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Dispute between Cole County Sheriff and Jefferson City Police Chief could impact public safety
Sheriff and Chief at odds over county's recent upgrade to new radio equipment
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - A dispute between the Cole County Sheriff and the Jefferson City Police Chief over communication technology has at least one claiming public safety may be negatively impacted.
ABC 17 News obtained letters between the sheriff and chief and discovered Cole County commissioners are stepping in to moderate for the two agencies.
A couple weeks ago, Jefferson City announced the dispatch center would be shut down temporarily so a power supply could be replaced.
The Cole County Sheriff's Department recently spent $300,000 in state grants to upgrade to MOSWIN -- Missouri Statewide Wireless Interoperable Network -- radios in order to be compatible with the Missouri State Highway Patrol and the Capitol Police.
The JCPD did not, and since the upgrade, deputies and officers have not been able to communicate car-to-car. However, the two agencies share the dispatch center.
The temporary dispatch center at the mall does not have the capability to use the MOSWIN radio equipment. That means Cole County deputies would be without communications during the maintenance.
In letters that ABC 17 News obtained, JCPD Chief Roger Schroeder said public safety is negatively impacted by the lack of car-to-car communication.
He went on to say this could have been easily avoided had the county consulted with the city before it upgraded its radio equipment.
However, in this technological age, it's unclear why the city did not take advantage of state grants to update its equipment. The current radios will have to eventually be switched to digital ones and communication with the Highway Patrol is nonexistent.
ABC 17's Daniel Winn reached out to Jefferson City police, but nobody was available to go on camera to comment.
Cole County Sheriff Greg White told ABC 17 News he will comment on the situation, but will wait for a meeting scheduled for August 28. That meeting will include the city, county commissioners and the sheriff.


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The world and wardrobes of the Wags became a little gloomier yesterday with the announcement that Roberto Cavalli, favourite designer of those for whom no skirt is too short, is said to be signing over 20% of his label to an Italian private equity firm, Clessidra SGR SpA.
The Italian designer had been planning this sale for some time. In an interview with an Italian newspaper this week he said: "I had to think about it over the last few weeks and I believe it is the right way to ride the recovery after this moment of international economic-financial crisis." There has been no official comment from the brand on the impending deal and no one would say whether this meant that the designer, aged 68, is planning to step back from his eponymous brand.
If he were to do so, the Italian fashion scene would lose one of its more enjoyable centrepieces. His label manages to out-Versace Versace, with its "molto sexy" ethos.
The designer himself, foxy-faced and burnished with a perma-tan, corresponds nicely to most people's image of how a Milanese designer should look. His parties, which generally start at midnight, are part of Milan fashion week legend.
It's hard to imagine an Italian private equity firm deciding to throw a fashion show and party with a mirrored floor, as Cavalli did last year, meaning anyone unfortunate enough to come in a dress had to spend the night crossing her legs to protect her modesty.


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Day #3 and the bunnies are still there. There may be four or there may be five. When I move the grass/hair to take a peak, they start to sort of "popcorn" around — which is awfully cute, but makes me nervous! And I'm certainly not moving them around to count.
Also making me nervous is the fact that I'm not sure that Mom came last night. Up until now, I could tell. I put two light twigs crossed over the grass to see if they were disturbed, but they were not. It is possible, although unlikely, that she could have gotten to them without moving the twigs. Sadly, I don't think so.
So now what???? I did wake up to POURING RAIN around 4:30 a.m. Could that have dissuaded her? And will the little ones be okay until tonight?? Finally, what if she doesn't come back? Arrrgggghhhhhhh.
I took two more pictures. I think the bunnies actually grow every day. They look
more like bunnies than they did yesterday. That's my pointer finger in
the second shot for a size reference.
Mojo has given up on going
near the puppy pen. I know he's biding his time. Waiting for his MOM
to have a senior moment. Or for the little ones to hop out on their
own … hmmmm … friends or snacks?


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"Vivienne's Rose" ties in nicely with the fabric line name of "Prairie Rose".
Beautiful, beautiful quilt.
I like "Vivienne - Daring to be Different". Beautiful by the way!!!!
Vivienne's Star
nice quilt......
that is beautiful and she seemed like a beautiful woman full of life and adventure
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Memories of Vivienne, so beautiful
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I wish Newt was the GOP nominee, If he campaigned correctly about beign the last person to balance the budget, I think that is something "middle America" could have gotten behind. I think he could have certainly won. Now, I dont' think for a second he could balance the budget in 4 years, but perhaps he could have accomplished enough in 4 years to get 4 more, and 8 continuous years of trending towards a balanced budget could have changed government spending for decades.


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God's chatter
On Natasha Trethewey's Native Guard, Mark Strand's Man and Camel, A. R. Ammons's Ommateum, with Doxology, Louise Glück's Firstborn, and Franz Wright's God's Silence.
Natasha Trethewey's well-mannered, well-meaning poems are as confused about race as the rest of us. The daughter of a black mother and white father, she was raised in the deep South of the Sixties, when the civil rights acts had still not penetrated the backwaters of her state. (Some would say that in large swatches of the South they haven't penetrated yet.) Under the miscegenation laws, her parents' marriage was illegal. In Native Guard, she has wrapped a memoir of her childhood around Civil War history—near her hometown, miles off the coast, former slaves and free men-of-color mustered into the Union army stood guard over Confederate POWs at a ramshackle island fort.[1] A soldier notes in his diary:
Truth be told, I do not want to forget
anything of my former life: the landscape's
song of bondage—dirge in the river's throat
where it churns into the Gulf, wind in trees
choked with vines.
Soldiers don't write this way, but poets do. The landscape's song of bondage, the dirge in the river's throat—this ex-slave's fancy phrase-making troubles that "Truth be told," because every scrap of art here makes the past a lie. There were literate slaves, all too few, and perhaps none among the lowly soldiers serving at the sandy, fly-ridden prison near Fort Massachusetts. (The major of the regiment, however, a slave-owning Creole, spoke five languages and was the highest-ranking black officer in the Union army.) To recreate a voice rendered mute by history, Trethewey has sometimes borrowed from a white colonel's memoir to make do. Putting the words of an educated white into the mouth of a freed slave isn't so bad; but, when Trethewey is forced to choose between the pretty and the profane, the pretty wins every time. She's an aesthete in wolf's clothing.
Trethewey's last book, Bellocq's Ophelia (2002), was a portrait of a prostitute in Storyville, the red-light district of turn-of-the-century New Orleans where E. J. Bellocq took his haunting glass-plates of local whores, who looked at times surprisingly genteel. The poems invent a past re-imagined through the wishful thinking of the present, in that theme park of the oppressed designed by modern academics. Forty-five years ago, an amateur historian who took the trouble to record Storyville's surviving denizens and habitués found many prostitutes still alive—a couple of the transcripts are as brilliantly foul-mouthed as any episode of Deadwood. It's a long way from there to Trethewey's prim, rose-colored-glasses whore who, however borne down, seems sad in the pluckiest possible way.
As soon as you know the premises of Trethewey's poems, you know everything: they're the architecture of their own prejudices. Though fond of form, she fudges any restrictions that prove inconvenient, so we get faux villanelles, quasi-sonnets, and lots of lines half-ripened into pentameter—most poems end up in professional but uninspired free verse. Trethewey wears the past like a diamond brooch. She writes of her parents with no fury or sympathy or even regret, just the blank courtesy of a barista at Starbucks. You read the tales of prostitution and slavery without feeling a thing—the slaves might just as well be dressed by Edith Head, with a score by Max Steiner swelling gloriously over a Technicolor sunset. Trethewey's moral sunniness has all the conviction of Scarlett O'Hara gushing, "As Gawd is mah witness, I'll nevah be hungry agai-yun."
Since the poems know where they're going long before they get there, it's a shock when one takes a wrong turn. As a girl, bringing daffodils to her mother, Trethewey sees in them something of herself ("each blossom a head lifted up// toward praise"):
I knew nothing
of Narcissus or the daffodils' short spring—
when the wind blew—a whisper, treacherous,
from the sill. Be taken with yourself,
they said to me; Die early, to my mother.
Such lines face the guilt other poems resist, though there are secrets they can't confess (they're cagiest about a stepfather's violence). Soon it's back to a tone-deaf blues ("When the preacher called out I held up my hand;/ When he called for a witness I raised my hand—/ Death stops the body's work; the soul's a journeyman") or four photographs of the South tortured into poems, each duller than the last. The poems move excruciatingly slowly, their symbols marked like road signs—a landscape is never just a landscape, it's the "buried/ terrain of the past"; and, as for history, the "ghost of history lies down beside me,// rolls over, pins me beneath a heavy arm."
You're surprised Native Guard doesn't contain a tourist's guide to the symbols, to make sure the reader knows where to look. The book does come with notes, as if mounting every epigraph like a dead bug and pointing out each historical source made the poems any the livelier. Trethewey so wants to be praised, she has injected these poems with the formaldehyde of style.
Mark Strand's louche charm and languid good manners (he's as debonaire as Cary Grant in a tux) let him treat weighty matters as if they were light as feathers, and feathery matters as if they weighed out as lead. His teasing, self-mocking parables, so even-tempered a flame thrower couldn't ruffle their composure, have made many readers wonder if he can take anything seriously. The new poems in Man and Camel don't try very hard to be exceptions.[2]
I am not thinking of Death, but Death is thinking of me.
He leans back in his chair, rubs his hands, strokes
His beard, and says, "I'm thinking of Strand, I'm thinking
That one of these days I'll be out back, swinging my scythe
Or holding my hourglass up to the moon, and Strand will appear
In a jacket and tie, and together under the boulevards'
Leafless trees we'll stroll into the city of souls."
There's much to be said for treating even Death with devil-may-care carelessness; but critics have long had trouble dividing the absurdist Strand, the one who could sell Dada to Eskimos, from the moody, philosophical poet who has occasionally made an appearance through this long and desultory career. Even Strand has trouble telling them apart.
The eerie fables and quirky anecdotes in Reasons for Moving (1968) and Darker (1970) were told with a minimum of detail and all the affect of a dry martini. They were much imitated in their day (sometimes they even imitated themselves), but the longer and more pretentious poems that followed in The Story of Our Lives (1973) were more tedious to read than they must have been to write. Strand's reputation never quite recovered, and he was very quickly promoted to that Grand Old Man status in which poets win awards for books not half as good as ones ignored when they were Sweet Young Things.
Had Sylvia Plath never written a line, Strand would have been the most gifted American poet born in the Thirties; and his darkly cynical poems sometimes sound like a posthumous version of hers, what she might have written after laying waste to everything in sight. Shorn of metaphors and similes, prosaic as a paper bag, Strand's poems come long after an apocalypse no one can quite remember.
Man and Camel seems at first to have been written by the Strand whose every poem is a variation of a joke about a man walking into a bar with a parrot on his shoulder. A man begins to act like a horse, but he can't fool real horses ("they might have known me/ in another life—the one in which I was a poet./ They might have even read my poems"). A man finds he can walk into fires and emerge unscathed. A man on a porch sees a man and a camel stroll by. The man and animal wander up the street and out of town, singing a haunting song, then return to the man on the porch. "You ruined it," they say. "You ruined it forever." It's amusing, a little, this thinly disguised revenge on people who want something from art. Strand is often most heavy-handed when he's writing about nothing at all.
It's a surprise, then, after so many poems half-thought and half-baked, to find a group written in the same style but violently sad and unappeasable.
I still recall that moment of looking up
and seeing the woman stare past me
into a place I could only imagine,
and each time it is with a pang,
as if just then I were stepping
from the depths of the mirror
into that white room, breathless and eager,
only to discover too late
that she is not there.
The poet seems to have woken to some arctic world of Schopenhauerian suffering. These poems rely too heavily on props left over from the 1970s—night and moon and stars, all available by mail order. You're never sure this more solemn poet isn't going to tie your shoelaces together when you're distracted.
Worse, the book closes with an overwrought sequence, "Poem after the Seven Last Words" (the last words of Christ), commissioned to be read between movements of a Haydn string quartet (or, as the proofs have it, "Hayden"). Religious poetry is not the ironist's métier, because it removes his chief weapon: "you/ shall be with me in paradise, in the single season of being,/ in the place of forever, you shall find yourself"—who knew that Christ had mastered, not just the pop-psych jargon of "finding yourself," but the run-on sentence? Still, it's good to be reminded that sometimes, when this poet balances doubt against absurdity, doubt still triumphs.
In 1955, a sales executive for a medical glassware firm paid a notorious vanity press to publish his first book of poems. The book sold sixteen copies (royalties amounted to "four four-cent stamps," the poet joked), other copies being palmed off on business cronies by the poet's father-in-law. Exactly a century before, Walt Whitman had paid the printer's bill for Leaves of Grass out of his own pocket. The young glassware man, A. R. Ammons, went on to win two National Book Awards and the Bollingen Prize. The reissue of his rare first book, Ommateum, with Doxology, completes the barrel-scraping that followed his death five years ago.[3]
Ammons was always an oddball in American poetry, producing lyric reflections and rambling meditations on nature, philosophy, science, the verse stumbling along as if it couldn't quite catch up. He wrote in inspired fits, good and bad indifferently jumbled together, and is perhaps most famous for Tape for the Turn of the Year (1965), composed upon an adding-machine tape, which made the lines short and the poem nearly endless (you wonder if he took the tape on his way out the door of the glassware business). A new preface by Roger Gilbert proposes that, after Leaves of Grass, Ommateum may be the "most important self-published book of American poetry"; but it must compete with first books by, among others, Edwin Arlington Robinson and Ezra Pound.
If Ommateum was the "first expression of a mature, startlingly original artist," as Gilbert believes, it would have taken a crystal ball to tell. The poems are fervent and indistinct, not at all like the house style of the Fifties, but not very original. The best are faded washes of Pound in high romantic mode, and indeed many use as their protagonist a heroic figure named Ezra, half prophet and half wandering Ishmael: poems have been set in Sumer, as well as at a crucifixion, in a crusade, and during a medieval plague. For all his heroic fortitudes and heroic claptrap, the hero seems less Gilgamesh than Gumby.
The worst poems are impossibly dotty, so awful you wonder what the author ever saw in them:
Silent as light in dismal transit
through the void, I, evanescent,
sibilant among my parts,
fearing the eclipse of a possible glance
and not glancing, shut-eyed,
crouch froglike upon my brain.
Even if you paid through the nose to get a vanity press to publish this, you'd have to bribe the typesetter not to cut his own throat.
One scholar has suggested that Ommateum is an example of "outsider art"— the folk art, often touching and strange, sometimes quite mad, of uneducated naïfs and mental patients. Ammons was a thoroughly educated naval veteran (he studied for an MA in English at Berkeley), not some hick with a charred twig and a slab of bark; yet the implicit comparison to Whitman, another outsider, has curious merit. Ammons and Whitman both pretended to be more naive than they were (Whitman was self-educated and a newspaper editor, not the slouch-hatted bumpkin of Leaves of Grass), and each violated the poetic constraints of his day. We look back at Whitman and see his peers writing third-rate Keats; we look at Ammons and see his peers writing third-rate Eliot and Pound—yet Leaves of Grass is a work of genius, and Ommateum a collection of thoughtless witterings:
My dice are crystal inlaid with gold
and possess
spatial symmetry
about their centers and
mechanical symmetry and
are of uniform density
and all surfaces have equal
coefficients of friction for
my dice are not loaded
Thy will be done
whether dog or Aphrodite.
The young poet eventually learned how to make the short line bear more weight (here the lines stutter with ecstasy: "Come word/ I said/ azalea word/ gel precipitate/ while I/ the primitive spindle …".) Ammons the woodsman and natural philosopher is occasionally on display ("The grasses heading barbed tufts/ airy panicles and purple spikes"), but the poems celebrating the cornucopia of the earth's business lie a good distance in the future.
Ammons took the long way around to become a poet. Ommateum disappeared without notice (apart from one dismal review in Poetry), and it was eight years before he published another book. He was lucky this volume became so rare (God help him, he thought it might have been his best), because for a long while the poems were hidden from sight. This reissue commemorates the ambitions of that young ampoule and urine-bottle salesman. The only way Ammons could have improved Ommateum would have been to burn it.
Many poets never live down their first books (a few find they cannot live up to them); but sometimes later books take such a radical turn, the first is forgotten or dismissed as youthful folly (Frost's agreeable and slight A Boy's Will was soon overwhelmed by the genius of North of Boston). Sometimes in this chronicle I will look back at neglected books, even books that might have to be rescued from the author's distaste. Think of Louise Glück's Firstborn (1968).[4] The original dust jacket referred to her as "Miss Glück," an address that sounds almost Victorian now—you're surprised she wasn't called a poetess. When reprinted in the Eighties, this debut was practically orphaned by its author, who felt only "embarrassed tenderness" toward it.
The disconcerting, morbid psychology of Firstborn seems heavily marked by the influence of Sylvia Plath (Ariel had appeared only three years before). The younger poet's lines are seductive as a tango, as she tries to shake off all the older poet knew (the debts accrued as inspiration were paid in resistance). Where Plath was a poet of melodrama and rude outburst, Glück is all pinched reserve (she speaks like Atropos, every sentence cut short), the poems mere shards and shattered glass. She watches a family on a train:
the kid
Got his head between his mama's legs and slept. The poison
That replaces air took over.
And they sat—as though paralysis preceding death
Had nailed them there. The track bent south.
I saw her pulsing crotch … the lice rooted in that baby's hair.
How Freud would have loved the violence of her seeing! Brute but matter-of-fact, the lines have the rhythm of complaint but not concession; they're almost sorry for the world they have to record. The pleasure the poet takes in the senses lies partly in the gratification of disgust—Sharon Olds and C. K. Williams might have learned at her feet.
In Firstborn, everything happens for the observer's eye (urgent as tabloid headlines, the poems are cast all too frequently in the present tense). Though later books reconvened Glück's life as myth, here she lives in the world of cars and soup cans, the world of the everyday. The world of boys.
Requiring something lovely on his arm
Took me to Stamford, Connecticut, a quasi-farm,
His family's; later picking up the mammoth
Girlfriend of Charlie, meanwhile trying to pawn me off
On some third guy also up for the weekend.
But Saturday we still were paired; spent
It sprawled across that sprawling acreage
Until the grass grew limp
With damp. Like me. Johnston-baby, I can still see
The pelted clover, burrs' prickle fur and gorged
Pastures spewing infinite tiny bells. You pimp.
This is a Glück you recognize and a Glück you don't, not quite. The rhymes that button up these poems—rhymes she soon abandoned—have been lost in the avalanche of enjambment. The economy becomes a declaration of pain, with nothing left beneath terseness except despair. Glück's later poems in The House on Marshland (1975) and Descending Figure (1980) turn woozy and narcotic, living in the bedclothes of dreams and myths, drawn to female sufferers like Joan of Arc and Abishag. The rough edges have been planed off, the anxieties battened into place—self- consciousness has set in.
There are lines in Firstborn like shavings from Plath's workshop floor (the "click,/ Click of his brain's whirling empty spindle," the "moon as round as aspirin"), but Glück has a dour comedy of her own: "I watch the lone onion/ Floating like Ophelia, caked with grease." Like Dickinson, she's a flawed solitaire sometimes grimly amused by herself. The poems are not the practiced, French-polished productions of a professional—there's raw nerve in their claustrophobic interiors. Only one or two of these apprentice pieces have the shimmer of lasting work, but all are triumphant—even gloating—in their losses.
Fish bones walked the waves off Hatteras.
And there were other signs
That Death wooed us, by water, wooed us
By land: among the pines
An uncurled cottonmouth that rolled on moss
Reared in the polluted air.
Birth, not death, is the hard loss.
I know. I also left a skin there.
She must be one of the few poets to imitate "The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket" and live to tell about it.
Though Glück never formally entered college, she attended a few courses at Columbia and Sarah Lawrence (Hart Crane's father invented Lifesaver mints, Glück's the X-Acto knife)—her career is that of an outsider looking in, while the poems reveal someone trapped in a body looking out. Why return to this book almost forty years later? Not just to examine how much the poet left behind, but to note how much still seems fresh and unexhausted. In her first book, Glück had already reached the limits of her skin. The poet she became had to be different—a metamorphosis few poets have managed with as much grace, or success. Quarrelsome though I have often been about her later work, she has earned my admiration for the way she has wrestled with what might be called the music of a career—with being a poet over time.
The potential market for poetry action-figures must be enormous, so why not start with that holy terror, Franz Wright? Every figure must come with accessories: in Wright's case, one set for before rehab (bottle of whiskey, hypodermic, glassine envelopes), one for after (twelve-step pamphlet, Good News Bible). Wright has never had to choose between perfection of the work and of the life, the life is already so imperfect. But, like many ex-drunks and ex-junkies, he can't let you forget his glory days. He never lets himself forget, either—he revels in old sins while begging praise for new virtues. (Some sinners end up holier than thou, some druggier than thou, though a few want desperately to be both.)
God's Silence lives in the suffering of forgiveness (Wright seems stuck on step five of the famous twelve: he can't forgive himself and sometimes can't forgive God), but it's hard to tell when the suffering stops and the wallowing begins.[5] The poetry is romantic in all the wrong ways—it's the work of Peck's Bad Boy gone straight, of Byron in a dog collar, the pages stained with self-loathing piety. Wright's relation to his God is that of whining schoolboy to distant headmaster, a headmaster who refuses to speak to him.
I am very afraid but still know You
are taking care of me, and even live in hope
You will one day see fit to put into my mouth
words that will explain it all, floating before me in letters
of fire.
The religious poems here—delivered in spews of cringing self-abasement—are the more moving for being so unconvincing. (Like many solipsists, Wright can't relate to others without sentimentalizing them; and that includes God, the most forbidding of father figures.) Few poets since Plath have dissected themselves so publicly for their art (I'm not even going to suggest the accessories required by the Plath action-figure) and Wright is the last and most frustrated of confessionals. He has few poetic gifts beyond displaying his wounds in public; but the breast-beating apologias are cast in language so clumsy and affected, they seem a lie. Has any poet ever wanted so badly to be sincere, or failed so miserably?
One of the few pleasures of writing
is the thought of one's book in the hands of a kindhearted
intelligent person somewhere. I can't remember what the others are right now.
I just noticed that it is my own private
National I Hate Myself and Want to Die Day.
I hope I'm not the only reader who finds this both hilarious and insufferable. If I were a "kindhearted / intelligent person," I'd put my head down and run like blazes.
Wright's father, the much loved and much honored poet James Wright (they are the first father and son to win Pulitzer Prizes in poetry), was a hard act to follow—and I say that despite never having been a fan. He comes in for abuse here, but he was a poet of more dignity and modest seriousness than his son. Indeed, the son's poetry contains the negative virtues of the father's: brutish where his father's affected a plain elegance, sniveling where his father's remained sensitive, ordinary where his father's could be haunting.
Franz Wright longs for the annihilations of faith (he writes so many poems about a blinding light, I wanted to buy stock in Sylvania; then I realized he meant the light of God); but he doesn't have a vocabulary sophisticated enough to render them. (Most poets want to write about sinners, few about saints, because sinners are better box office—they make everyone else feel virtuous.) Wright drops so eagerly into quasi-religious blather ("I cling to the Before/ The spirit face/ behind the face/ yearning for light/ the water and the light/ And I am flowing back to the Before"), you'd think he was angling for an appearance on The 700 Club. His faith barely conceals the rage beneath:
Poem is not composed in states of exaltation: most that are, in fact, result in total doggerel and, frankly, insufferable puke.
The peculiar mixture of pride and self-loathing makes these poems rude, unlovely things, like papier-mâché sculptures by a roomful of fifth-graders. Wright's readers seem fascinated by a man obviously held together, like his poems, with spit and glue. Beyond the gruesome sentiment, the ranting and raving, the hunger for praise no Pulitzer could satisfy (it would take nine yards of cement to ruin the appetite of someone who feels so unloved), lies a damaged soul with wry self-knowledge: "Nobody has called for some time. / (I was always the death of the party.)" I wish Wright could laugh at himself more often, because when his morose, tortured poems stop asking for sympathy they start demanding pity; and then they want all the money in your wallet.
S.settrack 10 80 ay the muses want to lay a terrible curse upon a child. They give him a bat's ears, a code-breaker's eye, the ability to juggle words like flaming torches; then they say, "You will have all the gifts a poet desires, but nothing whatever to write about." Paul Muldoon's early poems were quirky and modest, and it's hard to tell exactly when he went beyond baroque. What was manner became mannerism—he turned into one of those Las Vegas interior decorators whose motto is "If it doesn't move, gild it!" A poet, as he ages, can become so secure in his tendencies he can't remember when he didn't have tendencies at all. The Muldoon of thirty years ago might shake his head in bewilderment at the poems in Horse Latitudes:[6]
Not the day-old cheep of a smoke detector on the blink
in what used to be the root cellar,
or the hush-hush of all those drowsy syrups
against their stoppers
in the apothecary chest
at the far end of your grandmother's attic,
not the "my sweet, my sweet"
of ice branch frigging ice branch,
nor the jinkle-jink
of your great-grandfather, the bank teller
who kept six shots of medicinal (he called it "therap-
utraquist") whiskey like six stacks of coppers …
Here are the cheerfully swollen vocabulary, the onomatopoeia ("jinkle-jink"), the queerly fabricated words ("therap-/ utraquist") of late Muldoon. Should you wonder why the little soufflé of "theraputraquist" has been divided like East and West Berlin, you only have to look at the end words—alternate stanzas rhyme with each other. (Muldoon's so addicted to rhymes, for a good one he'd sacrifice his firstborn son.)
This is the sort of tour de force Muldoon lives for; but after you read nineteen sonnets, each named for a battle beginning with the letter B (yet pointedly not Baghdad, though the armored cavalry of Gulf War II forms a counterpoint to the horses of earlier wars), or the villanelle, or the double villanelle, or the sestina, or the pantoum, or the ninety haiku—most of these forms with his own madcap stamp upon them—you wonder if there was a point. There were other poets like this once, and they wrote in Latin two thousand years ago and were ridiculed as Alexandrians. Muldoon never runs out of things to say, only things worth saying.
There's nothing natural about his poems now—they're full of artificial sweeteners, artificial colors, and probably regulated by the FDA. Poem after poem fires off words with such abandon they're noisier than Phil Spector's Wall of Sound (if at fifty-five you title a book Horse Latitudes, write a terrible set of couplets about Bob Dylan, and start your own rock band, people will wonder if you're having a midlife crisis). Muldoon's a Wittgenstein disciple who believes the world is everything that is the case, and he can't bear to leave anything out: you can find Gene Chandler, stilettos, spivs with shivs, tweenie girls, and anti-Castro Cubans, all within half a dozen lines. He has a riddle about griddle that takes thirty lines (if you haven't gotten the hint, Muldoon's favorite rhea is logorrhea—or is that his favorite logo?). Like God, he loves all things equally and not wisely but too well; in the democracy of such love lies tedium.
What happens if you patiently untangle the spells of this sorcerer? (It helps to have some hepcat up on the latest lingo as well as a fat dictionary.) "The Old Country" seems composed of nothing but frothy contrivance:
Every flash was a flash in the pan
and every border a herbaceous border
unless it happened to be an
herbaceous border as observed by the Recorder
or recorded by the Observer.
Every widdie stemmed from a willow bole.
Every fervor was a religious fervor.
This rings its changes all the way through a crown of sonnets; yet, if you examine every line, you see the terrible small-mindedness of a town where everyone watches everyone else, noting his pronunciation and the newspaper he takes. When you penetrate the asphalt of these poems, you may find a nugget of gold; but you need a jackhammer to do so.
Becalmed in the horse latitudes that afflict most writers, Muldoon will pitch logic, truth, beauty, and meaning overboard, just to save the cheep-cheep of that smoke detector. A very few poems, like "The Treaty" and "Eggs," though dressed in the bling-bling of his later work, return him to the Ireland before and during the Troubles (he's now an American citizen and a professor at Princeton). Something has been gained, a lot of it 24-carat, but much has been lost as well.
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- Man and Camel, by Mark Strand; Alfred A. Knopf, 55 pages, $24. Go back to the text.
- Ommateum, with Doxology, by A. R. Ammons; W. W. Norton, 85 pages, $23.95. Go back to the text.
- Firstborn, by Louise Glück; New American Library, 55 pages, $4 [out of print], reprinted in The First Four Books of Poems, Ecco, 217 pages, $15. Go back to the text.
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This is a camera, right?
How can it be given an overall score of 9 when its score for image quality is 7? Does that mean the other issues over and above it primary purpose makes it somewhat better.
I don't see how a camera with 7 for image quality is better than another with suitable but less features should get a higher rating than another camera with 9 for image quality but less features.
Features are a factor but they are not what I would buy a camera for.
Darn! Why can't compact superzooms like this one sport a peep-through viewfinder? Even given the shortcomings noted in this review, I would have bought this camera if it had a viewfinder.
a medium format camera will doubtless have better image quality, if it gets the shot. Sometimes getting the shot is a function of the camera features, like zoom range, or pocketability. Getting the shot is the ultimate arbiter of image quality - no shot = zero quality. I'd give a camera extra points for features which translate into getting the shot.
I like the "GPS - For Digital Nomad" - highly amusing!
I'd consider buying this when the price drops. Although the images look a bit like an oil painted up close, thanks to the processing, I think the overall lens quality, colour reproduction and DR outweigh this. I tend to keep most of my point & shoot photos 'as shot' anyway, so this wouldn't be an issue for me. Maybe they'll release a firmware update to improve this, but its Samsung, so I wouldn't hold my breath!
@ Fiqqer, Martin & Chris... I'm looking for a high quality point & shoot/travel camera in the £200 arena. As soon as I saw the 7/10 for image quality I immediately dismissed this camera, it could be voice controlled, have artificial intelligence, run battery free and double up as an emergency phone.. I still wouldn't buy it. Sorry Cliff.
Totally agree with Fiqquer...how on earth can a camera that has 7/10 for image quality get a 9/10 score? If the images are no good then neither is the camera.
really depend. my family hardly print any photo. and if we do, most are just 5*7. for this size, really does not matter. and we most only view photo and share with people on computer. we hardly post photo online using any size bigger than 2 or 3mp.
so that is the point. now we are judge it by its full size. but we should always ask ourself that in pratical do we need full size photo?
at least for many people they do not need at all.
When are manufacturers going to give us the option in pocket cameras of taking photos in RAW? Then we won't be dependent on their clunky in-camera processing and, given the availabilty of reasonably priced software like Photoshop Elements, the user can do his or her own processing in RAW and then save as jpeg (or whatever) as needed. In camera storage limitations are no longer an issue with huge capacity SD cards available so why insist on creating jpeg in the camera?
I have been using this camera ( WB 660, Malaysia ) for 2 months now and find it very competent and easy to use. I have no issues with the image quality as I shoot mostly in daylight. The 15X zoom & HD video are superior to the TZ7 which I had previously. It is a much better camera than TZ7 tho I have not compared it to the TZ10
I have created an account just so I can comment on this thread.
Have just posted the WB650 back to the seller for a refund.
In short this camera is the DB's and much more, in reality the photos are CRAP.Some photos turn out OK but most resemble blotchy oil paintings.
A great shame as I would have liked this camera to have worked at taking great photos but it does not. The rest of the Camera functions are brill, but what is the point of brill add ons when the image quality is crap?
Just to say some photos have come out OK , so why not a mode where the image destruction can be switched off?
This is a follow up from my previous comments as I wish to be fair to both Cliff's review and the Samsung technicians.
I returned WB650 then tried a host of other compact zooms and not one of them produced a better IQ. WB650 Geo tagging and mapping leads the pack, as does the build quality. Obtained another WB650 and actually read the manual (pdf file) then got excellent results.
Am now keeping this cam as an easy to carry anywhere backup to my millstone DSLR.
In short, the point score by Cliff of 9 out of 10 is spot on and the Samsung team have done a great job. I got it wrong 1st time, this is a great camera.
david,how much did samsung pay you,thats a big backtrack,i've got this camera and as has previously been said whats the point of a camera if the image quality is poor..and it is!!! my sony compact is far superior despite it lacking on a few features which are hardly used anyway..no offence intended..just my thoughts.
Yeah, no offence meant, just my thoughts, but... accusing some-one of being corrupt IS offensive. And the inference from "How can a camera be given an overall score of 9 when its score for image quality is 7?" is that a camera with an image quality of 10 is perfect for a taking on vacation - even if it's the size of a house. Why bother with the other qualities of size, ease of use etc that determine a customer's choice if "image quality" is the only consideration? The quality of these tiny cameras is incredible. I have a TZ5 and will probably upgrade to a WB650 rather than a TZ10 now that Panasonic forbid 3rd party batteries. Yes, I would like to see lower resolution sensors with bigger more sensitive pixels, and the option to switch off in-camera image massaging, but apparently that's what the customer wants. We can't really blame the manufacturer for that.
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Feed your Nestcam Addiction
Sigh. It's been four to six weeks since we had nesting peregrines to watch on the webcams.
Many of us are going through withdrawal, but there's hope that we won't have to stop watching yet. There are still a couple of active nests to feed our addiction.
On Friday I got a newsletter from Cornell Lab of Ornithology with a link to their nestcams. Of their six active nests, my favorite is the Chimney Swift in New York state. What a cool C-shaped nest of tiny twigs! Click on the image above to see for yourself.
And if you have another favorite nestcam let us know where it is by leaving a comment.
We have to watch birds on camera!
(Screen capture of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology Nestcam home page. Click on the image to go to the site.)
12 Responses to "Feed your Nestcam Addiction"
# faith cornellon 10 Jul 2010 at 7:47 am
One of my favorites now is the WildEarth.TV site where you cn watch the Hornby Island (Brit.Col. I think) so allow for about 3 hrs. lag time; the one eaglet is over 70 days old, sitting up in a nest next to the cam. site. The chatters said he/she could fledge 10-15 days. Beautiful parents, mates for 27 years. But the site is beautiful. They call the baby Phoenix but it is not known whether male or female yet. They don't get their white heads until sexual maturity is reached for 5 yrs. approx. But a great site just for the nest. A few times I have been on & one of the actual parents is landing or taking off. Beautiful eagles, good parents, drop off lots of fish. Not a falcon but endangered nonetheless.
# Kathie Evanson 10 Jul 2010 at 8:28 am
My favorite webcam site is View Nesting Birds:
There are links to Peregrine Falcons webcams all over North America and Europe plus lots of other species of birds.
# Donnaon 10 Jul 2010 at 2:24 pm
We can soon get out peregrine fix from "down under" ; nesting season starts in August in Australia: http://www.alcoa.com/australia/en/info_page/falcon_webcam.asp
# Nellie Curranon 10 Jul 2010 at 7:17 pm
I also miss watching the Peregrins so I have tried to replace it with looking out for Great Blue Heronds early in the morning on the Allegheny River. This is the time of year when you can see young and older Heronds fishing in the river. Most of the time you will see only 1 but, 2 days ago just north of the 40th St. Bridge I saw an adult with two younger Heronds. My rowing partner and I were surpriced to see 3 together. We have never seen that before. It made our day.
The closets nesting area for the Heronds on the Allegheny is on 12 mile iseland up river.
# Dottyon 11 Jul 2010 at 1:01 am
I also watch, with Faith Cornell, the Hornby Eagles webcam….terrific views, awesome education, and great chat… I have learned a lot about eagles, and met a lot of great "chatters" who share a love of all nature. BTW, Phoenix is a boy!
Love your site-so full of great pictures and information. I am originally from Pittsburgh, so have enjoyed the falcon cams. My favorite camera for the last three years has been the Barn Owl Trust site in England. They have wonderful information on the Barn Owl and right now have three growing owlets in the nest. They should soon be attempting to exit the box and that is always fun to observe. The nest box is located in a barn and the early morning color shots from the "Barn Cam" are so beautiful. Once the owlets exit and roost on the tray, you can follow their attempts to fly around the barn. At present the parents usually roost in the barn and only visit the nest to deliver food. Hope you enjoy this nest.
# faith cornellon 11 Jul 2010 at 8:39 am
Thanks for info Dotty on sex of Phoenix. Not that it really matters. What is important tho is that he meet up with a miss in five years & live long like his parents.
# Anne Marieon 12 Jul 2010 at 10:31 am
Thanks for the links everyone and Tap, especially thanks for the heads up on the Barn Owl Trust in England. The site is very informative and the 3 owlets are adorable! Here's the cam link http://www.thewebbroadcastingcorporation.com/barnowlcam_nestcam.html
Still miss 'our' peregrines however, not sure anything can completely take their place!
# tapon 12 Jul 2010 at 11:22 am
Glad you are enjoying the barn owls. Because of time difference we get to see more activity at the nest as evening falls. They will soon be trying to leap out that window-not an easy task!
Here's another favorite barn owl site in a natural setting with younger owlets here in the US.
Another favorite of mine with lots of drama this year-so much so that they did not ring the osprey or place transmitters on them this year to follow their flight to Africa is:
The two young osprey just fledged yesterday. The scenery and camera work is outstanding.
# Anne Marieon 12 Jul 2010 at 7:07 pm
tap – more thanks… yes, I had heard about Lady the Osprey in Scotland… coming back from near death just to care for her chicks! Such a moving story of a mother's devotion and of the inexperienced father stepping up to care for his young!
# Anne Marieon 14 Jul 2010 at 6:06 pm
A little like our Green Boy… Tap mentioned the Owl Trust in England… well one of the owlets somehow managed to get out of the box and was accidentally knocked off the perch to the barn floor by one of the parents! Trust employees had to rescue the owlet and have returned it to the nest box safely. And talk about noisy!!! Yikes these owlets have really good voices! They are cute too.
# Lori Aon 15 Jul 2010 at 4:02 pm
Unfortunately, the eaglet Phoenix in the Hornsby Island nest, passed away. They have retrieved his body from the nest and will be doing a necropsy to determine why he died. It is very sad news to all of us who have been intently following his growth and progress.


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Hi all, Could you help me once more? i"m trying to use margin with the dummies option after xtlogit, fe , but I got the message "-margin- does not work with clogit; use -mfx- instead" . But, in the help file, the author says that it works with xtlogit and clogit. Am I doing anything wrong? As I said before, I am a still learnig stata, so perhaps the next question may be a very simple one: In the help file of margin, the author says to code the dummy variable as 0/1. How can I do that? Best Regards, Nick Varian ______________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Mail: 6MB, anti-spam e antivķrus gratuito! Crie sua conta agora: http://mail.yahoo.com.br * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/res/findit.html * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
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350 SS existed only as a decal. The sport model actually had an option to come with 350 SS decals, but it's a sport model, and not really an SS. The sport model was also a back door to get the 454 without the SS package.. The Sport also wouldn't have come with a GTO style hood scoop. Sport and SS trucks did not have special hoods.. Sport was a paint and trim package... As for a title. someone who originally titled it could have squeezed in SS, and that could have been a dealer..
I have a bunch of GMT400 trucks including 3 454SS's and I used to have a sport.
There was no such thing as a 350 SS built by Chev.
There are a bunch of differences between a 454 SS and a sport. (frame, suspension, brakes, interiors, moldings, 14 bolt real end, etc.)
The tires, sway bars and appearance packages were almost the same. A sport could come in pretty much any engine and option combo you wanted- 4.3,5.0,5.7- auto - 5 speed whatever.
The 454SS was always the same by model year except for the colors in 91-93. (with the exception of minor differences like mirrors / floor mats / etc. but you'll never see a 454SS without power windows / Air, etc.)
the 350 SS is not 'super rare' its a stickered chev sport.
Chev sport trucks are pretty cool on their own - I just shake my head at all these people that state this BS as fact. there were no factory cowl hoods. Some dealers peeled off the 'sport' stickers and put '350 SS' on the side of the box... that's it.
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Just calling him a corner at all bothers me.
Im going to start calling him an undersized LB.
If you cant play out wide against a receiver, you arent a corner.
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Some guys just play this game better then others, regardless of anything measurable wise u can put down.. Maybe Mathieu is one of them...
SIAP but the dude said he stopped counting after failing 10 drug tests at LSU... Don't want him.
Mathieu was never a man corner. He wasn't even a corner at all. He was a rover in the LSU system which is a hybrid LB/safety position. It is also a position that does not line up in the same spots or have the same responsibility every play, making it very difficult to avoid by opposing QBs. His job was to undercut routes, play zone, blitz, contain......in other words, you never knew where he was going to be.
It is not a good comparison.
The Steve Brown example is a good 1 tho as nobody threw away from his side.


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I'll gently take issue with the way you bound the question. You defined three "styles" of shooting, but none is a style so much as a technique that will be driven by circumstance. You also seem to be seeking advice on which to "concentrate" on. My advice - worth exactly what you're paying for it - is to drive toward competence will all three.
Going in reverse order, if you have a weapon-mounted laser, then by all means train with it. But don't train with it to the exclusion of other sighting means, because the day you absolutely depend on your laser to save your bacon is the day that Murphy shows up - dead battery, failed switch, or a bird turd on the lens.
Point shooting is necessary to learn because there's a greater likelihood of needing your sidearm at bad-breath distance in a situation where you may not have time to aim. In some situations you may have time to aim but near-total darkness may preclude the use of your sights.
Knowing how to shoot quickly and accurately with aimed fire using traditional sights is an absolute necessity, and I would call it the core of training and shooter development - but not to the full exclusion of other sighting techniques. Point shooting won't serve you well when your target is one head and one hand at 20 yards. In bright daylight your laser dot will be invisible to you on certain targets.
In my case, I've tried lasers but they're not for me. Practice point shooting? You bet. Aimed fire? Of course. I also dabble in IDPA-type events with reactive targets set from 5 to 20 yards out to push my own capability to shoot quickly, accurately enough, and on the move.


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Just picked up a 95
Long story short, decided to keep my 74 CJ5, and pulled all the ads, ordered parts, started tearing into it when some guy calls and wants to buy it. Went the next day and picked up this 95 that I had been eyeing for about a month. Its a 95, absolutely no tub rust, completely bone stock with its origional hard top and full doors. It runs perfect, 5 speed, 3.5 axle ratios. Came with the origional window sticker and all the owners manuals etc etc.
So I went and ordered my 4" Rough Country lift kit, Rims and 33s today. Picked up a Warrior Rear Trail Rack too. Cant wait to get it lifted. Feels very strange sitting so low after my CJ.
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You sound like me. I too had a 74 cj5 that I sold and I regretted it. I have a 95 2.5 liter that I recently rebuilt back all stock except I Herculined the entire thing. The front shackles don't look stock on yours. Before throwing money into it I would drive it around for a few weeks and make sure everything works good. If its a 4 cyl don't be surprised if 5th gear craps out on you. But I must say, your jeep looks really clean, the mirror bracket paint isn't even peeling off yet
The paint is new. Not the greatest of paint jobs, it looks great on the outside, but they left the hard top on when they painted it. Which is strange because they painted the door jams, and under the hood nicely. I will have to fix that, but otherwise, once the lift kit is on, the only issue I can find on it will be fixed.
Looks sweet. That is exactly what I am looking for. Do you mind telling me what you got it for?
if you need a place to park it, i have plenty of room. nice find:punk:
I think I got a steel. Picked it up for $3850. All the ones I looked at around here under $5000 were rusted, or didnt have tops, or didnt run, or, you name the issue. This one was completely intact, and ran perfect. It was the color we wanted, and gave me some cash to play with to do the suspension etc. I looked at some real junk, with homemade lifts, cracked frames, I couldnt beleive the junk people were asking over $6000 for. It seemed like all the decent ones were 4 cylinders, and with a/c, I didnt want a 4cyl. The 6 is anemic enough.
The only thing I am a little iffy on is the hard top. I dont know if I like it. It came from the factory with it and the doors, so there isnt even a frame or soft top on it and never was. So it will cost me a fortune to replace all that stuff if I want to convert to soft top. If I could find someone to do a complete swap I may do that. Just dont know if I want to split it from the Jeep, as it is all factory stuff, and on the window sticker.
if you sell the top and doors, you might get enough to soft top it and put half doors on it.
Pulled the hard top off and confirmed that they did not have it off when they painted it white. So it was green up there. I painted it with truck liner and it looks good. There was a spaghetti mess of wiring for aftermarket crap that either did not work or were not even there, so I removed all that too. Now I can see my fuse panel again and the stereo works without shutting off every time I hit a bump.
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SAN GABRIEL-- After sitting dormant for more than six decades, the historic "Mission Play" has been revived and modernized, ready to be performed in two weeks as part of the city's centennial celebration.
The San Gabriel Mission Playhouse was built in 1927 specifically to house the "Mission Play," written in 1911 by Los Angeles Times columnist and Congressman John Steven McGroarty to tell the history of Father Junipero Serra and the founding of the California Missions.
"This was actually one of our priorities when we started planning the centennial celebration three-and-a-half years ago," said Mary Cammarano, co-chair of the city's Centennial Committee. "It is such an important part of our history, we're really thrilled."
The play was originally a pageant play with lengthy periods of song and dance, performed for the first time at the San Gabriel Mission in 1912. With the help of writer Nicole Avenia, creative consultant Tony Plana, producer Anna Cross and Director Jonathan Salisbury, it has been transformed and shortened to appeal to modern audiences for its first performance since 1947.
"The first play was like four hours and it could be very boring to people today," said San Gabriel resident Camila Alva Lopez, 74, who plays older Anita. "I think this new version will be more entertaining. People would walk out or fall asleep if they had to sit through the old version. "
Salisbury said the modern "Mission Play" incorporates the many changes the community of San Gabriel has seen over the last 100 years, such as the growing Asian-American population, attitudes toward Native Americans and modern popular culture. The new play will include a more prominent love story between the two main characters, incorporate more of the Native American community and even have a hip-hop dance number. The story is also framed in modern day, as the audience follows a group of teenagers back in time to look at the Mission's history.
"We wanted to try to make it relevant to our community," Salisbury said.
The play will feature members of the local Gabrieleno-Tongva tribe as well as real historic artifacts from the city's museum.
For Lopez, the play has a more personal significance because she played the role of young Anita in 1947, and both of her parents were in the "Mission Play" multiple times.
"My dad just loved that play, and as we grew up at home he was always reciting some of the lines from the play and singing songs from the play so we were familiar with it growing up because he kept it alive," Lopez said. "It's very nostalgic, I just feel so honored at my age I can be in this. "
Salisbury said residents in and outside the city won't want to miss the play's unique view into the history of the region.
"It's kind of really fascinating in terms of the history" he said. "You can read about stuff and visit the missions but to see relationships come alive on the stage and kind of get that perspective, to see some of the dances is just great, just really fun. It's a one-time opportunity. "
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Know Before You Go
- If you require a visa to enter the country, your property may be able to help with the supporting documents needed to obtain one. To learn more, you can reach out to the property via the contact details included on your booking confirmation. The property may charge for this assistance, even if you end up cancelling your reservation. All arrangements are solely between the property and yourself.
Mandatory Fees and Taxes
You'll be asked to pay the following charges at the property:
- 1 percent tourism fee will be charged
We have included all charges provided to us by the property. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book.Show all hotel policy Show less hotel policy