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I bought this women's bag for myself 2 years ago because the mens and womens bag were the same price, but the womens bag is 5 degrees warmer. Lets face it, color doesn't keep you warm! I used this for the first time last January when it was 0 degrees and WINDY. I am a warm sleeper so that probably helped. I did have a fleece REI base layer on in addition and i slept well. Like i said i am a warm sleeper though. I would recommend this to anyone who fits this sleeping pattern for 4 seasons camping.
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This was a gift for my wife, it appeared to be much loftier then her previous bag and we had high hopes. Alas this past weekend camping in the Olympic National Park, the temps were seasonably cold and so was she. Don't think it hit freezing but still this was not warm enough. So we will now consider a 0° bag.
If you are a warm sleeper, and generate lots of body heat this might be perfect. If you are a cold sleeper, it might be to minimal.
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Bought this for a the lady friend for early and late season camping trips. We spent a week in the BWCA in late September with overnight temps in the mid-20's and she was snug as a bug. She's generally a cold sleeper but it kept her warm and comfy at night. It doesn't pack down as small as a down bag, but we stored it in a 15 liter compression drysack and it squeezes down to a reasonable size.
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This is a great sleeping bag, I am always cold when out camping and since I have had this one I do not get cold. In fact it is so warm that I wear minimual clothing and still stay super warm. Definitaly a sleeping bag for someone that likes to stay extra warm.
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The Brookings Institution hosts a discussion with recently appointed Federal Reserve Governor Jeremy Stein.
The Federal Reserve announced in mid-September that it would undertake further large-scale asset purchases, known as "quantitative easing," to provide support to the U.S. economy. While designed to ease financial conditions, some believe quantitative easing carries risks and it has caused some controversy.
Karen Dynan, Brookings Institution vice president and co-director of Economic Studies, makes introductory remarks and Brookings Senior Fellow Donald Kohn moderates the question and answer session with Stein.
Jeremy Stein took office on May 30, 2012. Prior to his appointment, he was a professor of Economics at Harvard University and served in the Obama administration as a senior adviser to the Secretary of the Treasury and on the staff of the National Economic Council.
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The State of the Industry is timed for the New Year. It provides an opportunity to take a look back at the state of business during the previous year while also taking a look forward at what can be expected in 2012.
To get this critical insight, we interviewed the member leaders (the newly elected presidents and chairmen) from the key associations serving the industry. We asked them for feedback on their business operations as well as their perspectives on what's to expect from the associations in the coming year.
Generally, our industry has been holding its own in the recent recession and anemic recovery. More than one of these leaders noted that the industry is recession resistant. That is true, but only in generalities. Specific operations have very much felt the recession and, of course, the grinding on of high fuel process for reasons more often than not unrelated to traditional supply and demand metrics.
Our mix of leaders includes three notable integrated petroleum marketers, an executive at a large travel plaza operation and an executive at a large terminal/supply operation. They respectively head the National Association of Convenience Stores, Petroleum Marketers Association of America, Society of Independent Gasoline Marketers of America, NATSO and the International Liquid Terminal Association. We basically get a broad perspective on what's happening in the industry from rack to retail.
ILTA represents 86 companies and partnerships that operate bulk liquid storage terminals in 47 countries. These facilities are located in ports and along rivers, canals and pipelines. They serve the vital economic purpose of transferring liquid products from one transportation mode to another. Products handled by its members include crude oil, petroleum products and a wide variety of chemicals, as well as ethanol, biodiesel, vegetable oils, molasses and fertilizers.
ILTA's mission is to provide its members with essential informational tools to facilitate regulatory compliance and improve operations, safety and environmental performance; offer opportunities for relationship building, networking and knowledge sharing; and represent the bulk liquid terminal industry before Congress and government agencies.
ILTA's 2012 chairman is Michael J. Burgett, vice president, strategic sourcing at NuStar Energy L.P. NuStar Energy L.P.'s asphalt refineries, refined product terminals, petroleum and specialty liquids storage and terminaling operations, and crude oil storage tank facilities are predominantly located on waterways that are easily accessible by barge or vessel. Altogether, these facilities have over 94 million barrels of storage capacity. NuStar Energy L.P.'s crude oil and refined products pipeline systems largely serve growing markets in the Mid-Continent, Southwest and Texas-Mexico border region of the United States.
NPN: How was business in 2012?
Burgett: The logistics business in general and the storage business as an adjunct of that has been pretty steady. It's nice to be in a part of the supply chain that is very much a demand/pull kind of business. We provide readability for petroleum and chemicals and the other types of products that we store is an industry. There is still a lot of capital being spent in the industry and a lot of purchasing and acquisitions going on and I think we see a lot of optimism with some of the oil shale plays going on around the United States.
The economy is growing very modestly – one or two percent depending on who you believe –
and the terminal business is somewhat recession proof, although not entirely. There's been a tremendous growth in new storage, particularly on the water, and we're gaining some international members who have a lot more interest in the U.S. market than in years past. And that's actually organic growth for our members rather than buying other companies and stacking existing assets together.
NPN: What issues will ILTA be keeping a watch on in 2012?
Burgett: There are probably three major focuses for ILTA going into 2012. The first issue that catches our attention is the flood of new regulations. We really have seen, during the current administration in particular, but a trend generally across states and local governments, is that regulations are coming faster and they are more prescriptive in nature. From our perspective we want to keep our membership informed and educate the regulators and legislators on how these regulations impact the terminal industry and its customers.
ILTA's primary interests are around OSHA's general duty standards—operators need to be very aware about how that is being applied and need to be on their best as far as their operations and regulatory compliance. There's been a lot of concern around the E15 mandate for ethanol and that is something we've watched closely and it does have a material impact on our membership.
You have CFATS (Chemical Facilities Anti-Terrorism Standards), which is something we spent a lot of time on over the past several years and something we're going to continue to focus on to see how the Department of Homeland Security deals with that regulation. It does have some pretty tough conditions, many of which would affect our smaller members, which would then unfortunately be passed along to our customers and ultimately consumers.
CFATS has some risk-based analysis and as an industry, we would like to know more about that. We're a bit more concerned now than in the past with the mechanics, about how risk is assessed in these different regulation-making organizations, mainly because we want to understand the science, if there is any, and the concerns, if there are concerns, as opposed to going on hearsay or having a knee-jerk reaction to specific events instead of good solid science.
NPN: There have been a number of non-traditional investors in the terminal industry in recent years. What impact are they having?
Burgett: It's an interesting development in that it is two edged. When an outside investor that is not keen on running a terminal operation wants to invest in it for purposes of economic growth – whether it's flipping it or staying on as a silent financer type of arrangement – that tells you that there is value in the business. I think that is a very positive thing and to the extent that they might add value or best practice and discipline us a little bit better—I think we welcome that. The flipside, I think it creates a lot of uncertainty in the market. Our customers like the stability of the operators and like to have a deep relationship that gives them a lot of comfort that their products are being handled safely and efficiently and having new owners might sometimes spook the customer on occasion. But I think the larger picture is that when investors come in, and they are generally pretty smart folk, and they see value, I think it opens our eyes to look again on our operations and make sure that we are extracting the right amount of value for our shareholders.
NPN: Is there any personal mark you would like to leave with your term?
Burgett: We have a chairman's plan that we go through every year and ILTA is a wonderful organization in the sense that it is stable and is run by folks that have moved through secession to the role I'm filling today, so we've had a chance to be seasoned. I've actually been on the board twice and served over 10 years with ILTA so I think I have a pretty good sense for it. I think 2012, particularly around the economy and the elections, is going to be a year of great uncertainty, so if there is any mark that I would like to leave on ILTA for my last year on the board it would be to steady the helm. We are a growing, very stable very successful organization and industry and we want to convey a sense of confidence and calm. We're not going to get excited and chase the next shiny thing. We're going to hold the course and let the storm pass over us.
NACS was founded August 14, 1961, as the National Association of Convenience Stores. It is an international trade association representing more than 2,100 retail and 1,600 supplier company members. NACS member companies do business in nearly 50 countries worldwide, with the majority of members based in the United States. NACS serves the convenience and petroleum retailing industry by providing industry knowledge, connections and advocacy to ensure the competitive viability of its members' businesses.
NACS 2012 chairman is Tom Robinson, president of Robinson Oil Corporation based in Watsonville, Calif. Robinson Oil Corporation is an integrated operation that includes 35 Rotten Robbie convenience store/fueling stations and a strong commercial fueling operation serving the Pacific Northwest.
NPN: How was business in 2011?
Robinson: I've certainly appreciated being in a recession-resistant industry the last few years. I would be happy to see our business doing better, but as I look at a lot of industries I'm more than reasonably happy and the cup has been more than half-full. It's been an interesting year. I certainly thought that economically we would see more progress during the year, and if anything there were more concerns as the year went on as opposed to optimism.
What has also been interesting is how high crude oil and fuel prices have stayed. I very much remember the run-up in 2008 and then how it fell off. That seemed to me to be more obvious in about how high prices were, but I think, on average, crude oil and products have likely been higher this year. This is amazing to me when you're in the midst of a very slow recovery. A lot of that is likely related to the Arab Spring, which certainly had a significant influence. But it's been very surprising to me how strong it's been with demand in general being flat, at best.
NPN: Your business is California-based, which is at the epicenter of a lot of the worst legislative and regulatory initiatives impacting business – particularly those involved with fossil fuels. How do you deal with that?
Robinson: Were more fortunate than some people in California by being based in the San Francisco Bay Area and in general Silicon Valley has been doing better, certainly compared to the Central Valley or the Inland Empire and Southern California. So our economy, while not great, has certainly been stronger than in other parts of the state. But California is an amazingly dysfunctional state; it has a wealth of riches that it squanders.
NPN: What do you expect from 2012?
Robinson: I'm almost always optimistic even when I'm proven wrong. I think that 2012 is going to be a fascinating year partly because of the election, and I'm really interested to see how that sorts out. I think it's going to really be important. I think that my market, the Bay Area, will probably marginally get better so I feel comfortable at least from my own company's standpoint. I look at the greater economies of California and the United States and internationally and there are a lot more question marks out there. So I don't know. As I said I tend to normally be optimistic, maybe delusionally so, but I certainly don't see next the year being gangbusters. I would be more than satisfied if we could make incremental progress rather than slipping back into a double dip or some type of financial chaos that could occur with some of the things going on in Europe. So, the answer is a resounding, "I don't know."
NPN: What is at the top of the docket for NACS in 2012?
Robinson: Government relations are always a big deal. And I think there is a lot going on in the legislative and even more so the regulatory areas. With swipe fees, obviously we would like to protect what we have gotten so far and we are trying to fix the debit situation with the Fed where they did not set the rates correctly. We have an ongoing lawsuit, that's one of those legal things; it just goes on and on. So swipe fees, while not to the same magnitude as last year, continue to be very important.
You have big regulatory FDA issues both with menu labeling and tobacco. Being a Californian I'm much more spooked typically about regulatory issues than legislative issues. With legislative issues you have an opportunity to fight and marshal resources and get grassroots going to make your voice heard. Regulatory issues are very challenging where the regulator typically calls a hearing and says what it's going to do, then takes some public comment, which often doesn't matter. And then they end up doing what they said they were going to do in the first place. Dealing with regulatory agencies is challenging. On a more positive note, NACS continues to enhance its offerings around food service. NACS Café is a resource for convenience retailers to receive education, ideas, information and solutions designed to help build dynamic, effective, and profitable foodservice, which is a very important store category. We also continue to have a strong legislative agenda with fuels issues.
The exciting thing that's really happened over the last year or so is grassroots, and we had a great issue (swipe fees) and it's always easier to do grassroots when you have a great issue that everybody can understand, feel strongly about and get behind. But I think that this is a real opportunity for NACS. A lot of industries and a lot of organizations would die for the grassroots coverage we have. We basically have stores in every congressional district. So the challenge for us is to continue to do a good job and improve on our ability to mobilize those assets.
We also concentrate on putting together a decent show and other educational opportunities. I've previously never had much involvement with either the NACS Show or NACSTech, so it's fun for me and an opportunity to get behind the stage a bit and see how that is done.
I would be remiss if I did not mention PCI. There are more potential expenses facing retailers in the next few years and trying to get that right. My expectation is that it may never be over and that it will always be evolving so I think what you need to do is be very careful in selecting your solutions so from the start you have a good solution that works pretty well and that is somewhat reasonably priced recognizing full well that that initial solution is probably not going to be it, but that you've not wasted a lot of money in the process.
Headquartered just outside Washington, D.C., NATSO is a national trade association representing travel plaza and truckstop owners and operators. NATSO represents 1,202 travel plazas and truckstops nationwide, owned by 229 corporate entities, and pursues a clear mission: to advance the success of truckstop and travel plaza members.
Since 1960, NATSO has dedicated itself to the needs of truckstops, travel plazas and their suppliers by serving as America's official source of information on the diverse industry. NATSO also acts as the voice of the industry on Capitol Hill and at regulatory agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Transportation, the Department of Labor and the Department of Energy. In addition, NATSO conducts an annual national convention and exposition.
NATSO's 2012 chairman is Darrin Fitton, the manager of the Gold Truck Stops for Sinclair Oil. Sinclair branded truckstops, also known as, Sinclair Gold Truck Stops, consist of 57 independent truckstops from Iowa to Idaho. Sinclair Gold Truck Stops work together as a network or a "chain" of truckstops. These independent truckstops consist of every kind of truckstop from the large 300+ truck parking spaces with 17 showers on major interstates to the small and quaint four-shower truckstop located on a small rural highway. Fitton is charged with improving and growing the network of independent locations by increasing location count, improving business, and to manage the Sinclair Driver Thank You card; Sinclair's in house professional driver loyalty card program.
NPN: What do you expect going into 2012?
Fitton: The year 2012 will be exciting for many reasons. The recession seems to be improving; it's an election year; many issues are on Capitol Hill; and as the new incoming Chairman for NATSO I am truly honored and excited to be involved in this great association. Bobby Berkstressor, the outgoing chairman, has done some amazing things for NATSO; I have some big shoes to fill. I will work hard for the truckstop and travel plaza industry. I am passionate about truckstops; there is a bright future for truckstops. America depends on truckstops and travel plazas to keep it moving.
NPN: What are some of the major issues facing the association?
Fitton: Rest Area Commercialization has been a hot topic for many years now and with states facing huge deficits and looking for means to raise revenue rest area commercialization will likely be front and center again in many areas. Other issues facing NATSO in 2012 are the reauthorization of the highway bill and highway tolling.
NPN: How is the association working to address those issues?
Fitton: Every year in May dozens of truckstop and travel plaza owners storm Capitol Hill side by side with NATSO's staff and NATSO's CEO. May of 2012 will be no exception. There will be another storm of truckstop operators anxious to meet elected officials to discuss topics and to voice their concerns about issues that directly affect their businesses. It is quite a sight to see dozens of NATSO members pouring out of a bus in a parking lot near the House and Senate buildings and making their way up the steps eager to voice their concerns. The NATSO staff works tirelessly all year by meeting with elected officials, making statements, raising concerns, and combating issues that directly impact owners and operators in the truckstop and travel plaza industry.
NPN: Do you have a leadership theme or special focus for your term?
Fitton: "Let's Get Involved!" In my first article I wrote for NATSO's magazine, StopWatch, I said,
"I believe in NATSO. I believe in its cause. I believe in you. Call NATSO on the phone; someone will pick up the phone and they will be eager to help you. Ask NATSO how you can become involved. You will be amazed with the things you can do. Whether you come from a small town in the middle of nowhere or a large city hidden among the masses of people, you still are important to this cause. Become involved. Raise your hand and ask, "What can I do?" Be involved as if your business and job depends on it, because it does.
My focus as the new Chairman of NATSO is simple: "Let's Get Involved." If you are not involved and you do not voice your concern in Washington, you do not have much room to complain. If you are not a member of NATSO, do something good for yourself and become one today! NATSO is an excellent avenue for anyone to become involved with their business and the state and federal governments.
The Petroleum Marketers Association of America (PMAA) is a federation of 48 state and regional trade associations representing approximately 8,000 independent petroleum marketers nationwide. PMAA's 2012 president is Stanley Roberts, owner of Capitol Oil based out of Jackson, Miss. Capitol Oil is a full jobbership that features convenience stores, wholesale supply, and a small lubricants business. It has been in operation since 1975 when Roberts started out as a consignee with Gulf and then switched to marketing under the BP label when Gulf was bought out. The company has recently rebranded under Valero.
Roberts: The recession hasn't had much of an effect on us, but it has had an effect to some degree. The consumption of gasoline is slowly decreasing nationwide and this has had an impact as it has, I'm sure, with all of the marketers in the United States. The mindset has always been if the location was doing "X" number of gallons when you opened it up, if you operated it efficiently and just kept up with the increase in consumption you would see the percentage gain yearly. That is a real change for the marketer. It's not going to happen today and I'm not sure it'll come back in the future. Most likely if you're doing a wonderful job and doing everything you're supposed to, you could even see a decline in your gallons instead of an increase.
NPN: How do you maximize profits in this environment?
Roberts: You have to be very mindful and very careful, and we are not a large marketer. If you are marketing at the retail level, you have to make sure that you are holding and keeping the best locations that you could possibly have. If it is a marginal location, the chances are it's going to decline. And you have to try to squeeze out every bit of profit for the property that you own. For example, if you have a location that needs a larger store, but you don't have that, you are hurting yourself.
We try to make ourselves a service orientated company and will look at any kind of service from wet hosing to cleaning and polishing fuel. If someone's fuel has gotten contaminated with bacterial growth, we have the ability to take care of that, and while it's not a big part of our business, it all adds up at the end of the day. We've had people call from out of state, primarily things like cell phone towers where they would put in fuel and the fuel gets contaminated after it sits there and we have to do something with that because you can't just dump it out anymore like some people did when there wasn't so much environmental concern and fuel was cheap.
You also have to market the way people are marketing today, such as through social media. I never thought we would be marketing through FaceBook with such success.
NPN: With the economy as it is, how has your relations changed with your retailer customers?
Roberts: We recently divested from a number of our dealer relationships. None of them were in trouble – none of them were over their terms – but our exposure was more than we liked. We did have somebody that was interested in them and we decided to go that route. I wouldn't have done it five years ago and certainly not 10 years ago, but when product cost $25,000 per load and you're only making pennies on it and if you lose one of those loads, it takes an awful long time to make that up.
NPN: What do you want to accomplish with your term at PMAA?
Roberts: There are a number of priorities that we have, but centrally it appears that there is almost a war between our government and liquid fuels with an effort to drive motorist to use other kinds of energy to drive their automobiles. And some of those I view as not being very cost-effective for the motorist or our country. We already have a tremendous amount of money invested in getting liquid fuels distributed throughout the country and it's been very efficient.
As president of PMAA I would like to represent the association as someone who is mindful of the future and understands that change can be good, but at the same time, are we changing in ways that are not good? I would like to bring to people's attention the idea that we need to slow down and figure out what we already have and augment that with fuels that make the most sense.
NPN: What are some of the specific issues PMAA will be addressing in 2012?
Roberts: We've been totally disappointed with what's happened with interchange fees and we will be doing our part to work on that issue with organizations like NACS. We won the battle but certainly not the war. Where the highway bill is concerned, I don't want to be tarred and feathered here, but I just don't see how we can keep our highways maintained without an increase in federal excise tax. That's something to look at.
The way the Dodd-Frank Bill's been watered down with the provisions covering the speculation on energy commodities hurts all Americans. The equities market goes up so do commodities and how does that happen? How did the demand suddenly get so great? Because the stock market went up? I think the motorists in the country would like to pay the real value of our products instead of the drummed up price.
Rest stop commercialization is another big issue—it's really going to hurt not just people in our industry, but other businesses and the towns that have made a commitment to developing near the interstates.
Going to 15 percent with ethanol is going to be a real nightmare. The way E15 is being handled is really going to be confusing for motorists. And we're not sure that all equipment is going to be able to handle it.
Society of Independent Gasoline Marketers of America
SIGMA is a non-profit, national trade association representing some of the most successful, progressive, and innovative independent motor fuel marketers and chain retailers in the U.S. Its roughly 250 corporate members command 30 percent of the petroleum retail market, selling over 56 billion gallons of motor fuel a year.
Frank P. Greinke, CEO of SC Fuels in Orange, Calif., is in his second year as the 2011-2012 SIGMA president. SC Fuels maintains its position as one of the largest suppliers of branded, unbranded, and alternative fuels in the United States. SC Fuels also is a leader in fleet card and cardlock services. For customers who desire to have their vehicles and equipment fueled on-site during off hours, SC Fuels provides mobile on-site re-fueling. Additional products supplied by SC Fuels include lubricants and heating oil.
Greinke: Frankly, 2011 was a pretty good year and we made a few acquisitions of small jobberships. However, we remain concerned about the slowdown in construction and I saw some reduction in demand from the supply side as well.
NPN: Although it's not seen as the more public face on a range of significant industry legislative issues, Sigma provide strong support for these issues both through its PAC donations and through the personal educational and lobbying efforts of its members. What are some of the hot topics for SIGMA in 2012?
Greinke: There really is a range of issues we keep our eyes on – virtually anything that stands to impact the industry. We're clearly focused on the ethanol mandate and the numerous concerns that go with both losing the subsidy and issues like E15. The commercialization of rest areas is increasingly becoming something to pay attention to. That has been more of a focus at NATSO, but many of our members belong to both associations and have the same concerns. It's really hard to get very specific since there are so many issues we address.
NPN: Last year, you noted a focus within the organization on attracting and maintaining a solid membership base. How is that working out as you go into your second year of leadership?
Greinke: My two years as president of Sigma has been a great opportunity to help set the association on a course where two years from now, we will have a newly recruited and re-energized association. This industry has been consolidating like most industries, but SIGMA has managed to stay relatively consistent in its numbers and the quality of its members. There was a small rate increase the previous year, which was the first increase the association has had in a long time, but with that we are always working to add value.
Our education and networking opportunities are excellent and we have further enhanced that with the SIGMA Educational Exchange. This is a new online member portal that allows questions to be asked and answered in a safe environment and opens it up to all employees in a member's company in all areas of operation.
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The 20 Best Small Towns in America of 2012
From the Berkshires to the Cascades, we've crunched the numbers and pulled a list some of the most interesting spots around the country
- By Susan Spano and Aviva Shen
- Smithsonian magazine, May 2012
The narrow-gauge Durango & Silverton train steams through history above the Animas River. (Scott DW Smith)
All aboard for mountain fun, plus classical tunes and—gasp—vaudeville.
It would be a bald-faced lie to say that Durango (pop. 16,900) isn't devoted above all to outdoor recreation, from mountain biking and black-diamond downhill skiing to Iron-man triathlons, white-water kayaking and rock climbing. But between adventures in the surrounding San Juan Mountains, people celebrate life Western-style in the old railroad and mining town's lamppost-lined historic district, among art installations along the Animas River greenway, and at the nearby Music in the Mountains festival come July (heavy on the classical offerings, but a bit of pop, too), the Fort Lewis College Community Concert Hall, and the Henry Strater Theatre, a.k.a. the "Hank," a showcase for vintage melodrama and vaudeville. Best of all, the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, opened in 1882 and now a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark, still carries passengers 45 miles into the heart of the high San Juans, pulled by a coal-fired, steam-driven locomotive, with the occasional bluegrass band or cowboy poet onboard for entertainment. -- SS
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I love every small cities.
Posted by Marco Antonio on October 31,2013 | 11:44 AM
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Posted by Huma Shah on September 26,2013 | 03:11 AM
I love these cities :)
Posted by Jones on September 25,2013 | 12:54 AM
I lived in Staunton for 5 years after Hurricane Katrina forced me out of Louisiana. I moved back because of family needs in 2010 but there isn't a week that goes by that I don't miss it...good food, nice bars, several outdoor music events and a Saturday morning famers market in the wharf area that is a must. My goal is to move back one day. Enjoy!
Posted by Mark on September 24,2013 | 03:40 PM
I lived in Staunton for 5 years after Hurricane Katrina forced me out of Louisiana. I moved back because of family needs in 2010 but there isn't a week that goes by that I don't miss it...good food, nice bars, several outdoor music events and a Saturday morning famers market in the wharf area that is a must. My goal is to move back one day. Enjoy!
Posted by Mark on September 24,2013 | 03:40 PM
My wife and I lived in the Naples area for a good 20 years and found the only good thing about the place is the weather. To live in a place like this you must be making upwards of 100,000 to 200,000 just to get by. A great place to visit, if you have the money, but don't try to live here.
Posted by Patrick Steinert on September 21,2013 | 10:29 AM
Eureka Springs, AR. Minoqua, WI. both amazing little towns!! look them up!!
Posted by stephanie on September 9,2013 | 05:07 AM
Naples Florida is the Best!!!!! We have traveled all over on vaca for years. Seen the best and the worst of all areas in the U.S. and overseas. We have decided awhile back to move here and love every moment. The activites, class, culture and worldly events here have made living here a complete joy!!!
Posted by Benny on September 8,2013 | 07:20 PM
I was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. When I was 14 years old, my dad moved his family, mom and my two younger brothers up to Gleason, Wisconsin. 200 miles north of the city. It was the first time I remember laying in the grass at night to watch the stars. The absent car horns or squealing of tires and loud mufflers. There was no neighbors yelling at each other and no loud music.I heard crickets and an occasional bird chirping. Wow! not to worry if you forget to lock the door at night. I cannot point out any one particular town but, to many to mention small home towns are perfect for one to spend time. Hometown coffee shops are fun. You get all the news in ten minutes of listening to the locals. Life is very short. Search for the perfect area for you and enjoy breathing.
Posted by Gerald G. Robinson on September 7,2013 | 10:13 AM
Try Cleveland Tn.
Posted by john on September 3,2013 | 07:57 PM
,How different from the 50s; bigger but, alas, not necessarily better.
Posted by James Tuttle on September 2,2013 | 07:21 PM
I was raised in Naples, and there isn't an ounce of culture in that town. Its beautiful in a man-made kind of way. Seeing it on this list makes me question some of the other places. Also, I would not call Naples small or quaint. It is quite large.
Posted by Dee on August 26,2013 | 11:35 PM
I was part of Durango, CO in the sixties and seventies when it was a little smaller but growing. It's always been a progressive town overall because of the folks that Fort Lewis College attracted to it. At one time there were 188 PHD's on staff for a student population of 2700 and it wasn't because of salaries. Extraordinary number of Doctors and Lawyers for population size and the reason was life style, climate, activities, beauty, sense of community. I suspect there has been change but climate, beauty and activities have not and Fort Lewis College is still one of the best in Colorado. You should visit!
Posted by ET on August 21,2013 | 01:09 PM
I guess you're right about Great Barrington. But I used to live there and ended up nearly living out on the street and being placed in a group home. I told this person that he cost me my job and was going to have to pay damages and that's when he pretty much put me out on the street and my life has been miserable ever since. He tried to take away my high school diploma and report to the police that I ran away from home. I then told him to pay up and that's when he kicked me out and I am afraid that I might be put out on the street anyday now.
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BERLIN — A man suffering from AIDS, not knowing that he had been infected with the AIDS virus for more than 10 years appears to have been cured of the disease after undergoing 20 months of treatment a genetically selected bone marrow transplant normally used to fight against leukemia and he no longer shows signs of carrying the AIDS virus
This AIDS virus has infected 33 million people worldwide.
Doctors in Berlin are reporting that they cured a man of AIDS by giving him transplanted blood stem cells from a person naturally resistant to the virus.
But while the case has novel medical implications, experts say it will be of little immediate use in treating AIDS. Top American researchers called the treatment unthinkable for the millions infected in Africa and impractical even for insured patients in top research hospitals.
"It's very nice, and it's not even surprising," said Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. "But it's just off the table of practicality."
The patient, a 42-year-old American resident in Germany, also has leukemia, which justified the high risk of a stem-cell transplant. Such transplants require wiping out a patient's immune system, including bone marrow, with radiation and drugs; 10 to 30 percent of those getting them die.
"Frankly, I'd rather take the medicine," said Dr. Robert C. Gallo, director of the Institute of Human Virology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, referring to antiretroviral drugs.
Moreover, the chances of finding a donor who is a good tissue match for the patient and also has the rare genetic mutation that confers resistance to H.I.V., the virus that causes AIDS, are extremely small. Nonetheless, the man has been free of the virus for 20 months even though he is not using antiretroviral drugs, and the success in his case is evidence that a long-dreamed-of therapy for AIDS — injecting stem cells that have been genetically re-engineered with the mutation — might work.
The cure was announced Wednesday by Dr. Gero Hütter and Dr. Eckhard Thiel, blood-cancer specialists at Charité Hospital in Berlin. The case was described last week in The Wall Street Journal.
Attempts to use bone-marrow transplants in AIDS treatment have been made since the 1980s. In one case, a patient with both AIDS and lymphoma died of the cancer two months later, but was found to harbor no H.I.V.; it was not known if something in the transplant had protected him.
And in a famous 1995 case, Jeff Getty, a prominent San Francisco advocate for AIDS patients, received bone marrow from a baboon, which is resistant to the human virus. He survived 11 years, but died of AIDS and cancer; the transplant had not protected him but antiretroviral triple therapy had been invented in time to help.
Dr. Hütter said one of the 80 potential donors who matched his patient closely enough for leukemia treatment also happened to have the mutation.
That mutation, discovered in a few gay men in the 1990s and known as Delta 32, must be inherited from both parents. With it, the white blood cells produced in the marrow lack the surface receptors that allow H.I.V. to invade the immune system.
Even if it is prevented from replicating by drugs, the H.I.V. can lie dormant in lymph and nerve cells for years. But without the necessary receptors, any virus coming out of dormancy has no way to infect them.
Doctors say the case gives hope for therapies that artificially induce the Delta 32 mutation.
For example, Dr. Irvin S. Y. Chen, director of the AIDS Institute at U.C.L.A. , is working on using RNA "hairpin scissors" to cut out the bits of genetic material in blood stem cells that code for the receptors. The concept is working in monkeys, he said. Eventually, he hopes, it will be possible to inject them into humans after wiping out only part of the immune system with drugs. "I think that would carry no risk of death," he said.
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A native of Taiwan, Mark (Yuching) Huang began taking piano lessons from the corner music store jazz teacher, and by the age of ten, he was winning most of the piano competitions in Taiwan. After his twelfth Birthday, he immigrated with his family to Atlanta, Georgia where his true music education began. He began taking bass lessons with the principal bass of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Ralph Jones, and played in the Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra. Mr. Huang credits the Atlanta community and the influence of its music program as well as its devoted music educators for his strong musical foundation and success.
After graduating from high school, Mr. Huang studied at the Peabody Conservatory and the Curtis Institute of Music. He also attended the Aspen Summer Music Festival on a winter fellowship and performed with the New York String Orchestra at Carnegie Hall. Having been influenced and inspired by some of the most renowned and respected names in the bass field, he feels extremely fortunate to have studied with artists of such caliber. His teachers have included: Ralph Jones (Principal of the ASO), Lawrence Hurst (Bloomington and Interlochen), Winston Budrow (Interlochen), the late great Roger Scott (Curtis Institute and Principal of the Philadelphia Orchestra), the late Stuart Sankey (Aspen Institute), Robert Kesselman and John Hood (Peabody Conservatory) and last but not least, Paul Johnson (Peabody Conservatory and the Baltimore Opera Company).
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Southwest Harbor looks pretty in pink, a thirty-foot-tall fisherman, and more.
Pretty in Pink
Each July, Southwest Harbor turns flamingo pink. Literally.
It is an unlikely migration: each July a flock of flamingos makes its way to the quiet side of Mount Desert Island. Lawn flamingos, that is. They land — or rather, are placed — on residential and business properties around Southwest Harbor for a fund-raising event put on by Harbor House, a local community center.
Originally known as Southwest Harbor Days, the four-day Flamingo Festival (which begins July 9 this year) includes a craft fair, parade, rides for kids, pancake breakfast, and more. No one seems quite sure how a straightforward civic celebration turned into a flamingo fiesta nearly a dozen years ago.
"I really don't know. Isn't that awful?" admits Harbor House event coordinator Diana Novella. "It was just kind of a fun, gimmicky thing. The executive director [of Harbor House at the time] knew that Don and Nancy Featherstone lived close by in Massachusetts and that [flamingos] would be a great draw."
Don Featherstone, who previously had no connection with Maine, invented the iconic pink lawn ornament in 1957 while working at Union Products in Massachusetts. Now he and his wife are the Grand Marshals of the popular parade down Southwest Harbor's main drag.
But the flamingos are the real celebrities. "The first year they tried it, some people put the flamingos on lawns and it caught on," says Bruce Carlson, the executive director for the Southwest Harbor/Tremont Chamber of Commerce. "The second year they were all over the place. And now the whole town turns into a flamingo craze."
At least it's not pink elephants.
Sign O' the Times
What will become of Prospect Harbor's giant fisherman?
Now that Bumble Bee Foods has closed the country's last sardine cannery, what is to become of its iconic sign, the enormous fisherman in yellow oilskins who has towered for decades over Prospect Harbor in the Schoodic Peninsula town of Gouldsboro?
"As far as I know, it's staying here, and if I have anything to say about it, it's staying here," says Peter Colson, the longtime manager of Stinson Seafood, which processed its last sardine in April. "I have talked to some of the prospective buyers and they've said they're interested in keeping it."
Holding an oversized can of Beach Cliff sardines in his enormous hands, the thirty-foot-tall fisherman memorializes an industry that defined Prospect Harbor for more than a century, says Gouldsboro selectman and lobster dealer Dana Rice, who likens the cannery's closure to a death in the family. One hundred-and-twenty-eight people, many of whom hand-packed pieces of silver herring into cans all their working lives, lost their jobs.
The giant mariner's symbolism reaches beyond Schoodic, says Ronnie Peabody, who with wife, Mary, runs the Maine Coast Sardine History Museum in Jonesport. Originally erected by the Maine Sardine Council on Route One in Kittery in the pre-Maine Turnpike 1950s, the fisherman offered his stoic blue-eyed gaze and tantalizing sardine can to northbound drivers. The can's label read: "Maine Sardines Welcome You to Vacationland, Sardineland." At the time, about fifty sardine factories dotted the Maine coast. "We have the same man on the end of our [museum], only smaller," says Peabody.
By the early 1960s, the sardine council's plywood sign was deteriorating and the sardine industry had dwindled to a single factory, Stinson Seafood. According to Peabody, owner Carroll Stinson told his peers on the sardine council, "I can take it off our hands and it won't cost us a penny." Since the sign's move to Prospect Harbor, it has been revamped at least twice; the can's lid pull-ring is a more recent addition.
Even if the factory's new owner decides against keeping the sign, the fisherman is unlikely to end up an orphan. "I think some of us would get together and buy it and lie it down in a field if we had to." Rice says. "I'd hate to see it go."
So would we.
Gravestone GPS
Precise waypoints mark the final resting places of some early seafaring Mainers.
People from away may think us macabre, but wandering in cemeteries is a part of New England folklife, right along with mudrooms and maple syrup. (Boston has built an entire tourist industry around searching for Paul Revere's grave.) To us Mainers, old tombstones are objects of curiosity, as well as memento mori.
Take the markers in Searsport. A number of the granite memorials in this seafaring community list not places of death, but rather latitude and longitude. "When they buried people at sea, or when a ship was lost at sea with all hands, crews would just mark the spot where they were last heard from," explains Faith Garrold.
Employees at the Penobscot Marine Museum in Searsport, Faith and her husband, Don, are painstakingly recording and mapping all of the four thousand or so graves spread across seven cemeteries in the seaport at the head of Penobscot Bay. "In many cases there are stones, but the body was never there, because they were either lost at sea or buried in some foreign port, so it'll say 'buried in Madagascar' or something like that," Faith says.
In addition to this cartographical oddity, the Garrolds have discovered that some of Searsport's old cemeteries themselves have undergone posthumous transformations over the years. The Bowditch Cemetery, hard by Route 1 north of the village, was originally the Pendleton Cemetery and includes many family members of that name, but was at some point renamed in honor or Nathaniel Bowditch, the father of modern navigation. The Elmwood Cemetery was formerly the Nichols Cemetery, with the Nichols School standing on the site of Bluejacket Shipcrafters.
Recording whatever data is inscribed on tombstones serves more than just the Garrolds' own curiosity. "We've entered all the data from our survey of the cemeteries and from earlier inventories into an electronic database, so that people researching their ancestors can access this information, in addition to whatever else we have learned about a person through other historical records," says Don Garrold. "Some of the stones that were inventoried in the seventies or eighties have probably fallen down and disappeared, so this is the only record we have."
It's nice to know that while the Maine mariners themselves might have disappeared beneath the waves, their final resting places have not.
Reflected Glory
Inventor Harley Sproul created the ultimate campfire accessory.
After a day spent paddling the Allagash or fly-fishing the Kennebago, Registered Maine Guides could no doubt quiet their clients' growling stomachs with peanut butter sandwiches. Instead, guides typically show off their woodcraft by rustling up a feast of mouthwatering dishes: roasted chicken, savory baked salmon, even pineapple upside down cake. Indeed, the guides' outstanding shore meals often attract more praise from urban travel writers than does their actual wilderness expertise.
We can't help but wonder what the future holds for those deep woods banquets now that Harley Sproul has stopped making his Sproul Baker. For the past decade, the innovative reflector has allowed seasoned outdoorsmen to transform any campsite into a gourmet kitchen. The rising costs of metal, and the increased difficulty in finding raw materials, has convinced Sproul, 78, that it's time to retire.
The former jewelry store owner began developing the oven back in 1997. A baker on the biscuit committee for the River Drivers Supper, which is held the third Thursday of July in his hometown of Lincoln, Sproul yearned for an oven that would permit the outdoor cook to prepare any meal that could be made at home. "It took nine years of research and development to perfect it," he says of his deceptively simple tin oven, which is modeled after devices used by nineteenth-century river driver cooks and bakes with heat reflected from a campfire.
At Maine's Outdoor Learning Center in Lincolnville, Master Maine Guide John Rogers finds Sproul's Bakers offer entertainment along with sustenance. "I cook a lot of biscuits with them," he says, "and the students like to watch them brown and rise right before their eyes." For large groups, he'll get all five of his Bakers going at once, with some students monitoring the biscuits while others tend the brownies and apple crisp.
There are other reflector ovens on the market, but only the Sproul's Baker is foldable, collapsing to the size of a laptop computer and weighing in at just three pounds. Assembled, the Baker cooks recipes in the same amount of time a home oven requires. Temperature is controlled by moving the oven closer or farther from the fire.
Sproul has written a campfire cookbook and designed several accessories, including muffin pans and a carry case. He has made and sold about one thousand ovens since he first put them on the market in 2003.
The retiring inventor is currently looking for a buyer for his business, Sproul's of Maine Campfire Cookware. So far, he has had a few nibbles. "In general, making ovens is complicated and not done by going downstairs after supper with a pair of tin snips and building a few," Sproul says. "Passion, determination, and pride in your work is how it's done." For these qualities and others, Registered Maine Guides salute him.
A bank lot raises tempers in Brunswick.
In most towns, an encounter with a yellow fiberglass arm blocking entry to a heretofore free parking lot would likely elicit a few choice words from the driver, who would then grudgingly pay up or move on in search of friendlier blacktop. Not so in Brunswick, where residents and businesspeople have been chafing since January against the Savings Bank of Maine's installation of a pay-to-park gate on its Maine Street lot.
The gate has not only triggered a rash of criticism from town officials, residents, and businesspeople, but also resulted in criminal summonses to at least five people (one a former town councilor) who lifted or broke the gate in order to avoid the ten-dollar fee. There's even a Facebook group, People Boycotting Pay Parking in Brunswick, whose 257 (and counting) members condemn pay-to-park as "un-Brunswicklike." The Forecaster newspaper has dubbed the controversy "Parkinggate."
A fixture on Maine Street for thirteen years, the Savings Bank of Maine installed the gate as part of a renovation project, and even critics acknowledge the once-barren stretch of pavement is greatly improved. The fee is intended to guarantee spaces for customers of the bank and its tenant, the Brunswick House of Pizza, who receive tokens allowing them to exit without paying. (The restaurant's owner, however, has been one of the gate's staunchest opponents, saying it has deterred customers.)
Given the brouhaha, you'd be forgiven for assuming that this is the first time a business has attempted to regulate parking in downtown Brunswick, but Tim Dietz, president of Dietz Associates, the Kennebunk public relations firm representing the bank, says that back in the eighties there stood on that very same lot a guard booth sporadically manned by an attendant who would shoo off parking rogues, though no fee was charged.
You might also assume that parking spaces are especially scarce in downtown Brunswick, but that's not so, either. Indeed, it appears that the very abundance of free parking on and around Maine Street is precisely what makes the pay lot, which has about forty spaces, all the more offensive to Brunswickites. "The gate seems so antithetical to the way business is conducted nowadays," Rob Jarrett, who chairs the Brunswick Downtown Association's board of directors, told the Forecaster.
To its credit, the bank, on Dietz' advice, is now raising the gate at night and on weekends when the branch is closed, and it is donating all collected fees to local charities. "The bank just wants to preserve parking for customers," Dietz explains.
Whether lifting the gate in the evenings will also lift the tension on Maine Street remains to be seen.
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The Loyola Maroon Vol. XXXIX Loyola University, New Orleans, La., Friday, September 28, 1962 No. 2 Ideal Coed Sought As 'Miss Wolf' Some coed on the campus will be Miss Wolf of 1963. Miss Wolf appears in the "favorites" section of the Wolf yearbook and represents the "ideal girl" type of coed on the Loyola campus. She is a combination of beauty and brains, and a coed very much in the picture of extra-curricular activities. She is just an "all-around" gal. This year organizations on the campus will have an opportunity to help in the selection of Miss Wolf for 1963. Any organization may nominate a coed or coeds, submitting her name and background information to the Wolf by October 10. Each nomination must be accompanied by signatures of 20 full-time Loyola students. The organizations may nominate as many coeds as they please, but the 20 signatures (all different) must accompany the nomination. In other words, no student may "signature" more than one nominee. The organization must also show "why" this coed should be Miss Wolf of 1963. Among the activities that Miss Wolf will participate in are: (1) formal introduction to the students at the Varsity* Frosh contest in March; (2) participation in Maroon-Wolf activities, including the banquets of both organizations. 'Citizen Kane' Opens Film Series Sunday the 1962-63 Loyola film series Sunday in Marquette auditonum beginning at 7:45 p.m. The academy award-winning production, starring Orson Welles, Joseph Cotton, Everett Sloane, Agnes Moorehead and Ruth Warwick, is the story of a controversial public figure as seen through the eyes of the people in his life. Superb photography makes the film a vivid electric masterpiece considered by some to be the greatest picture ever made in the United States. Sponsored by the Thirty club, honorary journalism society, the film is the first in a series of 10 to be presented over a nine-month At the time of "Citizen Kane's" release in 1941, the Hearst papers discouraged the film's showing because of the similarity between the leading figure and William Randolph Hearst. In Arthur Knight's book, The Liveliest Art, the movie is described as experimental in extremes. Wide angle photography created an illusion of vast spaces. Mercury theatre, directed and starred in the title role. Members of his stock company, Joseph Cotton and Agnes Moorehead, were featured in the cast. In addition, Sunday's program will present a short entitled "Visit to Picasso." An intimate picture of the master at work, it shows Pablo Picasso as a draftsman, painter, sculptor, maker of ceramics. In the film are seen works of his creative genius in the evolution of his art, commencing with the naturalism shown in paintings done at the age of 14. This film has been awarded the Grand Prize at the Venice film festival and first prize at the Woodstock art film festival. General admission tickets are available at the door for $1. Tickets are also on sale in the Barber Shop. Patrons can purchase a book of season tickets for $5, entitling them to see all 10 movies at a $5 saving. This year's program arranger was Hubert Emke, presently an English teacher at Redemptorist. Student coordinators are Carolyn Tosso and Eugene Katsanis, arts and science seniors. Mr. Edwin P. Fricke, chairman of the journalism department, is faculty director of the series. The full program: "A Nous, La Liberte"—October 14. Short: "Rhapsody in Wood"; "Bullfight—November 18. Short: "Churehill's Island"; "The Stars Look Down"—October 28. Short: "II Demoniaco Nell 'Arte"; "Aparajito"—December 9. Short: "Olympia Diving Sequence"; "Vitelloni"—February 3. Short: "Quetico"; "Grand Illusion"— February 24. Short; "Phantom of the Opera"; "Little World of Don Camillo"*—March 10. Short: "The Living Stone"; "Moonrise"—April 7. Short: "Henry Moore"; and "The Titan" and "The Silent World"—April 28. "Subject to change. Three ADG's Get Offices Three members of Alpha Delta Game social fraternity were elected to national offices at the fraternity's 38th annual convention, held in Santa Monica, Calif., recently.They are Mr. Gasper Schiro, alumnus of the law school, national vice-president; The Rev. Louis Hiegel, S.J., national moderator; and Mr. James Foley, BA junior, national song: committee. George Jelsen, alumnus of Lambda Chapter of Loyola of Los Angeles, is the new national president of the organization. He will succeed Robert Young of Loyola's Epsilon chapter. Loyola's delegates to the convention brought home a plaque commemorating this, their 30th year as a chapter of Alpha Delta Gamma. Previous to 1924 the chapter was Delta Phi Sigma, a local fraternity. Jambalaya Rocks Tonight, Y'all Frats Compete in Songfest By GWEN SAN MARCO Jambalaya, cuzins! So y'all paddle -your pirogues tonight down those hardtopped bayous (roads) in time to whoop it up from 8 to 12 in that cypress swamp known as the fieldhouse.There'll be no Creole gumbo but LU's four social fraternities are fixin, to serve you up a potpourri of songs. Some f-i-e-r-c-e competition will be agoin' on tonight as the social brudders all try to be top hawg in the annual fraternity songfest, the spice in the Jambalaya. For the past three years, Begyari has sung its way to victory and tension will be high as the other three fiats are bent on smashing this long standing record.Cajun culture embraced tin"Great White Way" last year as the fraternities warbled their own renditions of Broadway musicals. Stylized versions of "Do Lord," "Rock of Ages," and "Manana" were also given. Judges of tonight's song contest will be Mrs. Wessie Farrell, Loyola graduate of the college of music, Jim Stewart, WNOE disc jockey and Scranton A. Mouton, instructor of speech. For those who work up a thirst from beating their feet to the rhythm of "The Counts," refreshments will be sold at booths. The Jambalaya climaxes Frosh Hell Week which began this Monday past and is sponsored by the Student Council. All Loyolans are welcome and expected to join in the fun tonight. There is no admission fee. Chemistry Standards Improved Inauguration of an honors program and revision of all chemistry major programs at Loyola has been announced by the Rev. Homer R. Jolley, S.J., chairman of the department of chemistry. According to Father Jolley the revised curriculum conforms to standards recently set by the American Chemical Society Professional Training committee for all approved departments. Departments throughout the nation have been given until 1965 to meet the requirements. Father Jolley said students who participate in this program will be able to select a wide range of advanced courses in their senior year. Consequently they will be better prepared for graduate studies or work in chemical industry. An important change enables freshmen with strong high school science backgrounds to fulfill freshman chemistry requirements with a one-semester course instead of two. Father Jolley said the department recognizes the general strengthening of high school chemistry courses as a result of various programs supported by the National Science foundation. To complete the honors program the student must: first, earn an overall 3.0 quality point-ratio in chemistry courses over the four years. Second, do independent work in a chemistry project each semester beginning with the second semester of his freshman year. Beginning his sophomore year, he will present a seminar to the assembled department each year. All sophomore, junior, and senior majors are expected to serve as student assistants, Father Jolley stated. This work will earn them partial tuition remission except for those already on scholarships.Frosh Bring Spirit to Hell Week, Initiation Generates Excitement By JULIE YOKUM Hell Week Scrubbing... Making like Mr. Clean and his twin are Walter Sag- just that for these and many other freshmen during rera, left, and George Wiegand, both A&S frosh, the past five days. The hazing reaches a climax this as they apply soap, water and elbow brease to scour afternoon with initiation followed by the Jambalaya the Loyola seal in Marquette hall. Hell Week was party tonight. Freshmen initiation week, or Hell Week, will officially end tonight with the convocation for all freshmen at the fieldhouse. This past week was designated by the Student Council as Freshman Hell Week so that when the week was over, the freshmen would feel that they were a real part of Loyola, according to Kurt Sins, inititions committee member. I," said Sins, Student representative, "this ini is to generate the spirit university and to start a i that will be fun ihnien and upperclassmen regulations governing the not allowed to wear belts; and they are required to wear some type of suspenders for their trousers.• Freshmen coeds are allowed no facial makeup. • Freshmen are strongly advised to avoid stepping on the university seal in Marquette hall, and must carry with them at all times an old toothbrush. • Freshmen are strongly advised to follow any suggestions made by an upperclassman which is not damaging to them physically or scholastically. Richard L. Berry, chairman of the initiation committee, an- apparel anCl conduct of the freshmen were: • All freshmen must wear beanies at all times. • All freshmen are required to be in the quadrangle between 12:30 and 1:00 p.m. every day. • Freshmen male students are required to wear white shirts and ties. • Freshmen male students are Language Building Named Hynes Hall The new language building has been named Hynes hall in honor of the Very Rev. John VV. Hynes, S.J., president of Loyola from 1931 to 1936. Hynes hall stands at 1812 Calhoun next to The Maroon building and has been in operation for the past 13 months. It presently houses the officers of all language teachers and most classes. Moral Virtues Defined at Key, Seal Ceremony Fr. Doyle Addresses Coeds The four steps towards realizing the ideals of Catholic womanhood can best be summarized by the moral virtues of prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance. These are the standards of the Loyola woman as outlined by the Rev. Edward A. Doyle, S.J., dean of the college of arts and sciences. Father Doyle addressed an assembly of freshmen and senior coeds, at Cardinal Key's annual Key and Seal ceremony, held Sunday in Holy Name Name of Jesus church. "It is these moral virtues that consolidate the perfect Catholic life. Freshmen should set the pace," he said, "according to these ideals and not to anything different." Each senior received a key symbolizing success in the future and each freshman, a token seal of the university. The significance of the seal was explained by Mary Doyle, president of Cardinal Key, national honor society. St. Ignatius' family coat of arms was officially adopted by Jesuit universities in 1895 and appears on Loyola's seal. The fleur-de-lis and pelican on the seal are symbolic of Louisiana. • OFFICERS INTRODUCE Mary Doyle, president; Eberle, vice-president; Lynn Freidman, recording secretary; Verna Guenther, corresponding secretary; and Cathy Cullen, historian, were the officers of Cardinal Key. The new members who received symbols of their membership were Jo Ann Bacino, A&S junior; Marian Fabacher, A&S senior; Lynn Gelpi, music senior; Bonnie Hattier, A&S senior; Judy La Cour, BA senior; Connie Marquer, BA senior; Linda Musmeci, A&S seniro; Linda Stromatt, A&S junior. Each year, near the end of the second semester, Cardinal Key selects from the student body those sophomores, juniors, and seniors who not only excel in scholarship, but who are also student leaders of good personality, character, and Receiving Symbolic Keys ... It may not be a fraternity pin, but Marion Fabacher, A&S senior, seems just as pleased. Fastening the Loyola key to Marion is Donna Breen, A&S sophomore. Above right, the Rev. Edward A. Doyle, S.J., vice-president, extends his blessing on a senior as he distributes keys during Cardinal Key's annual Key and Seal ceremony Sunday. The keys, symbolic of future success, were presented to the seniors and university seals were given to the incoming freshmen.(See VIRTUES, page 2) (See HELL WEEK, page 2) I'* ... Looking Inside H • How's your intellectual batting average? Do you agree with the contemporary 'great thinkers' most of the time? If so, editor Rosemary Ruiz has a few candid opinions about your opinions. See Editor's Notebook, on . . . page 4 • He's on campus; he's off campus; he's everywhere. Nothing escapes his bespectacled eye. And this week, Joe speaks to the Greeks. See his sneak peek at tonight's festivities, plus a well-deserved pat on the back to a hard-working committee, all by the unique Mr. Lobo on ... page 5 • Good times notwithstanding, dorm life can be pretty hectic at times, or so the out-of-towners claim. Is apartment living too expensive and lonesome? For opinions on both sides of the fence, turn to . . . page 5 • Intramurals are swinging already and there'll be no letup from now until school's end. The track meet is Sunday and the swimming meet only a few days later. For all the intramural and other sports news, turn to . . . page 6
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What an excellent film! I wonder how did I miss it all this time. Missing describes the story of the disappearance of U.S. citizen Charles Horman in the violent aftermath of the the 1973 military coup in Chile. Horman was in Chile at the time along with his wife, Beth Horman, and his friend, Terry Simon. His father, Ed Horman, flew to Chile to join Beth in trying to find Charles. Ed was under the impression the U.S. embassy in Chile would help him.
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Missing is a 1982 American drama film directed by Costa Gavras, and starring Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek, Melanie Mayron, John Shea, Charles Cioffi and Janice Rule. It is based on the true story of American journalist Charles Horman, who disappeared in the bloody aftermath of the US-backed Chilean coup of 1973 that deposed leftist President Salvador Allende.
The film was banned in Chile during Pinochet's dictatorship, even though neither Chile nor Pinochet are specifically mentioned by name in the film (although the Chilean cities of Viña del Mar and Santiago are).[1]
Both the film and Thomas Hauser's book The Execution of Charles Horman were removed from the United States market following a lawsuit filed against Costa-Gavras and Universal Pictures's parent company MCA by former Ambassador Nathaniel Davis and two others for defamation of character. A lawsuit against Hauser himself was dismissed because the statute of limitations had expired. Davis and his compatriots lost their lawsuit, after which the film was re-released by Universal in 2006.[citation needed]
There is a fascinating interview with Peter Kornbluth, director of the National Security Archive's Chile Documentation Project at George Washington University, in the 2nd disc. As you can imagine the State Department took issue with the film at the time. When Bill Clinton declassified some relevant documents things changed. Can you imagine Barack Obama doing such a thing? Me neither.