(SkyNewswire.com) --- Celebrating National Poetry Day in Hamilton, Phantom Billstickers will be adorning Hamilton City, New Zealand, with an array of poem posters by prominent New Zealand and American poets. Pasting the poems onto the walls and alleyways of downtown, Phantom will bring Hamilton alive with the poetry of the world, connecting hearts and minds with river cities everywhere. From the Mississippi to the Waikato, poem posters bring imagination, music and beauty back into the streets.


PASTING THE POEMS
The poems will be read at a ceremony on the 30th of July, outside the Library at Garden Place, Hamilton at 12.30 pm. Guest readers including Mayor Bob Simcock, Nandor Tanczos and Graeme Cairns will paste the first posters onto a nearby wall, thereby instigating the flood of words across the Hamilton landscape.
All are welcome.

(SkyNewswire.com) --- English writing isn't that easy and can be time-consuming - could an online English grammar tool help with this difficulty? Thanks to the internet, we are constantly working with text in order to impart knowledge and ideas as well as to interact socially. In the next few paragraphs, i'll let you in on something that's of great assistance to those born in english-speaking countries and foreign-born alike.


It is worthwhile to master the art of writing - it is certainly the most significant way of communicating in this day and age. As i was losing hope that i'd ever come across something to help me to improve my english, there was something that renewed my optimism. At last you can take advantage of an advanced technological solution that enables you to check the english documents you create, finding any problems. The solution that i've just tried out will quickly and effectively proof your writing for mistakes we all make, which include spelling, punctuation, etc. With regard to the many who don't understand the proper use of its and it's, to name one common grammar question, this can be of great assistance.

(SkyNewswire.com) --- The majority of us have no idea what an English dictionary & proofreading program is or does and its usefulness in helping us to communicate effectively in english. Writing is a powerful tool that allows us to fulfill some of our most important ambitions - our career, our public life, our private life… Make sure you scan these helpful tips and guidelines to be sure that your next paper "makes the grade."

Whether you write for a living or just the occasional email, i am confident that you pay attention to your ability to write in english. One day when i happened to be looking on the internet for a way to enrich my vocabulary and help me with grammar, there was something that inspired me to learn more. Not long ago while searching the internet, i had the good fortune to discover a system that has the power to accurately proofread everything from reports to emails. You'll be amazed when you see how this tool can efficiently locate and automatically correct various common errors, such as spelling, punctuation, and syntax. An incredible time-saver, this solution is really useful if you're dealing with a high word count or special documents that call for fast and accurate proofing.

(SkyNewswire.com) --- Languages4you, a team of specialist translators with extensive experience, announced it has partnered with Rancon, a digital agency, in order to provide a new powerful travel translation App for the iPhone. Phrasebook languages include English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Russian, Chinese (Mandarin) and Arabic. They present an exclusive global deal with a 24-7 interpretation service providing over 150 languages. So the App allows for real-time interpretation with a third-party interpreter over the phone, making it easy for travelers abroad to communicate both through the phone and face-to-face.


With over 20,000 downloads within the first few weeks of release this app features over 1200 essential travel related phrases within 12 categories and 118 sub-categories making it the largest multi-language phrase book available for the iPhone. It is bilingual and allows for native voice playback at CD quality sound. Importantly it can be used offline - there is no need for an Internet connection meaning it can be accessed anywhere in the world. It is a revolution in technology, written and spoken by professional linguists through a user-friendly interface.

(SkyNewswire.com) --- If you've ever used one of the leading foreign-language phrasebooks as you traveled abroad, you know how challenging and frustrating it can be to find things in them. Invariably, the problem is that they have their phrases arranged in 12-20 categories. A big hobble for such simple deployment is that life and its multitude of situations don't fit neatly into 20 categories. For instance, in which category would one find "What's your telephone number?" or "Could you help me with this?". Rodnik phrasebooks overcome this quandary by grouping terms and phrases under the key words that they contain, and the key words are listed in alphabetical order, as in a dictionary. Got a phrase in mind? Go to its main word and chances are good that you'll find it there. No blisters on your thumbs from flipping pages, searching (often in vain) through broad categories for the phrase you want.


Not only are Rodnik phrasebooks quicker and easier to use, they provide the user with at least twice as many phrases as any other phrasebook. A comparison with four leading phrasebooks yielded the result of six times as many phrases as three of them and 2.2 times as many as the fourth.

(SkyNewswire.com)--- Literature is a lens through which one can see the reflection of the culture wherein it was written. Books that portray struggle often reflect the sentiments of the time and stories about identity mirror the inner conflict that is present. However many of the themes present in literature remain constant throughout time and culture because they represent universal sentiments that are felt by people across time. Some of these themes include love, relationships, truth, inner-conflict, friendship and power. Through the work of David Henry Hwang’s play M. Butterfly, one can look at the theme of men who seek power and reflect on how this theme repeats itself in William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, and E. Annie Proulx’s The Shipping News.


In Hwang’s M. Butterfly, Rene Gallimard voices his frustration when he says: “So if I’m a guy with a small one. I’m going to build a really big building to take over a really big piece of land or write a really long book so the other mend don’t know, right? But it never really works, that’s the problem, I mean, you conquer the country, or whatever, but you’re still wearing clothes, so there’s no way to prove absolutely whose is bigger or smaller. And that’s what we call civilized society.”(Hwang).


In this quote one can clearly see the struggle that Gallimard has as a man looking for power. The inner turmoil he experiences in the competition against other men for a piece of power is portrayed as his basic motivation. It represents the idea that if he had some power, or a glimpse of power, he could feel like more of a man. Set in contrast to his pending dilemma of having relations with a man who he though to be a woman, it reinforces the idea that being a man is about having power, and not so much about outward appearances. To Gallimard, being a man means having power.

(SkyNewswire.com)--- It was in 1912 that Anna Jarvis proposed and propagated a "Mother's Day” that was to be celebrated on the "second Sunday in May" and created the Mother's Day International Association. She wanted to use “Mother’s Day" and not "Mothers' Day” as the title of the day.

Here are some quotes on motherhood.

§ Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs... since the payment is pure love. -Mildred B. Vermont
§ The sweetest sounds to mortals given...Are heard in Mother, Home, and Heaven.
§ -William Goldsmith Brown
§ A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after. -Peter De Vries
§ If the whole world were put into one scale, and my mother in the other, the whole world would kick the beam. -Lord Langdale
§ All mothers are working mothers. -Author Unknown
§ It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge. -Phyllis Diller
§ The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new. -Rajneesh
§ Woman in the home has not yet lost her dignity, in spite of Mother's Day, with its offensive implication that our love needs an annual nudging, like our enthusiasm for the battle of Bunker Hill. -John Erskine
§ When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child. -Sophia Loren, Women and Beauty
§ Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible. -Marion C. Garretty
§ Mother - that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries. -T. DeWitt Talmage
§ A man's work is from sun to sun, but a mother's work is never done. -Author Unknown
§ The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms. -Oliver Wendell Holmes
§ God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. -Jewish Proverb
§ My mom is a never-ending song in my heart of comfort, happiness, and being. I may sometimes forget the words but I always remember the tune. -Graycie Harmon
§ There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. -Chinese Proverb

(SkyNewswire.com)--- Secondhand is a label that we seem only to apply to books these days. Clothing is vintage, video games are pre-owned, CDs and vinyl are used - but books are still secondhand, hinting at the life of a volume before it fell into your hands. To me, it never feels as though I actually own a book – I might have paid for it, either full price brand new or a few pence at a charity shop, but it seems as though I'm merely giving it houseroom, until it continues on along its own journey.

Sometimes we get little clues about this other life; this existence that the book had before it came to us. Inscriptions on the flyleaf, suggesting Christmas or birthday presents, or school prizes. Names and dates, perhaps addresses, giving us pause to wonder how the book made its way from one end of the country to the other over the course of a year, a decade or longer.

And sometimes we find little treasures that hint at a story that might be more interesting and involving even than the book itself.

(SkyNewswire.com)--- As a sports writer, you want your articles to leave a lasting mark on the minds of sports fans. You want these people to walk away impressed and you want them to share your articles to every person they know. Here's what you need to do to make that happen:

1. Choose your stories wisely. There are so many stories that you can cover. You can write about the latest games, the latest issues on the personal lives of famous players, and you can even do biographies. Just make sure that the stories you choose are extremely interesting to your audience. If you fail to grab the attention of your readers at this point, there is no way that your articles will be read.

2. Use smart headlines. The goal of your headlines is to draw your readers in. This will only happen if your titles are intriguing, powerful, and one-of-a-kind. They must contain nothing but highly effective terms and they must communicate controversy to pique the curiosity of your target audience.

(SkyNewswire.com)--- Last week I did a road trip from Mumbai to Pune and back. The journey was almost five hours each time, so I got to know the drivers very well:

One of them was a 30-year old who had been driving different vehicles for different companies ever since he got his driving license at the age of 18. He just made enough money to support his old parents and younger brother's education. He had no ambitions, and believed he was destined to be a low-paid driver. When I asked him whether he had considered saving up to buy his own car or taxi, he gave me many reasons why not. He was unclean, drove recklessly and kept complaining about the government, roads, other reckless drivers and life in general. He bumped his car into another near Pune but didn't accept his mistake.

(SkyNewswire.com)---You've written a book! That's a major accomplishment and don't let anyone tell you that you can't be published. But by saying that you want to be published, you're really saying that you want readers; and you can find them. They are out in the Internet ether, waiting to read your book. You need only to remember: PACKAGE, MESSAGE, MARKET.

Your book is your PACKAGE, and so is your website. If you have a book, you should have a website. If you start with a polished product, you'll be better prepared to find your readers. So, write your book, revise, edit, and rework until you're proud of your product. Simultaneous to this, you should prepare your website. A website is also part of your package. Your book and the topic should be the focus of the website if you are not a known author. A good web designer can come up with an image that will be the hallmark of what you've created. Use it for online representations of your book, for postcards (to be distributed in your local community) and business cards. This is called branding, and it will help establish your product for when you get to the marketing tasks. Now you have a book, a website, and an image. You can be published within two days.