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I want to explain how things work, not what you should believe.
It is conventional wisdom that printing more money causes inflation. This is why we are seeing so many warnings today of how Quantitative Easing I and II and the federal government's deficit are about to lead to skyrocketing prices. The only problem is, it's not true. That's not how inflation works. Hence, this is yet another of the false alarms being raised (along with the need to balance the budget) that is preventing us from doing what we need to do to recover from the worse recession since the Great Depression.
Explaining inflation would be much simpler if not for the need to first spend so much time debunking the popular view. But, that's the way it is. And so, let me start with the "money growth ==> inflation" view. This is based on the equation of exchange:
MV = Py
where M is equal to the supply of money, V the velocity of money (or the average number of times each dollar bill is spent), P the average price of goods and services, and y the total quantity of all goods and services sold during the time period in question. Thus, if there were 100 goods and services that sold for $10 each (on average), then that means a total of $1000-worth of transactions took place. Were there 200 one-dollar bills in this economy, then it must be that each was used 5 times (hence the "velocity" of money, or how fast they were spent again).
MV = Py
200 x 5 = 10 x 100
It is important to note here that the above is not the least bit controversial. No economist disagrees with the basic equation MV=Py. The arguments arise when additional assumptions are made regarding the nature of the individual variables. For example, this is what is assumed in the "money growth==>inflation" view:
M: That which is money is easily defined and identified and only the central bank can affect it's supply, which it can do with autonomy and precision.
V: The velocity of money is related to people's habits and the structure of the financial system. It is, therefore, relatively constant.
P: The economy is so competitive that neither firms nor workers are free to change what they charge for their goods and services without there having been a change in the underlying forces driving supply and demand in their market.
y: The economy automatically tends towards full employment and thus y (the existing volume of goods and services) is as large as it can be at any given moment (although it grows over time).
Now let's go through an example, recalling the mathematical example from above:
MV = Py
200 x 5 = 10 x 100
Consider the assumptions made regarding each of the variables. P can't change on it's own, y is already as large as it can possibly be given current technology and resources, and V is constant. Only M can change in the short run and it must therefore logically be the starting point of any fluctuation we introduce. Furthermore, according to our assumptions, the central bank has the power to (for example) double the money supply at will. In Milton Friedman's example from "The Optimum Quantity of Money," a helicopter is used to accomplish this. Now what happens?
You really are a disciple of Arthur Burns!
To be honest I was being critical of your views (shared by Burns and Eccles). This is a related post.
Oh, I reckon government policy had a big role in the crisis. That is, when you combine commercial banking and merchant (investment) banking and you give that system its head, it is bound to create a massive financial crisis.
As a matter of government policy, we allowed the firewalls between commercial and merchant banks via bank holding companies and then repealed them, and the Fed allowed the parties to do as they please on a theory of "surely they won't do anything risky?" ~ which on long historical precedent is sure to lead to a massive financial crisis.
So to me it seems like it was government financial deregulation in the kitchen with a wrench.
This post has the opposite view, putting the blame for the "Great Recession" squarely on the shoulders of Mon Policy:
This other contests your views about the role of the oil shocks of the 70´s:
If you cannot increase the money supply above money demand, you would never have inflation! Check the first 2 graphs on this post:
Why did you have the "great inflation" in the seventies? Why did inflation "dissapear" after the early 80´s? Who, if not the Central Bank, controls nominal quantities – like NGDP?
The analogy I make of the monetary nature of inflation to freshman students is: Can you keep the fire in the fireplace burning without adding wood? No, if you stop "stocking", the fire will peter out. The same with inflation (defined as a sustained rise in the "overall price level".

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Kruez Market is one of the more storied BBQ places in Lockhart, the business has been in operation since 1900. It was originally located and ran in the building where Smitty's Market is located today. As I understand it, the Kruez Market was owned by Edgar Schmidt. The business was left to Rick Schmidt (son), and the building that housed Kruez Market just off the town square was left to Nina Schmidt Sells (daughter). After a "disagreement" in the late 1990′s, Rick decided to build a new building for Kruez Market on the north side of Lockhart where it resides today.
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The building itself is huge and is a rusty barn red color and shape. When you enter you pass some old scales and equipment from older era. You wait in line in a central corridor that has dining rooms on either side of it. The one of the left is not used as much as the other. The dining room on the right also houses the area where you purchase your sides and drinks, which I assume is why it's used more. One you enter the pit area, you are met by two different counters that can serve up to four people simultaneously. Behind those counters are butcher blocks, and an array of brick pit smokers. It's quite a massive room with really tall ceilings. You get the faint smell of smoke in there, but it is not as concentrated as the other places that we've visited in Lockhart.
For today's order I got 1/2 lbs of brisket, 1 hot beef sausage link, 2 pork spare ribs, and a slice of pit ham. I also ordered some sauerkraut and a bottled Big Red soda. The one thing that I've been impressed with in Lockhart is the price point of meat. Generally it's been about 15 for the amount of meat we order, and another 3 or 4 dollars for the sides and drinks. Generally in total it's around $20 for me.
As for the food itself, I'll start with the best of the day. The pit ham was delicious. When we visited a few years ago it was the same, I'm glad it stay consistent. By it's nature ham is a bit salty, but not more than my expectations. The beef sausage link wasn't really remarkable or flavorful, but it was moist. If I would have remembered I would have gotten the jalapeno cheese sausage link, at least it had flavor. The pork ribs were paltry in size (maybe 3/4 of an inch wide), and tough as jerky. The rub on them was a bit heavy on the salt, but still manageable. They weren't what I would serve to my customers.
That brings me to the
leather, I mean brisket. It was so dried out that the strands of meat were snapping. In my serving I also got a charred in the brisket, which tends to keep a lot of the smoke flavor. This one though, was like chewing leather, and was left on my plate. The rub on the brisket was a bit heavy on the salt just like the ribs, but the flavor of the more center cuts was decent. The meat still maintained a decent sized smoke ring. All in all, there's no way that I'll order the brisket here again. The sauerkraut was good, but nothing to write home about. You just don't see it on many places menus.
Kreuz Market is a significant place for EatsBBQ. This is the place that we got the idea for putting together a site for BBQ reviews. So this is essentially where we began. We had heard from friends, family and coworkers was that the BBQ in Lockhart was the best around. So we packed up and decided to give it a go back in 2009. One of the reasons that the idea for this site surfaced was that we were really disappointed in the product that we got. Much like today's outing, it didn't live up to anything that anyone had talked about. I'm beginning to think that all the talk about Lockhart BBQ is more of a marketing ploy than actually good BBQ.
There's still a couple of places left that I'm going to try there, but my hope is waning. Black's and Chisholm Trail are still on the list to visit.


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The News' Bob DiCesare and Jerry Sullivan, outside of Athens, Ga., in preparation to cover the University at Buffalo's opener Saturday check in with this preview:
Audio: DiCesare, Sully in Georgia preview UB's opener
August 31, 2012 - 8:31 PM
Grassman Gives UB Leg Up
August 30, 2012 - 9:42 PM
One never can be sure that what a freshman shows in training camp will carry into the season. And even if those skills are on display in the opener, it remains a question whether it will carry through season's end. Still, it's worth noting that punter Tyler Grassman, a true freshman from Columbus, Ohio, has been booming it in practice at UB Stadium, especially over the course of the last week. He won the job over place kicker Patrick Clarke, although teams prefer to split the duties when its a viable option. Clarke was perfect on FG and EXP attempts after taking over for Peter Fardon during last season.
Saturday's game against sixth-ranked Georgia will be one of two the Bulls will play in Athens this year. The other is in Athens, Ohio against the Bobcats. That' will be my third Athens (Greece, 2004). Since I'll be behind the wheel of the rental car after me and Sully land in Atlanta Friday, I just might take him 2 1/2 hours out of the way for a stop in Athens, Tenn., to set up the Athenian Grand Slam.
-- Bob DiCesare
Richt on Georgia Ranking
August 29, 2012 - 2:00 PM
Here's what Georgia coach Mark Richt had to say Tuesday about Georgia's lofty preseason ranking. The Bulldogs are No. 6 in the AP poll:
"The year we were preseason No. 1 (in 2008), that was the year Cordy Glenn and Ben Jones started as freshmen, and it's hard to think you're the preseason No. 1 team when you have a lot of freshman linemen starting for you. We have a brand new punter, kicker, tailbacks. There are a lot of question marks, no doubt, but I think everybody in the country have some kind of issue. Sometimes teams look more glamorous when they are far away. You don't see all the warts."
Of course, Glenn was drafted by the Bills in the second round in April, 41st overall.
Richt on the strength of the SEC:
"Our teams have been able to have one make it to the national championship game every year for the last six years and win it. If we were in that game six years in a row and won three out of six, I don't think people would be talking about the SEC as being a dominant conference. The reality is we've won the last six in a row, and with teams that might have had a loss here or loss there. One year there were two losses with LSU having two losses. People are saying a one-loss SEC team may still be the best team in America, or at least still has the right to play for it. Of course Alabama had one loss and they didn't win the league, but they played for the national championship and won it. I think it's a tribute to the programs as a whole."
-- Bob DiCesare
UB Football Chat -- 2 p.m.
August 28, 2012 - 10:30 AM
Bonnies to meet UConn in 2013-14 season
August 21, 2012 - 1:28 PM
Success can earn you some interesting opportunities.
Like playing seven-time national champion Connecticut.
The St. Bonaventure women's basketball program will be part of the inaugural Basketball Hall of Fame Challenge in the 2013-14 season. Four teams will play games at Connecticut and four at Ohio State with the final games at the MassMutal Center in Springfield, Mass.
The Bonnies will kick off the event playing UConn at Gampel Pavilion and will also meet Old Dominion and Boston University. Those games will be played Nov. 22-27. Meanwhile the Ohio State pool includes the Buckeyes, Bowling Green, Marist and Monmouth. All eight teams will travel to Springfield for games on Dec. 1. The Bonnies will meet Bowling Green on that date.
The NCAA exempt tournament is being sponsored by the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference.
--- Amy Moritz
Mack Suspension Fight-Related
August 20, 2012 - 2:45 PM
The suspension of star linebacker Khalil Mack resulted from a fight involving UB teammate Fred Lee, sources tell me. Mack did not participate in Saturday's scrimmage or today's practice. Lee missed Saturday but practiced today with a yellow (injured) jersey. It remains unclear when Mack will be reinstated or whether the matter has gone beyond the oversight of the football team and athletic department. More to come.
-- Bob DiCesare
JJ Settling in at UB
August 15, 2012 - 10:57 PM
Caught up with former Sweet Home star and UB freshman Jordan Johnson at media day Tuesday. He's itching to get on the field. Since he'd be no better than third on the RB depth chart behind Bo Oliver and James Potts -- and probably lower -- that would mean contributing on special teams, possibly as a return man. He's all for it.
"I wouldn't mind," Johnson said. "Any way to get on the field is good for me. I wouldn't want to red-shirt."
Johnson's viewing this season as a great opportunity. He has a highly respected RB coach in Matt Simon and an ideal role model in Oliver, who was 14th nationally in rushing last year.
"I'm just out here to get better and learn from Bo," Johnson said. "He's one of the best running backs around and I've seen that every day in practice with his work ethic. When we're in our film sessions you can see why he's high in the NCAA ranks and why he ran as well as he did last season.
"So far it's been everything I expected. Everybody out here competing, getting better every day. Every day's a learning day, every day's a physical day and every day's a day to get better.""
-- Bob DiCesare
Billy Baron won't use scholarship for Canisius
August 15, 2012 - 5:55 PM
Billy Baron doesn't have an assist yet for the Canisius basketball team, but he's already quite the team player.
Not only will Baron be eligible to play this season after receiving an NCAA waiver, but with his dad, Jim Baron, as coach, he won't use up one of the team's scholarships, either.
Canisius confirmed today that Billy Baron falls under what the NCAA calls "non-recruited, non-scholarship student-athletes" and won't use one of the team's 13 allowed scholarships.
He's been accepted into the college and the school said he will be eligible for Canisius' tuition reimbursement program that allows faculty members to send their children to the school for free.
With Phil Valenti and Jermaine Johnson coming in, the team currently has two scholarships remaining for the upcoming season, which it may or may not use. Tyrel Edwards' name has been thrown around for months as a Canisius recruit, but as of Aug. 15, a week and a half before classes start, the athletic department hasn't seen any paperwork from him.
The roster right now has 11 scholarship players, Baron, and walk-ons Tyler Funk and Sean Ezeamama, who both played last year.
The Griffs will have four more scholarships next season after Harold Washington, Alshwan Hymes, Freddy Asprilla and Isaac Sosa graduate.
It will be another week or two before Canisius' schedule is released.
--- Nick Veronica
Twitter: @NickVeronica
Billy Baron eligible to play for Canisius this season
August 14, 2012 - 5:00 PM
Canisius junior guard Billy Baron -- who transferred from Rhode Island to follow his father, head coach Jim Baron -- has received a waiver from the NCAA that will allow him to compete in the upcoming season without having to sit out a year.
Billy Baron scored 13.0 points per game last year with Rhode Island in the Atlantic 10 and looks to be a starter for the Griffs this season. He has been accepted into the college and has two years of eligibility remaining.
Jim Baron was fired March 4 and later hired by Canisius. Billy started his career in the Atlantic Coast Conference with Virginia, but transferred to Rhode Island to play with his dad after just one semester. He sat out the full, NCAA-required year before being eligible for the final 20 games last season.
Baron's waiver is another step in NCAA precedent that allows players to play immediately if they transfer because their father was fired. Central Michigan's Trey Zeigler was also granted the waiver earlier this year to play at Pittsburgh after his father, Ernie, was fired.
--- Nick Veronica
Twitter: @NickVeronica
Major Recruit Verbals to UB
August 13, 2012 - 3:02 PM
Why has James Coleman, a running back sought by the likes of Michigan, West Virginia and Rutgers, made made a verbal commitment to attend UB?
For one, Coleman, who attends Christ the King in New York City, is friends with another player who has given UB a verbal commitment -- wide receiver Kyvaune Brammer of Brooklyn Tech. What's more, Coleman said he was won over after discussions with UB running backs coach Matt Simon, who at the NFL level coached 2,000-yard NFL rusher Jamal Lewis and 2006 MVP LaDainian Tomlinson.
"His whole attitude, his aura, was different," Coleman said of Simon in a New York Post story. "He was a straight shooter. When I verballed, I called him. We have a good bond."
The question is: Will the verbal stand up if bigger schools amp up their pursuit?
"Right now my mind is set on Buffalo. It's a good fit for me," Coleman said. "I didn't want to feel pressure on my back. I feel like I commit now, I can relax."
Coleman goes 6-3, 210 pounds and plays on Christ the King's powerhouse basketball team. Hmm. Another James Starks?
-- Bob DiCesare
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Pope Benedict stuck to mostly spiritual themes on a visit to communist Cuba's most sacred shrine. This morning, the pontiff leads a mass in Havana's Plaza of the Revolution. As Nick Miroff reports from Havana, so far even Benedict's gentle push for greater religious and political freedoms for Cubans has been rejected by the government.
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In a likely preview of Gov. Chris Christie's next state budget for public education – and the debates that will surely follow – his administration has put forward a report that proposes increasing some levels of school funding while reducing others.
The proposals are part of the long-awaited Educational Adequacy Report submitted to the Legislature, which is required under the state's 2008 School Funding Reform Act as a way to periodically update the state-aid formula to meet changing education costs.
Sent to the Legislature on Friday, the largely technical report by state Education Commissioner Chris Cerf reiterated many of Christie's long-standing criticisms that additional funding under the state Supreme Court's landmark Abbott v. Burke litigation – the impetus for much of the funding law – had failed to result in improved education for students.
"The conclusion is inescapable: forty years and tens of billions later, New Jersey's economically disadvantaged students continue to struggle mightily," Cerf wrote in the report.
"There are undoubtedly many reasons for the policy failure," he continued. "But chief among them is the historically dubious view that all we need to do is design an education funding formula that would 'dollarize' a 'thorough and efficient system of free public school' and educational achievement for every New Jersey student would, automatically and without more, follow."
Cerf's funding proposal, in effect, would repeat what Christie presented in the current year's state budget, increasing the base amounts to which all students would be entitled for a so-called adequate education while reducing the extra money – or so-called funding "weights" -- that would be apportioned for students who are low-income or have limited English language skills.
The Democratic-controlled Legislature ultimately rejected the proposed language last year, saying it would potentially lead to deep cuts for high-poverty school districts and that it wanted to review it as part of the adequacy report.
But it did approve the governor's state-aid amounts based on the new formulations, leading to more than $200 million in additional state aid overall.
Legislative staff yesterday said that the latest report was received late Friday, and that Senate and Assembly leaders will review it in the coming weeks. Under the law, the Legislature has 90 days to come back with its own resolution or the administration's numbers will stand.
At the same time, Christie – running for reelection -- will be submitting his next state budget in the coming months. It is sure to include the new school-aid formulations for what is the largest single chunk of state spending, setting off its own debates.
In an interview last night, Cerf said the proposals would only benefit schools overall and reiterated arguments from last year that any reductions for at-risk and bilingual students were "extremely modest" and "trivial in terms of the overall increases."
"Actually, this is a pretty generous document," he said of the report.
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By Denise Richardson
The Daily Star
---- — The play of light on everyday scenes can be a creative tool, photographer Nevin Price-Meader, a Hartwick College art major, said Sunday.
His photograph titled "Light" is among student artworks accepted in a juried show that opens this week in New Zealand.
The exhibition will feature photographs created and printed in alternative formats, Katharine Kreisher, professor of art at the Oneonta college, said. About 25 to 30 pieces created by 10 students in her advanced photography class have been accepted into the exhibition, she said.
The show, "Alternatives Relocated" in Whanganui, New Zealand, opens Tuesday and runs through Oct. 25, a media release from Hartwick College said. The 10 Hartwick upperclass students exhibiting works are Valerie Herz, Evan Jones, Shahzad Khan, Michelle O'Dell, Caitlin Rejman, Michaela Shipman, Emilie Solandt, Paula Short, Taylor Fusco-Ruiz and Price-Meader.
This year, the annual international exhibit called for pictures produced with unique cameras and processes, including pinhole photographs and images made with "toy" plastic cameras such as "Dianas" and "Holgas," the release said. The renderings could be giant mural prints with hand-painted elements, photo-collages or the result of "antique" processes such as cyanotypes and Van Dyke brown prints.
Kreisher said the alternative processes expand the photographic medium and enables students to manipulate and experiment with images during photographic or printing work. The results offer a variety of emotional tones or appearances different from photographs taken, for instance, as family snapshots or portraits, she said.
Price-Meader said he tends to manipulate images within a camera, and in the case of "Light," he shot two pictures on top of each other with black-and-white film. Alternative techniques can aid in creating a photograph with an aura of mystery and an artwork that invites the viewer to think about more than the image presented, he said.
Price-Meader, 28, said he took seven years off from his college education for personal and financial reasons. As he prepares applications for graduate school, he said, being part of an international exhibition is an exciting development.
The pieces submitted by Hartwick students were completed over the past two-and-a-half years under the tutelage of resident artists and alumni Annie Gohde '01, Kevin Gray '01 and Kreisher, a media release said.
The exhibition also reflects a cultural and educational exchange.
Nine years ago, Kreisher began a sabbatical from teaching at Hartwick by going to New Zealand for a month, during which she assisted Rita Dibert, head of photography at the Universal College of Learning Quay School of Art, in teaching a course in alternative processes.
For a decade, Dibert has been running the international "Alternatives Relocated" exhibition with her students acting as jurors for the show. Dibert taught photography and printmaking at Hartwick College in the 1970s, after which she taught in Charlotte, N.C., before joining the Quay School of Art in Whanganui.
The majority of the work by Hartwick students will be donated to the Collection at the Quay School, where it will be viewed on an ongoing basis by students and other audiences, the release said. Kreisher said an "Alternative" show previously was exhibited at Hartwick.
"It's a really good culture exchange," she said.


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WENDELL — East Wake and Knightdale each picked up a pair of victories in the Pirates Holiday Classic, but the East Wake boys went home with the championship trophy.
East Wake defeated Rocky Mount 62-57 in the second round on Saturday in the two-day, round-robin event and then Warriors coach Darrin Stinson had to wait for the results of the day's final game to see if his team was going to be the champion or the runner-up.
Knightdale topped host Corinth Holders 72-52 in the final game of the tournament but was the runner-up because it allowed more points than East Wake in its two victories – the tiebreaker if two teams finished with the same record in the event.
East Wake gave up 101 points in its two tourney games against Corinth Holders and Rocky Mount. Knightdale allowed 111 in its two wins.
"It's always nice (to win a tournament)," Stinson said. "But we want that one at the end, you know the conference championship and stuff. This is just a stepping stone. We are going to make sure we keep working hard and try to get to the top."
East Wake (9-3) went on a 21-3 run in the second half to build a 13-point lead against Rocky Mount (6-4) with 4:48 left in the fourth quarter, but the Gryphons rallied to pull within 57-56 on a basket by Broderick Caudle with 1:15 remaining in the game.
A basket by Quincy Jackson put the Warriors up 59-56 with a minute left and East Wake allowed only one free throw in the final 60 seconds to hold off the Gryphons, who missed four 3-point attempts in the final minute.
Senior forward Nahjuwan Potts led the Warriors with 23 points and Jackson, a junior forward, had 12.
"We picked up our energy (in the second half)," East Wake coach Stinson said. "We had a couple of steals and got comfortable with our press. I thought we got sloppy at the end of each half.
"I'm proud of the way we played a bigger team, a good program. That is what I am trying to do at East Wake, is to make this a basketball program again."
East Wake and Knightdale are both members of the Greater Neuse River 4A Conference. Each team has a 2-1 league record.
Rocky Mount featured a lineup of four players 6-foot-5 or taller.
Dante Battle, a 6-5 senior forward, led the Gryphons with 14 points. Junior guard Isaiah Alston had 13 and Caudle, also a junior guard, added 11.
"I liked the way they came back, but we shouldn't have had to do all that work at the end," Rocky Mount coach Mike Gainey said. "The big men got in foul trouble. We've got to get more aggressive on our end. We didn't go to the free throw line until the fourth quarter. That's totally impossible with a team our size."
In the final game, Knightdale (9-3) had a battle on its hands against Corinth Holders (1-11) for three quarters.
Ahead 52-46, the Knights scored the first seven points of the final quarter to go up 59-46 and led by double digits the rest of the way – outscoring the Pirates 20-6 in the final frame.
Junior forward Daquan Lilly led Knightdale with 14 points, junior guard Tre Fowler had 13 and junior guard Ronshad Allen-Shabazz had 12.
Allen-Shabazz started the 7-0 run to begin the fourth quarter with a jumper and a dunk on a fast break and Fowler then was fouled while driving to the basket for a bucket and completed the conventional 3-point play.
"I thought Corinth Holders played very good from the beginning and made the game very competitive," Knightdale coach Anthony Byrd said. "We felt coming into the second half if we started sharing the basketball a little more and playing with a little more intensity both offensively and defensively that we could pick the score up a little bit. That is pretty much what happened in the fourth quarter."
Corinth Holders, which won 22 games a year ago and is playing a much tougher schedule this season in making the jump from the 2A to the 3A level, has been competitive in the early going but has only been able to scratch out one win.
"We ran out of gas a little bit at the end," Corinth Holders coach Chris Davis said. "A couple of little turnovers here and there that were unforced, they are back-breakers. They take your energy even more than running up and down the floor does sometimes.
"There are some things that needed to be shored up, but you could see the things that needed to be fixed tonight. I figured this year was going to be a struggle. My point guard (Kahlil Larry) was unbelievable and I graduated 50 points a game.
"I knew there were going to be some learning curves, but tonight was playing hard, playing together. You can build off that."


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MAGNOLIA, Del.- Singing and playing is a big part of the day for kindergartners at McIlvaine Early Childhood Center. But at this school, half of the day is spent learning in Chinese.
And that's exactly how Brandy Reilly wants it for her daughter.
"Lexi would have been bored in kindergarten if she just went to regular kindergarten," she said.
Lexi is one of approximately 100 children in McIlvaine's Chinese immersion program. She spends half the day learning in English and the other half learning exclusively in Chinese.
"When we're out she never just points to something and says red, she'll say the Chinese color for it all the time, it's almost like second nature for some things," Reilly said.
So far things are going well.
"Sometime they'll come in and say 'nee-how,' that's how you have to say hello and goodbye to me and I'll say, 'This is the English classroom, you have to say hello in here'," said English teacher Candic Castro.
The students get to practice their Chinese with their Chinese teacher, she tries not to speak English to them at all.
"Just in this four months, they have learned a lot of songs and they learn so many subjects and phrases in Chinese," said Chinese teacher, Wei An.
The children learn, science, math and social studies in Chinese.
"Any content they're teaching, we have to front-load the information or afterwards we're doing the review in English," Castro said.
McIlvaine is one of three schools involved in the language immersion program in Delaware but next year, seven more schools with become a part of the program:
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KINGSTON — Gertrude Reer, 91, of Kingston, died Monday, Feb. 18, 2013, at Golden Hill Health Care Center.
Born in Lake Ariel, Pa., she was a daughter of the late George and Lorraine McKee Lawrence.
Gertrude was a retired welfare officer with the town of Ulster. She enjoyed knitting, crocheting and antiquing.
Gertrude is survived by two children, Lawrence Reer and his wife, Phyllis of Palenville and Lorraine Reer Doltz and her husband, Frederick of Oneonta; a brother, William Lawrence and his wife, Marge of Ocala, Fla.; seven grandchildren, Mark, Karl and Cynthia Reer, Amy and Fred Doltz, Jarret and Daryn Glassbrook; 23 great-grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews.
In addition to her parents, Gertrude was predeceased by her husband, Edward Reer, who passed on the same day, Feb. 18, in 1994; and her son, Bruce Reer, who passed in 1998.
The family will receive friends from 11 a.m. to noon Thursday, with a funeral service to follow at noon at the Simpson-Gaus Funeral Home, 411 Albany Ave., Kingston.
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The Linux Foundation today announced the addition of new sessions and keynotes for LinuxCon 2010. The announcement finalizes the list of speakers and professional session planned for the conference, which will take place in Boston August 10-12.
In the newly added sessions, Red Hat's Matthew Garret will discuss what he's learned from recent Android/Kernel community talks. MySQL author Monty Widenius will discuss why he forked with MariaDB. Canonical's Matt Asay will comment on the success of the Linux desktop. Hank Janssen of Microsoft will explain the physics behind the Hyper-V drivers built for Linux.
In addition to these sessions, Intel and Nokia will present a joint keynote on MeeGo. Oracle Senior Vice President Wim Coekaerts will talk about Linux's role at Oracle. Novell's Markus Rex will present the speech, "Empowering the Imagination for Tomorrow's Linux Workloads." Finally, the president of Quallcomm Innovation Center, Inc. will talk about the challenges of open source in the mobile market with his piece, "Mobile Linux: Adapting Practices, Driving innovation, Collaboration, and Scalability."
The Linux Foundation has championed embedded devices as the open source operating system's future. Embedded Linux is discussed seven times over various sessions and keynotes at Linuxfest 2010. For more information and registration, click here.
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Activists fighting the proposed in Owings Mills delivered petitions signed by more than 7,000 Baltimore County residents to the Baltimore County Council Monday afternoon.
Officials from Say No To Solo brought a box for each council member that contained copies of approximately 7,100 signatures of Baltimore County residents who are opposed to Foundry Row, the Wegmans-anchored development Greenberg Gibbons hopes to build at the Solo Cup site on Reisterstown Road. County Council chairwoman Vicki Almond will receive the original petitions, and the other council members will receive copies.
"Vicki Almond kept saying right from the beginning there is no opposition," said Shirley Supik, leader of the Say No to Solo Coalition. "…I am hoping that the other six members of the council will look at that and say 'people have spoken out, this should not be a done deal.'"
Supik cites traffic and environmental issues as well as a need for more public process among her concerns. She is critical of developer Greenberg Gibbons for not releasing a traffic study, and instead releasing a that has been conducted. Greenberg Gibbons officials say they will release the study during the development process.
While Say No to Solo has been collecting signatures at shopping centers on Reisterstown Road and using its Facebook page to spread its message, Greenberg Gibbons started its own Facebook page to drum up support for Foundry Row and refute what it says is misleading information from the opposition.
"A petition with clearly misleading information aimed at stopping Wegmans and Foundry Row is being distributed in the Owings Mills area," read a post from July 20. "After months of push polls, robo-calls and mailers failed to generate support for their special interest group, they have resorted to a deceptive petition."
There were approximately 2,500 more signatures from residents outside of Baltimore County, Jeff Supik, Shirley's husband, said.


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It is important that beginning hunters have positive experiences to begin their travels on the road to hunting success. All beginning hunters have two things in common, an innate desire to hunt and a lack of knowledge. The former is all that is needed for someone to learn the skills of a lifetime. The latter is easily corrected with time and a knowledgeable mentor. A mentor is usually a member of the family such as a parent or grandparent, but can be a friend or neighbor. A mentor is crucial to the success of recruitment and retention of beginning hunters. Since all humans have some genetic trait to hunt there is really nothing to work on except the desire. Lack of knowledge is the largest barrier to modern hunting and it must be overcome by beginning hunters of all ages.
Younger beginning hunters typically need to go along with an adult for a few seasons to be shown how to hunt. Through repetition and without the pressures of having to harvest an animal, they mature and better understand that success as a hunter doesn't mean you must always harvest an animal. They may not immediately grasp the ideas of wildlife management or predator/prey relationships, but with time in the field, they will learn. Younger beginners also learn the virtue of patience while trying to interact with natural resources.
Mature beginners are more difficult to start out in the field due to time constraints, predispositions, or attitudes. Starting out in a hunter education class before going into the field is an excellent way for older beginners to grasp the ideals behind firearms safety and proper hunting ethic. Common questions students may have will be answered prior to being in an actual situation. Ladies shouldn't be discouraged by what used to be considered a man's world. The Department offers STEP OUTSIDE® programs for ladies to learn and interact with each other without intimidation or embarrassment. The Department also sponsors the Becoming an Outdoors Woman Program (B.O.W.) which is a three-day adventure workshop that offers beginner-level skills training for an array of activities including deer hunting.
Actual hunting opportunities provide invaluable learning experiences. Time in the field spent hunting is essential for young and old beginning hunters alike. In Alabama, whitetail deer hunting is the most popular type of hunting, but it may not be well suited for introducing youngsters to hunting. The solitude style of stand or still hunting does not lend itself to interaction between mentor and student. Small game hunting has everything desired in teaching a beginner the ropes. Typically, in small game hunting interaction between hunting partners is common. Laughing and talking while learning is allowed. Through these experiences the student learns with interest and graduates to another level of hunting as he or she feels comfortable. For young beginners, participating in the Department sponsored youth dove hunts is an excellent way to learn.
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It ain't the Ryman.
No, the Senior Citizens Center in Barbourville may not be Nashville's Ryman Auditorium, but the enthusiasm of the crowd listening to the two musicians perform was no less electric.
Robert Taylor, 66, and Bob Burnette, 73, put on a show that lasted more than an hour Tuesday before the center's staff served everyone lunch.
Taylor, the Assistant Director of the Barbourville Senior Citizens Center, is a former member of a five-man country band, Ramblin' Rebels, who traveled all over Kentucky, parts of Ohio and Indiana. He began recording music in 2007 and currently has 4 CDs on the market, which includes a gospel CD, two country, and most recently a tribute to Elvis, the early years.
Burnette began playing guitar when he was only seven years old. By the age of 15, he could play nearly every tune his hero, Chet Atkins, could play.
In 1957, he and a group of musicians formed a band for a one-time talent contest in Barbourville, performing Elvis songs. The band won the contest, but immediately after disbanded and never played together again.
Burnette has played with many bands and musicians over the years, including Jethro from the classic country duo Homer and Jethro after Homer had passed away.
As a member of the band Country 4, Burnette received numerous royalty checks from as far away as Australia, Czechoslovakia, France, Germany and South Africa.
Burnette and his wife Beverly are currently putting together memorabilia albums of his career to hand down to their two sons, Doug and Rod.
"It's good to give your kids something more than pictures to remember you by," said Burnette. "We're a musical family, and it's important that you record the successes you had in the field."
Performing at the Barbourville Senior Citizens Center, Taylor and Burnette have no need to compare notes on their show. Each takes a turn performing a couple of tunes, Burnette on his guitar and Taylor singing in accompaniment to CDs.
"We don't need to rehearse," said Burnette. "We just sit down, and we work it out. We work good together."
Taylor, who feels he could still be successful in the music business, is more than happy where he's at today.
"These seniors are my second family," he said. "I could go on the road if I wanted to, but I'd rather be happy, and I'm happy here. Riches come in many forms, and I'm as rich as I can be."
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (970 WFLA/AP)- There's only one week left in Florida's stone crab season.
The commercial and recreational harvests of stone crab claws closes May 15. The next season begins Oct. 15.
Commercial fishermen have complained that the current stone crab season has been largely a bust.
A poor stone crab harvest drives up the price of the seafood delicacy, so some restaurants that regularly feature stone crabs have been promoting other dishes instead.
It's not clear what might be driving down stone crab harvests.


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Around the Airport
Features within the terminal at the Quad City International Airport (from A to Z)
ATM Locations
Across from Gift Shop & Across from Coffee Bar/ Deli on Concourse
Baggage Delivery: Delayed or Lost Luggage
The airline on which you flew is the first point of contact regarding your lost or delayed baggage. Always make a claim with the airline representative at baggage claim immediately upon noticing that your baggage is not on the carousel. The airline will make arrangements with you and will provide you with their contact information so that you can call to check on the status of your bag or arrange delivery. If you are experiencing a significant delay in receiving your luggage, we can put you in touch with the airline counters to check status. (Note, the counter numbers are unlisted, so you must do this by calling the administrative offices at 309-764-9621.)
NOTE: During peak periods or weather events, this service may not be available at the request of the local airline counter.
Business Center "Destination Points"
The Quad City International Airport offers the Destination Points Business center, which is intended for use by our frequent fliers who have a minimum of 8 trips annually. It is not necessary to be affiliated with an airline club, to be a card holder. Once inside the business center, enjoy a fireplace, cable TV, comfortable seating including office/work stations, as well as free coffee, cappuccino, and bottled water. We kindly request that you only take one bottle of water, per person, per trip.
By applying for the Business Center Easier Card, you will automatically be subscribed to the airport's periodic "E-Alerts" newsletter, which features airport air service updates, specials, contests and more. You may opt out at any time, and subscribing is not a requirement to receive a complimentary Easier Card.
The business center is located on concourse B, behind the frosted glass door. Contact Cathie Rochau, Marketing, at (309) 757-1743 or email email@example.com to report trouble with your card. Click HERE to Complete the Destination Points Business Center Easier Card Application
Chair Massage - "Touch & Go"
Our Chair Massage services are provided by Two Rivers Massage, Moline (309) 79-RELAX. Chair Massage is designed to relax muscles, relieve stress, and enhance circulation, making you feel rejuvenated, refreshed and revitalized. The chair is specially designed so the clients kneel fully clothed and the professional therapists work the neck, shoulders, back, arms, hands and scalp. "Touch and Go" can be found in Concourse B Monday through Friday.
Conference Room
A conference room is available for use by non-profit groups. To reserve the conference room or for more information call (309) 757-1768. The conference room is located in the main/public terminal.
Gift Shop - The Paradies Shops (309) 764-8754
Two gift shop locations offer reading material, candy and travel necessities such as neck pillows and sundry items. Souvenirs, including John Deere toys, gifts for kids and state logo wearables from Iowa and Illinois, are featured among our specialty items. The public gift shop is located just south of the hanging airplane in the terminal. The CNBC gift shop is located just past security screening on Concourse B.
Lost & Found
All items lost in the terminal building are logged in, locked and stored at the MAA offices. To claim or inquire about a lost item, please contact the MAA during regular business hours at 309-764-9621 and press option 7 for the operator.
If you think you left an item at the screening checkpoint, the local TSA offices keeps those items lost at the checkpoint, or left behind in the bins. Please contact their coordination center at 309-757-6617 or email firstname.lastname@example.com. Please describe your item (color of item or any additional description that may help them) as well as the date, and approximate time you may have lost the item.
The Metropolitan Airport Authority maintains a computer log of all items found within the public areas within the airport facility, (e.g. restrooms, under seating areas, etc.) and retains those items for approximately 2 months. After that time, items are donated to a local charity such as Goodwill, or Salvation Army. Once we verify that we have your item, we can make further arrangements with you to retrieve your item. (Please remember, we only log and store items that have been turned in to the office.)
Items lost on the airplane: If you lost the item on your inbound or outbound flight, you must inquire with the airline on which you flew. You can check with the MAA to see if your item was found on an inbound flight, as sometimes when the plane is cleaned, an item is retrieved from the plane. It is very rare that the MAA can assist on an item on a plane that has taken off, and landed elsewhere, as those items are turned in to another airport, or handled according to airline lost & found procedures.
Other Services Available in the Terminal
|Customer Care Services
- Wheelchair & Electric Cart
|Two ATM Machines: Across from Gift Shop
& Across from Coffee Bar/ Deli on Concourse
|CNN Televised Displays (concourses)
|Diaper Changing Facilities (restrooms)
|Gift Shop
|Ground Transportation/Rental Cars (Bag claim)
|Flight Information Screens (throughout)
|Massage Therapy (Conc. B)
|Postal Services (by mailboxes)
|Skycap Service (curbside)
|Shoe Shine Service (across from Gift Shop)
|Vending Machines (throughout)
|Visitor's Center/Traveler Services
(by baggage claim)
Restaurant - Air Host (309) 762-0109
In addition to a sit-down restaurant and lounge in the main terminal, there is a snack bar, Gevalia Cafe, and bar with cafe style seating beyond the screening checkpoint. The restaurant serves breakfast, lunch and dinner daily with a full service menu available. The Gevalia Cafe serves a variety of coffee drinks and breakfast items. The snack bar serves beverages and snack items throughout the day including bagels, sandwiches, pizza slices, Whitey's ice cream and more.
View Menu || View "Specials" Menu
Hours of Service
Restaurant (Public side, next to gift shop)
Open: 5:00 a.m. daily
Bar/Lounge available for drinks and lounge menu daily at
11 a.m., and 12:00 noon on Sundays.
Deli/Bar (Passenger side, between concourses)
Opens: 4:30 a.m. daily.
Call for closing hours. Deli remains open until the last flight departs. **Both locations adjust hours as necessary to accommodate delayed flights
Travelers with Special Needs
It is the position of the Metropolitan Airport Authority to accommodate those individuals with special needs. We have skycap services available for help with baggage from the parking lot or curb. In addition, our Customer Care team is ready to transport passengers needing wheelchair assistance from the airline ticket counters to their gates or from their gates to the baggage claim area. Please let the airline know upon check-in if you would like to take advantage of this service. The curb attendant may also page for a skycap and wheelchair service at the curbside, if needed. For our hearing impaired guests, TTY machines are available at all public payphone terminals. For more information please call the MAA office during regular business hours at (309) 764-9621.
Visitor Information & Traveler Services
The visitor information center is staffed 7 days a week from approximately 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. The information station is located near baggage claim and contains visitor maps and sightseeing/attraction brochures for the Quad City area. The representative can also assist with various travelers needs as they arise. For more tourism information please visit the official website of the Quad Cities Convention & Visitors Bureau or call toll free (800) 747-7800.
Wireless Internet Access
Wireless internet access is provided throughout the airport as a traveler benefit. The service was recently upgraded. You will see a page that pops up with our logo on it and the Terms of Use.
After reading the Terms of Use, click the "I agree" button at the bottom of the page. You will be directed to the Quad City International Airport home page. If you still have problems, please visit the main office on the west end of the terminal for technical support or call ext 768 from any courtesy phone.
Work Stations
Enjoy our work stations for today's busy traveler! Located on Concourse B after you go through security. Re-charge while you work, and use our free Wi-Fi!


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KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — The military spokesman for the United Nations mission in Congo says at least 59 minors were recruited by the M23 rebel group in eastern Congo, continuing a pattern of enlisting child soldiers that stretches back to the time when the fighters were led by accused war criminal Gen. Bosco Ntaganda.
Felix Prosper said the children and teens were recruited in Katale, north of the city of Goma. Prosper did not specify a time frame. Ntaganda, who briefly led the M23 movement, was transferred to the International Criminal Court in March for allegedly using child soldiers a decade ago when he headed a now-defunct rebel group.
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Columbia, SC (WLTX) -Some changes may soon be coming to the food stamps program.
State leaders are asking the federal government to make changes to the list on what's acceptable to buy on the program.
They would like to only allow the food stamps to be used on items that are nutritious like eggs, milk and whole grains.
"Right now the USDA has a number of arguments about why they don't want to make changes to the program,"explains Catherine Templeton, thedirector the State Department of Health and Environmental Control. "One of them is the difficulty in administering it. What would be on the list? One thing that's very important: I'm not asking for the government to be the food police, all I'm saying is that we shouldn't be paying for bad food we shouldn't incentivize empty calories."
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Anthony talks ladies' golf, a California chef slow-roasts his wife, and two teens try to poison their teacher. Panel guests: Jason Mantzoukas & Natasha Leggero.
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When Rhonda Bittner lost her job at Fleetwood Folding Trailers in Somerset in 2005, she was at a crossroads.
She had an opportunity to train for a new career through Pennsylvania's Rapid Response Coordination Services Program. Although the health field was a popular choice among trainees, Rhonda had no interest in medicine, and her dyslexia made typing too difficult. Rhonda turned to the one thing that she always excelled at – sewing.
"I made and sold my first gown when I was a senior in high school," Bittner said from the shop floor of Rhonda's Sewing Boutique & Special Events Rentals in the Glades Court Mall in Somerset. "Sewing is a God-given talent for me."
Bittner is part of an emerging trend – starting a business midlife. A recent study found that there was more growth in entrepreneurship among people ages 45 to 54 in 2011 than all other age groups. Like Bittner before them, this group made up more than one-quarter of new entrepreneurs in the United States.
Bittner had tried once before to run a seamstress business from her home, but the endeavor ended abruptly when the family's house was destroyed by fire.
She was ready to try again – this time, with a little guidance from successful business professionals through the Johnstown Area Regional Industries' former Self Employment Assistance program (SEA).
"The SEA program enabled me to take different classes where I learned the dos and don'ts of starting a business. We actually went out and looked at places to rent so we knew what was out there. We also developed business plans detailing what we wanted to do and where we wanted to be in five years," she explained.
That was six years ago.
Today, Bittner is searching for a new, larger location for her business. Between equipment and materials, work orders and tuxedo rentals, 600 square feet just aren't enough. During prom season, for example, one changing room means girls are lined up out the door. Even now, in mid-November, Bittner is finishing work from August.
And it's not just local customers seeking Bittner's expertise in clothing alterations and repairs.
She regularly serves customers from across Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, and Virginia – and occasionally, even farther.
"A lot of people find me on Google. I got calls from two people in Oregon within a week of each other about two separate weddings. They flew in, got off the plane, came here, I did what I needed to do, and they were on their way," she said with a chuckle. "It's amazing."
Bittner's tag line for her business is "from casual wear to formal wear."
Her goal is to grow into a one-stop shop where customers can get everything they need for a wedding or shower. She credits the SEA program with opening her eyes to new possibilities.
"When I started my first business that I lost in the fire, I didn't look ahead as to what I wanted. I was working in a back room and that is what I was going to do," she said. "When I went through the SEA program, it forced me to grow my idea into something else – something more."
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Our Savage Art
Poetry and the Civil Tongue
William Logan
Columbia University Press ($29.50)
by John-Ivan Palmer
William Logan has been called by Slate the most hated man in American poetry . . . [and] its guiltiest pleasure. Hes been threatened by a few angry poets and banned from certain newspapers for lavishing scorn on what he considers prize-winning phonies and crowd-pleasing flyweights. In his view, Franz Wright is rancid and repetitive, Dean Young uses non sequiturs the way a snake uses mice, and Gary Snyder writes poems like the disconnected thoughts of a man trying to make verse with magnets on a refrigerator door. Imagine A. R. Ammons reading this about himself: Even if you paid through the nose to get a vanity press to publish this, youd have to bribe the typesetter not to cut his own throat.
In Our Savage Art, Poetry and the Civil Tongue William Logan argues that its time to end the oath of omertà between poets and critics never to breathe a word of criticism against a fellow of the guild. Sensitive subject matter should not be untouchable. This would include the ghosts of evil in poems by Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz, a Lithuanian holocaust survivor. Logan describes two of Miloszs poems in Second Space as so tangled in religious themes theyre like cats lost in a great ball of yarn. Yet he credits Miloszs skill at recognizing the dead as from an unknown country with a geography that cannot be transferred to maps. As for Rita Dove, writing of the Black experience in America, he sees her as an example of what critics too easily accept as poems not about ethnic identity but that are ethnic identity, offering only a needles-eye view of the world. He acknowledges the motives buried beneath the surface of her poems, but argues that ultimately they weigh out as soulless. His perspective is, thank goodness Homer didnt go on about being blind and Ionian.
In spite of his learned references and closely reasoned arguments, reading William Logan is like watching an insult comic go from table to table—and hoping he doesnt stop at yours. After a couple hundred pages, the jokes start to seem formulaic. Typically, he links a quality and a punch line with a conjunction. For example, with Thomas Pynchon (reviewed because of his poetic prose style) you think hes about to pull a rabbit out of a hat [quality] but [conjunction] there are always three hundred rabbits and twelve dozen hats [punch line]. Or Ted Kooser: the language is as generic [quality] as [conjunction] a pair of blue jeans [punch line]. One wonders if Logan doesnt sit around and compose these lines [quality] like [conjunction] knockouts from a punch press in his basement [rimshot].
Likewise, although initially we might welcome that pie in the face for certain overly awarded poets (especially if its made of Logans favorite ingredient—cement), after a while we begin to feel our laughter might be coming from a place not altogether pure. No poet has a kill rate of one hundred percent. Does Richard Wilbur really sound like an old fussbudget sorry he threw out his last pair of spats? Is Les Murray such an Australian hick hes the Crocodile Dundee of the poetry circuit?
And this is what Logan says about the poets he likes: Frost had no sense of humor, Pound and Eliot were iffy about Jews, Wallace Stevens was a tyrant, William Carlos Williams a womanizer, and Marianne Moore an emotionally stunted terror who called blacks coons and American Indians sluggards. Philip Larkin was one nasty misogynist and racist, but his poems of ordinariness contain a kind of heroism. Robert Lowell suffered from revision disease and revised his poems down to a line, then a word, and finally just a punctuation mark. When the praise does come, as for the work of Amy Clampitt or Gjertrude Schnackenberg, it feels like a relief.
Of the sixty-nine poets Logan reviews, not all of them get plucked and gutted; with appropriate tweaks and fillips, almost forty percent could be construed as praised. The ones who escape the Logan abattoir are somewhat predictable: Elizabeth Bishop, Philip Larkin, Robert Frost, Robert Lowell, and Sylvia Plath all survive the day, along with a few lesser names. The longest and most positive review is of the obscure 19th-century novel in verse, Guy Vernon by John Townsend Trowbridge.
Forward Into the Past is an essay on criticism itself, which, together with Garrick Daviss closing interview with the author, provides insight into the shape of Logans approach. As the title implies, he gestures to a Golden Age, roughly the first half of the last century, when individual talents like Cleanth Brooks, R. P. Blackmur, I. A. Richards, and William Empson, not to mention the overshadowing Pound and Eliot, criticized books on the basis of transcendent imagination and their relevance to other books. The judgment they passed was not scrawled on the chin of a smiley face. As Logan says, The worst way to create readers is by praising everything under the skies.
Our Savage Art does raise the question of how much natural habitat is left for poetry—is there room to support a viable ecosystem of predator and prey? A generation ago most large and small newspapers ran poetry reviews, and in the early 20th century literary magazines like Criterion, Horizon, and Partisan Review had substantial readerships. Audiences read Cyril Connolly and W. H. Auden to see whom they were going to eat next. Wyndham Lewis was a one-man death squad who went after everyone. In 1964 Vladimir Nabokov launched an attack in the New York Review of Books against Walter Arndts translation of Eugene Onegin, which he claimed sank to the level of uncontrolled abuse; the circulation department must have been elated when Edmund Wilson then attacked Nabokovs translation, resulting in a cage match in print that went on for weeks.
One could argue that the biome of the poet and critic has been reduced to little more than a puddle in a public park, with every last poet and critic desperate for the other. Logan admits that it is naïve to expect poets to review their friends harshly. But what if thats all there is to the audience? To keep from eating ourselves should talentless writing be praised by what Craig Raine has called the lazy consensus? The alternative, the slow grinding of critical analysis, might annihilate a few poets who are sincerely trying, but those who survive might indeed be the ones well truly want to read—or reread—in a new and brighter light.
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