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When the FBI began carefully digging on the edge of the parking lot at White Sox park on Tuesday, they were looking for:
a) The wooden leg of the late Sox owner Bill Veeck.
b) The wooden leg of the late Sox pitcher Monty Stratton.
c) An extremely late hambone.
If you picked the hambone, you're correct.
The FBI was digging for the remains of the long-missing Michael Frank Albergo, also known as "Hambone" or appropriately enough, "Bones," according to a source with federal connections.
Hambone, a large enforcer with the Chicago Outfit--who also had a good political job at McCormick Place, with health benefits--disappeared in 1970. He vanished after being charged in connection with a mob loan-sharking operation.
"We're operating under the assumption that there's only one body," said FBI Special Agent Sonya Chavez in briefing reporters at the scene Tuesday.
It is the former site of a warehouse for Standard Cos. and contained cleaning supplies for janitorial contractors, including mops, plastic mats and towels. When construction for the new ballpark began in the late '80s, Standard moved to another 11th Ward location, at 3124 S. Shields Ave.
Chavez wasn't asked about Hambone. And the FBI wouldn't say whether the federal archeology was related to information being provided by the talkative Outfit boss Nicholas Calabrese.
So if they won't, I will.
What's going on in the 11th Ward at the FBI dig is of immense consequence to the leaders of the Chicago Outfit, including the federally imprisoned boss James Marcello and his imprisoned friend Frank Calabrese, Nick's brother; to the Outfit's contacts in Chicago politics; and in local law enforcement.
Here's why: The dig is a test of Nick Calabrese's credibility.
I told you months ago that Calabrese, imprisoned for loan-sharking, had been quietly moved into the federal witness protection program.
He's been talking to the feds and is the highest-ranking mobster ever to turn.
In John Gotti's New York, there was Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano who testified against him. In Chicago, Calabrese is at that Gravano level, not in terms of publicity, but in terms of knowledge.
So, if Hambone's hambones aren't unearthed in the Bridgeport dig, Calabrese's credibility as a future potential witness may be questioned.
But if the feds find something there, federal prosecutors could someday use Calabrese as a witness in more than a dozen other unsolved Chicago Outfit murders.
One is the 1999 Outfit killing of hit man Ronald Jarrett, who was shot outside his Bridgeport home. Jarrett, sources familiar with the FBI investigation said, was a close friend of Nick Calabrese, and the Jarrett hit was a message to Nick.
The FBI is also questioning Calabrese about the Will County killings of Billy Dauber and his wife, shot as they left a courthouse. And the murders of the Spilotro brothers, and the killing of Teamster official Alan Dorfman; and the assassination of federal witness Danny Siefert in front of Siefert's 4-year-old son. And so on.
As the FBI sifted through dirt in Bridgeport, I called Jim Wagner, the former chief of the Organized Crime section in the FBI's Chicago office.
Wagner is now the chief investigator for the Illinois Gaming Commission, which has caused intense bouts of agita for the politically connected friends of Chicago's City Hall who've invested in the proposed and stalled Rosemont casino.
"Nick Calabrese as an informant is more than extremely significant," said Wagner, who spent 30 years studying the Chicago Outfit. "The FBI has never had someone at his level, who knows about the action taken on the street and how the decisions were made by the top people.
"I mean, he knows where all the skeletons are buried."
Do you mean that euphemistically?
"Yes," Wagner said with a laugh, "and no."
Calabrese's accounts are being compared to those given to the FBI by past informants, including the late Gerald Scarpeli and Jerry Scalise; and from the imprisoned Mario Rainone, who thought he was about to be extinguished in Rosemont, then ran to the FBI and talked, and abruptly stopped talking.
Not all of us are fascinated with Nick Calabrese. Attorney Joseph Lopez represents Nick's brother, Frank. The brothers are blood enemies.
"Nick is taking the feds on a wild goose chase," Lopez said. "Whatever they're looking for, I don't think they're going to find it."
So, if the FBI doesn't find anything, will defense attorneys begin criticizing Nick?
"Of course," Lopez said. "Nick and Frank are brothers, but Nick's not the prodigal son. Nick is the Fredo of the Family."


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Delicious foods, great entertainment and refreshing drinks on a bustling road: Street festivals and community events are a memorable staple of neighborhoods and cities across the country. However, planning these community events takes more than a few quick emails to vendors and tent rental companies. To get the most out of your planning experience for community festivals and events, you must successfully plan, execute and perform event planning duties while catering to the needs of sponsors, volunteers and vendors. Here's how to plan your most successful events, from initial invitation to final takedown.
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Each event has individual needs, and your event's success depends upon various teams including operations, programming and vendors.
The operations team is responsible for site preparation, stage and production, event support, security and other duties. This may include you or it may be an external team, depending upon the size of the event. These responsibilities may include:
Your processes may include street closures, hiring security and maintenance teams to ensure safety in equipment, logistics for supplier trucks and management trailers for on-site staff.
Determine your acts, programs and guest artists before the event arrives. Programming isn't limited to musical acts, and can include events or activities such as:
For your event, consider what types of programs and activities fit the culture of your event and target market. For example, an annual community street festival geared towards families may benefit from an amusement ride or child-friendly play areas
To sign on food vendors at your festival, check with your local municipal codes to see if your food vendors are licensed and possess certification. As well, verify that your food vendors are up-to-date health inspections to prevent any illnesses during the event. Create a formal application process via website or by paper for all vendors to fill out before they can participate.
Most cities and townships require a Special Events Permit to host an event. Depending upon your city or state, your application must be submitted 60 days prior to an event and all applications must be able to produce a certificate of insurance in commercial general liability. Then, obtain permits for tents, canopies and your general event map so street closures may be made.
Develop a sponsorship package with the right mix of promotional products, such as deluxe customized apparel, for sponsors of your event. Determine as well if their promotional products will be a good fit for your festival. Make sure that your sponsors are receiving the exposure they desire. Is your sponsor offering an interactive experience for attendees to engage with? Is your sponsor's logo located in a clear and accessible place for maximum sponsor exposure? If it is not, re-plan before the event to give them more coverage and evaluate the promotional event merchandise that will be sold at your event.
Formal event publicity can be done via traditional, digital, experiential and social means. Promote your event using web technologies, creating a website for the event, posting on social media and utilizing mass emails to get your message out. PR statements, brochures and flyers can also make a large impact. Make sure that all signage produced has permission to be posted within city bounds.
Once the event arrives, it is important to:
As your event concludes, mind the following:
Hosting an event takes a team of experts. When it comes to expertise in promotional products, give us a call. We'll make sure your event merchandise makes an exciting, lasting impression on attendees and sponsors.


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Long before reality TV thrust junk into the public spotlight, Steve Cox spent his days at public auctions, buying up personal belongings abandoned in many of the thousands and thousands of rental self-storage units scattered across Southern California.
The cache is a staggering testament to a nation's abundance. It also represents a proven source of income for Cox, who sweeps aside spiders and dust to rummage through shoeboxes, bags, trunks, plastic bins and jewelry cases, on a search for anything that can be resold at a profit.
Amid endless piles of miscellany are treasures to be found. Cox has unearthed lamps, sewing machines, kayaks, coins, motor scooters, record albums, sex toys and even a rare ukulele that he later hand-delivered to a buyer in Hawaii. The collector arrived by Learjet to meet him and forked over $5,000 in cash.
"If it's been invented on this planet, that's what you'll find" in storage, says Cox, a 56-year-old Costa Mesa resident who has labored half his life buying and selling used personal belongings.
The extraordinary growth of self-storage, now a $22 billion-a-year industry in the U.S., has spawned its own quirky offshoot trade populated by opportunists like Cox and his business partner, Richard Pickard, who run an online secondhand shop, Advancedestatesaleservices.com. They are regulars at the storage yards and at estate sales, often with Cox's 10-year-old son, Preston, who is learning the trade.
Auctions enable owners of storage yards to recoup on uncollected rents and empty out nonpaying units to get them back on the market, but for decades much of the industry kept the sales quiet, advertising them only through required public notices. Storage operators were – and, in many cases, still are – loath to point out that they liquidate their former customers' personal possessions. Delinquent renters often are incensed at losing keepsakes, such as baby pictures and jewelry, they had purposely stashed away for safekeeping.
"It was a hidden secret – nobody really knew about them," Cox says of the first auctions he attended some 15 years ago. "I was in the antique business for years and didn't know about them."
A compelling marketplace
For a small number of insiders, the auctions were always a profitable buying opportunity and exciting – a kind of "Let's Make a Deal" where prizes are hidden behind every door. Typically, the storage vault is opened and would-be bidders are allowed a glimpse inside, but they cannot enter the enclosure or touch the merchandise. No one can open boxes or dresser drawers or peek behind standing mattresses. Would-be buyers often bring flashlights to probe into dark corners. An element of mystery, coupled with the tensions of competitive bidding, made the events a natural for reality TV – and, sure enough, along came "Storage Wars," "Storage Hunters" and "Auction Hunters," sleeper hits that have attracted a cult-like following.
Despite lingering qualms by the publicity-shy industry, storage auctions have become a well-known, if not quite mainstream, marketplace. Crowds are larger, especially when the shows are in season. A storage room stacked with goods might have sold for $100 five years ago; now the same stash might go for upward of $200, operators say. Storage yards have benefited, but tighter profit margins have put a squeeze on auction buyers.
"It used to be a halfway decent business," says Dale Lauper of Buena Park, who has been buying at auctions for 25 years.
Few sales draw crowds of more than 50, but to make any significant money a buyer has to be shrewd on both ends – in finding bargains and also in knowing how to flip the goods, get them sold quickly at the best price to make way for the next load. Buyers talk about the hard labor, the "sweat equity," involved in moving and sorting, deciding what should be set out at yard sales and swap meets and what should be posted on eBay and Craigslist. Successful dealers are able to capitalize on things of unusual value; they develop networks of contacts, people who are willing to shell out the maximize price for a Duke Snider baseball card or a rare hood ornament from a 1949 Packard.
"It's a hustle – it's time-consuming," says Pickard, a 45-year-old former teacher who began working with Cox seven years ago, selling antiques at the Rose Bowl swap meet. Cox's great strength, Pickard says, is his expansive knowledge.
"Steve could go to any garage sale in America and make money – he's that good," Pickard says. "He knows antiques, he knows electronics, he knows everything."
And still, Cox has been burned, once by putting too much faith in collectible Hallmark Christmas ornaments. There was a time, he says, when a single Star Trek ornament could fetch $300 to $400. He bought up ornaments everywhere he could find them, paying $25 apiece for 50 at a time. He invested thousands of dollars before eBay went online, flooding the market.
"I still have … literally hundreds and hundreds of ornaments at my sister's house in Ontario," Cox says. "They're basically worthless."
Moving the goods
Cox toiled 10 years as an independent contractor appraising odds and ends for an Orange County secondhand dealer named Dave Hester, who bought storage units in volume – five or 10 a day, Cox says. "He had two big, 26-foot bobtail trucks," Cox says. "He'd load boxes onto the bobtails and bring them to me. I was responsible for going through all that merchandise. I'd help him figure out what things were good."
Concentrating on his own company now, Cox, like most full-time buyers, seeks quality merchandise from every available source, not just at storage auctions. Estate sales are one of his specialties. Even with those, and with all of his know-how, the payoff is barely adequate.
"As soon as you make money, you're out buying stuff," Cox says. "It's all tied up in inventory. Then you've got to pay for storage."
He and Pickard rent storage units just to house and sort through their acquisitions. Going through the boxes and bags is a strange, voyeuristic experience – a peek into the world of the prior owners. "Their entire lives are in these things," Cox says. "Toys. Pictures. It is very sad."
Cox is especially touched by the photos he finds. He spent his early years in Japan, when his father was in the Army, and upon returning home a trunk was stolen containing all of the family albums. He has no childhood pictures of his own. He wonders if those who surrender their school yearbooks, diplomas, heirlooms and love letters – it's all packed away – will ever miss them. Upon finding those mementos, Cox tries to return them to their owners, but sometimes he can't connect or the owners, perhaps dealing with more pressing problems, just say no thanks.
"As they get older, they'll wish they had it," he says. "The problem is, I'd have a 50,000- or 100,000-foot warehouse to save all this stuff. You name it, it's in there. People will save anything. It's mind-boggling."
Nasty surprises
Occasionally, storage units become hiding places for drugs, weapons, and things even more shocking and bizarre. In 1991, a house painter named John J. Famalaro, evicted from a residence in Lake Forest, rented a self-storage unit in Laguna Hills and apparently moved in. Months later, in the same unit, he bludgeoned to death a 23-year-old UC Irvine graduate, Denise Huber, then put her handcuffed body into a freezer that he locked inside a different Orange County self-storage unit.
No one knows how long Huber's body might have remained there if the killer had not decided to haul the freezer to his new home in Dewey, Ariz., in 1994. Arrested there, Famalaro was convicted of murder in one of Orange County's most notorious criminal trials.
In 1989, a man stole a new, cherry-red Corvette convertible from a dealership in San Diego and hid it in a storage locker, racking up more than $70,000 in storage fees over the next 23 years. This past September, when the bills became too much, the crook finally turned himself in, claiming he had been coerced into the theft and into hanging onto the car, according to various news accounts. The convertible emerged from storage with four flats, 67 miles on the odometer and still having, in the words of one law-enforcement spokesman, "that new car smell."
Fears of what's behind the roll-up doors are another reason storage yards tend to shun publicity. Lance Watkins, owner of Storage Outlet, which operates in Fullerton, Huntington Beach and Westminster, recalls the alarm he felt four or five years ago when a manager called to say that a TV news crew was planning to air a report on auctions at his Gardena yard.
"I said, 'No . . . they're notfilming the auctions,'" Watkins says. His manager replied, "They're filming right now. They're already here." Watkins says, "I was extremely concerned that when this news piece aired there would be significant backlash. I was prepared for a lot of very unhappy investors – a lot of unhappy people, period."
Arrival of reality TV
But not a single person complained. The odd drama captured by the short news segment drew attention from more than 30 television producers, Watkins says. "Storage Wars" debuted on A&E Network in 2010. By then, Watkins was willing to allow filming at some of his 15 facilities, exposing his brand; he also acted as a liaison between producers and others in the storage industry.
The reality show took shape with a distinctive Orange County flavor: Dave Hester, Cox's friend with the bobtail trucks, became one of the stars, as did Jarrod Schulz and Brandi Passante, who run the Now and Then Second Hand Store in Orange.
Later ousted, Hester filed a wrongful termination suit in December against the network and the show's producers, claiming that the "reality" is fake – that valuable merchandise is planted in storage vaults to boost ratings – an assertion that the network denies. The case, still pending, has not damaged the show's viewership. Meanwhile, Watkins and his wife, Leslie, who helps to run the business, have deepened their commitment to promoting auctions. Besides launching a website, Storagetreasures.com, that offers tips for auction buyers, they created a series of how-to videos.
Those who pay for the training are invited into a Facebook group where auction buyers from throughout the country compare notes and help each other determine how to value and resell unusual objects. The banter ranges from boasts to questions of every ilk. "Just unpacked a first edition Henry James (novel) with dust wrapper," one member writes. "So far looking like at least $195. I am pumped." Another asks, "What's the best way to remove dog hair from a cloth chair? Have tried a vacuum but didn't get near enough off."
Tips pour in. Some members just enjoy sharing their stories – and there are plenty of them. Rebecca Fox, who writes a blog called Storage Heroes and works part time on the Watkins' website, scours the auctions in New Orleans, where Hurricane Katrina sent untold tons of chattel into storage. Fox is a 30-year-old former manager of a car repair shop who became aware of the auctions by watching "Storage Wars." She and a business partner, Brian Monk, now buy and sell full time, going on auction caravans that stop at a dozen yards in a day. Some vaults are enough to turn their stomachs.
"Most people can't wrap their brains around how gross it is," she says. "Rat feces, dead rats, dead birds, human urine, blood, broken glass."
Sad tales and lost letters
Some who have forfeited belongings are in and out of jail, she finds. Fox knows from their letters. "You kind of get to learn their stories." One wrenching discovery involved a young man with a drug problem. He lost a storage unit that contained four or five letters he had saved from his grandmother – letters "basically reminding him to do his laundry, go to church, don't go back on drugs, don't pawn anything," Fox says.
Grandma must have hoped the young man would write back to her; she enclosed self-addressed, stamped envelopes for that very purpose. A shoebox in the vault was crammed with 150 of those envelopes, which he had never bothered to use.
"I literally cried for about 15 minutes" after finding them, Fox wrote in a blog. "How sad to have someone love you so much, and to not even write them, not even one time."
Buyer Ron Russell, a member of the Watkins' Facebook group who lives in Hamilton, N.J., says peering into the lives of those who lost property becomes too much to take. Inside one unit was the mute story of a Latino family that had been deported: jewelry, clothing, washer and dryer, and paperwork from more than a dozen small businesses they had run, from selling granite countertops to cleaning houses.
"It looked like for a while they were living the American dream," Russell says, "and I don't think they made it."
A letter in a vault in one tough neighborhood spoke of a young woman's emotional torment. "I'm angry at so-and-so for beating me, angry at so-and-so for raping me, angry at so-and-so for holding a gun to my head," Russell says, remembering. Those words stayed with him: "I try not to look at the person's stories any more."
Russell, who is 46, finds money all the time – cash that could have been used to keep the storage unit. There are hoarders. They don't make sense either. One woman's unit was packed with more than 100 bags from a dollar store, the merchandise still inside them.
"There was toilet paper, for godsakes," Russell says. "A case of toilet paper. A case of Pop-Tarts. What was this woman thinking by storing Pop-Tarts and toilet paper?"
Though most of the time combing through abandoned belongings is drudgery, the auctions are an adrenaline rush, and so are those occasional great finds, buyers say. Hedi Rivers, a 53-year-old resident of New Market, Md., remembers her heart racing the first time she won a unit, for $225. Inside were antiques, knickknacks and LPs that scored her a $700 profit. She was hooked.
"I thought, 'This is like Christmas, but better.'"
A compartment packed with 30 or 40 bags of pungent, dirty clothes also yielded jewelry boxes, she says. Inside them: $1,000 worth of gold and silver.
"You have to look through everything," she says. "Sometimes people put money in dirty socks."
Buyers are instructed to turn in any guns they might find to authorities. Other artifacts, such as hookahs, hash pipes, crack pipes and pot-growing paraphernalia, fall into a grayer area. Rivers has uncovered smoking devices and prescription pills, and worried she might get in trouble for having them. That is where reaching out to a network was helpful. Another buyer immediately stepped in.
"He said, 'I can take that off you hands,'" Rivers recalls. "He just picked it up and I don't know what he did with it."
Another time Rivers bought a unit "just loaded with pornography and adult movies and sex toys," she says. "I was like, 'Oh, my gosh.' I turned all kinds of colors."
How would she summon the nerve to put it on the market? Once again, her contacts saved her.
"The same guy that took the drug paraphernalia," she says, "he was very happy to take that off my hands, too."
See also: What do hoarders save? What don't they?
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My word a lot of you wanted to win this prize… not surprising really cos the new Giant TCR Composite 2 is indeed a thing of beauty when you see it in the flesh/carbon as we did last week in Germany. Now we're back and after a few reviving cuppas we've worked up the strength to fire up the random-number-o-meter and get the fickle finger to do it's proddy/pointy thing, and the winner is…
The lucky dog has been informed and as soon as we know what size and where to send it the nice people at Giant will be getting it to him, he won't even have to wait until 2012. It doesn't really get any better than that.
Enjoy the bike Blackhound and if you didn't win don't worry there will be another blisteringly good Schwag Grab coming this way soon.
Giant pretty much invented the compact road bike and the TCR Composiste continues to set the benchmark for what compact design road bikes can deliver in terms of weight, ride, and handling. We were really impressed with the TCR Advanced 2 we tested earlier this year and the 2012 TCR Composite looks like a winner too. Here are some of the key features our lucky winner will get on their new bike:
- Lightweight TCR Composite frame made from T600 carbon
- Advanced-Grade Composite fork with alloy steerer
- Overdrive head tube tapering from 1 1/8 at the top to 1 1/4 at the bottom and for even more front end stiffness and steering accuracy boosted even further by having the top and down tubes wrap around it
- PowerCore bottom bracket – oversized and stiff and designed to get all your pedalling effort to the back wheel as quickly as possible
- Shimano Ultegra shifters and rear mech matched up to a 105 front mech and with uprated for 2012 Shimano brakes and chainset
- Wheels are Giant's new PR-2 offerings sporting Giant PR-3 tyres
The 2012 Giant TCR Composite is available in five sizes: S (48.5), M (50), ML (53.5), L (55), and XL (58.5) so there should be something there for everyone.
To win one all you've got to do is comment in below, we'll be drawing the winner When we get back from Eurobike (that's how far we've had to go to see one in the flesh) on 5 September. Usual Schwag Grab rules apply.
Plucked from the obscurity of his London commute back in the mid-Nineties to live in Bath and edit bike mags our man made the jump to the interweb back in 2006 as launch editor of a large cycling website somewhat confusingly named after a piece of navigational equipment. He came up with the idea for road.cc mainly to avoid being told what to do… Oh dear, issues there then. Tony tries to ride his bike every day and if he doesn't he gets grumpy, he likes carbon, but owns steel, and wants titanium. When not on his bike or eating cake Tony spends his time looking for new ways to annoy the road.cc team. He's remarkably good at it.


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The High North
Around 10 % of Norway's population live north of the Arctic Circle. People have harvested resources in the north for thousands of years. The Arctic is rich in minerals, oil and gas, and fish and seafood. Research on climate change and marine biology is paving the way for new businesses. Finding a good balance between conservation and sustainable use is a top priority. We will encourage global cooperation based on scientific knowledge and international law.
- safeguard peace and stability and provide predictability
- find a good balance between conservation and sustainable use through sound resource management
- promote international cooperation and the international legal order
- increase employment, value creation and welfare in the region
Shipping in Arctic waters
80 % of shipping in the Arctic passes through Norwegian waters. The Polar Code came into force on 1 January 2017 and sets strict requirements for shipping in Arctic waters.
Oil and gas resources in the Arctic
According to the US Geological Society, a fifth of the world's undiscovered oil and gas resources may be in the Arctic.
- maintaining a presence in northern seas to exercise sovereignty and authority and for monitoring and emergency preparedness and response
- managing resources on the basis of scientific knowledge
- promoting compliance with the law of the sea and strengthening the position of the Arctic Council
- investing in seed money funds, research, infrastructure, innovation and technology development
Arctic Council
The eight Arctic countries are members of the Arctic Council and 12 non-Arctic states are observers. The Arctic Council is the only circumpolar cooperation forum for Arctic issues at government level.
Norwegian satellites
Norwegian satellites gather data that is vital for management of resources and the environment and for maritime safety in the north. They are also important for innovative research and industry in Svalbard.


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NBC is switching up their fall schedule with "Chicago Med" set to premiere this fall, in place of "Heartbreaker."
The third installment in Dick Wolf's "Chicago" franchise takes the place of the soapy medical drama, which was planned to air Tuesday nights on the fall schedule, but has been pushed back due to Melissa George's pregnancy.
It is understood that the news of George's pregnancy was a surprise to NBC execs after the upfront when the first trailer of the series was shown. Production on the show is being revised to accommodate the star's pregnancy, as "Heartbreaker" remains a promising series at NBC.
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Throughout the year, the Office of Admissions receives
notices of scholarships that are offered through external
organizations. Information about the scholarship awards
that are currently available is listed below. Award
notices are listed in the order in which they were received.
You may also find information on other outside scholarship
awards on the Internet. The following sites are useful
for finding scholarship and financial aid information:
Last Week to Apply!! Alumni Board of Directors Scholarship
Application Deadline: December 12, 2008
The Alumni Board of Directors Endowed Scholarship Fund was established by the Board in 1998 to provide scholarship assistance to law students demonstrating academic merit and financial need. For Spring 2009, the Board plans to make awards of at least $2,000 each. Applications for the Alumni Board of Directors Scholarship are available online or in the Office of Admissions. Students interested must submit applications to the Office of Admissions, ATTN: Karla Davis, by December 12, 2008.
NEW! The Roddy Scholarship
Application Deadline: January 12, 2009
Joseph V. Roddy, a 1962 Chicago-Kent graduate, established this fund to provide financial assistance to evening division students currently working in law enforcement. Preference for this scholarhip is given to first year students and the award amount varies depending upon the number of scholarships awarded. To apply, applicants should forward a letter of interest and current resume to the Office of Admissions, ATTN: Karla Davis, by January 12, 2009.
NEW! Gates Memorial Scholarship
The Marvin Gates Memorial Fund provides $200 for books and supplies for a financially needy third-year student. Preference is given to students of Jewish faith and to students with demonstrated financial need and a commitment to social justice. The fund was established by Paula Gates, �96, in honor of her father, Marvin Gates. Mr. Gates was a professional engineer who valued education and who understood the needs of his community and those of the third world countries where he spent time during his career. Students interested in the scholarship must complete the Gates scholarship application and submit to the Office of Admissions, ATTN: Karla Davis, by January 12, 2009.
NEW! Asian Law Student Scholarship
The Asian American Law Scholarship was established by alumni and friends of Chicago-Kent, including the Chinese American Bar Association, to provide financial assistance to students of Asian descent. In awarding the scholarship, the association gives preference to students planning to serve the Asian community. Selection for this $1,000 award is based upon demonstrated commitment to serving needs of the Asian American community (most important factor) through pro bono and/or public interest work; good standing at his or her law school; financial need; and leadership potential. Applicants must submit an essay desciribing their commitment to serving the Asian American community and addressing the other criteria for the award, and submit letters of recommendation by persons who can be contacted by the Chinese American Bar Association. The recipient is selected by the Chinese American Bar Association. All application material should be submitted to the Office of Admissions, ATTN: Karla Davis, by January 12, 2009.
NEW! The Honorable Dean J. Sodaro Memorial Scholarship
The Honorable Dean J. Sodaro Memorial Scholarship fund was established by Jennifer Prager Sodaro '86 in honor of her late husband Dean Sodaro '53 and has been supported by the Class of 1967, family, fellow faculty, colleagues and friends. This fund provides financial assistance to law students with need. Judge Sodaro taught part-time at Chicago-Kent while practicing law, then served on the faculty full-time from 1972 to 1990, when he was elected to the Circuit Court of Cook County and appointed to the Chancery Division. The scholarship amount is $1,000. Sodaro Memorial Scholarship Fund applications are available online or in the Office of Admissions. Students interested must submit applications to the Office of Admissions, ATTN: Karla Davis, by January 12, 2009.
NEW! The Students for Change Scholarship
Application Deadline: January 20, 2009
Three (3) scholarships in the amount of $1,000 each will be awarded by NLS Publishing to the winners of the 2008 Students for Change Essay Writing Contest. The contest is open to high school seniors, undergraduate and graduate students that will attend a regionally accredited college or university in the United States in the fall of 2009.
�Students wishing to enter the contest are required to submit a 1000 to 2000 word essay describing �what the election of Barack Obama, the first African-American President, means to you and your family.�� Students are encouraged to discuss this historic event with their parents and grandparents, and to incorporate these discussions into their essays.� Please visit www.2008studentsforchange.com for more information and submission instructions.
Application Deadline: February 28, 2009
The Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Educational Fund is pleased to announce the 2009-10 Puerto Rican Bar Association (PRBA) Scholarship Program for Latino law students. The PRBA, founded in New York in 1957 is one of the oldest Latino bar associations in the U.S. Today, the PRBA continues its tradition of breaking down the barriers to the legal profession with active members throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico. All Latino students attending law school in the U.S. (including Puerto Rico) are eligible to apply. PRBA selects recipients based on financial need and academic promise. All applicants must be a first or second year student in a JD degree program at an ABA approved law school. Third year evening students are also eligible to apply. Students working towards their LLM are not eligible for this award. Scholarship recipients will be notified by June of 2009.
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I second Sycamore Canyon. You could easily do your twenty mile hike there. Also, if you wanted to. There are plenty of long distance hiking opportunities in Marble Canyon (which is just above the Grand Canyon). Mr. Leghorn, its a shame that you don't find Northern Arizona to your liking in the winter. So far, I have too many things on my to do list in the winter that I won't be able to do in 4 weeks. Adjust as the season goes. The Coconino, in so many places is a gem in my mind (your right, some areas aren't but THATS life). You right that winter access is tricky, but you make Northern Arizona seem like a horrible place in the winter. This is not true by any means.
About your comment regarding Snowbowl, you do realize every park in Flagstaff and NAU uses the "piss water" for irrigation and that once the water goes to Snowbowl, it will go through ANOTHER filter system and then it will be diluted in a catch tank with melt water? Probably not...Also, did you know, that the proposed plan would produce A+ recycled water? Did you know that the White Mountain Apache who own and operate Sunrise currently are doing the same thing and making snow from recycled water and that they are spraying C- recycled water on their holy mountain?


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Pending free agent wide receiver T.J. Houshmandzadeh had some interesting things to say about the Eagles yesterday during an interview with Mike Missanelli on ESPN 950.
Houshmandzadeh, considered the top free-agent receiver on the market, said he could potentially be interested in playing in Philadelphia.
"If the Eagles are interested in me, let's put it like this. If they'll be interested in me, I'll be interested in them," he said when asked if the Eagles would be his top choice.
Houshmandzadeh, 31, had 92 catches for 904 yards last season, but keep in mind he was dealing with Ryan Fitzpatrick at quarterback after Carson Palmer went down with an injury.
When asked about Donovan McNabb, Houshmandzadeh said he's a fan.
"I think McNabb is a fine quarterback," he said. "He's one of the best quarterbacks in the league, probably, I can't even think of another quarterback that has performed throughout his career the way he has and would be put in a situation like he was put in in Baltimore, but he bounced back very well.
"He was going to playoff games consistently with Todd Pinkston and Freddie Mitchell starting for him," Houshmandzadeh said. "Consistently performing well, making it easy for them. A quarterback is gonna make it easy for his receivers and his receiver is gonna make those catches that is out of his radius where he puts the ball, ball sails on him, you go get it, I mean it goes hand in hand. You just need somebody to make plays. And you make each other look good, and I think that's what he needs."
Earlier in the interview, he addressed McNabb's inability to get the Eagles' over the hump.
"Trust me man, you would prefer to go to the playoffs every year than not go," he said. "Even though you're not winning it, you always have a chance. It can be very difficult when you don't have a chance. And imagine how you guys would act if you're not in the playoffs. So he [McNabb] gets you guys in the playoffs. Things might not go the way you like when you get there but you guys are always there and you just need the weapons. When he had the weapons, look what he did."
There's a chance that Houshmandzadeh could get the franchise tag from the Bengals, which would pay him $9.88 million for one season. However, NFL Network's Adam Schefter cited a league source at the end of December who said the Bengals would not franchise the wide receiver. Per Schefter, if the Bengals want him back, they'll attempt to sign Houshmandzadeh to a long-term deal.
During the Eagles' now infamous tie with the Bengals last season, Houshmandzadeh caught 12 balls for 149 yards and a touchdown.
"Did you watch the Eagles and the Bengals game during the season? I was just giving Andy Reid, I was giving him an interview in person," Houshmandzadeh said. "That's all I was doing. I was giving him a three-month interview ahead of time. That's all."
Now before you go e-mailing your friends and telling them that the Eagles are going to sign Houshmandzadeh, keep in mind that he's making the rounds. He also spoke to a Chicago radio station yesterday, and actually praised Rex Grossman.
"You know what's funny, man? Y'all probably going to laugh at me when I tell you this; I kind of like Rex Grossman," he said.
The free-agency signing period starts on Feb. 27. Last week, Eagletarian listed the wide receivers available, and it's slim pickings behind Houshmandzadeh.
Click here to listen to the full podcast. Houshmandzadeh is a great interview. He spoke intelligently about what's gone right and wrong with the Eagles over the last decade, and even delved into a discussion about his Iranian father, who he has never met. Entertaining stuff all around.


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I love getting out of Washington. I'm in Albuquerque, New Mexico this week, where I joined the Society of American Indian Government Employees at its annual training program.
Going to Albuquerque was a bit of a homecoming for me and gave me a chance to talk with Native American Federal employees about my mission to build a 21st Century workforce that looks like America.
For eight years, I had the honor of being a member of the Board of Trustees of the Institute of American Indian Arts. I also was the executive director of the National Hispanic Cultural Center Foundation in Albuquerque. Being an IAIA trustee gave me a deep understanding of the richness of both the history and the culture of the Native American community. It also opened my eyes to the influences Native people have, not just the culture, but the economy of New Mexico and the region.
I told the SAIGE conference that I understand that I cannot successfully recruit from the Native American community without taking into account issues of family and tradition. As a Latina, I share that appreciation of the importance of family and history. So I asked for their help in sharing their experiences as Federal employees with their friends, neighbors and members of your community.
After the conference, I also met with Governor Paul Torres Sr. of the Isleta Pueblo and went to the Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute. I talked with the students there about opportunities in Federal service and about our need for young people with the very skills in science, math, engineering and technology that SIPI focuses on.
Visits like these help give me ideas about recruiting strategies, about where best to target my efforts. As the Administration official responsible for bringing new talent to the Federal government, I am committed to developing a workforce that looks like the people it serves.
Currently, Native Americans comprise 1.7 percent of the Federal workforce and 1.1 percent of the Senior Executive Service. Most Native American Federal employees work for the Department of Interior or the Department of Health and Human Services. We must broaden that participation. We need the talents, the passions, and the contributions of the Native American community at every government agency, at every level of leadership, at every decision table.
Government may not be able to compete with private industry when it comes to money or perks. But where we can compete, and compete nobly, is in making a difference in people's lives.
Federal employees do that every day. For me, it was attempting to comfort the families of plane crash victims when I was at the Department of Transportation and hearing from low wage workers about how a regulation helped them get a better deal at the workplace while I was at the Department of Labor. And now at OPM, I can help bring more people into the Federal service.
We need people from every community that makes up America, including Native Americans. I know that if we have a workforce that draws from as many cultural backgrounds as possible, we will be able to best serve the American people.
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Is there a dog in Michael Vick's home again?
A recent Twitpic says there is.
Eagle-eyed observers in the Twittersphere noted that a box of Milk Bone dog treats was visible in a picture Vick posted of himself and his daughter at the kitchen table on Thursday.
As USA Today reporter Chris Chase put it, "it's hard not to connect the dogs here."
Chase notes picture was quickly deleted and replaced by a similar, biscuit-less one, showing Vick, but the folks at Crossing Broad blog caught the first tweet and saved the picture.
The prospect of the nation's most infamous dog abuser owning a dog again has been the subject of hot debate since Vick's release from prison on charges related to his interstate dog fighting ring.
Under terms of his probation, he could not own a dog for three years. That period expired several months ago.
Vick, who admitted to drowning, electrocuting and beating to death dogs that did not perform in the fighting ring, has said repeatedly he would like to own a dog again.
In 2010 Vick told NBC News and TheGrio.com: "I would love to get another dog in the future. I think it would be a big step for me in the rehabilitation process."
We reported here a year ago that Vick and his family purchased a parrot from a New Jersey exotic bird dealer. We have not had any reports on the bird since.
As far as dogs are concerned, Vick, working with the Humane Society of the United States, has conducted a number of events with inner city young people, including in Philadelphia, urging them to treat animals humanely.
And he has spoken out against dog fighting on the national stage, including lobbying Congress on behalf of animal welfare legislation.
The question is: Can a person who tortured animals in the most despicable ways for years truly be rehabilitated? As they say, time will tell.
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The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes
Volume III. Renascence and Reformation.
A Mirror for Magistrates
§ 1. The original design.
Mirror for Magistrates
constitutes an important link between medieval and modern literature. It is a monument of industry, extending, in its most recent edition to more than 1400 closely printed pages, and retailing stories of misfortune and wickedness in high places, stretching from the time of Albanact (
1085) to that of queen Elizabeth. Its very title recalls a large class of earlier works, of which Gowers
Speculum Meditantis
Mirour de lOmme
is a conspicuous example. Its aim is medieval, whether we take the statement of its editor, Baldwin, in the address to the nobilityhere as in a loking glass, you shal se if any vice be in you, how the like hath ben punished in other heretofore, wherby admonished, I trust it will be a good occasione to move to the amendmentor that in the address to the readerwhich might be as a mirour for al men as well nobles as others to shewe the slipery deceiptes of the wavering lady, and the due rewarde of all kinde of vices. Its plan of stringing together a number of tragedies is medieval in its monotonyso much so that Chaucer put into the mouth of both Knight and Host a vigorous protest against it as adopted by himself in
The Monks Tale.
The scheme of the
with its medieval device of an interlocutor, was taken over directly from Lydgates translation (through Premierfait) of Boccaccios
De Casibus Virorum Illustrium,
of which, indeed, the
is a continuation: originally, it was intended to be bound up in one volume with
The Fall of Princes,
and the first tragedy, in all the earlier editions, is entitled
The Falle of Robert Tresilian.
On the other hand, the
had a large share in the development of historical poems and history plays in the Elizabethan period, and Sackvilles
is known to all who care for English poetry.
Wartons ascription of the original design of the
to Sackville still passes current, and even later historians leave the issue somewhat obscure. The assertion that Sackville was the originator of the whole work was not made by Niccols (editor of the 1610 version of the
); Warton was misled by more recent authoritiesthat of Mrs. Cooper, perhaps, in the
Muses Library
(1738). It seems worth while to make the matter clear by quoting what Niccols actually says in his edition as to Sackvilles connection with the undertaking:
This worthie president of learning, intending to perfect all this storie himselfe from the Conquest, being called to a more serious expence of his time in the great state affaires of his most royall ladie and soveraigne, left the dispose thereof to
M. Baldwine, M. Ferrers
and others, the composers of these tragedies, who continuing their methode which was by way of dialogue or interlocution betwixt every tragedie, gave it onely place before the duke of
There is nothing here ascribing to Sackville the original design. Indeed, the words perfect and continuing imply that Sackvilles undertaking was preceded by that of Baldwin, Ferrers and others; and this is plainly stated in Baldwins preface of 1563. When he proposed to read Sackvilles
Hath hee made a preface, sayd one, what meaneth hee thereby, seeing none other hath used the like order? I will tell you the cause thereof, sayd I, which is this; after that hee understoode that some of the counsayl would not suffer the booke to bee printed in such order as wee had agreede and determined, hee purposed to have gotten at my handes all the tragedies that were before the duke of
which hee would have preserved in one volume. And from that time backward, even to the time of William the Conquerour, he determined to continue and perfect all the story him selfe, in such order as
) had already used. And therefore to make a meete induction into the matter, hee devised this poesie.
Stanzas 76 and 77 of the
and stanza 2 of
The Complaynt of Henry Duke of Buckingham
show that Sackville intended to write other complaints, and there is some probability in0 Courthopes suggestion that when the Council prohibited the publication of the book, probably on account of its modern instances, he resolved to begin with ancient history. According to the testimony of both Baldwin and Niccols, he intended to begin at the Conquest and to fill the gap between 1066 and 1388, which, as a matter of fact, was not filled until 1610. But that Sackville was one of the partners in the original design is doubtful, as he was only eighteen years of age when the first edition of the
was being printed.
Baldwin says in his Epistle dedicatory (1559): The wurke was begun, and part of it printed .iiii. years agoe, and this statement is borne out by a curious circumstance pointed out by W. F. Trench. The title-page of the first edition has survived at the end of a few copies of Waylands edition of Lydgates
Fall of Princes,
and, on the reverse, Wayland printed his licence, dated 20 October, 1553, and beginning: Mary by the grace of God, Quene of Englande, Fraunce, and Ireland,
defendour of the faith and in earth of the Churche of Englande, and also of Ireland, the supreme head.
Mary was relieved of the title head of the church by a statute passed 4 January, 1555, and it was informally dropped some months before that time. In the letter of John Elder to the bishop of Caithness, dated 1 January, 1555, and printed by Wayland, the letters patent are reproduced with the omission of the words italicised above. Wayland was a good Catholic and a printer of (mainly) religious books, and, naturally, he would make haste to conform with the law. Elders letter, printed in 1555, shows that he did so, and
A memorial of suche Princes as since the tyme of King Richard the Seconde have been unfortunate in the Realme of England
(so runs the original title-page) must have been printed in 1554.
Wayland, however, was not the printer who originated the undertaking, and his attempt to carry it into execution was hindered by the lord chancellor, Stephen Gardiner. By the time that a licence had been procured through the influence of lord Stafford, Wayland had gone out of business, and the first editions issued to the public were printed by Thomas Marsh. The first editor of the
William Baldwin, apparently began his connection with the work of publishing as servant to Edward Whitchurch, who published his
Treatise of Moral Philosophy
(1547) and
The Canticles
(1549). On the accession of queen Mary, Whitchurch, who was a zealous protestant, apparently gave up business, and sold his stock-in-trade to Wayland and Tottel. Baldwin then entered the service of Wayland, who had taken over Whitchurchs office at the sign of the Sun in Fleet street; and from his presses were issued Baldwins
Brief Memorial
(1554) and a new edition of the
Moral Philosophy
(1555). Whitchurch had in hand an edition of Lydgates
Fall of Princes,
and this was taken up by both Wayland and Tottel. Tottels edition bore a title-page including one of Whitchurchs ornamental borders, marked with his initials; Waylands was issued from Whitchurchs former office. Whitchurch, therefore, as Trench has shown, was the printer referred to in the extract from Baldwins address To the Reader given below (1559); and this conclusion is borne out by the fact that those concerned in the enterprise were, with the exception of Wayland, all protestants. It leads to the further inference that the book was first planned in the reign of Edward VI.
The origin of the enterprise is best set forth in Baldwins own words in the following extract from his address To the Reader (1559):
When the printer had purposed with hym selfe to printe
booke of the fall of Princes, and had made privye thereto, many both honourable and worshipfull, he was counsailed by dyvers of them, to procure to have the storye contynewed from where as
lefte, unto this presente time, chiefly of such as Fortune had dalyed with here in this ylande which advice liked him so well, that hee requyred mee to take paynes therein.
Baldwin refused to undertake the task without assistance, and the printer, presumably still Whitchurch, persuaded divers learned men to take upon them part of the work.
And when certayne of them to the numbre of seaven, were through a generall assent at one apoynted time and place, gathered together to devise thereupon I resorted unto them, bearing with mee the booke of
translated by
Dan Lidgate,
for the better observation of his order: which although wee liked well yet would it not conveniently serve, seeing that both
were deade, neyther were there any alive that medled with like argument, to whome the unfortunate might make theyr mone. To make therefore a state meete for the matter, they all agreede that I should usurpe
rome, and the wretched princes complayne unto mee: and tooke upon themselves, every man for his part to be sundry personages, and in theyr behalfes to bewaile unto mee theyr greevous chaunces, heavy destenies, and woefull misfortunes.
Ferrers marvelled that Bochas had forgotten, among his miserable princes, those of our own nationBritons, Danes, Saxons and English down to his own time.
It were therefore a goodly and notable matter, to searche and discourse our whole story from the first beginning of the inhabiting of the isle. But seeing the printers mind is to have us followe where
left, wee will leave that greate laboure to other that maye entende it, and (as one being bold first to breake the yse) I will begin at the time of
the second, a time as unfortunate as the ruler therein.
The original design was, therefore, suggested to Whitchurch, and by him committed to Baldwin and his associates. Ferrers thought of beginning from the time of the ancient Britons, and it was the printer who decided that they should follow where Lidgate left. Baldwin intended to continue the story to queen Marys time, but he was fain to end it much sooner. Whan I first tooke it in hand, I had the help of many graunted and offred of sum, but of few perfourmed, skarce of any (To the Nobilitie, 1559). The original design of the
was not carried out in its entirety until 1610; all the later contributions to it were contemplated in the plans of the original authors, and were, as we shall see, accomplished in consequence of their suggestions.
What were to have been the contents of the original issue in folio, we do not know, except that they included the tragedies of Richard II and Owen Glendower, and, probably, most of those of part 1 (1559) and some of part
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Hopkinton freshman, the December Francis Wayland Parker Scholar, likes taking initiativeBy TIM BUCKLAND
New Hampshire Union Leader
January 12. 2014 10:09PM
For Hopkinton Middle School 9th-grader Aidan Molnar, the first time was the charm.
Molnar was selected as the December Francis Wayland Parker Scholar of the Month, earning the designation with the first essay he sent into the competition.
Molnar said that, when he discovered his essay had been selected, he thought he'd only gotten past a preliminary round.
"I figured I had a shot at it, but I'm still surprised that I won," Molnar said.
Molnar wrote that he believed Parker, a Bedford native who revolutionized education in the 19th century by steering students away from rote memorization and into interactive teaching methods, would be impressed by his school's efforts to encourage students to take more initiative in their own education.
For example, he said, he had to read a short story for English class. The twist, though, was that he got to pick the story — he chose a science fiction piece — rather than the entire class being given the same thing to read.
"I thought it made the project enjoyable, rather than be kind of forced into doing something," he said. "I had my own interest in it, instead of just having to work on another school project."
Despite having a 4.0 average, Molnar is no bookworm. The freshman is a three-sport athlete. He's a wing on the high school varsity hockey team, plays soccer in the fall and runs long-distance races for the track team in the spring.With his selection as the December scholar, Molnar is contending for the annual Scholar of the Year honor.
The Francis Wayland Parker Scholar program is sponsored by the New Hampshire Association of School Principals, in cooperation with the New Hampshire Union Leader, Lifetouch Studios and the Coca-Cola Bottling Co. of Northern New England.
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Build a B2B Booking Website
The project is to build a B2B booking website with MySQL database. Attached with a sample layout of the landing page after login and the booking list page.
Requirement as follows:-
- Preferable using Wordpress CMS or other CMS propose by freelancer
- Need minimum design layout and easy to use & understand. Please refer to attachments as our proposed layout
- Need users friendly backend and our inventory can be load using individual or by excel batch upload
- Other to be discuss later.
- Mobile devices friendly.
The Landing page attachment show simple menu selection but with inventories that we need to special promote on the side which is not shown in the attachment
The Inventory booking page layout should be similar to this sample attachment.
Will show you the subsequent pages upon we shortlist our freelancer.
freelancer 86 คน กำลังเสนอราคาเฉลี่ยที่ $743 สำหรับงานนี้
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