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There was a time back in 1970 when they would love filling in a questionnaire.
Aidan might find one in a newspaper at a weekend. Are You a Thoughtful Husband? or possibly What Do You Know About Show Biz? They scored high on the answers to Are You Well Suited? and How Well Do You Treat Your Friends?
But that was long ago.
Nowadays if Nell or Aidan Dunne saw a list of questions, they didn't rush eagerly to fill them in and see how they scored. It would be too painful to answer How Often Do You Make Love? a More than four times a week? b Twice a week on average? c Every Saturday night? d Less than this? Who would want to acknowledge how very much less than this, and look up what kind of interpretation the questionnaire sages had applied to this admission?
The page would be turned nowadays if either of them saw a survey asking Are You Compatible? And there had been no row, no falling out. Aidan had not been unfaithful to Nell, and he assumed that she had not strayed either. Was it arrogant to assume this? She was an attractive-looking woman; other men would definitely find her worth a second glance, as they always had.
Aidan knew that a great many men were just smug and unobservant, and were genuinely astounded when it was proved that their wives had been having affairs. But Nell was different. Nell wouldn't meet anyone else, make love to another man. He knew her so well, he would know if this was the case. Anyway, where would she have met anyone? And if she had met someone she fancied, where would they have gone? No, it was a ludicrous idea.
Possibly everyone else felt like this. It could well be one of the things they didn't tell you about getting older. Like having aches and pains in the backs of your legs after a long walk, like not being able to hear or understand the lyrics of pop songs anymore. Maybe you just drifted apart from the person you had thought was the center of the world.
It was quite likely that every other man of forty-eight going on forty-nine felt the same. All over the world there could be men who wanted their wives to be eager and excited about everything. It wasn't only about lovemaking, it was about enthusiasm for other things as well.
It had been so long now since Nell had asked about his job, and his hopes and dreams in the school. There was a time when she had known the name of every teacher and many of the pupils, when she would talk about the large classes, and the posts of responsibility and the school excursions and plays, about Aidan's projects for the Third World.
But now she hardly knew what was happening. When the new minister for education was appointed, Nell just shrugged. I suppose she can't be worse than the last one, was her only comment. Nell knew nothing of the Transition Year except to call it a bloody luxury. Imagine giving children all that time to think and discuss and . . . find themselves . . . instead of getting down to their exams.
And Aidan didn't blame her.
He had become very dull explaining things. He could hear his own voice echoing in his ears, there was a kind of drone to it, and his daughters would raise their eyes to heaven wondering why at the ages of twenty-one and nineteen they should have to listen to any of this.
He tried not to bore them. Aidan knew it was a characteristic of teachers; they were so used to the captive audience in the classroom they could go on for far too long, approaching every subject from several sides until they were sure that the listener had grasped the drift.
He made huge efforts to key in to their lives.
But Nell never had any stories or any issues to discuss about the restaurant where she worked as a cashier. "Ah, for heaven's sake, Aidan, it's a job. I sit there and I take their credit cards, or their checks or their cash, and I give them change and a receipt. And then at the end of the day I come home and at the end of the week I get my wages. And that's the way it is for ninety percent of the world. We don't have issues and dramas and power struggles; we're normal, that's all."
It was not intended to wound him or put him down, but still it was a slap in the face. It was obvious that he himself must have been going on and on about confrontations and conflicts in the staff room. And the days were gone . . . obviously long gone, when Nell was waiting eagerly to know what had happened, always rooting for him, championing his cause and declaring that his enemies were her enemies. Aidan ached for the companionship, the solidarity, and the teamwork of other times.
Perhaps when he became principal it would return.
Or was this fooling himself? Possibly the headship would still hold little interest for his wife and two daughters. His home just ticked along easily. Recently he had an odd feeling that he had died some time ago and they were all managing perfectly well. Nell went to and from the restaurant. She went to see her mother once a week; no, Aidan needn't come, she had said, it was just a nice family chat. Her mother liked to see them all regularly to know they were all right.
"And are you all right?" Aidan had asked anxiously.
"You're not with the Fifth Years now doing amateur philosophy," Nell had said. "I'm as all right as anyone, I suppose. Can't you leave it at that?"
But of course Aidan couldn't leave it. He told her it wasn't amateur philosophy it was Introduction to Philosophy, and it wasn't Fifth Years, it was Transition Years. He would never forget the look Nell had given him. She had begun to say something but then changed her mind. Her face was full of distant pity. She looked at him as she might have looked at a poor tramp sitting on the street, his coat tied with a rope and drinking the dregs of a ginger wine bottle.
He fared no better with his daughters.
Grania worked in the bank but had little to report from it, to her father at any rate. Sometimes he came across her talking to her friends, and she seemed much more animated. And it was the same with Brigid. The travel agency was fine, Dad, stop going on about it. Of course it's fine, and the free holiday twice a year, and the long lunch hours because three girls covered two hours.
Grania didn't want to talk about the whole system of banking and whether it was unfair to encourage people to take loans that they would find difficult to repay. She didn't invent the rule, she told him, she had an In basket on her desk and she dealt with what was in it each day. That was it. Dead simple. Brigid didn't have any views on whether the travel trade was selling tourists some kind of dream it could never deliver. "Dad, if they don't want a holiday nobody's twisting their arms, they don't have to come in and buy one."
Aidan wished he were more observant. When had all this happened . . . this growing apart? There was a time when the girls had sat all clean and shiny after their bath time in pink dressing gowns while he told them stories and Nell would look on pleased from across the room. But that was years back. There had been good times since then. When they were doing their exams, for example, Aidan remembered doing out revision sheets for them, planning how they should study to the best advantage. They had been grateful then. He remembered the celebrations when Grania got her leaving certificate and later when she was accepted in the bank. There had been a lunch on each occasion in a big hotel, the waiter had taken photographs of them all. And it had been the same with Brigid, a lunch and a picture session. They looked a perfectly happy family in those pictures. Was it all a facade?
In a way it must have been, because here he was now only a few short years later and he could not sit down with his wife and two daughters, the people he loved most in the world, and tell them his fears that he might not be made principal.
He had put in so much time in that school, worked so many extra hours, involved himself in every aspect of it, and somewhere in his bones he felt that he would be passed over.
Another man, almost precisely his own age, might well get the post. This was Tony O'Brien, a man who had never stayed on after hours to support a school team playing a home match, a man who had not involved himself in the restructuring of the curriculum, in the fund-raising for the new building project. Tony O'Brien, who smoked quite openly in the corridors of a school that was meant to be a smoke-free zone, who had his lunch in a pub, letting everyone know it was a pint and a half and a cheese sandwich. A bachelor, in no sense a family man, often seen with a girl half his age on his arm, and yet he was being suggested as a very possible successor as head of the school.
Many things had confused Aidan in the last few years, but nothing as much as this. By any standards Tony O'Brien should not be in the running at all. Aidan ran his hands through his hair, which was thinning. Tony O'Brien, of course, had a huge shock of thick brown hair falling into his eyes and resting on his collar. Surely the world hadn't gone so mad that they would take this into consideration when choosing a principal?
Lots of hair good, thinning hair bad . . . Aidan grinned. If he could laugh at some of the worst bits of the paranoia, maybe he could keep self-pity at bay. And he would have to laugh to himself. Somehow there was no one else to laugh with these days.
There was a questionnaire in one of the Sunday papers: Are You Tense? Aidan filled in the answers truthfully. He scored over 75 on the scale, which he knew was high. He wasn't, however, quite prepared for the terse and dismissive verdict. If you scored over 70, you are in fact a clenched fist. Lighten up, friend, before you explode.
They had always said that these tests were just jokes really, space fillers. That's what Aidan and Nell used to say when they emerged as less well than they had hoped from a questionnaire. But this time, of course, he was on his own. He told himself that newspapers had to think of something to take up half a page, otherwise the edition would appear with great white blanks.
But still it upset him. Aidan knew that he was jumpy, that was one thing. But a clenched fist? No wonder they might think twice about him as headmaster material.
He had written his answers on a separate sheet of paper lest anyone in the family would find and read his confessional of worries and anxieties and sleeplessness.
Sundays were the days that Aidan now found hardest to bear. In the past when they were a real family, a happy family, they had gone on picnics in the summer and taken healthy, bracing walks when the weather was cold. Aidan boasted that his family would never be like those Dublin families who didn't know anywhere except the area they lived themselves.
One Sunday he would take them on a train south and they would climb Bray Head and look into the neighboring county of Wicklow, another Sunday they would go north to the seaside villages of Rush and Lusk and Skerries, small places, each with its own character, all on the road that would eventually take them up to the Border. He had arranged day excursions to Belfast for them too, so that they would not grow up in ignorance of the other part of Ireland.
Those had been some of his happiest times, the combination of schoolteacher and father, explainer and entertainer. Daddy knew the answer to everything: where to get the bus out to Carrickfergus Castle, or the Ulster Folk Museum, and a grand place for chips before getting on the train back home.
Aidan remembered a woman on the train telling Grania and Brigid that they were lucky little girls to have a daddy who taught them so much. They had nodded solemnly to agree with her, and Nell had whispered to him that the woman had obviously fancied Aidan but she wasn't going to get her hands on him. And Aidan had felt twelve feet tall and the most important man on earth.
Now on a Sunday he felt increasingly that he was hardly noticed in his home.
They had never been people for the traditional Sunday lunch, roast beef or lamb or chicken and great dishes of potatoes and vegetables, the way so many other families were. Because of their outings and adventures, Sunday had been a casual day in their home. Aidan wished that there was some fixed point in it. He went to Mass. Nell sometimes came with him, but usually she was going on somewhere afterward to meet one of her sisters or a friend from work. And, of course, nowadays the shops were open on Sundays, so there were plenty of places to go.
The girls never went to Mass. It was useless to talk to them. He had given up when they were seventeen. They didn't get up until lunchtime and then they made sandwiches, looked at whatever they had videotaped during the week, lounged around in dressing gowns, washed their hair, their clothes, spoke on the phone to friends, asked other friends in for coffee.
They behaved as if they lived in a flat together with their mother as a pleasant, eccentric landlady who had to be humored. Grania and Brigid contributed a very small amount of money each for bed and board, and handed it over with a bad grace, as if they were being bled dry. To his knowledge they contributed nothing else to the household budget. Not a tin of biscuits, a tub of ice cream, or a carton of fabric softener ever came from their purses, but they were quick to grizzle if these things weren't readily available.
Aidan wondered how Tony O'Brien spent his Sundays.
He knew that Tony certainly didn't go to Mass, he had made that clear to the pupils when they questioned him: "Sir, sir, do you go to Mass on Sundays?"
"Sometimes I do, when I feel in the mood for talking to God," Tony O'Brien had said.
Aidan knew this. It had been reported gleefully by the boys and girls, who used it as ammunition against those who said they had to go every Sunday under pain of mortal sin.
He had been very clever, too clever, Aidan thought. He didn't deny the existence of God, instead he had made out that he was a friend of God's and friends only drop in to have a chat when they are in good form. It made Tony O'Brien have the inside track somehow while Aidan Dunne was left on the outside, no friend of the Almighty, just a time server. It was one of the many annoying and unfair things about it all.
On a Sunday Tony O'Brien probably got up late . . . he lived in what they called a town house nowadays, which was the equivalent of a flat. Just one big room and kitchen downstairs, and one big bedroom and bathroom upstairs. The door opened straight onto the street. He had been observed leaving in the morning accompanied by young women.
There was a time when that would have ended his career let alone his chances of promotion . . . back in the 1960s teachers had been sacked for having relationships outside marriage. Not, of course, that this was right. In fact, they had all protested very strongly at the time. But still, a man who had never committed to any woman, to parade a succession of them through his town house, and still be considered headmaster material, a role model for the students . . . that wasn't right either.
What would Tony O'Brien be doing now, at two-thirty on a wet Sunday? Maybe around to lunch at one of the other teachers' houses. Aidan had never been able to ask him since they literally didn't have lunch, and Nell would reasonably have inquired why he should impose on them a man he had been denouncing for five years. He might still be entertaining a lady from last night. Tony O'Brien said he owed a great debt of gratitude to the people of China since there was an excellent take-away only three doors away . . . lemon chicken, sesame toast, and chili prawns were always great with a bottle of Australian Chardonnay and the Sunday papers. Imagine, at his age, a man who could be a grandfather, entertaining girls and buying Chinese food on a Sunday.
But then again, why not?
Aidan Dunne was a fair man. He had to admit that people had a choice in such matters. Tony O'Brien didn't drag these women back to his town house by their hair. There was no law that said he should be married and bring up two distant daughters as Aidan had done. And in a way it was to the man's credit that he wasn't a hypocrite, he didn't try to disguise his lifestyle.
It was just that things had changed so very much. Someone had moved the goalposts about what was acceptable and what was not, and they hadn't consulted Aidan first.
And how would Tony spend the rest of the day?
Surely they wouldn't go back to bed again for the afternoon? Maybe he would go for a walk or the girl would go home and Tony would play music; he often spoke of his CDs. When he had won 350 [pounds sterling] on the match four of the Lotto, he had hired a carpenter who was working on the school extension, and paid him the money straight out to make a rack that would hold five hundred CDs. Everyone had been impressed. Aidan had been jealous. Where would you get the money to buy that many CDs? He knew for a fact that Tony O'Brien bought about three a week. When would you get the time to listen to them? And then Tony would stroll down to the pub and meet a few friends, or go to a foreign-language movie with subtitles, or to a jazz club.
Maybe it was all this moving around that made him more interesting and gave him the edge on everyone else. Certainly on Aidan. Aidan's Sundays would be nothing that would interest anyone.
When he came back from late Mass around one o'clock and asked would anyone like a bacon-and-egg, there was a chorus of disgust from his daughters: "God no, Daddy!" or "Daddy, please don't even mention something like that, and could you keep the kitchen door closed if you're going to have one?" If Nell were at home, she might raise her eyes from a novel and ask, Why? Her tone was never hostile only bewildered as if it were the most unlikely suggestion that had ever been made. Left to herself Nell might make a salad sandwich at three.
Aidan thought back wistfully to his mother's table, where the chat of the week took place and no one was excused without a very good reason. Of course, dismantling this had been all his own doing. Making them into free spirits who would discover the length and breadth of County Dublin and even the neighboring counties on their one full day off. How could he have known it would lead to his being displaced and restless, wandering from the kitchen where everyone heated up their own food in a microwave, to the sitting room where there was some program that he didn't want to see on television, to the bedroom where it was so long since he had made love with his wife, he could barely endure looking at it until it was time to go to sleep.
There was, of course, the dining room. The room with the heavy dark furniture that they had hardly used since they bought the house. Even if they had been people who entertained, it was too small and poky. Once or twice recently Nell had suggested casually that Aidan should make it into a study for himself. But he had resisted. He felt that if he turned it into a copy of his room at the school, he might somehow lose his identity as head of this house, as father, provider, and man who once believed that this was the center of the world.
He also feared that if he made himself too much at home there, then the next step would be that he should sleep there too. After all, there was a downstairs cloakroom. It would be perfectly feasible to leave the three women to roam the upstairs area.
He must never do that, he must fight to keep his place in the family as he was fighting to keep his presence in the minds of the Board of Management, the men and women who would choose the next principal of Mountainview College.
His mother had never understood why the school wasn't called Saint something college. That's what all schools were called. It was hard to explain to her that things were different now, a changed setup, but he kept reassuring her that there were both a priest and a nun on the Board of Management. They didn't make all the decisions but were there to give a voice to the role the religious had played in Irish education over the years.
Aidan's mother had sniffed. Things had come to a strange state when priests and nuns were meant to be pleased that they had a place on the board instead of running it the way God intended. In vain Aidan had tried to explain about the fall in vocations. Even secondary schools ostensibly run by religious orders had in the nineties only a very few religious in teaching positions. The numbers just weren't there.
Nell had heard him arguing the situation with his mother once and had suggested that he save his breath. "Tell her they still run it, Aidan. It makes for an easier life. And of course in a way they do. People are afraid of them." It irritated him greatly when Nell spoke like this. Nell had no reason to fear the power of the Catholic Church. She had attended its services for as long as it had suited her, had abandoned confession and any of the Pope's teaching on contraception at an early stage. Why should she pretend that it had been a burden that lay heavily on her? But he didn't fight her on this. He was calm and accepting as in so many things. She had no time for his mother; no hostility, but no interest in her at all.
Sometimes his mother wondered when she would get invited for dinner and Aidan had to say that the way things were they were in a state of flux, but once they got organized . . .
He had been saying this for over two decades, and as an excuse it had worn thin. And it wasn't fair to fault Nell over this. It wasn't as if she was constantly inviting her own mother around or anything. His mother had been asked to any family celebration in hotels, of course. But it wasn't the same. And it had been so long since there was anything to celebrate. Except, of course, the hope that he would be made principal.
"DID YOU HAVE a good weekend?" Tony O'Brien asked him in the staff room.
Aidan looked at him surprised. It was so long since anyone had inquired. "Quiet, you know," Aidan said.
"Oh well, lucky you. I was at a party last night and I'm suffering after it. Still, only three and a half hours till the good old rehydrating lunchtime pint," Tony groaned.
"Aren't you marvelous, the stamina I mean." Aidan hoped the bitterness and criticism were not too obvious in his voice.
"Not at all, I'm far too long in the tooth for this, but I don't have the consolations of wife and family like all the rest of you do." Tony's smile was warm. If you didn't know him and his lifestyle, you'd have believed that he was genuinely wistful, Aidan thought to himself.
They walked together along the corridors of Mountainview College, the place his mother would like to have been called Saint Kevin's or, even more particularly, Saint Anthony's. Anthony was the saint who found lost things, and his mother had increasing calls on him as she got older. He found her glasses a dozen times a day. The least that people could do was thank him by naming the local school after him. Still, when her son was principal . . . she lived in hope.
The children ran past them, some of them chorusing "good morning," others looking sullenly away. Aidan Dunne knew them all, and their parents. And remembered many of their elder brothers and sisters. Tony O'Brien knew hardly any of them. It was so unfair.
"I met someone who knew you last night," Tony O'Brien said suddenly.
"At a party? I doubt that." Aidan smiled.
"No, definitely she did. When I told her I taught here she asked did I know you."
"And who was she?" Aidan was interested in spite of himself.
"I never got her name. Nice girl."
"An ex-pupil possibly?"
"No, then she'd have known me."
"A mystery indeed," Aidan said, and watched as Tony O'Brien went into Fifth Year.
The silence that fell immediately was beyond explanation. Why did they respect him so much, fear to be caught talking, behaving badly? Tony O'Brien didn't remember their names, for heaven's sake. He barely marked their work, he lost not an hour's sleep over their examination results. Basically he didn't care about them very much. And yet they sought his approval. Aidan couldn't understand it. In sixteen-year-old boys and girls.
You always heard that women were meant to like men who treated them hard. He felt a flicker of relief that Nell had never crossed Tony O'Brien's path. Then it was followed by another flicker, a sense of recognition that somehow Nell had left him long ago.
Aidan Dunne went into the Fourth Years and stood at the door for three minutes until they gradually came to a sort of silence for him.
He thought that Mr. Walsh, the elderly principal, may have passed by behind him in the corridor. But he may have imagined it. You always imagined that the principal was passing by when your class was in disorder. It was something every single teacher he ever met admitted to. Aidan knew that it was a trivial worry. The principal admired him far too much to care if Fourth Years were a bit noisier than usual. Aidan was the most responsible teacher in Mountainview. Everyone knew that.
THAT WAS THE afternoon that Mr. Walsh called him into the principal's office. He was a man whose retirement could not come quick enough. Today for the first time there was no small talk.
"You and I feel the same about a lot of things, Aidan."
"I hope so, Mr. Walsh."
"Yes, we look at the world from the same viewpoint. But it's not enough."
"I don't know exactly what you mean." And Aidan spoke only the truth. Was this a philosophical discussion? Was it a warning? A reprimand?
"It's the system, you see. The way they run things. The principal doesn't have a vote. Sits there like a bloody eunuch, that's what it amounts to."
"A vote?" Aidan thought he knew where this was going, but decided to pretend not to.
It had been a wrong calculation. It only annoyed the principal. "Come on, man, you know what I'm talking about. The job, the job, man."
"Well, yes." Aidan now felt foolish.
"I'm a nonvoting member of the Board of Management. I don't have a say. If I did you'd be in this job in September. I'd give you a few bits of advice about taking no nonsense from those louts in Fourth Year. But I still think you're the man with the values, and the sense of what's right for a school."
"Thank you, Mr. Walsh, that's very good to know."
"Man, will you listen to me before you mouth these things . . . there's nothing to thank me for. I can't do anything for you, that's what I'm trying to tell you, Aidan." The elder man looked at him despairingly, as if Aidan were some very slow-learning child in First Year.
The look was not unlike the way Nell looked at him sometimes, Aidan realized with a great feeling of sadness. He had been teaching other people's children since he was twenty-two years of age, over twenty-six years now, yet he did not know how to respond to a man who was trying hard to help him; he had only managed to annoy him.
The principal was looking at him intently. For all that Aidan knew, Mr. Walsh might be able to read his thoughts, recognize the realization that had just sunk into Aidan's brain. "Come on now, pull yourself together. Don't look so stricken. I might be wrong, I could have it all wrong. I'm an old horse going out to grass, and I suppose I just wanted to cover myself in case it didn't go in your favor."
Aidan could see that the principal deeply regretted having spoken at all. "No, no. I greatly appreciate it, I mean you are very good to tell me where you stand in all this . . . I mean. . ." Aidan's voice trickled away.
"It wouldn't be the end of the world, you know . . . suppose you didn't get it."
"No no, absolutely not."
"I mean, you're a family man, many compensations. Lots of life going on at home, not wedded to this place like I was for so long." Mr. Walsh had been a widower for many years, his only son visited him but rarely.
"Utterly right, just as you say," Aidan said.
"But?" The older man looked kind, approachable.
Aidan spoke slowly. "You're right, it's not the end of the world, but I suppose I thought . . . hoped that it might be a new beginning, liven everything up in my own life. I wouldn't mind the extra hours, I never did. I spend a lot of hours here already. In a way I am a bit like you, you know, wedded to Mountainview."
"I know you are." Mr. Walsh was gentle.
"I never found any of it a chore. I liked my classes and particularly the Transition Year when you can bring them out of themselves a bit, get to know them, let them think. And I even like the parent-teacher evenings, which everyone else hates, because I can remember all the kids and . . . I suppose I like it all except for the politics of it, the sort of jostling-for-position bit." Aidan stopped suddenly. He was afraid there would be a break in his voice, and also he realized that his jostling hadn't worked.
Mr. Walsh was silent.
Outside the room were the noises of a school at four-thirty in the afternoon. In the distance the sounds of bicycle bells shrilling, doors banging, voices shouting as they ran for the buses in each direction. Soon the sound of the cleaners with their buckets and mops, and the hum of the electric polisher, would be heard. It was so familiar, so safe. And until this moment Aidan had thought that there was a very sporting chance that this would be his.
"I suppose it's Tony O'Brien," he said in a defeated tone.
"He seems to be the one they want. Nothing definite yet, not till next week, but that's where their thinking lies."
"I wonder why." Aidan felt almost dizzy with jealousy and confusion.
"Oh search me, Aidan. The man's not even a practicing Catholic. He has the morals of a tomcat. He doesn't love the place, care about it like we do, but they think he's the man for the times that are in it. Tough ways of dealing with tough problems."
"Like beating an eighteen-year-old boy nearly senseless," Aidan said.
"Well, they all think that the boy was a drug dealer, and he certainly didn't come anywhere near the school again."
"You can't run a place like that," Aidan said.
"You wouldn't and I wouldn't but our day is over."
"You're sixty-five, with respect, Mr. Walsh. I am only forty-eight, I didn't think my day was over."
"And it needn't be, Aidan. That's what I'm telling you. You've got a lovely wife and daughters, a life out there. You should build on all that. Don't let Mountainview become like a mistress to you."
"You're very kind and I appreciate what you say. No, I'm not just mouthing words. Truly I do appreciate being warned in advance, makes me look less foolish." And he left the room with a very straight back.
Evening Class was my second encounter with Maeve Binchy. I am getting very fond of her. There is something about her way of writing; I don't realize that I am hooked until I've taken a moment away from the book and feel as though I'm missing something! She is so subtle, that Maeve.
I found the main characters likable and entertaining. The way that Binchy combines their individual stories (within the larger story) is wonderful and thorough. I find myself wanting to jump on a plane and join them in Dublin. Each chapter is from a different person's point of view (as it was in Heart and Soul), and that actually suits this sometimes ADD reader more than I thought it would. Although I have found in the past that this is not my ideal for storytelling, something about the way that Binchy includes other story lines in each subplot, and brings them all back to the bigger story makes her writing delightful.
Once again the author delivered a heartwarming, feel good, entertaining novel.
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Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.Maeve Binchy has an incredible gift of weaving multiple characters, none of whom have to be interconnected, into a plot that connects them all by the end. She captures Irish culture and lifestyle and shares it with a non-Irish world, making us want to catch the first plane to Dublin so we can taste it for ourselves. The average, ordinary activities of life - taking an evening class, for example - become the framework for everyday drama that breaks - and mends - your heart.
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I love the way Ms. Binchy goes into each character in the book, nestled in between each character is the story of the leading characters......and how they all intertwine in some way. I think she's my new favorite author !
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Posted June 23, 2003
This was my first Binchy novel and I couldn't put it down. It was a wonderful story. I just bought 'Circle of Friends'. I look forward to reading it.
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Posted February 7, 2002
Enjoyed the story.. Will now read this author. Read it!
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Posted October 13, 2012
This was my first book by this author. I thiroughly enjiyed reading it. She has a keen sense of pulling yiu into the stiry and feel like you really know the characters. When i finished i immediately ordered the next book, tara road.
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The writing was well done, the characters interesting, the story all came together. If you are learning Italian, this is especially appealing. Some of the characters in this book appear in other Maeve Binchy books, so you get to fill out their life stories.
Also: every crisis is resolved, and there is always a happy ending.
Posted September 17, 2014
She can be very formatic and her sub genre static if you think worth a re read then do so the more one writes quality goes in place of quanity check those bargin complete works of on nook i have dozens of the classic writers including all of anne of green gables kiplingi austen baum alcott hawthorn shakespear henry james the one most remember is iften the only one worth re reading selective saves space in archive or trying to access forty books in a collection
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Posted August 22, 2014
I'm a big Maeve Binchy fan to begin with - so take my remarks with this in mind. This is the second time I read this book, the first time being a few years ago. But the book stayed with me and when our Book Club decided to read this as our next selection, I found myself relishing it all over again. There's something about it that just draws me into it. The fleshing out of the characters and the individual plots would make a short story on their own. But the way the author brings it all together is amazing. Again, I'm a big fan of the author and have read most, if not all, of her books and enjoyed each one. But Evening Class rates as one of my favorites.
I belong to a Book club and we will be discussing this at our next meeting. I have alaready heard from a few of our memebers how much they enjoyed it. I think it's a perfect book for discussion. I would hope readers would check this out and hopefully enjoy it as much as I have.
Posted February 10, 2014
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Posted April 21, 2013
Barnes and Noble. You should remove all of the reviews without any text. There is no point in leaving them on line. Any moron can click on a star and hit submit. Those entries are absolutely meaningless. Did they even read the book? My one star is for B&Ns allowing so-cakked reviews to be posted without any comments. This book was a wonderful story as are all of Maeve Binchy's stories.
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Posted December 8, 2012
I'm a huge Maeve Binchy fan and this was one I really enjoyed.
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Posted September 14, 2012
Characters from other books are woven in to this excellent read.
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Posted May 24, 2010
An Italian woman is in love with a married man- she moves away after he dies, to Ireland and ends up teaching Italian to a mix of students who have different reasons for learning the language. You will fall in love with the characters and will want to learn more about them!
Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.Evening Class is typical Binchy - wonderful! Wonderful characters, wonderful story, wonderful ending.
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Posted February 8, 2006
I love the way you feel close to each character individually as you learn about them and then as they come together for the Italian class and the trip to Italy.
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Posted June 18, 2005
This book starts off a little slow, but once you start meeting all the characters involved in the evening class and get a glimpse into their lives and how they are all somehow connected, it becomes very interesting. At times it is hard to keep everyone straight because you are introduced to so many characters and then they are all given an Italian name. But overall, I highly recommend this book. It was very refreshing.
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Posted July 9, 2002
Once again, Maeve Binchy gives a stellar class in good writing. Her character descriptions are marvelous and I love how she relates them to each other and how she deftly advances her overall plot line as she 'dissects' each personality. One note of caution: read the book in a small period of time so you won't lose track of the people and events. I couldn't put it down--very fast read.
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Posted September 1, 2001
This was my favorite Binchy book yet! I recommend it highly.
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Posted February 10, 2001
Maeve Binchy has done it again! This is the second book I have read by Binchy and it was great! The other one I read was Tara Road and it was fantastic. Evening Class was so compelling. I loved how she took all of the characters one by one. Wonderful!
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Sleeps | 6 |
Bedrooms | 3 |
Bathrooms | 2 |
Property type | cottage |
Minimum Stay | 3 nights |
The house is on a small, inclined lot with 1 bedroom on upper level and 2 bedrooms on the lower level. Cozy, wood-burning stove provides generous heat throughout upper floor. Baseboard heating throughout. The studio kitchen has maple cabinets and granite counters with all the expected amenities: utensils, pots, pans and basic cooking ingredients.
High quality furniture throughout the house. A large, multi-level lower patio for outdoor gatherings, picnics, and soothing ocean viewing. Ideal for couples, retreats, or a gathering of friends and family. As the only house on the cul-de-sac, there's plenty of parking. We have furnished this house with furniture and art for our guests and ourselves (we visit often). You'll not be disappointed here.
Point Montara Lighthouse next door: Point Montara Lighthouse with breathtaking coastline and secluded beach is 3 min. walk.
Renowned Fitzgerald Marine Reserve is teeming with starfish, anemones, and more.
Historic and reportedly haunted Moss Beach Distillery is 3/4 mile down coast.
Half Moon Bay offers eating experiences from honest country coffee shops to elegant cuisine.
Fishing harbor offers whale watching tours and fishing charters.
Outstanding golfing overlooking the ocean and Ritz-Carlton Hotel.
Hiking, bicycling, and horseback riding on the Coastal Trail
I've come to realize how much I enjoy enhancing the value of a home, so I now call myself a 'property manager'. My wife, Carol, is a first grade teacher and we also have 3 children who have young families in Calif. and Indiana. When I'm not playing with property design, I'm probably out training on my bike or reading or writing something. Owning this piece of 'Ocean Heaven', that we also get to enjoy, makes us feel deeply fortunate indeed.
Allen Price purchased this cottage in 2006
We never planned, in a million years, to buy an ocean side property. Yet, one day after visiting at the nearby lighthouse, I expressed a long-held desire to 'just see inside' a house perched beside the Pacific. Within minutes a 'For Sale' sign appeared and we couldn't resist. We were knocked out by the view... and the price! It was not just a 'slice of the ocean'... but a panoramic view! Recovering several hours later, we started having 'Purpose of Life' conversations. Soon, the house was ours.
It's intimate and simple with many private spaces to savor. The Writer's Cottage below the lower patio is a world away.
"Our stay here was just incredible. This was a perfect way for 4 sisters to be together to enjoy each other's company, stories, tears, and laughter. This gave us a chance to enjoy a little bit of heaven right here on this beautiful earth."
25 Jul 09 - Mary Ellen Trice & 3 sisters, Pasadena, CA
This home is wonderful. The views are stunning!!! This was a family trip with a few of the ladies including my mom. Would recommend this home for families of all ages or a great home for a couple seeking a little peace. I will be back. Location is near the BART for quick access to San Francisco and other shopping areas. You can take an adventure to the Light House and Beach or relax in the Writers Cottage. The owners are very welcoming and kind. There is so much to do from age 2 to 82 this would be the place to stay. What you see in the pictures of this home if you can believe it fail in comparison to the breathtaking views. The house is fully loaded with everything needed just like home. The washer dryer is also a great feature. I plan all the travel for the company where I work and would also recommend this or the larger home for company retreats or an executive stay if you would have business in the area. Thank You for this wonderful memory we will always treasure.
We enjoyed 5 terrific nights at the Moss Beach house. The location locally was perfect with amazing views of the ocean, short walk to the north and you are at the Lighthouse, short walk south and marine preserve tide-pools. My family of 5 (including 3 teenagers) had plenty of room to watch movies together. We ventured into San Francisco on two of the days to take in some of the popular SF destinations but were very happy to have the nice quiet home to come back to. I would highly recommend this rental, Allan was wonderful to work with and very accommodating to us.
My family just finished up a week renting this fantastic home in Half Moon Bay and it was spectacular. We've rented over a half dozen homes via VRBO over the last 3 years and this one had it all. Half Moon Bay was the perfect spot for days at the beach, driving up to San Francisco for events in the city and a jaw dropping drive along Highway 1 to Santa Cruz for great exploration. We found the owners incredibly responsive and reasonable in our requests leading up to our rental that made coordinating the logistics very easy. The home itself is set on a bluff overlooking the Pacific and I was able to get through two books during the week sitting in a comfortable chair with a view worth a million bucks. The house is beautifully appointed. The piano, library of DVDs, impressive bookshelf, puzzles, well stocked kitchen, comfortable linens....this rental is surely a home. We've stayed in VBRO rentals all along the coast, including Seal Beach, Paso Robles, Cayucos, Monterey & Pajaro Dunes...and our stay in Half Moon Bay exceeds all of them in offering an unbeatable location, an exquisite home and owners who show great joy in sharing their rental with good people.
Our party of four stayed here for about 10 days and enjoyed every minute of it. The house is very comfortable for 2-4 people, with great ocean views. You can walk to the water very quickly, and there are beachside walking paths nearby. The property is not only clean and well maintained but has wonderful flowers, a nice patio, and a great collection of books. The owner greeted us at arrival and was very helpful in orienting us to the area. While a few miles from Half Moon Bay, there are groceries and restaurants very nearby. Be sure to visit Nebbia Winery, Half Moon Bay Brew Pub, and Davenport Road House nearby. You can get to the redwoods in just a few minutes, and we hiked in several different parks - with wine-tasting available along the way. I'd definitely recommend the Romantic Cottage to friends or relatives and hope to return myself soon.
This is our second stay at Allen and Carol's property, and really felt like it was our very own little vacation home. The owners are very accommodating and have gone out of their way to welcome us and give wonderful advise on how to enjoy Halfmoon Bay to the fullest. And, we certainly did! Allen gave us a free 8th night stay and never required any deposits which was reassuring. They are a truly trusting couple and only require that you treat their home like it was yours. Which we did. The ocean sunset views are spectacular right from the living and dining. We have 4 daughters and they slept comfortably in the second bedroom below which was fairly large with extra beds and their own bath. We hope to go a third time soon!
The photos of the property shown were accurate. We appreciate that the home was only 35 minute drive to downtown SF too. Yet, enjoyed the quiet relaxed atmosphere of the Moss Beach area. Lots of great places to eat, and our girls enjoyed rising horses at the Moss Beach Ranch 2 min drive away.
Allen was a most gracious host. Our family of 5 really enjoyed this most comfortable home just minutes away from Half Moon Bay and a short drive up US 1 to SF. The house was really clean and evrything was in working order. The trips to the lighthouse and the rocks beyond will be family memories forever. We highly recommend staying here if you plan a coastal visit or want to escape the hustle and bustle of the city. We did see the fox!
This is a romantic ocean house at the end of a road with panoramic views of the Pacific Ocean. There is a great sense of privacy and seclusion with large windows along ocean side.
You'll soon see why this house is centered in most of the movie-making that has occurred on this coast. Scenes from 'Memior of a Giesha', Bandits, and the just-released movie, 'Chasing Mavericks' were all taken place very near to the house. The latest movie having studio trailers parked right on our very street.
Seasonal Weather Note: November through March are precious times near the ocean with more dramatic waves and clearer skies.
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High Season
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Oct 31 2015
3 night minimum stay
My Standard Rate
3 night minimum stay
Tax Rate | 10.0% |
Notes | Reservation is confirmed only when payment is received and dates are still available. Full refunds should date be already booked. |
Payment is usually accepted in the quoted currency (USD) unless the currency and the amount is specifically agreed in advance with the owner / advertiser.
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Mr. Robert E. Dowdell, also known as Bob, CPA serves as Services Executive Partner at Silver Oak Services Partners, LLC. Mr. Dowdell serves as a General Partner at LaQuinta Springs, LP and serves as a Managing Member at Hemet 99 LLC. Mr. Dowdell is the Founder of Career Education Corporation and was its Chief Executive Officer and President from September 25, 2006 to March 6, 2007 and its Chairman of the Board from 1994 to 2007. He also served as an Interim Chief Executive ...
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Simple download manager for GNOME
Steadyflow is a GTK+ based download manager that aims for minimalism, ease of use, and a clean, malleable codebase. It should be easy to control, whether from the GUI, command line, or D-Bus.
For a Chromium/Google Chrome extension, check out https:/
Mailing list: https:/
Project information
- Maintainer:
- Maia Everett
- Driver:
- Maia Everett
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- Programming Languages:
- Vala
- Licences:
- GNU GPL v3
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Importdimension: Planning Command Utility operation
Updated: 2009-04-30
Use the importdimension command to import dimension members from a CSV formatted file.
Note: |
You must be a member of the modeler role to use this command. |
Important: |
Members that have existing Member IDs are not imported. |
ppscmd importdimension [switches] file [files]
Command switches
Parameter | Required? | Description |
/server <ServerUri> |
No |
Specifies the server URI to connect to. The defaults are those used by Planning Business Modeler. |
/application <AppLabel> |
No |
Specifies the application to open. The defaults are those used by Planning Business Modeler. |
/site <SiteLabel> |
No |
Specifies the model site to open. The default is the Modeler default model site. |
/dimension <DimLabel> |
Yes |
Specifies the dimension object to be imported. |
/hierarchy <HierarchyLabel> |
No |
Specifies the hierarchy object to be imported. If /hierarchy is not specified, members will be imported to the All Members hierarchy of the dimension. |
/encoding <FileEncoding> |
No |
Specifies file encoding for the CSV file. The default is UTF8. |
The following flags provide additional instructions to the server when used with the importdimension command.
Flag | Description |
/OverrideExistingMember |
Overrides existing objects when importing a CSV file. This flag will set the first occurrence of a duplicate label to override the values in the system. If there are duplicates in the file, they will not override each other. Duplicates will be skipped. |
/CreateNewProperty |
Creates new member properties when importing CSV file. This flag does not support member of dimension property type, unless the member property has already been created through Planning Business Modeler. It is also not applied if the /IgnoreExtraColumns flag is used. When creating a new property, the property will always be created as a string data type, unless specified otherwise in the CSV file. Empty values will be set for all existing members. |
/IgnoreExtraColumns |
Ignores extra columns in the CSV file. |
Return value
The following command-line examples show the use of the importdimension command.
ppscmd importdimension /app app1 /site site1 /dim dim1 myfile.csv
ppscmd importdimension /app app1 /site site1 /dim dim1 /hierarchy h1 myfile.csv
Use the following CSV file format.
Column | Description |
Label |
Required. The Member Label. The first column of the CSV file must be the Label column. At a minimum you must always have columns values for Name and Label. Each other header name should correspond to a member property header in the dimension. If there are multiple labels in the list, the first one will be imported and all others will be skipped. |
Parent |
Optional. The Member Label for this member for parent-child relationships in a member set. |
Description |
Optional. Description of the member. |
Name |
Required. Name of the member. |
Label | Parent | Description | Name |
Member1 |
Member1 |
Member1 |
Member2 |
Member1 |
Member2 |
Member2 |
File encoding can be ISO-8859, UTF8, UNICODE, or ASCII. Use ISO-8859 for 8-bit character encoding.
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Nobody knows what's going on: Happy New Year
Orlando Radice
Jan 5, 2012If you have been following reports about the state of the British economy over the past month or so, you could be forgiven for believing that even if we are not already in a recession, the UK is lurching towards a double dip.
But some snapshot figures about the state of economic play, out today, tell another story. The latest CIPS/Markit survey of the services sector – which makes up 75 per cent of the UK economy – showed a jump to 54 in December, up from 52.1 in November. Readings above 50 indicate growth.
In other words, things moved fairly strongly in the opposite direction to the one expected.
Secular Israelis like 'Mixed Multitude'
Simon Rocker
Jan 5, 2012A very disturbing post on the latest religious unrest in Israel on the website Failed Messiah.
Rabbi Aharon Leib Steinman reportedly denounced secular Israelis as a "mixed multitude" who hate the Jews – a biblical reference to Egyptians and others who left Egypt with the Israelites and were regarded as a bad spiritual influence by commentators.
According to the website, Rabbi Steinman declared: "Now that we see the violence, the baseless hate, the harassment [against Charedim], we know and we understand that their ways are not like our ways, and that we certainly must distance ourselves from them, for their inside is not like their outside [ie their internal state is not like they try to appear]. They are a mixed multitude who hate the Jews."
Ken's kosher campaign?
Jennifer Lipman
Jan 4, 2012Mayoral candidate Ken Livingstone has, for whatever reason, decided that the best way to fill his campaign coffers is to give his mission some meat.
No, not substance of the political kind, but of the poultry variety. His site now boasts a "fundraising chicken". Something about Boris Johnson being too chicken to debate him.
How droll. But the real question is, is it kosher?
A Chanucah story - with a little help from Friends
Jennifer Lipman
Dec 20, 2011The festival of lights is upon us and with that in mind, I feel it is time to share my "top Jewish moment of 2011".
I was at a party earlier this year, when the subject of Chanucah traditions came up in conversation with someone for whom, it's safe to assume, December 25 is a pretty awesome day.
We discussed the usual - oily foods, eight days of presents (I wish), lighting candles - when he said (in total seriousness):
One more and we'll have a set
Jenni Frazer
Dec 19, 2011According to the Mail on Sunday, disgraced MP Aidan Burley not only sat beside his friend who wore full Nazi uniform at the now notorious French stag party, but Burley actually ordered the uniform.
This rather begs the question of not only Burley's own judgment, which we may accept is dubious, but in the Conservative Friends of Israel rush to cover him with the mantle of their blessing. "Not an antisemitic bone in his body," the CFI declared. That would be the non-antisemitic bones which persuaded him to order an SS uniform, I imagine.
Who's kidding who, here?
Burley himself, asked directly why he hadn't got up and left the event when someone appeared in SS dress, burbled something weaselly about its being difficult to leave somewhere when one was 800 miles up a mountain. Now we know: he was protecting his investment.
Here's to an apolitical Chanucah
Orlando Radice
Dec 16, 2011Today I am feeling light and serene. No, I haven't just finished a course of acupuncture. It's that I think I have been ideologically de-tethered. And it feels good.
Let me declare an interest. Before I worked at the JC, I voted Labour. That was before I began to understand the pet passions of my local MP, Jeremy Corbyn. That's right, the one who went to a jamboree in Beirut this summer with George Galloway and representatives of Hamas and Hizbollah.
Over the past couple of years, Cameron jumped into a European Parliament alliance with a man with an allegedly antisemitic past, and the Lib Dems have been, well, the Lib Dems (Jenny Tonge. 'Nuff said).
A week of weakness
Marcus Dysch
Dec 15, 2011While our non-Jewish friends and colleagues wind down in advance of the festive period and we look forward to the joys of Chanucah, I find myself, as usual, rather disgruntled.
Never mind the season of goodwill, this has been a strange week and one in which I've spent a considerable amount of time shaking my head in disbelief.
When I first saw the story about Tory MP Aidan Burley's presence at a Nazi-themed stag do late on Saturday night I was disgusted, as I expect were most of you. I felt sure that when the JC spoke to Jewish community representatives this week there would be outrage.
A guide for the perplexed
Jenni Frazer
Dec 12, 2011This is for MPs and MEPS, of whatever party, who appear to be intellectually challenged.
1. If someone appears at a celebration, and sits next to you wearing full Nazi uniform, it's time to go home. Do not even think of posing for a picture. You will not look good. Early Day Motions will be tabled.
2. If you even think about making a comparison between the treatment of present-day Palestinians and either Holocaust behaviour or 19th century antisemitism, you need to lie down in a dark room for several days. You will not look good.
The conflict ignored by all
Jessica Elgot
Dec 9, 2011Conservative MEP Sir Robert Atkins has apologised for a blog he wrote after a recent visit to Gaza.
"Pressure must be exerted on Israel and her diaspora to realise that what they are doing in Palestine generally, and Gaza specifically, is not only illegal under international law but is also inhumane."
Infuriating to be sure, but these days such language seems unsurprising. No-one, except the JC and some notable bloggers ever seems to call officials out on language like this any more.
After the "Jew goal", the "Jew punch"?
Marcus Dysch
Dec 1, 2011Remember the "Jew goal"? Well now it seems another sport may have adopted a similarly tasteless phrase.
Welcome to the world of the "Jew punch".
Subscription boxing channel BoxNation this week apologised and launched an investigation after a retired boxer made a rather dubious remark on one of its shows.


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Press Releases: Factory Farms
Press Releases Found: 24February 9, 2015
Two New Bills Will Bring Equity to Farmers and Bay Restoration Efforts
Annapolis, MD—Maryland Senator Richard Madaleno (D-18) introduced two pieces of legislation on the Senate floor today that will create new protections for poultry contract growers while also bringing equity to ongoing efforts to clean up the Chesapeake Bay by requiring some of the biggest polluters of the Bay to contribute to conservation measures. Madaleno's sponsorship of the Farmers' Rights Act and the Bay Tax Equity Act is a critical first step toward correcting injustices within Maryland's agricultural sector that have had a negative impact on the livelihoods of local growers and the health of the Bay.
The Farmers' Rights Act will help Maryland lawmakers take meaningful steps toward protecting the region's contract growers from the often-abusive practices of giant poultry companies by putting forth a set of guaranteed grower's rights, while prohibiting many of the abusive practices, that force contract growers into poor working conditions and leave them with a tremendous amount of debt.
The Bay Tax Equity Act, which is a new version of legislation introduced last year, will hold Maryland's poultry companies, some of the biggest polluters of the Bay, partially accountable for their contribution to nutrient pollution in the Chesapeake Bay by requiring them to pay their fair share towards the necessary costs of Bay restoration. The bill would require poultry companies to contribute to the Maryland Department of Agriculture's Cover Crop program, a $20 million per year initiative designed largely to address the massive amounts of excess chicken waste produced on the Eastern Shore where the chicken companies operate. Presently, this program is funded entirely by state taxpayers, including the diversion of funds from the annual $60 tax placed on the state's septic users. By shifting the financial burden of the Cover Crop program over to the profitable companies who create the problem in the first place, the BTEA would allow 100 percent of the septic money collected to go towards the critical need of upgrading the state's septic systems.
January 28, 2015
Farm Bureau Case Challenging EPA's Right to Share Factory Farm Data Dismissed
A federal judge dismissed a challenge brought by the American Farm Bureau Federation and National Pork Producers Council against the Environmental Protection Agency in Minneapolis late yesterday. The industry groups were seeking to block the federal agency's ability to release public information regarding highly polluting factory farms to citizens concerned about clean water. Food & Water Watch (FWW), Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement (ICCI) and The Environmental Integrity Project (EIP), represented by lawyers at the Government Accountability Project (GAP), had intervened in the case on behalf of citizens who have a right to protect their communities and their environment from polluting factory farms and to safeguard open government.
October 15, 2014
Albuquerque, Santa Fe Stand Up for Public Health
"Twenty-three thousand people die each year in the United States from antibiotic resistant infections," says Eleanor Bravo, Food & Water Watch Southwest organizer. "The public and elected leaders must take action to keep antibiotics working for people. I commend the Santa Fe and Albuquerque City Councils for recognizing the urgency of this situation and taking the lead in in the Southwest."
July 31, 2014
Food & Water Watch Denounces USDA Plans to Privatize Poultry Inspection
Today, the U.S. Department of Agriculture released the final rule that will transfer most poultry inspection from government inspectors to the companies so they can police themselves. With the poultry industry standing to gain financially due to increased production and fewer regulatory requirements, the plan is a gift from the Obama administration to the industry, one that will undermine consumer and worker safety, as well as animal welfare.
October 11, 2013
Foster Farms' Remarkable Recovery
Statement: In just three days, USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) went from threatening to shut down Foster Farms due to serious food safety lapses to declaring last night that the company had made a remarkable recovery. The agency is allowing Foster Farms to continue operations at three of its plants that appear to be implicated in producing salmonella-contaminated poultry that have sickened at least 278 consumers. While company officials have expressed their regret over the illnesses that its products have caused, it still refuses to recall its products and FSIS seems to be fine with that.
September 13, 2013
Food & Water Watch Calls on O'Malley Administration to Close Loopholes in Phosphorous Regulations
"It is widely known that phosphorous pollution from manure applied to farmland is a major source of pollution in the Chesapeake Bay. Phosphorous pollution creates algae blooms that consume oxygen and create "dead zones" where fish and shellfish cannot survive, block sunlight that is needed for underwater Bay grasses and smother aquatic life on the floor of the Bay.
"EPA statistics reveal that agriculture alone contributes 42 percent of the phosphorous pollution in the Bay; manure accounts for 37 percent of the loads of phosphorus to the waterway. This isn't surprising since there are over 304 million chickens raised in Maryland that produce 1.3 billion pounds of waste annually, much of which gets dumped untreated onto fields, where it can leach into groundwater or run-off into the Bay.
"Farmland in the Lower Eastern Shore, where the chicken industry is most active, is already saturated with phosphorus. According to researchers, up to 80 percent of the fields sampled on the Lower Eastern Shore contain so much phosphorus that they simply can't absorb anymore. Worse yet, a recent study suggests that even if phosphorous application were stopped today, it would take decades to reduce phosphorous levels in soils sufficient to protect our waterways.
August 30, 2013
Next Labor Day, You Could be Serving Chicken from China at Your Holiday Picnic
Statement from Food & Water Watch Executive Director Wenonah Hauter Washington, D.C.—"It's common practice for government agencies to release information they hope to sneak past consumers on Friday afternoons before a holiday weekend. So it's not surprising that this afternoon the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) gave the green light to certain chicken […]
July 9, 2013
Coalition of Farm, Consumer and Rural Organizations Urge Rejection of Smithfield Takeover
Press Release: A coalition of farm, rural and consumer organizations delivered a letter to the members of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States urging them to recommend that the Obama administration reject the proposed Shuanghui International Holdings, Ltd. acquisition of Smithfield Foods.
January 29, 2013
Manure to Energy Announcement is No Solution for The Bay
Press Release: "Governor O'Malley's announcement last week that Maryland is investing in a controversial manure to energy scheme is good for factory farms, but bad for the Chesapeake Bay. Manure to energy projects are no solution for managing the estimated 300,384 tons of excess poultry litter in the Bay region.
"The state, in partnership with the University System of Maryland, will enter into a power purchase agreement with Green Planet Power Solutions to purchase a minimum of 10 MW of electricity produced from animal waste in Caroline County. But converting poultry litter into energy is not a sustainable solution for the problems created by concentrating too many animals in one place. These projects, funded by government subsidies and tax credits, often create new waste streams, such as toxic air emissions that introduce harmful air pollutants into communities, and do not eliminate many pollutants of concern in animal waste such as nitrogen and phosphorous that choke the Bay.
"While the details of the Green Planet Power Solutions project are not yet publicly known, we call upon Maryland's political leaders to stop asking citizens to bail the industrial ag interests out of their massive waste problem by financing projects that only perpetuate unsustainable farming practices."


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The PlayStation Network (PSN) will be down for several hours for scheduled maintenance on March 1, 2012, Sony has announced. The maintenance window, if all goes to plan, is expected to last from 8:00 AM till 10:00 PM PST. Hit the jump for more.
In a post on the official PlayStation blog, the company described the upcoming maintenance event as "significant." However, it did not give any details as to the exact nature of the maintenance.
"Unlike typical maintenance events, consumers who are already signed-in to PSN will be signed-out, and consumers will be unable to sign in for the duration of the maintenance window," reads the official announcement. "During this time, users won't be able to access the PlayStation Store, PlayStation Home, Account Management or play online."
"PSN enabled websites will not be able to service users, including this one. Please stay tuned to the PlayStation Twitter feed for a notice when PSN is fully back online."
Update: The maintenance period that was originally scheduled for March 1, 2012 has been postponed until further notice.
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