David and Nic Sheff Want You to 'Just Say Know' to Drugs and Alcohol
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Nic and David Sheff co-authored the drug education book for young readers, "High: Everything You Want to Know About Drugs, Alcohol and Addiction."
David and Nic Sheff's twin father and son memoirs about dealing with drug addiction inspired the 2018 film "Beautiful Boy." Now, they want to shift the conversation about drugs from the old slogan "just say no" to "just say know." Their new book "High: Everything You Want to Know About Drugs, Alcohol and Addiction" is a resource for young readers, from fifth to eighth grade. It uses research and personal stories to provide facts about specific drugs and alcohol. Nic and David Sheff join Forum to discuss how to encourage conversations about addiction and its consequences.
David and Nick Sheff at Book Passage
David Sheff, journalist; co-author, "High: Everything You Want to Know About Drugs, Alcohol, and Addiction"; author, "Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction"
Nic Sheff, TV and movie writer; co-author, "High: Everything You Want to Know About Drugs, Alcohol, and Addiction"; author, "Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines"
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People Professor Karin Littau
Professor Karin Littau
klittau@essex.ac.uk
5NW.5.13, Colchester Campus
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BIOGRAPHY I am Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Essex. Before joining the Department in 1998, I was Senior Lecturer in the School of English at the University of the West of England, Bristol. Prior to that I taught at the University of Warwick, where I studied for my MA in English Literature and PhD in Comparative Literary Theory (funded by a University of Warwick Scholarship; and a British Academy Major State Studentship). I am a founding member of the Centre for Film and Screen Media, established at Essex in 2001, and was its Director from 2003-2008. I am also a member of the Centre for Bibliographical History, based in the Department of History. Since 1998 I have served on the Executive Committee of the British Comparative Literature Association (BCLA). RESEARCH My research interests are in nineteenth and twentieth-century literature and film, and include book and film history, reception, adaptation, and translation studies. I have published on the relations between print and screen media, and am especially interested in the effects of media technologies on the senses, perception, and cognition; and the effects of print, cinematograph, and computer on practices of reading, writing, and translation. I have written on Jane Austen, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Angela Carter, and Kathy Acker; and on films by the Lumieres, G. W. Pabst, David Cronenberg, and Ridley Scott. My work is driven by a love of theory, ranging from literary theory, and theories of editing and translation, to film theory and media philosophy. My books include Theories of Reading: Books, Bodies, and Bibliomania (2006), which was funded by the British Academy and published in Spanish by Manantial (2008); Cinematicity in Media History (2013 with Jeffrey Geiger); and A Companion to Translation Studies (2007 with Piotr Kuhiwczak). I am also co-guest-editor of three special issues of Comparative Critical Studies for the British Comparative Literature Association: Inventions: Literature and Science (2005), Cinematicity (2009), and Migration (2014). My next book is A History of Literature and Film for Routledge, which focuses on the ways in which literary writing has been reshaped by moving pictures and gives a revisionary account of literary history from the perspectives of film. I am the author of journal articles in SubStance; MLN; Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies; Forum for Modern Language Studies; Dedalus (Portuguese Comparative Literature Association); PKn: Primerjalna knjizevnost (Slovene Comparative Literature Association); Translation Studies; TTR: Traduction Terminologie Redaction (Canadian Association for Translation Studies); Theatre Research International; and of book chapters in collections such as Translation and World Literature (2018), Film Analysis. A Norton Reader (2013), New Takes in Film-Philosophy (2010), Crash Cultures: modernity, mediation and the material (2002), and Alien Identities: Exploring Differences in Film and Fiction (1999). SUPERVISION I have supervised and examined theses in the UK and EU, including a Doctor Europaeus. I welcome applications for doctoral research in any of the following areas: * literature and film * film adaptation, intermediality, transmedia * comparative literature, rewriting, and translation * history of the book, silent cinema, and digital media * technology, mediality, materialism * reception studies and the history of reading * physiology of reading, embodied spectator, affect Please note that I do not supervise practice-based research in creative writing or film.
BA Trent
MA Warwick
PhD Warwick
Director of Research, Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies, University of Essex (2010 - 2015)
Appointed Member, University Research Committee, University of Essex (2014 - 2016)
Member, Humanities Faculty Research Group, University of Essex (2014 - 2015)
Chair, Departmental Research Committee, Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies, University of Essex (2010 - 2015)
Selection Panel Representative, Panel D, CHASE / AHRC Doctoral Studentships (2014 - 2015)
Deputy Director of Research, Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies, University of Essex (2015 - 2016)
Study Abroad Officer, Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies, University of Essex (2018 - 2018)
Ethics Officer, University of Essex (2018 - present)
Other academic
Member, Executive Committee, British Comparative Literature Association (1998 - present)
Member, Editorial Advisory Board, The Translator (Routledge) (2013 - present)
Member Review Panel, Research Council for Culture and Society, Academy of Finland (2018 - 2019)
Literature and film
Open to supervise
Comparative media, intermediality, and transmedia
Adaptation, translation, and comparative literature
History of the book, silent cinema, and digital media
Technology, mediality, materialism
Reception studies and the history of reading
Physiology of reading, embodied spectator, affect
[Respondent] "Engaging the Material Turn", Embodied Translations: Media and Technologies in Translation and Performance, Nida School of Translation Studies (in collaboration with the San Pellegrino University Foundation, Cardiff University, Texas Christian University)
Invited presentation, Misano Adriatico, Italy, 9/4/2019
[Keynote] "'From Print to Pixels: The Many Futures of Reading", Readers and Reading in the Book: The Imaginary and the Material, Leeds Centre for Dante Studies, CompLab, and Institute for Medieval Studies
Invited presentation, Keynote presentation, Leeds, United Kingdom, 27/3/2019
[Keynote] "The Materialities of Translation-Art", Embodied Translations: Media and Technologies in Translation and Performance, Nida School of Translation Studies (in collaboration with the San Pellegrino University Foundation, Cardiff University, Texas Christian University)
Keynote presentation, Misano Adriatico, Italy, 2019
[Guest Speaker] "Filmic Translation and Transmediation", Bristol Seminar, Faculty of Arts.
Invited presentation, Bristol, United Kingdom, 2015
[Plenary] "Mediality in Flux", Workshop: Media in Motion
in collaboration with Konstanz University, University of Essex, Colchester, United Kingdom, 2014
[Conference Paper] "Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Cinematic Imagination", Panel on Cinematicity in Media History, 53rd Annual Conference: Society for Cinema and Media Studies
Chicago, United States, 2013
[Plenary] "Translating between Media", Translating and Interpreting Across Media: Exploring the Relevance of (Inter)mediality for Language Pedagogy, Sponsored by The Higher Education Academy / AHRC.
Invited presentation, Manchester, United Kingdom, 2013
[Guest Speaker] "Myth and Translation", Translation Seminar, Centre for Co-Curricular Studies
Invited presentation, London, United Kingdom, 2013
[Guest Speaker] "Reading in the Age of Edison", Departmental Seminar, Fachbereich Literaturwissenschaft
Invited presentation, Konstanz, Germany, 2012
[Guest Speaker] "Subsequent Steps towards a Media History of the Book", Seminar Series - Landmarks in Book History: the Future of the Discipline, The Open University's Book History Research Group, and the Institute of English Studies, University of London.
Invited presentation, 2012
[Invited Guest] Metanoia Workshop on "Theories of Reading. Books, Bodies, and Bibliomania", Series on Speculative Poetik, Sonderforschungsbereich 626 'Ästhetische Erfahrung im Zeichen der Entgrenzung der Künste', Peter Szondi Institut für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
Invited presentation, Berlin, Germany, 2012
[Conference Paper] Panel on "Embodied Reading", Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing (SHARP) Conference: The Book in Art & Science
Washington D.C., United States, 2011
[Plenary] "Darwin's Radio: Media and Cultural Change", Possible Worlds - A Day Conference in Honour of Dame Gillian Beer
London, United Kingdom, 2011
[Plenary] "The Movie-minded Reader", Interdisciplinary Workshop: Engaging with Film: Perspectives on Cinematic Literacy, Institute of Advanced Study
Invited presentation, University of Warwick, Berlin, Germany, 2011
[Public Lecture] "History of Translation: from Scroll to Hypertext", City University London Events, in association with UCL and SOAS.
[Guest Speaker] "Translation and Book History", Reseach Seminars in Translation Studies
Invited presentation, University of Edinburgh/ Herriot Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 2011
[Jury-selected Guest and Speaker] "An Archaeology of Affect: Reading, History and Gender", Who Reads? 25th Vilenica International Literary Festival
Invited presentation, Lipica, Slovenia, Lipica, Slovenia, 2010
[Keynote] "Intermedial Translation", Symposium: Disordering the Disciplines: Translation and Interdisciplinarity
Keynote presentation, Norwich, United Kingdom, 2010
[Plenary] "Medea's Gift", International Congress: Women and Translation, Asociación de Estudios Históricos de la Mujer de la Universidad de Málaga
Invited presentation, Málaga, Spain, 2010
[Guest Speaker] "Cross-media Translation", Translation Studies Seminar, Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies
[Guest Speaker] "Cross-media Histories - Why Book History matters to Film History, and vice versa", The History and Language of Print Culture Research Seminar
Invited presentation, Salford, United Kingdom, 2009
[Keynote] "The Physiology of Momentary Angels: Towards a Reception Aesthetics of Media", International Conference: Philosophy and Film/ Film and Philosophy
Keynote presentation, Bristol, United Kingdom, 2008
[Guest Speaker] "Summa Phantasmagoria", Symposium with Steven Connor on the occasion of the publication of Marina Warner's book Phantasmagoria. Spirit Visions, Metaphors, and Media into the Twenty-first Century, Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies and Department of Art History and Theory
Invited presentation, Colchester, United Kingdom, 2007
[Guest Speaker] "Anatomy of Reading", Departmental Seminar, Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
Colchester, United Kingdom, 2006
[Conference Paper] "Technological Aesthesis: The Impressing Inventions of Gutenberg and the Lumières", British Comparative Literature Association XIII International Conference, Literature and Science
Leeds, United Kingdom, 2004
[Guest Speaker] "Translation and Gender", Institute of Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies
Invited presentation, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 2003
[Conference Paper] "The Physiology of Consumption", Unprincipled Passions: Emotion and Modernity
Southampton, United Kingdom, 2002
[Guest Speaker] "The Physiology of Reading', Departmental Seminar, Department of Literature
[Guest Speaker] "Schaulust: Physical Pleasure and Non-Narrative Cinema", Departmental Seminar, Department of Literature
[Conference Paper] "Translating like/as a Woman", Conference: Gender and Translation
Norwich, United Kingdom, 1999
[Guest Speaker] "Pandora's Tongues", Gender Seminar
[Conference Paper] "The Scattering of Languages", Paideia. XXth World Congress of Philosophy
Boston, United States, 1998
[Guest Speaker] "Angela Carter's New Reading of Pabst's Wedekind's Lulu", Departmental Seminar, Department of Literature
[Guest Speaker] "Adaptation and Rewriting", Doctoral Seminar, Comparative Literature
[Conference Paper] "The Power of Myth: Babel, Oedipus, Pandora", Conference on Translation and Power
Coventry, United Kingdom, 1997
[Guest Speaker] "Translation and Literary Theory", Seminar Series: Translation Studies
Invited presentation, Manchester Insitute of Science and Technology, 1997
[Conference Paper] "Derrida in Translation", Applied Derrida
Luton, United Kingdom, 1995
[Conference Paper] "Reading Thieving Theorizing", ESSE European Society for the Study of English
Glasgow, United Kingdom, 1995
[Conference Paper] "Pandora's Tongues", EST European Society for the Study of Translation, Translation as Intercultural Communication
Prague, Czechia, 1995
[Conference Paper] "Global Theory and Local Translation", ESSE European Society for the Study of English
Bordeaux, France, 1993
[Conference Paper] "Intertextuality and Translation: The Waste Land in French and German", XIII World Congress of FIT
Brighton, United Kingdom, 1993
[Guest Speaker] "Woman-handling the Text: Translating Barthes into Quebecois", Warwick Seminars in Comparative Studies: Translation the Cultural Turn
Invited presentation, Coventry, United Kingdom, 1993
[Guest Speaker] "The Other in Gadamer and Derrida", Critical Forum
[Conference Paper] "Towards a Postmodern Theory of Translation", Translation Studies - an Interdiscipline
Vienna, Austria, 1992
[Conference Paper] "Translation as Incursion: Moves Across and Beyond the Borders of Continental Thought", VI Triennial Conference of the British Comparative Literature Association: Across Europe
[Conference Paper] "The Text on Trial. What a Performance. Brecht and the Witch-hunt, Galileo and the Inquisition", Theatre and the Discourses of Power
Exeter, United Kingdom, 1991
[Guest Speaker] "Postmodernism and Performance", Cultural and Policy Studies Unit
Invited presentation, Bolton, United Kingdom, 1990
[Guest Speaker] "Performance/Text in the Domain of Translation", Philosophy-Literature Society
[Guest Speaker] "The Transposition of the Figure of Sally Bowles from Novel to Play to the Film Cabaret", The Arts Graduate Forum
Approaches to Film and Media (LT121)
Narrative and Film (LT206)
Cityscapes of Modernism (LT368)
Adaptation (LT928)
Independent Literature Project (LT831)
Littau, K., (2019). Afterword: Translation and the Histories and Geographies of the Book. Comparative Critical Studies. 16 (2-3), 365-374
Littau, K., (2018). Translation and Optical Media: Spirit-Channeling in Edward FitzGerald's Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Amodern. 8
Littau, K., (2017). Response by Littau to the responses to "Translation and the materialities of communication". Translation Studies. 10 (1), 97-101
Littau, K., (2017). Okumanın Teorileri: Kitaplar, Bedenler ve Bibliyomani. Çevrimdışı İstanbul. Special Issue: Edebiyatta Okurun Rolü [The Role of Readers in Literature] (6), 40-44
Littau, K., (2016). Translation and the materialities of communication. Translation Studies. 9 (1), 82-96
Littau, K., (2016). Translation's Histories and Digital Futures. International Journal of Communication. 10, 907-928
Littau, K., (2015). "In the Beginning"... an Intermedial Babel. SubStance: A Review of Theory and Literary Criticism. 44.3 (138), 112-127
Bahun, S., Finburgh, C. and Littau, K., (2014). Guest Editors' Introduction to Comparative Critical Studies (special issue: Migration). Comparative Critical Studies. 11 (2-3), 145-160
Littau, K., (2012). The Dog and the Phonograph: Possible Futures in the Self-Development of Media. Comparative Critical Studies (e-CCS Online Supplement). 9 (3), 41-56
Littau, K., (2011). First steps towards a media history of translation. Translation Studies. 4 (3), 261-281
Littau, K., (2011). An archaeology of affect: Reading, history and gender. Primerjalna Knjizevnost. 34 (2), 193-203
Littau, K., (2011). Media, mythology and morphogenesis: Aliens™. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies. 17 (1), 19-36
Littau, K., (2011). Artheologija afecta: branje, zgodovina in spol. PKn Primerjalna književnost. 34 (2), 51-61
Geiger, J. and Littau, K., (2009). Guest Editors' Introduction to Comparative Critical Studies (special issue: Cinematicity). Comparative Critical Studies. 6 (3), 287-295
Littau, K., (2009). Summa Phantasmagoria. Comparative Critical Studies. 6 (3), 403-409
Littau, K., (2005). Serial Translation: Angela Carter's New Reading of Pabst's Wedekind's Lulu. Comparative Critical Studies. 2 (1), 45-65
Falconer, R. and Littau, K., (2005). Guest Editors' Introduction to Comparative Critical Studies (special issue: Inventions: Literature and Science). Comparative Critical Studies. 2 (2), v-x
Littau, K., (2000). Pandora's Tongues. TTR: Traduction, Terminologie, Rédaction: Etudes sur le Texte et Ses Transformations. 13 (1), 21-35
Littau, K., (1997). Translation in the Age of Postmodern Production: From Text to Intertext to Hypertext. Forum for Modern Language Studies. 33 (1), 81-96
Littau, K., (1996). Reading Thieving Theorizing: Philip Hensher's Other Lulus and Kathy Acker's The Selling of Lulu. Dedalus: Revista Portuguesa de Literatura Comparada. 6, 37-50
GRANT, IH. and Littau, K., (1996). Deconstruction. The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory. 6 (1), 33-44
Littau, K., (1995). Refractions of the Feminine: The Monstrous Transformations of Lulu. MLN. 110 (4), 888-912
LITTAU, K., (1994). Deconstruction. The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory. 4 (1), 67-93
Littau, K., (1993). Dagmar Kift Arbeiterkultur im gesellschaftlichen Konflikt: die Englische Music Hall im 19 Jahrhundert Essen: Klartext-Verlag, 1991. 240 p. ISBN 3-88474-154-3.. New Theatre Quarterly. 9 (35), 299-299
LITTAU, K., (1993). PERFORMING TRANSLATION - BETWEEN TEXT AND PERFORMANCE. THEATRE RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL. 18 (1), 53-60
LITTAU, K., (1992). Hermeneutics. The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory. 2 (1), 46-51
Littau, K., Bahun, S. and Finburgh, C., (2014). Migration (Special Issue of Comparative Critical Studies). Edinburgh University Press
Littau, K. and Geiger, J., (2013). Cinematicity in media history. Edinburgh University Press. 9780748676125
Littau, K. and Geiger, J., (2009). Cinematicity (Special Issue of Comparative Critical Studies). Edinburgh University Press
Littáu, K., (2008). Teorías de la lectura Libros, cuerpos y bibliomanía. Ediciones Manantial. 9875001236. 9789875001237
Littau, K. and Kuhiwczak, P., (2007). A Companion to Translation Studies. Multilingual Matters. 9781853599569
Littau, K., (2006). Theories of Reading: Books, Bodies, and Bibliomania. Polity. 0745616593. 9780745616599
Littau, K. and Falconer, R., (2005). Inventions: Literature and Science (Special Issue of Comparative Critical Studies). Edinburgh University Press
Littau, K., (2018). Two Ages of World Literature. In: Translation and World Literature. Editors: Bassnett, S., . Routledge. 159- 174. 1138641758. 9781138641754
Littau, K., (2013). Reading in the Age of Edison: The Cinematicity of 'The Yellow Wall-Paper'. In: Cinematicity in Media History. Editors: . Edinburgh UP. 67- 87. 9780748676118
Geiger, J. and Littau, K., (2013). Introduction: Cinematicity and comparative media. In: Cinematicity in Media History. Editors: . Edinburgh University Press. 1- 18. 9780748676118
Littau, K., (2013). Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (1895-1897), Lumiere Brothers. In: Film Analysis: A Norton Reader (Second edition). Editors: Geiger, J. and Rutsky, RL., . W W Norton and Company. 18- 38. 9780393923247
Geiger, J. and Littau, K., (2013). : Cinematicity and Comparative Media. In: Cinematicity in Media History. Edinburgh University Press. 1- 18. 9780748676118
Littau, K., (2011). The ghost is the machine: Media-philosophy and materialism. In: New Takes in Film-Philosophy. Editors: Carel, H. and Tuck, G., . Palgrave MacMillan. 154- 170. 9780230294851
Littau, K., (2010). Translation in the Age of Postmodern Production: From Text to Intertext to Hypertext. In: Critical Readings in Translation Studies. Editors: Baker, M., . Routledge. 435- 448. 0415469546. 9780415469548
Littau, K., (2009). Translation in the Age of Postmodern Production: From Text to Intertext to Hypertext. In: Translation Studies. 4 Vols. Editors: Baker, M., . Routledge. 435- 448. 0415344220. 9780415344227
Littau, K. and Kuhiwczak, P., (2007). Introduction. In: A Companion to Translation Studies. Editors: Littau, K. and Kuhiwczak, P., . Multilingual Matters Limited. 1- 12. 1853599573. 9781853599576
Littau, K., (2005). Arrival of a Train at la Ciotat (1895-1897): Silent Films and Screaming Audiences. In: Film Analysis: A Norton Reader. Editors: Geiger, J. and Rutsky, RL., . Norton. 43- 62. 9780393979831
Littau, K., (2002). Eye-Hunger: Physical Pleasure and Non-Narrative Cinema. In: Crash Cultures: modernity mediation and the material. Editors: Arthurs, J. and Grant, I., . Intellect Books / University of Chicago Press. 35- 51. 1-84150-071-2
Littau, K., (2001). Jacques Derrida. In: The Routledge Companion to Postmodernism. Editors: Sim, S., . Routledge. 1136698329. 9781136698323
Littau, K., (2001). Paul de Man. In: The Routledge Companion to Postmodernism. Editors: Sim, S., . Routledge. 1136698329. 9781136698323
Littau, K., (2001). Geoffrey Hartmann. In: The Routledge Companion to Postmodernism. Editors: Sim, S., . Routledge. 1136698329. 9781136698323
Littau, K., (2001). J. Hillis Miller. In: The Routledge Companion to Postmodernism. Editors: Sim, S., . Routledge. 1136698329. 9781136698323
Littau, K., (2001). Deconstruction. In: The Routledge Companion to Postmodernism. Editors: Sim, S., . Routledge. 1136698329. 9781136698323
Littau, K., (2001). Difference. In: The Routledge Companion to Postmodernism. Editors: Sim, S., . Routledge. 1136698329. 9781136698323
Littau, K., (2001). Différance. In: The Routledge Companion to Postmodernism. Editors: Sim, S., . Routledge. 1136698329. 9781136698323
Littau, K., (2000). Hypertext and Translation. In: Encyclopedia of Literary Translation Into English. Editors: Classe, O., . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers. 1884964362. 9781884964367
Littau, K., (2000). Frank Wedekind, The Lulu Plays. In: Encyclopedia of Literary Translation Into English. Editors: Classe, O., . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers. 1884964362. 9781884964367
Littau, K., (1999). Adaptation, Teleportation and Mutation from Langelaan's to Cronenberg's The Fly. In: Alien Identities: Exploring Difference in Film and Fiction. Editors: Cartmell, D., Kaye, H., Hunter, IQ. and Whelehan, I., . Pluto/Chicago University Press. 141- 155. 9780745314051
Littau, K., (1998). Jacques Derrida. In: The Icon Critical Dictionary of Postmodern Thought. Editors: Sim, S., . Icon. 187416665X. 9781874166658
Littau, K., (1998). Paul de Man. In: The Icon Critical Dictionary of Postmodern Thought. Editors: Sim, S., . Icon. 187416665X. 9781874166658
Littau, K., (1998). Geoffrey Hartman. In: The Icon Critical Dictionary of Postmodern Thought. Editors: Sim, S., . Icon. 187416665X. 9781874166658
Littau, K., (1998). J. Hillis Miller. In: The Icon Critical Dictionary of Postmodern Thought. Editors: Sim, S., . Icon. 187416665X. 9781874166658
Littau, K., (1998). Deconstruction. In: The Icon Critical Dictionary of Postmodern Thought. Editors: Sim, S., . Icon. 187416665X. 9781874166658
Littau, K., (1998). Difference. In: The Icon Critical Dictionary of Postmodern Thought. Editors: Sim, S., . Icon. 187416665X. 9781874166658
Littau, K., (1998). Différance. In: The Icon Critical Dictionary of Postmodern Thought. Editors: Sim, S., . Icon. 187416665X. 9781874166658
Littau, K., (1996). Incommunication: Derrida in Translation. In: Applying: To Derrida. Editors: Brannigan, J., Robbins, R. and Wolfreys, J., . Macmillan. 107- 123. 9780333656624
LITTAU, K., (1993). INTERTEXTUALITY AND TRANSLATION - THE WASTE LAND IN FRENCH AND GERMAN. In: Translation - The Vital Link. Proceedings of the XIII World Congress of the International Federation of Translators, Vol. I. Editors: . Chameleon Press. 63- 69. 0-9522056-0-2. 9780952205623
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Littau, K., (1994). Theory and Disciplinary Purism, Council for College and University English Newsletter
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Calgary's New Black Lives Matter Mural Has Been Scrapped Due To Alleged Racist Backlash
Apparently threats were involved.
Shaoni Das
Aug 12, 2020, 4:28 PM
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The installation of a new Calgary Black Lives Matter mural has been put on hold due to "safety concerns."
Pink Flamingo, a black and LGBTQ+ run organization, has been given $120,000 to set up four anti-racism murals across the city, according to CBC News. Their proposed location for one of the murals received so much backlash that they've decided to scrap the idea.
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The vitriol that has been produced due to the type of information that's been disseminated through articles has been incredibly, without mincing words, quite racist and quite violent towards us.
Allison Dunne
The proposed location is home to an existing mural, Giving Wings To A Dream. The artist of this mural, Doug Driediger, explained that the art displayed is supposed to represent diversity and multiculturalism.
Dunne said that there have been "legitimate" concerns brought up by members of the public who don't want the original mural to be replaced.
Dunne also said, "as an organization, we have received numerous threats." She said she plans to report these threats to the authorities.
Via CBC's The Calgary Eyeopener


As you may know, the Minnesota Food Charter Network has become inactive without staff. A Transition Team, composed of former Action Team members, was charged with recommending future directions for statewide collaborative work.
This blog post outlines these recommendations and directions for future work. The recommendations are based, in part, on recommendations from the 2018 Minnesota Food Charter Network Evaluation Report, which notes:
Participants in the network recognize the importance of building connectivity across all sectors and groups.
Fostering connectivity needs to become more intentional and ongoing. There is a need to identify and mentor more individuals who are willing to take on leadership and facilitation roles.
People want to know what other groups across Minnesota are working on. Gathering and sharing stories about the successes of local, regional, and issue-specific networks and groups should be a focus.
What is Recommended?
After reviewing many existing evaluation documents and attending a National Convening of States with Food System Plans, the Transition Team recommends the following:
A shift in focus to invest in local and regional groups working to improve the food system in Minnesota, focused on collaborative efforts to building connectivity and capacity, particularly across differences and across sectors and scales.
Support the emergence of new leadership, developing skills, connectivity, and experience; with priority on under-represented communities and Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC).
Continue to support connectivity through the existing communications channels, including the Minnesota Food Charter website, social media, and blog.
Set the stage for the next phase of collaborative, statewide work. Statewide, collaborative food-systems work is being re-envisioned, to emphasize equity-based food systems work already being done in communities across the state. The future of continued collaborative statewide efforts will ultimately be shaped by those who want to work together.
As new leadership emerges, we hope new funding opportunities to support statewide, collaborative food systems work will become available. Healthy Foods, Healthy Lives will continue to serve as the fiscal host for these activities in the short term, until a new fiscal host(s) is identified.
What Is the Minnesota Food Charter Network Doing to Support these Recommendations?
So far, the Minnesota Food Charter Network has:
Contributed $15,000 of scholarships to the Food Justice Summit to support new leadership, particularly in communities of color.
Provided financial support to build leadership and facilitation skills from communities across Minnesota, in partnership with University of Minnesota Extension staff. More information on the Facilitation and Leadership training can be found at z.umn.edu/foodjustice
Pledged financial support for a second cohort to participate in the Action Learning Seed Fund through a shared-gifting process, in partnership with University of Minnesota Extension staff.
Continued to host the Minnesota Food Charter website and promote the amazing food systems work happening across the state through contributions to social media, email, and the website, to further collaboration and peer-learning.
Please contact info@mnfoodcharter.com if you'd like to contribute a story or promote an event on the Minnesota Food Charter Blog or Facebook page!
What is happening with the Minnesota Food Charter?
The Minnesota Food Charter and its companion guides continue to be a shared roadmap to guide policymakers and community leaders with strategies to provide all Minnesotans with access to healthy, safe, and affordable food. For example, the Minnesota Statewide Health Improvement Partnership is organizing work around Food Charter strategies in every Minnesota county. And, nearly 40 cities and counties have used the Food Access Planning to include food systems strategies in local planning for the first time ever. Across the state, we have identified many groups working to implement the 99 strategies laid out in the Minnesota Food Charter (Check out the Minnesota Food Charter Champion Map here!)
The Minnesota Food Charter Network was created to support the growing ecosystem working to implement strategies. The current shift in focus will continue to support the implementation of current Minnesota Food Charter strategies AND allow for new strategies and ideas to take shape.
How can I stay connected?
The Minnesota Food Charter website will remain active. Organizations and groups are encouraged to contribute blog posts about their work by emailing info@mnfoodcharter.com
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Payson High School
Payson High School (Arizona)
Nebo School District
High school (disambiguation)
Secondary education in the United States
Payson High School may refer to
Payson High School (Utah)
Seymour High School is also known as Payson-Seymour High School, located in Payson, Illinois
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Payson High School is a high school located in the rural town of Payson, Arizona. It has approximately 750 students.
The Payson Longhorns are well known for their wrestling program with legend Dennis Pirch as longtime coach, R.C. LaHaye who is now Grand Canyon University Wrestling Coach is a former three-time state champion from Payson.
Payson won the 3A State Championship in Boys Track and Field in 1987, 1988, 1990, 1991 and 2006. Dan Reid was the head coach from 1987-1991 with Chuck Hardt the head coach in 2006. Payson won the 3A State championship in Girls Track and Field in 1999, 2000, and 2001 under coach Chuck Hardt who was also the coach for the 2001 3A State champion Girls Cross-country team. Payson also won the State Championship in football in 1977, 1981, 1998, and in 2008. Payson won a 3A State Championship in baseball in 1999. Payson won a 3A State Championship in Golf in 2001. Payson High School's Modern Choir performed in Carnegie Hall in June 2007.
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Nebo School District is a public school district in Utah County, Utah serving the southern part of the county. It lies beneath the Provo City School District and Alpine School District beginning at Utah Lake and moving south. The Nebo School District's slogan is "Your Partner in Education."
With over 31,500 students, Nebo is the 7th largest school district in Utah and among the fastest-growing. The district operates 5 high schools, 6 junior high schools, 27 elementary schools, and 2 alternative schools. The district is named for nearby Mount Nebo, the tallest peak in the Wasatch Range.
There are currently five high schools in the Nebo School District.
Maple Mountain High School
Maple Mountain High School was established within the borders of Spanish Fork in 2009. The school's enrolment area covers eastern Spanish Fork and all of Mapleton. The school's colors are Maroon and Gold, with the mascot being a Golden Eagle. Its slogan is "An Attitude of Excellence". The principal is currently John Penrod, whilst David Knudsen and DeAnn Nielsen are the Assistant Principals. Maple Mountain High School's address is 51 North 2550 East, Spanish Fork, UT 84660. It also operates mmhs.nebo.edu, a subdomain of the District's website.
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A high school (also secondary school, senior school, secondary college) is a school that provides adolescents with part or all of their secondary education. It may come after primary school or middle school and be followed by higher education or vocational training.
The term "high school" originated in Scotland, with the world's oldest high school being Edinburgh's Royal High School from 1505. The Royal High School was used as a model for the first public high school in the United States, Boston Latin School founded in Boston, Massachusetts.
The precise stage of schooling provided by a high school differs from country to country, and may vary within the same jurisdiction. In all of New Zealand and Malaysia, along with most of Britain and parts of Australia, Bangladesh and Canada, high school means the same thing as secondary school, but instead of starting in 9th grade, these "secondary schools" begin at ages 11 or 12.
In Australia, high school is a secondary school, from Year 7 or Year 8 through to Year 12, varying from state to state. High school immediately follows primary (elementary) school; therefore, a Year-7 Australian high-school student is sometimes as young as 12. In Tasmania and the Australian Capital Territory, the term "high school" generally refers to Years 7–10, whereas the term "College" is used for Years 11–12. In Victoria the term "secondary college" has largely replaced the term "high school" following the reforms of the Labor Government in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Some schools have retained the name "high school" (such as Melbourne High School) and many have now dropped the "secondary" and are simply known as "college".
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High school is the last segment of compulsory secondary education in Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, India, Scotland, the United States, and other countries; the term also refers to the building where such education takes place.
High school may also refer to:
Folk high school, institutions of adult and continuing education common in the Nordic countries and Germany
Vocational university, in the non-English speaking world
Art, entertainment, and media
"High School" (1975), comedy monologue by Jimmie Walker
High School, a manhwa series by Kim Young Ho
Fictional entities
"Highschool", a Strong Bad email from the Homestar Runner website
High School (1940 film), a 1940 American film
High School (1954 film), a 1954 Italian film
High School (1968 film), a 1968 documentary film
High School (2010 film), a 2010 comedy film
High School High (1996), a comedy starring Jon Lovitz and Mehki Phifer
High School Musical, a made-for-TV film
High Schools (film), a 1984 documentary
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In most jurisdictions, secondary education in the United States refers to the last four years of statutory formal education (grade nine through grade twelve) either at high school or split between a final year of 'junior high school' and three in high school.
The United States historically had a demand for general skills rather than specific training/apprenticeships. High school enrollment increased when schools at this level became free, laws required children to attend until a certain age, and it was believed that every American student had the opportunity to participate regardless of their ability.
In 1892, in response to many competing academic philosophies being promoted at the time, a working group of educators, known as the "Committee of Ten" was established by the National Education Association. It recommended twelve years of instruction, consisting of eight years of elementary education followed by four years of high school. Rejecting suggestions that high schools should divide students into college-bound and working-trades groups from the start, and in some cases also by race or ethnic background, they unanimously recommended that "every subject which is taught at all in a secondary school should be taught in the same way and to the same extent to every pupil so long as he pursues it, no matter what the probable destination of the pupil may be, or at what point his education is to cease."
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Bubble gum and house parties
When you stole your parents rum
And tried to screw everything that could breathe
Back in high school we didn't have a whole lot to do
We watched the world go by on the television screen
Said it's the 90's kids that's way out this is way in
Go beat each other up on the dance floor
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So much that we smoked a little more
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Did I call your name?
Did you hear me singin' that song that I wrote for you?
You're so the same but your so different
I didn't recognize you
It's kinda hard with all that sexual confusion
Sometimes you don't know if you're gay or straight
But what's the difference, it's a wonderful illusion
Most times you won't make it past second base
I'm in a band, we kinda suck but we don't now it yet
And I don't care anyway
'Cuz soon, I'm gonna sell these drums, pay my rent
Support my kid and tell him all about way back in daddy's day
I'll tell him all about way back in daddy's day
Some years later by a soda coolerator
In a corner store back in my home town
This stranger smiles at me, said
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After all the good times he said we had
He looks at me, scratches his head
And asked me where the hell I ever went
And the funny thing is that I never even knew him
But he coulda been any one of my high school friends
Your so the same but your so different
Did I call you name?
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Lois June Balle Lundell
Provo Daily Herald 19 Jul 2019
Lois June Balle Lundell, age 90, of Payson, Utah passed away on July 14, 2019. Lois June was born on June 2, 1929 in Payson, Utah to Leo Royal Balle and Alpha Rozena Madsen Balle. She graduated from Payson High School and was crowned Miss Payson in 1947. For over 25 years, she was employed as a secretary at Payson High School....
Georgia Davis Allen
After the war her family returned to Payson, Utah where she attended Jr ... High School, graduating in 1950 ... She became involved in the early days of the Payson Scottish Festival ... Her funeral service will be held Friday, July 19, 2019, at 11.00 am in the LDS Page Ward, 700 South and 600 East in Payson ... Internment will be at the Payson City Cemetery....
Ruth Elmer
Ruth was born on November 16, 1928 in Payson to Walter and Erma Hill Thatcher, she has 2 sisters, and 3 brothers. Following her graduation from Payson High School, she married her sweetheart Dale Elmer in the Salt Lake Temple on Sept 24th 1947 ... at the Payson Stake Center, 650 West 800 South, Payson ... Interment will be at the Payson City Cemetery ... .......
LaMar J Alvey
1937-2019 ... He graduated from Payson High School, class of 1955. He served in the United States Marine Corps from 1956 to 1962 ... They resided in Payson for the past 60 years raising six children, creating a legacy of 24 grandchildren and 36 great-grandchildren ... at Walker Funeral Home in Payson, 587 South 100 West ... .......
Scott Henry Day
St George News 30 Jun 2019
He graduated from Payson High School, doing well in academics and all sports, and graduated from Brigham Young University ... He taught at Snow Canyon Middle and High School, Lava Ridge Intermediate and Dixie Middle School and loved working with his students....
Ramirez honored at academic awards banquet
Altus Times 28 Jun 2019
Blair High School teacher Rod Zachary ......
PHS gets new vice principal
HJ News 25 Jun 2019
Clint Peery, a teacher from Payson High School, has been hired as the new assistant principal at Preston High School ... Peery has been teaching TV, video, and business classes for the past eight years at Payson High ... "I am very excited to join the amazing staff at Preston High School this coming year....
Nebo's Payson Principal, RaShel Shepherd, Honored with Secondary Crystal Owl Award
Serve Daily 24 Jun 2019
RaShel Shepherd was honored with the Secondary Crystal Owl Award during a Nebo School District administrator training ... She also has a deep knowledge of being an effective school leader ... "RaShel has done an impressive job leading Payson High School through a very difficult transition....
Anthony Robles, a one-legged NCAA wrestling champ, visits Lander camp
Index-Journal 23 Jun 2019
Robles and LaHaye attended high school in neighboring cities — Robles in Mesa, Arizona, and LaHaye in Payson, Arizona — and they used to train for tournaments together ... LaHaye and Robles had a mutual friend in high school, and the three of them trained together each summer....
Mac Bowen Brimhall and Geraldine "Jeri" Taylor Brimhall
Provo Daily Herald 16 Jun 2019
He lived for some of his early years in Salem and graduated from Spanish Fork High in 1955 ... Jeri was born in Payson on June 11, 1938 to Sterling Taylor and (Mary) Lucille Johnson. She attended schools in Payson and graduated from Payson High School in 1956....
Payson senior Amanda Butler wrapping up busy year at state high school rodeo finals
Last year at this time, Payson's Amanda Butler was wrapping up a high school rodeo officer campaign and gunning for her first state title .......
Belle Fourche standout wraps up her career
Rapid City Journal 30 May 2019
BELLE FOURCHE . Payson Birkeland has made the most of her sports opportunities at Belle Fourche High School .......
High school graduation round up
Provo Daily Herald 20 May 2019
Over the next several weeks, thousands of high school seniors will across a stage and celebrate their years of hard work and dedication to earn their high school diplomas ... With the three dozen high schools across the county, it's easy to get lost in the likewise three dozen graduation ceremonies ... Landmark High School ... Payson High School....


Sean Murphy (lung) expected to be ready by Opening Day
A's catcher Sean Murphy is recovering from surgery on a collapsed lung over the offseason. Bob Melvin states he should be ready by Opening Day.
In Murphy's rookie season, he had a .233 batting average, .364 on-base percentage, and a .821 OPS. He also tallied seven home runs. He's an interesting backstop to target late in one-catcher formats.
Ryan Evans - Baseballogy2 years ago
A.J. Burnett pitches solid six innings Sunday
Burnett went six innings while giving up seven hits, two walks, and two earned runs while striking out seven.
Burnett was out-dueled by Jake Arrieta on the evening but has continued to be an effective pitcher since returning from injury earlier this month. Burnett hasn't kept the pace he set for himself in the first half of the season but still has his ERA under four for the month of September.
Daniel Marcus4 years ago
A.J. Burnett has decent outing, but Pirates lose
A.J. Burnett had another good outing against the Chicago Cubs. He scattered eight hits but only gave up two runs in 5 1/3 innings. Burnett also had seven strike outs. He did not get a decision as the Pirates lost in extra innings, 3-2.
This is good news to see Burnett getting some of his form back for the rest of the season. Burnett should be a viable starter in your lineup from here on out.
Rick Briggs - Asylum Fantasy Sports Network7 years ago
A.J. Burnett placed on 15-day DL
According to the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, A.J. Burnett has been placed on the 15-day disabled list due to elbow inflammation. This not too surprising considering Burnett has struggled since the All-Star break. He has pitched just 16 innings in his last three starts, giving up 18 runs and 32 hits, including seven earned runs and 10 hits in just 4 1/3 innings in his last outing versus Cincinnati.
Since boasting a 2.11 ERA before the All-Star Game, Burnett has seen it swell to 3.06 while dropping his last two decisions. Keep monitoring his progress. If this is merely swelling due to fatigue, the rest could get the 38-year-old Burnett back to form and he could help your fantasy team in the late season run.
A.J. Burnett leads Pirates to 1-0 victory over Philly
The Pittsburgh Pirates went to extra innings twice in three days with the Phillies. The crazier part of that, both games were knotted at 0-0. Burnett went 9 innings of shut out baseball, but the Bucs weren't able to back Burnett's outstanding outing.
A.J. Burnett went full beast mode on Sunday, as he threw 9 shut out innings and struck out 4 batters. Burnett does not record a high volume of strikeouts, but he does tend to go 7+ innings every time he takes the mound. He also has one of the lowest NL ERA's, which makes him an extremely valuable fantasy pitcher.
Caleb Luketic - Caleb On Sports8 years ago


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Iain ended his career as a geochemist in West Africa when it dawned on him that his life list was more valuable than gold. He packed up his G-pick, said goodbye to fufu, and headed to South America, which better suits his style. He is very involved in bird conservation, having created Tandayapa Bird Lodge and Mindo Cloudforest Foundation, and he now spends a significant amount of his time on donor cultivation for conservation groups. He used to be a fanatical lister, but now prefers to target the world's specialties, and uses his enthusiasm to bring others into the hobby. He is also one of the founders of Tropical Birding.
Keith Barnes
Keith reailzed that he was no longer a scientist when a significant difference in the tail lengths of larks didn't really make a significant difference in his life! Turning his back on the Ivory Towers, Keith helped found Tropical Birding and now heads the Africa and Asia operations. Having traveled far and wide in Africa in search of larks, turacos, bee-eaters and other beasties, he has turned his interests towards Asia and its wren-babblers and pittas. Before Keith was able to actually see most of the birds he wanted to, he had to sit in an office and write about them, producing The Important Bird Areas of Southern Africa and The Red Data Book of Birds of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland in the process.
Christian Boix
Christian followed the swallows, and headed south from Spain in 1990 after developing a lust for African ornithology. He has an unhealthy interest in the reproductive biology of birds, especially those with bizarre mating and breeding systems, such as birds-of-paradise and hornbills. Christian's effect on clients is so profound we refer to them as either BC or AC. Nobody believes he is a Spaniard as he speaks English like a South African. A partner of Tropical Birding, Christian spends most of his time leading tours in Africa and Asia, where his infectious enthusiasm has ensured a faithful following.
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Nick's obsession with bird sounds is legendary. In fact, it is rumored he can live off the songs of antbirds without any other sustenance. Nick gave up a lucrative career in geophysics to go watch birds in South America a decade ago and has never looked back. He is one of the founders of Tropical Birding, and when not leading tours, can often be found in odd corners of the world adding to his collection of photos and sound recordings. American by birth, Nick now lives in Quito, Ecuador.
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Ken discovered flickers in the Pennsylvania woods when his family relocated there, and he has been chasing birds ever since. He has progressed from US road trips through to adventurous treks through the highlands of the Albertine Rift and Bolivian Amazon. Ken spent the better part of two years counting birds in Cape May, where he developed a particular interest in seawatching, which he considers the more challenging cousin to hawk-watching! Now based in Cape Town, he enjoys the spectacular seabirding when not leading tours. Ken is a keen photographer and writer, and recently co-authored Birding Ethiopia, a site guide to that country, and is also working on a field guide to eastern North American waterbirds in flight.
Jen Brumfeld
Jen hails from Akron, Ohio, where she presently gets great kicks working for Cleveland Metroparks as a scientific illustrator and naturalist. Heavily involved in young birder education, she is the editorial advisor for the ABA's youth birder newsletter, A Bird's-Eye View. Jen's natural history illustrations have appeared in throngs of journals, newsletters, books, and even on greeting cards. Birding is innate for this gal, who ventures to say she's gone way beyond the "interest." It's simply a way of life.
Bradley Davis
Brad grew up chasing vagrants in southern Ontario, where a lost Variegated Flycatcher in Toronto in 1993 piqued his interest in tropical birds. When no more appeared on the shores of Lake Ontario over the next few years, he decided he would have to go to them instead. After a number of birding trips and field work throughout the Americas, Brad has now settled in southern Brazil – a perfect base for chasing after the piculets, antbirds and spinetails over which he obsesses. When not guiding, he keeps busy recording bird songs, devouring old and new ornithological literature, and exploring new areas of the country – particularly the vast Amazon basin where his interests in distribution and vocalizations are equally indulged. Brad guides for TB in Brazil and Ecuador.
Josh Engel
Josh grew up near Chicago, where he soon learned the joys of birding along the Lake Michigan shoreline. He was soon crisscrossing the US with other young birders before getting hooked on the Neotropics. Josh has been spending a lot of time in Africa lately, fueling a fast-growing obsession with Madagascar's ground-rollers and asities, the red dunes of Namibia, and the many endemics of South Africa, where he now lives. Past trips to Indochina have left him longing to return to southeast Asia as well.
Charley Hesse
Charley's devotion to birds began when he could first lift binoculars to his face. Before graduation at university he eloped with his life list to India and Mexico. He studied mixed flocks in Cameroon and compiled inventories of rainforest birds in Malaysia before heading to Japan for work in international public relations. Today, Charley works as a bird guide in four continents, having birded much of South America and over 50 countries worldwide. British by birth he is now also fluent in Spanish and Japanese.
José Illanes
Originally from the Amazonian village of Sani Isla, José is rapidly getting hooked on world birding. After tallying over 2,000 birds in 2005, José has not looked back; now guiding for us in Venezuela, Peru, and his home Ecuador (in between trips to southeast Asia, Africa and Europe). His first visit to the US came in 2006 when he brought the house down with his speech on Ecuadorian birding at the ABA convention in Maine. When not guiding, he can often be found poring over foreign bird books. He recently became a father for the first time.
Scott Olmstead
Less than a month after finishing college with a degree in Latin American Studies, Scott headed straight for Costa Rica, where he began learning the birds of Central America. When his money ran out, he returned home for a few seasons of fieldwork across the US, banding songbirds, counting migrating raptors, and studying eagle nests. In 2006, when he could stay away no longer, Scott came back to the Neotropics as a tour leader. He guides TB trips in Brazil and Ecuador, where he enjoys chasing elusive antpittas through the thick understory. Originally from Connecticut, Scott is now based in Arizona.
Michael Retter
Michael spent all of his college vacations birding in Mexico and became so hooked that all he could think about was quesadillas and leading bird tours after he graduated. He can be found guiding anywhere from Canada down to Ecuador, but a recent trip to Micronesia whetted his appetite for birding beyond the Americas. When at home in the Midwest, Michael puts his intense interests in taxonomy and distribution to use both as "Sightings" Department Editor and Technical Reviewer for ABA's Birding magazine.
Benji Schwartz
Benji Schwartz began birding at a tender young age, but soon realized that in order to expand his world list he would have to leave the confines of Minnesota. His quest to see new species has since led him to every continent but Antarctica. Two years ago Benji decided he wanted to lead tours fulltime and began with an intensive six month course to lead safaris in Africa. However, he found that it was too difficult to convince non-birders to look at the cisticolas on the left while a lion was attacking an impala on his right. After a brief hiatus of guiding in Ecuador and Alaska, he has now returned to Africa with Tropical Birding so that he can focus on the birds while still seeing all the other amazing wildlife.
Andrés Vásquez
Since graduating with a degree in Ecology in 2003, Andrés has hardly had time to get back to his native Quito as he has been twitching new birds in every corner of megadiverse Ecuador. He spent a year among colorful tanagers and quetzals of the Chocó cloud forest before heading to the steaming Amazon in search of eagles and antbirds. In his free time he explores popular birding areas and less-frequented destinations to boost his bird list. When not in the field, he can be found at his computer working on book publishing; he has already released several wildlife guidebooks for Ecuador.
Sam Woods
Sam obsession for birds began with a pair of tits in the Royal London park at age 11. Working for TB fits in perfectly with his plan of building up a massive world list, and now he guides on five continents. Now well known around the world for his affable English gentlemanly demeanor and his skilled guiding, his prodigious output of trip reports has almost surpassed those qualities. Sam supposedly resides in Ecuador, but his schedule hardly allows any time there.
Cristina Cervantes
Cristina is TB's General Manager. It is through her good work that our tours run so smoothly. An Ecuadorian, she has a thorough understanding of business in South America and is in constant contact with most operators in Ecuador. If there is something to be arranged, whether it be an intense birding trip in the Amazon or an independent trip to the Galapagos, she is the one to contact. She is an occasional birder too, but prefers colorful toucans to skulking tapaculos.
Desirée D'sylva
Desirée was raised in Quito, Ecuador, but her life has taken her on many exciting adventures to the most beautiful places in the world. Desirée lived on merchant ships during her teens, and saw spectacular scenery and culture throughout India and Europe, Somalia, Ethiopia, and the whole East African seaboard, and is the only person in the company to have sailed through both the Suez and Panama canals. After finishing her college career in history, she developed a farm in NW Ecuador to produce eco-friendly palm oil. It didn't work. Desirée manages the Africa and Asia logistics at TB.
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Yadira Ordoñez
Yadi does the groundwork in our Quito office and she is the one making the arrangements for our many South American tours. She may be small in stature, but she can certainly sound intimidating on the phone, which gives us a useful edge when dealing with local hotels and lodges. Aside from making bookings, she also stays on top of the accounting department, keeps the guides in line, and organizes whatever else needs to be organized. Basically, Yadi can do it all.
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Iain CampbellIain ended his career as a geochemist in West Africa when it dawned on him that his life list was more valuable than gold. He packed up his G-pick, said goodbye to fufu, and headed to South America, which better suits his style. He is very involved in bird conservation, having created Tandayapa Bird Lodge and Mindo Cloudforest Foundation, and he now spends a significant amount of his time on donor cultivation for conservation groups. He used to be a fanatical lister, but now prefers to target the world's specialties, and uses his enthusiasm to bring others into the hobby. He is also one of the founders of Tropical Birding.
Keith BarnesKeith reailzed that he was no longer a scientist when a significant difference in the tail lengths of larks didn't really make a significant difference in his life! Turning his back on the Ivory Towers, Keith helped found Tropical Birding and now heads the Africa and Asia operations. Having traveled far and wide in Africa in search of larks, turacos, bee-eaters and other beasties, he has turned his interests towards Asia and its wren-babblers and pittas. Before Keith was able to actually see most of the birds he wanted to, he had to sit in an office and write about them, producing The Important Bird Areas of Southern Africa and The Red Data Book of Birds of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland in the process.
Christian BoixChristian followed the swallows, and headed south from Spain in 1990 after developing a lust for African ornithology. He has an unhealthy interest in the reproductive biology of birds, especially those with bizarre mating and breeding systems, such as birds-of-paradise and hornbills. Christian's effect on clients is so profound we refer to them as either BC or AC. Nobody believes he is a Spaniard as he speaks English like a South African. A partner of Tropical Birding, Christian spends most of his time leading tours in Africa and Asia, where his infectious enthusiasm has ensured a faithful following.
Nick AthanasNick's obsession with bird sounds is legendary. In fact, it is rumored he can live off the songs of antbirds without any other sustenance. Nick gave up a lucrative career in geophysics to go watch birds in South America a decade ago and has never looked back. He is one of the founders of Tropical Birding, and when not leading tours, can often be found in odd corners of the world adding to his collection of photos and sound recordings. American by birth, Nick now lives in Quito, Ecuador. Ken BehrensKen discovered flickers in the Pennsylvania woods when his family relocated there, and he has been chasing birds ever since. He has progressed from US road trips through to adventurous treks through the highlands of the Albertine Rift and Bolivian Amazon. Ken spent the better part of two years counting birds in Cape May, where he developed a particular interest in seawatching, which he considers the more challenging cousin to hawk-watching! Now based in Cape Town, he enjoys the spectacular seabirding when not leading tours. Ken is a keen photographer and writer, and recently co-authored Birding Ethiopia, a site guide to that country, and is also working on a field guide to eastern North American waterbirds in flight.
Jen BrumfeldJen hails from Akron, Ohio, where she presently gets great kicks working for Cleveland Metroparks as a scientific illustrator and naturalist. Heavily involved in young birder education, she is the editorial advisor for the ABA's youth birder newsletter, A Bird's-Eye View. Jen's natural history illustrations have appeared in throngs of journals, newsletters, books, and even on greeting cards. Birding is innate for this gal, who ventures to say she's gone way beyond the "interest." It's simply a way of life.
Bradley DavisBrad grew up chasing vagrants in southern Ontario, where a lost Variegated Flycatcher in Toronto in 1993 piqued his interest in tropical birds. When no more appeared on the shores of Lake Ontario over the next few years, he decided he would have to go to them instead. After a number of birding trips and field work throughout the Americas, Brad has now settled in southern Brazil – a perfect base for chasing after the piculets, antbirds and spinetails over which he obsesses. When not guiding, he keeps busy recording bird songs, devouring old and new ornithological literature, and exploring new areas of the country – particularly the vast Amazon basin where his interests in distribution and vocalizations are equally indulged. Brad guides for TB in Brazil and Ecuador.
Josh EngelJosh grew up near Chicago, where he soon learned the joys of birding along the Lake Michigan shoreline. He was soon crisscrossing the US with other young birders before getting hooked on the Neotropics. Josh has been spending a lot of time in Africa lately, fueling a fast-growing obsession with Madagascar's ground-rollers and asities, the red dunes of Namibia, and the many endemics of South Africa, where he now lives. Past trips to Indochina have left him longing to return to southeast Asia as well. Charley HesseCharley's devotion to birds began when he could first lift binoculars to his face. Before graduation at university he eloped with his life list to India and Mexico. He studied mixed flocks in Cameroon and compiled inventories of rainforest birds in Malaysia before heading to Japan for work in international public relations. Today, Charley works as a bird guide in four continents, having birded much of South America and over 50 countries worldwide. British by birth he is now also fluent in Spanish and Japanese.
José Illanes Originally from the Amazonian village of Sani Isla, José is rapidly getting hooked on world birding. After tallying over 2,000 birds in 2005, José has not looked back; now guiding for us in Venezuela, Peru, and his home Ecuador (in between trips to southeast Asia, Africa and Europe). His first visit to the US came in 2006 when he brought the house down with his speech on Ecuadorian birding at the ABA convention in Maine. When not guiding, he can often be found poring over foreign bird books. He recently became a father for the first time. Scott Olmstead Less than a month after finishing college with a degree in Latin American Studies, Scott headed straight for Costa Rica, where he began learning the birds of Central America. When his money ran out, he returned home for a few seasons of fieldwork across the US, banding songbirds, counting migrating raptors, and studying eagle nests. In 2006, when he could stay away no longer, Scott came back to the Neotropics as a tour leader. He guides TB trips in Brazil and Ecuador, where he enjoys chasing elusive antpittas through the thick understory. Originally from Connecticut, Scott is now based in Arizona. Michael RetterMichael spent all of his college vacations birding in Mexico and became so hooked that all he could think about was quesadillas and leading bird tours after he graduated. He can be found guiding anywhere from Canada down to Ecuador, but a recent trip to Micronesia whetted his appetite for birding beyond the Americas. When at home in the Midwest, Michael puts his intense interests in taxonomy and distribution to use both as "Sightings" Department Editor and Technical Reviewer for ABA's Birding magazine. Benji Schwartz Benji Schwartz began birding at a tender young age, but soon realized that in order to expand his world list he would have to leave the confines of Minnesota. His quest to see new species has since led him to every continent but Antarctica. Two years ago Benji decided he wanted to lead tours fulltime and began with an intensive six month course to lead safaris in Africa. However, he found that it was too difficult to convince non-birders to look at the cisticolas on the left while a lion was attacking an impala on his right. After a brief hiatus of guiding in Ecuador and Alaska, he has now returned to Africa with Tropical Birding so that he can focus on the birds while still seeing all the other amazing wildlife.
Andrés Vásquez Since graduating with a degree in Ecology in 2003, Andrés has hardly had time to get back to his native Quito as he has been twitching new birds in every corner of megadiverse Ecuador. He spent a year among colorful tanagers and quetzals of the Chocó cloud forest before heading to the steaming Amazon in search of eagles and antbirds. In his free time he explores popular birding areas and less-frequented destinations to boost his bird list. When not in the field, he can be found at his computer working on book publishing; he has already released several wildlife guidebooks for Ecuador.
Sam Woods Sam obsession for birds began with a pair of tits in the Royal London park at age 11. Working for TB fits in perfectly with his plan of building up a massive world list, and now he guides on five continents. Now well known around the world for his affable English gentlemanly demeanor and his skilled guiding, his prodigious output of trip reports has almost surpassed those qualities. Sam supposedly resides in Ecuador, but his schedule hardly allows any time there. Office Staff Cristina CervantesCristina is TB's General Manager. It is through her good work that our tours run so smoothly. An Ecuadorian, she has a thorough understanding of business in South America and is in constant contact with most operators in Ecuador. If there is something to be arranged, whether it be an intense birding trip in the Amazon or an independent trip to the Galapagos, she is the one to contact. She is an occasional birder too, but prefers colorful toucans to skulking tapaculos. Desirée D'sylvaDesirée was raised in Quito, Ecuador, but her life has taken her on many exciting adventures to the most beautiful places in the world. Desirée lived on merchant ships during her teens, and saw spectacular scenery and culture throughout India and Europe, Somalia, Ethiopia, and the whole East African seaboard, and is the only person in the company to have sailed through both the Suez and Panama canals. After finishing her college career in history, she developed a farm in NW Ecuador to produce eco-friendly palm oil. It didn't work. Desirée manages the Africa and Asia logistics at TB.
Yadira OrdoñezYadi does the groundwork in our Quito office and she is the one making the arrangements for our many South American tours. She may be small in stature, but she can certainly sound intimidating on the phone, which gives us a useful edge when dealing with local hotels and lodges. Aside from making bookings, she also stays on top of the accounting department, keeps the guides in line, and organizes whatever else needs to be organized. Basically, Yadi can do it all.
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COMMENTARY: Fall football not in the cards for New Mexico State
Jason Groves
Las Cruces Sun-News
New Mexico State football finds itself in an exclusive club heading into the weekend where the Aggies were supposed to be on the road at I-10 rival UTEP.
At the end of a week where the rest of college football reversed course and decided to give it a go, the Aggies are currently one of three FBS programs who will not attempt to play fall football as the Pac-12, the Mountain West and the Mid American Conference set to join the fray next month.
The other two are Old Dominion, who has tapped out all together and will return to the field in fall of 2021, and NM State's fellow independent, Connecticut.
But sitting out fall football in the midst of a COVID-19 "season" that has already had over 20 games either canceled or altered through the first four weeks, is the right move for a number of reasons.
I wouldn't call it a reset, but more a question of, what would NM State football possibly gain playing this fall, assuming the independent program could even cobble together a schedule?
There won't be money games to be had, NM State athletics is already facing a deficit of between $500,000 to $2.5 million shortfall and the Aggies simply have not been preparing for games since they announced postponing football until the spring a million years ago back in August.
The reality is that NM State would be better served by adhering to its original plan to play a limited number of games in the spring, rather than absorb the costs associated with travel, COVID-19 testing multiple times a week, or hosting games with no fans in the Aggie Memorial Stadium stands.
A limited spring schedule would allow Aggies head coach Doug Martin, who is currently limited to conducting walk throughs, to hold his 15 "spring ball" practices, in October, before playing two or three FCS opponents, and possibly a Division II in state school or two, to gain some experience and confidence before the 2021 season, which is currently the final year on his contract.
While state restrictions may loosen in the coming months to allow the University of New Mexico to play home games, it's unclear fans will be allowed. A spring schedule could possibly allow New Mexico State athletics director Mario Moccia to recoup some revenue, either through ticket sales or potential television ads.
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A spring on the NM State campus could include a spring volleyball match during the day and an Aggies football game that night.
The new normal.
There is also a football piece to consider.
The Aggies have lost at least 15 players to the transfer portal with 11 players leaving prior to COVID-19 changing the face of college football.
The number of players to leave the program has been noticeable, as well as some of the more experienced players such as two year starter at quarterback Josh Adkins, backup quarterback Matt Romero, wide receiver Drew Dan, four-year starter defensive lineman Roy Lopez and standout linebacker Rashie Hodge.
Some players, such as Lopez (Arizona) and Dan (Illinois), ended up at Power 5 conference programs. Adkins had his struggles in 2019, but was still in line to compete with junior college transfer Jonah Johnson in fall camp, according to Martin following last season.
If there was ever a team that needs to build some confidence and continuity, it's the Aggies.
Perhaps the school will look to incoming WAC partners Dixie State and Tarleton State, both FCS members. The Aggies could also host one or two of the Division II football members in the state to round out the four or five-game schedule that Martin described when NM State postponed football.
The Aggies have not been preparing to play this fall. It would be unfair, and unwise, at this point, to ask the Aggies to serve as a "fill-in" opponent while they have a chance to develop for what will be a critical 2021 season.
Sports Editor Jason Groves can be reached at 575-541-5459 or jgroves@lcsun-news.com. Follow him on Twitter @jpgroves.