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RII Track-2 FEC builds inter-jurisdictional collaborative teams of EPSCoR investigators in scientific focus areas consistent with NSF priorities. For FY 2016, RII Track-2 FEC proposals are invited on two topics: 1) Understanding the Brain; and 2) Sustainable Food, Energy, and Water Systems.
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My mother died at 96 in the full possession of her faculties. A condition we sometimes questioned when she claimed to recall personal events from before the beginning of World War I with complete clarity. She was six when the war began and none of her children could replicate the feat of recalling their own childhood at the same age, so we tended to smile and not disagree.
We are in the throes of building cubby (play) houses for our grandchildren at the moment and reducing the cost by using recycled materials. I was knocking out the dents and flattening the nail holes in some second-hand corrugated iron when a memory of startling clarity arose of my father performing the same task.
It was wartime and he was building a chook-house on a fifty-two acre property we rented at the time on the outer fringe of Melbourne and I could "see" the rusty ball-pean hammer he used, with its improvised handle made from the branch of a gum tree and the doubting look on my mother's face as she watched him work and smoked a precious cigarette.
A skilled milling machinist, working shift-work manufacturing parts for our Beaufort Bombers, he only came home during the longer change-over of shifts every second and third weeks. I could smell the the cutting compound used in machining that always clung to him and see the thin, hand-rolled cigarette drooping at one corner of his mouth.
I've tried to use logic to identify the date and the closest I can come is the Xmas school holidays of 1943, during which I turned six.
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BY YIQIAN ZHANG You're watching multisource world video news analysis from Newsy. Thailand and Cambodia could be on the brink of war -- all over an 11th-century temple. Back in 1962, the World Court ruled the temple -- Preah Vihear -- belongs to Cambodia. Ever since, Thailand has refused to accept the ruling. Then, the temple was designated a World Heritage Site in 2008. Since then, the tension has only increased. It all boiled over beginning last Friday, and clashes near the temple have killed as many as seven people. Thailand's prime minister insists these are small clashes -- skirmishes -- and nothing more. But Cambodia's prime minister says otherwise. Hun Sen: "He called these armed clashes. But I told him they were not. This is war. So Cambodia is asking the UN security council to call immediate meeting on this situation." Thailand's Deputy Prime Minister is simply trying to restore peace. Korn Chatikavanij: "There's no saber-rattling on our part. And I think it's quite clear that there has been no victory cry on the part of the Thai government. We've moved as quickly as possible and consistently so during the two or three days of fighting that did break out to try to bring the fighting to a halt." An analyst for global intelligence website STRATFOR says domestic politics in both countries isfueling the conflict at the border. "...on the Thai side you have elections approaching which are supposed to be held during the first half of the year, these are very contentious elections and that's forced all the special interest groups and factions in Thai politics to push on their major issues." The Council on Foreign Relations blames the Thailand's domestic politics -- namely -- the fact Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva doesn't seem to have control over the country's military. "On the Thai side, the conflict is being pushed by nationalists linked to the People's Alliance for Democracy, but the military men taking action along the border often seem to be doing so either without informing Abhisit or informing his office well after the fact." The UN security council responded to a plea by Cambodia and will meet with both nations on Monday. Get more multisource world video news analysis from Newsy. Transcript by Newsy.


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A DAY AFTER a burglary and apparent arson last week at a house owned by City Councilwoman Maria Quinones-Sanchez, authorities arrested Edwin Diana, 23, for the crime.
Police say the investigation is closed and that Diana is the only suspect.
But a week later, many in the neighborhood, near Norris Square in Kensington, are wondering if there's more to the story.
Diana, a family friend who has known Sanchez for years, was living at a house two blocks away that, according to city records, was owned by Margaret Zapiec.
Zapiec, who died recently, was a sister of state Sen. Tina Tartaglione, who is being challenged in the Democratic primary next month by Tomas Sanchez, the councilwoman's husband.


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Staff member 'stole or tried to steal €170,000 from HSE'
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A FORMER Health Service Executive (HSE) administrator was charged with the theft and attempted theft of over €170,000 from the health agency and two of its suppliers.
David Cooper (52) of Apt 6, 7 Southern Road, Cork appeared before the District Court on 12 charges of theft and attempted theft.
Cooper, who worked as a HSE administrator dealing with maintenance matters, faces a total of 12 counts which the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has ruled be dealt with on indictment before the Circuit Criminal Court.
He is charged with six counts of theft involving a total of €55,450 from the HSE between June 6 and June 27 2012; four counts of attempted theft between June 29 and July 6 2012 involving €107,314 and two counts of theft from Pat Hennerty Ltd and Forest Print Ltd involving €5,811 and €1,804 respectively over the same period.
The 12 counts involve a total of €170,379.
Judge Con O'Leary heard that Cooper made no reply when each of the charges were put to him after arrest and caution at Gurranabraher Garda Station.
He granted Cooper free legal aid after hearing that he was now dependent on disability benefit and had no other source of income or major property assets.
He no longer works for the HSE.
He had previously been based at St Mary's Hospital, Cork.
Judge O'Leary adjourned the matter for three weeks to February 5 next after hearing from Inspector Mary King that the book of evidence in the case is not yet ready.
The defendant did not speak during the brief hearing except to ask, through his solicitor Frank Buttimer, whether the judge could make an order to direct that there be no publicity in relation to the case.
Judge O'Leary said he had no such power under the Constitution which states that such matters be dealt with in public.
Gardai indicated that they had no objection to the defendant being remanded on bail.
Judge O'Leary remanded Cooper on bail in his own bond of €5,000 and directed that he have no contact, either direct of indirect, with any HSE administration officials.
Gardai said they hope to have the book of evidence finalised shortly.
Mr Cooper did not speak to the media as he left the courthouse on Angelsea Street.


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- 1 pound jicama, peeled and cut into 1/4-inch dice (about 2 cups)
- 1 medium red onion, finely chopped
- 1 cup coarsely chopped cilantro
- 6 garlic cloves, minced
- 1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
- 1 chipotle chile in adobo sauce, seeded and minced
- 1 jalapeño chile, seeded and minced
- 2 teaspoons kosher salt
- 4 large mangoes (14 ounces each), peeled and cut into 1/4-inch dice
- Freshly ground pepper
- Tortilla chips, for serving
- In a large bowl, combine the jicama, red onion, cilantro, garlic, lime juice, chipotle, jalapeño and salt. With a rubber spatula, fold in the mangoes. Season the salsa with pepper and refrigerate. Serve with tortilla chips.


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FFA and David Gallop come under fire from A-League and NPL clubs
A-League club owners have reportedly set up an association as they push for an independent commission to run the competition.
Melbourne Victory coach Kevin Muscat unhappy with FFA Cup scheduling
Melbourne Victory coach Kevin Muscat isn't ready to focus on the first A-League derby in the FFA Cup but he has some advice for the organisers.
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Last season's endless run of injuries and constantly rejigged back line are gone but not forgotten for Wellington Phoenix skipper Andrew Durante.
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Ties to Anti-Semites, White Supremacists, Conspiracy Theorists, and Anti-Immigrant Figures
Buchanan affiliates with various anti-Semites, white supremacists, anti-immigrant extremists, and conspiracy theorists. He contributes to their publications, cites their work, appears on their radio shows, and his Web site features links to their Web sites. Conversely, extremists praise Buchanan and look to him as a successful purveyor of hateful views in mainstream media and politics.
Funding Anti-Immigrant Group's Inaugural Event and Convening Panel Including Racists
In 2009, Buchanan continued to make its long-established anti-immigrant and racist leanings clear. In June of that year, he hosted a conference to discuss how Republicans could regain a majority in the United States and invited Peter Brimelow, who runs the racist Web site VDare to be one of the speakers. Other speakers included Tom Tancredo, a former Colorado Congressman and Representative Lou Barletta (R-PA), who are both known for advocating anti-immigrant legislation.
When Youth for Western Civilization (YWC), a controversial student-led group staged its inaugural reception in February 2009, Buchanan's right-wing group The American Cause (TAC) co-sponsored the event. YWC, which claims to be "the West's right wing youth movement," has staged other events promoting an anti-immigrant ideology.
Marcus Epstein, who wrote for VDare, initially served as both TAC's executive director and YWC's vice president. (Epstein has kept a low profile since he was charged with assaulting a black woman in Washington, D.C. in 2007. In 2008, Epstein pleaded guilty to simple assault, apologized to his victim and sent a donation to a charity for black college students.) The group has sponsored lectures by Tom Tancredo, who has repeatedly demonized immigrants and maintained affiliations with the border vigilante Minuteman movement. During a February 2009 lecture at American University that YWC organized, Tancredo suggested that "throughout history, people who are not white Anglo-Saxon have become American by adopting a white Anglo-Saxon culture."
In addition to its affiliations with YWC, Buchanan's group also revealed its racist and anti-immigrant sentiment by sponsoring a January 2009 panel at the National Press Club during which Epstein and Peter Brimelow, were featured. The panel caught the attention of the New York Times, which published an editorial detailing the racism of Buchanan, Epstein, and Brimelow.
A month later, Brimelow demonstrated his racist views. He spoke at a conference of racists in Baltimore, Maryland, dedicated to "Preserving Western Civilization" and delivered one of the most extreme presentations at the conference. He argued that the influx of "non-traditional" immigration is a problem all over the Western world and that the loss of control over the country by "white Protestants" will mean a collapse of the American political system. He urged that whites respond by creating an explicitly white nationalist political party.
Contributing to and using extremist works
Buchanan contributes to works published by and praising extremists. In 2006, he authored the "Foreword" to Shots Fired: Sam Francis on America's Culture War, a compilation of the works of the late Sam Francis, a white supremacist and frequent speaker at white supremacist American Renaissance conferences. Buchanan praised Francis's character and work and explains that Francis's "great gifts" included having "one of the finest minds of his generation" and a "brave heart to pursue and tell the truth." Following his death in 2005, Buchanan wrote an article dedicated to Francis, whom he called "my brave and generous friend." Buchanan also referenced the work of Francis several times in State of Emergency, his 2006 anti-immigrant book. Buchanan called Francis "one of the finest minds of his generation."
Anti-Semite John Sharpe co-edited and published neo-Conned! Just War Principles: A Condemnation of War in Iraq, referred to earlier as a collection of views which includes a Buchanan essay. Sharpe, a former naval officer, attended a 2006 conference organized by American Renaissance, a white supremacist publication, and was placed on administrative leave from the Navy due to his leadership of the Legion of St. Louis and the IHS Press, two anti-Semitic organizations.
In addition to providing material for extremist publications, Buchanan has incorporated the research and writings of extremists into his own articles and books.
In Suicide of a Superpower, Buchanan cites the words of Sam Francis to decry the concepts of equality and multiculturalism. In the book, Buchanan also cites the work of writer John Derbyshire, who had been invited to speak at white supremacist American Renaissance conferences and of Chilton Williamson, who writes a regular column for Middle American News, an ultra-conservative newspaper that often promotes racist views.
In State of Emergency, Buchanan, more than once, cites "The Color of Crime," a 1999 study published by the white supremacist New Century Foundation (NCF), the organization behind American Renaissance. In spite of NCF's history of espousing racist views and hosting conferences that feature white supremacists as speakers, Buchanan has referred to the group as simply 'right-leaning.' Buchanan has also cited some of the findings of the 1999 study in one of his 2007 articles. From the material taken from NCF, Buchanan concluded that "the real repository of racism in America... is to be found not in the white community, but the African-American community."
In Death of the West, Buchanan also discussed NCF and cited research in a book authored by its leader, white supremacist Jared Taylor. Buchanan described Taylor as "a controversial figure in the debate on crime and race."
Praise from extremists
In addition, Buchanan has appeared as a guest on several Internet radio programs hosted by individuals who ascribe to anti-Semitic, white supremacist, anti-immigrant, and/or conspiracy-oriented philosophies.
Buchanan has appeared three times on The Political Cesspool, a Tennessee-based Internet and AM radio show hosted by white supremacist James Edwards. In October 2011, Buchanan promoted his book Suicide of a Superpower and claimed that when whites become a minority in the United States, they will face havoc and turmoil that Californians are allegedly experiencing now due to the growing Hispanic and minority population in that state.
In June 2008, Buchanan went on the show to promote his book, Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War: How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World. Edwards commented that Buchanan's publicist initiated and arranged the appearance. During the interview, Buchanan posited that World War II was unnecessary and that the British "blundered... to bring about a war with Germany," a war he claims Hitler did not want. Buchanan also stated, "Had there been no war, there would have been no Holocaust... "
When Edwards mentioned Charles Lindbergh, Buchanan defended the American aviator hero who led America First, a group opposed to U.S. intervention in World War II. Lindbergh claimed that powerful Jews in America were trying to push the United States into war against the Nazis to preserve Jewish interests. Buchanan stated, "Good for you for bringing up Colonel Lindbergh's name because his reputation has been blackened because of a single speech he gave and a couple of paragraphs in it where he said that...the Jewish community is beating the drums for war... but frankly, no one has said what he said was palpably untrue."
Buchanan first appeared on The Political Cesspool show in September 2006 to promote State of Emergency. During his interview, Buchanan explained how "we are being invaded by people of different cultures." He argued that Americans "cannot survive a bifurcated culture or a heavily Hispanicized culture, tilted towards Mexico... I think that's the beginning of the end of the United States."
Edwards regularly invites anti-Semites, neo-Nazis, white supremacists, Holocaust deniers, conspiracy theorists and anti-immigrant leaders to voice their views on his show. He is not only a radio host; he appears and speaks at events hosted by racist groups and has been involved in the Council of Conservative Citizens, a white supremacist group and is a leader in the American Third Position, a white supremacist political party.
The radio show of the Minuteman Project, an anti-immigrant group whose members engaged in armed, vigilante border patrol, listed Buchanan as its premier guest. Buchanan appeared on the show in September 2006 to promote his anti-immigrant book State of Emergency, released that year.
In August 2006, Buchanan gave an interview on the radio program of Alex Jones, a conspiracy theorist. He made a number of anti-immigrant comments and supported the outlawed separate-but-equal doctrine, stating:
I grew up in Washington D.C. It was a segregated city, a southern city, but at the same time, African Americans or black Americans and white Americans, we were marinated in the same culture. We had the same teams, we rooted for, we watched the same TV shows, listened to the same radio, went to the same movies. When we went to schools, the schools may have been segregated, public schools, but we studied the same literature, studied the same language, the same history, the same heroes, the same holidays. We were one people.
Meeting with far-right European politicians
Buchanan has also supported and personally met with those who demonize minorities, specifically Muslims. Two examples are Frank Vanhecke and Filip Dewinter, leaders of the Vlaams Belang, a now-defunct racist and xenophobic far-right Belgian political party. In February 2007, Vanhecke and Dewinter visited Washington, D.C. on a four-day "study tour," and attended a taping of The McLaughlin Group, a mainstream news program which Buchanan co-founded and on which he often appears. Following the taping, Buchanan posed for pictures with Vanhecke and Dewinter and met privately with them.
After the McLaughlin Group taping, the Vlaams Belang leaders gave a lecture in Washington, D.C., at the invitation of The Robert Taft Club, a right-wing group affiliated with The American Cause, an organization Buchanan founded in 1993. In their speech, entitled "Immigration, Multiculturalism, and the End of Free Speech in Europe," Vanhecke and Dewinter argued that the large influx of Muslim immigrants in Flanders and Europe generally represents a danger to Western culture.
Links to extremist Web sites and praise from extremists
As Buchanan touts the work of anti-Semites and anti-immigrant figures, he receives heavy praise from extremists. James Edwards, the host of the Political Cesspool, credits his experience volunteering for the 2000 Buchanan presidential campaign with inspiring him to become politically active. In July 2008, Edwards posted an article entitled "Why I love Pat Buchanan" to his blog, claiming to "love" Buchanan "because he tells it like it is." In concluding a June 2008 interview with Buchanan, Edwards states, "Mr. Buchanan, thank you so much for coming back on our program, for fighting for our people."
Several extremists cite Buchanan's work and post it to their Web sites. VDare contains an "archive" of Buchanan's articles. National Vanguard, a now-defunct neo-Nazi organization, and its successor, European Americans United, have both posted Buchanan's work to their news sites. David Duke, an anti-Semite and former Ku Klux Klan leader, has posted Buchanan's work to his Web site. Additionally, the white supremacists and anti-Semites who frequent the white supremacist Internet forum Stormfront often post Buchanan's articles. The Muslim Observer, a widely circulated weekly that has published conspiratorial, anti-Israel, and anti-Semitic articles, included one of Buchanan's pieces in a March 2007 issue. In the piece, Buchanan discussed a possible American attack on Iran and explains that "Israel wants Iran attacked yesterday. The neocons need a new war to make America forget the disaster they wrought in Iraq."
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Pumpkin Cornbread
Total Time
Prep 20 mins
Cook 40 mins
What could be more Thanksgiving than pumpkin and cornbread? I make this for every Thanksgiving meal (and other times as well), and everyone loves it. It has only a very subtle pumpkin flavor. I have thought about adding more pumpkin for a stronger flavor, but we love it too much the way it is! Reheat leftovers in the microwave and serve with pumpkin butter and tea or coffee. This doesn't last long in my house!
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- 1 1⁄4 cups flour
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon coriander
- 3⁄4 cup yellow cornmeal
- 2⁄3 cup brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 1⁄4 cup butter, melted
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 3⁄4 cup canned pumpkin
- 2⁄3 cup buttermilk
- Sift together flour, baking powder, salt and coriander in a large mixing bowl; stir in cornmeal.
- In a separate bowl, combine brown sugar, honey, melted butter, eggs, pumpkin and buttermilk.
- Gradually stir into the dry mixture until all ingredients are blended; do not overmix.
- Pour batter into a square 8-inch baking pan and bake in 350 degree oven 40-45 minutes.
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This was very good. I made two batches and used one in my cornbread stuffing and it was a hit!
Excellent! I had some leftover pumpkin to use up, so the amount I put in was more like 1 cup instead of 3/4. Also, the recipe didn't say whether or not to grease the pan, but I did spray it with some cooking spray, which was probably a good idea. It didn't taste very pumpkin-y, but turned out very moist with good flavour. Thanks for sharing!


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I REALLY hope this music is in Brawl!!!!
Thats really Good, but anyone with time could do that with any character they want.... So you proved ur point in some ways, and then again I could do the same thing for A luma from SMG if I wanted to...Originally Posted by islandvic
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You know what'd be cool in Brawl.
A Paper Mario level. Maybe one from Super Paper Mario.
I think that'd be pretty awesome.
The level flipping from 2D to 3D suddenly.
And this song NEEDS to be in Brawl.
They don't even need to change it all! We need more unique and unrepresented levels!
Edit: Sorry about that mess-up. That movie trailer (for those who caught it) was 'We Are The Strange'.
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^Godd idea. It should be Flipside since that's the main town.
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Wow, love the variety in this moveset. Winnar!Originally Posted by islandvic
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You people should be telling the creator that.Originally Posted by islandvic
It's 'The Geno Thread' at Smashboards, right?
It is a pretty creative move-set.
That's a major part of it (I'm ok with Disney for the most part, but stay out of my games for cryin' out loud!!! Donald Duck and Sephiroth do NOT belong in the same game!)^Aw, comon S-S. Why? (Is it the disney characters?)
Besides, a teenage kid running around with a key just isn't fun. Now, I haven't played it very much, but that's partly because what I DID play was boring as hell!
And I love that stage idea AND song Mr Bucket! And I haven't played SPM yet =P


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Feeling adventurous? Here are a few of Zack Lemann's favorite creepy-crawly dishes.
10-20 dragonflies, thawed from the freezer
1 egg
1 small bowl of seasoned fish fry
2 tablespoons butter
1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
Feeling adventurous? Here are a few of Zack Lemann's favorite creepy-crawly dishes.
10-20 dragonflies, thawed from the freezer
1 egg
1 small bowl of seasoned fish fry
2 tablespoons butter
1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
1 tablespoon soy sauce
10-20 thinly sliced Portobello mushrooms (1 per
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Pour 1/2 inch of canola oil in a medium skillet, heat on medium.
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While the oils heat, run dragonflies through the egg, which already should be whipped in a bowl. (Use tweezers to hold the dragonflies.) Dredge the dragonflies in seasoned fish fry.
You can now simultaneously cook the mushrooms in the smaller skillet with olive oil and the dragonflies in the medium skillet with canola oil. Cook insects for 30 seconds per side, adjusting the heat if needed so as to avoid charred batter or undercooked batter.
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The Mirage has a volcano. There's the Fountains of Bellagio, and the pyramid-shaped Luxor.
Cherokee will have the Rotunda, the crown jewel of the $633 million expansion to be unveiled next year and serve as the new casino entrance.
"With any casino, the notion of a grand arrival is key to create a sense of excitement," said Erik Sneed, the tribe's construction manager over the project. "You want a huge sensomatic, volumetric experience."
And that's exactly what Cherokee will have.
Shining five-story trees made of colored glass, like giant Tiffany lamps, ring the Rotunda with a 75-foot waterfall cascading down the middle. A 140-foot screen wraps around the walls where choreographed shows will be projected in concert with visual manipulation of the lighting in the trees and waterfall, along with intense audio effects.
"The lights will go down, you hear thunder rumble, suddenly the trees glow an intense red, the screen comes on, the music start and the show plays," Sneed described.
One of 15 shows will play on an hourly schedule.
A massive, floating, spiral staircase winds through the trees and wraps around the waterfall. The self-supporting staircase was designed without columns underneath.
"We wanted the effect of a staircase that looked like it was suspended in thin air," Sneed said.
But it also took an engineering feat to float with 50 tons of twisted steel.
"The only place that could roll steel that big was in Canada. We had to buy the steel, have it fabricated, shipped to Canada and then back to Cherokee," Sneed said.


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The CEO of Genting Group, which bought the Miami Herald's property on Biscayne Bay earlier this year and dreams of turning it into a mega-casino, wasn't exactly subtle when he said the project would result in a net gain of jobs for the state -- especially in Miami-Dade and Broward counties.
At the first hearing about the casinos, somebody asked CEO Colin Au about claims that building a casino would cost the state jobs instead of generating them. (Here in Broward, pari-mutuel owners and the Seminole tribe also worry about losing gamers across the county line.)
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Don Mitchell, of the Isle of Capri Casino company (which owns Pompano Park), expressed another fear: "There's going to be normal cannibalization when new gaming product comes into a market."
With a major Miami architect (Arquitectonica) lined up and plenty of good hard Malaysian cash, the Genting Group is poised to make ripples in South Florida. Whether it'll be as grandiose as the mockups predict is another matter.
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Before we begin this jubilant experience dealing with the nerdiest players in baseball history, let us first discuss what exactly the term nerdy means.
From the mouth of Webster's Dictionary, nerd is, "an unstylish, unattractive, or socially inept person; especially: one slavishly devoted to intellectual or academic pursuits."
Considering nothing we'll be discussing has to do with "intellectual or academic pursuits," I find it best if we agree on a couple less concrete things when it comes to the concept of nerd akin to sports figures.
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Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD ) leads off this ignominious list after plummeting 13.2%. The chip maker reported earnings yesterday, and despite beating analyst expectations for the quarter, the shares were promptly downgraded by two analysts today. That's Wall Street for ya. To be fair, the company did swing to a loss and gross margins fell. Analysts were mostly concerned with AMD's gaming revenues moving forward.
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Hope you feel better, dear friend.....rest, relax, wrap yourself in cozy homecomforts...reading, sleeping...etc....and you will be better in no time. Back to your studio, before you know it!ReplyDelete
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shhhhhhhhh....whisper now....so happy to hear from you...now go back to bed before that garage door opens again! lol! ;)!!ReplyDelete
Hope you feel better very soon.ReplyDelete
Drink lots of tea with organic raw honey and lemon.
Your altered tin is so lovely... you have a great imagination!
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So sorry to hear you are sick, Rhonda, and just when the weather is starting to get nicer. Hope you feel better soon. Your pictures are lovely. I always think if I were sick it would be a good time to tinker around in my craft/sewing room, but in reality I don't feel well enough to concentrate on making things.ReplyDelete
Happy Easter my friend! I do hope you recover soon, we need more of your beautiful creations!ReplyDelete
I hop that you are feeling better soon. Looking forward to seeing what other pretty pieces you come up with!ReplyDelete
Healing Hugs for your speedy recovery. Easter Blessings...ReplyDelete
Wishing you a Happy Easter Dear Rhonda.ReplyDelete
I hope you´ll feel better soon. Sending get well wishes, your way.
Healing Energy being sent your way! Have a Blessed Easter and take good care of yourself. Your Creations, as always, are simply Divine!ReplyDelete
Blessings from the Arizona Desert... Dawn... The Bohemian
Wonderfully inspirational Rhonda. Your creations are divine!ReplyDelete
Blessings and well wishes coming your way. Hope you get rid of those nasty little bugs soon~
Hvor trist du er syg (det er min mand også) det er det langstragte forår, nu må vi snart få sol og sommer, rigtig god bedring knus morkaren.ReplyDelete
Happy Easter, Rhonda. I'm new to your blog but I had to comment on the beautiful altered tin. I was very touched by it's beauty especially at this holy time. I hope you are feeling better soon. I get sinus colds this time of year too and they aren't fun!ReplyDelete
Ронда у вас прекрасный блог...........быстрее выздоравливайте......тёплой и ласковой вам весны.ReplyDelete
And what a beautiful home dear Rhonda,ReplyDelete
I so love the added bling around her, and the sweet cross beneth.
Your two little boxes are adorable, too.
Sweetie I wish you a quick recovery, I fought so long with coughing and such and feel so sorry for you.
Warm hugs, from Dorthe
Hope you are on your way to feeling better!ReplyDelete
Happy Easter and well wishes!
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Happy Easter!
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The Confessions of Al Caponeby Loren D. Estleman
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In 1944 Al Capone, the most notorious Mob boss in history, has already been released from prison. Though Capone is no longer the enormously powerful force who dominated Chicago's underworld for years, he is still a thorn in the side of J. Edgar Hoover. The FBI chief knows that if he can somehow manage to get Capone to reveal details of crimes he and his
In 1944 Al Capone, the most notorious Mob boss in history, has already been released from prison. Though Capone is no longer the enormously powerful force who dominated Chicago's underworld for years, he is still a thorn in the side of J. Edgar Hoover. The FBI chief knows that if he can somehow manage to get Capone to reveal details of crimes he and his Outfit committed, the Bureau has a good chance of nailing key members who now are active in the wartime black market.
FBI agent Peter Vasco is perfect for the job. He has an inhis father once drove a truck for the Outfitand his pre-FBI education gives him even better cover. His orders: pose as the priest he wanted to be before he dropped out of seminary, get close to Capone, and get Hoover the information he demands.
Capone's in Florida, suffering from advanced syphilis, and happy to add a priest to his inner circle. As Vasco and the mobster bond over card games, lunches, and even a trip to Wisconsin, Capone, sometimes lucid and sharp, other times rambling and vague, recounts stories of his criminal career. From his days as a bouncer in Brooklyn to the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, Capone spills secrets that reveal in vivid detail the life of this monster who became the most iconic figure in twentieth-century crime.
Vasco is alternately fascinated and repelled by the things Capone reveals. Al Capone would stop at nothing to take what he wanted, but also fed the poor of Chicago; he rose to the top of Chicago on a tide of bootleg beer and booze, but took the time to ensure that innocent victims of Mob violence got proper medical care.
This is Al Capone as he's never been seen before, a ruthless crime lord who trafficked in death and corruption…as well as a man of refined tastes who loved his family. A man whose life is waning, and perhaps, a man who is seeking absolution.
Editorial Reviews
"This is a book that took courage as well as talent to write. Loren Estleman has managed a literary miracle, a story full of surprising discoveries and often deep emotion." Thomas Fleming, New York Times bestselling author
"Remarkable research, rich storytelling and a rapid, riveting pace make The Confessions of Al Capone one of this year's most stimulating and exciting reads. Hits with the force of a burst from a tommy gun." Ralph Peters, New York Times bestselling author of Cain at Gettysburg
Verdict A tense and thoughtful historical thriller, recommended for all fans of crime fiction and historical novels. [Previewed in Kristi Chadwick's "Following the Digital Clues: Mystery Genre Spotlight," LJ 4/15/13.Ed.]Bradley Scott, Corpus Christie, TX
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- 9781480506497
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- Brilliance Audio
- Publication date:
- 06/28/2013
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- Unabridged
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- 6.80(w) x 6.60(h) x 1.70(d)
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An invitation to the director's office always meant termination. Even a man without faith could depend on that.
It was waiting for him on his desk, in a large brown interoffice envelope tied with red string, neatly typed in elite characters on the same undersize stationery the Director had used to congratulate the men who killed Dillinger:
Peter Vasco
Division Four
Records and Communications
Dear Mr. Vasco:
The Director would appreciate your presence at the SOG at 1400 hours this date.
Helen W. Gandy
Gandy was the Director's executive assistant: "Hoover's secretary" to the unindoctrinated. She'd sat outside his door since his appointment to the General Investigation Division in 1919, and had processed every decision he'd made from the start, including converting to the military timetable after Pearl Harbor. SOG stood for Seat of Government. In early days this had referred to headquarters' location in the District, but more recently it had become shorthand for the Director's own office, and by extension the Director himself.
To compare the Bureau to a beehive was a cliché, but clichés are nothing if not accurate. At the center was the queen—a career-destroying description if overheard, given the rumors that circulated among the Director's enemies on the Hill. The field agents were the scouts swarming outside, while the drones inside worked around the clock to maintain the hive. Vasco was the drone of drones, assigned to proofread non-classified instructions to Special Agents in Charge and the odd innocuous press release for errors of spelling and grammar. The aptitude test he'd taken when he applied for employment had shown a high degree of stenographic ability; with no background in law or accountancy he'd hardly hoped for a field position, but it was dreary, tedious work, with the added inducement of a reprimand in his file if a single participle continued to dangle once it left his desk. The smallest blunder festered throughout the system and had to be cauterized at the source.
Evidently a proper noun had escaped capitalization or, worse, a live document had been swept into the wastebasket with the day's litter and sent directly to the incinerator where obsolete secrets were interred in the ashes. Vasco wasn't incompetent on the job, merely indifferent to it. That hadn't always been the case, but after nearly a year shackled to the same tin desk in a room filled with them, his hopes for advancement had died—pounded flat by the incessant artillery barrage of booming drawers and typewriters thundering on metal stands. He suspected that on some subconscious level he'd realized that consistency and reliability counted against change rather than for it, and had sabotaged himself deliberately.
Shrink talk. Swallow two opiates with water and say three Hail Marys. The Director had no use for either, and these days neither did he.
Whatever the nature of the dereliction, it was beneath the attention of a man concerned with keeping Fifth Column spies out of the War Department; but the Director had been known to take interest in petty personnel matters. He'd fired a veteran inspector for reporting in from sixteen hours of surveillance with his shirttail hanging outside his vest. Vasco's own supervisor had forgotten to wear the regulation fedora in a press photo and forfeited his chance to head up the Detroit office.
The morning dragged past on flat tires. He ate a sack lunch, an egg salad sandwich provided by ration stamps he'd been hoarding, but it might as well have been boiled pulp for all he tasted it. At quarter to two he walked up the aisle between rows of desks, a condemned man resigned to his fate. His colleagues discovered a sudden fascination with their little correction marks as he passed. They all knew about the envelope. For an organization dedicated to national security—it had practically coined the phrase—the Bureau was the whisperingest place outside the community rooms across America where mothers and daughters turned peach pits into weapons-grade cyanide.
Stepping off the elevator on the fifth floor, he followed a beige hallway carpeted in navy—Justice Department colors—and lined with diversions. Inside brushed-aluminum frames Hoover shook hands with presidents and movie stars, squinted through a tommy gun sight, and walked his cairn terrier, G-Boy, beside the Potomac. Arsenals bequeathed by various bandit gangs shared glass cases with heroic G-man movie posters, pieces of exploded hand grenades, a replica of the Justice building assembled from popsicle sticks, and bulletproof vests hemorrhaging steel wool out of vicious holes torn in the fabric. The Black Museum, senior agents called the display. A small library of books in shiny jackets arranged face out bore Hoover's name as either the author or the contributor of a foreword. Ghostwritten, every one, but doubtless the galley proofs had passed across his desk and then those of Vasco's superiors in Records and Communications, to eliminate heresies and stray commas. John Dillinger's morgue session had a case to itself, including bits of federal lead dug from his corpse and the infamous shot of the bank robber's storied twelve-inch erection skewing the line of the sheet covering him. The visitor searched in vain for the actual member preserved in a jar of alcohol. Another myth shattered: but at the Bureau there was no shortage of legends even in wartime. They issued forth like bombers from an assembly line and took flight immediately.
Despite all the sniping from inside and outside the hive, and perhaps partly because of it, Vasco's admiration for the Director bordered on worship. (Patton's men, it was said, smirked at the general's jodhpurs and pearl-handled pistols, but would follow him into hell.) A twenty-four-year-old U.S. attorney with little experience, Hoover had taken charge of a government agency created for the sole purpose of political patronage, turned out the rascals by guile and force, and within a few years transformed it into the most efficient police department in the world. Vasco was fourteen when Hoover made international headlines by singlehandedly arresting Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One, after Karpis had boasted publicly that he would kill Hoover for the slaying of his outlaw friends the Barkers in Florida. A newspaper photo of the Director leading the murderer-kidnapper in manacles into the Federal Building in St. Paul had gone up on the wall in Vasco's bedroom between Jesus and the Pope.
He hesitated before the door to the reception room. He'd never met the man who'd hired him, had seen him in person only from a distance, presenting badges to graduates of the training course during the turning-out ceremony. This was his first time on the executive floor. Opening the door was like taking the Eucharist; there was no going back. He wiped his palm on his trousers and twisted the knob.
Miss Gandy—as it was with Hoover, there was no spouse in her life, but dirty-minded rumors withered in the monastic atmosphere that hung over this Vatican—sat behind an ordinary desk in command of extraordinary equipment: intercom, black bulbous telephone with rows of buttons lit up like a movie marquee, a Dictaphone player, an Electromatic Typewriter the size of a radio-phonograph on a stout table placed perpendicular to the desk. She was chugging away at the last. At her back, a larger table supported a similar machine linked to a Teletype, waiting to receive and decode ciphers from the White House and Pentagon. Vasco recognized this arrangement from the March of Time, dozens of Siamese-twin machines chuckling in a big room in an undisclosed location, but hadn't thought he'd ever find himself in the presence of one. It was an imposing sight, and incongruous in view of the unprepossessing figure in charge.
If Helen Gandy had ever been photographed, Vasco had missed the result. She took no visible role in official functions. Yet another legend insisted that she had a private apartment in the building and hadn't ventured outside since the Coolidge Administration, preferring to serve her master day and night in the holy war against criminal rats, the Nazi-American Bund, and Eleanor Roosevelt. In the dense mist of such speculation, Vasco forgave himself the mental picture of a sour-faced spinster in black bombazine, lace-ruffled to the throat, spectacles constricting the blue veins in her nose. Any one of the sisters of St. Francis could have served as the model.
What he saw, when she swiveled to face him, was a pleasant-faced redhead in her midforties with freckles on her cheeks, wearing a pale green blazer lightly padded in the shoulders, jet buttons in her ears, and a necklace of the same polished coal stones around her neck. She smiled at him with slightly crooked teeth.
"Mr. Vasco? Most punctual. I'm Helen Gandy. The Director asked me to show you in the moment you arrived."
"Thank you." Traumatic thought: What if he'd been thirty seconds late? Could a man be fired twice?
She rose, smoothed her skirt, and led him to a paneled door with a knob engraved with the FBI seal. He caught himself glancing at bare muscular calves—nylon was for making parachutes—tendons stretched by platform heels, and averted his eyes in a rush of facial heat. It was like lusting after his den mother. He felt like scourging himself.
Here was Xanadu, the stately dome: if not of pleasure, then at least of imperial splendor. The walls were paneled and polished, and plush navy carpeting cloaked the floor with the ubiquitous seal embroidered in gold in the center and mounted in relief on the back wall. The room was vast, but it was in proportion to the desk, which ought to have been called something else because it did not belong in the same category as Vasco's tin station. A massy gold eagle stood sentinel with wings half-spread astride matching ink receptacles on the near edge. Gold-fringed flags of the United States and the District of Columbia flanked the desk in brass stands rubbed to a high yellow shine. Images of the place Vasco had seen in dim picture palaces before the main feature didn't do it justice. A brief glimpse of the Seat of Government in person seemed sufficient to snuff out any felonious conspiracy at the start.
"Not here, Mr. Vasco. The Director wishes to see you in his office."
He had stopped before the great desk, and in his reverie had failed to note that Miss Gandy had continued past it to another paneled door half-hidden behind a swag of blue-and-beige bunting. Belatedly he realized that the fabulous room was just for show, reserved for press conferences and photo sessions with famous faces: a deception, but more in the line of a magician's trick cabinet than a movie set. The fifth floor was a place of sliding panels, secret passageways, and strangers' eyes peering out through holes cut in paintings. Far from being disillusioned, he was charmed by the sorcery.
Beyond the last door the magic evaporated.
Vasco disliked square rooms. They reminded him of wooden packing crates—intriguing at first glance, but which once the straw was removed contained homely hymnals, Bible stories Bowdlerized for the consumption of children, blobby pewter candlesticks, and plaster saints with bored expressions that passed for piety. Nothing wondrous ever came from a crate. This one was twelve-by-twelve and might have been used by an insurance adjuster. Banks of olive-green filing cabinets stood like gym lockers against the side walls and a community of grubby file folders in stacks made city blocks on a plain wooden table. A green-shaded banker's lamp on the table and a single overhead globe created an island of light in an ocean of murk. National Geographic maps of the European and Pacific theaters of war were pinned to a wall beneath portraits of Washington, Lincoln, President Roosevelt, and for some reason Davy Crockett.
A small man with a big head sat in an upholstered chair behind the table, engrossed in the contents of a folder flayed open before him. He was built like a bantamweight boxer running to fat, with coarse hair brushed straight back from a bulging forehead and eyes that stuck out like white rubber door bumpers beneath heavy black brows. His nose was blunt, his cheeks jowly; "bulldog" was the popular description, "porcine" common among detractors. Vasco, whose own face had been compared to a rodent's, was less judgmental. He thought the Director heroically ugly and appropriately intimidating, like a boar in the forest. J. Edgar Hoover should look like nothing else.
"Peter Vasco, sir."
"Thank you, Miss Gandy."
She drew the door shut as she retired, sealing them in silence.
For most of a minute—if minutes were generations—Hoover continued to study the sheets before him, reading one page to the bottom, turning it over, and starting on the next as if he were alone. Vasco remained standing. He tried not to look at the carpeted platform that raised the table and its owner six inches from the floor. He'd heard that the stool the Director stood on during the turning-out ceremony was a litmus test for new special agents: one glance at his feet and the man went away empty-handed and out of a job. The effort of not looking down made his eyes want to water, and he found no comfort in the realization that the folder on the table contained his own personnel file.
Suddenly it smacked shut. He felt the full heat of Hoover's hard-boiled-egg gaze, white all around the irises.
"Sit down, please."
Four chairs covered in soft leather faced the table. The one he chose was less comfortable than it looked, the legs too short by inches so that he felt as if he were sitting in a tub. From that position the Director towered above him on his platform.
The one-sided staring contest continued a few more seconds. Vasco scratched an eyebrow, giving himself the chance to blink. The hot gaze shifted to a pudgy hand brushing the folder.
"You've been with the Bureau ten months and have yet to take a sick day. Why?"
He blinked again, openly. "I haven't been sick, sir."
"I hope that's true. Some people believe reporting to work ill is evidence of dedication, paying no mind to the half-dozen people who are forced to stay home the next week because of all the plague germs they left lying about. Are you under the impression you're indispensable?"
"No, sir."
"Because there is only one person this organization cannot possibly do without."
Inspiration seized him. "Miss Gandy."
Hoover stared. Vasco was sure he'd outsmarted himself. The obvious answer was not always the right one, but it was politic.
"We begin well," the Director said then, and Vasco resumed breathing. "Most people would say it's myself, and hope to curry favor. Nothing is so insincere as flattery, especially when it's addressed to a superior."
He felt a little less ill at ease. Hoover's speech was rapid-fire, a verbal strafing delivered in a nasal tone Vasco associated with radio announcers heard on tinny receivers. The words seemed to come a thousand to the minute, like rounds from the Model 1928 Thompson (familiarity with the Manual of Arms was required of all employees, in the field and at home). A man wanted to duck rather than respond; but he had remembered the Director stating the invaluability of Helen Gandy's services for the record when he'd added "executive" to her title, and the memory had surfaced during the onslaught. He still couldn't guess the reason he'd been summoned, but he'd begun to believe that it wasn't his dismissal.
"You're Sicilian?"
"Calabrese, sir. Irish on my mother's side." That was safe enough. A man couldn't help his ancestry. "I was born in Chicago." He couldn't remember if a birth certificate had been necessary for employment. Almost everything else had.
Hoover twisted around in his chair. He seemed to be searching for Calabria on the war map. It was peppered with red-white-and-blue flag pins. Mussolini had been captured once, then freed by the German Army; Vasco hoped he hadn't unpacked.
"You're still a practicing Catholic?" Hoover turned back, adjusting the padding in one shoulder. His double-breasted suits were tailored to correct deficiencies.
"Practicing? No, sir."
"Question of faith?"
"I have no questions."
"Atheist?" The heavy brows drew together.
"No, sir. I just stopped asking."
"Is that why you quit the seminary?"
"I failed. Many are called…"
"No judgments, understand. I have Roman Catholics in the field. Good men. None of them studied for the priesthood, which is why I asked to see you. One of the reasons. How much do you remember from your training?"
Only every novena, the names of all the saints, where the good vintage was kept so it wouldn't get mixed up with the swill they served for the sacrament. He practically farted in Latin. "A fair amount."
"We'll arrange a refresher course."
"A refresher course?"
"Are you still in contact with your father?"
He sat a little straighter, and he had not been slouching.
"I got a card last Christmas."
"No scenes in public, I hope."
"Our differences are private. With all due respect," he added. So it was possible to forget who he was talking to when that subject came up.
Hoover smiled. He had excellent teeth; Vasco suspected extensive orthodontia in early adulthood. They gleamed like new appliances against the Director's swarthy skin.
"There's no need for secrecy. Did you think, just because you applied for a low-clearance position, your background wouldn't be checked? Paul Anthony Vasco had a wife and a child to feed and clothe, a roof to provide. That was difficult enough for an unskilled laborer during the Depression, and harder still for a recent immigrant in a city crawling with them. He drove a beer truck when beer was illegal and performed odd jobs for the Capone organization. I've been called a puritan and a martinet, but I'd be worse than that if I held a man's bad choices against him after all this time. Worse yet if I visited the sins of the father upon the son. You wouldn't be working here if I did."
"We haven't spoken since before I joined the seminary. He thought the decision was a joke."
"Your dropping out would only support that opinion, in his eyes. I understand."
"No, sir, I'm afraid you don't."
Hoover's smile was a thing of the past—dead, petrified, and buried in dust. But Vasco was committed and stumbled on.
"My father liked his work. He had a decent job driving a cab in Cicero, but one day a thug hailed him, threw a pistol into the backseat with some cash, and told him to step on it. He did, just as a policeman came running up with his gun out and ordered the thug to throw up his hands. That night the same thug came to our apartment, took back his pistol, and gave my father a hundred-dollar bill from a roll he carried in his pocket. He also gave him a business card and said to look him up if he ever got tired of pushing a hack. My father quit the company the next day."
"What was on the card?" The Director seemed to have forgotten his pique.
"Al Brown, Antique Dealer. I'm sure I don't have to tell you who Al Brown was, sir."
"Al Capone. That must have been early in his career. He dropped the alias when he got big."
"The gun had been used to murder a man named Howard," Vasco said. "My father said the barrel was still hot. I don't want to know anything about those odd jobs."
"No one would blame you. Nothing is worse than betrayal. However." Hoover dragged another folder off a nearby heap. The file was much thicker than the one that contained Peter Vasco's life and secured with a piece of dirty cord. He slipped the knot and spread it open. His fingers were pink and immaculate, like a baby's.
"This wind wasn't so ill it failed to blow some good. Your flirtation with the spiritual life wasn't enough to take you out of Division Four. If it weren't for your father's indiscretions I wouldn't have been able to use you at all." He drew out a newspaper clipping and placed it on Vasco's side of the table.
Vasco had to climb out of his chair to see it. It was brown and brittle and had a five-year-old date scribbled in red ink in one of the margins. He saw a picture he'd seen before, of a broad flat face photographed close up under a white Borsalino hat with the brim turned up rakishly on one side, and a headline:
Copyright © 2013 by Loren D. Estleman
Meet the Author
LOREN D. ESTLEMAN has written seventy books, including The Confessions of Al Capone, Ragtime Cowboys and You Know Who Killed Me. Winner of four Shamus Awards, five Spur Awards and three Western Heritage Awards, he lives in Central Michigan.
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Who is this al capone and who is scareface who said say hello to my little friend.
The question is: Is this book a novel in search of history, or history in search of a novel? Certainly, it is a well-researched effort, recalling the career of Al Capone, one of the most notorious crime bosses in the history of the United States. His career is traced through a series of meetings with Peter Vasco, posing as a Catholic priest, who is placed in a position of intimacy with Capone after his release from prison for tax evasion by J. Edgar Hoover in an effort to obtain evidence to go after his associates in Chicago. Characterizations are the key to the novel, portraits that are incisive and penetrating. J. Edgar Hoover comes up short as a person. Vasco, who is merely a clerk in the FBI, suddenly becomes a special agent and blossoms as an undercover agent, more than unlikely in real life. His putative father, Paul, is an amusing personality. Other characters are merely fill-ins. It is a gripping tale, well-written. The author apparently set out to capture the essence of Al Capone, and it seems he was successful. Whether he did so for the others who populate the pages is questionable. However, the confessions, after all, are those of Al Capone, and as such are vital and readable. Highly recommended.


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