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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76863871683193738532018-05-27T18:18:37.507-07:00____Ars Poetica & Other Ecstasies____What are you thinking about? O, a tree....email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7686387168319373853.post-74858573632056970272013-01-11T14:21:00.001-08:002013-01-11T14:21:59.571-08:00How Poets Change the WorldIf you want to change the world, you have to change the metaphor. ~Joseph CampbellXineAnnhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7686387168319373853.post-45714199812448972662012-01-14T12:30:00.000-08:002012-01-14T12:30:09.590-08:00ordinary thingsIf daily life seems impoverished to you, don't blame life. You yourself are to blame. You're just not enough of a poet to perceive its wealth. ~Rainer Marie RilkeXineAnnhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7686387168319373853.post-48091759877569141072011-11-07T10:43:00.000-08:002011-11-07T10:43:00.155-08:00but I am not so sure...<ul style="background: none; border: 0px solid gray; margin: 100px 10px 100px 10px; padding: 10px; width: 800px; height: 700px -moz-border-radius-topleft: 0px; -moz-border-radius-topright: 0px; -moz-border-radius-bottomright: 0px; -moz-border-radius-bottomleft: 0px; -moz-box-shadow: 0px 0px 0px 0px gray; text-align: right; line-height: 1.8em: .9em; letter-spacing: -0.1em; display: block; text-align: right; ; line-height: 1.8em; letter-spacing: 0.05em; font-family: Caslon, Palatino Linotype, Georgia, serif; font-size: 1.2em; float: none;">

Truly fine poetry must be read aloud. A good poem does not allow itself to be read in a low voice or silently. If we can read it silently, it is not a valid poem: a poem demands pronunciation. Poetry always remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. It remembers that it was first song.

Jorge Luis Borges, The Divine Comedy

Thank you for the Borges

XineAnnhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7686387168319373853.post-10469984904073654522011-10-29T13:54:00.000-07:002011-10-29T13:54:00.476-07:00More important always that what you want to say...Writing is the generosity of writing down whatever comes into your mind, in sequence, as true as you can, The diligence of working with that, in all the ways you can, to make it speak, to make it say more than you know. . . . The patience to know that what the writing is saying is more important, always, than what you want to say. . . . The moral discipline not to use the words to sell yourself or your ideas. The concentration to stay with the work under hand, stay inside it, thinking only with it and not beside it, letting all thinking and feeling come to focus in it, as it. The wisdom to know when you're done. When it's done. ~Robert KellyXineAnnhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7686387168319373853.post-29404126102361175922011-10-24T06:43:00.001-07:002011-10-24T06:46:34.775-07:00In defense of sadness

Without that depressive moment--without that sadness in the heart and weight that you feel--you can't be slow enough to hear and receive the beauty. ~James Hillman. XineAnnhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7686387168319373853.post-72765316791216963862011-10-22T07:02:00.001-07:002011-10-22T13:00:44.402-07:00And so it is... I say I want to save the world but really
I want to write poems all day
I want to rise, write poems, go to sleep,
Write poems in my sleep
Make my dreams poems

 Solace poetry is to serious poetry as pornography is to serious art. ~Daisy Fried

 "I never turned anyone into a pig.
Some people are pigs; I make them
Look like pigs."
~Louise Gluck, Circe

Yes, absolutelyXineAnnhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7686387168319373853.post-45984171455838080892011-04-30T04:42:00.001-07:002011-04-30T04:42:57.465-07:00For poems are not, as people think, simply emotions (one has emotions early enough) - they are experiences. ~Rainer Maria RilkeXineAnnhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7686387168319373853.post-14463860726534179582011-04-02T07:17:00.000-07:002011-04-02T07:18:15.149-07:00The Love Song, Nick Cave

To be invited to come here and teach, to lecture, to impart what knowledge I have collected about poetry, about song writing has left me with a whole host of conflicting feelings. The strongest, most insistent of these concerns my late father who was an English Literature teacher at the high school I attended back in Australia. I have very clear memories of being about twelve years old and sitting, as you are now, in a classroom or school hall, watching my father, who would be standing, up here, where I am standing, and thinking to myself, gloomily and miserably, for, in the main, I was a gloomy and miserable child, "It doesn´t really matter what I do with my life as long as I don´t end up like my father". At forty years old it would appear that there is virtually no action I can take that does not draw me closer to him, that does not make me more like him. At forty years old I have become my father, and here I am, teaching.

What I wanted to do here was to talk a bit about "the love song", to speak about my own personal approach to this genre of songwriting which I believe has been at the very heart of my particular artistic quest. I want look at some other works, that, for whatever reason, I think are sublime achievements in this most noble of artistic pursuits: the creation of the great love song.

Looking back at these twenty years a certain clarity prevails. Midst the madness and the mayhem, it would seem I have been banging on one particular drum. I see that my artistic life has centered around an attempt to articulate the nature of an almost palpable sense of loss that has laid claim to my life. A great gaping hole was blasted out of my world by the unexpected death of my father when I was nineteen years old. The way I learned to fill this hole, this void, was to write. My father taught me this as if to prepare me for his own passing. To write allowed me direct access to my imagination, to inspiration and ultimately to God. I found through the use of language, that I wrote god into existence. Language became the blanket that I threw over the invisible man, that gave him shape and form. Actualising of God through the medium of the love song remains my prime motivation as an artist. The love song is perhaps the truest and most distinctive human gift for recognising God and a gift that God himself needs. God gave us this gift in order that we speak and sing Him alive because God lives within communication. If the world was to suddenly fall silent God would deconstruct and die. Jesus Christ himself said, in one of His most beautiful quotes, "Where ever two or more are gathered together, I am in your midst." He said this because where ever two or more are gathered together there is language. I found that language became a poultice to the wounds incurred by the death of my father. Language became a salve to longing.

Though the love song comes in many guises – songs of exultation and praise, songs of rage and of despair, erotic songs, songs of abandonment and loss – they all address God, for it is the haunted premises of longing that the true love song inhabits. It is a howl in the void, for Love and for comfort and it lives on the lips of the child crying for his mother. It is the song of the lover in need of her loved one, the raving of the lunatic supplicant petitioning his God. It is the cry of one chained to the earth, to the ordinary and to the mundane, craving flight; a flight into inspiration and imagination and divinity. The love song is the sound of our endeavours to become God-like, to rise up and above the earthbound and the mediocre.

The loss of my father, I found, created in my life a vacuum, a space in which my words began to float and collect and find their purpose. The great W.H. Auden said "The so-called traumatic experience is not an accident, but the opportunity for which the child has been patiently waiting – had it not occurred, it would have found another- in order that its life come a serious matter." The death of my father was the "traumatic experience" Auden talks about that left the hole for God to fill. How beautiful the notion that we create our own personal catastrophes and that it is the creative forces within us that are instrumental in doing this. We each have a need to create and sorrow is a creative act. The love song is a sad song, it is the sound of sorrow itself. We all experience within us what the Portugese call Suadade, which translates as an inexplicable sense of longing, an unnamed and enigmatic yearning of the soul and it is this feeling that lives in the realms of imagination and inspiration and is the breeding ground for the sad song, for the Love song is the light of God, deep down, blasting through our wounds.

In his brilliant lecture entitled "The Theory and Function of Duende", Frederico Garcia Lorca attempts to shed some light on the eerie and inexplicable sadness that lives in the heart of certain works of art. "All that has dark sound has duende", he says, "that mysterious power that everyone feels but no philosopher can explain." In contemporary rock music, the area in which I operate, music seems less inclined to have its soul, restless and quivering, the sadness that Lorca talks about. Excitement, often; anger, sometimes: but true sadness, rarely, Bob Dylan has always had it. Leonard Cohen deals specifically in it. It pursues Van Morrison like a black dog and though he tries to he cannot escape it. Tom Waits and Neil Young can summon it. It haunts Polly Harvey. My friend and Dirty 3 have it by the bucket load. The band Spiritualised are excited by it. Tindersticks desperately want it, but all in all it would appear that duende is too fragile to survive the brutality of technology and the ever increasing acceleration of the music industry. Perhaps there is just no money in sadness, no dollars in duende. Sadness or duende needs space to breathe. Melancholy hates haste and floats in silence. It must be handled with care.

All love songs must contain duende. For the love song is never truly happy. It must first embrace the potential for pain. Those songs that speak of love without having within in their lines an ache or a sigh are not love songs at all but rather Hate Songs disguised as love songs, and are not to be trusted. These songs deny us our humanness and our God-given right to be sad and the air-waves are littered with them. The love song must resonate with the susurration of sorrow, the tintinnabulation of grief. The writer who refuses to explore the darker regions of the heart will never be able to write convincingly about the wonder, the magic and the joy of love for just as goodness cannot be trusted unless it has breathed the same air as evil – the enduring metaphor of Christ crucified between two criminals comes to mind here – so within the fabric of the love song, within its melody, its lyric, one must sense an acknowledgement of its capacity for suffering.

In Lou Reed´s remarkable song "Perfect Day" he writes in near diary form the events that combine to make a "Perfect Day". It is a day that resonates with the hold beauty of love, where he and his lover sit in the park and drink Sangria, feed animals in the zoo, go to a movie show etc., but it is the lines that darkly in the third verse, "I thought I was someone else, someone good" that transforms this otherwise sentimental song into the masterpiece of melancholia that it is. Not only do these lines ache with failure and shame, but they remind us in more general terms of the transient nature of love itself – that he will have his day "in the park" but, like Cinderella, who must return at midnight to the soot and ash of her disenchanted world, so must he return to his old self, his bad self. It is out of the void that this songs springs, clothed in loss and longing.

Around the age of twenty, I stared reading the Bible and I found in the brutal prose of the Old Testament, in the feel of its words and its imagery, an endless source of inspiration. The Song of Solomon, perhaps the greatest love song ever written, had a massive impact upon me. Its openly erotic nature, the metaphoric journey taken around the lovers bodies – breasts compared to bunches of grapes and young deer, hair and teeth compared to flocks of goats and sheep, legs like pillars of marble, the navel- a round goblet, the belly- a heap of wheat – its staggering imagery rockets us into the world of pure imagination. Although the two lovers are physically separate – Solomon is excluded from the garden where his beloved sings – it is the wild, obsessive projections of one lover onto another that dissolve them into a single being, constructed from a series of rapturous love-metaphors.

The Song of Solomon is an extraordinary love song but it was the remarkable series of love song/poems known as the Psalms that truly held me. I found the Psalms, which deal directly with relationship between man and God, teeming with all the clamorous desperation, longing, exultation, erotic violence and brutality that I could hope for. The Psalms are soaked in suadade, drenched in duende and bathed in bloody-minded violence. In many ways these songs became the blue-print for much of my more sadistic love songs. Psalm 137, a particular favourite of mine and which was turned into a chart hit by the fab little band Boney M. is a perfect example of all I have been talking about.

The love song must be born into the realm of the irrational, absurd, the distracted, the melancholic, the obsessive, the insane for the love song is the noise of love itself and love is, of course, a form of madness. Whether it be the love of God, or romantic, erotic love – these are manifestations of our need to be torn away from the rational, to take leave of our senses, so to speak. Love songs come in many guises and are seemingly written for many reasons – as declarations or to wound – I have written songs for all of these reasons – but ultimately the love songs exist to fill, with language, the silence between ourselves and God, to decrease the distance between the temporal and the divine.

In Psalm 137 the poet finds himself captive in "a strange land" and is forced to sing a song of Zion. He swears his love to his homeland and dreams of revenge. The Psalm is ghastly in its violent sentiments, as he sings for love of his homeland and his God and that he may be made happy by murdering the children of his enemies. What I found, time and time again, in the Bible, especially the Old Testament, was that verses of rapture, of ecstasy and love could hold within them apparently opposite sentiments – hate, revenge, bloody mindedness etc. that they were not mutually exclusive. This idea has left an enduring impression on my songwriting.

Within the world of modern pop music, a world that deals ostensibly with the Love Song, but in actuality does little more that hurl dollops of warm, custard-coloured baby-vomit down the air waves, true sorrow is not welcome. But occasionally a song comes along that hides behind its disposable, plastic beat a love lyric of truly devastating proportions. "Better The Devil You Know" written by hitmakers Stock, Altkin and Waterman and sung by the Australian pop sensation Kylie Minogue is such a song. The disguising of the terror of Love in a piece of mindless, innocuous pop music is an intriguing concept. "Better The Devil You Know" is one of pop music's most violent and distressing love lyrics.

Say you wont leave me no more
I`ll take you back again
No more excuses, no no
Cause I´ve heard them all before
A hundred times or more
I´ll forgive and forget

If you say you´ll never go
Cause it's true what they say
Better the devil you know
I know, I think I know the score
You say you love me, O boy
I can´t ask for more
I´ll come if you should call

When Kylie Minogue sings these words there is an innocence to her voice that makes the horror of this chilling lyric all the more compelling. The idea presented within this song, dark and sinister and sad – that all love relationships are by nature abusive and that his abuse, be it physical or psychological, is welcomed and encouraged, shows how even the most innocuous of love songs has the potential to hide terrible human truths. Like Prometheus chained to his rock, so that the eagle can eat his liver each night, Kylie becomes love's sacrificial lamb bleating an earnest invitation to the drooling, ravenous wolf that he may devour her time and time again, all to a groovy techno beat. "I´ll take you back. I´ll take you back again". Indeed. Here the Love Songs becomes a vehicle for a harrowing portrait of humanity not dissimilar to that of the Old Testament Psalms. Both are messages to God that cry out into the yawning void, in anguish and self-loathing, for deliverance.

As I said earlier, my artistic life has centered around desire or more accurately, the need, to articulate the various feelings of loss and longing that have whistled through my bones and hummed in my blood, throughout my life. In the process I have written about two hundred songs, the bulk of which I would say, were love songs. Love songs, and therefore, by my definition, sad songs. Out of this considerable mass of material, a handful of them rise above the others as true examples of all I have talked about. Sad Waters, Black Hair, I Let Love In, Deanna, From her to Eternity, Nobody's Baby Now, Into my Arms, Lime Tree Arbour, Lucy, Straight to You; I am proud of these songs. They are my gloomy, violent, dark-eyed children. They sit grimly on their own and do not play with the other songs. Mostly they were offspring of complicated pregnancies and difficult and painful births. Most of them are rooted in direct personal experience and were conceived for a variety of reasons but this rag-tag group of love songs are, at the death, all the same thing – life lines thrown into the galaxies of the divine by a drowning man.

The reasons why I feel compelled to sit down and write love songs are legion. Some of these came clearer to me when I sat down with a friend of mine, who for the sake of his anonymity I will refer to as J.J. and I admitted to each other that we both suffered from psychological disorder that the medical profession call erotographomania. Erotographomania is the obsessive desire to write love letters. My friend shared that he had written and sent, over the last five years, more than seven thousand love letters to his wife. My friend looked exhausted and his shame was almost palpable. I suffer from the same disease but happily have yet to reach such an advanced stage as my poor friend J. We discussed the power of the love letter and found that it was, not surprisingly, very similar to the love song. Both served as extended meditations on ones beloved. Both served to shorten the distance between the writer and the recipient. Both held within them a permanence and power that the spoken word did not. Both were erotic exercises, in themselves. Both had the potential to reinvent, through words, like Pygmalion with his self-created lover of stone, one's beloved. Alas, the most endearing form of correspondence, the love letter, like the love song has suffered at the hands of the cold speed of technology, at the carelessness and soullessness of our age. I would like to look, finally, at one of my own songs that I recorded for The Boatman's Call album. This song, I feel, exemplifies much of what I´ve been talking about today. The song is called Far From Me.

For your dear, I was born
For you I was raised up
For you I´ve lived and for you I will die
For you I am dying now
You were my mad little lover
In a world where everybody fucks everybody else over
You are so far from me
Far from me
Way across some cold neurotic sea
Far from me

I would talk to you of all matter of things
With a smile you would reply
Then the sun would leave your pretty face
And you´d retreat from the front of your eye
I keep hearing that you´re doing best
I hope your heart beats happy in your infant breast
You who are so far from me
Far from me
Far from me

There is no knowledge but I know it
There´s nothing to learn from that vacant voice
That sails to me across the line
From the ridiculous to the sublime
It´s good to hear you´re doing so well
But really can´t you find somebody else that you can ring and tell
Did you ever care for me?
Were you ever there for me?
So far from me

You told me you´d stick by me
Those were your very words
My fair-weather friend
You were my brave-hearted lover
At the first taste of trouble went running back to mother
So far from me
Far from me
Suspended in your bleak and fishless sea
Far from me
Far from me

Far From Me took four months to write, which was the duration of the relationship it describes. The first verse was written in the first week of the affair and is full of all the heroic drama of new love as it describes the totality of feeling whilst acknowledging the potential for pain – for you I'm dying now. It sets the two lovers it describes against an uncaring world – a world that fucks everybody over – and brings in the notion of the physical distance suggested in the title. Strangely, though, the song, as if awaiting the "traumatic experience" that I spoke of earlier to happen, would not allow itself to be completed until the catastrophe had occurred. Some songs are tricky like that and it is wise to keep your wits about you when dealing with them. I find quite often that the songs I write seem to know more about what is going on in my life than I do. I have pages and pages of fourth verses for this song written while the relationship was still sailing happily along. One such verse went:

The Camellia, The Magnolia
Have such a pretty flower
And the bells of St. Mary's
Inform us of the hour

Pretty words, Innocent words, unaware that any day the bottom would drop out of the whole thing. Love songs that attach themselves to actual experience, that are a poeticising of real events have a peculiar beauty unto themselves. They stay alive in the same way that memories do and being alive, they grow up and undergo changes and develop. A love song such as Far From Me has found a personality beyond the one that I originally gave it with the power to influence my own feelings around the actual event itself. This is an extraordinary thing and one of the truly wondrous benefits of song writing. The songs that I have written that deal with past relationships have become the relationships themselves. Through these songs I have been able to mythologize the ordinary events of my life, lifting them from the temporal plane and hurling them way into the stars. The relationship described in Far From Me has been and gone but the song itself lives on, keeping a pulse running through my past. Such is the singular beauty of song-writing.

Twenty years of song-writing has now past and still the void gapes wide. Still that inexplicable sadness, the duende, the saudade, the divine discontent persists and perhaps it will continue until I see the face of god himself. But when Moses desired to see the face of God, Exodus 33, 188, he was answered that he may not endure it, no man could see his face and live. Well, me, I don´t mind. I `m happy to be sad. For the residue, cast off in this search, the songs themselves, my crooked brood of sad eyed children, rally round and in their way, protect me, comfort me and keep me alive. They are the companions of the soul that lead it into exile, that safe the overpowering yearning for that which is not of this world. The imagination desires an alternate and through the writing of the love song, one sits and dines with loss and longing, madness and melancholy ecstasy, magic, joy and love with equal measures of respect and gratitude. The spiritual quest has many faces – religion, art, drugs, work, money, sex – but rarely does the search serve god so directly and rarely are the rewards so great in doing.

Nick Cave, Vienna, 21 October 2000XineAnnhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7686387168319373853.post-86425036986065800772010-10-19T21:35:00.000-07:002010-10-19T21:37:48.172-07:00The Mysterious WingPoetry is the mysterious wing that glides at will in the whole world of the soul,in that infinite sphere, one part of which is colors, another sounds, another movements, another judgments, and so forth, all vibrating simultaneously, according to certain laws,that a vibration in one region communicates itself to another region. The privilege of art is to feel and express these relationships, which are deeply hidden in the very unity of life. From these vibrations of the diverse regions of the soul an accord results, and this accord is life; and when this accord is expressed, it constitutes art. ~Henri Dorra

XineAnnhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7686387168319373853.post-85214142532474580752010-09-09T23:43:00.000-07:002010-09-12T17:20:41.021-07:00The only thing that makes sense
I suppose poetry is
Listening Out Loud

And what one listens to is language --

language in one's head

(only a fool would confuse that with himself thinking

only a fool would think the things that he hears languaging in him
are things that he himself is thinking)

Most poets are too smart to believe in their own intelligence.

Witless, clueless, we await a sign.

Pindar tells us a sign is never clear (at least a sign from Zeus) --
hence the poem veers towards a kind of

lucid incomprehensibility,

[Eventually after a few hundred or thousand years we begin to comprehend the incomprehensible -- Dante, Aeschylus, Milton -- and they become classics and become of great celebrity but diminished use. But till then the texts are of great power, startling, provoking, eliciting. Some grand provokers -- Pindar himself, Li shang-yin, Lycophron, Hoelderlin, Stein -- still wait their turn, still turn us towards the poem we must write, the poem they force us to write, to make sense of what they do to our heads.]

The incomprehensible provokes the reader to acts of preternatural awareness.

This incomprehensibility factor is what the ancient Greeks called Mousa, Muse. [The Spartans -- sturdy workmen, who would have liked the sacred gizmos of Elshtain's gnoetry -- called her Moha.] (I told her I would work her into this evening.)

The incomprehensible is the only thing that makes sense. That is, it creates sense -- the sense of something happening to you as you read.

And that's the only happening poetry has?

The luster of listening.

Or what we hear in poetry is groans from the battlefield where time struggles against space.

Robert Kelly, STATEMENT FOR THE MODERN POETRY CONFERENCE AT CUNYXineAnnhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7686387168319373853.post-18023508303839280192010-07-21T15:20:00.001-07:002010-07-26T15:19:28.029-07:00American Poetics: Ezra Pound, Walt Whitman & the Great Stench

He Is America. His crudity is an exceeding great stench, but it is America .... He is disgusting. He is an exceedingly nauseating pill, but he accomplishes his mission.

I honor him for he prophesied me while I can only recognize him as a forebear of whom I ought to be proud.

As for Whitman, I read him (in many parts) with acute pain, but when I write of certain things I find myself using his rhythms.

Mentally I am a Whitman who has learned to wear a collar and a dress shirt (although at times inimical to both) .... And, to be frank, Whitman is to my fatherland ... what Dante is to Italy.

~Ezra Pound, What I Feel About Walt Whitman

Also: The ABC of Influence: Ezra Pound and the Remaking of American Poetic Tradition

Art: John Bauer: King of Troll MountainXineAnnhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7686387168319373853.post-71178869530151838322010-07-16T08:51:00.000-07:002010-07-19T15:37:50.854-07:00On The Collective Narcissism that is Lyric Poetry

In the tropics, I am told, evening twilight is brief and shadowless, bathing forms in a divine golden light that leaves as suddenly as it came. I think Apollo. Not so in the Northwest summer, where daylight lingers until the last possible moment. We are different, he and I.

But it was in the Northwest that, on the Ides of July, the nice man and I made our way across town and bridge to hear Oregon's poet laureate read in the artsy area of St. Johns, near the University of Portland. The occasion was the release of the fifth edition of The Grove, the most pleasant surprise of a literary journal.

Perhaps it is the magic of our twilight, or the culture of the Northwest, but it is possible to arrive late her and still be early. We were greeted and welcomed and welcomed again, offered wine and vegan petits fours, invited to look through the newest edition -- people-watching and lit fashion won out. Lit fashion is timeless, and full of ghosts. The nice man murmured something about "the collective narcissism that is lyric poetry", a line he used in one of his reviews, but grown beyond itself into another context.

One auburn-haired wraith floated in and out of conversations in a pale Louise Brooks | Carol Tinker dress. A few minutes later, I would know her name: Hannah Louise Poston, who would read first. She was introduced by Matt Barry, The Grove's publisher, a large man with an even larger personal space, who repeated himself and others and knew it. Yet one didn't mind this tropical sunset of a man, newly five years in Portland, bathing us in golden light. I almost felt comfortable in my own skin.

I like Ms. Poston, who shared that she had been accused of being "elusive" for not answering her phone and had then gone on to create a character, and poem for the character. I liked that, and her poem inspired by the ghost ship, Mary Celeste, very much.

A bit of what she chose to read was tinged with young woman wailing wall, a poetic sub-genre I myself indulged well past youth. As intense and full of imagery as any of the best wailing wall poetry, it is not, I think, her best voice. This is:

It may yet frost. I tell the apple trees,
which bloom too readily,
wait for the ground to thaw,
the loam to loose; wait
to begin building fruit—
they are as heedless
as Lincoln was of Booth.

April Fourteenth

She is interested in forms and devices and uses them freely, often well and sometimes not. In listening to her read, I realized how many of the subtle internal rhymes and enjambment in my own poetry would seem harsh and immature if read in another context than waltzing through the house. I like Hannah as a person, just from her reading. She, along with Primus St. John, discoveries of a decade and and I look forward to reading more of her work.

Mary Gloss, a fourth generation Portland native, read a short story, with many Portland details. I am not familiar with most of the landmarks that are so familiar to her, but still felt the richness. Although her story invoked my inner editor, always alert to the preposition circus, and hunting adjectival phrases, I had only to plaster two minutes of polite attentiveness at the beginning of her reading before I was enthralled by the inner dialog of her character.

I wanted to see what makes a poet laureate a poet laureate. I was not disappointed. As expected, Oregon's poet laureate, Paulann Petersen, is the incarnation of down home natural religion; Blake, be damned. She read three poems, all of which I had read on the net and while one had inspired me to a morning of repeating the word "duff" in a Zen-like chant, but not enough to make a special trek to Powell's to buy her books.

But oh how she read those poems. Paced exactly right, each word given its full due -- you could taste the vowels. It was the sound, the wave that carried you from beginning to end, that makes you want to read it yourself quietly, then again louder, read it to someone else in a soft shower of kisses, then even slower letting each word blossom in your mouth -- "the spinning of language on and into itself", as it were. Guilty as charged.

I put my hand on my seat next to the nice man, half-wishing he would take it, knowing that he wouldn't, wishing we could bridge the emotional and spiritual wasteland between us. Because this is poetry, that thing I love, bigger than I but at the core of me, the path and the destination, an end-in-itself rather than a mere means. But maybe I was just caught up in the spirit of the evening, the stuff of day dreams across an ocean.

We rose to leave. I wanted my book signed by the priestess and he said he would meet me at the door. I would ask Paulann to sign my chocolate smeared issue of The Grove, telling her that I liked her reading in a somewhat more reserved way than I did here. She says poetry is meant to be read aloud and performed -- I think In Memoriam and D.A. Powell but she is sparkling in the summer sky and this is not the place. Rexroth and Sam Hamill would have said as much, but I am not so sure.

And we were off, I and the nice man. The resting moon tinged with yellow. Venus moved off.

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For the sake of a single poem, you must see many cities, many people and Things, you must understand animals, must feel how birds fly, and know the gesture which small flowers make when they open in the morning. You must be able to think back to streets in unknown neighborhoods, to unexpected encounters, and to partings you had long seen coming; to days of childhood whose mystery is still unexplained, to parents who you had to hurt when they brought in a joy and you didn't pick it up (it was a joy meant for somebody else —); to childhood illnesses that began so strangely with so many profound and difficult transformations, to days in quiet, restrained rooms and to mornings by the sea, to the sea itself, to seas, to nights of travel that rushed along high overhead and went flying with all the stars, — and it is still not enough to be able to think of all that. You must have memories of many nights of love, each one different from all the others, memories of women screaming in labor, and of light, pale, sleeping girls who have just given birth and are closing again. But you must also have been beside the dying, must have sat beside the dead in the room with the open window and the scattered noises. And it is not yet enough to have memories. You must be able to forget them when they are many, and you must have the immense patience to wait until they return. For the memories themselves are not important. Only when they have changed into our very blood, into glance and gesture, and are nameless, no longer to be distinguished from ourselves — only then can it happen that in some very rare hour the first word of a poem arises in their midst and goes forth from them.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

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Good poetry begins with the lightest touch, a breeze arriving from nowhere, a whispered healing arrival, a word in your ear, a settling into things, then like a hand in the dark it arrests the whole body, steeling you for revelation. In the silence that follows a great line you can feel Lazarus deep inside even the laziest, most deathly afraid part of you, lift up his hands and walk toward the light.

David H. Whyte
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I have come to the frightening conclusion...
That I am the decisive element.
It is my personal approach that creates the climate.
It is my daily mood that makes the weather.
I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous.
I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration,
I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal.
In all situations, it is my response that decides
whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated,
and a person is humanized or de-humanized.
If we treat people as they are, we make them worse.
If we treat people as they ought to be,
we help them become
what they are capable of becoming.

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You know I can't resist a good haul of papery goodness. Lately I've acquired some lovely little bits and pieces, including a few books, magazines and bookmarks. Read on if you're interested...
First, the magazines... The latest issue of Teen Vogue looks gorgeous thanks to Grimes, an artist I happen to be liking a lot. I never usually have a Teen Vogue at hand, but we all know I could use more magazines (no, probably not). I had to pick up the latest issue of Frankie Magazine as well, because it's just a thing full of loveliness. I have also recently got my hands on a limited edition version of Fashion Q's magazine (the issue before last) that has a fancy interchangeable cover. The perks of working at a magazine publisher I suppose..
Whitcoulls was having a sale so of course I obliged. The first book I picked up is The Baby by Lisa Drakeford and something I have seen a little bit on Good Reads. The cover is really gorgeous which was probably a big lure for me, but I like the idea behind the story. It's a short read as well, and maybe that's a good thing to boost my Good Reads read number up.. ahem.
The second book is Asking For It by Louise O'Neill which I have been wanting to read for ages - I'm really glad I just decided to buy it now. I'm yet to read her other book, Only Ever Yours, but I will definitely be reading both soon. I have seen people's reaction to this book on Twitter, so I'm expecting to get right into this book, however it could be tricky with the subject matter.
I also luckily snagged a book proof of The Moonlight Dreamers by Siobhan Curham (out July 2016) which I'm really excited to read - it looks so good! The cover is gorgeous too.
I also finally have a couple of bookmarks to use with my books, (I'm one of those disgraceful people who dog ear their pages), and I couldn't be happier. These ones have such cute designs and I got them from going to the Auckland City Teen Book Club on Saturday. I'm finally part of a real life book club? Hell yes. The bookmarks are from a store called Aureate Argent FYI.

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I didn't think I'd live to see the day, but here we are: the Xbox One is coming in June without Kinect for the same price as a PS4. It's already available for pre-order on Amazon.
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The idea and effort of creating comics has it's hassles, like having people put some censors here and there and issues that can't be put into a school newspaper. But once you edit it with some tweaks there and some cuts there, you have yourself a comic with a good set-up. That's what White Rabbit (name possibly pending) is, a take on the world of comic books through the lens of a F-list hero.
White Rabbit (name possibly pending) follows White Rabbit living a daily life where his life is mostly dressed as a vigilante and receiving little recognition other than a lunatic by others. It doesn't mean he's thought of as a bad guy, he's more of a person to be cautious around. Even villains who somehow go up against him seem to be careful with they do with the madman, because of his unpredictable nature.
The world itself has it's own history and physics, similar to what other comic books do, i.e people with the ability for no real explanation or "that guy is breathing in space, even though there is no possible way to even do so". What the world is more or less realistic to that our own, probably weighing in favor of the "more" scale. That doesn't mean certain concepts won't be used like pocket dimensions or the multiverse, which to me, is an interesting concept. It's been used many times in media, but DC Comics and Marvel have been companies to do interesting things with it.
Another thing I want to explore is the concept of reality itself, or to be more specific, "reality v. fiction". The concept itself goes back to the famous "Flash of Two Worlds" story by DC, where universes were able to view into alternate universes themselves via comic books.
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Fun Programs
Version 2.0 is written in Java. Featues graphical interface with film previews, status display and smart palette generation. Use Filmer with Fractint to make amazing fractal animation. Source code and old DOS version are available.
Java YIG
The first program I saw like this was called YIG. It ran on an 8088 with CGA graphics. This version is better than any of the ones that I have seen because of the many colors it creates. However, it is also slower than any of the previous versions. Good thing we all have Pentiums now (smirk).


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Cuddles, My Giggly Monkey - New From Furreal Friends
On this page we are going to be looking at one of the latest creations from Hasbro Furreal Friends. This one is called Cuddles, My Giggly Monkey. We will review Cuddles and take a look at just what this new Furreal Friend is capable of. Plus we will give you prices and the release date for Cuddles, My Giggly Monkey. This is a new toy that is likely to be very popular come Christmas 2013 so we are also going to let you know just where you can get this adorable monkey from.
Hasbro have been making Furreal Friends for a good many years now. Each time they bring out a new toy the technology seems that little bit better and the animals seem that little bit cuter. Over the years we have seen hundreds of toys ranging from the massive Butterscotch Pony to the tiny Snuggimals. In 2013 there are lots of new releases from Furreal Friends but the most exciting and impressive one looks like being this one, Cuddles, My Giggly Monkey. So let's first of all take a close look at this new toy.
Cuddles The Monkey
Cuddles, My Giggly Monkey Is Here
So this new release looks like being one of the most interactive that we have ever seen. Cuddles comes with lots of different sensors located all over her body. There are over one hundred different responses programmed in so plenty for your child to enjoy. Some of the highlights include a very movement orientated head that can swivel round in all directions. Simply stroke her face and she will respond by moving her head round towards your touch. She can move her head up and down and will react in lots of different ways. Her arms and legs are very movable so they bend and move quite easily. As with a real monkey the limps are very flexible and she can move around and swing very well as long as you keep hold of her of course.
As with all the Furreal Friends toys that you get, Cuddles, My Giggly Monkey makes lots of different sounds. As you would expect she can also giggle and there are a few different laughs that she comes out with, each one that little bit more sweet. The makers of this toy claim that she learns new reactions as you play with her, so this means you actually unlock content as you play. So each toy will react slightly differently depending upon how the child interacts with them. One nice little feature is that you can rock Cuddles to sleep and she will blow you a kiss and then her eyes will close. So there really are lots of different responses you can get from this little monkey.
As for a release date Hasbro say this will come out sometime in the fall so in plenty of time for Christmas 2013. Often a release date does get moved forward so do not be surprised if you see these turning up over the summer months. When it comes to price we are expecting this one to retail at around $80, so that makes Cuddles the most expensive of the new releases this year. She does have lots going for her though and you also get a few little accessories with her such as a feeding bottle and a brush. We think that this is one of the best toys that we have seen from Furreal Friends and although it might not be quite as cute as some others they have brought out, it really does have a lot of different responses so it will keep children entertained for quite a while.
Furreal Friends Daisy
Other New Furreal Friends Pets For 2013
Along with Cuddles, My Giggly Monkey there are plenty of other new releases coming out in 2013 from Furreal Friends. Our personal favourite is Trixie The Skateboarding Pup. This little puppy actually rides a remote control skateboard around the room. The skateboard reacts very quickly and moves incredibly well all while Trixie hangs on for dear life. While she rides round she makes excited yapping sounds and really does sound like she is enjoying the whole experience. She also moves around when you take her off the skateboard and there are lots of sensors that cause lots of different reactions from her. The release date for this one is said to again be in the fall and the retail is expected to be around $50.
Another new one coming out is Daisy Play With Me Kitty. This is an adorable little kitten that has lots of different sensors giving Daisy lots of different reactions. The highlight of Daisy is the way she stands up on her back paws and leans back. She can also walk around and do little jumps when you play with her. Again there are lots of cute sounds that Daisy can make and a whole host of different reactions in there waiting to be unlocked by your child. Daisy will cost around $45 and have a release date of sometime over the fall.
Those are the four main new characters from the Furreal Friends line up for this year, but there are lots of other smaller toys coming out over the spring and summer too. We have a new line of Feed Me Babies which come in the form of cute little bears that you can feed with a bottle. There are also Dress Me Babies which come with different accessories and outfits so you can customise your own pet. Another new release for Spring are the Walkin' Ponies which are extremely cute and look like being very popular indeed. These walk around and make some great sounds. Plus there are a couple of new Snuggimals coming out.
Baby Butterscotch Pony
Along with all the exciting new releases for 2013 there are also some classic toys still available. The biggest and most expensive have always been Butterscotch Pony and Smores Pony. These are massive toys and cost around $400, they are the next best thing to having a real pony though. If they are out of your budget then maybe Baby Butterscotch Pony is for you, this is a smaller version but still very cute. This one was originally around $120 although the price has dropped slightly now. Another very popular release last year was Bouncy, My Happy To See Me Pup. This is one of the cutest toys we have seen from Furreal and it is a firm favourite with little children.
As you can see the people at Hasbro have been very busy once again this year. Cuddles, My Giggly Monkey looks like being a really fun little toy and one that we are sure kids will fall in love with in no time. When this gets released we are expecting it to be in high demand so make sure if you want one in time for Christmas you get in there early and beat the crowds. This is sure to be a toy on many children's wish-lists come holiday season.
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Crawley Town skipper Sonny Bradley has promised to give it 100 per cent in their remaining matches.
This week saw a tough visit to newly crowned champions Northampton Town tonight (Tuesday), followed this Saturday by a home game against midtable Carlisle United.
Bradley denied this could be the ideal time to play the Cobblers, immediately after they have won the league.
He said: "I don't think there is a good time to play Northampton this season, personally!"
"We just have to go there and give it everything we have got. We have a short amount of recovery time and we will need to quickly look at how we can be better.
"They will be up for it. I've spoken to a couple of their lads and I know they won't be taking it easy; they want to win every game until the end of the season.
"Even though our results in the last four games have been bad and we haven't won a game, I don't think that will change that every game we will be up for it.
"Although we have been beaten again (at AFC Wimbledon), I don't think you could say we didn't look like we were up for it or haven't looked like we wanted to win.
"Asking for 100 per cent effort off the lads in the next four games isn't going to be a problem. I know that and the manager knows that.
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Senate Bill 1973 – Gun Trafficking Prevention Act of 2012
KERRY on the bill should have told me there was more to the bill than that.
After I started reading S.B. 1973 I got the feeling that it could be something to be used against the licensed firearms dealers that the BATF duped into helping them with Operation Fast & Furious now that they (the BATF) might need to lock them (the firearms dealers) away to shut them up.
The bill (if passed) will clearly give more power to the Attorney General and the BATF. The same folks that brought us Operation Fast & Furious (a criminal operation)which cost God only knows how many innocent lives. Something needs to be done to stop anything like Fast & Furious from ever happening again but S.B. 1973 isn't it. Please contact your United States Senators and urge them to oppose S.B. 1973.
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... that little yellow one that Erika mentioned that she purchased, is right here at LAVISH! It is the cross stitch by Little Auggie and comes in a twin quilt ($295), standard sham ($78) and crib/toddler bedding (bumper) and blanket. The color is called "Fern" and here is a picture of the rest of the colors that is available:
Source: littleauggie.com via Nancy on Pinterest
Also, the image of the bed below it is decked-out in John Robshaw. The cross-stitch quilt in lavender so very similar to the Little Auggie and super-duper soft. A great coverlet for summer and layering blanket for winter.
Mention this blog post and receive 20% discount on Little Auggie and John Robshaw bedding!
P.S. The Provvista dinner plates that I ordered wayyy back in December is arriving today so expect more details on that shortly!!
P.P.S. Found some cute/ethnic cocktail and dinner napkins (paper) at World Market last night for only $2.99. I stocked up. You should too!


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Discussion in 'PC Hardware' started by thorin0815, Aug 11, 2015.
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Maybe you dramatically increased the data transfert amount by installing some stuff and it estimated the life time based on it, it should correct itself...
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Almost 50 of the town's young volunteers will be honoured at an awards presentation next Saturday (February 20), writes Jason Marshall.
The youngsters, all of whom are hard-working members of the Escape Youth Cafe in Havelock Street, will receive certificates in recognition of their efforts throughout 2015.
Some of the Escape kids have also completed Saltire Awards, a national initiative which acknowledges the commitment of young volunteers, and Dynamic Youth Awards, which recognise the achievements of young peopleaged over ten – and these will also be presented on the day.
Escape manager Sian Snowdon said: "As an organisation we feel it's hugely important to acknowledge the efforts of our young people through our own awards."
The awards will be handed out at approximately 11.30amby Escape chair, Councillor Stuart Marshall.
Escape is also holding a fund-raising coffee morning to coincide with the presentations, and townsfolk are welcome to attend between 10am and noon.
There will be all the usual stalls and a raffle. Admission is £1.50 (children 50p/under-fives free). Baking donations will be gratefully received and can be handed in next Friday night or on the morn- ing of the event before10am.
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There will be a voter's registration drive Feb. 6 to 8 at several locations in Osceola County.
The locations are:
Waldenbooks, 3105 W. Vine St Kissimmee.
Tomato Express, 3030 Lions Court, Kissimmee.
There will be a voter's registration drive Feb. 6 to 8 at several locations in Osceola County.
The locations are:
Waldenbooks, 3105 W. Vine St Kissimmee.
Tomato Express, 3030 Lions Court, Kissimmee.
Plaza Popular Supermarket, 2991 Michigan Ave., Kissimmee.
AMF Kissimmee Lanes, 4140 W. Vine St., Kissimmee.
Organizer Debbie Wemette said this a private, nonpartisan registration effort.
Volunteers are needed to help people fill out the forms.
For details, call Wemette at 407-846-4932.
Auditions are scheduled at 7 p.m. Sunday and Monday at the Osceola Center for the Arts, 2411 E. Irlo Bronson Memorial Highway (U.S. Highway 192), Kissimmee, for a women's version of the comedy The Odd Couple.
Women ages 28 to 60 and men with Spanish accents ages 35 to 45 will be cast. The play runs March 19 through April 4.
Volunteers from AARP are available for anyone who needs help with income tax returns.
Volunteers will not work on complex or large business returns.
Bring your 2002 tax return copy, 2003 W2's, all F1099 forms from your bank, pension provider, etc., documentation for any tax deductions and or tax credits you intend to claim.
Volunteers will be available at the following locations from Monday through April 15:
St. Cloud Senior Center, 3101 17th St.; 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Mondays; E-filing available.
First Baptist Church of Poinciana, 601 Walnut St.; 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Mondays; E-filing available.
Holy Redeemer Catholic Church, 1603 N. Thacker Ave.; 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Mondays; E-filing available.
Good Samaritan Village, 4250 Village Drive Kissimmee, noon to 4 p.m. Tuesdays; E-filing available.
Orange Garden Civic Center, 1114 George St.; noon to 4 p.m. alternate Wednesdays.
Polo Park Boulevard Clubhouse, Polo Park Boulevard and Hempstead Place, noon to 4 p.m. Wednesdays, E-filing available.
Osceola County Council on Aging, 1099 Shady Lane, Kissimmee, 12:30 to 4:30 p.m. Wednesdays.
Knights of Columbus, 2000 Neptune Road, Kissimmee; 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursdays.
BVL Community Center, 501 Florida Parkway; 12:30 to 4:30 p.m. Fridays; E-filing available.
Central Library, 211 E. Dakin Ave., Kissimmee; noon to 4 p.m. Fridays; E-filing available.
Details: Fe Taylor, 407-933-7493.
Kissimmee Parks and Recreation is offering tennis lessons Tuesdays at the Oak Street Community Park, 717 N. Palm Ave.
Details: 407-847-2388.
The Kissimmee Woman's Club will meet at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the clubhouse, 1616 W. Oak St.
Kissimmee Parks and Recreation will have its spring break camp, Camp Discovery, from March 22 to 26 at the Downtown Lakefront Community House.
Parents can register at Oak Street Park Community Center, 717 N. Palm Ave., Kissimmee, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Mondays through Fridays.
The camp for children from kindergarten to fifth grade will be from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. and costs $70 per child.
Details: kissimmeeparksandrec.com or 407-847-2388.
The Master Tree Farmer 2004 class will be broadcast Tuesday evenings beginning Tuesday at the Osceola School District Media Center, 817 Bill Beck Blvd., Building 2000, Kissimmee.
The 21/2-hour class is broadcast from Clemson University and will have information about the best management practices for protecting the environment and what assistance is available for managing forest land.
Registration is required; cost is $115.
Details: Chris Demers, 352-846-2375 or email@example.com.
American Legion Post 10 in Kissimmee is planning community ceremonies, including a World War II Expo, on May 29 to coincide with the dedication of the national World War II memorial in Washington, D.C.
The American Legion is looking for organizations and World War II veterans to participate.
Details: Jan Fopiano, firstname.lastname@example.com or 407-932-2792.
Vitas Innovative Hospice Care will have a free six-week Circle of Support Group from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Sundays from Feb. 8 to March 14 at the Florida Hospital Kissimmee Medical Building, 201 Hilda St., Suite 16, Kissimmee.
Details: 407-691-4549.
Osceola Regional Medical Center, 700 W. Oak St., Kissimmee, will have two wellness seminars Feb. 7.
The seminar for smoking cessation will be from 10 a.m. to noon, and the weight reduction seminar will be from 1 to 3 p.m.
Both seminars use hypnosis and behavior modification to help participants stop smoking or lose weight.
The first 45 minutes is a free orientation, and if participants feel comfortable with the program, they pay a one-time fee of $59.
The fee includes a hypnotic session, behavior modification booklet, home-reinforcement audiocassette tape and unlimited free repetitions of the seminar if needed.
Details: 1-800-848-2822.
The AARP Driver Safety Program is an eight-hour course designed for motorists 50 or older.
The program addresses physical changes that can affect older drivers.
Registration is required. Tuition is $10.
The session will be from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday at the Central Library, 211 E. Dakin Ave., Kissimmee.
Details: 407-870-5928.


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The New South Wales Parliament is currently considering the Civil Liability (Third Party Claims Against Insurers) Bill 2017 (the Civil Liability Bill). If passed, the new legislation will give effect to the recommendations of the NSW Law Reform Commission. It repeals section 6 (Part 4) of the Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1946 (NSW) (LRMP Act) and replaces it with a new mechanism to allow third party claimants to recover from insurers in certain circumstances.
The trouble with section 6
Section 6 of the LRMP Act creates a statutory charge over monies that may become payable by an insurer and has been heavily criticised for being outdated, overly complex and inappropriate for claims made policies and claims for pure economic loss.
In 2013, the New South Wales Court of Appeal suggested that section 6 be "…completely redrafted in an intelligible form so as to achieve the objects for which it was enacted". [1]
At the time of its introduction in 1946, two scenarios were contemplated:
(i) before trial, an insured person enters into a collusive agreement with the insurer, accepts a lump sum and spends it all or disappears – even if the plaintiff obtains a verdict, recovery from the insured is not possible;
(ii) after the trial, the insurer pays the amount to the insured and the insured spends it all or disappears so the plaintiff can recover nothing.
However, in practice, section 6 was relied upon by plaintiffs for reasons beyond the contemplated scenarios, including where a plaintiff had a concern that an insurer may seek to deny liability to an insured defendant, or where there were several completing claims made against a policy with potentially insufficient limits.
The application of section 6 to D&O policies which provide cover for defence costs, created discomfort in the Australian insurance market. Whilst the New South Wales Court of Appeal held that a charge under section 6 does not prevent an insurer from advancing defence costs to an insured,[2] the New Zealand Supreme Court came to a different conclusion in relation to the equivalent New Zealand legislation upon which section 6 was modelled. [3]
Time for law reform
In 2016, the NSW Law Reform Commission was asked to review and report on section 6 of the LRMP Act. The NSW Law Reform Commission released its Report 143: Third party claims on insurance money, Review of section 6 of the Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1946 in December 2016.
The key finding of the Commission was that a provision is needed to meet the situations that section 6 aims to address by providing a plaintiff with direct access to the insurer, in appropriate cases. However, this provision should do so without the contrivance of the charge. Instead, the Commission proposed reverting to the "general rule that the earlier claim takes priority".[4]
The Commission criticised the existing Commonwealth legal regime in this area as being "patchy" and not providing the same level of protection to plaintiffs as section 6, thus exacerbating the issue of forum shopping. The preferred option proposed by the Commission was for such law reform to be introduced at the Commonwealth level to avoid disparity between states.
The new paradigm for third party claims
The Civil Liability Bill adopts the recommendations of the NSW Law Reform Commission.
The key features of the new legislation are:
a claimant can recover an insured liability amount (owed to the claimant by the insured) from an insurer in court proceedings;
the insurer is not liable to the claimant for more than the insurer would have been liable to pay under the insurance contract in respect of the insured person's liability to the claimant;
the insurer can rely on the same defences and reductions that the insured could have relied on in a direct action by the claimant; and
the regime will not allow a claimant to recover any amount from a re-insurer.
Several procedural aspects of section 6 of the LRMP Act are retained in the new legislation including the requirement to seek leave prior to proceeding against an insurer, and that a claim may only be brought in a court or tribunal of New South Wales.
Where an action has already been brought against insurers under section 6 of the LRMP Act before the commencement of the new legislation, section 6 will continue to apply. However, there is no general preservation of any statutory charges that may have arisen under section 6 of the LRMP Act.
Implications for insurers
These reforms will significantly change the landscape in respect of third party claims against insurers in New South Wales and provide far greater clarity to insurers.
Abandoning the concept of a charge will resolve any uncertainty around whether an insurer is prevented from advancing defence costs where a plaintiff's claim may exhaust all funds under the policy, and eliminate the difficulties with applying the regime to claims made policies and claims for pure economic loss.
Unfortunately "forum shopping" is likely to continue, with plaintiffs likely to elect to bring claims against insurers in the Supreme Court of NSW for the sole purpose of joining an insurer.
Hopefully this reform will also be the catalyst for other states and territories to introduce similar legislation to create a uniform regime, or for the Commonwealth to consider its own law reform in this area.


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here for example I looked up my wifes mercury
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Thinking of an IME Without a Fight? Think Again.
It seems all too often that cases involve a plaintiff seeking unreasonable compensation for injuries sustained in a relatively minor incident. Typically, as these types of cases progress, bumps and bruises warp into incurable and ever-lasting injuries affecting every aspect of a plaintiff's daily life.
As exaggerated and unrealistic as some of these injuries may seem, surprisingly, the plaintiff's complaints are often supported by a remarkable medical opinion typically provided by a hand- picked doctor of plaintiff's choosing. By the time these records hit your desk, you think you have a sense for what you're about to read as the complaint and other case-related documents have provided a preview into the severity of plaintiff's claims. Upon extensive review of the medical records, however, you come across not what you expected, but rather, inconsistencies between plaintiff's reported injuries and those noted in the medical records. You quickly uncover that plaintiff's strategically described claims are significantly undercut by his own doctors' notations, which indicate not only the improvement of plaintiff's symptoms but also that plaintiff has returned to the activities he once enjoyed. Naturally, you become increasingly wary of plaintiff's complaints, and as such, you seek a second medical opinion by way of an independent medical examination ("IME").
It has long been the procedure that when the physical or mental condition of a party is at issue in a case, independent medical examinations become a common component of the lawsuit. It is at this stage of the litigation that you should prepare yourself for a barrage of attacks against the doctor you've chosen to perform the IME. Plaintiffs' attorneys commonly complain that independent medical examiners are anything but "independent," and rather, provide untrustworthy opinions motivated by the financial compensation given for rendering them.
Because courts are given leeway to specify the time, place, manner, conditions, and scope of the examination, to remedy these perceived injustices, some plaintiffs' attorneys have conditioned their clients' voluntary participation in the IME upon being able to make a video or audio recording of the same. No Wisconsin case directly addresses whether and under what circumstances videotaping an IME is appropriate. There is some authority, however, addressing whether a third party may be present during an independent medical examination. That case is the Wisconsin Supreme Court's decision in Whanger v. American Family Mutual Ins. Co.1
Whanger concerned a personal injury automobile negligence action, and specifically addressed whether the trial court had the "authority and discretion to order the presence of plaintiff's counsel during the independent medical examination."2 In deciding whether to allow plaintiff's counsel to be present at the IME, the court noted that the plaintiff had the burden to show a need or prejudice.3 Only if the plaintiff could meet that burden could the court then exercise its discretion to determine whether counsel's presence would be appropriate.4 This burden to show need could be met by showing that "the character, personality or sophistication of the personal injury claimant [was] such that his counsel could give him assurance and confidence and assist in communicating so as to be beneficial to the examining physician and provide for a more accurate examination."5 Alternatively, the plaintiff could establish prejudice by showing that the presence of plaintiff's counsel was necessary to preserve the integrity of the examination.6 As the trial court had not considered these factors in deciding whether to allow counsel to be present at the examination, the supreme court remanded the case for a hearing on that specific issue.7
Going forward, Wisconsin courts will presumably apply the Whanger factors in considering a request to have an IME video or audio recorded. Notably, the Whanger analysis has been specifically adopted by other jurisdictions in resolving whether to allow a plaintiff to videotape an IME. In the New Jersey case of Briglia v. Exxon Co., U.S.,8 the court used the Whanger analysis in deciding whether to allow an IME to be videotaped. In deciding this issue, the Briglia court quoted the following discussion in Whanger, which regarded whether to allow counsel to be present at the IME::
Opposing counsel's presence is not necessary and ordinarily he can add nothing to the adequacy of the examination. There may be instances where the character, personality or sophistication of the personal injury claimant are such that his counsel could give him assurance and confidence and assist in communicating so as to be beneficial to the examining physician and provide for a more accurate examination. There also may be instances of hostility between the physician and the claimant. In these and other situations where a need or prejudice is established, counsel should be permitted to be present. However the burden to show need or prejudice should be upon the claimant.9
The Briglia court ultimately did not allow the IME to be videotaped because plaintiff's attorneys had identified no reason why a video recording would be beneficial other than to allow the firm to "zealously" represent its clients.10 In adopting Wisconsin's standard, the New Jersey court held that if a plaintiff fails to introduce specific reasons justifying his request to make a video or audio recording of the IME, such as by failing to show an inability to effectively communicate with an examining physician or by failing to demonstrate hostility between the plaintiff and the physician, the court should deny the plaintiff's request.11 Because Briglia adopted Wisconsin law and applied it to resolving the issue of video recording IMEs, the case is helpful authority for Wisconsin defense counsel who wish to conduct an IME of the plaintiff without interference.
When confronted with this issue, defense counsel should be cautious, as some plaintiff's attorneys cite to unpublished or heavily criticized opinions as support for their request to videotape an IME. For example, one opinion in particular, Zabkowicz v. W. Bend Co.,12 has been criticized by nine jurisdictions. In Zabkowicz, a decision from the Eastern District of Wisconsin, the court decided that recording devices were appropriate during an IME. The Northern District of Illinois, however, was one of those nine jurisdictions critical of that decision, and in Haymer v. Countrywide Bank,13 the court noted not only thatZabkowicz had departed from prior case law that prohibited plaintiffs from interfering with IMEs, but also that the case has not been followed by any subsequent courts.14
Zabkowicz aside, it has long been recognized that independent medical examinations are not adversary proceedings.15 Instead, they are investigative in nature and therefore, the presence of counsel at an IME, or the video or audio recording of the same, adds no value to the examination.16 In fact, it arguably detracts from it. Perhaps most importantly, and what plaintiffs' attorneys most often seem to forget, is that examining doctors are bound by medical ethics during these independent evaluations and, as such, there should be no reason to question their integrity.
Jessica A. Swain is an associate attorney at Mc- Coy Leavitt Laskey LLC and primarily practices in the areas of litigation and insurance defense. As a former Assistant District Attorney, Jessica has extensive trial and advocacy skills. During her time References in the District Attorney's office, she handled both criminal and civil litigation matters on behalf of the State of Wisconsin and successfully litigated a variety of matters including drug offenses, firearm offenses, and child abuse cases. In addition, Jessica successfully first chaired several bench and jury trials and was named the head of the drug unit. Since joining McCoy Leavitt Laskey, Jessica has success- fully defended cases involving construction defects, gas explosions, product defects, and catastrophic personal injuries. Jessica is a graduate of Marquette University Law School (J.D., 2009), and she received her undergraduate degree in political science from the University of Rochester (B.A., 2006). Jessica is a member of the State Bar of Wisconsin.
1 58 Wis. 2d 461, 207 N.W.2d 74 (1973).
2 Id. at 469.
3 Id. at 471.
4 Id.
5 Id.
6 Id.
7 Id. at 472.
8 310 N.J. Super. 498 (N.J. Super. 1997).
9 Id. at 505 (quoting Whanger, 207 N.W. 2d at 79).
10 Id.
11 Id. at 505-06.
12 585 F. Supp. 635 (E.D. Wis. 1984).
13 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 28186, Case No. 10 C 5910 (N.D. Ill. Feb. 22, 2013) (unpublished decision).
14 Id. (citing Stefan v. Trinity Trucking, L.L.C., 275 F.R.D. 248, 250 (N.D. Ohio 2011)). 15 Whanger, 58 Wis. 2d at 471. 16 Id.
© 2014 Wisconsin Defense Counsel. All rights reserved. Swain, Jessica A., Thinking of an IME Without a Fight? Thing Again., Wisconsin Civi Trial Journal (Summer 2014)


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