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Yahaira Aguirre, la reina del judo en el suelo

BRILLÓ CON LUZ PROPIA EN EL CAMPEONATO NACIONAL
Yahaira Aguirre, la reina del judo en el suelo

MONTSE COQUE

Yahaira Aguirre, 28 años y 24 haciendo judo. Uno de los nombres que brillaron con luz propia en el campeonato nacional de Judo celebrado en Madrid, pese a estar descartada y no estar haciendo el circuito europeo con sus compañeros de selección, el pasado sábado en un torneo lleno de ausencias, se hizo con el oro dominando y marcando bien las diferencias, Yahaira Aguirre es una de las bazas seguras para la categoría de -57 Kg., el pasado año ya se hizo con la plata en el campeonato Mundial Universitario de Bangkok.

¿En este campeonato lleno de ausencias, como has visto el nivel?

Bueno hay ausencias, no he visto el resto de pesos porque he estado centrado en mi competición pero en mi peso ha habido nivel

¿Cómo ha sido el camino hacia la final?

El primer combate ha sido con Zoraida del Moral de Andalucía, se ha movido con mucho, es un competidora con mucho nervio la he llevado al suelo y una vez allí, con una estrangulación he marcado Ippon, el siguiente combate ha sido muy especial con mi mejor amiga, Esther Armela también cuando nos hemos ido al suelo y la he conseguido luxar, la semifinal ha sido con Silvia Hortal de Madrid, es muy jovencita, júnior, nos hemos ido al suelo y allí la he estrangulado y he pasado a la final con Conchi Bellorín, es una gran competidora de Navarra, una rival que hay que tener en cuenta, esta muy fuerte y hace muy buen judo, la final se ha resuelto también en el suelo cuando la he inmovilizado, todos los combates en este torneo los he resuelto en suelo

¿Y lo próximo?

Tengo una concentración en Portugal y después otra con el equipo coreano y cubano, en cuanto a las competiciones internacionales saldré en Abril y hasta entonces saldré por mi cuenta con mi club, el Judo Club Getxo donde entreno con Agustín Letona.

¿Y en un futuro a largo plazo?

De momento seguir entrenando, seguir luchando y darlo todo.

FONTE (photo include): Marca - Spain

http://www.marca.com/

Bronze für Hartmann und Glagau

Im Kampf um Platz drei standen sich die Greizer Christoph Hartmann und Moritz Scheibenpflug gegenüber.

Bronze für Hartmann und Glagau

Judo: Sechs Greizer Starter bei Landesmeisterschaften in Schmalkalden(Kupka). Am Sonnabend fand fanden die Thüringenmeisterschaften der Altersklassen U 17 und U 20 im Judo in Schmalkalden statt. Sechs Greizer Judokas gingen hierbei an den Start. Fast alle starteten zum ersten Mal in einer neuen Altersklasse und zählten somit zu den jüngeren Teilnehmern ihrer Gewichtsklasse. Unter den insgesamt 220 Aktiven wurde sehr gutes Judo geboten und spannende Wettkämpfe gezeigt.
Die Greizer warfen ihr ganzes Können in die Waagschale und wurden teilweise dafür belohnt. So erkämpfte sich Christoph Hartmann in der Gewichtsklasse bis 90 kg (U 20) einen hervorragenden dritten Platz. Nach zwei gewonnenen und einem verlorenen Kampf stand er seinem Greizer Trainingspartner Moritz Scheibenpflug im kleinen Finale um den dritten Platz gegenüber. Dabei ging die erste Wertung sogar an Moritz. Aber Christoph konnte diesen Kampf am Ende durch Ippon für sich entscheiden. Moritz Scheibenpflug belegte einen tollen fünften Platz.
Eine weitere Medaillenhoffnung war Richard Glagau. Er startete in der Gewichtsklasse bis 100 kg der U 20 und konnte ebenfalls einen hervorragenden dritten Platz erzielen.
In der Gewichtsklasse bis 73 kg waren 17 Teilnehmer am Start. Hier wollte Martin Schüttauf sein Können zeigen. Im Doppel-KO-System konnte er gleich den ersten Kampf für sich entscheiden. Leider verlor er die beiden anderen und war somit vorzeitig ausgeschieden.
Ähnlich erging es dem gesundheitlich angeschlagenen Martin Stöhr (U 17 bis 60 kg) und Martin Sommer (U 20 bis 81 kg). Beide gaben alles, wurden aber für ihr Bemühen nicht belohnt. Trotzdem ein Lob an alle Teilnehmer, Eltern und Betreuer für die Absicherung des Wettkampfes.
29.01.2008

FONTE: Ostthüringer Zeitung - Thüringen,Germany

http://www.otz.de/

Poetry season begins with Women of Ozarks slam

Poetry season begins with Women of Ozarks slam

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The 2008 Poetry Slam season will kick off Thursday with the first Women of the Ozarks Poetry Slam. The event is at The Outland, 326 South Ave. Women poets who would like to take the stage should register at info@wellfedhead.com or call 832-9333 as soon as possible.

Doors open for the slam at 7 p.m., with an open mic at 7:30. The women’s slamoff will start at 8:30. Admission is $5.

The winner of this slam will go on to the Women of the World Poetry Slam in Detroit in March. Also performing in Springfield Thursday will be Ed Mabrey, the 2007 Individual World Poetry Slam Champion. He is a two-time Haiku National Slam Champion and has given poetry workshops at universities and for state and national poetry organizations.

Mabrey will be at the Creamery Arts Center 4-5 p.m. talking about the art of performance poetry. The event is free and open to the public.

Contact the Springfield Regional Arts Council at 862-ARTS for more information.

Mabrey will also take the stage and share his poetry at 8 p.m., before the women only slam.

FONTE (image include): News-Leader.com - Springfield,MO,USA

http://www.news-leader.com/

Life's lessons become Pulitzer-winning poetry

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Life's lessons become Pulitzer-winning poetry
Natasha Trethewey recalls the experiences that informed the work in 'Native Guard.'
By Emily Wagster Pettus, Associated Press January 29, 2008

CLEVELAND, Miss. -- Natasha Trethewey looks at a photograph and wonders what the camera didn't catch. She tries to visualize the split second of action that was omitted, intentionally or accidentally, by the way a person pointed the lens.

Her poetry tries to reveal the action beyond the frame.

Trethewey, a creative writing professor at Emory University in Atlanta, has long been fascinated with historic erasure -- the idea that certain people or events are forgotten because they've never been recorded.

Her book "Native Guard," which won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for poetry, focuses on two disparate and long-overlooked topics. One is the history of the Louisiana Native Guard, a black Civil War regiment assigned to Ship Island off the Mississippi Gulf Coast. The other is the personal history of Trethewey's mother, who was killed two decades ago by a stepfather Trethewey always feared.

"I think it's probably the book that I was destined to write, the one I needed to write for a long time," Trethewey said during an interview at Delta State University, where she addressed students last year and received an honorary degree.

In February, Trethewey will return to her native Mississippi to receive the Governor's Award for literary excellence.

The daughter of a black woman and a white man, Trethewey was born in 1966. Her parents' interracial marriage broke not only the societal norms of the segregated South but also the laws of Mississippi, which since have been repealed. In "Miscegenation," one of the poems in "Native Guard," Trethewey wrote about her parents' journey to Ohio to marry in 1965.

D. Allan Mitchell, an English professor, helped arrange Trethewey's appearances at Delta State. He said students responded to her poems' visual images of Mississippi, such as these from "Theories of Time and Space," the opening piece in "Native Guard":

"...the pier at Gulfport where

"riggings of shrimp boats are loose stitches

"in a sky threatening rain . . . "

Mitchell said Trethewey has a comprehensive knowledge of Southern literature without feeling she has to emulate William Faulkner, Eudora Welty or others.

"There is a trap with a Mississippi writer that it has to be a certain type of literature and it has to be wordy," Mitchell said. "She's not wordy. And it's refreshing that she's a poet. She takes all these familiar landscapes and terrains of the heart and re-creates them."

Trethewey lived in Gulfport until she was 6. That's when her parents divorced and she moved with her mother to Atlanta. Every summer until she graduated from high school in 1984, Trethewey split her time between Gulfport -- where her mother's extended family still lived -- and New Orleans, where her father, Eric Trethewey, was a poet and English professor at Tulane University (he now teaches at Hollins University in Roanoke, Va.).

Putting loss into words

Natasha Trethewey dedicated "Native Guard" to her mother, Gwendolyn Ann Turnbough, who was killed when Trethewey was a college freshman. It took the daughter 20 years to face her own grief and commit words to a page. From "Graveyard Blues":

"It rained the whole time we were laying her down;

"Rained from church to grave when we put her down.

"The suck of mud at our feet was a hollow sound."

After getting a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Georgia, a master's in English and creative writing from Hollins University, a master of fine arts from the University of Massachusetts, Trethewey moved back to Atlanta to work at Emory. She found a home near the courthouse where her stepfather had been tried, and sentenced, for killing her mother. There, she started working on the collection that became "Native Guard."

"I was approaching my 40th birthday, which is the last age my mother ever was. She died 11 days shy of her 41st birthday," Trethewey said. "I wanted this book to come out to honor her memory at that same moment that I turned her age. And I think it's really strange to think that 10 days shy of my 41st birthday, I won the Pulitzer.

"Trethewey started writing as a child when she went on long car trips with her father."

He would say, 'You need to have inner resources,' " she recalled. "And so he suggested that I write what I was seeing outside the car window."

In an American society obsessed by race, Trethewey said she has been asked all her life what color, or even what nationality, she is.

"There's an expectation that people have about inherent ways of being, based on what your race is. And that just drives me crazy," she said.

Growing up, she was treated differently by outsiders, depending on whether she was with her black relatives or her white ones.

"When I was with my father, I could sort of pass for white. People might just think I had a dark tan or something. We were treated a lot better than when I went downtown with my grandmother, for example," Trethewey said. "It was . . . an education in racism that I was able to get because sometimes I was one and sometimes I was the other."

She remembers "glorious" summers in Gulfport with her mother's family. Every Fourth of July, the family would pack picnic baskets and take the tourist boat out to Ship Island, a long, narrow spit of sand in the Gulf of Mexico, 11 miles south of Gulfport and Biloxi.

Trethewey always saw the Civil War-era Ft. Massachusetts on the island, and the plaque bearing the names of Confederate soldiers. She was an adult before she learned about the Louisiana Native Guard -- black soldiers who served the Union by guarding Confederate prisoners.

From a nearby table

Trethewey was teaching at Auburn University and had gone to Gulfport to take her grandmother, Leretta Dixon Turnbough, out to dinner. They were in a restaurant talking about the time her grandmother's brother, Hubert, met Al Capone when the gangster took a boat full of people out to Ship Island to gamble.

Trethewey said a woman from a nearby table came over and said: " 'There's something else you need to know about Ship Island.' "

The woman told her about the black soldiers.

"It was a white woman and it's as if she, listening to our story, felt like, 'This black woman needs to know this other story,' that it would be important," Trethewey said. "And it would've been important for me, growing up in Mississippi as a child, to have known about this proud history."

Trethewey did more research on the soldiers. Now, information about the soldiers is posted to the website of Gulf Islands National Seashore, which oversees Ship Island.

In the title piece her Pulitzer-winning book, Trethewey puts herself inside the minds of Native Guard members from 1862 to 1865.The poem also alludes to what, until recently, has been the historic erasure of the black soldiers:

"Some names shall deck the page of history"

as it is written on stone. Some will not."

FONTE (image include): Los Angeles Times - CA,USA

http://www.latimes.com/

Go with the throw

Focused: Melissa Budiarto has Olympic potential but says she's no good at other sports.

Picture: Joe Murphy

Go with the throw

By Sean Cunningham

It is definitely a case of the master and apprentice in relation to judo training at the Collegians Dragon Club.
In a combination that is proving successful, 77-year-old Polish-born Fred Blake, a former All England judo silver medallist, imparts his knowledge to Melissa Budiarto, who is 66 years younger than him.
Each week at Campbelltown Catholic Club where Blake, of The Oaks, conducts his judo classes, Bowral 11-year-old Melissa is learning to sweep her opponents aside at each event she enters.
With a string of wins under her belt, Melissa is being seen as a potential world champion.
"She can be if she sticks at it," Blake said. "She's certainly got the potential."
Melissa said her instructors have passed on their knowledge to put her in the position to be able to win tournaments.
"I'm not good at other sports," she said.
"When you like something you try harder, so you get better at it.
"The instructors have helped me and taught me a lot; without them I wouldn't be here and have won the tournaments."
Instructor Axel Kuban, who has also taught Melissa for several years, shared Blake's views on the young student's abilities.
"Anything is possible," Kuban said.
"She could also try out for the Olympics in the future."
Blake encouraged people to try judo to experience the " terrific benefits" for just $3 a session.
"It keeps people fit and gives them terrific confidence," he said.
"Campbelltown Catholic Club have been fantastic towards us, giving us the facilities for free."
Melissa's achievements in the under-36kg division include winning the ACT Open, Sydney Open, NSW Challenge, NSW Championship, equal third in the Australian National Championship.
In the 40kg category, she has won the Illawarra Judo Tournament and the Wollongong Judo Tournament and has won the Sydney Open in the under-44kg class.

Inquiries: 4657 1086 or 0418 285 626.
FONTE: Macarthur Advertiser - Sydney,NSW,Australia

http://campbelltown.yourguide.com.au/

LA POESIA NON SALVA DALL’ABBANDONO

LA POESIA NON SALVA DALL’ABBANDONO
di Redazione - mercoledì 30 gennaio 2008, 07:00

«Taci, anima stanca di godere /e di soffrire (...)», per me, per generazioni prima e dopo di me, è un incipit come «Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita», che non ricordi più nemmeno quando l'hai ascoltato la prima volta, è dentro di te e basta e si contrappone al montaliano «Meriggiare pallido e assorto»: insomma nel gioco a squadre, se sai a memoria quei versi, vuol dire che tu stai con Sbarbaro.

Così, quando l'altra sera, la voce di Omero Antonutti ha scolpito e levigato nell'aria «Taci...», ho sentito una profonda complicità tra me e chi sedeva accanto a me all'Auditorium Montale e ho apprezzato la fatica di Giorgio Devoto, assessore alla Cultura della Provincia di Genova che, con ostinazione, si è battuto per realizzare la splendida e rara mostra sui «Licheni» di Sbarbaro al Museo di Storia Naturale, una tavola rotonda e la serata a cui accennavo.

Ma mentre ero lì che aspettavo il «Taci...», il mio sguardo vagava per la sala tenuta in condizioni da oratorio parrocchiale: (...)

FONTE (photo include): il Giornale - Milano,Italy

il Giornale - Milano,Italy