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First things first: I'm all for animal rights. And some of the largest hunting organizations are also the biggest conservators of wetlands and open space. And no matter how hard we try, at the end of the day we can't bag every last duck. And so those wetlands will thrive and keep species alive because hunters were the only people to step up. That is a fact.
But I guarantee you that if that coyote was trying to eat Muffin or some other small rodent, my whole family and Terrence would be screaming "SHOOT!!!" Who decides which animals are worth more than a coyote? Is there a wallet-size reference chart for this, or maybe a secret committee somewhere?
I mean, it's fine if you want to believe all that environmental stuff. I'm not going to stop you. But if you're going to be confrontational and shove it in my face you'd better be ready to back it up. I mean, he drove a hybrid -- why didn't he go all-electric? Doesn't he care about the environment? And they still had to mine the metals for his car, so why doesn't he just ride the bus? And they have to cut down trees to make bus passes, so that's out, and since bikes require metal and rubber too, why doesn't he just walk everywhere? Barefoot, of course, since they also use evil plastic and polyester to make shoes.
If you show up to my house in a hybrid and then yell at me about the environment, I'm going to get in your face. If you show up barefoot and dirty and yell at me about the environment, I'm...well, I'm probably still going to get in your face. But I might respect you a little bit more. Maybe. Your chances increase if you show up with Broncos tickets. And they definitely decrease if you're a guy coming to pick up one of my daughters.
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Rest in peace dave and may God bless you. Hope you enjoy heaven
R.I.P. Dave. I hope you now have the peace you didn't have before.
I too had a friend of mine that played for the Jets in the 80's, Tom Baldwin. He too took his own life. Very sad indeed.
His downward spiral started in the incident at the Morris Inn on the campus of the University of Notre Dame - the altercation with his wife resulted in disgrace and ND dumping him from the board and blacklisting him. That's the thanks he got from ND. If it wasn't for how ND treated him, I am convinced he would not have spiraled downward like he did. So sad, so very very sad.
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On friday, I was taking care of a very elderly person, who was knocking on death's door. Pts respirations were 5 per minute. Pt has had these breathing episodes a few times over the last few days. Family stated pt was in pain,... Read More
- 0Mar 11, '07 by ertravelrnWhat you did was right, and you put a lot of thought into it. My own experience was a Dr that wouldn't let my MIL come home on hospice......his stance was life at all costs, so he finally had to d/c her home, but only gave enough meds for two days, making sure we brought her back to the hospital.....we contacted hospice and they helped us locate a Dr that would take her on as a patient and assist us in caring for her, with dignity, and with the amount of pain meds she needed. She also was breathing 5 times a min, and for a while only 4 times a min, and we felt for sure we were going to kill her with the pain meds, but she actually slept all night, breathing easier and woke up and ate breakfast.......granted it was the last good spell she had, but it was nice to have it.
- 0Mar 12, '07 by fr.dadGooey,
I, too, agree it was right to give the med. Your intention was to ease the pain you thought the pt. was in. Such palliative care is absolutely ethical in end of life situations, in spite of risk for depressed respiration.
You said it was your "gut feeling that the patient was not comfortable." Many others have written encouragingly about following your gut. I suspect a careful and thorough examination of all you observed, combined with all you knew at the time about your patient's history would show that you actually had enough clues for your 'gut' to pick up on, causing you to believe your patient was not comfortable, even though your conscious mind was not picking up on those same clues.
Wouldn't this sort of situation be so much easier for caregivers to deal with if all patients had written out advance care directives/living wills addressing this issue directly? Mine says I request pain control even if it should hasten my dying. Although no one can force people to write out their final instructions, both health care professionals and chaplains can encourage and assist them to do so before the time of crisis. We all ought to be educating and encouraging people whenever we get an appropriate opportunity.
Gooey -- do not misunderstand. This call for education and encouragement is not directed at your deathbed scenario. It needs to happen much earlier, while the pt. can still express an informed decision. You did the right thing for your pt.
- 0May 9, '07 by twotrees2Quote from GooeyRNin my opinion it was still a hippa violation - if the priests name was not on the contact list we use for those that need to be told stuff- no matter what the priest knew from the family - it was not your place - especially out in public to tell the priest anything - if he is on the list then you have the right to talk to him at the placce the resident is at not out in public.I did give it. But not before discussing it with the priest. (I did call him in, since the pt belongs to our parish, and the priest has been there to visit him daily) I still felt pretty sick afterwards. The pt did not die that evening, I don't know if he will still be there tonight. At the weekend mass, the priest did stop me after mass and we discussed it in quite detail. (not breaking hipaa, the priest probably knew more about the pts condition than I did) Basically, the priest picked up the same feeling about the family. But since MY intent was to make him comfortable, it was ok to give. It would have not been ok if my intent was to end his life. Unfortunatly, its a very small hospital, with no ethics group or hospice or anything like that.
Thank you all for making me feel better about my decision to give the med.
most people will say the same thing - i know i might - in distress not really meaning to "kill" someome but that they just really want to see the patient comfortable and if that means they die in the process many people are more aware that that is OK - they know it "may help it along" but to not do it and let them be in pain to live a few more days would be cruel.
i would anbd have many times done the same thing you did - i used toi get teased at my last job as i had quite a few hospice pts and i had like 4 people in 2 yrs die at shift change shortly after i had given em morphine supp - the night nurse would say its ok " you killed them with kindness and comfort" - noone truly meant anyone "killed" anyone- it is hard to let pts go though - so i undestand your feelings.
(ps) i am sayig i agree that you did right giving the med - and i understand your feelings cause after many yrs it is still hard to "let go" for me - though i do - i just feel that discussing the pt with the priest after mass without family permission or family being there was not the proper thing to do, no matter how much the priest knew from the family. it could in some instance cause a nurse trouble if it had been done with the wrong people - i guess im just saying be careful what you say and to who.Last edit by twotrees2 on May 9, '07 : Reason: clarifying


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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Subtly breathtaking and poetic--one of my top 100 books of a lifetime
In this spectacularly subtle novel, Giller prizewinner Elizabeth Hay (for Late Nights on Air) braids family history and natural history, and paints an intricate, beguiling portrait of rural Canadian life in Saskatchewan and in the Ottawa Valley. Spanning the years 1927-2007, it opens up with the brutal murder of young schoolgirl Ethel Wier in 1937 Argyle (Ottawa Valley),...
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2.0 out of 5 stars Boring!
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Elizabeth Hay's highly acclaimed, national bestseller now in a deluxe paperback edition.
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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Principal, Teacher, Student Triangle on the Canadian Prairies,
Nicola Mansfield (Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Alone in the Classroom (Hardcover)
Reason for Reading: I've been interested in reading this author for a while now and haven't got around to it yet. The early 1930's and the Saskatchewan setting pulled me into starting off with her latest book.
An excellent book! Though a hard one to describe. The plot has many layers and is meandering to the point where it is not exactly what drives the book. The book is most certainly character driven and the relationships between these characters are what propels the story along. The story covers the time period from 1929 to 2008 and focuses on one Connie Flood, a school teacher, journalist, traveler; a woman of independence who takes lovers as she wants them and lives life to its fullest according to her small needs though she has a large presence. The book is told from the point of view of Connie's niece, who is telling the story from the first person, looking back telling a tale of which she is omniscient from each individual character's thoughts and feelings. This pov was hard to get used to, I must admit. The narrator only appears in the beginnings of the story a few times and when the word "I" is used I found it confusing to remember that "I" was not Connie but the narrator, Anne. This becomes more clear a little over half way through the book when Anne actually becomes a character in the story but then the flipping from near past to far past with this continued point of view still felt unusual to me. Now, it's not that I was totally annoyed with the pov, it was just hard to remember who was telling the tale, and it did slow down my reading speed.
The characters and their relationships, mostly triangles, are what make this book such an enticing, intense read. First of all, the element that brings all the persons together and moves the plot along is the brutal, unrelated, deaths of two young girls some years apart. The same character's are around at these times and this is what sets Anne off into investigating her aunt's past, perhaps to solve an unsolved crime. I've discussed Connie and Anne, but also there are two men to round out the main characters. Parley Burns, school teacher, principal, refined, detached, strict, perhaps mentally unstable, who has feelings for Connie. Secondly Michael, an older student at the school, not much younger than Connie herself who is slow and ridiculed as such; he is what would have been called dyslexic in the future, but not mentally challenged at all, and Connie takes a shine to him in trying to teach him to read. In fact, they take a shine to each other. The triangles that shape the book are principal, teacher, student then later on husband, wife and lover, a chance meeting turns us to aunt, niece, lover and in the background there is even grandmother, mother, daughter to overcome in the end.
A wonderfully written book, I enjoyed tremendously with characters that will remain with me, especially Parley and Michael; but a slow-paced meandering read that will take your attention to appreciate fully.
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Subtly breathtaking and poetic--one of my top 100 books of a lifetime,
"switterbug" Betsey Van Horn (Austin, Texas) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Alone in the Classroom (Hardcover)
In this spectacularly subtle novel, Giller prizewinner Elizabeth Hay (for Late Nights on Air) braids family history and natural history, and paints an intricate, beguiling portrait of rural Canadian life in Saskatchewan and in the Ottawa Valley. Spanning the years 1927-2007, it opens up with the brutal murder of young schoolgirl Ethel Wier in 1937 Argyle (Ottawa Valley), a silver pail of chokecherries spilled near her bruised and battered body, half-full, and the other pail empty.
This tragedy unfolds not in isolation, but connects gradually to a confluence of other markers in the history of the Flood family, and the land, and culminates in an unbearably beautiful graveyard scene that encompasses various strands and prongs of multi-generational lives.
"You touch a place and thousands of miles away another place quivers. You touch a person and down the line the ghosts of relatives move in the wind."
Historian and writer Anne Flood takes a back seat in the first two-thirds of the novel, relating the story of her fiercely independent aunt and schoolteacher, Connie Flood, a woman of "unzipped, risqué fun." This also signals the incipient events of Connie's family commingling with Anne's. And at the library, Anne stumbles across some facets of history that have fallen into the crevices of time.
"...a child discovers something the parent has neglected to tell her and brings it into view again, naming it and locating it and establishing its importance." And this is the thematic thrust of the novel.
Sentient life is thickly threaded with the landscape, from the fertile marshland to the ripe vegetation, the narrow dirt roads and woody smells of childhood, the wide flat rocks and wildflowers, the dry and liquid movement of the seasons.
"Here is the country not in its Sunday best, but in its old clothes, unpaved, unfenced, full of character, ungroomed, unvisited, barely penetrable."
Connie is the centerpiece for much of the novel, along with the two male characters that affected her deeply, but in different ways. "Parley" Ian Burns, the principal and schoolteacher that she worked with in 1929 in Saskatchewan, when she was just eighteen, both repulsed and attracted her. She ran into him again in 1937, when she was a journalist in Ottawa. Both times, Parley was close by a tragedy that occurred locally. Nothing to pin on him, except his nature.
"All around her was the curdled essence of this clever man, who found ways to bind you to him, to get you into his pot, where you simmered."
Burns was an inscrutable, fastidious Francophile who was thwarted by his own failed achievements as an actor and playwright, and used his authority and wolfish charm to terrorize the students and magnetize the teachers. Connie sympathized with him at intervals, when he revealed himself in ways that brought out pity and sorrow in her heart. She gave him the benefit of the doubt for a while, and then a tragic incident with a schoolgirl brought about a summary exit of characters from this county.
"The town doesn't exist anymore. It rose overnight from whole grass into wooden sidewalks, railway station, grain elevators, houses, stores, churches, school. Then life rubbed the other way and the pattern disappeared."
Parley had staged a theatrical version of Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles, with the willowy thirteen-year-old Susan Graves as the lead. He was a brazen, ruthless director, able to bring out the animal, erotic facets of the story, and ripen Susan into a purposeful actress, a "sunned cat" of a Tess--the physical transformation of a young girl. However, he maintained his hold on her after the play, with a staggering crescendo.
Michael Graves--Susan's brother--was a dyslexic student before dyslexia was even recognized, and his broody, outdoor intelligence and artistic sense earned Connie's respect and compassion when he was fourteen years-old and struggling with words. He was one year older than Susan but three grades behind, and his self-esteem was nil until Connie helped bolster his enthusiasm for learning and participating in the classroom.
"A child lies like a grey pebble on the shore until a certain teacher picks him up and dips him in water, and suddenly you see all the colours and patterns in the dull stone..."
As events move along, the intersections of time and tragedies, students and teachers, historians and artists, past and present, and memories and absences fall into place. And always the land. The landscape is an intoxicating character in this book.
Anne eventually becomes a more active character in the story as well as the historian. This is a slow, gradual cohesion, not a narrative meant for anticipation or epiphanies, not a story centered on plot. Characters and themes glue the story together. It is driven by its own poetic odyssey of land and civilization, nature and generations.
I have never been this compelled to quote so much from a book in a review, but as is stated so well in the story, "A sentence bears the weight of the world." Every sentence in this rare and polished story is like a pure, clear drop of water, and every drop spreads into the next, and the next, like a current, forming a flowing river of words that course into the mouth of the story.
It would be impossible to cover this novel adequately in a brief review, as there are several characters, movements and kaleidoscopic shifts and turns that bring the story into focus, and several changes that may or may not appeal to some readers, but amass sensually and delicately. There is more a nexus of theme than of story--it is found within its infrastructure. Perhaps the difficulty in identifying the story's core could be summed up within Anne's reflection that:
"There is such intricate movement in things as they happen and such stiffness and resistance when you go back and try to reconstruct them." However, in Hay's hands, there is no stiffness or resistance; it is full of soul, and the essence of people and the land.
This is a story most appreciated by reading it twice, with a slow, patient, and languid turning of pages. It is a meditative, seeping novel, an exquisite story of the narrowness and infinity of humanity and family, of generations and ties, of obsession and passion, of things unseen but powerfully registered.
There is a deep and reaching symmetry, although it could also be said that it has an asymmetry. That statement and its apparent contradiction isn't a flip remark--its paradoxical implications are felt and can be reconciled after the book is read. Also, much that is oblique comes into view and into the reader's consciousness gradually, or with a multiple readings and reflections.
There are triangles of fate and unrestrained destinies. As Connie asserts, we carry the past forward, even when things and people are obliterated. Take this book to a quiet corner, and experience its unhurried grace. It will marinate in your consciousness and nourish your literary soul long after the book is closed. Hay has constructed a dynamic and towering work that keeps on giving.
27 of 30 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Memory maps,
Friederike Knabe "Books are funny little port... (Ottawa, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Alone in the Classroom (Hardcover)
With her new novel 'Alone in the Classroom', Elizabeth Hay is taking us on a journey into an inner world that is, at least in one aspect or another, familiar to all of us. Each of us has been 'alone in the classroom', just staring at walls or out of a window, struggling with a crucial test; or, emotionally alone, subdued, frightened... in front of a teacher or a principal. It is often said that memories of (positive or negative) school situations are among the most vivid recollections we carry with us through the rest of our lives. Learning life's lessons, re-discovering the past, memorable individuals and relationships, are at the core of Hay's beautifully crafted and deeply affecting novel. With her gentle touch, exquisitely perceptive observations, expressed in a richly imaginative and poetic language, Hay brings her characters to life as complex individuals, who can be nurtured or harmed by those whose paths they cross, again and again, as if they were all entangled in a loosely, or sometimes tightly, knotted net of relationships. Be they teacher or pupil, lover, friend or foe, or family, they share intimate bonds that filter through several generations.
The novel opens with one of several disturbing and tragic events: One day in August 1937, thirteen-year-old Ethel Weir wandered off by herself to pick chokecherries that grew abundantly in the brush at the edge of the woods near her home in the Ottawa Valley. By sunset she was found, viciously murdered. Many years later, Anne, the first-person story teller, has returned to the town, the place of her mother's childhood, to retrace what happened that day and in the weeks and months that followed. "Stories from her past draw me on", she muses. "The shadows of the underbrush, the evening light and imminent sorrow, until I stumble on what I've been looking for without quite knowing what it was..." In her mind she will connect this heartbreaking event with other incidents, some painful, tragic, others hopeful, beginning with what occurred nine years earlier in the small town of Jewel in southern Saskatchewan...
At one level, 'Alone in the Classroom' is very much a "family tale". Through Anne's unearthing, rearranging and retelling the many memory snippets, the family chronicle evolves into something different, a deeper, more complex and wide-ranging story. She compares herself to "a child [that] discovers something the parent has neglected to tell her and brings it into view again, naming it and locating it and establishing its importance." As we follow Anne's quest into the past, we discover a many-layered tapestry, made up of strands of close relationships between individuals and the places they lived in. Central to her search is her much admired aunt, Connie, "full of stories and laughs, [...] risqué, unzipped, fun". Connie was not always like that, of course, not when she started her first teaching position at the age of 18 in Jewel in 1929. She was inexperienced, insecure, and as much fascinated and attracted as nervous and even repulsed by the new principal, "Parley" Ian Burns. There was something dark and unsettling about Parley that made her watchful and uneasy. "Parley was the volcano that rearranged land and air" she would tell Anne later, "females displeased him as much as they pleased him." Very early Anne drops an ominous hint: "Given what Parley Burns did and what happened to him in the end, Connie never tired of mulling over what kind of person he was deep down." However, Parley is not the only man Connie kept "mulling over". Others also leave a deep and long lasting mark on her... One of those will eventually bind Connie and Anne in more ways than one. And Anne, gently, has moved from observer to active participant in the story.
Hay's novel is rich in characters that each occupy an important place in the novel. However, the events that bring them together are spread over several decades and are so much intertwined that it is impossible to delve into these in a review without revealing too much of the novel's content. Yet, the dramatic events and scenarios, while vividly evoked and well developed in themselves, do not necessarily represent the foreground of the novel, at least for me. Rather, they are woven, like vivid and colourful threads into the fabric of the narrative. They can be understood as time specific snapshots or illustrations, designed to capture the essence of the central characters, thereby enriching Anne's and our understanding of the influences they had on each other and their surroundings and, in some cases, on the next generation and her. "[Anne] thought about Connie's view that we carry the past forward even when people and things are obliterated." Towards the end of the novel the narrative circle takes us back to a reflection made at the beginning: "So interwoven are the strands of human life and so rich is the loam in which we lie that the same cemetery holds my grandmother and Ethel Weir and the man accused of her murder and the principal who knew them all, the bane of Connie's existence and therefore an abiding interest of mine."
In essence, Hay's novel can be described as a richly imagined, finely structured, and lyrically rendered psychological detective story as much as a "family tale". Like imagining a memory map, we are invited to connect the people and their stories, in either direct or indirect ways. "...maps may look stationary, but boundaries shift, worlds open up, other worlds and civilizations pass away. And none of us is stuck or alone, because coursing through us is everything that brought us to where we are." Readers will relate in different ways to this kind of novel. For me, it is a book that I wanted to savour slowly, stepping back and retracing some of the clues left earlier to connect the past with the present and, in particular, to ponder the many extraordinary perceptive reflections and images that make this book so special. [Friederike Knabe]
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars Boring!,
Louise Jolly "Bookaholic" (Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Alone in the Classroom (Paperback)
McClelland & Stewart|April 10, 2012|Trade Paperback|ISBN: 978-0-7710-3797-9
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Elizabeth Hay's highly acclaimed, national bestseller now in a deluxe paperback edition.
Hay's runaway bestseller novel crosses generations and cuts to the bone of universal truth about love and our relationship with the past. In 1930, a school principal in Saskatchewan is suspected of abusing a student. Seven years later on the other side of the country, a girl picking wild cherries meets a violent end. These are only two of the mysteries in the life of the narrator's charismatic aunt, Connie Flood.
As the narrator Anne pieces together her aunt's lifelong attachment to her former student Michael Graves, and her obsession with Parley Burns, the inscrutable principal implicated in the assault of Michael's younger sister, her own story becomes connected with that of the past, and the triangle of principal, teacher, student opens out into other emotional triangles - aunt, niece, lover, mother, daughter, granddaughter - until a sudden, capsizing love changes Anne's life. Alone in the Classroom is Elizabeth Hay's most tense, intricate, and seductive novel yet.
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Hmm....what to say about this book. I'm not really sure I enjoyed it all that much, I think being nosy more than anything is what kept me reading until the end rather the story itself. I was more interested in finding out the ending to this Parley Burns character who I absolutely despised. I just wanted, wished, needed this man to meet a fateful end and kept reading for that reason alone. I found the story quite mundane and slow going and not all that interesting and don't understand all the hype I heard about this novel. This is the second Elizabeth Hay novel I've read and had difficulty reading both so I think I'm done with this author.
Perhaps you will enjoy it and think it to be the greatest the story ever. All I can say is "to each his own."
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A journey through a remarkable woman's life,
Mairin Brennan "mollyarn" (Toronto, ON Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Alone in the Classroom (Hardcover)
Elizabeth Hay has done it again! Alone in the Classroom is an addictive read but very different from Late Nights on the Air. The story unravels slowly and then circumstances and events catch you unprepared. I was hooked and then could not put it down. I must say that I prefered the beginning and the story of Connie rather than the story of the niece at the end, but I can't fault Hay for this because the story is so compelling even at the end. Ottawa and the valley is the setting for most of the book, although the beginning takes place in Saskatchewan. Hay has sealed her fate as one of Canada's 'must read' novelists with Alone in the Classroom.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars A letdown.,
This review is from: Alone in the Classroom (Hardcover)
To quote the review by the Globe and Mail of this book, "Alone in the Classroom is meant to be read slowly, or even better, read twice." I agree with this statement, but only because I found the book to be so utterly confusing that I found, page after page, I had to go back and reread what I have just read in order to vaugely grasp where the story was going. The authour seemed to jump from one thought to the next, I believe, ultimately to paint a picture for the reader, but in doing so just caused confusion. More than half-way through the book did I realize that the narrator of the book was not the main character, but instead her niece. I consider myself to be well read and capable of unravelling a story as it comes, but I found that this one caused more headache than it was worth. I am surprised that I actually did finish reading the entire book, as many times I considered putting it down and walking away from it. If you are looking for a story which flows and paints clear pictures, this book is not the one to choose.
4.0 out of 5 stars mystery and love. The main focus here is the story of ...,
Ian Gordon Malcomson (Victoria, BC) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Alone in the Classroom (Hardcover)
Hay does a masterful job weaving the various strands of three generations of the Flood family as it moves across the Canadian landscape through eight decades of history that involves conflict, tragedy, mystery and love. The main focus here is the story of Connie Flood, a school teacher on the prairies during the late twenties. She is portrayed as a person very much in touch with her surroundings whether it be her immediate family, or students, or the natural world. She is, as Thomas Hardy once said, someone who noticed such things. One day, her life will be changed forever in the most sinister of ways. The principal of her school, the strange and dangerous Parley Burns, is alleged to have raped one of her young students, setting in motion an evolving mystery that will resonate for generations to come. This time, it will be many miles to the east in the Ottawa Valley where the disgraced Burns will resurface around the same time a young girl is brutally raped and murdered. There is a throughput to this story that will happen because Connie's niece, a historian, does the research and brings the tale into the present where the record will speak for itself. Justice will ultimately be served, old memories recovered, love pursued and honored, and fears finally put to rest. What I like most about this novel is that, once again, Hay shows her unique ability to write both in the poetic and prosaic style. Her lyrical description of the faraway back roads and dark woods of rural Canada serves as a poignant reminder that nature and its accompanying landscape holds in their grip the truth of the past that only humans can extract as they revisit them. I recommend this novel to anyone who has the patience to stick with the journey the author wants to take them on to get at the truth even if it means following the twists and turns of its main characters.
4.0 out of 5 stars The title doesn't do it poetic justice,
This review is from: Alone in the Classroom (Hardcover)
Came back to this author having read Late Nights a few years ago-
her writing insinuates into one's psyche and pervades
over the years.
As others have noted - the changes of voice in the story telling
is confusing and frustrates the reader.
Unlike Late Nights , the story didn't really pick up steam until about half way into the book.
The overall sentiment of the book reminds me of The Remains of the Day but with cryptic bits of
humor. Her insights into the human soul shimmer ,reflect and focus with beautiful
Such a serendipitous coincidence that there was a reference to PG Wodehouse at the very end of this book -his anthology happened to be lying on the bed
next to me which I ordered at the same time from Amazon.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars alone in the classroom,
This review is from: Alone in the Classroom (Paperback)
Found this a peculiar book. I felt confused some of the time, but still enjoyed it.Perhaps a more detailed summary would have helped
10 of 13 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing,
bookworm "cassandra44" (Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Alone in the Classroom (Hardcover)
I looked forward to reading this novel, having read many favourable reviews and also because I enjoyed her previous work.
I must say that I was very disappointed. After a promising opening the story meanders around in a very confusing way. Of course one could describe it more positively as "multi-layered" but the reality is that the reader is simply confused. Even the identity of the narrator isn't clear and it is only well into the book that one discovers it is being written from the perspective of Connie's niece, Anne.
The main characters, apart from Connie, never really came to life for me and that includes two major characters - the enigmatic older teacher Parley and the pupil Michael. I could never get "inside" the novel and at times I considered leaving it unfinished. I wish that I had since the ending was sudden and left many issues unresolved.
So disappointing! The promise of a novel that switches between the Ottawa Valley and rural Saskatchewan certainly seemed to offer promise but the reality is a very muddled, disjointed novel that never came to life. I cannot recommend this book but if you want to give it a try borrow it from the library.
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- Crochet hook: US size K/10.5 (6.5mm); tapestry needle (tn)
- Caron International's Feathers (65% acrylic / 35% nylon; 1.75oz / 50g, 70yd / 64m): 8 skeins #0009 Sandpiper
In pattern st, 5 [dc, ch 1] and 5 rows = 4"/10 cm
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- Ch 4; join with a sl st to first ch to form a ring.
- Row 1: Ch 4 (counts as tr), work 2 dc, 1 tr in ring, turn—4 sts.
- Row 2: Ch 4 (counts as tr, ch 1), work [1 dc in space between sts, ch 1] twice, work [dc, ch 1, tr] in turning ch (inc), turn—5 sts/4 ch-1 spaces.
- Row 3: Ch 4 (counts as tr ch-1), [dc, ch 1, dc] in first ch-1 space (inc), ch 1, * dc in next ch-1 space, ch 1; repeat from * to turning ch, work [dc, ch 1, tr] in turning ch (inc), turn—7 sts/6 ch-1 spaces.
- Repeat Row 3, increasing 2 sts each row until there are 83 sts/82 ch-1 spaces; do not break yarn, turn.
Continuing along upper edge, ch 1, work 1 sc in first ch-1 space, * 3 dc in next ch-1 space, sc in next ch-1 space; repeat from * to turning ch, end 1 sc in turning ch; do NOT break yarn, do NOT turn.
Ch 15, sc in same space as last sc (turning ch); continuing along side edge, * ch 15, sc in next space; repeat from * around, working [ch 15, sc in beginning ring] twice to turn the corner; join with a sl st to first sc of Shell edging.
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"Overall, we expect the device to provide an early line of defense against the wave of tablet competitors arriving in the coming months, and we expect the launch to represent a positive catalyst for Apple's stock," wrote Goldman analyst Bill Shope, in a note released on Sunday. "While the details on the upcoming iPad 2's specifications are scarce, we expect the device to represent an important upgrade."
Apple shares have risen 73% over the last 12 months to reach $354.15, although Shope reiterated his $450 price target and buy rating for the stock.The iPad, launched last year, has been a raging success, and the consumer tech giant already has sold more than 14.77 million tablets. The iPad also accounted for 75% of global tablet shipments during the December quarter, according to research recently released by Strategy Analytics. The rumor mill is already spinning with potential iPad 2 features, such as front and rear-facing cameras, Face Time video calling and an improved display. "It appears that Apple is once again pushing the technology envelope by making the device far thinner than the original iPad," added Shope, also predicting an updated processor and improved graphics capabilities. Teardowns revealed an A4 processor built by Samsung within the original iPad, which could be revamped for the iPad 2. There have also been rumors that the new iPad will come with a dual-core SGX543 graphics processor from Imagination Technologies. Shope, however, thinks that an iPad running on super-fast LTE telecom networks is still be some way off. "We expect the company to support both GSM and CDMA technology
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These were purchased for someone who is always cold. He likes them and when I felt the weight I was surprised. These are heavy. The pillow cases are cut small for a standard pillowcase with the Full Set. They should have been cut larger for a standard pillow. They have been washed twice and no problems. Other than the pillowcases being smaller than usual, this is a warm set of sheets, if you do not mind sleeping on flannel. The chocolate color was just that - a dark chocolate brown. Fit was fine.
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As a general rule, rap sequels aren't sequels at all—they're lazily conceived marketing ploys that fall into one of two categories: pathetic attempts to relive past glories or successful attempts to relive past glories. Full credit to Eminem, then, for crafting a sequel that relates to its predecessor in more than just name.
More than 13 years after the release of the diamond-selling The Marshall Mathers LP, this follow-up takes old songs in new directions and new songs in old ones. "Bad Guy" is a prime example of the former, adding a Dido-less chapter to "Stan" in which Matthew, Stan's little brother, seeks revenge. Elsewhere, Em edits past rhymes—"went to Burger King, they spit on my onion rings, I think my karma's coming back to me"—and steers old skits into ever-darker territory. For fans old enough to cherish the original MMLP, anachronisms like these are guaranteed highlights. But then there's that latter category: new songs taken in old directions.
With the notable exception of Slim Shady, The Marshall Mathers LP 2 sees Em's whole crew of incorrigible split-personas pile into the booth: cynically homophobic Eminem; adolescently angsty Eminem; bleating-on-the-hook-like-a-sheep-in-heat Eminem; angry, possibly mid-poo Eminem. These are the Ems behind Mathers's mid-career slide into wackness, and they sound worse than ever in the context of a purported return to peak form.
But there are flashes of brilliance here, too. On "Rap God," the 41-year-old cycles through styles—classic Eminem, Houston-inflected, faster-than-Fu-Schnicken—like a one-man playlist. And Kendrick Lamar's verse on "Love Game," elatedly rapped in the key of Em, forces Mathers to dig deep to play the role of master.
MMLP2 is a legitimate sequel—there are no gimmicks here. But like most sequels, it encounters another problem: it's just not as good as the first one.
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Hempel v. City of Baraboo was a 2005 decision of the Wisconsin Supreme Court which upheld a lower court order denying a records request made under the Wisconsin Open Records Law by Hal Hempel, a police officer of the Baraboo police department. Hempel sought records of an internal investigation conducted about allegations against him to the effect that he had harrassed female officers in the department. The police department believed that providing Hempel with the documents would have a chilling impact on its ability to investigate internal matters.
This case established that the intention and motivation for seeking records requests can be used when balancing the public interest in release of confidential material with the public interest in maintaining the material as exempt and protected.
The Wisconsin Professional Police Association writes that the decision "changed the contours of the State's Open Records Law."[1]
Justice Shirley Abrahamson issued a strongly-worded dissent, writing, "Faced with trying to craft a standard to cover this decidedly unexceptional case, the majority opinion ends up, despite its assertions, creating a rule that unfortunately can be applied in a broad array of cases to deny access to records."
Justices Ann Walsh Bradley and Louis Butler joined Abrahamson's dissent.
The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of both the trial court and the Wisconsin Court of Appeals.
One issue in the case was Hempel's motivation for seeking the documents. In his briefs, he stated that his actual motivation for seeking the documents was irrelevant. The state Supreme Court disagreed, saying, "In fact, requesters under the Open Records Law need not identify themselves, or state a purpose for their request. Wis. Stat. § 19.35(1)(i). When performing a balancing test, however, a records custodian almost inevitably must evaluate context to some degree."
One reason the court gave for denying Hempel access to the investigation report is that Police Chief Thomas Lobe had indicated that he might want to use the file should any future, similar, complaints be received against Hempel. This led the court to reason that even though Lobe had used the word "resolved" to describe the status of the original complaint, the police chief had also indicated he might use the original complaint. The court say this meant the records had the potential to be "a record 'maintained' in connection with a pending complaint," which is an established exception to the Wisconsin Open Records Law.
The Court also found that the City could legally refuse to disclose the documents because they included statements made by informants who were promised confidentiality for their cooperation in the internal investigation.
Under Wisconsin Open Records laws, an individual who makes an open records request for records containing personally identifiable information under Wis. Stat. § 19.35(1)(am) is entitled to inspect the records unless the surrounding facts fall within one or more of the statutory exceptions to paragraph (am). The majority deemed that one such exception was § 19.35(1)(am)1. which reads:
1. Any record containing personally identifiable information that is collected or maintained in connection with a complaint, investigation or other circumstance that may lead to an enforcement action, administrative proceeding, arbitration proceeding or court proceeding, or any such record that is collected or maintained in connection with such an action or proceeding.
The majority further noted that it need not engage in a "balancing test" (concerning the public interest in the release of such information) as the legislature already addressed this concern by enacting statutory exceptions.
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