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Zerovilleby Steve Erickson
"In Zeroville Steve Erickson weaves a gripping, yet free-floating and dizzyingly surreal narrative that is frequently punctuated with Hollywood greats named and unnamed, real and imagined. Half of the fun is trying to connect the less obvious incidents and characters with their real-life analogues." Gerry Donaghy, Powells.com (read the entire Powells.com review)
"Since 1985, with his first novel, Days Between Stations, and now with Zeroville, his eighth — and best — novel, Erickson has been a singular voice in American fiction, for my money our most imaginative native novelist....There's no denying the hallucinatory nature of Erickson's novels. But even when they spiral off into the strangest territory, they always make emotional sense..." Charles Taylor, The Nation (read the entire review from The Nation)
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On the same August day in 1969 that a crazed hippie "family" led by Charles Manson commits five savage murders in the canyons above Los Angeles, a young ex-communicated seminarian arrives with the images of Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift — "the two most beautiful people in the history of the movies" — tattooed on his head. At once childlike and violent, Vikar is not a cinéaste but "cineautistic," sleeping at night in the Roosevelt Hotel where he's haunted by the ghost of D. W. Griffith, and behind the screen of the Chinese Theatre where "images from the movie fly over him as though he's lying at the end of a runway, below an endless stream of jetliners landing." Vikar has stepped into the vortex of a culture in upheaval: strange drugs that frighten him, a strange sexuality that consumes him, a strange music he doesn't understand. Over the course of the Seventies and into the Eighties, as the old studios crumble before the onslaught of a new, renegade generation, Vikar pursues his obsession with film from one screening to the next and through a series of cinema-besotted conversations and encounters with starlets, burglars, guerrillas, escorts, teenage punks and veteran film editors, only to discover a secret whose clues lie in every film ever made, and only to find that we don't dream the Movies but rather they dream us.
"Set primarily in Los Angeles from the late 1960s through 1980s, this darkly funny, wise but flawed novel from Erickson (Arc d'X) focuses on our collective fascination with movies. Vikar Jerome, whose almost deranged film fixation manifests itself in the images of Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift tattooed on his bald head, wanders around Hollywood, where he gets mistaken for a perp in the Charles Manson murders and is robbed by a man who turns out to be a fellow film buff. After Vikar becomes a film editor, he's kidnapped by revolutionaries in Spain who want him to edit their propaganda film. Later, he wins a Cannes Film Festival award in France and receives an Oscar nomination, with strange consequences. Vikar repeatedly crosses paths with actress Soledad Palladin and her daughter, Zazi, though ambiguities in his relationship with this enigmatic pair, along with a recurring dream of his, derail this black comedy toward the end. The sudden point-of-view shift and possible supernatural element jar in an otherwise brilliant, often hilarious love song to film." Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)
"My first encounter with Steve Erickson was 'Arc d'X,' which I devoured in 1993 while fatigued and feverish and bedridden. In that context, it became one of the great reading experiences of my life, virtually phantasmagoric. But I don't know if 'Arc d'X' would have seemed any less hallucinogenic under normal conditions. Over his entire career Erickson has challenged readers with a fiercely intelligent... Washington Post Book Review (read the entire Washington Post review) and surprisingly sensual brand of American surrealism that can, at times, seem impenetrable. For this reason, it surprised me that almost everything in Erickson's new novel 'Zeroville' entertains so readily without seeming watered down or slight. 'Zeroville' is funny, sad and darkly beautiful, built around short chapters that allow the author to capture the essential moment and move effortlessly through time. Set primarily in the 1970s and '80s in Los Angeles, 'Zeroville' features an ex-divinity student named Vikar, a punk in the age of hippies who on his shaved head has a tattoo of Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor from the movie 'A Place in the Sun.' Damaged, violent and probably slightly autistic, Vikar arrives in Hollywood to pursue his devotion to the movies. He soon finds work building sets on a studio lot, meets a renowned editor and gets a few editing jobs. He becomes famous when he re-cuts a movie in New York City that has a controversial debut at the Cannes Film Festival. As with everything that happens to Vikar, he stumbles into the good and the bad with equal indifference. He is always looking ahead to some glowing theater screen in the distance, and nothing in his immediate field of vision carries any weight. That single-minded devotion, the way it creates a counterpoint in Vikar's interactions with other characters, is often hilarious. I can't recall having laughed out loud so much reading a novel. Vikar is a bit like Chance from Jerzy Kosinski's 'Being There,' with touches of Voltaire's Candide, which leads to some outstanding set pieces. After Vikar surprises a thief in his apartment, knocks him out and ties him to a chair, they wind up having a long conversation about film while watching bad movies on TV. When Vikar goes to Madrid for an editing gig, he is kidnapped by revolutionaries and forced to splice together porn scenes and other footage to create a propaganda film. When he visits France for the release of his experimental film, he attends a press conference that goes hideously wrong. These scenes aren't just funny — they exhibit a curious combination of satire and depth, in part because Vikar, despite his limited emotional range (or because of it?), may be Erickson's most likable character. Whether he is calmly ranting at the Cannes reporters, having a private conversation with a prostitute or reliving childhood memories that suggest the movies might literally have saved him, Vikar's devotion to film lends him an integrity that puts him above the fray, making him untouchable. The novel is just as steeped in films and film lore as its main character. Subtle cameos by a young Robert De Niro and other stars are skillfully handled, while Erickson does a nuanced job of depicting both genuine artistic impulse and all that corrupts it. Best of all, Erickson mixes high art and low pulp throughout 'Zeroville.' 'Emmanuelle 7,' for example, is as likely to be mentioned as 'The Long Goodbye,' which are equals in Vikar's eyes. However, Erickson isn't content with this wonderful exploration of character and place. The hyper-surreal elements of his prior novels gradually infiltrate 'Zeroville.' Vikar's random encounters with a woman named Soledad, who may be the daughter of Spanish filmmaker Luis Bunuel, take on a cryptic significance. A search for a lost film suddenly becomes important, evoking comparisons to Theodore Roszak's cult-classic novel 'Flicker.' Ghosts appear, real or imaginary. A recurring refrain throughout the novel, 'God hates children,' takes on more than symbolic weight. Finally, a shift in perspective occurs, with Erickson intentionally violating the internal logic of his own structure. By the end of 'Zeroville,' then, I was back in bed in 1993, reading 'Arc d'X' and not 'getting' all of it — my heart more convinced than my head — but blissfully happy nonetheless. 'Zeroville' is that kind of novel. You want Vikar to have his peace, and you want Erickson to have his ending, because Vikar always acts according to his nature, regardless of the hand of God or author. Jeff VanderMeer, a novelist living in Tallahassee, Fla., is currently a guest editor for Best American Fantasy." Reviewed by Jeff VanderMeer, Washington Post Book World (Copyright 2006 Washington Post Book World Service/Washington Post Writers Group)
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"Although cineasts are the obvious audience for this atmospheric novel (it contains literally hundreds of references to obscure and classic films), others may find themselves falling under its spell, for its effect is much like that of a strange but very beautiful art film." Booklist
"[Vikar's] adventures read like a fable inspired by the French New Wave. Steve Erickson's Zeroville inhabits a sweet spot where fiction and film criticism merge, wryly imagining a world in which house burglars parse John Ford Westerns. (Grade: B+)" Entertainment Weekly
"A novel that will especially appeal to cinephiles, for Erickson makes more allusions to film, starting with his Godard-like title, than perhaps any novelist you've read." Kirkus Reviews
"Erickson is as unique and vital and pure a voice as American fiction has produced." Jonathan Lethem
"That Zeroville...accomplishes such gait in 352 pages of mostly short, numbered vignettes, is yet another facet of its unmistakable, so sleek brilliance....Zeroville is addictive. It is a puzzle that lives inside your head." Blake Butler, Bookslut.com
"Erickson...manages to wipe clean the presumptions typically guiding the Hollywood Novel, which suggest either that Hollywood is irredeemably corrupt or that moviemaking is a tainted beauty requiring the ministrations of a pure artistic vision to recover its virtue. He embeds in his story a deeply thoughtful look at the art of filmmaking, not the pathology of the film industry." Los Angeles Times
"Terse, fanciful, dreamlike and sometimes nightmarish, this remarkable novel will test you and tease you and leave you desperate to line up at Film Forum (or hunt down Erickson's top 150 on DVD) so you can submit yourself to the celluloid bonds that hold Vikar and his creator such willing captives." New York Times
"Just when you thought that the Hollywood novel had fizzled out with all the eclat of an inebriated Mickey Rourke driving through Miami on a Vespa, another writer has come along with high-octane fuel for the form." Philadelphia Inquirer
"[Erickson's] eighth — and best — novel....What Erickson is celebrating here isn't any sort of pantheon (Vikar finds his dream frame in both great films and dreck) but the ability of movies to plug right into our deepest fears and raptures." Charles Taylor, The Nation
A film-obsessed ex-seminarian with images of Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift tattooed on his head arrives on Hollywood Boulevard in 1969. Vikar Jerome enters the vortex of a cultural transformation: rock and roll, sex, drugs, and — most important to him — the decline of the movie studios and the rise of independent directors. Jerome becomes a film editor of astonishing vision. Through encounters with former starlets, burglars, political guerillas, punk musicians, and veteran filmmakers, he discovers the secret that lies in every movie ever made.
About the Author
Los Angeles writer Steve Erickson was born in Santa Monica in 1950, and has published seven novels and two books of non-fiction. Currently a teacher in the CalArts MFA writing program, a film critic for Los Angeles magazine, and the editor of Black Clock, he received a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation in 2007.
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Emily Ramsdell Clapp Gillispie, 95, of Princeton, N.J., passed away on April 8 after a brief illness. She is survived by her husband of 64 years, Charles C. Gillispie, and a cousin, Edward Atwater of Rochester, N.Y.
Born in Rochester, N. Y., on 14 October 1917, Emily Ramsdell Clapp was the daughter of William D. Clapp and Frances Atwater Clapp. She was a member of the class of 1935 at George School in Newtown, Pennsylvania, and of the Class of 1939 at the University of Rochester, where she graduated A.B. in English, with a minor in art history. Immediately after graduation she served as executive secretary to organize the inauguration of Helen Bragdon, newly elected president of Lake Erie College. In 1940 and 1941 she first worked for R. H. Macy's at the Bamberger store in Newark, and then served in a secretarial capacity in the law offices of R.T. Vanderbilt in New York City. Early in 1942, Emily Clapp returned to Rochester, where she held the post of Co-Director of the USO, the United Services Organization, the major facility serving the off duty needs of enlisted men at the nearby Samson Naval Training Station at Geneva. After the war, in 1945-46, she was recreation director at the naval station on Lake Champlain at Plattsburg, N. Y. In 1946 she moved to Boston to accept the position of assistant placement director at Simmons College.
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And Bump is something that is not really there, but it's just making the impression that there are some little holes and rough structure on the surface. And for this, I choose a black color. So, I hit the letter D. I make the brush a little bit smaller. Do a right-click and choose some interesting brush here. Let's say I'll take this one. It's the Grass brush and I can paint here.
And then, we should see some bumps after we saved a Bump Texture here. And we choose the same File size, 800x800 pixels, okay? And now, I can paint in the Bump effect. So, if I have a look at the Layers panel now, I have a Bump layer here, Label Material Bump, and that's necessary in order to paint in some Bump effects. What you see is created automatically. You just have to fill in the File Size and Pixels.
Hit OK, and everything is done. And now you see, I can make some nice structures here. And let's try to add some Shininess, 3D, Paint and Target Texture, Shininess. And for that, I choose another brush. Let's say, a round, soft brush. And now, again, you get this warning or this hint, that one or more materials in this 3D layer are missing a Shininess texture.
New Shininess textures will be created for those materials to enable editing. Well, I want that so I click on OK, choose 800x800 and OK. And now, I can paint in shininess. Now, that's quite nice. So now, I've painted over another material. So, it wants to create another layer for Shininess for the other material. So, I hit OK. And again, I fill in 800x800.
And now, I can paint over these areas, and paint in some Shininess. And in this way, you can combine all these parameters to create the surface you want for your 3D object. Let's say, you want to add some reflectivity. Then you have to choose it in the Paint On Target Texture. And then, you just have to click once on the object. Let Photoshop create the Texture layer, tell Photoshop how big it should be, hit OK.
And now, you can paint right away and add this texture. But you have to be aware, if you paint over another material, you will have to add another Reflectivity texture for each and every material. So, this can be quite tedious to always hit OK, enter the values, and hit OK. And then, paint again but at least it's fun once you know how these things work. And then, you can paint in some scratches like this.
Paint in some reflections and you see, I only painted on the surface and that's always then the case. If you don't want to rotate this object or animate it,and if you just see the front side, why do not just paint on the front side? Well, if this is the new feature of Paint On Target Texture, and this is quite powerful. But if you have a lot of materials here in the scene, it's quite tedious to create all those Bump maps and Shiny maps and Reflectivity maps.
You see we have two here for the shininess, one for the kept material, one for the label material, and so on. But once all those materials are created, you can just paint away and have some fun with these Paint On Target texture features.
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Over 10,000 women from the Nordic countries of Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Iceland gathered May 12-15, 2014, in Malmo, Sweden for the "Nordisk Forum: New Actions on Women's Rights." As a regional conference, it was a strategy to augment the work done in the World Conferences on Women that had been regularly taking place every five years from 1975 until 1995.
Due to the worldwide negative effects of conservatism on the status of women, particularly reproductive health and sex education, the Executive Director of United Nations Office for Women, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka told the conference that in the foreseeable future, there would be no world conference of women similar to the 1995 Beijing women's conference. She suggested that a world conference on women could jeopardize the positive steps that have been taken over the last 30 years by United Nations resolutions on the rights of women. She cited a "failure of national and international leadership in which progress and gains for women are being reduced or are going backward."
Two winners of the Nobel Peace Prize on Monday urged President Obama to halt legal action by his administration against New York Times journalist James Risen.
In a statement addressed to Obama, the Nobel Peace Laureates -- Mairead Corrigan Maguire of Northern Ireland and Jody Williams of the United States -- said that they "urge a swift end to the US government's legal threat of imprisonment and harsh fines for New York Times reporter James Risen, who has covered issues of war and peace."
Today, the Progressive Change Institute and a trans-partisan coalition of surveillance whistleblowers, civil liberties advocates, and organizations representing millions of Americans are urging Congress to reject the Senate version of the USA Freedom Act.
The civil liberties coalition's joint letter outlines numerous concerns with the legislation, including ambiguous language that is open to abuse, the failure to include provisions specifically protecting the rights of Americans, blanket legal immunity for corporations that help spy on Americans, and the reauthorization of key sections of the USA PATRIOT Act relating to intelligence gathering. As the coalition's letter states:
New York, NY – Lack of poll workers and low numbers of voting machines are key contributors to long voting lines, and precincts with more minorities experienced longer waits, according to a new study released today by the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law.
Although many factors may contribute to long lines at the polls, little research has assessed how polling place resource allocation contributes to delays. In advance of the 2014 midterm election, Election Day Long Lines: Resource Allocation attempts to fill that gap by analyzing precinct-level data from states where voters faced some of the longest lines in the country in 2012: Florida, Maryland, and South Carolina.
After thousands of years of bloody wars among contending tribes, regions, and nations, is it finally possible to dispense with the chauvinist ideas of the past?
To judge by President Barack Obama's televised address on the evening of September 10, it is not. Discussing his plan to "take out" ISIS, the extremist group that has seized control of portions of Syria and Iraq, the president slathered on the high-flying, nationalist rhetoric. "America is better positioned today to seize the future than any other nation on Earth," he proclaimed. "Our technology companies and universities are unmatched; our manufacturing and auto industries are thriving. Energy independence is closer than it's been in decades. . . . Our businesses are in the longest uninterrupted stretch of job creation in our history. . . . I see the grit and determination and common goodness of the American people every single day -- and that makes me more confident than ever about our country's future."
Monday at 9:00 am, large numbers of protestors, dressed in blue to represent the seas that surround – and may one day engulf - NYC, will gather at Battery Park in lower Manhattan to begin a rally and a mass civil disobedience demonstration, aimed at confronting the root cause of the climate crisis; an economic system "based on exploiting frontline communities, workers, and natural resources."
"Runaway climate change and extreme weather events, such as the extreme flooding that we saw here in New York City with Hurricane Sandy, are fueled by the fossil fuel industry," said Michael Premo, an organizer of the action who was also a driving force in the Occupy Sandy recovery effort. "We are flooding Wall Street because we know that there's no greater cause of runaway climate change than an economic system that puts profit before people — and before the planet."
My mother was fond of saying "if you want someone to hear you, you must first listen to them"—know them, understand the questions they are asking, and be sensitive to their concerns. If you do this, she would say, "you will be able to speak with people and not at them".
What happens when you don't follow this simple rule of communication was on display during the "In Defense of Christians" conference that was held in Washington from September 9th to the 11th.
If you're reading this, then you weren't for the War in Iraq. You protested, probably got arrested, sat in that filthy jail for four days while the cops mocked your beliefs, made lewd comments about your wife, called you a hippie because that's all they got in well-developed intellect of American authoritah. It is the sign of a sick country when the people worship authority. Cops are heroes. All soldiers are great. Even corporate CEOs are seen as having some kind of tribal wisdom. The optionless crucifixion is the real American religion. Every day we climb up on the cross of capitalism and say there ain't nuthin we can do. Eli eli lama sabacthani with two cheeseburgers and a coke. Chevy Truck staring at god. I'll get there someday cuz the lord jesus christ is my savior. I can do anything because I an American and we is saved. Do you accept? And meanwhile you're sitting on the goddamn train, or bus, or some increasingly disappearing public place where they have the temerity to come up to you and preach the word. The subtext of it all is that they are the real Americans. They are the ones who hold this country together despite Obamacare. They are the ones who work despite the lazy blacks, illegals and spoiled kids like you who never worked for nothing, but just bitch all the time. And you sit quiet, digging the Buddhism you been reading about, saying to yourself like a mantra that it's still America, land of a revolution where people like you fought and died for the human ideals that you are watching slip away.
How foolish Americans are, or rather, until a few years ago, we Americans. This writer himself got caught up in the greatest of all confidence games: The Two Party Monte! Using an embedded media, the 'Two Party, One Party 'political system (created by our Military Industrial Empire) keeps chugging along. Whether it is a Reagan or Clinton, a Bush or a Kerry, a Romney or an Obama, it matters not to the puppeteers who run things. They choose who the so called 'field of candidates ' will be, and then most of the time let the suckers (we voters) make the final decision from Column A or Column B. Of course, sometimes, when the empire's agenda is too urgent, they go ahead and fix the game a bit. Case in point the elections of 2000 and 2004. The movers and shakers decided that they needed a malleable dope in the White House sign off on what then followed: The illegal and immoral invasions and occupations of Iraq & Afghanistan. As if right out of a scene from Scorsese's Casino, when the five Mafia leaders were discussing their puppet union leader Andy Stone's future. Four of the dons stated how Andy was a good guy and could be trusted to not 'flip 'and turn against them with the Feds. They then all looked to the head of the commission, the fifth don, and he quietly offered: "Why take a chance? " Soon after Andy Stone was murdered.
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Critical Review by Maxine Kumin
SOURCE: "Intimations of Mortality," in Women's Review of Books, Vol. 10, No. 7, April, 1993, p. 19.
In the following review of New and Selected Poems, Kumin praises Oliver for "reaching for the unattainable while grateful for its unattainability."
Mary Oliver is a patroller of wetlands in the same way that Thoreau was an inspector of snowstorms. She is without vanity or pretense in her celebrations of the lives of mussels, hermit crabs, hummingbirds and other creatures, including a few select people. Reading through her New and Selected Poems, I was struck again and again by the exactitude of her imagery, by her daring marriages of animal, vegetable and mineral kingdoms to the human condition, and by her slightly amended transcendentalism, which seems to allow for a stoical embrace of her own mortality. The book is composed of thirty new poems and generous selections from her eight earlier works, and was the winner of the 1992 National Book Award.
This splendid collection works backward from the most recently written poems to ones from Oliver's first collection, No Voyage. The early Ohio poems crisply delineate individuals ranging from Hattie Bloom, her uncle's lost love, to Miss Willow Bangs, the grammar-school teacher who bursts forth at the end of "Spring in the Classroom" "all furry and blooming … in the Art Teacher's arms." Here, too, are Mr. White, the tamed Indian of "Learning About the Indians," Anne, said to be insane, "tending so desperately all / the small civilities," and Oliver's own relatives, evoked in poignant vignettes. We meet her father, who "spent his last winter / Making ice-grips for shoes / Out of strips of inner tube and scrap metal," and her grandmother, who "cooled and labeled / All the wild sauces of the brimming year."
Absent from Oliver's purview are poems we frequently encounter elsewhere today—about exotic triptychs come upon in Italian hill towns; rhapsodizing over glittering traffic rendered majestic by urban lighting; love poems, common or uncommon. But we do get, in among the early works, Aunt Elsie and Uncle William, and the poet as young girl sent out nightly to find the source of Elsie's hallucinatory night music. In this mental and visual landscape, we are in the time of the "Wolf Moon," of "lean owls / hunkering with their lamp-eyes / in the leafless lanes / in the needled dark," in "the season / of the hunter Death; / with his belt of knives, / his black snowshoes …"
A three-part, wrenchingly spare and moving apostrophe to James Wright, Oliver's mentor at Ohio State, dates from 1980, the year of his death. She evokes the quintessential hooting lament of freight trains: "of course. I thought they would stop / when you did. I thought you'd never sicken / anyway, or, if you did, Ohio / would fall down too, barn / by bright barn…." Typically, she refuses to display sentiment: "I had a red rose to send you, / but it reeked of occasion."
Spanning her career in an orderly fashion, New and Selected Poems invites speculation about influences. James Wright is always mentioned as having influenced Oliver. Certainly she shares with him an attentiveness to the working-class world about her and a dogged determination to speak of it in simple diction. But it is also possible to point to May Swenson, who wrote delightful and witty "concrete" poems that assumed fitting shapes on the page.
Oliver dedicates a recent poem titled "The Waterfall" to Swenson, who died in 1989. The four-line stanzas indent in an orderly fashion, irregular longer lines alternating with brief ones, perhaps in imitation of "the water falling, / its lace legs and its womanly arms sheeting down…." It concludes: "And maybe there will be, / after all, / some slack and perfectly balanced / blind and rough peace, finally, / in the deep and green and utterly motionless pools after all that falling?" It is impossible in this space to reproduce exactly the dance of many of Oliver's poems on the page, but the careful reader will also see patterns that enhance the text in, for example, "The Swan," "White Flowers" and "The Egret."
Swenson's irreverent anthropomorphism in such poems as "News from the Cabin"—"Hairy was here. / He hung on a sumac seed pod. / Part of his double tail hugged the crimson / scrotum under cockscomb leaves …"—may have reinforced Oliver's inclination to render fanciful a recognizable world. Although her early poems also display a startling ability to anthropomorphize (or engage in pathetic fallacy, as John Ruskin called it), in her later poems the vivid and often astonishing imagery actually comes to drive the narrative.
Nineteenth-century poets so overfilled the vessel with babbling brooks and sighing trees—Ruskin so effectively denounced the practice—that we modern writers are wary of trapping ourselves in unsubstantiated pathos. Mary Oliver, however, walks boldly into this terrain. She can afford to be fearless because she almost never stumbles. Her acuity is enviable. Her sun has "old, buttery fingers"; the turkey buzzards' beaks are "soft as spoons"; a skunk "shuffles, unhurried across the wet fields / in its black slippers … / and two bulbs of … diatribe under its tail…." When the poet lights two lamps in her small house, they are "like two visitors with good stories…." And an invented relative, a "great-great-aunt dark as hickory" is composed of "old twist of feathers and birch bark…."
While we are pursuing influences, we might well ask if the work of Anne Sexton has played any part in shaping Oliver's poetry. Sexton wrote in "Jesus Cooks," one of nine poems in a series titled "The Jesus Papers," "Jesus multitudes were hungry / and He said, O Lord, / send down a short-order cook." Oliver's "Sweet Jesus" begins with this kind of wry dislocation—"Sweet Jesus, talking / his melancholy madness / stood up in the boat / and the sea lay downy silky and sorry"—but then moves away from Sexton's tongue-in-cheek blasphemy. In another poem, a sense of longing for innocence and order suggests Sexton: "I wouldn't mind being a rose / in a field full of roses. / Fear has not yet occurred to them, nor ambition."
Wherever we look we find Oliver reaching for the unattainable while grateful for its unattainability. She stands quite comfortably on the margins of things, on the line between earth and sky, the thin membrane that separates human from what we loosely call animal. Watching a grasshopper "gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes," "lift[ing] her forearms and thoroughly wash[ing] her face," she declaims: "I don't know exactly what a prayer is. / I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down / into the grass … how to be idle and blessed…." She sees huge drama writ small in the things she observes. In "White Owl Flies Into and Out of the Field," not only do the line placements suggest the swooping down onto the snow, the pounce, the lifting off with the prey in its talons—a small nightly drama of death and dismemberment—but the image opens out onto a disquisition on mortality: "[M]aybe death / isn't darkness, after all, / but so much light / wrapping itself around us / … scalding, aortal light…."
We have our poets of ecstasy—Walt Whitman in the last century, Gerald Stern and Edna St. Vincent Millay in this one—and of threnody (too numerous to mention). But I think we do not have many poets like Oliver, who without apology affirms life everywhere she observes it. She is an indefatigable guide to the natural world, particularly to its lesserknown aspects: to turtles and owls, the spurned snake and abjured goldenrod and stagnant, reeking pond full of leeches and lilies. Perhaps because of her awareness of the precarious balance between life and death, she is willing to discard all the usual defenses, to risk the simple declaration: "Nobody knows what the soul is"; "There is only one question: / how to love this world"; "When it's over, I want to say: all my life / I was a bride married to amazement. / I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms."
Oliver's newer poems focus ever more trenchantly on the frail links between the human and the natural world, and on the passage from life into death. It is our misfortune that she has never shined the bright light of her introspection on human love. I trust whatever she tells me about moths and marsh marigolds, fingerlings and egrets, and am prepared to trust what she might have to say about passion. But I can hardly think of another book of poems that has moved me as deeply as this one.
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Had an interesting conversation with a Melbourne boatbuilder last week that rang in frustration regarding the fact that there is no longer any formal training available for his boatbuilding apprentices in Victoria.
boat building - in demand but what institutions will offer training
The only TAFE-based, government-subsidized boatbuilding course in Victoria, run by Victoria University (VU) at its Newport campus, is closing down. The reason cited is State Government funding cuts to TAFE, which means a reduction in revenues requiring them to change their business models.
Less than two years ago, in 2010, VU announced plans to relocate their boatbuilding apprenticeship and pre apprenticeship programs to a brand new facility at the Williamstown Maritime Association's 'Seaworks' premises on Williamstown's waterfront. That relocation never occurred
Late last year, Member for Williamstown, Wade Noonan, speaking in Parliament suggested that the State Government tap into the $3.4m funding grant provided to VU in 2008 specifically to relocate its boatbuilding school from Newport to Williamstown and, redistribute those funds through Skills Victoria to help maintain the boatbuilding course until such time as an agreement is struck to save this vitally important program.
Ben Scullin of the Boating Industry Association of Victoria (BIAV) said, 'The Victorian boating industry is in danger of losing a generation of apprentices.' According to Scullin, last year around 40 students were enrolled in the boatbuilding courses. Earlier this year there were around 23 apprentices either signed up with, or waiting to be signed up to apprenticeships but, According to Scullin, due to the lack of suitable TAFE courses, there are now only 4 of those apprentices left in a system that will have no suitable course for them to attend after their first year.
The BIAV has been working with Gordon TAFE who has put forward a business case to government suggesting that for seed funding of $750k the Gordon could pick up the course, which VU has discontinued. To date there's been no commitment to provide the funds.
According to a report by Ernst & Young (2008) about the economic value of boating to the Victorian economy, just in Port Phillip and Western Port alone, was valued at just under $1 billion per annum, add the rest of Victoria and… Well it soon adds up. The same report concluded that the boating industry around those two bays generated 13,420 full time jobs.
The report went further, adding that putting those numbers in perspective they equate to; around two thirds the impact of the Port of Melbourne operations; comparative to the impact of Melbourne Airport and, approximately 7 times the value of the Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival.
Co-incidentally, Racing Victoria recently received nearly $80m from the government and, for that matter Circus Oz was given $18m towards relocating their facilities.
Given those numbers it seems incredulous to me that for the sake of $750k we are in danger of losing valuable boatbuilding skills training in Victoria that's vital in keeping the industry going into the future and, If we don't get it? Then the boatbuilding industry in Victoria is likely to find itself 'up the proverbial creek without the skills to build a paddle' (pun intended).


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In January of 1871, there was a deadly railroad accident on the iron bridge over Nonconnah Creek about four miles south of Memphis. The Northbound Express train was thrown across the track and down an eight foot embankment. Seven people died and many more suffered devastating injuries, many of which were reported in local and the national press.
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Young defendant on trial in Memphis murder case
Sitting in the defendant's seat Tuesday, Donald Rivers looked like he might have strayed from one of the many school groups that visit the courtrooms at 201 Poplar.
Yet the youthful-looking Rivers is indeed the defendant, charged with committing a murder in 2009 when he was just 14.
He is charged with killing Reginald Crawford, 18, a neighborhood rival on Eastview off of Walnut Grove, where an ongoing dispute ended in gunfire.
One former resident of the area said she saw Rivers and a companion walking along Eastview on Feb. 24, 2009, and that Rivers shouted to Crawford and his brother, Antwan Johnson, who were on a porch across the street.
She said she knew Rivers as "Duck."
"He said, 'I better not catch you on my side of the street," Carla Shannon told the Criminal Court jury, adding that all four men began arguing in the middle of the street. "Then Donald Rivers pulled a gun out of his hoodie. He pointed the gun at Antwan and popped the trigger, but nothing came out. He popped it again and it hit Reginald."
Crawford died later at a hospital.
Rivers, now 17, faces up to 25 years in prison with no parole if convicted as charged. He also is charged with attempted second-degree murder, which carries up to 12 years in prison.
In his opening statement, defense attorney Larry Copeland addressed the jury by impersonating his client. He said "bad events" followed Rivers ever since he moved to Eastview.
"You'll hear about the history I've had with Antwan and Reginald," Copeland said, pretending to be Rivers speaking. "I see something and I realize I might be in danger and I pull that gun. I pull the trigger and that gun goes off. ... What do I do? I try to hide it and run."
State prosecutor Tracye Jones said the killing was intentional and never should have happened.
Rivers is one of the youngest murder defendants ever prosecuted in Shelby County.
He was one of 16 juveniles charged with first- or second-degree murder in 2009 and handled as adults.
The trial before Judge W. Mark Ward continues this afternoon.
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This article describes a servicing stack update that is available for Windows RT and Windows 8. This update contains the following improvements and fixes the following issues:
Improvement 1Enables servicing stack updates to be installed offline.
Improvement 2Adds a feature that compresses unused binary files and allocates free disk space to prepare Windows for future updates.
Improvement 3Adds a feature that automatically frees disk space when you uninstall updates, such as driver packages.
Improvement 4Adds a feature that reduces the footprint of the component store.
Issue 1The installer in the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) firmware does not work correctly.
Note You can use the installer to update the signature database (DB) or revoked signatures database (DBX).
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