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October 30, 2013
On October 30 COFPAES met for its biannual Delegates Meeting. The COFPAES delegation, including COFPAES Chairman Chris Stone and COFPAES Treasurer Dan Hanlon, (accompanied by NSPE Manager of Government Relations Arielle Eiser) met with staff from the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee to promote QBS and advocate for a solution to the ongoing QBS violations in the GSA supply schedules. COFPAES then met for the Delegates Meeting. Topics discussed included QBS/licensing enforcement, GSA schedules, and design-build. COFPAES approved a plan to move forward with a white paper to initiate discussions with agencies that can serve as models or "centers of excellence" for contracting.
October 18, 2013
On October 18th, NSPE sent a letter urging the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to strengthen its qualification standards for filling federal professional engineering positions. OPM recently issued a proposed draft revision to the current qualification standards that would add ABET-accredited engineering technology bachelor degrees as qualifying for professional engineering positions. While NSPE greatly values the important role of the engineering technologists as part of the engineering team, the "professional engineer" is a protected term in all 50 states. The existing individual occupational requirements for a professional engineering position in the federal government do not meet the requirements for PE licensure.
September 25, 2013
On September 25, NSPE endorsed the Water Resources Reform and Development Act of 2013 (H.R. 3080). Introduced on September 11th by House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-Pa.) and Ranking Member Nick Rahall (D-W.Va), this legislation would streamline the infrastructure project delivery process and strengthen our nation's water transportation networks. In a letter of support to Chairman Shuster and Ranking Member Rahall, NSPE President Robert Green, P.E., F.NSPE, writes, "WRRDA would overhaul and dramatically improve the process for federal water resources development. The legislation sets hard deadlines on the time and cost of studies, consolidates or eliminates duplicative studies and concurrent reviews that can hold up projects for years, and streamlines environmental reviews.
September 24, 2013
On September 24, NSPE's Government Relations Manager Arielle Eiser attended a political action committee event for Senator Tim Kaine. NSPE's top legislative issues were discussed, including veterans' licensure and certification and the need to strengthen the American engineering workforce. Senator Kaine is the primary sponsor of the Troop Talent Act of 2013 (S. 700/H.R. 1796) in the Senate, which NSPE endorsed earlier this month. The Troop Talent Act would facilitate improved alignment of specialty skills acquired in military service with civilian certifications or licenses required for post-service employment. Learn more about the NSPE-PAC and contribute.
September 12, 2013
On September 12, NSPE and NICET endorsed the Troop Talent Act of 2013. Introduced by Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) in the Senate and Representative Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) in the House of Representatives, this legislation (S. 700/H.R. 1796) would facilitate improved alignment of specialty skills acquired in military service with civilian certifications or licenses required for post-service employment.
September 3, 2013
On September 3rd, NSPE submitted comments in response to the Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA) proposed National Tunnel Inspection Standards for highway tunnels in accordance with MAP-21. NSPE commended FHWA for recognizing the critical role PEs perform in our nation's tunnel inspection process. The proposed rule requires that a Program Manager must, at a minimum, be a registered P.E. and have 10 years tunnel or bridge inspection experience and be a nationally certified tunnel inspector. While NSPE strongly supports the requirement that a Program Manager be a licensed P.E. and possess 10 years of tunnel or bridge inspection experience, NSPE urged the FHWA to eliminate the additional requirement to be a nationally certified tunnel inspector. Learn more.
August 9, 2013
On August 9, NSPE endorsed the Design-Build Efficiency and Jobs Act of 2013 (H.R. 2750). Introduced on July 19 by House Small Business Committee Chairman Sam Graves (R-MO), H.R. 2750 would protect the integrity of the federal procurement process and enable small and large businesses alike to compete for federal construction contracts. In a letter of support to Chairman Graves,
On August 9, NSPE sent an open letter to the new Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx, urging him to strongly support and encourage the use of qualifications-based selection in the federal procurement process. In the open letter to Secretary Foxx, NSPE President Robert Green, P.E., F.NSPE writes, "Research shows that government agencies in the United States achieve lower construction costs, more efficient use of taxpayers' money, and higher construction satisfaction when procuring design and engineering services based on qualifications rather than price. By strongly supporting and encouraging the use of qualifications-based selection in the procurement of transportation projects, you can help ensure that the nation's transportation system will be safe, sustainable, cost-effective, and an example to other countries for generations to come.
August 1, 2013
On August 1, 2013, NSPE, along with members of the STEM Education Coalition, urged the U.S. House of Representatives to restore a critical funding provision to HR 2131, the SKILLS Visa Act. One of the primary immigration bills in the House, this legislation initially included a provision that would direct fees paid by employers hiring foreign workers to support improvements in U.S. STEM education that will help improve American competitiveness. This provision was removed from the bill during the Judiciary Committee's June markup for procedural reasons. NSPE joins with other members in the science and engineering community to advocate for the restoration of the vital provision. Read the letter here.
July 31, 2013
On July 31, Manager of Government Relations Arielle Eiser attended the annual Washington Internship for Students of Engineering (WISE) public policy presentations. Top engineering students from universities across the country presented public policy solutions to some of our greatest challenges. Presentations included the potential of biodiesel use as a viable alternative fuel source, reshaping the nation's intelligent electrical infrastructure to maximize energy efficiency and storage capacity, and revamping data management strategies for the smart grid to improve reliability, security, and efficiency.


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WADSWORTH — Austin White was a man on a mission Friday against Tallmadge's boys basketball team.
The junior small forward also was the best player on the court.
White flirted with a triple-double before finishing with 15 points, seven rebounds and nine assists in leading Wadsworth to a 63-42 Suburban League victory over the Blue Devils.
The home triumph kept the Grizzlies (5-3, 3-2) within one game of the conference lead, which had been shared by Tallmadge (5-4, 3-2) entering the evening.
"We wanted to come out and make a statement tonight — and I believe that we did," White said. "We only have one goal this season, which is to win the SL title, but we're only going to get there if we stick together.
"That's why I always say, 'We're not five fingers, we're a fist when we're playing Wadsworth Grizzly basketball.'"
Senior center Kyle Prunty joined White in delivering a knockout blow to the Blue Devils, controlling the paint with 13 points, a game-high 11 rebounds and a pair of nifty assists.
So did junior power forward Joel Kipfer, who rung up 10 points and 10 boards as Wadsworth won the rebounding battle by a whopping 40-19 margin.
Anthony Palecek chipped in seven points, seven rebounds and three assists for the Grizzlies, while fellow senior shooting guard Barry Fernholz had seven points and two helpers.
"I was very, very happy with our efficiency on offense tonight," Wadsworth coach Mike Schmeltzer Jr. said. "That was one advantage of having a 13-day layoff. We were able to figure out what we were doing wrong and try to correct it."
Defense, though, was the reason why the Grizzlies maintained a double-digit lead for most of the final three periods.
Just before the opening tip, Schmeltzer decided to assign Kipfer to Tallmadge center Andrew Francesconi, who was averaging a team-high 19.6 points. He was held to seven points and one rebound — all of them in the first half.
White staged a similar shutdown against Blue Devils power forward Colten Stricker, a 17.8-point scorer who was limited to eight points on 2-for-8 from the field.
"I put Kipfer on Francesconi because he's so strong and physical and competitive, I had a feeling he would rise to the challenge," Schmeltzer said. "Obviously, you saw that he did.
"And I thought Austin played one of the best all-around games of his career. His defensive effort, the way he distributed the basketball, rebounded the basketball, and made good decisions was just outstanding."
Wadsworth's only hiccup occurred in a four-minute span bridging the third and fourth quarters. During that spell, senior shooting guard Nate Bickar scored all 12 of his points on four 3-pointers to pull Tallmadge within 48-41.
The Blue Devils' surge, however, proved short-lived as the Grizzlies answered with a 15-0 run that included 3-pointers by White and Palecek, along with a two-hand putback slam by Prunty.
"We definitely had to win this game because we want to get an SLT for our school," Prunty said. "Now, we're right where we need to be. This was a great start to 2014 — and it can only get better from here."
|Tallmadge's junior varsity team pitched a shutout in overtime to beat the Grizzlies 30-22. Junior center Joey Johnson led Wadsworth with four points.The squads combined to make one basket in two of the five periods.
Grizzlies public address announcer Steve Moore used a unique sales pitch to bring fans out to games over the next week, saying, "Nothing beats the cold weather like Grizzly basketball."
Wadsworth girls basketball coach Andrew Booth relentlessly worked the gym, selling 50/50 tickets at a prolific pace.
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Wadsworth 63, Tallmadge 42
Tallmadge — Jarrett Ross 2-0-4, Colten Stricker 2-4-8, Andrew Francesconi 3-1-7, Nate Bickar 4-0-12, Cole Baker 0-0-0, Joseph Vassalotti 1-2-4, Justin Cambria 3-0-6, Anthony Miller 0-0-0, Niko Skeriotis 0-0-0, Jacob Whitehurst 0-1-1, Tyler Duben 0-0-0. TOTALS: 15-8-42.
Wadsworth — Austin White 5-3-15, Joel Kipfer 5-0-10, Kyle Prunty 6-1-13, Anthony Palecek 3-0-7, Patrick Long 2-0-5, Barry Fernholz 3-0-7, Tyson Heideman 1-0-2, Nick Hewitt 1-0-2, Jimmy Elchlinger 0-2-2, Ben Bingham 0-0-0, Joey Johnson 0-0-0. TOTALS: 26-6-63.
3-point goals — Bickar 4, White 2, Palecek, Long, Fernholz. Rebounds — Tallmadge 19 (Baker 5), Wadsworth 40 (Prunty 11). Assists — Tallmadge 11 (Francesconi 5), Wadsworth 17 (White 9). Records — Tallmadge (5-4, 3-2), Wadsworth (5-3, 3-2). Junior varsity — Tallmadge 30, Wadsworth 22 (OT).


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For the second year, Dr. David Donathan's students have successfully completed their field research in Cuba. The Professor of Management at St. Catharine College supervised students from both American Military University and the University of Arizona during a week-long research trip to Havana and Vinalles Valley as part of their academic work. The interactive research included site visits to local and national historic sites, meeting faculty and students at both academic (escuela) and technical (taller) schools and interviews and meetings with national leaders in sports and the arts.
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Bosch ConnectedWorld IoT conference in Berlin The internet of things from a single source: Bosch launches cloud for its IoT services Computing center located in Germany
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Earlier in their careers, it would probably be a bad thing if we told you that Kevin Durant had pulled a LeBron James. LeBron has been working to improve upon his public image over the past year or two and has been doing a tremendous job of it. On Saturday, Durant took a page out of LeBron's book when he tackled a fan who drained a $20,000 half-court shot. "I've seen the LeBron footage many times and I was watching the game that night when it all popped up," the fan said after hitting the shot. "I was telling the guys in the back and I told my girlfriend, 'Hey, I want Russell Westbrook or Kevin Durant to tackle me.' So as soon as I hit it I went to find my girlfriend, then I went to find Kevin Durant and we made eye contact and I was like, 'Kevin, come at me!' He came right at me and was totally game for it. It couldn't have worked out any better." LeBron gets more props than Durant here since it was spontaneous and genuine when he tackled the fan, although Durant certainly looked happy for the young man. If we told you two years ago that LeBron would be starting a fantastic trend like this, you would have never believed us. I guess that's one of the many things winning a championship does for a player. Related posts: Kevin Durant Intros Rap Song That Takes Shot at Russell Westbrook (Audio) Kevin Durant Defends Russell Westbrook's Shot Selection After Game 4 Thunder Veteran: Russell Westbrook Thinks He's Better than Kevin Durant
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Andrew, I would suggest u read correctly, u/17 tourney this year and u/18 tourney next year. This does not justify the selection of u/16 this year. It does however follow suite of how things are done at the moment. How exactly are you involved in the process?????
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Well done boys…
Welldone boys!!!!!!!
Drie Outeniqua seuns in die groep! Well done manne!
By the time the tournament happens those under 17's or most of them will be under '18…. Under 16's now will then be under '17….
Good stuff
I am very happy 4 the youngsters. Warric Geland is one player to be watched he performed well at the Craven week and were great at the provincial 7s to I only have one problem and that is that the SA u/18 girls team is also assembling and preparing for the same youth games but we never read about them. I feel that SA Media are discriminating on gender and do not see women as equal to men are not treated as such. Hope it can change.If you guys need info in womens rugby you can mail me: firstname.lastname@example.com
Please explain how you select U/17 players at an U/16 tournament and select players at a 7's tournament that hasn't even happened yet?????? Or is this simply a process of you select who the hell you want? This is totally unfair to all U/17 players in the country today.
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Skip to comments.Judge Says 10 Rare Gold Coins Worth $80 Million Belong to Uncle Sam
Posted on 09/07/2012 5:47:04 AM PDT by shove_it
In 2003, Switt's family, Joan Langbord, and her two grandsons, drilled opened a safety deposit box that had belonged to him and found the 10 coins. When the Langbords gave the coins to the Philadelphia Mint for authentification, the government seized them without compensating the family.
The Langbords sued, saying the coins belonged to them. In 2011, a jury decided that the coins belonged to the government, but the family appealed. Last week, Judge Legrome Davis of the Eastern District Court of Pennsylvania, affirmed that decision, saying "the coins in question were not lawfully removed from the United States Mint."
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Here's a case of bad choice of appraiser.
Hope they win on appeal.
I'd heard about this case and others. The best thing to do when you find such coins is to melt them down.
I cannot believe that they were this stupid!
You take them to the government when you have thousands of appraisers listed in the Yellow Pages???
Even at that, only take one and don't blab!
After President Theodore Roosevelt had the U.S. abandon the gold standard, most of the 445,500 double eagles that the Philadelphia Mint had struck were melted into gold bars."
It was that damn Communist FDR, not Teddy Roosevelt who stole the people's gold coins!!!!!!!
If you put yourself at the mercy of the State, anything can happen to you. It is better to avoid them at all costs.
Just like Hitler
KGB..this is what happens when people belong to the government instead of the government belonging to them. they take everything.
Melting them down would have destroyed their numismatic value - which in this case was considerable.
it doesnt matter..the government should on take them
The full story is rather complicated and can't be summed up in a Yahoo article. Suffice to say the grandfather of the boy claiming ownership was involved in illegal coin dealings with employees of the mint. Because the coins were never issued the only way they left the mint and weren't melted down is if a mint insider stole them from the mint - so they remain U.S. government property.
His "Bank Holiday" stole their savings. I hate that Commie SOB. He was one of the WORST of American Presidents and yet stands tall in the DemocRat Pantheon.
The only decent Presidents the DemocRats produced were Jackson and Polk.
YOU are as clueless as they are!
Thousands of people own and legally buy, sell, and trade U.S. gold coins, minted before the confiscation.
Myself, included.
They are NOT illegal to own or sell.
No... go to PCGS and have them appraised and slabbed. Personal property is personal property, appeal asap.
My hubby has been collecting gold slabbed coins for 20 years. We're good, retirement is two years away.
The original confiscation of gold was unconstitutional. If so, these coins should not go to the government. I hope the apellate courts see it that way.
"...Langbords gave the coins to the Philadelphia Mint for authentification..."
This is the most difficult part of the story to understand.
What exactly did they think would happen and who advised them to do this?
sory..the gov should not take them..will they melt these down..no ..someone will wind up with them in their collection.
"It was that damn Communist FDR, not Teddy Roosevelt who stole the people's gold coins!!!!!!!"
Right you are.
While I doubt there is anyone on the FR who detests this out of control federal government more than myself, based SOLELY on the article, it looks like these coins might have been obtained illegally hence the ruling in favor of das government.
If the family thinks otherwise then they certainly should appeal.
Why don't you use some of your coins to buy a clue? These coins were never issued. Never. They aren't coins that were issued, but were not turned in when FDR seized the gold. These coins left the mint in somebody's sock. Which is why grandpa never sold them -- he knew (expletive deleted) that they were hot.
The article does not state whether the mint was selling some of the gold coins to dealers at this time or not.
If they were all supposed to have been turned in, then the cashier basically stole the coins, no matter whether he sold them or gave them away. One cannot legally give or sell stolen property, even if the person receiving it did so in good faith.
However, if the government was allowing some of these coins to be sold to collectors at that time, then the government needs to return them to the family.
These specific coins were stolen goods received directly by Israel Switt from the thief.
There is a reason why he hid them in a safe deposit box and did not insure them.
"What exactly did they think would happen and who advised them to do this?"
"The government is your friend! They are here to help you!!!"
Too many "tell me how you feel" assignments in journalism classes, I guess.
The article - which is quite sloppily written - does not state this.
But the historical fact is that these coins were never circulated, the coins in question were stolen by a mint employee, and were sold illegally.
Those damn sneaky REPUBLICANS!............./s
That phrase was first spoken by General Custer.
Yes, that is also how I understand it.
Now, that being said, the gov't cold make a quick $80M by selling them. I can't afford one, but it would be nice to know that they were safe in private hands. I don't trust the gov't not to melt them down out of spite.
But be cautious; a lot of those "appraisers" will make you an offer well below market, or ask "how much do you want for them?"
Your statement makes me (ahem) them cringe at the thought of the loss of physical American history that will outlive our nation.
—another example of why I may as well remove the last four words from my byline-—
Do these mints still have the molds for these rare coins, in other words, are they still able to make 1933 gold/silver coins, or any other year — if they really wanted to???
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But be cautious; a lot of those "appraisers" will make you an offer well below market, or ask "how much do you want for them?" ...More than what they got.
No, no! It was General Sherman on his road trip through Atlanta to Savannah!.........
"All your property are belong to us"...U.S. Government
The original plan, mentioned in the court filings I believe, was to display them for the public at the Mint.
It was not their property.
—Melting them down would have destroyed their numismatic value - which in this case was considerable.—
The value is zero now.
It's the ol' "10% of something is better than 100% of nothing" axiom in action.
This may not be the story I was thinking of, then. The one I was thinking of was the coins that were never released to the public, yet someone had them. It means they were stolen property and could be recovered.
Sherman and the first urban renewal program. Just think of all the jobs created. Why....the GDP probably rose a full point.
"The original plan, mentioned in the court filings I believe, was to display them for the public at the Mint."
That would be good. They're beautiful coins. It would motivate me to visit the mint.
From the book "Double Eagle":
"The 1940s investigators concluded that all of the Double Eagles that got out of the Mint had passed through the hands of a Philadelphia jeweler named Israel Switt. Though the lead Secret Service investigator pressed for charges to be brought against Switt, the Philadelphia U.S. attorney said the statute of limitations had expired. Switt was never prosecuted for the theft of the coins from the Mint.
In 2005—after the auction of the $7.69 million coin—Switt's daughter and grandson miraculously "found" 10 1933 Double Eagles in a safe deposit box that had belonged to Switt. Switt's grandson, a law school graduate named Roy Langbord, hired Berke to figure out how to keep the coins in the family's possession, even though the government maintained they were contraband that had been stolen from the Mint.
Berke's canny strategy was to turn the coins over to the government, but only for purposes of authentication. Then when the government refused to give the coins back—as Berke surely knew it would—he sued, claiming the coins had been illegally seized from the Langbords. And though assistant U.S. attorneys in Philadelphia argued that the Langbord family had unclean hands, Judge Davis ruled that the Langbords' constitutional protections had been violated. Now the burden of proof lies on the government, which must establish that the Langbord coins were stolen—even though everyone connected with the coins' disappearance from the Mint and the initial investigation of the alleged theft is long dead."
After reading the article, as much as it sucks for the family, the judge got this one right. The coins were STOLEN, and that is all that matters here.
The fact that the victim here was the Government and that it was and will be now a travesty if these coins are destroyed has nothing to do with whether or not the judge ruled correctly — he did.
Turn this around and make these a private item — Money, art work, coins, vintage car, jewelry - take your pick. if that item is STOLEN from you and then said item is subsequently sold by the thief to a third party the item is still YOUR PROPERTY.
The same principle applies here, the coins are still the PROPERTY of the U.S. Government.
Jackson and Polk were both Tennesseans. Plus, Tennessee voted against Al Gore, thus preventing the USA from getting one of the Worst Democrat presidents. :)
Unlikely. In an earlier case involving a '33 Double Eagle (several other Double Eagles have already been seized by the U.S. Government, almost all of which have a proven provenance through Israel Switt) the Government signed an agreement that it would never issue any '33 Double Eagle.
Well, there was certainly low unemployment in the minority demographic at the time......
I probably misunderstand the phrase "statute of limitations", but wouldn't that apply here?
But they lacked "upward mobility".
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The U.S. Census Bureau reported in 2010 that there are about 70,000,000 grandparents in the United States, taking up 37 percent of American households. Grandparents aren't just letting the days pass by, either.
About one in 14 American children (about 5.4 million kids overall) are being raised by their grandparents, according to the Population Reference Bureau, which is up from the 4.7 million kids who were raised that way in 2005. And with many grandparents relocating closer to their grandkids, living in the city is something that's bound to happen more and more for many of America's elderly.
Where grandparents live, though, and what cities they find to be entertaining, enthralling and acommodating is a different question. Here are 15 cities that your grandparents may be living in or may want to live in for retirement.
Tucson, Arizona
Want some better scenery and cheaper living now that you've stopped working? Tucson, Arizona, may be the spot for you. Boasting some beautiful mountains and landscapes, coupled with a cost of living well below the United States' national average, Tuscon is home to many retirees — ranking as the top city in a list of cities with the happiest retirees on grandparents.com.
Portland, Oregon
Portland, Oregon, has a slew of advantages for the retired and older folks, according to Top Retirements, a retirement information website. The City of Roses features a flux of homes that retirees can enjoy, mostly because they're on bodies of water or near other American treasures, like forests and mountains. The city is packed with parks and even has a near year-round golfing culture, something that retirees can surely get into.
Grand Junction, Colorado
Grand Junction also made it to the list of top retirement cities from grandparents.com, mostly because of its outdoor lifestyle. According to Outdoor Life, the city is sixth best in the nation when it comes to fishing and hunting, making it the perfect city for any retiree or elderly person who wants to sit out on a boat and cast off.
Punta Gorda, Florida
Punta Gorda was ranked by Forbes as the city with the most older people in the U.S., with more than 30 percent of its population being elderly, according to Business Insider. Not only is it filled with golf courses, but the city also has some high-end retirement homes for the elderly to retire to and enjoy the sun throughout the year.
Sioux Falls, South Dakota
You don't have to be retired when you're older or a grandparent. In fact, there are plenty of people over the age of 50 who are interested in working. According to the Argus Leader, Sioux Falls, Iowa, is the top American cities for those who are older than 50 and looking for jobs. So any older person looking for a job may want to seek opportunities in Sioux Falls.
Pocatello, Idaho
Thought there was nothing but open farmland in Idaho? Well, that may be a part of its charm for the older American. The AARP listed Pocatello, Idaho, as one of the best cities for retirees, mostly because of the cheaper cost of living and the fact that some famous historic sites, as well as breathtaking views, are all within a reasonable walking distance.
Asheville, North Carolina
Not only did Asheville crack the list of best cities for happiest retirees, but it was also listed on the AARP's top cities to retire. Part of that is because the city is always glistening with sun, making it one of the top cities in the nation for sunshine also, and an ideal scenario for many retirees.
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Moving away from the dark tone of her more recent masterpieces, Joyce Carol Oates turns the tale of a family struggling to cope with its fall from grace into a deeply moving and unforgettable account of the vigor of hope and the power of love to prevail over suffering. The Mulvaneys of High Point Farm in Mt. Ephraim, New York, are a large and fortunate clan, blessed with good looks, abundant charisma, and boundless promise. But over the twenty-five year span of this ambitious novel, the Mulvaneys will slide, almost imperceptibly at first, from the pinnacle of happiness, transformed by the vagaries of fate into a scattered collection of lost and lonely souls. It is the youngest son, Judd, now an adult, who attempts to piece together the fragments of the Mulvaneys' former glory, seeking to uncover and understand the secret violation that occasioned the family's tragic downfall. Each of the Mulvaneys endures some form of exile--physical or spiritual--but in the end they find a way to bridge the chasms that have opened up among them, reuniting in the spirit of love and healing. Profoundly cathartic, Oates' acclaimed novel unfolds as if, in the darkness of the human spirit, she has come upon a source of light at its core. Rarely has a writer made such a startling and inspiring statement about the value of hope and compassion.
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by Joyce Carol Oates
"New testimony to Oates' great intelligence and dead-on imaginative powers. It is a book that will break your heart, heal it, then break it again every time you think about it."--Los Angeles Times Book Review
"What keeps us coming back to Oates Country is her uncanny gift of making the page a window, with something happening on the other side that we'd swear was like life itself."--The New York Times Book Review
"A major achievement that stands with Oates' finest studies of American life...the novel is a testament to the tenacious bonds of the family, the restorative power of love and capacity to endure and prevail."--The Chicago Tribune
In We Were the Mulvaneys, Joyce Carol Oates writes with piercing clarity and deep sympathy of the dissolution of the American family—and an American way of life. The Mulvaneys—parents Mike and Corinne, children Mikey Jr., Patrick, Marianne, and Judd—seemed to lead an almost charmed life on their rambling farm outside a small town in upstate New York (familiar Oates territory). Mike owned a successful roofing company; Corinne kept the semi-chaotic household bustling through the sheer force of her good humor (and devout Christianity); animals—horses, cats, dogs—thrived alongside the kids, although none was immune to the occasional scrape.And then on Valentine's Day in 1976, a high school senior raped the Mulvaneys' beautiful, kind, sweet-natured daughter Marianne, and the bottom fell out of their world. Oates deftly, heartbreakingly traces the impact of the rape on each member of this family, exposing how swiftly and irrevocably good can be dragged down and corrupted into evil. The once-popular, respected Marianne becomes a kind of pariah, abandoned by her friends and pushed away by her parents. Her father, overwhelmed by grief and anger, lets the business slide, alienates former friends, and devotes himself to alcohol and law suits. Mikey Jr. distances himself from the family and from his former life by joining the Marines. Patrick, the family egg-head, at first retreats into his coldly rational fascination with Darwin and the theory of evolution, but once he's at Cornell becomes obsessed with a scheme to avenge Marianne. With Judd, the book's narrator, as his accomplice, Patrick stalks and abducts the boy who raped Marianne. The power of life and death is in Patrick's hands, and yet when the crucial moment comes, he refuses to act on his power. Patrick's act of mercy stands as an emotional and thematic turning point of the book, though the resolution is far from simple or painless.As in previous works, Oates here covers many years and retraces the complicated, twisting paths that bring her characters to their present plight. But We Were the Mulvaneys departs from earlier works in the brilliance and vividness with which it evokes the tensions and pleasures of family life and family relationships. The Mulvaneys manage to be both "every family" and minutely realized individuals with their own quirky obsessions and personal tragedies. The book is also packed with the images and ideas of the decades it covers—the music, products, politics, social norms, and mores of the late 1950s through the early 1990s. This large, sharply etched, immensely readable book is an examination of the American dream, and of the harsh but also beautiful realities that have transformed that dream over those past four decades.We Were the Mulvaneys is at once a rich textured novel of family life and love (including the abiding love of animals) and a profound discourse on themes of free will, evolution, gender, class, spirituality, forgiveness, and the nature and purpose of guilt. A master of her craft, Oates weaves a seamless web in which ideas blend perfectly with plot.
Joyce Carol Oates has often expressed an intense nostalgia for the time and place of her childhood, and her working-class upbringing is lovingly recalled in much of her fiction. Yet she has also admitted that the rural, rough-and-tumble surroundings of her early years involved a "daily scramble for existence." Growing up in the countryside outside of Lockport, New York, she attended a one-room schoolhouse in the elementary grades. As a small child, she told stories instinctively by way of drawing and painting before learning how to write. After receiving the gift of a typewriter at age fourteen, she began consciously training herself, "writing novel after novel" throughout high school and college.Success came early: while attending Syracuse University on scholarship, she won the coveted Mademoiselle fiction contest. After graduating as valedictorian, she earned an M.A. in English at the University of Wisconsin, where she met and married Raymond J. Smith after a three-month courtship; in 1962, the couple settled in Detroit, a city whose erupting social tensions suggested to Oates a microcosm of the violent American reality. Her finest early novel, them, along with a steady stream of other novels and short stories, grew out of her Detroit experience. "Detroit, my 'great' subject," she has written, "made me the person I am, consequently the writer I am—for better or worse."Between 1968 and 1978, Oates taught at the University of Windsor in Canada, just across the Detroit river. During this immensely productive decade, she published new books at the rate of two or three per year, all the while maintaining a full-time academic career. Though still in her thirties, Oates had become one of the most respected and honored writers in the United States. Asked repeatedly how she managed to produce so much excellent work in a wide variety of genres, she gave variations of the same basic answer, telling The New York Times in 1975 that "I have always lived a very conventional life of moderation, absolutely regular hours, nothing exotic, no need, even, to organize my time." When a reporter labeled her a "workaholic," she replied, "I am not conscious of working especially hard, or of 'working' at all. Writing and teaching have always been, for me, so richly rewarding that I don't think of them as work in the usual sense of the word."In 1978, Oates moved to Princeton, New Jersey, where she continues to teach in Princeton University's creative writing program; she and her husband also operate a small press and publish a literary magazine, The Ontario Review. Shortly after arriving in Princeton, Oates began writing Bellefleur, the first in a series of ambitious Gothic novels that simultaneously reworked established literary genres and reimagined large swaths of American history. Published in the early 1980s, these novels marked a departure from the psychological realism of her earlier work. But Oates returned powerfully to the realistic mode with ambitious family chronicles (You Must Remember This, Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart), novels of female experience (Solstice, Marya: A Life), and even a series of pseudonymous suspense novels (published under the name "Rosamond Smith") that again represented a playful experiment with literary genre. As novelist John Barth once remarked, "Joyce Carol Oates writes all over the aesthetical map." In 2000, Oates was a National Book Award finalist in fiction for Blonde, an ambitious and imaginative portrait of one of America's greatest cultural icons, Marilyn Monroe.The dramatic trajectory of Oates's career, especially her amazing rise from an economically straitened childhood to her current position as one of the world's most eminent authors, suggests a feminist, literary version of the mythic pursuit and achievement of the American dream. Yet for all of her success and fame, Oates's daily routine of teaching and writing has changed very little, and her commitment to literature as a transcendent human activity remains steadfast. Not surprisingly, a quotation from that other prolific American writer, Henry James, is affixed to the bulletin board over her desk, and perhaps best expresses her own ultimate view of life and writing: "We work in the dark—we do what we can—we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art."
What was the germ of the book? Was there a single scene or character or theme that inspired you to write it?Primarily, I wanted to write about family life—the mysterious and seemingly autonomous "life" of the family that is made up of individuals yet seems to transcend individuals; the joys, the sorrows, the continuity of jokes and humor; the shared pain; the conflicted yearning for freedom simultaneous with the yearning for domesticity; always, the unspeakable mystery at the heart of the family. I wanted to write about complex lives as they are interwoven with one another, always defining themselves in terms of one another.Which one of the Mulvaneys is your favorite character?It's hard to answer—Marianne, Patrick, Judd, and Corinne are all favorites. Emotionally, I identified with Marianne; intellectually, with Patrick and Judd. My earlier sense of Patrick was that he would prove to be more violent, a terrorist, in a sense, obsessed with exacting justice for his family. But, as Patrick evolved, and came into his own, I saw that he was really a very civilized and judicious young man for whom "an eye for an eye" would be far too primitive a mode of justice.Corinne, the mother of the family, is such a totally real woman—a mother all of us have known and remember from our childhoods. Is she modeled on any particular woman you have known? On your own mother?Corinne is only partly modeled after several mothers of my acquaintance, including my own, Carolina Oates. These women are quintessentially maternal: warm, funny, immensely hard-working, generous, identified with their families to the suppression of their own personalities for long periods of their lives. I recall fondly how my mother helped me plant fruits and vegetables—especially a strawberry patch terribly prone to weeds. We lived north of Buffalo, on a small farm, much smaller than the Mulvaneys', and much less affluent. We had pigs for a while, and always chickens and cats. No horses, unfortunately.Corinne is so close to Marianne. And then she totally rejects her daughter after the rape—why?Corinne does not reject Marianne. She chooses her husband over her daughter out of desperation and must live with that choice. But she never ceases loving, and grieving over, Marianne, the child most like herself.When the Mulvaneys' fall comes, it happens so fast. One day they're riding high and the next they're in the gutter—the American gutter of violence, homelessness, paranoia, law suits. Was there any way they could have averted their family tragedy?If Michael Sr. had behaved differently, the Mulvaney tragedy would not have occurred. In the past, laws concerning rape and sexual assault were not as liberal as they are today in most states. Marianne knew that it would have been futile to press charges under the circumstances.Do you think of this as a feminist novel?The novel is not basically feminist; it has no ideology; it is a story about individuals, not a tract. Marianne exemplifies the way of love, magnanimity and forgiveness; Patrick, the way of intellectual analysis. In general terms, the tension is between a belief in Christianity and a belief in Darwinism: the one so spiritual, the other so intransigent in its physicality. In the end, through the experience of simply living, Patrick comes around to a spiritual transformation—the way of the community, living with others instead of in isolation. He overcomes his resentment and anger and falls in love at last, deeply and without calculation. And belatedly, he discovers his "Mulvaney-ness."The center section of the book is so dark and yet it ends on a note of hope and resolution. Where did this ending come from? Did you consider concluding on a darker note?This is life, generations following generations. The destructive father is gone, and will be remembered, ironically, with affection. Old wounds are forgotten in the excitement and enthusiasm of the future. To be true to life, a novel must have an ending that is inevitable given the specific personalities of the characters involved. The novelist must not impose an ending upon them. What might have been a tragedy in We Were the Mulvaneys becomes something quite different, yet to my mind this bittersweet ending is inevitable.What about Marianne? She seemed to be heading towards a tragic fate and yet she ends up happy and fulfilled.Marianne, lacking bitterness, is the sort of a young woman to inspire affection and love in others. Always, people are drawn to young women like Marianne; for her, it was a matter of accepting herself as not despoiled, a matter of her coming to like herself once again. She was fortunate to find just the right man to appreciate her, shrewd Whit West with his background of treating wounded and abused animals. Whit was canny enough to know how to love her without scaring her off.Animals play a tremendously important part in the book—in a sense the Mulvaneys communicate and love through their animals. Have animals always been important to you? Did you have some larger message in mind that you wanted to express through animals?I've always loved animals, and have lived with them all my life. As a child I had kittens and cats, and tended quite a large brood of Rhode Island reds (chickens). I've never before written about the emotional interdependence of human beings and animals, though it has been so much a part of my life (and the lives of many of my friends). I hoped to show, in the novel, the intensely connected parallel lives of people and animals. For Marianne, obviously, Muffin is far more than merely a cat; he's her deepest connection to her family and her girlhood, almost an aspect of her soul. In families with animals, there is always tragedy: animals age more quickly than we do, and their lives run out before our eyes. How difficult it is to speak of the secret meaning of animals without sounding sentimental . . . Yet it was a risk I was willing to take in order to tell the story of the Mulvaneys.What about the house and farm? What is their meaning in the book?Of course it's a profound shock to lose one's house, one's farm and identity. And one's trees . . . the spiritual connectedness between people and trees is quite emotional, too. I've always lived in a place with a lot of trees. When you lose your trees, you have lost beauty and solace and protection.Why did you choose Judd, the youngest of the Mulvaneys, to narrate the story? Was it difficult to have him tell so much about the interior lives of characters he did not always understand?Judd imagines but does not invent. He's the intellectual and moral center of the novel, as it is presented in terms of language. It's fitting that he's a newspaper editor and writer. Many people in families feel themselves in repositories of the family narrative—as Judd says, he is assembling a kind of family album, not writing a "confession."Is this one of your favorite books?We Were the Mulvaneys is perhaps the novel closest to my heart. I think of it as a valentine to a passing way of American life, and to my own particular child—and girlhood in upstate New York. Everyone in the novel is enormously close to me, including Marianne's cat, Muffin, who was in fact my own cat. One writes to memorialize, and to bring to life again that which has been lost.
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