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JPR03: Interview: Bruce Beaver
in conversation with John Tranter
Manly, Monday 15 June 2003
The conversation took place at Bruce Beaver's apartment in the seaside suburb of Manly, in Sydney, Australia, on Monday 15 June 2003. Bruce Beaver was in his mid-seventies. His wife Brenda has not long before been hospitalised with appendicitis, and Bruce was alone in the apartment. ¶ Sadly Bruce died less than a year after our interview, in the early hours of the 17th of February 2004. You can read my obituary article on this site. ¶ This interview was first published in Southerly magazine. It is about thirteen printed pages long. ¶ We began by talking about out mutual friend Grace Perry (1927–87), poet, magazine editor and medical doctor, who had published Parallax, my first book of poems, in 1970, and many volumes by Bruce Beaver.
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Bruce Beaver: … Grace asked me what's your next book, if you're working on one? I said, "I've got one ready". And that was… I think Seawall and Shoreline was the next one. Under the Bridge was the first one, the first book Grace Perry published.
John Tranter: That came out in 1964. That was the year Grace started Poetry Australia [and South Head Press], wasn't it?
Bruce Beaver: Yes, the first South Head Press publication was my book. And she published another three after that: Letters to Live Poets, Open at Random, and…
John Tranter: [Was that] Death's Directives?
Bruce Beaver: No, she didn't publish that. I left the publishing house for that book. I dedicated that to David Malouf. He was pleased with that… he's a damn good poet himself.
John Tranter: He was then. He writes mainly prose now. So you had a long association with Grace Perry.
Bruce Beaver: Yes, it started in 1963 when I met her at the Poetry Society of Australia. [Grace was then the editor of Poetry Magazine, published by the Society.] She was on the verge of kicking her heels up at them and leaving, and starting her own magazine.
John Tranter: What was the reason she gave for leaving at that time? There was something about an issue of Poetry Magazine she was about to edit, that the committee of the Society disapproved of.
Bruce Beaver: That's right, yes. And she got in a huff.
John Tranter: Was it because it had French poetry in it? Or American poetry?
Bruce Beaver: I do believe it was a selection of French poetry, which she later brought out as an issue of Poetry Australia. A very nice book; I still have it and read it. After that she did an issue of Italian poetry in English and she was thinking about a Dutch issue. They were all good.
John Tranter: She was a very independent person, wasn't she?
Bruce Beaver: Utterly independent, yes. You couldn't cross swords with her unless you were prepared to get wounded. And she was always ready to have a tussle with anybody, and she was argumentative by nature. But I liked her very much because — she was a damn good doctor as well and a very talented person. Her last book, I thought, was Black Swans at Berrima, and I thought it was perhaps the best thing she'd done. She was not —
John Tranter: I wasn't that impressed with her poetry —
Bruce Beaver: She wasn't a first-class poet, no, she was a second-class —
John Tranter: And the sad thing is that in the 16 years since she died [in July 1987] her work seems to have fallen into neglect, hasn't it?
Bruce Beaver: I'm afraid so, I'm afraid it's gone into oblivion. Nothing much one can do about that. I looked at Black Swans the other day, and liked it better than the other books. They were too strident.
John Tranter: I remember when I was going to Singapore in the middle of 1971, I went to see her about something or other; in fact I think I tried to talk her into doing another anthology of young, new poetry, which she agreed to do then.[1] That fell apart later. I remember as I was going she came out onto the lawn in front of her doctor's surgery [at 350 Lyons Road, Five Dock, in Sydney] and said to me "John, I must say I'm not happy with the direction your work's going in. It's getting all experimental and way-out, you know. You should really think of going back and reading William Carlos Williams again, he's really the best example you can have as a poet." And I said "Well, that might be so for you, Grace, but I've got to do what I've got to do. I'm still developing, I have to do what I think is interesting." That was really the last conversation we had for a long time.
When she was very young she won a prize or two as a schoolgirl [she was 15], and got a lot of fame. And she didn't come back to poetry until she had got a degree and become a doctor and been married and had three kids. And I think it was then that she discovered Williams[2], and it impressed her very much.
Bruce Beaver: You know I first met her when she was very young. I was working at radio station 2UE. I went down the hall one day and I looked through at the announcer [in the studio] and I saw a young girl sitting with him, giving an interview and talking about her plans for the future. I thought, so you want to be a poet. I was just on the verge of starting to write poetry myself. I didn't start until I was 17. Anyway I met her and I said: "How nice to meet you; you started when you were twelve, did you?" "Oh, yes," she said, and we talked. This is all historical now, isn't it?
John Tranter: This is Grace Perry? What a wonderful coincidence!
Bruce Beaver: At 16! And I didn't meet her again until — she was my age — until I was about 34, 35. Isn't that a fantastic coincidence?
John Tranter: Extraordinary, Bruce. I can't get over it.
Bruce Beaver: I frequently think of it. We were meant to meet, and be friends. That was 1944, in 2UE.
John Tranter: I was one year old.
Bruce Beaver: [laughs] How marvellous… you were on earth…
John Tranter: Just beginning. And Ern Malley's work had just been published. [You can read about the Australian hoax poet Ern Malley in Jacket magazine.]
Bruce Beaver: Yes, yes, which I have over there in those shelves. I thought you'd be tickled by that because I can't understand why she said don't be experimental, because she encouraged me when I was at my most experimental, leaving out the capitalisation… James Dickey [the American poet] said "Oh Beaver, he's not that much, he's copying my style." Well, that's quite true, I was copying what he started doing, but I did a whole book, he only did an occasional poem here and there.
John Tranter: He came to Australia, didn't he, and stayed with Grace…
Bruce Beaver: Yes, we were at her place at Bilgola [on the Northern Sydney beaches] seated fronting the ocean, and I said "Tell me, what do you think Robert Lowell would feel if he were here?" And Dickey said, [deep slow voice, American accent:] "He'd be embarrassed." That's all he said. In other words, the ocean would make him feel small.[3]
John Tranter: I don't think much made Robert Lowell feel small.
Bruce Beaver: No, because he was naturally… he was like me, he had the bipolar occurrences, manic-depressive psychosis. I'll show you an interesting book. [Gets book from shelf.] Manic Power. Faces up to the fact that half a dozen contemporary American poets, all of whom you'd know, because they're all famous… Sexton, and…
John Tranter: Berryman…
Bruce Beaver: Berryman…
John Tranter: Randall Jarrell…
Bruce Beaver: Were all manic-depressives.
John Tranter: They all drank too much, too.
Bruce Beaver: So did I before I went on dialysis.
John Tranter: Did you?
Bruce Beaver: Oh hell yes. I'd drink a bottle of wine a day. It was too much for me, because I couldn't stop, really. I'd go out and start getting another one after that. I was greedy. But now I'm forbidden alcohol, on kidney dialysis. It has too much potassium in it, and you poison yourself by drinking it. I started nibbling, about two or three months ago, and I'd take Brenda down to Manly to a well-known pub, The Ivanhoe, and I'd have a couple of glasses of spirits. And my potassium reading got too high. They [at the dialysis clinic] asked me what I'd been doing, and I said that I'd eaten some banana sandwiches. I told a lie. And they said I mustn't do that again. It wasn't much, but it was too much for me. Unfortunately, because I love it.
John Tranter: I believe you spent some time on an uncle's farm on the south coast of New South Wales. I grew up down that way [at Moruya]. Where was it?
Bruce Beaver: It was at Berry, north of Nowra [about a hundred miles south of Sydney, near the coast.] You'd know that area. He began on a small place on the Shoalhaven River. He only owned 30 cows. But at Berry he had his farm, and I went there when I was 19, for about a year, to work with him, as a therapeutic thing, to try and check the bipolar occurrences that were rattling me.
And I got very healthy and strong. I loved working for Uncle Reg, he was a lovable man. I did a bit of everything, a bit of ploughing, mainly milking cows by hand. He didn't have any machinery. I could do all the work that my cousin Raymond, Ray, would do. He was a couple of years older than I was.
John Tranter: How many cows would you milk a day? About 10 or 12?
Bruce Beaver: Right on the dot! Ray and I and Reg, the three of us, would get up at about 4.30 or 5.00, and I'd go out and bring the cows in, on Lass, a lovely horse. Uncle Reg made me very angry a few years later, because instead of pensioning Lass off and letting her live in a nice paddock, he sold her for dogs' meat.
John Tranter: Oh dear, that's upsetting.
Bruce Beaver: Well, this is the strange callousness that many farmers have underneath their loving natures.
John Tranter: They can be very hard underneath.
Bruce Beaver: They've got to be tough. Everything, money… and Lass went. I didn't sever relations, because he died himself, shortly afterwards. But that was a good time of my life.
The other good experience in my life was working for the railway survey camp in the Hunter Valley [north of Sydney] at Singleton, on a plan to create a new railway line from Newcastle over the range at Murrurundi, to by-pass the flood areas. I worked on that for five years. For five years I lived in a tent, from my 24th to my 29th year I worked as a surveyor's labourer. I was all muscle and bone then. And I'm only skin and bone now [laughs]. I was writing poetry all the time, getting it published.
John Tranter: You'd have time to write, too, in the evenings. Nothing much to do.
Bruce Beaver: Yes, I'd pump up my Tilley lamp, and I'd write from about 7.00 till about 10.00, writing poetry. Yes, I've had a mildly adventurous life.
John Tranter: Have you ever been overseas?
Bruce Beaver: Only to New Zealand and Norfolk Island. I would have loved to visit the America of the Beats. I wanted to go there as a kind of pilgrimage when they were writing. Kerouac and Ginsberg and the saner ones. I liked the bad ones very much; the saner ones sort of kept them in line. One of them owned a bookshop called City Lights.
John Tranter: Ferlinghetti.
Bruce Beaver: I met him when he came out to Australia, in the early 1970s. I met him a few times, rescued him from Grace once, and took him back to Kings Cross where I was living, and showed him around. "Now," he said, "I'd like to go home and write." I said "I know exactly how you feel. That's why I rescued you. She's a good woman, but she's hard to get away from, if you're as famous as you are." "Oh, I'm not famous." "You surely are, and you know it," I said, "The whole bunch of you are. Beautiful poets." [deep voice, slow American accent:] "Well, so long, Bruce." I never saw him again. He went back to America. He was a nice man. I think they all would have been good to meet, especially Ginsberg.
John Tranter: I never met Ginsberg. Although I went to a poetry reading he gave once, in Florida. I was there on a three-month writer-in-residency, funded partly by the Literature Board of the Australia Council. I gave a reading; he gave one the following night. I didn't get too many people come to mine; he got a lot come to his. [laughs] It was a wonderful reading. He was in good form. He had a little harmonium with him, which he played, and sang, and just enthralled the audience. It was a fabulous evening.
John Tranter: You were connected with a lot of younger writers, weren't you? Like me, and others, towards the end of the '60s, Nigel Roberts…
Bruce Beaver: I met Nigel first apple picking in New Zealand, down at the top of the south island. I had two seasons of apple picking: 1959 and 1960, and I met Nigel Roberts when he was 17, a student teacher. He was already writing poetry. I was well into my poems. We had a lot to say to one another.
Bruce Beaver: When he [Nigel Roberts] came over to Australia he introduced me to — not to you, I don't remember how we met — I was living at Kings Cross. I remember you were about 22, 1966 perhaps. You came to our place up from Rushcutters Bay, just up from the park. You were only 21, I think. You reminded me of a poet, a German poet, and I mentioned his name. And you said, "Oh no, Rimbaud is my favourite". Even then. And I thought, "I haven't read enough of Rimbaud". So I immediately went out and bought this poetry. I thought, "My God yes."
John Tranter: Really?
Bruce Beaver: You've both got the same "shock treatment" approach. And even then… you were not writing like Rimbaud, you were writing like yourself, only you had the same appreciation of "shock them awake" feeling… wake them up.
John Tranter: I'd actually got onto Rimbaud when I was 17.
Bruce Beaver: You told me.
John Tranter: A friend from my hometown, Moruya, Jan Hutchison, gave me a copy of a biography of Rimbaud by James Ramsey Ulmann. It was rather bowdlerised, but it was a very intense book, and it got me absorbed in the idea that anyone could actually devote their life to being a poet. It seemed a very strange intense thing to do.
Bruce Beaver: And so young…
John Tranter: So young. That's what impressed me too.
Bruce Beaver: About your own age.
John Tranter: That's right. I was about that age — the age he was beginning to do his good work — when I first heard about him. Of course I didn't write any good poetry for a long time after that, but it was a very interesting experience, to run into that work.
Bruce Beaver: You started being yourself. You weren't many years going, and you had attained your own thing, your own feeling…
John Tranter: Well, I was always borrowing from other people.
Bruce Beaver: So was I.
John Tranter: I think Eliot said that you work out who you are by going through a whole lot of writers' styles…
Bruce Beaver: Laforgue and the others… it's very interesting to read about the lives of other poets who have become famous and have impressed one and made one feel… well, I'd love to be myself, but I'd wished that I could have his or her approach to life. I loved Elizabeth Bishop. When I read Lowell I got onto Bishop.
John Tranter: I took a long time to come around to Elizabeth Bishop. I think when I first looked at her work it seemed too quiet to interest me.
Bruce Beaver: It's not immediately approachable. When you seek to meet her half way, you like her. I like her very much.
John Tranter: The prose is very good too.
Bruce Beaver: I met Denise Levertov, she was quite interesting for a while.
John Tranter: I think I met her at your place.
Bruce Beaver: Yes, she came over here and sat on the floor, and I sat on the floor with her. And Brenda was in the immediate offing, so I'm glad we didn't lie on the floor. [laughs] We just sat and talked. She told me about meeting Lowell and being impressed. She was taught by him. She had this contact. And we had this great distant contact with Americans, about every 10 years, they'd fly over here.
John Tranter: They'd fly over, and fly back! Did you meet Robert Duncan when he came out?
Bruce Beaver: Yes, I did.
John Tranter: I didn't meet him here. He stayed with the Adamsons, didn't he?
Bruce Beaver: He stayed with the Adamsons, and he wasn't very approachable, he was distant always, but he liked my poems. I showed him a book of mine, the one that James Dickey said the form was plagiarised, and he said: "I like him, in fact I like him more than I like Jim Dickey."
John Tranter: Well that's nice to hear.
Bruce Beaver: Wow… coming from Robert Duncan, whom I idolised at the time, along with Olson… I would love to have met Olson. I loved his work. Of course it was on from Carlos Williams' style of writing letters to himself and to his public. Which again was taken from Pound's Cantos style. I loved these American poets because I wanted to write about Manly like that, and I've always written about Manly. I've got it in the new book that I'm just finishing.
John Tranter: What's your new book about?
Bruce Beaver: It's called "The Long Game". That's the leading poem in it. It's… I tried to copy the Persian Rubaiyat, only I copied the two-line stanza and used three rhymes. I've got away from FitzGerald's Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, which I liked very much and am very fond of.
John Tranter: [Looking at the typescript, astonished tone] This is rhymed verse, Bruce!
Bruce Beaver: Yes, it's all rhymed, the whole thing, it's about six pages of rhymed verse.
John Tranter: Amazing.
Bruce Beaver: I think you'd be interested in this one. I find… I speak haltingly now, because of this ageing memory of mine. I have to give myself a second or two before the thought formulates, and then I turn it into words. It's… ah… it's an annoying experience. Brenda and I are both in the same boat, and when I go up to see her this afternoon [at the hospital], we'll be saying "You're about to say so-and-so, let me say it for you," and we help one another [laughs].
John Tranter: How long have you been together?
Bruce Beaver: Forty years. I met her… I went to New Zealand in 1958 because I wanted to meet James K. Baxer and Alan Curnow, and all the other big poets… I called them big poets because they appealed to me, frankly, more than the contemporary Australian poets at the time. I was reading them in Meanjin. They were amazingly colourful poets, lively living poets, and I thought I'll go over there and I'll meet them. Instead I went over there and met the two leading prose writers, Frank Sargeson and Rod Finlayson. They became close friends, but I never met the poets.
John Tranter: That's odd, isn't it? They were the ones you'd gone to see.
Bruce Beaver: Yes… I'd gone to meet them in '58…
John Tranter: How long were you there in New Zealand?
Bruce Beaver: Till '62. Between four and five years. I went in May, and in October I went to a friend's place and saw this lovely woman sitting there with her little son. That was Brenda. And our eyes met and we immediately had the feeling "I want to be your friend." "Cheng Yao, I want to be your friend," says the Chinese poet 700 years ago, Po Chu-I [AD 772–846.] We — of course we were friends for a few months, and then the natural thing happened, and we became lovers. And she was married, and I broke up the marriage —
John Tranter: Oh dear…
Bruce Beaver: Hell yes. I was a naughty boy. She said no, I want to be with you, so I said all right, we'll go off and live together. And she left the home, and she had to leave her son, which nearly broke her heart.
John Tranter: That must have been terribly hard to do.
Bruce Beaver: It was a terrible shock. I said look, I'd love to have the two of you with me, but they won't let us take the boy. I said, now you make your choice, and go back to them if you must do. I said we'll always be friends, but I want to be more than a friend, I want to be your husband. And she said I want to be your wife. And she made that sacrifice for me, which is the uttermost sacrifice I can imagine a woman, or a man for that matter, making.
And I thought — we were under such a dark cloud, there, that I thought I'll go back to Australia and take her with me. I did that, and as soon as I got in Australia, the bipolar experiences happened, and I was in an asylum again within three months.
John Tranter: Oh dear…
Bruce Beaver: And so it was almost a tragic setting for her to come back to.
John Tranter: She must have felt very bewildered and —
Bruce Beaver: Bewildered and lost, but… she lived with my mother, and my mother liked her very much. And I said as soon as the divorce comes through — when I got out of the asylum in about three or four weeks, about a month — I said if — if you feel up to it, and still knowing what I am, feel like marrying, we'll get married. And we got married.[4]
And I knew that I'd have these attacks throughout my life. I told her what to expect, but she still wanted to marry me, so we got married, and went to live away from Mum, because… Mum got a bit rattled when I got married. She was a possessive mother. But the life was crazy and mixed-up and rattling. And Bren put up with — let me see — 1966 we married, that's about 37 years, I think. We stayed married.
And a couple of years ago, with the help of my analyst in Manly… he said I'm going to try a new pill that's called a wonder-drug, like other pills… seemingly it stops manic-depressive occurrences. Would you be willing to try it? I said I'll leap at the chance. I take one a day after breakfast and I haven't had a bipolar experience for two years now. The analyst I had 12 or 13 years ago put me on lithium. I had 12 years of lithium and it ruined my kidneys, but it doesn't affect other people so much. That's what started me on kidney dialysis. I've been on it for 12 years now.
John Tranter: It's very hard to go on dialysis, but you've survived quite well.
Bruce Beaver: It's a drag. It's approximately five hours, three times a week, on a machine.
John Tranter: Oh Bruce, that's awful.
Bruce Beaver: Two needles in your arm; you're watching your blood circulate through a machine. I get by, by taking over books of poems.
John Tranter: You'd get a bit of reading done!
Bruce Beaver: I sure do. Five hours straight. And Brenda hasn't been well lately, so I've been seeing that she has a good night's sleep every night. I've been virtually looking after her. And she has been looking after me. We've been helping one another fully. If anything, these illnesses have brought us closer together. I'm very fortunate in that aspect of my life.
John Tranter: Brenda has always been there, hasn't she?
Bruce Beaver: Always. Always giving. And I've tried to give as much as she, but I could never catch up with her. I'm afraid I've been about 49 per cent poet and 51 per cent husband. Now I'm about 80 per cent husband and 20 per cent poetry.
John Tranter: But you're still writing…
Bruce Beaver: Yes, it's still continuing. It's my 58th year of writing.
John Tranter: When you knew Nigel Roberts and other younger poets, your work often appeared in their magazines. Free Poetry, for example, edited by Nigel.
Bruce Beaver: Yes, I often offered work to Nigel to consider. He wouldn't take it if he — he knocked back some of my work. But I understood. He gave good reasons. And I had to put that work aside. I never destroyed anything. I kept things. So I could look and see what my second-rate stuff was like. Check it with my newer work. I was my own critic.
John Tranter: To see if you were improving rather than degenerating.
Bruce Beaver: … degenerating, yes; because that can happen.
John Tranter: Now, did you know Michael Dransfield when he was on the scene?
Bruce Beaver: I was very close to Mike. He was like a sort of surrogate son for a while. Well, he was on drugs, and I was like my father, an alcoholic. In my nature. Alcohol was dangerous for me. But I couldn't drink too much, because it would make me sick. I couldn't hold it. That probably saved my life. And when I met Mike, he was — not getting sick on the drugs, but he was going out of life.
John Tranter: Yeah.
Bruce Beaver: He was getting farther and farther away from life. I remember Mike coming into the old home one day, and he'd woven a necklace of clover. He put it around my neck and kissed my forehead. I said, "Oh, Mike, don't think I'm that good". And he said, "Yes, you are". I said, "No I'm not," I said; "I'm in the same run as you are. We're both trying our hardest". He said, "You're established, you've made it," and so on. He'd go off into adulation, and this always embarrassed me for one reason or another.
John Tranter: I felt the same. He was over-enthusiastic about things. I felt it was often play-acting to pretend it was real, and then it might become real.
Bruce Beaver: Yes it was play-acting. That sums it up completely. I could see this, and I'd try to get him back to earth, but I couldn't do it. And he waltzed in one day with his girlfriend… and they went straight to our refrigerator and [laughs] and ate us out of our food for the next two days. He was like this. I couldn't stop him. I said Mike, leave something for us, will you? [laughs] But he knew it was a climate of love, love and friendship. He knew that he could do what he liked.
John Tranter: He had a lot of friends, Michael. He was very likeable.
Bruce Beaver: They came over en masse one night… as you would probably remember we had huge parties in the daytime with 60 or 70 people on the lawn at the back. And Mike knew he could come at any time he felt like it, and stay the night if he wanted to. We'd give him a bed. If he was too high I wouldn't let him go out.
John Tranter: Hmmm.
Bruce Beaver: I'd say, now you just lie down and turn it into sleep.
John Tranter: Yep.
Bruce Beaver: But it was too much for him. He just didn't have the stamina, and he died. Very young.[5] [Roland Robinson's name was mentioned.] Roland Robinson was very close to me for some years.
John Tranter: [surprised:] Was he?
Bruce Beaver: Yes. He liked my work and I liked his.
John Tranter: He was in some ways a rival to Grace Perry, of course, wasn't he, because he remained with the Poetry Society and edited their magazine, after she'd gone off with her subscriber list which she stole from the Poetry Society.
Bruce Beaver: [laughs]
John Tranter: And turned into Poetry Australia. So they would have been competing a bit.
Bruce Beaver: Yes… they came to see me, one day, from the Poetry Society, and said, "Look, Grace has taken our list". And I said, "I helped her." "Oh. I didn't know that. Oh, I understand. Goodbye." "Goodbye," I said. It was Ella Turnbull. All these things are in the past now. But Grace and I were quite naughty. We severed relations with the Poetry Society and I became a contributing editor to Poetry Australia.
Later on in the day she got Les Murray in to become the chief editor of the magazine. And I must say that… I… I can't make a statement that denigrates Les, because I think he's a wonderful poet, but he and I somehow… had a sort of rivalry going on. I don't even understand it now. It wasn't for who's better than whom. It was just… not completely understanding each other's poetry. Each knew that the other was quite good at what we were doing, but he didn't like the direction that I was going in, being too much of a confessional poet I think. I didn't regard myself as a confessional poet, I just wrote about people, and about my attitude to them and their attitude to me. And he was more distanced; while remaining excellent. Good descriptions, but… we were on the wrong sides of the track, and could never come across and be friendly.
John Tranter: You don't feel it might have had something to do with the fact that you had some influence with Grace, and Les felt he wanted the magazine for himself?
Bruce Beaver: Yes, utterly. That sums it up. That's exactly what I felt. Because I left Grace's side. I didn't stop being her friend, I'd visit her and see her. But I ceased to be an editor when Les took over the reins for a while. But she, being similar to me in some ways, us, argued with him and he left. After some months.
John Tranter: Oh, after some years, I think. He was there for a long time.[6]
Bruce Beaver: You see, there's my memory again. I couldn't remember because I wanted to wipe it out of my mind.
John Tranter: Possibly, yes. Grace did ring me after ten years — I'd been overseas and come back. While I was in Singapore in 1971, she'd refused to go through with the publication of an anthology we'd agreed to do. I only discovered decades afterwards that [one of the contributors], who was a little bit bipolar himself then, had on his own initiative written her an angry letter saying: why don't you bring out this anthology, it's been months, I've been waiting to see it, if you don't bring it out I'll get the lawyers onto you. Grace thought that I had something to do with that, and that was the end of the friendship for a decade. Very strange.
But she rang me after ten years and asked me would I come back and do some work on the magazine. This was in the early 1980s, maybe 1981 or 1982. And I said… well… I'd rather not, Grace, because the magazine's not read by anybody any more.
Bruce Beaver: No, it's finished.
John Tranter: And she said "I should never have let Les Murray take it over." She said he ruined it.
Bruce Beaver: Yes, well, she said that to me too, and… I didn't agree with her. I didn't think he ruined it. I think it just petered out.
John Tranter: Well, these things sometimes have a lifetime, don't they. They come and go.
Bruce Beaver: I thought it only had its lifetime to live.
John Tranter: And the same thing happened of course to New Poetry magazine, after some years it faded away too.
Bruce Beaver: I can't explain why these things happen. They're used as an outlet for a number of years by the poets, and then the poets get onto bigger, better magazines, like Southerly and Meanjin and…
John Tranter: Well, they also change, too, and… I also think that what's happened in our society is that there's not as much interest in poetry as there used to be.
Bruce Beaver: You're quite right. This year is what I call the year of the non-poet, or the poets' non-year. I wouldn't try to get published this year in Australia. I have a new book ready, my 15th. I'm thinking of offering it to an overseas publisher who has expressed interest.
[1] I had edited and Grace had published an earlier anthology of forward-looking poetry, Preface to the Seventies, in 1970.
[2] William Carlos Williams was also a busy medical practitioner.
[3] Robert Lowell published a volume of poems titled Near the Ocean in the Australian autumn of 1967.
[4] In a later conversation, Bruce told me that Brenda had kept in touch with her son, who eventually came to visit her and Bruce in Sydney, and that their relationship had been warm and loving.
[5] Michael Dransfield, 1948–1973.
[6] Les Murray was closely associated with Poetry Australia for seven years in all. His name first appears as one of three associate editors in issue 49 of the magazine in late 1973. In the March 1978 issue it appears as one of two editors, with Grace Perry, who was too ill to do very much for most of that decade. His name only drops off the editorial masthead in 1980, with issue 74–75, a combined issue edited by Grace Perry and her long-time friend John Millet.


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The Good Sam RV club got started in 1969 when a handful of RVers put Good Samaritan
bumper stickers on the road and in campgrounds on their rigs so fellow members would
know they could get help on the road. From this small Club we grew. In the early days,
Good Sam Members spread the word at RV parks and other Club events. Soon everyone
wanted to know how to get a Good Sam "smiling face" decal.
All Good Sam members are encouraged to join a local Chapter for wholesome, increased
outdoor fun, fellowship, travel, touring places of interest, pot luck dinners, and other
interesting camping activities. Good Sam chapters are made up of individuals from all age
groups not just retirees. We strongly encourage the young along with the young-at-heart
to join a chapter. This creates new and long lasting friendships and memories. Chapter
members usually meet once a month for a campout get-together or other Chapter
activities such as service projects or support of local charities. Some of the Florida
Chapters only meet October through May because their members are comprised of
"workcampers" or "snowbirds".
A Chapter is made up with a varying number of rigs, each Chapter determining its own
membership size, and are composed of their own elected officers. They camp together,
play together and give support in times of need. The Chapter members have vests in their
own Chapter colors, with Rally patches, patches from the states, parks and points of
interest, they have visited. The more you become involved in a Chapter the more
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events they want to attend. All chapters have a guest program that allows you to camp
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them and allows them to meet you. Be sure to talk to a few presidents in your area. They
will tell you about their chapter and when and where the next campout will be. Deciding
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Texas Salad Garden Part IIPosted on : October 7, 2014
First I hope you will revisit the Texas Salad Garden from last October. It's still good information and it includes a couple of salad dressings/dips you might want to try. This is the easy gardening season of the year. Granted some crops like broccoli, cauliflower and lettuce will benefit from fiber row cover to get them going in the late heat of fall but the challenging start is worth the big payoff during our mild winters. If you're seeding radishes, lettuce or virtually anything else, it pays to cover the beds with row cover just to keep the sparrows from pecking out every last seedling soon after germination. Some years I've grown radishes and lettuce from start to finish under row cover. Row cover only cuts out about 10% of the sunlight and the harvest was not only camera worthy but delicious. It's also good planning to have the heavier frost blanket in stock for those few cold nights we have each winter. Fresh seed is important too. Lettuce, onions and other small seeded fall crops don't remain viable as long as others like tomato and peppers. Check out the Arbor Gate seed racks for the freshest and best. If you're planting from seed, first be sure that you don't plant too deeply—small seeds need light to germinate so lightly scratching them in is sufficient. You must also thin ruthlessly, otherwise your radishes won't radish and your lettuce will never develop normal-sized leaves….plus the birds will still peck them to pieces. Beets compound this problem. Most varieties are polyembryonic—several seedlings from one seed. Even if you don't like beets the greens are good and chard is a close relative grown just for its leaves.
Lots of gardeners prefer to start with transplants-especially lettuce, greens, broccoli and cauliflower. It seems to be really critical to get them off to a fast start and keep them growing. Use a starter solution of liquid fertilizer at planting by mixing up a soluble fertilizer at 1/3 strength and use a cup per plant. Organic gardeners can substitute fish emulsion or liquid kelp but the nutrients won't be available quite as fast. Keep the water and fertilizer flowing (at least every two weeks or weekly if growth is yellow-green). Side-dressing with Arbor Gate 4-3-3 + calcium will get the job done too—especially if you have good fertility soil already. Don't presume the birds will leave your stocky little transplant alone though. They will turn the outside leaves to stems with only a bit of green leaf clinging on, and then they will get the next set of leaves and so on. Fiber row cover is your friend!
Looking for something different? How about Alverda green cauliflower, Osaka Purple mustard, Italian kale, Italian parsley or a couple of celery plants—that way you can just harvest a few stalks as needed and the plants should last all winter.
More herbs are adapted to the cool season garden than the summer garden. Forget basil for now, but dill and cilantro flourish in the fall/winter and early spring. The onion family is most at home in the cool season—you'll need short-day onions like Texas Super Sweet or Grano for bulbs but also plant chives (try garlic chives in a container-they're too vigorous to trust in the ground). Garlic is easy to grow and you can plant the store-bought garlic if you can't find it locally. Break the buds into cloves and plant them an inch or so deep. Most of the garlic at the store is porcelain or soft-neck garlic and that's the best for Southern gardens anyway. Not sure if arugula should be considered an herb or a green but it loves cool weather. It's another aggressive one so it is great in a container (try a hanging basket) or in a raised bed. Use arugula for a peppery accent in salads. Parsley also thrives in the fall and winter garden. Most chefs recommend the plain-leaved Italian varieties but the curly parsleys actually last longer into the summer.
I've been meaning to tell Beverly that one of the decorative birdhouses from Arbor Gate attracted a pair of bluebirds that successfully raised a couple of clutches this spring. It always seems like the purists suggest they will only take to a specific, all-wood construction but this pair apparently liked the bright colors and car license roof. It also seemed to be more appealing after it had been in the landscape for a while and especially when it was moved close to a tree that was used for a lookout.
So as the season changes from summer to fall- stock up on row cover, frost blanket, seeds, plants, organic soil, compost, fertilizer and bird houses.
Written by Bill Adams
William D. (Bill) Adams is the author of numerous articles and his photos have been published in a number of magazines, calendars and books. He is the co-author/photographer of "Commonsense Vegetable Gardening for the South" with Tom LeRoy and he is the co-author of "The Lone Star Gardener's Book of Lists" with Lois Trigg Chaplin. Bill and Tom also teamed up for another book—THE SOUTHERN KITCHEN GARDEN. Most recently Bill authored THE TEXAS TOMATO LOVER'S HANDBOOK a guide to growing the most delicious tomatoes on the planet. This latest book published by Texas A & M University Press. Bill worked in mass media most of his career appearing on radio and TV programs, and writing a weekly column. Adams also served as the Harris County Master Gardener Coordinator with over seven hundred active members. These days, after retiring from the Extension Service, Bill is concentrating his energies on gardening, writing and photography. He is a much-requested speaker at Garden and Civic Clubs and he is a regular contributor of articles and photography to Neil Sperry's Gardens magazine. Bill has been a member of Garden Writers Assn. since 1972 and has served several terms as a Southern regional director.


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- Large quasars can eat a hole in a galaxy
- They send out bursts of deadly radiation
- A quasar's beauty comes from energy released when a black hole crushes matter around it
- Our solar system would quickly be destroyed by one
Breathtaking blossoms nearly the size of our solar system are strewn across the universe -- hundreds of thousands of them. Quasars are, at the same time, among the most fiery monsters.
Astronomer Maarten Schmidt was the first to discover one and revealed it to the world 50 years ago Saturday in an article in the journal Nature.
His discovery was a sensation in the 1960s and made its way into pop culture. It was the age of the first manned space flights.
"It reverberated," Schmidt recalls. "It drew a lot of attention."
In the popular TV series Star Trek, the original crew of the Starship Enterprise was tasked with inspecting the newly discovered phenomenon close up.
Electronics company Motorola branded a line of televisions Quasar. A decade later Marvel Comics created a superhero with the same name.
Deadly behemoth
Luckily, no quasar is anywhere close to Earth, said Schmidt, who made the discovery at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.
If so, "we would all be dead." It would cook the Earth's surface with massive bursts of radiation called gamma rays, he said.
Then, if it were close enough, the quasar would devour our planet, our sun, the whole solar system, in a matter of months, Schmidt said.
The largest ones can eat a hole out of the center of a galaxy. Then their vast gravitational pull makes the rest of the galaxy orbit around it.
'Supermassive' black hole
Quasars have at their core a "supermassive" black hole, which contains as much matter as a billion suns. A typical black hole contains as much as about 10 suns.
The "supermassive" black hole sucks in and crushes any material that comes near it -- whole stars and planets, Schmidt said.
In the process, the material glows infinitely hot and forms a very bright, colorful disc.
That disc, called an accretion disc, often covers an area almost the size of our solar system.
It's what gives a quasar its luminous beauty. "That disc then is brighter than ... a whole galaxy," Schmidt said.
Quasars also shoot off beams called "jets" reminiscent of phaser fire coming from the Starship Enterprise. Jets are made up of subatomic particles racing away from the quasar nearly at the speed of light.
We don't want our planet to get shot by one.
"I think that would be indeed destructive," Schmidt said.
For decades, astronomers mistook quasars for stars in our own galaxy, but Schmidt took measurements that showed that they are infinitely distant -- billions of light years away.
To still be visible to a telescope on Earth, he figured out that they had to be infinitely bright as well. "It looked like a star, yet it was more luminous than a whole galaxy."
A lifetime of star gazing
Schmidt has been hooked on star gazing since childhood.
"I was a school boy in Holland, and during World War II," he said. There were constant blackouts, leaving cities pitch black at night. The stars shown more brightly than ever before.
His uncle had a telescope and showed Schmidt heavenly bodies close up.
"Soon I built myself a small telescope and it sort of took off from there," Schmidt said.
And at 84, he still gazes out many billions of light years into the universe to find new quasars.
Their vast distance from us is what makes them particularly interesting.
Because they are so far away, by the time their images traverse the universe at the speed of light and arrive here for Schmidt to see them, more time has passed than the Earth and the sun are old.
Often, he is looking at something that happened 10 billion years ago -- in a universe that scientists believe to be 13 billion years old. The quasars provide him a view on the history of the universe.
So much time has passed, that the quasars no longer even exist anymore. In fact, they've been dying out handily, he said.
"10 billion years ago there were 100 times as many quasars in the universe as there are now," Schmidt said. It shows how massively the universe has evolved.
After all this time, Schmidt still has a child's fascination for the heavens.
"I certainly enjoy going to the desert and just seeing the sky from a dark location," he said. "It is a joy to me."
He leaves the telescope at home and stares into the endless night sky with the naked eye.
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Step 1Oil 2 (15x10-inch) jellyroll pans.
Step 2Heat 3 tablespoons of olive oil in a large skillet over low heat. Add the onions; cook, stirring frequently, until softened, about 20 minutes. Season with salt and pepper to taste and the oregano.
Step 3Spoon 1 cup of red chile sauce onto a wide dinner plate. Starting with 1 tortilla, dip both sides in the sauce. Place 1/2 cup of grated cheese, 2 olives and 1/3 cup of cooked onions down the middle of the tortilla. (We never added grated hard-boiled eggs, but many rancho families did.) Lastly, roll the sides of each tortilla over the filling. Place the enchilada, folded side down, on one of the pans. Repeat with the remaining tortillas. Pour the remaining red chile sauce over the enchiladas. Sprinkle the remaining cheese in a strip down the middle of each enchilada. Decorate with any remaining olives. Cover the pans and refrigerate the enchiladas until you are ready to bake them. Let them stand at room temperature 1 hour before baking.
Step 4Heat the oven to 350 degrees near serving time.
Step 5Bake the enchiladas until they are puffed and the cheese has melted, 20 to 25 minutes.


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Albany, NY – The Sage Colleges' Student Athlete Advisory Committee (S.A.A.A.C.) had nearly 75 student-athletes walk and participate in the 2017 Making Strides Breast Cancer Walk on October 15 at Washington Park in Albany.
The American Cancer Society Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walks raises awareness and funds to save lives from breast cancer! Each event is a noncompetitive 3 to 5 mile walk that brings people together to make a difference for everyone who has been touched by breast cancer. The events also raise money to fund innovative research, provide free information and support, and to help people reduce their breast cancer risk or find it early when it's most treatable.
From the opening ceremony to the post-walk entertainment, a Making Strides event is a celebration of survivors and opportunity to remember loved-ones lost. It's a day that shouldn't be missed and won't be forgotten.
Here is the link to join Sage's S.A.A.C. Team: http://main.acsevents.org/site/TR/?fr_id=84645&pg=team&team_id=2247668
SAAC also collected donations at several home events leading up to the walk on October 15 and will do so at the remaining home women's volleyball matches this month by selling pink volleyballs to help with the fund raising.


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Good Afternoon! The last time I visited Whole Foods Market, I purchased this limited edition Dragonwell from the Tao of Tea. I have very much enjoyed their teas in the past so I felt confident that I'd like this one as well. Plus… I love their tins!
The dry leaf possesses a very strong vegetative quality that softens into more of a roasted vegetable scent once it's brewed. It's funny to me because there was once a time when I would find these aromas to be rather off-putting, but now I love them! I don't know if I have become a more skillful tea brewer, or if my palate has acquired a better appreciation for green tea. Either way… now when I smell a high quality Dragon Well such as this… all I can think is … OH YUM!
The depth and complexity of flavor here is remarkable. I love the nutty quality of this tea as well as the faint vegetative characteristic… and there is even a pleasant floral note right at the start as the tea hits the tip of the tongue. There is very little astringency. Slightly buttery, just a hint of bitterness, a delicious sweetness. A lovely tea!


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Monday, April 16, 2007
Simply Saucer - Cyborgs Revisited
"Simply Saucer was Canada's first proto-punk band. Emerging in 1974 from the industrial city of Hamilton, Ontario, the quartet created a distinct and original sound that was decidedly out of step with the musical climate of the day...edgy rock & roll that was a combination of early '70s punk pre-cursors (Velvet Underground, Stooges, Modern Lovers), krautrock (ala Can, Neu, early Kraftwerk) and UK prog/psyche (Hawkind, Pink Fairies, Syd Barrett)...Although the only material released while the band existed was a two-song 45 rpm single, a 1974 recording session and a 1975 live set were collected together posthumously and released...in late 1989...Now long out of print, this newly re-mastered, expanded reissue is the first legitimate re-release of this material in more than a decade. Hailed as the 'best Canadian album of all time."
I uploaded the expanded version of Cyborgs Revisited, which includes a few demos and live tracks. I had forgotten how much I loved this album until just recently.
- Dan
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i don't believe this link is working anymore. sounds like it's a great album, i'd love to hear it!
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Could you please reupload?
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sorry to sound like a broken record, but could you maybe reupload? pretty please? i've been looking everywhere for this.
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"'Descriptive', 'informative' and 'comprehensive' are words that could describe the sources in this book by Michael Bemis, but also actually describe the book itself. It is obvious from the start that this is not just a list of resources with the publisher's blurb being reprinted or restated. Bemis has looked at each title he has reviewed and gives a succinct yet informative statement of each book's coverage, its strengths and weaknesses...I highly recommend this title to students and fellow librarians alike."
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A client of ours will finally receive the long-term disability and life insurance benefits she has been pursuing for four years! We recently received a favorable decision on her case from Judge Brooke Jackson, the newest member of the bench for the United States District Court for the District of Colorado. This claim was governed by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act ("ERISA"), and involved the denial of long-term disability benefits and a life insurance benefit claim by Sun Life and Health Insurance Company. This case took more than four years to wind its way through the ERISA internal appeal and litigation process, but our client was ultimately successful. She has been awarded long-term disability benefits, survivor benefits under the LTD policy and the full amount of the life insurance claim due to the death of her husband.
The court's Order (and now Final Judgment) can be found at:
Bray v. Sun Life & Health Ins. Co., 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 24131 (D. Colo. 2012)
Our client's husband was a high-level travel executive. In 2005, his work performance began to suffer (as confirmed by numerous clients, co-workers, and others). He also started exhibiting odd behavior in his personal life. His physician incorrectly diagnosed these issues as depression. Shortly thereafter, he was terminated from his job, because his small (3 person) division was not as successful as it had been in the past and was no longer "a good fit" for the company. About six months later, he learned he had a massive brain tumor, which accounted for the pre-termination performance issues. Sun Life denied the disability claim, based solely on the fact that he continued to attempt work (albeit unsuccessfully) following his termination, and that his termination was not officially due to the disability. Sadly, this gentleman eventually died due to this brain tumor. A life insurance claim was then filed (under the "waiver of premium" provision found in his group life insurance claim), which Sun Life also denied.
It was quite apparent to us (and now the judge who has decided the case) that Sun Life made up its mind to deny the claim at the outset, and nothing was going to change its decision. The way Sun Life treated our client in the end of his life and his widow following his death was appalling. Sun Life's decision has now been overturned by the court. All benefits are now payable, along with pre- and post-judgment interests and costs. We will also be seeking an award of attorney fees, as is permitted by ERISA statute.
Once in a while a wrong in the world can be righted . . . even in the world of ERISA.


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Am I getting the right kind of support?
Support means more than just having someone ask you how things are going. Instead the key is receiving structured, focused support that helps you plan to use and apply the various online and book based resources. If you make and review plans this will help keep you motivated and on track. Also it can help you get extra help if you feel stuck or that things are going backwards.
Who can offer you support
Practitioners such as GPs, PWPs, nurses, voluntary sector workers and others often provide really helpful and structured support. Don't forget to make full use of the weekly support emails from the site and also the site forum.
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You're a software developer somewhat familiar with Apache Spark and how it's used to analyze Big Data. You've been tasked with a Big Data analysis job and you want to rent space on a cluster to do it. But where to begin?
This is a hands-on course where Amazon Web Services pro Frank Kane shows you how to rent Amazon's Elastic MapReduce service (EMR) at minimal cost and use it to run Spark scripts on top of a real Hadoop cluster. Kane's approach is fun: You'll learn a Big Data analysis process by actually deploying Spark on EMR to build a working movie recommendation engine using real movie ratings data.


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Spokane Super Modified Dash Win Martin McKeefery
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Cobb Premier enters into NASCAR K&N Pro Series with Martin McKeefery
Martin McKeefery and Cobb Premier Join up to race for the 2010 season NASCAR K&N Pro Series.
Welcome to the home of the Cobb Portable Grill and Cooking System. Weighing only 8.5 lbs., the fuel efficient Cobb Grill uses only 8 – 10 charcoal briquettes for three hours of cooking. Cobb Grill RVing and Camping. The Cobb BBQ Cooking System is truly in a class of its own. Unlike a typical portable grill, the Cobb Grill can roast, bake, smoke and fry (even bake a pizza) while the safe cool-to-touch base makes it ideal for taking anywhere.
The secret is in the innovative design that retains and transfers the heat just like a convection oven. The cooking surface is designed in a way not to allow fats and juices to drip onto the charcoal. This means no smokey flare-ups. Visit us at the races and see the difference your self! Learn more here.
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TV Air Time on Speed This Thursday 10/8/2009 at 12pm
The "Toyota/Copart 150" NASCAR Camping World Series West at All American Speedway will be broadcast this Thursday on SPEED.
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July 2, 2015 Robust Housing Market Shows No Signs of Slowing Down
NANAIMO, BC – A robust provincial economy and bolstered consumer confidence are fuelling home sales in the VIREB area, with a strong spring sales market showing no
signs of slowing as we head into summer.
In June 2015, 636 single-family homes sold on the MLS® system compared to 527 last month, an increase of 20 per cent. Year-over-year, sales rose 36 per cent over the 469 single-family homes sold last June. Inventory levels continue to decline in our area, with active listings down approximately 13 per cent since June 2014.
BCREA Chief Economist Cameron Muir reports that British Columbia's economy is leading Canada, with 2.4 per cent growth expected this year. Low interest rates, confident consumers, and limited inventory in many areas are driving B.C.'s strong housing market. "With no interest-rate hike on the horizon, we're unlikely to see any cooling in the next couple of quarters," says Muir. "Consumers are out buying in a big way, and there is lots of competition for available listings."
Muir stressed that using a REALTOR® is even more vital in an active housing market to ensure you are receiving expert advice. "When there is a finite supply of homes and high demand, a local REALTOR® has the insight and knowledge to help you make the best pricing decision when buying or selling a home," said Muir.
VIREB President Jason Finlayson confirms that although the summer months are traditionally quieter, activity in our area shows no signs of slowing down. Even with declining inventory levels, however, the benchmark price is up just a little over four per cent from last year. "Despite healthy sales and declining inventory throughout our area, our market is still balanced," says Finlayson. "We see occasional multiple offers, but homes still need to be competitively priced to sell. However, if inventory levels continue dropping, we could begin to see sellers' markets in some areas."
Finlayson reiterates that the VIREB area offers tremendous value for buyers in comparison to many larger urban Canadian centres, so it is still an excellent time to enter the housing market.
In June 2015, the benchmark price for a single-family home in the VIREB coverage area was $335,400, up 4.24 per cent from last year. Benchmark pricing tracks the value of a typical home in the reported area. The average price was up four per cent, with a single-family home selling for $359,970 compared to $346,713 in June 2014. The June 2015 benchmark price of a single-family home in the Campbell River area was $283,300, an increase of 6.51 per cent from last year. In the Comox Valley, the benchmark price was $334,000, up 2.89 per cent over 2014. Duncan reported a benchmark price of $298,300, an increase of 6.42 per cent over the same month in 2014. Nanaimo's benchmark price rose 3.51 per cent to $350,200 while the Parksville-Qualicum area saw its benchmark price rise a little over four per cent to $369,800. The price for a benchmark home in Port Alberni was $190,600, down 6.36 per cent since June 2014.


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United Way Helps Americans Achieve Financial Stability
As many as one-third of working Americans do not earn enough money to meet their basic needs. Wages have not kept pace with the rising cost of housing, healthcare, and education and currently, 40 million Americans are working in low-paying jobs without basic health and retirement benefits. For families walking a financial tightrope, unable to save for college, a home, or retirement, United Way is here to help.
Our Goal
In 2008, United Way initiated an ambitious 10-year plan to cut in half the number of lower-income families who are financially unstable. With your help, we believe that by 2018 we can help 1.9 million working families get on the road to economic independence.
Our Strategy
To address the obstacles that prevent hard working families from getting ahead financially, we launched the Financial Stability Partnership™, an initiative that promotes community-change strategies to help families meet their basic needs, while gaining the financial capability to plan for, and accomplish, their long-term financial goals.
Last year United Way of Linn County provided free tax-preparation to families earning less that $50,000. The program brought thousands of dollars in Earned Income Tax Credits back to our local community. Helping the recipients achieve financial stability and stimulating our local economy.


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Queensland Premier Campbell Newman is standing firm on his tough new bikie laws, despite being threatened in an online video and having his personal contact details plastered across social media.
Mr Newman says the views expressed in the video represent a minority and he will push on with his crackdown on criminal motorcycle gangs which the majority of Queenslanders support.
"These laws stand," he said.
"They are not changing because we are determined to deal with criminal gangs."
The four-and-a-half minute clip, which has attracted more than 200,000 hits, was purportedly posted by activist group Anonymous Australia who say Mr Newman's anti-bikie laws have gone too far.
In the video, a person wearing the trademark Anonymous Guy Fawkes mask warns: "We do not forgive, we do not forget, Campbell Newman expect us".
But the young Brisbane activist linked to the video, Daniel Walker, says Mr Newman's staff and the media have turned those words, which are the group's motto, into a threat.
"Okay, so what did we threaten to do? lol," Mr Walker wrote on his YouTube account.
"I have never hurt anyone nor has anyone I associate with but we are watching and he can expect his lies to be made public."
Police are probing the clip but won't say whether they are investigating Mr Walker.
They are also examining how Mr Newman's home address and personal mobile number was shared on social media by opponents of his tough new bikie gang laws.
While Mr Newman has been attacked, there have been no known threats made to police who are demanding extra protection in the wake of the new legislation.
Queensland Police Commissioner Ian Stewart says he has no knowledge of threats against individual officers or the service in general.
"I'm not currently seeing any evidence of a heightened risk," he said.
The police union wants officers to have access to extra body armour and the ability to take their weapons home amid the bikie crackdown.
Mr Stewart says police can already apply to have a covert protective vest and for permission to take guns home.
He admits there are few covert vests readily available but says the police service will be able to fund a mass rollout of the gear if required.
However, he said very few officers had put in requests for the hot and heavy vests in recent years.


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Hi. Thanks for coming to visit our website. We are Josh & Marietjie (husband & wife) who live in Toowoomba and Linde (mother) who lives in Montville, QLD. We work together to provide wedding and portrait photographic services. To sum our work up in a nut shell I'd have to say that it's about our attempt to capture your story in a way that successfully expresses more than words can... a bit like the old saying 'a picture says a thousand words...'
Please feel free to browse over our website. We like to consider that our wedding photography and portrait photography are our two main specialties. We would love the opportunity to sit down with you, discuss your special day and show you an album or two in order to give you a better idea of what we can offer you. Please feel free to make an appointment with us at no charge.
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We are based in South East Queensland, Australia and regularly operate in Brisbane, Toowoomba and the Sunshine Coast areas. We are happy to service further-a-field on request. Please click here if you would like to find out a little about our photography business. We've had the privilege of providing our photographic services to clients based in the UK, South Africa, Korea and Australia... i.e. we're happy to travel no matter where ;-)
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Blogging Marathon# 27: Week 4/ Day 2
Theme: Miscellaneous – Rice dish using leftover rice
Dish: Soy Methi Dill Rice
I sometimes crave for simple and easy dishes that don't take too long to cook and are filling and tasty. Even though I love spicy and masaledar (does this translate to more spicy in English?), sometimes all you want is food with simple flavors. Today's dish is just that and much more in terms of healthy ingredients used.
Recipe is courtesy of my new found Telugu cooking show. This dish is a great way to use up leftover rice and if you really want to amp up the health quotient of this dish, use brown rice instead of white or even better use quinoa or any other whole grain.
This dish takes just minutes to put together if you have all the components ready. So soak the soy granules in hot water 10 minutes before starting to cook and have all the veggies chopped up and ready to go. Perfect dish for a quick weeknight meal.
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Soy Methi Rice
- 2 cups Rice Cooked
- ¼ cup Soy Granules
- 1 cup Methi leaves - roughly chopped
- ½ cup Dill leaves - roughly chopped
- 3 Chilies Green - very finely chopped (adjust according to taste)
- ½ tsp Ginger+Garlic paste
- ½ tsp Mustard seeds
- 2 tsp Lemon Lime Juice /
- to taste Salt
- Soak TVP, soy granules in hot water for at least 10 minutes. Then squeeze out all the water and set aside until ready to use.
- Heat 2tsp oil in a pan; add mustard seeds and once the seeds start to splutter add soy granules and ginger+garlic paste. Cook until it smells fragrant and not raw anymore, about 2-3 minutes.
- Next add green chilies, methi leaves and dill. Mix well and cook until the leaves are wilted and cooked, about 3-4 minutes.
- Add the cooked rice, salt and lemon juice. Cook for 2-3 minutes or until the flavors get a chance to mingle. Serve hot.


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I am deciding between GC2 and GC3 panels.
I understand WiFi is expected to be supported in future GC3 firmware.
I understand the 2GIG Wireless Touch Screen Keypad (2GIG-TS1) is currently NOT compatible with the GC3. So the only option for a secondary panel is the 2GIG-PAD1-345 Wireless Keypad with no 2 way feedback.
Is there any advance information or expectations on whether the 2GIG Wireless Touch Screen Keypad (2GIG-TS1) will be supported on the GC3 with the new firmware wherever it arrives, or are they introducing a new secondary panel?


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HOOFix® Boots
Lisa S.
"I wanted to tell you how your HOOFix boots have given one of our horses a new lease on life. Speedy, a TB mare has always had terrible feet. We have managed to keep shoes on her but the summer dryness played havoc and she has no foot left. We can't even put glue on shoes because of how she lands. I put your boots on her two days ago and it has helped tremendously."
Julie Grohs, DVM - Alaska Equine
"Your HOOFix Boot for horses is the best protective boot I have used. My practice consists largely of hoof and lameness problems so I find frequent uses for your product. I have found it to be very durable, comfortable for the horse, and easy to use. Thanks for a great product!"
P.S. When I asked my associates for their comments they simply said "HOOFix boots rock!"
Stephen E. O'Grady, DVM, MRCVS - Northern Virginia Equine
"In my equine podiatry practice, I have found the HOOFix Boot to be very beneficial in the treatment and maintenance of a variety of hoof problems. The boot is quick, easy to put on the foot, wears well, is secure and provides a skid resistant bottom. Nice product."
Ilka Wagner, DVM - Equine Veterinary Services
"I also use the HOOFix Boot in my practice. It's a great cover-up for a bandaged foot, increases the longevity of the wrap and my clients comment on how easy it is to use."
Lloyd P. Tate Jr., VMD - Professor of Equine Surgery NCSU College of Veterinary Medicine
"In regards to the HOOFix Boot, I have used them for almost a year on horses recovering from anesthesia. I strongly believe they have prevented significant slippage of horses placed in a recovery stall attempting to rise. I credit them in reducing trauma and assisting in making the recovery process less stressful and safer."
Katja - Horse and Harmony, UK
"Thanks & Thanks (-: Thought I'd give you a little feedback – one of my horses suffers, on occasion, from hoof abscess. It was always a real problem to keep him turned out whilst protecting the hoof as nothing stayed on. Have used your HOOFix boot last time he suffered (I know it is for stable use really). He got turned out with the boot for 6 weeks, stayed on beautifully and only started to tear at the end! Absolutely fantastic!"
Kristine F.
"My horse grinds away a traditional duct tape wrap in a couple hours. Now I do a traditional wrap and cover it with the HOOFix boot for added protection from wear. The wrap will stay in place for 2-3 days including light turn out in a hospital paddock. My first boot has lasted 2 years, treating 2 horses through 4 episodes of abscess. I just ordered the tougher HOOFix boot as its replacement."
HOOFix Abscess Kit
Ilka Wagner, DVM - Equine Veterinary Services
"My own yearling came down with a foot abscess a few days after receiving your HOOFix Abscess Kit – it worked great ! The kit contained everything I needed and the abscess resolved within 48 hours of application."
Stuart Scheinberg, DVM - Animal Medical Hospital at Glenwood, Inc.
"We have been using the HOOFix Abscess Kit for approximately 7 years in our practice. Across the board, all of our doctors have been very pleased with the results. The Kits are especially helpful in situations where the horse is difficult to soak, or in situations where it is logistically difficult for the client to treat the horse daily. I would definitely recommend your product for others to try."
Kathryn Ott, DVM - Equine/Small Animal Medical Center
"We have been using the HOOFix Abscess Kits for several years now. Here in Minnesota it is inconvenient and sometimes impossible to hot soak a hoof in the winter in an unheated barn. For our clients and ourselves, the HOOFix Abscess Kits have been extremely convenient and user friendly."
Ilka Wagner, DVM - Equine Veterinary Services
"My own yearling came down with a foot abscess a few days after receiving your HOOFix Abscess Kit – it worked great ! The kit contained everything I needed and the abscess resolved within 48 hours of application.
I use the HOOFix Boot in my practice. It's a great cover-up for a bandaged foot, increases the longevity of the wrap and my clients comment on how easy it is to use."
Winford S. Maset, DVM - West Virginia Equine Services
"Thank you very much for making the HOOFix Abscess Kit. It has been long overdue for the equine and veterinary industry. Its ease of use is both convenient and applicable for veterinarians and horse owners in the field. Keep up the good work."
Mark Donaldson, VMD, DACVIM - Unionville Equine
"The HOOFix Abscess Kit provides everything I need to quickly and effectively treat a hoof abscess. I always carry one in my truck".
Dr. Bimbo Welker, DVM, MS - Director, OSU Large Animal Service
"We started using the HOOFix Abscess Kit as a convenience item for our clients. Most clients are too busy or are reluctant to soak their horse's feet as frequently as we would like. This product takes it out of their hands. We also get the compliance we are looking for for soaking the feet with Epsom salt like we desire. The results we get are predictable"
Stephen T. Teichman, - USET Team Farrier
"The HOOFix Abscess Kit is the only product I've found that combines everything I use for the treatment of hoof abscesses or bruises."
Denise R. - Westview Farm
"I recently was away from my farm to attend a symposium in Kentucky. I received a call from my husband that one of my dressage horses was suddenly lame upfront. My husband is a support to me with caring for the horses but rarely gets involved with the hands-on medical care. Because I had the HOOFix Abscess Kit on hand for such emergencies, he just went to the cabinet and pulled out the box. Everything he needed was there for him to use. No guessing or searching around the barn as to where all my supplies were. When we spoke on the phone, I could tell he felt confident that he had what was needed to treat the abscess. My sense of relief was evident too. The instructions were clear, the supplies were top quality, the boot fit very well and the horse received the care he needed. This is definitely an item that needs to be on hand at everyone's farm to be used by the most experienced horseman as well as the novice. Makes life a lot easier for all involved."
Susan S.
"Whenever one of my horses would have an abscess, I'd have to go out and buy Epsom salts, wraps, some kind of boot and then hope all this would stay on. It usually wouldn't. HOOFix Abscess Kit has everything I need to treat the abscess. I especially like the easy to use boot that really stays on. The convenience of having everything I need to soak, wrap and protect the foot in the HOOFix Abscess Kit is a real time saver. I really like the product and will always keep one in my tack room."
Rochelle C.
I wanted you to know that I will pass on how much I love your HOOFix boots and HOOFix Abscess Treatment Kit. I live in northern Michigan. We can have footing conditions change from frozen mud to deep snow to ice all in a week. This is the 3rd winter for abscesses in the same horse. He has the complication of having heaves. The barn where we board is heated indoors; nice for people, bad for a horse with heaves. Your product gave me an option, instead of keeping him indoors and compromising his breathing, I was able to keep him outdoors with the epsom salt solution secure on his foot... and the added protection the boot offered his foot. In fact, I put another boot on his good front foot just to help keep it that way. I can't believe how well they are holding up. Another caveat was that I had a 3 day stretch at work and it was impossible for me to get to the barn. My 16 year old daughter was able to add the water via syringe to his boot and give him his bute without my help. After 10 days of misery, he now looks much better, but I'm keeping those boots on him until the winter grip breaks. Thank you so much for developing such a helpful product!
HOOFix Performance Pads
Robert Ball, DVM - Bracken Equine Clinic
"We use the HOOFix Protection Hoof Pads in our practice on horses with sore hooves and on laminitic horses. Unlike some of the other pads we've tried, the HOOFix pads are more dense and really provide good cushioning to make the horses more comfortable."
The HOOFix Hoof Sealer & Polish
Steven T. Teichman, - USET Team Farrier
"The HOOFix Hoof Sealer & Polish gives me everything I want in a Hoof sealer. I use it on all my clients' horses. It does an excellent job of sealing nail holes and helps keep moisture in the hoof capsule. It doesn't turn white, won't chip and provides a natural look."
HOOFix Trail Boot
Lorraine - Horsenews.com
"As long as I have been trail riding, there have been horses on the trail that have lost a shoe…the worse thing is, there has not been a solution before now. I found this trail boot, a "carry on" boot that is very well made, is easy to take along on a trail ride, lightweight and compact yet strong enough to last on a rugged trail ride. If your horse loses a shoe, this is an easy fix and will be the perfect solution to get you back home or to the trailer without any further injury to his foot. I rode through water, mud and rough terrain for many hours and it never moved. It protected her hoof and never rubbed or caused any soreness. I took it off and put it back on to see how easy it was and the first time I did, it took less than 5 minutes to get it off , put it on and get back on to ride. Simple and easy, the way I like it! It's always good to be prepared for any emergency and this is one way to prevent a bad situation from becoming worse."
Emma L. - Scotland, UK
I have had one of your HOOFix Trail boots for a while and it has been invaluable, and it came into it's own on Sunday. I was doing an endurance ride here in Scotland where I live when my lovely QH gelding pulled a shoe off coming down the hillside. The going was varied from grassy slopes to heather and stoney tracks and a river crossing and boggy bits. Luckily I always carry your boot with me on trail rides so I was able to use it along with padding I carry and my over reach boot helps keep it in place. This enabled me to finish the ride and within time! It even went through a river! It is now on my horse while I await my farrier arriving to fit a new shoe and keeps him comfortable while in the pasture. This is why I have ordered another one from you, they are easy to use unlike other boots and really are the spare tire to get you home and a bit more! And more importantly with a safe and sound horse! Great product.
Bob M.
"I was recently about 6 miles back in rocky, hilly country when I had to remove a loose horseshoe. Fortunately, I've been carrying one of your HOOFix Boots on my saddle for a couple of years so I slipped it on the horse. After completing the 6 mile return trip (during which my horse never seemed to even notice the boot), I estimate at least half the life still remaining in the boot!!! I'm very impressed with your product! Even though I bought a replacement, I'll carry the old one as well since it's got lots of life remaining. "
Debra B. - Brooks Paints and Quarter Horses
"We were up on a rough mountain trail ride when my husbands horse tried to peel out and pop jump over a log. He slid and somehow lost a front shoe in the process. Now... my husband's horse is a tender foot....he was about 7 miles out from where the trailer was parked and it started out as a slow gimpy walk back. A friend with us had just recently purchased a HOOFix Emergency Trail Boot which he had in his saddle bags. We slid the boot onto the horse and rode off. The boot offered enough protection that my husband was able to ride him over rocks and through creeks rather than lead him back to camp. That was a tried and true test in all of our eyes, we immediately placed a large order for several boots. Thanks for your design!"
Joanna H.
"I ordered a pair of the HOOFix Trail Boots last week. I love them. They are absolutely wonderful! My horse has had sore front feet ever since an overzealous trimming job by an overzealous farrier in June. As soon as I put Vern's boots on and turned him out, he gave a happy buck and cantered away. THAT hasn't happened in months. Thanks for a wonderful product!"


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Sunday, April 19, 2009
Give Me Five
Recently, I asked Bard Cole, one of the contributors to LIFE AS WE SHOW IT: WRITING ON FILM (City Lights, June 2009), to talk about the last five movies he watched, interested to see what his observations would be. So much of the anthology is about exploring the way each individual engages uniquely with the screen, unlocking networks of personal memory and perception through the keyhole of someone else's imagination. There's a universe there in each film. So which planet is Bard on? I leave it to you:
1. Tell No One
A good old fashioned complicated paranoid thriller, a contemporary French Hitchcock story. The best thing was how it managed to maintain a familiar, down-to-earth sense of normal people doing the normal things of life, including having jobs and stuff, while weird and sometimes frightening, violent, and surprising things happened. It was an action plot without an action hero. I also enjoy being the person who can figure out twists and few movies are actually challenging in this department. I also like the way it depicted violence. It made violence look like it hurts, and when certain things (a character shot point blank in the head) could only be gratuitous, it neatly avoided them.
2. Little Dorritt
At ten hours more of a miniseries than a movie but pretty amazing and possibly better than the Charles Dickens novel itself. Amy Dorritt comes off not as a goody goody but as the only reasonably rational person, often perplexed, in the center of a swirling hoarde of idiots who are unduly sensitive to how they think they are perceived. Plus, the actor who played John Chivery, the turnkey's son in unrequited love with Amy, is super cute in a goofy jug-eared English way and I just learned thanks to Wikipedia that he (Russell Tovey) is openly gay... which matters cos obviously I have a chance now, right? It makes me glad I gave up reading the book before I had hit any of the most interesting twists. The evil villain is regrettable though, and somewhat pointless too, for all the space he occupies.
3. Taxi Driver
Maybe when you've gone so long without seeing a movie that is this talked about, this referenced, you just shouldn't see it. I liked some of the very luridly 1950s Hollywood transitions but it felt very distanced, very remote from people or details and it just never really clicked for me -- I read that some people debate whether Travis Bickle really is a vet or if he's lying or delusional when he says he is... but I don't get why anyone cares. What would be at stake if he was or wasn't? It's just pointless analysis. I feel this is a straight boy movie. Cybill Shepherd and Jodie Foster are amazing though, as is 1970s New York.
4. The Reivers
Diane Ladd appears as a Memphis whore who is late to the dinner table and is compelled by the brothel owner to put 25 cents into the house box for her misdeed. The quarter materialized from underneath her corset-like garment. This would be one of the most compelling Faulkner screen adaptations if it wasn't for the very 1969 layer of hokey Hollywood Americana smarm which primarily affects the color, lighting, costuming, and incidental music, although it also affects one of the lead actors who is, admittedly, trying to portray a black man imagined by William Faulkner, which is something no one in Hollywood was really prepared to conceptualize, even in 1969. Steve McQueen is good but why does he have no sex appeal at all, I wonder? Is it just me?
5. Grey Gardens
As young blond Little Edie, Drew Barrymore looks a lot like my twelve-year-old niece, feature-wise. It's pretty amazing for a movie which requires flawless impersonation of a person's voice, face, mannerisms etc, not just a decent evocation like most actors who are playing real historical people, even though the biggest historical revelation here is that Edie suffered from alopecia triggered by stress. This movie explains why I have found it safest to live more than two hundred miles from my mother, I think, because the house I grew up in could easily become Grey Gardens. This is not a straight boy movie. In some ways I liked the trailer better but it was a nice event.
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