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Information for Consumers
Topics to Research Before Purchasing Real Estate
Airport Disclosure
Required disclosure that property is in the territory in the vicinity of either a military airport or public airport.
Arizona Sex Offender Information
The Department of Public Safety's Sex Offender InfoCenter website enables you to search for registered Arizona sex offenders by name or ZIP Code. You may wish to check this site before purchasing a home.
Beneficiary Deed
On April 11, 2001, the Governor of Arizona signed into law Arizona Revised Statutes Section 33-405, which created a new type of Arizona real property deed known as the Arizona Beneficiary Deed. By signing and recording an Arizona Beneficiary Deed, an owner of an interest in real property located in Arizona may cause the owner's interest in the real property to be conveyed to people or entities on the owner's death. The interest in real property conveyed by a Beneficiary Deed does not take effect until the death of the owner, at which time that interest transfers automatically by law to the designated grantee(s) named in the Beneficiary Deed. Click here to learn more about the benefits and drawbacks of a Beneficiary Deed.
Environmental Hazards
The following websites provide general information about some of the environmental hazards that have the potential to affect the home environment. They provide introductory information to help home buyers understand the possible risk of exposure to potentially harmful environmental hazards in and around the home.
Expansive Soil Survey
Expansive soil deposits can cause damage to homes built on them. Subdivision developers are required to disclose the existence of expansive soils and any remedies taken in their Disclosure Report (Public Report) on file with the Department.
For a maps indicating where expansive soil deposits are in the Phoenix and Tucson areas, please click here.
Flood Insurance
Is the home or vacant land you are considering buying within a Special Flood Hazard Area? Do you need flood insurance? It is very important to have answers to these questions not only when purchasing a home in a subdivision, but when constructing a custom home or purchasing undeveloped (raw) land.
Your regular home owner's policy does not cover flood losses. Flood insurance is a separate policy. It is available to every resident in most if not all Arizona communities. Renters are eligible to purchase "contents only" flood insurance. Owners can purchase both building and contents coverage.
If you are purchasing a previously owned home, check with the owner and the appropriate city or county agency to determine whether the property has ever been flooded, or whether the property is within a 100-year floodplain. You will find more information through the following link:
Is a freeway planned in the area near the home you want to buy? The Arizona Department of Transportation Intermodal Transport Division website provides schedules, maps and other information of new freeway construction in the state.
Geologic Hazards
This publication (DTE-13-A Home Buyer's Guide to Geologic Hazards in Arizona, by R.C. Harris and P.A. Pearthree, 2002, 36 p.) from the State of Arizona Geological Survey can assist those who are considering buying a house or raw land. The publication describes the most widespread and common geologic hazards such as floods, earthquakes, mass movement (landslides), subsidence and fissures, radon and other factors to consider before buying or building. The 36-page color publication contains photos, illustrations and maps depicting the hazards as well as information describing the hazards, how to minimize them and where more information may be obtained. The publication may be purchased from the Arizona Geological Survey website. You may also order the publication by calling the Arizona Geological Survey in Tucson at 520-770-3500.
Homeowners Association (HOA) Information
We suggest that you seek legal counsel with HOA issues. Visit www.azbar.org/LegalResources to find an attorney in Arizona.
Lead-Based Paint Safety
See the following links for information about lead-based paint, home maintenance and renovation work:-
Mold In The Home
You read and hear many stories about the presence of mold in homes and schools. These websites provide good information about mold, the problems it may cause, and how it may be removed.
The following websites will help you, the prospective buyer, make informed decisions on which kind of mortgage is best for you:
Sellers Property Disclosure Statement (SPDS) and Seller Advisory
Sellers are obligated by Arizona common law to disclose all known material facts about a property to the buyer. This SPDS is designed to assist you in making this disclosure. For a sample of the SPDS, visit the Arizona Association of REALTORS® website: www.aaronline.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/seller-property-disclosure-statement.pdf.
K. Michelle Lind, General Counsel for the Arizona Association of Realtors®, has written two important articles about seller disclosure. They are: "Residential Seller's Property Disclosure Statement" and "Every buyer is entitled to a SPDS".
The fact that a property is in a homeowners association (HOA) must also be disclosed.
The Office of Pest Management (OPM) website contains information about what you should know about Wood Infestation Reports. They also have a homebuyers guide to termite treatments.
Since August 2009, ANYONE can go on the OPM website to retrieve a complete termite (or other wood destroying organisms) treatment history for the past ten years and\or TARF report(s) on any structure in the state of Arizona (residential\commercial).
Title Insurance
For a list of title insurance resources, visit the Arizona Department of Insurance website at www.id.state.az.us/consumerautohome.html#titleresource
Water Availability
Prospective homebuyers should investigate water availability before purchasing real property. The Arizona Department of Water Resources is your first step to investigate water availability and to learn more about groundwater supplies.
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RANCHO CUCAMONGA — Sherry Werumand will be the guest speaker at the Nite Owl Quilters Guild meeting on Jan. 17.
The meeting will be at the James L. Brulte Senior Center, 11200 Base Line Road. Social time begins at 6:30 p.m. with the meeting starting at 7 p.m.
Non-members pay $5 at the door.
Werumand will offer a look at European, Mediterranean, and African mosaics and their influences on American quilting. She proves that history can be humorous as well as informative, but most of all entertaining.
While she lectures, her husband Mark adds a song and pattern drafting tips.
Sherry Werumand will teach a workshop at the Brulte center on Jan. 19, called "Mosaics and Motifs Table Runner." Many useful techniques will be presented by her during the workshop.
The cost for the workshop is $30 for members and $35 for non-members.
Information: Jan Huber via e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com.

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Europe's finest came out to battle at the Bilbao World SUP Challenge on June 21 – 24 in Spain's Basque Country. Connor Baxter and Annabel Anderson continued their domination, winning the second stop of the Standup World Series' European Trilogy. Check out the highlights from the event and stay tuned for coverage of the final stop in the European Trilogy, the Hamburg Paddle Challenge.
Photos courtesy of Waterman League
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From WikiFur, the furry encyclopedia.
- "Icewolf" redirects here. For the person of similar name, see Ice-Wolf.
Wolfbird (born November 25),[1] is a fursuit maker who lives in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.[1] Her public face is Wolfbird the winged wolfdog, although she has many others, such as Zaulankris, Pamplemousse, and Rory (all avians) and Zunni the dragon. She previously went by the name Icewolf Tundrastalker.
Wolfbird was announced as a guest of honour for Condition vs The Monsters (2014), but it was subsequently announced he would not be in attendance.[2]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kaulankris' profile on LiveJournal. Retrieved February 4, 2013
- ↑ "An important announcement regarding our Guests." - posting on the Condition account on tumblr. Dated July 14, 2014. Retrieved July 17, 2014.
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by Meg Cohen Ragas
What happens when you give a bunch of artistic teens a 30-page, 5×7 unfinished sketchbook, a choice of themes and three months to create something? The Sketchbook Project, that's what – a global art project where participants from around the world fill the pages of uniform sketchbooks that form a traveling library.
Since the program was started in 2006 by the Brooklyn-based Art House Co-op (slogan: "It's like a concert tour, but with sketchbooks"), the library has grown to include more than 22,000 sketchbooks from more than 130 countries.
"The Sketchbook Project has really filled a space for creative kids to generate something that's completely authentic," said Megan Culp, Upper School art teacher at Germantown Friends School and an advisor to the Art Club, which signed onto the 2013 Sketchbook Project in the fall.
"To combine that with the feeling of creating something as part of a global community? – I love the democracy of it all," Culp said.
After selecting a "jumping off" theme (this year's options included diagrams, strangers, dwellings, mystery and monochromatic), students set about filling their books with their artistic interpretations. Some rebound their books, others altered their covers. Some told stories through pictures, others filled their pages with words.
Joanna Booth '15 made a travel log, which opens with a picture of the front door of her house. She included drawings of places she'd like to visit, some real, some imaginary. An image of a shoe wears the tagline, "Takes me there." "There's no curriculum you have to follow – it's more open, more loose," Booth said. "It really makes you think outside the box."
Jane Kye '15 chose to do a chapbook, based on the 19th-century concept of a pocket-sized booklet filled with inspirational words and images, exploring the theme "roads." Inspired by graphic novels and using a variety of techniques, including drawing, painting and collage, Kye sprinkled poetry and prose throughout her book, some original, some borrowed, to show how life, in her words, "takes you in different directions."
"You can reflect on yourself, your style, what speaks to you," she said. "You know you're creating for an audience, but you're not afraid to share your ideas because [there's anonymity], you don't know who's reading your stuff."
In January, 10 sketchbooks created by members of the GFS Art Club were sent to the Brooklyn Art Library to be organized and cataloged before beginning an eight-city tour around North America this month. Each book has a bar code; if someone checks it out, the code is scanned and the artist receives an email letting him or her know that someone read it.
"Each sketchbook is like a little treasure, a visual message-in-a-bottle," Culp said.


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MLB: Top Ten Underrated Players In The Game: Quiet Greatness, by Chris McCartney
My version of, or shameless rip of, or whatever you want to call it, of Jayson Stark's list. I feel that a number of great players in the game are largley underrated. These are the top ten who make my list:
1. Trevor Hoffman - That's right, Jason. Hoffman IS the number one most underrated player in the game. When you're the all time leader in saves, a little more than maybe a LINE in the San Diego newspaper is what you need. This guy has no PR. And the worst part is that he hasn't even been one of those greats that are just sticking around to increase statistical totals (A la Randy Johnson). He's still been very, very good, averaging about 40-45 saves a year.
2. Roy Oswalt - One of those men who just don't get enough slack. He practically makes the group of Randy Johnson, Tom Glavine and Greg Maddux. Averages about 15 wins a year, and usually gives up only a couple of runs per start.
3. C.C Sabathia - I realize some may call him overrated, but this is a guy who, even though Baseball Tonight loves to talk about him, is underrated, probably due to the fact that his stats never show how good he is.
4. Jake Peavy - Another pitcher. Again a man who may be called overrated. He's been good to above average the past few years, but this year he looks like Bob Feller, Walter Nolan Ryan with all the strikouts. Perhaps after this year he'll get his fare share of props.
5. Hanley Ramirez - Fun fact: Jose Reyes is the most similair player to this kid in the bigs. But, according to Stark's calculations, Ramirez is even better. But hey, I'd take Reyes on my team. But when this kid reaches his true prime, I may be thinking otherwise. No rip on Jose though.
6. Kevin Youkilis - With Youk looking like another Wade Boggs, I have to give him this spot. As a Red Sox fan who watches him night after night, this kid is REALLY good. A scrappy player and a man who plays great defense at first, this is a man who you'd want on your team.
7. Carl Crawford - The best player on the D-rays (even though Sal Fasono could probably be the best player on Tampa Bay), this young speed demon is looking like another Rickey Henderson. Imagine if he played on the Tigers. Then he would get his fare share of PR.
8. Joe Nathan - The Twins closer is much better than you think. This good closer in the eyes of the public has the talent of Marino Rivera in his semi-prime. The fastballer needs more respect, and the people of Minnesota will tell you that.
9. Placido Polonco - The Tigers 2B is an on base machine, and that really needs to be recognized. He may be baseball's best situational hitter, hitting for power or bunting when you need him too. A very good glove, too.
10. Mike Lowell - Four words: Deserves the Gold Glove. A very good hitter with good power, too.


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The Chemistry of TextilesActivity by Jacqui Colgate | added on Jul 04, 2011 | United Kingdom
Sponsor(s): Dow Corning and The Textile Insitute
This event will highlight recent developments and technical innovations in the use of chemicals in the textile industry.
This event will highlight recent developments and technical innovations in the use of chemicals in the textile industry.To celebrate the International Year of Chemistry, we are delighted to offer this joint event organised by SCI and SDC. We have an exceptional line up of speakers representing leading brands. They will be highlighting recent developments and technical innovations in the use of chemicals in the textile industry, giving you the opportunity to learn from best practice. Derek Heywood will give an overview of the chemicals used in finishing the make-up of modern day clothing, taking account of the stringent health and safety regulations.
Alain Langerock from Devan Chemicals, will give an evaluation of antimicrobial treatments on textiles. Dow Corning is a leading global silicones supplier and Bertrand Lenoble will talk about some of their innovative solutions for the textile industry. Vivimed Labs Europe is a speciality chemicals company and Andy Towns will focus on the kinds of chemicals it synthesises which are textile-related, albeit not in the conventional sense! The chemistry and applications of these materials will be discussed with particular focus on photochromic dyes. There will also be a glimpse into the company's involvement in materials for high-tech applications that could find their way into clothing in the future. Camira have developed new sustainable fabrics and processes for the commercial contracts and transportation markets through innovation and the use of alternative solutions. Cheryl Kindness will show examples of how they have developed a new blend of natural fibres which meet high flammability requirements, investigate work using new processes and development of product that meets global environmental standards along with waste reduction options through design.
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Ewan McGregor says he doesn't mind getting intimate with his fellow male stars, including his "I Love You Phillip Morris" co-star Jim Carrey – but the actor does take issue with the de-gaying of his latest movie.
"There was talk that Disney fended off the release [of 'I Love You Phillip Morris'] until after 'A Christmas Carol' came out," Ewan told Out Magazine in its March issue when asked about the delayed movie. "They didn't want kids thinking [Carrey's] Ebenezer Scrooge was a bender."
Ewan thinks it's ridiculous when the media attempts to pretend like "Phillip Morris" is not a gay movie.
"I'm very keen that it's a gay movie," the actor said of the movie, which will finally hit theaters on March 26. "There was quite a lot of talk at Sundance (in 2009) that 'Well, it's not a gay movie. It's a film about guys who happen to be gay.' And I was thinking, it's nothing but a gay movie. It's about a gay couple, about a man's sexuality, and he comes out. It's not the point of the film, but let's not pretend it's not a gay film."
The trend of "de-gaying" films has been a hot topic lately in Hollywood, discussed recently by several media outlets including CNN regarding the marketing of recent films like "Valentine's Day" and "A Single Man."
The actor, who has played a slew of LGBT characters during his career including roles in 1996's "The Pillow Book" and 1998's "Velvet Goldmine," told the mag he doesn't mind doing what many of his fellow male colleagues shy away from.
"I like kissing boys on screen. As a straight guy, it's quite an interesting proposition," he explained. "Anything on a film set that takes you by surprise like that, that gets your blood up, is good."
Ewan also discussed his tendency to go full frontal in several of his films, including "Trainspotting," "The Pillow Book," "Velvet Goldmine" and "Young Adam."
"I remember getting a kind of rush out of that first time," he explained. "A slight feeling of power about it, you know?"
The actor, who is also starring in Roman Polanski's "The Ghost Writer" opening in limited release on February 19, told Out that he loves to challenge himself with the roles he takes.
"I'm always interested in playing different people, in different situations. It doesn't matter to me whether someone is in love with a man or a woman," he told the mag. "I find the idea of love and romance interesting. I'm a sucker for it. I like playing someone who's falling in love because I like the sensation of it. People do extraordinary things when they're falling in love."
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Macbeth (2001)
Written by: William Shakespeare
Paul Chahidi played a Witch and the Porter in the 2001 production of Macbeth. This is Paul's third theatre season at the Globe. He previously played Angelo in The Comedy of Errors, and last year was cast as Trinculo in The Tempest, however, he literally broke his leg hours before the first performance.
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In his final blog post, Paul discusses how he now feels about performing on the Globe stage, and offers advice to GlobeLink students rehearsing for their own production of Macbeth.
In his penultimate blog post, Paul discusses themes within the play, performing on the Globe stage, and his schedule as the season draws to a close.
In his sixth blog post, Paul discusses the experience of performing on the Globe stage and how he approaches reviews, and looks forward to the re-rehearsal process.
In his fifth blog post Paul discusses the highlights of the first performance of Macbeth, and considers what changes still need to be made.
This week Paul answers students' questions, and discusses the technical rehearsals and two of his current acting concerns.
In his third blog post, Paul discusses how running the play has helped clarify the production, how his ideas of playing the Porter have developed, and how the Witches can be made fun!
In his second blog post, Paul discusses rehearsals for the banquet scene (Act III, Scene IV), playing his different characters, and the difficulties involved in peforming the Porter scene.
This is Paul's first blog post. This week he discusses his two roles of a Witch and the Porter, how Shakespeare juxtaposes comedy and tragedy, and how to bring a sense of the supernatural to the Globe stage.


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Chelsea in Lampard contract U-turn report
Frank Lampard could be offered a new deal at Chelsea following a shock change of stance by Blues owner Roman Abramovich, according to a report in the Daily Mail.
Lampard's Chelsea career looked to be over when the club confirmed his present deal, which expires in the summer, would not be extended.
The midfielder, who scored a stunning goal for England in the 2-1 win over Brazil on Wednesday, has maintained he would love to extend his stay at Chelsea - but that the situation was out of his hands.
Lampard has been in fine form for Chelsea since shaking off an injury and the Mail claim tentative talks have already taken place.
The paper has quoted a Stamford Bridge source as saying the talks were 'positive' and that further discussions are planned in the coming weeks.
Lampard, as a free agent in the summer, is free to speak to foreign clubs and Chelsea will be aware of the need to thrash out a deal in the near future - if indeed they want to keep the 34-year-old.
Asked about the reports, Chelsea head of communications Steve Atkins told Sky Sports News that the club "does not comment on speculation".
The England international, who has been a Chelsea player for 12 years, is second on the club's all-time goalscorer list behind Bobby Tambling.


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Two-Tone Cheesecake
- 1-1/2 cups chocolate graham cracker crumbs
- 6 tablespoons sugar
- 6 tablespoons butter, melted
- 4 packages (8 ounces each) cream cheese, softened
- 1-3/4 cups sugar
- 3/4 cup heavy whipping cream
- 4 eggs, lightly beaten
- 6 ounces semisweet chocolate, melted and cooled
- 4 ounces semisweet chocolate, finely chopped
- 1/2 cup heavy whipping cream
- 1. In a large bowl, combine cracker crumbs, sugar and butter. Press onto the bottom of a greased 10-in. springform pan. Place on a baking sheet. Bake at 325° for 10 minutes. Cool on a wire rack.
- 2. In a large bowl, beat cream cheese and sugar until smooth. Gradually beat in cream. Add eggs; beat on low speed just until combined.
- 3. Remove 3-1/2 cups to a small bowl; gently stir in melted chocolate. Pour filling over crust. Gently pour remaining filling over chocolate layer. Bake at 325° for 1 to 1-1/4 hours or until center is almost set.
- 4. Cool on a wire rack for 10 minutes. Carefully run a knife around edge of pan to loosen; cool 1 hour longer. Meanwhile, place chopped chocolate in a small bowl.
- 5. In a small saucepan, bring cream just to a boil. Pour over chocolate; whisk until smooth. Cool slightly; gently pour over cheesecake. Cover and chill overnight. Remove sides of pan.
Nutrition Facts
1 slice: 432 calories, 26g fat (15g saturated fat), 141mg cholesterol, 208mg sodium, 48g carbohydrate (40g sugars, 1g fiber), 5g protein.
Jul 28, 2015
I made this last night and it was amazing! I followed the recipe except for making 2 of the cream cheese low fat. Everything in this recipe is perfect except for the estimated time of making it. It is easy to make but in my convection oven it took 90 min. to bake, then with one hour cooling before putting the chocolate on top, the whole process was 3 hours before putting it in the frig overnight. Well worth it though! Yummy :)
Dec 31, 1969
i have been making this since it first appeared in ToH and it is a favorite for sure.
Feb 26, 2013
I cut down on the amount if chocolate and use 4 squares in the cheesecake and 4 squares in the ganache. My family loves this and I make it several times a year.
Dec 30, 2011
My family gives this cheesecake to friends and coworkers at Christmas and everyone looks forward to receiving it every year! I double the recipe and make a 9-inch and 2 7-inch cheesecakes at a time. It freezes nicely and travels great.
Nov 24, 2011
I am 11, and made this yesterday. I think anybody my age and up should be able to follow the directions and make the cheesecake. It was really good and everyone loved it.
Oct 25, 2011
this recipe is to die for !!! its THAT good!!! and it looks pretty to serve as well. I highly recommend it .... i think i'll go have another piece right now :)
Oct 18, 2011
This was my first cheesecake and it has been my favorite. I've made others and have gotten may compliments but this is the recipe I go to first for a sure win and it's easy.
Jan 20, 2011
awesome cheesecake. rich & delicious - I love this cheesecake!


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Gardening Resources
With water restrictions having been in place in Perth since the summer of 2001, there is an increasing trend to incorporate native plants into garden beds. This is a trend that the Botanic Gardens and Parks Authority supports, as it preserves fresh water supplies, celebrates our unique flora and provides resources for the fauna of Perth which manage to survive in urban areas.
The biggest misconception about Australian garden plants is that they have to be treated quite differently from plants from other continents. This idea results in two opposing beliefs - one being that they can be neglected, and the other being they have fussy needs that make them difficult to grow, especially when mixed with exotics. In reality, however, the same general horticultural rules apply to all ornamentals. Every plant, whatever its origins, grows better with a little care and attention, and some plants have slightly different requirements regarding soil and position.
The Backyard Botanicals Garden is a 'grow-me-at-home' garden in the May Drive Parkland which demonstrates how easy it is to grow Western Australian native plants. If you would like to create your own native garden or need advice on how to improve your existing one, browse the articles in this section, come along to a free Dig it with Coffee session or contact the Garden Advisory Service.
Gardening tips
If you would like to create your own native garden or need advice on how to improve your existing one, please contact the free Garden Advisory Service managed by the Kings Park Volunteer Master Gardeners.
Plant notes
These Western Australian native plant notes are kindly provided by the Kings Park Volunteer Master Gardeners and are particularly relevant to the Perth community and their gardening needs.
Lawn care
Grass is arguably the most important vegetation on earth. Where it fails to grow, human population is sparse and economic progress limited. Green grass is a natural air purifier, it helps cool the air and improve the atmosphere.
Transplanting trees
The transplant and transportation of the Giant Boab from the Kimberley region into the Western Australian Botanic Garden was one of the Authority's great success stories. The Garden Advisory Service often gets enquiries about transplanting Australian native plants, particularly the Common Grass-tree.
Potted flowers
Many native plants adapt well to growing in pots. Plants may be grown singly, or several may be grouped in a larger container to form a mini-garden. They require a free-draining medium with appropriate fertiliser so seek a commercial native potting mix.
Bird-attracting gardens
Birds add life, colour and sound to a garden and are a joy to watch. They eat many insects, controlling native and introduced pests naturally. Many Australian plants, such as Kangaroo Paws, are bird-pollinated.


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If you are interested in pursuing a career in the health sciences, the Early Assurance programs within the Honors College may be for you. The Honors College features Early Assurance programs to our nationally recognized Brody School of Medicine (MD) and also to graduate programs in physical therapy (DPT), nursing (PhD), and audiology (AuD).
Under these programs, selected students are guaranteed entry into these top graduate programs upon completion of their undergraduate degree provided they satisfy program requirements. In each Early Assurance program, small cadres of Honors students are engaged in service, leadership, and academic experiences to prepare for graduate work. These programs are restricted to North Carolina residents and serve as the gateway for a select group of Honors students to pursue their dreams and reserve their space in a doctoral program's entering class four years into the future.


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Catherine Schuyler Chambers Boericke, 85, an artist and an advocate for children with learning disabilities, died Dec. 31 at her home in Chestnut Hill.
An accomplished sculptor and painter, Mrs. Boericke was dedicated to the arts throughout her life.
She was an early advocate of improving education for children with learning disabilities, and during the early 1970's she met with New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller in Albany to establish better educational conditions for such children. By an act of the New York legislature, funding was acquired to create a new school for this purpose – the first of its kind in the state.
Mrs. Boericke also was recognized by the New York State Parks Commission for her participation in the restoration of America's oldest park, the Niagara Reservation, which encompasses the American side of Niagara Falls and features original landscaping by Fredrick Law Olmstead.
While living in New York, she served as president of Art Park and Company, a nonprofit cultural organization underwritten by the State of New York, and was active in the Shaw Festival at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada.
She attended Miss Porter's School and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
She is survived by sons Gouverneur Cadwalader III, Richard McCall Cadwalader II and Gideon Francis Boericke; a daughter, Katherine Schuyler Boericke Mitchell; and five grandchildren. Her first husband, Gouverneur Cadwalader Jr.; her second husband, Gideon Boericke, and a brother, Francis Taylor Chambers III, preceded her in death.
A memorial service planned for the spring at St. Thomas' Church, Whitemarsh, in Fort Washington. Memorial donations may be made to the Shaw Festival, 10 Queens Parade, Niagara-on-the-Lake, LOS 1J0, Canada; the Woodmere Art Museum, 9201 Germantown Ave., Philadelphia, Pa. 19118; St. Thomas' Church, Whitemarsh, P.O. Box 247, Fort Washington, PA 19034, or to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Spruce St., Philadelphia, PA 19104. – WF


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(Patrick Wright recently joined the Mackinac Center for Public Policy as a senior legal analyst, and his primary activity will be penning amicus briefs in state and federal court cases that involve important implications for the rule of law, limited government and individual rights. The following is an edited transcript of an interview with Wright discussing recent news from the U.S. Supreme Court and the Michigan Supreme Court.)
MCPP: A lot has been happening on your beat due to the end of this year's Supreme Court session. Let's start with the ruling in Kelo v. New London, in which the court narrowly upheld the government's right to use the power of eminent domain to transfer private property — in this case, a person's home — to a private corporation that would provide the government with more tax revenue. You've already commented a couple of times on the ruling, and the Center filed an amicus brief in favor of the homeowners, so let's shift the emphasis a little.
Groups like the Institute for Justice and Landmark Legal Foundation look for cases that have sympathetic clients and where the main legal issues are as clear as possible. The goal is a definitive — and hopefully favorable — ruling on the principle involved in the case. But isn't there a risk in bringing big cases like this? If you lose, you lose big, and the state of the law may be more settled against you than it was beforehand.
Wright: Well, first of all, legally speaking, things aren't that much different after Kelo than they were before. If the government wanted to take your property before Kelo, they were free to under federal law.[1] It might not have been as clear that they could do it, but they could basically do it.
Now, after Kelo, it's evident that they can do it, and they're less likely to face objections. That's too bad, but it's not that different legally.
There is a silver lining to losing big. Losing big highlights the issue; it makes the stakes clear; and it lets you educate people, which is one of our objectives.
Obviously, the optimal thing in Kelo would be that we win. The public doesn't have to get agitated, and we don't have to go through the process of educating and setting things right.
MCPP: Were there any decisions that came out of the Supreme Court's recent session that were, in your view, particularly good in the sense of the court's having read the law well and upheld personal freedoms?
Wright: Not in this particular term. … The court has slowly begun — Chief Justice Rehnquist has been somewhat of a champion of this — to try to rein in the federal government's power under the "commerce clause."[2] As a consequence of the 1930s, when the court upheld New Deal legislation, the ability to enact laws under the commerce power of the United States government has been greatly expanded. The case that was most often cited for this is Wickard v. Filburn. What that ruling said is that an individual who was growing wheat on his own farm and consuming it at home was thereby not buying wheat from his local market, which might have been shipped from somewhere out of state, so this therefore affected interstate commerce. And if you read the commerce power that broadly, it gives the federal government an almost unlimited ability to regulate.
That power is different from what the Framers intended. The Framers intended that the federal government be limited to the enumerated powers of the Constitution, of which the commerce power was one, but one that actually had some limits to it. Chief Justice Rehnquist, and to a certain extent Justice O'Connor, have slowly started to create a new model in which there will be some limits on the commerce clause power. …
In a political framework, it is easier for people to correct whatever flaws they believe they see in their representatives' actions when government is closer to the people. At the federal level it is very difficult to undo some of the decisions that are made. You have to align the House and 60-plus votes in the Senate, given the Senate's filibuster rules, and usually the president. So it's very difficult to … get enough attention nationally to get a change.
That's one of the reasons why we like government to make decisions as close to the people as it can, so that if people want to change those decisions, they can. The expanded federal commerce power allows the federal government to make almost any decision it wants. Politicians who are currently in the federal government usually want that power increased as much as possible.
So there is some sign of a new trend. It started in 1995 in a case called United States v. Lopez, which concerned the Gun Free School Zones Act, and it has been rolling on over the past decade.
MCPP: Aside from Hathcock, which overturned the Poletown decision, did you see any rulings from the Michigan Supreme Court in the past year that upheld individual rights and the rule of law?
Wright: The Michigan Supreme Court is a model of how the federal courts should act. This court is serious about leaving legislative choices to the people and getting out of the public policy arena. This court adheres to the text, and the justices presume that the Legislature knows what it's doing. If the statute is written a particular way, and it isn't the way people want it, the responsibility for changing it or tweaking it lies with the Legislature, not the courts.
So there is not a particular case, but a philosophy. … Where the government or any party violates the law as written, the court is going to do its duty, which is to enforce the people's choice. Under the Michigan Constitution, what was being done in Hathcock was inappropriate, and the court was willing to perform its role. It wasn't going to create something or intentionally misconstrue a statute so that it could reach the result it wanted to.
MCPP: Let's turn back to the national stage. The resignation of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor means a new justice will be appointed to the Supreme Court, and it appears possible that Chief Justice Rehnquist may resign soon.
Wright: If there are two nominations, it's going to increase the likelihood that (President) Bush is going to try to mollify both sides — and by both "sides," I mean that supposedly there are two camps. There's a school of thought in the Republican Party that it could increase its popularity with Hispanic voters by appointing a Hispanic justice. The front-runner for such an appointment is U.S. Attorney General (Alberto) Gonzales, whom many social conservatives have qualms about.
These conservatives make up the other side. There is a history of presidents appointing justices whose views are not well-known and later regretting it. Eisenhower said that his two biggest mistakes were serving on the Supreme Court, and those were Chief Justice Earl Warren and Justice Bill Brennan. They were appointed by Republicans and were two of the liberal lions of the court. Both did a lot to politicize the court. They did at least some good, making some correct decisions, but they also increased the power of the court to where it made political decisions rather than legal decisions. Justice Blackmun, appointed by Nixon, wrote Roe v. Wade, one of the more controversial decisions; Justice Stevens, appointed by Ford, is currently considered to be in the moderate-liberal wing consistently; and there is Justice Souter, another person appointed by a Republican.
The sole Democratic appointment in the past 30 or 40 years where Democrats had a little concern about the way the justice matured is Byron White, who wrote the Bowers v. Hardwick decision,[3] which was, in essence, overturned last year. And to a certain extent, Hugo Black, who was for a long time part of the more liberal wing, was unwilling to go along with some of the stuff that William O. Douglas and Warren and Brennan recommended.
So there have been some disappointments on both sides, but the point is that the conservatives — and the social conservatives more so — are looking for a proven track record. They don't want any more disappointments. … So rather than someone like Gonzales, with a brief legal record they are not entirely sure of, they would like to have somebody with five to 10 years of appellate court views. They want to be able to say, "I've read enough about this guy, and I know and trust that he or she's not going to change after joining the Supreme Court."
What opening up two slots does is it may allow Bush to try to address both issues, satisfying the political concerns with Gonzales and meeting the social conservatives' concerns with a clearly conservative justice. What that means is that we're really back in the status quo. We would have a true conservative replacing Rehnquist — that's tit for tat, and there's no real change. It then becomes a question, What does it mean to appoint Gonzales for O'Connor? Now if you appoint two conservatives — two people with track records — then you're more certain there is going to be a movement on the Supreme Court.
MCPP: The president believes he might have a candidate appointed by Oct. 1. How long do things usually take? How realistic is Oct. 1?
Wright: It usually takes, I think, about 110 to 130 days. Normally, if a nominee is going to be in trouble by then, they know it. A couple of names come to mind: Judge Ginsburg of the D.C. Circuit Court, who had a marijuana problem and withdrew his name. Bruce Babbitt's name was discussed in 1993 by Clinton for the Supreme Court. Clinton eventually nominated Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. So it can be a long and difficult process.
MCPP: So this particular appointment — or maybe two appointments, if Rehnquist resigns soon — could take us past Oct. 1.
Wright: The interest groups have an incentive to almost create as much conflict as possible, because this is when they're going to do all their fundraising. The more dust they can kick up, the better their long-term prospects for fundraising.
But this is also a big deal for the institution of the Supreme Court. Just dealing with the primary question, these appointments are going determine the role of the court in this country for the next 10 to 15 years, absent unexpected retirements. The people who are on the conservative side are generally younger — Scalia (69) and Thomas (57). Rehnquist is going to retire potentially, and if he does, and if he is replaced by a conservative, you have three conservatives. Kennedy (68) effectively becomes the swing vote, along with whoever is going to replace O'Connor.
On the other side, Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a bit older (72) and is rumored to have had health problems. Breyer is fairly young (66), and I believe Souter (65) is also fairly young. So if either justice — Ruth Bader Ginsburg or Stevens (85) — retires, that's just going to make it easier for the president to impact the court.
But the point is that there isn't really anybody besides Rehnquist who is likely to retire soon and who could change the balance of the court. Therefore, it's O'Connor's replacement that's going to determine whether the court continues on with its very active interventions in social questions in this country, or whether it's going to be more deferential to legislative and policy choices of elected representatives.
And for that reason, I don't think there's a bottom to what we'll see. Particularly if Bush puts a somewhat conservative justice up, "Bork" and "Clarence Thomas" are going to be the mantra, and that is going to be at minimum the level of acrimony that we are going to see. And perhaps it is going to be even worse.
MCPP: Does this kind of conflict risk damaging the body politic?
Wright: That's a great question. It points out what the stakes are here. … If you ask the folks who are for a more activist court, they see the courts as the last bastions for protecting what they perceive as freedoms. If you ask the people who are typically called conservatives, they're saying the court is interfering with democracy and the public's will, and it's ignoring language and making its own policy choices.
This is an extremely important constitutional debate. As the courts have assumed more and more power — or at least are perceived as more and more political — it has done damage to the institution. Those who believe the courts should only interpret the law and not make public policy would argue that the best way to prevent that damage is to not have the courts wade into these issues unless there is clear constitutional text. In that sense, the court acts legitimately when it acts on text or laws that are clearly set forth, and it causes damage when it doesn't.
While there will certainly be a lot of hue and cry over an attempt to rectify the problem, it's probably necessary, because it's far more damaging to the country to have the court acting in an improper manner than it is to have a couple of nasty confirmation hearings.
Patrick J. Wright is senior legal analyst at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a research and educational institute headquartered in Midland, Mich. Permission to reprint in whole or in part is hereby granted, provided that the author and the Center are properly cited.
[1] The Michigan Supreme Court's ruling last year in Wayne County v. Hathcock prohibits takings in Michigan like the one permitted under the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Kelo.
[2] Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution gives Congress the power to "regulate Commerce … among the several states. …"
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The Dodge B250 is a part of the B-model van line from the Chrysler Corporation. B-model vehicles include three generations, spanning from 1971 to 2003.
During that long period they experienced few changes to the main architecture of their design. In 1979, when the B250 was introduced, the line had stagnated somewhat. The B250 was not only a rebranding of the model (the 250 denotes the vehicle's three-quarter ton weight), but it also changed the line.
Do not confuse the 250 with the B250 when searching for used vehicles. The Dodge Ram 250 is a pickup truck.
The B250 is a big, hauling vehicle that can fit a lot of passengers. The van is used in conversions to campers, for lifestyle vans that people can travel and live in, and for the transportation of large groups as well as the disabled and elderly.
The B250 sold well as fleet vehicle throughout the 1980s. For whatever reason, Dodge became a bit lax about updating the van. Unfortunately, this means that performance began to suffer towards the 1990s. Competitive vehicles could be bought for the same price with better features.
Dodge discontinued the B250 after the second generation of B-model Dodge Ram Vans was replaced by the third generation. The B250 became the B2500 in the 1994 model year.
The Dodge B250 is a hefty, three-quarter ton vehicle. In 1988, the length of the van measured 196.9 inches and the height 79.9. In 1990, the length increased to 222.9 inches.
A Dodge B250 wagon has extra seating and can haul a trailer, making it suitable as a lifestyle conversion vehicle. The wagon is known by its single back door, which is the first in the business. The interior flaunts more luxury as well. Bucket seats have a vinyl back. Heating inside the vehicle betters cold winter drives. Molding can be found around the rear quarter windows. Speaking of windows, all B250 Wagon glass comes tinted as a standard feature.
The van's design remained relatively unchanged throughout the 1980s. The B250 received new bumpers and a redesigned grille in 1987, along with the entire B-model fleet.
The first vans in the B250 fleet house a standard 3.7-liter, inline six-cylinder engine that produces 110 horsepower. This engine remained in place until the B250 powertrain received its first major update in 1988, almost a full 10 years after the vehicle's release. Dodge produced a new 3.9-liter V-6 for the Dodge Dakota. This is actually the 360 V-8 engine with two cylinders sawed off. This gives the B250 a lot more power, raising the 110 horsepower up to 125 horsepower with 195 lb-ft of torque.
The model has a new dash with user-friendly switches and buttons. Safety improves with dual airbags in the dash; although these airbags deploy with a bit too much pressure. The passenger airbag has a shutoff switch to prevent damage in cargo vans. The removal of the spare tire from under the floor in the back of the van greatly increases storage space. The van's audio equipment also shows improvements.
The revamped exterior of the vehicle includes an increased body size at the hood. This permits the forward engine design of the vehicle, giving passengers inside the van more space. The front door seals are improved as well to decrease heat loss.
Mechanically, a lot more action happened under the vehicle. The brakes and tires of the van are enlarged to increase control on slippery roads and in other dangerous driving conditions. The improved suspension of the vehicle also increases handling precision.
Later engine modifications include the introduction of a 5.2-liter fuel-injected engine that increases power to 170 hp with 262 lb-ft of torque. The carburetor was removed from this model, and a five-speed manual transmission replaces the four-speed.
In 1990, anti-lock brakes became an option.
In 1992, the engine was again improved with multiple-port fuel-injection, and a tuned intake manifold was introduced. The Magnum engine produces 180 hp in the V-6 version and 235 hp in the V-8--markedly better performance than the older models.
Return-less fuel injection was introduced in 1993, just before Dodge introduced the third generation of the vehicle. Many of these improvements carried over into the new B2500 line.
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[Editor's Note: Reader Jennifer Pearson has been keeping us up-to-date on recent discussion of sightings of mountain lions (aka cougars) in the Berkeley Hills on neighborhood listservs.]
From Jennifer Pearson on Saturday, Oct 2
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Subject: More mountain lions-- Notice to LBNL staff
Dear Colleagues, See below on mountain lion evidence at LBNL. Please do education of our Berkeleyans who come from New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, etc and have not learned about coexisting with wildlife.. Absent knowledge of what to do...some panicked folks are now buying guns?
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Notice from LBNL copied below. In light of our recent community night on mountain lions, I'm not so sure that the part that says "If you see a mountain lion, immediately call 911" is really the best thing to do. I'm bccing this to someone at felidaefund.org to see if they have anything to add. I had not known that the mountain lion that was killed in our neighborhood was a male.
Dear Colleagues:
Occasional sightings of mountain lions around the Lab are not unusual; however, due to a recent series of incidents, it would appear a mother and two juvenile mountain lions are spending more time in the area.
In addition to the sighting and killing of a male lion in north Berkeley on Aug. 31, two young lions were sighted, and a dead deer and goat were found, near Building 85 last week. A dead fawn was found on Monday near Building 64, and multiple sightings of a female lion and her offspring were made earlier today.
While mountain lion interactions with humans is extremely rare, Lab employees and guests should take precautions to prevent possible attacks. Avoid being outside and alone during dawn or dusk hours, when lions are most active. If you encounter a lion, face the animal, make noise and try to look bigger. Do not run away.
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Received from Jennifer Pearson on September 22:
Are Berkeley public servants cautioning the inexperienced CITYWIDE? These cougars have been present long before 'pioneers' and settlers took land. This Colusa Ave. sighting (at night) is close by the opened Blackberry Creek at Berkeley's Thousands Oaks Berkeley Elementary School Park -an ancient movement corridor for wildlife.
The ALERT below was sent to Neighborhood Watch Groups in Kensington by Officer Doug Wilson.
Are we asking Berkeley citizens to report on the presence of cougars and bobcats when we catch a glimpse or find their scat in our gardens?
For example, on Lincoln Street near the Milvia Poetry Garden fish pond an experienced wilderness camper found cougar scat on a driveway near his wife's door in early August. (Wildlife follow the water corridors--Lincoln Creek flows under ground of the school playground and street.)
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I want to mention a Security Alert. On Tuesday, 9/21/10, at approximately 1730 hours, a taxi cab driver reported seeing a small Mountain Lion in the area of Berkeley Park Blvd and Colusa Ave.
His call advised dispatchers that the Mountain Lion walked into an unknown direction and the cab driver did not feel threatened by it. On-duty Kensington Officers completely checked the area for a good amount of time and they did not observe the animal. We have had no additional calls since.
Now, please be aware there are many animals in this area all the time, we often don't see them. But the reason I am sending you this, "Security Alert" is because I want you all to be cautious (especially at night) and use common sense safety tips such as being on alert at night and using lights when out walking with or without your dogs. Maybe keep some legal pepper spray/mace with you on your late night walks. You can "Google" where to buy the products legally. Also, please call 911 if you hear or see anything that you think Police should check out.


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Farmers can rest a bit easier. The big question is no longer whether the supply of nitrogen will be adequate, but whether it'll be in the proper place when needed. The fertilizer crunch has eased since the beginning of the year when natural gas prices shot up to around $10 and fertilizer plants were forced to cut back production. Natural gas prices have gone back down to the $4 to $5 range. While still not at the pre-crisis gas price of around $2, many fertilizer plants are now back on stream.
In reaction to the plant closings, there was also quite a bit of nitrogen imported into the country. So now, working in the farmers' favor is not only the plants again firing up but sizable imports.
In December, imports were 25 percent over a year earlier. In January, they were at 28 percent higher — a substantial spike.
"U.S. plants were at just over 65 percent of capacity as of the end of February. We'll see that number go up when the March numbers are released," says The Fertilizer Institute's Kathy Mathers. "We think there's enough nitrogen in the country to take care of farmers' needs. That's especially true with the imports."
The plants are a bit slow in coming back into higher capacity because starting the plants back up is a time-consuming process, says Mathers. Once a plant is shut down, it can't come up from 40 percent to 100 percent capacity overnight.
"What farmers should probably be looking at is the transportation system. If their fertilizer is coming up the Mississippi River on barges, they might want to check on how well the river traffic is moving," says Mathers.
The logistics of moving product around is a real concern. The product is available. Getting it where it's needed is the question.
"The biggest thing we're doing currently is trying to insure there's an adequate supply of natural gas for the future. This situation is attributable to the natural gas prices. When the price gets too high, the manufacturers can't sell their product for a profit. Actually, when gas prices were so high, they couldn't even sell it and break even."
From a policy standpoint, there are plenty of natural gas reserves, says Mathers. Farmers need to make sure those supplies are developed.
"The demand for natural gas is now a year-round thing. It's been selected by policymakers as a clean source of energy. As such, we're hoping the government allows the existing resources to be tapped."
The weather has delayed the run on fertilizer a bit, says Don Johnson, long-time agronomist, consultant and former employee in the fertilizer industry. Johnson says people in the fertilizer industry are uncertain about demand. There's been very little field activity above the Mason-Dixon line due to the weather.
"Down South, it's been wet and there hasn't been the normal peak activity that the industry expects this time of year. It will hit, though, and the system will feel the pressure.
"Everyone seems to be holding his breath and praying everything won't break loose at once. If there are a few days of good weather across the nation and farmers are in the field from top to bottom, the strain on the fertilizer industry will be immense."
"Farmers should be looking at the transportation system. If their fertilizer is coming up the Mississippi River on barges, they might want to check on how well the river traffic is moving."
Johnson says short-term shortages of material — particularly nitrogen — could still occur. If it gets too late to plant corn in some areas, farmers will be looking to soybeans. That is another unknown that could pose hardships on the industry.
Johnson agrees with Mathers about tapping natural gas reserves. "There's gas out there, but it'll take a while to bring additional capacity into the system. The current price will have to move around a bit to provide the incentive to go get the untapped sources."
Fertilizer prices will stay higher in the near term, says Johnson. More importantly, the overall economy has dropped and slowed. "All companies are looking carefully at all areas of their operations. Fertilizer companies are no different. They want to find the inefficiencies and fix those aspects of business.
"There's enough fertilizer. The only real question seems to be about nitrogen in certain forms. In the Midwest, where they use a lot of anhydrous ammonia, there's concern about whether there's enough ammonia."
What about more no-till up north? "We're hearing more of that up here. Everyone is saying farmers need to take a closer look at tillage operations and unnecessary passes across the field. I think more farmers will be paying attention to Extension recommendations on tillage now. Those in the North are also going to look at the cost of irrigating — particularly those using natural gas. And, you know, these reassessments aren't negative things."
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I recently read a story that asked, "Has the Desktop Linux Bubble Burst?" Burst!? No, I dont think so. Actually, it still isnt even half as big as it will be when its full.
The author goes on to explain that he feels this way because GNOME "lacks any form of a vision," while KDE4 is full of wonderful ideas, but not enough money and effort behind turning concepts into code.
I dont see that at all. I think both popular Linux desktop environments are making good progress.


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August 13, 2009
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11 comments:
- Richard LeComte said...
Can I put in a good word for "Nice Work"? It's hilarious and counts as metafiction.
- August 13, 2009 at 6:13 p.m.
- Rohan Maitzen said...
I really enjoy Nice Work as well, and of course it makes a perfect pair with North and South. That said, I think I would be more inclined to use that pairing in an upper-level course with a Victorian/Neo-Victorian focus: I'm not sure Nice Work is sufficiently interesting in itself to let it represent "the" 20thC British novel. (As an aside, I was peering at Deaf Sentence in the bookstore the other day, feeling tempted--has anyone read it?)
- August 13, 2009 at 8:14 p.m.
- Sisyphus said...
Just jumping in to say that I was never a great fan of Great Expectations _and_ it is _the_ go-to text to signify "The Victorian Period" in high schools around here, including mine.
This means I had it in high school and two different undergrad surveys and I didn't like it all that much to begin with, so it was kinda overkill.
Not so much a specific vote for "for" as a vote "against" but there you have it.
Of course I wasn't a big fan of _Atonement_ either. So never mind. :)
- August 13, 2009 at 11:19 p.m.
- Colleen said...
I was going to say too that Great Expectations is incredibly overdone in high schools and is responsible (well, I think the teachers are responsible) for many people thinking they don't like Dickens. Giving them something unfamiliar by Dickens, might help them get over that unfortunate mental roadblock.
- August 14, 2009 at 10:31 a.m.
- Rohan Maitzen said...
Interesting. I was never taught any Dickens in school. Of course, if I had my druthers, we'd do Bleak House, but that's a non-starter for a class of this kind at this level, I think. What about Tale of 2 Cities? Except it doesn't do the things I would probably want to generalize about, re. 19thC fiction and social reform etc. Hard Times lacks the ease and humour I think is the best way to "sell" Dickens, but it is so tightly structured I think it is very teachable; I just don't like it as much as GE. Maybe A Christmas Carol, which has the advantage of being something students think they know but don't quite. Still, Great Expectations has a commanding lead in my poll (6/12 votes).
Sisyphus, I was hesitating about Atonement because I thought the first half would kill the students with boredom, but then I was re-reading it, and if you soften them up for it with some time on modernism, then they get to the second half, which I think is truly gripping, and the whole thing is so beautifully written (I think McEwan may have the best control over his language of any contemporary novelist except maybe Ishiguro...speaking of whom, Remains of the Day was my runner-up, but I teach that in other courses and wanted the intellectual stretch of working through a novel I've never lectured on before).
- August 14, 2009 at 11:20 a.m.
- JRussell said...
I would recommend _Hard Times_ because it offers a more accessible connection with Victorian social issues (marriage and education as well as industrialization). I think the issue of objectification by means of technology would be easy for students to connect to their own lives, not to mention the whole idea of "useful knowledge." And you get to mention Carlyle, Ruskin, and Barrett Browning.
_Deaf Sentence_ is as funny as early Lodge, but it has an emotional charge that is new in his work. Definitely recommended.
- August 14, 2009 at 2:46 p.m.
- R. T. said...
Sometimes--especially for undergraduates--shorter is better, which leads me to suggest Austen's NORTHANGER ABBEY (entertaining and challenging in spite of its shortcomings) and Woolf's MRS. DALLOWAY (accessible but complex), both of which have worked well in my courses in the past.
- August 19, 2009 at 12:27 a.m.
- Amateur Reader said...
It's possible that many students who read Great Expectations in high school did not really read Great Expectations.
Long ago, in high school, I was assigned an abridged version of the novel that omitted, for example, all of the funny parts. Reading the actual novel later was a shock.
That was over twenty years ago. Maybe those horrors have all been pulped.
- August 19, 2009 at 11:29 a.m.
- Rohan Maitzen said...
Thank you to everyone for the input. Great Expectations has a pretty commanding lead, though it's interesting that Jane Eyre has been creeping up on it. Overall, though, I think JE is just not, well, Victorian enough for my purposes.
R.T., I've just never liked Northanger Abbey, so if I did go with as early an author as Austen, I'd teach a different one. That's just down to taste, and I can see that with NA you could create lots of interesting links to later works in Gothic or pseudo-Gothic style, but still, not for me. And since the course is supposed to come up to the present day, and the modernists are (a) a bit outside my skills set, and (b) pretty well covered through short pieces in our anthology, I'm pretty set on a more contemporary novel for the second one. As you can see, deep intellectual issues are only a small part of these decisions!
AR: Great Expectations without the funny parts? The horror, indeed. Not even the gravy? or Joe's hat?
- August 19, 2009 at 4:09 p.m.
- Jeanne said...
I've been behind on my blog visiting, so this comment may be too late. At any rate, I liked all the David Lodge books up to Deaf Sentence, but I think he lost his touch with that one. My review is here: http://necromancyneverpays.blogspot.com/2008/11/ive-been-fan-of-david-lodge-ever-since.html
Also Lodge is always so ivory-towerish.
Atonement will be familiar to some students because of the movie--if you think it's a good adaptation of the novel, that can be a plus.
- August 20, 2009 at 7:38 p.m.
- Rohan Maitzen said...
Jeanne, it's too late in the sense that I have just finished reading Deaf Sentence myself...but not too late to point me to your review, which I'm quite interested to read. I'll put off clicking over, though, until I've tried to put a few thoughts of my own together.
- August 20, 2009 at 8:43 p.m.


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(Release: June 29, 2011) - Hagerstown Community College's Hawk Booster Club held its annual Irv Easterday Golf Tournament and Hall of Fame Banquet on June 27, at the Beaver Creek Country Club.
At the banquet, five new members were inducted into the HCC Hall of Fame. New members included Beth Domenico, former HCC athlete and former coach of the HCC's award-winning volleyball team; Darryl Powell, former HCC athlete and baseball coach at HCC; Mark Shives, former HCC athlete currently coaching baseball at Clear Spring High School; Mike Spinner, former HCC athlete and former cross country and track and field at HCC; and Garland Williams, former HCC track and field athlete currently coaching basketball at Sherando High School.
In addition, Dr. Dana Brooks, who currently serves dean of physical activity and sports sciences at West Virginia University, received the Lifetime Achievement Award; Peter O'Boyle, of O'Boyle Enterprises, Inc., received the Business of the Year Award; and Richard "RB" Bernier was honored for his recent sponsorship of an endowed scholarship for women's athletics.
Hall of Fame inductees were each presented with a commemorative plaque highlighting their athletic and volunteer services for HCC. Robert "Bo" Myers, director of athletics and leisure studies, served as the master of ceremonies at the event.
For more information about the Hawk Booster Club, contact the athletics department at 301-790-2800, ext. 369, or go to www.hagerstowncc.edu/athletics/boosterclub.php.
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Back row, from left to right: Richard "RB" Bernier, Dana Brooks, and Peter O'Boyle.
Front row, from left to right: Mike Spinnler, Garland Williams, Beth Domenico, Daryl Powell, and Mark Shives.


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Airline to Charge Passengers by Weight
A tiny South Pacific airline is pioneering a controversial pricing model that charges passengers based on their weight. The WSJ's Lucy Craymer talks about why Samoa Air is launching this new pricing model.
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