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Swet: Society of Writers, Editors, and Translators. The following is a list of current SWET members. Search the Member List by keyword:. Suggested keywords: translator, interpreter, Tokyo, Shizuoka Prefecture, editor, freelance, first name, last name. Contact Mary Althaus via email:. Please enter the text you see below:. This field is intended to catch out spammers - please leave it blank. Freelance technical translator for more than 25 years, currently specialized in patent. Also a member of JAT. This f...
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Balefire: October 2012
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Mostly irreverent, often cynical, occasionally serious comments on whatever raises my eyebrow- or my ire- today. Wednesday, October 31, 2012. I freely admit- before relatives and friends from those days point it out to me- that in my much earlier youth my Spanish grandmother occasionally used to call me " sinvergüenza. Have been strongly criticized, it is impossible to live here without observing how shame is used to, for example, control children. You won't hear "Stop that, it's bad! But you will hear "...
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Balefire: September 2012
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Mostly irreverent, often cynical, occasionally serious comments on whatever raises my eyebrow- or my ire- today. Saturday, September 29, 2012. Deluge and Distribution: Minamisoma Redux Part 3. Drenched volunteers. Photo courtesy of Miyoko Ito.]. After we visited the last area, we visited a community center where some of the volunteers from Osaka cooked up some Kansai. Going back wasn't bad, actually. The traffic wasn't as heavy as I'd expected, the rain and fog in spots was a little heavy but not a b...
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Balefire: May 2012
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Mostly irreverent, often cynical, occasionally serious comments on whatever raises my eyebrow- or my ire- today. Saturday, May 19, 2012. Losing to Fate and the Weather. This last Golden Week, eight climbers died in the Japan Northern Alps. It's not charitable to say so, but to me that's gambling with Fate without sufficiently understanding the rules of the game. I've written about this kind of thing before. I'd really like, for a change, to start hearing more stories about climbing groups whose "just in ...
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Balefire: Unforgiving Slopes
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Mostly irreverent, often cynical, occasionally serious comments on whatever raises my eyebrow- or my ire- today. Monday, April 29, 2013. I wrote around this time last year. About Golden Week climbing accidents, in summer of 2009. About climbing accidents increasing, and elsewhere. About the risks of climbing Mt. Fuji. The high country is beautiful, and trekking or climbing are really fun, but one has to be prepared, and sometimes even then things can go badly awry. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Balefire: March 2013
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Mostly irreverent, often cynical, occasionally serious comments on whatever raises my eyebrow- or my ire- today. Saturday, March 30, 2013. Farewell to the Black Lion. The Black Lion pub in Meguro has been my "local", my favorite urban refuge from madness in madness, for most of the time since it opened in 1996. It closed its doors for the last time a week ago, and I'm going to miss it, a lot. So what was the last night at the Black Lion like? An utterly senseless fight or two to break up.lots of musi...
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Balefire: Unretiring
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Mostly irreverent, often cynical, occasionally serious comments on whatever raises my eyebrow- or my ire- today. Monday, March 30, 2015. Those who know me even a little know that I'm not retiring, in either of the most common meanings of the word. In some places, at some times, for some purposes, 65 was the "official" retirement age ( and it's not really because of Bismarck. If you have been believing that). Some of my readers probably have been thinking that I retired from this blog in that withdrawing ...
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Balefire: Farewell to the Black Lion
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Mostly irreverent, often cynical, occasionally serious comments on whatever raises my eyebrow- or my ire- today. Saturday, March 30, 2013. Farewell to the Black Lion. The Black Lion pub in Meguro has been my "local", my favorite urban refuge from madness in madness, for most of the time since it opened in 1996. It closed its doors for the last time a week ago, and I'm going to miss it, a lot. So what was the last night at the Black Lion like? An utterly senseless fight or two to break up.lots of musi...
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Balefire: June 2012
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Mostly irreverent, often cynical, occasionally serious comments on whatever raises my eyebrow- or my ire- today. Friday, June 8, 2012. Minamisoma Trip,: the Second Day, Part Two. May be instructive). While going through what I believe to have been the southern part of Iitate Village. North of western Namie Town. As often happens at the end of a weekend with good weather, the returning traffic slowed dramatically to near-gridlock speeds once we got into town, and by the time we reached Roppongi the limite...
