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Thomas Kinsella 1928-
Irish poet, translator, essayist, and editor.
The following entry presents an overview of Kinsella's career through 1999. For further information on his life and works, see CLC, Volumes 4 and 19.
Initially recognized by critics for his technical virtuosity—and later for his challenging forays into personal consciousness and Irish identity—Kinsella is one of the most respected Irish poets of his generation. Kinsella established a unique position among young poets who, during the period following World War II, contributed toward bringing new life to the static world of Irish poetry at the time. Since the beginning of his career, Kinsella's poetry has been distinguished both by its technical strength and by subject matter. Although his technique has altered considerably over the years, moving from a preference for carefully ordered structures to a rejection of traditional forms, Kinsella's themes have remained constant: love, death, and the creative act. While other poets have been concerned with similar topics, critics argue that Kinsella's poems stand apart through the originality of their perspective; his work reveals a poet intent on depicting a world in which love, death, and art face eventual loss and destruction.
Biographical Information
Kinsella was born in Dublin on May 4, 1928. His father, a brewery worker, was a socialist and member of the Labour party and the Left Book Club. Kinsella attended University College, Dublin, through a series of grants and scholarships. At first he studied physics and chemistry, later turning to a degree in public administration. Kinsella joined the Irish civil service in 1946. Following his time at the university, Kinsella formed relationships with Eleanor Walsh, whom he married in 1955, and with Sean Oriada, who became Ireland's leading musician and exerted a great influence on Kinsella's developing intellectual life. In 1952, after having written poetry for some years, Kinsella met Liam Miller, founder of the Dolmen Press. Over the next few years, Miller published several poems by Kinsella and the poet began working as a director of the press, which published Kinsella's first major collection, Another September in 1958. This volume and Moralities (1960), a sequence of short lyrics, garnered attention in the United States. Atheneum published Kinsella's Poems and Translations (1961) as part of a series of writings by younger British and Irish poets. While continuing to work for Ireland's finance department, Kinsella wrote enough verse to form another collection, Downstream (1962). A year after Downstream's publication, Kinsella was able to take an entire year's absence from his position as assistant principal officer to concentrate on poetry. In 1965 Kinsella accepted an invitation to serve as poet in residence at Southern Illinois University. By then considered Ireland's leading young poet, he became a professor of English at Southern Illinois. Kinsella later published Nightwalker and Other Poems (1968) and The Táin (1970), his translation of an Old Irish saga. In 1971 he accepted a position as professor of English at Temple University, where he taught for almost twenty years. Kinsella established the Peppercanister Press out of his Dublin home in 1972. The main purpose of the press was to publish limited printings of his works in progress. Butcher's Dozen (1972) was the press' first production; the following year it released Notes from the Land of the Dead and Other Poems (1973). In 1976 Kinsella founded Temple University's School of Irish Tradition in Dublin, enabling him to continue dividing his time between the United States and Ireland. Since then, Kinsella has released several other books, including Peppercanister Poems, 1972-1978 (1979), The New Oxford Book of Irish Verse (1986), Personal Places (1990), and Poems from Centre City (1990).
Major Works
Kinsella's interest in the themes of love, death, and art are made specific in his poetry by his attention to describing people, places, and objects. His first major collection, Another September, is varied in its range—not uncommon for a first collection. The book includes love poems, meditative works on various individuals, and considerations on life and death. Among the better-known works in the volume is "Baggot Street Deserta," which, set in nocturnal Dublin (one of Kinsella's favorite backdrops) and concerned with the loss inherent in life, declares that one must "endure and let the present punish." Kinsella's preoccupation with isolation and loss frequently results in efforts to establish order. The poet approaches order, particularly in his earlier writings, through both subject matter and poetic structure. In Another September, the quest for order against a background of loss is explored in the potential of love as well as in that of traditional institutions. However, Kinsella's strongest manner of seeking order involves poetic technique, whereby order is created through traditional structure. Downstream contains five poems previously published in Moralities. These short lyrics, dealing with love, death, faith, and song, are surrounded by poems that deal with phenomena and the choices made by different characters. "Old Harry," the title of which perhaps refers to the devil, examines the morality of Harry Truman's decision to unleash atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The book's title poem, among the earliest of Kinsella's so-called "journey poems," further develops his interest in order, particularly the potential order found in nature. Involving violence and loss, "Downstream" tells of a seeker's quest to find "ancient Durrow," a center of learning and devotion; the downstream direction of the journey indicates the certainty of death. The first group of poems in Nightwalker and Other Poems present a more concrete descriptive approach. Including "Office for the Dead" and "Museum," these poems reflect the poet's continuing preoccupation with the certainty of loss. Nightwalker and Other Poems also contains two long meditative poems: the title poem and "Phoenix Park." Resembling "Rhapsody on a Windy Night" by T. S. Eliot, "Nightwalker" employs a poet-wanderer who, with his mind under the influence of the moon, considers the modern profanation of art and religion as well as the dismal state of contemporary Irish politics. Named after Dublin's largest park, "Phoenix Park" involves a couple who, about to leave the city, pass various places that have held meaning for them, in the process creating a force to overcome loss. Two other works from the early 1970s confront loss in even more concrete terms: Butcher's Dozen is a response to the killings of thirteen Irish civil-rights marchers by British paratroopers in 1972, and A Selected Life (1972) considers the death of Kinsella's close friend, the Irish musician Sean Oriada. Notes from the Land of the Dead and Other Poems explores the female principle as a creative component of the poet and also reflects Kinsella's interest in psychoanalyst C. G. Jung's ideas on destruction and creation. Peppercanister Poems, 1972-1978, contains several poems concerned with the poet's relationship to Ireland. Included in the collection is One (1974), in which Kinsella uses the Jungian concept of a common memory to explore his Irish legacy. Personal Places and Poems from Centre City reveal Kinsella's views on the importance of personal experience and consider his life in Dublin.
Critical Reception
Critics have interpreted Kinsella's poetry as seeking to confront a reality of isolation and loss, particularly in the context of Irish cultural history and the postwar Irish poet's struggle to forge a unique artistic identity in the long shadow of Irish luminaries W. B. Yeats and James Joyce. Kinsella's interest in the literary history of Ireland, particularly the Gaelic verse which he translated in The Táin and An Duanaire (1981), has also earned him respect as a proponent for the recovery of a distinctly Irish—as opposed to Anglo-Irish—culture. As many commentators note, Kinsella's perpetually evolving poetry—marked by frequent revisions and divergent stylistic approaches—is best understood as a continuous lifework, often compared to Ezra Pound's Cantos. While his early volumes won acclaim for their well-crafted elegance, his later volumes are noted for their increasing complexity and interior explorations of the psyche. Downstream was noted for its development of new structural techniques to confront its concerns. Greeted enthusiastically by most reviewers, Nightwalker and Other Poems demonstrates important developments in Kinsella's approach to poetic structure, including a virtually complete abandonment of rhyme. In Notes from the Land of the Dead, the poet seemed to have broken away from his earlier, structurally ordered poems. In this volume, Kinsella traded syntax and complete phrases for fragments, a technique suited to the imagery of dreams and to poems displaying increased ambiguity of meaning. While some critics had earlier faulted Kinsella's technique, critical consternation concerning his style became even more apparent with Notes from the Land of the Dead. With this book, some reviewers were dismayed by the level of difficulty and obscurity of the writing. Such complaining, however, tended to be the minority opinion regarding Kinsella's poetry; the complexity of his verse is viewed as highly suited to the sophistication of his themes and imagery.
Principal Works
The Starlit Eye (poetry) 1952
Three Legendary Sonnets (poetry) 1952
Per Imaginem (poetry) 1953
The Breastplate of Saint Patrick [translator; republished as Faeth Fiadha: The Breastplate of Saint Patrick,1957] (poetry) 1954
Longes mac n'Usnig, Being The Exile and Death of the Sons of Usnech [translator] (poetry) 1954
Thirty Three Triads, Translated from the XII Century Irish [translator] (poetry) 1955
Death of a Queen (poetry) 1956
Poems (poetry) 1956
Another September (poetry) 1958
Moralities (poetry) 1960
Poems and Translations (poetry) 1961
Downstream (poetry) 1962
Wormwood (poetry) 1966
Nightwalker (poetry) 1967
Nightwalker and Other Poems (poetry) 1968
Poems [with Douglas Livingstone and Anne Sexton] (poetry) 1968
Tear (poetry) 1969
The Táin [translator] (poetry) 1970
Finistere (poetry) 1971
Butcher's Dozen: A Lesson for the Octave of Widgery (poetry) 1972
Notes from the Land of the Dead and Other Poems (poetry) 1973
A Selected Life (poetry) 1972
The Good Fight (poetry) 1973
New Poems, 1973 (poetry) 1973
Selected Poems, 1956-1968 (poetry) 1973
Vertical Man (poetry) 1973
One (poetry) 1974
A Technical Supplement (poetry) 1975
The Messenger (poetry) 1978
Song of the Night and Other Poems (poetry) 1978
Fifteen Dead (poetry) 1979
One and Other Poems (poetry) 1979
Peppercanister Poems, 1972-1978 (poetry) 1979
Poems, 1956-1973 (poetry) 1979
Poems, 1956-1976 (poetry) 1980
Selected Poems of Austin Clarke [editor] (poetry) 1980
An Duanaire: 1600-1900: Poems of the Dispossessed [translator, with Sean O Tuama] (poetry) 1981
Her Vertical Smile (poetry) 1985
Songs of the Psyche (poetry) 1985
The New Oxford Book of Irish Verse [editor and translator] (poetry) 1986
Out of Ireland (poetry) 1987
St. Catherine's Clock (poetry) 1987
One Fond Embrace (poetry) 1988
Blood and Family (poetry) 1989
Personal Places (poetry) 1990
Poems from Centre City (poetry) 1990
Madonna and Other Poems (poetry) 1991
Open Court (poetry) 1991
The Dual Tradition: An Essay on Poetry and Politics in Ireland (essay) 1995
The Collected Poems, 1956-1994 (poetry) 1996
The Pen Shop (poetry) 1997
The Familiar (poetry) 1999
Godhead (poetry) 1999
Thomas Kinsella with Peter Orr (interview date 24 September 1962)
SOURCE: "Thomas Kinsella," in The Poet Speaks: Interviews with Contemporary Poets, edited by Peter Orr, Barnes and Noble, 1966, pp. 105-9.
[In the following interview, originally conducted 24 September 1962, Kinsella discusses his beginnings as a poet, his thematic concerns and literary influences, and the process of artistic creation.]
[Orr]: Mr. Kinsella, can you recall whatstarted you writing poetry? Was there any one thing?
[Kinsella]: No thing: one slight feeling of curiosity to see whether the thing could actually be done. The system of education under which I laboured for most of my adolescence never suggested to me that the...
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Hugh Kenner (essay date 1979)
SOURCE: "Thomas Kinsella: An Anecdote and Some Reflections," in The Genres of Irish Literary Revival, edited by Ronald Schleifer, Pilgrim Books, 1979, pp. 179-87.
[In the following essay, Kenner discusses the problem of assessing Kinsella's self-styled verse in light of Yeats's daunting influence and the self-consciousness of modern Irish poets.]
To have been born in 1928, the year Yeats published The Tower, would seem a destiny heavy enough for any Irish poet. Thomas Kinsella passed his young manhood moreover in what he has called "those flat years in Ireland at the beginning of the 1950's, depressed so thoroughly that one...
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Peggy F. Broder (essay date Spring 1979)
SOURCE: "Breaking The Shell of Solitude: Some Poems of Thomas Kinsella," in Eire-Ireland, Vol. XIV, No. 1, Spring, 1979, pp. 80-92.
[In the following essay, Broder examines the transition in Kinsella's poetry away from preoccupations with intellectual knowledge and rational order in favor of new explorations of emotional knowledge, introspection, and open-ended complexity.]
Not long ago Thomas Kinsella, like Humpty Dumpty, had a great fall. There the analogy ends, however; for Kinsella's fall, described in Notes from the Land of the Dead and Other Poems (1973),1 does not leave him irretrievably shattered. Though he says, in the book's first...
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Dillon Johnston (essay date Winter 1980)
SOURCE: "A Response to Hugh Kenner: Kinsella's Magnanimity and Mean Reading," in Genre: A Quarterly Devoted to Generic Criticism, Vol. XIII, No. 4, Winter, 1980, pp. 531-7.
[In the following essay, Johnston defends the depth and dynamics of Kinsella's verse—and Kinsella's place in modern Irish poetry—in response to an unflattering critique of Kinsella's work by critic Hugh Kenner.]
If you consult Hugh Kenner's stillborn preface to Thomas Kinsella's Poems 1956–1973 in the winter issue, 12 (1979) of Genre, The Genres of the Irish Literary Revival, you will understand my paraphrase: "Some critics are blandly there, a pervasive tone. The more...
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Arthur E. McGuinness (essay date Winter 1980)
SOURCE: "'Bright Quincunx Newly Risen': Thomas Kinsella's Inward 'I'," in Eire-Ireland, Vol. XV, No. 4, Winter, 1980, p. 106-25.
[In the following essay, McGuinness discusses the intersection of physical, psychological, and symbolic landscapes in Kinsella's poetry, particularly as they reveal multiple levels of consciousness and the poet's journey toward the inner self.]
The cover design for Thomas Kinsella's recently published volume One and Other Poems (1979) features a character which can be read either as a large Roman numeral one, or as the personal pronoun "I." Both meanings relate to the search for self, which has been the poet's major...
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Peggy F. Broder (review date 1981)
SOURCE: A review of Poems, 1956-1973 and Peppercanister Poems, 1972-1978, in Concerning Poetry, Vol. 14, No. 2, 1981, pp. 131-7.
[In the following positive review of Poems, 1956-1973 and Peppercanister Poems, 1972-1978, Broder provides an overview of Kinsella's artistic development and recurring thematic concerns.]
Readers unfamiliar with or with only slight acquaintance with Thomas Kinsella's poetry have with these two volumes from Wake Forest an opportunity to see a fine representative selection of the poet's work. While Poems 1956–1973 represents a rigorous culling of the earliest volumes, almost all of the poetry Kinsella...
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Daniel O'Hara (essay date Winter 1981)
SOURCE: "Loves Architecture: The Poetic Irony of Thomas Kinsella," in Boundary 2, Vol. IX, No. 2, Winter, 1981, pp. 123-35.
[In the following essay, O'Hara discusses the debate between Kinsella and critic Harold Bloom over the significance of literary influence in modern poetry. Opposing Bloom's negative view, O'Hara cites Kinsella's appropriation of and ironic response to his literary forbears as an enriching quality of his verse.]
The Phoenix builds the Phoenix' nest. Love's architecture is his own.
—epigraph to "Phoenix Park."
Thomas Kinsella is the leading Irish poet of his generation. He is also a more substantial...
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John D. Engle (review date Spring-Summer 1981)
SOURCE: "Stretching a Thread," in Parnassus, Vol. 9, No. 1, Spring-Summer, 1981, pp. 187-98.
[In the following review, Engle offers an extended analysis of Peppercanister Poems, 1972-1978. Though arguing that Kinsella's verse is at times overly personal and occasionally falls flat, Engle concludes that such "generous blunders … shouldn't obscure the fact that Kinsella is a serious poet of invention and honesty."]
Who touches this book [Peppercanister Poems, 1972–1978] touches a man. Reading these poems, I kept doubling back to Whitman's romantic brag, even though Thomas Kinsella is as far from romantic as they come. We don't just overhear...
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Seamus Deane (essay date 1985)
SOURCE: "Thomas Kinsella: 'Nursed Out of Wreckage,'" in Celtic Revivals: Essays in Modern Irish Literature 1880-1980, Faber and Faber, 1985, pp. 135-45.
[In the following essay, Deane discusses Kinsella's place in postwar Irish poetry, elements of structure and fragmentation in his verse, and his preoccupation with the violent imagery of biological, historical, and creative processes.]
Once the major excitements of the Revival were over, there was inevitably a sense of disappointment and disillusion. The deaths of Yeats and Joyce, the emergence of two insular and petit-bourgeois states, one Catholic and the other Protestant in its ethos, the return of economic...
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John Lucas (review date 16 January 1987)
SOURCE: "Hard Men, Soft Men," in New Statesman, January 16, 1987, p. 30.
[In the following excerpt, Lucas faults Kinsella for overly rhetorical language and a lack of distinctness in Poems, 1956–1973.]
The Ulster poet W. R. Rodgers claimed to speak for 'an abrupt people / Who like the consonants in speech / And think the soft ones cissy'. Thomas Kinsella, who is from the South, is certainly no cissy, but for much of the earlier part of his career [as in Poems, 1956-1973] he seems to have fought shy of spikiness, whether of utterance or of thought.
It would be all too easy to characterise the poetry of this period as soft and this is...
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Denis Donoghue (review date 26 February 1987)
SOURCE: "The Luck of the Irish," in The New York Review of Books, February 26, 1987, pp. 25-6.
[In the following excerpt, Donoghue expresses dissatisfaction with Kinsella's translations of medieval Irish verse and choice of representative selections in The New Oxford Book of Irish Verse.]
I should explain how Ireland came to have its poetry in four languages, Irish, English, Latin, and Norman French.
The earliest Irish poem that can be dated is "Amra Choluim Chille," an elegy on the death of St. Colum cille in 597; it is attributed to Dallán Forgaill. Much of early Irish poetry has been lost, but poems survive from every century since the...
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Ben Howard (review date Summer 1987)
SOURCE: "Selective Laurels," in Sewanee Review, Vol. XCV, No. 3, Summer, 1987, pp. 505-10.
[In the following excerpt, Howard praises Kinsella's work as editor of The New Oxford Book of Irish Verse.]
To the etymologist an anthology is a gathering of flowers, but to poets, critics, and other interested parties it is almost always a political statement. It swears allegiances and announces disavowals. It redresses grievances—and often creates new ones. If the poems happen to be Irish, the statement will be uncommonly charged, for Irish poetry is today a welter of conflicting allegiances and loyalties, conventions and traditions. Beneath the obvious topographical,...
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Hilary Pyle (review date November 1987)
SOURCE: A review of The New Oxford Book of Irish Verse, in Review of English Studies, Vol. XXXVIII, No. 152, November, 1987, pp. 592-93.
[In the following review, Pyle offers a tempered assessment of The New Oxford Book of Irish Verse, citing shortcomings in Kinsella's omission of women poets and several twentieth-century figures.]
Just under thirty years ago The Oxford Book of Irish Verse first appeared, edited by Donagh MacDonagh and Lennox Robinson, an anthology that claimed it was 'going back to the earliest times' (otherwise the seventeenth century) and 'finishing the day before yesterday'. The last poet to be represented in that...
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Floyd Skloot (essay date March 1990)
SOURCE: "The Song of Thomas Kinsella," in New Criterion, Vol. 8, No. 7, March, 1990, pp. 41-7.
[In the following essay, Skloot discusses the transition in Kinsella's approach to poetry—from one of elegance and order to one of denseness and atonality—as represented in Blood and Family. According to Skloot, Kinsella's later verse, though no less impressive, sacrifices feeling for ambitious intellectual demands.]
Nothing intervened between the song and its expression. The singer managed many difficult things, but the result was to focus attention on the song, not on the performance or on the quality of the voice....
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John Drexel (essay date Spring 1990)
SOURCE: "'Searching the Darkness for a Landing Place': The Achievement of Thomas Kinsella," in Literary Review, Vol. 33, No. 3, Spring, 1990, pp. 337-44.
[In the following essay, Drexel examines Kinsella's artistic development and thematic preoccupations with death, fragmentation, and the creative process. Drexel concludes, "Despite its quirks and idiosyncrasies, its flaws and excesses, his poetry is informed by a fierce intelligence. Kinsella is one of our few authentic explorers of the heart of human darkness."]
Few who follow Irish poetry with any attention would question that Thomas Kinsella is a major figure, if not a major force, on the poetic and...
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Steven Matthews (review date 17 June 1994)
SOURCE: "Energy in Purging," in Times Literary Supplement, June 17, 1994, p. 28.
[In the following review, Matthews offers a positive assessment of Poems from Centre City.]
In their tone and address, the poems in From Centre City mark both a furtherance of, and a departure from, the themes magisterially explored in Thomas Kinsella's earlier work. The ghostly presences which have shadowed his nightmare limbo worlds from Downstream (1962) onwards, and which mediated the immediate political anger and hurt in his "lesson" for the Widgery Tribunal on the Bloody Sunday massacre, Butcher's Dozen (1972), establish in this latest collection a...
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Floyd Skloot (review date 18 March 1995)
SOURCE: "The Poetry of Thomas Kinsella," in America, March 18, 1995, pp. 30-5.
[In the following review, Skloot discusses Kinsella's literary career and artistic development in the context of Poems from Centre City.]
'There are established personal places / that receive our lives' heat / and adapt in their mass, like stone," Irishman Thomas Kinsella says in one of the new poems in his 1994 collection entitled From Centre City. This is true about actual places he focuses on, such places as "The Stable," "The Back Lane," "Departure Platforms," meeting rooms, literary pubs or the childhood home. It is also true about places within the self...
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Thomas H. Jackson (essay date 1995)
SOURCE: "Introduction," in The Whole Matter: The Poetic Evolution of Thomas Kinsella, Syracuse University Press, 1995, pp. 1-13.
[In the following essay, Jackson situates Kinsella's creative development in the historical context of Irish cultural identity and literary tradition.]
If a career like Ezra Pound's or, say, Hart Crane's is still exemplary at this late date, the typical early difficulty for anyone setting up as poet in the United States would seem to be the need to reinvent the wheel. In the absence of any strong tradition of poetry, of anything like a national sense of what poetry should or might be like, and of any strong national respect for either...
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Patricia Craig (review date 26 January 1996)
SOURCE: "The Hidden Ireland," in Times Literary Supplement, January 26, 1996, p. 26.
[In the following review, Craig discusses Kinsella's assessment of Irish literary tradition—in particular, its unities and divisions—as presented in The Dual Tradition.]
"The Irish tradition is a matter of two linguistic entities in dynamic interaction", Thomas Kinsella wrote in his introduction to the New Oxford Book of Irish Verse (1986); and The Dual Tradition takes up the theme. The point, indeed, is not new, and Kinsella himself has held fast to it for some time. Literature in Ireland is not divided but dual, and to consider either of its parts in...
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William Pratt (review date Autumn 1996)
SOURCE: A review of The Dual Tradition: An Essay on Poetry and Politics in Ireland, in World Literature Today, Vol. 70, No. 4, Autumn, 1996, p. 967.
[In the following review of The Dual Tradition, Pratt finds shortcomings in Kinsella's narrow categorization of Irish writers, notably James Joyce and W. B. Yeats.]
"I am of Ireland, / And the Holy Land of Ireland, / And time runs on, cried she. / 'Come out of charity, / Come dance with me in Ireland.'" Thus Yeats made great poetry out of an early Irish poem, better poetry than anything else Thomas Kinsella cites in his long essay [The Dual Tradition] on the Irish poetic tradition, though he...
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M. L. Rosenthal (review date Fall 1996)
SOURCE: A review of The Dual Tradition: An Essay on Poetry and Politics in Ireland, in Ploughshares, Vol. 22, No. 2-3, Fall, 1996, pp. 243-45.
[In the following review, Rosenthal offers a favorable assessment of The Dual Tradition.]
Irish poetry has had a long, trauma-beset journey. In his book The Dual Tradition: An Essay on Poetry and Politics in Ireland, Thomas Kinsella leads us through its successive periods of "most radical adjustment and change." He plunges into the matter more intimately than anyone since Yeats, and in far more precise detail than Yeats ever did. But he wears his sophistication lightly. His style is direct and vivid, with...
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Donatella Abbate Badin (essay date 1996)
SOURCE: "The Phases of Kinsella's Poetic Career: Aims and Continuities," in Thomas Kinsella, Twayne Publishers, 1996, pp. 11-26.
[In the following essay, Badin provides an overview of the major themes, recurring motifs, and structural elements of Kinsella's poetry as they evolved throughout his career.]
Three major phases can be distinguished in Kinsella's career. His early phase, represented by various collections of poems (Poems, Another September, Wormwood, Downstream, Nightwalker and Other Poems), ended in 1968. It is a phase of apprenticeship in which Kinsella explores many genres and modes,...
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Brian John (essay date 1996)
SOURCE: "Conclusion," in Reading the Ground: The Poetry of Thomas Kinsella, Catholic University of America Press, 1996, pp. 246-59.
[In the following essay, John discusses the maturation and defining features of Kinsella's later poetry in relation to Irish literary tradition and the influence of W.B. Yeats, James Joyce, and Aogn Ó Rathaille.]
With work so dynamically "in progress," it is inevitable that the latest complete volume, From Centre City (1994), collecting the previous five Peppercanister sequences—One Fond Embrace (1988), Personal Places and Poems from Centre City (both 1990), Madonna and Open Court (both...
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Peter Sirr (review date 11 April 1997)
SOURCE: "On the Via Negativa," in Times Literary Supplement, April 11, 1997, p. 22.
[In the following review of Collected Poems, 1956-1994, Sirr summarizes the central themes and artistic concerns of Kinsella's poetry.]
Thomas Kinsella is an anomalous figure in Irish poetry: a looming, magisterial presence less often celebrated than awkwardly registered, made remote both by his rigorous husbandry of his via negativa and by the relative accessibility and popularity of the poets who came after him. The subdued interiority of his poems is out of step with a poetic culture which tends to prize, and to expect, the kind of surface clarity, primary...
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Willaim Pratt (review date Winter 1998)
SOURCE: A review of The Pen Shop, in World Literature Today, Vol. 72, No. 1, Winter, 1998, pp. 147-8.
[In the following review, Pratt offers an unfavorable assessment of The Pen Shop.]
Thomas Kinsella is one of the most gifted living poets, as earlier volumes have testified, one of them a translation from the Irish of The Táin or Cattle-Raid of Cooley that has already become a standard reference for early Irish literature and Celtic mythology. But the thin volume of poems titled The Pen Shop hardly does him justice, since its cover photograph of the mythical hero Cuchulain, taken from a bronze statue that stands today in the General Post...
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Floyd Skloot (review date Spring 1998)
SOURCE: "The Collected Poems of Thomas Kinsella," in Sewanee Review, Vol. CVI, No. 2, Spring, 1998, pp. 343-58.
[In the following positive review of Collected Poems, 1956-1994, Skloot provides an overview of Kinsella's literary career and artistic development.]
Over the last fifteen years, an impressive array of older Irish poets has published their collected poems. Some, including John Montague and Richard Murphy, have substantial international reputations. Others such as Brian Coffey, Padraic Fallon, James Liddy, and, posthumously, Denis Devlin, John Hewitt, Thomas MacGreevy, and W. R. Rodgers, are known or regarded less highly. During the same period,...
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Kieran Quinlan (review date Summer 1998)
SOURCE: A review of Collected Poems, 1956-1994, in World Literature Today, Vol. 72, No. 3, Summer, 1998, p. 622.
[In the following review of Collected Poems, 1956-1994, Quinlan comments on Kinsella's literary career and ambiguous critical status.]
In the early 1960s, Thomas Kinsella reigned as Ireland's foremost poet. His work was sophisticated, its settings frequently urban, local but with a cosmopolitan flavor, and seemed reflective of an Ireland moving into a new and more prosperous era (a move that was partly due to innovative policies in the Department of Finance, the branch of the Irish government in which Kinsella was at the time employed at a...
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Floyd Skloot (review date Summer 1998)
SOURCE: "The Radiance of Change: The Collected Poems of Thomas Kinsella," in Shenandoah, Vol. 48, No. 2, Summer, 1998, pp. 116-25.
[In the following review of Collected Poems, 1956-1994, Skloot discusses the recurring themes, artistic concerns, stylistic innovations, and cumulative motifs found in Kinsella's poetry over a period of forty years.]
In the 1950's, when the generation of American poets that included John Ashbery, Donald Hall, Galway Kinnell, W. S. Merwin, Adrienne Rich and James Wright was coming of age, poets of the previous generation were writing some of their finest work. John Berryman, Elizabeth Bishop, Stanley Kunitz, Robert Lowell and...
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Neville F. Newman (essay date Spring 1999)
SOURCE: "Kinsella's 'Butcher's Dozen,'" in The Explicator, Vol. 57, No. 3, Spring, 1999, pp. 173-7.
[In the following essay, Newman analyses the use of phantoms in "Butcher's Dozen" to express Kinsella's outrage over the Bloody Sunday massacre and the unjust Widgery report.]
Thomas Kinsella wrote "Butcher's Dozen: A Lesson for the Octave of Widgery" within a week of the report made by Britain's Lord Chief Justice Widgery of his investigation into the deaths of thirteen civilians at the hands of the British army on 30 January 1972 in Derry, Northern Ireland. The poem was reissued in April 1992 to coincide with the twentieth anniversary of the...
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Further Reading
Badin, Donatella Abbate. Thomas Kinsella. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1996, 226 p.
A book-length study of Kinsella's literary career and poetry.
Gaffney, Elizabeth. Review of Poems from Centre City, by Thomas Kinsella. New York Times Book Review (31 December 1995): 11.
A review of Poems from Centre City.
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We want to see lighthouses on the Oregon Coast in November. Are there RV campgrounds open year-round?
Temperatures are typically mild along the Oregon Coast in November, so only on rare occasions do you need to worry about ice or frost on our roads. This is the rainy season on the coast and it can rain hard and be windy, but the Oregon Coast is spectacular anytime of year and many people come specifically to experience the weather and stormy seas.
There are several State Parks that offer year round RV campsites including Cape Lookout State Park (close to Cape Meares Lighthouse), Beverly Beach State Park (near Yaquina Head and Yaquina Bay Lighthouses), Sunset Bay State Park (near Cape Arago Lighthouse), Umpqua Lighthouse State Park (near Umpqua River Lighthouse), Bullards Beach State Park (near Coquille River Lighthouse) and Cape Blanco State Park (near Cape Blanco Lighthouse). There are also many private RV parks that remain open year-round.
The Heceta Head Lighthouse north of Florence is undergoing an extensive renovation and it is currently completely covered, but Carl G. Washburne Memorial State Park nearby is also open year round for RVs.
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HYDERABAD, India--A passenger train rammed into a school bus in southern India on Thursday killing 20 people, mostly young children, officials said, in the latest fatal accident on the country's rail network.
The train collided with the bus carrying about 30 children as it drove across an unmanned level crossing in the state of Telangana, dragging the mangled vehicle down the tracks, officials said.
"There are 20 confirmed dead based on railway inputs. A lot of people who are critically injured were shifted to different hospitals," K. Samba Siva Rao, a spokesman for South Central Railway, told AFP.
The bus had been traveling to school when the accident occurred in the village of Masaipet about 62 kilometers (38 miles) from state capital Hyderabad.
Large crowds poured over the accident site in Medak district trying to move twisted metal to retrieve small bodies trapped inside, television footage showed.
Parents who reached the site were seen wailing, crouched next to their dead children draped in white sheets. A small crane and a digger tried to lift wreckage, while school bags were seen stacked alongside the tracks.
Grieving and angry parents also gathered outside a nearby hospital where the injured children, some in a critical condition, were taken. Some parents called for the sacking of senior railway officials over the tragedy.
Railways minister Sadanand Gowda blamed the bus driver for the tragedy, saying it appeared he did not stop at the crossing to check for trains.
"As per the preliminary information received, the incident occurred due to the negligent driving by the driver of the school bus," he told parliament.
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However railway official Rao said 20 people were confirmed dead, a figure backed up by an unnamed official from the school.
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By Laura Braden
I've been thinking a lot about fear lately.
How it protects you in some situations…and holds you back from realizing your full potential with others. How it can literally make your stomach hurt…and then seem ridiculous once you've faced it.
Back story: After a three-year relationship ended…followed by two years of on again/off again drama…followed by finally pulling the ripcord earlier this year, I've been on this self-induced journey to grow, determine what I really want out of life and stop caring about what people think of me (inspiration here). And you can't do any of that without facing your fears and asking some pretty heavy questions.
And while the process has yielded some ridiculously euphoric moments, I've been shocked to realize just how much of a work in progress I am. When you allow yourself to be single for longer than five minutes and achieve some semblance of work-life balance (for the first time ever), you suddenly have all the time in the world to contemplate old wounds and struggles that you never fully appreciated at the time of impact. Yes, I'm fiercely independent, loving, confident and adventurous, but I'm also afraid of being judged, afraid to really trust people, afraid of regretting my turn left when I should have turned right, etc. It's utterly exhausting – not to mention completely unproductive and vain.
Then I stumbled across a TED video from Kathryn Schulz that redefined how I view fear, regret and mistakes:
And that's how I got inspired to develop my "fear bucket" list: seven fears that aren't doing me any good and have no place in my life…and that should be relatively "easy" to conquer.
Because what would happen if they didn't exist? What if I met them head-on? Would I receive divine inspiration to do something that I couldn't previously conceive of? Would it become easier to tackle the "bigger" fears? Would it make me a happier person? Does the act of facing a fear erase it? Or is it a zero sum game that no one really cares to read about?
So, let's find out! I'm giving myself until the end of the fall to do everything on this list. It's far from comprehensive, some are silly, some are sad – but all are fears that I think I can eliminate from my life for good:
1. Skydiving
I have this ridiculous, overwhelming fear of falling (or being pushed?) out of something tall that will inevitably cause me to plummet to my death. I don't rappel off cliffs, I don't dive off rocks and I avoid looking out the window as I'm flying over the ocean. Just watch this if you don't fully understand where I'm coming from.
What in the world goes through your mind during that fall? We'll soon find out because I can think of no better way to overcome this fear by literally being pushed (because it's probably going to come that – I won't go willingly) out of a perfectly good airplane. A quick google search directed me to Sacramento SkyDiving…Innsbruck it's not, but it should do the trick. If anyone knows of anything better in NorCal, let me know.
2. Guns
Ok, this one is a little too real, but here we go…Back in high school, one of my best friends was killed in an accidental shooting that left me utterly broken. I've never forgiven my other friend who was on the more fortunate end of the gun, nor have I forgiven the mechanism that shattered more lives (directly and indirectly) in an instant than I would ever wish on my worst enemy. The very sight of a gun makes me catatonic, as if I believe it's only job is to discharge spontaneously. Years later, I had an ex who helped me try to get over this fear by taking me to a shooting range. Result? I got woozy and light-headed the second the gun hit my hands.
Carpe diem – it's time to try again. And this time I want to learn the full gamut of "respect" for guns – from handling to cleaning to….well, firing the stupid thing. Also lumped in this category is sitting down with the friend that I haven't spoken with since the incident (because I was terrified of my reaction to facing him). This November marks the 15 year anniversary of my friend's death, and I believe it's time to make amends. I need to face him – not to open old wounds – but to hear his side of the story and apologize for having zero empathy for his situation. Embarrassingly enough, it was a crappy Nicole Kidman movie that served as inspiration.
3. Snakes
No clue where this fear comes from. All I know is that it is entirely too cliche for a women in 2012 to be afraid of snakes. Stay tuned for the picture of me at some TBD zoo with a giant, gross, slithering thing wrapped around my shoulders – ala Britney Spears.
4. Karaoke
You don't have to be shy or introverted to be terrified of public speaking…Or maybe we're all shy and introverted, it's just that some of us are better at hiding it. Either way, from comedians to singers, there's something so genius about standing on a stage and putting yourself out there – vulnerable, honest and raw – and fully connecting with an audience. I'm capable of reacting to that situation…but creating that situation is something I will never be able to do. Ever. The best I'm hoping for is a polite round of applause after I belt out "Call Me, Maybe" because even just typing while thinking about singing on stage makes my stomach hurt, hands clammy and mouth dry.
5. Nudist Camp
Show of hands from those who can actually walk amongst strangers naked? And I've seen the 20/20 segments – this lifestyle is all about returning to nature, being comfortable with who you really are, shedding conformity, etc. But at the end of the day, that still requires you to get NAKED in front of a group of strangers, which is pretty freaking scary.
Maybe it's because I'm southern or because I don't have sisters, but I can still undress and redress in any situation/location without showing so much of an elbow (a talent acquired in the middle school gym locker room). I don't even particularly consider myself that modest … in fact, I consider myself a realist. Realistic in the sense that how can there be naked people everywhere and you're not judging, comparing, analyzing? And why would you willingly submit yourself to that torture? So that's why this funtivity made the list … But rest assured, even if I walk away with a new found appreciation for this lifestyle – there will be NO evidence. Y'all are just going to have to believe me when I say that it's been checked off the list.
6. Rejection
Knock on (A LOT of) wood, but I've never really been dumped. Sure, things haven't always ended on my terms/timeline or I've been let down or cheated on…but I've never really suffered out-of-the-blue rejection (exhibit A: Carrie Bradshaw and the infamous Post It (scroll to 1:06)).
This is partly because I'm so paranoid (or intuitive, as I prefer to call it) that I walk away at the first whiff of trouble, but this is also partly due to the fact that I've been lucky to date really fun guys that started out as friends, turned into boyfriends where the relationship ran it's natural course, and we were able to stay friends. But I've never walked up to a guy at a bar and asked them out, never been on a blind date, and never suffered through an awkward first date.
As a 31-year-old, I used to just consider that lucky, but now I'm starting to think that I've missed out on some fundamental part of relationships…or worse yet, subconsciously avoided those situations out of fear of rejection. So how am I going to conquer this one? Speed dating.
That's right, I'm going to get all gussied up, head down to some cheesy chain restaurant and subject myself to awkward interactions with a dozen strangers. Do I think I'll meet someone that I actually want to see again (and thus expose myself to the possibility of him rejecting me?). Absolutely not – but the attendees actually score each other and indicate who they'd like to see again. So based on my "report card," I'm hoping to get my fill of rejection and meet this fear head-on.
7. Admitting Any of This in a Public Forum
This one needs no explanation – and is the first item I can cross off my bucket list.
So stay tuned – I'll report back (to varying degrees of detail!) what happened and how (if) it changed me. This should be interesting … what's the worst that could happen?
If anyone has any of these same fears and wants to join, or if you've done something similar and have a strong opinion on the process/outcome, let us know by leaving a comment or email girlsonthegrid AT gmail.com!


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Liposuction – Raleigh Smartlipo MPX
If you have tried traditional weight loss techniques and are still unhappy with the end result, or are in excellent shape and have isolated problem areas that you would like to address, liposuction may be a good option for you. Patients with good skin quality may benefit greatly from liposuction correction. Diehl Plastic Surgery offers traditional liposuction and Smartlipo MPX™, one of the latest advances in liposuction technology.
Smartlipo MPX™ Laserlipolysis
SmartLipo MPX, sometimes referred to as laser liposuction, uses a carefully calibrated laser to liquefy fat cells. The laser actually ruptures the fat cells and the resulting liquid substance is removed through small incisions in the skin by the surgeon. The laser also seals/coagulates blood vessels during the procedure, so there is typically less swelling, bleeding, and bruising then with traditional liposuction. Laser liposuction can frequently be done under local anesthesia only.
Many patients are good candidates for SmartLipo™ treatment. In general, candidates should be in good health, exercise regularly, and be within 25 lbs. of their ideal weight. They should have focal areas of body fat that have responded poorly to diet and exercise. The laser is used in conjunction with traditional liposuction techniques.
Some of the areas treated with laser liposuction include the submental region (under the chin and jawline), the chest, the arms, the abdomen and flanks (lateral and posterior), the back and bra fat, the mons pubis, the outer and inner thighs, and sometimes the knees.
SmartLipo™ should be considered if:
-You are seeking some degree of skin tightening. SmartLipo may provide more tightening of the skin than traditional liposuction.
-You are seeking an FDA-approved treatment. Approved in November 2006, SmartLipo™ is one of the fastest-growing and safest procedures in the cosmetic surgery field today.
-You do not want to undergo general anesthesia. Many SmartLipo™ patients need only a local anesthetic. Because the patient is not completely unconscious, SmartLipo™ carries fewer risks than traditional liposuction surgery and the post-procedure recovery is much quicker than with a general anesthesia.
-You are seeking a liposuction treatment with a swift recovery time. SmartLipo™ patients are typically back to work within 1-2 days following the procedure.
-You want something more affordable than traditional liposuction. The cost of the SmartLipo™ procedure depends on how many areas are being treated. Some SmartLipo procedures can cost as much as 30% less than the same traditional liposuction procedure under general anesthesia.
To be a good candidate for SmartLipo™, you should maintain realistic expectations about the procedure's capabilities. While SmartLipo™ can improve your appearance and self-confidence, it cannot necessarily match your mental ideal. Before you decide to have SmartLipo™, think carefully about your expectations and discuss them during your consultation visit with Dr. Diehl. She will assess whether you are a good candidate with respect to your medical health, and clarify what SmartLipo™ could do for you.
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Dr. Allen Mask with the WRAL Health Team discusses the "SmartLipo" procedure featuring an interview with Raleigh Plastic Surgeon, Dr. Cynthia Diehl. "SmartLipo" is a cosmetic procedure popular among those seeking to get rid of unwanted body fat using local anesthesia with minimal risks. View the full videos and the follow up segments here:
PART ONE: Aired February 26, 2010
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Traditional Liposuction
Liposuction surgery is generally performed on an outpatient basis. Depending on the type and volume of liposuction, you may be given local or general anesthesia. Once you are sufficiently anesthetized, Dr. Diehl will create small incisions to access the fatty area between your skin and muscle. Here, she will insert a suction device attached to a stainless steel instrument called a cannula.
Dr. Diehl will then use suction to remove excess fat and create a smoother body contour. The length of the procedure will correlate with the volumes of the areas addressed. During your consultation, Dr. Diehl will give you a realistic understanding of your specific process.
The length of recovery depends on the extent of the liposuction surgery. If you undergo a "light" outpatient procedure, you may be able to return to normal in as little as a few days. If, on the other hand, you have an extensive procedure, you may require several weeks to heal. Regardless, you can expect bruising, tenderness and swelling for at least two weeks.
Keep in mind that every person's body is different. Your recovery time may be very different from someone else with a similar procedure. Dr. Diehl will present you with all of the information you need to understand the range of outcomes, and how to best-maintain your improved body shape.


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NHRA chassis tech-sonic weld tests
Im about to get a chassis certified and Ive heard that sometimes inspectors for NHRA will sonic test every peice on a chassis. What does this test do and what determines if it passes or fails? any other tips on passing chassis inspection? thanks Brian
Sonic tester measures thickness of roll bar tube. Say the spec on a particular bar is 0.125" or 0.083", for example.
If the tube thickness >= spec it passes. Thinner than spec it fails.
Inspectors also look for tube joints to be welded completely around (for example: at top of cage near headliner.) No grinding of welds. Gussets where required by rule book.
That's the basics. One of the members here is an NHRA tech inspector. Maybe he can fill in more details.
How fast is the car/ what certification are you looking for ? 8.50 to 9.99? 8.49 to 7.50? 7.49 and faster (1/4 mile times) There are new requirements to certify faster than 8.50 and 7.50 1/4 mile... ("funny car cage", SFI, etc.)
Why can't you grind the welds?
So they can see the quality of the welds or does grinding the welds affect them somehow?
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one of the reasons they dont allow grinding of welds is so that they can see the quality of the weld
i realize that looks can mean little when it comes to strength, but in some cases its easy to look at a weld and say "wow, that has zero penetration"
if you cant make a decently smooth even weld around a tube, you shouldnt be welding together a safety cage
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Join Karen Platts on a 2-hour walk of New York's "greatest work of art", designed by Olmstead & Vaux. Includes Sheep Meadow, The Dairy, Poet's Walk & The Mall, Bethesda Terrace & Fountain, Bow Bridge, Alice in Wonderland and Turtle Pond. This is not a tour on the bus…wear walking shoes and bring your camera! Free afternoon to stroll 5th Avenue, have lunch and explore midtown.
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Mary L Sebastian, MD, FACS is Medical Director of the Reinsch Pierce Family Center for Breast Health at Virginia Hospital Center, Dr. Sebastian is a graduate of the University of Virginia School of Medicine. She also received her undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia. During her studies at UVA, she was awarded a National Science Foundation research grant. She completed her surgical residency at the Medical College of Virginia, where she was Administrative Chief Resident in her final year. During her residency, she received a prestigious National Institutes of Health Research Fellowship. Prior to joining the Reinsch Pierce Family Center for Breast Health at Virginia Hospital Center as a dedicated breast surgeon, Dr. Sebastian completed a fellowship in minimally invasive surgical techniques at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. Certified by the American Board of Surgery and a member of the Association of Women Surgeons, Dr. Sebastian is committed to the multidisciplinary coordination of breast health care and customizing treatment plans to the unique requirements of each patient. She, and her colleagues, strongly believe that no breast cancer journey should be done alone and they are there to provide the treatment and support individuals and families need. Dr. Sebastian serves as Virginia Hospital Center's physician liaison to the American College of Surgeons' Commission on Cancer. She is also a member of the Education Committee of the American Society of Breast Surgeons.
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text: St. Albans election: Mayor has cultural side By Rusty Marks May 29, 2013 Story Share ST. ALBANS, W.Va. -- St. Albans Mayor Dick Callaway moved to town in 1978 to run a couple of radio stations and liked it so much he decided to stay."We had some friends in St. Albans who said it was a nice place to live," said Callaway, 70. The former radio newscaster and station owner had bought radio stations in Charleston and Madison, and thought St. Albans was strategically placed in between the two."We liked the area and we liked the people," Callaway said. Although he sold the radio stations in 1989, Callaway and his wife, Elizabeth, stayed on.Callaway, in his seventh year as mayor of St. Albans, faces challenger Scott Russell in the city's general election on Saturday. Polls are open from 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.Callaway grew up in Raleigh County, where in high school he developed an interest in theater and the arts. During college, he helped work on the outdoor drama program for Theatre West Virginia, whose musical productions "Honey in the Rock" and "Hatfields & McCoys" remain popular.Callaway holds diplomas from Beckley College, West Virginia Tech and Marshall University. He developed a broadcasting program for Beckley College, whose formerly student-run radio station, WVPB, became part of the fledgling West Virginia Public Radio network.He became involved in St. Albans city government over concerns about the city's struggling and financially strapped utility board."When I was first approached [to run for office] they were having a lot of trouble with the utility commission," Callaway recalled. Being new to politics, he decided to run for City Council at-large.Callaway must have done a good job. In 2006, when former Mayor Greg Jones died unexpectedly during his first year in office, Callaway was appointed to fill out Jones' unexpired term. That was seven years ago. Callaway finished out the last three years of Jones' term, then was elected mayor.Callaway also took over management of the Municipal Utilities Commission, a move he said saves the city more than $70,000 a year. "At that point, [the utilities commission] was a real problem," he recalled. "Now we've got a handle on it."During his tenure, Callaway said he's overseen a $10 million project to upgrade the city's water plant and water system. He has helped get $500,000 in grant money to fix up sidewalks and streetscape programs. Though more work needs to be done, Callaway wants to continue fixing streets and sidewalks and working on the city's infrastructure needs.But Callaway is also proud of the Alban Theater and Alban Arts Academy, an idea he had soon after taking office to help bring a cultural element to St. Albans.The theater stages six productions a year, from comedy to Shakespearean plays and is available for rent for cultural events. The academy offers 12 to 15 arts-based classes every year."That came from my own experiences in theater," Callaway said. "I was raised in theater." In addition to providing outlets for local actors and audiences, "It brings people into St. Albans who would not be here otherwise."I have a vision for our community," Callaway said. "We want it to be a safe community. We want it to be a healthy community, both physically and psychologically."In the end, Callaway hopes to make St. Albans a regional destination that people from all over the area want to visit, he said.Reach Rusty Marks at firstname.lastname@example.com or 304-348-1215. Story Share Story Share Trending Now 1 Late outburst carries St. Albans into state baseball tournament 2 Lynne White: Mercer Bible class doesn't pass Constitutionality test 3 Mitch Vingle: WVU football will have opportunities in 2017 4 After one year, no progress on WV ammunition plant 5 Cross Lanes man meets organ donor's friend St. Albans election: Mayoral candidate takes hands-on approach Previous Story AARP community service award nominations sought Next Story


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Thank you to the lady customer who rushed to my aid when you saw me trip and fall face down over the corner of a pallet in the produce department of Super One on June 1. I was shopping alone and with no employee in the department at that time, you took time from your day to help me. You asked if I wanted you to call 911 and I said, "No." You helped me get up. I don't know who you are but after you pleaded for someone to get the manager, he recorded your name, etc. You stayed with me even though you had someone waiting for you in the car and I am so thankful for you. Your act of kindness to a stranger who was hurt is so honorable and rare.
Thank you to the manager on duty at 12:45 p.m. that day. You handled the situation in a professional manner and took charge of the details. You wasted no time paging for clean-up of that area for the safety of other customers.
Lastly, I applaud Super One for recognizing this hazard. You have recently posted brilliant red warning notices at eye level with arrows pointing to the protruding pallet corners on the floor. Too late for me but apparently you are recognizing the importance of every customers safety when shopping in your grocery store.
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October 27, 2012
How Romney Will Do Business As President
-- by Dave Johnson
Remember how the Bush administration made cronies rich? Here is how Romney will run things. Mitt Romney spends big on firms tied to aides,
Mitt Romney's campaign has directed $134.2 million to political firms with business ties to his senior staff, spotlighting the tightknit nature of his second presidential bid and the staggering sums being spent in this election.
Nine firms that are run by, or recently employed, top Romney aides have received almost a third of the $435.8 million that Romney's campaign and a related fundraising committee have spent on operating expenses through Oct. 17, according to a Los Angeles Times analysis of federal election finance reports.
$134.2 million steered to cronies. Contrast this with Obama:
President Obama's reelection campaign and a joint fundraising committee have paid about $5.8 million in consulting fees to companies with business ties to senior strategists, according to the finance reports.
A Romney administration will be entirely a pay-to-play corruption racket run for insider profit. They will start where Bush left off.
Posted by Dave Johnson at October 27, 2012 10:43 AM
Yes, this is par for the course. Still, Dems have an uncanny record of pulling defeat from the jaws of victory. Consider that millions of poor Americans came out to vote for Barack Obama in 2008 in hopes that we would finally have a legitimate public discussion about deep American poverty, only to find that they couldn't get a word in edgewise. OWS so clearly portrays this issue: An amazing movement suddenly came to life, so potentially powerful that it actually scared the right wing into (for the most part) shutting up. But almost from the start, OWS was redefined (largely by media, much of it branded "progressive") as a movement only of middle class workers, the better-off. The poor were pushed right out of the discussion, they walked away, and "Occupy" fizzled out.For 4 yrs, the public political discussion has been all about, only about, the middle class.The millions of post-middle class/poor, who don't believe in the trickle-down fairy, have little incentive to vote for the benefit of a middle class that threw them off the cliff.
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Home affordability in Wanganui continues to be a struggle for families and those on single incomes.
The latest Roost home loan affordability report shows owning a home in Wanganui in August cost, on average, 29.2 per cent of an individual's median weekly take-home pay to meet repayments on a 25-year mortgage for an average home in the city.
The average house price was $175,000 in August, while the median weekly take-home pay for a typical buyer was $693, and weekly mortgage payments (on a floating rate of 5.73 per cent) were $202.
The good news for buyers is that the situation is likely to be improved with the September sales figures from the Real Estate Institute of NZ showing the average house price in the Wanganui district had dropped even further.
REINZ said the median price for homes selling in the city had slipped a further $12,500 to $162,500. That is the identical median sales figure in Wanganui in August last year.
Based on the August figures, however, Roost said the median income for the typical buyer was not high enough to buy a median priced house, even with a 20 per cent deposit.
"This measure shows the typical buyer's income is just too low by itself to afford the mortgage payments on the median-priced home," Roost said.
Affordability worsened across the country as average house prices rose to $370,000 in August from $361,000 in July. Single, after-tax income needed to service an 80 per cent mortgage on a median house was 53.5 per cent in August.
Home purchase becomes affordable for first home buyers if both adults are working. That assumes one person working fulltime, one part-time and they are also receiving working for families benefits.
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To maintain the rigid status quo of high society New York, sacrifices must be made and rebellion punished. By Avril Moore.
The EROTICISM represented by the perpetually blooming red flowers overlaying the lace and perfect copperplate in the title sequence of The Age of Innocence conveys the film's main theme: old-world values colliding with the new.
And yet if May Welland epitomises the strict adherence of the New York aristocracy to what was socially acceptable for the time, then the irony of the title cannot be lost.
For here, as in the novel by Edith Wharton from which the film is faithfully derived, is a world where the intransigent preservation of wealth and power is paramount, and any whiff of individualism must be sacrificed, if not eradicated.
This tension, or outright hostility, exists beneath a brittle veneer of impeccable manners, taste and morality - a harmony shattered by a whisper and a subterfuge so sophisticated that it warrants decoding by an arch, third-person narrator.
Screenwriter and director Martin Scorsese said the narrator was a "tricky" character. The narrator "presents the story in this way to teach us a lesson".
"I love the idea of the female voice setting us up for a fall. You get to trust her, and then she does you in, just like he (Newland Archer) gets done in," he said.
The omniscience of the narrator is further supported by repeated overhead or high-angle shots of banquets, balls, visits to the theatre and any intimacy between the main protagonists. Scorsese said he shot scenes after the recording of the voice-over, affording even more authority to the narrator.
The camera also serves to demonstrate in the opening opera scene (a Faustian drama) the wealth and priorities of the society to which we are being introduced - note the small, sharp cut-aways to gold watch-chains, satin gloves and diamond-studded hairclips. This group is more interested in observing each other than the entertainment.
We quickly learn from Larry Lefferts' indiscreet comment, "I didn't think the Mingotts would have tried it on" (a reference to the presence of the scandalously divorced expatriate Countess Ellen Olenska), that the countess will form the apex of the love triangle with May Welland and Newland Archer.
Scorsese, with an economy of style and dialogue, introduces us to May who, by her own admission, is adverse to change. Newland demonstrates his priggishness by quietly refusing to kiss the Countess' offered hand (he has, after all, heard the rumours), while Ellen is both flirtatious and bold and immediately draws the disconcerted Newland into a conversation about love.
As with Wharton's novel, the narrator frequently illuminates Newland's feelings and point of view, which we must take care to resist when making judgements about other characters, in particular, the women in his life.
For it is far too simplistic to relegate, as Newland does, May and Ellen to stereotypes.
Although production elements such as setting, camera filters and costume also support a Madonna-whore dichotomy with May and Ellen, careful attention to script reveals that these two women are far more complex - with Scorsese often conflating them to further disrupt this reading.
And yet, as much as May can be seen to represent all that is hypocritical and vacuous in New York society, she is one of the few characters, apart from perhaps Granny Mingott, who has the audacity to cut through any sophistry - as demonstrated in her let's-be-frank speech to Newland.
Newland's weakness in this scene is profound as he blatantly lies to May and in turn to himself. His tragedy is that he never gives her a chance, instead cultivating a marriage that manifests as some strange museum piece.
As far as the director is concerned this is a man's world, with women assigned roles only in relationship to the men: that of wife, mother, sister, daughter or mistress.
With resonances of his famous mafia movies, Mean Streets and Goodfellas, Scorsese's preoccupation with the power wielded by patriarchs over the family - in this case Henry Van der Luyden and in particular Sillerton Jackson - is as familiar as it is chilling.
Watch how cigars and pens work as a leitmotiv whenever discussions concerning the fate of Ellen take place. The undercurrent of indifference is palpable every time a faulty pen is shaken and a cigar clipped, especially when Sillerton ruthlessly suggests (upon the countess' imminent financial ruin) that she must find her own level.
It is worth noting the presence of a painting of a white woman being scalped by native Americans as the voice-over explains that in Newland and May, two of New York's best families would finally and momentously be joined - a clear suggestion that society match-making is no different from the brutal practices of a tribal clan, with women coming off second-best in both.
Sympathy for Newland's grand passion is also difficult when his romantic, unrealistic notions serve only to expose his selfishness.
He is incapable of understanding what Ellen means by personal freedom and is so bound up in his own suffering that he appears genuinely surprised when she reminds him of her own.
Not only does he weep at melodramas but often his encounters with Ellen are accompanied by a dramatic and cliched ignition of the flames within the fireplace. Note also the use of iris-lighting that heightens his sense (and in turn our own) of these two lovers struggling alone against the world.
Newland naively believes there is a place he and his paramour can escape to where they will not be despised for their indiscretions. When Ellen disabuses him of this notion, he proceeds to abandon her carriage like a petulant child.
It is therefore not surprising that even after May's death, when the acknowledgement of Newland's sacrifice is revealed by their son, Ted (let's not forget May's sacrifice also), Newland is still incapable of striking out on his own, a failing he always blamed May for.
He does not reunite with Ellen, preferring to cultivate his fantasy of her and despite all the opportunities for change (Ted, ironically, has married into the much-maligned Beaufort family) he remains old-fashioned.
Avril Moore lectures in text and culture at Holmesglen Institute.
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feel free to use it or incorporate ino the logo. We like a globe or wolrd symbol but do not like the swooshy chartacters that are being used in everything today. They look like brush stroke people and are used in health ads, and drug company ads and also in education ads. An example is the file I have attached. The figuers in the logo not what we want.
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Deep Mind, the London-based artificial intelligence start-up bought for £400 million by Google last year, is working on technology to fight cancer, according to one of the search giant's top executives.
Speaking at Advertising Week Europe in London, Google's UK head Eileen Naughton said: "In concept, they are trying to figure out how to use nanotechnology to turn off cancer cells. They're working on high level, life changing stuff."
In recent years Google has taken an increasing interest in healthcare, establishing a Life Sciences division within Google X, the branch of Google that works on so-called 'moon projects' that are not immediately commercial.
The technology giant has also launched a spin-off company, Cailco, that focuses on cures for age related diseases.
Naughton said Google's Life Sciences division was doing "an enormous amount of mapping of cancer cells" and is also working on mapping the genome of autistic people to better understand the condition.
Member's of the science community including Steven Hawking have expressed fears about possible intended consequences arising from the type of artificial intelligence that Deep Mind is working on.
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text: It helps if you have a good manual but the instructions that come with the kit are pretty good. The part number is F5AZ-4947-BA. It lists for a little over $60 at Ford but Mean Mustang Supply has it cheaper if you can wait. Get about 3 quarts of 80w-90 gear oil. If you use synthetic you probably shouldn't use friction modifier. If you want absolute max trak-lok action and are willing to put up with some unsettling noises from the rear end, don't use any modifier at all. It just makes the clutches more slippery so they don't chatter. I chose to use it and I'm glad I did since this is my daily driver, autocrossed and dragraced for fun. Anyway, here goes.


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Flux ds30 or flux tt30
So I want to get the flux dmcc light but its looking like I wont have the money for them so these are my other choices. I just want a good all around all mountain binding to go with my rome reverb rocker and thirty two binary boa boots. The reason I am only looking at flux is because that is all my local boardshop carries other than burton for bindings.
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TT30's. DS30's were softer.
Ok that is was I was thinking but then I noticed the dmcc light and ds30 are rated to have the same amount of flex.
Stiff SF45 > DMCC light > TT30 > DS30 Soft
DMCC light has a stiffer base than TT30 due to carbon infusion. DMCC light highback is softer by design but has same material composition as TT30.
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TT30 and DS30 base have the same composition but the TT30 will be stiffer by design due to Alpha base (allows more ankle roll). Note, Alpha base has inserts to stiffen flex if desired.
Well I'm going to try and get the dmcc light but if not then it looks like I will be getting the tt30.
Stiff ................................ Soft
SF45 > TT30 > DMCC Light > DS30
How would a stiffer highback soft baseplate differ from the softer highback, stiffer baseplate (I have an idea, but I'm interested in the design reasoning).
Based on the design of the highback, your highback flex progression should be changed to SF45 > TT30 > DMCC Light & DS30. Because the DMCC Light and DS30 have the same highback. Unless you opt for the DS30 Limited highback.
BTW, I'm not a rep and haven't tried either binding side by side, but I think Nivek has compared them.
As for your last question, I have no idea. But my guess is the DS30 Limited would be stiffer than the standard issue DS30.
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Stable Homotopy Groups of Spheres
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BeschreibungA central problem in algebraic topology is the calculation of the values of the stable homotopy groups of spheres + S. In this book, a new method for this is developed based upon the analysis of the Atiyah-Hirzebruch spectral sequence. After the tools for this analysis are developed, these methods are applied to compute inductively the first 64 stable stems, a substantial improvement over the previously known 45. Much of this computation is algorithmic and is done by computer. As an application, an element of degree 62 of Kervaire invariant one is shown to have order two. This book will be useful to algebraic topologists and graduate students with a knowledge of basic homotopy theory and Brown-Peterson homology; for its methods, as a reference on the structure of the first 64 stable stems and for the tables depicting the behavior of the Atiyah-Hirzebruch and classical Adams spectral sequences through degree 64.
InhaltsverzeichnisToda brackets.- Low dimensional computations.- The image of J.- The Japanese stems (?N, 9?N?31).- The Chicago stem (?S N, 32?N?45).- The new stems (?S N, 46?N?64).- The elements of arf invariant one.
Untertitel: A Computer-Assisted Approach. 1990. Auflage. Book. Sprache: Englisch.
Verlag: Springer
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Mayor Michael Bloomberg was sent two letters that tested positive for traces of ricin — one to his New York office and another to his gun-control group in Washington, the New York Times reported Wednesday.
The toxic substance was also recently found on correspondence sent to US President Barack Obama and several lawmakers late last month.
The anonymous letters were opened Friday in New York and Sunday in Washington, the latter at an office housing Bloomberg's non-profit Mayors Against Illegal Guns.
Police told the Associated Press that people who were exposed to the letters showed no symptoms. However, three New York officers who examined the letter experienced some minor, temporary reactions to the substance.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating the matter. The mayor had no comment.
Ricin can be deadly if swallowed or inhaled.
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