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This year International Translation Day on September 30th is held under the slogan “Quality Standards in a Multi-Voiced World”, which for the first time was authored by the Russian Union of Translators. International Translation Day was instituted by the International Federation of Translators in 1991. The Russian translation school boasts centuries-long history. It saw its golden age in the 19th century, when translation was elevated to a high art. In our days, the translation profession has become part of mass culture. Simultaneous interpreters are wanted everywhere, and translators are required to be knowledgeable on politics, economics, engineering and other areas. But the high status of translator has to be maintained whatever the odds, said Russia’s Culture Minister Alexander Avdeev at the First International Congress of Translators in Moscow early in September.  "The Russian translation school has to be preserved and promoted to be the world’s best," he ...

Bulgaria, because Yanko was born there :) London, where Yanko now resides: Germany (we're Oceania? Was bedeutet das?) Italy: France, runner-up for most prejudiced of them all: UK, another runner-up for most prejudiced of them all: The US of A, winner!

Cordelia Fine in The Guardian , posted here. Cordelia Fine interviewed by Salon From an early age, I was incapable of reading Enid Blyton books (which I adored) without offering up a scathing feminist critique to anyone within earshot: "Oh, yes. Of course the boys go first! In case it's dangerous ." I vividly remember coming across a sentence that so outraged me – a boy telling his companion that she couldn't take part in some adventure because she was a girl – that I stopped reading and spat on the offending lines. Even today when reading to my own children it's hard not to want to edit Blyton. When I do, my eldest, even with his eyes closed, knows it immediately: "Mum, are you swapping the characters around again?" he'll ask the instant I put a girl behind the controls of the toy plane that will fly everyone to safety. But how is it that even before he went to school my son was already so well versed in the different ways girls and ...

Said post from Nepenthe 2005 From the NYT, Sep 2, 2010: What is Plumpy’nut? Sound it out, and you get the idea: it’s an edible paste made of peanuts, packed with calories and vitamins, that is specially formulated to renourish starving children. Since its widespread introduction five years ago, it has been credited with significantly lowering mortality rates during famines in Africa. Children on a Plumpy’nut regimen add pounds rapidly, often going from a near-death state to relative health in a month. In the world of humanitarian aid, where progress is usually measured in subtle increments of misery, the new product offers a rare satisfaction: swift, visible, fantastic efficacy. Read more

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