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Noosa Bar Surf Cam & Surf Report
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Coastalwatch surf reporters are the saltiest locals around. Part fish, part shark, part human, they live for the waves and are usually more local than the locals. They'll be up before dawn waiting for first light to reveal the days surf conditions and can sense a change of wind from a sparrows fart. Each reporter covers a region of coastline which includes many number of surf spots and beaches. Please consider there may be possible variations between this report and your local spot due to differences in orientation to the coast and any local idiosyncrasies that may also effect the swell and weather patterns.
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24/08/2016 6:19 AM | Report
Today's rating - Average
Overcast with an uneven mixed direction swell in the 2 up to 3ft range on the sets. The winds are out of the N early with strong NW winds forecast later this morning and low tide is early at 6.20am with low at 12.45pm. It should clean up more during the morning on the incoming tide and as the NW winds pick up with the protected corners at Sunshine, Yaroomba, Kawana and Kings the pick early.
Today's Outlook
Swell: 1m
Wind: N 0-10 kts
Best at: South-facing beaches
Conditions: Bumpy
Swell: 1m
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Conditions: Wind affected
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Strong Wind Warning for Wednesday for Sunshine Coast Waters Wind. Northwesterly 10 to 15 knots, reaching up to 30 knots offshore during the morning. Seas. 1.5 to 2.5 metres, decreasing to 1 to 1.5 metres during the afternoon. Swell. North to northeasterly around 1 metre, increasing to 1 to 1.5 metres offshore. East to southeasterly around 1 metre, increasing to 1 to 1.5 metres offshore. Cloudy. 90% chance of rain. The chance of a thunderstorm during the morning and afternoon. Deceptively powerful surf conditions are expected to be hazardous for coastal activities such as crossing bars by boat and rock fishing.
Now Light rain at times.
Thursday Possible early shower.
Friday Sunny.
Saturday Sunny.
UV Index : 5 (Moderate)
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Panama City Beach, FL--It's a basketball lover's dream this week around this area. Freeport, Chipley, Bay and Arnold all hosting holiday tournaments, some just the boys playing, some are coed. The 6th Area Glass Marlin Christmas Classic in the latter category, let's show you some of the action at Arnold Tuesday. Coach Strutchen and his Niceville Eagles the defending champs opening up against Starr's Mill out of Georgia.
Niceville in white going outside here in the first half, that's Matt Cooper for three. Then it's good ball movement, going inside to Michael Mitchell, who gets the short jumper to go. More good ball movement, back out to the wing for number 12 Shane Horton, he gets nothing but net and 3 more for the Eagles.
Then it's AJ Tillman working the baseline, the kickout to Horton who knocks it off the glass. 5 point Niceville lead at the half,
but the Eagles unable to hold that lead in the second half, the Panthers rally and get the comeback win 55-52, so Niceville into the loser's bracket and a 10:15 game Wednesday.

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Kimi Raikkonen trialled the new car during practice for the Italian GP but the team elected not to race it because it was not convinced enough about the improvements it had delivered.
However, following analysis of the car at the team's Enstone factory since Monza, Lotus engineers are convinced the new car will deliver a step forward and are now preparing for it to be raced by both Raikkonen and Romain Grosjean from the next race in Korea.
The team decided not to bring it to Singapore because it is upbeat about a decent result this weekend and did not want to compromise its chances by experimenting with a new configuration.
Team principal Eric Boullier told AUTOSPORT: "We should bring it back hopefully for both cars all weekend from Korea - and then even for the rest of the season."
Lotus trackside operations director Alan Permane added that the long-wheelbase car should address deficiencies the team has uncovered in the E21.
"It should give us a more stable car," he told AUTOSPORT. "The main weak point of our car is combined turn-in and braking - and the problem is when we cure it we then have too much mid-corner understeer.
"This [the long wheelbase] should in theory allow us a better window and get us out of that area we're trapped in. It should give us a stable car on braking and turn in, but with a good front end."
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Welcome to the EOU Center in Bend.
Eastern Oregon University is bringing high-quality programs to students in Central Oregon through the Bend Regional Center! This office specifically works with students in Deschutes, Crook, and Jefferson County. Earn a bachelor's degree with flexible courses available online. We'll work with you to meet your educational and career goals!
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Summer Term onsite class: POLS 315
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Date & Times: August 19, 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm; August 20, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
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Complaint Review: Fred Loya Insurance
Fred Loya InsuranceAve. K And West Parker St. Plano, Texas U.S.A.
Fred Loya Insurance Horrible customer service Plano Texas
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We had earlier that day called the number provided on the liability card that the fellow customer had in their possession. We spoke to a lady named "Candy" who was very pleasant over the phone. Explained to her that the fellow customers (Mr.&Mrs. S) are purchasing another vehicle adding to the policy and need full coverage insurance. I gave her the VIN, year,make,model of their latest vehicle. She had told me that all she needed was to speak to the customers and have the vehicle brought to a location so that someone can take photos of the van.After speaking with the customers she gave them a reference number. She then said that any location could do it, and Fred Loya was open until 6pm (central time).
We arrive at the mentioned above location at 6:04pm and were told by 2 female employees inside thru a locked door that they were closed. We told them we spoke with Candy earlier and all someone needed to do at this point was to look up reference number and take photos. We were again told thru a locked closed door that they were closed. For the next 25 minutes we were given the excuse of their computers are down for the night and there was no way to get them back up. It wouldn't count for that days business. All of this being said thru a locked closed door! Finally after Mrs. S couldn't hear everything the employee was saying. She did open the door and stood in front shutting it behind her. Granted, I cannot speak Spanish. But I did get the impression by body language, gestures and tone your employee spoke down to the Ss'. I kept hearing the fact that they could not do anything tonight and it was out of her hands.
Here is a fact that I have not told yet. Another female customer was inside doing her paperwork at the desk in front of the door! If the computers were down for the night why was she inside doing business? Whether or not the computers were actually down or not is at this point irrelevant. The fact is that we were not 10-15 minutes late, we were 4 minutes late! The stoplight in front of your location helped make us that 4 minutes late.
Something needs to be done about this situation immediately. I have never in my 40 years on earth been in the presence of such poor customer service. I as an American felt disgusted by the treatment our fellow customers received. They are newly Americanized citizens, immigrants from South America and to have someone who is half their age talk down to them is degrading and insulting.The fellow customers do not know that I am writing to you about this situation. I deal with the public as well.
I sell cars for the largest automotive dealer in the U.S. and they are #138 on the Fortune 500 (their ticker symbol is AN). If I did what your employees did to one of my customers, I would be hung out to dry.I will be submitting copies of this email to others in the automotive as well as the insurance business communities. I will also send a copy to the TDI as well. Something needs to be done about this matter immediately.
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Situated in a national park, this bed & breakfast is within 16 mi (25 km) of Aysgarth Falls, Wensleydale Creamery, and Malham Cove. Pen-y-Ghent and The Forbidden Corner are also within 16 mi (25 km).
Property Features
This smoke-free bed & breakfast features dry cleaning, tour/ticket assistance, and a garden. Free English breakfast and free WiFi in public areas are also provided. Other amenities include barbecue grills.
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Sweetbriar Cottage B&BStarbotton Skipton England BD23 5HY
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Guests can enjoy a complimentary breakfast. Public areas are equipped with complimentary high-speed wireless Internet access. This Skipton bed & breakfast also offers tour/ticket assistance, barbecue grills, and a garden.
Sweetbriar Cottage B&B is a smoke-free property.
- Total number of rooms - 1
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Prolash I ordered a trial set for $1.00 + shipping total of $8.23. After I received it I called to cancel but never got the confirmation number. I also emailed them to say I want to cancel. After 1 week, Internet
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When I called the customer service they did not have the record of my cancellation call and said I had exceeded 3 days to call to cancel. They claim that you have to cancel within 15 days from the day it was shipped. My call was not recorded and I had to pay $119. What a scam!!
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The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini
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Even just the words The Kite Runner can bring a grown man to tears. Seriously, we… um… know a guy that happened to.
But emotions aside, this isn't an easy book to bring to a high school classroom. Its setting and its rooting in sensitive contemporary issues can bring up a whole slew of issues.


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The Lotus Sutra is one of the world's great religious scriptures and most influential texts. It has been a seminal work in the development of Buddhism throughout East Asia and, by extension in the development of Mahayana Buddhism throughout the world. Taking place in a vast and fantastical cosmic setting, the Lotus Sutra places emphasis on skillfully doing whatever is needed to serve and compassionately care for others, on breaking down sharp distinctions between the ideals of the fully enlightened buddha and the bodhisattva who vows to postpone personal salvation until all beings may share it together, and especially on each and every being's innate capacity to become a buddha.
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Complaint Review: Berkley Pharmacuticals
Berkley PharmacuticalsPo Box 42635, Cincinati, Oh, 45248 Nationwide U.S.A.
Berkley Pharmacuticals - Berkley Labs - Avlimil ripoff from Berkley Pharmacuticals TV ads Cincinati ohio
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I was sent 1 more shipment over the next 2 months but charged for 2. Same scenario. I disputed the charges. It took several months to finally get a credit. In the mean time- Berkley Pharmacuticles had free use of my $210.00 at no interest to them. They are running ads for similar products for several other conditions and all products are OTC. I called the company and they told me I had to stay on the product for 12 months before the would engage their "Guaranteed Refund". They also told me if I returned the product before that time, I would not receive a refund. Berkley Labs AKA Berkley Pharmacuticals caused me HOURS of work to get this problem corrected.
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It's that time of year: Parents are perusing the back-to-school section with their perhaps not-so-eager-to-return-to-school children. Teachers, meanwhile, are gearing up for—or are already attending—in-service and professional development sessions that aim to prepare them for the year ahead. While studying class lists, decorating classrooms, and prepping lesson plans for a new year is exciting for teachers (trust me, walking into the teacher store before a new school year is just like coming downstairs on Christmas morning), the black cloud of professional development (PD) looms. And then it remains.
In a new report entitled The Mirage, TNTP (the nonprofit that brought us The Widget Effect) took a deep dive into teacher PD in three large traditional districts and one midsize charter network. The findings were not pleasant. In the traditional districts, an average of approximately $18,000 was spent on development per teacher, per year—totaling anywhere from 5 to 11 percent of the districts' annual operating budgets. Overall, district teachers spent about 10 percent of their typical school year in PD. Despite all that time, however, ratings showed only three out of every ten teachers substantially improved their performance, based on the districts' own evaluations. While beginning teachers...
As a teacher, I measured professional development on a spectrum from "vaguely aligned" (we played math games!) to "I'd rather be teaching phonics right now" (any session that involved someone reading, verbatim, from a packet I had in hand). The midpoint was "at least it's free grading time," which was how I, an early childhood teacher, viewed any session on standardized test reading passages. But while I was frequently frustrated, I thought it was a problem specific to me; somewhere out there, I reasoned, there was PD that could help a teacher improve. And anyway, it was only a couple of days a year—not too significant.
Not exactly, says this new report from TNTP, which dug deep into the efficacy and size of three districts' (and one charter network's) investments in teacher professional development; it found the efforts outsized and the payoffs lacking. Researchers looked at three districts and provided low, medium, and high estimates of the annual cost of PD, which were based on which line items one included in the final price tag. On the low end—comprising only teacher time and baseline expenditures to host the PD—districts spent at least $50 million each year. On the high end—when...
A new study by Bellwether Education Partners examines the changes to teacher pension systems over the last thirty years. The report uses an historical data set from the Wisconsin Retirement Research Committee (RRC) and the state legislature that includes data from public employee pension plans in eighty-seven retirement systems across all fifty states. The data span from 1982 to 2012 and are based on annual reports, employee handbooks, statutes, and actuarial reports. Analysts examine defined benefit plans only—and, to facilitate comparisons, only the plans offered to hypothetical newly hired, twenty-five-year-old teachers who remain in those plans in each state. Analysts note several trends that have developed over the last thirty years, including:
A new study by Dan Goldhaber and colleagues provides loads of descriptive data that document the extent and depth of the teacher quality gap between advantaged and disadvantaged students. Dan and many others have produced research that repeatedly shows that disadvantaged kids get the short end of the stick when it comes to high-quality teachers. But the bottom line of this latest study is that this inequitable distribution of teachers plays out no matter how you define teacher quality (experience, teacher licensure exam score, or value-added estimates) and no matter how you define student disadvantage (free-and-reduced-priced lunch status, underrepresented minority status, or low prior academic performance).
The analysts use grades 3–10 data from Washington State for the 2011–12 school year. They target fourth-grade classrooms in particular, then replicate their analysis for the elementary, middle, and high school levels.
Here's a summary of their findings: The distribution of prior-year value-added estimates for teachers of students on free and reduced-price lunch is routinely lower than the distribution for fourth graders who aren't eligible for the lunch program. Low-income fourth graders are also more likely to have teachers who earned lower scores on the teacher licensure exam. Worse, the distribution of low-quality teachers...
Editor's note: This post is the second in a series reflecting on the author's first year as superintendent at the Partnership Schools, a nonprofit school management organization that (thanks to an historic agreement with the Archdiocese of New York) was granted broad authority to manage and operate six pre-K–8 urban Catholic schools.
Last week, Eliza Shapiro published an article at Capitol New York that explored the "charter-like" approach the Partnership for Inner-City Education is bringing to its Catholic schools. In many ways, that characterization is true. We are, after all, partnering with some pioneers from the charter world. And we're implementing many of the best practices that so many of us have learned from the most successful CMOs.
At the same time, though, there is a lot that it misses. We are much more than "charter-like schools"; we're Catholic schools. And our rich history is the foundation of what we do. Some of the differences are obvious: We can wear our faith on our sleeve and teach values unequivocally. We teach religion. We prepare students for the sacraments. We operate on shoestring budgets.
But there are other differences that have a more subtle—but perhaps more profound—impact on the work...
Scott Walker announced today that he's running for president. The governor of Wisconsin is the fifteenth Republican candidate and the twentieth overall. He's also the latest subject of our Eduwatch 2016 series chronicling presidential candidates' stances on education issues.
Walker has been involved in state politics for over twenty-two years. He was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from 1993 to 2002, when he was elected executive of Milwaukee County. After serving in that office for eight years, he took the helm as governor in 2011. During his tenure, Walker has focused heavily on education reform—and hasn't shied away from controversial decisions. Here's a sampling of his stances:
1. Teacher tenure and pay: "In 2011, we changed that broken system in Wisconsin. Today, the requirements for seniority and tenure are gone. Schools can hire based on merit and pay based on performance. That means they can keep the best and the brightest in the classroom." June 2015.
2. School choice: "[W]e increased the number of quality education choices all over Wisconsin. Over the past four years, we expanded the number of charter schools, lifted the limits on virtual schools, and provided more help for families choosing to...
The Ohio Education Research Center (OERC) recently reported the teacher evaluation results from 2013–14, the first year of widespread implementation of the state's new evaluation policy. The report should serve as an early warning sign while also raising a host of thorny questions about how those evaluations are being conducted in the field.
The study's main finding is that the overwhelming majority of Ohio teachers received high ratings. In fact, a remarkable 90 percent of teachers were rated "skilled" or "accomplished"—the two highest ratings. By contrast, a mere 1 percent of Buckeye teachers were rated "ineffective"—the lowest of the four possible ratings. These results are implausible; teaching is like other occupations, and worker productivity should vary widely. Yet Ohio's teacher evaluation system shows little variation between teachers. It's also evident that the evaluation is quite lenient on teacher performance. But there's more. Let's take a look at a few other data points reported by OERC that merit discussion.
1. Most teachers are not part of the value-added system
Given the controversy around value added in teacher evaluation, it may surprise you that most Buckeye teachers don't receive an evaluation based on value-added results. (Value added refers...


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Mark Hung is a Research VP at Gartner, where he covers wireless technologies and leads Gartner's IoT research agenda on technology providers. In this role, he focuses on how emerging wireless trends are transforming and disrupting a number of industries, including mobile, computing, communications and IoT. His recent research has focused on the IoT ecosystem, Bluetooth LE and iBeacons, indoor location, NFC and mobile payments, and wireless technologies spanning from the PAN (NFC and Bluetooth), to LAN (Wi-Fi/WiGig and ZigBee), and WAN (LTE/5G and LPWA). With his technical and entrepreneurial background, Mr. Hung has advised many Fortune 500 companies and government organizations on their strategic planning, product positioning, go-to-market strategy and competitive analysis. He is frequently quoted in the leading publications and media outlets, including BBC, Bloomberg, CNBC, Financial Times, The New York Times, USA Today, and The Wall Street Journal.
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ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTOFiloli names new executive director
Filoli, Woodside's historic mansion house and gardens, announced on Saturday, July 1, that it has hired a new executive director...Original post made on Jul. 6, 2016
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AROUND TOWNWhat is the Palo Alto Club on Melville?
I live not too far away, and I often bike or walk by this place, a huge beautiful house, at Melville and Webster. It's called...Original post made by im curious on Jul. 26, 2012
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ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTOSanta Clara County supervisors allot $3 million to north county shelter
Looking to help house hundreds of north county's homeless residents during the winter months, the Santa Clara County Board...Original post made on Jul. 6, 2016
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PALO ALTO ISSUESAt 50, Stevenson House gets major overhaul
Residents temporarily relocated from their apartments at Stevenson House have moved back into the affordable senior-living...Original post made on Jul. 1, 2016
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SCHOOLS & KIDSCatching their dreams
The air was electric in rooms 1704 and 1705 of Palo Alto High School's science building on a recent Thursday evening. Students...Original post made on Nov. 27, 2015
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PALO ALTO ISSUESAvenidas partners with Lyft to give rides to seniors
Palo Alto's senior services agency Avenidas and ride-sharing company Lyft are partnering to provide rides to seniors on the...Original post made on Jul. 5, 2016
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AROUND TOWNNeighborhood feathers are ruffling over Cuckoo's Nest Club
Palo Alto and Menlo Park residents living near San Francisquito Creek say a proposed bar at an exclusive club for Silicon...Original post made on Apr. 21, 2016
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CRIMES & INCIDENTSPalo Alto man arrested for alleged rape
A man suspected of raping a woman he knew at his Palo Alto home and preventing her from leaving has been arrested, according...Original post made on Jul. 5, 2016
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PALO ALTO ISSUESAvenidas unveils revised expansion plan
The senior services agency Avenidas last month unveiled a revised expansion plan for its downtown Palo Alto senior center...Original post made on Jul. 1, 2016
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SPORTSUSA women are set to defend FIVB World Grand Prix title
The U.S. Women's National Team is on a quest to get better with each point in preparation for the Olympic Games, and that...Original post made on Jul. 5, 2016
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SCHOOLS & KIDSAthlete profile: Ira Glick
Dr. Ira Glick plays basketball because he "loves it" and because it helps him to stay healthy -- mentally and physically....Original post made on Jul. 5, 2016
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SCHOOLS & KIDSCastilleja to seek approval for growth plan
Castilleja School leaders announced at a community meeting Wednesday night that they plan to file a conditional-use permit...Original post made on Jun. 23, 2016
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CRIMES & INCIDENTSMan arrested for alleged kidnapping, sexual assault
East Palo Alto police have arrested a man for allegedly kidnapping and sexually assaulting a woman on Feb. 4, according to...Original post made on Jul. 2, 2016
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PALO ALTO ISSUESUnraveling the mystery of chronic fatigue syndrome
Researchers are making headway toward finding evidence of chronic fatigue syndrome and how it may change the brain. Read...Original post made on Jul. 10, 2015
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AROUND TOWNBack to basic on low income housing options
Can someone please explain why it is better and fairer to spend the available public funds to acquire an existing trailer...Original post made by thoughtful gathering place on Jun. 30, 2016
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CRIMES & INCIDENTSWoman crashes car into Midtown Shopping Center
An elderly woman was shaken up after driving into two building posts of a Palo Alto shopping plaza and grazing the building...Original post made on Jun. 30, 2016
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PALO ALTO ISSUESEditorial: A bittersweet outcome
Like many decisions that come after much community angst, Tuesday night's final approval of 16 single-family homes on a 2.5-acre...Original post made on Jul. 1, 2016
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CRIMES & INCIDENTSEast Palo Alto police make large fireworks bust days before July 4 celebration
More than $12,000 in illegal fireworks and explosive devices were seized on Thursday when authorities searched an East Palo...Original post made on Jun. 30, 2016
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This is the final part of Joan's essay.
When viewing the poems of Jorie Graham in the Sea Change collection, it's a little harder to pinpoint place. Graham's poems have narrators that inhabit more of an internalized physiological place. This is a much different approach than Tretheway's internalization of place. Graham does not rely on characters influenced, defined or trapped by place. There are few external settings in Graham's poems. There is also not the hierarchal feeling we get from Hull's poems or the definite characterization in the sense of place we see with Di Piero.
Graham, instead, has a feeling of total embodiment in her poems as if it is both a foundation and a place of diffusion and dispersal. The narrators inhabit the world around them as they inhabit their own psyche. In the title poem of the collection "Sea Change" Graham begins her poem from this viewpoint that everything from wind, to news, to how the body feels is all interconnected:
"One day: stronger wind than anyone expected. Stronger than
ever before in the recording
of such. Un-
natural says the news. Also the body says it. Which part of the body—I look
down, can
feel it, yes, don't know
where. Also submerging us,
making of the fields, the trees, a cast of characters in an
drama, ordained, iron-gloom of low light, everything at once undoing
itself. Also sustained, as in a hatred of
a thought, or a vanity that comes upon one out of
nowhere & makes
one feel the mischief in faithfulness to an
idea." (3)
There are several key phrases that strike the reader aside from the flow from the distance of wind, the detachment of the news and the ultimate feeling within the body of this impending change or doom: Submerging us, unnegotiable drama, sustained, as in a hatred of a thought, mischief in the faithfulness to an idea. The reader feels as though this "wind" this "feeling within the body" and this "everything at once undoing itself" reaches the physical, psychological, and emotional. But in relation to place, the body is the foundation of meditation. Sensations and feeling become immediate responses and are used here to exact a sense of truth. As if from the grounding of the body comes the wisdom for experiencing sensations that speaks to the body of instantaneous truth. Even though the emotional and physical body appears to be on the same level in this hierarchy, the body and the emotions that speak to truth are all illusive. Place in fact, has no more bearing than a feeling within the body. Everything is interconnected with the same importance.
Graham speaks of the body in the same terms used to describe an eco-system. By doing this, she reminds the reader how powerfully we are connected to nature. She also reminds us how tenuous this connection can be if not nurtured and how, in destruction, the body will feel "everything at once undoing / itself."
"Like the right to
privacy—how strange a feeling, here, the right—
consider your affliction says the
wind do not plead ignorance, & farther and farther
away leaks the
past, much farther than it used to go, beating against the shutters I
have now fastened again, the huge mis-
understanding round me now so
still in
the center of this room, listening—oh,
these are not split decisions, everything
is in agreement, we set out willingly, & also knew to
play by rules, & if I say to you now
let's go
somewhere the thought won't outlast
the minute, here it is now, carrying its North
Atlantic windfall, hissing Consider
the body of the ocean rises every instant into
me & its
ancient e-
vaporation, & how it delivers itself
to me, how the world is our law, this indrifting of us
into us," (4)
Graham has given us this place, a room with shutters fastened, and as with the other elements of this poem, the reader is not sure if this is an actual room or a metaphorical room; or for that matter, a metaphorical wind, feeling, impression or dilemma. This intermingling of senses allows the reader to experience this poem in a way that reaches them on an emotional level. Every reader can understand this idea of uncertainty and movement of change: how reverberation and regret in the form of past decisions can feel like a wind that encompasses everything. Graham takes this one step further though, reminding us that "the body of the ocean rises every instant" and that "the world is our law" which takes the reader outside of the narrator and into a state of mind where we must consider the larger, more intricate things around us. Our thoughts are carried out in concussive reverberations, which extend beyond the seemingly simple constraints of rooms and shutters and singular feelings.
In "Root End" Graham has the narrator moving through a well known house:
"The desire to imagine
the future.
Walking in the dark through a house you know by
Heart. Calm. Knowing no one will be
out there.
how you move among
the underworld's
the walls glide by, the desks, here a mirror sends back an almost unseeable
blink—" (48)
The movement of the narrator through this familiar house in which things "glide by" nearly unnoticed by the narrator suggests that this is only a placeholder and that, once again, it is the internalization of the familiar, the knowing "how you can move among / the underworld's / furniture," that is the more important sense of security for this narrator. The things in this place are only meaningful because the narrator takes comfort in the "knowing that no one will be / out there." There is a sanctuary that the reader senses here, a feeling of complete control.
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knotting of yet greater dark suggests
a door—a hallow feeling is a stair—the difference between
up and down a differential—so slight—of
and shift of provenance of
void—the side of your face
reads it—as if one could almost overhear laughter "down" there, birdcall "up" there—
although this is only an
analogy for different
the mind knows our place so
deeply well—you could run through it—without fear—even in this total dark—" (48)
This idea of the skin, the brain and the body understanding where you are is so interesting. This place exists as an extension of the mind so intrinsically that the brain and body can sense what is there, what is not there, and what will be there in one thought. This is not a place that: controls, traps, or defines the character or narrator. This is a place defined and controlled by the narrator in a very definite way.
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what action was—fine strength—it turns one inside out—
what is this growing inside of me, using me—such that the
wind can no longer blow through me—such that the dream in me grows cellular, then
muscular, my eyes red, my birth a thing I convey
down this spiral staircase
made of words, made of
nothing but words—" (50)
Graham takes the ending of this poem down to the minuscule structures of cellular and muscular growth of this "fine strength–it turns one inside out." And then returning to the wind, but this time, "the wind can no longer blow through me" until finally we come to the last line of the poem "made of words, made of / nothing but words." Graham has taken us through the house, the wind, the body, the mind, until finally we are left with "nothing but words." This metaphysical interaction of the things around her: the wind, the body, the reverberating aftermath of decisions, and then finally only the words, brings this idea of not only internalized place, but a place controlled that ultimately becomes a lesser influence when pitted against the body, the brain and the physical interaction between these things and the vast world beyond it.
Place is an intricate tool used by all of the poets discussed here. Whether used to refine, delineate by extension, or by enhancing intimate characteristics, place plays an important role in the development of the narrator and other characters within the poem. Place can help chisel out intricacies and emotional relationships the narrator has to other characters. It can also help to broaden their viewpoint and bring them to reconciliation with the world around them. Place can pit the character against his or her past, themselves, entrap him or her within circumstance, or give the poet a springboard to jettison a character up and out of their surroundings and into a transcendent state of mind. Place not only helps guide the reader through the movement of the poem it also weaves in additional threads so the reader can see characters and images through the intimate lens of each poet. When used creatively, place can open up infinite possibilities to aid in the expansion and development of characters in poetry with this sense of concussive reverberations that expand, extend and continue to define how the narrators and characters move within their worlds.


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