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The Tilt & View Animal X-Rays card set by Learning Resources is an awesome tool to use in teaching kids about animals and their skeletons. You can look at all the cards at once and investigating bones. Or you can take a look at one at time and build your own unit study around the animal cards included! The variations of how you can present and use these in a home or school classroom are completely endless!
The Animal X-Rays Card Set includes 18 double-sided cards that measure at 5" x 4" inches in size. The front side of the card features an animal and when tilted the card displays a holographic matching x-ray. On the back of each card, is information and neat facts about the animal. Animals featured include: Gray Squirrel, Green Sea Turtle, Moray Eel, Barred Owl, Emperor Penguin, Mallard Duck, and more!
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We received some of Learning Resources Tilt & View Animal X-Ray Cards. These are neat way to teach your child about animals. These cards are two sided. They have an image on one side. The image is holographic. If you look at the card it will show the animal, but then if you tilt the card it shows the skeleton. I really like that the reverse side has facts about the animal. They are thick and durable and can hold up to my 6 and 8 year old too. They are geared towards children 6 years and up.
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An airline job interview is generally a one-way conversation, with the airline asking all the questions, and you doing your best to get the job. However, you should also be ready and willing to ask certain questions that will affect your future. This short list of questions will not get you "in trouble," and it will show that you are truly interested in the industry.
- Q: What will be the impact of FAR 117 on your operation?
If this isn't addressed in a briefing before your interview, it's a good question to ask, because many airlines, including regionals, are still coming to grips with the full impact of the rules. Every regional will be required to add staffing to the pilot ranks. The real question is by how much. Ten to 15 percent seems to be a good gauge for now, but each one is different. They may need to alter the schedules in ways not anticipated. My own guess is that it will force them to go to an AM-PM model, but that's just one option. A simple reason for you to ask is to find out how long you will be on reserve.
- Q: What will 117 do to reserve requirements?
Reserve status for an airline is one of the least desirable schedules in the industry, so most pilots want to get off reserve and become a line-holder as quickly as possible. Is the airline you are interviewing with planning to increase reserve numbers? Do they know?
- Q: What will happen when your contract with your major airline expires?
It's a fair question to ask a regional when the contracts with its major partner expire, and if the expiration date is close, to ask if the contract has been renewed. If it isn't renewed, can the regional find someplace to put the airplanes to use? If the answer is no, you may not have a job for long. Most fee-for-departure contracts are for 10 years or more, so keep that in mind as you search for work.
- Q: What is the future of XXX domicile?
This is a question you only want to ask regarding the smallest domicile, or one that is shrinking. If it's a base at a non-hub airport, definitely ask—these are the ones that are most likely on the chopping block. You'll probably need to read between the lines or pay as much attention to what they don't tell you as to what they do, but if there is any chance you are going to be based at a small domicile or are considering moving to one, ask.
- Q: What are the long-term fleet plans?
As the 50-seat fleet ages and gets retired (driven by both age and by scope clauses in the contracts of major airline pilots), regionals need to be ready to move on to Plan B. Some will thrive with 50-seaters, but most will not. You owe it to yourself to find out what the firm plans are going forward. You should know this before you show up, but getting current information will make your own decision making process a little bit easier.
These are just a few questions you can ask. If you have friends at the company, they can give you some more questions to ask that are pertinent and appropriate. Go in armed, and know exactly what information you need or want to make your own decisions easier to make, especially if you are facing the possibility of getting multiple job offers.—Chip Wright

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Cedral 2014
Fall Cultural Week
Cozumel Scuba Fest 2015 Calendar of Events
The 4th Annual Cozumel Scuba Fest 2015 General Program of Events
Tuesday, December 9th
- Arrival of Participating Divers and Exhibitors
Location: Coral Princess Hotel - Rooftop Terrance
Sponsors: Coral Princess Hotel and Pepe Scuba
18:00 - Cocktail reception and inauguration of Cozumel Scuba Fest 2014
: Welcome greeting by
Jean-Michel Cousteau
. (Closing of FMAS 2014 Congress).
Wednesday, December 10th
- Events All Day
Locations: Various
FREE: Lectures Open to the Public (Some by Invitation Only) / Diving Costs Assessed by Your Favorite Dive Shop.
08:00 - Start of dives
(Scuba Fest Route of Jean-Michel Cousteau)
: Sign up at our
participating dive shops
and become familiarized with packages including accommodations at the best prices.
11:00 - Dive and demo of the Side Mount Seac KS01 by Jean-Michel Cousteau and Karlos Simon
(Hotel Presidente Intercontinental)
: by invitation only.
15:00 - Registration of participants
(Cozumel Convention Center)
: Culinary showcase:
A Taste of Cozumel Cuisine
- outside the Cozumel Convention Center.
16:00 - Beginning of SCUBA FEXT EXPO
(Cozumel Convention Center)
: Trade show/exhibit featuring the best brands and dive merchandise in Mexico. There is also a program of conferences.
17:00 - Opening keynote presentation by Jean-Michel Cousteau
(Cozumel Convention Center)
The Sustainable Future: Preserve the Oceans, Protect Ourselves
(in English).
18:00 - Stories and memories roundtable discussion by Diver friends of Ramon Bravo
(Cozumel Convention Center)
: We welcome friends of the late Ramon Bravo to share unforgettable experiences about the most beloved diver of Mexico.
20:00 - Gala dinner and official inauguration ceremony
(Cozumel Convention Center)
: Jean-Michel Cousteau presents the
El Buzo de Oro (The Golden Diver)
second annual awards to outstanding divers in Mexico and worldwide for their career, experience and contribution to the industry and the world of diving (admission: 350 pesos)
Thursday, December 11th
- Events All Day
Locations: Various
FREE: Lectures Open to the Public / Diving Costs Assessed by Your Favorite Dive Shop.
11:00 - Second day of diving begins
(Scuba Fest Route of Jean-Michel Cousteau)
15:00 - Submerged unveiling by Jean-Michel Cousteau
(Villablanca Reef)
: Sculpture honoring the memory of diver
Ramon Bravo
in the
Underwater Museum of the Buzo de Oro (The Golden Diver)
Sponsored by the Honorable City of Cozumel
16:00 - Culinary showcase: A Taste of Cozumel
(Cozumel Convention Center)
: Outside of Center.
17:00 - Visiting the stands of SCUBA FEST EXPO
(Cozumel Convention Center)
17:30 - Night dive for participants
(Scuba Fest Route of Jean-Michel Cousteau)
19:00 - Symposium with a panel of cave diving experts
(Cozumel Convention Center)
Living Legends of Cave Diving (Las Leyendas Vivas de la Espeología)
21:00 - Welcome Cocktail Reception
(Cozumel Convention Center)
Sponsored by CostaMed
Friday, December 12th
- Events All Day
Locations: Various
FREE: Lectures Open to the Public / Diving Costs Assessed by Your Favorite Dive Shop.
11:00 - Third day of diving begins
(Scuba Fest Route of Jean-Michel Cousteau)
15:00 - Culinary showcase: A Taste of Cozumel
(Cozumel Convention Center)
: Outside of Center - Highlighting the popular local lion fish (pez león).
16:00 - Lecture by Baltazar Pazos
(Cozumel Convention Center)
17:00 - Panel symposium
(Cozumel Convention Center)
: Conclusions from the panel of
cave diving (speleology)
18:00 - Lecture by Roberto Chavez Arze
(Cozumel Convention Center)
: The Black Hole.
19:00 - Departure aboard the "Fury" to the Secrets Resort Hotel from Cozumel's San Miguel Pier
(Cozumel's San Miguel Pier)
20:00 - National and Continental
Static Apnea Record
with Alejandro Lemus
Dive and demo with Side Mount Seac KS01 by Karlos Simon, CEO-Director of Buceo Hispania, Spain
(Secrets Resort)
(Sponsored by Secrets Resort)
21:00 - Departure from Secrets Resort Hotel aboard the "Fury" to Cozumel's San Miguel Pier
(Secrets Resort)
Saturday, December 13th
- Events All Day
Locations: Various
FREE: Lectures Open to the Public / Diving Costs Assessed by Your Favorite Dive Shop.
11:00 - Fourth and final day of diving begins
(Scuba Fest Route of Jean-Michel Cousteau)
15:00 - Culinary showcase: A Taste of Cozumel
(Cozumel Convention Center)
: Outside of Center.
16:00 - Beginning of the Scuba Exhibition
(Cozumel Convention Center)
16:00 - Conference
(Cozumel Convention Center)
Monitoring of the Impact of Touristic Activities in the Parque Nacional Arrecifes de Cozumel (Reefs of Cozumel National Park); Developing a Tool for Reinforcing Favorable Environmental Practices
by biologist
Nalley Hernández Palacios
, Coordinator of the Biological Monitoring Department, Academic Associate of CONANP Cozumel.
17:00 - Lecture
(Cozumel Convention Center)
Trancelike Immobility of the Tiger Shark
Karlos Simon
, CEO-Director of Buceo Hispania, Spain.
18:00 - Closing conference
(Cozumel Convention Center)
"Passion for Photography"
Manuel Lazcano
19:00 - Presentation of Commemorative Logbooks
(Cozumel Convention Center)
: Presented to all divers who participated in the Cozumel Scuba Fest Jean-Michel Cousteau Route (Official Photo).
21:00 - Closing Cocktail Reception
(Margaritaville Cozumel)
: For all 2014 Scuba Fest participants.
(Sponsored by Margaritaville Cozumel)
Sunday, December 14th
- Events All Day
Location: Cinepolis
11:00 - Screening of two (2) documentaries - FREE admission with Scuba Fest bracelet!
The Current
by director
Kurt Miller
My Father, the Captain: My Life With Jacques Cousteau
Jean-Michel Cousteau
, followed by a discussion for the Cozumel community by
Ruben Arvizu
, Ocean Futures Society, Director for Latin America.
ALL DAY - Departure of participants
As you can see, there is a lot going on during
The 3rd Annual Cozumel Scuba Fest 2014!!
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Cozumel Scuba Fest 2014!!
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County lays plans to finish Rail Trail
JOHNSTOWN – Fifteen years after the first stage of the FJ&G Rail Trail was completed, Fulton County officials are hoping to take steps toward developing a long-broken link in the trail that ultimately could lead to the completion of the 22-mile recreation path.
The Building & Ground committee of the county Board of Supervisors on Monday approved pursuing development of the privately-owned 5-mile stretch that mostly runs through the town of Mayfield. It would connect an existing 10-mile path that runs through Gloversville and Johnstown with a 2-mile section in Vail Mills.
The trail's right of way in Mayfield fell into the hands of a half-dozen private owners in the 1980s when the town declined the right of first refusal to take over that section of the former FJ&G railroad. When the Rail Trail project began in the 1990s, it stalled near the town border, when the land owners wouldn't allow development on the railroad's former right of way.
"I think the attitude has changed," said Mayfield Supervisor Rick Argotsinger, who chairs the Buildings & Grounds Committee. "From the feelers that have been put out, I think there is support to get the trail done,"
About 4.5 miles of trail between Union Avenue Extension in Johnstown to Route 5 in Fonda remains undeveloped. Montgomery County expects to complete its 3.4-mile section between Fonda and the city line this year, and Johnstown officials expect to link it with the existing trail next year. That would leave the Mayfield section as the only missing link.
Fulton County Planning Director Jim Mraz told the committee it could try to acquire the Mayfield right of way directly or, if the property owners were hesitant, offer to move the right of way slightly. He also said officials could pursue seizing the property by eminent domain, though he didn't endorse that tactic.
"In my 30 years here, I've never seen an elected official jump up and down and say, 'yes, let's go get this,'" Mraz said.
Gloversville 1st Ward Supervisor Marie Born said owners may be more willing to negotiate now that the trail has been largely developed. Gloversville 5th Ward Supervisor Michael Ponticello suggested the county look for creative ways to negotiate with property owners, noting there is nothing to lose.
"It's win-win or it's nothing, so I don't see why we just don't put forth the effort and try," he said.
The trail has been a large recreational draw, county Administrative Officer Jon Stead told supervisors, noting visitors frequently park at the county's tourism information booth in Vail Mills just to use the 2-mile stretch between Broadalbin and Vail Mills.
The trail is open only to non-motorized vehicles, but when Stratford Stratford Supervisor Robert Johnson Jr. asked about allowing other uses, like snowmobiling, Mraz said it would be an option to consider.
The county has funds left in a Transportation Equity Act grant that was used to complete part of the Rail Trail in Johnstown which could be used to acquire property. Mraz said the cost to build it – which could be up to $100,000 per mile, could be covered by another grant.
"I'm confident we can get it, but the ability to get that grant would increase significantly by having the right of way," he said.
Gina DaBiere-Gibbs, tourism director of the Fulton-Montgomery Regional Chamber of Commerce, said she's excited about the potential a finished Rail Trail could bring to the region. The trail would allow cyclists to easily link up with the Erie Canalway Trail and the Path Through History initiatives, she said, hopefully drawing tourists.
"With trails like that it's easier to bring people into Fulton County to ride their bicycles and stop at attractions and spend their money," she said.


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Burlington is a great little college town; beautful lake surrounded by mountains. Winters are long in Vermont if you don't enjoy winter sports. Great state for those who like outdoor sports. Fall is my favorite season - absolutely gorgeous.
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After 20 years, I can offer a point of view - 6/6/2014
I was born in NY, but my family and I moved to Williston, VT when I was maybe 2 years old. Since then, I grew up in a very liberal area with lush green trees and tall mountains that comforted me. The opportunities for adventure were endless as a kid. My backyard has been a field, or a mountain top complete with a river neighboring near by to the public. That's what I like about Vermont, someone made the right decision to maintain the freedom of enjoying public areas without paying a ridiculous amount of money.
Not one person commenting on any state, country or city can determine an accurate climate... but I can try.
Vermont is beautiful in the summer. I write this as I just completed my masters degree and have moved back to VT for the summer. One of the best times to enjoy what Vermont has to offer. The deep blue skies and bright yellow sun are incomparable to that of the south or mid-western states (which I haven't visited, but often hear about from friends or look at on Google images). One sunny day can liven the spirit and give me such a high here thats unachievable by any amount of recreational drug Vermont usually deems acceptable.
It's not the cloudy days that are God awful, its the GRAY sky days. These are the days that are such a harsh light gray/white that you cannot look up when you are outside and instead stoop your shoulders and drop your head harboring some kind of unnatural emotion.
Typically, Vermont sees 1 sunny day for every 3 cloudy days, with a chance of rain being 2 out of those 3 days. I've had the pleasure to enjoy some wonderful summers here; seeing sky high temperatures and beams of sun for days, to having complete overhaul of dreary gray and rain for a week. But, thats the weather you can expect, and unfortunately it is a tool to our mood!
I love Vermont, but if you don't live in or outside of Burlington, its like living the simple life, without any social interaction. Nevermind me talking about Burlington. The city is beautiful, but no one puts any money into the historic housing so it sits there to rot. The roadways are a mess because of never-ending snow and rain, and worst of all, Vermont will never build highways, parking lots or roadways in fear this will destroy preserved land or waterways. It's absurd! But yet, 'lets keep building businesses on-top of businesses for the sake of growth', yet not bloody parking lots or highways to allow the over-populated areas some relief. That has always been my biggest peeve. Ever since riding the school bus from Williston schools to my Williston home, and recounting how a 15min bus ride would turn into a 40min ride. Ridiculous.
The food is amazing, expensive, but great! Local and delicious. Vermont has some very intelligent people working behind the scenes. We are like a mini California, pioneers in many different areas and actualizing holistic health. CATCH UP SOUTH.[Comment on this Posting]
Worst place ever to live!!!! - 2/8/2013
I made the mistake of moving here from Austin, Texas in 2012 and shortly after moving I quickly regretted my decision. The cost of living here is ridiculous, the bugs are out of control, the people are super mean and have terrible attitudes. Go help you if you have fuel oil because you will be working around the clock to heat your house to the toasty temperature of 65!! We pay a minimum o $600/month to heat our small 900 sqft house and we are still freezing!!! All houses are old as hell and in poor condition but yet rent and cost of buying is beyond ridiculous. There is a real lack of talent as far as health care professionals go and forget about getting anything good to eat because mcdonnalds is the best restaurant they have!!! Do not move here!!!! [Comment on this Posting]
Awesome Place.. but - 6/17/2012
Burlington is awesome. It is full of culture everything from waterfront music festivals to arts at the farmer's market. Furthermore, the Flynn theatre brings in great acts from Steve Martin to Bernadate Peters. Summers are the best in Burlington and Vermont as it does not get miserably hot like it did in the Midwest where I grew up. Plus, the summer is when Burlington gets most of it's sunshine, so cherish it while you can because the rest of the year you are lucky to get a day in 5 that is sunny. Cost of living is a bit higher than what I was used to when I moved here, but quality of life here is worth it in my opinion. Just know that if is says "made in Vermont" on the item you are purchasing it will at least cost your 15-25% more. Burlington is a short drive to Montreal, which is truly an incredible city. The people in Vermont are typically nice, but some have the Northeastern uppity attitude. The winters are HARD in Vermont. Everyone here will tell you that the skiing is to be treasured, but I do not think many of them have ever lived in Colorado as I have. If you like being froze, and skating down hill on ice then VT is the place to ski for you. That is not to say there isn't an ok powder day once in a while, but they are few and far between. If you are looking for ski country move west, as I plan to do in the future. To close, Burlington has to many great qualities to list and you just need to come and visit. Oh and did I mention the food here is AMAZING! My biggest beef is Burlington and Vermont in general is it seems to be trying to constantly sale itself to its citizens. It is like Vermont's version of Californiacation. [Comment on this Posting]
Meh - 5/31/2012
Not a horrible place to live but be warned. A decent amount of things to do around town (for a town of its size) but the number of bums, druggies, thugs and asshole college students kind of ruins it. Pedestrians, cyclists and drivers are all crazy and do not follow the rules of the road. Going downtown you must always be vigilant so that you don't run into some idiot or have them run into you. Also the amount of snow this place gets is unreal.[Comment on this Posting]
nice town - 11/24/2010
great area to live and play, but a bit expensive[Comment on this Posting]
Can't wait to go home to Burlington - 10/16/2010
I made the dumb mistake of moving my family to Los Angeles eight years ago and have regretted every day of it. I've had it with L.A.'s crowded roads, crime, high cost of living, poor quality of life and, at the risk of sounding politically-incorrect, the in-your-face, uber-diverse population. Soon as the kids are out of school we're planning on going back to Burlington. I am counting the days.[Comment on this Posting]
Burlington, VT --Excellent, 5-stars! - 7/9/2010
I absolutely LOVE Burlington and would love to meet others who share the same belief. I honestly don't think you can go wrong with Burlington. The only cautionary I would advise you of, is you MUST be okay with long and COLD winters... they're brutal!
Over all, Burlington is artsy, progressive, liberal, full of musicians (though not as many as Asheville, NC), writers, and artists. It is organic and health-conscious. I heard Ithaca, NY is, too :) It's political and full of activism (similar to Northampton, MA), hip, vibrant, a good arts scene w/poetry and open Mic on Monday's at Radio Bean.
Burlington is beautiful... in the state of VT, billboards are prohibited to preserve the natural beauty :) Burlington is truly "home" to me and my first "home" away from home. I love it.
I am wondering if it's similar to Eugene, OR? ...or even Portland, OR though obviously much smaller! I have never been to OR, but would love to meet someone who has and maybe road trip together ;)
At any rate, you cannot go wrong in Burlington if you can tolerate the winters!
Feel free to contact me if you want to chat or connect: email@example.com
-Emily. [Comment on this Posting]
What it is like here in the winter months - 4/6/2010
I moved to Burlington, Vermont in 1974 when I was 15 years old. I am now 51. If you are considering a move here let me tell you about the climate.
There is no sun in the winter. I hear out West they have sun in the winter, we do not. Starting in November, that's when the "gloom" starts. I hate November. It's like setting you up for what's to come. Unless you ski or snowboard, or do something outside, the winters are very long. Normally Spring arrives in May. We can still have snow in April. In my opinion, I would live here in the summer and get out starting in November. It can get very depressing not seeing the sun for all those months. [Comment on this Posting]
Lots to Do - 11/18/2009
For a city of its (small) size, Burlington offers many opportunities for culture and recreation. In the area, there are several first-run theaters and one that often runs more "arty" films, too. There is a theater in town that often features major national and international acts, plus lots of events at the University of Vermont. Lake Champlain provides beaches, boating, and fishing in the warmer months, and the many mountains and cross-country ski area in a 1-hour radius provide virtually endless opportunities for skiing and exploring.[Comment on this Posting]
Burlington - 3/31/2009
Burlington, Vt. is a haven for outdoor recreation. In summer: bicycling, running, hiking, in-line skating, kayaking, sailing, etc. etc. in the mountains, back roads, on the 12-mile paved rail-to-trail along Lake Champlain. In winter: all the skiing, snowshoeing, skimobiling, ice fishing, anyone could want.
Plus, with the University of Vermont and Champlain College, plenty of culture.
Drawback: expensive. Rents, food, taxes, utilities (especially heating in winter.[Comment on this Posting]
Grew up in Burlington and had to go away to really - 5/25/2008
Burlington has enough culture, parks and stores to have what you need. Housing is more expensive than the average, but it's worth it. The crime is low, it's clean, it lack extreme weather like hurricanes, lacks poisonious insects, the views are beautiful and the people are realatively educated. Burlington is a medical community and a college town with great outdoor recreation spots in the summer. On the downside, winters are long enough and the closest metro area is Montreal, Canada.[Comment on this Posting]
Wonderful City With a Few Downfalls - 3/1/2008
I grew up in nearby Essex Junction and now am a senior at the University of Vermont here in Burlington, and have lived here for the past four years (and been to burlington many times throughout life.) Housing prices are very high for a city of this size -- mostly because the demand is so high, and for renters, landlords know they can charge wealthy out-of-state trust fund college kids high prices that their parents will always pay (I am not one of these kids, so this trend is extremely frustrating.) The houses are primarily older victorian homes from the early 1900's that are truly showing their wear, although many of them are very ornate and beautiful. The scenery is gorgeous from may through october, with the lake and aidorondack & green mountains to the east and west -- words can't express how stunningly brautiful the fall foliage is as well. Recreation, culture, and activities are plentiful, and winter opens up all kinds of winter recreation like skiing, snowshoeing, for those that want it. The city is very safe and most people are friendly. The atmosphere is overwhelmingly liberal and socialist, you'll see a lot of aging hippies and activists, as well as a high gay and lesbian population. I consider myself more liberal, but extremism seen from many flat out lunatics can be very annoying. The city is also very white, but whether or not that is a good thing or a bad thing is up to you. Winter is brutal, and from november throughearly april the days are cold and overcast, but this place transforms during the summer months. Not many job opportunities. Traffic is only bad at rush hour, otherwise is nonexistant and very satisfying to commute. However, pedestrians don't wait for red lights to cross the street, and there's always some moron skateboarder or biker in the way of drivers.
Pros: beautiful beyond belief from may-october, friendly, safe, diverse social groups, great restaurants, grocery stores (both conventional and organic) nightlife, great schools and colleges, perfect size, light traffic
Cons: Winter, overcast days during late fall and winter, job opportunities, rent/housing costs, annoying nutcase political extremism, chronic unsafe jaywalking.
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vermont - 2/24/2008
beautiful summers, healthy, safe - but long winters and col is high[Comment on this Posting]
Beautiful state - 2/13/2008
Burlington is a great little college town; beautful lake surrounded by mountains. Winters are long in Vermont if you don't enjoy winter sports. Great state for those who like outdoor sports. Fall is my favorite season - absolutely gorgeous.[Comment on this Posting]
Overall - 9/8/2007
It's a lovely place to live, but too expensive for the average family. If you're single or living on public housing, you'll do fine. If you want to live on your own as a single income family-not so doable. Downtown Burlington is cozy and sweet. Lake access and marketplace access is wonderful as well as access to malls and chain stores. Lots of nice playgrounds. We will miss it when we move, but there's no way for us to afford living here without assistance.[Comment on this Posting]
Cold and gloomy - 7/30/2007
One more comment about this city.
It is very cold and there are long winters and cold springs and summers.
Burlington has some nice sections that look good, but there are many sections that look run down and not as nice. ALL of the roads are bad both from winter snowplowing and lack of upkeep.
The waterfront is nice and the Lake beautiful. It is expensive to live here, though and income is not sufficient to cover it.[Comment on this Posting]
Vermont living - 5/11/2007
I have lived in the burlington area 26 years/Belvidere 11yrs.Vermont is a very beautifull state.The crime rate isn't high and you don't have to afraid of having someone pull a knife on you in broad day light. You can drive a hour from the city to the country and moutains.Great place to rise kids but plan on both parents working fulltime.The average rent for a two bedroom apartment ,car port,pool,trash 925.00 per month and pay your own utilites.McDonalds,stores pay $8 hour,entry level hospital workers 8.87hr.KInd peole with rednecks in the country area.VERY Clean state.[Comment on this Posting]
Take a nice vacation in Vermont. But live somewhe - 4/18/2007
After living in Vermont for 15 years, the two things that motivate me to leave Vermont as soon as possible are the taxes and the politics. Vermont is one of the most heavily taxed states in the country. Recently CNN proclaimed it as the #1 most tax-unfriendly state. This issue by itself should provide reason for prospective retirees to RUN as far away from this state as fast as possible. It will suck so much of their hard-earned (and saved) money that early retirees will likely find themselves searching for post retirement employment just to stop the financial bleeding.
The insufferable tax burden is closely linked to the other issue: politics. Vermont attracts BY FAR the most wacky, liberal, out-of-the-mainstream spendthrift eco-nuts and socialists I've ever encountered. There is no program too expensive, no handout too large, for them to spend YOUR money on.
Other posts about the lousy weather and high cost of living are spot on. The scenery in Vermont is indeed beautiful. Here's a better piece of advice for retirees: Take a nice vacation in Vermont. But live somewhere else.[Comment on this Posting]
Too cold and gloomy... - 4/18/2007
in regard to comment by d of 4/08/2007...some of his/her comments are a bit of a stretch...burlington is by no means ugly, don't know what he/she is talking about in reference to robberies and trash, guess it depends on where in the city you live...on the other hand, being a native vermonter of 48 years, there is just not enough sun or warmth here, winter is about 4-5 months long...not a lot of employment opportunities here and the cost of living is high.[Comment on this Posting]


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EAST OTTO – Samantha J. Lilley, 28, of 7940 Mill St., East Otto was charged at 2:40 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 16 with third-degree assault. Lilley allegedly punched another party in an altercation causing injury to the other party, splitting both the upper and lower lips, and causing bleeding, swelling and pain. She was taken into custody, arraigned and taken to the Cattaraugus County Jail in lieu of $2,500 bail.
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When President Barack Obama helped launch the Open Government Partnership (OGP) last year, no one could have predicted that it would capture the imagination of the international community as it has. In just one year, 57 governments have joined OGP and made more than 300 specific commitments to be more open and responsive to their citizens. These commitments, as contained in National OGP Action Plans, will impact nearly two billion people around the world.
This is truly impressive progress, but it's not enough. And so, as we celebrate International Right to Know Day, we also celebrate the deepening commitment to open government -- both globally and within the United States. As the U.S. Government works to fulfill our own open government commitments, we are also working to make real the promise of OGP as a results-based partnership between governments and civil society.
At the same time, we remember that -- while commitments and Action Plans are important -- these commitments must also be met with action. That's why, as we embrace OGP's second year, we will be working with other governments and civil society organizations to ensure that all OGP governments are able to deliver on their promises. This is a tall but necessary task.
How will we achieve this? By deepening relationships with civil society, and getting a report card on progress through an international and independent review which will detail how we -- as governments -- are doing in implementing our OGP Action Plans.
OGP must continue to strengthen its ties with civil society. This is because, as British Prime Minister Cameron pointed out earlier this week at OGP's First Year Anniversary event in New York, OGP belongs to all of us -- both governments and citizens. A robust civil society is critical to making sure governments are responsive to the needs of their people.
Civil society engagement helps us ensure that governments know what is working -- and what isn't -- as they implement their Action Plans. As Rakesh Rajani -- the head of one of OGP's active civil society partners, Twaweza -- put it at the anniversary celebration, "the mark of success for OGP is not how many countries sign on, but how many commitments they deliver." To this end, OGP's new Independent Reporting Mechanism will also help ensure accountability, as it brings together objective policy experts to evaluate a government's progress and make recommendations for improvements.
For our part, we are moving forward to implement the 26 specific initiatives announced by President Obama in the U.S. Action Plan. They aim to increase public integrity, ensure effective management of our resources, and improve the way we deliver services. As just one example of progress to date, the United States launched "We the People" -- an online tool which makes it easier for citizens to launch and sign petitions directed at WhiteHouse.gov, directed to the U.S. Government. So far, more than 3 million people have signed nearly 50,000 petitions, enthusiastically endorsing their interest in making direct requests for government action. Last month, we also fulfilled another OGP commitment by making this technology available for other governments to use. And just this week, the White House fulfilled another OGP commitment to increase transparency in foreign aid, by instructing all federal agencies in the United States to publish data on the Foreign Assistance Dashboard regarding the foreign assistance they provide.
These steps, taken within the framework of OGP and our fundamental belief in a citizens' right to know, underscore our firm commitment to promote openness and transparency in government. After all, that's what OGP is all about. Not just enlisting partners and obtaining commitments, but leading by example and helping build societies that are more open, more just, and more prosperous.
For more information on OGP, please visit www.opengovpartnership.org or follow @opengovpart on Twitter.
W.W. writes:
OGP is a great proposal but it is still an illusion today as per the kind of democracy delivered -- West is still under a great tyranny which must end.
For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence -- on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations.
Roosevelt in Haiti writes:
That's a very good global idea. How can I know if my government from Haiti is among these 57? Please,let me know.
Mari in the U.S.A. writes:
How is this initiative to be reconciled with the Obama administration's well-known and unprecedented persecution of "whistle-blowers"? What does the DOS have to say about the Bradley Manning case? You know the saying, "Sauce for the goose, sauce for the gander"?


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Rogers and Bell: Running the Toronto Maple Leafs Like a Business (Update 1)
Updated from 7:58 a.m. Jan. 11, 2013 with Brian Burke's reaction to firing.
NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- Shortly after the National Hockey League lockout ended, the league's most valuable franchise fired its President and General Manager. The Toronto Maple Leafs ousted Brian Burke.
Shock over "the timing" of the decision colored consensus across the hockey media, even in Canada. As a Leafs fan, who likes Burke, I was hardly surprised. With Rogers Communications (RCI) and BCE (BCE) (formerly Bell Canada) now in charge of the club, the move, while not expected, certainly didn't come out of nowhere.
Toronto Star sports columnist Damien Cox got it (pretty much) right ( read the column at The Star's Web site ):
Burke got the axe Wednesday morning because Bell
President and CEOGeorge Cope, after months of campaigning for Burke's dismissal, finally wore out the Rogers suits and Leafs minority ownerLarry Tanenbaum ... Cope didn't like Burke's style, his manners, his profanity, his lifestyle.
Big shocker! A corporate suit like Cope doesn't care much for a crude Irishman who, rumor has it, likes to have a drink every now and then ( cough, cough, wink, wink ). Burke's a loose cannon. That's not going to fly when Rogers and Bell own 75% of Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment .
Despite getting that part right, Cox showed ignorance vis-a-vis the Rogers-Bell relationship:
This is the first really big sports decision undertaken by the partnership of Bell and Rogers that now controls Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment. Not only was it done in such a way that should make Leaf fans very worried, it may also be an indication why this corporate partnership of media rivals is destined not to last.
Rivals. I love it!
Rogers and Bell are rivals like Apple (AAPL) and Amazon.com (AMZN) are mortal enemies .
Loose similarities actually exist between the two sets of partners the media likes to hysterically paint as foes. You know the deal with Apple and Amazon. They both make hardware. They both provide excellent user experiences via smart and seamless ecosystems. And they scratch each other's backs feverishly.
Apple devices dominate mobile e-commerce traffic. A significant chunk of that activity, if not a vast majority, happens in the Amazon online store. The numbers from the holiday period clearly support this contention.
Things might be even more symbiotic between Rogers and Bell. The two companies simply have to act like "rivals" to keep regulators off their tails. They both want the same thing from their joint ownership of MLSE and every other area they nearly monopolize in Canada -- mobile, cable/satellite, media -- you name it.
Leafs fans should be thrilled that Rogers and Bell control the team now. We might finally make the playoffs. Yes, "we." I'm a fan. Have been for a while. In fact, I just put a new profile picture up on Twitter ( check it out! ). This one just missed the cut. Cramer didn't like it:


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Mitchell, Joseph
Joseph Mitchell 1908–1996
American journalist and nonfiction and fiction writer.
A leading staff writer at the New Yorker magazine for over half a century, Mitchell became well known for his stories and sketches about a variety of eccentric and bizarre people he met while exploring New York City. Uninterested in the city's elite and famous and their activities, Mitchell preferred to write about the people and places of Harlem, Greenwich Village, the Bowery, and New York harbor. The subjects of his profiles are mainly oddballs and misfits, many of them homeless, who exist on the fringes of mainstream society—gypsies, drunks, bums, street preachers, strippers, panhandlers, carnies, clammers, oystermen. At the height of his creativity, from the late 1930s to the mid-1960s, Mitchell published five collections of his writings, all of which were enthusiastically received by critics and the public. Many critics labeled Mitchell the best reporter in the country in his chosen field, remarking upon his exceptional skills as an interviewer, photographic representation of his characters and their speech, deadpan humor, and graceful, unadorned prose style. These features of Mitchell's writing, combined with his respect and compassion for his subjects and his exploration of the themes of mortality, change, and the past, have led many commentators to credit Mitchell with transforming the craft of reporting into an art.
Biographical Information
Mitchell was raised on his family's cotton and tobacco farm in Fairmont, North Carolina. He enrolled at the University of North Carolina in 1925, leaving four years later without a degree to pursue a career as a journalist in New York City, with the ultimate aim of becoming a political correspondent. His first job was as a police reporter for the New York World. Initially assigned to the Brooklyn precinct, he was quickly transferred first to a district on the west side of Manhattan and then to Harlem. Although Mitchell stayed at the World for just a few months, his job there had an important influence on his career. It was while working the night shift in Harlem that Mitchell discovered his niche as a writer. He disliked writing crime stories, but he found life in Harlem fascinating; even when he was off duty, he would walk the streets, talking with the many unusual people he encountered. After leaving the World, Mitchell worked briefly for the New York Herald Tribune, where he began to write about the people he had met in Harlem. Later, as a feature interviewer for the New York World-Telegram from 1931 to 1938, he specialized in writing about New York City's eccentric and obscure. Most of the forty articles included in Mitchell's first book, My Ears Are Bent (1938), were reprinted from the Herald Tribune and World-Telegram, but the collection also contains some pieces that first appeared in the New Yorker, where Mitchell worked from 1938 until shortly before his death from cancer on May 24, 1996.
Major Works
As its title indicates, My Ears Are Bent is comprised of articles about people who talked to Mitchell at length about their lives. In one portion of the book, Mitchell writes, "I have been tortured by some of the fanciest ear-benders in the world … and I have long since lost the ability to detect insanity." Among the people profiled in My Ears Are Bent are members of the United Fan, Bubble, and Specialty Dancers of America; a buxom blond Jewish woman who runs a dime movie theater in the Bowery and looks after the neighborhood drunks; an accomplished pickpocket; a man who sells racing cockroaches to the wealthy; and a lady boxer who claims to be a countess. Mitchell's subject matter and technique changed very little over the course of his career. Although he became increasingly interested in the activities on New York's waterfront and the old men who spent their time there, he continued to portray mainly loners, down-and-outers, and freaks. Few of Mitchell's characters are happy; some have had bad luck, others have succumbed to temptation, and many are old-timers whose lifestyles are threatened by progress and technology. Yet despite adversity, they fight to survive, aided in their struggle by their appreciation of life's absurdities and their enjoyment of simple pleasures, especially hearty eating and drinking, one of Mitchell's own frequent pastimes. Mitchell's approach to his work is objective and factual. He records detail upon detail about his subjects in simple, straight-forward prose, and he allows his characters to speak for themselves, never passing judgment. He is equally precise when describing his favorite New York City landmarks. One of these was New York's oldest bar, McSorley's Old Ale House, which supplied Mitchell with the title for his second book, McSorley's Wonderful Saloon (1943). A collection of twenty stories and sketches, McSorley's, like all of Mitchell's later books, consists entirely of material that first appeared in the New Yorker. In the first piece in McSorley's, "The Old House at Home," Mitchell describes the atmosphere and clientele of the bar, relishing the fact that neither have changed much since the establishment's founding in 1854. Located on East Seventh Street near the edge of the Bowery, McSorley's is a men-only, working-class saloon. Cobwebs hang from the ceiling, gas lamps supply the only lighting, and there is no cash register—patrons drop coins in soup bowls to pay for their mugs of beer. "The Old House at Home" contrasts sharply with another sketch in McSorley's, "Obituary of a Gin Mill," in which Mitchell relates how Dick's Bar and Grill, a rowdy, low-class saloon, loses its charm and character when the owner moves it to a new location and equips it with chrome bar stools, a neon sign, and a mahogany bar. Other pieces in McSorley's are devoted to an array of New York personalities, including Cockeye Johnny Nikanov, a self-proclaimed leader of thirty-eight gypsy families with a five-quart-a-week gin habit; Jane Burnell, a bearded lady who travels with the freak shows; and Commodore Dutch, who subsists on the proceeds from an annual ball he gives for his own benefit. Mitchell's third book, Old Mr. Flood (1948), which he described as "stories of fish-eating, whiskey, death and rebirth," is unique among his writings because it deals with a fictional character. Hugh G. Flood, a ninety-three-year-old widower who believes he can live to be 115 by maintaining a strict diet of fresh fish untainted by modern chemicals, is a composite of several old men Mitchell met at the Fulton Fish Market. Mr. Flood and his aged friends are preoccupied with thoughts of death and the past, which to them was infinitely better that the present because of its simplicity, yet they pursue life with gusto, taking comfort in telling tall tales and overindulging in food and liquor. The theme of the past is also an important element in Mitchell's fourth book, The Bottom of the Harbor (1960). The six articles collected in The Bottom of the Harbor are entirely concerned with the waters around New York and the people who live and work nearby. Most of the people in these articles are old men, whose memories provide the reader with a history of New York as a seaport and its old fishing families. In one of the pieces, Mitchell describes what is literally at the bottom of the harbor; in another, he recounts a visit with one of the oldest surviving members of a nineteenth-century black village on Staten Island. The most frequently discussed piece in the collection, "Up in the Old Hotel," finds Mitchell at a waterfront fish restaurant, Sloppy Louie's, which is just across the street from the Fulton Fish Market. As Mitchell eats, the proprietor, Louie Morino, talks to him, and the two eventually decide to explore the four abandoned floors above the restaurant, the former site of the Fulton Ferry Hotel. Mitchell's next book, Joe Gould's Secret (1965), chronicles the life of a derelict bohemian eccentric who was well known in Greenwich Village from the 1920s to the 1940s. Gould, a member of the Harvard graduating class of 1911, crashed parties, sponged drinks at bars by imitating the cries of sea gulls, and claimed to be writing a book called An Oral History of Our Time that was eleven times longer than the Bible. Mitchell first profiled Gould in a 1942 New Yorker piece entitled "Professor Sea Gull," which was the outcome of several lengthy interviews during which Gould cadged large quantities of gin and beer. After the appearance of this article, Gould hounded Mitchell, going so far as to use Mitchell's office as his mailing address. Exasperated by Gould's endless gabbing about himself and his legendary book, only a few paragraphs of which Gould had allowed anyone to see, Mitchell made repeated attempts to locate the manuscript of Gould's oral history. When Mitchell confronted Gould with his suspicion that the book did not really exist, Gould dropped out of his life and eventually ended up in a psychiatric hospital. Mitchell exposed Gould as a fraud in two New Yorker articles that ran in 1964, which, along with the 1942 profile, make up the contents of Joe Gould's Secret. Mitchell published no new material after the appearance of Joe Gould's Secret, although he continued to go to work at the New Yorker until shortly before his death. During these years, Mitchell closely guarded his privacy, avoiding interviews and refusing to allow his books to be reissued. However, he finally agreed to be anthologized, and in 1992 Pantheon Books brought out Up in the Old Hotel, a compendium of Mitchell's New Yorker writings including McSorley's, Old Mr. Flood, The Bottom of the Harbor, Joe Gould's Secret, and seven additional pieces. Modern Library editions of The Bottom of the Harbor (1994) and Joe Gould's Secret (1996) have since followed.
Critical Reception
By the time Up in the Old Hotel appeared, Mitchell's books had long been out of print. Welcomed by both die-hard New Yorker fans and readers unacquainted with Mitchell's writings, Up in the Old Hotel made it to the New York Times best-seller list. It was also widely reviewed in newspapers and magazines, where Mitchell was once again praised for his ear for dialogue and eye for detail, genuine interest in the lives of his subjects, and rhythmic, simple prose. Many commentators credited him with pioneering a new type of "literary journalism" that served as a model for later generations of nonfiction writers. Most critics of Up in the Old Hotel questioned why Mitchell had not published anything new for so many years. Some speculated that he had developed writer's block as a result of being hoodwinked by Gould. Others concluded that he had been deprived of his subject matter, noting that Mitchell's innocent world of lovable drunks and bums no longer existed. Mitchell offered his own explanation in a 1992 interview: "The city changed on me…. I can't seem to get anything finished anymore. The hideous state the world is in just defeats the kind of writing I used to do." Like the subjects of many of his profiles, Mitchell felt threatened by change and was saddened by the passage of time and the demise of long-standing traditions. While critics have remarked that the tone of Mitchell's writings became increasingly nostalgic, they also emphasize that Mitchell's melancholy is tempered by his earthy sense of humor and obvious delight in making new discoveries about New York. His writings are a testament to his insatiable interest in the city. As Noel Perrin observed, "Mitchell described the life and even the very soul of New York as perhaps no one else ever has."
Principal Works
My Ears Are Bent (nonfiction) 1938
McSorley's Wonderful Saloon (nonfiction) 1943
Old Mr. Flood (fiction) 1948
The Bottom of the Harbor (nonfiction) 1960
Joe Gould's Secret (nonfiction) 1965
Up in the Old Hotel (nonfiction and fiction) 1992
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Robert Van Gelder (review date 23 January 1938)
SOURCE: "Some Talk That Bent a Reporter's Ears," in The New York Times Book Review, January 23, 1938, p. 5.
[In the following review of My Ears Are Bent, Van Gelder describes the types of people Mitchell most liked to interview.]
Mr. Mitchell is a sort of Stephen Crane of this generation's newspaper city rooms, a somber athlete with an exceptional writing talent who finds Harlem and the lower East Side the most interesting localities in town. The book's title [My Ears Are Bent] is his comment on the listening he has been obliged by his trade of daily newspaper interviewer to go through. He has become a connoisseur of talk and holds that the best talk is...
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Otis Ferguson (review date 2 March 1938)
SOURCE: "About People," in The New Republic, Vol. LXXXXIV, No. 1213, March 2, 1938, pp. 108-09.
[In the following essay, Ferguson comments on Mitchell's creative approach to feature writing.]
There are hundreds of fancy feature writers scattered through the newspaper business, but few of them ever show up as the creative people they hope to be (sufficient unto the day is the newsprint thereof). Joseph Mitchell is an exception, that writer's mirage of a man who can cover an angle of the news neither inspiring in itself nor congenital to him, get the stuff in for the home edition, and still be able to collect it for a second or third reading.
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Malcolm Cowley (review date 26 July 1943)
SOURCE: "The Grammar of Facts," in The New Republic, Vol. 109, No. 4, July 26, 1943, pp. 113-14.
[In the following review of McSorley's Wonderful Saloon, Cowley comments on Mitchell's style, which he considers factual and repertorial.]
In his own somewhat narrow field, which is that of depicting curious characters, Joseph Mitchell is the best reporter in the country. Some of his favorite subjects are Bowery angels, barflies, small-time Broadway sports, coffee-pot poets and Calypso singers. He writes about them with more sympathy and factual precision than you will find in the recent biographies of any famous authors or statesmen. In his new book, McSorley's...
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William S. Lynch (review date 31 July 1943)
SOURCE: "Raw Onions and No Ladies," in Saturday Review of Literature, Vol. XXVI, No. 31, July 31, 1943, p. 20.
[In the following review of McSorley's Wonderful Saloon, Lynch praises Mitchell for his powers of observation and description, and especially for his compassion for his subjects.]
A good saloon can be a lovely thing. The place where a man can join his fellows in free and easy camaraderie over a mug of ale or a pony of whiskey is an institution that deserves the literary and artistic recognition that so frequently it gets. New York has its share of such places, and they are not the chromium-plated cocktail bars of the post-Prohibition drinking age....
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Stanley Walker (review date 1 August 1943)
SOURCE: "Historian of Queer—Not 'Little'—People," in New York Tribune Weekly Book Review, Vol. 19, No. 49, August 1, 1943, p. 5.
[In the following review of McSorley's Wonderful Saloon, Walker ranks Mitchell as the best writer in his field, which Walker labels "low-life biography."]
Joseph Mitchell is pretty generally accepted as the ablest practitioner of low-life biography, a field in which many talented writers have operated over the last few years. It has been said that he "must be about the best interviewer in the world," which may be true, although "interviewer" is not precisely the word. He is psychographer, historian and an extraordinarily acute...
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Time (review date 2 August 1943)
SOURCE: "Bowery Botanist," in Time, Vol. XLII, No. 5, August 2, 1943, pp. 98, 100.
[In the following review of McSorley's Wonderful Saloon, the critic describes the atmosphere of the bar and supplies thumbnail sketches of three of the people profiled in the book.]
Joseph Mitchell is as gloomy as only a humorist can be. For years he has been studying, with the prying patience of a botanist, the queer human weeds he finds growing in the dingier interstices of Manhattan's bum-littered Bowery. But Mitchell is saddened when readers of The New Yorker, Esquire and other magazines chuckle at the results of his researches, these 20 profiles and stories, now...
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Jerome Mellquist (review date 14 August 1943)
SOURCE: "Mitchell's Wonderful McSorley," in The Nation, Vol. 157, No. 7, August 14, 1943, p. 190.
[In the following essay, Mellquist likens the sketches and stories in McSorley's Wonderful Saloon to genre paintings.]
Genre paintings resemble feature stories. They take a mellow, or raffish, or appetizing area of life and memorialize it by the affection they have for their subject. Too often, unfortunately, they remain ephemeral, registering but a moment of warmth. But John Sloan's painting of McSorley's, an old bar on East Seventh Street, in New York, is still remembered. And other painters, though somewhat less impressively, have also inscribed their affection...
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George Conrad (review date 24 October 1948)
SOURCE: "Fish Every Day," in New York Herald Tribune Weekly Book Review, Vol. 25, No. 10, October 24, 1948, p. 20.
[In the following essay, Conrad judges Old Mr. Flood to be an accurate representation of a rapidly disappearing phase of Manhattan life.]
As a reporter of the New York scene whose integrity equals his human insight and his admirable command of a disciplined prose that is never loosely journalistic or falsely literary, Joseph Mitchell informs his readers that this portrait of Mr. Flood [in Old Mr. Flood] is not one man but the composite of several venerable Fulton Fish. Market habitues. His purpose has been to make the stories "truthful rather...
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Horace Sutton (review date 20 November 1948)
SOURCE: "Fish Fan," in Saturday Review of Literature, Vol. XXXI, No. 47, November 20, 1948, p. 18.
[In the following review of Old Mr. Flood, Sutton commends Mitchell for faithfully capturing the atmosphere of the Fulton Fish Market.]
Never let it be said that Mr. Joseph Mitchell is a social climber, that he hobnobs with the aristocracy, rubs elbows with mink. Firsthe spent ten or more nights in a barroom and came up with a fine book called McSorley's Wonderful Saloon. I was in McSorley's Old Ale House on East Seventh Street once and, believe me, I'm glad I got back uptown with my whole hide.
And just where do you think Mr. Mitchell has...
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Brooks Atkinson (review date 24 April 1960)
SOURCE: "The City's Dockside," in The New York Times Book Review, April 24, 1960, pp. 3, 36.
[In the following essay, Atkinson praises The Bottom of the Harbor as both literature and as a travel guide.]
Since Joseph Mitchell is an unselfconscious writer, readers of The Bottom of the Harbor are never distracted from the subject matter of his book. He is discussing and describing the natural phenomena of the waters around New York—fish, clams, oysters and lobsters, and the natives who are equally indigenous.
Occasionally Mr. Mitchell, author of McSorley's Wonderful Saloon and other books, appears in his pages as the man talked to...
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Bennett Epstein (review date 8 May 1960)
SOURCE: "All Around This Area with J. Mitchell," in New York Herald Tribune Book Review, Vol. 36, No. 40, May 8, 1960, p. 4.
[In the following review of The Bottom of the Harbor, Epstein considers the influence of Mitchell's prose style on his profiles of his subjects.]
Half a dozen stories which appeared in The New Yorker from 1944 to 1959 make up the latest volume [The Bottom of the Harbor] designed to give a longer lease of life than guaranteed by ephemeral magazine covers to some of its articles. Few of them have been worthier than Joseph Mitchell's of preservation.
The author of McSorley's Wonderful Saloon has poked...
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Harry C. Kenney (review date 12 May 1960)
SOURCE: "Waterfront Metropolis," in The Christian Science Monitor, Vol. 52, No. 142, May 12, 1960, p. 86.
[In the following review of The Bottom of the Harbor, Kenney applauds Mitchell for giving readers a chance to experience the sights, sounds, smells, and noises of New York harbor.]
Much of New York is exposed to view by its mighty sky-piercing buildings, its snarled traffic on the broad avenues, the roar of subways; the shifting of great greyhounds of the sea in the busy harbor; and even fishing in Central Park and sun browsing on the steps of the public library on Fifth Avenue.
But Joseph Mitchell, in The Bottom of the Harbor, has...
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Noel Perrin (essay date Spring 1983)
SOURCE: "Paragon of Reporters: Joseph Mitchell," in The Sewanee Review, Vol. XCI, No. 2, Spring, 1983, pp. 167-84.
[In the following essay, Perrin provides a detailed summary of Mitchell's career, attempting to show the development of his craft and the means by which he transformed reporting into an art.]
There are, at a generous estimate, about a dozen North Carolinians who belong to American literature. That's not meant as a slur. There are states, my own included, where you'd be hard pressed to find five. North Carolina has Thomas Wolfe, of course. And it has O. Henry and Charles Chesnutt—the first important black novelist this country ever produced—and...
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Roy Blount, Jr. (review date August 1992)
SOURCE: "Joe Mitchell's Secret," in The Atlantic, Vol. 270, No. 2, August, 1992, pp. 97-9.
[In the following review of Up in the Old Hotel, Blount suggests reasons for Mitchell's decision to stop publishing after 1965, focusing on his experiences with Joe Gould.]
If I could play around with time, I would make myself alive and literate on that week in 1940 when I could flip suspensefully through the latest New Yorker (whose table of contents in those days was minimal), come upon a piece titled "Lady Olga," savor its first sentence ("Jane Barnell occasionally considers herself an outcast and feels that there is something vaguely shameful about the way she...
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Malcolm Jones, Jr. (review date 10 August 1992)
SOURCE: "The Paragon of Reporters," in Newsweek, Vol. CXX, No. 6, August 10, 1992, pp. 53-4.
[In the following essay, Jones briefly summarizes Mitchell's career, discussing his style, the subjects of his profiles, and his association with the New Yorker.]
One recent balmy summer afternoon, Joseph Mitchell stood in the middle of New York's Fulton Fish Market and grinned like a schoolboy playing hooky. "As soon as I came down here in the '30s as a reporter, I felt at home," he said. Over a half century later, he is still prowling the market's cobbled streets. "It's so exciting, with the colors, the smells, the noise as the background to all that trading," he said. "Most...
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Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg (review date 14 August 1992)
SOURCE: "His Ears Are Bent on Hearing Talk of Town," in The Wall Street Journal (Eastern Edition), Vol. CCXX, No. 33, August 14, 1992, p. A8.
[In the following essay, Trachtenberg briefly describes the contents of the four books included in Up in the Old Hotel.]
As media circles buzz over the naming of high-voltage Tina Brown to the top post at The New Yorker, Pantheon has released a collection of the best works of Joseph Mitchell, a New Yorker persona of a far more diffident stripe.
So shy was he that the author's photo for Mr. Mitchell's first book, My Ears Are Bent (1938), showed him seated on a couch, a newspaper covering his...
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John Schulian (review date 16 August 1992)
SOURCE: A review of Up in the Old Hotel, in Los Angeles Times Book Review, August 16, 1992, pp. 1, 8.
[In the following essay, Schulian uses the publication of Up in the Old Hotel as an opportunity to express his long-standing appreciation for Mitchell's work.]
Getting hit on the head with a dead cow isn't necessarily a bad thing. Provided, of course, that you survive the experience, it can heighten your appreciation for the absurdities of life as well as for the people who revel in them. For the stalwart bearded lady and the saloon keeper who closes up because the joint's too crowded and the ticket taker who brags that nobody ever got fleas in her Bowery...
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Verlyn Klinkenborg (review date 16 August 1992)
SOURCE: "This Was New York. It Was," in The New York Times Book Review, Vol. XCVII, No. 33, August 16, 1992, p. 7.
[In the following review of Up in the Old Hotel, Klinkenborg emphasizes the historical value of Mitchell's writings.]
There were many great eaters at The New Yorker in the 1940's, but surely the magazine's greatest eaters of that decade were A. J. Liebling and Joseph Mitchell. Their tastes differed. Liebling loved French food, as it was served in France before and between the world wars. He could describe a meal as if it were a procession of wise old courtesans. Joseph Mitchell had—perhaps still has, for he is 82 years old and divides his...
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Luc Sante (essay date 5 October 1992)
SOURCE: "Heard on the Street," in The New Republic, Vol. 207, No. 15, October 5, 1992, pp. 43-6.
[In the following essay, Sante describes the distinguishing features of Mitchell's stories and sketches, commenting on his characters, themes, and prose style. Sante also compares Mitchell's career to that of A. J. Liebling, his closest colleague at the New Yorker, and discusses the author's relationship with Joe Gould.]
The title of this omnibus edition of Joseph Mitchell's books (four out of five of them) [Up in the Old Hotel] was an apt choice: it is both mysterious and deceptively cozy, and the 1952 piece from which it derives epitomizes a great deal about...
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William Zinsser (essay date Winter 1993)
SOURCE: "Journeys with Joseph Mitchell," in The American Scholar, Winter, 1993, pp. 132-33, 136-38.
[In the following essay, Zinsser assesses the enduring worth of each of the four books collected in Up in the Old Hotel, basing his judgments on both Mitchell's technique and subject matter.]
Every now and then, seeking to rid my thoughts of death and doom, I get up early and go down to Fulton Street Fish Market. I usually arrive around five-thirty, and take a walk through the two huge open-fronted market sheds, the Old Market and the New Market, whose fronts rest on South Street and whose backs rest on piles in the East River. At that time, a...
(The entire section is 3788 words.)
Joe Mysak (review date February 1993)
SOURCE: A review of Up in the Old Hotel, in The American Spectator, Vol. 26, No. 2, February, 1993, pp. 62-3.
[In the following review, Mysak welcomes the publication of Up in the Old Hotel and briefly describes the subjects of some of Mitchell's best-known stories.]
Joseph Mitchell, now 84, is the last of those great New Yorker writers of the magazine's heyday. Most of us got to know him through Brendan Gill's Here at The New Yorker, in which Gill profiled all the magazine's great stylists—White, Thurber, Benchley, Liebling, Gibbs, McNulty, Maloney, Edmund Wilson—and putMitchell at the top of the list. Up in the Old Hotel...
(The entire section is 1188 words.)
Richard Severo (essay date 25 May 1996)
SOURCE: "Joseph Mitchell, Chronicler of the Unsung and the Unconventional, Dies at 87," in The New York Times, May 25, 1996, p. 12.
[In the following obituary, Severo provides an overview of Mitchell's career.]
Joseph Mitchell, whose stories about ordinary people created extraordinary journalism in the pages of The New Yorker, died of cancer yesterday at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in Manhattan. He was 87 and lived in Manhattan.
At the height of his creative powers, from the 1930's to the mid-60's, Mr. Mitchell tended to avoid the standard fare of journalists: interviews with moguls, tycoons, movie stars and captains of industry....
(The entire section is 2208 words.)
Further Reading
Epstein, Joseph. "Joe Gould's Masterpiece." The New Republic 153, No. 17 (23 October 1965): 26-7, 30.
Provides a brief sketch of Joe Gould's life and describes the circumstances surrounding the composition of Joe Gould's Secret.
―――――――. "Talk of the Town." The Times Literary Supplement, No. 4666 (4 September 1992): 6-8.
Discusses Mitchell's work in terms of the changing editors at the New Yorker, explains his failure to publish anything in the magazine for over twenty years, and compares his style to that of A. J. Liebling....
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December 14, 2013
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LAWTON, Okla. — Junior forward Taylor Smith led five Henderson State players in double figures with 20 points, including 4-of-4 from 3-point range, and the Reddies pulled away late for an 89-82 men's basketball victory over Eastern New Mexico University on Saturday in a game played at Cameron University.
Senior guard Melvin Haynes added 16 points off the bench, including two 3-pointers midway through the second half that helped turned the tide for Henderson State (5-5). Smith, Haynes and freshman guard Kevin Kozan, who added 14 points, were a combined 12-of-16 from long range for the Reddies.
For ENMU (4-4), senior guard Rodney Blackmon poured in a career-high 29 points, including 5-of-7 3-pointers, while senior forward Cornelius Cammock added 18 points on 6-of-9 shooting off the bench.
Senior forward D.J. Hardwell finished with 14 points and a team-high six rebounds, and senior guard Rafael Love scored 12 points for the Hounds.
Henderson State, which came in having lost three in a row at home by a combined four points, sprinted to an early 8-0 lead. The Reddies led 26-14 with 11 1/2 minutes to go in the half before the Hounds erupted for 40 points the rest of the period to take a 54-49 halftime advantage.
The Hounds maintained a lead of between three and six points until Haynes tied it 68-68 with a 3-pointer at the 11:35 mark. Haynes then added another trey to give Henderson State a one-point lead, and a layup by 6-foot-8 junior Ronald Lawson put HSU in front for good 73-71 with 7:20 remaining.
The Reddies shot 56 percent from the field (27-of-48), including 13-of-19 from long distance. The Hounds hit 8-of-19 from beyond the arc and shot 48 percent overall from the floor.
Senior guard Aaron Harwell had 13 points for HSU, while freshman guard Kevin Kozan finished with 12.
ENMU plays its final game before the break on Wednesday against Azuza Pacific at Azuza, Calif.


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Genealogy, local history and historical research in New England and other interesting places. Nutfield was the former land grant ................................. that is now the towns of Londonderry, Derry and Windham, New Hampshire.
Thursday, January 9, 2014
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What a fun idea!
I want to let you know that your blog post is listed in today's Fab Finds post at http://janasgenealogyandfamilyhistory.blogspot.com/2014/01/follow-friday-fab-finds-for-january-10.html
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Big Boss Sausage, Mari Byrd perform six local shows
Big Boss Sausage and Mari Byrd will perform six shows in four days during the final weekend of the Saranac Lake Winter Carnival celebration.
On Thursday, both acts will be at Steinhoff's Sportsmans Inn in Wilmington. The show starts at 4:30 p.m. On Friday, the bands will be performing at Captain Cook's in Saranac Lake. for a 4 p.m. happy hour slot. That evening, the groups will trek down to 20 Main in AuSable Forks for a 10 p.m. stint. The Cloudspin Lounge at Whiteface Mountain will host the groups on Saturday at 3 p.m., followed by a return to Captain Cook's that night for a 9 p.m. bash. On Sunday, there will be a grand finale at the Lake Placid Pub and Brewery.
Big Boss Sausage has shared the stage with Arlo Guthrie, Mountain, Charlie Daniels, David Johansen and Uncle Floyd. Their live shows have been entertaining audiences nationwide for more than 15 years. More than 1,495 radio stations are currently hip to the band's single, "Just Say No Thank You."
Mari Byrd's acoustic style, voice and song writing skills compliment Big Boss's show.
Big Boss Sausage has made the Saranac Lake Winter Carnival a stop on their tour for the past 14 years. Big Boss also participates in the parade by showcasing their strange and somewhat zany floats.
Steinhoff's Sportsmans Inn is located at 5570 state Route 86 in Wilmington. Captain Cook's is located at 65 Broadway in Saranac Lake. Whiteface Mountain is located at 5021 state Route 86 in Wilmington, 20 Main is located at 20 Main St., AuSable Forks. Lake Placid Pub and Brewery is located at 813 Mirror Lake Drive, Lake Placid.
For more information on the musicians, visit www.bigbosssausage.com. and www.maribyrd.com.


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The two associations, representing credit unions in their respective state and country, have been working together to restore and build the non-profit cooperative financial system in Estonia. In their most significant step toward that goal, they joined with information technology company, Mindware, three Estonian credit cooperatives, and two individuals to form the Baltic Services Company.
This new company's mission will be to establish a clearing system to provide credit cooperatives in Estonia, and possibly elsewhere, with access to the central banking system in Eastern Europe. With such access, credit cooperatives will be better positioned to offer checking, ATM and card services, and eventually expand into online banking.
Valdov praised the group for its vision and committed that the new company will provide services essential to the growth and future viability of Estonia's credit cooperatives.
Ristkok has arranged a Baltic summit for June 22, where the leaders of credit cooperatives in Latvia and Lithuania will meet to discuss joining the Baltic Services Company.
Estonia's small, but growing, credit cooperative system presented the technology plan that led to the Baltic Services Company during a visit to Virginia last year . Representatives of Estonian credit cooperatives noted that access to Eastern Europe's central banking system was essential if they were to compete against the Scandinavian banks that currently dominate the Estonian market.
Members of the Virginia League's Partnership Committee are visiting Estonia this week for a series of meetings on the Baltic Services Company; partnership initiatives between credit cooperatives in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania; and on-site visits to four Estonian credit cooperatives.
The Virginia Credit Union League and the Estonian Union of Credit Cooperatives have been partnered since 2008 through the World Council of Credit Unions' International Partnerships Program, which brings together credit union movements from around the world to exchange ideas and technical expertise with the goal of building stronger institutions for the benefit of their members.
Estonia has a proud credit union history, with the first financial cooperatives having been founded in 1902, pre-dating the American movement. At its height in 1939, the Estonian movement boasted 184 financial cooperatives and had a 52% market share. After the Soviets occupied the nation in 1940, credit unions were abolished. During Perestroika, credit unions were again legalized, and the first new Estonian credit union was formed in 1990. At present, the nation boasts 18 credit cooperatives, which hold $16 million (U.S. dollars) in shares.


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GAO has reported that several major agencies spent over $300 billion from fiscal year 2004 through fiscal year 2008 on contracts that included monetary incentives known as award fees. The purpose of these incentives is to motivate enhanced contractor performance. In 2005, however, GAO found that the Department of Defense (DOD) paid billions of dollars in award fees regardless of acquisition outcomes. In 2007, GAO found significant disconnects between program results and fees paid at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. In 2009, GAO reported that five agencies had paid more than $6 billion in award fees, but were not consistently following award fee guidance and did not have methods for evaluating the effectiveness of an award fee as a tool for improving contractor performance.
GAO has identified three primary issues related to the use of award fees that, if addressed, could improve the use of these incentives and produce savings. Specifically, (1) award fees are not always linked to acquisition outcomes, (2) award fee payments are made despite unsatisfactory contract performance, and (3) contractors have been permitted to earn previously unearned award fees in subsequent evaluation periods, a practice known as "rollover," where unearned award fees are transferred from one evaluation period to a subsequent period, thus allowing contractors additional opportunities to earn previously unearned fees. GAO has made recommendations to address these issues, several of which have been reflected in revised Office of Management and Budget (OMB) guidance and in amendments to the Federal Acquisition Regulation, effective October 2010. The key to improving the use of these fees, however, will be whether agencies change their practices to conform to the revised policies.
Although required by OMB guidance since 2007, GAO reported in 2009 that award fees were not always linked to acquisition outcomes. But when efforts are made to do so, savings can be achieved. For example, the Joint Strike Fighter program created metrics for areas such as software performance, warfighter capability, and cost control that were previously assessed using less-defined criteria. By using metrics to assess performance, the Joint Strike Fighter program paid an estimated $29 million less in fees in the 2 years since the policy changed than it might have when applying the former criteria.
As GAO previously reported, OMB guidance directed agencies to ensure that no award fee should be paid for performance that does not meet contract requirements or is judged to be unsatisfactory. GAO found in practice the guidance was not always followed. Specifically, GAO reported in 2009 that programs across the agencies reviewed used evaluation tools that could allow contractors to earn award fees without performing at a level that is acceptable to the government under the terms of the contract. For example, a Department of Energy research contract allowed the contractor to earn up to 84 percent of the award fee for performance that was defined as not meeting expectations. In addition, GAO found two Department of Health and Human Services contracts, including a contract for Medicare claims processing, in which it was possible for the contractor to receive at least 49 percent of the award fee for unsatisfactory performance. Some programs within DOD, by contrast, have prohibited award fee payments for unsatisfactory performance. For example, GAO found that the Air Force saved $10 million on a contract for a satellite program by not paying an award fee to a contractor with unsatisfactory performance.
DOD guidance on award fees since 2006 has been that the practice of rollover should be limited to exceptional circumstances to avoid compromising the integrity of the award fee process. GAO found that based on contracts reviewed in 2005, DOD rolled over an average of 51 percent of the total unearned fees. For example, the contractor for the F-22 Raptor received over 90 percent of the award fee, including fee paid in subsequent evaluation periods, even though the program's cost and schedule targets had to be revised 14 times. By later limiting rollover, GAO estimated in 2009 that DOD would saveover $450 million on 8 programs from April 2006 through October 2010. A DOD Inspector General report in 2010, however, indicates that rollover is still being used. The recent amendments to the Federal Acquisition Regulation now prohibit rollover of unearned award fees.
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Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration Eric P. Schwartz and USAID Assistant Administrator for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance Nancy Lindborg are traveling in Tunisia from March 8-10, to review the humanitarian relief efforts to assist those fleeing the Libyan conflict.
Since Libya's civil unrest began in February, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) estimates that 200,000 third-country nationals have fled from the violence into Tunisia and Egypt. The United States is deeply engaged in the international effort -- which includes other countries, international organizations (IOs) and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) -- to respond, and is providing $30 million for the humanitarian needs of conflict victims, vulnerable migrants, and others displaced by the increasing civil unrest in Libya. These funds support repatriation of third-country nationals and provision of emergency relief supplies along the borders as well as inside Libya. In addition, a humanitarian assessment team of 14 U.S. disaster response experts has been deployed to multiple locations in the region, and is coordinating humanitarian assistance to reach these victims of conflict as quickly as possible.
In Tunisia today, Assistant Secretary Schwartz said, "The United States thus far has provided 30 million dollars' worth of, committed to 30 million dollars' worth of support and we will do more and U.S. specialists are on the ground here, the U.S. military has helped to move people from here to Egypt and we are very dedicated to helping others who are trying to ease the situation here."
He continued, "I think our mission is a humanitarian mission, we're here to take a look at the efforts that are being made, to deal with this very large movement of people, to provide them with basic assistance, to provide them with what they need to get to their homes, and so our focus really here is on making sure that we can do everything we can to help the government of Tunisia and the Tunisian people, the international organizations that are playing such an important role."
Assistant Secretary Schwartz and USAID Assistant Administrator Lindborg will continue on travel to Egypt March 10-12, 2011.
Keith in Missouri writes:
Its really sad that there are still dictators like this. Thank God that the civilians that have fled were able to get away, and the support that America and the other nations are giving to these people to keep them out of harms way.
Palgye in South Korea writes:
Good morning.
Want to believe in Islam, such as Egypt, will it be? Mubarak and he does intend to handle the problem at the same time?
Both bad and wrong about me, but Gaddafi, who dispatched an envoy to Egypt, see that - even before he tried several times to talk with the United States, their people who do not meet the criteria to visit .- thought he had a conversation or compromise I'm looking forward. Erroneous opinions, but if there is external support to the militia, security forces battle with the war was going to be so difficult, almost wiped out were going to predict.
When he visited one of the desired level, the rise of oil prices to you now, hard work, the effects of economic reform, break away already I think.
Through my conversations with him, to exert proper control over the institutional system in Libya is thought to put in place.
Now let's keep the government rather than the story, the new government to run the country properly, to avoid falling into Islamic nationalism, Gaddafi and the militia intervention, and properly maintained, the impact on oil and would like let's talk.
In conclusion, what we want to meet other influential people properly and I think we should emerge.
If war, gadapi, Libya troops expect to win. Reorganizing the militia, the organization, which is considered to be consuming at least 1 month. Without outside help.
Thank You.
John P. in Greece writes:
A couple of years ago, an "old voice†–great mind- had written that U.S.A. is feeding 80% of the Earth.
Well, I am not afraid to say that inside my brain, I "questioned†his thesis for a while, by asking myself: "is it real, is he right?â€, or is just "our love for America†that make us think so?
This guy was real and right!
Today, once again for things happening all over the world, I read that:
"http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2011/03/158020.htm""The United States continues to be a leader in supporting the work of international agencies in the region (LIBYA) and coordinating with international and multilateral donors and partners.â€.
I think that this means a lot and Americans should feel PROUD for being… Americans! It's a great ideal!