and the template was so out of date that blogger wouldn't let me edit.  It was time to update.  I try to keep the template simple.  My focus is on the pictures and my ramblings.  I picked the original template quickly and easily and this one the same way.  So I hope both of my readers enjoy the new look, if not, let me know and I will fiddle with it.

It was very-very cold here this morning, 4 degrees Fahrenheit with a nice wind.

I will explain the house on the hill sometime soon.  I put the picture up from my phone on the train headed into the city and didn't get a chance to explain.

Home on the hill

Sunday, January 05, 2014

I Use To Work With

I don't talk about my work on Social Media (outside of the office) but I can talk about past work.  I am on my third career.  The first one only lasted a few short years, I was a commercial photographer for 2-3 years.  I did mostly print work for the hospitality industry.

For my second career I worked with the distant relatives of the creatures above.  I worked for land developers and home builders in Florida for 15 years.  It was an interesting business.  The first 7 years I worked for a small family owned company that developed land and built 150-200 homes per year.  Interesting people, they knew how to control risk and make money.  One day they invited us all to a hotel for a drink on the way home from work, and proceeded to announce that they had sold the assets - I found out a few weeks later that I was not one of the assets and that I had better find another job.  I did, landing a sales and marketing job for a major national home builder  aka Big-Builder Company. I was there five years and made really good money.  When they hired me, the boss said I will screw with your mind but not with your money, you will make more money here than anyplace in town.  He was right, and so began my adventures with various swamp creatures.

Big-builder company was big money land.  At any given time we had 50-100 million dollars of work underway, in the division I was in.  Nationally it was a multi-billion dollar firm.  We had some interesting characters.  One of the division managers was young and ambitious and willing to do or say almost anything to exceed his numbers.  I was in a meeting with him one afternoon, when we left he said I'll see you at the morning staff meeting, I went back to my mail slot and there was a memo saying that he had left the firm to pursue other opportunities.  Apparently he hadn't received the memo yet - but he was gone before I left the building that afternoon.  The last I heard he was building prisons - some were surprised he wasn't a resident in one.  When I left there I went to work for idiots with lots of money.  I referred to them as an accounting company that built houses to keep the accountants busy.  Reality was suspended and what ever the accounting system said, was held to be the truth, even if it was obviously wrong to everyone looking at reality.  I learned the art of creating paperwork to reconcile accounting with reality.  I was there about a year and left.  About the time left they hired one of my former bosses from Big-builder company.  I was gone about 120 days, including 90 days working for a supplier and I went back to work for more money than brains.  The guy who founded the company did a motivational speech for staff where he said that he could "write a check for a billion dollars and it would clear," and we all snickered that it would only count if accounting could find the paperwork.  I lasted another year or so, had a shouting match with a moron construction manager and went on my way.  The next company was idiots without enough money - one payday they quit paying.  I had been warned when I went to work there, that one day, one way or another the company would hurt me.  From there I went back to work for the company that had bought out the first company I worked for - closing the circle.  Nothing was the same.  The place was run by a drunk Australian and his YES MEN with no business morals - it was all about margins - they would sooner make no money than not hit there target margin.  That was my last builder job.  I followed love to another state, and took the opportunity to hit the restart button on my work life.  I went to graduate school, and found work that I wanted to do, mostly working for and with people that I want to work with and for and that is about all I will say about my current work.

A post script in about 2010 Big-Builder ran tight on cash, and the banks really wanted cash, and more money than brains made good on his brag, and wrote a check merging the best company I ever worked for with the stupidest.

Friday, January 03, 2014

Good morning

15 degrees Fahrenheit and very slippery this morning.  Headed to the office.  The condo has private road through an undeveloped parcel to the subway station about half a mile away.  This walk is part of my daily commute in the city.  There were fresh fox footprints in the snow this morning.

Thursday, January 02, 2014

A little wet snow in the DC area this evening.

Back to the office

Today was the first day of the work year, the first day of the rest of my life.  I was in the office, getting things done.  I caught up on email that had stacked up over the holidays.  I was able to follow up with people who had taken the last 10 days off.  I try to work over the holidays, it is a good time to catch up on things that no one else needs to touch, but not a good time to try to do anything that I need to confer with anyone else on. I am producing workshops for a conference in January, and it was not a good couple of weeks to try to get people to agree on a workshop title.

I enjoy work.  I get bored after a couple of days around the house.  I enjoy vacation and traveling, but being home gets to me in a hurry.  I prefer to be working.  This is a major consideration as I get closer to "retirement" age, I can't see myself in my parents vision of retirement.  They retired early and have been bored for most of the past 30 years.  Not my idea of fun.

Take care, stay busy and have fun!

Wednesday, January 01, 2014

So what does 2014 hold?

Some travel, though likely not as much as some past years.  I have a conference in Jacksonville, FL in January, followed by a couple of days with my aging parents in central Florida.  My sister is talking about getting married in early February in Florida. So I may be home for a week and go back to Florida again.  In February I will likely drive to Lexington, KY for a long weekend (assuming there is not a snow storm between here and there.) If I can get an invitation, I may attend the bloggerpalozza in Delaware in March.  I have a conference in early May in Portland, OR.  Oregon is one of 5 states I have not been to.  I may go a a conference in Scottsdale later in May.  We are planning a long weekend in Chicago for Memorial Day weekend.  I will need to make another trip or two to Florida over the course of the year.

My parents are 86 years old, and in failing health.  I am thinking about a trip to see them in late summer and maybe late October.  I would like to go to Lexington for Thanksgiving with Jay this year. I have to be prepared for unplanned trips to Florida if an emergency comes up.

We don't have plans for a major vacation the year, though we are due for one. Last year's discretionary budget was consumed with a new heating and air-conditioning system for the condo. Other than a few hundred dollars in plumbing replacements- there are no major home improvement projects this year.

I don't talk about my work on social media.  This spring the project I am on is up for renewal for a new three year cycle.  It appears likely that the project will be funded.  But rising costs and reduced funding are making it hard to balance the budget (hence less work travel this year than in the past.)  It will be nice to have a three year commitment to the future of the project, even if I have to sell part of my time to another project to balance the budget. Last year the office moved, this year may see some changes in organization and leadership (my bosses -boss is moving to a new job in mid January.)
J, also known as my other half, Someone, partner, or sweet-bear, is still teaching in Lexington, KY.  He is here about 20 weeks out of the year, I am there a couple of weeks per year.  At this point we don't see this changing any time soon. We are plotting a sabbatical in a couple of years, and his early retirement in a few years.  People ask about marriage, both homes are in anti-marriage states, at this point marriage would overly complicate our legal lives. I have thought about moving across the river to Maryland if Virginia does not get it's act together soon.  We have been together 21 years, it would be hard to be more committed to each other, but the legal protections of recognition of our relationship are real and something we should be able to take advantage of sooner or later.

New year's resolutions?

  • be more aware of what I eat
  • ride the bike more, move more
  • read more (turn off the TV)
  • write for 30 minutes per day


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CeBIT is the world’s largest and most international computer exhibition, held annually in the German city of Hanover, in Lower Saxony.

Organised by Deutsche Messe, it is considered a barometer of all that is innovative in the IT industry and includes the fast-moving telecoms industry, of which are international and European sim cards are an integral part.

Statistics from the show, which closed on March 14th, speak for themselves. Deals of more than 25 billion euros were made at CeBIT, which stands for Centre for Office Automation, Information Techonology and Telecommunication in German.
The four-day event, which was founded in 1970, was attended by thousands of professionals, of which one in three were Chief Information Officers (CIOs).

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He said that 92 per cent of all visitors were IT professionals, with more than 2,000 CIOs and other top decision-makers attending CeBIT 2014. Meanwhile, more than 25 per cent of visitors came from abroad.

It was also the most youthful CeBIT ever with more than 300 start-ups at the show, all of whom brought new energy, entrepreneurial drive and creativity to Hanover. The young entrepreneurs were able to build relationships with large numbers of established firms, investors and venture capitalists.

CeBIT’s lead theme of “Datability” addressed the issue of big data, a sweeping trend throughout the international IT landscape. The ability to use and manage huge volumes of data responsibly is revolutionizing many business models, production processes and applications.

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India has witnessed another two  murders of Muslim men in a week. Asif Khan, a gym trainer from India’s Haryana state was lynched by a Hindutva mob while returning home after buying medicine. A week later, 17-year-old Mohammad Faisal died in police custody, sustaining heavy injuries after he was arrested for allegedly violating coronavirus restrictions. The incident took place while he was selling vegetables outside his home in the Uttar Pradesh district. These men are some of the hundreds of innocent men lynched or burned to death by a Hindu mob. As a victim of this hate, Faisal is the face of Hindutva state violence on Muslims. These killings have become normalized in a highly radicalized society, which often hails the murderers as “heroes.” [1] Continue reading Will ‘Hindutva’ Only Yield Oppression and Genocide?


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start asking.

Why do I write about infertility? Why all the Facebook statuses, Instagram pictures, blog posts and story sharing?

It’s not for sympathy.

It’s not for pity.

It’s not so you can coddle me or stare at me with sad eyes.

It’s not for attention.

It’s because 1 in 8 couples suffer with infertility. That’s a lot of people. 7.6 million people in fact. That’s too many 1’s. And those 1’s feel ashamed, alone, confused, and hurt. Too many people try to venture through it alone because the thought of the questions, the opinions, and the blanket responses are too painful to be considered.

So I share to break the silence.

I share to remind people that if you are the 1, you are not alone.

I share to encourage you to share your own story. It doesn’t have to be with the world, it can be with one other person.

I share because if you too have PCOS, you need to remember that you are not broken. If you have endometriosis, there is nothing to be ashamed of. If your spouse has male infertility, that doesn’t make him less of a man. If you simply are “unexplained”, you don’t need to be embarrassed.

For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me,when as yet there was none of them. (Psalm 139:13-16)

I share because even with infertility, there is hope.

Not every 1 will birth a baby, as hard as that is to read.

But if you have journeyed with us over the last painful, difficult years, you know where we find our hope.

There’s hope because of Jesus. There’s hope for everyone because we have a God who cares that you’re the 1.

Our world is broken, our bodies formed in His perfect image, yet bystanders of circumstances outside of our control.

I share our story because infertility is hard, but I don’t want to miss the chance to point you to the one who offers life. Not only new life in the form of babies and children, but new life in Him.

This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun! (2 Corinthians 5:17 )

This week is National Infertility Awareness Week and I want to take a moment to join the movement in spreading awareness that infertility is real. It’s hard. It’s painful. It hurts. It shatters your world time and time again. It makes you question yourself. It drains your financial resources. It changes dreams. It alters relationships. It causes fears and tears. It stretches your faith in unbelievable ways. It forces you to answer questions you never imagined thinking about in a million years. Your thoughts on adoption? Medical intervention? Invitro fertilitization? Embryo custody? Loans? How long do you keep trying? What would life look like without a family?

It alters holidays. Mother’s Day and Father’s Day takes on new meaning, new hardships. It can make you bitter if you let it. It can drive hope into the ground.

However, there’s beautiful opportunities in infertility too. It can cause relationships to blossom. Communication to be strengthen. New communities to form. Vulnerability to be discovered. Blogs to be written. Support to be allowed. Faith to be reborn.

The theme for National Infertility Awareness Week this year is “Start Asking”.  We want people to start advocating for themselves at doctor’s offices, begin asking family and friends for support, bringing the struggling to your employer and fighting for insurance coverage.

And while those are all great, important things to be asking, I want to take it one step further today because I don’t want this week to slip away.

I want to invite you to starting asking God how you can grow in your faith as a result of your infertility. Or perhaps you don’t have a relationship with God and have no idea what that even means. I would love nothing more than to invite you to starting asking what a relationship with Jesus would look like. I want you to start asking Him what it would look like if you laid your tears, fears, failures, broken dreams and hurts at His feet and handed over the burden.

You see, infertility is awful and I wouldn’t wish it on anyone. But because of Jesus, there’s a hope that the world doesn’t have. There’s a peace that He gives despite the hard. The hard is still hard! But there’s hope that one day, “He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.” (Revelations 21:4)

I want that for you.

So dearest friends, this is why I share. Because in it all, I want you to see that it’s possible to go through trials in life and still have a relationship with Him, one that is far greater than the joy that any baby could bring.

If you’re ready to start asking, I would love to chat with you. My inbox is always open – trialsbringjoy @ Start reading His Word. If opening the Bible seems overwhelming, start with the book of Mark. Then move to John. Then pop over to Romans. I love moving my way through 1 & 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians … You may not understand it all, but that’s okay! I don’t understand it all! There are 31 chapters in the book of Proverbs. Add on one a day and gain some wisdom there. Pray. It doesn’t need to be fancy. Use basic sentences, talking in your head or out loud like you would to a friend. Be honest with Him because He can take it.

If you don’t have a Bible, a great tool is the You Version Bible app which allows you to check out different versions. I personally love English Standard Version (ESV) and the New Living Translation (NLT).

However, if you are in a position where you don’t have a Bible, a hard copy is more ideal and your uncertain about all of this and don’t want to invest in one, let me help you out. My husband and I would love to send you a Bible to toss in your bag and start diving into. It won’t be anything fancy, but if we can help you in any way start journeying towards a relationship with Him, that investment is worth it. Just email me and we will get you a Bible in hand. (USA only, however, if you are overseas, let’s still chat.)

Don’t go this alone friend. It’s hard, but there is a peace that can come in it all. I believe it with every part of my being.

Much love,

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10 thoughts on “start asking.

  1. Donna Orme says:

    Chelsea, I so adore you. I am sending prayers, love and my very best wishes for your’s and Josh’s future. Love you both always
    Aunt Donna and Uncle Fred

  2. Vicki says:

    Chelsea, I am so blessed to follow your blog. Thank you for being such an inspiration for myself and so many others who struggle with infertility. Your post today brought me to tears and it wasn’t because I was sad about having infertility. It was because my Lord, Jesus, loves me so much that He led me to you and your strong words of encouragement, and faith in Him. I appreciate and love you so much! Thank you for being bold and posting this today. I feel stronger and more willing to share my story with others because of you. God Bless!

  3. Jody says:

    I am 1…and even though we finally conceived our two miracle babies after 6 years of surgeries, probings, bloodwork, and going broke…the scars remain (and always will). Thank you for honoring a struggle that few talk about.

  4. missbluebirdblog says:

    Thank you Chelsea for your advice and understanding that we aren’t alone. I’m praying for you and your husband and family. Only my husband and I talk to eachother about our trials. His parents knew some but not enough to understand. It’s certainly not easy. My husband got surgery in hopes to help his infertility and his trial has become much harder. As much as I want to push him to going to the dr and communicate ways to help, I no longer talk about it. I can tell it’s taking a toll on me. Today I went to the dr of a possible lump under my arm thankfully in fine but as they took my blood pressure I look up and to my right was pamphlets of what happens during the weeks of pregnancy I thought nothing of it until the nurse told me my blood pressure was 174/84. It is literally stressing me out. They did retake it and it was better. The second time I prayed and breathed.

    Many blessings, Sean

  5. Peggy Teed says:

    Chelsea, I so love that God brought you into my life and that we share our love of Jesus. God has made you strong, beautiful and selfless. I know you make God smile. “He is rejoicing over you with Singing”. Praying for you and Josh, “For if we remain faithful to the end, trusting God just as firmly as when we first believed, we will share in all that belongs to Christ.” God bless you, love you.

    Peggy Teed

  6. Caroline @ In Due Time says:

    Your heart amazes me. I love how you point it ALL back to Jesus. Always and in everything. I can’t even imagine how proud of you He is. You are impacting so many lives and I have no doubts that many will be touched as they read this!

  7. capturingjewels says:

    I absolutely love this. I discovered your post after I wrote my first scary one and published it for my friends to see.. so breaking the silence is a new journey for me, but after 3 years I’m redy and excited to share more and raise awareness and most of all point people to Jesus as the Hope, the only reason I can have Joy in this Journey!

  8. Laura | Making Baby Provence says:

    This is my favorite part: I want you to see that it’s possible to go through trials in life and still have a relationship with Him, one that is far greater than the joy that any baby could bring.

    I love all of this entry, though. Thank you for sharing your heart so openly.

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Shanzai in SE1

Shanzai are imitation Chinese products, a design phenomenon. These shams used to be sub-standard but these days factories get their mitts on original designs, cast a brief critical eye over the form and function and whack them into production with a host of micro improvements around features and functionality. They then release a mildly improved interpretation into the local market.

In conjunction with the Hayward’s soon-to-close Art of Change, New Directions from China the concept of ‘Shanzai’ in Chinese contemporary art explodes the western idea of ‘originals’ and ‘fakes’. Works of art in China are ‘ongoing creations’, progressively developed from the original and changed over time. Wenny Teo, curator and tutor at the Courtauld Institute and Ying Kwok, Curator at the Chinese Arts Centre in Manchester explore these concepts with Philip Dodd, writer, broadcaster and former Director of the ICA.

The event will focus on the work of artists MadeIn Company and Sun Yuan and Peng Yu, whose work features in the exhibition. “These artists look at the act of ‘post-creation’ as adding value to a work of art, as well as emphasizing that our understanding of the world is constantly in flux.”

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PWD Gord Settle’s craft project of Snowshoe Moccasins November, 2015:

November 13, 2015:  Moccasins for snowshoes that I am building. Each is one-of-a-kind when you don’t use a pattern. Designing a “steel-toe” to protect the toes…..diabetes has taken much of the feeling in toes so need to protect them from blunt trauma….will see how it goes with one and then try to duplicate.

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December 3, 2015:  Moccasins for Snowshoes are done.  The leather sewing machine was what allowed me to finish sewing these up. Started last winter but couldn’t continue with hand-sewing so left them. Started by learning how to use the sewing machine on the moccasins….perhaps not the best idea but…..they are not twins by any sense of the word….improvements, not rememberin how one was done….but I have had them out snowshoing once and brought them back for slight re-fits on ties and other……the sewing machine is pictured in the last of the series.

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December 7, 2015:  Final Test of Moccasins.  Having taken them out snowshoing I knew the moccasins fit feet well and a good fit to snowshoes I needed to know how then would perform without snowshoes…..It would be bad to be in backwoods and have a snowshoe break and find the moccasins were useless without snowshoes……I took them out on a snowmoblie track that was packed but with fresh snow….they gripped fine …. no slipping and sliding……then went up and down some steep areas on the snowmobile trail and again they gripped fine… they pass.

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A treatise on butter

Let me first state that in this house we use butter liberally. There is just no escaping it’s use – for greasing up a pan to melting with dark chocolate as a base for kick ass cream cheese brownies. Butter is a requisite ingredient.

Now until a few months ago any store bought butter was good to go. As a rule it usually is good but then I made a fateful decision. I took home some Kerry Gold butter  – in both its salted and unsalted varieties.

I shall never buy American mass produced butter again, well maybe never is too strong. There are uses for standard butter – creme brule for example. But for everything else Irish or European butter please.

Like all good cooks I taste ingredients to every dish. And I have to say this Kerry Gold Irish butter is in two words, fucking awesome.

There’s something to be said for high quality ingredients. It can elevate a dish or treat to a new dimension when the best ingredients are used in its preparation. You really don’t know until you try I suppose, but good butter is the bomb. It’s even better than butter I’ve made myself. I really must learn the black magic they use to make Irish or European butter.

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  1. Welcome to my world. May I introduce you to French President salted (I use unsalted) butter. It’s orgasmic on toast.

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Why Do I Have To Pray?

I once read an interesting story about Charles Grandison Finney. It was said that he had been attending a church meeting for some time and wouldn’t give his heart to Christ. He wouldn’t so much as say a word of prayer during the times of prayer.

While he was in one of those meetings, somebody asked him, “Why don’t you pray, Charles?” “I’m not going to pray because I’ve been attending this meeting for so long and from what I can see, it doesn’t seem like you folks get any answers,” he retorted.

Later on when he was born again and filled with the Holy Ghost, he found out why those folks didn’t get any answers to their prayers – they were praying the wrong way!

Finney made this observation almost a century ago, but it’s sad that many in the Church are still in the same dilemma today. Many Holy Ghost-filled, tongue-talking, Bible-quoting believers live frustrated lives simply because they’re not receiving answers to their prayers. Some will honestly confide in you that they don’t really know what to pray for and how.

There are myriads of questions on this all important subject of prayer that arise in the mind of many, and it would seem that there are as many questions on the subject as there are people.

To many of such people, prayer is just a part of their religion. They believe they have to pray because God requires them to, but they don’t even know why they pray. They pray, neither knowing what to say nor whether to expect answers; but God’s plan is to answer our prayers.

Culled from ‘Praying The Right Way’ by Pastor Chris.

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Lowly singkamas: a foodie’s delight

For many years I lived in North America, where tropical produce are priced at a premium, if they are sold at all in the neighborhood supermarket. Imagine my delight when we moved to the desert state of Arizona, and found singkamas in a grocery store. Its crisp white flesh, sweet and juicy, was a welcome change for a palate jaded by native North American produce: broccoli, carrots, spinach, tomato… you get the picture.
Also called jicama, the turnip is native to Mexico and eaten throughout South America. It reportedly arrived in the Philippines courtesy of the Spanish, and has worked its way onto the Filipino dinner table and to kitchens in China and Southeast Asia.
It is singkamas season here in Manila. Cheap and plentiful this time of year, singkamas can be eaten raw, dipped in nutritious hummus, salsa or guacamole, or sprinkled with salt and calamansi juice. It can be sliced and tossed with a green salad to add a low-calorie crunch, or julienned and lightly stir fried – just like water chestnuts – with other vegetables.
While I prefer my vegetables crisp and – often – raw, other people serve baked singkamas with meat instead of baked potato, thus reducing the meal’s starch and caloric value. Great for those on a weight-loss diet.

Eaten peeled, singkamas is said to be good for you in many ways. A quick browse through the internet tells us one cup of sliced singkamas offers these nutritional benefits:
Fiber. It has only 49 calories. Yet, its 6.4 grams of dietary fiber provides 16 percent of the daily requirement for men, and 25 percent for women. Fiber helps move things along the digestive tract and prevents constipation. It also helps lower cholesterol levels and weight loss. Singkamas is also a rich source of soluble fiber which does not turn into sugar, letting diabetics satisfy that sweet tooth without worrying about blood sugar levels.
Vitamin C. Apparently, 100 grams of singkamas fulfills 40 percent of our daily dietary need for ascorbic acid. Vitamin C also stimulates the white blood cells which in turn gives the immune system a boost. Vitamin C is also an antioxidant, which promotes overall health.
Minerals. It has a good amount of copper and iron, which are essential to healthy red blood cells. Without them, people can suffer from anemia. As well, a cup of this root yields 195 milligrams of potassium, the same amount one gets in a peach. Potassium is an electrolyte that counteracts the effects of sodium, thus helping to control blood pressure to lower the risk of stroke. It protects against loss of muscle mass and bone density. It also reduces the formation of kidney stones.
Vitamin B. A cup of singkamas offers about 16 percent of our daily folic acid requirement. Folic acid helps the body produce and maintain new cells, specially red blood cells.

Beware the side effects
The singkamas may seem like an all-around superfood, but beware of side effects. Its skin, flowers and vine contain rotenone, a natural insecticide to protect it from pests. On humans, rotenone is toxic. The seed pods apparently can be eaten when young, but the mature pods are toxic. So err on the side of caution and eat only the tuberous root peeled… always.
With the onset of summer and hot days, a plate of cold singkamas, peeled and sliced, makes a thirst quenching, nutritious snack, or a satisfying crispy finale to a healthy meal.


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Very often in anime, the characters who have a great deal of expertise and a huge library of attacks rarely use all of them. As a matter of fact, they will only use a select few.

This is usually a Justified Trope, as it wouldn't make for much Character Development if a character was able to pull a new attack out of their hat every episode. Further, it makes sense that a veteran fighter would use the moves that he knows work, instead of trying a risky new strategy that could easily backfire. But still, when you hear the Combat Commentator explain that this character has an insane library of powerful attacks, you can't help but wonder...Is this their first day on the job?

Mostly this trope is used for niche protection. If every character can use all of the moves, every character is interchangeable.

Video Game justifies this by only giving the players a finite, usually low, number of "moves" the character can do, due to the inherent limitation of memory and programming, even if the character is supposed to know a lot of techniques.

Compare to Limited Move Arsenal, Poor, Predictable Rock and Complacent Gaming Syndrome. See also its Professional Wrestling equivalent, Five Moves of Doom.

Anime and Manga

  • Naruto:
    • Sasuke has an ability that enables copying powers by looking at them. Instead of using any of the abilities he sees someone else using (with the exception of one hand-to-hand combat combination), he uses derivatives of two attacks he learned normally (Great Fireball and Chidori), said ability's other powers, and the Combo Platter Powers its Deadly Upgrade grants.
    • Similarly, at the start of the series, Kakashi is said to have copied over a thousand jutsu. We see him using a bit over 20 different jutsu, many of which are variations of a jutsu he himself came up with.
  • Inuyasha
    • The title character and his teammates only have a handful of attacks, and they're all really powerful.
    • Miroku occasionally shows the ability to use sutra magic techniques to do some neat things, but 95% of the time he just either hits things with his staff or whips out his wind tunnel.
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  • Lyrical Nanoha and her friends' magical libraries are never mentioned, but they nonetheless tend to use abilities with a theme, such as Nanoha's Divine Shooter... though on several occasions where it's not appropriate, she just switches to something else without a comment (or with a 'just what we expect of'), such as suddenly turning her Device into a spear to break through a shield before unleashing an uber-pink-laser-of-death at point blank range.
  • By the time Bit Villains Rouge and Pantyhose are battling over his home, Ranma in Ranma ½ has an impressive array of deadly combat techniques such as ki blasts, invisibility, and the ability to create tornadoes. But he uses none of them, despite the fact a giant monster and a demon-goddess are wrecking the neighborhood. Secret techniques are usually used only in the story arcs they are learned in, when they'll be useless to the good guys, or in the Final Story Arc. He usually relies on his other skills and the Saotome Secret Technique (Run Away! Run Away!), which provides dramatic tension and the possibility of failure.
    • Possibly Justified, as those moves are often impractical for one reason or another (for example, creating tornadoes requires a lengthy set-up period where Ranma must control his opponent's moves, while his ki blasts are fueled by confidence) or else not available (he swore never to use his Thousand Seas techniques again).
  • Inverted in Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo, where the title character actually goes out of his way to avoid reusing moves; pointed out in the one episode he does reuse one.
    • When your fighting style is confusing your opponent into submission, reusing moves isn't recommended. Or funny.
    • For the record, he and his family have the specific theme decks of using various forms of body hair. How they can get creative with that is quite stunning.
  • In Bleach, Aaroniero Arruruerie tells Rukia he can use the powers of all 33,650 Hollows he's eaten all at once. He proceeds to use the same technique he had been using, and is stabbed through the head by Rukia fairly quickly. While he was enjoying his mind games employed through what he had been using, he definitely could've been more careful.
  • Subverted by one of the villains in YuYu Hakusho. Rando, the demon from the Genkai Tournament arc, is known for having killed and stolen the secret techniques of over a hundred psychics, and throughout the battle he pulls out move after move. And then loses when one of them backfires on him, because despite knowing how to perform the techniques, his understanding of them is limited and what he didn't know damn near killed him.
    • And then really subverted in the Dark Tournament arc, when self-described "Beautiful" Suzuka revealed that not only did he have a vast arsenal of techniques, he was extremely well-versed in using them. Unfortunately for him, he was sorely lacking in raw power, which Genkai made painfully clear by beating him into the ground.
  • Averted in A Certain Magical Index with Oriana Thompson: she never reuses attacks since she thinks using a spell she already used in the same fight is boring.
  • Played straight (and literally) in Yu-Gi-Oh!. Most of the time, a character's Deck mirrors his or her characteristics. Some examples include Ryouta Kakiji/Mako Tsunami (Fish, Sea Serpent, and Aqua monsters), Edo Phoenix/Aster Phoenix (Destiny HEROes), Crow (Blackwings), Shark (Sharks), and Yuya (Performapals).

Collectible Card Games

  • This is very common in collectible card games. And justified, because due to the nature of card games, not playing a theme means you'll have a handful of unrelated and usually unplayable cards.
  • Take the Pokémon TCG as an example. Pokémon require energy for their attacks. You'll have a much easier time providing your Pokémon with energy if you focus on a single (or sometimes two) type(s). Fire Energy isn't really going to help you if you if you don't have any Fire Pokémon in play/your hand. Similarly, Pokémon that require three or more different types of energy for their attacks are very hard to use.
  • Zig-zagged in the Yu-Gi-Oh! card game. Players can build Decks revolving around "archetypes", which are groups of cards connected by sharing a common part of their name ("Gravekeeper's", "Shaddoll", etc.), or focus on an Attribute (WIND, LIGHT, DARK, etc.) or Type (Fairy, Pyro, etc.). Sometimes a "hybrid" Deck can be made with compatible cards/archetypes. But if you merely throw together a bunch of unrelated cards without any thought to how they can be used in conjunction with each other, you're not likely to win against any player whose deck has some sort of actual synergy.
  • This happens in Magic: The Gathering, too.
    • For instance, the Scars of Mirrodin block introduced the concept of infect and proliferate. Creatures with infect do damage to players in the form of poison counters (if you get ten, you lose the game), and to creatures in the form of other counters that permanently weaken them. When you proliferate, you add one counter to each card or player you choose that already has a counter. However, infect damage does not cause loss of life, so most of the time you're not doing much at all if you combine infect creatures with non-infect creatures in a deck.
    • Like with Yu-Gi-Oh! above, it's far more efficient to focus your deck towards a single purpose than spread your goals thinly. The more cards you have in your deck that share a similar function, the more likely it is you'll draw something that will contribute to your win condition. Focusing your deck into fewer colors also means that you're less vulnerable to mana screw — a situation where you can't play your cards because you're missing the right combination of colors.
  • Strongly enforced in Future Card Buddyfight. The deck-building rules require that all the cards in a player's deck be from the same World.

Comic Books

  • A common criticism of Green Lanterns is that each has a ring that can, canonically, do "anything its wearer can imagine". The more abstract applications tend to be downplayed in favor of energy blasts, force fields, etc.
    • Although the infamous All-Star Batman & Robin, the Boy Wonder did show him using his as a coat hanger.
    • Specifically addressed in an episode of Justice League, where GL instructor Katma Tui criticizes her trainees (and John Stewart in specific) for not getting creative with their rings. Since John's an ex-Marine, one can understand his preferring function over form. However, after this episode, he does start showing more creativity - particularly in the episode where he gets de-aged to childhood and lets his imagination go wild. This doubles as a Meta example, since fans of JL had also complained about Stewart only using "beams and bubbles" in early episodes.

Live-Action TV

  • Main antagonist Sylar on Heroes has a variety of stolen superpowers (including freezing, liquefying solid objects, and nuclear energy blasts), but he almost exclusively uses telekinesis for combat.
  • Though their library of spells on Buffy the Vampire Slayer is still more varied than most on this list, writers tried to ensure that Willow and Tara used particularly effective spells more than once, since it would have made no sense to forget them unless they had good reason to. Some repeated spells included the light that found lost people, Willow speaking into people's minds, her flinging knives at enemies by telekinesis, and of course, returning Angel's soul.

Tabletop Games

  • 4th edition of Dungeons & Dragons gives a wide variety of powers for characters, but they can only select one for a given slot, meaning characters have to plan in order to advance. As a meta example, these powers are also printed on cards and put into a deck.

Video Games

  • Between the fact that Black and White Magic used two different stats and the fact that in Final Fantasy II, spells (and stats) grew in strength with number of times used, this was encouraged.
  • In Art of Fighting, the first enemy Ryo and Robert face is Ryuhaku Todo, the master of his own dojo that teaches the Todo family style of martial arts. ... And aside from standard punches and kicks, the man only ever uses one special move.
  • Gilgamesh of the Fate Series is stated to have every Noble Phantasm to ever exist, in its original form (which also means they're much stronger than the Noble Phantasms wielded by other heroes). However, he tends to only use about five of them that the average viewer could identify: his Golden Armor, the chains of Enkidu, the sword Merodach, the Vimana flying machine, and his trump card, Ea. Everything else, he just tosses around as ammo for a Storm of Blades. This is, in fact, Gilgamesh's weakness: if he actually tried to master all of his Noble Phantasms and learn their strengths and abilities, he would be unstoppable, but being lazy and egotistic, he takes these legendary blades with all kinds of fantastical abilities and fires them off like arrows.
  • Quantum Protocol: All decks contain cards based around a certain theme, such as fruit, Japanese weapons, music, and chess. These cards also have effects to support other cards of the same type.

Real Life

  • Martial arts themselves are to an extent theme decks.
    • Many national-or-higher level judoka, possibly all of them, specialize in a maximum of five throws and grapples, despite knowing nearly every technique of their chosen martial art.
    • Even high-ranked taekwondo competitors have kicks and blocks that they prefer, usually depending on their size and flexibility.
    • Even the bafflingly extensive Kung Fu styles like Shaolinquan encourage the development of one or two specialized skills. The best known of these is likely the Iron Palm skill.
    • There are eighty-two recognized techniques (kimarite) in sumo. The average wrestler uses only a bare handful of them; one of the things that made Mainoumi Shūhei both popular and fairly successful was that he strongly averted the trope, using a mind-boggling array of 33 kimarite throughout his career.
    • Western martial arts do this to a much greater extent, which is part of the reason people forget things like boxing and wrestling even are martial arts.

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This is a stream of consciousness write up, with some citations made in post, about how I think images operate.

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