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A dear reader and friend wrote to me recently with the season's first really nasty bug asking for some herbal counsel on how to feel a bit better, how to build up her immune system and how to be better prepared next time. She also suggested I write a post on what the most valuable herbs might be to stock for Winter. So here we go, a general overview of what you might like to have in your medicine chest during the coming cold season. I'm suggesting general, widely available plants and preparations rather than my own peculiar, but less common favorites in this case. As nice as Osha is, I simply can't recommend it to you if you live in Boston or Kansas City. Try to stay local if you can, or at least common and weedy. Some substitutions can be made, such as Thyme instead of Monarda, you'll get a similar effect but there will definitely be differences.
- First of all, Elderberry. It's so lovely for EVERYTHING, but especially building and maintaining immunity under stress. I would especially suggest Elderberry Elixir made with some Ginger root, Angelica, Osha or Calamus. Any nice pungent warming root will do, really. To ward off viruses, tonify the mucus membranes, help clear stuffy sinuses, give a little extra energy and even work as a relaxant diaphoretic for tense, hot fevers that refuse to break. Also, the elixir can work great for ear infections too, just make sure the eardrum is intact.
- Bee Balm (Monarda spp) – Tinctured and dried. The dried leaf and flower makes a great diaphoretic tea when taken hot and will also help clear out stuffy, congested sinuses. Used as a steam, it will relieve sinus pressure and stuffiness, clear the lungs and provide some anti-infective help for your who resp. system. It also makes a good foot soak when you're chilled and tired. Make a nice salve or wash for a burn you get from the wood stove too. The tincture is great for most kinds of infections when taken internally, especially UTIs and yeast infections. You can also use it to take your nervous system down a notch during the holidays and to boost your belly functions. Having tried several different species of Monarda now, I have to say that I find our super spicy/oil variety in the SW to be the strongest anti-infective and nervine. M. didyma tastes like flowers and still works well for most infections but doesn't have the bigger kick of our M. fistulosa var. menthaefolia.
- Cleavers/Violet/RedRoot – Any good lymphatic is good to keep on hand for swolle, painful glands and bugs that just won't go away when you feel tired, sluggish and dragging.
- Ginger – A good warming circulatory stimulant for warm you up when you get chilled. It can also help raise immunity and lessen inflammation in arthritis etc. The tea wil help clear sinuses and bring on a good sweat when taken hot. An oil made from the fresh plant will also help heal perpetually cracked, dried and cold skin. It's also strongly anti-fungal for feet who've been in shoes too much, and can be a nice warming chest rub for congestion and cold, stuck lung grunge. I always try to keep a few big chunks of the fresh root on hand to add to food, tea and other preparations in the Winter. The honey made with the fresh plant is amazing (try it with Bee Balm flower honey for a real treat) and can be given as gifts too, to be used in cooking, medicine, tea and by the spoonful.
- Nettles & Oatstraw – Yumm, nourishing infusions of nutrient dense plants are a constant for us during the Winter. These are nice, general purpose, mineral packed plants to take as a daily immune booster and body nourisher.
- Burdock – This lovely, bittersweet root is good for nearly everything, so throw some in your soup, use the vinegar in your salad dressings, makes some tea and carry a bottle of tincture around with you. Good for keeping the lymph moving smoothly, while nourishing the whole body and stabilizing the metabolism. An overall tonic and normalizer. I keep fresh plant tincture, fresh plant vinegar and dried root on hand at all times if possible. And if you live near an Asian market you can probably buy it fresh (under the name of Gobo in the produce section) to be eaten as a food.
- Chokecherry – An old standard for any hot, irritated cough, especially with fever. Also good for calming a pissed off, overworked belly. And basically for cooling any hot, irritated condition, including rashes, heartburn, some headaches and tension. Most people use the syrup, but I prefer the Elixir made with brandy and honey or glycerin. Also good for holiday induced exhaustion and heart palpitations.
- Mullein – What isn't Mullein good for? Its Winter specialty is usually those dry, barking coughs that just won't go away. But it's also great for asthma, any sort of lung problem as well as stuck lymph. Most people use the leaves, but the root and flowers can also be used. All parts of the plant are somewhat sedative, pain relieving and anti-inflammatory. Nice in any healing salve too. The flower oil (and probably the oil of the other parts too) is a standby for ear infections in adults or children. The plant can also be used to help heal spinal issues and broken bones as well. Nearly any form of the herb works well, depending on the need. I like the infusion of the leaves with some milk added. Careful though, it can make some people a bit sleepy.
- Mallow – A great moistener for any of the dried out, hard conditions so common in Winer. A wonderful throat soother and lung healer taken in tea or food. It can also be used for ulcers and many other chronic belly issues. The root powder is nice mixed in with oatmeal for a nourishing and moistening yin tonic for the nerves, lungs and belly. It'll also lessen the pain of many UTIs quite quickly and promote healing wherever it's used.
- Goldenrod – Use the tincture to tonify the mucus membranes, dry up too copious sinus secretions and relieve some sinus headaches. It's also calming for the belly, nourishing for the kidneys and good for clearing up yeast infections. Depending on the spp. it's often bitter and so useful as a good digestive tonic. Use the fresh flower oil for pulled muscles, arthritis and other achy conditions as well as wounds and rashes.
- Skullcap/Motherwort/California Poppy/Vervain – Pick your favorite relaxant nervine and hold onto it tight, because nearly everyone needs to be calmed down a bit during the holiday madness. Motherwort's especially nice if you tend to have a giant anxiety attack just thinking about christmas shopping or seeing your mother in law for thanksgiving. Don't forget that we're supposed to get extra rest and sleep this time of year, not spend all our time sitting in traffic trying to get to the mall to buy more STUFF. So use those nervines and sleep in a little.
- Mugwort/Sagebrush/Silver Sage/Estafiate (Artemisia spp)- Because you can't have too many digestive helpers this time of year. For travel belly, weird water in foreign countries (or counties) and general stress related digestive disturbances. Also great as a steam for all manner of lung congestions and inflammation. Helps with stress (but may give you weird dreams 😉 ) and many indigenous tribes also used it for viral prevention and treatment. I haven't used it for viruses myself so can't testify for it yet. Great used externally for rashes, wounds, burns, mysterious lumps, sore muscles, bruises, contusions, arthritis and nearly anything else that hurts. Another plant that's good nearly anything. The dried plant infused in a pot of hot water is another great foot soak — relaxing, aromatic and pain relieving. Just don't put it in your turkey — no matter how many indian tribes and hippies call it sage, it's REALLY not what you're thinking of.
I also keep a quart or so of Fire Cider or Harvest Cider on hand, for general warming and tasty immune building. The spiciness of the brew depends on what your belly and constitution can handle. Some of you will be thinking, "where the hell's the garlic?" but I just can't use Garlic myself, I can barely be around it without getting sick so I just don't know to terrible much about it. Although I did once cure the world's worst year long sinus infection by snorting crushed Garlic, it cured the infection but now I wonder if that's why my body's afraid of it LOL. If I ever get my tolerance back, I'll be sure to include it more in my writings.
I will, of course, be doing various posts on myriad seasonal illnesses in the next few months. Maybe some cough differentials, a few aches and pains remedies and how to sleep outside all Winter long in the mountains(that would be in the Wild Woman Primer, coming soon). And oh yeah, a post on aphrodisiacs, for those of you who don't hibernate the entire winter.
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Perfect, Kiva! Thanks so much.
what plants in the montana mountains would your suggest for medicine?


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Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
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Love That Golden Syrup
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What a delicious recipe! I wish I could dip a spoon into that photo right now. ;)ReplyDelete
Your sticky toffee pudding looks WAY BETTER than the attempt I made a few months ago (damn that Nigella) - I'm going to try your recipe because....ReplyDelete
Morv has sent me golden syrup! I'm so excited! And I promised her I'd make something with it while she's on vacation.. guess I know what I'm making, eh? =)))
patricia, sorry, Sweeetie ate the rest this morning for breakfast as was a happy man.ReplyDelete
brilynn, it's not the same. give me your address via clachman at ix dot netcom dot com and I'll mail you a jar. you would love it! i'd love to see what you made with it...you are so creative.
gilly, it IS great stuff, isn't it, very sticky.
kristen, i'd send you some if it traveled well.
lis, thank you. had fun figuring out the recipe. tell me how it works for you, but no bill if it's a dud, OK? :)
I love sticky toffee pudding! This recipe is a little differnt to the one I used yesterday (Jamie Oliver which has no golden syrup in it). I am going to have to try your version too. I do't think anyone knows the true origin of this dessert but Wikipedia sggests it is ENglish not Scottish, either way I am certain it is British.ReplyDelete
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Great recipe. The first time I had sticky toffee pudding I was a little overwhelmed...how do the Brits manage such a sweet tooth! But now it's become a favorite in our house, especially with my husband.ReplyDelete


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When the new Port Jervis Drug Task Force met Dec. 13, its mission for the evening was to specify what its mission is.
When the new Port Jervis Drug Task Force met Dec. 13, its mission for the evening was to specify what its mission is.
"We need a mission statement," said Leslie Brown.
At the meeting, attended by approximately 25 people, many notions contributed to the vision.
"Addicts' friends and relatives don't know about drugs. The task force should be a source of education," said Jeffrey Spitz, executive director of Restorative Management Corp., based in Middletown, which provides services to addicts.
"The task force should let parents know what's going on," said Adona Castrigano. "I believe in tough love."
"Drug abuse is so widespread," said Brown. "You go to the hospital, and the nurse could be on Percoset. Kids may not have parents; they may be raising themselves. We have the elderly and teachers selling drugs."
"The elderly are selling pills to be able to eat," said Susan Ora. "We should be working with legislators."
"Addicts need someone to put their arm around them," said Anne Horsham. "I recently met a young man just out of jail whose girlfriend had died from bad heroin."
"I go for the drug dealers," said pastor Robin Martineau. "Since we started I've reached 12 drug dealers, 10 now abstaining from sales and use. Some say they're the bad guys, but I'm not afraid to put my arm around them."
"How do you know where they are other times?" asked Jessica Maillet.
"I teach them skills, but some sell by necessity," said Martineau. "No one will hire them."
Port Jervis police Detective Mike Worden said numerous other crimes are also motivated by necessity driven by addiction. He said a recent Port Jervis bank robbery was drug-related, and a burglary the night before was committed by someone avoiding getting "dope-sick," going through withdrawal.
"It's a health issue," said Shelley Pauly, R.N., site manager for Middletown Community Health Center. "Maybe give them information packets."
Worden says he even worries about his own children being subject to peer pressure to use drugs.
"It starts early," he said. "Parents should let kids know they'll check for drugs. Who pays for the mortgage and bedroom set?"
"It'll be a struggle to involve parents with kids," said Port Jervis Councilman-at-large Kelly Decker, speaking from 11 years experience as a DARE officer. "Fifth to seventh grade are the freedom years. Kids start hanging out with different people. The 25 of us should each reach out to five people to get involved in the coalition."
"We're looking at different programs for the high school," said high school Assistant Principal Jared Kahmar.
Decker suggested Rachel's Challenge, created by the parents of a girl killed in the Columbine High School shootings. "After six hours, adults and kids walk out changed people," said Decker.
Lacey Heter, community development specialist at Orange County Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Council, whose job is to facilitate community forums, capsulized the coalition's vision. She said it incorporates "the importance of education, family, networking, resources, support, prevention, and treatment."
"It helps to keep people focused on the same page for grant applications," said Heter.
The next meeting of the Port Jervis Drug Task Force will be at 7 p.m. Jan. 17 in the Common Council meeting room at the Port Jervis City Hall, 20 Hammond St. For more information, call 469-3659 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.


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MERRIMACK — A Massachusetts woman is accused of falsely claiming she was sexually assaulted.
Gabrielle Caughey, 21, of Mendon, Mass., was arrested Friday on charges she filed a false report to law enforcement and two counts of theft by unauthorized taking.
Merrimack police were originally investigating a complaint that Caughey stole some items from an individual's home on Oct. 28. Investigators determined Caughey pawned the stolen items at a nearby shop, police said.
It was during the investigation into the reported thefts that, according to police, Caughey said a man sexually assaulted her. Those allegations turned out to be false, police said.
Caughey is free on $5,000 personal recognizance bail with a Feb. 25 arraignment set in 9th Circuit Court, Merrimack District Division.


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WASHINGTON — Interest rates on short-term Treasury bills were mixed in Monday's auction with rates on three-month bills climbing to the highest level in a month while rates on six-month bills declined.
The Treasury Department auctioned $30 billion in three-month bills at a discount rate of 0.155 percent, up from 0.150 percent last week. Another $30 billion in six-month bills was auctioned at a discount rate of 0.195 percent, down from 0.2 percent last week.
The three-month rate was the highest since three-month bills averaged 0.185 percent on July 6. The six-month rate was the lowest since these bills averaged 0.170 percent on June 21.
The discount rates reflect that the bills sell for less than face value. For a $10,000 bill, the three-month price was $9,996.08 while a six-month bill sold for $9,990.14.
That would equal an annualized rate of 0.145 percent for the three-month bills and 0.198 percent for the six-month bills.
Separately, the Federal Reserve said Monday that the average yield for one-year Treasury bills, a popular index for making changes in adjustable rate mortgages, rose to 0.30 percent last week from 0.27 percent the previous week.
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Exciting news– Russ Taff's FAROE ISLANDS cd just received three big Dove Award nominations: Inspirational Album of the Year, Inspirational Recorded Song of the Year ("Love Is A Cross") and Traditional Recorded Gospel Song of the Year ("Here Comes Jesus.")
Congratulations to everyone involved– and thank you for all your support!
(And here's what Russ' face looked like when he received the news:)
Awesome! God Bless!
Russ You Deserve it. Wish "Missionary Man" would of gotten a Nomination.
[…] the Music Monday feature with some rather cool news: Russ Taff's new album, Faroe Islands, was nominated to three Dove Awards the other day. What's cool about that, I hear you ask? Well, it was co-produced by my brother, […]
Hi Russ,
A big congratualtions to you and your team for a work well done. Thank you for all the travel and effort to put this together. Of course Faroes being my homecountry makes it even more special!
Sing on for our Lord, till He returns for His bride
LOL That's what I look like when I open my Visa bill! Or look at the scales! Come on, Russ! You can't be surprised at all this—-don't you know you're that good??? Well, you ARE! Deal with it!


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Del Bosco pained at fourth-place ski cross finish
Christopher Del Bosco of Canada competes in a men's ski cross qualification race on day ten of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics at Cypress Mountain Resort on February 21, 2010 in Vancouver, Canada.
Photograph by: Alex Livesey/Getty Images , National Post
WEST VANCOUVER — It's gotten so bad for the maple leaf gang at the 2010 Olympics that Canada's nasty bout of fourthitis is inflicting the American we poached to try to help us own the podium.
That's right, it's spreading unchecked. Call the World Health Organization. Somebody quarantine Kevin Martin's rink, snowboarder Jasey-Jay Anderson, bobsled pilot Helen Upperton et. al. before they too become infected.
Ski cross racer Chris Del Bosco, the Vail, Colo.,- born and raised dual citizen who found his inner Canuck three years ago when recruited by the fledgling national team, was the latest to feel the sting of podium paralysis on Sunday when he crashed hard off the second last feature while running third in the four-skier final.
"I left it all out there," he said, his voice cracking and his hands reaching up to wipe away tears when he finally met the media some 2 1/2 hours after the race. "Maybe I wasn't patient enough with my move.
"I would have loved to do better, but I gave it my 100 per cent . . . and I didn't win.
"I think I would have been frustrated with second. I hold myself to a pretty high level. No matter, what the race, or where we're at, I'm always going for first place."
And to be fair to Del Bosco, this wasn't a case of an athlete freezing under the weight of home country pressure, or inexplicably running out of legs, or turning a sled upside down.
Sure, the guy who had qualified second-fastest of the 32 to advance to heat racing got a bad start after killing the gate-release in the first two heats. But he had made one pass and was still charging.
In the Olympic debut of the wildly exciting, smash-and-crash sport that looks more hairy than riding a roller coaster without a seat restraint, Del Bosco was in line to get a bronze. Only he clearly wanted more.
Coming into the jump, he took a sharp inside line to try to set up a pass of Austria's Andrea Matt, but got off balance in the air and went down on his right side, crashing spectacularly in full view of a sun-splashed crowd of 4,300. The crowd went from wild screaming and flag-waving to hushed quiet in a mili-second.
"Check 'er or wreck 'er, that's what he goes by," said his sister Heather Centurioni, from behind dark sun glasses.
"He took that inside line," said his father Armando, a Sudbury, Ont., native who went to Colorado to play university hockey and never went back. "He could have just stayed there and took the third place, but that's not Chris. He's going to go for it every time."
"That was heart-breaking to see . . . [but] pretty typical of Del Bosco," said Davey Barr of Brackendale, the late injury replacement who finished a surprising sixth. "Leave it to the last minute and try to make it all happen. And more often than not, he actually does it."
When Del Bosco, 27, did meet the media after an extended stint in doping control — "I'm usually in and out in 10 minutes, this time it didn't work so quickly; add insult to injury I guess" — he showed up with a big scrape across the bridge of his nose and a huge raspberry under his right eye.
In baggy grey sweat pants and CANADA sweat-shirt, and with girlfriend Ashleigh McIvor, a medal favorite in Tuesday's women's event in the room, he struggled to answer questions without breaking down.
He said he was trying desperately to make something happen on that second jump from the finish.
"I wasn't content with just . . . [long pause] I don't know. Third, I guess is all right for some people, but I wanted to give 100 per cent for my sport and for my country. I thought I could make up a little bit more at the bottom, but I couldn't."
As he left the press conference room, his hoodie pulled over his toque, he dissolved into tears.
If anybody felt Del Bosco's pain as much as he did, it was Heather. She was the one who in late 2005 had finally convinced the angry, mad-at-the-world drunk, the guy once felt near death in the freezing water of a Vail creek bed, beaten and left with a broken neck, to seek help to go into treatment for his addictions.
In her black cowgirl hat and her BOSCO, twentyten T-shirt, she has become as much a part of the Del Bosco story as Chris himself, taking every opportunity afforded her to talk about her brother's redemption and how much of a role model he can be.
"Part of the Olympic spirit and ideal is to be truthful, truthful to yourself and your sport," said Heather, a former ski racer herself.
"That comes with being honest with the public and Christopher has an opportunity to help many people.
"In the last year, we've heard from parents and families and kids and addicts themselves that we've given them a glimmer of hope. I helped Christopher, so did family and friends. And now Christopher is able to help others. To give back is what the Olympic spirit is about."
The gold medal, by the way, went to Michael Schmid of Switzerland. Matt took the silver and Audun Groenvold of Norway raced past the fallen Del Bosco to take the bronze.
While it was another gut-wrenching day for Canada, it was a terrific day for the sport itself. With a lot of shoulder-to-shoulder racing over whoops, huge kickers, blind mounds and high-banked turns, and a whole bunch of spills and thrills, the first-one-across-the-line discipline had turned the uninitiated into believers.
"Wow! That's now my new favorite sport," said one fan as he walked away.
Del Bosco just wishes his favorite sport hadn't so cruelly snatched his chance for ultimate redemption.


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Derry to replace 14 parking signs as part of downtown improvement effortBy HUNTER MCGEE
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June 27. 2014 8:43PM
DERRY— As part of an ongoing effort to improve downtown, the town will replace some parking signs that are showing their age.
Councilors listened to a presentation by acting Administrator Larry Budreau last week and agreed to replace 14 signs.
"The general theme is to continue to promote the improvement and appearance of downtown," Budreau said.
Headed east on Broadway, some of the parking signs are fading and "starting to grow weary," Budreau said. And heading west on Broadway, other signs are obscured by trees, he added.
Councilor Al Dimmock raised the issue of the signs at a recent planning board meeting.
And at a council meeting earlier this month, Councilor Thomas Cardon said that he noticed some of the worn signs recently while he was in the downtown area.
Cardon said parking signs are deteriorating in the Wall Street area, and it's difficult to see some of the ones on Broadway because they are blocked by tree leaves.
Councilors agreed to have the town check the condition of the various parking signs and report back. Budreau gave an update on the condition of the downtown parking signs at the June 17 meeting.
After a brief discussion, councilors agreed to replace the signs and approved the project. At the suggestion of Councilor Michael Fairbanks, the signs will be blue with a universal "P" for parking.
Fourteen new parking signs will be installed throughout the downtown area, pointing drivers to the East Broadway, Wall Street, McCallister Court, Abbott Court and Birch Street public parking lots, Budreau said. Fabrication cost is $31.25 per sign, for a total of $437.50.
"Pending timely receipt from the supplier, all of the signs should be installed in July," Budreau said.


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Clide...That would be great.
I'm a Mac guy so ggdt is off limits to me.
The C:B ratio for a combustion cannon has been beat to death pretty good but I don't hear much discussion on piston ratios.
The other thing not talked about is how far the valve really needs to open....
Fluid dynamics around the barrel entrance.
There was an article I read about deep well drillers and their discovery with the flow of fluid through pipes.
One of the worst flows possible available is into any square cut pipe....the end of a pipe exactly like that in most every spudgun.
They had pictures of vortexes and back eddies that form during high flow periods and discussed how much flow actually chokes the pipe off...and it is really significant! I would think especially with piston valves.
The fix is really easy which is like a venturi insert into the pipe....which actually makes the pipe inside diameter smaller but because the insert direct the flow...it stops the back eddies and allows much more flow.
Basically I am saying most cannons could benefit from installing a simple insert.
We purchased carbide nozzle inserts used for deep well oil drilling...only we used the nozzles for another application. In one the boxes we ordered was some literature about flow into pipes. I think it was Smith International or Smit International, a company in Texas that makes all sorts of drilling applied tools and such. One thing they were offering was these weld on inserts for pipe ends to increase flow in a pipe.
So...after writing this...it occurs to me the the chamber sealing valve has an advantage over say a coaxial.
Sure like to view others thoughts on piston ratios.


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of Mr. Jamess novels is a long one, and his short stories are very numerous; and among them all there is not one with a perfunctory or desultory inspiration. Why is it that they in no sense constitute a
comédie humaine?
They are very populous; why is it that the characters that people them have so little relief? Taken together they constitute the least successful element of his fiction. Partly this is because, as I say, they possess so little typical quality. But why also do they possess so little personal interest? They have, seemingly, astonishingly little, even for their creator. So far from knowing the sound of their voices, as Thackeray said of his, he is apparently less pre-occupied with them than about the situationthe predicament, he would aptly sayin which he places them. Apparently he is chiefly concerned with what they are to do when confronted with the complications his ingenuity devises for themhow they are to pull it off. These complications are sometimes very slight, in order to show, or at least showing, what trifles control destinies; sometimes they are very grave, and exhibit the conflict of the soul with warring desires and distracting perplexities. And they are never commonplaceany more than the characters themselves, each one of which is intimately observed and thoroughly respected as an individuality. But their situation rather than themselves is what constitutes the claim, the
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of the book in which they figure. The interest in the book, accordingly, becomes analogous to that of a game in which the outcome rather than the pieces monopolizes the attention. It cannot be said that the pieces are not attentively describedsome of them, indeed, are very artistically and even beautifully carvedbut it is the moves that count most of all. Will Densher give a plausible solution to the recondite problem of how to combine the qualities of a cad and of a gentleman? Will Maisie decide for or against Sir Claude? What decision will Sir Claude himself make? Has Vanderbank ideality enough to marry Nanda? Will Chad Newsome go back to Woollett? The game is very well, often exquisitely, played; and the result, which, nevertheless, from all we know of the characters, we can rarely foresee, wearswhen we argue it out in retrospect as the author clearly has done in advancethe proper artistic aspect of a foregone conclusion. Mr. James rarely seems to impose it himself; except on the few occasions when, as in The Princess Casamassima or The Other House, he deals in melodrama, in which he almost never succeeds in being convincing, his rectitude is so strong a reliance as to exclude all impression of perversity or wilfulness and convey the agreeable sense of sufficiently fatalistic predestination. Meantime you find out about the characters from the result. Since it has turned out in this way, they must have been such and such persons. In other words, they have not been characterized very vividly, have not been presented very completely as human beings.
At least they do not people ones memory, I think, as the personages of many inferior artists do. When one thinks of the number of characters that Mr. James has created, each, as I have said, carefully individualized, and none of them replicasan amazing world they certainly compose in their originality and varietyit is odd what an effort it is to recall even their names. The immortal Daisy Miller, the sensitive and highly organized Ralph Touchett, the robust and thoroughly national Christopher Newman, the gentle Miss Pynsent, and a number of others that do remain in ones memory, mainly belong to the earlier novels and form but a small proportion of the great number of their authors creations. Different readers, however, would no doubt answer this rather crude test differently, and in any case it is not because they fail in precision that Mr. Jamess personages lose distinctness as their story, like all stories, fades from the recollection. They have a sharp enough outline, but they are not completely enough characterized.
Why? Why is it that when the American heroine of one of his stories, beautifully elaborated in detail, a perfect specimen of Dutch
kills herself because her English husband publishes a savage book about her country, we find ourselves perfectly unprepared for this
Why is it that with all the pains expended on the portrait of the extraordinary Mrs. Headway of The Siege of London, we never quite get
point of view, but are kept considering the social duty of the prig who passes his valuable time in observing her attempts at rehabilitation andno doubt most justlyexposes her in the end? There is nothing to complain of in the result, the problem is worked out satisfactorily enough, but Mrs. Headway herself does not count for us, does not hang together, in the way in which Augiers Aventurière does, or even Dumass Baronne dAnge. It would be difficult, for example, for this reason, to make a play of The Siege of London.
The answer to this query, the explanation of this incompleteness of characterization in Mr. Jamess nevertheless very precise personages, consists, I think, in the fact that he rather pointedly neglects the province of the heart. This has been from the first the natural peril of the psychological novelist, the neglect of what in the Scripture view constitutes the whole man, just as the neglect of the mindwhich discriminates and defines personalities once constitutedwas the defect of the psychological novelists predecessor. But for Mr. James this peril has manifestly no terrors. The province of the heart seems to him, perhaps, so much to be taken for granted as to be on the whole rather negligible, so far as romantic exploitation is concerned.
Incidentally, one may ask, if all the finest things in the world are to be assumed, what is there left for exploitation? Matter for curiosity mainlythe curiosity which in Mr. James is so sharp and so fruitful. The realm of the affections is that which
ex vi termini,
one may saymost engages and attaches. Are we to be interested in fiction without liking it? And are we to savor art without experiencing emotion? The fact that few reread Mr. James means that his form, however adequate and effective, is not in itself agreeable. But it means still more that his content is not attaching. When Lockhart once made some remark to Scott about poets and novelists looking at life as mere material for art, the veteran Chief of Letters observed: I fear you have some very young ideas in your head. We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling, unless we have taught ourselves to consider everything as moonshine compared with the education of the heart. Is it possible that Mr. Jamess controlling idea is a young one? Is his undoubted originality, after all, the exploitation of what seemed to so wise a practitioner as Scott, moonshine? That would account, perhaps, for the pallid light that often fills his canvas when his characters are grouped in a scene where the human heartinsight into which used to be deemed the standard of the novelists excellencehas a part of any prominence to play. The voluntary abandonment by the novelist of such a field of interest as the province of the heart is witness, at all events, of an asceticism whose compensations ought in prudence to be thoroughly assured. Implied, understoodthis domain! Very well, one may reply, but what a field of universal interest you neglect, what a rigorously puritanic sacrifice you make!
He has, however, chosen to be an original writer in a way that precludes him from being, as a writer, a great one. Just as his theory of art prevents his more important fiction from being a rounded and synthetic image of life seen from a certain centralizing point of view, and makes of it an essay at conveying the sense and illusion of life by following, instead of focussing, its phenomena, so his theory of style prevents him from creating a texture of expression with any independent interest of its own. The interest of his expression consists solely in its correspondence to the character of what it endeavors to express. So concentrated upon this end is he that he very rarely gives scope to the talent for beautiful and effective expression which occasional lapses from his rigorous practice show him to possess in a distinguished degree. There are entire volumes of his writings that do not contain a sentence like, for example, this from a brief essay on Hawthorne: His beautiful and light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky pane. Of a writer who has this touch, this capacity, in his equipment, it is justifiable to lament that his theory of art has so largely prevented his exercise of it. The fact that his practice has not atrophied the facultyclear enough from a rare but perfect exhibition of it from time to timeonly increases our regret. We do not ask of Mr. Jamess fastidiousness the purple patch of poetic prose, any more than we expect from him any kind of mediocrity whatever. But when a writer, who shows us unmistakably now and then that he could give us frequent equivalents of such episodes as the death of Ralph. Touchett, rigorously refrains through a long series of admirable books from producing anything of greater extent than a sentence or a paragraph that can be called classic, that has the classic note, we may, I think, legitimately complain that his theory of art is exasperatingly exacting.From American Prose Masters (1909).
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PHOENIX (AP) — One Republican proposal would ban state enforcement of federal gun laws.
Another would require that hospitals check the citizenship of anyone treated in an emergency room.
Still another would call for students to pledge loyalty oaths to the Constitution before high school graduation.
It's early on in the Arizona legislative session, but so far the proposals described by one top Republican as "esoteric" and criticized by Democrats as unconstitutional have dominated the headlines — despite promises from GOP leaders to focus on top-tier issues such as balancing the state budget and improving education.
It comes as Republicans nationally try to rebrand the party, highlighted by Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal calling on his GOP colleagues to "stop being the stupid party" and focus on issues that matter to more Americans.
In Arizona, bills like those being pushed early this session often make headlines but often don't get far in the legislative process.
Together with proposals that would block a plan championed by Republican Gov. Jan Brewer to expand Medicaid under President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act, the measures from some Republicans have prompted criticism that they aren't focused on important issues. Republicans hold majorities in both chambers, and Democrats say their rivals are more interested in running headfirst into confrontations with the federal government and pushing their conservative agenda.
It remains to be seen how much time lawmakers will devote toward such plans.
"You're always going to have members that introduce legislation that is very partisan, very divisive, very polarizing," said Democratic Sen. Steve Gallardo. "The question is: Will they, the president and the speaker, let these bills move through the process?"
Senate President Andy Biggs and House Speaker Andy Tobin are tasked with determining whether proposals advance to a full legislative debate. Both said before the session they didn't expect to spend much time on hot-topic bills like immigration that had dominated the Legislature in recent years.
Biggs said Monday he would assign each bill introduced in his chamber to a committee, where the measures could die or change significantly before reaching his desk, at which point he could decide either to spike a plan or bring it to the full Senate for consideration.
He said he didn't think any of the bills would become distractions, saying that he expects such measures from a citizen legislature that represents views of constituents in their districts.
"I wouldn't call them fringe bills. I would call them esoteric bills," he said with a slight smile. "I would call them bills born of passion."
During the first weeks of any legislative session hundreds of bills are introduced, many of which go nowhere. Often, Democratic bills in the GOP-controlled Legislature meet such a fate. Republican-sponsored bills, however, have a better chance of advancing — even when critics say they're unconstitutional.
Rep. Bob Thorpe, a freshman tea party Republican from Flagstaff, was one of five House members who signed on to the bill that would make it a felony for a state official to enforce any new federal firearms law or regulations that tried to enforce an assault weapons ban or limit the size of ammunition magazines. It also would make it a felony for a federal official to enforce such a law.
Should the bill become law, it would surely set up a fight with Washington officials, who could argue that under the U.S. Constitution federal law trumps state law.
Thorpe and fellow opponents of gun control legislation, such as Rep. Carl Seel and Sen. Don Shooter, don't see it that way. They say they're trying to protect Second Amendment rights.
"I think it would hold up in court," Seel said. "What the bill does is clearly say that if some federal regulator comes into this state and tries to enforce, in essence, a law that is unconstitutional and infringes on a citizen's right to bear arms, it's patently unconstitutional."
"When the federal government oversteps its boundaries," Thorpe said. "I truly believe that things like nullification, for example, can be used at the state level to nullify laws that we feel are unconstitutional."
A companion bill passed a Senate committee Wednesday after a sharp exchange between Shooter, the bill's co-sponsor, and a Democratic lawmaker who called the proposal a waste of time and questioned how it could be enforced.
Shooter defended the plan by saying, "The country is called the 'United States.' It's not called the 'federal government.' The states are sovereign."
Democratic Sen. Anna Tovar, the minority whip, laughed when she thought about the flurry of conservative bills, and singled out the gun proposal as a distraction.
"It would be non-enforceable, I would assume, because federal laws would supersede," she said. "This bill adds fuel to the fire. It scares people. It makes people nervous. And it doesn't tackle the issue. Not to mention it's a waste of taxpayer money,"
House Speaker Andy Tobin wouldn't say whether he'd back the bill.
"I don't know if it's unconstitutional," he said. "But I think at the end of the day it's probably worth having a conversation over a president that issues executive orders" affecting gun ownership.
Tobin's comment referenced a belief among gun rights opponents that President Barack Obama would use his authority to try to ban some weapons.
A series of executive orders Obama issued Jan. 16 did not seek to ban guns or ammunition. The president mainly addressed health care rules, school safety, gun tracing and background checks. Obama's proposals that would outlaw new assault rifle sales and limit the size of ammunition magazines require congressional action.
Thorpe also filed a bill that would require high school seniors to swear a constitutional oath before they could graduate, setting off a flurry of criticism that led him to back off and say he would make the oath voluntary.
"The whole purpose of that bill is not to get some standard of loyalty from an individual," Thorpe said. "It was really to hopefully encourage our high school students to take an active interest in what our Constitution is."
He addressed those who might see a contradiction in his actions, on one hand setting up a federal fight and on the other seeking to require that students swear allegiance to the federal government. Thorpe says those who perceive inconsistency misunderstand his thinking. He says he is a constitutionalist, who seeks to uphold its principles.
Thorpe, Seel and Rep. Steve Smith are also sponsoring the bill requiring hospitals to check the citizenship status of people seeking treatment. Smith also has sponsored a proposal that would require school districts to collect information on students' immigration status.
Smith said the hospital bill is intended only to count the number of illegal aliens seeking care.
"It doesn't deport. It doesn't deny care. It doesn't do anything other than put a number on the problem," Smith said.
Versions of both bills have been rejected the last two years.
Gallardo said he understands policy differences, but laws like Smith's just make him shake his head.
"If those bills start moving through the process, the Legislature is no longer focusing on school safety, on education, on Medicaid expansion, on the budget," he said. "We're now focused on these polarizing bills that do nothing but cause chaos."


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Lukaku is to remain at the Hawthorns for the rest of the season after Chelsea decided not to take up an option to recall him this month. The 19-year-old, who recently indicated he wants to return to Albion for another season in 2013-14, has begun to force his way into the starting line-up in recent weeks.
He has already netted seven times and overhauled Shane Long to become Albion's current top-scorer for this campaign, and Brunt said: "He's been consistently hitting the net in the last few weeks, even when we've not played that well, and the more he plays, the better and better he'll get."
He added: "Romelu has been confirmed as staying here for the season which is great news. He's come into his own during the last month.
"The gaffer has been chopping and changing him and Shane (Long), and Rom has stepped up and grabbed a few goals for us."
Brunt added: "People forget Rom is only a young lad, he's still learning the game but he's a real handful.
"He gets into good areas and hopefully he'll put more and more chances away as he gets more football."
Meanwhile, winger Jerome Thomas is hoping to convince manager Steve Clarke he has a future at Albion after returning from a loan spell at Leeds.
Thomas, whose current deal runs out this summer, said: "Maybe now this is my chance to show the gaffer and management what I can do.
"I'm happy here, I've been playing here for a few years and have no plans to move on. Hopefully I can get something resolved."
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ANDOVER - A 2-year-old girl suffered a serious leg injury Tuesday when the snowmobile she was riding on hit a tree, according to a release from the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department.
The release said the girl and her 4-year-old brother were riding on the vehicle about 2:15 p.m. Tuesday with their father, whom Fish and Game officers identified only as a 35-year-old man. The snowmobile hit a tree about 10 yards from where it started.
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Setoguchi's OT winner lifts Wild over Predatorsby Dan Myers / NHL.com
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Devin Setoguchi picked a heck of a time to score his first goal of the season.
The winger scored off a one-timer with 38.2 seconds left in overtime to lift the Minnesota Wild to a 2-1 win against the Nashville Predators on Saturday at Xcel Energy Center.
Setoguchi's goal-scoring pedigree is no secret. Despite the fact he turned 26 just over a month ago and has only four full seasons in the National Hockey League, Setoguchi already has one 30-goal and two other 20-goal seasons under his belt. It's why the Wild traded all-star defenseman Brent Burns to San Jose two summers ago to land his services.
In each of his four full campaigns, Setoguchi has scored his first goal of the season in either his team's first or second game. So when Minnesota suited up Saturday for its 11th game of the season, and Setoguchi was still goal-less, one can understand the kind of pressure he was feeling.
What made things even more frustrating for Setoguchi was how snake-bitten he was. After a poor start to the season, Wild coach Mike Yeo sent him a message, demoting the veteran to the fourth line. He responded by playing his strongest two games of the season. Yeo rewarded him by moving him back to the second line and inserting him on the power play in overtime.
"It feels nice, obviously," Setoguchi said. "But now I need to keep doing the same things and keep getting those chances to score and I know the puck will keep going in."
Scoring the winner was also especially rewarding, because it was Setoguchi who nearly wore the goat horns in regulation.
With the game tied 1-1 approaching the midway point of the third period, Setoguchi was whistled for a double-minor high sticking penalty after Nashville captain Shea Weber lifted Setoguchi's stick into Weber's face. It was a bad break, and one that sent him to the penalty box for four minutes with the game in the balance.
"It's just one of those unlucky plays. Credit the [penalty kill] and to [Wild goalie Niklas Backstrom] for holding us in there," Setoguchi said. "It's a long four minutes, it probably felt like 12 sitting in the penalty box."
For Backstrom, who was pulled after two periods in a 4-1 loss to the Vancouver Canucks on Thursday night, it was a great response. Entering the night, Backstrom was 18-2-4 with a 1.95 goals-against average and a .930 save percentage in games after being pulled. Yeo bet on history and his gamble paid off in spades.
His sprawling save with under three minutes to play in overtime denied Nashville defender Ryan Ellis of a sure game-winner and allowed Minnesota to snap its three-game losing streak.
After fighting the puck for 40 minutes Thursday, Backstrom was calm and collected all night, limiting rebound chances. He and the team responded well after Paul Gaustad's goal just over 10 minutes into the contest gave the Predators a 1-0 lead.
Gaustad's first of the season was the only one the Predators could get past the veteran Finn all night. He made 25 saves to improve to 4-4-1 on the season.
"You want to get a chance to get back to help the team," Backstrom said. "Every time you get pulled, it's not fun. You take it pretty personal and you want to go out there and know you're not letting your teammates down."
Chris Mason was nearly as stellar on the other side, stopping 30 of 32 shots in just his second start of the season -- ironically both in this building. After allowing just one goal in a 3-1 win over the Wild almost three weeks ago, Mason nearly stole another one for his team.
Mason was especially stellar in the extra frame, stoning Dany Heatley on a pair of chances down low in the opening seconds of overtime. He also robbed Mikko Koivu on an open net and made a nice pad save on Setoguchi a few seconds before his winner.
"I thought Mase was real sharp, made some big saves when we needed it," said Nashville coach Barry Trotz.
The loss snapped a four-game winning streak for the Predators.
Following the game, Trotz was more concerned about the penalty called on his team that allowed Minnesota the power play that led to the game-winner.
With 2:12 remaining, on a faceoff to Mason's right, the puck hit the ice and bounced in the air, appearing to land on Gaustad's hand, which was still on his stick. The referee called Gaustad for playing a faceoff with his hand, a new rule instituted just this season.
Trotz, who was on the rules committee that approved the rule change, said the spirit of the rule was not enforced correctly and he would "need an explanation from the League."
"Basically, the rule states you cannot win a faceoff with your hand," Trotz said. "Everything we talked about was, tying someone up, and winning it with your free hand and pushing it back. If you look at it, the puck bounces three feet in the air and lands on top of his hand. It's a natural reaction. There were two hands on his stick, it's not like he was using a free hand.
"For me, it was a poor call; a real questionable call at an important time in the game. I mean, c'mon… I don't agree with that at all."
Yeo insisted however, that his team was not the beneficiary of a questionable call. Even if they were, he was in no mood to argue the result.
"Nothing came easy to us tonight," Yeo said. "I don't think we got a break with [Setoguchi's penalty]. We had to kill more penalties than we got. It's not like we shot one from below the goal line and it bounced off a couple people. We had to fight for our goals and fight to keep the puck out of our net."
The Wild also got a goal from winger Cal Clutterbuck, who tipped a Ryan Suter shot from the point at 12:59 of the second period. The tally was his second of the season and tied the game at one.
Nashville outshot Minnesota 12-8 in the third period, with many of those shots coming on the power play after Setoguchi's double-minor. Until that point, at 6:18 of the third, the Wild had allowed just 13 shots to Backstrom all night.
Despite the loss, Trotz was pleased his team was able to grab a key point on the road.
"It was a good point for us, we came in here against a very desperate team. They had a big push, they're trying to right the ship if you will, and we'll take the points on the road," Trotz said.


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Infertility has battered my feminine identity so much. Now I find out bf may be possible for adoptive mothers. I'm elated to be adopting 2 adorable toddlers: 2 and 3 but don't want to get my bf hopes up to high only to have them dashed. And I certainly am NOT comfortable going to a LLL group yet, when I still feel like a infertile freak (on my weak days) compared to fertile/nursing-oops we're pregnant again-oblivious-insensitive-babies-popping-out-all-over-the-place-mamas.
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No child is immune, but statistics tell us that some adolescents are more vulnerable than others and may require closer parental attention:
Although girls are more prone to depression, the suicide rate among teenage boys is four times higher. One theory as to why is that girls generally have more intimate friendships than boys do. In times of stress, girls can often lean on one another for emotional support, whereas boys tend to internalize their feelings.
Many adolescents who take their own lives are homosexual. Depression and substance abuse are prevalent among these young men and women, who often face rejection and ridicule due to their sexuality identity.
"Many suicides occur on the spur of the moment in association with alcohol or other drugs," explains Dr. Robert W. Blum, director of the division of pediatrics and adolescent health at University Hospitals in Minneapolis. "The drugs are disinhibiting and allow the person's underlying distress to surface."
Another scenario involving substances is when a young person underestimates the toxic effects of medications found at home. A girl desperately seeking to numb her unhappiness, not end her life, accidentally overdoses on just a few pills. The reverse can happen to a boy intent on going to sleep and never waking up swallowing a smorgasbord of drugs, only to regain consciousness in the hospital.
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BOSTON — For the first time in most than two decades, bars and restaurants may be able to offer discounted drinks in Massachusetts, under a measure passed by the state Senate on Tuesday.
The measure is included in the casino bill. It passed quickly and without much explanation.
Lawmakers were rapidly making their way through amendments dealing with casino alcohol policy. When Senator Robert Hedlund of Weymouth argued that if casinos are allowed to offer free drinks, which they are under the current version of the bill, all bars and restaurants should be allowed to, as a way to level the playing field.
"It's just a question of fairness and I don't think from a public safety standpoint we're going to roll the clock back to set in precedent anything that's going to be threatening especially since the great work we've done to update the drunk driving laws in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts," Hedlund said.
Bay State bars haven't been allowed to offer promotions on drinks since 1984, when Massachusetts became the first state in the country to ban Happy Hour.
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CHICAGO Travelers facing canceled flights and closed roads were hoping to finally head to their holiday destinations Friday as a widespread snowstorm that dumped more than a foot of snow in parts of the Midwest moved across the Great Lakes toward Canada.
The storm, part of a system that began in the Rockies earlier in the week, led airlines to cancel more than 1,000 flights Thursday and caused whiteout conditions that left roads dangerous to drive on. It was blamed for deaths in at least five states, with parts of Iowa and Wisconsin hit with more than a foot of snow.
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Despite recent efforts to shore up its approach to cybersecurity, the Defense Department is behind the game, lacking the ability to meet current threats and the means to keep pace with future threats, the General Accounting Office concludes in a new report.
The report, released July 25, states that DOD's decentralized approach to cybersecurity, including a lack of unified policy, is a major contributor to its network vulnerabilities.
While the DOD is proactively addressing the issues, including the establishment of U.S. Cyber Command to integrate operations, department officials admit that they have no single publication to completely address their cyberspace operations; there are insufficient discussions on the topic and no timetable for updating their existing doctrines or decision-making process.
Furthermore, the department's cyber workforce is "undersized and unprepared to meet the current threat, which is projected to increase significantly over time," the report states. Compounding the problem is that the department has not created a funding strategy to address its cyber security issues.
GAO also found that DOD's newly developed personnel reporting structure for a unified approach to cybersecurity is vague enough to be potentially inadequate.
"It remains unclear whether these [cybersecurity] gaps will be addressed, since DOD has not conducted a more comprehensive department-wide assessment of cyber-related capability gaps or established an implementation plan or funding strategy to resolve any gaps that may be identified," GAO said.
Although DOD's cyber defense activities have been around for a while, its push toward a unified approach is new. Recently, GCN reported that DOD and the Homeland Security Department are working together to protect cyberspace, under an evolving plan in which DHS has primary responsibility for civilian networks.
Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn also announced July 14 the department's new strategy for defending U.S computer networks, saying, "it is only one part of the department's first-ever Strategy for Operating in Cyberspace."
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So far, from here at least, looks like business as usual. Everybody wants to do it THEIR way, and official guidance from on high is filed and forgotten.
Given the difference between cyber-security and war, given the continual need for cyber-security inside the boundaries of the US, given the continually graded response necessary to attacks and given the long term training needed to be minimally sufficient, cyber-security should probably be in the law enforcement realm instead of the DOD. Consider the problem with posse contaminous if the attacker is within the bounds of the US. True the DOD's cyber capabilities need to be secure but that does not mean they should take the lead.
Big problem with this story. The GAO audit was completed more than a year ago. Declassification issues prevented it from being released until now. Any story about it should note that fact.
the government keeps stating the shortage of cybersecurity workers, where are the job postings or recruitment activities? I havent seen them
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WF(27.5k/yr) vs. Nova(Full Ride + Grant)
May 22, 2011, 07:57:42 PM »
I know I've posted this before, just still trying to get more viable opinions...
-Wake has given me 27,500 a year with a top 2/3 stipulation. If I fall out of the stipulation I keep half.
Wake is 36,500 a year, so it would cost me around 10,000 a year to go there + living which will be a little less than 10,000, maybe 8,000 a year. So I'm guessing Wake will cost me around 60,000 when it's all said and done...
-Nova has given me 35,000 a year with a 3.15 stipulation (Around top 48% I think). This is pretty much full tuition at Nova give or take 1,000 bucks. They also have given me a 1 time 10,000 grant which I can use for living my first year. So in the end I'll be paying for 2 years of living at around 10,000 a year probably and barely any tuition and fees. The grant has a non-binding agreement that I will contribute to similar funds down the road. Nova will probably cost me around 25,000-30,000 when it's all said and done.
I have been in Philly my whole life (my family is also here) so I'm sure I wouldn't mind being here a little longer, but for some reason I really feel like I would like the idea of living down south and working in Charlotte. I just have never been there for a significant period of time so it's hard to commit to it all out. The weather up here can be a little taxing and like the idea of a bit slower pace (not sure how slow though) and nicer people. That being said, when Nova came back with the full tuition and grant...It became kind of hard to say no to it just because of the offer to go to law school for almost nothing. Part of me wants to commit to Nova because its the logical choice especially financially (I am very debt averse), but another part of me doesn't want to have to live in Philadelphia my entire life...Would there be any possibility of working in Charlotte with a law degree from Villanova? The whole choice is starting to wear on me because I pretty much flip flop every other day. I'd hate to choose Nova and never leave Philadelphia and always say what if, but I'd also hate to choose Wake, not like it down there (which I don't think is very likely) and feel like I'm 30,000-35,000 more in debt for no reason, and not be able to leave the south.
Any thoughts/comments from those facing similar choices would be much appreciated...
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July 30, 2011, 04:44:23 PM »
If I have two offers, I may choose Wake Forest. Generally speaking ,Wake is a top school in the nation. (Well, it is not as well as Duke or UNC), but its reputation in nation is much better than Nova ( Will a guy from Oregon know Nova?) Also, you just pay a little bit more than Nova, but you could get back these money very quick. Of course, I know some guy go to Cooley because their whole family are wholly/mostly rely on his income. So he has to got a full-ride school to save money. If you can afford it, just go to Wake. By the way, could you show me your LSAT and GPA?
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Villanova undergrads are really good looking (don't know if you are a guy or girl, but the girls are hot, and quite frankly, the guys are pretty good looking too) does that help your decision making?
Generally, try to avoid debt. Wake Forest does have a better rep though and I am sure you will get a job in the South and cost of living is of course lower. I also suppose it matters what kind of law you want to do. If you are aiming for a big firm, well then quite honestly, North, South, East, or West you will be working long, long hours ("slower pace" in BigLaw below the Mason Dixon might mean 65-70hrs per week as opposed to 75-80 in Philly and 90 in NYC).
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Unless you are going to work in North Carolina, both schools will not have a lot of clout with law firms. Thus, I would take the one that costs you the least overall. My only concern is that being in the top 48% isn't as easy as it may sound. Don't let your rather strong LSAT fool you. The exam doesn't have the corelation that you think it should have as to law school grades.
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