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William Julius Wilson is recognized for his continuing scholarly contributions to improve society's understanding and appreciation of sociology by refocusing public debated and social science research on urban inequality and macroeconomics policy. A prolific scholar, Wilson is best known for the widely read The Declining Significance of Race, The Truly Disadvantaged, and When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor. Wilson's distinguished career and contributions to bringing sociology to the public are partly reflection numerous honors and awards he received (such as the MacArthur Prize Fellow, the Seidman Award in Political Economy, the ASA Dubois-Johnson-Frazier Award, and 27 honorary degrees).
In addition to serving as ASA President in 1990, Wilson has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Education, and the American Philosophical Society. Wilson is also a member of numerous national boards and commissions, including the President's Commission on White House Fellowships, the National Urban League, The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavior Sciences, and the Russell Sage Foundation. A 1991 Washington Post article named Wilson the "most influential sociologist of his generation." In June 1996, he was elected by Time magazine as one of America's 25 most influential People.


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One new nominee will be added each day over the coming weeks and they will then put the final list of influential women to a vote between a panel of experts and the general public.
Additional nominees will be sought by you, the public, and you can email your own thoughts on who should be in the list, together with your reasons why to email@example.com.
FIONA COGHLAN (Ireland Women's captain):
Fiona Coghlan captained the Ireland Women's squad to a memorable Six Nations Grand Slam win last year, following in the footsteps of the likes of men's captains Karl Mullen (1948) and Brian O'Driscoll (2009) and Under-20s skipper David Pollock (2007).
Having played internationally for 13 years, it was a fitting tribute when she was also awarded the Irish Times/Irish Sports Council Sportswoman of the Year award last December.
Her leadership on the field of play over the course of her career has been immense but part of the reason for her inclusion in this list is her commitment to promoting Women's sport through an accomplished media profile.
Coghlan, the 80-times capped prop, was front and centre stage as Aon came on board as sponsors of the Ireland Women's squad and as they played their first ever international at the Aviva Stadium.
In true amateur tradition she combines her rigorous training schedule for club, province and the national team with holding down a full-time job as a teacher in Lucan.
Like a number of those who have gone before on the Sport for Business list and who will come in the next weeks, she will be a key role model for younger players coming through who can see that it is possible to play sport to a high level as part of a busy life.
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The God Slot Friday 11 January 2013
A contemporary look at religious affairs worldwide. This week, members of the Abrahamic faiths in Ireland look at the spiritual state of the nation.
Speaking last year at the Abrahamic Religions Dinner in Belfast, Cardinal Sean Brady said that the Gospel, the Tanak and the Qur'an are all books of peace, and expressed his belief that it is only by dialoguing together, by respectfully acknowledging the action of God in our respective traditions that the world can be offered a 'future and a hope'. Bearing the Cardinal's words in mind, we invited representatives of the Abrahamic religions in Ireland to do just that, to dialogue together, and this week in our first programme for 2013, The God Slot extends a warm welcome to the C of I Archbishop of Dublin, Michael Jackson, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Dromore, John McAreavey, Rabbi Zalman Lent and senior staff member at the Islamic Institute in Clonskeagh Ali Selim. The conversation is a kind of 'spiritual state of the nation' ranging over topics of importance such as the role of women in the various faith groups, same sex marriage and abortion.
We wish all our listeners a very Happy New Year.
'We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.'
Those sentiments were expressed by the renowned Jesuit palaeontologist Teilhard de Chardin, and could form the motto for RTÉ Radio 1's new Friday evening series, 'THE GOD SLOT' which deals with religious affairs, faith, morality, ethics, and, as the title and quotation might suggest, all that is seen and unseen in the world of spirituality. Chardin made the religious establishment of his day uncomfortable, and there could be an element of that in 'THE GOD SLOT'.
Working on the premise that most people in Ireland practice a faith of some sort, the programme aims to cover news stories, report on events, feature round table discussions and one to one interviews, discuss books and films and present informed comment on all of the above items that have a religious or faith dimension in a lively, accessible and up-beat style. We are interested in stories of relevance to people of all faiths and none, and indulge in neither hatchet-jobs nor hagiography.
Presenter Eileen Dunne needs no introduction to Irish audiences, her face and voice being well known as one of RTÉ's foremost newscasters. For more than 25 years she has worked on some of the biggest news stories, among them Queen Elizabeth's recent Irish visit, the death of Pope John Paul II and the installation of Pope Benedict XVI. A fluent speaker of French, she is currently International President of the Association of European Journalists, a voluntary organisation for journalists with an interest in European affairs. Her clear headed, incisive style, attractive voice and microphone presence, and knowledge of and interest in the subject matter will prove to be great assets to the series.
Versatile producer Gerry McArdle has worked in almost every area of radio; as an actor, announcer, presenter, and has written a number of plays for the medium. He is also the proud owner of a Gold Disc for his adaptation and recording of The Pogues' classic, 'Fairytale of New York', which spent several weeks in the Irish charts during the Christmas period of 2001, and raised £10,000 for the Society of St. Vincent de Paul. His last series, 'Outside the Box', won the Inclusion Ireland Media Award. He has a fine track record in religious programming, as his was the mind behind several successful and noteworthy radio gems, including 'People of God', 'The Pope's Intentions', 'Holy Pictures' and 'Woman With the Wild Thing's Heart', and is delighted to return to a subject that passionately interests him.
The programme team is always interested in what listeners have to say, whether it be comments on what they have heard, or suggestions for future editions, and you can make contact by telephoning 01 2082039, emailing us at email@example.com, or writing to:
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Dublin 4.
If one accepts that everything in life has a spiritual dimension, then the only limits which might bind 'THE GOD SLOT, each Friday evening just after the News at 10, are the limits of the programme makers' imaginations.
The God Slot is repeated on Radio 1 Through the Night on Sunday mornings at 5.30, and at 10.30am on Sunday mornings on RTE Radio 1 Extra.
Below: Gerry and Eileen (Picture by Melina Prasse; The Irish Catholic)


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Donna J. Taff 7/25/2004 8:03:03 AMWow, I love this, Jim!!!!!! #151288
Jim Kinnunen 7/25/2004 9:21:48 AMThanks, Donna! Watching these guys fly was an amazing expirience yesterday! I'm glad they're ours! #668836
Audrea Telkamp 7/29/2004 12:00:32 AMIncredible capture Jim!! Wow!! I love that you included their path up, the composition is perfect!! #674886
Jim Kinnunen 7/29/2004 6:47:25 AMThanks Audrea! #675644
Bonnie C. Lackey 7/29/2004 7:05:31 AMTakes my breath away... #675666
Jim Kinnunen 7/29/2004 8:11:14 AMThanks Bonnie! It did the same to me! #675780
Terry R. Hatfield 8/14/2004 3:33:38 AMCongrats To You On Your Finalist Jim Nicely Done!! #707296
Deborah Sandidge 8/14/2004 8:02:39 AMWow! Congratulations, Jim!! #708465
Susan T. Evans 8/14/2004 8:32:19 AMCongrats Jim, awesome image! #708640
Kelly Abernathy 8/14/2004 8:45:40 AMCongratulations! Well deserved! -K #708739
Jim Kinnunen 8/14/2004 10:11:57 AMThank you all for your kind words! #709234
Murry Grigsby 8/14/2004 10:46:27 AMCongrats Jim! #709368
Donna J. Taff 8/14/2004 11:34:32 AMCongratulation's, Jim!!!!!!! #709644
Jim Kinnunen 8/14/2004 12:35:43 PMThank you Murray and Donna! #709925
Jessica Hughes 8/14/2004 1:17:59 PMFantastic!! Congratulations! #710068
Colette M. Metcalf 8/14/2004 2:28:09 PMCongrats, Jim!!! #710269
Jim Kinnunen 8/14/2004 2:55:33 PMThank you Jessica and Colette! #710336
Stanley J. Contrades 8/14/2004 7:52:47 PMKinda partial to these guys, Jim!! CONGRATULATIONS and best wishes in the next round!!
Jim Kinnunen 8/14/2004 8:23:49 PMYes, I'm partial to these guys Stan! Their skill is amazing to me! Thanks for you kind words! #710907
Cathy Barrows 8/14/2004 8:31:56 PMCongrats!...of course you get my vote #710922
Jim Kinnunen 8/14/2004 8:44:27 PMThanks Cathy! #710955
Colette M. Metcalf 8/15/2004 3:38:08 AMCongratulations to you, Jim!!! #711443
Frederic David 8/15/2004 4:53:32 AMGreat shot. The sharpness is great. I only regret you don't have the top of the corner (drawn by the smoke) in the frame.
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Joy Brown 8/15/2004 6:19:28 AMCongratulations on this awesome shot, Jim!!! #711859
Deborah Sandidge 8/15/2004 7:21:43 AMCongratulations, Jim!! #712057
Susan T. Evans 8/15/2004 8:37:31 AMCongrats Jim on your win! #712159
Jim Kinnunen 8/15/2004 8:56:11 AMThank you Colette, Frederic, Joy, Deborah and Susan! #712244
Ron Goldman 8/15/2004 10:36:14 AMCongratulations Jim! #712403
Donna J. Taff 8/15/2004 12:28:01 PMCongratulation's on your win, Jim!!!! #712678
Jim Kinnunen 8/15/2004 12:43:14 PMThanks Ron and Donna! #712708
Nancy Grace Chen 8/15/2004 1:41:28 PMGreat capture!! The planes stand out so well against the deep blue sky. Congratulations!
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Nancy Grace Chen 8/15/2004 1:41:29 PMGreat capture!! The planes stand out so well against the deep blue sky. Congratulations!
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Murry Grigsby 8/15/2004 1:53:32 PMCongratulations on your win Jim!! #712892
Jim Kinnunen 8/15/2004 2:19:54 PMThanks Nancy and Murry! #712967
Terry R. Hatfield 8/15/2004 4:52:28 PMCongratulations To You Jim On Your Win An Excellent Image!! #713266
Evy Johansen 8/15/2004 6:49:57 PMMany congratulations on your win, Jim! Wonderful image! #713437
Jim Kinnunen 8/15/2004 7:18:12 PMThank you Terry and Evy! #713463
Kelly Abernathy 8/16/2004 11:00:10 AMYay Jim! I love it! Congratulations on your win! -K #715189
Jim Kinnunen 8/16/2004 11:45:44 AMThank you K! #715274
Imran Khan 8/16/2004 4:01:10 PMBeautiful Jim, Congrats on well deserved win! #715754
Jim Kinnunen 8/16/2004 9:09:12 PMThank you Imran! #716235
Diane Dupuis 8/19/2004 5:17:01 PMCongrats! #721790
Jim Kinnunen 8/19/2004 5:32:16 PMThanks Diane! #721841
Bill Borsheim 10/12/2004 7:09:00 AMAs beautiful as your pic is, is the danger of such maneuvers. Many decades ago, I remember watching a "bombburst" in which all 6 planes in verticle flight separated in 6 directions & curved back toward earth. Curving more, they all crossed the "centerline" near the ground from 6 different directions. First one plane went thru the "intersection", then a second. The plane that was supposed to be third thru the intersection was about a second late. Thus the third & fourth plane screamed toward the intersection on a collision course. The pilot of the third plane, knowing he was late & heading toward collision, hauled on his yoke. The plane jerked up about a 100feet in less than a second & the third & fourth plane went thru the intersection simultaneously but about the 100 foot vertical distance apart. & then the fifth & sixth planes crossed in sequence without incident. It was so quick I don't think most of the viewers at the airfair knew what went on, but some people did because I heard individual gasps around the crowd. After that incident, I never saw a multiple jet crossover unless each plane went thru the intersection at a substantially different altitude. #836852
Jim Kinnunen 10/12/2004 7:56:38 AMThat was a great description of a near tradgedy, Bill! I can't say that I would want to witness it but if I did I would hope to have the AI Servo mode turned on and the planes in focus! #837022
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'Nothing in life... signifies failure better than fat'
Samantha Brick is either an absolute genius or completely clueless.
The 42-year-old producer and writer, who flung herself into the public eye last year by claiming she was too sexy for her own sex, is back making equally absurd statements. And again she is winning when it comes to conjuring up public wrath and publicity.
Whether she is a delusional Blanche Dubois or a shameless self-promoter she certainly knows how to cause a stir. The backlash following her last set of proclamations was world-wide, but she also nabbed numerous television appearances and a book deal. Head Over Heels In France, her comical for-all-the-wrong-reasons memoir was released in April.
Now, coinciding with the release of the book, Brick is back courting controversy.
In a blog for MailOnline last week, titled "Joan Collins is right. Any woman who wants to stay beautiful (like me!) needs to diet every day of her life" she said: "I don't believe overweight is ever attractive."
Brick went on to reveal her own battle with the bulge.
"I am 42 years old and have been on a permanent diet for the past 30 years," she said. "The logic is simple and irrefutable: any self-respecting woman wants to be thin, and to be thin you need to spend your life on a diet."
She revealed that she had recently poured coffee dregs over an "expensive box of hand-made French chocolates" lest she be tempted to eat them and explained that her husband "would not tolerate a fat wife and has told me that if I put on weight, our marriage is over".
Deeply sad and shallow as this may be, the clincher was her final sentence.
"The world admonished Kate Moss for claiming that 'nothing tastes as good as skinny feels' but I'd go further," she said. "As I see it, there is nothing in life that signifies failure better than fat."
Naturally, the blog was divisive and sparked outrage. But Brick blundered on, appearing on Britain's This Morning show on Monday to defend herself.
In a debate with body image campaigner, Natasha Devon, Brick not only insisted that being thin is being beautiful, she said that the biggest threat to mankind isn't North Korea or terrorism it is being fat.
"We do have a massive problem in this country with obesity. 66 per cent of the population are obese and 25 per cent of 4 and 5 year olds are overweight, it is a massive issue."
Devon's response: "There are hundreds of ways to be gorgeous. We believe that healthy and confident is beauty, and healthy and confident means different things to different people.
"We are not all born to be skinny.
"Women who are confident and rock their own brand of gorgeous are much more attractive.
"Some people let being thin take over their life. I don't know much about your life Samantha but it seems that you can't let go and enjoy yourself so I actually feel very sorry for you."
It seemed most of the viewers agreed, with 94 per cent believing that Samantha's opinion is dangerous and that we should focus on being healthy and happy.
Unsurprisingly, Brick was remorseless. "Every woman who voted against me during the debate needs to take a long hard look at the digits on their scales," she told the MailOnline.
"I stand by my position that fat is failure. Every time someone eats more than they need they are failing themselves, their children and society - by assuming someone else will pick up the health tab for their eating habits."
She also cheerfully complained that she was being ganged-up on:
Brick is right about one thing. Obesity is indeed a problem. Nearly 64 per cent of Australians aged 18 and over are either overweight or obese. This statistic is slightly higher than in Brick's native Britain. But shaming women (or men) into believing that unless they conform to some cookie-cutter standard of beauty they are a failure is about as far removed from a solution as Brick seems to be from reality.
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Goldman Roiled by Op-Ed Loses $2.2 Billion … Smith Resignation Costs Goldman Shareholders $2.2B … Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) saw $2.15 billion of its market value wiped out after an employee assailed Chief Executive Officer Lloyd C. Blankfein's management and the firm's treatment of clients, sparking debate across Wall Street. The shares dropped 3.4 percent in New York trading yesterday, the third-biggest decline in the 81-company Standard & Poor's 500 Financials Index, after London-based Greg Smith made the accusations in a New York Times op-ed piece. Smith, who also wrote that he was quitting after 12 years at the company, blamed Blankfein, 57, and President Gary D. Cohn, 51, for a "decline in the firm's moral fiber." They responded in a memo to current and former employees, saying that Smith's assertions don't reflect the firm's values, culture or "how the vast majority of people at Goldman Sachs think about the firm and the work it does on behalf of our clients." – New York Times
Dominant Social Theme: Dig up Pecora and let him run a commission.
Free-Market Analysis: Hoo boy. Here's what we really need: New "Pecora Hearings." is this why Goldman is being pilloried once again?
Is it a deliberate hit job of sorts? Certainly it is compelling. People hate the system so much that even the alternative news media goes along when it comes to Goldman Sachs.
It never seems to occur to anyone, even the brightest of the alternative media minds, that this is the way the power elite works. Do they ever set up a dialectic they don't control? "They" OWN Goldman Sachs it seems to us. Goldman works for "them" … and "they" are offering up this firm like a sacrificial lamb.
But the stakes could not be higher. The end of the US system of capital-raising is being oiled and greased in Washington thanks to the constant drumbeat of anti-Wall Street news.
The guillotine is being sharpened. The screws are being tightened. It is almost time for the show to begin.
And what a show it will be: Political theatre designed to reduce what is left of Wall Street entirely to an adjunct ofWashington, DC.
In the process it will accomplish what Alexander Hamilton long dreamed of doing 250 years ago: Reconfigure the Republic and turn it into a version of European nation-states.
After these new hearings take place, George Orwell's famous phrase will be fully operative: "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stomping on a human face – forever."
This unpleasant sentiment has been the goal of certain individuals; but the proximate reality has drawn considerably closer in the past years now, ever since the disastrous economic collapse of 2008.
You ask why this is so. Why is it bad to have a Congressional Hearing to punish Wall Street and "throw the crooks in jail"? That's not the REAL reason for these upcoming hearings.
The real reason is to kill the last vestiges of the capital-raising mechanism in the US. Kill it. Kill it dead. After these new hearings take place, the ability for average people to raise capital – already doubtful – will be improbable indeed.
The other thing these hearings will attempt to do is to provide legitimacy for the current US political system and the penal-industrial complex. Over and over certain people complain that the "crooks" have not yet gone to jail.
But to put the "crooks in jail" will utilize the entire illegitimate structure of US power including the entirely corrupt US Congress, increasingly authoritarian law enforcement and murderous penal facilities themselves. The powers-that-be intend to capitalize on the righteous anger of US citizens to prop up the horrid system of US jurisprudence and Congress itself that only has about a 10 percent approval rating currently with the larger public.
This is only a secondary point, however. The primary goal is even more malicious. The power elite intends to make damn sure that if people make money in the future, it won't be via formal capital raising mechanisms.
The US has always been a nightmare for the elites that intend to run the world (and apparently control the world'scentral banks). One of the worst parts of the US system from a its standpoint is that average people have the capacity to make money. This isn't really the case in Europe where capital is doled out like royal titles: One needs, mostly, to be "connected" to get it.
But in the US even impoverished social misfits with a bright idea could raise money and build a business, even a big businesses. The power elite that now controls both money and media around the world has always found this to be unacceptable. First "they" helped create a formal "constitutional republic" and then with the advent of the Civil War, they helped destroy it.
They launched their apparent agent JP Morgan to control the wealth of the US and to create a series of phony crashes when he was fully empowered. The crash of 1907, which Morgan supposedly cured, seems to have been his creation as well.
It led directly to the Federal Reserve act and launched a century long inflation that has now devalued the dollar by about 99 percent. It is this monopoly central banking that has led to the current recessionary depression as well. The US is a hollowed-out economy. This was apparently the plan. The US and its republican culture stood in the way of world government.
On the way to the current disasters, regulatory democracy has taken root throughout the Western world. Regulatory democracy is supposedly the result of "market failures."
The biggest market failure that gave rise to regulations the way Helen of Troy's face supposedly launched a thousand ships, was the Crash of 1929 and the subsequent Depression. The putative result of these events was the so-called Pecora Hearings. And now the US is gearing up for another one.
We've been writing about this since last year. In fact, we were reporting on it as a dominant social theme long before there came "news" that a Pecora Hearing committee was forming in the bowels of Congress. Boy, were we surprised … not. You can see one of our articles here: The Real Reason Bloomberg Sued to Open Up Fed Records?
Here at the Daily Bell, we observe the dominant social themes of the elite. We noticed that The Occupy Wall Streetmovement, funded ultimately by George Soros, seemed to spend an inordinate amount of time blaming Wall Street for the woes of the world. We even believe we know who is going to HEAD the committee. (Perhaps we're only "blowing bubbles," pretty bubbles, etc. …) Just the other day, March 9, in the American Reporter, we see the following:
We are overdue for an accountability moment for the American financial industry. Fraud on a scale unimaginable has been committed, and the hard-earned savings of countless Americans has been looted, yet so far, only Madoff has taken the fall.
A bipartisan congressional panel armed with subpoena power is being formed to investigate causes of the Wall Street meltdown. The 10-member Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC) will study how fraud, regulatory lapses, monetary policy, accounting, lending practices and executive pay contributed to the worst global financial crisis since the Great Depression.
The FCIC is modeled after the Pecora Commission, a U.S. Senate panel formed in the early 1930s that investigated the causes of the 1929 Wall Street crash. Those hearings, led by Ferdinand Pecora, produced the facts and momentum for the major New Deal financial reforms.
We need a Pecora-style investigation that will name names, ask tough questions and seek remedies. What we don't need is for the FCIC to be another version of the 9/11 Commission, a panel that was never allowed to fully and completely investigate all the lapses that led to the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.
This is what we call an elite dominant social theme, folks. You got "yours" good and hard. And now it's time for Wall Street to pay.
The initial Pecora Hearings, run by Ferdinand Pecora, took place in the 1930s under Franklin Delano Roosevelt and resulted in the Wall Street we have today. In fact, the Pecora Hearings were based on farce and developed via fallacy.
The farcical part was that the Roaring Twenties and subsequent depression were the fault of Wall Street. Today, of course, historical fact points to illegal Federal Reserve inflation.
The Fed printed much more money than it had the right to print in the 20s and then after the crash, FDR deliberately covered up the crime by declaring bank holidays so that people would never cash in their paper receipts for gold.
When this didn't prove effective, FDR confiscated gold to make sure the banks, under the thumb of the newly founded Fed, would never have to redeem a penny. Thus we can see from the 1930s on, the Fed and the US government acted as a kind of criminal syndicate. This is forbidden history. It has only emerged popularly in the past decade, thanks to the Internet.
Today, thanks to free-market Austrian thinkers such as Ludwig von Mises, we know that the business cycle itself was responsible for the 1929 Crash and Great Depression. First, the Fed printed too much money and made everyone feel rich. Then, when the hot money circulated like sugar fueling a diabetic stroke, came the dreaded bust.
As a result, the Pecora Hearings were developed. The blame for the Crash and Great Depression were pinned on Wall Street and a bouquet of faux regulatory blossoms were cultivated: The SEC was formed, the NASD was created and outfits like the New York Stock Exchange were dubbed "self regulatory organizations."
The "public" stock market was invented, too. People tend to think there is a distinction between a private and public stock market but like so many other things in life, it is merely a regulatory distinction.
Let's not forget Glass-Steagall, as well. The idea of all of these nonsensical regulatory endeavors was to blame the crime of Federal Reserve monetary inflation on Wall Street chicanery. And now it is happening again. Goldman Sachs is being targeted for just this reason, in our view.
Of course, Wall Street DESERVES to be targeted. It is a shadow of a free-market facility, merely an adjunct of the power elite at this point. But it is not the MAIN MECHANISM of the coming authoritarianism. The main tools are monopoly-fiat central banking and government regulation.
The power elite flourishes via mercantilism. It created the Fed to be perceived as a PUBLIC facility and the Fed derives its authority from its PUBLIC brief. Government is not merely a helper in this regard, it is the prime enabler. Without enabling government regulation, the Fed would not exist; its credibility would not be buttressed.
The game is always … blame Wall Street. We have no affection for modern Wall Street of its crookedness, but we can see an elitist meme as well as anyone. At this point Wall Street is hardly a private entity in aggregate. It, too, is a quasi-public facility with all the attendant market failure.
Were Wall Street actually PRIVATE – and run by the Invisible Hand – we'd be bigger boosters. But Wall Street's ruin and rapine is a direct result of the regulatory regime under which it is now "run." And the game, of course, is to pile up regulation on regulation until the banking mechanisms of the country are entirely dysfunctional and run out of Washington (at the behest of the elites running the shadow government).
We are therefore a bit … suspicious of this executive director Greg Smith who quit Goldman in an open letter in theNew York Times. He blasted Goldman Sachs and its unethical behavior. And the New York Times, a prime mouthpiece of the elite, was happy to report and report … and report … on it.
Our elves made a tiny bet among themselves that a Rhodes Scholarship (a sign of elite influence) lurked in Smith's background. We went looking and this is what we found, courtesy of an article in the UK Daily Mail:
… [Stanford University] confirmed he was given a scholarship but was not able to disclose how much it was for. After graduating, he applied for the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship which counts Chelsea Clinton among its alumni and would have allowed him to study at Oxford University in England for a year.
Smith was one of 10 finalists but only four got a place – and he missed out. A person familiar with the Rhodes application process said: 'If he got that far academically he was brilliant. 'It is not usual for people in such a position to take a job with a company like Goldman Sachs for a year or so between university and going on the Rhodes scholarship. Firms like Goldman seek them out as they are the best.'
Despite his successful career, in his letter Mr Smith said the 'proudest moments in his life' were getting the Stanford scholarship, being selected as a Rhodes Scholar national finalist and winning a bronze medal for table tennis at the Maccabiah Games in Israel, known as the Jewish Olympics. He said that was because those achievements 'came through hard work, with no short cuts.'
We're not as enamored of Rhodes Scholarships as is Mr. Smith. The Rhodes Scholarships come out of Oxford that, like Harvard, train and create the academic stormtroopers of the elite. Here's William Jasper on the characteristics that Cecil Rhodes valued for Rhodes Scholars:
"What are the characteristics that the Rhodes scholarship selection committees were to look for in candidates and nurture in their scholars? According to Rhodes' own criteria … the traits most desired were(and are) "smugness, brutality, unctuous rectitude, and tact." … According to Rhodes' co-conspirator Stead, it was expected that by 1920 there would be"between two and three thousand men in the prime of life scattered all over the world, each of whom, moreover, would have been specially – mathematically – selected toward the Founder's purposes."
Conclusion: We shall close with an observation that appeared in our previous article on what is manifestly planned for the US: "So … remember this, please, as you listen to whatever Congress may muster after the next presidential elections (or even before). In the world of power and money, there is NOTHING that is as it seems. Countries NEVER go to war for stated reasons. Laws are NEVER passed for the reasons that are given. Regulations are NEVER propounded to "protect" the individual, but only to advantage the most powerful – the ones who can make the rules."


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Leuven, Belgium Our brain consists of billions of cells that continually transmit signals to each other. This dynamic process − which enables us to learn, remember, and so much more − works only when the brain cells make contact correctly, or, in other words, when there is a good 'synapse'. An essential element in this process is a controlled protein production along with the synapse. VIB researchers connected to the Center for Human Genetics (K.U.Leuven) are now discovering how the Fragile X protein (FMRP) ensures that protein production is controlled at synapse and regulated by brain activity. Their findings are being published in the authoritative scientific journal Cell.
Fathoming the brain
Our 'gray matter' has yet to divulge all its secrets. For example, we do not yet fully understand how we are able to learn and remember things. We do know that dendrites and axons − the offshoots of brain cells − play a crucial role by making contact with each other in so-called synapses, through which signals are transmitted between different brain cells. Moreover, for properly functioning brain activity at a synapse, the right proteins must be present in the right concentrations. It has been known for some time that the brain's cells are able to produce proteins directly at the place where they are needed. But exactly how the subtle regulation of this process works is still to be discovered.
FMRP: controlling protein production
Claudia Bagni (VIB, K.U.Leuven, University of Rome Tor Vergata) has been studying the FMRP protein for years now. The absence of FMRP leads to the Fragile X syndrome, a mental handicap afflicting a thousand Belgians. In this particular syndrome, the synapses are not well-formed. So, it is no surprise that FMRP plays an important role in the development and functioning of the brain. The researchers have already shown that FMRP suppresses protein production, but how has remained a mystery.
A shared job with CYFIP1
Ilaria Napoli and her colleagues from Claudia Bagni's group are now discovering that FMRP cannot perform its job without another protein: CYFIP1. In a previous study, Claudia Bagni and her collaborators have shown that a reduced amount of FMRP in the brain increases the production of some neuronal proteins. The VIB researchers in Leuven have now elucidated the mechanism behind this. They have found that complexes of FMRP and CYFIP1 are located at the synapses and together suppress the local production of a number of proteins.
In the transduction of signals between brain cells, i.e. synaptic activation, CYFIP1 is released from the complex, whereby FMRP can no longer exercise its suppressing action. This is the impetus for the production of the proteins that are under the control of FMRP.
A change in the concentration of FMRP or CYFIP1 causes a disruption in this strict regulation of protein production. This, in its turn, causes diseases like Fragile X syndrome and Autism. Indeed, CYFIP1 has been recently found associated to Autism.
Importance of this research
With their research, Napoli and Bagni are shedding a bit more light on synapses in the brain − giving us more insight into learning and remembering, and also into a number of 'brain disorders'. We now understand that, through its absence, FMRP plays a role in diseases like Fragile X syndrome and Autism.
|Contact: Sooike Stoops
VIB (the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology)


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|Lena Hollander Handler, 1911
Her parents were Samuel Holländer and Anna Honenvald. I previously shared Samuel's 1863 birth record and I have been curious to know when he died. I have been looking through these records at FamilySearch.org and found death records for his mother, Babette (or Betti) Kohn Holländer in 1896 and for his father, Leopold (or Lipod) Holländer in 1907. (I have not yet found Samuel Holländer's death record.)
I have to say that, even though I need to use Google Translate to figure out what is being reported, and I have to decipher handwriting in a foreign language, the one cool thing about these records is that a woman's maiden name is almost always indicated, and especially if the family has remained in the same community for several generations.
The page with the death record for Leopold Holländer, Lena's grandfather, looks like this:
|Bonyhad, Tolna, Hungary, "Civil Registration, 1895-1980 (FamilySearch.org)", Deaths (Halottak),
1907-1925, Image no. 245 (1907, No. 17). Death record for Hollander Lipot; www.familysearch.org.
Leopold's record is at the bottom and he is recorded as Lipot or Lipod:
|Close up of the above record
Record number 17, registered on February 10, 1907, reports that Lipot [Lipod?] Holländer, occupation házaló [peddler], died on February 8, 1907, at 9 o'clock in the evening. His residence was Bonyhád. [I'm not sure what the words after Bonyhád are, possibly a specific neighborhood or street?]
Izr indicates that he was Jewish. [I search these Bonyhád records by looking for "izr" in the Religion column.] He was 72 years old and he was pre-deceased by his wife, Betti Kohn. [Even his death record notes his wife's maiden name!] His parents were Samuel Holländer and Johanna Weiss [?]. He died of végelgyengülés, or old age.
I will continue to search for a death record for Lena's parents, Samuel Holländer and Anna Honenváld Holländer. And eventually I will go back to the microfilm records and look for their marriage record in Hogyész, another community in Tolna District, Hungary. I can then look for Anna's family.


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LAS VEGAS — Just as he was getting comfortable during USA Basketball's mini-camp for the Men's Senior National Team, Milwaukee Bucks center Larry Sanders was sent to the sidelines with a sprained left ankle.
Sanders spent the bulk of the Tuesday's workout on the trainers' table with his ankle elevated and Bucks general manager John Hammond and head coach Larry Drew hovering the entire time.
"He just sprained it and it blew up on him a little bit," Drew said. "It's s tough pill for him to swallow because you know how bad he wants to be out there. All of these guys do. But it's just a freak thing that happened."
With further evaluation needed, Sanders' will miss the mini-camp and Thursday night's intrasquad scrimmage at UNLV's Thomas & Mack Center.
Sanders, who finished second to Oklahoma City's Serge Ibaka in blocks last season, injured himself doing what he does best. He went up to contest a shot under the basket and came down on the foot of Houston Rockets swingman Chandler Parsons and crumpled to the floor holding his ankle.
Sanders had a towel wrapped around his head for much of the day, the frustration no doubt eating him as the action continued without him. In such a competitive environment, an injury can cost a player the time on he needs on the floor to impress not only the USA Basketball brass, but also the general manager and coach who made the trek here to observe him as well.
"There are a lot of eyes on us in this environment," said fellow big man Derrick Favors of Utah. "It's tough to see anyone go down in this situation. Larry was all over the place out there before it happened, too. I saw him over there with that towel over his head and I just told him to keep his head up."


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The game is a 6v6 DotA style map that pits fleets of capital ships against each other as fighter ships push different lanes and can be killed for minerals, used to upgrade and outfit each player's ship.
If you're curious about this map, go ahead and watch this YouTube overview created by TotalBiscuit. If you want to play, simply find the game in the Custom Game list and hit join.
The game requires a lot of teamplay and features permanent death, which usually means that people will ragequit quite early. This is easily the game's biggest issue at the moment as people figure the game out, but development has been quite active and hopefully this issue will be addressed in the future.
Meanwhile, we're still waiting on the four custom maps from Blizzard, debuted at BlizzCon 2010, which included an internal version of DotA.


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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — "Breaking Bad" creator Vince Gilligan said he expects the series finale to be well-received but is guarding against wild optimism.
"I think most folks are going to dig the ending," he told a session of the Television Critics Association on Friday. "But you be the judge."
He and the drama's cast, including Bryan Cranston who stars as teacher-turned-drug lord Walter White, were mum about what's in store when the AMC drama concludes later this year. It returns for its final hurrah, the second half of its last season, on Sunday, Aug. 11.
But the actors were willing to joke about it.
"I think everybody will be satisfied with the ending where we hug it out," Cranston said.
"Bryan, don't mention the musical numbers," chimed in Betsy Brandt, who plays Marie Schrader.
At least one character, attorney Saul Goodman, may live on. Gilligan said he is "working toward" a sequel featuring Goodman, played by Bob Odenkirk.
"I would love to do it, would do it in a second," said Odenkirk. "Because if Vince wrote it, it would be awesome."
Bereft fans of the drama also will be left with a comprehensive documentary that Gilligan said has long been in the works. The filmmaker, Stu Richardson, was hired by the studio, Sony, to shoot behind-the-scenes material that's been used in boxed sets, Gilligan said.
The documentary may be available exclusively as part of the show's complete Blu-ray and DVD sets, he said.
"I don't know the ins and outs, but I've seen the damn thing and it's really good," Gilligan added.
Asked about how the show's high profile on social media, he acknowledged the importance of audience and media support but said he generally avoids falling into the deep "rabbit hole" of online commentary.
He's found the best way forward in crafting the show is to run the writers' room like "a sequestered jury room," one in which they can develop stories and scripts in isolation and to their satisfaction.
Asked if he had kept a long-imagined ending in mind for "Breaking Bad," Gilligan said he couldn't recall exactly "what my original intention was." He recounted his pitch for the drama as, "We're going to take Mr. Chips and turns him into Scarface," film references to the teacher of "Mr. Chips" and the gangster of "Scarface."
"Having said that, it leaves an awful lot of room for changing up the plot. I couldn't see that far into the future" to the finale, he said.
"Breaking Bad," which debuted in 2008, is a four-time Emmy nominee for best drama series, including for this year's awards, and Cranston and co-star Aaron Paul have claimed multiple trophies.


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Premier League: Assem Allam has big plans for Hull City after securing promotion
Hull City owner Assem Allam would love to get the club into Europe after securing promotion to the Premier League.
Last Updated: 06/05/13 8:09am
A draw with champions Cardiff on a thrilling final day proved enough to propel the Tigers back to the top-flight, but Allam admitted his thoughts had quickly moved on from celebrating to planning for the future.
Assem and his son Ehab took over the reins at Hull City in 2010, with the team languishing in the relegation zone and facing financial crisis, but turned things around within three years and now have some major aims.
"I would like to see European football here. That is my dream for the fans and it is achievable," he said.
"Obviously, it will be difficult finishing in the top four of the Premier League without massive spending but there will be chances in the Cup competitions.
"I never expected to gain automatic promotion. It just shows how well the team and Steve Bruce have done. This is a major achievement for Steve and the squad.
"All of the investment and now the promotion is not about personal achievement. It is for the supporters and the community of Hull. The supporters deserve a successful club and that is what we will try to deliver.
"There is a feel-good factor in Hull that the results of the club have created and I think that has shown.
"Sealing promotion is one of the proudest moments of my life, without doubt, but it is all for the fans and the community - without them, we couldn't have done it. To be able to achieve this for the whole of Hull and the East Riding is something I am very proud of.
"We have a good squad of players, unlike a lot of other teams, and that has made the difference in the Championship. When we lose some players because of injury, we still have a good squad. That is what makes us different to the rest.
"I will now sit down with Steve, Nick Thompson and the board and plan for the future. The sustainability of the club is important and our plans will be for the future. We will need to make sure we do not do the same as a lot of clubs - spend a lot and end up back in the Championship.
"We are the only club in the Premier League from this part of the country and we want to stay there."


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Less than 24 hours after she interrupted President Obama's major speech on the future of the secret drone war and Guantánamo, CodePink co-founder Medea Benjamin describes why she repeatedly interrupted Obama's address. Benjamin, the author of "Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control," criticized Obama for failing to explain why a U.S. drone in Yemen killed the teenage U.S. citizen Abdulrahman al-Awlaki in 2011. "I was very disappointed. He said that his policy is to capture, not kill. That's just not true. I know personally of many incidents where it would have been very easy to capture people, like the 16-year-old Tariq Aziz in Pakistan, who was in Islamabad at a well-known hotel, but instead was killed by a drone strike two days later," Benjamin says. "I think the president is really justifying the use of drones, which will continue to happen under his administration and be passed on to the next."
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Juan Gonzalez: To discuss President Obama's first major address on counterterrorism strategy since he was re-elected, we're joined now by three guests. In Washington, D.C., Medea Benjamin is the co-founder of CodePink and author of Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control.
Amy Goodman: She repeatedly interrupted President Obama's speech Thursday in an exchange that ended with him saying, quote, "The voice of that woman is worth paying attention to."
Medea Benjamin, welcome to Democracy Now! Talk about what happened yesterday. First of all, how did you get into the National Defense University for this address? I would assume your face is one of the most famous on Capitol Hill.
Medea Benjamin: There are some secrets, Amy, that can't be disclosed. But it was great to get in there. And, you know, President Obama, when I just listened to that segment, he said that I wasn't listening to him. I was hanging on every single word. And I really expected to hear some major policy changes, and I didn't know whether I was going to speak up or not. If he had said something like, "To show my commitment to Guantánamo, next week we will start releasing those prisoners who have been cleared," or if he had said, "We're taking drones out of the hands of the CIA immediately," or, "We're going to immediately say that signature strikes, where people are killed on the basis of suspicious behavior, will no longer be allowed," if he had said anything like that significant, I wouldn't have spoken up.
Amy Goodman: You told The New York Times, in the piece today, that you don't like being called a "heckler." Why not?
Medea Benjamin: I think a heckler is a very negative term, and I think it's a positive thing when people find the courage to speak up to leaders who are not leading. And I didn't do what I did to embarrass the president. I did it because I feel that he needs to be pushed more, that it has been over four years now of policies that have been killing innocent people with drones. It has been now over 11 years that innocent people are still being held in Guantánamo and now being force-fed. These are crisis situations, and it requires more from us as citizens.
Juan Gonzalez: Medea, having watched interruptions of presidents over many decades, I was struck by the fact that you got to interrupt him three different times in that speech. I'm wondering, do you get a sense—did you get a sense they were going—usually, after the first or maybe the second time, the Secret Service would move in to drag people away. But did you get a sense that maybe, to some degree, his people didn't mind the interruptions, to the degree that he was then able to show that he is confronting opposition on the left to his policies?
Medea Benjamin: No, not at all. That's not the way it went down, Juan. What you didn't see is what was happening behind the scenes, of the Secret Service, the FBI, the people from the base coming over and saying, "You must come with us immediately, or you'll be under arrest," and trying to grab me. And I was saying, "Don't touch me. I'll scream. You don't want to make a scene in front of the president. You will regret this if you do it." And they were really confused about what to do.
Juan Gonzalez: So, no order came down immediately to remove you then from the—after the first interruption?
Medea Benjamin: They all came down immediately, and they didn't know what to do, so they sat down next to me. They sat down behind me. They got up again. They told me I must leave. I said, "No, I'm not leaving." This was all going on in between those three interruptions.
Amy Goodman: I wanted to ask your assessment of what President Obama said around the issue of drones. Medea, you have written a book about drone warfare. And do you feel he has laid out a different course for drone attacks?
Medea Benjamin: No, I don't think so. In fact, I was very disappointed. He said that his policy is to capture, not kill. That's just not true. I know personally of many incidents where it would have been very easy to capture people, like the 16-year-old Tariq Aziz in Pakistan, who was in Islamabad at a well-known hotel, but instead was killed by a drone strike two days later. Or we have the cases in Yemen, where the activist speaking before Congress said that in his village it would have been very simple to capture the person they were after, but instead they sent in a drone.
I don't think he laid out major changes. The drone strikes are lessening in Pakistan. We don't really know yet what's happening in Yemen. But there are drone bases being built up all over the world, including in places like Saudi Arabia, that are making us less safe here at home. So, I think the president is really justifying the use of drones, which will continue to happen under his administration and be passed on to the next.


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Doc: "LeBron's different than a lot of other great players." That's true, he has a Tickle Me Elbow doll, no other players can claim that!
lol TB. This is true. Pierce is having a big game one night this week. I can smell it.


text: Meet some of the innovators who've helped make Austin the nation's third largest video game production community. Gaming icon and local celebrity Richard Garriott reveals how he created his classic Ultima series and his plans to leave another lasting mark on the industry. Spacetime Studios' CEO shares how nearly going out of business twice led to the creation of the global hit "Pocket Legends." And GameSalad's co-founder marvels at a one-in-a-million lucky break that funded a unique game creation tool for nontechnical people, which has unleashed a torrent of creativity worldwide and even empowered political protest in India.


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'The heart is devious above all else; it is perverse—who can understand it?' This insight from the prophet Jeremiah suggests a different, less comforting response to self-knowledge. The heart is usually defined as the place of spiritual knowledge and true discernment. It is the sacred central point of consciousness, a tabernacle of the divine presence. To know one's heart is to know God.
Yet the heart is very close to that other zone of the biblical self, the belly, where the turbulence of emotion and passion whip up like sudden storms. The forces of this aspect of our self easily cast a shadow over the heart and make it seem as if we have, at least temporarily, lost heart altogether. But it makes us insecure to confuse the belly and the heart in this way. Are we really so unstable, so unpredictable?
As long as we are on this journey we can never be complacent about any degree of composure or peace we think we have attained. The desert fathers warned us to be constantly vigilant and ready to be humbled by our own instability. That's why Lent has not been about perfectionism or gaining merit points. It is about humility, which is self-knowledge and which, in turn, means knowing there are areas of our self we cannot know for certain.
For a while you can feel safely anchored in the heart. Balanced, resilient, compassionate, other-centred. But imperceptibly attachments have formed and with them illusions. When reality dawns and exposes these weak links in the chain, the whole chain seems to shatter into pieces. Suddenly, we can be thrown into grief, anger, sadness. As the storm breaks, we may know that this state is temporary and can be assimilated; but we can also feel unable to control it.
At the end of the long day' struggle the heart 's health is restored. As with Jesus in his Passion, the ego-will is accommodated to the divine force of love. This unruly love surges unexpectedly and sweeps everything away before it. Only when balance is restored do we see that what seemed like failure and disappointment – and was - was in fact, more truly, grace and growth.
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An in-depth discussion of the city of Sunnyside's 2014 budget yielded no surprises and few concerns at last night's regular city council meeting.
City Manager Don Day said the budget is flat, with very little increase from last year. He said the projected revenues are just more than $28 million and the expenditures are slated to be about $31.5 million.
"This is a sustainable budget," Day said. "Don't panic when you see the deficit there. There actually is the revenue because of the beginning fund balance. We believe this is a good budget."
He said the city will not have an increase in manpower or positions in 2014. Day also said the budget allows for anticipated pay raises that unions are currently negotiating with the city.
At the public hearing portion of the meeting only two members of the public spoke. Larry Hill of Sunnyside asked about the status of the police department's K9 unit and Laurie Beltman, owner of a Sunnyside car wash, expressed concern over a possible rise in water rates.
Hill's concerns were addressed by Day, who said the budget makes no changes in the city's K9 program. Beltman's concerns were not addressed directly, as the results of the city's water study will not be available until the next council meeting.
Council members had a variety of questions about the budget, particularly Councilman Jason Raines, who worked through a list of questions. Many of the answers turned out to be changes due to the way Finance Director David Layden is accounting for funds.
Raines also asked about completing the soccer fields near the Law and Justice Center. After a short discussion the council indicated it was in favor of using real estate excise tax (REET) funds to finish the fields as quickly as possible.
Another question Raines asked was in regard to a new police car in the budget. Day said he wants the city to get onto a system of purchasing new vehicles for its fleet on a regular basis. He said the city had multiple ambulances break down on the same day recently, and hoped to avoid such problems in the future by budgeting new equipment into each year. Raines asked if the new police car would have a camera installed.
Deputy Police Chief Phil Schenck cautioned the council against putting together a video system for police piecemeal, noting that it would become very difficult to maintain the system if different equipment is purchased.
Deputy Mayor Don Vlieger concurred, suggesting that the council explore the idea of cameras for police before going ahead. Vlieger argued that cameras could become a bureaucratic nightmare due to public information requests.
Council also discussed how to provide more money to the city's parks and recreation department, but Day said that he has a plan to take care of the needs of parks and recreation without increasing the 2014 budget. He did not elaborate on the plan at the meeting.
The Sunnyside council plans to pass the final budget at the next regular meeting on Monday, Dec. 9.
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Leyton Orient will be without Ben Chorley through suspension for the visit of Bristol Rovers.
The defender collected his fifth yellow card of the season during Orient's last outing, the 2-1 defeat by Southend, and serves a one-match ban.
But boss Geraint Williams is boosted by the return of a number of players and the addition of French striker Jonathan Tehoue, who this week signed a contract until the end of the season after a successful trial.
Full-backs Stephen Purches (illness) and Charlie Daniels (knee) are back to fitness and should go straight into the starting line-up while midfielder Sean Thornton is available after serving a one-game ban.
Strikers Ryan Jarvis (illness) and James Scowcroft (groin) are also fit again.
Bristol Rovers boss Paul Trollope must decide whether Byron Anthony or Steve Elliott will start in the centre of his defence.
The Pirates are on the verge of securing a permanent deal to sign Colchester centre-half Pat Baldwin, but the deal is not expected to go through before the weekend.
Baldwin started in the 2-0 defeat at Millwall last time out, but although Rovers and the Us have agreed a fee, the player has not yet agreed personal terms.
Trollope will therefore turn to either Elliott or Anthony to replace him in the starting line-up at Brisbane Road.
Former Swansea striker Darryl Duffy is pushing for a recall to the starting line-up as Rovers look to end a dismal run of seven consecutive away defeats.
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NEW ORLEANS — More than a decade ago, Ray Nagin was elected mayor of New Orleans on a vow to root out corruption in a city plagued by decades of it.
On Friday, the former mayor was indicted on charges that he lined his pockets with bribe money, payoffs, and gratuities while the chronically poor city struggled to recover from Hurricane Katrina.
The federal indictment alleges that city contractors paid Nagin more than $200,000 in bribes and subsidized his trips to Hawaii, Jamaica, and other places in exchange for his help securing millions of dollars in work for the city.
The charges against Nagin are the product of a City Hall corruption investigation that already has resulted in guilty pleas by two former city officials and two businessmen and a prison sentence for a former city vendor.
The case also punctuates the reversal of political and personal fortune for Nagin, who had what New Orleans Magazine editor Errol Laborde called ''rock star status'' soon after his election in 2002.
Nagin, a former cable television executive, took office with an image as a largely apolitical businessman ready to root out corruption. ''The media bought into that 100 percent. They used the term 'crackdown on corruption,' '' Laborde said Friday.
But Nagin's popularity and support waned in the years after Katrina. The federal investigation of his administration was mushrooming by the time he left office in 2010.
Rafael Goyeneche, head of the nonprofit watchdog agency the Metropolitan Crime Commission, remembers Nagin entering office with a call for the public to let authorities know about corruption.
''To go from the mandate that he was elected with to reading this indictment today and finding out that he was in many respects, if these allegations are true, a complete fraud, is eye-opening,'' Goyeneche said Friday.
In inauguration remarks May 6, 2002, Nagin promised a City Hall ''where permits and licenses are provided quickly, predictably, and honestly; where contracts are awarded based on what you can do, not who you know.''
Soon afterward, his administration's investigation into alleged corruption in taxi regulation resulted in numerous arrests.
''We're basically trying to send the signal . . . that what has happened in the past, and the way people played in the gray areas, is no longer acceptable,'' Nagin said at the time.
Friday's indictment accuses Nagin of accepting more than $160,000 in bribes and truckloads of free granite for his family business in exchange for promoting the interests of a local businessman who secured millions of dollars in city contract work after the 2005 hurricane.
The businessman, Frank Fradella, pleaded guilty in June to conspiracy to commit bribery and has been cooperating with federal authorities.
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Nagin, 56, also is charged with accepting at least $60,000 in payoffs from another businessman, Rodney Williams, for help in securing city contracts for architectural, engineering, and management services work.
Williams, who was president of Three Fold Consultants LLC, pleaded guilty Dec. 5 to a conspiracy charge.
The indictment also accuses Nagin — who now lives in Frisco, Texas — of getting free private jet and limousine services to New York from an unidentified businessman who owned a New Orleans movie theater.
Nagin is accused of agreeing to waive tax penalties that the businessman owed to the city on a delinquent tax bill in 2006.
Nagin's attorney, Robert Jenkins, didn't immediately return cellphone calls seeking comment on the indictment.
No one answered the door at Nagin's home in Texas on Friday.


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In 1858, Peter Cooper opened the school he had founded, located on Seventh Street, between Third and Fourth Avenues, and facing Astor Place. Known as "The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Art and Science," the school was open to men and women on the basis of merit only, and was free of charge. Classes in both art and science were held in the many classrooms during the evening. The top floor of the school was an astronomical observatory, and below it were lecture halls, laboratories, a museum, an art gallery, and a reading room. A large underground hall, situated as to be free of street noises, was located in the basement of the building. Cooper wanted all points of view represented there, and both Democrats and Republicans spoke from its podium. The inaugural speaker was none other than Mark Twain. In February of 1860, Abraham Lincoln gave the speech that launched his national career in this "Great Underground Hall." His very persuasive anti-slavery speech later became known as his "Cooper Union Address."
Source: Klein, Carol. Gramercy Park. An American Bloomsbury. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987.
Photo: From Harper's Weekly, week of March 30, 1861.


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I am starting to look into encrypting the files I have on cloud storage, such as dropbox. I don't make extensive use of these services, but I would like to have my files secured for peice of mind. I use TrueCrypt on my work PC (windows 7), making an encrypted container for my personal files, but this isn't ideal for a service like Dropbox. What I would like is the ability to encrypt individual files, then upload them to dropbox in their encrypted state. Cross platform would be a big bonus.
Any pointers on where to start looking? Does anyone else encrypt files?


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To be eligible to receive assistance under this chapter, the Local Council shall submit an application to the Lead State Agency at such time, in such manner, and containing such information as the Lead State Agency may require.
(b) ContentsEach application submitted pursuant to subsection (a) shall include a statement ensuring that the local government entity, Indian tribe, Regional Corporation, or Native Hawaiian entity has established or designated a Local Council under section 9413 of this title, and the Local Council has developed a local plan for carrying out early learning programs under this chapter that includes—
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Rosemary Evelyn Evers nee Lessard
Rosemary Evers
Rosemary Evelyn Evers nee Lessard was born on December 8, 1926, in Oak Park, Ill., to a family of 11 children. After graduating from Harper High School in Chicago, Rosemary worked in the accounting department of the Wrigley Chewing Gum factory where she met her future husband, Arlow Evers. Their first date began a long love of square dancing, which continued as long as their health allowed. They were married on November 13, 1948, and in 1950 moved back to Arlow's roots in Eastern Washington.
They came with their first born son, Arlow Thomas (Tom), and soon four more children followed: Ronald, Timothy, Edwin and Rebecca. They built a home in Electric City in 1960 where both were blessed to remain until their deaths. Church, gardening, baking, sewing, children, and eventually grandchildren filled their lives.
Rosemary was especially a lover of quilting and was a devoted wife, mother, and grandmother.
On Monday, Jan. 16, she suffered a massive stroke and died in Coulee Medical Center on Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012.
She was preceded in death by her husband in 2006 and is survived by their five children, 13 grandchildren, 11 great-grandchildren, seven great-great grandchildren and one sibling. Services were held on January 27 at Zion Lutheran Church where she was a longtime member.
Memorial gifts may be given to Zion Lutheran Church, P.O. Box 4, Grand Coulee, WA 99133 or Camp Lutherhaven, 3258 W. Lutherhaven Rd., Couer d'Alene, Idaho 83814.


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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Seagate Technology Inc. STX, +0.47% fell 3.6% to $28 a share in premarket trades on Wednesday after J.P. Morgan cut its rating on the company to underweight from neutral and reduced its price target to $20 a share from $25. Analyst Mark Moskowitz said macroeconomic and secular factors "stand to pressure the company's revenue and gross margin profiles." While shares could move up in the next 30-45 days on speculation of a leveraged buyout, "our call is on the fundamentals," he said in a note to clients.
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"Sonoran Desert"
For many generations, the Tohono O'odham Indians have been harvesting the fruit of the saguaro cactus and welcoming the summer monsoon rains that have been so vital to their survival. Learn the traditions of the annual harvest as we collect and prepare fruit with members of the Tohono O'odham nation. Discover the wildlife of the Sonoran Desert and join us as we learn about some of the tastier plants that grow here!. D
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I am Italian and went through a nightmare that is now becoming a nightmare to so many families with young children at home. And this nightmare will certainly bankrupt them.
My husband came down with Alzheimer's at 48 years old. He was sick for 7 years (but he showed signs of this for at least 10 years prior ) and died at 54 years old in 2004. This April, it will be ten years since he's passed.
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It's a Wonderful Life is my favorite movie. Always has been. I love that George Bailey gets to see the impact he's had on so many people. I think it would be awesome for people to get to see that impact themselves. Hopefully it would show them that one person really can make a difference in someone else's life. I think I was around 10-12 years old when I first saw the movie. I remember thinking that George's mom would recognize him when nobody else did, but of course she didn't because he'd never been born (at that point in the movie).


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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 11th Nov 2009 14:21 UTC
Google has invented a new programming language designed to reduce the complexity of coding without compromising the performance of applications. Called Go, the language has been tested internally at Google but is still at an experimental stage, so the company is releasing it as open-source code in the hope that it will get help with its future development.
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Useless without a platform
by iliks on Thu 12th Nov 2009 13:45 UTC
The real problem with low-level programming is libraries that allow performing useful stuff, not how many parentheses and where you write declaring array variables.
E.g. Fortran is still used in numerical computations because there are vast libraries of already developed code, going back to 1960's.
Fast compilation? Hmmm. Why would I need fast compilation when the language itself has weak library (I've had a look at it, it is quite patchy) and this won't allow me to easily 'say' what I want to say solving concrete low-level programming problem?
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It's a Bird Tops Lineup for Lone Star 'Cap
It's a Bird, a romping six-length winner of the Oaklawn Handicap (gr. II) last month, leads a veteran field in the $400,000 Lone Star Park Handicap (gr. III), the headline event of a stakes-loaded program on Memorial Day at Grand Prairie, Texas.


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Musicians: easy questions
Give the organiser's name of the concert in the Assembly Rooms after the first of Feb, 1997.
Find all the performers who played guitar or violin and were born in England.
List the names of musicians who have conducted concerts in USA together with the towns and dates of these concerts.
How many concerts have featured at least one composition by Andy Jones? List concert date, venue and the composition's title.
List the names of musicians in a descending alphabetic order together with their instruments in the band 'Somebody Loves this'.


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The following are the all of the articles that have been tagged as and being related to Chief Bogo that can be found here at Musings From Us, for your enjoyment.
Zootopia : Welcome to the urban jungle.
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As if it is possible for Disney movies to get any better, they keep do! Zootopia is one of those kinds of movies that you can keep watching over and over again and never get tired of, which is pretty much the standard with many Disney movies. This story takes place in a very modern city, but it is the "tail" of Judy Hopps (Ginnifer Goodwin), a cute little bunny from Bunnyburrow, one child of over two hundred children of Bonnie (Bonnie Hunt) and Stu (Don Lake) Hopps, that want to be a police officer in the city of Zootopia. The country folk of Bunnyburrow think she will fail, and should be a carrot farmer like her parents, but she is determined to prove them all wrong. A while later, she is off to the police academy, training in all kinds of climates and terrain. All the other recruits are large predators or bigger herbivores like rhinos or hippos, but Judy uses her bunny gifts and dexterity to rise above her problems and soon graduates at the head of the class.


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It's almost six years since the air started to leak, then gush, out of the US housing market, and the best one can say is that residential real estate is bouncing along the bottom.
Almost every housing indicator, from starts to sales to prices, has been flat-lining for three years. Various government initiatives, including a first-time-homebuyer tax credit, gave home sales a temporary boost in 2009 and 2010. But just as water seeks its own level, home prices are still seeking theirs………………………………………..Full Article: Source


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Approach from Mackie consortium rejected as Hearts favour fan ownership talks
Hearts decline an approach from a consortium led by Alex Mackie in favour of "positive" talks over fans ownership.
Last Updated: 13/11/12 8:57pm
The struggling club have a £1.75m tax case hanging over them which was revealed when a £1.79m share issue was recently launched.
Hearts have entered initial discussions with Supporters Direct, the government-backed organisation set-up to promote fan ownership, as well as confirming they have received and rejected a 'note of interest' from a consortium led by Mackie.
A statement on the club's website read: "The proposal has no consideration of cash for the shares of the club, even if the debt is removed completely and demonstrates a staggering misjudgement of the value of the club and a worrying lack of understanding of the situation.
"At best it is opportunistic; an attempt to exploit what is a difficult financial situation at the club. No evidence was provided on how the club would be operated and resourced after any potential purchase."
The statement added that the club remains open to "genuine offers" and will continue to operate with the support of the fans through the current share issue and other fundraising.
Club director Sergejus Fedotovas said: "When we move the club on it will be to the right people at the right time.
"With this in mind we have held positive initial discussions with Supporters Direct and we have asked this organisation for further talks on how we might be able to structure an appropriate supporter led buy-out of the club.
"At present we will continue these talks with Supporters Direct in parallel with maintaining the momentum that is gathering behind the club's share issue and other fundraising activities."
He added: "Together the staff, players, supporters, club partners and political and community groups are already making their mark on the club.
"With their continued support we do believe can steer through the current financial challenges we face."


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Skip to comments.Google,Joyce Foundation Big Players in Anti-Gun, Left-Wing Activism [ Google-Android users wake up!]
Posted on 04/29/2013 1:46:55 PM PDT by NoLibZone
While the left is frequently up in arms about the about the Koch brothers money funding political and campaign projects, there is no shortage of big leftist corporate and foundation money floating around hot political issues.
Both the Joyce Foundation and Google are established players in the anti-second amendment movement as well as other progressive political causes.
The Joyce Foundation has injected large chucks of money into the anti-gun movement, including Mayors Against Gun Control and the Violence Prevention Center. (Aside: Who was on the Board of the Joyce Foundation? None other than President Barack Obama who keeps assuring us that he doesnt want to take our guns away. Obama sat on the board of the Joyce Foundation from 1994-2002.)
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Soros is now worth 20 billion, and Google hit 820.00 a share. Our enemies are well capitalized.
"Anti-Bill-of-Rights" = Gun Control.
Let's synchronize our control of the language.
Just quick question - the choices for smartphones are basically Microsoft, Google (Android), Blackberry and Apple... Which of these DON'T support left-wing causes?
If I recall correctly, Joyce Foundation (with Obama on the board) put up money to help establish the Chicago Carbon Exchange, which was to have been the great benefiary of carbon credit legislation.
Another aside, I recall that Google was deeply involved in the overthrow of the Mubarak government in Egypt and the subsequent installing of Muslim Brotherhood in power there.
MS (Gates/Ballmer were big gay marriage supporters in Wash State.
Apple is run by a gay guy - Cook.
Google principals (Brin/Page/Schmidt) are all statists.
Not sure about Blackberry - of course they're Canadian.
I think there's an Ubuntu mobile OS available now. Someone will be selling phones with it pre-installed soon, if it's not already available.
That was my thought.
Get a Samsung and go with Tracfone. My wife and I rarely use our phones so we went from around $120/month to AT&T to $198/year prepaid Tracfone. The money goes to Carlos Slim but he's not left wing and does nothing in the US.
Payng down debt and waging overall economic war will defeat them, they are dependant upon "bubble economics"...
Exactly! Like Apple and MS are paragons of American Constitutional Liberties...
Actually, the disposable phones from Boost and Virgin are excellent. yes..I use them.
Mine is better. Virgin mobile, disposable. The cheapest phone I got cost $14.99, the card $10 for 3 months. F google.
My wife and I have used TracFone for some 13 years. We have never understood why anyone wants to pay huge amounts of money every month under a contract with cell phone companies when TracFone, which has no contract with you, charges you only when you wish to buy some minutes, is available.
But then again, we are not the type to continually yap on the phone with friends, telling them we just had lunch at Hardees and other inane uses of a cell phone.
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"We need to frame a digital Bill of Rights. This is my first draft. I need your help to get this right, so I published it here in Madison for everyone to comment, criticize and collaborate. I look forward to hearing from you and continuing to work together to keep the web open.
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Tuesday, September 13
This powerful collection of prints and drawings opens a window to a turbulent and creative time in American history. Artists represented in the exhibition are Richard R. Beatty, Elmer W. Brown, Fred Carlo, Zell Ingram, Charles L. Sallée Jr., Hughie Lee-Smith, William E. Smith and Curtis E. Tann. On display through January 1, 2012.
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Located just seven kilometers from the village of Tofino, Pacific Sands Beach Resort offers a cozy front-row seat to nature's most dramatic waterpark. The resort's 41-plus acres take in more than 1,000 feet of beach and 1,500 feet of undeveloped coastline on the crescent beachfront of Cox Bay.
That's not to say guests are roughing it. The only all-suite resort in Tofino, every room at Pacific Sands is oceanfront or offers an ocean view, and there is an abundance of comfy amenities, including fully equipped kitchens, gas fireplaces, organic coffees and flat-screen TVs. The selection of suites and beach houses provide a range of floor plans that appeal to both couples and families. All units are also equipped with private decks or patios facing the beach.
Guests can choose from a variety of activities or just breathe in the intoxicating ocean air. Pick up some fresh seafood and prepare it in your own kitchen or venture out to a variety of restaurants for local flavours. Renowned for year-round fun, it's the perfect destination to explore fishing, whale watching and golf, winter storm watching and all-season beachcombing.
Built on family, romance and fun, guests have revered and returned to Pacific Sands for decades. From s'mores and board games in the gazebo, to surfing adventures and boardwalk strolls, it's a haven for making memories.
Pacific Sands Tofino — the perfect convergence of land, sea and simple pleasures.
There is no better way to enjoy the wild West Coast than from the comfort and luxury of Pacific Sands' private Beach Houses. The relaxed and roomy three-level Beach Houses offer oceanfront living in a breathtaking setting. From airy, 12-foot ceilings and cozy comforts to a gourmet kitchen and double soaker tub, guests can stretch out in the indulgence of it all just steps from the beach. With 1,350 square feet of space to unwind, the Beach Houses can sleep six comfortably and make ideal accommodations for a group trip or family get-together. Beach House features include a fully-equipped kitchen with dining area; living room with outdoor deck; gas fireplace; entertainment centre including HD TV, DVD and iPod dock; ocean view bedroom with a king bed, gas fireplace, HD TV, outdoor deck, full bathroom and raised view double-soaker tub; a second bedroom with two queen beds, full bathroom and HD TV & DVD; in-suite laundry and main-level powder room.
This spring and summer, Pacific Sands Beach Resort partners with the Raincoast Education Society to offer a new kind of West Coast kids camp. Children get their feet wet and their hands in the sand as educators deliver quality outdoor programming around themes such as Otters and Whales; Salmon; Animal Tracking; Intertidal Games and Rainforest Scavenger Hunts. One day they could be learning about a whale's baleen or how to hunt for treasures in the rainforest, and the next day they might learn to make their own fishing rod. The programs keep children engaged and entertained by incorporating natural history, first nations culture, and art, all in the West Coast outdoors.
All this surf and sand can tucker a person right out, and sometimes guests just don't want to get dressed (in the best flip-flops, of course) for a meal in town. Fortunately, when easy and effortless are on the menu, Pacific Sands Beach Resort offers an abundance of culinary options for guests who want to eat in. Have a continental breakfast, with homemade granola and fresh-baked goodies delivered to the door, or order a picnic to go. There's always the 'do it yourself' option. Pick up some grocery basics along with a fresh-pulled espresso drink at Beans on the Beach at Guest Services. That's also where guests will find tasty menu options — like Southwest White Bean & Chicken Chili or Lasagna Bolognaise — from Zagat-recognized SOBO Restaurant To Go, or pre-order a dinner that can be easily heated in your in-suite kitchen. And most recently, the Surfside Grill – a sister site to Tofino's Wildside Grill, offers up fresh fish & chips, fish tacos, burgers, and all the classic mouth-watering beach food steps from your suite.
Beach walks and bonfires, marshmallow roasting and memory making; these are the times that are custom-made for friends and family to come together. Whether it's a wedding, a reunion, or a corporate retreat, Pacific Sands offers a perfect meeting place. The Pacific Beach House — the embodiment of luxury design with sweeping sea views, a large gourmet kitchen and open dining area — is well-suited for entertaining, as well as for nature-inspired corporate meetings and retreats. The resort's gazebo is the natural gathering spot for beachfront barbeques, event fires and marshmallow roasts for up to 40 guests. And there's room enough for everyone: with Beach Houses and Suites ranging from 520 to 1,400 square feet, Pacific Sands Beach Resort offers flexible Tofino accommodation that can comfortably sleep up to eight people, and even four-legged family members, since the resort is pet-friendly. Families unite naturally at Pacific Sands Beach Resort.
The real draw when visiting Vancouver Island's west coast is nature — and there is no shortage of ways to take it in, from ocean fishing and whale watching to riding the waves. Pacific Sands Beach Resort has partnered with several local adventure operators to ensure you enjoy the very best the Pacific Rim has to offer. Catch a floatplane ride to Hot Springs Cove, where guests can soak in a series of sulphur-heated pools that cascade to the ocean, or take the boat ride of a lifetime to see a pod of whales breaching or bears beachcombing. Both Jamie's Whaling Station and West Coast Aquatic Safaris will get guests where they want to go. If it's wave riding you're after, Surf Sister can introduce both women and men to the sport of surfing in a safe, fun, and supportive environment, and offers advanced technique classes too. Finally, if guests are in the mood for some two-wheeled locomotion, Pacific Sands has its own fleet of cushy cruiser bikes for perfect pedaling on the Tofino Bike Path, which runs right from the resort into town.
For such a tiny town at the edge of the Pacific Ocean, Tofino is blessed with a surprising abundance of top-notch eateries; it has become a culinary mecca for many city chefs looking for a lower-key lifestyle. Take a seat in the Spotted Bear Bistro for well-crafted cuisine made with quality products available on Vancouver Island, or slide into a booth at cozy Shelter restaurant and nosh on approachable, organic cuisine.
Since 2002, SOBO restaurant — short for Sophisticated Bohemian — has been winning hearts and taste buds with fresh, vibrant food, like humpback prawns and polenta fries; while even on a rainy day, Tacofino, the outdoor food truck, is the place to be around lunchtime for luscious, high-rise fish tacos. You should also dress for the weather while visiting the outdoor Wildside Grill, where commercial fisherman Jeff Mikus and professional chef Jesse Blake team up to deliver the freshest seafood around; and if you want a meal to go, don't miss chef Tim May's RedCan Gourmet where a beautiful open concept commercial kitchen allows you to interact with the chefs as they create inspired west coast dishes.
Just one glance at the crashing waves and sky-high conifers of Cox Bay and the need for sustainable practices that preserve the delicate natural balance of this magical place is clear. From a geo-exchange system and the use of wood killed by pine beetles to participation in the Clean the World program, eco-friendly is an understatement at Pacific Sands Beach Resort; which is why the Green Key Eco-Rating Program has awarded it a 4 out of 5 Key rating for excellence in environmental and social responsibility in all operational areas. Green Key is a graduated rating system designed to recognize hotels and resorts around the globe that are committed to improving their environmental performance. With the recent rollout of its Master Resort Development Plan, Pacific Sands is committed to even more sustainable policies and to striving for that fifth Key.
Back in 1972, the Bill Pettinger, a real estate developing visionary, found an ad for a motel in Tofino, British Columbia. At the time, Tofino was not the surf-centric and picturesque west coast destination it is today. The rest as they say is history.
In 2015 – after almost 42 years of friends, family, and legendary stories – the Pettingers passed ownership to Gordon Nelson Inc., another family-run resort operator with a passion for Tofino, and owners of nearby nieghbour Ocean Village.
Both families shared a vision that embraces Pacific Sand's unique setting and rich legacy, catering to the many loyal guests who come back year after year, helping to create new generations of memories and great stories.
At the north end of the Esowista Peninsula sits the village of Tofino, a tranquil community notched in among sweeping bays and the towering rainforest on the west coast of Vancouver Island. The town is part of the Clayoquot Sound UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) Biosphere Reserve, an internationally recognized area that includes terrestrial and marine environments and extends from the southern boundary of the Long Beach Unit of Pacific Rim National Park Reserve to just north of Estevan Point. The reserve includes approximately 350,000 hectares of which nearly 83,000 hectares are marine. It's no surprise that the stunning vistas, kilometres of pristine sandy beaches and amazing wildlife draw more than 1 million visitors a year, making Tofino one of B.C.'s premier vacation destinations. Visitors can spend the day strolling beaches, sampling local cuisine, taking an exhilarating eco-tour or shopping for original west coast art. There's nowhere like it. Visit Tourism Tofino online.
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Christmas Reading
Christmas Reading
The Lark. Little Bessie's Stories. Philadelphia: T. Elwood Zell & Co., 1864.
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This is a short compilation of poetry about birds and nature. Perhaps its most remarkable aspect is this color stenciled wrapper featuring the image of a mother and daughter reading together with a decorated Christmas tree in the background. The square format and colored cover resembles the picture books that New York publisher McLoughlin Brothers was issuing at the same time. This is only the second children's book that we have acquired that was published by T. Elwood Zell.
Adopted by Peg Lesinski in honor of Kristine Derick