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3 sisters to recount WWII island journey in POW uncle's footsteps

Three Bronx-born sisters are returning to the borough to discuss their journey to a remote South Pacific island where their uncle was imprisoned by the Japanese and killed at the end of World War II.

Andrea Talbutt of Rockland County, Susan Nishihira of Seattle and Marcy Hanigan of Los Angeles will be speaking Wednesday night at the Huntington Free Library about last year’s trip to the island where their uncle spent the last months of his life as a POW.

Marine fighter pilot Moszek “Mike” Zanger of the Bronx bailed out of his damaged plane in December 1944, was taken prisoner and killed by his captors in 1945. The sisters visited the jungle crash site and identified wreckage with the help of Justin Taylan of Hyde Park, founder of the Pacific Wrecks website.

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University Emphasis On Race Not Contributing To The Economy?

By Suzanne Eovaldi

The hypocrisy of American academia centers on a craving for donated, capitalist dollars but with no caveats. The miserable state of university and college intellectual achievements runs parallel with the stream of leftist ideology that began back in the 60s, interestingly enough the years when the Bill Ayers/Weatherman group began its reign of in-country terror.

When philanthropist Thomas Klingenstein got the drift of how Bowdoin College President Barry Mills felt about the evils of conservatism, the wealthy realist took action. ”Diversity of ideas at all levels of the college is crucial for our credibility and for our educational mission,” he said as he commissioned the National Association of Scholars (NAS) to research the Maine colleges’ real diversity composition.  “There’s the obsession with race, class, gender and sexuality as the essential forces of history and markers of political identity,” plus the dedication of sustainability of the planet to keep it safe from capitalism.  And Klingenstein’s criticism of Bowdoin’s phony dedication to diversity proved correct as the NAS research showed the “college has no curricular requirements that center on the American founding or the history of the nation,” but only courses centered on race, class, gender, or sexuality.

The political imbalance of moving the academic world from one of a collegiate education into one of identity politics and liberal progressivism is ruining America’s very foundations and turning out generations of young people ill-equipped to run or to love the United States.  How ironic that the alma mater of the great American author Nathaniel Hawthorne would turn away from honoring the greatness of the very country he said no longer needed to look to Europe for intellectual inspiration. Just consider the audacity of Northwestern University hiring Bernardine Dohrn for its law school to instruct in Family Law or the hiring by the University of Illinois (Chicago) of her husband Bill Ayers to teach much the same subject.  Having authored his new progressive educational theories, Ayers initiated the Hyde Park salon that launched Barack Obama’s anti-capitalist, anti-American political career in order to fundamentally change this great nation.  And that, they are doing.  What kind of example is being given to students who take a course from a woman who, even though she received a law degree from the University of Chicago in l967, was refused admission to the NY Bar?

When the more balanced president of the University of Illinois saw fit not to grant Ayers the Emeritus distinction, the Illini faculty rose up in angst; and now this wise man has been replaced with a left-coast feminist who presided over this past spring’s Sex Week, which paid homage to the Big Orgasm!

Unless parents and big donors unite to stop what is going on across our nation in the name of what is called a university education, we can give up on America once again being called the world superpower.  The millions of dollars in debt being carried around by students and their parents are pitiful ransoms of our country’s heritage, brave founders, and brilliant founding documents! The

From: http://www.westernjournalism.com/university-emphasis-on-race-not-contributing-to-the-economy/

Ronald Reagan's boyhood home reportedly demolished

Demolition reportedly began Tuesday on the Chicago apartment building President Ronald Reagan lived briefly as a child.

Chicago’s DNAInfo.com website said crews from Heneghan Wrecking Co. began tearing down the Hyde Park building at 832 E. 57th St., where the 40th U.S. president lived from ages 2 to 3 with his parents in 1914 and 1915.

The University of Chicago purchased the building in 2004 as part of an effort to buy all residential property immediately north of the hospital. It plans to install a plaque at the site to commemorate Washington’s connection.

Preservationists had tried to save the building, the website reports, but those efforts were unsuccessful. The university said it had no immediate plans to build on the property.

“In the short term, the site will be part of a construction staging area, to be used for the new Center for Care and Discovery Hospital and for construction of a new parking garage for the medical center,” university officials said in a statement.

Despite persistent rumors, university officials have repeatedly said the site will not be used for a Barack Obama presidential library.

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How a Y-Combinator Startup is Born: the Story of Strikingly

By Morgan Hartley and Chris Walker, Contributor

The midsummer that Strikingly.com was born was as hot and muggy as any of Chicago’s dog days, and Hyde Park had the heavy calm of a university town that had emptied.  The mood at the startup’s offices, then called JoinStart, mirrored the climate.  The startup’s team had wanted a shot at changing the world, or at least at building a product that would make it a better place.  They had focused so much on that vision, with visions of startups like Kiva and Kickstarter, that they had lost the path in front of them, and no longer knew where to go. …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Forbes Latest

Maximizing Mini’s Lineup: Hybrid and New EV Likely, New Hardtop Set to Debut in November

By Erik Johnson

2013 Mini Cooper S Paceman

Tribbles, rabbits, Antonio Cromartie—whatever your preferred analogy for abundant reproduction, go ahead an apply it to expansion of the Mini lineup. What began with only the basic three-door hatchback more than a decade ago has ballooned to seven offerings with the recent introduction of the Paceman. The others are the Clubman, Countryman, convertible, roadster, and coupe, and an eighth Mini will hit streets shortly in the form of the Clubvan cargo hauler. And there are, of course, additional variations available for each model: Cooper, Cooper S, John Cooper Works, all-wheel drive, etc.

Expect more to come. Mini’s BMW overlords said a couple of years ago that the brand’s litter could include as many as 10 kittens, and we had the opportunity to speak with Mini’s U.S. product planning manager Patrick McKenna regarding the possibilities.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like the next new models will include a new body style, although McKenna didn’t so much as bat an eyelash when we brought up the possibility of a Paceman convertible. Our take: Such a car would be low volume, sure, but also low investment, so don’t rule it out. You can, however, forget about the Rocketman, which previewed an even smaller Mini—that’s dead.



Rather, with an all-new hardtop on the way (it debuts in November before going on sale around March 2014), expect Minis nine and 10 to be a front-wheel-drive hybrid and a second-generation electric Mini, both based on the three-door.

The hybrid won’t feature all-wheel drive, as seen in spy photos we published a couple of years back; regardless of propulsion type, only the Countryman and Paceman will offer four driven wheels for the time being. We also learned that the Mini EV won’t be sharing any platform or powertrain tech with BMW’s electric i3. Efficiency aficionados also will be interested in the likely diesel variant, but we’re told that, like the hybrid and EV, it wouldn’t arrive until at least a couple of years after the conventional third-gen hardtop, which is on tap to receive a turbocharged three-cylinder.

McKenna also confirmed a second-generation Clubman, which he placed among the four “core” models with the hardtop, convertible, and Countryman. And you can expect the onslaught of special-edition Minis to continue—see Goodwood, Hyde Park, Bond Street, Baker Street, to name just four recent ones—although the new hardtop won’t honor any British stuff until year two or three.

Every time Mini introduces a new model—or the threat of one seems imminent—many fans sound the same refrain: that the brand is slicing things too thin. Obviously the company doesn’t think so, and seems content to create a number of spin-offs and variants that do little more than bring people into the showroom to purchase one of the core models. Case in point: …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Car & Driver