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How To Beat Home Warranty Companies At Their Own Game
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I have discovered how aggrieved homeowners can turn the tables on home warranty companies and beat them at their own game. Please share this with everyone you know.
I'm an attorney and after having a problem with my home warranty company, American Home Shield, I decided to investigate whether other homeowners had experienced the same or a similar problem. What I found were web sites devoted to consumer complaints on which numerous homeowners had recounted incidents of fraud, deception, and rip-offs by their home warranty company. I also found a blog written by a former American Home Shield employee and another written by a former plumber for a home warranty company. Both recounted situations that would not pass the "smell test" in a court of law.
I also investigated lawsuits that had been filed against American Home Shield in Georgia, which is where I live. I found about 15 cases. The majority of cases had been filed in small claims court. As I reviewed the cases, I discovered that none of the cases had been litigated. In every instance, the case had been settled to the Plaintiff's satisfaction although the details of each settlement were not part of the case file. With the knowledge that all cases had been settled to the homeowners' satisfaction, I realized that American Home Shield would settle with an aggrieved homeowner before allowing a case to go to trial. My conclusion is that the only thing aggrieved homeowners need to do to beat home warranty companies at their own game is to file suit. The last thing American Home Shield wants to do is litigate a homeowner's claim and the reasons are obvious to me.
The most obvious reason American Home Shield would not want to litigate a claim is that in most instances, the cost to American Home Shield to settle a claim would be less than the cost to litigate. The average amount of a claim in the cases I found was $3,800.00. Two were for less than $1,000.00 and only one was for more than $10,000.00. I'm sure far more than the 15 homeowners who have filed lawsuits in Georgia have had their claims denied. American Home Shield wins when a claim is denied and the homeowner does not sue, which is exactly what American Home Shield is counting on homeowners not doing.
Another reason American Home Shield does not want to litigate is because the company does not want to have to defend its craftily drafted contract or its questionable business practices, which is exactly what it would have to do if a case went to trial. American Home Shield also does not want such information to become public knowledge, which is also likely to happen. Additionally, a judge or a jury would also be hard pressed to return a verdict favorable to a company that engages in questionable business practices.
The final reason American Home Shield does not want to litigate is because a lawsuit actually places American Home Shield in a precarious situation. American Home Shield would have a difficult time defending any claim by a homeowner because the company has no first hand knowledge about the claim; it would need the testimony of the service contractor who, for its own reasons, may be less than eager to testify. The only knowledge American Home Shield has is what the company has been told by the service contractor. And any testimony from American Home Shield about what it was told by the service contractor is hearsay and not admissible in court.
To defend a claim, American Home Shield would need to subpoena the service contractor who actually made the diagnosis to testify about the claim. If the homeowner has done his/her homework, he/she would subpoena witnesses who could dispute the witnesses for American Home Shield. The homeowner should subpoena one or more service companies who had been called either for a second opinion or to make the actual repairs to dispute the testimony of the American Home Shield service contractor. The homeowner might also consider locating one or more other aggrieved homeowners to testify about their problem with American Home Shield. Another good witnesses for the homeowner to subpoena would be a former service contractor for the home warranty company or a former employee of a service contractor.
Since American Home Shield has at least three significant reasons why it does not want to litigate, the best and easiest way an aggrieved homeowner can beat American Home Shield at their own game (and most likely any other home warranty company) is to file suit. The one thing for an aggrieved homeowner to keep in mind is that if he/she does not sue, the home warranty company will win. But if he/she sues, the homeowner will most likely win. And that is how an aggrieved homeowner can beat American Home Shield at their own game.
My advice to aggrieved homeowners is not to stress over a denied claim, the denial of a situation as an emergency, repeated "band-aid repairs," or a delay in authorization or in the repair of an item. I would also advise a homeowner not to waste time arguing with American Home Shield but to set a reasonable deadline for the appropriate action. Upon expiration of the deadline without receiving satisfaction from American Home Shield, the homeowner should then proceed as if they did not have a home warranty and then sue American Home Shield for reimbursement. The homeowner should also remember to document every action or inaction by both himself/herself and American Home Shield. Although the disadvantage to the homeowner is initially having to pay for the repairs, the advantage is that the homeowner can choose the service contractor and the brands and quality of products. I won't guarantee all aggrieved homeowners will prevail every time but I have good reason to believe most aggrieved homeowners will prevail the majority of time.
For aggrieved homeowners whose claims were denied at sometime in the past, you may still be able to sue for reimbursement. To make that determination, the homeowner needs to research the statute of limitation for suing on a contract in their state. In any event, a homeowner should be safe filing suit for a claim that was denied during the past twelve (12) months.
Within the next six months, instead of reading homeowner's stories about being scammed and ripped off by their home warranty company, I want to read stories about how homeowners turned the tables and beat their home warranty company at their own game.
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Good luck.
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MSCANTBEWRONG on 2008-09-11:
I have a contract with these folks...I need to call for air conditioning service...I'm somewhat leary but now I'm going to call...I've paid for this service for 2 years but have never called on them to resolve my issues with air conditioning, plumbing, roofing etc...they according to their own contract ensure all of these areas and more...I'm going to contact them tomorrow for a service call...I will keep all updated on my experience...wish me luck!
Anonymous on 2008-09-12:
Good luck, MSCANTBEWRONG. Leave enough time in your schedule next week to file your small claims case.
Thanks for the tips LegalCohen. It's too bad that it takes the threat of legal action to get home warranty claims settled, but all these HW companies are pirates.
Homer123 on 2013-04-02:
I have been doing some repairs FOR the AHS people and am ready to send them a letter to not contact my company anymore. Tired of rude authorizations people trying to squeeze every penny out of a job. When I put a unit out of service they actually sent a guy to double check me out to make sure I wasn't wrong. OOPS I Showed the homeowner the cracks in her heat exchanger and she knew where to show the guy. This guy came 59 miles, no kidding and they gave him the replacement job for it. This woman just happened to sell their policies for people buying houses. OOPS she isn't happy. Also on a heat pump I spent an hour on the phone authorizing a new unit, and the next day they had no record of it and had to start all over, conveniently.
Then if replaced they want to supply their own version of quality equipment. No thanks, I'd rather sell quality that I trust not what they seem to trust. In my area, they can just call the guy that lives 59 miles away to do their service.
SpideySensei57 on 2013-07-19:
I've had AHS for two years and tomorrow will be my first time calling them for a malfunctioning AC unit. Unit is over 20 years old and was not replaced by the previous owners when I bought this place. I'm scared to death this won't be fixed properly based on all the comments I've read about AHS.
megan on 2014-02-06:
I could use your legal expertise. I have quite a suit I am about to file on them.
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Get your claim paid - File in Small Claims Court - it works!
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This is my nightmare with American Home Shield
I filed a claim with AHS in Oct. 2008 for a 20 year old spa heater that was worn out and finally broke. The first person they sent out said that the spa was not to code and AHS denied the claim. I called the manufacturer, who inspected the unit and they confirmed that the spa was properly built to code. They also provided a replacement cost for the unit.
I called AHS back and requested that they send someone else out to inspect the spa heater. This person stated that the spa broke due to age and wear & tear. AHS denied the claim because they said the damage was caused by chemicals. There was no bases for this determination except that their policy does not cover damage caused by chemicals. I informed them that the spa cannot work without chemicals. How can they cover a system that requires chemicals to work properly and then deny the claim for using the chemicals? DUH!!! The heater gave out due to wear and tear (which is what they do cover). This was also the diagnosis from the manufacturer. AHS denied the claim again.
I informed them that they can only deny the claim once. They don't get multiple shots at me until they find something that suits them. If they deny it improperly on the first round, and are found to be wrong, then they must cover the claim. If they do not, just mention BAD FAITH!!
I did not contact the California Department of Insurance because they cannot make AHS pay anything, they only look for infractions in the claims handling and do not care about the consumer.
The cost to replace the system was approx. $3,000 and I sent them a demand to pay. They denied the demand. I then filed a claim in small claims court against AHS and they played the "name game". Just FYI, they are not actually "America Home Shield" each state is governed under a separate entity. I had to contact the president's office (phone # is available on Better Business Bureau website - Dave Peterson) of AHS to determine the proper entity of AHS that my contract was written under. America Home Shield of California. I had to make the necessary corrections to the small claims court because America Home Shield is not a company in California without the "California" behind it.
All of this took time, which I don't have much of, but this was an injustice. Read the NUMEROUS complaints on the interest. I refused to be jerked around and am very aware of how to read a policy. I am a Claims Adjuster! My company would never think to act so irresponsibly. We try to cover claims, not look for excuses to deny.
I filed the complaint and was looking forward to taking my turn in the court. Four days prior to the court date, AHS of California, contacted me and wanted to settle the claim with a Policyholder's Release. They asked me how much I wanted. I included the cost for each time I was charged for their service call, my postage, copying costs, court costs, and provided them with the actual cost of the spa heater and labor to install it. I signed that Release and THEY PAID EVERY PENNY.
They also sent me a letter that they refused to cover the spa until the new one was replaced. I sent them a letter and said that I no longer needed coverage on the spa now and would like a refund of my premium. They refused and said I needed to pay for the coverage until the end of the policy period. I may still pursue that portion even though it is minimal.
Then last week, I received a letter from AHS that they are going to cancel my policy at the end of the policy period. Wow, what a surprise!!
I am writing this for all those individuals who just give up. Read the AHS policy. They hire contractors who do not like dealing with them because they know what they do to their policyholders. Sometimes, it is not the contractor who is at fault. The second contractor said that he recommended that they replace the spa heater. Then the claims adjuster said that he told them it was the chemicals. I got them both on a conference call and they both hemmed and hawed. Finally, the claims adjuster said that it had to be reviewed by a higher power. I then got a letter saying that the damage was caused by chemicals. So it is not always the contractor.
BTW, I recorded every conversation and transcribed everything they told me. The recording is not admissible in court, but what they told me, is.
I no longer have AHS and am saving $50. per month I want you to know that if you want something covered by their policy, find your own contractor to assess the problem and fight them. TAKE THEM TO COURT. YOU CAN DO ALL THE PAPERWORK ONLINE!!!!! It is more cost effective for them to settle with you than to go to court and get ANOTHER judgment against them.
Don\'t just take no..........
Best of luck
PS. Just looked at the Better Business Bureau website. AHS has an A + rating!!! They must be kidding or paying them off.
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bikmot on 2010-02-12:
Did you find a reputable company after ridding yourself of AHS
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Not Honoring Contract
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TENNESSEE -- Home warranty company is not fulfilling their obligation to make repairs or replacement of faulty appliances that are covered by their policy On 5/20/2013 we placed a call to American Home Shield that our air conditioning stopped working. They said Dean family AC will call to set up an appointment which they did on 5/21/2013. The tech came out on 5/22/2013 and informed me we need a new compressor and it would take a week to get one.
Now it is almost two weeks American Home Shield told me today that "they have not made up their mind on what to do and nothing has been ordered." Dean family AC said American Home Shield is not authorizing the replacement parts even after they received the report that the compressor needs to be replaced. I live in Arizona and it was 103 degrees the past few days and over 90 degrees in my home. And it's getting hotter everyday. If they haven't ordered the parts needed to repair my air conditioning which was to take a week to receive I may not have air conditioning for a month!
I pay American Home Shield $737 a year to warranty all my appliances. If something needs to be replaced then replace it. A qualified AC technician came to my home and put a request to order my parts with American Home Shield who is not qualified to make a decision if we need a new unit or not.
This is absolutely ridiculous that they are dragging their feet because they don't want to pay out a large sum. We'll that's too bad. We've had American Home Shield for 3 years and the first time was for our washing machine which turned out to be a plumbing issue and not covered. So I've shelled out $2200 over 3 years and now there is something that is covered they don't want to honor the contract
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Jeff on 2013-06-04:
Some of these home and auto warranties are some of the most downright scam artists that are around. I still don't understand how these companies are able to stay in business and not be brought up on scamming charges.
Old Timer on 2013-06-05:
Maybe you need to check out one of the many class action law suites flying around on these clowns. Not much to be made on a class action besides the attorneys getting very rich, but there might be some ideas there for you.
American Home Shield Lawsuit Alleges Improper Denials:
The URL was to long to paste, but you can just put "American home shield lawsuit" in Google to have them come up.
Best of luck against these brainless twits.
andbran on 2013-06-05:
I dropped AHS when my contract ended. I have never regretted doing that.
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Tracy Avalos on 2013-09-19:
My AC has been out for 14 days, they lie disconnect order wrong parts and meanwhile it is 97 degrees in my house. I have requested to speek to a supervisor several times and never get a call back. Like everyone else I have had there service for several years never needed AHS till now and they are not doing anything except making excuses as to why my air is not fixed.
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How to Beat Home Warranty Companies at Their Own Game - Part II
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(The following information and advice applies to American Home Shield. Whether or not the advice applies to any other home warranty company is unknown.)
I recently observed a trial in which AHS was being sued for denying a claim. After the trial, I had an opportunity to talk with the attorney who had represented AHS. The attorney advised me that AHS always settles the lawsuits or pays the claims when sued. Regarding class action lawsuits, whether the person remains part of the class or opts out is not relevant to the outcome of the case; AHS does not use a pending class action as a defense to settling the case. What this means is that if you sue AHS, you will get your money back. The only losers are the aggrieved homeowners who do not sue.
Although I had long suspected that AHS made little or no effort to contest lawsuits filed against the company, my advice to anyone who has a claim denied is not to waste time trying to make AHS either repair or replace an appliance. Have the appliance repaired or replaced at your own expense and then sue for reimbursement. This same advice applies to what you consider to be an emergency situation or an unreasonable delay by either AHS or the service contractor in repairing or replacing an appliance or approving a claim.
You are also likely to be more satisfied with the service contractor and the appliance you have selected as a replacement than the below builder's grade of appliance provided by AHS. You will be able to hire the repair company of your choice and choose the color, make, and model of the new appliance. In the few instances I have read about when AHS has replaced appliances such as A/C units, furnaces, refrigerators, and stoves, the replacement item has always been substandard. In one instance, the A/C unit AHS used to replace the old unit was so noisy that the homeowner could not hear the TV over the noise.
When a claim is denied, if the homeowner sues, the homeowner wins. If the homeowner does not sue, AHS wins. I am encouraging everyone reading this who has had a claim denied to sue AHS for reimbursement. I also suggest anyone who sues AHS to attach copies of your receipts to the complaint because that is what AHS will want to see before making an offer to settle. Also, sue only for your out-of-pocket expenses; do not expect to be compensated for loss of time from work or for punitive damages. Do not let AHS win; beat them at their own game. email@example.com
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UncleH on 2010-05-26:
I respectfully question the author's true motives, I see from the email signature that they are probably an attorney......
Soldbydon on 2013-03-20:
I was an AHS Sales Rep - direct employee - and I generally agree. I was asked to attend a pre-trial hearing on an A/C unit that had been covered by AHS for years but when it failed, AHS initially refused to pay because the A/C unit's exterior casing was rusted, rendering the unit inoperative. "Rust" and other "pre-existing conditions" are not covered by the warranty. AHS settled rather than go to court. BUT! The offer from AHS was a return of premium paid (about $400) rather than replacement of the A/C unit. Read the fine print - depending on the policy terms they can likely make that offer and it will stick. I rarely ever saw them pay a claim that was more than 3 times the amount of the premium paid in because they have limited their liability by stating limits of repair/replacement costs they'll expend under the warranty.
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Worthless policy is a scam.
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ORLANDO, FLORIDA -- Have spent 2 weeks now trying to get satisfaction from American Home Shield to replace a hot water heater. It took 3 days to get a response from AHS and another 4 days for the contractor to show up. After paying the $60 service fee I was given an estimate for $290. It will cost $350 to replace a $275 water heater. The contractor planned on charging me $169 for a pressure relief valve that anyone can buy at Lowes or HD for $27. When I tried to cash out on the repair, I was told AHS will pay $295 only if the repair is inspected by a plumber and electrician.
Save the cost of paying for this worthless policy and put that money towards repairs. You'll be a lot further ahead if you do.
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I had AMS for 3 years. My AC went out, they sent a contractor, its dead & you need a new one. They send a photo to AMS without talking to me. I call AHS- "Sorry, you have damage"- Some of the little fins that collect moisture on the outside unit were bent.
They gave me the option of getting a 2nd opinion. 2nd Contractor can fix it. They planned to use a used coil (guts of the AC).
I email the 1st Contractor that tells me my unit will die anyway if I do that. This guy actually cared because it was his small business I planned to Craigs & Angies List.
The scam is, you pay every month. They'll fix small items, but when it comes to the reason you had the policy in the first place, AMS will claim damage or lack of servive & never pay.
Its a SCAM- Cancel your policy immediately!
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Alain on 2011-10-10:
I've seen a lot of complaints here and on other sites about home warranty companies. Enough so that I wouldn't ever consider using one. So thank you for your review and warning.
bob f on 2013-05-07:
American Home shield beware
bobby .g. on 2014-06-11:
They are truly sorry !!!
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Not fair
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1. They declined coverage on microwave wall unit
2. They declined to fix my A/c saying they don't cover the brand
They asked me to go back and read the fine print? Do you think any educated man would buy a warranty which did not cover major appliances.
We put trust into these companies to take care of our issues. In my case, I had a type 1 diabetic child and requested for emergency services. They were not even able to arrange that.
I understand companies are there to make profits and have guidelines so why responsibility of. Reading these fine prints are left on consumers? Why would they not take equal responsibility.
It's poor customer service. And most importantly not been able to help a client with a diabetic child is shameful for American Home Shield.
Please note companies who do not focus on customer and only interested in bottomlines do not stay long.
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Beware of American Home Shield's promises
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On December 8, 2009 my hot water heater started leaking. I had just opened a policy with American Home Shield and was told that I had immediate coverage. I placed a claim with American Home Shield. I have hot water heat which means that my 75 gallon hot water heater provides heat for my furnace. They first sent out a vendor that had no clue about my unit or my furnace and told me that my furnace was not going to stop working because my hot water heater did NOT provide heat for my furnace. They then sent out a second vendor that told me that I did have hot water heat. My unit is located in an outside shed which is HEATED. The first vendor told me that the heater was working fine. The second vendor told American Home Shield that the hot water heater broker because there was no heater. It was 15 degrees below zero. I had my own vendor come in and he verified that I do have hot water heat AND my heater in my storage unit was working fine. The hot water heater was old and that is why it stopped working. American Home Shield delayed in calling me back. My insurance company told me to keep the hot water heater on even though it was flooding my unit. If I turned the hot water heater OFF then all of my pipes in my unit would freeze and my property would be uninhabitable. Still I waited hoping that AHS would call me back. I finally had to replace the unit myself and file a claim with State Farm to restore my property from the massive flooding. Had AHS sent out competent vendors in the first place and acted quickly this would not have happened. They told me I could dispute the claim, which I did but no matter how many phone calls I made, no one would return my calls. In fact, my representative at American Home Shield's voice mail was FULL. I have never dealt with such incompetent people. They took my money and then refused my claim. I am a real estate professional and I have helped homebuyers purchase many American Home Shield home warranties. NEVER AGAIN. Do not use this company. They are incompetent!
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andbran on 2010-02-05:
I had them for one horrible year. once the contract came up for renewal I cancelled. its easier just to save the monthly fee for future use.
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American Home Shield Poor Product
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TENNESSEE -- American Home Provided the home warranty on my home I purchased 06/23/09. It is supposed to cover all major mechanical systems.
08/31/09 I came home to 95 degree temperatures inside my home. The next morning I call AHS to use my warranty. I was told by their service representative they contact their contracted companies and their company would contact me within the hour to make a appointment. They gave me the name and number of the company, Tri's heating and air. By the way this a/c company was 80 miles from my home.
5 hours later no call. I had to contact the a/c company and set the appointment. The scheduled me for 12 noon 0n 09/02/09. The next day 12 noon comes around no service, 1pm no service, 2pm no service. I call tri's heating and air. The representative tells me no one is coming to my house because they don't have enough repair men. Don't call me, fax me or email. Just don't come.
I call AHS and the representative contacts another company and gives me their number. I call this company and they come out within the hour to my house. Dave Broussard heating and air, I have nothing but good things to say about them, Excellent. The service tech examines the a/c unit and lets me know its the condensor and the a-coils and they need to be replaced.
30 minutes later I get a call from AHS explaining what it is and they are going to fix it By Friday. The service tech lets me know they will be out Friday when the parts come in. An hour later I get a call from the tech letting me know that AHS wants a second opinion. Think about this, they don't trust their own companies they contract with.
I call AHS. They want to send out the same company that didn't show up the first time to get a second opinion. I've talked to three about 5 reps now and they all say its to protect me.
Well today is 09/03/09 at 12 noon and no contact from Tri's Heating and Air. I've called the home office and am trying to contact the President of the company, Dave Crawford. He has some type of Presidents committee to handle complaints. Called at 8 am this morning and have not received a call yet.
The labor day weekend is coming in two days, thurs today, doesn't look like I'll have a/c till next weds or thurs, because Monday is a holiday.
My advice is DON'T BUY YOUR WARRANTY WITH AMERICAN HOKME SHIELD.
They don't trust their own service people and don't honor your business.
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Anonymous on 2009-09-03:
They're looking for the cheaper way to go. They really don't care about getting the job done fast, just cheap!
moneybags on 2009-09-03:
Call 1-800-800-8880 Ext 6753 Ask for Sherry. You can talk to her assistant. Explain. Be nice. Bet they get you cool!
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Warranty Ripoff
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TIPTON, INDIANA -- In October of 2007 I purchased a new home, new to me anyway and thought the warranty, which was to cover all appliances as well as furnace, a/c unit, electrical,roof,etc. from American Home Shield. Thinking that if anything went wrong with the existing appliances,heating and cooling units, electrical or roof that this would save me money. After being in the house for eight months the refrigerator stopped cooling, so I called American Home Shield on a Saturday expecting to get a repairman out at least by the following day to service the appliance.
The customer service person said they would call and get a emergency work order out to a refrigeration company and would call me back. Sunday came and went, no call. I ended up calling the company three times on Monday only to find out that no order had been placed. Finally, I called and got someone who did place the order and a service man was sent out, he said that the door gasket on the freezer needed replaced but he had to get a okay for the purchase of the gasket, but it would be cheaper and easier for me to go ahead and get the gasket and put it in myself. The serviceman complained that he had to drive 30 miles from his company to get to our home, and that they never came to Tipton, Indiana to do any work, because they had to get a authorization just to drive from their office to Tipton through American Home Shield. He found about a 1/8" tear in the freezer door gasket, and a piece of ice that had stopped the fan from working, so he did melt the piece of ice so the refrigerator started working, thankfully since my son had about $600.00 of insulin that has to be kept cold!
It has been two weeks now and no one has called to come out and replace the gasket, and unfortunately now my oven won't heat, so I call American Home Shield to place another work order and to see when the gut was going to come out and replace the gasket on the freezer, the company had no idea what the status on the gasket was but would call Wednesday morning and let me know. Now the oven problem would be taken care of but there would be a $95.00 service charge and the parts may be an additional fee. My thought is I paid the full year for the warranty, and had plans to renew the contract so that should a problem reoccur I would just call the warranty company and someone would be sent to repair the problem. That is what I thought the warranty insurance was for. What did I pay for if I now have to pay a service fee to have someone come out and look at my problem and then charge me to fix it? We are a older couple, and didn't want to have to deal with opening the yellow pages to find a company that might come and fix our problem, or just take our money and never fix the problem and thought a warranty contract would be the answer, but truthfully I feel that we have just paid a company to scam us out of hard earned money.
Does anyone know of a warranty company that holds to their word and will do what it is supposed to do? Or am I just an old confused person that misunderstood the meaning of a Home Warranty Contract? Any help would be great.
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Part 4 of Mike's 5-part leadership series
Collaboration has surely become one of the all-time great buzzwords. Seemingly everyone aspires to be collaborative. Unfortunately, for every successful collaboration, there are dozens of "partnerships" and "alliances" that fail to achieve their potential.
In this fourth part of our series on social enterprise leadership, we share insights into how great coalitions are developed, and how they can provide structure to implement diverse strategies simultaneously, and the resilience to undertake long-term, complex projects—typical of those undertaken by social enterprises.
Back in the second part of this series on social enterprise leadership, we focused on how effective leaders engage others. They support their colleagues, they work hard to develop their organizations as a whole, and they are open and clear in their communications with their teammates. All these activities happen inside the organization. Collaboration reaches farther.
The complex problems faced by social entrepreneurs often require coalition-building—cooperation beyond the boundaries of their organizations.
At their simplest, coalitions can look like strategic partnerships. In the social impact sphere, these simple partnerships often take the form of cause marketing campaigns. Think in-kind sponsors' engagement in the Race for the Cure. As they get more advanced, diverse networks of like-minded organization can coalesce around a shared vision. Such was the case with the ten-year Rainforest Solutions Project in western Canada.
The project aimed to protect a vast and pristine coastal rainforest on Canada's west coast. This spectacular ecosystem is the last untouched coastal temperate rainforest in the world. It is home to hundreds of unique species, and to First Nations who have lived there for thousands of years. "Canada's Amazon," as it has been called, includes about one quarter of all the coastal temperate rainforest on Earth.
It was also commonly referred to in government policy documents as the "mid-coast timber reserve," so it was essentially viewed as a commodity storage area, a heartbreaking misrepresentation of this priceless ecosystem. Perhaps the single greatest moment of genius in the Rainforest Solutions Project's work was to rebrand the region as the Great Bear Rainforest.
The Rainforest Solutions Project was the organization set up to house a remarkable campaign. The systems approach that they took exemplifies the four key factors in effective coalition-building.


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Behind the arm of Trent Edwards and the running of Marshawn Lynch, the Bills' offense was supposed to be inept this season. But with that pair gone and some new stars emerging, Buffalo's offensive attack is suddenly one that must be taken seriously — both in the real world and fantasy.
It all starts at quarterback, where Ryan Fitzpatrick has gone from being an unintimidating dink-and-dunker to a full-fledged gunslinger. After slowing down a bit in recent weeks, the veteran threw for 316 yards and four TDs in Sunday's come-from-behind win at Cincinnati. It was Fitzpatrick's second four-TD game of the season and his fifth multi-score effort in eight starts. After the Bills finished with the 30th-ranked passing offense in 2009, Fitz has restored respectability to the team's passing attack and has become a legitimate weekly fantasy option.
The QB wouldn't be in the position he is if not for the shocking play of one of fantasy's biggest surprises. Practically unknown before the season, WR Stevie Johnson has become a bona fide fantasy difference maker, having his best game yet last Sunday by torching the Bengals for eight catches, 137 yards and three TDs. That gives him a whopping nine scores on the year, not to mention three contests of 137-plus yards. He's the real deal, and owners who grabbed him off the waiver wire early should benefit greatly down the stretch.
The backfield isn't without a star, either, and contrary to popular preseason belief, it's not C.J. Spiller. While the first-round rookie has struggled and been hurt, Fred Jackson has re-established himself as a fantasy force, rushing for 116 yards and two TDs last week. That gives him 299 yards from scrimmage and four scores in his last two outings, startling production from any player, let alone a guy who isn't even owned in a number of leagues. Currently touching the ball as much as anybody in the league, he's a guy who could be a stats machine from here on out — something that didn't look possible after his lackluster start.
Not one person would have predicted the impact that this trio would have, and that's one of the things that makes fantasy football great. While a boatload of stars fail to provide owners with the stats they had hoped for, three Bills have developed into consistent fantasy players who could help carry managers to league titles.


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The deadline to designate keepers will be 9/30/13. At 12:00 a.m. PST on 10/1/13, you will be stuck with whatever keepers you have listed. If you don't have a full set of keepers listed, then the spots will be filled with the highest ranked players you can afford according to 2012-2013 full season BBM per game rankings.


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I'm halfway done with two other posts, but am just too scatterbrained the last few days to finish them coherently. Instead, I'll confess some of the strange, perhaps even distasteful holiday foods to which I am secretly devoted. I got to thinking about the subject while planning my Thanksgiving menu. Every year, the holiday season causes some of my funny obsessions to rear their embarrassing heads. What are these dishes of shame, these celebratory foodstuffs I anticipate each year?
Well, for one, Ocean Spray jellied cranberry sauce. I adore that wiggly, ridged log of delightful sweet-tartness. I'm fond of cranberries generally, particularly in more respectable preparations, but that blue and white can holds a special place in my heart for reasons that go deeper than nostalgia. For one, the rich, butter-laden holiday plate needs a bright flavor note just to keep the palate awake. Of course, a well-made whole berry sauce can fill that role as well, but there's just something about that jelly texture that enthralls me. And of course, the whole point of cooking a turkey is to have leftover turkey sandwiches. My mom and I prefer ours on whole-grain bread with spicy honey mustard, a layer of cornbread dressing, and a thick slab of gelatinous cranberry goodness.
Even more humiliating, I love green bean casserole. Yes, the kind with the cream of mushroom soup and French's French-fried onions. Lord knows why. I learned to make béchamel specifically to use it instead of Campbell's cream of what ever in those kinds of old-fashioned recipes, and yet, I can't bring myself to tart up green bean casserole. It tastes perfect already, soft and creamy and salty, laden with those addictive crispy onion bits. Actually, those may be the secret of my devotion to green bean casserole. I have to buy the big can when I make it so I have plenty to munch on. They look funny, the coat the roof of your mouth, and yet, as I write this, I've developed a craving so intense my stomach just rumbled a little. I don't have the excuse of nostalgia on this one either. Since basically everyone in the world but me things this stuff is gross, I didn't really grow up with it. My grandmother makes it now, but I don't know that anyone but me eats it.


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Urban and regional analysis and planning provides students with an understanding of how communities are structured, what their needs are, and how they are governed. Planners develop long-term and short-term plans to use land for the growth and revitalization of urban, suburban, and rural communities, while helping local officials make decisions concerning social, economic, and environmental problems.
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Intellectual Foundations Requirements 39–66 cr
Total Required Credit Hours in the Major 40–42 cr
A. Required Courses (21 cr)
GEG 307 Conservation and Environmental Management
PLN 390 Quantitative Methods in Geography and Planning
PLN 315 Principles of Urban and Regional Planning
PLN 325 Maps and Mapmaking using GIS
PLN 396 Research Methods
PLN 412 Community Planning Agencies and Issues
PLN 430 Senior Thesis
B. Urban-Regional Planning (21 cr)
Specialized Required Courses (3 cr)
GEG 309 Introduction to Urban Geography
Electives (18 cr)
Selected by advisement:
PLN/GEG 310 Urban Transportation Planning
PLN/GEG 330 Land Resource Analysis and Planning
PLN 340 Fundamentals of Zoning
PLN 341 Housing and Real Estate
PLN 401 Comprehensive Planning Principles
PLN 488 Internship (3 cr maximum)
GEG 305 Principles of Economic Geography
GEG 425 Fundamentals of GIS
GEG 427 Corporate Applications in GIS
GEG 485 Interactive and Web-based Mapping
ECO 412 Urban Economics
ECO 424 Business and Economic Forecasting
PSC 215 Urban Government
C. Environmental Planning (19-21 cr)
Specialized courses to be selected by advisement from outside the major (7 cr)
Students in this concentration must demonstrate college-level competency in general chemistry and general biology. These courses are taken outside the major.
Select one course from the following:
BIO 212 Introduction to Organismal Biology and Diversity (4 cr)
BIO 213 Introduction to Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior (4 cr)
Select one course from the following:
CHE 101 General Chemistry I (3 cr)
CHE 102 General Chemistry II (3 cr)
Electives (12-24 cr)
Selected by advisement
PLN 360 Environmental Impact Assessment
PLN 370 Water Resources Planning
PLN 488 Internship (3 cr maximum)
GEG 365 Soil Science and Management
GEG 375 Principles of Hydrology
GEG 386 Applied Climatology
GEG 421 Watershed Analysis
GEG 425 Fundamentals of GIS
GEG 428 Environmental Assessment and Planning Applications in GIS
BIO 315 Ecology
BIO 418 Limnology
GES 452 Hydrogeology
Required Credit Hours (Urban-Regional Analysis and Planning Track) 42 cr
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A crop of American cockroaches brings in serious cash.
This week's primary election is being characterized by
some as a surprise.
It looks a lot more like a slap in the collective faces
of the traditional political power brokers. The two candidates still
standing are Independents. Neither was endorsed by the Democratic Party.
The unions galvanized behind someone else, and The Blade-endorsed
candidate fretted, fizzled and faded.
The city council results also supported Independents over
party regulars. There must be some vigorous head-scratching taking place
as the voting is analyzed. The political sages are offering up the
requisite 'coulda, shoulda, woulda,' but that won't change a thing.
There is a lot of talk about what went wrong. The
answer: Nothing.
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The Daily Scope
Aries, today you're reconsidering your approach to your career. This may come as a shock—you thought you were doing fine and going in the right direction. Don't panic. If you need to change course in order to get ahead, gio for it. It's not too late.
Your love life is definitely not a bed of roses right now. It's not that you two aren't getting along. There's actually a bigger question to ask yourself. Is this relationship living up to your expectations? Is he the one? You don't have to decide right now. Slow things down and give it some more time.
Today you're getting down to the nitty-gritty at work,—and you'll be moaning about it every step of the way. But would you rather complain or just get the job done? If you need to take breathers in order to not get overwhelmed, do so. But don't procrastinate, either. It's all about balance.
Your partner is such a kill-joy today. But rather than play the martyr and deny yourself a little fun, remind him that you're entitled to the things you enjoy. Try to find a mutual solution, even if it means leaving him in front of the TV while you go out with your friends.
Your friends are making you feel self-conscious today, Leo. They seem to want to get a rise out of you, but you know better than to fight back. Just keep on being your fun-loving self, and they'll remember what they like about you.
Your worried that your boss took your off-the-cuff attempt at humor the wrong way. You were just trying to develop a better rapport, but today just isn't the day. Keep a low profile and leave the levity for a later time, when the stars are more conducive.
Libra, get shopping today! You'll be sure to find sales and bargains, so whatever you've been meaning to upgrade in your closet or kitchen, this is the time to do it—and for a song.
Today finds you in defense mode, Scorpio. But just make sure you don't shoot first and ask questions later. In an important conversation, try not to feel threatened and take something the wrong way. The person you're talking to is only trying to establish a connection with you. Remember this and you'll be fine.
Sagittarius, you're a fiery sign, but you need to make sure you don't burn anything today, especially your bridges. If things aren't going exactly the way you planned, just give it time. You don't want to sever a relationship that could prove to be an asset and valuable in the future. Now is the time to swallow your pride.
Today your friends might call you on your B.S. Don't lash out at them, they only have your best intentions at heart. Is there something in their criticism that rings true? Try to consider what they say objectively. Maybe you need to put your ego away for a day.
Aquarius, you're feeling stuck at work lately. But be careful that you don't show this to the higher-ups. Your lack of motivation could become glaringly apparent. (And when is your review due?) A friendly coworker could help with an offer to collaborate. This would keep you on track, and keep you company.
Pisces, a project you've been working on is not as developed as you would like it to be. Are you just doing things the easy way instead of the right way? Are you doing less than your best? Don't let yourself become apathetic; instead, think creatively and put in the work required.


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PEORIA, Ill. -- The hot new item in manufacturing is the 3D printer. Last week, the first rocket part made by a 3D printer passed a major NASA test but it's in the field of medicine where the 3D printer may have its greatest successes.
OSF St. Francis Medical Center and the Jump Trading Center in Peoria are on the cutting edge of that progress.
Sabeen Admani is a bio-medical engineer at the Jump Trading Center. She works in the aptly named "Innovation Center". That's where she and other employees create devices, simulations and gadgets which help train tomorrow's physicians.
Part of her responsibility is operating the 3D printer.
"A 3D printer is like a regular printer, except that it makes a solid object you can hold in your hand," said Admani.
The 3D printer gets its instructions for what to create via computer. So, a digital medical CAT scan can be recreated by the machine.
That is very exciting to Admani and she's not the only one.
When word got out that the Jump Trading Center had a 3D printer, Dr Matthew Bramlet, a Children's Hospital physician, had an insight this 3D printer could be more than a training tool.
"The opportunity to use it in a modality that we hadn't used before was a great opportunity for us," said Dr. Bramlet.
That is putting it mildly.
What this machine can do is amazing. It created a replica of a three-year-old child's heart. It's doubly amazing because it allows the surgeon to look inside the heart before he ever cracks the chest.
"So that the surgeon can actually see and feel the heart in his hands prior to surgery," said Dr. Bramlet.
This improves the pre-operative planning and makes the operation safer. The Jump Trading staff came up with this entirely new technique to create a sectioned model of a patient's heart.
"No one's ever done this before so we could do it whatever way we wanted. It also represents the surgeon's view when he's doing open-heart surgery and sort of allows us to peek inside the ventricles. This is a unique heart...this is a snowflake," said Dr. Bramlet.
In fact, in one case already, a look at a 3D heart model allowed a surgeon to make changes to a planned operation.
There are all kinds of other possibilities being dreamed about here. For example, a library of model hearts showing various medical conditions available to doctors around the world as close as a computer connection and a 3D printer.
Whatever comes next, this first step made in Peoria is important.
"It's going to help in real ways, somewhere somehow, and I really believe that," said Dr. Bramlet.
It's important to note that 3D printers have been used to create a clear plastic heart for physicians. It cost thousands of dollars. The one made in Peoria costs just $25.


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By MIKE KRAFCIK6 News Reporter
KNOXVILLE (WATE) - A survey out Wednesday shows Knox County voters would support a tax increase for more education funding. The survey was sponsored by the Knoxville Chamber.
One question the survey asked - would you support a property tax increase if all the additional revenue went to public schools? 57% said yes, 35.6% said no, 7.3% said they're undecided.
The chamber says the survey was done to get an understanding of the perception of education in Knox County.
It's information that could be used as support for proponents who want more tax dollars for schools in budget requests to Knox County Commission.
The survey questioned 900 registered voters, randomly sampled and divided between nine Knox County commission districts. The surveys were taken during the first two weeks in November.
"There's never been a survey like this done in Knox County, and this provides with some information going forward," said Jennifer Evans, the vice president of public policy and education at the Knoxville Chamber.
The chamber's survey shows that 90 percent of county residents believe education is the most important factor affecting the economy.
A majority would support a tax increase if the revenue went to the school system, but Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett thinks not enough money ends up in the classroom.
"Is it getting to the classroom? They ask those questions the time. Do you support it if does that? But in fact, we're seeing that it apparently does not go where it needs to go," Burchett said.
Commissioners want to wait and see what the school budget proposal is.
"I'm not ready to say I'm ready to going to increase taxes or vote to increase taxes, because I don't know what that plan looks like," said Knox County Commissioner Mike Hammond.
"I'm concerned with what the final figure is. School board, let's see how much money you're asking for and how that money will be spent," said Knox County Commissioner R. Larry Smith.
Many commissioners have said they want more money to go to teachers and technology.
"We're losing too many good teachers to the surrounding counties," Hammond said.
With the budget process already underway, Superintendent Jim McIntyre wants more money for teachers, technology upgrades and improvements in school security.
The question becomes how much will it cost and where will the money come from?
"I think we're going to have to decide where the money is going to go, exactly where it's going to go before we start allocating any new money," Burchett said.
The survey was privately funded by Randy Boyd and five others for $25,000.
Boyd, who is Gov. Bill Haslam's special advisor on higher education, was part of the group to give money to the chamber for advertisements supporting the $35 million increase for Knox County Schools in 2012.
More than 75 percent of those surveyed agreed somewhat or strongly that the school system should receive more funding.
If additional revenue became available, right at 80 percent said base pay for teachers should be a high priority, just over 90 percent want access to technology to be a high priority, but around 60 percent called more instructional time a low priority.
Among the other findings in the survey, 48 percent say academic standards are too low and 66 percent say their local school is effective.
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2014 Young Naturalist Awards Winners, Finalists and Semifinalists
The Young Naturalist Awards is a research-based science competition for students in grades 7-12 to promote participation and communication in science.
Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Young Naturalist Award
The Young Naturalist Awards is pleased to announce a new award for the 2014 competition that honors the legacy of visionary conservationist Theodore Roosevelt. Roosevelt's lifelong passion for nature led him to become America's greatest conservation president. To commemorate his legacy, the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Award will be presented to an urban student whose investigation demonstrates close observation, thoughtful analysis, and deep appreciation of the biodiversity, ecology, and habitats found in an urban environment. The winning essay will be selected from the pool of Young Natural Award entrants and will be evaluated according to the same criteria. There is no separate submission process.
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In the case of Hart Crane, there can be no last word. His star has been up and down so often in the three-quarters of a century since his death, it seems unlikely that critic or reader will settle the matter soon. Crane was the great might-have-been of American verse—superbly talented, ambitious as a hammer blow, full of plans and postures and persuasions galore. Most poets have their admirers by the time they arrive at that final mausoleum, the poetry anthology; Crane is one of the few who has votaries and devotees (Sylvia Plath is another). Whatever his flaws, personal or poetic, they pale before what some see as his genius. If you don't see the genius, all you have left are the flaws.
I've always loved Hart Crane; but I love him in fractions, delighting in half a dozen of those rhapsodic poems long on style and short on sense but finding the rest mystifying as a Masonic ritual. In some of his best poems, I merely admire lines, and in some of those lines I merely admire phrases—and yet what phrases and lines and, more rarely, what poems he wrote! When I reviewed Crane's Complete Poems and Selected Letters for the New York Times Book Review, I was not surprised that some readers objected, since many value Crane even more than Crane valued himself; and he valued himself quite a lot.
Reviewing Crane, if you don't review him fondly, is like poking a pencil into a hornet's nest. The Times had room to publish no more than half a dozen letters, which with one exception were furious. You discover a lot about readers from their letters, and most of what you discover leaves you dumbfounded—sometimes, however, you learn a thing or two. The most substantial letter came from Paul Mariani, one of Crane's biographers. I'm so used to correcting others, I'm delighted when someone corrects me—it's humbling to be caught in a boneheaded mistake, and critics generally need to eat crow every few months to keep them sane. Mariani noted first that, when Crane walked to the railing of the steamship Orizaba, preparing for his suicidal leap, he was wearing a light topcoat, not, as I had written, a jacket. Second, the sea he leapt into was not the Caribbean, but the Atlantic. Last, the sea was not glassy, as I had proposed, but had "sizable waves."
No error is trivial, but how are such errors made? Out of sheer doltishness, in my case. I can tell a man's jacket from a topcoat at a hundred yards; but I failed to check my memory against the four biographies I consulted (Peggy Guggenheim, who was in her cabin below deck, said it was a light topcoat used as a robe, and that Crane was wearing pajamas underneath). No doubt I'd fail a final exam in marine geography, but the notion that Crane leapt into the Caribbean came not from me but from his biographer Clive Fisher. He was wrong. I had forgotten the two rules on which all sound criticism is based: 1) Take no fact or quotation on trust, and 2) Buy a map. In revising the review for book publication, I corrected both errors.
The biographers disagree, however, about the condition of the Atlantic when Crane jumped. Mariani fails in The Broken Tower to describe the roughness of the ocean (he mentions the "impenetrable waters off which the noon sun gleamed," which doesn't sound choppy or rugged); Philip Horton in Hart Crane claims the "sea was mild"; and Clive Fisher, quoting Guggenheim in Hart Crane: A Life, says the sea was "like a mirror that could be walked on." I changed my "glassy sea" to a "violent wake" (the wake, some think, dragged Crane under). On balance, however, the "glassy sea" seems likely.
In his description of Crane's death, Mariani was attracted to the captain's notion that the poet might have been eaten by a shark—"Did he feel something brush his leg, the file-sharp streaking side of concentrated muscle, before the silver flash and teeth pulled him under?" This is sheer moonshine, but a biographer's fantasies—and gruesome fantasies they are—don't mitigate the critic's error of fact. (The biographer then throws some of Crane's purple prose—or rather purple poetry— back at him: "But this time the calyx of death's bounty gave back neither scattered chapter nor livid hieroglyph." The allusion is to "At Melville's Tomb," but as prose it sounds like a canceled passage by Sir Thomas Browne.) The aggrieved reader's fondest delusion is that a critic's sidelong errors undermine a disagreement about taste; yet don't we prefer Eliot's opinions, despite his habitual misquotation, to the arguments of some bozo supported by quotes correct to the last nicety? That doesn't make the errors less embarrassing.
I had written that, after the failure of The Bridge, the "hope for a homegrown American epic...has never entirely revived." Mariani took exception to this, citing the long poems written since Crane's death by Williams, Olson, Berryman, and Lowell. I hadn't meant the idea to be contentious—the ruin of The Bridge cast a long shadow over long poems for a long while. In a way, it casts that shadow still. Will we ever have a truly American epic, a poem of American history? (I mean one that's any good.) I love passages in The Cantos and think Leaves of Grass the foundation of modern American verse, but The Cantos is hardly homegrown (the poem remembers America from London and Paris and Rapallo), and Leaves of Grass is not an epic but a collection of lyrics. Shakespeare's sonnets are not an epic, either.
The idea of the Great American Poem no longer seduces young poets the way the Great American Novel, that will-o'-the-wisp, still haunts American novelists. (The Great American Novel has already been written, and it is called Moby-Dick.) Because they have usually failed so badly, we forget how many long poems have been written in this country—who except at gunpoint would reread Delmore Schwartz's autobiographical epic, Genesis, Book One (Book One!), or the leaden historical poems of Archibald MacLeish or Selden Rodman? For Lowell, for Berryman, for many another, the long poem became a scatter of disconnected lyrics. That was Crane's legacy.
A second letter to the Times, from the poet and editor Daniel Halpern, grumbled that "in this era of conflict, when America can use all the good poetry it can find, it's dispiriting to encounter a reviewer who uses one of our most important reviewing venues to exercise an organ of bile." How poets like Crane are going to make readers feel better about a dirty and unpopular war is beyond me; but the unstated premise is even odder—criticizing poets is all right in peacetime; but, when the artillery begins to boom, critics should shut up. Halpern believes that "poetry is what people turn to during times of duress and celebration—marriage, death, 9/11—that is, our rites of passage." I'm not sure how the destruction of the World Trade Center qualifies as a rite de passage. As for such high-flown hopes for poetry, well, wouldn't it be pretty to think so?
Halpern groused that "when the Library of America takes on as part of its mandate the showcasing of essential American poets like Hart Crane, we look to our reviewers to address the importance of the poet's writing, not his lifestyle." A publisher would be gratified if reviewers assumed that every book under its imprint were beyond criticism. Halpern also reproached me for "disingenuously ignoring the memorable ending" of Crane's hapless little poem "Chaplinesque":
but we have seen
The moon in lonely alleys make
A grail of laughter of an empty ash can,
And through all sound of gaiety and quest
Have heard a kitten in the wilderness.
A grail of laughter? A kitten in the wilderness? I failed to quote these lines because they're embarrassing—I don't see why they don't seem embarrassing to Halpern. Crane sent the poem to Chaplin, who kindly acknowledged it. Late one night, a couple of years later, a friend dragged Chaplin to the poet's apartment. "Having learned this," I wrote, "a hundred American poets will begin odes to Angelina Jolie." Halpern claimed that this was "delusional," a sign of the critic's "self-importance." A critic learns that no joke is so obvious someone will fail to get it, but I have it on good authority that seventy-seven American poets have now written such odes and anxiously await the results. Even so, Halpern was right that I hadn't quoted enough Crane, nor enough of the best of Crane—sometimes a critic sees everything but the obvious, and in revising the review I included lines from one of the most beautiful of Crane's poems, "Voyages III."
One reader accused me of slighting young women when I wrote that Crane made young men want to write poetry—yet I didn't want to ignore the fact that, in my experience, his audience remains largely male. (I take this as a sign that women have less taste for gassy romantic rhetoric.) Many readers tasked me for writing too much about Crane's life and too little about his art. Some assumed that I disapproved of his fondness for sailors. During the war, my own father was a sailor on the New York docks; had Crane survived and picked him up for some rough trade, I'd have been flattered. "How many sailors is too many?" asked one reader privately, apropos my remarks on Crane's love life. The answer is, it's too many when they start to beat you up.
The book under review consisted of a hundred and fifty pages of Crane's poetry and more than five hundred pages of his letters. Unlike many poets, Crane stands revealed in biography. It's difficult to ignore the life when you read the letters, because the messiness of daily living so often interfered with the art. Crane's wheedling, his inflated self-opinion (wildly in advance of any real achievement), his self-pity, his difficult relations with his mother and father, his plagiarism of Samuel Greenberg—surely these lie at an interesting angle to the art, even if, in the end, we have nothing but the art by which to judge the achievement. Letters should never be taken as gospel. I have my doubts that writing poetry was quite as painful or time-consuming as Crane made it out to be—the complaints to his parents sound like the exaggerations of a young man short of cash and the complaints to his friends like the excuses of an alcoholic. Crane always knew how to play on his reader's sympathy, at least until he got what he wanted. If the letters are unmemorable as literature, compared to those of Byron, or Coleridge, or Keats, or many another, they are riveting as the record of a striking and fame-hungry young man trying to make his way in New York.
Happy readers are all alike; every unhappy reader is unhappy in his own way. Yet I could not help but feel, knowing how infuriated I had made these lovers of Crane, that I had misunderstood the passions he still excites. There's something in this poet (in the life as much as the art) that calls forth the protective instinct in his readers, as well as an exaggerated sense of his loss, which Mariani called "unbearably tragic." Crane's death was sad, but not tragic—he was the author of his fate in a way few men are, but he was no Oedipus or Hamlet. It's not just that Crane was young, though poets who die prematurely, especially by suicide, often find readers who believe the world has done them wrong. (Though why not think that in all sorts of ways Crane and Plath did the world wrong?) If he had lived a lot longer and written a lot more, we might think much less of him.
Many readers want vision rather than poetry; and cold analysis of Crane's vague rhetoric, his naive sentiment, and his semi-religious adolescent yearning is not to their taste. A reader upset by a review often invokes higher authorities, roughly in this order: his own good taste, the taste of the mob, the taste of other critics, the taste of God—and all except the taste of God were invoked by these letter writers. Crane's prophetic zeal, his sense of his own destiny as well as that of his country (sometimes he mistook one destiny for the other), seems to give his words numinous meaning:
I feel persuaded that here are destined to be discovered certain as yet undefined spiritual quantities, perhaps a new hierarchy of faith not to be developed so completely elsewhere. And in this process I like to feel myself as a potential factor.
The poem he wanted to write was the Aeneid, to which he compared The Bridge. Some ambitions are disastrous.
The problem with taste is, yours is right and everyone else's is ridiculous. (I once knew a poet who, no matter how kind the reviews of his work, said that every specific complaint was "wrong.") Criticism is the exercise of taste under the guise of objectivity—the psychology of taste is such that few readers are perturbed when some mediocrity is praised, but mobs begin lighting torches when their favorites are ignored or damned. Yet criticism is surely most valuable when it argues against the grain—at least, the reader is likely to learn more from it, even if he disagrees down to his horny soles. We are forever grateful to a critic able to put into words something we have only vaguely felt. Barring that, a critic makes himself necessary to the extent that when reading him we whisper, "No! No! No!"
Critics are the sum of their biases—they begin as arbitraries and end as certainties (the course of my own criticism has sometimes been the other way round). You can't stand that ditherer Coleridge, she can't stand that whiner Keats, I can't stand that dry fussbudget Wordsworth, and we all hate Shelley—poets are Rorschach tests. If there's a negative case for Crane, it lies in all that waxy rhetoric, glossy on the outside and rotten within. Criticism, however put, can never harm Crane in the eyes of the devoted, because what such a critic despises is exactly what those readers adore.
Why make the case at all, then? Doesn't it harm that uplifting, ennobling, transcendent thing, poetry—the poetry people need and want and deserve, the poetry that in time of war raises the downtrodden spirit, the poetry that comforts the helpless in their distress and in their trial of spirit steels the weak? I once heard an undergraduate, a stack or two over in a faceless library, say plaintively, "What are you going to do about the Jesus in my heart?" What are you going to do about the poetry in my heart? If the critic were meant to offer solace, he would have taken up a different line of work. All he can do is record his feelings for the one or two readers willing to look again at Crane—the critic's job is not to pat the reader on the head and whisper sweet nothings in his ear.
However captious or confident a critic may be, even the lightest reading of the critical past shows that the mountains of one day may be molehills to another. Critic A and Critic B may disagree so strongly they threaten to cut each other's windpipes. A year may pass, or a hundred; and another critic will come along and say that a was right about such and such, and b about so and so, but that taken as a whole there was not much difference between them. When I look over the early reviews of Whitman, I agree with almost every obstreperous howl and every quiet reservation, yet mostly the critics missed the point. Such recognitions keep a critic awake at night.


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Outside the Château Frontenac, the scenic Terrasse Dufferin on the riverfront stages this invigoratingly fast toboggan slide all winter long. Toboggans accommodating up to four people are available for rent at the bottom.
Outside the Château Frontenac, the scenic Terrasse Dufferin on the riverfront stages this invigoratingly fast toboggan slide all winter long. Toboggans accommodating up to four people are available for rent at the bottom.
Your best chance at full French language immersion is on 'the Mountain' at Université de Montréal. Université de Montréal Adult Education Department has terrific programs that include night or weekend courses, courses in everything from beginners' French to Québec culture to advanced courses in written French.
While you're in Quebec City, don't miss a chance to see some of Canada's best wildlife on a whale-watching cruise! You'll travel to Baie-Sainte-Catherine by road and then board either a large, three-level observation boat or a small, open-air zodiac boat for an exciting escapade to look for whales, belugas, seals and other marine life.
Experience the magical atmosphere of Quebec City this holiday season on a gourmet food walking tour, with all tastings included. Visit eight local shops and restaurants to sample regional favorites including cheeses and meats, chocolates, pastries, apple cider and wine.
Experience the highlights of Quebec City on a sightseeing tour with a friendly, knowledgeable guide. Soak up the French charm of Old Quebec and be enchanted by the old-world atmosphere and stunning beauty of sites such as Place Royal, the Plains of Abraham and Place d'Armes.
This tour operator has a variety of tours from three-hour walking tours of the Old Port (adult/child $23/11) to 4½-hour tours out of town that take in the Montmorency waterfall and Ste-Anne-de-Beaupré (adult/child $50/26) or Île d'Orléans (adult/child $70/39).
École de langues de l'Université Laval is your best bet for learning French. It offers 15-week fall and winter courses or five-week spring and summer courses.
To get your bearings at Battlefields Park consider the 40-minute Abraham's Bus Tour around the park. An actor in period costume points out historical sites of interest and throws in some colorful asides.
Taste French food at its finest on this flavorful, small-group walking tour of Quebec City! Eat like a true local as your guide takes you to neighborhood gems where you will taste a variety of palate-pleasing regional specialties.
Take to the skies above Quebec City and surrounding areas in a hot air balloon to enjoy a bird's eye view of this charming and beautiful region. Take a sunrise flight to enjoy the city awaken at dawn, or choose a sunset flight for the tranquility of flying as the sun goes down.
Experience the period charm of Old Quebec on a two-hour guided walking tour of this historic city's many highlights. This leisurely paced, downhill walking tour is ideal for all visitors to Quebec City; families, individual travelers and small groups.
Relax on a Quebec City Dinner Cruise as enjoy a night of fine-dining and dancing. Dine on a delectable five-course dinner with wines to match as you cruise past enchanting Old Quebec. Dance the night away as the stars come out and the house band plays. Cast off for fine dining aboard the Louis Joillet, Quebec City's unique cruising restaurant.


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In an old mansion built in 1862, the Grand Hotel Continental and its restaurant Au Conti are welcoming you for 130years in a cosy, warm and sophisticated atmosphere.Located on the pedestrian city centre, next to the TGV railway station, nearby the Congress Centre and just a few minutes walking from the Cathedral Notre-Dame of Reims, Champagne Cellars and major tourist attractions in Reims, the Grand Hôtel Continental *** is the ideal place to stay for your business or holiday travel.
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A famous number in pro hockey history, Holzinger is a cog from days gone by that many Lightning fans would not associate with the number, let alone remember.
Why do I like hockey? Prepare for a journey through time and space, to a simpler world I call 1993.
Taylor Hall shows up in your arena, and bombards it until there's nothing left.
The number 18 has been worn by eighteen players for the Habs in over a 100 years of history, but only two make it to this list. Who wore it better?
It's the dog days of the off season, and a Sunday to boot. So what better way to occupy yourself than this awesome half hour recap of the 1993 Stanley Cup finals between the Habs and Kings?
Kane does his best Denis Savard impression.
A pair of injury infested teams meet up Thursday night, as the Montreal Canadiens visit the Pittsburgh Penguins.
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Detectives with the Poplar Bluff Police Department are investigating two alleged sexual assaults involving the same suspect.
According to Poplar Bluff Police, a woman told officers that on Thursday she was forced at gunpoint to drive to Poplar Bluff. She was reportedly held against her will at a residence in Poplar Bluff. The suspect allegedly sodomized the female one time.
Early Monday morning (12/31) a juvenile reported to police that, she had been sexually assaulted by an adult male.
Stephan "Wayne" Anderson, 30, of Poplar Bluff is wanted for questioning in both offenses.
At the time of these new offenses, Stephan Anderson was out on bond for charges of kidnapping, forcible rape, forcible sodomy and robbery stemming from a September 2012 incident.
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After finishing tied for second place in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association last season and finishing as runner-up in the 2013 WCHA Final Face-Off, the University of North Dakota women's hockey team was picked third in the conference preseason coaches' poll.
In addition, UND ranked fifth in the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine national preseason poll, receiving 100 points.
North Dakota returns 17 players from last year's squad that finished with a 26-12-1 overall record. Senior forward Michelle Karvinen returns as the career-points leader in the WCHA, having amassed 42 goals and 66 assists in 63 games.
Freshman defender Halli Krzyaniak received one vote for the WCHA Preseason Rookie of the Year. Krzyaniak enters UND having played her prep career at the Pursuit of Excellence Hockey Academy in Kelowna, British Columbia, and has competed with the Canadian Women's National Under-18 team.
North Dakota begins its season on Sept. 27 with an exhibition against Pursuit of Excellence at 7:07 p.m. UND then starts regular-season action the following weekend, hosting Lindenwood, Oct. 4-5.
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Fort Myers, Fla. - A complete team effort was the story that lead the FGCU women's soccer team to a 1-0 win over USC Upstate Sunday afternoon at the FGCU Soccer Complex to complete the inaugural home schedule at FGCU. With the victory the Eagles move to 11-6 (7-3 A-Sun) while the Spartans fall to 3-13 (1-9 A-Sun).
The Eagles managed 17 shots and the defense held the Spartans to only four, including only one in the second half, while freshman Kirsi Keenan (Boca Raton, Fla.) recorded the shutout, making two saves. "Today we came out and responded after Friday night's loss," Head Coach Jim Blankenship said.
The Eagle attack was lead by sophomore Amber McCall (Fort Myers, Fla.), freshmen Kelly Sherriff (Coral Springs, Fla.) and Lindsay Haw (Palm City, Fla.) who combined for 11 of the 17 shots.
Though keeping the pressure on the Spartans for the entire game, the Eagles didn't take the lead until 21:16 of the 2nd half when Sherriff sent her free kick screaming by Spartans goalie Brittany Daughtry (Smithfield, NC.). The goal would stand up and the Eagles defeated the Spartans 1-0.
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Has anyone eliminated the ACR in a Kohler K series engine. Just curious. I'm cleaning a 10 HP engine from a 105 in preparation to rebuild it and was just wondering if the ACR can be eliminated without great consequence.
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I have a 100 that had a 2 piece cam from the factory. It did not have a compression release. The starter could hardly spin the motor. I replace the 2 piece cam with a newer 1 piece cam and haven't had any problems since.
Your 105 and my 100 have the same starter-generator system. My 100 has a new wire harness and the starter generator was rebuilt.
Why do you want to eliminate the ACR? There won't be any noticable power increase.
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I have no reason to remove the ACR other than fewer moving parts. My feeble mind was just wondering, and I think you verified what I was thninking that the starter generator would barely turn the engine without ACR.
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The ACR is there for the purpose of getting the engine to spin fast enough to start. The 7 HP with the 2 piece cam have a spark advance that don't let the spark fire till it reaches TDC which throws the piston down in a hurry so if you have enough battery to get it to TDC they fire on the second turn and usually don't even have to choke them. The points in a 7 HP must be set correctly and it's very hard to use a timing light on the 7 HP. I have a 7 HP TEST engine that I set the points and then take the push rod and the points and put them in my other 7 HP. I only did it one time but my 128 wouldn't start and that engine had been running hot ever since I got it. I took the points out of the Test engine and the 128 started up and didn't run hot using it to cut my grass this year.
If I set the points on my test engine the come out about .020(the setting don't change taking them out) and the cam and push rod aren't worn that engine should be set very close to .020. I want to try that on some other tractors to see how close the timing comes to the S with a timing light.
The ACR's don't have much problems except for having a spring come off or the PO started to bend the ACR which was adjustable on the early models, They changed the ACR tab to one that would break on later models f you tried to bend it. It's a good system and don't cause many problems. The slow turning can be caused ba a lot of other things.
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