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Thus far in the history of our campaign no one has stood up for the economics and politics of neo-liberalism. Whatever our differences in terms of strategy and tactics there is a consensus of opposition to the deeply divisive, damaging policies of the present government and its predecessor. In this light find a couple of links that seek to stimulate debate about the creation of alternatives. Fair enough you won't absorb them necessarily over the weekend – in fact you might well want to do more playful things! – but at the very least save them for a rainy day.
The Kilburn Manifesto: our challenge to the neoliberal victory
Elites are using the crisis of global capital to reassert power. But this is no time for retreat. Stuart Hall, Doreen Massey and Michael Rustin outline the alternative in a manifesto, which will appear over the next year in monthly instalments.
Chapter 1 : After Neo-Liberalism : Analysing the Present
This is no time for simple retreat. What is required is a renewed sense of being on the side of the future, not stuck in the dugouts of the past. We must admit that the old forms of the welfare state proved insufficient. But we must stubbornly defend the principles on which it was founded – redistribution, egalitarianism, collective provision, democratic accountability and participation, the right to education and healthcare – and find new ways in which they can be institutionalised and expressed.
In this recent lecture Paul Mason returns to the question of resistance to neo-liberalism and the precarious position of 'graduates, indeed young people without a future'.
All attempts to make the old model work without solving the global imbalances on which it rests lead to the policy of austerity: not just fiscal austerity, as in Britain and southern Europe, but a long-term strategy of reducing the wages, welfare benefits and labour rights of the workforce in the West.
And there is one massively important group that has been dealt not just a tactical setback but a strategic one. In Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere I called these 'graduates without a future' – the first generation in the West since the 1930s who will be poorer than their parents.[1] They will leave college with £30, 40, 50k debts. The jobs on offer are – as the famous Santa Cruz 'Communiqué from an Absent Future' told us in 2009 – the same jobs you do while on campus: interning, barista, waiting tables, sex work. The first post-college job is often working for free or for the minimum wage. There is no way onto the housing ladder, the ladder is now horizontal; and in retirement, pension schemes will be gone.
For this generation it is not a question of simple economic grievance but of the theft of the promised future. And I've become sick of hearing that the movement has 'petered out'. No. It has been massively repressed. Tear gas fired indiscriminately into crowds in Athens, rubber bullets in Madrid, tasers and pepper spray on campuses across America. Non-lethal policing is highly effective against non-violent protests. It tends to clear them away. But do not think it has cleared away the grievances in people's minds that led them to demonstrate in the first place. What it does is push those who don't want to get their heads broken into a more sullen, silent, passive resistance: a resistance of ideas; or a resistance of small, granular social projects; or, as in Greece, anomie – where people just embrace the beauty of being hopeless, roll a joint, stare into each other's eyes.
The crisis of neoliberalism, compounded by the total failure to emerge of any alternative within official politics, simply leaves unanswered the next generation's question: how does capitalism secure my future?
But the world that was created after 1945 – a world of human rights, democracy and relative working-class affluence in the West – is now in jeopardy. And as long as all these things remain in jeopardy, it will go on kicking off.


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Wetpaint wants wikis to bring new life to group Web sites
Seattle firm rolls out dogs, cancer and politics as topics of discussion
Are you a dog lover, cancer survivor or bleeding-heart liberal?
A new service launching today from Seattle's Wetpaint is designed to bring together like-minded individuals who want to create online communities around those topics and more.
For now, Wetpaint is testing the service -- which utilizes a collaborative technology known as a wiki -- in six content areas: dogs, cancer, Xbox 360, Democrats, Republicans and bird flu.
Visitors to the dog site -- dubbed WikiFido.com -- can upload photos of their golden retrievers, pugs or boxers, edit text that explains the origin of the animals or post comments about their behavior traits. Because the site operates as a wiki, the content is always changing, with individuals adding, erasing and editing information. In addition to organizing by breeds, WikiFido.com allows individuals to search on topics such as puppy training, veterinarians or ugly dogs. Throughout the process, visitors are encouraged to contribute opinions, stories and photos.
"We are trying to be a site where people can come together and collaborate on the topics they care about," said Ben Elowitz, the 33-year-old entrepreneur who created Wetpaint last year.
Backed with $5.25 million in venture capital financing, Wetpaint is riding several hot Internet trends -- utilizing the Ajax technology to make Web pages more interactive and relying on Google's advertising service to make money.
But the most important concept behind Wetpaint is the idea that groups of people working together and sharing information can create more compelling online content than individuals. In other words, two dozen poodle owners will have more interesting things to say than just one.
Wetpaint dubs this the "collective wisdom of crowds."
Wikis -- taken from a Hawaiian word for "quick" -- are closely related to blogs. Wikis, however, go one step further by allowing anyone to erase content or edit text from the Web page.
Businesses have used the technology for a number of years, with engineers setting up wikis to collaborate on product designs or write software code.
But other than Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that relies on user-generated submissions, Elowitz said they have not really resonated with consumers.
One of the big reasons is that the publishing systems -- even for a popular service such as Wikipedia -- are extremely difficult for the average person to understand. That hinders user participation and, in effect, limits the power of wikis, said Elowitz.
With its first product release today, Wetpaint believes it has overcome some of the technical hurdles that have prevented people from contributing to wikis. And by targeting areas such as dogs, computer games and politics, they are looking to tap communities that naturally generate conversations.
"When people are passionate about something, they are dying to give back to the community," says Elowitz, who writes on the WikiFido site about his 2-year-old Airedale terrier, Jackson.
For those who remember the dotcom boom of the late 1990s, the concept of Wetpaint may sound all too familiar. After all, the idea of creating targeted communities was all the rage back then, with companies such as theGlobe.com, eCircles, Third Voice and eSociety jumping on the bandwagon.
Analyst Peter O'Kelly recalls those days -- pulling out a list of more than a dozen companies that at one time were going to help people form communities around thousands of topics.
"(Wetpaint) is dangerously close to some of the stuff we saw back in the irrational exuberance days of bubble version one," said O'Kelly, research director at the Burton Group. "But is there latent demand for this? Yeah."
The big challenge for a company such as Wetpaint is to provide enough structure to the Web sites that they don't just become a "free for all" of rambling discussions.
"Otherwise everything just gets lost in the noise. It turns into like Mr. Microphone of the Internet with everyone screaming at once," he said.
In order to guard against that, Wetpaint plans to grant moderator privileges to certain users who help guide the discussion.
Still, Elowitz said it is very important that the company not get in the way.
"When you have critical mass in a community on a site like this, you have to let the community sort that out," he said. "Wetpaint wants to provide the tools, not to be the arbiter of community disputes."
Unlike Seattle-based Newsvine -- an online service that encourages citizen journalists to post stories and blog entries -- Wetpaint does not plan to share advertising revenue with contributors. Users also do not have the ability at this time to upload videos.
Elowitz, who co-founded online jewelry retailer Blue Nile in 1999, said a lot of things have changed from the days when community sites consisted of nothing more than an events calendar and some online forums.
"The technology for collaboration among communities in 1999 sucked," said Elowitz. "It just dead sucked."
In the past couple of years, things have radically changed, he said.
The adoption of high-speed Internet connections, the rise of technologies such as Ajax and the number of people who have been online for more than two years have made it easier to do real collaboration over the Web.
"Those three things have let the Web become a two-way medium, instead of a one-way medium," he said.
Wetpaint could bump up against plenty of competition. Yahoo!, MySpace, Friendster, LiveJournal and others are creating online communities of passionate Internet users.
But Elowitz said that social networking sites such as My- Space have grown in popularity partly because they allow people to stake out individual Web pages to express themselves.
While Elowitz said that is important, he believes people also have a natural drive to contribute to a larger community.
"People don't like to pursue their interests alone -- political interests, religious interests, personal interests, hobbies, sports," he said. "Tens of thousands of people show up at a stadium to watch a game together as a collective experience."
That's true. But now Elowitz is hoping they start showing up at his Web sites.


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Tunisia's former dictator Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, his daughter and son-in-law have been given jail terms in absentia over corrupt property deals according to BBC News on July 29, 2011.
They were also ordered to collectively pay $100m (£61m) in damages.
This is the third guilty verdict against Ben Ali, who fled in January to Saudi Arabia after weeks of protest – the first of the "Arab Spring" revolts.
Saudi Arabia has so far failed to extradite Ben Ali, despite a request by Tunisia's new interim government.
Ben Ali was accused of using his power to get property for his family at prices far below the market value in the capital, Tunis.
He and his son-in-law, businessman Sakher El Materi, were sentenced to 16 years in prison.
His daughter, Nesrine, who is married to El Materi, was given an eight-year jail term.
Ben Ali was first sentenced in June, along with his wife Leila, to 35 years in prison for embezzlement and misuse of state funds.
Earlier this month, he was convicted on charges of possessing illegal drugs and weapons after a one-day trial and given 15 years in jail.


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(NNPA)—As we prepare to advocate for universal health care in the United States Senate one issue that impacts people's health is the quality of food available to them.
Wealthy people tend to have better health in part due to their diet of quality foods. Conversely, poor peoples' poor health is usually predicated on their choices in food.
One reality for poor people of all pigments is that they have less choices of good food in their neighborhoods. Unlike well-to-do neighborhoods with gourmet grocers and organic options, poor people must, in many cases, use convenience stores to purchase produce and meats. For most poor people of color high quality meats and produce is virtually non-existent.
The results are predictable.The consumption of healthy foods—particularly fresh produce—is a key element to disease prevention. Likewise, eating bad food has bad health results.
It does not take a "rocket scientist" to figure out the connection between diet and disease. The phrase, "you are what you eat" plays out every day in poor neighborhoods. Predictably, diabetes, high-blood pressure, and obesity plague poor neighborhoods, disproportionately African-American.
According to the Office of Minority Health, Black women are 70 percent more likely to be obese than White women; African-Americans are 30 percent more likely to have diabetes than Whites; and Black men are 30 percent more likely than their White counterparts to have heart disease.
Many of these maladies arise from poor diets. Poor diets arise from junk food. Convenience stores jack up Black diets by selling junk food. Convenience stores are central culprits in not only offering low-quality food products but also by jacking up their prices. On average, poor people pay a territory tax on food because of the perception of crime in low-income areas (of course low-income neighborhoods have more crime due to the lack of lack of jobs and capital, but I will save the subject for another column).
Research reveals that poor people pay as much as 20 percent more than the national average for food.
Some experts assert that such jacked up prices amount to $1,200 more for the poor. National chain grocery stores avoid poor neighborhoods as if poor people do not deserve high-quality food. Ten years ago I remember working on a "New Markets Initiative" project in 1999 with the RainbowPUSH Coalition to locate a Pathmark Grocery Store in Harlem, N.Y. At that time, no national grocery chain store existed in Harlem.
The reasons given were the perception of crime and the high cost of building. Our point was that such a store location would allow the national chain to do well by the residents of Harlem and do well by the business bottom line. Years later, the highest grossing Pathmark store in the nation was the one located in Harlem. So successful was the store that a second Pathmark was sited there.
Black communities have half as much access to chain supermarkets than White neighborhoods. Latinos have 30 percent less access to chain stores than Whites. The absence of national chain stores allows for small convenience stores predominantly in poor communities. Congress should enact legislation to end racial redlining in retail food stores by regulating convenience stores that sell junk food. For example, regulating junk food in the same manner that was done for tobacco and alcohol would go along way in reducing disease diets in Black communities. Why not require junk food producers in convenience stores to print warning labels reading, "Eating this product could lead to diabetes, high blood pressure or obesity."
(Gary L. Flowers is executive director and CEO of the Black Leadership Forum.)


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Happy New Year Middle Class: The Fiscal Cliff Is Going To Rip You To Shreds
By Michael
December 30th, 2012
The middle class has quite a gift welcoming them as the calendar flips over to 2013. Their payroll taxes are going to go up, their income taxes are going to go up, and approximately 28 million households are going to be hit with a huge, unexpected AMT tax bill on their 2012 earnings. So happy New Year middle class! You are about to be ripped to shreds. In addition to the tax increases that I just mentioned, approximately two million unemployed Americans will instantly lose their extended unemployment benefits when 2013 begins, and new Obamacare tax hikes which will cost American taxpayers about a trillion dollars over the next decade will start to go into effect. If Congress is not able to come to some sort of a deal, all middle class families in America will be sending thousands more dollars to Uncle Sam next year than they were previously. And considering the fact that the middle class is already steadily shrinking and that the U.S. economy is already in an advanced state of decline, that is not good news. You would think that both major political parties would want to do something to keep the middle class from being hit with this kind of tax sledgehammer. Unfortunately, at this point it appears that our "leaders" in Washington D.C. are incapable of getting anything done. So get ready for much smaller paychecks and much larger tax bills. What is coming is not going to be pleasant.
So what happened?
Weren't the tax increases only supposed to be for the wealthy?
Well, that is what the politicians always promise, but it is always the middle class that ends up getting hit the hardest.
In this day and age, the big corporations and the ultra-wealthy are absolute masters at avoiding taxes.
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Book Review: Butterflies of the North Woods
Butterflies of the North Woods by Larry Weber is an excellent field guide for identification of butterflies. It is part of the North Woods Naturalist series, covering the states of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Ontario, Canada. How many times have you seen a butterfly flying by, and weren't sure what it was? This field guide not only has excellent photos, but it also has a lot of information on the habits of butterflies, such as what food they eat and what food the butterfly caterpillars eat. It really helped me out, because we get a lot of brown butterflies with eyespots in this area that all look very similar. It helped me to differentiate between them, by comparing the number of eyespots, etc. Also included is an interesting section on the history of butterflies, such as: butterflies are really a type of moth that may have started flying during the day to get away from moth-eating bats. There is also information on day-flying moths that only look like butterflies. Also part of the series: Moths and Caterpillars of the North Woods, Dragonfies of the North Woods, and Damselflies of the North Woods.
Reference: Larry Weber, Butterflies of the North Woods, 2nd edition,(Duluth,MN:Kollath+Stensaas Publishing, 2006)


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TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 3, 2017 — PwC has urged defense contractors to build on long-term relationships with the local military and industrial bases at foreign countries to offset reduced activity in traditional defense markets due to budget constraints, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. Randy Starr and Anurag Garg, aerospace and defense industry advisers at …Read More »
NTT Data to Deliver IaaS Platform Under NASPO ValuePoint; Tim Conway Comments
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Feb. 22, 2017 — NTT Data (NYSE: NTT) will provide an infrastructure-as-a-service platform to state and local agencies participating under the National Association of State Procurement Officers' ValuePoint cooperative purchasing program, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The company said Thursday the master agreement seeks to help the agencies secure their cloud environments. "This …Read More »
Defense News: NATO Eyes $3B IT, Command & Control Contract Spending Over 2 Years
NATO plans to spend $3.2 billion on contracts in support of requirements such as cybersecurity, information technology and command-and-control systems over the next two and a half years, Defense News reported Friday. Peter Scaruppe, acquisition director for NATO's Communications and Information Agency, told the publication in an interview that the agency …Read More »
Reports: Canada Eyes Interim Purchase of 18 Boeing-Built Super Hornets
Canada plans to buy 18 Boeing-built (NYSE: BA) F/A-18E/F Super Hornet aircraft from the U.S. government on a temporary basis for an undisclosed amount in an effort to support the country's existing fleet of CF-18 fighter jets, National Post reported Tuesday. David Pugliese writes Canada's liberal government announced the plan as it works to …Read More »
GAO Denies 9 Bid Protests of DHA Tricare Contract Awards to Humana, Health Net
The Government Accountability Office has dismissed nine protests filed by health insurers Health Net, UnitedHealth Military and Veterans and Wellpoint to challenge the Defense Health Agency's Tricare services contract awards worth approximately $58 billion, Federal News Radio reported Tuesday. Jared Serbu writes GAO's decision paves the way for Humana (NYSE: HUM) and Health Net's …Read More »
Mike Poth: FirstNet Inches Closer to Public Safety Broadband Network Contract Award
The First Responder Network Authority is in the evaluation phase and is close to awarding a contract to build a national public safety broadband network for first responders. FirstNet CEO Mike Poth said Thursday the agency has completed several tasks in compliance with the Federal Acquisition Regulation in order to facilitate …Read More »
Dun & Bradstreet, GSA Reach New Agreement on Use of Federal Spending Data
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 4, 2016 — Dun & Bradstreet (NYSE: DNB) and the General Services Administration have agreed on a renegotiated contract on the use of collected federal spending data, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. GSA's Kevin Youel Page wrote in a blog post published Thursday that the new contract expands access to …Read More »
Reuters: Sales of Boeing F-15, F/A-18E/F Jets to Kuwait, Qatar Near US Approval
The U.S. government could approve this month a pair of foreign military sales agreements for Qatar and Kuwait to procure up to 76 Boeing-built (NYSE: BA) F-15 and F/A-18E/F Super Hornet jets worth an estimated $7 billion, Reuters reported Thursday. Tom Finn and Andrea Shalal write sources said the deals include the sale of 36 …Read More »
Carahsoft's John Lee: NASA's SEWP Vehicle Drives Agency Cloud Adoption, Transition
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 8, 2016 — John Lee, vice president of cloud services and program manager for the Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement vehicle at Carahsoft, has said the NASA contract platform serves to drive cloud adoption at federal agencies, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. Lee wrote in a blog post published Tuesday that options …Read More »
Curtiss-Wright Lands $80M in Contracts to Provide Ship Valves for Navy; David Adams Comments
Curtiss-Wright (NYSE: CW) has secured approximately $80 million in contracts to provide various valves for the U.S. Navy's Virginia-class submarines and Ford-class aircraft carriers. The company said Wednesday it received the contracts from business units of Bechtel and General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) as part of a ship construction support and spare parts procurement agreement. Curtiss-Wright …Read More »


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Endless sandy beaches, ancient reefs teeming with life off untouched Great Barrier reef Islands, the tranquility of lush tropical rainforest and the warmth of the rugged golden hinterland.
This place is full of awesome spots to visit.
Here are my 4 top places to visit:
Eungella National Park
The Broken River is the best place in Australia to spot platypus in the wild. Scenic Finch Hatton Gorge is a wonderful landscape of waterfalls, lush flora and volcanic boulder formations. There are many walking tracks which weave through sub-tropical rainforest. One of my favourite trails starts at the Finch Hatton picnic area and takes you on a 1.6 kilometre journey to the beautiful Araluen waterfall.
The granite boulders and surrounding vegetation make this place special. I can not resist to take always a dip in one of the nearby rock pools – heaven!
The Wheel of Fire Cascades is another beautiful waterfall with a large rock pool at its base and also a great spot for swimming. This second part of the walk is more challenging, with uphill segments and stairs to climb, but the views are well worth it.
Keep an eye out among the rainforest for rare and unusual flora and fauna, such as the rare gastric brooding frog, the orange-sided skink, Mackay tulip oak, Eungella spiny cray and Eungella honeyeater.
Cape Hillsborough National Park
Dramatic headland, rainforests, nature walks and wallabies that come down onto the beach at sunrise. What else can we ask for?
Cape Hillsborough National Park, approximately 45 minutes north of Mackay, is where you'll find rainforest meets the shoreline, volcanic headlands, eucalypt forests home to koalas and kookaburras and prehistoric rock formations. Wallabies and kangaroos scour the morning tide for mangrove seed pods, seaweed and coral sand dollars.
Brampton and Keswick Islands
Brampton Island's golden beaches, coral gardens and meandering walking tracks are a delight here. Almost entirely National Park, Brampton is so close to neighbouring Carlisle Island, where camping is permitted at Sandy Pt. make sure you walk across the reef at low tide – it's stunning!
Serenity Coast
South to Sarina and to the coast, there is a delightful selection of beaches for swimming and fishing . The undeveloped wilderness surrounding Cape Palmerston's camping areas provides access to excellent fishing locations and rugged bush walks. One of my favourite things to do here is to experience magical glimpses of elusive fireflies which inhabit the bushland area in the evening.


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|Mass spectrometry-based visualization of molecules associated with human habitats
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The cars we drive, the homes we live in, the restaurants we visit, and the laboratories and offices we work in are all a part of the modern human habitat. Remarkably, little is known about the diversity of chemicals present in these environments and to what degree molecules from our bodies influence the built environment that surrounds us and vice versa. We therefore set out to visualize the chemical diversity of five built human habitats together with their occupants, to provide a snapshot of the various molecules to which humans are exposed on a daily basis. The molecular inventory was obtained through untargeted liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) analysis of samples from each human habitat and from the people that occupy those habitats. Mapping MS-derived data onto 3D models of the environments showed that frequently touched surfaces, such as handles (e.g., door, bicycle), resemble the molecular fingerprint of the human skin more closely than other surfaces that are less frequently in direct contact with humans (e.g., wall, bicycle frame). Approximately 50% of the MS/MS spectra detected were shared between people and the environment. Personal care products, plasticizers, cleaning supplies, food, food additives, and even medications that were found to be a part of the human habitat. The annotations indicate that significant transfer of chemicals takes place between us and our built environment. The workflows applied here will lay the foundation for future studies of molecular distributions in medical, forensic, architectural, space exploration, and environmental applications.
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For more than twenty years I've been wandering the woods and waterways of Saratoga County, New York, looking closely, listening carefully. We are blessed in this county with an amazing amount of wilderness right at hand. With this blog I will share a year of adventuring here, seeking out what wonders await in my own Madagascar close to home.
Sunday, January 5, 2014
Say It Isn't So!
After strapping on my snowshoes, I headed around and across the lake, rejoicing in how the frozen surface gave me such ready shortcuts to my favorite sites. Of course, I had to stop at the shoreline site where I found that rare Whorled Mountain Mint this fall, and I was delighted to see its withered seedheads standing tall above the snow.
I also stopped to chat with several fishermen, admiring their catches or commiserating with their lack of luck. Ice fishers tend to be a really friendly sort of folk, usually glad to break their solitary vigil with some genial chatter. I was having a really jolly time chatting with these fellows (Jeff, Craig, and Rob), when Craig asked me if I lived in Saratoga and was I the mom of two of my boys. Well, small world! These guys know my guys and all about their music and other stuff. In fact, Craig lives right around the corner from me and had seen me coming and going all summer with my Hornbeck strapped to me car. Even further, his girlfriend Kirsten is a publicist for my son Peter's band, The Figgs. Amazing!
Speaking of my kids, why not put their photos here on my blog? I sure am proud of this sweet bunch of boys, shown here at their sister Jane's house this Christmas. Philip is on the left, then Stephen in the middle, and Peter on the right.
And here's their sweet sister, my darling daughter Jane, who hosted our entire family, along with all of her own and her husband's family, for a fabulous Christmas feast.
I am one lucky mom!
5 comments:
- The Furry Gnome said...
Sorry you're south in the warmer air mass. We're forecast to stay cold (and get colder), freezing in the arctic air mass, but hopefully our great snow conditions will stay with us.
- January 5, 2014 at 10:18 PM
o ice fishermen still call them "tip ups?" I spent many a day on frozen Adirondack lakes as a kid when my dad were ice fishing. He and his buddies made their own.
- January 5, 2014 at 11:08 PM
- threecollie said...
What a great family! They do you proud. And I feel the same way about the snow. I don't like winter, but if we have to have it, snow that you can navigate and plow, and move out of your way, trumps a sheet of iron-hard ice every way possible. Went out into the discouraging rain this morning and had to hang on tight to the dog to keep her from skidding away. And more icy cold to come. Not good.
- January 6, 2014 at 7:00 AM
- catharus said...
Yes, it's a small world! 'Lovely family!
Yeh, we've had similar weather in my part of the world too. Temps up and down, snow comes and goes... :-(
But we love it when we've got it, don't we?! 'Just stunning landscapes!
Blessing in the New Year!
- January 6, 2014 at 7:11 AM
Handsome beautiful children . Thanks for the photos of the river. Here in Australia we are experiencing extremes of heat, following the hottest year on record.
Happy new year
- January 10, 2014 at 10:01 PM


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(Poem #61) Song
A rowan like a lipsticked girl. Between the by-road and the main road Alder trees at a wet and dripping distance Stand off among the rushes. There are the mud-flowers of dialect And the immortelles of perfect pitch And that moment when the bird sings very close To the music of what happens.
This delicately lovely poem has always reminded me of a haiku - there is the same ethereal yet etching-precise economy, the wealth and evocativeness of the images, with every word worth a thousand pictures. The interweaving of images and music captures the very essence of poetry, lending the poem a self-referentiality that is no less real for being unstated. Glossary: immortelle [alien sense] imOrtel. [Fr. (short for fleur immortelle), fem. of immortel immortal.] A name for various composite flowers of papery texture (esp. Helichrysum orientale, and other species of Helichrysum, Xeranthemum, etc.) which retain their colour after being dried. -- OED Biographical Notes: b. April 13, 1939, near Castledàwson, County Londonderry, N.Ire. in full SEAMUS JUSTIN HEANEY, Irish poet whose work is notable for its evocation of events in Irish history and its allusions to Irish myth. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995. Heaney's first poetry collection was the prizewinning Death of a Naturalist (1966). In this book and Door into the Dark (1969), he wrote in a traditional style about a passing way of life--that of domestic rural life in Northern Ireland. In Wintering Out (1972) and North (1975), he began to encompass such subjects as the violence in Northern Ireland and contemporary Irish experience, though he continued to view his subjects through a mythic and mystical filter. Among the later volumes that reflect Heaney's honed and deceptively simple style are Field Work (1979), Station Island (1984), The Haw Lantern (1987), and Seeing Things (1991). His Selected Poems, 1966-1987 also was published in 1991. The Spirit Level (1996) concerns the notion of centredness and balance in both the natural and the spiritual senses. Heaney also wrote essays on poetry and poets, including such figures as William Wordsworth, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and Robert Lowell. Some of these essays appeared in Preoccupations: Selected Prose,A collection of his lectures at Oxford was published as The Redress of Poetry (1995). The Cure at Troy (1991) is Heaney's version of Sophocles' Philoctetes, and a later volume, The Midnight Verdict (1993), contains translations of selections from Ovid's Metamorphoses and from Cúirt an mheadhon oidhche (The Midnight Court), a work by the 18th-century Irish writer Brian Merriman. -- EB Assessment: 1995 Nobel Laureate in Literature "for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past." -- The Nobel Foundation Robert Lowell has deemed Heaney "the most important Irish poet since Yeats." Critics have been largely positive about his verse, and he is undoubtedly the most popular poet writing in English today. His books sell by the tens of thousands, and hundreds of "Heaneyboppers" attend his readings. His earliest influences, Robert Frost and Ted Hughes, can be seen throughout his work, but most especially in his first two volumes, where he recollects images of his childhood at Mossbawn. Other poets, especially Gerard Manley Hopkins, William Wordsworth, Thomas Hardy, and even Dante have played important roles in his development. [...] Some critics have placed Heaney in a no-win situation; he is condemned either for confronting too strongly the situation in his homeland, or taken to task for remaining aloof from it. Nevertheless, some of his most convincing elegies deal with friends and family he has lost to the Troubles. "Casualty," a poem about a Catholic friend murdered by a bomb set by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in a Protestant pub, gives us another look at the tribal warfare in Northern Ireland. His questioning of his friend's responsibility for his own death realizes the ambiguous nature, the muddling of right and wrong, that grips Northern Ireland today. And yet, what is important is not placing blame, but the recognition of what remains to those who live, memories and sadness. It is easy to get the impression that Heaney is a provincial poet, concerned only with the happenings of his island and his memory. That conclusion, however, would be misleading. He is not merely a one-note minstrel; his birthplace does not completely occupy his mind. "Song" demonstrates his exploration of the poetic process. Like "Digging" and "Personal Helicon," this short lyric attends to his own imagination. His descriptive powers are akin to Wordsworth's, and his attention to the world around him and the details of language make this poem a small success. [...] Heaney's work is filled with images of death and dying, and yet it is also firmly rooted in the life of this world. His tender elegies about friends and family members who have died serve many purposes: they mourn great losses, celebrate those who have gone before us, and recall the solace that remains to us, our memories. When asked recently about his abiding interest in memorializing the people of his life, he replied, "The elegaic Heaney? There's nothing else." -- Joe Pellegrino, excerpted from <[broken link] http://metalab.unc.edu/dykki/poetry/heaney/heaney.bio.html> (and do go and read the whole thing) Websites of interest: <[broken link] http://educeth.ethz.ch/english/readinglist/heaney,seamus.html> - highly recommended, along with all its links. m.