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Man stabbed in Ansonia robbery
By Register Staff
Published 7:25 pm EST, Monday, February 24, 2014
ANSONIA >> Police responded to a report of a stabbing and robbery at about 4:30 a.m. Sunday on Tremont Street, Lt. Andrew Cota said Monday in a release.
A 24-year old male and a 21-year old female were approached by a group of four males after the vehicle the male and female were driving became disabled.
The four males, in their early 20s, approached the vehicle and stole the male victim's phone and then assaulted him, Cota said.
The male victim was stabbed in the stomach area and was sent to Yale-New Haven Hospital for treatment of non life-threatening injuries.
After the victim was stabbed they also stole the female victim's pocketbook. The males fled the area.
The mean were seen driving in an older model Toyota, possibly silver or other light color.
This case is under investigation and no arrests have been made, Cota said.


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Not exactly my cup of tea either but very catchy! And damn, it sounds completely "legit". Could easily imagine hearing this streaming out of the radio, as is. Go Dendy, go NS.
There was even moment, when i was considering deleting this project, it was from beginning really just sample offset automation experiment in Obsidian (that main gated chord melody)..
Not my cup of tea either, but very impressive - sounds as good as anything you'd hear on the radio, and a great demonstration of what NS2 is capable of.


For the first time in Sri Lanka, the Registrar General Department announced that it would take steps to computerize birth, death, marriage certificates and title deeds whilst also issuing it to the general public through a one-day service, Minister of Home Affairs, Vajira Abeywardena said.
"This move would greatly reduce the incidents of corruption and illegal means that people have used over the many years to forge and obtain documents," he said.
The minister said that this service would initially come into effect in the Western and Southern provinces and would be followed by the rest within this year. He added that these certificates will also be available electronically and this would ensure that there are no duplicity and that an individual's status quo is updated periodically.
"The Pensions department, ID, passport office, registrar department would be linked to ensure that all departments have access to these documents so to assist in ensuring that citizens are afforded a speedy and hassle free service." He said.
The issuance of title deeds which will also be available electronically is to be launched under the patronage of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe at an event on March 16th at the Registrar General's Department.
Minister Abeywardena also added that the Registrar General's Department is intent on increasing its revenue from Rs 800 million to Rs.8000 million by the end of this year.
He also said that birth, death and marriage certificates will now be trilingual which would make it easy for it to be furnished without having it translated. The certificate would also bear the national emblem so to ensure its originality and that it cannot be duplicated. "Those who have already obtained certificates will receive the new one upon request," he said.


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So much has been happening around the parish, I need to cover a few different subjects this week.
First and foremost, I have to say I was tremendously impressed with our Parish Service Day. I certainly knew this was a very good thing—a couple hundred of our people out working in our community is nothing but good. But, the joy, energy and enthusiasm with which the work was done was particularly striking. I hope these pictures convey some of that.
Groups went out and did a whole range of things from yard work to cleaning to simply spending time with folks who might not have a lot of visitors. My group won the assignment lottery—we did nails for ladies at Villa Franciscan. It was fun, meaningful and important work.
Congratulations to Lissa Dow and her team for putting together another great event.
I am thrilled that Mary Wollgast offered to step into the leadership role for the Giving Tree program this year. Mary is member of the Parish Council, and she is frequently on the schedule to serve as a Eucharistic Minister at 7:30 a.m. Mass. She'll do a great job with the good guidance of past leaders Vicki Martell and Sue Runde and a group of eager volunteers. If you'd like to help out, please reach out to Mary directly at 815-252-2405 or maryfw13@hotmail.com.
Also thanks to Kim McCarthy for re-upping to lead the annual Thanksgiving Food Drive. Kim ran the drive last year and agreed to do so again. Watch the bulletin for details and reminders.


My dad used to lead us in this song around the campfire! We'll likely do it a little slower than Nickel Creek's version and try a little modulation - it's good for you as Sue always says! Nickel Creek does the whole song in [A] so you can play along with the video to learn the song for the first few verses.
The Fox is a traditional folk song (Roud 131). It is also the subject of at least two picture books, The Fox Went Out on a Chilly Night: an old song, illustrated by Peter Spier and Fox Went out on a Chilly Night, by Wendy Watson. According to the 2006 Bluegrass Picker's Tune Book by Richard Matteson, the earliest version of this song appears to have been a Middle English poem, dating from the 15th century, found in the British Museum.The two earliest versions both date from the fifteenth century (c. 1500), and are written in Middle English.
Mark, this it awesome! My mom used to sing this to us when we were small, always wanted to learn it, I have dug it up a couple times over the years, nobody seemed to know it.


Caleta de Fuste or El Castillo as some people know it, is a popular resort situated very close to the airport in Fuerteventura. The town is found on the east coast of the island, sort of in the middle, so it has a great position if you want to explore and discover more places while you are on holiday. The resort has a great beach, ideal and safe for kids, so it's a popular choice among families.
You will find here lots of restaurants with various types of food, from typical Spanish restaurants to Italian, Portuguese and also Asian food.
The beach in Caleta de Fuste has been under major renovation for some time and it has been expanded, plus the promenade also was extended.
The water in Caleta is usually calm and ideal for swimming and families with small children. You will not have to worry about waves, since the beach is protected and you also have plenty of opportunities for water activities.
There are plenty of restaurants and shops close to the beach. Even the popular restaurant La Frasquita was reopened recently, after being demolished during the renovation of the beach.
So if you're looking for a relaxed and chilled holiday, where you can get a nice tan, Caleta de Fuste will offer the ideal conditions and a lovely beach where you can spend an entire day.
There are two weekly markets happening in Caleta de Fuste and it's a great way to spend a few hours looking for souvenirs.
If you want to explore more, check our list of markets in Fuerteventura.
Caleta de Fuste is situated very close to the capital, so you could go there if you want to see a real town in Fuerteventura, not just a resort. We made a list of things to do in Puerto del Rosario, in case you decide to go. It is easy to get there if you have a car rental, but also by bus, so check the bus schedule before you plan to go.
If you're traveling with kids you should definitely go and visit Oasis Park, the only zoo in Fuerteventura.
They have lots of animals and shows, so better go there early if you want to have time to see them all.
It is a 45 - 60 minutes drive towards the south, in La Lajita, or you could take one of the free shuttles they offer.
This museum is situated very close to Caleta de Fuste, so you could even walk there and it would take you around 1 hour. It's interesting if you want to see how salt is extracted and after visiting you can have lunch at Restaurant Los Caracolitos, situated in the vicinity of the salt museum. They have good food and a lovely view, right in front of the beach.
Fuerteventura Golf Club is the first 18 hole golf course on the island, venue in which the Spain Open tournament was held in 2004. It was designed by the renowned Juan Catarineu. Prices start at 52 Euro for visitors for the 9 hole course and 75 Euros for the 18 holes course.
Besides the small shops full of souvenirs and the weekly markets, you also have Centro Comercial Atlantico, with lots of brands and shops where you can find all you could need.
Read more abot shopping in Fuerteventura in our dedicated article.
A unique experience in Caleta de Fuste and in Fuerteventura as well - swimming with the sea lions at Oceanarium Explorer.
You can also buy a small bag of food to feed the sea lions, or if you wish to explore more of the ocean you can book a trip by submarine or catamaran. There are even more activities available for kids and adults as well: for children there is an inflatable which has proven to be lots of fun and kids can spend hours bouncing and playing around it, plus for adults there kayaks and hoverboards for hire, so plenty of choices if you're looking for things to do in Caleta de Fuste.
Caleta has many great restaurants, but 2 come to mind for us every time we think of our time spent there: La Frasquita and O'Fado.
La Frasquita has a huge history behind it, as it was the first restaurant in Caleta de Fuste, when the place wasn't even a tourist resort yet. THe restaurant has been rebuilt and reopened in 2017, as it had to be moved due to the new promenade. They offer fresh fish and seafood and you should go at least once while on holiday in Caleta de Fuste.
O'Fado, as you can suspect by its name, offers typical Portuguese food, so not quite specific to the Canary Islands, but tasty nonetheless. It's usually busy and you have to book in advance for dinner, as it is a pretty popular restaurant.
Since you're on holiday, what can be more relaxing that a massage, with chillout music in the background offered by a professional team?
There are several options for a massage in Caleta de Fuste, best of which are either at the SPA from the Barcelo Thalasso SPA Hotel or at Sould Massage, at a more reasonable price and with a friendly staff that will make the entire experience a great one.
The Wally Trolley as the locals call it, is a fun red train that goes around the resort and has various stops throughout the way. A ride costs 2 euros per person and you pay directly to the driver. This is a nice way to get to know the resort and get a feel of where things are, or it could also prove a life saver on extremely hot days, when you don't want to walk around in the midday sun.
Throughout the year there are lots of events in the resort, which is to be a expected from a holiday destination.
The largest event of the year is the yearly carnival in Caleta de Fuste, sometime between February and March (the dates differ each year). There are other events also, including a beach party, craft fair, Oktoberfest and many more. They are usually announced a week in advance (sometimes more, sometimes less), so you should check our Events page regularly in order to find out what's happening during your visit. The carnival date is the only one that is announced months in advance. As you see, there's plenty of things to do in Caleta de Fuste, which should guarantee you a fun holiday on top of a great tan.
Still not sure what to do while in Caleta de Fuste?
Go out on day trips from Caleta de Fuste and explore the island!
As a resort, Caleta de Fuste has the advantage of its position, sort of "in the middle" of Fuerteventura, so you can easily go on lots of day trips and get to know the island.
Corralejo is the northernmost resort on the island and in order to get there you will go past Corralejo Grandes Playas and the dunes, a phenomenal place where you should definitely stop for a few hours. The town of Corralejo itself is very lively and full of nice restaurants, so go for a drink in Music Square and enjoy the lovely view and atmosphere.
Morro Jable and Costa Calma are situated towards the south of Fuerteventura and here you have the beautiful beaches of Jandia, including the famous Sotavento beach, which you will see on lots of postcards. In Morro Jable you can spend some time at the beach, or explore the old town and its shops and restaurants.
If you have a rental car you should allow one day to explore the beautiful lagoons of El Cotillo and also visit the small fishing village while you are in the area.


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Q: no type named "type" in "std::result_of" ; get return type from overloading functions I am learning how to get type of the return value of overloaded function test() vs test(double).
I modified code from a SO answer (by chris).
#include <type_traits>
#include <utility>

int test();
double test(double x);

template<typename... Ts>
using TestType = decltype(test(std::declval<Ts>()...))(Ts...);

int main() {
    std::result_of< TestType<double> >::type n = 0;
     //^ ### compile error ###
    using doubleDat = std::result_of< TestType<double> >::type ;
    doubleDat n=0;
}

I got a compile error.

error: no type named 'type' in 'std::result_of'

As I understand:-

*

*TestType<...> is "variadic template".
In my own words, it acts like a packed abbreviation that have any amount of parameters.

*The TestType<double> is id of the test(double) function.

*std::result_of<TestType<double>>::type is the return type of test(double).
doubleDat should be double.

Question: Why it doesn't compile?    How to solve it?
I have read these :-

*

*decltype for overloaded member function - no example about std::result_of

*c++: error: no type named 'type' in 'class std::result_of<void (*(std::unordered_map - issue related to thread rather than std::result_of
Clue: After a long search, I get faint smell that my code suffers "Most vexing parse".

A: Look at what your TestType<double> expands to:
test(std::declval<double>())(double)

test(std::decvlal<double>) is double so you get double(double)
result_of<double(double)>::type asks if you can invoke a double with an argument of type double.
The answer is no, because double is not callable, so there's no nested type.
You need to read the documentation for result_of to understand how to use it. The type result_of<F(Arg)>::type is the result of invoking an F with an argument Arg. If F is callable with an argument Arg you get the return type, if it is not callable with an argument Arg then the nested type doesn't exist.
So this would work:
using func_type = TestType<double>;
using doubleDat = std::result_of<func_type*(double)>::type;

This creates an alias for a function of type TestType<double> (i.e. double(double)) and then asks if you can invoke a pointer to that type (i.e. double(*)(double)) with an argument of type double. And you can, so you the type is valid.

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Summer may be over, but who says that means you have to stop drinking summery drinks? Certainly not me. It could be the coldest day of winter and I'll still drink a well mixed Daiquiri or Gin and Tonic.
The classic summertime Italian liqueur is the Limoncello, a simple but delicious combination of grain alcohol (basically vodka), sugar and lemons. Sounds delicious, right? It is, assuming it's blended right. If not, it can taste like Lemonheads soaked in turpentine.
One of the brands that does it right is Pallini. This imported Limoncello is made from lemons grown on Italy's Amalfi coast. That right there makes me think of warm breezes, beautiful sunsets, and the smell of fresh citrus in the air.
It has a lovely bouquet of lemons — just smelling it puts you in mind of summertime, even if the weatherman says otherwise. The scent of lemons is one of my favorite aromas and the Pallini is wonderful.
Limoncello should be drunk very cold — either neat out of the freezer or on the rocks. The first sip is delicious. There's the taste of lemon candy, the sweetness combined with just the right amount of tart, and also a creamy sensation. It has a smooth, velvety mouthfeel that is quite pleasant. Unlike some limoncellos (limoncelli?), this one doesn't have that cloying sweetness that becomes unbearable after one sip.
There's no alcohol bite to Pallini Limoncello, but you can feel the warmth spread through your chest as you drink it. (This mild character is reflected in the relatively low alcohol volume; just 26%.) The flavor is strong, authentic lemon — the distillers have really done an excellent job of capturing the essence of the fruit in this liqueur.
I didn't try mixing it in any cocktails, although there are some recipes on the Pallini website. I'm sure there are some delicious combinations in which it could be used.
For now, though, I'm just enjoying it on its own. Given the sugar content, Pallini Limoncello isn't something you'd want to drink every day. But for those times when you're craving a little taste of summer, this is an excellent choice.


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Thank you for selecting our practice for your gynecologic care. You may choose any one of our qualified physicians or nurse practitioners as your primary gynecologic health care provider. He or she will meet with you during your periodic gyn checkup and other scheduled visits. Please keep in mind, however, in an emergency, your physician or nurse practitioner of choice may not be in the office. Should this occur, another physician or nurse practitioner in our group will be happy to see you. Be assured, in such circumstances he or she has access to your medical records and is able to provide you with personal, appropriate care. Our patients are important to us and you can always expect that your medical needs will be managed by compassionate and skilled professionals. During your preventive visit, our providers will review your medical history as well as the current guidelines and recommendations for various screening tests. Based on your age and personal medical history they will discuss the benefits of mammography, HPV screening tests, routine pap tests and dexa scans.
It is important to point out that, for optimum care, your gynecologist is no substitute for a primary care physician. You need both and we encourage you to establish a relationship with a general practitioner or internist. He or she is your best resource for non-gynecologic health issues. If you do not have a primary care physician, we will gladly provide the names of several qualified doctors in the area.
Many of our physicians are trained in minimally invasive procedures for abnormal uterine bleeding: Novasure as well as procedures for permanent birth control: Essure . These procedures offer an alternative to more traditional methods of treatment and based on your personal medical history may be performed in our office. There are no incisions and require less recovery time. Specific information regarding these procedures is provided in the list of patient education links below. Our physicians and nurse practitioners can discuss these options at your visit.
We also provide minimally invasive alternatives to those patients requiring hospital based gynecologic surgery. Our physicians are adept at hysteroscopic approaches for the diagnosis and treatment of endometrial pathology. This includes patients who present with abnormal bleeding which may be related to polyps, fibroids, and neoplasms. In addition, we perform many laparoscopic procedures in the diagnosis and treatment of pelvic pain, ovarian cysts, and endometriosis. Lastly, we can provide alternatives to classical hysterectomy including uterine artery embolization, hysteroscopic myomectomy, and laparoscopic hysterectomy. All these cutting edge approaches allow our patients to receive the best in diagnosis and treatment with minimal downtime from their work, families, and busy lives.
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Медвя́нець чорний (Melionyx fuscus) — вид горобцеподібних птахів родини медолюбових (Meliphagidae). Ендемік Нової Гвінеї.

Таксономія
За результатами молекулярно-генетичного дослідження, опублікованого в 2019 році, чорного медвянця, а також два інші види, яких раніше відносили до роду Медвянець (Melidectes), було переведено до відновленого роду Melionyx.

Поширення і екологія
Чорні медвянці живуть в гірських тропічних лісах Центрального хребта.

Примітки

Медолюбові
Птахи, описані 1897
Птахи Нової Гвінеї
Ендемічна фауна Нової Гвінеї

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Author: Michael J. Gaynor
Bio: Michael J. Gaynor
Date: April 25, 2019 Print article -
Topic category: Law & Litigation Issues
Message to Sean Hannity: Like President Trump, Lori Loughlin Is Presumed to Be Innocent and Not to Have Criminal or Corrupt Intent and She Should Not Be Mocked for Pleading Not Guilty
Since Dan Bongino substituted as host for Hannity on "Hannity" and ridiculed Loughin and her husband for not taking the plea deal offered by the United States Department of Justice, Hannity should take corrective action.
The people who were so sure that the Mueller Report would bring down President Trump and perhaps put him in an orange jumpsuit were guilty of believing what they wanted to believe and substituting wishful thinking for admissible evidence.
Sean Hannity was right, while the liberal mainstream media was promoting an anti-Trump agenda instead of focusing on the facts and the law.
The thought that Donald J. Trump longed to be anyone's puppet, much less Vladimir Putin's puppet, always was absurd.
People should not be shocked that the Mueller Report reported that no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia was found.
Likewise, people should not be shocked that after the Mueller Report did not conclude that President Trump obstructed justice in defending himself against the Collusion Delusion promoted by his political enemies, Attorney General Barr and Assistant Attorney General Rosenstein agreed that President Trump had not obstructed justice. Justice required that the assertion that President Trump had colluded or conspired with the Russians be rejected as baseless because it was baseless.
President Trump was entitled to be angry (for himself, his family and his country) that the baseless charge was being pursued, and that anger is not obstruction of justice.
The Mueller Report did not find that the investigation of President Trump on a bogus charge actually was obstructed.
Because there was no act of obstruction.
What is obstruction of justice?
18 U.S.C. § 1503 defines "obstruction of justice" as an act that "corruptly or by threats or force, or by any threatening letter or communication, influences, obstructs, or impedes, or endeavors to influence, obstruct, or impede, the due administration of justice."
"Someone obstructs justice when that person has a specific intent to obstruct or interfere with a judicial proceeding. For a person to be convicted of obstructing justice, that person must not only have the specific intent to obstruct the proceeding, but that person must know (1) that a proceeding was actually pending at the time; and (2) there must be a connection between the endeavor to obstruct justice and the proceeding, and the person must have knowledge of this connection." (www.law.cornell.edu/wex/obstruction_of_justice).
Since the Mueller Report did not find any evidence that President Trump colluded or conspired with the Russians, it follows that President Trump did not have a corrupt or criminal intent.
Bottom line: There was no act of obstruction and even if President Trump thought about obstructing the investigation of him, thinking is not a crime.
President Trump did not take an action that would have constituted obstruction of justice, and even if he had taken an action, it would not have constituted obstruction unless he had a criminal or corrupt intent which he did not have since the just thing to do with respect to the Collusion Delusion was to end it.
Hannity is not a lawyer, but he got all of that from the start, just as he did in the Richard Jewel and Duke lacrosse cases and helped greatly to stop the steamrollers in those matters in their tracks.
Lori Loughlin and her husband could use some Hannity attention, because they have been pilloried for asserting their legal rights instead of docilely pleading guilty when they apparently believe that they did not commit any crime, are not lawyers, relied on supposedly reputable experts and at least one of them may not have had the criminal intent required for conviction.
On April 24, 2019, TMZ stated as follows under the title "Lori & Mossimo Defense in Bribery Scandal WE DIDN'T KNOW" (www.tmz.com/2019/04/24/lori-loughlin-mossimo-giannulli-college-bribery-scandal-olivia-jade-defense/):
"Lori Loughlin and her husband had no idea college bribery mastermind Rick Singer was going to grease the palm of a USC coach to get their daughter into USC ... sources familiar with the case tell TMZ. Our sources say ... lawyers for Lori and Mossimo Giannulli didn't take a plea early on because they believe they have a solid defense on several fronts. First, ringleader Rick Singer did not tell them how he would use the $500k to get their daughters into the school. Fact ... they were aware Rick Singer wanted pics of the girls on a rowing machine, but they say that doesn't mean they knew the end game.
"It's true ... knowledge and intent are key elements to proving bribery, and we're told Lori and Mossimo's lawyers are making that a centerpiece of their defense ... their only intent is to generally get their daughters into USC by using a 'facilitator' who got hundreds of other students into colleges.
"One big problem ... according to the complaint, Giannulli -- not Loughlin -- sent at least $100k directly to the assistant athletic director.
"And, we're told, they have a more basic defense ... colleges have horse-traded with relatives of prospective students for decades ... e.g., fund the wing of a school building and your child will miraculously get accepted. It's not only been tolerated by many schools ... it's aggressively encouraged by some of the schools, and parents know it.
"A former USC assistant coach is expected to plead guilty to criminal charges in connection with the scandal. The former coach, Laura Janke, allegedly made it appear Olivia Jade was on the rowing team."
Like President Trump, Loughlin and her husband are not lawyers.
Like President Trump, Loughlin and her husband pay experts to do what they want done and rely on them to do it legally, since they are not lawyers or accountants.
It is crystal clear now that Michael Cohen is not the type of lawyer President Trump ever should have hired.
It is crystal clear now that Rick Singer is not the type of college admissions counselor (or facilitator) that Loughlin and her husband should have hired.
Fortunately, picking the wrong expert is not a crime.
Making a bad choice of an expert is all that President Trump, Loughlin and her husband appear to be "guilty" of doing.
Neither suspicion nor wishful thinking is a suitable substitute for evidence in the United States of America and never should be treated as such.
See "Lori Loughlin is entitled to a fair trial as well as the presumption of innocence, and you are poisoning the jury pool, Mr. Bongino" (www.renewamerica.com/columns/gaynor/190413).
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The theme of the 2017 Museums Association Conference was "Museums Change Lives". A bold statement, but does it ring true? The sceptical side of me raised an eyebrow…..
I have often had conversations with colleagues and friends after coming back from conferences where we are wracked with guilt for not being as fabulous as all the wonderful speakers that we have seen. Oh the shame! Then there is denial: "they must have a huge budget, which we don't have" or "well, if I had a team of their size, I could also be that successful".
This is how I was beginning to feel as I walked towards the Manchester Central Conference Venue on 16 November 2017, gearing up for two days of intense museum fun at the Museums Association Conference, with the theme of Museums Change Lives. But how wrong I could be.
Throughout the two days, I attended sessions, which outlined the wonderful projects that museums across the UK, and beyond, have undertaken that impact the public in a positive way, from Volunteering for Wellbeing at the Horniman Museum and Gardens, to the impact of Music Therapy and art at the Whitworth. It seems that these museums really do change lives….
On the long return train journey back to Cambridge from Manchester, I was preparing for the normal "professional shame". It wasn't until a few days later, after a weekend of reflection and a Monday morning of clearing emails, that I realised that the "shame" never arrived!
The conference showed me that the subject was not a sensationalised pipe-dream or just a title created so that museum professionals can stand upon their soapboxes pontificating about their work. We are all changing people's lives in many different ways, and we should all be proud of this.
Yes, there are the obviously inspirational projects that the University of Cambridge Museums undertake, such as Portals to the World and Dancing in the Museum, but what about the smaller things? Stopping to say "hello" and "thank you" to a volunteer, or taking on a work experience student to potentially set them on a pathway to discovering their passion for museums and heritage? These all count in the grand scheme of things.
And what about museums changing our lives? I am confident in saying that working within the museum and heritage sector has changed my life for the better, simply by exposing me to the wealth of inspirational people who show me how much good there is in what we do.
The fact that I wasn't engulfed in "professional shame" shows me that the delegates and speakers at the conference were not there presenting "best practice", thus suggesting that other ways of working are wrong; instead they were sharing "good practice", encouraging us all to learn from each other.
Find out more about the 2018 Museums Association Conference in Belfast.


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Willie Murphy (Is Always Playing on the West Bank)
January 31, 2019 January 31, 2019 ~ Frank Hudson	~ Leave a comment
A couple of weeks back a local music legend Willie Murphy died. I'm going to ask indulgence from this blog's overseas audience, because unless you were around Minnesota in the last 50 years or so, you'll likely have no idea who Murphy was—no, it's even more location specific than that—I believe you need to have memories pinned within a few blocks of the intersection of Cedar and Riverside avenues, in a Minneapolis neighborhood near the Mississippi river known as The West Bank.
Many years ago the West Bank was a Scandinavian immigrant enclave, and it is now the home to Minnesota's largest Somali community. But my story today is in-between, in the second half of the 20th century, when it was home to a thriving bohemian culture, immigrants of a slightly different sort.
Shortly after I moved to Minnesota, I got work at a hospital there, and when I had enough money saved up, I took classes at the University of Minnesota which spans the two banks of the river. I came late to the West Bank scene, but I absorbed the stories of those nonconformist young immigrants who were homesteading something that was called "the counter-culture." The counter-culture was Willie Murphy's job, as much as musician: putting together bands, recording other musicians, inaugurating live music venues, working and networking the scene.*
Willie and the Bees getting down somewhere in the past
But he was a musician too. Sang, played bass, guitar, and piano. Interpreted a lot of great R&B and wrote some good songs himself.
He was never the businessman. He engendered some of the things that entrepreneurs like to claim they do, but he never got the cash rewards. It's a complicated story and I don't know all the details—but I do know that he was an artist making art on his own terms right up until his last months of his 75th year. In one trope of musician's slang, musicians "make the gig" or "make the scene." Murphy lived that literally: he made a lot of gigs, helped make a scene.
Angel headed hipster. Murphy in his later years, still keepin' on.
Mine's a complicated story too. I eventually fell in love at the same time with two people who lived on the West Bank. There was music most nights and every weekend at a couple of coffee houses, a short-lived jazz club, a music school, and several bars, all of them within four or five blocks. And for my literary side, besides the University, there was Savran's bookstore, which was well stocked with small press publications and poetry in several languages. In one's Twenties many are imprinted on the culture encountered then, but the West Bank in the '70s seems an especially strong tattoo—and nostalgia fades in reverse.
Most change happens slowly enough that you never see it happening. One day you look over your shoulder and you see everything behind you isn't there anymore.
Or you pick up a paper and see that Willie Murphy has died.
I felt I needed to write about this, regardless of how well I could do it. The song I wrote "Willie Murphy (Is Always Playing on the West Bank)" has in-jokes and puns that only West Bank habitués will understand. In the first verse I twisted a line from Ginsberg's "Howl" that also supplied the name of Murphy's last band. Punned-in the name of some West Bank bars in the second verse, gave a shout-out to Koerner Ray and Glover in the bridge, and got in a sideways nod to the West Bank's Mixed Blood Theater before I finished.
A week ago, I sprung it on the LYL Band and we gave it a go, with Dave Moore supplying his piano part off-the-cuff. You can hear it with the player below.
http://traffic.libsyn.com/parlando/Willie_Murphy_Is_Always_Playing_on_the_West_Bank.mp3
*Murphy recorded an LP with "Spider" John Koerner back in the 60s, and produced Bonnie Raitt's first LP in the early 70s. Willie and the Bees was an integrated R&B band that mixed funky jazz and danceable grooves for a decade or so from the mid-70s into the early '80s.
The Trees are Down
I indicated when I first presented a poem by Charlotte Mew this month that I'd talk more about her life, but what I know is so limited and sad that I'll try to condense things.
She was born into a family that had more than its share of illness and mortality. Three siblings died in childhood, two were institutionalized for insanity. Her father died "without making adequate provision for his family" according to the Wikipedia article, leaving her mother and surviving sister to try to scrape by in late 19th Century London. She appears to have been socially awkward and eccentric. Eventually her mother died, and then her sister, with Mew ending up being the final caretaker for both. After the death of that final sister, Mew herself was unable to care for herself. She was institutionalized and committed suicide by the decidedly unromantic method of drinking Lysol.
There is so much unanswered detail in her story. For example, the two surviving sisters are said to have vowed not to marry for fear that the insanity might be hereditary. My now largely forgotten medical knowledge/experience wonders what the exact elements were of these early deaths and the cluster of undifferentiated mental illness. Quick, idle thoughts fall to something like Huntington's Disease.
Anyway, during her life Mew was something of a writer's writer. Thomas Hardy and Virginia Woolf both championed her and apparently got her a government stipend for support. She was not prolific, and she didn't write grand poetic epics or found a new school of poetry or critical theory. Still from the first time I read her poems this year I was easily struck by how different they often were. In her era there were a lot of Modernist poets who were shockingly different then—and who often still retain easily seen uniqueness today. Gertrude Stein, E. E. Cummings, Mina Loy, Tristan Tzara, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, H. D., and William Carlos Williams made individual showy breaks away from fusty tradition in the time Mew was writing her poetry.
But Mew wasn't really a Modernist as they were, not in any card-carrying sense. Her breaks from poetic orthodoxy were sometimes subtle and sometimes seem artless in both the good and bad senses of that term.*
Today's piece "The Trees are Down" is a good example. Although I didn't include it in the reading, it starts with a biblical epigraph from Revelation: "—and he cried with a loud voice: Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees—" What follows starts off as if it's miscategorized prose, as casual as a diary entry, a letter, or blog post. But it soon adopts a subtle rhythm, something like F. S. Flint's "unrhymed cadences," with a little symphony of sound verbs and some mixed in background sound from the workmen felling trees.
A London plane tree. Poetic enough…
But Mew will turn from this abruptly, rather than developing that sound and theme, almost literalizing the cliché "red herring." She recalls finding a dead rat—not at the site of the tree work, not recently—just a rat's carcass once encountered some "long past spring." And she remembers thinking that even this "god-forsaken thing" should be alive in spring.
…not quite as romantic as a majestic tree.
Then she leaves this odd aside and begins a passage of irregular rhyme and near rhyme, once more looping in a sample of the workmen's cries ("Down now!"). Nearly every phrase has end-rhyme, but we are made to wait seven phrases for a rhyme between "fine grey rain" and her return to that seemingly unconnected dead rat with a remark that except for this strange connection with the rat carcass and the death of the trees "I might never have thought of him again."**
And then she changes once more, back to the unrhymed cadences mode as she begins to introduce her final theme. Her cadence strengthens in her last stanza, and she closes with the introduction again of a series of end-rhymes. She makes her closing case so clearly that I feel no need to make any paraphrase. That case borders on the sentimental I suppose, and I'd guess that any of the few reading "The Trees are Down" in Mew's own time would see it as that in their context.
Today, when we encounter those same words Mew wrote, we might contextualize them differently. First, we may not be expecting Mew to sound like a fine regular poet with even meters and regular rhymes. Nor are some of us requiring she make it new in some bold way that makes a revolutionary show of novel ways of speaking and writing. We're are more likely than readers in Mew's time to be comfortable with poets speaking in unique and personal but merely human terms about events up unto death. The strange anecdote of the dead rat controls the sentimentality of the death of the great and stalwart trees. We may even see a subtext here, one we've come to increasingly realize: that of men callously controlling and seeking to reign over and reign in nature.
In the same way that we now read what had once been seen as inconsequential "relationship issues" in the poetry of Millay or Teasdale and see important social dynamics, we might read "The Trees are Down" now a hundred years later and see an ecological perspective.
To hear the LYL Band perform Charlotte Mew's "The Trees are Down" use the player below.
http://traffic.libsyn.com/parlando/The_Trees_Are_Down.mp3
*Harold Monro, who published Mew's first book of poetry in 1916, tried to describe this difficulty in Mew's je ne sais quoi "No argument, or quotation, can prove that the poetry of Charlotte Mew is above the average of our day. She writes with the naturalness of one whom real passion has excited; her diction is free from artificial conceits, is inspired by the force of its subject, and creates its own direct intellectual contact with the reader. Her phraseology is hard and concentrated." For a modern appreciation of Mew's style see Molly Peacock here.
**I wonder if Mew, an upright human towering over the dead rat is being compared with the those-who-are-about-to-die trees towering over the humans beneath them.
China Mouth, a Changeling
I'm reading another critic/minor poet's book about the early 20th century British literary scene, Edward Shanks' First Essays on Literature. He's in general more backward looking than Herbert Monro's 1920 Some Contemporary Poets where I discovered Charlotte Mew (Shanks' book has essays on Keats and Shelley) but I was interested what he had to say in his chapter "The Later Poetry of Mr. W. B. Yeats." Shanks seems ambivalent about Yeats, and this is one of the pleasures of reading contemporary assessments of still active artists. He notes with approval that Yeats' language has with the 20th century become less formal and fusty, though Shanks feels that gain comes at a loss of a singing quality.* Another conclusion he reaches is that Yeats' is best when he's describing the fantastical: "It is not Mr. Yeats's business to describe the actual world, but to make beautiful pictures out of his dreams." Though giving Yeats his due, Shanks doesn't seem to think this is a good thing.
Interesting comment that, though I was already aware of Yeats' appreciation of Irish myths and his dabbling in his era's contemporary occultism. It caused me to stop and connect Yeats, and the two lesser known poets I've presented this month: Charlotte Mew and Yeats' associate Walter Turner. Both have aspects of fantasy in their poetry too. And even our staid prelate of High Modernism, T. S. Eliot, while seeking his correlates within the whole timeline of culture, picks out elements of unreal gothic horror to weave into "The Waste Land." Elements so broad as to make me compare a section of "The Waste Land" to Metal bands.
Did the horrors of WWI and the shifting ground of artistic Modernism impel some poets of the time to retreat (or advance) into fantasy? With the war poets, many of which had been "reporting" from the front-lines, no longer lining-out contemporary events while those events' questions of outcome and action were pressing on all, was there now after the war a countervailing mode to step away from the pressing real?
If so, it's no simple thing, and not just a matter of "give me some beautiful art to not let me think about hard questions." Fantasy is just metaphor presented on another layer of art. Eliot, who unlike many of his contemporaries did not serve in WWI, would have trouble writing about the war as the veterans did after all. And the Surrealists—well their whole point was those "pictures out of…dreams" might reflect something essential.
Fantasy. Escapism? Surrealism? Metaphor presented in another layer of art?
Mew's "Changeling" from my last post? Yes, it's a fairy story, as is Yeats' great "The Song of the Wandering Aengus," but either connects first on an emotional level deeper than any amazement at the fantastic. Talking fish or fairies knocking at windows are mundane compared to the loneliness of old age or the alienation of being an unlike youth.
Well, let's end for now with an audio piece, an old one of my own. I wrote "China Mouth, A Changeling" over 40 years ago, after listening to a conversation where someone else was bemoaning their alienation. During the conversation the main talker paused to reapply some very red lipstick, its deep red the China in the mouth of the title. Unlike Mew's changeling—who will run off, who cannot be stopped—there seemed to me to be an element of stasis in that overheard conversation. They seemed resigned that they would have their art and their alienation in a frozen balance. That brought to mind a story in Robert W. Chambers' "The Mask" from his 1895 collection The King in Yellow in which a liquid turns living things into statuary. That idea informed the last verse. Depending on one's taste for mystery, it either saves or ruins the song. Use the player below to hear it and decide for yourself.
http://traffic.libsyn.com/parlando/China_Mouth_a_Changeling.mp3
*I don't think I agree, Yeats never stops being musical to me. Shanks himself has an interesting connection between poetry and music, as another chapter in his book "Folk-Song as Poetry" deals with Cecil Sharp and other contemporary attempts to conserve British Isles folk music. Shanks' first book was a collection of poetry called Songs, one of which lifts the floating verse that found its way into many folk songs, the one that starts "The cuckoo is a pretty bird, she sings as she flies."
Have you heard the name Charlotte Mew? I hadn't until I came upon it in Herbert Monro's 1920 Some Contemporary Poets this month. Last post I presented Walter J. Turner, another now-forgotten early 20th century poet found in Monro's book-length survey of his era's British poetry. While I doubt we will ever see a full-fledged W. J. Turner revival, with Mew I think there's room for growth in interest. She's that unusual and that good.
I'll probably spend more time on what I've found out about Mew when I present another piece, but to hit some highlights: she cut a notable figure even among the unconventional artists of Bloomsbury, wearing tailored men's suits and displaying a wide-ranging intellect. Mew was both parodied for her eccentricities and praised. Among her literary admirers: Thomas Hardy, Virginia Woolf, Sara Teasdale, Ezra Pound, Siegfried Sassoon, Walter de la Mare, and Harold Monro himself, who published her first collection of poetry.
Maybe she looks like Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka, but read/listen anyway…
Why haven't I (and likely you) heard of her? Fame forensics is a fraught subject. She's one of those authors that straddles the centuries, though she didn't start publishing poetry until the 20th. Some of her subject matter looks backwards, and individual lines will sound like they could be from a Victorian-era poet. Even so, her poetic style is her own. She uses uneven line lengths and unstable rhyme schemes, yet they don't fall into doggerel. Mew died in 1928 and was not active in publishing in the last years of her life, so as Modernism was taking over she may have been just a bit "yesterday's papers." She may be one of those cases where her career didn't rise high enough and maintain sufficient altitude to carry her glide-path into the second half of the 20th century. But like her admirer and champion Hardy, Mew is another one of those poets who at first, in some superficial respects, can seem old-fashioned, yet her core outlook is modern and unconventional. If one comes upon her work today and doesn't expect her to sound like T. S. Eliot or Wallace Stevens, her uniqueness can still deserve your attention.
"The Changeling" is a fairy story of the chilling variety, more "Belle Dame sans Merci" than Disney. It's Peter Pan meets Tam Lin! Like some other Mew poems I've already read as I start to look at her work, it's extraordinarily easy to see modern psychological and sociological analysis in it's situation. The narrator's outsider sensibility is right there from the start, and the lure of the old wild natural world makes the order of the urban home and nursery regimen seem like a riot against that.
It's Peter Pan meets Tam Lin!
Despite there being no regular line lengths or stanzas, I found it reasonably easy to set Charlotte Mew's "The Changeling" as if it was a folk song of the "Tam Lin" variety. Alas, as is the case with many of my favorite old ballads, the result is lengthy by song standards. To compensate and decorate the time while you hear Mew's tale unfold, I've added things that a handful of adventuresome British Isles folk-revivalists might have added 50 years ago: there's tambura, sitar, and my first effort at playing tabla drums.*
So brew up some tea or elfin grot and listen to "The Changeling" with the player gadget below.
http://traffic.libsyn.com/parlando/The_Changeling.mp3
*I tried an inexpensive electric sitar a few years ago, but never got the hang of it. I now play sitar and tambura using a MIDI guitar, retuning when desirable. For my attempt at tabla today, I didn't use a drum controller or pads, but instead triggered the drum hits and pitches with my MIDI guitar as well. As I should always do, I offer my apologies to the real masters of those instruments who have given me much listening pleasure over the years. On the other hand, my 9 minutes or so today is a short piece compared to many traditional South Asian numbers.
Memo from (W. J.) Turner 'There Came a Lion into the Capitol'
One thing I loved doing to stretch my culture and entertainment dollar back in the 20th century was to go to a used record shop and look for unusual records. The more disorganized and undiscerning the shop, the better for my purposes then—since the lowest price was important, and whatever the time spent, it was enjoyable.
It felt so good to come home back then, less a dollar or two, but with a record by someone I'd barely heard of, or never heard of. What would it sound like? What would they be trying to express? There's a universe of art out there, commercial and not, music, words, every art. What hides itself, unlooked at, unheard, while our summarized cultural attention is elsewhere?
This project has allowed me to do the same thing with the poets of the early 20th century.
One way to find the overlooked is to read contemporary journalistic accounts of an era. They are unfiltered by later consensus, and focused on the day to day of their day, not overly informed by the judgements of history (which aren't complete, much less unerring). And so, I've spent time this week reading Harold Monro's* 1920 book Some Contemporary Poets. Monro is himself a poet I thought might be an interesting minor writer to examine. Instead, his book led me to at least two other writers that I found immediately interesting. Today you get to hear something from the first of them.
Monro didn't much like Walter J. Turner, who he refers to as W. J. Turner.** He leads off his book's short notice on Turner by saying that Turner was "Rumoured in literary circles" as "a genius." Monro then wastes little time getting on to disputing that, saying that Turner has only learned "the 'tricks of the trade' in the neo-Georgian school." So facile but vapid? No, Monro, extends his critique to Turner's technique too: "Simple monosyllabic epithets like cold, dim, dark, pale, wan, bright, grey, still, occur in all he has written to such excess that they cloy the reader's memory like some unwanted tune."
I happen to think that one of the common faults of poetry is its resort to too many and too uselessly fancy a set of adjectives, so I looked at a few Walter J.Turner poems. I didn't have to go far to see one that called to this reader's memory for some—who knows?—unwanted tune.
I haven't found out much yet about Turner's life, but those rumors of greatness back in 1920 largely came from William Butler Yeats—a blurb any lyric poet would be glad to get. Turner isn't as fluid a poet/word-musician as Yeats is (is anyone?) but he seems to have been struck by the fanciful, exotic and even occult aspects that are one thread in Yeats. Today's piece "'There Came a Lion into the Capitol'" shows this.
Besides poetry, Turner wrote music criticism.
Turner published that title in quote marks, but I can't find the literal phrase he might be quoting exactly. Lions and rulers and rulers' seats are a rich trope of metaphor in general, but he may be referring to Cassius speaking about Julius Caesar in dialog from Shakespeare's play. If so, his poem is very impressionistic, mentioning nothing that links it to Caesar, to Shakespeare, or any particular time or place.
The poem is entirely fantastic, in the strict sense of the word. The title lion somehow materializes from the page of a book (Shakespeare's plays? The Bible*** or some equivalent? A spell-book? Some other book of lore?) and an apocalypse occurs. By the last stanza, planet Earth is gone and cold space is left.
Musically, I may have unintentionally copped a bit of the sound of one of my favorite used record store finds, the masterpiece of one of the great overlooked Afro-American-led bands of "The Sixties," Love's "Forever Changes."**** My playing and arrangements don't reach that level, but the orchestration of "Forever Changes" is what comes to my mind when I think of acoustic guitar mixed with a horn section, so maybe one of those dark-horse used records from long ago did become a muse here.
Hey, what happened to the rest of the band? A classic LP cover and my W. J. Turner parody of it.
To hear my performance of Walter J. Turner's "'There Came a Lion into the Capitol'" use the player gadget below.
http://traffic.libsyn.com/parlando/There_Came_a_Lion_into_the_Capitol.mp3
*H. Monro is not to be confused with H. H. Munro, the other writer whose penname was "Saki." Monro and Munro were contemporaries. This might have been embarrassing at literary get-togethers!
**Not to be confused with J. M. W. Turner. He's the painter.
***Lions appear in the Bible from the Old Testament to Revelation, but though the title phrase sounds like it could be in Revelation, I haven't found an English translation that has it.
****The group Love was led by Arthur Lee, not to be confused with ace guitarist Albert Lee, who in turn is not to be confused with Albert Lea, the county seat of Freeborn County in south-east Minnesota. If you haven't heard Love's "Forever Changes," you should. "Forever Changes" sold next to nothing—and the lyrics and some of the melody lines are unusual enough to explain that I suppose—but the LP's arrangements are so rich and attractive that it's difficult to imagine the real-world timeline that we actually lived through, the one where this wasn't one of the biggest records of 1967. In our still ongoing time continuum, maybe Flying Lotus or Frank Ocean ought to do a tribute mixtape.
Here's a poem and poet with a mystery.
"Red Rooster" was written in 1917. It's an Imagist poem, a good example of how this pioneering school of poetic Modernism might present things directly, without nearly as much scholarly allusion as later Modernism was prone too.
The same year this poem was written, its poet was published in Poetry magazine, the beacon of mainstream American Modernism, alongside poems by Ezra Pound, Vachel Lindsay, and William Carlos Williams. Three years later the author had a collection published, containing over a hundred poems. Poetry's editor, Harriet Monroe, speaking from her post-WWI maps-being-redrawn time, called that book "This miracle" and "A richer promise for the new age than may be read in treaties and decrees."
Other reviews? That book-length collection had a forward by Imagist Amy Lowell who said of the work:
When one reads a thing and voluntarily exclaims 'How beautiful! How natural! How true!' then one knows that one has stumbled upon that flash of personality which we call genius."
So, immense promise, now an assay of genius—though Lowell also cautions that within the collection "Inadequate lines not infrequently jar a total effect…" That first book went through at least seven printings and two other poetry collections followed shortly thereafter.
Go ahead, drop down to the bottom and listen to "Red Rooster" now. It'll be interesting to encounter it before you know more about the author.
Willie Dixon & Howlin' Wolf said "No peace in the barnyard, since the little red rooster been gone."
Who was the author, the poet with the mystery attached? Hilda Conkling. How come you (likely) haven't heard of her? Well, we discussed "Donald Hall's law" here last year. Hall said that most poets, even most poets who win awards and are published in the usual ways, are forgotten by 20 years after their death. There's that. And Conkling had a short career, no more new poems from her after 1924, though she lived until 1986. But here's the most significant reason: Conkling wrote "Red Rooster" when she was seven, her first collection was published when she was ten, as her output was already dropping off, and she gave up creating poetry entirely at age fourteen. A teenaged poetic legend like Arthur Rimbaud would be Sophocles writing Oedipus at Colonus in comparison.
Both Lowell and Monroe considered Conkling's age, and both thought the case of Hilda Conkling might tell us something about childhood and poetic genius. The case for pre-adolescent children creating art has been argued a great deal since then. Art critic Herbert Read encouraged thorough arts education for school-children in the 1940s. Kenneth Koch taught classes where children were exposed to poetry and urged to write it. Koch wrote a couple of books to encourage this in the 1970s, and by that time the idea of arts for children was spreading out generally. In the early 1980s Dave Moore and I had heard so much of this that Dave (raising a precocious Hilda-aged child himself at that time) wrote an LYL Band song called "Kids" where the indignant child artists claimed, "we're the natural poets, so shut up…" But despite that subsequent educational movement, Hilda Conkling is still a strange case: she started at age four, by the story, spontaneously, not as a pre-school exercise. Her father left Hilda's mother around the same time, and Hilda told her mother that she'd composed a poem, which she then recited to her as a gift. The poems over the next decade followed the same process. Hilda's mother was a writer and college literature professor who had exposed Hilda to books and music from an early age. One assumes Hilda learned to write later in childhood, but she would always recite each new poem to her mother, who would write them down.
Your first thought may be same as mine, that Hilda's mother composed or helped to compose the poems. That's possible, even probable, though the mother denied this, and said Hilda was always careful to correct any mistaken transcriptions. Amy Lowell deals with the issue by pointing out the childish elements in some of the poems as proof that they were genuine. But that speaks not at all to the idea that the mother improved or regularized the poems, or that some poems, even if they had a germ of an idea from the daughter, had elements that the literature professor mother further developed. It's not hard to imagine an aiming-to-please daughter accepting some of what the mother transcribed and read back to her, even if it wasn't what she had said, because she liked her mother's changes, or didn't want to disappoint or displease her.
The other accepted plot point in this story is that Hilda's mother asked Hilda to write down her poems herself as Hilda turned 14, and then Hilda's poetry stopped. That argues for the importance of the collaboration both as motivation and as conscious or unconscious editorial assistance. There are theories that Hilda may have had a disability which made writing her poems down difficult for her, but no additional life-evidence is offered to indicate that. The suggestion that Philistine and patriarchal society may have pressed the creativity out of the child has been offered. No one seems to have considered that Hilda might have continued to write poetry after age 14 but kept it to herself (a not-uncommon teen-age practice).
So much to wonder and doubt in this story—but we're left with the best of the Conkling poems, such as "Red Rooster." Could what's good in it be unintentional? In the opening observation of the rooster, the metaphors have just the right taste (comparing the irradiance of the bird's feathers to wet rocks and to boat hulls seen through water). The poem's turn and development in the last few lines seems even more remarkable. The rooster as symbol of masculinity is time-honored, but we're ¾ way through the poem before we leave objective and immediate observation to have the rooster characterized as both proud and foolish, and foolish like unto Joseph leaving his family with his "coat of many colors." The concluding couplet is just great poetic invective. Did a seven-year-old write that, intuiting not just the nature of the conflict in her home, but a vibrant, time-resonating metaphor for it? Was Hilda a 20th Century Mozart, or a prolific creator that sometimes landed a lucky strike? Or was it help from a wronged-by-a-man ghostwriter/mom? As a reader I don't care. "Red Rooster" doesn't read as unintentional, as a random combination—but then again, we readers are great pattern-seers, as anyone who's worked with things like automatic writing or cut-up discovers.
My best guess is collaboration, a child and an adult seeing and sharing the world together. That, like this poem, could be extraordinary too.
Here's my performance of "Red Rooster." Give a listen to it with the player below.
http://traffic.libsyn.com/parlando/Red_Rooster.mp3
To the Roaring Wind
January 11, 2019 January 11, 2019 ~ Frank Hudson	~ 2 Comments
Fifty years ago I picked up a copy of The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens in a college bookstore. It was a paperback edition, and looking at the price, I can see why I might have selected it. The cover says $1.45 if you can believe that. Cheaper than a record album, and chock full of more strange words and mysterious lyrics than any batch of LPs that might sit in a dorm room in 1969.
Yes, $1.45!
I'd probably run into a few Stevens poems before then, but my actual teenaged poetry bookshelf had no other entire volumes from Stevens early 20th century Modernist cohort yet. After reading it, I immediately set out to write poems that looked and sounded like Stevens for the next few months.
That edition started off by reprinting Stevens' first collection, Harmonium, from 1923. And now after a pause of decades, works from that year are now in the public domain and available for presentation.*
So now 2019 is here, and 1923 is freed for reuse. By sad coincidence, I learned last night that David Shove who organized a long-running and well-loved monthly poetry reading series had died on New Years Eve. And so that evening I started reading Harmonium, until I finished it this morning, thinking of David Shove and his dry humored manner as he would introduce poet after poet to an audience, and how I'll miss that. The obituary said that the monthly reading that would have happened tonight may still go on, but to my shame, I couldn't face a crowd of people tonight.
I learned last night that David Shove who organized a long-running and well-loved monthly poetry reading series had died on New Years Eve.
Unlike crowds, with art you can allow your feelings to shake and settle into a form. It's a smaller group, just yourself and sound. So I plugged in my Telecaster and started working on a droning riff to accompany the last poem in Stevens' Harmonium, "To the Roaring Wind." Supporting the guitar I played—well, why not—harmonium, double-tracked cleanly and through a fuzz-box. I then improvised the vocal tracks using Stevens' words as best as my voice would allow today while thinking of David and those readings.
Wallace Stevens is the Lemony Snicket of Modernists, in love with unusual words, and in the 13 words of "The Roaring Wind" one is "Vocalissimus." Heard in passing it may remind you of "vocalization," but someone with an education in Latin has supplied a further, more exacting, explanation.
If souls hover around, David Shove and those that sound with him, this is for them. The rest of you with mice and screen-fingers can hear "The Roaring Wind" using the player below.
http://traffic.libsyn.com/parlando/To_the_Roaring_Wind.mp3
*A somewhat complicated story, but in the U.S. a law was enacted in 1998 that changed the term of copyright long after the works were created. For a few commercial properties this extended their revenue potential, but for a large portion of poetry and other non-commercial work it only helped make them largely unavailable for re-vitalization.


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2016	— May 9, 2016 at 5:09 pm
Yes, Trump wants to cut taxes on the richest when we need to do the exact opposite
by LOLGOP
But it probably feels like a tax increase because may not have paid taxes in a decades
Donald Trump's move to the center has begun, the press insisted on Sunday.
So far this tactical shift has included attacking Rosie O'Donnell again, spending Mother's Day insisting that women have it easier than men and babbling about his economic plans.
Basically, it's his same old bullshit: Trump purposely alienating the voters he needs most and the press wishcasting that he's doing otherwise in hopes this race will be close.
The babble about his economic plans got the most attention and most effectively showed how incapable the press is of doing any sort of critical analysis of Trump's purposefully contradictory nonsense. While there has some clarity that Trump's plan to default on our debt would create a global economic catastrophe, they completely fell Trump's BS on the minimum wage and tax cuts for the rich.
Trump actually called for eliminating the federal minimum wage and cutting taxes for the rich, but slightly less than the outrageously generous tax breaks he originally proposed.
Somehow this ended up being reported as him wanting to raise the minimum wage and raise taxes on the rich.
The biggest news to come out of this weekend is that Trump will probably not release any tax returns before the election, making him the first candidate in generations not to do so.
Even more than Mitt Romney, Trump's tax returns are crucial document to consider, especially because he may not have paid taxes for decades by taking advantage of a loophole created for real estate "professionals." It's breaks like this that are feeding massive income inequality that's turning families like Trump's into feudal lords who can expect to suck in all the gains of the economy.
Exposing how Trump exploits these kickbacks would be a first step toward ending these unnecessary giveaways, just as Mitt Romney's tax returns made the case for ending the Bush tax breaks for the rich.
We can't expect the press or Trump to get his tax plan right.
But they should at least ask him how much he's paid in taxes over the last decade — if he's paid anything at all.
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If you were to tell me there was a movie reboot of Rosemary's Baby in the works, I'd probably get all huffy and launch into my tiresome screed about how Hollywood's reluctance to take a risk on original stories is inexorably turning the film industry into a never-ending series of watered-down remakes cranked out by franchise-driven, profit-slobbering studio execs (I will make an exception for the new Godzilla trailer, because it looks bitchin'), but guess what? It's not a movie version of Rosemary's Baby that's happening, it's a TV VERSION.
Of course, there still might be something salvageable in that news, assuming it was an HBO project or even AMC or FX. But no. It's NBC who announced the remake. NBC, who apparently wasn't happy taking a giant steaming crap on The Sound of Music, has sunk their teeth into yet another classic story, only this one's about as unsuited for network television as it's possible to be.
Rosemary's Baby is a four-hour updated retelling of the bestselling novel by Ira Levin that was later adapted as a feature film about devil worship and the complex relationship between a young husband and wife. In the new version, the couple lives in Paris where this edge-of-your-seat thriller unfolds.
As we move into the event movie and miniseries space, Rosemary's Baby represents the kind of attention-getting, surprising project that will make noise for us. The story has been updated and moved to Paris, but it's faithful to the spirit of Ira Levin's classic novel. This is a compelling tale wonderfully told.
A compelling tale wonderfully told? Right. Because horror stories adapted to TV series are always so awesome. Freddy's Nightmares, Bates Motel, Under the Dome ... nothin' but net on all those bad boys, right?
Damn you, NBC. Damn you to hell.
What do you think of this miniseries? Do you think it's doomed, or are you interested?


November 19, 2014 – Mayfield Heights, OH – Staffing Solutions Enterprises is pleased to be recognized as a 2014 recipient of the Smart Business 2014 Medical Mutual Pillar Award for Community Service.
The Medical Mutual Pillar Award for Community Service, presented by Smart Business honors businesses of all types and sizes that make outstanding contributions to their community. Its purpose is to encourage a charitable environment, recognize creative efforts that make a difference and demonstrate the ties between the for-profit and nonprofit worlds.
"Making the community and region a better place to live and work has been one of the pillars of our company since its inception in 1974. We are honored to receive this service award and continue to go above and beyond both in the workplace and in the community," says SueAnn Naso, President of Staffing Solutions Enterprises.
In conjunction with the company's year-round staff-driven Give Back Program, the staff also participate in community days of caring and donation drives. The team collected over 200 pounds of canned goods to donate to the Greater Cleveland Food Bank's Annual Harvest for Hunger Campaign, which serves to provide hunger relief in our area where one in five children is at risk of hunger.
This is the third time that Staffing Solutions Enterprises has been honored with the Smart Business Medical Mutual Pillar Award for Community Service. The 2014 Pillar Awards will take place on Tuesday, December 2, 2014 at LaCentre. For the full list of this year's honorees and event information, click here.
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Wow, I can't believe it is 2012 already! Happy New Year everyone!
Last year I had a busy time baking – I didn't realise how many cakes I had baked until I started to put together this collage so I have just picked some of my favourite ones. I was delighted to make the cake and table centres for my best friend's wedding, a cake to celebrate my Dad's 60th birthday and my first wonky cake for my niece's first birthday. The girls and I also did lots of baking together, including Princess Biscuits and many, many cupcakes!


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Over the course of our 80+ year history, St. Louis Downtown Airport has developed countless services and partnerships with businesses of all kinds. From tenants within our own property to some of the most established businesses in the St. Louis region, we are proud to work with some of the area's finest organizations and industry leaders. Below are just a few of our partners.
A & S Helicopters Inc.
FAA repair station for aircraft maintenance, modifications, and repair services (airframe, powerplant, propeller, all small aircraft). Service center for Bell and Robinson Helicopters. Located in Hangar 5 on the West Ramp.
Phone (618) 337-2600 | Website
AeroPerformance, Ltd
AeroPerformance is a major distributor of most aircraft paint, parts, and accessories. Located on the NW corner of the Airport at the intersection of Omega and Vector Drive.
Phone (618) 337-3648 or 1-800-357-3738 | Email | Website
Bi-Plane Rides
Enjoy a scenic flight in a 1941 Waco UPF-7 open-cockpit biplane, with Kevin Kegin's American Warbird! Four different flight options available.
Corporate Air Charter and Helicopters, Inc.
Helicopter and fixed-wing charter services, FAA repair station–airframe and powerplant. Located in Hangar 14.
Phone (618) 337-2903 | Frequency 123.025 | Website
County Cab
County Cab (Yellow Cab) is one of the region's oldest, most successful taxicab companies, available with short wait times from KCPS.
Cab (314) 991-5300 | Office (314) 991-5544 | Website
Detailers and More
A full service aircraft detail company satisfying customers at all of the St. Louis area airports for more than seventeen years. Capable of handling any size aircraft 24 hours/day, 7 days/week, 365 days/year.
EAA Local 64
A local Experimental Aircraft Association chapter, comprised of active aircraft builders, pilots, and aviation enthusiasts. Located in the rear of Historic Hangar Two.
Phone (618) 795-3438 | Email | Website
Enterpise Rent-A-Car
The St. Louis-based Enterprise is available at the FBO (Jet Aviation). Reserve a car at the FBO (your car will be waiting for you when you land) or call Jet Aviation or the number below.
North American Helicopter
Available helicopter charter services, flight instruction, computerized weather and flight planning, pilots lounge, restrooms, APU, FAA repair station. Located in Hangar 15 in the airport's NW corner.
Gateway Helicopter Tours
Scenic helicopter tours of the St. Louis Riverfront from 10am to 7pm daily, take off/landing at the St. Louis Downtown Heliport. Located adjacent to the Gateway Arch Riverfront.
Phone (314) 496-4494 | E-mail | Website
Greater St. Louis Air and Space Museum
The Air and Space Museum is home to a variety of aviation and space program artifacts, exhibits, and features free of charge. Located in Historic Hangar Two on the West Ramp.
Jet Aviation
Jet Aviation is a full-service, 24-hour fixed base operator located at the airport's east ramp. Learn more at the Fixed Base Operator (FBO) page.
Laclede Cab
Laclede Cab is one of the region's most popular taxicab companies, available across the St. Louis region, including to/from KCPS with short wait times.
Limousines and other special needs
Limousines and/or other special transportation requests can be addressed by the airport's full-service FBO. Learn more at the Fixed Base Operator (FBO) page.
Midwest Rotor, Inc.
Midwest Rotor offers Robinson R-22 and R-44 helicopter rentals, flight instruction, sightseeing across the region, and first rate aerial photography. Located in the "Sage Hangars" between Hangars 13 and 15.
Parks College of Engineering, Aviation and Technology
Parks College of Engineering, Aviation and Technology, at St. Louis University is the nation's oldest federally certified flight school. The flight school houses approximately 30 airplanes with a high volume of student traffic in the area. Located in Hangar Eight.
Phone (618) 337-9569 or (618) 977-8203 | Website
St. Louis Flight Training, LLC
St. Louis Flight Training offers fun, safe, and affordable flight instruction in an IFR-certified Cessna 152 and Cessna 172. Located within Jet Aviation at the West Ramp.
West Star Aviation
Voted #1 Preferred MRO for five consecutive years (2014-2018) by Professional Pilot Magazine's annual "Preferences Regarding Aviation Services and Equipment" (PRASE) survey. Specializing in a wide array of services and repairs – airframes, engines, modifications, interior refurbishment, paint and parts. Currently working on a government project with four technicians and supervising, on-site manager.
Phone (618) 332-7523 or 1-800-922-2421 | Website
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The Reading Area Water Authority, Reading Parking Authority and Reading Redevelopment Authority are the subjects of the probe.
The FBI is investigating the Reading Area Water Authority, Reading Parking Authority and Reading Redevelopment Authority.
Bill Murray, executive director of the water authority, confirmed Monday the FBI notified him a few days ago about an investigation into the agency.
"It was an unexpected visit, but we welcome it and the authority will fully support (the investigation) in any way, shape or form ," Murray said.
At Monday night's council meeting, Mayor Wally Scott addressed reports that the city is being investigated by the FBI.
He said the parking and redevelopment authorities are also being investigated.
Scott told council that when he found out about the investigation he told council President Jeffrey S. Waltman.
"I didn't notify all of council," Scott said. "I just decided to tell the president and asked him to keep it to himself."
The FBI is investigating things that happened before his administration, Scott said.
"They are looking at things that were before we were here, not while we were here," he said. "They are looking at two things: Two people who are no longer employed here. There's a reason why they are not."
Scott did not elaborate on what the FBI is investigating in the parking and redevelopment authorities.
At RAWA, Murray said the FBI is investigating a "multitude of things," including information in the forensic audit.
The audit report released in April 2017 by Wyomissing accounting firm Baker Tilly found that Miller Environmental Inc., a business operated by former RAWA executive director Dean A. Miller, overbilled the authority by $319,000 and that former authority Solicitor Michael A. Setley signed off on the bills. The report also raised questions about the waiver of late fees for authority customers, including former RAWA board Chairman Ernest H. Schlegel.
Scott, who called for the audit, said at the time that the accounting firm's findings showed a culture of arrogance under the former RAWA management.


IS~Seraad (Robin Hood) beat [HN]nobibla, GoO.Marquise (Orestes), Islander, [Ni!]smursh (rodan), b16, chris1nd, ∞P∞ somenpotatis (Ghidorah) in game godzilla,205 ladder points taken.
somenpotatis: Skillfully done Seraad. I see you were first both to get a dragon city and to establish yourself on the inner islands.
Seraad: Thanks. I was lucky not losing a single unit on my first city. Seems like not that much, but it helps having a few units to spare. Thanks for the game!
Player: [HN]nobibla lost in FFA game godzilla.
Player: ∞P∞ somenpotatis (somenpotatis ) lost in FFA game godzilla.
Player: b16 lost in FFA game godzilla.
Player: chris1nd lost in FFA game godzilla.
Player: GoO.Marquise (Marquise ) lost in FFA game godzilla.
Player: [Ni!]smursh (smursh ) lost in FFA game godzilla.
You lost FFA game: godzilla.
[WB]piranha (Sirians) beat [Ni!]Stafford (Stormheim), GoO.mowhar, IS~Anarcopie, LOKSCIkick (Molok III), GoO.Marquise, HoC LordNerevar (LordBane), Islander in game Harsh Truths,204 ladder points taken.
piranha: Thanks! Mowhar I read your last message. I got good production early so I had many red dragons. Good game anyway :-).
Player: GoO.mowhar lost in FFA game Harsh Truths.


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Tropical tipple comes home
A favourite sundowner in tropical climates, gin has long been a staple in Hong Kong liquor cabinets and a common cocktail ingredient. Typically imported from leading producers such as the United Kingdom and India, the spirit now has bespoke Hong Kong-based producers such as Two Moons Distillery.
Established just 18 months ago, the company has already garnered international recognition from the spirits world. Its Signature Dry Gin earned a Double Gold Award at the San Francisco World Spirits Competition 2021, after becoming in 2020 the first Hong Kong gin to win Silver in the London Dry Gin category at the World Gin Awards.
Two Moons recently launched its second product, a calamansi gin, sourcing Asian citrus fruit from a farm in the rural New Territories in northern Hong Kong. Its two gins are available at several bars and bottles can be bought at a number of retailers.
The distillery was founded by gin enthusiasts Dimple Yuen and Ivan Chang. Ms Yuen talks to Hong Kong Means Business about the venture.
How did you come up with the idea to do calamansi gin?
We'd gone to Yau Ma Tei [a residential and retail district] to get our new still and went to a nearby restaurant for laksa. It's usually served with lime, but here they served with calamansi. It was really powerful, and we started to consider if it would work as a gin. We found out that the calamansi was grown in the New Territories, and it seemed like fate. Hong Kong isn't famous for agriculture but there are a lot of farms now. We hope that our calamansi gin will help put great local produce on the map, and we'd like to work with other local farms.
Do you also apply other Hong Kong-made ingredients in your gin?
We did a limited-edition calamansi gin that included a packet of salt harvested from a salt pan in Sai Kung [in the outskirts of the city]. In Hong Kong, a lot of people drink salted lime soda and salted 7UP, and when we tried calamansi with tonic, it reminded me of those drinks. We added a pinch of salt, and found it went great. We couldn't make too much of it, though, as it's a very small salt farm with limited production. But this project showed us what great things we can do working with local suppliers.
Do you run distillery tours?
We have a private tour that's around 90 minutes long and you can see what happens behind the scenes – the distillation and the production – and meet Luna, our copper still. Everything is done by hand, including bottling and labelling. We only have six chairs so it's very cosy and private. We talk them through our story, introduce them to our different botanicals, then there's a tasting session with craft tonics.
Can you scale up beyond the current 100 bottles per batch?
That's the maximum capacity we can currently produce from Luna, which holds 100 litres, enough for 100 regular-sized bottles. If there is an opportunity to expand, we'll get a bigger still.
Do you plan to offer more than the current two gins?
We're always on the lookout for new and interesting flavours, but the question you need to ask yourself is, 'Why are we creating this?' So we're never in a rush to create for the sake of it.
What do you like about doing business in Hong Kong?
People work really hard here and if you reach out to people any time of the day, you're likely to get a reply. There's this hard-working mentality which is a really great thing as it makes doing business so efficient. Importing ingredients is easy, too.
What challenges have you had to overcome so far?
Right after we launched, the pandemic hit, so we had to think on our feet and adapt to the changing environment, as everything we planned wasn't applicable. This encouraged us to push through and be more resilient.
What are your plans for the next 12 months?
There will be some pop-ups in July with local restaurants, including a gin pairing. We'll continue to do more pop-ups in August to promote the calamansi launch and do seasonal launches around Mid-Autumn Festival and Christmas. We're aiming to be a leading distillery in Asia and now looking at the export market.
Are you targeting export markets as well?
Hopefully this year, we'll be able to export to one or two other markets, maybe Taiwan and Singapore. The cocktail scene is very well developed in Taiwan and people love gin there. The drinking culture is relatively sophisticated and mature in Taiwan and Singapore. People over there are open and eager to try new things, and there are successful craft spirits produced locally. Having no language barrier, and as the first gin distillery in Hong Kong, we'd love to share our gin with them. In the Philippines, they have their own take on gin, ginebra [an 80-proof Dutch-type gin made from sugarcane alcohol], and are the biggest consumers of gin in the world, so that's another market to consider.
The HKTDC International Wine & Spirits Fair (Special Edition), organised by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council, runs from 12 to 16 August at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre.
Two Moons Distillery


The surface of a body of water can tell a lot about the dynamics underneath. Here at the Seascape Modeling labs, we have designed a camera system that takes time lapse photography of the sea surface, and projects those images onto maps. This method can be used to study phenomena like the dispersal of oil, movement of sea ice, and the detection of internal waves.
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